Born in 1961 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Rirkrit Tiravanija is widely recognized as one of the most influential artists of his generation. His practice defies media-based description combining traditional object making, public and private performances, teaching, and other forms of public service and social action.
Tiravanija studied at the Ontario College of Art, Toronto, the Banff Center School of Fine Arts, Canada, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and the Whitney Independent Study Program, New York. He has exhibited at museums and galleries worldwide. Major solo retrospectives include Museum of Modern Art, New York (1997); Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1999); Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art in Oslo (2002); Chiang Mai University Art Museum (2004); Museum Bojmans Van Beuningen (2004); Museé de la Ville de Paris (2005), and Kunsthalle Bielefeld (2010).
Tiravanija’s work has been recognised with numerous prestigious awards including the Benesse by the Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum in Japan and the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s Lucelia Artist Award, the Hugo Boss Prize from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York (2004) and the 2010 Absolut Art Award.
Tiravanija is on the faculty of the School of Visual Arts at Columbia University, and is a founding member and curator of Utopia Station, a collective project of artists, art historians, and curators. Tiravanija is also President of an educational-ecological project known as The Land Foundation, located in Chiang Mai, Thailand, and is part of a collective alternative space called VER located in Bangkok where he maintains his primary residence and studio.
Born Buenos Aires, Argentina in 1961
Lives and works in New York and Bangkok
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012
Rirkrit Tiravanija: untitled 2012 (all those years at no. 17E London Terrace), a collaboration with Arto Lindsay, kurimanzutto, Mexico - MX
untitled 2012 (a study for Karl’s perfect day) or (the incomparable Karl Holmqvist), Pilar Corrias, London – UK
untitled 2012 (a study for Karl’s perfect day) or (the incomparable Karl Holmqvist) Galleria Zuecca, Venice - IT
Gallery Side 2, Tokyo – JP
On Air, Centre Pompidou, Paris - FR
Soup/No Soup, La Triennale, Grand Palais, Paris – FR
Lung Neaw Visits His Neighbours (screening), Gloria Cinema, dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel – DE
Lung Neaw Visits His Neighbours, MoMA (screening), New York - USA
2011
Fear Eats the Soul, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York - USA
Murder and Mayhem, 1301 PE Gallery, Los Angeles - USA
Lung Neaw visits his Neighbours, premier at Venice Film Festival, Orizzonti, Venice - IT
2010
Rirkrit Tiravanija, Pilar Corrias, London - UK
Ne travaillez jamais, Tang Contemporary Art, Beijing - CN
2009
Rirkrit Tiravanija: Chew the Fat, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri -USA
The House the Cat Built, Galeria Salvador Diaz, Madrid- ES
A Long March, Centro de Arte Contemporaneo de Malaga -ES
Reflection, Nyehaus, New York -USA
Less Oil More Courage, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel - DE
2008
JG Reads, Gavin Brownʼs enterprise, New York -USA
Palm Pavillon, kurimanzutto, Mexico City - MX
demonstration drawings, Drawing Center, New York magazine station no. 5, Artspace, Auckland - NZ
Foster, Youʼre Dead,Galleria Emi Fontana( with Neil Logan), Milan - IT
2007
Rirkrit Tiravanija, OCAD, Toronto - CA
Multiples, Helga maria Klosterfelde, Berin - DE
2006
Brychcy Bar, Gavin Brownʼs enterprise, New York
Demonstration Drawings, 1301PE, Los Angeles, US
2005
Untitled 2005 (magazine station no. 4), Neugerriemschneider, Berlin Retrospective, Serpentine Gallery, London (cat.) Retrospective, ARC, Musee dʼArt Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
Hugo Boss 2004, Guggenheim Museum, New York
2004
Retrospective, Museum Bojmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam - NL
Social Pudding, Rirkrit Tiravanija and Superflex, 1301PE, Los Angeles, CA
2003
Demo Station No. 4, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
In the Future Everything Will Be Chrome, Gavin Brownʼs enterprise, New York, NY
Social Pudding, Galerie fur Zeitgenossische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany 2002 Untitled 2002 (He Promised), Secession, Vienna, Austria (cat.)
untitled, (Demo Station no. 3), Sumida River Project, Asahi Beer Co, Tokyo, JAP Untitled 2002 (The Raw & The Cooked), City Opera Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Demonstration, Sumida River Project, Asahi Beer, Tokyo oVer station no 2, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo
2001
The Land, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France Rirkrit Tiravanija – Over Magazine, Oslo Kunsthall, Oslo, NorwaySolo Exhibitions (cont.)
GAM, Turin Italy Untitled 2001 (the two sons of Monchengladbach), Stadtisches Museum Abteiberg, Monchengladbach, Germany Untitled 2001 (No Fire No Ashes), Neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany Untitled 2001 (Demo Station No. 3), Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany Kunstverein, Wolfsburg, Germany
2000
Passage Cosmo, Project Gallery, CCA Kitakyushu Untitled 2000 (oVer Station No.2), Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan, Italy Untitled 2000 (oVer Station No.1), Gallery Side 2, Tokyo, Japan Untitled 2000 (demonstrate), Galeria Salvador Diaz, Madrid, Spain
1999
Untitled 1999 (Community Cinema for a Quiet Intersection (After Oldenburg)), The Modern Institute,Glasgow, UK
A Trailer for a Film (in progress for the past several years), 1301 PE, Los Angeles. CA Helga Maria Klosterfelde, Hamburg, Germany Dom-Ino Effect, zus. mit Lincoln Tobier Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Untitled, 1999 (mobile home), Fundacio, “la Caixa”, Barcelona, Spain
Untitled 1999 (tomorrow can shut up and go away), Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York, NY dAPERTutto, 48. Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy (cat.) Untitled 1999 (reading from right to left), Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH Dom-Ino (une demonstration dʼautomne), Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium
1998
Untitled 1998 (Das Soziale Kapital), <migros museum> Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
Untitled 1998 (On the Road with Jiew, Jeaw, Jieb, Sri and Moo) Philadelphia Museum of
Art, Philadelphia, PA
1997
Untitled 1997 (Playtime), Projects 58, MoMA, New York, NY; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA Untitled 1997 (A Demonstration by Faust as a Sausage and Franz Biberkopf as a Potato), neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Villa Franck, Ludwigsburg (cat.) Untitled 1997 (Schupfnudeln), Jan Winkelmann, Munich, Germany Helga Maria Klosterfelde, Hamburg, Germany
1996
Untitled 1996 (Loup, es-tu-la?), Galleria Emi Fontana, Milano, Italy Untitled 1996 (traffic), Navin Gallery Bangkok, Thailand Untitled 1996 (rehearsal Studio No. 6), Kunsthalle St. Gallen, Switzerland Untitled 1996 (Tomorow's Another Day), Kolnischer Kunstverien, Koln, Germany (cat.) Untitled 1996 (one revolution per minute), Le Consortium, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Dijon, France
Douglas Gordon/Rirkrit Tiravanija, FRAC Languedoc-Rousillion, Montpellier, France the pool room, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany In / Out, (a collaborative project with U of I and The Resource Center, Gallery 400 U of I, Circle Campus, Chicago, IL Untitled 1996 (rehearsal studio no. 6, Silent version), Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan Stitching DeAppel, zus. mit Renee Green, Amsterdam, Netherlands (cat.) Stormer, Hamburg; Helga Maria Klosterfelde Editionen, Hamburg, Germany
1995
Untitled 1995 (Still), 303 Gallery, New York, NY Untitled 1995 (Tent), Architektenbüro Alsop & Störmer, Hamburg; Helga Maria Klosterfelde Editionen, Hamburg, Germany
1994
Untitled, 1994 (From Baragas...to Reina Sofia), Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain Andy Warhol Rirkrit Tiravanija, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York, NY Untitled 1994 (meet tim & burkhard), neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany Untitled 1994 (angst essen seele a uf), Friesenwall 116, Cologne, Germany Untitled 1994 (Beauty), Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993
Untitled 1993 (Live and Eat, Eat and Die), Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL. Untitled 1993 (Rucksack), 2.9.1994 Architektenbüro Alsop & Störmer, Hamburg, Germany Helga Maria Klosterfelde Editionen, Hamburg, Germany
1992
Untitled 1992 (Free), 303 Gallery, New York, NY Solo Exhibitions (cont.)
