Born 1964 in Munich, Germany.
Lives and works in Los Angeles and Berlin.
Education |
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| 1995 | Rijksakademie Amsterdam |
| 1993–1994 | Goldsmith‘s College, London |
| 1989–1992 | Kunstakademie Düsseldorf |
| 1987–1889 | Akademie der bildenden Künste, Munich |
Awards |
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| 2010–2011 | Getty Scholarship at the Getty Research Institute, United States |
| 1998 | DG-Bank Preis für künstlerische Fotografie, Germany |
| 1997–1998 | Schmidt-Rottluff Preisträger Bildende Kunst, Germany |
| 1997 | Villa Massimo, Italy |
| Förderpreis der LH München für Fotografie, Germany | |
| 1996 | Kulturpreisträger des BDI, Germany |
| Krupp von Bohlen Halbach Preis für zeitgenössische Fotografie, Germany | |
| 1995 | Kunstfonds, Germany |
| Arbeitsstipendium des Bayrischen Staates für New York, Germany | |
| 1994 | DAAD Auslandsstipendium für das Vereinigte Königreich, Germany |
| 1993 | Cité international des arts, France |
Solo Exhibitions (selection) |
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| 2017 | The Boat is Leaking. The Captain Lied, Fondazione Prada, Ca' Corner della Regina, Venice |
| 2016 | Thomas Demand, Villa Paloma - Project Space, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco |
| FOCUS: Thomas Demand, The Modern, Fort Worth, TX | |
| 2015 | Daily Show, The Common Guild, Glasgow |
| Modellstudien, Siza Pavillon, Stiftung Museumsinsel Hombroich, Neuss | |
| Pacific Sun, LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA | |
| 2013 | Model Studies, Graham Foundation, Chicago, IL |
| 2012 | Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo |
| The Dailies, Kaldor Public Art Projects #25, Sydney | |
| 2010 | Nationalgalerie, Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
| 2009 | Nationalgalerie, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
| Presidency. Embassy, MUMOK, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna | |
| 2005 | Thomas Demand, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY |
Group Exhibitions (selection) |
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| 2019 | Thrill of Deception. From Ancient Art to Virtual Reality, Ludwig Forum Aachen, Aachen (touring) |
| 2018 | Image Building. How Photography Transforms Architecture, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill |
| Cut! Paper Play in Contemporary Photography, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles | |
| Tacita Dean: Still Life, National Gallery, London | |
| 2017 | The Boat is Leaking. The Captain Lied, Fondazione Prada, Ca’ Corner della Regina, Venice |
| Jardins, Grand Palais, Paris | |
| Make New History, 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago | |
| Variable Dimensions – artists and architecture, MAAT Museum of Art, Architecture, and Technology, Lisbon | |
| 2016 | Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016, Whitney Museum, New York, NY |
| L’image volée, Fondazione Prada, Milan (curator) | |
| The Candle, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden | |
| TELE-Gen. Art and Television, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz | |
| 2015 | TELE-Gen. Art and Television, Kunstmuseum Bonn |
| Future Present, Schaulager, Basel | |
| 2014 | Now You See It. Photography and Concealment, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY |
| Room Service, Staatliche Kunsthalle zu Baden-Baden | |
| 2013 | Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC |
| 2012 | Common Ground, Architecture Biennale, Venice |
| Lifelike, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN | |
| 2011 | La Carte d’Après Nature at the Nouveau Musée National in Monaco (curator) |
| 2004 | 26th São Paulo Biennial |
| 2003 | 50th Venice Biennale |
Thomas Demand trained as sculptor. His photographs are generally based on found press photographs. He builds elaborate models using colored paper and cardboard which he then photographs. Often the depicted images include oblique references to historically important sites or events. No writing appears in the recreated images. The life-sized mock-ups are then destroyed.
