Born 1981 Cambridge, MA, USA
lives and works in London
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EXHIBITIONS
Solo Exhibitions
2026
Second Room, Antwerp (Upcoming)
2025
What is Left, Barbara Seiler, Zurich
Torreloft, Copenhagen (Upcoming)
Art Brussels with BEIGE
2024
Portals, Beige, Brussels, BE
Myopia, Cosar Gallery, Dusseldorf, DE
Periphery, Extra City, Antwerp, BE
2023
Vital Signs, Kunsthal Oslo, NO
2022
Resistances, Galerie Stigter van Doesburg, NL
Collected Writings, Arcade Gallery, Brussels, BE
2021
Liquid Gestures, Towner Gallery, UK
2020
Female Readymades, Cosar, Dusseldorf, DE
Modelling a Painting: an accumulation of information on liquids and gestures in time,
Manifold Books, Amsterdam, NL
2019
Shits and Giggles, Deweer Gallery, Belgium
2018
The Mechanics of Fluids, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA
Collision, The Swiss Church, London, UK
2016
Painting Behind Itself, Cosar, Dusseldorf, DE
The Gesture is a Joke, Deweer Gallery, Ottegem, BE
Derivative Value, Kunstverein Luebeck, DE
Routine Pleasures, The Vleeshal, Middleburg, NL
Fallible Space, The Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK
2014
Mimetic Pleasures, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA *
Confusion Condition, Cosar, Dusseldorf, DE
Modern Surfaces, Deweer Gallery, BE (with “Boomerang”, Richard Serra) ZOOOOM, Galerie Juliette Jongma Amsterdam, NL
2013
Material Evidence, Spike Island, Bristol, UK * Blow Up Modernists, Cosar, Dusseldorf, DE
2012
Structures for Viewing, Marianne Boesky Gallery, NY
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 HMT, Düsseldorf, DE
War of the Ghosts, Galerie Juliette Jongma Amsterdam, NL
2007
ABN AMRO Kunstprijs, ABN AMRO, Amsterdam, NL*
Exquisite Corpse, Ancient and Modern, London, UK
2006
The Only Man in There, Cosar, Düsseldorf, DE *
Genealogies Part II, Preview Art Fair, with Cosar HMT, Berlin, DE *
Genealogies Part I, Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam, NL
2005
What you can’t see could kill you, De Ateliers, Amsterdam, NL
Group Exhibitions
2025
In Anderen Handen, Miettinen Collection, Berlin, BE
Painting after Painting, SMAK, Gent, BE
WE. The Body as Sign, Muelheim Ruhr Museum, DE
2024
Female Fatigue, Stigter van Doesburg, Amsterdam NL
Hibernus, Frans Masereel, Kasterlee, BE
2023
We are rooted but we flow, Con10ur Bienniel, Mechelen, BE
Kristien Daem: 10 Women, MuHKA, BE
Re-Inventing Mondrian, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, DE
Re-Inventing Mondrian, Wilhemhack Museum, Ludwigshaven, DE
2022
Cubitt 30, Cubitt Gallery, London, UK
Iris, Large Glass, London, UK
Collected Writings, Arcade Gallery, Brussels, BE
Time Lock (Zoom In) Barbara Seiler Gallery, Zurich
2021
The Story of MB as told by Jef Geys, Frans Masereel Centrum, BE
Grensverkenners – Koninklijke Prijs voor Vrije Schilderkunst 150 jaar, Het Palais, Amsterdam, NL
Transitive Objects (Coral What), Cosar HMT, Dusseldorf, DE
24/7 Kunstverein, Amsterdam
2020
Binnenkammers: Biennial van der Schilderkunst, Museum Dhont-Dhaenens, BE
Heavy Metal Parking Lot, GARAGE, Rotterdam, NL
2019
The Embarrassment of SUCKCESS, for the Cloud, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL
Le Petit Cercle Bruxellois, Institute de Carton, Brussels, BE
2018
This is the Gallery and the Gallery is Many Things, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK
The Merry-Go-Round, Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam, NL
Out of Time, Deweer Gallery, Otegem, BE
2017
Something Stronger Than Me, Wiels Center for Contemporary Art, Brussels, BE
The Oslo Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo Kunsthal, Oslo, NO
REGROUPING, Lux, London, UK
Salon Hang, The Kunstverein Amsterdam, NL
Public View, The Bluecoat, Liverpool, UK
2016
Reading Room, Montague Space, London, UK
Opening, Sammlung Philara, Dusseldorf, DE
Modern Talk, Deweer Gallery, Otegem, BE
2015
WE (Not I), Raven Row, South London Gallery, London
WE (Not I), Artists Space, NY
Making Sense, Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amstrdam As it seems, Cosar, Dusseldorf
2014
During the exhibition the studio will be close, curated by Lorenzo Benedetti, Wiels
Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, BE
Biënnale van de Schilderkunst, Roger Raveelmuseum, Mechelen and Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, BE
Structures for Viewing, Deweer Gallery, BE
2013
HERstories, Bonner Kunstverein, with Rita McBride and Marlene Dumas, DE
