Mary Weatherford
Mary Weatherford, Long stab light (not yet titled), 2016, Flash and neon on linen, 284.5 x 251.5 cm (112 x 99 inches)
b. 1963 in Ojai, CA, US
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, US
EDUCATION
2006
M.F.A. Milton Avery School of the Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY.
1985
Whitney Independent Study Program, Helena Rubinstein Fellow. New York, NY.
1984
B.A. Princeton University, Princeton, NJ.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020
Mary Weatherfor: Neon Paintings. Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO.
Train Yards. Gagosian, Grosvenor Hill, London, England.
Mary Weatherford: Canyon – Daisy – Eden. Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery,
Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY.
2018
I’ve Seen Gray Whales Go By. Gagosian, West 24th Street, New York, NY.
Survey exhibition, co-organized by Bill Arning and Ian Berry. Contemporary Arts
Museum Houston, Houston TX; traveling to the Frances Young Tang Teaching
Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY; SITE Sante Fe, NM.
2017
like the land loves the sea. David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
2015
Red Hook. Brennan & Griffin, New York, NY.
2014
Los Angeles. David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
2012
The Bakersfield Paintings. LAXART, Los Angeles, CA.
Manhattan. Brennan & Griffin, New York, NY.
The Bakersfield Project. Todd Madigan Gallery, California State University at Bakersfield, Bakersfield, CA.
2011
Cave at Pismo. Brennan & Griffin, New York, NY.
2010
cave. John Tevis Gallery, Paris, France.
2008
vines. Sister, Los Angeles, CA.
Brick Walls and Sea Life. Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CA.
2006
Shane Campbell Gallery. Oak Park, IL.
Sister, Los Angeles, CA.
2003
Shane Campbell Gallery, Oak Park, IL.
2000
Debs & Co., New York, NY.
1998
Easter. Debs & Co., New York, NY.
1992
I Never Promised You a Rose Garden. BlumHelman Warehouse, New York, NY.
1991
Swan Lake. Marc Jancou Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland.
1990
Diane Brown Gallery, New York, NY.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
An Ideal Landscape. Gagosian, 980 Madison, New York, NY.
Hong Kong Exchange. Gagosian, Hong Kong.
2018
Echoes. Gagosian, San Francisco, CA.
2017
L.A. Invitational. Gagosian, West 24th St., New York, NY.
Pivotal: Highlights from the Collection. Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA.
Between Two Worlds: Art of California. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA.
Color People, curated by Rashid Johnson. Rental Gallery, East Hampton, NY.
Unpacking: The Marciano Collection, curated by Philipp Kaiser, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA.
Unique & Singular. Cirrus, Los Angeles, CA.
2016
The Noise of Art, curated by Mari Eastman. Soccer Club Club, Chicago, IL.
Accumulations: 5, 000 Years of Objects, Fictions, and Conversations. Mead Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, MA.
NO MAN’S LAND: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, organized by the Rubell Family Collection. National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.
NEON: The Charged Line. Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, England.
End of Semester. BBQLA, Los Angeles, CA.
Grafforists, curated by Max Presneill. Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA.
Nice Weather, curated by David Salle. Skarstedt Gallery, New York, NY.
2015
THE ANSWER. THE QUESTION. , . Artist Curated Projects, Los Angeles, CA.
MEAT RAFFLE. BBQLA, Los Angeles, CA.
NO MAN’S LAND: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection. Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL.
Six Doors, curated by Rachel Foullon. The Other Room, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, New York, NY.
Pretty Raw: After and Around Helen Frankenthaler, curated by Katy Siegel. The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA.
Pure Paint for Now People. Mary Elizabeth Dee Shaw Gallery, Webster State University, Ogden, UT.
2014
The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World, organized by Laura Hoptman. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
Variations: Conversations in and Around Abstract Painting. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA.
Caught Looking: Simone Gad, Tracy Nakayama, Ruby Neri, Lauralee Pope, Mary Weatherford. Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA.
The Moira Dryer Project. Eleven Rivington, New York, NY.
California Landscape into Abstraction. Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA.
2013
Selections from the Grunwald Center and the Hammer Contemporary Collection. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA.
CULM, organized by Sayre Gomez and JPW3, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
2012
Sam Falls, Mark Hagen, James Hayward, Mary Weatherford. China Art Objects, Los Angeles, CA.
Take Shelter in the World. Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA.
2011
A Painting Show. Harris Liebermann Gallery, New York, NY.
2010
Last Show. Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CA.
Artificial Paradise. ACME, Los Angeles, CA.
2009
These Are a Few, organized by Madeleine Hoffmann. JGM Galerie, Paris, France.
The Ballad that Becomes an Anthem, organized by Stephen Westfall. ACME, Los Angeles, CA.
2008
California Biennial 2008, organized by Lauri Firstenberg. Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA.
2007
Something About Mary. Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA.
2006
Hotel California. Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale, CA.
The Trace of a Trace of a Trace. Perry Rubinstein Gallery, New York, NY.
2004 Where do we come from? What are we? Where are we going? , organized by Katherine Berhardt. Champion Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA.
Eastman, Weatherford & Arnold. Daniel Hug Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
2003
Still or Sparkling, organized by Nancy Chaikin. John Connelly Presents, New York, NY.
2002
Simmer, organized by Ciara Ennis. Echo ark Projects, Los Angeles, CA.
New Angeles. The Ewing Gallery, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN.
2001
New Angeles, organized by Bill Conger. University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL.
Sharing Sunsets, organized by Julie Deamer. Musuem of Contemporary Art, Tucson, AZ.
2000 as i love you you become more pretty, organized by Karin Gulbran. 937 N. Hudson, Los Angeles, CA.
1999
Stars of Track and Field. Debs & Co., New York, NY.
Life in Space. CCAC, San Francisco, CA.
a ball and a bat, organized by Michael St. John, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR.
OM, organized by Joe Fyfe. Dorsky Gallery, New York, NY.
1998
Bowie. Rupert Goldsworthy Gallery, New York, NY.
Little, Jeffrey Coploff Fine Art Ltd., New York, NY.
1997
Very Large Array. Debs & Co., New York, NY.
Primarily Paint. Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA.
1994
Don’t Postpone Joy, or Collecting can be Fun, organized by Rudi Molacek, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria; The Austrian Institute, New York, NY.
1993
Cadavre Exquis. The Drawing Center, New York, NY.
1992
Postcards from Alphaville: Jean Luc Godard in Contemporary Art, 1963-1992. P.S.1., Long Island City, NY.
Painting Culture. University of California at Irvine Fine Arts Gallery, Irvine, CA.
The Real Thing, organized by Eric Oppenheim. New York, NY.
Contemporary Surfaces, organized by Rick Ward. Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York, NY.
Abstraction. Betsy Senior Contemporary Prints, New York, NY.
1991
Synthesis. John Good Gallery, New York, NY.
Hybrid Abstract, organized by Joshua Decter. Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, VT.
Lyric: Uses of Beauty at the End of the Century. White Columns, New York, NY.
Painting Culture, organized by Deb Kass. fiction/nonfiction, New York, NY.
Plastic Fantastic Lover (object a). BlumHelman Warehouse, New York, NY.
1990
Emerging Art 1990: Commodities Corporation Collection. New Jersey State Art Museum, Trenton, NJ.
To Know a Hawk from a Handsaw. Wolff Gallery, New York, NY.
Collectors’ Choice of Emerging Artists. Vered Gallery, East Hampton, NY.
Stendahl Syndrome: The Cure. Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY.
New Directions, organized by Sam Hunter. S. Bitter Larkin Gallery, New York, NY.
Information, organized by Robert Nickas. Terrain Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
About Round/Round About. Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund, Sweden.
1989
Drawings. Wolff Gallery, New York, NY.
Special Projects. P.S.1. Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, NY.
1988
Indoor/Outdoor. El Bohio, New York, NY.