BIOGRAPHY
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1968
• Born in New York
1991
• Bachelor of Fine Arts, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY.
1993
• Master of Fine Arts, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT.
2002
• Visiting Associate Professor, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
• School of Visual Arts, New York City and Yale University, New Haven, CT.
• Lives and works in New York City.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011
• Long Story Shorts , Nicole Klagsbrun, New York, NY
• Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2007
• Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
• Skyscraper Souls: New Video and Photography by John Pilson, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
2006
• LOOP '06 (May 2006), Barcelona, Spain
• Coliseum, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
• Cinema Prospectif: An Evening of Screenings by John Pilson, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2005
• ArtPace, Hudson Room, San Antonio, Texas
• Zink and Gegner, Munich, Germany
• Western Front Exhibitions, Vancouver, Canada
• *ARCO art fair, Madrid, Spain
• The Bologna Art Fair, Arte e Fiera, Bologna, Italy
• Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
• St. Denis, Raucci/Santamaria Gallery, Naples, Italy
2004
• Dark Empire, MW Projects, London England
2003
• St. Denis, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
2002
• Clean Lines, Art Basel 33, Basel, Switzerland
• Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam. Netherlands
2001
• Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
• John Pilson (Torbjorn Vejvi), Raucci/Santamaria Gallery, Naples, Italy
2000
• Above the Grid, (Special Project), P.S. 1—Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
• 0 to 100: The new ages of life, Fondazzione Marino Golinelli, Bologna, Italy
• Spies in the House of Art: Photography, Film and Video , The Metropolitan Museum if Art, New York, NY
2011
• September 11, MoMA PS1, Curated by Peter Eleey, Long Island City, NY
• Gallery Pfeister, Bornholm, Denmark
• Commercial Break, Garage Projects, 54th Venice Biennale, Curated by Neville Wakefield
2010
• The Art of Speculation, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
• 5th Annual Whartscape, organized by Wham City, Baltimore, MD
• Frolic and Detour, 9 Screens, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2009
• Endurance: Daring Feats of Risk, Survivability and Perseverance, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA
2008
• Full House, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland
• Video Trifecta, Quality Pictures, Portland, OR, Curated by Jacob Dyrenforth and Eva Respini
• To: Night: Contemporary Representations of the Night, The Hunter College Art Galleries: The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery & Times Square Gallery, NY, New York, Curated by Joachim Pissaro, Mara Hoberman, & Julia Moreno
• Prospect.1 New Orleans, New Orleans, LA, Curated by Dan Cameron
• Mind the Gap: Noticing the Unnoticed, Gallery of Contemporary Art UCCS, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO, Curated by Christopher Lynn
2007
• Automatic Update, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
• The Shapes of Space, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
• In the Belly of the Whale, Tracy Williams Ltd., New York, NY, Curated by Patrick Callery
• 50,000 Beds: A Project By Chris Doyle, Various locations throughout participating Connecticut hotels
• I will be alright, Country Club, Cincinnati, OH
• Cuestión Xeneracional (Generational Issue), Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea (CGAC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
• Landscape (Distance and Removal), Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
• Image Forum Festival 2007, organized by the Executive Committee of Image Forum Festival in association with Yokohama Museum, Fukuoka City Public Library and Aichi Arts Center (co-organizers)
• Stealing Time, The Bertha and karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College, New York, NY, Organized by Christa Blatchford, Chad Nelson, and Pierre Obando
2006
• Artist's Cinema, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
• The Rhubarb Society, Tracey Lawrence Gallery, Vancouver, BC
• THE OFFICE/In and Out of the Box, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY, Curated by Alice Rose George and Lee Marks
• Time Frame, P.S.1, Long Island City, NY, Curated by Neville Wakefield
• *Modern Time. Work, machineries and automation in the Arts of 1900, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy, Curated by Germano Celant
• SLAPstick, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX, Curated by Christopher Eamon
• Nothing but Pleasure, BAWAG Foundation, Vienna, Austria
2005
• A Kind of Portraiture, ABMB - Art Video Lounge, Program #10, Curated by Christopher Eamon
• Predatory Dating On The Crosstown Bus, A New York Kind of Disappointment, A Special Kind,
• Champion Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA,, curated by Guy Richards Smit
• Office Hours, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany
• Paper, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York
• Premieres, Museum of Modern Art's Department of Film and Media, New York, NY
2004
• *Simulation City, Centre Pour L'Image Contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland
• MoMA The Museum of Modern Art Modern Means: Continuity and Change in Art from 1880 to Present, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
• Music in Motion Festival, World Trade Center and Nicolaaskapel, Amsterdam, Holland
2003
• Altered Spaces: Video Art and the Physical World, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN
• *The Moderns, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Italy
2002
• Moving Pictures, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
• Copy, Roth Horowitz, New York, NY
• *Sudden Glory: Sight Gags and Slapstick in Contemporary Art, California College of Arts and Crafts,
• Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art, Oakland, CA
• Interior / Exterior, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
2001
• Bureaucracy, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw Poland
• *Loop- Alles auf Anfang, Hypokunsthalle, Munich, Germany, Travels to P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
• *The Americans—New Art, Barbican Gallery, London, England
• Video Jam, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, FL
• *49th International Exhibition of Art, Plateau of Mankind, Venice Biennale, Italy
• World Without Ground, Chase/Freedman Gallery, West Hartford, CT
• Ghosty, 1000 Eventi Gallery, Milan, Italy
2000
• Some New Minds, P.S. 1—Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York
• Moma2000: Open Ends, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
• The City, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York
• *Greater New York, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
• Shockwave, Raucci/Santamaria Gallery, Naples, Italy
• Work, 312 Gallery, Chicago
• Kunst-Werke, Berlin
1998
• Citizens, New York Public Library, New York
1997
• Visionaires, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
1994
• Building, Dwelling, Thinking, Lowinsky Gallery, New York
*Catalogue
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2011
• Helfand, Glen, “September 11,” Artforum, October
2010
• Melton, Tim, “Visual Arts Gallery gets to ‘Werk’”, UAB Magazine, June 28
• Howe, David Everitt, “As Long As It Lasts, From 9 Screen” Art In America Magazine (www.artinamericamagazine.com), March 3
• Kennedey, Anne, "Kirsha Kaechele, "Interview Magazine (www.interviewmagazine.com), February
2009
• Linder, Viola, “Het vijfde seizoen” (The Fifth Season), Mister Motley, March
2007
• Urroz, Carlos, "Voices," NY Arts Magazine (www.nyartsmagazine.com), November-December 7
• Kobasa, Steven Vincent, "Bedded Down: The big art gallery collaboration checks out, with TVs aglow," New Haven Advocate, September 13
• Yablonsky, Linda, "Hotel Rooms Become Overnight Stars," The New York Times, July 8
• McCoy, Adam, "Cheekwood and Nashville's Contemporary Art Scene," NY Arts Magazine, April 5
• Yamell, Kolby, "Senior Moment," New York Magazine, April 3
• Pearce, Sarah, "A sweet peek at office life," The Cincinnati Enquirer, April 23
• Fusco, Maria, "The Rhubarb Society," Frieze, February
2006
• Interregna (Monograph), Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz
• "Laura Kleger and John Pilson," (interview) North Drive Press #3
• Perra, Daniela, "It happens in Barcelona", Tema Celeste, July/August
• Wilson, Michael. "John Pilson: Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery", Artforum, May
• Talen, Julie. "Three is the New One", www.glimpseculture.com, April 4
• The New Yorker, April 3
• Schwendener, Martha "John Pilson", Time Out New York, March 30-April 5
• Ross, Christine, "The Aesthetics of Disengagement; Contemporary Art and Depression", University of Minnessota Press, Minneapolis, MN, 2006. p. 90-91
2005
• Levin, Kim, "Voice Choices: 'Paper,' Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery," The Village Voice, February 16-22
• Johnson, Ken, "Art Listings: Paper," The New York Times, February 18
• Vogel, Carol, "Talent Call: Hot New Artists Wanted," The New York Times, February 3
2004
• Herbert, Martin, "The Office" Art: Preview, Time Out London, December 30- January 7
• Rosenberg, Karen, "John Pilson," Frieze, Issue 80, January
• Site Matters: The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's World Trade Center Artists Residency, 1997-2001
2003
• Mclister, Neil, "John Pilson," ArtForum, December
• Westerbeke, Julia, "John Pilson, 'St. Denis,'" Time Out New York, October 30-November 6
• Cream 3: Contemporary Art and Culture, Phaidon Press Limited, London, pp. 292-295
• Pilson, John. "The Digital Vernacular", Cabinet, Issue No. 10, Spring
2001
• Huberman, Anthony, "John Pilson" Loop—Alles auf Anfang, Kunsthalle der Hyupo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, March
• Pollack, Barbara, "New York Reviews", ArtNews, November
• Lerner, Adam, "Moving Pictures", Artforum, November (Cover)
• The New Yorker, September 24
• Anderson, Jeffery "John Pilson", Venice Biennale Catalogue, Summer
• Huberman, Anthony, "Ouverture: John Pilson", Flash Art, March—April
• Pasquini, Stefano, "The Oxymoron of Venice", NY Arts, Summer
• Stephanson, Anders, "Openings: John Pilson", Artforum, April
• Turner, Johnathan and Barbara A. MacAdam, "The Venice Biennale", ARTnews, Summer
• Williams, Gregory, "Venice Biennale: John Pilson", Tema Celeste, Summer
• Vetrocq, Marcia E., "Biennale Babylon", Art in America, September
2000
• Anderson, Jeffrey. P.S.1 Greater New York Catalogue
• Christov-Bakargiev, Carolyn. P.S.1 Greater New York Catalogue
• Gopinath, Gabrielle. "Two Critical Comments: Greater New York at P.S.1," Review NYC, May
• Molinari, Guido. Flash Art (Italian Edition), Dec.2000 p.122
• The New York Times, City Section, Dec. 31
• Romero, Filippo, review, "Shockwave', Flash Art, Italian Edition, December 2000 – January 2001, no. 225
1997
• Double Take Magazine, December
1994
• Aletti, Vince. "Building Dwelling Thinking," Village Voice, March
AWARDS
2002
• The Bâloise Prize, Art Statements - Art Basel 33, Switzerland
2001
• Penny McCall Foundation Award
• The Young Artists Special Prize, 49th International Exhibition of Art: Plateau of Mankind
• Venice Biennale, Italy
2000
• *Site Matters, The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's World Trade Center Artists Residency, New York, NY
• Artist-in-Residence, Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, New York
1993
• John Ferguson Weir Award, Yale University, New Haven, CT
CURATED PROJECTs
2007
• Idiot Joy Showland: An evening of artist film and video, Curated by John Pilson and Claudia Altman-Siegel and produced by Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery: IFC Theater, New York, NY; Travels to: Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Canada; Dallas Video Festival, Dallas, TX
2006
• The Rhubarb Society, Curated by John Pilson and Kathy Slade, Tracey Lawrence Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
2002
• Gravity Over Time: Erica Baum, Stuart Elster, Maureen Gallace, Wayne Gonzales, An-My Le, Judith Joy Ross, Stephan Shore, 1000 Eventi Gallery, Milan, Italy
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
• Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
• Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, France
• Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas
• The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
• The New York Public Library
• The Museum of Modern Art, New York
