1976

born in Geneva, Switzerland

 

 

2002–2003

Whitney Independent Study Program, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1997

BA (Hons) in English, Cambridge University

 

Lives and works in Geneva

 

 

 

Solo Exhibitions

 

2011

Le Magasin, The Adding Machine, Grenoble, travelling exhibition

Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich Art Prize 2011: Mai-Thu Perret, I dream of the code of the west, Zürich

 

MAMCO, Mai-Thu Perret. Spectra in Cycle L’éternel détour, séquence d’été 2011, Geneva

 

Aargauer Kunsthaus, The Adding Machine, Aarau, travelling exhibition

 

Hard Hat, Geneva

 

Théâtre de l’Usine, Love Letters in Ancient Brick, Geneva

 

David Kordansky Gallery, Migraine, LA

2010

University of Michigan: Museum of Art, An Ideal for Living, Ann Arbor

 

Timothy Taylor Gallery, Parade, London

2009

Galerie Francesca Pia, Zürich

 

The Aspen Art Museum, 2013, Aspen

 

Galerie Praz-Delavallade, The Crack-Up, Paris

2008

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, New Work, San Francisco

 

Timothy Taylor Gallery, 2012, London

 

Galerie Barbara Weiss, Bikini, Berlin

 

Kunsthalle Sankt Gallen, Land of Crystal, St. Gallen

 

The Kitchen, An Evening of the Book and Other Stories, New York

2007

Bonnefantenmuseum, Land of Crystal, Maastricht

 

Das Kunstwerk und sein Ort, Amden

 

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

 

Chisenhale Gallery, Solid objects (with Valentin Carron), London

 

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

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

 

 

 

 

Group Exhibitions

 

2012

Kunstmuseum Thurgau, 10'000 Stunden. Über Handwerk, Meisterschaft und Scheitern in der Kunst, Thurgau

 

Mumok, Kunst und Mode, Vienna

 

La maison rouge, Néon – who’s afraid of red, yellow and blue?, Paris

 

Zacheta National Gallery of Art, New Sculpture, Warsaw

 

Praz Delavallade, curated by Hard Hat, Shake & Bake, Paris

 

Centre Pompidou, Nouveau Festival, Paris

2011

54th Venice Biennale, ILLUMInations, Venice

 

Palais de Tokyo, Carte blanche à John M Armleder - All of the above, Paris

 

Mudac, Helvètes vulcains, Lausanne

 

Museo Tamayo, Abstract Possible, Mexico City

 

Centre Pompidou, Danser sa vie, Danse et arts visuels au XXe et XXIe siècles, Paris

 

Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, BEISPIEL SCHWEIZ. Entgrenzungen und Passagen als Kunst, Vaduz

2010

Casa Taberelli, Chartreuse jeune: An intervention by Olaf Nicolai, Cornalano

 

Malmö Konsthall, Abstract Possible, Malmö

 

Salt Lake Art Center, Go West, Utah

 

Power House Art Center, Born Under a Bad Sign, Memphis, TN

 

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

 

Haus der Kunst, Goldene Zeiten Teil 1 - Steven Claydon, Django Hernàndez und Mai-Thu Perret München

2009

Ludwik Grohman Villa Anabasis: Rituals of Homecoming, Festival of Dialogue of

Four Cultures, Lodz

 

Galerie 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, 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), Zürich

 

Timothy Taylor Gallery, Ventriloquist, London

 

Swiss Institute, Regift, New York

 

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

2008

Kunsthaus Zürich, Shifting Identities – (Swiss) Art today, Zürich

 

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, Mouans-Sartoux

 

Château d’Arenthon Fondation pour l’art contemporain, Abstraction Extension, Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon, Alex

 

Cneai=, Black Noise. A Tribute to Steven Parrino, Chatou

 

Tang Contemporary, There is No Story to Tell, Beijing

 

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

 

Artprojx Space, Dadadandy Boutique, London

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, Geneva

 

Anyang Public Art Project, Anyang

 

Fri-Art, Les artistes de la collection Cahiers d’artistes série VI + VII, Fribourg

 

Sonjeart 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, LA