Gavin Brown's enterprise

Born 1964, Washington, D.C.
Lives and works in New York


Solo Exhibitions

2012
Massimo de Carlo, Italy (forthcoming)
Kunstverein Freiburg, Freiburg, Germany

2011
Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, Texas
“The Andy Monument,” Public Art Fund, New York
Air de Paris, Paris

2010
“Pattern and Degradation,” Gavin Brown’s enterprise & Maccarone, New York
“iPaintings,” Franco Noero Gallery, Torino, Italy
“Pop Touched Me” Book Launch/Autograph Collection, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York

2009
“Rob Pruitt Presents the First Annual Art Awards,” Guggenheim Museum, New
York, NY
Franco Noero Gallery, Torino, Italy
“Look What I’ve Done: Rob Pruitt Works 1989 – 2009,” Carlson, London, UK

2008
“iPhotos,” Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
Power House, Memphis, TN
American Academy in Rome, Italy
Master Artist-in-Residence Exhibition, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, Florida

2007
“Rob Pruitt’s Flea Market,” Frieze Art Fair, London, UK

2006
Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
Air de Paris, Paris
Bergdorf Goodman window display, sponsored by the New Museum, New York

2004
“Paris in Tokyo,” Gallery Side 2, Tokyo
“Paris in Rome,” Roma Roma Roma, Rome, Italy

2003
“Surreal Estate,” Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York (with Jonathan Horowitz)

2002
Air de Paris, Paris, France
Consortium, Dijon, France
Colette, Paris, France
China Art Objects Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2001
Franco Noero Gallery, Torino, Italy
“Pandas and Bamboo,” Gavin Brown’s enterprise, Corp., NY
“101 Art Ideas You Can Do Yourself,” Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH

2000
“Flea Market,” Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, NY
“Psychic Predictions For The New Millennium & Things To Do With Lemons,” Cabinet Gallery, London, UK

1999
“101 Art Ideas You Can Do Yourself,” Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York, NY

1993
Galleria Il Capricorno, Venice, Italy
Mulier & Mulier, Knokke, Belgium

1992
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
Galerie Rachel Lehmann, Lausanne, Switzerland

1991
APAC, Centre d'art Contemporian, Nevers, France
Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Esther Schipper, Koln, Germany
Daniel Buchholz, Koln, Germany

1990
303 Gallery, New York, NY

Group Exhibitions

2012
“Infinite Jest,” Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland (forthcoming)
“Arthur Rainbow,” Air de Paris, Paris, France
 
2011
“Number Five: Cities of Gold and Mirrors,” Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf, Germany
"Grisaille," Luxembourg & Dayan, New York

2010
“It’s All American,” New Jersey MoCA, Asbury Park
"At Home/Not at Home," Hessel Museum of Art, New York

2009
Sold Out,” Tate Modern, London, UK
“The living and the dead,” Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
“Whaddaya Wanna Be, a Flower?!” Alexander and Bonin, New York
“Mapping the Studio,” Punta Della Dogana/Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy, curated by Alison Gingeras

2008
“The Station,” Art Basel Miami, co-curated by Shamim Momin and Nate Lowman
“Malcolm Mc Laren – Musical Paintings,” Schiebler Mitte, Berlin, curated by Bernd Wurlitzer
“Pretty Ugly,” Gavin Brown’s enterprise and Maccarone, NY, curated by Alison Gingeras
“Who’s Afraid of Jasper Johns?,” Tony Shafrazi Gallery, NY, conceived by Urs Fischer and Gavin Brown
“Depreciation and Devastation,” Passerby, NY, curated by Gavin Brown and Tony Just
“Sunshine,” Rental Gallery, New York, curated by Darren Bader and Ritter/Zamet

2007
“She was Born to be my Unicorn,” Smith-Stewart, New York

2006
“The Gold Standard,” PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
“The Inside Game” curated by Joel Leib, Portland Art Center, Portland, OR
“Celebrity,” Sixtyseven Gallery, New York
“The Name of the Show Is Not ‘Gay Art Now’,” curated by Jack Pierson, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
“Survivor,” Bortolami Dayan, New York, curated by David Rimanelli
“Strictement Confidentiel. A partir de la collection Gensollen,” curated by Chiara
Parisi, Centre International d’art et du paysage, Ile de Vassiviere, France (cat.)

2005
“Interstate,” Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, curated by Adam McEwen
“General Ideas: Rethinking Conceptual Art 1987-2005,” CCA Wattis Institute for
Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
“Drunk Vs. Stoned 2,” Gavin Brown’s enterprise
“Seeing Double,” Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
“Trade,” White Columns, New York, NY (brochure)
“The Finale Floor Show,” Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp
“100 artists see God,” Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA

2004
“Open,” Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, PA
“For all,” Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Vestfossen, Netherlands
“No More Reality,” Nils Staerk Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark

2003
Inaugural Exhibition, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
Franco Noero Gallery, Torino, Italy
Summer Group Show, China Art Objects Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Following and to Be Followed (coming back),” Le Consortium, Dijon, France
“…still or sparkling?” John Connelly Presents, New York
“Bright Lights, Big City,” David Zwirner Gallery, New York

2002
Shanghai Biennale, Shangai Art Museum, Shanghai, China (cat.)
“Something, Anything,” Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, curated by Nayland Blake
“Spot the diferrence,” Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
“De Gustibus,” Palazzo dela Papesse, Siena

2001
China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
“The Americans New Art,” Barbican Gallery, London, UK
“Two Friends and so on,” curated by Jonathan Horowitz and Rob Pruitt, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA
“Vantage Point,” Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
“The Silk Purse Procedure,” Arnolfini and Spike Island, Bristol, UK
“Salon,” Delfina Project Space, London, UK

2000
‘New York Projects’, Delfina, London, UK
‘Protest and Survive’, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
‘Cool-Aid’, Greenenaftali Gallery, New York, NY
‘Two friends and so on’, curated by Jonathan Horowitz and Rob Pruitt, Andrew
Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
‘Sentimental Education’, curated by David Rimanelli, Deitch Projects, New York
‘Post - POP, Post – PUNK’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Washington, D.C.
'Greater New York', PS1, Long Island City, NY

1999
'Free Coke', Greenenaftali Gallery, New York, NY
'Village Disco', Cabinet Gallery, London, UK
Glassbox, Paris, France
'Neither / Nor', Grand Arts, Kansas City, MI (curated by Bill Arning)
‘Enter Yes, No, Don’t Know”, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York

1998
'Home and Away', Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, NY (curated by Kirsty Bell)
'Superfreaks; Post Pop and the New Generation, Part 1 : Trash', Greene Naftali, New York, NY
'Sassy Nuggets', Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
'Hey, You Never Know', curated by Kenny Schachter, New York

1997
'Screentest', Oasis Performance Series, New York, NY
'Thriller', 303 Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Tom Borghese)
'Recent Acquisitions', Art Institute of Chicago, Ill
Deitch Projects, New York, NY
'Inside Out Art Fair', curated by Kenny Schachter, New York
'Utopian Art Fair', Hotel 17, New York, NY

1996
‘Circus of the Stars', Hotel 17, New York, NY

1995
'Alternative Art Fair', Hotel 17, New York, NY
'In a Different Light', University Art Museum, UC Berkeley, CA
'Photocollages', Le Consortium, Dijon, France
'It's Only Rock and Roll', travelling exhibition, curated by David S. Rubin;
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Phoenix Art Museum, Milwaukee Art Museum, Virginia Beach Center for the
Arts, Tacoma Art Museum, Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art, Arkansas Art Center

1993
'Avantgarde & Kamgagne', Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany (curated by Jurgen Harten)
'Teddy & Other Stories', Cladio Botello Arte & Galleria In Arco, Torino Italy (curated by Luca Beatrice and Cristiana Perrela)
'In Search of Self', Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC
'Fortryck', Galleri Enkeshuset, Stockholm, Sweden
'Under 30', Galerie Metropol, Wein, Austria
‘Translations', Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland

1992
'Objects', Casteli Graphics, New York, NY
'Post Human', curated by Jeffrey Deitch, FAE Musee D'Art Contemporain, Lausanne, Switzerland; Castello di Rivoli, Museo d' Arte, Contemporanea,
Rivoli, Italy; Deste Foundation for contemporary Art, Athens, Greece; Deichorhallen, Hamburg, Germany;
Rudolph Zwirner Gallery, Koln Germany
'Molteplici Culture', curated by Liam Gillick, Rome, Italy
'Tattoo Collection', Air de Paris, Paris, France
'How It Is', Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY

1991
"The Store', Richard Bennett Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
'New Generaitons: New York', Carnegie Mellon Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
'New Work by Gallery Artists', 303 Gallery New York, NY
'Louder,’ Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago IL (curated by Kathryn Hixon)
‘Selections,’ FAE Musee D’Art Contemporain, Lausanne, Switzerland
'No Man's Time', Villa Arson, Nice France

1990
Strathmore Hall Arts Center, Washington, D.C.
'Brut '90', White Columns, NY
'Paintball', with Richard Prince and Tom Henry III, 303 Gallery New York, NY
'Stendhal Syndrome: The Cure', Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
'Total Metal', Simon Watson, New York, NY (curated by Richard Phillips)
'Stuttering', Stux Gallery, New York, NY

1989
'Group Show', American Fine Arts Co., New York, NY
video presentation by Colin de Land, Art Cologne, West Germany, American Fine Arts Co.

Bibliography

2012
Jovanovic, Rozalia, "Let's Make a Deal," The New York Observer, May 28
Milligan, Lauren, "Choo Art," British Vogue, April 13
Binlot, Ann, "Glittery Panda Painter Rob Pruitt Partners With Shoe Designer Jimmy Choo for Capsule Cruise Collection," ArtInfo, April 13
Douglas, Sarah, “Bearly There,” The New York Observer, March 19
Lima, Ben, "How Deep Does Rob Pruitt's Work at the Dallas Contemporary Really Cut?" D Magazine, January 5
Solway, Diane, "Into the Wild," W Magazine, January

2011
Allen, Emma, "'Work of Art' Recap, Episode 3: Rob Pruitt Judges Pop Art," New York Observer, October 27
Anthony Haden-Guest, “Comeback Kids,” The Art Economist, Issue 5
Fox, Dan, “Downtown, No Finer Place for Sure…,” Frieze.com, April
Randolph, Eleonor, “The Andy,” New York Times, May 14
Smith, Roberta. “Andy Warhol Commemorated in Chrome on Union Square,” NYtimes.com, March 31
“Look Book,” New York Magazine, April 4

2010
Kastner, Jeffrey, "Rob Pruitt," ArtForum, December
Smith, Roberta, "Rob Pruitt: Pattern and Degradation," The New York Times, October 8
Halle, Hoard, "Rob Pruitt, Pattern and Degradation," Time Out New York October
Kennedy, Randy, "A penitent Reflects on the Wilderness," The New York Times, September 15
Cashdan, Marina, "The Rebirth of Rob Pruitt," The Huffington Post, October 4
Illustration, New York Magazine
Benjamin Smith, Walter, " Rob Pruitt: Pattern and Degradation," Mousse Magazine issue 25
"Capture: Cuddling Pandas at Art Basel", Interview Magazine, June 17
"In Basel: New Jerseyy State of Mind," Art in America, June 15
Thomas, Kelly Devine, “Stuck on You”, Art & Auction, April, 2010
O’Brien, Glenn, “Rob Pruit,” Purple, February, 2010

