Martha Mysko

Martha Mysko is currently Artist in Residence and co-Head of the Painting Department at Cranbrook Academy of Art.


EDUCATION

2011 MFA, Painting, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI

2004 BA, Fine Art (Painting Concentration), Towson University, Towson, MD


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023 In Circulation, Belle Isle Viewing Room, Detroit, MI

2021 Catalog, Belle Isle Viewing Room, Detroit, MI

2017 Selective Memory, Wasserman Projects, Detroit, MI

2016 Blue Tiers, Good Weather Gallery at COOP Gallery, Nashville, TN

2015 War of the Roses, Sadie Halie Projects, Brooklyn, NY

2014 Martha Mysko, Marc Straus Gallery, New York, NY

2014 It was an ordinary day..., Good Weather Gallery, North Little Rock, AR

2012 Martha Mysko, Marc Straus Gallery, New York, NY


SOLO PROJECTS

2016 Broken Ground, W.10th Window: Art In Buildings, Time Equities Inc., New York, NY

2012 Weekend Getaway, Peekskill Project V, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY


TWO PERSON AND COLLABORATIVE EXHIBITIONS *indicates collaborative

2019 *STREWN: Willie Wayne Smith and Martha Mysko Fjord Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2018 *Liquid Nails: Martha Mysko and Emily Nachison Endo, Elephant Art Space, Los Angeles, CA

2017 *How It Unfolds: Martha Mysko and Willie Wayne Smith, Holiday Forever Gallery, Jackson, WY

2016 Rabbit Redux: Martha Mysko and Kari Cholnoky, Small Editions, Brooklyn, NY

2013 *Down The Pigeon Hole: Martha Mysko and Anne Vieux, Culture Room, Brooklyn, NY


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023 Get Together, Reyes | Finn, Detroit, MI

2022 Homebody, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI (curated by Kat Goffnett)

2021  With Eyes Opened, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI

2021 Dual Vision, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI

2019 A Boreal Nap, Art Lot, Brooklyn, NY

2018 Homemade, Library Street Collective Gallery, Detroit, MI (curated by McArthur Binion)

2018 From Then Til Downtown, Cranbrook Academy of Art Alumni Pop-Up, 1301 Broadway, Detroit, M

2018 Home Edition, Essex Flowers, New York, NY

2018 Water Sacred, Scarab Club, Detroit, MI

2018 At Your Service: Faculty Exhibition, Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester Hills, MI

2016 Beach is Better, Fringe Projects with Good Weather Gallery, Miami, FL

2016 No Vacancy, Alt-Esc at Squat Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2015 Re/Post, Storefront Ten Eyck, Brooklyn, NY (curated by Ian Cofre)

2015 Printed Matter's LA Art Book Fair, Booth X50 with Good Weather Gallery and Studio Set, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

2014 The Body Metonymic: International Contemporary Sculpture, Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, MI (curated by Dick Goody) (catalogue)

2013 On Deck, MARC STRAUS Gallery, New York, NY

2011 New Insights,Art Chicago/NEXT Art Fair, Chicago, IL (curated by Suzanne Ghez)

2011 Here Here: Graduate Degree Exhibition, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI

2009 Heavier Than a Death in the Family, 25CPW, New York, NY (curated by Per Bilgren)

2009 ABCYZ, Silvershed, New York, NY

2009 Whitney’s Biennial, c.r.e.a.m. Projects, Brooklyn, NY

2008 Die Ansummlung, Takt Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2007 Lost In(stallation), Alte Saline, Internationale Sommerakademie für Bildende Kunst

(Summer Academy), Salzburg, Austria

2006 10th Annual Dumbo Art Under the Bridge Festival, Dumbo Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY


AWARDS, HONORS, RESIDENCIES

2019 Order of the Plume Teaching Award, Oakland University

2014 Foundation for Contemporary Art, Emergency Grant

2013 Tacita Dean Workshop and Artist Residency, Fundación Botín, Santander, Spain

2009 Artist Residency,The Homestead AK, Willow, AK

2008 Artist Residency,Takt Kunstprojektraum, Berlin, Germany

2007 Internationale Sommerakademie für Bildende Kunst (Summer Academy), Salzburg, Austria


SELECTED PRESS

Lisa John Rogers, Artforum Critic's Pick, Homebody at Cranbrook Art Museum, April 2022

Danny Van Zandt, Dual Vision: In Conversation with Martha Mysko, Detroit Cultural, Issue_008 Spring 2021

Interview: “Martha Mysko”, Alt Esc, Print edition vol. 1 November 2016

Eliana Blechman, Interview: “Get to Know Martha Mysko”, teiartinbuildings.com/blog, April 2016

“Martha Mysko @ COOP,” AQNB.com, June 2016

Austen Tosone, “Meet the Artist: Five Questions with Martha Mysko,” NYLON Magazine, May 2015

“The Body Metonymic: International Contemporary Sculpture” Exhibition Catalog, Oakland University Art Gallery, Essay by Dick Goody, 2014

“Burnout at Daylight Savings Gallery,” Caretsandsticks.com, September 25, 2014

Talon Gustafson, “Peekskill Project V,” Wowhuh.com, October 8, 2012

Anne Vieux, “Martha Mysko at Marc Straus Gallery,” Gnomemag.com, May 30, 2012

Aimee Walleston,” Whitney’s Biennial Gives Young Artists a Second Chance at Biennial,” Artinamericamagazine.com, August 28, 2009


CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2014 Parallel Grounds, Daylight Savings Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2014 The Principle of the Thing, Daylight Savings Gallery at Sadie Halie Projects, Brooklyn, NY

2014 burnout, Daylight Savings Gallery at Small Editions NYC, Brooklyn, NY

2009 Whitney’s Biennial, c.r.e.a.m. projects, Brooklyn, NY

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