Biography

CV

BORN

1966, Charlotte, North Carolina, United States

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022

stuck in neutral, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong

 

2021    

Ena Swansea + Jane Corrigan, Gaa Gallery, Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany

green light, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, UK

 

2020  

New Paintings,  Robilant+Voena, St Motiz, Switzerland

 

2019

sea and snow, Gaa Gallery Provincetown, MA, USA

mental map: Central Park, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong

 

2018

New Paintings, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, UK

 

2016

New Paintings, Albertz Benda Gallery, New York, USA

Marine Paintings, Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, MA, USA

 

2015

Self-inflicted Justiceby Bad Shopping, Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg Germany

 

2014

Untitled nightlife and sofa, Friedman Benda Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Salon art + design, solo presentation for Friedman Benda, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY, USA

 

2013

New paintings, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, USA

 

2012

New paintings, 313 Gallery, Seoul, Korea

 

2011

Psycho, 41 paintings from 2002 - 2011 in European collections, Deichtorhallen/Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg, Germany
studio show, organized by ARNDT Berlin, New York, NY, USA


2010

Armory Show, New York, solo booth, ARNDT Berlin, New York, NY, USA
Corrida Goyesque, temporary sand painting on the floor of the Arena d’Arles, France

 

2008

Ena Swansea paintings 2002 - 2008,  Musée d’art moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
New paintings, Arndt & Partner, Zurich
New paintings, Volta NY, André Schlechtriem Contemporary, New York, NY, USA

 

2007

New paintings, André Schlechtriem temporary Inc., New York, NY, USA

 

2006

Armory Show, New York, solo booth, Galerie Crone/Andreas Osarek, New York, NY, USA

 

2005

New paintings, Galerie Crone/Andreas Osarek, Berlin

 

2004

Situation, Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc., New York, NY, USA
X rays, Mario Diacono Gallery at Ars Libri, Boston, MA, USA

 

2003

New paintings, Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc., New York, NY, USA


2002

The reality of shadows, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, USA

 

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023

Double Take: Contemporary Redefined, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Palm Beach, FL, USA

Armory Show, Ben Brown Fine Arts, New York, NY, USA

 

2022

Manscaping, The Hole, New York, NY, USA

Manscaping, The Hole, Los Angeles, CA, USA

A Tribute to Lawrence Weiner, accompanying the exhibition As Long As It Lasts, online show, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich

 

2021

Doomed and Famous: Selection from the Adrian Dannatt Collection, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, NY, USA

 

2020     

Ben Brown Fine Arts: Celebrating 10 Years in Hong Kong, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong

 

2019    

De la Tauromaquia à la Goyesque, Hommage à Francisco de Goya, Musée des Cultures Taurines Henriette et Claude Viallat, Nîmes, France

 

2018

Against Forgetting I, Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, MA, USA

 

2016

The Grass Is Green, Gaa Gallery Cologne Project Space, Cologne, Germany

Group Exhibition, Gaa Gallery Cologne Project Space, Cologne, Germany

 

2015

Sight unseen; Ellen Harvey and Ena Swansea, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, USA

 

2014

51st Anniversary Exhibition, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Il Corpo Figurato, Artworks from the Collection 1966 - 2005, Maramotti Collection, Reggio Emilia, Italy
How six men got on in the world, Ruby Anemic, Carla Arocha, Stéphane Schraenen, Edgar Leciejewski, Rosa Loy, Andreas Mühe, Johannes Rochhausen and Ena Swansea, Auguststrasse 86, Berlin, Germany
Come like shadows, curated by David Cohen, Zürcher Gallery, New York, NY, USA

 

2013

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music, Freidman Benda Gallery, New York, NY, USA


2011

Printer's Proof, Bertrand Delacroix Gallery, New York, NY, USA


2010

Exquisite Corpse Project, curated by David Salle, Gasser & Grunert, New York, NY, USA
Changing the World, ARNDT, Berlin, Germany

 

2009

Water is Best, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Naked!, curated by Adrian Dannatt and Paul Kasmin, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY, USA
The beginning, 313 Gallery, Seoul, Korea


2008

True Romance - Allegories of Love from the Renaissance to the Present, Kunsthalle Vienna, Villa Struck, Munich and Kunsthalle, Kiel, Germany


2007

Symbolism, Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal, Germany


2006

Idylle Traum und Trugschluß, curated by Oliver Zybok and Martje Schulz, Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg Germany
Figuring the landscape, curated by Barry A. Rosenberg, Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA
WoMA, André Schlechtriem Temporary Inc., New York, NY, USA
Zurück zur Figur. Malerei der Gegenwart., Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich Germany
New Work, Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc., New York, NY, USA
Big Paintings, Small Paintings, White Sculpture, The Cartin Collection, G-Fox building, Hartford, CT, USA

 

2005

Goetz meets Falckenberg, Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg Germany
Flower Power, Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc., New York NY, USA
Greater New York 2005, PS1 MoMA, Long Island City, NY, USA
Story-Tellers, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Slices of Life: Blueprints of the Self in Painting, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, NY, USA


2004

Central Station: La Collection Harald Falckenberg, La Maison Rouge, Paris
Portraits, Esso Gallery, New York, NY, USA


2003

After Matisse/Picasso, PS1 MoMA, Long Island City, NY, USA

 

2001

The Tipping Point, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, USA

 

AWARDS
Hassam, Speicher, Betts, and Symons Purchase Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2001

 

EDUCATION

University of South Florida, Tampa, FL, USA


PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL, USA

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA

Cornell University's Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY, USA

Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME, USA
Deichtorhallen, Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg, Germany
Galerie Neue Meister/Albertinum Dresden, Germany