Kaari Upson

Biography

Solo exhibitions
Year
Country, Exhibition Name, Location
2022
USA, On Kaari Upson: Leslie Dick and Audrey Wollen in Conversation, Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles
GR, Never Enough, Deste Foundation, Athens
2021
F, Clay Baby (m.l.), MASSIMODECARLO Pièce Unique, Paris
2019
CH, Go Back the Way You Came, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel
CH, Go Back the Way You Came, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel
D, Door, Open, Shut, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover
2018
I, In Search Of The Perfect Double, Torre Velasca, Milano
2017
USA, Good Thing You Are Not Alone, New Museum, New York
2016
D, MMDP, Sprüth Magers, Berlin
2015
UK, HOLE, Massimo De Carlo, London
2014
USA, Kaari Upson, Ramiken Crucible, New York
2013
I, Sleep With the Key, Massimo De Carlo, Milano
2012
UK, Baby Please come Home, Massimo De Carlo, London
2011
USA, Kaari Upson, Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles
CH, Statements, Overduin and Kite, Art 42, Basilea
2009
USA, I am bound to have some anxiety about this so please if I say stop, don't stop, Maccarone Gallery, New York
2007
USA, The Larry Project, Chapter 2: The Honeymoon Period, D301 Gallery; California Institute of the Arts, Valencia
USA, Hammer Projects, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Group exhibitions
Year
Country, Exhibition Name, Location
2022
USA, Shifting the Silence, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
USA, Everything was beautiful, and nothing hurt, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
I, The Milk of Dreams, 59. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, Venezia
I, 59. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, La Biennale di Venezia, Venezia
UK, ECHO, The Artist Room, London
RL, Dark Light, Realism in the Age of Post truth, Aishti Foudation, Beirut
I, Pupille. Ci fioriscono gli occhi se ci guardiamo Curated by Rita Selvaggio, Casa Masaccio Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea, San Giovanni Valdarno
USA, Perris, Tyler Park Presents, Los Angeles
2021
DK, Mother!, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek
I, Bodywork: Discomfort and Existence, MASSIMODECARLO, Milano
2019
I, MCMXXXIV, Massimo De Carlo, Milano
I, May You Live In Interesting Times, 58. Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, Venezia
2018
PRC, The artist is present Curated by Maurizio Cattelan, YUZ Museum, Shanghai
2017
TR, A Good Neighbour. 15th Istanbul Biennial Curated by Elmgreen & Dragset, Istanbul foundation for culture and arts, Istanbul
B, Man Alive Curated by Wendy White, Maruani Mercier Gallery, Bruxelles
USA, Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
USA, Concrete Island, Venus, Los Angeles
USA, Unpacking: The Marciano Collection, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles
USA, Material Concerns and Current Practices, Helen Frankenthaler Foundation, New York
2016
N, Los Angeles - A Fiction Curated by Gunnar B. Kvaran, Thierry Raspail, Nicolas Garait-Leavenworth, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Ali Subotnick, Alex Israel, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo
N, Adhesive Products, Kunsthall, Bergen
USA, Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947 – 2016, Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles
USA, No Man’'s Land: Women Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, National Museum of Women in the Art, Washington; Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Miami
NL, Full Moon, Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar
UK, Self, Massimo De Carlo, London
2015
USA, Second Chances, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen
USA, Panorama, The High Line, New York
A, Young Americans, Franz Josefs Kai 3, Wien
A, Sleepless: The Bed in History and Contemporary Art, 21er Haus, Wien
RL, New Skin, Aïshti Foundation, Beirut
2014
USA, CalArts Art Benefit and Auction, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
USA, Veils, Underground Museum, Los Angeles

Bibliography

Year
Author, Publication Title, Date
2021
Tenaglia, Francesco, il Foglio, April
2019
ArtReview, September
Upson, Kaari, Mousse Magazine, June
Dayal, Mira, Artforum, September
2017
Ashfaque, Rabia, The Brooklyn Rail
Stoilas, Helen, The Art Newspaper
T. Cole, Rachel, The Creative Independent
Istomina, Tatiana, Art in America
Gopnik, Blake, Artnet
Boucher, Brian, Artnet
Smith, Roberta, Holland Cotter e Jason Farago, The New York Times
Hohmann, Silke, Monopol Magazine
Lucas, Josh, Interview
2016
Perlson, Hili, Artnet News
Art News, 13 May
New York Magazine, April/may
Upson, Kaari, Berlin: Sprüth Magers
Farago, Jason, Even issue 4
Sorkin, J., Skira publishing, Exhibition Catalogue.
McMahon, Katherine, Art News
Schimmel, Paul e Jenni Sorkin, Hauser & Wirth; Skira
2015
Neue Journal
Upson, Kaari, The House – published on the occasion of The Los Angeles Project at Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, September/October
Purple Fashion Magazine
Roselione-Valadez, Juan, Miami: Rubell Family Collection
Marta, Karen, Brian Roettinger e Kaari Upson, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig
Pin-Up, Fall/winter
2014
Fogle, Douglas, Flash Art International, January/February
Naia, Gabriele, Flashart, January
Fogle, Douglas, Flash Art International, January/February
Upson, Kaari, Kaari Upson Studio
2013
Gnyp, Marta, Zoo Magazine

Public collections

Country
Location
Denmark
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk
France
CAPC Musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux
Germany
Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim
Marta Herford Museum for Art, Architecture, Design, Herford
Greece
Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens
Lebanon
Aïshti Foundation, Beirut
The Netherlands
Gemeentemuseum, The Hague
Voorlinden Museum, Wassenaar
United States of America
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami
Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Pérez Art Museum Miami
Rubell Collection, Miami
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis
Whitney Museum of Art, New York

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