Double Vision
Samantha Bittman, Manor Grunewald, Tony Marsh, Rafaël Rozendaal, Joshua Saunders and Michael Staniak
May 19 – June 30 , 2018
Born in Amsterdam in 1980, Rafaël Rozendaal is a visual artist who uses the internet as his canvas. His websites attract over 40 million unique visits per year and his artistic practice also includes installations, lenticular paintings, textiles, lectures and haiku. He has had recent solo exhibitions at Steve Turner, Los Angeles (2012, 2014, 2016, 2018); TSCA Gallery, Tokyo (2010 & 2016); Postmasters Gallery, New York (2013; 2015 & 2017); Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam (2014) and MU, Eindhoven (2015). His works were presented on video walls in Times Square, New York (2015) and have been included in the Internet Pavilion at the Venice Biennial (2009) and the Valencia Biennial (2005). He also participated in Ways Beyond the Internet at the DLD Conference in Munich (2012, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist). He lives and works everywhere.
Born 1980, Amsterdam
Lives and works everywhere
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2018
GENEROSITY, Towada Art Center, Japan
Portraits, Steve Turner, Los Angeles
2017
Convenient, Takuro Someya, Tokyo
Anti Social, Postmasters, New York
LOOP, Barcelona (with Steve Turner)
Art from the Hugo Brown Family Collection, Kunsthal, Rotterdam
2016
Art Brussels, Brussels (with Steve Turner)
Art Rotterdam (with Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam), The Netherlands
Somewhere, TSCA, Tokyo
Abstract Browsing, Steve Turner, Los Angeles
2015
Soft Focus, MU, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Haiku, Postmasters, New York
The Armory Show, Upstream Gallery, New York
Much Better Than This, Times Square Midnight Moment, Times Square, New York
Zona Maco Sur (with Steve Turner), Mexico City (curated by João Mourã and Luis Silva)
On and on, Carl Kostyal, Stockholm
2014
Almost Nothing Hardly Anything, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles
VIENNAFAIR (with Jonas Lund & Steve Turner Contemporary)
Art Rio (with Michael Staniak & Steve Turner Contemporary)
External Memory, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam
Looking at Something, Telfair Museum, Savannah
2013
Everything You See is in the Past, Postmasters Gallery, New York
Cold Void, KK Outlet, Los Angeles
Over Here Over There, Salon 94, New York (video wall)
Seoul Art Square, Seoul
2012
In Motion, W/— Projects, New York
Everything Always Everywhere, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles
Without Hesitation, Tokyo (in collaboration with Calvin Klein Global Creative Director Kevin Carrigan)
Everything Dies, Kunstverein Arnsberg, Germany (curated by Vlado Velkov)
In and Out, Tetem, The Netherlands
2011
New Information, Nordin Gallery, Stockholm
In Motion, With Project Space, New York (curated by Jiminie Ha)
The Shift, W139, Amsterdam (curated by Tim Voss)
To Walk The Night, Gloria Maria Gallery, Milan
2010
Thank You Very Much, Future Gallery, Berlin
Perfect Vacuum, Galeri Pictura, Sweden (curated by Johanna Bergmark)
Broken Self, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York
Yes For Sure, NIMk, Amsterdam (curated by Petra Heck)
I’m good, TSCA, Tokyo
2009
Really Really Big, NP3, Groningen
2007
Flaming Log, Carmelitas Gallery, Barcelona
Piece by Piece, Galeria dels Angels, Barcelona (curated by Marti Peran)
2005
Neen Season, Sketch, London
2004
It Will Never be the Same, Quarantine, Amsterdam
New Rafael, M+R Gallery, London
2002
White Trash, Electronic Orphanage, Los Angeles
Selected Group Exhibitions
2018
Mapping the Invisible, Yebisu festival, TOP Museum, Tokyo
Colour & Abstraction, Textile Museum, Netherlands
2017
Stedelijk Base, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Choice and Chance, Eye Film Museum, Amsterdam
Art Brussels (with Steve Turner), Brussels
Art from the Hugo Brown Family Collection, Kunsthal, Rotterdam
Hello Robot, Vitra Museum, Germany
Cubicles, Foam Museum, Amsterdam
Popular Screen Sizes, JCC Singapore
Insomnia, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm
2016
CODE Art Fair (with Steve Turner), Copenhagen
Seattle Art Fair (with Steve Turner)
Dallas Art Fair (with Steve Turner), Dallas
Digital Abstracts, House of Electronic Arts, Basel
2015
STRP Biennial, The Netherlands
Born Digital, Moti Museum, Breda
Space Program, Steve Turner, Los Angeles
2014
Untitled, Miami Beach (with Steve Turner)
artBO (with Steve Turner Contemporary), Bogotá
Selected Websites, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Looking at Something, Telfair Museum, Savannah
Illumination, G8 Gallery, Tokyo
UNPAINTED, Münich
Liquid Crystal Palace: Recent Works with Jeremy Blake, Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles (curated by Michael Connor and Nate Hitchcock)
2013
Paddles On!, Philips, New York (curated by Lindsey Howard)
Being in the Wired World, Kawasaki City Museum, Japan
Node Festival, Kunstverein Frankfurt
#FutureMyth, 319 Scholes, New York
Brand Innovations for Ubiquitous Authorship, Carroll/Fletcher, London
Art Brussels (with Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles)
Proyecto Basurto, Steve Turner Contemporary, Mexico City
2012
Mythology Online, Polytechnical Museum, Moscow (December – February 2013)
Seoul Square, Seoul, Korea (curated by Lauren Cornell and the New Museum)
BYOB MOCA LA, MOCA Geffen, Los Angeles (curated by Mike D)
Richteriana, Postmasters Gallery, New York
Dotcom, Centre d’Art Bastille, Grenoble
Nova, Museu da Imagem e do Som de São Paulo
DLD Conference, Germany (curated by Johannes Fricke & Hans Ulrich Obrist)
2011
BYOB: Games, Postmasters Gallery, New York (curated by Paul Slocum,)
Extimacy, CACT, Lugano, Switzerland (curated by Pier Giorgio De Pinto)
BYOB Amsterdam, W139 (curator)
BYOB Tokyo, Tokyo (curated by Yosuke Kurita)
BYOB Venezia, Venice Biennial (curator)
File Festival, Rio de Janeiro
Rhizome at the Armory, New York (curated by Lauren Cornell)
BYOB Paris, Paris (curated by Nicolas Maigret)
BYOB London, London (curated by Kernel)
Rojo Nova Festival, Rio de Janeiro (curated by David Quiles Guilló)
DLD Conference, Munich (curated by Johannes Fricke)
2010
Speedshow/PeepShow, Hong Kong (curated by Hitomi Hasegawa)
BYOB NYC, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York (curator)
Bal Jaune Ricard, Paris (curated by Claire Staebler)
BYOB Athens, Kunsthalle Athena (curated by Angelo Plessas)
Speedshow, Amsterdam (curated by Aram Bartholl)
Happy is a place, Mexico City (curated by Violeta Solís Horcasitas)
Taipei Art Fair with TSCA, Taiwan
BYOB (bring your own beamer), Berlin (curated with Anne de Vries)
Binary Code View, The Agency, London
Kunsthalle Athena, Athens (curated by Marina Fokidis)
Multiplex, Munich (curated by Vvork)
Preferiría (si) Hacerlo, Bogota, Colombia
Texture Maps, Nest, The Hague (curated by Eelco van der Lingen)
Circa art fair, Preteen gallery, Puerto Rico
Better Brain: Projected Manifestations of Futurity, Future Gallery, Berlin
Don’t worry, be happy!, Mama, Rotterdam (curated by Gerben Willers)
2009
The Last Session, Amsterdam (curated by Jan van Woensel)
AFK sculpture park (away from keyboard), Berlin (curated by aids-3D)
Afficha Festival, Moscow (curated by Roman Mazurenko)
Biennale di Venezia, Padiglione Internet, Venice (curated by Miltos Manetas and Jan Aman)
The New Easy, Art News, Berlin (curated by Lars Eijssen)
Are you sure you are you?, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York
101 art fair project room, Tokyo (curated by Kosuke Fujitaka)
Straylight Cavern, Cell Project Space, London
The Real Thing, MU art foundation, Eindhoven (curated by vvork)
2008
Love Delirium, Kunstraum Niederoesterreich, Vienna
FILE, São Paolo
Rhizome commissions, New Museum, New York
Point of no Return, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin (curated by Caroline Hancock)
The Long Cigarette, 11, Amsterdam
Webcra.sh, Pictura, Dordrecht (curated by Jodi)
2007
Dazed & Confused vs. Andy Warhol, England (curated by Jerome Sans, Baltic Mill)
Existential Computing, Hayward Gallery, London
Much Better Than This, Horsecross, Perth
2006
Neen Evening, Amsterdam
Unlike the Rest, Liquid Room, Tokyo
Neen Demo, Benaki Museum, Athens (curated by Angelo Plessas)
RAI art fair, GMVZ, Amsterdam
Superneen, Galleria Pack, Milan
ARCO Madrid (with Galeria Dels Angels, Barcelona)
Inside Out, fondsbkvb, Amsterdam
2005
Loop of Neen, Loop Festival, Barcelona
Bienal de Valencia, Spain (curated by Franck Gautherot and Seung-duk Kim)
Sonar Festival, Barcelona
It Will Never be the Same, le Magasin, Grenoble, France (curated by Claude Closky)
2004
Neen Porn, Galeria dels Angels, Barcelona
New Masters of UniverseMoCA Taipei, Taiwan (curated by Wonil Rhee)
NeenToday, MU Art Foundation, Eindhoven, Netherlands (curator)
I am Very Very Sorry, Gallery MVZ, Amsterdam
2002
Afterneen, Casco, Utrecht, Netherlands
Neen World, Vilette Numerique, Paris
WhitneyBiennial.com, New York
2001
Biennale.net, Deitch Projects, New York
Tirana Biennale, Albania
Selected Bibliography
2017
Stosuy, Brandon. “Rafaël Rozendaal on streamlining your process”, The Creative Independent, April
2016
Griffin, Jonathan. “Abstract Browsing, Steve Turner Los Angeles”, Art Review, March
Zellen, Jody. “Rafaël Rozendaal: “Abstract Browsing” at Steve Turner”, art ltd., March
Johnson, Grant. “Rafaël Rozendaal,” Critics’ Picks, Artforum, January 20
Jennifer, Noémie. “Abstract Browser Tapestries Reimagine Surfing the Net,” The Creators Project, Vice, January 12
“Internet Explorer,” AQNB, January 5
2015
Frank, Peter. “Haiku Reviews: ART 2014 Roundup VI,” Huffington Post, January 15
“Abstract Browsing,” an interview with Marvin Jordan, Dis Magazine, March
2014
Connor, Michael. “Liquid Crystal Palace: Jeremy Blake and his new peers,” Rhizome, February 28
Silver, Leigh. “Interview: Digital Artist Rafaël Rozendaal Explains the Magic Behind His Mesmerizing Websites,” Complex, February 6
2013
Galperina, Marina. “Artist’s Notebook: Rafaël Rozendaal,” Animal, December 9
Doms, Annette. “Rafaël Rozendaal,” Künstler – Kritisches Lexikon der Gegenwartskunst, Neu-Isenburg: Der Kunsthandel Verlag, ISSN 0934-1730
Maloney, Jennifer. “Auction House Phillips Enters the Digital Age,” Wall Street Journal, September
Miranda, Carolina A. “The New World of Net Art,” ARTnews, June
Siner, Emily. “If the Internet is Your Canvas, You Paint in Zeros and Ones,” NPR All Tech Considered, November 3
Sifferlin, Alexandra. “Digital Art Clicks on the Auction Block,” TIME, October 21
Vartanian, Hrag. “Will An Auction Help Convince People There’s a Market for New Media Art?” Hyperallergic, October 9
Van Der Poel, Daniël. “Digitale discriminatie,” Metropolism, April/May
2012
Saeed, Abdullah. “The Mission to Turn Times Square into a Massive Art Gallery,” The Creators Project, October 17
2011
Gouzer, Malka. “The Web Rafaël Rozendaal Weaves,” Interview, February 7
Goffo, Andrea. “Rafaël Rozendaal,” Vogue Italia Blog, March 15
Van Tienen, Jan. “Rafaël Rozendaal,” VICE, Vol. 5 No. 12
Winter, Caroline. “Smart Robots, Digital Dollars Lure Collectors as Internet Rocks Art World,” Bloomberg, June 7
Davies-Crook, Susanna. “BYOB,” Dazed and Confused
2010
Boutin, Christophe. “Brand New: Rafaël Rozendaal,” Flash Art, May/June
Quaranta, Domenico. “El Arte de los Ciberdanos,” La Tempestad
2009
Aman, Jan. “In at the Deep End,” Dazed and Confused, September
Brereton, Richard. “Make Popcorn Online: Art & the Internet,” Elephant, Winter
2006
Rollin, Laurent. “Pientures sur Toile,” Ecrans, July 1
2003
Manetas, Miltos. “Neenstars Neenstar: #1 Rafaël Rozendaal,” purple, no. 15, Spring/Summer
May 19 – June 30 , 2018
Whitney Museum of American Art
Curated by Rafaël Rozendaal, 27 Jan — 20 Aug 2017, Nieuwe Instituut, Rotterdam
Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam, September 3 – October 8, 2016
Jody Zellen, Art Ltd., March 2016
Jonathan Griffin, Art Review, Vol 68 No 2, 2016
Karen Kedmey, Artsy, January 20, 2016
Noémie Jennifer, The Creators Project, January 12, 2016
Rafaël Rozendaal creates websites that are individual works of art where each has a title that also serves as its domain name. Though collectors may own a website, they must pay for it to remain on public view. Please see Rozendaal’s art website sales contract (www.artwebsitesalescontract.com) and contact the gallery to confirm availability.
April 20 – 23, 2017
August 26 – 28, 2016
August 4 – 7, 2016