Mungo Thomson

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Biography

MUNGO THOMSON
1969

Born in California, USA

Lives and works Los Angeles, USA

EDUCATION
2000

Master of Fine Arts, University of California, Los Angeles

1994

Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program, New York

1991

Bachelor of Arts, University of California, Santa Cruz

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009

The Varieties of Experience, John Connelly Presents, New York

2008

Hammer Projects: Mungo Thomson, UCLA Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles

Einstein #1, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles

2007

Between Projects, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris

2006

Negative Space Variations, Eldorado Series, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea (GAMeC), Bergamo, Italy

Negative Space Variations, Art Kabinett, Margo Leavin Gallery, Art Basel Miami Beach

Art 37 Statements, John Connelly Presents, Basel, Switzerland

Freak Flag (White Flag), REC. (Esther Schipper Gallery Project Space), Berlin, Germany

2005

New York, New York, New York, New York, John Connelly Presents, New York

The Suburban, Oak Park, Illinois

2004

Centric 65: Mungo Thomson, California State University Art Museum, Long Beach

2004 Bienal Internacional de Cuenca, Cuenca, Ecuador

Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles

2002

Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles

2000

Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles

TWO AND THREE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2003

SNOWBLIND: Matthew Brannon, Wade Guyton, Mungo Thomson, John Connelly Presents, New York

2002

ELEKTRA: Gabriel Orozco and Mungo Thomson, TRANSMISSION, Glasgow, Scotland

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009

BROKEN ENGLISH, Seiler + Mosseri-Marlio Galerie, Zurich

Compilation IV, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany. Catalogue

La nada y el ser (Nothingness and Being), Fundación/Colección Jumex, Mexico City

Beyond the Picturesque, Stedelijk Museum voor Aktuelle Kunst (S.M.A.K.), Ghent, Belgium. Catalogue

Hardware: Machine Aesthetics in the Digital Age, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. Catalogue

The Moving Image: Scan to Screen, Pixel to Projection, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA

Changing Light Bulbs In Thin Air, Hessel Museum at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

SouthWestNET: Film & Video, Scotsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scotsdale, Arizona

2008

2008 Whitney Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Catalogue

Le Havre Biennial of Contemporary Art, Musée Malraux, Le Havre, France

8th Bienal de Arte Panama: The Sweet Burnt Smell of History, Panama City, Panama

The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image, Part 2: Realisms, Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. Catalogue

The Possibility of an Island, North Miami Museum of Contemporary Art at Goldman Warehouse, Miami

Sudden White (After London), Royal Academy of Art, London

The Tree: From the Sublime to the Social, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

The Lining of Forgetting, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina. Catalogue

Signals: A Video Showcase–California Scenarios, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach

The Future as Disruption, The Kitchen, New York

Desertshore, Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, California State University Los Angeles

Huis Clos, Proyectos Monclova, Mexico City, Mexico

The Store, Tulips & Roses, Vilnius, Lithuania

You Complete Me, Western Bridge, Seattle

Red Wind, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles

Tapestry, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles

2007

Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago / Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami. Catalogue

Bill Leavitt, Allen Ruppersberg, Mungo Thomson, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles

REC.ollection, REC. (Esther Schipper Gallery Project Space), Berlin

Some Time Waiting, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris

Been Up So Long It Looks Like Down To Me, Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, Canada. Catalogue

Mystic Truths, Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand. Catalogue

Noise: A Hole in the Silence, Poeziezomers vzw, Watou, Belgium / Spazio Oberdan, Province of Milan, Milan, Italy. Catalogue

2006

Strange Powers, Creative Time, New York. Catalogue

Yes Bruce Nauman,Zwirner & Wirth, New York

Five Rooms for Melancholy,Arts Center Kortrijk, Belgium

Prophets of Deceit,Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco. Catalogue

Esquiador en el fondo de un pozo, La Coleccion Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico. Catalogue

Eigenheim, Kunstverein Gottingen, Gottingen, Germany

Happiness, Gagosian Gallery, 4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, Berlin

When the Moon Shines on the Moonshine, The Breeder, Athens, Greece

The Show Will Be Open When the Show Will Be Closed, STORE Gallery, London

The Galleries Show, Extra City Center for Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium. Catalogue

2005

PERFORMA05: First Biennial Of Visual Art Performance, New York. Catalogue

Frieze Art Fair Sculpture Park, Regent’s Park, London

The Early Show, White Columns, New York

Down Time: Constructing Leisure, New Langton Arts, San Francisco. Catalogue

2004

2004 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach. Catalogue

Treble, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY

100 Artists See God, Independent Curators International, New York. Catalogue

Drunk vs. Stoned, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York

Repeat Performance, Artists’ Space, New York. Catalogue

Land of the Free, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco

A level of trust. After Kurt Cobain, More Fools in Town, Torino, Italy

2003

Now Playing, D’amelio Terras Gallery, New York

17 Reasons, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco. Catalogue

2002

Rock My World, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco. Catalogue

Videodrome II, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York

High Desert Test Sites, A-Z West, Joshua Tree. Catalogue

2001

Sound System: 9th Biennial of the Moving Image, MAMCO, Geneva, Switzerland. Catalogue

Hemorrhaging of States, TENT.CBK, Rotterdam, Netherlands

[untitled] 654321, Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense, Denmark. Catalogue

I Want More…And More…, Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

 
GRANTS AND RESIDENCIES
2010

Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

2003

The Fund for U.S. Artists at International Festivals and Exhibitions

2001

Artist Residency, Stichting Kaus Australis, Rotterdam, Netherlands

1999

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