Mai-Thu Perret

1976 born in Geneva. Lives and works in Geneva
BA in English Literature, University of Cambridge
Whitney Independent Study Programme, Whitney Museum
of American Art, New York

Solo Exhibitions
 
2009
Galerie Francesca Pia, Zürich
The Aspen Art Museum, 2013, Aspen [cat.]
Galerie Praz-Delavallade, The Crack-Up, Paris
2008
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, New Work, San Francisco [cat.]
Timothy Taylor Gallery, 2012, London [cat.]
Galerie Barbara Weiss, Bikini, Berlin
Kunsthalle Sankt Gallen, Land of Crystal, St. Gallen [cat.]
The Kitchen, An Evening of the Book and Other Stories, New York
2007
Bonnefantenmuseum, Land of Crystal, Maastricht [cat.]
Das Kunstwerk und sein Ort (cur. R. Kurzmeyer), Amden (CH)
Galerie Francesca Pia, Crab Nebula, Zurich
2006
Hard Hat, An Evening of the Book, Geneva
The Renaissance Society, And every woman will be a walking synthesis of the universe, Chicago [cat.]
Chisenhale Gallery, Solid objects (with Valentin Carron), London [cat.]
Galerie Barbara Weiss, Mai-Thu Perret. Apocalypse Ballet, Berlin

2005
Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Heroine of the People, Paris
Centre d’Art Contemporain, Solid objects (with Valentin Carron), Geneva [cat.]
2004
ArtBasel 35, Statement presented by Galerie Francesca Pia, Basel
Centre d’édition contemporaine, Love Thy Sister Like Thyself, Geneva
2003
Galerie Francesca Pia, Pure self-expression x25, Bern

2002
The Modern Institute, Glasgow
Glassbox, We Close Our Eyes In Order To See, Paris

2001
Le Studio, CAN, Land of Crystal, Neuchâtel [cat.]              Selected Group Exhibitions
 
2010
Haus der Kunst, Goldene Zeiten, München
Power House Art Center, Born Under a Bad Sign, Memphis, TN (cat.)
Migros Museum, While bodies get mirrored – An Exhibition about movement, space and installation, Zürich
Musée des Beaux-Arts et d’Archeologie, group show Charles Fourier ou l’Attraction Passionnée, Besançon

2009
Ludwik Grohman Villa / Book Art Museum, Anabasis: Rituals of Homecoming, LodzGalerie Francesca Pia, Top 10 Allegories. An exhibition curated by Hard Hat, Zürich
Utopics, 11th Swiss Sculpture Exhibition, Bienne
2nd Athens Biennale, HEAVEN, Athens
Art Unlimited, Basel
Kunsthalle St. Gallen, Born to Be Wild, St. Gallen
Christine König Galerie, Beginnings, Middles, And Ends (cur. G. Jetzer), Wien
CAC Contemporary Art Center, Shifting Identities (Swiss) Art Now, Vilnius
The Drawing Center, Fax, New York
Karma International, Prose pour des Esseintes, Zürich (collaboration with John Armleder)
Timothy Taylor Gallery, Ventriloquist, London
Swiss Institute, Regift, New York (curated by John Miller)
Montehermoso Cultural Center, Living Together, Vitoria-Gasteiz
Baltic Center for Contemporary Art, A Spoken Word Exhibition, Baltic, Gateshead
Festiwal, Dialogu, Czterech, Kultur `09, Ludwik Grohman Villa, Anabasis. Rituals of Homecoming, Wrzesnia, Polen

2008
Kunsthaus Zürich, Shifting Identities – (Swiss) Art today, Zürich [cat.]
Centre Pasquart, AURUM, L’or dans l’art contemporain, Bienne
Tranzitdisplay, A Spoken Word (cur. Mathieu Copeland), Prague
Espace de l'Art Concret, Abstraction étendue: Une scène romande et ses connexions (cur. Christian Besson and Julien Fronsacq), Mouans-Sartoux [cat.]
Château d’Arenthon Fondation pour l’art contemporain Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon, Abstraction Extension (cur. Christian Besson, Julien Fronsacq et Samuel Gross), Alex [cat.]
Cneai, Black Noise. A Tribute to Steven Parrino, Chatou
Tang Contemporary, There is No Story to Tell, Beijing [cat.]
The Line is a Lonely Hunter-Drawings in New Jerseyy, New Jerseyy, Basel
Pavillon Suisse de la Cité internationale universitaire de Paris, Le spectrarium, Paris
Champion Fine Arts at Rental Gallery, Champion Zero, New York
Kunstmuseum Magdeburg, Standort Alltag – Everyday Ideologies, Magdeburg
Galerie Lionel Latham, Mémoires d`objets, Genève
Art and Entrepreneurship, Art Dubai, Dubai; Chelsea Art Museum, New York; E-Werk, Berlin; Center for contemporary Art, Moscow; Centre d`art contemporain, Genève; Superstudio Piu, Milan; Philips de Pury Company, London
Sketch, The Saints, and music & films by Amy Granat, with Fia Backstrom, Jutta Koether, Amy O`Neill, Angel Turner, Emily Sundblad & Stefan Tcherepnin, London
Dadadandy Boutique, Artprojx Space, London, UK

2007
Timothy Taylor Gallery, Ballet mécanique, London
Rubell Family Collection, Euro-Centric, Part 1: New European Art from the Rubell Family Collection, Miami
Swiss Institute, A Spoken Word Exhibition (cur. Mathieu Copeland), New York
MAMCO, Black Noise, GenevaAnyang Public Art Project, Anyang, Korea
Fri-Art, Les artistes de la collection Cahiers d’artistes série VI + VII, FribourgSonjeart Centre and Kimho Art Museum, Tomorrow, Seoul
Gulbekian Foundation, An Atlas of Events, Lisbonne
Biennale de Lyon, 00 – L’Histoire d’une décennie qui n’est pas encore nommée, Lyon
Cherry and Martin, Radiant City, Los Angeles
Galerie Catherine Issert, Introvert, Extrovert, Makes No Difference, St Paul de Vence
Art en plein air Motiers 2007, Val de Travers, Switzerland
Kölnischer Kunstverein, Pure Self Expression, Cologne
Palais de Tokyo, Bastard Creatures, Paris
Midway Minneapolis & Overgarden Coppenhagen, In the poem about love you don’t write love, Minneapolis & Copenhagen
Mongin Art Center, At Home in the Universe (cur. John Armleder), Seoul
Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Tension; Sex; Despair – Who/So – What, Vienna
Centre Culturel Suisse, Worker, Drone, Queen, Paris
Palais de Tokyo, Etats (Faites le vous-même), Paris
Villa Arson, A moitié carré, à moitié fou, Nice
Skestos Gabriele Gallery, Open and Shut (cur. Maxwell G. Graham), Chicago

2006
Ritter/Zamet, DADADANDY presents SPACE IS THE PLACE , a project featuring Pierre Ardouvin, John Armleder, Piero Golia, Goshka Macuga, Jonathan Monk, Simon Moretti, Moriceau + Mrzyk, Mai-Thu Perret, Joe Scanlan, Vedovamazzei, LondonVia Nuova arte contemporanea, Piani Sospetti, Mark Manders, Carsten Nicolai, Mai-Thu Perret, Federico Pietrella, Marcello Simeone, Florence
Children National Gallery, TBILISI 3. LET'S STAY ALIVE TILL MONDAY  (cur. Daniel Baumann), TbilisiArtists Space, In the poem about love the word love does not appear, New York [cat.]
Hyde Park Art Centre, Interstellar Low Ways, Chicago
P.S.1, The Gold Standart, New York
Wexner Center for the Arts, Shiny,  Colombus Ohio
Liverpool Biennial 06, Liverpool
Centre d'art Mira Phalaina/Maison Populaire, Madame la baronne était plutôt manièrée, assez roccoco et complètement baroque, Montreuil [cat.]
Neue Kunsthalle, Modus, St Gall
CentrePasquArt, „Unter 30“ IV, Junge Schweizer Kunst/Jeune Art Suisse, Bienne [cat.]
Elizabeth Dee Gallery and QUED, Bring the War Home, New York/Los Angeles
Centre d’Art Contemporain, Conversation Pieces, Geneva
Zendai Museum of Modern Art, Lovely Shanghai Music, Shanghai
Instituto Svizzero, Visioni del paradiso, Rome
West London Projects, The Endless Summer, London
Galerie Edouard Manet, Objets d’hier et d’aujourd’hui, Gennevilliers
Royal College of Art, Again For Tomorrow, London [cat.]
La Générale, Hradacany, Paris
Usine, Atelier 3ème étage, Sublime Part II, Geneva [cat.]Centre d'art Mira Phalaina/Maison Populaire, Madame la baronne était plutôt manièrée, assez roccoco et complètement baroque, Montreuil [cat.]
Grazer Kunstverein, Eine Person allein in einem Raum mit Coca-Cola-farbenen Wänden, Graz
Centre PasquArt, Nouvelles Collections, Bienne

2005
Centre d’art contemporain, Genève, artistes et créateurs d’aujourd’hui, Geneva
CCA, In the Poem about Love the Word Love Does Not Appear, Glasgow [cat.]
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Paralleles Leben, Frankfurt am Main [cat.]
National Arts Center, Tbilisi 2, Wednesday calls the future, Tbilissi
Air de Paris, NY Twice, Paris [cat.]
Artists Space, Model Modernism, New York [cat.]
New Langton Arts Center, Situational Prosthetics, San Francisco

2004
Swiss Institute, None of the above, New York
Galerie Peter Kilchmann, The Age Of Optimism, Zurich
Karvasla, Tuesday is gone, Tiblissi
Helmhaus, Fürchte Dich, Zurich [cat.]
Champion Fine Arts, Leviathan Rising Under Moon’s Influence, Brooklyn, NY [cat.]
Year, Archives generation upon generation, Brooklyn, NY
Mamco, Yellow Pages, Genève

2003
Secession, Form/Kontext/Troja (cur. Daniel Baumann), Vienna [cat.]
Fia Backström Productions, Socialism – A love letter, Brooklyn, NY
Kunsthaus Glarus, Fink Forward the collection/collection, Glarus [cat.]
Künstlerhaus Thurn und Taxis, The Return of the Creature, Bregenz [cat.]
Yellow Pages, Turm Gallery Helmstedt, Germany; Kunsthalle Palazzo Liestal, Switzerland

2001
Galerie Francesca Pia, Rock Paper Scissors, Bern
Musée des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, Espace Arlaud, Get Angry – Perspectives romandes 3, Lausanne [cat.]
Alimentation Générale Art Contemporain, Wahrscheinlich (vraisemblablement), Luxembourg
Galeria Javier Lopez, The New Domestic Landscap, Madrid

2000
Air de Paris, Dr Wings, Paris
Galerie Francesca Pia, Why can’t monsters get along with other monsters, Bern
Fri-Art, Preview for Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, Etat des lieux #2, Fribourg
Projects organized, curated and co-curated (selection)
 
2009
Centre Pompidou / Kunsthalle Bern, Voids. Eine Retrospektive (in collaboration with John Armleder, Laurent LeBon, Mathieu Copeland, Gustav Metzger, Philippe Pirotte and Clive Philpot), Paris / Bern [cat.]

2008
Cneai, Black Noise. A Tribute to Steven Parrino (in collaboration with John Armleder and Jérôme Massard), Chatou

2007
Mamco, Black Noise. A Tribute to Steven Parrino (in collaboration with John Armleder and Jérôme Massard), Geneva

2004
Champion Fine Art, Boys Keep Swinging, New York [cat.]
Champion Fine Arts, Homosocial, Brooklyn, NY

2003
Circuit, Le Rayon noir (in collaboration with Fabrice Stroun), Lausanne [cat.]
27 Canal, Love is a battlefield (in collaboration with Daniel Baumann and Fabrice Stroun ), New York

2002
Historisches Museum Murten, Le Jardin de la Violence/Der Garten der Gewalt (Expo 02 project in collaboration with Daniel Baumann, Johannes Gachnang and Fabrice Stroun), Murten [cat.]

2001
Galerie Francesca Pia, All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy (in collaboration with Fabrice Stroun), Bern

1999–2001Co-Director of Forde, Espace d’art contemporain (with Fabrice Stroun), Geneva [cat.]
 
 
 
Awards
 
2008
Prize of the Swiss Foundation for Graphic Arts, ETH Zurich

2006
Prix Kiefer-Hablitzel, Switzerland [cat.]
Federal Award of Art, Switzerland [cat.]

2004
Federal Award of Art, Switzerland [cat.]