Greg Kwiatek

 

 

The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts

323 W 39th Street, Studio 501

New York, NY 10018

http://www.gregkwiatek.com

 

 

Education

 

1979 BFA Carnegie-Mellon University

1997 University of London

2007 Deutche House

 

 

Solo Exhibitions

 

2019 "Greg Kwiatek Selected Paintings 1985-2015", the former Baukunst Gallery, Cologne

2017 “Needlepoints”, Cornerstone Studios, New York

2013 "New Works", Lynch Tham Gallery, New York

2011 "New Paintings", Storefront Gallery, Brooklyn, New York

2010 “Nocturne”, Melville House Books, Brooklyn, New York

2010 "Paintings”, Drew University, Madison, New Jersey

2007 "Light Into Moon Light", Vivian Slee @ Princeton Project Space

2000 "Paintings", AC Project Room, New York

2000 "Works On Paper", Christine Burgin Gallery, New York

1998 "Paintings", Second Sunday , Cologne

1998 "Paintings", Johnson & Johnson, New Brunswick, NJ

1997 "Paintings", AC Project Room, New York

1995 "Paintings", AC Project Room, New York

1994 "Paintings", Stux Gallery, New York

1993 "Paintings & Works on Paper", Boden Oppenhoff Rasor Raue, Cologne

1993 "Paintings & Goauches, AC Project Room, New York

1992 "Paintings", Anne Reid Gallery, Princeton Day School

1991 "Paintings & Works on Paper", Concept Art Gallery, Pittsburgh

1990 "Paintings and Drawings", Marsh Gallery, University of Richmond

1985 "Paintings & Drawings 1979-1985", Kunstraum, Munich

1985 "Paintings & Drawings", Alfred Kren Gallery, New York

 

 

Group Exhibitions

 

2024 From a Tree Grows a Forest: an Exhibition Honoring Professor and Artist Edward S. Eberie

2023 "Everybody Knows This is Nowhere", Fierman Gallery, New York, curated by Alissa Friedman

2022 "Dread in the Eyes", The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts curated by Deric Camer

2019 Jagla Ausstellungraum, Michael Horbach Stiftung, Koln

2019 “American Psychic”, curated by Samira Abassy, The Elizabeth Foundation, New York

2016 “Artists' Painters - Dirk Schroeder Collection”, The Leopold Hoesch Museum, Duren, Germany

2014 "The Year in Review" Lynch Tham Gallery, New York

2013 “Recent Acquisitions from Dirk Schroeder Collection”, Baukunst Galerie, Cologne, Germany

2013 “Clouds”, curated by Adam Simon, Leslie Heller Gallery, New York

2013 “Inaugural Exhibition”, Lynch Tham Gallery, New York

2012 "Roundup" Storefront Gallery, Bushwick

2011 “From the Page’s Edge: Water in Literature and Art”, William Patterson University, Maravian College, Lake Champlain Maritime Museum

2011 “Leiko Ikemura, Greg Kwiatek”, Ulrike Jagla, Cologne

2010 “Summer Show”, Melville House Books, Brooklyn

2010 “Project Utopia”, Storefront Gallery, Bushwick

2008 “Paul Bloodgood, Leonard Bullock, Greg Kwiatek”, David Zwirner, New York

2008 “Janet Sawyer, George Rush, Greg Kwiatek, Washington Art Association, Washington Depot, CT

2008 "Flatfile Project Curated by Paul Bloodgood", Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York

2007 "Six Billion Perps Held Hostage!...Artists React to Global Warming", The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh

2007 "Things From Your Life", Adams/Bloodgood, Jackson Heights

2007 "Continuum", The 'temporary Museum Of 2006 Painting, Brooklyn

2007 "Super Natural", Center Gallery, Fordam University, New York

2007 "Centenial Exhibition CFA", Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Carnegie-Mellon University

2005 "Art on Paper 2004", Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University of North Carolina, Greensboro

2002 "From Chelsea with Love", Edward Thorp Gallery, New York

2000 "Summer Show", Concept Art Gallery, Pittsburgh

1999 "The World is a Small Painting", Trans Hudson Gallery, New York

1998 "Wanderlust", N3 Project Room, Brooklyn

1998 "Artists As Curator", Concept Art Gallery, Pittsburgh

1996 "Art Workers Works", Basilico Fine Arts, New York

1996 "Drawings From The MAB Library", AC Project Room, New York

1995 "Painters Painters", Concept Art Gallery, Pittsburgh

1995 "In A Meditative Manner", E.S. Van Dam, New York

1994 "Luccui Pozzi- Greg Kwiatek", Bill Maynes Contemporary Art, New York

1994 "Greg Kwiatek-Judith Hudson", Rene Fotouchi Gallery, East Hampton

1994 "Heterogeneity, Abstraction and Virtural Space", Out Of The Blue, Edinburgh, Scotland

1994 "Drawings In America Today", Ecoles Des Beaux Arts, L'Orient, France

1993 "The Inaugural Show", The Painting Center, New York

1991 "Contemporary Art in the 20th Century", Villa Roosevelt, Baden Baden

1990 "Small Paintings in the Abstract", Coup de Grace, New York

1988 "Small Works Show", New York University

1988 "Working Drawings", Korn Gallery, Drew University, Madison, NJ Fine Art Building, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ

1987 "Recent Acquisitions from the Permanent Collection", The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

1986 "Drawings", Barbara Toll Fine Art, New York

1985 "Black", Alfred Kren Gallery, New York

1984 "Sun and Steel-New European and American Works", Serri Di Felice, New York "Selected Works", Korn Gallery, Drew University, Madison, NJ

1983 "Leon Golub, Greg Kwiatek, Michael Peglau, Milton Resnick", Art Galaxy, New York

1982 "Greg Kwiatek, Michael Peglau", Art Galaxy, New York

 

 

Awards

 

2018 The Adolf and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant

2003 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship

2003 The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Studio, New York

1999 Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Grant

1993 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant

1988 Jurors Award, Small Works Show, New York University

1982 Artists Space Grant

 

 

Bibliography

 

Duren hebt einen Kolner Kunstschatz, Von: Echard Hoog, 9 June 2016, Aachener-Zeitung

Artists' Painters 2016 The Leopold Hoesch-Museum, Duren, Germany, Wienand publishing house, Cologne

Renate Goldman, Preface

Saul Ostrow, A Moment Frozen in Time: Bismarckstrasse, Cologne FRG, Time and Date Unspecified

Ulrike Jagla-Blankenburg, The Dirk Schroeder Collection in the Reflection of its Time, its Works, its Artists

Nils Emmerichs, Cobra Bites

Vivian Slee, Oppositional Mytologies in the Paintings of Greg Kwiatek

Matt Wrbican, Monsters of the Deep - The Seaweed Paintings of Greg Kwiatek

Michael Peglau, Greg Kwiatek's Moon Paintings

Jeffrey Johnson, Greg Kwiatek, Painter - At the Interface of Inside and Out

James Palmer, Greg Kwiatek

GALERIE Wesensverwandte Kunstler, Kolner Stadt-Anzeiger, Donnerstag 20 Oktober 2011

Anthony Hayden-Guests, “Paul Bloodgood, Leonard Bullock, Greg Kwiatek” at David Zwirner, Charles Saatchi Online, May, 2008

Sandra Ban, “Paul Bloodgood, Leonard Bullock, Greg Kwiatek” at David Zwirner, Art News, October, 2008

Claudia Steinberg, "Wehe, wenn er doch einnickt", Frankfurter Allgeimeine Zeitung, May 27, 2007, NR. 21

Timothy McNulty, "Warholian Warming Trend", Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, Weekend Magazine, March 8, 2007

John Altdorfer, "One Hot Topic", Carnegie Magazine, Spring 2007

Deborah Everett, "Greg Kwiatek, New Paintings", New York Arts, vo. 5, no.3 (March 2000)

Peter Schjeldahl, "Gallery Legs", The Village Voice, May 30, 1995

Rose C.S. Slivka, "From The Studio", The East Hampton Star, September 1, 1994

Phyllis Braff, "Greg Kwiatek, Judith Hudson at Rene Fotouchi Gallery", The New York Times, September 11, 1994

Robert Long, "Perspective: Two Strong Exhibitions", The South Hampton Press, August 18, 1994

Jerry Saltz, "A Year in the Life: Tropic of Painting", Art in America, October, 1994

Karl Brake, "Greg Kwiatek's Recent Paintings", In Pittsburgh, October 16-22, 1991

Cathy Lubenski, "Greg Kwiatek Returns Home to Show Works", The Greensbugh Tribune-Review, October 4, 1991

Stephanie Duncan, "Abstract Art Featured at Gallery", The Collegian, January 1990

Roy Proctor, "Painters Take Diverse Views of Landscape", The Richmond New Leader, January 13, 1990

Robert Merrit, "Kwiatek's Works Show Raw Power", The Richmond Times Dispatch, January 13, 1990

Claudia Herstat, "Cologne, American Artists Haven", The Wall Street Journal, August 18, 1985

Michael Brenson, ""Greg Kwiatek at Alfred Kren Gallery", The New York Times, June 21, 1985

Berbara Glaberson, "Sun and Steel at Serri Di Felice Gallery", Art World, June 1984

Valentine Taransky, "Leon Golub, Greg Kwiatek, Michael Peglau, Milton Resnick at Art Galaxy", Arts Magazine, January 1982

 

 

Publications

 

"Das ganze Paket", Zehn Jahre Jagla Ausstellungsraum, Cologne, 2019

“Artists’ Painters”, Dirk Schroeder Collection (Cologne) at the Leopold-Hoesch Museum, Duren, Germany  (catalogue) 2016

“Paul Bloodgood, Leonard Bullock, Greg Kwiatek” David Zwirner, New York (catalogue)

"Six Billion Perps Held Hostage!...Artists React to Global Warming", Newspaper, Edited by Matt Wrbican, March 2007

"Painters' Painters" Essay by Vicki Clark, 1995

"Le Temps D' Un Dessin, L'Orient, Grance: Ecole Des Beaux Arts de L'Orient, 1994

"Greg Kwiatek, Paintings and Drawings 1979-1985", Kunstraum-Munich, 1985: Essay by David Summers and Alfred Kren

"Sun and Steel-New European and American Works" 1984: Essays by Donald B. Kuspit and Alfred Kren

 

 

Panels

 

Talk on the Paul Bloodgood exhibition at White Columns, New York, 2018

Fordam University, New York, October 26, 2006

The Temporary Museum of Painting, Brooklyn, February 18, 2007

 

 

Documentary Film

 

“Hidden Treasures...stories from a great museum”, directed by Alexandra Isles, to be broadcast on PBS 2010-2011 season

 

 

Collectors

 

Burt Aaron, Ann Arbor, Chris and Amy Astley, New York, Walter Bareiss, New York. Kelly Adams and Paul Bloodgood, New York. Anne Chu, New York. The Carnegie Museum Of Art, Pittsburgh. Milton Fine, Pittsburgh. Jeanne Cohen, Cleveland, Jim Dicke II, New Bremen, Jonathan Farnham, New York, Alissa Friedman and Glenn Petrie, New York. The Institute For Radiology Research, Munich. Rafael Jablonka, Koln. Stefan Lutje, Berlin, Hisayoshi Ota, Mosca. Alisa and Kevin Ratner, Pacific Palisades, Aurel Scheibler, Berlin. Dirk Schroeder and Christine Rossini, Koln. Vivian Slee, London, Diane Solomon, New York, Dr. Michael and Christine Tacke, Grunwald. Bill Wood, New York, David Zwirner, New York. Michael Peglau/ Candice Keller, Madison , NJ. Christel Engel/ Livio Saganic, New Vermon, NJ. Peter Coyne, Easton , NJ. Alan Johnson/ Lin Kroeger, New York.