geboren/born in Tallahassee, Florida;
lebt und arbeitet/lives and works
in Los Angeles
Ausbildung/Education
1998 Master
of Fine Arts California Institute of the
Arts (Valencia, CA)
1993 Bachelor
of Fine Arts Carnegie Mellon University (Pittsburgh, PA)
1992 Yale Summer
School of Art (Norfolk,
CT)
1991 Tyler School
of Art (Rome, Italy)
Grants & Awards, Fellowships
2008 Regent's Faculty Fellowship, Academic Senate, UC Riverside
2007 Santa Fe Art Institute Artist's Residency
2007 Joan Mitchell Foundation Scholarship
2004 Ucross Foundation Artist's Residency
2002 Durfee A.R.C. Grant
1999–2000 Core Fellow, Glassell Artist’s Residency, Museum of Fine Arts (Houston, TX)
1997 Durfee Grant for project with Grandma Prisbrey’s Bottle Village (Simi Valley, CA)
1995 Artist's Residency at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Art (Omaha, NB)
Einzelausstellungen/Solo Exhibitions
2008 A Partial Index of Improvements Devin Borden Hiram Butler (Houston, TX)
2004 Aerials and Elevations Devin Borden/Hiram Butler Gallery (Houston, TX)
2003 superstructure Susanne Vielmetter/Los Angeles Projects (Los Angeles, CA)
2002 Melissa Thorne: New Paintings Devin Borden/Hiram Butler Gallery (Houston, TX)
2001 radiant city
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects (Los
Angeles, CA)
2000 Drawings: plans
for small units Devin Borden/Hiram Butler
Gallery (Houston, TX)
1999 A miracle of spatial
unity… Rosamund Felsen Gallery,
projectroom (Santa Monica,
CA)
1998 Melissa Thorne:
paintings LAX Exhibition (Houston, TX)
Gruppenausstellungen/Group Exhibitions
2007
Fata Morgana Galerie Schmidt-Maczollek (Köln, Germany)
2006
Fair Exchange curated by Irene Satsos, Millard Sheets Gallery (Pomona, CA)
2005
Color Devin Borden/Hiram Butler Gallery (Houston, TX)
Especial Galerie Schmidt-Maczollek (Köln, Germany)
Summer Paper DevinBorden/Hiram Butler Gallery (Houston, TX)
2004
KnitKnit sundown salon (Los Angeles, CA)
Microclimate Harris Art Gallery, The University of La Verne (La Verne, CA)
2003
Perpetuum Mobile Galerie Rolf Ricke (Köln, Germany)
Blue Devin Borden/Hiram Butler Gallery (Houston, TX)
Armory Show with Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects (New York, NY)
2002
Blend Harris Art Gallery, The University of La Verne (La Verne, CA)
Systems, Order, Nature Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery (Houston, TX)
Labyrinths Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery (Houston, TX)
2001
Are Friends Electric? Angstrom Gallery (Dallas, TX)
SongPoems Leslie, Cohan and Browne (New York, NY)
fabric, pattern, needle, thread Bakersfield College (Bakersfield, CA)
Bibli-lo-tech curated by Brooke Stroud, Kerry Inman Gallery (Houston, TX)
Women Rule with Agnes Martin, Jennifer Bartlett, Bridget Riley, Devin Borden; Hiram Butler Gallery (Houston, TX)
2000
Core Glassell Building, Museum of Fine Arts (Houston, TX)
Shimmer curated by Thomas Lawson, Los Angeles Municipal Gallery at Barnsdall (Los Angeles, CA)
1999
L.A. Morgenrot Galerie Rolf Ricke (Köln, Germany)
Selected Bibliography
Fata Morgana bei Schmidt Maczollek Editorial review, Stadt Revue kolnmagazin, December 2007
The Shock of the Familiar by Irene Satsos, Fair Exchange exhibition catalog, 2006
Streetsignism by Doug Harvey, LA Weekly, November 15, 2006
Melissa Thorne at Devin Borden Hiram Butler Bill Davenport, glasstire.com, July 2002
Paper Route by Kelly Klaasmeyer, Houston Press, June 20, 2002
Labyrinths — Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery by Maria Stalford, glasstire.com February 2002
California Dreaming by Bret McCabe, Dallas Observer, September 6, 2001
Melissa Thorne at Susanne Vielmetter by Josh Blackwell, Art Issues, summer 2001
Neue Dreistigkeit by Sandra Danicke, Frankfurter Runschau, Feuilleton, April 30, 2001
Office Max by Kelly Klaasmeyer, Houston Press, March 29, 2001
Space City Takes Off by Frances Colpitt, Art in America, October 2000
Core 2000 by Susie Kalil, exhibition catalog essay and interview, 2000
Shimmer: notes on some recent abstract painting in Los Angeles by Thomas Lawson, exhibition brochure essay, Barnsdall Municipal Gallery, 2000
Themes out of School by David Pagel, catalog essay, CAArt (Los Angeles, CA)
Die Grosstadt ist auch nur ein Allerweltsort by Jens Peter Koerver, Koelner Stadt-Anzeiger, December 16, 1999
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