Born 1980, Detroit.
Lives and works in London.
Education
1998–2002
Yale University – New Haven, CT – BA, Art (Graduated Cum Laude, with Honours Distinction in Art)
2000
Goldsmiths College, University of London – Full-time Visiting Student, Visual Arts Course (First Honours)
Recent Work, Yale School of Art, 2002
pop – New Paintings, Yale School of Art, 2001
The Life & Times of Marisa Starwell, Yale School of Art, 2001
Recent Work, Saybrook College, Yale University, 2000
Klekolo World Coffeehouse, Middletown, CT, 1996 and 1997
Selected Group Exhibitions
Resort, The Residence Gallery, London, 2010
Pixel Pops, curated by Aoife Rosenmeyer, BolteLange Gallery, Zurich, 2009
Drawing Open 09, selected by Peter Bonnell (Curator, ArtSway), Marie-Anne McQuay (Curator, Spike Island), Jonathan Parsons (artist and ARC Co-ordinator, Aspex), Judy Adam (Curator, Salisbury Arts Centre), Salisbury Arts Centre, 2009
Open Studio Show (with Jamie Lau and Liz Byrne), Cremer Street Studios, London, 2007
Random, Homestead Gallery, Clerkenwell, London, 2007
Disposable Fetish, curated by Jon Purnell and Andrew Cooper, The Nunnery Gallery, London, 2007
Annual Open, Cafe Gallery Projects, Southwark Park, London, 2006
Random, Wagdas Gallery, Bethnal Green, London, 2006
Publish and Be Damned Fair (booth curated by Ryan Gander and Sara De Bondt), St. James Church, Clerkenwell, London, 2005
Undergraduate Senior Projects, Yale School of Art, 2002
Undergraduate Comprehensive Exhibition, Yale School of Art, 1999, 2000, 2002
Youth Art Renaissance, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT, 1998
Center for Creative Youth Exhibition, Wesleyan University Art Gallery, 1995
Printmakers All, Gallery on the Green, Canton, CT, 1995
Selected Grants
Sudler Fund for the Arts, Yale University (four-time recipient), 1999–2002
National Art Competition Portfolio Award, numerous awards in Hartford Youth Art Renaissance, Yale Prize for Writing (art criticism piece), and more, 1995–1999
Residencies
Wesleyan University - Middletown, CT - Center for Creative Youth Arts Residency, 1995
Bibliography
Swiss by Design, radio coverage of BolteLange Gallery exhibition, World Radio Switzerland, December 3, 2009
One Less Alternative, by Mary Louise Schumacher, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, June 16, 2006
Starwell makes love to her alter-ego, by James Sumner, Yale Herald, April 13, 2001
Miscellaneous
Currently working for frieze magazine, London
Freelance critic (Contemporary Magazine London, and InterReview Magazine, Los Angeles)
Member of the Board of Directors, InterReview Magazine, Los Angeles
Assistant Curator, the gallery at sketch, London, 2003-2006
Panelist, SHOWHOW arts marketing seminar, London, 2005