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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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​2021  George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2019  George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2017  George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
​2016 David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI
2015  George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2014  David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI
2013  George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2012  Art Gallery of the Macomb Center for the Performing Arts, Macomb, MI
2011  George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2010  David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI
2009  George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
          George Billis Gallery/Manhattan Athletic Club, New York, NY
2008  David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI
2007  George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2006  David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI
          George Billis Gallery LA, Culver City, CA
2005  George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
          Pfizer Pharmaceutical, Ann Arbor, MI
2004  Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, MI
2003  George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2002  Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, MI
2001  George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
          Manhattan Athletic Club/George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
2000  Urban Landscapes, Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1998  Street Scenes, Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1997  Ten Year Retrospective, Meadow Brook Art Gallery, Oakland University, Rochester, MI                   
          Urban Landscapes, Paintings of New York, Chuck Levitan Gallery, New York, NY
          Mercury Gallery, Boston, MA
1996  Images of New York, Chuck Levitan Gallery, New York, NY
1995  Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1992  Feigenson/Preston Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1990  Young & Rubican, Detroit, MI
1989  J. Walter Thompson, Detroit, MI
          Ross Roy Inc. Bloomfield Hills, MI

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021  George Billis Gallery, Westport, CT
         
2020  George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
          David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI

2019  George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
          David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI

2018  George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
          David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI

2017  George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
          David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI
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2016  George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
          David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI
          The Printers Devil Scarab Club, Detroit, MI  
          The Dark Side, Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center
          Blue Rain Gallery, Santa fe, NM

2015  George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
          David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI
          Detroit Show, Crooked Tree Art Center, Petoskey, MI
          David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI
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2014  Residency, JSS in Civita Castellana, Italy
          George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
          Detroit Show, Crooked Tree Art Center, Petoskey, MI
          David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI

2013 Benefit, Belle Isle Conservatory, Belle Isle Park, Detroit, MI
         Night & Day, Images of Detroit, Bruce Giffin and Stephen Magsig, Scarab Club, Detroit, MI
         Monster Drawing Rally, MOCAD, Detroit, MI
         Imago Mundi, 55th Venice Biennale, Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Venice, Italy
         The 2013 Painting Invitational @ 4731, Gallery @4731, , Detroit, MI

2012 1982-2012 Art Endures, Paint Creek Center of the Arts, Rochester, MI
          Ink, Press, Repeat, William Paterson University, Wayne, NJ
          Single Fare 3,  RH Gallery, NY, NY

         City Streets, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
         Night Show, Detroit Artist Market, Detroit, MI
         The Print, Ann Arbor Art Center, Ann Arbor, MI
         Safe at Home, Cube Contemporary Art Project No 3, Bowden, South Australia
         Hardscrabble/Tough, Tahawus Lodge Center, Au Sable Forks, NY
         Addie Langford & Stephen Magsig, The Art Gallery of the Macomb Center for the Performing Arts
         Small Matters of Great Importance, Edward Hopper House Art Center
         ArtWorks Detroit 2012

2011 More Real Than Real ; Realism from the USA & Canada
         Peter Walker Fine Art , Adelaide, South Australia
         Safe at Home, Cube Contemporary Art Project No 3, Bowden South Australia
         Summer Group Show, Culver City Art Walk, George Billis Gallery, LA
         The Buildings of New York, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
         The Cityscape Show, Culver City Art Walk, George Billis Gallery, LA
         Summer Select, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI
         ArtWorks Detroit 2011
      
2010 Summer Group Show, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
         Architectural and Industrial Realism: Rick Dula, Roland Kulla, and Stephen Magsig
         Washington County Museum, Washington, DC

2009 Summer in the City, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
         Summer Select, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI
         Stephen Magsig, George Billis Gallery/Manhattan Athletic Club, New York, NY
         Michigan Masters Invitational,Kresge Art Museum, East Lansing, MI
         The Grand Bazaar, Benefit for Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI
         Large Medium Small, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
         AAF Contemporary Art Fair, New York, NY

2008 City Lights, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
         David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI

2007 Rocky Mountain Invitational, Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, WY
         Driven: Art from the Motor City, Copper Country Community Arts Center, Hancock, MI
         AAF Contemporary Art Fair, New York, NY
         Good Night Sun, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
         Pop Realism, George Billis Gallery LA, Culver City, CA

2006 Carl Schlosberg, Los Angeles, CA
         In the City, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
         The Pavilion, New York, NY
         Fort Wayne Museum of Art 2006 Biennial, Fort Wayne, IN
         Landscapes, Real & Imagined, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI
         Local Color: Contemporary Realism, Downriver Council for the Arts, Taylor, MI
         Wish You Were Here, Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, MI
         Art Works for Life, Dearborn, MI

2005 AAF Contemporary Art Fair, New York City, NY
         Summer Group Show, Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, MI
         Art Works for Life, Detroit, MI
         2004 Affordable Art Fair, New York, NY
         Art Works for Life, Detroit, MI
         Carl Schlosberg, Los Angeles, CA
         Inaugural Exhibition, George Billis Gallery LA, Los Angeles, CA
         Industrial Beauty, George Billis Gallery, New York, NY
         New NYC Artists, Michael Ingbar Gallery, New York, NY

2003 Actual Size Biennial, Detroit Contemporary, Detroit, MI
         Alumni Art Auction, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI
         Art New York, New York, NY
         Art Works for Life, Detroit, MI
         Inaugural Exhibition, A & C Fine Art, East Greenwich, RI
         The Selecti Show, Detroit Artist Market
         Member’s Invitational, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, M
         Urban Lanscapes, Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, MI

2002 Palm Springs International Art Fair, Palm Springs, CA
         The 30th Anniversary Exhibition, Carl Schlosberg Fine Arts, Sherman Oaks, CA

2001 A survey of Sculpture: Antiquities to Contemporary, Carl Schlosberg Fine Arts,                  
         Sherman Oaks, CA
         Actual Size, Detroit Contemporary, Detroit, MI
         Art Works for Life, Grosse Pointe Shores, MI

2000 Manhattan Contrasts, New York Historical Society, NY
         Group Show, Lemberg Gallery, Ferndale, MI
         Urban Aesthetics, Stephen Magsig and David FeBland, Bender Fine Art, Atlanta GA
         Polk Art Competition, Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, MI
         Group Show, Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
         Actual Size, Detroit Contemporary, Detroit, MI
         Views from the Landscape, Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Rochester, MI

1999 New NY Views, Recent Acquisitions, Museum of the City of New York, NY
         Group Show, Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI
         Group Show, Gallery Henoch, New York, NY

1998 New Works by Gallery Artists, Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI
         Paintings, The Gallery, Marygrove College, Detroit, MI

1997 D. Bulka, S. Logan, Stephen Magsig: Images of the City, Lemberg Gallery,  Birmingham, MI         
         New Works by Gallery Artists, Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI

1996 Willis Twenty-fifth Anniversary Benefit Exhibition,Willis Gallery, Detroit, MI
         Works for Young Collectors, Group Exhibition, Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI

1995 Small Works, Juried Exhibition, Chuck Levitan Gallery, New York, NY
         Land, Group Exhibition, Alexa Lee Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI

1995 National Juried Exhibition, Gallery 84, New York, NY
         Works for Young Collectors, Group Exhibition, Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI
         In, On, and Around the Box, Third Annual Benefit Exhibition, Willis Gallery, Detroit, MI 
 
1994 The Detroit Show: Objects For and About Detroit, CCS Center Galleries, Detroit, MI
         New Works by Gallery Artists, Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI
         Sketchbooks, Group Exhibition, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
         In, On, and Around the Box, Third Annual Benefit Exhibition, Willis Gallery,     
         Detroit, MI

1993 Works for Young Collectors, Group Exhibition, Lemberg Gallery, Birmingham, MI
         Friends for Focus, Benefit Group Exhibition, Detroit Focus Gallery
         Group Show, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI
         New Work, Group Exhibition, Feigenson/Preston Gallery, Birmingham, MI

1992 Jef Borgeau and Stephen Magsig, Feigenson/Preston Gallery, Birmingham, MI
         Drawings, Wayne State University Community Arts Gallery, Detroit, MI
         Images Unfold: Contemporary Screens, Detroit Artists Market
         Expressive Visions and Exquisite Images Part II, Meadow Brook Art Gallery,
          Oakland University, Rochester, MI
 
1991 Group Exhibition, Elizabeth Stone Gallery, Birmingham, MI
         Eye for Art II, Group Exhibition, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI

1990 Five-Person Exhibition, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit, MI

1988 Meigan Powell and Stephen Magsig, Cade Gallery, Royal Oak, MI
         Our Town Exhibition, Community House, Birmingham, MI
         Works on Paper, Scarab Club, Detroit, MI

