BIOGRAFIA
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| JAMES HOFF | |
| 1975 | Born in Fort Wayne, Indiana |
| Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY | |
| Education | |
| 1998 | BA, Indiana University |
| One and Two person Exhibitions | |
| 2015 | VI, VII, Oslo, NO |
| B=R=I=C=K=I=N=G, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA | |
| The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over the Lazy Dog, Supportico Lopez, Berlin, DE | |
| 2014 | Skywiper, Callicoon Fine Arts, New York, NY |
| James Hoff, Or Gallery, Vancouver, BC | |
| 2013 | Drop Shadow, Oslo Kunsthall, Oslo, NO |
| 2012 | Milking the Flat Cow, Callicoon Fine Arts, New York, NY |
| I’m Already A Has-Been, VI, VII, Oslo, NO | |
| Selected Group Exhibitions | |
| 2016 | The Blob, Berman Museum of Art at Ursinus College, Collegeville, PA |
| 2015 | Eugene Gomringer &, Kunstverein, Bielefeld, Bielefeld, DE |
| Mediated Images, Brand New Gallery, Milan, IT | |
| On the Exacitude of Rain, Ryan Lee Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Exploring Compositional Epistemologies: A Series of Notional Synthesization on Topological Morphologies and Heuristic Gestures in the Relm of Sonic Language, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN | |
| 2014 | Itself Not So, Lisa Cooley, New York, NY |
| Spectrum II, Apples, Brooklyn, NY | |
| Farm to Table, Foxy Production, New York, NY | |
| Bachelor Machines, Room East, New York, NY | |
| Reading List, Selections from the MoMA Library Collection, Museum of Modern Art, NY | |
| Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art, The Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum, MI | |
| 2013 | Some Woolly Buzz, Publication Studio Vancouver, Vancouver, BC |
| New Humans, Bureau, NY | |
| Sæthre, and Marianne Zamecznik, Norsk Skulpturbiennale, Oslo, NO | |
| Drop Shadow, Oslo Kunsthall, Oslo, NO | |
| Parasitic Gaps, curated by Miriam Katzeff, Team Gallery, New York, NY | |
| The String and the Mirror, organized by Lawrence Kumpf and Justin Luke, Lisa Cooley, New York, NY | |
| Pulp 3, Beat Pictoris Gallery, Birmingham, AL | |
| Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art, Power Plant, Toronto, ON | |
| PAN_ACT, Anthony Greaney, Boston, MA | |
| Sound Spill, Zabludowicz Collection, New York, NY | |
| 2012 | Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, CO |
| Can Stop The Rock Lobster, Shoot the Lobster, New York, NY | |
| 2011 | I Don’t Know if It Makes Any Sense, IMO, Copenhagen, DK |
| Freeks and Geeks, Air De Paris, Paris, FR | |
| 2010 | Pig Latin, Nice & Fit Gallery, Berlin, DE |
| Mapping the Studio, Bastard, Oslo, NO | |
| 2009 | Indian Ocean, Dispatch Bureau, NY, NY |
| 2008 | Black Friday, Printed Matter, NY, NY |
| Artist-Initiated Magazines, Rekord, Oslo, NO | |
| Psychotic Reactions, KS Art, NY | |
| Performances | |
| 2015 | Blaster, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN |
| 2014 | La Monnaie / De Munt, Brussels, BE |
| 2013 | Earworm: Compositions for Brass, Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY |
| Dancing for the Advanced in Age, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, CO | |
| 2012 | PennSound: Edit Series, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA |
| 2009 | How Wheeling Feels When the Ground Walks Away, Artists Space, NY |
| Curatorial | |
| 2013 | Excursis IV, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA |
| 2012 | Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer, Tidens Krav, Oslo, NO |
| 2011 | Hungry for Death (Destroy All Monsters), Boston University, Boston, MA |
| 2010 | Ear to the Page (Co-curated with Alan Licht), Center for Book Arts, NY |
| Hungry for Death (Destroy All Monsters), AMP Gallery, Athens, GR | |
| Hungry for Death (Destroy All Monsters), American Academy, Rome, IT | |
| Hungry for Death (Destroy All Monsters), SPACE, London, UK | |
| 2009 | Year in Review, White Columns, New York, NY |
| Hungry for Death (Destroy All Monsters), Projekt 0047, Oslo, NO | |
| Hungry for Death (Destroy All Monsters), White Flag Project, St. Louis, MI | |
| Hungry for Death (Destroy All Monsters), Printed Matter Inc., New York, NY | |
| 2008 | Leaderless: Contemporary Cassette Culture Now, Torpedo, Oslo, NO |
| 2007 | Fuck for Peace: A History of The Fugs, Printed Matter Inc., New York, NY |
| Leaderless: Contemporary Cassette Culture Now, Printed Matter Inc., New York, NY | |
| Selected Talks/Readings/Lectures | |
| 2014 | Reading List: Artists’ Selections from the MoMA Library Collection, MoMA, New York, NY |
| Discussion on the Music of Mike Kelley, MoMA/PS1, New York, NY | |
| 2013 | Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age, MCA/Denver, Denver, CO |
| Pan Festival, Goethe-Institut, New York, NY June 26. | |
| Metal Fatigue Music, AVA, New York, NY, May 07, 2013. | |
| Lecture/Performance, Issue Project Room, New York, NY, April 25. | |
| Reading (with Exact Change), Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, April 20. | |
| Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age, MCA, Denver, CO, January 27. See it here. | |
| Your PC Is Now Stoned!, Counterpath, Denver, CO, January 25. | |
| Radio Arthur Program (How Wheeling Feels When the Ground Walks Away), Kunsthalle Basel, CHI, January 18 | |
| 2012 | Sound and Text: Experiments in Transmedia Object Making, PS1/MoMA, New York, NY |
| Segue Series, Bowery Poetry Club. | |
| Inventory Arousal Launch, Torpedo Books, Oslo, NO | |
| 2011 | Discussion on Destroy All Monsters, Museum of Modern Art Library, New York, ny |
| 2010 | Ear to the Page, Center for Book Arts (In conversation with Kenny Goldsmith, Alan Licht, and Allen Ruppersberg |
| Confounding Expectations XI, New School for Social Research, NY, NY, April 08 CAA, Chicago, IL, February 13 | |
| Pompidou, Paris, FR(In Conversation with Vito Acconci), January 27 | |
| Sorbonne, Paris, FR (In Conversation with Vito Acconci), January 27 | |
| 2009 | Academy of Art, Oslo, NO, November 2-4 |
| Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, February, 5 | |
| 2008 | Ronnells/OEI Reading Series, Stockholm, SW, December 5 |
| École Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Lyon, FR, February 13 | |
| Academy of Art, Oslo, NO, February 11 | |
| St. Marks Poetry Project, New York, NY January 14 | |
