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Solo Exhibitions

2007 assume vivid astro focus XIX, Hotel, London, UK
assume vivid astro focus XX, Galerie Art: Concept, Paris, France
assume vivid astro focus XVIII, John Connelly Presents, New York
assume vivid astro focus XVIII, Deitch Projects, New York

2006 assume vivid astro focus XVII, Galeria Triângulo, São Paulo, Brazil
OPEN CALL assume vivid astro focus, Kunsthalle Wien project space, Vienna, Austria
absorb viral attack fantasy, Hiromi Yoshii, Tokyo, Japan

2005 Off the Wall Series, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis
HOMO CRAP #2, Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan, Italy    
assume vivid astro focus XII: butch queen realness with a twist in pastel colors (featuring Dick Jewell),
Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

2004 assume vivid astro focus XI, Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz Private Collection, Key Biscayne, FL
Make It With You: A Slow Dance Club (collaboration with Los Super Elegantes), Frieze Art Fair, London, UK
assume vivid astro focus IX, public art project for Central Park sponsored by The Public Art Fund, New York

2003 assume vivid astro focus VII, Deitch Projects, New York

2002 assume vivid astro focus V, peres projects, San Francisco
assume vivid astro focus III, Bellwether Gallery, New York

Selected Group Exhibition

2006 Tempest, curated by John Connelly, The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, NY
Tropicália, curated by Carlos Basualdo, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Barbican, London, UK; Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York
Ninth Tropical Night – Pablo Internacional, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Trial Ballons/Globos Sonda, curated by Yuko Hasegawa, Agustin Pérez Rubio, and Octavio Zaya, MUSAC, León, Spain
Infinite Painting, curated by Francesco Bonami and Sarah Cosulich Canarutto, Villa Manin Centre for Contemporary Art, Codroipo, Italy
The Gallery Show, Extra City Center for Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Netherlands
The Garden Party, Deitch Projects, New York
SuPERM Salon/Superhole Weekend Sundown Salon, Los Angeles
Group Show, John Connelly Presents, New York

2005 Baroque and Neo-Baroque, curated by Javier Panera, Salmanca Contemporary Art Centre, Salamanca, Spain
The Zine UnBound: Kults, Werewolves and Sarcastic Hippies (“K48”, curated by Scott Hug), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
Ecstasy: In and About Altered States, curated by Paul Schimmel, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles
Manchmal weiss ich nicht, ob ich etwas wirklich erlebt oder ob ich es in einem Film geshen habe, Goetz Collection, Munich, Germany
op-ish, Samson Projects, Boston
Draw, Galerie du jour agnes b., Paris, France
Seeing Double: Encounters with Warhol, Andy Warhol Museum of Art, Pittsburg, PA
Growing up Absurd, Kent Institute of Arts and Design (Herbert Read Gallery), Canterbury, UK
Drone, Vilma Gold, London, UK
Colour My World, Riflemaker Gallery, London, UK

2004 Divided by Lightning, Deitch Projects, New York
Revenge of Romance, Temporary Contemporary, London, UK
Nocturnal Emissions, Groninger Museum, Groninger, Netherlands
The Stars of Track and Field are Beautiful People, Changing Role Gallery, Naples, Italy
Byproducts of Work, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
If You Believe Hard Enough…, Rocket Projects, Miami hitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Carnaval, Centro Cultural do Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Works on Paper, Southfirst, New York
Cave Canem, John Connelly Presents, New York
Such Things I do Just to Make Myself More Attractive to You, peres projects, Los Angeles
The 6th Annual Altoids Curiously Strong Collection, Consolidated Works, Seattle

2003 Hovering, peres projects, Los Angeles
Fast Forward (Media Art from the Goetz Collection), ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
Study, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo
Today’s Man, John Connelly Presents, New York; Hiromi Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Corporate Profit vs. Labor Costs, D’Amelio Terras, New York
K48_Teenage Rebel: The Bedroom Show" curated by Scott Hug, galerie du jour/agnes b., Paris,    France
Impakt Festival, curated by Arjon Dunnewind, Utrecht, Netherlands
Karaoke Death Machine, Daniel Reich, New York
Videodrome, curated by Nicolas Trembley, Cosmic Galerie, Paris, France
Life/Like, curated by Oliver Kamm, Apartment 5BE, New York
Emerging Artists, curated by Simon Watson, Rhona Hoffmann Gallery, Chicago
K48_Teenage Rebel: The Bedroom Show, curated by Scott Hug, John Connelly Presents, New York
Georges: Abstraction/Surface, curated by Nicolas Trembley, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris,    France
Coleções 3, curated by Néssia Pope, Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil
High Desert Test Sites, curated by Andrea Zittel, Andy Stillpass and John Connelly, Joshua Tree
Vidéo Topiques, curated by Lydia Yee, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg, France
Videodrome II, curated by Anne Ellegood, Dan Cameron, Anne Barlow and Johanna Burton, Zenith Media Lounge, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Room for a Revolution, curated by Kristen VanDeventer and Lisa Williamson, Deluxe Gallery, Chicago
End of the Rainbow, Bellwether, New York

