Virgil Marti

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Born 1962, Saint Louis, Missouri


EDUCATION
1990
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Summer
1990
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, M.F.A. Painting
1984
School of Fine Arts, Washington University, B.F.A. Painting


SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011
Barroco Nova, London, ON, Canada (forthcoming)

2010
Set Pieces, Curatorial project for Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, NY

2008
Ah! Sunflower, Visual Arts Center, Richmond, VA

2007
Virgil Marti/Pae White, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.

2006
Crazy Quilt: Virgil Marti’s Selected Works, The Design Center at Philadelphia University, Philadelphia
Green Winter, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York

2004
Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York

2005
I Repeat Myself, Memphis College of Art, Memphis

2003
Project Room, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica
The Flowers of Romance, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia

2002
Grow Room, Participant, Inc., New York

2001
Morris Gallery, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Three Rivers Festival Gallery, Pittsburgh

2000
Beer Can Library, Habitat, London
Couch, Points of Departure, Ardmore Station, Ardmore, PA

1999
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
Ganser Gallery, Millersville University, Millersville, PA

1998
Hot Tub, Thread Waxing Space, New York

1996
White Room, White Columns, New York

1994
Fleisher Challenge #3, Samuel S. Fleisher Art Memorial, Philadelphia

1992
Bully Wallpaper, Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
The Graphic Unconscious, Philagrafika 2010, Philadelphia, PA

2009
Tristin Lowe, Virgil Marti, Peter Rose, Ryan Trecartin, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA

2008
Perverted by Theater, apexart, New York, NY

2007
PostDec: Beyond Pattern and Decoration, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT
Montreal Biennial, curated by Wayne Baerwaldt

2006
Other Than Art, G Fine Art, Washington DC
Eye of the Beholder, Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit

2005
This Hard, Gem-Like Flame, Angstrom Gallery, Dallas
The Nature of Things, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, New York
Group Show, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York
The Faux Show, Esther M. Klein Art Gallery, Philadelphia
The Very Early Pictures, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, PA

2004
What’s New, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam
Whitney Biennial 2004, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Flowers Observed, Flowers Transformed, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
Social Studies, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Heroes, Villains, and Average Joes, Dumbo Arts Center, Brooklyn

2003
NYPD, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica
Better Homes and Gardens, Zoller Gallery, Pennsylvania State University, State College, PA
On the Wall: Wallpaper and Tableaux, Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia (catalog)
On the Wall, Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Providence (catalog)
School Is Out, Southfirst, Brooklyn

2002
Imprint, The Print Center and various sites, Philadelphia
Love the One You're With, Vox Populi, Philadelphia
MATERIAL WORLD From Lichtenstein to Viola 25 Years of the Fabric Workshop and Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney
Officina America, Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna
View Finder, Arnolfini, Bristol

2001
All of My Heart, Arte e Personae/Gallery Hotel Art, Florence
Miss World 1972, Daniel Reich, New York
Philadelphia Selections 4: Brave/Smart, Levy Gallery, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia
Stand Fast Dick and Jane, The Project, Dublin
The Fabric Workshop & Museum, Philadelphie, au Centre d'Art Contemporain, Genève, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva
Works on Paper 2001, Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA

2000
Biennial 2000, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington
Gardens of Pleasure, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan
Yard Sale, NYC Lab School, New York

1999
Cardboard, Vinyl & Rhinestones (with Erika Yeomans & Taketo Shimada), Expo/Sure at the Downtown Arts Festival, New York
Gods and Monsters, McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute
Natural Dependency, Jerwood Gallery, London

1998
Pop/Abstraction, Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia
Works on Paper 1998, Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA

1997
Apocalyptic Wallpaper, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus
Domestic Diversions, The Art Alliance, Philadelphia
Painted Words, Borowsky Gallery at the Gershman Y, Philadelphia
The Varieties of Religious Experience, The Painted Bride Gallery, Philadelphia
Verso, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia

1996
Ars Botanica: Art and Nature, City Hall, Philadelphia
Biennial, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington
Complexity and Contradiction: Postmodernism in Philadelphia Photography, Paley Design Center, Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science, Philadelphia
Model Home, Clocktower Gallery, New York
Patterns of Excess, Beaver College, Glenside, PA
PhotoWORKS, Nexus, Philadelphia
Social Register: Identity and Community in Philadelphia, Levy Gallery, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia
Works on Paper, Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside, PA
You Talkin' to Me?, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia

1995
Faggots: A Communique from North America, Fundacion Rojas, University of Buenos Aires
Fake I.D., 88 Room, Boston
Objects & Souvenirs: Artist's Multiples, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia
Prison Sentences: The Prison as Site/The Prison as Subject, Eastern State Penitentiary, Philadelphia

