Margaret Withers CV

Solo Exhibitions
2015 (Jan) in the Main Gallery at Port Washington Public Library
2013 One Mind’s Imagining into Another at Landau Gallery, Belmont, MA
2012 Painting the American Anti-Story at Arcilesi & Homberg Fine Art (AHA), Brooklyn, NY
2011 my pockets are full of you; Curator: Francesca Arcilesi Fine Art pop-up show, NY, NY
2010 feeling untethered I laid down my memories at Amos Eno Gallery, NY, NY
2006 ashy tongues whispering in smokey ears at Next Gallery, Denver, CO

Two Person Group Show
2013 Striations at G Gallery, curated by Diane Barber, Houston, Texas

Five Person Group Show
2013 Abstraction at William Baczek Fine Art, Northampton, MA
2013 Connecting the Dots at ISE Cultural Foundation, curated by Lovina Purple NY, NY

Group Exhibitions
2014 AS | Orchard, curated by Jill Conner at Orchard 33, NY, NY
2014 The Intuitionist curated by Heather Hart, Steffani Jemison & Jina Valentine at
The Drawing Center, NY, NY
2014 balls to the wall at Arcilesi & Homberg Fine Art (AHA), Brooklyn, NY
2014 Layers, curated by Aimee Hertog at City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
2014 Viewpoints, juror Sue Scott at Aljira Center for Contemporary Art, Newark, NJ
2014 Wide Open 5 at BWAC, juror Paulina Pobocha, Brooklyn, NY
2014 The Democracy of Drawing at AirSpace Projects, Sydney, Australia
2014 Other Worlds at Skylight Gallery, curated by Jill Slaymaker, NY, NY
2013 Salon at Jeffrey Leder Gallery, LIC, Queens, NY
2013 AS | AP DUMBO group show at 111 Front St., Curated by Jill Conner, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Summer Camp at Cohn Drennan Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
2013 Unhinged at Pierogi Gallery, NY, NY
2013 bigger is not always better at Arcilesi & Homberg Fine Art (AHA), Brooklyn, NY
2013 Summer Group Show at William Baczek Fine Art, Northampton, MA
2013 A Time in Arcadia at Curious Matter, Jersey City, NJ
2013 AS Boom and Bloom at The Phatory, curated by Jill Conner, NY, NY
2013 Wide Open 4 at BWAC, juror Carrie Springer, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Gallery 263 Group Show at Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA
2013 Das Wird Sich Alles Finden at Arts Collinwood, Cleveland, Ohio
2013 Stuck Pop-Up Show by Arcilesi and Homberg Fine Art, curated by Ariel Herman NY, NY
2013 AS Pop-up Show at Studio of La Thoreiel Badenhausen, curated by Jill Conner NY, NY
2012 Das Wird Sich Alles Finden at Bloc Project Space, Sheffield, UK
2012 Recess at Arcilesi & Homberg Fine Art (AHA), Brooklyn, NY
2012 Color at BWAC, juror Brooke Kamin Rapaport,Brooklyn, NY
2012 Works on Paper at Jeffrey Leder Gallery, NY, NY
2012 Remembering at Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, MA
2012 Annual Competition at SAAC, juror Manuela Well-Off-Man, El Dorado, AK
2012 Wide Open 3, juror Charlotte Kotik at BWAC, Brooklyn, NY
2012 WannA Piece?, Curator: Francesca Arcilesi Fine Art pop-up show, NY, NY
2011 Sorry 4 the Wait, Curator: Francesca Arcilesi Fine Art pop-up show, NY, NY
2011 Glimpses Beyond, Curator: Francesca Arcilesi Fine Art pop-up show, NY, NY
2011 110°: 2011 Summer Group Show at Cohn Drennan Contemporary, Dallas, TX
2011 Identity Shift:Migration, Identity & Longing, Curator:Francesca Arcilesi, NY,NY
2011 Wide Open 2, juror Nathan Trotman at BWAC, Brooklyn, NY
2011 In Vivid Color at Gallery M, Vienna, Austria
2011 Better by the Dozen at BAU, Beacon, NY
2011 Natural Selection 2.0 at DSU, Madison, South Dakota
2010 Confluences of Culture VI at Walter Wickiser Gallery, NY, NY
2010 Crossroads/Seven Acts at Amos Eno Gallery, NY, NY
2009 Confluences of Culture IV at Walter Wickiser Gallery, NY, NY
2009 Exhibit 0/1 at 25-Kadr Gallery, Moscow, Russia
2006 Open Show at Space Gallery, Denver, CO
2006 Group Open Exhibit at Next Gallery, Denver, CO
2003 Scene/Unscene 03 at Runnels Gallery, ENMU Portales, NM
2003 Black & White at Art Center at Fuller Lodge Los Alamos, NM

Fairs
2014 Scope NYC, represented by C. Emerson Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL
2014 Fountain Art Fair, represented by Arcilesi|Homberg Fine Art, NY, NY
2013 Scope Miami, represented by C. Emerson Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL
2013 Affordable Art Fair, Seattle, represented by C. Emerson Fine Arts
2013/2012/2011 Aqua 11/12/13, represented by William Baczek Fine Arts, Miami, FL
2013/12/11 Brussels Accessible Art Fair, Brussels, Belgium
2013/12 Fountain New York, represented by Arcilesi | Homberg Fine Art, NY, NY
2013/2012 DUMBO Art Festival, NY, represented by Arcilesi | Homberg Fine Art, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Affordable Art Fair, NY, represented by Galerie Juliane Hundertmark, Berlin, Germany
2012 Fountain New York, represented by Art for Progress NY, NY
2011 Fountain Miami, represented by Francesca Arcilesi Fine Art, Miami, FL
2011 Berliner-Liste 2011, B-74, Berlin, Germany
2011 Beijing Contemporary Art Fair, represented by Gallery M Beijing, China
2011 Verge Art Fair, represented by Amos Eno Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, NY

Benefit Group Exhibitions
2013 Issue Project Room Art Lottery Fund Raiser, curator Stephen Maine, NY, NY
2011/13/14 Spring Benefit and Auction for the Learning School, NY, NY
2012 Nurture Art Benefit at Charles Bank Gallery, NY, NY
2012 BWYLove2012 Rema Hort Mann Foundation at The Hole NYC, NY, NY
2011 BWYLove2011 Rema Hort Mann Foundation at Marianne Boesky Gallery, NY, NY
2010 May Day Power to the People group show at Feature, Inc., NY, NY


Public Art Installations
2014 NYC Poetry Festival, Outdoor installation of the Translation Project, Governors Island, NYC
2014 On the Table, in coordination with The Drawing Center at GreenPoint Library, Brooklyn, NY
2003 Finderskeepers Art Project Texas-19 paintings, one story - you find it you keep it

Publications/Interviews
The Artist Catalogue, Summer 2014, Volume 2, Issue 2, 2014
Interview with critic Michael K. Corbin, 2014, artbookguy.com/margaret-withers-in-progress_778.html
Underground Books, Dec/Jan Featured Artist, 2013
The Traveling Poet, December Featured Artist, 2013
Lunch Ticket, Antioch University, Featured Portfolio,Winter/Spring 2014
New York Optimist, Featured Artist, November 2013
New England Review, cover art, Volume 34, Number 2, 2013
The Artist Catalogue, Summer 2013, Volume 2, Issue 2, 2013
Studio Visit Magazine, Volume 17 Spring 2012 (selected by: Trevor Richardson)
Studio Visit Magazine, Volume 16 Fall 2011 (selected by: Curator Ian Berry)
New American Paintings Northeastern ed. #92 (selected by: MoMA Curator Laura Hoptman)

Residencies and Awards
2015 Artist Grant Vermont Studio Residency
2014 BWAC, Best in Show, Gold, Awarded by curator Pulina Pobocha
2013 USA Project Grant for “one mind’s imaging into another”, New York
2013 Fellowship, Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz NY
2013 Artist Grant Vermont Studio Residency
2012 Art Kudos International - ‘Award of Distinction’ judged by David Cohen of ArtCritical
2012 SAAC; Best in Show, awarded by Curator Manuela Well-Off-Man
2012 BWAC; Best Watercolor, awarded by Curator Brooke Kamin Rapaport

Corporate Collections
Truninger AG, Zurich, Switzerland

Education
BA, English Literature, 2003, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX

Flat Files/Viewing Programs
2012-2014 The Drawing Center Viewing Program, New York, NY
2012-present Pierogi Gallery FlatFiles, Brooklyn, NY
Gallery Representation:
Arcilesi | Homberg Fine Art, 111 Front St. Suite 222, Brooklyn, NY
BlueStone Fine Art Gallery, 142 N. 2nd St. Philadelphia, PA
C Emerson Fine Art, 907 Central Ave, St. Petersburg, FL
William Baczek Fine Arts, 36 Main St., Northampton, MA