ANDY MESSERSCHMIDT
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​GALLERY AFFILIATIONS



​MFA - University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN
BFA - Millikin University, Decatur, IL


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Forthcoming.  North Dakota State University, Fargo, ND
​Agroccult.  Ryan James Fine Arts, Seattle, WA
​Land O' Likes.  Ridgewater College, Hutchinson and Willmar, MN

Agroccult.  Minneapolis/St. Paul International Airport, Minneapolis, MN
Shooting Buffalo.  ArtStart, Rhinelander, WI

​Creepy Crawl.  Duluth Art Institute, Duluth, MN
​Agroccult.  ​MacRostie Art Center, Grand Rapids, MN

Monolith Mode.  ​Nemeth Art Center, Park Rapids, MN
​With or Without Spires.  The Ornamental Hermit, Ely, MN
Cardboard Coins.  The Ornamental Hermit, Ely, MN
Agroccult.  Telephoneboothgallery, Kansas City, MO
Delta Delta Delta Force.  Minneapolis Institute of Arts - MAEP Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Friend Me/Follow Me (Graze Anatomy).  Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Agroccult.  Vine Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN
Psycho-Babel.  Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN
Batten Down the Blood.  Franklin Artworks,  Minneapolis, MN
Crackpot Crystallomancy.  Plane-Space, New York, NY
Merry Krishnas.  Fox Tax Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Hoodwinkers, Fauxs, Impostors and Snakeoilers.  Plane-Space, New York, NY 




Cross Country.  Carolyn Glasoe Bailey Gallery, Ojai, CA
A Lack of Visual Discourse; Visual Lamentations.  A-Mill Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Left-Hand Paths.  Kiehle Gallery, St. Cloud State University, St. Cloud, MN
High Visibility: On Location in Rural America and Indian Country.  Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND
Newvember.  Ecce Gallery, Fargo, ND

​Pulchra Scientia.  Perlman Museum, Carleton College, Northfield, MN
Menagerie.  Minnetonka Center for the Arts, Minneapolis, MN
​I Love You More.  Aquaworld Aquarium, Heraklion, Crete, Greece
​Common Objects.  Union Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
Count Backwards from 10.  Fox Tax Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
Greenery.  Depot Gallery, Red Wing, MN
The Devil Is In The Details.  Whitworth University, Spokane, WA
Cephalopod Interface.  University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI
Cephalopod Interface.  Okinawa Prefectural Art Museum, Okinawa, Japan
MN Creates.  The State Capitol, St. Paul, MN
Aerial View 267.  Telephoneboothgallery, Kansas City, MO
Afternoon Delight.  Tuckunder Projects, Minneapolis, MN
Arrowhead Biennial.  Duluth Art Institute, Duluth, MN
Paul Nudd and Andy Messerschmidt.  Galerie Andreas Bruning, Dusseldorf, Germany
Be Like Water.  Telephoneboothgallery, Kansas City, MO
Painting Zombies - Attack Ebisu.  Katherine Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
GM10: A Theory of Values.  Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN
Gangbusters.  Plane-Space, New York, NY 
Indelible.  Hoffman LaChance Gallery,  St. Louis, MO
Afternoon of a Dusseldorf Faun II.  Galerie Andreas Bruning, Dusseldorf, Germany
Aqua Art Miami.  Miami, FL - with Plane-Space
P-Factory: De-Centering the Center.  York College, York, PA
Minnesota Biennial 3D II.  Minnesota Museum of American Art, Minneapolis, MN
Claw Your Face Off.  Plane-Space, New York, NY
P-Factory.  Sub Octo Space, Philadelphia, PA
Painter As Mentor.  McLean County Arts Center, Bloomington, IL
Urban Culture Project: Decentralizing The Center.  Bank Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Minnesota Biennial: 2D II.  Minnesota Museum of American Art, Minneapolis, MN
Decentralizing the Center.  39hotel Gallery, Honolulu, HI 
LouDiamondPhillips - New Batch.  Plane-Space, New York, NY
ArtLA. Los Angeles, CA - with Telephoneboothgallery
Art Chicago.  Chicago, IL - with Plane-Space
Thought Patterns.  Kent Place Gallery, Summit, NJ
Alternative Materials.  Urban Institute of Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, MI
The Stray Show.  Chicago, IL - with Telephoneboothgallery
Summer Salon: Panlocal-GeofunkopolisRising.  Telephoneboothgallery, Kansas City, MO
Winter Invitational.  Telephoneboothgallery, Kansas City, MO
Drawings.  Plane-Space, New York, NY
P-Factory.  Art Space Tetra, Fukuoka, Japan
Interplay. Regis Center for Art, Minneapolis, MN - Curated by Curated by Douglas Fogle,   Walker Art Museum, Minneapolis and Sylvia Chivaratanond, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Draw.  SOO Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis, MN
Mute. Cade Center for the Arts, Arnold, MD
Multisensory: Visual Responses to Memory & Synesthesia. Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI
Painting Beyond Conventions.  Penelac Gallery - Allegheny College, Meadville, PA 
Recent Grads-Recent Work. Kleinpell Fine Arts Center, River Falls, WI





​Visiting Lecturer: Syracuse University Summer Academy​
Minnesota State Arts Board - Individual Artist Grant

