1951 Born High Point, North Carolina
lives in New York
Education
1969-73 Boston University Art Program at Tanglewood, Lenox, Massachusetts
1973 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Cornell University, Ithaca
New York Studio School, New York
Von Lintel Gallery, New York
Von Lintel Gallery, New York
Von Lintel Gallery, New York
Jeremiads, Von Lintel Gallery, New York
Flaschenpost, Galerie Ascan Crone, Hamburg Germany
Von Lintel Gallery, New York
Galerie Von Lintel & Nusser, Munich
Numark Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Complete Etchings, Neils Borch Jensen, Verlag Und Druck, Berlin
Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan
Von Lintel & Nusser Gallery, New York
Galerie von Lintel & Nusser, Munich, Germany
Wall Painting, Project Room, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
Patrick de Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
Marella Arte Contemporanea, Sarnico, Italy (catalogue)
Galerie Thomas von Lintel, Munich
André Emmerich Gallery, New York
Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam
Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris
Paintings, Max Planck Institute, Munich
Galerie Thomas von Lintel, Munich
Monotypes, André Emmerich Gallery, New York
Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris
Elizabeth Koury Gallery, New York
Baumgartner Gallery, Washington D.C.
Galerie Ascan Crone, Hamburg (catalogue)
Elizabeth Koury Gallery, New York
Koury Wingate Gallery, New York
Galerie Ascan Crone, Hamburg
Koury Wingate Gallery, New York
Galerie 86, Europäische Akademie für Bildende Kunst, Trier, German
Paintings, Galerie Alfred Kren, Cologne
Drawings, Galerie Alfred Kren, Cologne
Baskerville and Watson Gallery, New York
Abstraction Revisited, Chelsea Art Museum, New York
Octet: Selected Works from the School of Visual Arts, Pera Museum, Istanbul
More Than Words, Von Lintel Gallery, New York
Rose Colored Glasses (salut to rirkrit, peggy, and frederick!), Gavin Brown Enterprise at Passerby, New York
Sets, Series, and Suites: Contemporary Prints, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Banners, Rubin Museum of Art, New York
Taller Niels Borch Jensen, Museo Nacional de la Estampa, Mexico
Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture , American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Exhibition of Recent Gifts and Acquisitions, University of Massachusetts Fine Arts
Center, Amherst, MA
Before and After Science, Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan
ZENROXY, curated by Ivan Vera, Von Lintel Gallery, New York
Jump, Painting Center, New York, NY
Seven Grays, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Visiting Faculty Exhibition, Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Layered, curated by Robert Edelman, Anita Friedman Gallery, New York.
Generazionale: indagine sulle nuove generazioni, Basilica Palladiana, Vicenza,
Italy (catalogue).
Works on Paper, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Visiting Lecturers, Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, Carpenter
Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge
Come In and Find Out, Podewil Center for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Flux et Transparences, curated by Christine Buci-Glucksmann and Catherine Perret,
Galerie Les Filles Du Calvaire Art Contemporain, Paris
Deep Field Painting, Hunter College Art Gallery, New York
Super-Abstr-Action, Galerie Les Filles Du Calvaire Art Contemporain, Paris
A Breath of Fresh Air, curated by Elga Wimmer, Christy’s Building Art Center,
Sag Harbor, New York
Peinture demarches actuelles 1, Villa du Parc, Annemasse, France
Do Paintings Dream of Veronese Green? curated by Maia Damianovic,
Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York
Four Painters, Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
One by One, Galerie von Lintel & Nusser, Munich
Six Painters, (Baroque Geometry), curated by Tom Cugliani, Marlborough Chelsea
Gallery, New York (catalogue)
New York Stories, Diatonia, Commune di Faenza Assessorato alla Cultura,
Faenza (catalogue)
Vertical Painting, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City
Small Paintings, The Green on Red Galleries, Dublin
Paintings, Manfred Baumgartner Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Das Abstrakte, Galerie Thomas Rehbein, Cologne
Graphite on Paper, Galerie Thomas von Lintel, Munich
Abstraction/ Abstractions: Conditional Geometries curated by Eric de Chassey and
Camille Morianeau, Musee d’Art Moderne de Saint Etienne (catalogue)
After the Fall: Aspects of Abstract Painting Since the 1970s, curated by Lily Wei,
Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island (catalogue)
Nuevas Abstracciones, curated by Enrique Juncosa, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, (catalogue);Contemporani, Barcelona; Kunsthalle Bielefeld
André Emmerich Gallery, New York
Transatlantica:The American-European Nonrepresentational, Museo de
Artes Visuales Alejandro Otero, Caracas (catalogue)
New York Abstraction, Macdonald Stewart Art Center, Guelph, Ontario
Made in USA: Original Works on Paper, Galerie Bob van Oursow, Zurich
Stephen Ellis and Lydia Dona, Manfred Baumgartner Gallery, Washington D.C.
New York on Paper, Galerie Thomas von Lintel, Munich
Abstraction fromTwo Coasts, Douglas Lawing Gallery, Houston
Drawings and Prints, Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City
Albert Baronian Gallery, Brussels
Just a Story from America, Galleria in Arco, Turin
Promissory Notes, Artifact Gallery,Tel Aviv, (catalogue)
New York Abstract Painting, Salvatore Ala Gallery, New York
Tavelli Gallery, Aspen, Colorado
Reveillon 94, Stux Gallery, New York
Italia-America/L'Astrazione Ridefinita, curated by Demetrio Paparoni, Museo di Stato,
San Marino (catalogue)
Galerie Weber, Münster
Prospect 93, curated by Peter Weiermair, Kunstverein Frankfurt (catalogue)
Works on Paper, Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna
The New Abstraction, 'Roberta Lietti Gallery, Como
Sailing to Byzantium with Disenchantment, curated by Elio Cappuccio, Sergio Tossi
Arte Contemporanea, Prato (catalogue)
University of Texas, Arlington
Evelyn Aimis Gallery, Boca Raton
Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica
Who's Afraid of Duchamp, Minimalism, & Passport Photography? curated by Collins
and Milazzo, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York (catalogue)
Mars Gallery, Tokyo
Slow Painting, P.S.1, Institute for Contemporary Art, Long Island City
Abstract Painting Between Analysis and Synthesis, Galerie Nächst St. Stephan,
Vienna, (catalogue)
Rubin Spangle Gallery, New York
Conceptual Abstraction, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (catalogue)
La Metafisica della Luce, curated by Demetrio Paparoni, John Good Gallery,
New York (catalogue)
Architectures, curated by Demetrio Paparoni, Galleria in Arco, Turin (catalogue)
Ian Davenport, Stephen Ellis, James Nares, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
New Generations: New York, curated by Elaine King, Carnegie Mellon University Art
Gallery, Pittsburgh (catalogue)
Invitational, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
Hybrid Abstract, curated by Joshua Decter, Usdan Gallery, Bennington College
Outside America/Going into the 90's, curated by Collins and Milazzo, Fay Gold
Gallery, Atlanta
Who framed Modern Art or the Quantitative Life of Roger Rabbit? curated by Collins
and Milazzo, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (catalogue)
Small Works, Koury Wingate Gallery, New York
Christian Eckart, Stephen Ellis, Alain Kirili, Imi Knoebel, Koury Wingate, New York
Ten Abstract Painters, Baumgartner Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Stripes, Bands and Bars - Abstraction enters the 90's, Schmidt/Markow, St. Louis
Token Gestures, curated by Collins and Milazzo, Scott Hanson Gallery, New York
Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia
Drawings, Daniel Newburg Gallery, New York
Invitational, Shea & Becker, New York
Herbstsalon, curated by Ludwig Göhr, DuMont Kunsthalle, Cologne, (catalogue)
Projects and Portfolios, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn (catalogue)
Three Portfolios - Stephen Ellis, Sol Lewitt, Fred Sandback, Alfred Kren, Cologne
Drawings, Lawrence Monk Gallery, New York
Works on Paper, Shea & Becker, New York
Dike Blair, Stephen Ellis, General Idea, Koury Wingate Gallery, New York
Multiples, curated by Wolfgang Staehle, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
Pyramids, curated by Desiré Feurle, ICC Berlin and Jule Kewenig Galerie, Cologne
1987
Schwarz, Galerie Alfred Kren, Cologne
Black, Alfred Kren Gallery, New York
Drawings, Barbara Toll Gallery, New York
New Paintings, Exit Art, New York
Flora, Fauna, Etc., curated by Michael Klein, Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York
Four Artists, Anderson Gallery, curated by Marilyn Zeitlin, Virginia Commonwealth
University, Richmond
A New Humanism, University Gallery, University of South Florida, Tampa
Watercolors, curated by Roberta Smith, P.S.1, Institute for Art and Urban Resources,
Long Island City
Ackland Art Museum, UNC, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Asheville Museum of Art, Asheville, N.C.
Ashmolean Museum, Oxford University, Great Britain
Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland
Columbia University, New York, New York
Denver Museum of Art, Denver
Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Fonde Nationale Art Contemporain (FNAC) France
Luther W. Brady Art Gallery, George Washington University, Washington, DC
Max Planck Institute, Munich
Meade Art Museum, Amherst College, Amherst, Massachusetts
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee
University Gallery, U. of Massachusetts, Amherst Massachusetts
2005 Joan Mitchell Grant in Paintiing
2004 Purchase Prize, American Academy & Institute of Arts and Letters
1991 National Endowment for the Arts Grant in Painting
1985 New York Foundation for the Arts Grant in Painting
Godfrey, Tony, Painting Today, Phaidon Press, London, hardcover, 2009, p. 147, 149, 321, 327,342, 435, ill.
Brennen, Michael, Stephen Ellis, Von Lintel Gallery, The Brooklyn Rail, May 2006, p. 20
Naves, Mario, Though Uncertainty Continue, Ellis Lets Paint Do the Talking, The New York Observer, April 24, 2006
Heartney, Eleanor, Stephen Ellis at Von Lintel, Art in America. June/July 2004, p. 177-178 Cohen, David, Gallery Going, The New York Sun, March 11, 2004
Mac Adam, Alfred, Stephen Ellis at Von Lintel, Art News, February, 2004, p. 113-114
Unsigned review, Stephen Ellis, The New Yorker, January 19, 2004, p.19
Unsigned review, Von Lintel Gallery, TimeOut New York, January 9-15 2004, p.69
Reed, John, The Primary Force in Politics: Stephen Ellis at Von Lintel Gallery, Gay City News, Vol. 2, Issue 51, Dec. 18-24, 2003 (online review)
Wei, Lilly, Stephen Ellis at Von Lintel, Art in America, December 2002
Reitzfeld, Robert, Eleven Artists, NY Arts, November 2002, p. 80
Naves, Mario, Currently Hanging: ‘Jump Factor,’ New York Observer, November 18, 2003, p. 20
Sciaccaluga, Maurizio, Ai confini della Realta: Astrattisti anni Ottanta, Arte, Milan, October 2002, p. 122-128
Robinson, Walter, Stephen Ellis, Artnet (website), June 2002
Naves, Mario, Stephen Ellis, The New York Observer, June 24, 2002, p. 16
Schwarzer, Marjorie, The Future of the Museum Visit, Museum News, July/August, 2001, Washington, D.C., illus.: cover, p. 3, 37, 38
D'Souza, Aruna & McDonough, Tom, Time and the Grid: the Paintings of Stephen Ellis,
Stephen Ellis: Paintings, Edition Lintel & Nusser, New York & Munich, 2001
Tillman, Lynne, A Picture of Time, Stephen Ellis: Paintings, Edition Lintel & Nusser, New York & Munich, 2001, p. 5-6
Dawson, Jessica, From Stephen Ellis, The Grid Unlocked, The Washington Post, April 19, 2001
Debailleaux, H.-F., Flux artistiques: six peintres revisitent l’abstraction, Libération, Paris,January 17, 2001
Dagen, Phillipe, Des nouvelles fraîches, ou moins fraîches, de l’abstraction, Le Monde, Paris,January 15, 2001
Finch, Mick, Peinture: Trois Regards, Contemporary Visual Arts No. 33, UK, p. 70-71
Borghi, Roberto, Stephen Ellis, Segno, Milan, December-January 2001, p. 45
Unsigned review, Marella Arte Contemporanea: Stephen Ellis, Kult, Milan, November 2000.
