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Banks Violette

(American, born 1973)

Banks Violette

As yet untitled (broken screen), 2008

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Banks Violette

As yet untitled (single screen), 2008

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Biography

Timeline

1973: Born in Ithaca, New York, USA
1994 - 1995: Tompkins Cortland Community College
1998: School of the Visual Arts, New York, B.F.A
2000: Columbia University, New York, M.F.A
: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
: The Saatchi Collection, London, UK
: OverHolland Collection, Amsterdam, Netherlands
: Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
: Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
: Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
: Frank Cohen MOCA Manchester, Manchester, UK
: Public Collections
: Awards and Grants
: Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, USA
: 1998 Fearless Vampire Killer, ABC No Rio, New York, USA
: 1999 ZERO Neiman Center for Print Sudies, Columbia University, New York, USA
: 2001 Dear Dead Person, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, USA
: 2003 Trans-national Monster League, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, USA
: 2006 MY MIRRORS Are PAINTED BLACK For You, Bortolami Dayan, New York, USA
: Curatorial Projects
: Currently lives and works in New York, USA
: 2000 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA

Exhibitions

2009: La Conservera, New Contemporary Art Centre, Murcia, Spain
2008: Sack of Bones, Asia Song Society, New York, USA
: Extra-Light, Point Ephemere, Paris, France
: Maureen Paley, London, UK (solo)
: Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
: Focus: Banks Violette, Museum of Modern Art, Fort Worth, Texas, USA (solo)
: Bastard Creature, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
: U.S.A. Today, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
: The Shapes of Space, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
: My Sweet Sixteen Party, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
: When We Build Let Us Think That We Build Forever, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle, UK
: LAST ATTRACTION NEXT EXIT, Max Wigram Temporary Exhibition Space, London, UK
: Disorder in the House, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium
: Collection Show, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
: Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria (solo)
: Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway (solo)
2007: Gladstone Gallery and Team Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
: The Eclectic Eye, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, USA
: U.S.A. Today, Royal Academy, London, UK
: While Interwoven Echoes Drip into a Hybrid Body, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Switzerland
: The Monty Hall Problem, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, USA
: The Image Is Gone, Galerie Lisa Ruyter, Vienna, Austria
: I Love My Scene: Scene One, Mary Boone, New York, USA
: DARK, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
: Maureen Paley, London, UK (solo)
: Standard, Oslo, Norway (solo)
: gallery.sora, Tokyo, Japan (with Gardar Eide Einarsson)
: Spain (curated by Agustin Pérez Rubio, Octavio Zaya, Yuko Hasegawa)
: Trial Balloons, MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Leon
2006: Cosmic Wonder, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA (curated by Betty Nguyen)
: Youth of Today, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
: La Beauté de l’Enfer: works on paper, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
: Suburbia, Galerie Lisa Ruyter, Vienna, Austria
: Greater New York, P.S.1, New York, USA
: Bridge Freezes Before Road, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
: Untitled, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA (solo)
: on black wings / six-channel bleed, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
: Blankness is Not a Void, Standard, Oslo, Norway
2005: Thank You for the Music, Sprüth Magers Projekte, Münich, Germany
: Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York, USA (with Walter Redinger)
: Beginning Here: 101 Ways, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, USA
2004: MW Projects, London, UK (with Nigel Shafran)
: Penteholocaust / The Sixty-Sided Stone of the Androgyne, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, USA (with Matt Greene)
: The Black Album, Maureen Paley, London, UK
: The Ice Age, Team Gallery, New York, USA
: Art and Illusion: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, USA
: Power, Corruption and Lies, Roth Horowitz, New York, USA
: Noctambule, alternative space, Paris, France (under the auspices of D’Amelio Terras Gallery, New York)
: The Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
: Scream, touring exhibition: Anton Kern Gallery, New York & Moore Space, Miami, USA
: Melvins, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA
: Flesh and Blood, Michael Steinberg, New York, USA
: The Return of the Creature (The Continuing Saga of Elementalism, … Conceptual Practice and Romanticism After Robert Smithson, … New Quasi-Cinemas, … and Post-Punk Existentialism), Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis Gartnerhaus, Bregenz, Austria
: Back in Black, Cohan Leslie and Browne, New York, USA
: Enquiry into those Kinds of Distress which excite agreeable Sensations (1773): Slater Bradley & Banks Violette, Team Gallery, New York, USA
2003: Kult 48 Klubhouse, Deitch Projects, Brooklyn, USA
: A Matter of Facts, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, USA (curated by Clarissa Dalrymple)
2002: Arroyo Grande, 7.22.95, Team Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
2001: Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta, USA
: Ghost Stories, Sandroni-Rey Gallery, Venice, Los Angeles, USA
: Learned America , P.P.O.W., New York, USA
: Diversity Plus: Emerging Artists in a Rapid World Visual Arts Museum, New York, USA
2000: Summer with Friends, Team, New York, USA
: Team Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
: Two Friends and So On, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, USA
: Columbia University M.F.A. Exhibition, alternative space, Brooklyn, USA
1999: Rachel Lowther and Banks Violette, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, USA
1998: Group Show, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, USA
1997: Group Show Visual Arts Gallery, New York, USA
: MX Group Show, Lower East Side Community Center, New York, USA

Literature

2008: Sherwin, Skye, New Trends in Art: Black on Black, Art Review, January 2008, pp.63-69
: Potts, Rachel, Art and music now, Garageland, issue 7, 2008
: Lau, Charlene K., Banks Violette, www.akimbo.biz, 9 October 2008
: Gavin, Francesca, The Art of Fear, Dazed and Confused, October 2008, pp. 154-161
: Critic’s choice: Galleries, Time Out, 11 September 2008, p.61
: Brealey, Louise, Second Coming, Wonderland, October 2008, p.64
: Falconer, Morgan, Banks Violette, Art World, October 2008, pp.76-79
: Behrman, Pryle, Banks Violette, Galleries, October 2008, p.16
: Banks Violette, Pluk, October 2008, p.30
: Westcott, James, Banks Violette, artreview.com, 15th September 2008
: The new destination, Harper’s Bazaar, November 2008, p.197
: Bollen, Christopher, 15 For 09: Banks Violette, Interview Magazine, December 2008, p.160
: Yablonsky, Linda, Scene and Herd: Banks Holiday, artforum.com, 06 July 2007
: Wilson, Michael, Banks Violette, Artforum, September 2007, p.466
: Vogel, Carol, Néo-Factory, Vogue Hommes, Autumn 2007, pp.232-235
: Stern, Steven. Banks Violette, Frieze, September 2007, p.184
: Saltz, Jerry, Theory of the Market, Flash Art, March 2007, pp.90-93
: Pollack, Barbara, Banks Violette, Time Out New York, p.64
: Rosenburg, Karen, Renouncing the Dark Arts, New York, 2 July 2007
: Kunitz, Daniel, The Man in Black, The Village Voice, 18 July 2007, p.50
: Koh, Terence and Violette, Banks, Two of a Kind, Flash Art, May 2007, pp.112- 116
: Fox, Dan, USA Today, Frieze, March 2007, p.183
: Bryant, Eric, Banks Violette, Artnews, October 2007, p.215
2007: Bell, Natalie, Banks Violette, Art Papers, November 2007, p.72
: Morris, Jane, Maureen Paley: Gallery Profile, Art World, December 2007, pp.52- 55
: Stewart, Christabel, Blog: transmissions: Droning on, www.showstudio.com, 3 August 2006
: Sumpter, Helen, Banks Violette, Time Out London, 05 July 2006, p39
: Turner, Luke, Arts: Salt of the Sunn, Stool Pigeon, No. 007, June 2006, p36&37
: Umar, Saheer, Banks, Violette, Tokion, June 2006, p122
: W, M, Kunst fur alle Sinne, Migros Magazin, January 2006
: Wilson, Michael, Subculture Capital, artforum.com, 06 June 2006
: Banks Violette, Studio, August 2006, p 52-53
: Exhibitions: Pick of the Week, The Guardian Guide, 24-30 June 2006, p37
: Books, Wallpaper, April 2006
: Heady Metal, New York Times Magazine, 28 May 2006, p30-35
: Migros Museum, Tema Celeste, March 2006
: News, Rock-A-Rolla, Issue 4, July/August 2006, p5
: Studio: Israeli Art magazine, Issue 166, August – September 2006, p52&53
: Top 100 Artists, Flash Art, October 2006, pp.68-69
: Spiegler, Marc, Market Trends: American Renaissance, The Art Newspaper, International Edition, 14 June 2006
: Banks Violette: Maureen Paley, Kultureflash, 14 June 2006
: Smith, Maggie, (editor), the new art, Rachmaninoff’s, 2006, p 13
: Needham, Alex, Art: Banks Violette, i-D, June - July 2006, p170-171
: Rinderknecht, Martin, Sie verfechten das Verflechten, Züritipp, January 2006
2006: Abbott, Jeremy, blackened is the end winter it will send, i-D, June - July 2006, p128-133
: Searle, Adrian, Schlock and awe, The Guardian, October 5, 2006
: Corris, Michael, America Rising, Art Monthly, November 2006, pp.1-3
: Davies, Lillian, Manifest Destiny, Untitled, No. 38, June 2006, p38-41
: Ellis, Patricia, Catching up with Charles (Saatchi), Flash Art, October 2006, pp.64-67
: Ellis, Patricia, Banks Violette, USA Today, Saatchi Gallery, p.370-377
: Ellis, Patricia, Catching up with Charles (Saatchi), Flash Art, October 2006, p.64.67
: Gronlund, Melissa, David Altmejd: Art Star, ID, May 2006, p62
: Bernays, Ueli, Nostalgische Anklange - ironische Untertone, Neue Züricher Zeitung, 04 February 2006
: Kuni, Verena, While Interwoven Echoes Drip into Hybrid Body - An Exhibition about sound, performance and sculpture..., Kunstbulletin, March 2006
: Kopsa, Maxine, Elegant Bareness: Bank Violette’s Death Metal, Metropolis M, October / November 2006, p101&102
: Needham, Alex, kill to get the money, i-D, September 2006, p188-191
: Nunez-Fernandez, Lupe, Banks Violette at Maureen Paley, Saatchi Gallery.com, 03 June 2006
: Octavia, Zaya, Banks Violette, Trial Balloons, MUSAC, May 2006, p53
: Pouncey, Edwin, Banks Violette/Sunn O))), Wire, August 2006, p.73
: Homes, A.M., The Way They Work, Vanity Fair, December 2006, p.354-357
: Kimmelman, Michael, Youth and the Market: Love at First Sight, The New York Times, 18 March 2005, p 99.E37, 39
: Kley, Elisabeth, Burnt Churches and Salt Pillars, New York Press, 7 June 2005, p 26
: Lafuente, Pablo, Display - Recent installation photographs from London galleries and venues, Rachmaninoff’s , 2005, p18
: O'Reilly, Sally, The Black Album, Time Out London, 12-19 January 2005
: Rimanelli, David, Greater New York 2005, ArtForum, May 2005, p 239-240
: Saltz, Jerry, Lesser New York, Village Voice, 28 March 2005, p 77
: Sonnernborn, Katie Stone, Displaced Histories: The Art of Banks Violette, The Brooklyn Rail, September 2005, p 10
: Smith, Roberta, Spotting an Aesthetic Dispute and Embracing All Sides, The New York Times, 17 December 2005
: T, R, Vitamin D, State of Art, September 2005
: Thornton, Sarah, The Power 100, Art Review, November 2005, p101
: Violette, Banks, Glisten Up, The New York Times Style Magazine, Fall 2005, p 74, 211
: Kennedy, Randy, Master of the Dark Arts, The New York Times, 15 May 2005, p 1, 30
: Smith, Roberta, Banks Violette, The New York Times, 1 July 2005, p 8
: Jones, Kristin M., Bridge Freezes Before Road, Frieze, October, p 217-8
: Barliant, Claire, Banks Violette: Whitney Museum of American Art, Artforum, October 2005, p 273
: Gural, Natasha, Whitney Museum commissions first solo museum exhibition…, newsday.com, 3 June 2005
2005: Art: Banks Violette, Kultureflash, July 2005
: Castro, Jan Garden, Conversations with Ghosts: Banks Violette, Sculpture, December 2005, p 18-9
: Cohen, Michael, Whitney Museum of American Art - Banks Violette, Flash Art, October 2005, p 76
: Cohen, Michael J., Banks Violette: Cryptologist, Spike, Issue 5, 2005, p cover, 36-45
: Colman, David, A Southern Gothic Memento Mori, The New York Times, 7 August 2005, p 8
: Momin, Shamin M., Banks Violette, Whitney Museum of Modern Art
: Cotter, Holland, Walter Redinger, Banks Violette, The New York Times, 2005, E36
: Cotter, Holland, Fanciful to Figurative to Wryly Inscrutable, The New York Times, 2005, p E29, 31
: Ekroth, Power, Blankness Is Not a Void, artforum.com, 7 December
: Jones, Jonathan, The Black Album, The Guardian, 10 January 2005
: Dexter, Emma, Vitamin D – New Perspectives in Drawing, Phaidon, 2005
: Davis, Ben, Ultra Violette, artnet.com, 4 August 2005
: Egan, Maura, School of Goul, The New York Times Men’s Style Magazine, Fall 2005, p 76
: Placek, Matthu, Death becomes him, Art Review, 2004
: Violette, Banks, Top Ten, Artforum, January 2004, p 48
: Violette, Banks, Whitney Bound, V Magazine, Spring 2004
: Slimane, Hedi, Interview with Banks Violette, Doingbird, Issue 8, 2004, p 80-83
: Slimane, Hedi, Ritual, Dazed & Confused, August 2004, p 91, 96
: Saltz, Jerry, Modern Gothic, Village Voice, 4-10 February 2004, p 86
: Rothkopf, Scott, Many Happy Returns: Subject Matters, Artforum, May 2004, p 176-177, 233
: Rosenberg, Karen, Biennial Favorites, New York, 1 March 2004, p37-41
: Rawsthorn, Alice, A Gothic Romance, Pop, Issue 9, p 222-229
: Tumlir, Jan, My Pop: Banks Violette, Artforum, October 2004, p 86
: Lee, Chris, Death Becomes Them, Blackbook, Fall 2004, p 190-192
: Johnson, Ken, Art in Review: ‘Scream’, The New York Times, 13 February 2004, p 36
: Heartney, Eleanor, The well-tempered Biennial, Art in America, June-July, p 71-77
: Garrett, Craig, Noctambule, Flash Art, October 2004, p 60
: Dunn, Melissa, Whitney Biennial 2004: A Good-Looking Corpse, Flash Art, May-June 2004, p 63, 80
: DeBeer, Sue, Artists on artists: Banks Violette, Bomb, Summer 2004, p 52-53
: Corread, Stephane, Noctambule Spectral et Decale, Beaux Arts, June 2004, p 35-36
: Caniglia, Julie, American Splendor, Travel + Leisure, March 2004, p60
2004: Bankowsky, Jack, Many Happy Returns: This is Today, Artforum, May 2004, p 160-171, 233
: Kimmelman, Michael, Touching All Bases At The Biennial, The New York Times, 12 March 2004, p E27, 38
: Unicorns are dead, Vice, 2003
: Fiend Club, 2003
: Wysong, Brennen, Fiend Club, Flyer, June 2003
: Schwendener, Martha, Review of ‘Back in Black’, Time Out New York, 31 July 2003, p 53
: Iles, Chrissie, Best of 2003, Artforum, December 2003, p 122-123
: Harris, Jane, Review of ‘An Enquiry…’, Time Out New York, October 2003, p 63
2003: Cohen, Michael, The New Gothic, Flash Art International, July 2003, p 108-110
: Pearson, Jesse, I do this, I do that, The personality artist and heavy metal Dandyism, Parkett, 2003
: MacKenzie, Michael A. Banks Violette: Investigations into Alienation, Visual Arts Journal, Summer 2002, p 10-11
2002: Honigman, Ana Finel. Review, Time Out New York, 25 July 2002, p54
: Johnson, Ken, Art In Review: 'Banks Violette' The New York Times, 2 August 2002, p 33
: Jones, Jonathan, Stop Spreading the News, The Guardian, 28 August 2002
: Levin, Kim. Voice Choice, The Village Voice, 30 July 2002, p 96
: Worth, Alexi. Art Choice, The New Yorker, 19 August 2002, p 38

Banks Violette

(American, born 1973)

Banks Violette

Banks Violette

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Literature

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