John Tremblay
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Born in 1966, Boston Lives and works in New York, NY
Solo exhibitions 1994 Silver, Stand Ecart, Art Basel 25'94, Basel, cat. 1995 Targets, Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland 1996 Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, USA 1997 Galerie Jousse-Seguin, Paris, France 1998 Sandra Gering Gallery, John Tremblay, New York, USA 1999 The entire Movie/Quickest way to the airport, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, USA 1999 Possible Utopias, Galerie Jousse-Seguin, Paris, France 2000 Magma, Reali Arte Contemporanea, Brescia, Italy 2000 Hello Professor!, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, USA 2001 Natural Wonders, Galerie Francesca Pia, Bern, Switzerland, with Lisa Beck 2002 Sixteen Corners, Galerie Francesca Pia, Bern, Switzerland 2003 John Tremblay, Paula Cooper, New York, USA 2003 John Tremblay, Galerie Heimer und Partner, Berlin, Germany 2004 John Tremblay, Nouvelle Galerie, Grenoble, France 2004 John Tremblay Video Retrospective, Velan Center For Contemporary Art, Turin, Italy 2004 Surrounding, Galerie Francesca Pia, Bern, Switzerland 2005 John Tremblay, Paula Cooper, New York, USA 2005 John Tremblay, Mario Diacono Gallery at Ars Libri, Boston, USA 2007 John Tremblay, Paik Hae Young Gallery, Seoul, South Korea 2007 Purple words on a grey background, John Tremblay, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France 2008 John Tremblay, Paula Cooper, New York, USA 2008 Centre d’Art la Chapelle Jeanne d’Arc, Thouars, France 2008 Centre d’Art la Chapelle Jeanne d’Arc, Musée Henri Barré, Château d’Oiron, Oiron, France
Group exhibitions 1994 The Fall Collection, Andrea Rosen Gallery, assembled by Bob Nickas and John Tremblay 1994 The Fall Collection, Thomas Solomon Garage, Los Angeles 1995 Pittura/Immedia, Muesarnok, Budapest, Hungary 1995 Notes on print: With and after Robert Morris, Cabinet des Estampes, Geneva, cat. 1996 Drawings, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York 1996 Abfab, Feature, New York 1997 Des Histoires en Formes, Magasin, Grenoble, cat. 1998 Look me in the eyes, Galerie Van Gelder, Amsterdam, Netherlands 1998 Oops, Le Magasin, Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble, cat. 1998 Painting, Stalke Galleri Copenhagen 1998 Oops l'élac, l'espace lausannois d'art contemporain, Lausanne, Switzerland, cat. 1998 Bathroom, Thomas Healy Gallery, New York, curated by Wayne Koestenbaum 1999 trans. sphere, FRAC Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême, France 1999 Camouflage, Galerie Ivo Lambert, Paris, curated by Toasting Agency 2000 Hex Induction Hour, Team Gallery, New York, curated by Bob Nickas 2001 The Unlimited Dream Company, l´Elac, Lausanne, Switserland 2001 Lisa Beck and John Tremblay: Natural Wonders, Galerie Francesca Pia, Bern 2002 Flash Two: JRP Editions, Chouakri Brahms, Berlin, Germany 2002 From the Observatory, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York 2002 Machine Man, John Connelly Presents, New York 2002 Spot the differences, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam 2003 My People Were Fair and Had Cum in their Hair (but Now They're Content to Spray Stars from your Boughs), Team Gallery, New York, U.S.A., curator Bob Nickas, 2003 Melvins, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, U.S.A. 2003 Specificity, Riva Gallery, New York, U.S.A., curator Odili Donald Odita 2003 JRP editions, Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid, Spain 2003 Surrealestate, Fleishmann's in association with Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York, U.S.A., curator Rob Pruitt and Jonathan Horowitz 2003 Les 20 ans des FRAC, Chateau des Ducs de Bretagne, Nantes, France 2003 Gallery M, 3-2-1 (with John Miller and Richard Hoecke), New York, U.S.A., curator Cara Perlman 2003 Never Mind Your Step, Kunsthalle Palazzo Liestal, Liestal/Basel, Switzerland, curator John Armleder, 2003 Mouvements de Fonds, MAC/Galeries Contemporaines des Musées de Marseille, Marseille, France 2004 Surrounding, Galerie Francesca Pia, Bern, Switzerland 2004 La partie continue2, Le Crédac: Centre d'Art d'Ivry, Ivry sur Seine, France 2004 None of the above, Swiss Institute, New York, U.S.A., curator John Armleder, 2004 La Lettre Volée, FRAC Franche-Comté, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Dole, Dole, cat. 2004 Minimalism and After III, DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany, cat. 2004 Curious Crystals of Unusual Purity, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY, U.S.A. 2005 Life On The Screen, Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, organised by Vincent Pécoil, Brussels, Belgium, cat. 2005 Minimal Pop, organized by Petra Bungert, Galerie Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris, France 2005 L'oeil Moteur, Art Optique et Cinetique/1950-1975, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain de Strasbourg, France 2005 Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York, U.S.A. 2005 Biennale d'Art Contemporain de Lyon 2005, Lyon, France 2005 Performa 05, Performa, New York, U.S.A. 2005 Winterly cold/Winterkou, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam 2006 I go out walking…, Kunsthaus Baselland and Centre d’Art d’Ivry le Credac, Muttenz/Ivry sur Seine, Switzerland 2006 Slow Burn, Galerie Edward Mitterand, Geneva, Switzerland, curator Jonah Freeman 2006 Onestar Stop, Galerie Erna Hécey, Brussels, Belgium 2006 An Ongoing Low-Grade Mystery, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, U.S.A., curated by Bob Nickas 2006 Black/white & chewing gum, Galerie Krobath Wimmer, Vienna, Austria, curated by Gerold Miller 2006 Regarding facts, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam 2006 The Painted World, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island, U.S.A. 2007 Half square, half crazy, Villa Arson, Nice, France 2007 Painting as Fact - Fact as Fiction, De Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich, Switzerland 2007 What we do is secret, Galerie Blancpain-Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland 2007 The Freak Show, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Lyon, France 2007 Introvert, Extrovert, Makes no Difference, Galerie Catherine Issert, Saint-Paul de Vence, France 2007 L'Elac: Best of Art and Design, ECAL/École Cantonale d´Art de Lausanne, Renens, Switzerland 2007 Black Noise, A Tribute to Steven Parrino, MAMCO/Musée d´Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland 2007 Multimimetica, MAMCO/Musée d´Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland 2007 New York Is Dead Dot Biz, Wu-Tang/Googolplex Show, New York, USA 2007 Lines, Texas Gallery, Houston, USA 2007 The Melvins, The Mandrake, Los Angeles, USA, curated by Bob Nickas 2007 Compulsive, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France 2008 Black Noise/Exit Dark Matter, CNEAI/Centre National de l'Estampe et de l'Art Imprimé, Chatou, France 2008 The Other Side, 58 Gallery, Jersey City, NJ, U.S.A. 2008 Deformalismes, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Berlin, Germany 2008 Clinch / Cross / Cut, Team 404 & John Armleder, New Jerseyy, Basel, Switzerland 2008 You said hesaid she said, Seiler + Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland 2009 Portrait of the artist as biker, portrait of Olivier Mosset, Le Magasin, Grenoble, Switzerland 2009 N´importe quoi, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Lyon, France 2009 Born to Be Wild Hommage an Steven Parrino, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland 2009 I Am By Birth A Genevese, Vegas Gallery, London, England 2009 Chasing Napoleon, Palis de Tokyo, Paris, France 2010 Portrait de l’ártiste en motocycliste, Musée des Beaux-arts, Ville de La Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
Selected bibliography 1994 John Tremblay, Lionel Bovier & Christophe Cherix, Geneva, published on the occasion of 'Silver' in Ecart/Art 25, Basel 1995 Notes on Print (exh. catalogue), published for the show at Cabinet des Estampes, Geneva 1997 Issues of Abstraction, Michael Brennan, ArtNet, www.artnet.com 1998 Documents sur l'Art, Fabrice Stroun, Stoboscope, no. 11, p. 5 1998 Art Guide, Ken Johnson, New York Times, Friday, March 11 1998 John Tremblay at Sandra Gering Gallery, Bruce Hainley, Frieze, Sept-Oct., pp. 86-87 1999 Painter's Journal, Michael Brennan, ArtNet, www.artnet.com 1999 Le perone fanno quadri per provare che esistono, Robert Nickas, Tema Celeste, March-April, pp. 66-73 2002 Verschillen zoeken, Tubelight 23, Jaap Vinken en Martine van Kampen, p. 11
