LEIDY CHURCHMAN
Born 1979, Villanova, PA
Lives and works in New York
Education
| 2010 | MFA, Columbia University, New York |
| 2002 | Hampshire College, Amherst, MA |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2016 | Lost Horizons, presented by Murray Guy at Rodeo, London Art Basel, Statements, Murray Guy, New York |
| 2015 | The Meal of the Lion, Murray Guy, New York |
| 2014 | A Fruit Stare, Silberkuppe Galerie, Berlin |
| 2013 | Lazy River, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston |
| 2012 | Black Green Black, Silberkuppe Galerie, Berlin |
| 2010 | Painting Treatments, Horton Gallery, Berlin |
| 2009 | Good Afternoon!, Sunday Gallery, New York |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2016 | Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age, MUMOK, Vienna Shooting the Breeze, 247365, New York A Change of Heart, Hannah Hoffman, Los Angeles Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions, Kaufmann Repetto, Milan Protuberances, LAXART, Los Angeles |
| 2015 | Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age, Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany; traveling to MUMOK, Vienna (2016) Theory of Achievement (curated by castillo/corrales), Yale Union, Portland Queer Fantasy, OHWOW GALLERY, Los Angeles The Secret Life, Murray Guy, New York An Exhibition to Benefit Dancing Foxes, Bridget Donahue Gallery, New York The Radiants, Bortolami Gallery, New York Die Marmory Show II, Deborah Schamoni, Munich The Heart is The Frame, LACE, Los Angeles Raw and Delirious, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland |
| 2014 | Readykeulous: The Hurtful Healer, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis; traveling to Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Abandon The Parents, The National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen New Dawn, Silberkuppe, Berlin |
| 2013 | Monte Cristo, (collaboration with Math Bass), Human Resources, Los Angeles Outside the Lines, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston Untitled (Hybrid), Robert Miller Gallery, New York What’s the first thing you’re going to do when you get your new arms put on? Galerie Crevecoeur, Paris Dear Painting, Looking Forward! 247365, New York |
| 2012 | Sail Away, We Must!, CDA Projects and Galerie Zilberman, Istanbul Everyday Things: Contemporary Works from the Collection, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design Rijksakademie Open, Rijksakakdemie, Amsterdam Expanded Performance (collaboration with MPA), Stroom Den Haag, The Hague Double or Nothing, TAG, The Hague |
| 2011 | Readykeulous – The Hurtful Healer: The correspondence Issue, Invisible Exports, New York Leidy Celeste Nicole, Museum 52, New York Two Versions of the Imaginary, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam Rijksakademie Open, Rijksakademie, Amsterdam Mantamed, Manetamed Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Spirit of the Signal, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York Art on Art, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York I Am Who I Am: The Portrait Reconsidered, Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston |
| 2010 | Greater New York, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY MFA Thesis Show, Emily Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, NY Raw State, 222 Shelby Street Gallery, Santa Fe Hardbacks, The NY Art Book Fair, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY Food for Thought, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco Heads or Tails, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York HELL NO! (curated by David Fierman and RJ Supa), The Convent of Saint Cecilia, Brooklyn, NY Seven Easy Steps, video screening, Horton Gallery, New York |
| 2009 | Ridykeulous Hits Bottom, Leo Koenig Inc. Projekte, New York Frankie y Leidy: Music Video Awards 2009, Summer Screenings, Canada, New York Whitney’s Biennial, C.R.E.A.M Projects, Brooklyn, NY TIME – LIFE PART II, Taxter & Spengemann, New York Imaginationis, Horton & Co., New York Disorganized, Museum 52, New York |
| 2008 | Good Kids, Rosenfeld Gallery, Tel Aviv Wight Biennial, Wight Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles Abandoned Plot Show, an abandoned plot, Brooklyn, NY Oceans of Potions, Needles and Pens, San Francisco |
| 2007 | Sex in the City, Dumbo Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY Refuse, Pochron Studios, Brooklyn, NY Snack Isle, Giant Robot, New York Out of Me, Out of You, Subdivision, Long Island City, NY Six Degrees of Separation, Paul Sharpe Contemporary Art, New York Shared Women, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles |
| 2006 | Paramnesia; Fantasy over function, Pochron Studios, Brooklyn, NY Flex Your Textiles, John Connelly Presents, New York |
| 2005 | Gay Bar, Diamonds On Archer, Chicago The Muster, Governer’s Island, New York |
| 2004 | Lesbians To The Rescue, New Image Art, Los Angeles LTTR; Explosion, Art In General, New York Pilot, Diamonds On Archer, ChicagoInside of Inside, The Lab, San Francisco |
| 2003 | LTTR; Listen Translate, Translate Record, Andrew Kreps, New York |
| 2002 | LTTR; #1, Bellwether Gallery, Brooklyn, NY |
Awards
Hampshire College Threshold Grant for Continued Study
Rijksakademie Residency, Amsterdam
Books and Monographs
| 2013 | Leidy Churchman: Emergency. Edited by Barbara Schröder. Brooklyn: Dancing Foxes, 2013. Essays by Manuela Ammer, John Kelsey, and Lanka Tattersall. Afterword by Kate McNamara. |
Selected Bibliography
| 2016 | Cotter, Holland. “Picturing America in the Selfie Age, at the Whitney.” The New York Times, 28 April 2016 Saltz, Jerry. “11 Artists Poised to Have a Breakout Year.” New York Magazine, 22 April 2016 |
| 2015 | Berardini, Andrew. “Dear Diary, A Hungry Look and A Lion’s Meal.” Mousse Magazine, no. 49 (Summer 2015), pp. 158–67 D’Aurizio, Michele. “Painting It, Touching It.” Flash Art (July/August/September 2015), pp. 72–79 Cell 161, no. 3 (23 April 2015), cover Hirsch, Faye. “Leidy Churchman.” Art in America (September 2015), p. 145–46 Kron, Cat. “Leidy Churchman.” Artforum.com, 7 May 2015 McLean, Matthew. “Leidy Churchman.” Frieze, no. 173 (September 2015) Miranda, Carolina. “LACE: Daily life made strange through art.” LA Times, 13 January 2015 “Q/A Leidy Churchman, How do digital images change painting?” Spike Magazine, no. 44 (Summer 2015) Saltz, Jerry. “Leidy Churchman” New York Magazine, 8 May 2015 Saltz, Jerry. “The 10 Best Art Shows of 2015.” New York Magazine, 9 December 2015 Simmons, William J. “Nicole Eisenman.” Artforum (February 2015) Sitko, Mark. “Queer Fantasy Examines Gay Art beyond “Victim Art.”” LaMag.com, 8 July 2015 Smith, Roberta. “Leidy Churchman” The New York Times, 21 May 2015 “The Lookout, Leidy Churchman” Art in America, 7 May 2015 |
| 2014 | Ginwala, Natasha. “New Dawn.” Art Agenda, 30 July 2014 Perlson, Hili. “Leidy Churchman.” Artforum.com, June 2014 |
| 2013 | Ammer, Manuela. “Modes of Painting, Moods of Painting.” In Leidy Churchman: Emergency. Ed. Barbara Schröder. Brooklyn: Dancing Foxes Press, 2013, pp. 19–43 Cha, Olivian. “Math Bass & Leidy Churchman.” Art Papers Magazine (September/October 2013), p. 57 Gopnick, Blake. “Daily Pic: Live-action Abstraction.” The Daily Beast, 3 May 2013 Gratza, Agnieszka. “Art & Performance Notes: Expanding Performance.” PAJ: A Journal of Performance at Art 35, no. 3 (2013), pp. 41–48 Kelsey, John. “Painting on Demand.” In Leidy Churchman: Emergency. Ed. Barbara Schröder. Brooklyn: Dancing Foxes Press, 2013, pp. 49–58 Tattersall, Lanka. “Between the Devil and the Deep Blue Sea.” In Leidy Churchman: Emergency. Ed. Barbara Schröder. Brooklyn: Dancing Foxes Press, 2013, pp. 7–11 Zeqo, Arnisa. Conversation with Leidy Churchman. Girls Like Us, no. 4 (Spring/Summer 2013) |
| 2012 | Ammer, Manuela. “Ab-Ex clichés, living canvases and graveyards.” Translated by Nicholas Frindell. Frieze, no. 5 (Summer 2012) Gratza, Agnieszka. “Expanded Performance.” Artforum.com, November 2012 Mayhew, Alexander. “Double or Nothing, TAG, Den Haag.” Metropolis M, no. 3 (June/July 2012), p. 86 |
| 2011 | Akel, Joseph. “Leidy Celeste Nicole.” Artforum.com, July 2011 Sabas, Carole. “Artistes à suivre en 2011.” Vogue Paris (January 2011) Sillman, Amy. “AB-EX and Disco Balls: In Defense of Abstract Expressionism II.” Artforum (Summer 2011), pp. 320–25 “11 To Watch In 2011: Editor’s Picks.” New American Paintings, 10 January 2011 |
| 2010 | “Art Perspective: The Artist, Gallerist & Collector.” PlumTV, 30 November 2010 Baker, Kenneth. “Food for Art.” San Francisco Chronicle, 21 August 2010 Battista, Kathy. “Greater New York.” Art Monthly, no. 340 (October 2010), pp. 34–35 Douglas, Sarah. “Hunger for Young Artists Keeps NADA Buzzing.” Artinfo, 2 December 2010 Hirsch, Faye. “Greater New York.” Art in America (September 2010) Kaplan, Steve. “The Lesser Greater in the Haus of Klaus.” post.thing.net, 24 May 2010 Robinson, Walter. “MOMA The Kid.” Artnet.com, 23 May 2010 Silveri, Rachel. “A Conversation with Leidy Churchman.” Useless Magazine, no. 10 (2010) Smith, Roberta. “Take Me Out to the Big Show in Queens.” The New York Times, 27 May 2010 Smith, Roberta. “Painting in the 21st Century: It’s Not Dry Yet.” The New York Times, 27 March 2010 Walsh, Brienne. “Paging: A Useless Ventur.” Interview Magazine, 15 December 2010 |
| 2009 | Colman, David. “The Nifty 50: America’s Up and Coming.” T: The New York Times Style Magazine, 6 December 2009 Cotter, Holland. “Golden Oldies All Over Chelsea.” The New York Times, 4 December 2009 Finkelstein, Avram. “Art, History.” Pride (2009), pp. 78–79 Saltz, Jerry. “Unearthed Classics and Reinvented Forms: The Best Art of 2009.” New York Magazine, 23 December 2009 Smith, Roberta. “Art in Review: Leidy Churchman.” The New York Times, 17 July 2009 |
| 2008 | Nyong’o, Tavia. “Period Rush: Affective Transfers in Recent Queer Art and Performance.” Theatre History Studies 28 (2008), pp. 42–48 |
| 2006 | Bryan-Wilson, Julia. “Repetition and Difference.” Artforum (Summer 2006) |
| 2004 | Cotter, Holland. “Art in Review: Explosion LTTR.” The New York Times, 6 August 2004 Huston, Johnny Ray. “Better Homes and Galleries.” San Francisco Guardian, 14 January 2004 |