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AÏDA RUILOVA ( 1974 - ) Born in Wheeling, West Virginia; lives and works in New York, NY

EDUCATION 2001 MFA, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY 1999 BFA, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL

SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2007 Salon 94, NY, in collaboration with Greenberg Van Doren, NY Guido W Baudach, 2006 The Kitchen, New York, NY Countdowns, Galleria Francesca Kaufmann, Milan 2005 Lets Go, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, NY Endings, Franklin Art Works, Minneapolis, MN 2004 Projektrum: Aïda Ruilova, Galleri Charlotte Lund, Stockholm, Sweden Lets Go, The Moore Space, Miami, FL 2003 Untitled, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 2002 Come to Life, Salon 94, in collaboration with Artemis Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, NY 2000 White Room, White Columns, NY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2007 Kelly Nipper and Aida Ruilova, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Paul Schimmel Between 2 Deaths, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany 2nd Moscow , Moscow, Russia Pale Carnage, Arnolfini, Bristol and Dundee Contemporary Art Center, Dundee 2006 Art Positions Art Basel Miami Beach in collaboration with Kelly Nipper Six Feet Under, Kunstmuseum Bern, curated by Bernhard Fibicher Protections, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria Into Me/ Out of Me, PS 1, New York, traveling to KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin A Brighter Day, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY La grande geste / The big scene/ Emotionality in Recent Video Art, Magazin 4, Bregenz The Beat, Haswellediger gallery, New York The , curated by Maurizo Cattelan, Massimilano Gioni and Ali Subotnik, Berlin, Germany. Mixed Emotions, curated by Tami Katz-Freiman, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel. 2005 Uncertain States of America, curated by Gunnar B. Kvaran, Daniel Birnbaum, and , Astrup Fearnley Museum of Art, Oslo, Norway, The Center for Curatorial Studies and Art in Contemporary Culture, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY The Pantagruel Syndrome, T-1: Torinotriennale tremusei co-curated by Francesco Bonami & Carolyn Christev-Bakargiev, organized in conjunction by the Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, the GAM Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino and the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Rock Music, Center and Gallery P74, Ljubljana, Slovenia Kelly Nipper - Aida Ruilova, Galleria Francesca Kaufmann, Milan, Italy Marking Time, curated by Glenn Phillips, April 14th screening at the Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA Greater New York 2005, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, NY RE-IMAGINING HER, University Film Series, California State University, Chico, CA Reverse Engineers, curated by Kye Potter and Julia Szwonkoski, Carnegie Art Center, North Tonawanda, NY The Difference Between You and Me, Ian Potter Museum, University of Melbourne, Victoria, Australia IRREDUCIBLE: Contemporary Short Form Video, 1995-2005, curated by Ralph Rugoff, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA; Miami Art Central Museum, Miami, FL; Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY 2004 Phillip: Divided by Lightning, Deitch Projects, Brooklyn, NY; with John Connelly Presents Movimento/Movimenti, curated by Francesco Bonami, in association with la Biennale di Venezia, Calabria, Italy Me, Myself & I, curated by Paul Laster & Renée Riccardo, University Galleries, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, FL Black and White, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, NY Eflux Video Rental, Eflux, New York Beginning Here: 101 Ways, curated by Jerry Saltz, Visual Arts Gallery, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY The Sixth Annual Altoids Curiously Strong Collection, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA Supernatural, Zurcher Gallery, Paris, France Collector’s Cabinet, Marc Selwyn, Los Angeles, CA Disturbing the Peace, Danese Gallery, New York It's about memory, curated by Simon Watson, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL 2004 , Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY I, Assassin, curated by Slater Bradley, Wallspace, NY Suspended State, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY Possessed, Western Bridge, Seattle, WA 2003 Unplugged, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea di Trento, Italy Strange Days, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (traveled to Harn Musem, Gainesville, FL) From the Flat Files, Ramp Gallery, Waikoto Institute of Technology, Hamilton, New Zealand, curated by Amada Cruz Clandestines, 50th La Biennale de Venezia, Venice, Italy , Prague, Czech Republic The Lengths, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY New Museum at Field Day, curated by Dan Cameron, Field Day, Long Island, New York I See A Darkness, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA 2002 Teenage Rebel: The Bedroom Show, John Connelly Presents, NY Videodrome II, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY Monitor II, Gagosian Gallery, NY Altered States, Stefan Stux Gallery, NY 2001 Downtown Arts Festival, organized by Simon Watson, NY Special Projects, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY Casino 2001, Stedelijk Museum Kunst Gent (S.M.A.K), Gent, Belgium 2000 Collectors Choice, Exit Art, New York, NY 1999 LIFER, Cardozo School of Law, curated by Kenny Schachter, Rove, NY Hi-8, Museu Nacional de Historia Natural, Lisbon, Portugal

