BiographyImages
Born in 1979. Lives and works in Los Angeles.
Education
2008
MFA, Bard College, New York, US
2002
BFA, The Cooper Union, New York, US
Solo Exhibitions
2017
John Finneran, 47 Canal, New York, US
2016
A Figure Searching Day & Night, Arcade, London
2015
Dreamers at the Gates of Where Dreamars Are, Hannah Hoffman Gallery, LA, US
2013
Goin’ Home, 47 Canal, New York, US
2011
The Peaceable Kingdom, Arcade, London, UK
2011
If I Had My Way in This Wicked World, Marvelli Gallery, New York, US
2010
Border Works, Tony Wight Gallery, Chicago, US
2008
Night Fence, Upstairs Berlin, Berlin, DE
2006
Bad Nights, Vandals, Rivington Arms, New York, US
2003
Trouble Every Day, Rivington Arms, New York, US
Selected Group Exhibitions
2017
Full Moon in Leo, Galerie Tatjana Pieters, Ghent, BE
2016
Step Into Tangram Rule, Arcade, London, UK
After Effect, Ballroom Marfa, Texas, US
Jumanji, Galerie Tatjana Pieters, Ghent, BE
2015
Tightrope Walk: Painted Images After Abstraction, White Cube, London, UK
Greater New York, PS1, MoMA, New York, US
Folleree & Folleroo, Arcade, London, UK
2013
The Stairs, Algus Greenspon, New York, US
2011
Grasping for Relics, Zieher/Smith, New York, US
Loose Joints, Arcade, London, UK
2010
Summer Studio with Anthony Campuzano, ICA, Philadelphia, US
2009
Luca Bertolo/John Finneran, Arcade Fine Arts, London, UK
New Work, New York, Fortune Cookie Projects, SG
Before the Wind Blows It All Away, Rover Yonder, New York, US
Three Painters, Thomas Erben Gallery, New York, US
The Living and the Dead, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, US
Time-Life, Taxter and Spengemann, New York, US
White Nights, Marvelli Gallery, New York, US
Hand in Hand, Non-Objectif Sud, Tulette, FR
2008
Rose Colored Glasses, GBE Passerby, New York, US
2007
Signs of Some Precarity, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York, US
Overbite/Underbite, Ritter/Zamet, London, UK
2004
The Barricade, Rivington Arms, New York, US
2003
Be In, Rivington Arms, New York, US
2002
First Show, Rivington Arms, New York, US
Bibliography
Bader, Darren. “Artist’s Favourites,” Spike Magazine, Spring, 2013
Smith, Roberta. “Smooth and Safe at Pier 94,” The New York Times, March 28, 2008
McClemont, Doug. “John Finneran at Rivington Arms,” Saatchi Gallery Daily Magazine, December 13, 2006
Steinberg, Claudia. “John Finneran,” Absolute, Winter 2, 2006