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Gandalf Gavan
selected works
biography
exhibitions
selected press
selected videos
Born in 1975, Berlin, Germany
Lives and works in New York, USA
 
Education
   
2005 MFA, Columbia University, New York, NY
1998 BFA, Bard College, Annandale, NY
1997 Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM, Summer Program in Sculpture
1995-6 Repin Academy of the Arts, St. Petersburg, Russia
 
 
Solo exhibitions
   
2010 Teaching a Chicken How to Fly III , Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, NY  , USA
   
2009      Pollos, Peligros y Otras Cárceles II , Corporación Andina de Fomento Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela
   
2008 Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College, Winter Park, FL, USA
   
2007 Incorporated Dementions, Galerie Bertrand & Gruner, Geneva, Switzerland
  Infinite Affinities, PS 1 MoMA, New York, NY, USA
  N2 Galería Ignacio de Lassaletta y asc., Barcelona, Spain
  Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, USA
  Dibujos de Residencia, La Cortiduria, Oaxaca, Mexico
   
2003 Son para Daedalos, MACO (Museo de Arte Comtemporaneo Oaxaca), Oaxaca, Mexico
   
   
Group exhibitions
   
2010 Zegache , Casa Lamm, Mexico City, Mexico
   
2009  Party at Chris's House, Curated by Phong Bui, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, USA
  State of the Art: New York, Urbis, Manchester, UK 
  Fresh from Chelsea, University Gallery and Grinter Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL , USA
   
2008

Orly Genger and Gandalf Gavan, The Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College, Winter Park, FL, USA

  TerraUnFrima, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY, USA
  Cut Away, Anna Kustera Gallery, New York, USA
   
2007 EnTijuanArte Art Fair, CECUT, Tijuana, Mexico
  International and National Projects, PS 1 MoMA, Long Island City, NY, USA
  Orpheus Selection: In Search of Darkness, PS 1 MoMA, Long Island City, NY, USA
   
2006 Eo Ipso, Match, New York, NY, USA
  Escaping New York, Curators without borders, Berlin, Germany
  Symposium II, Hotel Pupik, Schrattenberg, Austria
  Joan Mitchell MFA Grant Recipients, Cue Foundation, New York, USA
   
2005 Curvaceous, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, USA
   
2004 Merry Merry, Side Show Gallery, Williamsburg, NY, USA
  Succeeding Where the Hippies Failed, Neiman Gallery, New York, USA
  FreiRaume, Freistil E.V., Berlin, Germany
  Re: New Frontiers in Creativity, Columbia University, New York, USA
  The Thomas Edison Project, LMCC & the Builders Association, New York, USA
  Freehand, Marvelli Gallery, New York, USA
  Scope Circle for Emerging Artist Nomination, Scope Art Fair, NewYork, USA
  The Book, Neiman Gallery, New York, USA
  Fresh: Group Show, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, USA
   
2003 Peace, Side Show Gallery, Williamsburg, NY, USA
   
   
Bibliography
   
2010 Bui, Phong. "In Conversation: Gandalf Gavan with Phong Bui," The Brooklyn Rail (May 2010)
  Young, Jessica Bryce. "Bright young things," Orlando Weekly (January 27, 2010)
   
2009 Bernstein, Fred A. "Look, Kids! A Secret Room!" The New York Times (April 19, 2009)
   
2008       Bishop, Philip. Review, Orlando Sentinel ( March 23, 2008)
   
2007  de Looz, Pierre Alexander. "Los Angeles/New York: Ball Nogues & Gandalf Gavan -- On the threshold of art and architecture, East and West Coasts connect." PIN-UP   (F/W 2007-2008)
   
2004 Kuntz, Melissa, "Susanna Heller and Gandalf Gavan at Sideshow," Art in America (March 2004)
   
2003 "Gandalf Gavan, Daedalus's Song," Glass (Winter 2003-04)
  Garcia, Julio Cesar Sanchez, "Gandalf Gavan exhibe Son para Dedalos," Tiempo (July 31, 2003)
  Avendano, Olga Rosario, "Blown-glass 'rain' suspended over Oaxaca," The Miami Herald (July 2003)
  Rosas, Blanca Gonzalez, "La artensania mexicana en el arte contemporaneo," Proceso (July 2003)
  Arrazola, Victor Ruiz, "Lluvia de vidrio soplado en el centro historico de Oaxaca," LaJornada (July 2003)
  Trejo, Gabriela Lopez, "Lluvia de vidrio soplado, en Oaxaca," Tiempo (July 2003)


 




 
 
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