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    Oracular Serpent The Victory of Eucharist Girl Attacked By a Lion
    Entertainments Of Domitian The Lions of Macedonia Prometheus Bound
    Blood-On-The-Floor Cryptic-Dweller-72 The Chinese Antique Shope
    Torture Garden Akeley hall of mammals Eden
    The-Occult-Roots-Of-Nazism The Grand Lodge of Paris All the World is a Battlefield
    Untitled--2002--Stag Griffen Eve

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    JP Munro

    Born 1975, Inglewood, CA. Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

     

     

    Education 

     

    2000  
    MFA, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA

    1997  
    BFA, University of California, Los Angeles, CA

     

     

    Solo Exhibitions

     

    2009
    China Art Objects Galleries at Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CA

    2008
    Sadie Coles HQ, London, England 

    2006  
    The Marseillaise, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA

    2005  
    The Foundations of the Twenty-first Century, Sadie Coles HQ, London, England

    2004  
    Torture Garden, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA

    2002  
    Ending is Better Than Mending, Sadie Coles HQ, London, England
    Blood on the Floor, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA

     

     

    Selected Group Exhibitions

    2010

    The Incomplete-Paris, Galerie Jean-Luc and Takako Richard, Paris

    2008
    JP Munro and Pentti Monkkonen, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
    Call the Interruptions Day, Leo Koenig Inc, New York, NY

    2007

    The Incomplete, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY

    2006
    Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY
    Hotel California, The Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale, CA
    Drawing and Drawn, Cerritos College Art Gallery, Cerrito, CA
    Alle-Gory, Mandarin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

     

    2005
    Sunset in Athens, Vamiali, Athens, Greece, February-March.
    Art Athina 2005: Californian Artists in Greek Collections, Athens, Greece
    “Walead Beshty, Erlea Maneros, JP Munro & Andy Ouchi, Sean Landers, Michael Wetzel,” China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA

     

    2004
    She’s Come Undone, Curated by Augusto Arbizo, Artemis-Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY, June
    Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland, February
    100 Artists See God, Curated by John Baldessari and Meg Cranston, ICA, London, England, Traveled to the Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA, the Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN, Albright College Freedman Art Gallery, Reading, PA

    2003
    Drawings, Metro Pictures, New York, NY, March
    Dirty Pictures, The Approach, London
    Women Beware Women, Curated by David Rimanelli, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
    Drop Out!, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
    The Great Drawing Show, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
    Works for Giovanni, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA

    2002
    Fair, Organized by Curating Contemporary Art, The Royal College of Art, London, England, March

    2001
    The Cult, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
    Morbid Curiosity, Curated by Jan Tumlir, ACME, Los Angeles, CA, Traveled to I-20 Gallery, New York, NY
    Psychobobble, Raucci / Santamaria, Napoli, Italy
    China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA

    2000
    New School, Works on Paper, Los Angeles, CA
    The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Laughter, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA

     

    Selected bibliography

     

    2006    
    Plagens, Peter, “The Art of the Deal” Newsweek, March 6, p.56

    2005
    Kraus, Chris, Jan Tumlir & Jane McFadden, LA Artland (London: Black Dog Publishing)
    Sumpter, Helen, “JP Munro,” Time Out, 9 August 
    “Picks of the Week: If you’re only going to see one thing this week…” The Guardian, 25 July 
    Lack, Jessica, “Preview: JP Munro,” The Guardian Guide, 23-29 July 
    Güner, Fisun, ”JP Munro,” Metro, 18 July 
    “JP Munro Foundations of the 21st Century (Picking at the wounds of mythology),” Flux, issue 49
    Núñez-Fernández, Lupe, ‘The month ahead: Top Choice’, Art Review, July

    2004
    Nelson, Arty, “Hunters and Gathers“ LA Weekly, May 28
    Healy, Murray, “In Deeper Reference Praise,” POP, Autumn / Winter
    John Russell, Frozen Tears II (UK: ARTicle Press)

    2003
    Morton, Tom, “Reviews,” Frieze #74, April
    Buck, Louisa, “JP Munro: Ending is Better than Mending,” The Art Newspaper – What’s On, No. 132, Jan.

    2002
    Gaines, Malik, “JP Munro at China Art Objects, Los Angeles”, Artext  #78, Fall
    Tumlir, Jan, Morbid Curiosity, I-20 and Art Center, Pasadena, CA and New York, NY (catalogue)
    Tumlir, Jan, “Morbid Curiosity: The Art School Curiculum and Modernism Unbound,”  Artext, No. 78, Fall
    Rimanelli, David, “JP Munro,” Interview, May, p. 46
    Smith, Roberta, “The Armory Show, Grown up and in Love With Color”, New York Times, Friday, February 22

     

     

    JP Munro - JP Munro at Cottage Home
    Oct 17 to Nov 14, 2009
    JP Munro - The Marseillaise: JP Munro
    Nov 4 to Dec 23, 2006
    JP Munro - JP Munro: Torture Garden
    May 1 to May 31, 2004
    JP Munro - JP Munro: Blood on the Floor
    May 25 to Jun 22, 2002
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    • 2009
      • JP Munro in Chinatown , Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer October 17 (PDF)
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    • 2005
      • JP Munro , Michael Archer September 1 (PDF)
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    • 2002
      • JP Munro at China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles , Malik Gaines July 1 (PDF)
      • Discovering an artist while the paint is still wet , David Rimanelli June 1 (PDF)
      • JP Munro , Tom Morton June 1 (PDF)
      • Hunters and Gatherers , Arty Nelson May 1 (PDF)
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