Ryan Trecartin

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Born in Webster, TX, 1981

Lives and works in Philadelphia, PA

EDUCATION
2004
BFA, Rhode Island School of Design

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011
Istanbul Modern Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
Any Ever, MoMA PS1, New York, NY (forthcoming)
Any Ever, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France (forthcoming)
Any Ever, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL (forthcoming)

2010
Any Ever, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Any Ever, The Power Plant, Toronto, ON, Canada

2009
Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria

2008
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH

2007
I-Be Area, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, NY

2006
I Smell Pregnant, QED, Los Angeles, CA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
Singapore Biennale, Singapore
The shortest distance between 2 points is often intolerable, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy

2010
How Soon Now, Rubell Family Collection / Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami, FL
21st Century – Art in the First Decade, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
The More Things Change, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Mash-up: Splicing Life, Contemporary Art Galleries, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT
Screening, 203-205 Brompton Road, London, England
Forbidden Love: Art in the Wake of Television Camp, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
10,000 Lives, The Eighth Gwangju Biennale, curated by Massimiliano Gioni, Gwangju, South Korea
Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art, Liverpool, England
Suppose it is true after all? What then?: Ryan Trecartin, Matias Faldbakken & Tobias Madison, Johan Berggren Gallery, Malmö, Sweden
fast forward 2: The Power of Motion, Media Art Sammlung Goetz, ZKM, Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany (catalogue)
100 Years (version #3), Garage: Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia (Curated by Klaus Biesenbach and RoseLee Goldberg)
This is my condition, Filomena Soares Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal
5 Year Review, MoMA PS1, New York, NY
45 Years of Performance Video from EAI, Wiels, Brussels, Belgium
Queer Voice, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
Soaps, Flukes & Follies, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN
Virtuoso Illusion: Cross Dressing and the New Media Avant-Garde, MIT/List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
Reflection, Contemporary Art Center, Art Tower Mito, Mito, Japan

2009
100 Years (version #1, Duesseldorf), Number Three: Here and Now, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany & 100 Years (version #2, ps1, nov 2009), PS1, Long Island City, NY PS1, Long Island City, NY (Curated by Klaus Biesenbach and RoseLee Goldberg)
Speak and Spell, COCO (Contemporary Concerns), Vienna, Austria
Subjective Projections (invited by Marc Glöde), Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld, Germany
Cutting Edge Framing, 11 N.E 39th St., Miami FL
The Jack Wolgin International Competition in the Fine Arts, Tyler School of Art of Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Pose/Expose, imo projects, Copenhagen, Denmark
Until the End of the World, Andreas Melas Presents, Athens, Greece
Tristin Lowe, Virgil Marti, Peter Rose, and Ryan Trecartin, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Louis Vuitton: A Passion for Creation, Hong Kong Museum of Art, Hong Kong
The Generational: Younger than Jesus, The New Museum, New York
Installations II: Video from the Guggenheim Collections, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao

2008
Busan Biennale, Busan, South Korea   
Freeway Balconies, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany, curated by Collier Schorr (catalog)
The Left Hand of Darkness, The Project, New York, NY   
Television Delivers People, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY   
Sensory Overload, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI

2007
Between Two Deaths, ZKM Karlsruhe, curated by Ellen Blumenstein, Germany

2006
Action Adventure, Canada Gallery, New York
USA Today, Works from the Saatchi Collection, Royal Academy of Arts, Burlington Gardens, London, UK (catalogue)
Metro Pictures, The Moore Space, Miami, FL
Whitney Biennial 2006, Day for Night, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Schindler House, curated by Doug Aitken, Los Angeles, LA

2005
Sympathetic Magic, Planaria, New York, NY

SCREENINGS AND COMMISSIONS
2011
A Family Finds Entertainment, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
(Tommy-Chat Just Emailed Me.), Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
A Family Finds Entertainment, Rocky Mountain College of Art and Design, Denver, CO
(Tommy-Chat Just Emailed Me.), Barbican Centre/Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
I-Be Area, Krakow Foundation for Visual Arts, Krakow, Poland
What's The Love Making Babies For, Available Light Screening Collective, Ottawa, Canada
P.opular S.ky (section ish), rongwrong, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2010
A Family Finds Entertainment, Penrith Regional Gallery & The Lewers Bequest, Australia
Valentines Day Girl, Coolidge Corner Theatre, Brookline, MA
(Tommy-Chat Just E-mailed Me.), Incubate Festival, Tillburg, The Netherlands
Valentines Day Girl, University of Wisconsin, Milwakee, WI
Sibling Topics (Section A). School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
P.opular S.ky (Section ish)
(Tommy-Chat Just E-Mailed Me.), Wiels Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, Belgium
Sibling Topics, Cinefamily, Los Angeles, CA
P.opular Sky
Re'Search Wait's
K-Corea INC. K (Section A)
The Re'Search
Roamie View: History Enhancements
Y-Ready
(Tommy-Chat Just E-mailed Me.), Liverpool, UK
(Tommy-Chat Just E-mailed Me.), Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
(Tommy-Chat Just E-mailed Me.), Visual Arts Collective, Boise, ID
Re'Search Wait'S, Galerie SAW Gallery, Ottawa, ON, Canada
A Family Finds Entertainment
A Family Finds Entertainment, Galeriestr. 4, Munich, Bavaria

2009
(Tommy Chat Just E-mailed Me.), Art Basel Video, programmed by Mark Glöde, Basel, Sitzerland

2007
I-Be Area, Bobo’s, Philadelphia, PA
I-Be Area, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
A Family Finds Entertainment, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

2006
A Family Finds Entertainment, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, WI
(Tommy Chat Just Emailed Me.), The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA
A Family Finds Entertainment, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

2005
A Family Finds Entertainment, New York Underground Film Festival
A Family Finds Entertainment, Chicago Underground Film Festival (special jury prize), IL
Valentine’s Day Girl, Multiplex, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY
A Family Finds Entertainment, Big Muddy Film Festival, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL

PERFORMANCES
2005
Alternative Theater Endings, with The Experimental People Band, New York Underground Film
Festival
Nothing Wrong with August, with The Experimental People Band, Natural Disaster, New Orleans, LA

AWARDS
2009
Calvin Klein Collection New Artist of the Year Award, The First Annual Art Awards, Guggenheim, Museum, New York, NY
Jack Wolgin International Competition in the Fine Arts, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Pew Fellowship in the Arts, The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, Philadelphia, PA

BIBLIOGRAPHY
2011
"Istanbul Modern showcasing Ryan Trecartin videos," Hurriyet, January 21-27.
Droitcour, Brian, "All Together Now," newmuseum.org/free
Cornell, Lauren, "Walking Free," newmuseum.org/free

2010
Hothi, Ajay RS "It's not punishment, it's just whatever," apengine.org, December 7
Heather, Rosemary "Rosemary Heather on why Ryan Trecartin makes art cool again," apengine.org, December 3
"Best of 2011," Artforum, December
Rubinsky, Valerie "Prize winner plans to use $150k for art," Temple-News.com, November 10
LaFreniere, Steve "Ryan Trecartin," Viceland.com, November
Bedford, Christopher, "Ryan Trecartin," Artforum, November
Lubow, Arthur, "Ryan's Web," W, November, pp.138-143
Ryan Trecartin & James Franco, "All-American Golden Boy," AnOther Man, November
Wolff, Rachel, "London's Frieze Festival in Full Swing," thedailybeast.com, October 15
Johnson, Paddy, "AFC Exclusive: Artist Ryan Trecartin Debuts Riverthe.net," artfagcity.com, October 5
"What we saw in the Biennial this week," sevenstreets.com, October 4,
Karcher, Eva, "Verruckt werden mit der Kunst,” Suddeutsche Zeitung, September 27
Ward, Ossian, "Liverpool Biennial 2010," Time Out London, September 24
Searle, Adrian "Back in business at the Liverpool Biennial," guardian.co.uk, September 20
Goldman, Edward Goldman, “Fasten Your Seatbelt, It's Going to Be a Bumpy Ride,” Huffington Post, August 4
Cwelich, Lorraine, “Ryan Trecartin: Art for the Age of YouTube,” The Wall Street Journal, July 20
Leclere, Mary, “The Question of (E)quality: Art in the Age of Facebook, ” X-Tra Magazine, June
Sandals, Leah, “When hype is right,” Now Magazine, May 24 
Anderson, Jason, “Connect Four,” Artforum, April 24
Kennedy, Randy, “Art Made at the Speed of the Internet: Don’t Say ‘Geek’; Say “Collaborator,” New York Times, April 19
Milroy, Sarah, “A shop of horrors and a poignant rebuttal,” Globe and Mail, April 5
Balzer, David, “Ryan Trecartin: ‘Any Ever,’” eyeweekly.com, March 31
“Ryan Trecartin: Virtual Insanity,” Nylon Guys, March, p. 142.
Dodie Kazanjian, “The Body Eccentric,” Vogue, February, p. 188-193.
Spampinato, Francesco, "Still Life Channel," Flash Art Italia #280, February, p. 71-2.

2009
Philbin, Ann, Christopher Miles, James Elaine, Lauren Bonn, Hammer Projects 1999-2009, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (exhibition catalogue).
Conti, Riccardo, “Ryan Trecartin: File sharing e mutazioni verso la libertà totale,” Rodeo, No. 58, September/October, p. 79, 86-87.
Newhall, Edith, “Galleries: Three artists vie for prize,” Philadelphia Inquirer, October 11.
Miles, David, “The $150,000 Question,” ARTINFO, October 8.
Dailey, Meghan (introduction), The Shape of Things to Come: New Sculpture, New York: Rizzoli.
Koestenbaum, Wayne, “Situation Hacker,” Artforum, Summer, p. 272-279.
Schjeldahl, Peter, “Their Generation, ‘Younger than Jesus’ at the New Museum,” The New Yorker, April 20.
Halle, Howard, "The Generational: 'Younger Than Jesus'" Time Out New York, April 16-April 22, p.45.
Cotter, Holland, "Young Artists Caught in the Act," The New York Times, April 10.
Saltz, Jerry, "'Jesus Saves' God Bless the New Museum's Tantalizing Triennial," New York Magazine, April 9.
Kennedy, Randy, "His Non-Linear Reality, and Welcome to It," The New York Times, February 1.
Stillman, Nick, “Youth Initiative,” Artforum, January, p. 115

2008
Alemani, Cecilia. "Theatre for Generation Y," Mousse Magazine, Issue #15, September.
Walleston, Aimee. "Hi-Speed Video Machine: The Frenetic Pace of Artist Ryan Trecartin," Tokion, Fall.
Saltz, Jerry. "The New York Canon," artnet.com.
Rosenberg, Karen. “What’s on the Art Box? Spins, Satire, and Camp,” The New York Times, January 11.
Cotter, Holland. “Video Art Thinks Big: That's Show Biz,” The New York Times, January 6.

2007
Alemani, Cecilia, Luca Cerizza and Raimundas Malasauskas. Present Future 2007. Torino, Italy: Associazione Artissima, 2007.
Saltz, Jerry, “Has Money Ruined Art?”, New York. October 15th.
Wolff, Rachel, “The Art Rush – Young Masters”, New York, October 15th
Cotter, Holland, “Ryan Trecartin”, The New York Times, September 28th. p. 37.
Pollock, Barbara, “Ryan Trecartin, “I-Be Area””, Time Out New York, September 27-October 3, p.74.
Schwendener, Martha, “Ryan Trecartin”, The New Yorker, October 1st. p. 22.
Wang, Michael, “Streaming Creatures, New Generations of Queer Video Art”, Modern Painters, June
Alemani, Cecilia, “Ryan Trecartin and Lizzie Fitch,” Artforum Critic’s Picks, February.

2006
Saylor, Ryan, “Ryan Trecartin, Virtual Reality From Youtube to Saatchi,” Useless, November.
Hainley, Bruce, “Artquake,” The New York Times Magazine, October 1.
Melendez, Franklin “Ryan Trecartin,” SOMA Magazine, September
Crow, Kelly, “The 23 Year Old Masters,” The Wall Street Journal, April 14.
Saltz, Jerry, “Biennial in Babylon,” Village Voice, March 1.
Willis, Hollis, LA Weekly, February 24.
Knight, Christopher, “Transformation Caught on Video,” Los Angeles Times, February 24.
Cooper, Dennis, “First Take, Dennis Cooper on Ryan Trecartin,” Artforum, January.

2005
Smith, Roberta, “Art in Review,” The New York Times, June 10.

  • Elizabeth Dee at the 2010 Frieze Art Fair 5 Oct 2010

    On view at the Elizabeth Dee booth at the Frieze Art Fair is A Lossless Fall, a series of four photographs directed by Ryan Trecartin for the 2010 art issue of W Magazine. In order to create these images, Trecartin employed processes originating from his video practice, compressing script details into accessories and writing visual scripts in the form of portraits. Each is loosely based on an accumulation of characters previously portrayed in his movies by performers Telfar Clemens, Lizzie Fitch, Veronica Gelbaum and Ashland Mines.

    In addition to works on view, Elizabeth Dee announces the first book released under the gallery's new publishing initiative, a catalog featuring work from Josephine Meckseper's 2010 exhibitions in New York, which will be available at the booth as well. Future titles will serve as extensions of, or in tangent to, the practices of other gallery artists.

  • New Release--X Initiative Yearbook 5 Oct 2010

    The gallery is also pleased to announce the newly released X Initiative Yearbook, published in collaboration with Mousse Publishing and edited by X Initiative curatorial director Cecilia Alemani, with an introduction by founder Elizabeth Dee, and contributions by Carlo Basualdo, Stuart Comer, Christoph Cox, Jeffrey Deitch, Alexander Dumbadze, Hal Foster, Liam Gillick, Massimiliano Gioni, RoseLee Goldberg, Ed Halter, Laura Hoptman, Chrissie Isle, Jeffery Inaba, David Joselit, Emily and Sarah Kunstler, Margaret Lee, Sylvère Lotringer, Kevin McGarry, James Meyer, Ceci Moss, Lee Patterson, Lindsay Pollock, Andrew Roth, Johannes Vogt, McKenzie Wark, among others.

    A launch will be held on Friday, October 15th from 7:00–9:00pm at the grand opening of Q Forum, a concept book store developed by Steidl Publishers located at 5–8 Lower John Street in London.

  • Ryan Trecartin at The Power Plant, Toronto 1 Apr 2010

    March 26—May 24, 2010

    The Power Plant’s spring 2010 season launches with the first museum solo exhibition worldwide by American artist Ryan Trecartin and the debut of his seven-video epic, Any Ever. Trecartin has released three major works to date, A Family finds Entertainment (2006), I-BE AREA (2007), and after three years, the seven-part work Any Ever (2009–2010) is fully complete. Destabilizing and amazing his audiences, Trecartin embraces an aesthetic of collaborative improvisation and lo-fi technology to realize his heady explorations of consumer culture and fractured identity in the digital age. With their frenetic, insomniac energy, his works create a cracked parallel universe only slightly more surreal and fast-paced than the one we actually inhabit.

    Following its premiere at The Power Plant, Any Ever will travel to major art institutions internationally including the Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris in Fall 2010 and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), North Miami, in Spring 2011.

    http://www.thepowerplant.org/current.html

  • Ryan Trecartin at the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao 1 Jan 2009
    March 3 – Spring, 2010

    Installations II: Video from the Guggenheim Collections will feature an
    installation of Trecartin's feature length work I-Be Area, now part of the
    Guggenheim's permanent collection.
    www.guggenheim.org/bilbao
  • Ryan Trecartin solo presentation at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles 10 Sep 2008

    September 10, 2008–December 7, 2008

    Ryan Trecartin’s videos uncannily reflect his generation, which grew up using the Internet, digital television, and interactive video games. He mixes cheap special effects with absurd narratives in which he and his regular cast of collaborator-friends act out a sort of Lord of the Flies for the 21st century. He tells sad love stories and bizarre family dramas utilizing technology to heighten the action and reflect today’s incessant information overload.

    In his latest work, I-BE AREA (2007, 108 min) Trecartin weaves together several unruly stories with fast-moving, fast-talking characters that deal with such themes as cloning, adoption, self-mediation, lifestyle options, virtual identities, and larger questions of an existential nature. I-BE AREA screens in the Video Gallery on the hour, every other hour.

    This exhibition is organized by Hammer Curator Ali Subotnick.

    http://www.hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions/149/

  • Alex Bag and Ryan Trecartin in Television Delivers People at the Whitney Museum of American Art 12 Dec 2007

    Television Delivers People
    December 12, 2007-February 17, 2008

    Television Delivers People brings together single-channel video works from the 1970s to the present that examine how an individual viewer is shaped by television's structure and content. These videos also suggest the possibility of an active approach to viewing which remains relevant even as the physical experience of viewing changes. The exhibition takes its title from Richard Serra's video Television Delivers People (1973), which pairs a Muzak soundtrack with a scrolling list of statements describing the manipulative strategies and motivations of corporate advertisers imbedded in television. Works from the late 1970s and early '80s by Dara Birnbaum and Joan Braderman extend Serra's media critique by using strategies of appropriation to deconstruct specific television genres and programs. Videos by Michael Smith and Alex Bag adopt a performative approach in responding to television, acting out characters whose lives are shaped by cable and its endless programming choices. The exhibition also includes videos by a number of young artists who have created experimental narratives reflective of a dense internet culture, where diverse content from television, film, and music is immediately accessible and available for manipulation and response. Curator: Gary Carrion-Murayari

    http://www.whitney.org/www/exhibition/past.jsp

  • Hammer Projects: 1999-2009

    by Ann Philbin (Author), Christopher Miles (Author), James Elaine (Author), Lauren Bon (Author)

    Features Miranda Lichtenstein and Ryan Trecartin

    Since 1999, the Hammer Museum's Hammer Projects series has furnished international and local artists with a laboratory-like environment to create new work or to present existing work in a new context. Published to commemorate the tenth anniversary of the series, this volume compiles all 80 of the projects featured so far--by artists including Amy Adler, Edgar Arceneaux, Fikret Atay, Walead Beshty, Paul Chan, Aaron Curry, Tara Donovan, Nathalie Djurberg, Tony Feher, Mark Grotjahn, Mark Handforth, Arturo Herrera, Elliott Hundley, Jim Isermann, Runa Islam, Jesper Just, Emma Kay, Margaret Kilgallen, Barry McGee, Paul Morrison, Paul Pfeiffer, Hiraki Sawa, Simon Starling, Kaari Upson, Kara Walker, Phoebe Washburn, Pae White and Sun Xun--alongside texts by Hilton Als, Regine Basha, Aaron Betsky, Nayland Blake, Alex Farquharson, Russell Ferguson, Malik Gaines, Tim Griffin, Massimiliano Gioni, Dave Hickey, Vasif Kortun, Libby Lumpkin, Midori Matsui, Linda Norden, Raphael Rubinstein, Laurie Simmons, Dean Sobel, Ali Subotnick and Steven Vincent.

    • Hardcover: 432 pages
    • Publisher: Hammer Museum (December 31, 2009)
    • Language: English
    • ISBN-10: 0943739357
    • ISBN-13: 978-0943739359

    To order, please visit the Hammer bookstore

  • Deterioration, They Said

    by Raphael Gygax (Editor / Author), Thomas Beard (Author), Ed Halter (Author)

    Features Ryan Trecartin and Lizzie Fitch

    American artists Cory Arcangel, Jessica Ciocci & Jacob Ciocci/Paper Rad, Shana Moulton, and Ryan Trecartin & Lizzie Fitch, have been brought together in this publication. In their works the artists create an overwhelming, color-charged aesthetic with an excessive density of content, reacting to the consumer-oriented condition of Western society. In their image-spaces the four collaborations address a culture of excess, constructing their critique via a form of appropriation, which simultaneously releases a veritable deluge of images. In the tradition of experimental film and Scatter art they probe potential unconventional narrative patterns and test for the disintegration of stereotypes. As a result, the video works are often shown in sculptural settings, in which fragments of pop culture and handcrafted forms are amalgamated into an multimedia Gesamtkunstwerk.

    Published with the migros museum für gegenwartskunst, Zurich.

    Hardcover: 92 pages
    Publisher: JRP-Ringier (September 2009)
    Language: English / German
    ISBN: 978-3-03764-076-0

    To order please visit Amazon

  • Younger Than Jesus: The Reader

    by Lauren Cornell (Author), Massimiliano Gioni (Author), Laura Hoptman (Author)

    Features Ryan Trecartin

    Jesus died at the age of 33. This publication, which accompanies the first New Museum triennial, Younger Than Jesus, focuses on artists born after 1975. Departing from popular assertions about the group, which the media has dubbed the "Millennials," or "Generation Y," this reader presents the work of nearly 50 international artists, based on the conviction that radical gestures have often been carried out by young artists. It illuminates both the shared practices and the dramatic differences found within this age group. Along with a generous selection of color reproductions of the artists' work, this volume includes essays by exhibition curators Lauren Cornell, Massimiliano Gioni and Laura Hoptman, along with an anthology of reprinted texts by a diverse group of writers--including philosophers, sociologists and technology experts--which contextualize the work within the significant events of the past 30 years--for example, globalization and the increased networking of culture and daily life.

    Paperback: 512 pages
    Publisher: Steidl & Partners (June 30, 2009)
    Language: English
    ISBN-10: 3865218679
    ISBN-13: 978-3865218674

    To order please visit Amazon

  • Between Two Deaths

    by Suzanne Barnard (Author), Mika Hannula (Author), Ellen Blumenstein (Editor), Felix Ensslin (Editor)

    Features Ryan Trecartin and Harry Dodge & Stanya Kahn

    In the continual disappointment of failed political and social utopias--the 60 and the Eastern Bloc come to mind--artists, like everyone else, often find themselves indulging melancholic nostalgia. Between Two Deaths collects work addressing those feelings of uneasiness and loss, critical-artistic reflections on the political, social and cultural trends towards regret and retrospection. The assembled work observes conservative cultural debates, stagnation, regression, fear, insecurity, lethargy and nostalgia, not with censure but with interest--with curiosity about these feelings, and about the cynical pessimism or oft-prescribed optimism that follows. With contributions from Bas Jan Ader, Sebastian Diaz-Morales, Elin Hansdottir, Jutta Koether, Javier Tellez, and Mark Titchner, Harry Dodge, Sue de Beer, Stanya Kahn, Brock Enright and Barnaby Furnass.

    Hardcover: 288 pages
    Publisher: Hatje Cantz (July 1, 2007)
    Language: English
    ISBN-10: 3775720030
    ISBN-13: 978-3775720038

    To order please visit Amazon.com

  • Timer, Intimità/Intimacy (Catalogue)

    The Triennale di Milano organisied and produced the TIMER contemporary art project

    Features Ryan Trecartin

    Timer investigates the inner self in the new social context that has arisen in the wake of the 9/11 terrorist attacks on the Twin Towers. Consequently, it also looks at the relationship with transcendence, considered on both the individual and social level. The first edition, comprising more than eighty artists from around the world, highlights the emotional trauma in the West following 9/11 and the critical factors that have radically changed the individual’s relationship to society. This transformation in social relations manifests itself in subtle ways in artistic language and themes, which have nonetheless been deeply affected by this watershed event for the World Order.

    Exhibition: The Triennale di Milano
    Title: Timer
    Subtitle: 01 Intimità/Intimacy
    Editor: Mercurio Gianni, Paparoni Demetrio
    Description: bilingual edition (italian-english), size 6 x 8 1/2 in., 464 pages, 40 colour and 90 b/w illustrations, paperback
    Series: Modern and Contemporary Art
    Published by: Skira

    To order please visit Skira Publications

  • USA Today: New American Art from the Saatchi Gallery

    By Meghan Dailey (Author), Norman Rosenthal (Author)

    Features Josephine Meckseper and Ryan Trecartin

    This 400-page blockbuster, designed in close consultation with renowned contemporary art collector Charles Saatchi, showcases 250 works—paintings, constructions, sculpture, and photography—by 40 artists from across the U.S.A.
    This is a new generation of American art; most of the works are less than two years old and focus on artists’ views of world events and America’s place in global society. Artists profiled include Banks Violette, Kelley Walker, Matthew Monahan, Terence Koh, Christoph Schmidberger, Inka Essenhigh, Dash Snow, Josephine Meckseper and many others. Together, in this stunning volume, they offer an astounding, controversial, and wide-ranging collection.

    Paperback: 400 pages
    Publisher: Royal Academy of the Arts (February 1, 2007)
    Language: English
    ISBN-10: 1903973961
    ISBN-13: 978-1903973967

    To order please visit Amazon.com

  • Whitney Biennial 2006: Day for Night (Catalogue)

    Features Ryan Trecartin and Josephine Meckseper

    The 2006 Whitney Biennial catalogue, with 800 pages and more than 200 images, uses an innovative book format in order to present a remarkable artists’ section, "Draw Me a Sheep." Borrowing its title from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry's The Little Prince, the section is a collection of individual artist pages done as a series of four-panel “poster” foldouts. By inviting each artist to create a page for the book, "Draw Me a Sheep" presents an image from the artist's world and explores how each artist deals with representation in his or her own time.

    Introduction and a conversation between the curators, Chrissie Iles and Philippe Vergne and the art historian Toni Burlap; foreword by Whitney director Adam D. Weinberg; and contributions by critic and teacher Johanna Burton; Bradley Eros, an artist, experimental filmmaker, curator, writer, performer, and researcher, whose work was shown in the 2004 Whitney Biennial; Lia Gangitano, founder and director of Participant Inc. and former curator of The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston and Thread Waxing Space, New York; Bruce Hainley, a contributing editor of Artforum and Associate Director of Graduate Studies in Criticism & Theory at Art Center College of Design; Molly Nesbit, a professor of Art at Vassar College and a contributing editor of Artforum; cultural historian and media scholar Siva Vaidhyanathan; and writer and cultural commentator Neville Wakefield. In addition the book includes excerpts from a series of articles by the writer and noted French philosopher Bernard-Henri Lévy

    2006 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

    To order please visit whitneystore