
Brooklyn-based artist Kristen Schiele creates bold, immersive and semi-abstract paintings, collages and installations. She is inspired by stage sets, cinema, allegory and storytelling that is theatrical and playful. Her works on paper and silkscreen graphic novel are in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Museum of Modern Art, NY. She has exhibited in the Torrence Art Museum, Corcoran Museum of Art, Printed Matter Book Fair at MoMA PS1 and the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA.
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Exhibitions
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2020
Untitled, curated by Emmanuelle Grelier
Air France John F Kennedy Airport, Brooklyn, NY2018
Moon Pyramid, Commissioned Mural
Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Brooklyn, New York
Untitled, Art Fair
Freight and Volume Gallery, San Francisco, California2017
Cassavetes Pool Party, Commissioned Mural
Drake Hotel, Toronto, Canada2016
Untitled, Volta Art Fair
Kayrock Screen Printing, New York, New York2014
Spirit Girls
Lu Magnus Gallery, New York, New York2011
Beyond The Rocks
Freight and Volume Gallery, New York, New York2010
Elektra
Sloan Fine Art, New York, New York
DayLiner
Art Strand Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts2009
Pretty TV-Love
Cerasoli Gallery, Culver City, California
Cheap Pony, Scope Art Foundation Special Projects
Lincoln Center, New York, New York2008
My Dream is Yours
Sloan Fine Art, New York, New York2007
Gothicolor
New General Catalogue, New York, New York
Traumulus (The Dreamer)
Curators Without Borders Gallery, Berlin, Germany2006
Homestead, Special Projects
Soap Factory, Minneapolis, Minnesota2005
Mother Wit, Chashama Award Times Square Installation
Times Square, New York, New York
Paintings and a Virtual Heartthrob
Hudson D. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MassachusettsGROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020
Magic Edge, curated by Michelle Tillou, Andy Cross
Troutbeck, Amenia, New York
For Folk Sake, curated by Paul Laster
American Folk Art Museum, New York, New York
Untitled, NADA Art Fair
Kayrock Screenprinting, Miami, Florida2019
Etude, curated by Mia Nielsen
The Drake Hotel, Toronto, Canada
Untitled, August Show
Schoolhouse Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts
Untitled, Printed Matter Book FairKayrock Screenprinting, Geffen Contemporary MOCA, Los Angeles, California
Printshop
Museum of Modern Art Design Store, New York, New York
Say Yes!
Spring Break Art Fair, New York, New York
Untitled, Workshop in conjunction with the Martha Rosler Exhibition
Jewish Museum, New York, New York2018
Sense of Place
Park Place Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Dancing Goddesses
Dio Horia Gallery, Mikonos, Greece
Summer of Love
Freight and Volume Gallery, New York, New York
Fundamentals, curated by Jay Davis
Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, Brooklyn, New York
Untitled. Art On Paper Fair
Sugarlift, New York, New York
Spectrum 3, curated by Nathan Skiles
Art Center Sarasota, Sarasota, Florida2017
Weekend, curated by Ezra Johnson
Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, Florida
Black Lives, curated by Rob de Oude
Spring Break Art Fair, New York, New York
Untitled, Flat File Exhibition
Tiger Strikes Astroid Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Figurative Futures
101 Exhibit Gallery, Los Angeles, California
24×24
Black Ball Projects, Brooklyn, New York
Untitled, curated by Michael Holden and Peter Schenck
Park Place Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Untitled, Printed Matter Book Fair
MOMA PS1, New York, New York
100 Years of DeStijl
Transmitter Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Birds of America, The Paintings of Larry Rivers and Others
101 Exhibit Gallery, Los Angeles, California2016
Fresh Prints
Museum of Arts and Design, Kayrock Screenprinting, New York, New York
Boys and Girls can still Draw
Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York, New York
Got it for Cheap, curated by Charlie Roberts
David Risley Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Got it for Cheap, Vol. 2
Steinsland Berliner Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Got it for Cheap, Vol. 3
Agnes B’s Gallerie du Jour, Paris, France
Untitled
Pulse Art Fair, GP Presents, Miami, FloridaUntitled, Printed Matter Book Fair with Kayrock Screenprinting
MOCA Geffen Contemporary Museum, Los Angeles, California2015
Art and Auction
Children’s Museum of Art, New York, New York
Untitled, Printed Matter
MOMA PS1 Museum, New York, New York
Odyssey
Torrence Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Summer Mixer
Josh Liner Gallery, New York, New York
Your Bad Self
Arts and Leisure Gallery, New York, New York2014
Good Senses
101 Exhibit Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Escape from New York, New Gaurde Now
Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Koi No Yokan II, curated by Colette Robbins and Kevin Van Gorp
101 Exhibit Group Show Los Angeles, California
Soccer Mom, curated by Danielle Tegeder
CUNY Lehman College, New York, New York
Summer Mixer
Josh Liner Gallery, New York, New York
Make/Shift
Folioleaf Gallery, Brooklyn, NY2013
Untitled, Art Fair
DNA Gallery, Miami, Florida
Untitled, Liste Art Fair
Freight and Volume Gallery, Berlin, GermanyUntitled, Printed Matter Book Fair
PS1 MoMA, Kayrock Screenprinting, New York, New York
Future Folk, curated by Polly Shindler and Will Hutnick
LaunchPad Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
24”x24”
Gallery Poulsen, Copenhagen, Denmark
No Sun Without Shadow
Lu Magnus Gallery, New York, New York
Thanks
Lu Magnus Gallery, New York, New York
Little Deaths
Bravin Lee Projects, New York, New York
Untitled, Pulse Art Fair
Freight and Volume Gallery, Miami, Florida2012
New Future
Circuit 12 Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Space//Form
Breeze Block Gallery, Portland, Oregon
Permanent Collection
Nancy Margolis Gallery, New York, New York
One Hundred Dollars
Littlefield Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Double Dirty Dozen
Freight and Volume Gallery, New York, New York
Thing, On Site Exhibition curated by Susan Jennings
Cornwall, Connecticut
Transforma
Mill Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Opulent Vision
Ford Projects, New York, New York
Mie Portraits
Freight and Volume Gallery, New York, New York
Artists Merchandising Art
Wonderloch Kellerland Gallery, Los Angeles, California2011
The Unseen, curated by Adela Liebowitz
Torrance Art Museum, Los Angeles, California
Die Like You Really Mean It
Allegra LaViola Gallery, New York, New York
Chain Letter
Samson Projects, Boston, Masschusetts
Box
Mill Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
WonderSpirit
Wonderloch Kellerland Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Untitled
LeBasse Projects, Los Angeles, California
Haymaker
Freight and Volume Gallery, New York, New York2010
Untitled, Nada Art Fair
Bipolart, Miami, Florida
Up With Mural, in collaboration with Lilah Freedland, 100 ft mural
Scope Art Fair Miami, Florida
Dirty Light, curated by Bettina Sellman
Forgotten Bar, Berlin, GermanyFit
Allan Nederpelt Fine Arts Intl, Brooklyn, New York
A Separate Peace, curated by Anna Ortt and Shane McAdams
New York, New YorkAmuse Bouche
Sloan Fine Art, New York, New York
Draw
Museo de la Ciudad de Mexico, Mexico City, Mexico
Remnants
Fuse Gallery, New York, New York
Future Tense, curated by DeDe Young
Stephan Stoyanov Gallery, New York, New York
Women on Women, curated by Yasmine Mohseni
Taylor de Cordoba, Los Angeles, California2009
Low Blow, curated by Aaron Johnson
Stux Gallery, New York, New York
+2
Sloan Fine Art, New York, New York
Movie Box
Art Strand, Provincetown, Massachusetts
Cadaver Corpse
Space 1026, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Beastly Beauty
Participant, Inc, New York, New York
Group Exhibition
David B. Smith Gallery, Denver, Colorado2008
Death is not the End
31 Grand Gallery, New York, New York
Untitled, Aqua Art Fair
Sloan Fine Art, Miami, Florida
Untitled, Drug Reform Alliance Benefit
Cheim and Read, New York, New York
Lost Horizon
Herter Gallery, University of Amherst, Amhurst, Massachusetts
I held a Jewel
Mainsite Contemporary Art Gallery, Norman, Oklahoma
Facelift
Capla Kesting Fine Art, Brooklyn, New York
Untitled, Opening Exhibition
Sloan Fine Art, New York, New York
Untitled
Sosabul Art Expo, Seoul, Korea2007
Brief Encounters
Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, New York
Untitled, Fountain Art Fair
Bipolart, Miami, Florida
Untitled, Preview Berlin Art Fair
Curators Without Borders Gallery, Berlin, Germany
High Five; Emerging Art in America, curated by Ben Haywood, Regine Basha, Matthew Higgs, Dristan Kennedy, Kathryn Kanjo, Juror David Pagel
Los Angeles, CA
Untitled, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council
Open Studios, New York, New York
Draw, curated by Erik Foss
Gallery Lombardi, Austin, Texas
Untitled, Scope Art Fair
Gallery Sixtyseven, Miami, Florida2006
Escape From NY, Group Exhibition
Curator Without Borders Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Red Desert, curated by Sarah Trigg
Heskin Contemporary Gallery, New York, New York
AIM 26
Bronx Museum of Art (catalogue), New York, New York2005
Art Friends
ArtStrand Gallery, Provincetown, Massachusetts
Untitled, Group Show
Shreve, Crump & Lowe, Boston, Massachusetts
Untitled
Massachusetts Art Association Fellows Exhibition, Provincetown, Massachusetts2004
Art Star Sausage Factory
Debs and Co. Gallery, New York, New York
Serkan Ozkaya
Exit Art Gallery, New York, New York
Untitled
Portland Institute for Contemporary Art (PICA), Portland, Oregon
Year of the Print
Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, D.C. -
Education
1997
HdK Hochschule Der Kunste, Berlin, Germany1995
American University, Washington, DC
MFA1993
Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
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Collections
Whitney Museum of Art Library, New York, New York
Museum of Modern Art Library, New York, New York
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Awards
2011
Residency, Fountainhead Residency, Miami Florida
Residency, Wassaic Residency, Wassaic, New York2009
Residency, Ucross Residency, Clearmont, Wyoming2007
Residency, Lower East Side Printshop Keyholder, New York, New York2006
Residency, Residency Program of the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, LMCC, New York, New York
Winner, AIM 26 Bronx Artist In the Marketplace Award, AIM, New York, New York2005
Winner, Chashama AREA Award, Times Square, New York, New York2004
Residency, Provincetown Work Center Winter Residency, Provincetown, Massachusetts