Tauba Auerbach (American, born )

Tauba Auerbach (American, b.1981) is a New York-based painter, photographer, printmaker, and installation artist. Throughout her wide-ranging body of work, Auerbach explores the relationships between written language and meaning, between two-dimensional and three-dimensional states, and between order and chance. Auerbach graduated in 2003 with a BA in visual art from Stanford University. She was a recipient of the SECA Art Award from the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in 2008, and an Artist Research Fellowship from the Smithsonian Institution in 2011. Recently, she was included in the 2010 Whitney Biennial. Auerbach has had solo exhibitions at Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY (2012); Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden (2012); Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway (2011); Deitch Projects, New York, NY (2009); and Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA (2008); among many others. She has also participated in group shows at institutions such as The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (2012); the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (2012); the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (2010); and the New Museum, New York, NY (2010). She lives and works in New York.

Timeline

1981
Born in San Francisco, California
1999–2003
BA in Visual Art, Stanford University, California
Lives and works in San Francisco
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Exhibitions

2011
A Book is Not an X, Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, East Hampton, New york (solo)
One Dozen Paintings, Journal Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Highways Connect and Divide, Foxy Production, New York
Untitled (Painting), Luhring Augustine, New York
2010
The W Axis, Standard (Oslo), Oslo, Norway (solo)
You and Now, Balice Hertling, Paris, France. Curated by Hannes Hetta
The More Things Change, SFMoMA, San Francisco, California
Geometry Playground, Science Museum of Minnesota, St. Paul, Minnesota
Quarry, Whitney Museum Construction Site Installation, New York (solo)
New Year, Western Bridge, Seattle (solo)
Exhibition, Exhibition, Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Turin, Italy. Curated by Adam Carr
Peter Saville: Accessories To An Artwork, Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, East Hampton, New York. Curated by Peter Saville
Picture Industry (Good Bye to All That), Regen Projects, Los Angeles, California
Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection, New Museum, New York. Curated by Jeff Koons
Le Faux Miroir, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium. Curated by Bob Nickas
Fragments of Machines, Neuer Aachener Kunstverein, Aachen, Germany. Curated by Will Bradley
Greater New York, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York
Seven on Seven, New Museum, New York. Organized by Rhizome
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum, New York. Curated by Francesco Bonami and Gary Carrion-Murayari
Fragments of Machines, IMO Projects, Copenhagen, Denmark. Curated by Will Bradley
What Where, Sutton Lane, London, England. Curated by Tom Duncan
2009
Here and Now/And Nowhere, Deitch Projects, New York (solo)
Punctuation, Right Window, San Francisco, California. Curated by Curated by Chris Fitzpatrick and Kevin Killian
Maximal Minimal, Art Advisory, Lugano, Switzerland
New York Minute, Macro Museo D’Arte, Rome, Italy. Curated by Kathy Grayson
Brooklyn Queens, The Journal Gallery, Brooklyn, New York. Curated by Eddie Martinez
Fax, The Drawing Center, New York
Younger than Jesus, The New Musuem, New York
SECA Award Show, SFMoMA, San Francisco, California
Almost Always Is Nearly Enough, Standard (Oslo), Oslo, Norway
The Word is Mine, Gallery Lange and Pult, Zurich, Switzerland
A Twilight Art, Harris Liebermann Gallery, New York
2008
Passengers, Watt Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, California (solo)
The Uncertainty Principle, Standard (Oslo), Oslo, Norway (solo)
Paper, Scissors, Stone, Galerie Nordenhake, Sotckholm, Sweden
No Information Given, Gladstone Gallery, Brussles. Curated by Francesco Bonami
Constraction, Deitch Projects, New York
Idiolects, Brown Gallery, London
Gut of the Quantifier, Lisa Cooley Gallery, New York
Successive Approximation, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York
2007
The Answer/Wasn't Here, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, California (Solo)
Signs and Messages from Modern Life, Kate MacGarry Gallery, London, England
Dream and Trauma, Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria
Words Fail Me, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, Michigan. Curated by Matthew Higgs
Beneath the Underdog, Gagosian Gallery, New York. Curated by Nate Lowman and Adam McEwen
2006
Yes and Not Yes, Deitch Projects, New York (solo)
2005
All Time, All the Time, San Francisco Art Commission, San Francisco, California (solo)
How to Spell the Alphabet, New Image Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California (solo)
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