Mitzi Pederson
*1976, Stuart, FL
EDUCATION
MFA Painting/Drawing, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA, 2004
BFA Painting/Drawing/Printmaking; Architecture minor, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, 1999
L'Ecole des beaux-arts, Paris, France (6-month study abroad), 1998
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Tiffany Blue, Unicorn Center, Beijing, China (with Alexander Wolff)
2017 The Present Tense, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA
2014 3:43, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA
2012 Mitzi Pederson, Schleicher/Lange, Paris, France
2012 Ciphers, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA
2011 the still night air, Open Satellite, Seattle, WA (catalogue)
2010 and what comes back, La Galleria 1/9 unosunove, Rome, Italy
2010 Mitzi Pederson, Alexander Wolff, Anne Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
2010 You'll Know, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
2009 I'll Start Again, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA
2009 i think i was looking at that before, World Class Boxing, Miami, FL
2009 Lotte Gertz & Mitzi Pederson, The approach, London, UK
2008 Hammer Projects, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2007 timefolding, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
2007 thirtythree days, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA
2006 sunset on the moon, duchess, Chicago, IL
2006 White Room: Mitzi Pederson, White Columns, New York, NY
2005 unlet me go, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021 Sea Change, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA
2019 Natani Notah / Mitzi Pederson / Lisa Williamson / Brenna Youngblood, / Slash art, San Francisco, CA
2019 Cassie's, Oakland, CA
2019 New Material, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA
2017 Present Tense, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA
2016 Kodomo, Rockaway, Queens, NY
2016 Vanishing Point, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA
2014 Green Circle, Black Diamond, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA
2014 Riso Book, Kadist Art Foundation, San Francisco, CA
2014 other thans, Et al., San Francisco, CA
2013 Architecture Undigested, Fused Space, San Francisco, CA
2013 ANAMERICANA, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
2013 Magnetic North, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA
2013 All Good Things, SOMArts, San Francisco, CA
2012 Idea is the Object, D'Amelio Gallery, New York, NY
2012 9th Shanghai Biennial: San Francisco Pavilion, Shanghai, China
2011 Economy of Means, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, AZ
2011 Come What May, Oksasenkatu 11, Helsinki, Finland
2011 What I predict to remember what I predict to forget, Stedefreund, Berlin, Germany
2011 Like-Minded, Plug-In ICA, Winnipeg, Canada
2011 Fifty Years of Bay Area Art: The SECA Awards, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
2011 Alicja KWADE - Mischa KUBALL - Mitzi PEDERSON, Twig Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2011 ....from erewhon to here knows when...., Schattendorfbiennale, Schattendorf, Austria
2011 Impossible Vacation, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO
2011 Eleven Lights on the Bay, The Apartment, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2011 In the long tunnel we are all alive, Reload, Rome, Italy
2010 The More Things Change, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
2010 OUT OF ORDER: Geometric Systems in Contemporary Bay Area Art, SF State University Fine Arts Gallery, SF, CA
2010 Hauntology, University of California Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
2010 They Knew What They Wanted, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010 75 Years Looking Forward: The Anniversary Show, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
2010 Endgame, Slaughterhousespace, Healdsburg, CA
2010 Emerge, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
2010 Praeludium, Dreizehn/Thirteen, Berlin, Germany
2010 \ (LEAN), Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Berlin, poor but sexy, Pool Art Center Gallery, Drury University, Springfield, MO
2009 New York Minute, MACRO FUTURE, Rome, Italy
2009 Doubled Confluence, Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
2009 Mark-Making: Dots, Lines and Curves, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX
2009 Quiet Revolution, Milton Keynes Gallery, UK & Harris Museum, Preston, UK
2009 20 Years Anniversary Exhibition, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
2009 Tony Feher, Allison Miller, Mitzi Pederson, ACME, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Liberation Upon Contact, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA
2008 Reduced Construction, Karma International, Zürich, Switzerland
2008 Now You See It, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
2008 No Information Available, Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
2008 Vital Signs, Newcomb Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2008 The Overlooked Space, Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, Canada
2008 Unbalance, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Constraction, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
2008 Update, White Columns, New York, NY
2008 2008 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2008 Power, Foxy Production, New York, NY
2007 Coming Up: New Work by Recent Graduates of the California College of the Arts, Elizabeth Leach Gallery,
Portland, OR. Curated by Larry Rinder
2007 Artists of Invention: A Century of CCA, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
2007 Alpha, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA
2007 The Powder Room, Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2007 2006 SECA Art Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
2007 Thoughtless..., small A projects, Portland, OR
2006 Louis Morris, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
2006 Five Habitats: Squatting at Langton, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
2006 Pure Land, Ratio 3, San Francisco, CA
2006 California Roll: Bay Area Artists in Rural Japan, Ine Kyoto Prefecture, Japan
2006 overundersidewaysdown, Queen's Nail Annex, San Francisco, CA
2006 Snap, Crackle, Pop, PLAySPACE Gallery, California College of the Arts, San Francisco
2005 Bay Area Bazaar, Pulliam Deffenbaugh Gallery, Portland, OR
2004 Gazing Upwards, Adobe Books, San Francisco, CA
2004 Color Wheel Oblivion, Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
2004 Land of the Free, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 Evening of the Arts, CELLspace, San Francisco, CA
2004 Felix Variations, PLAySPACE Gallery, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2004 The Post-it Show, PLAySPACE Gallery, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2004 Build Anniversary Show, Build, San Francisco, CA
2003 Winter Formal Spectacular, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2003 99 Bottles, Build, San Francisco, CA
2003 The Pin-up Show, PLAySPACE, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2003 Flat Constellations 2: experimental flatworks invitational, Build, San Francisco, CA
2003 Pre-Post War Theatre of Embedded Silence >quiet<, Build, San Francisco, CA
2003 More Better, East 1 Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 The Pin-up Show, Paulette Long & Shepard Pollack Graduate Gallery, San Francisco
2002 The Anderson Center Winter Show, Main Gallery, Red Wing, MN
RESIDENCIES / group work
2022 Achterhaus Residency, Hamburg, Germany (3 months)
2019 Unicorn Center, Beijing, China (1 month, invitation + exhibition)
2016 Real Time Space, Oakland, CA (2 months)
2011 Open Satellite, Seattle, WA (2 months, invitation + exhibition)
2009 Reverse Pedagogy 2 –led by Dean Baldwin and Paul Butler, Venice, Italy (1 week)
2009 Ship of Fools –led by Christine Swintak, Mariakapel, Hoorn, The Netherlands (1 month)
2009 Knock on Woods –with Christine Swintak, Hoorn, The Netherlands (1 day)
2008 Reverse Pedagogy –led by Paul Butler, The Banff Centre, Banff, Canada (1 month)
2002 Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT (2 weeks)
2001 The Anderson Center, Red Wing, MN (1 month)
AWARDS
2019 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2006 SECA Art Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
BIBLIOGRAPHY
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CATALOGUES AND PUBLICATIONS
Ott, Yoko. The Still Night Air: Mitzi Pederson. Open Satellite Publications, 2011.
Bishop, Janet, Corey Keller, and Sarah Roberts, eds. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art: 75 Years Looking
Forward. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Dec 2009.
Krajewski, Sara. "Essay from brochure for 'Mitzi Pederson: i think i was looking at that before'". World Class
Boxing, Miami Apr 2009.
Fite-Wassilak, Chris. Hayward Touring Curatorial Open Pt. 1/3: Quiet Revolution. Hayward Publishing, 2009.
Vitamin 3-D: New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation. London: Phaidon Press Inc., 2009: 220–223.
Slovak, Richard. Now You See It. Aspen: Aspen Art Press, 2008.
Kastner, Jeffrey. 2008 Whitney Biennial Exhibition Catalogue. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, Mar 2008.
de Dobay Rifelj, Claire. "Mitzi Pederson," Hammer Project (exhibition brochure essay). Los Angeles: UCLA Hammer
Museum Feb 2008.
Bishop, Janet, Tara McDowell. 2006 SECA Art Award. San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2007.
The Powder Room (exhibition catalogue). Los Angeles: Track 16 Gallery, 2007.
Killian, Kevin. I Think You’re Great. San Francisco: Queen’s Nails Annex, 2006.
Tiffany, issue 10, 2006.
Snap, Crackle, Pop. San Francisco: PlaySpace Gallery, 2006.
Color Wheel Oblivion. Milan, Italy: Marealla Arte Contemporanea, 2004.
COLLECTIONS
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
Berkeley Museum of Art and Pacific Film Archive, CA
UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Pérez Art Museum, Miami, FL