1951 Born High Point, North Carolina.
1969 Boston University Art Program at Tanglewood, Lenox, MA.
1973 Boston University Art Program at Tanglewood, Lenox, MA.
1973 B.F.A., Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, NY
1973 - 74 New York Studio School, New York, NY

2000 Niels Borch Jensen Verlag und Druck, Berlin & København
2000 Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
2000 Von Lintel & Nusser Gallery, New York, NY
1999 Galerie Thomas von Lintel, Munich, Germany
1998 "Wall Painting" Project Room, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1998 Patrick De Brock Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
1997 Marella Arte Contemporanea, Sarnico, Italy (catalogue)
1997 Galerie Thomas von Lintel, Munich, Germany
1996 André Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY
1996 Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam, Holland
1996 Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
1996 "Paintings", Max Planck Institute, Munich, Gemany
1995 Galerie Thomas von Lintel, Munich, Gernmny
1995 André Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY
1993 Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris, France
1992 Elizabeth Koury Gallery, New York, NY
1992 Baumgartner Gallery, Washington, DC
1992 Galerie Ascan Crone, Hamburg, Germany (catalogue)
1991 Elizabeth Koury Gallery, New York, NY
1990 Koury Wingate Gallery, New York,.NY
1990 Galerie Ascan Crone, Hamburg, Germany
1989 Koury Wingate Gallery, New York, NY
1988 Galerie 86, Europäische Akademie für Bildende Kunst, Trier, Germany
1987 "Panitings," Galerie Alfred Kren, Cologne, Germany
1986 "Drawings," Galerie Alfred Kren, Cologne, Germany
1982 Baskerville and Watson Gallery, New York, NY

2000 "Paintings," curated by Klara Wallner, Art Club Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2000 "Deep Field Painting," curated by Michael Brennan, Hunter College Art Gallery, New York, NY
1999 "A Breath of Fresh Air," Christy's Building Art Center, Sag Harbor, NY, curated by Elga Wimmer
1999 "Peinture demarches actuelles I", Villa du Parc, Annemasse, France
1999 "Do Paintings Dream of Veronese Green?" curated by Maia Damianovic, Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York, NY
1999 "Four Painters," Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Boston, Massachusetts
1999 "One by One," Galerie Thomas von Lintel, Munich, Germany
1998 "Six Painters (Baroque Geometry)", curated by Tom Cugliani, Marlborough Chelsea Gallery, New York, (catalogue)
1998 "New York Stories", Diatonia, Commune di Faenza Assessorato alla Cultura, Faenza, Italy. (catalogue)
1997 "Vertical Painting" P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY, curated by Alanna Heiss and Martin Fritts
1997 "Small Paintings," The Green and Red Galleries, Dublin, Ireland
1997 "Paintings," Manfred Baumgartner Gallery, Washington, DC
1997 "Das Abstrakte", Galerie Thomas Rebbein, Cologne, Germany
1997 "Graphite on Paper," Galeri e Thomas von Lintel, Munich, Germany
1997 "Abstraction / Abstractions: Conditional Geometries," curated by Eric de Chassey and Camille Morianeau, Musée d'Art Moderne de Saint Etienne, St. Etieeme, France (catalogue)
1997 "After the Fall: Aspects of Abstract Painting Since the 1970s", curatedb Lily Wei, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY (catalogue)
1996 "Nuevas Abstractiones", Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, curated by Enrique Juncosa, (catalogue)
1995 "Transatlantica: The American-European Nonrepresentational", Museo de Artes Visuales Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuala, (catalogue)
1995 "New York Abstraction," curated by David Moos, MacDonald Stewart Art Center, Guelph, Ontario, Canada
1995 "Made in USA: Original Works on Paper", Galerie Bob van Orsouw, Zurich, Switzerland
1995 "Stephen Ellis and Lydia Dona", Manfird Baumgartner Gallery, Washington, DC
1995 "New York on Paper," Galerie Thomas von Lintel, Munich, Germany
1995 "Abstraction from Two Coasts," Douglas Lawing Gallery, Houston, Texas
1995 "Drawings and Prints," Byron Cohen Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
1994 "Group Exhibition," Albert Baronian Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
1994 "Just a Story from America", Galleria in Arco, Turin, Italy
1994 "Promisory Notes", curated by Maia Damianovic, Artifact Gallery, Tel Aviv (catalogue)
1994 "New York Abstract Painting," Salvatore Ala Gallery, New York, NY