Yellowing of the Lunar Consciousness, curated by Andrea Bruciati, Galleria Massimo Deluca, Venice, IT
15 for 50, Art on the Underground, London UK
And Beyond Painting, Cosar HMT, Dusseldorf, DE
Specific Collisions, Marianne Boesky Uptown Gallery, NY *
2012
Parallax Curtain, S1, Sheffield, UK
Art & Press, Zentrum for Kunst und Media, Karlsruhe, DE
Re-Opening, Deweer Gallery, Ottigem, Belgium, BE *
Kunstverein Malkasten, Dusseldorf, DE
Fact Mystic, Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam, NL
Art & Press, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin , DE*
Art in the Parking Space, LAX Art, Los Angeles, USA
No Comment, LABOUR launch and performance, Kunsthall Oslo, NO
2011
Future Forward, The Temporary Stedelijk, Amsterdam, NL
Theatre of Pain, Performance, Ancient & Modern, London UK
5×5, Espai d ́art contemporani de Castelló, Castelló, ES
Ever Changing Moods, Performance, Autoitalia, London UK Madame Reaslism, curated by Lisette Smits, Marres Center for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, NL (LINK: http://old.marres.org/en/program/exhibition/madame_realism ) Specific Collisions, Telephone Painting, Cosar HMT, Dusseldorf, DE Group Velocity, Märkisches Museum Witten, DE
2010
Dorothea von Stetten Kunstprijs, Kunstmuseum Bonn, DE
Philara Project Space, Dusseldorf, DE
Monumentalism(e), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL Lush Life, Scaramouche Gallery, New York, USA
Precarity and the Butter Tower, CTRL Gallery, Houston, USA
Paying A Visit to Mary, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CN, USA
AIR Biennale, Ewing Gallery, Knoxville, TN*
The Library of Babel/In and Out of Place, Zabludowicz Collection, London UK
2009
Your Gold Teeth, Marianne Boesky Gallery, NY, USA
Pictural Abstraction, Tache-Levy Gallery, Brussels, BE Variations on a Theme, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, USA
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, DE
PRIVAT, Heydt-Museum Wuppertal, DE
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, BE
Black Bile, Red Humour, b05 Art and Design Center, Montebaur, DE* Early Bird, Kunstverein Dorsten, DE
2007
Ballet Mécanique, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
The Painted Object, Harris Lieberman, New York, USA
Dealing with Reality, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem, NL Showroom, Mai 36, Zürich, CH
Lost and Found, Shedhalle, Zürich, CH
Compilation III, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, DE
The Collector’s Art, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, DE
2006
Among the Ash Heaps and Millionaires, Ancient and Modern, London, UK Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, NL
Pictorial Research, Art Agents Gallery, Hamburg, DE
Wild At Heart, Kunst RAI, De Ateliers, Amsterdam, NL
2005
Koninklijke Prijs voor Vrije Schilderkunst 2005, GEM, Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Den Haag, NL *
Terra non Firma, Howard House Gallery, Seattle, USA
Voices, Rotermann’s Salt Storage Contemporary Art Museum, Tallinn, EE
EVENTS/PERFORMANCES:
2015
WE (Not I) Artist Space, NY
WE (Not I) Flat Time House and South London Gallery, NY (LINK: )
2014
Tenderbooks: Launch of Peter Dreher with Lynne Tillman, Michael Archer, David Batchelor and Antony Spira
PERSONA Launch: Printed Matter, NYC, with Eva Kenny and Jen Liu PERSONA Launch: Kunstverein NL, Amsterdam with Maria Guggenbichler PERSONA Launch: Spike Island, Bristol, with Sue Tate
PERSONA Launch: Aye-Aye Books, CCA, Glasgow: Readings on Embarassment
PERSONA Launch: Education Research Centre, Liverpool: East Coast/West Coast with Jessica Wiesner
PERSONA Launch: Archive Books, Berlin, with Karolin Meunier
PERSONA Launch: Bureau Publik, Copenhagen, with Marina Vishmidt: On the Drop Out
2013
PERSONA Launches:
Showroom, London: Shulamith Firestone Reading Group S1, Sheffield, With Allison J Carr
Kunstakademie Dusseldorf with Rita McBride
EDUCATION
2003-05 De Ateliers, Amsterdam, NL
2002 Cooper Union School of Art, New York, USA
1999-2003 BFA Painting/Printmaking, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2014
Eva Kenny, Painting Behind Itself, Marianne Boesky Gallery
Marina Vishmidt, Marie-Anne McQuay, Mina Loy; Material Evidence,
Sternberg Press
and Spike Island (with Kaisa Lassinaro)
Lorenzo Benedetti; During the Exhibition the studio will be close, Motto and Wiels
Contemporary Art Center
2013
