biography of Philip TAAFFE (1955)

Personal data


Birth : 1955 - Elizabeth NJ New Jersey, United States
Sex : M
Nationality/Affiliation : United States

Address

New York NY New York, United States

Representatives

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac – 7 rue Debelleyme – Paris, France


Education

Cooper Union Art School – 7e 7th street – New York NY, United States

Professional data


Work and Life

1988 – 1991:He lived and worked in Naples, Italy.
He has travelled in Egypt, Morocco, Tunisia and India.

Work


Categorie and medium


Painting : Mixed media/canvas - Pigment - Silkscreen/canvas

Works

Untitled (Fern)
Date of creation : 1998
Medium : Pigment
Supports : paper
 
Bad Seed
Date of creation : 1996
Medium : Mixed media/canvas
Size : 262 x 282 cm
 
Eros and Psyche
Date of creation : 1993-1994
Medium : Mixed media/canvas
Size : 335 x 255 cm
 

Solo Exhibitions (Selected)


Solo exhibitions

2003

Recent Paintings & Drawings
Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG – Zürich ZH, Switzerland
12/12/2003 – 03/31/2004

2001

Philip Taaffe : Confluence
University Art Gallery – School of Art, Design and Art History – SDSU San Diego State University – San Diego CA, United States
10/05/2001 – 12/08/2001

Philip Taaffe
Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea – Trento, Italy
06/09/2001 – 09/30/2001

1997

Composite Nature – drawings, paintings, and monotypes
Peter Blum Gallery – New York NY, United States
11/15/1997 – 01/1998

1993

Gagosian Gallery – New York NY, United States
04/09/1993 – 05/14/1993

Center for the Fine Arts – Miami FL, United States
04/03/1993 – 06/20/1993

1990

Galerie Samia Saouma – Paris, France
11/29/1990 – 12/29/1990

Group Exhibitions (Selected)


Art shows / fairs

2006

Frieze Art Fair
Regent’s Park – London, United Kingdom
10/12/2006 – 10/15/2006
Represented by : Gagosian Gallery – 8 Heddon Street – London, United Kingdom

2004

FIAC Foire Internationale d’Art Contemporain, n°31
Paris Expo – Porte de Versailles – Paris, France
10/21/2004 – 10/25/2004
Represented by : Maruani & Noirhomme – Knokke-le-Zoute, Belgium

Art 35 Basel
Messe Basel – Basel BS, Switzerland
06/16/2004 – 06/21/2004
Represented by : Peter Blum Gallery – 99 Wooster Street – New York NY, United States

2003

Art Basel Miami Beach
Miami Beach Convention Center – Miami Beach FL, United States
12/04/2003 – 12/07/2003
Represented by : Peter Blum Gallery – 99 Wooster Street – New York NY, United States

Art Cologne, n° 37
Cologne, Germany
10/29/2003 – 11/02/2003
Represented by : Studio d’Arte Raffaelli – Via Travai 22 – Trento, Italy

Art 34 Basel
Messe Basel – Basel BS, Switzerland
06/18/2003 – 06/23/2003
Represented by : Peter Blum Gallery – 99 Wooster Street – New York NY, United States

The Armory Show 2003
Piers 88 & 90 – New York NY, United States
03/07/2003 – 03/10/2003
Represented by : Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac – Mirabellplatz 2 – Salzburg, Austria

2002

Art Basel Miami Beach
Miami Beach Convention Center – Miami Beach FL, United States
12/05/2002 – 12/08/2002
Represented by : Peter Blum Gallery – 99 Wooster Street – New York NY, United States

Art 33 Basel
Messe Basel – Basel BS, Switzerland
06/12/2002 – 06/17/2002
Represented by : Peter Blum Gallery – 99 Wooster Street – New York NY, United States

ArtBrussels – 20th Contemporary Art Fair
Brussels Expo – Brussels, Belgium
05/02/2002 – 05/06/2002
Represented by : Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac – 7 rue Debelleyme – Paris, France

The Armory Show 2002
Piers 88 & 90 – New York NY, United States
02/22/2002 – 02/25/2002
Represented by : Peter Blum Gallery – 99 Wooster Street – New York NY, United States

2001

Art Basel Miami Beach: cancelled
Miami Beach Convention Center – Miami Beach FL, United States
12/13/2001 – 12/16/2001
Represented by : Peter Blum Gallery – 99 Wooster Street – New York NY, United States

Art 32 Basel
Messe Basel – Basel BS, Switzerland
06/13/2001 – 06/18/2001
Represented by : Peter Blum Gallery – 99 Wooster Street – New York NY, United States

The Armory Show 2001
Piers 88 & 90 – New York NY, United States
02/23/2001 – 02/26/2001
Represented by : Peter Blum Gallery – 99 Wooster Street – New York NY, United States

1999

Art Cologne, n° 33
Cologne, Germany
11/07/1999 – 11/14/1999
Represented by : Galerie Ascan Crone – Kochstr.60 – Hamburg, Germany

1992

Lineart Gent Internationale Kunstbeurs
Ghent, Belgium
1992

1990

ARCO – Feria Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo
Madrid, Spain
02/08/1990 – 02/13/1990
Represented by : Galerie Ascan Crone – Kochstr.60 – Hamburg, Germany


Festivals

1995

ARS 95
Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art – Helsinki, Finland
1995


Group exhibitions

2005

Expérience de la durée – 8ème Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon
Lyon, France
09/12/2005 – 12/31/2005

2002

Art Downtown
New York NY, United States
06/14/2002 – 09/15/2002

1998

Post-Hypnotic
University Galleries – Illinois State University – Normal IL, United States
1998 – 1999

1996

Jurassic Technologies Revenant – Biennale of Sydney n°10
Sydney NSW, Australia
07/27/1996 – 09/22/1996

Screen
Friedrich Petzel Gallery – New York NY, United States
01/13/1996 – 02/24/1996

1995

Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial Exhibition
Whitney Museum of American Art – New York NY, United States
1995

25 Americans: Painting in the 90s
Milwaukee Art Museum – Milwaukee WI, United States
09/08/1995 – 11/05/1995

1992

Doubletake: Collective Memory and Current Art
Hayward Gallery – London, United Kingdom
1992

Ellen Berkenblit, Albert Oehlen, Alexis Rockman, Philip Taaffe, Christopher Wool
Luhring Augustine Gallery – New York NY, United States
05/02/1992 – 06/05/1992

1991

1991 Carnegie International
Carnegie Museum of Art – Pittsburgh PA, United States
1991

1987

Whitney Museum of American Art Biennial Exhibition
Whitney Museum of American Art – New York NY, United States
03/31/1987 – 06/28/1987

Bibliography (Selected)


On the artist


Books

2000

Philip Taaffe
Publisher: Centre del Carme – IVAM Institut Valencià d’Art Modern/Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno – Museo, 2 – Valencia, Spain
2000

1999

Art at the Turn of the Millenium / L’Art au Tournant de l’An 2000
Publisher: Taschen – Hohenzollernring 53 – Cologne, Germany
Author: Collectif
Director of publication: Grosenick Uta – Cologne, Germany
1999
ISBN : 3822873934


Exhibition catalogues

1999

Post-Hypnotic
Publisher: University Galleries – Illinois State University – 110 Center For The Visual Arts – Normal IL, United States
1999
ISBN : 0945558295


Periodicals

2002

ADAMS Brooke – Philip Taafe: Found Abstraction
in: Art in America n° 6 p. 116
New York NY, United States
06/2002

1994

WHITE Edmund – Philip Taaffe, Al Quasbah, 1991
in: Artforum p. 66
New York NY, United States
06/1994-08/1994

Legals