1987 Our Town Exhibition, Community House, Birmingham, MI
         Works on Paper, Scarab Club, Detroit, MI

1986 Neo Troit, Group Exhibition, Cade Gallery, Royal Oak, MI
         Works on Paper, Scarab Club, Detroit, M

1985 Group Show, Cade Gallery, Royal Oak, MI

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2007 Gail Leggio, Stephen Magsig, Exibitions, American Arts Quarterly
         Winter 2007,  pp. 59-61
2006 Rose, Joshua, Stephen Magsig, Collectors will respond to nostalgic glimpses of
         Los Angeles. American Art Collector, June, pp. 150-153
2004 Guten Cohen, Keri, Painter Stephen Magsig lightens up, The Detroit Free Press,    
         Sunday, May 2
2003 Mannisto, Glen, Intimate Vistas; Landscapes are cityscapes in the show at Lemberg
         Gallery, Birmingham, MI
         Detroit Metro Times, Feb. 19, p. 22-23
2002 Cohen, Keri, Ferndale Artist Stephen Magsig Gains National Attention
         For His Paintings, WhichCapture The Beauty and Soul of The Urban Landscape,
         April 26, pp 1E, 12E.   
2001 Sefton, Barbara Wylan, Emerging Artist, Art & Antiques, October, pp. 58-60.
2000 Wing, Diana, Art and technology merge in this competition, The Mirror Newspapers,
          Detroit, May 18.
1998 Carducci, Vincent, Magsig's Detroit, Trait, Introductory Issue
         Hoover, Barbara, GM on canvas, Detroit News, Sept. 17
         Crawford, Lynn, Posed Structures, Metro Times, Detroit, MI, Apr. 15
         People making the news, Detroit Free Press, Apr. 7
         Provenzano, Frank, Revealing the lasting presence behind a neglected urban
         landscape, The Eccentric, Birmingham, MI, Apr. 5
         Keri Guten-Cohen, Painter lets urban architecture tell his story, Detroit Free Press,
1997 Henry, Gerrit, Stephen Magsig at Chuck Levitan, Art in America, Oct.
         Colby, Joy Hakanson, Artists paint Detroit in romantic colors,
         The Detroit News, June 19
         Galleries, New York Observer, New York, NY, May 12
         Dellolio, Peter, Stephen Magsig, NY Arts Magazine, Issue No. 10, May
         Kampel, Traci, Down-to-earth Midwesterner captures the 'real' Soho, The Villager,
         New York, NY,Apr.16
1996 Miro, Marsha, Young Collectors Favor Older Artists at Lemberg Show, The Sunday
         Journal, Detroit, MI, Jan. 28
         Colby, Joy Hakanson, Young Collectors, The Detroit News, Jan. 18
1995 Mannisto, Glenn, The Year in Review '95: Fine Arts Live, Metro Times,
         Detroit, MI, Dec. 20  
         Colby, Joy Hakanson, Earthy theme show lands a top cast of artists,
         The Detroit News, July 7
         Miro, Marsha, Paintings: Magsig's Element is the City, Detroit Free Press, Apr. 24
1994 Echlin, Hobey, The Year in Review '94: Visual Art, Metro Times, Detroit, MI, Dec. 21
         Miro, Marsha, Motor City Muse, Detroit Free Press, June 10
1992 Pasfield, Veronica, A Brush with the City, Detroit Monthly, Mar.
1990 Eckstrom, Kevin, Detroit Letters, Contemporanea, No. 23, Dec.
         Eckstrom, Kevin, Post-Industrial Romanticism, New Art Examiner, Sept.
         Miro, Marsha, Five Local Artists Focus on Industry's Decline in Detroit That Was,   
         Detroit Free Press, Apr.

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Aegon Group, New York, NY
American Capital, New York, NY
Ameritech (SBC), Detroit, MI
Central Insurance Companies, Van Wert, OH
Colorforms Incorporated, Detroit, MI
Conway, MacKenzie and Dunleavy, Birmingham, MI
The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Dickinson, Wright, Moon, Van Dusen & Freeman, Detroit, MI
Dornbush Schaeffer Strongin & Weinstein, New York, NY
The Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
General Motors Corporation, Detroit, MI
Harvard Business School, Schwartz Art Collection, Boston, MA
Honigman Miller Schwartz & Cohn LLP. Bloomfield Hills, MI
James Pearson Duffy Collection, Detroit, MI
The Museum of the City of New York, NY
New York Historical Society, New York, NY
Polk Company, Southfield, MI
Pfizer Pharmaceuticals, New York, NY
PricewaterhouseCoopers LLC, Detroit, MI
Sprint Communications, Kansas City, MO
Stanley Stahl Management Inc., New York, NY
Time Warner/AOL, New York, NY
VW of America, Troy, MI
Waner Group, New York, NY
Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Hagerstown, MD