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BIOGRAPHY
In 2004, the New York-based artist Reena Spaulings emerged from the daily operation of an art gallery (Reena Spaulings Fine Art, founded by John Kelsey & Emily Sundblad)
on Manhattan's Lower East Side. Often playing on the double-identity of art dealer and artist, Spaulings' work undermines professional divisions of labor and disciplinary
hierarchies, while interrogating accepted notions of individual authorship and agency.
For her first solo show "The One & Only", 2005, Reena Spaulings presented a series of hybrid painting/sculptures in the form of wall-mounted flags.
Using the kind of readymade flagpoles commonly seen on suburban American house fronts and small New York business-fronts,
this gesture could be read as more of an occupation than an installation, claiming a territory in another dealer's Chelsea gallery in order to problematize the protocols
by which dealers "represent" artists and their work.
Reena Spaulings has also produced publications, performances and underground dance music.
Reena Spaulings Fine Art is located on Manhattans Lower East Side. (www.reenaspaulings.com).
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS |
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| | FRAC, France (Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain) |
| | MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS |
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| 2009 | "Reena Spaulings / Marcel Broodthaers", Art|Basel|Miami Beach, Art Positions |
| | "The Belgian Marbles", Sutton Lane, Brussels |
| 2008 | Contemporary Art Museum, Saint Louis, USA |
| | "Courbet your enthusiasm", Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris |
| 2007 | "How To Cook a Wolf", Kunsthalle Zurich |
| 2006 | "Bialystoker", Sutton Lane, London |
| 2005 | "The One & Only", Haswellediger & Co. Gallery, New York, January - March |
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GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
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| 2009 | "Pop Life", Tate Modern, London |
| 2008 | "Painting Now and Forever, Part II", Carol Greene and Matthew Marks, New York |
| | Mehringdamm 72, MD72, Berlin |
| | "L'argent", Le Plateau / Frac Ile-de-France, Paris |
| | "Some Neighbors", Kunstverein Muenchen, Munich |
| | "Records played backwards", The Modern Institute, Glasgow |
| 2007 | "945 + 11", Frac-Collection Aquitaine, Bordeaux |
| | "24 November - 22 December", Sutton Lane, Paris |
| | "For the People of Paris", Sutton Lane, Paris |
| | "Terrible Video", Kunsthalle Zurich |
| | "Someone else with my fingerprints", Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris |
| | "Otra De Vaqueros", Bâtiment d'art contemporain, Geneva |
| | "Make Your Own Life", Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami |
| | "Uncertain States of America", CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw |
| | "Make Your Own Life", Henry Art Gallery, Seattle |
| | "For the People of Paris", Sutton Lane, Paris |
| 2006 | "Make Your Own Life: Artists in and out of Cologne", Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, April |
| | "Beware of a Holy Whore", Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris |
| | "Bring The War Home", Elizabeth Dee Gallery, NY/LA, June 2006 |
| | "Make Your Own Life" (curated by Bennett Simpson), ICA, Philadelphia, April 2006. |
| | "Whitney Biennial 2006: Day For Night"", Whitney Museum, NYC |
| | "Painters Without Paintings & Paintings Without Painters" (curated by Gareth James), Orchard, NYC |
| 2005 | Tbilisi2 (curated by Daniel Baumann), Tbilisi (Georgia) |
| | "The Baltic Triennial 2005 - Black Market Worlds", CAC, Vilnius |
| | "Concrete Castle, Le Confort Moderne", Poitiers, France |
| | "Lesser New York", curated by Fia Backstrom, NYC |
| 2004 | "Publish and Be Damned", Cubitt Gallery, London |
| | "Robert Smithson", Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York |
| | "Curious Crystals", PS1/MoMA, New York |
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SELECTED REVIEWS |
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| 2007 | Bankowsky, Jack, "Ciao, Rensselaerville," Richard Prince, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation, New York, pp. 334-348. |
| | Saltz, Jerry, "Has Money Ruined Art?," New York, October |
| | Leung, Cynthia, "Reena Spaulings," The Outlook, Beijing, Summer |
| | Funcke, Bettina, "Gallery Walks," Texte zur Kunst, June |
| | "About Town," Art Review, June 2007. |
| | Zucker, Seth, "Reena Spaulings," Self-Service, Spring/Summer |
| | Mulvihill, Keith, "Art Attack," jetStyle in-flight magazine, Spring |
| | Funcke, Bettina, "Displaced Struggles," Artforum, March |
| 2006 | Stillman, Nick, "Reena Spaulings: an Art Brand," Flash Art, May |
| | Birnbaum, Daniel, "2006 Whitney Biennial," Artforum, May |
| | Maine, Stephen, "Down East," Art in America, May |
| | Huberman, Anthony, "Reena Spaulings," 02, Paris, Spring |
| | Kohler, Andrea, "Die Kunst der Konfusion," NZZ Online, March 10 |
| | Cotter, Holland, "The Collective Conscious," The New York Times, March 5 |
| | Weiner, Emily, "Blurred Identities," Time Out New York, Feb. 23- March 1 |
| | Smith, Roberta, "Who Needs a White Cube These Days?", The New York Times, Jan. 13 |
| | Griffin, Tim, "Cabaret License," Artforum, January |
| | Russell, Jacob Hale, "The Invisible Artist," The Wall Street Journal, Dec. 31 |
| | Stevens, Mark, "Who Are These People?," New York Magazine, December |
| 2005 | Rimanelli, David, "On the Ground: New York," Artforum, December |
| | "The New Cultural Elite: Best of 2005," New York Magazine, December |
| | Wei, Lilly, "New York, la secousse," Art Press, October |
| | Schambelan, Elizabeth, "Seth Price," Artforum, Summer |
| | Gingeras, Allison, "Scene & Herd in Basel," Artforum.com, Summer |
| | "Reena Spaulings," Grand Street News, March |
| | Cotter, Holland, "Reena Spaulings," The New York Times, Feb 4 |
| | "Reena Spaulings", Artforum.com, January |
| | "Reena Spaulings", Artnet.com, January |
| 2004 | "Best of 2004", Time Out New York, Dec 30 2004 Jan 5 |
| | Cotter, Holland, "Oh, The Year This Could Have Been", The New York Times, Dec 26 |
| | Harris, Jane, "The Very Idea", Time Out New York, Aug 5 12 |
| | James, Gareth, "Hunde Und Diplomate", Texte Zur Kunst, Berlin, Summer |
| | Funcke, Bettina, "Andy Warhols Aufhebungen" Texte Zur Kunst, Berlin, Summer |
| | Griffin, Tim, "Editors Letter," Artforum, May |
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OTHER PROJECTS |
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| | "How To Cook a Wolf" at Kunsthalle Zurich. A year-long curatorial project dealing with the use of fictional and double identities in contemporary art. |
| | "Lee Williams" - ongoing: An artist-persona created by Jutta Koether & Emily Sundblad. |
| | "Grand Openings" - ongoing: A performance project by Ei Arakawa, Jutta Koether and Emily Sundblad. Versions have been presented at Anthology Film Archives, NYC and in Tblisi, Georgia. |
| | "A Night of Country" (2004 …“ present): An ongoing country music performance project in collaboration with playwright Richard Maxwell. |
| | White Light/White Heat (2004): A CD box set remake of the Velvet Underground album, featuring Barbara Sukowa, Rita Ackermann, Seth Price, Emily Sundblad, Gang Gang Dance and others. |
| | "All The King’s Horses" (2004 …“ 2005): A bootleg translation of Michle Bernstein’s 1959 novel Tous les Chevaux du Roi. |
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