Wade Guyton
Born 1972, Hammond, Indiana, USA
Lives and works in New York, New York, USA
Education (show/hide)
1996 - 1998 Hunter College, New York, New York, USA
1990 - 1995 B.A., University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tennessee, USA
Grants & residencies (show/hide)
Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, Inc., 2004.
Socrates Sculpture Park Emerging Artist Grant, 2003.
Artists Space Independent Projects Grant, 2002.
Delfina Studio Trust, London, 2000.
Solo exhibitions (show/hide)
2011
Guyton/Walker, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva, Switzerland.
Galerie Francesca Pia, Zürich, Switzerland.
Zeichnungen für ein kleines Zimmer, Grafisches Kabinett, Secession, Vienna, Austria.
Couleur et fabrication, Gio' Marconi, Milan, Italy.
Wade Guyton and Stephen Prina, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany.
2010
Zeichnungen für ein grosses Bild, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany.
Guyton/Walker, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, U.S.A.
Wade Guyton and Stephen Prina, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
2009
Guyton/Walker, Air de Paris, Paris, France.
Guyton/Walker, Greene Naftali, New York, U.S.A.
Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium.
Galleria Gió Marconi, Milan, Italy.
2008
Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany.
Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France.
LAX Art, (Guyton\Walker), Los Angeles, U.S.A.
Museum d’Arte Moderna Bologna (MAMbo), (Guyton\Walker), Bologna, Italy.
2007
Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Galerie Francesca Pia, Zürich, Switzerland.
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany.
The Suburban, Oak Park, Illinois, U.S.A.
2006
Wade Guyton, Haubrokshows, Berlin, Germany.
Paintings, Westlondonprojects, London, U.K.
Guyton\Walker: Empire Strikes Back, Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Color, Power & Style, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
Hard Hat Editions, Geneva, Switzerland.
La Salle de Bains, Lyon, France.
2005
Gavlak, West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A.
Color, Power & Style, Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany.
Galerie Francesca Pia, Bern, Switzerland.
Art 36 Statements, Galerie Francesca Pia, Basel Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland.
The Failever of Judgement, Part III, (Guyton\Walker), Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
2004
Objects are Much More Familiar, Power House, Memphis, Tennessee, U.S.A.
The Failever of Judgement, (Guyton\Walker), presented by Greene Naftali Gallery, Reinschau, Cologne, Germany.
XXXXX BBB XXXXXFFFFFF FFFF, (Guyton\Walker), Midway Contemporary, St. Paul, Minnesota, U.S.A.
2003
Elements of an Incomplete Map, Artists Space, New York, U.S.A.
1999
Andrew Kreps Gallery Project Space, New York, U.S.A.
1998
M.F.A. exhibition, Hunter College, New York, U.S.A.
Selected group exhibitions (show/hide)
2011
After Images, Musée Juif de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium
8 Americans, curated by Keith Mayerson, Alain Noirhomme Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
X, Gio' Marconi, Milan, Italy
Abstract Possible: The Zürich Test, a project by Maria Lind, Zürich University of the Arts, Zürich, Switzerland
That's the Way We Do It: Techniques and Aesthetics of Appropriation from Ei Arakawa to Andy Warhol, curated by Yilmaz Dziewior, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
Abstract Possible, a project by Maria Lind, Museo Tamayo, Bosque de Chapultepec, Mexico City
Systemanalyse, curated by Christiane Schneider, Langen Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany
Abstract and Traces, Ribordy Contemporary, Geneva, Switzerland
Shapes, Haubrokshows, Berlin, Germany
Untitled (Painting), Luhring Augustine, New York, U.S.A
2010
Five Year Anniversary, Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, U.S.A
Die Grosse Inventur - 20 Year Anniversary Exhibition, Galerie Francesca Pia, Zürich, Switzerland
La Règle du jeu, La Douane, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Systems Analysis, westlondonprojects, London, U.K
