Born 1964 in Brunnen, Switzerland.
Lives and works in New York.
Education |
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1986–1990 | Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna |
Awards |
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1995 | Swiss Eidgenössischer Preis für freie Kunst, Switzerland |
1994 | Swiss Eidgenössischer Preis für freie Kunst, Switzerland |
1991 | Swiss Eidgenössischer Preis für freie Kunst, Switzerland |
Solo Exhibitions (selection) |
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2018 | your age and my age and the age of the sun, Fondación Casa Wabi, Mexico City |
2017 | let's start this day again, CAC Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH |
your age and my age and the age of the rainbow, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow | |
Vocabulary of Solitude, ARKEN – Museum for Moderne Kunst, Ishøj | |
Ugo Rondinone: moonrise. east. July, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen | |
good evening beautiful blue, The Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach | |
the world just makes me laugh, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley | |
the sun, Château de Versailles, Versailles | |
2016 | giorni d'oro + notti d'argento, MACRO Testaccio and the Mercati di Traiano, Rome |
Seven Magic Mountains, Art Production Fund and Nevada Museum of Art, Desert of Nevada | |
Vocabulary of Solitude, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam | |
Moonrise Sculptures, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston | |
Miami Mountain, permanent installation, The Bass Museum, Miami | |
Becoming Soil, Carré d'Art, Nîmes | |
2015 | golden days and silver nights, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney |
2014 | Ugo Rondinone: breathe walk die, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai |
naturaleza humana, Museo Anahuacalli Mexico, Mexico City | |
2013 | Ugo Rondinone: we run through a desert in burning feet, all of us are glowing our faces look twisted, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
Ugo Rondinone: human nature, Public Art Fund, Rockefeller Plaza, New York, NY | |
thank you silence, M Museum, Leuven | |
2012 | Wisdom? Peace? Blank? All of this?, Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna |
Nude, Cycladic Art Museum, Athens | |
primitive, The Common Guild, Glasgow | |
2010 | The Night of Lead, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau |
Sunrise East, Museum Dhondt Dhaenens, Deurle | |
2009 | The Night of Lead, MUSAC, Léon |
2008 | Clockwork for Oracles II, Sandra and Gerald Fineberg Art Wall, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston |
2006 | zero built a nest in my navel, Whitechapel Gallery, London |
2004 | Long Night Short Years, Le Consortium, Dijon |
Clockwork for Oracle, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne | |
2003 | Roundelay, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris |
Our Magic Hour, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney | |
2002 | no how on, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna |
2001 | dreams and dramas, Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art, Herzliya |
kiss tomorrow goodbye, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome | |
2000 | so much water so close to home, MoMa PS1, New York, NY |
in the sweet years remaining, Museum Aarhus, Aarhus | |
Group Exhibitions (selection) |
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2018 | Sculpture Garden Biennale, Parc des Eaux-Vives, organised by artgenève, Geneva |
Encore un jour banana pour le poisson-rêve, Palais de Tokyo, Paris | |
2017 | The Transported Man, Broad Art Museum, Lansing, MI |
The Upset Bucket, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London | |
Winter Journey, Château de Versailles, Versailles | |
2016 | The Infinite Mix, Hayward Gallery, London |
Human Scale, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa | |
Takashi Murakami's Superflat Collection, Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama | |
Seven Artists from the John Kaldor Family Collection, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney | |
2015 | About trees, Paul Klee Zentrum, Bern |
Greater New York, MoMa PS1, New York, NY | |
Work Hard, Swiss Institute, New York, NY | |
2014 | The Human Factor, Hayward Gallery, London |
Elevation 1049: Between Heaven and Hell, LUMA Foundation, Gstaad | |
2013 | Nasher XChange, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX |
Lifelike, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN | |
Una Posibilidad de Escape. Para Asaltar el Estudio de la Realidad y Volver a Grabar el Universo, Espai D'Art Contemporani de Castelló, Castellon | |
2007 | 52nd Venice Biennale |
Curated Exhibitions (selection) |
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2018 | Summer, Peter Freeman, Inc., New York |
2016 | I Love John Giorno, Palais de Tokyo, Paris |
2015 | Artists and Poets, Secession, Vienna |
2011 | The spirit level, Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY |
2007 | The third mind, Palais de Tokyo, Paris |
Referring concurrently to the natural world, romanticism and existentialism, the works of Ugo Rondinone encapsulate a “mental trinity” that has underpinned his art for thirty years.
Visit the artist's website: ugorondinone.com