Born in Hutchinson, Kansas, 1970
Lives and work in New York
John NEWSOM
SOLO SHOWS
2015
Marc Straus, New York
2013
"Bestiary", Marc Straus, New York
2012
"Crescendo", The Richard J. Massey Foundation for the Arts and Sciences, New York
2011
“Nocturne Paintings” / “Motifs and Methods”, Patrick Painter, Santa Monica, CA (monograph: “John Newsom, Allegories of Naturalism”)
2010
John Newsom: New Paintings, Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York (catalogue)
2009
Beyond the Horizon, Patrick Painter, Inc., Santa Monica
2006
Allegory of Nations, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, NY
2004
Black Widow Paintings, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, NY
Backyard Bliss, New Gallery / Thom Andriola, Houston, TX
2002
New Paintings, Stefan Stux Gallery, New York, NY
2001
Recent Paintings, Leyendecker Gallery, Tenerife, Spain
Meeting Place, Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY
2000
Natural Selection, Margrett Gallery, New York, NY
1999
Brushfire, Bronwyn Keenan Gallery (project space), New York
1998
SANCTUARY (100 Bird Paintings), Greene Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
1997
Recent Drawings, Earl McGrath Gallery, New York, NY
1996
Recent Paintings, 407 Gallery, New York, NY
New Work, Earl McGrath Gallery, New York, NY
GROUP SHOWS
2010
“Blood, sweat tears” Galería Leyendecker, Tenerife, Spain
“in.flec.tion” - HVCCA - Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
2008
ArtBasel Miami Beach, Miami, Florida
Frieze Art Fair, London
Pop-Auge und die ewigen Quatschkommonden
ArtBasel, Basel, Switzerland
The Armory Show, New York
2007
Size Matters: XXL-Recent Large Scale Paintings, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York
“Versus” Carlos Matter, Amy Myers, John Newsom, Arnulf Rainer. Mike
Weiss Gallery, New York
“Pop Art 1960-2000”, Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, Japan
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art
Hachioji Yume Art Museum
Paradise, Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica
ARCO 2007, Leyendecker Gallery, Madrid
2005
Contemporary Voice: The Contemporary American Art from Misumi
Collection,Tottori Prefectural, Museum, Osaka, Japan
Entourage, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, NY
Hope, Gavin Brown Enterprise, New York, NY
2004
The Night of Olana, Ace Gallery, New York, NY
Tango, Mike Weiss Gallery, New York, NY
For the Birds, Untitled (Space) Gallery, New Haven, CT
2003
Wandering Library, (in cooperation with The Peggy Guggenheim Museum,
Venice, Italy) The International Artists’ Museum, Venice, Italy
Thatcher, The Blue Gallery, London, England
Spring Into Action, The Guggenheim Museum, New York
Country Mouse/City Mouse, Space 101 Gallery, New York, NY.
2002
NYC, Momus Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Proper Villains, Untitled (Space) Gallery, New Haven, CT
New York in Texas, New Gallery / Thom Andriola, Houston, TX
The Dubrow Biennial, Kagan Martos Gallery, New York, NY Welcome to the Playground of the Fearless, (in cooperation with Deitch Projects, New York), Entropy, New York, NY
Subject Matters, Kravits/Wehby Gallery, New York, NY
2001
Solicitous Elders, Greene Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
The Jericho Project, The New York Academy of Sciences, New York, NY
2000
GROUNDZERO:01, 129 Lafayette, New York, NY
DRAWN, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas, TX
Na’er Do Wells, DNA Studios, New York, NY
1999
Beach Party ’99, Andreas Binder Gallery, Munich, Germany
Size Matters, Gale Gates et al., Inc., New York, NY.
Na’er Do Wells, 330 W. 38th St., New York, NY
1998
Stocking Stuffers, Earl McGrath Gallery, New York, NY
Pets, Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, New York, NY
For the Birds, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
Gallery Artists, Earl McGrath Gallery, New York, NY
Gallery Artists, Sixth @ Prince Fine Art, New York, NY
Waitstation Showroom, Santa Fe, NM
Misanthropes, 519 Broadway, New York, NY
1997
Absolut Secret, Gulbenkian Galleries, The Royal College of Art, London, England
Gallery Artists, Ira Stehmann Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
American Painters, Andreas Binder Gallery, Munich, Germany
New Art from New York, P-inc. Gallery, London, England
Comic Inspirations, Adam Baumgold Fine Art, New York, NY
1996
SNAFU, 407 Gallery, New York, NY
Gallery Artists, ARENA, New York, NY
Summer Group Show, Earl McGrath Gallery, New York, NY
1995
Iconic Narrator/Singular Narrative Paintings, (with Chuck Agro), Earl McGrath Gallery, New York, NY
Smells Like Vinyl, Roger Merians Gallery, New York, NY
Salons des Tree, Belvedere Castle, New York, NY
NATURAL (New Drawings), ARENA, New York, NY
New York Painting and Sculpture, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
1994
Sports Show, Roger Smith Gallery, New York, NY
Eleven, The Union League Club Gallery, New York, NY
Gallery Artists, Rosenburg Gallery, New York, NY
1993
The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, New York, NY