Rob Pruitt

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born 1964   Washington, D.C.
    Lives and works in New York
Solo Exhibitions    
2008   "Davos Dilemma", with Johanna Grawunder, American Academy in Rome, Rome, Italy
2007   "Rob Pruitt's Flea Market", Gavin Brown's enterprise, Frieze Art Fair, London, UK
2006   "!", Air de paris, Paris,
Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York
Bergdorf Goodman window display, sponsored by the New Museum, New York
2004   "Paris in Tokyo", Gallery Side 2, Tokyo
"Paris in Rome"Roma Roma Roma, Rome, Italy
2003   "Surreal Estate", Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York (with Jonathan Horowitz)
2002   Air de Paris, Paris, France
Consortium, Dijon, France
2001   Franco Noero Gallery, Torino, Italy
"Pandas and Bamboo", Gavin Brown's enterprise, Corp., NY
"101 Art Ideas You Can Do Yourself", Contemporary Art Center,
Cincinnati, OH
2000   "Flea Market", Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York, NY
"Psychic Predictions For The New Millennium & Things To Do With
Lemons", Cabinet Gallery, London, UK
1999   "101 Art Ideas You Can Do Yourself", Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York, NY
1993   Galleria Il Capricorno, Venice, Italy
Mulier & Mulier, Knokke, Belgium
1992   Leo Casteli Gallery, New York, NY
Galerie Rachel Lehmann, Lausanne, Switzerland
1991   APAC, Centre d'art Contemporian, Nevers, France
Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Esther Schipper, Koln, Germany
Daniel Buchholz, Koln, Germany
1990   303 Gallery, New York, NY
Group Exhibitions    
2008   "Who's Afraid of Jasper Johns?", Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, USA
(cur. by Urs Fischer & Gavin Brown)
"Sunshine", Ritter/Zamer at Rental, New York, USA
2007   Air de Paris, galerie Delphine Pastor, Monaco
"Colour First", Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam, Netherland
"She Was Born To Be My Unicorn", Smith-Stewart, New York, USA
2006   "Interstellar Low Ways", Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, USA
"The Inside Game - a selection from PDX art collections, Portland Art Center,
Portland, USA
"The Kate Show", Foam Fotografie Museum, Amsterdam, Pays Bas, Netherland
"The Gold Standard", P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA
"Celebrity", Sixtyseven Gallery, New York
"The Name of The Show is Not <Gay Art Now>", curated by Jack Pearson,
Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
"Survivor", curated by David Rimanelli, Bortolami-Dyan Gallery, New York
"Sparkle", Gallery Side 2, Tokyo
2005   "General Ideas, Rethinking Conceptual Art 1987-2005", CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco
"Drunk VS Stoned2", Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York
"Strictement Confidentiel", Cdentre d'Art et du paysage, Vassiviere
"The Final Floor Show", Objectif Exhinbitions, Antwerp
"Seeing Double", Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
"Trade", White Columns, New York, NY(brochure)
"100 Artists see God". Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach
2004   "Open", Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, PA
"For All", Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Vestfossen
"No More Reality", Nils Staerk Contemporary Art, Copenhagen
2003   Inaugural Exhibition, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York
Franco Noero Gallery, Torino, Italy
Summer group show, China Art Object Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
(collaborative projects whith Jonathan Horowitz)
"Following and to be followed (comming back)", Consortium, Dijon, France
"...still or sparkling ?", John Connelly Presents, New York, USA
"Bright Lights, Big City", David Zwirner Gallery, New York
2002   Shanghai Biennale, Shangai Art Museum, Shanghai, China (cat.)
"Something, Anything", Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, curated by Nayland Blake
"Spot the diferrence", Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam
"De Gustibus", Palazzo dela Papesse, Siena
2001   China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
"The Americans New Art", Barbican Gallery, London, UK
"Two Friends and so on", curated by Jonathan Horowitz and Rob Pruitt, Marc Foxx,
Los Angeles, CA
"Vantage Point", Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
"The Silk Purse Procedure", Arnolfini and Spike Island, Bristol, UK
"Salon", Delfina Project Space, London, UK
2000   "New York Projects", Delfina, London, UK
"Protest and Survive", Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
"Cool-Aid", Greenenaftali Gallery, New York, NY
"Two friends and so on", curated by Jonathan Horowitz and Rob Pruitt, AndrewKreps Gallery, New York, NY
"Sentimental Education", curated by David Rimanelli, Deitch Projects, New York
"Post - POP, Post ? PUNK", Museum of Contemporary Art, Washington, D.C.
