Corydon Cowansage

corydon.cowansage@gmail.com

B. 1985 Philadelphia
Lives and works in New York

Education

2011 MFA, Painting, RISD
2008 BA, Studio Art, Vassar College

Residencies

2014 AIM Residency, Bronx Museum of the Arts
2007 Yale Norfolk School of Art, Yale University

Solo and two-person exhibitions

2027 [forthcoming] Kaufmann Repetto, New York, NY
2024 Separation Anxiety, Kaufmann Repetto, Milan, Italy
2023 Tenderize, Kaufmann Repetto, New York, NY
2022 Where Forever Begins, two-person show with Matt Phillips, Andrea Festa, Rome, Italy
2022 Seed, Sean Horton (Presents), New York, NY
2021 Chart, New York, NY
2019 Koki Arts, Tokyo, Japan
2019 Curvy, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA
2016 Dwell, 17 Essex, New York, NY
2016 Creeper, with Austin Lee, curated by Jenny Baumat, Benedikt Wyss, and Philippe Karrer, Deli Projects, Basel, Switzerland

Selected group exhibitions

2026 Main Projects, Richmond, VA
2025 The Campus, Claverack, NY
2025 A (Hotel) Room of One’s Own, curated by Wendy Cromwell, Aspen Art Fair, Aspen, CO
2025 The Middle Ages, Roundabouts Now, Kingston, NY
2025 xxs, curated by Wendy White, BRINTZ + COUNTY, Miami, FL
2025 Matter and Form, Main Projects, Richmond, VA
2024 FULL DISCLOSURE: Selections from the Thomas-Suwall Collection, curated by Anne-Laure Lemaitre, Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND
2023 We're Outta Here, The Pit, Los Angeles, CA
2023 Becoming, COL Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2023 Summer Escape: Part II, curated by Gavin Kennedy, Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, MA
2023 Getting to Ick, Hesse Flatow, New York, NY
2023 Feeling of Light, Almine Rech, Brussels, Belgium
2023 Horizons, Sow & Tailor, Hong Kong
2023 Beyond Here Lies Nothing, Again, Tif Sigfrids, Dallas, TX
2023 Interstate of Mind, PLUS-ONE Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2023 Solidarity, Nexx Asia, Taipei, Taiwan
2022 Young Americans, PM/AM, London, UK
2022 Spiraling, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA
2022 Gado Gado, Everyday Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
2022 Landscape, Taymour Grahne Projects, London, UK
2022 Pattern Recognition, curated by Amy Lincoln, Sperone Westwater, New York, NY
2022 Entelechians, curated by Rob Thomas and Eric Suwall, Ruschman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2021 ∞, Y2K Group, New York, NY
2021 Desire and Anxiety, curated by Vince Vanden Bogaard, G/ART/EN, Como, Italy
2019 Home Alone, curated by Jaqueline Cedar, Good Naked, Brooklyn, NY
2019 Beautiful Makers, curated by Kevin Umana, The Ekru Project, Brooklyn, NY
2019 SPRING/BREAK Art Show, curated by Ian Etter, New York, NY
2018 Afire, curated by Andrew Straub and Elliott Chambers, Skylab, Columbus, OH
2018 Color We'll, curated by Alex Allenchey, Barney Savage, New York, NY
2018 When Geometry Smiles, curated by Eric Hibit, Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2018 Highlight, Hollis Taggart, New York, NY
2018 RE_ARRANGE, Juxtapoz Proejcts at MANA Contemporary, Jersey City, NJ
2017 Windowsill, Mountain, Brooklyn, NY
2017 First Year, 17 Essex, New York, NY
2017 Drawer, organized by Flat File, Deli Gallery, Long Island City, NY
2016 Stone Soup Nasty, organized by Katherine Aungier, Jennifer Lee, Zuriel Waters and Steven Mykietyn, Orgy Park, Brooklyn, NY
2015 AIM Biennial, curated by Hatuey Ramos-Fermin & Laura Napier, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
2014 Salon Show, (harbor) / Regina Rex, New York, NY
2014 Detail Oriented, curated by Craig Poor Monteith, James Graham & Sons, New York, NY
2014 Gravity, curated by Claudia Bitran & Bayne Peterson, Projekt722, Brooklyn, NY
2014 The Woodpile, John Bianchi Studio, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Against Nature, curated by Craig Poor Monteith, James Graham & Sons, New York, NY
2013 Surface Intentions, Harbor, Brooklyn, NY
2012 Almost Famous, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA
2012 The Woodpile, John Bianchi Studio, Brooklyn, NY

Honors and awards

2013 W.K. Rose Fellowship, Vassar College
2012 West Collects Prize, The West Collection
2007 Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship, Yale University

Press

2025 The New York Times — New York’s Best Summer Art Shows Are Upstate, by Will Heinrich
2025 Cultured — Art Collectors Rob and Eric Thomas-Suwall, aka the Icy Gays, Reveal the Sale They Negotiated From a Hospital Room, by Stephanie Wong
2024 Miami Herald — Miami Art Week is overwhelming but these are the events you don’t want to miss, by Jane Wooldridge
2024 W Magazine — Gucci Boule de Neige and Art Walls Series at Sweet Bird North Plaza, by Jensen Davis and Kyle Munzenrieder
2024 Town & Country — Best of Miami Art Week 2024: 12 Highlights from Art Basel and Beyond, by Erik Maza
2024 Boston Art Review — Inside Your Insides: “Getting to Ick” at Hesse Flatow, by Maya Rubio
2024 Minot Daily News — Love for art fuels world-class collection, by Jill Schramm
2024 Elle Decor — With Splashes of Orange and Blue, This Atlanta Home Is Full of Bold Strokes, by Helena Madden
2024 Christie's — Rob and Eric Thomas-Suwall share how to build a collection by following your passion
2023 Hyperallergic — 15 Art Shows to See in New York This Month, by Valentina Di Liscia, Hakim Bishara and Hrag Vartanian
2022 Artribune — Comparing Abstractions. The Matt Phillips and Corydon Cowansage exhibition in Rome
2021 artnet — What I Buy and Why: Rob and Eric Thomas-Suwall on Collecting Art in North Dakota and the One Work Everyone Tries to Sit On, by Katie White
2021 Larry's List — The Icy Gays and the Genie out of the Bottle
2019 Sound & Vision Podcast
2018 Art of Choice — Entering Into Corydon Cowansage's Canvas, by Maria Vogel
2018 Art Savvy — On Scale: Corydon Cowansage Painting, by Catharine Haggarty
2018 Whitewall — Friday Fête: DSMNY, Mulberry, “Future History,” and More, by Pearl Fontaine
2018 Architectural Digest — Ricky Martin Takes AD Inside His Blissful Beverly Hills Home, by Mayer Rus
2018 New American Paintings — #134 NE
2016 Hyperallergic — Paintings that Stress the Strangeness in Ordinary Surfaces, by Claire Voon
2016 artnet — 10 Emerging Artists to Keep on Your Radar, by Henri Neuendorf
2016 Art F City — This Week’s Must-See Art Events: Nightmares Before Christmas by Michael Anthony Farley
2016 SRF — Art Basel: Pop-up art, outdoor parties and meals in the gallery, by Tamara Funck
2015 Time Out New York — Critic's Pick: “Bronx Calling: The Third AIM Biennial
2013 Hyperallergic — Taking Account of Hard-edge Abstraction, by Brendan S. Carroll
2011 Art F City — Getting What You Pay For: RISD MFAs at Mixed Greens, by Will Brand
2011 New American Paintings Blog — Small Crowd: RISD MFA Painting Grads at Mixed Greens, by Evan J. Garza