danica phelps
 
BORN
 
April 26. 1971, New York, NY; lives and works in Brooklyn.

EDUCATION

1995 MFA, Rhode Island School of Design
1994 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
1993 Hampshire College, Amherst, Mass

AWARDS

2005 John Jones Art Prize, Zoo Art Fair, London
2001 New York Foundation for the Arts: Individual Artists Grant
1998 Rema Hort Mann emerging artist grant
1994 Zorach Fellowship to attend Skowhegan

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009 Drawings about the present quickly become works about the past , Kathryn Brennan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Mark Down, Nolan Judin Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Nesting, judi rotenberg gallery, Boston, MA
2008 Drawings about the present quickly become works about the past, Galleria Glance Turin, Italy
Now and Then, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL
Getting Ready, Dina4 Projekte, Munich, Germany
This Time Last Year, Ritter/Zamet, London, UK
Material Recovery, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY
Saving Time, Thirtyseven degrees, Sydney, Australia
Stripe Factory, Sister, Los Angeles, CA
Saving Time, Galeria Nieves Fernandez, Madrid, Spain
2007 Stripe factory, Rotwand, Zurich, Switzerland
2006 Dina4Projekte, Munich, Germany
Stretch, Sister Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Two Takes, with Debi Ray-Chaudhuri, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, MA
India: Two Views, project room with Debi Ray-Chaudhuri, Kavi Gupta, Chicago
2005 Wake, Zach Feuer, New York, NY
Integrating Sex into Everyday Life, Galerie Shutte, Essen, Germany
Danica Phelps, Zurich
Getting My Money’s Worth, Ritter/Zamet , London
2 Ds w/ Debi Ray-Chaudhuri, Kavi Gupta, Chicago
Showering, Zach Feuer, New York, NY
2004 Integrating Sex into Everyday Life, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, MA
Writer’s Trade, Grinnell College, Grinnel, Iowa
Danica Phelps, Judi Rotenberg Gallery, Boston, MA
Integrating Sex into Everyday Life, Sister Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Danica Phelps, Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, Austria
Walking from LA to San Francisco, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, MA
2003 Integrating Sex into Every Day Life, LFL Gallery, New York, NY
Ten Day Trade, OR Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2002 Walking 9-5 Amsterdam, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland
New Drawings, Galerie Schoette, Essen,Germany
Artist, Collector, Curator, Spy, LFL Gallery, New York, NY
2001 Trade Two, LFL Gallery , New York, NY
2000 From Barcelona to Krems, Galerie Stadpark, Krems, Austria
2nd Generation, Herter Gallery: UMASS, Amherst, Mass.
Bill Trip, Maine Center for Contemporary Art Rockport, ME
Bill Trip, Project Room, Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles, CA
Walking: From Los Angeles to San Francisco, Michael Martin Gallery,
San Francisco, CA
1998 Funny Money, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
1994 A Housewife at Work, Sol Koffler Gallery, RISD, Providence, RI



SELECTED GROUP EXHIBTIONS

2008 Sign/Age: Lost in the Supermarket, Armand Bartos Fine Art, New York, NY
When a clock is seen from the side it no longer tells the time, Johann König, Berlin, Germany
The Enterprise of Art, Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Naples, Italy
Linear Perspectives, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME
Collecting & Collectivity, Conduit Gallery, Dallas TX
Slightly Unbalanced, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL; Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, Lafayette, LA
A Matter of Time, Andrea Meislin Gallery, New York, NY
2007 Perspectives 159: Superconscious, Automatisms Now, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
Skirting the Line: Conceptual Drawing, The New Center for Contemporary Art, Louisville, KY
Drawing is a verb, Colecção Madeira Corporate Services, Porta 33, Itha da Porta, Portugal
The Price of Everything... Perspectives on the Art Market, City University of New York Graduate Center, New York. Curated by the Whitney Museum Independent Study Program
Ceci n'est pas... (this is not...), Sara Melltzer Gallery, New York, NY
Tease, Mireille Mosler Ltd., New York, NY
Warhol & ..., Kantor/Feuer, Los Angeles, CA
Summer Group Show, Galleria Glance, Turin, Italy
Minimalism and Applied, DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Don't Look: Contemporary Drawings from an Alumna's Collection, Martina Yamin, Class of 1958, Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
2006 Out of Line: Drawings from the Collection of Sherry and Joel Mallin, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
I'm Busy GAK Gesellschaft fur Aktuelle Kunst, Bremen, Germany
Particulate Matter, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
Walking & Falling, Magasin 3 Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Skirting the Line: Conceptual Drawing, DePauw University, Greencastle, IN
Group show, Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
2005 Art House, Art House Austin, Austin, TX
Dating Data, Jose Bienvenue, New York, NY
22nd Anniversary, Jack Tilton, New York, NY
Erotic Drawings, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
Linien Zeichung bewegt,Dina4Projekte, Munich, Germany
2004 Doing Business, Contemporary Art Galleries, Storrs, CT
Emotions, Guild & Greyskul, New York, NY
Dessin et Des Autres, Pt. II, Catherine Bastide, Brussels, Belgium
Wiener Linien, Wien Museum, Vienna, Austria
Open, Broolyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Sexy Beasts, Ethan Cohen Gallery, New York, NY
Art as Autobiography, Rare, New York, NY
California Earthquakes, Daniel Reich Gallery, New York, NY
Animated From a Distance, DreizehnZwei, Vienna, Austria
Without you, I’m nothing , Public, Istanbul, Turkey
Permanent Productiv, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria
Strike, Basekamp, Philadelphia, PA
NeoQueer, Center of Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
Thinking in Line , University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Home, Dumbo Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY
Self Evidence, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
2003 I’m nothing with out you, Platform Gallery, Istanbul,Turkey
Self Evidence: Identity in Contemporary Art, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln MA
Frankenstein, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY
Fresh Meat, Cepa Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Rare Gallery, curated by Norman Dubrow, New York, NY
Living Inside the Grid, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
For the Record: Drawing Contemporary Life, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada
Walking Rhetorics, Galerie Hubert Winner, Vienna, Austria
New York Drawings, Samuel Harn Museum of Art, University of
Flordia, Gainesville
Subscribe, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Annadale, New York
2002 Bootleg Identity, Caren Golden Gallery, New York, NY
Special Needs, Verein fur Bildende Kunst, Graz, Austria
2001 Domestic Culture, ICA at MECA, Portland, ME
Contemporary Narratives, Skidmore College Saratoga Springs, NY
Brooklyn! ICA at Palm Beach, Palm Beach, FL
Going: Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI
No where Fast, Lizebeth Oliveria Gallery, Oakland, CA
In Transit, Vacancy Gallery, Bronx, NY
Inside the City, Gallery 400, UIC, Chicago, IL.
Another Cusp, Gallery of Colgate Univesity, Hamilton, NY
Let’s Get to Work, (travel) Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
2000 Vida Politica (cat.), SALA MONTCADA "la Caixa" , Barcelona, Spain
To Be Continued..., Art in General, Bellwether, Parlor Projects New York, NY
1999 Time and Duration, Angels Gallery ,Santa Monica, CA
100 Drawings, PS 1, New York, NY
Gallery Artists, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
Document, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA
1998 Inventory, White Columns, New York, NY
1995 The Body Politic, Maine Coast Artists , Rockport, ME (2 person show)
Subjectifying Objects, Moblizing Objects, (2 person show) Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL
These Fantasies are Normal, HERE Gallery, New York, NY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2009 Mizota, Sharon, “Art Review: Danica Phelps at Kathryn Brennan Gallery,” LA Times, November.
2008 O’Neill-Butler, Lauren. “Danica Phelps,” Artforum, October.
Rosenberg, Karen. “Danica Phelps,” The New York Times, July.
Churner, Rachel. “Critic Picks: Danica Phelps,” artforum.com, July.
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Cohan, David. “The Erotic, the Political, and the Personal,” The New York Sun, June.
Pelczer, Eva. “Danica Phelps: Painted” NY Arts, July/August.
Ollman, Leah. “Danica Phelps at Sister,” Art in America, June / July.
Coburn, Taylor. “Details: Danica Phelps” Artreview, June.
Gordon, Ginny. “Danica Phelps: Saving Time,” Time Out Sydney, June.
Hapgood, Susan. “Slightly Unbablanced” Slightly Unbalanced Catalogue, Independent Curators International.
Falconer, Morgan. “Zach Feuer,” Art World, April/May.
Ollman, Leah. “Danica Phelps reveals life’s details in stripes” Los Angeles Times, March.
Friedrich, Kristin. “The ‘Don’t Miss’ List” Los Angeles Downtown News, February

2007 Noah Simblist and Charissa N. Terranova, “Collecting and Collectivity,” Art Lies, Winter.
Starry LeBlanc, Caroline. “Superconscious, Automatisms Now” Houstonist, December .
Von Burg, Dominiique. “Zurich: Danica Phelps in der Galerie Rotwand” Kunstbullentin, December.
Douglas, Sarah. “Show Me the Money” Art+Auction November.
Steele, Robin. “’Starving Artist’ keeps tabs on her dinner and her art” Brown Daily Herald, September.
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2006 “Three exhibitions at CMCA explore worlds beyond” Village Soup, December.
Ollman, Leah. "The Art of Credits and Debt." Los Angeles Times 5 May.

