About the artist:

Born in 1964 in Santa Monica, CA, Thaddeus Strode studied at the Otis/Parsons Art Institute and the California Institute of the Arts, earning a BFA degree from the latter in 1986. His work has been exhibited across the United States and internationally, including more than twenty solo gallery shows at the Kunstverein Heilbronn, Germany; neugerriemschneider in Berlin; Galerie Michael Janssen in Cologne; Galleria Gio Marconi in Milan; Cirrus Gallery in Los Angeles. In 2008 the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum presented “Thaddeus Strode: Absolutes and Nothings.” Recent group exhibitions include Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967 at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Imagination becomes Reality at the ZKM in Karlsruhe, Germany; KLF: Strictly Painting at the KLF Project Space in New York; and Funny Cuts: Cartoons and Comics in Contemporary Art at the Staatsgalerie in Stuttgart. He lives and works in Los Angeles SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2013 Brain Capers & Fumetti stories : A history inside my head, Nosbaum&Reding, Luxembourg Im my room (fathoms and displacement), neugerriemschneider, Berlin, DE Thaddeus Strode, Nils Stærk, Copenhagen, DK 2012 Thaddeus Strode, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, DE 2010 Vanishing point, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, DE The Question itself is Wrong (Pelican Thoughts, Mu, and the Big Sleep): an Odyssey, Nils Stærk, Copenhagen, DK Psychic Fields and Pathways, Galleri K, Oslo, NO Mobius Strips and Pathways, Mario Sequeira Gallery, Braga, PT 2009 The Phantasmal Boondocker, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, DE Phantasmagoria, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, BR 2008 Thaddeus Strode. Absolutes and Nothings, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum at Washington University, St.Louis, US (cat.) 2007 When Bells Ring, But We Can’t Hear Them, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, DE Thaddeus Strode. What Do You Want To Come Back as? Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, US 2006 We can penetrate anything we want, Nils Stærk, Copenhagen, DK Between midnight and morningside, Galleri K, Oslo, NO 2005 Yellow, Galleria Gio Marconi, Milan, IT We all have our little secrets, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, DE 2004 Folktales, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, DE Folktales, Galerie Michael Janssen, Cologne, DE The Happy Lion Gallery, Los Angeles, US 2003 Dirty sea tales told at dusk, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, DE Galerie Michael Janssen, Cologne, DE 2002 The Body, The Happy Lion, Los Angeles, US Out at sea, Galleria Gio Marconi, Milan, IT 2001 The agency-contemporary art ltd., London, GB Fresh meat for sailing ships, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, DE Chicago Project Room, Los Angeles, US TBA Exhibition Space, Chicago, US 2000 Ghost Sisters of the Sun, Galerie Michael Janssen, Cologne, DE Sunshine Ghosts, the agency-contemporary art ltd., London, GB Ghosts Adrift, Kunstverein, Heilbronn, DE (cat.) 1997 Boats and Bogs, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, DE Pop songs and table manners, Galerie Michael Janssen, Cologne, DE 1996 Galerie Michael Janssen, Cologne, DE 1995 I Work for the Other Side, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, DE Galerie Michael Janssen, Cologne, DE Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, DK 1994 Air de Paris, Nice, FR 1301, Santa Monica, US 1993 Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, AT 1992 Brain Capers, 1301, Santa Monica, US Drawings, 1301 Santa Monica, US 1991 Luhring Augustine Hetzler, Santa Monica, US 1988 Dennis Anderson Gallery, Los Angeles, US 1986 California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, US GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2012 Pangea Seed. The Great West Coast Migration Art Tour & Film Festival, The ARTery Gallery@The LAB, Costa Mesa, US Fresh Paint, The Stenersen Museum, Oslo, NO Denim Solutions/Ambien Sex, Pop-Up space, Los Angeles, US 2011 The Optimist’s Parking Lot, Beacon Arts, Los Angeles, US Beers 3, Drunk VS Stoned, Byens Kro, Copenhagen, DK The Archaic Revival, La Cienega Projects, Los Angeles, US Cinema 15, AR4T Gallery, Laguna Beach, US I hate Paul Klee, Leopold Hoesch Museum, Düren, DE Inside/Outside. States Of Being, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, US 2009 Access All Areas. A drawing exhibition, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, DE Los Angeles. Aspects of The Archaic Revival, Galerie Haus Schneider, Uschi Kolb, Karlsruhe, DE Strike a Pose, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, GB DAMASCUS, Rod Bianco, Oslo, NO 2008 HEARTH, Museum of Contemporary Art, Herning, DK The future is but the obsolete in reverse, Galerie Michael Janssen, Cologne, DE 2007 Imagination becomes Reality, ZKM/Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, DE COMIX, Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense, DK 2006 VAC Colección Valencia Arte Contemporáneo, IVAM, Madrid, ES Imagination Becomes Reality. Part IV. Borrowed Images, Sammlung Goetz, Munich, DE (cat.) KLF. Strictly Painting, KLF Project Space, New York, US Infinite Painting, Villa Manin, Codroipo (Udine), IT (cat.) 2005 Thank you for the Music, Sprüth Magers, Munich, DE 10 years! Galerie Michael Janssen, Cologne, DE 10 Foreign Artists, Galleri K, Oslo, NO La Beauté de l’Enfer, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Bruxelles, BE 2004 Central Station, collection Harald Falckenberg, La Maison Rouge–Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Paris, FR Funny Cuts, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, DE (cat.) One Hundred Artists See God, curated by John Baldessari and Meg Cranston, organized and circulated by ICI Independent Curators International, New York; traveled to: The Jewish Contemporary Art Museum, San Francisco, US; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, US; ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, GB; Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, US; Albright College Freedman Art Gallery, Reading, US; Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, US Was Malerei heute ist, Opelvillen, Rüsselsheim, DE (cat.) Rodolphe Janssen feat. Michael Janssen, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussel, BE 2003 Hands up, baby, hands up, Oldenburger Kunstverein, Oldenburg, DE Go Johnny Go, Kunsthalle Vienna, AT The Album Covers That Never Were, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, US "Golden", Galerie Michael Janssen, Cologne, DE If the hippies cut their hair, ... I don’t care, I’dont care, Galerie Michael Hall, Vienna, AT One Hundred Artists See God, Naples Museum of Art, Naples, US Group Show, Athens, GR 2002 Necessary Fictions, De Chiara Gallery, New York, US Line Up... A Drawing Show, The Happy Lion Gallery, Los Angeles, US Pasted On, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, US 2001 Ziviler Ungehorsam, Zeitgenössische Kunst aus der Samlung Falckenberg, kestnergesellschaft, Hanover, DE Spoils, Sarah Coleman Gallery, Los Angeles, US Aesthetic Terrorism, the agency contemporary art ltd, London, GB 1998 El Niño, Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, DE (cat.) 1997 Display, Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen, DK Slight, Norwich Gallery, Norwich, NO Love, Sorrow, Time, Ludwig Museum, Aachen, DE Glossy, Michael Janssen, Cologne, DE 1996 Sammlung Speck, Ludwig Museum Köln, Cologne, DE It´s only Rock And Roll, Tacoma Art Museum, organized by The Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, US (touring) Made in L.A. The prints of Cirrus Editions, LA County Museum of Arts, Los Angeles, US 1995 Monster, Center of Contemporary Art, Miami, US Smells like Vinyl, curated by Thaddeus Strode and Sarah Seager, Roger Marians Gallery, New York, US 1994 Pure Beauty, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US Don´t Wake Up, Interim Art, London, GB Pure Beauty, American Center, Paris, FR Guest Room: Bulloch, Cranston, Seager, Strode, Art &Public, Geneva, CH (cat.) [cut]–LOS ANGELES–90´ernes Kunstscene, Kunstforeningen, Copenhagen, DK; Gallerie F15 Albz, Moss, NO (cat.) Jamey Bair, Meg Cranston, Thaddeus Strode, Benjamin Weissman,1301, Santa Monica, US Playfield, Rio Hondo College Art Gallery, Wittier, US Arrested Childhood, Center of Contemporary Art, Miami, US (cat.) 1993 Brain Multiples + , 1301, Santa Monica, CA, USA Dion, Grey, Joo, Kelly, McCarthy, Noland, Pardo, Pettibon, Samore, Strode, Tiravanija, curated by Tim Neuger, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, DE Times: New Art from the USA, curated by Andrew Cross, Anderson O´day Gallery, London, GB Kustom Kulture, Luguna Art Museum, Luguna Beach, USASalad Days, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, US Loose Slots, curated by Richard Kuhlenschmidt, Temporary Contemporary Las Vegas, Las Vegas, US The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, New York, US Paper Tralls, The Eidetic Image, University of Illinois Contemporary American Works on Paper, Krannert Art Museum, Urbana, US 1992 Drawings, Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles, US Drawings, Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles, US Group Exhibition, Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne, DE Industrial Heroes, curated by Laura Howe, Los Angeles, US Selections/Fall ´92, The Drawing Center, New York, US 240 Minuten, Galerie Esther Schipper, Cologne, DE Tattoo Collection, Galerie Air de Paris, Nice and Urbi et Orbi, Paris, FR; Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, DE and Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, US I to Eye II, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, US 1991 Abstraction for the Information Age, curated by Irit Krygier, The Works Gallery South, Costa Mesa, US 1990 The Köln Show, diverse Lokalitäten, Cologne, DE Tom Henry III, Liz Larner, Jorge Pardo, Sarah Seager, Thaddeus Strode, Linda Roush, Luhring Augustine Hetzler, Santa Monica, US Meg Cranston, Sarah Seager, Thaddeus Strode, Galerie Schnurr, Stuttgart, DE Jahresgaben, Stuttgarter Kunstverein, Stuttgart, DE 1989 I to Eye, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, US 3 Person Show, Orange County Center for Contemporary Art, Santa Ana, US Household Names, curated by Mark Norris, Los Angeles, US 1988 21 Artists, Dennis Anderson Gallery, Los Angeles, US An Exhibition Curated by John Baldessary, Jeffery Linden Gallery, Los Angeles, US 1987 L.A.C.E. Annual, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, US