Meredyth Sparks

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Born in 1972 in the USA. Lives and works in New York, USA.

Education

2003 MFA, Hunter College, New York, NY, USA
1994 BFA, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, US

Solo Exhibitions

2009
Everything we have loved is lost., galerie frank elbaz, Paris, France
Gudrun Constructed, Projects in Art and Theory, Cologne, Germany
There is One In Every Crowd, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels

2008
We were strangers for too long., Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, USA

2006
We’re treating each other just like strangers., galerie frank elbaz, Paris, France

Group Exhibitions

2010
I am a cliché, échos de l’esthétique punk, Les rencontres d’Arles Photographie, Arles, France

2009
Sound of Music, Turner Contemporary Project Space, Kent, UK
Otras Voces, Otras Ambitos, Galeria Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain
Sur Le Dandysme Aujourd’hui: Del maniquí en el escaparate a la estrella mediática / From
Shop Window Mannequin to Media Star, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Spain
The Importance of Daydreams, World Class Boxing, Miami
White Noise, James Cohen Gallery, New York

2008
Collection Art Foundation Mallorca, CCA Andratx, Mallorca
Amy Granat, Nate Hylden and Meredyth Sparks, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, USA
Sound of music II, Tri Postal, Lille, France
Recent Acquisitions, Gifts and Works from Various Exhibitions 1985-2008, White Columns, New York, USA, curated by Bob Nickas
A New High In Getting Low II, John Connelly Presents, New York, USA
In Repose, The Debra and Dennis Scholl Collection, Moore College of Art and Design,
Philadelphia, USA, curated by Lori Mertes
The Object is the Mirror, part II, Wilkinson Gallery, London, UK, curated by Max Henry

2007
The Object is the Mirror, Layr Wuestenhagen Contemporary, Vienna, Austria, curated by Max Henry
A New High In Getting Low, artnews projects, Berlin, Germany, curated by John Connelly
Cosmic Dreams, Kunsthalle Centro Cultural, Majorca, Spain, curated by Friederike Nymphius
Cut, Thierry Goldberg Projects, New York
Three Years and Counting, Tart, San Francisco, CA, USA
2nd Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia, invited by Nicolas Bourriaud
(The) Melvins @ (the) Mandrake, Los Angeles, CA, USA, curated by Bob Nickas
Just Kick It Till It Breaks, The Kitchen, New York, NY, USA, curated by Debra Singer & Matthew
Lyons
Two-person show with Richard Aldrich, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Dracularising, Neue Alte Brücke, Frankfurt, Germany, curated by Matthew Williams
9 or 10 works I used to like, in no order, Monitor Gallery, Rome, Italy curated by Luca Lo Pinto

2006
Music is a Better Noise, P.S.1, Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY, USA,
curated by Bob Nickas
Thank You For The Music (London Beat), Sprüth Maggers Lee, London, UK curated by
Johannes Fricke-Waldthausen
Deaf, from the Audible to the Visible , galerie frank elbaz, Paris, France
This ain’t no karaoke, Haas & Fischer Gallery, Zürich, Switzerland, curated by Max Henry

2005
Lords, Notes on Vision, Tart, San Francisco, CA, USA (two-person)
Meeting of the Minds,with performance by Franklin County, Knoxville, TN, USA
Sound Clash, PH Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2004
First Look Photography, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York

2003
It wasn’t midnight. It wasn’t snowing, Hunter College Times Square Gallery, New York (solo)

1999
Summer Show, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY, USA

1998
Bowie, Rupert Goldsworthy Gallery, New York, NY, USA

1996
I Will Sleep Like a Baby, Roll Over Like a Pussycat, A-1, Knoxville, TN, USA

Curatorial projects

2009
Next Year’s Models, organized with Brian Gempp, X Initiative, NY

2004
Skull Turner, year project space, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Two Enter and One Leaves, year project space, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Capitals and Constructs, year project space, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Four Projects, year project space, Brooklyn, NY, USA

2003
All That Was Not Then, year project space, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Publications

Bibliography

2009
Meredyth Sparks, written by Nicolas Bourriaud originally printed in Meredyth Sparks,
published by Monografik Editions, 2009 in conjunction with Galerie Frank Elbaz and
Elizabeth Dee Gallery, 20 Hoxton Square Newspaper, October 2009
White Noise, by Alan Licht, Artforum, October, Vol. XLVIII, No. 2, p.236
Meredyth Sparks, with essays by Nicolas Bourriaud and Robert Hobbs, published by
Monografik Editions, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Elizabeth Dee Gallery
Meredyth Sparks, by Lillian Davies, artforum.com, October
Meredyth Sparks, Everything We Have Loved Is Lost, by Jean-Max Colard, les
inrockuptibles, October, No 724
Arty Sparks Attraction, by Soline Delos, Elle, September 25th, No. 3326, p.40
Meredyth Sparks : We were strangers for too long, at Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, by
Christine Licata, Art on Paper, Jan/Feb, Vol. 13, No. 3, pp. 88-9
Gudrun und der ominöse Plattenspieler, by Georg Imdahl, Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, Nr. 58,
Dienstag, 10. März 2009, p. 31
Jahresrückblick 2008, by Ulrike Knöfel, ART das Kunstmagazin, March

2008
Sound of Music: Collection Frac Nord-Pas de Calais, exhibition catalog, p. 94-97
Meredyth Sparks, by Graham T. Beck, Frieze Magazine, Issue 119, Nov-Dec 2008
Meredyth Sparks Show, by Fan Zhong, Interview Magazine, September 2008
Frieze, upcoming review on the show We were strangers for too long., Elizabeth DeeGallery, New York, USA
The Permanent Revolution, by Joan Anderman, The Boston Globe, Nov. 16th

2007
Three Years and Counting, by Alex Hetherington, Shotgun Review
9 or 10 Lavori Che Mi Piacevano, In Nessun Ordine, by Francesco Ventrella,
Flash Art Italy, August/September
Doingbird, Twelve
Puro piacere critico, by Andrea Lissoni, Rolling Stone, July
Just Kick It Till It Breaks, The New Yorker, April 30
Just Kick It Till It Breaks, by Holland Cotter, The New York Times, April 13
2nd Moscow Biennale, by Claire Barliant, Modern Painters, May
Footnotes on Geopolitics, Market, and Amnesia, 2 Moscow Biennale of
Contemporary Art, edited by Nikolai Molok, pp. 120-121
Report From Paris, by Chris Bors, artnet.com
Rock & Litérature, by Nelly Kapiélian, Les Inrockuptibles, March 6
Dress Art Project, Another Magazine, Spring/Summer 2007
Enfant du Rock, by Fabienne Garcia, Le Figaro, January 11
Meredyth Sparks, by Naomi Beckwith, Artkrush, January 24

2006
Menace, Glitter and Rock in Visions of Dystopia, by Roberta Smith, New York Times,
December 29
Cover Bands, by Emily Speers Mears, V Magazine, Spring 2006, pp. 138-139
The Art of Noise, by Kate Sennert, V Magazine, Fall 2006.
Deaf, by Berenice Bailly, Le Monde, April 1st.
Musiques attitudes, by Bernard Genies, Le Nouvel Observateur, March 23rd
Deaf, From the Audible to the Visible, by Emmanuelle Lequeux, Rendez-Vous,
March 22nd
“Deaf, From the Audible to the Visible,” by Emmanuel Posnic, paris-art.com
“We’re treating each other just like strangers.,” by Emmanuel Posnic, paris-art.com

2004
Top Ten”for year, ArtForum, April 2004, p.60

2001
K-48 Magazine, two images

1998
NY Arts, #27, December 1998, p.46-47
Bowie, by Grady T.Turner, Review Magazine, December, p.24