Arthur Polendo
Biography
Arthur Polendo was born and raised in Muskegon, Michigan. He has also resided in Los Angeles and San Antonio preceding his pursuit of higher education. Polendo studied at L'Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France before receiving his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the California College of the Arts and his Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Polendo received his Ph.D. in Fine Arts, Critical Studies from Texas Tech University. Arthur Polendo currently resides and works in New York City.
Exhibitions
2018 PS109, MUAW, New York, NY
2017 Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Biennial, Debtfair (with Occupy Museums), New York, NY
2016 Momenta Art, recap: thirty years of momenta art (with Occupy Museums), New York, NY
2016 Project: ARTspace, Making Progress (with Occupy Museums), New York, NY
2016 The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Making Use, DebtFair (with Occupy Museums), Warsaw, Poland
2016 Brooklyn Museum, Agitprop! (with Occupy Museums), New York, NY
2016 Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, Precarity: Contingency in Artmaking and Academia (with Occupy Museums), curated by Lorelei Stewart, Chicago, IL
2015 Art League Houston, DebtFair (with Occupy Museums), Houston, TX
2014 Momenta Art, Work It Out (with Occupy Museums), New York, NY
2013 Abrons Art Center, Debtfair (with Occupy Museums), New York, NY
2013 Robert Blackburn Printshop, Print Exchange 2013, New York, NY
2013 Graphic Arts Workshop, Print Exchange 2013, San Francisco, CA
2013 The Painting Center, Working it Out, Curated by Mona Brody, Alyce Gottesman and Jo Ann Rothschild, New York, NY (with full-color catalogue)
2013 Momenta Art, 2013 Benefit, New York, NY
2013 Heath Gallery, Six by Six, New York, NY
2013 69th Regiment Armory, Fountain Art Fair (with Hullaballoo Collective), New York, NY
2013 RH Gallery, Single Fare 3, New York, NY
2012 Momenta Art, Occupy Your BFF (with Occupy Museums) New York, NY
2012 KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Kunst-Werke), Berlin Biennale 7, autonomous section (with OM), Berlin, Germany
2012 Metropolitan Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art Employee Exhibition, New York, NY
2012 365 Main, 2012 Space Transparency (collaboration with Maraya G. Lopez), Catskill, NY, 2012 (Single installation exhibition)
2011 Peter Luis Gallery, T.A.O.F. Artist Invitational: 11-11-11, The Day of Power, New York, NY
2011 Sloan Fine Art, Single Fare 2: Please Swipe Again, New York, NY
2011 Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, 12th Annual WAH Salon, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Arts in Bushwick - BetaSpaces, Boxed In & Out, Brooklyn, NY
2010 X - Initiative, Bring Your Own Art, New York, NY
2010 Junto Gallery, Surface Surroundings, Brooklyn, NY
2008 Texas Tech University Museum, 5 x 7, Lubbock, TX
2008 Louis Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts Ice House, Aces and Art, Lubbock, TX
2007 University of Texas - Permian Basin, One Square/Cube Foot, honorable mention awarded, Odessa, TX
2006 Louis Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts Ice House, Genderland, performance with Jonathan Whitfill: Machismo; Minute by Minute, Lubbock, TX
2006 Texas Tech University Special Collections Library, Sabor Hispano, Palabras y Arte, Lubbock, TX
2006 LeQuire Gallery, LeQuire Gallery Invitational, full color illustrated LeQuire Gallery newsletter, Nashville, TN
2005 Landmark Arts Gallery, Avenida de Ofrendas, Lubbock, TX
2004 Semmes Fine Arts Gallery, University of the Incarnate Word, Arthur Polendo: New Paint, San Antonio, TX (One person exhibition)
2003 Watson Fine Arts Center, St. Philips College, Amorphous Passages, San Antonio, TX (One person exhibition)
2003 ROBOT Art Gallery, Arthur Polendo: Euphoric Phases, San Antonio, TX (One person exhibition)
2002 San Antonio College Visual Arts Center Gallery, Adjunct Art Faculty Invitational, San Antonio, TX
2001 Joan Grona Gallery, Arthur Polendo / John Hernandez, San Antonio, TX
2000 The Small Space. Polendo/Rodriguez, Joan Grona Gallery, Mel Casas (w/ Arthur Polendo & Eduardo Rodriguez), San Antonio, TX
2000 Texas A&M University at Kingsville, Palo Alto College Art Faculty Exhibition, Kingsville, TX
1999 San Antonio College Visual Arts Gallery, Arthur Polendo: Recent Works, San Antonio, TX (One person exhibition)
1999 Joan Grona Gallery, Contemporary Hispanic Abstraction, San Antonio, TX
1998 Klein Artworks Gallery, Survey of Chicago Abstraction, catalog available, Chicago, IL
1998 Contemporary Art Workshop, New Talent I, Chicago, IL
1998 Salvador Ferregamo, Art Windows '98, Chicago, IL
1997 The Storefront Gallery, Arthur Polendo: Recent Paintings, Oak Park, IL (One person exhibition)
1996 Betty Rymer Gallery, La Plastica Joven, Chicago, IL
1996 Nippon Steele USA, Art Appreciation Exhibition, Chicago, IL
1996 Ex-Hi-Bit Gallery, Young Americans/Americanos Joven, Chicago, IL
1996 The Studio Gallery at Ox-Bow, Arthur Polendo and Camille Antos, Saugatuck, MI
1994 Harriet Hale Wooely Galeria, Gran Salon, La Foundation des Etas-Unis, Beaux-Arts Oil Painting Exhibition, Paris, France
1994 Gallery Gauche, L'Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Atilier Paintings, Paris, France
Arthur Polendo was born and raised in Muskegon, Michigan. He has also resided in Los Angeles and San Antonio preceding his pursuit of higher education. Polendo studied at L'Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, France before receiving his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree from the California College of the Arts and his Master of Fine Arts degree from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Polendo received his Ph.D. in Fine Arts, Critical Studies from Texas Tech University. Arthur Polendo currently resides and works in New York City.
Exhibitions
2018 PS109, MUAW, New York, NY
2017 Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Biennial, Debtfair (with Occupy Museums), New York, NY
2016 Momenta Art, recap: thirty years of momenta art (with Occupy Museums), New York, NY
2016 Project: ARTspace, Making Progress (with Occupy Museums), New York, NY
2016 The Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, Making Use, DebtFair (with Occupy Museums), Warsaw, Poland
2016 Brooklyn Museum, Agitprop! (with Occupy Museums), New York, NY
2016 Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, Precarity: Contingency in Artmaking and Academia (with Occupy Museums), curated by Lorelei Stewart, Chicago, IL
2015 Art League Houston, DebtFair (with Occupy Museums), Houston, TX
2014 Momenta Art, Work It Out (with Occupy Museums), New York, NY
2013 Abrons Art Center, Debtfair (with Occupy Museums), New York, NY
2013 Robert Blackburn Printshop, Print Exchange 2013, New York, NY
2013 Graphic Arts Workshop, Print Exchange 2013, San Francisco, CA
2013 The Painting Center, Working it Out, Curated by Mona Brody, Alyce Gottesman and Jo Ann Rothschild, New York, NY (with full-color catalogue)
2013 Momenta Art, 2013 Benefit, New York, NY
2013 Heath Gallery, Six by Six, New York, NY
2013 69th Regiment Armory, Fountain Art Fair (with Hullaballoo Collective), New York, NY
2013 RH Gallery, Single Fare 3, New York, NY
2012 Momenta Art, Occupy Your BFF (with Occupy Museums) New York, NY
2012 KW Institute for Contemporary Art (Kunst-Werke), Berlin Biennale 7, autonomous section (with OM), Berlin, Germany
2012 Metropolitan Museum of Art, Metropolitan Museum of Art Employee Exhibition, New York, NY
2012 365 Main, 2012 Space Transparency (collaboration with Maraya G. Lopez), Catskill, NY, 2012 (Single installation exhibition)
2011 Peter Luis Gallery, T.A.O.F. Artist Invitational: 11-11-11, The Day of Power, New York, NY
2011 Sloan Fine Art, Single Fare 2: Please Swipe Again, New York, NY
2011 Williamsburg Art & Historical Center, 12th Annual WAH Salon, Brooklyn, NY
2010 Arts in Bushwick - BetaSpaces, Boxed In & Out, Brooklyn, NY
2010 X - Initiative, Bring Your Own Art, New York, NY
2010 Junto Gallery, Surface Surroundings, Brooklyn, NY
2008 Texas Tech University Museum, 5 x 7, Lubbock, TX
2008 Louis Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts Ice House, Aces and Art, Lubbock, TX
2007 University of Texas - Permian Basin, One Square/Cube Foot, honorable mention awarded, Odessa, TX
2006 Louis Hopkins Underwood Center for the Arts Ice House, Genderland, performance with Jonathan Whitfill: Machismo; Minute by Minute, Lubbock, TX
2006 Texas Tech University Special Collections Library, Sabor Hispano, Palabras y Arte, Lubbock, TX
2006 LeQuire Gallery, LeQuire Gallery Invitational, full color illustrated LeQuire Gallery newsletter, Nashville, TN
2005 Landmark Arts Gallery, Avenida de Ofrendas, Lubbock, TX
2004 Semmes Fine Arts Gallery, University of the Incarnate Word, Arthur Polendo: New Paint, San Antonio, TX (One person exhibition)
2003 Watson Fine Arts Center, St. Philips College, Amorphous Passages, San Antonio, TX (One person exhibition)
2003 ROBOT Art Gallery, Arthur Polendo: Euphoric Phases, San Antonio, TX (One person exhibition)
2002 San Antonio College Visual Arts Center Gallery, Adjunct Art Faculty Invitational, San Antonio, TX
2001 Joan Grona Gallery, Arthur Polendo / John Hernandez, San Antonio, TX
2000 The Small Space. Polendo/Rodriguez, Joan Grona Gallery, Mel Casas (w/ Arthur Polendo & Eduardo Rodriguez), San Antonio, TX
2000 Texas A&M University at Kingsville, Palo Alto College Art Faculty Exhibition, Kingsville, TX
1999 San Antonio College Visual Arts Gallery, Arthur Polendo: Recent Works, San Antonio, TX (One person exhibition)
1999 Joan Grona Gallery, Contemporary Hispanic Abstraction, San Antonio, TX
1998 Klein Artworks Gallery, Survey of Chicago Abstraction, catalog available, Chicago, IL
1998 Contemporary Art Workshop, New Talent I, Chicago, IL
1998 Salvador Ferregamo, Art Windows '98, Chicago, IL
1997 The Storefront Gallery, Arthur Polendo: Recent Paintings, Oak Park, IL (One person exhibition)
1996 Betty Rymer Gallery, La Plastica Joven, Chicago, IL
1996 Nippon Steele USA, Art Appreciation Exhibition, Chicago, IL
1996 Ex-Hi-Bit Gallery, Young Americans/Americanos Joven, Chicago, IL
1996 The Studio Gallery at Ox-Bow, Arthur Polendo and Camille Antos, Saugatuck, MI
1994 Harriet Hale Wooely Galeria, Gran Salon, La Foundation des Etas-Unis, Beaux-Arts Oil Painting Exhibition, Paris, France
1994 Gallery Gauche, L'Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Atilier Paintings, Paris, France