JOSHUA ABELOW

Born 1976, Frederick, MD
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

EDUCATION

2008
MFA Painting, Cranbrook Academy of Art

1998
BFA Painting, Rhode Island School of Design

AWARDS

2008
Merit Scholarship Award, Cranbrook Academy of Art

1998
Gordon Peers Award for Excellence in Painting, Rhode Island School of Design

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2012
Sorry We’re Closed, Brussels, Belgium (forthcoming)
Solo booth presentation, Frieze New York with James Fuentes Gallery (forthcoming)
Songs From A Room, devening projects + editions, Chicago, IL 

2011
DUMB & EASY, Tomorrow Gallery, Toronto, Canada
OH! ABELOW, James Fuentes LLC, New York, NY

2008
Mystic Truths, Branch Gallery, Durham, NC

2006
Monday Afternoon Club, Branch Gallery, Durham, NC

TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2010
Brother/Sister, with Tisch Abelow, Grizzly Grizzly, Philadelphia, PA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2012
Joshua Abelow, Ella Kruglyanskaya and Daniel Rios Rodriguez, Horton Gallery, Berlin, Germany (forthcoming)

2011
Tailgates & Substitutes, Thierry Goldberg Gallery, New York, NY
Go Figure, Dodge Gallery, New York, NY
If you like it, take it home, ART BLOG ART BLOG, New York, NY
Behind the Curtain, A Lock of Hair Falling, Gallery Diet, Miami, FL
Wild Beasts, Champion Gallery, Austin, TX
Dead in August, The Pentagon, Brooklyn, NY
Can I Get A Witness?, ART BLOG ART BLOG, New York, NY
Summer Salt, The Proposition, New York, NY
^..^ / :), Casita Maria Center for the Arts and Education, Bronx, NY
LISTE The Young Art Fair Basel with James Fuentes LLC
ABC123, Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY
The Working Title, Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY
Selections from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Jon Lutz, Wildlife, Brooklyn, NY
A Healthy Skepticism, Swimming Pool Project Space, Chicago, IL
Tompkins Projects West: Works on Paper, Dan Graham, Los Angeles, CA
Color Me Bad, Nudashank, Baltimore, MD
An Exchange with Sol LeWitt, Cabinet, Brooklyn, NY

2010
All in the Family, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
Power to the People, Feature Inc., New York, NY
Anti-Anti/Non-Non, Hal Bromm, New York, NY
Exit Light, Reference, Richmond, VA
Sonny Smith: 100 Records, Gallery 16, San Francisco, CA and Cinders Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Text as Image, Lump Gallery, Richmond, VA
TETE-A-CLACK, Galerie im Reigierungsviertel, Berlin, Germany
Paper! Awesome!, Baer Ridgeway Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA
The PDA Show, No Brow Coffee, Ken Sanders Rare Books, Alchemy Coffee, The Utah Pride Center, Salt Lake City, UT
Portable Caves, HKJB, Long Island City, NY

2009
Insomnia, Peter Fingesten Gallery, Pace University, New York, NY
Cadaver Corpse, Golden Age, Chicago, IL
Local Paintings, Markus Winter, Berlin, Germany

2008
Takt 5, Takt Kunstprojektraum, Berlin, Germany
Landscape, Portrait, Pattern, Hallway Bathroom Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Texas National 2008, The Art Center at the Old Opera House, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX
All Media Exhibition, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
Kunst Gruppe, Werkstatte Gallery, New York, NY

2007
Actual Size Biennial, CAID, Detroit, MI
Heroes, Bryce’s Barber Shop, Olympia, WA

2006
Art on Paper 2006, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
RISD Fine Arts Biennial NYC 2006, Exit Art, New York, NY

2005
Two for the Seesaw, Branch Gallery, Carrboro, NC

2004
Coloring Book, Branch Gallery, Carrboro, NC
RISD Fine Arts Biennial NYC 2004, Claire Oliver Fine Art, New York, NY

2003
Wildlife, Ross Bleckner’s studio, 77 White Street, New York, NY
Better Homes and Gardens, Zoller Gallery, Penn State University, PA
Unframed First Look, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY
New American Talent, Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, TX

2002
Off the Grid, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY
Friends and Family, Lombard-Fried Fine Arts, New York, NY

RESIDENCIES

2010
The Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT

2009
The Banff Centre, Alberta, Canada

2008
Takt Kunstprojectraum, Berlin, Germany

CURATORIAL PROJECTS AT ART BLOG ART BLOG (ROSS BLECKNER’S STUDIO)

2011
Here’s Bro Bro!, a one night only solo exhibition by Martin Bromirski
The Death of Affect curated by Fran Holstrom and Jeffrey Scott Mathews
If you like it, take it home curated by Worthwhisland
Magic Hand! curated by Joshua Abelow
Polis curated by Markus Winter
Snowclones curated by Benjamin King (HKJB) and Rob Nadeau
Can I get a Witness? curated by Tisch Abelow, Jashin Friedrich, and Dakotah Savage
Entanglement curated by Regina Rex
Out of Practice curated by Nudashank Gallery
Gold Records curated by Jon Lutz of Daily Operation