Education
2006 MFA, Hunter College, New York, NY
2006 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Madison, ME
2003 BFA Studio Arts, The University of Illinois at Chicago
1997-98 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2024 Seeking An Exit, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, Solo Show
2024 Folk Modern, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, Group Show
2024 Something Woman This Way Comes, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Switzerland, Group Show
2023 After Visiting Hours, Richard Heller Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Solo Show
2023 Works on Paper, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, Group Show
2023 Of A Place, Taymour Grahne Projects, London, U.K., Solo Show
2022 REVIVAL I - XVIIIe siècle, Gowen Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland,
Co-curated by Rachel Cole Sherr and Laura Gowen, Group Show
2022 Sometimes Light, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, Solo Show
2021 Dual Hearts and Empty Halls, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, Two Person Show
2021 The Bedroom Show, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, Group Show
2020 Interiors: hello from the living room, 1969 Gallery, New York, Group Show
2020 Outside Touch, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, Group Show
2020 Love Letters, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York, Solo Show
2018 Between The Walls, Tillou Fine Art, New York, Group Show
2018 Watch Me Burn, Evening Hours, New York, Group Show
2017 Painting Everyday III, Spoonbill Studio, New York, Solo Show
2017 Once I Had This Dream, ART 3/Silas Von Morisse Gallery, New York, Solo Show
2016 Back In A Moment, C. Grimaldis Projects, Baltimore, Two Person Show
2016 Postcard from New York-Part 1, Anna Marra Contemporanea, Rome, Group Show
2016 Gretchen Scherer: Places I Have Never Been, ART 3/Silas Von Morisse Gallery, New York, Solo Show
2015 2015:1947, Equity Gallery, New York, Group Show
2015 Post Hoc Ergo Propter Hoc, Firework Gallery, New York, Group Show
2015 We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Evening Hours, New York, Group Show
2015 Armin Volckers, Gretchen Scherer, Galerie Lake, Oldenburg, Germany, Two Person Show
2015 Fractured Atlas, Storefront Ten Eyck, New York, Group Show
2014 Not a Force But a Curvature, Novella Gallery, New York, Group Show
2013 Governors Island Art Fair, Governors Island, New York
2011 Tide Pool, Sarah Meltzer Gallery/Projects, New York, Group Show
2010 Second Story, Pepin Moore Gallery, Los Angeles, Group Show
2010 Governors Island Art Fair, Governors Island, New York
2009 Everybody, Envoy Gallery, New York, Group Show Canteen Reading Room, Envoy Gallery, Pulse Art Fair, Miami, Group Show
2009 Artist Teacher Show, Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York, Group Show
2007 With Teeth, Priska C. Juschka Gallery, New York, Group Show
2005 Greater Brooklyn, CRG Gallery, New York, Group Show
2004 Daydreaming, Slight Alienation, Cruel Kindness and Detached Sentimentality, Joymore Gallery, New York, Group Show
2003 Plastic Fantastic, 1926 Gallery, Chicago, IL. Group Show
2002 Bello Foundation, Mars Gallery, Chicago, IL. Group Show
2015 Vermont Studio Center Residency
2013 Governors Island Art Fair Residency
2011 Governors Island Art Fair Residency
Reviews
2024 Colossal, " In ‘Seeking an Exit,’ Gretchen Scherer Escapes to Grand Homes and Galleries of the Past," Kate Mothes, October 17th, 2024
2022 Stir World, "Conduits of Time, 'Of a Place' by Gretchen Scherer at Taymour Grahne Projects", Divya Menon, April 15, 2023
2022 Colossal, “Meander the Halls of Europe’s Grandest Homes in Gretchen Scherer’s
Paradisiacal Paintings,” Kate Mothes, February 23
2022 Hyperallergic, Reviews, "Messing with Museums and Our Desire for Order", John Yau, March 24, 2022
2022 Artnet, "Editors’ Picks: 12 Events for Your Art Calendar This Week", Katie White, February 22, 2022
2021 New York Magazine, "The Best New York Art Shows of 2021", Jerry Saltz, December 20, 2021
2021 Artnet, Editors' Picks, "“Dual Hearts and Empty Halls: Anne Buckwalter and Gretchen Scherer” at Monya Rowe Gallery, New York", Katie White, February 23, 2021
2020 Whitehot Magazine, "Interiors at 1969 Gallery", Alfred Rosenbluth, November 2020
2020 Elephant Magazine,"Gretchen Scherer’s Paintings of Empty Museums Feel Oddly Prophetic",Emily Gosling, May 15, 2020
2020 AS|Magazine, "Twist and Fade", Jill Conner, April 14,2020
2017 The Paris Review, "Once I Had This Dream," by Dan Piepenbring, June 20
2017 Blouin Modern Painters, “Landscapes Into Art,” by Noah Dillon, March/April
2016 Corriere Della Sera, “Postcard from New York, figurative painting from the Big Apple,” by Edoardo Sassi, June 13
2015 The New York Times, “Artist Equity to Reopen a Gallery on the Lower East Side,” by Melena Ryzik, October 16
2015 Two Coats of Paint, “There is a lot of very good painting going on these days,” by John Yau, January 28
2013 ArtFCity, “Why you should go to Governors Island Art Fair,” by Gabriela Vainsencher, September 16
2005 The New York Times, "Art in Review; Greater Brooklyn," by Roberta Smith, July 8
2024 Juxtapoz, "Gretchen Scherer: Seeking An Exit," October 17, 2024
2024 Artnet, "A Neo-Rococo Movement Is On the Rise—But What Does It All Mean?" Katie White August 16, 2024
2024 Juxtapoz Magazine, "If Rooms Could Talk," Gwynned Vitello, Spring 2024
2023 Juxtapoz, "Gretchen Scherer Goes After Visiting Hours at Richard Heller Gallery", Santa Monica, November 1, 2023
2022 Juxtapoz, "Sometimes, Light: Gretchen Scherer's Interiors Tell Stories", Editors, March 17, 2022
2021 Harper's Bazaar Latin America, Special Art Issue, "Artists to Follow in 2022", Maria Rivera, November 2021
2020 New American Paintings, "Introducing 60 Exceptional Artists", Jerry Saltz, 146, September 2020
2020 Harper’s Magazine, "Gretchen Scherer at MonyaRowe Gallery", Editors, Print Edition, May 1, 2020
2018 Art Maze Mag, Winter Edition, Issue 6, pg. 86-87
2017 Studio Visit Magazine, Volume 39, pg. 161 and back cover
2017 BTR Today, "Art Uncovered Podcast with Kimberly Ruth: Gretchen Scherer," August
2016 Refigural Magazine, “A Light Coming From A Different Part of the House,” Elspeth Walker in Conversation with Gretchen Scherer and Ylva Ceder, December
2016 RAI Cultura Arte, "The interiors of Gretchen Scherer," November
2010 XLR8R Magazine, "New York State of Mind: Seven Gotham City visual artists on the rise for 2010." by Vivian Host, December
2007 Whistle, curated by Sarah Cain, published by San Francisco Museum of Art, March, pg. 31
2018 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship in Painting
2015 Nominee Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant
2014 Vermont Studio Center Fellowship
2006 Skowhegan Endowment for Scholarship Fellowship
2005 Graf Travel Grant, Berlin, Hunter College
2003 School Faculty Prize in fine art, University of Illinois at Chicago
2002 John E. Walley Memorial Scholarship, University of Illinois at Chicago
2002 Talent Tuition Waiver, University of Illinois at Chicago
2002 John Richardson Sr. Award in painting, University of Illinois at Chicago