biography
b. 1972, Paris, France
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
EDUCATION
MFA, Hunter College, New York, NY 2005
BFA, California College of Arts and Craft, San Francisco, CA 1998
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo Japan (Upcoming)
2008
Malpais, Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Paris, France
Vanderbilt University Fine Arts Gallery, Nashville, TN
2007
Unknowing Man's Nature, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY
Allweweresayingwasgivepeaceachance, Mario Diacono at Ars Libri, Boston, MA
2006
Accidental Tourism and the Art of Forgetting, Arndt and Partner, Berlin, Germany
2005
This is Our Town, Zach Feuer Gallery (LFL), New York, NY
2004
Armory Show / LFL Gallery, New York, NY
2003
Land of Many Uses, LFL Gallery, New York, NY
Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, MA
2000
Space 743, San Francisco, CA
1998
Soapbox Gallery, Venice, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010
Little Worlds, Luce Gallery, Torino, Italia
2009
10th Havana Biennial, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba
Mixing It Up: Recent Hunter MFAs Working in Combined Media, The Bertha and Karl
Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College, New York, NY
Return to Function, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
Transitions. Painting at the (other) End of Art, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy
Cave Painting, PSM, Berlin Germany and Gresham's Ghost, New York, NY
New York Minute, MACRO Museum of Contemporary Art, Rome Italy
FUTURESCAPE: Making of the Super City, Contemporary Art Galleries, University of
Connecticut, Storrs, CT
STAGES, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
2008
Mail Order Monsters, Max Wigram Gallery, London
21: Contemporary Art at the Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Future Tense: Reshaping the Landscape, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New
York, NY
I want a little sugar in my bowl, Asia Song Society, New York, NY
Recent Acquisitions, Gifts, and Works from Various Exhibitions 1985-2007, White
Columns, NY
Eastern Standard, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA
Cynicism vs. Hope, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, NY
2007
USA TODAY, The Hermitage, St. Petersburg, Russia
Artists of Invention: A Century of CCA, Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
Past, Present, Future Perfect: Selections from the Ovitz Family Collection, H+R Block
Artspace, Kansas City, Missouri
Art in America: 300 Years of Innovation, Shanghai Museum, China. Organized by the
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum; travels to Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain,
Phantasmania, Kemper Art Museum, Kansas City, MO Poets on Painters, Ulrich Museum, Wichita, KS
Prague Biennial 3, Prague, Czech Republic
Five Painters, Galleri Loyal, Stockholm, Sweden
When We Build Let Us Think That We Build Forever, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art,
Gateshead, United Kingdom
The Stuff What We Bought (Selected Purchases 2007), Archeus, London, UK
2006
USA TODAY, Royal Academy of Art, London, UK.
New York Contemporary: Art Times Squared, Hangart –7, Salzburg, Austria
Our Town, HUT Hudson Untitled Foundation, Hudson, NY
Reverence, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
Collection 2005/06, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
Metro Pictures, The Moore Space, Miami, FL
Down By Law, Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Don't Abandon the Ship, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, MA
Humor Me, H+R Block Artspace at the Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
Notre histoire... Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2005
Greater New York, PS1/MOMA, Queens, NY
2004
Trunk of Humors, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
4 und 4, Muller DeChiara, Berlin, Germany
The Dreamland Artist Club, Creative Time / Coney Island, New York, NY
True Stories, Johnson City Community College Art Gallery, Overland Park, KS
Collection (or How I Spent a Year), PS1/MOMA, New York, NY
Rowdy Remix, ATM Gallery, New York, NY
American Stars ‘n Bars, Chapman University Guggenheim Gallery, Orange, CA
2003
Summer Jam, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, CA
College Art Association MFA Selection Exhibition, New York, NY
Today's Man, John Connelly Presents, New York, NY
My people were fair and had cum in their hair (but now they're content to spray stars from
your boughs), Team Gallery, New York, NY
2002
Brooklyn Front, Other Routes (Mixed Greens), Brooklyn, NY
Art Hut, Nutty, San Francisco, CA
1999
Southern Exposure, 15th Annual Hospitality House, San Francisco, CA
COLLECTIONS
Oppenheimer – JCCC Collection for the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
MaRT, Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy
BIBLIOGRAPHY: PUBLICATIONS
Art in America: 300 Years of Innovation. Shanghai: Shanghai Museum, 2007.
Art: Over 2,500 Works from Cave to Contemporary. DK Publishing, 2008.
de Balincourt, Jules. Personal Survival Doom Buggy: Users Manual and Equipment Guide. New
York: Zach Feuer Gallery, 2005.
Biesenbach, Klaus. Greater New York 2005. Long Island City, New York: P.S.1 Contemporary Art
Center/MoMA, 2005: 74-75.
Bourriaud, Nicolas. Jules de Balincourt: Malpais. Paris: Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, 2008.
Danto, Arthur and Matthew Higgs, Ivan Karp. Artists of Invention. California College of the Arts,
2008.
Deitch, Jeffrey and Kathy Grayson. Live Through This: New York 2005. New York: Deitch
Projects, 2005.
Diacono, Mario. “Transitions. Painting at the (other) End of Art.” Collezione Maramotti, 2009.
Fantasmania. Kansas City, MO: Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, 2007.
Halliwell. Martin and Catherine Morley. American Thought and Culture in the Twenty First
Century, Edinburgh University Press, 2009.
Harmon, Katharine. The map as art : contemporary artists explore cartography Princeton
Architectual Press, 2009 : book cover and p. 59.
Hsu, Helen. Art in America Now. Shanghai: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2007: 89.
Lilja, Martin and Kristian Bengtsson, Amy Giunta. Loyal and His Band. Stockholm: Loyal AB,
2005.
King, Ross. Art: The Definitive Visual Guide. DK Publishing, 2008: 395, 594.
Mullins, Charlotte. Painting People: Figure Painting Today. London: Thames and Hudson,
2006.
New York Contemporary: Art Times Squared. Salzburg: Hangar 7, 2006.
New York Minute: Sixty Artists on the New York Scene. New York: O.H.W.O.W., 2009.
Nickas, Bob. Jules de Balincourt. New York: Volume Gallery, 2005.
Nickas, Bob. Collection (Or How I Spent a Year). Zurich: JRP/Ringier, 2004.
Nickas, Bob. Theft is vision. Zurich: JRP/Ringier, 2008.
Notre Histoire. Paris: Palais de Tokyo, 2006.
Pasternak, Anne and Lucy Lippard. Creative Time: The Book. Princeton Architectural Press,
2008.
Poets on Painters. Wichita, KS: Ulrich Museum of Art, 2007.
Prague Biennial 3. Prague, Czech Republic, 2007.
Selby, Aimee. Art and Text. Black Dog Publishing, 2009: 91, 143.
Signs of the Apocalypse/Rapture. Chicago: Front Forty Press, 2008.
Simon, Jane (et al.). Return to Function Madison: Madison Museum of Contemporary Art 2009:
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USA Today: New American Art from the Saatchi Gallery. London: Royal Academy of Art, 2006.