William Powhida
powhida@gmail.com
Education
-Hunter College, New York, New York, M.F.A. Painting, January 2002
-Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, B.F.A. Painting with Honors, May 1998
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2012 Seditions, McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas
Selected Works on Paper, Lycoming College, Williamsport, PA
2011 Derivatives, Postmasters, New York
POWHIDA, Marlborough Gallery, New York
2009 The Writing is on the Wall, Schroeder Romero, New York
No One Here Gets Out Alive, Charlie James Gallery, LA
2008 Sell Out! The Bastard Tour, Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA
2007 This is a Work of Fiction…., Schroeder Romero, New York
A Study for Sofia Coppola’s Film ‘Powhida’, Haines Gallery, San Francisco
2006 Year_06 with Schroeder Romero Gallery, London, UK
Paper Beings, Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA
Joint Manifesto, Plus Ultra/Schroeder Romero Project Space, NY, NY
Everyone!, Dam Stuhltrager Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2004* Persona, Dam Stuhltrager Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2011 Terrible Beauty: Art, Crises, Change & The Office of Non-Compliance, Dublin Contemporary, Earlsfort Terrace, Dublin, Ireland
Hiding Places: Memory in the Arts, Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
Colorific, Postmasters Gallery, NY
Microwave 8, Josee Bienvenu Gallery, NY
LOL: A decade of antic art, The Baltimore Contemporary, Baltimore
Art on Art, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, NY
If These Walls Could Talk: A Conversation, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Marine, Santa Monica, CA
I Like the Art World and the Art World Likes Me, Elizabeth Foundation for the
Arts Project Space, New York, NY
Readykeulous: The Hurtful Healer, Invisible Exports, New York, NY
2010 Dirty Kunst, Seventeen Gallery, London, UK, curated by Christian Viveros-Faune
Run and Tell That! New Work from New York, Syracuse University Art Galleries,
Syracuse, NY
Art on Paper 2010: The 41st Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Museum,
Greensboro, NC
Magicality, Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA, organized by William Powhida and
Erik Trosko
The Irascible Assholes: New Paintings From New York, Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Trashed, Bystander Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
#class, Winkleman Gallery, New York, organized by Jennifer Dalton and
William Powhida
Two Degrees of Separation, Mandeville Gallery, Union College, Schenectady, NY,
curated by Rachel Seligman
MirrorMirror, Postmasters, New York
Escape from New York, curated by Olympia Lambert, Paterson, NJ
Press Art: from the collection of Annette and Peter Nobel, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
2009 Note to Self, Schroeder Romero, New York
The Making of Art: The Art World and its Players, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt,
Frankfurt, Germany, curated by Martina Weinhart, catalog
Mixing It Up: Recent Hunter MFAs Working in Combined Media, Bertha and Karl
Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College, New York
I Want You To Want Me, Marx & Zavattero, San Francisco
Contemporary Art and Portraiture, Cristin Tierney Fine Art Advisory Services,
New York
Summer Solistice, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY (collaboration)
Laugh it Off, Walter Maciel Gallery, Los Angeles, curated by Jane Scott
Funny Games, LOF (Load of Fun) Studios, Baltimore, curated by Jamillah James
2008 CAUCUS, Schroeder Romero, New York
Air Kissing: An Exhibition of Contemporary Art About the Art World, Arcadia
University Art Gallery, Glenside, PA. Curated by Sasha Archibald
Found, Voorkamer Home, Lier, Belgium
2007 SLOW, Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth, UK
New American Story Art, eyewash@Croxhapox Gallery, Ghent, Belgium
Air Kissing: An Exhibition of Contemporary Art About the Art World, Momenta
Art, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Sasha Archibald
2006 Word, Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA
Americana, Galeria Arteveintiuno, Madrid, Spain
The Matthew Barney Show, SFBOCA, San Francisco, CA
Pulse with Schroeder Romero, NY, NY
Leave New York, Sweet Home Gallery, NY, NY
2005 Aqua Art Miami with Platform Gallery, Miami, FL
ScopeMiami with Dam Stuhltrager Gallery, Miami, FL
Wagmag Benefit, Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Sasquatch Society, sixtyseven Gallery, NY, NY
IAM 5, Parker’s Box, Brooklyn, NY
Momenta Benefit, White Columns Gallery, New York, NY
2004 Art of the Neighborhood, Tastes Like Chicken Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Paperwork, Platform Gallery, Seattle, WA
Enchantment, Artspace, New Haven, CT
The Ballot Show, Front Room Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
New American Story Art Video and Performance, Eyewash Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Persona, Dam Stuhltrager Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Jamaica Flux: Workspace and Windows, JCAL, Queens, NY
Jumble, Dam Stuhltrager Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2003 Dirty Old Toy Box Video Screening, Fluxcore Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Drawing Conclusions: Work by Artist-Critics, NYArts, New York, NY
All messed up with nowhere to go, Dam Stuhltrager Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2002 Cooper Union Summer Residency Exhibition, Cooper Union, NY, NY
Reclamation, MFA Thesis Show, Hunter College Times Square Gallery, NY, NY
1998 Projection, BFA Thesis Show, The Drawing Room Gallery, Syracuse University, NY
Selected Bibliography/Interviews
Miranda, Carolina A. “Biting The Hand That Feeds Them”, Art News, Dec, 2011
Chayka, Kyle. Alanna Martinez, “8 New York Art Picks for This Week, From Urs Fischer’s Mystery Show to William Powhida’s “Derivatives”,” Artinfo, October 19, 2011
“Show & Tell: William Powhida Takes on the Plutocracy at Postmasters Gallery,” In The Air, Art+Aucion, Artinfo, October 10, 2011
Johnson, Ken. “’POWHIDA’,” The New York Times, August 4, 2011
Cooper, Ashton. “Artist William Powhida Discusses the Outrageous Misbehavior That Notorious Art-World Wastrel, William Powhida,” Artinfo, August 1, 2011
Gopnik, Blake. “An Artist Turns Us All Into Puppets,” Newsweek Daily Beast, July 28, 2011
Droitcour, Brian. “William, It Was really Nothing,” Artforum, August 1, 2011
Finch, Charlie. “William Powhida Useless Tool,” artnet.com, August 3, 2011
Powhida, William. “Dispatch from Sheboygan: Week Three,” Hyperallergic, July 30, 2011
Chayka, Kyle. “The Joke Is On Whom?: Looking for the Punchline in William Powhida’s Burlesque of Art Stardom at Marlborough Gallery,” Artinfo, July 28, 2011
Nathan, Emily. “New Art Gallery Ramble,” Artnet.com July 28, 2011
Vartanian, Hrag. “POWHIDA Is a VIP Douchebag,” Hyperallergic, July 28, 2011
Wallin, Yasha. “William Powhida and the Art of Social Commentary,” Flavorpill, July 27, 2011
Powhida, William “Dispatch from Sheboygan: Week Two,” Hyperallergic, July 22, 2011
Powhida, William. “Dispatch From Sheboygan: On Memory,” Hyperallergic, July 15, 2011
Hirsh, Faye. “The Everyone Artwork”, Art In America, May, 2011
Bhatnagar, Priya. “I like the Art World and the Art World Likes Me”, Frieze, May 2011
Kalm, James. “Brooklyn Dispatches: ‘B’ Fair To Brooklyn”, Brooklyn Rail,
May, 2011
Moret, A. “If These Walls Could Talk”, Whitehot Magazine of Contemporary Art, April 2011
Panero, James. “Gallery Chronicle”, New Criterion, February 2011
Salmon, Felix. “A Guide To The Market Oligopoly System”, Reuters,
December 28, 2010
O’Reilly, Sally. “Dirty Kunst”, Time Out London, December 22, 2010
