Sam Messenger

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Verso
Horizon
13 Cycles
Cryograph
Fracture
Frozen
Six Veils
Rules/Curves
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Forms
Piccadillies
Easy Target
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1000 Pictures
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Selected exhibitions:
2023 Colour Veils, Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco (solo)
2022 Blue Veils, C O U N T Y Gallery, Palm Beach (solo) (press release by Logan Royce)
Art on Paper Since 1960, The British Museum, London
Grids & Veils, Davidson Gallery, New York (solo)
2021 Selected Works, Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
2020 Kinder Building: Line Into Space, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas (press release) (audio guide)
Contemporary Paintings, Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
2019 Verso, Davidson Gallery, New York (solo) (illustrated catalogue, foreword by Frances Jacobus-Paker)
Torkwase Dyson & Sam Messenger, The Armory Show, New York (two person presentation)
2018 Contemporary Works on Paper, Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
Tactile Line, Bartha Contemporary, London
2017 Sam Messenger, Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco (solo) (BlouinArtinfo review)
Horizon, ADAA The Art Show, Park Avenue Armory, New York (solo) illustrated catalogue
2016 Dot, Dash, Dissolve, from the collection of JoAnn Gonzalez Hickey, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
13 Cycles, Davidson Contemporary, New York (solo) (illustrated catalogue) (Artnet review)
2015 Drawing with Metal, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London
Important Works on Paper, Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
2014 Fracture, Davidson Contemporary, New York (solo) (illustrated catalogue, foreword by Jacqui McIntosh)
Line: Making the Mark, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Pencil / Line / Eraser, Carroll/Fletcher, London
mimēma, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London
Four Decades, Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
Paper Jam, Neuberger Museum of Art, New York
Abstract Drawing, curated by Richard Deacon, Drawing Room, London (illustrated catalogue) (Guardian review)
Early Drawings, Davidson Contemporary, New York (solo) (illustrated catalogue) (ARTnews review)
2012 Contemporary Watercolour, curated by Veronica Roberts, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York
Textility, Visual Arts Center of New Jersey, New Jersey (illustrated catalogue)
2011 The Art of Collecting Flint Institute of Arts, Michigan
Six Veils, Davidson Contemporary, New York (solo) (illustrated catalogue, foreword by Lisa Graziose Corrin) (Art in America review)
40 Artists-80 Drawings, Burton Art Gallery and Museum, Devon, UK
Reflections on a Museum, Williams College Museum of Art, Massachusetts
2010 Now WHAT?, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach
2009 Contained Thoughts, The Courtauld Institute of Arts, London
2008 Straightedge, Davidson Contemporary, New York (solo)
You Silently (Two), The Courtauld Institute of Arts, London
Blink, Cut + Repeat, The Courtauld Institute of Arts, London
2006 3x3x3, Davidson Contemporary, New York
Jerwood Drawing, various UK locations
2005 Jerwood Drawing, Jerwood Arts, London and various UK locations


Selected collections:
The British Museum, London, UK
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts
Museum of Art Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
de Young Museum, San Francisco, California
Werner H. Kramarsky Collection, New York, New York