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Monique VAN GENDEREN
Biography
Born in Vancouver, British Columbia, in 1965.
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
1991 MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
1987 BA, University of California at San Diego, CA
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2023 “Monique Van Genderen,” Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA (forthcoming)
“Monique Van Genderen,” Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY
2022 “Monique Van Genderen,” Bernier Eliades, Brussels, Belgium
“After Images”, Michael Janssen, Berlin, Germany
2021 “Afterimages,” Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
“Each of these Paintings Can Be Named After a Famous Painter,”
Gallery Platform Los Angeles, online
2020 “Paintings are People Too,” R.B. Stevenson Gallery, La Jolla, CA
2018 “Festsaal,” Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst Leipzig, Leipzig,
Germany
“Monique Van Genderen,” Miles McEnery, New York, NY
2017 Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2016 Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe, New York, NY
2015 “Manufactured Paintings,” Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects,
Culver City, CA
2014 TAI Modern, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2013 Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin, Germany
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2012 DAmelio Gallery, New York, NY
Effearte, Milan, Italy
2011 Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
“Monique Van Genderen,” Kunstverein Heilbronn, Heilbronn, Germany
“The Gentle Art of Making Enemies,” Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin,
Germany
2009 “The Library: Start this Story Over,” Pacific Design Center, West
Hollywood, CA
“Personal Exhibition,” The Happy Lion, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Effearte, Milan, Italy
“Dirty Water,” Galerie Michael Janssen, Berlin, Germany
2007 “New Works,” The Happy Lion, Los Angeles, CA
“Voges and Partner,” Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria
2006 “The Sensory Foundations of Mental Life,” Savannah College of Art and
Design, Atlanta, GA
Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels, Belgium
Hammer Projects, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Bernier/Eliades Gallery, Athens, Greece
2005 Le Consortium (with Kirsten Everberg), Dijon, France
“Within the same breath,” Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
The Happy Lion, Los Angeles, CA
Howard House, Seattle, WA
2004 Locker Plant, Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX
The Happy Lion, Los Angeles, CA
2003 Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
2002 Sandroni Rey Gallery, Venice, CA
Group Exhibitions
2023 “A Brief Survey Of Shapes And Colors Observed In The Greater Los
Angeles Basin,” Timothy Hawkinson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2021 – 2022 “Abstracted Vocabularies,” Museum of Contemporary Art San
Diego, San Diego, CA
2020 “20 Years,” Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
2019 “The light touch,” Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
“To Start A Painting,” Kunstmuseum Rosa Luxembourg Platz, Berlin,
Germany
2018 “If I go there, I won’t stay there,” ltd los angeles, Los Angeles, CA
“Being Here With You/ Estando aquí contigo: 42 Artists from San Diego
and Tijuana,” Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
“Belief in Giants,” Miles McEnery Gallery, New York, NY
2015 “Jacques Andre, Jean-Pascal Flavien, Monique van Genderen, Ola Rindal,
Josh Smith, Kelley Walker,” Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels, Belgium
“Lost in a Sea of Red,” The Pit LA, Glendale, CA
“Be Abstract, Galerie am Markt, Schwabisch Hall, Germany
“Be Abstract,” Ballhaus Ost, Berlin, Germany
“Stray Edge,” Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, DC
2014 “Capture the Rapture,” CB1 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Ladies First!” Schauwerk Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen, Germany
“Another Cats Show,” 356 S. Mission, Los Angeles, CA
Galerie Michael Janssen, Singapore
2013 “High Low,” Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA
“Painting in Place,” Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND) at Farmers &
Merchants Bank, Los Angeles, CA
“Garden Party,” Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2012 “Burning Colours,” HOPSTREET, Brussels, Belgium
The Venice Beach Biennial, Venice, CA
“The Planter Show,” ForYourArt, Los Angeles, CA
2011 “Dorothea,” Ancient & Modern, London, UK
“Works of Paper,” ACME Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Los Angeles Museum of Ceramics,” ACME Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010 Ambigu-Zeitgenoessische Malerie zwischen Abstraktion and Narration,
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, CH
Brandstrup Gallery, Oslo, Norway
Hoehenkoller, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, CA
2008 “Living Flowers: Ikebana and Contemporary Art,” Japanese American
National Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2007 “Back to Nature,” Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria
Twentieth Century Fox Studios, organized by the UCLA/Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
“Fleeing the Scene,” The Happy Lion Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Small but Beautiful,” Gasser & Grunert, Inc New York, NY
“Sparkle Then Fade,” Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
“Modern Lovers,” Glendale College of Art Gallery, Glendale, CA
Group Show, Bernier/Eliades Gallery, Athens, Greece
2006 Art Unlimited, curated by Samuel Keller, Art Basel 37, Basel, Switzerland
III Edicio del Certamen Internacional de Pintura de Castello, Museum de Belles Arts de Castello, Castello de la Plana, Spain
Masters & Johnson, Galeria Charro Negro, Guadalajara, Mexico
“Off the Shelf: New Forms in Contemporary Artists Books,” The Frances
Lehmna Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
Los Angeles Art Now, Galeri SE, Bergen, Norway
Rundumschlag, Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria
Hotel California, Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale, CA
“Strictly Painting,” presented by Galerie Michael Janssen, Dogenjaus
Galerie, Voges + Partner Galerie, David Hunt, KLF-Project Space, New
York, NY
2005 “Wall Paintings,” curated by Francis Colpitt, University of San Antonio,
Texas
“Strictly Painting III,” The Right Side of Painting, Voges + Partner Galerie,
Frankfurt am Main, Germany
“Sight Lines,” Galerie Michael Janssen, Cologne, Germany
“Closer to Home,” The 48th Corcoran Biennial, The Corcoran Gallery of
Art, Washington D.C.
2004 “Full House,” curated by David Pagel, Clairmont Graduate Art Gallery,
Clairmont, CA
The sixth annual altoids curiously strong collection, The New Museum,
New York, NY
Consolidated Works, Seattle, WA
“So few opportunities, so many mistakes,” curated by Josh Smith,
Champion Fine Art, Brooklyn, New York
“Wake-up and apologize,” Hayworth Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003 Small Works Margo Victor Presents, Hollywood, CA
“The greatest album covers that never were,” Track 16 Gallery, Santa
Monica, CA
“The Art of Pain,” Gallery C, Hermosa Beach, CA
“Fragments,” PSprojectspace, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2002 “Art of Paper,” APER, Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Greensboro, NC
Raid Projects, Los Angeles, CA
Fake Paintings, Kbond, Los Angeles, CA
2001 “Lineformcolor,” Howard House, Seattle, WA
“Big Plastic,” Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
“Cross-Cuts; Seven Los Angeles Artists,” Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis
College, Los Angeles, CA
“Snapshot: New Art from Los Angeles,” Armand Hammer Museum, Los
Angeles, CA; traveled to: Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
“De Beaufort, Exposito, van Genderen,” Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa
Monica, CA
“Painting beyond Painting,” Christine Rose Gallery, New York, NY
1997 “Trimmings and Scraps,” Gavlak Projects, Silverlake, CA
“Trans Inter Post: Hybrid Spaces,” (curated by Pamela Bailey), UC Irvine,
Irvine CA
“Loves Labors Lost,” (curated by Sue Spaid), collaboration with John
Souza
1993 “Private and public pleasures,” curated by Lauren Lesko
School of Beauty, Los Angeles, CA
Public Projects
2020 “Murals of La Jolla,” La Jolla Community Foundation, La Jolla, CA
Awards, Grants and Fellowships
2019 Chiaro Award, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
Collections
AIG SunAmerica Inc., Los Angeles, CA
Altoids Curiously Strong Collection, Peoris, IL
Eileen Harris and Peter Norton Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
KB Home, Los Angeles, CA
IVAM, Institut Valencia dArt Modern, Valencia, Spain
Le Consortium, Dijon, France
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Montblanc Cutting Edge Art Collection, Hamburg, Germany
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
Rita and Herbert Batliner Collection, permanent loan to the Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria
U.S. Department of State, Washington, D.C.