1994
Al Dente, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York
Color Theory, Vox Populi, Philadelphia
Les Objets D'Artistes (with Stuart Netsky), Marion Locks Gallery, Philadelphia
Material Concerns (with Stuart Netsky), Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn

1993
A Few Fey Things (with Stuart Netsky), White Columns, New York
Dress Codes (with Stuart Netsky), Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Shams (with Stuart Netsky), Southern Exposure at Project Artaud, San Francisco

1992
Energy Made Visible, Larry Becker, Philadelphia
Gender Engendered, Community Education Center, Philadelphia
Not Working in L.A., Nomadic Site, Pasadena
Shams (with Stuart Netsky), The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia
The Temporal Image (with Stuart Netsky), Momenta Art at the S.S. White Building, Philadelphia

1991
Biennial, Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington
Drawing Show, West Gallery, Rutgers University, New Brunswick
Found Ground, Levy Gallery, Moore College of Art and Design, Philadelphia

1990
Substitutions, Momenta Art Alternatives, Philadelphia


CATALOGUES
Brian J. Sholis. In Whitney Biennial 2004. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2004.
Judith Tannenbaum. In On the Wall: Contemporary Wallpaper. Providence: Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, 2003.
Ingrid Schaffner. Virgil Marti: The Flowers of Romance. Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 2003.
Shimmering Substance/ViewFinder. Bristol: Arnolfini, 2002.
Officina America. Bologna: Galeria d'Arte Moderna, 2002.
Sylvia Yount. Virgil Marti. Philadelphia: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, 2001.
Points of Departure: Art on the Line. Philadelphia: Main Line Art Center, 2001.
Apocalyptic Wallpaper. Columbus: Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, 1997.
You Talkin' to Me? Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 1996.
Patterns of Excess. Glenside: Beaver College Art Gallery, Beaver College, 1996.
Prison Sentences: The Prison as Site/The Prison as Subject. Philadelphia: Moore College of Art and Design, 1995.


SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2011
Keates, Nancy, "Shocking in the Suburbs," The Wall Street Journal, March 18.
Cotter, Holland, “New Sparkle for an Abstract Ensemble,” The New York Times, January 7, C25
Galvez, Paul, “Virgil Marti,” Artforum, January.

2010
Sozanski, Edward J., “Art: Eclectic Staging of Borrowed Works at ICA,” Philly.com, October.
Hirsch, Faye, “Multiples: The Open Print,” Art in America, April, p. 71.
Higgins, Charlotte, “No flowers please: wallpaper exhibition exposes the dark side of the home – Crime scenes, school bullies and genitalia feature in first UK exhibition of medium,” guardian.co.uk, February 6.
Kley, Elisabeth. "Gotham Art & Theater," www.artnet.com, January 21.
Ward, Ossian, “Liverpool Biennial 2010,” Time Out London, September 24.

2006
Stern, Steven, “Liberal Arts,” The New York Times Style Magazine, Winter.
Barker, Jeremy, “A Glowing Landscape,” The Review, September 27.
Lotozo, Eils, “Art or design? Blurring the line,” The Philadelphia Inquirer, August 25.
Rachel Frankford, “Room With a View,” Philadelphia City Paper, August, 24 – 31.

2005
Bollen, Christopher, “Suspended Matters”, The New York Times Style Magazine, Fall.
Annika von Taube, “A Brilliant Idea,” Sleek, Autumn.
Wendy Goodman, “Let’s Play Dream House,” New York , November 7.
Carly Berwick, “Triptych: What Bought What and Why?,” New York, May 30.
Janet Kutner, “The Quad Squad,” The Dallas Morning News, April 27.
Loren Goodman, “Top Ten,” Artforum, February.
Barbara Pollack, “Virgil Marti: Elizabeth Dee,” Art News, February.
Rebecca Cascade, “Environmental Impact,” Art + Auction, January.

2004
Roberta Smith, “Virgil Marti: Elizabeth Dee Gallery,” The New York Times, November 12.
Karen Rosenberg, “Virgil Marti at Elizabeth Dee,” New York, November 8.
Choire Sicha, “The Guide,” The New York Times, November 7.
Bridget L. Goodbody, “Virgil Marti: Elizabeth Dee Gallery,” Time Out New York, November 4–11.
Kim Levin, “Choices,” The Village Voice, November 3–9.
R[obert] A[mesbury], “Virgil Marti,” Flavorpill.com, October 19.
“What’s Bizarre at the Whitney,” CBSNews.com, May 2.
David Joselit, “Apocalypse Not,” Artforum, May.

2003
Faye Hirsch, review, Art in America, November.
James Rosenthal, review, Art on Paper, September/October.
Sarah Bayliss, “The New Art Wallpaper: It Doesn’t Just Hang There,” The New York Times, June 29.
Gae Savannah, “New York: Virgil Marti: Participant Gallery,” Sculpture, June.

2002
Jessica Smith, “Wallpaper: Seeing Beyond the Surface,” Surface Design, Winter.
Holland Cotter, “Where Witty Meets Gritty,” The New York Times, November 15.

2001
Dan R. Talley, “Reviews Northeast: Philadelphia,” Art Papers, November/December.
Eileen Neff, “Virgil Marti: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,” Artforum, October.
Edward Sozanski, review, Philadelphia Inquirer, September 17.

2000
Lori Wallace, “Commissions,” Sculpture, September.
Diane Goldsmith, Philadelphia Inquirer, June 16.
Fabrizio Sarpi, “Now Dress Your Home the Way You Dress Yourself,” Casa Vogue, April.
Dominic Lutyens, “Beyond Wallpaper,” Attitude, May.
Roberta Fallon, “Sitting Pretty,” Philadelphia Weekly, May 3.

1999
Michael Cohen, “Virgil Marti: Holly Solomon,” Flash Art, October.
Bill Arning. review, Time Out New York, June 3–10.
Holland Cotter, “Virgil Marti: Holly Solomon Gallery,” The New York Times, May 28.

1998
Frances Richard, “Virgil Marti: Thread Waxing Space,” Artforum, December.
Jan Estep, “Studio View,” New Art Examiner, May.

1997
Kristy Krivitsky, “Apocalyptic Wallpaper: The Wexner Center for the Arts,” Art Papers, November–December.

1996
Lisa Greenhouse, The Public Historian, Spring.

1995
Miriam Seidel, “Art Behind Bars,” Art in America, November.
Paula Marincola, “City Focus: Philadelphia,” Art News, October.
Daniel Jeffreys, “Hanging's Too Good for Them,” London Independent, September 12.
Leslie Camhi, “Pen State,” Village Voice, August 15.
Tony Moxham, “Stuck Up,” Interview, July.
Brian Caffall, Philadelphia Gay News, June 30–July 6.
Robin Rice, “Inside Out,” City Paper, June 9–16.

1994
Robin Rice, “Past Times,” City Paper, December 2–9.

1993
David Bonetti, San Francisco Chronicle, November 3.
Donald C. Bohn, New Art Examiner, April.


GRANTS AND AWARDS
2005
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship

2003
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship

1997
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award
Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Fellowship

1995
Pew Fellowship
Art Matters Fellowship


PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Art Resources Transfer, Inc.
Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College
Fabric Workshop and Museum
New Museum of Contemporary Art
Philadelphia Museum of Art
Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art
Victoria and Albert Museum
Whitney Museum of American Art

  • Virgil Marti: Ah! Sunflower at the Visual Arts Center of Richmond 6 Mar 2008

    March 6 — May 11, 2008


    Opening with a public reception March 6, Virgil Marti: Ah! Sunflower presents an installation by Philadelphia-based artist Virgil Marti. Marti bridges art and domestic decoration in his immersive environments of color, light and texture. Featuring a new wallpaper design, a fanciful chandelier, and richly upholstered seating among other components, Marti’s installation evokes an opulent interior while also addressing the centuries-old theme of vanitas, or life’s transience. The exhibition also features six innovative designs from Wallpaper LAB, which collaborates with contemporary artists to produce limited-edition wallpaper.

    http://visarts.org/exhibitions/archive

     

  • Virgil Marti in "Postdec" at Joseloff Gallery 17 Sep 2007

    November 9 – December 23, 2007
    A group show including painting, works on paper, and installation at Joseloff Gallery, Harford Art School.
    Opening Reception: Friday, November 9, 2007

    JOSELOFF GALLERY

  • 2004 Biennial Exhibition (Catalogue)

    By Chrissie Iles, Shamim M. Momin and Debra Singer

    Features Virgil Marti

    The Whitney Museum of American Art's 2004 Biennial Exhibition brings together 108 artists and collaborative teams from three generations who reflect a number of overlapping tendencies--diverse approaches to process, narrative, materiality, abstraction, conceptual strategies, technology, and history. The catalogue includes thought-provoking essays by the Whitney curators who organized the exhibition--Chrissie Iles, Shamim M. Momin, and Debra Singer--as well as related texts by writers as diverse as Joge Luis Borges and Susan Buck-Morss, entries on each of the artists represented, and a comprehensive list of works in the Biennial. In addition, each artist has contributed an original project to the catalogue, in formats ranging from posters and postcards to zines and bumper stickers, packaged in an enclosed box. 272 pages, 154 Illustrations, including 136 in full color, Cloth.

    Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

    To order please visit whitneystore