LUIS GISPERT Born: New Jersey, 1972 Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY EDUCATION 2001 Yale University, MFA Sculpture 1996 The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, BFA Film SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2008 Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL (upcoming) Luis Gispert & Jeffrey Reed: Stereomongrel: Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS (upcoming) 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 Luis Gispert, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL 2004 Luis Gispert: Loud Image: Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH; University Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego, CA Luis Gispert: 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 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 EVA: 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 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH UC Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale, FL Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York Haifa Museum of Art, Israel BIBLIOGRAPHY Baker, R.C. “Best in Show”, Village Voice, January 29, 2008 Rosenberg, Karen. “Luis Gispert: El Mundo Es Tuyo (the world is yours)”, The New York Times, January 25, 2008 “Medium Cool”, Time Out New York, January 10-16, 2008, pp. 73 & 75 Finel Honigman, Ana. “Going for Baroque”, Style.com, January 11, 2008 MacMillan, Kyle. “Springs pushes envelope with art show”, Denver Post, November 11, 2007 Austin, Tom. “Luis Gispert returns to his Miami roots as a major art world player”, Miami Herald, October 14, 2007 Knight, Christopher.  “Friskily is best revenge”, Los Angeles Times, August 3, 2007 Rosenfeld, Jeannie. “Hamptons Heat”, Art + Auction, July 2007 Sharp, Rob. "Is that a Picasso in the Pool?" Guardian Observer, September 10, 2006 Zellen, Jody. "Luis Gispert and Jeffrey Reed", Artpapers, May 2006. pp. 61-62 Korotkin, Joyce. “Luis Gispert and Jeffrey Reed”, tema celeste, March/April 2006 Dambrot, Shana Nys. “Luis Gisprt and Jeffery Reed”, ArtKrush, February 2006 Villasmil, Alejandra. "Luis Gispert and Jeffery Reed", Arte Aldia, January 2006, p. 77 “Luis Gispert and Jeffrey Reed”, The New Yorker, November 14, 2005 Schwendener, Martha. “Luis Gispert and Jeffery Reed: Critic’s Picks”, Artforum.com, October 2005 Hrabi, Dale. "The Culture Beat: Entertainment A-Z", Radar Magazine, September/October 2005, p. 31 Howe, Jeff. "Paint by Numbers", Wired, April 2005, p. 88 Johnson Ken. “Luis Gispert: Urban Myths PT II (Return Of The Hypenaholics)”, The New York Times, Friday, January 9, 2004 Sirmins, Franklin. “Pop Life Luis Gispert”, One World, February-March 2003 Martin Lydia. “Urban Myths Bring the Street Home”, Miami Herald, December 6, 2003 Schwendener Martha. “Women Beware Women”, Time Out NY, December 4-11, 2003 Moreno Gean. “Luis Gispert”, Flash Art, December 2002 Finel Honigman, Ana.  “New York”, Art Papers Magazine, May-June 2002 Hopper Mark. “The Things We Do For Art”, I-D Magazine, May 2002 Nickas Bob. ”Mild About Larry, Multiple Voice”, Artforum, May 2002 Hunt, David. “Billboard: Luis Gispert” Artext, Spring 2002 Plagens, Peter. "This Man Will Decide What Art Is", Newsweek, March 4, 2002 Fortini, Amanda. “Critical Mass: The Art World Sharpens Its Claws in Anticipation of the Always Controversal Whitney Bienial”, Elle, March 2002: 156 Braunstein, Peter. “Brave New Whitney”, W Magazine, March 2002: 198-200 Smith, Roberta. “In the Orbit of Funk and Hip-Hop”, The New York Times, January 18, 2002 Kerr, Merrily. “An interview with Franklin Sirmans”, NY Arts Magazine, January 2002 Naldi, Fabiola. “Officina Americana: interview with Renato Barilli”, Collezioni edge, Spring/Summer 2002 Robinson, Knox. “The Show: interview with Franklin Sirmans”, The Fader, Winter 2001/2002 Danto C, Arthur, Lawrence Rinder, Simona Vendrame. “New York, November 8, 2001: a conversation”, Tema Celeste, January/February 2002 Vogel, Carol. “A Homegrown Biennial”, The New York Times, November 26, 2001 Ocana, Damarys. “Bright Lights, Big City”, The Miami Herald, November 25, 2001 Von Schlegel, Mark. “Luis Gispert, Jonathan Horowitz, John Williams”, Artext, May-June 2001 Patton, Daniel. “Bling Bling”, NY Arts, May 2000 “Art Choices: Effects”, The Village Voice, May 23, 2000 “Goings On About Town: Galleries-Chelsea-Effects”, The New Yorker, March 2000 Moreno, Gean. “On View: Miami”, New Art Examiner, May 1999 EXHIBITION CATALOGUES AND PUBLICATIONS Barnard, Suzanne and Mika Hannula, Between Two Deaths, Hatje Cantz, 2007 Hsu, Helen.  Art in America Now, Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, 2007, p 48-49 The Progressive Collection: Art Works, New York: D.A.P., 2007: 242 West, Paige. The Art of Buying Art, New York: HarperCollins, 2007: 49 USA Today: New American Art from the Saatchi Gallery, Royal Academy of Arts: 142-149 Chang, Jeff. Total Chaos, the Art and Aesthetics of Hip Hop, Basic Civitas Books, 2006: 133-134,144-145,147,139-142 The Youth of Today, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Verlag Der Buchhandlung Walter König, 2006, p. 191 Bring It On, Monique Meloche Gallery, 2006 Stereomongrel, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, 2005 Tejada, Roberto J. Loud Image, Hood Museum of Art, 2004 Fade In: New Film and Video, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, 2004 Kim, Christine. Black Belt, The Studio Museum In Harlem, 2003:44-45 Whitney Biennial 2002: 2002 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, 2002: 90-91 One Planet Under A Groove: Hip Hop and Contemporary Art, Bronx Museum, 2001: 24, 29 Carvajal Rina. “American Baroque: A Conversation with Luis Gispert”,10 Floridians, MAC 2003 Clearwater, Bonnie. Making Art In Miami, MOCA Miami Dec 2000 Tomcic, Goran. “Miami Spice”, Hot Spots: Los Angeles, Houston, Miami, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina Greensboro, May 1999