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ARTISTS :
WES LANG view selected artwork, 2008-09 view selected earlier artwork EXHIBITIONS AT ZIEHERSMITH
1972 Born in Chatham, New Jersey Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2010 Smile, It's A Grey Day, ZieherSmith, New York 2009 Going All The Way For The U.S.A., V1 Gallery, Copenhagen 2008 Are You Ready For the Country?, ZieherSmith, New York 2006 Skulls and Shit, collaboration with Donald Baechler, Galleri Loyal, Stockholm, Sweden 2005 The Promised Land, ZieherSmith, New York I Shall Be Released, Bucket Rider, Chicago American Beauty, Galleri Loyal, Stockholm, Sweden 2004 Night of 100 Covers, Loyal Release, Passerby/Gavin Brown Enterprise, New York; Gallery Milliken, Stockholm, Sweden Home At Last, ZieherSmith, New York 2003 Self-portraits as a Handsome Young Man, RARE Gallery, New York 2002 Wes Lang: New Works on Paper, GV/AS Gallery, Brooklyn 2001 Bras, Mark Pasek Gallery, New York, catalogue with essay by Edward Albee 2000 Blacks & Whites, Mark Pasek Gallery, New York GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2010 Lush Life 3. First Bird (A Few Butterflies), curated by Franklin Evans & Omar Lopez-Chahoud, Invisible Exports, New York Draw, curated by Erik Foss and Curse Mackey, Museo de la Cuidad de Mexico, Mexico City Public Image, Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art and Design, Dundee, Scotland 2009 Grand Reopening, ZieherSmith, New York Carry On, two person show with Ryan Schneider, Eighth Veil, Los Angeles Just Landed, two person show with Eddie Martinez, aliceday, Brussels What So Proudly We Hail, Holster Projects, London 2008 The Destruction of Atlantis, curated by Jesper Elg, Union Gallery, London Everything Else, curated by Chris Churchill, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York Timeless, Morris Museum, Morristown, New Jersey The Boys Are Back In Town, V1 Gallery, Copenhagan The Boys Are Back In Town, Romo Gallery, Atlanta Brevity’s Rainbow, Cinders Gallery, Brooklyn 2007 Mail Order Monsters, curated by Kathy Grayson, Peres Projects, Berlin Collector's Choice, Dealim Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul, Korea True Faith, Greenberg Van Doren, New York Dark Victory, curated by Dimitrios Antonitsis, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Centre, Athens, Greece Five Painters, Galleri Loyal, Stockholm, Sweden 2006 10 Curatorial Perspectives, curated by Wayne Northcross, Haven Arts, Bronx, New York You have to be almost gifted to do what I do, Alexander and Bonin, New York Panic Room - Works from The Dakis Joannou Collection, curated by Kathy Grayson and Jeffrey Deitch, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece Natural History Museum, The Arsenal Gallery in Central Park, New York Don't Abandon The Ship, Allston Skirt, Boston 2005 Words: The Formal Presence of Text in Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper, Andrea Rosen, New York Loyal and his Band, Gallerie Loyal, Stockholm, Sweden Working Artists in Brooklyn, Romo Gallery, Atlanta Petits formats ou miniatures, Galerie Quang, Paris Everyody Knows This Is Nowhere, Gallerie Loyal, Stockholm, Sweden 2004 The Hunt For Your Family, V-1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark. Exhibition also traveled to Odd Number, Stockholm, Sweden 2003 New York Dirt, Claska Gallery, Tokyo, Japan stream, Rare Gallery, New York Benefit, White Columns Gallery, New York 2002 Waar, Andrew Andrew Curatorial Services, New York What's New Pussycat?, Briggs Robinson Gallery, New York, NY. She's Crafty... and So Is He Sometimes, White Columns Gallery, New York, NY. T & A, GV/AS Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. 2001 Paper, Mark Pasek Gallery, New York OIL, Mark Pasek Gallery, New York 2000 Hello My Name Is, Mark Pasek Gallery, New York Meat Market, Mark Pasek Gallery, New York 1999 Under Scrutiny, Limner Gallery, New York BIBLIOGRAPHY Scott Indrisek, “Big Picture,” Artinfo.com, August 5, 2010 Skulls And Shit: Donald Baechler, Wes Lang, New York, Ajax Press, 2010 Alex Hawgood, "The Moment Blog," nytimes.com May 12, 2009 David Coggins, “15 for '09: Wes Lang,” Interview Magazine (December 2008) Revisionaries; A Decade of Artists in Tokion, New York: Abrams, 2007 Resurrection, compiled by John Santos, New York: Common Space, 2007 Martin Gelin, "Wes, Jules & Eddie," Bon International 9 (Fall 2006) Tokion (Summer 2006) Lee Henderson, "Memento Vitae!" Art Review (April 2006) Emily Weiner, "Rare Specimen," Time Out New York, April 6-12, 2006 "Rare Specimen," The New Yorker, April 3, 2005 Nylon Japan (March 2006) Loyal and His Band, Stockholm: Loyal, 2005 Christopher Bollen, "Finely Drawn," V Man 5 (Fall/Winter 2005) "Land Masses: Wes Lang," The Drama 6 (2005) "A creative face-off between Nigel Cooke, Wes Lang, assume vivid astro focus, Cory Arcangel, Marcel Dzama, Jockum Nordstrom, Simone Shubuck, Dana Schutz, Andrew Kuo and Hisham Bharoocha.," Tokion Magazine 47 (May/June 2005) Jason Schmidt, "Work in Progress: Brave New World," Visionaire 33 (Spring 2005) "Wes Lang," interview and images, Loyal Magazine 9 (Spring 2005) Alex Wagner, "Wes Lang Is Trying to Change His Ways," The Fader 26 (December 2004) Cover image, Loyal Magazine (May 2004) Dave Dreher and Wes Lang, "AAAA League," Loyal Magazine (December 2003) "Wes Lang," Loyal Magazine (May 2003) Adam Glickman, "Wes Lang: King of Art," Tokion Magazine 34 (March/April 2003) Shelly Ridenour, "Book Mark: Boredom," Nylon Magazine (November 2002) Ben Reardon, "I'm the Chairman of the Bored," Dazed & Confused (October 2002) Sarah Valdez, "Hello Pussycat," Time Out New York (August 1-8, 2002) Boredom, New York: A Faile Collaboration, 2002, limited edition publication Genius, Nylon Magazine (2002) "Death," Mass Appeal Magazine (Winter, 2001) Death, New York: A Faile Collaboration: 2001, limited edition publication Orange, New York A Faile Collaboration: 2000, limited edition publication COLLECTIONS Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece Museum of Modern Art, New York Edward F. Albee Foundation, Montauk, New York AWARDS 2001 Edward F. Albee Foundation Residency, Montauk, New York |
