Past Exhibition
- Joe Bradley
- Oscar Tuazon
- Michael Williams
Joe Bradley, Oscar Tuazon, Michael Williams
Greenwich May 14th to September 18th, 2018
JOE BRADLEY, OSCAR TUAZON, MICHAEL WILLIAMS
The Brant Foundation is pleased to present an exhibition of works by Joe Bradley, Oscar Tuazon, and Michael Williams, on view from May – October 2018. This exhibition includes a large-scale sculpture by Tuazon, a rare selection of Bradley’s early works, and new work by Williams. In an effort to reflect their shared aesthetic connection, all three artists show works together in the library gallery and in separate areas throughout the Foundation’s exhibition space.
Known for his conceptual and often site-specific sculptures, Tuazon presents the single large-scale installation Une colonne d’eau – Life prototype (2017). Installed in the lower gallery, the work contributes a three-dimensional materiality and interactive dimension to both Williams’s and Bradley’s use of line. Nearly nine feet tall, Tuazon’s monumental sculpture is comprised of sections of large diameter pipe displayed above ground, inviting visitor interaction. Engineered for use in civic-scale floodwater management and rainwater retention, the recycled thermoplastic pipes are an architecture of water made visible. This is a pipeline you can walk through, a pipeline for people to experience their bodies in relation to space, volume, and emptiness. A tree trunk cut from the Bois de Vincennes, Paris’s largest public park, is installed in the pipeline’s interior, serving as a biological indicator of the health of an ecosystem, a record of the water we all depend on.
Both Bradley and Williams are recognized for their interest in drawing, abstraction, and painterly experimentation, which grounds and visually connects their practices despite the stylistic disparities between their bodies of work. Bradley presents a large cross section of his work—including, notably, a selection of early works that have never been shown, in addition to a selection of new works that are also making their public exhibition debut. Williams shows a series of puzzle drawings and inkjet works on canvas.
Programs and Events:
Joe Bradley, Oscar Tuazon, Michael Williams Exhibition Opening
Abstract Landscape Painting Workshop
Artist Biography
Joe Bradley
Joe Bradley’s protean oeuvre is built on a diverse, curated visual language. Though always squarely in the realm of painting, Bradley’s series vary wildly in formal and aesthetic qualities. From the “modular” shaped canvases of pristine color fields tapped from the minimal canon, to rudimentary line drawings on found cardboard and post-its, to saturated, unprimed canvases, unceremoniously stitched together, Bradley’s evocations of exalted and disposable culture lend equivalency to the discrete elements as they champion the materials of their making.
Joe Bradley was born in 1975 in Kittery, Maine. He received his B.F.A. in 1999 from Rhode Island School of Design. Bradley’s work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, including P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City (2006); Le Consortium, France (2014); and BOZAR, Brussels (2016–17). Recent group exhibitions include “Silicone Valley,” P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City (2007); “ab-strac-tion-al,” Museum 52, New York (2009); “New York Minute,” Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma, Italy (2009); “EXPO 1: NEW YORK,” MoMA PS1, Long Island City (2013); “The Inevitable Figuration,” Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Italy (2013); “Timeless Painting,” Museum of Modern Art, New York (2014); “The Forever Now: Contemporary Paintings in an Atemporal World,” Museum of Modern Art, New York (2014); “New York Painting,” Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany (2015); and “Progressive Praxis,” de la Cruz Collection Contemporary Art Space, Miami (2016). Bradley participated in the Whitney Biennial (2008); Portugal Arte 10 (2010); Frieze London (2014); and FIAC (2014).
Bradley currently lives and works in New York.
