BIO

LUIS GISPERT

b. New Jersey, 1972
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

Education

MFA, Sculpture, Yale University, New Haven, CT 2001
BFA, Film, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1996

Solo Exhibitions

2009
You’re My Favorite Kind Of American, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago IL
Luis Gispert Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL
Otereo Plassert Gallery, Los Angeles,CA.
2008
Heavy Manner Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
El Mundo Es Tuyo (the world is yours), Zach Feuer Gallery and Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
2005
Luis Gispert & Jeffrey Reed: Stereomongrel, The Whitney Museum, New York, NY; Zach Feuer Gallery (LFL), New York, NY; Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
2004
Loud Image, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH; University Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego, CA
Luis Gispert, Art Pace, San Antonio, TX
2003
Urban Myths Part II, Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York, NY
Urban Myths Part I, Miami Art Central, Miami, FL; Baum Award, UC Berkeley Art Museum, CA
Cheerleaders 2000 – 2002, Miami Dade Community College, FL

Selected Group Exhibitions
2009
Mnemosyne l’atlante dell’immagini, Centro Arti Visive, Pescheria Italy
Lover ,curated by Kate Gilmore & Candice Madey, On Stellar Rays Gallery, New York, NY
2008
Mediations Biennale, National Museum of Poznan, Poznan Poland
The Constructed Image, Redux Contemporary Art Center, Charleston, SC TRANSactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art, Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
2007
Not For Sale, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY
Between Two Deaths, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
Art in America: 300 Years of Innovation, Shanghai MoCA, Shanghai China
Milieu, Lizabeth Oliveria, Los Angeles, CA
Wrong Number, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Manifest: Colonial Tendencies of the West, Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO
2006
USA TODAY, Royal Academy of Art, London, UK
Youth of Today, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
Nominally Figured, Fogg Art Museum Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Bring It On, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, IL
Transformer: Traveling exhibition of contemporary artworks from the West Collection, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA
Constant Disturbance, Centro Cultural Español, Curated by Gean Moreno, Miami, FL
2005
Situation Comedy: Humor in Recent Art, Curator Dominic Malone. The Contemporary Museum Honolulu, HI; Chicago Cultural Center Chicago, IL; Winnipeg Art Gallery Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Make It Now New Sculpture In New York, Sculpture Center, New York, NY
EV, Curator Dan Cameron. Limerick City Gallery of Art, Ireland
Will Boys Be Boys? Questioning Adolescent Masculinity in Contemporary Art, traveling exhibition (2004-2006), Curator Shamim M. Momin. The Salina Art Center, Salina, KS; Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
The Superfly Effect, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
2004
Contested Fields, Des Moines Art Center, IA
Semiprecious, Public Art Fund, MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, NY
Fade In, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX Open House, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
2003
Women Beware Women, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
NextNext Visual Art, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, NY
Black Belt, Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, NY
Influence, Anxiety, and Gratitude, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
2002
Interplay, Moore Building, Miami, FL
Mass Appeal: The art object and Hip Hop culture, Galerie 101 Ottawa, Ontario; Montreal Arts Interculturels, Montreal, Quebec; The Khyber Center For The Arts, Halifax; Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, New Brunswick
Monitor 2, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
Bystander, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
10 Seconds 2 Love, Mullerdechiara Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Whitney Biennial,Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
New Additions To The Altoids Curiously Strong Collection, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
Officina America, Galleria D’Arte Moderna Villa Delle Rose Museo Morandi, Bologna, Italy
2001
One Planet Under One Groove: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art, The Bronx Museum Of The Arts, New York, NY
Border Stories: IX International Biennial of Photography, Palazzo Brocherasio, Torino, Italy
Bling Bling Audelio Fine Art, New York, NY
Pause, Mark Fox Gallery, Los Angles, CA

Awards and Grants

The Baum: Emerging American Photographer Award
Cintas Foundation Visual Arts Fellowship
Rema Hort Mann Foundation Art Grant
Alice Kimball Traveling Grant
Florida Individual Artist Fellowship
Art Access Traveling Grant
New Forms Visual Arts Grant
South Florida Cultural Consortium Visual Arts Fellowship

Collections

Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA
Haifa Museum of Art, Israel
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
San Frannsisco Museum of Modern Art, San Fransisco, CA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
UC Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York


Bibliography: Reviews

Allsop, Laura and Jessika Green. “Consumed.” Art Review April 2008.
“Art Choices: Effects.” The Village Voice 23 May 2000.
“Artists’ Choice: Top 100 Galleries.” Flash Art January / February 2008.
Austin, Tom. “Luis Gispert returns to his Miami roots as a major art world player.” Miami Herald 14 October, 2007.
Baker, R.C. “Best in Show.” Village Voice 29 January 2008.
Bentley, Kyle. “Luis Gispert.” ArtForum April 2008: 370-371.
Braunstein, Peter. “Brave New Whitney.” W Magazine March 2002: 198-200.
Dambrot, Shana Nys. “Luis Gispert and Jeffery Reed.” ArtKrush February 2006.
Danto C, Arthur, Lawrence Rinder, and Simona Vendrame. “New York, November 8, 2001: a conversation.” Tema Celeste January / February 2002.
Davis, Ben. “The Bling Game.” ArtNet Magazine January 2008.
Davis, Ben. “The Bling Game.” artnet.com February 2008.
Dupuis, Isabelle. “Luis Gispert.” Flash Art March / April 2008.
Falconer, Morgan. “Zach Feuer.” Art World April / May 2008: 126-129.
Finel Honigman, Ana. “Going for Baroque.” Style.com 11 January 2008.
Finel Honigman, Ana. “New York.” Art Papers Magazine May / June 2002.
Fortini, Amanda. “Critical Mass: The Art World Sharpens Its Claws in Anticipation of the Always Controversal Whitney Biennial.” Elle March 2002: 156.
Fujimori, Manami (translated by Andreas Stuhlmann). “Luis Gispert.” High Fashion April 2008: 73, 209.
Giovanotti, Micaela. “New York Soup.” Exibart.onpaper January 2008: 70.
“Goings On About Town: Galleries-Chelsea-Effects.” The New Yorker March 2000.
Hashimoto, Jacob. “Interview with Luis Gispert.” The Highlights August 2008.
Hohmann, Silke. “Luis Gispert.”Monopol March 2008.
Hopper, Mark. “The Things We Do For Art.” I-D Magazine May 2002.Howe, Jeff. "Paint by Numbers." Wired April 2005: 88.
Hrabi, Dale. "The Culture Beat: Entertainment A-Z." Radar Magazine September / October 2005:31.
Hunt, David. “Billboard: Luis Gispert.” Artext Spring 2002.
Johnson, Ken. “Luis Gispert: Urban Myths PT II (Return Of The Hypenaholics).” The New York Times 9 January 2004.
Kerr, Merrily. “An interview with Franklin Sirmans.” NY Arts Magazine January 2002.
Korotkin, Joyce. “Luis Gispert and Jeffrey Reed.” Tema Celeste March / April 2006.
Knight, Christopher. “Friskily is best revenge.” Los Angeles Times 3 August 2007.
Kunitz, Daniel. “Gallery Going: Dislocating Dreams.” The New York Sun 7 February 2008: 25.
Lebowitz, Cathy. “Cathy Lebowitz Interviews Josefina Ayerza.” Lacanian Ink Spring 2008:166- 177.
“Luis Gispert and Jeffrey Reed.” The New Yorker 14 November 2005.
“Luis Gispert: El Mundo Es Tuyo (The World Is Yours).” Tout Va Bien no. 4, 2007.
“Luis Gispert.” The New Yorker 3 March 2008.
MacMillan, Kyle. “Springs pushes envelope with art show.” Denver Post 11 November 2007.
Martin, Lydia. “Urban Myths Bring the Street Home”, Miami Herald, December 6, 2003. “Medium Cool.” Time Out New York 10-16 January 2008: 73, 75.
Moreno, Gean. “Luis Gispert.” Flash Art December 2002.
Moreno, Gean. “On View: Miami.” New Art Examiner May 1999.
Murphy, Kevin. “An Impromptu Art Walk.” Charleston City Paper, 28 May 2008
Naldi, Fabiola. “Officina Americana: interview with Renato Barilli.” Collezioni edge Spring/Summer 2002.
Nickas, Bob. ”Mild About Larry, Multiple Voice.” Artforum May 2002.
Ocana, Damarys. “Bright Lights, Big City.” The Miami Herald 25 November 2001.
Patton, Daniel. “Bling Bling.” NY Arts May 2000.
Plagens, Peter. "This Man Will Decide What Art Is." Newsweek 4 March 2002.
Pool, Olivia. “Constructed Photography Exhibit.” The Post and Courier 8 May 2008
“Power 100: 70: Zach Feuer.” Artreview November 2006.
Robinson, Knox. “The Show: interview with Franklin Sirmans.” The Fader Winter 2001/2002.
Rosenberg, Karen. “Luis Gispert: El Mundo Es Tuyo (the world is yours).” The New York Times 25 January 2008.
Rosenfeld, Jeannie. “Hamptons Heat.” Art + Auction July 2007.
Schwendener, Martha. “Luis Gispert and Jeffery Reed: Critic’s Picks.” Artforum.com October 2005.
Schwendener, Martha. “Women Beware Women.” Time Out NY 4-11 December 2003.
Sharp, Rob. "Is that a Picasso in the Pool?" Guardian Observer 10 September 2006.
Sirmans, Franklin. “Pop Life Luis Gispert. Gold to Me.” One World February / March 2003.
Smith, Roberta. “In the Orbit of Funk and Hip-Hop.” The New York Times 18 January 2002.
Villasmil, Alejandra. "Luis Gispert and Jeffery Reed." Arte Aldia January 2006: 77.
Vogel, Carol. “A Homegrown Biennial.” The New York Times 26 November 2001.
Von Schlegel, Mark. “Luis Gispert, Jonathan Horowitz, John Williams.” Artext May / June 2001.
Wolff, Rachel. “Luis Gispert.” New York 14 January 2008.
Zellen, Jody. "Luis Gispert and Jeffrey Reed." Artpapers May 2006: 61-62.

Bibliography: Publications
Hans Werner Holzwarth, Art Now Vol 3, Taschen, 2009
Barnard, Suzanne and Mika Hannula. Between Two Deaths. Hatje Cantz: 2007.
Bring It On. Monique Meloche Gallery, 2006.
Carvajal Rina. “American Baroque: A Conversation with Luis Gispert.”10 Floridians, MAC, 2003.
Chang, Jeff. Total Chaos, the Art and Aesthetics of Hip Hop. Basic Civitas Books, 2006: 133- 134, 144-145,147,139-142.
Clearwater, Bonnie. Making Art In Miami. Miami: MOCA December 2000.
Fade In: New Film and Video. Houston: Contemporary Arts Museum, 2004.
Hsu, Helen. Art in America Now. Shanghai: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2007: 48-49.
Kim, Christine. Black Belt. New York: The Studio Museum In Harlem, 2003: 44-45.
One Planet Under A Groove: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art. New York: Bronx Museum, 2001: 24, 29.
Stereomongrel. Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, 2005.
Tejada, Roberto J. Loud Image. Hood Museum of Art, 2004.
The Progressive Collection: Art Works. New York: D.A.P., 2007: 242.
The Youth of Today. Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Verlag Der Buchhandlung Walter König, 2006: 191.
Tomcic, Goran. “Miami Spice.” Hot Spots: Los Angeles, Houston, Miami. Greensboro: Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, May 1999.
USA Today: New American Art from the Saatchi Gallery. Royal Academy of Arts: 142-149.
West, Paige. The Art of Buying Art. New York: HarperCollins, 2007: 49.
Whitney Biennial 2002: 2002 Biennial Exhibition. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2002: 90-91.

VISITING ARTIST LECTURER
Yale University
New York University
University of California, Berkeley
University of Pennsylvania
Dartmouth College
School of the Visual Arts New York
California Institute of the Arts
University of Regina, Canada
Florida International University
Pratt Institute
University of Arizona
The University of Texas at Austin
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2009 Adjunct professor, New York University, Steinhardt School of Art