2009
Taylor, Kate “ At the Museums, Screen Test,” The New Yorker, November 2, 2009
Spector, Nancy “Best in Show,” V Magazine, October 2009
Franco, James, Interview with Rob Pruitt, Interview, October 2009
Gartenfeld, Alex, “Rob Pruitt, Master of Ceremonies,” Interview, October 28, 2009
Secchi, Caterina, Review, arriva Ossigeno Italiano 2009, September 29, 2009
Akbar, Arifa “Tate Modern to stage ‘racist’ exhibition,” The Independent, September 26, 2009
Egan, Maura “Art Awards I And the nominees are…” The Moment, NY Times Magazine, September 23, 2009
Jones, Laura K., “It’s a Hard Pop Life,” Artnet Magazine, October 2009. http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/jones/pop-life10-1-09.asp
Sonnenborn, Katie, Review, Frieze, Jan-Feb, p. 153-4

2008
“Work of Art: New Work by Rob Pruitt” and cover image, Pluk Magazine, Issue 37
Salsbury, Britany, Critics’ Picks, Artforum.com, September 25
“Rob Pruitt on Humor,” interview with James Fuentes, Paper Magazine, October, p. 86-87
Halle, Howard, “An I for an Eye,” Time Out New York, Sept. 11 – 17, p. 70

2007
Uovo Magazine, Collaboration with Jonathan Horowitz, Issue 15, Oct – Dec., p. 286-89, 312-13
Lyall, Sarah, “In London, Art and Commerce Scratch Backs,” New York Times,
October 13
Thornton, Sarah, “Flea Circus,” Artforum.com, October 12
Searle, Adrian, “Tenner for your thoughts, Dinos?” Guardian UK, October 11
Jones, Jonathan, “My Frieze Art Fair Top 10,” Guardian Art Blog, October 10
Higgins, Charlotte, “A Fleamarket at Frieze? This is Fun.” Guardian Art Blog,
October 10
Gleadell, Colin, “Art Sales: Frieze Art Fair,” Telegraph UK, October 9
Mooney, Christopher, “In the Pink: Rob Pruitt,” ArtReview, January, p. 41
Rehberg, Vivian, Review, Artforum.com, January

2006
The Artists’ Artists, Artforum, December, p. 115
Rimanelli, David, “Survivor,” published by Bortolami Dayan, New York
Colman, David, “Smitten With a Plain Jane,” New York Times, Sept. 24
Kitnick, Alex, Review, Time Out New York, October 5-11, p. 96
Saltz, Jerry “Our Crowds: a two-headed butterfly flapping its wings,” Village Voice July 6

2005
Comita, Jenny “Northern Exposure,” W, September, pp. 458-64
Gingeras, Alison, “Purple News,” Purple Fashion, No. 3, Spring/Summer, p. 34
“A Peacock Hill Family Album,” Zing Magazine, Winter 2005
Maekawa, Akane, Ryuko Tsushin vol. 505, July, pp. 62-63

2004
Bollen, Christopher, Interview, Vman, Issue 3, Fall/Winter, p. 71
“My Pop,” Artforum, October, Vol XLIII, No. 2, p. 255
Studio Voice, Vol 345, September, pp.43

2003
Wilson, Michael, “Bright Lights, Big City,” Review, Frieze, November-December, pp. 101-102
Garrett, Craig, “Review, Flash Art International, October, pp. 56-57
Lafreniere, Steve, Index, September-October, pp. 62 – 68
“Little House on the Prairie,” ArtReview, June, p. 25
Review, Village Voice, June 11-17, p. 90
Schwendener, Martha, review, Artforum (online)
Johnson, Ken, review, New York Times, June 6, p. E33
Mulvihill, Keith, “American Gothic,” Time Out New York, May 29-June 5,
pp. 28-29
“Sculpture Forever,” Flash Art, May-June 2003, p. 128

