Biography
1974 Born in San Francisco/CA, USA
1995 University of California, Los Angeles/CA, Bachelor of Fine Arts
2000 Yale University, School of Art, Master of Fine Arts
Lives and works in San Francisco/CA, USA
Solo Exhibitions
2010
Air de Paris, Paris, France
Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York/NY, USA
Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Center for Contemporary Art, CCA Kitakyushu, Kitakyushu, Japan
2009
Museo d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
2008
Centre d'édition contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland
The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago/IL, USA
Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, Philadelphia/PA, USA
2007
Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, Great Britain
The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York/NY, USA
2006
Air de Paris, Paris, France
Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany
Galleria d´Arte Moderna di Bologna, Bologna, Italy
2005
Art Unlimited Public Project, Art 36 Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Art Pace, San Antonio/TX, USA
Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
2004
Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York/NY, USA
The Wrong Gallery, New York/NY, USA
2003
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco/CA, USA
2002
Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York/NY, USA
Air de Paris, Paris, France
Group Exhibitions
2011
After Images, Musée Juif de Belgique, Bruxelles, Belgium
2010
Les Rencontres D’Arles 2010 Photographie – The Luma Foundation, Arles
BAC – Centre d’art contemporain, Geneva, CLIMAX REDVX
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, Off the Wall Part 1: Thirty Performative Actions
MUSEION - Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst, Bolzano, Che cosa sono le nuvole? Werke aus der Sammlung Enea Righi
Centre d’art contemporain de Quimper - le Quartier, Quimper, Wind, le souffle entre les images
2009
MMoCA - The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI, Cage and Cunningham: Chance, Time, and Concept in the Visual Arts
Lawrimore Project, Seattle, W, Phot(o)bjects
Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong, SAR, Louis Vuitton: A Passion for Creation
Western Bridge, Seattle, WA, UNDERWATER
Air de Paris, Paris, La Recherche
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, The Quick and the Dead
SI Swiss Institute, New York, NY, Regift
Galerie Patrick Seguin invites Galerie Eva Presenhuber, We Are Sun-kissed and Snow-blind, Paris
Presentation House Gallery - PHG, North Vancouver, BC, Phot(o)bjects
Museu da Cidade, Lisbon, Desenhos A-Z
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY, Every Revolution is a Roll of the Dice
The David Roberts Art Foundation, London, The Object of The Attack
Casey Kaplan, New York, NY, Gallery III
Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado, No Sound
Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles, Californien, Chinese Box
Foundation Beyeler and Theater Basel, Basel, Switzerland, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, organized by Art Basel, Il Tempo Del Postino
2008
De Appel, Amsterdam, The artist is a mysterious entertainer/Immovably Centred
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Olso, n,
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Meet Me Around the Corner: Works from
The Astrup Fearnley Collection
Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble, I Love the Horizon
LOOP'08 Video, Festival, Barcelona, CLIMAX REDUX
California College of the Arts, San Francisco, Self Storage
White Columns, New York, Recent Acquisitions, Gifts, and Works from Various Exhibitions 1985-2007
The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, The World as a Stage
FRAC Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême, France, Pièces à vivre
Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Blasted Allegories. Works from the Ringier Collection
Galerie Fortes Vilaça, Sao Paulo, God is Design
The Galleries at Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, In Repose
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Gravity
New Museum, New York, The Sound of Things: Unmonumental Audio
2007
Casey Kaplan, New York, This Winter
The Tate Modern, London, The World as a Stage
House Eva Presenhuber, Vnà, Switzerland, Jubilee Exhibition
Casa-Museo Frederico García Lorca, Granada, Everstill/Siempretodavía Part1 (cur. by Hans-Ulrich Obrist)
Palais de Tokyo, Paris, The Third Mind (cur. by Ugo Rondinone)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, Depth of Field: Modern Photography at the Metropolitan
Manchester International Festival, Manchester, Il Tempo del Postino (cur. by Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Philippe Parreno)
Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, Every Revolution is The Roll of The Dice
Western Bridge, Seattle, Insubstantial Pageant Faded Work On Themes of Decay, Time's Passage, Presence and Absence, and Mortality
Casey Kaplan, New York, Good Morning, Midnight (cur. By B. Hainley)
Blancpain - Art Contemporain, Geneva , What We Do Is Secret
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
Galerie Rudolfinum, Prag, Uncertain States of America
Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Uncertain States of America
Herning Kunstmuseum, Herning, Uncertain States of America
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, Empathetic (cur. by Elizabeth Thomas)
The Lyon Biennial of Contemporary Art, Lyon, 00’s-The History of a Decade That Has Not Yet Been Named (cur. by Stéphanie Moisdon and Hans Ulrich Obrist)
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Silence, Listen to the Show
2006
White Columns, New York, 25 x 25 ( cur. by Matthew Higgs and Amie Scally)
Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Uncertain States of America
Serpentine Gallery, London, Uncertain States of America
CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson, Uncertain States of America
Casey Kaplan, New York, Pose & Sculpture (cur. by Daniel Baumann)
The Drawing Room, London, The Secret Theory of Drawing: Dislocation and Indirection in Contemporary Drawing
Creative Time, New York, Strange Powers
Centre d’Édition Contemporaine, Geneva, The Missing Evidence
Paula Cooper Gallery, An Ongoing Low Grade Mystery
The 2006 Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Day for Night
4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art (curated by Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni, and Ali Subotnick), Berlin, Of Mice + Men
Torino Triennale Tremusei, Turin, T1- The Pantagruel Syndrome
CCA Wallis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Franscisco, A Brief History of Invisible Art
2005
Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Uncertain States of America
National Art Center, Tbilisi, Georgia, Tbilisi 2. Wednesday Calls the Future
P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, Brave New Art
Creative Time, New York, The Plain of Heaven
Kunst Werk Institute for Contempoary Art, Berlin, Marginal Revolutions
Musée d’Art Moderne de la ville Paris, Paris, I Still Believe in Miracles
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
Western Bridge, Seattle, 19 Rainstorms: Neil Goldberg
Casey Kaplan, New York, Goodbye Fourteeth Street
(former) Lenin Museum, Moscow, 1 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art
Man in the Holocene, London, Fee of Angels
2004
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, 54th Carnegie International
Arts Interdisciplinary Research Laboratory, Tbilisi, Tuesday is Gone
Senegal, International Exposition of the Dak’Art Biennial of Contemporary Africa Art, (cur. by Hans Ulrich Obrist)
PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, Collection (or How I Spent a Year), (cur. by Bob Nickas)
Midway Contemporary Art, St. Paul, MN, Ishtar
Saidye Bronfman Canter for the Arts, Montreal; Charles H. Scott Gallery, Vancouver, The Weather
The Louis-Jeantet Foundation of Medecine, Geneva, Le Corps en Mouvement (The Body in Motion)
Galeria Massimo de Carlo, Milan, Atto Primo
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Vancouver Art Gallery; California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast in Contemporary Art
CCAC Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, Gray Area: Uncertain Images: Bay Area Photography 1970s to Now
Centre Cultural Suisse, Paris, France; Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Comment Rester Zen
2003
Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf, Spectacular: The Art of Action (cur. by Jens Hoffmann)
50th International Exhibition of Art, Venice Bienniale, Venice, Utopia Station (Cur. by Molly Nesbit, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Rirkrit Tiravanija)
Attese Ceramics Biennial, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Tiziana Casapietra and Roberto Constantino, Albisola, The Happy Face of Globalization
Vienna Seccession, Vienna, Young Scene (cur. by Daniel Baumann)
Prague Biennial, Prague, Peripheries become the center, (cur. by Jens Hoffmann)
Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, It happened tomorrow
Midway Contemporary Art, Saint Paul, Ishtar (cur. by Bruce Hainley)
Program Video by BDV, ARTVIEW, Paris, Georges / Abstraction Surface air
Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zurich, Breathing the Water
Los Angeles Contemporary Art Exhibitions, Los Angeles, The Rebirth of Wonder
Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York, The Lengths
2002
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Hello, My Name Is..., ( cur. by Laura Hoptman)
CCAC Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, Oakland, How Extraordinary that the World Exists (cur. by Ralph Rugoff)
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, Altoids Curiously Strong Collection
Nils Staerk Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Gallery Luhman
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; Guggenheim Bilbao, Moving Pictures
Casey Kaplan 10-6, New York, Summer Cinema
The Project, Los Angeles, The Show That Will Show That a Show Is Not Only a Show (cur. by Jens Hoffmann)
2001
www.e-flux.com, Do It (cur. by Hans Ulrich Obrist)
Le Consortium, Dijon, I Love Dijon (cur. by Eric Troncy)
MAK Museum, Vienna, The Dedalic Convention, (cur. by Liam Gillick)
Casey Kaplan 10-6, New York, The Wedding Show
Mark Foxx, Los Angeles, Mink Jazz (cur. by Bruce Hainley)
Air de Paris, Paris, Angel Heart
2000
Casey Kaplan 10-6, New York, Trisha Donnelly, Gabriel Kuri, Nathan Carter, Florence Paradeis
Artist's Space, New York, Echo, (cur. by Anne Gardiner)
1999
Richard Telles Gallery, Los Angeles, Minty, (cur. by Bruce Hainley)
Foundation Louis-Jeantet de Médecine, Geneva, Rythms, Trances, and Dances (The Body in Motion), (cur. by Eveline Notter)
Awards and grants
2010
Luma Foundation Prize
2004
Central Insurance Prize, Cologne
2010
Guest of the DAAD program in Berlin
Performances, Lectures, TV
2004
Frieze Art Fair, Where is Adventure? What is Culture? (chair Matthew Higgs), London Casey Kaplan, New York
Carnegie Museum of Art, 54th Carnegie International, Pittsburgh
2003
ARTVIEW, Program Video by BDV, Georges / Abstraction Surface air, Paris
Venice Bienniale, 50th International Exhibition of Art, Venice
Midway Contemporary Art, (curated by Bruce Hainley), St. Paul, Minnesota
Vienna Seccession, Young Scene, (curated by Daniel Baumann), Vienna
2002
Galerie Hauser Wirth & Presenhuber, Evening Performance, Zurich
Air de Paris, Get Low, Paris
Casey Kaplan, New York
2001
Kunst-Werke, A Little Bit of History Repeated, (curated by Jens Hoffmann), Berlin
Air de Paris, Angel Heart, Paris
2000
Casey Kaplan 10-6, Trisha Donnelly, Gabriel Kuri, Nathan Carter, Florence
Paradeis, New York
Artist’s Space, Echo, (curated by Anne Gardiner), New York