Alexandre Singh born Bordeaux, France 1980
Lives and works New York, USA

Education:

- 2006: Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME
- 2003/2005: School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
- 1998/2001: Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford University, UK


Solo Exhibitions:

2010:
-The School for Objects & The School for Objects Criticized, Monitor Gallery, Rome, ITALY

2009:
-3 Lectures + 1 Story = 4 Evenings: Performa Biennial 09, White Columns, New York
-Assembly Instructions (Tangential Logick), Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York, NY

2008:
- Assembly Instructions, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
-The Marque of the Third Stripe, Monitor Gallery, Rome, ITALY
-Hello Meth Lab in the Sun, Alexandre Singh & Justin Lowe & Jonah Freeman in collaboration, Ballroom, Marfa, TX
-UNCLEHEAD, Alexandre Singh & Rita Sobral Campos in collaboration, Museu da Electricidade, Lisbon, PORTUGAL

2007:
- The Marque of the Third Stripe, White Room, White Columns, New York, NY


Group Exhibitions:

2010:
- Manifesta 8, European Biennial for Contemporary Art, Region of Murcia, SPAIN
-Free, New Museum, New York, NYLimoncello Gallery, London, UK
- Seven Little Mistakes, Marino Marini Musuem, Florence, ITALY
-Fax Para/Site Art Space, HONG KONG
-Fax, Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, CANADA
-Fax, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA

2009:
-100 Years (version #2), PS1-MoMA, Queens, NY
-Fax, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, MD
-NO SOUL FOR SALE, Rhizome at the New Museum, X-Initiative, NY
-The Columns held Us Up, the invited (cordially uninvited), Artists Space, New York, NY
-À corps et à textes, La Galerie, Noisy-le-sec, Paris, FRANCE
-Unaddressed Circumventions: Folds from a Failed Suicide, Golden Grasshopper, New York, NY
-Breathless, Vienna Market Hall, Vienna, AUSTRIA
-Exhibition, 211 Elizabeth St, New York, NY
-Just in the Dark, Archeaological site Mercati de Traiano, Rome, ITALY
-Fax, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
-Whose Territorial Imperative?, The Guild, New York, NY

2008:
- Cut The Cord! From Up Here Everything Makes Sense!, Okay Mountain, Austin, TX (curator Erick Michaud)
- Art cannot be untaught, La Rada, Locarno, SWITZERLAND (curator Caterina Riva)
- Of This Tale I Cannot Guarantee A Single Word, Curating Contemporary Art Degree Show, The Royal College of Art, London, UK <catalogue>
- A new high in getting low II, John Connelly Presents, New York, NY

2007:
- A new high in getting low, artnews projects, Berlin, GERMANY (curator John Connelly)
- Inaugural Group Show, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, NY
- The Singer Sucks, But The Band...Finding The Good In An Otherwise Dismal World Sunday, New York, NY (curator Erick Michaud)
- EAST International 17, Norwich Gallery, Norwich, UK <catalogue> (selectors Matthew Higgs & Marc Camille Chaimowicz)
- 9 or 10 works that I used to like..., Monitor Gallery, Rome, ITALY <catalogue> (curator Luca Lo Pinto)
- The First Antechamber, Projects Arts Center, Dublin, IRELAND (curator Tessa Giblin)
- Temporary Measures, Associates, London UK <catalogue> (curators Andrew Bonacina & Rebecca May Marston.)
- Artists Self Portraits as Porn-stars, Zing Magazine, Circus of Books, LA, CA (curator Omar Lopez-Chahoud)

2006:
- '25X'25 Cereal Art Project Room, Philadelphia, PA (curators Amie Scally and Matthew Higgs)
- Alexandre Singh & Goody B Wiseman, Second Gallery, Boston, MA
- Benefit Show, White Columns, New York, NY
- Slow Burn, Galerie Edward Mitterand, Geneva, SWITZERLAND (curator Jonah Freeman)

2005:
- Open Walls, White Columns, New York, NY (curator Matthew Higgs)
- If You're Feeling Sinister, Alona Kagan, NY
- Justin Lowe - On the Beach, Printed Matter, New York, NY
- The Best: SVA MFA Thesis Show, Visual Arts Gallery, NY (curator Zach Feuer)
- Paper Deviations, The Proposition, New York, NY
- Tom Brauer & Alexandre Singh, Capsule Gallery, New York, NY

2004:
- Romantic Detachment, PS1 MoMA, Queens, NY (Grizedale Arts)
- New American Talent 19, Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, TX, Texas A&M Universtiy, TX (curator Jerry Saltz)
- Phillip: Divided by Lightning, Deitch Projects, Brooklyn, NY; with John Connelly Presents

2001:
- An Elephant Station, Vilma Gold, London, UK (curator Nathaniel Mellors)
- Ruskin Degree Show, Oxford University, Oxford, UK


Performances:

2010:
-Martin Kersels: Whitney Biennial, The Restored Symmetry (The Game Show), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
-(Alexandre Singh & Alex Cecchetti in collaboration)The Alkahest, Marino Marini Musuem, Florence, ITALY

2009:
-3 Lectures + 1 Story = 4 Evenings: Performa Biennial 09, White Columns, New York, NY
-Pierre Huyghe, Reto Pulfer, Alexandre Singh, Jack Strange, Ian Wilson. An Evening of Performances, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, UK
-The Columns held Us Up, The Invited (Cordially Uninvited), Artists Space, New York, NY
-Arts Writing Symposia Day 1: Who is this who is coming? Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
-À corps et à textes, La Galerie, Noisy-le-sec, Paris, FRANCE
-Performances@Renwick, Renwick Gallery, New York, NY

2008:
- Nada Art Fair, Miami, FL
-Assembly Instructions, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2006:
- Preromanbritain, M12, Berlin, GERMANY (as Preromanbritain)
- Wayward Canon16 - Lisa Kirk's Greatest Hits, London UK (as Preromanbritain)
- Coloring Book, An Interactive Project, PS-1 MoMa, Queens, NY (as Preromanbritain)

2004:
- Das Gold Party, Tung Wah Noodle Factory, Brooklyn, NY


Writing & Publications:

2010:
-Assembly Instructions (IKEA, Manzoni, Klein et al.) [transparencies], Assembly Instructions (IKEA, Manzoni, Klein et al.) [lecture notes], Art Lies, Issue 64, January 2010.

2009:
-Hello Methlab in the Sun (Jonah Freeman, Justin Lowe, Alexandre Singh), Liam Gillick, Alison de Lima Greene, David Hollander, Raimundas Malasauskas. Ballroom Marfa, TX
-The UNREADy Magazine, (with Alex Ceccheti), FRANCE, (edited by Alex Ceccheti)

2008:
-The Marque of the Third Stripe, Preromanbritain, NY & Monitor Gallery, ITALY
-Saluti da Roma, Manifesta 7, Rome, ITALY, (edited by Nero magazine)
-A Fine Red Line - A Curatorial Miscellany, IM Press, UK,
-The Happy Hypocrite, inaugural issue – Linguistic Hardcore, Bookworks, UK, (edited by Maria Fusco)


Grants:

Rema Hort Mann Visual Grant, New York, NY, 2009
-Arts Council of England Grant, East International, Norwich Art Gallery, Norwich, UK 2007


Bibliography:

2010:
-Honoré, Vincent. Canadian Art Magazine, Spring Issue, 2010Tikhonova, Yulia. Alexandre Singh, Flash Art, March-April 2010

2009:
-Postcard from London, Art Vehicle, www.artvehicle.com/postcard/42Momus, 800 Words with Alexandre Singh, Art in America.com, www.artinamericamagazine.com/news-opin­ion/conversations/2009-12-02/alexandre-singh/ December 2009Donovan, Thom. PERFORMA09—WEEK 2 ROUND-UP, bombsite.powweb.com/?p=6153Droitcour, Brian. Illuminated Manuscripts: Alexandre Singh’s “Assembly Instructions” rhizome.org/editorial/3045Alexandre Singh: Assembly Instructions (Ikea, Manzon, Klein, et al.), Art Lies, Issue 64, Winter 2009Top 100 Emerging Artists, Flash Art n.268, October 2009Frieze Art Fair Yearbook 2009-10, Frieze, 2009 Ribas, João. Fax, The Drawing Center/ Independent Curators International, 2009Bilsborough, Michael. Alexandre Singh schoolofvisualarts.edu/ce/blog/?p=386 July 2009Fassi, Luigi. Alexandre Singh, Mousse Magazine, Issue 20 Sep-Oct 2009 Cornell, Lauren & Gioni, Massimiliano & Hoptman, Laura. Younger than Jesus: Artist Directory, Phaidon, 2009 Mclean-Ferris, Laura. Alexandre Singh, Artist in Residence, artreview.com/profiles/blog/show?id=1474022%3ABlogPost%3A728921, April 2009 Dubois-Ziai, Yasmine. Alexandre Singh, Apartamento, Spring/Summer 2009 Cagol, Stefano Collicelli. What words don’t say, DOMUS, January 2009Del Vecchio, Gigiotto. Looking Back – Emerging Artists, Frieze, issue 120, Jan-Feb 2009

2008: Schwendener, Martha. Hello Meth Lab in the Sun, Artforum, September 2008 Sonnenborn, Katie. Hello Meth Lab in the Sun, Frieze, issue 117, September 2008 Hello Meth Lab in the Sun, Art Lies, issue 59, Fall 2008 Babcock, Jay. Hello Meth Lab in the Sun, Arthur Magazine, issue 31, September 2008 Barreca, Laura. Alexandre Singh, Flash Art Italia, June-July 2008 Bovino, Emily Verla. Alexandre Singh, Critics' Picks, Artforum.com, May 2008 Sneed, Gillian. Unclehead at Museu EDP, NY Arts Magazine, May to June 2008 Herbert, Martin. Looking Back - Emerging Artists, Frieze, issue 112, January 2008

2007:
- Pearson, Tony. East International, Modern Painters, p96-97, November 2007
- Herbert, Martin. East International 2007, Art Monthly, No. 309, p24-25, September 2007
- Coburn, Tyler. Artist Alexandre Singh and the Adidas Story, singh-and-adidas, July 2007
- Balla, Christopher. Alexandre Singh: White Room, fluentcollab.org/mbg, July 2007
- Stott, Tim. The First Antechamber, Circa Magazine, Summer 2007
- Clancy, Luke. Reviews, The First Antechamber, Art Review, Issue 12, June 2007

2006:
- McQuaid, Kate. Installment Plan, The Boston Globe, April 6, 2006

2005:
- Smith, Roberta. Even a Little Space Can Hold an Abundance of Ideas, The New York Times, November 25, 2005

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