Buci-Glucksmann, Christine, Flux et Transparences, catalogue essay for “Peinture: trois regards.” les filles du Calvaire Art Contemporain, Paris, 2000, p.92 and 117
Karcher, Eva and Hoffmans, Christiane, Ein Blick in ganz private Museen, Bunte, #40, Sept. 28, 2000, p. 66
McDonough, Tom, Stephen Ellis at Von Lintel & Nusser, Art in America, September 2000, p. 151
Naves, Mario, Stephen Ellis, The New York Observer, March 6, 2000.
Johnson, Ken, Stephen Ellis, Von Lintel & Nusser, The New York Times, February 25, 2000
Karcher, Eva and Hoffmans, Christiane, Ein Blick in ganz private Museen, Bunte #40, September 28, 2000
Buci-Glucksmann, Christine, Flux et Transparences, exhibition catalogue, Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris, Fall 2000
McDonough, Tom, Stephen Ellis at Von Lintel & Nusser, Art in America, September 2000 Johnson, Ken, Stephen Ellis, Von Lintel & Nusser, The New York Times, February 25, 2000.
Erfle, Anne, Kräfte gegen neue Medien, Süddeutsche Zeitung, February 11, 1999
Horny, Tinga Hier regiert die Vielfalt, Kunstmarkt, February 11, 1999
Unsigned Review, Aktuelle Malerei: 32 Internationale Positionen, Noema Art Journal; no. 50, Vienna, 1998, p. 102
Unsigned Review, Stephen Ellis bij Patrick de Brock, De Staandaard, Brussels, August 19, 1998
Lambrecht, Luk, Index van abstracte schilderkunst, De Morgen, Brussels, August 14, 1998
Di Raddo, Elena, L’astrazione ridefinita, Tema Celeste, Milan, March- April 1998, p. 82-83
Corradini, Mauro, Stephen Ellis a Sarnico dall’America con furore, Bresciaoggi, Brescia, Italy, December 16, 1997, p. 19
Buci-Gllucksmann, Christine, Abstraction: From Marcel Duchamp to Cartography, Trans magazine, New York, 1997, p .122
Paparoni, Demetrio, Stephen Ellis (catalogue essay), Marella Arte Contemporanea, Sarnico, Italy 1997
Good, John, Abstraction at the End of the Millenium. Speak, San Francisco, Fall 1997, p. 52-57
Paparoni, Demetrio, Il Corpo Vedente dell’Arte, Castelvecchio, Rome, 1997, p. 50-51, 55-56,60
Paparoni, Demetrio, IlCorpo Parlante dell’Arte, Castelvecchio, Rome, 1997, p. 95-100
de Chassey, Eric, Creating Meaning, Abstractly, New Territories in Painting, Ecole Regionale des Beaux-Arts de Valence, 1997, p. 28, 30
Kalina, Richard, The Uncomfortable Armchair, New Territories in Painting, Ecole Regionale des Beaux-Arts de Valence, 1997, p. 63,66
Ellis, Stephen, Artist’s Statement, New Territories in Painting, Ecole Regionale des Beaux-Arts de Valence, 1997, p.43-44
Gourvil, Olivier, Introduction, New Territories in Painting, Ecole Regionale des Beaux-
Arts de Valence, 1997, p. 6, 8, 12
Paparoni, Demetrio, Ein Neues Verstandnis von Abstraktion, Noema Art Journal,
Vienna, No. 44, June-July 1997, p. 43-44
Paparoni, Demetrio, L’Astrazione Ridefinita, Tema Celeste, Milan, No. 58, Autumn, 1996, p. 32-39 and cover
Wei, Lilly (ed.), After the Fall: Aspects of Abstract Painting Since 1970 (exhibition
catalogue), Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, NY, 1997, p. 52 (ill), 126-127, 168
Ostrow, Saul, More Parts to the Whole:Revised and Reformed, essay in text catalogue
for After the Fall: Aspects of Abstract Painting since 1970, Ibid, p. 36-43
Unsigned Review, Nuevas Abstracciones, Nueva Alcarria, Madrid, July 7, 1996
Unsigned Review, New Abstractions, Guidepost, Madrid, May 17, 1996, p.11
Unsigned Review, 29 Artistas Presentan las Nuevas Formas de Abstraccion en una Muestra que Reune 60 Obras, El Pais, Madrid, April 26, 1996
Tallman, Susan, The Contemporary Print, Thames and Hudson, London, 1996, p. 183-184
Benjamin, Andrew, What is Abstraction, Academy Editions, London, 1996
Kesenne, Joannes, De Amerikaanse abstracten van de jaren negentig, Kunst & Cultur, Amsterdam, May 1996, p. 6-9
Ziolkowski, Thad, Stephen Ellis at Andre Emmerich Gallery, Artforum, May 1996, p. 101
Kalina, Richard, Stephen Ellis at Andre Emmerich, Art in America, May 1996, p. 105
Kimmelman, Michael, Stephen Ellis, The New York Times, February 16, 1996
Damianovic, Maia, Painting on the Horns of a Dilemma, Artpress 211, April 1996, p. 30-36
Ostrow, Saul, Un ensemble fragmente: Le peinture abstraite apres le modernisme, Art
Press (Ou est passee la peinture) Paris, Oct. 1996 p. 157-162
Denson, G. Roger, Representing Abstraction Representing (on Stephen Ellis and Lydia
Dona) essay in catalogue for 1995 show at Manfred Baumgartner Gallery
Damianovic, Maia, Adde-Venture (on Stephen Ellis and Fabian Marcaccio), Abstraction:
Journal of Philisophy and Visual Arts, no. 5, New York, St. Martin’s Press, 1995, p. 72-79
Marcelis, Bernard, Choix de Bruxelles:Espace Jacqmotte, Art Press (no. 193), Paris, Brussels
Levine, Angela, Abstract Art from America, The Jerusalem Post Magazine, Spring, 1994
Smadar, Shefi, Promissory Notes, Ha’aretz, Spring, 1994
Damianovic, Maia, Promissory Notes, essay for Fractured Seduction, Artifact Gallery, 1994
Schwartz, Arturo, Una Mostra da non Perdere, Segno, no. 126, September 1993, p. 38
Brody, Jacqueline, Stephen Ellis, Print Collector’s Newsletter, May-June 1993, p 62.
Danto, Arthur C., Art After the End of Art, Artforum, April 1993, p. 62
Jones, K. Marriott, Stephen Ellis, Artforum, February 1993, p. 101
Wagner, Thomas, Der Saurier Schreit, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, April 7, 1993, p.33
Scott, Sue, Stephen Ellis, ARTNews, January 1993, p. 144
Smolik, Noemi, New York nach dem Marktzusammenbruch, Kunstforum International, 1992
McGrath, Patrick, Abstract Monsters, Parkett 34, December 1992 (article)
Tricia Collins and Rochard Milazzo, Who’s Afraid of Duchamp, Minimalism & Passport
Photography?, exhibition catalogue, Annina Nosei Gallery, October 1992
Moser, Ulli, Abstrakte Malerei zwischen Analyse und Synthese, Kunstforum, May 1992, p. 371
Kravagna, Christian, Symposium:Abstrakte Malerei, Das Kunst-Bulletin (Vienna), April 1992
Madoff, Steven Henry, A New Lost Generation, ARTnews, April 1992, p. 73
Gorsen, Peter, Im Totentanz der Stile, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, March 5, 1992, p.31
Ubi, Ralph, Sprache, unuberwindlich, Die Presse (Vienna), February 7, 1992
Brody, Jacqueline, Stephen Ellis, Print Collector’s Newsletter, January– February 1992, p. 212
Paparoni, Demetrio ,La Metafisica della Luce, exhibition catalogue, John Good Gallery, New York, November 1991
Review, The New Yorker, October 28, 1991
Denson, G. Roger, Stephen Ellis at Koury Wingate, FlashArt, March-April 1991, p. 139
Paparoni, Demetrio, Stephen Ellis, Tema Celeste, March-April 1991, p. 48 (article)
Adams, Brooks, Stephen Ellis, Art in America, April 1991, p. 163
Decter, Joshua, Stephen Ellis, Arts Magazine, February 1991, p. 103
Abs, Andreas, Stahlkugeln, Striche, Pinselabdruecke, Kolner Stadt-Anzeiger, February 4, 1989
Tricia Collins and Richard Milazzo, From Kant to Kitsch and Back Again, Tema Celeste, January-February 1991, p. 76-80
Brenson, Michael, Stephen Ellis, The New York Times, November 23, 1990, p. C-4
Ostrow, Saul, Stephen Ellis at Koury Wingate, Tema Celeste, March 1990, p. 68
Schwabsky, Barry, Abstract Painting:The Late Eighties, exhibition catalogue, Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, February 1-March 3, 1990
Cotter, Holland, Stephen Ellis, Art in America, December 1989, p. 78
Heartney, Eleanor, Stephen Ellis, ARTnews, December 1989, p. 161
Kalina, Richard, Stephen Ellis, Arts, December 1989, p. 78
Fischer, Alfred M., Herbstsalon 1989, Stephen Ellis, Dumont Kunsthalle, Cologne, p. 27
Kimmelman, Michael, At a Show Featuring Prints, the Subject is Ambition, The New York Times, October 6, 1989, p. C-27
Decter, Joshua, Dike Blair, Stephen Ellis, General Idea, Arts Magazine, March 1989, p.96
Brody, Jacqueline, Stephen Ellis, Japanese Gothic, Print Collector’s Newsletter, July-August 1988, p.114
Kiesters, Jurgen, Stephen Ellis bei Galerie Kren, Kolner Stadtanzeiger, December 1987
Kren, Alfred, Suche nach dem Weg aus der Krise, Kunst, December 1987
Showcase of New Work, New York, Bomb, Winter, 1987
Kiesters, Jurgen, Sparsame Farbigkeit, Kolner Stadtanzeiger, December, 1986
Dialogo tra S.P. e S.E. (Stefano Peroli and Stephen Ellis), Juliet Art Magazine, Trieste, #90, ‘98-January ‘99, pp. 30-31
After The Fall, Tema Celeste, Milan, December 1991
Spleen and Ideal, (Ross Bleckner's "Architecture of the Sky" series), Parkett, #20, Summer 1989
The Boys in the Bande (on Martin Kippenberger, Albert Oehlen and Georg Herold), Art in America, December 1988
Metaphorical Morphologies, (on Terry Winters paintings), Art in America, September 1988
Something Different, Bomb magazine, Spring 1987
Expanded Pictograms, (on Ronald Bladen's Sculpture), Art in America, April 1987
Theory of Practice/Practice of Theory, essay accompanied by drawings, Code, Amsterdam 1987
The Elusive Gerhard Richter (on Richter's Retrospective in der Städtischen Kunsthalle Düsseldorf), Art in America, July, 1986
At Order`s Edge, (on Barry Le Va's drawings), Art in America, July, 1986
The Bronze Age, the Iron Age, the Age of Gold, Issue magazine, no. 3, 1985
Irony and Exploration Issue magazine, no. 1, 1984