Born in New York City in 1954
Lives in New York City
Education
1978Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI; BFA
One-Person Exhibitions
2010Feature Inc., New York
2007Angstrom Gallery, Los Angeles
2006Feature Inc., New York
2004Feature Inc., New York
2002Angstrom Gallery, Dallas, TX
1999Feature Inc., New York
1996Feature Inc., New York
1995Postmasters, New York
1994Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1993Galerie Ludwig, Krefeld, Germany (catalogue)
Postmasters, New York
1991Feigen Inc., Chicago
Ealan Wingate Gallery, New York
Roy Boyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Galleri Nordanstadt-Skarstedt, Stockholm
1989Koury Wingate Gallery, New York
Roy Boyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1988Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna
“Four Paintings,” Koury Wingate Gallery, New York
1987Baskerville + Watson, New York
Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam
1986Christminster Gallery, New York
1984Christminster Gallery, New York
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
1983Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
1982Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010“Swell,” Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York; curated by Jacqueline Miro
“The Jewel Thief,” The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, New York;
curated by Ian Berry and Jessica Stockholder (catalogue)
“Wall-to-Wall,” Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
2009“Populate This Form,” Feature Inc., New York
2007Block Party II: An Exhibition of Drawings,” Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
“Horizon,” EFA Gallery, New York; curated by David Humphrey
2006“Block Party,” Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
2005“Painted World,” P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York; curated by Robert Nickas
“Steve DiBenedetto, Bill Komoski, Bruce Pearson, Michael Tetherow: Paintings and Drawings,”
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“The sun rises in the evening.,” Feature Inc., New York
“Especial – Arbeiten Auf Papier,” Galerie Schmidt Maczollek, Cologne
2004“North Fork/ South Fork Part 2: East End Art Now,” Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY (catalogue)
2003“Urban Visionaries,” Cooper Union, New York
2002“Song Poems,” Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles; curated by Steven Hull
“7 Grays,” Paula Cooper Gallery, New York; curated by Dan Walsh
2001Bruce Brosnan/Bill Komoski,” Feature Inc., New York
“3 set in 7,” Centre Régional d’Arte Contemporain; Sète, France.
“Song Poems,” Cohan Leslie Browne, New York; Angstrom Gallery, Dallas; curated by Steven Hull
2000“Hairy Forearm’s Self-Referral,” Feature Inc., New York
“Painting Function: Making it Real,” Spaces, Cincinnati, OH; curated by Saul Ostrow(catalogue)
“Aintings and Rawings,” Feature Inc., New York
1998“Paintings,” Feature Inc., New York
“Exploiting the Abstract,” Feigen Contemporary, New York
1997“Gnarleyand,” Feature Inc., New York
“Vertical Painting,” P.S. 1 Museum, Long Island City, NY
“Divergent Models,” Nassauischen Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Germany
1996“Allover Again,” Municipal Gallery, Saragossa, Spain
1995“Re: Fab,” Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL; Wolfson
Galleries, Miami-Dade
Community College, Miami (1996); Robert Hull Fleming Museum,
University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont
(1997); curated by Rochelle Feinstein and Shirley Kaneda (catalogue)
“Sieben New Yorker Maler,” Kunstverein Museum Scholss, Morsbroich, Germany
1994“What’s Wrong with This Picture?,” Zolla-Lieberman Gallery, Chicago
1993“What’s Wrong with This Picture?,” Postmasters Gallery, New York
Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York
1991“Conceptual Abstraction,” Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
1990“Disconnections,” Galleri Nordanstadt-Skarstedt, Stockholm
1988“Der Hund im mir – The Dog Within,” Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna
“Fragments of History,” Albany Art Museum, Albany, NY
“Painting Between the Sacred and Profane,” Galerie Rahmel, Cologne
Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
“De Kunst Collectie van het Bouwfonds,” Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
“About Paintings,” Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam
Galerie Kahle, Hamburg, Germany
1987“Playback,” Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna; curated by Jeffrey Rian
Postmasters, New York
1986Wolff Gallery, New York
“A New Abstraction,” New City Gallery, Venice, CA
Baskerville + Watson, New York
1985“Autogeneticsphotopsia,” Christminster Gallery, New York; curated by Bill Komoski
“Black and White,” Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
“Past and Future Perfect,” Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY
1983“Painting into Sculpture,” Bonlow Gallery, New York
“London/New York,” Lisson Gallery, London
1982Painting and Sculpture Today,” Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
“Drawing Triennale,” Nurnberg, Germany
“Drawings,” Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
1981“Fictive Victims,” Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY (catalogue)
“Beware of the Dog,” Mudd Club, New York
“Noise Fest,” White Columns, New York
“New York/New Wave,” P.S. 1 Museum, Long Island City, NY
1980“The Times Square Show,” New York
1979“Manifesto Show,” 5 Bleecker Street, New York
Selected Bibliography
2010Rubin, David S., ed. Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art Since the 1960s, with essays by David S. Rubin,
Robert C. Morgan and Daniel Pinchbeck, San Antonio Museum of Art in association with MIT Press,
Cambridge, MA, 32 – 33, 108
2008Sonic Youth, etc.: Sensational Fix, exhibition catalog, LiFE- Lieu international des Formes Emergentes,
St-Nazaire, France
2007Taft, Catherine. Review, Your Gallery, saatchi-gallery.co.uk/blogon, 8 June
Taft, Catherine. Review, Modern Painters, September, 95
Knight, Christopher. “There’s Power in the Abstract,” Los Angeles Times, 15 June
2005Boyce, Roger. Review, Art in America, January, 122 (reproduction)
2004Ernst, Eric. “Diplomatic, but Lacking a Spark,” Southampton Press, 2 September
“Parrish Will Take Stock Of East End Art World,” Southampton Press, 20 May
“North Fork/South Fork Part 1,” Sag Harbor Express, 20 May
Rogers, Pat, “Show’s A Sampler, Not a Survey,” Southampton Press, 24 June
Boyce, Roger. “Thomas Nozkowski at Max Protech,” Art in America, June/July, 179
2002Volk, Gregory. Review, Art in America, January, 110–111 (reproduction)
2001“Loose,” Arena Homme, Spring/Summer, 251 (reproduction)
2000Raczka, Robert. Review of “Painting Function,” New Art Examiner, June
1999Blair, Dike. Review, The Thing,, 23 June (reproduction) >link
Glueck, Grace. Review, New York Times, 9 July, E35
Mahoney, Robert. Review, Time Out New York, 8 July, 56–57 (reproduction)
Goings On About Town, New Yorker, 19 July, 20
1996Ostrow, Saul. “Editor’s Choice: Art,” Bomb, Fall, 9 (reproduction)
Smith, Roberta. “Palettes Full of Ideas About What Paintings Should Be,” New York Times,
1 November, C27
1995Klein, Monika. “Sieben New Yorker maler Stelen in der Studigalerie,” Rheinische Post,21 March
Schwenke-Runkel, Ingeborg. “Knallbuntes aus New York,” Kolner Stadt-Anzeiger, 21 March
1994Colby, Joy Hakanson. “Art by Man or Machine? Painter Komoski Explores the Gulf,”
Detroit News, 11 November
“New York im Spotlight - Drei Maler bei Sfeir-Semler,” Kieler Nachrichten, 1 January
1993Clarkson, David. Review of “What’s Wrong with This Picture?,” Flash Art, October
Smith, Roberta. “Shades of a Rebirth in Painting,” New York Times, 18 June
1989Brenson, Michael. Review, New York Times, 14 April
Holst, Lise. “Diagrams and Surrogates,” Artnews, May
Kelley, Mike. “Foul Perfection: Thoughts on Caricature,” Artforum, January
Weinstein, Matthew. Review, Artforum, September
1987Miller, John. Review, Artscribe, May
Rian, Jeffrey. Review, Art in America, April
Smith, Roberta. Review, New York Times, 23 January
1984Kleyn, Robert. “The Shadow Reflected,” Z.G., Fall
Smith, Roberta. Review, Village Voice, November
1983Kuspit, Donald. Review, Artforum, January
1982Glueck, Grace. Review, New York Times, 1 October
Pincus, Robert L. Review, Los Angeles Times, 10 August
Publications, Portfolios, Projects, and Reproductions of Artwork
2009Nickas, Bob. Painting Abstraction: New Elements in Abstract Painting, Phaidon Press, New York
2008No Milk Today 1, no. 1, edited by Billy Miller (reproduction)
2007Untitled publication, no. 1 (Spring), Feature Inc., New York (reproduction)
2005Mitchell, W. J. T. What do Pictures Want? University of Chicago Press, Chicago and London,3, 227
Perry, Vicky. Abstract Painting: Concepts and Techniques, Waltson-Guptill Publications,
New York, 58, 93 (reproductions)