1966

born in Massachusetts, USA

Lives and works in Brooklyn

 

Solo Exhibitions (selection)

 

2017

WallRiss, Seven Problems Solved, curated by Elise Corp, Fribourg

2016

Triple V, Paris

2013

Studiolo, John Tremblay, Zurich

2012

Triple V, John Tremblay, Paris

2010

Galerie Francesca Pia, Hidden in the Data, Zurich

2009

Gallery Side 2, Tokyo, Japan

2008

Centre d’art la Chapelle Jeanne d’Arc, Musée Henri Barré, Château d’Oiron, John Tremblay, Oiron

2007

Paik Hae Young Gallery, John Tremblay, Seoul
Galerie Almine Rech, Purple Words on a Grey Background, Paris

2006

Emon Gallery, Available Surfaces, Part II, Tokyo

2005

Mario Diacono at Ars Libri, John Tremblay, Boston
Paula Cooper Galler, New York

2004

Nouvelle Galerie, John Tremblay, Grenoble
Galerie Francesca Pia, Surrounding, Bern
Art 35 Basel, video screening of Lamping, Basel

2003

Galerie Heimer und Partner, Infinity Trials, Berlin
Paula Cooper Gallery, Informal European Theater Meeting, New York

2002

Galerie Francesca Pia, Sixteen Corners, Bern

2001

Galerie Francesca Pia, Natural Wonders (with Lisa Beck), Bern

2000

Richard Telles Fine Art, Hello Professor!, Los Angeles
Reali Artecontemporanea, Magma, Brescia

1999

Sandra Gering Gallery, The Entire Movie/Quickest way to the Airport, New York
Galerie Jousse-Seguin, Possible Utopias, Paris

1998

Sandra Gering Gallery, John Tremblay, New York

1997

Galerie Jousse-Seguin, Paris
Art Basel 28’97, Statements presented by Art & Public, Basel

1996

Sandra Gering Gallery, New York

1995

Art & Public, Targets, Geneva

1994

Stand Ecart, Silver, Art Basel 25’94, Basel

 

Group Exhibitions (selection)

 

2022

MAMCO, &, curated by John Armleder, Geneva
Kristina Kite Gallery, The Going Away Present, Los Angeles

2021

Frac des Pays de la Loire, To you two, Carquefou

2020

Kanal Centre Pompidou, It Never Ends, curated by John Armleder, Brussels

2019

MAMCO, Ecart at Art Basel, Geneva
Daimler Art Collection, From Southern German Modernity to International Contemporary Art, Stuttgart
Daimler Contemporary, Sound on the 4th Floor, Berlin
Fondation CAB, Alentour, curated by John Armleder, Brussels

2018

Galerie Andrea Caratsch, Monochrome, St. Moritz

2017

Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, FLATLAND / Abstractions narratives #2, Luxemburg

2016

MAMCO, GVA<->JFK, Geneva Triple V, Inauguration, Paris

2015

Algus Greenspon, The Shadow is Taken, New York
FRAC des Pays de la Loire, Ouverture pour inventaire (2), Carquefou
Triple V, Space is the Place, Paris
White Columns, 30/130: Thirty Years of Books and Catalogues, etc. Bob Nick as at White Columns, New York
Galerie Francesca Pia, Group Show, Zurich
David Kordansky Gallery, John Armleder, Stéphane Kropf, John Tremblay, with guests Mai-Thu Perret and Blair Thurman, Los Angeles 

2014

Joe Sheftel, Vertigo, New York
Middlemarch, Episode 11 EN-TRÉE, curated by Christopher Greene, Brussels
Pori Art Museum, Dystotal, Finland
Galerie Perrotin, Post-Op, curated by Matthieu Poirier, Paris
Marlborough Broome St., Joyride, New York
Non-Objective Sud, Blossoms Take no Prisoners, Tullete
Aargauer Kunsthaus, Ohne Achtsamkeit beachte ich alles, Robert Walser und die bildende Kunst, Aarau

2013

FORDE, Post Mortem, Geneva
Steven Vail Fine Arts, Vicious Circles, Des Moines, IA
Martos Gallery, LAT. 41° 7'N. LONG. 72° 19'W., organized by Bob Nickas, New York
Tripple V, Too Big to Fail, Paris
Galerie Francesca Pia, X-Mas show, Zurich
Grand Palais, Dynamo, Paris
Galeries nationales du Grand Palais, Lumineux! Dynamique! Espace et vision dans l’art de nos jours à 1913, Paris
Palais des Beaux-Arts, COOKBOOK, art and the culinary process, Paris

2012

Galerie Triple V, Science Fiction 3, Paris
FORDE, cooking show, Geneva
La Salle de bains, Tell the Children/ Abstraction pour enfants, Lyon
Collezione Maramotti, Painting as a Radical Form, Reggio Emilia"
Kunsthalle Bern, the Old, the New, the Different, Bern

2011

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

2010

Centre d’art contemporain d’Ivry, Le carillon de Big Ben, Ivry
Jose Martos Gallery, Wait for Me at the Bottom of the Pool, organized by Bob Nickas, Sagaponack, New York
MUMOK, Daimler Art Collection, Pictures about Pictures: Discourses in Painting from Albers to Zobernig, Wien
Musée des beaux-arts de La Chaux-de-Fonds & Le Magasin, Grenoble, Portrait de l’artiste en motocycliste, from the Collection of Olivier Mosset
Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie Regensburg, Permanent Trouble, Regensburg

2009

Palais de Tokyo, Chasing Napoleon, Paris
Gresham’s Ghost, Cave Painting, New York
Gering & Lopez Gallery, Just what is it that makes today’s painting so different, so appealing?, New York
Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Portrait de l’artiste en motocycliste, Grenoble
Kunsthalle St. Gallen, Born to Be Wild – Hommage to Steven Parrino, St. Gallen
Art Production Fund, Learn to Communicate Like a Fucking Normal Person, New York
Palais de Tokyo, Chasing Napoleon , Paris
Galerie Francesca Pia, Top 10 Allegories. An exhibition curated by Hard Hat, Zurich
Villa Arson, HALF SQUARE, HALF CRAZY / A DEMI CARRE, A DEMI FOU, Nice
Vegas Gallery, I Am By Birth A Genevese, London, travelled to Forde, Geneva
Collezione Maramotti, Transitions: Painting at the (other) end of art, Reggio Emilia
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Painted World, organized by Bob Nickas, New York

2008

New Jerseyy, The Line is a Lonely Hunter: Drawings in New Jersey, Basel
Galerie Jan Wentrop, REINVENTED: Study and Play, Berlin
Laure Genillard, Presque Rien II, London
Seiler + Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, You Said He Said She Said, Zürich
Praz-Delavallade, Deformalismes, Paris

2007

New York Is Dead Dot Biz, Wu-Tang/googolplex Show (Congress), curated by Darren Bader, New York
Texas Gallery, Lines, Houston
Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, The Freak Show, curated by Vincent Pécoil, Lyon
Pury & Luxembourg, Painting as Fact – Fact as Fiction, organized by Bob Nickas, Zürich
The Mandrake, The Melvins, organized by Bob Nickas, Los Angeles
Palais de Tokyo, Compulsive, Paris, originated at IAP Art, Miami
Centre national d’art contemporain, Villa Arson, Half Square, Half Crazy – A moitié carré, à moitié fou, Nice

2006

Kunsthaus Baselland and Centre d’art d’Ivry le Credac, I go out walking…, Muttenz/Ivry sur Seine
Krobath Wimmer, Black/White & Chewing Gum, Wien
Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, Mid-Life Crisis, New York
FRAC Poitou-Charantes, Rouler les mécaniques
Grolier Club, Hot Off the Press: New Prints of 2006, New York
Midway Contemporary Art, Axis of Praxis, Minneapolis
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, The Painted World, New York
Galerie Erna Hécey, Onestar stop, Brussels
Galerie Edward Mitterand, Slow Burn, curated by Jonah Freeman, Geneva
Paula Cooper Gallery, An Ongoing Low-Grade Mystery, organized by Bob Nickas, New York
Galerie van Gelder, Regarding facts, Amsterdam

2005

Galerie van Gelder, Wintery Cold, Amsterdam
P.S.1 Center for Contemporary Art, The Painted World, organized by Bob Nickas, New York
Performa Radio, WKCR Columbia University, Performa ’05, organized by Anthony Huberman Broadcast, New York
Biennale d’art contemporain de Lyon, Experiencing Duration, curated by Nicolas Bourriard and Jerome Sans, Lyon
Albright-Knox Gallery, Extreme Abstraction, Buffalo, New York
Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg, L’oeil Moteur, Art Optique et Cinetique/1950–1975, Strasbourg
Champion Fine Art, The Feraliminal Lycanthropizer, curated by Craig Kalpakjian, Los Angeles
Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Minimal Pop, organized by Petra Bungert, Paris
Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Life On The Screen, organized by Vincent Pécoil, Brussels

2004

Le Crédac: Centre d'Art d'Ivry, La partie continue2, Ivry sur Seine
Swiss Institute, None of the above, curated by John Armleder, New York
F.R.AC. Franche-Comté, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dole, La Lettre Volée, Dole
DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Minimalism and After III, Berlin
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Curious Crystals of Unusual Purity, organized by Steve Lafreniere and Bob Nickas, Long Island City, NY

