Artists
A – C
Artemio Narro
Artemio Narro (b.1976) refers to himself as the “Rolls Royce” of contemporary Mexican art. A founding member of the alternative art space, La Panadería, ARTEMIO is part of the generation of Mexican artists that came of age in the mid-90s who proposed artistic alternatives in video, installation and performance to the rise of neo-Mexican art and painting of the 80s. His experimental multimedia work stems from the appropriation and reinterpretation of pop cultural elements as in his Rambo 2001, in which he edited out all the physical and verbal violence from the original movie. Previuos exhibitions include Otra de Vaqueros, CECCH, Centre d’édition contemporaine, Genève, Geneva (2007); Rising Stars: North Latin Americans, Galeria Nina Menocal, Mexico City; Perdidos en el despacio, Fundació Espai de Arte Contemporáneo, Girona; Distor, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City (2006); T1 Torino Triennale, Tremusei, Turin; Mexico Attacks!, MADC Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José, Queremos Rock!, Queens Nails Annex, San Francisco, CA (2006),Seducidos por el accidente, Fundación Luis Seoane, Coruna (2005); and Sólo los personajes cambian, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey. MARCO, Monterrey, NL (2004) and 9th Biennial La Habana, Cuba (2009).
http://www.galeriadelaraza.org/eng/exhibits2/archive/artists.php?op=view&id=663&media=info
Chris Vasell
Chris Vasell (b.1974) lives and works in Chicago where he also attended The School of the Art Institute. Vasell has recently been included in the group exhibition Stalemate at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. His distinct style stimulates a constant interplay between translucency and density and is echoed in the expressive nature of his work. His subject matter draws from an unabashed psychedelic and iconographic spiritualistic flow; an exuberance that remains attainable only through the formal organization of his media.
http://www.re-title.com/artists/cv/Chris-Vasell.asp
Amanda Ross-Ho
Amanda Ross-Ho(b.1975) works in painting, drawing, sculpture, installation, photography and uses found objects. She takes images from a wide variety of cultural locations, placing disparate references alongside each other in work for walls and floors, and as freestanding objects.
http://www.cherryandmartin.com/artistDetail.php?id=11
Brian Bress
Brian Bress (b.1975) is a Los Angeles based artist and filmmaker. His collages, photographs, videos and paintings have been exhibited in various group shows and film festivals in Los Angeles, Chicago and New York, including Spike and Mike’s Festival of Animation, Black Maria Film Festival, New York Director’s Club Biennial and The LA Weekly Biennial.
http://www.cherryandmartin.com/artistDetail.php?id=15
Chuck Webster
Webster has made a reputation for painting and drawing eccentric, often biomorphic abstractions on paper or panel with an endearing informality. The subject matter looked familiar: motifs that could have been gleaned from Navajo rugs, Anatolian Bronze necklaces, the back of a leaf or a bisected gourd. However, this time, the quirky forms took a back seat to process and material and, more essentially, to the time and matter implicit in Webster’s painting.
http://www.ziehersmith.com/a_webster.html
Bjorn Copeland
A possible casualty of long-term kaleidoscope abuse at an early age, New York artist Bjorn Copeland (B.1975), sucks in reality and spews it out piece by piece into collages of highly warped geometries that fizz on the eyes. Björn Copeland graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1998. His work has been shown in exhibitions around the world, including at PS1 Contemporary Art Center, D’Amelio Terras and the Gagosian Gallery in New York, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago, Galerie Frank Elbaz in Paris, France, Flaca in London, England, among other places. Solo shows of his work have been held at the Daniel Reich Gallery in New York, and China Art Object Galleries in Los Angeles.
http://bjorncopeland.com/info.html
C.F.
CF is a Providence-based artist and musician. He has exhibited in New York, Los Angeles, Providence, Athens, Tokyo and Switzerland. His books include Powr Mastrs volumes 1 and 2 (PictureBox). He performs his musicunder the name Kites and has numerous self released tapes as well as recordings on Load records.He plays hand made electronics, originally simple oscillators that have now advanced with hisskill as an instrument builder into more complicated synthesizers. Both his visual and aural arthas been influential among a growing underground of contemporary American art and music thatcould and maybe should be called “noise”. He helped to release the free comic Paper Rodeo andhas just published the first book of a trilogy titled Power Masters with Picture Box.
