B. Brooklyn, NY in 1969
Lives and works in London

Education
Goldsmiths College, University of London, MA Fine Art, 2003
(Associated Research 2004)
Amherst College, BA Music, 1991

Solo exhibitions include Locust Projects in Miami, Oen Group in Copenhagen, Gimpel Fils and Trafalgar Square both in London, Freight and Volume in New York, National Gallery in San Jose and Galerie Madeliene Hollaender in Ecuador. Group exhibitions include Hayward Gallery and ICA both in London, V1 Gallery in Copenhagen, British Art Show 6, Witte de With in Rotterdam and UCLA Wight Gallery in Los Angeles.

Full CV below images

VIDEO LIBRARY:

Also Sprach Zarathrustra (video still), 4 mins. 45 sec., 2007

Its Not You, It’s Me - Promo (video still), 2 min. 20 sec., 2006

Towards a Common Understanding (video still), 12 min. 30 sec., 2005

Everybody Loves A Winner (video still), 8 min. 30 sec., 2004

Stand-Up Guy / Y-3 (video still), 5 min. 50 sec., 2004

Trailer (video still), 2 min. 15 sec., 2004

Footprints in the Sand (video still), 9 min. 30 sec., 2003

The Ugly American (video still), 11 min. 30 sec., 2003

All images courtesy the artist.

Solo Exhibitions
2007
Locust Projects, Miami, FL
OEen Group, Copenhagen, Denmark
2006
Gimpel Fils, London, UK
Freight &Volume Gallery, New York, NY
2004
Trafalgar Square, 30,000 Bananas, London, UK
2002
d.u.m.b.o. Art Under the Bridge Festival, Brooklyn, NY
2001
Festival Interakcje 2001, Piotrkow Trybunalski, Poland
2000
National Gallery, San Jose, Costa Rica
Galeria Madeleine Hollaender, Guayaquil, Ecuador
1999
Banco Central, Cuenca, Ecuador
Alliance Francaise, Quito, Ecuador
1998
Casa de la Cultura, Cuenca, Ecuador
Brainard Gallery, New York, NY

Performances
2007
Kiesel 42, Friedrichshafen, Germany
ICA, London, UK
Collective Gallery, Edinburgh, UK, “Comic Book Project”
Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Hayward Gallery, London, UK, “100 Ideas Series”
2006
Joe’s Pub, NY Public Theater, New York, USA
British Art Show, Bristol, Nottingham and Manchester
2005
Beacon Project, Lincolnshire, UK

