Tomio Koyama Gallery

1966　Born in New York, NY, USA
1987　Architectural Association, London, UK
1989　B.A., Bennington College, Bennington, VT, USA

Solo Exhibitions

2008
"Animals" Sperone Westwater, New York, USA(May 8 - June21 )
Lever House、New York, NY, USA (May 8 - Sep 6 )

2007
"LOGJAM" Des Moines Art Center, Los Angels, USA
"Space Program" Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA, USA

2006
"Vanity" Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
"SURVEY - America, Modernism, Fashion" Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo, Norway
Foundazione Prada, Milan, Itary

2005
"McDonald's" Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan <Press Release>

2004
"Connecticut" Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, USA
"Private Wealth Management" Kunstraum Deustsche Bank / Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
"Dedicated to the Memory of Ben Plummer 1968-2004" Baldwin Gallery, Aspen

2003
"Disaster (Featuring Andy Warhol)" Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
"New Paintings" Galleria Cardi, Milan, Itary
"Holiday Spectacular" Printed Matter Inc., New York, USA

2002
"Le Corbusier B Sides" Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, USA
"Nutsy's" Bohen Foundation, New York, USA [Toured until 2003 ; Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany](catalogue)

2001
"Lamps, Bitch Lounge & Quarter Screws" A/D Gallery, New York, USA
"White" Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
"Selector" Galleria Cardi & Co., Milan, Italy

2000
"Defender" Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO, USA
"Test Module Five (Urinal)" Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

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1999
"Creativity is the Enemy" Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
"SONY Outsider" SITE Sante Fe, Santa Fe, NM, USA
Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, USA
"Burn Baby Burn" Montblanc Flagship Store, New York, USA
"Stairmaster" Gallery Mont Blanc Factory, Hamburg, Germany
"W.W.J.B.D. and other Smash Hits" Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
"Haute Bricolage" Mary Boone Gallery, New York, USA

1998
"Creativity is the Enemy" Thomas Healy Gallery, New York, USA

1997
"Cultural Prosthetics" (window display)
Galleria d'Arte 1000eventi, Torino, Italy / Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone, Roma, Italy

1996
Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, MA, USA

1995
"Cultural Prosthetics" Morris-Healy Gallery, New York, USA

1994
"Kill All Artists with Dirk Westphal and New York Militia" (window display)
Whitney Museum of American Art Store Next Door, New York, USA

1993
"Shopping Cart Furniture with Dries van Noten" (window display) Barneys, New York, USA
"Watch Me Work" Allied Cultural Prosthetics, New York, USA

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Group Exhibitions

2008
"Radical Advertising" NRW-Forum Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany (Apr 5 - Aug 17)

2006
"Freeze!" A Selection of Works from a New York Collection, Robilant + Voena + Sperone, London, England, 10 October 2006 - 4 November 2006
"10th Anniversary" Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2005
"3D - Die Dritte Dimension" Galerie Haas & Fuchs and Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin, Germany
"Homestyle" Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA
"Funfundzwanzig Jahre Sammlung Deutsche Bank" Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany
"Artisti Amricani a Firenze e a Siena" Galleria Alessandro Bagnai, Florence, Italy
"2005-06 Herron Sculpture Biennial International" Herron Galleries, Herron School of Art and Design, Indianapolis, IN, USA
"Extreme Abstraction" Albright- Knox Art Gallery Buffalo, New York, USA
"Minimalism and After IV" DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
"A Knock at the Door" Melville Gallery, South Street Seaport Museum, New York / Cooper Union, New York, USA
"Ruckkehr ins All" Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
"ex.05.01.06103" Cartin Collection, Hartford, CO, USA
"Highlights" John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco,USA
"Superstars - Das Prinzip Prominenz. Von Warhol bis Madonna" Kunsthalle Wien / BA-CA Kunstforum Wien, Vienna, Austria
"New York, New York" Grimaldi Forum, Monaco

2004
"Sculptural Sphere" Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
"Alumni Art and Design Show" Alumni day Reunion, Green Farms Academy, Green Farms, CO, USA
"…So Fresh, So Cool!"Galleria Cardi & Co. and Galleria Cardi, Milan, Italy
"Monument to Now" DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens
"20 Jahre - 20 Years. 1984 - 2004" Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
"Kitty ex. 30th anniversary of hello Kitty's birth" Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan   [Toured in Japan until 2005 ; Laforet Museum, Tokyo / Daimaru Museum, Kobe / Daimaru Museum, Osaka/ Daimaru Museum, Sapporo / Nagoya Parco Gallery, Nagoya / Laforet Museum, Niigata / Sogo Museum of Art, Yokohama / Kurashiki City Museum of Art, Okayama]
"DESIGN ≠ ART: Functional Objects from Donald Judd to Rachel Whiteread" Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, USA   [Toured in USA until 2005 ; Museum of Design, Atlanta, GA / Aspen Art Museum, CO, USA]
"Teritorio Livre" 26a Bienal de Sao Paulo, Pavilhao Ciccillo Matarazzo, Parque do Ibirapura, Sao Paulo, Brazil
"Terminal 5" John Fitzgerald Kennedy International Airport, Queens, NY, USA
"Arti & Architettura. 1900-2004" Palazzo Ducale, Genova, Italy
"Acquisitions recentes. Ceuvres Contemporaines" Musee National d'Art Moderne Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
"Will Boys Be Boys? Questioning Adolescent Masculinity in Contemporary Art" Salina Art Center, Salina, KS, USA

2003
"No Canvas" Galleria Cardi, Milan, Italy
"Up in Arms" Parker's Box, New York, USA
"Kids Are Us/ I bambini siamo noi" Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy
"Wetterling Gallery 1978 - 2003. 25 Years Anniversary" Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
"Original Since 1.4.60" Old Truman Brewery, London / Annie Leibovitz Carriage House, New York, USA
"Heroes & Vilain" Dactyl Foundation for the Arts & Humanities, New York, USA
"Bull's Eye - Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection" ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Ishoj, Denmark
"Teddybar & Co - Die Suche nach Mythen in der Kunst" Galerie Ernst Hilger, Vienna, Austria
"Skulptur 03" Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac and Max Gandolph Bibliothek, Universitat Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria
"Everyday Aestetics - Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection" Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo, Norway
"Materials, Metaphors, Narratives: Work by Six Contemporary Artists" Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA
"Perpetual Bliss. Form, Symbol and Material in Contemporary Sculpture" Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
"Greentings from New York. A Painting Show" Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, , Austria
"Painting Lesson" Galleria Cardi & Co., Milan, Italy

2002
"Self Medicated" Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
"Acquiring Taste" Real Art Ways, Hartford, CO, USA
"Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery / Recent Art" Juwish Museum, New York, USA
"Pulcherrimae Strade." Venezia Giulia, Ex-Filanda, Maniago, Udine, Italy
"Five by Five: Contemporary Artists on Contemporary Art" Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York, USA
"Collarobations with Tillamook Cheddar" National Arts Club, New York, USA
"Good News" Gallria Cardi & Co. and Galleria Cardi, Milan, Italy
"Time Space Motion" Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
"Separations: Manufacturing Art / Skateboard" 222 Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
"POPjack: Warhol to Murakami" Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO, USA
"Shopping: Kunstund Konsumkultur" Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
"Shopping: Century of Art & Consumer Culture" Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England
"Outdoor" Szilage gallery, Saint Petersburg, FL, USA
"New Hotels for Global Nomads Explore the Hotel as Design Laboratory and Fantasy Experience" Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, USA
"Illegal Art: Freedom of Expression in the Corporate Age" CBGB's 313 Gallery, New York  [Toured in USA until 2006 ; In These Times Building, Chicago / Gaea Foundation's Resource Center for Activism and Arts, Washington D.C., WA / San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco / Nexus Gallery, Nexus Foundation for Today's Art, Philadelphia / Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, CA, USA ]
"SK8 on the wall" Rocket, Tokyo, Japan
"2002 - Two Zero Zero Two" DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece

2001
"Making the Making" Apexart, New York, USA
"Ironical Instinct" galleria Cardi, Milan, Italy
"My Reality - Contemporary art and the Culture of Japanese Animation" Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA   [ Toured in USA until 2004 ; Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brookly / Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH / Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL / Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL / Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH / Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL / Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA / Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL ]
"Andy Warhol Knives" Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, USA
"Art at the Edge of the Law" Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CO, USA
"Camera Works: The Photographic Impulse in Contemporary Art" Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA

2000
"Live From New York" Cheryl Haines Gallery, San Francisco, USA
"Seven New York Artists" Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
"Destruction / Creation" Ubu Gallery, New York, USA
"Arte Aericana, Ultimo Decennio" Loggetta Lombardesca Museo d'Arte della Ctta di Ravenna, Ravenna, Italy
"Na'er Do Wells" DNA Studios, New York, USA
"C2C" New Langton Arts, San Francisco. USA
"2001" Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA, USA
"Luci in galleria. Da Warhol al 2000. Gian Enzo Sperone: 35 anni di Mostre fra Europa e America" Plazzo Cavour, Torino, Italy
"Hand-Made in USA" Sprovieri Gallery, London, England
"American Bricolage" Sperone Westwater, New York, USA
"Demonstration Room: Ideal House" Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela
"Fabula: Consumer Media and Contemporary Art" Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI, USA "Toys" Kagan Martos Gallery, New York, USA
"Expressions in Wood" Max Fish, New York, USA

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1999
"Material Perception. Celebrating Art and Architecture: Creating a Place for People" La Salle gallery at Bank of America Plaza, Charlotte, NC, USA
"Food for Thought" New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, NJ, USA
"Comfort Zone: Furniture by Artists" Paine Webber Art Gallery, New York, USA
"The Stroke" Exit Art, New York, USA
"Creative Time in the Anchorage: Exposing Meaning in Fashion through Presentation" Brooklyn Bridge Anchorage, Brooklyn, NY, USA
"Persuasion" Lombard-Fried Gallery, New York, USA
"Preparator's Picks" Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
"Dysfunctional Sculpture" Center Galleries, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI, USA
"Making Change. 100 Artists Interpret the Tzedakah Box" Jewish Museum, San Francisco, USA
"Hedge: Between Time and Intent" Thomas Healy Gallery, New York, USA
"Coup d'Etat" Alleged Gallery, New York, USA
"Paper: a Retrospective" Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, USA
"Police" Alleged Gallery, New York, USA

1998
"Bathroom" Thomas Healy Gallery, New York, USA
"Ensemble Moderne: Das moderne Stilleben" Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
"He Swam Down, Away" Audiello Fine Art, New York, USA
"Thinking Aloud" Hayward Gallery's National Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, England [Toured in UK until 1999 ; Cornerhouse, Manchester / Camden Arts Centre, London ]
"Recent Acquisitions: Biggs, Bogin, Kortik, Nahas, Reeves, Rockman, Sachs" Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, USA

1997
"Road Show '97" Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, New York, USA
"Summer Group Show" Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, USA
"New York" Galleri F15, Moss, Norway
"Art on Paper 1997" Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC, USA
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
"Icons: Modern Design and the Haunting Quality of Everyday Objects" San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
"No Molestar / Do Not Disturb" Hotel Ribot, Caracas, Venezuela

1996
"Shred Sled Symposium" Thread Waxing Space, New York, USA
"On/In/Through" Morris-Healy Gallery, New York, USA
"American Dreamin'" Linda Kirkland Gallery, New York, USA
"The Subverted Object" Ubu Gallery, New York, USA

1995
"Inaugural Exhibition" Paul Morris Gallery, New York, USA
"Occupate. A Project by Luciano Perna" Bennett Roberts Fine Art, Los Angeles, USA

1994
"Red Windows. Benefit for the Little Red School House" (window display) Barneys, New York, USA
"ICCF Windows" (window display) Barneys, New York, USA
"Pathetic Masterworks" Alleged Gallery, New York, USA
"The Bong Show" Alleged Gallery, New York, USA

1993
"minimal Tricks" Alleged Gallery, New York, USA

1992
"Exhibition" Allied Cultural Prosthetics, New York, USA
"10 Steps" Muranushi Lederman Inc. / Horodner Romley Gallery, New York, USA

1991
"Denied Access Parking Lot" L.A. Eats, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Books

"Tom Sachs" Germano Celant / Fondazione Prada (October 2006)
"Nutsy's" Tom Friedman / Guggenheim Museum Pubns (October 2003)

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