The Modern Institute

The Modern Institute

Thomas Houseago

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Born 1972, Leeds; Lives in Los Angeles

Forthcoming and Current Exhibitions

2012

Hauser and Wirth, New York (Solo, 09/2012)

2011

'Thomas Houseago: The Beat of the Show', Inverleith House, Edinburgh (Solo, 29/07/2011—21/09/2012. Outdoor Sculpture)

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2011

'Thomas Houseago: The Beat of the Show', Inverleith House, Edinburgh (Outdoor Sculpture)

'What Went Down', Centre International D’Art & Du Paysage, Ile de Vassivière

'The Beat Of The Show', Inverleith House, Edinburgh

'What Went Down', Museum Abteiberg, Moenchengladbach

'All Together Now', L & M Arts, New York

2010

'What Went Down', Modern Art, Oxford

'Amy Bessone and Thomas Houseago', Rennie Collection, Vancouver (two person show)

'The Moon and The Stars and The Sun', Michael Werner Gallery, New York

2009

'There is a crack in everything, that’s how the light gets in', Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin

'Thomas Houseago: Ode', Galleria Zero, Milan

'Two Face', Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX (with Aaron Curry)

'TwoFaceTwo', Veneklasen Werner Gallery, Berlin (with Aaron Curry)

2008

David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles

Xavier Hufkens, Brussels

'Bastards', Herald Street, London

2007

'A Million Miles Away', The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow

2004

'Art Brussels', Brussels (with Xavier Hufkens)

2003

'I Am Here, Selected Sculptures 1995-2003', S.M.A.K., Ghent

2002

'Amy Bessone & Thomas Houseago', Xavier Hufkens, Brussels

2000

'Something to Be', Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam

1996

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

'Mum’s tattoo', Si en La, Antwerp (with Matthew Monahan)

Selected Group Exhibitions

2011

Frieze Art Fair Sculpture Park, London

Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse (Musée les Jacobins, Curated by Anne Pontégnie)

2010

'The Artist’s Museum', Moca, Los Angeles

'More Pricks Than Kicks', David Robert Arts Foundation Fitzrovia, London

'Statuesque', City Hall Park, New York

'Permanent trouble kunst aus de Sammlung Kopp München', Kunstforum Ostdeutsche Galerie, Regensburg

Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art

'The Library of Babel / In and Out of Place', Zabludowitz Collection

2009

'Beg Borrow and Steal', Rubell Family Collection, Miami

'California Maximalism', Nyehaus, New York

'Thomas Houseago, Dieter Roth and André Thomkins', The Modern Institute/Toby Webster Ltd, Glasgow (With Dieter Roth and André Thomkins)

'All that is solid melts into air', MuHKA Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp

'Construct and Dissolve : Works on paper by artists from Los Angeles', Galerie Sabine Knust, Maximilian Verlag

'I giovani che visitano le nostre rovine non vi vedono che uno stile,', Galleria Civica d‘Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GAM), Turin

'The Craft of Collecting', Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

2008

'Academia Qui es-tu?', Chapelle de l’Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris

2007

'Kabul 3000 (Love among the cabbages)', Galleria Zero, Milan

'Nobody Puts Baby in a Corner', Isabella Bortolozzi Galerie, Berlin

'Personal Belongings – Contemporary Sculpture from Los Angeles', Sabine Knust Galerie Maximilian Verlag, Munich

'Sculptors’ Drawings: Ideas, Studies, Sketches, Proposals, And More', Angles Gallery, Santa Monica

'Sonsbeek 2008: Grandeur', Arnhem

'Strange Events Permit Themselves the Luxury of Occurring', Camden Art Centre, London

2006

'Making and Finding', The Foundation To-Life, Mount Kisco

'Red Eye: Los Angeles Artists from the Rubell Family Collection', Rubell Family Collection, Miami

'The Glass Bead Game', Vilma Gold Project Space, Berlin

'Transformers', Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, University of Nevada

2005

'Both Ends Burning', David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles

'Six Outdoor Projects', L.I.U., Brooklyn

2003

Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam

'Passie in Beeld, ruimtelijk werk uit de collectie van de Nederlandsche Bank', Maliebeeld, Den Haag

2002

'Stedelijk Museum in De Nieuwe Kerk, Beelden/Sculpture 1947-2002', Nieuwe Kerk, Amsterdam (curated by Rudi Fuchs)

2001

'Rondom Jheronimous Bosch', Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam

1999

'Glad IJs', Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

'Werk boven de bank', Archipel, Apeldoorn

1998

'Acquisitions 1997', De Nederlandsche Bank, Amsterdam

'Morning Glory', De Ateliers, Amsterdam

'Summer Show', Xavier Hufkens, Brussels

1997

'New Acquisitions', Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam