Julia Scher - Biography

Born 1954, Hollywood, CA.
Lives and works in New York City.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2004
"Six Feet Under Make Nice", White Box, New York, concept by Larry Litt and Juan Puntes, organized by Raul Zamudio, Julia Scher: week three July 20 – 24, 2004

2002
Andrea Rosen Gallery, NYC, "Security By Julia XLV: Security Landscapes" September 5 – October 5, 2002
Schipper & Krome, Berlin, Germany, "Security By Julia XLVI" September 20 – November 9, 2002

2000
Schipper & Krome, Berlin, Germany, November 25 – December 22, 2000
Georg Kargl Gallery, Vienna, Austria, "wonderland", October 31 – December 15, 2000
Andrea Rosen Gallery, NYC, June 9 – July 14, 2000

1999
"Predictive Engineering²", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, October 23, 1998 – January 17, 1999 (pamphlet)

1998
"wonderland", Andrea Rosen Gallery, NY, March 28 – April 25
"The Komputer Kings", Schipper & Krome, Berlin, Germany, February 14 – March 21

1997
"Forecast", Maurine and Robert Rothschild Gallery, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, April 4 - May 2
"Securityworld", Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France, March 8 - April 20

1996
Maurine and Robert Rothschild Gallery, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, September 27 – October 18, (two person exhibition with Elizabeth King)
Fri-Art Centre d'Art Contemporain Kunsthalle, Fribourg, Switzerland, September 8 - October 20 (two-person exhibition with Vanessa Beecroft) (catalogue)
"American Fibroids", Andrea Rosen Gallery, NY, March 2 - April 6

1995
Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy, January
Schipper & Krome, Berlin, Germany

1994
"A series of rotating installations" (Week 3: November 8 - 12: Julia Scher), Andrea Rosen Gallery, NYC, October 26 - November 26
"Don't Worry", Kolnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany, August 23 - October 2

1993
"Mystery Meat", Galerie Metropol, Vienna, Austria
1992
"Buffalo Under Surveillance", Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY, October 9 - 24

1991
"I'll Be Gentle", Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, NY, November 16 - December 21

1990
"Security By Julia, VII", Max Fish Bar & Restaurant, New York, NY
"Insecurity By Julia", Anoka-Ramsey College, Coon Rapids, MN
"Security Site Visits", Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, May 15

1989
"Occupational Placement: (O.P)", The Wexner Center, Columbus, OH, November 17 - January 21, 1990
"Security By Julia", The Collective for Living Cinema, New York, NY

1984
"Julia Scher, American Landscape", Coffman Gallery, University of Minnesota, MN

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2006
"Having been described in words", Orchard Gallery, NY, January 22 – March 5, 2006 (catalogue)

2005
"On Patrol", De Appel, Amsterdam, January 29 – March 20, 2005

2004
"Firewall", Kunstakademie Münster, June 27 – September 5, 2004, travels to Württembergische Kunstverein Stuttgart February 18 – April 17, 2005

2003
"At Your Own Risk", Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, June 27 – September 7, 2003 (catalogue)
"Phantom of Pleasure", Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria, April 26 – August 24, 2003 (catalogue)
"Witness: Theories of Seduction", Dorsky Gallery, New York, February 9 – April 14, 2003, curated by Sue Scott (pamphlet)

2002
"POLITIK-UM / New Engagement", Center for Contemporary Arts Prague, May 15th - June 10th, 2002 (catalogue)
"Metropolis Now", Museo Nacional Centro de Artem Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, September 26 – October 15, 2002

2001
"CTRL Space", ZKM: Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany, October 13, 2001 – February 24, 2002
"ID/entity: Portraits in the 21st Century", MIT Media Lab, Cambridge, MA, October 2 –31, 2001 travels to The Kitchen, New York, NY, November 30 – December 2001, curated by Christina Yang (pamphlet)
"Metropolis Now", Borusan Art & Cultural Center, Istanbul, Turkey, September 2001 (catalogue)
"New Settlements", Nikolaj, Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Denmark curated by Jacob Frabricius, March 23 – May 6, 2001
"Pat Hearn Gallery: Part Two (1988 –1994)", Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, February 3 – March 3, 2001

2000
"Quotidiana", Catello di Rivoli, Torino, Italy; February 4 – May 21 , 2000
"Continuum 001", CCA Glasgow, February 19 – March 18, 2000
"Presumed Innocent", capcMusée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, France, curated by Marie-Laure Bernadac and Stephanie Moisdon, June 8 – September 30, 2000 (catalogue)
"Aussendienst", Kunstverein, Hamburg, September 22 – October 29, 2000 (pamphlet and catalogue)

1999
"The American Century: Art & Culture 1950 – 2000", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, September 26, 1999 – February 13, 2000
"Domesticated", Refusalon, San Francisco, CA; November 3 – November 28, 1999
"Transmute", The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, and www.mcachicago.org/transmute, curated by Joshua Decter, September 15 – November 7,

1999
"The Space Here is Everywhere: Art with Architecture", Villa Merkel/Bahnwärterhaus, Germany, August 15 – October 10, 1999
"The Stockholm Syndrome", curated by Måns Wrange, an international art exhibition on CD-Rom inserted in the new art magazine NU - The Nordic Art Review, Issue1/99
"Sleuth: The Private Eye in Film Noir, Current Photography and Video", Ffotogallery, Chapter, Oriel Mostyn & Barbican London, England, organized by Caryn Faure Walker, June 1999 – March 2000
"video cult/ures", ZKM Museum fuer Neue Kunst, Berlin, Germany, May 6 – August 29. 1999
"Project Security", Jan Van Eyck Academie, Maastricht, Netherlands, May 17-22, 1999

1998
"Roommates", Museum van Loon, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 5 – October 10
"Performance Anxiety", Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM, March 1 – May 25 (catalog)
"Police Pictures: The Photograph as Evidence", NYU Grey Art Gallery, NY, May 21 –July 18
"Review", Georg Kargi Gallery, Vienna, Austria, June
"Patchwork in Progress 3: La Nuit, l'oubli (en souvenir de Gilles Dusein)", La Fondation Mamco and Le Musée d'art Moderne Contemporain, Genève, Switzerland, June 3 – October 4
"Fast Forward: body checks", Kunstverein in Hamburg, Germany, September 10 – November 30

1997
"Heaven: Private View", P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, October 26 – January 1998, curated by Joshua Decter
"The Art of Detection: Surveillance in Society", MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, October 9 – December 28 (catalogue)
"Art Calls", Copenhagen, Denmark, November 1 - December 31, curated by Jacob Fabricius (Compact Disc catalogue)
"Short Cuts: Links to the Body", Bundesanstalt fur Arbeitsschutz und Arbeitsmedizin, Dortmund, Germany, August 22 - October 5, curated by Iris Dressler and Hans D. Christ (catalogue)
"504", Zentrum fur Kunst, Medien und Design, Hochule fur Bildende Kunst, Braunschweig, Germany, June 5 - 25, curated by Klasse Armleder
"Was nun?", Schipper und Krome, Berlin, Germany, May 28 - June 28
"Performance Anxiety", Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, April 17 - June 29 (catalogue); curated by Amada Cruz; travels to Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La Joya, CA, September 13 – November 30, 1997; Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM, March 1 – May 25, 1998
"Surveillance", Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, April 19 – May

1996
"Against: Thirty Years of Film and Video", Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, England, September 18 - October 18
"Voyeur's Delight", Franklin Furnace, New York, September 6 - October 12, curated by Barbara Rusin and Grace Roselli
"Where Does it Hurt?", curated by Cathy Busby, Banff Centre for the Arts, Calgary Annex, Canada, Sept. 20 – Oct. 18
"shopping", agnes B, New York, September 5 - 21, curated by Jerome Sans and organized by Deitch Projects
"So You Wanna Be A Rock and Roll Star: Artists Interpet Popular Music", Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, August 31 - November 10, curated by Dominic Molon
"Strange Days", the agency contemporary art, London, England, June 22 - July 27
"the factory", Athens School of Fine Art, Athens, Greece, "push-ups", May 20 - July 20, curated by Emily Tsingou (catalogue)
"Departure Lounge", Clocktower Gallery/The Institute for Contemporary Art, New York, NY, May 3 - June 30
"Enlightened Objects", Studio Vudafieri, Milan, Italy, January
"The Machine Stops: digital media and artwork in post-industrial urban centers", The Brush Art Gallery and Studios, Lowell, MA, January 17 - March 17, curated by Brian Wallace
"Festival of International Artists' Films and Videos", agnes b. "Upstairs Gallery", New York, NY, January
"8 artisti en mostra", Virgin Megastore, Milan, Italy

1995
"The Telematic Room I", Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany, December 16 - January 28, 1996 (catalogue)
"Art with Conscience", Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, November, curated by Joseph Jacobs
"Signal To Noise: Part 1 Wathing TV Watching Us", Part of the Fourth New York Video Festival, New York, NY, October 10 & 12
"Derek Jarman, Craig Kalpakjian, Julia Scher", Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY, July 11 - August 11
"Els Limits del Museu" (The End(s) of the Museum), Tapies Museum, Barcelona, Spain, March 14 - June 4
"A Selected Survey", Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, NY
"Das Ende der Avantgarde", Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, Germany
"Fantastic Prayers", collaboration with Tony Oursler and Constance Jung, Dia Art Foundation, New York, NY, May 5 - 7
"Press Enter", The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada, April 21 - June 11, curated by Louise Dompierre (catalogue)
"Hotel-Sets", Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy, January (with Thorsten Kirchoff)

1994
"Bioinformatica", Sandra Gering Gallery, NYC, December 3, 1994 - January 14, 1995; traveled to Kolnischer Kunstverein, Koln, Germany, February 4 - March 19, 1995; Javier Lopez, London, September 14 - October, 1995; Galerie des Archives, Paris, France, spring 1996
"Cocido y Crudo", Museo Nacional, Centro de Arte, Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain, curated by Dan Cameron
"Temporary Translation(s), Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
"Lousy Fear", Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Don't Look Now", Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY, January 22 - February 24, curated by Joshua Decter
"The Use of Pleasure", Terrain Gallery, San Francisco, CA, February 15 - March 12, curated by Robert Nickas (catalog)
"Soggetto Soggetto - Una nuova relazione dell arte di oggi", Castello di Rivara, Museo d'arte contemporanea, Torino, Italy
"Selfportrayal", Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, Porter College, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA
"Toponimias", Fundacion "La Caixa", Madrid, Spain, February 1 - April 10, curated by Jose Lebrero Stals
"L'hiver de l'amour", Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France, curated by Elein Fleiss and +Olivier Zahm

1993
"The Return of the Cadavre Exquis", The Drawing Center, New York, NY
"Public Figures", Herron Gallery, Indianapolis Center for Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN
"Internet", Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria, curated by Peter Weibel
"Four Walls 1993 Benefit and Sale", David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY October 28 - 30
"Tele-Aesthetics", Proctor Art Center, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, October 15 - November 16, curated by Sandra Antello-Suarez
"Backstage", Kunstverein in Hamburg, Germany; traveled to Kunstmusem Luzern, Switzerland
"XLV Venice Biennale, Aperto '93", Venice, Italy, section curated by Robert Nickas
"Aesthetics and Violence", Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria and Galerie Sylvana Lorenz, Paris, France, curated by Robert Fleck
"Le Principe de Realite", Villa Arson, Nice, France
"Thresholds and Enclosures", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
"The Final Frontier", New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, May 7 - August 15, curated by Alice Yang
"Some artists I've been thinking about who fall under the title of: Wouldn't it be more pluralistic to embrace turmoil and/or violence?", Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY

1992
"Seven Curators/Seven Rooms" ("Exposure"), P.S. 1 Museum of Contemporary Art, Long Island City, NY, November 8 - January 10, curated by Lois Nesbit
"Transgressions in the White Cube: Territorial Mappings", Usdan Gallery at Bennington College, Bennington, VT, curated by Joshua Decter
Spielhalle, Frankfurt, Germany
Kunstlerhaus, Stuttgart, Germany
"Wochenschau", Cologne, Germany,
"The Speaker Project", Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England, curated by Paul Mittelman
"Surveillance 1992", Nancy Drysdale Gallery, Washington DC
"The Auto-Erotic Object", Vorhes Gallery at Hunter College, New York, NY, curated by Julie Carson
"240 Minuten", Esther Schipper Gallery, Cologne, Germany
"Still", Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY, July 2 - August 17
"Technorama", Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York, NY
"Terminal Instructions", (From the Technocracy), Four Walls, NY, March 22
"Tattoo Collection", Galleries Air de Paris and Urbi et Orbi, Nice and Paris, travels to Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris, France; Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany; Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY; Centre Regional d'Art Contemporain, Nantes, France
"Dirty Data", Sammlung Schurmann 1992, Ludwig Forum for International Art, Aachen, Germany
"Multiple Cultures - Art and Criticism, 1992", Rome, Italy
Galleria Leccese, Milan, Italy
Galerie Rudolph Zwirner, Cologne, Germany, June 2 - July 31
Galerie Esther Schipper, Cologne, Germany

1991
"Topographie II: Untergrund", Wiener Festwochen, Vienna, September 27 - November 3
Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, NY
"Zeigt", Galerie Esther Schipper, Cologne, Germany, April, February 23 - April 1, curated by Benjamin Weil

1990
"Le Choix des Femmes", Le Consortium, Dijon, France, November 17, 1990 – January 12, 1991
The Koln Art Fair, Cologne, Germany
"Spent-Currency, Security and Art on Deposit", Marine Midland Bank, New York, NY, October 1 - March 1, 1991

1989
"1989 National Video Festival", American Film Institute, Hollywood, CA,
"The Desire of the Museum", Whitney Museum of American Art - Downtown, New York, NY, July 12 - September 12
"1989 Biennial", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, April 27 - July 9
"Collecting, Organizing, Transposing", Maryland Art Place, Baltimore, MD, traveled to University Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA; Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY, January 14 - February 25
"Dark Rooms", Artists Space, New York, NY, March 2 - April 1

1988
"Female Reproduction", White Columns, New York, NY, January 28 - February 20
"(C)overt", P.S. 1 Museum of Contemporary Art, Long Island City, NY, January 17 - March 6

1987
"Jerome Media Art Installations", Intermedia Arts of Minnesota Gallery, Minneapolis, MN,
"Expo", Colab, New York, NY, July 1 - 7
"Safe & Secure", Rifle Sport Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
"Surveillance", L.A.C.E., Los Angeles, CA

1986
"Paintings Under Surveillance", Nada Gallery, New York, NY, September 2 - October 16
Medium West Gallery, Minneapolis, MN

1984
"In Corpore Sano", Daedelus Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
"Scher Exteriors/Waldorsky Interiors", Fine Arts Center, Macalester College, St. Paul, MN, September 13 - October 11

1983
"Grand Fragments/Scher Landscape", University Art Museum, University of Minnesota, MN

1981
"Works from Minnesota", University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire, WI

1979
"L.A.I.C.A. Sells Out", Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

PERFORMANCES
2001
"Open Mouse", an hour of surveillance skins on screen + sounds of
control attached., live meltings+ sonic commands, January 25, FUN, New York, NY

1997
"Elizabeth Dole", The New Museum, New York, NY

1996
"Sounds For the Watched", Mother, New York, NY
"Surveillance Nite @ Jackie 60", Jackie 60, New York, NY, Sept. 21
"Voice", The Balie, Amsterdam, Holland

1995
"Fantasic Prayers", By Constance DeJong, Tony Oursler and Stephan Vitiello. A Dia Foundation Production. Dream #2 written and performed by
"Women in Prison", Jackie 60, New York, NY

1994
"Security With Julia", Kolnischer Kunstverein, Koln, Germany
"Insecurity By Julia", Technoscience and Power Conference, CUNY, New York, NY

1990
"Julia Scher: Security Site Visits", Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, May 3

ELECTRONIC NET/EXHIBITIONS

2003
www.celesteolalquiaga.com

2002
Identity/Entity – MIT.edu surveillance&control/ TateModern.org.UK/whitneybiennial.com

2000-2002
www.scherware.com/ameratherm; no.protection.plug; www.securitybyjulia.com, www.aussendienst.hamburg.de

1999
"hyperessay", New Media Initiatives, Walker Art Center, World Wide Web on walkerart.org, February
"insecurity by Julia", www.insecuritybyjulia.com
"medicated tits", Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Germany
"Master of Ceremonies", Boston Cyberarts Festival, May 1 – 15, 1999. wwwbostoncyberarts.org
"Locked In", www.karg.de/lockedin

1998-99
Predictive Engneering 2 @sfmoma.org/exhb/scher/jsindex.htm
"Freak Lab", www.502.org/freaklab 101

1996
"Information America", "Don't Worry", World Wide Web: interactive on word.com (archive)
"Appropriated Corpse: Talk Back! #2", WorldWide Web on talkback.lehman.cuny.edu/tb.

1995
"Fantastic Prayers", World Wide Web, produced by Dia Foundation for the Arts, NYC
"Securityland", World Wide Web: interactive on adaweb.com

1993
"Information America", "The Thing"

1992
"Poster Project", "The Thing"
"Madam J's Dungeon", "The Thing"