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VINCENT FECTEAU BIOGRAPHY

 


Born in Islip, New York, in 1969
Lives in San Francisco


Education

1992    Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT; BA


One-Person Exhibitions

2006    Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne

2005    Greengrassi, London


2004    “Journal #7,” Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands (brochure)

2003    Feature Inc., New York (catalogue)

2002    “Matrix 199: Vincent Fecteau, Recent Sculpture,” UC Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film
                      Archive, Berkeley, CA; Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA  (catalogue)

2000    Greengrassi, London

1999    Marc Foxx, Los Angeles

1998    Feature Inc., New York

1997    Ynglingagatan 1, Stockholm

1996    Feature Inc., New York

1995    “Introductions,” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco

1994    “Ben,” Kiki, San Francisco


Selected Group Exhibitions

2007    “Exit Music (for a film),” Grimm/Rosenfeld, Munich; curated by Michelle Lopez (catalogue)
             Summer group exhibition, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York; curated by Bruce Hainley
             “The Recognititon,” The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, New York; curated by David Salle
             “A Point in Space Is a Place for an Argument,” David Zwirner Gallery, New York


2006    “Galerie Buchholz at Metro Pictures,” Metro Pictures, New York
             “FOCA Fellowships: Vincent Fecteau, Evan Holloway, Monica Majoli,” Armory Center for the                       Arts, Pasadena, CA (brochure)
             “Pure Land,” Ratio 3, San Francisco
             “Dereconstruction,” Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York; curated by Matthew Higgs                       (catalogue)


2004    “Müllberg,” Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
             “Abstract Reality,” Sead Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
             “Happy Medium,” Clementine Gallery, New York; curated by Meghan Dailey
             “Gallery Artists,” Feature Inc., New York

2003    “The Alumni Show,” Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Center for the Arts, Wesleyan Univeristy,                       Middletown, CT (catalogue)
              “Ishtar,” Midway Contemporary Art, St. Paul, MN; curated by Bruce Hainley (catalogue)

2002    “The Longest Winter,”Schmitd Center Gallery, Florida Atlantic Universtiy, Boca Raton, FL;                       curated by Gean Moreno
             “Artists Imagine Architecture,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (catalogue)
             2002 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)

             “Tomma Abts/Vincent Fecteau,” Marc Foxx, Los Angeles
             “GtT2,” Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; curated by ANP (catalogue)
             “Now Is the Time,” Dorsky Galleries, Long Island City, New York; curated by Ken Freed

2001    “Smallish,” Greengrassi, London; curated by Dennis Cooper
             “Vincent Fecteau/Maureen Gallace,” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
             “Marked: Bay Area ‘Drawings,’” Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York; curated by                       Heidi Zukerman Jacobson (catalogue)
             “The Devil Is in the Details,” Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston; curated by Rena Conti and Ivan                       Moskowitz
             “Off the Wall,” Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago; curated by Gregory Sandoval                       and Sam Gordon

2000    “Here Kitty, Kitty,”Atlanta Center for Contemporary Art (Nexus), Atlanta

1999    “B.m.W (black met white),” ANP, Antwerp, Belgium
             “Persuasion: Tales of Commerce and the Avant-Garde,” University of Buffalo Art Gallery, State                       University of New York, Buffalo, NY; curated by Karen Emmenhiser (catalogue)
             “Calendar 2000,” Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson,                       NY
             Jernigan Wicker Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA (1999 Art Council Grant recipients)

1998    “Softcore,” Arkipelag Festival, Historika Museet, Stockholm; curated by Bjarne Melgaard
             “Lovecraft,” South London Gallery, London; curated by Martin McGeown and Tony Webster
             “Architecture and Inside,”Paul Morris Gallery, New York; curated by Kenneth Freed
             “Inglenook,” Feigen Contemporary, New York; curated by Ivan Moskowitz, Rena Conti, and                       Yvette Brackman

1997    “Hello,” Feature Inc., New York
             “Bay Area Now,”Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; curated by Renny Pritikin                       and René de Guzman (catalogue)
             “Scene of the Crime,” Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles; curated by Ralph Rugoff                       (catalogue)

1996    Feature Inc., New York

1995    “lo-fi,” Lauren Wittels Gallery, New York, NY; curated by Michelle Reyes
             “In a Different Light,” University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA;                       curated by Lawrence Rinder and Nayland Blake (catalogue)
             “Wildside,” Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles

1994    “Sparkalepsy,” Feature Inc., New York
             “Bong,” Kiki, San Francisco
             “Next to Nothing,” Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco; curated by René de                       Guzman (catalogue)
             “The Ecstasy of Limits,” Gallery 400; University of Illinois at Chicago; curated by Yvette                       Brackman (catalogue)

1993    “Dress Code,” San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco
             “Caca at Kiki,” Kiki, San Francisco


Selected Bibliography

2007    Cohen, David. “Ample Room for Argument,” New York Sun, 2 August, 17
             Cotter, Holland. Review of “Good Morning Midnight,” New York Times, 27 July, E32
             Mueller, Stephen. “Quotidian and Engaging,” Gay City News, 12–18 July, 17
             Orden, Abraham. The Minute, artnet.com, 16 August;
                      http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/reviews/orden/orden8-15-07.asp
             Smith, Roberta. Review of “A Point in Space Is a Place for an Argument,” New York Times, 20                       July, E29

2006    Dereconstruction, exhibition brochure with text by Matthew Higgs, Barbara Gladstone Gallery,                       New York
             “Dereconstruction,” New Yorker, Goings On Around Town, 21 August, 13
             Smith, Roberta, “Chelsea Is a Battlefield: Galleries Muster Groups”, New York Times, July 28
             Velasco, David. Review of “Dereconstruction,” Artforum, September, 374

2005    Charlesworth, JJ. Review, Modern Painters, July/August, 106 (reproduction)
             Thatcher, Jennifer. Review, Art Monthly, April, 18–19 (reproduction)

2004    Journal #7, exhibition brochure, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
             Bankowski, Jack. “Best of 2004,” Artforum, December, 162
             Hainley, Bruce. “Best of 2004,” Artforum, December, 164–165 (reproduction)

2003    Vincent Fecteau, exhibition catalogue with texts by Michael Lobel and David Deitcher, Feature                       Inc., New York
             Ishtar, exhibition catalogue with text by Bruce Hainley and Siobhan McDevitt, Midway                       Contemporary Art, St. Paul, MN
             The Alumni Show, exhibition catalogue with introduction by Nina Felshin, Ezra and Cecile                       Zilkha Gallery, Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
             Pagel, David. Review, Los Angeles Times, 22 February, E16 (reproductions)

2002    Whitney Biennial 2002, exhibition catalogue with texts by Lawrence R. Rinder, Chrissie Iles,                       Christiane Paul, Debra Singer, et al, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (with                       Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York)
             The Longest Winter, exhibition brochure with text by Gean Moreno, University Galleries,                       Dorothy F. Schmidt College of Arts and Letters, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton,                       FL
             Now Is the Time, exhibition brochure with text by David Hunt, Dorsky Galleries, Long Island                       City, New York (curated by Ken Freed)
             Matrix 199: Vincent Fecteau, Recent Sculpture, exhibition brochure with text by Heidi                       Zuckerman Jacobson, UC Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA; Pasadena Museum of                       California Art, Pasadena, CA
             Guide to Trust No. 2, exhibition catalogue, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
             Artists Imagine Architecture, exhibition catalogue with texts by Dan Graham and Jessica                       Morgan, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
             Baker, Kenneth. Review, San Francisco Chronicle, 1 August, D: 1, 9 (reproduction)
             Cash, Stephanie, “Report from San Francisco,” Art in America, November (reproduction)
             Cotter, Holland. “Architectural Visions Keep Dreamers Awake,” New York Times, 12 July
             Cotter, Holland. New York Times, Art Guide, 8 September
             Ferber, Lawrence. “Ultimate Aesthete,” New York Blade News, 5 April
             Goddard, Donald. “Whitney Biennial 2002,” NewYorkArtWorld.com
             Hainley, Bruce. “Bruno Fazzolari/Vincent Fecteau and Maureen Gallace,” Artforum, January,                       146
             Hainley, Bruce. “Best of 2002,” Artforum, December, 128–129 (reproduction)
             Helfand, Glen. Review, San Francisco Guardian, 28 August, 438 (reproduction)
             Helfand, Glen. Review, Artforum, November, 191–192 (reproduction)
             Morris, Barbara. Review, Artweek, October (reproduction)
             Ocaña, Damarys. “Compelling Obsessions,” Miami Herald, 6 October, M: 1, 3 (reproduction)
             Phillips, Tony. “Whitney’s Gr0eatest Hits,” HX, 15 March (reproduction)
             Satorius, Katherine. “Guide to Trust No. 2,” stretcher.org, June
             Wilson, Michael. “2002 Whitney Biennial,” Frieze, Summer


2001    Marked: Bay Area “Drawings,” exhibition catalogue with text by Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson,                       The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York
             Bonnetti, David. Review, San Francisco Chronicle, 24 November
             Farquharson, Alex. “Dennis Cooper Interview”, Untitled, Spring (reproduction)
             Farquharson, Alex. Review, Frieze, January/February, 103–104 (reproduction)
             Hainley, Bruce. “A Thousand Words: Vincent Fecteau Talks About His New Sculptures,”                       Artforum, March, 126–127 (reproduction)
             Jones, Jonathan. Review of “Smallish,” The Guardian, March 28
             Staple, Polly. “Smallish,” Art Monthly, April
             Trimming, Lee. “Utter Zombiedom,” Flash Art, July–September
             Trimming, Lee. “Smallish,” Flash Art, May/June
             Wilsher, Mark. “Smallish,” What’s On in London, 28 March–4 April

2000    Cooper, Dennis. “Let Me Be Your Fantasy,” Dazed and Confused, November, 94–97                                         (reproduction)
             Hainley, Bruce. “Best of 2000,” Artforum, December, 132–133 (reproduction)

1999    Hainley, Bruce. “Message to Michael,” Frieze, September/October, 72–77 (reproduction)
             Hainley, Bruce. “Best of the ’90s,” Artforum, December, 130–131 (reproduction)
             Iannaccone, Carmine. Review, Art issues, September/October, 48 (reproduction)

1998    Cotter, Holland. Review, New York Times, 17 April, E39
             Hainley, Bruce. Review, Artforum, September, 154 (reproduction)
             Johnson, Ken. Review of “Inglenook,” New York Times, 24 July, E39
             Staple, Polly. Review of “Lovecraft,” Untitled, no. 16 (Summer), 22

1997    Scene of the Crime, exhibition catalogue with texts by Ralph Rugoff, Anthony Vidler, and Peter                       Wollen, UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultureal Center, Los Angeles                       (with M.I.T. Press, Cambridge, MA)
             Bay Area Now, exhibition catalogue with text by Renny Pritkin and René de Guzman, Center                       for the Arts at Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco
             Doran, Anne. Review of “Hello,” Time Out New York, 7 August, 47
             Ericsson, Lars O. “Slävporträtt i Vinyl,” Dagens Nyheter, 12 November
             Joyce, Julie. “Scene of the Crime,” Art Issues, November/December
             Miles, Christopher. “Vincent Fecteau’s Teflon Failures,” SOMA, October, 16–18 (reproduction)

1996    Cooper, Dennis. “Spirit Whirl,” Artforum, December, 12–14
             Hainley, Bruce. “Dumb Up,” Artforum, December, 30–32
             Hainley, Bruce. Review, Frieze, November/December, 82–83 (reproduction)

1995    In a Different Light: Visual Culture, Sexual Identity, Queer Practice, exhibition catalogue edited                       by Nayland Blake, Lawrence Rinder, and Amy Scholder, University Art Museum and                       Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA (with City Lights Books, San Francisco)
             Bonetti, David. Review of “Introductions,” San Francisco Examiner, 14 July, C17
             Cooper, Dennis. “Openings: Vincent Fecteau,” Artforum, April, 84–85 (reproduction)
             Helfand, Glen. “Piecemeal,”  SF Weekly, 19 July
             Helfand, Glen. “Kicking up with Kiki,” Men’s Style, May/June (reproduction)
             Kastner, Jeffrey. Review of “lo-fi,” Frieze, September/October, 72–73
             Pedersen, Victoria. Gallery Go ’Round, Paper, Summer
             Whiting, Sam. “Collage Artist Fecteau...,” San Francisco Chronicle, 23 March

1994    Next to Nothing, exhibition catalogue with text by René de Guzman, Center for the Arts at                       Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco
             The Ecstasy of Limits, exhibition catalogue with text by Yvette Brackman, Gallery 400, The                       University of Illinois at Chicago
             Baker, Kenneth. “Pushing the Envelope,” San Francisco Chronicle, 17 September, E6
             Bonetti, David. “Working Minimalist Magic,” San Francisco Examiner, 17 October, B3


Portfolios, Projects, and Reproductions of Artwork

2003    Waters, John, and Bruce Hainley. Art: A Sex Book, Thames and Hudson, New York, 120, 122,                       135–136, 137–139, 141, 146, 148, 158, 188

1997    Hirsch Farm Project/World Tour, Hirsch Foundation, Northbrook, IL (catalogue)

1998    “Hasi Hester” (with Michael Lobel), Nest, Fall


Awards and Honors

2005    John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship

1999    San Francisco Art Council Individual Artist Grant

 



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