Biography

Michael Scoggins was born in Washington D.C. in 1973 and gained an MFA in painting from the Savannah College of Art and Design in 2006. He has attended various prestigious residencies including the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in Maine, the MacDowell Colony in New Hampshire, and Fountainhead in Miami. Michael has gained international recognition and gallery representation in Atlanta, Miami, New York, Detroit, San Francisco, Seoul, Vienna and more. His works have been added to some notable collections including, but not limited to, the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles and the Museum of Modern Art in New York. Michael has had works exhibited in over twenty solo shows, fifty curated group exhibitions, and written about in numerous publications. He currently lives and works in the Hudson Valley, New York.

Curriculum Vitæ

Education

2006 MFA in Painting, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
1998 BA in Studio Art and Political Science, Mary Washington College, Fredericksburg, VA

Select Solo Exhibitions

2019 Great Exhibition Gallery, We Are Family (working title), Seoul, South Korea (catalog)
2018 Coop Gallery, Works by Michael Scoggins, Nashville, TN
2017 Mercer County Community College at The Gallery, #RealNews, West Windsor, NJ
2017 Great Exhibition Gallery, Michael Scoggins, Seoul, South Korea
2017 Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, ...Can You Hear Me Now!?, Birmingham, MI
2016 Texas A&M Corpus Christi at Weil Gallery, Americanism, Corpus Christi, TX
2016 Wasserman Projects, Michael Scoggins, Detroit, MI
2014 ADLER & Co. Gallery. Michael Scoggins, New Works, San Francisco, CA
2014 Freight+Volume, If You Can’t Say Something Nice, New York, NY (catalog)
2014 Gettysburg College at Schmucker Gallery, When Johnny Comes Marching Home, Gettysburg, PA (catalog)
2014 Saltworks Gallery at White Provisions, Dogfight, Atlanta, GA
2014 Guest Spot, Art Star, Baltimore, MD
2013 University of Tennessee Chattanooga at Cress Gallery, A Day in the Life, Chattanooga, TN
2013 Hilger Contemporary, Draw the Line, Vienna, Austria
2013 Gallery at Miami Country Day School courtesy of Diana Lowenstein Gallery, Big Time!, Miami, FL
2012 ADLER & Co. Gallery, Hang in there! [...decade in the making] , San Francisco, CA
2012 SCAD Hong Kong at Moot Gallery, Super Heroes, Hong Kong
2012 Freight+Volume, Us against Them, New York, NY
2012 Trailer Park Proyects, Colonialism, San Juan, Puerto Rico
2011 Savannah College of Art and Design at The River Club, ENTER: The Artist’s Mind, Savannah, GA
2011 Saltworks Gallery, Family Values, Atlanta, GA
2011 ADLER & Co. Gallery, Schoolyard of Life – New Works by Michael Scoggins, San Francisco, CA
2010 Diana Lowenstein Gallery, #1 Fan, Miami, FL
2010 Galerie Jeanroch Dard, I’m Building My Doomsday Machine (Parts 1 & 2), Paris, France

Selected Curated and Group Exhibitions

2019 Wasserman Projects, Portray: A Group Show, Detroit, MI
2018 Bedford Gallery at the Lesher Center for the Arts, World of Frida, Walnut Creek, CA
2018 Freight+Volume Gallery, Summer of Love, New York, NY
2018 CHARLIE SMITH London, Transcript, London, United Kingdom
2018 Samuel Owen Gallery, UP IN ARMS, Greenwich, CT
2017 FLAG Art Foundation, The Times, New York, NY
2017 Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, 99¢ or less, Detroit, MI (catalog)
2017 Hall Art Foundation, Ready. FIRE! Aim., Reading, VT
2017 Brooklyn Fire Proof In-Case Projects, Fractured Union, Brooklyn, NY
2016 Galerie Ernst Hilger at Mana Contemporary, I Love You, But You Make Me
Completely Crazy, Jersey City, NJ
2016 le Bel Ordinaire, No Shooting In This Area, Pau, France
2016 Galerie Ernst Hilger, The Hilger Collection. Part 1: Works on Wood and Paper, Vienna, Austria
2016 Trestle Gallery, Laughing Out Loud, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Union College at Mandeville Gallery, Textual, Schenectady, NY
2015 Transmitter, Politics, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Seoul Museum of Art, Peace Minus One, Seoul, South Korea (catalog)
2015 Guest Spot, Dirtier Words: Baltimore, Baltimore, MD
2015 Hunterdon Museum, To The Best of My Recollection, Clinton, NJ
2015 Victori+Mo Gallery at Catinca Tabacaru, Dirty Words, New York, NY
2014 Children’s Museum of Art, Drawn to Language, New York, NY (catalog)
2014 Wooster Museum of Art, Shapeshifting, Wooster, OH
2014 Wasserman Projects, Comic Relief, Detroit, MI
2014 Diana Lowenstein Gallery, Your Forest for My Trees, Miami, FL
2013 Sharon Arts Center, (con)TEXT, Peterborough, NH
2013 Freight +Volume, The Decline and Fall of the Art World, New York, NY
2013 Gallery Poulsen, The Wild Bunch, Copenhagen, Denmark
2013 Lu Magnus, Thanks, New York, NY
2013 Small Black Door, Exhibition Game, Queens, NY
2013 BravinLee Program, 100 Little Deaths, New York, NY
2012 Practice, The Cat Exhibition, Philadelphia, PA
2012 Caseworks Project at the University of Memphis Art Museum, New York South, Memphis, TN
2012 Brigham Young Museum of Art, We Could Be Heroes: The Mythology of Monsters & Heroes in Contemporary Art, Provo, UT
2011 Slate Grey Studio, WORD, Savannah, GA
2010 University of North Carolina Chapel Hill at The John and June Allcott Gallery, Note, Chapel Hill, NC
2010 Columbia College, Mano/Mundo/Corazon: Artist Interpret La Loteria, Chicago, IL
2010 Galerie Ernst Hilger, BildTexte, Vienna, Austria
2010 Saltworks Gallery, Summer Salon, Atlanta, GA
2010 Park Life, Simple Text, San Francisco, CA
2010 SCAD Gallery, Forward Motion, Hong Kong
2010 Peters Street Projects, Words: Language and Contemporary Art, Atlanta, GA
2010 George Krevsky Gallery, Rookies & Pros, San Francisco, CA
2010 CHARLIE SMITH London, Papyrophilla, London, United Kingdom
2010 The Blanton Museum of Art, Desire, Austin, TX

Selected Collections

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
Gettysburg College, Gettysburg, PA
Union College, Schenectady, NY
Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
Gramercy Park Hotel, New York, NY

Selected Residencies, Lectures, Curatorial Project, Awards and Slide Registries

2017 Mercer County Community College, Visiting Artist and Guest Lecturer, West Windsor, NJ
2017 Wassaic Project, Visiting Artist and Guest Lecturer, Wassaic, NY
2016 Texas A&M Corpus Christi, Visiting Artist and Guest Lecturer, Corpus Christi, TX
2016 Penn State @ Zoller Gallery, Marker Marks, Curator, State College, PA
2015 Brooklyn Fire Proof Temporary Storage Gallery, Marker Marks, Curator, Brooklyn, NY
2015 Art Garda, Artist in Residence, Sirmione, Italy
2015 Kind Aesthetic, Delve:Comedy + Art, Guest Lecturer, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Fountainhead Residency, Artist in Residence, Miami, FL
2013 The Diane Marek Visiting Artist Series, Visiting Artist and Guest Lecturer, Chattanooga,TN
2013 The MacDowell Colony, Artist in Residence, Peterborough, NH
2011 Savannah College of Art and Design, Teaching Artist in Residence, Savannah, GA
2011 Savannah College of Art and Design, Visiting Artist and Guest Lecturer, Savannah, GA
2009 SCAD DeFine Art, Discussion Panelist and Visiting Artist, Savannah, GA
2009 School of Visual Arts, Visiting Artist and Guest Lecturer, New York, NY
2009 Museum of Modern Art, 5X20X20, Guest Lecturer, New York, NY
2008 Artists for Obama
2004 Scope Miami 2003 Emerging Artist Grant, Scope Miami, Miami, FL
2004 Outstanding Independent Creative Achievement Award, SCAD, Savannah, GA
2003 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Artist in Residence, Skowhegan, ME
2003 Skowhegan Alumni Slide Registry, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2003 The Drawing Center, Slide Registry, New York, NY
2003 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Fellowship, Skowhegan, ME
2003 Certificate of Achievement, Rising Star Participant, New York International Art Expo, NY
1997 Emil Schnellock Award for Excellence in Painting, MWC, Fredericksburg, VA

Selected Publications, Press and Interviews

Smith, Roberta, What to See in New York City Art Galleries This Week, The New York Times, August 2017
Areum Kim, Truth Is Not Simple, ELLE Korea, June 2017
Carrigan, Margaret, When the New York Times Becomes Art, Artsy.net, June 2017
Scott, Ron, Michael Scoggins at Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Detroit Art Review, May 2017
Louden, Sharon, editor, The Artist as Culture Producer: Living and Sustaining a Creative Life, Intellect Books, 2017
Baranove, Kseniya, Top 9 Highlights from the Art on Paper fair, April 2017
Colucci, Emily, State of the Union at Spring/Break, ArtFCity, March 2017
Carey, Brainard, Michael Scoggins, Interview Yale University Radio WYBCX, April 2016
Lee, Lauren, Zoller Gallery presents Maker Marks Art Exhibit, The Daily Collegian, March 2016
Zhong, Fan, Cross Words, W Magazine, July 2015
Yoon, Hahna, G-Dragon, who you?, TimeOut Seoul, June 2015
Micchelli. Thomas, Tales from the Darkside: Narrative Drawings at the Hunterdon Art Museum, Hyperallergic, August 2015
Melissa Coleman and MC Stevens, 2 Fangirls and a Studio Visit, Arcade Project, April 2015
Alex Gingrow and Michael Scoggins, Three Questions, Two Artist, One Airport Bar, Whitehot Magazine, November 2014
Kirkman, Rebekah, Art Market, citypaper.com, January 2014
Browder, Amanda, Michael Scoggins, interview, Bad at Sports, July 2013
Cover, New York Magazine, January 2013
Baker, Kenneth, Cathy Cunningham-Little show in Oakland, San Francisco Chronicle, December 2012
Black, Heiji Choy, Artist Nick Cave’s Favorite Things, Chicago Magazine, November 2012
Yablonsky,Linda, High Volume, NY Style Magazine, October 2012
Knudsen, Stephan, Michael Scoggins: Drawing Attention To His Art, Professional Artist, March 2011
Ritch, Heath, editor, SALiTMagazine.com, Volume 3 / Issue 1, June 2010
Peng, Qi, editor , AnArtJournal.com, Spring 2010 (issue #1), June 2010

Full CV available upon request