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• Duke Riley
ArtNews: February Issue
Maritime Mischief By Ann Landi
New York Times:Art Review
For Former World’s Fair Ice Rink, Fragments of an Afterlife.
By Karen Rosenberg
Art In America: November Issue
Duke of Hazards By Brian Boucher
Riley’s work will be featured in the festival Philagrafika 2010:
The Graphic Unconscious, in Philadelphia, January-April 2010.
The Cleveland Museum of Contemporary Art will host a solo exhibition,
September 2010-January 2011.
(Currently on View at Queen Museum)
Duke Riley’s Those About to Die Salute You
is the second installment of a multi-part residency that began with a recreation of a Romanesque bread and circus naval battle or naumachia that drew more than one thousand toga-clad spectators to a World’s Fair reflecting pool adjacent to the Queens Museum on August 13, 2009 (click here for more info).
• Alejandro Almanza Pereda
Ideational Architecture: Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery.
Jan. 28, 2010 Open to public / Jan. 31, 2010 Reception.
Grant recipient of the Harpo Foundation.
Maco: The International Contemporary Art Fair in Mexico.
April 14 - 18, 2010.
• Alexandre Arrechea
ENERO10 Exhibit:
Casado-Santa- Pau Gallery, Madrid, Spain
(Jan. 26 - March 1, 2010)
Jan. 28, 2010 Open to public / Jan. 31, 2010 Reception.
In collaboration with Alejandro Almanza Pereda
CRANE ICE BOX Project Space: In conjunction with Philagrafika's 2010 Festival.
Exhibit opens Jan. 29 2010 // Reception with Crane, Feb. 11, 2010
Reception with Philagrafika, Sunday Jan 31, 2010
In collaboration with Anabelle Rodriguez and
Alberto Magnan Projects NYC.
For more info: CRANE ICE BOX // PHILAGRAFIKA FESTIVAL 2010
• Susanna Heller
Exhibition at Olga Korper Gallery, Toronto, Canada
(November 12 - December 5, 2009)
Different At Every Turn: Contemporary Painter o the Hudson River.
Exhibited at United States Military Academy as West Point
(Oct 29, 2009 - Jan 10, 2010)
• Wenyon and Gamble
Artists Susan Gamble and Michael Wenyon will investigate the creation of an installation of light and optics under a research grant awarded to Dorchester Abbey, Oxfordshire, by the Arts Council of England. The Abbey and artists hope that the final work will be presented to the public at the Abbey in October 2009.
• Duke Riley
Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions
New Print By Duke Riley
Those Who Are About To Die Salute You, 2009
WIRED: Brutal Roman Navel Battle Rocks New York
By Bryan Derballa
Reuters Blogs: Art In A Recession
By Felix Salmon
The Huffington Post:
Duke Riley And The Naval Battle At The Queens Museum )
By David Weiner
Wall Street Journal: Entertainment and Culture
The Battle for Queens
By Kelly Crow
Time Out /New York: Issue 772
Not-Boring Museums.
Queens Museum of Art, SECRET HOCKEY RINK!
Those Who Are About to Die Salute You
Naumachia - Live Roman Naval Battle
Queens Museum of Art
August 13th, 6-9:30 pm
“Those who are about to die salute you”
From the Latin “Moritori te selutant”, attributed to prisoners addressing Emperor Claudius prior to the naumachia to which they had been fated.
• Ernesto Pujol
Magnan Projects is proud to announce that Ernesto Pujol has joined the gallery.
Ernesto Pujol is a New York-based conceptual artist with a multimedia and interdisciplinary art practice. For more info + projects visit: ernestopujol.org
- Pujol’s work is currently in the traveling exhibition NeoHooDoo:Art for Forgotten Faith,
Miami Art Museum, Florida, February 20, 2008 – May 24, 2009 which began at
The Menil Collection, Houston (June 27 – September 21, 2008) and
P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York (October 19, 2008 – May 24, 2009). - In Spring 2009, he will be an Adjunct Professor in the Undergraduate Program in
Fine Arts at Parsons teaching a performance studio - Summer 2009: Resident Faculty at
- Fall 2009: Adjunct Professor in the MFA Program at Parsons and Koopman
Distinguished Chair in Fine Arts at the - March 2010: Group performance event at the
- April 2010: Resident Artist at The Salina Art Center, Kansas where he will present a
site-specific public performance and installation project - May 2010: One-person exhibition and performance at the Honolulu Contemporary Art Museum, Hawaii
• Chelsea Visits Havana *
See press:
NY1 (June 2009)
LA Times (April 2009)
The New York Times (April 2009)
Art INFO (April 2009)
ArtNetNews (April 2009)
The Art Newspaper (March 2009)
Wall Street Journal (March 2009)
CNN.com (March 2009)
ABC news (March 2009)
BBC news (March 2009)
Reuters (March 2009)
Daily New / Latino (March 2009)
San Francisco Chronicle (March 2009)
ArtNet News (March 2009)
Cuba Journal (March 2009)
A groundbreaking exhibition organized by
All of the featured artists are represented by galleries in the
A full-color, dual language catalogue of
• Alejandro Almanza Pereda
° One Foot Apart, Group exhibition at Leme Gallery in Sao Paulo, Brazil
° Museum of Modern Art, Group exhibition in Mexico City
° Along with Jose Luis Cortes will be participating in a group exhibition at
Casino Metropolitano. La Constelacion Del Perro, Mexico City, Mexico.
(June 18 - July 7, 2009).
° Group show Patty Chang, Andrew Palmer, Alejandro Almanza Pereda,
Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany (April 17 – May 16, 2009)
www.galerie-ruediger-schoettle.de
° Exhibited in Chelsea visits Havana at Museo de Bellas Artes,
part of the Havana Biennial in Cuba (March 27- April 30, 2009)
° Participated in solo exhibition at Chert Gallery in Berlin, Germany,
www.chert-berlin.com
° Represented by Magnan Projects at VOLTANY 2009 (March 5-8, 2009)
° Contemporary Granduer: The Beautiful & Sublime, SUNY,
College at Old Westbury in Long Island.
° Was featured in the Feb/2009 issue of Arte del Dia
• Alexandre Arrechea
° Exhibition: Everything, Something, Nothing
CAB de Burgos. C/ Saldana s/n. 09003 BURGOS (Spain)
(October 2 - January 17, 2010)
With an essay, The Vanishing Perspective by Dan Cameron
° A Day After The Future, An Exhibition at Galeria Villa Manuela
Calle H No. 17 y 19, Vedado, La Habana, Cuba
(Sept. 4 - Oct. 4, 2009)
° Participated in The Thessaloniki Biennial of Contemporary Art, Greece
where he will present a video project of "Black Sun" on the The Byzantine wall,
(May 24 - September 27, 2009)
° The Situation, a special project at the Moscow Biennial
curated by Elizabeth Grady. (Sept. 24 - Oct. 25, 2009)
° Participated in VOLTA 5 presented by Magnan Projects,
Basel, Switzerland.
° Participated in The X Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba
(March 27-April 30, 2009)
° Featured in Art Nexus: March/April issue
° A limited edition woodcut/lithograph of Mississippi Bucket,
a sculpture made for Prospect.1 New Orleans at
The Brodsky Center (video of Alex working)
for Innovative Editions, Rutgers University, is available.
• Amelia Biewald
° Participated in group exhibition Note To Self,
• Eva Davidova
° The Situation, a special project at the Moscow Biennial
curated by Elizabeth Grady (Sept. 24 - Oct. 25, 2009)
° Living and Dreaming, 29 AIM Exibition,
Bronx Museum, New York. Curated by Micaela Giovanotti
(June 21 - Sept. 13)
° The New Yorker: Going On About Town: Bronx Museum of the Arts
Living and Dreaming; The 29th Artists in the Marketplace Exhibition
° The New York Times: Art Review
Bronx Museum - Young Artist Arrive, Either Rough or Ready
° Received the 2008 M-Tel award for contemporary Bulgarian art.
• Susanna Heller
° Holland Mania: American and Japanese Images of the Netherlands
at the Stedelijk Museum de Lakenhal in Leiden, Holland.
(April 2 - August 2, 2009).
° Traveling through December 2009;
Different At Every Turn: Contemporary Painters of the Hudson River.
Exhibition spaces:
° Erie Canal Museum in Syracuse (May)
° Kingsborough Community College (April)
° Hutchins Gallery at CW Post Campus of Long Island University
(February 4- March 31, 2009)
° Lake Champlain Maritime Museum, Vergennes, VT
(May 23 - June 28, 2009)
° SUNY Potsdam, NY (Sept. 17- Oct 17, 2009)
° Participated in group show, It’s a Wonderful Life.
Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, NY (January 10 - February 22nd, 2009)
° Second solo show with Magnan Projects. "On The Heel-Toe Express"
(January 8 - February 14th, 2009)
• Larry Litt
° Will be performing in the 'Blago Bung Dada Revival' festival at
Cabaret Voltaire, Zurich, on Sep 18, starting at 7 pm.
