Conny Purtill
Exhibitions, CV, Press
Born 1969, Greeley, CO
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
2023
I have done it again. / One year in every ten / I manage it——, Adams and Ollman, Portland, OR
Invisible Ground of Sympathy, ICA Boston, Boston, MA
2022
Conny Purtill’s The Ground, Adams and Ollman, Portland, OR
2018
Signals, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills, CA
Charles Burchfield and Conny Purtill, Adams and Ollman, Portland, OR
2016
Conny Purtill’s The Ground, Adams and Ollman, Portland, OR
Reader, Gether Contemporary, Copenhagen, Denmark
2015
Consequences, Fondazione Guiliani, Rome, Italy
2014
The Ground, Adams and Ollman, Portland, OR
Codex, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
2013
La Quatrième Classe, Florence Loewy, Paris, France
2011
Codex, Fine Arts Department of Haute Ecole D’art et de Design, Geneva, Switzerland
Graphic Design: Now in Production, co-organized by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN and the Cooper- Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, NY
2010
Pierre Leguillon and Clément Rodzielski, Teatrino/Palermo, Renwick Gallery, New York, NY
2009
Teatrino/Palermo, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
The Ground, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN
Pagan Putters, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2008
Volume Attempts: The Space of Books, Temple Gallery, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Beyond Kiosk, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
2004
California Design Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
RESIDENCIES
2009
Cneai (Centre National Édition Art Image), Chatou, France
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Cneai (Centre National Édition Art Image), Chatou, France
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
SELECTED PUBLICATION DESIGN PROJECTS
2018
One Day at a Time: Manny Farber and Termite Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Beastie Boys Book, Spiegel & Grau
Taylor Davis: Selected Works 1996–2018, Arbor Press
2017
Anna Maria Maiolino, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Andy Warhol: Dark Star, Museo Jumex
Mark Dion: Misadventures of a 21st-Century Naturalist, Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston
Chris Burden: Streetlamps, Gagosian
Edgar Arceneaux: Written in Smoke and Fire, MIT List Visual Arts Center
Adrián Villar Rojas: The Theater of Disappearance, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Jimmie Durham: At the Center of the World, Hammer Museum
2016
The Ecstasy of St. Kara, Kara Walker, New Work, The Cleveland Museum of Art
Sam Gilliam, David Kordansky Gallery
Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Specific Objects Without Specific Form, Wiels/Beyeler/MMK
Ari Marcopoulos Not Yet, Rizzoli
Carroll Dunham, Monotypes 2005-2015, Two Palms
Fausto Melotti, Hauser & Wirth
The Keeper, New Museum
2015
Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957, ICA/Boston
Corita Kent and the Language of Pop, Harvard Art Museums
Arlene Shechet: All At Once, ICA/Boston
Georg Baselitz: A Visit from Hokusai, Gagosian Gallery
Laura Owens, Rizzoli
2014
Carl Andre: Sculpture As Place, 1958–2010, Dia Art Foundation
Fiber: Sculpture 1960–Present, ICA/Boston
2013
Sharon Lockhart: Lunch Break (3 Volumes), Secession/MLKAM/CCMA/EACC
Jessica Jackson Hutchins: Everything Erblaut, The Hepworth Wakefield/CentrePasquArt Biel
Llyn Foulkes, Hammer Museum
Josiah McElheny: Towards a Light Club, Wexner Center for the Arts
Raymond Pettibon, Rizzoli
Erin Shirreff, AEAC/CAG/CUAG
2012
Josiah McElheny: Some Pictures of the Infinite, ICA/Boston
Amazement Park: Stan, Sara, and Johannes VanDerBeek, Tang
Barry McGee, Berkeley Art Museum
Ghost in the Machine, New Museum
2011
Charline von Heyl, ICA Philadelphia
Philadelphia Wireman, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery
Prints and the Pursuit of Knowledge in Early Modern Europe, Harvard Art Museums
2010
Sheila Hicks: 50 Years, Addison Gallery of American Art
Maurizio Cattelan: Is There Life Before Death?, The Menil Collection
Roy McMakin: When is a chair not a chair?, Matthew Marks Gallery 2012
Josiah McElheny: Some Pictures of the Infinite, ICA/Boston
Amazement Park: Stan, Sara, and Johannes VanDerBeek, Tang
Barry McGee, Berkeley Art Museum
Ghost in the Machine, New Museum
2009
Dance With Camera, ICA Philadelphia
Gedi Sibony, Midway Contemporary Art
Nine Lives: Visionary Artists From L.A., Hammer Museum
1998–2008
Charley Magazine
Trisha Donnelly, ICA Philadelphia
Carroll Duhham Prints: Catalogue Raisonné 1984–2006, Addison Gallery of American Art
Double Album: Daniel Guzmán and Steven Shearer, New Museum
Ken Price, Matthew Marks Gallery
Day for Night: 2006 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art
Matthew Ritchie, Incomplete Projects 1–7, Red Hand Gang
The Uncertainty of Objects and Ideas: Recent Sculpture, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden
Robert Gober: A Lexicon, Matthew Marks Gallery
Terry Winters / Verre + Dessins, Musée départemental du compagnonnage de Romanéche-Thorins
Beautiful Losers, Iconoclast
Sam Durant, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Richard Tuttle, In Parts, 1998–2001, ICA Philadelphia
Edward Ruscha, Edition: 1959–1999, Catalogue Raisonné, Walker Art Center
Regards, Barry McGee, Walker Art Center