REENA SPAULINGS
b. 2004Reena Spaulings first emerged in the eponymous novel published in 2004 as a fictional character of a young woman making her way in the New York art scene of the 2000s. Meanwhile, Reena Spaulings Fine Art opened on Manhattan’s Lower East Side and its founding members started commercial and artistic collaborations with the gallery’s artists such as Ei Arakawa, Claire Fontaine, Klara Liden, Jutta Koether and Seth Price. Spaulings’ artistic work embraces ambiguities that question as much the traditionally accepted notion of authorship, as the customary division of labour within the art world.
His work has been shown internationally for many exhibitions including at the Yuz Museum, Shanghai (2018), Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Genève (2017); Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany (2017); Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2016); Museum Brandhorst, Mnich (2015); Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA (2015); Frac Aquitaine, Bordeaux, France (2013); MD 72, Berlin, Germany (2013); Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France (2010); Indipendenza Studio, Roma, Italy (2011); St. Louis Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, US (2008); Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland (2007).
Text courtesy Galerie Chantal Crousel.
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