Keith Mayerson - Artists

b. 1966, Cincinnati, OH
Lives and works in New York, NY and Riverside, CA

EDUCATION
1984-1988   B.A. Brown University (Semiotics and Studio Art)
1991-1993   M.F.A. University of CA, Irvine

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017   My American Dream, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA

2015 Ironscapes, FREDDY, Baltimore, MD
My American Dream, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY

2014   My American Dream: Frontiersman, David Shelton Gallery, Houston, TX
  My American Dream (Prologue), Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
2013   My American Dream, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
2012   My American Dream, Solo Booth for Derek Eller Gallery, NADA NYC Art Fair,
New York, NY
2011   Life, Art & Fashion, Shaheen Modern & Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio
   Iconscapes: 1995-1999, Knoedler Gallery, New York, NY

2009 Souvenirs, The Bakery - Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Both Sides Now: A Selection of Drawings 1992-2009, Paul Kasmin Gallery (project

           room), New York, NY
2008   Good Leaders, Endangered Species, Ships At Sea, Part II, Derek Eller Gallery,
New York, NY
Good Leaders, Endangered Species, Ships At Sea, Kim Light / Lightbox, Los

           Angeles, CA
2007   Friends & Family, Shaheen Modern & Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio
2006   Kings & Queens, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
Heroes, Gallery Alain Noirhomme, Brussels, Belgium
2005   Rebel Angels at the End of the World, QED Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004   Hamlet 1999, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
2003   Hamlet 1999, Pt. 3, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
2000   Illuminations, The Fifth International, New York, NY
1997   Paintings and Drawings, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, NY
1995   Monty’s Dream: The Sleeper in the Valley, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
1994   The Marriage of Heaven and Hell! Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
1993   Pinocchio the Big Fag, Kiki Gallery, San Francisco, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2014   The Great Figure, The Journal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Keith Mayerson and Peter Saul, Robert Blumenthal Gallery, New York, NY
Don't Look Now, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Jesse Greenberg

and MacGregor Harp/247365 Gallery
Inaugural Exhibition, Gavlak, Los Angeles, CA
Parallel Myths, David Shelton Gallery, Houston, Texas
This One’s Optimistic,: New Britain Museum of Art, New Britain, Connecticut,

curated by Cary Smith
2014 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2013 Jew York, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY
All F@*#ing Summer, Gavlak, Palm Beach, Florida
2012 The Picture of Dorian Gray, curated by Ilan Cohen with Quan Bao, SecondGuest,

New York and Ana Cristea Gallery, New York
All I Want is a Picture of You, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Group Shoe, curated by Joe Bradley, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, NY
Its Always Summer on the Inside, curated by Dan McCarthy, Anton Kern Gallery,
New York, NY
B-OUT, curated by Scott Hug, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY
The End, curated by Michael Buhler-Rose and John Connelly, Vogt Gallery, New

York City
2011 Keith Mayerson: Horror Hospital Unplugged, Dominic McGill: Extraordinary Popular
Delusions and the Madness of Crowds, Derek Eller
Gallery, New York, NY
8 Americans (Organizer. Hilary Berseth, Joe Bradley, Jacob Cassay, Ann Craven,
Francesca DiMattio, Wade Guyton,
Keith Mayerson, Dana Schutz), September 2011, Maruani & Noirhomme Gallery,

Brussels, Belgium
Joni, Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York, NY
Put Up or Shut Up, New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
2010 Ink Plots: The Tradition of the Graphic Novel at SVA, Visual Arts Gallery, New York,

The Pencil Show, Foxy Production, New York , NY
Keith Mayerson, Kent Henricksen, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, New York
Wall to Wall, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Boneyard, Kim Light/Lightbox, Los Angeles, CA
2009 The Never-Ending Story: Fairy Tales, Fantasy, Obsession, curated by Laura

Hoptman, Royal/T, Culver City, CA
Out of Order, curated by Scott Hug, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY
Naked, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
The Tree, James Cohan Gallery, Shanghai, China
New Acquisitions, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Figuratively Seeing, Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston,

           Massachusetts
2008   Peanut Gallery, curated by Joe Bradley, The Journal Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
THINGS BEHIND THE SUN, PHIL, Los Angeles, CA
Summer Group Exhibition, " Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
Friends and Family, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
Kiki: The Proof Is In the Pudding, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA
The Guys We Would Fuck, curated by Nayland Blake, Monya Rowe Gallery,
New York, NY
History Keeps Me Awake at Night: A Geneaology of Wojnarowicz, PPOW Gallery,
New York, NY
Artist as Publisher, The Center For Book Arts, New York, NY
ambivalent figuration; people, Samson Projects, Boston, Massachusetts
a new high in getting low II, John Connelly Presents, New York, NY
2007   Genesis I’m Sorry, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, NY
Joe Bradley, Ann Craven, Dana Frankfort, Keith Mayerson, Zach Feuer Gallery,
New York, NY
2006   Likeness (Portraits from All Angles), Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington,
Massachusetts
Summer Group Exhibition, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
How I Finally Accepted Fate, curated by Jason Murison, EFA Gallery, New York, NY
This Name of This Show is Not GAY ART NOW, curated by Jack Pierson, Paul Kasmin
Gallery, New York, NY
Salon, Greene Naftali, New York, NY
Inaugural Group Exhibition, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
2005   The Most Splendid Apocalypse, curated by Jason Murison, PPOW Gallery, New

