1958

Born in Paterson, New Jersey

Lives and works in New York, NY

1980

Studied at The Cooper Union, BFA

Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

2024

"Ellen Berkenblit: Flugelhorns," Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany (forthcoming)

2023

"In Motion," Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM

"Norton," Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY

2022

"Umberville," Corbett vs Dempsey, Chicago, IL

"Ellen Berkenblit: Other Shapes at Night," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles

2021

"Ellen Berkenblit / Somaya Critchlow," Grice Bench, Los Angeles, CA

"Ellen Berkenblit: Jello and Petit Fours," Vielmetter Los Angeles (online)

2020

"Sistergarden," Anton Kern, New York, NY

2019

"Ellen Berkenblit," One Night Only, Dallas, TX

"Atrium Project: Ellen Berkenblit," MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL (Link)

"Ellen Berkenblit: Paintings," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA

2018

"The Clock Unlocked," Anton Kern, New York, NY

"Lines Roar," The Drawing Center, New York, NY (Link)

"Ellen Berkenblit," Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium (Link)

2017

"Ellen Berkenblit," Anton Kern, New York, NY

2016

Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA

2015

"New Paintings," Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY

2012

"Ellen Berkenblit," Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY

2009

"Re:Construction," curated by Abby Messitte, Poster Project at 50 Trinity, New York, NY

2008

"Ellen Berkenblit," Michael Benevento, Los Angeles, CA

"Ellen Berkenblit," Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY

2007

"Ellen Berkenblilt," Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Detroit, MI

2005

"Ellen Berkenblit," Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY

2003

"Ellen Berkenblit," Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY

2000

"Ellen Berkenblit," Charim Klocker Gallery, Vienna, Austria

"Ellen Berkenblit," Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY

1996

Boesky & Callery, New York, NY

1993

Galerie Hubert Klocker, Vienna, Austria

1992

White Columns, New York, NY [cat.]

TBA Gallery, Chicago, IL

1986

Semaphore East, New York, NY

1985

Semaphore East, New York, NY

1984

Semaphore East, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023

"Perpetual Portrait," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

"Canned Heat," Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany

2022

"Some Kind of Monster Roster," Analog Diary, Beacon, NY

Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY

"Plants Now!" Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

2021

"Tales of Manhattan," Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY

"Judith Linhares: The Artist as Curator," Sarasota Art Museum, Sarasota, FL (Link)

Exhibition, Winter Street Gallery, Martha’s Vineyard, MA

"20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA

"Horses?," Chart, New York, NY

"Works on paper," Rodolphe Janssen, Knokke, Belgium

"Peep Show," Anton Kern Gallery, WINDOW, New York, NY

"New Objectivity/Neue Sachlichkeit," Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany

REFLECTIONS: Human/Nature, GANA ART, Seoul, South Korea

2020

"NOW ON VIEW AT EAST 55TH STREET," Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY

"Drawing 2020," Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY

"Transitional Positions," a virtual exhibition curated by Eric Fischl, Galerie St. Etienne, New York, NY

"Just Connect," MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL

"All of Them Witches," Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, CA

"Cruel Optimism," Projects section curated by William J. Simmons, Felix Art Fair, Los Angeles, CA

2019

"Dark Laughter," curated by Barry Schwabsky, Pippy Houldsworth, London, UK

2019-2020

"Friends & Family," Peter Mendenhall Gallery, Pasadena, CA

2019

"Drawn Together Again," FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY

"Notebook," 56 Henry, New York, NY

"Small Painting," Corbett vs. Dempsey, New York, NY

"Downtown Painting," presented by Alex Katz, Peter Freeman, Inc., New York, NY

"Malmo Sessions," Carl Kostyal Gallery, Malmo, Sweden

"True Blue Mirror," McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

"The Other Self: Nel Aerts and Ellen Berkenblit," Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens, Greece

"Samaritans," Eva Presenhuber, New York, NY (Link)

The Bunker Artspace, West Palm Beach, FL

2018

"WAHLVERWANDTSCHAFTEN / ELECTIVE AFFINITIES," Sammlung Friedrichshof, Austria

"Set Adrift on Memory Bliss," organized by Tessa Perutz at Pablo’s Birthday, New York, NY

"LINE AND VERSE," Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden (Link)

2017

“Lyric on a Battlefield,” Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY

"Hope and Hazard: A Comedy of Eros," curated by Eric Fischl Hall Art Collection, Reading, VT

“Club 57: Film, Performance, and Art in the East Village, 1978-1983,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (Link)

"A Space for Thought,” Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy

“In Paper We Trust,” The Dot Project, London, UK

2016

“MCA DNA: Riot Grrrls,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

"Implosion 20," Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY

“Grind,” curated by Joshua Nathanson, Various Small Fires, Los Angeles, CA

“2 Years of Looking,” curated by Erik Hanson, New Art Projects, London, UK

"IMAGINE," Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy

"The Westreich/Wagner Collection," Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

"Subliminal Shifts," Tracy Williams Ltd., New York, NY

“Riot Grrrls,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (Link)

2015

12x12x12, Black Ball Projects, Brooklyn, NY

"39 Years," Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Ferndale, MI

"The Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner Collection," The Whitney Museum, New York, NY

"Other Planes of There," Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL

"NY SELF: Portraits of Artists in their Absence," curated by Filippo Fossati, National Academy Museum & School, New York, NY

"BODY/IMAGE," Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY

"yin yang," 99 cent plus / HANDJOB Gallery//Store, Brooklyn, NY

"Eid Ma Clack Shaw," organized by Abby Messitte, LABspace, Great Barrington, MA

Ellen Berkenblit, Lee Maida, Tracy Miller, Derek Eller, New York

2014

Ellen Berkenblit, Steve DiBenedetto, Philip Hanson, Barry Le Va, Albert Oehlen, Alexander Ross, Rebecca Shore, David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY

"Personal Space," Essex Flowers, New York, NY

2013

"After Hours 2: Murals on the Bowery," presented by the Art Production Fund & The New Museum, New York, NY

"American Treasures: Other Voices," Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME

"Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts," American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY

"Manifesto," FIAF Gallery, New York, NY

2011

"Pressing Ideas: Fifty Years of Womens' Lithographs from Tamarind," National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC

2010

"Townie," Foley Gallery, New York, NY

"Contemporary Works From the Collection," Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME

"NeoIntegrity," The Museum of Comic and Cartoon Art, New York, NY

2009

"If the Dogs are Barking," Artist Space, New York, NY

"Light Motive," Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris, France

2008

"Love, Love, Love," Martos Gallery, New York, NY

"Friends and Family," Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY

Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY

"Ultra-Concentrated Joy, Ecstatic Drawings by Contemporary Artists," New York Academy of Art, New York, NY

2007

"Graphic Content," Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH

2006

"Ellen Berkenblit and Chris Caccamice," Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2005

"Paint on Metal," Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ Aliceday, Brussels, Belgium

2004

"Affect," Philip and Muriel Berman Museum of Art, Collegeville, PA

"East Village," New Museum, New York, NY

"Toy Box," Casas Riegner Gallery, Miami, FL

"Paint on Metal," Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ

2003

"Serious Play/Metaphorical Gestures," Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, NY

"Ellen Berkenblit/Ivzia Capan," Black Dragon Society, Vienna, Austria

Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2002

"Landscape," Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY

"Officina America," Galeria D’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy

"Into the Woods," Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY

2001

"Wonderland," Bakalar and Huntington Galleries, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

"Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture," American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY

"I Love NY," Benefit show, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY

2000

"Drawing 2000," Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY

"Madison Avenue: Where Fashion Meets Art," Calypso, New York, NY

1999

"Spellbound," Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

"Drawings," Alexander and Bonin, New York, NY

"Deutsche Bank: 15th Anniversary of the Artists Fellowship Program of the New York Foundation for the Arts," New York, NY

Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY

1997

"Drawings & Paintings," Wooster Gardens, New York, NY

1996

"Ellen Berkenblit, Kara Hammond," Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, New York, NY

"Group Hanging," Griffin Linton Fine Arts, Costa Mesa, CA

1995

"Berkenblit, Nares, Prince, Wool," Galleria Bonomo, Rome, Italy

1994

"Small Wonders," Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX

"Waterworks," Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY

1993

"Yours," Wooster Gardens, New York, NY

1992

Group Show, Luhring Augustine, New York, NY

"Good Work," The Cooper Union, New York, NY

"Update 1992," White Columns, New York, NY

"Shape Shifters," Amy Lipton Gallery, New York, NY

"The Anti-Masculine (Overlapping but not corresponding to the Feminine)," Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1986

Inaugural Exhibition, Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago, IL

1985

"Chiarobscura," curated by John Duff, Art City, New York, NY

"Cross Currents," Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

"Comic Relief," Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX

"Semaphoria," Semaphore East, New York, NY

"Works on paper," Semaphore East, New York, NY

"Double Vision," B-Side Gallery, New York, NY and Frank Bernaducci Gallery, New York, NY

1984

"Pop Symbolism," Center Gallery, Burknell University, Lewisburg, PA

"Neo York," University of California, Santa Barbara, CA

"East Village Artists," The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA

"Psychology," New York Public Library, Tompkins Square Branch, New York, NY

"Romance and Catastrophe," Piezo Electric Gallery, New York, NY

"Small Works," Semaphore East, New York, NY

"Twilight Zone," East 7th Street Gallery, New York, NY

"Limbo," P.S.1, Long Island City, New York, NY

1983

"Emergence," Susan Caldwell Gallery, New York, NY

"Underdog," East 7th Street Gallery, New York, NY

Terminal New York, Brooklyn Army Terminal, New York, NY

"Wish You’d Been Here," ABC No Rio, New York, NY

"The Wild West Show," Piezo Electric Gallery, New York, NY

"The Ritz," The Ritz Hotel, Washington, DC

Group Exhibition Catalogues and Books

2018

Lines Special Edition, Anton Kern Gallery, NY and Victoria Press, Chicago, IL

2014

Ellen Berkenblit, Anton Kern Gallery, NY

2007

Ellen Berkenblit, Anton Kern Gallery, NY, Michael Benevento, Los Angeles, CA

1999

Ellen Berkenblit: Drawings, Grafiche Ferrero, Turin, Italy

1992

Ellen Berkenblit, White Columns, New York, NY

Bibliography

2023

Zastudil, Nancy. "Ellen Berkenblit’s In Motion Expresses the Magic of Mark Making," Southwest Contemporary, October 9 (Link)

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2022

Simmons, William J. "Ellen Berkenblit “Other Shapes at Night” Vielmetter Los Angeles," Flash Art, May 20 (Link)

Hussey, Miciah. "Ellen Berkenblit: Umberville," Corbett vs. Dempsey, Lowitz + Sons, Chicago, IL

2021

Artsy Editorial, "Inside My Collection: Pete Scantland," Artsy, April 29

2020

Cascone, Sarah. "In LA for Frieze Week? Here Is Our Guide to 33 Inspiring Gallery Shows to See Beyond the Fairs," artnet, February 10 (Link)

2019

Farr, Kristin. "Ellen Berkenblit, Practical Magic," Juxtapoz, July 10 (Link)

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2018

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2017

Furio, Joanne, “Like Mother, Sort of Like Son,” San Francisco Magazine, November (Link)

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Nadel, Dan, “Tigers, Horses, and Stripes,” The New York Review of Books, June 30 (Link)

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“This Week’s Best New Art: Ellen Berkenblit,” Time Out New York, May 24 – 30

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2016

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2015

Cholnoky, Kary, “I need to break open the canvas constantly,” Rage School (web), May 27

2014

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2013

"Flash TNT,” Vogue, May, p.146-150

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2012

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2011

von Thurn und Taxis, Elisabeth, "TNT: Studios of Five New York Artists,” Vogue Culture, November 4

2010

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2008

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Saltz, Jerry, "Critic’s Pick,” New York Magazine February 13

Stringfield, Anne, "The Vogue 25 Cultural Highlights of 2008,” Vogue, January, p.88.

2007

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2006

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2005

ESOPUS, Number 5, Fall

Stern, Steven. "East Village USA,” Frieze, Issue 90 April 2005. Robinson, Walter. "Weekend Update,” Artnet, March 30

2004

Smith, Roberta, "Looking back at the flurry on the far side,” The New York Times, December 10

"Women’s Issue” Flaunt Magazine, April

2003

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2002

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2000

Cotter, Holland, "Review,” The New York Times, December 13

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1999

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1996

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1992

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1987

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1985

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1984

Sturtevant, Alfred, "Group Show at Piezo Electric,” Pan Arts, October

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1983

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Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2022

Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Award in Art, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY

2014

Guggenheim Fellowship, New York, NY

Public Collections

Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO

Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH

Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME

Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul, MN

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY