About the artist:

Born in Caracas, Venezuela, 1960 Lives and works in Barcelona and New York Parsons School of Design, New York SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2001 Surrogate Mothers, Patrick Painter, Inc. Santa Monica, CA 2000 Meyer Vaisman, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, NY 1999 Meyer Vaisman, Patrick Painter Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Meyer Vaisman, Galeria Camargo Vilaca, Sao Paolo, Brazil Meyer Vaisman, Jablonka Galerie, Koln 1996 Green on the Inside/ Red on the Outside (My Parent’s Closet), 303 Gallery, New York, NY 1995 Propiedad Privada, Espacio 204, Caracas Meyer Vaisman, Off-Shore Gallery, East Hampton, NY 1994 Turkeys, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris Roma, Meyer Vaisman & Thomas Struth, Janice Guy Editions, New York 1993 Meyer Vaisman Obras Recientes, Centro Cultural Consolidado, Caracas Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Santa Fe de Bogata/Fundacion para el Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico D.F./ Museo de Monterrey, Monterrey Meyer Vaisman, Edition Julie Sylvester, New York 1992 Turkeys, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York Meyer Vaisman, Jablonka Galerie, Koln Meyer Vaisman, Jason Rubell Gallery, Palm Beach Oeuvres Recentes, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris 1991 Meyer Vaisman, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York Meyer Vaisman, Mario Diacono, Boston Meyer Vaisman, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo 1990 Meyer Vaisman, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York Meyer Vaisman, Waddington Galleries, London Meyer Vaisman, Editions Ilene Kurtz, New York Meyer Vaisman, Jablonka Galerie, Koln Meyer Vaisman, Casino Knokke, Knokke-Heist, Belgium Meyer Vaisman, Sonnabend Gallery, New York 1989 Meyer Vaisman, Lawrence Olivier Gallery, Philadelphia Meyer Vaisman, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago Meyer Vaisman, Mario Diacono, Boston The Beaver Show, Beaver College Art Gallery, Spruance Art Center, Glenside, PA Meyer Vaisman, Jablonka Galerie, Koln Live the Dream, Edition Julie Sylvester, New York 1988 Meyer Vaisman, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles Meyer Vaisman, LaJolla Museum of Contemporary Art, LaJolla University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley 1987 Meyer Vaisman, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York Meyer Vaisman, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York 1986 Meyer Vaisman, White Columns, New York Meyer Vaisman, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York Meyer Vaisman, Daniel Weinberg, Los Angeles GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2002 Ultra Baroque: Aspects of Post-Latin American Art, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Miami Art Museum 2000 Almost Warm and Fuzzy: Childhood and Contemporary Art, P.S. 1, Brooklyn, NY Insite 2000, San Diego, CA and Tijuana, Mexico Ultra Baroque, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Modern Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX; Walker Art Museum, Minneapolis, MN; SFMoMA, San Francisco, CA 1999 Almost Warm and Fuzzy: Childhood and Contemporary Art, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA 1998 Confidecias para o exilio (Cat.) Roteiros, Roteiros, Roteiros, Bienal de Sao Paolo, Sao Paolo (Cat.) III Bienal Barro de America, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas (Cat.) Claustrophobia, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham England (Cat.) Contemporanea, nuevas adquisiciones, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas (Cat.) Polar neutro, Galeria de Arte Nacional, Caracas La Resurreccion del Cadaver Exquisito, Sala Mendoza, Caracas 1997 ASI esta la cosa, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporanes (Cat.) La Invencion de la Continuidad, Galeria de Arte Nacional, Caracas No Place (like home), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (Cat.) Re-Readymade, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas (Cat.) 1996 Inklusion/Exclusion: Art in the Age of Postcolonialismand Global Migration, Steirscher Herbst, 96, Graz, Austia (Cat.) Interzones, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen (Cat.) Sin Fronteras/Arte Latinoamericano Actual Museuo Alejandro Otero, Caracas Everything that is Interesting is New, Athens School of Fine Art (The Factory), Athens (Cat.) 1995 Conceptual Textiles, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboyan, WI (Cat.) Duchamp’s Leg, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Garbage, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY Drawing on Chance: Selections From the Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York Limiares-Threshold, Fundacion Serralves, Porto, Portugal (Cat.) Space of Time, Centre for the Fine Arts, Miami (Cat.) Ars 95, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki (Cat.) Border Crawl, Kukje Gallery, Seoul 1994 Das Jahrhundert des Multiple, Von Duchamp bis zur Gegenwart, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (Cat.) Das Americas, Luis Strina Gallery, Sao Paulo (Cat.) The Label Show, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston The Social Fabric, Beaver College Art Gallery, Spruance Art Center, Beaver College, Glenside, PA Wildlife, California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA; Patrick Painter Editions; Asbaek Gallery, Copenhagen; Galerie Johnen & Schottle, Cologne; Sonnabend Gallery, New York; Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York Transformers, Independent Curators Inc. Bard College, New York/ Patrick Painter Editions, Galerie Johnen & Schottle, Cologne (Cat.) Written/Spoken/Drawn in Lacanian Ink, Thread Waxing Space, New York A Fashion Gallery, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York AmericasLatina: Nueva Situaccones Nuevo Projectos, Fundacion Celerg Sala RG, Caracas The Rome Project, Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI (Cat.) 1993 CCS 10, Artistas Contemporaneos, Galeria de Arte Nacional, Caracas Space of Time: Contemporary Art from the Americas, Americas Society of Art Gallery, New York (Cat.) The Art Show, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York Space of Time: Contemporary Artfrom the Americas, Americas Society, New York, NY Genetische Kunst Eroffnung Der Ausstellung, Landesmusuem, Linz, Austria Chacon, Cucher, Espinoza, Gomez, Hernandez-Diaz, Kuitca, Marcaccio, Rios, Vaisman Galeria Namia Mondolfi, Caracas Beautyrest, Dooley LeCappelaine, New York, NY Object Lessons, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY Everyday Life, Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles, Patrick Painter Editions, Los Angeles, Johnen & Schottle, Cologne American Art of the 80’s, Galerie Nikolaus Sonne, Germany PostHuman, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Martina Detterer Gallery, Frankfurt Latin American Artists, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York Here’s Looking at Me, Musee d’Art Contemporain, Lyon: travelling to Berlin, London and Seville. (Cat.) Tutte le Strade Portano a Roma, Pallazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome Extravagant/The Economy of Elegance, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York Sculpture & Multiples, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York A Private View: Artists Photographs Blum Helman Gallery, New York Building a Collection, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Nuevas Adquisiciones 1991-1992, Galeria de Arte Nacional, Caracas I am the Enunciator, Thread Waxing Space, New York 1992 Sexta Adicion, Premio Eugenio Mendoza, (invitado especial), Sala Mendoza, Caracas III Bienal de Arte de Guauana, Seccion Obra Tridimensional, Museio de Artes Visuales Alejandro Otero, Caracas (Cat.) 15th Anniversary Exhibition, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago PostHuman, FAE Musee d’Art Contemporain Pully/Lausanne: Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli: Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens: Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (Cat.) Quotations. The Second History of Art, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT: Museum of Contemporary Art at Wright State University, Dayton, OH Tatoo, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York Object Lessons, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York The Writing on the Wall, 303 Gallery, New York Works on Paper, Galerie Georges Phillippe Valois, Paris Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York One Leading to Another, 303 Gallery, New York American Art of the 1980’s, Palazzo delle Albere, Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Trento, Italy Works on Paper, Galerie Georges-Phillippe valois, Paris Untitled Free, 303 Gallery, New York Dark Décor, DePree Art Center, Hope College Holland, MI: San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA: Florida Gulf Coast Art Center, Bellair, FL 1991 III Bienal Nacional de Arte de Guayana. Museo de Arte Moderno Jesus Soto, Diudad Bolivar About Collecting: Four Collectors/Four Spaces , Galerie Ronny van de Velde, Amberes American Art of the Eighties; Selections from the Collection of the Eli Broad Family Foundation, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham (Cat.) Desplazamientos:aspectos de la identidad y las culturas, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Espana Objects for the Ideal Home: The Legacy of Pop Art, Serpentine Gallery, London Just what is it that makes today’s home so different, so appealing?, The Hyde Collection, New York (Cat.) Altrove: Immagine e Identita, Fra Identita e Tradizione, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato The Realm of the Coin: Money in American Art, 1960-1990, Hofstra Museum, Hofstra University, Hempstead: Queens Museum of Art, New York (Cat.) Gold, Stuttgart Kunstverein, Stuttgart A Passion for Art: Watercolors and Works on Paper, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY History as Fiction, Meyers Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA Anni Novanta, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna, Bologna: Musei Comunali, Rimini Rope, Fernandao Alcolea, Barcelona Words & #’s, Museum of Contemporary Art at Wright State University, Dayton, OH Galerie Wilma Tolkskorf, Hamburg Contemporary Art from the Collection of Jason Rubell, Museum of Art, Duke University, Durham, NC Haim Steinbach, Meyer Vaisman, Gallerie Samuel Lallouz, Montreal Jessica Diamond, Peter Nagy, Meyer Vaisman, Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Hamburg El Jardin Salvaje, Sala de Exposiciones de la Fundacion Caixa de Pensiones, Madrid (Cat.) 1990 Los 80. Panorama de las Artes Visuales en Venezuela, Galeria de Arte Nacional, Caracas Comedus/Dramatiques, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans Peter Halley, Annette Lemieux, Meyer Vaisman, Galerie Antoine Candau, Paris Un Art de la Distinction:Les Annes’80, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Abbaye Saint- Andre, Memac, France Figuring the Body, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Leo Castelli Gallery, New York Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles The Last Decade: American Artists of the 80’s, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York Pharmakon ’90, Nippon Convention Center, Makuhari Messe International Exhibition Hall, Japan (Cat.) Artificial Nature, Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, House of Cyprus, Athens (Cat.) About Round, Round About, Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund, Sweden Mike Kelley, Tim Rollins &K.O.S., Meyer Vaisman, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York 1989 Primera Bienal de Artes Visuales Christia Dior, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Caracas Sofia Imber, Caracas (Cat.) Recent Acquisitions, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH Benefit for the Wooster Group, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York Barbara Bloom, Clegg & Guttman, Joseph Kosuth, Tim Rollins & K.O.S., Meyer Vaisman, Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York New Works By Gallery Artists, Sonnabend Gallery, New York Pyschological Abstraction, Deste Foundation of Contemporary Art, House of Cyprus, Athens (Cat.) A Decade of American Drawings: 1980-1989, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles Weiner Diwan: Sigmund Freud Heute, Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna The Silent Baroque, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg Figures, Galerie Municipale d’Art Contemporain, Saint Priest, France; Leo Castelli Gallery, New York 1988 Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Modern Art, Pittsburgh (Cat.) New Works, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles Sonnabend Collection, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid: CAPC Centre d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux: Art Cologne, Cologne: Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin: Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome: Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Trento: Musee Rath: Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo: Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan: Fukuyama Museum of Art, Hiroshima: National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto (Cat.) A Drawing Show, Cable Gallery, New York The Binational. American Art of the Late ‘80’s, Institute of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston: Stadtische Kunsthalle, Kunstsammlung Nordhein- Welfalen, Kunstverein fur die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Dusseldorf (Cat.) The 25th Anniversary Eshibition to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Performing Arts, Inc., Leo Castelli Gallery and Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York Artschwager His Peers and Persuasions, 1963-1988 , Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles; Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY New York In View, Kunsteverein Munchen, Munich (Cat.) Cultural Geometry, Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, House of Cyprus, Athens (Cat.) Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York 1987 Art Against Aids, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York Leo Castelli y sus artistas, Centro Cultural de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico Three Decades of Exploration, Hommage to Leo Castelli, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL (Cat.) Currents: Simulations, New American Conceptualism, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee New York Now, The Saatchi Collection, London Recent Tendencies in Black and White, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York Post-Abstract Abstraction, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT (Cat.) New York New, Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York 1986 Nature Morte, New York Critics & Dealers, Mo David, New York Cult & Decorum, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York Meyer Vaisman, Peter Halley, Ashley Bickerton and Jeff Koons, Sonnabend Gallery, NY Castelli at Gagosian, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles Doppelganger, Aorta, Amsterdam Benefit Auction, White Columns, New York Paravision, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York Rooted Rhetoric, Castell dell’Ovo, Napoli 1985 A Brave New World- A New Generation, Charlottenberg Exhibition, Copenhagen Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York Smart Art, Josep Lluis Sert Gallery, Harvard University, Cambridge Final Love, Cash/Newhouse Gallery, New York World View, C.E.P.A. Galleries, Buffalo, New York Paravision, Postmasters, New York The Anticipated Ruin, The Kitchen, New York 2 Smart Art Too, 55 Mercer Gallery, New York Selected Artists of the East Village, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York 1984 International With Monument, New York The New Capital, White Columns, New York Still Life With Transaction, Galerie Jurka, Amsterdam Natural Genre, Fine Arts Gallery, Florida State University, Talahassee, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara Philosophies on the Art Process, Galerie Makkom, Amsterdam New Galleries of the Lower East Side, Artists Space, New York Alice Albert, Peter Nagy & Meyer Vaisman, International With Monument, New York, NY