Ceysson & Bénétière

Born in 1979, Northhampton, MA

Lives and works in New York, United States. 

EDUCATION 

2007 MFA Hunter College

2001 BA, Yale University, New Haven, CT

RESIDENCES

Mahler & Lewitt Studios, Spoleto, IT

Non Objectif Sud, Tulette, FR 

Billytown, The Hague, NL

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN 

The Capital Group, Los Angeles, CA

 Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands

The work of Joseph Montgomery has the structure and syntax of sculpture, but it simultaneously has all the trappings of painting: wood, canvas, various types of coating and paint. The blurring and confounding of classification lends it a strange sense of hybridity. Joseph Montgomery’s expansion of abstract painting results in three distinctive, generative types of painting: collages, shims, and monotypes. Simultaneous to the two person exhibition Wrecked Angle with Rosy Keyser at Ceysson & Bénétière Montgomery will present a site specific installation of wallpaper and digital animation at NADA House on Governor’s Island. Keyser and Montgomery will present a zine to accompany Wrecked Angle with text by Dana Goodyear and published by Lie Lay Lain, LLC.

Joseph Montgomery (1979, Northampton, MA, USA) lives and works in New York. Recent solo exhibitions include Pigpen Dispossessed at Galleri Urbane, Joe at Dürst Britt & Mayhew, Via degli Eremiti at CAR DRDE in Bologna, DOLLS (with Sherrie Levine) at Paula Cooper Gallery, Heads, Calves at Laurel Gitlen, Doll Index at Peter Blum Gallery and Five Sets Five Reps at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA). His work was also shown in the seminal group exhibition Painter Painter at The Walker Art Centre in Minneapolis alongside Rosy Keyser, where they met. Work by Montgomery is held in private and public collections, including the Centraal Museum Utrecht and The Walker Art Centre. 

SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS 

2021

Pigpen Dispossessed, Galleri Urbane, Dallas, TX

NADA House (forthcoming May), Dürst, Britt & Mayhew, New York, NY

Wrecked Angle: Rosy Keyser and Joseph Montgomery (forthcoming June), Ceysson & Bénétière, New York, NY

Untitled (forthcoming November), CAR DRDE, Bologna, Italy 

2019        

Arco Madrid, CAR DRDE, Madrid, Spain 

2018         

Joe, Dürst, Britt & Mayhew, The Hague, Netherland

Destijlife: Grocery Signs, Rubin & Chapelle, New York, NY

Joseph Montgomery & Achille Perilli: Miart Generations, CAR DRDE, Milan, Italy

2017

Via Degli Eremiti, CAR DRDE, Bologna, Italy Independent Brussels, Dürst, Britt & Mayhew, Brussels, Belgium 

2016

CODE, Dürst, Britt & Mayhew, Copenhagen, Denmark 

2015

Rules For Coyote, Dürst, Britt & Mayhew, The Hague, Netherlands 

DOLLS, Sherrie Levine and Joseph Montgomery, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY 

Art Rotterdam, Dürst, Britt & Mayhew, Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands 

2014

Doll Index, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY Heads, Calves, Laurel Gitlen, New York, NY 

2013

Five Sets Five Reps, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA

2012

Velveteen, Laurel Gitlen, New York, NY 2011 

Curating the Contemporary: Joseph Montgomery and Ned Vena, Kunsthaus Baselland, Basel, Switzerland

2010

Lie lay lain; Lay laid laid, Laurel Gitlen, New York, NY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

2021  

Skroderider, A Lie Lay Lain Production (forthcoming September), Billytown Kitchen, The Hague, Netherlands 

2020  

Summer Collective, Galleri Urbane, Dallas, TX Vèf Jaah!, Dürst, Britt & Mayhew, The Hague, Netherlands

2018  

The odd uneven time, Dürst, Britt & Mayhew, The Hague, Netherlands 

Bodybuilding, Dürst, Britt & Mayhew, The Hague, Netherlands 

2016        

“this is off the wall”, CAR DRDE, Bologna, IT

Good Old New Place, Cuevas Tilleard, New York, NY 

Conversation Between A Mirror And The Sea, Fourteen 30 Contemporary, Portland, OR

Alicia McCarthy, Joseph Montgomery, Brian Sharp, Jesse Willenbring, Non Objectif Sud, Tulette, France 

The Assembled Painting, SUNY Westchester Fine Arts Gallery, Valhalla, NY 

2015        

Becoming the Image: Jessica Mein, Joseph Montgomery, Patricia Treib, projects at fifteen, Tel Aviv, Israel 

The Air Is An Absence Held, Ray Smith Studio, Brooklyn, NY 

Casting Couch, Billytown, The Hague, Netherlands 

Black/White, Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe, New York, NY 

2014        

OK Great Thanks This Is So Ridiculous, ACME, Los Angeles, CA 

Roving Room, Habersham Mills, Demorset, GA 

Black/White, LaMontagne Gallery, Boston, MA 

2013        

Painter painter, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN        

DNA: Strands of Abstraction, Loretta Howard Gallery, New York 

The Made-up Shrimp Hardly Enlightens Some Double Kisses, Laurel Gitlen, New York

 An Annotated Exhibition, Hilary Crisp, London 

2012       

Creature from the Blue Lagoon, curated by Bob Nickas, Martos Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY

What is the use of being a boy if you are going to grow up to be a man, curated by Alexander Mayhew, Annie Gentils Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium 

Into the Surface, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy 

2011        

The 2011 Bridgehampton Biennial, curated by Bob Nickas, Bridgehampton, NY (catalogue) 

2010        

Looking Back: The Fifth White Columns Annual, curated by Bob Nickas, White Columns, New York, NY

Meet Me at the Bottom of the Pool, Martos Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY 

2009        

Cave Painting 2, Gresham’s Ghost, New York, NY 

To the left of the rising sun, Small A Projects, Greenwich, NY 

2007        

Wu-Tang/Googolplex, Gavin Brown’s enterprise @ Passerby, New York, NY 

Unfathom, Max Protetch, New York, NY 

2019 Art Viewer, “Joseph Montgomery and Willen Hussem at Dürst Britt & Mayhew,” January 11, 2019.

2018 Eline van der Haak, “Beweging gevangen in stilstand,” Den Haag Centraal, December 2018

        Albertus Pieters, “Joseph Montgomery, Joe; Dürst Britt & Mayhew, The Hague,” Villa Next Door, December 22, 2018.

        Paul Voors, “Joseph Montgomery – Dürst Britt & Mayhew,” Kunst blijft een raadsel, December 7, 2018.

        Frits Dijcks, “Joe and Joseph @ Dürst Britt & Mayhew,” Jegens & Tevens, November 14, 2018.

        Marco Tagliafierro, “Joseph Montgomery CAR DRDE/Bologna, Review,” Flash Art, February 8, 2018.

        Elettra Stamboulis, “The American Gaze on Spoleto. Joseph Montgomery in Bologna,” Artribune, January 18, 2018.

        Mousse Magazine, “Joseph Montgomery Via Degli Eremiti at CAR DRDE Bologna,” January 2018.

2016 Andrew M. Goldstein, “5 Rising Stars to Discover at the Inaugural Code Art Fair,” Artspace, August 2016.

        Brian Alfred, “Sound and Vision: Episode 13 / Joseph Montgomery,” Sound and Vision, May 2016.

2015 Doug McClemont, "Joseph Montgomery," (review), ArtNews, February 2015.

        Alexandra Nicolaides, “Upcycled: Joseph Montgomery’s Painting Remixes,”(review), Artcritical.com, Monday, January 12, 2015.

2014 Peter Plagens, "Modern Art, Intellectual Property and Lilliputian Forms," (review),

        The Wall Street Journal, Saturday, November 22, 2014.

        Michael Rutherford, “Joseph Montgomery, Interview,” Painter’s Bread, 20 January.

2013 Eric Crosby, “Joseph Montgomery: Modeling Abstraction in 3D,” Untitled (Blog), The Walker Art Center, 25 June.

        Sebastian Smee, “Beauty, brilliance at MASS MoCA” (review), The Boston Globe, 15 June 2013.

        Charles Bonenti, “Art born from everyday at MASS MoCA” (review), The Berkshire Eagle, May 24, 2013.

        John Seven, “Art-work" (review), The North Adams Transcript, May 24, 2013. 

        Ted Lodos, “Art: Playing Field,” Vogue, January, 58.

2012 Cristina Travaglini, “Painter, Painter,” interview with Eric Crosby and Bartholomew Ryan, Kaleidoscope 17, Winter 2012/2013.

       “The Art of Collage by Joseph Montgomery,” Lancia Trendvisions, 30 August. Will Heinrich, “Joseph Montgomery, Velveteen” (review), Art in America, April, 118.

        Linnea Kniaz, “Joseph Montgomery, Velveteen” (review), The Brooklyn Rail, February.

        Anne Doran, “Joseph Montgomery, Velveteen” (review), Time Out New York, 27 January–2 February.

        Gabrielle Radujko, “Joseph Montgomery, Velveteen” (review), Artcards.cc, 20 January.

       “Critics’ Picks: Joseph Montgomery, Velveteen,” Time Out New York, 19–26 January.

        Leigh Anne Miller, “The Lookout,” Art in America.com, 19 January.

2011 Bob Nickas, ed., The 2011 Bridgehampton Biennial, New York: Martos Gallery.

                Daniel Morgenthaler, “Aus Trash ward plötzlich Sprache,” Basler Zeitung, 14 June.

        Daniel Morgenthaler, “Wandflimmern: ‘Curating the Contemporary’ nistet sich temporär im Kunsthaus Baselland ein,” Basler Zeitung, 12 May, p. 46.

2010       Will Heinrich, “Curation’s Onslaught: White Columns Annual and Larry Poons,” New York Observer, 14 December.

         Andrew Russeth, “Joseph Montgomery, Lie lay lain; Lay laid laid” (review),16 Miles of String.com, 23 June.

2009 Nicole Caruth, “Gastro-Vision: Breaking Bread,” Art 21 Blog, 22 October.

2008        Michael Wilson, “First Supper”, Artforum.com Diary, 4 February.

         James Wagner, “Rirkrit, where are you?...”, James Wagner.com, 14 Feburary.