ALEX MCQUILKIN

Born in Boston (United States), 1980
Lives & works in Brooklyn (United States)
Very active in: 2000s, Current decade

Representative galleries:
Adler

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Video Art Works

Fucked (1999)
Indefinite Line (2000)
Get your Gun up (2002)
Teenage Daydream: In Vain (2003)
Desperado (2006)
The Ranch (2005)
Test Run (2004)
Romeo and Juliet (I wanna be Claire Danes) (2006)
Joan of Arc (2007)
Seven Minutes in Heaven (2004)
Teenage Day Dream:It's only Rock & Roll (2002)
I wish I was a Beam of Light (2009)

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
2009 I Wish I was a Beam of Light, Galerie Adler, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2008 Romeo and Juliet, subZONE Galerie Adler, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2007 Joan of Arc, Marvelli Gallery, New York City, NY, USA
2006 Live Through This, Marvelli Gallery, New York City, NY, USA
2005
New Media Wall, Tufts University Art Gallery Aideman Arts Center, Medfort, MA, USA
Test Run, Marvelli Gallery, New York City, NY, USA (with Angela Strassheim)
Scope New York and Scope London, featured artist with Galerie Adler, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2004 Tragically Sweet, Galerie Adler, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2003 Double Life: Alex McQuilkin; Trine Boesen, 404 arte contemporanea, Naples, Italy
Group Exhibitions
2009
talk talk. Das Interview als künstlerische Praxis, Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, Leipzig,Germany - Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz, Austria - Galerie 5020, Salzburg, Austria (curated by Marc Ries)
Talk Dirty to Me, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, USA
That's Just the Way It Is, Marvelli Gallery, New York, USA
Höhepunkte der Kölner KunstFilmBiennale, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
2008
Diana und Actaeon. Der verbotene Blick auf die Nacktheit, Museum Kunstpalast,Düsseldorf, Germany
Number Two: Fragile, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany
Busan Biennial, Korea
VIDEOCRACY, tina b. 2008 The Prague Contemporary Art Festival, Prague, Hungary (curated by Micaela Giovannotti)
2007
Look Away, Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York City, NY, USA
12th Biennial of Moving Images, Centre pour l?image Contemporain, Saint Gervais, Geneva, Switzerland
Teenage Kicks, Vegas Gallery, London, UK
Aggression, Kunsthalle Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland (with Marc Bijl, Stefan Burger, Centre of Attention, Brice Dellsperger, Tom Ellis, Joep van Liefland, Alex McQuilkin, Laura Parnes, SIS.TM, Sündikat, Alejandro Vidal)
Kunst Film Biennale Köln, Köln, Germany
Felt temperature ..., Kunstverein Langenhagen, Langenhagen, Germany
Into Me/Out of Me, MACRO - Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy
Je suis une bombe, Von der Heyd Museum, Wuppertal / Kunsthalle Barmen, Germany
Final Cut, Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche, Osnabrück (curated by Hermann Nöring, Paul McCarthy, Candice Breitz, Bjorn Melhus, Mischa Kuball, Christoph Giradet and others)
2006
VIDEONALE Bonn, Ernst Museum's Dorottya Gallery, Budapest, Hungary
When the Revolution comes, Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York City, NY, USA
America. How Contemporary Artists see the USA, Figge von Rosen Gallery, Cologne, Germany
Video Heroes, CGAC, The Contemporary Art Museum of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (curated by Javier Duero)
Into Me/Out of Me, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany (curated by Klaus Biesenbach)
Into Me/Out of Me, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, USA (curated by Klaus Biesenbach)
HER-SELF, Ritter/Zamet Galerie, London, UK
Lo último de Nueva York, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Coolhunters. Youth cultures between the media and the market, Budapest M?csarnok Kunsthalle, Hungary
Youth of Today, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (curated by Max Hollein, Matthias Ulrich)
2005
Corpus 05 Brügge, Musea Brugge, Belgium
Video/ökonomie, ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Museum Karlsruhe, Germany
Realities III: Exeptions, Fotogalerie Wien, Austria
Poesia in forma di rosa: tribute to Pasolini, Galleria Comunale d?Arte Contemporanea Monfalcone, Italy
Ratatouille, 20.21 Galerie Edition Kunsthandel, Essen, Germany
First We Take Museums, Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsiniki, Finland
COOLHUNTERS. Youth cultures between the media and the market, Künstlerhaus Wien, Austria
Vicious, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, USA (curated by Liz Mulholland)
Dead kids do nothing, 31 Grant, Brooklyn, USA (curated by Adam Stennett)
Himmelsbilder, Dommuseum zu Salzburg, Salzburg, Austria (curated by Dr. Peter Keller)
boost in the shell, Cultural Center of Bruges (with Jake & Dinos Chapman, John Isaacs, Bruce Naumann a.o.)
Videonale 10, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany (curated by Georg Elben)
Nocturnal Transmissions, curator´s office, Washington, USA (curated by Andrea Pollan)
COOLHUNTERS. Youth cultures between the media and the market, ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Museum Karlsruhe, Germany
Charmed, The Lower Eastside Girls Club, New York (curated by Michael St. John, Jason Duval)
orgien, voelcker & freunde galerie, Berlin, Germany
unspeakable, Aeroplastics, Brussels, Belgium
2004
Body, Gimm Eis, Copenhagen, Denmark
Black, Marvelli Gallery, New York City, NY, USA
Short Histories Of Video, John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK
Like a Virgin, Eastern Edge, St. John's, Canada
Pulse Of America, Aeroplastics, Brussels, Belgium

Shows

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