Conner Contemporary Art is now CONNERSMITH.
Founded in 1999 by partners Leigh Conner and Jamie Smith, the gallery stands at the forefront of contemporary art in Washington, DC. Our renaming signals an exciting stage of growth and innovation reinforced by our ongoing commitment to a strong curatorial programme of mid-career and emerging contemporary artists.
We look forward to expanding our international projects, advancing our art historical research, and increasing our educational outreach under our new banner, CONNERSMITH.
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SELECT ARTIST EXHIBITIONS. PUBLICATIONS. NEWS:
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ERIK THOR SANDBERG
- Surreal Selves, Baltimore Museum of Art, February 16-June 9, 2013
KOEN VANMECHELEN
- 55th Venice Biennale, Signum Foundation, Palazzo Dona, Venice, Italy. June 1-September 30, 2013
MARIA FRIBERG
- Passagen, Linköping, Sweden August 24 - October 5, 2013
- Inner Journeys, Maison Particliere, Brussels, Belgium. April 18-June 30, 2013
- Elemental at Havremagasinet, Boden Sweden, June 6- September 29, 2013
MARY COBLE
- Deferal, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. August 8-10, 2013.
- re.act.feminism #2 - a performing arts archive, Akademie der Kunste, Berlin Germany, June 21-August 18, 2013
MIA FEUER
- An Unkindness, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. November 2 - February 23, 2014
KENNY HUNTER
- I Goat, Spitalfields, London, UK - permanent installation. April 2013
- Blickachsen 9, International Biennial of Outdoor Sculpture, Bad Homberg, Germany, May 26-October 6, 2013
LISA RUYTER
- Under the Greenwood: Picturing British Trees-Past, St. Barbe Museum, Lymington, Hampshire UK. July 27 – October 5, 2013
LINCOLN SCHATZ
- The Network, 21C Museum, Cincinnati, OH, July 6 - November 16, 2013
LEO VILLAREAL
- Buckyball, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AK through May 2014.
- The Bay Lights, The Bay Bridge, San Francisco, CA. nightly, through 2015. Measuring over a mile and a half long, with 25,000 LED nodes affixed to nearly five miles' worth of vertical suspension cables, Bay Lights is the worlds largest digital light sculpture.
WILMER WILSON IV
- The Forever Aftermath, Artisphere, Arlington, VA. April 3 – June 30, 2013.
- Henry ‘Box’ Brown: FOREVER - artist book and exhibition catalogue available, contact gallery for more information.
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>> SELECT EXHIBITIONS + PUBLICATIONS :
JANET BIGGS
- Randsucher, Skulpturenmuseum Glaskasten Marl, Marl, Germany, September 16 – November 25, 2012.
- Taiwan International Video Art Exhibition, Hong-Gah Museum, Taipei City, Taiwan, October 6 – December 12, 2012.
- Janet Biggs, Musée d'art Contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada, October 4, 2012 – January 2, 2013.
- True North, Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, AK, May 18, - September 9, 2012
- Artic Money Shot, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY, January 12 – February 24, 2013
ZOE CHARLTON
- Pollock-Krasner Foundation 2013 grant recipient.
- The Bearden Project, Studio Museum Harlem, New York, NY, August 16 – October 21, 201.
MARY COBLE
- Mary Coble, Overgaden Institute for Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, DK, June – August 2012.
MIA FEUER
- Corcoran Gallery of Art, Fall 2013. Details forthcoming.
- Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE, opening February 2013.
- RAW: Gallery of Architecture and Design, Winnipeg, Manitoba, May 2013.
ERIK THOR SANDBERG
- Surreal Selves, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, February 20 – July 7, 2013.
LINCOLN SCHATZ
- The Network, permanent acquisition, The National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, premiering December 2012.
> CONNERSMITH. is delighted to represent Lincoln Schatz.
KOEN VANMECHELEN
- dOCUMENTA(13), Cosmopolitan Chicken Project at Worldly House, Karlsaue Park, June 9 – September 16, 2012.
- Manifesta 9, Hotel De Inmigrantes – Cosmopolitan Stranger, Curated by Tomasz Wendland, Open University of Diversity, Hasselt, Belgium, June 2 – August 31, 2012.
LEO VILLAREAL
- Buckyball, Madison Square Park, New York, NY, October 25 – February 28, 2013
- Site-specific installation, Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithica, NY, October 2012 – September 2013
WILMER WILSON IV
- The Airborne Leaflet Campaign (with Chukwuma Agubokwu), Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, August 22 – 26, 2012
- Loop, Museum of Contemporary African Diasporan Arts, Brooklyn, NY, September 6 – October 7, 2012
- Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL. Performance, 2013. Details forthcoming.
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JANET BIGGS
We are pleased to support the following museum exhibitions:
- No Limits: The Video Work of Janet Biggs , Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL, opening October 6, 2011. traveling. catalog with contributions by: Berta Sichel, Andrea Inselmann, Nancy Princenthal, and Todd Smith.
- Videonale #13, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts in Taichung / Taiwan - Fall 2011
Janet Biggs will speak at The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC on Thursday October 27, 2011. Details forthcoming.
Janet Biggs will perform WET EXIT at Smak Mellon, Brooklyn NYC - September 23 + 24, 2011. 8:30pm sharp. Waterfront Amphitheater in the Brooklyn Bridge Park.
MIA FEUER
- Finalist for the annual Trawick prize. September 7, 2011.
MARIA FRIBERG
-Automatic thoughts and spinning wheels, Motala Konsthall, Motala , Sweden
August 26 - Oct. 2, 2011
BRANDON MORSE
- Austrian Cultural Forum, Washington, DC - with: Alan Cicmak (D), Thomas Gänszler (A), Maureen Kägi (CH). September 23 - December 31, 2011.
FEDERICO SOLMI
- Italians Do It Better, 54th Venice Biennale, Sala dei Laneri, Venice, June 2011
curated by Domenico Quaranta.
KOEN VANMECHELEN
- Born in Venice, 54th Venice Biennale, Palazzo Loredan, Venice, June 4 - November 27. curated by Peter Noever.
- Modified Spaces' - Fourth Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art.
September 22 - November 22, 2011
LEO VILLAREAL
- We are pleased to support: Leo Villareal: survey, opening at the San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, traveling to the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV, and the Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA . catalog, 192 pgs. published by Hatje Cantz Verlag.
>>SELECT OFF SITE EXHIBITIONS + REVIEWS + PUBLICATIONS:
JANET BIGGS
- The Artic Trilogy reviewed in the New York Times
- Videonale #13, Kunst Museum Bonn, Germany, April 14 – May 29
MIA FEUER
- Stress Conereviewed in the Washington Post
- Interview in the DCist
- Finalist for the 26th Annual DC Mayor’s Arts Awards, Outstanding Emerging Artist
MARIA FRIBERG
- Consume More, Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Sweden, through April 24
- Blink!, Denver Art Museum, Denver, opened March 10
JEREMY KOST
- Catalog published, It's Always Darkest Before Dawn, with essay by Eric C. Shiner, The Andy Warhol Museum, Powerhouse Books: May 2011.
BRANDON MORSE
- Corridor exhibition reviewed in the Washington Post
- Corridor, Art Museum of the Americas, through June 5
- Share, Belgrade, Serbia, April 7 - 9
PATRICIA PICCININI
- Once Upon a Time…, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia, opened April 15
CORDY RYMAN
- Contain, Maintain, Sustain, Artisphere, Arlington, VA, May 19 - July 17
- New Wallworks, Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD, April 21 - June 11
FEDERICO SOLMI
- Italians Do It Better, 54th Venice Biennale, Sala dei Laneri, Venice, June 2011
curated by Domenico Quaranta.
KOEN VANMECHELEN
- Born in Venice, 54th Venice Biennale, Palazzo Loredan, Venice, June 4 - November 27. curated by Peter Noever.
- Glassstress, 54th Venice Biennale, Palazzo Cavalli Franchetti, Campo Santo Stefano - San Marco, Venice, June 4 - November 27, 2011.
- Cosmopolitan Chicken Project,, Art Labor 2.0, Shanghai, China, March 26 – April 25
- Tower of Babel at Potzdamer Platz, Freies Museum Berlin, Germany, June 2011
- Chemistry – Creating New Worlds, Biennale Kijkguin, the Netherlands, June 6 – 26, 2011
- Triennale Guangzhou, Guangdon Museum of Modern Art, China, September 2011
- Moscow Biennial, Moscow, Russia, September 2011
LEO VILLAREAL
- We are pleased to support: Leo Villareal: survey, opening at the San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, traveling to the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV, and the Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA . catalog, 192 pgs. published by Hatje Cantz Verlag.
- ,Altered States: Jose Alvarez, Yayoi Kusama, Fred Tomaselli and Leo Villareal, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, April 2 – July 17
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JANET BIGGS' exhibition Fade to White was reviewed in the November 2010 issue of Art News.
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Off-Site Exhibitions
JANET BIGGS
- Vantage Point IX: Janet Biggs, The Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC, curated by Carla Hanzel, opens November 5, 2010. catalog, essay by Nancy Princenthal.
- No Limits: The Video Work of Janet Biggs , Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL, Fall 2011. Survey, traveling
KENNY HUNTER
- I, Goat for Spitalfields Sculpture Prize opens at Bishops Square, Spitalfields, London, November 2, 2010
AVISH KHEBREHZADEH
- The Dissolve, SITE Santa Fe Biennial, Santa Fe, New Mexico, curated by David Belasco and Sarah Lewis. through January 2, 2011. catalog
- SPAZIO: The Scene and the Imaginary, MAXXI, Rome, Italy, through January 23, 2011
SUSAN MACWILLIAM
- F-L-A-M-M-A-R-I-O-N, aceart inc, Winnipeg,Canada through November 12, 2010.
BRANDON MORSE
- abstract abstract - the systematized world, NODE10 Festival, Frankfurter Kunstverein, November 15 – 20, 2010
ERIK THOR SANDBERG
- 50 Ways to Keep Your Lover, Galleri S.E., Bergen, Norway, through November 21, 2010
FEDERICO SOLMI
- The Dissolve, SITE Santa Fe Biennial, Santa Fe, New Mexico, curated by David Belasco and Sarah Lewis. through January 2, 2011. catalog
- A Confederacy of Villains, Jerome Zodo Contemporary, Milan, Italy through November 6, 2010.
KOEN VANMECHELEN
- The Cosmopolitan Chicken Project – Domestication, Gallery West, The Netherlands, through November 20, 2010
- Cosmopolitan Chicken – Diversity, European Space for Sculpture, Brussels, Belgium, through December 15, 2010
LEO VILLAREAL
- Leo Villareal: survey, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, curated by JoAnne Northrup, August 21, 2010 - January 9, 2011. traveling - catalog, 192 pgs. published by Hatje Cantz Verlag
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CORDY RYMAN's exhibition at DCKT was reviewed in the October 2010 issue of Art in America.
JANET BIGGS' exhibition Fade to White was reviewed in the October 2010 issue of Artforum.
JOHN KIRCHNER’s installation Infinity was featured in The Washington Post on Tuesday, September 14, 2010.
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>>We are delighted to announce that KATIE MILLER, PHILLIP HINGE and BENJAMIN KELLEY have joined our *gogo emerging artist initiative. To view their work: CLICK HERE .
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KENNY HUNTER is awarded Spitalfields Sculpture Prize.
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The RUBELL FAMILY COLLECTION + Conner Contemporary Art continue to partner for EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO - a series of events featuring digital based work - curated by Brandon Morse in the Capitol Skyline Hotel lounge:
>> EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO (5) << - August 8th: 6 to 8pm; in conjunction with
WPA / Washington Project for the Arts Synchro Swim.
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Off-Site Exhibitions
MARY COBLE:
-Body as Metaphor and Medium in Performance Art, Movement Research Spring Festival 2010, New York, NY, June 2010
MARIA FRIBERG:
- Bilen i våra hjärtan!, Konstmuseet, Skövde, Sweden, through August 29, 2010
JEREMY KOST:
- The Tattoo Show, The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, New York, NY, through September 8, 2010
ERIK THOR SANDBERG:
-Humanimal, Portsmouth Museum of Art, Portsmouth, NH, July 21 – October 3, 2010
LEO VILLAREAL:
-Synesthesia, Albuquerque Museum of Art, August 2010
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Gallery partners Leigh Conner and Jamie Smith, Ph.D are profiled in The Washington Post on Friday, February 12, 2010. READ IT HERE
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Off-Site Exhibitions
ZOË CHARLTON:
- Bunny Redux: Contemporary Artists Rethink the Iconic Playboy Bunny The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, opening March 2010.
MARY COBLE:
- Lost and Found: Queerying the Archive , Bildmuseet Umea, University of Sweden, Umea, Sweden, Curated by Jane Rowley and Louise Wolthers, opening February 2010.
MARIA FRIBERG:
- Videofestival, Zaragoza, Spain, March 19-27, 2010
- @ the Swedish Institute, Paris, France. curated by Brent Klinkum. through April 18, 2010.
KENNY HUNTER:
- The Robert Burns Birthplace Museum, Ayrshire, Scotland - public sculpture commission.
JEREMY KOST:
- Ladies Who Lunch National Arts Club, New York, NY, March 4 - 26, 2010
- Bunny Redux: Contemporary Artists Rethink the Iconic Playboy Bunny The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA. opening March 2010
- solo exhibition, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, Fall 2010
AVISH KHEHBREHZADEH:
- SITE Santa Fe Biennial, Santa Fe, New Mexico. curators: David Belasco and Sarah Lewis.
June 18, 2010 - January 2, 2011.
GABRIEL de la MORA:
- Voces y Visiones , El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY. curator: Elvis Fuentes. through February 2010.
- The Visceral Body, Vancouver Art Gallery, February 6 - May 16, 2010.
- Superficies del Deseo , Museo Universitario de Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, through May 2010.
- Afecto diverso: géneros en flujo, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, Group Show, curator: Karen Cordero, through April 2010
- Efecto Drácula Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, curator: Victor Zamudio Taylor, through April 2010
PATRICIA PICCININI:
- The Visceral Body, group show, Vancouver Art Gallery, February 6 - May 16, 2010
KOEN VANMECHELEN
- Meditations, Poland Biennial, November 2010
LEO VILLAREAL:
- Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL Sky (Tampa), site specific, permanent installation, on view beginning February 4, 2010.
- San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California. Leo Villareal: survey August 21, 2010 - January 9, 2011. curator: JoAnne Northrup. traveling.
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We are delighted to announce the representation of JANET BIGGS, an artist primarily known for her work in video, photography and performance. Biggs will premier Nobody Rides for Free with us May 15th. The new body of work is based on her recent Arctic exploration.
Upcoming solo exhibitions include the Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC in December 2010 and the Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL in July 2011.
To view work: CLICK HERE
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JEREMY KOST's exhibition Anyone Other Than Me and TAYLOR BALDWIN's exhibition Living Fossil were reviewed in The Washington Post on Friday, January 29, 2010.
Find more press for Anyone Other Than Me below:
Interview Magazine, A Weekend With Jeremy Kost, January 16, 2010.
Rereveal, Anyone Other Than Me, January 2010.
Papermag, Ladyfag Goes to Washington, January 22, 2010.
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NATIONAL GALLERY OF ART, Washington, DC acquires LEO VILLAREAL'S Multiverse:
Conner Contemporary Art is pleased to announce that the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC has acquired for the permanent collection Leo Villareal's installation Multiverse.
Multiverse is Villareal's most complex project to date. Measuring 200 feet long, the installation has 41,000 light emitting diodes individually sequenced by through his custom computer programs.
