Paul Pfeiffer

Selected Biography

Born in Honolulu, Hawaii in 1966
Lives and works in New York City
Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program 1997-98
MFA, Hunter College, New York City 1994
BFA, San Francisco Art Institute 1987

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2009

The Saints

Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin

Perspektive Machine

BAIBAKOV art projects, Moscow

2008

Monologue

MUSAC, León, Spain

Carlier Gebauer, Berlin, Germany

The Saints

Thyssen Bornemisza Art Contemporary at Kunstzone Karlsplatz Technische Universitat, Vienna, Austria

Thomas Dane Gallery, London

Reconstitutions, Reenactmanets

DHC/ Art Montreal

2007

The Saints

An Artangel project.
The Junction, Wembley

Live from Neverland

The Project, New York, NY

2005

Pirate Jenny

Carlier Gebauer, Berlin, Germany

Morning After the Deluge

Museum of Art at Middlebury College

2004

K21, Kunstsammlung, Dusseldorf, Germany

Thomas Dane Gallery, London

Melina Mercuri Centre, Athens, Greece

Pirate Jenny

The Project, New York, NY
Gagosian, New York, NY.
Thomas Dane, London
Melina Mercuri Centre, Athens, Greece
K21, Kunstsammlung, Dusseldorf, Germany

Melina Mercuri Centre, Athens, Greece

2003

Morning After the Deluge

Carlier 1 Gebauer, Berlin, Germany
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL
List Visual Art Centre
MIT, Cambridge, MA, catalogue (travelling)
Gio Marconi, Milan, Italy

Museum of Contemporary Art, Honolulu, Hawaii

2001

Sex Machine,

The Project, Los Angeles, CA

Orpheus Descending,

Public Art Fund, World Trade & Financial Centers
Kunsthaus Glarus, Glarus, Switzerland
Barbican Centre, London, UK
UCLA Hammer, Los Angeles, California
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

2000

Duke University Museum of Art, Raleigh-Durham North Carolina (with Romuald Hazoumé)

The Project, New York, NY.

Kunst-Werke, Berlin, Germany

1998

The Pure Products Go Crazy,

The Project, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2010

Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines

Bortolami at The Webster, Miami Beach

Anonymous Sculptures

Kunstmuseen Krefeld / Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld

Hard Targets

Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus

2009

A Certain State Of The World?

Garage Center for Comtemporary Culture

The Kaleidoscopic Eye: Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary Collection

Mori Art Museum Tokyo

2008

Empire

Frye Art Museum, Seattle

Revolutions - Forms That Turn

Biennale of Sydney

Currents: Recent Aquisitions

Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC

Reconstitutions, Reenactments

DHC/Art Montreal

Ghost in the Machine

Kunsterness Hus, Oslo, Norway

Depletion: Works from the Doron Sebbag Art Collection

Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel

Shadows, Dissappearances, and Illusions

Miami Art Museum, Miami

2007

Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf, Germany

For the Love of the Game

Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford

The Shapes of Space

Guggenheim Museum, New York

Art in America: Now

Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art and the Shanghai Museum, Shanghai

Automatic Update

Museum of Modern Art, New York

2006

Home Productions

Singapore Art Museum, Singapore, Republic of Singapore

Strange Powers

Creative Time, New York

The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture: 60 Years

Colby College, Waterville

Choosing My Religion

Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun, Switzerland

The Gold Standard

P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York

Work Zones: Three Decades of Contemporary Art from SFAI

San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco

Fantastic Frameworks

Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, British Columbia, Canada

Visions du Déluge

Le Musee cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne Palais de Rumine, Lausanne

You Never Walk Alone: Football and Fan Culture

O.K. Center for Contemporary Art Linz, Austria

Filipiniana

Centro Cultural Conde Duque, Madrid, Spain

Meditations in an Emergency

Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit

House: Views of the Whitney’s Collection at 75

The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

2005

Swarm

The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia

Blur of the Otherworldy: Contemporary Art, Technology and the Paranormal

Center for Art and Visual Culture, UMBC, Baltimore

Log Cabin

Artist Space, New York, NY

Getting Emotional

Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

Logical Conclusion

Pace Wildenstein, New York

Superstars

Kunstalle Wien, Vienna

Faces in the Crowd: Picturing Modern Life from Manet to Today

Castello de Rivoli, Turin, Italy.
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI

marking time: moving images

Miami Art Museum, Miami

Rundlederwelten

Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany

Girls on Film

Zwirner & Wirth, New York

2004/5

Faces in the Crowd: Picturing Modern Life from Manet to Today

Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK

2004

'Cut: Film as Found Object in Contemporary Video'

Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin

Pirate Jenny

The Project, New York, NY

Phantasmagoria

Butler Museum of American Arts Beecher Center of Art and Technology, Youngstown

Eclipse: Towards the edge of the visible

White Cube, London

Size Matters

Independent Curators International, New York

10 Commandments

Hygiene Museum, Dresden (June 2004 – January 2005)
K21 Kunstsammlung im Ständehaus (June 12th – September 12)

CUT: Film as Found Object in Contemporary Video

North Miami Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami

Modern Means: Continuity and Change in Art, 1880 to the Present

Mori Art Museum (April 27-August 1), Tokyo, Japan

Contested Fields: Identity in Sports and Spectacle

Des Moines Art Center, Indianapolis, USA

2003

Black Belt

The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York

Nuit Blanche Museum of Contemporary Art of the City of Paris, France

Losing It

Fenton Gallery, Cork, Ireland

Social Strategies: Redefining Social Realism

University of California, Los Angeles

Graz 2003 (As Heavy as the Heavens)

Graz, Austria

The Squared Circle: Boxing in Contemporary Art

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

The Moderns

Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Italy

Postproduction from Collage to Sampling

Dundee Contemporary Arts, Scotland, Ireland

Interplay

Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, Santurce

100 Artists See God

Independent Curators International (touring USA)

Uneasy Space

SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe

Honolulu to New York

The Contemporary Museum at First Hawaiian Center Honolulu, HI; Cairo Biennial 2003, The Palace of Fine Art, Cairo, Egypt

A Simple Plan

James Cohan Gallery, New York

100 Artists See God

Independent Curators International (touring USA)

Fast Forward – Media Art

Sammlung Goetz ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany

American Dream

Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York

2002

NYC Sex

Museum of Sex, New York, NY

K21

Dusseldorf, Germany

Model World

The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield

Pictures

Greene Naftali, New York

The Beach

The Gallery at Windsor, Vero Beach, Florida

One Hand Clapping

Smackmelon, Brooklyn

Tempo

Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.
Busan Biennale, Busan, Korea

Special Effects (2002 Media Art)

Daejeon Municipal Museum of Art, Korea

Out of Place

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

Busan Biennale

Busan, Korea

Interplay

The Moore Building, Miami

Miami Currents: Linking Collection & Community

Miami Art Museum, Miami

2001

Casino 2001

SMAK Ghent

MIT List Visual Arts Center, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts

False Start

Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York

Loop

Kunsthalle der Hypo-kultursiftung, Munich & Germany & touring to PS1, NY

Metropolis 2002

Istanbul, Turkey

Cheekwood, Nashville, Tennessee

Zero Gravity

Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy

Hypermental

Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany

The Project

Gallery, Torino, Italy; Gio Marconi Gallery, Milan, Italy; Sala Uno, Rome, Italy

Bitstreams,

The Whitney Museum, New York, NY

Race in Digital Space

MIT List Visual Art Center, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts

The Americans,

Barbican Arts Centre, London, UK

Subject Plural

Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston

49th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

2000

Refresh

Iris & B. Gerald Cantor for Visual Arts, Stanford University, Stanford, CA

Hypermental

Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland. (travelling)

Scanner

Oliver Art Center, California College of Art & Culture, Oakland, California

Passion

Ascan Crone, Hamburg, Germany

Greater New York

P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Lond Island City

Extraordinary Realities

Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio

City Visions

media_cityseoul 2000, Seoul, Korea

The Whitney Biennial

The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1999

Tete de Turkois

The Project, New York

A Place Called Lovely

Greene Naftali, New York

Hocus Focus: New Video

Rare Gallery, New York

Surface Tension

Art in General, New York

1998

At Home and Abroad: 21 Contemporary Filipino Artists

Asian Art Museum, San Francisco

warming

The Project, New York, NY

1997

Fermented

Parsons School of Design, New York

Travel Size

City College, New York

Memories of Over-development: Philippine Diaspora in Contemporary Art

Plug In Gallery, Winnipeg

1996

Memories of Overdevelopment: Philippine Diaspora in Contemporary Art

UC Irvine Art Gallery, CA

Neighbors

Gallery, Honolulu, HI

1995

Pervert

University of California Irvine Art Gallery, California

In a Different Light

University of California Berkeley Museum, Berkeley, California (catalogue)

14 Artist: Sugod sa Katapusan

End House Art Center, Dumaguete City, Philippines

1994

Reframing a Heritage

University of Hawaii, Manoa

Stonewalls

Gallery, New York

Beyond Borders

College, San Bruno, California

Extreme Unction Market Gallery, London, England

Picturing Asia America: Communities, Cultures, Difference

Houston Center for Photography, Houston

1993

The Curio Shop

collaborative installation by Godzilla: Asian American Artists

DisMantling Invisibility

A Space, Toronto, Canada

Kayumanggi Presence

Academy of Art, Honolulu

Network Artists Space

New York (catalogue)

Collections

2006

IAMNOWHERE

Center for Curatorial Studies Museum at Bard

Broad Contemporary Art Museum, Santa Monica

Nasher Museum of Art, Durham

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago - MCA Chicago, Chicago

Vanhaerents Art Collection

Brussels

Julia Stoschek Collection

Dusseldorf

Ellipse Foundation, Alcoitão, Portugal

Museo d'arte contemporanea Castello di Rivoli, Turin

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington

Awards

2003

Artpace Residency

San Antonio, Texas

2001/2

MIT List Visual Arts Center Residency

2000

Travel Grant

Asian Cultural Council

The Bucksbaum Award

The Whitney Museum, New York

1999-2000

The Public Art Fund

1999

World Trade Center Residency

Lower Manhattan Cultural Council