York, NY
This Hard, Gem-Like Flame, curated by Joseph R. Wolin, Angstrom Gallery, Dallas,

Texas
On Paper: Drawings from the 1960’s to the Present, Daniel Weinberg Gallery,
Los Angeles, CA

2004 Under the Sun, Greener Pastures Contemporary Art, Toronto, Ontario
Rimbaud, curated by Max Henry, I-20, New York, NY
The Sublime is (Still) Now, curated by Joseph R. Wolin, Elizabeth Dee Gallery,
New York, NY
Let the Bullshit Run a Marathon, curated by Nate Lowman, Nicole Klagsbrun,
New York, NY
2003 K48, Dietch Projects Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York
Hothouse; Contemporary Floras, curated by Mary Jo Vath, Gallery of Art &

Science, New York, NY

You, curated by Lisa Kirk, Royal Modern, New York, NY
A New New York Scene--K48 Teenage Rebel: The Bedroom Show, Gallerie du Jour
at Agnes B., Paris, France
FIAC art fair, curated by Scott Hug, Paris, France
Magazin (K48: Do Not Provoke Us),” Marres, Maastricht, Holland
Now Playing, D’Amelio Terras Gallery, New York, NY
Drawings, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
2002   Kool Kult, k48, Scope Art Fair, New York, NY
25th Anniversary Selections Exhibition, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Landscape, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
2001   Refiguring Painting, Los Angeles County Musueum
Group Exhibition, American Fine Art at P.H.A.G., New York, NY
2000   Recent Acquisitions, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Fore and Aft, Acme., Los Angeles, CA
1999   The Stroke, curated by Ross Bleckner, Exit Art, New York, NY
Young New York Painters, curated by Ross Bleckner, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen,

Colorado
1998 Inaugral Show, curated by Jennifer Bornstein and Chevis Clem, The Fifth

International, New York, NY
He Swam Down, Away, curated by Tony Payne, Audiello Fine Art, Inc., New York,

NY
Painting: Now and Forever, Pat Hearn and Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY
Codex USA: Works on Paper by American Artists, Entwistle Gallery, London,
United Kingdom
I Love New York, Edinburgh International Art Festival, Edinburgh College,

Edinburgh, Scotland
Bathroom, curated by Wayne Koestenbaum, Thomas Healy Gallery, New York, NY
View 3, curated by Klaus Kertess, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
Francis Alys, Keith Mayerson, Franklin Preston, Hiroshi Sugito,” Audiello Fine Art Inc.,
New York, NY
More, curated by Tony Payne, XL Gallery, New York, NY
1997 Paintings and Sculpture, Luhring Augustine, New York, NY
Three Painters, curated by Jack Pierson, Musee d’art contemporain de Bordeaux,

France
1996 The Name of the Place, curated by Laurie Simmons, Casey Caplin Gallery, New

York, NY
Young, Dumb, and Fun, curated by David Pagel, University of Las Vegas, Nevada
The Incredible Power of Cheap Sentiment, curated by Bill Arning, White Columns,
New York, NY
Annual Summer Watercolor Exhibition, curated by Tom Woodruff, P.P.O.W.,
New York, NY
1995 Degenerative Art Show, The Lab, San Francisco, CA
The Moderns, curated by Tony Payne, Feature Gallery, New York, NY
Faggots, curated by Bill Arning, Rojes Foundation, University of Buenos Aires,

           Buenos Aires, Argentina
Stretch Out & Wait, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
1994   Stonewall 25, curated by Bill Arning, White Columns, New York, NY
Dave’s Not Here Show, Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles, CA
Red Rover, Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles, CA
Tiny Shoes, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
Selections Spring ‘94, The Drawing Center, New York, NY (brochure)
Playfield, curated by Randy Summers, Rio Hondo College, Wittier, CA
1993   Sick Joke, Kiki Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Steve Crique, Keith Mayerson, Tyler Stallings, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles,
CA

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Giant.com, July 28
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gallery,” Cleveland Plain Dealer, July 20
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Summer
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2010 Smith, Roberta, “Keith Mayerson: My Modern Life,” The New York Times, November
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Hard Look at Humanity," Black Book Art Review, August 17
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"How Haute It Is," Interview, April, p. 130-133 (illus.)
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Yorker, Galleries - Chelsea, August 20
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Surprises,” The New York Times, August 9
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07, Artseen p. 44
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figures,” Los Angeles Times, October 28
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project), Interview, February, p. 40
2000   Mayerson, Keith. “Icons and Iconography in Technocratic Culture,” Xtra, Vol 3, p.

