Tom McGLYNN

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023 What Gives, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY

2020 At Present, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY

2018 Standards, Walsh Gallery, Seton Hall University, South Orange, NJ

2017 Station, Decal, Survey. Paintings, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY

2016 Quotidian, Photographs, Drawing Rooms, Jersey City, NJ

2014 Geochromatic Index, dadabasenyc.com

2012 Very Much Like (Pictures of Nothing), paintings and sculptures, Hamilton Square, Jersey City, NJ

Paintings and Sculpture, Hoffstetter Gallery, Pingry School, NJ

2009 Path Paintings and Drawings, Green Mountain College, Poultney, Vermont

2008 Color Fields and Paths, Castleton State College, Castleton, Vermont

2007 Wonder, video installation, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ

2004 Test Patterns: Paintings and Drawings, Raritan Valley Community College, NJ

2001 Mural Installation, Art Resources Transfer, New York, NY

1999 New Paintings, Art Resources Transfer, New York, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 Invincible Summer, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY

2022 Singing in Unison, curated by Phong Bui at multiple venues including the Scully Tomasko Foundation, Below Grand, and Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, NY

2020 Passing Bittersweet, curated by Elizabeth Johnson, Lafayette College, PA

2019 Form and Intent, curated by Bogumila Strona, Abstract Project, Paris, France

Thisness and Whatness, curated by Scott Reeds, Felician College, NJ

Circles and Squares, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY

2018 Reflections, curated by Majla Zeneli, Maniere Noire, Berlin, Germany

2017 Tremolo, Rick Wester Fine Art, New York, NY

2016 Reunion, QuadrArt, Dornbirn, Austria

2015 Seltsame Kinder, curated by Hoger Stark, Maniere Noire, Berlin, Germany

Minimax, Bullet Space, New York, NY

Pangrammar, curated by Prem Krishnamurthy, P! Gallery. New York, NY

For Machine Use Only, curated by Mohammad Salemy, Schneiderei, Vienna

2013 Paper Goods, curated by Kara Rooney, Susan Eley Fine Art, New York, NY

Out of Step, curated by Brendan Carroll, NJCU, NJ

2012 Extrapolations: The Influence of Tony Smith, Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ

2011 Mob, Bullet Space, New York, NY

East of Fresno, The Hatchery Art Spaces, Badger California

2009 Paterson The City as Metaphor, William Paterson University, NJ

Kuf-Mold, Rotterdam, Holland

2008 Kuf-Mold, Jan Colle Gallerie, Ghent, Belgium

Drawing Exhibit, Pingry School Gallery, Martinsville, NJ

2007 This is That, Pace University, New York, NY

Kuf-Mold, Istanbul, Turkey

Lateral Attitudes, Raritan Valley Community College, North Branch, NJ

2006 New Video JC, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ

2004 Drift, a site-specific Installation, Red Hook, NY

The A/V Club, Art and Technology, Victory Hall Cultural Center, Jersey City, NJ

2003 Color Complexities, JP Morgan Chase and Newport Art, Jersey City, NJ

The Object: Color and Carrier, Kresge Gallery at Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ

2002 Conversation, Tom McGlynn and Madeleine Hatz, Art Resources Transfer, New York, NY

2000 Alumni Redux One, Kresge Gallery at Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ

1999 Skin Tight, The Work Space at Dolgenos Newman and Cronin, New York, NY

Fashioned, White Box Gallery, New York, NY

1998 Urban Encounters, The New Museum, New York, NY

1996 Counterculture: Alternative Information from The Underground Press to the Internet, Exit Art, New York, NY

PUBLICATIONS

2017 Alex Katz, catalogue essay for show at Gavin Brown Enterprises, New York, NY

2016 Plain Sight, catalogue essay for a group show at Western Michigan University, for the NYPOP program of UMass Amherst

2015 “Toward a Generic Aesthetics: A Non –Philosophy of Art,” &&& Journal, The New Centre for Research and Practice, May 29, 2015

“Driving to Amherst,” catalogue essay for Nathaniel Leib, artist in residence at Amherst College

2013 “Following the Social,” apexart catalogue with essay for Memphis Social, Memphis, TN

2010 “Arcadia Now,” catalogue for curated group show, Castleton State College, VT

2003 “Lateral Thinking,” catalogue with essay, Eileen Torpey exhibit, New York, NY

2002 “Deluxe,” catalogue with essay, Surface Considerations, Jersey City, NJ

1998 “Unnatural Selection,” catalogue with contributing essay, Raritan Valley Community College, North Branch, NJ

“The Memory of a Meeting Place,” catalogue essay, Urban Encounters, The New Museum, New York, NY

1996 “Mac Wells, Light into Being,” Retrospective at Hunter College, contributing essay, New York, NY

1997 “After the Fall: Aspects of Abstract Painting since 1970, Vol. II,” contributing essay, curated by Lilly Wei at the Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, NY

SELECTED PUBLISHED CRITICAL WRITINGS

2019 “Sam Gilliam, Interview,” Brooklyn Rail, September 2019

2018 “Tauba Auerbach, Interview,” Brooklyn Rail, December 2018

“Stephen Shore, Interview,” Brooklyn Rail, March 2018

2017 “London Painters,” review of exhibition at Ordovas Gallery, New York, NY, Brooklyn Rail, January 2017

“Alex Katz, Subway Drawings,” review of exhibition at Timothy Taylor Gallery, June 2017

The Internal Machine, curator John Roach, review of exhibition at The Center for Book Arts, New York, NY, Brooklyn Rail, December 2017

2016 “Sadie Benning, Painting as Modeling,” review of exhibition at Calicoon Fine Arts, New York, NY, Brooklyn Rail, June 2016

“After, Ever After,” review of “Painting After Postmodernism,” Brussels, Belgium curated by Barbara Rose, Brooklyn Rail, November 2016

“Informed Painting,” review of exhibition at Pablo’s Birthday Gallery, New York, NY, Brooklyn Rail, May 2016

2015 “Olivier Mosset, Paintings,” review of show at Koenig Clinton, New York, NY, Brooklyn Rail, March 2015

“Frank Stella, The Clamor of Being,” review of Whitney Retrospective, Brooklyn Rail, Dec-Jan 2015-16

2014 “Neo Rausch, At the Well,” Dec 2014, review of show at David Zwirner, NYC, Brooklyn Rail, Dec-Jan 2014-2015

2013 "NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star,” New Museum, New York, NY

“Big, Red and Shiny,” April 2013, Boston, MA

“Rituals of Rented Island,” at The Whitney Museum, The Brooklyn Rail, Dec-Jan

“Sense and Unsensibility,” The Brooklyn Rail, March 20, 2013

“A Moveable Bachelor Party," review of Dancing Around the Bride exhibit at The Philadelphia Museum of Art, The Brooklyn Rail, February 2013

2012 “Mike Kelley: Laughing at Deadlines,” Artwrit, Winter Issue

“Wade Guyton OS at the Whitney Museum,” Artwrit, November

“Regarding Warhol,” Huffington Post Arts and Culture. November 12

2010 “Return of the Repossessed: ‘Haunted’ at the Whitney Museum,” Left Bank Art Blog

“When Attitude Becomes Immaterial, Urs Fischer at the New Museum,” Left Bank Art Blog

SELECTED INDEPENDENT CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2016 Plain Sight, generic and minimally determined art, Western Michigan University presentation of UMass Amherst NYPOP curatorial invitational.

2013 Memphis Social, a socially engaged project organized by Tom McGlynn for the Beautiful Fields curatorial collective, Winner of a 2013 apexart franchise grant.

2012 Arcadia Now (Redux), curator of traveling show, New Jersey City University, Jersey City, NJ

2011 East of Fresno, co-curator of on-site invitational exhibit, Badger, California

Arcadia Now, curated group show, Castleton State College, Castleton, Vermont

2007 Lateral Attitudes, Raritan Valley Community College, North Branch, NJ

1998 Unnatural Selection, Curator, Raritan Valley Community College, NJ

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

“Tom McGlynn and the Asymtotes of Opticality”, catalogue essay, Mohammad Salemy. For Geochromatic Index on Dadabase.Com NYC, 2014.

“Silent Speech and Pulp Avowel” catalogue essay, Kara Rooney, Paper Goods catalogue, Susan Eley Fine Arts, New York, NY, 2013.

“Very Much Like (Pictures of Nothing)” New Work by Tom McGlynn, Brendan Carroll, brendancarrol.wordpress.com, 2012.

Kuf-Mold, Catalogue, Istanbul, Turkey, 2007.

Lateral Attitudes, Catalogue, (Editor with contributing essay), Raritan Valley Community College, North Branch, NJ, 2007.

"The Program Has Been Interrupted", review, Color Complexities, Falkenstein, Michelle, The New York Times, February 9, 2003.

“Local History” Alan Moore, Jim Cornwell, p 351, in Alternative Art New York 1965-1985, edited by Julie Ault, University of Minnesota Press, 2002.

Fashioned, Catalogue, White Box Gallery, New York, NY, 1999.

“Abstract Painting, Though Not Entirely", review, Unnatural Selection, Schwabsky, Barry, The New York Times, October 25 1998.

Mixing Messages, Lupton, Ellen, National Design Museum and Princeton Architectural Press, pp.18, 98-99, 1996.

WORKS IN SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

The Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum of the Smithsonian Institution, New York, NY

Allbright Knox Collection, Buffalo, NY

Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY

Getty Institute, Los Angeles, CA

Smith College, Northampton, MA

Staadt Museum, Berlin, Germany

University of Kansas, Lawrence, KA

Spencer College, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2019 Sharpe –Walentas Studio Award, a grant for a one-year residency in the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, Brooklyn, NY

2015 NYPOP Curatorial Award for the curation and mounting of Plain Sight, an exhibition of New York artists engaged in recent aspects of post-minimal presentation and held at Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, MI, sponsored by the NYPOP program of The University Of Massachusetts, Amherst

2013 Apexart Franchise Grant, for the conceptualization, curation and organization of Memphis Social, a socially engaged exhibition (including an array over sixty of local and international artists) encompassing issues of class, race and gender representation, held in multiple institutional and non-traditional locations in the city of Memphis, Tennessee.

EDUCATION

M.F.A., Hunter College, New York, NY

B.F.A., Ramapo College, NJ