Marsha Cottrell
Biography
1964
in Philadelphia, USA
1990
M.F.A., Painting, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA
1988
B.F.A., Painting, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Elkins Park, USA
Fellowships/Awards
Anonymous Was A Woman, Award
2013
The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Biennial Award
2007
The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Fellowship Grant in Drawing
2004
Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, Educational Grant
2003
New York Foundation for the Arts, Fellowship Grant in Drawing
2002
The MacDowell Colony, Artist Residency
2001
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Fellowship
Institute for Electronic Arts, Alfred University, NYSCA funded Residency
2000
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council World Views Studio Program, World Trade Center
1999
New York Foundation for the Arts, Fellowship Grant in Digital Arts
The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, Space Program
The MacDowell Colony, Artist Residency
Solo Exhibitions (selection)
2019
The Art Show ADAA, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, New York, NY, USA
“Black and Light”, Cam Ralegh, NC, USA
2018
Screen Life, Van Doren Waxter Gallery, New York, NY,USA
2017
Marsha Cottrell, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE
2016
Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, USA
2015
Eleven Rivington, New York, USA
2012
Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE
2008
Marsha Cottrell / Ferdinand Ahm Krag, SiteGalerie, Düsseldorf, DE
2003
g-module, Paris, FR
Out of Memory, Henry Urbach Architecture, New York, USA
2000
Punctuation Drawings, Revolution Gallery, Detroit, USA
Two-person show with Alan Wiener, Gaga, New York, USA
Punctuation Drawings, Revolution Gallery, Detroit, USA
Two-person show with Alan Wiener, Gaga, New York, USA
1998
Derek Eller Gallery, New York, USA
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2019
By Any Means: Contemporary Drawing from the Morgan, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY, USA
2018
Gaze, Van Doren Waxter, New York, NY, USA
An Eccentric View, Mignoni, New York, NY, USA
2017
Gray Matters, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, USA
Worlding, University of Western Michigan, Kalamazoo, USA
2016
NYPOP Emerging Curatorial Series IV: Worlding mit L. Blalock, B. Hagari, A. Kurian, H. Pozanti, University of Western Michigan, Monroe-Brown Gallery, Michigan, USA
Heliotrops mit J. Case-Leal, W. Cordova, A.Cossio, C. Duncan a.o., Geary Contemporary, New York, USA
In Neuen Räumen, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE
The Actual, Eleven Rivington, New York, USA
2014
The Actual, Eleven Rivington, New York, USA
Mind The Gap, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE
2013
Black/White, Hamish Morrison Galerie, Berlin, DE
Ein Drittel Weiß, KIT, Düsseldorf, DE
FLOWERY, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE
2012
Im Gleichgewicht ist die Materie blind, kuratiert von Magdalena Holzey, Galerie Karin Sachs, München, DE
Falling Through Space Drawn by the Line, UB Art Gallery, Center for the Arts, Buffalo, USA
Rockslide Sky, The Center Gallery, Fordham University at Lincoln Center, USA
Field Conditions, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
2011
Cross–Check, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE
2010
Der Kern des Ganzen, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE
About The Details, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, DE
2009
2 x 3 x 10, Vertex List, Brooklyn, USA
2008
g-salon, g-module, Paris, FR
2007
More Possible Moves Than In Chess, Pluto, Brooklyn, USA
2006
Twice Drawn, Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, USA
2005
NextNext Visual Art, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, USA
New Turf, Fleming Museum, The University of Vermont, Burlington, USA
Decipher: Hand-Painted Digital, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, USA
Happy Birthday To Me, g-module, Paris, FR
Linear Geography, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, USA
2004
Airborne, Henry Urbach Architecture, New York, USA
Landscape, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Feed, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, USA
Architecture By Numbers, Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York, USA
Radial Gradient, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Franciso,USA
Open Range, Artemis Greenberg Van Doren, New York, USA
2003
The Drawn Page, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, USA
Rendered, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, USA
Online, Feigen Contemporary, New York, USA
The Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought, Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, USA
Immediate Medium, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY
The Incredible Lightness of Being, Black & White Gallery, Brooklyn, USA
2002
The Microwave, Cristinerose/Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York, USA
