Ati Maier Bio

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BORN
Munich, Germany. 1962

EDUCATION
1981-82 School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
1981-82 State University of New York at Purchase NY
1983-87 Magister Artium Degree, Hochschule für Ange wandte, Vienna, Austria

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
Peyton Wright Gallery Welcomes Ati Maier, Peyton Wright Gallery, Santa Fe ,NM
2018
Prophecy of the Encounter, Galerie Jochen Hempel, Berlin, Germany
2017
Birdman and the Spacerider, AdventureLand Gallery, Chicago, IL. (Featuring Chris Pfister)
2016
The Placeless Place, Pierogi, New York, NY (Catalogue)
2015
New Horizons, Jochen Hempel, Leipzig, Germany (Catalogue)
2014
Houston and the SPACE RIDER, Five Points Gallery, Torrington, CT
2013
The Map Is Not the Territory, Pierogi and The Boiler, Brooklyn, NY (Sept 6-Oct 6)
2011
Possibility of Perception, Nusser & Baumgart Gallery, Munich, Germany
Ati Maier: Event Horizon, University Art Museum, University at Albany, Albany, NY (Feb 1–April 2)
Ati Maier: Space Rider, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2010
Giant Dipper, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
2009
Space Rider, Dogenhaus Galerie, Leipzig, Germany
Volta 5 Basel, Dogenhaus Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
2008
PERPETUAL IF (Information Friction), Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
(Two-Person) (October 4, 2008-Jan. 4, 2009)
2007
Dérive, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY (April 20–May 21)
2003
The Return, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
2002
Dogenhaus Galerie, Leipzig, Germany
1999
Dogenhaus Galerie, Leipzig, Germany
1998
Homesteads, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA (Catalogue)
1997
Galerie Agathe Nisple, St. Gallen, Switzerland
1996
Dogenhaus Galerie, Leipzig, Germany
1995
Galerie Agathe Nisple, St. Gallen, Switzerland
1994
Permanent Installation at Gesundheitszentrum Hof Weissbad, Appenzell, Switzerland
1993
Lighthouse, Kunstverein Berkelkraftwerk, Vreden, Germany
1992
Galerie Agathe Nisple, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Walking the Dog, Galerie Cardoso-Ribeiro, Galerie A&O in Designhaus, Berlin, Germany
1991
Galerie M+, Bratislave, Slovakia
1990
Und der Esel sah den Engel, Galerie Cardoso-Ribeiro, Berlin, Germany

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
Pulp, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
2019
Bringing Together: Recent Acquisitions Curated by Merry Scully, NMArt Museum, Santa Fe, NM
Mind’s Eye, Summer Group Show, Pierogi Gallery, NYC
The CASE HISTORIES/RESPONSA, corresponding with Martin Wilner, Pierogi Gallery, NYC
Spinal Web by the Guidecca Satellite, Giudecca, Venice, Italy
2018
Electric Pilgrims II Curated by Joseph Kettner III, Natick Art Festival, Natick, MA
Second Annual Abstract Invitational, Keep Contemporary Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2017
Contact: Local to Global, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM. Curated by Merry Scully (November 25, 2017 – April 29, 2018)
Uncommon Project, Emerson College, Boston, MA. Curated by Joseph Kettner
Observatories, Center for the Arts, Jackson Hole, WY. Curated by Matthew Day Jackson, Camille Obering, Andy Kincaid
Hold These Truths, Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, N
Double Down, Pierogi Gallery Summer Group Show, NYC
Selfportrait, Kunstforum Unterland, Neumarkt, Bozen, Italy
2016
Rage For Art (Once again), Pierogi, New York, NY
Currents 2016, The Sante Fe International New Media Festival, Santa Fe, NM
Screening at the Hardwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM
2015
The Transportation Business, Jane Lombard Gallery, New York, NY. Curated by Gregory Volk
2014
Pierogi XX, Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Lucent, Cloud 5 Project, Santa Fe, NM
CURRENTS 2014: Santa Fe International New Media Festival, Santa Fe, NM
Keepie Uppie, Hydra School Projects, Hydra, Greece. Curated by Dimitios Antonitsis
Select 2014, Washington Project for the Arts, Artisphere, Arlington, Virginia
2013
Necessariy Strangers, Adventureland Gallery, Chicago, IL
100, Art Hotel Gran Paradiso, Sorrento, Napoli, Italy
Joe Amrhein, Reed Anderson, Graham Gilmore, Ati Maier, Galerie Jochen Hempel, Berlin, Germany
Unhinged, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
2012
11th National Drawing Invitational: New York, Singular Drawings, Arkansas Art Center, Arkansas
Curated by Charlotta Kotik
Two River, One River Gallery, Englewood, NJ
Lighten Up, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
Postcard Show, Part II, Gallery Wolfy, Cleveland, OH (February 24-March 24)
15 x 15, Kunsforum Unterland, Bozen, IT (June 2-16)
Yi, Dos, Drei, Four, fouladiPROJECTS, San Francisco, CA
2011
Outdoor Excursions, Burlington City Arts, Burlington, VT (August 26-December 3) Curated by Gregory Volk
Subjective / Objective, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
Summer Group Exhibition, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
Editions from the Magazine, The Esopus Foundation, New York, NY (July 14-Septemper 8)
2010
Fokus Lodz Biennial, Lodz, Poland
Appropriate Manipulate Duplicate, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
2009
Cream, no sugar, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
Hypothetical Landscapes, Janet Kurnatowsky Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Drawings, McKenzie Fine Art Inc., New York, NY
2008
The NOS 08, Non-Objectif Sud, La Barralière, Tulette, France (June 15–September 7)
Pierogi et al, Daniel Weinberg Galley, Los Angeles, CA (July 15–August 23)
Midnight Full of Stars,”Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, Summit, NJ (April 11–June 6)
Curated by Sara Lynn Henry
2007
Other Worlds: The Landscape in Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art
Jacksonville, FL
2006
Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
2005
Remote Viewing: Invented Worlds In Recent Painting, Curated by Elizabeth Sussman,
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (June–September)
Travel to: St. Louis
Dogenhaus, Leipzig, Germany (3 person exhibition, September–November)
Reconfigure,” Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY (July 1–August 1)
2004
Vacation Nation, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
Public Notice: Painting in the Sculpture Park, curated by Gregory Volk and Sabine Russ,
OMI International Arts Center, Ghent, NY and Laumeier Sculpture Park
Uncharted Territory, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
Heir Und Jetzt, Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt, Germany
2003
Ecosystem, The Brasilian Joint, Manaus, Brazil
In Heat, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
Pierogi Presents, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA (1 April–10 May)
Drawing On Landscape, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
Drawn II, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
2002
Boiled or Fried, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
Action at a Distance, Gallery Neumarkt, Neumarkt, Italy
Markers 2, EAM-Haus der Energie, Monteverdi Strasse 2, 34131, Kassel
Summer Sweets, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
The Force, Gale Gates et al., Dumbo, NY
2001
MARKERS, Venice Biennale, Italy
Raum Hoch Drei, Wittgensteinhaus, Vienna, Austria
Taking stock, Gallery Joe, Philadelphia, PA
Gather and Tell, The Mexican Cultural Institute of New York, NY
2000
The Brooklyn Zoo, Solitude au Musée, Musé d’art Moderne De Saint Etienne, France and
Staats galerie, Stuttgart, Germany
1997
Icebreaker, Dogenhaus Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Record, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996
Von Killisch Bis Kirchner, Dogenhaus Galerie, Leipzig, Germany
1990
Domestiken, Galerie Cardoso Ribeiro, Berlin
1989
Ati Maier: Blanca Blarer, Galerie Agathe Nisple, St. Gallen, Switzerland
1988
Festival der Kleinen Formate, Galerie Pollnhof, Dachau, Germany
1985
Meisterklasse fuer malerie Professor Unger, Museum fuer angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria

AWARDS
2017 Animated Short Film – Official Selection, Lisbon International Film Festival
2014 Santa Fe Art Institute Residency Program
2013 Pollock-Krasner Grant Recipient, NY
2012 Artist-in-Residence at Non-Objectif Sud (NOS), France
Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL
2007 Fellow of the Sally and Lucas Artist Program, Montalvo Arts Center, CA
2006 Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant

BIBLIOGRAPHY
2018
Abatemarco, Michael. “Three exhibitions at New Mexico Museum of Art,” SantaFe New Mexican | Pasatiempo, January 19, 2018
2015
Jennifer Deppe Parker. “The Transportation Business at Jane Lombardi,” alphasixty.com, July 2015
Chidester, Brian. “Ati Maier,” ephemera.com, June 29, 2015
2014
Kraemer, Nora. “Die Kunst vom Pferd,” Equistyle Magazin, pp. 24-26, Fall 2014 (illus.)
Jennifer Deppe Parker. “Ati Maier: The Artist Explorer,” alphasixty.com, 2014
2013
Matthew Day Jackson. Interview: “Ati Maier and Matthew Day Jackson.” BOMB Magazine, Oct 31, 2013
Edward M. Gomez. “Space Walk.” Art & Antiques Magazine, p. 24-25, Winter 2013-14
The Greenpoint Gazette. “The Map is not the Territory.” The Greenpoint Gazette, September 2013
2012
Newell Peacock, Leslie. “Invitational Returns: The obsessive line is theme,” Arkansas Times, March 7, 2012 (illus.)
2010
Lindquist, Greg. “Beyond Fuss and Fiddle: The universe according to Ati Maier,” artcritical, Nov 7, 2010
Sutton, Benjamin. “Mapping Minutiae: Art in the Age of Foursquare and Genome Projects,” L Magazine, October 27, 2010
Newhall, Edith. “Galleries: A pair of exhibitions that transcend their themes,” The Inquirer, March 21, 2010
Psychadelic: Optical and Visonary Art Since the 1960s. Exhibition catalog. Texts by David S. Rubin, Robert C. Morgan, Daniel Pinchbeck. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2010. P. 34, 46, 119 (illus. and text)
2009
Terry, Justin. ”Hypothetical Landscapes at Janet Kurnatowski Gallery,” artcritical.com, May 2009 (illus.)
Catalogue Raisonne- The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2009. p183 (illus.)
2008
F.A.Z. “Armory Show, Alle Nervositaet ist verflogen “, F.A.Z. #74, p.43, March 29. 2008 (illus.)
Forney, Dennis. “Abstract Art and Automobiles,” Delmarva Quarterly, Spring 2008 (illus.)
Huston, Andrew. “Non-Objectif Sud”, e-flux.com, July 24, 2008 (illus.)
Karweijk, Hans-Adelbert. “Worte zerbersten in Scherben,” Wolfsburg Kultur, September12, 2008 (illus.)
Perpetual IF (information friction) Ati Maier. Exhibition catalog. Interview by Joe Amreihn. Staedtische Galerie Wolfsburg, 2008.
2007
Sloor, Susanna. “Gallerirundor in New York,” omconst.com, May 2007 (illus.)
Kuhn, Christopher “Around Williamsburg”, astheartworldturns.blogspot.com, May 29, 2007(illus.)
Mallo, Agustin Fernandez.”La Atenas de Nueva York”, El Pais Semanal, #1.618, September 2007 (illus.)
Palmerton, Elwyn. “Familiar, Foreign, Synaesthetic: Invented Worlds at the Whitney,” NY Arts Magazine, January / February 2007
Ati Maier: 2005-2007. Exhibition catalog. Text by Gregory Volk. Leipzig: Dogenhaus Gallery and Pierogi Gallery, 2007
Kunstforum Unterland 1997-2007. Exhibition catalog. Bezirksgemeinschaft Ueberetsch-Unterland 2007. P 66-67 (illus. and text)
2006
Public Notice: Painting in Laumeier Sculpture Park. Exhibition Catalog. Text by Gregory Volk and Sabine Russ. Laumeier Sculpture Park, 2006. P. 15,17 (illus. and text)
2005
Patton, Carla. “New Views,” Ladue News, June 2005 (Illus.)
Bonetti, David. “Billboard-size work at Laumeier challenged notions of where painting should be seen,”
St. Louis Today, October 16, 2005
Cooper, Ivy. “Current Shows, Public Notice: Painting in Laumeier Sculpture Park,” River Front Times,
October 19, 2005
Maine, Stephen. “Remote Viewing, Whitney Museum of American Art,” The Brooklyn Rail, September 2005
Glueck, Grace. “Tapping Into a Glut of Information and Making Sense (and Art) of It All,” The New York
Times, June 3, 2005. P.E37
Cohen, David. “An Exploding Universe,” The New York Sun, June 2, 2005
Cohen, David. “An Exploding Universe,” artcritical.com, 2005
“Remote Viewing: Invented Worlds,” artdaily.org, 2005
“Remote Viewing: Invented Worlds in Recent Painting,” Art Knowledge News, 2005
Haber, John. “Remotely Abstract,” Haber’s Art Reviews, 2005
Remote Viewing (Invented Worlds in recent Painting and Drawing). Exhibition catalog. Texts by Elisabeth Sussman, Tina Kukielski. Whitney Museum of American Art, 2005. p 40-47 Esopus, #4, Spring 2005 (16 x 16 inch foldout poster)
2003
Cotter, Holland. “Daniel Zeller and Ati Maier,” The New York Times, December 19, 2003
Kasper, Robin. “Williamsburg @ Dogenhaus,” das Leipziger Stadtmagazine KREUZER, March 3, 2003
Fallon, Roberta. “Sketches, Cup of Joe,” Philadelphia Weekly, February 12, 2003. P.48
Ati Maier Dogenhaus Galerie Leipzig 2002, Pierogi Gallery New York 2003. Exhibition catalog. Text by Sabine Russ. Dogenhaus Galerie, 2003
Grand Street, #71, 2003. Pp. 108–113 (Illus. and text)
2002
“Action at a distance,” Kultur am Wochende, August 31–September 1, 2002. P. 12
Von Elzenbaum, Margit. “Ranghoh oder umgänglich?” Kultur am Wochende, Sept 14–15, 2002. P. 9 (Illus.)
Schmerler, Sarah. “Reviews: Boiled or Fried,” Time Out New York, Issue 356, July 25–Aug 1, 2002. P.54 (Illus.)
Richard, Frances. “Boiled or Fried,” Artforum.com, July 2002
“Art Listings,” Shout, February 2002 (Illus.)
2001
Von Heinrich Schwazer. Bezirksgemeinschaft, 2001 (Illus.)
Markers- an Outdoor Banner Event of Artists and Poets for Venice Biennale 2001. Exhibition catalog. Projective, Doron Polak 2001. p112(illus.)
Pierogi Press, New York, volume seven. 2001. p10 (illus.)
1999
Sommer, Tim. “Ati Maier kunst in der Galerie Dogenhaus,” Leipziger Volkszeitung, Oct. 10, 1999 (Illus.)
1998
Homesteads Ati Maier 1998.Exhibition catalog John Berggruen Gallery, Text by David Hunt. Dogenhaus Galerie Leipzig 1998.
Record -six german artists. Exhibition catalog John Berggruen Gallery, Text by Tim Sommer. Dogenhaus Galerie Leipzig/Berlin. p 22-29
1991
Galeria M+ Ati Maier. Exhibition catalog. Poetry by Mary Armstrong, Galeria M Bratislava, 1991

PUBLICATIONS
New Horizons / The Placeless Place. Exhibition catalog. Texts by Brian Chidester and David Scher. Leipzig: Jochen Hempel and Pierogi, 2015
Psychadelic: Optical and Visonary Art Since the 1960s. Exhibition catalog. Texts by David S. Rubin, Robert C. Morgan, Daniel Pinchbeck. Cambridge: The MIT Press, 2010. P. 34, 46, 119 (illus. and text)
Catalogue Raisonne- The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection. The
Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2009. p183 (illus.)
Perpetual IF (information friction) Ati Maier. Exhibition catalog. Interview by Joe Amreihn. Staedtische Galerie Wolfsburg, 2008.
Ati Maier: 2005-2007. Exhibition catalog. Text by Gregory Volk. Leipzig: Dogenhaus Gallery and Pierogi Gallery, 2007
Kunstforum Unterland 1997-2007. Exhibition catalog. Bezirksgemeinschaft Ueberetsch-Unterland 2007. P 66-67 (illus. and text)
Public Notice: Painting in Laumeier Sculpture Park. Exhibition Catalog. Text by Gregory Volk and Sabine Russ. Laumeier Sculpture Park, 2006. P. 15,17 (illus. and text)
Remote Viewing (Invented Worlds in recent Painting and Drawing). Exhibition catalog. Texts by Elisabeth
Sussman, Tina Kukielski. Whitney Museum of American Art, 2005. p 40-47
Esopus, #4, Spring 2005 (16 x 16 inch foldout poster)
Ati Maier Dogenhaus Galerie Leipzig 2002, Pierogi Gallery New York 2003. Exhibition catalog. Text by
Sabine Russ. Dogenhaus Galerie, 2003
Grand Street, #71, 2003. Pp. 108–113 (Illus. and text)
Markers- an Outdoor Banner Event of Artists and Poets for Venice Biennale 2001. Exhibition catalog. Projective, Doron Polak 2001. p112(illus.)
Pierogi Press, New York, volume seven. 2001. p10 (illus.)
Homesteads Ati Maier 1998.Exhibition catalog John Berggruen Gallery, Text by David Hunt. Dogenhaus Galerie Leipzig1998.
Record -six german artists. Exhibition catalog John Berggruen Gallery, Text by Tim Sommer. Dogenhaus Galerie Leipzig/Berlin. p 22-29
Galeria M+ Ati Maier. Exhibition catalog. Poetry by Mary Armstrong, Galeria M Bratislava, 1991

COLLECTIONS
MOMA, NYC, The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings
PARRISH Art Museum, Montauk, NY
Aspen Art Collection, Aspen, CO
BAM Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
NMArtMuseum, New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
MART Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Rovereto and Trentino, Italy
Collection of the Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Germany
Collection of the City of Aschersleben, Germany
GUILIN Art Museum, Guilin, Guangxi, P.R. CHINA