The Brant Foundation Loan Program: Joe Bradley at Albright Knox & Rose Art Museum
SOLO
| 2017 |
Rose Art Museum at Brandeis University / Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York / Château de Boisgeloup, Gisors, France / Eric’s Hair. Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, California / Peder Lund, Oslo, Norway |
| 2016 |
Joe Bradley: Forty Four Drawings. Gagosian Gallery at Eden Rock Gallery-St. Barths, St. Barthélemy, French West Indies / Sculpture for Billy Hand. Neo Kastro, Antiparos, Greece / BOZAR - Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium / Canton Rose. Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich, Switzerland / Krasdale. Gagosian Gallery, New York, New York |
| 2015 |
Joe Bradley and Matt Connors: NEW YORK PAINTING. Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany |
| 2014 |
Gavin Brown’s Enterprise 229 Lennox, New York, New York / 23 Skidoo. KARMA, Amagansett, New York / The Missus & Me. Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Antiparos, Greece / Le Consortium, Dijon, France / The SS Potlicker and Friends. Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich, Switzerland / Brian Belott / Joe Bradley. Retrospective Gallery, Hudson, New York |
| 2013 |
Lotus Beaters. Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, New York |
| 2012 |
Pigpen. Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich, Switzerland / Epiphany (Joe Bradley and Dan Colen). Gavin Brown’s Enterprise 229 Lennox, New York, New York |
| 2011 |
Duckling Fantasy. Almine Rech, Paris, France / Drawings. Journal Gallery, Brooklyn, New York / Works on Paper. Almine Rech, Paris, France / Human Form. CANADA, New York, New York / Mouth and Foot Painting. Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, NY |
| 2010 |
FREEKS. Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany / Joe Bradley and Chris Martin. Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, New York |
| 2009 |
Fortescue Avenue. Jonathan Viner, London, England / Eat at Joe’s. Peres Project, Berlin, Germany / Like a Turkey Thru Corn. Peres Projects, Los Angeles, California |
| 2008 |
Schmagoo Paintings. CANADA, New York, New York |
| 2007 |
Joe Bradley and Sarah Braman. Dicksmith Gallery, London, England / Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany / Peres Projects, Los Angeles, California / Knew Wurk. Greener Pastures Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada |
| 2006 |
MoMA PS 1, Long Island City, New York / Kurgan Waves. CANADA, New York, New York |
| 2004 |
Joy to the Max (Joe Bradley and Eunice Kim), ATM Gallery, New York, New York |
| 2003 |
Project Room. Kenny Schachter, ConTEMPorary, New York, New York |
| 2002 |
New Paintings. Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts |
GROUP
| 2017 |
Animal Farm. Brant Foundation, Greenwich, Connecticut Imaginary Ancestors. Almine Rech Gallery New York, New York Attics of My Life, 30 th Anniversary Exhibition. Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, New York |
| 2016 |
Progressive Praxis. de la Cruz Collection, Miami, Florida Olympia. Karma at Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris, France What’s Up 2.0. LVH Art, London, England Make Painting Great Again. CANADA, New York, New York LEXICON. Gagosian Gallery, Paris, France Plane.Site. Gagosian Gallery, San Francisco, California |
| 2015 |
WORKS BY. Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich, Switzerland First Show / Last Show. Vito Schnabel, New York, New York New York Painting. Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany Love for Three Oranges. Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium Works on Paper. Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich, Switzerland Call and Response. Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, New York The Shell (Landscapes, Portraits & Shapes), Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France |
| 2014 |
The Forever Now: Contemporary Paintings in an Atemporal World. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York Stars and Stripes: American Art of the 21 st Century from Goldberg Collection. New South Wales, Australia (touring). Paint New York. Kunstforeningen GL STRAND, Copenhagen, Denmark Forms of Abstraction: American Abstraction from 1950 to Today. Simon Dickinson Fine Art, London, England Platform. Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, Belgium Awkward Phase. 65 Maspeth Ave., Brooklyn, New York |
| 2013 |
