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  • i: Ronnie Bass
  • l: <div style="margin-top:-3px; margin-left:14px;"> Born in Hurst, Texas, 1976<br/> MFA, Columbia University, New York, New York, 2006<br/> BFA, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas, 2003<br/> Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York<br/> </div>

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2012

The Band of the Family of the Bell: Ronnie Bass, Gilad Ratman & Carmel Michaeli, Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel

Ronnie Bass, Marginal Utility, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2011

Victor School, I-20 Gallery, New York, NY

2010

Ronnie Bass & Anna Tanner, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland

2009

The Astronomer, Part 1: Departure From Shed, Marginal Utility, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

Art Forum Berlin, Germany.

2008

2012, I-20 Gallery, New York, New York.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2012

Common Love, Aesthetics of Becoming, Wallach Gallery, New York, New York

PBS Art21 Telethon, co-host and co-organizer, New York, New York

EPIC, screening curated by Max Razdow, Art Cinema OFFOff, Ghent, Belgium

2011

Blowing on a Hairy Shoulder/Grief Hunters, Curated by Doron Rabina, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

December Store, .NO, New York, New York

EPIC, screening curated by Max Razdow, The Monty, Antwerp, Belgium and AnySpace Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

Bass, Hartung and Sagri; Window Promos, Washington Square Windows, 80WSE Galleries, New York University, New York, New York

Common Love, Aesthetics of Becoming, The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, New York

What is the Political, Museums of Bat Yam, Bat Yam, Israel

Lost in Translation, Jens Fehring Gallery, Frankfurt, Germany.

2010

TBA:10, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon

Note, John and June Allcott Gallery, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

One and Three Quarters of an Inch, Curated by Peter Clough, St. Cecilia’s Parish, Brooklyn, New York

The Morning Exciting, Montserrat Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

The Perseids, Curated by Kari Adelaide and Sörine Anderson, The Custer Observatory, Southold, New York

9th Korea Experimental Arts Festival, Seoul Art Space, Seoul, Korea

NIGHT SCHOOL, Weltenbuerger Art Space, Los Angeles, California

BITT Festival for the Arts, Artrang Gallery, Seoul, Korea

Gandalf Gavan; Teaching A Chicken How To Fly III, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York, New York

Seven Easy Steps: TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS, video series curated by Amanda Schmitt, Horton Gallery, New York, New York

2009

The Survival Group, 2°37E, 48°86N, Ars Longa, Paris, France

PRETHUNDERDOME, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, Missouri

Seven Easy Steps, video series curated by Amanda Schmitt, Horton & Liu, New York, New York

Art Scout One: Aktuelle Kunst in Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany

Beyond Guilt, curated by Boaz Arad and Doron Rabina, Tina B. The Prauge Contemporary Art Festival, Prague, Czech Republic

The Fuzzy Set, screening curated by Pilar Conde, LA><ART, Los Angeles, California

Exhibition intervention, Exhibition, New York, New York

Mike Smith at The Building, screening organized by Michael Smith, The Building (e-flux), Berlin, Germany.

White Noise, James Cohan Gallery, New York, New York.

Spacial Propositions, curated by Gandalf Gavan, Fundacion Patiño, Santa Cruz, Bolivia.

Time Out of Joint – Recall and Evocation in Recent Art.  Whitney ISP Curatorial Exhibition, The Kitchen, New York, New York.

no comedy – no tragedy, no encore – no applause, screening curated by Bob Nickas, Light Industry, Brooklyn, New York.

Time Pyramid, screening curated by Mariah Robertson and Ana Wolovick, Guild and Greyshkul, New York, New York.

Keeper of Light, Sandroni Rey, Los Angeles, California.

2008

Video Zone, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel.

The Crack Up, Khastoo Gallery, Los Angeles, California.

Ei Arakawa; Untitled Rehearsals and Performances, New Museum, New York, New York.

Yes, curated by Tairone Bastien, A R Contemporary Gallery, Milan, Italy.

Friendly’s, screening curated by Tommy Hartung, CRG Gallery, New York, New York.

Nobody’s Girl, screening curated by Brendan Harman, Anthology Film Archives, New York, New York.

Species of Spaces and Other Places, screening curated by Sari Carel, Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, New York, New York, & Arnolfini Museum, Bristol, England.

Deep in the Heart of Southie, LaMontagne Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts.

Moab Video Project, Television broadcast organized by Christy Gast, Moab, Utah.

The Audacity of Desperation, curated by Eric Eric Anglès, PS 122, New York, New York.

Specter, screening curated by Summer Guthery, CRG Gallery, New York, New York.

Decameron, screening curated by Yasue Maetake, CRG Gallery, New York, New York.

2007

Performa 07 – The Second Biennial of New Visual Art Performance, New York, New York.

NIEMALS SCHEITERN!, Galerie Jette Rudolph, Berlin, Germany.

Evas Arche Und Der Feminist, Passerby (Gavin Brown Enterprise), New York, New York.

Mark Briggs Presents: Doctor Hoffman pisses lightning. The Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland.

Carte Blanche, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, New York.

Our Land is Our Land, With Guest Artist Ronnie Bass, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington.

Analogous Logic, Temporary Storage, Brooklyn, New York.

Lone Star Video, Center for Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel.

2006

Bunch Alliance and Dissolve, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio.

I’m not here. This isn’t happening, Grimm|Rosenfeld, New York, New York.

Salad Days – Second Course, Artists Space, New York, New York.

Ronnie Bass – Shorts Maker and the Making of, Sunday, New York, New York.

Dead Serious, Leroy Neimen Gallery, Columbia University, New York, New York.

North Drive Press – The Movie, The Kitchen, New York, New York.

IMMATERIAL INFLUENCE, Third Avenue, Brooklyn, New York.

Goods To Declare – MFA International, Bezalel Academy, Tel Aviv, Israel.

The Manhattan Project, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, Florida.

Building Characters, UNT Artspace Fort Worth, Forth Worth, Texas.

Unmodern Observations, South First Gallery, Brooklyn, New York.

Copilandia, Centro de Arte de Sevilla, Sevilla, Spain.

2005

Greater New York, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York.

Six Laws of Motion, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, New York.

In A Series, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, New York.

New Labor, Leroy Neimen Gallery, Columbia University, New York, New York.

What’s Behind What’s Going On, UTSA Satellite Space, San Antonio, Texas.

2004

Do Exactly As We Do Any Way You Do, UTSA Satellite Space, San Antonio, Texas.

2003

Voertman Show, University of North Texas Art Gallery, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas.

2001

Voertman Show, University of North Texas, Art Gallery, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas.

2000

Expo 2000, Gallery 500x, Dallas, Texas.

1999

Space Boot (performance), Hasting’s Books, Denton, Texas.

A Cry in the Night; Rick Schroeder Autograph Signing (performance), University of North Texas, Denton, Texas.

1997

Painting Exhibition, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas

MUSICAL COMPOSITIONS/PERFORMANCES

2011

The Astronomer with German Pop Singer Gandalf Gavan, Opening performance for Common Love, Aesthetics of Becoming, The Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York, New York

Professor Eilers, MoMA P.S.1, Long Island City, New York

2010

Drum Machine, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, Oregon

Dirty Mirrors (Jon Kessler, Jon Miller, Aura Rosenberg & Dan Walworth) with guests Debo Eilers and Ronnie Bass & Gandalf Gavan, Tower Records, New York, New York

2009

The Astronomer Celebratory Concert with Gandalf Gavan, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, Missouri and at Marginal Utility, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2008

Two Songs, musical accompaniment for Georgia Sagri, Untitled; This Is What’s About To Happen, Brooklyn, New York.

Assisted in the musical score for Pop Ark by Noah Fischer in collaboration with Prem Makeig and Gregoire Paultre, Steirischer Herbst Festival, Graz, Austria & De Internationale Keuze van de Rotterdamse Schouwburg, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

As YNG BASS with Nic Xedro, composed the music accompaniment for a performance of “It’s Our Pleasure To Serve You”, part of Kerstin Brätsch, Adele Röder, Urania Fasoulidou: When You See Me Again It Won’t Be Me, Smith-Stewart, New York, New York.

2005

Composed musical score for Rirkrit Tiravanija’s Hugo Boss Prize Exhibition, Tomorrow is Another Fine Day, Serpentine Gallery, London, England.

2003

Intermedia Concert, Merrill Ellis Intermedia Theater, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas

2002

Intermedia Concert, Merrill Ellis Intermedia Theater, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas.

2001

The Identifier (hip-hop performance), Dan’s Bar, Denton, Texas.

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2012

With Tommy Hartung and the Art21 staff, organized the PBS Art21 Telethon, New York, New York

2007

Organizer/curator, “Performa TV,” of Performa ’07, New York, New York.

Guest curator, “Artist’ Cinema,” Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington.

Guest curator, “Carte Blanche,” Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, New York.

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2011

Muse, John. “Blowing on a Hairy Shoulder / Grief Hunters” Pastelegram, October 2011

Ravich, Nick. “Chess masters Ronnie Bass, Georgia Sagri, & Tommy Hartung” Art21 New York Close Up (blog), October

2010

Raxdow, Max. “Ronnie Bass, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art” ArtUS, November 2010: 100

Adams, Anne. “TTFN, TBA!” Portland Monthly Magazine, September 2010 http://www.portlandmonthlymag.com/blogs/culturephile-portland-arts/ttfn-tba/

Wulff, June. “Back to the future” The Boston Globe, October 2010

Adams, Anne. “TTFN, TBA!” Portland Monthly Magazine, September 2010

Bui, Phong. “Gandalf Gavan with Phong Bui,” The Brooklyn Rail, May 2010 http://www.brooklynrail.org/2010/05/art/gandalf-gavan-with-phong-bui

Kukuljevic, Alexi. “A Little Reassurance in Barbaric Times…” Machete (January 2010): 4.

Fassi, Gallun, and Schillinger. Time Out of Joint, Recall and Evocation in Recent Art, Yale University Press. (cat.)

2009

Katz, Miriam. “500 Words: Ronnie Bass,” Artforum Online, December 2009 http://artforum.com/words/id=24375

Mohammad, Arsalan. “Art Forum Berlin Reinvents Itself,” ARTINFO, October 1, 2009 http://205.234.169.45/news/story/32790/art-forum-berlin-reinvents-itself/?page=2

Rosof, Libby. “2009, A Space Odyssey – Ronnie Bass at Marginal Utility,” The Artblog, November 8, 2009. http://theartblog.org/2009/11/2009-a-space-odyssey-ronnie-bass-at-marginal-utility/

Fallon, Roberta. “PW’s Guide to First Friday,” Philadelphia Weekly Online, November 3, 2009. http://www.philadelphiaweekly.com/arts-and-culture/art/PWs-Guide-to-First-Friday-November.html

Reddy, Sameer. “The Moment: Berlin Art Fairs / German Expressionism,” New York Times Online, September 30, 2009. http://themoment.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/30/berlin-art-fairs-german-expressionism/?scp=1&sq=art%20forum%20berlin&st=cse

Licht, Alan. “White Noise.” James Cohen Gallery Artforum (October 2009): 236

2008

Velasco, David.  “Ronnie Bass.”  Artforum (December 2008): 305.

Busta, Caroline.  “2008 On the Ground: New York.” Artforum (December 2008): 216.

Coburn,Tyler.  “Ronnie Bass at I-20.”  The Highlights (December 2008) http://thehighlights.org/wp/?p=462

Johnson, Ken.  “Ronnie Bass: 2012.”  New York Times (October 17, 2008).

Reverend Jen.  “Diary of an Art Star.”  Artnet.com (September 10, 2008) http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/jen/jen9-10-08.asp

2007

Kelsey, John.  “Best of 2007,” Artforum (December 2007).

Herold, Thea. “Work Heroes Never Fail”, Berliner Zeitung (August 8, 2007).

Woeller, Marcus. “Motivation Slogans on Material” Taz: Die Tageszeitung (August 6, 2007).

“Art Picks; Ronnie Bass,” The Stranger (February 18, 2007).

2006

“Art Listings; I’m not here. This isn’t happening”, The New York Times (July 14, 2006).

Allen, Stacey. “Ronnie Bass,” Artists Space Salad Days – Second Course (cat.).

Roberts, Bryony “Art in the City; Rebels Then and Now” The L Magazine (June 7, 2006).

“Goings On About Town; Art” The New Yorker (March 6, 2006).

2005

Kessler, Sarah. “Ronnie Bass” P.S.1 Greater New York 2005 (cat.): 230.

Haber, John. “The New New Image; Greater New York 2005” Haber’s Art Reviews http://www.haberarts.com/greatny2.htm.

2000

Breeding,Lucinda. “Astronaut’s book signing fizzles.” Denton Record-Chronicle (July 12, 2000): 1A, 13A.

AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS

2005

Hartley du Pont Award, Columbia University School of the Arts, New York, New York.

Departmental Research Assistant of the Digital Media Center, Columbia University School of the Arts, New York, New York.

2003

Jesus Moroles Award for Sculpture, University of North Texas School of Visual Arts, Denton, Texas.

2001

Jesus Moroles Award for Sculpture, University of North Texas School of Visual Arts, Denton, Texas.

2000

Award for Sculpture, Expo 2000, 500x Gallery, Dallas, Texas.

1997

Award for painting, UNT Student Exhibition, University of North Texas School of Visual Arts, Denton, Texas.

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