Julien Bismuth

Born in Paris, France, 1973
Lives and works in New York

Education

University of California, Los Angeles (Richard Jackson, Paul McCarthy)
MA from Goldsmith’s College, London
PhD candidate in literature at Princeton University

Solo Exhibitions

2019
Nomas Foundation, Rome (IT)
Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna (AT)

2018
Façade project at The Box, Los Angeles (US)
Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt (DE)

2017
Sybil, Sibyl, Centre d’Art La Criee, Rennes (FR)
streams, Simone Subal Gallery, New York (US)

2016
Julien Bismuth, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (US)
Partition, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris (FR)
Zitat, Lira Gallery, Rome (IT)

2015
Steganograms, The Box, Los Angeles (US)
Stenograms (with Lili Reynaud-Dewar), Galerie Emanuel Layr, New York (US)

2014
Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna (AT)
Liste 19 (with Lili Reynaud-Dewar), Galerie Emanuel Layr, Basel (CH)
An image as the _______ of a surface, Simone Subal, New York (US)

2013
Smoke Screen, Galerie Emanuel Layr, Vienna (AT)
Le Signe Singe (with Virginie Yassef), La Ferme Du Buisson, Marne-la-Vallée (FR)
Walks and Talks (with Lucas Ajemian), Invisible Exports, New York (US)
Untitled (Mime) from the Gensollen Private Collection, Istanbul (TK), organized by collectorspace, New York (US)
A Wake: Julien Bismuth and Jean-Pascal Flavien curated by Marie de Brugerolle, LA Existancial, LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), Los Angeles (US)
Devonian Press (with Jean-Pascal Flavien), Les Abattoirs, Toulouse (FR)
Parrot, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris (FR)

2012
Devonian Press (with Jean-Pascal Flavien), Showcase dish, FRAC Ile-de-France, Paris (FR)
Catalog, Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt (DE)

2011
Notes Towards a Theory of Distraction, Simone Subal Gallery, New York (US)
Frustum, Galerie Emaneul Layr, Vienna (AT)
The Ventriloquism Aftereffect, GAK (Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst), Bremen (DE)
Parcours St. Germain (with Virginie Yassef), Hotel Lutetia (FIAC event), Paris (FR)

2010
The Golden Ass, The Box, Los Angeles (US)
MIMED, The Armory Show, Layr Wuestenhagen, New York (US)
Shannon Bool et Julien Bismuth, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch (FR)
The Error in the Landscape curated by Vanessa Desclaux, Bloomberg Space, London (UK)
Les Tristes: Invisible Exports (with Lucas Ajemian), Invisible Exports, New York (US)

2009
Title (Untitled), Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt (DE)
Les Continents Incontinents, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris (FR)

2008
Unbestimmte Stellen, Layr Wuestenhagen, Vienna (AT)
The Box, Los Angeles (US)
Les Lettres Tristes (with Lucas Ajemian), Foxy Productions, New York (US)

2007
Monologues for Minerals, 1.1 (Salt Flat / Radio Stück), Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt (DE)

2006
Les Tristes: A Particular Sequence of Varying Pitch, Tone or Stress (with Lucas Ajemian), Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt (DE)
Marchand d’oubli, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris (FR)
Devonian Press: Books and Limited Editions (with Jean-Pascal Flavien), A&M Bookstore, Milan (IT); Barbara Wien Gallery, Berlin (DE)

Select Group Exhibitions

2018
Synonymie Ambiante, FRAC, Marseilles (FR)
Natura Naturas, Mendes Wood, New York (US)
Contre-Allees, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris (FR)
While I was also listening to Krysten, LeRoy, Julien, Jennie, Félicia, David, Yann, Luke, Sarah…, Human Resources LA, Los Angeles (US); Emily Harvey Foundation, New York (US)
14th Cuenca Biennial, comissaire: Jesús Fuenmayor et Yucef Merhi, Bolívar 1389 y Estevez de Toral, Cuenca (EC)

2017
Hôtel du Pavot 2, Frac île-de-France, Le Château Rentilly, Bussy-Saint-Martin (FR)
Threads Left Hanging, Veiled in Ink, Emanuel Layr, Vienna (AT)
American Interior, carriage trade, New York, NY (US)
Frieze Art Fair, The Box, New York (US)
Modus Operandi, Société, Brussels (BE)
Variable Dimensions, curated by Gregory Lang and Ines Grosso, Museum Art Architecture Technology, Lisbon (PT)
Palais Potemkine, curated by Emile Ouromov, National Art Gallery of Sofia in partnership with the Foundation Ricard, Sofia (BG)

2016

Economie de la tension, curated by Emile Ouroumov and Catherine Pavlovic, Center d’Art Contemporain Parc St. Leger, Pougues-les-Eaux (FR)
Me souwiendra (ou l’usage de la parole), curated by Arlene Barceliot Courtin, Index gallery, Paris (FR)
The Language of Things: Material Hi/Stories from the Collection, curated by Alex Kohne and Luisa Ziaja,
Belvedere Museum, Vienna (AT)
“I will go where I don’t belong,” curated by Milovan Farronato and Camille Henrot, Stromboli (IT)
L’homme aux cents yeux, curated by Gilles Baume, Plateau-Franc Ile de France, Paris (FR)
impromptu, The Box, Los Angeles (US)

2015
Very Long Fingers, Simone Subal Gallery, New York (US)
Artistes et Architecture, Curated by Gregory Lang, Pavillion de L’Arsenal, Paris, (FR)
Alfred Jarry Archipelago: The Waltz of the Puppets — ACT I curated by Keren Detton and Julie Pellegrin, Le Quartier, Quimper (FR); La Ferme du Buisson, Noisiel (FR); Museo Marino Marini, Florence (IT)
Infiltrations, Centre d’Art Bastille, Grenoble (FR)
McGuffin curated by Marie de Brugerolle, Ecole des Beaux Arts, Geneva (CH)
The Artist is a Mysterious Entertainer curated by Vanessa Desclaux, FRAC Franche-Comté, Besançon (FR)
Rideaux / Blinds curated by Marie de Brugerolle, Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne (FR)
Théâtre des Operations curated by Bénedicate le Pimpec, Emile Ouroumoy and Céline Bertin, Théâtre de l’Usine, Geneva (CH)

2014
Unlooped-Kino, Manifesta 10, St. Petersburg (RU)
Rideaux curated by Marie de Brugerolle, Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne (FR)
Clear curated by Aaron Moulton, Gagosian, Los Angeles, (US)
Langue de Oiseaux et Coq a Lane curated by Marion Daniel, Frac Bretagne (FR)
Le Rire curated by Leo Guy-Denarcy, Centre d’Art Contemporain du Pays de Lorient, Lorient (FR)
All that Falls curated by Gérard Wajcman and Marie de Brugerolle, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (FR)
Véritable Prélude de Flasques (pour un chien) curated by Marie Frampier, Maison Populair, Montreiul (FR)

2013
Satellite 6: Suite pour Exposition(s) et Publication(s) curated by Mathieu Copeland, Jeu de Paume, Paris (FR)
L’image dans le Tapis curated by Olivier Michelon, Les Ateliers des Arques, Les Arques (FR)
Secret Codes curated by Augustin Perez Rubio, Galeria Luisa Strina, Saõ Paolo (BR)
Goodbyehello, Sammlung Lenikus, Vienna (AT)
LA Existancial curated by Marie de Brugerolle, LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), Los Angeles (US)
It’s When It’s Gone That You Really Notice It, Simone Subal Gallery, New York (US)
Domino – Domino Bis curated by Martin Michard, Église des Cordeliers, Gourdon (FR)

2012
Parallelwelt Zirkus, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (AT)
The Poster Show, Galerie Carlier-Gebauer, Berlin (DE)

2011
Partenaires Particulieres, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch (FR)
Making and Art, Stadtgalerie Schwaz, Schwaz (AT)
Mirages, Fountains and Dissociative Composition, Galerie Catherine Bastide, Brussels (BE)
“a painting show”, Autocenter, Berlin (DE)
Terminal Jest, Articulture Biennial Arts Festival, DCCC, Delaware (US)
One is the Loneliest Number…, ICA Philadelphia, Philadelphia (US)

2010
Monsieur Miroir curated by Émile Renard, 12e Prix Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Fondation d’entreprise Ricard, Paris (FR)
Printemps de Septembre curated by Éric Mangion, Toulouse (FR)
Playing the City II, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (DE)
“Mike, Alec or Rufus?” (“Tom, Dick or Harry”), Layr Wuestenhagen, Vienna (AT)
Solace, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York (US)

2009
Treasures for Theatre, La Ferme du Buisson, Paris (FR)

2008
Ne Pas Jouer avec les Choses Mortes, Villa Arson, Nice (FR)
Comme des Bêtes, Musée des Beaux Artes, Lausanne (CH)
Anthology, Otero Plassart Gallery, Los Angeles (US)
Festival a/d Werf, Utrecht (NL)
La Seconde est Partie la Première, Musée du Jeu de Paume, Paris (FR)
SOME THING ELSE curated by Simone Subal, Peter Blum Gallery, New York (US)
SIGNALS, OCMA (Orange County Museum of Art), Newport Beach (US)
Garage Sale, Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt (DE)

2007
PAWNSHOP curated by Anton Vidokle, E-Flux, New York (US)
Dangling Man, Office Baroque Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
A Point in Space is a Place for an Argument, David Zwirner, New York (US)
Welcome to My World, Alexandre Pollazzon, Ltd., London (UK)

2006
Nice Art curated by Axel Huber, Lahr (DE)

2005
International Laundry, Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt (DE)

1999
Tri-Annuale: Part I, LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), Los Angeles (US)

Performances

2017
Paroles, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (FR)
Montevideo, Marseille (FR)
Slapdash, curated by Emile Ouromov in partnership with the Foundation Ricard, National Art Gallery of Sofia, Sofia (BG)

2016
Lengo, curated by Pier Paolo Pancotto, Villa Medici, Rome (IT)
Untitled (Signed), Second Home, London (UK)
Willy Nilly, curated by Gilles Baume, FRAC Le Plateau Ile de France (FR)
Billy, performance with Alan Fairbairn and Christophe Marand, curated by Gilles Baume, FRAC Le Plateau Ile de France (FR)
Untitled (Track), Simone Subal Gallery, New York (US)
Untitled (Lisp or Lapse), Emily Harvey Foundation, New York (US)

2015
Untitled (Fill), The Box, Los Angeles (US)
Night of Philosophy, curated by Meriam Kouichi, French Institute, New York (US)
Per4m, Artissima, Turin, curated by Chris Sharp, Sophie Goltz, and Simone Menegoi (IT)
Parcours curated by Florence Dérieux, Art Basel, Basel (CH)
L Comme Litote, Do Disturb, Palais de Tokyo, Paris (FR)

2012
Exposição (with Helmut Batista and Amilcar Packer), Teatro Ipanema, Rio de Janeiro (BR)
Verbo curated by Julia Rodrigez, Galeria Vermelho, São Paolo (BR)
Weary Willie, Parallelwelt Zirkus, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (AT)
Bodies That Matter, Beursschouwburg, Brussels (BE)

2011
I was a male Yvonne de Carlo. Critical art can be sophisticated, even entertaining (with Jean-Pascal Flavien), MUSAC, León (ES)
Untitled (Wait), Art Contemporary, Los Angeles (US)
In dieser großen Zeit (with Alpar Fendu), GAK (Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst), Bremen (DE)
Fuß fassen, COCO (with Andreas Duscha), Vienna (AT)

2010
The Funniest Sculpture in the World, Monsieur Miroir, Fondation Ricard, Paris (FR)
The Funniest Sculpture in the World, CRAC Alsace, Alsace (FR)
Le Rire Jaune, Galerie Vallois, Paris (FR)
Stilleben, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (DE)

2009
“I”, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (AT)
“Plouf!” (with Jean-Pascal Flavien), Tate Modern, London (UK)
E’cart / Retard, La Ferme du Buisson, Paris (FR)

2008
Monologues for Minerals (with Giancarlo Vulcano), Festival a/d Werf, Utrecht (NL)
Monologues for Minerals (with Giancarlo Vulcano), Musée Départmental d’Art Contemporain de Rochechouart, Rochechouart (FR)
Monologues for Minerals (with Giancarlo Vulcano), IAC (Institut d’Art Contemporain), Villeurbanne (FR)
Monologues for Minerals (with Giancarlo Vulcano), Bétonsalon, Paris (FR)
Monologues for Minerals (with Giancarlo Vulcano), Parasol Unit, London (UK)
Monologues for Minerals (with Giancarlo Vulcano), Karriere Bar, Copenhagen (DK)

2006
Palme d’Or Television (with Lucas Ajemian, Mike Bouchet, Sebastien Clough, Christian Jankowski and Seth Williamson), Frankfurt Art Fair, Frankfurt (DE)

2005
Announcement (with Jean-Pascal Flavien, Giancarlo Vulcano and The Occasion Band), Confucius Square, New York (US)

2003
Space: A Lecture, Michelle Maccarone Gallery, New York (US)

2000
A Hidden Object (with Jean-Pascal Flavien), Independent Performance Space, Los Angeles (US)
Untitled (Whales) (with Jean-Pascal Flavien), Independent Performance Space, Los Angeles (US)

1999
Comfort Table (with Mike Bouchet), S.O.S. Gallery, Los Angeles (US)

Prizes / Scholarships

2015
Fondation des Arts Graphiques et Plastiques, Paris, France

2013
Résidence Atelier les Arques, France

2012
Peter S.Reed Foundation Artist’s Grant, Ohio
Capacete, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

2011
Artist’s Book, Paris, France

2010
Transfer. Mühlheim, Germany

2003-2005
Kahler Grant, Princeton University

2001-2005
Graduate School Summer Stipend for Research Abroad, Princeton University

1999
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions

1994
Foundation for Art Resources, Los Angeles

1993
Visual Arts Department Award, UCLA

1991-1994
National Merit Scholarship

Public Collections

Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
FNAC, Paris, France
Artotheque du Lot, Cahors, France
Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria
Serralves Foundation, Porto, Portugal
Frac Ile-de-France, Paris, France
Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France

Press

2017
“L’exposition sibylline de Julien Bismuth”, Ouest France, June 28, 2017
Anne Ellegood, “Looking Forward: Anne Ellegood”, Frieze, April 21, print

2015
Sharon Mizota, “Julien Bismuth Tinkers with the DNA of his Images at The Box”, Los Angeles Times, October 16

2014
Martha Schwendener, “Julien Bismuth: ‘An image as the _____ of a surface’”, The New York Times, January 16, print
Andrew Russeth, “‘Julien Bismuth: An image as the _____ of a surface’ at Simone Subal Gallery”, January 29, print
Courtney Fiske, “Julien Bismuth”, Artforum.com, January 29
“Julien Bismuth at Simone Subal”, Art in America, January 30
“Julien Bismuth, ‘An image as the _____ of a surface’”, Time Out New York, January 23
“An image as the _____ of a surface, Julien Bismuth”, Cura Magazine, January, online

2013
Le Signe singe, in Les inrockuptibles, n° 907, du 17 au 24 avril, p.102
Roxana Azimi, La performance, une nouvelle Experienz, in Quotidien de lʼArt, n°361, April 17, pp. 8-9

2012
Anna Soucek, Ö1 online, May 3
Katharina Fessler, Der Standard, September 21
Silas Marti, Folha de Sao Paulo, October 2

2011
Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Julien Bismuth. The Golden Ass, in Art Review, n°48, March, p. 131 (ill.)
Judith Souriau, Julien Bismuth in conversation with Judith Souriau, www.residencyunlimited.org, April
Stefan Tasch, The Gap, Termine Galerien, April
Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Julien Bismuth: The Golden Ass, The Box Los Angeles, ArtReview, Febuary 22
Julien Bismuth at GAK Bremen, artnews.org, October 3

2010
Lindsay Pollock, Katya Kazakina, Bloomberg.com, Fowlerʼs $7000 geometrics pump collectors at N.Y.
Armory Show, March
Eva Komarek, Wirtschaftsblatt.at, Armory show: Am Hudson klingeln wieder dien Kassen, March
Jordan Galloway, New York press, The Art! It Speaks!, February (ill.)
Willa Paskin, BlackBook, « Artists Lucas Ajemian and Julien Bismuth think itʼs time you redecorated your kitchen », 26 February (ill.)
Emmanuelle Lequeux, Beaux-Arts Magazine, De la performance à lʼexposition, n°307, January, p. 135 (ill.)
Mathilde Villeneuve, Mouvement, Performance de la trace, January

2009
Timothée Chaillou, Technikart, Julien Bismuth / Jean-Pascal Flavien, n°hors-série Art contemporain, Autumn, p. 50 (ill.) Patrice Joly, 02
online, Week-end de performances à la Tate modern, February
Jen Schwarting, The Brooklyn Rail, Lucas Ajemian and Julien Bismuth: Les Lettres Tristes, February (ill.)