1994 "Group Exhibition," Tavelli Gallery, Aspen, Colorado
1994 "Reveillon '94", Stux Gallery, New York, NY
1993 "Italia-America / I'Astrazione ridefinita," curated by Demetrio Paparoni, Museo di Stato, San Marino, Italy, (catalogue)
1993 "Group Exhibition", Galerle Weber, Münster, Germany
1993 "Prospect '93", curated by Peter Weiermair, Kunstverein Frankfurt, Germany (catalogue)
1993 "Works on Paper", Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria
1993 "The New Abstraction," Roberta Lietti Gallery, Como, Italy
1993 "Sailing to Byzantium with Disenchantment", curated by Elio Cappuccio, Sergio Tossi Arte Contemporanea, Prato, Italy (catalogue)
1993 "Group Exhibition", University of Texas, Arlington, TX
1993 "Group Exhibition", Evelyn Aimis Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
1992 "Stephen Ellis, Nicholas Rule, Madella Simoni," Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1992 "Who's Afraid of Duchamp, Minimalism, & Passport Photography?", curated by Collins & Milazzo, Annina Nosei Gallery, NY.(catalogue)
1992 "Group Exhibition," Mars Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1992 "Slow Painting", P.S.1, Institute for Contemporary Art, Long Island City, NEW YORK, NY
1992 "Abstract Painting Between Analysis and Synthesis," Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria. (catalogue)
1992 "Group Exhibition," Rubin Spangle Gallery, New York, NY
1991 "Conceptual Abstraction", Sidney Janis Gallery, NY (catalogue)
1991 "La Metaphysica de la Luce", curated by Demetrio Paparoni, John Good Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue)
1991 "Architectures", curated by Demetrio Paparoni, Galleria in Arco, Turin, Italy (catalogue)
1991 "Ian Davenport, Stephen Ellis, James Nares", Paul Kasmin Gallery, NEW YORK, NY
1991 "New Generations: NewYork", curated by Elaine King, Carnegie Mellon University Art Gallery, Pittsburg, Pennsylvania (catalogue)
1991 "Invitational," Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
1991 "Hybrid Abstract," Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, New York, curated by Joshua Decter
1991 "Outside America / Going into the 90's", curated by Collins & Milazzo, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1991 "Who Framed Modern Art or the Quantitative Life of Roger Rabbit", curated by Collins & Milazzo, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue)
1990 "Small Works," Koury Wingate Gallery, New York, NY
1990 "Christian Eckart, Stephen Ellis, Alain Kirili, Imi Knoebel", Koury Wingate Gallery, New York, NY
1990 "Ten Abstract Painters", Baumgartner Galleries, Inc., Washington, D.C.
1990 "Stripes, Bands and Bars - Abstraction Enters the '90s", Schmidt/Markow Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1990 "Token Gestures", Scott Hanson Gallery, curated by Collins & Milazzo, New York, NY
1990 "Group Show", Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1989 "Drawings," Daniel Newburg Gallery, New York, New York, NY
1989 "Invitational," Shea & Becker, New York, NY
1989 "Herbstsalon," DuMont Kunsthalle, curated by the Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany (catalogue)
1989 "Projects and Portfolios", Brooklyn Musemn, Brooklyn, NY, (catalogue)
1989 "Three Portfolios - Stephen Ellis, Sol. Lewitt, Fred Sandback," Galerie Alfred Kren, Cologne, Germany
1989 "Drawings", Lorence Monk Gallery, New York, NY
1988 "Works on Paper," Shea & Becker, New York, NY
1988 "Dike Blair, Stephen Ellis, General Idea", Koury Wingate Gallery, New York, NY
1988 "Multiples", Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Wolfgang Staehle
1988 "Pyramids", ICC, Berlin and Jule Kewenig Gallery, Cologne, Germany, curated by Desiré Feurle
1987 "Schwarz," Galerie Alfred Kren, Cologne, Germany
1986 "Black," Alfred Kren Gallery, New York, NY
1985 "Drawings," Barbara Toll Gallery, New York, NY
1985 "New Paintings," Exit Art, New York, NY
1984 "Flora, Fauna, Etc.", Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York, NY, carated by Michael Klein
1983 "Four Artists," Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA., curated by Marilyn Zeitlin
1983 "A New Humanism" University Gallery, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
1980 "Watercolors," P.S.1, Insitute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, NY, curated by Roberta Smith

Erfle, Anne, "Kräfte gegen neue Medien," Süddeutsctx Zeitung, (SZ extra), February 11, 1999, p?
