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Molly Springfield
born in 1977; based in Washington, DC
EDUCATION
2006 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2004 MFA, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 2004
2000 Post-Baccalaureate Certificate, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1999 BA, magna cum laude, Queens College, Charlotte, NC
1997-98 Visiting Student, The Slade School of Fine Art, London, England
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013 Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
2012 The Proto-History of the Internet, Thomas Robertello Gallery, Chicago IL
2009 Translation, Thomas Robertello Gallery, Chicago, IL
2009 Translation, Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
2008 The world is full of objects, Mireille Mosler Ltd., New York, NY
2007 The Real Object, Thomas Robertello Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006 Gentle Reader, Transformer, Washington, DC
2006 They go on telling you just the same thing forever, Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
2005 Anything we have not had to decipher on our own does not belong to us, JET, Washington, DC
2003 collecting/cataloguing/recording/seeing, Arts Club of Washington, Washington, DC
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
Graphite, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN. Curated by Sarah Urist Green
Art=Text=Art: Works by Contemporary Artists, selections from the Sally & Wynn Kramarsky Collection, Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. Curated by Elizabeth Schlatter (Richmond Museums) and Rachel Nackman (Kramarsky Collection)
FAX, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA; DeVos Art Museum, Marquette, Michigan; Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, Utah.
2011
Art=Text=Art: Works by Contemporary Artists, selections from the Sally & Wynn Kramarsky Collection, Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, VA. Curated by Elizabeth Schlatter (Richmond Museums) and Rachel Nackman (Kramarsky Collection)
In—and outside—writing, Voorkamer, Lier, Belgium
FAX, The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; South London Gallery, London, UK; Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN; St. Paul Street Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand.
Art on Art, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, NY
Out of Print, Mercer Union Centre for Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada
2010
False Documents and Other Illusions, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
Catalyst: 35 Years of the Washington Project for the Arts, American University Museum at the Katzen Art Center, Washington, DC.
Graphite on Paper, School 33, Baltimore, MD. Curated by René Treviño
Observant, ISE Cultural Foundation, New York, NY. Curated by Vicki Sher.
Beyond Text and Image: The Book as Art, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA
On/Off the Grid, Irvine Contemporary, Washington, DC
The Five Year Plan, Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
FAX, The Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA; Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong; Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada; Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico; Dowd Gallery, State University of New York at Cortland; New Galerie, Paris, France
2009
The Drawing Room, Mireille Mosler, Ltd., New York, NY
FAX, The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD; Plug in ICA, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
X LIBRIS: The Repurposed Book, Traffic Zone Center for Visual Art, Minneapolis, MN
The Trawick Prize: Contemporary Art Awards, Fraser Gallery, Bethesda, MD
The Janet and Walter Sondheim Prize, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore MD
Letters, Words and Phrases, Goucher College, Baltimore, MA. Curated by Laura Amussen
Art Rotterdam with Mireille Mosler, Ltd., Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Leaded: The Materiality and Metamorphosis of Graphite, The Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX; Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY; Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT; and The Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA
2008
Tuttle, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL
The Janet and Walter Sondheim Prize Finalists, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Idiolects, BROWN Gallery, London, England. Curated by Lumi Tan, Zach Feuer Gallery
Art Forum Berlin, with Mireille Mosler, Ltd., Berlin, Germany
Looking Back, Mireille Mosler Ltd., New York, NY
The Trawick Prize: Contemporary Art Awards, Heineman Myers Contemporary, Bethesda, MD
Multiplicitocracy, The American University Museum, Washington, DC
At Arm’s Length, NurtureArt, Brooklyn, NY. Curated by Julie McKim and Lauren Schell Dickens
Lie to the Eye, Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, CA
Leaded: The Materiality and Metamorphosis of Graphite, Western Washington University Gallery, Bellingham, WA; Salina Art Center, Salina, KS; Baum Gallery of Fine Art, University of Central Arkansas
2007
Simple, Dumb Objects, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA and School 33, Baltimore, MD
(three-person exhibition with Dean Kessmann and Martin Brief; essay by Alexander Dumbadze)
Kinsey Confidential, Kinsey Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Leaded: The Materiality and Metamorphosis of Graphite, Joel and Lila Harnett Museum, University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, VA, Curated by N. Elizabeth Schlatter. Traveled to Bedford Gallery, Dean Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA (Aug.-Sept. 2007)
Janet and Walter Sondheim Prize Semi-Finalists, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD. Juried by Robert Storr (Yale School of Art), Becky Smith (Bellwether Gallery) and Derrick Adams (independent artist)
Re Draw, Brooklyn Fire Proof, Brooklyn, NY. Curated by Katy Porte
Primed, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Curated by Irene Hoffman (Contemporary Museum, Baltimore)
The Reality of Things: Trompe l’Oeil in America, Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, FL
2006
Text Formed Drawing, Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut, Storrs. Curated by Barry Rosenberg
Private Viewing, Leroy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY. Curated by Amy Canonico, Jane Innis & Marina Chao, Whitney/Columbia Curatorial Studies Program
Exchange, WPA/C, Baltimore, MD and Richmond, VA. Curated by Gabriel Martinez
The Trawick Prize, Creative Partners Gallery, Bethesda, MD
Introductions, Thomas Robertello Gallery, Chicago, IL
Well Read, NurtureArt, Brooklyn, NY. Curated by Christopher Howard
Text, Greater Reston Art Center, Reston, VA
2005
Circa 75, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
Marking Traces, 33 Grand Gallery, Oakland, CA. Curated by Brad Silverstein
Seven, Washington Project for the Arts/Corcoran, Washington, DC
Measuring Art, Wyman Arts Center, Park School, Baltimore, MD. Curated by Christine Buckton
2004
Land of the Free, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Curated by Lee Plested
Cream: From the Top, Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA. Curated by Kathryn Weller-Renfrow
Compass Points, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA. Curated by Heidi Zuckerman-Jacobson
The Opening Band, I-5 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Unreadability, Eyedrum, Atlanta, GA
Equivalents and Analogues, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Drawing Sentences, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA. Organized by Helen Mirra
Fluid Exchange, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2003
Squares, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA. Curated by Nancy Mizuno Elliot
Really, Gescheidle Gallery, Chicago, IL. Curated by Tim Lowly
Janet Maher and Molly Springfield, Howard County Center for the Arts, Ellicott City, MD
2002
Please Pay Attention, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA
New Talent IV, Signal 66, Washington, DC
Off the wall, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
Savage/Love, Signal 66, Washington, DC
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Books
2011
It Is Almost That: A Collection of Image + Text Work by Women Artists & Writers, edited by Lisa Pearson, Siglio Press, Los Angeles. Includes projects by Eleanor Antin, Fiona Banner, Louise Bourgeois, Ann Hamilton, Susan Hiller, Adrian Piper, and Sue Williams, among others
It Is Almost That (box), limited edition boxed set of ten saddle-stitched artist booklets, Siglio Press, Los Angeles
Image Process Literature, Elisabeth Tonnard and Chris Burnett, editors. Contribution to forthcoming New York State Council for the Arts-funded anthology of “visual literature”
100 Artists of Washington, edited by F. Lennox Campello, Schiffer Publishing Inc.
2007
Anna Gosetti-Ferencei, The Ecstatic Quotidian: Phenomological Sightings in Modern Art & Literature (Penn State Press)
Reviews, Catalogue Essays, Interviews
2011
John Priestly, ART=TEXT=ART, ART PAPERS, November/December
Joan Waltemath, ART=TEXT=ART curated by Elizabeth Schlatter, THE BROOKLYN RAIL, October
Ingrid Langston, Molly Springfield, catalogue essay for Art=Text=Art, selections from the Sally and Wynn Kramarksy Collection
Nancy Princenthal, It Is Almost That (book review), ART IN PRINT
David Balzer, Book Smarts, EYEWEEKLY.com, February 11
Russell Smith, Regarding the book’s mortality, and also its surreal charm, THE GLOBE AND MAIL, January 12
Sean Prpick, Closing the Book, CBC - RADIO CANADA, January 31
2010
Daniel Kany, Art Review: ‘False Documents’ is genuinely excellent, THE PORTLAND PRESS HERALD, December 5
Michael O’Sullivan, 'Catalyst' looks at WPA, a place Washington area artists have called home, WASHINGTON POST, November 18
Annie Larmon, Art Review: 'Trompe L'oeil: False Documents & Other Illusions', THE PORTLAND PHEONIX, November 3
Rob Walker, Art That Sells Itself, THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE, May 9
Louis Jacobson, ‘On/Off the Grid’ at Irvine Contemporary, WASHINGTON CITY PAPER, February 24
2009
Jason Foumberg, Eat Your Words But Don’t Go Hungry (Molly Springfield at Thomas Robertello Gallery), NEWCITY ART, September 14
Lauren Viera, Our favorite fall art shows in Chicago, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, September 11
Mary Abbe, Art: Turning the Page, MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE, September 11
Michael O’Sullivan, Competition brings artists down to earth, WASHINGTON POST, September 11
Mary Carole McCauley, As Faxes Fade, They Become Art: Contemporary Museum’s touring show features spontaneity, randomness, BALTIMORE SUN, Sept. 10
Candice Weber, Molly Springfield, ‘Translation,’ Thomas Robertello Gallery, ART TALK CHICAGO, Sept. 6
Karsten Lund, Molly Springfield: Translation, FLAVORPILL CHICAGO, September 5
Bret McCabe, The 2009 Sondheim Prize: Molly Springfield, BALTIMORE CITY PAPER, July 8
Tim Smith, Sondheim finalists present collage of ideas, BALTIMORE SUN, June 28
Martin L. Johnson, Signs of the Times, BALTIMORE CITY PAPER, April 14
Johnny Ray Houston, Copy This, SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN, March 11
Kenneth Baker, Proust in “Translation” at Wolf, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, Feb. 28
Tiffany Maleshefski, Drawings found in ‘Translation,’ SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER, Feb. 26
2008
Richard Haden, I Have Words, ARTLURKER.COM (Miami), October 9
Martin L. Johnson, The Sondheim Prize: Molly Springfield, BALTIMORE CITY PAPER, July 9
Looking Back, Goings on About Town, THE NEW YORKER, July 7 & 14
Edward Gunts, Sondheim finalists’ work reflect changing world, THE BALTIMORE SUN, June 29
Lauren O’Neill-Butler, Molly Springfield, ARTFORUM, March
Andy Kozlowski, Leaded, ART PAPERS, January/February
Amoreen Armetta, Molly Springfield, ARTFORUM, Critics’ Picks, January/February
R.C. Baker, Best in Show: Molly Springfield, VILLAGE VOICE, January 2
2007
Alisha Kerlin, Full of Objects, Again, GAY CITY TIMES, December 20
Audrey Mast, Molly Springfield: The Real Object, FLAVORPILL CHICAGO, May 15
Alan Artner, Photos spur closer scrutiny of subjects, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, May 4
Craig Drennen, Interview with Molly Springfield, DRAIN MAGAZINE, Issue 8 (Spring)
Kristin Gehring, On the Scene, CHICAGO JOURNAL, April 25
Rodger Stevens, Redraw, WILLIAMSBURG AND GREENPOINT MONTHLY ART GUIDE, Mar. 1
2006
Kriston Capps, Q&A with Molly Springfield, Washington Post Express, November 29
Peter Winant, Best Bet: Molly Springfield’s Gentle Reader, WETA-TV (PBS), November
Heather Goss, Original Copy, DCIST, November 16
Jeffry Cudlin, Molly Springfield: Gentle Reader, WASHINGTON CITY PAPER, November 3
Michael O’Sullivan, Trawick Prize Winners’ Attention to Details, WASHINGTON POST, Sept. 22
Well Read, Goings on About Town, THE NEW YORKER, May 8
Michael O’Sullivan, Text: Reading Between the Lines, WASHINGTON POST, April 7
Huan Hsu, Text Messaging: With a photocopier and a pencil, Molly Springfield draws meaning from the printed page, WASHINGTON CITY PAPER, March 23
Katie Kurtz, Molly Springfield and Kaz Oshiro, FLAVORPILL SF, February 28
Glen Helfand, Knockoffs: Kaz Oshiro and Molly Springfield repurpose your junk, SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN, February 22
2005
Kriston Capps, Top Ten Gallery Shows from 2005, DCIST, December 30
Kriston Capps, Molly Springfield: Palimpsest, Landscape, Catalogue, GRAMMAR.POLICE, Mar. 29
Jessica Dawson, Molly Springfield: Still Passing Notes In Class, WASHINGTON POST, March 17
Cindi Spain and F. Lennox Campello, First Friday Walkthrough, D.C. ART NEWS, March 11
2004
Robert Taylor, ‘Cuts’ has an edge; New visions worth seeing, CONTRA COSTA TIMES, July 30
Patricia Maloney, exhibition catalogue essay, Compass Points, Berkeley Art Museum, May
2003
Lisa Stein, What you see isn’t what you get: ‘Really’, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, May 16
Lisa Lenoir, Art represents life, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, May 11
Michael Workman, Eye Exam: Art Fever, NEWCITY CHICAGO, May 7
Best Bets: Correspondence Art, WASHINGTON POST, March 20
Sandy Alexander, Exhibit offers a trip through many worlds, THE BALTIMORE SUN, March 13
Stephanie K. Taylor, Today’s Best Bets: Memory Lane, THE WASHINGTON TIMES, March 8
Published Writings and Online Projects
2011
Lily Cox-Richard, artist profile, The Studio Visit, June
2010
Inside the Mundaneum, Triple Canopy, Issue 8, March (essay on Paul Otlet and the proto-history of the Internet)
Gretchen Schermerhorn, artist profile, The Studio Visit, December
Noelle Tan, artist profile, The Studio Visit, May
Bill Berkson and Molly Springfield, Translation and Dear Molly Proust, Big Bridge, Issue 14
2007
Why + Wherefore, online exhibition curated by Summer Guthery, Lumi Tan, & Nicholas Weist
Voices: Molly Springfield, NY Arts Magazine, November (invited artist essay on the Proust Translation project)
2006
The Bookshelf: Molly Springfield, College Art Association News, September
(essay on Proust, William Henry Fox Talbot, and Google book scanning)
SELECTED GRANTS & HONORS
2011
Visual Artist Fellowship, D.C. Commission on Arts & Humanities/National Endowment for the Arts
2009
Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize. Selected as one of six finalists for exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art by Elisabeth Sussman (Curator of Photography, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York), Valerie Cassel Oliver (Curator, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston) and Ellen Harvey (artist)
The Trawick Prize: Contemporary Art Awards. Selected as a finalist and awarded second prize by Joanna Marsh (Curator of Contemporary Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum), Kevin Everson (University of Virginia), and Doreen Bolger (Director, Baltimore Museum of Art)
Visual Artist Fellowship, D.C. Commission on Arts & Humanities/National Endowment for the Arts
2008
Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize. Selected as one of six finalists for exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art by Laura Hoptman (Curator, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York), Darby English (critic, University of Chicago) and Mickalene Thomas (artist)
The Trawick Prize: Contemporary Art Awards. Selected as a finalist by Molly Donovan (National Gallery of Art, Washington), Irene Hoffman (Director, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore) and Leah Stoddard (curator)
Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Creative Fellowship
Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY, Artist-in-Residence
2006
The Trawick Prize: Contemporary Art Awards. Selected as finalist and awarded third prize by Ashley Kistler (VCU Anderson Gallery), Jack Rasmussen (American University), and Gerald Ross (Maryland Institute College of Art)
Skowhegan Fellowship, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
2005
Grant, D.C. Commission on Arts & Humanities/National Endowment for the Arts
The Drawing Center, New York, Viewing Program participant
2004
Eisner Prize for Highest Achievement in the Creative Arts, University of California, Berkeley
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, University of California, Berkeley
2003
Full Tuition Grant, University of California, Berkeley, 2003-2004
2002
Departmental Block Grant, University of California, Berkeley, 2002-2003
SELECTED LECTURES / VISITING ARTIST TALKS
2011
Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI, March 30-April 1 (with exhibition)
2010
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, November 4
McDaniel College, Westminister, MD, October 12
Triple Canopy, Brooklyn, NY, May 8
Panel discussion on Bartleby: A Rereading, Triple Canopy, April 25
2009
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, October 14
National Cathedral School, Washington, D.C., October 13
Panel discussion on artist residencies, organized by Transformer, Washington, DC, April 16
Graduate Colloquium, University of Maryland, College Park, March 26
Panel discussion on Translation, with Proust scholar Joshua Landy and art critic Kriston Capps, Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco, February 14
2008
Post-Baccalaureate Program, Maryland Institute, Baltimore, MD, November 20
Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, November 14
2007
Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, June 21
2006
Post-Baccalaureate Program, Maryland Institute, Baltimore, MD, November 16
2005
Washington Project for the Arts/Corcoran, Washington, DC, August 28
The Wyman Arts Center, Park School, Baltimore, MD, May 12
JET artworks, Washington, DC, March 6
2004
Post-Baccalaureate Program, Maryland Institute, Baltimore, MD, November 18
George Washington University, Washington, DC, September 15
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, May 23
born in 1977; based in Washington, DC
EDUCATION
2006 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
2004 MFA, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 2004
2000 Post-Baccalaureate Certificate, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1999 BA, magna cum laude, Queens College, Charlotte, NC
1997-98 Visiting Student, The Slade School of Fine Art, London, England
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2013 Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
2012 The Proto-History of the Internet, Thomas Robertello Gallery, Chicago IL
2009 Translation, Thomas Robertello Gallery, Chicago, IL
2009 Translation, Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
2008 The world is full of objects, Mireille Mosler Ltd., New York, NY
2007 The Real Object, Thomas Robertello Gallery, Chicago, IL
2006 Gentle Reader, Transformer, Washington, DC
2006 They go on telling you just the same thing forever, Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
2005 Anything we have not had to decipher on our own does not belong to us, JET, Washington, DC
2003 collecting/cataloguing/recording/seeing, Arts Club of Washington, Washington, DC
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
Graphite, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN. Curated by Sarah Urist Green
Art=Text=Art: Works by Contemporary Artists, selections from the Sally & Wynn Kramarsky Collection, Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ. Curated by Elizabeth Schlatter (Richmond Museums) and Rachel Nackman (Kramarsky Collection)
FAX, San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA; DeVos Art Museum, Marquette, Michigan; Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, Utah.
2011
Art=Text=Art: Works by Contemporary Artists, selections from the Sally & Wynn Kramarsky Collection, Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, VA. Curated by Elizabeth Schlatter (Richmond Museums) and Rachel Nackman (Kramarsky Collection)
In—and outside—writing, Voorkamer, Lier, Belgium
FAX, The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; South London Gallery, London, UK; Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN; St. Paul Street Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand.
Art on Art, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, NY
Out of Print, Mercer Union Centre for Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada
2010
False Documents and Other Illusions, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME
Catalyst: 35 Years of the Washington Project for the Arts, American University Museum at the Katzen Art Center, Washington, DC.
Graphite on Paper, School 33, Baltimore, MD. Curated by René Treviño
Observant, ISE Cultural Foundation, New York, NY. Curated by Vicki Sher.
Beyond Text and Image: The Book as Art, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, VA
On/Off the Grid, Irvine Contemporary, Washington, DC
The Five Year Plan, Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
FAX, The Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA; Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong; Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada; Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico; Dowd Gallery, State University of New York at Cortland; New Galerie, Paris, France
2009
The Drawing Room, Mireille Mosler, Ltd., New York, NY
FAX, The Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD; Plug in ICA, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
X LIBRIS: The Repurposed Book, Traffic Zone Center for Visual Art, Minneapolis, MN
The Trawick Prize: Contemporary Art Awards, Fraser Gallery, Bethesda, MD
The Janet and Walter Sondheim Prize, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore MD
Letters, Words and Phrases, Goucher College, Baltimore, MA. Curated by Laura Amussen
Art Rotterdam with Mireille Mosler, Ltd., Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Leaded: The Materiality and Metamorphosis of Graphite, The Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX; Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY; Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT; and The Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA
2008
Tuttle, David Castillo Gallery, Miami, FL
The Janet and Walter Sondheim Prize Finalists, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Idiolects, BROWN Gallery, London, England. Curated by Lumi Tan, Zach Feuer Gallery
Art Forum Berlin, with Mireille Mosler, Ltd., Berlin, Germany
Looking Back, Mireille Mosler Ltd., New York, NY
The Trawick Prize: Contemporary Art Awards, Heineman Myers Contemporary, Bethesda, MD
Multiplicitocracy, The American University Museum, Washington, DC
At Arm’s Length, NurtureArt, Brooklyn, NY. Curated by Julie McKim and Lauren Schell Dickens
Lie to the Eye, Bakersfield Museum of Art, Bakersfield, CA
Leaded: The Materiality and Metamorphosis of Graphite, Western Washington University Gallery, Bellingham, WA; Salina Art Center, Salina, KS; Baum Gallery of Fine Art, University of Central Arkansas
2007
Simple, Dumb Objects, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA and School 33, Baltimore, MD
(three-person exhibition with Dean Kessmann and Martin Brief; essay by Alexander Dumbadze)
Kinsey Confidential, Kinsey Institute, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
Leaded: The Materiality and Metamorphosis of Graphite, Joel and Lila Harnett Museum, University of Richmond Museums, Richmond, VA, Curated by N. Elizabeth Schlatter. Traveled to Bedford Gallery, Dean Lesher Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA (Aug.-Sept. 2007)
Janet and Walter Sondheim Prize Semi-Finalists, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD. Juried by Robert Storr (Yale School of Art), Becky Smith (Bellwether Gallery) and Derrick Adams (independent artist)
Re Draw, Brooklyn Fire Proof, Brooklyn, NY. Curated by Katy Porte
Primed, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Curated by Irene Hoffman (Contemporary Museum, Baltimore)
The Reality of Things: Trompe l’Oeil in America, Vero Beach Museum of Art, Vero Beach, FL
2006
Text Formed Drawing, Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut, Storrs. Curated by Barry Rosenberg
Private Viewing, Leroy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY. Curated by Amy Canonico, Jane Innis & Marina Chao, Whitney/Columbia Curatorial Studies Program
Exchange, WPA/C, Baltimore, MD and Richmond, VA. Curated by Gabriel Martinez
The Trawick Prize, Creative Partners Gallery, Bethesda, MD
Introductions, Thomas Robertello Gallery, Chicago, IL
Well Read, NurtureArt, Brooklyn, NY. Curated by Christopher Howard
Text, Greater Reston Art Center, Reston, VA
2005
Circa 75, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
Marking Traces, 33 Grand Gallery, Oakland, CA. Curated by Brad Silverstein
Seven, Washington Project for the Arts/Corcoran, Washington, DC
Measuring Art, Wyman Arts Center, Park School, Baltimore, MD. Curated by Christine Buckton
2004
Land of the Free, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA. Curated by Lee Plested
Cream: From the Top, Arts Benicia, Benicia, CA. Curated by Kathryn Weller-Renfrow
Compass Points, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA. Curated by Heidi Zuckerman-Jacobson
The Opening Band, I-5 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Unreadability, Eyedrum, Atlanta, GA
Equivalents and Analogues, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Drawing Sentences, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA. Organized by Helen Mirra
Fluid Exchange, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2003
Squares, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA. Curated by Nancy Mizuno Elliot
Really, Gescheidle Gallery, Chicago, IL. Curated by Tim Lowly
Janet Maher and Molly Springfield, Howard County Center for the Arts, Ellicott City, MD
2002
Please Pay Attention, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA
New Talent IV, Signal 66, Washington, DC
Off the wall, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD
Savage/Love, Signal 66, Washington, DC
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Books
2011
It Is Almost That: A Collection of Image + Text Work by Women Artists & Writers, edited by Lisa Pearson, Siglio Press, Los Angeles. Includes projects by Eleanor Antin, Fiona Banner, Louise Bourgeois, Ann Hamilton, Susan Hiller, Adrian Piper, and Sue Williams, among others
It Is Almost That (box), limited edition boxed set of ten saddle-stitched artist booklets, Siglio Press, Los Angeles
Image Process Literature, Elisabeth Tonnard and Chris Burnett, editors. Contribution to forthcoming New York State Council for the Arts-funded anthology of “visual literature”
100 Artists of Washington, edited by F. Lennox Campello, Schiffer Publishing Inc.
2007
Anna Gosetti-Ferencei, The Ecstatic Quotidian: Phenomological Sightings in Modern Art & Literature (Penn State Press)
Reviews, Catalogue Essays, Interviews
2011
John Priestly, ART=TEXT=ART, ART PAPERS, November/December
Joan Waltemath, ART=TEXT=ART curated by Elizabeth Schlatter, THE BROOKLYN RAIL, October
Ingrid Langston, Molly Springfield, catalogue essay for Art=Text=Art, selections from the Sally and Wynn Kramarksy Collection
Nancy Princenthal, It Is Almost That (book review), ART IN PRINT
David Balzer, Book Smarts, EYEWEEKLY.com, February 11
Russell Smith, Regarding the book’s mortality, and also its surreal charm, THE GLOBE AND MAIL, January 12
Sean Prpick, Closing the Book, CBC - RADIO CANADA, January 31
2010
Daniel Kany, Art Review: ‘False Documents’ is genuinely excellent, THE PORTLAND PRESS HERALD, December 5
Michael O’Sullivan, 'Catalyst' looks at WPA, a place Washington area artists have called home, WASHINGTON POST, November 18
Annie Larmon, Art Review: 'Trompe L'oeil: False Documents & Other Illusions', THE PORTLAND PHEONIX, November 3
Rob Walker, Art That Sells Itself, THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE, May 9
Louis Jacobson, ‘On/Off the Grid’ at Irvine Contemporary, WASHINGTON CITY PAPER, February 24
2009
Jason Foumberg, Eat Your Words But Don’t Go Hungry (Molly Springfield at Thomas Robertello Gallery), NEWCITY ART, September 14
Lauren Viera, Our favorite fall art shows in Chicago, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, September 11
Mary Abbe, Art: Turning the Page, MINNEAPOLIS STAR-TRIBUNE, September 11
Michael O’Sullivan, Competition brings artists down to earth, WASHINGTON POST, September 11
Mary Carole McCauley, As Faxes Fade, They Become Art: Contemporary Museum’s touring show features spontaneity, randomness, BALTIMORE SUN, Sept. 10
Candice Weber, Molly Springfield, ‘Translation,’ Thomas Robertello Gallery, ART TALK CHICAGO, Sept. 6
Karsten Lund, Molly Springfield: Translation, FLAVORPILL CHICAGO, September 5
Bret McCabe, The 2009 Sondheim Prize: Molly Springfield, BALTIMORE CITY PAPER, July 8
Tim Smith, Sondheim finalists present collage of ideas, BALTIMORE SUN, June 28
Martin L. Johnson, Signs of the Times, BALTIMORE CITY PAPER, April 14
Johnny Ray Houston, Copy This, SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN, March 11
Kenneth Baker, Proust in “Translation” at Wolf, SAN FRANCISCO CHRONICLE, Feb. 28
Tiffany Maleshefski, Drawings found in ‘Translation,’ SAN FRANCISCO EXAMINER, Feb. 26
2008
Richard Haden, I Have Words, ARTLURKER.COM (Miami), October 9
Martin L. Johnson, The Sondheim Prize: Molly Springfield, BALTIMORE CITY PAPER, July 9
Looking Back, Goings on About Town, THE NEW YORKER, July 7 & 14
Edward Gunts, Sondheim finalists’ work reflect changing world, THE BALTIMORE SUN, June 29
Lauren O’Neill-Butler, Molly Springfield, ARTFORUM, March
Andy Kozlowski, Leaded, ART PAPERS, January/February
Amoreen Armetta, Molly Springfield, ARTFORUM, Critics’ Picks, January/February
R.C. Baker, Best in Show: Molly Springfield, VILLAGE VOICE, January 2
2007
Alisha Kerlin, Full of Objects, Again, GAY CITY TIMES, December 20
Audrey Mast, Molly Springfield: The Real Object, FLAVORPILL CHICAGO, May 15
Alan Artner, Photos spur closer scrutiny of subjects, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, May 4
Craig Drennen, Interview with Molly Springfield, DRAIN MAGAZINE, Issue 8 (Spring)
Kristin Gehring, On the Scene, CHICAGO JOURNAL, April 25
Rodger Stevens, Redraw, WILLIAMSBURG AND GREENPOINT MONTHLY ART GUIDE, Mar. 1
2006
Kriston Capps, Q&A with Molly Springfield, Washington Post Express, November 29
Peter Winant, Best Bet: Molly Springfield’s Gentle Reader, WETA-TV (PBS), November
Heather Goss, Original Copy, DCIST, November 16
Jeffry Cudlin, Molly Springfield: Gentle Reader, WASHINGTON CITY PAPER, November 3
Michael O’Sullivan, Trawick Prize Winners’ Attention to Details, WASHINGTON POST, Sept. 22
Well Read, Goings on About Town, THE NEW YORKER, May 8
Michael O’Sullivan, Text: Reading Between the Lines, WASHINGTON POST, April 7
Huan Hsu, Text Messaging: With a photocopier and a pencil, Molly Springfield draws meaning from the printed page, WASHINGTON CITY PAPER, March 23
Katie Kurtz, Molly Springfield and Kaz Oshiro, FLAVORPILL SF, February 28
Glen Helfand, Knockoffs: Kaz Oshiro and Molly Springfield repurpose your junk, SAN FRANCISCO BAY GUARDIAN, February 22
2005
Kriston Capps, Top Ten Gallery Shows from 2005, DCIST, December 30
Kriston Capps, Molly Springfield: Palimpsest, Landscape, Catalogue, GRAMMAR.POLICE, Mar. 29
Jessica Dawson, Molly Springfield: Still Passing Notes In Class, WASHINGTON POST, March 17
Cindi Spain and F. Lennox Campello, First Friday Walkthrough, D.C. ART NEWS, March 11
2004
Robert Taylor, ‘Cuts’ has an edge; New visions worth seeing, CONTRA COSTA TIMES, July 30
Patricia Maloney, exhibition catalogue essay, Compass Points, Berkeley Art Museum, May
2003
Lisa Stein, What you see isn’t what you get: ‘Really’, CHICAGO TRIBUNE, May 16
Lisa Lenoir, Art represents life, CHICAGO SUN-TIMES, May 11
Michael Workman, Eye Exam: Art Fever, NEWCITY CHICAGO, May 7
Best Bets: Correspondence Art, WASHINGTON POST, March 20
Sandy Alexander, Exhibit offers a trip through many worlds, THE BALTIMORE SUN, March 13
Stephanie K. Taylor, Today’s Best Bets: Memory Lane, THE WASHINGTON TIMES, March 8
Published Writings and Online Projects
2011
Lily Cox-Richard, artist profile, The Studio Visit, June
2010
Inside the Mundaneum, Triple Canopy, Issue 8, March (essay on Paul Otlet and the proto-history of the Internet)
Gretchen Schermerhorn, artist profile, The Studio Visit, December
Noelle Tan, artist profile, The Studio Visit, May
Bill Berkson and Molly Springfield, Translation and Dear Molly Proust, Big Bridge, Issue 14
2007
Why + Wherefore, online exhibition curated by Summer Guthery, Lumi Tan, & Nicholas Weist
Voices: Molly Springfield, NY Arts Magazine, November (invited artist essay on the Proust Translation project)
2006
The Bookshelf: Molly Springfield, College Art Association News, September
(essay on Proust, William Henry Fox Talbot, and Google book scanning)
SELECTED GRANTS & HONORS
2011
Visual Artist Fellowship, D.C. Commission on Arts & Humanities/National Endowment for the Arts
2009
Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize. Selected as one of six finalists for exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art by Elisabeth Sussman (Curator of Photography, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York), Valerie Cassel Oliver (Curator, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston) and Ellen Harvey (artist)
The Trawick Prize: Contemporary Art Awards. Selected as a finalist and awarded second prize by Joanna Marsh (Curator of Contemporary Art, Smithsonian American Art Museum), Kevin Everson (University of Virginia), and Doreen Bolger (Director, Baltimore Museum of Art)
Visual Artist Fellowship, D.C. Commission on Arts & Humanities/National Endowment for the Arts
2008
Janet & Walter Sondheim Prize. Selected as one of six finalists for exhibition at the Baltimore Museum of Art by Laura Hoptman (Curator, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York), Darby English (critic, University of Chicago) and Mickalene Thomas (artist)
The Trawick Prize: Contemporary Art Awards. Selected as a finalist by Molly Donovan (National Gallery of Art, Washington), Irene Hoffman (Director, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore) and Leah Stoddard (curator)
Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Creative Fellowship
Millay Colony for the Arts, Austerlitz, NY, Artist-in-Residence
2006
The Trawick Prize: Contemporary Art Awards. Selected as finalist and awarded third prize by Ashley Kistler (VCU Anderson Gallery), Jack Rasmussen (American University), and Gerald Ross (Maryland Institute College of Art)
Skowhegan Fellowship, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
2005
Grant, D.C. Commission on Arts & Humanities/National Endowment for the Arts
The Drawing Center, New York, Viewing Program participant
2004
Eisner Prize for Highest Achievement in the Creative Arts, University of California, Berkeley
Outstanding Graduate Student Instructor Award, University of California, Berkeley
2003
Full Tuition Grant, University of California, Berkeley, 2003-2004
2002
Departmental Block Grant, University of California, Berkeley, 2002-2003
SELECTED LECTURES / VISITING ARTIST TALKS
2011
Calvin College, Grand Rapids, MI, March 30-April 1 (with exhibition)
2010
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, November 4
McDaniel College, Westminister, MD, October 12
Triple Canopy, Brooklyn, NY, May 8
Panel discussion on Bartleby: A Rereading, Triple Canopy, April 25
2009
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, October 14
National Cathedral School, Washington, D.C., October 13
Panel discussion on artist residencies, organized by Transformer, Washington, DC, April 16
Graduate Colloquium, University of Maryland, College Park, March 26
Panel discussion on Translation, with Proust scholar Joshua Landy and art critic Kriston Capps, Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco, February 14
2008
Post-Baccalaureate Program, Maryland Institute, Baltimore, MD, November 20
Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA, November 14
2007
Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA, June 21
2006
Post-Baccalaureate Program, Maryland Institute, Baltimore, MD, November 16
2005
Washington Project for the Arts/Corcoran, Washington, DC, August 28
The Wyman Arts Center, Park School, Baltimore, MD, May 12
JET artworks, Washington, DC, March 6
2004
Post-Baccalaureate Program, Maryland Institute, Baltimore, MD, November 18
George Washington University, Washington, DC, September 15
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, May 23
