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Barry McGee   (American, 1966) 

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Barry McGee Biography
1966   Born in San Francisco
1991   B.F.A. Painting & Printmaking, San Francisco Art Institute
  Lives and works in San Francisco
  Awards
  1989 Sobel Scholarship, San Francisco Art Institute
  1990 Merit Scholarship, San Francisco Art Institute
  1990 Carson Paper Award
  1991 Reed, John. Review, Time out New York, September 29
  1991 Merit Scholarship, San Francisco Art Institute
  1993 Eureka Fellowship, Fleishaker Foundation
  1993 Lila Wallace, Readers Digest International Artist Program
  1994 The Creative Work Fund, Walter and Elise Haas Fund
  1996 SECA Art Award San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
  Teaching
  1991 McClymonds High School, Visiting Artist Program, Oakland, CA
  1992 McClymonds High School, Artist Resident Program, Oakland, CA
  1992 Life on the Water/School of the Arts, Installation, San Francisco
  1992 California Conservation Corps, Franklin Park Mural
  1996 Young Mission Power, Mission Cultural Center, San Francisco
  Commissions
  1995 Muni Key Stop Program, San Francisco Art Commission
  1995 Wall Installation, 1035 Howars St., Creative Work Fund, San Francisco
  1994 509 Cultural Center/San Francisco Redevelopemnt Agency
  1992 Mural, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
  1992 S.F. Art Commission, Art In Transit Program, San Francisco
Selected Exhibitions
2008   Len Lye : A Colour Box, Arcade Fine Arts, London
2008   A Moment for Reflection – New Work by Lydia Fong, Ratio 3, San Francisco (solo)
2008   They Don’t Make this Anymore, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead (solo)
2008   Barry McGee & Clare Rojas, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside (solo)
2008   Dripsy, Galerie Olivier Robert, Paris
2008   Life on Mars, the 55th Carnegie International, Pittsburgh
2007   Alpha, Ratio 3, San Francisco
2007   EUPHORION, Pierogi Gallery, Leipzig
2007   Kinky Sex (Makes the World Go ‘Round, Lizabeth Oliveria Gallery, Los Angeles
2007   The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo (solo)
2007   Butler Gallery, Kilkenney Castle, Ireland (solo)
2007   Redcat Gallery, Los Angeles (solo)
2006   We Have a Friend in Common, Nicolai Wallner Gallery, Copenhagen (solo)
2006   The Art of Robert Pimple, Paule Anglim Gallery, San Francisco (solo)
2006   Meditations In An Emergency, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Michigan
2006   Spank the Monkey, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead
2006   Summer Show, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London
2005   On Line, The Louisiana Museum, Copenhagen
2005   Easy Tonto, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London (solo)
2005   One More Thing, Deitch Projects, New York (solo)
2005   John Kaldor Art Projects, Metropolitan Meat Market, Melbourne (solo)
2005   Things Are Really Getting Better, Museum Het Domein, Sittard (solo)
2004   Meat Market Gallery, Melbourne (solo)
2004   Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Boston (solo)
2004   John Kaldor Projects, Sydney (solo)
2004   Monument to Now, The Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens
2004   Beautiful Losers, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinatti
2002   Liverpool Biennale, Liverpool
2002   Drawing Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2002   Prada Foundation, Milan (solo)
2002   Modern Art, London (solo)
2002   Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco (solo)
2001   Holdfast, Barry McGee & Margaret Kilgallen, Deste Foundation Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens
2001   Un Art Populaire, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris
2001   Widely Unknown, Deitch Projects, New York
2001   Venice Biennial, Venice
2000   Street Market, Parco Gallery, Tokyo
2000   Street Market, Deitch Projects, New York
2000   Indelible Market, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia
2000   UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (solo)
1999   Hoss, Rice Universtiy Art Gallery, Houston (solo)
1999   The Buddy System, Deitch Projects, New York (solo)
1998   Regards, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (solo)
1998   Art From Around the Bay, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
1997   Drawing Installation-Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Harlem
1997   Drawing Today, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco
1997   John Bergruen Gallery, San Francisco
1996   SECA Art Award, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
1996   WAVEFORMS, Santa Cruz
1996   Figureheads & Red Herrings, Koplin Gallery, Los Angeles
1996   Acme Custom, Acme Gallery, San Francisco
1996   Wall Drawings, The Drawing Center, New York
1996   City Folk, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
1995   Installation, Art & Design Studio/ K&T Lionheart LTD, Boston (solo)
1995   Degenerate Art, The Lab, San Francisco
1995   Post No Bills, Acme Gallery, San Francisco
1995   Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland
1995   Missed Connections, Market Street Installation, Luggage Store/509 Cultural Center Annex, San Francisco
1995   Installation, Street Art Exhibition, Los Angeles
1995   The Library, New Langton Arts, San Francisco
1995   Big Jesus Trash Can, Victoria Room, San Francisco
1994   Installation, Center for the Arts Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco (solo)
1993   Installation, Museum Laser Segall, Sao Paulo (solo)
1993   Twelve Bay Area Painters: The Eureka Fellowship Winners, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose
1993   Texture of Nature, Berkeley Art Center, Berkeley
1993   Folklore, Luggage Store, 509 Cultural Center, San Francisco
1993   Installation, La Raza Graphics Center, San Francisco
1992   U.C. Santa Cruz, Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery, Santa Cruz
1991   Wet Paint, Southern Exposure, San Francisco
1991   3/Play, Southern Exposure, San Francisco
1991   Installation, Diego Rivera Galley, San Francisco
1991   Wall of Resistance, Wall of Shame, UC Berkeley, Berkeley
1991   Art Against the War. A.T.A. Gallery, San Francisco
1991   Multicultural Show, Diego Rivera Gallery, San Francisco
Literature
2008   Gateshead: Barry McGee, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, The Art Newspaper, March, p. 53
2008   Barry McGee, MUSAC, Volume II, p. 318-321
2007   Sarica, Frederico. Don’t Stop: Dumbo and Barry McGee in Conversation, Mousse, September-November, p. 83-85
2006   La ley de la calle se impone en ARCO, que tira de artistas urbanos, de spray y de graffity, El Pais, February 11, p. 60
2006   Azkarraga, Joseba. Punto de Mira, La Razon, February 10, p. 3
2006   Torres, G. David. The Power of Urban Art, ABCDARCO, February 12, p. 13
2006   Virus, El Zirus. _One More Thing, Series B, p. 78-81
2006   Fallah, Amir H. Barry McGee, Beautiful Decay, December 2006, p. 90-98
2005   Things are Really Getting Better, Museum Het Domein Sittard
2005   Kold, Anders. Noget tegner sig, Louisana Magasin, November, p. 34
2005   Mendelsohn, Adam E. Review, Time Out New York, July 14
2005   Steyck, C.R. One More Thing, Juxtapoz, Fall special
2005   Deitch Projects, Artnews, October, p. 164
2005   Beck, Olly. Nightmare on Vyner Street, The Critical Friend, p. 6-9
2005   Deitch Projects, The New Yorker, July
2005   Smith, Roberta. Urban Outsider Artists Evoke Society’s Margins, The New York Times, August 3
2005   Lack, Jessica. Riot On An Empty Street, i-D, September
2005   Johnson, Dominic. Review, frieze, September
2005   J.L. The Guide, Guardian, September 17, p. 37
2005   Heuer, Megan. Barry McGee: One More Thing, The Brooklyn Rail, July/August
2004   Barry McGee, Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University
2004   Safe, Georgina. From a Different Cloth, The Weekend Australian, October 30-31
2004   Perez, Christopher. Review, Contemporary
2004   Barclay, Alison. Just Spraying Alive, Herald Sun, October 26
2004   Roberts, Jo. How’s this for a Twist?, the Age, October 27, pg. 73
2004   Pheasant, Bill. Melbourne’s Meat Market a Work for Modern Art, The Australian Financial Review, October 28, pg. 48
2004   Prada, Progetto. Fondazione Prada, Milan
2004   Bennett, Oliver. The Quality of Mersey, The Observer Review, September 15
2002   Mandrini, Riccarda. Street Art, L’Uomo Vogue, August
2002   Baker, Alex. Stickers, Street Markets, Fantasy Folks Ruminations from Philadelphia, Tokyo, May/June
2002   Joo, Eungie, The New Folk, Flash Art, May/June
2002   Helfand, Glen. Barry McGee, Artforum.com, May 16
2002   Giovannini, Stefano. Talent Show, Nylon, February
2002   Heartney, Eleanor. Speaking for Themselves, Art in America, February, p. 53-55
2002   Joo, Eungie. The New Folk, Flash Art, May/June
2002   Powers, Bill. Quiet! Dad is Dusting His G.I Joes, The New York Times, December 30
2002   Smith, Roberta. Widely Unknown, The New York Times, December 14
2001   Aletti, Vince. Top 10 of 2001, ArtForum, December
2001   Juxtapoz, September/October, p. 6
2001   Schmidt, Jason. The Venice Biennale, V Magazine, September/October
2001   Birnbaum, Daniel. More is Less, ArtForum, September, p. 55-57
2001   Cohen, Michael. Street Market, Flash Art, January/February
2001   Strength, March
2001   Amos, Sandy. Street Market, zingmagazine
2001   Valdez, Sarah. Street Market at Deitch Projects, Art in America, December
2001   Avgikos, Jan. Street Market, ArtForum, December
2001   Oliver, Suzanne. Bombs Away, The Face, November, p. 50
2001   Yablonsky, Linda. Street Market, Time Out New York, November 2-9
2000   Street Market exhibition catalogue, Japan: Little More Publishers
2000   Baker, Alex. Indelible Market exhibition catalogue, Philadelphia: Institute of Contemporary Art
2000   Flannigan, Eileen. SoHO Exhibit Sparks Mental Flames, New York Amsterdam News, October 26-November 1
2000   Juicy Fruits, Tokion, November-December 2000
2000   Tokyo Jammin’, October 2000
2000   Siegal, Nina. Exhibit Becomes Opportunity for Arrest, The New York Times, October 10, p. B4
2000   Stecyk, C.R. Some Other Small Planet, Super X Media, April
2000   Venus, Rosa. The Artists in Their Studios, Flaunt Magazine, March
1999   Buddy System exhibition catalogue, New York: Deitch Projects
1999   Mccormick, Carlo. Barry McGee’s Twist of Faith, Paper, p. 33
1999   Leffingwell, Edward. Barry McGee at Deitch Projects, Art in America
1999   Scherr, Apollinaire. Stealing Beauty, San Francisco Magazine, November
1999   Smith, Roberta. The New York Times, April
1999   Blake, Nayland. Barry McGee, Interview Magazine, February, p. 44-46
1999   Kalm, James. Old School, New School, NY Arts
1998   Caniglia, Julia. ArtForum, 1998
1996   Bonetti, David. San Francisco Examiner, September 1996
1994   Baker, Kenneth. San Francisco Chronicle, June 1994




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