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Marilyn MINTER

Marilyn Minter (born 1948) is an American artist currently living and working in New York City. Minter’s work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions and has been included in group exhibitions in museums all over the world. In 2006, Marilyn Minter was included in the Whitney Biennial, and installed several billboards in Chelsea, New York City in collaboration with Creative Time. Her video Green Pink Caviar was exhibited in the lobby of the MoMA from 2010-2011. In 2013, Minter was featured in “Riotous Baroque,” an exhibition that originated at the Kunsthaus Zürich and traveled to the Guggenheim Bilbao. In 2015, Minter’s retrospective Pretty/Dirty opened at the Contemporary Arts Museum in Houston, TX. Pretty/Dirty traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, the Orange Country Museum of Art, and the Brooklyn Museum in November 2016. Minter is represented by Salon 94, New York, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, Lehmann Maupin, Seoul, and Baldwin Gallery, Aspen.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024

Marilyn Minter, Lehmann Maupin, Seoul, Korea

2023

Marilyn Minter, LGDR, New York, NY

2021

Lehmann Maupin, Beijing, China

“All Wet”, Montpellier Contemporain, Montpelier, France

“Smash”, MoCA Westport, Westport, CT 2020 Smash,

School of Visual Arts’ Armory Gallery, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA

“Nasty Woman”, SCAD, Savannah, GA

2019

“Marilyn Minter”, Simon Lee, London

2018

“Marilyn Minter”, Regen Proyects, Los Angeles

“Marilyn Minter”, Lehmann Maupin Hong Kong, Hong Kong

“Smash + New Photographs”, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen

“Channel 3”, Ratio 3, San Francisco

“Marilyn Minter”, Regen Projects, Los Angeles

2016

“Spray On”, Carolina Nitsch, New York

“Pretty / Dirty”, Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York

“Marilyn Minter”, Salon 94 Bowery, New York

“Pretty / Dirty”, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport

2015

“Marilyn Minter”, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen“Street Views”, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis

“Pretty / Dirty”, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver

“Pretty / Dirty”, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston

2013

Regen Proyects, Los Angeles

2011

“Marilyn Minter”, Salon 94 Bowery, New York

“Marilyn Minter”, Deichtorhallen Hamburg. Hamburg

“Paintings form the 80s”, Team Gallery, New York, USA

2010

“Marilyn Minter” – MOCA – Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland,

2009

“Regen Projects”, Los Angeles, CA

“Chewing Color” – CAC – Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH

“Marilyn Minter” – La Conservera, Ceuti

“Green Pink Caviar” – Salon 94 Freemans, New York City, NY

2008

“Marilyn Minter” – Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm

2006

“Marilyn Minter: Photographs” – Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO

“Marilyn Minter” – Salon 94, New York City, NY

2005

“Marilyn Minter” – Voges + Partner Gallery, Frankfurt/Main

“New Work – Marilyn Minter” – San Francisco Museum of Modern Art – SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA

2004

“New Paintings & Photographs” – Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO

“Marilyn Minter” – Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm

2009

“Regen Projects”, Los Angeles, CA

“Chewing Color” – CAC – Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH

“Marilyn Minter” – La Conservera, Ceuti

“Green Pink Caviar” – Salon 94 Freemans, New York City, NY

2008

“Marilyn Minter” – Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm

2006

“Marilyn Minter: Photographs” – Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO

“Marilyn Minter” – Salon 94, New York City, NY

2005

“Marilyn Minter” – Voges + Partner Gallery, Frankfurt/Main

“New Work – Marilyn Minter” – San Francisco Museum of Modern Art – SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA

2004

“New Paintings & Photographs” – Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO

“Marilyn Minter” – Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025

“(Un)real”, works from the Louisiana Museum’s Collection, Kunsten Museum of Art, Aalborg, DK

2024

“By the Sea”, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA

2023

“Friends & Lovers”, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY Die Young Stay Pretty, KOTARO NUKAGA, Tokyo, Japan

2022

“Women Painting Women”, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort

“Worth, TX MOTHER”, curated by Laurel Nakadate, Mason Exhibitions,

Arlington, VA Eternal Seasons, LDGR, Hong Kong

2021

Peep Show, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY

2020

“Nasty Women”, Gavlak, Los Angeles, CA World Peace, MoCA Westport, Westport, CT

“On Everyone’s Lips. The Oral Cavity in Art and Culture”, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany Good Pictures, curated by Austin Lee,

