Michael Rees
Biography
1976 - 1978 Vassar College, studied for 2 years with Alton Pickens.
1979 - 1982 Kansas City Art Institute, Bachelors of Fine Arts, Studied with Dale Eldred
1983 - 1984 Kunstakademie Dusseldorf as part of a Deutscher Akademischer Austauchdienst award. Awarded for study with Gunther Uecker and Joseph Beuys
1987 - 1989 Yale University, Masters of Fine Arts, studied with Vito Acconci, Frank Gehry and Claus Oldenburg, Alice Aycock, and others
Selected Exhibitions
2010 Michael Rees, Social Object, Chelsea Art Museum, Chelsea, New York, United States, curated by Koan Jeff Baysa and Nina Colosi (solo)
2009 Michael Rees: Model Behavior, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, Texas, United States (solo)
2009 Putto 4 over 4, Zentrum fur Medien Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany, curated by Peter Weibel, ongoing (solo)
2008 Converge: Ghraib Bag, at Art Omi, Ghent, New York, United States (solo)
2008 e-form, Mimetic Immersion and Activated Spectatorship in Virtual Sculpture, showing
2008 Tree Blob, The Beijing Today Art Museum, Beijing China and Duolon Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
2008 Make Tank, The Lab, 501 Lexington Avenue New York, New York, United States
2008 Prem McKeig, Robert Gero, Michael Rees, Matthew West, curated by Michael Rees
2008 Switcher Sex, Video Works and Photography from the Teutloff Collection, The Slought Foundation, curated by Aron Levy. Artists include: Matthew Barney, Tracy Emin, Diane Arbus, Alfredo Jaar, Nan Goldin, Andres Serrano, and others. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
2007 Converge, Sculpture and Animation, Art Omi, Ghent, New York, United States (solo)
2006 Putto 4 over 4 v2, Private collection, Greenwich, Connecticut, United States (solo)
2006 Converge, Sculpture and Animation, Art Omi, Ghent, New York, United States (solo)
2006 The Hedonistic Imperative, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, TX, curated by Graham Guerra
2005 More Better Future, Rheineger Gallery, Cleveland institute of Art, Cleveland, Oh, curated by Saul Ostrow
2005 Unrelated, Artists' Space, Saratoga Springs, NY, curated by Peter Dudek
2005 Sculptural information, Exploratorium at the Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, California, curated by Pam Winfrey
2005 Group Exhibition, Bitforms Gallery, Art Koln, Koln, Germany
2005 The Hedonistic Imperative, Jack the Pelican, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Graham Guerra
2005 Putto 2x2x2x4, Sculpture and Animation, Permanent Installation 12th Street between Broadway and Central, Kansas City, Mo (solo)
2005 Symbolic Logic, the Sculpture of Michael Rees, Panorama Art, Koln, West Germany (solo)
2005 Putto 4 over 4 (1/3) at the MARTa Museum curated by Jan Hoet. Herford, Germany (solo)
2005 Putto 4 over 4 (2/3) at the Decordova Museum, curated by George Fifield, Lincoln, MA (solo)
2005 bitforms Seoul, Korea
2005 Kemper Art Museum, Kansas City, public commission, sculpture/animation
2005 MARTa Museum, Herford Germany
2005 Putto 2x2x2x4, Sculpture and Animation, Permanent Installation 12th Street between Broadway and Central, Kansas City, Missouri, United States (solo)
2005 Acquired by the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, United States
2005 Symbolic Logic, the Sculpture of Michael Rees, Panorama Art, Koln, West Germany
2004 Integrating the Digital Consciousness, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, TX
2004 Group Exhibition, Silver Mine Arts Space, New Canaan, CT
2004 Byte, Nassau County Museum
2004 Michael Rees @ the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Ct.
2004 Large and Moving @ The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Ct (solo)
2003 Sculpture: Large, Small, and Moving, Bitforms Gallery, New York, New York (solo)
2003 Sculpture: Large, Small, and Moving, bitforms Gallery, New York, New York
2003 2003 Consciousness and Process in the work of Michael Rees and Michael Somoroff”, K99, Kologne West Germany
2003 “Nown”: In the action of the animated person, place, thing, and quality, Woods Street Gallery, Pittsburgh.
2003 From Code to Commodity: Genetics in Visual Art, The New York Academy of Sciences. Curated by Dorothy Nelkin and Suzanne Anker
2003 Media Art, Daejeon-New York, Special Effects, Daejeon Municipal Museum of Art, Dae Jeon, South Korea, curated by Lawrence Rinder.
2003 Fetish Human Fantastic, Boursein Gallery, Istanbull Turkey, curated by Michelle Thursz.
2002 Project Room Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York, New York
2002 ten, Universal Concepts Unlimited, New York, New York
2002 Project Room Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York, New York (solo)
2002 ten, Universal Concepts Unlimited, New York, New York (solo)
2001 BitStreams, Whitney Museum of American Art New York
2001 Ten, Universal Concepts Limited New York
2001 Project Room, Gourney, Bravin & Lee New York
2000 Photasm, Hunter College New York
2000 NOISE, Kettle's Yard, Whipple Museum (History of Science) Cambridge U, England
1999 Digital Hybrids, McDonough Museum of Art Younstown, OH
1999 Artificial Sculpture (WYSIWIG), Forum For Contemporary Art St. Louis, MO
1999 InterSculpt, The City Hall of the 6th Arrondisement Paris, France
1999 Mind into Matter, The Computer Museum Boston, MA
1998 Pop Surrealism, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art Conneticut
1998 (re)Meditation: The Digital in Contemporary American Printmaking, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Mus Florida
1998 The Spatial Qualities of the Digital Print: from Printmaking to Sculpture, Calcografia Nacional Madrid, Spain
1998 New Surrealism, Pamela Achincloss Gallery New York
1998 Gallerie Simmone Stern New Orleans, LA
1998 From Ear to Ear, Central Fine Arts Inc. New York
1998 The Ecstatic Body, Grand Arts Kansas City, MO
1997 Digital Psyche, The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art & Design Kansas City, MO
1996 Imaginary Anatomy, Pasinger Fabrik Munich, Germany
1995 The 1995 Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art New York
1995 Summer Fling, Basilico Fine Art New York
1995 Home Noeticus, Basilico Fine Arts New York
1994 The Figure as Fiction, The Cincinnati Art Center Cincinnati, OH
1993 The Elusive Object: Recent Sculpture from the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum, The Whitney Museum of American Art New York
1993 Basilico Fine Arts New York
1992 Tony Shafrazi Gallery New York
1991 303 Gallery New York
1979 - 1982 Kansas City Art Institute, Bachelors of Fine Arts, Studied with Dale Eldred
1983 - 1984 Kunstakademie Dusseldorf as part of a Deutscher Akademischer Austauchdienst award. Awarded for study with Gunther Uecker and Joseph Beuys
1987 - 1989 Yale University, Masters of Fine Arts, studied with Vito Acconci, Frank Gehry and Claus Oldenburg, Alice Aycock, and others
Selected Exhibitions
2010 Michael Rees, Social Object, Chelsea Art Museum, Chelsea, New York, United States, curated by Koan Jeff Baysa and Nina Colosi (solo)
2009 Michael Rees: Model Behavior, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, Texas, United States (solo)
2009 Putto 4 over 4, Zentrum fur Medien Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany, curated by Peter Weibel, ongoing (solo)
2008 Converge: Ghraib Bag, at Art Omi, Ghent, New York, United States (solo)
2008 e-form, Mimetic Immersion and Activated Spectatorship in Virtual Sculpture, showing
2008 Tree Blob, The Beijing Today Art Museum, Beijing China and Duolon Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China
2008 Make Tank, The Lab, 501 Lexington Avenue New York, New York, United States
2008 Prem McKeig, Robert Gero, Michael Rees, Matthew West, curated by Michael Rees
2008 Switcher Sex, Video Works and Photography from the Teutloff Collection, The Slought Foundation, curated by Aron Levy. Artists include: Matthew Barney, Tracy Emin, Diane Arbus, Alfredo Jaar, Nan Goldin, Andres Serrano, and others. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
2007 Converge, Sculpture and Animation, Art Omi, Ghent, New York, United States (solo)
2006 Putto 4 over 4 v2, Private collection, Greenwich, Connecticut, United States (solo)
2006 Converge, Sculpture and Animation, Art Omi, Ghent, New York, United States (solo)
2006 The Hedonistic Imperative, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, TX, curated by Graham Guerra
2005 More Better Future, Rheineger Gallery, Cleveland institute of Art, Cleveland, Oh, curated by Saul Ostrow
2005 Unrelated, Artists' Space, Saratoga Springs, NY, curated by Peter Dudek
2005 Sculptural information, Exploratorium at the Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, California, curated by Pam Winfrey
2005 Group Exhibition, Bitforms Gallery, Art Koln, Koln, Germany
2005 The Hedonistic Imperative, Jack the Pelican, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Graham Guerra
2005 Putto 2x2x2x4, Sculpture and Animation, Permanent Installation 12th Street between Broadway and Central, Kansas City, Mo (solo)
2005 Symbolic Logic, the Sculpture of Michael Rees, Panorama Art, Koln, West Germany (solo)
2005 Putto 4 over 4 (1/3) at the MARTa Museum curated by Jan Hoet. Herford, Germany (solo)
2005 Putto 4 over 4 (2/3) at the Decordova Museum, curated by George Fifield, Lincoln, MA (solo)
2005 bitforms Seoul, Korea
2005 Kemper Art Museum, Kansas City, public commission, sculpture/animation
2005 MARTa Museum, Herford Germany
2005 Putto 2x2x2x4, Sculpture and Animation, Permanent Installation 12th Street between Broadway and Central, Kansas City, Missouri, United States (solo)
2005 Acquired by the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, United States
2005 Symbolic Logic, the Sculpture of Michael Rees, Panorama Art, Koln, West Germany
2004 Integrating the Digital Consciousness, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, TX
2004 Group Exhibition, Silver Mine Arts Space, New Canaan, CT
2004 Byte, Nassau County Museum
2004 Michael Rees @ the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Ct.
2004 Large and Moving @ The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Ct (solo)
2003 Sculpture: Large, Small, and Moving, Bitforms Gallery, New York, New York (solo)
2003 Sculpture: Large, Small, and Moving, bitforms Gallery, New York, New York
2003 2003 Consciousness and Process in the work of Michael Rees and Michael Somoroff”, K99, Kologne West Germany
2003 “Nown”: In the action of the animated person, place, thing, and quality, Woods Street Gallery, Pittsburgh.
2003 From Code to Commodity: Genetics in Visual Art, The New York Academy of Sciences. Curated by Dorothy Nelkin and Suzanne Anker
2003 Media Art, Daejeon-New York, Special Effects, Daejeon Municipal Museum of Art, Dae Jeon, South Korea, curated by Lawrence Rinder.
2003 Fetish Human Fantastic, Boursein Gallery, Istanbull Turkey, curated by Michelle Thursz.
2002 Project Room Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York, New York
2002 ten, Universal Concepts Unlimited, New York, New York
2002 Project Room Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York, New York (solo)
2002 ten, Universal Concepts Unlimited, New York, New York (solo)
2001 BitStreams, Whitney Museum of American Art New York
2001 Ten, Universal Concepts Limited New York
2001 Project Room, Gourney, Bravin & Lee New York
2000 Photasm, Hunter College New York
2000 NOISE, Kettle's Yard, Whipple Museum (History of Science) Cambridge U, England
1999 Digital Hybrids, McDonough Museum of Art Younstown, OH
1999 Artificial Sculpture (WYSIWIG), Forum For Contemporary Art St. Louis, MO
1999 InterSculpt, The City Hall of the 6th Arrondisement Paris, France
1999 Mind into Matter, The Computer Museum Boston, MA
1998 Pop Surrealism, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art Conneticut
1998 (re)Meditation: The Digital in Contemporary American Printmaking, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Mus Florida
1998 The Spatial Qualities of the Digital Print: from Printmaking to Sculpture, Calcografia Nacional Madrid, Spain
1998 New Surrealism, Pamela Achincloss Gallery New York
1998 Gallerie Simmone Stern New Orleans, LA
1998 From Ear to Ear, Central Fine Arts Inc. New York
1998 The Ecstatic Body, Grand Arts Kansas City, MO
1997 Digital Psyche, The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art & Design Kansas City, MO
1996 Imaginary Anatomy, Pasinger Fabrik Munich, Germany
1995 The 1995 Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art New York
1995 Summer Fling, Basilico Fine Art New York
1995 Home Noeticus, Basilico Fine Arts New York
1994 The Figure as Fiction, The Cincinnati Art Center Cincinnati, OH
1993 The Elusive Object: Recent Sculpture from the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum, The Whitney Museum of American Art New York
1993 Basilico Fine Arts New York
1992 Tony Shafrazi Gallery New York
1991 303 Gallery New York
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