BORN
1968, New York, NY
Lives and works in New York, NY

EDUCATION
1991 BFA, Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
1993 MFA, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
2002 Visiting Associate Professor, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
School of Visual Arts, New York City and Yale University, New Haven, CT

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007

• “Skyscraper Souls”, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
• “Skyscraper Souls: New Video and Photography by John Pilson”, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH

2006

• “LOOP ’06 (May 2006)”, Barcelona, Spain
• “Coliseum”, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
• “Cinema Prospectif: An Evening of Screenings by John Pilson”, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

2005

• “ArtPace”, Hudson Room, San Antonio, TX
• Zink and Gegner, Munich, Germany
• Western Front Exhibitions, Vancouver, Canada
• ARCO art fair, Madrid, Spain
• The Bologna Art Fair, Arte e Fiera, Bologna, Italy
• Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
• “St. Denis”, MW Projects, London, England

2004

• “Dark Empire”, MW Projects, London, England

2003

• “St. Denis”, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY

2002

• “Clean Lines”, Art Basel 33, Basel, Switzerland
• Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

2001

• Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
• “John Pilson (Torbjorn Vejvi)”, Raucci/Santamaria Gallery, Naples, Italy

2000

• “Above the Grid, (Special Project)”, P.S. 1 – Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008

• “Prospect 1 New Orleans”, curated by Dan Cameron, New Orleans, LA
• “Mind the Gap”, Noticing the Unnoticed”, curated by Christopher Lynn, Gallery of Contemporary Art UCCS, University of Colorado Colorado Springs, Colorado Springs, CO
  

2007

• “Automatic Update”, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
• “The Shapes of Space”, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
• “In the Belly of the Whale”, Tracy Williams Ltd., New York, NY
• “50,000 Beds: A Project by Chris Doyle”, various locations throughout participating Connecticut hotels
• “I will be alright”, Country Club, Cincinnati, OH
• “Stealing Time”, The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College, New York, NY, organized by Christa Blatchford, Chad Nelson, and Pierre Obando
• “Cuestión Xeneracional (Generational Issue)”, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea (CGAC), Santiago de Compostela, Spain
• “Landschaft (Entfernung)”, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
• “Image Forum Festival 2007”, organized by the Executive Committee of Image Forum Festival in association with Yokohama Museum, Fukuoka City Public Library and Aichi Arts Center (co-organizers)

• “Artists’ Cinema”, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
• “The Rhubarb Society”, Tracey Lawrence Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
• “THE OFFICE/In and Out of the Box”, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY, Curated by Alice Rose, George and Lee Marks
• “Time Frame”, P.S.1, Long Island City, NY, Curated by Neville Wakefield
• “Modern Time. Work, machineries and automation in the Arts of 1900”, Palazzo Ducale, Genoa, Italy, Curated by Germano Celant
• “SLAPstick”, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX, Curated by Christopher Eamon
• “Nothing but Pleasure”, BAWAG Foundation, Vienna, Austria

• “A Kind of Portraiture”, Art Basel Miami Beach - Art Video Lounge, Program #10, Curated by Christopher Eamon
• “Predatory Dating On The Crosstown Bus, A New York Kind of Disappointment, A Special Kind”, Champion Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA, Curated by Guy Richards Smit
• “Office Hours”, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany
• “Paper”, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
• “Premieres”, Museum of Modern Art’s Department of Film and Media, New York, NY

2004

• “Simulation City”, Centre Pour L’Image Contemporaine, Geneva, Switzerland
• “MoMA The Museum of Modern Art Modern Means: Continuity and Change in Art from 1880 to Present”, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
• “Music in Motion Festival”, World Trade Center and Nicolaaskapel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  

2003

• “Altered Spaces: Video Art and the Physical World”, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN
• “The Moderns”, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Italy

2002

• “Moving Pictures”, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
• “Copy”, Roth Horowitz, New York, NY
• “Sudden Glory: Sight Gags and Slapstick in Contemporary Art”, California College of Arts and Crafts, Wattis Institute of Contemporary Art, Oakland, CA
• “Interior / Exterior”, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY

2001

• “Bureaucracy”, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw Poland
• “Loop- Alles auf Anfang”, Hypokunsthalle, Munich, Germany, Travels to P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
• “The Americans – New Art”, Barbican Gallery, London, England
• “Video Jam”, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, FL
• “49th International Exhibition of Art”, Plateau of Mankind, Venice Biennale, Italy
• “World Without Ground”, Chase/Freedman Gallery, West Hartford, CT
• “Ghosty”, 1000 Eventi Gallery, Milan, Italy

2000

• “Some New Minds”, P.S. 1 - Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
• “Moma2000: Open Ends”, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
• “The City”, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY
• “Greater New York”, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY
• “Shockwave”, Raucci/Santamaria Gallery, Naples, Italy
• “Work”, 312 Gallery, Chicago, IL
• Kunst-Werke, Berlin, Germany

1998

• “Citizens”, New York Public Library, New York, NY

1997

• “Visionaires”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

1994

• “Building, Dwelling, Thinking”, Lowinsky Gallery, New York, NY

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2007

• Urroz, Carlos, “Voices” NY Arts Magazine. November- Decemeber.
• Kobasa, Steven Vincent, “Bedded Down: The big art gallery collaboration checks out, with TVs aglow,” New Haven Advocate, September 13
• Yablonsky, Linda, “Hotel Rooms Become Overnight Stars,” The New York Times, July 8
• McCoy, Adam, “Cheekwood and Nashville's Contemporary Art Scene,” NY Arts Magazine, April 5
• Yamell, Kolby, “Senior Moment,” New York Magazine, April 3
• Pearce, Sarah, “A sweet peek at office life,” The Cincinnati Enquirer, April 23
• Fusco, Maria, “The Rhubarb Society,” Frieze, February

2006

• Interregna (Monograph), Ostfildern, Germany: Hatje Cantz
• “Laura Kleger and John Pilson,” (interview) North Drive Press #3
• Perra, Daniela, “It happens in Barcelona”, Tema Celeste, July/August
• Wilson, Michael, “John Pilson: Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery”, ArtForum, May
• Talen, Julie, “Three is the New One”, www.glimpseculture.com, April 4
• The New Yorker, April 3
• Schwendener, Martha, “John Pilson”, Time Out New York, March 30-April 5
• Ross, Christine, “The Aesthetics of Disengagement; Contemporary Art and Depression”, University of Minnesota Press, Minneapolis, MN, 2006. p. 90-91

2005

• Levin, Kim, “Voice Choices: ‘Paper,’ Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery,” The Village Voice, February 16-22
• Johnson, Ken, “Art Listings: Paper,” The New York Times, February 18
• Vogel, Carol, “Talent Call: Hot New Artists Wanted,” The New York Times, February 3

2004

• Herbert, Martin, “The Office” Art: Preview, Time Out London, December 30- January 7
• Rosenberg, Karen, “John Pilson,” Frieze, Issue 80, January
• Site Matters: The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s World Trade Center Artists Residency, 1997-2001

2003

• Mclister, Neil, “John Pilson,” ArtForum, December
• Westerbeke, Julia, “John Pilson, ‘St. Denis,’” Time Out New York, October 30-November 6
• Cream 3: Contemporary Art and Culture, Phaidon Press Limited, London, pp. 292-295
• Pilson, John, “The Digital Vernacular”, Cabinet, Issue No. 10, Spring

2001

• Huberman, Anthony, “John Pilson” Loop –Alles auf Anfang, Kunsthalle der Hyupo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, March
• Pollack, Barbara, “New York Reviews”, ARTnews, November
• Lerner, Adam, “Moving Pictures”, ArtForum, November (Cover)
• The New Yorker, September 24
• Anderson, Jeffery “John Pilson”, Venice Biennale Catalogue, Summer
• Huberman, Anthony, “Ouverture: John Pilson”, Flash Art, March – April
• Pasquini, Stefano, “The Oxymoron of Venice”, NY Arts, Summer
• Stephanson, Anders, “Openings: John Pilson”, ArtForum, April
• Turner, Johnathan and Barbara A. MacAdam, “The Venice Biennale”, ARTnews, Summer
• Williams, Gregory, “Venice Biennale: John Pilson”, Tema Celeste, Summer
• Vetrocq, Marcia E., “Biennale Babylon”, Art in America, September

2000

• Anderson, Jeffrey, P.S.1 Greater New York Catalogue
• Christov-Bakargiev, Carolyn. P.S.1 Greater New York Catalogue
• Gopinath, Gabrielle, “Two Critical Comments: Greater New York at P.S.1,” Review NYC, May
• Molinari, Guido, Flash Art (Italian Edition), Dec.2000 p.122
• The New York Times, City Section, Dec. 31
• Romero, Filippo, review, “Shockwave’, Flash Art, Italian Edition, December 2000 – January 2001, no. 225

1997

• Double Take Magazine, December

1994

• Aletti, Vince, “Building Dwelling Thinking,” Village Voice, March

AWARDS
2002

• The Bâloise Prize, Art Statements - Art Basel 33, Switzerland

2001

• Penny McCall Foundation Award
• The Young Artists Special Prize, 49th International Exhibition of Art: Plateau of Mankind, Venice Biennale, Italy

2000

• Site Matters, The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s World Trade Center Artists Residency, New York, NY
• Artist-in-Residence, Harvestworks Digital Media Arts Center, New York, NY

1993

• John Ferguson Weir Award, Yale University, New Haven, CT

CURATED PROJECTS
2007

• Idiot Joy Showland: An evening of artist film and video, Curated by John Pilson and Claudia Altman-Siegel and produced by Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery: IFC Theater, New York, NY; Travels to: Nuit Blanche, Toronto, Canada; Dallas Video Festival, Dallas, TX, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH

2006

• The Rhubarb Society, Curated by John Pilson and Kathy Slade, Tracey Lawrence Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada

2002

• Gravity Over Time: Erica Baum, Stuart Elster, Maureen Gallace, Wayne Gonzales, An-My Le, Judith Joy Ross, Stephan Shore, 1000 Eventi Gallery, Milan, Italy

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

• Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
• Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
• Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, France
• Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
• The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
• The New York Public Library, New York, NY
• The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY