Michael Zelehoski
Born in \ Né en 1979, Concord, MA
Lives and works in \ Vit et travaille à Oaxaca de Juárez, MX
www.michaelzelehoski.com
Michael Zelehoski is a remarkable American artist, first known for works that transform three-dimensional objects into captivating compositions on a flat surface. A monumental installation from this early series was acquired by the Centre Pompidou in 2015. In recent years, he has brilliantly transposed his research into the art of weaving. The recipient of numerous awards, his work is regularly exhibited in the USA, Europe and Asia.
Michael Zelehoski est un artiste américain remarquable, d’abord connu pour ses œuvres qui transforment des objets tridimensionnels en compositions captivantes sur une surface plane. Une installation monumentale de cette première série a été acquise par le Centre Pompidou en 2015. Depuis quelques années, il a brillamment transposé ses recherches sur l’art du tissage. Récipiendaire de très nombreux prix, ses oeuvres sont régulièrement exposées aux USA, en Europe et en Asie.
EDUCATION \ FORMATION
Universidad Finis Terrae, Fine Arts, BA, Santiago de Chile, 2001-2003
Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Liberal Arts, AA, Great Barrington, MA, 1996-1998
SOLO EXHIBITIONS \ EXPOSITIONS PERSONNELLES
Human Tapestry, Backslash, 2024
Social Fabric, Backslash, 2022
Miguelito, avec \ with worthless studios, McCarren Park, Brooklyn, New York City, NY, 2021
Dimensionality, TANG Art Foundation, Hong Kong, 2021
All of this and nothing, Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Chine, 2020
Michael Zelehoski: Recent Work, Bernay Fine Art, Great Barrington, MA, 2020
Michael Zelehoski : Recent works, Bernay Fine Art, Great Barrington, MA, USA, 2020
All of This and Nothing, Art Museum of Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts, Guangzhou, China, 2020
Frieze New York, avec \ with Tang Contemporary, 2020
Future Fair, commissariat de \ curated by Ché Morales, avec \ with ABSTRKT, 2020
The Intersection of Everything, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing, 2020
UNTITLED Art Fair, Miami Beach, avec \ with Backslash, 2018
Things Fall Apart, Backslash, 2018
Inner Space, Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong, 2017
Surface tension, Mackin projects, New York, NY, 2017
Vienna Contemporary, avec \ with Backslash, Vienna, Austria, 2016
Object Permanence, Backslash, Paris, 2015
New Order, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, NY, 2015
VOLTA, avec \ with Ethan Cohen, Basel, 2014
Project space, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, NY, 2014
VOLTA, avec \ with Ethan Cohen, New York, NY, 2014
Art Stage Singapore, avec \ with Ethan Cohen Gallery, Singapore, 2014
VOLTA, avec \ with Ethan Cohen, New York, NY, 2013
DODGE Gallery, New York, NY, 2012
Sanford Smith Fine Art, Great Barrington, MA, 2011
Pulse, avec \ with Christina Ray Gallery, Miami, FL, 2010
Christina Ray Gallery, New York, NY, 2010
Ferrin Gallery, Pittsfield, MA, 2009
Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA
Park Row Gallery, Chatham, NY, 2008
Kasten Fine Art, Great Barrington, MA, 2007
SKH Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
North American Cultural Institute, Santiago de Chile, 2005
La Nacion, Santiago de Chile, 2004
GROUP EXHIBITIONS \ EXPOSITIONS COLLECTIVES
KNOCK ON WOOD, Backslash, Paris, 2024
FAMILY & FRIENDS 2 \ Ten Years After, Backslash, 2022