2002 Stardust: Assume Vivid Astro Focus and Kalaman, curated by Anton Kern, Apex Art, New York
Unknown Pleasures, curated by Daniel Reich, Daniel Reich, New York
Bathroom Group Show, curated by Daniel Reich, Daniel Reich, New York
Face Value, curated by Lauren Ross, White Columns, New York

2001 Miss World 1972, curated by Daniel Reich, Daniel Reich, New York
Alpha Flight, curated by John Connelly, John Connelly Presents, New York
Deslocamentos do Eu: O Auto-Retrato Digital e Pré-Digital na Arte Brasileira, 1976-2001, curated by Tadeu Chiarelli, Itaú Cultural Campinas, Campinas, Brazil
São Paulo Turística, curated by Ricardo Resende, Museum de Arte Moderna Higienópolis, São Paulo, Brazil
Biting Style and Spitting Image, curated by Diane Chamber and Denise Delgado, Bass Museum of Art, Miami

2000 To Be Continued, curated by Rebecca Smith and Matt Keegan, Bellwether, Art In General and Parlour Projects, New York

1998 Recent Works from Project Antárctica Artes com a Folha’s Artists, Casa Triângulo, São Paulo, Brazil
City Cannibal, curated by Daniela Bousso, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil

1996 Excesso, curated by Daniela Bousso, Paço das Artes, São Paulo, Brazil
Antárctica Artes com a Folha, Pavilhão Manoel da Nóbraga, São Paulo, Brazil

Bibliography

2006 Bonami, Francesco and Sarah Cosulich Canarutto, Infinite Painting, Villa Manin, Codroipo, Italy, 2006, p. 32.
Zaya, Octavio, Trial Balloons, MUSAC, León, Spain, 2006, p. 9.
Hastreiter, Kim, “Booty Call,” Paper, June/July 2006
“It’s all in the Blend,” Blend, issue 13, June 2006. 
“Handle with Care,” Nylon, March 2006
Moreno, Gean, Constant Disturbance: On Cultural Contamination and Foreign Agents, Centro Cultural Espanol, Coral Gables, Florida, 2006, p. 30-31.
Nairne, Sandy and Sarah Howgate, The Portrait Now. National Portrait Gallery, London,  2006, p.38.
“Gallery - Contemporary Art,” Lufthansa Magazine, March 2006, p.86
Meyers, Julian, “Ecstasy Review,” Frieze, January/February 2006, p.145
Paterson, Carrie, “Group Shows: Ecstasy,” Flash Art, January/February 2006
Perrée, Rob, “Kunst als Muziek,” Kunstbeeld, n.12, January 2006, p. 20 – 23
Davis, Erik, “Ecstasy: In and About Altered States,” ArtForum, January 2006

2005 Grosenick, Uta. Art Now: Vol. 2, 2005, p.36-39.
Domschke, Gisela, “Art, Media, and Video Art in Brazil,” ARCO Contemporary Art  n.38, Winter 2005, p. 7 – 11
“Ecstasy,” Tema Celeste, November - December 2005
Campbell, Christopher, “Miami Confidential,” New York Times Style, Winter 2005, p. 108
Souri, Kim, “Know+Tell,” Details, November 2005, p. 44
Kimmelman, Michael, “A Mind Bending Head Trip (All Legal),” The New York Times, ovember 4, 2005
Drohojowska-Philip, Hunter, “The Art Trip,” Artnet.com, Fall 2005
Meyers, Terry, “High Society,” ArtReview, October 2005, p. 29
Knight, Christopher, “Take a Mind Excursion,” Los Angeles Times, October 11, 2005
Finkel, Jori. “Dancing on a Ceiling (with Tom Cruise),” New York Times, October 9, 2005, p. 36, 38
Muchnic, Suzanne, “Mind-bending Visions,” Los Angeles Times, October 2. 2005
Smith, Roberta, “Tune In, Turn On, Dig Art,” New York Times, September 11, 2005
Moreno, Shonquis, “Garden of Earthly Delights,” Frame, September/October 2005, p.88-89
Schimmel, Paul, Ecstasy: In and About Altered States, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA, 2005, p.54-57.
Smith, Terry, “Biennales: In the Conditions of Contemporaneity,” Art & Australia, Autumn 2005, p.406 – 415
White, Ian, “It’s a Film Club, and Everyone’s Invited,” ArtReview, vol. LVI, August 2005, p.46 – 47
Connelly, John, “assume vivid astro focus,” Vogue Hommes, Spring/Summer 2005, p.114 – 117
Leventis, Andreas, “Emerging Artists: Man or Multitude? The bootlegged beauty of assume vivid astro focus,” Modern Painters, April 2005, p. 48 – 49
Cattelan, Maurizio. “Holding Court: Assume Vivid Astro Focus and Cory Arcangel,” Tokion, March/April 2005, p.56 – 57
“Inner Cities”, ArtReview, March 2005, p.60 – 63
Reginato, James, “Sky High”, W, vol. 34 issue 3, March 2005, p.42
Grayson, Kathy and Jeffrey Deitch. “Assume Vivid Astro Vocus,” Live Through This, 2005, p. 94-97

2004 Van Der Zijpp, Sue-an, “Nocturnal Emissions:Assume Vivid Astro Focus,” Groninger  Museum Magazine, November 21, 2004, p.8
Valdez, Sarah, “Club Psychedelia: Last Night An Artist Saved My Life,” PaperMag, November 2004, p. 62 – 63
“The Magnificient Seven: What to look for at the Frieze Art Fair 2004,” Art Review, October 2004, Ed. International, p.35
LaFreniere, Steve, “My Pop,” ArtForum, October 2004, p. 247
Herzog, Eve, “Hot List: The New Artist to Know,” Harper’s Bazaar, September 2004, p. 275
Corbetta, Caroline, “Temporary Name,” Vogue Uomo, July/August 2004, p. 46
Prisco, Joanna, “Spin Me Around,” Surface, Surplus: Art, The Disco Luxe Issue, n. 48, p. 178
LaVallee, Andrew, “Young Artists Get Personal with Politics in Group Show,”  NY Arts, July 13, 2004
Wolf, Matt, “Majority ‘Whip’,” Flash Art, July/September 2004, p. 63
Korotkin, Joyce B., “The Neo-Baroque Era,” Tema Celeste, June/August 2004, issue 104, p. 38 - 45
Bankowsky, Jack, “Many Happy Returns, This Is Today,” ArtForum, May 2004
“American Pie,” Frieze, issue 83, p. 65
Jane Grossman, Anna, “Who?” The New York Observer, April 19, 2004
Scott, Andrea K, “Free Parking,” TimeOut, April 15 – 22, 2004
Sundell, Margaret, “The today show: The Whitney sums up the state of contemporary art in the best biennial in years,” Time Out March 25 – April 1, 2004
Weyland, Jocko, “American Splendor,” TimeOut, March 4 – 11, 2004   
Schjeldahl, Peter, “What’s New,” New Yorker, March 22, 2004, p. 100
Kimmelman, Michael, “Touching All Bases,” New York Times, March 12, 2004
Cotter, Holland, “Duck! It’s Whitney Biennial Season Again,” New York Times, March 7, 2004
Rosenberg, Karen, “Biennial Favorites”, New York Magazine, March 1, 2004

2003 Cobb, Chris, “assume vivid astro focus”, Flash Art, January/February 2003, p. 112
Cotter, Holland, “Paul P.,” New York Times, July 18, 2003, p. E33
Eleey, Peter, “K48-3: Teenage Rebel – The Bedroom Show,” Frieze, April, 2003, p. 104
Garret, Craig. “Teenage Rebel at John Connelly Presents,” Flash Art, March/April 2003, p. 51
Kimmelman, Michael, “Now Playing,” New York Times, July 18, 2003, p. E33
Laster, Paul, “K48-3: Teenage Rebel – The Bedroom Show”, Time Out, January 2 – 9, 2003, p. 59
Lee, Carol, “The Scope Art Fair at Dylan Hotel,” Paper March, 2003
Levin, Kim, “assume vivid astro focus,” Village Voice, July, 2003
Raymond, Jon, “Assume Vivid Astro Focus,” Artforum, July, 2003
Robinson, Walter, “Weekend Update: Scope Art Fair”, artnet.com, March, 2003
Robinson, Walter, “Weekend Update,” artnet.com, July 2003
Rosenberg, Karen, “Outside and In,” Village Voice, January 15 – 21, 2003, p. 69
Smith, Roberta, “A Bread-Crumb Trail to the Spirit of the Times,” New York Times, January 13, 2003
Smith, Roberta, “A Grand Finale of Group Show Fireworks,” New York Times, July 18, 2003, p. E31

2002 Arruda, Fernanda, 222-2002: Stardust, Exhibition Brochure, June, 2002
Bollen, Chris, “Two for Tee,” V Magazine, March/April, 2002
Cotter, Holland, “Assume Vivid Astro Focus,” New York Times, June 21, 2002, p. E37
Johnson, Ken, “Face Value,” New York Times, February 22, 2002, p. E42
LaFreniere, Stev, “Top Ten,” Artforum, May 2002, p. 47
Powhida, William, “Bubblegum Disco in Space,” artnet.com, July 24, 2002
Yee, Lydia, Musique/Video, Exhibition Catalog, November, 2002, p. 174
“Critic’s Picks: 222-2002,” Time Out, June 20 – 27, 2002, p. 62
High Desert Test Sites, exhibition catalog, November, 2002, p. 18

2001 Chiarelli, Tadeu. “O Auto-Retrato na (da) Arte Contemporânea”, Deslocamentos do Eu: O Auto-Retrato Digital e Pre-Digital na Arte Brasileira, 1976-2001, exhibition catalog, July, 2001
Cotter, Holland, “Miss World 1972,” New York Times, December 28, 2001, p. E44
Philips, Richard, “Top Ten,” Artforum, November, 2001
Scott, Andrea, “Goings on About Town: Alpha Flight,” New Yorker, December 17, 2001, p. 18

Awards

2003 Recipient of The Public Art Fund’s In The Public Realm Grant    

2002 Recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant for Emerging Artists