We are proud to have helped facilitate this project.
For more information on the artist: CLICK HERE
For further information on the project: CLICK HERE
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KOEN VANMECHELEN's exhibition The Cosmopolitan Chicken Project (DC) was featured in The Washington Post on Saturday, November 7, 2009.
JEREMY KOST was featured in Vanity Fair's and The New York Times' reviews of Dress Codes, this year's ICP Triennial.
The Moscow Biennial featuring KOEN VANMECHELEN was reviewed in The New York TImes on September 24, 2009.
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CONNER CONTEMPORARY ART CONGRATULATES KOEN VANMECHELEN AND JEREMY KOST:
KOEN VANMECHELEN will participate in the 3rd Moscow Biennial September 23-October 25, 2009 at the Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia.
Concurrently, the artist is exhibiting at the 53rd Venice Biennale (3 official collateral exhibitions) through November 22, Venezia, Italy - The Unicorn at San Teodoro (Rialto), The Ring on the isle Isola della Certosa and in a group exhibition Glass Stress at Palazzo Franchetti. Vanmechelen's solo exhibition Orloff is on view through October 18th at the Deweer Gallery, Otegem, Belgium.
Koen Vanmechelen will open a solo exhibition at Conner Contemporary Art, November 7, 2009.
to view work: CLICK HERE
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JEREMY KOST will participate in Dress Codes: ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, International Center for Photography, New York, NY. October 2, 2009–January 17, 2010.
In tandem, the ICP will publish Jeremy Kost Love, Hate, Nature available October 2nd. Each artist book has a print signed by the artist.
to preview work: CLICK HERE
Jeremy Kost will open a solo exhibition with Conner Contemporary in January 2010.
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The Gallery is very pleased to formalize our working relationship with the renowned Belgian conceptual artist, KOEN VANMECHELEN. The artist's ongoing global enterprise, The Cosmopolitan Chicken Project is inspired by his premise that each country/region selectively cultivated a breed of chicken expressing its cultural identity (e.g., the U.S. Jersey Giant is the largest). Systematically crossing all breeds, Vanmechelen strives to create a world-hybrid chicken, reinvigorating the species with genetic integrity which domestication diminished. The artist's work poses ethical questions concerning genetic engineering, globalization and individuality.
Vanmechelen has a solo exhibition collateral to the 53rd Venice Biennale: The Unicorn , Seyola Grande di San Teodoro (Rialto), Venezia, Italy through November 22, 2009. The artist will also participate in the 3rd Moscow Biennale - Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia, September 25-October 25, 2009.
to view work: CLICK HERE
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The RUBELL FAMILY COLLECTION + Conner Contemporary Art
announce the first in a series of art events:
> Saturday, June 20th from 6-9pm (+)
EXPERIMENTAL VIDEO / Brandon Morse, curator
exhibiting:
Alan Callander
Mary Coble
Kathryn Cornelius
Maria Friberg
Jefferson Pinder ... list in formation.
@ Capitol Skyline Hotel * : pool-side / video-side / bar-side
10 "eye" Street, SW - Washington, DC 20024 | (202) 488-7500
http://www.capitolskyline.com/
For further information:
202-588-8750 / info@connercontemporary.com
http://www.connercontemporary.com
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KENNY HUNTER's exhibition Like Water in Water was reviewed in The Washington Post on Friday, June 19, 2009.
NATHANIEL ROGER's exhibition The Last Viking was reviewed in The Washington City Paper June 19-26, 2009 issue.
ERIK SANDBERG'S solo exhibition, Cyclical Nature, was reviewed in the Summer 2009 issue of ArtForum.
LEO VILLAREAL was profiled in ArtNews magazine, the June 2009 issue.
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We are delighted to announce that gallery artist LEO VILLAREAL has been commissioned by The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC to create a monumental digital light sculpture for the concourse walkway between the East and West Buildings on the National Mall. Installation of the work will begin September 8th with anticipated completion in early Fall 2008. This is the artist's most ambitious project to date. The 200-foot piece features over 40,000 LEDs (light emitting diodes) which are controlled by new custom software. At 41, Villareal is the youngest artist to be commissioned for a site-specific work by the NGA.
Leo Villareal @ NGA: click here
This Sunday, September 7th at 2pm, the National Gallery of Art will host Leo Villareal in a public discussion with curator Molly Donovan as part of their Conversations with Artist series. The event takes place at the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, East Building.
On September 27th, Villareal will open his fourth solo exhibition with Conner Contemporary Art, where he will present Diamond Matrix and other new sculptures inspired by his digital sequencing for the NGA commission. The exhibition will be on view through November 9, 2008.
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Off-Site Exhibitions
ZOË CHARLTON:
- Cinema Remixed and Reloaded: Black Women Artsist and the Moving Image since 1970, Contemporary Arts Museum of Houston, April 25 – July 12, 2009.
- Family (new drawings and video)- Conner Contemporary Art, November 14-December 28, 200
MARY COBLE:
- Perspective, Anaid Art Gallery, Bucharest, Romania, through December 19, 2008.
- Art and Politics (group show), Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA- through September 27, 2008. Rex Weil, curator.
- Uncommon Beauty (group show), The Ellipse Arts Center, Arlington, VA - October 3 to December 13, 2008. Sarah Tanguy, curator.
- Burning Down the House: Building a Feminist Art Collection, Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art. October 31st through February 8, 2009
- Blood Script portfolio published summer 2008.
- Brooklyn Museum of Art - work acquired
MARIA FRIBERG:
- Luleå Konsthall , solo exhibition through September 21, 2008
- Kristinehamns Konstmuseum- solo exhibition through October 26, 2008
- Brooklyn Museum of Art - work acquired
JULEE HOLCOMBE:
- Babylon – The British Museum, London, England – November 2008-March 2009.
KENNY HUNTER:
- Busan Biennial, Busan Korea - through November 15, 2008
AVISH KHEBREHZADEH:
- Emotional Drawing – National Musuem of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan – through October 2008 traveling to National Museum of Art, Kyoto, Japan. Curated by Kenjiro Hosaka.
JOHN KIRCHNER
- American Gothic (group show) - Hunterdon Museum in Clinton, New Jersey - through September 7.
JOE OVELMAN:
- Straight to Hell - In Cock We Trust, Exile Gallery, Berlin, Germany, October 19-November 16, 2008. Billy Miller, curator.
LEO VILLAREAL:
- That Was Then…This is Now (group show) – PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY – through September 24, 2008
- Museum of Modern Art – New York, NY – work acquired
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MARY COBLE: is included in Currents: Recent Acquisitions – Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC through March 2008. on view: Note to Self. She will also have a solo exhibition Aversion at Galerie Nina Menocal, Mexico City, DF – January/February 2008. She will perform Marker (Madrid) at ARCO International Art Fair, Madrid, Spain – February 2008
DEAN KESSMANN will be included in Ad | Agency at the Photographic Resource Center at Boston University from November 9, 2007 - January 27, 2008.
LEO VILLAREAL will exhibit a site specific installation at the Brooklyn Academy of Music Next Wave Festival October 2 - December 16, 2007.
JOHN KIRCHNER'S work will be on view in a solo exhibition Out of the Ordinary at the Anchorage Museum of Art in Anchorage, Alaska from June 17, 2007- May 11, 2008.
MARIA FRIBERG will be included in FACADES curated by Judith Hoos Fox and Ginger Gregg Duggan at the Krannert Art Museum, from October 19 - December 30, 2007. She will have a solo exhibition at Galerie Voss in Düsseldorf, Germany in October 2007 and two solo shows at the Kulturhuset, and Galleri Charlotte Lund, in Stockholm Sweden in 2008.
AVISH KREHBREHZADEH will have a solo show at MACRO, the Museum of the Contemporary Art, Rome, Italy in 2008. Her work will be included in Geopolitics of the Animation at the Centro Andaluz de Art Contemporanea in Seville, Spain from September 27 - December 9, 2007 and Emotional Drawing, curated by Kenjiro Hosaka at the National Museum of Modern Art in Tokyo, Japan from August 28, 2008 – October 12, 2008. This show will also travel to the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto, Japan from November 11, 2008 – December 21, 2008. Her work will also be included in Drawing for Projection: New Animated Forms, curated by Daniel Belasco and Sarah Lewis at SITE Santa FE in March 2009
JULEE HOLCOMBE will be included in the exhibition Babylon at The British Museum in London from November 13, 2008 – March 15, 2009.
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GABRIEL DE LA MORA:
We joyfully announce the representation of GABRIEL DE LA MORA ,an accomplished multi-discipline artist who lives and works in Mexico City. Whether creating in paint, video, photography, installation, or human hair, de la Mora invests his art with soulful vision and powerful concepts. He brings an insightful perspective to the Gallery which will add valued dimension to our program. Gabriel de la Mora's works can be seen at major international art institutions including: Modern Art Museum, the Archbishopric Palace Museum, and the SIVAM collection in Mexico City; the FEMSA Collection in Monterrey; the University Museum and the Cultural Secretariat in Colima; The Art Museum of the Americas in Washington D.C.; El Museo del Barrio in New York; and in Spain, the Galician Contemporary Art Center and the Jareguia Museum.
Gabriel de la Mora will debut recent video with us November 14 - December 28, 2008.
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Conner Contemporary Art's move to a new building on Florida Ave, NE is featured in the following publications: The Washington Post, The Express, The Washington Business Journal, The DCist, Art Daily, NY Arts Magazine, and La Forza di Arte.
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Leigh Conner and Jamie Smith are very pleased to announce the purchase of 1358-1360 Florida Avenue, NE Washington, DC as the new location for Conner Contemporary Art and *gogo emerging art projects For further information click here
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Gallery artist MARY COBLE will discuss her work on Friday February 29th at 12:30 pm in the Ring Auditorium at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
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Conner Contemporary Art is pleased to announce the representation of Polaroid photographer/videographer JEREMY KOST. Kost's incredible energy and wonderfully bizarre insight into the notion of celebrity and nightlife will contribute significantly to our program. Kost's work was recently seen at the inaugural Asian Art Fair, NY (November 2007) in a special section curated by Eric Shiner and Lilly Wei. The artist's work will also be seen at our booth at Pulse Miami and in a group exhibition at Freight and Volume, New York, NY opening late November 2007. For further information click JEREMY KOST.
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ZOË CHARLTON will have a solo show Saint of the Suburb: recent work by Zoë Charlton, at the University of North Texas Art Gallery from October 15 – November 7, 2007. She will be in a 2-person show, Woman of/on/not Color at Clarion University from January 21, 2008 -Feb 16, 2008. Her work will also be included in Cinema Remixed and Reloaded: Black Women Artists and the Moving Image Since 1970 at Spellman College Museum of Fine Art in Atlanta, GA from January 24 – May 24, 2008 and in Don't mess with Texas at Nathan Larramendy Gallery in Ojai, CA from October 27th – November 30th, 2007.
JOE OVELMAN will be included in again: serial practices in contemporary art at the Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art in Hartford, CT. The show is drawn from a gift of 125 photographs to the Atheneum from collector Mickey Cartin, together with works from The Cartin Collection. The show runs from September 22, 2007 through December 30, 2007.
MATTHEW SUTTONwill have a solo show at Locust Projects in Miami, FL from May 10 – June 28, 2008.
MARY COBLE recently gave a lecture at the Brooklyn Museum as part of the Global Feminisms exhibition. Her talk can be viewed online at Brooklyn Museum.org.
Conner Contemporary Art will participate in Art DC April 27-30, 2007 at the Washington Convention Center, booth 215.
Conner Contemporary Art will participate in MACO Mexico | International Art Fair
April 25-29, 2007 in Mexico City, Mexico.
ERIK SANDBERG's paintings are currently on view in Each for Oneself and God Against All at Galeria OMR in Mexico City, MX. The show runs from January 27 - March 3, 2007
Conner Contemporary Art will participate in PULSE New York, February 22-25, 2007. Booth 311.
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Gallery artist Zoe Charlton will discuss her work with Ghada Amer Egypt born, New York based Smithsonian artist fellow on Friday November 2nd at 12:30 pm in the Ring Auditorium at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.
The gallery is also pleased to announce Discuss VIII with Mary Coble in conversation with Andy Grundberg, Chair of Photography and Photojournalism, Corcoran College of Art + Design, Washington, DC. Discuss conversations are available for mp3 download or via subscription on the gallery website @: http://www.connercontemporary.com/audio/ or on itunes @: http://www.itunes.com.
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Gallery artist Zoe Charlton and DC-based iona rozeal brown discuss their work @ the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculplture Garden, Ring Auditorium - Friday February 2nd @12:30 PM
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*gogo art projects is featured in a piece by Jessica Gould for The Washington City Paper.
ACADEMY 2007 is reviewed in The DCist and The Washington City Paper.
MATTHEW SUTTON'S (*gogo art projects) The Kudzu Project is reviewed in the Sunday Arts section of The Washington Post on March 18, 2007 and in the July 2007 issue of Landscape Architecture.
Art DC is reviewed by Sydney Lawrence on Artnet.
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Conner Contemporary Art is pleased to announce the addition of Kristi Mathews to gallery staff. Ms. Mathews comes to us from the Rubell Family Collection in Miami, FL where she worked in the Curatorial and Publishing Departments.
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MARIA FRIBERG'S exhibition Embedded was reviewed in The Washington Post on Saturday February 3, 2007.
LEO VILLAREAL'S exhibition Origin is reviewed in Artforum magazine.
February 2007.
ERIK SANDBERG'S solo exhibition, Contrary, is reviewed on ArtForum.com.
MCCALLUM & TARRY'S recent exhibition Cut is reviewed in the October 2006 edition of ArtForum magazine.
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The gallery is pleased to announce Discuss VI: Saturday, January 13th from 3 to 4pm, with gallery artists Maria Friberg and Julee Holcombe in conversation on women in contemporary photography. Discuss conversations are available for mp3 download or via subscription on the gallery website @: http://www.connercontemporary.com/audio/ or on itunes @: http://www.itunes.com.
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Conner Contemporary Art will participate in PULSE Miami, December 7-10, 2006, booth 311. The gallery will feature new work by: Leo Villareal, Maria Friberg and Erik Sandberg with recent works by Mary Coble, Zoe Charlton, Julee Holcombe and Patricia Piccinini. Clcik here to see the Upcoming Exhibition - SCOPE MIAMI 2006
Dean Kessmann will open an exhibition of recent works, Plastic on Paper at The Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA October 27, 2006. The exhibition runs through December 17, 2006.
Leo Villareal's work may be seen in Art in America Arario Gallery, Seoul, Korea, October 17 – November 19, 2006.
Mary Coble will exhibit in Global Feminisms at The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn, NY, March 23 - July 1, 2007. The exhibition is curated by Maura Reilly and Linda Nochlin. As a part of Global Feminisms, Coble will perform a new work at the Brooklyn Museum in Spring 2007
Maria Friberg will exhibit in Global Feminisms at The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, Brooklyn, NY March 23 - July 1, 2007. The exhibition is curated by Maura Reilly and Linda Nochlin
Brandon Morse's work may be seen in Redefined: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Collection at The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC through January 2007.
Kenny Hunter's new work, Natural Selection, is on view at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Yorkshire, England through November 5, 2006.
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Conner Contemporary Art is pleased to announce the addition of Zoё Charlton to its roster of artists. Ms.Charlton's first solo exhibition with the gallery is scheduled for Fall 2007.
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Conner Contemporary Art is pleased to announce the addition of Patricia Piccinini to its roster of artists. Ms.Piccinni's first exhibition is slated for September 2007.