Mindy Shapero
Born in Louisville, KY
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
Education
2003 MFA, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
1997 BFA, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1996 New York Studio Program, Independent Studio, ACAID, New York, NY
Solo Exhibitions
2008
Inside the Bottomless Pit, Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007
Heavy Lighght, The Breeder, Athens, Greece
2006
Inside the circle traps (in a zombie state walking around in tight circles from looking too deep into the blinded by the light; some get out and some don’t.) Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
The Infinite Truths of Flatterland, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
Diptych, Mindy Shapero and Jockum Nordström, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
Mindy Shapero: New Works on Paper, Aurobora Press, San Francisco, CA
2004
Take Your Eyes Out to Sea, Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003
MFA Thesis Exhibition, F space, USC, Los Angeles, CA
2002
mindy shaperooooooooo, F space II, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
2001
not really here, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
Group Exhibitions
2009
Bitch is the new Black, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Emma Grey
Yayoi Kusama, Eva Rothschild, Bharti Kehr, and Mindy Shapero, Marianne Boesky, NY NY
Drawing show, Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich, Germany
Rogue Wave Masa, Margini Arte Contemporanea, Masa, Italy
2008
The Plural Dimensionality of Rapture, Arthouse, curated by Elizabeth Dunbar, Austin, TX
Looky See: A Summer Show, Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA
Currents: Recent Acquisitions, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC
2007
Sculptors’ Drawings: Ideas, Studies, Sketches, Proposals, and More, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles
Like color in pictures, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO (cat.)
Exit Music (for a film), Grimm/Rosenfeld, New York, NY
2006
The Uncertainty of Objects and Ideas, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC
LA Trash & Treasure, Milliken Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
2005
Nathalie Obadia Gallery, Paris, France
Untitled, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, cur by Kristin Chambers, Santa Barbara, CA
Rogue Wave, LA Louver, Venice, CA
Thing — New Sculpture From LA, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Galleri MGM, Oslo, Norway, including Mindy Shapero, Jack Pierson, Raymond Pettibon, Edgar Bryan, Jordan Wolfson, and Christian Holstad
2004
California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA,
cur. Elizabeth Armstrong and Irene Hofmann
Stay Inside, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2003
Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Daniel Silverstein Gallery, NYC, NY
Overtones, Los Angeles, CA
T-shirt Show, Daniel Silverstein Gallery, NYC, NY
Free Roaming, 4F gallery, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Charles Long
MFA group show, F space, USC, Los Angeles, CA
Art Chicago, Art Fair, Parker’s office, Navy Pier, Chicago, IL
Parker’s office, Sandroni Rey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (project space)
Group Show, Greener Pastures Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2002
To believe much more than that, Biennial, New Wight Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions Annual Benefit Auction, LACE, Los Angeles, CA
Sometimes it’s Dark, Practice Space, Los Angeles, CA
Graphic, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Kevin McHugh
2000
Snapshot, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD
Flatfile, Bellwether, Brooklyn, NY
Stinky Stew, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Benefit Show, Bellwether, Brooklyn, NY
Bibliography
2009
Demand, Thomas,”Fututre Greats, Mindy Shapero by Thomas Demand” ArtReview, Issue 30, March 2009
2008
Albertini, Rosa, “Mindy Shapero,” Flash Art, No. 260, May-June 2008, pg. 163
Buckley, Annie, “Mindy Shapero,” Critic’s Picks, Art Forum, March 21, 2008
Myers, Holly, “Strange, playful energy,” Los Angeles Times, March 28, 2008
2007
Guy Nichols, Matthew, “Mindy Shapero at CRG”, Art in America, pp. 200, May 2007
Clark, E.K., The Infinite Truth of Flatterland, NY ARTS, January/February
Kuo, Michelle, “The Uncertainty of Objects and Ideas: Recent Sculpture”, Artforum, February, 2007, pp. 289
2006
Saltz, Jerry, “Dot-Mistress” The Village Voice, November 16, 2006
Saltz, Jerry, "Dot-Mistress", Artnet, November 29, 2006
Shana Nys, Dambrot, “One to Watch: Mindy Shapero”, Artkrush, issue #46 | Art on the Beach, November 29, 2006
Gopnik, Blake, "Unambiguously Uncertain", Washington Post, Oct 29, 2006
Rochette, Anne, and Wade Saunders; “Place Matters: Los Angeles Sculpture Today”, Art in America, November 2006, pp. 168 - 191
Forgacs, Eva. “In a Whisper”, X-TRA, Volume 8 Number 4, Summer 2006 pp 38-40.
Myers, Terry. “Mindy Shapero”, ArtReview, April, 2006 pp 127
Dambrot, Shana Nys, Reviews, Modern Painters, April 2006, pp 113.
2005
‘Project”: Mindy Shapero”, Yard Magazine, pp. 22, Oct 2005
Miles, Christopher. “Truth to materials; the mundane and the amazing”, Frieze magazine,
Issue 95, November - December 2005. Pp 119
Wood, Eve. “Los Angeles”, Art Papers, September/October 2005
Dambrot, Shana Nys, “THING the UCLA Hammer Museum”, Artweek, May 2005
Harvey, Doug. “Good Thing, Emerging L.A. Sculptors at the Hammer”, LA Weekly,
February 4-10, pp 32-33
2004
Weissman, Benjamin. “Slaves to the Visual, Ten Los Angeles Artists with the Gift”,
The Believer, Dec/Jan Twentieth issue, pp 21-34
Pincus, Robert L. “Tuning in to the O.C.: ‘Biennial’ belly laughs”,
The San Diego Union-Tribune, 7 November, 2004
Kushner, Rachel. “Openings: Mindy Shapero,” Artforum, November 2004.
Knight, Christopher. “Biennial arrives, and so does museum,” Los Angeles Times, 13
October 2004: E1 & 7.
Chang, Richard. “The Art of the New,” The Orange County Register, 10 October 2004.
Tumlir, Jan. “Reviews,” ArtForum, April, 2004
Miles, Christopher. “Art Picks,” www.artforum.com, April 2004.
Ollman, Leah. “Showing off the ordinary,” Los Angeles Times, Friday March 5, 2004: E18-
19.
Miles, Christopher. “Project Girl,” Flaunt, issue # 55; pp. 97-8
Kushner, Rachel. “Mindy Shapero,” Artforum, November, 2004; pp. 210-11
Chambers, Kristin. “Mindy Shapero,” 2004 California Biennial; p.105
Publications
2009
Vitamin 3D, Phaidon Press
2007
Like Color for Pictures, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
2006
The Uncertainty of Objects and Ideas, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC
2005
Rogue Wave, LA Louver, Venice, CA
THING, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2004
2004 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Awards
2006
Will-Grohmann Award, Berlin, Germany
Mindy Shapero, Head, 2008, steel, acrylic painted hand cut paper & latex, 173x162x151 cm
Mindy Shapero, The feeling of everything, 2008 - 2009, mixed media, 152x213x213cm
Mindy Shapero, Mosaic Drawing pink gray white silver leaf, 2007 - 2008, mixed media, 255x210cm
Mindy Shapero, Looping, 2007-2008, steel, fiberglass, resin & enamel pedestal, 305x274x198cm
Mindy Shapero, Mosaic Drawing, black and white and silver, 2008, spray paint, acrylic & silver leaf on paper, 6x3ft
Mindy Shapero, Inversion seventh wonder, 2008, wood, acrylic, gold leaf & color aide, 51x25x23cm
Mindy Shapero, White, 2007 - 2008, spray paint and acrylic on paper, 99x82.75inches
Mindy Shapero, Cycladic Head once held all knowledge ever known to man and woman, 2008, wood & acrylic painted cut paper, 275x122x152 cm
Mindy Shapero, White Nights, 2009, enamel on steel and dura lar, 1221x107x152cm
Mindy Shapero, Mosaic drawing, black, white and silver with white lines, 2008, spray paint on acrylic & silver leaf on paper, 183x92cm
Mindy Shapero, Mosaic pink white and silver leaf on pink and white, 2007, mixed media, 255x210cm
Mindy Shapero, Installation View, 2008, Anna Helwing gallery, Los Angeles
Mindy Shapero, Cryechoing, 2007
Mindy Shapero, Mosaic Drawing (Black, pink and silver radiating out), 2008, spray paint, acrylic & silver leaf, 88x123cm
Mindy Shapero, White Darkle, 2007, beads, buttons, latex caulking on styrofoam with steel, 120x160x70 cm
Mindy Shapero, White Darkle, Detail, 2007, beads, buttons, latex caulking on styrofoam with steel, 120x160x70 cm
Mindy Shapero, Heavy Light, Installation View, 2007, The Breeder
Mindy Shapero, Layers Become Activated, 2007
Mindy Shapero, If you could get inside of the eye, this is how it would look, 2006-2007, archival cardboard, colared paper, wood, ceramic tile, glass tile, plastic beads, buttons, 39.5 x 39.5 x 47 inches
Mindy Shapero, Heavy Light, 2007, Installation view, The Breeder, Athens
Mindy Shapero, Heavy Light, 2007, Installation view, The Breeder, Athens
Mindy Shapero, Installation view, CRG gallery NY
Mindy Shapero, Installation view, CRG gallery NY
