Born in Caracas, Venezuela. Lives and works in Miami, FL 

Education 

2007 BFA in Electronic Media- Art History Minor, New World School of the Arts, Miami, FL

Exchange program with the Universidad Autonoma de San Luis Potosi, San Luis Potosi, Mexico 

Solo Exhibitions 

2023

Calor y Color, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York.

2022

Under The Sun Over the Earth, CENTRAL FINE, Miami Beach, Florida

2020-2021 

Solo exhibition, Museum of Art and Design at Miami Dade College, Freedom Tower, Miami, curated by Rina Carvajal

New Old Paintings, CENTRAL FINE, Miami Beach

2016 

To love a picture like a fetishist loves a shoe, Noguchi Breton, Miami, FL 2013
Rococo Chanel, GUCCIVUITTON, Miami, FL


2011 

Falsework, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL

2009


Labor Paintings, Locust Projects, Miami, FL

2008 

Process/Processed, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL, 2008

Selected Group Exhibitions 

2023

Beyond Form, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, Palm Beach

2022

The Hinge, CENTRAL FINE, Miami Beach, Florida

CENTRAL SOUNDS, Luhring Augustine, Chelsea, New York

2019 

CUT: Abstraction in the United States from the 1970s-Present, Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL

2017 

Blush pane, Balice Hertling, Paris, France 

2016 

What shall we do next, Diverse Works, Houston, TX 

2015 

GUCCIVUITTON, Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Miami, FL T.A.Z. Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL 

2014
 Global Positioning Systems: Urban Imaginaries, Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL 2012 

New Work Miami, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
Store Front, Buena Vista building, Miami, FL 

2011 

Liquid Matter, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA Summer Time Blues, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
Home: Dream Home, Praxis international art, Miami, FL 

2010
smART, Miami Dade College- Freedom Tower, Miami, FL. Curated by Sonia Becce 

Paper, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL 2009

Recent Acquisitions, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL


Time+Temp: Surveying the Shifting Climate of Painting in South Florida, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, FL


5 x 5 Pluralism, Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA 

2008 

5 x 5 Pluralism, Museo de Arte Acarigua Araure, Acarigua, Venezuela 2007 

Exploration of Process-Paint Structures, Bridge Tender's House at the Wolfsonian Museum, Miami Beach, 

FL
CONFLUENCE: A Collaboration, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL


Fear Fate Fame BFA show, Freedom Tower, Miami, FL 

2006
Fight or Flight, 2534 North Miami Ave, Miami, FL 

Summer '06, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL 2005 

Florida Calls, Collaboration project with artist Jonathan Monk and New World School of Arts Students, The Moore Space, Miami, FL 

Co-Founder and Co-director of the defunct Artist run Gallery Noguchi Breton (formerly Guccivuitton) 

www.noguchibreton.net 

Awards 

2015 South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship for Visual and Media Artists 

Born in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti. Lives and works in Port-Au-Prince, Haiti

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021

SURVEY, FOWLER MUSEUM, UCLA. (upcoming)

2020

CENTRAL FINE, Miami Beach, FL (upcoming)

2019

The Last Supper, FAENA FOUNDATION, ART BASEL MIAMI BEACH

2018

MYRLANDE CONSTANT, CENTRAL FINE, MIAMI BEACH, FL

2017

MYRLANDE CONSTANT, EL-SAIEH GALLERY, Port-au-Prince, Haiti

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2019

POTOPRENS, MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, NORTH MIAMI, FL

RELATIONAL UNDERCURRENTS: CONTEMPORARY ART OF THE CARIBBEAN ARCHIPELAGO, DELAWARE ART MUSEUM, WILMINGTON, DE

SACRED DIAGRAMS: HAITIAN VODOU FLAGS FROM THE GESSEN COLLECTION, TAMPA MUSEUM OF ART, TAMPA, FL

2018

POTOPRENS, PIONEER WORKS, BROOKLYN, NY

2017

RELATIONAL UNDERCURRENTS: CONTEMPORARY ART OF THE CARIBBEAN ARCHIPELAGO, MUSEUM OF LATIN AMERICAN ART, LONG BEACH, CA

2015

GHETTO BIENNALE, PORT- AU-PRINCE, HAITI

2014

HAÏTI, DEUX SIÈCLES DE CRÉATION ARTISTIQUE, GRAND PALAIS, PARIS, FRANCE.

2012

KAFOU- HAITI, ART AND VODOU, NOTTINGHAM CONTEMPORARY GALLERY, NOTTINGHAM, UK

2011

REFRAMING HAITI: ART, HISTORY AND PERFORMATIVITY, BROWN UNIVERSITY, PROVIDENCE, RI

IN EXTREMIS, FOWLER MUSEUM AT UCLA, LOS ANGELES, CA

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO PERMANENT COLLECTION, CHICAGO

LOWE ART MUSEUM PERMANENT COLLECTION, MIAMI

WATERLOO CENTER FOR THE ARTS PERMANENT COLLECTION, IOWA

AMERICAN FOLK ART MUSEUM PERMANENT COLLECTION, NEW YORK

FOWLER MUSEUM, PERMANENT COLLECTION, LOS ANGELES

Born in Ventura, CA, lives and works in New York.

EDUCATION


2017 MFA IN PAINTING AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF VISUAL ARTS

2015 BFA IN PAINTING FROM OTIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN

SELECTED RECENT SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019

QUOTIDIAN, CENTRAL FINE, MIAMI BEACH, FL

Wreck Loose, East Projects, NYC,NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS


2020

Yb2p, Catinca Tabacaru gallery, NYC,NY

Legacy, Museum of Ventura County, Ventura CA

2018

FROM SHAPE TO FORM, AN EXHIBITION OF LATINX ARTISTS, YALE DIVINITY SCHOOL OF SACRED MUSIC, NEW HAVEN CT

2017

SUMMER SHOW COLUMBIA MFA 2017, FALSE FLAG GALLERY, LONG ISLAND CITY, NY

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY THESIS EXHIBITION, WALLACH ART GALLERY IN THE LENFEST CENTER FOR THE ARTS, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, NY

2016

SOUTHLAND, CHARLIE JAMES GALLERY, LOS ANGELES, CA


FINISHED GOODS, PFIZER WAREHOUSE, BROOKLYN, NY


FIRST YEAR MFA EXHIBITION, MIRIAM AND IRA D WALLACH GALLERY COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, NYC, NY

2015

WORLD MONEY GALLERY, BROOKLYN, NY


WE ARE, LOBBY GALLERY, LOS ANGELES, CA


GRIPPER MULTI-PURPOSE DULUX ULTRA SEMI- GLOSS, OTIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN, LOS ANGELES, CA


LA BULLA, PLAZA DE LA RAZA, LOS ANGELES, CA


570-590: GROUP SHOW, OTIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN, LOS ANGELES, CA

2014

ENNEAGRAM, BOLSKY GALLERY, OTIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN, LOS ANGELES, CA

YARD SALE, BOSLKY GALLERY, OTIS COLLEGE OF ART DESIGN, LOS ANGELES, CA


2014 JUNIOR SHOW, GALEF BUILDING, OTIS COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN LOS ANGELES, CA

2013

THE OXNARTIANS HAVE RETURN, MCNISH ART GALLERY OXNARD COLLEGE, OXNARD, CA

THE OXNARTIANS HAVE LANDED, 18TH STREET ART CENTER, SANTA MONICA, CA

2012

EL VELORIO, KGB GALLERY, LOS ANGELES, CA


OXNARD COLLEGE STUDENT SHOW, MCNISH ART GALLERY OXNARD COLLEGE, CA

2010

VERSA, 343 A PROJECT SPACE, VENTURA CA LOS DOCE, MCNISH ART GALLERY, OXNARD, CA

2009

DE COLORES, SANTA PAULA MUSEUM OF ART, SANTA PAULA, CA

ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS


2017-19 ADJUNCT FACULTY AT COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF THE ARTS, NEW YORK, NY

AWARDS, FELLOWSHIPS & GRANTS

2018

Rema Hort Mann Emerging Artist Grant, New York, NY

Rema Hort Mann Artist Community Engagement Grant, New York, NY

Bronx Museum Artist in the MarketPlace. (AIM), Bronx, NY

2016 Robert Gamblin Fellowship

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

INSTITUTE OF CONTEMPORARY ART MIAMI

TOMM EL-SAIEH

Born in PORT-AU-PRINCE, HAITI. Lives and works in Miami

STUDIES

NEW WORLD SCHOOL OF THE ARTS, MIAMI

AWARDS

2019

Knight Champions Award, December, Miami

2015

Knight Champions Award, December, Miami

2016

Nominated to the Future Generation prize, Pinchuk Foundation, Ukraine

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023

Parachute . CENTRAL FINE, Miami Beach

2022

Tomm El-Saieh: Imaginary City. the Clark Art Museum, Massachusetts.

2021

TOMA Luhring Augustine, Chelsea, New York.

2020-2021

The Pleasure Pavilion Series, Luhring Augustine, Bushwick, New York.

2019

Tomm El-Saieh, CENTRAL FINE, Nova, Art Basel Miami Beach.

Run, Matthew Brown, Los Angeles

2018-2019

Mongrel, CENTRAL FINE, Miami Beach

2017-2018

Tomm El-Saieh Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami. Curated by Alex Gartenfeld and Stephanie Seidel

2016

The House and the Head, Michael Jon and Alan, Miami

The Look, Galleria Macca, Sardinia

2015

Ant’s Tits, CENTRAL FINE, Miami

2008

El Trapo, Haitian Heritage Museum, Miami.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023

“Forecast Form: Art in the Caribbean Diaspora, 1990’s-Today” MCA Chicago

2022

The Hinge, CENTRAL FINE, Miami Beach, Florida

Fire Figure Fantasy, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami

2020

de la Cruz Collection, Miami, Florida.

2019

de La Cruz Collection, Miami, Florida

2018

Songs for Sabotage, New Museum Triennial, 2018. Curated by Alex Gartenfeld and Gary Carrion-Murayari

2016

The Opening of an Envelope, CENTRAL FINE, Miami Beach

FORTHOR, CENTRAL FINE AT Ida Schmidt, New York

2014

Vacation to Insensitive, CENTRAL FINE, Miami Beach

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2016

Andre Pierre, Central Fine, Miami Beach, FL

Myrlande Constant, Andre Eugene and Guyodo, Noguchi Breton, NADA Miami Beach, FL

Myrlande Constant, El-Saieh Gallery, Port-au-Prince,Haiti

2015

The Look, Gucci Vuitton, Miami, fl

Sisson Blanchard, El-Saieh Gallery, Haiti

Gerard Fortune, El-Saieh Gallery, Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Murat Brierre, El-Saieh Gallery, Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Bourmond Byron, El-Saieh Gallery, Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Guyodo Above the Ground, El-Saieh Gallery, Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Relax Baby, Be Cool or The Other Hand, El-Saieh Gallery, Port-au-Prince, Haiti

Viktor El-Saieh Historical Precedence, Tomm El-Saieh Presents, Miami, FL

Emmet Moore: Time and Place, Tomm El-Saieh Presents, Miami, FL

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

Monographs

Gartenfeld,, Alex; Gordon, Leah; Seidel, Stephanie: Tomm El-Saieh. Monograph, Published by the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, 2018.

Catalogues

Gartenfeld Alex, Carrion-Murayari Gary: Songs for Sabotage, New Museum Trienial 2018. Published by the New Museum, New York.

Articles

Turner, Elisa: Tomm El-Saieh: ‘Abstract painting is a universal language everyone can connect with’, Art Basel Magazine, December 2019.

Gallagher, Em: ‘Tomm El-Saieh Bridges the Gap between artist and curator’, Cultured, March 2019.

Singh, Diego: ‘Mongrel’ Press release, www.centralfine.com, November, 2019.

Saltz Jerry: The New Museum’s ‘I am more woke than you” Triennial. Vulture. February 20th, 2018.

Schjeldahl, Peter: ‘Aesthethics and Politics at the New Museum’s Triennial’; The New Yorker, February 26, 2018.

The New York Times, “New Museum Triennial Looks Great, but Plays It Safe,” by Holland Cotter (link to print article)

New York magazine, “The New Museum’s ‘I Am More Woke Than You’ Triennial,” by Jerry Saltz

Artnet News, “How the New Museum’s Triennial Sabotages Its Own Revolutionary Mission,” by Ben Davis

Financial Times, “New Museum triennial: a chorus of dissenting voices,” by Ariella Budick

4Columns, “New Museum Triennial,” by Ania Szremski

The Architect’s Newspaper, “The New Museum’s 2018 Triennial tackles entrenched urban power,” by Jonathan Hillburg

Art Agenda, “New Museum Triennial, ‘Songs for Sabotage,’” by Kevin McGarry

Time Out New York, “Five Things to See at New Museum 2018 Triennial” (link to print article)

Artsy, “The Artsy Podcast, No. 70: Behind the Scenes of the New Museum Triennial”

Garage (Vice), “10 New Museum Triennial Artists in 10 Days: Diamond Stingily,” by Joseph R. Wolin

Garage (Vice), “10 New Museum Triennial Artists in 10 Days: Lydia Ourahmane,” by Paddy Johnson

Garage (Vice), “10 New Museum Triennial Artists in 10 Days: Julia Phillips,” by Paul Laster

Garage (Vice), “10 New Museum Triennial Artists in 10 Days: Manuel Solano,” by Paul Laster

Garage (Vice), “10 New Museum Triennial Artists in 10 Days: Tomm El-Saieh,” by Joseph R. Wolin

The Standard, “What to Expect at the New Museum Triennial,” by Rachel Small

Artnet News (China), “Opening Conversation | Song Ta x New Museum Triennial Carrion-Murayari: When the Artist Wants to Become a Curator”

Phillips, “Video: New Museum’s 2018 Triennial”

Artnet News, “From the Secretary Who Stole a Klimt to Obama’s Portrait Drama: The Best and Worst of the Art World This Week,” by Caroline Goldstein

Artnet News, “Art Industry News: Rosie O’Donnell Makes Anti-Trump Art—and It’s Selling Like Crazy + More Must-Read Stories”

Dujour, “Political Art for President’s Day Weekend,” by Samuel Anderson

Artlyst, “New York Now: Art Exhibitions Winter 2018 – Ilka Scobie”

Blouin ArtInfo, “Top Art Shows in New York This Week: Martial Raysse to Bill Viola”

City Guide NY, “What to See at NYC Museums This Spring,” by Evan Levy

AI-AP, “The DART Board: 02.20.2018,” by Peggy Roalf

Goyanes, Rob: ‘Tomm El-Saieh brings his rhythmic paintings to the New Museum Triennial, Cultured, February 14th, 2018.

Stoilas Helen, ‘Tomm El-Saieh: Part of the Rhythm Nation, The Art Newspaper, December 6th, 2017.

Herriman, Kat: ‘8 Higlights from Miami Art Week’, The New York Times, December 7, 2017.

Sokol, Brett: When It Comes To Contemporary Art, Miami Wants More, More, More’ The New York Times, November 30th, 2017.

Singh, Diego: ‘Tomm El-Saieh – The Look’, Artribune, May 23rd, 2016, Italy.

Singh, Diego: ‘Tomm El-Saieh. Ants Tits’, Press release, www.centralfine.com, April, 2015

Ivy Chemutai Brandie Ng’ok

Studies

2017 MFA with emphasis in Painting, Rhodes University, South Africa

2014 Bachelor of Fine Arts with emphasis in Painting, Rhodes University, South Africa

Research Thesis/ Dissertations

Masters Graduate Solo Exhibition “Riot” 2017

Master of Fine Art Thesis: “A Counter-narrative Analysis of Psychological Riot in Contemporary Painting”

Final 4th Year Thesis: “Liminality, Masculinity, and Memory in the work of Kemang Wa Lehulere and Nicholas Hlobo”

Awards and Residencies

2019 Fountainhead Residency, Miami in collaboration with the Africa Centre Award.

2016 Masters bursary as part of the Mellon Focus Area: Visual and Performing Arts of Africa (ViPAA) at Rhodes University

2016 Raymond Pullen Bursary for the Arts at Rhodes University

2015

Popty 2015 International Artists Workshop in Wales.(17th -24th October)

2015 Rhodes University Masters Degree Scholarship

2015 Helen Timm Award, Painting at Rhodes University

Solo presentations

2022. Matthew Brown Los Angeles, California, USA. (Upcoming)

2021. An Enigma , Central Fine Gallery, Miami Beach, Florida, USA.

2017 Self Esteem for Girls , FNB Joburg Art Fair (SMAC Gallery), Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Group Presentations

2021 Aletheia (Central Fine Gallery) Miami Beach, Florida. USA.

2020 Love your symptom,but not too much (Blank Projects) Capetown, South Africa.

2019 The head the hand (Blank Projects) Capetown, South Africa.

My Kind of Protest (Pippy Houldsworth Gallery)London, United Kingdom.

2018 New Museum Triennial “Songs for Sabotage” , curated by Alex Gartenfeld and Gary Carrion-murayari, New Museum, New York, USA.

Sister Sister (Grahamstown National Arts Festival Grahamstown, South Africa.

2017 African Voices (National Gallery of Zimbabwe), Harare, Zimbabwe.

2016 Summer Show ’16 (SMAC Gallery), Stellenbosch, South Africa.

FNB Joburg Art Fair (SMAC Gallery), Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Surface Tension (GUS Gallery), Stellenbosch, South Africa.

Upstart/Startup, (SMAC Gallery), Johannesburg, South Africa.

Cape Town Art Fair (SMAC Gallery), CTICC, Cape Town, South Africa.

2015 FNB Joburg Art Fair (SMAC Gallery), Sandton Convention Centre, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Emerging Painters: The Graduate Show, Turbine Art Fair, Johannesburg, South Africa.

Speaking Back, Goodman Gallery, Cape Town, South Africa.

1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair (Smac Gallery), Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, New York, USA.

Pooling our Secrets, SMAC Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa.

LUSH, SMAC Gallery, Stellenbosch, South Africa.

2014 Rhodes Student Exhibition, Grahamstown National Arts Festival, Grahamstown, South Africa.

Rhodes Graduate Solo Exhibition,“Social Revolution” 2014 Rhodes University, Grahamstown, South Africa.

Selected Press

INSIGHT: Week 15| Chemu Ng’ok|14-20 October 2020 https://www.houldsworth.co.uk/viewing-room/23-insight-week-15-chemu-ng-ok/

Art & Power : Art Creativity and Politics from Africa and the Diaspora A brief Insight into Reflections of Power, Protest and Leadership. PAVILLON54.COM/ November 18 2020 https://pavillon54.com/blog/art-and-power-art-creativity-and-politics-from-africa-and-the-diaspora/

The Essential Artists You Need to Know Right Now. ELEPHANT/ April 8 2020 https://elephant.art/the-essential-artists-you-need-to-know-right-now-09042020/

The Art World: Aesthetics and Politics at the New Museum Triennial by Peter Schjeldahl. NEW YORKER/March 5, 2018 Issue https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/05/aesthetics-and-politics-at-the-new-museums-triennial

Arts and Culture Rookie review: I’m made out of plastic here by Zaza Hlalethwa. MAIL&GUARDIAN/ September 15 to 21 2017 https://mg.co.za/article/2017-09-15-00-rookie-review-im-made-out-of-plastic-here

Chemu Ng’ok featured under BRIGHT YOUNG THINGS in ART AFRICA / September 2015

Born in Lewes, Deleware. Lives and works in New York.

Studies

1992 B.F.A. California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA

Solo Exhibitions

2019

Brother Ass, CENTRAL FINE, Miami Beach, FL

2018

Dog Skull Dogs, Miguel Abreu Gallery, NY NY,

Carbon Days, Galeria Nuno Centeno, Porto, Portugal

Burn it Clean, 1301PE, Los Angeles, CA

2016

Cabin of the Accused, Blaffer Art Museum, Houston, TX


Paris, Campoli Presti, Paris, France

These Pellets Here This Powder There, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, NY


2015

Peaceful Photographers, Campoli Presti, London, UK

Peaceful Photographers, Campoli Presti, Paris, France


2014
Warmilk, Mendes Wood, São Paolo, Brazil


On Fridays We Have Half Days, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, NY 


2013


A Moveable Feast – Part V: Blake Rayne, Campoli Presti, Paris, France

Blake Rayne, 1301PE, Los Angeles, CA 


2012


Wild Country, Campoli Presti, London, UK


2011

Blake Rayne, Formalist Sidewalk Poetry Club, Miami Beach, FL

Shade Subscription, Capitain Petzel Gallery, Berlin, Germany

Coastal Graphics, Sutton Lane, Paris, France

2010
Folder and Application, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, NY

Rationalisme Appliqué: Blake Rayne & Scott Lyall, 1301 PE, Los Angeles, CA

2009
The World of Interiors at War, Terri and Donna, Miami, FL

2008

Blake Rayne, Sutton Lane, Paris, France
Dust of Suns, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, NY

2007

The Disappearance of Red Pistachio Shells / The Dawn of the Californian Nut Industry(1979), Sutton Lane c/o Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France

2006

Wallace Nutting with Julia Hill, Sutton Lane, London, UK
Empedocles/Hölderlin, Cézanne/Gasquet, Straub/Huillet, Dominique Païni & Blake Rayne, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, NY


2005

Untitled Painting, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami, FL
Untitled Painting, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York, NY

2003
Three of the Four Seasons: “August Evening Walkout,” Greene Naftali, New York, NY


2001
Three of the Four Seasons: “The Winter Line 2,” Greene Naftali, New York, NY

2000
Three of the Four Seasons: “The Winter Line 1,” Johnen + Schöttle, Cologne, Germany

1999
Three of the Four Seasons: “Fall Bouquet,” Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany

1998
Three of the Four Seasons: “Autumn Drive,” Greene Naftali, New York, NY

1997
The Arrangement, Newsantandrea, arte contemporanea, Savona, Italy

1996
Model, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions
 


2017

Summer Show, 1301PE, Los Angeles, CA

TRUTH BISTRO, curated by Gabriel Lima, Kai Matsumiya, New York, NY
 


2016
See sun, and think shadow, Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY


Tre Amici, Long Branch, NJ

Tales of Ratiocination, Campoli Presti, London

Small Choice in Rotten Apples, Off Vendome, New York, NY


Art Basel | Campoli Presti | 2016

SculptureCenter at EXPO CHICAGO 2016, SculptureCenter


1301PE at The Armory Show 2016, 1301PE

2015
Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Works on Paper, Greene Naftali, New York, NY 

Call and Response, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, NY

BLUEPRINT, Curated by Sebastiaan Bremer, Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, NY

Pure Paint for Now People, Curated by Lydia Gravis and Matthew Choberka, Mary Eliz- abeth Dee Shaw Gallery, Weber State University, Ogden, UT


Campoli Presti at Art Basel in Miami Beach 2015, Campoli Presti

SculptureCenter at Frieze New York 2015, SculptureCenter

1301PE at The Armory Show 2015, 1301PE


2014
Postcodes: Kind, Coletor, São Paolo, Brazil
PLIAGE/FOLD, Gagosian Gallery, Paris, France

Campoli Presti at Frieze London 2014, Campoli Presti

1301PE at Art Los Angeles Contemporary 2014, 1301PE

2013


Une tradition matérielle, FRAC - Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Poitou-Charentes, France
Chat Jet: Painting ‹Beyond›The Medium, curated by Sandro Droschl and Christian Eg- ger, Künstlerhaus, Graz, Austria 


2012
Art|43|Basel – Art Galleries, Miguel Abreu Gallery, Basel, Switzerland

I Think and That Is All That I Am, Thomas Duncan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2011

Art|Basel|Miami Beach – Art Galleries, Miguel Abreu Gallery, Miami, FL
Art Brussels 29, Miguel Abreu Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
System Analysis, Langen Foundation, Neuss, Germany
New York to London and Back: The Medium of Contingency, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK

2010

Systems Analysis, West London Projects, London, UK
Nikolas Gambaroff, Michael Krebber, R. H. Quaytman, Blake Rayne, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway
Swell: Art 1950 – 2010, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
Besides, With, Against, And Yet: Abstraction and The Ready-Made Gesture, curated by Debra Singer, The Kitchen, New York, NY
Fax, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong, SAR
Fax, curated by João Ribas (The Drawing Centre) and Independent Curators In- ternational, The Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA

2009

Collatéral, curated by Yann Chevalier, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France
“The Practice of Joy Before Death; It just would not be a party without you," a Die Störung Situation, Scaramouche Gallery, New York
Practice vs. Object, organized by Margaret Liu Clinton, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, NY
The Space of the Work and the Place of the Object, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY


2008
Art|39|Basel – Art Premiere, with Scott Lyall, Miguel Abreu Gallery, Basel, Switzerland

2007

Regroup Show, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, NY
Thanksgiving, Sutton Lane c/o Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
Form as Memory, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York, NY
For the People of Paris, Sutton Lane c/o Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France (Cat.)

2006

Make Your Own Life: Artists In and Out of Cologne, Institute of Contemporary Art, Uni- versity of Pennsylvania, PA (touring: Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seat- tle, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami)
Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand

In Dialogue: Cecily Brown, Jacqueline Humphries, Blake Rayne, Pieter Schoolwerth, Josh Smith, Charline von Heyl, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York

2004

The Sublime is (Still) Now, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, NY
Establishing Shots, curated by Christian Rattemeyer, Artists Space, New York, NY

The New Romantics, Greene Naftali, New York, NY

2003
Nature Boy, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, NY

Everybody Knows This is Nowhere, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami, FL

2002
Painting as Paradox, curated by Lauri Firstenberg, Artists Space, New York, NY 2001-02

Surrounding Interiors: Views Inside the Car, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale; Davis Mu- seum and Cultural Center, Wellesley Massachusetts; The Frederick R. Weisman Muse- um, University of Minnesota, MN

2001

Extended Painting, Monica De Cardenas, Milano, Italy

Group Show, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami, FL


2000

New, New, New, curated by Patrick Callery, AdHoc in conjunction with The New Muse- um, New York, NY
3ness, curated by Dike Blair, Jim Dams & Edith Doove, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Belgium

Trailer, Greene Naftali, New York, NY

1999

Group show, Johnen + Schottle, Cologne, GermanyMalerei, Kunsthalle INIT, Berlin, Germany

Foul Play, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY
Free Coke, Greene Naftali, New York, NY
Part I. Quadrants - Answer yes, no, or don't know, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New YorkCruise Control, Cristinerose Gallery, New York

1998

I LOVE NEW YORK - crossover of contemporary art, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Encyclopedia 1999, Turner & Runyon, Dallas, TX
Surfacing the Surface, DFN Gallery, New York

Painting: Now and Forever, Part I, Pat Hearn / Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY

Super Freaks-Post Pop & the New Generation, Part II; Odyssey, Greene Naftali, New York, NY

1996-97
100 Photographs, American Fine Arts, Co., New York, NY 1996

The Garage Project: Form 6 Lumina; Thomas Baldwin & Blake Rayne, sponsored by the Mak Center for Art and Architecture, The Schindler Apartments, Los Angeles, CA


1995

Tell Everyone, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, NY

1994

Crash, Threadwaxing Space, New York, NY
Blake Rayne & Scott Lyall, John Good Gallery, New York, NY

Books and Publications

Blair, Dike. “Some Thoughts, 3 Things, and 9 Artists.” 3ness. Deurle: Museum Dhondt- Dhaenens, 2000.
Collatéral. Poitiers: Le Confort Moderne; London: Sutton Lane; Leipzig: Lubok, 2010. Duncan, Thomas, et al. Gambaroff, Krebber, Quaytman, Rayne. Bergen: Bergen Kun- sthall, 2010. pp. 50-65.

For the People of Paris. London: Sutton Lane, 2007. pp. 90-93.

I Love New York-crossover of contemporary art. Cologne: Museum Ludwig, 1998. Mackay, Robin, ed. The Medium of Contingency. London: Urbanomic; London: Riding- house, 2011.
Rayne, Blake. Miami, FL: Kevin Bruk Gallery, 2005.
Rayne, Blake, et al. Tense and Spaced Out. Houston; Blaffer Museum of Art; Berlin: Sternberg Press; New York: Sequence Press, 2017.
Schneider, Christiane Maria, ed. Systemanalyse. Neuss: Langen Foundation; Wupper- tal: Prometheus, 2011. pp. 34-39.
Schwabsky, Barry, and Jessica Stockholder, eds. Vitamin P2: New Perspectives in Painting. London: Phaidon, 2011. pp. 254-55.
Simpson, Bennett, and Joseph Strau. Make your own life: Artists in and Out of Cologne.Philadelphia, PA: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 2006.

Selected Bibliography

2017

Galvez, Paul. “Blake Rayne ,” Artforum, Vol. 55, No. 7, March 2017, pp. 273-274 Hawley, Anthony. “Proposing Painting as a Form of Refusal,” Hyperallergic, February 21, 2017

2016

“Blake Rayne, ‘These Pellets Here This Powder There’,” Time Out New York, May 30


2014

“Blake Rayne, ‘On Fridays We Have Half Days’,” Time Out New York, May 15-21

2012

Braithwaite, Hunter. “Critic’s Pick: Formalist Sidewalk Poetry Club,” Artforum.com, De- cember 27

2011
Beeson, John. “Mode of Production,” Texte zur Kunst, No, 84, December

Macaes, Bruno. “Blake Rayne’s Shade Subscription,” Art-agenda.com, October 11 2010

Burns, Aileen. “Gambaroff, Rayne, Quaytman, Krebber.” Art in America, November-De- cember
Halle, Howard. “Blake Rayne, Folder and Application,” Time Out New York. May 27 - June 2

2009

Lewis, David. “Critic’s Picks: Collatéral,” Artforum.com, July 13
Ho-Sing, Nikki. “A Solid Existence,” Tokion, V 2.9, March
Johnson, Ken. “Aesthetic Withdrawal in the Quest for Ideas,” The New York Times. Jan- uary 22

2008

Lewis, David. “Blake Rayne,” Frieze, October
Marshall, J. Piper. “Blake Rayne,” Art Papers, July-August
Basta, Sarina. “Blake Rayne,” Texte zur Kunst, No. 70, June
Coburn, Tyler. “Blake Rayne,” ArtReview, Summer
Bentley, Kyle. “Blake Rayne,” Artforum. Summer
Doran, Anne. “Blake Rayne,” Time Out New York. May 8-14, p. 62 Saltz, Jerry. “Critic’s Pick, Blake Rayne,” New York Magazine, April 29 Cotter, Holland. “Blake Rayne,” The New York Times, April 24


2007

Lavrador, Judicaël. “Blake Rayne,” Les Inrockuptibles. No. 600, May 29

2006

Burton, Johanna. "Sufficient Grounds," Artforum, October Moreno, Gean. "Blake Rayne," Artpapers, May-June

2004
Sholis, Brian. “Critic's Pick: ...The New Romantics,” artforum.com, January

Glueck, Grace. “The New Romantics,” The New York Times, January 23
2003

Kelsey, John. “Blake Rayne: Greene Naftali,” Artforum, September
McAllister, Jackie. “Blake Rayne ...August Evening Walk Out,” Time Out New York, May 29 - June 5
Johnson, Ken. “Art Review: Blake Rayne,” The New York Times, May 23

2001
Aukeman, Anastasia. “Blake Rayne at Greene Naftali,” Art in America, April

Simpson, Bennett. “Blake Rayne,” Frieze, Issue 58, April 2000

Brennan, Michael. “Painter's Journal”, artnet.com, November
Griffin, Tim. Review, “The Winter Line,” Time Out New York. November 16 - 23, p. 82

Review, “The Winter Line,” The New Yorker. November 13 Griffin, Tim. “Blake Rayne,” purple prose. Summer

1999

Roos, Von Renate. “Des Pudels Kern,” Review Galerie Johnen + Schottle, Kölner Stadt- Anzeiger. June 22
Jocks, Heinz-Norbert. “I Love New York,” Kunstforum. January-February, p. 346

1998

“Ich kaufe gern,” Das Wichtigste, July 11
Skelton, Carl. “Painting Now and Forever Part 1,” dART International, Fall
Blair, Dike. “Autumn Drive,” The Thing. www.thing.net, October
“Mob Rule #16: Are You Being Installed?,” NY Arts Magazinem No. 25, October, p. 7-8 Conley, Kevin. “Autumn Drive,” The New Yorker, October 12, p.19-20
Blackburn, Meg. “Autumn Drive,” NY Arts Magazine, No. 24, September, p.38 Schmerler, Sarah. “Autumn Drive,” Time Out New York, October 1-8, p. 64
Pinchbeck, Daniel. interview, The Art Newspaper, Vol, X, No. 84, September, p.60

1997

Berruti, Antonella. “The Arrangement,” Juliet
Conti, Viana. “The Arrangement,” Flash Art, Vol. XXX, No. 205
Dee Mitchell, Charles. “Blake Rayne at Greene Naftali,” Art in America, May

1996
Anastas, Rhea. “Notes toward a Criticism for Artists Who Write,” Spring

Teaching

2003-2010

Assistant Professor & Director of Graduate Studies, Columbia University, School of the Arts, New York

Awards

2010
Fellowship at the American Academy in Berlin



2001
Richard and Hinda Rosenthal Foundation Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters



Selected Public Collections

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY 

Portland Museum of Art, Portland, OR
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Cerntre Georges Pompidou, Paris France
FRAC - Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain Poitou-Charentes, France

Born in Athens, Greece, lives and works in Athens and New York
 

Education

2006-08 MFA Columbia University, New York, US

1997-02  Athens School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece

1991-03 National Music School of Athens, Cello Higher Diploma

Solo Exhibitions and Performances

2020

IASI, STAGE OF RECOVERY, DE APPEL, AMSTERDAM

IASI, TAVROS, ATHENS (ONGOING)

GEORGIA SAGRI: IASI, MIMOSA HOUSE, LONDON

2019

DIAPHRAGM, CENTRAL FINE, MIAMI BEACH, FL

STAGE OF MANEUVRES, GIANNI MANHATTAN, VIENNA, AUSTRIA

2018

GEORGIA SAGRI AND I, PORTIKUS, FRANKFURT/MAIN, GERMANY

GEORGIA SAGRI, KUNSTVEREIN, BRAUNSCHWEIG, GERMANY

GEORGIA SAGRI: HOUSEHOLD, ESSEX STREET, NEW YORK, NY

GEORGIA SAGRI: HOUSEHOLD, LARS FREIDRICH, BERLIN, GERMANY

2017

DYNAMIS, DOCUMENTA 14 BENAKI MUSEUM OF GREEK CULTURE, ATHENS, GREECE

DYNAMIS, DOCUMENTA 14 GLAS-PAVILLONS AT KURT-SCHUMACHER-SRAßE, KASSEL

2016

Business Meeting with Dry Ear, two person show, with Diego Singh, Central Fine, Miami

2015

my first science fiction book, Religion, KW Berlin; 14th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul

Exhibita.ch/EAT THE TOOL, Fordé, Geneva

Daily Bread, supported by Issue Project Room, New York

2014

Mona Lisa Effect, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland

Long Live the Lions Wolves, Kitchen NY, New York

2013

Lived Life, CENTRAL FINE, Miami Beach

Diana Very Dog, CENTRAL FINE, Miami Beach

2012

Diana Speaks with Animals, CENTRAL FINE, Miami Beach

TWO: drawings by Georgia Sagri, Andrew Roth Gallery, New York

Georgia Sagri, Performance, Lars Friedrich, Berlin, Germany

Georgia Sagri, Gardens, Andreas Melas & Helena Papadopoulos Gallery

2011

Μοντ?λο της Αντιγ?νης, Real Fine Arts, New York

Masks/Species of Politics, The Luminous Interval: The D. Daskalopoulos Collection, Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain (curated by Nancy Spector)

2010

One, SOTOSO, Boulevard Maurice Lemonnier 167, Brussels

ΓΑΛΑΞΗ/ Another Study of the Same Page, A.D. gallery, Athens, Greece

Georgia Sagri, Vitamin Kids for Trio A, one night event, Artists Space, New York, (curated by Amy Owen)

Put Your Money Where Your Mouth Is and If Approaching Pain Gives You a Way of Recovering the Memory of Flesh Then Go Elsewhere, On Stellar Rays, New York

Yze Alone, performance at The National Theater of Greece, Rex Theater, Upper Circle Foyer, Athens,  Greece (curated by Ghislaine Dantan and Eleni Coucou)

2008

Edtaonisl, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London

When you see me again it won’t be me, performance with the dance group ‘It’s our pleasure to serve you’, Smith Stewart Gallery, New York

2005

Confession, Gazon Rouge, Athens, Greece

2003

Georgia Sagri, Gazon Rouge, Athens, Greece

Group Exhibitions

2020

AND THERE I LAY DOWN ON THE GROUND, (CURATED BY CHRISTINA LEHNERT), CROY NIELSEN, VIENNA

CUERPOS, LODOS, MEXICO CITY

TIME IS THIRSTY, KUNSTHALLE WIEN, MUSEUM QUARTIER, AUSTRIA, VIENNA

2019

DO YOU KEEP THINKING THERE MUST BE ANOTHER WAY, MIMOSA HOUSE, LONDON, UK 2018 RESPONSE, WEISS FALK, BASEL, SWITZERLAND

BURN IT CLEAN, 1301PE, WEST BEVERLY, LOS ANGELES, CA 2017 CHANGE OF STATE, ESSEX STREET, NEW YORK,

NY I CALL THIS PROGRESS TO A HALT, LACE, LOS ANGELES, CA DESTE PRIZE: AN ANNIVERSARY EXHIBITION 1999-2015, MUSEUM OF CYCLADIC, ATHENS GREECE

2016

Exercises of Fredom: #19 Attempt. Come. Documenta 14, Athens.