2003

Team Gallery, My People Were Fair and Had Cum in their Hair (but Now They’re Content to Spray Stars from your Boughs), curated by Bob Nickas, New York
Anton Kern Gallery, Melvins, organized by Bob Nickas, New York
Riva Gallery, Specificity, curated by Odili Donald Odita, New York
Galeria Javier Lopez, JRP EDITIONS, Madrid
Flieshmann's in association with Gavin Brown's Enterprise, Surrealestate, curated by Rob Pruitt and Jonathan Horowitz, New York
Chateau des Ducs de Bretagne, Les 20 ans des FRAC, Nantes
Gallery M, 3-2-1 (with John Miller and Richard Hoecke), curated by Cara Perlman, New York
Kunsthalle Palazzo Liestal, Never Mind Your Step, curated by John Armleder, Liestal/Basel
Galeries contemporaines des musees de Marseille, Mouvments de Fonds, Marseilles

2002

Artists Space, Painting as Paradox, New York
John Connelly Presents, Machine Man, New York
Galerie Heimer und Partner, Available Surfaces, Berlin
Gallery Van Gelder, Spot the Difference, Amsterdam
Gallerie Simone Stern, Optical Optimism, curated by Sandra Gering, New Orleans
Paula Cooper Gallery, From the Observatory, organized by Bob Nickas, New York
Yerba Buenna Art Center, Guide to Trust 2, curated by Jimi Dams, San Francisco

2001

Tirana Biennale 1, Tirana
Grazer Kunstverein, Time Wave Zero/The Politics of Ecstasy, curated by Lionel Bovier and Jean-Michel Wicker, Graz
Dee-Glassoe, Boxy (selection by Carl Ostendarp), New York
L’Elac, The Unlimited Dream Company, curated by Fabrice Stroun, Lausanne
Sandra Gering Gallery, Perfect 10:ten years in Soho, New York
Elizabeth Cherry Contemporary Art, How is Everything? Everything’s Going To Be ..Alright (org. Bob Nickas), Tucson, Arizona
Genovese Gallery, Persistent Painting, Boston

2000

Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris
Forde, Sex in the Country (cur. Mai-Thu Perret and Fabrice Stroun), Geneva
The Gallery Greene Street, Imported, Recent Acquisitions from the Collection of Kenneth Freed, curated by James Hull, Boston
Momenta, Momenta Benefit Auction, Brooklyn
Gary Tatintsian Gallery, (212), organized by Irena Popiashvili, New York
Team Gallery, Hex Enduction Hour by The Fall, curated by Bob Nickas, New York

1999

Galerie Yvon Lambert, Camouflage, curated by Toasting Agency, Alexis Vaillant and Eva Svennung), Paris
FRAC Poitou-Charentes, <TransOsphères>, curated by Philippe Régnier, Angoulême
Richard Telles Fine Art, Minty, curated by Bruce Hainley, Los Angeles
Galerie van Gelder, Look me in the eyes, Amsterdam

1997

L’Elac, Oops, curated by Lionel Bovier, Lausanne
Stalke Galleri, Painting, Copenhagen
Magasin, Oops, curated by Lionel Bovier, Grenoble
Thomas Healy Gallery, Bathroom, curated by Wayne Koestenbaum, New York

1996

Magasin, Des Histoires en Formes, Grenoble
Zentrum für Kunst, Medien und Design, 504, curated by John Armleder, Braunschweig
Margarete Roeder Gallery, Issues of Abstraction, New York

1995

The Neuberger Museum, Alumni, New York
Feature Gallery, AbFab!, New York
Sandra Gering Gallery, Drawings, New York
Cabinet des estampes, Notes on Print: With and After Robert Morris, Geneva
Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Pittura/Immedia, Graz, traveled to Muesarnok, Budapest

1994

Andrea Rosen Gallery, The Fall Collection, assembled by Bob Nickas and John Tremblay, New York, traveled to Thomas Salomon’s Garage, Los Angeles

1993

John Gibson Gallery, Nineties, New York
Galerie Susanna Kulli, Ecart, curated by John Armleder, St. Gallen

1992

Water Closet, at Novecento, curated by Eric Oppenheim, New York

 

Selected Collections

 

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA
Cabinet des Estampes du Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland
Centre d'Art Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Collection Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Puteaux, France
DaimlerChrysler AG, Berlin, Germany
Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
FRAC Poitou-Charente, Angoulême, France
Maramotti Collection, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Nokia Collection, Helsinki, Finland
Pizzuti Companies, Columbus, OH, USA