ART BASEL IN MIAMI BEACH 2019

Mike Cloud is a Chicago-based artist whose work examines the conditions of painting in its contemporary life among countless reproductions, symbols and descriptions. After studying at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Cloud earned his MFA from Yale in 2003. His work has been extensively shown, at venues such as MoMA P.S.1, Marianne Boesky Gallery, White Columns, Max Protetch, Apexart, and has been included in group exhibitions, such as Frequency at the Studio Museum in Harlem and at Honor Fraser Gallery. In addition to numerous reviews, his work was published in Painting Abstraction by Bob Nickas, Phaidon Press (2009). He has been awarded the inaugural Chiaro Award from the Headlands Center for the Arts, CA; a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowship and residencies at the Meulensteen Art Centre in the Netherlands as well as the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program in New York. Cloud is currently an Associate Professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. The artist had four exhibitions with the gallery, including a solo presentation of his work at Art Basel Miami Beach, 2016.

Harriet Korman (born 1947) studied at Queens College and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. Her work has been exhibited widely in solo and group shows, beginning with her earliest exhibitions at Galerie Ricke (Cologne, 1970), Lo Guidice Gallery (New York, 1972), Claire Copley Gallery (Los Angeles, 1974), and Daniel Weinberg Gallery (San Francisco, 1976). From 1992, until 2018, she was represented by the Lennon Weinberg Gallery (New York). Thomas Erben Gallery included Korman’s work in two group shows, one in 2011, another in 2017 and started representing the artist with her solo show Permeable/Resistant: Recent Drawings and Paintings, Nov. 1 to Dec. 22, 2018. Her work was featured in the Ten Young Artists-Theodoron Awards at the Guggenheim Museum (1971), Whitney Annual (1972), and Whitney Biennial (1973 and 1995). Recently, her work was included in a traveling exhibition, High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1967-75, organised by Independent Curators International, and a three person show at MoMA PS1 (both 2007). Korman’s paintings are included in the collections of many institutions including: Guggenheim (New York); Weatherspoon Art Gallery (Greensboro, North Carolina); Maier Museum (Lynchburg, Virginia); Joslyn Art Museum (Omaha, Nebraska), and the Blanton Museum (Austin, Texas). Korman has received grants and awards from the Guggenheim Museum (1971), the National Endowment for the Arts (1974, 1987,and 1993), Yaddo Residency (1996), the Edward Albee Foundation (1997), the American Academy of Arts & Letters (2003), the National Academy Museum where she was also inducted (2006), the Pollock Krasner Foundation (2008), and the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship (2013). Korman is an Adjunct Assistant Professor of Fine Arts at the Fashion Institute of Technology (1989-present). She lives and works in New York City.

Dona Nelson (b. 1947, Great Island, NE) moved to New York City in 1967 to participate in the Whitney Independent Study Program, and received her BFA from Ohio State University in 1968. Nelson has had numerous, widely reviewed solo shows, at galleries such as Rosa Esman, Michael Klein and Cheim & Read (all New York); including a large survey of her work at the Weatherspoon Museum of Fine Art, (Greensboro, North Carolina) and, most recently, at the Tang . She has also been featured in many group exhibitions throughout the country, including the 2014 Whitney Biennial, and has been written about in the New York Times, The New Yorker, Art in America and ArtForum. Her work has appeared at institutions such as the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, New York University’s 80WSE, Bard College, Apexart, the Milwaukee Art Museum, and the Aldrich Museum, and is included in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Guggenheim Museum, Rose Art Museum and the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts - among others. Nelson was a recipient of a 2011 grant from the Foundation for the Community of Artists, 2013 Artists’ Legacy Foundation Grant, 2015 Anonymous was a Woman Grant, and received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 1994. She has been a professor for twenty-five years at Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, also serving as a visiting critic in the M.F.A. program at the Yale School of Art and Bard Summer M.F.A. Program. Since 2006, Nelson has had six exhibitions with the gallery.