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:

2011:
The Pledge, Monitor, Rome
The Pledge, art:concept, Paris
The School for Objects Criticized, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
The Dialogues of the Objects, Art Basel 42: Statements, Basel
Sprueth Magers, Berlin

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:

2011:
Fig.1:The encyclopedia of fictional Artists+The Addition, David Roberts Art Foundation Fitzrovia, london, UK
En Casa, La Casa Encendida, Madrid, SPAIN
Notes and Projects: A Journal and Exhibition, Hollybush Gardens, London, UK
The Third Sculpture, Straat van Sculpturen, Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS

2010:
Paying a Visit to Mary Part2, kunstverein, Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS
The Logic of Association, PS1-MoMA, Queens, NY
Fax, New Galerie, Paris, FRANCE
Bagna Cauda, Art:Concept, Paris, FRANCE
Acts are for Actors, Southfirst Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Voices from Silence — Truths Unveiled by Time, Opdahl Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Bold Tendencies IV, Peckham Rye MultiStory Car Park, London, UK
Dynasty, curated by Fabrice Hergott and Marc-Olivier Wahler, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris/Arc and the Palais the Tokyo, Paris
Arrivi e Partenze Europa, curated by Andrea Bruciati e Walter Gasperoni, Mole Vanvitelliana, Banchina da Chio, Ancona
Manifesta 8, European Biennial for Contemporary Art, Region of Murcia, SPAIN
Free, New Museum, New York, NY
Limoncello 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:

2011:
The Alkahest (part1), la Casa Encendida, Madrid, SPAIN
The Alkahest (part1), Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, NORWAY
The Alkahest (part1), Spruth Magers, Berlin, GERMANY

2010:
Assembly Instructions Lecture, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Alkahest (part1), Kunstverein, Amsterdam, NETHERLANDS
The Alkahest, Serpentine Gallery Pavillion, London, UK
Assembly Instructions (Tangential Logick, Tangential Magick), Manifesta 8
European Biennial for Contemporary Art, Region of Murcia, SPAIN
Assembly instructions (IKEA, Manzoni, Klein et al.), Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FRANCE
Knight's Move Performance Program, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York
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:

2011:
The Pledge (Alexandre Singh), Palais Magazine, issue #14, Paris, FRANCE
Pylone, Paris, FRANCE
The Dialogues of the Objects I-V (Alexandre Singh), booklet, Hollybush Gardens, London

2010:
Cabinet Magazine, 10th Anniversary Issue, dec.2010, Brooklyn, NY
Cover, Art:Review magazine, The Power 100issue, Nov.2010, London, UK
Encyclopedia of Fictional Artists+ The Addiion, JRP Ringier, Zurich, SWITZERLAND
PALAIS/magazine12, DYNASTY, summer 2010, Paris, FRANCE
INPUT Journal, Second Iteration, March 2010, New york, NY
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:

2011:
Bonnet, Frederic. Alexandre Singh: “J’aime créer une nouvelle réalité”, Le Journal des Art, 21 October 2011
Smilek, Alexandra. Alexandre Singh Assembly Instructions: The Pledge, paris-art.com, Sept.
van der Lint, Roos. Alexandre Singh, kunstbeeld, Issue #9 Sept.
Jhaveri, Shanay. ArtAsiaPacific, Sept-Oct 2011
Pigeat, Anael. Alexandre Singh, Palais de Tokyo, art press issue 380, July-Aug 2011
Papachlimitzou, Regina. Alexandre Singh: The School for Objects Criticised, Aesthetica Magazine, issue #41, june-july 2011
van Winden, Jesse. Alexandre Singh in Paris, Metropolos M, metropolism.com/reviews/alexandre-singh-in-paris/ June 2011
Walleston, Aimee. Alexandre Singh, The Last Magazine, Issue #06 Spring 2011
Tan, Lumi. Free, Frieze, issue 137, March 2011
Wieder, Axel John. Alexandre Singh bei Spruth magers, berliner Zeitung, 25th January 2011
Vogel, Wendy. Free, might be good, fluentcollab.org/mbg/index.php/reviews/review/160/307
Thorne, Sam. Manifesta8, Frieze, issue 136, Jan-Feb 2011

2010:
Rehberg, Vivian. Frieze, issue 135, NOV-DEC 2010
Tedone, Gaia. Free, this is tomorrow, http://www.thisistomorrow.info/viewArticle.aspx?artId=552
Heinrich, Will, Art in the Age of Information Saturation, The New York Observer, November 22nd, 2010
Rosenberg, Karen, A Show Is All Cyber, Some of the Time, The New York Times, October 22nd, 2010
Beck, Graham, Knight’s Move, Frieze, issue 133, September 2010
Obrist, Hans Ulrich, Alexandre Singh, Dü Magazine, June 2010
Edwards, Jeff. Performa 2009, artpulsemagazine.com/performa-2009/Honoré, Vincent. Canadian Art Magazine, Spring Issue, 2010
Tikhonova, Yulia. Alexandre Singh, Flash Art, March-April 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/3045
Alexandre Singh: Assembly Instructions (Ikea, Manzon, Klein, et al.), Art Lies, Issue 64, Winter 2009
Top 100 Emerging Artists, Flash Art n.268, October 2009
Frieze 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 2009
Fassi, 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, sing-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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