Alex Bag

Born in New York, NY
Lives and works in New York, NY

EDUCATION
1991 BFA, Cooper Union, New York City

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009 Alex Bag. Galería Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain
Alex Bag, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2005 Coven Services for Consumer Mesmerism, Product Sorcery, and the Necromantic Reimagination of Consumption,
Locust Projects, Miami, FL
2004 Coven Services for Consumer Mesmerism, Product Sorcery, and the Necromantic Reimagination of Consumption,
Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Catalyst Arts, Belfast, Northern Ireland
2002 Crack Up, American Fine Arts Co., New York, NY
2000 12 Spells, American Fine Arts Co., New York, NY
All You Need is Love, Laznia (Bathhouse) Center of Contemporary Art Gdansk, Poland
1999 Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France
1998 Zaal de Unie, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
1997 Art Pace, San Antonio, TX
1996 Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
Marta Cervera Gallery, Madrid, Spain
Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
Le Magasin, Open Project Room, Grenoble, France
Emi Fontana Gallery, Milan, Italy
1995 303 Gallery, New York, NY
1994 303 Gallery, New York, NY

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2007 Television Delivers People, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Fit to Print, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
Playback, ARC/Musee de le Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Threewalls, five day exhibition, curated by Electronic Arts Intermix, Chicago, IL
Beneath the Underdog, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
2006 Panorámica , Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City
Alex Bag, Mike Kelley, Richard Hoeck & John Miller, Babylon Kino, Berlin, Germany
Unfinished Business, curated by Sinisa Mitrovic, Salon of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Pariska, Beograd
Failure, Kilkenny Arts Festival, curated by Mike Fitzpatrick, Kilkenny, Ireland
2005 Day Labor, PS1/MOMA, Long Island City, NY
Master Blaster, curated by Stacey Allan, Kresge Gallery, Ramapo College, Mahwah, NJ
Baltic Triennale, curated by Sofia Hernández Chong Cuy, Raimundas Malasauskas, and Alexis Vaillant, Contemporary
Art Centre, Vilnius, Lithuania
When Humour Becomes Painful, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
What Business Are You In?, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA
Group Show, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, NY
2004 Election, curated by James Meyer, American Fine Art, New York, NY
Grotesque, Burlesque and Parody, Abbaye Saint-André Centre d'Art Contemporain, Meymac, France
Incantations, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
California Earthquake, Daniel Reich Gallery, New York, NY
2001 Not Quite Myself Today, curated by John D. Spiak, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
2000 Performing Bodies, Tate Gallery, London
Catalyst Arts, Belfast, Northern Ireland
Sentimental Education, curated by David Rimanelli, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
Elysian Fields, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Herz aus Glas, Parking Meters, Cologne, Germany
Marking Time, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, Florida
Post-Pop Post-Punk, Museum of Contemporary Art DC, Washington, DC
1998 Visioni, Pitti Immagine, Florence, Italy
All Of Me, curated by Lorelei Stewart, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
I Hate Movies, curated by Tom Borgese, Andrew Kreps, New York, NY
Feria Internacional de arte contemporaneo: Arco '98, Madrid, Spain
The Video Room Festival, The Video Room, New York City, The Fifth International, New York, NY
Harriet Craig, Apex Art, New York, NY
1997 Young and Restless, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
100 Photographs, American Fine Arts, New York, NY
Up Close and Personal, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Some Kind of Heaven, curated by Sadie Coles, Kunsthalle Nurenburg, and Sadie Coles HQ, London
7e Semaine Internationale de Video (Biennale de Saint-Cervats), Geneva, Switzerland
Video Divertmento, curated by Susan Hapgood, San Casciano Dei Bagni, Italy
Doug Aitken, Alex Bag, Naotaka Hiro, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1996 Does Television Inform the Way Art is Made?, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria
Persona, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, IL, and Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland (catalogue)
Nirvana. Capitalism and the Consumed Image, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
1995 How We Will Behave?, Robert Prime Gallery, London
Push-Ups, curated by Emily Tsingou, the factory, Athena Fine Art School, Athens, Greece
Nach Weimer, Landesmuseum, Germany, Smart Show, Stockholm, Sweden
Hero, curated by Ivan Moskovitz, Common Wealth Gallery, Madison, WI
1994 Dirty Pictures, curated by Jack Pierson, Chateau Marmont, Los Angeles, CA
Supastore Boutique, Laure Genillard Gallery, London
Closing In, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA

GRANTS

1997 Art Pace, San Antonio, TX
1996 Visiting Artist sponsored by Creative New Zealand, Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin, New Zealand
1995 Foundation for Contemporary Performance

