Barry X Ball

Barry X Ball (born 1955 in Pasadena, California) is an American sculptor based in New York City.

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• Solo exhibitions
• Group exhibitions
• Public and Museums collections
• References

From January 29 – May 31, 2004 he had a solo one piece exhibition at MoMA PS1 with a piece entitled "The Head of Matthew Barney. At the Venice Biennale in 2011, the artist installed nine marble sculptures depicting Count Giuseppe Panza di Biumo's head in different scales and surfaces at Ca' Rezzonico.

Solo exhibitions

1988 New York City. Craig Cornelius Gallery. 19 May – 18 June. 1986 New York City. Craig Cornelius Gallery. 15 March – 16 April.

1990 Brittany, France. Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain. Domaine de Kerguéhennec. (exh. cat.) Curated by Jean-Pierre Criqui. 30 June – 2 September.

1995 New York City. Luhring Augustine. Fall. 1993 Stockholm. Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthalle. 18 March – 4 June. (exh. cat.) 1991 Brussels. Galerie Isy Brachot. 22 May – 29 June. (exh. cat.)

1997 Boston. Mario Diacono Gallery. 19 April – 24 May. New York City. Luhring Augustine. 11 January – 8 February.

2003 Boston. Mario Diacono Gallery. 7 November – 3 January 2004.

2004 24 September – 17 October. (exh. cat.) New York City. PS1 / MoMA Contemporary Art Center. 2-* 2004 Barry X Ball: (Matthew Barney). Curated by Bob Nickas. 29 January – 31 May.

2004 Toulouse, France. Printemps de Septembre at the Eglise des Jacobins. In Extremis. Curated by Jean- Marc Bustamante and Pascal Pique.

2007 Venice. Galleria Michela Rizzo. 6 June – 15 September. (exh. cat.) Santa Fe, New Mexico. SITE Santa Fe. One-Person Exhibition curated by Laura Heon. 10 February – 13 May. (exh. cat.)

2009 New York City. Salon 94 Freemans. Masterpieces. 29 October – 12 December. 2008 Zurich. De Pury & Luxembourg. 2 June – 16 August.

2011 Venice. Ca’ Rezzonico. Portraits and Masterpieces. 4 June – 6 November. (In conjunction with the 54th International Art Exhibition—la Biennale di Venezia.)

2012 Paris. Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Gallery II. Barry X Ball: Matthew Barney / Barry X Ball Dual-Dual Portrait. 17 March – 16 May.

2012 Lucca, Italy. Palazzo Mansi branch of the Lucca National Museums. Barry X Ball: The Obsession with the Object (L’Ossessione dell’Oggetto). 17 October – 17 November.

2014 Porto Cervo, Italy. Louise Alexander Gallery.

Group exhibitions

1987 Precious: An American Cottage Industry of the Eighties. 19 March – 4 May.

1985 New York City. Grey Art Gallery, New York University.

1986 New York City. Carlo Lamagna Gallery. Traps, Elements of Psychic Seduction. Curated by Charles Luce and Leslie Dill. 11 December – 24 January.

1986 New York City. Craig Cornelius Gallery. Geometry Now. Curated by Ruth Kaufmann. October.

1987 Santa Monica, California. Maloney Gallery. The Gold Show. 10 December – 10 January.

1987 New York City. 541 Sixth Avenue Gallery. Bigger and Deffer. Curated by D.D. Chapin. 22 September – 11 October.

1987 New York City. John Good Gallery. Rigor. Curated by Stephen Westfall. 19 June – 11 July.

1987 Chicago. Rhona Hoffman Gallery. Primary Structures. Curated by Bob Nickas. 11 September – 10 October.

1987 Los Angeles. Asher / Faure Gallery. Abstract Painting. 18 April – 16 May.

1987 New York City. Mission Gallery. Reduction–Plan. 21 January – 15 February.

1988 Bob Nickas. February.

1988 Marjorie Harth Beebe. 6 March – 17 April. Paris. Gilbert Brownstone Gallery. Primary Structures. Curated by

1988 College Alumni Artists. Curated by

1988 Raspail. 7 October – 5 December. Claremont, California. Montgomery Gallery. Pomona College. Pomona

1988 Franchetti, Edmond Charriere, Dieter Schwartz, Bob Nickas, Alain Charre. Curated by Thierry

1988 Lyon, France. Musée Saint-Pierre art contemporain (since renamed: Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon). La Couleur Seule: The Monochrome Experiment. Catalog essays by Thomas McEvilley, Thierry de Duve, Jean-Claude Marcade, * * 1988 Richard Stanislawski, Pierre Restany, Ursula Perucchi-Petri, Giorgio

1989 Paris. Gilbert Brownstone Gallery. Pièces Choisies. 30 September – 25 October.

1990 Santa Monica, California. Angles Gallery. Sculpture. 2 November – 26 November. Brussels. Galerie Isy Brachot. Red. Curated by Bob Nickas. 27 June – 29 September. (exh. cat.) San Francisco. Terrain. Information. 4 January – 3 February.

1991 Amsterdam. Galerie Barbara Farber. The Museum of Natural History. Curated by Bob Nickas. 27 April – 15 June. (exh. cat.)

1991 Paris. Galerie Renos Xippas. Painted Desert. Curated by Bob Nickas. 8 June – 31 July. (exh. cat.)

1992 Lugano, Switzerland. Museo Cantonale d’Arte. Panza di Biumo, The Eighties and the Nineties from the Collection. 10 April – 5 July. (exh. cat.)

1993 New York City. Luhring Augustine. Nobuyoshi Araki, Sophie Calle, Larry Clark, Jack Pierson, Barry X Ball. 27 March – 24 April.

1994 San Francisco, California. Terrain. The Use of Pleasure. Curated by Bob Nickas. February–March. New York. Luhring Augustine. 8 January – 12 February.

1995 Paris. Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume. Générique 2 Double Mixte (4 person exhibition with Lynne Cohen, Pascal Convert, Rachel Whiteread). Curated by Jean-Pierre Criqui. 28 February – 17 April. (exh. cat.)

1996 Santa Monica, California. Angles Gallery. 2 person exhibition with Anish Kapoor. 28 June – 7 September.

1997 New York City. Kent Gallery. A Private View: Works of Art from Paleolithic to Present. Curated by Damon Brandt and Craig Cornelius. 5 April – 29 April.

1997 Fairfield, Connecticut. The Thomas J. Walsh Art Gallery. The One Chosen: Images of Christ in Recent New York Art. Curated by James R. Blaettler, S.J. and Regnerus Steensma, Ph.D. 18 April – 31 May. (exh. cat.)

1998 Stockholm. Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall. Spatiotemporal / Verk Ur Samlingen 1988–1998. 28 March – 14 June.

1999 New York City. Baumgartner Galleries. Loaf. Curated by Steve DiBenedetto and Manfred Baumgartner. 6 November – 8 December.

2001 Brittany, France. Le Quartier, center d’art contemporain de Quimper. Affinités. Curated by Dominique Abensour. (La Bretagne Collectionne—l’Art de Notre Temps: Les Vingt Ans du Frac Bretagne.) 1 July – 7 October.

2002 New York City. Paula Cooper Gallery. From the Observatory. Curated by Bob Nickas. 16 March – 20 April.

2002 Rovereto, Italy. Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto (MART). Le Stanze dell’Arte: Figure e immagini del XX secolo. 15 December – 13 April 2003.

2006 7 March. 2003 Miami. The Art Museum at Florida International University. American Art Today: Faces and Figures. Curated by Dahlia Morgan and Roni Feinstein. 17 January – 9 March.

2006 New York City. Jack the Pelican Presents. The Matthew Barney Show. Curated by Eric Doeringer. 1–23 April. 2004 Palm Beach. Norton Museum of Art. Minimal to the Max: The Brownstone Collection. 22 November 2003-

2006 San Francisco. Bar of Contemporary Art. The Matthew Barney Show. Curated by Eric Doeringer. 1 August – 15 September.

2006 New York City. PS1 / MoMA Contemporary Art Center. The Gold Standard. Group Exhibition. Curated by Bob Nickas and Walead Beshty. 29 October – 15 January 2007.

2007 Reggio Emilia, Italy. The Maramotti Collection. 29 September. Opening of the museum with the permanent installation of 4 BXB works from the collection. Curated by Mario Diacono.

2007 Stockholm. Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall. To be continued... 7 September – 9 December. 20th Anniversary Exhibition with 2 BXB works from the collection.

2007 Marfa, Texas. Ballroom Marfa. Every Revolution is a Roll of the Dice. 22 September – 3 February 2008. Curated by Bob Nickas. Includes 1 BXB work.

2008 Milano. Galleria Pack. Corpo Sociale. Curated by Lóránd Hegyi. 3–5 April. Venice. Galleria Michela Rizzo. An Exhibition of Gallery Artists. 3 March – 4 May. New York City. Salon 94. Carlo Mollino, Casa Del Sole, With New Work By Barry X Ball.

2008 Poughkeepsie, New York. Vassar College. Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center. Excerpt: Selections from the Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn Collection. 26 September – 4 January 2009. (exh. cat.)

2008 Beijing. Beijing Today Art Museum. e-form (rapid-prototype exhibition). October. Traveling to Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai (November); Jinse Gallery, Chongqing (December–January, 2009). (exh. cat.)

2009 New York City. Paula Cooper Gallery. Every Revolution is a Roll of the Dice. Curated by Bob Nickas. 8 January – 10 February.

2010 Hasselt, Belgium. Modemuseum Hasselt. Ultramegalore: Fashion Icon Testimony. 27 March – 6 June. Bologna. Bologna Art First. Here and Now. Curated by Julia Draganovic. 29 January – 28 February.

2010 Berlin. Me Collectors Room Berlin. Passion Fruits Picked from the Olbricht Collection. Curated by Wolfgang Schoppmann. 1 May – 12 September.

2010 New York City. Salon 94 Freemans. Barry X Ball, Huma Bhabha, Jon Kessler. 7 May – 11 June. (Also part of New York Gallery Week. 7–10 May.)

2010 Lugano, Switzerland. Museo Cantonale d’Arte. Omaggio a Giuseppe Panza di Biumo. Curated by Marco Franciolli. 4 July – 26 September. Exhibition of works donated to the museum by Panza.

2010 Krems, Austria. Kunsthalle Krems. Lebenslust und Totentanz. Curated by Wolfgang Schoppmann and Hans-Peter Wipplinger. 18 July – 7 November. Exhibition of works from the Olbricht Collection.

2010 New York City. White Columns. Looking Back / The Fifth White Columns Annual. Curated by Bob Nickas. 11 December – 29 January 2011. (exh. cat.)

2011 New York City. The FLAG Art Foundation. Art2. 23 September – 17 December. Bridgehampton, New York. Martos Gallery. The 2011 Bridgehampton Biennial. 9 July – 5 September. Curated by Bob Nickas. (exh. cat.)

2012 New York City. Sperone Westwater. Marble Sculpture: From 350 B.C. to Last Week. 12 January – 25 February. Curated by Gian Enzo Sperone. (exh. cat.)

2012 Miami Beach. Bass Museum of Art. the endless renaissance – six solo artist projects: eija-liisa ahtila, barry x ball, walead beshty, hans-peter feldmann, ged quinn and araya rasdjarmrearnsook. 6 December – 17 March 2013.

2013 Pantin, France. Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac. Disaster / The End of Days. Curated by Séverine Waelchli and Michael Bracewell. 3 March – 29 June.

2013 East Marion, NY. Martos Gallery. LAT. 41° 7' N., LONG. 72° 19' W. Organized by Bob Nickas. 13 July – 2 September.

2013 New York City. The Museum of Arts and Design. Out of Hand: Materializing the Postdigital. 16 October – 6 July 2014. Group Exhibition.

2014 Istanbul, Turkey, Art International Istanbul. Louise Alexander Gallery. Group Exhibition.

Public and Museums collections

Ball's work is held in the following public collections:

Collezione Maramotti

Hammer Museum, California, USA

The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California, USA

Le Fonds régional d’art contemporain Bretagne, France

Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthalle, Sweden

The Maramotti Collection, Italy

Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano, Switzerland

Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy

The Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, Florida, USA

The Berlingieri Collection, Italy

The Thomas Olbricht Collection, Germany

The Panza Collection, Italy, Switzerland