Joshua Liner Gallery

Born 1971, Raleigh, North Carolina

Currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York

EDUCATION

1994 BFA, Cooper Union, New York, NY

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2012

"Go West curated by Joshua Liner Gallery" at Mark Moore Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (Jul. - Aug.)

2011

"True Value" at Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, NY (Dec. - Jan.)

“PULSE New York” with Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, NY (Mar.)

“Mola Salsa” at New Image Art, Los Angeles, CA (Feb.)

2009

“Constant Flow” at New Image Art, Los Angeles, CA (Jun.)

“Oxblood” at Webb’s, Auckland, New Zealand (Mar.)

2008

“Hopewell” (Walter Gropius Series) at Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV Curated by Cate Hammond. (Dec.-Feb09.)

“Oh-oh,” at Country Club, Cincinnati, OH. Curated by Christian Strike (Jun.)

“Dozens” at Roebling Hall, New York, NY (May.-Jun.)

2006

“Dawn’s Early Light” at Red Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA. Curated by Matthew Mascotte. (Oct.-Nov.)

“Motion Paintings” at Zoller Gallery, Penn State University, Philadelphia, PA (Nov.)

“Conversation” at Rice University Gallery, Houston, TX (Jan. -Mar.)

2005

“Orchestrion” at Jessica Murray Projects, New York, NY (Sep.)

2004

“Boars Head/ Wars Head” at Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC (Sep.)

“Beat Box/ A Painting is a Drum” at 222 Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (Jul.)

2003

“Request Line” at Agnes B. Homme, New York, NY

2002

“Like the Motion of Water” at Jessica Murray Projects, Brooklyn, NY

“David Ellis” at Korn Gallery, Drew University, Madison, NJ

“Paint on Trucks in a World in Need of Love” at Tidal, Osaka, Japan

“Roots, Branches, and Leaves” at Gas/ Dyezu Experiment, Tokyo, Japan

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2012

"Summer Group Exhibition" at Joshua Liner Gallery (Aug.)

2011

"PULSE Contemporary Art Fair" with Joshua Liner Gallery, Miami, FL (Dec.)

"Summer Group Show" at Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, NY (Aug.)

2010

“Viva La Revolución” at Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA (Jul.)

“Barnstormers” at Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, NY (Mar.)

2008

“Inner/ Outer Space” at Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA. Curated by Dara Meyerss-Kingsley. (Apr. - Jan09)

“Transformers” at Corridor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (Jul.)

“2003-2008” at Publico, Cincinnati, OH (Jan.)

2007

“Rubicon Sun: David Ellis and Doze Green” at Fifty24 SF Gallery, San Francisco, CA (Dec.)

NADA Art Fair, Miami, FL (with Roebling Hall) (Dec.)

Zoo Art Fair, London, UK (with Roebling Hall) (Dec.)

“Heap” (with Swoon and Monica Canilao) at Black Rat Press Gallery, London, UK (Oct.)

“Animated Painting” at San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA. Curated by Betti-Sue Hertz.(Oct. - Jan.)

“Ensemble” at Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA. Curated by Christian Marclay (Sep.)

“50,000 Beds” at Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT. Curated by Chris Doyle.(Jul. - Jan.)

“Brodeo” at New Image Art, Los Angeles, CA (Jun.)

“BMG Artists’ Annual ‘07” at Black Market Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (Jan.)

“Burning House” (with Swoon and Faile) at New Image Art, Los Angeles, CA. Curated by Faile.(Jan. -Feb.)

“Doodle Crush” (collaborations with Kiku Yamaguchi) at Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC. Curated by Bill Thelen.(May)

“10 Curators (10th Anniversary)” at Colette, Paris, France

“Music Show II” at Publico and Shake It Records, Cincinnati, OH

“Graffiti Stories” at MIAM (Musée des arts Modestes) Séte,France.

“Graffiti Stories” at Abbaye d’ Auberives, France

“50,000 Bed” at Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, CT

“Elevator Mural Project” (with Doze Green), 30 Bond St. New York, NY.

2006

“Music Show” at Publico, Cincinnati, OH

“Good & Thuggy” at Lump Gallery, Raleigh, NC

“Salvage + Assemble” at Space Gallery, Portland, ME

“Live Scores” at Monkeytown, Brooklyn, NY

“Motion Barn” at South Eastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston Salem, NC

“Casita” at Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico

“Letter to the President” at ResFest International Film Festival

2005

“Greater New York 2005” at P.S. 1/ MoMA, Long Island City, NY. Curated by Klaus Biesenbach, Robert Nickas, Amy Smith-Stewart.

“GADGET: Mechanics and Motion in Contemporary Art” at Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH. Curated by Matt Distel; Orchestrion installation exhibited alongside Fernand Léger and George Antheil’s “Ballet Mexhanique 1923-24”

“Digital Cotton” at Savannah Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA

“Urban Edge” at SPAZIO P4 Milan, Italy

“360” at Atlantic Avenue Artwalk, Brooklyn, NY

2004

“Paint on Trucks in a World in a Need of Love” at MoMA QNS, New York, NY

“Barnstormers Selected Fims” at AIGA Move Conference, New York, NY

NADA Art Fair at Miami, FL (under the auspices of Jessica Murray Projects)

"The Barnstormers" at Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC

“2004 Studio Aritsts: 9X” at Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY

“Psych-Opus, a B-Stormers Mural” at The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI

“Motion Paintings” at South Eastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston Salem, NC

“III Communication” at Urbis Museum, Manchester, UK

“Grotto 2” at Jessica Murray Projects, New York, NY

“Beautiful Losers” at Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH

“Compost, Doze Green, and David Ellis” at Studio Number 1, Los Angeles, CA. 2003 “Unseen Messages” at Transport Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

“Hive Mind Sound System” at Lump Gallery/Projects, Raleigh, NC

“Smudge Good” at CWC Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

“NYC Now” at Galerie Du Jour, Agnes B., Paris, France

“Bazaar” at Cuchifritos, New York, NY

“Coast to Coast” at Punch Gallery, San Francisco, CA

“Letter to the President” at Res Fest International Film Festival

“Apostrophe” at Mori Museum, Tokyo, Japan

2002

“Live Painting with John Ellis Quintet” at Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA

“Art Nights” at Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, San Juan, Puerto Rico

“Streetwise One” at Apart, London, UK

“Grotto” at Jessica Murray Projects, Brooklyn, NY

“Final Modification” at Ex’Realm, Tokyo, Japan

“Painting Is Dead…Or Is It?” at Lance Fung, New York, NY

2001

“One Planet Under a Groove” at Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY

“No Condition is Permanent” at Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY

“Rappers Delight” at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

“The Art of Breaking” at Downtown Arts Festival, New York, NY

“Clocktower Show” at P.S. 1, Clocktower Gallery, New York, NY

“Vox” at Kent Gallery, New York, NY

2000

“Cirk and Watching Paint Dry” at Downtown Arts Festival, New York, NY

PUBLIC PROJECTS

2006

“We People,” The Bridge Progressive Arts Initiative, Charlottesville, VA

“Hive Mind Sound System,” Miss Rockaway Armada, Mississippi River

“It’s Yours,” Deitch Projects Arts Parade, New York, NY

“Su,” Atlantic Avenue Art Walk, Brooklyn, NY

2005

“Bound” Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA

2003

Altoids Sponsored Wall of Fame, Brooklyn, NY

2002

“The Number 9, The Letter O, and Zero,” Sesame Street

“Mother Mural,” London, UK

2000

“Mural and Gourd-Speaker Installation” at GSSA, Osaka, Japan

1996

“Mural” at Village Vanguard, New York, NY

Ongoing

“The Spitune Juice Project,” Walls and trucks throughout the greater New York area

“Barnstormers Barn Painting Project,” Cameron, NC

“B-Boy Floor Mat Roto-Relief and Video Project,” Bronx, NY

RESIDENCIES

2010

"Animal," The University of Texas, Austin, TX

2008

“David Ellis-Flyway,” Theory Icon Project, New York, NY

The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA

Metal, Liverpool, UK

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2008

Mary Thomas. “Mattress Factory Exhibition Spreads Art Through ‘Inner and Outer Space’” from Pittsburgh Post Gazette, December 18, 2008.

2007

Mark Rappolt, from Art Review: Future Greats Issue, March 2008.

Jim and Karla Murray, Burning New York: Graffiti NYC, Ginko Press.

SHAFT: David Ellis and Doze Green (San Francisco: Fifty24SF)

Tactile- High Touch Visuals (Die Gestalten Verlag)

Jana Des Forges and Dave Kinsey, BLK/ MRKT Gallery 2 (Die Gestalten Verlag)

Joey Garfield, “David Ellis” from Juxtapoz magazine, March 2007.

2005

Irene Shum, “David Ellis” Greater New York Book (P.S. 1/ MoMA)

Christopher Chambers, “David Ellis/ Jessica Murray Projects” from Flash Art, November/December 2005

“David Ellis/ Jessica Murray Projects,” from Tama Cleste, November/December 2005

Eleanor Heartney, “Report from New York 1…” from Art in America, June/July 2005

Michael Kimmelman, “Youth and the Market” from The New York Times, March 18, 2005.

2004

Alexandra Chang, “Urban Improv…” from Art Asia Pacific, March 2004

2002

Adam Glickman, “Disobedients,” from Tokion Magazine, April 2002

2001

Joey Garfield, “Barnstormers,” from Tokion Magazine, June 2001

Emily Erickson, “Color Coded,” from Artforum, May 2001

2000

Grady Turner, “Barnstormers,” from Flash Art, Summer 2000

1998

Roberta Smith, “Brooklyn Haven for Art…” from The New York Times, November 6, 1998.