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My work gravitates around my experiences here on earth. I recently was commissioned by the NRDC to do a film about their Ocean's defense program.
Even though I was very socially and environmentally conscious, the making of the film heightened my awareness of the challenges we are facing.
It also showed me that as an individual i can make a difference, starting with making this film but more so by my association with the NRDC, I learned that there are ways of direct involvement and action.
Experience
Marcopoulos is a photographer and filmmaker born in Amsterdam, the Netherlands. He moved to New York in 1979 and now resides in Northern California. His work has been exhibited in The Whitney Biennial at The Whitney Museum of American Art, The Kunsthalle, Bern, The Photographer's Gallery in London, Porto Mercosul Biennial, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, and PS1/MOMA in New York, Kunsthaus Zurich, New Orleans Museum of Art. His films include Larry Wright featured in P.O.V, The American Documentary, and Key to the Riddle screened at MOMA, NYC in their New Documentaries series. Twelve monographs of his photographs have been published. Currently he is working on his survey exhibition at the Berkeley Museum of Art opening in the fall of 2009 and his soon the be released Craig Kelly documentary.
Ari Marcopoulos
Born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 1957
Lives in Sonoma, California
Solo Exhibitions
2008
The Project, New York, "Fear God"
Gallery White Room, Tokyo, "The Chance is Higher"
No:12 Gallery, Tokyo
Galleria Patricia Armocida, Milan, "Always and Never"
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans,
"Ari Marcopoulos: Architectures"
2007
MC, Los Angeles, "The Chance Is Higher"
2006
MU, Eindhoven, "Flow"
Someday Gallery, Melbourne, "Under Penalty of Perjury"
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, "New Work"
2005
PS1/MOMA, New York, " Even the president of the United States sometimes has got to stand naked"
2004
No. 12 Gallery, Tokyo
2002
Shibuya Tower, Tokyo, "Pass The Mic 1991-1996"
2001
Alleged Galleries, New York, "Transitions and Exits"
The Deep Gallery, Tokyo
Partobject Gallery, Carrboro, North Carolina
1990
Midtown-Y-Gallery, New York
Group Exhibitions
2009
White Columns, New York, "Copy"
2008
Detroit Institute Of Arts, Detroit, "In the Company of Artists: Photographs from the DIA Collection"
Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, "Mini Market"
Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, "Nieves Library"
Marella Gallery, Milan, "Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue"
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, "A Curator's Gift: Contemporary Photography from Diego Cortez"
White Columns, New York, "Male" work from the collection of Vince Aletti
2007
Community Outreach, London, Ontario, "7 photographers"
Fuse Gallery, New York, "Hommies"
The Luggage Store, San Francisco, "In the Fullness of Time: Celebrating Twenty Years"
New York Public Library, New York, "Making the Scene: The Midtown Y Photography Gallery(1972-1996)
Cohan and Leslie Gallery, New York, "JH ENGSTRöM, LEIGH LEDARE, ARI MARCOPOULOS"
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, "Collectivity"
Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, "Allusive Moments"
2006
White Columns, New York. "Looking Back"
No. 12 Gallery, Tokyo, "Zine Library"
Agnes B. Skyline, Paris. "Downtown 81, Friends Of Basquiat"
Kunsthaus, Zurich, "In The Alps"
Christophe Daviet-Thery, Paris, "JRP/Ringier-We Make Books With Art"
The JRNL Gallery, New York, "Coooool Sky"
Kunst Meran, Merano, "Sound Zero"
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, "An Ongoing Low-Grade Mystery"
Cranbrook Museum, Detroit, "Shoot The Family"
Luhring-Augustine Gallery, New York, "Portraits of Artists:
A selection of photographic works from the collection of Rex Capital, Rhode Island"
2005
Galerie de France, Paris, "De la comtesse De Castiglione a Cindy Sherman"
The Backroom, Los Angeles, "The Backroom"
The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, "Bay Area Now 4"
Rocket Gallery, Tokyo, "Nieves Books Exhibition"
2004
The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, "Beautiful Losers"
Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, "Fresh: Youth Culture & Identity in Contemporary Photographs.
CCAC Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco,
"The Gray Area: Uncertain Images: Bay Area Photography 1970's to Now"
2003
Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre
Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, "Danger Zone"
Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, "Study"
Australian Centre for Photography, ‘My Xerox Weighs a Tonne"
Zabriskie Gallery, New York, "Who? Me?"
2002
Jeffrey Deitch, New York, "SessionThe Bowl"
Aosta, Tour Fromage, "Mystic Mountains"
The Photographers' Gallery, London, "Overnight to Many Cities"
Ratio 3, Brooklyn, "Strange Glue"
Whitney Museum, "Whitney Biennial", New York.
2001
303 Gallery, New York, "Overnight to Many Cities"
2000
Gavin Brown's Enterprise Corp., New York, "A Beastie Boys Exhibition"
1999
Alleged Galleries, New York, "Coup d'État"
1995
Alleged Galleries, New York, " The Happiest People in the World"
Screenings
2000
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, "New Documentaries"
1999
911 Media Arts Center, Seattle, "Captain Powder: Exploring the Snow Sport Genre"
San Francisco Film Society, "The 42nd San Francisco International Film Festival"
Collections
Detroit Institute of the Arts
Whitney Museum of American Art
SFMOMA
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center
Rex Capital Collection
Stephane Jansen
New Orleans Museum of Art
Public commissions
UCSF Mission Bay
Bibliography
Benjamin Sommerhalder, ed., The Cat, Zurich, Nieves, 2007
Angelique Spaninks, ed., Flow, Rotterdam, MU/Veenman Publishers, 2006
Lionel Bovier, Gilles Gavillet, ed. Even The President of The United States Sometimes Has Got To Stand Naked, Zurich, JRP/Ringier, 2005
Aaron Rose, ed. Out and About, Bologna, Damiani, 2005
Misha Hollenbach, ed. Kids Born Out Of Fire/The Maestro, Melbourne, PAM Books, 2004
Cortez, Diego, ed. Transitions and Exits. New York: powerHouse Books, 2000.
Marcopoulos, Ari. Pass the Mic: Beastie Boys 1991-1996. New York: powerHouse Books, 2001.
Marcopoulos, Ari. Portraits from the Studio and the Street. Amsterdam: Bert Bakker, 1998.
Mowing the Lawn