| 1978 | Born Bridgeport CT, USA |
| 2000 |
BFA Film/TV and Art History, New York University, New York NY, USA Lives and works in New York NY, USA |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2023 | Innative Value, BLUM, New York NY, USA Darren Bader and Li Ming, Mind the Gap, BY ART MATTERS, Hangzhou, China |
| 2022 |
Wonths every few Monce, Sadie Coles HQ, Regent Street viewing room, Kingly Street, London, England Spring Cleaning / Vernal Post-Hibernal Journal, online/chain (ongoing) |
| 2021 |
Darren Bader: The American Express Holiday Show, Harkawik, New York NY, USA Group Show, Dries Van Noten off-site: The Little House, Los Angeles CA, USA Mends of Scott Friendes, Sadie Coles HQ, Bury Street, London, England The Plastic Arts / Life Suffuses, Cells Amused, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York NY, USA Bootlicker Suite, part of the Museum for Preventive Imagination’s SUPPLEMENT section, MACRO Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma, Rome, Italy |
| 2020 |
Character Study, ACRUSH AG, Zurich, Switzerland Fruits, Vegetables; Fruit and Vegetable Salad, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY, USA |
| 2019 |
Interlude, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy |
| 2018 |
character limit, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles CA, USA I don’t know, Société, Berlin, Germany E/either e/Either n/Neither N/neither, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York NY, USA more or less, Sadie Coles HQ, Davies Street, London, England |
| 2017 |
(@mined_oud), Madre · museo d’arte contemporanea Donnaregina, Naples, Italy Forest/Trees, Greenspon Gallery, New York NY, USA Meaning and Difference, The Power Station, Dallas TX, USA |
| 2016 |
such are promises,Sadie Coles HQ, Kingly, London, England |
| 2015 |
rocks and mirrors,Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy 39/50, fig-2, ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England The World as Will and Representation, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany Reading Writing Arithmetic, Radio Athènes, Athens, Greece |
| 2014 |
Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York NY, USA Egg, Chicago IL, USA |
| 2013 |
Roads, SPACE, London, England Heaven and Earth, Blum and Poe, Los Angeles CA, USA #I am just living to be dying by your side, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy |
| 2012 |
More Buildings about Songs and Food, Sadie Coles HQ, Balfour Mews, London, England Where is a Bicycle’s Vagina (and other enquiries) or Around the Samovar,1857, Oslo, Norway Images,MoMA PS1, New York NY, USA |
| 2011 | Chad Ochocinco,Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York NY, USA |
| 2010 |
Alex Zachary, New York NY, USA Number[s], Eighth Veil, Los Angeles CA, USA |
| 2009 |
New Work, 303 Gallery, New York NY, USA T&s n’ Kreps, New York NY, USA |
| 2008 |
Gallery Sora, Tokyo, Japan Nic Cage: A Bridal Tour of Southern California Foundries, 2nd Cannons Publications, Los Angeles CA, USA; Pauline Gallery, Los Angeles CA, USA |
| 2007 | as = poaching the poachers, Rivington Arms, New York NY, USA |
| 2004 |
Cat,Rivington Arms, New York NY, USA |
| 2001 |
Do Space Apes Masturbate?,1001 East 1st Street Arts Building, Los Angeles CA, USA |
Group Exhibitions
| 2024 |
Material World, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York NY, USA |
| 2023 |
Diaspora a show organized by Bejamin Godsill & Joel Mesler, Ezra Gallery, Sag Harbor NY, USA |
| 2022 |
Kaleidoscope Eyes, Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea |
| 2021 |
sub/dominium, Château Shatto, Los Angeles CA, USA The Going Away Present, Kristina Kite Gallery, London, England Breadcrumbs: Art In The Age of NFTism, Galerie Nagel Draxler, Cologne, Germany It Is What It Is, Chateau Shatto online Doomed and Famous: Selection from the Adrian Dannatt Collection, Miguel Abreu Gallery, New York NY, USA La Boîte-en-Valise, Office Baroque online |
| 2020 |
Unreal City, various locations, Southbank, London, England Mirage: Contemporary Art in Augmented Reality, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China 5,471 miles, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles CA, USA Me, Family, Mudam – The Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg Animal Kingdom, Alexander Berggruen online Focus Group II, von ammon co, Washington D.C. DC, USA Sarah Lehrer Graiwer curates, Gallery Platform online Il Lenzuolo Voila, ERMES-ERMES, Vienna, Austria |
| 2019 |
Furniture of Desire, Lie Lay Lain, New York NY, USA Chairs Beyond Right & Wrong, R & Company, New York NY, USA who knows one, Vistamare, Pescara, Italy, curated by Haim Steinbach May You Live in Interesting Times, 58th International Art Exhibition, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy |
| 2018 |
Adam McEwen Selects: Exhibition and Sale to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Gladstone Gallery, 21 Street, New York NY, USA Fake as More, Front Desk Apparatus, Simon Lee Gallery, New York NY, USA Pizza is God, NRW-Forum, Dusseldorf, Germany Thumbs That Type and Swipe: The DIS Edutainment Network, DIS.ART., La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain Stories of Almost Everyone, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA, USA |
| 2017 |
.COM/.CN, KAF K11 Art Foundation, Shanghai, China, presented by K11 Art Foundation and MoMA PS1 Social Surfaces, Artists Space, New York NY, USA Ripple Effect, FUTURA, Prague, Czech Republic (Interlude), Cookie Butcher, Brussels, Belgium Synthetic Divide, ACRUSH AG, Zurich, Switzerland Fleming Faloon, Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium Earth Day, Ramiken Crucible, New York NY, USA FRIEND ? ?, Galerie Maria Bernheim, Zurich, Switzerland Dreamlands (Screenings), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY, USA Videobox, Le Carreau du Temple, Paris, France Acordo de confiança, Biblioteca Mário de Andrade, São Paulo, Brazil .COM/.CN, K11 Art Foundation Pop-up Space, Hong Kong, presented by K11 Art Foundation and MoMA PS1 Low, XYZ Collective, The Steak House Doskoi, Tokyo, Japan Jade Bi, Galeria Madragoa, Lisbon, Portugal Galerie Maria Bernheim, Zurich, Switzerland Galeria Madragoa, Lisbon, Portugal Oliver Twist, Chapter 2, Rental Gallery, East Hampton NY, USA |
| 2016 |
For Pete’s Sake, Carl Kostyál, Stockholm, Sweden Phantasmagoria,The Stolbun Collection, Chicago Project Space, Chicago IL, USA Not My Bridge Not My Water, Aetopoulos, Athens, Greece Goulding the Lolly,Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York NY, USA Your memories are our Future,ACRUSH AG, Zurich, Switzerland, curated by Palais de Tokyo & ACRUSH AG Can I step on it?, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy The Coveter, Dickinson, New York NY, USA In the Making: Artists, Assistants, and Influence, Luxembourg + Co, New York NY, USA Fluidity, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany One, No One and One Hundred Thousand, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria The Calder Prize 2005-2015,Pace Gallery, London, England Not For Sale, Lovaas Projects, Munich, Germany Tomorrow is a new day, Yacht Walanka, Monaco Roman á Clef and/or the Appetite of the Chef, Rainbow in Spanish, Los Angeles CA, USA An Idle Visitation, Sante Fe NM, USA, organized by AND NOW, Hester, and Tomorrow |
| 2015 |
Darren Bader, Liz Magic Laser, Takeshi Murata, A Video Exhibition, BFA Boatos Fine Art, São Paulo, Brazil What We Found, Non Objectif Sud, Tulette, France Under the Clouds, Fundação de Serralves, Porto, Portugal The Luluennial: A Slight Gestuary,Lulu, Mexico City, Mexico Constructed Culture sounds like Conculture,Ellis King, Dublin, Ireland Political Populism,Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria Visitors,Governors Island NY, USA The Daily Show, Bureau, New York NY, USA Objects, Food, Rooms,Tankya Bonakdar Gallery, New York NY, USA La vie modern, 13th Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France Unlimited, Art Basel,Basel, Switzerland Love For Three Oranges,Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium Small Sculpture, Shane Campbell Gallery, Chicago IL, USA |
| 2014 |
Never Enough: Recent Acquisitions of Contemporary Art, DMA Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas TX, USA In Real Life, Christine König Galerie, Vienna, Austria RRBGGGRWW (polysemes), Grand Century, New York NY, USA Nuit Américaine,Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium Tragedy + Time, Public Fiction, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA, USA Urs Fischer curated show,Sadie Coles HQ, London, England Parcours, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland 2014 Whitney Biennial,Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY, USA Little Nassau, Brooklyn, New York NY, USA Vegetal Passion, Le Crédac, Royal Garden 5 online Day-For-Night, Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium Parcours Frieze Projects 2014, Frieze New York, New York NY, USA |
| 2013 |
Ground Control to Major Tom,Cookie Butcher, Antwerp, Belgium Empire State, New York Art Now, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France Mixed Message Media, Gladstone Gallery, New York NY, USA Young Collectors,Maison Particulière, Brussels, Belgium Antigrazioso, Nouvelles Vagues in the Palais de Tokyo, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France do it, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York NY, USA (touring exhibition until 2019) Le Quattro Stagioni, Trois Gnossiennes, Triple DJ, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan, Italy This is THIS, Zach Feuer, New York NY, USA Air de Pied-à-terre, Lisa Cooley Gallery, New York NY, USA What we did the following year, Ritter/Zamet, London, England ANAMERICANA, DEPART Foundation, American Academy, Rome, Italy Pataphysics, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York NY, USA PIZZA TIME!, Marlborough Broome Street, New York NY, USA Something About a Tree, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York NY, USA Jew York, UNTITLED, New York NY, USA They might well have been remnants of the boat, Calder Foundation, New York NY, USA Haim Steinbach-Darren Bader, TheNow, miart, Milan, Italy |
