Gavin Kenyon
b. in 1980, Binghamton, USA
lives and works in Jersey City, USA
EDUCATION
2006
MFA, School of Visual Arts, New York, USA
2002
BFA, Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, USA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018
“Polar Bear Club”, Galerie Lefebvre & Fils, Paris, FR
“Pathological Chroma”, Marlborough Contemporary, New York, USA
“Casual Orientation”, Bible, New York, USA
2017
“Shrouds, Blum & Poe”, New York, USA
2015
Ramiken Crucible, New York, USA
“Lift Your Head, Give Me the Best Side of Your Face”, Museo Marino Marini, Florence, IT
2014
“Casalingo”, ZERO…, Milan, IT
“Reliquary Void”, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, USA
“The Microwave Mint”, with Jeff Williams, helper, Brooklyn, NY Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, USA
“Farrow”, Art Basel Unlimited, Basel, CH
2013
Ramiken Crucible, New York, USA
2011
“STUD”, Ramiken Crucible, New York, NY
2009
Ramiken Crucible, New York, USA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020
“I WANT TO FEEL ALIVE AGAIN”, Lyles & King, New York, USA
2019
Gavin Kenyon / Mimi Lauter, San Francisco, CA, USA
“Gardenship Inaugural Group Show”, Pocket Gallery, Newark, USA
2018
“Body of Evidence”, Peninsula Gallery, New York, USA
Gavin Kenyon, Eli Ping, Galerie Éric Hussenot, Paris, FR
“Paradise”, Night Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2017
“The Absent Faun”, ZERO…, Milan, IT
“The act of drinking a Coke by yourself is the lowest form of art”, ZERO…, Milan, IT
2016
“Surface Tension”, Simone Subal Gallery, New York, USA
Gavin Kenyon & Aude Pariset, Topless, Rockaway Beach, USA
2014
“Archeo”, High Line Art, New York, USA
Gwangju Biennale 2014: Burning Down the House, Gwangju, KR
“Elective Affinities”, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK
“Depression”, François Ghebaly Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2013
Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, USA
2012
“À rebours”, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, USA
“Ramiken Storage”, 3 Delancey Street, New York, USA
“partoftheprocess5”, ZERO…, Milan, IT
2011
“Post Industrial Iron”, Dowd Gallery, Cortland, USA
“Cast II”, Index Art Center, Newark, USA
2010
“Accrochage”, Ramiken Crucible, New York, USA
“I Wish I Was Dead Biennial: Works by Unsettled and Unsettling Natures”, Barrister’s Gallery, New Orleans, USA
2009
“Wear and Tear”, UnSmoke Systems Artspace, Braddock, USA
2008
“Various Positions”, Upton Gallery, Buffalo, USA
“Metal: the exhibition”, Ramapo College, Mahwah, USA
“Ground Control”, La Vie, Pittsburgh, USA
“Hot Metal”, Space Gallery, Pittsburgh, USA
2007
Hoedown Hall, The Event Center, Brooklyn, New York Town Museum, Sprout Fund, Pittsburgh, USA
2006
“C.A.S.T.”, Red Saw Gallery, Newark, USA
“Aquarium: A Collaborative 12 hour Performance Extravaganza”, P.I.T. (Projects in Transit), Brooklyn, USA
“WrestStops Along the Intrastate”, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, USA
“A Delicate Arrangement”, David Zwirner, New York, USA
“Prime Time”, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, USA
2005
“QuickWitted”, Westside Gallery, New York, USA
Edge Tools, P.I.T. (Projects in Transit), Brooklyn, USA
Museum and Public Collections, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, USA
BIBLIOGRAPHY AND PUBLICATIONS
Gavin Kenyon / Mimi Lauter. San Francisco, 2019
Ugelvig, Jeppe. “Gavin Kenyon: Blum & Poe / New York.” Flash Art Online, May 24, 2017
Cattelan, Maurizio. “Gavin Kenyon.” Purple, no. 26 (Fall/Winter 2016)
Kenyon, Gavin. Review of Tala Madani at David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
Artforum 54, no. 4 (December 2015): 112
“Depression”. New York: Ramiken Crucible, 2015: 62-65
Healy, Claire Marie. “Stitching the Body With Gavin Kenyon.” dazedigital.com, July 2014
Scott, Andrea K. “Parklife: Playing Hide-and-seek at a Sculpture Show on the High Line.” New Yorker, June 9, 2014
Alemani, Cecilia. “Sculptural Bondage.” Mousse, no. 40 (October-November 2013): 154-157
Asfour, Nana. “Gavin Kenyon.” Time Out (New York), February 2013
