Biography Paul Chan
Hong Kong, 1973. Lives and works in New York SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2015 2015 - Hippias Minor, DESTE Foundation Project Space - Slaughterhouse, Hydra, GR. Catalogue 2015 - Alternumerics, Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, USA 2015 - Nonprojections for New Lovers, Te Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
2014 2014 - Paul Chan, Schaulager, Basel, CH
2009 2009 - My Laws Are My Whores, Te Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago, USA 2009 - Sade for sade's sake, Green Nafali Gallery, New York, USA
2008 2008 - Te 7 Lights, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
2007 2007 - Lights & Drawings, Stedelijk Museum CS, Amsterdam, NL 2007 - Te Seven Lights, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK. Catalogue 2007 - Western Front, Vancouver, CDN
2006 2006 - 3rd Light, Massimo De Carlo, Milano, I 2006 - 1st Light, Te Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, USA 2006 - Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, D. Catalogue 2006 - PAUL CHAN, curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Magasin III, Stockholm, S. Catalogue 2006 - Paul Chan, curated by Tobias Berger, Para/Site Art Space, Hong Kong, HK 2006 - Paul Chan: Present Tense, curated by Annette DiMeo Carlozzi, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, USA
2005 2005 - Tin Drum Trilogy, Halwalls Contemporary Arts Center, New York, USA 2005 - Tin Drum Trilogy, Franklin Art Works, Minneapolis, USA 2005 - UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA 2005 - Momentum 5: Paul Chan, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
2004 2004 - Greene Nafali Gallery, New York, USA
2003 2003 - MOMA Film, Gramercy Teater, New York, USA GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015 2015 - Works on Paper, Greene Nafali Gallery, New York, USA 2015 - Flying over the Abyss, curated by Maria Marangou e Dimitris Paleocrassas, Te Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete, Rethimno, GR 2015 - Mobile M+: Moving Images, curated by Yung Ma, M+Museum, Hong Kong , HK 2015 - America is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
2014 2014 - Beating Around the Bush, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, NL 2014 - High Performance, Julia Stoschek Collection at ZKM, Dusseldorf , D
2013 2013 - Absolut, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, USA 2013 - Making Space. 40 Years of Video Art, Muscantonal des Beaux Arts, Lausanne, CH
2012 2012 - Documenta Xlll, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, D 2012 - To Be With Art Is All We Ask, Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, N 2012 - Read, Look! We promise it's not dangerous curated by Laurence Brugui, Charlotte Cosson and Astrid de Maismont, Emily Harvey Foundation, New York, USA 2012 - Carnal Knowledge: Sex and Philosophy, Leslie Tokonow Gallery, New York, USA 2012 - Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, curated by Virginia Dajani, American Academy of Arts & Letters, New York, USA 2012 - Te Inside a Book a House of Gold: Artists' Editions for Parkett, Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, PRC 2012 - Fremde überall - Foreigners everywhere. Zeitgenössische Kunst aus der Sammlung Pomeranz, Jüdisches Museum Wien, Wien, A
2011 2011 - Seeing is believing, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, D 2011 - Te Bearden Project, Studio Museum Harlem, New York, USA 2011 - Universes in Universe, Astrup Fearnley Museum Collection at the São Paulo Biennal, São Paulo, BR 2011 - Speak More Clearly, ICA at MECA, Portland, USA 2011 - Seeing is believing, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, D 2011 - Dance/Draw, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA 2011 - Temporary Stedelijk 2, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL 2011 - Afer Images, curated by Fionn Meade, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale on Hudson, USA 2011 - I am still Alive: Politics and Everyday Life in Contemporary Drawing, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2011 - Te Great Upheaval: Modern Art from the Guggenheim Collection, 1910-1918, Te Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA 2011 - Te Cinema Efect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image. Realism, CaixaForum, Madrid, E 2011 - Before the Law, Museum Ludwig, Köln, D 2011 - CLAP, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA 2011 - Found in Translation, Te Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA 2011 - Te Luminous Interval, Te Dimitris Daskalopoulos Collection, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao, E 2011 - Material Intelligence, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
2010 2010 - Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection, curated by Jef Koons, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA 2010 - How Soon Now, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA. Catalogue 2010 - Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, Te Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA 2010 - Singular Vision, curated by Dana Miller e Scott Rothkopf, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, USA 2010 - Ordinary Madness, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA 2010 - Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA 2010 - More Pricks Tan Kicks, curated by Vincent Honoré e Patrizio Di Massimo, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK 2010 - Tasters' Choice, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, UK 2010 - Contemporary Art from the Collection, curated by Kathy Halbreich e Christophe Cherix, Te Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA 2010 - Te Dissolve, curated by Daniel Belasco e Sarah Lewis, SITE Sante Fe, Sante Fe, USA 2010 - Forbidden Love: Art in the Wake of Television Camp, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln, D 2010 - All Tat Is Solid Melts Into Air: Te Social at the Berardo Collection, Museum Berardo Collection, Lisboa, P 2010 - Human Achievements, Public Surface, Stockholm, S 2010 - Fast forward 2: Te Power of Motion, Media Art in the Sammlung Goetz, ZKM, Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, D
2009 2009 - Te PIG presents 8 Solos Shows..., Deitch Projects, New York, USA 2009 - Te Ape of Nature, CUNY, New York, USA 2009 - Something about Mary, curated by Dodie Kazanjian, Te Metropolitan Museum , New York, USA 2009 - HEAVEN, 2nd Athens Biennale, Athens, GR 2009 - Feed Forward, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Asturias, E 2009 - Te Quick and the Dead, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA 2009 - OURS: Democracy in the Age of Branding, Parsons Te New School for Design, New York, USA 2009 - Tings Fall Apart, Winkleman Gallery, New York , USA 2009 - A Guest + A Host = A Ghost: Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, GR. Catalogue
2008 2008 - Betwixt, Magasin III, Stockholm, S 2008 - Works on Paper, Greene Nafali, New York, USA 2008 - Te Art of the Real, Oostende, B 2008 - Pleinairism, i8 Gallery, Reykjavík, IS 2008 - Meet Me Around the Corner, Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo, N 2008 - Tat Was Ten...Tis Is Now, MoMA PS1, New York, USA 2008 - Signals in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of War, Blackwood Gallery, Ontario, CDN 2008 - Signals in the Dark: Art in the Shadow of War, Leonard and Bina Ellen Gallery, Montréal, CDN 2008 - Traces du sacré, curated by Jean de Loisy, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, F 2008 - Medium Religion, ZKM Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, D 2008 - Te Cinema Efect: Illusion, Reality and the Moving Image, curated by Anne Ellegood e Kristen Hileman, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC, USA
2007 2007 - 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, curated by Joseph Backstein, Daniel Birnbaum, Iara Boubnova, Nicolas Bourriaud, Fulya Erdemci, Rosa Martinez, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Moscow, RUS. Catalogue 2007 - Biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon. L'Histoire d'une décennie qui n'est pas encore nommée, curated by Stéphanie Moisdon, Hans Ulrich Obrist, sedi varie, Lyon, F. Catalogue 2007 - Still Life & Kicking, curated by Dodie Kazanjian, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA 2007 - Not Only Possible, But Also Necessary: Optimism in the Age of Global War, curated by Hou Hanru, 10th International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Istanbul Foundation for Culture and ArtsArt, Istanbul, TR 2007 - Traum und Trauma - Werke aus der Sammlung Dakis Joannou, Athen, Kunsthalle Wien, Wien, A. Catalogue 2007 - Signs in the Age of Terror, Blackwood Gallery, Toronto, CDN 2007 - An Atlas of Events, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisboa, P 2007 - Herhistory, Nik.P.Goulandris Foundation-Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens, GR 2007 - Paper Trail: A Decade in Acquisitions, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA 2007 - Fractured Figure: Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, curated by Jefrey Deitch, DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, GR. Catalogue
2006 2006 - Whitney Biennial 2006: Day for Night, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA. Catalogue 2006 - Neo Sincerity: Te Diference Between the Comic and the Cosmic is a Single Letter, curated by Amei Wallach, Apexart, New York, USA 2006 - Panic Room. Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, curated by Jefrey Deitch e Kathy Grayson, DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, GR 2006 - All Digital, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, USA 2006 - Projection, curated by Susanne Neubauer, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, CH 2006 - Uncertain States of America, curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Gunnar B. Kvaran, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK 2006 - Te Unhomely: Phantom Scenes in Global Society, curated by Okwui Enwezor, 2a Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporaneo de Sevilla, Siviglia, E 2006 - Tis is America, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, NL 2005 2005 - I Still Believe in Miracles: Dessins sans papier, curated by Laurence Bossé, Couvent des Cordeliers - ARC Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, F. Catalogue 2005 - Uncertain States of America, curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Gunnar B. Kvaran, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, N 2005 - Utopia Station, curated by Molly Nesbit, Rirkrit Tiravanija e Hans Ulrich Obrist, Porto Alegre, BR 2005 - Greater New York, MoMA PS1, New York, USA 2005 - New Work/New Acquisitions, curated by Klaus Biesenbach e Ann Temkin, Te Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA 2005 - Premieres, Te Museum of Modern Art, Department of Film and Media, New York, USA 2005 - Monuments for the USA, curated by Ralph Rugof, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, USA. Catalogue 2005 - Props for a Romantic Comedy, curated by Herb Tam, Longwood Art Gallery, New York, USA 2005 - On Patrol, De Appel Centre for Contemporary Art, Amsterdam, NL 2005 - 8th Biennale de Lyon, sedi varie, Lyon, F 2005 - If it's Too Bad To Be True, It Could Be Disinformation, curated by Mercedes Vicente, Apexart, New York, USA
2004 2004 - Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA 2004 - Election Show, curated by James Meyer, American Fine Arts, New York, USA 2004 - American Idyll, Greene Nafali Gallery, New York, USA 2004 - American Landscapes: Discordant Views, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, USA 2004 - Freud: Te Creative Analysis of Analysis, curated by Barry Rosenberg, School of Fine Arts, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA 2004 - Empire, curated by David Little, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimora, USA
2003 2003 - Regarding Amy, Greene Nafali Gallery, New York, USA 2003 - History makes a comeback program, New York Video Festival at Lincoln Center, New York, USA 2003 - From Baghdad to Bush on Video, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA 2003 - Global Conficts, Te Next 5 Minutes International Tactical Media Festival, Amsterdam, NL 2003 - Lean To, Real Art Ways, Hartford, USA 2003 - Lean, ISE Foundation Gallery, New York, USA 2003 - Te Angry Breed, Pacifc Film Archives Teatre, Berkeley, USA 2003 - Cloudless, curated by Bree Edwards, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York, USA 2003 - pol-i-tick, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, USA 2003 - Baghdad Home Movies, Ocularis, New York, USA
2002 2002 - MOOV, White Box Gallery, New York, USA 2002 - Some Assembly Required: Collage Culture in Post War America, Everson Museum of Art, New York, USA 2002 - Visual Codex, 450 Gallery, New York, USA 2002 - Versus, Diverse Works (in association with Fotofest 2002), Houston, USA 2002 - ELit, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA 2002 - Special Editions, Lower East Side Printshop, New York, USA
2001 2001 - Two person exhibition, Dogmatic Gallery, Chicago, USA 2001 - In Absentia, DUMBO short flm and video festival program, New York, USA 2001 - COSIGN: new media and semiotics exhibition, Amsterdam, NL 2001 - Surviving in a digital world, Transmediale New Media Festival, Berlin, D 2001 - fRoliC*, Video Lounge and Readylight screening, New York, USA
2000 2000 - Public Inventions and Interventions, Temporary Services Gallery, Chicago, USA 2000 - Citizenship Imagined , Sonneschein Gallery, Lake Forest, USA 2000 - Selected CD-ROMs, Ars Electronica2000 New Media Festival, Linz, A 2000 - DUMBO experimental short flm/video festival, New York, USA 2000 - Forum des Images, International Symposium of Electronic Arts, Paris, F 2000 - New Media Art Now, LocationOne, New York, USA 2000 - Te politics of new media art, New Millennium Politics conference, New York, USA 1999 1999 - Subway Outside, Subversive art night, Swiss Institute, New York, USA 1999 - Te Black Panther Omega 2000, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA 1999 - All power to the people, selected screening, Te Kitchen, New York, USA 1999 - Te Contemporary Artist and Popular Culture, Te Contemporary Center at the Folk Art Museum, New York, USA