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Alice Könitz

1999 MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
1996 Akademiebrief at the Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf
1994 Master Student, Kunstakademie in Düsseldorf (MFA)

Selected Exhibitions

2009
“Arthur Ou & Alice Könitz: Resort, A Station for Display”, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA (two-person show)
2008
"Stay Calm, Walk Home, and Induce Low Stress", Susanne Vielmetter Berlin Projects, Berlin
2006
"Two Proud Society Spouses Are Reclining on Contemporary Furniture As A Golden-Eyed Ghost Lady Looks Over The Coffee Tables”, Hudson Franklin, New York
"Public Sculpture”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2004
"Centric 66", University Art Museum, California State University Long Beach, curated by Mary-Kay Lombino
"Owl Society Part II", Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
"Pan American Nightclub Sculptures", boom editions, Chicago, IL
2003
"Owl Society", Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
"Owl Society Part II", Hudson and Franklin, New York, NY
2002
"Beautiful Ornaments as Shadows, Crashed Down and a Video of Flickering Light in a 70’s Office Tower”, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
2001
Chicago Project Room, Los Angeles
1998
Center for Land Use Interpretation, Wendover, Utah
1996
Luis Campaña Gallery, Cologne

Group Exhibitions

2010
“Sun Zoom Spark”, WPA, curated by Pamela Jordan, Los Angeles, CA
“Mostly Sculpture Show”, Sea and Space Explorations, Los Angeles, CA
“The Secret (Still) Knows”, Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND), Los Angeles, CA
2008
California Biennial 2008, High Desert Test Sites, Joshua Tree, CA, off-site project location in association with the Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
"The Whitney Biennial”, Whitney Musuem of American Art, New York, NY
"We construct the chorus”, I-Space, Chicago, IL
2007
Hug Fu: Kathryn Andrews, Alice Könitz, Stephanie Taylor”, Daniel Hug Gallery
"Young artists from St Petersburg and Los Angeles”, Gallery G18, Helsinki, Finland, curated by Emily Newman
"Time Writers from the Mirror Horizon”, David Patton Los Angeles
"Cock: Kathryn Andrews, Alice Könitz, Stephanie Taylor”, Courtyard Gallery, Beijing, China, curated by Zhao Gang
"Laying Bricks”, Wallspace Gallery, NY, curated by Michael Ned Holte
"Blockbuster Summer”, Taxter and Spengemann, New York
"Aspects, Forms, and Figures”, Bellwether, New York
"Being There”, Fine Arts Gallery, Cal State LA
"Half Square Half Crazy”, Villa Arson, Nice, France, with Pae White, Raymond Pettibon, Jeppe Hein, Sherrie Levine, Tom Friedman, Martin Creed, Jonathan Monk and others (catalogue)
2006
"Reality is an August Imagination", Rental Gallery, Los Angeles, curated by Andrew Hahn
"Bring the War Home”, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York and QED, Los Angeles, curated by Drew Heitzler
New Ghost Entertainment Entitled, Or Gallery Vancuver, Kunsthaus Dresden, by Katrin Pesch
2005
"Celine and Julie Go Boating”, Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, organized by Michael Ned Holte
"Kicking Rocks", Champion Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
"Bull’s Eye", Hudson Franklin, New York, NY
2004
"Brown Constructions", LemonSky Miami, Miami, FL, curated by Amir Zaki.
Backstage Tourismus, Forum Stadtpark, Graz (catalog)
"Upstream: Idea drawings", Hayworth Gallery, Los Angeles
2003
Sundown Salon at the Schindler House presented by the MAK Center for Art &
Architecture at the Schindler House
"International Paper", UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
"Win, Loose, or Draw", Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA
"If the Hippies Cut Their Hair, I Don’t Care, I Don’t Care", Galerie Michael Hall, Vienna, Austria
2002
"Play it as it Lays”, 17 Artists from Los Angeles, The London Institute, London
"Out of the Ground Into the Sky Out of the Sky Into the Ground”, A Detour show organized by Kopp Kordansky at Pond in San Francisco, Black Dragon Society in Los Angeles
2001
"Sharing Sunsets”, MOCA Tucson
"Drawn from LA (Home is where the Heart is)”, Midway Initiative, Saint Paul, Minnesota
"Tirana Bienniale”, Albania
2000
Guggenheim Gallery of the Chapman University in Orange County
"The Closet Show”, Los Angeles, 3424 Council ST. Los Angeles
"Legal Paper” Beyond Baroque, Los Angeles
"DRS Project Wall 2000”, Los Angeles
1999
"Colab” at 240 South Broadway, Los Angeles
"Expanding Limited Space”, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
"Touring the Frame”, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
"Remaining Speculations”, 926 Chung King Road, Los Angeles
"The Temptations”, Mark Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles
"The CAA Show”, Barnsdall Building, Los Angeles
1998
"Anwander” Bazaar de Cologne, Cologne
1997
"Das Leben in der Wüste”, kj, Cologne
1995
"Papier”, Bärbel Grässlin Gallery, Frankfurt
1994
"Zwischenbilanz”, Kunstverein Lingen

