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1968 Born
Lives and works in New York
   
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
   
2010 Fever, Centro Cultural Koldo Mitxelena, San Sebastian, Spain  
Trampoline, Ecole Superieur d'Art et Media, Caen, France
   
2009  Silent Pictures, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
Galeria Max Estrella, Madrid, Spain
   
2008  Miniature, Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo, Japan  
   
2007 Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
Casa Triangulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Angle of Bending, Beldwin Gallery, Aspen CO
No More Bets, Galeria Max Estrella, Madrid, Spain
   
2006 Volta, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL - project
Exit Contemporary Art Institute, Peja, Kosovo
Robert McLain Gallery, Houston, TX
Galerie Xippas, Paris, France
   
2005 Museum of Fine Arts of Santander, Spain - project (catalogue)
   
2004 Galerie Xippas, Athènes, Greece
   
2003 Fuse, Galerie Xippas, Paris, France
Volta, Henry Urbach Architecture, New York, NY
   
2001 Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
Marcel Sitcoske Gallery, San Francisco, CA Pulse, Henry Urbach Architecture, New York, NY
   
2000 Galerie Xippas, Paris, France (catalogue)
   
1999 Hales Gallery, London,UK
Marcel Sitcoske Gallery, San Francisco, CA
   
1998 Galerie Xippas, Paris, France (catalogue)  
   
1997 Galerie Cohn-Edelstein, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil  
   
1995  Galerie Xippas, Paris, France
   
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
   
2010 Contemplating the Void, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Mutants, Villa Medici, Rome, Italy
   
2009 3rd Moscow Biennial, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Mosow, Russia
Auto: Dream and Matter
, Centro de Art y Creación Industrial Laboral de Gijón, Gijón, Spain; Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo de Móstoles, Madrid, Spain
   
2008 Double Down: Two Visions of Vegas, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
An Unruly History of the Readymade, La Coleccion Jumex, Mexico
Into the Trees, The Fields Sculpture Park at Omi Internalational Arts Center, Ghent, NY
Landerspiel, Museum Moderner Kunst Karnten, Klagenfurt, Austria
Plus de réalité, Hangar à bananes, Nantes, France
   
2007 Mouth Open, Teeth showing, Major works from the True Collection, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA(catalogue)
Esquiador en el fondo de un pozo, La Coleccion Jumex, Mexico (catalogue)
20th Anniversary Exhibition, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
Building Spills and Spins Past Midnight, Galerie Filles du Calvaire, Bruxelles, Belgium
Esquiador en el fondo de un pozo, La Coleccion Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico(catalogue)
L.I.C., NYC, Socrated Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
   
2006 Stillpoints of the Turning World, Site Santa Fe Biennial, NM (catalogue)
New York Interrupted, PKM gallery, Beijing, China (catalogue)
Ball the Wall, David Risley Gallery, London
You never walk alone, OK Centrum, Linz, Austria
Le Troisieme Oeil, Le Tripostal, Lille, France
The Beautiful Game, Roebling Hall Gallery, New York, NY
Nuremberg Museum of Contemporary Art, Germany
Art and Football, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro (catalogue)
Human Game, Fondazione Pitti, Stazione Leopole, Florence, Italy(catalogue)
La Force de l'art, Grand Palais, Paris, France
Art and Football, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro (catalogue)
Dark Places, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA
   
2005 Always a little further, 51st Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy(catalogue)
Roundleather world, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany(catalogue)
Facade projections, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
War is over, Galleria d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Italy (catalogue)
Sélect'Art 05, 16 Contemporary Art Biennial of Selestat, France
Paris à Shanghaï, Shanghai museum of Fine-Arts, Shanghaï, China (catalogue)
   
2004 The joy of my dreams, 1st International Contemporary Art Biennial of Sevilla, Monastary of Nuestra Senora de las Cuevas, Séville, Spain (catalogue)
La Planète Foot a 100 ans - FIFA 1904-2004, Olympic Museum, Lausanne, Switzerland.
At the Still Point of the Turning World, FACT, Liverpool, UK.
Couleurs à dessein / Color Energy, Galerie Villa des Tourelles, Nanterre, France.
Em Jogo/On Side, Centro des Artes Visuais, Coimbra, Portugal (catalogue)
Prix Altadis: Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France ; Galerie Elba Benitez, Madrid, Spain (catalogue)
Open House, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY (catalogue)
La Condition Humaine, Le Rêve d'une Ombre. Museo d'Història de la ciudad, Barcelona, Spain (catalogue)
Jusqu'où irez-vous?, Parcours Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris, France (catalogue)
Multitudes, Frac Corse, Corte, France
Cromofagia, Espacio Borges, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Sportivement vôtre, Domaine de Chamarande, France (catalogue)
Making Differences, Kulturhuset, Stockolm, Sweden
Color Lines, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
   
2003 Poetic Justice, 8th Istanbul Biennial, Turkey (catalogue)
Videos in Progress. Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, RI
Volta, Galerie Xippas, Espace Vidéo Cube, FIAC, Paris, France
Post-Impact, Portalakis Collection, Athenes, Greece (catalogue)
Nuits Blanches, Musée Zadkine, Paris, France
Living with Duchamp, Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
The Stadium, Muro Sur : Contemporary Art Gallery, Santiago, Chile
Ready-Made Color, la couleur importée, Centre d'art Passerelle, Brest, France
   
2002 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)
Exotisme, Vu d'ici, vues d'ailleurs, Frac Corse, France
Ready-Made Color, la couleur importée, Galerie Corinne Caminade, Paris
Nao e cinema, nao e televisao e nem e video, Capacete Entertainments, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil
The Theory of Leisure, La Coleccion Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
Murmurs, remparts du château d'Angers, Angers, France.
Attack: Attraction, Marcel Sitcoske Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Déplacements, Le Quartier, Quimper, France
3, Henry Urbach Architecture, New York, NY
Playground, The Standard Projection: 24/7, The Standard Hotel, Los Angeles, CA
Prescient Then and Now: The Resonance of Support/Surface, Dorsky Gallery, New York, NY
 
2001 Finely Drawn, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
Hydro, Marcel Sitcoske Gallery, San Francisco, CA
   
2000  L'art dans le vent, Domaine de Chamarande, France
A Ciel Ouvert, Installation dans les jardins de la Galerie du Petit Château, Sceaux, France
   
1998  Food, Marcel Sitcoske Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Wall paper, Nicolas Davis Gallery, New York, NY
Hales Gallery, London, UK
   
1997 Paolo Baldacci Gallery, New York, NY
OEuvres du FNAC, Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
   
1996  Autour de Cercle & Carré, Maison des Arts Georges Pompidou, Cajarc, France (catalogue)
Walk on the Soho Side, New York, NY
   
1995  Avant-Garde Walk a Venezia, Venise, Italy (catalogue)
Selection Spring '95, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
   
1994  Red Windows, Barney's, New York, NY
Friends, 55 Mercer St Gallery, New York, NY
Crash, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY
Possible Things, Bardamu Gallery, New York, NY
Artists in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum for the Arts, New York, NY
   
1992  The Fetish of Knowledge, A.C. Project Room, New York, NY
Re: Framing Cartoons, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
   
1990  Stephen Dean, Peter Kambersky, Opus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
   
BIBLIOGRAPHY   
   
2009  Smith, Roberta. "Stephen Dean Silent Pictures." The New York Times, 8 October.
   
2008  Ebony, David. "Stephen Dean at Sara Meltzer Gallery." Art in America, June/July 2008
   
2006 Ottman, Klaus. "Still Points of the Turning World." (Exhibition Catalogue) 6th International Biennal, Site Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Bonami, Francesco; Frisa, Maria Luisa; Tonchi, Stefano, eds. Human Game, Winners and Losers, Fondazione Pitti, Florence.
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Benziker, Robert. "Clashing Colors, Crashing Cars." Pasatiempo, 7-13 July. Site Santa Fe, New Mexico.
Rose, Sean James. "L'oeuvre au plat." Libération, 19 May.
Rose, Sean James. "De l'art et du Poulet." Libération, 8-9 July.
   
2005  Martinez, Rosa. "Always a Little Further." (Exhibition Catalogue) 51e Biennale de Venise, Arsenal, Venice, Italy.
Muller, Hans Joachim. "Round Leather World." (Exhibition Catalogue) Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany.
Carretero, Salvator. "The Chromatic Metamorphoses of Stephen Dean." (Exhibition Catalogue) El Puente de la Vision, Santander, Spain.
Schmit, Sophie. "Paris à Shangai -- Trois Générations de Photographes Francais." (Exhibition Catalogue) Musée des Beaux-Arts de Shanghai, éditions Actes Sud., China.
Kimelmann, Michel. "Global Village Whose Bricks are Art." New York Times, 16 June.
Berwick, Carly. "Better than the Real Thing." New York Sun, 16 June.
Gopnik, Blake. "At the Biennale, Women who Rock the Gondola." Washington Post, 19 June.
Knight, Christopher. "Fueled by Politics." Los Angeles Times, 21 June.
Westcott, James. "Reports from Venice: The Arsenale." NY Arts Magazine, No. 7/8, July/August.
D'Arvor, Olivier Poivre. "Art Contemporain: Cessons l'Autofustigation!" Le Monde, 21 June.
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Dorment, Richard. "The Star Pavilions." Telegraph, 15 June.
Demir, Anaid. "Paris à Shangai." Le Journal des Arts.
Siegel, Katy. "All Together Now. Crowd Scenes in Contemporary Art." Artforum, Vol. XLIII, No. 5, January.
Héneau, Marc. "Paris à Shanghai." Art Actuel, March-April.
   
2004  Szeemann, Harald. "La Alegria de mis Sueños / The Joy of my Dreams." (Exhibition Catalogue) 1ere Biennal International d'Art Contemporain de Seville, Fondación BIACS, Spain. De Corral, Maria; Domino, Christophe. "Stephen Dean, Sous des Couleurs Désinvoltes." (Exhibition Catalogue) Collection Actes Sud / Altadis, Editions Actes Sud, Arles. Kotik, Charlotta; Mosaka, Tumelo. "Open House." (Exhibition Catalogue) Brooklyn Museum, New York. "Jusqu'où irez-vous?" (Exhibition Catalogue) Parcours Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Paris, France. "Em Jogo / On Side." (Exhibition Catalogue) Centro des Artes Visuais, Coimbra, Portugal. "La Condition Humaine, Le Rêve d'une Ombre." (Exhibition Catalogue) Museo de Història de la Ciudad, Barcelona, Spain. Harrison, Helen A. "Color Lines." Reviews, New York Times, 7 March. Oui, Mathieu. "Détournement de couleurs." 20 Minutes, 19 January. Piguet, Philippe. "Stephen Dean, La Couleur All-Over." L'OEIL, No. 554, January. Piguet, Philippe. "Galerie Anne de Villepoix - Prix Altadis, 4e." L'OEIL, No. 556, March. Sánchez, Alberto. "Premio Altadis de Artes Plásticas." Exit Express, No. 4, June, Spain. Piguet, Philippe. "Stephen Dean, La Couleur Autrement." Art Absolument, No. 9. Héneau, Marc. "Stephen Dean, Maître de l'Art Polychrome." 20 Minutes, January.
   
2003  Cameron, Dan. "Poetic Justice." (Exhibition Catalogue) 8th Istanbul Biennial, Turkey.
Dannat, Adrian. "Stephen Dean, Henry Urbach Architecture." The Art Newspaper, February.
Halkin, Talya. "Gallery Going." The New York Sun, 13 February.
Pollack, Barbara. "Stephen Dean, Henry Urbach Architecture." Time Out New York, 27 February - 6 March.
Caniglia, Julie. "Stephen Dean, Henry Urbach Architecture." Artforum, XLI, No. 10.
Mendelsohn, Meredith. "Stephen Dean, Henry Urbach Architecture." Tema Celeste, June.
Debailleux, Henri-Francois. "Stephen Dean, Échelon Supérieur." Libération, 25 November.
Sitruk, Guy. "L'Art de Filmer les Fans Bresiliens." France Foot, 14 October.
Corréard, Stéphane. "Les Futurs Stars: Stephen Dean Orgie Chromatique." Paris Photo, Livraison 2003. "Etoiles Montantes et Figures Historiques." Beaux Arts Magazine, No. 234, November.
   
2002  Rinder, Lawrence. (Exhibition Catalogue) Whitney Biennial 2021, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.
Briand-Picard, Claude; Perrot, Antoine. "Ready-Made Color, La Couleur Importée." (Exhibition Catalogue) Editions Positions & Maison de la Culture d'Amiens, France.
Battista, Helmut. "Interview with Stephen Dean." Jornal Capacete Planet, July.
Griffin, Tim. "Bi Curious?" Time Out New York, 21-28 February.
Poderos, Jean. "La Biennale du Whitney." Beaux-Arts Magazine, No. 214, March.
Plagens, Peter. "This Man Will Decide What Art Is." Newsweek, 4 March.
Stevens, Mark. "Irony Lives." New York Magazine, 18 March.
Saltz, Jerry. "The 2002 Whitney Biennial, American Bland Stand." The Village Voice, 19 March.
Viveros-Fauné, Christian. "The Whitney Biennial." New York Press, 20-26 March.
Schjeldahl, Peter. "The Art World--Do It Yourself, Biennial Follies at the Whitney." The New Yorker, 25 March.
Smith, Roberta. "Bad News for Art, However You Definite It." i, 31 March.
Baker, Kenneth. "Whitney Biennial Strong in Bay Artists." San Francisco Chronicle, 4 April.
Yablonsky, Linda. "Whitney Biennial 2002." Artnews, April.
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Anton, Saul. "Formal Affair." Artforum, May. Trainor, James. "Whitney Biennial." Tema Celeste, No. 91, May-June.
Princenthal, Nancy. "Whither the Whitney Biennial." Art in America, June.
Korotkin, Joyce. "Communal Curation." NY Arts Magazine, June.
Ardenne, Paul. "L'Empire ne Contre-Attaque Pas." Parpaings, June.
Blythe, Will. "Rainbow Bright." Surface, The (R)evolution Issue, No. 34.
Kley, Elisabeth. "Mystical Cosmetics." Performance Art Journal, September.
Zita, Carmen. "In Sight--20 Artists on the Rise." Trace, No. 36.
Lin, Jeremy. "Henry Urbach--Outside Influence." Surface, No. 33.
   
2001  Smith, Roberta. "As Chelsea Gallery District Expands, a Host of Visions Rush In." The New York Times, 1 June.
"Stephen Dean." The New Yorker, 18-25 June.
Pratt, Kevin. "Stephen Dean, Pulse." Time Out New York, No. 301, 28 June - 5 July.
Heitz, Bernard. "Histoires Courtes." Telerama, 13-19 October.
Hyde, James. "Stephen Dean at Henry Urbach Architecture." Art in America, No. 12, December.
   
2000  "An Encounter with Modern Art." (Exhibition Catalogue) La Collection de la Société Générale, Paris.Kaeppelin, Olivier. "Grasping Surfaces." (Exhibition Catalogue) Galerie Xippas, Paris.
Pringent, Loic. "Red." (Exhibition Catalogue) Editions Assouline, Paris.
Pastoureau, Michel. "Couleurs Improbables." Jalouse, No. 3, February.
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"Agenda Paris." Art Actuel, May-June.
Kerner, Anne. "Expos: Lucas Samaras et Stephen Dean." Paris Capitale, June.
   
1998  Zita, Carmen. "Transposer." (Exhibition Catalogue) Galerie Xippas, Paris.
Debailleux, Henri-Francois. "Stephen Dean." Libération, 6 March.
"Fiac 98 à Tout Prix." Beaux-Arts Magazine, No. 173, October.
   
1997  Pottier, Marc. "Walk on the SoHo Side." (Exhibition Catalogue) New York, NY.
Buci-Glucksmann, Christine. "Une Abstraction Impure de Marcel Duchamp à la Cartographie." Trans, No. 3-4.
   
1996  Kaeppelin, Olivier. "Autour de Cercle & Carré." (Exhibition Catalogue) Maison des Arts Georges Pompidou, Cajarc.
Pottier, Marc. "Avant-Garde Walk a Venezia." (Exhibition Catalogue) Edizioni d'Arte Fratelli Pozzo, Part II, Torino, Italy.
Le Blanc, Alain. "Autour de Cercle et Carré." La Dépêche du Midi, 27 September.
Amar, Sylvie. "Walk on the SoHo Side, etc." Artpress, No. 215, July-August.
   
1995  Gallozzi, Guillaume; Pottier, Marc, eds. "Joutes, Croisades, Permutations." (Exhibition Catalogue) Galerie Xippas, Paris, France; Tipostampa, Torino, Italy.
Pottier, Marc. "Avant-Garde Walk a Venezia." (Exhibition Catalogue) Edizioni d'Arte Fratelli Pozzo, Torino, Italy.
Kunstforum, No. 131, Summer.
De Wavrin, Isabelle. Beaux-Arts Magazine, No. 138, October.
Debailleux, Henri-Francois. "Stephen Dean et le Chaos Chromatique." Libération, 10 November.
   
1994  Levin, Kim. "Choice." The Village Voice, 27 July.
   
1993  Buci-Glucksmann, Christine; Zummer, Thomas. "Fragma." (Exhibition Catalogue) By Puzzle, Paris, France.
"Artists in the Marketplace." (Exhibition Catalogue) Bronx Museum for the Arts, New York, NY.
   
FILM FESTIVALS
   
2004  In Progress, 57th International film festival of Locarno, Switzerland.
Cinéma métis, Auditorium du Louvre, Musée du Louvre, Paris, France.
Situations construites, Attitudes - Espace d'arts contemporains, Geneva, Switzerland
Festival Art Rock, Saint-Brieuc, France.
   
2003  Edinburgh Film Festival, Scotland
   
2002 Corto Circuito, Short-film festival, Naples, Italy : Best European short film
Festival du court métrage en plein air de Grenoble, France : Special mention
International Film Festival, Athens, Greece
Festival du Film d'Aubagne, France : Best documentary
Filmvideo, Festival de Montecatini, Pistoia, Italy : Best photography
International Art Film Festival, Bratislava, Slovaquia : Golden Key catégory 'Artefacts'"
International Film Festival, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
International short film, La Ciotat, France.
International Film Festival of Fine Arts, Szolnok, Hungary
Bilbao International Film Festival, Spain : Best documentary
   
2001  Festival International du Film d'Art, Montréal, Canada
   
TELEVISION
   
2006  Histoires courtes: "No More Bets", France 2  
2005  Objet filmique non identifié:   "No More Bets," France 2  
2004 Exhibition: "Volta," Arte
2003 Histoires courtes:   "Volta," France 2
2002 Revolver: "Pulse," Cable 24/7, Holland
Histoires courtes: "Pulse," France 2
   
   
COLLECTIONS  
   
Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Fonds National d'Art Contemporain, Paris, France
La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Musée d'Art Contemporain de Vitry-sur-Seine, France
Israel Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
La Coleccion Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
Musée des Beaux-Arts, Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
Altadis, Paris, France
Deutsche Flugsicherung DFS, Offenbach, Germany
Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain, Corse, France
Harvard University Art Museum, Cambridge, MA
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Progressive Corporation, Cleveland, OH
Societe Générale, Paris, France
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
Swatch AG, Biel, Switzerland