Beverly Semmes est une artiste américaine qui travaille avec la sculpture, le textile, la vidéo, la photographie, la performance et l'installation à grande échelle. Née à Washington et résidant aujourd'hui à New York, elle enseigne la sculpture à l'École Steinhart de l'Université de New York et à l'Institut Pratt.
Expositions de groupe
2015 Gallery Bugdahn and Kaimer, Dusseldorf, Allemagne “Flying Over The Abyss,” NEON & The Museum of Contemporary Art of Crete, in Rethym- non, Crète, Grèce “Come As You Are: Art of the 1990’s,” Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ ; Telfair Museum, Savannah, GA The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI; The Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, TX “Body Double,” Samsøn, Boston, MA
2014 “Manna: Masterworks from the Tufts University Permanent Art Collection,” curated by Amy Ingrid Schlegel, Tisch Family Gallery, Tufts University, Medford, MA “Almost But Not Quite,” Gallery Bugdahn and Kaimer, Dusseldorf, Allemagne “One Work,” Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY
2013 “Material World,” Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO “Vessels,” The Horticultural Society of New York, NYC
2012 “SHOP: Anew,” Underline Gallery, NYC “Beverly Semmes & Freddie Brice,” Kerry Schuss Gallery, NYC “Tuesdays & Saturdays, Nicole Cherubini & Beverly Semmes,” Samson Projects, Boston, MA
2011 “SHOP: Like you Mean it,” Underline Gallery, NYC
2010 “When Dog Turns to Wolf,” David Krut Projects, NYC “Tenth Anniversary Exhibition,” Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX “Summer Interval,” Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Dusseldorf, Allemagne
2009 “Art, Pret-a-Porter,” Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf, Allemagne “Dirt on Delight,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN “Motion Blur,” Gustavsbergs Konsthall, Gustavsberg, Suède
2008 “Great Women Artists: Selections from the Permanent Collection,” Neuberger Museum 2008 of Art, Purchase, NY “Focus: The Figure,” Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO “Something New,” Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX “Psychotic Reaction,” KS Art, NYC “Sheldon Survey: An Invitational, Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE
2007 “Post Dec,” Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, CT
2006 “The Bong Show (Or This is Not a Pipe),” Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, NYC “Ice Queen,” Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf, Allemagne “DressCode,” Historisches und Völkerkundemuseum, St. Gallen, Suisse “Transitional Objects: Contemporary Still Life,” Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
2005 “An Inner Glow,” Kunstverein Kunsthalle, Linden, Allemagne “ME-tissages,” Museum voor Industriele Archeologie en Textiel, Ghent, Belgique “SOMMERGÄSTE,” Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf, Allemagne “Clothesline: Art, Clothing, Identity,” Santa Fe Art Institute, Santa Fe, NM “Pairs, Groups, and Grids,” Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, NYC “On Conceptual Clothing,” Kirishima Open- Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japon “Art-Robe,” Unesco, Paris, France
2004 “On Conceptual Clothing,” Musashino Art University and Library, Tokyo, Japon Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA “About Sculpture,” The Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY “Corporal identity - Body Language: The Moving Image,” Donnell Media Library in conjunction with the Museum of Art & Design, NYC
2003 “Imago: 10 Ans d’acquisitions du FRAC Franche-Comte,” Musée des Beaux-Arts, Dole, France “New Material as New Media: The Fabric Workshop and Museum at 25 Years,” The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphie, PA “Wrapture,” Consolidated Works, Seattle, WA “Me, Myself & I: Looking at Portraiture,” CRG Gallery, NYC
2002 “Into the Woods, Julie Saul Gallery,” NYC “Art Unlimited,” Basel 2002, Basel, Suisse “Knockout Fairground,” Washington Square East Gallery, NYC “Almost Warm and Fuzzy: Childhood and Contemporary Art,” Cleveland Center for the Arts, Cleveland, OH; Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, TN “Rapture: Art’s Seduction by Fashion 1970-2002,” The Barbican Centre, Londres, GB “New York, New Work, Now,” The Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester, NH “Primal Screams and Song: Selections from the Permanent Collection,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL Nicole Klagsburn Gallery, NYC “Dangerous Beauty,” The Jewish Community Center, NYC “Objects of Desire,” Jan Abrams Fine Arts, NYC
2001 “Recent Acquisitions,” The Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C. “Zwischenraum #5: Sculpture and Object,” Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf, Allemagne “Objective Color,” Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT “Uncommon Threads,” Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY “Sonsbeek 9: Locus/Focus,” Arnhem, The Netherlands “Untragbar: Mode als Skulpture,” Museum für angewandte Kunst, Cologne, Allemagne “About the Bayberry Bush,” The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY “Issue 17: World View,” Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA “Skowhegan Faculty 2001,” Colby College Art Museum, Waterville, ME “The First 10 Years: Selected Works from the Collection,” The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Irlande “New Work: Recent Additions to the Collection,” Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA “Almost Warm and Fuzzy: Childhood and Contemporary Art,” Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; CaixaForum Barcelona, Barcelona; MoMA PS1, NYC “Brooklyn Collects,” The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL “Ellipsis,” Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, NYC
2000 “The Likeness of Being: Contemporary Self- Portraits by Sixty Women Artists,” DC Moore Gallery, NYC “Almost Warm and Fuzzy: Childhood and Contemporary Art ,” Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art; SMoCA, Scottsdale, AZ; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA “Multiples,” Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf, Allemagne “Beauty Now,” Haus der Kunst, Munich, Allemagne
1999 “Textil,” Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden, Allemagne “Regarding Beauty,” Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C. “The Rubell Family Collection of Contemporary Art,” Cornell University, Ithaca, NY “The Body in Question,” Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY “School Reunion,” Anthony Wilkinson Gallery, Londre, GB “A Space to Grow,” Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Irlande “Almost Warm and Fuzzy; Childhood and Contemporary Art,” Des Moines Art Center, IA (traveling exhibition)
1998 “Masters of the Masters,” Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH “L’entrelacement et l’enveloppe,” La Villa du Parc, Annemasse, France “The Secret Life of Clothes,” Artium Gallery, Fukuoka, Japon “Fashion Happening,” Gallery K, Washington, D.C “Fashioned,” White Box, NYC “Cathedral City,” St. Ann’s Church, Manchester, GB “Pusan International Contemporary Art Festival,” Pusan Metropolitan Art Museum,
Pusan, Corée du Sud “Seven Year Itch,” Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL “Douzième rencontres Video Art Plastique,” Centre d’art contemporain de Basse-Norman- die, Caen, France
Education
Beverly Semmes a obtenu un baccalauréat en histoire de l'art et, en 1982, un BFA (Bachelor of Fines Arts) au Boston Museum School et à l'Ecole Skowhegan de l'art. En 1987, elle a reçu une maîtrise de l'Université de Yale School of Art, New Haven. Son travail est apparu au Musée Hirshorn et Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. ; le Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY ; le Denver Art Museum; et le Musée de Los Angeles d'Art Contemporain
Expositions personnelles
2015 Galerie Lefebvre & Fils, Paris, France "Beverly Semmes: FRP", Weatherspoon Art Muséum, Greensboro, NC; Faulconer Gallery, Grinnelle College, IA "FRP", Nina Fredudenheim Gallery, Buffalo NY
2014 "FRP", Gallery Bugdahn and Kaimer, Düsseldorf, Allemagne "Operare 27 Beverly Semmes: FRP", Tang Museum at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY "Beverly Semmes", Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Irlande "FRP", Sunsan Inglett Gallery, NYC "1992-1994", Shoshana Wayne, Santa Monica, CA
2013 "Beverly Semmes", Galleria Maraini, Bologne, Italie "Starcraft", Sarah Moody Gallery, University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa, AL
2012 "Starcraft", Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN; Eleanor D Wilson Museum, Hollins University, Roanoke, VA
2011 "The Feminist Responsibility Project", Rowan University Art Gallery, Glassboro, NJ "Starcraft", Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN (Travelling Exhibition)
2008 "Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing ?" (Collaboration with Ingrid Shaffner), Testsite, Austin, TX "Pink Arms", Pairs and Bumps, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX
2007 "Beverly Semmes", Galleria Marabini, Bologne, Italie "Certainly (Chartreuse) / Really (Red), "Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf, Allemagne
2006 "Blood Shot Pot", Soshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2005 "Hole/Pot/Dot", Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY "Ice Queen", Galerie Bugdahn und Kaiser, Düsseldorf, Allemagne "La Flor del Paraiso 2", Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, NYC "Hole/Pot/Dot", Editions Copenhagen, Copenhague, Danemarque
2004 Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY "La Flor del Paraiso", Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Danemarque
2003 "In the O", Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, NYC
2002 "Sea Green Petunia", Galerie Bugbahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf, Allemagne
2001 "Beverly Semmes", Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, NYC
2000 "Beverly Semmes, Ginza Artspace, Shiseido Co., Tokyo, Japon "Watching Her Feat", The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphie, PA
1999 “Photographs,” Susan Inglett Gallery, NYC “Super-8 Films,” GAGA, NYC Kunstverein Ulm, Ulm, Allemagne “Not Here,” Ezra & Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT “Recent Photographs + Video,” Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf, Allemagne “Beverly Semmes,” Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1998 “Beverly Semmes,” Galleria Marabini, Bologne, Italie
1997 “Stuffed Cat,” Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
1996 “Directions: Beverly Semmes,” Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. “Beverly Semmes: Big Silver,” Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA; Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, FL; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA; Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Düsseldorf, Allemagne Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Irlande Michael Klein Gallery, NY “She Moves,” Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, NYC
1995 “Beverly Semmes: Yellow Pool,” Kemper Museum for Contemporary Art and Design, Kansas City, MO “Beverly Semmes,” Baxter Gallery, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME “Beverly Semmes,” The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
1994 “Beverly Semmes,” Michael Klein Inc., NYC “Beverly Semmes,” Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France “Beverly Semmes,” Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italie “Beverly Semmes,” James Hockey Gallery, WSCAD, Farnham, GB “Beverly Semmes,” Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, GB Camden Arts Centre, Londres, GB
1993 “Beverly Semmes,” ICA, Philadelphia, PA 5501 Columbia, Contemporary Culture Inc., Dallas, TX South Eastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
1992 “Beverly Semmes,” The Sculpture Center, NYC
1990 “Special Projects,” P.S.1 Museum, Long Island City, NYC “Beverly Semmes,” Artists Space, NYC