Todd Monaghan

"In a time when there is enough well-executed but wholly unfelt abstraction around to constitute a new salon, which indeed it has effectively done, Todd Monaghan’s work is as refreshing as a shower on parched ground. It is work I first encountered about ten years ago when Monaghan’s mature style was already well developed. I paid studio visits and recorded an interview for a study on how a necessary spirit of truculent inventiveness could survive in the art world in a fat period, a time when relative prosperity was posing its own problems, when the War of the Isms was dodo-dead and no demanding new imperative has sprung up to replace it.

Monaghan’s working methods impressed me at once, namely his restlessness, his visible willingness to embrace chance, a recklessness which struck me as very like the modus operandi that the first generation of Ab Exes had taken from Surrealist Automatism. I liked the way he would work on the wall, then transfer the surface to the floor, then hoick the piece back onto the wall again, dripping, gougimg, pouring, incising, splashing, seemingly recklessly and, yes, perhaps actually so, but ending up with an image that seemed so controlled that he might as well have been a watchmaker meticulously asse...

BA from Emory University
Certificate In Film, New York University
Collaborative Study with artist Gregory Ilich,
RISD Brown University
Eagle Scout, Boy Scouts of America

2017: Night Sky Maquets - Manolis Projects, Little Havana, Miami
Night Sky - Black & Whites SLS Hotel, Miami
Hero Bags - Art with Purpose, SLS Hotel, Miami Basel, 12/7
™ @313 Gallery, Gowanus, Brooklyn
Infinitus, James Richards Gallery, NYC,
Le Pick Clops Cafe, Paris, France
Basilica of Saint Denis, Paris, France
Hotel de Grignan Gallery, Vichy, France
Celestin Hotel Spa, Vichy, France
Autun Cathedral, Autun France
Festival of Arrows, Moulins-Engilbert, France
Auzon Pharmacy Gallery, Auzon France
Church Saint-Jean-Baptiste, Charroux, France
Infinitus, Oreya Southampton @ The Capri Hotel,
2016: Boundless, Kai Lin Arts, Atlanta, GA
GAGA Arts Festival, Haverstra, NY.
2015: See/Me Fifth Annual Exposure Award Exhibition, Musee du Louvre, Paris, France.
2014: Boston Basel, Boston, MA; Unstretched, Miami Art Basel, Miami, FL;Creamy Black & White, Bill Lowe Gallery, Atlanta, GA.; Outerlands Gallery, Vergennes, VT.
2013: MONA – Documenta USA, Museum of New Art, Detroit MI; The Story of the Creative, See/Me, LIC, NY
Four Word Progress, Jersey City, NJ
P58 Our Time, Zines, online publication featured, London, England NY Times Moma Garden Party Shout Out, MOMA, NYC: “Todd Monaghan, ... was dancing by th...