rirkrit tiravanija




Education

1986 		The Whitney Independent Studies Program, New York
1985		The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1984		The Banff Center School of Fine Arts, Banff, Canada
1981		The Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Canada


Solo Exhibitions:                                      
  
1995	303 Gallery, NY                                    
1994	"Untitled, 1994 (Fear Eats the Soul/ Angst Essen Seele Auf)", Schipper & Krome, Koln, Germany
	"Untitled, 1994 (Beauty)", Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993	"Untitled, 1993 (Live and Eat, Eat and Die)", Randolph St Gallery, Chicago IL 
1992	"Untitled, 1992 (Free)", 303 Gallery, New York, NY
1991 	"Untitled, 1990 (Blind)", Randy Alexander Gallery, New York, NY
1990	"Pad Thai", Project Room, Paula Allen Gallery, New York, NY


Group Exhibitions:

1995		Whitney Biennal, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY

1994		"Mobius Strip", Basilico Fine Arts, NY
		"Cocido Y Crudo", curated by Dan Cameron, Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
		"Esprit d'Amusement", Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria
		"Performance Video Weekend", Stockholm, Sweden
		"do it", curatd by Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Ritter Klagenfurt, Austria
		"The Winter Of Love", P.S.1 Museum, Queens, NY
		"Rirkrit Tiravanija/Andy Warhol", Gavin Brown's enterprise, NY
		"Lost Paradise", curated by Barbara Steiner, Kust Raum, Wien
		"Out Side the Frame", Cleveland
		"SPNY", Galerie Camargo Vilaca, Sao Paulo
		"Drawing on Sculpture", Cohen Gallery, NY
		"Residence Secondaitre", Paris, France
		Metro Pictures, organized by Friedrich Petzel, NY
		"Surface de Reparations", organised by Eric Troncy, Le Consortium, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Dijon, France
1994		"Camping", Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris, France
		"Don't Look Now", organized by  Joshua Decter, Threadwaxing Space, New York, NY
		"L'Hiver de l'Armour", Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France

1993		"Viennese Stories", curated by Jerome Sans, Veinna Secession, Vienna, Austria
		"Real, Real", Vienna Secession, Vienna, Austria
		Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
		"Backstage", Kunstverien in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany; Kunstmuseum, Lucerne, Switzerland (1994)
		"Migrateurs", curated by Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
		"Real Time", curated by Gavin Brown, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England
		1301, Los Angeles, CA
		Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, organised by Tim Neuger, Berlin, Germany
		"Spielholle", curated by Kasper Konig and Robert Fleck, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria, Galerie Sylvia Lorenz, 		Paris, France
		"Aperto", Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (curator: Matthew Slotover)
		"Sleepless Nights", curated by Zdenka Gabalova, PS1 Museum, Queens, NY 	
		Galerie Max Hetzler, organised by Tim Neuger, Koln, Germany
		"Simply Made in America", Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, CT	

1992		"Transgressions In The White Cube: Territorial Mapping", organized by Joshua Decter, Usdan Gallery, Bennington 		College, Bennington, VT
		"Writings on the Wall", 303 Gallery, New York, NY
		"Home Improvements", curated by Gavin Brown, 209 W97th, Apt 7B, New York, NY 10025 	
		"Consumed", Goethe House, New York, NY
		"Insignificant", curated by Gavin Brown, 10 E39th St, Suite 525, New York, NY 10016
		"One Leading to Another", 303 Gallery, New York, NY

1991		"The Big Nothing or Le Presque Rien", The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
		"Brooklyn", Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
		"Wealth of Nations", Center for Contemporary Arts, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
		"Dis Mantling Invisibility: Asian & Pacific Islander Artists Response to the AIDS Crisis", Art in General, New York, NY		"Shooter's Hill", AC Project Room, New York, NY
		"Arriving", Leonor Datil Perez Gallery, New York, NY
		"Home?", Home for Contemporary Theatre & Art, New York, NY
		"True to Life", 303 Gallery, New York, NY
		"Fluxattitude", Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY (1992)
		"Marginal Majority, (Artists Against Racial Prejudice)", Arron Davis Hall, New  York, NY

1990		"Post-Consumerism", The Storefront for Art & Architecture, 
		New York, NY
		"Work on Paper", Paula Allen Gallery, New York, NY
		"4th Annual Invitational", Cold City Gallery, Toronto

1989		"Caught In A Revolving Door", The Alumni Association of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL1989		"Outside the Clock: Beyond Good & Elvis", Scott Hanson 		Gallery, New York, NY

Film Exhibitions:

1991		Video Event, Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York, NY

1985		New Film Maker, The Collective for Living Cinema, New York, NY

Projects:

1990		The Arrival: Message to the Public, Spectracolor board at Times Square, New York, NY


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