Lisa Kirk

Page 1 | Biography

Born: Newport RI
Lives: New York City

Education
1994 M.F.A., The University of California, Irvine
1987 B.F.A., The School of Visual Arts, NYC


Solo Exhibitions
2011 IF YOU SEE SOMETHING, SAY SOMETHING, Invisible-Exports, New York City
2010 REVOLUTION!, SmartSpaces, New York City
2009 House of Cards, Invisible-Exports, New York City
2007 REVOLUTION!, PS1, MOMA, New York City
REVOLUTION!, Galer�a Comercial, San Juan, PR
REVOLUTION!, Steven Wolf Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2004 The Greatest Show on Earth, Participant, New York City
Sympathetic Resonance, False Front, New York City
1999 Xchange, The Greene County Council on The Arts Gallery, NY


Group Exhibitions
2011 Camapign, Curtated by Amy Smith-Stewart, C24 Gallery, NYC (catalogue)
2011 Electronic Arts Festival, Governors Island, NYC
The Impressionables, curated project by Amy Smith Stewart, SVA Gallery, NYC
(catalogue)
B-B-BAD ...an exhibition with attitudes
Curated by: Doug McClemont and Billy Miller
Anna Kustera Gallery, NYC
Skin, Galerie Roepke, Cologne
2010 Summer Camp/Head Shop, curated by Billy Miller, Exile Gallery, Berlin
The Vernacular of Violence, INVISIBLE-EXPORTS, New York City
2009 Lust Weekend, curated by Tairone Bastien, Performa Biennial 09, New York City
demonstration of demonstration, ABCyz, New York City
Pink Panther, curated by Amy Smith-Stewart, Kumukumu, New York City
Chimera, Arcade Experimental Art Projects / Stoa Aeschylou, Nicosia, Cyprus
Chimera, Envoy, New York City
2008 IT�S NOT OVER YET, Invisible-Exports, New York City
A New High In Getting Low, John Connelly Presents, New York City
2007 Neointegrity!, curated by Keith Mayerson, Derek Eller Gallery, New York City
2006 And Yet it Moves!, curated by Hans Askiem, with John Heartfield, Gardar Eide
Einarsson, Bj�rn-Kowalski Hansen, and Mark Titchner, MOT International, London,
England, (catalogue).
Free Frisbee Poster Project, curated by Anat Ebgi and Jen DeNike, Circus of
Books, Los Angeles, CA
The Seventh Side of The Die, Alona Kagan Gallery, New York City
Flex Your Textiles, John Connelly Presents, New York City
ARTSCAPE, curated by Gary Kachadourian, Baltimore, MD
REDYKEULOUS, curated by A.L. Steiner, Participant, Inc., New York City
Cluster, curated by Kati Holten, Participant, Inc., New York City
North Drive Press, curated by Matt Keegan, New York City
/seconds issue-02, (www.slashseconds.org ) produced by Derek Horton, Peter
Lewis, Graham Hibbert in conjunction with The Leeds School of Contemporary Art

Bibliography
New York Observer, �Lisa Kirk Debuts �If You See Something�� at Invisible Exports�, Michael H. Miller, September 10, 2011
The L Magazine, Lisa Kirk: If you See Something, September 10, 2011
New York Observer, �Welcome to Art Market Boom, The economy continues to tank, but money flows in art land�, Andrew Russeth, September 6 2011
Time Out New York, Lisa Kirk: If You See Something�., September 5, 2011
New York Magazine Guide, Fall Preview �11, �And We�re Also Anticipating..� September 3, 2011
The L Magazine, Lisa Kirk: If you See Something, September 10, 2011
New York Observer, �Lisa Kirk Debuts �If You See Something�� at Invisible Exports�, Michael H. Miller, September 10, 2011
ARTnews, �scents and sensibility�, Barbara Pollack, March, 2011
Life & Style Magazine (Deutche edition), style section December 15, 2010
Harald Baumer, Unser mann in Berlin, Beobachtungen au der Hauptstadt, �Ich habe den Duft der Revolution gerochen�, December 7, 2010,
Bild.de, Life and Style, �Die Duftkreation �Revolution� ist eine echte Stinkbombe�, Decmber 2, 2010
Von Thorsten Schmitz, �Der Gestank der Revolution�, S�ddeutsche Zeitung, PANORAMA, December 1, 2010
Jonas Res, �Das 30000-Euro-Tr�nengas-Parf�m�, Berliner Zeitung, November 23, 2010
Yorca Schmidt-Junker, �Viva La Revolution!� Qvest, No.42, Fall, 2010
Ali Fitzgerald, �Lives and Works in Berlin: Head Shop/Lost Horizon at Exile,� Art21, September 2, 2010
Ulrich Lang, �Smell�s Like... Revolution,� Inside Beauty, March 2010
Larry Celona and Bill Sanderson, �Art �attack in window is just a scare package,� New York Post, May 6, 2010
Michael Slenski, �Art that Enters through the Nose,� ARTINFO, Apr. 7, 2010
Amber Vilas, �2009 in Review: Gallery Exhibitions�, Artinfo.com, Dec. 29, 2009
Paddy Johnson, �Art: Best of 2009,� The L Magazine, Dec. 23, 2009
Michael Bilsborough, Signed and Sealed, SCA Continuing Education Blog, Nov, 9, 2009
Robert Ayers, The Best of Performa, November 3, 2009 ArtInfo.com
Karen Rosenberg, �Pink Panther,� review, New York Times, Oct. 15, 2009
Tairone Bastion, Interview for ArtonAir.org, October 23, 2009
Leigh Anne Miller, �Lisa Kirk,� review, Art in America, July 2009
Sarah Armaghan and Carrie Melago, �Shack up in rent-a-shanty: Artist�s project is one novel hovel.� Daily News, July 14, 2009
Jeanne Gerrity, �Lisa Kirk,� review, Art Papers, May/June 2009
Aimee Walleston, �House Proud: Lisa Kirk Reinterprets the Timeshare,� Art in America.com, June 1, 2009
Michael Wilson, �Home of the Brave,� Scene & Herd, Artforum.com, May 30, 2009 �Literally Slumming It,� Intelligencer, New York Magazine, June 1, p. 12 Emily Hulme, �B�klyn�s shanty shares, AM New York, May 1, 2009 Chris Bors, �Lisa Kirk, House of Cards,� ArtReview, May 2009
Chris Kraus, �Lisa Kirk�s House of Cards,� review, ARTFORUM, May 2009
Morgan Falconer, �Lisa Kirk,� Frieze.com, March 18, 2009
Eli Dvorkin, �Lisa Kirk, House of Cards,� Flavorpill, March 20, 2009
Amber Vilas, �Jim Lee in New York,� Artinfo.com, March 13, 2009
John Haber,�Gallery as Gated Community, Haberarts.com, March 11, 2009
Jessica Loudis, �Bienvenue � la maison des cartes. Can I interest you in a found object?,� ArtCat.com, March 2, 2009
James Wagner, �Lisa Kirk, House of Cards,� February 24, 2009 The Art Newspaper, Adrian Dannatt, April, 2008 L�uomo Vogue, Caroline Corbetta, February, 2008 SF Weekly, Hiya Swanhuyser, Volume 26, Number 25, July, 2007 SF Guardian, Hudson, July, 2007
Pil and Galia Kollectiv, Root Causes, Plan B magazine, November, 2006 Skye Sherwin, ART Review, December, 2006 Design Weekly, LONDON, 2006 Sally O�Reilly , Time Out, London, Aug 21, 2006
Bengala, USELESS MAGAZINE, issue #4, 2006 Michael Wang, ARTFORUM.com, Feb 16, 2006 Kara Oehler, Venus Magazine, 2005 Renee Comer-Greene, Time Out, August 12, 2005 Ken Johnson, New York Times, September 10th and 17th, 2005 New Yorker, August 29, 2005
New York Magazine, August 2005
Flash Art Italy, August 2005
Jennifer Raingold, Art Review,August, 2005
Kristen Poor, Flavourpill, Issue #206, 5.24.04
Carol Lee, �New York Art Girls (Un)dressed� , Paper Magazine, May 2004.
Dominic Ameretti, "The Outlaw Series" ARTUS, March- April, 2004
Andrew Maerkle, Flavorpill, issue #183,12.09.03
Karen Rosenberg, "Happenings, Rebels With A Cause," December 22-29, 2003
Dominic Ameretti, Artforum.com, Critics Picks , Oct 2003
Kim Levin, Village Voice, Voice Choices Oct 8- 15 2003
Christopher Chambers, NYArts, The Burnt Orange Heresy, September 2003
Joyce Kortkin, M (The New York Art World), The Burnt Orange Heresy, pp 13. Summer 2003
Maurizio Catalan, Bettina Funcke, Masimilano Gioni, Ali Subotnick, Charley 01, selected by Sarah Gavlak, 2001
Sarah Gavlak, Pride .01 magazine, summer 2001.


Grants/Awards
CUTS & BURN RESIDENCY, at Outpost Artist Resources, 2010.
The Harvestworks Artist-in-Residence / Jerome Foundation New Works and Van Lier Residency, 2010.
The Foundation For Contemporary Art, Financial Award, 2006.
The Library of Congress, Washington, D.C., Permanent Collection.
White Columns, NY, curated archives.
P.S. 1 Contemporary Arts Center, NY, permanent archives.
Long Beach Museum of Art, CA, Video Collection: Nymphomercial, in conjunction with a grant for the completion of the video.


Publications
2011 The Impressionables Catalogue, a project by Amy Smith Stewart, SVA Gallery,
NYC
2005 Bonds of Love, an exhibition catalogue.
2006 /seconds issue-02, (www.slashseconds.org ) produced by Derek Horton, Peter
Lewis, Graham Hibbert in conjunction with The Leeds School of Contemporary Art
North Drive Press, created by Matt Keegan, limited edition artwork and
interview with Lia Gangitano, New York City. 2005
Art US, issue 8 May-June, Wake the Sleepers, a collaboration with Keith
Mayerson.
2001 Charley 01Maurizio Catalan, Bettina Funcke, Masimilano Gioni, Ali Subotnick,
selected by Sarah Gavlak,
1998 Steven Hull, I�m Still in Love With You, catalogue
1996 Chris Kraus, Chance catalogue, excerpt from, �Memoirs of an Awakening: is it
real or is it Memorex,�
The Museum of Modern Art, Just Add Color, a coloring book with drawings by
contemporary artists, published by Homeward Bound project
1995 Daniel J. Martinez, Grand Larceny: Reclaiming Stolen Histories, University of
California, Irvine CA