| 2012 |
Funny, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York NY, USA Bulletin Boards, Venus Over Manhattan, New York NY, USA Untitled (Tea Party), Galerie Klosterfelde, Berlin, Germany Ten Ten, Jason Alexander, New York NY, USA D’Après Giorgio, Fondazione Giorgio e Isa de Chirico, Rome, Italy |
| 2011 |
Foot To Foot, Regina Gallery, London, England Art Public, Art Basel, Miami Beach FL, USA The Color of Company, Abrons Art Center, New York NY, USA Histoires de votre vie, Office Baroque, Antwerp, Belgium Modify, As Needed, MOCA Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Miami FL, USA Untitled group show, Untitled Gallery, New York NY, USA On Forgery,LAXART, Los Angeles CA, USA Touchy Feely, Human Resources, Los Angeles CA, USA Sculpture is three-dimensional artwork created by shaping or combining hard materials..., König Galerie, Berlin, Germany Office Baroque, Antwerp, Belgium |
| 2010 |
Looking Back / The Fifth White Columns Annual, White Columns, New York NY, USA The hoax is a hoax or may or may not be again, Galerie Carlos Cardenas, Paris, France |
| 2009 |
Rob Pruitt's Flea Market, Tate Modern, London, England Don't Perish, Koenig & Clinton, New York NY, USA Taki Ishii Gallery, Armoury Show, New York NY, USA |
| 2008 |
The World is All That is The Case, Hudson Franklin, New York NY, USA Gaping Hole Found in Universe, Daniel Hug, Los Angeles CA, USA 8 1/2 x 11 / A4, James Fuentes, New York NY, USA Iconic Boston BBQ, LaMontagne Gallery, Boston MA, USA Abandoned Plot, Brooklyn, New York NY, USA Boofthle, Pauline Gallery, Los Angeles CA, USA |
| 2007 |
Rob Pruitt’s Flea Market, Frieze Art Fair, London, England |
| 2006 |
More Songs About Buildings and Food: A Recipe For Downtown, LMCC Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York NY, USA |
| 2005 |
The Pumpkin Show, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York NY, USA |
| 2004 |
Word of Mouth, Dinter Fine Art, New York NY, USA Do Something, Floating IP, Manchester, England |
| 2003 |
Study, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2000 |
Amok Festival of Experimental Film and Video, New York NY, USA |
Curated Shows
| 2010 |
G_M_O_[sho], Nero Magazine, http://www.neromagazine.it/gmo.html |
| 2009 |
with Gavin Brown, The living and the dead, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York NY, USA |
| 2008 | Sunshine, with Ritter/Zamet, Rental Gallery, New York NY, USA |
| 2007 |
MoMA @ Passerby: Dutch Elm Disease, GBE @ Passerby, New York NY, USA |
| 2006 |
with Jesse Willenbring, GRUPE, GBE @ Passerby, New York NY; Mandrake, Los Angeles CA, USA |
| 2005 | Put It In Your Mouth / I'll see you on the dark side of the prune, Rivington Arms, New York NY, USA |
Other Projects
| 2021 |
MEGA, Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples; Milan; Bruno, Venice @tan_aquarium, Twitter Mendes Mundi: Mends of Scott Friendes, Acute Art, London, England [augmented reality] |
| 2020 |
eBay sculpture, Societe, Berlin, Germany Tennis Elbow Window: April 11-17, The Journal Gallery, New York NY, USA Fomo Haber, Felix Art Fair, Los Angeles CA, USA |
| 2018 |
CleanEquity® Conference, Fairmont Monte Carlo, Monaco |
| 2017 |
chess: relatives, The Highline, New York NY, USA |
| 2014 | Come Away with Me, Frieze Projects, New York NY, USA |
| 2013 |
Liberi Tutti, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Arsenale, Milan, Italy with Haim Steinbach, THENnow, miart, Milan, Italy |
| 2012 | Life As a Readymade, published by Kiito-San,New York NY, USA |
| 2011 | with Urs Fischer, The Bearded Island, published by Kiito-San,New York NY, USA |
| 2009 |
Do you have a name for this?, website project for AVA Audio Visual Arts , New York NY, USA |
| 2008 | artreview.com, Project Space, 4 – 11 February |
| 2007 |
Art Basel Miami Beach catalogues, Rivington Arms and Ritter/Zamet booths, NADA Fair, Miami FL, USA |
| 2006 | Glennomnibus in Textfield V |
Residencies
| 2014 | Atelier Calder, Saché, France |
Film screenings
| 2018 |
Living Content Live, Times Square Space, 27 October, New York NY, USA |
Public Collections
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Aspen Art Museum, Aspen CO, USA Cnap Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris, France Centre Pompidou, Paris, France DMA Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas TX, USA Chicago Booth School of Business art collection, Chicago IL, USA Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN, USA Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY, USA |
Awards
| 2013 |
Calder Prize, Calder Foundation, New York NY, USA The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation biannual artist support program |