1990
Untitled 1990 (Blind), Randy Alexander Gallery, New York, NY Untitled 1990 (Pad Thai), Project Room, Paula Allen Gallery, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
Thai Transience, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore - SG
Intense Proximite, La Triennale, Palais de Tokyo, Paris - FR
Civic Action: A Vision for Long Island City, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York – USA
Art Moves Festival, Torun – PL
Wide Open School organized by Ralph Rugoff, Hayward Gallery, London – UK
Echigo Tsumari Triennial – JP
Print/Out, MoMA/Museum of Modern Art, New York
Art and Press : Schwarz auf Weiss? Kunst – Zeitung – Wahreit, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin - DE
2011
Spiral and the Square curated by Jochen Volz, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm - SE
2010
The Last Newspaper, The New Museum, New York - USA
erasing 22'09" (unfinished), Gallery VER, Bangkok - TH
Living with Art: Collecting Contemporary in Metro New York, Neuberger Museum, New York - USA
Jorge Pardo Scultpure Ink, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York - USA
At Home/Not at Home, Hessel Museum of Art, New York - USA
The Page, curated by John Stezaker and Matthew Higgs, Kimmerich, New York - USA
Pilot Light, Espace le Carre, Lille - FR
And So On, And So On, And So On, organized by Matt Sheridan Smith, Harris Lieberman, New York - USA
2009
The Spirit of the Haus, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin - DE
Itʼs fine as long as you draw but donʼt film (Waltz with Bashir, 2008): An exhibition of drawings, Pilar Corrias Gallery, London - UK
Compass In Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York - USA
2008
theanyspacewhatever, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York- USA
Yokohama Triennial - JA
Whoʼs Afraid of Jasper Johns? Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, conceived by Urs Fischer and Gavin Brown- USA
2007
Stories Are Propaganda, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, with Philippe Parreno Brychcy Bar, Ontario College of Art and Design, Ontario - CA
Rirkrit Tiravanija: Editions and Multiples, Helga Maria Klosterfelde, Berlin Untitled 1992 (Free), David Zwirner Gallery, with Gordon Matta-Clark, New York - USA
2006
Philippe Parreno & Rirkrit Tiravanija, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris - FR
Keren Cytter & Rirkrit Tiravanija at Japan Foundation / Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice
Keren Cytter & Rirkrit Tiravanija are participating in the exhibition titled Unattained Landscape organised by The Japan Foundation in conjunction with the Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation. Focusing on the theme of identity in Japanese culture, the event will consist of … More
Koo Jeong A, Philippe Parreno and Rirkrit Tiravanija at Casa de Vidro, São Paulo
Koo Jeong A, Philippe Parreno and Rirkrit Tiravanija take part in the final stage of the exhibition The Insides Are On The Outside / Interior está no Exterior, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist. The exhibition opens this week at Lina … More
Frieze Art Fair 2012
Pilar Corrias is delighted to announce its participation in Frieze Art Fair 2012. The gallery will present new works by artists: Charles Avery Koo Jeong A Tala Madani Philippe Parreno Tobias Rehberger Rirkrit Tiravanija Frieze Art Fair, London 11-14 October … More
Rirkrit Tiravanija at Galleria Zuecca, Venice, Italy
A guest at the 2011 Venice Film Festival with his film Lung Neaw Visits his Neighbours, the artist Rirkrit Tiravanija returns to the City of Bridges to show his latest film Untitled 2012 (a study for Karl’s perfect day) or (the … More
Rirkrit Tiravanija at dOCUMENTA (13), Kassel and MoMA, New York
Rirkrit Tiravanija’s 2011 semi-documentary Lung Neaw Visits His Neighbours will be screened at the Gloria Cinema in Kassel as part of dOCUMENTA (13) and at the Museum of Modern Art New York. It is a portraiture of the humble Uncle … More
Rirkrit Tiravanija at the Grand Palais, Paris
As a prelude to the public opening of La Triennale 2012, Rirkrit Tiravanija will transform the Nave of the Grand Palais into an enormous, festive, twelve-hour banquet as he presents for the first time in Paris, a large-scale edition of … More
Philippe Parreno & Rirkrit Tiravanija at MoMA, New York
Philippe Parreno and Rirkrit Tiravanija will be participating in the group exhibition Print/Out at MoMA The exhibition examines the evolution of artistic practices related to the print medium, from the resurgence of traditional printmaking techniques—often used alongside digital technologies—to the … More
Rirkrit Tiravanija wins Absolut Art Award 2010
Pilar Corrias has the pleasure to announce that the second annual Absolut Art Award has been awarded to Rirkrit Tiranamija.Tiravanija was selected by a jury chaired by Christine Macel, Chirf Curator of the Centre Pompidou in Paris. The award was … More
Rirkrit Tiravanija
Pilar Corrias is delighted to present an exhibition of a new work by Rirkrit Tiravanija. This is the artist’s second solo show at the gallery. Born in 1961 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Rirkit Tiravanija is widely recognized as one of … More
Rirkrit Tiravanija
Pilar Corrias is delighted to present an exhibition of new work by Rirkrit Tiravanija. Born in 1961 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, Rirkit Tiravanija is widely recognized as one of the most influential artists of his generation. His practice defies media-based … More
‘It’s fine as long as you draw but don’t film’
Pilar Corrias Gallery is delighted to present ‘It’s fine as long as you draw but don’t film’ (Waltz with Bashir, 2008): An Exhibition of Drawings. Directed by Ari Folman, the Golden Globe Award wining, feature-length animation Waltz with Bashir (2008) … More