CV - Andrew Mezvinsky
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Andrew M Mezvinsky

Born in Philadelphia, 1982

Currently lives and works between Vienna and New York

Education  
2018/2019 MA – Goldsmiths, UK
2000/2004 BFA (hons) Glasgow School of Art, UK
1996/1999 CAPA- Philadelphia H.S. For the Creative and Performing Arts
1999 United States Senate Page School – Page for Joe Biden
Solo-shows  
2019 Awkward Optical Sensibilities , De Pimlico Project, London, UK
2018 on the corner; between ambiguity & reality , Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany
2017 Festival of Tolerance, French Pavilion, Zagreb, Croatia
  sustained satisfaction through instant gratification, Dorotheum,Vienna, Austria
  Wise Stones Falling into a Sea of Doubt, Judenplatz, Vienna, Austria
2016 Lot # …moves with out incident, Dorotheum, Vienna, Austria
2015 Crude randomness of the mind, Site 109 NY, USA
 2014 Lessing / A Good Day, Austrian Cultural Forum, NYC, DC USA
  Im’pa:rt Show room Schleifmühlgasse 18 Vienna, Austria
2013 A Good Day, Jewish Museum, Vienna, Austria
2011 A Moveable Feast, PS Art Space, Vienna, Austria
 2009 Il Fazzoletto, Performance Art Institute, San Francisco,USA
  All roads lead to …, Rafael Gallery, Delhi, India
2008 Socialism Now* here,, ROG Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  Mister Manic, Raafael Gallery, Delhi , India
2007 Traumatic Ice Cream Dreams, Fridge Gallery, Glasgow, UK
  Painterly Visions, curated by Annie Gatwick, G Fine Art, Washington DC, USA
2006 Struggletown, Blue Sun Gallery, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
  Bad Grammar, Zanabaazar Museum, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
2005 Trauma, Trauma, Trauma, Izola Library, Slovenia
  Unknown Propaganda, curated by Vasja Nagy, City Counsel of Koper, Slovenia
  Landscapes for Paradise, Maison Gallery, Mont Clair, USA
2004 Fish tank of Trauma, Dom Dva Topola, Izola Slovenia
  Gimp of the Jellyfish, Arthouse Hotel, Glasgow, UK

 

Group-shows  
2019 Queer Art Space Vienna, Kunsthalle Exnergasse curated by Michael Kaufmann
2018 Global vs. Endemic, curated by Manolo Cocho, Mexico City, Mexico and Trieste, Italy
  Über schwebende Inseln und fliegende Menschen,curated by Vasja Nagy, Touring Europe
2017 Parallel Art Fair, curated by Eva Schegal ,Vienna, Austria
  Festival de Jüdischen Kultur, Brick 5 curated by Aline Lara Rezende,Vienna, Austria
  OREINT/OCCIDENT, Four works gallery, Vienna, Austria
2016 ADA is…, curated by Birgit Knoechl, artisticdynamicassociation -Vienna ,Austria
2015 The University. A Battleground, Jewish Museum, Vienna, Austria
  LOCOMOT, Einsbeuro, Vienna, Austria
  Book Opening, Hilger NEXT Gallerie, Vienna, Austria
  3 min to Midnight/ Aesthetic Insurgency, transcuratorial art laboratory -Vienna, Austria
  Kahlo, Rivera + Mexican Modern Art, NSU Art Museum, Florida, USA
  TRANSFORM:5, Kunstverein Kärnten, Klagenfurt, Austria
2014 SLEDI / SPUREN , 12-13 Gallery, Touring Europe
  zur Erinnerung an Bernsteiner West, Schloss Galerie Herzogburg, ST. Veit, Austria
2013 ViennaFair, Hilger Solo booth Zone 1, Vienna, Austria
  A Tribute to Franz West,Gallerie Konzett, Vienna, Austria
  Dal Telescopio al Mondo,Lequartto Pareti, Napoli, Italy
2012 Affordable Art Fair, Cynthia Corbett Gallery, London, UK
  ENDLICH IM KLIMT JAHR, Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
  Emerge Art Fair, Hilger Brot Kunstahalle, Washington Dc, USA
  ViennaFair, Vienna, Austria
  Young Masters Art Prize, Cynthia Corbett Gallery, London, UK
  Tell me…, Operngasse 4,Vienna, Austria
  Sound and the Fury, Hubert Winter Gallery,Vienna, Austria
  Pulse Art Fair New York, Hilger Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
  H.O.M.E.D.E.P.O.T, Vienna, Austria
  Food Art and Science 1° edition 2010, I Leone,Vienna Austria
2011 Pulse Art Fair Miami Art Basel, Hilger Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
  Aqua Art Fair Miami Art Basel, Toomey – Tourell Gallery, San Francisco,USA
  Emerge Art Fair DC, Hilger BROT Kunsthalle , Vienna, Austria
  North by Northwest, Magazin , Vienna, Austria
2010 Aquarell Happening Tux, Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck, Austria
2009 Art Happens, curated by Asher Barker, Project Shift Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
2008 Bridge Art Fair Berlin, curated by Amalie Merson, Vagabond Gallery, New York City, USA
  Basel Art Fair,curated by Barbara Laux, Zooloose Gallery, Art Basel, Switzerland
  Red Dot Art Fair, curated by Amalie Merson, Vagabond Gallery, New York City, USA
  Holli Exhibition, curated by Himanshu Verma, Rafaael Gallery, Delhi, India
2007 Aquarell Happening, curated by Olivia Gunther, Mehlerhaus, Tux, Austria
  Kunstmarkt, curated by Olivia Gunther, Fridge Gallery-Art Basel, Switzerland
2005 Future Trip…Sketch box.04, curated by Art Group Morion, Lido, Italy
  Light Drawing for All, curated by Art Group Morion, Mars Pavilion, Biennale di Venezia
  Piran Extempore, Piran, Slovenia
  Aquarell Happening, curated by Olivia Gunther, Mehlerhaus, Tux, Austria
  Sketchbox.03, curated by RGB group, Gallery Zapoor, Koper, Slovenia
  Contemporary visions, curated by Mladen Bosanac, Contra Gallery, Koper, Slovenia
2004 Slovenska visions, curated by Simon Svetlik, Hotiza city counsel, Slovenia
  Terra Nova, curated by Ruth Hedges, Macintosh Gallery,  Glasgow, UK
  Scottish Society of Artist, Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK

Residencies

2011 PAI, Performance Art Institute, San Francisco
2007/2008 Global Arts Fellowship – Northern India
2004 Residence program, Dom Dva Topola, (Muscular Dystrophy Center), Isola-Slovenia

Grants, Awards, Workshops, Lectures

 
2008 Workshop with Ikramuddin Neelgar Natural Leheria Dyes – Jaipur, India
  Workshop with Bridget Singh for Achrim Dyes – – Jaipur, India
  Workshop with Vikram Joshi for Indigo Soluble Dyes – – Sanganer , India
2007 “Red Bull Artist Wanted” – Shortlisted – New York City
2006
“Secret Art Fair” – Shortlisted – Croatia
  Workshop with Kwaami Bohman – Mudcloth Navarango, Ghana
2005 “Mongolian Arts Council Grant”; Ulaanbaatar
2004
“John Moore 23, the Walker” , Liverpool-shortlisted
1999
“Chihuly Glass Blowing Apprentice”, Seattle, WA

Collections

Judisches Museum Wien, Austria
Brot Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria
Brooklyn Art Library, New York
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.
Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck, Austria
Zanabaazar Museum, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
Jane Holzer Collection
Jim Lambie Collection
Hainz Collection