PROJECTS 2007 Depiction, Perversion, Repulsion, Obsession, Subversion Witte de With’s selection for the International Film Festival Rotterdam 2006 Art Positions Miami Basel (with Kelly Nipper) LUXE Cinema London 2004 Videokunst: Geist, Gemeinschaft und Tschai, Locus, Athens, Greece artFORCE, Plum TV, Art Production Fund/Yvonne Force Inc. 2003 Impakt Festival 2003, Central Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands Images Festival, Toronto, Canada Video Program, School of Visual Arts, NY 2002 The Dialogue, film/video screenings and discussion, Thomas Erben Gallery, NY 2001 Impakt Festival 2002, Central Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands 2000 Stichting Lazymarie Video Fest, The Netherlands Kill Rock Stars Video Compilation #2, music video for band Derrhoof 1999 Slattery for Ungdom, Alva, album, Menlo Park Recordings, NY 1997 Fair-Haired Guillotine, Alva, Compact disc, Avant, New York, NY New Directors / New Films, , Alva, soundtrack for animated feature film “Calendar the Siamese” by Lewis Klahr 1996 7th Annual Independent Filmmakers Night, Tampa Museum of Art, FL

BIBLIOGRAPHY 2006 Connor, Michael, "Berlin: art, technology, mice and men, "http://www.realtimearts.net/rt73/connor_berlin.html Lowenstein, Kate, “Art in the City: Group Mentalities: A Brighter Day and Matter of Time,” The L Magazine, July 5-18. Smith, Roberta, "Endgame Art? It's Borrow, Sample, and Multiply in an Exhibition at Bard College," The New York Times, July 7. "A Brighter Day," The New Yorker, July 3. Baker, R. C. “Best in Show: ‘A Brighter Day,’” The Village Voice, June 29. Cohen, David. “The Dark Side of Summer,” The New York Sun, June 15, also appeared on artcritical.com, June 8. Schwabsky, Barry, "Vampire Video: Time in the Art of Aida Ruilova," Afterall, issue 13, p. 65. Chu, Ingrid, "Aida Ruilova: and Again…," Afterall, issue 13, p. 65. Bellini, Andrea, "Whitney & Berlin biennials," Flash Art, May/June, pg. 80, (illus.). Smith, Roberta, "The Berlin Biennale," NY Times, May 7. Moreno, Gean, "Aïda Ruilova," Contemporary, issue 78, pg. 44-5. 2005 "One to Watch (Aïda Ruilova)," Artkrush, issue 22, December 28. "The Artists' Artists," Artforum, December, p. 104.z Cotter, Holland, "Videos, Long and Short, That Can Really Move," The New York Times, December 16, E37. Lowenstein, Kate, "Counter Intelligence," Time Out New York, December 15, pg. 122. Vogel, Carol, "10, 9, 8, 7, 6, 5, 4, 3," The New York Times, December 9, 2005, E37. Vogel, Carol, "Trendsetters on Shortlist For Hugo Boss Prize," The New York Times, December 2, pg. E34. Boucher, Brian, "Aida Ruilova at Greenberg Van Doren," Art in America, October. Mendelshohn, Adam, “Lets Go”, ArtReview, July. “Don’t Miss!” Time Out New York, May 5 – 11, pg. 74. Cascade, Rebecca, "Making a Scene," Elle Magazine, May, pg. 122. Scott, Andrea, "Local Heroes," Time Out New York, March 31-April 6. Saltz, Jerry, "Lesser New York," The Village Voice, March 28. Kimmelman, Michael, "Youth and the Market: Love at First Sight," The New York Times, March 18. 2004 Lee, Pamela M., "Crystal lite," Artforum, May. Wilson, Michael, "I, Assassin, Wallspace, NY," Frieze Magazine, Issue 83, May. Smith, Roberta, "Art that speaks to you. Literally," The New York Times, March 7. Cotter, Holland, "Duck! Its the Whitney Biennial Season Again," The New York Times, March 7. Sundell, Margaret, "The Today Show: The Whitney sums up the state of contemporary art in the best biennial in years," Time Out New York, March 25 - April 1. Saltz, Jerry, "The OK Corral," Village Voice, March 15. Weyland, Jocko, "American Splendor," Time Out New York, March 4-11. Rosenberg, Karen, "Biennial Favorites," New York Magazine, March 1. 2003 Smith, Roberta, “The Art and Artists of the Year: Auspicious Debuts,” The New York Times, December 28. Watson, Simon, "Post Bubble," Issue, Fall, pg. 131. Saltz, Jerry, "Looking Ahead to the New Season, Our Critic Finds Plenty of Reasons to Be Cheerful: Babylon Rising,"Village Voice, September 5. Cohen, Michael, "The New Gothic: Scary Monsters and Super Creeps," Flash Art, July-September. Cotter, Holland, "Art Shows in the Great Indoors," The New York Times, July 25. Zita, Carmen, "Vampire... Love: Love Letters and Videotape: rock chick- turned-artist Aïda Ruilova is new school film noir," Trace Magazine #44, Summer. Knight, Christopher, “On the Underbelly of the Zeitgeist," Los Angeles Times, February 21. Smith, Roberta, "A Bread-Crumb Trail to the Spirit of the Times," The New York Times, January 17. Rosenfeld, Karen, “Outside and In,” The Village Voice, February 15. 2002 Schambelan, Elizabeth, “Critic’s Picks,” ArtForum.com, December. John Kelsey, “Review: Come to Life,” Time Out New York, December 26. Wilson-Goldie, Kaelin, “shorts," Black Book Magazine, October – November. Charlesworth, J.J., Review: Casino 2001, Art Monthly, December 2001 - January 2002.

2001 Chivaratanond, Sylvia, Flash Art, July-September.

2000 Schwabsky, Barry, Artforum, review, December.

1999 Wolk, Douglas, CMJ Monthly Magazine, Alva review, November. 1997 Blackford, Chris, The Wire, Alva review, October. Edgerton, Robin, Time Out New York, Alva article, May.

PUBLICATIONS Six Feet Under – Autopsy of our relation to the dead, exhibition catalogue, Kunstmuseum, Berne.

The Hugo Boss Prize 2006, exhibition catalogue, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, NY, p. 75 - 85, 99-100.

2005 Greater New York, exhibition catalogue, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, a MOMA Affiliate, Long Island City, NY, p. 300-01.

Uncertain States of America: American Art in the 3rd Millennium, curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Gunnar B. Kvaran, and Hans Ulrich Obrist, exhibition catalogue, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway, pages 100-101.

Transitory Patterns: Florida Women Artists, curated by Joyce Pomeroy Schwartz, exhibition catalogue, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington DC, 2004. 2004 Whitney Biennial, exhibition catalogue, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY. 2003 Venice Biennial, "Dreams and Conflicts- The Dictatorship of the Viewer," exhibition catalogue, Venice, Italy, p. 92 & 109. Dreaming in Red: Creating ArtPace, Linda Pace, published by ArtPace, San Antonio, TX, 2003, p. 292.

MUSEUM COLLECTIONS

Altoids Curiously Strong Collection, The New Museum, NY

Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

Collezione La Gaia, Italy

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY

Stedelijk Museum Kunst Gent (S.M.A.K), Gent, Belgium

Verbund Collection,

AWARDS 2002 ArtPace Residency & Fellowship, San Antonio, TX, selected by Francesco Bonami

2001 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant