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Stephen G Rhodes

 
Lives and works in Los Angeles

1977 Born in Houston. Raised in Louisiana
2005 MFA, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
1999 BFA, Bard College, Annandale, NY

Solo Exhibitions
2010
John David Rhodes, Hammer Projects, Los Angeles 2009
Reconstruction or Something, Vilma Gold, London
Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin
Statements, Art 40 Basel
Misako & Rosen, Tokyo
2007
Ruined Dualisms, Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles, CA
Recurrency, Guild & Greyshkul, New York, NY

Group Exhibitions (selected)
2009
“On From Here,” Guild & Greyshkul, New York, NY
“Abstract America: New Painting and Sculpture,” Saatchi Gallery, London, (cat)
“Second Nature: The Valentine-Adelson Collection,” The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles,
“Younger than Jesus,” The New Museum, New York, NY, catalogue (upcoming)
2008
“Prospect.1 New Orleans,” curated by Dan Cameron, New Orleans, LA, catalogue
“NOW: Selections from the Ovitz Family Collection,” Arizona State University Art Museum,
Tempe, AZ
“KABUL 3000 Love Among the Cabbages,” Zero, Milan, Italy
“Nobody Puts Baby in a Corner,” curated by Sonia Campagnola and Isabella Bortolozzi,
Bortolozzi, Berlin, Germany
“Self-Portrait,” James Fuentes Gallery, New York, NY
2007
“Post Rose: Artists In and Out of the Hazard Park Complex,” curated by Sterling Ruby,
Christian Nagel, Berlin, Germany
“Distinctive Messengers,” curated by Simon Watson and Craig Hensala, House of Campari,
York, NY
“USA Today,” The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia (traveling), catalogue
“Between Two Deaths,” curated by Ellen Blumenstein and Felix Ensslin. ZKM Center
and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany, catalogue
“Aspects, Forms, and Figures,” curated by Joao Ribas and Becky Smith, Bellwether
New York, NY
2006
“Dualism #2,” ArtRock, Rockefeller Center, New York, NY
2005
“LA Weekly Biennial,” curated by Doug Harvey, Track 16, Los Angeles, CA
“Autonomy,” curated by Sterling Ruby, Foxy Production, New York, NY
2004
“Faith,” curated by Matthew Johnson, Champion Fine Art, Culver City, CA
2001
“Wolf Songs for Lambs,” curated by James Fuentes, The Space, New York, NY

Screenigs
2007
“Between the Lines,” Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY
“Values,” Art in General, New York, NY

Selected Bibliography
2010
Asthoff, Jens, ‘Stephen G.Rhodes’, Artforum, February 2010, XLVIII, NO.6, p.214
Moshayedi, Aram, ‘Return To Ruin - Stephen G. Rhodes’, Metropolis M, April/May No.2
2009
Gavin, Francesca, ‘Hung and Drawn: Stephen G Rhodes: The Art of Politics, Archaeology and Exorcism’, November 2009, p162
Maerkle, Andrew, Art Brief: Stephen G. Rhodes: ‘There is No Bear Bear Ladder’, The Japan
Times, 1 May
Del Vecchio, Gigiotto. “An American De-Mithology,” Mousse, January, p. 50-51, ills.
Schambelan, Elizabeth. “Being There,” Artforum, January, p. 172.
2008
Wooldridge, Jane. “The Art Basel Cheat Sheet: What you have to see,” The Miami Herald,
December 5.
Houlihan, Mary. “Art show breathes life into New Orleans,” Chicago Sun-Times, November 30.
MacCash, Doug. “Stephen G. Rhodes, Prospect.1 New Orleans,” The Times Picayune,
November 7.
Smith, Roberta. “Kaleidoscopic Biennial for a Scarred City,” The New York Times, November 3,
C1, ill.
2007
Holte, Michael Ned. “Stephen G. Rhodes,” Artforum, December, p. 361, ill.
Campagnola, Sonia. “Live from Los Angeles,” Flash Art, November-December, p. 100-103, ill.
Taft, Catherine. “Stephen G. Rhodes,” Modern Painters, November, p. 95, ill.
Berardini, Andrew. “Stephen G. Rhodes: Ruined Dualisms,” ArtReview, November, p. 204, ill.
Moshayedi, Aram. “Stephen G. Rhodes at Overduin and Kite,” www.afterall.org, October 30.
Brooks, Amra. “Must See Art,” LA Weekly, October 3.
Wilder, Matthew. “Critics’ Pick: Stephen G. Rhodes,” www.artforum.com, October.
Watson, Simon. “Stephen G. Rhodes,” Whitewall, Fall, p. 58-59, ill.
Grider, Nicholas. “A Place for Everything and Everything in its Place,” www.artslant.com,
September 9.
Setton, Dirk. “Worshipping the End,” Texte Zur Kunst, September, p. 313-317, ill.
USA Today: New American Art from the Saatchi Gallery. Exhibition catalogue. Edited by Meghan
Dailey and Norman Rosenthal. Published by Royal Academy of the Arts, London, England.
Blumenstein, Ellen. “Name Your Desire.” Between Two Deaths. Exhibition catalogue. Edited by
Ellen Blumenstein and Felix Ensslin. Published by ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe,
Germany. pp 16-25, ills 216-219.
Rickels, Laurence A. “Second Death.” Between Two Deaths. Exhibition catalogue. Edited by
Ellen Blumenstein and Felix Ensslin. Published by ZKM Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe,
Germany. pp 94-105.
Cotter, Holland. “Aspects, Forms and Figures,“ The New York Times, March 2, E30, ill.
Falconer, Morgan. “Stephen G. Rhodes at Guild & Greyshkul, New York,”
www.saatchi-gallery.co.uk, February 8, ill.
Robinson, Walter. “Weekend Update,” www.artnet.com, February 7, ill.
Ross, Lauren. “Stephen G. Rhodes,” The Brooklyn Rail, February, ill.
Cotter, Holland. “Stephen G. Rhodes,” The New York Times, January 26, E37, ill.
2006
Gordon, Margery. “Art Basel Miami: NADA Gets a Nod on Opening Night,” www.artinfo.com,
December 6.
2005
Cotter, Holland. “Autonomy,” The New York Times, September 30, E29.

Writing
2008
“Interregnum Reanimated: The Living Cemetary,” World Picture 2: Obvious,
www.worldpicturejournal.com
2006
“New Orleans Land/New Orleans World,” Bidoun, Spring 2006.