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Melissa Gordon, Acrylic, pigment, flache, marble dust, silkscreen, on raw canvas, Female Readymade (Chain-link fence, rope, net, list of financial terms, text on Monsters, two holes, Medusa, (ADD HERE MEL), Jor, 2022

Melissa Gordon


Melissa Gordon takes up questions of authorship and abstraction in her ongoing serial projects: Blow Up Modernists, Structures for Viewing, and most recently, Material Evidence. In these series, Gordon implements her particular cache of gestures - enlarging hidden details, zooming in on patterns of reproduction, and distorting information with abstraction in paintings, silkscreens and installations – to reconfigure histories, surfaces, and iconographies through a feminist lens. With her sculptural installations, prints and paintings, Gordon takes a humorous and insightful stance vis-à-vis modernist art history, challenging the canon precisely through her close and unique reading of it.

Melissa Gordon works and lives in Brussels (BE).



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Melissa Gordon, Pigment, marble dust, acrylic, ratched and Strunk and White's , What's the hook, what's the handle ? 2021, 2021

WHAT'S THE HOOK, WHAT'S THE HANDLE ? 2021, 2021

Pigment, marble dust, acrylic, ratched and Strunk and White's
Melissa Gordon

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WHAT'S THE HOOK, WHAT'S THE HANDLE ? 2021

Pigment, marble dust, acrylic, ratched and Strunk and White's

Melissa Gordon

Melissa Gordon, Acrylic, silkscreen, pigment, marble dust, photograph on aluminium, on canvas, Female Readymade (Etienne Decroux, clock face, my hand at the end of the day painted by Mabel, chains and rope, large erasure), 2021

FEMALE READYMADE (ETIENNE DECROUX, CLOCK FACE, MY HAND AT THE END OF THE DAY PAINTED BY MABEL, CHAINS AND ROPE, LARGE ERASURE), 2021

Acrylic, silkscreen, pigment, marble dust, photograph on aluminium, on canvas
Melissa Gordon

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FEMALE READYMADE (ETIENNE DECROUX, CLOCK FACE, MY HAND AT THE END OF THE DAY PAINTED BY MABEL, CHAINS AND ROPE, LARGE ERASURE)

Acrylic, silkscreen, pigment, marble dust, photograph on aluminium, on canvas

Melissa Gordon

Melissa Gordon, Acrylic, pigment, flache, marble dust, silkscreen, on raw canvas, Female Readymade (Chain-link fence, rope, net, list of financial terms, text on Monsters, two holes, Medusa, (ADD HERE MEL), Jor, 2022

FEMALE READYMADE (CHAIN-LINK FENCE, ROPE, NET, LIST OF FINANCIAL TERMS, TEXT ON MONSTERS, TWO HOLES, MEDUSA, (ADD HERE MEL), JOR, 2022

Acrylic, pigment, flache, marble dust, silkscreen, on raw canvas
Melissa Gordon

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FEMALE READYMADE (CHAIN-LINK FENCE, ROPE, NET, LIST OF FINANCIAL TERMS, TEXT ON MONSTERS, TWO HOLES, MEDUSA, (ADD HERE MEL), JOR

Acrylic, pigment, flache, marble dust, silkscreen, on raw canvas

Melissa Gordon

Solo Shows:

2022 Iris, Large Glass Gallery, London
2022 Resistances, Stigter van Doesburg, Amsterdam
2021 Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
2020 Female Readymades, COSAR HMT, Dusseldorf
2019 Shits and Giggles, Deweer Gallery, Ottegem
2016 Fallible Space, The Bluecoat, Liverpool
2016 Derivative Value, Overbeek Gesselschaft, Luebeck
2016 Female Genius, Vleeshall, Middleburg
2016 The Gesture is a Joke, Deweer Gallery
2014 Mimetic Pleasures, Boesky East, New York
2014 Confusion Condition, Cosar HMT, Dusseldorf
2014 Modern Surfaces, Deweer Gallery
2014 ZOOOOM, Juliette Jongma Amsterdam
2013 Material Evidence, Spike Island, Bristol
2013 Blow Up Modernists, Cosar HMT, Dusseldorf
2012 Structures for Viewing, Marianne Boesky Gallery
2010 Collisions, (with Jessica Wiesner), Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam
2009 A Lonely Crowd, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York
2009 Two-Dimensional Men, Ancient & Modern, London
2008 Dirty Tricks of an Age of Moral Turpitude, Cosar HMT, Düsseldorf
2008 War of the Ghosts, Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam
2007 ABN AMRO Kunstprijs, ABN AMRO, Amsterdam
2007 Exquisite Corpse, Ancient and Modern, London
2006 The Only Man in There, Cosar HMT, Düsseldorf
2006 Genealogies Part II, Preview Art Fair, with Cosar HMT, Berlin
2006 Genealogies Part I, Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam
2005 What you can't see could kill you, De Ateliers, Amsterdam

Group Shows:

2018 The Mechanics of Fluids, curated by Melissa Gordon, Boesky Gallery New York
2018 This is the Gallery and the Gallery is Many Things, Eastside Projects, Birmingham
2018 The Merry-Go-Around, Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam
2018 Collector’s Room #18: Out of Time - In Search of Stillness, Deweer Gallery, Otegem
2017 Salon Hang, Kunstverein Amsterdam
2017 Something Stronger Than Me, WIELS, Brussels
2017 The Oslo Museum of Contemporary Art, Kunsthal, Oslo
2016 Modern Talk, Günther Förg / Melissa Gordon, Thomas Kratz & George Little, Deweer Gallery, Otegem
2015 WE (Not I), Artists Space, New York
2015 as it seems, COSAR HMT, Düsseldorf
2015 WE (Not I), South London Gallery
2015 Making Sense, Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam
2015 Salon Hang, Kunstverein Amsterdam
2014 Structures for Viewing, Deweer Gallery
2014 During the exhibition the studio will be close, curated by Lorenzo Benedetti, Wiels
2014 Biënnale van de Schilderkunst, Roger Raveelmuseum, Mechelen and Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle
2014 Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels
2013 HERstories, Bonner Kunstverein, with Rita McBride and Marlene Dumas
2013 Yellowing of the Lunar Consciousness, curated by Andrea Bruciati, Galleria Massimo Deluca, Venice
2013 15 for 50, Art on the Underground, London
2013 And Beyond Painting, Cosar HMT, Dusseldorf
2013 Specific Collisions, Marianne Boesky Uptown Gallery
2012 Art & Press, Zentrum for Kunst und Media, Karlsruhe
2012 Fact Mystic, Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam
2012 Parallax Curtain, S1, Sheffield
2012 Art & Press, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin
2012 Re-Opening, Deweer Gallery, Ottigem, Belgium
2012 Kunstverein Malkasten, Dusseldorf
2012 No Comment, LABOUR launch and performance, Kunsthall Oslo
2012 Art in the Parking Space, LAX Art, Los Angeles
2011 5x5, Espai d´art contemporani de Castelló, Castelló
2011 Future Forward, The Temporary Stedelijk, Amsterdam
2011 Theatre of Pain, Performance, Ancient & Modern, London
2011 Ever Changing Moods, Performance, Autoitalia, London
2011 Specific Collisions, Telephone Painting, Cosar HMT, Dusseldorf
2011 Group Velocity, Märkisches Museum Witten
2011 Madame Reaslism, curated by Lisette Smits, Marres Center for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht
2010 Philara Project Space, Dusseldorf
2010 Monumentalism(e), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL Lush Life, Scaramouche Gallery, New York
2010 Precarity and the Butter Tower, CTRL Gallery, Houston
2010 Dorothea von Stetten Kunstprijs, Kunstmuseum Bonn
2010 AIR Biennale, Ewing Gallery, Knoxville
2010 The Library of Babel/In and Out of Place, Zabludowicz Collection, London
2010 Paying A Visit to Mary, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield
2009 Variations on a Theme, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago
2009 All Cretans Are Liars, Said the Cretan, Galerie Juliette Jongma, Amsterdam
2009 Pictural Abstraction, Tache-Levy Gallery, Brussels
2009 Your Gold Teeth, Marianne Boesky Gallery
2009 Mental Puberty, STORE Gallery, London
2009 PRIVAT, Heydt-Museum Wuppertal
2009 I Love the BeNELux, Virgil de Voldere Gallery, New York
2009 Rebell, Art and Feminsm 1969-2009, MMKA, Arnhem
2009 True Lies, Kunsthaus Essen
2008 Prague Triennale, National Gallery, Prague
2008 Something and Something Else, Museum Van Bommel Van Dam, Venlo
2008 DUMA, Wiels Contemporary Art Center, Brussels
2008 Black Bile, Red Humour, b05 Art and Design Center, Montebaur
2008 Early Bird, Kunstverein Dorsten
2007 Showroom, Mai 36, Zürich
2007 The Painted Object, Harris Lieberman, New York
2007 Dealing with Reality, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem
2007 Lost and Found, Shedhalle, Zürich
2007 Ballet Mécanique, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
2007 Compilation III, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf
2007 The Collector’s Art, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf
2006 Among the Ash Heaps and Millionaires, Ancient and Modern, London
2006 Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
2005 Koninklijke Prijs voor Vrije Schilderkunst 2005, GEM, Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Den Haag
2005 Voices, Rotermann's Salt Storage Contemporary Art Museum, Tallinn

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