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. Weeks, Jerome, “Death + Poetry in Plastic: Erick Swenson at the Nasher”, Art + Seek, April 25, 2012 Granberry, Michael, “Scavenging for Life’s Meaning”, The Dallas Morning News, April 22, 2012 Robinson, Gaile, “Sculptor Erick Swenson’s Shell Games”, DFW.com, April 18, 2012 Gamerman, Ellen, “An Art Fair with a Texas Twist”, The Wall Street Journal, April 6, 2012 Brinkley, Rob, “Sightings: Erick Swenson”, The Dallas Morning News, March 29, 2012
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 Simek, Lucia, “Dunn and Brown’s Summer Show Engages the Gallery’s All-Star Artists in Conversation,” D Magazine, July 15, 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 Goodbody, Bridget. “Erick Swenson,” Art in Review, The New York Times, June 15, 2007. Art in Action (exhibition catalogue). San Francisco: The Natural World Museum. Text by Noa Jones with forward by Achim Steiner. Curated by Barry Rosenberg.
2006	Falconer, Morgan, “The States They’re In,” The Times, London, England, October 4, 2006 Gibb, Brian, “Erick Swenson Interview,” Art Prostitute, August 2006 Lewis, Caroline, “Saatchi’s USA Today at The Royal Academy of Arts London,” review, 24 Hour Museum, May 2006 Kutner, Janet, “Portrait in Obsession,” Dallas Morning News, July 19, 2006
2005	Sozanski, Edward J., “Extraordinary equines at heart of ICA exhibit,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, June 5, 2005 Pagel, David, “What Happens Naturally,” Los Angeles Times, Around the Galleries, June 3^rd, 2005 Horton, C. Sean, “Erick Swenson, James Cohan Gallery,” Sculpture, March 2005
2004	Zamudio-Taylor, “ArtPace / A Foundation for Contemporary Art,” Arco, winter 2004 (mention) Leffingwell, Edward, “Erick Swenson at James Cohan,” Art in America, October 2004. Dailey, Meghan, “Erick Swenson”, review, ArtForum, September 2004. Casadio, Mariuccia, “Dreamy”, Vogue Italia, May 2004. Plagens, Peter. “Art’s ‘Star Search’”, Newsweek, March 22, 2004. French, Christopher. “How do Texans stack up at the Whitney?”, Houston Chronicle, April 30, 2004. Plagens, Peter, “Art’s ‘Star Search’”, Newsweek, March 22, 2004 Lagnado, Caroline, “Whitney Biennial Well Worth the Visit”, Tufts Daily, Friday, April 16, 2004
2003	Knight, Christopher, “Erick Swenson at UCLA Hammer Museum”, The Los Angeles Times, Friday, February 21, 2003 Mitchell, Charles Dee, “Erick Swenson at UCLA Hammer Museum”, (brochure essay) January 26-May 4, 2003 Smith, Roberta, “Air”, The New York Times, Friday, January 24, 2003 Wei, Lilly, “Air”, New York Reviews, Artnews, April 2003, p. 123 Time Out, Art Reviews, Issue no. 384, February 6-13, 2003 Zamet, Kate, “Air”, Contemporary, Issue 49, pp. 86-7 Viveros-Fauné, Christian, “Fresh Air”, New York Press, February 5-11, 2003 Artpace, Artist Review, February 2003 “Air Supply”, Women’s Wear Daily, Thursday, January 9, 2003
2002	Wilson-Goldie, Kaelen, “Fawning”, Dutch, May/June 2002, p. 30
2001	Bayliss, Sarah, “Best Bets,” Artnews, Summer 2001 Drake, James, New Orleans Triennial, (catalogue), New Orleans Museum of Art, 2001, pp. 108–111 The New Yorker, “The Big Id,” March 19, 2001 Flash Art, Swallow & Swenson @MCA Sydney, November/December 2001, p. 45
2000	Auping, Michael, “Natural Deceits,” catalogue, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, 2000, pp. 1-11 Caywood, Mark, “Who’s Deceived?” FW Weekly, May 18-25, 2000 Cohen, Mark Daniel. “Keith Edmier, Ricky Swallow, Erick Swenson,” reviewny.com (Review Magazine), September 15, 2000 Daniel, Mike, “Natural Deceits,” Dallas Morning News Guide, May 12, 2000 Herbert, Lynn, “Erick Swenson,” Out of the Ordinary: New Art from Texas, catalogue, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, 2000, pp. 84-91, reproductions Klaasmeyer, Kelly, “Everyday Art: Mundane Objects make for Out of the Ordinary works,” Houston Post, Aug 24, 2000 Krider, Dylan Otto, “Two Baboons and a Body Bag,” Houston Press, August 10, 2000 Kutner, Janet, “Art Outlet,” The Dallas Morning News, Saturday, July 8, 2000,pp. 5C-7C Kutner, Janet, “Imposter art disguises meaning,” Dallas Morning News, May 14, 2000 Rees, Christina, “Cheers and Tallyho,” Dallas Observer, February 17–23, 2000 Rees, Christina, “Biting Back,” Dallas Observer, February 10 - 16, 2000, pp.14–23
1999	“Description without Place,” The New Yorker, November 29, 1999 Henry, Max, “Description Without Place,” artnet.com, November 4, 1999 Massey-Helber, Annabelle, “Blink,” Dallas Observer, November 4-10, 1999, p. 85 Mitchell, Charles Dee, “Erick Swenson at Angstrom Gallery,” Art in America, January 1999, p. 110
1998	Rees, Christina, “Framed: Best of 1998,” Dallas Observer, December 31 - January 6, 1998, p. 56 Slattery, Sean, “Obviously a Movie,” Artlies Magazine, Fall 1998, no 20, p. 55 Rees, Christina, “Frozen Fantasies,” Dallas Observer, September 10-16, 1998, p. 62 Massey-Helber, Annabelle, “Erick Swenson,” The Met Magazine, September 2-9, 1998, p. 39
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 Vanucci, Delphina, “Erick Swenson: Push to Prime,” ArtLies Magazine, Fall 1996, pp. 34, 41 Houston Press, vol. 8, no 37, September 12 –18, 1996 Public News, Houstons Alternative Newseekly, no. 774, September 11, 1996

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