Artist Bio

Artists biographies

Artists:

Francis Alys

David Claerbout

Douglas Gordon

Gary Hill

Pierre Huyghe

Joan Jonas

Isaac Julien

William Kentridge

Paul McCarthy

Pipilotti Rist,

Anri Sala

Francis Alys (b. in Belgium. Lives and works in Mexico DF.)

Among Alys most recent solo exhibitions are: “The Modern Procession,” project for the inaugural exhibition Museum of Modern Art Queens, New York, 2003; “Projects 76: Francis Alys,” MoMA Queens, New York and “Painting and drawings of Francis Alys,” Centro Nazionale degli arti  Contemporanei, Roma, 2002. Among the most recent  group exhibitions in which Alys’ work has been included are: “Painting at the Edge of the World,” Walker Art Center, 2000; "fast forward", Media Art/Sammlung Götz, 2003;  and "7th International Istanbul Biennial on the Run", 2001.He was a finalist for the Hugo Boss Prize, The Solomon Guggenheim Museum, New York 2002.

David Claerbout  (b. in Belgium. Lives and works in Brussels and Berlin.)

Douglas Gordon (b. Glasgow, Scotland. Lives and works in New York and Glasgow.)

Among his solo exhibitions are: What I have Done, Hayward Gallery, London, UK, 2003; Douglas Gordon, Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes, Mexico, 2003; and “Douglas Gordon, The Uncanny: Experiments in Cyborg Culture”,Vancouver Art Gallery, 2003. Among the group exhibitions in which his work has been included are: “Casa Barragan,” Museo Luis Barragan, Tacubaya, Mexico, 2003;”The Greatest Show on Earth, “The Metropole Galleries, Folkestone, Kent,UK, 2003;”Tower,”The Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands and Documental 11, Kassel, Germany, 2002.

Gary Hill (b. in Santa Monica, California. Lives and works in Seattle.)

Among his most recent solo exhibitions are: Gary Hill: Language Willing," Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho; Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona; Northwest Museum of Art and Culture, Spokane, Washington; Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Halifax, Canada; Salt Lake Art Center, Salt Lake City, Utah, 2002; “Gary Hill: Selected Works,” Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany. Travelled to: Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisbon, Portugal, 2002 - 2003.

Among the group exhibitions in which his work has been included are: "Outlook: International Art Exhibition Athens 2003," Athens, Greece. Among the group exhibitions in which his work was included are: "Body Matters," The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway, 2003; The Uncanny: Experiments in Cyborg Culture,” Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 2002; and “Future Cinema,” ZKM / Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2002

Pierre Huyghe  (b. in Paris, France, 1962. Works and lives in New York.)

Among Huyghe’s most recent solo exhibitions are: "The Hugo Boss Prize 2002 exhibition," Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York, 2003; "Streamside Day Follies," Dia:Chelsea, New York, New York; Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli-Turin, Italy; Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas, 2003; “L’expedition scintillante: A musical,” Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria, 2002; “Le Chateau de Turing,” Venice Biennale (French Pavilion), 49th Venice Biennale , Italy, 2001; and “The Third Memory,” Musée National d’Art Moderne-Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, 2000. Among the most recent group exhibitions in which his work has been included are: "Reprocessing Information," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, 2004-03; "Moving Pictures," Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, Spain"Outlook," Athens, Greece, 2004; "Utopia Station," Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, 2003;  and Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany, 2002.

Joan Jonas (b. New York. Works and lives in New York.)

Among Jonas’ most recent solo exhibitions are Joan Jonas/Queens Museum of Art, Queens, N.Y. curated by Valerie Smith, 2003; Joan Jonas : A Survey; NGBK, Berlin, Germany. Curated by Annette Teitenburg, 2001. Among her most recent performance is: Joan Jonas, Beacon DIA Center for the Arts, Beacon, New York, 2003. Among the most recent exhibitions in which her work has been included are: Documenta XI, Kassel, Germany, 2002;  First Biennal Taiwan, 2002; and Century Cities, Tate Modern, Bankside, London, 2000.

Issac Julien (b. in London, England. Lives and works in London.)

Among his most recent solo exhibitions are Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado; Bohen Foundation, New York; Isaac Julien, “Fact, Film, Art & Creative Technology,” Liverpool, UK, 2003. Group exhibition: 2002         Documenta 11, Platform 5, Kassel, Germany

William Kentridge (b. Johannesburg, South Africa.)

Among Kentridge’s most recent solo exhibitions are: Baltic Art Center, Visby, Sweden, 2003; "William Kentridge," South African National Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa, 2003-02; "William Kentridge," Lia Rumma, Milan, Italy, 2002; "William Kentridge," Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, 2002-01. Among the most recent group exhibitions in which his work has been included are: "Images of Society," Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun, Switzerland; "Reflection," Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York; "Trauer," Zentrum für zeitgenössische Kunst der Österreichischen Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Austria; "Universes in Universe: Caravan," Sharjah International Biennial 6, United Arab Emirates; "Banquet: Metabolism and Communication," Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona, Spain, Centro Cultural Conde Duque, Madrid, Spain and Museum for Contemporary Art/ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany, 2003.

Paul McCarthy (b. in Salt Lake City, Utah. Lives and works in Los Angeles.)

Among McCarthy’s most recent solo exhibitions are: Paul McCarthy "Blockhead Inflatable," Tate Modern, Paul McCarthy, Films and Video Works”, Oslo, Norway; "Paul McCarthy-Videos and Photographs," Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany, 2003. Among the most recent  group exhibitions  in which McCarthy’s work has been included are: “7 eme Biennale de Lyon,” Lyon, France, "Walk Around Time:  Selection from the Permanent Collection," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesotta,  and  "The Animal in Me," Kunsthalle Baden-Baden1, 2003

Pipilotti Rist (b.in Grabs in the Swiss Rhine valley. Lives and works in Zurich, Switzerland)

Among her most recent solo exhibitions are: Contemporary Art Museum Houston, Pipilotti Rist, cur. Paola Morsiani, Houston, 2005; SF MOMA, Pipilotti Rist – Stir Heart Rinse Heart, cur. Benjamin Weil, San Francisco, 2004; and Kiasma Museum for Contemporary Art, Kontti Gallery, Pipilotti Rist, cur. Maaretta Jauukuri, Helsinki, 2003. Among the most recent  group exhibitions in which her work has been included are: Fries Museu Leeuwarden, Die Wohltat der Kunst. Postfeministische Positionen in der Sammlung Goetz, cur. Rainald Schuhmacher, Leeuwarden, 2004; 21 Century Art Museum, Opening show, cur. Yuko Hasegawa, Kanazawa, 2004;and Kunstmuseum Bergen, Just Love Me – Postfeministic Art of the Goetz Collection, cur. Rainald Schumacher, Bergen, 2003.

Anri Sala (b. in Tirana, Albania. Lives and works in Paris.)

Among Sala’s most recent solo exhibitions are: ARC, Musee d Art Moderne, Paris, 2004, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria; Residence-Project Gallery at CCA, Kitakyushu, Japan, 2003; and  Ikon Gallery, Birmingham Uk, 2002. Among the most group exhibitions in which his work has been included are:  Venice Biennale, “Utopia Station,” Venice, Italy; 8^th Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul, Turkey; Tirana Biennale, Tirana, Albania, 2003. 24 Bienal de Sao Paulo, “Jean-Luc Moulène et Anri Sala”, Sao Paolo,Brazil and Manifesta 4, Frankfurt, Germany, 2002.