Darren Bader, Installation view, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, 2018

Darren Bader

Darren Bader

Innate Value

November 1 – 16, 2023
New York

Darren Bader

character limit

November 3, 2018 – January 12, 2019
Los Angeles

5,471 miles

July 21 – August 15, 2020
Los Angeles

Darren Bader

Heaven and Earth

July 20 – August 31, 2013
Los Angeles

Biography

Darren Bader (b. 1978, Bridgeport, CT) studied filmmaking and art history at NYU (BFA, 2000). He lives and works in New York and in transit. Bader’s conceptual hobbyhorses include: word works, pairings, impossible sculpture, misattribution, object fetishism, and trash sculptures. His exhibitions are often collaborative in nature, exploring and questioning the interconnectedness of seemingly disparate objects through complex (re)arrangements, surprise juxtapositions, and absurd associations. Institutional solo exhibitions include fruits, vegetables; fruit and vegetable salad, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2020); (@mined_oud), Madre, Naples, Italy (2017–18); Meaning and Difference, The Power Station, Dallas, TX (2017); chess: relatives, High Line Art, New York, NY (2017); light (and) regret, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany (2015); Where Is a Bicycle’s Vagina (and Other Inquiries), or Around the Samovar, 1857, Oslo, Norway (2012); and Images, MoMA PS1, New York, NY (2012). Awarded the Calder Prize in 2013, Bader has taken part in numerous group exhibitions and biennials including Apparition, PHI Center, Montreal, Canada (2021); Mirage: Contemporary Art in Augmented Reality, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China (2020); the 58th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (2019); Stories of Almost Everyone, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (2018); .com/.cn, K11 Art Foundation Pop-up Space, Hong Kong, China (2017); One, No One and One Hundred Thousand, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria (2016); 13éme Biennale de Lyon: La vie moderne, Lyon, France (2015); Under the Clouds: From Paranoia to the Digital Sublime, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal (2015); The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (2014); Antigrazioso, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France (2013); Empire State, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy (2013); Greater New York, MoMA PS1, New York, NY (2010); and To Illustrate and Multiply: An Open Book, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA  (2008).

Selected Works

News

New York Times: Want to Be an Artist? You’re in Luck. This One Is Selling His Practice.

05/26/2023

Darren Bader and Li Ming: Mind the Gap | By Art Matters, Hangzhou, China

04/29/2023

Darren Bader: Group Show | The Little House, Los Angeles, CA

09/23/2021

Artnet News: Darren Bader Just Executed an Ingenious Conceptual Artwork

07/22/2020

New Yorker: Darren Bader

02/01/2020

The Guardian: How Do You Follow Heroin Lasagne? the Artist Who Wants You to Dice His Veg

01/14/2020

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