Modern Art

Born in Detroit, MI, USA, 1977
Lives and works in Providence, RI, USA

Education
2008

MA Fine Art

Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT, USA

2006

BA Fine Art

College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI, USA

2005

AICAD New York Studio Program

New York, NY, USA

Solo Exhibitions
2024

Kunst Museum Winterthur

Winterthur, Switzerland

2023

Modern Art

London

ZERO...

Milan, Italy

Andrew Kreps Gallery

New York, NY, USA

Henry Moore Institute

Leeds

2022

Modern Art

London

2021

KOW

Berlin, Germany

Pinakothek der Moderne

Munich, Germany

2020

Andrew Kreps Gallery

New York, NY, USA

Secession

Vienna, Austria

2019

Modern Art

London

KOW

Madrid, Spain

2018

What Pipeline

Detroit, MI, USA

Atlantis Lumière

Marseille, France

Kunsthalle Basel

Basel, Switzerland

Field Station: Michael E. Smith

Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI, USA

2017

MoMA PS1

Long Island City, NY, USA

The David Ireland House

500 Capp Street Foundation, San Francisco, CA, USA

KOW

Berlin, Germany

S.M.A.K. – Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst Gent

Ghent, Belgium

Michael Benevento

Los Angeles, CA, USA

2016

Lumber Room

Portland, OR, USA

Pig, curated by Gesine Borcherdt

CAPRI, Düsseldorf, Germany

ZERO…

Milan, Italy

Andrew Kreps Gallery

New York, NY, USA

2015

Kunstverein Hannover

Hannover, Germany

De Appel

Amsterdam, Netherlands

Michael Benevento

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Sculpture Center

Long Island City, NY, USA

2014

Lulu

Mexico City, Mexico

Zabludowicz Collection

London

Susanne Hilberry Gallery

Ferndale, MI, USA

The Power Station

Dallas, TX, USA

La Triennale di Milano

Milan, Italy

Reserve Ames

Los Angeles, CA, USA

2013

CAPC – Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux

Bordeaux, France

KOW

Berlin, Germany

Clifton Benevento

New York, NY, USA

Ludwig Forum für internationale Kunst

Aachen, Germany

2012

Culturgest

Lisbon, Portugal

ZERO…

Milan, Italy

2011

Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis

St Louis, MO, USA

Mönchehaus Museum

Goslar, Germany

Susanne Hilberry Gallery

Ferndale, MI, USA

2010

KOW

Berlin, Germany

Clifton Benevento

New York, NY, USA

2009

KOW Issue 3: Detroit’s Post-Fordism

KOW, Berlin, Germany

2008

Ackerstrasse 18

Berlin, Germany

Jenny Jaskey

Philadelphia, PA, USA

Selected Group Exhibitions
2023

Modern Art

Paris, France

The Stuff of Life/The Life of Stuff

Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich

2022

Introverse, Allegory Today

80WSE Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Das Auto Rosi Aber

KOW, Berlin, Germany

Ghostscript

Modern Art, London

Tatsuo Ikeda / Michael E. Smith

Nonaka-Hill Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Mettere al mondo il mondo, curated by Mark Godfrey

Thomas Dane Gallery, Naples, Italy

I Had a Dog and a Cat

Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria

On the Nature of Things

Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Whitney Biennial 2022: Quiet as It's Kept

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA

Flesh Arranges Itself Differently

The Hunterian, University of Glasgow, Glasgow

2021

Our Silver City, 2094

Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham

Lewis Hammond & Michael E. Smith

La Maison de Rendez Vous, Brussels, Belgium

The Imaginary Sea

Fondation Carmignac, Hyères, France

Reassembly

Galerie Nordenhaake, Stockholm, Sweden

Feasts of Hunger

Spazio Orr, Brescia, Italy

Group show

Modern Art, London

2020

wir blumen - The lightness of the fragile - Works from the Schürmann Collection

Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, Germany

Permafrost

MO.CO Panacée, Montpellier, France

2019

Since Last We Met

Simon Lee Gallery, New York, NY, USA

'You': works from the Lafayette Anticipations Collection

Musée de l'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France

Emissaries for Things Abandoned by Gods

curated by Elena Filipovic, Casa Lius Barragán, Mexico City, Mexico

Stadtschlawinereien

KOW, Berlin, Germany

Good Moves

The Power Station, Dallas, TX, USA

The Smiths

Marlborough Contemporary, London

May You Live in Interesting Times, curated by Ralph Rugoff

58th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

Access, curated by Juliane Duft

Projektraum im KunstWerk, Cologne, Germany

The Collection (I): Highlights for a Future

S.M.A.K. – Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst Gent, Ghent, Belgium

WE BURN OUR DREAMS JUST TO STAY WARM

CAPITAL, San Francisco, CA, USA

2018

Abenteuer Freundschaft

Kunstsaele, Berlin, Germany

The Fuel of Your Lives Becomes Ashes in Ours

KOW, Berlin, Germany

Sculptures

Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Fences & Windows

Modern Art, London

GIVE UP THE GHOST, Baltic Triennial 13

Contemporary Art Center, Vilnius, Lithuania

Fashion Drive. Extreme Mode in der Kunst

Kunsthaus Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

Capitalo, Chthulu, and a Much Hotter Compost Pile. Über Mensch-Umwelt-Verhältnisse

Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany

From the Collection | Against the Wall?

S.M.A.K. – Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst Gent, Ghent, Belgium

This is a Pipe: Realism and the Found Object in Contemporary Art

Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA

Converter

Kunstmuseum St.Gallen, St.Gallen, Switzerland

A Simple Fraction

Doyers, New York, NY, USA

Darren Bader: more or less

Sadie Coles HQ, London

2017

Joseloff Gallery,

with Jamie Isenstein, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT, USA

Beyond the Box. Sammlung Dohmen

Leopold-Hoesch-Museum, Düren, Germany

Visual Emotions: The Collection of Kerstin Hiller and Helmut Schmelzer

Neues Museum, Nuremberg, Germany

We Just Fit, You and I

Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA

Darren Bader: (@mined_oud), curated by Andrea Viliani with Silvia Salvati and Anna Cuomo

Madre Napoli – Museo d’arte contemporanea Donnaregina, Naples, Italy

The Air Vibrates with the Buzz of Insects, curated by Sébastien Faucon

Musée départemental d’art contemporain de Rochechouart, Rochechouart, France

Interlude

Cookie Butcher, Antwerp, Belgium

Sunlight arrives only at its proper hour, curated by Mitchell Algus and Olivia Shao

365 S. Mission Rd., Los Angeles, CA, USA

Jo Baer, Michael E. Smith, Josh Smith, Raphaela Vogel

Essex Street, New York, NY, USA

99 Cents or Less

Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, MI, USA

Aftermeiter, curated by Veit Loers

Haus Mödrath, Kerpen, Germany

Frammenti di Paradiso. Collezione Agovino

Le Scalze, Naples, Italy

Utopia/Dystopia

MAAT – Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon, Portugal

“All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace"

Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

THE GAP BETWEEN THE FRIDGE AND THE COOKER

The Modern Institute, Glasgow

2016

Concrete Islands, curated by Douglas Fogle and Hanneke Skerath

Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Shock Room. Eine politische Programmunterbrechung

BKV – Brandenburgischer Kunstverein Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

Out of the Dark

KOW, Berlin, Germany

See sun, and think shadow

Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2015

The Pump, curated by Valentinas Klimašauskas and Jennifer Teets

Dyson Gallery, Royal College of Art, London

Walks and displacements

Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Stranger than Paradise

Sies + Höke, Düsseldorf, Germany

Nature, Art and Ecology, curated by Margherita de Pilati

Galleria Civica di Trento, Rovereto, Italy

Anagramma, curated by CURA

Basement Roma, Rome, Italy

Albert the kid is ghosting

David Roberts Art Foundation, London

System of a Down

Ellis King, Dublin, Ireland

Être Chose

Treignac Project, Treignac, France

A Summer of Films

KOW, Berlin, Germany

A Walk

Tripoli Gallery of Contemporary Art, East Hampton, NY, USA

Sculptures Also Die

Center for Contemporary Culture Strozzina, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy

Le Souffleur. Schürmann trifft Ludwig

Ludwig Forum für internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany

Multi-Channel: Currents in Contemporary Video Art

West Texas A&M University, Canyon, TX, USA

2014

The Unwinding

Cookie Butcher, Antwerp, Belgium

The Little Things Could Be Dearer

MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY, USA

The Registry of Promise: The Promise of Moving Things

Centre d’art contemporain d’Ivry – le Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine, France

Technokinesis

Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Technokinesis

Blum & Poe, New York, NY, USA

Another Look at Detroit: Part 1 and Part 2

Marlborough Chelsea and Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Soft Matter, curated by Justin Beal

Wallspace, New York, NY, USA

humainonhumain, curated by Anne Bonnin

Foundation d’Enterprise Ricard, Paris, France

Ice Fishing

Max Wigram Gallery, London

Merzen

HEAD, Geneva, Switzerland

Little Forest, curated by Marleine Chedraoui

Tor 13, Bremen, Germany

Surplus living group exhibition

KM Tempoaer, Berlin, Germany

Geographies of Contamination

David Roberts Art Foundation, London

Vom Dasein & Sosein, Skulptur, Objekt & Bühne

Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany

2013

The New Morals

Galeria Stereo, Warsaw, Poland

Anonymous. Eine Ausstellung über den Gegenwert

BKV – Brandenburgischer Kunstverein Potsdam, Potsdam, Germany

Realization is Better than Anticipation

MOCA Cleveland, Cleveland, OH, USA

After Nature. Arbeiten aus der Sammlung Gaby und Wilhelm Schürmann

Collector’s House, Sittard, Netherlands

Of Love, Pain and Passioned Revolt. (Then Farewell, My Beloved, Til’ It’s Freedom Day)

ZERO…, Milan, Italy

Prodigal in Blue

Laura Bartlett Gallery, London

Painting from the Zabludowicz Collection: Painting in the 2.5th Dimension

Zabludowicz Collection, London

2012

Believers

KOW, Berlin, Germany

Les Prairies, Les ateliers de Rennes – Biennale d’art contemporain, curated by Anne Bonnin

Le New Way Mabilais, Rennes, France

A Disagreeable Object, curated by Ruba Katrib

Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY, USA

Everyday Abstract – Abstract Everyday, curated by Matthew Higgs

James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY, USA

Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards

American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY, USA

Whitney Biennial 2012

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA

Le Silence. Une fiction.

Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monaco

2011

Real Simple, curated by Benjamin Godsill

Eisenberg Gallery, Riverview School, East Sandwich, MA, USA

Heads with Tails

Harris Lieberman, New York, NY, USA

The Moment Pleasantly Frightful, curated by Chris Sharp

Laura Bartlett Gallery, London

Segalega

ZERO…, Milan, Italy

Proposal for a Floor, curated by Alex Gartenfeld

Zabludowicz Collection, 1500 Broadway, New York, NY, USA

2010

The Unreadymade

FormContent, London

The Island

LAND/OHWOW, Miami, FL, USA

Robert Filliou

The Artist’s Institute, Hunter College, New York, NY, USA

10 Years of Contemporary Art at the Oakland University Art Gallery

Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, MI, USA

Rive Gauche / Rive Droite

multiple locations, Paris, France

Everlasting Gobstopper

Michael Benevento, Los Angeles, CA, USA

The Art of the Artist’s Book

Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, MI, USA

2009

Susanne Hilberry Gallery

with Kate Levant, Ferndale, MI, USA

Blood Drive: Compromised by Kate Levant

Zach Feuer Gallery, New York, NY, USA

The Living and the Dead

Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, NY, USA

If the Dogs are Barking

Artists Space, New York, NY, USA

All the Splendors of the Earth

Center Galleries, College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI, USA

2008

View (Fourteen): Hooking Up, curated by Klaus Kertess

Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY, USA

if I told you...

Oliver Kamm 5BE, New York, NY, USA

Sunshine

Rental Gallery, New York, NY, USA

ASPN

Showroom, Leipzig, Germany

2007

Susanne Hilberry Gallery

with Kate Levant, Ferndale, MI, USA

Argo Bongo

Rivington Arms, New York

Perfect Lovers

BC Project Room, Brooklyn, NY, USA

Stuff

Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI, USA

2006

Attic

Anton Kern Gallery Annex, New York, NY, USA

Visual Arts Center of New Jersey

Summit, NJ, USA

Rich Rich Rich

Rich Rich Rich Project Space, Shelby Township, MI, USA

2005

Video

Brewster and Seven, Chicago, IL, USA

Detroit Biennial: Actual Size

Contemporary Art Institute of Detroit, Detroit, MI, USA

Here Comes the Sun

Commonwealth Gallery, Detroit, MI, USA

Selected Collections

Cleveland Museum of Art

Cleveland, OH, USA

Columbus Museum of Art

Columbus, OH, USA

Culturgest

Lisbon, Portugal

Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum, Michigan State University

East Landsing, MI, USA

FRAC, The Fonds régionaux d'art contemporain

Dunkirk, France

Hammer Museum

Los Angeles, CA, USA

Institute of Contemporary Art

Miami, FL, USA

Les Abattoirs, Musée – FRAC Occitanie Toulouse

Toulouse, France

Ludwig Forum für internationale Kunst

Aachen, Germany

MIT

Cambridge, MA, USA

Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

Chicago, IL, USA

MUDAM – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean

Luxembourg City, Luxembourg

Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art of Trento and Rovereto

Italy

Nouveau Musée National de Monaco

Monaco

Portland Art Museum

Portland, OR, USA

RISD Museum, Rhode Island School of DesigN

Providence, RI, USA

S.M.A.K. – Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst Gent

Ghent, Belgium

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

San Francisco, CA, USA

Walker Art Center

Minneapolis, MN, USA

Whitney Museum of American Art

New York, NY, USA