2022 CityCat Project/Remembering Uncle, David Pestorius Projects, Brisbane
2019 Currents 117: Dave Hullfish Bailey, Saint Louis Art Museum
CityCat Project 2019, David Pestorius Projects, Brisbane
Dave Hullfish Bailey, Australian Fine Arts at Phase 4, Brisbane
2018 Hardscrabble, Gallery at REDCAT, Los Angeles
2016 Dave Hullfish Bailey, Australian Fine Arts at Phase 4, Brisbane
2014 School Section, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm
2013 Broken Country, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö
2010 Sci-Fi + Fantasy; Mud, Salt Crystals, Rocks, Water; Wind; Rotation; Revolution, Krome Gallery, Berlin
2009 Dave Hullfish Bailey & Nils Norman: Surrounded by Squares, Raven Row, London
Dave Hullfish Bailey, The Suburban, Oak Park
2008 Ditch/School, Mesler&Hug Gallery, Los Angeles
2007 What’s left to its own devices (On reclamation), CASCO, Utrecht
2006 Elevate/Or, Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Barcelona
Elevator, Secession, Vienna
2005 Bastard Science, Daniel Hug Gallery, Los Angeles
2004 Banding Station, IBID Projects, London
2002 Schindler Shelter, Parkhaus im Malkasten, Düsseldorf
1998 NOTINMYBACKYARD, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
1995 1/4 ton, ACME, Santa Monica
PUBLIC/SITED PROJECTS include:
Ongoing CityCat Project: Maiwar Performance, in collaboration with Sam Watson (since 2006)
2014 Stockholm Music and Arts Festival. Curator: Maria Lind
2013 Where Did She Go?, Stockholm Music and Arts Festival. Curator: Maria Lind
2004 Listening Post. Commissioned by the Herning Kunstmuseum, Denmark
2002 Rent-a-Bench, MTA bus stops in Los Angeles. Curated by Jacob Fabricius
GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS include:
2021 Climate Changing: On Artists, Institutions, and the Social Environment, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio
2020 Busan Biennale: Words at an Exhibition: an exhibition in ten chapters and five poems. Museum of Contemporary Art/Yeongdo Harbor, Busan, South Korea
Dormant Quantity, Lundskonsthall, Lund, Sweden
2019 Brisbane Art Design 2019, Museum of Brisbane
2018 City of Los Angeles Awards Exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles
in site: process, performance, documentation, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
2016 No Go Home, Gildar Gallery, Denver
2015 T:H:E: R:E:A:L: After Psychedelia, Contemporary Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania (traveled to Eesti Kaasaegse Kunsti Muuseum, Tallinn)
After Victor Papanek: The Future Is Not What It Used To Be, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena
Cross Pose: Body language in Australian Indigenous Art, University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane
2014 Systemics #4: Aarhus Rapport - Avantgarde as network (or, the politics of the ultralocal), Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
Kirunatopia: In the Shadow of the Future, Kunsthaus Dresden
2013 Society Without Qualities, Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm
2012 30th Bienal de São Paulo: The Imminence of Poetics, São Paulo
Kirunatopia: In the Shadow of the Future, Bildmuseet, Umeå
2011 The Long Range, ltd gallery, Los Angeles
Grave but not serious, David Pestorius Projects, Brisbane
2010 Pre-Specifics: Access X!, Onomatopee, Eindhoven (traveled to Röda Sten Kulturförening, Göteborg)
Abstract Derive, Ludlow 38/Künstlerhaus Stuttgart/Goethe Institute New York City
2009 For the blind man in the dark looking for the black cat that isn’t there, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (traveled to ICA London; de Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam; Culturgest, Lisbon; and Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit)
Green Platform: Art, Ecology, Sustainability, Centro di Cultura Contemporanea Strozzina, Florence
2008 Desertshore, Luckman Gallery at California State University Los Angeles
Katastrophenalarm, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin
2007 Biennale d’art contemporain de Lyon 2007: 00s—The History of a Decade that has not yet been Named, Lyon
Sculptors’ Drawings: Ideas, Studies, Sketches, Proposals and more, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica
Ohio, Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, Chicago
2005 The Lateral Slip, Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California, Riverside
2004 Documents from the Land, Appendiks, Copenhagen
Groundhog Day, Pestorius Sweeney House, Brisbane
Kommando Pfannenkuchen, Daniel Hug Gallery, Los Angeles
Spacemakers, in collaboration with The Suburban and Temporary Services/Brett Bloom. Lothringer Dreizehn, Munich
2003 World Watchers, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin (traveled to Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden)
Book Trade, Centre d’édition contemporaine, Genève, Switzerland
Rent-a-Bench, Trapholt Kunstmuseum, Kolding, Denmark
Affinity Archive, The Metropolitan Complex, Dublin
2002 Perspective 2002, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast
Layered Histories, Staatsbank (Plattform with Verein Berliner Künstler), Berlin
Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now, Low Gallery, Los Angeles
Charley, P.S. 1 Center for Contemporary Art
2001 New Settlements, Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen
Stone Soup, Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles
2000 Urban Hymns, Luckman Gallery at California State University Los Angeles
1998 Berlin/Berlin Biennale, “Plattform” section, Postfuhramt, Berlin
Baustop.randstadt,- collaborative project, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin
1997 Work & Progress, LACE, Los Angeles
Palace, Walkers Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, Chicago
Huge Garage Sale, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles
1996 100 Photographs, American Fine Arts/Colin de Land Fine Arts, New York.
