Born in Brooklyn, New York, in 1973
Lives in New York City
Education
1994Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI; BFA, painting
One-Person Exhibitions
2009“48 Hours in Miami,” Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami
2007Feature Inc., New York
2006“Sketchbooks 95–05 & Thoughtographs,” Feature Inc., New York
2005“The Twinkie Defense,” Ratio 3, San Francisco (brochure)
2003Feature Inc., New York
2001Marc Foxx, Los Angeles
Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami
2000Feature Inc., New York
1999Feature Inc., New York
1997Feature Inc., New York
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010“They Knew What They Wanted,” Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco, in collaboration with Fraenkel Gallery,
John Berggruen, and Ratio 3; curated by Shannon Ebner
2009“New Work New York,” Fortune Cookie Projects, Artspace @ Helutrans, Singapore
“Liberation upon Contact,” Ratio 3, San Francisco
“Another 24 Hours: Disorganized,” Museum 52, New York; curated by Jacob Robichaux
“Sam Gordon and Daphne Fitzpatrick,” curated by Eve Fowler, New Langton Arts, San Francisco
2008“Unrelated,” Wilkinson Gallery, London, organized by Matthew Higgs
“A New High in Getting Low (NYC),” John Connelly Presents, New York
“Unfurnished Room,” Unit B, San Antonio, TX; curated by Jacob Robichaux
“Shit,” Feature Inc., New York
2007“NeoIntegrity,” Derek Eller, New York; curated by Keith Mayerson (catalogue)
“From Mind to Hand: Artists and Graphology,” Triple Base, San Francisco
“A New High In Getting Low,” Artnews Projects, Berlin; curated by John Connelly
“Alpha,” Ratio 3, San Francisco
2006“Bring the War Home,” QED Gallery, Los Angeles and Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York; curated by Drew Heitzler
“Cosmic Wonder Satellites & Shop,” Triple Base, San Francisco
“Cosmic Wonder,” Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
“Parallel Visions II: Outsider and Insider Art Today,” Galerie St. Etienne, New York
“Representing the Self,” Spencertown Academy Arts Center, Spencertown, NY; curated by Gwenn Mayers and
Linda Horn
2005“Hibernation,” Silo, New York
“The sun rises in the evening.,” Feature Inc., New York
“Follow Me: A Fantasy,” Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA; curated by Malik Gaines
“Capricorn-28,” Rocket Projects, Miami; curated by Jose Diaz
“Post Notes,” Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN;
curated by Adam Carr
2004“Editions Fawbush: A Selection,” Sandra Gering Gallery, New York
“Color Wheel Oblivion,” Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan; curated by Chris Perez (catalogue)
“Summer Solstice,” Ratio 3, San Francisco
“Lumpen Decadents,” Ingalls & Associates, Miami; curated by Gean Moreno
2003“Lumpenedlyness,” Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC; curated by Hudson
“Fright Wig,” Feature Inc., New York
“Reisefreiheit (Freedom to Travel): Neue Kunst in Hamburg,” Kunsthaus Hamburg, Hamburg,(catalogue)
“Today’s Man,” John Connelly Presents, New York; Hiromi Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo
“Kult 48 Klubhouse,” Deitch Projects, Brooklyn, NY (catalogue)
“The Outlaw Series,” TheOutlawSeries.com, curated by Lisa Kirk
“Living with Duchamp,” Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
(brochure)
“Now Playing,” D’Amelio Terras, New York; curated by Scott Hug
“Giverny,” Salon 94, New York
“Post-It,” Floating IP, Manchester, UK; curated by Adam Carr
“Paper Works,” Julia Friedman Gallery, Chicago
2002“Alex Grey, Sam Gordon, Michael Lazarus,” M du B, F, H & g, Montreal
“K48-3 Teenage Rebel: The Bedroom Show,” John Connelly Presents, New York; curated by
Scott Hug
“Paintings,” M du B, F, H & g, Montreal
“The Longest Winter,” Schmidt Center Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL;
curated by Gean Moreno (brochure)
“GtT2,” Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; curated by ANP (catalogue)
“Visiting Artist Biennial,” Ewing Gallery, University of Tennessee; Knoxville, TN (catalogue)
2001“Boomerang: Collector’s Choice,” Exit Art, New York; curated by Nancy Portnoy
“Not a. Lear,” Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York; Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston; curated by ANP
“Work: Shaker Design and Recent Art,” Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College,
Saratoga Springs, NY (catalogue)
2000“Greater New York,” P.S.1 Center for Contemporary Art, Long Island City, NY (catalogue)
“Grok Terence McKenna Dead,” Feature Inc., New York
“Juvenilia,” Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
“Tradition and Innovation,” Pfizer Inc. International Headquarters, New York; curated by Elizabeth Urbanski
“Not a. Lear,” Torch, Amsterdam; Galerie S. & H. De Buck, Ghent, Belgium; Art Process, Paris;
curated by ANP
“Tracy Miller, Sam Gordon,” M du B, F, H & g, Montreal
“Not a. Lear,” Torch, Amsterdam; Galerie S. & H. De Buck, Ghent, Belgium; Art Process, Paris; curated by ANP
“Drawings and Photographs” (benefit exhibition for the Foundation for Contemporary Performance
Arts, Inc., New York), Matthew Marks, New York
“Snapshot,” Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD; curated by Gary Sangster, Adam Lerner, and
Sarah Vezina
“Art on Paper,” Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro,
Greensboro, NC; curated by Ron Platt (catalogue)
“Paper Trail Pt. 2,” Shaheen Modern and Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
1999“curious.parking @ stupendous.strawberry,” Galerie S. & H. De Buck, Ghent, Belgium; curated by ANP
“Would have had.,” Cabinet Gallery, London
“Drawings,” Feature Inc., New York
“shoes, shoes, shoes,” TZ’Art & Co., New York; curated by Michèle Gerber Klein
1998“Yoyogaga,” Feature Inc., New York
“SCIENCE,” Feature Inc., New York
“WOp: works on/of paper,” ANP, Antwerp, Belgium
1997“La Tradicion: Performing Painting,” Exit Art, New York
Selected Bibliography
2009This: A Collection of Artist’s Writings, edited by Susan Jennings
Hromack, Sarah. “Screenings: Sam Gordon’s The Lost Kinetic World,” artinamericamagazine.com,
1 June >link
Killian, Kevin. “The Lost Kinetic World,” Open Space: The Blog of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art;
27 May >link
Vogt, Erika. “Fruit Farm Film Festival,” Artforum, Top Ten, February (reproduction of artwork)
2008Perry, Colin. Review of “Unrelated,” Frieze.com, posted 24 July >link
Rosenberg, Karen. “A New High in Getting Low,” New York Times, 17 March, E36
2007Artworks: The Progressive Collection, Distributed Art Publishers, New York; essays by Dan Cameron,
Peter B. Lewis, Toby Devan Lewis, and Toni Morrison
Cotter, Holland. New York Times, Listings: Last Chance, 30 March, E24
Cotter, Holland. Review of “NeoIntegrity,” New York Times, 9 August
McClemont, Doug. Review, Your Gallery daily magazine blog, Saatchi Gallery, London, posted 28 March >link
Orden, Abraham. “The Minute,” Artnet.com, posted 5 April >link
Interior Design, “Upate: February,” January, 36 (reproduction)
2006Batey, Eve. “Whoa, man! Cosmic Wonder Opens at YBCa,” Sfist.com, 18 July >link (accessed 26 July, 2006)
Cotter, Holland. “Where the Focus is Sharp but the Categories Blurry” (review of “Bring the War Home”),
New York Times, 16 August E1.
Smith, Roberta. Review of “Hibernation,” New York Times, 27 January, E33
2005Ammirati, Dominick. “Scene And Heard,” Artforum.com, 18 May
Hromack, Sarah, “The Twinkie Defense,” SFstation.com >link (accessed 26 July, 2006)
Rosenberg, Karen. “The Muster,” New Yorker, Goings On About Town, 16 May, 32
Schwendener, Martha. “Painting the Town,” Time Out New York, 12–18 May
2004Bellini, Andrea and Sonia Campagnola, “I Nuovissimi Di New York,” Flash Art Italia, June/July, 88
(reproduction)
2003Bollen, Christopher. Review, Time Out New York 11–18 September, 88
Cotter, Holland, “By and About Men and They’re Running With It,” New York Times, 8 August, E32
Cotter, Holland. Review, New York Times, 28 February, E45
Laster, Paul, “K48-3: Teenage Rebel: The Bedroom Show,” Time Out New York, 2–9 January
Reed, John, “Giverny,” Time Out New York, 24–31 August
2002Cotter, Holland. “The Heavenly Tree Grows Downward,” New York Times, 20 September
Joyner, Heather. “Fresh A.I.R.,” Metro Pulse, 23 January
Ocaña, Damarys. “Compelling Obsessions,” Miami Herald, 6 October, M:1, 3
2001Coles, Sadie. “Mario Testino’s Art Index,” Visionaire 11, May/June
Cotter, Holland. “Not a. Lear,” New York Times, 12 October, E37
2000Cotter, Holland. “New York Contemporary, Defined 150 Ways,” New York Times, 6 March, E:1, 5
Gopinath, Gabrielle. “Greater New York at P.S. 1,” ReviewNY.com (Review magazine), 1 May
Hong, Catherine. “United Artists,” Harper’s Bazaar, May, 132–133
Karlins, N. F. Drawing Notebook, artnet.com, 10 October (reproduction) >link
Kino, Carol. “Surveying the Scene II: The Emergent Factor,” Art in America, July, 44–49
1999Cotter, Holland. “Changes Aside, Soho is Still Very Much Soho,” New York Times, 12 February,E:35, 37
(reproduction)
Ivy, Angus. Review of “WOp,” Zingmagazine, Summer, 229–230
Popelier, Bert. “Jonge Amerikanen,” De Financieel Economische Tijd, 3 February, 12
1998Cotter, Holland. Review of “Yoyogaga,” New York Times, 20 November, E43
1997Levin, Kim. “Work in Progress,” Village Voice, 22 April, 50–51
Rubinstein, Ralph. “On Broadway: Studios Without Walls,” Art in America, June, 27
Residencies, Projects, Publications
2010“Sam Gordon & B. Wurtz,” North Drive Press #5, (interview)
“This Is a Performance,” curated by Sam Gordon, Artist Curated Projects, Los Angeles
2009“This Is a Test,” curated by Sam Gordon, ACP@X-Initiative, New York
“Painthings,” curated by Sam Gordon with Lecia Dole-Recio, Jake Ewert, and Jacob Robichaux, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami
2007Gordon, Sam. Surface Incident (artist’s book)
Visiting Faculty, “Works on Paper,” Spring Semester, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
(class produced 3 issues of W.O.P. magazine)
Untitled publication, no. 1 (Spring), Feature Inc., New York (reproductions)
Artfancy, no. 1 (Fall–Winter), edited by Joshua Thorson (portfolio)
2006Gordon, Sam. Thoughtography (artist’s book)
Gordon, Sam. The Lost Kinetic World: Volume 1, DVD, 115 minutes (artist’s AV “magazine”)
2005Visiting Artist/Critic, Graduate Seminar, California College of the Arts, San Francisco
Visiting Artist, Art Center, Pasadena, CA
Vice: The Photo Issue (reproduction)
2004Gordon, Sam. Giverny/Tennessee, Feature Inc., New York (artist’s book)
Visiting Artist, Rhode Island School of Design, European Honors Program, Rome
2003Visiting Artist, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
K48-4: Kult 48, published by Scott Hug (centerfold)
2002K48-2: The Travel Issue, published by Scott Hug (reproduction)
Visiting Artist/Critic, School of Visual Arts, New York
Artist in Residence, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN
2001Residency, Artists at Giverny Program, Giverny France; curated by the Art Production Fund, New York
“Off the Wall,” Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago; curated by Gregory Sandoval and Sam Gordon
Visiting Artist / Graduate Seminar, Art Center, Pasedena, CA
Untitled (Talisman), edition of 7, published by Editions Fawbush
Screenings
2009“Monitour: 24 Hours in Aspen (The Lost Kinetic World: Volumes 1–12, 2005–2007),” Aspen Art Museum
2008ACP/Artist Curated Projects, Los Angeles, 31 May, The Lost Kinetic World: Volume 1
ACP/Artist Curated Projects, Los Angeles, 23 August, The Lost Kinetic World: Volume 2
Fruit Farm Film Festival, McMinnville, OR, 15–17 August, The Lost Kinetic World: Volumes 1–12
2007One-day salon curated by Danny Kaplan, 16 September, New York
2006The Lost Kinetic World: Volume 1, Small A Projects, Portland, OR