Born 1964, Philadelphia, PA

Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York


EDUCATION

1990 

M.F.A., Painting, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC

1988 

B.F.A., Painting, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Elkins Park, PA


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2025 

Anthony Meier Fine Arts, Mill Valley, CA (Forthcoming)

2024 

Van Doren Waxter, New York, NY (Forthcoming)

2021 

Marsha Cottrell, Van Doren Waxter, New York, NY

2019 

Marsha Cottrell: Black and Light, CAM Raleigh, Raleigh, NC

Marsha Cottrell: ADAA The Art Show, with Anthony Meier Fine Arts, Park Avenue Armory, 

New York, NY

2018 

Marsha Cottrell: Screen Life, Van Doren Waxter, New York, NY

2017 

Marsha Cottrell, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany

2016 

Marsha Cottrell, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA

2015 

Marsha Cottrell, Eleven Rivington, New York, NY

2013 

Marsha Cottrell, NADA New York, with Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany

2012 

Marsha Cottrell, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany

2003 

Marsha Cottrell, g-module, Paris, France

2003 

Marsha Cottrell: Out of Memory, Henry Urbach Architecture, New York, NY

2000 

Marsha Cottrell: Punctuation Drawings, Revolution Gallery, Detroit, MI

1998 

Marsha Cottrell, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024

Day Jobs, organized by Veronica Roberts, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA

2023 

Day Jobs, organized by Veronica Roberts, Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

2022 

More Light!, Chart, New York, NY

Gulliver’s Sketchbook, organized by Ludwig Seyfarth, KAI10 | Arthena Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany

2021 

The Way We Are 3.0, Weserburg Museum of Modern Art, Bremen, Germany

2020 

Together In the Round: Tammy Rae Carland, Marsha Cottrell, Zoe Leonard & Davina Semo, Presented by Anthony Meier Fine Arts & Jessica Silverman Gallery at 1969 California St, San Francisco, CA

2019 

By Any Means: Contemporary Drawings from the Morgan, organized by Rachel Federman, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY

The Bunker Artspace: The Collection of Beth Rudin DeWoody, The Bunker Artspace, West Palm Beach, FL

Marsha Cottrell, Lothar Götz, Jörn Stoya, Petra Rinck Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany

2018 

Gaze, Van Doren Waxter, New York, NY

An Eccentric View, Mignoni, New York, NY

2017 

Gray Matters, organized by Michael Goodson, Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH

Worlding, organized by Mia Curran, University of Western Michigan, Kalamazoo, MI

2016 

Cosmic Connections, Totah, New York, NY

Heliotropes, organized by Matthew Nichols, Geary Contemporary, New York, NY

2014 

Mind the Gap, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany

The Actual, organized by Augusto Arbizo, Eleven Rivington, New York, NY

2013 

schwartz // weiß, Hamish Morrison Galerie, Berlin, Germany

Flowery, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany

One Third White, Kunst im Tunnel (KIT), Düsseldorf, Germany

2012 

Field Conditions, organized by Joseph Becker, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

In the State of Equilibrium, Matter is Blind, Karin Sachs Gallery, Munich, Germany

Falling Through Space Drawn by the Line, UB Art Gallery, Center for the Arts, Buffalo, NY

Rockslide Sky, The Center Gallery and the Lipani Gallery, Fordham University at Lincoln Center, New York, NY

2011 

Cross Check, Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany

2010 

Petra Rinck Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany

2009 

2 x 3 x 10, Vertex List, Brooklyn, NY

2008 

g-salon, g-module, Paris, France

2007 

More Possible Moves Than In Chess, Pluto, Brooklyn, NY

2006 

Twice Drawn, organized by Ian Berry, Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY

2005 

NextNext Visual Art, organized by Dan Cameron, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY

New Turf, organized by Evelyn Hankins, Fleming Museum of Art, The University of Vermont, Burlington, VT

Decipher: Hand-Painted Digital, organized by Yasufumi Nakamori, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

Linear Geography, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA

2004 

Airborne, Henry Urbach Architecture, New York, NY

Landscape, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA

FEED > Artists + Digital Influence, organized by Lisa Tung, Sandra and David Bakalar Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

Architecture By Numbers, organized by Michael Hays, Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York, NY

Radial Gradient, Gregory Lind Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Open Range, Artemis Greenberg Van Doren, New York, NY

2003 

The Drawn Page, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT 

Rendered, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY

Online, Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY

The Sessions of Sweet Silent Thought, Bronx River Art Center, Bronx, NY 

Immediate Medium, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY

The Incredible Lightness of Being, organized by Phong Bui, Black & White Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2002 

The Microwave, Cristinerose/Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY

Wish You Were Here, Revolution, Detroit, MI

Déjà Vu, g-module, Paris, France

Drawings of Choice from a New York Collection, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL

The Accelerated Grimace, Silverstein Gallery, New York, NY

Artists to Artists: A Decade of The Space Program, An Exhibition of Works from The Space Program of The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, Ace Gallery, New York, NY

Reconfigure, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM

Landscape, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY

2001 

Un/Ruled, Exhibit A, New York, NY

Superimposition, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY

Drawing (Selected), g-module, Paris, France

Digital: Printmaking Now, organized by Marilyn Kushner, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY

2000 

Spacetimelinks, Penzenstadler & Schaller Architekten, Baar, Switzerland

Blurry Lines, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI

Drawing from Pierogi: Selections from the Flat Files, Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, VT

Cyber Drawings, Cristinerose Gallery, New York, NY

1999 

Digital Sites, Numark Gallery, Washington, DC

1998 

Group show, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY

1997 

New York Drawers: Selections from Pierogi 2000 Gallery, The Gasworks, London, UK

Current Undercurrent: Working in Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY

1996 

Summer Selections ’96, The Drawing Center, New York, NY


AWARDS AND FELLOWSHIPS

2019 

Anonymous Was A Woman

2013 

The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Biennial Award

2007 

The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Fellowship Grant in Drawing

2004 

Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, Educational Grant

2003 

New York Foundation for the Arts, Fellowship Grant in Drawing

2002 

The MacDowell Colony, Artist Residency

2001 

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, Fellowship

Institute for Electronic Arts, Alfred University, NYSCA funded Residency

2000 

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council World Views Studio Program, World Trade Center

1999 

New York Foundation for the Arts, Fellowship Grant in Digital Arts

The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation, Space Program

The MacDowell Colony, Artist Residency

1996 

The MacDowell Colony, Artist Residency

1994 

The MacDowell Colony, Artist Residency


BIBLIOGRAPHY

2019

Knoblauch, Loring. Collector Daily, “Photography Highlights from the 2019 ADAA Art Show,” (March 1)

2018 

Baker, R.C. The Village Voice, “Mistakes in the Matrix: Marsha Cottrell Summons Beauty from Machines,” (April 6)

Carrigan, Margaret. New York Observer, “Galleries Get it Right: NYC’s Not-to-Miss Spring Exhibitions are All Female Solos,” (March 7)

ARTnews, “9 Art Events to Attend in New York City This Week,” (March 5)

Cascone, Sarah & Goldstein, Caroline. ArtNet News, “39 Must-See Gallery Shows in New York This March,” (March 1)

Cultured, The Art and Music Issue, “Marsha Cottrell” (February/March)

Cascone, Sarah. Artnet, “Editors’ Picks: 11 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week,” (July 31)

2017 

Carrigan, Margaret. Blouin Modern Painters, “Awkward Technologies: Marsha Cottrell Brings A Human Touch To The Laser Printer,” (March/April)

Fischer, Jim. Columbus Alive, “Arts Preview: Gray Matters,” (May 17)

Sharp, Sarah Rose. Hyperallergic, “How Art Making is Like World Building,” (January 30)

2016 

Poveda, Joshua. Artnet, “Must-See Art Guide: San Francisco,” (October 6)

Artnews, “Marsha Cottrell at Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco,” (October 11)

Carrigan, Margaret. Blouin Artinfo, “Extensions of Man: Marsha Cottrell’s Laser Printing Love Affair,” (October 11)

Stinson, Liz. Wired, “A Laser Printer Made These Ghostly Abstract Images,” (September 26)

Johnson, Ken. The New York Times, Art Review, “NADA Art Fair Offers the Wacky and the Political, Plus Basketball,” (May 5)

Art Observed, “NADA New York at Basketball City,” (May 7)

Zevitas, Steven. The Huffington Post, “16 (+2) Artists to Watch in 2016,” (February 16)

2015 

Peiffer, Prudence. ArtForum, “Art Review: Marsha Cottrell,” (Summer)

Roniger, Taney. The Brooklyn Rail, “ArtSeen: Marsha Cottrell,” (April 2)

Art in America, “Exhibitions: The Lookout,” (April 2)

Plagens, Peter. The Wall Street Journal, “Artist Returns with Solo Show,” (March 27)

Schwendener, Martha. The New York Times, “Marsha Cottrell at Eleven Rivington,” (March 20)

Brody, David. Art Critical, “The Deliciousness of Staying Still: Marsha Cottrell at Eleven Rivington,” (March 20)

Baker, R.C. The Village Voice, “Voice Choices: Marsha Cottrell,” (March 19)

Lescaze, Zoë. Artforum.com, “Critics’ Pick: Marsha Cottrell” (March)

2014 

Aletti, Vince, The New Yorker, “Goings On About Town: The Actual,” (January 12)

2013 

Rosenberg, Karen. The New York Times, “NADA NYC Art Fair at Basketball City” (May10)

2012 

Feder, Elizabeth, Uncube Magazine, “Testing The Limits at SF MoMA,” (December 6)

King, John. SFGate, “Architecture smaller in larger SFMOMA?” (September 18)

Temple, Emily. Flavorwire, “Marsha Cottrell’s Beautiful Maps of Imagined Constellations,” (July 29)

2005 

Baker, Kenneth. Art News, “Radial Gradient” (February)

McQuaid, Cate. The Boston Globe, “Linear Geography” (January 21)

2004 

Glueck, Grace, The New York Times, “Art In Review: ‘Architecture by Numbers’— Preston Scott Cohen, Marsha Cottrell, Michelle Fornabai, Laura Kurgan and Ben Nicholson,” (June 11)

Chasin, Noah. Time Out New York, “Architecture by Numbers” (June)

2003 

Jara, Alicia. Lapiz 22, “Marsha Cottrell/Alan Wiener” (July)

Jana, Reena. Art On Paper, “Punctuation Marks” (April)

Rosin, Jessica. Art On Paper (online), “Marsha Cottrell” (February)

Johnson, Ken. The New York Times, Art Guide “Marsha Cottrell and Steve Robinson” (January 10)

2002 

Sirmans, Franklin. Time Out New York, “The Accelerated Grimace” (July 11-18)

2001 

Moody, Tom. Art Papers, “Palo Alto Dreamin’” (November-December)

Levin, Kim. The Village Voice, Shortlist, “Superimposition” (July 31)

Cotter, Holland. The New York Times, “Superimposition” (June 6)

2000 

Setz, Annemarie. Neue Zuger Zeitung, “Spacetimelinks” (December 30)

Schmerler, Sarah. Art On Paper, “Cyber Drawings” (May-June)

Viveros-Fauné, Christian. New York Press, “Computer World” (February 2-8)

Johnson, Ken. The New York Times, Art Guide, “Cyber Drawings” (January 21)

1999 

Protzman, Ferdinand. The Washington Post, “The Big Pixel” (May 13)

Drumming, Neil. Washington City Paper, “Digital Sites” (April 23)

1998 

Schmerler, Sarah. Time Out New York, “Wayne Gonzales/Marsha Cottrell” (May 14-21)


CATALOGS AND REFERENCE

2019 

Federman, Rachel. Marsha Cottrell, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco

2018 

Panzera, Lisa. An Eccentric View, Mignoni Gallery, New York

2017 

Goodson, Michael. Gray Matters, Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University

2016 

Cosmic Connections, Totah Gallery, New York

2010 

Berry, Ian and Jack Shear. Twice Drawn: Modern and Contemporary Drawings in Context, Prestel, New York

2009 

Rattemeyer, Christian. The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection Catalogue Raisonné, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

2006 

Reynolds, Jock, ed. 560 Broadway: A New York Drawing Collection at Work, 1991-2006, Yale University Press, New Haven

2005 

Hankins, Evelyn. New Turf, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont

2004 

Kocache, Moukhtar & Shirreff, Erin, editors. Site Matters, Lower Manhattan Cultural

Council’s World Trade Center Artists Residency, 1997-2001, New York

2002 

Hilfenstein, Joseph & Kuhl, Amy, editors. Drawings of Choice from a New York

Collection, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign

Artists to Artists: A Decade of The Space Program, The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation,

New York


PUBLIC & CORPORATE COLLECTIONS

The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX

DZ Bank Kunstsammlung, Frankfurt, Germany

Museum Kunstpalast, Düsseldorf, Germany

The Morgan Library and Museum, New York, NY

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

Neuberger Berman LLC, New York, NY

North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC

Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

Pfizer Inc., New York, NY

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA

Pollock Gallery, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX

Progressive Corporation, OH

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher & Flom LLP, New York, NY

Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY