Paul Pfeiffer
1966 born in Honolulu, Hawaii
Lives and works in New York City.
Education
1997-98 Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program
1994 MFA, Hunter College, New York City
1987 BFA, San Francisco Art Institute
Solo Exhibitions (selection)
2012 carlier | gebauer, Berlin, Germany
2011 Paul Pfeiffer, Goetz Collection, Munich, Germany
2009 Perspektive Machine, BAIBAKOV art projects, Moscow2009 The Saints, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin2008 Thomas Dane Gallery, London
2008 Monologue, MUSAC- Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Léon, Spain
2008 carlier | gebauer, Berlin
2008 Thomas Dane Gallery, London
2007 The Saints, ArtAngel, London
2005 Pirate Jenny, carlier | gebauer, Berlin
2004 Pirate Jenny, The Project, New York
2004 Pirate Jenny, Gagosian Gallery, New York
2004 Thomas Dane Limited, London
2004 K 21, Kunstsammlung im Ständehaus, Düsseldorf, Germany
2003 Morning after the Deluge, carlier | gebauer, Berlin
2003 Museum of Contemporary Art, Honolulu, Hawaii
2003 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
2003 List Visual Arts Centre, MIT, Cambridge, USA
2001 Barbican Art Centre, London2001 UCLA Hammer, Los Angeles, USA
2001 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2000 The Project, New York2000 Kunst-Werke, Berlin
1998 The Pure Products Go Crazy, The Project, New York
1993 Survival of the Innocents, Art In General, New York
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2011 The Luminous Interval, Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
2011 Anonymous Sculptures. Video and Form in Contemporary Art, Galerie im Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria
2011 Passages, Travels in Hyperspace, LABoral Centro de Arte y Creación Industrial, Gijón, Spain
2010 Julia Stoschek Collection: I want to see how you see, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
2010 The Library of Babel / In and Out of Place, 176 // Zabludowicz Collection, London
2010 Collecting Biennials, The Whitney, New York
2010 Size DOES Matter, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York
2010 Contemplating the Void: Interventions in the Guggenheim Museum 2010 Rotunda, Guggenheim, New York
2010 Americana, NGBK, Berlin
2010 Hard Targets, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, USA
2009 Video Journeys. Sister, Los Angeles
2009 Waiting for Video: Works from the 1960s to Today, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
2009 The Kaleidoscopic Eye, Thyssen-Bornemizsa Art Contemporary Collection, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
2009 Un Certain Etat du Monde, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow
2008 Biennal of Sydney, Australia
2008 Reconstitutions, Reenactments, DHC/Art Montréal
2008 Ghost in the Machine, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
2008 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
2007 Automatic Update, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2007 Art in America: Now, Shanghai Museum of Contemporary Art and the Shanghai Museum, Shanghai
2007 The Shapes of Space, Guggenheim Museum, New York
2007 Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany
2006 THE GOLD STANDARD, P.S.1 MoMA, Long Island
2006 Choosing my Religion, Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun, Switzerland
2006 The Expanded Eye, Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
2006 TIME FRAME, P.S.1 MoMA, Long Island
2005 Superstars, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
2005 Getting Emotional, ICA, Boston, USA
2005 Faces in the Crowd: The Modern Figure and Avant-Garde Realism, Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Italy
2004 Faces in the Crowd: The Modern Figure and Avant-Garde Realism, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
2004 Eclipse Towards the Egde of the Visible, White Cube, London
2004 10 Commandments, Hygiene Museum, Dresden, Germany
2003 Fast Forward Media Art, Goetz Collection, Munich, Germany
2003 The Squared Circle, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
2003 The Moderns, Castello di Rivoli, Torino, Italy
2002 Out of Place, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,
2002 Tempo, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2002 K21, Düsseldorf, Germany
2001 49th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2001 Bitstreams, The Whitney Museum, New York
2001 Casino 2001, SMAK, Gent, Belgium
2001 The Americans, Barbican Arts Centre, London
2001 Subject Plural, Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, USA
2001 Hypermental, Kunsthaus Zurich, Hamburger Kunsthalle
2000 The Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum, New York
2000 Greater New York, P.S.1/MoMA, New York
2000 Hypermental, Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland
1995 In a Different Light, UC Berkeley Museum
Awards and Prices
2012 American Academy Fellow, Berlin
2009 Alpert Award in the Arts
2003 Artpace Residency, San Antonio
2001-2 MIT List Visual Arts Center Residency
2000 The Bucksbaum Award, The Whitney Museum, New York, NY
2000 Travel Grant, Asian Cultural Council
1999-2000 The Public Art Fund
1999 World Trade Center Residency, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NY
1994-95 Fulbright-Hayes Fellowship to the Philippines
1994 Project Grant, Art Matters
1993 Travel Grant Pilot, National Endowment for the Arts and Arts International
1984-94 Artist Delelopment Grant, Barbara Smith Artists Trust
