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Born 1972, Leuven, Belgium.
Lives and works in New York .
     
2002
Masters of Fine Arts, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA.
  1996   Fulbright Scholarship, Institute for Media Studies, University of Siegen, Germany.
  1995   Bachelor of Arts, German Studies, Columbia University, New York.
     
  Solo Exhibitions and Projects:
  2009   Structural, Uncontrolled, Hollywood, Political, Auteur, Cosmic, Happy, Sad, and Ordinary
Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles
      Concrete Boat, produced on the beach by Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles
  2008   Forms in the Realm of Time, Laure Genillard, London
  2007   House Beautiful, Adamski-Berlin, Berlin, Germany
  2005   Flashbulbs: The Central Library Project, Central Library, Leuven, Belgium.
      Mourning, High Quality, Bad Luck, Adamski Gallery, Aachen, Germany.
  2003   To My Child-Friend, Adamski Gallery, Aachen, Germany.
  2002   Here Between There, Adamski Gallery, Aachen, Germany.
     
  Selected Group Exhibitions and Projects:
  2010   Greater New York, P.S.1, NYC
  2009   Presque Rien III (Next to Nothing), Laure Genillard Hanway Place, London, England
      Another Air, Alessandra Bonomo Gallery, Rome, Italy.
      Sculpture Seminar: Concrete Boat-building: Its Technique and Its Future, The Univsersity of Trash,
The Sculpture Center, New York, NY.
  2008   Standard Sizes, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
      Hey Hey Glossolalia, Crative Time, New York, NY
  2007   Presque Rien I (Next To Nothing), Laure Genillard, London, UK
      A for Alibi, De Appel, Amsterdam, NL
      Nomadic Furniture, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA
  2006   Prologue, Adamski at The Rental Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
      Ideal City, Invisivble Cities, Potsdam, Germany
      Wilder, Eames, Essenwin and Leeds, Inaugural Commision for Schürmann Berlin, Berlin
      Ideal City, Invisivble Cities, Zamosc, Poland
      Back and Forth, 29th Duisburger Akzente, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany.
      A is for Alibi, Uqbar Foundation, University Museum Utrecht, Utrecht, NL
  2005   Menschensgladbach, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
      Never Odd or Even: Marres Center for Contemporary Art, Maastricht, NL.
      Book as Object and Performance, Gigantic Art Space, New York, NY .
  2004   Summer Camp, Adamski Gallery, Aachen, Germany.
      Mengenbüro, The Changing Room, Stirling, Scotland, UK.
  2003   Good Words and Credentials, Columbia University, New York, NY.
      Gibt’s mich wirklich, K21, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfallen, Düsseldorf, Germany.
      Float, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, NY.
      Drawing Show, Adamski Gallery, Aachen, Germany.
      Drive into the Sunset, Western Front Society Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
  2002   Making, LACMALab, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA.
      Messy Fingers, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.
      TONIGHT, Schnittraum, Cologne, Germany.
     
 
Bibliography:
  2009   About Thick Air and the Frustration of Distance in time and space, about riddles.
In: Simon Dybbroe Møller: Kompendium, Kunstverein Hannover,
Frankfurter Kunstverein and JRP press
  2008   DEMONOLOGY: Hey Hey Glossolalia, Crative Time, New York
      Ghostly Media: What Would an Invoking Medium Look Like? Art and Research, Glasgow School of Art
  2007   A for Alibi, Uqbar Foundation, Sternberg Press, Berlin/New York
      Art and Research, Glasgow School of Art, (vol. 1 and 2): artandresearch.org.uk
  2006   Ideal City, Invisible Cities, European Art Projects, Potsdam, Germany
      Back and Forth, Westdeutsche Zeitung insert, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg Germany
  2005   Flashbulbs, The Central Library Project, The University Library of the KUL, Leuven Belgium
  2003   Gibt’s mich wirklich, Vier Räume aus der Sammlung Schürmann,
K21, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfallen, Düsseldorf, Germany.
 
  Work has also been exhibited at The Armory Show, New York (2004, 2007, 2010), Artforum Berlin(2004, 2005, 2006, 2007), Art Brussels (2003, 2008), ArtLA (2008), Art Cologne (2004, 2005,2009)and NADA Miami (2007) and is included in the Sammlung Schürmann and permanent collection of The Abteiberg Museum, Monchengladbach, Germany.
       
       
       
       
      © Brian O'Connell, 2010