Biography
Stephen Bitterolf was born in Caracas, Venezuela.  He moved to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania as a child and has lived both in the U.S. and Europe.  He currently lives and works in Brooklyn.

Solo Exhibitions
2005
Mostly Cloudy, ZieherSmith, New York, New York.
2003 Stephen Bitterolf: Initial Public Offering, ZieherSmith, New York, New York.

Selected Group Exhibitions
2006
Momenta Benefit Show, Momenta, Brooklyn, New York and White Columns, New York, New York.

2005
Radical Vaudeville, Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA.
Flora and Fauna, Art for the Embassies, permanent installation, U.S. Embassy, Armenia.

2004
NADA Art Fair, Ice Palace Film Studios, Miami, Florida, with ZieherSmith.
FIAC, Porte de Versailles, Paris, with ZieherSmith.
Source / Depiction, Educational Alliance Gallery, New York, New York. Curated by Kimberly Mora.
Inverted World, Artspace, New Haven, CT. Curated by Rachael Vaters-Carr.
The Stray-Show, Chicago, Illinois, with ZieherSmith.
Scope Committee for Emerging Artists Group Show, Hotel Gansevoort, New York, New York.
Organized by John L. Stewart.

2003
NADA Art Fair, The Lincoln, Miami, Florida, with ZieherSmith.
DUMBO Arts Center Benefit Auction, DUMBO Arts Center, Brooklyn, New York.
Scope Los Angeles, Downtown Standard Hotel, Los Angeles, California, with ZieherSmith.
Dealer's Choice, 31 Grand, Brooklyn, New York.
A Clearing, Cover Up, London. Curated by Michael Wilson.
Momenta Benefit Show, Momenta, Brooklyn, New York and White Columns, New York, New York.

2002
Man Walks into a Room, DUMBO Arts Center, Brooklyn, New York.
DUMBO Arts Center Benefit Auction, DUMBO Arts Center, Brooklyn, New York.
Drawing Quirks 2, Parker's Box, Brooklyn, New York.
13 Americans, as part of the Free Biennial, New York, New York. Curated by Scott Zieher.

2001
DUMBO Arts Center Benefit Auction, DUMBO Arts Center, Brooklyn, New York.

1997
87th Annual Associated Artists of Pittsburgh Exhibition, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

Press
Hummer, Tracey. "Stephen Bitterolf at ZieherSmith." Art in America, January, 2006. (Image included.)
Birke, Judy. "Realities Shift in Internal, External and Invented Worlds at Artspace." New Haven Register, June 13, 2004.
Hughes, Robert. "Stephen Bitterolf: IPO" in Rising Stars. The Wall Street Journal, September 19, 2003.
Johnson, Ken. "Art Listings." The New York Times, September 12, 2004.
"Drawing Quirks 2" in Goings On About Town. The New Yorker, December 9, 2002.
Wolfram, Laura. "The Billburg Beat." www.stretcher.org December 13, 2002.

Member
Bottom Union for the Transformation of Things (B.U.T.T.) www.bottomunion.com
British American Project

 

 For more information email stephen@bitterolf.org

All works © 1999-2006 Stephen Bitterolf


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