| 1965 | Born in Montreal, Canada. Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA | |
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EDUCATION
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M.F.A., University of California Los Angeles RAKB, Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunsten, Amsterdam ESAV, École Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Geneva, Switzerland |
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
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| 2009 | The Present, Patrick Painter Inc, Santa Monica, CA | |
| 2008 | Be My Mirror, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York NY
Once We Were Trees, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX The Flowers of Romance, Monica de Cardenas, Zuoz, Switzerland Christophe Daviet-Thery, Livres et Editions d'Artistes, Paris, France |
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| 2007 | Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland Soul Keeper, Patrick Painter Inc, Santa Monica, CA |
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| 2006 |
Scare Me Up, Gallery Side 2, Tokyo Wonderland, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX Monica De Cardenas, Milan |
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| 2005 |
La Fleur du Mal, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, CA On your way to where, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Christophe Daviet-Thery, Livres et Editions d'Artistes, Paris CentrePasquArt, Kunsthaus Centre d'Art Biel Bienne, Switzerland |
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| 2004 | Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 2003 |
Art Statements, Art Basel Miami Beach, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Miami, FL The Innermost Limits of Pure Fun, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA DreamSpace, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Germany |
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| 2001 |
Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland Hammer Projects: Francesca Gabbiani, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA |
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| 2000 | Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 1999 |
Go to the Rainbow, Gallery I-20, New York, NY Fancy, Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland |
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| 1998 |
Memories to chew, MAMCO, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Geneva, Switzerland (Placette Award) Gallery I-20, New York, NY |
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| 1996 | Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland | |
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
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| 2009 | Trouble in Paradise: Examinig Discord in Nature and Society, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ Under the Knife, Cadwell Gallery, The Armory, Pasadena, CA Major Works on Paper, Patrick Painter Inc., Los Angeles, CA |
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| 2008 | Wunderkammer: A Century of Curiosities, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Wall Rockets, curated by Lisa Dennison, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY My Generation, Spichernohe, Köln, Germany |
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| 2007 | Double XX-rated: Where The Girls Are, Stellan Holm Gallery, New York, NY 5 rencontres d'artistes, &: Aurelie Geslin Christophe Daviet thery, Paris, France |
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| 2006 | Works on Paper, Patrick Painter Inc, Santa Monica, CA New Trajectories: Relocations: Recent painting, drawing and multi-media work from the Ovitz Family Collection, Los Angeles, Cooley Gallery, Reed College, Portland, OR Off the Shelf: New Forms in Contemporary Artists' Books, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY |
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| 2005 | Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Follow Me: A Fantasy, Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
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| 2004 | Project Ruinart with Christophe Daviet-Thery, Livres et Editions d'Artistes, Paris Paper, Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA The Dogs (curator), Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Emily Tsingou Gallery, London Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY Topographies, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA Astonishing Knowledge, Curated by Claire Barliant, Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY Topographies, San Francisco Art Institute Walter and McBean Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| 2003 | Galerie Tache-Levy, Antwerp, Belgium Light and Spaced Out, Galerie Loevenbruck, Paris; Fonds Regional d'Art Contemporain, Brest, France (traveling) |
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| 2002 | Painting On The Move, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland Play It As It Lays: 17 Artists From Los Angeles, The London Institute Gallery, Millbank, London Cut, Francesca Gabbiani, Simon Periton, Eva Rothschild, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| 2001 | New Prints 2001 / Summer, International Print Center, New York By Hand: Pattern, Precision, & Repetition in Contemporary Drawing, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA |
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| 2000 | Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC Spellbound, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| 1999 | Studio Guenzani, Milan Hair Styling, Toasting Agency Project, Paris The Temptations, Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| 1998 | Dog Days are over, Swiss Cultural Center, Paris Freie Sicht aufs Mittelmeer, Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland; Shirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany | |
| 1997 | Malibu Sex Party, Purple Fine Arts, Los Angeles, CA 504, Center for Art, Media & Design, Braunschweig, Germany |
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| 1996 | Confrontations, Museum of Art, Nyon, Switzerland MAMCO, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Geneva, Switzerland Young Art, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland (Providentia Award) |
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| 1995 | OCE Collection, Museum Bonnefeld, Maastricht, The Netherlands Lost Property, Great Western Studios, London; W139, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Kunsthalle Glarus, Switzerland |
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PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
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| Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Museum of Modern Art, New York Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Collection of Michael and Judy Ovitz Collection of Michael Lyne, New York OCE Collection, The Netherlands CentrePasquArt, Biel, Switzerland City of Geneva, Switzerland National Collection, Switzerland |
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AWARDS AND DESTINCTIONS
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| 2004 | Grant from the Canada Council for the Arts | |
| 1998 | Placette Award, Geneva, Switzerland | |
| 1996 | Providentia Award, Switzerland | |
| 1995 | Federal Award of Art, Switzerland | |
| 1994 | Uriot Award, RAKB, Amsterdam Federal Award of Art, Switzerland |
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SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
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| 2009 | Buckley, Annie. "Francesca Gabbiani," Artforum, October 2009 Miles, Christopher. "Francesca Gabbiani at Patrick Painter," LA Weekly, September 28, 2009 SND, "Seventeen Artists You Should Know About," THE Magazine, September 2009 Latimer, Quinn. "Francesca Gabbiani: Houseguest," fluentcollab.org, May 2009 |
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| 2008 | Egan, Maura. "Whirls of Interiors," The New York Times Magazine , Spring 2008 Torzini, Gaia. "Mostre/Alla Sara Meltzer Gallery "Be My Mirror di Francesca Gabbiani. Specchi delle nostre brame." America Oggi , November 25, 2008 |
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| 2006 | DiPietro, Monty. "Collages Catch a Fire, New art scene," The Japan Times, March 9, 2006 Shirazi, Reza. "Francesca Gabbiani: Wonderland," Voices of Art Magazine, vol 14.1, 2006 "Scare me up," Window of Arts , April 2006 "Francesca Gabbiani, Scare me up," Studio Voice , April 2006 DiPietro, Monty. "Collages Cathch a Fire, New art scene," The Japan Times , March 9, 2006 "Scare me up," Tokyo 2006 |
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| 2005 | LeBlanc, Sydney. "Slicing wood and steel for a collage artist's studio," New York Times, Dec. 29, 2005 "Francesca Gabbiani," FRAME Art Magazine, September/October 2005 |
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| 2004 | "Francesca Gabbiani," ArtNews , December 2004 Goddard, Donald. "Review: Francesca Gabbiani," New York Art World, June 2004 "Where to buy, Francesca Gabbiani", The Week , April 16, 2004 |
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| 2003 | Bonnet, Frederic. "Made in L.A.," Vogue , Paris, June 2003 Berger, Doris. "Interview with Francesca Gabbiani", Within Alongside and Between Spaces , 2003 |
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| 2002 | Cooper, Bernard. "Speak, Memory," Los Angeles Times , November 2002 Gingeras, Alison. "Painting on the Move," Artforum , November 2002 Smith, Roberta. "Europe Shows the Staying Power of Paint," The New York Times , July 21, 2002 Charlesworth, J.J. "Play it as it Lays," Artext , Summer 2002 Sorkin, Jenni. "Francesca Gabbiani, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, " , Freize , March 2002 Young, Paul. "Collage Chemist," Angeleno , No 16, January/February 2002 Wood, Eve. "Beautiful Dislocation," artnet.com , January 2002 |
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| 2001 | Iannaccone, Carmine. "Bugdom, Francesca Gabbiani," Artext , Fall 2001 Cheng, Scarlet. "Look Ma, No Computers," Los Angeles Times August 26, 2001 Bovier, Lionel. (ed.), "Across: Swiss Art 1975 -2000," Skira, 2001 Ise, Claudine. "Francesca Gabbiani (exhibition catalogue)," UCLA Hammer Museum, 2001 |
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| 2000 | Dunlop, Jennifer. "Francesca Gabbiani," Art Issues , November/December 2000 Pagel, David. "Francesca Gabbiani," Los Angeles Times , June 16, 2000 Hainley, Bruce. "Spellbound: Karyn Lovegrove Gallery," Artforum , January 2000 "Hair Styling: The Cut of the month: Francesca Gabbiani, When Farrah's Hair was Everywhere," Search for Art , January 2000 Fratto, O'brien, Draza. "Francesca Gabbiani at the UCLA Hammer Museum, " Artweek 2000 |
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| 1998 | Hainley, Bruce. "Francesca Gabbiani:I-20," Artforum October 1998 Cooper, Dennis. "Too Cool for School," Spin Magazine , July 1998 Nicol, Michelle. " Bolero Magazine June 1998 "Francesca Gabbiani: I-20," Contemporary Report, June 1998 Hainley, Bruce. "Malibu Sex Party, Purple," Artforum February 1998 Cooper, Dennis & Gabbiani, Francesca, "Memories to chew (exhibition catalogue)," Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, 1998 Cooper, Dennis. "Vicious (exhibition catalogue)," I-20 Gallery, 1998 Curiger, Bice and Hans Ulrich Obrist. "An interview about Swiss Art and Freie Sicht aufs Mittelmer," Artforum, 1998 Curiger, Bice. "Freie Sicht aufs Mittelmeer," Zurich 1998 |
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| 1997 | Young, Paul. "An A for Art," Buzz Magazine June/July 1997 Schwarzer, Uwe & Armleder, John. "504 (exhibition catalogue)," Center for Art, Media, and Design, 1997 "August, chien d'aveugle (exhibition catalogue)," Foundation Moet et Chandon Suisse pour l'Art, 1997 |
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| 1996 | Cooper, Dennis. "The Best of '96," Artforum , November 1996 Lucker, Louis & Pontzen, Rutger. "OCE Collection (exhibition catalogue)," Museum Bonnefeld, 1996 |
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| 1995 | "Glove and The Dogs," Zapp Magazine, 1995 "Federal Award, Switzerland (exhibition catalogue)," Kunsthalle Glarus, 1995 |
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| 1994 | "Federal Award, Switzerland (exhibition catalogue)." Musee Des Beaux-Arts De Neuchatel, 1994 | |
| 1993 | "Federal Award, Switzerland (exhibition catalogue), Centre Pasqu'art, 1993 Armleder, John, Bernard, Christian, & Mossett. Olivier, "Peinture (exhibition catalogue)," Art & Public, 1993 |
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