Ari Marcopoulos

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Born in 1957 in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Lives and works in Sonoma, California.

Education

1988 Master of Fine Arts, University of Massachussetts at Amherst, USA
1984 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Canada

Solo Exhibitions (selection)

2009
Within Arm’s Reach, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, USA

2008
Fear God, The Project, New York, USA
The Chance is Higher, Gallery White Room, Tokyo, Japan
Ari Marcopoulos: Architectures, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, USA

2007
The Chance Is Higher, MC, Los Angeles, USA

2006
Under Penalty of Perjury, Someday Gallery, Melbourne, USA
Flow, Mu, Eindhoven, Netherlands
New Work, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, USA

2005
Even the president of the United States sometimes has got to stand naked, PS1/MOMA,New York, NY, USA

2004
No. 12 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2002
Pass The Mic 1991-1996, Shibuya Tower, Tokyo, Japan

2001
Alleged Galleries, New York, USA
The Deep Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Partobject Gallery, Carrboro, USA

1990
Midtown-Y-Gallery, New York, USA

Group Exhibitions (selection)

2009
An Autobiography of the San Francisco Bay Area, Part One: San Francisco Plays Itself, San Francisco, USA
Camerawork, San Francisco, USA
Copy, White Columns, New York, USA

2008
In the Company of Artists: Photographs from the DIA Collection, Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, USA
Mini Market, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Nieves Library, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, France
Gravity Art, Telic Arts Exchange, Los Angeles, USA
Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue, Marella Gallery, Milan, Italy
A Curator’s Gift: Contemporary Photography from Diego Cortez, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, USA
Male, work from the collection of Vince Aletti, White Columns, New York, USA

2007
7 photographers, Community Outreach, London, Ontario, USA
Hommies, Fuse Gallery, New York, USA
In the Fullness of Time: Celebrating Twenty Years, The Luggage Store, San Francisco, USA
Making the Scene: The Midtown Y Photography Gallery, (1972-1996), New York, USA
Public Library, New York, USA
JH ENGSTRöM, LEIGH LEDARE, ARI MARCOPOULOS, Cohan and Leslie Gallery,
New York Collectivity, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA
Allusive Moments, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, USA

2006
Looking Back, White Columns, New York, USA
Zine Library, No. 12 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Downtown 81, Friends of Basquiat, Agnes B. Skyline, Paris, France
In the Alps, Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland
JRP/Ringier-We Make books With Art, Christophe Daviet-Thery, Paris, France
Coooool Sky, The JRNL Gallery, New York, USA
Sound Zero, Kunst Meran, Merano, Italy
An Ongoing Low-Grade Mystery, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
Shoot the Family, Cranbrook Museum, Detroit, USA
Portraits of Artists: A selection of photographic works from the collection of Rex Capital,
Rhode Island, USA
Luhring-Augustine Gallery, New York, USA
Bastard Kids of Drella, Le consortium, Dijon, curated by Steven Parrino, France
Last Chance Texaco, Jean Deaux, Brooklyn, USA
Drive In, Parking de l’Hôpital Archet 2, Nice, France (organized by La Station, with John Armleder, Olivier Mosset, Fabrice Gygi, Ben, Sylvie Fleury, etc.)

2005
De la comtesse de Castiglione a Cindy Sherman, Galerie de France, Paris, France
The Backroom, The Backroom, Los Angeles, USA
Bay Area Now 4, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA
Nieves Books Exhibition, Rocket Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2004
Beautiful Losers, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA
Fresh: Youth Culture & Identity in Contemporary Photographs, Center for Photography at
Woodstock, Woodstock, USA
The Gray Area: Uncertain Images: Bay Area Photography 1970’s to Now, CCAC Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA

2003
Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Danger Zone, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Study, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
My Xerox Weighs a Ton, Australian Centre for Photography, Australia
The Bowl, Deitch Projects, New York, USA
Who? Me?, Zabriskie Gallery, New York, USA

2002
Mystic Mountains, Aosta, Tour Fromage, Italy
Overnight to Many Cities, The Photgraphers’ Gallery, London, UK
Strange Glue, Ratio 3, Brooklyn, USA
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum, New York, USA

2001
Overnight to Many Cities, 303 Gallery, New York, USA

2000
A Beastie Boys Exhibition, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise Corp., New York, USA

1999
Coup d’Etat, Alleged Galleries, New York, USA

1995
The Happiest People in the World, Alleged Galleries, New York, USA

Screenings

2000
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
New Documentaries, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

1999
Captain Powder: Exploring the Snow Sport Genre, 911 Media Arts Center, Seattle, USA
The 42nd San Francisco International Film Festival, San Francisco Film Society, USA

Collections

Detroit Institute of the Arts
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
Rex Capital Collection
New Orleans Museum of Art