Recreating his "Hate Books/Holy Fires" ritual which was performed at Magnan Projects Courtyard in conjunction with an exhibition of kabalah inspired photo collages in 07'. Also performed at the Moscow Biennial 05', and the Emily Harvey Foundation 08'.
Link for more info: http://cabaretvoltaire.ch
• Thessia Machado
° Participated in group exhibition ; You're Doing It Wrong:
Creative Misuse of Technology, 8pm, 11 February.
at 92Y Tribeca, presented by dorkbot-nyc
° Artist residency at The MacDowell Colony,
New Hampshire in the spring of 2009.
° Received a Finishing Funds Grant from the Experimental Television Center
for the installation interference.
• Sofia Maldonado
° Lorenzo Homer Gallery, Taller Puertorriquea, Philadelphia, PA
(October 2 - November 23, 2009)
° Younity Arts Presents: FRESHER, Female Urban Art Exhibition.
Cultural and Educational Center. (Oct. 3 - 24, 2009)
° Group show at Real Arts Ways, Frog Hollow & Parkville Neighborhood,
Hartford, CT (May 30, 2009)
° CIRCA Puerto Rico 09' (April 17- 20, 2009)
° Skate My Patria project during the 10th Havana Biennial in Cuba
(March 2009)
° Group exhibition at SomArts Cultural Center, San Francisco ,CA
Hybridity, (February 5-25, 2009).
• Clive Murphy
° Exhibition at the Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Canada.
Something Always, (June 5 - August 30th, 2009).
° Group exhibition at X-Initiative,
No Soul For Sale: A Festival of Independents
(June 24 - 28, 2009)
° Solo show, Almost Nothing, at the Soap Factory Gallery,
Minneapolis, MN (February 21 â�" April 5)
° Review of exhibition Almost Nothing, at the Soap Factory Gallery,
Minneapolis, MN will be featured in an upcoming issue of Art In America
° Participated as a visiting teacher at the University of Colorado at Boulder
• Maya Onoda
° Her second solo exhibition with Magnan Projects
Cave ~flip side~ (February 26 -March 9)
• Ariana Page Russell
° Second solo exhibition at Magnan Projects, dressing.
(April 9 - May 16, 2009)
• Duke Riley
° Bright Path, Little Berlin Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
(Sept. 5 - 26th)
° Those Who Are About to Die Salute You, Queens Museum Of Art, Queens, NY
(August 13th)
° Seaworthy, Corridor Gallery, 334 Grand Avenue, Brooklyn, NY
(April 16 - May 31)
part of the Havana Biennial in Cuba (March 27- April 30)
as part of Rent Control: NYC Documented and Imagined,
curated by Jessica Green with Philip Maysles at
The Maysles Cinema in Harlem January 22nd and
BRIC Rotunda Gallery in Brooklyn, February 4th 7-9pm
° The artist is participated with The Brodsky Center for
Innovative Editions, Rutgers University on a limited edition prints
° Commissioned by MTA to create a mosaic for one of the newly
renovated subway stations.
• Darren Siwes
° Participating in The X Havana Biennial, Havana, Cuba
(March 27-April 30, 2009)
• Sean Slemon
° Reflecting Transformations
No Longer Empty at The Caledonia
(July 30 - September 26, 2009)
°Group exhibition Forever Summer at
Denise Bibro Fine Art, (Platform Project Space)
curated by Scott Malbaun.
(June 26 - 27, 2009)
• Alejandro Almanza Pereda
° Second solo exhibition in New York, Magnan Projects &
Magnan Emrich Contemporary. "The Fan & The Shit,"
(September 12 - October 25)
° Selected works were chosen for two exhibitions in one shared gallery space
at NurtureArt, a Non-profit Inc located on Grand Street in Brooklyn, NY.
"My Little /Membrane," (May 9 - June 15)
° Participated in a group show "Notice Of Displacement," at greenbelt
Brooklyn, NY. (March 8 - 30)
• Alexandre Arrechea
° Limited edition poster published by the
Brodsky Center for Innovative Editions, Rutgers,
The State University of New Jersey in conjunction with
Magnan Projects: Please read articles in The New York Times
and E-flux: Alexandre Arrechea "Mississippi Bucket."
° Participated in Prospect.1 New Orleans [P.1]
the largest biennial of International
contemporary art, curated by Dan Cameron,
(November 1, – January 18, 2009)
° (more) ARTof CONFRONTation, Alexandre Arrechea:
Mistrust, American University
Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C.,
(September 2 - October 26)
° "New Perspective in Latin American Art,”
at the Museum of Modern Art with works as a
solo artist, and also with Los Carpinteros
(of which he was a member until 2003).
• Amelia Biewald
° Second solo exhibition "Intrigues," at Magnan Projects, New York, NY:
(November 6 - December 20)
° "ALL CUT UP," curated by Rita de Alencar Pinto at Roebling Hall, New York
(September 4 - October 4)
° Warm, Red, Salt and Wet, curated by Barnaby Whitfield at
31 Grand, New York, (March 20th - April 19th)
• Gregory Coates
° Participated as the curator in an exhibition titled "Inspired by Actual Events,"
a tribute to Don Kunz on view form May 18th - July 26, 2008 at the
Wilmer Jennings Gallery.
° Participated in a fund raiser "Time and Space",
GR Nnamdi Gallery on July 10th, 2008
° Had his second solo show with Magnan Projects titled
"Mute (Adjectives),"New York, NY
from February 15th - March 29th, 2008 in junction with a solo exhibition
"Positions," Sage College Opalka Gallery in Albany, NY.
° Participated in a group show
"In Context: The language of Abstraction Continues,"
Abrons Art Center, Henry Street Settlement; curated by
Kathleen Spicer.
• Roberto Coromina
° Second solo show titled "Elliptical Bites," with Magnan Projects, New York, NY.
May 15 - June 21, 2008.
° Coromina took part in a group exhibition titled "The Expanded Painted,"
shown at Other Space in Boston Massachusetts from January 23rd -
February 28, 2008. Along with another solo show at the
Universided de Murcia in Spain at the beginning of the year.
° Party HQ: Voting is Just the Beginning , guest curators Eleanor Heartney
and Larry Litt,
September 26 – November 4, 2008.
Please visit www.partyhq.org for full schedule of events.
• Clive Murphy
° Group show titled "Phoenix Park" at Kerlin Gallery Dublin, Ireland.
During the summer Murphy donated work for Non-Objectif Sud,
an exhibition space in the south of France which runs from
June 15 - Sept 7, 2008. A fundraiser was held at
Gary Snyler Project Space in New York
° Participated in an exhibition
"Latitude: International Group Show of Emerging Artists."
Traveling from London to Minneapolis, then New York at
Feildgate Gallery, curated by:
Andrea Stanislav, Isha Bohling and Patty McMeans
.
° Residence with the LMCC studio program in New York.
• Maya Onoda
°
2008 Fashion District Arts Festival.
A district-wide celebration of artists, crafters,
galleries and theatres that contribute to the creative
energy that fuels America's fashion capital, October 16th - 18th.
For more information visit www.fashioncenter.com
° Art Review Emerging Artist: Maya Onoda in
Phillips Art Expert Forum, April 2008.
• Ariana Page Russell
° Featured on ABC News 20/20 (Airdate: March 14, 2008),
interviewed by Ju Ju Chang.
° Solo exhibit at 4Culture gallery in Seattle, Fall 2008.
• Duke Riley
° Maritime: Ships, Pirates and Disasters, Contemporary Art Galleries,
University of Connecticut. October 20th through December 5th, 2008.
Symposium: Trouble at Sea; A dialogue between Artists and Historians,
October 30th, 2008 at 2:30 pm.
° A Wrinkle in Time: Artists from the Registry,
BRIC Rotunda Gallery in Brooklyn,
September 10th - October 18th, 2008.
° Democracy in America: The National Campaign,
Creative Time in association with the
Park Avenue Armory, September 21st - 27th, 2008.
° Building Steam, Grossman Gallery,
Lafayette College, Easton, PA through
October 18, 2008. An exhibition of emerging artists from New York.
• Darren Siwes
° First solo show in New York at Magnan Projects, titled
"Mum, I want to be Brown," January 3rd - February 9th 2008
° Reviewed by Robert Shuster of the Village Voice.
For full review with images follow link:
"Conjuring eerie family scenes fueled by issues of race."
• Sean Slemon
° First solo exhibition (Block 700) with Magnan Projects,
(April 3 - May 10)
° Participated in a group exhibition at
Palazzo delle Papesse Centro Arte Contemporanea,
titled ".ZA young art from South Africa," (February 2nd - May 4th).
This show was curated by Marlene Dumas, Lorenzo Fusi, Kendell Geers,
Bernie Searle, Minnette Vari and Sue Williamson.
• Alejandro Almanza Pereda
° Received a grant from the Mexico City National Fund for
Culture and the Arts 2007 (FONCA) Jovenes Creadores.
• Duke Riley
° Has contributed to a collaborative project titled "Building," at
Project 4 Gallery in Washington D.C., this exhibition focuses
on the re-creation of an electrical lant in Belfast, Ireland.
° "The Bright Passage," 2006 which was added to the
Brooklyn Museum's private collection