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Michael Rees
Current Exhibitions and Events
Statement
Michael Rees' work traverses a wide range of activities and efforts. He is a New York Artist who’s been showing his work since the 1980’s. Rees’ work weaves complex narrative around process and object that are at times grotesque or cerebral, uncanny or experientially charged. He has shown at the Whitney Museum in the 1995 Biennial and again in 2001 in the exhibition BitStreams. In 2009 Rees opened Putto 4 over 4 sculpture and animation at the Zentrum fur Medien Kunst (ZKM) in Karlsruhe, Germany. This year he opened Tactical Play Exchange a collaboration with Robert Gero in New York (Pablo’s Birthday Gallery) and Los Angeles (Favorite Goods). In 2008 Rees won a Rockefeller Renew Media Grant for the project Social Object: sculpture and software, and he has won a Creative Capital Gant and a National Endowment for the Arts Grant.
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1976 - 1978 |
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Vassar College, studied for 2 years with Alton Pickens. |
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1979 - 1982 |
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Kansas City Art Institute, Bachelors of Fine Arts, Studied with Dale Eldred |
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1983 - 1984 |
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Kunstakademie Dusseldorf as part of a Deutscher Akademischer Austauchdienst award. Awarded for study with Gunther Uecker and Joseph Beuys |
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1987 - 1989 |
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Yale University, Masters of Fine Arts, studied with Vito Acconci, Frank Gehry and Claus Oldenburg, Alice Aycock, and others |
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2010 |
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Michael Rees, Social Object, Chelsea Art Museum, Chelsea, New York, United States, curated by Koan Jeff Baysa and Nina Colosi (solo) |
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2009 |
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Michael Rees: Model Behavior, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, Texas, United States (solo) |
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2009 |
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Putto 4 over 4, Zentrum fur Medien Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany, curated by Peter Weibel, ongoing (solo) |
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2008 |
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Converge: Ghraib Bag, at Art Omi, Ghent, New York, United States (solo) |
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2008 |
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e-form, Mimetic Immersion and Activated Spectatorship in Virtual Sculpture, showing |
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2008 |
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Tree Blob, The Beijing Today Art Museum, Beijing China and Duolon Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai, China |
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2008 |
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Make Tank, The Lab, 501 Lexington Avenue New York, New York, United States |
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2008 |
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Prem McKeig, Robert Gero, Michael Rees, Matthew West, curated by Michael Rees |
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2008 |
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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 |
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2007 |
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Converge, Sculpture and Animation, Art Omi, Ghent, New York, United States (solo) |
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2006 |
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Putto 4 over 4 v2, Private collection, Greenwich, Connecticut, United States (solo) |
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2006 |
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Converge, Sculpture and Animation, Art Omi, Ghent, New York, United States (solo) |
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2006 |
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The Hedonistic Imperative, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, TX, curated by Graham Guerra |
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2005 |
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More Better Future, Rheineger Gallery, Cleveland institute of Art, Cleveland, Oh, curated by Saul Ostrow |
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2005 |
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Unrelated, Artists' Space, Saratoga Springs, NY, curated by Peter Dudek |
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2005 |
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Sculptural information, Exploratorium at the Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco, California, curated by Pam Winfrey |
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2005 |
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Group Exhibition, Bitforms Gallery, Art Koln, Koln, Germany |
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2005 |
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The Hedonistic Imperative, Jack the Pelican, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Graham Guerra |
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2005 |
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Putto 2x2x2x4, Sculpture and Animation, Permanent Installation 12th Street between Broadway and Central, Kansas City, Mo (solo) |
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2005 |
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Symbolic Logic, the Sculpture of Michael Rees, Panorama Art, Koln, West Germany (solo) |
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2005 |
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Putto 4 over 4 (1/3) at the MARTa Museum curated by Jan Hoet. Herford, Germany (solo) |
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2005 |
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Putto 4 over 4 (2/3) at the Decordova Museum, curated by George Fifield, Lincoln, MA (solo) |
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2005 |
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bitforms Seoul, Korea |
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2005 |
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Kemper Art Museum, Kansas City, public commission, sculpture/animation |
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2005 |
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MARTa Museum, Herford Germany |
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2005 |
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Putto 2x2x2x4, Sculpture and Animation, Permanent Installation 12th Street between Broadway and Central, Kansas City, Missouri, United States (solo) |
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2005 |
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Acquired by the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, United States |
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2005 |
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Symbolic Logic, the Sculpture of Michael Rees, Panorama Art, Koln, West Germany |
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2004 |
