Victoria Miro Gallery

Inka Essenhigh

(American, born 1969)

Inka Essenhigh

Daphne and Apollo, 2013

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Inka Essenhigh

Green Goddess II, 2009

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Inka Essenhigh

Wind Tunnel, 2008

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Biography

Timeline

1969: Born in Bellefonte, PA
1991: BFA, Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, OH
1993: MFA, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
: Lives and works in New York, NY

Exhibitions

2012: Tomio Koyama Gallery, Kyoto, Japan
Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination, First Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, USA
2011: Inside the Painter's Studio, Stephen D. Paine Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston, USA
Creating the New Century: Contemporary Art from the Dicke Collection, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, USA
Counterpoint, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, USA
Pace Prints, New York, USA (solo)
2010: 303 Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Between Picture and Viewer, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, USA
2008: Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England (solo)
2007: Counterparts: Contemporary Painters and Their Influences, Contemporary Center of Art, Virginia
The Game of Multiple Meaning: Symbolism and the Art of the Present, Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany
Comic Abstraction, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
COMIX, Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, Denmark
2006: Painting Codes, Galleria Comunale d'Arte Contemporanea, Monfalcone, Italy
The Complusive Line: Etching 1900 to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
USA Today, The Royal Academy of Art, London, England
Imagination Becomes Reality, Part III. Talking Pictures, Goetz Collection, Munich, Germany
Motion on Paper, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, England
303 Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England (solo)
2005: DA2 Domus Artium 2, Salamanca, Spain (solo)
Life and Limb, curated by David Humphrey, Feign Contemporary, New York, USA
Neobaroque, Salamanca, Spain
2004: Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque SITESanta Fe 5th International Biennial, Santa Fe, USA
26th Bienale de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Funny Cuts – Cartoons and Comics in Contemporary Art, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany
My Reality: Contemporary Art and the Culture of Japanese Animation, Des Moines Art Center, USA
2003: Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, USA (solo)
Il Capricorno, Venice, Italy (solo)
Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (solo)
Painting Pictures; Painting and Media in the Digital Age, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
Comic Release: Negotiating Identity for a New Generation, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh touring to Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans and University of North Texas, Denton, USA
2002: Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England (solo)
303 Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
The Galleries Show, The Royal Academy of Art, London, England
Pertaining to Painting, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, USA
Jay Davis, Inka Essenhigh, Christian Schuman, Angstrom Gallery, Dallas, USA
La Part de l’Autre, Carre d’Art -Musee d’art contemporain de Nimes, France
2001: Works on paper, Victoria Miro Gallery (Project Room), London, England (solo)
Works on paper, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Hybrids, Tate Gallery, Liverpool, England
braille, Angstrom Gallery, Dallas, USA
2nd Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany
Works on paper: from Acconci to Zittel, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England
Casino 2001, 1st Quadrennial of Contemporary Art, SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuelle Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
2000: Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England (solo)
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Greater New York: New Art in New York Now, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA
The Figure: Another State of Modernism, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art at Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, USA
Deitch/Steinberg New Editions, Deitch Projects, New York, USA
Emotional Rescue, Center for Contemporary Art, Seattle, USA
To Infinity and Beyond, Brooke Alexander, New York, USA
New Paintings, Deitch Projects, New York, USA (solo)
American Landscapes: Recent Paintings by Inka Essenhigh, New Room of Contemporary Art, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA (solo)
1999: Pleasure Dome, Jessica Fredericks Gallery, New York, USA
The Armory Show, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, USA
A room with a view, Sixth @ Prince Fine Art, New York, USA
Blade Runner, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, USA
1998: Recent Paintings, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
The New Surrealism, Pamela Auchincloss Project Space, New York, USA
Wild, Exit Art/The First World, New York, USA
Pop Surrealism, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, USA
Summer Review, 98, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, USA
Celebrating Diversity: Contemporary Women Painters, Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island University, Brookville, USA
ANATOMY/INTELLECT, Stefanelli Exhibition Space, New York, USA
1997: Wallpaper Paintings, La Mama La Galleria, New York, USA (solo)
Sex/Industry, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, USA
The Art Exchange Fair, with Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, USA
Girls! Girls! Girls! Tricia Collins’ Grand Salon, New York, USA
1996: Set Off: Inaugural Group Show, View Room Exhibitions, New York, USA
Underexposed; Nine Young American Painters, André Zarre Gallery, New York, USA
Set Off: Inaugural Group Show, View Room Exhibitions, New York, USA
Anatomy Intellect, Stefanelli Exhibition Space, New York, USA
Featured Web Page Artist for December, Artists’ Space, New York, USA
Night of 1000 Drawings, Artists’ Space, New York, USA
1994: Juried Group Show, School of Visual Arts, FirstFloor Gallery, New York, USA
1993: Young Ukrainian American Painters Group Show, Ukrainian Museum, New York, USA
Work-Play; Picture Thinking and the Analogical Imagination, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, USA
Group Show: Inka Essenhigh, Stephen Mumford and Leemour Pelli: Paintings, School of Visual Arts, Wooster Street Gallery, New York, USA

