Bio 

Born

1956New York. Lives and works in Bridgewater, CT.

Education

1979Independent Study Program, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1978School of Visual Arts, New York

1977Middlebury College, Vermont, BA

Solo Exhibitions

2022Art Basel Miami Beach with Helena Anrather and Super Dakota

2022Fulfillment, Helena Anrather, New York

2022Super Dakota, Brussels, BE

2021Airlock or gazing into the void, Two person show with Wendy White, VonAmmon Gallery, Washington D.C.

2021Fade to Fade, Three person show with Wendy White, and Paul Pfeiffer Library Street Collective gallery, Detroit

2019Tears, Drips and Pixels, Super Dakota, Brussels BE

2019Helpp, Mary Boone Gallery, New York

2017Displacement, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York

2016Vilma Gold, London, UK

2015Empowerment, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York

2014Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway

2014Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland

2016Vilma Gold, London, UK

2998Galerie Georges-Phillipe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris, FR

1995Crypte de L’Eglise del’Assomption, Rosnay-L’Hopital, FR

1995Eglise de Aumenancourt, Marne, FR

1995Passages, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Troyes, FR

1995Gallery Georges-Phillippe Nathalie Vallois, Paris, FR

1993American Fine Arts, New York

1991Galerie Faust, Geneva Switzerland

1991Option 41: Julia Wachtel, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

1991American Fine Arts, New York

1990Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati

1990Galerie Georges-Phillippe Vallois, Paris, FR

1989Diane Brown Gallery, New York

1985Nature Morte Gallery, New York

1985Nature Morte Gallery, New York

1984Julia Wachtel, Nature Morte Gallery, New York

1983Haim Stainbach and Julia Wachtel: Social Conquest, C.U.N.Y. Graduate Center Mall, New York

1981Relations of Absence, Fashion Moda, Bronx

Group Exhibitions

2022“Une Nouvelle Aube”, MAMCO, Musee D’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Summer 2022 “Broken Piñata” L21 Gallery, Majorca, Spain

2021The Sum of All Parts, MoMA, New York

2021The 80s, The Albertina Modern museum, Vienna

2021The Phillips Collection Museum, Washington D.C.y 2022

2021F#%k U & ur DisNey, Super Dakota Gallery, Brussels, BE

2021K as in knight, Helena Anrather, New York

2020World Peace, MoCA Westport, Norfolk

2020The Secret History of Everything, Perrotin, New York

2020Back to the Future, Galerie Georges-Philippe and Natalie Vallois, Paris

2020The Library Street Collective, Detroit

2020100 Sculptures, No Gallery, traveling exhibition

2020Private Eyes: American Postmodern Art, KODE Art Museum, Gergen, NO

2020Passing Time, online show organized by curate Neville Wakefield, Ceclia Bengolea, and Alex Perweiler

2019Smile, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, curated by Todd Von Ammon

2019Think about all the James Deans and what it means, Super Dakota, Brussels

2019The Sorcerer’s Burden, The Contemporary Austin, curated by Heather Pesanti

2019Paradise, Westport Art Center, Wesport

2019Mature Themes, Foxy Production, New York

2019Brand New, Art and Commodity in the 1980’s, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC

2019Open House: Elliot Hundley, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lost Angeles

2019été pourri peinture fraiche, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, FR

2019Focus Group, Von Ammon Co Gallery, Washington D.C.

2017Fast Forward: Painting from the 1980s, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

2017Man Alive, Jablonka Gallery, Brussels

2017Strange Attractors, curated by Bob Nickas, Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles

2016Almanch 16, Le Consortium, Dijon

2016Ordinary Pictures, Curated by Eric Crosby. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

2016Ideologue, The Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City

2016Champagne Life, Saatchi Gallery, London

2016Not in New York: Carl Solway and Cincinnati: Highlights of 20th century art, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati

2015Gallery 30 / 130: Thirty Years of Books and Catalogs..., Bob Nickas at White, Columns, New York

2015The Shadow is Taken, Algus Greenspon, New York

2015THE CRACK-UP, Room East, New York

2015Zabriskie Point, Geneva,

2015Venganza (I don’t want to be friends), Armada, Milan

201520 Years of Collecting, Zabludowicz Foundation, London

2015TOYS REDUX - ON PLAY AND CRITIQUE, curated by Raphael Gygax and Judith Welter, Migros Museum, Zurich, (catalogue)

2014Call and Response, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York

2014Portrait de ¾, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris

2014New Hells, Derek Eller Gallery, New York

2014Forever Young, curated by Marie de Gualejac, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels

2013Ericka Beckman / Julia Wachtel, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York

2013Post Culture, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York

2013Une odyssée: les 30 ans du frac champagne-ardenne, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims

2013Selections from Absolut Collection, Curated by Finbar Krook Rossato, Spiritmuseum, Stockholm

2013Group Show, The Artist’s Institute, Curated by Haim Steinbach, New York

2012Remote Control, Institute for Contemporary Art, London

2012Face a Face, FRAC Poìtou-Charantes, Angoulême

2012The Old, the New, the Different, Curated by Fabrice Stroun, Kunsthalle, Bern

2011Situation New York 1986, Art and Public - Cabinet, Geneva

2009Images et (Re)Presentation, Le Magasin, Grenoble

2009Group Show, Gallerie Georges-Philippe & Natalie Vallois, Paris

2001W Exhibition, Curated by Bob Nickas and Vincent Pecoil, Le Musee des Beaux-Arts, Dole

1999Urban Mythologies: The Bronx Represented Since the 1960s, Curated by Lydia Yee, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York

1999Artlovers, Curated by Marcia Fortes, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool

1999Sweet & Sour, Art & Public, Geneva, (CH) Text & Signifier, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati

1999Absolut Collection, Louvre, Museum of the Applied Arts, Paris

1998Weather Everything, Curated by Eric Troncy, Galerie Für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig

1998I Love New York, Edinburgh International Art Festival, Edinburgh College of Art

1996Can We Talk, Basilico Fine Arts, New York

1995Pittura Immedia, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum, Graz

2995Peinture, Photo et Cie. Les rencontres d’Arles, Arles

1991Painting Culture, fiction/non fiction, New York

1990Stendahl Syndrome: The Cure, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York

1990Le Choix des Femmes, Le Consortium, Dijon

2990Total Metal, Simon Watson Gallery, New York

1990The Last Laugh, Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York

1989Group Show, Achim Kubinski, Stuttgart

1989The Mirror in Which Two Are Seen as One, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City

1988Works Concepts Processes Situation Information, Curated by Bob Nickas, Hans Meyer Gallery, Dusseldorf

1988Appropriation and Syntax: The Uses of Photography in Contemporary Art, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn

1987Nothing Sacred, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles,

1987Avant-Garden the Eighties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles

1987Post-Abstract Abstraction, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield

1987The Art of the Real, Curated by Bob Nickas, Galerie Pierre Huber, Geneva

1987Comic Iconoclasm, Institute of Contemporary Art, London

1987Perverted by Language, Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University/C.W.Post, Campus, Greenvale

1986American Fine Arts Co., Colin de Land Fine Art, New York

1986When Attitudes Become Form, Bess Cutler Gallery, New York

1986The Ready Made Painted, Bard College, Annadale-on-Hudson, New York

1986Group Show, Metro Pictures, New York

1986Group Show, Nature Morte Gallery, New York

1985Split Vision, Curated by Laurie Simmons and Robert Mapplethorpe, Artists Space, New York

1985Persona Non-Grata, Daniel Newburg Gallery, New York

1985Infotainment, Texas Gallery, Houston, traveled to: Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago; Vanguard Gallery, Philadelphia; Aspen Art Museum, Aspen; De Selby Gallery, Amsterdam; Galerie Montenay Del Sol, Paris

1985Americana, Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of Art, New York

1985East Village, Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal

1984Neo York: Reported on a Phenomenon, University Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara

1984Emblem, L.A.C.E. Gallery, Los Angeles

1984Timeline of Intervention in Central America, Institute for Contemporary Art, P.S. 1, Long Island

1984Hundreds of Drawings, Artists Space, New York

1983Group Show, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo

1983Terminal Show/Preparing for War, Brooklyn

1983Revolutionary High Art, Latino Space, New York

1982Fifth Anniversary Exhibition, The Drawing Center, New York

1981Selections, Artists Space, New York

1981Selections 14, Drawing Center, New York

1979Film/Audio Installation, Institute for Contemporary Art, P.S.1, Long Island City

Selected Public Collections

 Absolut Collection, Stockholm

 American Medical Association, Chicago

 Brooklyn Museum, New York

 Chase Manhattan Bank, New York

 The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland

 Fonds Régional d’Art Conemporain, Région Basse Normandie, Caen

 Fonds Regional d’Art Contemporain Poitou-Charentes (FRAC), Angouleme (FR)

 MOCA, Los Angeles, California

 The Museum of Modern Art, New York

 The Progressive Corporation, Cleveland

 Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels

 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

 Zabludowicz Collection, London

 Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas