Biography

Naomi Margolis

1964

Born in Rockford, IL

Lives and works in Chicago, IL

EDUCATION

1986

BFA, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL.

1982-1983

The Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2011

CB1 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Together Again

2006

Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY, Art Rock: de-tainer

2005

Kustera Tilton Gallery, New York, NY, Tri-Sectional Resurrectional

2003

Henry Urbach Architecture, New York, NY, Box Rap

1996

The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, Seem-So-s Lauren Wittels Gallery, New York, NY, Seem-So-s

1995

Art + Public, Geneva, Switzerland

1994

The McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas, TX Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA, Front Runners

1993

Jose Freire Fine Art, New York, NY

Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL

Food House, Santa Monica, CA, Pleasure Treasure

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2012

Dekalb Hall Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Stuff Lust CB1 Gallery at Miami Project, Miami, FL

2010

Gering & Lopez Gallery, New York, NY, Love in Vein: Editions Fawbush projects & artists

2005-2010

CB1 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA For Your Pleasure

2009

Country Club at NADA, Miami, FL

Country Club, Los Angeles, CA, NEWAGERIOT

2008

Margarete Roeder Gallery, Cologne, Germany, Playthings and Curiosities Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO, Conversation Pieces Luckman Fine Arts Complex, CSU, Los Angeles, CA, Scene/Seen

The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, Harlem Postcards

The Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY, Person of the Crowd

2007

Richmond Center for Visual Arts, WMU, Richmond, MI, Keeping It Real

2006

Scope, New York, NY, The Jaundiced Eye

2005

Tilton Kustera Gallery, New York, NY, Rock, Paper, Scissors

Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY, Excitations (curated by Matt Keegan with

catalogue)

Musee Cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland, Private View

1980/2000 Collection Pierre Huber (with catalogue) Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington, Playtime

2004

Henry Urbach Architecture, New York, NY, Airborne

Deitch Projects, New York, NY, The Freedom Salon (curated by Aspara DiQuinzio with Tina

Kukielski)

Henry Urbach Architecture, New York, NY, The Armory Show

2003

Islip Art Museum, Long Island, NY, Shangri-La

Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, The LAPD Project: The Legacy of Pattern and

Decoration (curated by Michael Duncan) 2001

Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, NY, Salad Days

2000

RCCA: The Arts Center, Troy, NY, Showroom (curated by Ian Berry with catalogue) California State University, Los Angeles, CA, Pleasure Treasure

1999

Illinois State University, Normal, IL, Growing Up (post) Modern

Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Champion, CT, Collage in America

1998

Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY, pay-per view

Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY, Alternative Measures

1997

Magasin-Center National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France, Dramatically

Different (curated by Eric Troncy with catalogue)

1997

Chicago Art Fair Navy Pier, Chicago, IL, Installation View

Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste, Braunschweig, Germany, 504 (curated by John Armleder)

Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich, Switzerland, Wandstucke

1996

Beaver College Art Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, Patterns of Excess (with catalogue)

1996

White Columns, New York, NY, The Strange Power of Cheap Sentiment (or Bientot to Irony)

(curated by Bill Arning) 1996

Christie's East, New York, NY, Currents in Contemporary Art

The Art Exchange, New York, NY, The Most Important Thing in the World: Oasis vs. Blur and

Artist's Who Rock (curated by Bill Arning)

Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY, Incestuous

1995

Silverstein Project Space, New York, NY, Menu du Jour Galerie Forde, Geneva, Switzerland, Snow Job

E.S. Vandam, New York, NY, Funhouse

Galerie Jousse Sequin, Paris, France, Toys

1994

N.A.M.E., Chicago, IL, People Going Places Doing Things

Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA, The Layered Look: Towards an

Aesthetic of Accumulation Among Six L.A. Artists

Tyler Temple Galleries, Philadelphia, PA, Pop Politics

Castle Gallery, College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY, Toys/Art/Us

Nancy Solomon Gallery, Atlanta, GA, Rock and Roll

Jose Freire Fine Art, New York, NY, Hunk

Art in General, New York, NY, Animated

The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, Who Chooses Who Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago, IL, Slice and Dice

St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY, Not for the First Time: The Art of Appropriation Jose Freire Fine Art, New York, NY, Heaven Missing: Young Art L.A.