Carol Bove
Carol Bove, Hairpin, 2018, Stainless steel and urethane paint, 150.5 x 40.6 x 17.8 cm (59.25 x 15.98 x 7 inches)
b. 1971 in Geneva, Switzerland
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY, US
EDUCATION
2000
B.S., Steinhardt School of Education, New York University
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
Carol Bove: Chimes at Midnight, David Zwirner, New York, concurrent with Carol Bove, David Zwirner, New York
The Façade Commission: Carol Bove, The séances aren’t helping, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
2019
Carol Bove and John Chamberlain: Converse, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco [two-person exhibition]
Carol Bove: Ten Hours, David Zwirner, Hong Kong
2018
Carol Bove, David Zwirner, London
2017
Carol Bove, Betty and Edward Marcus Sculpture Park at Laguna Gloria, The Contemporary Austin, Texas
Livio Bernasconi/Carol Bove, Collezione Giancarlo e Danna Olgiati, Lugano
2016
Carol Bove: Polka Dots, David Zwirner, New York
Carol Bove, Maccarone, Los Angeles
2015
Carol Bove: The Plastic Unit, David Zwirner, London
Silvia Bächli/Carol Bove, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich [two-person exhibition]
2014-2016
Carol Bove/Carlo Scarpa, Museion - Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bolzano, Italy [itinerary: Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, England; Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium] [two-person exhibition]
2013
Carol Bove: Caterpillar, High Line at the Rail Yards, New York
Carol Bove: The Equinox, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Carol Bove: The Foamy Saliva of a Horse, The Common Guild, Glasgow
Carol Bove: RA, or Why is an orange like a bell?, Maccarone, New York
2010
Carol Bove, Kimmerich, New York
Prix Lafayette 2009: Carol Bove, La traversée difficile, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2009
Carol Bove: Plants and Mammals, Horticultural Society of New York [two-person exhibition]
Summer 2009 - Upper Gallery 2: Carol Bove, Tate St Ives, St Ives, England [exhibition publication Carol Bove]
2008
Carol Bove: Bronze Peanut, Galerie Dennis Kimmerich, Düsseldorf
2007
Carol Bove: The Middle Pillar, Maccarone, New York
2006
Carol Bove, Georg Kargl, Vienna
Carol Bove: Moonspikes and Vedas, Galerie Dennis Kimmerich, Düsseldorf
Carol Bove: The Night Sky Over Berlin, REC., Berlin
Carol Bove: Setting for A. Pomodoro, Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin
2004
Carol Bove: A Pattern Language: Intimacy Gradient, Hotel, London
Carol Bove, Kunsthalle Zürich
Momentum 1: Carol Bove, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
2003
Carol Bove: Experiment in Total Freedom, Team Gallery, New York
The Joy of Sex: Carol Bove & Charles Raymond, Cubitt, London [two-person exhibition]
Carol Bove: The Science of Being and the Art of Living, Kunstverein Hamburg
2002
Carol Bove: Statements, Team Gallery presentation at Art Basel|33, Basel Art & Public, Geneva
2001
Carol Bove, Team Gallery, New York [two-person exhibition with Erik Wesselo]
2000 Carol Bove, Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, New York
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020
20/20, David Zwirner, New York
65 Jahre Galerie Koch, Galerie Koch, Hanover
The Botanical Mind Online, Camden Art Centre, London [online presentation]
Orlando, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco
UNIQUE, Parkett Space, Zurich
2019
20 Jahre Barbara Gross Galerie Teil 3, Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich
58th Venice Biennale: May You Live In Interesting Times, Venice, Italy
Out of Order: Works from the Haubrok Collection, Part 1, Neues Museum Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany [collection display]
There’ll never be a door. You’re inside: Works from the Coleção Teixeira de Freitas, Fundación Banco Santander, Madrid
2018
Art Alumni Show 2018, Steinhardt School of Education, New York University, New York
David Zwirner: 25 Years, David Zwirner, New York
Difference Engine, Lisson Gallery, New York
DRAF x MOSTYN. She sees the shadows, MOSTYN, Llandudno, Wales [organized in
collaboration with the David Roberts Art Foundation, London]
Stories of Almost Everyone, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
A TIME CAPSULE REVISITED: A New Installation of Works Made by Women for Parkett (1984-2017), New Temporary Parkett Space, Zurich
Virginia Woolf: An Exhibition Inspired by Her Writings, Tate St Ives, England [itinerary: Pallant House Gallery, Chichester; The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge]
2017
57th Venice Biennale: Women of Venice, Swiss Pavilion, Venice
Gray Matters, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio
la mère la mer, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco
Les Objets Domestiquent, Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain (FRAC) Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, France
MIDTOWN, Lever House, New York [organized by Maccarone, Salon94, and Salon94 Design, New York]
Minimalism & Beyond, Mnuchin Gallery, New York
Unpacking: The Marciano Collection, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles
Small Sculpture, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago
Strange Attractors: The Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Art Vol. 1 Life on Earth, Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles
Thread Benefit Exhibition, David Zwirner, New York
Tomorrow Will Still Be Ours, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York
2016
The Artist’s Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Carol Bove meets Zero, Galerie Koch, Hanover
Cynthia Daignault: There is nothing I could say that I haven’t thought before, Stems Gallery,
Brussels [itinerary: The FLAG Art Foundation, New York]
First Light: A Decade of Collecting at the ICA, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Her Crowd: New Art by Women from Our Neighbors’ Private Collections, Bruce Museum,
Greenwich, Connecticut
The Keeper, New Museum, New York
Language of the Birds: Occult and Art, 80WSE, New York University
The Language of Things, City Hall Park, New York [organized by Public Art Fund, New York]
L'esprit du Bauhaus/The Spirit of the Bauhaus, Musée des Arts Décoratifs, Paris
Making and Unmaking, Camden Arts Centre, London
Pièces-Meublés, Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris
Transaction, Knockdown Center, Maspeth, New York [organized by Elijah Wheat Showroom, Brooklyn]
2015
America Is Hard To See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York [exhibition publication]
Another Minimalism: Art after California Light and Space, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
Bonsai #5, Maccarone, New York
Building SculptureCenter Benefit Exhibition, Maccarone, New York [organized by SculptureCenter, Long Island City, New York]
DAY MOON, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton, New York
Hôtel Dunkerque, Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain (FRAC) Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, France
New Skin: Selections from the Tony and Elham Salamé Collection-Aïshti Foundation, Aïshti
Foundation, Beirut
The Persistence of Objects, Lismore Castle Arts, Ireland
Presque Rien, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris
Standing and Hanging, Altman Siegel, San Francisco
Storylines: Contemporary Art at the Guggenheim, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Venganza (I Don’t Want To Be Friends), ARMADA, Milan
Wellin Collects: Recent Acquisitions from the Wellin Museum Collection, Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York [collection display]
2014
Earthly Delights, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
My Old Friend, My New Friend, My Girlfriend, My Cousin and My Mentor, Shoot the Lobster, New York
On the Blue Shore of Silence, Tracy Williams, Ltd., New York
Pop Sculpture/Pop Culture, Leila Heller Gallery, New York
Post-Picasso: Contemporary Reactions, Fundació Museu Picasso de Barcelona
Rockaway!, Rockaway Beach Surf Club, Rockaway Beach, New York [organized in collaboration with the Honolulu Biennial]
Small is Beautiful: Selected Parkett Editions 1984-2014, Parkett Exhibition Space, Zurich
2013
The Angel of History, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris
Dark Stars, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Ohio
Desire, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
From Triple X to Birdsong (In Search of the Schizophrenic Quotient), Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Santa Monica, California
Garage Show, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York
Illuminations, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
LAT. 41˚ 7' N., LONG. 72˚ 19' W, Martos Gallery, East Marion, New York
A Place in Two Dimensions: A Selection from Colección Jumex + Fred Sandback, Museo Jumex, Mexico City
Suddenness + Certainty, Robert Miller Gallery, New York
tc: temporary contemporary, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach
2012
Coquilles mécaniques, CRAC Alsace Centre Rhénan d'Art Contemporain, Altkirch, France dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel, Germany
Drawing a Blank (On Forgetting, Refusal, Censure and Impotence), David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles
El mañana ya estuvo aquí, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City [itinerary: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico]
The Feverish Library, Petzel Gallery, New York [organized in collaboration with Matthew Higgs]
In the Holocene, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
No Desaster. Sammlung Haubrok bei Falckenberg, Deichtorhallen Hamburg
Once Removed: Sculpture’s Changing Frame of Reference, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Painting In Space, Luhring Augustine, New York [organized in collaboration with CCS Bard,
Annandale-on-Hudson, New York]
Sculptural Matter, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne
Stand still like the hummingbird, David Zwirner, New York
2011
54th Venice Biennale: ILLUMInazioni – ILLUMInations, Venice
After Images, Musée Juif de Belgique, Brussels
The Age of Aquarius, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago
Frauenzimmer, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
He disappeared into complete silence: rereading a single artwork by Louise Bourgeois, De Hallen Haarlem, The Netherlands
The Language of Less (Then and Now), Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
The Medicine Bag, Maccarone, New York
We Will Live, We Will See, Zabludowicz Collection, London
2010
At Home/Not At Home: Works from the Collection of Martin and Rebecca Eisenberg, CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-On-Hudson, New York
Carol Bove, Sterling Ruby, Dana Schutz, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Curious? Art in the 21st Century from Private Collections, Kunst-und Ausstellungshalle der
Bundesrepublik, Bonn, Germany
An Einem Schönen Morgen Des Monats Mai..., Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst (GAK), Bremen, Germany
Endless Bummer/Surf Elsewhere, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
ITEM, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York
Looking Back/The Fifth White Columns Annual, White Columns, New York
Normal Dimensions, Half Gallery, New York
Perspectives 2010, International Center of Photography, New York
Picture Industry (Goodbye to All That), Regen Projects, Los Angeles
Sur le dandysme aujourd’hui, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Wait for Me at the Bottom of the Pool, Martos Gallery, Bridgehampton, New York
2009
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Don't Perish, Leo Koenig Projekte, New York
Every Revolution is a Roll of the Dice, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Story Without a Name, Peres Projects, Berlin
Stuart Sherman: Nothing Up My Sleeve, Participant, Inc., New York
Wood, Maccarone, New York
2008
Art Now: The Way In Which It Landed, Tate Britain, London
The Artist's Library, Centre international d'art et du paysage, Ile de Vassivière, France
Heavy Metal, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Implant, UBS Art Gallery, New York
Murder Letters, Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon
Pretty Ugly, Maccarone and Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York
Saints and Sinners, The Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
Whitney Biennial 2008, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2007
Archaeologies of the Future, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao
Aspects, Forms, and Figures, Bellwether, New York
Every Revolution is a Roll of the Dice, Ballroom Marfa, Texas
Just Kick It Till It Breaks, The Kitchen, New York
Learn to Read, Tate Modern, London
Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
NeoIntegrity, Derek Eller Gallery, New York
Strange Events Permit Themselves the Luxury of Occurring, Camden Arts Centre, London
Um-Kehrungen, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany
Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Worker Drone Queen, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris
2006
Draft Deceit, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
Fountains, D'Amelio Terras, New York
Hiding in the Light, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
I Love My Scene: Scene 3, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
An Ongoing Low-Grade Mystery, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
2005
Critical Societies, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
Girls on Film, Zwirner & Wirth, New York
Good Titles for Bad Books, Kevin Bruk Gallery, Miami
Greater New York 2005, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York
Icestorm, Kunstverein Münich, Munich
Model Modernisms, Artists Space, New York
2004
Black Friday: Exercises in Hermetics, Galerie Kamm, Berlin
Curious Crystals of Unusual Purity, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York
Emoticons, Guild & Greyshkul, New York
Formalismus. Moderne Kunst, heute, Kunstverein Hamburg
Hysterical, Galerie Dennis Kimmerich, Düsseldorf
Playlist, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
When I Think About You I Touch Myself, New York Academy of Art
2003
#19, Champion Fine Art, Brooklyn, New York
from the flat files, Ramp Gallery, Waikato Institute of Technology, Hamilton, New Zealand
Influence, Anxiety and Gratitude, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
Plastic, Plush and Politics: Echoes of the 70s in Contemporary Art, Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, Germany
Re-Production 2, Georg Kargl, Vienna
Ronce Noire presents The House, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels
2002
burst, Team Gallery, New York
XEROS - Projet mobile et reproductible sur les sexualites et l'espace, Le Magasin - Centre
National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble, France
2001
First There was a Drawing, College of Santa Fe, New Mexico
Perfunctory, Team Gallery, New York
Transformer, La Panadería, Mexico City
2000
Draw, Barry Whistler Gallery, Dallas
Love, Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York
1999
Forever is a Hell of a Long Time, Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, New York
Road Show, D.F.N Gallery, New York
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Centro de Artes Visuales Fundación Helga de Alvear, Cáceres, Spain
Claremont McKenna College, Claremont, California
Colección Jumex, Mexico City
The Contemporary Austin, Texas
Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas
Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain (FRAC) Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, France
Glenstone Museum, Potomac, Maryland
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf
Kistefos Museum and Sculpture Park, Jevnaker, Norway
McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey
Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College, Clinton, New York
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut