Biography: David Altmeid


Born 1974, Montreal
Lives and works in New York


Selected Solo Exhibitions

2008

Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York


2007

David Altmejd 'Stages', Fundació La
Caixa Museum, Barcelona

David Altmejd: The Index,
Canadian Pavilion, 52nd Venice Biennale,
Venice

David Altmejd. Métamorphose /
Metamorphosis
, Oakville Galleries,
Gairloch Gardens, Ontario, Canada (travelling to
Galerie de l'UQAM, Montreal, Illingworth Kerr
Gallery, Alberta College of Art & Design,
Calgary)


2006

Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London

Xavier Hufkens, Brussels


2004

Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York


2003

David /Altmejd: Sculpture, Galerie
Optica, Montreal

Sarah Altmejd, Galerie SKOL, Montreal


2002

Clear Structures for a New Generation,
Ten in One Gallery, New York


1999

Modèles d'esprit et jardins intérieurs, Galerie B-
312, Montreal

1998

Jennifer, Galerie Clark, Montreal

Table n°2, Galerie SKOL, Montreal


Selected Group Exhibitions


2008

Lustwarande 08 - Wanderland, De Oude
Warande, Tilburg

Freeway Balconies, Deutsche
Guggenheim, Berlin

Quebec Triennial, Musée D'Art
Contemporain de Montréal, Montreal

2007

Star Power: Museum as Body Electric,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver

The New Authentics: Artists of the Post-
Jewish Generation
, Spertus Museum,
Chicago

Six Feet Under: Autopsy of Our Relation to
the Dead
, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern,
(travelling to The Rose Art Museum of Brandeis
University, Waltham, 2008)


2006

The Guggenheim Collection, Kunsthalle
Bonn, Bonn


2005

The Zine UnBound: Kults, Werewolves and
Sarcastic Hippies
, Yerba Buena Center for
the Arts, San Francisco


New Romanticism in Contemporary Art,
Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt


2004

Whitney Biennial 2004, Whitney Museum
of American Art, New York


2003

Licht, Art Forum Berlin, Berlin, organised
by Optica, Montreal 8th Istanbul Biennial,
Istanbul


2002

Demonclownmonkey, Artist Space, New
York Lucky Draw, Sculpture Center, Deitch
Projects, New York


2001

Interval: New Art for New Space,
Sculpture Center, New York

Point de chute, Galerie de l'UQAM,
Montreal (travelling to Centre d'Art
Contemporain, Brussels)

Stimuli, Maison de la Culture Frontenac,
Montreal


Further Reading

La Biennale di Venezia, vol. II, Think with
the Senses, Feel with the Mind: Art in the
Present Tense
, Windsor Books, 2007

Fundació La Caixa Museum, Barcelona, Spain,
David Altmejd 'Stages', 2007

Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany, The
Eighth Square
, 2006

James Cohan Gallery, New York, A Brighter
Day
, 2006

The Guggenheim Collection, New York,
Guggenheim Museum Publications, 2006 Lewis
Glucksman Gallery, University College, Cork,
Blake & Sons

Alternative Lifestyles and Mysticism in
Contemporary Art
, 2005

Ideal Worlds New Romanticism in
Contemporary Art
, Schirn Kunsthalle
Frankfurt, 2005

Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York, 2004

Point de chute, Galerie de l'UQAM,
Montreal, 2001





Source:International 08 Made Up, Liverpool Biennial Catalogue

Gender: male
Type: person