2002
Gingeras, Alison M., Vitamin P, Phaidon Press, London, pp. 258-261
Troncy, Eric, Infinite Justice, No. 2, Summer, pp. 6-13
Colman, David, “House of 8 Gables, Back in Black,” The New York Times, House & Home, pp. 1-F5
“A Short Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Away…,” Interview, June, p. 87
Thely, Thierry and Colard, Jean-Max, “Coke en Stock,” Les Inrockuptibles, June
19-25, p. 79
Pruitt, Rob and Horowitz, Jonathan, “Home Making Part 1: House Hunting,”
Index, April
Troncy, Eric, “Bad Boy”, Numero, France, March 2002, pp. 296-301

2001
Sladen, Mark, Blue Print, London, November, pp. 50-52
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What’s On London, October 31, p. 23
Packer, William, Financial Times, London, October 30, p. 20
Darwent, Charles, The Independent on Sunday, London, October 28

2000
Guner, Fisun, Metro London, October 26
Hackworth, Nick, Evening Standard, London November 6th
Rimanelli, David, “Top Ten”, Artforum, December, pp 110-111.
ZOO, September, pp.272-273
Ratnam, Niru, “Oh Please it Mean Something”, The Face, October, pp. 174-183
Fineman, Mia, “Rob Pruitt’s Star on the Rise Again”, International Herald Tribune, Saturday- Sunday, June 23-24, p.6
Fineman, Mia, “Back in the Arms of the Art World”, The New York Times, Sunday June, pp. 30-33
Grabner, Michelle, Review, Frieze, June-August, p.111-112
Pride. 01, June, p, 61

2000
Gilmore, Jonathan, Review, Tema Celeste, May-June, p. 86
Dailey, Meghan, Review, Artforum, May, pp. 177-178
Issue 5, ill. p. 144
Griffin, Tim, “A Man, a Plan, a Panda,” Time Out New York, March 1-8, pp. 51-52
Beyer, Charles, “Rob Pruitt’s Panda-Monium,” Gotham, March, p. 204-205
Wehr, Anne, “The Panda Man can,” Time Out New York, February 22-March 1
Levin, Kim, Review, Village Voice, March 10
“Panda Express”, V magazine, Vol. X, March-April
The New Yorker, Review, January 22, p. 16
Turner, Grady T., “Aperto New York”, Flash Art, summer, pp. 57-58
Ward, Ossian, “Don’t Just Seat There”, The Art News Paper, September, p. 21
“Pick of the Galleries: Something to declare”, The Independent on Sunday, September 24
Slocombe, Steve, “Don’t Call it a Cokeback”, Sleazenation.com, July

1999
Berwick, Carly, “SaleAway”, ArtNews, Arttalk, September, p.38
Griffin, Tim, Review, Time Out, New York, July 20th-27th,
Johnson, Ken, Review, The New York Times, July 21st
Review, Village Voice, July 25th
Hunt, David, Review, Time Out, New York, July 27th-August 3rd, p. 58
Dawson, Jessica, ”Nelson”, Washington City Paper, April 28th, p. 60
Saltz, Jerry, “Realm of the Senses”, Village Voice, July 11th, p. 65
Halle, Howard, Review, Time Out, New York
Arning, Bill, Review, Time Out, New York, February 18th-25th

1998
Thorson, Alice, “But Seriously…or Not”, The Kansas City Star, Sunday, July 4th
Interview with John Kelsey, Bernadette, “Rob Pruitt & Johnathan Horowitz”, Made in USA, Fall/Winter, pp. 58-62
Gilman-Sevcik, Frantiska and Tim, Review, Flash Art, May/June
Clifford, Katie, “Rob Pruitt”, ARTnews, summer
Levin, Kim, “Rob Pruitt”, Village Voice, February 9th
“99 People to Watch in 1999”, Time Out , New York, January 28th-February 4th
Johnson, Review, The New York Times, Friday, February 26th