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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