Horny, Tinga, "Hier Regiert die Vielfalt," Kunstmarkt, February 11, 1999, p. ?
unsigned review, "Aktuelle Malerei: 32 Internationale Positioners," Noëma Art Journal, no. 50, Vienna, 1998, p. 102
unsigned review, " Stephen Ellis bij Patrick De Brock", De Standaard, Brussels, August 19, 1998
Lambrecht, Luk, "Index van abstracte schilderkunst," De Morgen, Brussels, August 14, 1998
Di Raddo, Elena, "L'astrazione ridefinita", Tema Celeste, Milan, March-April 1998, pp, 82-83
Corradini, Mauro, "Stephen Ellis a Sarnico, dall'Arnerica con furore," Bresciaoggi, Brescia, Italy, December 16, 1997, p. 19
Buci-Gllucksmann, Christine, "Abstraction: from Marcel Duchamp to Cartography", Trans magazine, New York, 1997, p. 122
Paparoni, Demetrio, "Stephen Ellis," (catalogue essay) Stephen Ellis, Marella Arte Contemporanea, Sarnico, Italy, 1997
Good, John, "Abstraction at the End of the Milleniurn", Speak magazine, San Francisco, fall 1997, pp. 52-57
Paparoni, Demetrio, Il Corpo Vedente dell'Arte, Castelvecchi Rome, 1997, pp. 50-51, 55-56, 60
Paparoni, Demetrio, Il Corpo Parlante dell'Arte, Castelvecchi Rome, 1997, pp. 95-100
de Chassey, Eric, "Creating Meaning, Abstractly", New Territories in Painting, École Régionale des Beaux-Arts de Valence, 1997, pp. 28, 30
Kalina, Richard, "The Uncomfortable Armchair", New Territories in Painting, École Régionale des Beaux-Arts de Valence, 1997, pp. 63, 66
Ellis, Stephen, "Artist's Statement", New Territories in Painting, École Régionale des Beaux-Arts de Valence, 1997, pp. 43-44
Gourvil Olivier, "Introduction", New Territories in Painting, École Régionale des Beaux-Arts de Valence, 1997, pp. 6, 8, 12
Paparoni, Demetrio, "Ein Neues Verständnis von Abstraktion," Noëma Art Journal, Vienna, No. 44, June-July 1997, pp 43-44
Paparoni, Demetrio, "L'Astrazione Ridefinita", Tema Celesta, Milan, No. 58, Autumn 1996, pp. 32-39 and cover
Wei, Lilly (ed.), "After the Fall: Aspects of Abstract Painting Since 1970" (exhibition catalogue), Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, NY, 1997, pp. 52 (ill.), 126-127, 168
Ostrow, Saul, "More Parts to the Whole- Revised and Reformed," essay in text catalogue for "After the Fall: Aspects of Abstract Painting Since 1970," Ibid., pp 36-43
unsigned review, "Nuevas abstracciones," Nueve Alcarria, Madrid, July 7,1996
unsigned review, "New Abstractions," Guidepost, Madrid, May 17, 1996. p. 11
unsigned review, "29 artistas presentan las nuevas formas de abstracción en una muestra que reúne 60 obras," El País, Madrid, April 26, 1996
Tallman, Susan, The Contemporary Print, Thames and Hudson, London, 1996, pp. 183-184
Benjamin, Andrew, "What is Abstraction?", Academy Editions, London, 1996
Késenne, Joannes, "De Amerikaanse abstracten van de jaren negentig", Kunst & Cultur, Amsterdam, May 1996, pp. 6-9
Ziolkowski, Thad, "Stephen Ellis at André- Emmerich Gallery", Artforum International, May 1996, p. 101
Kalina, Richard, "Stephen Ellis at André Emmerich", Art in America, May 1996, p. 105
Kimmelman, Michael, "Stephen Ellis," The New York Times, February 16, 1996
Damianovic, Maia, "Painting on the Horns of a Dilemma," Artpress 211, Paris, April 1996, pp. 30-36
Ostrow, Saul, "Un ensemble fragmenté: Le peinture abstraite après le modernisme", Art Press, ("Oú est passée la peinture"), Paris, Oct. 1996, pp 157-162
Denson, G. Roger, "Representing Abstraction Representing" (on Stephen Ellis and Lydia Dona) essay in catalogue for 1995 show at Manfied Baumgartner Gallery
Damianovic, Maia, "Add-Venture", (on Stephen Ellis and Fabian Marcaccio) Abstraction: Journal of Philosophy and Visual Arts, no. 5, Now York, St. Martin's Press, 1995, pp. 72-79 (article)
Marcelis, Bernard, "Choix de Bruxelles: Espace Jacqmotte," Art Press (no. 193), Paris, Brussels
Levine, Angela, "Abstract Art from America," The Jerusalem Post Magazine, Spring 1994
Smadar, Shefi, "Promissory Notes," Ha 'aretz, Spring 1994
Damianovic, Maia, "Promissory Notes," catalogue essay for "Fractured Seduction", Artifact Gallery, 1994, n.p.
Schwarz, Arturo, "Una Mostra da non Perdere", Segno, no. 126, September, 1993, p. 38
Brody, Jacqueline, "Stephen Ellis, Untitled #1 - #4", Print Collector's Newsletter, May-June 1993, p. 62
Danto, Arthur C., "Art After the End of Art", ArtForum, April 1993, p. 62
Jones~, K. Marriott., "Stephen Ellis," Artfi~rum, February 1993, p.101
Wagner, Thomas, "Der Saurier schreit," Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, April 7, 1993, p.33
Scott, Sue, "Stephen Ellis" ARTnews, January 1993, p. 144
Smolik, Noemi, "New York nach dem Marktzusammenbruch," Kunstforum International, 1992
McGrath, Patrick, "Abstract Monsters", Parkett 34, December 1992 (article)
Tricia Collins and Richard Milazzo, "Who's Afraid of Ducharnp,:Minimalism Passport Photography exhibition catalogue, Annina Nosei Gallery, October 1992
Moser, Ulli, "Abstrakte Malerei zwischen Analyse und Synthese," Kunstforum International, May, 1992, p. 371
Kravagna, Christian, "Symposien: Abstrakte Malerei," Das Kunst-Bulletin (Vienna), April, 1992
Madoff, Steven Henry, "A New Lost Generation," ARTnews, April 1992, p. 73
Gorsen, Peter, "Im Totentanz der Stile", Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, March 5, 1992, p. 31
Ubi, Ralph, "Sprache, unüberwindlich", Die Presse (Vienna), February 7, 1992
Brody, Jacqueline, "Stephen Ellis, Escorial", Print Collector's Newsletter, January-February, 1992, p. 212
Paperoni, Demetrio, "La Metafisica Della Luce", exhibition catalogue, John Good Gallery, New York, November 1991
Review, The New Yorker, October 28, 1991
Denson, G. Roger, "Stephen Ellis at Koury Wingate", FlashArt, March-April 1991, p.139
Paparoni, Demetrio, "Stephen Ellis", Tema Celeste, March-April 1991, p. 48 (article)
Adams, Brooks, "Stephen Ellis," Art in America, April 1991, p. 163
Decter, Joshua, "Stephen Ellis", Arts Magazine, February 1991, p. 103
Abs, Andrew, "Stahlkugeln, Striche, Pinselabdruecke, Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, February 4, 1989
Tricia Collins and Richard Milazzo, "From Kant toKitsch and Back Again", Tema Celeste, January-February 1991, pp. 76-80
Brenson, Michael, "Stephen Ellis", The New York Times, November 2-3, 1990, p. C-4
Ostrow, Saul, "Stephen Ellis at Koury Wingate", Tema Celeste, March 1990, p. 68
Schwabsky, Barry, "Abstract Painting: The Late Eighties", exhibition catalogue, Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia. February 1-March 3, 1990
Cotter, Holland, "Stephen Ellis", Art in America, December 1989, p. 78
Heartney, Eleanor, 'Stephen Ellis", ARTnews, December 1989, p. 161
Kalina, Richard, "Stephen Ellis", Arts, December 1989, p. 78
Fischer, Alfred M., "Herbstsalon 1989", Stephen Ellis, exhibition catalogue, Dumont Kunsthalle, Cologne, p. 27
Kimmelmann Michael, "At a Show Featuring Prints, the Subject is Ambition", The New York Times, October 6, 1989, p. C-27
Decter, Joshua, "Dike Blair, Stephen Ellis, General Idea", Arts Magazine, March 1989, p. 96
Brody, Jacqueline, "Stephen Ellis, Japanese Gothic", Print Collector's Newsletter, July-August 1988, p. 114
Kiesters, Jürgen, "Stephen Ellis bei Galerie Kren," Kölner Stadtanzeiger, December 1987
Kren, Alfred, "Suche nach dem Weg aus der Krise", Kunst, December 1987
"Showcase of New Work, New York," Bomb, Winter 1987
Kiesters, Jügen, "Sparsame Farbigkeit," Kölner Stadtanzeiger, December 1986

"Dialogo tra S.P. eS.E.", (Stefano Peroli and Stephen Ellis), Juliet Art Magazine (Trieste), #90, December '98-January'99, pp 30-31
"After The Fall", Tema Celeste magazine, Milan, December, 1991
"Spleen and Ideal", (on Rose Bleckner's "Architecture of the Sky" series) Parkett magazine #20, sumrner 1989
'The Boys in the Bande" (on Martin Kippenberger, Albert Oehlen, and Georg Herold), Art in America, December 1988
"Metaphorical Morphologies," (on Terry Winters paintings), Art in America, September 1988
"Something Different," Bomb magazine, Spring 1987
"Expanded Pictograms", (on Ronald Bladen's sculpture) Art in America, April 1987
"Theory of Practice / Practice of Theory", essay accompanied by a suite of drawings, Code magazine, Amsterdam 1987
"The Elusive Gerhard Richter," (on Richter's "ospective at the Stladische
Kunsthalle, Dasseldorf) Art in America, July 1986.
"At Order's Edge," (on Barry Le Va's drawings) Art in America, July 1986.
'The Bronze Age, the Iron Age, the Age of Gold," Issue magazine, no.3,1, 985.
"Irony and Exploration," Issue magazine, no. 1 1984

1991 National Endowment for the Arts Grant in Painting
1985 New York Foundation for the Arts Grant in Painting

"Does Abstraction Exist?" Lecture and panel discussion moderated by Peter Schjedahl, Carpenter Center for Visual and Enviromental Studies, Harvard University, 1999
Artist's Lecture Series, Institute of Fine Art, NewYork University, 1994
"Abstract Art: End or Beginning?" Lectureand panel moderated by Robert Storr, Museum of Modem Art, New York, 1993

Associate Editor, Art in America magazine, 1988-89
Contributing Editor, Art in America magazine,1989-94
Editorial assistant, Parkett magazine, 1989
Editorial assistant, ArtForum International magazine, 1993-1996

Harvard University, Department of Visual and Environmental Studies, Visiting Artist 1999-2000
California Institute of the Arts, Visiting Artist (Graduate Painting), Valencia, 1997
École régionale des Beaux-Arts de Valence, Visiting Artist, Valence, France, 1997
Akademie voor beeldende Kunst, Visiting Artist, Enschede, Holland, 1996
Parsons School of Design, Visiting Artist, 1995 and 1996
School of Visual Arts, Junior Independent Painting Projects, New York City, 1997
School of Visual Arts, Instructor in Foundation Drawing, New Work City, 1995
Bard College, Multimedia Instructor, Summer Graduate Program, 1995
Bard College, Painting Instructor, Summer Graduate Program, 1994
New York Uiversity, Instructor in Foundation Drawing, 1992 - present
New York University, Studio-Seminar in Painting for Graduate Students, 1988-92
New York University, Instructor in Introduction to Painting, 1988
Rhode Island School of Design, Visiting Artist (Graduate Painting), 1995
Rhode Island School of Design, Visiting Artist (Graduate Sculpture), 1994
Rhode Island School of Design: Seminar in Contemporary Art Criticism, 1992
Kent State University, Visiting Artist, Kent, Ohio, 1990
University of Tennessee, Visiting Artist, Knoxville, Tenn., 1989
Louisville Arts Council, Visiting Artist, Louisville, Kentucky, 1988
State University of New York at Old Westbury, Adjunct Instructor in Painting, 1982-83