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Integrating the Digital Consciousness, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, TX |
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2004 |
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Group Exhibition, Silver Mine Arts Space, New Canaan, CT |
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2004 |
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Byte, Nassau County Museum |
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2004 |
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Michael Rees @ the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Ct. |
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2004 |
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Large and Moving @ The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Ct (solo) |
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2003 |
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Sculpture: Large, Small, and Moving, Bitforms Gallery, New York, New York (solo) |
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2003 |
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Sculpture: Large, Small, and Moving, bitforms Gallery, New York, New York |
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2003 |
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2003 Consciousness and Process in the work of Michael Rees and Michael Somoroff”, K99, Kologne West Germany |
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2003 |
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“Nown”: In the action of the animated person, place, thing, and quality, Woods Street Gallery, Pittsburgh. |
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2003 |
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From Code to Commodity: Genetics in Visual Art, The New York Academy of Sciences. Curated by Dorothy Nelkin and Suzanne Anker |
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2003 |
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Media Art, Daejeon-New York, Special Effects, Daejeon Municipal Museum of Art, Dae Jeon, South Korea, curated by Lawrence Rinder. |
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2003 |
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Fetish Human Fantastic, Boursein Gallery, Istanbull Turkey, curated by Michelle Thursz. |
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2002 |
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Project Room Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York, New York |
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2002 |
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ten, Universal Concepts Unlimited, New York, New York |
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2002 |
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Project Room Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York, New York (solo) |
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2002 |
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ten, Universal Concepts Unlimited, New York, New York (solo) |
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2001 |
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BitStreams, Whitney Museum of American Art New York |
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2001 |
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Ten, Universal Concepts Limited New York |
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2001 |
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Project Room, Gourney, Bravin & Lee New York |
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2000 |
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Photasm, Hunter College New York |
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2000 |
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NOISE, Kettle's Yard, Whipple Museum (History of Science) Cambridge U, England |
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1999 |
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Digital Hybrids, McDonough Museum of Art Younstown, OH |
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1999 |
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Artificial Sculpture (WYSIWIG), Forum For Contemporary Art St. Louis, MO |
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1999 |
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InterSculpt, The City Hall of the 6th Arrondisement Paris, France |
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1999 |
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Mind into Matter, The Computer Museum Boston, MA |
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1998 |
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Pop Surrealism, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art Conneticut |
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1998 |
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(re)Meditation: The Digital in Contemporary American Printmaking, University of South Florida Contemporary Art Mus Florida |
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1998 |
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The Spatial Qualities of the Digital Print: from Printmaking to Sculpture, Calcografia Nacional Madrid, Spain |
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1998 |
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New Surrealism, Pamela Achincloss Gallery New York |
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1998 |
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Gallerie Simmone Stern New Orleans, LA |
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1998 |
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From Ear to Ear, Central Fine Arts Inc. New York |
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1998 |
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The Ecstatic Body, Grand Arts Kansas City, MO |
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1997 |
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Digital Psyche, The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art & Design Kansas City, MO |
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1996 |
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Imaginary Anatomy, Pasinger Fabrik Munich, Germany |
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1995 |
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The 1995 Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art New York |
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1995 |
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Summer Fling, Basilico Fine Art New York |
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1995 |
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Home Noeticus, Basilico Fine Arts New York |
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1994 |
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The Figure as Fiction, The Cincinnati Art Center Cincinnati, OH |
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1993 |
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The Elusive Object: Recent Sculpture from the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum, The Whitney Museum of American Art New York |
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1993 |
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Basilico Fine Arts New York |
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1992 |
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Tony Shafrazi Gallery New York |
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1991 |
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303 Gallery New York |
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