David Altmejd

Cave (Blue), 2013

Mother 1 (Relatives), 2013

Son 1 (Relatives), 2013

"Untitled 2 (Transitional Figures)", 2013

"Untitled 4 (Bodybuilders)", 2012

"Untitled 7 (Bodybuilders)", 2013

"Untitled 7 (Bodybuilders)", 2013

"Figure with Black Arms and Strawberry", 2013

Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, 2013

"Le ventre", 2012

"Le ventre", 2012

"The Orbit", 2012

Detail: "The Orbit", 2012

"Untitled 1 (Puddles)", 2012

"Untitled", 2012

"Wave", 2011

Art Basel Miami Beach, 2011

"Giving / Taking", 2011

The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, 2011

The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, 2011

"L'air", 2010

The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, 2011

"The Pit", 2011

The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, 2011

"Untitled 7 (The Watchers)", 2011

The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, 2011

"Untitled", 2011

The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, 2011

"Untitled 4 (Guides)", 2011

The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, 2011

"Untitled (Dark)", 2001

The Brant Foundation Art Study Center, 2011

"Untitled 1: Work Tables", 2011

"Untitled", 2011

"Untitled", 2011

"Untitled", 2008

Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, 2011

"The Vessel", 2011

"The Vessel", 2011

Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, 2011

"Untitled 4 (The Watchers)", 2011

Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, 2011

"The Architect 2", 2011

"The Holes", 2008

"The Holes", 2008

"Untitled 1 (The Watchers)", 2009

"La chambre d'hôte", 2010

"Le guide", 2010

"Le souffle et la voie", 2010

"Untitled", 2009

"Untitled 1 (The Watchers)", 2009

"The Healers", 2008

Gallery Met at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, 2008

"Untitled", 2007

Andrea Rosen Gallery, 2008

"The Center", 2008

"YOU", 2008

Magasin, Grenoble, 2009

"Untitled", 2007

"Untitled", 2007

"The Hunter", 2006

"Sarah Altmejd", 2003

"The Index", 2007

Detail of: "The Index", 2007

Detail of: "The Index", 2007

"The Giant 2", 2007

"The Egg", 2006

"Untitled", 2005

"The Lovers", 2004

Detail of "The Lovers", 2004

"Untitled", 2000

"The University 1", 2004

Andrea Rosen Gallery, 2004

"Untitled (Blue Jay)", 2004

"Untitled (Blue Jay)", 2004

Detail of: "Delicate Men in Positions of Power", 2003

"The Outiside, The Inside, and The Praying Mantis", 2005

Detail of: "The Old Sculptor", 2003

"Untitled (Brown)", 2003

"Untitled", 2004

"Le dormeur du val", 2004

"Second Werewolf", 2000

Galerie de l'UQAM, Montreal, 2001

Detail of: "Jennifer", 1998

"Sans titre. L'idée dure de l'homme lui sort par la tête", 1999

"Jennifer", 1998

"Table no. 2", 1998

Born in Montréal, Canada, 1974
Lives and works in New York

EDUCATION

2001
MFA, Columbia University, New York, NY
1998
BFA, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Canada

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2013
Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium, February 14 – March 20

2012
Stuart Shave | Modern Art, London, England, May 26 – June 23

2011
Brant Foundation Art Study Center, Greenwich, CT, November 5 – September 2012
Galerie de l'UQAM, Montreal, Canada, "Conte crépusculaire [Twilight Tale]," with composer-performer Pierre Lapointe, May 4 – 7
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, March 18 - April 23

2010
Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium, "Le guide", April 23 –June 3
Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium, "Colossi", April 2010 - February 2011
Exhibition continued April 29, 2011 – March 2012

2009
Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France, curated by Pascal Pique, May 14 - August 31
Magasin – Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble, France, January 31 - May 3

2008
Gallery Met at the Metropolitan Opera House, New York, NY, October
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY, May 3 - June 14

2007
Fundació La Caixa Museum, Barcelona, Spain, "David Altmejd 'Stages,'" curated by Sílvia Sauquet, June 21 - September 9 (brochure)
Canadian Pavilion, 52nd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, "David Altmejd: The Index," June 10 - November 21, commissioned by Louise Déry (catalogue)
Oakville Galleries, Gairloch Gardens, Ontario, Canada, "David Altmejd. Métamorphose /Metamorphosis," curated by Louise Déry, January 26 - March 25
Travels to: Galerie de l'UQAM, Montréal, Canada; May 10 - July 8
Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary, Canada, September 13 - October 27 (catalogue)

