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| Are You Ready For The Country? at ZieherSmith | May 22, 2008 | - | Jun 21, 2008 |
| Wes Lang dances through the bone-yard of America’s tattered narrative embracing both the darkness visible in gallows humor and the risky taunting of viewers in the face of their own taboos. Referencing the alternating pattern of American optimism and... |
Solo Shows | Posted: 2007-03-15 |
2007
Galleri Loyal, Stockholm, Sweden 2006 Skulls and Shit, collaboration with Donald Baechler, Galleri Loyal, Stockholm, Sweden 2005 The Promised Land, ZieherSmith, New York I Shall Be Released, Bucket Rider Gallery, Chicago American Beauty, Galleri Loyal, Stockholm, Sweden 2004 Night of 100 Covers Loyal #8 Release, Passerby/Gavin Brown Enterprise, NY & Gallery Milliken, Stockholm, Sweden Home At Last, ZieherSmith, New York 2003 Self-portraits as a Handsome Young Man, RARE Gallery, New York 2002 Wes Lang: New Works on Paper, GV/AS Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2001 Bras, Mark Pasek Gallery, New York, catalogue with essay by Edward Albee 2000 Blacks & Whites, Mark Pasek Gallery, New York | |
Group Shows | Posted: 2007-03-15 |
2007
Dark Victory, curated by Dimitrios Antonitsis, Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Centre, Athens, Greece True Faith, curated by Paul Brainard, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York 2006 You have to be almost gifted to do what I do, Alexander and Bonin, New York Panic Room - Works from The Dakis Joannou Collection, curated by Kathy Grayson and Jeffrey Deitch, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece Rare Specimen: The Natural History Museum Show, curated by Clare Weiss, The Arsenal Gallery in Central Park, New York Don’t Abandon The Ship, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, MA 2005 Looking at Words, Andrea Rosen, New York Loyal and his band hand drawn covers, Galleri Loyal, Stockholm, Sweden Working Artists in Brooklyn, Romo Gallery, Atlanta, GA Benefit White Columns Gallery, New York Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, Galleri Loyal, Stockholm, Sweden Petits formats ou Miniatures, Galerie Quang, Paris, France 2004 The Hunt For Your Family, curated by Loyal, V-1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark / Exhibition also traveled to Odd Number, Stockholm, Sweden 2003 New York Dirt, Claska Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Stream, Rare Gallery, New York 2002 Waar Andrew Andrew Curatorial Services, New York What’s New Pussycat?, Briggs Robinson Gallery, New York She’s Crafty... and So Is He Sometimes, White Columns Gallery, New York T & A GV/AS Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2001 Paper, Mark Pasek Gallery, New York OIL, Mark Pasek Gallery, New York 2000 Hello My Name Is, Mark Pasek Gallery, New York Meat Market, Mark Pasek Gallery, New York 1999 Under Scrutiny, Limner Gallery, New York | |
| Posted: 2007-03-15 | |
| Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York | |
Bibliography | Posted: 2007-03-15 |
2007
Skulls and shit, to be published by Galleri Loyal Revisionaires, to be published Abrams (September 2007) 2006 Dagens Nyheter "Mannen, målaren, myten" by Håkan Nilsson, May 20th Tokion Magazine Summer Art Review “Memento vitae!”, by Lee Henderson, April The New Yorker, “Rare Specimen,” April 3 Nylon, Japan, March 2005 V Man “Finely Drawn,” by Christopher Bollen, Issue 5 Fall/Winter Loyal And His Band a book of international artists, published by Loyal The Drama Issue #7 ”Wes Lang”, by Joel Speakmaker Dagens Nyheter, "Everybody knows this is nowhere" by Jessica Kempe Rodeo Magazine, ”Wild, Wild Wes” by Agnes af Geijerstam Svenska Dagbladet, ”Pick of the day”, by Lars Loven, April 8 Dagens Nyheter, Coverage of American Beauty, April 8 Stockholm City, ”Stockholm Art Fair”, by Lina Wennersten, April 7 Tokion Magazine Issue 47, Interview with Nigel Cooke, May/June Visionaire 33, “Work in Progress: Brave New World” by Jason Schmidt, Spring Loyal Magazine Issue 9 “Wes Lang”, interview and images 2004 The Fader, “Wes Lang Is Trying to Change His Ways,” by Alex Wagner, Dec Loyal Magazine Issue 8 Cover image 2003 Loyal Magazine Issue 7, Dave Dreher and Wes Lang, “AAAA League” Loyal Magazine Issue 6, ”Wes Lang” Tokion Magazine, ”Wes Lang: King of Art”, Adam Glickman, March/April 2002 Nylon Magazine, ”Book Mark: Boredom” by Shelly Ridenour, November Dazed & Confused, ”I’m the Chairman of the Bored” by Ben Reardon, October Time Out New York, ”Hello Pussycat”, by Sarah Valdez, August 1-8 Boredom New York: A Faile Collaboration, limited edition publication Nylon Magazine, ”Genius” 2001 Mass Appeal Magazine, ”Death”, Winter Death New York: A Faile Collaboration: limited edition publication 2000 Orange, New York: A Faile Collaboration: limited edition publication | |
| Posted: 2007-03-15 | |
| COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art New York, NY Edward Albee Foundation New York, NY Judith Rothchild Foundation New York, NY Beth DeWoody New York, NY AWARDS 2001 Edward F. Albee Foundation Residency Montauk, NY | |
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