Sheree Hovsepian
b. 1974, Isfahan, Iran
Lives and works in New York, NY
EDUCATION
2002 MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, IL
1999 BFA/BA, University of Toledo. Toledo, OH
1998 Fall Term, The Glasgow School of Art. Glasgow, Scotland
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2022
(Forthcoming) Leaning In, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY
2020
Musing, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2019
Sheree Hovsepian, Higher Pictures Gallery, New York, NY
Sheree Hovsepian and Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Team Bungalow, Los Angeles, CA
2018
The Altogether, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, IL
2017
Sheree Hovsepian, Halsey Mckay, East Hampton, NY
Sheree Hovsepian, Higher Pictures, New York, NY
2015
Reveries of a Solitary Walker, Monique Meloche, Chicago, IL
2014
Soft Landing, Gallery 44: Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronton, ON
2013
Domes, Bischoff/Weiss, London, UK
2012
Column, Etemad Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
2011
Haptic Wonders, Monique Meloche, Chicago, IL
Contact, Eric Charest-Weinberg Gallery, Miami, FL
2010
Sheree Hovsepian, curated by Joel Mesler, Spare Room at West Street Gallery, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Museum of Art Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana (Forthcoming)
2022
The Milk of Dreams, 59th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
2021
Affinities for Abstraction: Women Artists on Eastern Long Island,
1950-2020, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
Who What When Where, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
There’s There There, Hauser & Wirth, Southampton, NY
Arches and Ink, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, NY
A Thought Sublime, curated by Michael Plunkett, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
2020
A Show Of Hands, September Gallery, Hudson, NY
Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond, Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY
Inertial Dynamics, Half Gallery Gallery, New York, NY
2019
Seductive Reduction, CHART Gallery, New York, NY
Vanishing Act, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY
2017
Where do we Stand?, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Oliver Twist, Rental Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Material Gestures, Stony Island Arts Bank, Chicago, IL
2016
Paper In Practice, Moran Bondaroff Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
New Photography, 2016 Next Wave Art, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY
Aperture Summer Open: Photography is Magic, Aperture Foundation, New York, NY
2013
Present Tense Future Perfect, curated by Teka Selman, Carol Jazzar Gallery, Miami, FL All F@$%ing Summer, curated by Mia Romanik, Sarah Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
Bass! How Low Can You Go?, curated by Amir Shariat, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, NY Traces of Life, curated by Ariel Roger-Paris, Wentrup Gallery, Berlin
Farewell Rodney, curated by Rashid Johnson, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
2012
Twenty Days Later, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
Photorealism, curated by Benjamin Godsill, Bischoff/Weiss, London, UK
Brucennial 2012: Harderer. Betterer. Fasterer. Strongerer, curated by the Bruce High Quality Foundation,159 Bleecker Street, NY
2011
Eraser, curated by Rachel Funari, Magnan Metz Gallery, New York, NY
2010
Group Show, curated by Joel Mesler, West Street Gallery, New York, NY
Karl Haendel & Walead Beshty, Sheree Hovsepian, and Barbara Kasten, moniquemeloche, Chicago, IL
The Arbitrariness of Signs, curated by Sara Reisman, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2022
Smee, Sebastian. “A great Venice Biennale unfolds, against all the odds”, The Washington Post, April 22
Davis, Ben. “In Pictures: Take a Tour of the Venice Biennale’s Giardini Section, Which Is Full of Inventive Abstraction and the Art of Magic”, artnet news, April 22
Herriman Kat. “The Body Creates and Inspires at the 2022 Venice Biennale”, Cultured, April 21
Wally, Maxine. “Sheree Hovsepian On This Year’s Women-Led Venice Biennale”, W Magazine, April 19
2021
Hovsepian, Sheree. “Sense of Self”, Art Basel Magazine, November 21
Lesser, Casey. “22 Artists to Discover at New York’s September Fairs,” Artsy, September 8.
Herriman, Kat. “In New York, Group Art Shows Provide Temporary Shelter from Urbanite Isolation”, Cultured, February 23
2020
Cotton,Charlotte. “The Photograph As Contemporary Art (World Of Art)” Thames Hudson
Mellin, Haley. “The Musings of Sheree Hovsepian” Garage Magazine, August 21
2019
Mellin, Haley. “Sheree Hovsepian and Pau pagi Sepuya take over Venice Beach”
Garage Magazine, March 25
2018
Rawles, Erica. “Critic’s Pick”, Artforum, March 30
2017
Berg, Allison. “Ma Sheree Amour", Hamptons Magazine, July 6
Mellin, Haley. “Sheree Hovsepian” Artists on Artists. Bomb Magazine, issue 139,
Spring
Heinrich, Will “Sheree Hovsepian: Goings On About Town", New Yorker Magazine,
April 3
2016
Rattemeyer, Christian “Sheree Hovsepian: Magic Matter", Osmos Magazine, Issue 08
2015
Bronstein, Noa, editor “Reflections and Refractions”, Black Dog Publishing Ltd.
London
Foumberg, Jason. “Sheree Hovsepian: Reveries of a Solitary Walker.” Photograph
Magazine, September
2014
Browne, Alix. “Artist in Residence.” W. Magazine, December
Goldstein, Andrew M. “8 of the Best Artworks at Expo Chicago 2014”, artspace.com, Sept.20
2013
Amirsadeghi, Hossein and Maryam Eisler, editors. “Art Studio America: Contemporary Artist Spaces”, Thames & Hudson Ltd. London
Syrmakezi, Marina. "Domes”, goldcircle.com, June
2012
McLoughlin, Paul. "A Sleight Movement", BROWNBOOK.com, November 14
“Photorealism at Bischoff/Weiss Gallery,” Art Media Agency (AMA), July 10
Cunningham, Bill. "Evening Hours: Art and Light," New York Times Sunday Styles, March 11
2011
Braithewraite, Hunter, “Sheree Hovsepian: Contact”, NY Arts Magazine, Fall
"The Love List: Power Couples of the art world", artinfo.com, February 15
2010
Norton, Heidi. "Sheree Hovsepian’s Cosmic Minimalism", The photography post, May 15
Smigasiewicz, Beatrice "Karl Haendel, Sheree Hovsepian, and Barbara Kasten”, Flavorpill, March 20
2009
Weinberg, Lauren. “Sheree Hovsepian Spertus Museum.” Time Out Chicago, Issue 236
2005
Mojica, Jason. Pan/Sonic, Time Out Chicago, Feb 11.
Weber, Heather. Pan/Sonic. NIU Gallery, Chicago, IL (catalogue)
GRANTS, AWARDS, AND RESIDENCIES
2019
Artist Advisory Board Member, Baxter Street, NYC
2016
Open Sessions Residency, Drawing Center, New York, NY
Artist in Residence, The Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
Open Sessions, Artist in Residence, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
2015
Artist in Residence, The Banff Centre, Banff, Alberta, CA
2014
Artist in Residence, Gallery 44, Centre for Contemporary Photography, Toronto
2008
Aljira Emerge 10 Residency, Newark, NJ
2005
Community Arts Assistance Grant, Chicago, IL
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Solomon R Guggenheim Museum, New York
The Bronx Museum, New York
The Zabludowicz Collection, London
The Spertus Museum, Chicago
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
The Studio Museum in Harlem