Gwenn Thomas

 

Lives and works in New York.

@gwennthomas_
#gwennthomas

Education

1964-68
Cooper Union School of Art, NY

1963
Sorbonne, Paris

Selected solo exhibitions

2022
Exile Gallery, Vienna, Austria

2021
57W57Arts, NY
Art Projects International, NY

2018
Mélange, Cologne, Germany
ung5, Cologne, Germany

2017
Southfirst, Brooklyn, NY

2016
Regina Rex, NY
57W57 Arts, NY

2015
Art Projects International, NY

2014
Point of Contact Gallery, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY

2011
Art Projects International, New York, NY

2010
Rose Burlingham Gallery, New York, NY

2008
Art Projects International, New York, NY

2006
Yvon Lambert,  New York, NY

2005
Galerie Hafemann, Wiesbaden, Germany
Art Projects International, NY

2004
Northampton Community College, Bethlehem, PA
New Arts Program, Kutztown, PA

2002
Art Projects International, NY

2001
Galerie Hafemann, Wiesbaden, Germany

1996
Galleria Acta International, Rome

1994
Black + Greenberg Gallery, NY

1991
Grace Borgenicht Gallery, NY

1989
Galeria EMI Valentim de Carvalho, Lisbon

1986
Grace Borgenicht Gallery, NY

1982
John Weber Gallery, NY, Galerie
Gillespie, Laage, Salomon, Paris

1979
C Space, NY

1978
Fotogalerie in Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
Modern-Art Galerie, Vienna

1975
Galerie Wilde, Cologne

Selected group exhibitions

2023
Wishing Well, three-person show with Nikolai Nekh and Gonçalo Pena, Figura Avulsa, Lisbon, Portugal
Unbound: Performance as Rupture, Curated by Lisa Long and Line Alan, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Berlin, Germany
30 Years: Art Projects International, New York, NY

2022
Social Photography X, carriage trade, New York, NY
NADA HOUSE, Gwenn Thomas and Kerstin von Gabain, Governors Island, NY
Color as Space, Art Projects International, New York, NY

2021
Facts of Light, Cathouse Proper, guest curator Robert(a) Marshall, Brooklyn, NY
Social Photography IX, carriage trade, New York, NY

2020
DUST: The Plates of the Present, initiated by Thomas Fougeirol and Jo-ey Tang, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Gwenn Thomas & Jason Murphy, Abattoir Gallery, Cleveland

2019
Re-visions, Pinakothek Der Moderne, Munich, Germany
Social Photography VII, carriage trade, New York, NY
AWC Summer Camp: The Exhausted Land, Klosterfelde Edition, Berlin, Germany
BOX FOUR, Mélange, Cologne, Germany
New Works, Art Projects International, New York, NY

2018
1Ensemble, curated by David Dixon, Cathouse Proper, Brooklyn, NY
This Must Be The Place, curated by Jenni Crain and Miles Huston, 55 Walker, New York, NY
Jack Smith: Art Crust of Spiritual Oasis, curated by Jay Sanders and Jamie Stevens, Artists Space,
New York, NY
Walk Right In, two-person show with David Diao, curated by Angelo Lanza, Jeffrey Stark,
New York, NY

2017
Summer Selections, Art Projects International, New York, NY
NUT Group Show & Book Launch, MAW Gallery, New York, NY

2016
Number Twelve: Hello Boys, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany

2015
The Silo, curated by Raphael Rubinstein, Garth Greenan Gallery, New York, NY
Ausstellung 61, Exile, Berlin, Germany
Festival Anemic Cinéchat, curated by Brigitte Cornand, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
Please Enter, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY

2014
Gravure contemporaines, Galerie Brun Leglise, Paris, France
A Woman House or a Roaming House? A Room of One’s Own Today, curated by Mira Schor, AIR
Gallery, NY
The New Green, Rose Burlingham Projects, Harlem, NY
Freak Flag, Brian Morris Gallery, New York, NY

2013
Jack Smith: Cologne, 1974. Photographs by Gwenn Thomas, Film by Birgit Hein, Space Studios, London
Patterns of Interference, ShowRoom Gowanus, NY
Gwenn Thomas and Sarah Mattes, Bull and Ram, NY
Abstraction and Empathy, FiveMyles, NY
Bohemian Nights 4: The secret life of artists, IMC Lab and Gallery, NY

2012
Number Six: Flaming Creatures, Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf

2011
Accomplices. The photographer and the artist around 1970, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
I was a male Yvonne De Carlo, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo De Castilla y Leon, Leon, Spain
Williamsburg 2000, Art101, Brooklyn, NY
70 Years of Abstract Painting-Excerpts, Jason McCoy Gallery, NY

2009
Slow News International, The Arts at Mark’s Garage, Honolulu

2008
Seriality By Hand, Manhattan Graphics, NY

2007
Photo+, Blue Star Contemporary Art Center, San Antonio, TX
French Kiss, JGM Galerie, Paris

2006
Contrappunto, BAU Institute Gallery, Richard Sena Projects, Hudson, NY
Neoplastic Redux, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, NY
The Material Sign, Florence Lynch Gallery, NY

2005
Suitcase, Museo Di Palazzo Pietromarchi, Marsciano, Italy
New York Public Library, NY

2004
Multiple Encounters, Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, New Delhi, India
Paper and Process, Art Projects International, NY
The Michael Hoffman Tribute Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA

2003
Ten Years 1993-2003: Art Projects International, Art Projects International, NY
The Recurrent, Haunting Ghost: Reflections of Marcel Duchamp in Modern and Contemporary Art, Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, NY
Wandering Library Project of The International Artists’ Museum, 50th Biennale di Venezia, Museo Ebraico di Venezia, Venice

2001
The Fireplace Room Show, C.U.A.N.D.O., NY
Chromatic Cryptology, Tribes Gallery, NY
In the Lake, Malca Fine Art, NY

Selected collections

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
University of Kentucky Art Museum, Lexington, KY
The Chase Manhattan Bank
Charles Saatchi, London, UK
São Schlumberger, Paris, France
Davis, Polk & Wardwell, NY
C.A.M., Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Progressive Art Collection, Mayfield, OH
Manhattan Graphics Center, The Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division, Washington, DC
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
Citigroup, NY