1956

born in in East Longmeadow, Massachusetts


 

 

National Technical Institute for the Deaf

 

New England College

 

Oxford University


Lives and works in Chicago

 

 
Solo Exhibitions

 

2008

The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore

College, Saratoga Springs/ Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Joseph Grigley: St. Cecilia, Saratoga Springs/Chicago

2007

Baltimore Contemporary Museum, traveling to Orange County Museum of Art, St. Cecilia, Baltimore/Orange County, CA

2006

Cohan and Leslie, Different Things about the same Thing, New York

2005

Nadine Gandy Gallery, Remembering is a Difficult Job, But Somebody Has to Do It, Prague

 

Air de Paris, It's Everywhere, Paris

2004

The Suburban, Oak Park

 

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, Ten Years of Conversations, San Fancisco

2003

Masataka Hayakawa Gallery, Blueberry Surprise, Tokyo

 

Cohan Leslie and Browne, Vox Populi, New York

 

Galerie Francesca Pia, Comes from Living in Jersey, Bern

 

fa projects, Lost in Jersey City (collaboration with Ellen Cantor), London

2002

Air de Paris, Paris

 

Cohan Leslie and Browne, New York

 

Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University, Wellington

2001

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

 

Foundation Joan Miró, Barcelona

 

Nadine Gandy Gallery, Prague

2000

Cohan Leslie and Browne, New York

 

Index, Stockholm

 

Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis, Bregenz

 

Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco

 

Masataka Hayakawa Gallery, Tokyo

1999

Galerie Air de Paris, Fireside Talk, Paris

 

Wadsworth Atheneum, The Pleasure of Conversing, Hartford

 

Cranbrook Museum of Art, Publications and Publication Projects, 1994–1999, Bloomfield Hills, MI

1998

Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Conversations and Portraits, Dublin

 

Galerie Francesca Pia, I am such a petite thing, Bern

 

The Barbican Center, Barbican Conversations (in collaboration with the Public Art Development Trust), London

 

Masataka Hayakawa Gallery, Tokyo

 

Center for Contemporary Art, Pretty Paper, Kitakyushu, Japan

1997

Air de Paris, Little Piglet, Paris

 

Revolution Gallery, Conversations, Detroit

 

Galerie Arndt & Partner, Does It Give Away the Story?, Berlin

1996

Anthony d’Offay Gallery, The Pleasure of Conversing, London

 

Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris/ARC, Migrateurs, Paris

 

AC Project Room, Portraits, New York

 

FRAC-Limousin, Conversations and Portraits, Limoges

 

MIT List Center for the Visual Arts, Ordinary Conversations, Cambridge, Mass

1995

AC Project Room, Figures of Speech, New York

1994

White Columns, Conversations with the Hearing, New York

 

Washington Project for the Arts, Body Signs: Deviance, Difference, and Eugenics, Washington

 

 

 
Selected Group Exhibitions

 

2010

Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Je mehr ich zeichne. Zeichnung als Weltentwurf, Siegen

 

Beurs van Berlage, Niet Normaal. What is normal and who decides?, Amsterdam

2009

Plug In Institute of Contemporary Art, FAX, Winnipeg

 

Le Quartier, Centre d’Art contemporain de Quimper, Wake up, please, Quimper

 

SMAK, GAGARIN the Artists in their Own Words - The first Decade, Gent

 

PERFORMA, PERFORMA09, New York

 

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, WALL ROCKETS: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha, Buffalo

 

e-flux, Unbuilt Roads, New York

2008

STUK, Pick-up (cur. Guillaume Désanges), Leuven

 

galerie du jour Agnès b., Histoires de point d’ironie, Paris

 

CCA Wattis Institute of Contemporary Arts, The Wizard of Oz , San Francisco

 

Musee des Beaux Arts, Collections, Permanent/Provisoire 2, Tourcoing

2007

Galerie Delphine Pastor, Airs de Paris, Monaco

 

CAPC, Ici et Là, Bordeaux

 

Henry Art Gallery, Mouth Open, Teeth Showing: Works from the True Collection,

Washington

 

Newlyn Art Gallery, Social Systems, Newlyn

 

Skestos Gabriele Gallery, Open & Shut, Chicago

 

St. Ives International, Tate St. Ives

 

Contemporary Arts Center, Talk to Me, Cincinnati

 

Museion, Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst, MAGIC LINE, Bozen

2006

Ella Fontanals Cisneros, Classification: Alternative Forms of Knowledge in Contemporary Art, Foundation, Miami

 

Western Front Exhibitions, Between Your Hand and My Head, Vancouver

 

Tulane University, Breathing Time, New Orleans

 

Château de Chareil-Cintrat, Les visiteurs, Chareil-Cintrat

 

Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Romance, Lissabon

 

Museo del Territorio di Biella, Art in the Age of Anxiety, Biella

 

Institut Mathildenhöfe, Remembrance as Future, Darmstadt

 

Villa Arson, Glass, Nice

 

Hyde Park Art Center, Home of the Free (cur. Jens Hoffmann), Chicago

 

Nuit Blanche (cur. Nicolas Bourriaud), Paris

2005

Bancroft Museum, University of California, The Blind at the Museum, Berkeley

 

Cohan Leslie and Browne, Much madness is divinest sense, New York

 

Museum Moderner Kunst, Nach Rokytník: Die Sammlung der EVN, Vienna

 

Galerie Christophe Daviet-Thery, CCA Artist's Book Show, Paris

 

The Drawing Room, Sounds Like Drawing, London

 

Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Romance, Lisbon

 

New Canvas 2005, Rotterdam

 

Van Abbemuseum, EindhovenIstanbul, Eindhoven

 

Chicago Cultural Center, Centrally Located, Chicago

 

Nadine Gandy Gallery, Clouding Europe, Bratislava

 

Numark Gallery, Found Sound, Washington DC

 

White Columns, The Early Show, New York

2004

Sculpture Center, Treble (cur. Regine Bashe), New York 

 

Espace Paul Ricard, Glassfab (org. Matali Crasset), Paris

 

Guggenheim Museum, Speaking with Hands: Photographs from the Buhl Collection, New York

 

International Centre of Graphic Arts, Point d'ironie, Ljubljana

 

Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Why not live for Art?, Tokyo

 

Museo d'Arte Contempreanea di Villa Croce, Aménager la maison, Habiter le musée, Genova

 

Cohan Lesilie and Browne, Summer Show, New York

 

Musée de Design et d'Arts Appliqués/Contemporains, Lausanne

 

Masataka Hayakawa Gallery, Marie-Ange Guilleminot/Joseph Grigely/Teresita Fernández/Tomoko Maezawa/Toshinari Sato, Tokyo

 

Tri postal (Collection Frac Nord-Pas de Calais), Trafic d'influences: Art & Design, Lille

 

Kunsthaus München, Utopia Station, Munich

 

National Museum of Modern Art, Vollevox, Brussels

 

Public, Pick-up (cur. Guillaume Désanges), Paris

 

Revolution Gallery, 10th Anniversary Exhibition, Detroit

2003

2003 Venice Biennial, Utopia Station (cur. Molly Nesbit, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Rirkrit Tiravanija), Vennice

 

Hausler Galerie, Private and Public (org. Rainer Ganahl), Munich

 

Nadine Gandy Gallery, Glass fab, Prague

 

Volume, Reading : Material, New York

 

Casey Kaplan Gallery, Exhibitions of An Exhibition (cur. Jens Hoffmann), New York

 

Masataka Hayakawa Gallery, Tokyo

 

Neuva Film Festival (org. David Levine), Tokyo

2002

Kunstmuseum, Zeitmaschine, Bern

 

Haus der Kunst, Stories, Munich

 

Caldic Collection, Boijmans Van Beuningen Museum, Imagine, you are standing here in front of me, Rotterdam

 

The Wright's Exhibition Space, Seattle

 

CCAC Wattis Institute, To Whom It May Concern (cur. Matthew Higgs), San Francisco

 

San Francisco Art Institute, Touch: Relational Aesthetics in the 1990s (cur. Nicolas Bourriaud), San Francisco

 

The Pond, Ideal Avalanche (cur. Michelle Grabner and Brad Killam), Chicago

 

Interactive online version on www.e-flux.com, Do It (home version) (cur. Hans Ulrich Obrist)