Steven Pippin


Steven Pippin



Born: 1960, Redhill, England
Lives and works in London

Education

1976-78 O.N.C. Mechanical Engineering, Charles Keene college, Leicester
1981-82 Foundation course in Art & Design, Loughborough College Leicestershire
1982-85 B.A. in Fine Art Sculpture, Polytechnic, Brighton
1986-87 M.A. in Fine Art Sculpture, Chelsea School of Art, London
1997-98 DAAD, Berlin


Solo Exhibitions

2011
“A Non Event (Horizon),’ CEAAC, Strasbourg

2005
“GeoFlatscreen Prototype,” Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
“UFO” Klosterfelde, Berlin

2003
Gallery Side2, Tokyo

2001
“Journey to the Center of the Art World…and Back Again”, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
“Toilet Paper Stealing Machine”, Helge-Maria Klosterfelde, Hamburg, Germany

1999
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA
"Global Warming", Asprey Jacques, London

1998

"Laundromat Locomotion", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA (tours to Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Miami Art Museum, Miami FL)
DAAD Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Helga-Maria Klosterfelde, Hamburg, Germany

1997
Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
"Terrestrial T.V", Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York, NY

1995

"Negative Perspective", Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland
"Study in Time and Motion", FRAC Limousin, Limoges, France

1994
"Retrospective" Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York, NY (in assoc with AC Project Room)
"Migrateurs", Musee D'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France "Interior" Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Works from the Recession" Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England
"Omnigraph" Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Addendum" Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany

1993
"Introspective", Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England
Project 44, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (with Sarah Lucas)

Group Exhibitions

2008
“Domestic Appliance,” Flowers East, London

2004
“Untitled (Vision Existence Resistance)” Franco Soffiantino arte contemporanea, Turin

2003
Gavin Brown’s enterprise, ‘20th Anniversary- Welcome home, New York

2002
“Self Evident,” Tate Gallery, Millbank, London
“Tempo”, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, curated Paulo Herkenhoff (cat.)
“Public Affairs,” Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland (cat.)

2001

“The Fantastic Recurrence of Certain Situations”, Sala de Exposiciones del Santa Isabel II, Madrid, Spain
“Metropolis Now” Borusan Culture and Art Center, Istanbul

2000
“Editions and Multiples 1990-2000”, Helga Maria Klosterfelde, Hamburg, Germany
“HausSchau. Das Haus in der Kunst”, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany (cat.)
“Useless Science”, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
“Projects”, Gallery Side 2, Tokyo, Japan

1999
"The Turner Prize exhibition", Tate Gallery, London
"Eye Spy", Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas
"Photography: An Expended View, Recent Acquisitions", Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
“New visions”, Royal Observatory, Greenwich, London

1998
"In Visible Light: Photography and classification in art, science and the everyday", Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden (cat.)
Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany
"Paraphotography", Maier Museum of Art, Lynchburg, VA
"Facing It", Museum of New Zealand, Wellington, New Zealand

1997
"Surroundings", Helena Rubinstein Pavilion for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
"Photographien", Helga Maria Klosterfelde , Hamburg, Germany
"Antechamber", Whitechapel Art Gallery, London England

1996
"Sites of the Visual", Art Gallery of Windsor,Ontario,Canada
Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany
"Do It", Vienna, Austria
"Life/Live", ARC, Paris, France
"Playpen & Corpus Delirium", Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Kunstverien Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
"The Cauldron", curated by Maureen Paley, Henry Moore Sculpture Trust,
Leeds England

1995
Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju, South Korea
"Selfmade", Grazer Kunstverien, Graz, Austria
"Minky Manky", curated by Carl Freedman South London Gallery, London, England
 "Brilliant", Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, Art Center, Houston, TX
"Sites of Being", ICA, Boston, MA

1994

"Audience .001", curated by Helena Kontova, Flash Art Museum, Trevi, Italy
"Cloaca Maxima", Museum der Stadtentwasserung, Zurich, Switzerland
"Domestic Violence", Gio Marconi, Milan, Italy
"Rien a Signaler", Galerie Analix, Geneva, Switzerland
"Conceptual Living", Rhizome, Amsterdam, Holland

1993
"Chambre 763", curated by Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Carlton Palace Hotel, Paris "Wonderful Life", Lisson Gallery, London, England
"Aperto 93", Venice Bienale, Venice, Italy
Galerie Max Hetzler, Koln, Germany
"Behind Closed Doors", curated by Alison-Sarah Jaques, Milano, Italy

1992
"Insignificant", 10 E 39th St, suite 525, New York, NY
"Twelve British Artists", Barbara Gladstone Gallery & SteinGladstone,
New York, NY
"Home Improvements", 209 W97th St, Apt 7B, New York, NY

1991
"Laundromat Pictures", Sculpture Space, Utica, NY

1990

"Launderama", London Film Festival, Leicester Film Festival

1987-88

"Germinations IV", London, Marseilles, Breda & Bonn

1986
"New British Sculpture", Air Gallery, London, England


Bibliography

2006
Murray, Mary E. and Gina Murtagh, “Substance and Light,” published by Munson- Williams-Proctor Art Institute, Utica, New York

2005
Pollack, Barbara, Review, Time Out New York, December 8-14 p. 67
Carel, Sari, Review, Artforum Online, November
Pace, Alessandra, Review, Tema Celeste, July-Augus, p.76
W, A, Review, Modern Painters, July-August, p. 111

2002
Freedman, Carl, Interview, in Public Affairs, published by Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

2001
Stange, Raimar, Art Now, Taschen, Koln
Wilmer, Elga, et. Al, Metropolis Now, published by Borusan Culture and Art Center, Istanbul, 2001

2000

Schaffner, Ingrid, “Dirty Hole: Steven Pippin’s Obscure Routes”, Art On Paper, January-February, pp. 34-39
Brutus, Tokyo, April

1999
Vogue Nippon, No. 2, October
Searle, Adrian, The Guardian, October 20, p.12
Fogle, Douglas, intervies, Brilliant New Art from London
Winsowski, Ingeborg, “Steven Pippin,” Kultur Spiegel, October
New Times, July 29 – August 4
“Laundro-Art?”, Miami Today, July 15
“Washer’s-Eye View,” The Miami Herald, July 1999
Dietsch, Deborah, “Flash Photos,” Sun-Sentinel, July 22
Alvarez Bravo, Armando, “El Insolito Mr. Pippin”, El Nuevo Herald, August 15
Freedman, Carl, "Steven Pippin - Manual Override", Dazed & Confused, November, pp. 152-158
Knight, Christopher, "Laundromat Series Awash in Art History", Los Angeles Times, June 25, p. F22
"Artist Interview", BT, Nov., pp.124-128
"In Visible Light: Photography and classification in art, science and the everyday", catalogue, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
"Laundromat-Locomotion", catalogue, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Newhouse, Kristina, "Reviews", New Art Examiner, October
Kent, Sarah, "One to Wash", Time Out, September, 29
Turner, Elisa, "His art comes out of the wash" Living & Arts, Saturday, July 17
Branciforte, Bob, "Photo Wash" The East Sider, July 14
Adams, Tim, "Eyes on the prize" The Observer Magazine, October10
Einspruch, Franklin, "Process more compelling than product" Coral Gables Gazette, August, 25-31

1998
Harper's Magazine, Feb. p. 21 (image)
Stange, Raimar, "Der Bildverderber", Kunst- Bulletin, December
Baker, Kenneth, "Washing Machines' Unscrubbed Images", San Francisco Chronicle, February 17
"Laundromat-locomotion", Dazed and Confused, January, pp. 68-73
Weintraub, David, "Pippin airs his "Laundry" at SFMOMA", PDN, February, p.141

1997
"Antechamber", catalogue, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
Germinations IV, catalogue, Paris
Israel, Nico, "Steven Pippin", Flash Art, summer, pp.138-139
Johnstone, Lesley, "Sites of the Visual" catalogue, Art Gallery of Windsor, Ontario
Halle, Howard, "As the world turns" Time Out New York, Feb.,20-27

1996
The Cauldron", catalog, The Henry Moore Studio, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
"Playpen & Corpus Delirium", catalog, Kunstahalle Zurich, Zurich Switzerland
"Life/Live", catalogue, ARC, Paris, France
MacRitchie, Lynn, "Their Brilliant Careers," Art in America, April, pp.81-85 Muller, Silke, "Ein Medium gewinnt seine Freiheit," Art, Hamburg, June pp. 30-41
Obrist, Hans Ulrich, "Migrateurs", Living, January, pp.25-27
Sladen, Mark, "Vice and Versatility", Art Press, June, pp.36-41

1995
"Selfmade", catalogue, Grazer Kunstverein
Kent, Sarah, "Kunstlerportrats," Neue bildende Kunst, June / August, pp.43-49
"Negative Perspective", catalogue, Center Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland "Portfolio", Grand Street, No.54, p177-84
Le Mouellic, Maria, "L'Insaisissable Steven Pippin," Beaux Arts, June, p.133
"Addendum", catalogue, essay by Carl Freedman, Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany
Barrett, David, "Minky Manky", Art Monthly, May pp.30-32
"Discovering the Secrets of Monsieur Pippin", catalogue, FRAC Limousin, Limoges, France
Horsefield, Cragie, "the continuing saga of an amateur photographer", Frieze, January/February, pp. 26 - 31
Jacques, Alison, "Global Art", Flash Art, January
Hoffman, Justin, "Self-Made", Frieze, p. 68

1994
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, December
Babias, Marius, "Cloaca Maxima", catalogue, Museum der Stadtenwasserung, Zurich, Switzerland
"Migrateurs", published by Hans-Ulrich Obrist & Musee D'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
Smith, Roberta, "The New Realism", The New York Times, January 9, p. 34-35
Saltz, Jerry, "One Giant Step Backwards for Photography", Art in America, March, p. 84-87
Scheldahl, Peter, "Entropy in Action", The Village Voice, April 30
Kandel, Susan, "Pippin determined to invent the camera all over again",
The Los Angeles Times, May 7, pp12-13
Evren, Robert, "Projects 44: Sarah Lucas, Steven Pippin”, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Jacques, Alison-Sarah, Interview, Flash Art, Summer, p. 99
Auerbach, Lisa Anne, Review, Artforum, October

1993
Saltz, Jerry, "Mayday, Mayday, Mayday", Art in America, September,
p. 40-45
Jacques, Alison Sarah, Interview, Flash Art, Summer, p. 99
"Introspective", catalogue, essays by Brian Catling and Stuart Morgan, published by Gavin Brown's enterprise & ICA, London
Lillington, David, Review, Time Out, June 30
Heuser, Margherita, Interview, Zoom, Summer, p. 6-7
"Aperto 93", catalog, p. 374-375, Venice Bienale, Venice, Italy
Venice Bienale Catalogue, Venice Italy
Bonami, Francesco, Review, Flash Art, May/June, p.8
Saltz, Jerry, "10 Artists for the 90s", Art & Auction, May, p. 124-125

1992
McArther, Euan, Art Monthly, Dec/Jan, p. 22-23
Pin-Hole Journal, August, p. 23
"Laundromat Pictures", project, Frieze, Sept/Oct, #6, p. 14-15
"Laundromat Pictures, " Pinhole Journal, August, p. 23
Review, Kunstforum, November, p. 397-398
Smith, Roberta, Review, The New York Times, October 16
Schjeldahl, Peter, Review, Frieze, Nov/Dec, #7, p. 45

1991
Cover, Jonas, "Sculptor Playing with a Full Load", Observer Dispatch, Utics, NY, June 25

1986

Burns, Bill, Review, Art Monthly, July/August, #98, p. 12-13



Public collections

Frac Limousin, France
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Tate Gallery, London, England
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN