JULIAN MONTAGUE

 

Born 1973, Madison, WI, USA 
 
Education B.A. 1996 Media Studies, Hampshire College, Amherst, MA  
 
Live/work Buffalo, NY 

  

Selected Solo Exhibitions 

  

2015 Features, BT&C Gallery, Buffalo, NY 

2015 Bird Captures (collaborative exhibition), BT&C Gallery, Buffalo, NY 

2014 In Ruins, BT&C Gallery, Buffalo, NY 

2014 Summer Show, Galerie 14, Luxembourg 

2013 Animals & Architecture, Galerie Toutou Chic, Metz, France 

2012 Invertebrates & Architecture, Marion Art Gallery, SUNY Fredonia, Fredonia, NY  

2011 Secondary Occupants Collected & Observed, University of Waterloo Art Gallery, Waterloo, ON 

2010 Secondary Occupants Collected & Observed, Black & White Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 

2009 Insect Drawings, Buffalo Museum of Science, Buffalo, NY 

2008 To Know the Spiders, Black & White Gallery, New York, NY 

2008 Other Orders, Albright-Knox Collector’s Gallery, Buffalo, NY 

2007 The Stray Shopping Cart Identification System, The Light Factory, Charlotte, NC 

2006 The Stray Shopping Cart Identification System, Black & White Gallery, New York, NY 

2006 Site Study: Scajaquada Creek, Burchfield Penney Arts Center, Buffalo, NY 

2005 Taxonomies, Black & White Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 

2005 Cleveland & Environs, Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, OH 

2004 The Stray Shopping Cart: An Illustrated System of Identification, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY 

2003 The Stray Shopping Cart: An Illustrated System of Identification, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT 

2002 The Nomadic Urban Architecture of Buffalo, New York (A Taxonomy of Stray Shopping Carts), Big Orbit Gallery/Soundlab, Buffalo, NY 

 

 

Selected Group Exhibitions 

 

2013 

    Stocked: Contemporary Art from the Grocery Aisles, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary            Art (SMoCA), Scottsdale, AZ 

   Stocked: Contemporary Art from the Grocery Aisles, Ulrich Museum of Art at Wichita                    State, Wichita KS 

   Vascular Modes, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Buffalo, NY 

 

2012 

   TH&B2, 270 Sherman, Hamilton, ON 

   The World According To:, Black & White Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 

   Entmos, Exhibit A, Corning, NY 

 

2010 

Now What?, Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, FL 

Alternating Currents: Beyond/In Western New York Biennial, Burchfield Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY 

ECHO: Sampling Visual Culture, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY 

 

2009 

   One Every Day, Curators: Printeresting.org, Elizabeth Foundation Project Space,                          New York, NY 

   UpArt: Rooms of Wonder, curators: Chris Mitchell & Barbara Gilbert, Gladstone Hotel,                  Toronto, ON 

   Exhibition 2012+/The Drop Urban Art Infill, curators: Alexandra Chang & Mie Iwatsuki,                  New York, NY 

   Ecologies of Decay, Artspace, Buffalo, NY 

   Commune, curator: Dominique Nahas, Black & White Gallery, New York, NY 

 

2008 

   Waste Not, Want Not, Socrates Sculpture Center, Long Island City, Queens, NY 

   Sprawling, Shore Institute of The Contemporary Arts, Long Branch, NJ 

   Site Visits, curators: Ivan Jurakic, Esther E. Shipman, Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge, ON 

   Sign/Age II, Armand Bartos Gallery, New York, NY 

 

2007 

   Versionfest Invitational, curators: Brian Ulrich & Jon Gitelson, Zhou Art Center, Chicago, IL 

 

2006 

   Systems & Propositions, Rochester Contemporary, Rochester, NY 

   The Sanctuary and the Scrum, curator: David Hunt, Black and White Gallery, New York, NY 

   Young American Artists of Today, Bergen Museum of Arts & Sciences, Paramus, NJ 

 

2005 

   Young American Artists of Today, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia 

   Beyond/In Western New York 2005, Castellani Art Museum, Niagara Falls, NY 

 

2004 

   re: source, Art in General, New York, NY 

   Crits’ Pix, curator: Lily Wei, Black & White Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 

 

Collections 

  

   Albright-Knox Art Gallery 

   Burchfield Penney Arts Center 

   Margulies Collection at the Warehouse 

   The Norton Museum of Art 

   Progressive Insurance Collection 

  

Art Fairs 

 

   2004 Scope Art Miami  

   2005 Scope New York / Scope Miami  

   2008 Next Art Chicago / Aqua Art Fair 

   2010 Pulse Miami  

   2011 Pulse New York / Pulse Los Angeles 

 

Residencies 

  

   2005 Spaces World Artists Program, Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, OH 

   2002 International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York, NY 

 

Grants/Awards 

  

   Nancy Graves Foundation 2008 Grant nominee 

   Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation 2007 Award nominee 

   Winner Booksellers/Diagram Prize for the Oddest Book title of 2007 

  

Book 

 

   The Stray Shopping Carts Of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification, Julian            Montague, New York, Abrams IMAGE, an imprint of Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2006 

  

Books Featuring Montague’s Work 

  

   Fully Booked: Ink on Paper, Editors: R. Klanten, M. Hübner, A. Losowsky, Die Gestalten Verlag,    2013 

   THE DARK WOULD language art anthology, edited by Philip Davenport, Apple Pie Editions,         2013 

   Typography Sketchbooks, Steven Heller and Lita Talrico, Princeton Architectural Press, 2011 

   The Modernist, R. Klanten (Author, Editor), H. Hellige (Editor), Die Gestalten Verlag, 2011 

   The Design Entrepreneurs, Interview, Steven Heller and Lita Talrico, Rockport Publishers, Inc.,    2008 

  

Exhibition Catalogues 

 

   Stocked: Contemporary Art from the Grocery Aisles, Emily Stamey, Ulrich Museum of Art,              Wichita State University/University of Washington Press, 2013 

   Season Two, essay by Ivan Jurakic, University of Waterloo Art Gallery (UWAG), 2011 

   Beyond/In Western New York 2010: Alternating Currents, essay by Scott Propeack,                        Burchfield Penny Art Center, 2010  

   Ecologies of Decay, essay by Allen Shelton, Artspace, Buffalo, NY, 2009 

   Prince of the Roving Life: Julian Montague’s Stray Shopping Cart, essay by Steve Hunt, Real        Art Ways, Hartford CT, 2006 

   Julian Montague: The Stray Shopping Cart Project: Cleveland and Environs, essay by                   Benjamin Genocchio, Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, OH, 2006 

   The Stray Shopping Cart: An Illustrated System of Identification, essay by                                      John Massier, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY, 2004 

  

Selected Articles, Interviews and Reviews 

 

   Q & A with Julian Montague, Dwell Magazine (web), April 22, 2013 

   State of America Prints, Under Consideration Quarterly, 2013 Q1, 2013 

   Volumes From an Imagined Intellectual History of Animals, Architecture and Man, Antennae:        The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, Issue 24, Spring 2013, Julian Montague 

   TH&B2: Post Industrial Strength, Canadian Art (web), June 7, 2012 

   Beyond/In Western New York, Frieze, Issue 137, March 2011, Steven Stern 

   Out of Place, Vogue Italia, January 2011, Mauriuccia Casadio 

   Beyond/In Western New York, Art in America, January 2011, Faye Hirsch 

   What Now?, The Miami Herald, January 2, 2011, Tom Austin 

   Looking Back at ‘Beyond,’ The Buffalo News, December 17, 2010, Colin Dabkowski 

   Norton Museum of Art Creates Striking New Exhibition with Pieces from the Miami Beach              Fairs, ArtDaily.org, December 16, 2010 

   Stray Shopping Carts, Antennae: The Journal of Nature in Visual Culture, Issue 10, Spring            2009, Sonia Britz 

   The Stray Shopping Cart Project, Gastronomica, Fall 2008, Julian Montague 

   Arachnophilia, New York Magazine, June 9, 2008 

   A Natural History of Consumption: The Stray Shopping Carts of Julian Montague, Postmodern      Culture, Volume 18, Number 2, January 2008, David Banash 

   The Taxonomy of Stray Shopping Carts, The Toronto Star, May 6, 2007, Murray Whyte 

   Off his Trolley?, The Independent (UK), April 14, 2007, Genevieve Roberts 

   Shopping Cart Book wins ‘Oddest Title,’ Associated Press, April 13, 2007, Jill Lawless 

   Abandoned: The Art of the Cart, The New York Times, September 10, 2006, Eve M. Kahn 

   One man’s garbage is another man’s artistic treasure, The Buffalo News, July 23, 2006, Charity    Vogel 

   From Moscow to the Bergen Mall, The New York Times, January 29, 2006,                                      Benjamin Genocchio 

   The Stray Shopping Cart Project, Uovo, Issue #10, 2005 

   Toronto Shuffles off to Buffalo, Globe & Mail, June 1, 2005, Sarah Milroy 

   The Many Faces of Shopping Carts, or the Elegant Insects, Block Magazine, May 2005, Rachel    Hymen 

   Dateline Brooklyn, Artnet.com, April 15, 2005, Stephen Maine 

   Visual Perimeter, TEN by TEN Magazine, Number 10, March 2005 

   Stray Shopping Carts inspire Buffalo Artist’s Exhibit, The Plain Dealer, January 21, 2005,                Dan Tranberg 

   Critic’s Picks, Artnews, January 2005, Meredith Mendelsohn 

   Artseen, Crit Pix, Black & White Gallery, The Brooklyn Rail, July/August 2004, Shane McAdams 

   Tongue Planted Firmly in Cheek: The first of six artists still under 30 and full of it, Hartford              Advocate, December 25, 2003, Patricia Rosoff 

   It May Be Minimal, but it Challenges the Intellect, New York Times, November 30, 2003,                Benjamin Genocchio 

  

Radio Interviews 

   Chris Evans Drivetime Show, BBC Radio 1, Sep 2008 

   The Breakfast Show, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, April 17, 2007 

   Breakfast with Ross Sully, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Canberra, April 17, 2007 

   BBC World Service, April 12, 2007