Artists

Spencer Tunick
CV

Born 1967, New York
Lives and works in New York

Education

BA from Emerson College, Boston, MA
One year intensive program at the International Center of Photography (ICP), New York

Forthcoming

2008 Hales Gallery

June 2008, Installations in Cork and Dublin, Ireland

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2007
University Museum of Arts and Sciences (MUCA), National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM), Mexico City, Mexico
Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Caracas, Venezuela
i8 galleri, Reykjavik, Iceland

2006
Museum Kunst Palast Dusseldorf, Germany
Hales Gallery, London, UK
Akureyri Art Museum, Akureyri, Iceland
Bruges Plus, Bruges, Belgium   
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK

2005
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Corpus Ibericim, Kultur Buro Barcelona, Spain
RuArts Foundandation, Moscow, Russia

2004
Beyond the City, Hales Gallery, London, UK
Public Works 2001 - 2004, I-20 Gallery, New York
National Museum of Visual Arts, Montevideo, Uruguay
Manmade and Natural, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, OH

2003
Nude Adrift, Institut de Cultura de Barcelona, Spain

2002
Spencer Tunick, Musee d'Art Contemporain de Montreal, Quebec
Nude Adrift, Hales Gallery, London, UK
Spencer Tunick, Artcore, Toronto
Upstate, Part 1', I-20 Gallery, New York
Spencer Tunick: Nude Adrift, Dinaburg Arts, New York
Studio Miscetti, Rome, Italy  

2001
Deptford Town Hall. London, UK
Spencer Tunick/Self. De Beyerd Centrum voor Beeldende Kunst, Breda, The Netherlands
Le Tribu dell'Arte, Galleria Communale Arte de Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, Italy

2000
Reaction Zone, I-20 Gallery, New York
America Zone, Hales Gallery, London, UK
Galeria Joao Graca, Lisbon, Portugal
Perspective, FIAC 2000, Paris, France

1999
Statements (I-20), Art 30 Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Someplace You Haven't Been, Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland
Magazin 4, Vorarlberger Kunstverein, Bregenz, Austria

1998
Naked States, I-20 Gallery, New York

1996
Naked Pavement, Exquisite Corpse, Burlington, Vermont

1995
America Zone, Thicket Gallery, New York

1993
Spencer Tunick, Alleged Gallery, New York

Selected Group Exhibitions

2006
9th Havana Biennale, Wilfredo Lam Centre for Contemporary Arts, Havana, Cuba

2005
Joy, curated by Lara Boubnova and Enrico Lunghi. Casino-Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art 2005, Lyon, France
Dead Kids do nothing, 31 Grand, Brooklyn, NY
Ingenuity, Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland
Rite of Assembly, Weinstein Gallery, Ninneapolis, MN
Contemporary Photography in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT

2004
Bodily Space: New Obsessions in Figurative Sculpture. Curated by Louis Grachos
Albright-Know Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York  
The Amazing & The Immutable: Selections from the collections of Robert Drapkin and Martin Margulies, Contemporary Art Museum, Institute for Research in Art, University of South Florida, Tampa
I Need You, CentrePasquArt, Kunthaus Centre d'art, Biel Bienne, Switzerland

2003
Gli Altri, Gas Art Gallery, Turin, Italy
Contemporanea de Vigo, Vigo, Spain. Temporary Exhibitions, ATRIUM, Basque Country, Spain  
Imagenes de lo publico y lo privado, Galeria Moises Perez de Albeniz, Pamplona, Spain
Project Paradise, Curated by Nina and Torsten Roemer, The Bunker in Alexanderplatz, Berlin, Germany
10th Annual Watermill Benefit 2003, Watermill Center, Water Mill, NY  
World Rehabilitation Fund spring into action Benefit Exhibition, Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York  
Lucky Draw 2003, The Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY
SITE Santa Fe 2003 Benefit Exhibition, Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
Art for Life 2003, Estate of Russell Simmons, Easthampton, NY
Agrupémonos Todos (Come Rally), curated by Javier Gonzalez de Durana and Daniel Eguskiza, MARCO, Museum De Arte

2002
The 12th City, XXV Bienal de São Paulo. Curated by Alfons Hug, São Paulo, Brazil
The Nude in 20th Century Art,  Curated by Nils Ohlsen. Kunsthalle in Emden, Germany
20th Anniversary Benefit Exhibition, Art in General, New York
Public-Private: Crossing Boundaries in Contemporary Photography,
Sluffer Gallery, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor,
Art Downtown: New Photography, Wall Street Rising, New York
New York in Texas, New Gallery, Dallas, TX
Sonic Matters, Sonic Kolaborations, Alleged Gallery, Los Angeles
30th Anniversary Exhibition, Carl Schlosberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles    
Flesh for Fantasy, Javogue & Ingalls Fine Art, Miami, FL

2001
I Love New York, I-20 Gallery, New York
New Acquisitions, The Dakis Joannou Foundation Collection, Deste Center for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
Metamorphosis and Cloning. Musee d'Art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, Quebec
The 1st Bienale de Valencia, Valencia, Spain  
Input, Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf, Germany
Bienal Fotonoviembre, Canary Islands, Spain
Obsessions, University Art Gallery San Diego (UCSD).  
Naked, Wood Street Galleries, The Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, Pittsburg, PA.
Beyond Origin, The Hellenic American Union, Athens, Greece
Landscape, De Chiara Stewart Gallery, New York
Benefit for the Association for Community Employment Programs for the Homeless (A.C.E.), Exit Art, New York
White Columns 2001 Benefit Exhibition, White Columns, New York  
Luminous Wonders of the Electronic World: New Langton Arts 17th Annual Auction. New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
22nd Annual Benefit of Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
Cutting Edge (curated section) ARCO, Madrid, Spain; Art Forum Berlin, Berlin, Germany

2000      
Dos Mil Anos Luz (2000 Light), Curated by Angel de la Cruz, Instituto Oscar Dominguez De Arte Contemporaneo
IODAC, The Canary Islands, Spain
Photographing Maine: 1850-2000, Maine Coast Artists, Rockport, Maine
A Cuerpo, Galeria Luis Adelantado, Valenica, Spain
Doctor's of the World 10th Anniversary Benefit Exhibition, Pier 60, Chelsea Piers, New York
CRIA Annual Benefit Exhibition, Curated by John Chandler and Bruce Brown, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York
Take Home a Nude, New York Academy of Art, New York
Elbow Room: Manhattan's Public Spaces in Recent Art, Kim Foster Gallery, New York
15th Parnu Film Festival, Parnu, Estonia
HBO Documentary Film Festival, New York
Newport Film Festival, Newport, Rhode Island

1999         
Back to Nature, Hales Gallery, London
Downtown Arts Festival, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
The Martin Margolies Collection, University of South Florida, Miami
Eksenter (Next Stop), Lofoten Arts Festival, Svolvaer, Norway
The Nude in Contemporary Art, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT. New York, Artnet.com, New York    
Artwalk NY, The Puck Building, New York
Road Show, DFN Gallery, New York  
Move 3, New Image Art, Los Angeles
The Coalition Against Censorship, The Warhol Foundation, New York
1999 Benefit Exhibition, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
1999 Benefit Exhibition, White Columns, New York
1999 Benefit Exhibition, Art in General, New York
Rough Cut, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Margaret Mead Film and Video Festival, The American Museum of Natural History New York

1998
Unframed Photo, A Benefit for Community Research Initiative on AIDS (CRIA), LiebmanMagnan, New York
Off the Hook, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Selected Installations
 
2007
Mexico City, Mexico
Amsterdam Netherlands

2006
Museum Kunst Palast Dusseldorf, Germany
Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Caracas Sofia Imber (MACCSI) Caracas, Venezuela
Fundación COFF, San Sebastian, Spain

2005
Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art 2005, Lyon, France
BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK in collaboration with BBC Three, UK
Corpus 05, Brugge, Belgium


2004
Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
National Museum of Visual Arts, Montevideo, Uruguay
Florent Restaurant, New York (HIV Positive). 10th anniversary commission by POZ

2003
Grand Central Station, New York
The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Selfridges with the General Assembly Ltd, London, UK
Institut de Cultura de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

2002
Museo de Arte de Contemporaneo, Santiago, Chile
XXV Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil (Organized by Alfons Hug)
Art in General, New York.  Organized by Holly Block
Musee d'Art Contemporain de Montreal, Quebec
Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
ArtBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Swiss Expo, Neuchâtel, Switzerland

2001    
SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Musee d'Art Contemporain de Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Deptford Town Hall, London, UK

2001
Melbourne Fringe 2001, Melbourne, Australia
De Beyerd Centrum voor Beeldende Kunst, Breda, The Netherlands
Belluard Bollwerk International (BBI), Fribourg, Switzerland
Le Tribu dell'Arte, Galleria Communale Arte de Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome, Italy

2000    
Galeria Joao Graca, Lisbon, Portugal

1999
Statements, Art 30 Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Someplace You Haven't Been, Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland
Vienna Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria.  (Organized by Gerald Matt)
Magazin 4, Vorarlberger Kunstverein, Bregenz, Austria

Transmissions - Documentary Film

BALTIC produced by BBC Three and Culture 10, Newcastle Gateshead, UK
Naked World, directed by Arlene Donnelly Nelson, produced by Juntos Films for HBO Documentaries, 2003 (35 mm film and video, color, black and white, 90 minutes)
1.  America Undercover, HBO Documentaries, 2003
2.  Tribeca Film Festival, 2003
Naked States, directed by Arlene Donnelly, produced by Juntos Films for HBO Documentaries, 2000 (35mm film and video, color, black and white, 80 minutes)
1.  America Undercover, HBO Documentaries, 2001
2.  Margaret Meade Film Festival, Museum of Natural History, 2001
3.  American Film Institute  (Best Documenrary), 2001
4.  Rough Cut, Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2001
Naked Pavement, directed by Joshua Tunick, 1998 (16mm film, black and white, sound, 18 minutes)
1.  Atlanta Film Festival, 1998  

Bibliography

2007
Garden of Eden, Time Out New York, July 5 - 11, pp. cover (ill), 28 - 29 (ill)
Mexico Bares Its Liberal Side, and More, National Public Radio, May 8, All Things Considered
Record Crowd Bares All for Mexico City Photo, National Public Radio, May 7, Morning Edition
Enriquez, Sam. Striking a naked pose in Mexico City, Los Angeles Times, May 7
Newsweek: En Español, May 7, Arte, pp. 44 - 45, Mexico
20 mil desnudos en el Zocalo, La Jornada, May 7, pp. cover, 2 - 4, Mexico
Milenio, May 7, pp. cover, 46 - 49, Mexico
The Miami Herald: Mexico Edition, May 7, pp. cover, 1 - 2
Excelsior, May 7, pp. cover, Comunidad, pp. 1, 6 - 7
Méndez, María Gabriella. El hombre que desnudó Caracas muestra sus fotos, El Universal, January 19 (Venezuela)

2006
Gates, Anita. Looking at Bodies (and Peeking Into Souls), The New York Times, December 1, E22
Lovelace, Carey. Art Amid the Rubble, www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/lovelace/lovelace4-12-06.asp
Rohter, Larry. With a New Leader, Chile Seems to shuck Its Strait Laces, The New York Times, March 8, 2006. International, A4
Collings, Mathew. New Type of writing about art, Modern Painters, March
Adams, Brooks. Report From Lyon, Time After Time, Art in America, February
Conrad, Peter. Just lie back and think of Gateshead… The Observer, January 22, Review, pp. 20 - 21
Higgins, Charlotte. The naked and the dead cold - all in the name of art, The Guardian, January 19, pp. 20 - 21

2005
Borgeest, Bernhard. Freikörperkyltur, Focus, September 17, pp. 126 - 131
Tran, David S. Une biennale psychédélique, Le Progrés, September 14
Bellet, Harry. A Lyon, 1,493 garcons et filles se  mettent a nu sous l'objectif de Spencer Tunick, Le Monde, September 13, Culture, Art, p. 27
Dias, Doriam. El Famoso Spencer Tunick Se Interesa En Costa Rica, Artes & Letras, La Nacion, September 1st
Higgins, Charlotte. National News: Flesh photos, Tyesiders take if off in the name of art, The Guardian, July 18, p. 7
McCormack, Helen. The Man who put the Nudes into Newcastle, The Independent, July 18, pp. 12 - 13
Whetstone, David. Getting naked in the name of art, The Journal, July 18, front cover, pp. 6 - 7
Naked City: Spencer Tunick in Newcastle Gateshead,  "http://www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/tv/naked_city.shtml" www.bbc.co.uk/bbcthree/tv/naked_city.shtml, July
Hermans, Evert. Iedereen wil uit de kleren, De Standaard May 9
Associated Press. 2,000 brave cold for nude art, CNN.com, World, front page, May 7
Time Out Moscow , April
Bensinger, Ken. Mexico City, heating up, Art Auction, April, p. 125 (ill.)
Erikson, Mathew. Creating Art From Artifice, The Hartford Courant, January 13

2004
Adams, Bruce and Altreuter, William. Visual Art: The Art of Exposure, and, Naked in central terminal, Buffalo Spree, November, pp. 38 - 43
Nude in Cleveland, Artnet News, Artnet.com, June 27
Cohen, David. Gallery Going, The New York Sun, Arts & Letters, June 10
Schwendener, Martha. New York Critics' Picks: Spencer Tunick, artforum.com, May
Maerkle, Andrew. Photography, Spencer Tunick: Public Works 2001 - 2004,  "http://flavorpill.net/mailer/issue205/index.html" http://flavorpill.net/mailer/issue205/index.html, May
Interview. POZ (10th Anniversary Issue), May, cover, 52-53   
Henry, Max. Gotham Dispatch,  "http://artnet.com/magazine/reviews/henry/henry3-19-" http://artnet.com/magazine/reviews/henry/henry3-19-04.asp
Artist snaps naked, HIV positive group, www.cnn.com (Reuters), March 13

2003
Heroes and villains: The Year from A to Z, Telegraph magazine December 27
All change? 450 naked women lie stationary at Grand Central, The Independent, October 27
Gray, Madison J. Associated Press, October 27 (Published at nytimes.com, cnn.com, abcnews.com, bbc.com, newsday.com, etc.)
Flash Mobs Beaux Arts Magazine, 233, pp. 82-87 illus. October
Smith, Andrew. Nude Awakening Surface Magazine: Annual Avant Guardian Issue, Issue 44: Surplus page 244, October
Laster, Paul. Naked Ambition ONEWORLD, October/November, Art
McGowan, Kathleen. The Art of Persuasion, Why do thousands of volunteers take it off for Spencer Tunick? Psychology Today, October
Wilson, Simon. Good nudes day The Royal Academy of Arts Magazine, Autumn
Anderson, Kurt.  Interview with Spencer Tunick. Studio 360, National Public Radio, August 16-17
Lo Caliente: Barcelona se pone en carne viva Rolling Stone Spain, June, p. 17 (Barcelona)
Spencer Tunick: Il temoigne de son art par la photo, June
El gran provocador, Viva: La Revista De Clarin, June 15
Lyall, Sarah He Called, and Naked Came 7,000 Strangers The New York Times, June 9
Spencer Tunick: Mis instalaciones provocan emociones fuertes, El Pais, June 6
Spencer Tunick Tema Celeste 97, May/June, News & around (Barcelona)
Rimanelli, David.  Entries, Artforum, Summer Edition, table of contents, p. 41
Front Page: Chile's Man of the Year, Art in America, March, p.35




Solo Exhibition Catalogues

Spencer Tunick. Akureyri, Iceland: Akureyri Art Museum, 2006
Spencer Tunick. Gateshead, UK: BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, 2006
Spencer Tunick: Nude Adrift.  Text by Perez Rubio.  Barcelona, Spain: Augustin Institut de Cultura: La Virreina Expocicions, 2003
Spencer Tunick/Self. Text by Elly Stegeman. Breda, The Netherlands: De Beyerd Contemporary
Art Center, 2001
Spencer Tunick: Reaction Zone. Text by Lisa Liebmann. New York: I-20 Gallery, 2000
Spencer Tunick: Statements: Art 30 Basel. New York: I-20 Gallery, 1999
Spencer Tunick: Naked States. Text by Paul Judelson.  New York: I-20 Gallery, 1998  

Group Exhibition Catalogues

2006
Quadriennale 06: Art City Düsseldorf, Germany

2005
Lyon Biennale of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France

2004
The Amazing & The Immutable: Selections from the collections of Robert Drapkin and Martin Margulies. Test by Margaret A. Miller, Amy Ingrid Schlegel, Noel Smith, Roger Kingston, and Virginia Heckert. Contemporary Art Museum, Institute for Research in Art, University of South Florida, Tampa, Fl
I Need You. Text by Bernhard Bischoff, Dolores Denaro, Beate Engel, and Caroline Nicod. CentrePasquArt, Kunthaus Centre d'art, Biel Bienne, Switzerland

2003
Agrupémonos Todos, MARCO, Museum De Arte Contemporanea de Vigo/ ARTIUM, Spain, (brochure)
Project Paradise.  Berlin, German: The Bunker in Alexanderplatz
10th Annual Watermill Benefit 2003, Watermill, Long Island: Watermill Center

2002
The 1st Valencia Biennial: Communication Between the Arts. Text by Luigi Settembrini,
10 Jahre Kunsthalle Wien. Text by Gerald Matt and Sabine Folie. Vienna, Austria: Vienna Kunsthalle, (illus. 27)
El arte que Viene/The Art to Come. Text by Paco Barragán. Madrid, Spain: Subastas Sigle XX1
Cidades: 25th Bienal de São Paulo: Iconografias Metropolitanas. Text by Carlos Bratke, Alfons Hug, Ticio Escobar, Boris Groys and Lydia Haustein. São Paulo, Brazil: Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, (illus. 368-371)

2001
Fernando Castro Florez and Achille Bonito Oliva. Valencia, Spain: Generalitat Valenciana, (illus.189)
Metamorphorses et Clondge (Metamorphasis and Cloning).  Text by Sandra Grant-Marchand,
Jean-Ernest Joos and Veronique Lefebvre. Montreal, Quebec, Canada: Musée d'Art contemporain de Montréal, (illus. 10, 42-43)  
Naked: The Naked Body in Contemporary Video, Photography and Performance. Text by Murray Horne and Eleanor Heartney.  Pittsburgh, PA: Wood Street Galleries: A Project of the Pittsburgh Cultural Trust, (illus. 32-33)

1999
Eksenter (Next Stop), Svolvaer, Norway: Lofoten Arts Festival
Art 30 Basel.  Text by Harald Szeemann. Basel, Switzerland: Messe Basel, (illus.566)