Born in 1972 in New Jersey, NJ Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY

EDUCATION

MFA, Sculpture, Yale University, New Haven, CT 2001 BFA, Film, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 1996

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2012 - Decepcion, MCLEMOI GALLERY, Sydney, NSW - All Oyster, No Pearl, OHWOW Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2011 - Decepcion, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY - Mallorca Landings, Palma de Mallorca, Spain - Centre Cultural Contemporani Pelaires, Palma de Mallorca, Spain
2010 - Galerie Zidoun, Luxembourg
2009 - Luis Gispert Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL - Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL - Otereo Plassert Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008 - Heavy Manner Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL - El Mundo Es Tuyo (the world is yours), Zach Feuer Gallery and Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
2005 - Luis Gispert & Jeffrey Reed: Stereomongrel, The Whitney Museum, New York, NY; Zach Feuer Gallery (LFL), New York, NY; Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA - Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL
2004 - Loud Image, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH; University Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego, CA - Art Pace, San Antonio, TX
2003 - Urban Myths Part II, Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York, NY - Urban Myths Part I, Miami Art Central, Miami, FL; Baum Award, UC Berkeley Art Museum, CA - Cheerleaders 2000 – 2002, Miami Dade Community College, FL

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011 - Materialism, OHWOW Gallery, Miami, FL - Ball Game, Dunn and Brown Contemporary, Dallas, TX - Wall Space, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Philadelphia, PA
2010 - The Secret Knows, LAND (curated by Shamim Momin), Austin, TX
2009 - Mnemosyne l’atlante dell’immagini, Centro Arti Visive, Pescheria, Italy - Lover, curated by Kate Gilmore & Candice Madey, On Stellar Rays Gallery, New York, NY
2008 - Mediations Biennale, National Museum of Poznan, Poznan, Poland - The Constructed Image, Redux Contemporary Art Center, Charleston, SC - TRANSactions: -Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art, Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
2007 - Not For Sale, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY - Between Two Deaths, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany - Art in America: 300 Years of Innovation, Shanghai MoCA, Shanghai, China - Milieu, Lizabeth Oliveria, Los Angeles, CA - Wrong Number, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA - Rock-n-Roll Fantasy, White Box, New York, NY - Manifest: Colonial Tendencies of the West, Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs, CO
2006 - USA TODAY, Royal Academy of Art, London, UK - Youth of Today, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany - Nominally Figured, Fogg Art Museum Harvard University, Cambridge, MA - Bring It On, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago, IL - Transformer: Traveling exhibition of contemporary artworks from the West Collection, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA - Constant Disturbance, Centro Cultural Español, Curated by Gean Moreno, Miami, FL
2005 - Situation Comedy: Humor in Recent Art, Curator Dominic Malone. The Contemporary Museum Honolulu, HI; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL; Winnipeg Art Gallery Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada - Make It Now New Sculpture In New York, Sculpture Center, New York, NY - EV, Curator Dan Cameron. Limerick City Gallery of Art, Ireland - Will Boys Be Boys? Questioning Adolescent Masculinity in Contemporary Art, traveling exhibition (2004- 2006), Curator Shamim M. Momin. The Salina Art Center, Salina, KS; Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, CO; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN - The Superfly Effect, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ
2004 - Contested Fields, Des Moines Art Center, IA - Semiprecious, Public Art Fund, MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, NY - Fade In, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX - Open House, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
2003 - Women Beware Women, Deitch Projects, New York, NY - NextNext Visual Art, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, NY - Black Belt, Studio Museum of Harlem, New York, NY - Influence, Anxiety, and Gratitude, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
2002 - Interplay, Moore Building, Miami, FL - Mass Appeal: The art object and Hip Hop culture, Galerie 101 Ottawa, Ontario; Montreal Arts Interculturels, Montreal, Quebec; The Khyber Center For The Arts, Halifax; Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, New Brunswick
- Monitor 2, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY - Bystander, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY - 10 Seconds 2 Love, Mullerdechiara Gallery, Berlin, Germany - Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY - New Additions To The Altoids Curiously Strong Collection, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY - Officina America, Galleria D’Arte Moderna Villa Delle Rose Museo Morandi, Bologna, Italy
2001 - One Planet Under One Groove: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art, The Bronx Museum Of The Arts, New York, NY - Border Stories: IX International Biennial of Photography, Palazzo Brocherasio, Torino, Italy - Bling Bling Audelio Fine Art, New York, NY - Pause, Mark Fox Gallery, Los Angles, CA

AWARDS AND GRANTS

- The Baum: Emerging American Photographer Award - Cintas Foundation Visual Arts Fellowship - Rema Hort Mann Foundation Art Grant - Alice Kimball Traveling Grant
- Florida Individual Artist Fellowship - Art Access Traveling Grant - New Forms Visual Arts Grant - South Florida Cultural Consortium Visual Arts Fellowship

COLLECTIONS

- Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA - Haifa Museum of Art, Israel - Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH - Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL - Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL - Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York, NY - New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY - San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY - UC Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY: REVIEWS

Allsop, Laura and Jessika Green. “Consumed.” Art Review April, 2008. “Art Choices: Effects.” The Village Voice 23 May, 2000. “Artists’ Choice: Top 100 Galleries.” Flash Art January / February, 2008. Austin, Tom. “Luis Gispert returns to his Miami roots as a major art world player.” Miami Herald 14 October, 2007. Baker, R.C. “Best in Show.” Village Voice 29 January, 2008.
Bentley, Kyle. “Luis Gispert.” ArtForum April 2008: 370-371. Braunstein, Peter. “Brave New Whitney.” W Magazine March, 2002: 198-200. Dambrot, Shana Nys. “Luis Gispert and Jeffery Reed.” ArtKrush February, 2006. Danto C, Arthur, Lawrence Rinder, and Simona Vendrame. “New York, November 8, 2001: a conversation.” Tema Celeste January / February, 2002. Davis, Ben. “The Bling Game.” ArtNet Magazine January, 2008. Davis, Ben. “The Bling Game.” artnet.com February, 2008. Dupuis, Isabelle. “Luis Gispert.” Flash Art March / April, 2008. Falconer, Morgan. “Zach Feuer.” Art World April / May, 2008: 126-129.
Finel Honigman, Ana. “Going for Baroque.” Style.com 11 January, 2008. Finel Honigman, Ana. “New York.” Art Papers Magazine May / June, 2002. Fortini, Amanda. “Critical Mass: The Art World Sharpens Its Claws in Anticipation of the Always Controversal Whitney Biennial.” Elle March, 2002: 156. Fujimori, Manami (translated by Andreas Stuhlmann). “Luis Gispert.” High Fashion April, 2008: 73, 209. Giovanotti, Micaela. “New York Soup.” Exibart.onpaper January, 2008: 70. “Goings On About Town: Galleries-Chelsea-Effects.” The New Yorker March, 2000. Hashimoto, Jacob. “Interview with Luis Gispert.” The Highlights August, 2008. Hohmann, Silke. “Luis Gispert. ”Monopol March, 2008. Hopper, Mark. “The Things We Do For Art.” I-D Magazine May, 2002.Howe, Jeff. “Paint by Numbers.” Wired April, 2005: 88. Hrabi, Dale. “The Culture Beat: Entertainment A-Z.” Radar Magazine September / October, 2005:31. Hunt, David. “Billboard: Luis Gispert.” Artext Spring, 2002. Johnson, Ken. “Luis Gispert: Urban Myths PT II (Return Of The Hypenaholics).” The New York Times 9 January, 2004. Kerr, Merrily. “An interview with Franklin Sirmans.” NY Arts Magazine January, 2002. Korotkin, Joyce. “Luis Gispert and Jeffrey Reed.” Tema Celeste March / April, 2006. Knight, Christopher. “Friskily is best revenge.” Los Angeles Times 3 August, 2007. Kunitz, Daniel. “Gallery Going: Dislocating Dreams.” The New York Sun 7 February, 2008: 25. Lebowitz, Cathy. “Cathy Lebowitz Interviews Josefina Ayerza.” Lacanian Ink Spring, 2008:166- 177. “Luis Gispert and Jeffrey Reed.” The New Yorker 14 November, 2005. “Luis Gispert: El Mundo Es Tuyo (The World Is Yours).” Tout Va Bien no. 4, 2007. “Luis Gispert.” The New Yorker 3 March, 2008. MacMillan, Kyle. “Springs pushes envelope with art show.” Denver Post 11 November, 2007. Martin, Lydia. “Urban Myths Bring the Street Home”, Miami Herald, December 6, 2003. “Medium Cool.” Time Out New York 10-16 January, 2008: 73, 75. Moreno, Gean. “Luis Gispert.” Flash Art December, 2002. Moreno, Gean. “On View: Miami.” New Art Examiner May, 1999. Murphy, Kevin. “An Impromptu Art Walk.” Charleston City Paper, 28 May, 2008 Naldi, Fabiola. “Officina Americana: interview with Renato Barilli.” Collezioni edge Spring/Summer, 2002. Nickas, Bob. ”Mild About Larry, Multiple Voice.” Artforum May, 2002. Ocana, Damarys. “Bright Lights, Big City.” The Miami Herald 25 November, 2001. Patton, Daniel. “Bling Bling.” NY Arts May, 2000. Plagens, Peter. “This Man Will Decide What Art Is.” Newsweek 4 March, 2002. Pool, Olivia. “Constructed Photography Exhibit.” The Post and Courier 8 May, 2008 “Power 100: 70: Zach Feuer.” Artreview November, 2006. Robinson, Knox. “The Show: interview with Franklin Sirmans.” The Fader Winter, 2001/2002. Rosenberg, Karen. “Luis Gispert: El Mundo Es Tuyo (the world is yours).” The New York Times 25 January, 2008. Rosenfeld, Jeannie. “Hamptons Heat.” Art + Auction July, 2007. Schwendener, Martha. “Luis Gispert and Jeffery Reed: Critic’s Picks.” Artforum.com October, 2005. Schwendener, Martha. “Women Beware Women.” Time Out NY 4-11 December, 2003. Sharp, Rob. “Is that a Picasso in the Pool?” Guardian Observer 10 September, 2006. Sirmans, Franklin. “Pop Life Luis Gispert. Gold to Me.” One World February / March, 2003. Smith, Roberta. “In the Orbit of Funk and Hip-Hop.” The New York Times 18 January, 2002. Villasmil, Alejandra. “Luis Gispert and Jeffery Reed.” Arte Aldia January, 2006: 77. Vogel, Carol. “A Homegrown Biennial.” The New York Times 26 November, 2001. Von Schlegel, Mark. “Luis Gispert, Jonathan Horowitz, John Williams.” Artext May / June, 2001. Wolff, Rachel. “Luis Gispert.” New York 14 January, 2008. Zellen, Jody. “Luis Gispert and Jeffrey Reed.” Artpapers May, 2006: 61-62.

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY: PUBLICATIONS

Hans Werner Holzwarth, Art Now Vol 3, Taschen, 2009 Barnard, Suzanne and Mika Hannula. Between Two Deaths. Hatje Cantz: 2007. Bring It On. Monique Meloche Gallery, 2006.
Carvajal Rina. “American Baroque: A Conversation with Luis Gispert.”10 Floridians, MAC, 2003. Chang, Jeff. Total Chaos, the Art and Aesthetics of Hip Hop. Basic Civitas Books, 2006: 133- 134, 144- 145,147,139-142. Clearwater, Bonnie. Making Art In Miami. Miami: MOCA December, 2000. Fade In: New Film and Video. Houston: Contemporary Arts Museum, 2004. Hsu, Helen. Art in America Now. Shanghai: Museum of Contemporary Art, 2007: 48-49. Kim, Christine. Black Belt. New York: The Studio Museum In Harlem, 2003: 44-45. One Planet Under A Groove: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art. New York: Bronx Museum, 2001: 24, 29. Stereomongrel. Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, 2005. Tejada, Roberto J. Loud Image. Hood Museum of Art, 2004. The Progressive Collection: Art Works. New York: D.A.P., 2007: 242. The Youth of Today. Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Verlag Der Buchhandlung Walter König, 2006: 191. Tomcic, Goran. “Miami Spice.” Hot Spots: Los Angeles, Houston, Miami. Greensboro: Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, May, 1999. USA Today: New American Art from the Saatchi Gallery. Royal Academy of Arts: 142-149. West, Paige. The Art of Buying Art. New York: HarperCollins, 2007: 49. Whitney Biennial 2002: 2002 Biennial Exhibition. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2002: 90-91.

VISITING ARTIST LECTURER

-Yale University -New York University -University of California, Berkeley -University of Pennsylvania -Dartmouth College -School of the Visual Arts New York -California Institute of the Arts -University of Regina, Canada -Florida International University -Pratt Institute -University of Arizona -The University of Texas at Austin -Art Institute of Chicago