The space between reference and regret, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
At Home/Not At Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, curated by Matthew Higgs, CCS Bard, Hessel Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson, U.S.A
Picture Industry (Good Bye To All That), curated by Walead Beshty, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, U.S.A
Narcissus Trance, E:vent Gallery, London, U.K
Almeria, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Grass Grows by Itself, curated by Sima Familant, Marlborough Gallery, Chelsea, New York, U.S.A
They Have Not the Art to Argue with Pictures, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, U.S.A
The Page, Kimmerich, New York, U.S.A
Fade into You, Herald St, London, U.K
Neugierig? (Curious?), curated by Rainald Schumacher, Exhibitionhall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn, Germany
Fax, Parasite Art Space, Sheun Wan, Hong Kong
2009
Space as Medium, curated by Rene Morales, Miami Art Museum, Miami
Besides, With, Against, and Yet: Abstraction and The Ready-Made Gesture, curated by Debra Singer, The Kitchen, New York
DARE, Galerie Conradi, Hamburg
T2 Torino Triennale 50 Moons of Saturn, Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Fondazione Sandretto Re, Rebaudengo, Fondazione Torino Musei, Torino, 2008-2009
The Secret Life of Objects: Work from Private Twin Cities Collections, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis
Top 10 allegories, curated by Hard Hat, Francesca Pia Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland
Cave Painting, PSM Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
White Columns-Xerox Prints, Shane Campbell Gallery, Oak Park, Illinois, U.S.A.
Dépendance, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels, Belgium.
Ecritures Silencieuses, Espace Louis Vuitton, Paris, France.
Fax, The Drawing Center, New York, U.S.A.
Here Is Every. Four Decades of Contemporary Art, MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York, U.S.A.
Phot(o)bjects (Guyton\Walker), Presentation House Gallery - PHG, North Vancouver, Canada.
In the darkness: Tom Friedman, Wade Guyton, Peter Hujar, Patrick Lee, John McCracken, and Hedi Slimane, PHIL, Los Angeles
Material Intelligence, Kettle’s Yard, Cambridge
FIVE, Baibakov Art Projects, Moscow
Cave Painting, curated by Bob Nickas, PSM Gallery, Berlin
A wild night and another road, Altman-Siegel Gallery S/F, San Francisco
2008
for what you are about to receive, Gagosian Gallery c/o Red October, Moscow, Russia.
Oranges and Sardines: Conversations on Abstract Painting with Mark Grotjahn, Wade Guyton, Mary Heilmann, Amy Sillman, Charline von Heyl, and Christopher Wool, curated by Gary Garrels, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
Painting: Now and Forever, Part II, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
Not So Subtle Subtitle, cur. Matthew Brannon, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
Notes on abstraction : a selection of recent abstract works from the Berezdin collection, Espacio 1414, Porto Rico, Porto Rico.
That social space between speaking and meaning, cur. Fia Backström, White Columns, New York, U.S.A.
Records Played Backwards, cur. Daniel Baumann, Modern Institute, Glasgow, U.K.
Zuordnungsprobleme, Galerie Johann König, Berlin, Germany.
God Is Design, (Guyton\Walker), Galerie Fortes Vilaca, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Sculpture and the Concepts of Spatial Illusion 1967- 2007, Western Michigan University, Kalamazoo, Michigan, U.S.A.
Nina in Position, cur. Jeffrey Uslip, Artists Space, New York, U.S.A.
Kunst im Heim, Capitain Petzel Gallery, Berlin, Germany.
2007
Hard Hat at Dispatch, cur. Fabrice Stroun and Balthazar Lovay, Dispatch, New York, U.S.A.
Tbilisi 4: Everyday is Saturday, cur. Daniel Baumann, Tbilisi, Georgia.
Biennale de Lyon, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France.
String Show, cur. Josh Smith, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
Neo-Integrity, cur. Keith Mayerson, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
What is Painting? cur. Anne Umland, Museum of Modern Art, New York, U.S.A.
Someone else with my fingerprints, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France.
Overtake: The Reinterpretation of Modern Art, Lewis Glucksman Gallery University College Cork, Cork, Ireland.
Degree Zero, Richard Telles Fine, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
Introvert, Extrovert, Makes no Difference, cur. John Armleder, Galerie Catherine Issert, Saint Paul de Vence,
France.
The Lath Picture Show, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
Uncertain States of America: American Art in the 3rd Millennium, (Guyton\Walker), cur. Daniel Birnbaum, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Gunnar Kvaran, Le Musée de Serignan, Serignan; Herning Art Museum, Herning; The Centre for Contemporary Art, Zanek Ujazdowski, Warsaw, Poland.
À Moitié Carré À Moitié Fou / Half Square Half Crazy Centre National d’Art Contemporain de la Villa Arson Nice, cur. Vincent Pécoil, Lili Reynaud Dewar and Elisabeth Wetterwald, Nice, France.
DUMP- Postmodern Sculpture in the Dissolved Field, Nationalmuseet for Kunst, Arkitektur og Deisg, Oslo, Norway.
Stuff: International Contemporary Art from the Collection of Burt Aaron, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, Michigan, U.S.A.
Seth Price / Kelley Walker / Continuous Project, (Continuous Project), Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, U.K.
Appropriation, Authority and Authenticity, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico, Santurce, Puerto Rico.
Imagination Becomes Reality, ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Germany.
Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative, cur. Jens Hoffmann, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, England, U.K.
For the People of Paris, Sutton Lane (c/o Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot), Paris, France.
2006
Uncertain States of America: American Art in the 3rd Millennium, (Guyton\Walker), cur. Daniel Birnbaum, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Gunnar Kvaran, Serpentine Gallery, London, England,UK; Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik; The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale on-Hudson, New York, U.S.A.
Wieder und Wider: Performance Appropriated (Continuous Project), cur. Barbara Clausen, Achim Hochdoerfer, MUMOK, Vienna, Austria.
Wade Guyton, Seth Price, Josh Smith, Kelley Walker, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Sudden Impact: New Acquisitions from the Frac Ile-de-France, Plateau/Frac-Ile-de-France, Paris, France.
Tbilisi 3. Let’s Stay Alive Till Monday, cur. Daniel Baumann, Children’s National Gallery, Tiblisi, Georgia, U.S.A.
Breathing Time, Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, Louisiana, U.S.A.
Imagination Becomes Reality Part IV: Borrowed Images, Sammlung Goetz, Münich, Germany.
Bring the War Home, (Guyton\Walker), QED Gallery, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
Pose and Sculpture, cur. Daniel Baumann, Casey Kaplan, New York, U.S.A.
Delete/How to Make a Perfect Ghost, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
Matthew Brannon, Wade Guyton , Patrick Hill, United Artists, Ltd., Marfa, U.S.A.
Modern Primitives, (Guyton\Walker), Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, U.S.A.
Ordnung + Verführung, Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich, Switzerland.
An ongoing Low-Grade Mystery, (Guyton\Walker), cur. Bob Nickas, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
2005
Uncertain States of America: American Art in the 3rd Millenium, (Guyton\Walker), cur.Daniel Birnbaum, Hans
Ulrich Obrist and Gunnar Kvaran, Astrup Fearnley Musset for Moderne Kunst, Olso, Norway.
Unburied/Reburied, cur. Hans-Jurgen Hafner, Kunstbunker, Nürnberg, Germany.
Make It Now: New Sculpture in New York, (Guyton\Walker), Sculpture Center, New York, U.S.A.
Grey Flags, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Greater New York, P.S. 1-MOMA, New York, U.S.A.
New York Twice, cur. Fabrice Stroun, Air de Paris, Paris, France.
Tête à Tête, Greenberg van Doren Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
Die Gute Forme, cur. Gerold Miller, Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, Germany.
Dead/Undead, cur. Hans-Jürgen Hafner, Galerie Six Friedrich Lisa Ungar, Münich, Germany.
Principles of Construction, cur. Friederike Nymphius, Kunsthalle Andratx, Mallorca, Spain.
Meet me at the Corner, Fortescue Avenue / Jonathan Viner, London, U.K.
Pale Ramone, cur. Matt Saunders, Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland.
2004
Last one on is a soft Jimmy, cur. Kelley Walker, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
Formalismus. Moderne Kunst, heute / Formalism. Modern Art, today., Kunstverein in Hamburg, Germany.
Real World: The Dissolving Space of Experience, Modern Art Oxford, Oxford, U.K.
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, U.S.A.
Tuesday is Gone, cur. Daniel Baumann, Karvasla, Tbilisi, Georgia.
The Age of Optimism, cur. Fabrice Stroun, Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zürich, Switzerland.
Circa Circe, cur. Julien Fronsacq, Forde espace d’art contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland.
2004 Summer program, cur. Cay-Sophie Rabinowitz, apexart, New York, New York, U.S.A.
Unplugged Architecture, cur. Max Henry, Frederieke Taylor Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
Notes on Renewed Appropriationisms, cur. Lauri Firstenberg, The Project, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
2003
Junge Szene, (Kontext, Form, Troja), cur. Daniel Baumann, Secession, Vienna, Austria.
Le Rayon Noir, cur. Fabrice Stroun and Mai-Thu Perret, Circuit, Lausanne, Switzerland.
In the Public Domain, (Continuous Project), Greene Naftali, New York, U.S.A.
All that was not then, cur. Meredyth Sparks, Year, New York, U.S.A.
Corporate Profits vs. Labor Costs, cur. John Conelly, D’Amelio Terras, New York, U.S.A.
High Desert Test Sites #2, Joshua Tree, U.S.A.
Snowblind, (with Mungo Thomson and Matthew Brannon), John Connelly Presents, New York, U.S.A.
88.7 89.3 103.9 (with Kelley Walker and Seth Price), Free 103.9, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.A.
Welcome Home, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, New York, U.S.A.
2002
Building Structures, PS1-MoMA, New York, U.S.A.
Brewster Project, cur. Mari Spirito, Brewster, Massachusetts, U.S.A.
Second Sight: Hunter College MFA Alumni Exhibition 1991 – 2001, Hunter College Time Square Gallery, New York, U.S.A.
Lucky DeBellevue, Wade Guyton, Richard Hawkins, Jeff Ono, PHIL, Los Angeles, U.S.A.
Retrofit, cur. Lauri Firstenberg, Lombard-Freid Gallery, New York, New York, U.S.A.
2001
David Brody, Mark Grotjahn, Wade Guyton, Siobahn Liddell, Gorney, Bravin, + Lee, New York, New York,
U.S.A.
The Love of Look, cur. Kirsty Bell, Kerstin Engholm Galerie, Vienna, Austria.
After the Diagram, cur. Lauri Firstenberg and Douglas Cooper, Whitebox, New York, U.S.A.
Group Show (Spring 2001), cur. Michele Maccarone and Chivas Clem, The Fifth International, New York, U.S.A.
2000
New York Projects, Delfina, London, U.K.
21st Century Group Show… or it’s only just begun, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, U.S.A.
Kosmobiologie, cur. Nancy Chaikin, Bellwether, New York, U.S.A.
1999
Answer Yes, No, or Don’t Know – Quadrants, cur. by Ricci Albenda, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, New
York, U.S.A.
A Radiant Future (with Lothar Hempel, Simon Periton, Daniel Roth and Richard Wright), Forde, Geneva, Switzerland.
1998
Sacrifizzio dell’ intelletto 5.0, (with Omer Fast, Andrew Mount, James Dawson-Hollis), 289 Hudson, New
York, U.S.A.
1997
Cambio, Kenny Schachter’s Rove, New York, U.S.A.
Public collections (show/hide)
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, USA.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, USA.
FRAC, Ile-de-France, France.
MAMCO, Musee D’art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland.
Neue Pinakothek, Münich, Germany.
Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland.