Bio
Raised in Kentucky; Lives in New York City.
Solo Exhibitions
2016
The Construction of Flowers. Downstairs Projects. Brooklyn, NY.
The Blue Rose, Phoebe Gallery. Baltimore, MD.
2015
Flower Mutations, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum.
Ridgefileld, CT.
2014
The Waste Land and Other Poems, Young World, Detroit, MI.
BOG–MIA, Locust Projects. Miami, FL.
2013
TOTAL MELTDOWN, Kansas Gallery. New York, NY.
2011
Beauty in the Forest, The Chrysler Series, New York, NY.
Pumping Liquidity into the System, La Mama La Galleria, New York, NY.
Angiosperms, Works Sited, Los Angeles, CA.
2009
Illiquid, Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York, NY.
2005
Concretebreaking, ThreeWalls Gallery. Chicago, IL.
Group Exhibitions
2016
Covers, Adaptations and the Scarcity of Blue, The Art Gym at Marylhurst University.
Portland, OR. (Two- Person Exhibition)
Madames Electrics, The Pit. Glendale, CA.
2014
It can’t all be in one language, LACE. Los Angeles, CA.
PRESS, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft. Louisville, KY.
2013
subject, answer, countersubject, Disjecta Center for Contemporary Art. Portland, OR.
In Praise of Chance and Failure, Family Business. New York, NY.
Paintings and Flowers, Cleopatra’s. Brooklyn, NY.
2012
I know that I am awake, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY. (Two-Person Exhibition)
Maybe it’s that light that has to change and not much else, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery.
New York, NY.
2011
You Can Never Go Home Anymore, Louis B. James, New York, NY.
Norfolk, Thierry Goldberg Projects, New York, NY.
Everything Must Go!, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, NY.
Off Camera, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
2010
Knight’s Move, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY.
Seedlings, Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, Texas.
Hurricane Doris, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
Throbbing Hermaphroditic Mass, Second-Floor, Brooklyn, NY.
2009
Time – Life, Taxter & Spengemann. New York, NY.
Actions for Urban Spaces, Art in General, New York, NY.
New Perspectives in Contemporary Art, Affirmation Arts, New York,NY.
Columbia University Visual Arts Program Thesis Exhibition,
Fischer Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, NY.
2008
1st Year MFA exhibition, Columbia University. New York, NY
2007
1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8, Nine, Ten, Pilar Parra & Romero Galería de Arte.
Madrid, Spain.
Emerging Artists, Smack Mellon. Brooklyn, NY.
2006
Interstate: The American Road Trip, Socrates Sculpture Park, NY.
AIM 26, The Bronx Museum. Bronx, NY.
Site 92, Smack Mellon. Brooklyn, NY.
2005
Certain People I Know, Thatcher Projects. New York, NY.
Fearless Vampire Killers, Casey Kaplan Gallery. New York, NY.
2003
High Desert Test Sites III. Joshua Tree, CA.
2002
Holding Patterns, HERE Art Gallery. New York, NY. (two-person)
Bibliography
2018
Sutton, Benjamin. “The Pleasures and Pitfalls of Starting and Sustaining an Artist-Run Gallery”, Artsy.net. Aug. 18th.
2017
Gittlen, Ariela. “These 7 Artists Are Testing the Limits of Glass-Making”, Artsy.net. Aug. 15th.
2016
Bernardini, Andrew. “Floral Patterns: And essay about flowers and art (witha a blooming
addendum.)”, Mousse Contemporary Art Magazine. Issue# 55. pp. 230-245.
Motley, John. “Donald Morgan and Virginia Poundstone”, The Art Gym #74. (exhibition catalog)
2015
Honara, Susan. “Art and Its Inspiration, Side by Side at the Aldrich Museum”, July 11.
Smith-Stewart, Amy. “Interview: Floral Mutations”, The Aldrich Museum. (exhibition catalog)
2014
Randall, Laura. “Virginia Poundstone, BOG–MIA”, The Miami Rail, Spring 2014.
Suarez De Jesus, Carlos. “BOG-MIA at Locust: Flower Trade Unmasked”, Miami New Times,January 30.
2013
Rosenberg, Karen. “Art in Review: Virginia Poundstone, Total Meltdown”, The New York Times, September 20.
Russeth, Andrew. “2013 in 2033”, galleristny.com, February 23.
Chamberlain, Colby. “In Review: Letha WIlson”, Artforum. March, 2013.
Thomson, Allese. “Critic’s Picks: Talia Chetrit”, Artforum.com, September 23.
2012
Weiner, Emily. “Critic’s Picks”, Artform.com, February 7.
2010
Sanchez, Michael. Knight’s Move. Sculpture Center, L.I.C., NY. (exhibition catalog)
Terranova, Charissa. “Seedlings” at Dallas Contemporary. Art Ltd., September.
2009
Russeth, Andrew. “Virginia Poundstone in New York.” Artinfo.com, December 23.
Rosenberg, Karen. “Yes, Amid the Boutiques, SoHo Is Still Avant- Garde.” The New York Times, December 4.
2006
Princenthal, Nancy. “The great outdoors.” Art in America, June – July.
Neil, Jonathan T. D. “Interstate: The American Road Trip,” ArtReview, August.
2005
Cotter, Holland. “Art in Review: Fearless VampireKillers,” The New York Times, April 8.
“Virginia Poundstone: Concrete Breaking.” FlavorpillChicago, Issue 43, July 12 – 18 .
Artner, Alan G. “Virginia Poundstone at Three Walls.” Chicago Tribune, July 15.
EDUCATION
Columbia University, School of the Arts, Program in Visual Arts. New York, NY.
MFA Visual Arts. 2009
The New School for Social Research,
Eugene Lang College and Parsons School of Design. New York, NY.
BA/BFA Non-fiction Writing/Fine Arts. 2001
FELLOWSHIPS, AWARDS, AND RESIDENCIES
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant.
Cannonball Residency. Visiting Artist. Miami, FL.
Urban Glass Agnes Varis Fellowship.
The Howard Foundation Fellowship.
Pioneer Works. Artist-in-Residence. Brooklyn, NY.
Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft. Artist-in-Residence. Louisville,KY.
Banff Center for Art. Artist Residency and Fellowship. Banff, AB.
AIM, The Bronx Museum Artists in the Marketplace. Bronx, NY.
Mac Dowell Colony. Artist Residency. Peterborough, NH.
ThreeWalls. Artist-in-Residency. Chicago, IL.