Zach Feuer Gallery


PHOEBE WASHBURN

b. 1973, Poughkeepsie, NY
Lives and Works in New York, NY

Education

MFA, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY 2002
BFA, Newcomb College, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA 1996

Solo Exhibitions

2008 Tickle the Shitstem, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY
2007 Regulated Fool’s Milk Meadow, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany
Vacational Trappings and Wildlife Worries, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
2006 2 BLT’s (Bought and Lovely Towns), Lipstick Building, 53rd and 3rd, New York, NY
2005 It Has No Secret Surprise, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
It Makes For My Billionaire Status, Kantor/Feuer Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004 Nothing’s Cutie, LFL Gallery, New York, NY
Bored Buys Options, The Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
Greed. The Landscape Maker, Lerimonti Gallery, Milan, Italy
2003 Heavy has Debt, Faulconer Gallery, Grinnell University, Grinnell, IA
True, False and Slightly Better, Rice University Gallery, Rice University, Houston, TX   
2002 Between Sweet and Low, LFL Gallery, New York, NY

Group Exhibitions

2008 The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
microwave, six, Josée Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY
2006 Burgeoning Geometries, Whitney at Altria, New York, NY
Wallpaper LAB, Lennon, Weinberg Gallery, New York, NY
Ping Pong Diplomacy, The Kemper Museum, Kansas City, MO
The Studio Visit, Exit Art, New York, NY
2005 The Bench, Kunsthalle St Gallen, St Gallen, Switzerland
Make It Now, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY
American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American              
Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Greater New York 2005, P.S. 1, Queens, NY Strange Architecture, Catherine Clark Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 AIM 22: Artist in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY Seconds of Something, P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY
Beginning Here: 101 Ways, Visual Arts Gallery, SVA, New York, NY
Slice and Dice, Visual Arts Gallery, SVA, New York, NY
2003 Rubbish, Cuchifritos, New York, NY
Mixture Gallery, Houston, TX
Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
2002 Art New York, kunstraume auf Zeit, Linz, Austria
DNA @DNA, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Everyday Materials, Westside Gallery, New York, NY
All You Can Eat, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY
2001 Integrated Aesthetics, SVA Satellite Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
1999 The Shape of Things to Come, Forma Gallery, New York, NY
Tree, Installation, Silverwood Street, Philadelphia, PA
1998 Invitational Show, Radiance Gallery, Greensboro, NC
An Artist’s Eye, The Greensboro Artists' League, Greensboro, NC
1997 Breakout, Rosetree Gallery, New Orleans, LA

Awards

2005 American Academy of Arts and Letters award recipient
2002 Marie Walsh Studio Program Recipient, New York, NY
1996 The Rusty Collier Memorial Award in Studio Art, Newcomb, Tulane University

Collections

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY

Bibliography: Reviews

Adams, Rebecca Knapp. “Hang it All.” Art + Auction April 2007: 136 –137.
Amy, Michael. “Phoebe Washburn at LFL.” Art in America January 2005: 117.
”Anlagenwachstum.” Tip Berlin 25 July 2007: 60.
Banai, Nuit. “”Phoebe Washburn: Tickle the Shitstem.” Time Out September 11-17, 2008: 71.
Bodin, Claudia. “Kunst am Fließband.” Art September 2007: 38-4.
Boker, Carmen. “Die grune Elster.” Berliner Zeitung 10 July 2007.
Boker, Carmen. “Küss die Wand.” Berliner Zeitung 7 August 2007.
Buhr, Von Elke. “Die Mutter der grünen Wiese.” 19 July 2007.
Chen, Aric. “Art to Paste Right Onto Walls.” The New York Times 31 August 2006: F3.
Cohen, David. “Locating Propriety in the Inappropriate.” The New York Sun 22 August 2008: 12.
Cohen, David. “Whitney Biennial Has Adopted A Boho Vibe.” The New York Sun 5 March 2008.
Cotter, Holland. “Art’s Economic Indicator.” The New York Times 7 March 2008.
“Cuchifritos.” The New York Times 18 April 2004.
Denk, Andreas. “Kunst: Phoebes Verrückte Grasfabrik.” Der Architeckt 2007.
Devine, John. “Spontaneous Architecture.” Houston Press 20 February 2003: 50.
Dobrzynski, Judith H. “Biennials are not enough.” The Art Newspaper 28-29 March 2008.
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“Grüner Rasen.” Focus 3 September 2007.
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Bibliography: Publications

Biesenbach, Klaus. Greater New York 2005 P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center 2005: 344-345.
Hamper, Ben and Joan Young, Jan Avgikos, and Phoebe Washburn. Phoebe Washburn: Regulated Fool's Milk Meadow, Guggenheim Museum, 2007.
Huldisch, Henriette and Shamim M. Momin. Whitney Biennial 2008 (Whitney Biennial) Yale University Press, 2008.



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