WHITNEY BEDFORD
WHITNEY BEDFORD
Born in 1976, lives and works in Los Angeles.
Awards, Grants
• UCLA Hammer Museum Drawing Biennial Winner, Los
Angeles (2001)
• UCLA D’Arcy Hayman Award, Los Angeles (2000-2003)
• Karl-Hoffer Gesellschaft Atelier, Kunstler Werkstatt
Banhof Westend (1998-2000)
• Fulbright Graduate Fellowship, Hochschule der Kunste
(HdK), Berlin (1998-1999)
• Peggy Guggenheim Studentship, Colezione Peggy
Guggenheim, Venice (1997)
Born in 1976, Whitney Bedford lives and works in Los Angeles. Awards : UCLA Hammer Museum Drawing Biennal, Los Angeles (2001); Peggy Guggenheim Studentship, Venice (1997). Exhibitions : Susanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles (2011), Houdini: Art and Magic, Jewish Museum, New York (2010); Arcadia, Art:Concept (2008).
« I draft the pictures, sometimes even composing a hybrid of different images to form a new, collaged picture. I then utilize this as a base structure on which my process of mark making can further exaggerate or otherwise comment on the image. This vocabulary of drawn and painted marks reclaim the image as something new, something mine. I re-mark the source to remember it. This process creates a dialogue between old and new images – it pulls apart and rebuilds. It’s a push and pull between direct depiction, imagination and memory. I push the paintings to reduce to their images to abstract forms or landscapes that connote a different space, one aged by time and impossible to revisit. » (Whitney Bedford, Tema Celeste, 2004)
Group Shows:
- A Woman’s Hand, Saatchi Gallery, Londres (23.09-24.01)
- La Femme de trente ans, Art : Concept, Paris (30.05-25.07) (curator: Caroline Soyez-Petithomme)
Solo exhibitions
2015
• Whitney Bedford: Night and Day, Taymour Grahne, New
York (16.04-20.05)
2014
• Whitney Bedford, Carrie Secrist, Chicago
• Love Letters, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects,
Culver City, CA
2013
• This for That, Starkwhite, Auckland, Nouvelle Zélande
2012
• Whitney Bedford (notes), Starkwhite, Auckland, Nouvelle
Zélande
2011
• Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles
2010
• Whitney Bedford: here/there, Starkwhite Gallery,
Auckland, NZ
2009
• Susanne Vielmetter Projects LA, Los Angeles
2008
• Arcadia, Art:Concept, Paris
2007
• Whitney Bedford: The Escape Artist Series, Cherry and
Martin, Los Angeles
2006
• Art:Concept, Paris
2005
• D’Amelio Terras Gallery, New York
• Cherrydelosreyes, Los Angeles
2004
• Art:Concept, Paris
2000
• Hotel de Ville, Biot, France
1999
• Fulbright- Kommission, Berlin
1998
• BEB Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Copyright Art Concept Gallery , Paris
Born in 1976, lives and works in Los Angeles.
Awards, Grants
• UCLA Hammer Museum Drawing Biennial Winner, Los
Angeles (2001)
• UCLA D’Arcy Hayman Award, Los Angeles (2000-2003)
• Karl-Hoffer Gesellschaft Atelier, Kunstler Werkstatt
Banhof Westend (1998-2000)
• Fulbright Graduate Fellowship, Hochschule der Kunste
(HdK), Berlin (1998-1999)
• Peggy Guggenheim Studentship, Colezione Peggy
Guggenheim, Venice (1997)
Born in 1976, Whitney Bedford lives and works in Los Angeles. Awards : UCLA Hammer Museum Drawing Biennal, Los Angeles (2001); Peggy Guggenheim Studentship, Venice (1997). Exhibitions : Susanne Vielmetter, Los Angeles (2011), Houdini: Art and Magic, Jewish Museum, New York (2010); Arcadia, Art:Concept (2008).
« I draft the pictures, sometimes even composing a hybrid of different images to form a new, collaged picture. I then utilize this as a base structure on which my process of mark making can further exaggerate or otherwise comment on the image. This vocabulary of drawn and painted marks reclaim the image as something new, something mine. I re-mark the source to remember it. This process creates a dialogue between old and new images – it pulls apart and rebuilds. It’s a push and pull between direct depiction, imagination and memory. I push the paintings to reduce to their images to abstract forms or landscapes that connote a different space, one aged by time and impossible to revisit. » (Whitney Bedford, Tema Celeste, 2004)
Group Shows:
- A Woman’s Hand, Saatchi Gallery, Londres (23.09-24.01)
- La Femme de trente ans, Art : Concept, Paris (30.05-25.07) (curator: Caroline Soyez-Petithomme)
Solo exhibitions
2015
• Whitney Bedford: Night and Day, Taymour Grahne, New
York (16.04-20.05)
2014
• Whitney Bedford, Carrie Secrist, Chicago
• Love Letters, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects,
Culver City, CA
2013
• This for That, Starkwhite, Auckland, Nouvelle Zélande
2012
• Whitney Bedford (notes), Starkwhite, Auckland, Nouvelle
Zélande
2011
• Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles
2010
• Whitney Bedford: here/there, Starkwhite Gallery,
Auckland, NZ
2009
• Susanne Vielmetter Projects LA, Los Angeles
2008
• Arcadia, Art:Concept, Paris
2007
• Whitney Bedford: The Escape Artist Series, Cherry and
Martin, Los Angeles
2006
• Art:Concept, Paris
2005
• D’Amelio Terras Gallery, New York
• Cherrydelosreyes, Los Angeles
2004
• Art:Concept, Paris
2000
• Hotel de Ville, Biot, France
1999
• Fulbright- Kommission, Berlin
1998
• BEB Gallery, Providence, Rhode Island, USA
Copyright Art Concept Gallery , Paris
