| 1971 | Born in Connecticut, USA | |
| 1992 | Art Students League, New York | |
| 1996 | Raymond W. Marshall Fund Scholarship, Connecticut | |
| 1996 | Leopold Schepp Foundation Fund Scholarship, New York | |
| 1996 | Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree with Honors, School of Visual Arts, New York | |
| 2003 | Moved to Berlin, Germany | |
| Solo Exhibitions | ||
| 2010 | “Burn Out”, Kjubh Kunstverein, Cologne | |
| “Whip Lash”, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, New York | ||
| 2009 | “SOOTO hungry”, Galerie Lena Bruening, Berlin | |
| 2007 | “THE ITCH”, Galerie Lena Bruening, Berlin | |
| 2006 | “SUBLIMATOR”, Galerie Schmela, Duesseldorf | |
| 2005 | “UFO-UMIS”, Galerie Lena Bruening, Berlin | |
| Selected Group Exhibitions | ||
| 2011 | “a painting show”, Autocenter, Berlin | |
| “Shifting The Everyday”, Galerie Levy, Berlin | ||
| 2010 | “Unter Oberflaechen”, Delikatessenhaus, Leipzig | |
| “Lost In Summer”, White Trash Contemporary, Hamburg | ||
| “Amsterdam-Berlin”, De Service Garage, Amsterdam | ||
| “The Ear Of Giacometti”, Galerie Levy, Hamburg (catalog) | ||
| “Grand Hotel Panhans”, Hamburg | ||
| “Satellites”, Freies Museum, Berlin | ||
| 2009 | “Octet”, Pera Museum, Istanbul (catalog) | |
| “Cinque Garzoni”, Venice-Lido | ||
| “Ueber Zeichnung”, Galerie Olaf Stueber, Berlin | ||
| 2008 | “Kunst und Wirtschaft”, Genius Hellerau, Dresden (catalog) | |
| 2007 | “Aktive Konstellationen”, The Brno House of Art, Brno, Czech Republic | |
| “Tombola“, Kjubh Kunstverein, Cologne | ||
| “Works on Paper“, Galerie Lena Bruening, Berlin | ||
| “Niveaualarm“, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck (catalog) | ||
| 2006 | “New Contemporaries”, Galerie Lena Bruening, Art Cologne | |
| “All American”, Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr, Berlin | ||
| “Minimal Illusion”, Villa Merkel, Esslingen | ||
| “Abstract art now - floating forms”, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen (catalog) | ||
| 2005 | “Schon vergeben”, Art Cologne | |
| “Imaginaere Realitaeten”, Art Agents, Hamburg | ||
| “Passion des Sammelns”, Halle 14, Leipzig | ||
| “Pathetischer Betrug”, Art Frankfurt (catalog) | ||
| 2004 | “Ein tag, ein raum, ein bild”, Sebastian Fath Contemporary, Mannheim | |
| “So genau wollt ichs gar nicht wissen”, Galerie Olaf Stueber, Berlin | ||
| Grants and Residencies | ||
| 2011 | Stiftung Kuenstlerdorf Schoeppingen, (NRW / Germany) | |
| 2010 | Fountainhead Residency, Miami | |
| 2009 | Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York | |
| 2007 | 7.Stock Residency, Dresden | |
| 2001 | MacDowell Colony Residency, New Hampshire | |
| 2000 | Yaddo Residency, Saratoga Springs, New York | |
| Selected Bibliographie | ||
| 2011 | Arsalan Mohammad, "Shifting The Everyday", Time-Out Berlin, August | |
| Samuel Jablon, "John von Bergen", BOMBLOG / BOMB Magazine, April 11 | ||
| Arsalan Mohammad, "Berlin Gallery Weekend", Artinfo, May 3 | ||
| Jessyca Hutchens, "John von Bergen", Berlin Art Link, April | ||
| 2010 | Marina Cashdan, "John von Bergen / Michelle Weinstein- Smack Mellon", Modern Painters, May | |
| John Haber, "A tree blows in Brooklyn", Haberarts | ||
| Kees Keijer, "Amsterdam-Berlin", Het Parool, April 24, p. 31 | ||
| 2009 | Simone Reber, "Drachenflug", Tagesspiegel, November 14 | |
| Andrea Rook, "Konsumenten aller Laender, vereinigt euch!", Dresdener Neueste Nachrichten, March 21st/22nd, p. 11 |
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| 2008 | Kimberly Bradley, “The Battle for Berlin", Manhattan Magazine, November/December, p.90 | |
| 2007 | Thea Herold, “Die Wand wirft Falten”, Tagespiegel, October 6, p.30 | |
| 2006 | Swantje Karich, “Art Cologne”, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, November 4, p.51 | |
| Helga Meister, “SUBLIMATOR”, Westdeutsche Zeitung, Duesseldorfer Kultur, September 20 | ||
| Katja Winckler, “New Home For Art”, Deutschland Magazine, April/May, p.32 | ||
| 2004 | Christina Wendenburg, “So genau wollt ichs gar nicht wissen”, TIP Berlin, April 8, p.68 |