Specific Collisions, with Will Holder, Marianne Boesky Gallery, NY Yellowing of the Lunar Consciousness
2012
Art & Press, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin Re-opening, Deweer, Belgium
Bulletin, with Ciara Phillips, Spike Island
2011
5 x 5, Espai d ́art contemporani de Castelló
2010
Dorothea von Stetten Kunstpreis 2010, Kunstmuseum Bonn Monumentalism(e), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL Paying a Visit to Mary, Aldrich Museum
2010
Artist in Residence Biennial Exhibition, Ewing Gallery
The Library of Babel/In and Out of Place, Zabludowicz Collection
2009
Privat, Kunstsammlung in Wuppertal
2008
Black Bile, Red Humor, Salon Verlag
2007
Xander Karskens, Natasha Soobramanien, Robert Meijer, Nicely Dry, ABN AMRO (with Irma Boom)
Stefanie Kreuzer, Compilation III, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
NO BIO, Melissa Gordon, with Ancient & Modern
2006
Dominic van den Boogerd, Marlene Dumas, Wild at Heart, De Ateliers, Art Amsterdam
Tom Morton, The Only Man In There, Cosar HMT
Genealogies, Cosar HMT and Galerie Juliette Jongma
2005
Ann Demeester, Koninklijke Prijs voor Vrije Schilderkunst 2005, Stichting Koninklijk Paleis Amsterdam
PRESS
2014
Eva Kenny “Melissa Gordon”, Girls Like Us, Winter 2014
William J. Simmons, Repainting The Readymade, Hyperallergic, November 6,
2014
Artinfo, 10 Questions For Artist Melissa Gordon, October 20, 2014 Hartog Jager “Melissa Gordon maakt kunst die niet goed mag zijn”, NRC Handelblaad,
1.05.2014, p.33
Marc Ruyters, “Banaal Wordt Spannend”, H-Art, 13.02.2014, p. 27
2013
Natasha Soobramanien, “Melissa Gordon, Spike Island, Bristol”, Frieze Issue 158, October 2013 p. 256
Skye Sherwin, “Melissa Gordon”, The Guardian Guide, 06-12 July 2013
2012
Maxine Kopsa, ‘Conceptual Sex’, Metropolis M, September 2012
2010
Andrea Alessi, ‘Collisions’, Art Slant Picks, September 14, 2010 Artist Section, Metropolis M, April/May 2010 p. 48-53
2009
Laura McLean-Ferris “Art Brussels”, Art Review, April 24, 2009 NADA Emerging Artist, L Magazine, New York,
2008
Frankfurter Allegemeine,
Maria Barnas, “Vertekenen 2”, in: NRC, Amsterdam, May 2, 2008, p 7 Wytske Visser, in: Kunstbeeld, April, 2008
“Rita McBride talks to Melissa Gordon”, in: NY Arts Magazine, January- February
2008
Ossian Ward, “The Gothic Vault”, in: Time Out London,, January 2-8, 2008, p 41
NOW, Rupert Smyth, Hallso press
2007
Magdalena Holzhey , “Compilation III”, in: Vernissage, Nr. 01/2007 Helga Meister, “Im imaginären Museum”, in: K.West, Mai 2007 “Compilation III”, in: LOOXX, Nr. 01/2007
Helga Meister, “Malerische Entdeckungsreise am Grabbeplatz”, in: Westdeutsche Zeitung, 25 May, 2007
2006
Thomas Lawson, ‘Happy Times’, ARCO 2006 A Retrospective, p.120/121 Paola van der Velde, “Mata Hari op de Kunstrai”, in: De Telegraaf, 2 May,
2006
Sandra Spijkerman, “Tussen pixel en pigment”, Kunstbeeld, March, 2006, p. 14-18
Ossian Ward, “Melissa Gordon, Genealogies Part I”, in: Modern Painters, April 2006, p. 119-20
2005
Rutger Pontzen, “Romantische bewondering voor de natuur”, in: De Volkskrant, 14 October, 2005
Edo Dijksterhuis, “Jonge schilders Koninklijk onderscheiden”, in: Het Financieele Dagblad, 8 October, 2005
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2013 Cove Park
2013 Spike Print, Spike Island, Bristol
2010 Dorothea von Stetten Shortlist, Kunstmuseum Bonn, DE
2010 Artist In Residence, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, USA 2008 Wiels Contemporary Art Center, Artist in Residence, Brussels, BE 2007 ABN AMRO Kunstprijs
2005 Koninklijke Prijs voor Vrije Schilderkunst / Royal Prize for Painting, Amsterdam, NL
2003 Florence Leif Award, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, USA
CURATORIAL PROJECTS:
Specific Collisions, Marianne Boesky Uptown Space, 2012
Specific Collisions, Telephone Painting, Cosar HMT, Dusseldorf, DE, 2010 Wendy House, New York Rio Tokyo, Berlin, 2007
OTHER PROJECTS:
Editor, LABOUR.and PERSONA, Independent Publications
Organizer, ‘A conversation to know a conversation to be had’: Dexter Sinister, Kunstverein Amsterdam, Salon Populaire, Raven Row, 2010-11
PUBLIC COLLECTOINS REPRESENTING GALLERIES
Kunstverien, Amsterdam, NL Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York ABN AMRO, Amsterdam, NL Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam MMKA, Arnhem, NL Cosar HMT, Dusseldorf
Deweer Gallery, Belgium
TEACHING:
Lecturer of Fine Art, Goldsmiths University, London
