1978 Born Bridgeport CT, USA
2000

BFA Film/TV and Art History, New York University, New York NY, USA

Lives and works in New York NY, USA

Solo Exhibitions

2023  Innative Value, BLUM, New York NY, USA
Darren Bader and Li Ming,
 
Mind the Gap, BY ART MATTERS, Hangzhou, China
2022

Wonths every few Monce, Sadie Coles HQ, Regent Street viewing room, Kingly Street, London, England

Spring Cleaning / Vernal Post-Hibernal Journal, online/chain (ongoing)

 2021

Darren Bader: The American Express Holiday Show, Harkawik, New York NY, USA

Group Show, Dries Van Noten off-site: The Little House, Los Angeles CA, USA

Mends of Scott Friendes, Sadie Coles HQ, Bury Street, London, England

The Plastic Arts / Life Suffuses, Cells Amused, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York NY, USA

Bootlicker Suite, part of the Museum for Preventive Imagination’s SUPPLEMENT section, MACRO Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma, Rome, Italy

2020

Character Study, ACRUSH AG, Zurich, Switzerland

Fruits, Vegetables; Fruit and Vegetable Salad, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY, USA

2019

Interlude, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy

2018

character limit, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles CA, USA

I don’t know, Société, Berlin, Germany

E/either e/Either n/Neither N/neither, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York NY, USA

more or less, Sadie Coles HQ, Davies Street, London, England

2017

(@mined_oud), Madre · museo d’arte contemporanea Donnaregina, Naples, Italy

Forest/Trees, Greenspon Gallery, New York NY, USA

Meaning and Difference, The Power Station, Dallas TX, USA

2016

such are promises,Sadie Coles HQ, Kingly, London, England

2015

rocks and mirrors,Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy     

39/50, fig-2, ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England

The World as Will and Representation, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany

Reading Writing Arithmetic, Radio Athènes, Athens, Greece

2014

Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York NY, USA

Egg, Chicago IL, USA

2013

Roads, SPACE, London, England

Heaven and Earth, Blum and Poe, Los Angeles CA, USA

#I am just living to be dying by your side, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy

2012

More Buildings about Songs and Food, Sadie Coles HQ, Balfour Mews, London, England

Where is a Bicycle’s Vagina (and other enquiries) or Around the Samovar,1857, Oslo, Norway

Images,MoMA PS1, New York NY, USA

2011 Chad Ochocinco,Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York NY, USA  
2010

Alex Zachary, New York NY, USA

Number[s], Eighth Veil, Los Angeles CA, USA

2009

New Work, 303 Gallery, New York NY, USA

T&s n’ Kreps, New York NY, USA

2008

Gallery Sora, Tokyo, Japan

Nic Cage: A Bridal Tour of Southern California Foundries, 2nd Cannons Publications, Los Angeles CA, USA; Pauline Gallery, Los Angeles CA, USA

2007 as = poaching the poachers, Rivington Arms, New York NY, USA
2004

Cat,Rivington Arms, New York NY, USA

2001

Do Space Apes Masturbate?,1001 East 1st Street Arts Building, Los Angeles CA, USA

Group Exhibitions

2023

Diaspora a show organized by Bejamin Godsill & Joel Mesler, Ezra Gallery, Sag Harbor NY, USA

2022

Kaleidoscope Eyes, Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea 
The Painter’s New Tools, 
Nahmad Contemporary, New York NY, USA

2021

sub/dominium, Château Shatto, Los Angeles CA, USA

The Going Away Present, Kristina Kite Gallery, London, England

Breadcrumbs: Art In The Age of NFTism, Galerie Nagel Draxler, Cologne, Germany

It Is What It Is, Chateau Shatto online

Doomed and Famous: Selection from the Adrian Dannatt Collection, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York NY, USA

La Boîte-en-Valise, Office Baroque online

2020

Unreal City, various locations, Southbank, London, England

Mirage: Contemporary Art in Augmented Reality, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

5,471 miles, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles CA, USA

Me, Family, Mudam – The Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg

Animal Kingdom, Alexander Berggruen online

Focus Group II, von ammon co, Washington D.C. DC, USA

Sarah Lehrer Graiwer curates, Gallery Platform online

Il Lenzuolo Voila, ERMES-ERMES, Vienna, Austria

2019

Furniture of Desire, Lie Lay Lain, New York NY, USA

Chairs Beyond Right & Wrong, R & Company, New York NY, USA

who knows one, Vistamare, Pescara, Italy, curated by Haim Steinbach

May You Live in Interesting Times, 58th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

2018

Adam McEwen Selects: Exhibition and Sale to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Gladstone Gallery, 21 Street, New York NY, USA

Fake as More, Front Desk Apparatus, Simon Lee Gallery, New York NY, USA

Pizza is God, NRW-Forum, Dusseldorf, Germany

Thumbs That Type and Swipe: The DIS Edutainment Network, DIS.ART., La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain

Stories of Almost Everyone, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA, USA

 2017

.COM/.CN, KAF K11 Art Foundation, Shanghai, China, presented by K11 Art Foundation and MoMA PS1

Social Surfaces, Artists Space, New York NY, USA

Ripple Effect, FUTURA, Prague, Czech Republic

(Interlude), Cookie Butcher, Brussels, Belgium

Synthetic Divide, ACRUSH AG, Zurich, Switzerland

Fleming Faloon, Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium

Earth Day, Ramiken Crucible, New York NY, USA

FRIEND ? ?, Galerie Maria Bernheim, Zurich, Switzerland

Dreamlands (Screenings), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY, USA

Videobox, Le Carreau du Temple, Paris, France

Acordo de confiança, Biblioteca Mário de Andrade, São Paulo, Brazil

.COM/.CN, K11 Art Foundation Pop-up Space, Hong Kong, presented by K11 Art Foundation and MoMA PS1

Low, XYZ Collective, The Steak House Doskoi, Tokyo, Japan

Jade Bi, Galeria Madragoa, Lisbon, Portugal

Galerie Maria Bernheim, Zurich, Switzerland

Galeria Madragoa, Lisbon, Portugal

Oliver Twist, Chapter 2, Rental Gallery, East Hampton NY, USA

2016

For Pete’s Sake, Carl Kostyál, Stockholm, Sweden

Phantasmagoria,The Stolbun Collection, Chicago Project Space, Chicago IL, USA

Not My Bridge Not My Water, Aetopoulos, Athens, Greece

Goulding the Lolly,Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York NY, USA

Your memories are our Future,ACRUSH AG, Zurich, Switzerland, curated by Palais de Tokyo & ACRUSH AG

Can I step on it?, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy

The Coveter, Dickinson, New York NY, USA

In the Making: Artists, Assistants, and Influence, Luxembourg + Co, New York NY, USA

Fluidity, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

One, No One and One Hundred Thousand, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria

The Calder Prize 2005-2015,Pace Gallery, London, England

Not For Sale, Lovaas Projects, Munich, Germany

Tomorrow is a new day, Yacht Walanka, Monaco

Roman á Clef and/or the Appetite of the Chef, Rainbow in Spanish, Los Angeles CA, USA

An Idle Visitation, Sante Fe NM, USA, organized by AND NOW, Hester, and Tomorrow

2015

Darren Bader, Liz Magic Laser, Takeshi Murata, A Video Exhibition, BFA Boatos Fine Art, São Paulo, Brazil

What We Found, Non Objectif Sud, Tulette, France

Under the Clouds, Fundação de Serralves, Porto, Portugal

The Luluennial: A Slight Gestuary,Lulu, Mexico City, Mexico

Constructed Culture sounds like Conculture,Ellis King, Dublin, Ireland

Political Populism,Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria

Visitors,Governors Island NY, USA

The Daily Show, Bureau, New York NY, USA

Objects, Food, Rooms,Tankya Bonakdar Gallery, New York NY, USA

La vie modern, 13th Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France

Unlimited, Art Basel,Basel, Switzerland

Love For Three Oranges,Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

Small Sculpture, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago IL, USA

2014

Never Enough: Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art, DMA Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas TX, USA

In Real Life, Christine König Galerie, Vienna, Austria

RRBGGGRWW (polysemes), Grand Century, New York NY, USA

Nuit Américaine,Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium

Tragedy + Time, Public Fiction, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA, USA

Urs Fischer curated show,Sadie Coles HQ, London, England

Parcours, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland

2014 Whitney Biennial,Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY, USA

Little Nassau, Brooklyn, New York NY, USA

Vegetal Passion, Le Crédac, Royal Garden 5 online

Day-For-Night, Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium

Parcours Frieze Projects 2014, Frieze New York, New York NY, USA

2013

Ground Control to Major Tom,Cookie Butcher, Antwerp, Belgium

Empire State, New York Art Now, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France

Mixed Message Media, Gladstone Gallery, New York NY, USA

Young Collectors,Maison Particulière, Brussels, Belgium

Antigrazioso, Nouvelles Vagues in the Palais de Tokyo, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

do it, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York NY, USA (touring exhibition until 2019)

Le Quattro Stagioni, Trois Gnossiennes, Triple DJ, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan, Italy

This is THIS, Zach Feuer, New York NY, USA

Air de Pied-à-terre, Lisa Cooley Gallery, New York NY, USA

What we did the following year, Ritter/Zamet, London, England

ANAMERICANA, DEPART Foundation, American Academy, Rome, Italy

Pataphysics, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York NY, USA

PIZZA TIME!, Marlborough Broome Street, New York NY, USA  

Something About a Tree, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York NY, USA

Jew York, UNTITLED, New York NY, USA

They might well have been remnants of the boat, Calder Foundation, New York NY, USA

Haim Steinbach-Darren Bader, TheNow, miart, Milan, Italy

2012

Funny, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York NY, USA

Bulletin Boards, Venus Over Manhattan, New York NY, USA
Inside the Banana, Greenspon Gallery, New York NY, USA
Home Again, Again, The Journal Gallery, New York NY, USA
Creature From the Blue Lagoon, Martos Gallery, Bridgehampton NY, USA
Oh, You Mean Cellophane and all that Crap, Calder Foundation, New York NY, USA
Kathryn Andrews, Darren Bader, and Karl Haendel, United Artists Ltd., Marfa TX, USA
Blind Cut, Marlborough Gallery, New York NY, USA

Untitled (Tea Party), Galerie Klosterfelde, Berlin, Germany

Ten Ten, Jason Alexander, New York NY, USA

D’Après Giorgio, Fondazione Giorgio e Isa de Chirico, Rome, Italy

2011

Foot To Foot, Regina Gallery, London, England

Art Public, Art Basel, Miami Beach FL, USA

The Color of Company, Abrons Art Center, New York NY, USA

Histoires de votre vie, Office Baroque, Antwerp, Belgium

Modify, As Needed, MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Miami FL, USA

Untitled group show, Untitled Gallery, New York NY, USA

On Forgery,LAXART, Los Angeles CA, USA

Touchy Feely, Human Resources, Los Angeles CA, USA

Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials..., König Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Broken Umbrellas, Laurel Gitlen, New York NY, USA

Office Baroque, Antwerp, Belgium

2010

Looking Back / The Fifth White Columns Annual, White Columns, New York NY, USA
Which Which is Which and/or Summertime, White Flag Projects, St. Louis MO, USA
Salad Days, The Journal Gallery, New York NY, USA
Greater New York, MoMA PS1, New York NY, USA
Support Group, Cottage Home, Los Angeles CA, USA
Group Show: Katie Aliprando, Darren Bader, Matias Faldbakken, Mateo Tannat, 2nd Cannons Publications, Los Angeles CA, USA

The hoax is a hoax or may or may not be again, Galerie Carlos Cardenas, Paris, France
And So On..., And So On..., And So On..., Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York NY, USA
with Margaret Lee and Michele Abeles, White Room, White Columns, New York NY, USA

2009

Rob Pruitt's Flea Market, Tate Modern, London, England
Cave Gallery,Detroit MI, USA

Don't Perish, Koenig & Clinton, New York NY, USA
To the Left of the Rising Sun
,Small A Projects Upstate, New York NY, USA
Time-Life Part II
, Taxter & Spengemann, New York NY, USA
Fax
,The Drawing Center, New York NY, USA
with Ara Dymond and Uri Aran, Odeon, Ritter/Zamet, London, England
After Image
,Peggy Tan & Antonio Serna's Space, New York NY, USA
On From Here
,Guild & Greyschkul, New York NY, USA
Boofthle Booth - Booth : Deux Doox - Hollywood Biennial
, Pauline Gallery, Los Angeles CA, USA
Unfiction, University Galleries, Normal IL, USA

Taki Ishii Gallery, Armoury Show, New York NY, USA

2008

The World is All That is The Case, Hudson Franklin, New York NY, USA

Gaping Hole Found in Universe, Daniel Hug, Los Angeles CA, USA

8 1/2 x 11 / A4, James Fuentes, New York NY, USA
Singular Friends: heaving up on one another's shoulders, Gresham’s Ghost, New York NY, USA
To Illustrate and Multiply: An Open Book, MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA, USA
Object Salon, White Space Gallery, London, England

Iconic Boston BBQ, LaMontagne Gallery, Boston MA, USA
Fair Market, Rental Gallery, New York NY, USA

Abandoned Plot, Brooklyn, New York NY, USA
PRUESSPRESS @ Rental, Rental Gallery, NY, USA

Boofthle, Pauline Gallery, Los Angeles CA, USA

2007

Rob Pruitt’s Flea Market, Frieze Art Fair, London, England
No Context, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Overbite/ Underbite, Ritter/Zamet, London, England 

2006

More Songs About Buildings and Food: A Recipe For Downtown, LMCC Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York NY, USA
GRUPE, GBE @ Passerby, New York NY, USA; The Mandrake, Los Angeles CA, USA
Goodbye To All That, Rivington Arms, New York NY, USA

2005

The Pumpkin Show, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York NY, USA
Put It In Your Mouth / I'll see you on the dark side of the prune, Rivington Arms, New York NY, USA

2004

Word of Mouth, Dinter Fine Art, New York NY, USA

Do Something, Floating IP, Manchester, England

2003

Study, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Mad Little, Mad Little Gallery, New York NY, USA
Emergence, Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles CA, USA

2000

Amok Festival of Experimental Film and Video, New York NY, USA

Curated Shows

2010

G_M_O_[sho], Nero Magazine, http://www.neromagazine.it/gmo.html

2009

with Gavin Brown, The living and the dead, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York NY, USA

2008 Sunshine, with Ritter/Zamet, Rental Gallery, New York NY, USA
2007

MoMA @ Passerby: Dutch Elm Disease, GBE @ Passerby, New York NY, USA
Wu-Tang/googolplex Show (Congress), GBE @ Passerby, New York NY, USA
with Mirabelle Marden, Overbite/Underbite, Ritter/Zamet, London, England

2006

with Jesse Willenbring, GRUPE, GBE @ Passerby, New York NY; Mandrake, Los Angeles CA, USA

2005 Put It In Your Mouth / I'll see you on the dark side of the prune, Rivington Arms, New York NY, USA

Other Projects

2021

MEGA, Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples; Milan; Bruno, Venice @tan_aquarium, Twitter

Mendes Mundi: Mends of Scott Friendes, Acute Art, London, England [augmented reality]

2020

eBay sculpture, Societe, Berlin, Germany

Tennis Elbow Window: April 11-17, The Journal Gallery, New York NY, USA

Fomo Haber, Felix Art Fair, Los Angeles CA, USA

2018

CleanEquity® Conference, Fairmont Monte Carlo, Monaco

2017

chess: relatives, The Highline, New York NY, USA

2014 Come Away with Me, Frieze Projects, New York NY, USA
2013

Liberi Tutti, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Arsenale, Milan, Italy

with Haim Steinbach, THENnow, miart, Milan, Italy

2012 Life As a Readymade, published by Kiito-San,New York NY, USA
2011 with Urs Fischer, The Bearded Island, published by Kiito-San,New York NY, USA
2009

Do you have a name for this?, website project for AVA Audio Visual Arts , New York NY, USA
a book with Brian Kennon and Chris Lipomi, LHOOQ

2008 artreview.com, Project Space, 4 – 11 February
2007

Art Basel Miami Beach catalogues, Rivington Arms and Ritter/Zamet booths, NADA Fair, Miami FL, USA

2006 Glennomnibus in Textfield V

Residencies

2014 Atelier Calder, Saché, France

Film screenings

2018                                                  

Living Content Live, Times Square Space, 27 October, New York NY, USA


Public Collections

 

Aspen Art Museum, Aspen CO, USA

Cnap Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris, France

Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

DMA Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas TX, USA

Chicago Booth School of Business art collection, Chicago IL, USA

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN, USA

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY, USA

 

Awards

2013

Calder Prize, Calder Foundation, New York NY, USA

The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation biannual artist support program