Antigona Model, Onassis Foundation, New York

What people do for money, Manifesta 11, Switzerland

Bread and Roses, The Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw

The Eccentrics, Sculpture Center, New York

Secret Surface, KW Institute for Contemporary Art

2015

14th Istanbul Biennial

 forde.ch/exhibita.ch/eat the tool, Forde, Switzerland

2014

I love you Me either, Project Native Informant, London

2013

Biennale de Lyon

Expo 1: New York, MoMA PS1

In the Heart of the Country: Saloon Georgia Sagri, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw

2012

Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art

2011

MASSAGE [Paul, Rosenkranz, Sagri, Walczak], Andrew Roth Gallery, New York (curated by Alex Kitnick)

2010

Reconstruction #1, On Stellar Rays, New York

Perpetuum nonstabile: Cantata #2 for Lost House Painters, Solo Viola and a Jukebox, performance by Daniel Bozhkov and Georgia Sagri. Cello Suite No.3 in C major by Johann Sebastian Bach, Raul Garcia, viola, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY

Father, Mendes Wood, Sao Paulo, Brazil (curated by Diego Singh)

2009

One Minute More, The Kitchen, New York (curated by Debra Singer

Looking back: The White Columns Annual, White Columns, New York (curated by Primary Information)

Vlassis Caniaris. In Contrapunto, National Bank Cultural Foundation, Athens, Greece

The First Image, Centre Regional d’Art Contemporain Languedoc Roussilon, Sete, France (curated by   Denys Zacharopoulos)

Back to Crazy, TERRI AND DONNA, Miami Beach

2008

A Seer Out of Season, On Stellar Rays, New York (curated by Candice Mandey and

Tairone Bastien)

Yes, AR/Contemporary Gallery, Milan (curated by Tairone Bastien)

Altoids Awards, performance with Ei Arakawa, New Museum, New York

Below Is The Sea And Our Desert Is Beside Us, Art Unlimited, Art Basel 39

Columbia University Thesis Show, Fisher Landau Art Center, Long Island, New York (curated by Joao   Ribas)

This is the waiting room, performance with the dance group ‘It’s our pleasure to serve you’, The Unfair Art Fair, Rome, Italy

When you see me again it won’t be me, performance with the dance group ‘It’s our pleasure to serve you’, Smith Stewart Gallery, New York

After Dark, Bushwick Star, New York

Untitled: This is what is going to happen, Lumen House, New York (curated by Summer Guthrey)

Nichts Ist Aufregend, Nichts Ist Sexy, Nichts Ist Nicht Peinlich, performance with the dance group ‘It’s our  pleasure to serve you’ Mumok, Vienna (curated by Achim Hochdörfer und Tanja Widmann)

2007

Mini Concerts in Back Valley, Smith Stewart Gallery, New York

Below Is The Sea And Our Desert Is Beside Us, Destroy Athens, 1st Athens Biennial, Athens, Greece  (curated by XYZ)  

Fractured Figure, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece (curated by Jeffrey Deitch)

Dream and Trauma, Works from Dakis Joannou collection, Athens, a joint project with Kusthalle Wien and Mumok Museum, Wien

1st Year MFA Show, Columbia University, New York

2006

Panic Room, The Dakis Joannou Collection, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece

An Outing: The Beltsios Collection: Contemporary Art in Greece in the 21st Century, Trikala, Greece

Art Fab ‘Women in Europe’, group exhibition, Saint Tropez, France

Tatoo My Art, group exhibition, A.Antonopoulou.Art, Athens, Greece (curated by Nadja Argyropoulou)

2005

The Gesture. A Visual Library in Progress, QUARTER, Centro Produzione Arte, Florence,Italy (curated by Marina Fokidis)

Protaseis, Kodra, Thessaloniki, Greece

The Gesture. A Visual Library in Progress, Macedonian Museum of Modern Art, Thessaloniki, Greece

Homage to Drawing, A.Antonopoulou Gallery, Athens, Greece

The Simple Life, Hydra High School, Hydra, Greece

7 Performances & A Conversation, Athens, Greece

Lost in Translation, Hellenic American Union, Athens,   Greece

2004

Manderlay, Hotel Astoria, Thessaloniki, Greece

Videokunst Geist, Gemeinschaft und Tschai, Athens, Greece

Domestic Alien, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens, Greece (curated by Kostis Velonis)

Et In Iraq Ego, Alpha Station, Athens, Greece

Processing Radar, Technopolis, Municipality of Athens, Athens, Greece

Breakthrough! Greece 2004: Contemporary Perspective in the Visual Arts, ARCO 2004,Madrid, Spain

2003

So Much… So Great, Contemporary Art Center, Larissa, Greece (curated by Xenia

Kalpaktzoglou Solus Locus, Gazon Rouge, Athens, Greece

Radar, Contemporary Arts for European Cities, Venice Biennale, Centro Civicio, Giudecca, Venice, Italy

Anthem to Freedom, Gazon Rouge, Athens, Greece

2002

Seeing is Beleiving, Gazon Rouge, Athens, Greece

Still Life I, School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece

Glimpses, digital loops, htpp://www.softknot.gr/glimpses

Ruins Inhabitants- Still Life II, Hotel Theoxenia, , Portaria, Greece

2001

In the Shop Window, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece

A Damaged Piece of Video for Closed Eyes, Café Muller, Rotterdam, Holland

Before You Enter Take Your Shoes Off, School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece

2000

Night Town Café, Rotterdam, Holland

1999

Polytechnic 1999, the Polytechnic, Patission Street, Athens, Greece

1997

Fluxus, The Factory, School of Fine Arts, Athens, Greece

Awards

2015 Artadia Award

2007 Joan Sovern Sculpture Award

2005 Spyropoulos Foundation, 2nd Award, Athens, Greece

2001 Deste Foundation, 1st Prize, In the Shop Window, Athens, Greece

Scholarships

2006 Fulbright Foundation

2006 A.S. Onassis Foundation

2006 Leventis Foundation

2006 Propondis Foundation

Founder HYLE

Founder and Editor in Chief of audio-only magazine FORTÉ: www.magazineforte.com

Blog: www.georgiasagri.blogspot.com

Born in Sabinas Hidalgo, Nuevo León, Mexico

based in New York, NY

EDUCATION

2008 MFA IN SCULPTURE, COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY, NEW YORK, NY

1999 BFA IN SCULPTURE, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

1992-1996 Apprenticeship, Gunter Seidl - Regilhofer

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021 mia/ber, berlin arts club, berlin, germany (forthcoming)

2021 palm, bridge red, north miami beach, fl

2020 Untitled, cindy rucker gallery, new york, ny

2018 2020, central fine, miami beach, fl

2012 untitled, general audience presents, north miami beach, fl

2010 Untitled, number 35 gallery, new york, ny

2010 untitled, rush arts project space, new york, ny

2010 untitled, chi chiz, new york, ny

2009 faking death, terri and donna, miami, fl

2007 Untitled, abrosino gallery, north miami beach, FL

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020 Time and Place, JFK train shuttle, Queens, NY

2019 Untitled, ICA Miami, Miami, fl

2014 “gay” the bca art gallery at hostos college, new york, ny

2013 exile on main street, collaborative installation, denniston hill, [wilde, lam, cleaver, tocklas], glen wild, ny

2013 smoke signals, paisajes and allegories, south florida art center, miami beach, fl

2012 moby dick [for oscar wilde, oscar romero y oscar grant], de

2012 cordova sculpture park and museum, collaborative installation, lincoln, ma

2012 portals y paisajes smoke signals, under the bridge, miami, fl

2011 el museo’s the s files, el museo del barrio bienal, new york, ny

2011 (dis) located, art for change gallery, new york, ny

2011 back to basics, Self made new york, ny

2011 untitled, tomio koyama, tokyo, japan

2011 improvising architecture, miami international art fair, miami, fl

2010 father, mendes wood, sao paulo, brazil

2010 brooklyn base, corridor gallery, brooklyn, ny

2010 [name] publications, de la cruz collection contemporary art space, miami, fl

2009 broken thorn sweet blackberry, sikkema jenkins & co, collaborative installation, new york, ny

2009 the practice of joy before death, scaramouche c/o fruit and flowers deli, new york, ny

Born in Argentina, lives and works in New York  

Education

2013-Present

PhD candidate at the Department of Comparative Literature, New York University. Advisor: Boris Groys.

2017

MA in Comparative Literature, New York University. Thesis title: “Truth as a Rapidly Fleeing Grimace: Kafka’s Zürau Aphorisms and Chiasmic Unity.”

2007-2013                                                                   

Licenciatura en Filosofía, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires. 

Scholarships and awards

2013-2018

MacCracken Fellowship, New York University.

2012

Santander Río National Award for Academic Merit, a national award offered by Banco Santander Río, an Argentine bank, providing support for one year.

Six-month extension of Beca Estímulo, a merit-based fellowship to support research at the University of Buenos Aires. 

2011

Beca Estímulo.

2006

Bourse d’Éxcellence, a merit-based scholarship from the French government to pursue undergraduate studies in France. Declined.

Solo Presentations

2020

“Constanza” CENTRAL FINE, Miami Beach

2018

“ Infancia”, Plymouth Rock, Zurich

Teaching

Spring 2019

“Texts and Ideas: The Image, Between Nature and Culture,” The College Core Curriculum, New York University.

Fall 2018

Teaching Assistant, “Dante’s Divine Comedy,” New York University.

Spring 2018

“Texts and Ideas: Moral Psychology,” The College Core Curriculum, New York University.

Fall 2017

“Texts and Ideas: Topics—Scenes of Instruction,” The College Core Curriculum, New York University. 

Academic Work

2013-2014

Editorial Assistant at Political Concepts: A Critical Lexicon, web-based journal directed by Ann Stoler and Jay Bernstein (New School for Social Research).

2012

Member of committee for the selection of teaching assistants of the first and second levels for the Logic course, University of Buenos Aires.

 Publications

 - “About the Veracity of Representation in Cartesian Philosophy”, inE. Assalone, L. Misseri (comp.), El giro subjetivista de la Filosofía Moderna: perspectivas históricas y debates contemporáneos, ISBN 978-987-26163-0-4, Mar del Plata, Ediciones Cátedra de Filosofía Moderna, 2010. Available online at: http://jornadasfilomoderna.blogspot.com

 ORAL PRESENTATIONS AT CONFERENCES

 - “Nor A Posteriori Nor Stipulated: Differences In How Biology and Chemistry Divide The Natural World”, in XVI National Congress of Philosophy, Buenos Aires, Argentina. Scheduled for March 2013.

 - “Natural Kind Terms: A Pluralistic Semantic Proposal”, in GAF Lectures, Argentine Society for Philosophical Analysis (SADAF). November 2012.

 - “Causality and Material Falsity in Descartes’ Theory of Ideas”, inXV National Congress of Philosophy, Buenos Aires, Argentina. December 2010.

 - “About the Veracity of Representation in Cartesian Philosophy”, in National Conference on Modern Philosophy, Mar del Plata, Argentina. September 2010.

Collections

The Hall Collection

Born in Argentina
Studies

Social Communications, Universidad Argentina John F. Kennedy, Buenos Aires.

 Research Analyst, Aesthetics and Hermeneutic Studies in the projects: “Surrealist Poetry in the 40’s in Argentina” and “Chronicles form el Rio de la Plata” under the directorship of PhD Graciela Maturo; Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnologicas (CONICET)

Introduction to Cinema, Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA)

Juror/Correspondent

2020

Regional Correspondent for the Future Art Generation Award, Pinchuk Foundation, Ukraine

2016

Regional Correspondent for the Future Art Generation Award. Pinchuk Foundation, Ukraine

2014

Regional Correspondent for the Future Art Generation Award. Pinchuk Foundation, Ukraine

Awards

2019

Knight Foundation Champion, awarded by the Knight Foundation.

2015

Knight Foundation Champion, awarded by the Knight Foundation.

​One and two person Presentations

2024 

Flaming Mirror two-person presentation, with Tomm EL-Saieh, Luhring Augustine, Tribeca.

2018

Don’t Get Me Wrong CENTRAL FINE, Miami Beach

2016

Business Meeting with Dry Ear, (Diego Singh and Georgia Sagri), Central Fine Miami Beach. 2015

Yes No Thank You, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo

2014

Plateau Plateau, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami.

2012

unimodern gondolieri, Various Small Fires, Los Angeles

Uploading Submarine, Annarumma Gallery, Napoli

2011

Table for One, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo

Embarrassed by Loneliness, Mendes Wood Gallery, Art Futures, Art Basel Hong Kong.

2010

Pathological Liar/ Stalker, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami

Bulletproof, Mendes Wood Gallery, Säo Paulo

2007

The Indirect Man,Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo

2005

Rid of Me or the Exorcist, Fredic Snitzer Gallery, Miami

Group Presentations

2023

House in Motion: New Perspectives, De la Cruz Collection, Miami.

Shadowboxing it: Painting Peripheries, CENTRAL FINE, Miami Beach

2022

Fire, Figure, Fantasy, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami

The Hinge, Central Fine, Miami Beach.

CENTRAL SOUNDS, Luhring Augustine, Chelsea, New York.

2020

Your own eyes laying on the floor, CENTRAL FINE, Miami Beach (curated by Tomm El-Saieh)

2016

Holdings: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, June-September

Face to Face, Selections from the Ernesto Esposito Collection, Palazzo Fruscione, Salerno, Italy

2015

Locally Sourced, The American University Museum, Washington DC

Recent Acquisitions, Pérez Art Museum Miami.

 2014

Prospects,  MOCA San Diego

Le Ragioni Della Pittura. Esiti e Prospettive di un Medium , Fondazione Malvina Menegaz, Castelbasso.

Faceoff, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv.

 2013

Collection, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Singapore, April 9th-28.

Le Fil Rouge, Lucie Fontaine, Various Small Fires, Los Angeles.

2011

Selections from the De La Cruz Collection for Art Basel Miami Beach, De la Cruz Collection, Miami, FL

-smART, Freedom Tower, Miami Dade Community College (curated by Sonia Becce), Miami

 2010

Father, Mendes Wood Gallery, Säo Paulo

 2009

Back To Crazy, Terri And Donna, Miami

 2007

Drawn In/ Drawn Out, Florida Atlantic University

 2006

Think Warm, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo

Constant Disturbance, Centro Cultural Espanol, Miami

For all and for no one, (curated by Bonnie Clearwater) Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami

2004

I Feel Mysterious Today, (Curated by Dominic Molon) Palm Beach ICA

Pinata Party, Gavin Brown's Enterprise at Passerby, NY

Bibliography

Monographs

2011

Table For One, Dominic Molon, Diego Singh, Rene Morales, Hernan Bas, Gerard Hemsworth, Sonia Becce. Published by Old Hand Office, Tomio Koyama Gallery and Mendes Wood Gallery.

Catalogues

2024

Gartenfeld Alex; Seidel, Stephanie,;Moreno, Gean: Fire Figure Fantasy, (upcoming) Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (upcoming)

Viola, Eugenio: La Ragione della Pittura, Fondazzione Malvina Menegaz per le Arti e la Cultura, Italy, 2014.

Becce, Sonia, smART, Miami Dade College, 2011

Moreno, Gean: Constant Disturbance, Centro Cultural Espanol, Miami, 2007

Molon, Dominic: I feel Mysterious Today, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, 2005

Books

Artistas Argentinos, Argentine Embassy in Miami, 2014

Contemporary Miami Artists, SchIffer Publishing, 2007

Writing

"I'll Make you Believe in Ghosts" Included in Jen DeNike, Sculpting Time, Feld+Haus Publishing and Signs and Symbols, 2021.

"Invention" Included in the monograph Georgia Sagri Georgia Sagri; Sternberg. press 2018.

Articles

2016

Abrams, Loney, “Can Abstract Painting Be Political? Curator Alex Gartenfeld on the Secret Power Relations Embedded in Contemporary Canvases”, Artspace.com, October 14, 2016. http://www.artspace.com/magazine/interviews_features/qa/new-museum-2018-triennial-curator-alex-gartenfeld-on-the-politics-of-abstraction-54284

2015

Menessini, Alesandra: “L’Argentina di Diego Singh per la primera volta della Macca”, L’Unione Sarda, july 5th

Vanali Roberta: “Arte dell'America Latina in Sardegna. Apre a Cagliari la nuova Galleria Macca: ecco le immagini dall'opening della personale di Diego Singh”, Artibune, Italy, July 5th

2012

Tolve, Antonello , “Evanescenza dell’identità. Diego Singh esordisce in Europa” December 5, 2012, Artibune, Italy.

Caragliano Renata: Prima Personalle in Europa dell’ Argentino Diego Singh, La Repubblica, October 20, 2012,Italy.

Forrest Nicholas: Diego Singh and Daniel Arsham headline MCLEMOI Gallery Group Show, December 2012

Forrest, Nicholas: “Diego Singh does denim at Sydney’s, MCLEMOI gallery, BlouinArt info, August 20, 2012.

2011

MODERN PAINTERS, “50 under 50, The Young Collectors Issue”, Pp. 68, Summer, 2011.

Moreno Sarah, SmArt, una muestra de art y educacion, El Nuevo Herald, December 2010

Moreno Gean, Diego Singh, ART NEXUS Magazine, October 2010

Triff Alfredo, Miami Bourbaki, Miami, April 2010

Turner Elisa, Art Circuits, March 2010

2010-2004

Moreno, Gean, “The brief life of TERRI AND DONNA”, Art Papers, 2010

Herrera, Adriana: “Quemando las Naves”, El Nuevo Herald, January, 2008

Moreno, Gean: “Self-portrait as Another”, ART PAPERS, May 2006

Tokyo Art Beat, 2007

Tomio Koyama Gallery Think Warm, Tokyo, 2007

Weinberg Michelle, Constant Disturbance, Miami Sun Post, January 2006

Weinberg, Michelle: Art KRUSH, LA, November 2005

Turner Elisa, Critic’s pick, The Miami Herald, October 2005

Herrera, Adriana, “Colgando de un Hilo”, El Nuevo Herald, Miami, September 2005

Alfredo Triff, “Loose Threads”, Miami New Times, September 2005

Suarez de Jesus Carlos,” In darkness there is light”, Miami New Times, October 2005

Schwan, Gary: “Goth meets Goethe”, Palm Beach Post. Jan, 2005

Herrera, Adriana: “Viajeros del Lberinto”, El Nuevo Herlad, Feb, 2005, Miami, Florida

MAG, Museum Reviews, “I Feel Mysterious Today”, Palm Beach Institute of

Contemporary Art, December 2004

Martell, Marisol. “Art Chicago”, Art Nexus, October 2004.

Molon, Dominic, “I Feel Mysterious Today”, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, 2004

Molon, Dominic. Art Talk, Art Circuits, November 2004

Moreno, Gean.“If You Believe Hard Enough”, ART US, September

October, 2004

Sjostrom, Jan: “Art of Ambiguity”, Palm Beach Daily News, Palm Beach, October 28, 2004

Public Collections

Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami (ICA Miami)

Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MOCA San Diego)

Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM)

Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami

Born in West Chester, Philadelphia. Lives and works in New York

Studies

2016 MFA, Milton Avery Graduate School of Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA

2011 - 2012 Kunstakademie Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany

(Guest student klasse Christopher Williams and klasse Peter Doig)

2009 BA (Film Studies and Visual Arts), Columbia University, New York, New York, USA

Selected Exhibitions

2020-2021

A Possible Horizon, Selections from the de la Cruz Collection, Miami, (2020-2021)

2020

Heard Through Bone (solo), Central Fine, Miami Beach

2019

Error: Erred (solo), David Lewis, New York

Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

2018

Tremoring Cup, Sophie Tappeiner, Vienna, Austria

Like crazy nature (solo), Central Fine, Miami Beach USA

Kitnick & Thurman, Front International: Digital Infinity, Cleveland Triennial, USA 2017

Hadi Fallahpisheh, Dani Leder, Kyle Thurman, Off Vendome, New York, USA 2016

Kitnick & Thurman, Parapet Real Humans, St. Louis, USA

A Lonely Butcher (solo), Off Vendome, New York, USA

A Change of Heart, Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles, USA organized by Chris Sharp

Finding Ling-Ling’s Head, Cookie Butcher, Antwerp, Belgium

2015

Towards A Technical Being (solo), Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium

to drink with teeth (solo), Kostyal, London, England

Heat Theater (solo), Off Vendome, Dusseldorf, Germany

The Gentle Way (Judo), Clifton Benevento, New York, USA organized by Zak Kitnick

Seven Artists in Two Rooms, OFFSITE, New York, USA

2014

Three Cups Fragrance, Bodega, New York, USA

On Kindness: Jacob Kassay & Kyle Thurman, MOCA Tucson, Tuscon, USA Trust (Vita Vel Regula), Fluxia Gallery, Milan, Italy organized by Michele D’Aurizio

Day-For-Night / Nuit Americaine, Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium

Mineral Spirit, Laurel Gitlen, New York, USA

Idiosynchromism, Dickinson Gallery, New York, USA

That Singing Voice, Galeria Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain organized by Matt Moravec

Stay in Love, Lisa Cooley & Laurel Gitlen, New York, USA organized by Chris Sharp

2013

Banana Tourist (solo), Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium

Rock Art & the X-Ray Style, Brighton Beach, USA organized by Ryan Foerster

Kyle Thurman (solo), Room East, New York, USA

Space Whole Karaoke, Middlemarch, Brussels, Belgium

Kyle Thurman, Israel Lund, John Baptiste Bernadet, Josh Smith, TORRI, Paris, France

Dead Zone, Nudashank, Baltimore, USA

2012

(305) 696-0800 (solo), Shoot the Lobster, Miami, USA

Red, Maison Particuliere, Brussels, Belgium

Henry Codax, Virginia Overton, Kyle Thurman, Office Baroque, Antwerp, Belgium

Group Show, West Street Gallery, New York, USA

Braman, Buren, Falls, Heilmann, Louis, Thurman, Eleven Rivington, New York, USA

Lackawanna (Sebastian Black and Kyle Thurman), C L E A R I N G, Brussels, Belgium

2011

Royal Rumble at Waffle House, C L E A R I N G and The Journal, Miami, USA

Time and Material, M and B Art, Los Angeles, USA organized by Matt Moravec

Harvest Moon, Brighton Beach, USA organized by Ryan Foerster

Ryan Foerster and Kyle Thurman, West Street Gallery, New York, USA 2010

Press Release, Martos Gallery, New York, USA

2009

Apartment Show, Printed Matter, New York, USA

Young Artists, The Mercantile Fiction Library, New York, USA

Public Collections

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Selected Press

CONDO New York, Art Observed, 26 July 2017

Aaron Bogart, Kyle Thurman Off Vendome, Flash Art, 311 November - December 2016

Zak Kitnick, Arms or Legs or Butts or Guts, ARTNEWS, 30 September 2016 Clayton Press, A Lonely Butcher, Arteviste, October 2016

Roberta Smith, 15 Group Shows Not to Miss, The New York Times, 29 January 2015 Abraham Adams, Three Cups Fragrance, Artforum (Critics' Picks), 16 December 2014 Karen Rosenberg, Stay In Love, The New York Times, 17 January 2014

Will Heinrich, Stay in Love, Observer, 15 January 2014

Claude Lorent, Avec des fleurs pigmentées, La Libre Belgique, 17 January 2014

Visiting Artist & related experience

Summer 2016 - Program Assistant - Milton Avery School of the Arts, Bard MFA, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA

Spring 2016 semester - Visiting Artist - Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA Fall 2015 semester - Visiting Artist - School of Visual Arts, New York, USA

Writing & exhibition organization

The Longest Bridge, Off Vendome, New York, 2015