Bio

Elise Ferguson (b. 1964 Richmond, VA) currently lives and works in Queens, NY. She uses pattern, color and repetition to explore a range of process-driven approaches, mathematical puzzles, and geometric variations. Landing somewhere at the intersection of painting, sculpture, and printmaking, the results are works that reflect her intuitive use of geometry.

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Education

MFA – University of Illinois at Chicago; 1995

BFA – The School of the Art Institute of Chicago; 1988

Solo and Two Person Exhibitions

2023

Elise Ferguson; Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco, CA

"The Narrows", Shrine Gallery, New York, NY

2022

Sequence, Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2020

Maxwell Court; Odd Ark LA, Los Angeles, CA

Survey; Works on Paper; Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2019

June Room; Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2018

EAST; Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY

Cloudbank; 57W57 Arts, New York, NY

2017

Mount of Venus, Elise Ferguson and Caris Reid; Monya Rowe Gallery, St Augustine, FL

Corral; Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY

Shutter; Halsey McKay Gallery, New York, NY

Ripple Drift; Barton Art Galleries, Barton College, Wilson NC

2016

Flippity; 106 Green, Brooklyn, NY

Citron; Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2015

This Way That; Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY

2014

Striped Knot; Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2012

Elise Ferguson/David Kennedy Cutler; Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY

2011

Elise Ferguson; Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY

2009

Capital X; Envoy Gallery, New York

2008

Elise Ferguson/Arnold Kemp; Envoy Gallery, New York

2004

Elise Ferguson: Livingroom D Lyx, Malmo, Sweden

2003

Floor/Wall; University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL

White Room; White Columns, New York

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITONS

2023

Ferguson/Blalock: Passage 3&4; The EyeSees, Athens, Greece

Ferguson, Tinkler, Crawford; Pazo Fine Art, Washington, DC

2022

Duo: Ferguson & Committo; Gazebo Gallery, Kent, Ohio

2021

Glyphadelphia; Hesse Flatow, New York

Ten Years; Halsey McKay, East Hampton, NY

2020

Kirk Stoller and Friends; Romer Young Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Fluid Structure; Massey Klein, New York

2019

Symmetry; Able Baker Contemporary, Portland, Maine

Summer; Frampton Exhibition; Bridgehampton, NY

Pulled in Brooklyn; IPCNY, New York

2018

Archival Exhibition; Dieu Donné Papermill, Brooklyn, NY

Barn Show; Johannes Vogt Gallery, East Hampton, NY

Geometric Behavior; Ikast Kunstpakhuset, Ikast, Denmark

Hard Edges; Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York

Set Adrift on Memory Bliss; Pablo’s Birthday, New York

Superposition; Joshua Liner Gallery, New York

2017

New York New Work; Albada Jelgersma, Amsterdam

In the Steps of Folly Cove; Russell Janis, Brooklyn, NY

Summer in the City; Paula Estey Gallery, Newburyport, MA

Delineation; Joshua Liner Gallery, New York

2016

Stone Soup Nasty; Orgy Park, Brooklyn, NY

2015

January Show; Mixed Greens, New York

Suddenly Last Summer, Longhouse Projects, New York

Architectural Impulse, Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York

Summer Mixer, Joshua Liner Gallery, New York

2014

Color as Structure: McKenzie FineArt, New York

2013

Paint Off Paint On; Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY

2011

Domestic Goods; Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, NY

Rich-oo-uh'l, Richoo-uh'l; Jolie Laide, Philadelphia

Entaglement; Regina Rex, Queens, NY

Entaglement; Art Blog Art Blog, New York

Printer's Proof; Bertrand Delacroix Gallery, New York

2010

Default State Network, Raid Projects, Los Angeles and Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York (catalog)

Forth Estate, Fourteen 30 Contemporary, Portland, Oregon

2009

New Prints: Spring, International Print Center New York, New York

2007

“Workspace Program 2001-7”; Dieu Donne Papermill, New York

2006

Bunch Alliance and Dissolve, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio

New Editions; Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, Brooklyn

2005

Talk to the Land; Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York

Greater Brooklyn; CRG Gallery, New York

2004

Sleight of Hand, Lemon Sky Projects Miami (curated by Hudson Clearing);

Spacemakers, Lothringer Dreizen, Munich

hung, drawn, and quartered, Team, New York

New Projects; Dieu Donne Papermill, New York

The Invisible Revealed; Surrealist Drawings from the Drukier Collection;

Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine

Multistorey, Pump House Gallery, London

2003

New Slang; Luring Augustine, New York (curated by Claudia Altman-Siegel)

Yard; Socrates Sculpture Park, New York (curated by Robyn Donohue and Alyson Baker)

EAST International; Norwich Gallery, Norwich, England (selectors Toby Webster/Eva Rothschild), catalog

Slimvolume; Norwich Gallery, Norwich, England (curated by Andrew Hunt)

2002

Accelerated Grimace; Silverstein Gallery, New York

2001

Peaks: Kagan Martos, New York

2000

The May Show: Sculpture Center, New York

It’s a Cruel World: White Columns, New York

Mental Wilderness: Gayle Gates, New York

1999

Outer Boroughs: White Columns

Five Easy Pieces: Lombard Freid, New York

As if the world ended on the 5th floor: Blohard, Philadelphia

1997

Real World: New Langton Arts, San Francisco

Best II: Beret Int’l Gallery, Chicago

1996

Arts in Celebration Regional Biennial: University Museum, SIU-Carbondale

ARCO: Beret Int’l Gallery, Madrid

1995

The Uncomfortable Show: MWMWM, Chicago

Profiles: Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago

Depends: Gallery 400, Chicago

Aesthetic Cranks: Beret Int’l Gallery, Chicago

1994

Flora: Chicago Botanical Garden, Chicago

The Slit Show: Layaway, Chicago

1992

Things: Beret Int’l Gallery, Chicago

That’s Nice Dear: Beret Int’l Gallery, Chicago

1991

Strange Video: N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago

AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES

2022

Master Printmaking Residency; FAWC, Provincetown, MA

2018

Dieu Donne Paper Variables Artist

2017

Barton College Artist-in-Residence

2014

Northern Trust Purchase Prize; Expo Chicago

2006

Artist-in-Residence: University Nevada, Las Vegas

2004

MacDowell Colony

2003

Artist-in-Residence: Illinois State University

EAST International Exhibition Grant

Socrates Sculpture Park Residency

Dieu Donne Papermill Workspace Program Grant

1996

SIU-Carbondale, University Museum: Merit Award Illinois Arts Council: Special Assistance Grant

1995

UIC- Teaching Assistantship

1991

C.A.A.P. Grant, Chicago Office of Fine Arts

1989

C.A.A.P. Grant, Chicago Office of Fine Arts

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2023

Sutton, Benjamin, “Abstraction is Ascendant at NY’s Future Fair”, Art Newspaper, May 11, 2023

2020

ARTFORUM, Critics Pick, “Maxwell Ct.”, ODD ARK LA, October 2020

2019

Contemporary Art Daily, Selections From NADA, December 13, 2019

Hotchkiss, Sarah. “Elise Ferguson’s June Room Stretches Its Stripes and Curves Beyond the Gallery’s Edge”, KQED Arts, June 25, 2019

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2018

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2017

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2016

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2014

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2012

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2010

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2009

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2005

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2005

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2004

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2003

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2002

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2000

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1996

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1994

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1992

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