The Artist
“Meyer Vaisman burst on to New York’s downtown art scene in 1980, and swiftly became one of its brightest stars. The Venezuelan-born artist was hailed as one of the “Fantastic Four” alongside Ashley Bickerton, Jeff Koons, and Peter Halley”.
Art in America, June 17, 2014.
MEYER VAISMAN Born 1960 in Caracas, Venezuela; lives and works in Barcelona, Spain
EDUCATION 1980 Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
SELECTED SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2015
Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany (forthcoming)
2014
In The Vicinity of History, 5774, KaBe Contemporary, Miami, FL In the Vicinity of History, 5774, Eleven Rivington, New York, NY
2011
Superflat Donkeys and Zooms, KaBe Contemporary, Miami, FL
2009
Meyer Vaisman 6:1, Periférico Caracas, Venezuela
2006
Al-Boroto, Casa America, Madrid, Spain
2002
Demuestranos que es la premura, Galeria d’art Estrany – De la Mota, Barcelona, Spain
2001
Surrogate Mothers, Patrick Painter, Inc., Santa Monica, CA
2000
Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, NY
1999
Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, CA Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo, Brazil
1996
Green on the Inside/Red on the Outside (My Parent’s Closet), 303 Gallery, New York, NY
1995
Propiedad Privada, Espacio 204, Caracas, Venezuela Off-Shore Gallery, East Hampton, NY
1994
Turkeys, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France Roma, Meyer Vaisman & Thomas Struth, Janice Guy, New York, NY
1993
Meyer Vaisman: Obras Recientes, Centro Cultural Consolidado, Caracas Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Santa Fe de Bogota; traveled to Fundacion
para el Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico; Museo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
Edition Julie Sylvester, New York, NY
1992
Turkeys, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Jason Rubell Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
Oeuvres Recentes, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
1991
Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, NY Mario Diacono, Boston, MA Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1990
Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, NY
Waddington Galleries, London, UK
Editions Ilene Kurtz, New York, NY
Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Casino Knokke, Knokke-Heist, Belgium
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY
1989
Lawrence Olivier Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Mario Diacono, Boston, MA
The Beaver Show, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, PA
Jederzeit Willkommen, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Live the Dream, Edition Julie Sylvester, New York, NY
1988
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Matrix 119, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA), Berkeley, CA
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley, CA
1987
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, NY
1986
White Columns, New York, NY Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, NY
Daniel Weinberg, Los Angeles, CA