Born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1962. Lives and works in NY. SOLO AND DUO SHOWS 2019 Cheryl Donegan @ The Pit Presents with Levy.Delval, Los Angeles, CA David Shelton Gallery, Houston, TX Contemporary Art Museum Houston, curated by Heidi Zuckerman and Bill Arning, TX, USA 2018 Aspen Museum of Art, curated by Heidi Zuckerman and Bill Arning, CO, USA Missoni, curated by Francesco Urbano Ragazzi, NYC, USA 2017 My Plastic Bag, curated by Daniel Bauman, Kunsthalle Zurich, CH David Shelton Gallery, Houston, TX 2016 My Plastic Video, Highline Video, curated by Melanie Kress, The Highline, NY Cheryl Donegan: Scenes + Commercials, curated by Johanna Burton, New Museum, NY 2015 Banners, Layers, Legs & Vines, Levy.Delval, Brussels, BE The Softest Punk, Horse And Pony Fine Arts, Berlin, DE Sgorbati Projects, New York, NY 2014 Haul, David Shelton Gallery, Houston, TX 2013 Blood Sugar, Galerie VidalCuglietta, Brussels, BE 2011 Eyes Wide Shut, with Tom Meacham, Nicelle Beauchene, NY, US 2010 I Still Want To Drown, Hidde Van Seggelen Gallery, London, UK Cracked, Project Space, Galerie VidalCuglietta, Brussels, BE 2009 Cheryl: The Work of Cheryl Donegan, curated by Lynne Stein, Rockland County Museum of Art, Media Project Space, West Nyack, NY, US 2008 He Said, She Said, Oak Park, Illinois, US 2007 Luxury Dust, Oliver Kamm/5BE Gallery, New York, US 2005 Old, Temporary, Oliver Kamm/5BE Gallery, New York, US 2003 Junk Space, Oliver Kamm/5BE Gallery, New York, NY, US 2001 White Room, White Columns, New York, NY, US 1998 Lotta Hammer, London, GB 1997 Scenes + Commercials: A Retrospective Development- the Movie, Basilico Fine Arts, New York, US Baumgartner Gallery (project room), Washington D.C., US 1996 Tent. Basilico Fine Arts, New York, US 1994 Nice Fine Arts, Nice, FR Galerie Rizzo, Paris, FR AllGirls, Berlin, DE Studio Guenzani, Milan, IT 1993 Elizabeth Koury Gallery, New York, US GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2017 Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami 2016 Come as You Are: Art of the 1990s, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX Videocracy: Bruce Nauman > Cheryl Donegan - MACRO Museo d´Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, IT default - Honor Fraser, Los Angeles, CA, USA Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA, USA Team 404 - ZABRISKIE POINT, Genève, CH 2015 Brennan & Griffin, NYC Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago curated by Jessica Stockholder LAND Foundation, Los Angeles 2014 No ground but say ground, curated by Joe Fyfe, Halsey/McKay Gallery, East Hampton, NY Imprints, Leslie Tononow Gallery, NY 2013 My crippled friend, Canazani Center Gallery, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, Ohio, curated by Patrick O’rorke and Michael Goodson Outsides the lines: UIA (Unlikely Iterations of the Abstract), Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, curated by Bill Arning In seach of an image, Kersgallery, Amsterdam NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, New Museum, NYC, US Paint Things, Decordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts Objects in the mirror are closer than they appear, curated by Mika Gellman, Kravets Wehby Gallery, NY 2012 Against interpretation, a poster project in collaboration with Whatspace, Tilberg and Onomatopee, Eindhoven, Netherlands, organized by Koen Delaere Soble discourso, Centro Cultural Chacao, Caracos, Venezuela, curated by Javier Rodriguez Mitchell-Innes & Nash, curated bu Howie Chen, NY 2011 Provisional painting, curated by Raphael Rubistein, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, UK The Joy of pleasure, VeneKlassenWerner, curated by Monika Szewczyk & Dieter Roelstraete, Berlin, DE Kabinett 6, Cheryl Donegan, Wade Guyton, Ryan Fenchel, Devening projects + editions, Chicago, US Ex-Libris, Galerie VidalCuglietta, Brussels, BE 2010 Plus One, curated by Dan Cameron, Perry Rubenstein gallery, New York, US The Jewel Thief, curated by Jessica Stockholder and Ian berry, the frances young Tang teaching Museum and art gallery at kidmore college, Saratoga springs, NY, US Gradation, curated by garth weiser, Portugal arte 10, Lisbon, PT Creeds, Colors and combinations, nicelle beauchene gallery, New york, US Eyes Wide Shut, Cheryl donegan and Tom Meacham, burning bridges, New York, US 2009 Beside, with, against and yet: abstraction and the ready-made gesture, curated by debra singer, the kitchen, New York, US Between Spaces, curated by Tim Goosens and Kate McNamara, PS 1 Center for Contemporary art, long Isand City, New york, US Slough, curated by Steve Dibenedetto, David Nolen Gallery, New york, US 2008 últimos Sueños, Colleción de arte contemporáneo fundacion! “la caixa”, Barcelona, SP Julia Stoschek Collection Number two: fragile, dusseldorf, DE 2007 Abstract Paintings and a Sculpture, The fireplace project, east Hampton, New York, US Multiplex: Directions in art, 1970 to now, curated by Deborah Wye, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US Cheryl Donegan, Rannva Kunoy, Thomas Livesey, Brown, London, GB 2006 Safe, Kathleen cullen Fine Art Gallery, New York, NY New York, New York: Fifty Years of Art, Architecture, Photography, Film and Video, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco, FR Into Me / Out of Me, PS1/MoMA, Long Island City, NY TM:GS / CD:SC, Oliver Kamm/5BE Gallery, New York, US Space Between the spokes, ks art, New York, US Bricks In The Hood, Oliver Kamm/5BE Gallery, New York, US 2005 Withdrawl, Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris, FR 2004 Grotesque, Burlesque, Parody, curated by Caroline Bissiere and Jean-Pul Blanchet, Abbey Saint-Andre, Centre d'art Contemporain, Meymac, FR 2003 Artist’s Choice, curated by Mona Hatoum, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US Bright Lights, Big City, curated by Maurizio Cattelan, David Zwirner Gallery, NY, US 2002 Second Sight, Selections of Recent Work by alumni from the Second Deacade of the MFA Program at Hunter College 1991-2001, Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, New York, US 2001 Words and Things, curated by Francis McKee, CCA, Glasgow, GB Video Installation, New Museum, in conjunction with Paul McCarthy, organised by Laurie Halsey Brown, New York, US Video Jam, curated by Galen Joseph-Hunter and Michael Rush, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, US Le Tribu del’ Arte, Galleria Comunale d’ arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, IT Digital Video Wall, 1251 Avenue on the Americas, New York, NY 2000 Kin, curated by Caoimhin Mac Goilla Lieth, Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, IE 1999 Phantom Heckler, curated by Padraig Timoney/ Egyptianradio in conjunction with the Liverpool Biennial, Tea Factory, Liverpool, GB Head to Toe: Impressing the Body, curated by Margaret Matthews-Berenson and Donna Harkavy University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, US 8th Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement, Centre St. Gervais, Geneva, CH Girlschool, curated by Catherine Morris and Maureen Mahoney, Brenau Unversity Galleries, Brenau University, Georgia, US Double Vision, Nexus Center for Contemporary Art, Atlanta, Georgia, US Positioning, Bard Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, NY, US 1998 Educating Barbie, Trans Hudson Gallery, New York, US Made in USA, Galleria Il Capricorno, Venice, IT Machtig gewaltig, ACC Gallery, Weimar, DE I Love New York, Ludwig Museum, Koln, DE Video Library, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, US Facts and Fiction, curated by Valentina Valentini ,Progetto Giovani, Comune di Milano, Milan, IT Light on the Millenium, Pusan Metropolitan Art Museum, KO Deo Divertimenti, curated by Susan Hapgood, Camera Obscura, San Casiano dei Bagni, IT Rooms With A View: Environments for Video, Guggenheim Museum, Soho, New York, NY 1997 Dissolution: Made in the USA, curated by Margaret Murray, Laurent Dayle Gallery, London, GB 7th Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement, Centre St. Gervais, Geneva, CH UKNY, curtated by Steven Bode, Film and Video Umbrella, London, GB 1996 Young and Restless, curated by Stephen Vitiello; The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US (and touring to WRO Festival, Warsaw, PO; contemporary Art Museum, Honolulu, HA; Cornell Unversity, Ithica, New York, US; Kunstbunker Tumulka, Munich, DE; Kunstakademiet, Trondheim, NO; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, US; London Filmakers Co-op, London, GB) Up Close and Personal, The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, US (NUDE) a comparison of the body of the artist in video from the 1970s and 1990s, curated by Hiedi Zuckerman; Trans Hudson Gallery, Jersey City, US, Catharine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, US, Art & Idea, Mexico City, MX Adicere Animos, La Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea e Pinacoteca Nazionale, Cesena, IT Pushups, curated by Emily Tsingou, The Factory, Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, GR Intermission, Basilico Fine Arts, organized by Matthew Ritchie and Tolland Grinnell, New York, US Ouverture, Château de Bionnay, Lacenas, FR Monstrosities 1/2, Kleiner Festsaal der Hackenchen Höfe, Berlin, DE Comedy in American Art, Galerie Andreas Binder, Munich, DE 1995 Everything That's Interesting is New: The Dakis Joannou Collection, DESTE Foundation, Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece, and the Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen, DK Biennale D’Art Contemporain De Lyon, Lyon, FR Space Odyssey, curated by Helena Papadopoulos, Eleni Koroneou Gallery, Athens, GR A Drawing, Bravin Post Lee, New York, US Stereo-Tip, curated by Helena Pivec, Eva Maria Stadler, and Lilijana Stepancic, Soros Center for Contemporary Art, Ljubljana, SL Whitney Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art and Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, DK Collaborations Between Artists and Writers, Deutches Haus-Columbia University, organized by Elizabeth Fiore and Christine Breede, New York, US Fresh, Film and Video Umbrella, London, GB Cheryl Donegan: Performance and Video, Film and Video Umbrella, London, GB Ireland Stories, Film and Video Umbrella, London, GB 1994 Use Your Allusion: Recent Video Art, MCA, Chicago, US Flooding Camera, WorkSpace 101 Wooster St., New York, US Puber-Alles (Why am I who I am?), curated by Mark Wilson, Stedelijk Museum/Bureau Amsterdam, NL Rien à signaler, Galeria Analix--B&L Polla, Geneva, CH Soggetto Soggetto--una nuova relazione nell’arte di oggi, Castello di Rivoli Museo d’arte Contemporanea, Turino, IT Out West and Back East, Santa Monica Museum, US Audience 0, 01, Vera Vita Gioia Gallery, Naples, Italy and Trevi Flash Art Museum, IT Acting Out: The Body in Video: Then and Now, Henry Moore Galleries, Royal College of Art, London, GB Horizons, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, US Everyday Life, curated by Simon Watson, Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles, US The Reading Room, curated by Breda Beban and Hrvoje Horavatic, Camden Arts Center, London, GB Guys and Dolls, curated by Tony Oursler, Videospace, ICA Boston, US 1993 Ghost Limb, Basilico Fine Arts, New York, US Aperto, Venice Biennale, Venice, IT Rott Snitt, curated by Thomas Nordenstadt, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, SE Body Guard, Hoenthal und Bergen Gallery, Munich and Koln, DE Ciphers of Identity, Fine Art Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, US MD, organized by Maurice Berger Mating Instinct, Penine Hart Gallery, New York, US Summer Punch, Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles, US Confessional, curated by Andrea K. Scott, Elizabeth Koury Gallery, New York, US Kiss My Royal Irish Ass (K.M.R.I.A.), Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, US 1992 Performance Behind the Curtain, White Columns, New York, US 12 Artists 12 Weeks, curated by Erik Oppenheim, Dooley Le Cappelaine Gallery, New York, US Tabloid: On Location, curated by Kathleen Cullen and Robert Mahoney, Sally Hawkins Gallery, New York, US Ecstasy, Dooley Le Cappelaine Gallery, New York, US 1991 Value, curated by Kathleen Cullen, Robery Mahoney, Russett Lederman, Yvonne Muranushi, New York, US The Subversive Stitch, curated by Simon Watson and Maurice Berger, Simon Watson Gallery, New York, US Home for June, curated by Erik Oppenheim, Home for Contemporary Art and Theater, New York, US Total Metal, curated by Richard Philips, Simon Watson Gallery, New York, US 1990 Reconnaissance, curated by Kirsten Mosher and Regina Joseph, Simon Watson Gallery, New York, US All Quiet On The Western Front?, curated by Collins and Millazo in association with Antoine Candau, Espace Dieu, Paris, FR EDUCATION 1980-84 Rhode Island School of Design, Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree, Painting 1987-90 Hunter College, Master of Fine Arts Degree, Painting