2005 Smith, Roberta, "Danica Phelps." The New York Times, September.
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Hill, Christine. "Artists on Artists: Christine Hill on Danica Phelps." Bomb, Spring.
Glueck, Grace. "Airborne Sex and Wicked Wallpaper: Sensual Samplings." The New York Times, July.
Cohen, David. "Gallery-Going." The New York Sun, September.
"The Autumn Art Scene; Top 10 shows to see right now." The L Magazine, September/October.
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2004 Snider, Suzanne, "Interview: Danica Phelps", The Believer July, Vol. 2, No. 7
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Siegel, Katy and Paul Mattick. Art Works: Money. London: Thames & Hudson, 2004.
Ode, Susan. "Words without Varnish." Review (Faulconer Gallery Magazine), September.
Lopata, James A. "Who Are You? Who? Who? Who? Who?" In Newsweekly, Boston February.
Loveless, Natalie, "Danica Phelps at Allston Skirt Gallery", Big Red & Shiny Issue 02, February.
Giuliano, Charles. "Making Their Mark." Maverick Arts February, Issue 128.
McLaughlin, Nina. "The Artist As Actuary." The New York Times February.
"Kunst Raum: Galerie Hubert Winter: Leib." Die Presse.com, October.
Foster, Catherine, "Her art is out of the ordinary." The Boston Globe, February.
Cohen, David. "As Sprawling as Brooklyn Itself." The New York Sun, April.

2003 Anderson, Leslie, "Illustrating a Journey and saving the receipts" The Boston Globe, July.
Harris, Michael, "Artist's barter system answers ?'s of commercial worth" Vancouver Sun, June
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Smith, Roberta, "When Exhibitions Have More to Say Than to Show", New York Times, April
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Genocchio, Benjamin. "Biting the Hand That Feeds Them." The New York Times December.
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Cohen, David. "Gallery-Going." The New York, September.
2002 Cattelan, Gioni and Subotnick, "Charley 02", Les Presses du Reel, Dijon France,
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Dannatt, Adrian. "Free art-as in unpaid" The Art Newspaper, April
Dressler, Christiane. "Die Kunst der Nachten Tatsachen". November
Editors "Train to Essen", Coolibri, December
Editors, Neue Ruhr Zeitung, December
Gioni, Massimiliano. "New York Cut Up", Flash Art, June
Heartney, Eleanor. "Brooklyn! at Palm Beach ICA" Art in America, April
hms. "Danica Phelps". Heinz Essen, November
Levin, Kim. "Voice Choices, The Village Voice, April
Levin, Kim. "Voice Choices: Bootleg Identity", July
Rosenberg, Karen. "Copy Cat". The Village Voice, pg. 63, May
Linke, Rosalija. "Danica Phelps". Sterz, November
Speh, Scott. "Hot Commodittes" . Issue 15, Spring
Moore, Alan. "Materialist Memoranda" Artnet.com, May
Vidal, Juame. "Dos Exposiciones en la Sala Montcada Penetran en lo Privado". El Pais, February
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Valdez, Sarah. "Bootleg Identity". TimeOut New York, June
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2000 Cotter, Holland."For Hikers Seeking Art, Brooklyn is a Left Bank". The New York Times, December
Vidal, Juame. "El Arte de la Normalidad." Arte, February.
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EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

Augaitis, Daina. For the Record: Drawing Contemporary Life. Vancouver, Canada: Vancouver Art Gallery.
Book of Ds. New York: Volume Editions and Zach Feuer Gallery, 2005.
Cameron, Dan and Lisa Phillips. Living Inside the Grid. New York: New Museum of Contemporary Art, 2003.
Chu, Ingrid. "Danica Phelps: Artist, Collector, Curator, Spy." in Subscribe: Recent Art in Print. New York: Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, 2003. 76-88.
Everyday Life. Grinnell, IA: Falcouner Gallery, Grinnell College, 2005.
Makert, Gabriele. Bin Beschaftigt. Bremen, Germany: GAK Gesellschaft fur Aktuelle Kunst.
Nahas and Rush. Brooklyn. Palm Beach, FL: Institute for Contemporary Art, 2001.
Pedrosa, Adriano. Desenhos [drawings]: A-Z. Coleccao Madeira Corporate Services. 208.
The Price of Everything...Perspectives on the Art Market, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art and Yale University Press, 2007.
Torres, David. Danica Phelps, Aleksandar Ilic, Ivana Keser. Barcelona: Fundacio "la Caixa", 2000.
Koransky, Leah. Contemporary Narratives. Saratoga Springs, NY: Skidmore College, 2001.
Weintraub, Linda. EnvironMentalities: Twenty-Two Approached to Eco-Art. Artnow Publications, 2007. 47-51.