joe scanlan
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Born 1961, Stoutsville, Ohio
Lives and works in New York

 

Solo

2019 Artisanal Complex, andriesse eyck galerie, Amsterdam
2018 Joe Scanlan: New Tricks, New Schemes, galerie Martin Janda, Vienna
2016 Véritablement (with Donelle Woolford), ARCO Madrid, 35th Anniversary Section, Madrid
Indoor Outposts, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Brüssel
2015 Le Classisme, Villa du Parc, Annemasse 
2013 Abstract Labor, or: The Happy Butcher, Galerie de Expeditie, Amsterdam
2012 Part I: Object Lessons, Mu.Zee, Oostende
Part II: Truffle Finds Pig, Mu.Zee, Oostende 
2011 Three works, Wallspace Gallery, New York
2009 Change of Season, Galerie de Expeditie, Amsterdam
Diversification, chez Valentin Gallery, Paris
RED FLAGS, Castillo/Coralles, Paris
Passing through, Koninklijk Museum voor Schone Kunsten, Antwerp
2008 Creative Destruction Traveling Salesman Circular Economy", Martin Janda Gallery, Vienna
Donelle Woolford, Wallspace Gallery, New York
2007 SoLongSolSoLong, IAC-New Museum, Villeurbanne
Passing Through, K21 Kunstammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Donelle Woolford, a narrative by Joe Scanlan, Chez Valentin Gallery, Paris
2005 Massachusetts Wedding Bed, Galerie de Expeditie, Amsterdam
Things That Fall, Chez Valentin Gallery, Paris

 

Group

2018 Klassenverhältnisse - Phantoms of Perception, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg
Décor / Avant-poste, curated by Joe Scanlan, Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou
Avant-poste, Hab Galerie, Nantes
2016 Three Paths to the Lake, Galerie Martin Janda, Wien
2015 Les Mondes Inversés, BPS22 Musée d'art de la Province du Hainaut, Charleroi
Collection | Sol Lewitt – Cabinet 5, S.M.A.K. Gent
2014 Postscript. Writing After Conceptual Art, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, East Lansing, MI
The SEA – salut d'honneur Jan Hoet, Mu.Zee, Kunstmuseum an Zee, Oostende
I Am Another World, Akademie der Bildende Kunste, Wien
Petals on the Wind, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Brussels
Thingsthatfall, New York Art Book Fair, MoM P.S. 1 Museum, New York
2013 Rock Paper Scissors work on paper, Galerie De Expeditie, Amsterdam 
Cold Sun / Soleil froid, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2012 A Battle for Narrative, BonnefantenHedgeHouse, Maastricht
Fremde überall / Foreigners Everywhere, Works from the Pomeranz Collection, Jüdisches Museum Wien
Ändere dich, Situation, Stadtgalerie Schwaz
Parallelwelt Zirkus, Kunsthalle Wien
2011

The Avantgarde: Specters of the Nineties, Marres Maastricht, Centre for Contemporary Culture
TOTEM AND TABOO, quartier21 Wien 
The Way it wasn't, Culturgest Porto – Galeria, Porto 
Noli Me Tangere, Collection Vanmoerkerke, Oostende
Forever, ProjecteSD, Barcelona 
Totem and Taboo, quartier21, Museumsquartier Wien
The Sound of Downloading Makes Me Want to Upload, Galerie Sommer & Kohl, Berlin 
Bob & Breakfast, Galerie Nelson, Paris
In Deed: Certificates of Authenticity in Art, De Vleeshal, Middelburg
2010 COLLECTION 10, IAC – Institut d´art contemporain – Frac Rhône-Alpes, Villeurbanne
Premier Étage – Second Degré, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxemburg
Mudam Collection, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc-Jean, Luxemburg 
The Unreadymade, FormContent, London
The Way It Wasn’t: Celebrating Ten Years of castillo/corrales, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis 
2009 GAGARIN, The Artists in their Own Words – The first Decade, S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent
About We, Tate Modern, London
Return to Function, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Wisconsin
Paper Exhibition, Artists Space, New York
Sculptural  collection, S.M.A.K.  Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent
The Malady of Writing: A project on text and speculative imagination, MACBA, Barcelona
2008 Archaeology of Longing, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris
Double Agent, ICA, London
> exhibitions
> publications
Joe Scanlan, Artisanal Complex 2019

Joe Scanlan, Set I (wall), 2019
oil paint, reclaimed wood, archival inkjet on paper, polyvinyl acetate, wood
168 x 112 x 15 cm

Joe Scanlan, Stretchers, 2018
oil paint on various reclaimed woods
variable sizes
Joe Scanlan, Artisanal Complex 2019

Joe Scanlan, Saack van Laack, 2019
repurposed van Laack shirt sleeves, rip-stop nylon, polyester
edition of 25

Joe Scanlan, Artisanal Complex I, 2019
archival inkjet on paper mounted on gessoed linen, vinyl wallpaper
300 x 360 x 5 cm
Joe Scanlan, Artisanal Complex II, 2019
repurposed van Laack shirt sleeves, rip-stop nylon, polyester, vinyl wallpaper, archival inkjet on paper, polyvinyl acetate, wood
168 x 112 x 20 cm
Joe Scanlan, Artisanal Complex 2019
Joe Scanlan, Palermo, 2018
digital font derived from the basic forms in Blinky Palermo’s Blau Scheibe und Stab (1968), archival inkjet on various Epson photo papers with sample pack interleaving, storage box
edition of 26
Joe Scanlan, Palermo, 2018
digital font derived from the basic forms in Blinky Palermo’s Blau Scheibe und Stab (1968), archival inkjet on various Epson photo papers with sample pack interleaving, storage box
edition of 26
Artisanal Complex 2019
Donelle Woolford, The Raw and the Cooked, 2016
exotic inlay wood box containing 1907, a book authored by the fictional artist Donelle Woolford and printed in Marrakesh, interleaved with recipes handwritten by the people who printed the book in Marrakesh
20.5 x 15 x 3.8 cm
edition of 35
 
Joe Scanlan, Cold Turkey, 2013, linen and acrylic fibre on vintage indoor clothesline, 193 x ca. 250 cm
Joe Scanlan, Abstract Labor, or: The Happy Butcher, view galerie de Expeditie, 2013 
Joe Scanlan, Abstract Labor, or: The Happy Butcher, view galerie de Expeditie, 2013 
Joe Scanlan, RA, 2013, wood, oilpaint, 72,5 x 70,5 x 6 cm
Joe Scanlan, Ides, 2013, chintz, rayon, linen, cotton, poplin on vintage indoor clothesline, 220 x ca 493 cm                                                                                  
Joe Scanlan, GV, 2013, wood, gouache, 40,5 x 40 x 5 cm
Joe Scanlan, MC, 2013, dyptych, wood, 45,5 x 45 x 3 cm and 40 x 40 x 1,5 cm
Joe Scanlan, A Battle for Narrative, view Bonnefanten Hedge House Foundation, 2012
Joe Scanlan, Bryter Layter, 2009, plywood, enamel paint, acrylic paint, gouache, steel wire, yellow paper, hot glue, 9 parts, 141 x 206 x 107 cm
Joe Scanlan, Springtime for Kippenberger, 2009, wood, polystyrene, acrylic paint, gouache, steel wire, yellow paper, hot glue
31 parts, 142 x 155 x 96 cm
Joe Scanlan, Change of Season, view galerie de Expeditie, 2009
Joe Scanlan, Rational Exuberance, 2009, wood, extruded aluminum, enamel paint, paper collage on cardboard box, Hans Hofmann picture puzzle, Table: 70.5 x  117 x 99 cm, Puzzle box: 36 x 36 x 4 cm
Joe Scanlan, Change of Season, view galerie de Expeditie, 2009