# Dasha Shishkin URL: https://vielmetter.com/artists/dasha-shishkin/ Has exhibited with Vielmetter Los Angeles ## Exhibitions - [Dasha Shishkin: where there is a wand, there is a way](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2014-10-dasha-shishkin-where-there-is-a-wand-there-is-a-way.md): October 25 — December 20, 2014 · Artists: Dasha Shishkin - [Dasha Shishkin: erry icket](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2013-07-dasha-shishkin-erry-icket.md): July 7 — September 8, 2013 · Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA · Artists: Dasha Shishkin - [Dasha Shishkin: S int n ho](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2012-04-dasha-shishkin-s-int-n-ho.md): April 7 — May 12, 2012 · Artists: Dasha Shishkin - [This is not a love song](https://vielmetter.com/exhibitions/2006-05-laura-aguilar-andrea-bowers-nicole-eisenman-this-is-not-a-love-song.md): May 20 — June 17, 2006 · Artists: Laura Aguilar, Andrea Bowers, Nicole Eisenman, Isabell Heimerdinger, Chloe Piene, Dasha Shishkin, Mathilde ter Heijne ## Biography Lives and works in New York, NY 1977 Born in Moscow, Russia 2006 MFA, Columbia University, New York 2001 New School for Social Research, New York, NY **Selected Exhibitions** 2018 "but . . . you’re a horse," Produzentengalerie Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany ([Link](https://www.produzentengalerie.com/exhibitions/dasha-shishkin-but-youre-a-horse/)) 2017 "Tram Pam Pam,” Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO ([Link](http://bmoca.org/exhibitions/2017/summer/dasha-shishkin-tram-pam-pam)) 2014 "Where there's a wand, there's a way," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA 2013 erry icket, Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA Dasha Shishkin: Sammy, Gio Marconi, Milan, Italy 2012 I Surrender, Dear, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH 2011 S Int A Ho, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA Desaparecido, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY 2010 Dap, Gio Marconi, Milan, Italy 2009 Men Like That, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY 2007 Love Sick, Andreas Grimm, Munich, Germany First Sorrow, Kantor/Feuer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2006 W.A.M. Who Gives A Damn If You Procreate, Grimm/Rosenfeld, New York, NY 2004 Dasha Shishkin: Drawings and Prints, Grimm|Rosenfeld, Munich, Germany 2002 On Mistrust and Suspicion of Children, in General, The New York Society of Etchers, New York, NY **Group Exhibitions** 2018 "We Never Sleep," Little John Contemporary, New York, NY “Absence Makes the Heart Grow Fonder,” LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY 2017 “Jillian Mayer, Dasha Shishkin, and Summer Wheat,” Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY 2016 “DRAW/Boston,” Massachusetts College of Art and Design, Boston, MA 2015 Surface of Revolution, Southampton Arts Center, Southampton, NY 2014 "Word Bites Picture," Design Matters Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "Vintage Violence," Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY "One Torino," organized by Organized by Maurizio Cattelan, Myriam Ben Salah, Marta Papini, Italy One Torino: Shit and Die, Palazzo Cavour, Torino, Italy, curated by Maurizio Cattelan, Myriam Ben Salah, and Marta Papini Imaginary Portraits of Prince Igor, Gallery Met, The Metropolitan Opera, New York 2012 Gaiety is the Most Outstanding Feature of the Soviet Union: Art from Russia, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK Idealizing the Imaginary: Invention and Illusion in Contemporary Painting, Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, MI Dasha Shishkin, Dorota Jurczak, Paula Modersohn-Becker, ph-projects, Berlin Whos Been Here, Bukowskis, Stockholm 2011 Monanism, Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania, Australia A Room of Her Own, Lu Magnus, New York, NY Publisher Spotlight: LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies, Pace Prints, New York, NY Taking the Space: Gender and the Figure in Contemporary Art, Schmidt Center Gallery University Galleries, School of the Arts, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL 2010 Living with Art: Collecting Contemporary in Metro New York, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY Wildly Different Things: New York and Dublin, The Observatory, Dublin, Ireland The More I Draw, Museum fr Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany 2009 Embrace, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO A Decade of Contemporary American Printmaking: 1999-2009, Visual Art Center of Academy of Art and Design, Tsinghua University, Beijing, China 1999, China Art Objects, Los Angeles, CA 2008 Once Upon A Time, ISE Cultural Foundation, New York, NY Drawing Now Drawing Then Young Masters Old Masters, Arndt & Partner, Zurich, Switzerland Nightmares & Dreamscapes, Galleria, Alberto Peola Gallery, Turin, Italy 2007 The Four Horsemen, Galerie Im Regierungsviertel, Turin, Italy World Receiver, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany Panic Room: Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens, Greece Dream & Trauma: Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria Automatic, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY Responds To My Country, Hungarian Cultural Center, New York, NY A Muzzle of Bees, 33 Bond Gallery, New York, NY Re: Generation - Emerging Women Artists, Smack Mellon Brooklyn, NY and The Kentler International Drawing Space, Brooklyn, NY Summer 2007, Grimm|Rosenfeld, Munich, Germany 2006 Hybrid: Anthea Hamilton, Alisa Margolis, Dasha Shishkin, Barbara Wolff, Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Frankfurt, Germany. Curated by Eva Karcher. HangART-7 Edition 4 - New York Contemporary: Art Times Squared, Hangar-7, Salzburg,Austria Goods to Declare, Bezalel Academy, Tel Aviv, Israel Summer 2006, Grimm|Rosenfeld, Munich, Germany Liquid Paper-Pure Land, Ratio 3, San Francisco, This is not a Love Song, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA The Compulsive Line: Etching 1900 to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Re: Generation, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ 2005 Founders Day, Grimm|Rosenfeld, New York, NY Gegenwrtige Geschichtenerzhler, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany Greater New York 2005, PS1, New York, NY The ArtReview 25: Emerging US artists, Phillips, de Pury & Co., New York, NY Much Madness is Divinest Sense, Cohan+Leslie, New York, NY The Parable Show, Grimm|Rosenfeld, Munich 2004 “After Goya,” curated by Tomas Daniel, Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY "The Day After...” curated by Lital Mehr, Oliver Kamm/5BE, New York, NY “Hung, Drawn and Quartered,” curated by Miriam Katzeff, Team Gallery, New York, NY Black ChurchPrint Studio, Dublin, Ireland (in association with The New York Society of Etchers) GF Gallery New School University, New York, NY 2003 Brooklyn Fire Proof Gallery, Williamsburg, New York, NY Pearl Gallery, New York, NY RSVP, The Society of Illustrators, New York, NY 2002 Naked Duck Gallery, Williamsburg, New York, NY North East Prints, William Paterson University, NJ 2001 Dam, Stuhltrager Gallery, Williamsburg, NY **Bibliography** 2018 Jones, Samuel. " At new Neiman Gallery exhibit, psychedelic prints bleed into negative space," Columbia Spectator, October 22 ([Link](https://www.columbiaspectator.com/arts-and-entertainment/2018/10/23/at-new-neiman-gallery-exhibit-psychedelic-prints-bleed-into-negative-space/)) 2017 Moutinho, Amanda, “The Benevolent Creator,” Boulder Weekly (web), August 31 ([Link](https://issuu.com/boulderweekly/docs/8.31.17_boulder_weekly)) 2015 Cattelan, Maurizio and Myriam Ben Salah, Shit and Die, produced by Artissima, Damiani 2014 Ollman, Leah, Review: Dasha Shishkins dive into decadence, Los Angeles Times, November 19 ([Link](http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-dasha-shishkin-dive-into-decadence-20141117-story.html)) Wagley, Catherine, 5 Artsy Things to Do in LA This Week: Can Witchcraft Be About Self-Realization?, LA Weekly, November 5 Berardini, Andrew, Close Calls: Turin, ArtForum, November 12 Sala, Francesco, Torino Updates: dietro Shit and Die, immagini esclusive dal backstage della mostra curate da Maurizio Cattelan per Artissima, Artibune, November 4 Top 100 Fall Shows: October, Modern Painters, November Miranda, Carolina, "Wild women and sci-fi scenarios: painter Dasha Shishkin's crazy world," Los Angeles Times, October 29 ([Link](http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/miranda/la-et-cam-wild-women-and-scifi-painter-dasha-shishkin-20141027-column.html)) 2013 McCrickard, Kate, Welcome to the Jungle: Violence Behind the Lines in Three Suites of Prints by Dasha Shishkin, Art in Print, Volume 3, No. 4, December - November Sorkin, Jenni, Soft and Entitled: On Dasha Shishkin at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Santa Barbara, Texte zur Kunst, No. 91, September Donelan, Charles, Review: Dasha Shishkin, erry icket, Santa Barbara Independent, July 24 Nunez-Fernandez, Lupe, Dasha Shishkin, Saatchi Gallery online, June 13 2012 Berkenblit, Ellen, Artists on Artists: Dasha Shishkin, Bomb Magazine, Number 122, Winter "Saatchi Gallerys New Exhibition of Contemporary Russian Art", Blouin Artinfo UK, November 12 Meyers, Todd. Dasha Shishkin, Art papers, May/June Berardini, Andrew. Painted with Candy, Washed in Acid: An Elliptical Review, Artslant, May 2 Ollman, Leah. Figures That the Eye is Drawn To, Los Angeles Times, April 27 Wagley, Catherine. Rain, Fantasy and Freedom, Daily Serving, April 27 Exhibition Catalogue, Griffelkunst-Vereinigung, Hamburg, Editionen III. / IV. Quartal Nathan, Emily. Dasha Shishkin: S INT N HO, Artnet, April 13 2011 Bronson, Ellie. Puttin the Gore into Phantasmagoria: Dasha Shishkin at Zach Feuer Artcritical.com Doran, Anne. Dasha Shishkin: Desaparecido. Time Out New York 26 May Halle, Howard. Best of New York Gallery Week. Time Out New York 2 May Dasha Shishkin. The New Yorker 30 May 2010 Cashdan, Marina, Modern Painters, April, p. 15-17 Cheat Sheet: The Hunt. Conde Nast Traveler: The Collectors Edition 2010 2009 Zelem, Lisa. embrace!, Denver Art Museum, Exhibition Catalogue Biesenbach, Klaus. Henry Darger Prestel Verlag Allsop, Laura. Henry Darger. Art Review December , p.137 Rosenberg, Karen. Dasha Shishkin. New York Times Friday, October 2 Saltz, Jerry. A New Kind of Boom. New York Magazine 12 October Upcoming Shows: New York. BT: Comme des Garcons, December 2008 Bronfen, Elisabeth and Hilary Hatch, Gerald Matt, Angela Stief, Edelbert Kob. Dream and Trauma, Hatje Cantz, Exhibitions Catalogue 2007 Grayson, Kathy. Panic Room: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Works on Paper Collection. Deitch Projects Dasha Shishkin. Monopol November, 126 Dasha Shishkin. Elle March Fakray, Sarah. Art: Dasha Shishkin. Dazed and Confused January, p. 36 2006 Saltz, Jerry. The Undead of Art History, The Village Voice, October 11 Barnyard Desires. The Walrus February Subal, Simone. Hangar 7- Project July 2005 UOVO, Turin 2005, pgs 50-71 Dasha Shishkin, Im Bett ber den Styx, Gegenwrtig. Geschichtenerzhler, Ausst.-Kat.Hamburger Kunsthalle, pg 29 Biesenbach, Klaus, Greater New York 2005. P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Exhibition Catalogue Klaas, Heiko. Mottenkiste, Art. Das Kunstmagazin, Nr. 6, Juni 2005, pg 96 Smith, Roberta. Art in Review, New York Times, August 19 Vogel, Carol. Talent Call. Hot New Artists Wanted, New York Times, February 3 Cornell, Lauren. Un-Earthly Delights, Nylon, April 2005, pgs 106-107 Kunitz, Daniel and Ribas, Joao. Emerging US Artists: Dasha Shishkin, ArtReview, March 2005, pg 114 2004 Harpers Magazine, October **Public Collections** The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY **Group Exhibition Catalogues and Books** 2015 Malbert, Roger, Drawing People: The Human Figure in Contemporary Art, Thames & Hudson Cattelan, Maurizio and Myriam Ben Salah, Shit and Die, produced by Artissima, Damiani 2012 Ozerkov, Dimtri, Gosha Ostretsov, and Lupe Nunez-Fernandez, Gaiety is the Most Outstanding Feature of the Soviet Union: New Art From Russia: Saatchi Gallery, The Saatchi Gallery Griffelkunst-Vereinigung, Hamburg, Editionen III. / IV. Quartal 2012, Exhibition Catalogue Goody, Dick, Idealizing the Imaginary: Illusion and the Invention in Contemporary Painting, Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, MI, pp. 44-47, Exhibition Catalogue 2011 Leader, Karen J, Figured Spaces, University Galleries, Florida Atlantic University, Exhibition Catalogue Michael, Linda ed., Love is Nothing but a Sore, Monanism, MONA - Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart Tasmania, Australia, Exhibition Catalogue 2010 Schmidt, Eva, The More I Draw, DuMont Buchverlag, pp. 186 - 189 2009 Zelem, Lisa, embrace! Denver Art Museum, Vol. 1 pp. 114-119, Vol. 2 pp. 124 135, Exhibition Catalogue Biesenbach, Klaus, Henry Darger, Prestel Verlag 2008 Bronfen, Elisabeth and Hilary Hatch, Gerald Matt, Angela Stief, Edelbert Kob, Dream and Trauma, Hatje Cantz, Exhibitions Catalogue 2007 Grayson, Kathy, Panic Room: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Works on Paper Collection, Deitch Projects 2005 Biesenbach, Klaus, Greater New York 2005, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Exhibition Catalogue Dasha Shishkin, Im Bett ber den Styx, Gegenwrtig. Geschichtenerzhler, Ausst.-Kat.Hamburger Kunsthalle, p. 29, Exhibition Catalogue