PERFORMANCE

1996 "Utopian Art Festival", Hotel 17, New York, NY
"Circus of the Stars", Hotel 17, New York, NY
The Alterknit Theatre, The Knitting Factory, New York, NY
1995 Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2009 Halle, Howard, "Alex Bag," Time Out New York, January 29.
O'Neill-Butler, Lauren, "Alex Bag: 500 Words," artforum.com.
2008 Klein, Sheri R. "Comic Liberation: The Feminist Face of Humor in Contemporary Art," Art Education, March.
Rosenberg, Karen. "What's on the Art Box? Spins, Satire and Camp," The New York Times, January 11.
Alemani, Cecilia. "Television Delivers People," Artforum.com, December.
2007 Playback (exhibition catalogue), Éditions des musées de la ville de Paris.
2005 Rimanelli, David. "New York," Artforum, December.
Smith, Roberta. "Day Labor," The New York Times, Novermber 11.
2004 Kelsey, John. "On the Ground: New York," Artforum, December.
Rimanelli, David. "Best of 2004: 13 Critics and Curators Look at the Year in Art," Artforum, December.
Frankel, David. "TV, or Not TV," Artforum, October.
Leffingwell, Edward. "Alex Bag at Elizabeth Dee," Art in America, September.
Pollack, Barbara. "The Elephant in the Room," Art News, September.
Finch, Charlie. "Bend It Like Beckwith," Artnet.com, August 18.
Bellini, Andrea, "New York Tales," Flash Art, May-June.
Griffin, Tim, "Editor's Letter," Artforum, May.
Kelsey, John, "Alex Bag," Artforum, May.
Smith, Roberta, "Alex Bag," The New York Times, March 19.
Goodbody, Bridget L., "Alex Bag," Time Out New York, March 18-25.
Levin, Kim, "Show World," The Village Voice, March 15.
Finch, Charlie. "A Bag Is a Bag Is a Bag," Artnet.com, March 4.
"Opening: Hostile Takeover," New York, March 1.
2002 Kimmelman, Michael. "Alex Bag:' Crackup,'" The New York Times, June 28.
2001 Rimanelli, David. "Best of 2001," Artforum, December.
Harvey, Doug. "About Time-Bitchen Video Art at the Hammer," L.A. Weekly, February 16-22.
2000 Cotter, Holland. "The Nocturnal Dream Show," The New York Times, July 28.
Saltz, Jerry. "Realm of the Senses," The Village Voice, July 5-11.
"Sentimental Education," The New Yorker, July 10.
Koether, Jutta. "Kunst: Gier und Glamour," Vogue (Germany), April.
Saltz, Jerry. "The Artist as Raw Nerve: A Perennial Underground Misfit Strikes Again," The Village Voice, February 22.
"Alex Bag," Paper, February.
Gingeras, Alison. "The Salon of 1999: Friends and Enemies," Artpress, January.
1998 Smith, Roberta. "Art of the Moment, Here to Stay," New York Times, February 15.
1997 Dewan, Shaila. "The Aesthetics of Adolescence," Alex Bag: 97.3 (San Antonio: ArtPace).
Jones, Kristin M. "Young and Restless, Museum of Modern Art," Artforum, Summer.
Van de Walle, Mark. "Push-Ups, Athens Fine Art School," Artforum, April.
Smith, Roberta. "The Resurging Video, Reclaimed and Reoriented," The New York Times, February 21.
Neste, Robin. Review, Art & Text 56.
1996 Stafford, Amy. "Alex Bag (unplugged)," Surface, Winter.
James, Caryn. "Art Flickers from Video Screens," The New York Times, July 26.
Guha, Tania. "How Will We Behave?," Time Out London, July17-24.
O'Brien, Glen. "Who's that Girl?," Frieze, May.
Alexander, Randy. "Hero: Common Wealth Gallery," New Art Examiner, May.
Hainley, Bruce. "All the Rage; The Art/Fashion Thing," Artforum, March.
Fleiss, Elein, and Rian, Jeff. "Alex Bag's Girl World," Purple Prose 10.
Rubinstein, Raphael. "Alex Bag at 303," Art in America, January.
"Alex Bag: Skewering the Art World," Newsweek, January 15.
Gordon, Janine. "SM (Art) Alex Videos," Flash Art, March-April.
Keall, Michael. "Real Far Gone," Pavement Magazine 19, October/November.
Hutter, Frido. "Stellen Sie (sich) Duch Aus!," Kleine Zeitung, October 13.
"Mediala Seiten Blicke," Kronen Zeirung, October.
Behr, Martin. "Die Vertug Barkeit de (flimmer-) Bilder," Salzburger Nachrichten, September 25.
Krumpl, Doris. "Visionen Von Der Fernein der Nahe," Der Standard, September 25.
Niegelheli, Franz. "Das Fernseh Zeitaler als ein Produktionamittel der Kunst," Neue Zeit, September 25.
Hutter, Frido. "Die Enkel der Infizierten," Kleine Zehung, September 22.
Titz, Walter. "Kunst aus den Kanalen," Steirischer Herbst, September 15.
Hainley, Bruce. "Openings: Alex Bag," Artforum, January.
1995 Smith, Roberta. "Alex Bag: 303 Gallery," The New York Times, October 20.
ZAPP Magazine 6, December.
Avgikos, Jan. "Best Exhibitions1995," Artforum, December.
Halle, Howard. Review, Time Out Magazine, October11-18.

CATALOGUES

2007 Playback, exhibition catalogue, ARC/Musee de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
2006 Failure, exhibition catalogue, Kilkenny Arts Festival, Ireland.
2005 When Humour Becomes Painful, exhibition catalogue, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland.
1997 7e Semaine Internationale de Video (Biennale de L' Image en Mouvement), exhibition catalogue, curated by Simon
Lamuniere, Saint-Gervais Geneve, Switzerland.
1996 Persona, exhibition catalogue, Renaissance Society, Chicago and the Kunstahalle Basel, Switzerland.
Push-Ups, exhibition catalogue, curated by Emily Tsingou, "The Factory", Athens Fine Art School, Athens Greece.

VIDEOGRAPHY

2004 Coven Services/Demo Reel, by Alex Bag
2001 The Van, by Alex Bag

2000 Le Cruel et Curieux Vie Du La Salmonellapod, by Alex Bag and Ethan Kramer
1998 Harriet Craig, by Alex Bag
1996 Untitled (project for the Andy Warhol Museum), 22 minutes by Alex Bag
His Girlfriend is a Robot, 16 Minutes by Alex Bag
Artists's Mind, 22 minutes
1995 Untitled (Fall'95), videotape, 57 minutes by Alex Bag
1994 Untitled (Spring 94), videotape, 28 minutes by Alex Bag

LECTURES AND SEMINARS

2004 The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA
1997 Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
1996 Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
Yale University, New Haven, CT
Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
Otis College, Westchester, CA
Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
Cal Arts, Valencia, CA
Arts Center, Pasadena, CA

VIDEO SCREENINGS AND FESTIVALS

2005 Late at Tate, organized with Lux, Tate Britain, London, United Kingdom
2004 The Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA
1998 International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands
1997 Alex Bag, Alix Pearlstein, Paul MaCarthy, Anthenem, Dijon, France
1996 Dan Bernier Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
The Contemporary Center Honolulu, HI
Images, video screening, Saint-Gervais Geneve, Switzerland
Wish You Were Here, video screening, De Appel, Amsterdam
The 5th New York Film Festival, Walter Reade Theatre, New York, NY
Lincoln Center, New York, NY Performance Arts, Individual Artist Award, New York, NY

PRESS

2009 "Alex Bag," The New Yorker, February 9
Halle, Howard. "Alex Bag," Time Out New York, January 29
O'Neill-Butler, Lauren. "Alex Bag: 500 Words," artforum.com
2008 Jacobs, Mark. "Escape Artist: Alex Bag and the Suspension of Disbelief," Tokion, Fall
Rosenberg, Karen. “What’s on the Art Box? Spins, Satire, and Camp,” The New York Times, January 11
2004 Rimanelli, David. “Best of 2004: 13 Critics and Curators Look at the Year in Art,” Artforum
Bellini, Andrea, “New York Tales,” Flash Art
Smith, Roberta. "Alex Bag," New York Times
Goodbody, Bridget L., “Alex Bag,” Time Out New York
2002 Kimmelman, Michael. “Alex Bag:’ Crackup,’” The New York Times
2001 Rimanelli, David. “Best of 2001,” Artforum
2000 Saltz, Jerry. “The Artist as Raw Nerve: A Perennial Underground Misfit Strikes Again,” The Village Voice
1997 Neste, Robin. Review, Art & Text 56
1996 Fleiss, Elein, and Rian, Jeff. “Alex Bag’s Girl World,” Purple Prose 10
“Alex Bag: Skewering the Art World,” Newsweek
Hainley, Bruce. “Openings: Alex Bag,” Artforum, January
Rubinstein, Raphael. “Alex Bag at 303,” Art in America
1995 Smith, Roberta. “Alex Bag: 303 Gallery,” The New York Times