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Michael Berryhill was born 1972 in El Paso, TX, USA.

Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York, USA.

Education

 

2009  

Master of Fine Arts, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

 

2007  

Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME, USA

 

1994  

Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA

 

 

Solo Exhibitions

2022

El Paso, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2020

Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2019

Romancing the stoned,  Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

A life of its own, La Maison de Rendez-Vous, Brussels, Belgium

2017

A window, adore, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Primitive.is.him, Galería Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain

 

2016

Loony Tombs, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Something of a Feather, KANSAS, New York, NY, USA

 

2015

Shrine Time, Je  Bailey Gallery, Hudson, NY, USA

Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA, USA

 

2014

Beggars Blanket, KANSAS, NY, USA

 

2013

NADA Art Fair, NY, USA

 

2012

Incidental Western, KANSAS, NY, USA

 

2010

Fear of a Flat Planet, CTRL, Houston, TX, USA

 

2009

Basement States, Horton Gallery, New York, NY, USA

 

2003

The Past Was Here, SUNDAY L.E.S., NEXT Fair, Chicago, IL, USA

Greetings from Berrydale (with Ryan Lauderdale), Okay Mountain, Austin, TX, USA

 

Group Exhibitions

2022

A Minor Constellation, Chris Sharp, Los Angeles, USA

2021

Is This It?, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, USA

2018

Line and Verse, Andréhn-Schiptjenko, Stocolm, Sweden

 

2017

Pictography, Sperone Westwater, New York, USA

American genre: Contemporary Painting, ICA, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME, USA

Water and dreams, Chicken Coop Contemporary, Portland, OR, USA

Traveling to Greene Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, USA

Symbolisms, Cooper Cole Gallery,  Toronto, Canada

 

2016

Go Figure, Van Doren Waxter, New York, USA

As if in a foreign country, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna, Austria

Jack and Diane, Kate Werble Gallery, New York, USA

Shout for Tomorrow, Hirschl & Adler, New York, USA

The Clear and The Obscure, Lulu, Mexico City, MX

Strange Abstraction, Fredericks & Freiser Gallery, New York, USA

 

2015

Around Flat, Knockdown Center, Maspeth, NY, USA

Intimacy in Discourse: Unreasonable Sized Paintings, School of Visual Arts, New York, USA 

The Nega- tive Hand, Anonymous Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico

The Guston Effect, Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, MA, USA

From Now on In, Brian Morris Gallery, New York, NY, USA

 

2014

This One’s Optimistic: Pincushion, curated by Cary Smith, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT, USA

Pale Fire, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

Artist in Residence Biennial: Patricia Treib, Michael Berryhill, EJ Hauser, Jaya Howey, Ewing Gallery, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, USA

 

2013

Style as Substance, organizd by Kieth J. Varadi, David Shelton Gallery, Houston, TX, USA

Breaking Night, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA, USA

 

2012

External Original, organized by Sarah Mattes, Clifford Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, USA

Mark, Scrape, Wipe, Shape, curated by Karla Wozniak and Sangram Majumdar, SPACESHIFTER, Brooklyn, New York, NY, USA

Pig Party, organized by Gina Beavers, New York, USA

Epiphanic Glow, curated by Brad Hajzak, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA, USA

Beasts of Revelation, DC Moore Gallery, New York, NY, USA

WAVERS, curated by EJ Hauser and Rob Nadeau, 283 47th St, Brooklyn, New York, NY, USA

MYTHOGRAFIA, Bull and Ram, New York, NY, USA

 

2011

Shapeshifters, curated by Laurel Sparks, 4 4 3 P A S, New York, USA

Monkey Wrench, Horton Gallery, New York, NY, USA

 

2010

The Maginot Line, curated by David Scholl, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL, USA

Collective Show, Participant Inc., New York, NY, USA

Precarity and the Butter Tower, curated by Jackie Gendel & Tom McGrath; CTRL, Houston, TX, USA

 

2009

H.T.A.D.I.T.F. 25 Central Park West, curated by Per Billgren & Shannon Smith, New York, NY, USA 

Whitney’s Biennial C.R.E.A.M. Projects, Brooklyn, New York, NY, USA

MFA Thesis Exhibition, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

 

2008

Panic to Power!, curated by Brian Bress, Angstrom Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Deadliest Catch, curated by Michael Sillinger, CORE, Southampton, NY , USA

Lost In Your Eyes, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY, USA

 

2007

Berliner Kunstsalon & Anonyme Zeichner 7, Blutenweiss Gallery, Berlin, Germany

7 x 7, Okay Mountain, Austin, TX, USA

Existence is Elsewhere, Else Madsen Gallery, Austin, TX, USA

Popular Hallucinations from the Home, MASS Gallery, Austin, TX, USA

Painters and Cowboys Should Be Friends, UNT Artspace FW, Fort Worth, TX, USA

 

2006

Laser Light Show Project (L.L.S.P.), Gallery 3, Austin, TX, USA

An air at the Jupiter Hotel (with Art Palace), Portland, OR, USA

Wild & Bushy, Volitant Gallery, Austin, TX, USA

Painting’s Edge: The Exhibition, Idyllwild Arts Academy, Idyllwild, CA, USA

Related, MASS Gallery, Austin, TX, USA

 

Bibliography

 

2014

Moyer, Carrie, "Michael Berryhill," Art in America, September

Kardon, Dennis, "Fuzzy Reception: Michael Berryhill at KANSAS," Artcritical, June 10

David, Ben, "Michael Berryhill," Artnet, May 21

Indrisek, Scott "Michael Berryhill at KANSAS," Blouin Artinfo, May 15

Provosty, Nathlie, "What’s more real, a dead tree or a drawing of a dead tree?", The Brooklyn Rail

 

2013

Worth, Alexi, "25 Artists to Watch in 2014," Modern Painters, December

Rosenberg, Karen, "A Roving Art Fair Finds a Home Court Advantage," The New York Times, May 10

 

2012

Johnson, Paddy, "The 10 Best Exhibitions of 2012," The L Magazine, December

Harkness, Hilary, "Studio Visit Advice From Painter Michael Berryhill," Hu  Post The Blog, September 12 

Bui, Phong, "On MICHAEL BERRYHILL’S Sensitive Parlour Ghost," Incidental Wester, The Brooklyn Rail, September.

Kimball, Whitney, "MICHAEL BERRYHILL AT KANSAS GALLERY," New American Paintings Blog, June 28

Adelaide, Kari, "Michael Berryhill At Kansas Gallery," Hu Post ARTS, June 12

Winant, Carmen, "Michael Berryhill’s Impossible Art," DAILYSERVING, June 7

Calandra, Maria, "Michael Berryhill," PENCIL IN THE STUDIO, April 5

 

2011

Butler, Sharon, "Michael Berryhill’s tabletops," two coats of paint, July 16

 

2009

Rosenberg, Karen, "Art in Review," The New York Times, September 17

Wol , Rachel, "See Here Now: Three art-rich neighborhoods, 25 new galleries," Time Out New York, October 12

 

2008

Douberley, Amanda, "Greetings From Berrydale," The Austin Chronicle, February 22

Geha, Kate, "Greetings from Berrydale. ...might be good, February

"Artist for Sharpe Art Foundation ‘ Space Program’," Artnet.com, July 21

 

2006

Douberly, Amanda "From Stu, Art," The Austin Chronicle, July 14

Fisher, Gerren, "Texas Artists Make Their Mark Nationally," The Daily Texan, August 10

 

2004

VanRyzin, Jeannie, "Empire State Art," The Austin American Statesman, May 20

Fisher, Gerren, "Texas Artists Make Their Mark Nationally," The Daily Texan, August 10

 

Grants and Awards

2014

Dean, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME Rauschenberg Residency, Captiva, FL, USA

2013

Dean, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison, ME, USA

University of Tennessee, Artist in Residence, Knoxville, TN, USA


2012

New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship for Painting, New York, NY, USA

2009

Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, Studio Space Recipient, Brooklyn, NY, USA

2006

Painting’s Edge Residency, Idyllwild Arts Academy, Idyllwild, CA, USA 

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