Studio:
tracymolisstudio@gmail.com
@tracy_molis
Tracy Molis
B. Los Angeles, California
Lives and works in New York, New York
Education
2011 MFA Columbia University, New York, NY
2007 BFA California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA
Solo Exhibitions
2018 Eclipsing, Kai Matsumiya, New York, NY
2016 Hollywood Forever at 3 AM, Clima Gallery, Milan, Italy
2015 OSg-OSz, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 The Patriot, O’ Flaherty’s, New York, NY
2021 Missing Target, Kai Matsumiya Gallery, New York, NY
2019 Deadwood, Nagel Draxler Kabinett, Berlin, Germany
2019 Fractal Labyrinth, curated by the Sphinx Northeast, NYU Rosenberg Gallery, New York, NY
2019 Life Instinct, Melanie, New York, NY
2017 Whitney Houston Biennial, New York, NY
2017 Please Mr. Postman, curated by Won-Eh, Essex Flowers, New York, NY
2017 STOP WORK ORDER, The Schloss, New York, NY
2016 Olimpia's Eyes, Zevitas Marcus, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Don't Make a Scene, Kai Matsumiya, New York, NY
2015 Lesser Deities of Summer, Underdonk, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Millésime, curated by New Pictures, Aubervilliers, Paris
2014 Public Holiday, curated by Anna Rosen, 50 Taaffe Place, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Vertigo, with Craig Kalpakjian and John Tremblay, Joe Sheftel gallery, New York, NY
2014 The Hovering Life, Kijidome, Boston, MA
2014 Zwischen Raum Zeit, video collaboration with DAS, The Pitch Project, Milwaukee, WI
2014 The Whitney Houston Biennial, Brooklyn, NY
2014 THE LAST BRUCENNIAL, New York, NY
2013 The Beginning of Something, Galerie Mieke van Schaijk, 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
2013 ReMap4 Biannual, with Stage for a Journey: DAS and Irini Miga, Athens, Greece
2011 Bosch Young Talent Show, Stedelijk Museum, 's-Hertogenbosch, Netherlands
2011 Columbia MFA Thesis Exhibition, curated by Larissa Harris, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, NY
2010 The Becoming Resurrection: A Chris Kraus Intervention, Beaubourg 268, San Francisco, CA
2010 B-Sides, 6-8 Months Project Space, New York, NY
2010 Columbia MFA First-Year Exhibition, curated by Matt Keegan, Wallach Gallery, Columbia University, New York, NY
2010 A Failed Entertainment: Selections From the Filmography of James O. Incandenza, the LeRoy Neiman Gallery at Columbia University, New York, NY
Residencies
2007 Yale Summer School of Art, Norfolk, CT
Awards & Grants
2023 Curationist Fellows Program, Curationist, MHZ Foundation
2010 Andrew Fisher Fellowship, Columbia University
2010 Dong Kingman Fellowship, Columbia University
2007 Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship, Yale Norfolk School of Art
2006 Fine Arts Affiliates Scholarship, California State University Long Beach
2002 Beverly G. Alpay Memorial Scholarship, Palos Verdes Art Center
Press
Andrew Russeth, “In Office Above Ground Zero, Tiny Cubicle Hosts Contemporary Art Gallery Focused on Monuments and Memory”, ARTnews, November 12, 2019.
“The top five New York art shows this week: Tracy Molis, ‘Eclipsing, Your Lips Sing, Incandescent”, Time Out New York, December 10, 2019
Sara Tassan Solet, “Clima Gallery” Juliet, no. 185, December 2017/ January 2018.
Diana Shi, "AI Dreamgirls and Digital Shrimp Cocktails Color This Post-Internet Group Show", The Creators Project, July 2, 2016.
Ben Thomas, “A Cemetery of the Living”, Medium, June 8, 2016.
Rachel Small, "How to Make a Scene, or Not", Interview Magazine, February 11, 2016.
Fiorella Valdesolo, "Art Matters | A Biennial With Another Whitney in Mind", New York Times T Magazine, March 7, 2014.
Chris Kraus interviewed by Maxi Kim, “From San Francisco to Oakland: North Korea’s Cultural Future”, 3:AM Magazine, August 2, 2010.
Publications
“Stories and Style in Early Modern Anatomical Illustration” Editorial Feature, Curationist, August 14, 2023.
“TOO FAR GONE: Reacting to Gen Z Reaction Videos”, F Magazine, issue 11: INTIMACY. May 2022 Editor, Blair Taylor
F Magazine, issue 9: THE SPIRIT. September 2019, Editor, Adam Marnie
“Ring of Steel”, F Magazine, issue 7. PARANOIA. September/October 2018 Editor, Adam Marnie
“On Pizza”, F Magazine, issue 6. SEX. April/May 2018 Editor, Adam Marnie
AD BOOK, Badlands Unlimited
Man on Fire, edited by Guy Ben-Ari, published by Meta Meta Meta LLC, New York, NY
Art Section with Fia Backström, Carlee Fernandez, Doug Harvey, Adam Helms, Lucy McKenzie, Rob Pruitt, and Dario Robleto. Columbia Journal of Literature and Art, Issue 49 (2011): pp. I-xvi
Teaching
2017, 19, 22 Adjunct Assistant Professor, Science and Art in Archaeological Illustration, Department of Anthropology, Columbia University, New York, NY
2019 Visiting Faculty, Rutgers Drawing and Painting Intensive, Mason Gross School of the Arts, New Brunswick, NJ
2017-18 Workshop on Archaeological Illustration, Mildred Archaeology Session, Mildred’s Lane Residency, Beach Lake, PA
2017 Guest Critic, DeWitt Lecture Series, Drawing and Painting Department, California State University, Long Beach, CA
2014 Part-time Lecturer, Basic Drawing, Columbia University School of the Arts, New York, NY
2011 Part-time Lecturer, Basic Painting, Columbia University School of the Arts, New York, NY
Artist Talks, Lectures & Performances
2020 Drawing from the Past: The Archaeological Illustrator’s Role in Figuring Babylon, NYU Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York, NY
2014 A Numbers Station for Radical Shapes, part of In Response: Other Primary Structures, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
2013 Ora Serrata: The Boundary between the Retina and the Ciliary Body, Chashama, New York, NY
2013 The Familiar Unfamiliar, curated by Manual History Machines, Casa Agave, 29 Palms / Wonder Valley, CA In and Around the University, ASAP @ IDEAS CITY, New Museum. New York, NY
2013 Talk Show V, with David Levine, Cabinet Magazine, Brooklyn, NY
2012 New Voices in Live Performance: Dangling Modifier, Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Works in Progress: Artists and Art Historians Present: Old Media/New Media, panel discussion with art historian MA Philip Grace, Schermerhorn Hall, Columbia University, New York, NY