Born in 1985, Northfield, MN, US
Lives and works in New York, NY and Kent, CT, US
Education
2013
Steinhardt School, MFA, New York University, NY, US
2007
Hartford Art School, BFA, University of Hartford, CT, US
2005
Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow, Scotland
Solo exhibitions
2022
'Misery', Almine Rech, Paris, France
'Mischief', JTT, New York, NY
2021
'Costume Drama', Ovitz Family Collection, Los Angeles, CA
'Country Western', Almine Rech, London, UK
2020
'Jonathan Taylor Thomas', JTT, New York, NY
2019
'Neverland', Almine Rech, Brussels, Belgium
2018
'Daisy Chain', Team (bungalow), Los Angeles, CA
2016
'Egyptian Violet', Team Gallery, New York, NY
2015
'Dear Metal Thing', Team (bungalow), Los Angeles, CA
'Black Leather Sectional', Joe Sheftel Gallery, New York, NY
2014
'Nighttime in New York: Doron Langberg and Sam McKinniss', Galerie Thomas Fuchs, Stuttgart, Germany
2012
'La Liseuse', 80WSE Gallery, New York, NY
2010
'Ultra Sensitive', Proof Gallery, Boston, MA
2008
'FIERCE DOUBT', New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
'TRUE LOVE', Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
2007
'Portraits', Charter Oak Cultural Center, Hartford, CT
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
'Day for Night: New American Realism', Palazzo Barberini, Rome, Italy
'Tulips', Kapp Kapp, New York, US
2023
'Friends & Lovers', The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, US
'Pictures Girls Make: Portraitures', curated by Alison M. Gingeras, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
2022
'Pictus Porrectus - Reconsidering the Full Length Portrait', Isaac Bell House and the Salon at Rosecliff, Newport, Rhode Island
‘Dark Light : Realism in the Age of Post-Truths’, Aishti Foundation, Lebanon
'Sea Show', Winter Street Gallery, Edgartown, MA
'Luncheon on the Grass', Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, CA
'Dark Light : Realism in the Age of Post-Truths', Aishti Foundation, Jal El Dib, Lebanon
2021
'Salon de Peinture', Almine Rech, New York, USA
2020
'Painting Someone’, Almine Rech, Shangai, China
'Drawing 2020', Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
'Painting is Painting’s Favorite Food: Art History as Muse', South Etna, Montauk, NY Curated by Alison Gingeras
2019
'Tulips', Kapp Kapp, Philadelphia, PA
'Lineup', Almine Rech, New York, NY
'My Head is a Haunted House', Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK. Curated by Charlie Fox
2018
'SAFE', Gladstone 64, New York, NY. Curated by Cooke Maroney.
'The Lure of the Dark: Contemporary Painters Conjure The Night', Mass MoCA, North Adams, MA. Curated by Susan Cross
'Cliche: Organized with Bill Powers', Almine Rech, New York, US
2017
'Dirge', JTT, New York, NY
'Botanica', Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA (curated by Todd von Ammon)
'Hors D’oeuvres', Half Gallery, New York, NY
2016
'9999', The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, NY
'Catastrophe', Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA, (curated by John Waters)
2014
'Nick Farhi, Sam McKinniss, Cassie Raihl', Robert Blumenthal Gallery, East Hampton, NY
'Beyond The Pale', Interstate Projects, Brooklyn, NY
'Haunted', Louis B James, New York, NY
'NIGHT TIDE', Gallery Diet, Miami, FL, (curated by Jarrett Earnest)
'First Responders', Good Work Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2013
'Joachim ‘Yoyo’ Friedrich + Sam McKinniss', envoy enterprises, New York, NY
'Nighttime in New York: Doron Langberg and Sam McKinniss', Galerie Thomas, Fuchs, Stuttgart, Germany
2012
'The Dorian Project', Second Guest Projects, New York, NY, (with catalog)
'ReMixed Messages: A(I)DS, Art + Words', Transformer Gallery, Washington DC
'The Dorian Project', Ana Cristea Gallery, New York, NY
2011
'Figural', DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
'Mixed Messages: A(I)DS, Art + Words', La Mama La Galleria, New York, NY, (curated by John Chaich for Visual AIDS)
'SWAP MEET', Mills Gallery, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA
2010
'Sam & Dave: New Paintings by Dave Whelan and Sam McKinniss', By And By Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
'Boston does Boston III', Proof Gallery, Boston, MA
2009
'Casual Males', Sherman Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA
'New Work', La Motta Fine Art, Hartford, CT
'Boston does Boston III', Proof Gallery, Boston, MA
2007
'No-Mad II', The Design Center, Hartford, CT, (curated by Hirokazu Fukawa)
'Herndon Gallery', Antioch College, Yellow Springs, OH, Collaborations
2005
'Duty Free', Cal Arts, Valencia, CA, (curated by Niko Solorio)
Awards
2009
New Boston Fund Individual Artist Fellowship, Greater Hartord Arts Council, Hartford, CT
2008
GO !, Emerging Artist Contest Winner, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
2007
Artist Grant and Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
Rudolph Zallinger Painting Prize, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, CT
Public Collections
Contemporary Art Foundation, Tokyo, Japan
Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
