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Inka Essenhigh Biography
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1969 |
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Born, Belfonte, Pennsylvania
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1991 |
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Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, Ohio
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1993 |
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School of Visual Arts, NYC
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Lives and works in New York
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2007
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"Comic Abstraction", Museum of Modern Art, New York
"The Triumph of Painting Part III", Saatchi Gallery, London
"Cult Fiction", Hayward Gallery, London
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2006
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303 Gallery, New York
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2006
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"Painting Codes", GCAC, Monfalcone, Italy
"Motion on Paper", Ben Brown Fine Arts, London
“The Compulsive Line: Etching 1900 to Now”, The Museum of Modern Art
“Imagination Becomes Reality, Part III. Talking Pictures” Goetz Collection
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2005
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Victoria Miro Gallery, London
DA2 Domus Artium, Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Spain
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2005
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"Life and Limb", curated by David Humphrey, Feigen Contemporary, New York
"Neobaroque", Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Spain
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2004
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“Perspectives at 25”, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
SITE Santa Fe Biennial, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Bienal de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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2004
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Sint-Lukas Galerie, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
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2004
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Michael Steinberg Fine Art, New York (solo)
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2003
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami (solo)
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2003
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The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (solo)
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2003
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Galleria Il Capricorno, Venice, Italy (solo)
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2003
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“Supernova: Art of the 1990s from the Logan Collection”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
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2003
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“Reverie: Works from the Collection of Douglas S. Cramer”, The Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
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2003
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“Drawing”, G Gallery, Washington, DC
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2003
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“Heaven & Hell”, Barbara Mathes Galley, New York
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2003
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“Painting Pictures: Painting and Media in the Digital Age”, Kunstmuseum Wolfsberg, Germany
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2002
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“Go Figure”, curated by Michael Steinberg and Stefan Stoyanov, Luxe Gallery, New York
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2002
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“Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation”, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (traveling to The Center for Contemporary Art, New Orleans, LA; University of North Texas, Denton, TX; Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA)
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2002
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“Pertaining to Painting”, curated by Paola Morsiani, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
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2002
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“la part de l’autre”, Carré d’Art, Musée d’art contemporain, Place de la Maison Carrée, Nimes, France
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2002
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“art in the ‘toon age”, Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, MI
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2002
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“Jay Davis, Inka Essenhigh, Christian Schuman”, Angstrom Gallery, Dallas, TX
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2002
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303 Gallery, New York (solo)
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2002
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Victoria Miro Gallery. London (solo)
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2001
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Works on paper, Mary Boone Gallery, New York (solo)
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2001
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Casino 2001”, 1st Quadrennial of Contemporary Art, SMAK (Stedelijk Museumvoor Actuelle Kunst), Ghent
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2001
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“Works on Paper: from Acconci to Zittel”, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
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2001
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“My Reality: Contemporary Art and the Culture of Japanese Animation”, Des Moines Art Center, IO (will also be exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York; Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH; and Tampa Museum of Art, FL)
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2001
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“Hybrids”, Tate Gallery, Liverpool, England
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2001
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Works on paper, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
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2000
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“To Infinity and Beyond”, Brooke Alexander, New York
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2000
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“Emotional Rescue”, Center for Contemporary Art, Seattle, Washington
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2000
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“Deitch/Steinberg: New Editions”, Deitch Projects, New York
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2000
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“The Figure: Another State of Modernism”, Newhouse Center for Contemporary
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2000
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Art at Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York
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2000
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“Greater New York: New Art in New York Now”, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
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2000
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Victoria Miro Gallery, London (solo)
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2000
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Mary Boone Gallery, New York (solo)
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1999
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"New Paintings," Deitch Projects, New York (solo)
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1999
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"American Landscapes: Recent Paintings by Inka Essenhigh," New Room of Contemporary Art, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York (solo) (solo)
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1999
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"Pleasure Dome," Jessica Fredericks Gallery, New York
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1999
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"A room with a view," Sixth @ Prince Fine Art, New York
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1998
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"Recent Paintings," Stefan Stux Gallery, New York (solo)
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1997
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"Wallpaper Paintings," La Mama La Galleria, New York (solo)
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| Literature |
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2003
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Reverie: Works from the Collection of Douglas S. Cramer, The Speed Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
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2002
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Comic Release! Negotiating Identity for a New Generation , Distributed Art Publishers, Inc.
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2002
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Inka Essenhigh , 303 Gallery, New York, and Victoria Miro Gallery, London, text by Imogen Cornwall- Jones
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2002
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Vitamin P , Phaidon Press, London, p. 102-5
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2002
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“la part de l’autre”, Carré d’Art, Musée d’art contemporain, Place de la Maison Carrée, Nimes, France (exh. cat)
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2002
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“Pertaining to Painting”, curated by Paola Morsiani, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (exh.cat)
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2001
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Hybrids, International Contemporary Painting , Tate Liverpool, 2. berlin biennale, Volumes 1 and 2 , (exh.cat), berlin biennale fürzeitgenössische
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2001
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Kunstev. with text by Eberhard Maynt and Saskia Bos,
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1999
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American Landscapes: Recent Paintings by Inka Essenhigh , (exh.cat), New
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1999
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Room of Contemporary Art, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, with text by Douglas Dreishpoon
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1998
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Pop Surrealism , (exh.cat), The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, with text by Richard Klein, Dominique Nahas, and Ingrid Schaffner
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