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Education

1984-88
Brown University (Semiotics and Studio Art), BFA

1991-93
University of California, Irvine, MFA

Solo Exhibitions

2003
Derek Eller Gallery, New York, "Hamlet 1999, Pt. 3"

2000
The Fifth International, New York, "Illuminations"

1997
Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, "Paintings and Drawings"

1995
Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, "Monty's Dream: The Sleeper in the Valley"

1994
Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, "The Marriage of Heaven and Hell!"

1993
Kiki Gallery, San Francisco, "Pinocchio the Big Fag"

Group Exhibitions

2003
"K48," Dietch Projects, Williamsburg Brooklyn

"Hothouse; Contemporary Floras," Gallery of Art & Science, New York, curated by Mary Jo Vath

"You," Royal Modern, New York, curated by Lisa Kirk

"A New New York Scene--K48 Teenage Rebel: The Bedroom Show," Gallerie du Jour at Agnes B., Paris

FIAC art fair, Paris, curated by Scott Hug

"Magazin (K48: Do Not Provoke Us)," Marres, Maastricht, Holland

"Now Playing," D'Amelio Terras Gallery, New York

"Drawings," Derek Eller Gallery, New York

2002
"Kool Kult," k48, Scope Art Fair, New York

"25th Anniversary Selections Exhibition," The Drawing Center, New York

"Landscape," Derek Eller Gallery, New York

2001
"Refiguring Painting," Los Angeles County Musueum

"Group Exhibition," American Fine Art at P.H.A.G., New York

2000
"Recent Acquisitions," Los Angeles County Museum

"Fore and Aft," Acme., Los Angeles

1999
"The Stroke," Exit Art, New York, curated by Ross Bleckner

"Young New York Painters," Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, curated by Ross Bleckner

1998
"Inaugral Show," The Fifth International, New York, curated by Jennifer Bornstein and Chevis Clem

"he swam down, away," Audiello Fine Art, Inc., New York, curated by Tony Payne

"Painting: Now and Forever," Pat Hearn and Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

"Codex USA: Works on Paper by American Artists," Entwistle Gallery, London

"I Love New York," Edinburgh International Art Festival, Edinburgh College, Scotland

"Bathroom," Thomas Healy Gallery, New York, curated by Wayne Koestenbaum

"View 3," Mary Boone Gallery, New York, curated by Klaus Kertess

"Francis Alys, Keith Mayerson, Franklin Preston, Hiroshi Sugito," Audiello Fine Art Inc., New York

"More," XL Gallery, New York, curated by Tony Payne

1997
"Paintings and Sculpture," Luhring Augustine, New York

"Three Painters," Musee d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France, curated by Jack Pierson

1996
"The Name of the Place," Casey Caplin Gallery, New York, curated by Laurie Simmons

"Young, Dumb, and Fun" University of Las Vegas, Nevada; curated by David Pagel

"The Incredible Power of Cheap Sentiment," White Columns Gallery, New York, curated by Bill Arning

"Annual Summer Watercolor Exhibition," P.P.O.W., New York, curated by Tom Woodruff

1995
"Degenerative Art Show," The Lab, San Francisco

"The Moderns," Feature Gallery, New York, curated by Tony Payne

"Faggots," Rojes Foundation, University of Buenos Aires; curated by Bill Arning

"Stretch Out & Wait," Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles

1994
"Stonewall 25," White Columns, New York, ; curated by Bill Arning

"Dave's Not Here Show," Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles

"Red Rover," Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles

"Tiny Shoes," New Langton Arts, San Francisco

"Selections Spring Ô94," The Drawing Center, New York, NY (brochure)

"Playfield," Rio Hondo College, Wittier, CA; Curated by Randy Summers

1993
"Sick Joke," Kiki Gallery, San Francisco

"Steve Crique, Keith Mayerson, Tyler Stallings," Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles

Bibliography

2003
Mmirati, Domenick, "Critic's Pick: You," Arforum.com, October

2002
Kannenberg Jr., Gene, "Read All (or Some) About It: X-Tra, Vol. 3 No. 3, Spring 2000 (review)

The Comics Journal, Issue #242, April. Pgs. 68-69

"Landscape," (review), Time Out New York, February 21, Issue no. 334

Sehorn, Jason, and Keith Mayerson, "Why I Didn't Rush the End Zone," (art project), Interview, February, pg. 40

2000
Mayerson, Keith, "Icons and Iconography in Technocratic Culture," Xtra, Los Angeles, Volume III, pp. 23-29

1998
Herbert, Martin, "Codex USA," (Review), Time Out, London, page 51

Rimanelli, David, "Painting Now and Forever," Listings, New Yorker, June-July

Duncan, Michael, "Keith Mayerson at Jay Gorney," (Review) Art in America, June, p. 107

Johnson, Ken, "View Three," (Review), New York Times, May 1, p. E43

Drenner, Craig, "View Three, " (Review), NY Arts Magazine, May, p. 29

Mayerson, Keith, "Guest Room With a View," (drawing), Paper, May, p. 49

James, Merlin, "New York: Recent Painting," Burlington Magazine, London, February, pp. 65-67

Still, Torri, "Filling the Canvas," Brown Alumni Monthly, January/February, pp. 38-43

1997
Schwendener, Martha, "Keith Mayerson" (Review), Time Out, Nov. 20-27, p. 47

(Self Portrait), The New Yorker, Nov. 10, pg. 28

Arning, Bill, "Keith Mayerson," Bomb, November

"Keith Mayerson," (Interview), Dangerous Drawings, Juno Books, New York

Featured Artist, Honcho, Nov., pp.66-67

Carter, Holland, ""The Name of the Place" (Review), The New York Times, Febrary 24

Tom, Karen "Horror Hospital Unplugged," (Review), Cover, Volume 11, Number 5, pg. 59

Hainley, Bruce "Horror Hospital Unplugged" (Review), Index, May, pg. 79

Marston, Jayson, ""Horror Hospital Unplugged"" (Book Review), Drummer, August, vol. 208, pp. 49-50

"Horror Hospital Unplugged" (Review), Library Journal, April 1

"Horror Hospital Unplugged" (5-star Review), Attitude, London, March, pg. 22

"Cult Fiction" (H.H. Review), Gay Times, London, February, pg. 69

"Horror Hospital Unplugged" (Review), Bay Area Gaurdian, Literature Section, February

1996
Knight, Christopher,"Review," Los Angeles Times, April 10, Section F, Pg. 6

Pagel, David, "Keith Mayerson," Art Issues, September/October, Pg. 40

Cooper, Dennis, and Keith Mayerson, Horror Hospital Unplugged, Juno Books, NY

"PW's Best Books," Publisher's Weekly, November 4, Pg. 57

"Horror Hospital Unplugged," (starred review), Publisher's Weekly, September 23, Pg. 71

Rimanelli, David, ÔThe Young and the Feckless: Keith Mayerson's comic rock novel," OUT, October, Pg. 66

"A Brilliant Chick Parody," OUT, August

1995
Greene, David A., "Review," ART & TEXT, January, page 71

Mayerson, Keith, (untitled drawings), FRAMEWORK, Volume 7, issue 3 pp. 23-26

" ", (drawings), Red Hot + Bothered: The Indie Rock Guide to Dating, Volumes 1 (pp. 11, 21) & Volume 2 (Back Cover/magazine produced by the Red Hot Organization, included with album compilations)

Michel, Deborah, "The Himbos are Coming! The Himbos are Coming!", BUZZ, April, pg. 59

1994
Relyea, Lane, "Openings: Keith Mayerson," Artforum, April 1994, pg. 92

Helfland, Glen, "Sympathy For the Devil," San Francisco Weekly, April 6, 1994, Vol. XII, no. 6, pg. 19.

Duncan, Michael, "LA Rising," Art in America, December, page 72

Myers, Terry R., "On View: Los Angeles," New Art Examiner, December, page 36

Pagel, David, "Art Review: Convention Unites with Gay Fantasy," Los Angeles Times, October 6, Page F4

Mayerson, Keith, "Family Value Cartoons," Faultline, May, page 39-43

Saltz, Jerry, "L.A. Rising," Art & Auction, April, page 88

Atkins, Robert, "Queer For You," Village Voice, June 28, 1994

Bonnetti, David, "Gallery Watch: Give Ôem that Ôol tired religion," San Francisco Examiner, April 15, page D10

1994
Cotter, Holland, "The Joys of Childhood Reexamined," The New York Times, Friday, March 25, page C30

1993
Bonnetti, David, "A Queer Way To Look At Pinocchio," San Francisco Examiner, Friday, November, Page E10

Helfland, Glen, "Art," San Francisco Weekly, November 17, 1993, page 15

Provenzano, Jim, "Pinocchio Queerified," Bay Area Reporter, vol. XXIII, November 18, 1993, section II.

1990
Snook, Raven, "Cameo's: K. Mayerson's "A Child Is Being Beaten," The Village Voice, August 7, pg. 100

Artist's Books

1996
Horror Hospital Unplugged, (with Dennis Cooper) Juno Books/RESearch Publications, New York, N.Y.

1993-94
A Patriarchy's Nightmare

1993
Pinocchio The Big Fag

K

Trying Not to Be A Dick

Artist's Videos

1999
Limp Biscuit

1996-present
A Portrait of Two Artists as Young Men

1995
The Best of Keanu

1994
Trees in the Forest

1993
Get the Knife

1992
Why Do You Keep Doing This to Yourself

Plays/Screenplays

1999
A Child is Being Beaten

1995
Nowhere Fast

1993
Pinocchio the Big Fag

1991
Fags

1988-89
A Child is Being Beaten, BACA DOWNTOWN, New York, NY directed by David Savran and Ron Clark, July-August 1989: THE BOX, Trinity Repertory Company, Providence, RI, March 1989, as a part of "Graduate Play Festival," Directed by David Savran and Ron Clark, Leeds Theater and Brown's Production Workshop. Spring 1988.

TYGER, (Set design only), Leeds Theater, Brown University, Fall

1987
Melonboy (also director and set designer) Production Workshop, Brown University, March, 1988

Panels/Readings/Lectures/Talks/Juror
1999
Museum School, Boston

School of Visual Arts, New York

1998
New York University

Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island

Tyler School of Arts, Philadelphia

School of Visual Arts, New York

1997
School of Visual Arts, New York

1996
School of Visual Arts, New York

1995
Juror, "Selected," Otis Parsons, Los Angeles, CA

Phoenix Art Fair, Phoenix Hotel, San Francisco, CA (reading); Curated by Kevin Killian

1994
Panel Speaker, The Lab, San Francisco, "The Aesthetics of Violence." November.

Guest Speaker, Art Center College of Design. "The Films of Keanu Reeves," Stephen Prina, instructor. April.

Speaker/Performer, "Blowing out the Wind," Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA. February, (with RenŽe Edgington)

Speaker/Performer, "Blowing out the Wind," University of Southern California March, (with RenŽe)