b. New York, NY, USA
lives and works in New York, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Green Grass of Hope: Ria Keburia Foundation, Republic of Georgia, (2023)
Tondos: Boweryshed, NY 2023
Bitrock Protocol: Lexington House, Lexington, NY 2021
Lineland Garden: The Union House, Canfield Island, CT 2021
The Tuscan Scrolls: Online Viewing Room, Budapest, Hungary 2020
Ours of the Day: Google HQ; New York, NY 2017
Suggested for You: Equity Gallery, New York, NY 2016
Riptide: 8 rue Gabriel Laumain, Paris, France 2015
Internet Enlightenment: PointB Brooklyn, NY 2015
Fruhstuckt Kommt: Golden Pudle Club, Hamburg, Germany 2010
Our Value to the Organization: Ssamzie Space, Seoul, Korea 2007
Waterwall: Gallery Sonja Roesch, Houston, TX 2004
Nausea & Euphoria: Gallery Evan, New York, NY 2003
Clear Cloud: Comme-ci, Comme Ca, Eifel, Germany 2003
Blandscape and Photage: Riva Gallery, New York, NY 2002
Lscapes & Nosmos: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, MA 1999
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Lexington House, NY; Upstate Art Weekend, curated by Jill Benson
2021
The Dorsky Museum, New Paltz, NY; WHO REALLY CARES? curated by Helen Toomer
2019
Park Place Gallery, curated by Michael Holden, Brooklyn, NY; TEXT
Park Place Gallery, curated by Anna Ehrsam, Brooklyn, NY; ARTSCIENCE
2018
MOCA Detroit, MI; LYING DOWN, STANDING UP, AS IF curated by Ouliana Ermalova
Lucca; Istanbul, Turkey; THE HINTERLAND, curated by Ayse Sarioiglu
2017
Inna Art Space; Hangzhou, China; PARALLEL TIMES
2016
Maverick Expo American Medium + bitforms + Postmasters + Silvershed, 208 Bowery, New York, NY
Estudios Abiertos, Una Caña, Mexico City
Spring/Break Art Fair, curated by Teriha Yaegashi, New York, NY
2015
12x12x12, Black Ball Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2015:1947, Equity Gallery, New York, NY
Direct Current, curated by Lalita Salander, PointB Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
Snakeskin Lattice, SVA Curatorial Practice, New York, NY
*18 x 8, PointB Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
2014
*What Is, Isn*t* Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago
The Chicago Effect: Redefining the Middle, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
CS, Museo El Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico
Silvershed’s First Open Studios, New York, NY
Collective Show MX, Casa Maaud, Mexico City, Mexico
2013
Rising Boats Lift All Tides, Old School, New York
Spiral, curated by Dirk Neumann, Bar Babette, Berlin
Richard, curated by Marco Antonini, Interstate Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Nacked Glaubingen / Be Leaf Me curated by Davida Nemeroff, Pascal Richter, Berlin
Neo Povera curated by Harmony Murphy, L&M Arts, LA",
School Nite New Museum Open City, New York, NY
Collective Show MX, Mexico City, Mexico
2012
Brucennial 2012, New York, NY
BYOB Little Berlin, Philadelphia
Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeless
Protest Monument, LAX Art, Los Angeles
2011
School Nite, Festival for the New City, Old School, New York, NY
Statler Waldorf Gallery, Los Angeles
Independent Art Fair, project with Yunhee Min, New York, NY
Dependent Art Fair, New York, NY
Collective Show LA, Los Angeles
2010
WP9 Collaborative show with Yunhee Min and Miles Coolidge, Night Gallery, Los Angeles
Collective Show NY, at Participant, Inc, New York, NY
2009
Performa 09 Video Performance at Kunstverein NY- curated by Sarina Basta
ABCyz, NY at Silvershed, NY
group show curated by Marco Antonelli, Scaramouche c/o Fruit & Flower Deli, New York, NY
Float Like a Butterfly Sting Like a Bee curated by Yunhee Min, ACP, Los Angeles
A4 curated by Christian Rothmaler, Golden Pudle Club, Hamburg, Germany
2008
The Shape of Things to Come curated by Marco Antonelli, LMCC Redhead Gallery, New York, NY
Digital with Monument, Silvershed, New York, NY
10th year Anniversary, SSamzie Collection, Seoul, Korea
Kevin Zucker (invitational painting project), Eleven Rivington, New York, NY
2007
Future of Art, Science and Technology, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
Plastic, curated by John Tremblay, Cabinet des Estampes, Geneva, Switzerland
2006
Teaching Artists in Residence, Eyebeam, New York, NY",
"Test Patterns: Artscape Public Art Exhibit curated By Gary Kachadourian, Baltimore, MD.
2005
We Could Have Invited Everyone by Robert Blackson & Peter Coffin, Andrew Kreps Gallery, NY
The Muster, organized by Allison Smith with The Public Art Fund, Governors Island, NY
2004
The Geometry of Light curated by C.S. Ledbetter III, The New Yorker Magazine, NY, NY
In the Face of Others curated by George Robinson, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NY, NY
Deutsch merikanische Freundschaft curated by Ulf Wetzel, Kunstfabrik, 2yk Gallerie, Berlin
2003
Digital Showcase: The F25 Key Collab DVDs. curated by Lina Russel, ICA, London, England
RubberBar curated by Normal Group, Swiss Institute, New York, NY
Framing Architecture curated by Daniel Marzona, Elga Wimmer PCC, New York, NY
2002
Building Structures, Sculpture Report curated by Daniel Marzona, P.S.1 MoMA, LIC, NY
Out of Site, curated by Anne Ellegood & Rhonda Lane Howard, Henry Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Out of Site - Fictional Architecture curated by Anne Ellegood, New Museum, New York, NY
Retrofit curated by Lauri Firstenberg, Lombard Freid Gallery, New York
Microviews curated by Christopher K. Ho, Moukhtar Kocache, Municipal Arts Society, NY, NY
UnitBead 2.0 Broadway Windows, New Museum, New York, NY
2001
Loop curated by Klaus Biesbach and Jeffrey Uslip, P.S.1 MoMA, LIC, NY
Work curated by Lauri Firstenberg, Folin/Riva Gallery, New York
2000
Gel-d Collaborative, curated by Ronald Jones, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
Interactive Design Lab curated by Jenelle Porter and Ronald Jones, Artists Space, New York, NY
COLLECTIONS
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
U.S. Department of Homeland Security, Washington D.C.
Castello di Rivoli, Museo d*Arte Contemporanea, Torino, Italy
The Library of Congress, Photo Archive, Washington D.C.
The National Endowment for the Arts, Washington D.C.
Mannesmann Steel, GMBH, Düsseldorf, Germany
Multiples and Artist Books Collections:
TATE Modern, London, England
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
The Walker Art Center, Minnesota
Brooklyn Museum, New York
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
Una Caña, Mexico City, 2016
Storefront for Art and Architecture, Studio Residency with Yunhee Min and Peter Zellner, 2013
Ssamzie Artist Residency, Seoul, Korea, 2007
Teaching Artist in Residency, Eyebeam, NY, 2005
John Anson Kittredge Educational Fund: Travel and expenses grant, 2002
Artists Space Independent Project Grant for Basic Digital show, 2002
World Views Artist-In-Residence at the World Trade Center, LMCC & Jerome Foundation 2000
N.E.A. purchase grant: for Original Digital Art Commissions at Artists Space 2000
EDUCATION
Harvard University, Graduate School of Design, Cambridge MA, MLA, 1999
Carnegie Mellon University, College of Fine Arts, Pittsburgh PA, BFA, 1995
Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany, Year Abroad, 1994
PUBLICATIONS
Andy Warhol in 15 Minutes, CSP, 2023
Tender Phliosophy, Crosby Street Press, 2016
Accidental Meme, Crosby Street Press, 2016
SoYouWantToBeAContemporaryVisualArtist, Crosby Street Press, 2016
PartA-PartB, Black Ball Projects, 2015
Three Ways, Crosby Street Press, 2015
DDD (artist-book/monograph draft edited by Uta Grosenick), 2014
The Fifth Dimension, 2013
Alternative Histories, MIT Press, 2012
The Silvershed Reader (interviews with Matt Mullican, John McCracken, and Peter Halley) 2009
Prisons Issue #6, K-48 Magazine, 2007
Plastic Catalog by Cabinet des Estampes, Geneva 2007
*Site Matters: The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council*s World Trade Center Artist Residency, 1997-2001, 2004
*Nausea & Euphoria ( Patrick Meagher artists book) Navado Press, Trieste, Italy 2003
*Out Of Site: Fictional Architectural Spaces: Anne Ellegood, Rhonda Lane Howard, Mark Wigley, 2002
Charley Magazine (issue 1) curated by Maurizio Catellan, Ali Subotnick, Massimiliano Gioni 2002
Architecture & Design: Artists Space 00-01 Jenelle Porter, Ron Jones, Barbara Hunt, Janet Abrams 2001
PRESS
The New York Times, 'Artists Equity to Reopen a Gallery on the Lower East Side', by Melena Ryzik, 2015
The Observer, 'Weekend Edition', by Ryan Steadman, 2015
Art Observed, '2015:1947', 2015
The New York Times, 'A breath of fresh air', by Bill Cunningham, 2015
Artsy, 'Spring/Break offers a breath of fresh air', by Alexxa Gotthardt, 2015
Cool Hunting, 'Spring/Break Art Show', by David Graver, 2015
Purple Diary, 'Highlights from Spring/Break Art Fair New York', by Elise Gallant, 2015
WhiteWalls, Spring/Break, by Samantha Katz 2014
Art Fag City, Spring/Break: Slideshow and Commentary, by Corinna Kirsch and Whitney Kimball 2013
Art Review Magazine, Summer 2012- New York Salons by Agnieszka Gratza
ARTFORUM online Scene & Herd Summer 2012
Art Observed - Dependent 2012
Pool Archive, Gene McHugh: "Meagher*s Space" 2011
Notes on Looking (Contemporary Art in Los Angeles), 2010
Spike Art Quarterly Vienna, Fragenberg, Frank. Fremde Intelligenzen Winter 2005
The Sun, Kunitz, Daniel. Building Structures January 2003
ARTFORUM online, Williams, Gregory. Out Of Site August/September 2002
The New York Times, Cotter, Holland. Rain or Shine, Residing Outdoors August 9, 2002
The New York Times, Cotter, Holland. A new sense of Architecture July 12, 2002
New York, Newhall, Edith. The Shape of Things July 11, 2002
Flash Art, Firstenberg, Lauri. Patrick Meagher, Riva, July 2002
Metropolis, Cameron, Kristi. Up and coming July, 2002
NY Arts Magazine, Patrick Meagher Firstenberg, Lauri, April 2002
The New York Times, Dewan, Shaila K., Dec 8, 2000
CURATORIAL/ORGANIZATIONAL PROJECTS
2014
Collective Show Mexico City, (Facilitator)
2013
Silvershed at School Nite, The Old Schoolhouse, (Curator)
Collective Show Mexico City, (Co-organizer)
Silvershed at Springbreak, The Old Schoolhouse, (Curator)
2012
Armory Show Special Project: Spring Break, Silvershed Screening Room, New York, NY
Dependent Art Fair Silvershed Booth, Organizer
2011
Off the Clock: A panel by Silvershed at Art in General, moderated by Liam Gillick (Co-organizer)
Collective Show LA (Co-organizer)
Dependent Art Fair Booth
2010
Collective Show NY (Co-founder) at Participant, Inc
2009
ABCyz (upcoming group show of art collectives, recent curatorial and publishing groups and new collaboratives)
Freundliches Feur Silvershed/PR17 Berlin (group show curated with Joyce Kim and Oliver Lanz)
2008
Silvershed Project Space (co-curated three shows)
2004
Basic Digital ANE NY digital art show, supported by a grant by Artists Space, NY
2001
Styro Snow Gift Economy Distribution Performance: ane.org project sponsored by E-flux.com
2000
Business Art Business: Art on the verge of business & business on the verge of art. ANEorg, NY
WRITING
Silvershed Reader #3, 2016
Silvershed Reader #2, 2013
Art Observed, Anne Truitt at Matthew Marks & John McCracken at David Zwirner, A Comparative Study, 2013", //http://artobserved.com/2013/10/new-york-anne-truitt-at-matthew-marks-john-mccracken-at-david-zwirner-a-comparative-study/#sthash.cbG3SFrT.dpuf
"Art Observed, Obituary: John McCracken (1934-2011)", 2011
ArtInfo, The Kinetic Connection: New York Exhibitions Explore the Utopian Legacy of Alternative Modernisms, 2012
Art Observed, Salad Days At the Journal gallery 2010
Art Observed Guest Editorial/Review, Jeff Koons: Made in Heaven, Paintings at Luxembourg & Dayan 2010
Art Observed Guest Editorial/Review, Poetry At Gagosian Gallery 2010
Art Observed, The Clipper The Marianne Vitale Experience at White Slab Palace* 2010
The Silvershed Reader: Interviews with Peter Halley, Matt Mullican, and John McCracken 2009
PRESENTATIONS AND PANELS
2013
Storefront for Art & Architecture, NY Silvershed Reader 2 Launch
2011
Patrick Meagher Artist talk: Independent! Collaborative! Collective! The College of Saint Rose, Albany
Art Los Angeles Contemporary, panel with Eve Fowler, Yunhee Min and Ronni Kimm, moderator: Catherine Taft
Dispatches and Directions: on artist run organizations in Los Angeles, Moderated by Miles Coolidge
2010
Every Letter in the Alphabet, Vancouver, Canada Reader Launch
2007
Hong-ik University, Seoul, Korea, Digital Disorder Decade Artist Lecture
2005
Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, East Coast - West Coast Panel
2004
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NY, Working Collaboratives, Panel
2003
Carnegie Mellon University,Pittsburgh, PA Working Artists Panel and Lecture
Nurture Art Foundation, NY Post-It Panel Discussion with Art Fry, 3M, and Paola Antonelli, MoMA
2002
New York University I.T.P. Steve Johnson's Emergence Class talk on interactive art
Henry Art Museum, Seattle Architecture And Art Panel with curator Rhonda Howard
Artists Equity, NY Panel Artists Websites* with Alison Blackman
2000
Artists Space, NY Panel Digital Think Tank with Barbara Hunt and Ruby Lerner
1999
Artists Space, NY Interactive Art talk with Prof. Dr. Ronald Jones and Matthew Drutt