RJ Messineo › CV

BFA, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

MFA, University of California, Los Angeles, CA

Me in Meadow, Canada East Hampton, East Hampton, NY

Piano Paintings, Morán Morán, Los Angeles, CA

Gold Gold, Canada, New York, NY

4:00 Universe, Morán Morán, Los Angeles, CA

Fellow Feeling, Canada, New York, NY

Two Halves, with Farrah Karapetian, Artist Curated Projects, Los Angeles, CA

Perfectly Fucked Up for You, Los Caminos, St. Louis, MO

Attached, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA

Imprenta, organized by Wu Tsang and Ryan Inouye, Los Angeles, CA

A Project Curated by Artists: 15 Years of ACP, Morán Morán, Los Angeles, CA

Drunk vs Stoned 3, The Ranch, Montauk, NY

In August, curated by Strauss Bourque-LaFrance, Sarah Brook, Los Angeles, CA

Canada on Paper, Canada East Hampton, East Hampton, NY

The Drawing Centre Show, curated by Franck Gautherot, Seungduk Kim, Tobias Pils & Joe Bradley, Le Consortium, Dijon, France

Convergent Evolutions, The Conscious of Body Work, Curated by Christiana Ine-Kimba Boyle Pace Gallery, New York, NY

The Thick Stream, Canada, New York, NY

Pleasure in Precariousness, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, NY

Feed The Meter, Vol II, curated by Wallace Whitney, Ceysson & Benetiere, Wandhaff, Luxembourg
Does the Moon Move, curated by Bannerette, Orgy Park, Brooklyn, NY
We the watchers are also bodies, curated by Natasha Marie Llorens, Hercules Art, New York, NY
Vanishing Points, curated by Andrianna Campbell, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY

Set Design with devynn emory, Issue Project Room, New York, NY
Stand Close its Shorter Than You Think: A show on feminist rage, curated by
Katie Brewer Ball, One National Gay & Lesbian Archive with Artist Curated Projects, Los Angeles, CA

My head is falling out so I’m standing on my stomach, curated by Eve Fowler and Lucas Michael, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
Approximate Alter: Life Chances, with Wu Tsang, Clifton Benevento Gallery, New York, NY
Queer Abstraction, curated by Eve Fowler, Artillery Magazine, Los Angeles, CA

Violence, curated by Corrina Kirsch and Francesca WIlmott, The Exhibition Agency, Chicago, IL

Never Very Far Apart, curated by Ryan Inouye, Redcat, Los Angeles, CA
The First Thing, curated by Matthew Siegle, Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA

2018-19 Shandaken: Paint School Fellow

2014 Fire Island Artist Residency

Visiting Critic, The Cooper Union, New York, NY

Artist Mentor, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA

Visiting Critic, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

Steinfield, Daniella. "Chasing the experience | RJ Messineo, painter, Massachusetts and New York ` City, Voice on Art”, The VAN HORN Gallery Podcast, April 12

“Pace Announces ‘Convergent Evolutions: The Conscious of Body Work’, curated by Christiana Ine-Kimba Boyle”, Martin Cid Magazine, August 22

Ologundudu, Folasade. “Pace Gave Its New Digital Director Christiana Ine-Kimba Boyle the Keys to

Its Brick and Mortar Gallery. The Results are Refreshing”, Artnet, September 9

Briggs, Rick. “RJ Messineo: Existential Magic”, Two Coates of Paint, December 3

Di Liscia, Valentina. “Gallery Partners With Florida Rights Restoration Coalition to Help People Vote”, Hyperallergic, September 24

Cooper, Ashton. “RJ Messineo, Moran Moran”, Artforum, July/August

“ARTnews in Brief: Texas Biennial Names Curators for 2020”, ARTnews, November 6

Willis, Raquel. “MOTHA Is Preserving Transgender History One City At a Time”, Out, April 29

Burr, Tom. “Second Surfaces: RJ Messineo Interviewed by Tom Burr”, BOMB Magazine, March 30

Russeth, Andrew. “New York’s Clifton Benevento Gallery Closes”, ARTnews, May 29

Kellaway, Mitch. “PHOTOS: Your 99 Transgender History Lessons”, The Advocate, May 24

Fialho, Alex. “FIAR and a Boffo benefit on Fire Island”, Artforum, August 27