EVAN GRUZIS
Born in 1979 in Milwaukee, WI, USA
Lives and works in New York, NY and Milwaukee, WI
EDUCATION
2008
MFA, Combined Media, Hunter College
2002
BFA, Painting, University of Wisconsin Madison
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016
Real Feelings, The Green Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2014
Atavistic Zen, DUVE Berlin, DE
Shell Game, The Suburban, Oak Park, IL
2013
Strictly Method, Galerie SAKS, Geneva, CH
2012
Alpha Wave, DUVE Berlin, Berlin, DE
Paper View, The Green Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
2011
Exotic Beta, The Hole Gallery, New York, NY
Shadow Work, Nicole Klagsburn, New York, NY
2010
Rough Boy, Galerie SAKS , Geneva, CH
Dirty Black Summer Revisited, AMP Gallery, Athens, GR
2009
Quazai, DUVE Berlin, Berlin, DE
Touch Of Grey, The Journal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2008 Dark Systems, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
The Dusky Parlour, DUVE Berlin, Berlin, DE
COLLECTIONS
The Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
The Deste Foundation Collection, Athens, Greece
CCA Andraxt, Mallorca, Spain
The Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH
The Hort Family Collection, New York, NY
The Artist Pension Trust, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016
Season One: Inscription, Nicholas Frank Public Library, Milwaukee, WI
Il suffit d'un grand morceau de ciel, Galerie Jerome Pauchant, Paris, FR
2015
Macrocosmi - Patterns of Another Order, Altes Postfuhramt West, Berlin, DE
American Fantasy Classics Reunion, Usable Space, Milwaukee, WI
Mysterious Muck, Circuit 12 Gallery, Dallas, TX
Pattern ::: Chaos, Cinders Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Crossfading, Galerie SAKS, Geneva, Switzerland
2014
Sha Boogie Bop, Anonymous Gallery, New York, NY
Buying Friends: The Ryan Kortman Collection, UICA, Grand Rapids, MI
Go With The Flow, The Hole, New York, NY
Summer Show, Galerie SAKS, Geneva, Switzerland
Cielo & Tierra, Galeria Impakto, Lima, Peru
Silvier, Super Dakota, Brussels, Belgium
Combustion, Galerie SAKS, Geneva, Switzerland
2013
A Study in Midwest Appropriation, Hyde Park Centre, Chicago, IL
Cisco Sysco Sisqo, La Fonda (Site-specific project), Rockaway, NY
Current Tendencies III, The Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI
Jam Session, Galerie SAKS, Geneva, CH
XSTRACTION, The Hole, New York, NY
2012
The Art Of The Joke, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, DK
Art On Paper 2012: The 42nd Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
Plantimplant, Dittrich & Schlechtriem, Berlin, DE
Portrait of a Generation, The Hole, New York, NY
Fine Line, Workshop Gallery, Venice, IT
Behind the Light, Galleria Pedro Cera, Lisbon, PT
Casas De Empeña, Anonymous Gallery, Mexico City, MX
2011
Pure Logo, New Image Art, Los Angeles, CA
Dark Vision, Galerie SAKS , Geneva, CH
The Nightstands, Phillips de Pury, NY
Art Machine, The Hole, New York, NY
New York Minute, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, RU
Rogue Elements, RH+ Gallery, Istanbul, TR
2010
LOGOS-LOVOS, DUVE Berlin, DE
Not Quite Open for Business, The Hole, NY
Never Can Say Goodbye (Site-specific project), No Longer Empty, New York, NY
Postermat, The Hole, Brooklyn, NY
Salad Days, The Journal, New York, NY
The Power of Selection, Part 2, Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL
Artissima 17 with DUVE Berlin, DE
2009
Burn, Baby, Burn!, DUVE Berlin, Berlin, DE
Inferno, Yautepec Gallery, Mexico City, MX
New York Minute, Museo d‘Arte Contemporanea di Roma, Rome, IT
The Black & White Show, Collective Hardware, NY
Black Hole, CCA Andratx, Mallorca, SP
Better Late then Never, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
Art Brussels with DUVE Berlin, DE
Armory Show with Deitch Projects, NY
2008
Conceptual Figure, Deitch Projects, NY
Mail Order Monsters 4, Max Wigram Gallery, London, UK
Mail Order Monsters 3, AMP Gallery, Athens, GR
Dark Fair, presented by the Milwaukee International, The Swiss Institute, NY
Performed Identities, Kathleen Cullen Fine Art, NY
2007
Painted Objects, Harris Lieberman Gallery, NY
Famous Adults as Children, Famous Children as Adults, Monya Rowe Gallery, NY
The Whitney Art Party / ISP Benefit, Whitney Museum, NY
Journal Drawings, The Journal, NY
2006
School Days, Jack Tilton Gallery, NY
The Armory Show with Jack Tilton Gallery, NY
2005
Delusionarium2, White Box Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004
Tar Pit Tales, 4-F Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Happy Days are Here Again, David Zwirner Gallery, NY
2002
Man Walks Into a Room, Dumbo Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY
COLLABORATIONS
2014
Theme Song for an Exhibition, Conceived and Produced by David Robbins, Music Production by Richard Galling & Evan Gruzis, White Columns Records, New York, Ny
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2015
Condensed Matter Community, with Kristof Wickman, The Synchroton Radiation Center, University of Madison-Wisconsin