M. LeBlanc is proud to present a group exhibition featuring works from Lauren Burns-Coady, Andy Hope 1930, Sergej Jensen, Arnold J. Kemp, Bjarne Melgaard, Matthew Pang, Nicole-Antonia Spagnola, and Cameron Spratley. The exhibition was curated collaboratively with Chicago cybernetician and curator Eric Schmid.
The exhibition is on view through May 24th, 2024.
Lauren Burns-Coady is an artist living in New York. Recent group and solo exhibitions of their work include Coinstar (2023) at Asbestos in Melbourne, Homotypy Type Theory (2023)(curated by Eric Schmid) at Centralbanken in Oslo, Rest (2022) at Rumplestiltskin in New York, Discard Phase (2022) at Triest in New York, and Eric Schmid is an Idiot (2017) at What Pipeline in Detroit.
Andy Hope 1930 (German, b. 1963 in Munich) lives and works in Berlin. Recent notable gallery exhibitions include HEEDRAHTROPHIA (2019) at Galerie Guido W. Baudach in Berlin, Where did it come from! (2018) at Rathole Gallery in Tokyo, and #believe (2017) at Lomex in New York, and UNappropriated Activities (2015) at Hauser & Wirth in Zurich, CH. Hope’s work has been included in numerous notable biennials and museum exhibitions, including Busan Biennale, Korea (2018); Social Facades. A dialogue between the MMK and DEKABank Collections, MMK, Frankfurt (2018); Viva Arte Viva, La Biennale di Venezia, 57th International Art Exhibition, Venice (2017); Random Sampling, Haus der Kunst, Munich (2016); So ein Ding muss ich auch haben, Lenbachhaus, Munich (2016); Avatar und Atavismus - Outside der Avantgarde, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf (2016); MAD#1, La Maison Rouge, Paris (2015); Self-Inflicted Justice By Bad Shopping, Sammlung Falckenberg / Deichtorhallen Hamburg (2015); Unendlicher Spass, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (2014); Fruits of Passion: Collection from the Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris (2014); Painting Forever!, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (2013); KABOOM! Comics in Art, Weserburg, Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen (2013); The 9th Gwangju Biennale, China (2012); Medley Tour by Andy Hope 1930 (solo), Kestnergesellschaft, Hanover (2012); MMK 2011. 20 Years of Presence, MMK, Frankfurt (2011); Mind the Gap, Kai10 Arthena Foundation, Dusseldorf (2011); Robin Dostoyevsky by Andy Hope 1930 (solo), CAC Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Malaga (2011); Charles Riva Collection (solo), Brussels (2010); Freud Museum (solo), London (2010); Sammlung Goetz (solo), Munich (2009).
Sergej Jensen (Danish, b. 1967 in Maglegaard) lives and works in Cologne and New York. Recent solo exhibitions of Jensen’s work include Older Works and Shadow Paintings (2024) at White Cube in London, Sergej Jensen (2022) at Le Consortium in Dijon, FR, Sergej Jensen (2021) at Kunsthalle Bern in Bern, DE, Sergej Jensen: Abstract Paintings (2020) at Galerie Neu in Berlin, and Sergej Jensen: Fabric Paintings (2018) at Galerie Buchholz in New York. Selected group exhibitions include 6th Hammer Invitational, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2011); Whitney Biennial, New York (2006); 6th Berlin Biennale (2006); and 26th Bienal de São Paulo (2004). Jensen’s paintings have been reviewed extensively in international publications and are held in numerous public and private collections throughout the world.
Arnold J. Kemp (American/Bahamian, b. 1968 in Boston)lives and works in Chicago. Recent exhibitions of the artist’s work include FALSE HYDRAS (2021) at JOAN in Los Angeles and I COULD SURVIVE, I WOULD SURVIVE, I SHOULD SURVIVE (2021) at Manetti Shrem Art Museum at the University of California at Davis. Over the past decade, Kemp received awards from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, the Joan Mitchell Foundation, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, and Portland Institute for Contemporary Art. In addition, Kemp’s practice has been reviewed at length in notable art publications and newspapers, including ArtForum (2021) and The New York Times (2021). Kemp’s works are in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, the Portland Art Museum, the Schneider Museum of Art, and the Tacoma Art Museum. Kemp received a BA/BFA degree in Studio Art and English Literature from Tufts University in 1991 and an MFA degree in 2005 from Stanford University.
Bjarne Melgaard (Norwegian, b. 1967 in Sydney) lives and works between Oslo and Bangkok. Melgaard has a global and distinguished exhibition history spanning three decades. Melgaard was raised in Oslo and studied at the Norwegian National Academy of Fine Arts, moving to the Netherlands in 1991 to complete his studies at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam, and the Jan van Eyck Academie in Maastricht. The artist lived and worked in New York for a decade, before returning to Oslo in 2017. Melgaard represented Norway at the 54th Venice Biennale (2011) and has also participated in the Lyon Biennale (2000 and 2013) and the Whitney Biennial (2014). His work was the subject of a mid-career retrospective at the Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo (2010), followed by Melgaard + Munch – The End Of It All Has Already Happened at the Munch Museum, Oslo (2015), which placed his work in direct dialogue with that of Edvard Munch. Recent exhibitions of Melgaard’s work include Barney Does It All (2024) at the Faurschou Foundation in New York and Bjarne Melgaard | Antispective (2024)(curated by Lars Toft-Eriksen) at the Munch Museum in Oslo.
Matthew Pang (British, b. 1988) lives and works in London. Recent exhibitions of Pang’s work include Terminal Transfer (2023) at Hot Wheels in Athens and Matthew Pang (2021) at Gallery Malmo in Glasgow. Pang has participated in group exhibitions at Le Bourgeois in London, Commercial Street in Los Angeles, Federico Vavassori in Milan, and at Maison R&C in Marseille.
Nicole-Antonia Spagnola (American, b. 1991 in Los Angeles) lives and works in Los Angeles. Recent solo exhibitions include The Amateur (2024) at FELIX GAUDLITZ in Vienna, Ragged Dick (2023) at The Wig in Berlin, and Anti-Genesis (2022) at Artists Space in New York. Additionally, she has participated in collaborative and group exhibitions at Stadtgalerie Bern; Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York (both 2023); Theta in New York (2021) and Maison R&C, Marseilles in 2020.
Cameron Spratley (American, b. 1994 in Manassas, VA) lives and works in Chicago. Recent solo exhibitions of Spratley’s work include Violets and Daisies (2023)at M. LeBlanc in Chicago, American Portraiture (2023) at Moskowitz Bayse in Los Angeles, In the Air Tonight (2021) at James Fuentes in New York, Caged Bird Songs (2021) at James Fuentes (Online) in New York, and 730 (2020) at M. LeBlanc in Chicago. Spratley’s work was included in recent group exhibitions, Homotopy Type Theory (2023) at Centralbanken in Oslo, SKIN+MASKS (2022) at Kavi Gupta in Chicago, A Healthy Dose of Nihilism (2022) at the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, Columbus, OH, Sagittarius (2022) at Night Club Gallery in Minneapolis, Made to be Broken (2022) at P.P.O.W. in New York, Songs of Fire (2022) at Kranzberg Arts Foundation in St. Louis, Moloch (2021) at M. LeBlanc, Chicago, and Notes on Entropy (2020) at Arcadia Missa in London. Spratley obtained his bachelor's degree in 2016 from Virginia Commonwealth University. He attended the Yale University at Norfolk residency, was the recipient of the Alice Cabell Horsely Parker Scholarship from Virginia Commonwealth University, and received a full tuition scholarship from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago where he completed his MFA. In 2021, Spratley collaborated with filmmaker Jordan Peele and his firm Monkeypaw Productions on the remake of Candyman, set in Chicago.
