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Jonathan Seliger
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Born in 1955, Jonathan Seliger graduated from the State University of New York at Binghamton in the year 1978, with a Bachelor of Arts degree.  Since his first solo exhibition in the year 1993, his work has been shown extensively in galleries and museums throughout the world.  His neo-Pop sculptures and installations provide viewers with a compelling re-contextualization of familiar, everyday objects such as traffic barriers and recognizably-branded shopping bags.  The often-whimsical nature of Seliger’s work belies the sculptor’s meticulous and highly detailed technical approach to its creation.  His art, uniquely hand-crafted, succeeds in creating the illusion of having been mass-produced, thus bringing an echo of consumerism into the traditionally rarified environment of fine art gallery and museum. 

Selected Solo Exhibitions
1993 Craig Cornelius, New York
1994 Bravin Post Lee Gallery, New York
1995 Anders Tornberg, Stockholm Tom Solomon’s Garage, Los Angeles
1996 Bravin Post Lee, New York Anders Tornberg, Lund, Sweden Studio la Citta, Verona, Italy
1997 Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri
1998 Galleria Carla Panicali, Rome
1999 Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
2000 Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
2001 “Floor Model,” The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, California Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California
2002 “As Is,” Jack Shainman Gallery, New York “Some Bags,” Steven Vail Gallery, Des Moines, Iowa
2003 “Spree,” McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas Arthur Rogers Gallery, New Orleans
2004 “Politeness Counts,” Aldridge Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT, traveled to the Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, New York
2005 Galeries Sho, Tokyo “Born to Shop,” Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

Selected Group Exhibitions
1992 “Writing on the Wall,” 303 Gallery, New York “Mssr. B’s Curio Shop,” Thread Waxing Space, New York; curated by Saul Ostrow “Benefit Show,” White Columns, New York “Ecstacy Shop,” Dooley Le Capellaine, New York
1993 “BOMB Benefit,” Fawbush Gallery, New York “Transient Décor: Room 311,” Roger Smith Hotel, New York; curated by Saul Ostrow “Media Message,” Wooster Gardens, New York; curated by Vik Muniz
1994 Domestic Setting, Los Angeles “New from New York,” Montgomery Glasoe Fine Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota; curated by Paul Morris “Site Seeing,” Bardamu Gallery, New York “Benefit Show,” White Columns, New York “For Appearance Sake,” Horodner-Romley, New York, curated by Saul Ostrow “Reveillon,” Stux Gallery, New York
1995 Oddi Bagnoli, Rome “Still Life-Portrait-Landscape,” Bravin Post Lee Gallery, New York “Other Choices Other Voices,” Islip Art Museum, East Islip, New York “Wheel of Fortune,” Lombard Fried Gallery, New York
1996 Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan “Subversive Domesticity,” Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas “Alice’s Looking Glass,” Apex Art, New York; curate by Mary Beyt “Benefit Show,” White Columns, New York “Selections from the Panza Collection,” Trento Museum, Trento, Italy
1997 “A Private View,” Kent Gallery, New York; curated by Damon Brandt and Craig Cornelious “Word and Image/Word as Image,” Jane Vorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers Univesity, New Brunswick, New Jersey; curated by Trudy Hansen “Normatic,” One Great Jones, New York; curated by David Humphrey “Stepping Up,” Andrew Mummery Gallery, London “Onomatopoeia,” Studio la Citta, Verona, Italy
1998 Bravin Post Lee Gallery, New York “Laissez-Faire,” Printed Matter, New York “Blooming,” Karen McCready Fine Art, New York “The Everyday Sublime,” Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts “Benefit Show,” White Columns, New York Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago “Benefit for Bang on a Can,” GAGA, New York
1999 Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, West Virginia “Post Pop,” Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania “Live From New York,” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California “Showroom,” Arts Center of the Capital Region, Troy, New York Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago “Matter of Time,” Dorsky Gallery, New York; curated by Andrew Perchuk “The Farm Show,” CSPS, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
2000 Studio La Citta, Verona, Italy “The Perpetual Well: Contemporary Art from the Collection of the Jewish Museum,” The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York This exhibition will travel to: Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art in Gainesville, Florida Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York “Simultaneous,” Jack Shainman Gallery, New York “Recent Gifts from Eileen & Peter Norton,” Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro “Tamarind: 40 Years,” University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico
2001 “I Love NY,” benefit exhibition, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York “Multiple Personalities,” Haines Gallery, San Francisco “Bogus Counterfeit Images and Contemporary Art,” Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, New York “Starry Night,” Jack Shainman Gallery, New York International Biennale of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
2002 “Reality Check – Painting in the Exploded Field: Selections from the Vicki and Kent Logan Collection,” California College of Arts and Crafts, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, California; curated by Matthew Higgs “Presidential Suite,” Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York “Made in USA,” Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, Texas “What’s Hot and New in 2002: A Print and Photography Exhibition and Sale,” Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York
2003 “The Recurrent, Haunting Ghost: Reflections of Marcel Duchamp in Modern and Contemporary Art,” Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, New York “Pop Thru Out,” Arario Gallery, Korea “The Flag,” Maxwell Davidson Gallery, New York “Ballpoin Inkling,” K.S. Art, New York; curated by Geoffrey Young “I Love Pussy,” ACME, Los Angeles, California “Publisher’s Spotlight: Dieu Donne,” Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts Arario Gallery, Seoul, Korea “Infrathin: A Duchampian Legacy,” The Tang Teaching Museum & Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Sprgins, New York
2004 “Masters of Illusion: 150 Years of Trompe L’Oeil in America,” Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing, Michigan “Cleanliness,” Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York “New Projects,” Dieu Donne Papermill, New York “Hot House,” New York Academy of Sciences, New York
2005 “Maximum Flavor,” Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Georgia “Shangri-la,” Dieu Donne Papermill benefit, New York “Passport to the Art World,” organized by the New Yorker Hudson Vallery Center for Contemporary Art Benefit, Robert Miller Gallery, New York “The Whole World is Rotten: Free Radicals and the Gold Coast Slave Castles of Paa Joe,” Jack Shainman Gallery, New York “Young Visionaries,” Nassau County Museum of Art
2006 “Black Panther Rank and File,” Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco “East Meets Pop,” Nathan A. Bernstein Gallery, New York “Transitional Objects: Contemporary Still Life,” Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York “Plug,” Sister Gallery, Los Angeles “The Food Show: The Hungry Eye,” Chelsea Art Museum, New York
2007 “Bushels, Bundles and Barrels,” Superfund Investment Center, New York “French Kiss,” JGM Gallery, Paris; curated by Rob Wynne “Ultrasonic International,” Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, California

Selected Collections
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
The Jewish Museum, New York
The Brooklyn Museum, New York
The Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
The New York Public Library, New York
Jane Vorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
The Panza Collection, Lugano, Switzerland
Magasin 3, Stockholm, Sweden
The Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina (Gift of Peter and Eileen Norton)
The Progressive Corporation, Cleveland, Ohio
Martin Z. Marguiles, Miami, Florida
Marc & Livia Strauss, New York
Jay & Dianne Dunkleman, Cincinnati, Ohio
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore Collge, Saratoga, New York


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