Erik Parker
Born:
1968 Stuttgart, Germany, Lives and works in New York City
Education:
1998 MFA, SUNY Purchase
1996 BFA, University of Texas at Austin
Solo Exhibitions:
2009
”Crisis Creation”, Paul Kasim, New York
2008
“Between Lines”, Marianne Boesky, New York
2007
“Liner Notes”, De Appel, Amsterdam
“Damage Control”, Honor Fraser, Los Angeles
2006
"Is it something i said?", Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen, Denmark
“Half Cocked”, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2005
Bob van Orsouw, Zurich, Switzerland
“Let the Good Times Roll,” Leo Koenig Inc., New York, NY
2004
“Situation Done Changed, Like Faces and Names”, Galerie Charlotte Moser, Geneva, Switzerland
“Rechannelled Sincerity,” Galerie Arndt & Partner, Berlin, Germany
2003
“Done By the Forces of Nature,” Taka Ishi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
“This Bitch of a Life,” Paolo Curti & Co., Milan, Italy, (Catalogue)
The Happy Lion, Los Angeles, CA
2002
“You Paint the Picture,” Leo Koenig, Inc, New York
Modern Art Inc., London, UK
Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Cornerhouse Museum of Contemporary Art, Manchester, UK
2001
Taka Ishi Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Paolo Curti Gallery, Milan, Italy
2000
“Thiswhiteboysteals, ”Leo Koenig Inc, New York
Group Exhibitions:
2008
FunFunFun, ARoS, Aarhus Art Museum, Denmark
2007
The Incomplete (the Morton G Neumann Family Collection), CAM - Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY
The IVAM, Valencia, Spain, is showing works from the Colección Valencia Arte
Contemporáneo (VAC), including works by Erik Parker (21. 12. 06 – 18. 2. 07).
“Pictorial Talk”, Galerie Charlotte Moser, Geneva, Switzerland
“The Melvins”, Mandrake, Los Angeles, CA Curated by Bob Nickas
“More is More: Maximalist Tendencies in Recent American
Painting”, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts. Tallahassee, FL
Curated by, Tatiana Flores, (Catalogue).
“The Sorcerer's Apprentice; Late Picasso and Contemporary Painters”,
Galleri Faurschou,Copenhagen, Denmark. Curated by Max Henry (Catalogue)
2006
Untitled (For H.C. Westermann), curated by Michael Rooks, the Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
"Cosmic Wonder," Yerba Buena Contemporary Art Center, San Francisco, CA
"Helter, Helter," Galerie Anne DeVillepoix, Paris, curated by Max Henry & Erik Parker
“Art on Paper”, 2006, Weatherspoon Art Museum, The University
of North Carolina at Greensboro, curated by Xandra Eden
“Reflections - 20 years”, Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen, Denmark
2005
Tantra: 2005 Benefit Print Portfolio
"Looking at Words; The Formal Presence of Text in Modern & Contemporary Works on Paper," Andrea Rosen Gallery
"Self Preservation Society," Leo Koenig Inc., NYC
“Leaving Cockaigne,” Leo Koenig Inc., NYC
2004
“Altered States”, Leo Koenig Inc., NYC
"Mothership Connection," Creative Research Lab, University of Texas, Austin
“Rimbaud”, curated by Max Henry, I-20 gallery, NYC
“Making Visible” Galerie Faurschou, Copenhagen, Denmark
“Majority Whip”, organized by Kathy Grayson & Laura Tepper, White Box, NYC
“… As Time Goes BY”, Gordian Weber Kunsthandel, Cologne Germany
2003
“…As Time Goes BY”, Leo Koenig Inc.
“One Planet Under a Groove”, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany, (traveling from Bronx Museum, NYC)
“Summer of Lust”, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Berkshires, New York
Nation”, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
“Intervista Con La Piittura,” Foundazione Bevilaqua La Mesa, curated by Gianni Romano
“Extra”, curated by Marc Olivier Wahler, March, (catalogue)
Jeff Elrod, Torben Giehler, Erik Parker, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
“Painting Pictures, Painting and Media in the Digital Age, ” organized by Gijs van Tuyl, KunstmusemWolfsburg, Germany (catalogue)
2002
Leo Koenig Las Vegas, Neonopolis, Las Vegas, NV
“Officina Americana”, Museo d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy (catalogue)
“ Rock My World”, curated by Ralph Rugoff, CCAC, San Francisco(catalogue)
“The Dubrow Biennale,” Kagan Martos Gallery, NY
“Dubuffet, e l’arte des graffiti,”
2001
“In Fumo”, group show at Galleria d’Arte Moderna e
Contemporanea, curated by Giancinto Di Pietrantonio, Bergamo, Italy.
“One Planet under a Groove”, Bronx Museum of Art, New York
Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
MOCA, Los Angeles.
“Erik Parker & Graham Gilmore”, Nicola Spovieri, London, UK
“The Americans”, Barbican Center, London, UK
“Come On Feel The Noise” Asbaek Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2000
“Greater New York,” P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, L.I.C., NY
1999
“The Leo Koenig Project,” John Weber Gallery, New York
“Visions,” in conjunction with Rikrit Tiravanija’s “Apartment 21,” Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
“In My Room,” White Columns, New York
“Artist in the Marketplace,” Bronx Museum, New York