JORGE PARDO, PHILIPPE PARRENO

Jorge Pardo was born in 1963 in Havana, Cuba and studied at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and art Center College of Design, Pasadena. He lives and works in Los Angeles.

One-person museum exhibitions and projects include Mont Blanc Kulturstiftung, Hamburg and Sotheby’s New York 2001; Dia Art Foundation, New York, and Kunsthalle Basel, 2000;Museum Abteiberg, Monchengladbach, 1999; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1998; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1997. Selected group exhibitions include “Public Offering” Museum of Modern Art, 2001; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden, 2001; The Public Art Fund, New York, 1999; The Jewish Museum, New York, 1998; Institute of Contemporary Art, London, 1997; Traffic, CAPA Musee d’art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France, 1996; Le Labyrinthe Moral, Centre d’Art Contemporaine, Dijon, France, and Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, Germany, 1995.

Philippe Parreno was born in Oran, Algeria and studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts de Grenoble. He lives and works in Paris.

One-person museum exhibitions and projects include Portikus Museum, Frankfurt, Germany, ARC, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, 2002; Moderna Museet, Stocklhom and Institut of Visual Culture, Cambridge, Great Britain, 2001; MAMCO, Geneva, Switzerland, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg-D, San Francisco Art Institute, with Pierre Huyghe, San Francisco, CA, 2000; Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Germany and ARC, Musee d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, 1998; Kunsthalle Nurenberg, Germany, 1997; Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany, 1995. Selected group exhibitions include “No Ghost, Just a Shell,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 2002; “No Ghost, Just a Shell,” Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands and “Animations,” PS1, Long Island City, NY, 2001; “Au-dela du spectacle,” Centre Pompidou, Paris, France and Let’s Entertain, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Portland Art Museum, Centre Georges Pompidou, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Miami Art Museum, 2000; Passions privees, Musee d’Art Moderne, Paris, France, 1995.