BIOGRAPHY

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1976
• Born in Stuart, FL

1998
• L'Ecole nationale superieure des beaux-arts, Paris, France

1999
• B.F.A. in Printing, Painting, & Drawing; Minor in Architecture, Carnegie Mellon University

2004
• M.F.A. in Painting & Drawing, California College of the Arts
• Lives and works in Berlin


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2010
You'll Know, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY

2009
I'll Start Again, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA
I think I was looking at that before, World Class Boxing, Miami, FL

2008
Hammer Project, The UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

2007
timefolding, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
thirtythree days, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA

2006
sunset on the moon, Duchess, Chicago, IL
• White Columns, New York, NY

2005
Unlet Me Go, Ratio 3, San Francisco


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010
Mitzi Pederson, Alexander Wolff, Anne Mosseri-Marlio Galeri
\ (LEAN), Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY

2009
The Anniversary Show, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Berlin, poor but sexy, Pool Art Center Gallery, Drury University, Springfield, MO
New York Minute, MACRO FUTURE, Rome, Italy
Doubled Confluence, Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
Mark-Making: Dots, Lines, and Curves, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX
• Tony Feher, Allison Miller, Mitzi Pederson, ACME, Los Angeles, CA
Quiet Revolution, Milton Keynes Gallery, UK & Harris Museum, Preston, UK
Liberation Upon Contact, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA

2008
Reduced Construction, Karma International, Zurich, Switzerlan
What's It To You?, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
No Information Available, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium, Curated by Francesco Bonami
Vital Signs, Newcomb Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2008 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Constraction, Deitch Projects, New York, NY, Curated by Kathy Grayson
Headlock, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna, Austria

2007
Coming Up: New Work by Recent Graduates of the California College of the Arts, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Curated by Lawrence Rinder
Alpha, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA
*2006 SECA Art Award Exhibition, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Thoughtless..., small A projects, Portland, OR

2006
Louis Morris, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, GA
Five Habitats: Squatting at Langton, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
Pure Land, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA
California Roll: Bay Area Artists in Rural Japan, Ine, Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
*Snap, Crackle, Pop, PlaySpace Gallery, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
overundersidewaysdown, Queen's Nail Annex, San Francisco, CA

2005
Bay Area Bazaar, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR

2004
Gazing Upwards, Adobe Books, San Francisco, CA
*Color Wheel Oblivion, Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
Land of the Free, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Evening of the Arts, CELLspace, San Francisco, CA
Felix Variations, PlaySpace Gallery, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
The Post-It Show, PlaySpace Gallery, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Build Anniversary Show, Build, San Francisco, CA

2003
Winter Formal Spectacular, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
99 Bottles, Build, San Francisco, CA
The Pin-up Show, PlaySpace Gallery, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Flat Constellations 2: experimental flatworks invitational, Build, San Francisco, CA
Pre-Post War Theatre of Embedded Silence >quiet<, Build, San Francisco, CA
• More Better, East 1 Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2002
The Pin-up Show, Paulette Long & Shepard Pollack Graduate Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Anderson Center Winter Show, Main Gallery, Red Wing, MN

*Catalogue


BIBLIOGRAPHY

2010
• Wilson, Michael, "Mitzi Pederson: Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery," Artforum, April

2009
• Fite-Wassilak, Chris, Hayward Touring Curatorial Open Pt. 1/3: Quiet Revolution (exhibition catalogue), Hayward Publishing
Vitamin 3-D: New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation, Phaidon Press

2008
• Slovak, Richard, "Now You See It," Aspen Art Press December
• de Dobay Rifelj, Claire, "Mitzi Pederson," Hammer Project (exhibition brochure essay), Los Angeles: UCLA Hammer Museum
• Helfland, Glen, "Staying Power," San Francisco Bay Guardian, January 2-8, 2008

2007
• Ratner, Megan, "Mitzi Pederson: Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery," Frieze, September
• Helfland, Glen, "No Hidin' SECA," San Francisco Bay Guardian, April 5
• Yap, Christine Wong, "fFive San Francisco Art Exhibitions, Two Pit Stops, and a Keep-Goin," Art Bollocks (http://artbollocks.wordpress.com), March 25
• "SECA Art Award," Flash Art, March

2006
• Feinstein, Lea, "Sitting In," SF Weekly, Vol. 25, No. 26, July 26 - August 1, 2006
• Helfland, Glen, "Critic's Picks: San Francisco," Artforum.com, March 10, 2005
• Killian, Kevin, "I Think You're Great," Exhibition Brochure, San Francisco: Queen's Nail Annex

2005
• Olson, Marisa, "Mitzi Pederson at Ration 3," Artweek, Vol. 36, Issue 4, May
• Orden, Abraham, "Mitzi Pederson," artUS, Issue 9, July-September
Tiffany, Issue 10


AWARDS

2006
• SECA Art Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art