25th Anniversary Benefit Selections Exhibition, The Drawing Center, NYC, USA
Wish You Were Here, Revolution, Detroit, USA
Déjà Vu, g-module, Paris, FR
Pas de Deux, Revolution, Detroit, USA
Drawings of Choice from a New York Collection, Krannert Art Museum, Univeristy of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL (from the collection of Werner Kramarsky)
The Accelerated Grimace, Silverstein Gallery, New York, USA
Artists to Artists: A Decade of The Space Program, Ace Gallery, New York, USA
Reconfigure, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, USA
Landscape, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, USA
2001
Un/Ruled, Exhibit A, New York, USA
Superimposition, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, USA
Drawing (Selected), g-module, Paris, FR
Digital: Printmaking Now, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, USA
2000
Spacetimelinks, Penzenstadler & Schaller Architekten, Baar, CH
Art On Paper 2000, Weatherspoon Gallery, Greensboro, USA
Blurry Lines, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, USA
Drawing from Pierogi: Selections from the Flat Files, Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, USA
Cyber Drawings, Cristinerose Gallery, New York, USA
1999
Digital Sites, Numark Gallery, Washington, DC
1998
Group show, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, USA
1997
New York Drawers: Selections from Pierogi 2000, The Gasworks, London, UK
Current Undercurrent: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, USA
1996
Summer Selections, The Drawing Center, New York, USA
Press, Reviews etc (selection)
2018
The Village Voice, R.C. Baker, April 6
New York Observer, Margaret Carrigan, March 7
ARTnews, March 5
artnet news, Sarah Cascone & Caroline Goldstein, March 1
Cultured, The Art and Music Issue, February/March
2017
Moderns Painters, Margaret Carrigan, March/April Issue
Hyperallergic, Sarah Rose Sharp, January 30
2016
Blouin Artinfo, Margaret Carrigan, October 11
Wired, Liz Stinson, September 26
Art Review, Ken Johnson, The New York Times, May 5
Art Observed, May 7
The Huffington Post, Steven Zevitas, February 16
2015
Wall Street Journal, 2015
Artforum, Prudence Pfeiffer, Summer 2015
Art in Review, Martha Schwendener, The New York Times, March 20, 2015
Critics’ Pick, Zoë Lescaze, Artforum.com, March 2015
The New Yorker, “The Actual” Goings on about Town
http://www.brooklynrail.org/2015/04/artseen/marsha-cottrell
2013
2012
King, John. SFGate, “Architecture smaller in larger SFMOMA?”
2005
Baker, Kenneth. Art News, “Radial Gradient”
McQuaid, Cate. The Boston Globe, “Linear Geography”
2004
Chasin, Noah. Time Out New York, “Architecture by Numbers”
2003
Jara, Alicia. Lapiz, “Marsha Cottrell/Alan Wiener”
Jana, Reena. Art On Paper, “Punctuation Marks”
Rosin, Jessica. Art On Paper (online), “Marsha Cottrell”
Johnson, Ken. The New York Times, Art Guide
“Marsha Cottrell and Steve Robinson”
2002
Sirmans, Franklin. Time Out New York, “The Accelerated Grimace”
2001
Moody, Tom. Art Papers, “Palo Alto Dreamin’”
Levin, Kim. The Village Voice, Shortlist, “Superimposition”
2000
Setz, Annemarie. Neue Zuger Zeitung, “Spacetimelinks”
Schmerler, Sarah. Art On Paper, “Cyber Drawings”
Viveros-Fauné, Christian. New York Press, “Computer World”
Johnson, Ken. The New York Times, Art Guide, “Cyber Drawings”
1999
Protzman, Ferdinand. The Washington Post, “The Big Pixel”
Drumming, Neil. Washington City Paper, “Digital Sites”
1998
Schmerler, Sarah. Time Out New York, “Wayne Gonzales/Marsha Cottrell”
Publications and Editorial contributions (selection)
2011
Ian Berry, Jack Shear, Twice Drawn: Modern and Contemporary Drawings in Context, Prestel
2009
Christian Rattemeyer, The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawing Collection Catalogue Raisonné, The Museum of Modern Art, NY
2006
Jock Reynolds, Editor, 560 Broadway: A New York Drawing Collection at Work 1991–2006, Yale University Press
2005
Evelyn Hankins, New Turf, exhibition catalog, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont
2004
Moukhtar Kocache, Erin Shirreff, Wditors, Site Matters, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s World Trade Center Artists Residency 1997–2001
2003
David Rothenberg, Wandee Pryor, Editors, Writing on Air, MIT Press
2002
Joseph Hilfenstein, Amy Kuhl, Editors, Drawings of Choice from a New York Collection, exhibition catalog, Krannert Art Museum
Artists to Artists: A Decade of The Space Program, The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation
Selected public and corporate collections
DZ-Bank Kunstsammlung, Frankfurt, DE
The Art Institute of Chicago, USA
Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, DE
The Morgan Library and Museum, New York, NY, USA
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA
Neuberger Berman LLC, New York, NY, USA
Pfizer Inc., New York, NY, USA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Pollock Gallery, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX, USA
Progressive Corporation, USA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, New York, NY, USA