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Ms Magalie Guérin

Ms Magalie Guérin

1973
Born in Montreal, Canada. Lives and works in Chicago, IL.

Education

2011
MFA – Painting, SAIC, Chicago, IL

Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions

2018
Solo Exhibition (forthcoming), Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL
2017
No Body Knows, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA
2016
Magalie Guérin, soon.tw, Montréal, Quebec
Copy Drawings, Sector 2337, Chicago, IL
2015
New Paintings, Lyles & King, New York, NY
Magalie Guérin & Ross Normandin, Roots & Culture, Chicago, IL
2014
The Suburban, Oak Park, IL
re, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL
2013
Magalie Guérin: Paintings 2009-2013, Knox College Gallery, Galesburg, IL
2012
The Warmest Guest, Autumn Space, Chicago, IL
2010
The Cracks of The Game, Autumn Space, Chicago, IL
2006
Unrequited, MillerBlock, Boston, MA
2004
The Devil In Me, GV/AS Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2000
Cheap Ciao, Belgo Espace 318, Montreal

Selected Group Exhibitions

2017
Art Toronto, with Anat Ebgi, Toronto, CA
American Genre, curated by Michelle Grabner, ICA at MECA, Portland, ME
Stranger Things, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL
2016
Cabinet in the Mirror, Nicelle Beauchene, New York, NY
New American Paintings, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL
Known Unknowns: Painting in Chicago, Cleve Carney Art Gallery, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL
IMAGINE, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy
2015
Found/Made, Cleve Carney Art Gallery, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL
The Suburban Milwaukee: 16 Years, Mount Airy Contemporary, Philadelphia, PA
Other Planes of There, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL Abstraction: A Visual Language, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
All In, Riverside Arts Center, Riverside, IL
2014
Ducks, curated by Ryan Travis Christian, Greenpoint Terminal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Making Space, curated by Susanne Doremus, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2013
It Varies, The Storefront, Chicago, IL
Slow Read, Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago, IL
Surface, Judith Racht Gallery, Harbert, MI
Reading Room, organized by Sean Ward, Julius Caesar, Chicago, IL
ArtWork6, SAIC Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL
2012
Where My Cones At, curated by Ryan Travis Christian, traveled to San Diego, Los Angeles, San Francsico
various small abstractions, with Justin Witte, Tim Nickodemus and Leslie Baum, curated by Philip von Zweck, D Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Question of their Content, curated by Carly Silverman, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2011
Performa 11, a project by Philip von Zweck with Invisible-Exports, New York, NY
Cloud Gate, with Sean Ward, Nazafarin Lotfi, Sarah Sohn and Carly Silverman, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY
Reduction or Something Less, with Matt Nichols and Conor Backman, LVL3, Chicago, IL
Irritable Abstraction, curated by Susanne Doremus, Julius Caesar, Chicago, IL
2010
The Great Poor Farm Experiment II (year-long installation, collaboration with Sean Ward), Poor Farm, Manawa, WI
You Are Not Making Art, Zrobili, Chicago, IL
2009
Fuckheads, curated by Angela Dufresne, SCA Contemporary Art, Albuquerque, NM
2008
Memorandum, Rabbithole studio, Brooklyn, NY
2007
The Face, The ‘temporary Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Just a Ghostly Paper Sigh, 31Grand, New York, NY
No New Tale To Tell, 31Grand, New York, NY
Nature/Nurture, MillerBlock, Boston, MA
2006
Other worlds, 31Grand, Brooklyn, NY
Love Will Tear Us Apart, The National Arts Club, New York, NY
Unless, MillerBlock, Boston, MA
Deluge, Bucheon Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005
Something is Somewhere, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY
2004
Wall List, Broadway Gallery, New York, NY
I’ve Met Someone Else, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, NY
T&A IV, GV/AS Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2003
T&A III, GV/AS Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Summer’s Eve, GV/AS Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Clean, it just looks dirty, curated by Bradley Rubenstein, GV/AS Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
The Day Of The Burning Painting, Antagonist’s Art Gallery, New York
2002
T&A II, GV/AS Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Magalie Guerin+Gabriel CD, GV/AS Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
T&A, GV/AS Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Caffeinate & Decimate, Antagonist’s Art Gallery, NY
2000
Poser un Geste, Centre Pierre-Peladeau, Montreal, Quebec

Awards/Grants

2018
Chinati Residency, Marfa, TX (March – April)
2015
New American Painting, Midwest Competition, Issue #119
2013
Ox-Bow Residency (September), Saugatuck, MI, John M. Hartigan Memorial Scholarship for Painters and Metternich Scholarship
2012
Grant/Purchase Award, Working Artist Org (July)
2008
Millay Colony, Austerlitz, New York (June)
2006
KHN Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, Nebraska (May-June)
2005
Jentel Artist Residency Program, Banner, Wyoming (January 15- February 15)

Selected Press

2016
Rubenstein, Bradley, “Cut, Copy, and Print: Magalie Guérin on Replicating Her Own Paintings”, Artslant, Rackroom, Sept 2016
Butler, Sharon, "Painting Picks: Lower East Side", Two Coats of Paint, April 16, 2016
Rooney, Kathleen, "Review: ‘Notes On’ by Magalie Guerin", Chicago Tribune, April 7, 2016
Logan, Liz, "10 Chicago Artists You Should Know", Make It Better, Feb 22, 2016
2015
Indrisek, Scott, “5 Must-See Gallery Shows in New York”, BLOUIN Art Info, Sept 14 2015
Artspace Editors, “Collector Carole Server’s Picks from EXPO Chicago 2015”, Artspace, Sept 8
Rubenstein, Bradley, “This Is What Tomorrow Looks Like: On Painting,” Artslant, Sept 3, 2015, http://www.artslant.com/ny/articles/show/43841
2014
Girgenti, Maria, Review: Magalie Guérin/Corbett vs Dempsey, Newcity Art, Sept 28 2014
Morris, Matt, Critics’ Picks (Chicago), Artforum.com, Sept 2014
Dluzen, Robin, “Recommended Shows: Beyond Chicago EXPO”, ArtFCity, Sept 17 2014
Foumberg, Jason, “The Ultimate Survival Guide to September Gallery Openings”, Chicago Mag, Sept 3 2014
"7 Abstract Painting Shows with Brains and Beauty”, ADAA tumblr, Sept 2014
Magalie Guérin, “Seven Artists of the Week”, Chicago Art Review, Jan 2014
2013
Foumberg, Jason, “Top 5 Art Exhibitions, Newcity Art, Dec 19 2013
Dluzen, Robin, “Slow Read”, Visual Art Source, Oct 2013
Margosian, Emily, "Leisurely Novelty", FNews Magazine, Oct 20 2013
Trent, Savannah, “The Allure of Abstract Art”, The Knox Student, September 26, 2013
Picard, Caroline, “From Day to Day: An Interview with Magalie Guerin”, Bad At Sports, September 2013
2012
Dave Bown Projects – 5th Semiannual Competition 2012 (Curators: Karl Hecksher, Andrea Karnes, Mary Kate O’Hare) www.artboth.com, August 2012
www.make-space.net, “Other Investigations: Magalie Guérin”, April 2012
ARTSlant, “On our Chicago Watchlist”, March 2012
2011
Newcity Art, "Museum of Contemporary Art, LVL3 gallery", Monica Westin, November 2011 Chicago Tribune, “Autumnal art”, Lauren Viera, Sept 15, 2011
(fundamental) PAINTING, Interview, standardinterview.blogspot.com, August 2011 Beautiful Decay.com, June 2011
A/ART (feature), May 2011 http://blogaart.blogspot.com/2011/05/magalie-guerin.html
Vélez, Pedro, “Chicago 2010”, Artnet.com, January 2011
2009
Beautiful Decay.com, July 2009
2008
Mendelsohn, Adam E., "Just A Ghostly Paper Sigh", Art Review, February 2008, issue 19, p.79 2007 www.phantasmaphile.com, March 2, 2007
foggygrizzly.blogspot.com (interview), February 2007
2006
Mange Ta Ville, ARTV, Montreal, 2006 (Television interview- CLICK HERE to view) Completement Dada, Canal Vox, Montreal, 2006 (Television interview)
McQuaid, Cate, "Identity crisis", Boston Globe 10/05/06 www.TheDrama.org, featured artist, April 2006
2005
Swingset magazine #7, p.54-55, 2005
2001
Donais, Rene, "Scoptographies", ETC Montreal, #56, Dec. 2001, Montreal
2000
Skidmore, "Skidsofrenic", Hour, June 7 2000, Montreal
1997
Aris, David, "Seven Senses", The Plant, Feb. 27 1997, Montreal

Bibliography

2016
Guérin, Magalie. NOTES ON . Green Lantern Press, Chicago, IL, 2016.
2013
Emiliano Cerna-Rios et al., Slow Read. Edited by Justin Witte. Designed by Sonnenzimmer. Columbia College, Chicago, Center for Book and Paper Arts and Department of Exhibition and Performance Spaces, 2013.