"Greater New York", PS1, Long Island City, NY
1999   "Free Coke", Greenenaftali Gallery, New York, NY
"Village Disco", Cabinet Gallery, London, UK
Glassbox, Paris, France
"Neither / Nor", Grand Arts, Kansas City, MI (curated by Bill Arning)
"Enter Yes, No, Don't Know", Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
1998   "Home and Away", Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, NY (curated by
Kirsty Bell)
"Superfreaks; Post Pop and the New Generation, Part 1 : Trash", Greene Naftali, New York, NY
"Sassy Nuggets", Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
"Hey, You Never Know", curated by Kenny Schachter, New York
1997   "Screentest", Oasis Performance Series, New York, NY
"Thriller", 303 Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Tom Borghese)
"Recent Acquisitions", Art Institute of Chicago, Ill
Deitch Projects, New York, NY
"Inside Out Art Fair", curated by Kenny Schachter, New York
"Utopian Art Fair", Hotel 17, New York, NY
1996   "Circus of the Stars', Hotel 17, New York, NY
1995   "Alternative Art Fair", Hotel 17, New York, NY
"In a Different Light", University Art Museum, UC Berkeley, CA
"Photocollages", Le Consortiun, Dijon, France
"It's Only Rock and Roll", travelling exhibition, curated by David S. Rubin;
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Lakeview Museum of Arts and
Sciences, Phoenix Art Museum, Milwaukee Art Museum, Virginia
Beach Center for the Arts, Tacoma Art Museum, Jacksonville Museum of
Contemporary Art, Arkansas Art Center
1993   "Avantgarde & Kamgagne", Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf,
Germany (curated by Jurgen Harten)
"Teddy & Other Stories", Cladio Botello Arte & Galleria In Arco, Torino Italy
(curated by Luca Beatrice and Cristiana Perrela)
"In Search of Self", Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC
"Fortryck", Galleri Enkeshuset, Stockholm, Sweden
"Under 30", Galerie Metropol, Wein, Austria
‘Translations', Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
1992   "Objects", Casteli Graphics, New York, NY
"Post Human", curated by Jeffrey Deitch, FAE Musee D'Art Contemporain,
Lausanne, Switzerland; Castello di Rivoli, Museo d' Arte, Contemporanea,
Rivoli, Italy; Deste Foundation for contemporary Art, Athens, Greece; Deichorhallen Hamburg, Germany; Rudolph Zwirner Gallery, Koln Germany
"Molteplici Culture", curated by Liam Gillick, Rome, Italy
"Tattoo Collection", Air de Paris, Paris, France
"How It Is", Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
1991   "The Store', Richard Bennett Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"New Generaitons: New York", Carnegie Mellon Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
"New Work by Gallery Artists", 303 Gallery New York, NY
"No Man's Time", Villa Arson, Nice France
"Louder", Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago IL
(curated by Kathryn Hixon)
"Selections", FAE Musee D'Art Contemporian, Lausanne, Switzerland
1990   Strathmore Hall Arts Center, Washington, D.C.
"Brut '90", White Columns, NY
"Paintball", with Richard Prince and Tom Henry III, 303 Gallery New York, NY
"Stendhal Syndrome: The Cure", Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
"Total Metal", Simon Watson, New York, NY (curated by Richard Phillips)
"Stuttering", Stux Gallery, New York, NY
1989   "Group Show", American Fine Arts Co., New York, NY
video presentation by Colin de Land, Art Cologne, West Germany, American Fine Arts Co.
Selected Bibliography    
2007   Mooney, Christopher, "In the Pink", in Art Review, n° 07, January 2007, p. 41
Rehberg, Vivien, Picks, Artforum.com, January 2007
2006   "Do it, Pruitt", Triple Diesel (online), October 4
Liberman, Rhonda, "Good Jeans", Artforum (online), September 21
Finel Honigam, Ana, New York Horticulture, Artnet (online)
Colman, David, "Smitten With a Plain Jane", The New York Times, September 24
Kitnick, Alex, Reviews, Time Out New York, October 5-11
Saltz, Jerry, "Our Crowds : a two-headed butterfly flapping its wings",
Village Voice, July 6
2005   Comita, Jenny, Nothern Exposure, W, September, pp. 458-64
Gingeras, Alison, Purple News, Purple Fashion, n° 3, Spring/Summer, p. 34
A peacock hill family album, Zing Magazine, Winter
Akane Maekawa, "Decorative Space", Ryuko Tsushin vol.505, July, p.62-63
2003   Wilson, Michael, "Bright Lights, Big City," Review, Frieze,
November-December, pp. 101-102
Garrett, Craig, "Review, Flash Ar International, October, pp. 56-57
Lafreniere, Steve, Index, September-October, pp. 62 - 68
"Little House on the Prairie," ArtReview, June, p. 25
Review, Village Voice, June 11-17, p. 90
Schwendener, Martha, review, Artforum (online)
Johnson, Ken, review, New York Times, June 6, p. E33
Mulvihill, Keith, "American Gothic," Time Out New York, May 29-June 5, pp.
28-29
"Sculpture Forever," Flash Art, May-June, p. 128
2002   Gingeras, Alison M., Vitamin P, Phaidon Press, London, pp. 258-261
Troncy, Eric, Infinite Justice, No. 2, Summer, pp. 6-13
Coleman, David, "House of 8 Gables, Back in Black", The New York Times, House & Home, pp. 1-F5
"A Short Time Ago in a Galaxy Far, Far Awayc," Interview, June, p. 87
Thely, Thierry and Colard, Jean-Max, "Coke en Stock," Les Inrockuptibles,
June 19-25, p. 79
Pruitt, Rob and Horowitz, Jonathan, "Home Making Part 1: House Hunting," Index, April
Troncy, Eric, "Bad Boy", Numero, France, March, pp. 296-301
2001   Sladen, Mark, Blue Print, London, November, pp. 50-52
Guner, Fisun, What's On London, November 7
What's On London, October 31, p. 23
Packer, William, Financial Times, London, October 30, p. 20
Darwent, Charles, The Independent on Sunday, London, October 28
2000   Guner, Fisun, Metro London, October 26
Hackworth, Nick, Evening Standard, London November 6th
Rimanelli, David, "Top Ten", Artforum, December, pp 110-111.
ZOO, September, pp.272-273
Ratnam, Niru, "Oh Please it Mean Something", The Face, October, pp. 174-183
Fineman, Mia, "Rob Pruitt's Star on the Rise Again", International Herald Tribune,
Saturday- Sunday, June 23-24, p.6
Fineman, Mia, "Back in the Arms of the Art World", The New York Times, Sunday
June, pp. 30-33
Grabner, Michelle, Review, Frieze, June-August, p.111-112
Pride. 01, June, p, 61
Gilmore, Jonathan, Review, Tema Celeste, May-June, p. 86
Dailey, Meghan, Review, Artforum, May, pp. 177-178
Issue 5, ill. p. 144
Griffin, Tim, "A Man, a Plan, a Panda," Time Out New York, March 1-8, pp. 51-52
Beyer, Charles, "Rob Pruitt's Panda-Monium," Gotham, March, p. 204-205
Wehr, Anne, "The Panda Man can," Time Out New York, February 22-March 1
Levin, Kim, Review, Village Voice, March 10
"Panda Express", V magazine, Vol. X, March-April
The New Yorker, Review, January 22, p. 16
Turner, Grady T., "Aperto New York", Flash Art, summer, pp. 57-58
Ward, Ossian, "Don't Just Seat There", The Art News Paper, September, p. 21
"Pick of the Galleries: Something to declare", The Independent on Sunday, September 24
Slocombe, Steve, "Don't Call it a Cokeback", Sleazenation.com, July
1999   Berwick, Carly, "SaleAway", ArtNews, Arttalk, September, p.38
Griffin, Tim, Review, Time Out, New York, July 20-27
Johnson, Ken, Review, The New York Times, July 21
Review, Village Voice, July 25
Hunt, David, Review, Time Out, New York, July 27-August 3, p. 58
Dawson, Jessica, "Nelson", Washington City Paper, April 28, p. 60
Saltz, Jerry, "Realm of the Senses", Village Voice, July 11, p. 65
Halle, Howard, Review, Time Out, New York
Arning, Bill, Review, Time Out, New York, February 18-25
1998   Thorson, Alice, "But Seriously...or Not", The Kansas City Star, Sunday, July 4
Interview with John Kelsey, Bernadette, "Rob Pruitt & Johnathan Horowitz", Made in
USA, Fall/Winter, pp. 58-62
Gilman-Sevcik, Frantiska and Tim, Review, Flash Art, May/June
Clifford, Katie, "Rob Pruitt", ARTnews, summer
Levin, Kim, "Rob Pruitt", Village Voice, February 9
"99 People to Watch in 1999", Time Out , New York, January 28 - February 4
Johnson, Review, The New York Times, Friday, February 26
Publications    
2003   Pacemaker, n. 2, ed Toastink c/o Toasting Agency, Paris
(with Jonathan Horowitz)
1999   e-flux projects, www.e-flux.com

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