RESUME

ENA SWANSEA

Born in Charlotte, North Carolina,

Lives and works in New York, NY

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022

New paintings, Ben Brown Hong Kong, forthcoming September 28 – October 29

2021

green light, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, catalog

2020

New paintings, Robilant+Voena, St Moritz  

2019

New paintings, Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, MA, catalog 

Mental map: Central Park, Ben Brown Fine Arts, Hong Kong, catalog

2018

Recent paintings, Ben Brown Fine Arts, London, catalog

2016

New paintings, Albertz Benda Gallery, New York, NY
Marine paintings, Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, MA

2014

Untitled nightlife and sofa, Friedman Benda Gallery, New York, NY

Salon art + design, solo presentation for Friedman Benda, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY

2013

New paintings, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, catalog

2012

New paintings, 313 Gallery, Seoul

2011

Ena Swansea, Psycho, 41 paintings from 2002 - 2011 in European collections, Deichtorhallen/Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg, catalog

Studio show, organized by ARNDT Berlin, New York, NY

2010

Armory Show, solo booth, ARNDT Berlin, New York, NY
Corrida Goyesque, temporary sand painting on the floor of the Arena d’Arles, Arles

2008/9

Ena Swansea paintings, 2002 - 2008, MUDAM, Musée d’art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg Oct 2008 – February 2009

New paintings, Arndt & Partner, Zurich

New paintings, Volta NY, solo statement, André Schlechtriem Contemporary, New York, NY

2007

New paintings, André Schlechtriem Contemporary Inc., New York, NY

2006

Armory Show, solo booth, Galerie Crone/Andreas Osarek, New York, NY

2005

New paintings, Galerie Crone/Andreas Osarek, Berlin

2004

Situation, Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc., New York, NY

X rays, Mario Diacono Gallery at Ars Libri, Boston, MA

2003

New paintings, Klemens Gasser & Tanja Gruner Inc., New York, NY

2002

The reality of shadows, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

1998

New Paintings, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY

1997

Dorothy Blau Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, FL

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022

Manscaping, The Hole, New York, September 4 - October 23

Manscaping, The Hole, Los Angeles, September 17 - October 29

A Tribute to Lawrence Weiner, online show accompanying his exhibition As Long As It Lasts, Mai 36 Galerie Zurich, June 10 - August 12, 2022

2021 

Doomed and Famous: Selections from the Adrian Dannatt Collection, Miguel Abreu Gallery

2019 

De la Tauromaquia à la Goyesque, Hommage à Francisco de Goya, Musée des Cultures Taurines Henriette et Claude Viallat, Nîmes

2018 

Against Forgetting I, Gaa Gallery Provincetown, MA                                                                                                  

2016 

The Grass is Green, Gaa Gallery Cologne Project Space, Cologne

Group Exhibition, Gaa Gallery Cologne Project Space, Cologne

2015 

Sight unseen, Ellen Harvey and Ena Swansea, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

51st Anniversary exhibition to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY

Il Corpo Figurato, Artworks from the Collection 1966 -2005, Maramotti Collection, Reggio Emilia

Self-inflicted Justice by Bad Shopping – New Acquisitions in the Falckenberg Collection, 2011-2014, Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg

2014

51st Anniversary exhibition, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY

Il Corpo Figurato, Artworks from the Collection 1966 - 2005, Maramotti Collection, Reggio Emilia

How six men got on in the world, Ruby Anemic, Carla Arocha, Stéphane Schraenen, Edgar Leciejewski, Rosa Loy, Andreas Mühe, Johannes Rochhausen and Ena Swansea - Auguststrasse 86, Berlin

Come like shadows, group show curated by David Cohen, Zürcher Gallery, New York, NY

2013

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music, Freidman Benda Gallery, New York, NY

2011

Printer's Proof, Bertrand Delacroix Gallery, New York, NY

2010

Exquisite Corpse Project, curated by David Salle, Gasser & Grunert, New York, NY

Changing the World, ARNDT, Berlin

2009

Water is Best, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Naked!, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY

The beginning, 313 Gallery, Seoul

2008

True Romance - Allegories of Love from the Renaissance to the Present, Kunsthalle Vienna, Villa Struck, Munich and Kunsthalle, Kiel

2007

Symbolism, Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal

2006

Idylle Traum und Trugschluß, curated by Oliver Zybok and Martje Schulz, Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg

Figuring the landscape, curated by Barry A. Rosenberg, Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut, CT

WoMA, André Schlechtriem Temporary Inc., New York, NY

Zurück zur Figur. Malerei der Gegenwart., Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich

New Work, Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc., New York, NY

Big Paintings, Small Paintings, White Sculpture, The Cartin Collection, G-Fox building, Hartford, CT

2005

Goetz meets Falckenberg, Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg

Flower Power, Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc., New York, NY

Greater New York 2005, PS1 MoMA, Long Island City, NY

Story-Tellers, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg

Slices of Life: Blueprints of the Self in Painting, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York, NY

The Triumph of Painting (part III), Saatchi Gallery, London

2004

Central Station: La Collection Harald Falckenberg, La Maison Rouge, Paris

Portraits, Esso Gallery, New York, NY

2003

After Matisse/Picasso, PS1 MoMA, Long Island City, NY

2001

The Tipping Point, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2000

Abstraction, Robert Kidd Gallery, Birmingham, MI

Gardens of Pleasure, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI

1999

Gallery Artists, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY

1998

Equilibrium of the Senses, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY

1997

Drawings and Paintings, Wooster Gardens, New York, NY

1996

Scratch, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS 

Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL

Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME

Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

Deichtorhallen Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg

Galerie Neue Meister / Albertinum, Dresden

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY