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