Alisa Margolis

1975
American, born in Kiev

1993-1997
Columbia University, New York

2021
Professor for painting at Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Künste Stuttgart

Lives and works in Berlin

2018
Residency at CCA Andratx, Mallorca, ES

2015
The Villa Romana Fellowship, Florence

2009-2010
Scholarship Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart

2005-2006
Delfina Studio Trust Artist Residency

2001-2003
Postgraduate Fellowship, de Ateliers, Amsterdam

1997
Red Grooms Award, National Arts Club

1993-1997
Howard I Jacoby Presidential Scholarship, Columbia University, New York

2019
Breathers, CCA Kunsthalle, Andratx Mallorca, ES
SOOTHSAYING, Sonntag, Berlin, DE

2016
Sorry Superhero, Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Frankfurt

2014
Gótico, Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Frankfurt
The disappearance, Galerie Nolan Judin, Berlin

2012
Sha la-la-la-la, Galerie Reinhard Hauff, Stuttgart

2010
You Are One of A Thousand, Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart

2009
Dark as ten feet down, Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Frankfurt

2008
East Shakes the Messanger, Galerie Diana Stigter Amsterdam

2007
Ancient History, Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf Berlin

2006
Vilma Gold London

2005
Theory of Everything, Galerie Diana Stigter Amsterdam

2004
Private Life: Paintings for the Blue Drawing Room Museum van Loon Amsterdam

2018
Helene Appel, Alisa Margolis, Helen Verhoeven, Galerie Judin, Berlin DE

2016
Say it with flowers! Flowers and artificial nature since 1960, Museum Schloss Moyland
Drift. Alex Hubbard, Alisa Margolis, Diana Sirianni, Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst - Haus Coburg - Sammlung Stuckenberg, Delmenhorst

2015
Florenz Contemporary, Villa Romana Preisträger 2015, Botschaft der Italienischen Republik, Berlin
Villa Romana Fellows 2015, Villa Romana, Florence

2013
The Phylogenesis of Generosity, The First Prinzessinnengarten Outdoor Sculpture Triennial, Berlin

2012
30 Days of Peace Love And Painting, Ellen de Bruijne Projects, Amsterdam

2011
Flamboyant Body, Arcade, London

2010
Ecstatic Liberation Schtück, Re-Mediate, Merz Akademie & Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart
The Mountain Where Whales Once Lived, Union Gallery, London
Another Romance, The 2010 New Wight Biennial, Los Angeles
Get Behind me Satan and Push, Peres Projects, Berlin
MaDoNnA PsYcHo SluT, Grimmuseum, Berlin

2009
Rehang (curated by November Paytner and Sylvia Kouvali), Büyük Londra, Istanbul
Walker Evans and the Barn, Stedelijk Museum Bureau, Amsterdam

2008
Cobra to Contemporary, Artnews Projects, Berlin
Guasch Coranty International Painting Prize 2008, Centre Cultural Metropolità Tecla Sala, L´Hospitalet
Freeze Frame, Thrust Projects New York City

2007
Out of Art, Centre d'Art Biel / Bienne

2006
HYBRID, with Anthea Hamilton, Dasha Shishkin, Barbara Wolff (curated by Eva Karcher), Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf Frankfurt

2005
The Prague Biennale, Prague
The Triumph of Painting, The Saatchi Gallery, London
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris

2004
Expander, Royal Academy of Art, London
Now Is A Good Time, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Vixen, Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam
Her Kind, The Approach, London
When the Lights Go Out, Cohan & Leslie, New York
I just don't know what to do with myself, Marella Contemporanea, Milan

2003
Intravention W139, Museum Amstelkring, Amsterdam
New Paintings, de Ateliers, Amsterdam

2002
Untitled, de Ateliers, Amsterdam
Nice, Who Do We Appreciate Gallery, New York

1997
Bad Habits, Watson Gallery, New York
Visual Art Department selection show, Le Roy Newman Center for Print Studies, New York

2016
Erhard Metz. Sorry Superhero, Alisa Margolis in der Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, in: FeuilletonFrankfurt, October 14, 2016

2014
Christoph Schütte. Durchschuss mit Farbpistole, Alisa Margolis in der Galerie Tolksdorf, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, October 18, 2014
Marianne Hoffmann. Leinwand-Punks treffen Hardlinder der Abstraktion, in: Die Welt, October 11, 2014

2013
Daniel Pies. Alisa Margolis, in: frieze d/e, April/Mai 2013.

2011
Theory of Everything, merz & solitude, 2011

2010
Another Romance, The 2010 New Wight Biennial, Los Angeles

2009
Christoph Schütte. Leuchten, kümmern, welken, in: Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, October 20, 2009

2007
Ulrich von Döltzschen. Galoppierende Pferde und aufgespießte Vögel, in: Die Welt, October 19, 2007.
Thea Herold. Sumpfblüten, in: Tagesspiegel, October 27, 2007.

2006
Fresh, Renaissance Society Chicago, Chicago 2006.
Painting Codes, Galleria Comunale d'Arte Contemporanea di Monfalcone, Monfalcone 2006.

2005
The Prague Biennale, Prag 2005.
The Triumph of Painting, The Saatchi Gallery, London 2005.
Expander, in: Frieze, No. 88, January-February 2005.

2004
I just don't know what to do with myself, Marella Contemporanea, Mailand 2004.
Expander, Royal Academy of Art London 2004.
Her Kind, in: Contemporary, No. 66, July 2004.
Her Kind, in: Time Out London, July 28 - August 4, 2004.
Now Is A Good Time, in: Time Out New York, February 3 - February 24, 2004.
W139 - From Warmoestraat to Post CS, Amsterdam 2004.

2003
We Have Seen the Future, in: ArtReview, July 2003.