2019

“Feeling Called Love. Collection of an Idiot”, Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum

“Prisioner of Love”, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago

2018

“Downtown for Democracy”, Deitch Projects, NY

“Exemplary Bodies”, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, New York

“Ngorongoro II”, Lehderstrasse 34, Berlin

“20 th Annual Postcards From The Edge”, Visual Aids, New York

2017

“Anger Managment”, Brooklyn Museum, NY

2014

“La Triennale”, Milan

“Bad Conscience”, Metro Pictures, New York

“Surface”, Stephen D. Paine Gallery, Boston

2013

“Desire”, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York

“Skin Trade”, PPOW, New York

“The Cat Show”, White Columns, New York

“Privacy”, Schim Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany

“Riotous Baroque”, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain

2012

“We The People”, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Project Space, Zurich, Switzerland

“Group Show”, Regen Projects, Los Angeles

“Girl Talk”, CAM Raleigh, NC

“Pink Caviar”, Louisiana Museum, Humlaebek, Denmark

2011

“Memories of the Future”, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France

“Commercial Break”, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture and Post, Venice Biennial, Italy

2010

Painting and Sculpture – Lehmann Maupin, New York City, NY

Five Year Anniversary Exhibition – Gavlak, West Palm Beach, FL

“Collision” – The RISD Museum – University of Rhode Island, Providence, RI

Foreign Studies – Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm

“SWEAT”, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad

“SURFACE/ GROUND” – MOCA Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, CA

“Lebenslust und Totentanz” – Kunsthalle Krems, Krems

“Don Juan in the Village” – Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm

“Passion fruits picked from the Olbricht Collection” – me Collectors Room Berlin

“Living with art: collecting contemporary in metro New York” -Neuberger
Museum of Art, Purchase, NY

“For your eyes Orly” – De Markten, Brussels

“Chained to a Creature of a Different Kingdom” – David Castillo Gallery, Miami

“Think Pink – Gavlak”, West Palm Beach, FL

“Desire” – Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX

“Eye of the beholder” – Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY

2009

“Stars!” – Salon 94 Freemans, New York City, NY

“The Audio Show” – Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York City, NY

“Don’t Panic! I’m Selling My Collection” – Rental Gallery, New York City, NY

“The Female Gaze: Women Look At Women” – Cheim & Read, New York City, NY

“We’re all gonna die Part B” – Number 35, New York City, NY

“We’re all gonna die” – Sue Scott Gallery, New York City, NY

“Lover – On Stellar Rays”, New York City, NY

“Spring Group Exhibition” – Gavlak, West Palm Beach, FL

“Collected Visions” – Bronx Museum of the Arts (BxMA), New York City, NY

“The Garden at 4 AM” – Gana Art New York , New York City, NY

2008

“Objects of Value” – MAM – Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
Busan Biennale

The Busan Biennale, Busan

“Marilyn Minter–Mika Rottenberg: Sweat” – Galerie Laurent Godin, Paris

“Shoes!” – Gavlak, West Palm Beach, FL

“Pretty is as Pretty Does” – Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM

2007

“Holiday Reading” – Number 35, New York City, NY

“Sex in the City” – Dumbo Arts Centre (DAC), New York City, NY

“Bellezza Pericolosa” – PAN – Palazzo delle Arti di Napoli, Naples

“ROCK ’N’ ROLL Vol I” – Sørlandets Art Museum, Kristiansand

“Dreams on Canvas: Surrealism in Europe and America” – Nassau County
Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY

“Sparkle Then Fade” – Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA

“Foam of the Daze” – – Smith-Stewart, New York City, NY (closed)

“The Dream of Putrefaction” – Fieldgate Gallery, London (England)

“RockN Roll Vol. 1” – Norrköping Art Museum / Norrköpings Konstmuseum

“Dangerous Beauty” – CAM – Chelsea Art Museum, New York City, NY

“The Dream of Putrefaction” – The Metropole Galleries, Folkestone (England)

2006

“Newark Between Us” – Newark Arts Council, Newark, NJ

“People” – Museo D’Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina – MADRE, Naples

“Nightmares of Summer” – Marvelli Gallery, New York City, NY

“FLAMING JUNE (VI)” – Spanierman Modern, New York City, NY

“Luxury Goods” – Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York City, NY

Whitney Biennial 2006 – Day for Night – Whitney Biennial, New York City, NY

2005

“Gorgeous Isn’t Good Enough” – Hangar Bicocca | spazio d’arte contemporanea,  Milan

“Bonds of Love” – John Connelly Presents (JCP), New York City, NY

2004

amfAR: Photography Portfolio – Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

“Between Art and Life”: The Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Collection – San Francisco Museum of Modern Art – SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA

2001

“Summer Show” – – Sandroni Rey, Los Angeles, CA (closed, 2009)

2000

“2000 Años Luz”, Centro de Arte La Recova y Centro Cultural El Tanque,
Santa Cruz de Tenerife, España

1999

“Lounge”, Exit Art, New York

“Painting Pictures” – Arcadia University Art Gallery , Glenside, PA

“First Annual Post-Impeachment” – Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

1998

“Remix” – Team Gallery, New York City, NY

“Cloth-bound”, Laure Genillard Gallery, London

“PhotoImage”, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (travel to Des Moines Art Center)

“Elbowroom”, Third Link, Stockholm

“Group Exhibition#4”, XL Xavier LaBoulbenne, New York

“Bathroom”, Thomas Healy Gallery, New York, curated by Wayne Koestenbaum.

1997

“Alive & Well”, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York

“Group Exhibition#2”, XL Xavier LaBoulbenne, New York

“Sex/Industry”, Stephan Stux Gallery, New York, curated by John Yau.

1996

Personal / Impersonal – Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York City, NY

“Making Pictures: Women and Photography”, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, NY

“Mona Hatoum, Lovett/Codagnone, Marilyn Minter”, XL Xavier LaBoulbenne, New York

“PHOTOgraphism (in painting)”, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York

“What I did on my summer vacation,” White Columns, New York

“Thinking Print: Books to Billboard 1980- 95”, The Museum of Modern Art, NY

“The Most Important Thing in the World: Oasis vs. Blur and Artists Who Rock”, New York, curated by Bill Arning

1995

“Pittura Immedia: Malerei in der 90er Jahren”, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum und Künstlerhaus, Graz, Austria, curated by Peter Weibel

“Smells Like Vinyl”, Roger Merians Gallery, New York, curated by Sarah Seager and Thaddaeus Strode

“The Joy of Painting,” Here, New York

“An (Alternative) Alternative Art Fair Oasis Vs. Blur and Artists Who ROCK”, The Art Exchance Show. New York.

“Personal / Impersonal”, Gracie Mansión Gallery, New York.

“Ellen antor, Marilyn minter; Devon Dikeou”, Postmasters Gallery, New York.

1994

“De- Pop”, Cummings Art Center, Connecticut College, New London, CT,curated by Sandra Antelo-Suarez

“Drama”, Max Protetch Gallery, New York

“The Place of Art”, Springel Museum, Hannover, Germany

“The Long Weekend”, Trial Ballon, New York

“Promotional Copy”, 100 Food Porn Video, The Kitchen, New York

“Sex”, Adam Baumgold Fine Art, New York

1993

“The Rag Trade”, The Inter Art Center, New York

“Promotional Copy”, 100 Fond Porn Video, DIA Center for tha Arts, New York

“The Return of the Cadavre Exquis,” The Drawing Center, New York

“Traveling”, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC; Santa Monica
Museum of Fine Art; Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, American
Art Center, Paris

“Regarding Masculinity”, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA

“Contacts”, Jersey City Museum, NJ

“Coming to Power”, David Zwirner Gallery, New York

“Body Count”, White Columns, New York

“Tri- Sexual”, TRI Gallery, Ls Angeles, CA

1992

“Trancesex”, Amanda M. Oberlin Gallery, New York

“Effected Desire”, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

“Slow Art”, P.S.1, Long Island City, NY

“Works- Concepts- Processes- Situations- Infotmation”, Galerie 1900- 2000, Paris.

1991

“Ho Hum All Ye Faithful”, John Post Lee Gallery, New York

“New Generation: New York, Part III”, Carnegie Mellon Art Gallery, Pittsburgh

1990

“Stendahl Syndrome: The Cure”, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York

“The Clinic”, Simon Watson Gallery, New York

“Making Pictures” , Fiction/ Nonfiction Gallery, New York

1989

“Ten Years Anniversary Show”, Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London.

“Max Protetch: 20 Years”, Max Protetch Gallery, New York

“Repetition”, Hirschl- Adler Modern, New York.