23-29
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February, p. 65-67
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novel,” OUT, October, p. 66
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FRAMEWORK, Volume 7, issue 3, p. 23-26 (illus.)
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Organization, included with album compilations
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p. 59
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XII, no. 6, p. 19.
Duncan, Michael. “LA Rising,” Art in America, December, p. 72
Myers, Terry R. “On View: Los Angeles,” New Art Examiner, December, p. 36
Pagel, David. “Art Review: Convention Unites with Gay Fantasy,” Los Angeles

Times, October 6, p. F4
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Examiner, April 15, p. D10
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25, p. C30
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18, section II
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Voice, August 7, p. 100

PUBLISHED ARTICLES
2011 “NeoIntegrity: Comics Edition,” (interview with Keith Mayerson, curator, conducted

by Peter Halley), forthcoming
2009 “The Artist’s Artists: Keith Mayerson, Stevie Wonder, Gershin Prize for Popular Song

(the White House, Washington DC)”
Artforum, December 2009 (best of the year capsule review)
2008 “Jane Freillicher: Recent Paintings,”, Tibor De Nagy Gallery, NY (catalogue essay)
“Kathe Burkhart: The Liz Taylor Series: The First 25 Years, 1982-2007”, Modern

Painters, March 2008, (book review)
"How Haute It Is," Interview, April, p. 130-133 (commissioned assignment)
2007   “Annie Lennox,” Interview, Oct. 2007, pg. 155 (commissioned assignment)
2006   “Keith Mayerson on Randy Wray,” BOMB, Spring 2006, Number 95, pgs. 46-47.
2005   Lisa Kirk and Keith Mayerson, “Wake the Sleepers,” ArtUS, May-June, pgs. 16-18
2002   Sehorn, Jason, and Keith Mayerson. “Why I Didn’t Rush the End Zone,”

(commissioned assignment), Interview, February, p. 40
2000 “Icons & Iconography in Technocratic Culture: The Sleeping Painting,” Xtra, Spring,

Vol. 3, Issue 3, pgs. 23-28.

ARTIST'S BOOKS
1996 Horror Hospital Unplugged, (with Dennis Cooper) JunoBooks/RESearch

Publications, New York, NY
1993-94   A Patriarchy’s Nightmare (republished in 2011 by Harper Perennial)
1993   Pinocchio The Big Fag
Trying Not to Be A Dick

ARTIST'S VIDEOS
2012   “8 Americans” (interview series with Hilary Berseth, Joe Bradley, Jacob Cassay, Ann
Craven, Francesca DiMattio, Wade Guyton, Keith Mayerson, Dana Schutz)
1999   Limp Biscuit
1996   present A Portrait of Two Artists as Young Men
1995   The Best of Keanu
1994   Trees in the Forest
1993   Get the Knife
1992   Why Do You Keep Doing This to Yourself

PLAYS/SCREENPLAYS
2012   ”Slideshow, Art from NADA 2012,” Blouin Artinfo, May 8
Herman, Sasha, “NADA New York 2012 Preview,” NY Observer.com, April 30
Miller, Michael H., Rozalia Jovanowitz, Andrew Rosseth “Gallerist’s Frieze Week in
Pictures,” New York
1999   A Child is Being Beaten
1995   Nowhere Fast
1993   Pinocchio the Big Fag
1991   Fags
1988   A Child is Being Beaten, BACA DOWNTOWN, New York, NY directed by David

Savran and Ronn Smith
THE BOX, Trinity Repertory Company, Providence, RI, March 1989, as a part of

“Graduate Play Festival,” Directed by David Savran and Ronn Smith, Leeds Theater

           and Brown’s Production Workshop
TYGER, (Set design only), Leeds Theater, Brown University
1987   Melonboy (also director and set designer) Production Workshop, Brown University

CURATED EXHIBITIONS
2011   “8 Americans” (Hilary Berseth, Joe Bradley, Jacob Cassay, Ann Craven, Francesca
DiMattio, Wade Guyton, Keith Mayerson,
Dana Schutz), September 2011, Alain Noirhomme Gallery, Brussels
2010   "NeoIntegrity: Comics Edition," Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, New York, NY
2007   "NeoIntegrity," Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY

PANELS
2014   “Strong Female Protagonists,” Shelly Bond, Alitha Martinez, Diane Noomin, Raina
Telegemeir, moderated and organized by Keith
Mayerson, part of the Society of Illustrators/MoCCA Comics Week, School of Visual

Arts, April 1
2010 “A Conversation with Gary Panter and Peter Saul, moderated by Keith Mayerson,”
Thursday, August 19,
Museum of Comics and Cartoon Art, New York
“Dash Shaw and Keith Mayerson in Conversation,” Tuesday, May 25, Museum of

Comics and Cartoon Art, New York

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Los Angeles Country Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
The Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

BOARDS
Board of Trustees, Museum of Comics and Cartoon Art

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