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UNDERSTANDING
THE SYSTEM


CLASS A:
FALSE STRAYS
TYPES 1–11

CLASS B:
TRUE STRAYS
TYPES 1–22

SELECTED SPECIMENS
• 1-40
• 41-80
• 81-120
• 121-160
• 161-200

RECENTLY
DOCUMENTED
SPECIMENS

SITE STUDIES
• CLEVELAND, OH
• NIAGARA GORGE
• SCAJAQUADA CREEK

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©2006 Julian Montague

Julian  

Julian Montague

Born: 1973 – Madison, Wisconsin

Live/Work: Buffalo, New York

Education: Hampshire College, Amherst, MA – B.A. Media Studies / 1996

Representation: Black & White Gallery, New York

 


Art Bio

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008
• To Know the Spiders, Black & White Gallery, New York, New York
Other Orders,
The Albright-Knox Collectors Gallery
, Buffalo, New York

2007
The Stray Shopping Cart Identification System, The Light Factory, Charlotte, North Carolina

2006
The Stray Shopping Cart Identification System , Black & White Gallery (Chelsea), New York, New York
• Site Study: Scajaquada Creek,
Burchfield-Penney Arts Center, Buffalo, New York

2005
Taxonomies, Black & White Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Cleveland & Environs, Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio

2004
The Stray Shopping Cart: An Illustrated System of Identification, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, New York

2003
The Stray Shopping Cart: An Illustrated System of Identification, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut

2002
The Nomadic Urban Architecture of Buffalo, New York (A Taxonomy of Stray Shopping Carts), Big Orbit Gallery/Soundlab, Buffalo, New York

2001
Other Taxonomies: New Print Work, Olean Public Gallery, Olean, New York


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009
UpArt: Rooms of Wonder, Gladstone Hotel, Toronto, Ontario
Exhibit 2012+ The Drop Urban Art Infill, curators: Alexandra Chang and Mie Iwatsuki, New York, New York
Ecologies of Decay, Artspace, Buffalo, New York
Commune, curator: Dominique Nahas, Black & White Gallery, New York

2008
Waste Not, Want Not, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, New York
Sprawling, Shore Institute of Contemporary Arts, Long Branch, New Jersey
• Site Visits, Cambridge Galleries, Cambridge, Ontario
Sign/Age Part II, Armand Bartos Gallery, New York, NY

2007
43rd Versionfest Photographic Invitational, curated by Brian Ulrich & Jon Gitelson, Chicago, Illinois

2006

• Systems & Propositions: Carin Mincemoyer and Julian Montague, Rochester Contemporary, Rochester, New York
• The Sanctuary and the Scrum
, curator: David Hunt, Black and White Gallery, New York, New York

Young American Artists of Today, Bergen Museum of Arts & Sciences, Paramus, New Jersey

2005
Young American Artists of Today, Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
Beyond/In Western New York 2005, Castellani Art Museum, Niagara Falls, New York

2004
re: source, Art in General, New York, New York
Crits’ Pix, curator Lily Wei, Black & White Gallery, Brooklyn, New York

2003
Double Live & Dead, sound/video/performance/installation collaboration with Masashi Yabe, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center,
Artists & Models, Buffalo, New York

2002
New Work, International Studio & Curatorial Program Open Studios, New York, New York
Space & Form- Work by Leah Rico and Julian Montague, Adams Gallery, Dunkirk, New York

2001
Untitled, Uninteractive Sound Installation for Table, Luxo Lamp, & Amplifier, Big Orbit Gallery, Murder the Word, Buffalo, New York
Depictions of Butterflies – Pupal State, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Artists & Models, Buffalo, New York
Other Taxonomies, Olean Gallery, Olean, New York

RESIDENCIES

2005 • Spaces World Artists Program, Spaces Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
2002 • International Studio and Curatorial Program, New York, New York

COLLECTIONS


• Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
• Martin Z. Margulies Collection, Miami Florida
• Progressive Insurance Collection, Cleveland, Ohio

LECTURES


• Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana
• Buffalo Academy of the Visual and Performing Arts, Buffalo, New York
• Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
• Imaginary Dream Worlds, Buffalo State College Sociology Conference, Buffalo, New York
• SUNY Fredonia, Fredonia, New York
• Waterloo University School of Architecture, Waterloo, Ontario


PUBLICATIONS / CATALOGUES

• The Design Entrepreneurs, Interview, Steven Heller and Leah Talrico, Rockport Publishers, Inc., 2008
The Stray Shopping Carts Of Eastern North America: A Guide to Field Identification, New York, Abrams IMAGE, an imprint of Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2006
Prince of the Roving Life: Julian Montague’s Stray Shopping Cart, catalogue, essay by Steve Hunt, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut, 2006
• Julian Montague: The Stray Shopping Cart Project: Cleveland and Environs, Spaces Gallery, Catalogue, essay by Benjamin Genocchio, Cleveland, Ohio, 2006
The Stray Shopping Cart: an Illustrated System of Identification, catalogue/poster, essay by John Massier, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, March 2004

SELECTED ARTICLES / REVIEWS

• Stray Shopping Carts, interview, Antennae, Issue 10, Spring 2009
• The Stray Shopping Cart Project, Gastronomica, Fall 2008, Julian Montague
Arachnophilia, New York Magazine, June 9, 2008
A Natural History of Consumption: The Stray Shopping Carts of Julian Montague, Postmodern Culture, Volume 18,Number 2, January 2008,
David Banash
The Taxonomy of Stray Shopping Carts, The Toronto Star, May 6, 2007, Murray Whyte
Off his Trolley? The Independent (UK), April 14, 2007, Genevieve Roberts
Shopping Cart Book wins “Oddest Title,” Associated Press, April 13, 2007, Jill Lawless
Abandoned: The Art of the Cart, The New York Times, September, 10, 2006, Eve Kahn
• One man's garbage, another man's artistic treasure, The Buffalo News, July 23, 2006, Charity Vogel
• Stray Shopping Carts,
YRB, issue #63, 2006, Michael Ginsburg
• Julian Montague, His Cart Runneth
Over, Buffalo Spree Magazine, May/June, 2006, Gerald Mead
From Moscow to the Bergen Mall, New York Times, January 29, 2006, Benjamin Genocchio
Toronto Shuffles off to Buffalo, Globe & Mail, June 1, 2005, Sarah Milroy
The Many Faces of Shopping Carts, or the Elegant Insects, Block Magazine, May 2005, Rachel Hymen
Dateline Brooklyn, Artnet.com, April 15, 2005, Stephen Maine
The Stray Shopping Project: Cleveland & Environs, Cleveland Scene, January 26, Lewis
The Stray Shopping Cart Project, Uovo, Issue #10, 2005
Visual Perimeter, TEN by TEN Magazine, Number 10, March 2005
Stray Shopping Carts inspire Buffalo Artist's Exhibit, The Plain Dealer, January 21, 2005, Dan Tranberg
Critic's Picks, Artnews, January 2005, Meredith Mendelsohn
Artseen, Crit Pix, Black & White Gallery, The Brooklyn Rail, July/August 2004, Shane McAdams
Artist of the Week: Julian Montague, Artvoice, July 1, 2004, Cynnie Gaasch
Tongue Planted Firmly in Cheek: The first of six artists still under 30 and full of it, Hartford Advocate, December 25, 2003, Patricia Rosoff
It May Be Minimal, but it Challenges the Intellect, New York Times, November 30, 2003, Benjamin Genocchio