Gedi Sibony
Installation view of Came Through the Front, 2009. Carton and tape, 48 x 32 x 42 inches.
Too Many H’s and Too Many A’s, 2009. Vinyl, gallery, and light, 234 x 192 x 120 inches.
BIOGRAPHY
Born 1973 in New York, NY.
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.
EDUCATION
2000 MFA, Columbia University, New York City
1999 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME
1995 BA, Brown University, Providence, RI
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2009 Gladstone Gallery, Brussels,
My Arms Are Tied Behind My Other Arms, The Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
2008 Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany
Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
Galleria Zero, Milan
2007 If Surrounded by Foxes, Kunsthalle St. Gallen, Switzerland (catalogue); FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France, 2008
The Science of Imaginary Solutions, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN (catalogue)
2006 Galerie Art:Concept, Paris_
Art Unlimited, Art 37 Basel, Basel, Switzerland
2005 The Wrong Gallery, New York_
2004 The Qualities Depend Upon Other Qualities, CANADA, New York
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 Abstract Resistance, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
2009 The Actuality of The Idea, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London Beginning Middle End with Matthew Higgs, curated by Gianni Jetzer, Senn Galerie, Vienna
2008 Galerie Catherine Bastide and Dépendance, Brussels, Belgium
Art TLV/Tel-Aviv, Bienniale, Tel Aviv, Israel
Now You See It, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
2007 Unmonumental, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York_(catalogue)
Genesis I'm Sorry, Greene Naftali, New York
You Will be re-materialized through your secrets, Michael Benevento/Orange Group, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Day for Night, Whitney Biennial 2006, Whitney Museum of Art,
The Fortitude and Subtlety Of, Rowley Kennerk, Chicago
A Broken Arm, 303 Gallery, New York
Gedi Sibony / Josh Smith, Harris Lieberman, New York
Delete/How to Make a Perfect Ghost, Anton Kern, New York
Awards Show, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York_
Three Cities, Anna Catharina Gebbers, Berlin_
Poetry from the Backyard, Art:Concept, Paris
2005 Greater New York 2005, PS1, Long Island City
Make It Now, The Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY
Walls 'n Things, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York
2004 Slouching Towards Bethlehem, The Project, New York_
Summer Selections, The Drawing Center, New York
Colony, Hudson Clearing, New York
2003 Breaking Ground, White Columns, New York,_
One Fine Day, Block Gallery, Sydney, Australia
2002 Linger, Artemis Greenberg Van Doren, New York
View, Socrates Sculpture Park, L.I.C., New York_
Tuckernuck, CANADA, New York
2001 Strangers/Etrengers, PS1 Studio Program Exhibition, The Clocktower Gallery, New York
1999 Wight Biennial, The New Wight Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2009 Mack, Jashua, "Gedi Sibony: My Arms Are Tied Behind My Other
Arms" Art Review Magazine, May, Issue #32, pg. 121
Gilman, Claire, Vitamin 3-D: New Perspectives in Sculpture and
Installation, pg. 284
Vergne, Philippe, "Gedi Sibony," Monograph JRP Ringier, January
"New York Artists Dictionary/Part I," Flash Art, January/February, p.80.
Cooper, Ivy. "Review: Nauman and Sibony Go Well Together,"
St. Louis Beacon, January 25
Bonetti, David, "Gedi Sibony and Bruce Nauman," STLtoday.com,
February 8.
Kilston, Lyra and Quinn Latimer, "Field Guide: St. Louis: Gedi Sibony, Contemporary Art Museum," Modern Painters, February, p.13.
2008 Bollen, Christopher, "15 for '09: Gedi Sibony," Interview Magazine, Dec/Jan, p.169.
Leffingwell, Edward, "Gedi Sibony: Greene Naftali," Art in America, Dec, p.160.
Launay, Aude, "Gedi Sibony, 'If surrended by foxes,'" Sommaire 02 no. 47, p.54.
Hafner, Hans-Jürgen, "Gedi Sibony, Galerie Neu, Berlin," Spike, No.17, Fall p.105.
Thompson, Haven. "The Future is Now: Gedi Sibony," W Magazine, November, p.208.
Stillman, Nick, "Gedi Sibony, Greene Naftali," Artforum International, September, p.460.
de la Durantaye, Leland, "Robert Rauchenberg: Rummaging Through the Late Artist's Trash," Modern Painters, July/August 2008, pp.72-75 (illus.).
Bernadini, Andrew, "Reviews: Gedi Sibony, Galleria Zero, Milan," Art Review Iss.23, June, p.160.
"Gedi Sibony", The New Yorker, May 26, p. 16
Doran, Anne, "Gedi Sibony", Time Out New York, May 15-21, p. 74
Cohen, David, "Skipping Through Sculptural Styles", The New York Sun, May 8
"Reviews: Unmonumental," Modern Painters, May 2008, pp.88-89.
Rosenberg, Karen, "Gedi Sibony", The New York Times, May 2
Noe, Paola, "Gedi Sibony", Artforum.com, April 7
Gilman, Claire, "Gedi Sibony", Frieze, Issue 113, March, p. 160-161
Neil, Jonathan T.D., "Legibility of Effort", Art Review, January, p. 76-9
2007 Momin, Shamim, Ice Cream, Phaidon Press, New York
Gopnik, Blake, "The Perfect Show for a World Up to Its Eyes in Trash", The Washington Post, December 9
Macadam, Barbara, "Object Overruled", ARTnews, December, p. 125-126
Schmidt, Jason, and Sibony, Gedi, "Works in Progress: Magical Thinking", V Magazine, December, p. 140
Klefstad, Ann, "Minneapolis: Gedi Sibony", Sculpture, October
Sischy, Ingrid, "Rising Stars", Vanity Fair Art Issue
Abbe, Mary, "Midway To Nowhere", Star Tribune, Feb. 9
2006 Muryari, Gary, Day For Night, 2006 Whitney Biennial catalogue Schambelan, Elizabeth "Top Ten", Artforum, December Vergne, Philippe, and Sibony, Gedi, "Gebi Sibony", Flash Art,July-September
Huson, Suzanne, "Gedi Sibony", Openings, Artforum, November Kimmelman, Michael, "Whitney Biennial", New York Times. March 3 Scott, Andrea, "Biennial Preview", Time Out New York, March 2
Rosenberg, Karen, "Biennial Preview", New York Magazine, Feb 27 Smith, Roberta, "Chelsea is a Battlefield", The New York Times, July 28
2005 Scott, Andrea, "Best of 2005", Time Out New York, Dec. 29 Schambelan, Elizabeth, and Sibony, Gedi, "Gedi Sibony and Elizabeth Schambelan In Conversation", The Wrong Times, July, p. 14-15.
Cotter, Holland, "Fanciful to Figurative to Wryly Inscrutable", The New York Times, July 8
Kimmelman, Michael, "Youth and the Market: Love at First Sight", The New York Times, March 18_
Huberman, Anthony, "Gedi Sibony", Bomb Magazine, Fall Issue
Smith, Roberta, "The Many Shades of Now, Explored in 3 Dimensions", The New York Times, May 27_
2004 Smith, Roberta, "Art in Review: Gedi Sibony", The New York Times, May 28
Schambelan, Elizabeth, "Art Review: Gedi Sibony", Artforum, September
Smith, Roberta, "Art in Review: Slouching Towards Bethlehem", The New York Times, Aug. 13_
Cotter, Holland, "Politics That Makes Peace With the Beauty of Objects", The New York Times, June 18
Tsai, Eugenie, "The Qualities Depend on Other Qualities", Time Out New York, May 20-27
2002 Cotter, Holland, "Socrates Sculpture Park", New York Times. August 9.
2001 Herkenhoff, Paulo, PS1 Clocktower, Catalogue Essay
Cotter, Holland "Art in Review: Superimposition", New York Times, July 7