Luxembourg Art Week, avec \ with Backslash, Glacis Square (Fouerplaatz), Luxembourg, 2022
COLLECTION DU VEYRIER itinéraire de dilettante, Sylvie Berthemy’s collection, Espace d’art Vallès, Saint-Martin-d’Hères, 2022
Art Busan, avec \ with Tang Contemporary Art, 2022
Expo Chicago, avec \ with Tang Contemporary Art, 2022
The Armory Show, avec \ with Tang Contemporary Art, New York, 2021
Frieze NY, Tang Contemporary Art, 2021
THE STAIRS, Backslash, Paris, 2021
Winter Group Show, Barney Fine Art, Great Barrington, MA, 2021
+ COLORS, Backslash, Paris, 2020
The Winter Show 2020, Pavel Zoubok Fine Art Gallery, New York, NY, 2020
Private Choice, avec \ with France Bizot, Paris, 2019
The Rapture, commissariat \ curated by Ché Morales, Time Square Arts, avec \ with SPRING/BREAK Art Show, New York, NY, 2019
FUTURE IS COLLECTIVE, Backslash, Paris, 2018
Spring Break Art Show, 4 Time Squares, New York, NY, 2018
Art Shanghai, avec \ with Tang Contemporary, Shanghai, 2017
Washed Away, commissariat \ curated by Stephanie Young, Brooklyn, NY, 2017
Shenzhen Exhibition Art fair 2017, avec \ with Tang Contemporary Art, Hong-Kong, 2017
Everlasting, commissariat \ curated by Ting Liu, Tang Contemporary Art, Hong Kong, 2017
Spring Break Art Show, commissariat \ curated by Che Morales, New York, 2017
Cher(e)s Ami(e)s (Dear Friends), New presentation of the contemporary collections, Centre Pompidou - Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, 2016-2017
Déformation professionnelle, commissariat \ curated by Raphaël Denis, Galerie Paris-Beijing, Paris, 2016
Seattle Art Fair, avec \ with Backslash, Seattle, WA, 2016
L'OEil du collectionneur, Neuf collections particulières strasbourgeoises, Focus 1 - Passages, Collection G. & M. Burg, Musée d'Art moderne et contemporain, Strasbourg, 2016
Le temps de l’audace et de l’engagement – De leur temps (5), Collections privées françaises, en collaboration entre l’Institut d’art contemporain et l’ADIAF (French collectors' national association), Institut d’art contemporain, Villeurbanne, France, 2016
Objects and Everydays Goods, Mike Weiss gallery, New York, 2016
WOOD, Montserrat College of Art Galleries, Beverly, MA, 2015
VOLTA 11, avec \ with Backslash, Basel, 2015
27.11, Backslash, Paris, 2014
Perceived Values, Art Miami, avec \ with Mike Weis Gallery, Miami, FL, 2014
Art Paris Art Fair, avec \ with Backslash, Paris, 2014
Art Miami and Scope Miami Beach, avec \ with Ethan Cohen Gallery, Miami, FL, 2013
Exquisite Illusion, avec \ with Warner Friedman, curated by Van Shields, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA, 2013
(de)constructions, avec \ with Rero, Boris Tellegen & Xavier Theunis, Backslash, Paris, 2013
Sharper Image, Ethan Cohen, New York, 2013
Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY, 2012
Staten Island Museum, Staten Island, NY, 2012
DODGE Gallery, New York, NY, 2012
Jen Bekman, New York, NY, 2012
Sanford Smith Fine Art, Great Barrington, MA, 2012
Emerge, avec \ with Ethan Cohen, Washington, DC, 2012
Scope, avec \ with Ethan Cohen, Miami, FL, 2012
Pulse, avec \ with Pavel Zoubok Gallery, Miami, FL, 2011
Pavel Zoubok Gallery, Houston Fine Art Fair, Houston, TX, 2011
Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA, 2011
Christina Ray Gallery, NEXT, Chicago, IL, 2011
Art Chicago, avec \ with Ferrin Gallery, Chicago, IL, 2010
Christina Ray Gallery, NEXT, Chicago, IL, 2010
ArtSlant, Fountain Art Fair, New York, NY, 2010
Local Project, Long Island City, NY, 2012
