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ASSUME VIVID ASTRO FOCUS

Lives and works in New York

Solo Exhibitions

2006     abra vana alucinete fogo, Galeria Triângulo, São Paulo, Brazil

butch queen realness with a twist of pastel color,   John Connelly Presents, NY

OPEN CALL , Kunsthalle Wien project space, Vienna, Austria      

absorb viral attack fantasy, Hiromi Yoshii, Tokyo, Japan

2005     Off the Wall Series, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, USA

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, USA

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, USA

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

assume vivid astro focus V , Peres Projects, San Francisco

assume vivid astro focus III , Bellwether Gallery, New York, USA

Selected Group Exhibition

2007 Space For Your Future, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, October 20, 2007 - January 20, 2008

Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967, MCA, Chicago, September 29, 2007 - January 27, 2008

Destroy Athens,   Athens Biennial (AB Projects); September

Impossibly Familiar , Fashion Institute of Technology, Art Gotham, New York, NY

Cosmologies , James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2006 Kamp K48 , curated by Scott Hug, John Connelly Presents, New York

Constant Disturbance: On Cultural Contamination and Foreign Agents

Centro Cultural Español, Coral gables, FL, curated by Gean Moreno

Faces, bodies and contemporary signs of Ernesto Esposito's collection, Museo D'Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina (MADRe), Naples

Contemporary Video Art from Brazil, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin

Tropicália , curated by Carlos Basualdo, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, October 15, 2005 - January 2, 2006 Barbican, London, UK, February 13 - May, 2006, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York, Oct 11, 2006 - Jan 28, 2007

Trial Ballons/Globos Sonda , curated by Yuko Hasegawa, Agustin Pérez Rubio,

Octavio Zaya, MUSAC, León, Spain

Infinite Painting , curated by Francesco Bonami and Sarah Cosulich Canarutto, Villa Manin Centre for Contemporary Art, Codroipo, Italy

The Garden Party, Deitch Projects, New York, USA

2005   Baroque and Neo-Baroque , curated by Javier Panera, Salmanca

Contemporary Art Centre, Salamanca, Spain

Ecstasy: In and About Altered States , curated by Paul Schimmel, The Geffen

Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, USA

Manchmal weiss ich nicht, ob ich etwas wirklich erlebt oder ob ich es in einem Film geshen habe, Goetz Collection, Munich, Germany

Seeing Double: Encounters with Warhol, Andy Warhol Museum of Art, Pittsburg, USA

Drone , Vilma Gold, London, UK

2004 Divided by Lightning , Deitch Projects, New York, USA

Nocturnal Emissions , Groninger Museum, Groninger, Netherlands

Byproducts of Work , Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

assume vivid astro focus VII, Whitney Biennial , Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA

Carnaval , Centro Cultural do Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Cave Canem , John Connelly Presents, New York, USA

Such Things I do Just to Make Myself More Attractive to You , peres projects, Los Angeles, USA

The 6 th Annual Altoids Curiously Strong Collection , Consolidated Works, Seattle, USA

2003 Hovering , Peres Projects, Los Angeles, USA

Fast Forward (Media Art from the Goetz Collection) , ZKM , Karlsruhe, Germany

Study , Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Today's Man , John Connelly Presents, New York, USA, Hiromi Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Karaoke Death Machine , Daniel Reich, New York, USA

Videodrome , curated by Nicolas Trembley, Cosmic Galerie, Paris, France

2002  K48_Teenage Rebel: The Bedroom Show , curated by Scott Hug, John Connelly Presents, New York, USA

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

222: 2002: Stardust: Assume Vivid Astro Focus and Kalaman , curated by Anton Kern, Apex Art, New York

Bathroom Group Show , curated by Daniel Reich, Daniel Reich, New York           

Miss World 1972 , curated by Daniel Reich, Daniel Reich, New York, December

Alpha Flight , curated by John Connelly, John Connelly Presents, New York, USA

Bibliography

2006   Cotter, Holland, " Butch Queen Realness With A Twist In Pastel Colors", New York   Times , July 21, 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, November 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," T okion , 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, 200     

Rosenberg, Karen, "Biennial Favorites", New York Magazine, March 1, 20042003

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. E312002    

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
2007      Recipient of The Public Art Fund's In The Public Realm Grant  
2002      Recipient of the Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant for Emerging Artists