Alex McQuilkin

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Born in Boston, United States, 1980
Lives & works in Brooklyn, United States
Very active in: currently

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Fucked - 2' 0''
© 1999 - McQuilkin, Alex
"Fucked" was her debut feature where the voyeuristic aftertaste is enhanced still thr ...
Indefinite Line - 3' 15''
© 2000 - McQuilkin, Alex
On the sidewalk of Greene Street in present day SoHo (a ghost town of artistic fervor ...
Get your Gun up - 2' 30''
© 2002 - McQuilkin, Alex
With her video "Get Your Gun Up", McQuilkin makes ironic remarks on and portrays a do ...
Teenage Daydream: It's Only Rock & Roll - 2' 30''
© 2002 - McQuilkin, Alex
In front of a setting of a light blue wall covered by Kurt Cobain posters and what se ...
Teenage Daydream: In Vain - 2' 0''
© 2003 - McQuilkin, Alex
The camera seems to rest on the dressing table in front of which a girl with cheap cu ...
Desperado - 4' 17''
© 2006 - McQuilkin, Alex
Music by Don Henley/The Eagles, Desperado, Alex McQuilkin Karaoke-Version "Desperado" ...
The Ranch - 3' 0''
© 2005 - McQuilkin, Alex
The Ranch is the first work in which Alex McQuilkin replaces the music with speech, ...
Test Run - 2' 42''
© 2004 - McQuilkin, Alex
Test Run explores a romantic fantasy of suicide. The character is filming herself in ...
Romeo and Juliet (I wanna be Claire Danes) - 7' 54''
© 2006 - McQuilkin, Alex
Romeo and Juliet (I Wanna Be Claire Danes) recreates the final scene of Baz Luhrmann' ...
Joan of Arc - 5' 35''
© 2007 - McQuilkin, Alex
McQuilkin continues the exploration of the theatricality of suffering and the subtle ...
Seven Minutes in Heaven - 7' 0''
© 2004 - McQuilkin, Alex
Alex McQuilkin explains the popular party entertainment that involves two persons bei ...

Galleries

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CV

1998/2002 Bachelor of Fine Arts, New York University, New York, USA
2006/2008 Master of Fine Arts, NYU Steinhard School, New York, USA

Solo Exhibitions
2007 Joan of Arc, Marvelli Gallery, New York, NY
2006 Live Through This, Marvelli Gallery, New York, USA
2005
New Media Wall, Tufts University Art Gallery Aideman Arts Center, Medfort, MA, USA
Test Run, Marvelli Gallery, New York, USA (with Angela Strassheim)
Scope New York, featured artist with Galerie Adler, Frankfurt
2004 Tragically Sweet, Galerie Adler, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2003 Double Life: Alex McQuilkin; Trine Boesen, 404 arte contemporanea, Naples, Italy (with Trine Boesen)

Group Exhibitions
2008
Busan Biennial, Korea, (upcoming: September)
VIDEOCRACY, tina b. 2008 The Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Prague (curated by Micaela Giovannotti)
2007
Look Away, Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York, NY
12th Biennial of Moving Images, Centre pour limage Contemporain, Saint Gervais Genève, CH
Teenage Kicks, Vegas Gallery, London
Aggression, Kunsthalle Winterthur, Winterthur, CH
KunstFilmBiennale Köln, Cologne, Germany
Gefühlte Temperatur ..., Kunstverein Langenhagen, Germany
Into Me/Out of Me, MACRO - Museo dArte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy (curated by Klaus Biesenbach)
Je suis une bombe ? Young video art, Kunsthalle Barmen (Von der Heydt-Museum Wuppertal), Wuppertal, D
Final Cut, Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche, Osnabrück (curated by Hermann Nöring, with Paul McCarthy, Candice Breitz, Bjorn Melhus, Mischa Kuball, Christoph Giradet and others)
2006
When the Revolution comes, Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York, USA, America. How Contemporary Artists see the USA, Figge von Rosen Gallery, Cologne, Germany
Into Me/Out of Me, KW Institute for Contemporary Art (curated by Klaus Biesenbach) Video Heroes, CGAC, The Contemporary Art Museum of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (curated by Javier Duero)
Into Me/Out of Me, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, USA (curated by Klaus Biesenbach)
HER-SELF, Ritter Zamet, London, UK
Lo último de Nueva York, Museo Reina Sofia, Spain
Coolhunters. Youth cultures between the media and the market, Mücsarnok Kunsthalle Budapest, Hungary
Youth of today, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (curated by Max Hollein, Matthias Ulrich)
2005
VideoNow!, White Trash Contemporary, Hamburg, Germany
Video/ökonomie ? Vertriebe im Weltformat, ZKM ? Center for art and media, Museum Karlsruhe, Germany (curated by Barbara Könches, Carmen Beckenbach, Thomas Thiel)
Realities III: Exeptions, Fotogalerie Wien, Austria
Poesia in forma di rosa: tribute to Pasolini Galleria Comunale dArte Contemporanea, Monfalcone, Italy (with Marina Abramovic, Andrea Ackerman, Allora & Calzadilla, Anita Di Bianco, Dara Friedman, Christelle Lheureux, Petra Lindholm, Eva Marisaldi, Alex McQuilkin, Ariane Michel, Tracey Moffat, Shirin Neshat, Moira Ricci, ZimmerFrei, curated by Andrea Bruciati)
Ratatouille, 20.21 Galerie Edition Kunsthandel, Essen, Germany (with Nicky Hoberman, Anna Jermolaeva, Marcin Maciejowski, Lisa Ruyter, Dirk Skreber, u.a.)
First We Take Museums, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsiniki, Finland up and coming video screening #1, Galerie Adler, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Coolhunters. Youth cultures between the media and the market , Künstlerhaus Wien, Austria
Nocturnal Transmissions, curator´s office, Washington, USA (curated by Andrea Pollan)
Vicious, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Dead Kids Do Nothing, 31 Grand, Brooklyn, USA (curated by Adam Stennett)
Boost in the shell, Cutural Center of Bruges, Belgium (with Jake & Dinos Chapman, John Isaacs, Bruce Nauman, Bill Viola, Shirin Neshat a.o., curated by Michel Dwilde/Jerome Jacobs)
Himmelsbilder, Dommuseum zu Salzburg, Austria (curated by Dr. Peter Keller)
Videonale, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany (curated by Georg Elben)
Coolhunters. Youth cultures between the media and the market , ZKM | Museum ZKM | ? Center for art and media, Museum Karlsruhe, Germany (curated by Birgit Richard, Klaus Neumann-Braun, Sabine Himmelsbach, Peter Weibel)
Charmed, The Lower Eastside Girls Clubs, New York (curated by Michael St. John, Jason Duval)
Orgien, Voelcker und Freunde Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Unspeakable, Aeroplastics, Brussels, Belgium
2004
Body, Gimm Eis, Copenhagen, Denmark
Black, Marvelli Gallery, New York, USA
Short Histories Of Video, John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK Like a Virgin, Eastern Edge, St. Johns, Canada
Pulse Of America, Aeroplastics, Brussels, Belgium
2003
Without Fear or Reproach?, Witte Zaal, Gent, Belgium
Double Life: Alex McQuilkin; Trine Boesen, 404 arte contemporanea, Naples, Italy
Foreplay, Ritter/Zamet, London, Great Britain
Meanwhile In the Real World, Chapelle de la Sorbonne, Paris, France
Female Turbulence, Aeroplastics, Brussels, Belgium
De Cuerpos y Almas: Pornografias 03, Galería de Arte Carmen De La Guerra, Madrid, Spain
Interdit aux moins 18 ans, Galerie Une, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Luxurious, Galerie Clairefontaine, Luxembourg
No Platform Just a Trampoline, Marcus Ritter Gallery, New York, USA
Emergencias, Galería de Arte Carmen De La Guerra, Madrid, Spain
Le Printemps Extra Large Festival, Espace Cambre, Brussels, Belgium
Bad Girls, Ikon Ltd./Kay Richards Contemporary Art, Santa Monica, California, USA
Scope Video and Film Festival, -Scope New York, The Dylan Hotel, New York, USA
2002
Cabaret Electronico, Galería Carmen De La Guerra, Madrid, Spain
Porn Ar(t)ound the World, KC nOna, Mechelen, Belgium
Room For a Revolution, Deluxe Projects, Chicago, Illinois, USA
Manifiesta 2002, La Casa de Campo de Madrid, Madrid, Spain
Strip and Tease, Aeroplastics, Brussels, Belgium
Permanent Vacation: Senior Show 2002, Rosenberg Gallery, N.Y. University, USA
2001
Pixel Vision, Void, New York, USA
Reflect/Refract, Mickeys Blue Room, New York, USA
1999 Jungle Juice, No Malice, New York, USA

Collections
Collection Julia Stoschek, Düsseldorf, Germany
The Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Moscow, Russia
Collection Eric Decelle, Belgium
Collection Olbricht, Essen, Germany
Collection Plum, Germany
Mobley-Springmeier Collection, Switzerland and Germany
Collection Reydan Weiss, Essen, Germany

 
 

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