Selected Works

  • Melissa Gordon
    Female Readymades
    2020
    Installation view COSAR

  • Melissa Gordon
    'Female Readymade'
    (Broom, Empty Calendar, Mabel’s painting, Net, Rope, Chain, Test canvas)
    2020
    Acrylic, silkscreen, flashe, marble dust on canvas
    180 x 200 cm

  • Melissa Gordon
    'Female Readymade'
    (Comedian’s Microphone, Belt, Chair, Stockings, Rope, Scarf)
    2020
    Acrylic, silkscreen, flashe, marble dust on canvas
    180 x 200 cm

  • Melissa Gordon
    Material Evidence (Table)
    2016
    Acrylic on canvas
    50 x 50 cm

  • Melissa Gordon
    Material Evidence (Table)
    2016
    Acrylic on canvas
    95 x 75 cm

  • Melissa Gordon
    Material Evidence (Table)
    95 x 75 cm each (Diptych)
    Acrylic on canvas
    2016

  • Melissa Gordon
    Installation view 'Routine Pleasures', Overbeck Gesellschaft, Lübeck
    Photography: Fred Dott

  • Melissa Gordon
    From the series: Mondrian Blow Up (Tableau 3) I-VIII
    90 x 60 cm each
    Silkscreen on canvas
    2016
    (Series of 8 silkscreens)
    Photography: Fred Dott

  • Melissa Gordon
    Installation view 'Blow Up Modernists', Cosar HMT, Düsseldorf
    Photography: Achim Kukulies

  • Melissa Gordon
    Installation view 'Blow Up Modernists', Cosar HMT, Düsseldorf
    Photography: Achim Kukulies

  • Installation View 'Material Evidence', Spike Island, Bristol, UK, 2013

  • Melissa Gordon
    Stella Blow Up
    Screenprint on canvas
    170 x 200 cm (Dyptich)
    2013

  • Melissa Gordon
    Diller Blow Up
    150 cm x 110 cm
    Silkscreen on canvas
    2013

  • Melissa Gordon

    Daily Evening Transcript / Boston Evening Transcript (1848-1941) 2013
    Painting on silkscreen, shadow gap, dyptich
    114 cm x 71 cm and 89 cm x 53 cm

    The Seattle Star (1899-1947)
    2013
    Screenprint on canvas, framed, dyptich
    65 x 90 cm and 60 x 90 cm
    Photography: Achim Kukulies

  • Melissa Gordon
    Collisions (After Cuban Missile Crisis), 2010
    Acrylic, silkscreen on linen, string, wooden frames
    150 x 180 cm (painting), dimensions variable
    Photography: Achim Kukulies

  • Melissa Gordon
    Collisions (After Cuban Missile Crisis), 2010
    Acrylic, silkscreen on linen, string, wooden frames
    150 x 180 cm (painting), dimensions variable
    Photography: Achim Kukulies

Exhibitions

Curriculum Vitae (CV)

BIOGRAPHY
Born 1981 in Boston, MA, USA 
Lives and works in Brussels 

EDUCATION
1999-2003
BFA Painting/Printmaking, RISD, Providence RI 
2002
Cooper Union School of Art, New York, USA
2003-2005
Post-Graduate Fine Art Participant, De Ateliers, Amsterdam, NL

AWARDS
2013
Cove Park, International Artist in Residence, Cove, Scotland, GB
Artist in Residence, Spike Print and Spike Island, Bristol, GB
2010
Artist in Residence, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA 
2008
WIELS Contemporary Art Center, Artist in Residence, Brussels, B 
2007
ABN AMRO Kunstprijs, The Netherlands 
2006
Koninklijke Prijs voor Vrije Schilderkunst, The Netherlands
2003
The Florence-Leif Peers Grant for Painters, RISD, Providence, USA 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024
Myopia, COSAR, Düsseldorf, DE
Myopic View, Periphery, Extra City, Antwerp, BE
2023
Vital Signs, Kunsthallenwürfel Oslo, Oslo, NO
2022
Resistances, Stigter van Doesburg, Amsterdam, NL
2021
Liquid Gestures, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK
2020
Female Readymades, COSAR, Dusseldorf, DE
2019
Shits and Giggles, Deweer Gallery, Ottegem, BE
2016
Painting Behind Itself, COSAR, Düsseldorf, D
Derivative Value, Overbeck Gesellschaft, Lübeck, D (Cat.)
Routine Pleasures, The Vleeshal, Middleburg, NL (Cat.)
The Gesture is a Joke, Deweer Gallery, Ottegem, BE
Fallible Space, Liverpool, The Bluecoat, UK 
2014
Mimetic Pleasures, BOESKY EAST, New York, USA
Confusion Condition, COSAR HMT, Düsseldorf, D 
ZOOOOOM, Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam, NL
Modern Surfaces, Deweer Gallery, Otegem, B
2013
Material Evidence, Spike Island, Bristol, UK (Cat.)
Blow Up Modernists, Cosar HMT, Düsseldorf, D
Specific Collisions, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA
2012
Structures for Viewing, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA
2010
Collisions (with Jessica Wiesner), Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam, NL
2009
A Lonely Crowd, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA
Two-Dimensional Men, Ancient & Modern, London, UK
2008
Dirty Tricks of an Age of Moral Turpitude, COSAR, Düsseldorf, D
War of the Ghosts, Galerie Juliette Jongma Amsterdam, NL
2007
Exquisite Corps, Ancient and Modern, London, UK
ABN AMRO Kunstprijs, ABN AMRO, Amsterdam, NL (Cat.)
2006
The Only Man in There, Galerie Michael Cosar, Düsseldorf, D (Cat.)
Genealogies Part I, Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam, NL (Cat.)
2005
What you can't see could kill you, De Ateliers, Amsterdam, NL (Cat.)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Re-Inventing Piet. Mondrian and the Consequences, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
2022
Time Lock (Zoom in), Barbara Seiler Galerie, Zurich, CH
IRIS, Large Glass Gallery, London, UK
2021
The Story of M.B. as told by Jef Geys, Frans Masereel Centrum, BE
Transitive Objects, curated by Melissa Gordon, COSAR HMT, DE
Trailblazers - Royal Award for Modern Painting, 150 years anniversary, Amsterdam, NL
2020
Biennial of Painting - Inner Spaces, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, BE
Heavy Metal Parking Lot, Garage, Rotterdam, NL
Painting and Model, Manifold Books, Amsterdam, NL
2018
The Mechanics of Fluids, curated by Melissa Gordon, Boesky Gallery New York, NY
This is the Gallery and the Gallery is Many Things, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK
The Merry-Go-Around, Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Collector’s Room #18: Out of Time - In Search of Stillness, Deweer Gallery, Otegem, Belgium
2017/2018
Something Stronger Than Me, WIELS, Brussels, Belgium
The Oslo Museum of Contemporary Art, Kunsthal, Oslo, Norway
2017
Salon Hang, Kunstverein Amsterdam, NL
2016
Modern Talk, Günther Förg / Melissa Gordon, Thomas Kratz & George Little, Deweer Gallery, Otegem, B
2015
as it seems, COSAR HMT, Düsseldorf, D
WE (Not I), Artists Space, New York, USA
WE (Not I), South London Gallery, GB
Salon Hang, Kunstverein Amsterdam, NL
Making Sense, Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam, NL
2014
Machelen-aan-de-Leie, Belgium, Roger Raveelmuseum, Biennale van der Schilderkunst
Residency Exhibition, curated by Lorenzo Benedetti, WIELS, Brussels, B
2013
Specific Collisions, Marianne Boesky Uptown Gallery, New York, USA
Yellowing the Lunar Conciousness, Galleria Massimodeluca, Venice, IT
… beyond painting, COSAR, Düsseldorf, D
2012
Drop Out, S1, Sheffield, UK
Art & Press, ZKM Karlsruhe, D
Re-Opening, Deweer Gallery, Ottigem, B
Sieben Blicke, Sammlung Philara im Kunstverein Malkasten, Düsseldorf, D
Fact Mystic, Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam, NL
Lost in Translation, Tegenboschvanvreden, Amsterdam, NL
The Parallax Curtain, S1 Artspace, Sheffield, UK
with Emily Musgrave and Jessica Warboys
Art & Press, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin , D
Art in the Parking Space, LAX Art, Los Angeles, USA
Ethical Mop, Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam, NL
No Comment, LABOUR launch and performance, Kunsthall Oslo, NO
2011
Future Forward, The Temporary Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL
5x5, Espai d’art contemporani de Castelló, S
Group Velocity, Märkisches Museum Witten, D
Specific Collisions, curated by Melissa Gordon, COSAR, Düsseldorf, D
with Germaine Kruip, Camilla Løw, Rita McBride, Willem Oorebeek, Lisa Oppenheim,
Dexter Sinister, Marien Schouten, Mungo Thomson, Jessica Wiesner
Madame Realism, Marres, Maastricht, NL
2010
Monumentalism: History and National Identity in Modern Art, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL
Dorothea von Stetten Kunstpreis, Kunstmuseum Bonn, D
Melissa Gordon und Jen Ray, Philara Collection, Düsseldorf, D
Lush Life, Scaramouche Gallery, New York, USA
The Library of Babel/In and Out of Place, 176 Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
Precarity and the Butter Tower, curated by Jackie Gendel & Tom McGrath, CTRL Gallery, Houston, USA
Paying A Visit to Mary, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CN, USA
AIR Biennale, Ewing Gallery, Knoxville, TN, USA
2009
All Cretans Are Liars, Said the Cretan’, Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam, NL
Mental Puberty, STORE Gallery, London, UK
Rebell, Art and Feminsm 1969-2009, MMKA, Arnhem, NL
True Lies, Kunsthaus Essen, D
Privat - Wuppertaler Sammler der Gegenwart, Von der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal, D
I Love the BeNELux, Virgil de Voldere Gallery, New York, USA
2008
Prague Triennale, National Gallery, Prague, CZ
Something and Something Else, Museum Van Bommel Van Dam, Venlo, NL
DUMA, Wiels Contemporary Art Center, Brussels, B
Black Bile, Red Humour, b05 Art and Design Center, Montabaur, D
Early Bird, Kunstverein Dorsten, D
Melancholie, b-05 Kunst- und Designzentrum, Montabaur, D
2007
Dealing with Reality, Museum voor Moderne Kunst Arnhem, Arnheim, NL
Ballet Mecanique, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
Painted Objects, Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York, USA
Compilation III, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, D
Die Kunst zu Sammeln, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, D
Lost & Found, Shedhalle, Zürich, CH
2006
Among the Ash Heaps and Millionaires’, Ancient and Modern, London, UK
Wild At Heart, De Atliers, Amsterdam, NL
Pictorial Research, art agents gallery, Hamburg, D
Things we have seen in Holland, Kravets Wehby, New York, USA
2005
GEM, Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Den Haag, NL
Terra non Firma, Howard House Gallery, Seattle, WA, USA
Voices, Rotermann's Salt Storage Contemporary Art Museum, Tallinn, EST
2004
Everything World, Kravets Wehby, New York, USA
Mars on Earth, RKL Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, USA
86, De Ateliers, Amsterdam, NL
2003
Senior Painting Show, Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence, USA
Risk, Red Door Gallery, Providence, USA
Our Friends, Our Foes, Benson Gallery, Providence, USA
Cash in on Your Fashion Passion, Firehouse 5, Providence, USA
2002
Movies with Live Soundtracks, Cable Car Cinema,Providence, USA
End of the Year Invitational, Cooper Union, New York, USA

Melissa Gordon, 'Liquid Gestures'

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