Public Collections

: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
: Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
: P.S. 1 Center for Contemporary Art/MOMA, New York
: Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
: Tate Gallery, London
: Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Literature

2007: Yannis Tsitsovits, Inka Essenhigh, Stimulus Response, no. 17/2007
2006: Jonathan T.D. Neil, Inka Essenhigh, Modern Painters, May 2006
2005: Eliza Williams, Inka Essenhigh, Flash Art, July – September 2005
: Inka Essenhigh, DA2 Domus Artium 2, Salamanca, Spain
2004: Bienal De Sao Paulo
: Swirls, Whrils and Mermaid Girls, Inka Essenhigh, Hilarie M. Sheets, Art News May 2004
: Sint-Lukas Galerij Brussel, Filip Luyckx, Inka Essenhigh, Jun-Jul-Aug 2004
: Reverie: Works from the Collection of Douglas S. Cramer, The Speed Museum, Louisville, Kentucky
: Bonnie Clearwater, Inka Essenhigh, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
: David Gleeson, Inka Essenghigh, Victoria Miro Gallery, February 2003
: Cary Levine, Inka Essenghigh, 303 Galllery, Art in America May 2003
2003: Jack Motram, Inka Essenhigh, Time List, May 2003
: Barry Schwabsky, Tema Celeste Entering the Labyrinth March/April 2003
: In a World of its Own, Metro, (circ. 340,000) 31 October 2002
: Vitamin P-New Perspectives in Painting, Phaidon, 2002
: Neru Ratnam, Inka Essenhigh, I-D Magazine, October 2002
: Mandana Towhidy, Scratch the Surface, Dazed and Confused, July 2002
: Julia Royse, Hot Art, Elle, November 2002
: Steven Vincent, A New Gloss on Essenhigh, Art & Auction, November 2002
: Morgan Falconer, Fantastical creatures, What’s On in London, 30 October 2002
: Violet Fraser, A Brush with Violence, Art Review, November 2002
: John Taylor Russel, Revenge of the Cute, The Times, 13 November 2002
: Michael Kimmelman, A Painter with Pop, The New York Times Magazine, 17 November 2002
: Katy Rochester, Inka Essenhigh, Time Out, 20 – 27 November 2002
: Ned Denny, Cartoon Death, New Statesman, 25 November 2002
: Eddie Harrison, Inka Essenhigh, review of Fruitmarket exhibition, Metro Life, May 2003
: Paola Morsiani, Imogen Cornwall-Jones, Inka Essenhigh, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
2002: Comic Release! Negotiating Identity for a New Generation, Distributed Art Publishers Inc
: Louisa Buck, The World is Big and Time is Short, The Art Newspaper, November 2002
: Christoph Grunenberg, Hybrids, International Contemporary Painting, Tate Liverpool, April
2001: Eberhard Mayntz, Saskia Bos etc. 2. berlin biennale, volumes 1 and 2, berlin biennale für zeitgenössische Kunst e.v., Berlin, May
: David Ebony, Inka Essenhigh at Mary Boone Gallery
: Marie-Pierre Nakamura, Inka Essenhigh: Entre spectacle et minimalisme, Art Actuel, Paris, July/August, p. 78-81
: Michael Glover, Inka Essenhigh, Art News, Summer, p. 218-219
: Roberta Smith, Inka Essenhigh, The New York Times, 23 June
: David Colman, David Sims, Master Class, Harper’s Bazaar (New York), December, p. 224-229
: Lytle Shaw, To Infinity and Beyond, Time Out New York, 14 - 18 December, p. 115
: David Hunt, A New Grammar of Motion, Flash Art, October, p. 74-77
: Anton Saul, Inka Essenhigh, Time Out New York, 15-22 June, p. 67
: http://www.artnet.com/magazine/Reviews/Ebony, 27 June
: Max Henry, Inka’s inhibitions, http: //www.artnet.com/magazine/Reviews/Gotham Dispatch, 31 May
: Jeff Johnson, We love a Surrealist, Jane (New York), May, p. 52
: Peter Plagens, Art in the Fast Lane, Newsweek (New York), April 10, p. 70-73
: Jonathan Jones, Inka Essenhigh. The Guardian. March 30
: Martin Herbert, Inka Essenhigh. Time Out, March 29 . No 1545
: Stuart Shave, New York Doll ID Magazine.March
2000: Ingrid Sischy, Gotta Paint, Vanity Fair, February, p. 140-147
: Goings On About Town, Inka Essenhigh, The New Yorker, 12 June, p. 16
: David Humphrey, New York e-mail: Thursday Feb 4 ’99 18:10:28, Art Issues, March/April, p. 34-34
: Grady T. Turner, Ouverture: Inka Essenhigh, Flash Art, March/April, p. 106
: Sarah Valdez, Inka Essenhigh at Deitch Projects, Art in America, May, p. 157-158
: Best of Manhattan: Best Gallery Exhibitions, New York Press, 22 September
: Michael Lavine, Iconograph, Ray Gun, August
: Neville Wakefield, Three to Watch, Elle Decor, August/September, p. 78-79
: Jerry Saltz, Heat Seekers, The Village Voice, 9 February, p. 125
: Douglas Dreishpoon, American Landscapes: Recent Paintings by Inka Essenhigh, New Room of Contemporary Art, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, November
: Laura Hoptman, Nothing Natural: Laura Hoptman on Inka Essenhigh, frieze, July/August, p. 74-75
: Christian Viveros-Faune, calamity Inka, http://www.artnet.com/magazine, 5 Feb
: Barry Schwabsky, Inka Essenhigh, Artforum, April, p. 123-124
: Christian Viveros-Faune, Art: Hot Stuff, New York Press, 27 January, p. 6
: Martha Schwendener, Inka Essenhigh, Time Out New York, 28 January - 4 February, p. 67
: Grady T. Turner, Abstracted Flesh, Flash Art, January, p. 66-69
: Robert Mahoney, Inka Essenhigh, http://www.artnet.com/magazine, 5 February
: Christian Viveros-Faune, Inka Essenhigh, artnet.com, January
1999: Jay Murphy, Pop Surrealism, World Art, January, p. 70-71
: Phoebe Hoban, The Mod Squad, New York Magazine, 11 January, p. 30-37
: Grace Glueck, Inka Essenhigh, The New York Times, 15 January, p. B40
: Dominique Nahas, Inka Essenhigh, Review: The Critical State of Visual Art in New York, 15 January, p. 7
: Max Henry, Gotham Dispatch, artnet.com, January, 1999
: Grady Turner, Gramercy Art Fair, NY Arts Magazine, June
: Julia Chaplin, The painter who’s getting a Lot of Inka, Interview, p. 50
: Scott Dietsch, The New Surrealism Gets Real, The Villager, 4 November, p. 1
: Steven Henry Madoff, Pop Surrealism, Artforum, October, p. 120
: Barry Schwabsky Inka Essenhigh, art/text, August
: Grady Turner, Editor’s Choice, BOMB, Summer, p. 17
: Douglas Maxwell, Inka Essenhigh: Recent Painting, Review: The Critical State of Visual Art in New York, 1 March, p. 17-18
: First Look, Simon Says, February
: Grady Turner, Wild, NY Arts Magazine, March, p. 23, 37
: Erik Bakke, William R. Kaizen, Shelley Ward Mob Rule #10, NY Arts Magazine, March,p. 8
: Kim Levin, Wild, The Village Voice/Voice Choices, 3 February, p. 76
: Something Wild, New York Post, 24 January
: Art Picks, Simon Says, January
1998: Richard Klein, Dominique Nahas, Ingrid Schaffner, Pop Surrealism, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, June
: Inka Essenhigh, Centerfold, NY Arts Magazine, (commissioned artwork), December
: Robert Murdock, IInka Essenhigh: Recent Painting, Review: The Critical State of Visual Art in New York, 1 March, p. 17-18
: Inka Essenhigh, Joy to the World, Interview, December