An-Americana. American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy Draw Gym. 247365 & KnowMore Games, New York, New York Summer Drawings. The Journal Gallery, New York, New York Cinematic Visions: Painting at the Edge of Reality. Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England The Journal Gallery at Venus Over Manhattan. Venus Over Manhattan, New York, New York EXPO 1: NEW YORK. MoMA PS 1, Long Island City, New York The Inevitable Figuration. Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci,Prato, Italy White Collar Crimes. Acquavella Galleries, New York, New York |
| 2012 |
One Day at a Time. Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany Group Shoe. Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, New York (curated by Joe Bradley) Painting Now. Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich, Switzerland Portrait of a Generation. The Hole, New York, New York The Spirit Level. Gladstone Gallery, New York, New York |
| 2011 |
Le Printemps de Septembre. Toulouse, France NY: New Perspectives. Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy 8 Americans. Maruani & Noirhomme Gallery, Brussels, Belgium Pure Freude. National Museum, Berlin, Germany Sculpture Now. Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich, Switzerland |
| 2010 |
Salad Days. The Journal Gallery, Brooklyn, New York Insider/Outsider. Portugal Arte 10, Lisbon, Portugal You Were There. Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York, New York Shape Language. Nicole Klagsbrun, New York, New York In There, Out Here. Leo Koenig Gallery, New York, New York |
| 2009 |
Peanut Gallery. Journal Gallery, New York, New York (curated by Joe Bradley) New York Minute. MACRO Foundation, Rome, Italy Huma Bhabha, Joe Bradley, Jason Fox, Baker Overstreet, Aurel Schmidt. Paolo Curti Gallery, Milan, Italy Forgotten in the Smile. ENVOY, New York, New York Minneapolis. Peres Projects, Los Angeles, California Leaves of Ash. Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris, France Whaddya Wanna Be a Flower?!. Alexander and Bonin, New York, New York Joe Bradley, Mario Correa, Allison Miller, Alex Olsen. Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles, California Abstract America. Saatchi Gallery, London, England Slough. David Nolan Gallery, New York, New York The New Yorkers. V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark ab-strac- tion-al. Museum 52, New York, New York |
| 2008 |
Constraction. Deitch Projects, New York, New York Ambivalent Figuration; People. Samson Projects, Boston, Massachusetts Whitney Biennial. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York Eyesore. V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 2007 |
Dangling Man. Office Baroque Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium Cabinet of Curiosities. Journal Gallery. New York, New York Beyond the Zero. Peres Projects, Athens, Greece Heralds of Creative Anachronism. D’Amelio Terras, New York, New York Joe Bradley, Ann Craven, Dana Frankfort, Keith Mayerson. Zach Feuer Gallery,New York, New York Beneath the Underdog. Gagosian Gallery, New York, New York Silicone Valley. MoMA PS 1, Long Island City, New York Crystal Crunch. Perugi Artecontemporanea, Padua, Italy |
| 2006 |
(CANA)RICO?. Galeria Comercial, San Juan, Puerto Rico (apr) Under Pressure. Art:Concept, Paris, France Searching for Love & Fire. David Castillo Gallery, Miami, Florida MANGOES. Peres Projects, Los Angeles, California AXIS OF PRAXIS. Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, Minnesota (Apr) Goose Steppin. ATM Gallery, New York, New York |
| 2005 |
New York’s Finest. CANADA. New York, New York |
| 2004 |
Beat the Reaper. Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts (curated by Joe Bradley) Under the Sun. Greener Pastures Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada |
| 2003 |
What are you Growing in Your Garden. ATM Gallery, New York, New York Gone Fishing. Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts Art Band. Captiale, New York, New York No Platform, Just a Trampoline. Marcus Ritter Gallery, New York, New York |
| 2002 |
The Kids Are Alright. ATM Gallery, New York, New York Friends and Family. Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York, New York |
| 2000 |
Here Comes Rhodey. Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts |
Artist Biography
Oscar Tuazon
Engaging different methods of construction, Oscar Tuazon frequently uses wood, concrete, glass, steel, and piping as materials to create his structures and installations. His works have roots in minimalism, conceptualism, and architecture, and have a direct relationship with both the site in which they are presented, as well as with their viewer, often through physical engagement.
