THOMAS DANE GALLERY

Walead Beshty

Selected Biography

Born in London, United Kingdom, 1976
BA, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, 1999
MFA, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT, 2002

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2009

Passages

LAXART, Los Angeles

Pulleys, Cogwheels, Mirrors, and Windows

University of Michigan Museum of Art

Popular Mechanics

Wallspace, New York

Production Stills

Thomas Dane Gallery, London

Legibility on Color Backgrounds

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington

2008

Industrial Pictures

Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels

Science Concréte

China Art Objects Galleries/Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles

2007

The Grey Cloth

Das Institut im Glaspavillon/Galerie Meerrettich, Berlin

2006

Hammer Project: Walead Beshty, EMBASSY! (a dismal science waiting room)

Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles

The Maker and the Model

Wallspace, New York

2005

Parks, Hotels & Palaces

China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles

2004

The Body-Body Problem

Wallspace, New York

The Phenomenology of Shopping and Dead Malls

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

Selected Group Exhibitions

2009

FIVE

Baibakov Art Projects, Moscow

Plug n Play

Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles

To Be Determined

Andrew Kreps, New York

A Twilight Art

Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York

The Photographic Object: between sculpture and photography

The Photographer’s Gallery, London

Altermodern: The Tate Triennial

Tate Britain, London

New Photography

Museum of Modern Art, New York

The Space of the Work and the Place of the Object

Sculpture Center, Long Island City

Walead Beshty, Kelly Walker, Christopher Williams

China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles

Still Revolution: Suspended in Time

Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto

Elements of Photography

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

Prune – Abstracting Reality

Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam

Phot(o)bjects

Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver

2008

Past-Forward

Project Space 176, The Zabludowicz Collection, London

Word Event (After George Brecht)

Kunsthalle Basel, Basel

Whitney Biennial

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Please Stay out We’re Open

Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles

Facebook: Images of People in Photographs from the Collection

Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie

California Biennial

Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA/Estacion, Tijuana

Objects of Value

Miami Art Museum, Miami

Now You See It

Aspen Art Museum, Aspen

When a clock is seen from the side it no longer tells the time

Johann Koenig, Berlin

Le Retour

Nice & Fit, Berlin

The Light of the Virgo

China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles

Los Angeles Confidential

Centre d’ Art Contemporain, San Léger

The World Is All That Is The Case

Hudson Franklin, New York

Recent Acquisitions

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago

The Unfair

1:1 Projects, Rome

Signs of the Time

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

The Sickness of the Hunt

Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice

Open Sky

Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz

No Room

Christopher Grimes Gallery, Los Angeles

2007

Imaging & Imagining California

Orange County Museum of Art, Newport

Anything You Want: Walead Beshty, Anne Collier, Annette Kelm

Pump House Gallery, London

From a Distance

Wallspace, New York

Spectral Evidence

The Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn

I am Eyebeam

Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois at Chicago

Hammer Contemporary Collection Part I

Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles

Meanwhile in Baghdad

Renaissance Society, Chicago

Out of Body

Level B Gallery, Deutsche Bank, New York

The Backroom

La Celda Contemporanea, Mexico City

Between Two Deaths

ZKM, Karlsruhe

Radiant City

Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles

Secretariat

Aftermodern, San Francisco

The Trans-Aestheticization of Daily Life

Sweeney Gallery, Riverside

Recent Acquisitions

Whitney Museum of Art, New York

Concrete Works

Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York

88:88

The Project, New York

2006

Dice Thrown (will never annul chance)

Bellwether, New York

Walead Beshty, Roe Etheridge, Philip Lorca-diCorcia, Stephen Shore, Christopher Williams

Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels

Bringing the War Home

Elizabeth Dee Gallery (New York)/ QED (Los Angeles)

The California Biennial

Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach

Walead Beshty, David Korty, Jon Pylypchuk, Pae White

China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles

Looking Back: The White Columns Annual

White Columns, New York

Studio City

Tal Esther Gallery, London

Chaos or Control

UCLA School of Architecture Gallery, Los Angeles

2005

The February Show

Los Angeles

Walead Beshty, Sean Landers, Erlea Maneros, JP Munroe, and Andy Ouchi

China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles

Sugartown

Participant Inc., New York

Gallery Exchange

(with China Art Objects Galleries), Bowie Van Valen, Amsterdam

The Back Room

Los Angeles

Manufactured Self

Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago

Bebe le Strange

D’Amelio Terras, New York

Rub out the Word

d.u.m.b.o. Arts Center, Brooklyn

Precious Moments

Joymore, Brooklyn

Post No Bills

White Columns, New York

The ArtReview 25: Emerging US Artists

Phillips de Pury & Company, New York

Bucolica

Wallspace, New York

What Once Passed For Future or Landscapes of the Living Dead

Art 2102, Los Angeles

Champion Fine Art: 2003-2005

Art 2102, Los Angeles

The New City: Sub/Urbia in Recent Photography

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

2004

Behind Closed Doors

Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah

Buy American

Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris

Cool Intentions

Sandroni.Rey, Los Angeles

Inaugural Exhibition

Sandroni.Rey, Los Angeles

UPSTREAM: Idea Drawings

Hayworth Gallery, Los Angeles

2003

Ad Hoc Artists Committee to End Israeli West-Bank Occupation

Knitting Factory, New York

Control, Escape, Delete

Kansas City Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City

Photo ID

Pelham Art Center, Pelham

Self-Evidence: Identity in Contemporary Art

Lafo, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln

Anti-Social

Wallspace, New York

Photography For People; For Us