http://www.mfoldgallery.com/#/artistDetail/CF_/
Aaron Morse
Aaron Morse (b.1974) paints a kind of equilibrium. He mixes acrylic, watercolor and oil paint,
which don’t always chemically blend; subtle iridescence arises from colors reminiscent
of an oil slick or a solar burn, and brush strokes pile up. Everything sits on the surface —
interlocking shapes, mottled colors, painted daubs.Submarines, alligators and fish; rearing horses, running cattle, soaring vultures and weapon-wielding hunters; mountain peaks, trekkers and evergreens; oil tankers and sea swells — everything occupies a shallow, cramped, even clotted space. Some figures warp, as if twisted on a computer program or compressed by the shallow space.
http://www.guildgreyshkul.com/artist.php?id=102
Aaron King
In Aaron King’s work, piles, multiples, or modular structures are used to imply an accumulation. If something is piling up it is inherently tied to a larger indefinite number and the viewer, recognizing it as part of a larger whole, can develop a narrative around it. To further the confusion, he takes recognizable things and changes their properties through materials and the manner in which they are handled. For instance, ice cream made out of concrete is permanently stable and can be likened to a palette of bricks.
http://www.guildgreyshkul.com/artist.php?id=191&show=bio
Alex Kwartler
Alex Kwartler was born in New York City in 1979. Recipient of a BFA from the Cooper Union in 2002, he has presented his work in the U.S. in numerous exhibitions including Wu-Tang/curry-grit at Gavin Brown Enterprise, The Painted World at P.S1, and most recently in Parallel at Bortolami (New York). Kwartler has also shown his art internationally in exhibitions such as The Merits of Silence at Min Min Gallery (Tokyo) and Dark Dreams at Johnen Galerie (Cologne). His work has appeared in The New York Times and the New Yorker, and it will be featured in a forthcoming book on abstraction published by Phaidon Press.
http://www.artfacts.net/en/artist/alex-kwartler-57948/profile.html
Chris Dorland
Chris Dorland (b.1978) is a painter who lives and works in NYC. When he isn’t painting, he spends lots of time on his computer downloading images. Sometimes he uses them to make collages. “Basic Pleasuse Models” is Dorland’s second book with TV books. He does most of the plotting and figuring out beforehand on the computer. His process is getting more and more layered. There are many steps that involve scanning, printing and drawing. He usually makes five to ten versions of each painting on the computer. Once he’s done, he selects the print he likes best. Only then he gets around to the actual painting. From then on the only thing he cares about is the energy of the object he is working on. For him painting is an act of translation and reconstruction.
http://www.marcselwynfineart.com/artists/dorland/dorland.htm
Cheryl Donegan
Painting is the touchstone for Cheryl Donegan’s aesthetic, though she seldom produces work that resembles painting in any conventional sense. Born in New Haven, Connecticut in 1962, Cheryl Donegan took her B.F.A. in painting at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence before moving to New York City to study at Hunter College, where she completed a M.F.A. in 1990. Since her first solo show in 1993 she has exhibited widely, in Europe as well as North America. “Young and Restless”, an exhibition of contemporary video art currently at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, includes several of her works.
http://www.eai.org/eai/artistBio.htm?id=452
Iván Abreu
Iván Abreu’s (b.1967 in Havana) research is based in between demonstration, aesthetic discourse and social space. Abreu has exhibited in venues such as: PAN Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, (Italia, 2009), The NTU School Of Art, Design and Media, (Singapore, 2009), Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo [MUAC] (Mexico, 2009), Museo Experimental El Eco, (Mexico, 2008), MEIAC Extremeño and Museum Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo (Spain, 2008), Centro Cultural Border (Mexico, 2008), Museum XTeresa Arte Actual (Mexico, 2007, 2006), Cultural Center of Spain in Buenos Aires (Argentina, 2005), National Center for the Arts. (Mexico, 2006, 2005), Festival of media art: BigBlip05. (England, 2005), Museo Conde Duque (Spain, 2005), Museo Rufino Tamayo (Mexico, 2004, 2003), Laboratorio de Arte Alameda (Mexico, 2003), Ogaki Museum (Japan, 2003), Centro Wifredo Lam (Cuba, 2001, 2000), Kiehl Visual Arts Center, Minnesota (USA, 1999), Gallery of Konstfack (Sweden, 1997), Development Center of Visual Arts (Cuba, 1996).
Juan Carlos Alom
Juan Carlos Alom (City of Havana, 1964) Photographer and film director. His works communicate a personal imagery while also reflecting upon universal themes. Recent solo exhibitions include Evidencia, Iturralde Gallery, Los Angeles (2001); and Secret Shadows, Throckmorton Fine Art, New York (2000). Recent group exhibitions include Shifting Tides: Cuban Photography After the Revolution, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (2001) and From the Negative, Conceptual Photography from Cuba, Photographic Arts, Minneapolis (2000).
http://www.juancarlosalom.com/index.html
Cory Arcangel
Cory Arcangel (b. 1978) is a video and multimedia artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. He has exhibited at institutions including the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art, P.S.1/MoMA, Swiss Institute, Art in General, and White Columns in New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Tate Britain, Royal Academy of Art and Whitechapel Gallery in London; Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Valencia; Kunsthaus Graz, Austria; Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, Nam June Paik Art Center, Korea, Team Gallery, New York; Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg; and Deitch Projects, New York, among others.
http://www.beigerecords.com/cory
Alexander Arrechea
Alexandre Arrechea was born in Trinidad, Cuba, in 1970. The interdisciplinary quality of Alexandre Arrechea’s work reveals a profound interest in the exploration of both public and domestic spaces. This quest has led him to produce several monumental projects like “Ciudad Transportable” (2000), “The Garden of Mistrust” (2003-2005) and “Perpetual Free Entrance” (2006).
http://www.alexandrearrechea.com/#
Belkis Ayón
Belkis Ayón Manso (January 23, 1967 – September 11, 1999) was a Cuban artist and lithographer.Her work began exhibition in 1988, and exhibitions continued until at least 2006.Artworks such as: La Sentencia, Sikán, La Familia and La Ultima Cena, form the contemporary history of her art.
http://www.cnap.cult.cu/galeria/artistas/ayonbelkis.htm
Abel Barreto
Abel Barreto Olivera (b. Pinar del Río, Cuba, 1977) is Professor of Sculpture in the ISA Faculty of Plastic Arts. His works have been exhibited in Cuba, Mexico, Colombia, Spain, Germany and United States. He participated in the Contemporary Cuban Art Salon and in collateral exhibitions in the VII, VIII and X Havana Biennial. His works are part of private collections in Cuba, United States, Mexico and Norway.
http://www.galeriaexcelencias.com/en/artists/abel-barreto-olivera.html
Abel Barroso
Abel Barroso (b. Pinar del Río, 1971) exhibits internationally and has been awarded numerous prizes and residencies. His work combines sculpture, printmaking, and installation often commenting on themes of materialism and wealth. His sculptures and prints are in collections in Canada, Cuba, Germany, and the United States. Barroso currently lives and works in Havana.
http://www.medaid.org/www/art/artists/a_barroso/works.html#
Agustín Bejarano
Agustín Bejarano (b. 1964 in Camagüey, Cuba) is a painter Cuban, who has worked on the relationship between hedonism and representation in their engravings and in their paintings. Since 1993 he teaches at the ISA in Havana. His works participated at 185 expositions in 23 countries. They are in 9 museum collections and received 24 awards.
http://www.avantarte-cuba1.com/catalog3/art_09_w_en.php
Walead Beshty
Walead Beshty (b. 1976) is an artist and writer living and working in Los Angeles, California. He has exhibited at institutions including the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland; Whitney Museum of American Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, and Wallspace Gallery, New York; The Renaissance Society, Chicago; and Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, among others. He is a contributor to Texte zur Kunst, Artforum, and Afterall Journal, and is a faculty member of the Graduate Fine Art Program of Art Center College of Art and Design.
http://www.wallspacegallery.com/artists.html?id=2,6
Joe Bradley
Joe Bradley (b. 1975) lives and works in New York City. He has exhibited at institutions including P.S.1/MoMA, Whitney Museum of American Art, CANADA, Gagosian, D’Amelio Terras, and Deitch Projects, New York; Peres Projects, Los Angeles and Berlin; and Saatchi Gallery, London, among others. Reviews of Bradley’s work have been featured in The New York Times, artNews, Artforum, Frieze, Art in America, and V Magazine.
http://www.canadanewyork.com/artist/joe_bradley
Sarah Braman
Sarah Braman (b. 1970) lives and works in New York. She has participated in exhibitions at Dicksmith Gallery, Brown, Counter Gallery, London; P.S.1/MoMA, CANADA, D’Amelio Terras, Priska Juska Fine Art, White Box, Gavin Brown’s passerby, New York; Galeria Comercial, San Juan; small A projects, Portland; Greener Pastures Contemporary Art, Toronto, among others. She is a co-founder of the New York gallery CANADA.
http://www.canadanewyork.com/artist/sarah_braman
José Bedia
José Braulio Bedia Valdés (born January 13, 1959 in Havana, Cuba) is a Cuban painter. His artistic work has been presented in several individual shows, such as ‘”Final del Centauro”‘,1989 , Castillo de la Real Fuerza, Havana, Cuba. In 1994 was presented“José Bedia: De donde vengo”, in the Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, U.S.A. Also exhibiting at “InSite94: A Binational Exhibition of Installation and Site Specific Art”. San Diego Train Station, San Diego, California.
http://www.georgeadamsgallery.com/artists/artist_ins.php3?artist=56
Olaf Breuning
Olaf Breuning (b. 1970) lives and works in New York and Zurich. He has shown at venues across Europe, North America and Asia including P.S.1/MoMA, Swiss Institute, and Metro Pictures in New York; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art Ghent, Brussels; Air de Paris, Palais de Tokyo and Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Paris; Arndt & Partner, Berlin; Kunsthalle Zurich and Migros Museum Für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich; Galerie Meyer & Kainer, Vienna; and Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Mexico City.
Mat Brinkman
Mat Brinkman (b. 1973) is an artist and electronic musician. He was a founding member of the Fort Thunder artist live-work space in Providence, RI. He recorded with the bands Mindflayer and Forcefield, who performed at the 2002 Whitney Biennial. In 2000, his Teratoid Heights comic was published by Highwater Books. He has exhibited at LOYAL, Stockholm, Deste Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens; RISD Museum, Providence; Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam; Space 1026, Philadelphia, among others.
http://www.artnet.com/Artists/ArtistHomePage.aspx?artist_id=425753476&page_tab=Bio_and_links
David Brooks
David Brooks was the recipient of the 2009 Marie Walsh Sharpe Fellowship, having also spent the summer in collaboration with the Mildred’s Lane Historical Society (directed by Mark Dion and J. Morgan Puett). Recent and upcoming exhibitions in the US include a large scale installation at Socrates Sculpture Park; a solo presentation at Museum 52, NY, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery (curated by Mark Dion); LA><ART, LA; Impermanent Collections, Art in General, NY; Agregate, Westport Arts Center, CT; PS1/MoMA, NY, and Knight’s Move, The Sculpture Centre, NY. Brooks also recently received a large financial award to begin an ongoing project, in conjunction with Texas A&M University and theCoypu Foundation, to survey and inventory the poorly studied aquatic biodiversity of rivers draining the southern Peruvian Andes into theAmazon Basin.
Chris Burden
Chris Burden (b. 1946) lives and works near Los Angeles, California. Burden’s reputation as a performance artist started to grow in the early 1970s after he made a series of controversial performances in which the idea of personal danger as artistic expression was central. His most well-known act from that time is perhaps the performance piece Shoot that was made in F Space in Santa Ana, California in 1971, in which he was shot in his left arm by an assistant from a distance of about five meters. Other performances from the 1970’s were Five Day Locker Piece (1971), Deadman (1972), B.C. Mexico (1973), Fire Roll (1973), and Honest Labor (1979). In 1976 he abandoned artistic actions and moved towards a new conception of monumental sculpture. His work has been exhibited at renowned institutions and galleries around the world.
http://www.gagosian.com/artists/chris-burden
Simmons & Burke
Simmons & Burke live and work in Los Angeles, California. Andrew Burke holds an M.F.A. from the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music 2007 and B.M. from Oberlin Conservatory of Music. Case Simmons attended the San Francisco Art Institute. They have exhibited collaboratively at Kim Light / Light Box, and LA>
Ernesto Caivano
Ernesto Caivano (b. 1972) lives and works in New York. He has participated in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, David Zwirner Gallery, Richard Heller Gallery, Guild & Greyshkul Gallery, Rivington Arms, New York; White Cube, London; Grant/Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles; Carlier Gebauer, Berlin, among others.
Alejandro Campins
Graduated in Professional Academy of Fine Arts “The Dawn” Holguin, Cuba in 2000. Currently a student of the Instituto Superior de Arte (ISA) C.Havana. Lives and works in Havana, Cuba. His work is an attempt to freeze and sometimes trenchant poetic form, images of a scene that could have happened or will happen in one minute, one month a year a decade or a lifetime.
http://www.dpmgallery.com/english/artista.php?id=19
Iván Capote
Born in 1973 in Pinar del Río, Iván Capote lives and works in Havana. In 2004 he was artist in residence at Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh. Capote’s solo exhibitions include Armonía de Contrarios, Galería Habana, Havana (2001);Dibujos y Proyectos, Brownstone Foundation, Paris (2003); Pensamientos Paralelos, Havana Galerie, Zürich (2006); and Aforismos, Galería Habana, Havana (2006). His recent group exhibitions include the 2006 art fairs (with Galería Habana) Show off, Paris and Art Forum Berlin 06; along with Certain Encounters: Daros-Latinamerica Collection, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver (2006); and Face to Face, Daros-Latinamerica, Zürich (2007).
http://www.iniva.org/library/archive/people/c/capote_ivan
Yoan Capote
Yoan Capote (b.1977 in Pinar del Río) Yoan Capote lives and works in Havana. He completed his art studies at the Instituto Superior de Arte (1991-95), Havana, where he then went on to teach visual art between 2001-03. He received the UNESCO prize during the 7th Havana Biennial (2000) with the artists’ collective DUPP (Desde una Pragmática Pedagógica). He has received several fellowships and residencies including Vermont Studio Center Fellowship (2002); Brownstone Foundation Residency, Paris (2003); Mattress Factory Residency, Pittsburgh (2004); Cuban Artists Fund Grant and Fellowship, New York (2004); Pollock-Krasner Foundation Award, New York (2005); and John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship, New York (2006). Capote’s solo exhibitions include ANIMICA, George Adams Gallery, New York (2004); and Parallel Thoughts, Havana Galerie, Zürich (2006). Recent group exhibitions include Body Language, George Adams Gallery, New York (2005);Art Forum Berlin (2006); and Case Studies: Art in a Valise, Katonah Museum of Art, New York (2006).
http://www.jackshainman.com/artist-biography8.html /a>
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Daniel Keller, Detroit, USA/ 1986
Nik Kosmas, Minneapolis, USA/ 1985
Live/ Work in Berlin, Germany
After meeting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Keller and Kosmas moved to Berlin and started their collaboration in 2006. Their diverse multimedia practice employs the language’s of American PR and art history to critically examine the history and future of technoscientific development, satirizing the hyperbolic claims of proponents of transcendental technology and their critics alike.
Pedro Calapez
Pedro Calapez, born in Lisbon, 1953, is a Portuguese painter. He began taking part in exhibitions in the seventies and in 1982 had his first solo exhibition. He has exhibited his work individually in various galleries and museums, most notably Histórias de objectos , Casa de la Cittá, Roma, Carré des Arts, Paris and Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon (1991); Petit jardin et paysage , Salpêtriére Chapel, Paris (1993); Memória involuntária, Chiado Museum, Lisbon (1996); Campo de Sombras , Pilar i Joan Miró Foundation, Majorca (1997); Studiolo, INTERVAL-Raum fur Kunst & Kultur, Witten, Germany (1998); Madre Agua, MEIAC – Contemporary Art Museum, Badajoz and CAAC – Andalucia Contemporary Art Centre (2002); Selected works 1992-2004, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon (2004); piso zero, CGAC – Galicia Contemporary Art Centre, Santiago de Compostela (2005); Lugares de pintura , CAB – Caja Burgos Art Centre, Burgos (2005). Most outstanding among the various collective exhibitions in which he has taken part are the biennials of Venice (1986) and S.Paulo (1987 and 1991) and the exhibitions: 10 Contemporâneos, Serralves Museum, OPorto (1992); Perspectives, Marne-La-Vallée Contemporary Art Centre (1994); The day after tomorrow, CCB – Belém Cultural Centre, Lisbon (1994); Ecos de la materia, MEIAC, Badajoz (1996); Tage Der Dunkelheit Und Des Lichts, Bonn Art Museum (1999); EDP.ARTE, Serralves Museum, OPorto (2001); Del Zero al 2005. Insights on Portuguese art – Marcelino Botín Foundation, Santander (2005); Beaufort Outside – Inside, Contemporary Art Triennial, PMMK Museum, Ostend (2006).
