Site Creator:
INKA ESSENHIGH

Andrew Silewicz
Victoria Miro Gallery
16 Wharf Road
London N1 7RW
Tel: + 44 20 7336 8109
Fax: + 44 20 7251 5596
e-mail: andrew@victoria-miro.com
http://www.victoria-miro.com

INKA ESSENHIGH

BIOGRAPHY

1969    Born in Belfonte, Pennsylvania
1988-1992    BFA, Columbus College of Art & Design, Colu= mbus, Ohio
1992-1994    MFA, School of Visual Arts, NYC
   Lives and works in New York

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1997    Wallpaper Paintings, La Mama La Galleria, New York
1998    Recent Paintings, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York
1999 - 2000    New Paintings, Deitch Projects, New York
   American Landscapes: Recent Paintings by Inka Essenhigh, New Room of Contemporary Art, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
2000    Victoria Miro Gallery, London
   Mary Boone Gallery, New York
2001    Works on paper, Victoria Miro Gallery (Project Room) , London
   Works on paper, Mary Boone Gallery, New York

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1993    Young Ukrainian American Painters Group Show, Ukrainian Museum, New York
   Work-Play; Picture Thinking and the Analogical Imagination, Visual Arts Gallery, New York
   Group Show: Inka Essenhigh, Stephen Mumford and Leemour Pelli: Paintings, School of Visual Arts, Wooster Street Gallery, New York
1994    Juried Group Show, School of Visual Arts, FirstFloor Gallery, New York
1996    Set Off: Inaugural Group Show, View Room Exhibitions, New York
   Underexposed; Nine Young American Painters, AndrE9 Zarre Gallery, New York
   Set Off: Inaugural Group Show, View Room Exhibitions, New York
   Anatomy Intellect, Stefanelli Exhibition Space, New York
   Featured Web Page Artist for December, ArtistsB9 Space, New York
   Night of 1000 Drawings, ArtistsB9 Space, New York
1997    Sex/Industry, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York
   The Art Exchange Fair, with Stefan Stux Gallery, New York
   Girls! Girls! Girls!  Tricia Collins B9 Grand Salon, New York
1998    The New Surrealism, Pamela Auchincloss Project Space , New York
   Wild, Exit Art/The First World, New York
   Pop Surrealism, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
   Summer Review, 98, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York
   Celebrating Diversity: Contemporary Women Painters, Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island University, Brookville, New York
   ANATOMY/INTELLECT, Stefanelli Exhibition Space, New York
Wild, Exit Art/The First World, New York
1998-1999    Blade Runner, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York
1999    Pleasure Dome, Jessica Fredericks Gallery, New York
The Armory Show, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York
   A room with a view, Sixth @ Prince Fine Art, New York
2000    Greater New York: New Art in New York Now, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
   The Figure: Another State of Modernism, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art at Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York
Deitch/Steinberg New Editions, Deitch Projects, New York
 Emotional Rescue, Center for Contemporary Art, Seattle
To Infinity and Beyond, Brooke Alexander, New York
2001    Inka Essenhigh; Works on Paper, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
   Hybrids, Tate Gallery, Liverpool
   My Reality: Contemporary Art and the Culture of Japanese Animation, Des Moines Art Center, Iowa touring to Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn (July - October); Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio (January - March 2002) and Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa (April - June 2002)
   2nd Berlin Biennale, Berlin
   Works on paper: from Acconci to Zittel, Victoria Miro Gallery, London
   Casino 2001, 1st Quadrennial of Contemporary Art, SMAK (Stedelijk Museum voor Actuelle Kunst, Gent



BIBLIOGRAPHY


1998


   Art Picks, Simon Says, January
   Something Wild, New York Post, 24 January
   First Look, Simon Says, February
Kim Levin    Wild, The Village Voice/Voice Choices, 3 February, p. 76
Erik Bakke, William R. Kaizen, Shelley Ward    Mob Rule #10,= NY Arts Magazine, March,p. 8
Grady Turner    Wild, NY Arts Magazine, March, p. 23, 37
Robert Murdock    IInka Essenhigh: Recent Painting, Review: The Critical State of Visual Art in New York, 1 March, p. 17-18
Douglas Maxwell    Inka Essenhigh: Recent Painting, Review: The Critical State of Visual Art in New York, 1 March, p. 17-18
Grady Turner    Gramercy Art Fair, NY Arts Magazine, June
Grady Turner    Editor B9s Choice, BOMB, Summer, p. 17
Barry Schwabsky    Inka Essenhigh, art/text, August
Steven Henry Madoff    Pop Surrealism, Artforum, October, p.120
Scott Dietsch    The New Surrealism Gets Real, The Villager,4 November, p. 1
Julia Chaplin    The painter whoB9s getting a Lot of Inka, In terview, p. 50
Inka Essenhigh    Centerfold, NY Arts Magazine, (commissioned art work), December
Inka Essenhigh    Joy to the World, Interview, December


1999


Jay Murphy    Pop Surrealism, World Art, January, p. 70-7
Grady T. Turner    Abstracted Flesh, Flash Art, January, p. 66-69
Robert Mahoney    Inka Essenhigh, http://www.artnet.com/Magazine, 5 February
Christian Viveros-Faune    Inka Essenhigh, artnet.com, January
Max Henry    Gotham Dispatch, artnet.com, January, 1999
Phoebe Hoban    The Mod Squad, New York Magazine, 11 January , p. 30-37
Grace Glueck    Inka Essenhigh, The New York Times, 15 January, p. B40
Dominique Nahas    Inka Essenhigh,  Review: The Critical State of Visual Art in New York, 15 January, p. 7
Christian Viveros-Faune    Art: Hot Stuff, New York Press, 2 7 January, p. 6
Martha Schwendener    Inka Essenhigh, Time Out New York, 28 January - 4 February, p. 67
Jerry Saltz    hot off the press, http://www.artnet.com/magazine, 4 Feb
Christian Viveros-Faune    calamity Inka, http://www.artnet.com/Magazine, 5 Feb
Jerry Saltz    Heat Seekers, The Village Voice, 9 February,p. 125
David Humphrey    New York e-mail: Thursday Feb 4 B999 18:10:28, Art Issues, March/April, p. 34-34
Grady T. Turner    Ouverture: Inka Essenhigh, Flash Art, March/April, p. 106
Barry Schwabsky    Inka Essenhigh, Artforum, April, p. 123-1 24
Sarah Valdez    Inka Essenhigh at Deitch Projects, Art in America, May, p. 157-158
Laura Hoptman    Nothing Natural: Laura Hoptman on Inka Essenhigh, frieze, July/August, p. 74-75
Michael Lavine    Iconograph, Ray Gun, August
Neville Wakefield    Three to Watch, Elle Decor, August/September, p. 78-79
   Best of Manhattan: Best Gallery Exhibitions, New York Press, 22 September


2000


Ingrid Sischy    Gotta Paint, Vanity Fair, February, p. 140-147
Stuart Shave    New York Doll  ID Magazine.March
Martin Herbert    Inka Essenhigh. Time Out, March 29 . No 1545
Jonathan Jones    Inka Essenhigh. The Guardian. March30
Peter Plagens    Art in the Fast Lane, Newsweek (New York), April 10, p. 70-73
Jeff Johnson    We love a Surrealist, Jane (New York), May, p. 52
Max Henry    Inka B9s inhibitions, http: //www.artnet.com/Magazine/Reviews/Gotham Dispatch, 31 May
   Goings On About Town, Inka Essenhigh, The New Yorker, 12 June, p. 16
Anton Saul    Inka Essenhigh, Time Out New York, 15-22 June,p. 67
Roberta Smith    Inka Essenhigh, The New York Times, 23 June
David Ebony    Inka Essenhigh at Mary Boone Gallery,
   http://www.artnet.com/Magazine/Reviews/Ebony, 27 June
Marie-Pierre Nakamura    Inka Essenhigh: Entre spectacle et minimalisme, Art Actuel, Paris, July/August, p. 78-81
Michael Glover    Inka Essenhigh, Art News, Summer, p. 218-219
David Hunt    A New Grammar of Motion, Flash Art, October, p . 74-77
David Colman, David Sims    Master Class, HarperB9s Bazaar (New York), December, p. 224-229
Lytle Shaw    To Infinity and Beyond, Time Out New York, 14 - 18 December, p. 115

BOOKS AND CATALOGUES

Richard Klein, Dominique Nahas, Ingrid Schaffner, Pop Surrealism, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, June, 1998
Douglas Dreishpoon    American Landscapes: Recent Paintings by Inka Essenhigh, New Room of Contemporary Art, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, November, 1999
Christoph Grunenberg    Hybrids, International Contemporary Painting, Tate Liverpool, April, 2001
Eberhard Mayntz, Saskia Bos etc.     2. berlin biennale , volumes 1 and 2, berlin biennale fFCr zeitgenF6ssische Kunst e.v., Berlin, May, 2001

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Tate Gallery, London
Whitney Museum of American Art,  New York
Museum of Modern Art/P.S.1., New York