Reena Spaulings

Biography

In 2004, the New York-based artist Reena Spaulings emerged from the daily operation of an art gallery (Reena Spaulings Fine Art, founded by John Kelsey & Emily Sundblad) on Manhattan’s Lower East Side.

 

Public Collections

MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
FRAC, France (Fonds Regional d’Art Contemporain)
Charles Riva Collection, Brussels

 

Solo Exhibitions

2020
Reena Spaulings: Life At Sea, Galerie Neu, Berlin

2019
Reena Spaulings: Lion Hunt, Campoli Presti, London (Cambridge Heath Rd), Bethnal Green, London

2018
Reena Spaulings: The Male Gates, Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles (N Orange Grove)

2017
HERE AND NOW at Museum Ludwig: Reena Spaulings, Museum Ludwig, Cologne

2016
Pont du Carrousel, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris

2015
Later Seascapes, Galerie Neu, Berlin

2014
Later Seascapes, Campoli Presti, London

2013
Reena Spaulings, Galerie Neu, Berlin

2012
︎;-)︎, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris

2011
More Michael Paintings, Indipendenza Studio, Rome
Michael, Boltenstern.Raum, Galerie Meyer Kainer, Vienna

2010
Reena Spaulings, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Berlin

2009
The Belgian Marbles, Sutton Lane, Brussels

2008
Front Room, St. Louis Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis
Courbet your Enthusiasm, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris

2007
How To Cook a Wolf, Kunsthalle Zurich

2006
Bialystoker, Sutton Lane, London

2005
The One & Only, Haswellediger & Co. Gallery, New York

 

Group Exhibitions

2022
For the People of Paris, CAMPOLI PRESTI, Paris
Exposition N°120 (maybe), BALICE HERTLING, Paris

2020
No Dandy, No Fun, Kunsthalle Bern
No Dandy, No Fun, VI, VII, Oslo

2019
Department of Carving and Modeling Section II: Form and Volume, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon
Buildings, Lodos Gallery, San Rafael, Mexico City
Klara Lidén: Now Two Three, Weiss Falk, Basel

2018
Maurizio Cattelan: The artist is present, Yuz Museum, Xuhui, Shanghai
Swiss Institute Architecture and Design Series: 3rd Edition. Readymades Belong To Everyone, Swiss
Institute, New York
ReCycle, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
Pizza is God, NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Dusseldorf
Optik Schröder II. Works from the Alexander Schröder Collection, MUMOK, Museum Moderner Kunst
Stiftung Ludwig ,Vienna

2017
in search of characters, Galerie Neu, Berlin
Sie sagen wo Rauch ist, ist auch Feuer, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern
Infected Foot, Greene Naftali, New York

2016
Campoli Presti, Paris
La collection Thea Westreich Wagner et Ethan Wagner, Centre George Pompidou, Paris
Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age, Mumok, Vienna
Exquisite Corpse, The Mistake Room, Los Angeles
Secret Surface – Wo Sinn Entsteht, Kunst-Werke Berlin, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin

2015
Collected by Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age, Museum Brandhorst, Munich
Rastros Y Vestigios: Indagaciones sobre el Presente, Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico
Open Source: Art At The Eclipse Of Capitalism, Galerie Max Hetzler, Paris
Open Source: Art at the Eclipse of Capitalism, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
Enigmas: Martin Barré, David Ostrowski, Julian Schnabel, Reena Spaulings, Andrea Rosen, New York

2014
Open Source: Art at the Eclipse of Capitalism, Max Hetzler gallery, Berlin
Galerie Neu at Gladstone Gallery, Gladstone Gallery, New York

2013
Coulisses, FRAC Aquitaine, Bordeaux
Chat Jet: a Transitive Character of Painting, Künstlerhaus/Halle für Kunst und Medien, Graz

2011
Nature morte vivante, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris

2010
La Règle du jeu, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
System Analysis, Westlondonprojects, London
So Be It: Interventions in Printed Matter, Andrew Roth Gallery, New York
Julian Göthe, Nairy Baghramian, Cerith Wyn Evans, Henrik Olesen, Michael Krebber, Cosima von Bonin, John Kelsey, Reena Spaulings, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
Seconde main, Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris

2009
Here Is Every. Four Decades of Contemporary Art, MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York
Pop Life, Tate Modern, London; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
It’s Not Me. It’s You, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
Sonic Youth etc: Sensational Fix, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf; Konsthall Malmö

2008
Sonic Youth etc: Sensational Fix, LiFE, Saint Nazaire ; Museion, Bolzano
Painting: Now and Forever, Part II, Carol Greene and Matthew Marks, New York
L’argent, Le Plateau / Frac Ile-de-France, Paris
Some Neighbors, Kunstverein München, Munich
Records played backwards, The Modern Institute, Glasgow
Faites vos je, Sextant et plus, La friche la belle de mai, Marseille
One season in Hell, MD 72, Berlin

2007
945 + 11, group show at the Frac-Collection Aquitaine, Bordeaux
Group Show, Sutton Lane, Paris
Terrible Video, Kunsthalle Zurich
Someone else with my fingerprints, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
Otra De Vaqueros, Centre d’Edition Contemporaine, Bâtiment d’art contemporain, Geneva
Make Your Own Life, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami
Uncertain States of America, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
Otra De Vaqueros (curated by Perros Negros), Mexico City
Make Your Own Life, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
For the People of Paris, Sutton Lane, Paris

2006
Bernadette Corporation, Witte de With, center for contemporary art, Rotterdam
Uncertain States of America, Serpentine Gallery, London
Make Your Own Life, The Power Plant, Toronto
Bring The War Home, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York/Los Angeles
Make Your Own Life (curated by Bennett Simpson), ICA, Philadelphia
Whitney Biennial 2006: Day For Night, Whitney Museum, New York
Beware of a Holy Whore, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris

2005
Painters Without Paintings & Paintings Without Painters, Orchard, New York
Tbilisi2 (curated by Daniel Baumann), Tbilisi
The Baltic Triennial 2005 (Black Market Worlds), CAC, Vilnius
Concrete Castle, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers
Lesser New York, curated by Fia Backstrom, New York
The One & Only, Haswellediger & Co. Gallery, New York

2004
Publish and Be Damned, Cubitt Gallery, London
Curious Crystals, PS1/MoMA, New York
Robert Smithson, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York

 

Other projects

Lee Williams – ongoing
An artist-persona created by Jutta Koether & Emily Sundblad.

Grand Openings – ongoing
A performance project by Ei Arakawa, Jutta Koether and Emily Sundblad. Versions have been presented at Anthology Film Archives, NYC and in Tblisi, Georgia and Japan.

A Night of Country – ongoing
A country music band, in collaboration with Richard Maxwell’s New York City Players. Concerts have been performed at Reena Spaulings Fine Art, Passerby, the Brooklyn Academy of Music and the Whitney Museum.

White Light/White Heat (2005)
A CD box set remake of the Velvet Underground album, featuring Barbara Sukowa, Rita Ackermann, Seth Price, Emily Sundblad, Gang Gang Dance and others.

All The King’s Horses (2004 – 2005)
A bootleg translation of Michèle Bernstein’s 1959 novel Tous les Chevaux du Roi.