Erick Swenson
Exhibitions
Erick Swenson, 2017, Talley Dunn Gallery
Biography
1972 | Born in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania |
Currently lives and works in Dallas, Texas |
Education
1999 | B.F.A., University of North Texas, Denton |
Grants And Awards
2004 | Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant Program Award, The Joan Mitchell Foundation |
1999 | The Arch and Anne Giles Kimbrough Fund, The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas |
Solo Exhibitions
2017 | Erick Swenson, Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, Texas |
2014 |
Erick Swenson: Ne Plus Ultra, Canzani Center Gallery, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH |
2012 | Sightings, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas |
2010 | Erick Swenson: A Selection of Works, James Cohan Gallery, New York |
2009 | Caught Captive, Red Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia, traveling to Trois Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Atlanta, Georgia |
2007 | Erick Swenson, James Cohan Gallery, New York |
2005 | Q.E.D., Los Angeles, California |
2004 | Erick Swenson, James Cohan Gallery, New York |
2003 | UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California |
2002 | Villa Stuck Museum, Munich, Germany |
1998 | Obviously a Movie, Angstrom Gallery, Dallas, Texas |
1996 | Push to Prime, Diverse Works Art Space, Houston, Texas Microwaveable, Good/Bad Art Collective, Denton, Texas |
Group Exhibitions
2015 | The Real Show, The Old Jail Art Center, Albany, TX Destination Unknown, Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, TX |
2014 | CVAD Alumni Showcase at UNT Artspace Dallas, Dallas, TX Re-presenting Representation VIII, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY |
2013 | Ex Libris, Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, Texas |
2012 | Bending the Mirror, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH Collapse, RH Gallery, New York, New York |
2011 | New Variations, Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, Texas Selections from the Permanent Collection, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas |
2010 | Floor Plan, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas |
2009 | 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, Texas Young Americans, James Cohan Gallery Shanghai, Shanghai, China |
2008 | Like animals (Comme des bêtes), Musée des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland |
2007 | Art in America, Now, Shanghai MOCA, Shanghai, China |
2006 | USA Today, The Saatchi Gallery, London, England Road Agent Ambush 2006 (Stand and Deliver: Your Money or Your Life), Road Agent, Dallas, Texas A Brighter Day, James Cohan Gallery, New York |
2005 | Springtide, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia |
2004 | Summer Show, James Cohan Gallery, New York Whitney Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Natural Histories: Realism Revisited, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, Arizona |
2003 | Air, James Cohan Gallery, New York Erick Swenson and Ricky Swallow, Karen Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, California |
2002 | Summer, James Cohan Gallery, New York |
2001 | Swallow Swenson, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia, curator Rachel Kent (catalogue) New Orleans Triennial, New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana, curator William A. Fagley (catalogue) The Big ID, James Cohan Gallery, New York, New York |
2000 | Keith Edmier, Ricky Swallow, Erick Swenson, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York Out of the Ordinary: New Art From Texas, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, curators Lynn Herbert and Paola Morsiani (catalogue) Artistic Centers: Dallas/Ft Worth, TFAA/Jones Center for Contemporary Art, Austin, Texas, curator Suzanne Weaver, Assistant Curator of Contemporary Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Charles Wiley, Curator of Contemporary Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Texas (traveled) Natural Deceits, Fort Worth Museum of Modern Art, Texas, curator Michael Auping (catalogue) |
1999 | Description Without Place, Staff USA/AC Project Room, New York Fire Sale 2000, Angstrom Gallery, Dallas, Texas Good/Bad Art Collective: Joey on ICU, ABC no Rio, New York, TX True Stories, Arlington Museum of Art, Texas, curators Joan Davidow and Sean Slattery (catalogue) Senior Show, Cora Stafford Gallery, University of North Texas, Denton |
1998 | Texas Dialogues Parallels, Blue Star Art Gallery, San Antonio, Texas, curator Franco Mondini-Ruiz Good/Bad Burns, Good/Bad Art Collective, Denton, Texas Welcome to Important Town, Conduit Gallery Annex, Dallas, Texas Its a Peeece in Itself, Good/Bad Art Collective, Denton, Texas |
1997 | Wee Coma, Good/Bad Art Collective, Denton, Texas Hallowmas, Good/Bad Art Collective, Denton, Texas Strange Loops, Good/Bad Art Collective, Denton, Texas, curator Sean Slattery Very Fake, but Real, Diverse Works Art Space, Houston, Texas (catalogue) Red Rover Issues, Revolution Summer Art Space, Houston, Texas (catalogue) One Person Show Featuring ..., Good/Bad Art Collective, Denton, Texas Gay Art/Straight Play, Good/Bad Art Collective, Denton, Texas |
1996 | Isolation Chamber, Good/Bad Art Collective, Denton, Texas el clumsio, Angstrom Gallery, Dallas, Texas Sailors on Shoreleave: the Designs of Bob Mackie, 500X Gallery, Dallas, Texas Popo y Lupe, Good/Bad Art Collective, Denton, Texas Mad, Good/Bad, and Dangerous to Know, Good/Bad Art Collective, Denton, Texas |
Museum Collections
21c Museum and International Contemporary Art Foundation, Louisville, Kentucky
Modern Art Museum of Ft. Worth, Texas
Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom
The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Public Collections
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska
Press
2018 | Charisma, James, “Disarming Recreations of Animals and Their Glistening, Decaying Textures,” Hyperallergic, July 5. Charisma, James, “The hyper-real world of sculptor Erick Swenson comes to life at Honolulu museum,” Los Angeles Times, June 4. Mendoza, Manuel, "TX Studio: Erick Swenson," Arts + Culture, May 21. Tanigawa, Noe, “Erick Swenson: “Reality” in the Post- Truth World,” Hawaii Public Radio, May 11. |
2017 | Granberry, Michael, "Erick Swenson raises existential questions with his one- of- a- kind artwork," Dallas News, January 21. |
2014 |
Triggs, Jesse, “Exhibit preview: CCAD continues amazing run with ‘Erick Swenson: Ne Plus Ultra’,” Columbus Alive, July 17. |
2012 |
Simek, Peter, “The Labor of the Idea”, D Magazine, June 5. |
2011 | Branch, Kathryn, “The Jam I Spencer Sweeney”, The New York Times Style Magazine, July 1, 2011 |
2010 |
Grobmyer, Melissa, “Art Basel Miami,” Glasstire, December 2010 |
2009 | Hersh, Allison, “Art and Soul: (Un)Natural history,” Savannah Morning News – Savannah Now, August 23, 2009 |
2007 |
"Recommended: Erick Swenson, James Cohan Gallery," TimeOut New York, May 17, 2007 |
2006 |
Falconer, Morgan, “The States They’re In,” The Times, London, England, October 4, 2006 |
2005 |
Sozanski, Edward J., “Extraordinary equines at heart of ICA exhibit,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 5, 2005 |
2004 |
Zamudio-Taylor, “ArtPace / A Foundation for Contemporary Art,” Arco, winter 2004 (mention) |
2003 |
Knight, Christopher, “Erick Swenson at UCLA Hammer Museum”, The Los Angeles Times, Friday, February 21, 2003 |
2002 | Wilson-Goldie, Kaelen, “Fawning”, Dutch, May/June 2002, p. 30 |
2001 |
Bayliss, Sarah, “Best Bets,” Artnews, Summer 2001 |
2000 |
Auping, Michael, “Natural Deceits,” catalogue, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 2000, pp. 1-11 |
1999 |
“Description without Place,” The New Yorker, November 29, 1999 |
1998 |
Rees, Christina, “Framed: Best of 1998,” Dallas Observer, December 31 - January 6, 1998, p. 56 |
1997 |
Good/Bad Art Collective, Entertainment Chronicle (Denton Record Chronicle), 1997, p. 34 |
1996 |
McMullan, Dawn, “Isolated Art,” Denton Record Chronicle, no 17, 1996, p. 4 |
Gallery Artists
- Anila Quayyum Agha
- Helen Altman
- David Bates
- Tim Bavington
- Natasha Bowdoin
- Julie Bozzi
- Margarita Cabrera
- Dale Chihuly
- Rachel Cox
- Leonardo Drew
- Jeff Elrod
- Vernon Fisher
- Pia Fries
- Francesca Fuchs
- Ori Gersht
- The Estate of Joseph Glasco
- Kana Harada
- Joseph Havel
- Butt Johnson
- Ted Kincaid
- Rima Canaan Lee
- Melissa Miller
- Cynthia Mulcahy
- Amy Myers
- Robyn O'Neil
- Aaron Parazette
- Sam Reveles
- Linda Ridgway
- Susie Rosmarin
- Matthew Sontheimer
- Erick Swenson
- Liz Ward
- Sarah Williams
- Molly Wood
- Xiaoze Xie