2006
Stuart Shave | Modern Art, London, England

2005
Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium

2004
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY

2003
Galerie Optica, Montréal, Canada, "David Altmejd: Sculpture," October 31 - December 13
Galerie SKOL, Montréal, Canada, "Sarah Altmejd," February 22 - March 29

2002
Ten in One Gallery, New York, NY, "Clear Structures for a New Generation", October - November

1999
Galerie B-312, Montréal, Canada, "Modèles d'esprit et jardins intérieurs" (brochure)

1998
Galerie Clark, Montréal, Canada, "Jennifer," Nov. 19 - Dec. 20
Galerie SKOL, Montréal, Canada, "Table n°2," February 14 - March 15 (brochure)


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2013
Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, Belgium, My Little Paradise, curated by Hans Op de Beeck and Sara Weyns, May 26 – September 15
Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya, Israel, Theatrical Gestures, January 26 – April 20
2012 L'Institut Culturel Bernard Magrez, Bordeaux, France, "La Belle et la Bête," October 13 -January 27, 2013
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON "Builders: Canadian Biennial 2012," November 2 – January 20, 2013
MOCA Cleveland, Cleveland, OH, "Inside Out and from the Ground Up," October 8 – December 30
The Art Gallery of Alberta, Edmonton, Canada, "Misled by Nature," organized by the National Gallery of Canada, September 15 – January 6, 2013
Travels to:
Museum of Canadian Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
Musée Goya de Castres, Tarn, France, "Hybrides & Chimères: La Conquête d'un Rêve Êveillé," June 28 – October 28 (catalogue)
Salon 94 Bowery, New York, NY, "Pothole," June 6 – July 6

2012
Musée d'art contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, Canada, "Zoo," curated by Marie Fraser, May 24 – September 3
Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland, "Figury/Figures," curated by
Agnieszka Tarasiuk and Fabio Cavalluci, May 19 – August 26
Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN, "Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination," curated by Mark Scala, February 24 - May 28 forthcoming
Travels to: Art Gallery of Winnipeg, June 15 - September 9
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, September 28 - January 2, 2013

2011
Mudam Luxembourg, Luxembourg, "Mondes inventés - Mondes habités" (Invented Worlds - Inhabited Worlds), curated by Marie-Noëlle Farcy and Clément Minighetti. October - January 2012 (forthcoming)
Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN, "Fairy Tales, Monsters, and the Genetic Imagination" January–May
Haus Der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany, "Der Traum vom Fliegen - The Art of Flying", curated by Britta Heinrich, March 3 - May 8, 2011

2010
High Museum of Art, Wieland Pavilion Skyway Galleries, Atlanta, GA, "Surrealist Conspiracy" curated by Michael Rooks September 18, 2010 – January 9, 2011
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada, "It is what it is. Recent Acquisitions of New Canadian Art," October 29 2010 - February 13, 2011
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Canada, "The Visceral Body' February 6 – May 2
Les Abattoirs, France, "Ten Year Permanent Collection," March 26
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, "Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection," curated by Jeff Koons, March 3-June 6
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, "Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum Rotunda", February 19–May 31
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Canada, The Visceral Body' February 6 – May 2

2009
P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY, "Between Spaces," curated by Tim Goossens and Kate McNamara, October 25-? (forthcoming)
Art Gallery of Nova Scotia, Sobey Art Award 2009, September 5, 2009 – November 8, 2009 (forthcoming)
Nantes, France, "Saint-Nazaire Biennale", curated by Adam Budak and Laurence Gateau, June 6 -
October 4
Mas d'Azil Prehistoric Cave, Toulouse, France, "DreamTime, Caves, contemporary art and transhistory",
curated by Pascal Pique, May 13 - November 11
Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, Canada, "Emporte-moi/Sweep-me off my Feet", curated by
Nathalie de Blois and Frank Lamy, May 7-September 5, 2010 (forthcoming)
Travels to: Musée d'art contemporain du Val de Marne, France, March - June 2010
Reg Vardy Gallery, Sunderland, United Kingdom, "Everyday Above Ground is a Good One: Reflections of the Underworld, Fall

2008
Art Gallery of Toronto (AGO), Canada, Fall
Tate Liverpool, UK, Liverpool Biennial, curated by Laurence Sillars, September 18 - November 30, 2008
Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany, "Freeway Balconies," curated by Collier Schorr, July 5 - September 21
Fundament Foundation, Tilburg, The Netherlands, "Lustwarande 08-Wanderland," June 28 - September 28, 2008
Château et dans les Fabriques du Domaine Départemental de Chamarande, France "Legende" May 25 - September 28, 2008
Musée D'Art Contemporain de Montréal, "Triennial of Québec Art," May 24 - September 8, 2008
Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain, "Installations: Selections from the Guggenheim Collections," April 27 - January 5, 2009
Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec, Canada, "Intrus/Instruders," curated by Mélanie Boucher, April 24 - September 28, 2008 (catalogue)
Hessel Museum of Art & CCS Galleries, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, "Second Thoughts," March 16 - May 25, 2008

2007
Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO, "Star Power: Museum as Body Electric," curated by Cydney Payton, October 28 - May 11, 2008 (catalogue)
Spertus Museum, Chicago, IL, "The New Authentics: Artists of the Post-Jewish Generation," curated by Staci Boris, November 30 - April 13, 2008 (catalogue)
Travels to: The Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, May 9 - July 13, 2008
Birch Libralato, Toronto, Canada,"David Altmejd, Renate Anger, and Eric Cameron," curated by Micah Lexier, October 20 - November 17
Athens, Greece, "Fractured Figure - Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection," September 6, 2007 - March 29, 2008 (catalogue)
Rivington Arms, New York, NY, "To Build A Fire," curated by Yuri Masnyj, April 13 - May 12
Walter Vanhaerents Collection, Belgium, "Disorder in the House," March 24 - March 31, 2009

2006
Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland, "Six Feet Under: Autopsy of Our Dealing With the Dead," November 2 - January 21, 2007 (catalogue)
Travels to: Stiftung Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden, Germany, September 21 - March 30, 2008
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany, "The Eighth Square," August 19 - November 16 (catalogue)
Kunsthalle Bonn, Bonn, Germany, "The Guggenheim Collection," July 21 - January 7, 2007 (catalogue)
Andrea Rosen Gallery, Amagansett, NY, "The Dining Room Show," July 21 - July 23
James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY, "A Brighter Day," June 9 - July 26 (catalogue)

2005
Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College, Cork, Ireland, "Blake & Sons. Alternative Lifestyles and Mysticism in Contemporary Art," curated by René Zechlin, October 16 - January 29, 2006 (catalogue)
Galerie Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Montréal, Canada, "L'écho des limbes," curated by Nathalie de Blois, October 14 - November 19 (catalogue)
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, "The Zine UnBound: Kults, Werewolves and Sarcastic Hippies," October 7 - December 30 (catalogue)
Stuart Shave | Modern Art, London, England, "The The," July 8 - August 7
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany, "Ideal Worlds. New Romanticism in Contemporary Art," curated by Max Hollein and Martina Weinhart, May 26 - August 28 (catalogue)
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France, "David Altmejd, Mathew Cerletty, Kirsten Everberg, Alisa Margolis and Sophie Van Hellermann," April 23 - June 20

2004
Fondation Dosne - Biblioteque Thiers, Paris, France, "Noctambule," organized by D'Amelio Terras, NY, June 24 - July 10
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, "Whitney Biennial 2004," curated by Chrissie Iles, Shamim M. Momin, Debra Singer, March 11 - May 30 (catalogue)
Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY, "Scream," curated by Fernanda Arruda and Michael Clifton, January 15 - February 14 (catalogue)

2003
LFL Gallery, New York, NY, "Material Eyes," December 11 - January 17, 2004
Art Forum Berlin, Berlin, Germany, "Licht," organized by Optica, Montréal,Canada, October 31 - December 13
Istanbul, Turkey, 8th Istanbul Biennial, curated by Dan Cameron, September 20 - November 16
Maison de la Culture Côte-des-Neiges, Montréal, Canada, "Détournements," curated by Pascal Beaudet, April 3 - May 11,
D'Amelio Terras Gallery, New York, NY, "Now Playing: Daniel Reich Gallery, John Connelly Presents, K48," July 1 - August 8
Apartment 5BE Gallery, "Life/Like," New York, NY, April - May

2002
Artist Space, New York, NY, "Demonclownmonkey," curated by Matthew Ritchie, March 21 - May 11
Sculpture Center, Deitch Projects, New York, NY, "Lucky Draw"

2001
Sculpture Center, New York, NY, "Interval: New Art for New Space," September - October
Ten in One Gallery, New York, NY, "How I learned to stop worrying and love the recession," June - July
Galerie de l'UQAM, Montréal, Canada, "Point de chute," curated by Louis Déry, March 2 - March 31 (catalogue)
Travels to: Centre d'Art Contemporain, Brussels, Belgium, November 14 - December 21, 2002

1998
Maison de la Culture Frontenac, Montréal, Canada, "Stimuli," curated by Nicolas Baier and Emmanuel Galland, July - August (catalogue)
Saidye Bronfman Art Center, Montréal, Canada, "Artifice 98," June 18 - August 23
Galerie Clark, Montréal, Canada, "Les Bricolos," March 26 - April 26

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