Group Exhibitions
2008
Hayward Gallery, London, UK, “Laughing in a Foreign Language”
V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark “Eyesore”
Kumho Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
Flowers East, London, UK, “Small is Beautiful”
2007
Gimpel Fils, London, UK, “Review”
Gate Picturehouse, London, UK, “Video Art in the Cinema”
Bearspace/The Cello Factory, London, UK, “Play”
GL Strand, Copenhagen, Den, “100 Videos - 100 Days”
Space Kobo/Tomo, Tokyo, Japan
Beck’s Fusions, Trafalgar Square, London, UK and Travelling
FlowersEast, London, UK “says the junk in the junkyard”
Stadtgalerie Bern/Loge, Bern, Switzerland, “Unknown Pleasures”
Wolverhampton Art Gallery, UK, Vision Space
Freud Museum, London, UK, “Paranoia”
Fieldgate Gallery, London, UK, “Latitude”
Associates Gallery, London, UK, “The Hut Project”
Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany, “100 Days”
Flowers Central, London, UK, “Small is Beautiful”
2006
Highbury Studios, London, UK, “Saudade” Nov – Dec 2006
Focal Point Gallery, Southend, UK “Paranoia” – Touring
E:vent Gallery, London, UK, “Grounded”
British Art Show 6, UK, A Bond, Bristol and Travelling
Werkleitz Biennale, Halle, Germany, “Happy Believers”
Nicolela’s Place, Sao Paulo, Brazil, “Marte e Aqui”
Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, UK, “Paranoia”, exhibition travels
Mediaforum, Moscow International Film Festival, Moscow, Russia
The Great Unsigned, Chapman Arts, Lon, UK,
Moscow Center of Arts, Moscow, RU “The Territory of Freedom”
FRAC/PACA, Marseille, France, “Action”
Gastspiel Wien, Kunsterhaus Kino, Vienna, Austria, “Time Pop 2006”
Site Gallery, Sheffield, UK, “Animation Videotheque”
French Institute, Cine Lumiere, London, UK, “Interval(2)”
Platform Garanti Center, Istanbul, Turkey, “Sex and Sadness”
Liquidacion Total, Madrid, Spain, “Spain in Pain”
Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK, “Insomnia” Screening
Witte de With, Rotterdam, Rott. Film Festival, Exploding Television
Apartamento Privado, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Paris E Aqui
2005
Zero Gallery, Milan, Italy, “Jaybird”
SGG, Geneva, Switzerland, 11th Biennial of Moving Images
Kassel Documentary and Film Festival, Kassel, Germany
Espai Ubu, Barcelona, Spain, “Video London” Off-Loop Festival
Zoo Art Fair, London Zoo, London, UK
Man in the Holocene, Fortescue Ave, Lon, UK “You Only Live Twice”
Media Art Friesland Festival, Friesland, Netherlands, “Video Salon”
Tank TV, London, UK, “Tourism”, On-line Exhibition
DOM and Cinefantom, Moscow, Russia, “Pop Off the Top”
Beacon Project, Ashby de le Launde Town Hall, Lincolnshire, UK
Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz, Austria, “Go-Between”
EAST International, Norwich SAD, Norwich, UK
Clerkenwell Film and Video Festival, London, UK
Centro Cultural Telemar, Rio, Brazil, “prog:me/Conspiracy”
Process Space Festival, Balchik, Bulgaria
Prince Charles Cinema, London, UK, “Time Pop”
mullerdechiara, Berlin, Germany, Three-person exhibition
SP Arte Art Fair, Bienal Pavilion, Sao Paulo, Brazil
European Media Art Festival, Osnabrueck, Germany
County Hall Gallery, London, UK, “Bloc” curated by Bowieart
DIVA Art Fair, Embassy Suites Hotel, New York City, USA
Kunstburo, Vienna, Austria, “Save the Day”
ICA, London, UK, “Public Art: Reframing the Streets”
Glashaus, Berlin, Germany, OFF POP Vision Festival
Program, London, UK, Two-person Exhibition
Happy Sailor Tattoo Parlor, London, UK, “Chaim Soutine”
2004
Sticthing Lazy Marie, Utrecht, Netherlands
Crossing Border Festival, The Hague, Netherlands
Off Loop, Barcelona, Spain
House Gallery, London, UK, “Yesvember”
Zoo Art Fair – London Zoo, London, UK
Redux, London, UK, “Centrefold-So You’re Afraid of What?”
P.I.T./Projects in Transit, Brooklyn, NY, “Sunset Beach”
mullerdechiara, Berlin, Germ, “The Ludovico Treatment”
ICA, London, UK, “copy-art.net”
Kabaret’s Prophecy, London, UK, “Y-3 / Young 3”
Man in the Holocene, London, “Trailer”
Portobello Film Festival, London, UK, Bowieart Screening
Man in the Holocene/Curzon Soho, London,“Trailer” Screening
Goldsmiths College, London, UK, Postgraduate Degree Show
Tower Bridge Business Complex, London, UK, “Cinderella”
Lonfest Film Festival, London, UK
Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK, Open Screening
Beck’s Futures Student Award Shortlist Exhibition, CCA, Glasgow
Montevideo, Amsterdam, Netherlands, “50% Beeld”
Camberwell Leisure Center, London, UK, “Ten Things About Me”
Ritzy Cinema/Cafe, Brixton, London, UK, “The Plot Thickens”
Arch Gallery, London, UK, “Sneeze”
Cinematiek, Utrecht, Netherlands
Prince Charles Cinema, London, UK, “Time Pop”
Scope Art Fair, Los Angeles, USA, “Revival - Keeping Video Alive”
Beck’s Futures Student Award Shortlist Exhibition, ICA, London
Scope Art Fair, New York, USA, “Revival - Keeping Video Alive”
2003
Scope Art Fair, Miami, USA, “Revival – Keeping Video Alive”
Century Gallery, London, UK, “Reduced”
36 Marshall Street, London, UK, “Splendid”
Arch Gallery, London, UK, Holiday Show
Deluxe Gallery, London, UK, Holiday Show
UCLA, Los Angeles, USA, “Wight Biennial”
291 Gallery, London, UK, “F-ilm F-est”
Century Gallery, London, UK, “Headland”
Scope Art Fair, Los Angeles, USA, “Revival – Keeping Video Alive”
Spitalfields Market, London, UK, “Bootleg”
Goldsmiths College, London, UK, MA Degree Show
Columbia University, New York, USA, “Art Against War”
Arch Gallery, London, UK, “Made in UK”
2002
Untitled Space, New Haven, CT, “Proper Villains”
Museum of New Art, Detroit, MI, “Ground Zero”
2001
Octagon, Amherst College, Amherst, MA
Casa de la Cultura, Cuenca, Ecuador, “En la Palma de la Mano”
Theater for the New City, New York, NY, “Counting Coup”
Scott Pfaffman Gallery, New York, NY, “Undo”

Collections
Zabludowicz Collection, London, UK
David Roberts, Private Collection, UK
Iwan Wirth, Private Collection, London, UK
Museum of Modern Art, Cuenca, Ecuador
Alliance Francaise, Quito, Ecuador
Miracle House, New York, NY

Works represented in private collections in the US, UK, Belgium, Denmark, Germany, Israel, Barbados, and Ecuador.

Awards / Commissions / Fellowships / Residencies
2007
Szpilman Award, Berlin, Germany, First Prize
2005
Arena Magazine X Club Award, London, UK
2004
Beck’s Futures Student Film and Video Award, FIRST PRIZE
2002-01
Hattie M. Strong Foundation Grants, Washington, DC
1999
USIS Fund for Artists Grant, US Embassy, Quito, Ecuador
1998
Fundacion Paul Rivet, Cuenca, Ecuador

Bibliography:

Selected International Publications
Art Review, UK, (January 2008, Issue 18) commissioned to do Comic Strip
Art Review, UK, (March 2007, Issue 09) featured in “FUTURE GREATS” issue
The Observer, UK, (February 3, 2008)
The Evening Standard, UK, (February 1, 2008)
The London Paper, UK, (February 4, 2008)
The Independent on Sunday, UK, (February 3, 2008)
Metro, UK, (January 28, 2008)
The Guardian, UK, (January 29, 2008) FRONT PAGE PHOTO
The Guardian, UK, (December 31, 2007)
The London Paper, UK, (January 15, 2008)
The London Paper, (January 2, 2008)
The Guardian Guide, UK, (September 1-7, 2007)
The Independent, UK, (September 7, 2007)
The Times / The Knowledge, UK, (September 1-7, 2007)
The London Paper, UK, (September 5, 2007)
The Guardian Guide, UK, (October 27 – November 2, 2007)
The Guardian, UK, (July 10, 2007)
Domus, Italy, (March 2007, Issue 901)
Jewish Chronicle, UK, (Number 7195, March 16, 2007)
Flux, UK (Feb/March 2007, Issue 58)
Art Monthly, UK, (February 2007, Issue Number 303)
RevolveWire, UK, (Winter 2006 – Spring 2007, Issue Number One)
The Guardian Guide, UK, (January 27 – February 2, 2007)
The Observer, UK, (January 28, 2007)
Contemporary, UK, (Issue 85, September 2006/Special Issue on Conceptual Art)
Time Out London, UK, (November 8 – 15, 2006)
The Guardian Guide, UK, (November 4 – 11, 2006)
Metro, UK, (October 17, 2006)
Artforum, USA, (December 2004 – Best of 2004 Issue) – *** Voted best project of 2004 by artist Wim Delvoye
Art Monthly, UK, (Issue Number 299, September 2006)
A-N, UK, (September 2006)
Jewish Chronicle, UK, (Number 7163, August 4, 2006)
Art Review, UK, (March 2006, Volume LXII)
Flash Art, Italy, (Volume XXXIX, Number 246, January-February 2006)
The Guardian, UK, Guardian Weekend Magazine Q and A Interview, (Oct 15, 2005)
The Observer, UK, (October 9, 2005)
Tank, UK, (Volume 4, Issue 3, October 2005)
The Guardian Guide, UK, (September 10 – 16, 2005)
Art Review, UK, (Volume LVIII, November 2005)
Art Monthly, UK, (Issue 291, November 2005)
Modern Painters, UK, (November 2005)
Art Monthly, UK, (Issue 290, October 2005)
Arena Magazine, UK, (Issue 162, September 2005)
Flux, UK (July/August 2006, Issue 55)
The Daily Mail, UK, (June 10, 2005)
The Daily Telegraph, UK, (July 2, 2005)
The Independent, UK, (June 6, 2005)
Modern Painters, UK, (June 2005)
Jewish Chronicle, UK, (Number 7090, March 11, 2005)
Art Monthly, UK, (Number 285, April 2005)
Frieze, UK, (Issue 88, January-February 2005)
The Evening Standard, UK, (March 11, 2005)
The Evening Standard, UK, (March 8, 2005)
Standard Lite, UK, (March 9, 2005)
New York Arts Magazine, USA, (Volume 10, Number 1/2, Jan/Feb 2005)
Domus, Italy, (Issue 876, December 2004)
Arena Magazine, UK, (Issue 154, January 2005)
EXIT Magazine, UK, (Issue 9, Autumn/Winter 2004)
Art Review, UK, (Issue LIV, November 2004)
Metro, London, UK, (October 6, 2004) – FRONT PAGE
The Evening Standard, UK, (October 5, 2004)
The Independent, UK, (Issue Number 5607, October 6, 2004)
The Guardian, UK, (October 6, 2004)
The Guardian Guide, UK, (October 9 – October 15, 2004)
Hello! Magazine, UK, (Issue Number 839, October 26, 2004)
Der Spiegel, Germany, (Issue Number 42, October 11, 2004)
The Big Issue, UK, (Issue Number 610, September 27 – October 3, 2004)
The Daily Star, UK, (October 6, 2004)
Time Out London (Issue Number 1780, September 29 – October 6, 2004)
New Statesman, UK, (Volume 17, Issue 826, September 27, 2004)
Time Out London (Issue Number 1773, August 11-18, 2004)
Time Out London (Issue Number 1770, July 21-28, 2004)
Arena Magazine, UK (Issue Number 149, August 2004)
Blueprint Magazine, UK, (Issue Number 220, June 2004)
A-N Magazine, UK, (June 2004) and (February 2001)
The Independent on Sunday, UK, (May 23, 2004)
The Observer Magazine, Sunday Observer, UK, (May 16, 2004)
Evening Standard, UK, (April 22, 2004)
The Independent, UK, (April 28, 2004)
Portrait, USA, (Issue Number 2, November 2003) - COVER PHOTO
Wegway, Canada, (Issue Number 5, Spring 2003) - COVER PHOTO
The New York Times, USA, (Thursday, October 24, 2002)
The New York Times Book Review, USA, (August 18, 2002)
The New Yorker, USA, “Talk of the Town”, (November 4, 2002)
New York Magazine, USA, (October 20, 2003, Volume 36, Number 36)
Tema Celeste, Italy (Jan/Feb 2003, Number 95) and (Summer 2001, Number 86)
Kunstforum International, Germany, (Issue 163, January/February 2003)
art, Das Kunstmagazin, Germany, (Issue Number 1, January 2003)
Art Journal, USA, (Summer 2002, Volume 61, Number 2)
New York Newsday, USA, (Thursday, October 17, 2002)
Gastronomica, USA, (Summer 2002, Volume 2, Number 3)
L’Art Aujourd’hui, France, November 15-21, 2002, Volume Number 10)
USA Today, USA, (April 5, 2002)
US News and World Report, USA, (April 22, 2002, Volume 132, Number 13)
Hopscotch, (Volume 2/4, July 2001)
Terra Incognita, USA/Spain, (2002/2003 Issue Number 3)
Juxtapoz, USA, (Issue 43, March/April 2003) and (Issue 31, March/April) 2001)
NY Arts Magazine, USA, (November 2002, Volume 7, Number 11)
Queens Courier, USA. (October 1-7, 2003, Volume 16, Number 41)
Cultural Survival Quarterly, USA (Summer 2001, Volume 25, Issue 2)
Espace, Canada (Fall 2001, Issue 57)
A Magazine, Italy, (Issue 31/5 June 2001)
Public Art Review, USA, (Volume 12, Number 2, Spring-Summer 2001)
New Internationalist, Canada, (Number 332, March 2001)
Art Nexus, Colombia (Feb-Apr 2001, Number 39)
New York Press, USA, (May 3-9, 2000, Volume 13, Number 18)
Civilization Magazine, USA, Magazine of the Library of Congress, (Oct/Nov 2000)
Hephaistos International Zeitschrift fur Metallgestalter, Germany, (Vol. 1/2, 99)
The Tico Times, San Jose, Costa Rica, (Dec. 1, 2000) and (Nov. 17, 2000)
La Nacion, San Jose, Costa Rica, (Nov. 17, 2000)
Al Dia, San Jose, Costa Rica, (Nov. 17, 2000)
El Heraldo, San Jose, Costa Rica, (Nov. 18, 2000)
Hoy, Quito, Ecuador, (May 7, 2000); (May 5, 2000); (Aug. 27, 1999); (Mar. 26, 1999); (Mar. 25, 1999); (Mar. 23, 1999) and (Mar. 11, 1999)
El Comercio, Quito, Ecuador, (Apr. 4, 1999); (Mar. 14, 1999); (Mar. 13, 1999); (Mar. 10, 1999) and (Jul. 21, 1998)
De Primera Magazine, Quito, Ecuador, (Volume III/34, Mar. 1999)
Universo, Guayaquil, Ecuador, (May 22, 2000); (May 4, 2000) and (Apr.12, 1999)
Expreso, Guayaquil, Ecuador, (May 4, 2000) and (May 3, 2000)
Meridiano, Guayaquil, Ecuador, (May 6, 2000)
El Telegrafo, Guayaquil, Ecuador, (May 3, 2000)
El Tiempo, Cuenca, Ecuador, (Aug. 30, 1999); (Aug. 27, 1999); (Aug. 26, 1999);
(Aug. 23, 1999); (Nov. 5, 1998); (Jul. 14, 1998); (Jun. 17, 1998)
El Mercurio, Cuenca, Ecuador, (Aug. 28, 1999); (Aug. 27, 1999); (Aug. 25, 1999);
(Jul. 14, 1998) and (Jun. 15, 1998)

Books
(Re)Thinking Art: A Guide for Beginners by Steve Shipps (Blackwell Publishing, US, 2008) – COVER ART WORK
Transmission: Speaking and Listening Volume 5 edited by Sharon Kivland, Jasper Joseph-Lester and Emma Cocker (Site Gallery, UK, 2006)
The New Art (Rachmaninoff’s, UK, 2006)
The Banana Sculptor, The Purple Lady and the All-Night Swimmer by Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Susan Sheehan, (Simon and Schuster, USA, April 2002)
Bananen/Bananas (Scheufele Kommunikationsagentur Gmbh, Germany, 2001)

Radio Appearances
BBC Radio Four “Today Programme w/ John Humphreys”, London (Jan 25, 08)
BBC Radio Five Live with Simon Mayo, London, (January 23, 2008)
BBC Radio Four, London, “Front Row with Mark Lawson” (October 5, 2004)
BBC Radio, Kent, UK “Saturday Carry-On” (June 5, 2004)
KLCAC-AM, Los Angeles, “The Michael Jackson Show” (Tuesday, April 16, 2002)
WNYC, National Public Radio, New York, “New York and Company with Leonard Lopate” (Tuesday, April 9, 2002)

TV Appearances
BBC 5 News, London, UK (January 25, 2008)
BBC One News at Breakfast, London, UK (January 25, 2008)
BBC One News/BBC London, London, UK (September 6, 2007)
BBC One, London, UK, “Test the Nation” (May 28, 2005)
ITV, London, UK, “London Tonight” (March 12, 2005)
Channel 4, London, “News at Noon with Krishnan Guru-Murthy” (Oct 5, 2004)
CNN International, various countries (October 5, 2004)
ABC-TV News, USA, (October 5, 2004)

Film Roles
Feature (2008), dir. Shezad Dawood
Stranger on the Sofa (2007), Short Film, dir. Julia Sandberg Hansson
All My Life (2007), Short Film, dir. Oriana Fox