Junge Szene, (with Swetlana Heger + Plamen Dejanov), Secession, Vienna
VI International Biennale, (with Swetlana Heger + Plamen Dejanov), Cairo
Affairs, (with Swetlana Heger + Plamen Dejanov), ICA, Vienna
Além da Água, (collective work organized by GRATIS), Guadiana River and El Museo de Arte Extremeño e Iberoamericano, Badajoz
Pension Stadtpark, (collective social/performative project), Forum StadtPark, Graz
ARTIST'S BOOKS include:
What’s Left. Casco Office for Art, Design and Theory and Sternberg Press, Berlin: 2008
Elevator. Vienna Secession and Centre d’Art Santa Monica, Vienna/ Barcelona: 2006
Listening Post. Herning Kunstmuseum, Herning, Denmark. Herning: 2004
Union Pacific: Berlin’s Neue Mitte and the Fringes of Las Vegas. Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin: 1999
WRITINGS AND ARTIST PROJECTS include:
"Western Education", in The Phantom of Liberty (Tone Hansen, Lars Bang Larsen, eds.), Sternberg Press, Berlin, 2014
"CityCat, deflected in response to a system built up from under-examined details. 2 December, 2006 and 9 May, 2009, Brisbane River", in May, #3, Paris, March 2010
"Change", in Dot Dot Dot, no. 18, Stuart Bailey and David Reinfurt, eds., Dexter Sinister, New York, Summer 2009
"Some notes on language in research", in M makhuzine: journal of artistic research, Utrecht Graduate School of Visual Art and Design, Utrecht, Winter 2007
"Schindler Shelter", (multimedia project), Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design (laforum.org/features.php) in conjunction with Archinect (archinect.com), 2001
"Hell Niño", X-tra, vol. I, no. 3, December 1997
"New York, New York New York, Oklahoma City", X-tra, vol. I, no. 2, June 1997
"Before They Wore Blue", in Snowflake, no. 2, Benjamin Weissman and Lisa Anne Auerbach, eds., Smart Art Press, Los Angeles: 1997
"Floater", in Asteroid Impaired, Benjamin Weissman, ed., DAP: 1997
"Just Talkin’ ‘bout Shaft . . .", in CHANCE, Chris Kraus, ed., Smart Art Press, Los Angeles: 1996
"What Jorge Pardo has paid me $500 to write down", Friedrich Petzel Gallery. New York: 1994
PUBLIC LECTURES, READINGS AND PRESENTATIONS include:
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles; LACE, Los Angeles; Big City Forum at Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena; Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis; St. Louis Art Museum; Raven Row, London; Tensta Konsthall, Stockholm; Kunsthal Aarhus; Casco Office for Art, Design and Theory,/Centraal Museum, Utrecht; Secession, Vienna; Forum Stadtpark, Graz; Kunsthaus Dresden; Galerie Nagel Draxler, Berlin; Kunstverein Düsseldorf; Swiss Institute, Rome; Cité International des Arts, Paris; Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne; RMIT Centre for Art, Society and Transformation, Melbourne; Artspace/Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Pestorius Sweeney House, Brisbane; State Library of Queensland, Brisbane; Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
CRITICAL ESSAYS, CATALOGS AND ANTHOLOGIES include:
Butler, Rex, ed., Dave Hullfish Bailey + Sam Watson: CityCat Project 2006-2016. Sternberg Press, Berlin: 2017
Pethick, Emily, "A Live Project That Is Not Fixed For Anyone; The Artist as Orchestrator" in Aileen Burns, Johan Lundh, and Tara McDowell (eds.) The Artist As. Sternberg Press, Berlin: 2017
Tsatsos, Irene, After Victor Papanek: The Future Is Not What It Used To Be, Armory Press/Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena: 2015
Pérez-Oramas, Luis, Tobi Maier, André Severo, and Isabela Villanueva, 30th Bienal de São Paulo: The Imminence of Poetics; Bienal Foundation, São Paulo: 2012
"Dave Hullfish Bailey with Emily Pethick", in The Secession Talks: Exhibitions in Conversation 1998-2010, Secession, Vienna: 2012
Pethick, Emily, "Resisting Institutionalization" in Education, Felicity Allen, (ed.). Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art, MIT Press, Boston: 2011
Martinez, Chus, "Dave Hullfish Bailey" in Creamier: Contemporary Art in Culture, Phaidon, London, 2010
Huberman, Anthony, For The Blind Man In The Dark Room Looking For The Black Cat That Isn't There, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis: 2009
Tsatsos, Irene (ed.), Common Threads, Shared Spaces. California Community Foundation, L.A.: 2009
Moisdon, Stéphanie and Hans Ulrich Obrist, eds. Lyon Biennial 2007, 00s—The History of a Decade that has not yet been Named, JRP/Ringier, Zurich: 2007
Grabner, Michelle, Ohio: Chestnuts and Social Benchmarks, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn: 2007
Fabricius, Jacob, "A Conversation with Dave Bailey", in Interferencies: Local Context/Real Space, Martí Peran and Pilar Bonet, eds., Barcelona: 2002
Charley 01, Cattelan, Maurizio, Bettina Funcke, Massimiliano Gioni, Ali Subotnik, (eds.). Les presses du reél, Dijon: 2002
Darling, Michael, "Gimme Shelter", L.A. Forum for Architecture and Urban Design at laforum.org, 2001
REVIEWS AND FEATURES include:
Solo Exhibitions:
Southern California Institute of Architecture Artist Conversation Series: "Hardscrabble at the REDCAT Gallery". SCI-Arc Channel (youtube.com/watch?v=1mmZRKURO_c&feature=youtu.be), July 2018
Tumlir, Jan, "Dave Hullfish Bailey", Artforum International, May 2018
Diehl, Travis, "Dave Hullfish Bailey’s 'Hardscrabble' at REDCAT, Los Angeles", art-agenda.com, April 2018
"Dave Hullfish Bailey at Malmö Konsthall", contemporaryartdaily.com, March 2013
Butler, Rex, "Dave Hullfish Bailey", Artforum International, September 2009
Lehrer-Graiwer, Sarah, "Dave Hullfish Bailey", Artforum International, February 2009
Chevalier, Catherine, "Dave Hullfish Bailey, Queensland University, Brisbane", Frog No. 5, Spring-Summer 2007, Les Presses du Réel, Paris
Comer, Stuart, in "Looking Back: Emerging Artists", Frieze, Issue 104, January-February 2007
Benzer, Christa, "Dave Hullfish Bailey: ELEVATOR", Springerin, No. 3, July 2006
Pethick, Emily, in "Looking Back: Solo Shows", Frieze, Issue 96, January-February 2006
Tumlir, Jan, "David Hullfish Bailey at Daniel Hug Gallery", Artforum International, November 2005
Larsen, Lars Bang, "Dave Hullfish Bailey", Frieze, Issue 95, November—December 2005
Pethick, Emily, "Los Angeles Dreams", Untitled, May/June 2005
Pethick, Emily, "Critics' Picks", artforum.com, December 2004
Tumlir, Jan, "Visitation Rites: A Conversation with Dave Bailey", artext, February 2002
Group Exhibitions:
Artforum International, Frieze, Flash Art, Art in America, Los Angeles Times, ArtReview, Artpapers, u_Spot, Texte zur Kunst, Nu: The Nordic Art Review, artforum.com, afterall.org, artnet.com, Kunstkritikk.com, artext, Artweek, C-magazine, Dialogue, New Art Examiner, X-tra and others
GRANTS, FELLOWSHIPS AND AWARDED RESIDENCIES include:
2018 Guggenheim Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, New York
2018 Freund Fellowship, Washington University and St Louis Art Museum
2017 City of Los Angeles Master Artist (COLA) Fellowship
2013 Center for Cultural Innovation Investing in Artists Award
2012 International Artists Studio Program in Stockholm (IASPIS), Stockholm
2008 Getty Fellowship in Visual Arts/California Community Foundation Individual Artist Award
2007 Durfee Foundation Artist Resource for Completion (ARC) Grant
2006 Durfee Foundation Artist Resource for Completion (ARC) Grant
1998 International Studio Program, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
EDUCATION
1995 Master of Fine Arts, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California
1994 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine
1988 Master of Theological Studies, Harvard Divinity School, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1985 Bachelor of Arts, Philosophy, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota