BORTOLAMI Virginia Overton (b. 1971 in Nashville, Tennessee) Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York Education 2005 University of Memphis, TN, MFA 2002 University of Memphis, TN, BFA Solo Exhibitions 2019 Água Viva, Bortolami, New York, NY Francesca Pia, Zürich, Switzerland (forthcoming) 2018 Built, Don River Valley Park, Toronto, Canada secret space, Biel, Switzerland Built, Socrates Sculpture Park, Queens, NY Virginia Overton, University of Memphis Fogelman Galleries, Memphis, TN 2017 Why?! Why Did You Take My Log?!?!, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson, AZ 2016 Winter Garden, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY White Cube Bermondsey, London, England Sculpture Gardens, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT 2015 White Cube, London, England 2014 Flat Rock, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, North Miami, FL 2013 Westfälischer Kunstverein, Munster, Germany Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY 2012 The Kitchen, New York, NY Deluxe, The Power Station, Dallas, TX 2011 Freymond-Guth, Zürich, Switzerland 2010 Untitled (Milano), N.O. Gallery, Milan, Italy Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN True Grit, Dispatch, New York, NY 2008 Moving on South, curated by Dana Orland, White Box, New York, NY This Is Not A Ladder, Artlab at AMUM, Memphis, TN 39 WALKER STREET NEW YORK NY 10013 T 212 727 2050 BORTOLAMIGALLERY.COM BORTOLAMI 2007 Skytracker, Powerhouse, Memphis, TN Selected Group Exhibitions 2019 Downtown Painting, curated by Alex Katz, Peter Freeman Gallery, New York, NY Art OMI, Ghent, NY The Magnetic Fields, curated by Cecilia Alemani, Gió Marconi, Milan, Italy Another Music In a Different Kitchen: Studio Recordings & Records by Artists, curated by Bob Nickas, Karma Bookstore, New York, NY 2018 Lampen, Galerie Francesca Pia, Zürich, Switzerland Above The Treeline, Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium Remembering Tomorrow: Artworks and Archives, White Cube, Hong Kong Memory Palace, White Cube Bermondsey, London, England a window, a floor, credit cards, a bench, Emalin Gallery, London, England Season Zero: How well do you behave? IN THE FLAT FIELD. Beeler Gallery at the Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, OH Balance: Gravity in Contemporary Art, Bernal Espacio Gallery, Madrid, Spain 2017 EUCALYPT US, Boom Boom Room, Brooklyn, NY Jahresgaben, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Munster, Germany Everberg, Overton, Saunders, Taylor, Whitney, Zurier, BORCHs Butik, Copenhagen, Denmark N. Dash | Virginia Overton | B. Wurtz (form, content, place), Maisterravalbuena, Lisbon, Portugal 1107 Manhattan Ave Pt.II, Curated by Olivier Mosset, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, NY Alley Show, organized by Israel Lund and Sam Korman, apples, Brooklyn, NY Reflections on the Surface, Freymond-Guth, Basel, Switzerland 99 Cents or Less, curated by Jens Hoffman, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI MIDTOWN, organized by Maccarone, Salon 94 Design, and Salon 94, Lever House, New York, NY Where the Sidewalk Ends, Moran Bondaroff, Los Angeles, CA L’image, curated by Vincent Romagny, Galerie Francesca Pia, Zürich, Switzerland Escape Attempts, curated by Kathy Battista, Shulamit Nazarian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Now Burning, Border Patrol, Portland, ME 2016 Michael François, Liz Larner, Tony Lewis, Virginia Overton, Morgan Fisher: Screening Room, Bortolami, New York, NY These Are Flat Things and Things Which are Not Flat, curated by Katarina Burin, Koppe 39 WALKER STREET NEW YORK NY 10013 T 212 727 2050 BORTOLAMIGALLERY.COM BORTOLAMI and Astner, Glasgow, Scotland Freymond-Guth, Basel, Switzerland Pièces-Meublés, curated by Bob Nickas, Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris, France Touching Surface, Touching Ground, Freymond-Guth/Harlem, New York, NY Descent, curated by Charlotte Ickes, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Decade, Freymond-Guth, Zürich, Switzerland Redeux (Sort of), organized by Foundation Barbin and Lucky DeBellevue, Kai Matsumiya Gallery, New York, NY 2015 Excavating The Contemporary, curated by Renee Bloch and Sara Tas, Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Lost in the Flood, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris, France Fence Show, organized by Israel Lund and Sam Korman, APPLES, Brooklyn, NY Virginia Overton / Heidi Bucher, Freymond-Guth, Zürich, Switzerland Primo, Palais–Galerie, Neuchâtel, Switzerland MOMMA with Servane Mary, Virginia Overton, John Miller & Richard Hoec, Olivier Mosset, and Michael Auder, text by Bob Nickas, Rothman’s Gallery, Southold, NY By Olivier Mosset, Laleh June Galerie, Basel, Switzerland American Idle, Salon 94, organized by Lydia Kutko, New York, NY Marlborough Lights, Marlborough Broome Street, curated by Leo Fitzpatrick, New York, NY Over & Under, Sikkema Jenkins & Co., organized with the cooperation of Matt Keegan, New York, NY OMM: Overton/Mary/Mosset, 138 Eldridge Street, New York, NY Touch the Spindle, Capital Gallery, San Francisco, CA Mary/Miller/Mosset/Overton, Triple V, Paris, France 2014 Great Expectations: A Group Exhibition in the Home of Nina Johnson-Milewski and Daniel Milewski, organized by Gallery Diet with the Box, Invisible-Exports, and Samson Projects, Miami, FL Monumental Fatigue, Freymond-Guth, Zürich, Switzerland Nuit Américaine, Office Baroque at former Entrepots Gérard Koninckx frères, Brussels, Belgium Days Inn, curated by Justine Kurland, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY Visiting Faculty 2014-15, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA Video Works by Sarah Dornner, GOD, Sarah Magenheimer, Virginia Overton, Jacolby Satterwhite and Matthew Schlanger, selected by Bridget Finn and Erin Somerville; Cave, Detroit, MI Infinitude, Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, CA Ice Fishing, curated by Darren Flook, Max Wigram Gallery, London, UK Servane Mary / Virginia Overton / Olivier Mosset, A Palazzo Gallery, Brescia, Italy Roving Room, curated by Kelly Kaczynski and Cori Williams, Habersham Mills, Demorest, GA 39 WALKER STREET NEW YORK NY 10013 T 212 727 2050 BORTOLAMIGALLERY.COM BORTOLAMI Le Salon Particulier, Freymond-Guth, Zürich, Switzerland Like a Virgin, VI, VII, Oslo, Norway Work Order, Change Order, curated by Daniel Lefcourt, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY 2013 Israel Lund, Virginia Overton, Steinman and Tear, Bill Brady / KC, Kansas City, MO Piston Head, Venus Over Manhattan, Miami, FL Ground Control to Major Tom: Works from the Verhaegen Family Collection, Cookie Butcher, Antwerp, Belgium subject, answer, countersubject, curated by Summer Guthery, Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, Portland, OR Place is the Space, curated by Brad Cloepfil and Dominic Molon. Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO LAT. 41° 7' N., LONG. 72° 19' W., organized by Bob Nickas, Martos Gallery, East Marion, NY Illuminations, curated by Matthew Higgs, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA Transforming the Known: Works from the Bert Kreuk Collection, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands Electric Fields, Institut curatorial de la Head, Geneva, Switzerland Neo Povera, L&M Arts, Los Angeles, CA within the horizon of the object, curated by Samuel Leuenberger, Ausstellungsraum Klingental, Basel, Switzerland Rien faire et laisser rire, organized by Bob Nickas, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium Salon for Contemporary Dancing, organized by Sam Gordon, Cafe Dancer, New York, NY Memphis Social, organized by Tom McGlynn, apexart:Memphis, Memphis, TN Empire State, curated by Alex Gartenfeld and Norman Rosenthal, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy; traveled to Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France E.S.P. TV Live Taping: Public Service Announcement, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY The Pathos of Things, Carriage Trade, New York, NY Nicola Martini, Virginia Overton, Magali Reus: Heavy duty, silent haze, racing hearts, Freymond–Guth, Zürich, Switzerland Beyond the Object, Brand New Gallery, Milan, Italy 2012 Matterdaddy, curated by Israel Lund and John Roebas, Angstrom Gallery, Dallas, TX Emergency Cheesecake, curated by Wade Guyton and Jay Sanders, Whitney Museum, New York, NY Plenitude, curated by Stephan Tanbin Sastrawid, Carl Freedman Gallery, London, UK Bulletin Boards, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, NY Creature from the Blue Lagoon, curated by Bob Nickas, Martos Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY Henry Codax, Virginia Overton, Kyle Thurman, Office Baroque, Antwerp, Belgium 39 WALKER STREET NEW YORK NY 10013 T 212 727 2050 BORTOLAMIGALLERY.COM BORTOLAMI Abstract Everyday–Everyday Abstract, curated by Matthew Higgs, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY Physical! Physical!, Freymond-Guth, Zürich, Switzerland Different Strokes, Hard Hat, Geneva, Switzerland Shake and Bake, curated by Hard Hat, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France 2011 The Secret Garden, Freymond-Guth, Zürich, Switzerland Florbelle (after Sade), curated by Vincent Romagny, Air de Paris, Paris, France Sentimental Education, Gavlak, Palm Beach, FL 1107 Manhattan Avenue, Spencer Brownstone, New York, NY The Finishers, curated by Eric Gleason and Ethan Greenbaum, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY GLEE, curated by Cecilia Alemani, Blum and Poe, Los Angeles, CA The 2011 Bridgehampton Biennial, curated by Bob Nickas, Martos Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY Broken Umbrellas, curated by Christopher Aque, Laurel Gitlen, New York, NY Summer Affair, curated by Tim Goossens, fordProject, New York, NY I don't know if it makes any sense – I feel quite dizzy and a little drunk due to the blow. I will return with more info shortly..., curated by Howie Chen & Tim Saltarelli, IMO, Copenhagen,