Lionel Maunz

b. 1976, Washington DC Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

EDUCATION

2004 MFA, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
2001 BFA, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX

SOLO EXHIBITIONS & TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2025 Bureau, New York, NY (forthcoming)
2022 Forest Passage, Darja Bajagić & Lionel Maunz, Downs & Ross, New York, NY
Where the Body Ends, Bureau, New York, NY
2018 In the Sewer of Your Body, Bureau, New York, NY
2017 Discovery of Honey / Work of the Family, The Contemporary Austin, Austin, TX
2016 Statements, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Fealty, Bureau, New York
Solo project, MoMA PS1, Queens, NY
2014 Bureau at Frieze, Frame Section, New York, NY
Deluge, Bureau, New York, NY
2012 Receipt of Malice, Bureau, New York, NY
2010 Wail Eternal Scorn of Geologic, Bureau, New York, NY
2004 Mountain View College, Dallas TX
2003 Paradigm Gallery, Dallas TX

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 The Sum of Our Parts, Swivel Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2023 We didn’t ask permission, we just did it…, curated by Manuela Paz and Christopher Rivera, Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, New York, NY
2020 Until tomorrow: Ten Years of Bureau, Bureau, New York, NY
2019 Hidden Beauty/Beyond Obvious, Dowd Gallery, SUNY Cortland, Cortland, NY
2018 Dead Eden, Lyles & King, New York, NY
2017 pər-ˈsō-nae, Klemm’s, Berlin, Germany
Lamerica, Bible, New York, NY
Condo New York: Carlos Ishikawa hosted by Bureau, New York, NY
2016 Rural Violence III, Holiday Forever, Jackson Hole, WY
It / Ego, Brennan & Griffin, New York, NY
Omul Negru, Cantacuzino Palace, Bucharest, Romania
COORDINATES, Dowd Gallery, Cortland, NY
2015 Greater New York, MoMA PS1, New York, NY
Rural Violence, Contemporary Artists Center, Troy, NY
It Rained Again, Bureau, New York, NY
Rotrixagatze, On Stellar Rays, New York, NY
2014 ARSC km15.1 simulation, Ramiken Crucible, New York
New Hells, cur. by Isaac Lyles, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY
Border Food, Loyal, Malmö, Sweden
Les neuf vies d’un chat, Abel Nicosdriou Project, The Loft, Brussels, Belgium
2013 BasilicaSoundScape, Basilica Hudson, Hudson, NY
Hair and Skin, cur. by Isaac Lyles, Derek Eller Gallery, NY
Volcano This, Stone Age That, org. Ramiken Crucible, Cueva Archilla, Puerto Rico
Monsalvat, Bureau, New York NY
Receipt of Malice, Lovenbruck Gallery, Paris, France
2011 4 Pillars, Bureau at NADA Hudson, Hudson, NY
2010 Relax, cur. Jory Rabinowitz & Bridget Donahue, Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY
I Wish I Was Dead Biennial, Barrister’s Gallery, New Orleans, LA
Us and Them, cur. Liam Everett, MRFA, NY
2009 Mirror Me, cur. Kai Althoff & Brandon Stosuy, Dispatch, New York, NY
Conspiracy of Lightness, cur. Liam Everett, C.R.E.A.M. Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Hideous Gnosis Conference, Public Assembly, New York, NY
2007 Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York, NY
2004 G Gallery, Houston, TX
2002 Art League Houston, Houston, TX

SELECTED PRESS AND PUBLICATIONS

2022 Travis Diehl, ‘What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries Right Now: Darja Bajagic and Lionel Maunz, The New York Times, November 9
Adam Lehrer, 'Safety Propagandist #12: Lionel Maunz,' Safety Propaganda, April 12
2021 Lionel Maunz Peter Sotos, Amphetamine Sulphate & Nine-Banded Books
2018 Mira Dayal, 'Critic's Pick: Lionel Maunz,' Artforum.com, March 9
2017 Nicholas Chittenden Morgan, ‘Critic’s Pick: Charlotte Greene and Lionel Maunz,’ Artforum.com, August
2017 Sam Korman, ‘Critic’s Guide: Condo New York,’ Frieze.com, July 4
Christina Rees, ‘Lionel Maunz in Austin,’ Glasstire, May 2
Art Basel Year 47, Catalog, JRP Ringier, Zurich, Switzerland
2016 Omul Negru, essays by Aaron Moulton, Alissa Bennett, Philip Zimbardo, published by Aaron
Moulton and Galeria Nicodim, Romania
Carmen Casiuc, 'Boogeyman,' Revista–Arta.com, August 17
Cathy Lebowitz, 'The Lookout: Lionel Maunz,' ArtinAmerica.com, April 28
Nathaniel Lee, 'Critic's Pick: Lionel Maunz,' Artforum.com, April 15
Rachel Small, 'Lionel Maunz Taps Into Dark Corners of the Mind,' Interview Magazine, April 4
2015 Rachel Small, '10 Picks From Independent New York 2015,' Interview Magazine, March 6
2014 Holland Cotter, 'New Hells', New York Times, July 31 2014
Will Heinrich, "'New Hells' at Derek Eller Gallery," GalleristNY, July 30 2014
Beta Germano, 'Cruelty in Check,' CASA Vogue, May 20
Diana Kamin, ‘Lionel Maunz,’ Art in America, March
Nana Asfour, "Lionel Maunz, 'Deluge'," Time Out New York, January 30 2014
Will Heinrich, "'Lionel Maunz: Deluge' at Bureau", GalleristNY, January 22 2014
Tara Plath, 'Lionel Maunz//Bureau", EXPOCHGO: The Seen, January 20 2014
Matthew Shen Goodman, 'Breaking Horses: Lionel Maunz at Bureau', Artinamericamagazine.com, January 10 2014
2013 Natacha Bergman, 'Vision Vagabonde: Les lumières de l'esprit éclairent les cimaises de l'hiver', Citizen K, Winter 2013
2012 Nana Asfour, 'Lionel Maunz,' Time Out New York, April
Charles Schultz, 'A Letter to Lionel Maunz from Charles Schultz,' The Brooklyn Rail, April
Leper Creativity, Eds. Ed Keller, Nicola Masciandaro & Eugene Thacker, Punctum Books
2011 Dispatch 2007-2011
2010 Mirror / Me , Ed. Brandon Stosuy, Primary Information
David Velasco, ‘White Columns Annual’, Artforum, December
Hideous Gnosis: Black Metal Theory Symposium I, Ed. Nicola Masciandaro
2009 Cathleen Chaffee, ‘Mirror Me’, Artforum.com, Critics Pick, August

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS Whitney Museum of American Art Museum of Modern Art, New York Blanton Museum of Art