2008
Manisha Jothady, Die Presse, Galerien in Wien: Als die Dinge sprechen lernten, March 12 2007
Marie de Brugerolle, Flash Art, Next to performance, # 257, Nov-Dec, pp. 88-90
Roberta Smith, The New York Times, A Point in Space is a Place for an Argument, July 20
Christoph Schütte, Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Scheitern als Chance; Julien Bismuth in der Galerie Parisa Kind, June 20, p. 462006
Santiago Espinosa de los Monteros, Art Nexus, november ns, Made 05, The Lost Word, # 17, February
Léa Bismuth, www.paris-art.com, Julien Bismuth, Marchand dʻoubli, 10 nov. ns, Made 05, “The Lost Word”, # 17, February

Publications

2016
“The real world of hoists and holes,” Jason Rhoades: PeaRoeFoam, David Zqirner Books
“Gus the polar bear,” Memoire Universelle, edited by Beatrice Grosse and Benoit Bethune

2013
Pages, Motto Distribution, Berlin
Julien Bismuth, A cover to cover, Motto Destribution, Berlin
Devonian Press, Musée des Abattoirs, Toulouse
Drawing by design: on a recent exhibition of works by Toba Khedoori, published by David Zwirner Gallery

2012
“I was a male Yvonne de Carlo,” exhibition catalog, edited by Marie de Brugerolle and Dora Garcia, MUSAC, Léon, Spain
XOXO, Sabine Müller (Ed.), Royal Collage of Art, London
Fragmentation 04, Artist’s book insert, curated by Necmi Sönmez, edited by Mine Haydaroğlu, published in Sanat Dünyamiz, Issue 131
The Circus as Parallel Universe, exhibition catalog, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna

2010
Monsieur Miroir, 12e Prix Fondation dʼentreprise Ricard, commissaire: Émilie Renard, Editions Fondation dʼentreprise Ricard, Paris
Une Forme pour toute action, Le Printemps de Septembre Toulouse, France Ne pas jouer avec des choses mortes, catalogue dʼexposition, Villa Arson, Nice, Ed. Les Presses du réel
Julien Bismuth, a conversation with Sophie Kaplan, Journal de lʼexposition Mind The Gap, CRAC Alsace, Altkirch, France

2008
Comme des bêtes, Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, 5 Continents Editions, Milan

2004
Nuit Blanche 2004, (textes) Ami Barak et Fanny Etienne, éd. Paris Musées, pp. 26, 60

Articles by the Artist

2012
Artist’s Annual, « Toba Khedoori », « Tony Conrad », « Matt Mullican »,Paris
Drawing by design: on a recent exhibition of works by Toba Khedoori, Toba Khedoori, David Zwirner Gallery

2010
The error in the landscape, Devonian Press
Portrait de lʼartiste en jeune objet, in cat. exp. Ne pas jouer avec des choses mortes,
Villa Arson, Nice, Ed. Les Presses du réel, pp. 92-94

2008
Monologues for Minerals, Devonian Press, Rio de Janeiro
LʼÉléphant de Troie, in cat. exp. Virginie Yassef. La seconde est partie la première, Ed. Jeu de Paume, Paris, pp. 41-49

2006
Mike Bouchet : Celebrity Artist, Der Soziographische Blick, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck
« … », Devonian Press, Rio de Janeiro
Christopher Williams : Eighteen Lessons., Parachute, Vol. 120, printemps
Staged Cryptographies, Guy de Cointet : a retrospective, Ed. Marie de Brugerolle. Presses du Réel, Dijon
Starts and Stops (en collaboration avec Jean-Pascal Flavien), Devonian Press, Rio de Janeiro
No Drama House (en collaboration avec Jean-Pascal Flavien), Devonian Press, Rio de Janeiro
Announcement (en collaboration avec Jean-Pascal Flavien et Giancarlo Vulcano), Devonian Press, Rio de Janeiro
Flotsam and Jetsam. Devonian Press, Rio de Janeiro

2005
John Baldessari, Beaux-Arts Magazine, no. 256, October
The Paintings of Richard Jackson, Richard Jackson, Nye House Editions, New York
Steve Mc Queen, Parachute, vol. 119, automne
A Hold!, Devonian Press, Rio de Janeiro
The world before time, (en collaboration avec Jean-Pascal Flavien), Devonian Press, Rio de Janeiro The time before the world (en collaboration avec Jean-Pascal Flavien), Devonian Press, Rio de Janeiro

2004
Untitled (Five Easy Pieces), catalogue, Palme DʼOr, New York
Whoʼs that Guy?, Parachute, vol. 117, automne

2003
Tract, revista MU, vol.5
Buoy Script, Third Street, vol.10
The Interrupted Hunt : Danteʼs On the Eloquence of the Vernacular », Ampersand vol. 1

2001
Costner Complex, in Costner Complex: an exhibition by Jason Rhoades, Portikus, Frankfurt