​Minnesota State Arts Board - Individual Artist Grant
Minnesota State Arts Board - Individual Artist Grant
Arrowhead Regional Arts Council - Technology Grant
Visiting Artist/Lecturer: Whitworth University, Spokane, WA
Arrowhead Regional Arts Council - Individual Artist Grant
Grand Prize - Arrowhead Biennial, Duluth, MN
Minnesota State Arts Board - Individual Artist Grant
Visiting Artist/Lecturer: University of Minnesota - Duluth, Duluth, MN
Arrowhead Regional Arts Council - Individual Artist Grant
Juror: Astroarchaeology at SIU, Long Island University, Brooklyn, NY
Visiting Lecturer: Vermilion Community College, Ely, MN
Lecturer and Panelist: Mid-America College Art Association Conference, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN -  Title: Real Sick Puppies: Illness and the Contagion of Pattern
Visiting Lecturer: Gustavus Adolphus College, St. Peter, MN


Album: Dampened Yurt Funerary Music Vol. 3: Transcendental Painting Group  - released October 30, 2023
Agroccult Compendium, 2nd Edition - 2023
Album: Dampened Yurt Funerary Music Vol. 2: Black Mountain  - released October 21, 2022
​Album: Dampened Yurt Funerary Music Vol. 1: Der Blaue Reiter - released October 14, 2021
​Album Art: Judo Perception - released October 12, 2021 - Chicago, IL
New American Paintings  The Open Studios Press, Boston - Vol. 155 Aug/Sept 2021
Agroccult Compendium, 1st Edition - 2021 
Monolith Mode Catalog Essay by Christopher Atkins, 2019
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Local Art Seen: Andy Messerschmidt’s Striking Iconography at the DAI, Ed Newman, March 9, 2020
Grand Rapids Herald Tribune, Interview with the Artist: Andy Messerschmidt, March 15, 2019
KAXE Radio, Interview, March 22, 2019
Creative Practices for Visual Artists: Time, Space, Process,  Kenneth Steinbach, Routledge Press - 2018.  Participating   reference artist, p 47-48, 66, 101
New American Paintings  The Open Studios Press, Boston - Vol. 137 Aug/Sept 2018
​The New Bohemians  Abrams - New York. 2015. Justina Blakeney

The Pitch Magazine  Telephonebooth Harvests Andy Messerschmidt's Huge, Remarkable Agroccult, Annie                 Raab, October 27, 2015
MN Artists  Kitsch is Dead, Long Live Kitsch, Nathan Young, November 20, 2014
L'Etoile Magazine  Allison Shilinski, November 20, 2014
MPR News  Splendor in the Plastic Grass: MIA Artists Find The Sacred In Simple Things, Marianne Combs,                   October 28, 2014
Walker Art Center Magazine  The Campification of the Divine: Andy Messerschmidt's Graze Anatomy, Paul Schmelzer, April 8, 2013
Walker Art Center Blog  Influences and Hallucidations: Going Behind Andy Messerschmidt's Art, Paul Schmelzer, June 4, 2013
Walker Seen - Walker Art Center  Graze Anatomy: Andy Messerschmidt, Plastic Sheep and the Oculus, Paul Schmelzer, March 8, 2013
The Playlist, PBS Television Program - WDSE Duluth - April, 2013
KUMD Radio, Radio Gallery Program, January 30, 2013
Duluth News Tribune, Faces & Names: Arrowhead Biennial, December 11, 2012
Methods of Being  Issue #1, April 2011 
New American Paintings  The Open Studios Press, Boston - Vol. 95 Aug/Sept 2011
City Pages  It's Alive! 'Painting Zombies' Challenges The Death of Painting, Sheila Regan, November 19, 2010
City Pages  Painting Zombies: Permanence/Impermanence, Camille Lefevre, December 1, 2010
Art Pulse  On the Value of Anywhere, Christina Schmid, Winter 2010
A Theory of Values  Catalog, The Soap Factory, Modern Press, Minneapolis, 2010 ed. Susannah Schouweiler
Access + Engage  Issue 44.2: Field Day, Susannah Shouweiler, August 29, 2009 - Featured Banner Artist at mnartists.org
Minneapolis - St. Paul Star Tribune  Homegrown Surrealism, Mary Abbe, April 30, 2009
ARP!: Art Review & Preview: Cut & Paste  Notes on the Touchy Subject of Cultural Appropriation, Christina Schmid,    Spring 2009: Vol. 1 #8
Cakein 15  Houses of the Holy: Andy Messerschmidt & Max Schollet, C.A.S., December 30, 2008
Vita.mn  Merry Krishnas, Jahna Peloquin, November 26, 2008
Secrets of the City  Krishna Gets Christmasy, Kate Iverson, November 28, 2008
New American Paintings  The Open Studios Press, Boston - Vol. 71 Aug/Sept 2007
Minneapolis - St. Paul Star Tribune  Out of the Playpen, into the Gallery, Mary Abbe, November 21, 2007
Minneapolis - St. Paul Star Tribune  Minnesota Mavericks, Mary Abbe, October 28, 2005
New American Paintings  The Open Studios Press, Boston - Vol. 59 Aug/Sept 2005
New York Times  Andy Messerschmidt: Hoodwinkers, Fauxs, Impostors and Snakeoilers, Roberta Smith, March 18, 2005    
Interplay Exhibition Catalog  Interplay, Text by Tim Peterson. Minneapolis: Regis Center for Art, 2004
Artnet Magazine  Drawing Notebook, N.F Karlins - July 20, 2004                                                       
New American Paintings  The Open Studios Press, Boston - Vol. 47 Aug/Sept 2003


​Plane-Space  New York, NY
Telephoneboothgallery  Kansas City, MO
5 Pieces Gallery  Bern, Switzerland
Galerie Andreas Breuning  Dusseldorf, Germany
Soho Myriad  London, England/Los Angeles, CA/Atlanta, GA
The Jasper Hotel  Fargo, ND
  • Paintings
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