Daniel Arts Center, Bard College at Simon’s Rock, Gt. Barrington, MA, 2009
Storefront Artist’s Project, Pittsfield, MA, 2009
Storefront Artist’s Project, Pittsfield, MA, 2008
Lichtenstein Center for the Arts, Pittsfield, MA, 2008
Ferrin Gallery, Pittsfield, MA, 2008
Atrium Gallery – Ball State University, Muncie, IN, 2007
The Gallery at R&F, Kingston, NY, 2007
Watermark/Cargo Gallery, Kingston, NY, 2007
Kasten Fine Art, Great Barrington, MA, 2007
SKH Gallery, Great Barrington, MA, 2006
SKH Gallery, Great Barrington, MA, 2005
Museo de la Solidaridad Salvador Allende, Santiago de Chile, 2004
Centro de Artes Visuales, Santiago de Chile, 2004
Galeria de Arte Contemporaneo Cantro Norte, Chile, 2004
Casino de Vina del Mar, Vina del Mar, Chile, 2003
Centro Cultural de La Reina, La Reina, Chile, 2003
AWARDS \ PRIX
Staten Island Museum’s Juried Art Show, 1st Place, 2012
Massachusetts Cultural Council, Fellowship
Golden Frame Award, 2nd Place, ArtSlant
Survey America, Art Chicago, 2010
Assets for Artists, Development Grant, 2009
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Musée National d'Art Moderne - Centre Pompidou, Paris
FELLOWSHIP \ RESIDENCES
Plywood Protection Project, worthless studios, New York City, NY, 2021
Fellowship, Instituto Sacatar, Bahia, Brazil, 2015 - 2016
PRESS \ PRESSE
Bernard Marcelis, “Un secteur principal renforcé”, The Art Newspaper, 2022
Stéphanie Pioda, “Nouvelles Galeries : Toute première fois !”, Le Quotidien de l’Art Luxembourg Art Week, 2022
Eileen Kinsella, “What I Buy and Why: Art-Fair Impresario Sanford Smith on His Prized John Wayne Sculpture and Preference for Online Auctions”, Artnet, 2022
Elizabeth Fazzare, “Neil Hamamoto Makes a Home with Art that Placemakes”, Cultured, 2022
Jasmine Weber and Valentina Di Liscia, “Week in Review: Artists Denounce MoMA Trustees’ Ties to Israeli Apartheid; Brooklyn Museum Workers Unionize”, Hyperallergic, 2021
Diana Budds, “New York’s Storefront Plywood Finds a Second Life Five public art projects transform the material in citywide installations.”, Curbed, 2021
Maïlys Celeux-Lanval, « Backslash, espace sublime à deux pas de République », Beaux Arts, 2021
Hrag Vartanian, “Plywood Obelisks Reflect on a Year of Racial Justice Protests”, Hyperallergic, 2021
Gabriella Angeleti, “Plywood boards used to shutter New York shops are transformed into canvases for local artists”, The art news paper, 2021
Nathaniel Bahadursingh, “Plywood boards used to protect New York establishments are repurposed into captivating sculptures”, Archinect, 2021
”plywood protection project transforms boarded storefronts into sculptures across NYC”, Design Boom, 2021
Osman Can Yerebakan, “These Artists Transformed Salvaged Plywood into Public Art”, Metropolis Mag, 2021
Kevin Duggan, “Williamsburg sculpture recycles plywood from businesses boarded up during summer protests”, The Brooklyn Paper, 2021
Amy Krzanik, “New location, new exhibit for Great Barrington’s Bernay Fine Art”, The Berkshire Edge, 2021
Roberta Smith, “Worlds Within Worlds Mix it Up at the Winter Show”, The New York Times, 2020
Hilarie M. Sheets, “There’s No Business Like Art Fair Business for Sanford Smith”, The New York Times, 2019 Baudouin Eschapasse, “Art contemporain : les trésors cachés de Nadia Candet”, Le point, 2019
”Les galeries font leur show”, Connaissance des arts, 2018
À nous Paris, 2018
Alain Quemin, "Michael Zelehoski", Art Press, 2018
Marie-Elisabeth de la Fresnaye, "5ème édition de Paris Gallery Weekend", Mowwgli, 2018
"Art using police barricades, 55 years apart", Artsology, 2018
Exhibition booklet of Michael Zelehoski, TANG Art Foundation, 2017
"Spring/Break 2017 : this year Times Square show in corporate office space", Brooklyn Street Art, 2017
Casey Lesser, "16 curators to watch at Srping/Break", Artsy, 2017
Elodie Cabrera et Samantha Longhi, "Into the wood", Graffiti Art, 2017
Sarah Cascone, "Don't miss these unbelievable installations at Spring/Break", Artnet, 2017
Gabriel Roland, Mariene Motner, “How much is the art?”, The Gap, 2016
Philippe Régnier, “Une riche été pour les amateurs d’art”, Le Quotidien de l’Art, 2016
"Michael Zelehoski", Suzanne Lovell Inc, 2016
"Incomplete Cubes, at Mike Weiss Gallery", Fibonaccisusan, 2016
André Balbo, "Nouvelle présentation des collections contemporaines du Centre Pompidou", Evous, 2016
"Michael Zelehoski "Object Permanence" at BACKSLASH", Urbanite, 2015
"Michael Zelehoski / BACKSLASH", Le-tigre-a-des-yeux, 2015
Alex Greenberger, "Michael Zelehoski", Art News, 2015
"Michael Zelehoski - Objet Permanence @ BACKSLASH", Emporiums, 2015
Laurent Boudier, "Michael Zelehoski - Objet Permanence", Télérama Sortir, 2015
"Michael Zelehoski : Objet Permanence", Wall Street International, Eng / Fr, 2015
"Basel's Renowned Art Fair For New And Emerging art: VOLTA 11", Widewalls, 2015
Lorenzo Pereira, "Volta 11 in Basel", Widewalls, 2015
Janine Stankus, "Michael Zelehoski's New Order", Cool hunting, 2015
"Michael Zelehoski Turns Three-Dimensional Materials Into Two-Dimensional Mixed-Media Art", Coolthings, 2015
David Behringer, "Flattening Reality: the art of Michael Zelehosky", Design Milk, 2015
Yasmin Ali, "Michael Zelehoski Flattends Reality", Rogue habits, 2015
Kurt Mcvey, "How Michael Zelehoski Activates the EveryDay", T Magazine, 2015
Jade Moyano, "New Order by Michael Zelehoski", Trendland, 2015
"Dans les galeries...", Arts Magazine, 2015
"Recap “(de)Constructions” Group Exhibition at Backslash Gallery", Graffuturism, 2013
"(De)construction à la Backslash Gallery", openminded.com, 2013
"(De)constructions @ Backslash Gallery", Valdan, 2013
"(De)constructions at Backslash Gallery", NY Arts, 2013
"Soon : (de) construction @ Backslash Gallery", Emporium’s, 2013
Elphège Fremy, "Vincent Sator, Backslash, Agnès B : les galeries à voir ce mois ci", myfactory.net, 2013
Post, Noah, "Secondary Structures", Glasschord, 2012
Elder, Don, “Space, Play, Form and Distortion.” Hyperallergic, 2012
Miranda, Carolina A, “Must-See Arts in the City.” WNYC, 2012
Gopnik, Blake, “Objects that portray themselves.” The Daily Beast, 2012
"Where to buy." The Week, 2011
Shaw, Keith, “Michael Zelehoski’s Articulated Chairs.” The Berkshire Week, 2011
Rogovy, Seth, “New Exhibition of Works by Michael Zelehoski at Sanford Smith Gallery.” The Regovoy Report, 2011
Moran, Jarrett, “Michael Zelehoski”, Artlog, 2010
"Michael Zelehosk : Objecthood", Dwell, 2010
Laster, Paul, “Michael Zelehoski, ‘Objecthood’.” Timeout New York, 2010
Seth Curcio, "The collapse of Objecthood", Daily Serving, 2010
Mesler, Steven, "My Vote for Next Great Artist : Michael Zelehoski", Huffpost Arts, 2010
Orensten, Evan, “Michael Zelehoski.” Cool Hunting, 2010
Laster, Paul, "NEXT Art Fair", Art in America, 2010
Fairweather, Judith. "Reconstructing Craftsmanship." The Advocate, 2009
Shaw, Keith. "Charted Artifacts and Unhinged Chairs." The Berkshire Eagle, 2009
McGee, Alison. "Art with a (Re)Purpose." Berkshire Living, 2009
Shaw, Keith, “Fresh Vision”, Artscope, 2007