Saltz, Jerry. “The Year in Art”, nymag.com, December 5, 2010
“Art, #class Interview with William Powhida and Jennifer Dalton”, Idiom.com,
July 13, 2010
Graves, Jen. “Magical Thinking”, The Stranger, July 6, 2010
Falvey, Emily. “All That Glitters Isn’t Gold:Kitsch, Bling-bling, and Bullshit”, ESSE arts + opinions, Spring / Summer, 2010
Cotter, Holland. “Art in Review: ‘#class’”, The New York Times, March 19, 2010
Haber, John. “Cutting Class”, Haberarts.com, March 11, 2010
Lindholm, Erin. “New York’s Satellite Fairs: Bling, String, and Subversive Things”, Artinamerica.com, March 10, 2010
“SHOW REVIEWED: #class at Winkleman Gallery, NYC”, Onereviewamonth.com, February 28, 2010
Diaz, Eva. “Critic’s Picks”, Artforum.com, February 28, 2010
Robinson, Walter. “Art Show as Think Tank”, Artnet.com, February 18, 2010
Lindholm, Erin. “The Art of the Crowd”, Artinamericamagazine.com,
February 16, 2010
“New Museum Suicide Drawing Can Be Yours”, Artinfo.com, January 15, 2010
Jackson, Candace. “#class Exhibit Challenges New Museum Show”, The Wall
Street Journal, January 1, 2010
Davis, Ben. “Ten Stories for 2009″, artnet.com, December 28, 2009
Kaplan, Steven. “William Powhida in A Tale of Three Covers”, post.thing.net,
December 26, 2009
Saltz, Jerry. “Unearthed Classics and Reinvented Forms: The Best Art of
2009″, nymag.com, December 20, 2009
Davis, Ben. “Lost in Miami”, artnet.com, December 11, 2009
Cave, Damien. “Tweaking the Big-Money Art World on Its Own Turf”,
The New York Times, December 6, 2009, pp. C1, C6
Taft, Catherine. “Critics Picks: William Powhida at Charlie James”, artforum.com, November 2009
Ollman, Leah. “Art review: William Powhida at the Charlie James Gallery”,
Los Angeles Times, November 13, 2009
Robinson, Walter. “Artnet News: New Museum Brouhaha Goes Supernova”,
artnet.com, November 12, 2009
Green, Tyler. “Artist William Powhida on the NuMu’s ‘suicide’”, Modern Art
Notes, November 3, 2009
The Brooklyn Rail, Cover illustration, November 2009
Hegardt, Bjorn. Fukt Magazine, Issue # 7 1/2, October, 2009
Wagner, James. “SchroRoWinkleFeuerBooneWildenRosenGosianGallery”,
jameswagner.com, May 14, 2009
Cotter, Holland. “Art in Review: William Powhida ‘The Writing is on the Wall’”,
The New York Times, Friday, May 8, 2009
Johnson, Paddy. “William Powhida at Schroeder Romero”, ArtFagCity.com,
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Orden, Erica. “Lastly, Play the Odds (But Just for Fun)”, New York, May 4,
2009, p. 41
Farr, Kristin. “Ode to CheapTrick: Art Review ‘I Want You to Want Me’”,
KQEDArts.org, April 26, 2009
Rowan, Lou (ed.). Golden Handcuffs Review, Spring-Summer 2009, Vol. I,
No. 11, pp. 81-86 (the artwork “How To Write a Masterpiece” reproduced)
Egan, Maura. “Members Only/Artist of the Month Club”, The New York Times
online, March 24, 2009
Art Lies, “Project Space”, pp. 24-29, reproduction of six works, Fall 2008
Bancroft, Shelly and Peter Nesbett. “Letters”, art on paper, May 2008, p. 10
Hogan, Felicity. “Featured Artist”, Lower East Side Printshop Newsletter, Spring
2008
Coburn, Tyler. “Special Focus: Reviews Marathon, New York; Air Kissing: Contemporary Art About the Art World; Momenta Art”, Art Review, February 2008
Joselit, David. “All Tomorrow’s Parties”, Artforum, February 2008, pp. 81-84
“You read it here first!”, The Art Newspaper, Art Basel Miami Beach Edition,
Weekend, 8/9 December 2007
Leffingwell, Ed. “William Powhida at Schroeder Romero”, Art in America,
October 2007, p. 204
Kalm, James. “William Powhida ‘This is a Work of Fiction’”, The Brooklyn Rail,
June 2007, p. 34
Saltz, Jerry. “This is a Work of Fiction”, Critics Pick, nymag.com, June 6, 2007
Waters, Juliet. “Chapbook Odyssey: ‘The Back of the Line’ illustrates the
dark and stormy dangers of incompetent minds”, Montreal Mirror,
May 17 2007
Wolff, Rachel. “‘New York’ Magazine Loves William Powhida. Sort of.”,
nymag.com, May 11 2007
Walczak, Larry, “Williamsburg/Brooklyn Art Scene”, blog.eyewashart.com, Sept. 10, 2006
Littman, Brett, “Material Culture”, www.wps1.org, edition #8, July 17th, 2006
Polnyi, Irene, “William Powhida, come back to New York”, MediumNYC, April 19th, 2006
Tran, Tam, “Dialogue”, www.the-wick.com, 2006
Graves, Jen, “I’m Nobody Still”, The Stranger, Vol. 15, No. 30, 2006
Kelly, Sue, “William Powhida”, The Seattle Weekly, April 5th – 11th. 2006
Miller, Jeffery, “William Powhida Interviewed by Jeffery Miller”, www.platformgallery.com, 2006
Kalm, James, “The Ballot Show”, The Brooklyn, Rail, January 2005
Lippens Nate, “Whimsy and Cocaine Ziggurats,” The Stranger, Dec 9th – 15th, 2004
Hackett, Regina, “These Artists’ Visions are all in ‘Paperwork’,” Seattle Post-
Intelligencer, December 3rd, 2004
Kalm, James, “Bill of Wrongs: Will the Real William Powhida Please Stand up,”
November/December 2004, Vol. 9, No. 11/12
Performances and Lectures
2011 University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
School of the Museum of Fine Arts
American University
2010 Syracuse University
Surviving the Art World Using the Art of Sorcery, Hyperallergic, Brooklyn, NY
Awards
2011 Kohler Arts Center Residency
2002 Cooper Union Summer Studio Residency
1998 3rd Place Salt Hill First Annual Hypertext Competition (Publication)
1998 Hiram Gee Senior Painting Award (Financial)
1997 Roswell Hill Junior Painting Award (Financial)
Collections
Whitney Museum of American Art
Selected Criticism
2006 “Cabin Comforts”, The Brooklyn Rail, July/August
“Jennifer and Kevin McCoy”, The Brooklyn Rail, April
“Pre-Occupation”, The Brooklyn Rail, April
“Urban Landscapes”, WAGMAG, May
“Ten New Paintings”, The Brooklyn Rail, February
2005 “Manufactured Landscapes: The photographs of Edward Burtansky,” The Brooklyn Rail, Nov
“Enemy Image,” The Brooklyn Rail, September
“Jon Paul Villegas,” The Brooklyn Rail, September
“Cai Guo-Qiang,” The Brooklyn Rail, June
“Under The Rainbow,” The Brooklyn Rail, June
“Eric Heist,” The Brooklyn Rail, May
“Jules DeBalincourt,” The Brooklyn Rail, April
“Tim Hawkinson at The Whitney Museum of American Art,” The Brooklyn Rail, March
“Jonathan Schipper and Simon Lee,” The Brooklyn Rail, March
“Thomas Lendvi,” The Brooklyn Rail, February
“Kerry James Marshall: One True Thing,” The Brooklyn Rail, December/January
2004
“Total Environment,” The Antiquer, October
“Seeing Others,” Marianne Boesky Gallery, The Brooklyn Rail, September
“WMD,” Front Room Gallery, The Brooklyn Rail, July/August
“Two enter and one leaves at YEAR,” The Brooklyn Rail, June
“Open House at BMA,” The Antiquer, June
“MoMA at El Museo,” The Antiquer, May
“Indigestable Correctness Parts I & II,” The Brooklyn Rail, May
“Abigail Lazkoz and Francisco Lopez at Momenta Art,” The Brooklyn Rail, April
“Paradise Now at The Asia Society,” The Brooklyn Rail, April
“Creative Time,” The Antiquer, April
“Olaf Breuning at Metro Pictures,” The Brooklyn Rail
“Crossing the Channel at The Met,” The Antiquer, February
“Uses of Americana in Contemporary Art,” The Antiquer, January
2003
“Guy Richards Smit at Satellite®,” The Brooklyn Rail, December/January
“David Opdyke at Roebling Hall,” The Brooklyn Rail, December/January
“Patrick Martinez at Parker’s Box,” The Brooklyn Rail, December/January
“Jason Middlebrook,” The Brooklyn Rail, November
“One on one,” The Brooklyn Rail, November
“Religious Desire,” artnet.com
“Jim Shaw at Metro Pictures,” The Brooklyn Rail, October
“The American Effect,” CIRCA, September
“Outpost,” The Brooklyn Rail, August-September
“Focus Group,” The Brooklyn Rail, August-September
“Exit Art Biennial,” The Brooklyn Rail, June-July
“Grounds,” The Brooklyn Rail, June-July
“Clutter and Clarity,” artnet.com
“Harriet Shorr,” The Brooklyn Rail, April-May
“Global Priority,” The Brooklyn Rail, April-May
* I don’t really exist before this.
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