Oscar Tuazon (b. 1975, Seattle) lives and works in Los Angeles. His work is currently included in a group show at the Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Zurich, and will be presented as part of a three-person exhibition the Brant Foundation in Greenwich, CT this spring. Recent solo exhibitions include Oscar Tuazon: Hammer Projects, at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles in 2016 and Studio, at Le Consortium, Dijon, France in 2015.
The Brant Foundation Loan Program – Oscar Tuazon: Water School
SOLO
| 2017 |
See Through, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich , Switzerland / Building fire, Radio Athènes, Athens, Greece / Une colonne d’eau, FIAC Hors les Murs, Place Vendôme, Paris |
| 2016 |
Un Pont, Nouveaux Commanditaires - Fondation de France, Belfort, France / Zome Alloy, Art Basel|Messeplatz, Switzerland / Pubic Space, with Ariana Reines, Modern Art Gallery, London, UK / General Contractor, dépendance, Brussels, Belgium / Shelters, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France / Hammer Project: Oscar Tuazon, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA |
| 2015 |
Break the Glass, Kastro, Antiparos, Greece / Oscar Tuazon, T-Space, Rhinebeck, New York, USA / This Won't Take Long, Paradise Garage, Los Angeles, USA / Studio, Le Consortium, Dijon, France |
| 2014 |
Standard, Oslo, Norway / Alone in an empty room, Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany / A Home, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland |
| 2013 |
White Walls, Sensory Spaces, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands / Spasms of Misuse, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, Germany |
| 2012 |
Shaman/Showman, Karl Holmqvist – Oscar Tuazon, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France / Scott Burton, by Oscar Tuazon, Fondazione Giuliani, Rome, Italy / Manual Labor, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland / Action, Jonathan Viner, London, UK / Oscar Tuazon with Elias Hansen: We're just in it for Money, Balice Hertling, Paris, France / Oscar Tuazon, Centre d'édition contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland / People, Public Art Fund, New York, NY, USA |
| 2011 |
Die, The Power Station (Aldon Pinnell), Dallas, TX, USA / STEEL, PRESSURE-TREATED WOOD, OAK POST, OFFICE CHAIR, INDUCTION STOVETOP, ALUMINUM, Standard (Oslo), Oslo, Norway / America is my Woman, Maccarone, New York, NY, USA |
| 2010 |
Sex Booze Weed Speed, (with Garder Eide Einarsson), Rat Hole Gallery, Tokyo, Japan / Sex, Jonathan Viner, London, UK / My Mistake, ICA – Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK / Oscar Tuazon, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland / My Flesh to Your Bare Bones (with Vito Acconci), Maccarone, New York, NY, USA / One of My Best Comes, Parc St Leger - Centre d'Art Contemporaine, Pougues-les-Eaux, France |
| 2009 |
Bend It Till It Breaks, Centre internationale d’art et du paysage Ile de la Vassivière, France / Against Nature, Künstlerhaus, Stuttgart, Germany F.T.W., Dépendance, Brussels, Belgium / That’s Not Made For That, David Roberts Foundation, London, UK / Ass To Mouth, Balice Hertling, Paris, France / Untitled (Leave Me Be), Standard (Oslo), Oslo, Norway / Another Nameless Venture Gone Wrong, Haugar Vestfold Kunstmuseum, Tønsberg, Norway |
| 2008 |
A Vow of Poverty, Maccarone, New York, NY, USA / Kodiak (with Eli Hansen), Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA / Dirty Work, Jonathan Viner Fortescue Avenue, London, UK / This World’s Just Not Real To Me (with Eli Hansen), Howard House, Seattle, WA, USA |
| 2007 |
Where I Lived And What I Lived For, Module, Palais the Tokyo, Paris, France / I'd Rather Be Gone, Standard (OSLO), Oslo, Norway / Oscar Tuazon / Mike Freeman, Castillo / Corrales Gallery, Paris, France / Voluntary Non vulnerable (with Eli Hansen), Bodgers and Kludgers, Vancouver, BC, Canada |
GROUP
| 2018 |
"Joe Bradley, Oscar Tuazon, Michael Williams," The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Greenwich, CT |
| 2017 |
Skulptur Projekte Münster, curated by Kasper König, Britta Peters, and Marianne Wagner, Münster, Germany Indian Water, curated by Alessandro Possati, Ca’ Bembo, Venice, Italy Urban Planning: Art and the City 1967-2017, curated by Kelly Shindler, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO The Transported Man, curated by Marc-Olivier Wahler, Eli and Edythe Broad Museum at Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI Gardar Eide Einarsson and Oscar Tuazon, Maureen Paley, London, United Kingdom The Queen Falls, curated by Anissa Touati and Marc-Olivier Wahler, Gallería OMR, Mexico City, Mexico Wormwood, Ellis King, Dublin, Ireland |
| 2016 |
PLATFORM 15: Oscar Tuazon, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, USA Exquisite Corpse, Galerie Chantal Crousel at The Mistake Room, L.A., USA Les Possédés, Friche La Belle de Mai, Marseille, France |
| 2015 |
Desire of the Other, Annka Kultys Gallery, London, UK dépendance | Opposite the Other Side, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel Works on Paper, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich, Switzerland Andy Warhol sul comò, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Villa Croce, Genova, Switzerland Sculptures also die, Centre for Contemporary Culture Strozzina, Florence, Italy |
| 2014 |
The Promise, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK Einarsson/Faldbakken/Tuazon, Team Gallery, New York, NY, USA Oscar Tuazon and John Divola, TheNow, MiArt, Milan |
| 2013 |
356 Sculptures, 356 Mission, Los Angeles, CA, USA A free Country, Art Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland Standard Escape Routes, Standard Oslo, Oslo, Norway |
| 2012 |
Alone Together, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL, USA Nina Beier, Berry Patten, Pamela Rosenkranz, Oscar Tuazon and Emily Wardwill: Deliquesce, Jonathan Viner, London, UK (curated by Emma Astner and Laura McLean-Ferris) Deftig Barock, Von Cattelan bs Zurbaràn, Manifeste des prekär Vitalen, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland (curated by Bice Curiger) Art and the City, Ein Festival für Kunst im öffentlichen Raum, Zurich, Switzerland Heart in Hand, Swiss Institute, New York, NY, USA Whitney Biennial 2012, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA Paperless, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SCCA), Winston-Salem, NC, USA Into the Corner, Städtische Galerie Delmenhorst, Delmenhorst, Germany |
| 2011 |
Sculpture Now, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland The Language of Less, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, USA The Art of Narration Changes with Time, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany ILLUMInations (curated by Bice Curiger), 54th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy The Shape of Things to Come: New Sculpture Part 1, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK Tableaux, Le Magasin, Grenoble, France THE WAY IT WASN'T, Culturgest, Porto, Portugal After Images (curated by Fionn Meade), Musée Juif de Belgique, Bruxelles, Belgium Isabelle Cornaro, Nikolas Gambaroff, Oscar Tuazon, Eli Hansen, A Palazzo Gallery, Brescia, Italy Fragments Americana (curated by Hedi Slimane), Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, Belgium Dystopia, CAPC Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France Art In The City, Art Brussels, Brussels, Belgium Under Construction, SAKS, Geneva, Switzerland Light In Darkness, Western Bridge, Seattle, Washington D.C., USA Poste Restante (curated by Eric Fredericksen), Artspeak, Vancouver, Canada You and Now, Balice Hertling, Paris, France |
| 2010 |
Displaced Fractures – Über die Bruchlinien in Architekturen und ihren Körpern, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland The Way It Wasn’t (Celebrating Ten Years of castillo/corrales, Paris), Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis/MN, USA Dynasty, Palais de Tokyo & Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France Art Public (with Balice Hertling/Standard (Oslo)), Art41 Basel, Basel, Switzerland Rehabilitation, WIELS Center for Contemporary Art, Brussels, Belgium Perpetual Battles, Baibakov Art Foundation, Moscow, Russia When Do You See Yourself in Ten Years?, Standard (Oslo), Oslo, Norway The Concrete Show, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy A Basic Human Impulse, GC.AC, Galleria Comunale d'Arte Contemporanea di Monfalcone, Monfalcone, Italy Mutinity Seemed a Probability, Fondazione Giuliani, Rome, Italy Box With The Sound Of Its Own Making, Western Bridge, Seattle, WA, USA The Nice Thing About Castillo/Corrales..., castillo/corrales, Paris, France Les Sculptures Meurent Aussi, La Kunsthalle Mulhouse, Mulhouse, France Infinite Fold, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France |
| 2009 |
Evento, Bordeaux, France Insiders : praqtiques, usage, savoir-faire, CAPC, Bordeaux, France Prix Ricard, Espace Paul Ricard, Paris, France Display With Sound, IPS, Birmingham, UK LMCC Sculpture Park, New York, NY, USA Free As Air And Water, Cooper Union Houghton Gallery, New York, NY, USA Wood, Maccarone, New York, NY, USA Gennariello, Balice Hertling, Paris, France I was a Stranger, Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, Germany Mirrors (curated by Gyonata Bonvicini), MARCO, Vigo, Spain Of Vagrant Dwellers in the Houseless Woods (curated by Eric Fredericksen), Or Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada Utopie et Quotidiennete, Centre d’Art Contemporain Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland Sauvagerie Domestique, Galerie Eduard-Manet, Genevilliers, France Use It For What It’s Used For (with Eli Hansen), Temporary Sculpture Park, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY, USA L’image Cabrée, 11? Prix Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris, France Hello Goodbye Thank You, Again, castillo/corrales, Paris |
| 2008 |
Alex Hubbard and Oscar Tuazon, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO, USA September Show, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Germany Degrees of Remove: Landscape and Affect, Sculpture Center, Long Island, NY, USA Sommerakademie, Paul Klee Zentrum, Bern, Switzerland You Complete Me, Western Bridge, Seattle, WA, USA Transformational Grammar, Francesca Kaufmann, Milan, Italy Sack of Bones (Los Angeles), Peres Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA Group show, Dependance, Brussels, Belgium Contemporary Northwest Art Awards, Reed College, Portland, OR, USA Rendez-Vous Nowhere, Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain The Station (curated by Shamim Momin), Miami, FL, USA Suddenly : Where We Live Now, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Portland, OR, USA |
| 2007 |
A Town (Not a City), Kunsthalle St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland Exposition N°1, Galerie Balice Hertling, Paris, France Documenta 12 Magazine Projects, under the auspices of Metronome, Kassel, Germany |
| 2006 |
The Elementary Particles (The Paperback Edition), Standart (OSLO), Oslo, Norway Minotaur Blood, Fortescue Avenue/Jonathan Viner, London, UK Just Move On, project for CLUI Wendover, Wendover, UT, USA Down By Law, The Wrong Gallery, Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA An Open Operation, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scottland for Death, Halle 14, Leipzig, Germany The Culture of Fear, ACC Galerie, Weimar, Germany Metronome no. 10, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR, USA Living Underground, Siuslaw National Forest, OR, USA |
| 2005 |
Secret Room, Kanazawa, Japan Baroque Geode, Sundown Salon, Los Angeles, CA, USA Bridges, University of Colorado, Denver, CO, USA |
| 2004 |
Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The Project, New York, NY, USA Xtreme Houses, Lothringer13, Munich, Germany and Halle 14, Leipzig, Germany Human, Fucking Human, Lofoten International Art Festival, Bergen, Norway Adaptations, Kunstehalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany Our Mirror, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, NY, USA Urban Renewal: City Without a Ghetto, Temporary Services, Chicago, IL, USA Urban Renewal: City Without a Ghetto, Princeton School of Architecture, Princeton, NJ, USA The Subsidized Landscape, The Center for Architecture, New York, NY, USA Sprawl, Hudson Clearing, New York, NY, USA Adaptations, with Richard Fischbeck, Apex Art, New York, NY, USA |
| 2003 |
Wight Biennial, with Richard Fischbeck, UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA 24/7, CAC, Vilnius, Lithuania, Slovenia Float, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, NY, USA Deathtime, 27 Canal, New York, NY, USA Whitney Independent Study Program, Galapagos, Brooklyn, New York, NY, USA Whitney Independent Study Program, with Bea Schlingelhoff, New York, NY, USA Totally Motivated, with Gardar Eide Einarsson, Kunstverein Munich, Germany Between the Lines, with Gardar Eide Einarsson, Apex Art, New York, NY, USA City Without a Ghetto, Artists Space, New York, NY, USA Inscribing the Temporal, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria |
| 2002 |
STRIKE, Wolverhampton Art Gallery, Wolverhampton, UK Coming Soon, Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, NY, USA Museum of the White Man, New York and Suquamish, WA, USA |
| 2001 |
Programmable City, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, NY, USA Landlords Instant Cash!, P.S.1 Center for Contemporary Art, New York, NY, USA Building Codes, Lower East Side Tenement Museum, New York, NY, USA |
Artist Biography
Michael Williams
SOLO
| 2017 |
“Michael Williams,” The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania / “Michael Williams,” Gladstone Gallery, New York |
| 2016 |
"Michael Williams," Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich / “Michael Williams,” Gladstone Gallery, Brussels |
| 2015 |
“Michael Williams: Yard Salsa,” Musée des Beaux-Arts de Montreal, Montreal, Canada / “Michael Williams: Tribal Frog Tattoo,” Gallery Met, New York |
| 2014 |
“New Paintings,” Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland / “5 Paintings,” Karma, Amagansett, New York / “Morning Zoo,” Michael Werner, London |
| 2013 |
“Paintings,” CANADA, New York |
| 2012 |
“This Means Something to My Horse,” VeneKlasen/Werner, Berlin / “Michael Williams and John Altoon,” Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York |
| 2011 |
“Montgomery's Tubercles,” The Journal Gallery, Brooklyn, New York / “Straightforward as a Noodle,” CANADA, New York |
| 2010 |
“Puzzle Paintings,” LTD Gallery, Los Angeles |
| 2009 |
“Uncle Big,” CANADA, New York / “If God Could Draw,” with Nick Lowe, The Green Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin |
| 2008 |
“Wood,” Perugi Artecontemporanea Gallery, Padova, Italy / “Fried Paint,” Christina Wilson Gallery, Copenhagen |
| 2007 |
“Cancuned and Other Paintings from 2007,” CANADA, New York |
GROUP
| 2018 |
“Kinder Gentler Nation,” Karma, New York "Joe Bradley, Oscar Tuazon, Michael Williams," The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Greenwich, CT |
| 2017 |
“The Trick Brain,” Aishti Foundation, Antelias, Lebanon "Tobias Pils, Michael Williams" Le Consortium, Dijon, France “Drawing Island,” The Journal Gallery, Brooklyn, New York |
| 2016 |
"High Anxiety: New Acquisitions," Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Florida “Make Painting Great Again,” CANADA, New York “Colliding Alien Cargo,” Marlborough Chelsea, New York “Inside Out,” Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich “Surreal,” Konig Galerie, Berlin |
| 2015 |
“Love for Three Oranges,” Gladstone Gallery, Brussels “Artists and Poets,” secession, Vienna “Call and Response,” Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York “Image Search,” Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles “Works on Paper,” Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland |
| 2014 |
“The Forever Now: Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World,” Museum of Modern Art, New York “Live and Let Die,” Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London “This One's Optimistic: Pincushion,” New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut “Never Enough: Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art,” Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas “Comic Future,” Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio “LIFE,” The Journal Gallery at Venus Over Manhattan, New York “Fractured Realities,” DCCC, Media, Pennsylvania “Imaginary Portraits,” Gallery Met, New York “The Age of Small Things,” Dodge Gallery, New York “New Image Painting,” Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, Illinois |
| 2013 |
“Draw Gym,” 247365/Know More Games, Brooklyn, New York “Tumesence,” Michael Werner Gallery, New York “Comic Future,” Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, Texas “Alexandre da Cunha, Michael Rey, Michael Williams, B. Wurtz,” Office Baroque, Antwerp, Belgium “Summer Drawings,” The Journal Gallery, Brooklyn, New York |
| 2012 |
“Bernhardt, Frost, Kitaj, Rivers, Schumann, Williams,” Marlborough Chelsea, New York “The Beatles,” Geoffrey Young Gallery, Great Barrington, Massachusetts “The Art Of The Joke,” V1 Gallery, Copenhagen “East West Shift to The Middle Pt. 1,” Bill Brady/KC, Kansas City, Missouri |
| 2011 |
“Dadarhea,” CANADA, New York “Time Wounds All Heels,” White Flag Projects, St. Louis, Missouri “New York Minute,” Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow “Copper Kettle,” The Journal Gallery, ReMap3, Athens “Go Figure,” Dodge Gallery, New York “Dirt Don't Hurt,” Jolie Laide, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania “One Dozen Paintings,” The Journal Gallery, Brooklyn, New York “Canada,” Galerie Bernard Ceysson, Paris “Facemaker,” Royal/T, Los Angeles |
| 2010 |
“Salad Days,” The Journal Gallery, Brooklyn, New York “The Craft,” Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, New York “Tuesday Afternoon in a Cage,” LTD Gallery, Los Angeles “Big Picture,” Priska Jushka, New York “DADARHEA,” OHWOW Gallery, Miami “Not Quite Open for Business,” The Hole, New York “In There, Out Here,” Leo Koenig Gallery, New York “With Walls,” Museum 52, New York “Inside/Outside,” Portugal Arte, Lisbon “Clean Break,” Charlie Horse, Brooklyn, New York |
| 2009 |
“Jr. and Sons,” Zach Feuer Gallery, New York “Nice Sizes, Good Prices!,” Galleri Chrsitina Wilson, Copenhagen “Warren Oates in the Economic Crisis of 2008,” Okay Mountain Gallery, Austin, Texas |
| 2008 |
“Peanut Gallery,” The Journal Gallery, Brooklyn, New York |
| 2007 |
“Macronauts,” Andreas Melas Presents, Athens, Greece “New Mutants,” CANADA, New York “Crystal Crunch,” Perugi Artecontemporanea Gallery, Padova, Italy “From the Froth,” Stairwell Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island “Contact,” Museum of Modern Art, New York “Time Booth,” The Journal Gallery, Brooklyn, New York |
| 2006 |
“Cosmic Satellites,” Triple Base Gallery, San Francisco, California “Searching for Love & Fire,” David Castillo Modern & Contemporary, Miami “Ulrich Project Series: General Store,” Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas “Mr. Ravestic's Mess Age,” Sagamore Hotel, Miami “2nd worst performance ever,” MoMA PS1, New York “Goose Steppin,” ATM Gallery, New York |
| 2005 |
“Half Hour of Power,” Cavalier Hotel, Miami |
| 2004 |
“Brothers,” Fresh Up Club, Austin, Texas “The Skull Show,” Hanna, Tokyo “Tedious Limbs,” Flynn Farm, Los Angeles [traveled to: Deitch Projects, New York (2005)] “Beat The Reaper!,” Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts “Rowdy Remix,” ATM Gallery, New York |
| 2003 |
“You Are My Sunshine, You Is My Sunshine,” CANADA, New York “Barkley's Barnyard Critters,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois “Barkley's Barnyard Critters,” Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York “worst performance ever,” Space 1026, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 2002 |
“Group Show,” Matthew Berliant, St. Louis, Missouri |
| 2000 |
“The Bowling Show,” Arcade Lanes, St. Louis, Missouri |
