Melissa Gordon takes up questions of authorship and abstraction in her ongoing serial projects: Blow Up Modernists, Structures for Viewing, and most recently, Material Evidence. In these series, Gordon implements her particular cache of gestures - enlarging hidden details, zooming in on patterns of reproduction, and distorting information with abstraction in paintings, silkscreens and installations – to reconfigure histories, surfaces, and iconographies through a feminist lens. With her sculptural installations, prints and paintings, Gordon takes a humorous and insightful stance vis-à-vis modernist art history, challenging the canon precisely through her close and unique reading of it.
Melissa Gordon works and lives in Brussels (BE).
2022 | Iris, Large Glass Gallery, London |
2022 | Resistances, Stigter van Doesburg, Amsterdam |
2021 | Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne |
2020 | Female Readymades, COSAR HMT, Dusseldorf |
2019 | Shits and Giggles, Deweer Gallery, Ottegem |
2016 | Fallible Space, The Bluecoat, Liverpool |
2016 | Derivative Value, Overbeek Gesselschaft, Luebeck |
2016 | Female Genius, Vleeshall, Middleburg |
2016 | The Gesture is a Joke, Deweer Gallery |
2014 | Mimetic Pleasures, Boesky East, New York |
2014 | Confusion Condition, Cosar HMT, Dusseldorf |
2014 | Modern Surfaces, Deweer Gallery |
2014 | ZOOOOM, Juliette Jongma Amsterdam |
2013 | Material Evidence, Spike Island, Bristol |
2013 | Blow Up Modernists, Cosar HMT, Dusseldorf |
2012 | Structures for Viewing, Marianne Boesky Gallery |
2010 | Collisions, (with Jessica Wiesner), Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam |
2009 | A Lonely Crowd, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York |
2009 | Two-Dimensional Men, Ancient & Modern, London |
2008 | Dirty Tricks of an Age of Moral Turpitude, Cosar HMT, Düsseldorf |
2008 | War of the Ghosts, Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam |
2007 | ABN AMRO Kunstprijs, ABN AMRO, Amsterdam |
2007 | Exquisite Corpse, Ancient and Modern, London |
2006 | The Only Man in There, Cosar HMT, Düsseldorf |
2006 | Genealogies Part II, Preview Art Fair, with Cosar HMT, Berlin |
2006 | Genealogies Part I, Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam |
2005 | What you can't see could kill you, De Ateliers, Amsterdam |
2018 | The Mechanics of Fluids, curated by Melissa Gordon, Boesky Gallery New York |
2018 | This is the Gallery and the Gallery is Many Things, Eastside Projects, Birmingham |
2018 | The Merry-Go-Around, Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam |
2018 | Collector’s Room #18: Out of Time - In Search of Stillness, Deweer Gallery, Otegem |
2017 | Salon Hang, Kunstverein Amsterdam |
2017 | Something Stronger Than Me, WIELS, Brussels |
2017 | The Oslo Museum of Contemporary Art, Kunsthal, Oslo |
2016 | Modern Talk, Günther Förg / Melissa Gordon, Thomas Kratz & George Little, Deweer Gallery, Otegem |
2015 | WE (Not I), Artists Space, New York |
2015 | as it seems, COSAR HMT, Düsseldorf |
2015 | WE (Not I), South London Gallery |
2015 | Making Sense, Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam |
2015 | Salon Hang, Kunstverein Amsterdam |
2014 | Structures for Viewing, Deweer Gallery |
2014 | During the exhibition the studio will be close, curated by Lorenzo Benedetti, Wiels |
2014 | Biënnale van de Schilderkunst, Roger Raveelmuseum, Mechelen and Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle |
2014 | Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels |
2013 | HERstories, Bonner Kunstverein, with Rita McBride and Marlene Dumas |
2013 | Yellowing of the Lunar Consciousness, curated by Andrea Bruciati, Galleria Massimo Deluca, Venice |
2013 | 15 for 50, Art on the Underground, London |
2013 | And Beyond Painting, Cosar HMT, Dusseldorf |
2013 | Specific Collisions, Marianne Boesky Uptown Gallery |
2012 | Art & Press, Zentrum for Kunst und Media, Karlsruhe |
2012 | Fact Mystic, Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam |
2012 | Parallax Curtain, S1, Sheffield |
2012 | Art & Press, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin |
2012 | Re-Opening, Deweer Gallery, Ottigem, Belgium |
2012 | Kunstverein Malkasten, Dusseldorf |
2012 | No Comment, LABOUR launch and performance, Kunsthall Oslo |
2012 | Art in the Parking Space, LAX Art, Los Angeles |
2011 | 5x5, Espai d´art contemporani de Castelló, Castelló |
2011 | Future Forward, The Temporary Stedelijk, Amsterdam |
2011 | Theatre of Pain, Performance, Ancient & Modern, London |
2011 | Ever Changing Moods, Performance, Autoitalia, London |
2011 | Specific Collisions, Telephone Painting, Cosar HMT, Dusseldorf |
2011 | Group Velocity, Märkisches Museum Witten |
2011 | Madame Reaslism, curated by Lisette Smits, Marres Center for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht |
2010 | Philara Project Space, Dusseldorf |
2010 | Monumentalism(e), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL Lush Life, Scaramouche Gallery, New York |
2010 | Precarity and the Butter Tower, CTRL Gallery, Houston |
2010 | Dorothea von Stetten Kunstprijs, Kunstmuseum Bonn |
2010 | AIR Biennale, Ewing Gallery, Knoxville |
2010 | The Library of Babel/In and Out of Place, Zabludowicz Collection, London |
2010 | Paying A Visit to Mary, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield |
2009 | Variations on a Theme, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago |
2009 | All Cretans Are Liars, Said the Cretan, Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam |
2009 | Pictural Abstraction, Tache-Levy Gallery, Brussels |
2009 | Your Gold Teeth, Marianne Boesky Gallery |
2009 | Mental Puberty, STORE Gallery, London |
2009 | PRIVAT, Heydt-Museum Wuppertal |
2009 | I Love the BeNELux, Virgil de Voldere Gallery, New York |
2009 | Rebell, Art and Feminsm 1969-2009, MMKA, Arnhem |
2009 | True Lies, Kunsthaus Essen |
2008 | Prague Triennale, National Gallery, Prague |
2008 | Something and Something Else, Museum Van Bommel Van Dam, Venlo |
2008 | DUMA, Wiels Contemporary Art Center, Brussels |
2008 | Black Bile, Red Humour, b05 Art and Design Center, Montebaur |
2008 | Early Bird, Kunstverein Dorsten |
2007 | Showroom, Mai 36, Zürich |
2007 | The Painted Object, Harris Lieberman, New York |
2007 | Dealing with Reality, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem |
2007 | Lost and Found, Shedhalle, Zürich |
2007 | Ballet Mécanique, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London |
2007 | Compilation III, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf |
2007 | The Collector’s Art, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf |
2006 | Among the Ash Heaps and Millionaires, Ancient and Modern, London |
2006 | Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam |
2005 | Koninklijke Prijs voor Vrije Schilderkunst 2005, GEM, Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Den Haag |
2005 | Voices, Rotermann's Salt Storage Contemporary Art Museum, Tallinn |