Bibliography

2008
Chuan Tan, Pey, "Alice Könitz in Berlin”, Art Info, September 18
Jocob Weil, Harry, "Whitney Biennial 2008”, artUS, Summer
Dambrot, Shana, "Report: New York City, The Ghost of Jason Rhoades”, Art Ltd, July
Holte, Ned Michael, "Openings: Alice Könitz”, Art Forum, Summer
Keehn Dorka, "Frame of Reference: Alice Konitz”, California Home and Design Magazine, June Vikram, Anuradha, "The LA Annual”, Artillery, May/June
Vikram, Anuradha, "The LA Annual”, Artillery, May/June
Volk, Gregory, "Spring In Dystopia”, Art In America, May
Sneed, Gillian, "The Whitney Biennial 2008: Expanded Walls, Expanded Practices”, Art Fairs International, March 10
Cotter, Holland, "Art’s Economic Indicator” The New York Times, March 7
Dalton, Trinie, "2008 Biennial Exhibition Catalogue”, The Whitney Museum of American Art, March 10
2007
Vogel, Carol, "Whitney Biennial Stretches to Armory,” New York Times, November 16
"Artists Announced for 2008 Whitney Biennial,” Artforum.com, November 16
Smith, Roberta, "In these Shows, the Material is the Message”, New York Times, August 10
Coburn, Tyler, "Build it High: Laying Bricks”, Art Review, July/August
Cotter, Holland, "Aspects, Forms and Figures”, New York Times, March 2
2006
Brooks, Amra, "Must See Art”, LA Weekly, July 26
Miles, Christopher, "Disconcerting world views”, Los Angeles Times, July 21
Site, Publication of text and images
Melrod, George, Sculpture, July/August
Bluhm, Erik, "Perfect City Telepathy", Art US, March/April, issue 12
Balaschak, Chris, "Alice Könitz”, Frieze, April
Martin, Victoria, "Alice Könitz at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Artweek, April
Holte, Michael Ned, "Alice Könitz”, Artforum, April, pgs 255-256
2005
Myers, Holly, "Six journeys of imagination”, LA Times, August 12
Rath, Jessica, "Alice Konitz”, Art US, March 10
2004
Weinberg, Michelle, "Brown Constructions", Miami New Times, November 11
Holte, Michael Ned, "Alice Konitz – Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects", Artforum critic’s pick, March 4
"Backstage Tourismus", Forum Stadtpark, Graz, catalog
2003
Ruhrpreis für Kunst und Wissenschaft, 1987-2001, catalog
Frank, Peter, "The Paper Chase", art on paper, April issue, pg 36-39
Mathis, Sommer, "Paper Trail", UCLA Daily Bruin, January 31
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Knight, Christopher, "Drawing, not toeing, the Line," Los Angeles Times, February 7
Hammer Calendar, Winter Spring issue,
Elaine, James, "International Paper – Drawings by Emerging Artists", UCLA Hammer Museum, exhibition catalog, Los Angeles, CA, 2003
Leah Ollman, "Three mediums, three messages", Los Angeles Times, January 10
2002
"Play it as it Lays” at London Institute Gallery, by JJ Charlesworth, artext, Summer issue
Deamer, Julie, "London Street Projects", Quick Stretch, August 2
"The London Institute", Contemporary, March issue
Charlesworth, JJ, "Play it as it Lays" at London Institute Gallery, artext, Summer issue
2001
Tirana Biennale 1, interview with Paul Quiñones
Bruce Hainley, Artforum, April
Julie Deamer, Flashart, March/April
I-D Magazine, The Gallery Issue
Malik Gaines, Art and Text, May
Malik Gaines, essay about the show at the Guggenheim Gallery of the Chapman University
Doug Harvey, LA Weekly, November 26 – December 2
David Pagel, Los Angeles Times, July 30
Great God Pan, number thirteen, publication of drawings
Christopher Smith, The Salt Lake Tribune, July
1998
Matthew Coolidge, CLUI Newsletter
1996
Martin Pesch, Frieze, November

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2007
Tong Xian Artist Residency, Beijing, China

Conferences and Panel Discussions

2003
University of California San Diego, San Diego, CA
2001
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
Chapman University, Orange County, CA