ELLEN HARVEY
1967 Born in Farnborough, Kent, U.K.
Lives and works in New York City, NY, USA
EDUCATION
1998-90 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, Independent Study Program
1993 Yale Law School, New Haven, CT, USA
1990 Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, Germany, no degree
1989 Harvard College, Cambridge, MA, USA
RESIDENCIES
2005 Residency, Sirius Arts Centre, Cobh, Cork, Ireland
2003 Art in General Residency, Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
2002 Emerge 2003, Aljira, Newark, NJ, USA
2000-2001 National Studio Program, PS1 Museum, Long Island City, NY, USA
2000 Residency, ART/OMI, Omi, NY, USA
1997 Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT,USA
AWARDS
2007 Pennies From Heaven Grant, The New York Community Trust, New York, NY, USA
2004 Award, Rema Hort Mann Foundation, New York, NY, USA
Artist in Residence Award (Florida Atlantic University), Palm Beach Cultural Council, Palm Beach, FL, USA
Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative Award (Pennsylvania Academy), Pew Charitable Trust, Philadelphia, PA, USA
2003 In the Public Realm Finalist, New York Public Art Fund, New York, NY, USA
2002 Lily Auchincloss Foundation Fellowship, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY, USA
2001 Independent Project Grant, Artists Space, New York, NY, USA
1997 Artist's Grant, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, USA
1989 Adams House Art Prize, Harvard College, Cambridge, MA, USA
SELECTED PUBLIC PROJECTS / COMMISSIONS
2011 Reforestation and Fossil, Installation commissioned by Art in Architecture, IRS Facilty, Andover, MA, USA (upcoming)
Mathematical Star, Marcy Plaza, A mosaic commissioned by Percent for Art, Brooklyn, NY, USA (upcoming)
The Forest of Parnassus, a series of paintings commissioned by UCSF for their Parnassus Campus, USA (upcoming)
2009 The Home of the Stars, Yankee Stadium Station, Bronx, NY. Commissioned by MTA Arts for Transit
Door, University of California, Parnassus Campus, San Francisco, CA, USA
2007 Carpet, Francisco Station, Chicago, IL,USA. Commissioned by CTA Arts in Transit
2005 Look Up Not Down, Queens Plaza Subway, Long Island City, NY. Commissioned by MTA Arts for Transit
Picture Window, 1804 N. Calvert Street, Baltimore, MD, USA. Curated by Gary Kachadourian
2004 Dreamland Artist Club, Coney Island, NY, USA. Commissioned by Creative Time
2001 100 Free Portraits, various locations in New York City, NY, USA
1999-2001 New York Beautification Project, various locations in New York City, NY, USA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 The Nudist Museum, Bass Museum, Miami, FL, USA
Picturesque Pictures, Galerie Gebr. Lehmann, Berlin, Germany
The Doppleganger Collections, Magnus Müller, Berlin, Germany
The Room of Sublime Wallpaper, APF Lab, New York, NY
2009 The Empty Collection, Meessen de Clercq, Brussels, Belgium
Beautiful Ruin, Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
2008 Private Collections, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, USA
2007 The Museum of Failure, Luxe Gallery, New York, N, USA
2006 Beautiful/Ugly, magnus müller, Berlin, Germany
Mirror, The Peddie School, Hightstown, NJ, USA
Broken Mirror, Galerie Gebrüder Lehmann, Dresden, Germany
Schmidt Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA
2005 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA
2003 Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
Context is Everything, müllerdechiara Gallery, Berlin, Germany
A Whitney for the Whitney at Philip Morris, Whitney Museum at Phillip Morris, New York, NY, USA
2001 I See Myself in You, De Chiara Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Low Tech Special Effects, Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
2000 Painting is a Low Tech Special Effec, De Chiara/Stewart Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1999 Some Polaroid Paintings, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1998 Winding Sheet Saint Peter's Church, New York, NY, USA
Ellen Harvey, Alexandre de Folin Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1997 Sleeping Beauty, Red Mill Gallery, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, USA
1996 Ellen Harvey: Paintings, The International Monetary Fund, Washington DC, USA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 Arnolfini, Museum Show, curated by Nav Haq, Bristol, U.K. (upcoming)
Belvedere, curated by Anne Kersten & Christine Heideman, Hans Arp Museum, Remagen, Germany. (upcoming)
Arnolfini. Magical Consciousness, curated by Runa Islam, Bristol, U.K. (upcoming)
Revealed, Turner Contemporary, Margate, UK. (upcoming)
Alpine Desire, curated by Andreas Stadler, William Stover and Agnes Husslein, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, NY
2010 The Bourgeouis Interior, curated by Steven Jacobs, Roger Raveel Museum, Machelen aan de Leie, Belgium
The Natural Order of Things: Ellen Harvey & Jason Middlebrook, curated by William Stover, Dodge Gallery, New York, NY
Bewahrung und Verfall
Meessen De Clercq, Brussels, Belgium. Objects are Like They Appear, Deutsches Technikmuseum, Berlin, Germany
Self and Family Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM.
The Fifth Genre, Galerie Lelong, New York, NY
Art Basel (Galerie Gebruder Lehmann), Basel, Switzerland
Solo booth, Volta Art Fair (Magnus Müller), Basel, Switzerland.
Sølyst Castle, Jyderup, Denmark. Pastiche, curated by Laurie De Chiara
Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, New York, NY. Future Tense, curated by Dede Young
Art Brussels (Meessen de Clercq Gallery), Brussels, Belgium
Armory Art Fair, New York, NY (Locks Gallery)
Calling Beauty, curated by James Voorhies, Bureau for Open Culture, Columbus, OH, USA
2009 Beyond the Pituresque, SMAK, Ghent, Belgium
2008 Two Places at One Time, Museum de Arte de Ponce, Puerto Rico
Thoreau Reconsidered, Concord Art Association, Concord, MA, USA
Something From Nothing, curated by Dan Cameron, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA, USA
Whitney Museum, New York, NY, USA Biennial, curated by Shamim Momin & Henriette Huldisch
2007 Delicatessen, Schmidt Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL, USA
A Time to Build Up, curated by Michael Straus, Frederike Taylor Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Places, Luxe Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Generation 1.5, Queens Museum, Queens, NY, USA
Thoreau Reconsidered, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY, USA
You Won’t Feel A Thing, curated by Aneta Szylak, Wyspa Institute of Art, Gdansk, Poland
Face to Face, a project of Rainer Ganahl, Lorenzo Bruni, Florence, Italy
No Physical Residue, curated by Cesare Pietriousti, Evolution de L’Art, Bratislava, Slovak Republic,
Space Control, ASSAB ONE, Milan, Italy
Unsung, curated by Dan Cameron, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2006 You won’t feel a Thing, curated by Aneta Szylak, Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden, Germany
Cluster, organized by Katie Holten, El Particular, Mexico City, Mexico.
Tina B. Festival of Contemporary Art, National Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
What a Great Space You Have, curated by Marc Gloede, Luxe Gallery, New York NY, USA
Flaming June, curated by Sarah Gavlak, Spanierman Contemporary, New York, NY, USA
Pixel Visions, The Visual Arts Gallery, University of Alabama, Birmingham, AL, USA
Berlin/NewYork, curated by Tessa Rosebrock, ArtEmbasssy, Berlin, Germany
Places Real & Imagined, curated by Attequa Ali Al-Hamra, Arts Council, Lahore, Pakistan
Eigenheim, curated by Laurie De Chiara, Kunstverein, Göttingen, Germany
Heile Welt: works from the Schmidt-Drenhaus collection, Kupferstich-Kabinett, Dresden, Germany
Sublime, Luxe Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Singular, Galerie SE, Bergen, Norway
Cluster, organized by Katie Holten, Participant Inc., New York, NY, USA
2005 Co-Dependent, The Living Room, Miami, FL, USA
The Gift, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY, USA
Buttons Up NY, curated by Michael Wilson, D.U.M.B.O. Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY, USA
NextNextArt, curated by Dan Cameron, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Super!, Triennial for Visual Arts, Fashion & Design, Hasselt, Belgium
Home, curated by Martin Healey, Crawford Municipal Gallery, Cork, Ireland
It’s not about Sex, Luxe Gallery, New York, NY, USA
759 Running Feet, curated by Tom Finkelpearl, Gwangju Art Museum, Gwangju, Korea
Post Notes, curated by Adam Carr, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Somewhere over the Rainbow, curated by Margaret Murphy, The Garage, Jersey City, NJ, USA
Polaroid als Geste, Museum für Photographie, Braunschweig, Germany
Onder Kunstenaars en Organisaties, Z-33: Freespace, Hasselt, Belgium
2004 Post Notes, curated by Adam Carr, ICA, London, UK
Screen Spirit, curated by Marikke Heinz-Hoek, Städische Galerie, Bremen, Germany
Interventions, curated by Jacqueline Nathan, Fine Arts Center, Bowling Green, OH, USA
Viewing Images of Peculiar Origins, curated by Thomas Eller, Kunstmühle, Mürsbach, Germany
Young Americans, Galerie SE, Bergen, Norway
Timeless / Timelines, curated by Dominique Nahas, Aljira, Newark, NJ, USA
Simply Drawn, Luxe Gallery, New York, NY
A araneia . A coleccion, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
One in a Million, curated by Barbara Clausen, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, NY, USA
Notes on Renewed Appropriationisms, curated by Lauri Firstenberg, The Project, Los, Angeles, CA, USA
Stop and Stor, Luxe Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Supereal, curated Lauri Firstenberg, Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
Flix, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Harlem Postcards, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, USA
In Practice, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY, USA
Supereal, curated by Lauri Firstenberg, National Museum, Prague Biennial, Prague, Czech Republic
On and Off the Wall, curated by William Stover, Phillips de Pury & Luxembourg, New York, NY, USA
2002 Juegos de Escala, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Shuffling the Deck, curated by Eugenie Tsai, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ, USA
After Matisse/Picasso, PS1 Museum, Long Island City, NY, USA
Moving Faces, curated by Serge Onnen, Outline, Amsterdam, Netherlands
637 Running Feet: Black & White Wall Drawings by 14 Artists, Queens Museum of Art, NY, USA
One Fine Day, curated by Maria Cruz, Block Gallery, Sydney, Australia.
Fake, curated by Koan Baysa, Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Freespace 4, curated by Gert Robijns, Z-33: Freespace, Hasselt, Belgium
Painting as Paradox, curated by Lauri Firstenberg, Artists Space, New York, NY, USA
Block Party, Bellwether Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Thresholding, curated by Alice Smits, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Benefit Show, White Columns, New York, NY, USA
Briefcase, a project of Simon Barney, curated by Suzanne Treister, Sydney, Australia
One Fine Day, curated by Angelika Mittendorf & Andreas Schimanski, 34K, Berlin, Germany
Hier ist Dort 2, curated by Anna Meyer, Secession Museum, Vienna, Austria
2001 Against the Wall, curated by Karen Jones, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA
LOOK, curated by Linda Farris Seattle, WA, USA
Project for PS1 Museum Booth, Culturefest, Bryant Park, New York, NY, USA
Art Transplant: British Artists in New York, curated by Mei-Ling, British Consulate, New York, NY, USA
Made in the Shade, PS1 Museum, Long Island City, NY, USA
The Brewster Project, Brewster, NY, USA
Screen, curated by Irena Popiashvili, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY.
First Person Singular, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA
Lecture Lounge vol. 2, PS1 Museum’s Clocktower Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Open Studios, PS1 Museum, Long Island City, NY, USA
Strangers / Étrangers, curated by Paolo Herkenhoff, PS1 Museum's Clocktower Gallery, New York, NY, USA
In/SITE/Out, curated by Karen Jones, Apex Art, New York, NY, USA
Lecture Lounge vol. 1, PS1 Museum’s Clocktower Gallery, New York, NY, USA
The Pierogi Flatfiles, Block Artspace, Kansas City, MI, USA
Serial Number, curated by Lauren Ross, Gale Gates et al., Brooklyn, NY, USA
2000 Where are all the people?, De Chiara/Stewart Gallery, New York, NY, USA
The Pierogi Flatfiles, Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Museé d’Arte Moderne, Sainte-Etienne, France
Brooklyn Zoo, curated by Gregory Volk & Sabine Russ
Brooklyn Zoo, curated by Gregory Volk & Sabine Russ, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Environmentally Concerned II, curated by Karen Jones, Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY, USA
Face-à-Face, curated by Karin Frei Kunstpanorama, Lucerne, Switzerland
The Pierogi Flatfiles, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA
Porträt, curated by Tely Büchner, Kunsthaus Erfurt, Erfurt, Germany.
Exchange, curated by Carrie Lambert ,16 Beaver Street, New York, NY, USA
Imaging the Wunderboard, curated by Koan Baysa, London Biennale, London, United Kingdom
Block Party, Bellwether, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Paint on Paint 2000 Benefit Art Exhibition, Martina Detterer Galerie, Frankfurt, Germany
Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
North America, curated by Tom Finkelpearl, Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, NY, USA, Super Duper New York, curated by Joe Amrhein & Greg Stone
Ten Thousand Reflections, curated by Sabine Walli & Daniela Lobeira Dilmos, Miami, FL, USA
1999 Holiday Inn, Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA, USA
Smile of Forsyth, a project of Matthias Geitel & Martin Geyersbach, ACC Gallery, Weimar, Germany
XMAS, a project of the Department for Public Appearances, Kent Gallery, New York, NY, USA
The Flatfiles, Rosenwald - Wolf Gallery, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Surface Tension, curated by Catherine Ruello, Art in General, New York, NY, USA
Office, curated by Regine Basha, Staff USA Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2nd Annual Portrait Show, curated by Brandon Ballengee, Jorgensen Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Parking, curated by Mayday Productions, Highbridge Park, New York, NY, USA
Five29Ninety9, St. Ann’s Church, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Open Studio Exhibition, The Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, NY, USA
1998 Portrait, curated by Alexandra Keiser, AU base Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Emerging Artists Program: CGS&H, New York, NY, USA, Ellen Harvey / Paul Villinski
Pierogi goes to College, Bard College, Rheinbeck, NY, USA
The Flatfiles, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA
From Here, High Street Project Gallery, Christchurch, New Zealand
Pierogi 2000: New York Presents the Flatfiles. Passage Galerie, Künstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria
American Living, Hereart, New York, NY, USA
13, Alexandre de Folin Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1997 Hereart, New York, NY, USA, Emerging Artist
Giftland VI: Consumption Printed, Matter, New York, NY, USA
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC, USA
New York Drawers, Cornerhouse, Manchester, & Gasworks, London, UK
Water: Ellen Harvey, Elizabeth Castagna & Gina Bonati, Hereart, New York, NY, USA
Current Undercurrent: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Flatfiles, Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, NY, USA
1996 Tinsel Tower: Clothing PS1, Museum's Clocktower Gallery, New York, NY, USA
The Sit-In, curated by Arfus Greenwood, PS1 Museum's Clocktower Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Some of Our Own, curated by Elizabeth Levine, CGS&H, New York, NY, USA
Fish Heads, curated by Katherine Thomas Max Fish, New York, NY, USA
SELECTED CORPORATE & PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Fidelity Investments, New York, NY
Gwangju Art Museum, Gwangju, Korea
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Neuberger & Berman, LLC, New York, NY
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA
Princeton Art Museum, Princeton, NY
The Progressive Collection, Cleveland, OH
Queens Museum, Long Island City, NY
Rema Horst Mann Foundation, New York, NY
Schmidt-Drenhaus Collection, Dresden, Germany
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Wyspa Institute, Gdansk, Poland
The West Collection, Oaks, PA