Loren Munk
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Chronology
1951 Born, Salt Lake City, Utah
1969-72Attended Idaho State University, Pocatello, Idaho
1973-75Attended University of Maryland at Ramstein, Germany while in US Army
1979 Attended Art Students League, New York
One Man Exhibitions
2011 “New Year, New Work, New Faces” at Storefront Gallery, Brooklyn
“It’s All Good!!: Apocalypse Now” at Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn
“Paper 2011” at Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn
“I Like the Art World and the Art World Likes Me” curated by Eric Doeringer at the
Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts
“#TheSocialGraph: An Evolving Exploration of Social Media Art” curated by
Hrag Vartanian at Outpost Gallery, Queens
"ABC123" curated by Janet Goleas at Eric Firestone Gallery East Hampton
New York
"Williamsburg 2000" curated by Larry Walczak
"These are a Few of My Favorite Things" curated by Jerelyn Hanrahan at The
End, Brooklyn
"Unfinished Paintings" curated by Kristin Calabrese and Joshua Aster at LACE,
Los Angeles California.
2010 "Becoming Modern in America" curated by Matthew Deleget at MINUS SPACE
Brooklyn N.Y.
Daniel Weinberg Gallery Los Angeles, California
2009 Rupert Ravens Contemporary Art Newark New Jersey
2006 Dam & Stuhltrager Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2002 American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich
Andre Zarre Gallery, New York
Museum Moderner Kunst, Passau, Germany
2001 M.J. Wewerka Galerie, Berlin
American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich
2000 American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich
1998 L'Antiquario, Sao Paulo, Brasil
1997 Jeffrey Coploff Fine Art Ltd., New York
1996 Caesaria Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida
1995 Amerika-Haus, Munich, Germany
1994 BMW, Munich
Andre Zaire Gallery, New York
1992 Galerie Svetlana & Hubner, Munich, Germany
Andre Zarre Gallery, New York
1991 Krief Galerie d'Art Contemporain, Paris, France
Cedar Crest College, Allentown, Pennsylvania
1989,90Galerie Svetlana, Munich, Germany
Leslie Cecil Gallery, New York
ARCA, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Marseille, France
1981 J. Field Gallery, New York
1981,82,83/84,85,87 Gabrielle Bryers Gallery, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011 "ABC123" curated by Janet Goleas at Eric Firestone Gallery East Hampton N.Y.
"6 Who Paint" curated by Fred Valentine at Big&Small/Casual, Long Island City N.Y.
"It's All Good: Apocalypse Now" curated by Richard Timperio, Side Show Gallery,
Brooklyn N.Y.
"I Like The Art World and The Art World Likes Me" curated by Eric Doeringer at the
Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, New York
"Paper 2011" at Janet Kurnatoski Gallery Brooklyn.
"NEW year NEW work NEW faces" curated by Jason Andrew and Deborah Brown at
Storefront Gallery.
"It's All Good" curated by Richard Timperio at Side Show Gallery Brooklyn.
2010 "Wall to Wall" Daniel Weinberg Gallery Los Angeles California.
"The Social Graph" curated by Hrag Vartanian at The Outpost,Brooklyn.
"It's a Wonderful Life" curated by Richard Timperio at Side Show Gallery, Brooklyn.
2009 "Year Five" at Janet Kurnatoski Gallery Brooklyn
"Party at Chris's House" curated by Phong Bui at Janet Kurnatoski Gallery Brooklyn
2008 “Boson Exotic” Rupert Ravens Contemporary Art Gallery, Newark, N J
“The Face” curated by Cathy Quinlin at the ‘temporary Museum of Painting, Brooklyn
“Peace” Side Show Gallery, Brooklyn NY
“Shape Shifters: New York Painters” Curated by James Biederman, The A.D. Gallery,
The University of North Carolina at Pembroke and Sideshow Gallery Brooklyn
2007 “More Is More—Maximalist Tendencies in Recent American Painting” Florida State
University Museum of Fine Arts, curated by Tatiana Flores
“Continuum” The ‘temporary Museum of Painting, Brooklyn NY
“War is Over Again” Side Show Gallery, Brooklyn NY
“Radius” Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn NY
“Sanctuary City” Rupert Ravens Contemporary Art Gallery, Newark, N J
“The Blogger Show” Agni Gallery New York NY
“The Face” The ‘temporary Museum of Painting, Brooklyn NY
2006 “SWAP” 06, Americana - Madrid, Arteveintuno Madrid, Spain
Scope/New York, Dam Stuhltrager
Fountain/ New York, Front Room
Nova/ Chicago, Dam Stuhltrager
2005 “The Brooklyn Rail” Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York
Scope/Miami, Dam Stuhltrager
2004 “30th Anniversary Exhibition 1974-2004”, Andre Zarre Gallery, New York
“Merry Peace," Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburgh
The Color Imperative. Gallery: N3 Project Space, Brooklyn NY
“Recent Works”, Andre Zarre Gallery, New York
2003 "Brooklyn on 57th Street," Nohra Haime Gallery, New York
"Drawing Conclusions: Work by Artist-Critics," NY Arts Gallery, New York
2002 "Benefit," Bellweather Gallery, Williamsburgh
"Merry Peace," Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburgh
Sao Paulo Art Fair, Sao Paulo
2001 "Private Collection," ABN-AMRO Bank, Monte Carlo, Monaco
Basel Art Fair, American Contemporary Art Gallery, Munich
"Spokes and Rims," Connecticut Graphic Arts Center, Norwalk, curated by Tony Kirk
"City Rhythms", Pelham Art Center, New York; curated by Titia Hulst 2000
"6X1= Paintings", with LaNoue, Wofford, Rice Pereira; Andre Zarre Gallery, New York
"Helter Skelter Summer Swelter", Gallery @49, New York
"Duchamp Traveling Exhibition", Kurturbahnhof, Bremen; Emmanuel Heller Gallery, Tel Aviv; The Artists' Museum, Lodz
1999 "Familiar Strangers", Galapagos, Williamsburgh
"New New York Views: Recent Acquisitions", Museum of the City of New York
Community Art Benefit, Brooklyn Museum
NY2K, Charas/el Bohio, New York; curated by Rich Collichio, Tracy Zungola and Carlo McCormick
The Arts for Transit Poster Program, Bank Street College Exhibition Space, New York
1998 "Sourpusses", Abraham Lubdski Gallery, New York
1997 Jeffrey Coploff Fine Art at The Art Exchange Show, New York
1996 "Blue", 450 Broadway Gallery, New York
1993 "Through Thick & Thin", Andre Zarre Gallery, New York
1992 "Inaugural Exhibition", J. Claramunt Gallery, New York
"Prix de Peinture de Prinidpal de Monaco", Monaco
Gallery Ruf, Munich
1991 "Objets d'Artistes", with DiRosa, Scharf, etc Galerie Krief, Paris
"Salon de Couvertes", Grand Palais, Paris,
1990 "Collectors (Albee, Dannheisser, Forbes, etc) Choice of Emerging Artists",Vered Gallery,
East Hampton
1998 "Chairman's Choice: A Miscellany of American Paintings" w/Hopper, Wyeth, etc. FORBES Magazine Galleries,NY,
"Diverse Expressionists", M-13 Gallery, New York
"Works on paper", with Basquiat, Condo, etc., Gabrielle Bryers Gallery, New York
1986 Basel Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland
FORUM, Zurich Art Fair, Zurich, Switzerland
"Selected Works From Our Gallery", Laurens A. Daane Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
"The Embellishment of the Statue of Liberty", with Rauschenberg, Warhol, etc. at Barneys, New York
"Formes et Coleurs", Galerie Pierre Huber, Geneva, Switzerland
"Freedom of Painting", organized by Galerie Paradis, Paris
1985 "La fin du Siecle c'est por domain", Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
"Little Paintings", 51X Gallery, New York
"Picture Frame/Frame Picture", Gabrielle Bryers Gallery, New York
"New York, New Art", with Chia, Lichtenstein, Longo, Schnabel and others, ARCA, Marseille,France
"Kunst aus der Neue Welt", Gallery Svetlana, Munich, Germany
"Prelude to 1986", Gabrielle Bryers Gallery, New York
1984 DeRempich Gallery, New York
"Collaboration Show", with Basquiat, Borofsky, Longo, Salle, Winters and others, Gabrielle Bryers Gallery, NY 1983 51 -Xpressionism, 51 Gallery, New York 1979 Idaho Biennial, Boise Gallery of Art, Boise, Idaho
Commissions
Independence Savings Bank Mural, Independence Building, Brooklyn, NY; 1995
"Street Life" Murals: Commissioned by BMW, Munich specifically for the introduction of the 316i; 1994
Wall Mural: 4 rue de la Gate, Montparnasse; Jury Selected, Mayor's Office Paris, France; 1993 Execution
Litfass Design: International Litfass Art Biennale, Munich, 1992, sponsored by BMW
Poster: Metropolitan Transit Authority Arts for Transit Neighborhood Poster Project; Jury Selected; 1992
Selected Public and Corporate Collections
Museum of the City of New York
Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York
The Port Authority of NY and NJ
Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, HN
Metropolitan Transit Authority, State of New York
Chase Manhattan Bank NA, New York
Statue of Liberty National Monument, Liberty Island, New York
Sony Music Entertainment Inc. New York
ARTLANTIS, Stuttgart
WRKS FM, New York
FORBES Magazine Collection, New York
C&C Vineyards, Belleville/Saone, France
Selected Private Collections
Vera List, New York
Mrs. Yitzhak Rabin, Jerusalem
William Speerstra, Monte Carlo
Dr. and Mrs. Donald Rubell, NYC
Daniel Templon, Paris
Mr. and Mrs. Wemer Amhold, Grasse
George Waterman, New York
Amaury Taittinger, Paris
Pierre Huber, Geneva
Laurens Daane, Amsterdam
Tomas Wallin, Stockholm
Additional collections throughout the United States, South America and Europe
Selected Bibliography
2011 James Panero, Gallery Chronicles Jan. 2011 http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Gallery-chronicle-6766
James Panero, Gallery Cronicles February 2011: http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/Gallery-chronicle-6942
Jerry Saltz, New York Magazine Jan. 22, 2011 http://nymag.com/listings/art/loren-munk/
Sarah Schmerler, Time Out New York, Jan 20-26 2011 http://newyork.timeout.com/arts-culture/art/699041/%E2%80%9Cbecoming-modern-in-america-life-magazine-1936%E2%80%931972-new-paintings-by-loren-m
2010 Peter Frank Huffington Post March 26 2010: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/peter-frank/blague-dart-write-of-spri_b_514264.html
2009
http://blog.art21.org/2008/09/29/the-kalm-report vlogging-as-performance-critique/
2008
Williamsburg Greenpoint News+Arts, September 2008, “Munk YouTubes Williamsburg’s New Art History” by Trent Morris
http://www.artcritical.com/quinlan/CQShapeshifters.htm
http://www.damstuhltrager.com/art_pages/loren_munk/lm11.htm
http://www.artcal.net/event/view/2/3224
http://www.damstuhltrager.com/press/Time%20Out%20New%20York%20-%20Painting%20the%20town.htm
http://www.nyartsmagazine.com/index.php?Itemid=708&id=5411&option=com_content&task=view
http://www.mofa.fsu.edu/questions.html
Sculpture, December, 2007, “Newark Between Us”, by Gae Savannah, p. 71
d’art International #21 Fall 2007, “The James Kalm Report: The Artworld Interventions of Loren Munk”, by Christopher Hart Chambers, p. 22, color illustration
2006
http://www.villagevoice.com/art/0643,baker,74788,13.html
http://painternyc.blogspot.com/2006/10/loren-munk.html
http://andfaraway.net/blog/2006/10/
The Village Voice, October 25-31, 2006, VOL. LI NO. 43 “Best in Show” by R.C.Baker
NYArts, September/October 2006, “Fall Picks” by Christopher Chambers
Time Out New York, March 9-15, 2006, Issue 545. p. 64, “Painting the Town: Loren Munk in Fountain”, color illustration; also featured on websitewww.timeoutny.com/newyork/Details.do?page=1&xyurl=xyl:/ /TONYWebArticles1/545/art/painting_the_town.xml - 33k -
March 2006
Loren Munk at Frontroom / Fountain; color illustration
williamsburg-nerd.blogspot.com/ 2006_03_05_williamsburg-nerd_archive.html
April 2006 http://visualartscommerce.blogstream.com/v1/p2.html: illustration
May 2006
http://www.iconoduel.org/archives/2006/05/000780_the_final_countdown.php: illustrations
May 18, 2006, Windy Apple, by Abraham Oden, art-net.com
http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/reviews/orden/orden5-18-06.asp
“Clement Greenberg study” (2005-06)
May 2004: http://www.offoffoff.com/art/2004/thecolorimperative.php
FROM THE MAYOR'S DOOR STEP, Piri Halasz, No. 44,15 Jan 2003
NY ARTS MAGAZINE, May 2002 .Chambers, Christopher, "Picks"
BERLINER ZEITUNG, 21/9/01, p.15
0 ESTADO DE S.PAULO Viegas, Camila, "Cores vibrantes usadas por Munk establecem dialogo com olhar",22/4/984)4
0 ESTADO DE S. PAULO, Giobbi, Cesar, "Persona", 24/4/98.D6, 26/4/98, D7
NY ARTS MAGAZINE, #14, October, 1997,Chambers, Christopher, "Picks",
SOUTH FLORIDA NEWSPAPERS, Arnold Simon,"ArtCetera", November 14,1996
THE NEWS, Skip Sheffield, November 15,1996
WHO'S WHO IN AMERICAN ART 1995-96,21st Edition, R.R. Bowker, Publisher
BROOKLYN BRIDGE, Hank Schlesinger, 'Painting the Town', December, 1995, pp 27,28
CELEBRATING THE AMERICAN VERNACULAR, 1994, essay by Robert Morgan
THE IDAHO STATE JOURNAL, 'Guy from Idaho filters urban scene...',Sunday,August 15,1993, pp. A1, E1, E2
SUDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG, Nr. 149/Seite 13,1,juli 1992
ARTENSION, No. 22, March 1991, p. 63
L'EXPRESS PARIS, M1722-2068 du 27 Fevrier 1991, pp. 33, 35
THE EAST HAMPTON STAR, Slivka, Rose C.S., "From the studio', September 6,1990
THE NEW YORK TIMES, Braff, Phyllis, "Collector's Diversified Choices,' September 9,1990
ARTNEWS, Moorman, Margaret, "Diverse Expressionists", November 1988, p. 188
DOWNTOWN, Furstenberg, Marc, "My Beat SoHo: Loren Munk", March 18,1987
ART/WORLD, Matthew, Ray, Vol. 2, No. 4, January 15 - February 15,1987
EDITIONS ARCA, Marseille, Westfall, Stephen, "Itineraire Dans la Ville", Catalogue Essay
PRINT COLLECTOR'S NEWSLETTER, Vol. XVII, No. 2, June-May 1986
ARTNEWS, Cecil, Sarah, Vol. 85, No. 2, February 1986
ARTS Magazine, Westfall, Stephen, Vol. 60, No. 6, February 1986
EDITIONS ARCA, Marseille, Pleynit, Marcelin, "New York/New Arf, Catalogue Essay
INTERNATIONAL HERALD TRIBUNE, Gibson, Michael, "Four Excellent Shows in Southern France", 8/10/85
THE NEW YORK TIMES, Glueck, Grace, "Today the frame May be a Part of the Picture', March 3,1985
ARTE FACTUM, Bellido, Ramon Tio, V. 5,1984