Shirley Kaneda

Biography
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Chronology
1951
 Born in Tokyo, Japan
1970
 Moved to New York
1976
 Received BFA, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
Associate Professor, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Lives and works in New York. NY
 

Awards
1999 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation award
1998 The Elizabeth Foundation
1997 The Pollock Krasner Foundation
1996 National Endowment for the Arts Regional Fellowship/Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation
 

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2007
 Danese, New York, NY
2006
 Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London (catalogue)
2005
 Galerie Jean-Luc & Takako Richard, Paris, France (catalogue)
Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2004
 Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA
2003
 Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY
2002
 Galerie Schuster & Scheuermann, Berlin, Germany
Galerie Schuster, Frankfurt, Germany
2001
 Feigen Contemporary, New York. NY
Galerie Evelyne Canus, Paris, France (catalogue).
Centre d’art Contemporain, Languedoc-Roussillon, France (with two other artists)
2000
 Centre d’Art d’Ivry, Ivry-sur-Seine, France (catalogue)
1998
 Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY (catalogue)
1997
 Peggy Phelps Gallery, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA (catalogue)
Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
1996
 Galerie Evelyne Canus, La Colle-sur-Loup, France
Villa Arson, Nice, France.
Raffaella Cortese Gallery, Milan, Italy
1995
 Feigen, Inc., Chicago, IL
1994
 Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
1992
 Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
   

Selected Group Exhibitions
2006
 Extreme Abstraction, Galerie Jean-Luc & Takako Richard, Paris. France
2005
 Hommage à Matisse, Artiscope, Brussels, Belgium
Adaptation Syndrome: Painting in Contemporary Image Culture, Hand Workshop Art Center, Richmond, VA
Couleurs & Formes, Galerie Evelyne Canus, Basel, Switzerland
2004
 Surface Tension, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY
2002
 New-Economy Painting, Acme, Los Angeles, CA
2001
 Constellations, Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA
Concepts of Images, Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Salzburg, Austria
Warped: Painting and the Feminine, Inside Spaces, London, England; traveled to: Angel Row Gallery, Nottingham, England; Rugby Art Gallery & Museum, Rugby, England; and, Middlesbrough Art Gallery, Middlesbrough, England.
New Works, Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY
2000
 Campi di Oscillazione, Centro Sperimentale per le Art Contemporanee, Caraglio, Italy (curated by Tiziana Conti)
Maximal/Minimal, Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY
Super-Abster-Action, Filles du Calvaire, Paris, France; traveled to: The Box Associati,Turin, Italy
1999
 Abstract, Galerie Ernst Hilger, Vienna, Austria
1998
 Exploiting the Abstract, Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY
Painting Objectives, Galerie Evelyne Canus, La Colle-sur-Loup, France
Ornaments, Galerie Haffemann, Wiesbaden, Germany
Sick of Photography: A Painting Show, University of Santa Barbara, CA (curated by Michael Darling)
1997
 Divergent Models, Kunstverein, Weisbaden, Germany (catalogue)Made in Santa Barbara: Work From The Atelier Richard Tullis, Channing Peske Gallery, Santa Barbara, CA
1996
 Face to Face: Recent Abstract Painting, List Visual Arts Center, MIT, Cambridge, MA (catalogue)
1995
 Color: Sign, System, Sensibility, Stark Gallery, New York, NY
Summer Group Show, Feigen, Inc., Chicago, IL
X-Sightings, Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Works For A Funhouse, E.S. Vandam, New York, NY
Re:Fab, Painting, Abstracted, Fabricated & Revised, Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL; traveled to Wolfson Galleries, Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, FL (1996);and Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington, VT (1997), (catalogue)
1994
 Painting, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Print Project, Horodner/Romley Gallery, New York, NY
Sourballs, Sue Spaid Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1993
 A Sculpture, A Painting, and A Drawing, Muranushi Lederman Projects, New York, NY
Medium is the Medium, Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York, NY
Art Is Life, Museo dell 'Automobile, Turin, Italy
Beau Domage, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
Summer Group Show, Feigen, Inc., Chicago, IL
Five Uses of Space, Artiscope, Brussels, Belgium (catalogue)
Sailing to Byzantium with Disenchantment , Sergio Tossi Gallery, Prato, Italy (catalogue).
Things to Feast Your Eyes On, Muranushi Lederman Projects, New York, NY
N.Y. Defrost, The Living Room, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Abstrategies: Abstract Painting in the 90's, Dunedin Fine Arts Center, Dunedin, FL
Songs of Retribution, Richard Anderson Fine Arts, New York, NY
1992
 The Void Each Time, Galleria In Arco, Turin, Italy (catalogue)
Shades of Difference, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, NY
1991
 Conceptual Abstraction, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY
In Full Effect, White Columns, New York, NY (catalogue)
Distraction/Abstraction, Richard Anderson Gallery, New York, NY
Just Painting, Trenkmann Gallery, New York, NY
Little Things Mean A Lot, Momentary Modern, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1990
 The Ends of Painting: The Edges of Abstraction, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue)
1989
 Painting Between the Sacred and the Profane, Galerie Rahmel, Cologne, Germany
1988
 Painting: Between Awareness and Desire, Cyrus Gallery, New York, NY
 
 

Selected Bibliography
 
2006
 Brio, Matthew. “Shirley Kaneda, Fluid Transitions,” Contemporary, No. 81, 2006.
2005
 Tranberg, Dan. “Striking Chords, Shirley Kaneda’s Works on Paper,” Art on Paper, September/October 2005, vol. 10, no. 1.
Engelman, James. “Improv at the Photoshop,” New York Arts, March/April 2005.
2004
 Roberts-Pullen, Paulette. “Purely Pleasing: Shirley Kaneda at Reynolds Gallery,” Style Weekly, November 2004.
Gilbert-Rolfe, Jeremy. “First Degree, The Place of Aesthetic in Postmodernism: Part II,” artUS, January/February 2004.
2003
 Rubinstein, Raphael. “8 Painters: New Work,” Art in America, November 2003.
Kley, Elizabeth. “Shirley Kaneda and Imaging the Abstract,” Artnews, Summer 2003.
Rubinstein, Raphael. “A Quiet Crisis,” Art in America, March 2003.
2002
 Ryan, David. “Thinking in the Abstract,” Contemporary, February 2002.
Ryan, David. Talking, Painting: Dialogues with Twelve Contemporary Abstract Painters, Routledge, London, 2002.
2001
 Princenthal, Nancy. “Shirley Kaneda at Feigen Contemporary,” Art in America, September 2001.
Fletcher, Brendan. “Warped: Painting and the Feminine,” Contemporary Visual Arts, No. 23, 2001.
Glueck, Grace. “Shirley Kaneda at Feigen Contemporary,” The New York Times, March 2, 2001.
Wei, Lily. “Shirley Kaneda at Feigen Contemporary,” Artnews, March 2001.
Anon. “Goings on About Town: Shirley Kaneda at Feigen Contemporary,” The New Yorker, February 12, 2001.
Schwendener, Martha. “Shirley Kaneda,” Time Out, February 22, 2001.
Naves, Mario. “Two Painters Named Shirley,” The New York Observer, February 12, 2001.
Gilbert-Rolfe, Jeremy. Beauty and the Contemporary Sublime. Allworth Press, 2001; pp. 58-67.
2000
 Ryan, David. “Shirley Kaneda at Galerie Fernand Leger, Centre d”Art d’Ivry,” Londonart.co.uk Magazine, March 2000.
Perret, Catherine. “Thought in Painting,” catalogue essay. Shirley Kaneda: Peintures, 1998-99. Centre d’Art d”Ivry, 2000.
1999
 Ryan, David. “Indeterminate Relations,” Contemporary Visual Arts, June 1999.
Goodman, Jonathan. “Shirley Kaneda at Feigen Contemporary,” Art in America, May 1999.
1998
 Carrier, David. “Interview with Shirley Kaneda,” in Shirley Kaneda. New York: Feigen Contemporary, 1998.
Darling, Michael. “Shirley Kaneda: Discursive Decoration,” catalogue essay in Sick of Photography: A Painting Show. Santa Barbara: University of Santa Barbara, 1998.
Johnson, Ken. “Shirley Kaneda,” The New York Times, October 9, 1998.
Hirsch, Faye. “Shirley Kaneda,” On Paper, March – April 1998, vol. 2, no. 4.
Walker, Marina. “Sick of Photography: A Painting Show,” Santa Barbara Newspress, January 23, 1998.
1997
 Darling, Michael. “Shirley Kaneda at Claremont Graduate University,” Art Issues, November/December 1997.
Wilkenson, Jeanne. “Shirley Kaneda at Jack Shainman Gallery,” Review, February 1997.
1996
 Benjamin, Andrew. What is Abstraction? London: Academy Editions, 1996; pp. 48-49, 62-63.
Spalding, Kelly. “Face to Face: Recent Abstract Painting,” Artsmedia, June 1996.
Temin, Christine. “The Clash of the Abstracts,” The Boston Globe, May 7, 1996.
Hill, Shawn. “Driven to Abstraction,” The Tab, April 23-29, 1996.
Sherman, Mary. “Meet abstract art ‘Face to Face,” Boston Sunday Herald, April 28, 1996.
Madesani,Angela. “Primitivo o gestuale il puzzle dii Kaneda,” La Republica, April 9, 1996.
Giudici, Lorella. Juliet, April/May 1996.
Spada, Sabina. “Shirley Kaneda, Galleria Raffaella Cortese,” Tema Celeste, no. 56, 1996.
Mingotti, Alessandra. “Shirley Kaneda borderline tra astrazione e psichedelia,” Arte, March 1996.
Vigano,Giorgio. “Shirley Kaneda: Systemic Inconsiste3ncies,” Atticoarte, January 31, 1996.
1995
 Karmel, Pepe. “Color: Sign, System & Sensibility,” review, The New York Times, July 17, 1995.
Hirsch, Faye. “Shirley Kaneda at Jack Shainman Gallery,” Art in America, April 1995.
Clarkson, David. “Shirley Kaneda,” BOMB, Spring 1995.
Morgan, Robert. Cover, January 1995.
1994
 Saltz, Jerry. “A Year in the Life: Tropic of Painting,” Art in America, October 1994. Melrod, George. “Openings,” Art & Auction, November 1994
1992
 Morgan, Robert. “Discursive Notes,” Cover, December 1992.
Myers, Terry R. “Stimulating Distortions, Shirley Kaneda’s Brutal Abstractions,” QW, October 1992.
Henry, Gerrit. Review of “Assembly, A Group Exhibition at Jack Shainman,” Artnews, November 1992.
Paparoni, Demetrio. “The Void Each Time,” catalogue essay. Turin: Galleria In Arco, 1992.
Perrella, Christina. Review of “The Void Each Time,” Tema Celeste, Autumn 1992.
Wilson, W. S. “Abstract Painting on a Manhattan Ice Floe II,” Artspace, July/ August 1992.
Carrier, David. “Afterlight-Exhibiting Abstract Painting in the Era of its Belatedness,” Arts, March 1992
Wellish, Margorie. “Abstraction, Advocacy Of,” Tema Celeste, January/March 1992.
Pagel, David. “Shirley Kaneda, A Conversation with David Pagel,” Tema Celeste, Summer 1992.
1991
 Saltz, Jerry. Catalogue essay in In Full Effect. New York: White Columns, 1991.
Pagel, David. “The Ends of Painting; the Edges of Abstraction,” Artspace, January 1991.
Larson, Kay. Review of “Conceptual Abstraction,” New York Magazine, December 1991.
Ostrow, Saul. “Strategies for a New Abstraction,” Tema Celeste, September/December 1991.
1990
 Kandel, Susan. “L.A. in Review,” Arts, December 1990.
Frank, Peter. “Pick of the Week,” LA Weekly, October 1990.
 

Selected Public Collections
 
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, OH
Banco do Torino, Turin, Italy
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Progressive Corporation, Cleveland, OH
Philip Morris, USA
Saks Fifth Avenue Art Collection, USA
Sprint International Corporation
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