Rirkrit Tiravanija
Born 1961 in Buenos Aires, Argentina
Lives and works in New York, Berlin, and Bangkok
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Another Sunny Afternoon, Cultuurcentrum Strombeek, Grimbergen, Belgium
2021
Luma Arles, Arles, France (commission)
2020
untitled 2020 (once upon a time) (after jasper johns), Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
2019
untitled 2019 (the form of the flower is unknown to the seed), ICA, London, UK
Rirkrit Tiravanija: Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow, and Green, Hirschhorn Smithsonian Museum, Washington, US
Untitled 2019 (Beauté Esthetiqué with no Shampoo), Neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany
2018
Antwerp Roast, Tommy Simeons, Antwerp, Belgium
Rirkrit Tiravanija, Gavin Brown, New York, US
Do We Dream Under the Same Sky?, Chaos OMOTESANDO, Tokyo, Japan
Ng Teng Fong Roof Garden Commission: Rirkrit Tiravanija, National Gallery Singapore, Singapore
2017
Rirkrit Tiravanija, Pilar Corrias,London, UK
skip the bruising of the eskimos to the exquisite words vs. if I give you a penny you can give me a pair of scissors, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, US
Utopia Station, Brooklyn Museum, New York, US
Ishikawa Architecture Project in Okayama, Japan
2016
Unclebrother, Hancock, New York, US
Tomorrow is the Question/Morgen is de vraag, Museumplein, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2015
Karl Holmqvist Reads, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York, US
Untitled 2015 (run like hell), Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Tomorrow is the Question?, Garage Museum, Moscow, Russia
untitled 2015 (there is a light that never goes out), Sant’Andrea de Scaphis, Rome, Italy
2014
Chew The Fat, Galería Agustina Ferreyra, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Time Travelers Chronicle (Doubt): 2014 – 802, 701 AD, neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany
Rirkrit Tiravanija and Superflex, 1301 PE, Los Angeles, US
Time Travelers Chronicle (Doubt): 2014 – 802, 701 AD, Singapore Tyler Print Institute, Singapore
U.F.O - Naut JK (Julius Koller), Orchestrated by Rirkrit Tiravanija, Centre d'Art Contemporani Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Focus: Rirkrit Tiravanija, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas, US
2013
Untitled 2012 (passport to the middleworld), Gavin Brown’s enterprise, Harlem, New York, US
HOW TO COOK A WOLF, Helga Maria Klosterfelde Edition, Berlin, Germany
Oktophonie by Karl Stockhausen, Park Avenue Armory, New York, US
Rirkrit Tiravanija: Asile Flottant, Center for Visual Communication, Miami, US
U.F.O.–Naut JK (Július Koller), Orchestrated by Rirkrit Tiravanija, Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna, Austria
2012
U.F.O.–Naut JK (Július Koller) Orquestra por Rirkrit Tiravanija, kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico
Untitled 2012 (all those years at no. 17E London Terrace), a collaboration with Arto Lindsay, kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico
Rirkrit Tiravanija, Pilar Corrias, London, UK
untitled 2012 (a study for Karl’s perfect day) or (the incomparable Karl Holmqvist), Galleria Zuecca, Venice, Italy
Untitled 2001/2012, Gallery Side 2, Tokyo, Japan
Soup/No Soup, La Triennale, Grand Palais, Paris, France
untitled 2012 (freedom can not be simulated), Neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany
2011
UNTITLED 2008-2011(the map of the land of feeling), Carolina Nitsch, New York, US
Untitled 2011 (police police potato grease), Bonnierskonsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Fear Eats the Soul, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, US
Murder and Mayhem, 1301 PE Gallery, Los Angeles, US
2010
Rirkrit Tiravanija, Pilar Corrias, London, UK
Sanctuary, with Suthat Pinruethai, LA Art Core, Los Angeles, US
who’s afraid of red, yellow and green, 100 Tonson Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
erasing 22'09'' (unfinished), with Nico Dockx, Gallery VER, Bangkok, Thailand
Rirkrit Tiravanija. Just Smile and Don’t Talk, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
Rirkrit Tiravanija, Helga Maria Klosterfelde, Berlin, Germany
Asile Flottant, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Ne travaillez jamais, Tang Contemporary, Beijing, China
2009
Chew the Fat, Neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany
Rirkrit Tiravanija: Chew the Fat, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri, US
The House the Cat Built, Galeria Salvador Diaz, Madrid, Spain
A Long March, Centro de Arte Contemporaneo de Málaga, Málaga, Spain
Reflection, Nyehaus, New York, US
Less Oil More Courage, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
2008
JG Reads, Gavin Brownʼs enterprise, New York, US
Palm Pavillon, kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico
Demonstration drawings, Drawing Center, New York, US
Magazine station no. 5, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand
Foster, Youʼre Dead, Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan, Italy
2007
Rirkrit Tiravanija: Editions and Multiples, Helga Maria Klosterfelde, Berlin, Germany
Untitled 1992 (Free), David Zwirner, New York, US
Stories Are Propaganda, with Philippe Parreno, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, US
Brychcy Bar, Ontario College of Art and Design, Ontario, Canada
2006
Brychcy Bar, Gavin Brownʼs enterprise, New York, US
Demonstration Drawings, 1301PE, Los Angeles, US
Philippe Parreno & Rirkrit Tiravanija, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, US
Rirkrit Tiravanija, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
2005
Untitled 2005 (magazine station no. 4), Neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany
Rirkrit Tiravanija, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
Rirkrit Tiravanija, ARC, Musee dʼArt Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Hugo Boss Prize 2004: Rirkrit Tiravanija, Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
2004
Rirkrit Tiravanija: A Retrospective (tomorrow is another fine day), Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Gordon Matta-Clark-In the Belly of Anachitect (with Pamela M. Lee, Pierre Huyghe & Rirkrit Tiravanija), Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Nothing, CMU Art Museum, Chiang Mai, Thailand
Social Pudding, with Superflex, 1301PE, Los Angeles, US
2003
Untitled (Demo Station No. 4), Ikon Gallery, Birmingham, UK
In The Future Everything Will Be Chrome, Gavin Brownʼs enterprise, New York, US
Social Pudding (with Superflex),Galerie fur Zeitgenossische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany
2002
Untitled 2002 (He Promised), Secession, Vienna, Austria
Untitled (Demo Station no. 3), Sumida River Project, Asahi Beer Co, Tokyo, Japan
Untitled 2002 (The Raw & The Cooked), City Opera Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Demonstration, Sumida River Project, Asahi Beer, Tokyo, Japan
oVer station no 2, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
2001
The Land, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Rirkrit Tiravanija: Over Magazine, Oslo Kunsthall, Oslo, Norway
Rirkrit Tiravanija, Galleria d’Arte Moderna (GAM), Turin, Italy
Untitled 2001 (The two sons of Monchengladbach), Stadtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
Untitled (No Fire No Ashes), Neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany
Untitled 2001 (Demo Station No.3), Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany
Rirkrit Tiravanija, Kunstverein, Wolfsburg, Germany
Passage Cosmo, Project Gallery, CCA Kitakyushu, Kitakyushu, Japan
2000
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), 1301PE, Los Angeles – US
Rirkrit Tiravanija, Helga Maria Klosterfelde, Hamburg, Germany
Dom-Ino Effect, with Lincoln Tobier, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, US
Untitled 1999 (mobile home), Fundacio la Caixa, Barcelona, Spain
Untitled 1999 (tomorrow can shut up and go away), Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, US
Untitled 1999 (reading from right to left), Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, US
Rirkrit Tiravanija, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium
1998
Untitled 1998 (Das Soziale Kapital), Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
Untitled 1998 (On the Road with Jiew, Jeaw, Jieb, Sri and Moo), Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, US
Dom-Ino (Une Demonstration D'automne), Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Rirkrit Tiravanija, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium
1997
Untitled 1997 (Playtime), Projects 58, MoMA, New York, NY; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, US
Untitled 1997 (A Demonstration by Faust as a Sausage and Franz Biberkopf as a Potato), Neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany
Rirkrit Tiravanija, Kunstverein Ludwigsburg - Villa Franck, Ludwigsburg, Germany
Untitled 1997 (Schupfnudeln), Jan Winkelmann, Munich, Germany
Rirkrit Tiravanija, Helga Maria Klosterfelde, Hamburg, Germany
1996
Untitled 1996 (Loup, es-tu-la?), Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan, Italy
Untitled 1996 (Traffic), Navin Gallery Bangkok, Thailand
Untitled 1996 (Rehearsal Studio no. 6), Kunsthalle St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Untitled 1996 (Tomorow's Another Day), Kolnischer Kunstverien, Cologne, Germany
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, Hamburg, Germany
In/Out, a collaborative project with University of Illinois and The Resource Center, Gallery 400, University of Illinois, Chicago, US
Radio Printemps, Exposition de groupe, Galerie Chantal Carousel, Paris, France
Untitled 1996 (Rehearsal studio no. 6), Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan
Stitching, DeAppel, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Stormer, Helga Maria Klosterfelde Editionen, Hamburg, Germany
1995
Untitled 1995 (Still), 303 Gallery, New York, US
Untitled 1995 (Tent), Architektenbüro Alsop & Störmer, Hamburg, Germany
Rirkrit Tiravanija, Helga Maria Klosterfelde Editionen, Hamburg, Germany
Untitled 1995 (Tent), Helga Maria Klosterfelde Editionen, Hamburg, Germany
1994
Andy Warhol Rirkrit Tiravanija, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York, US
Untitled 1994 (From Baragas...to Reina Sofia), Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Untitled 1994 (meet tim & burkhard), Neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany
Untitled 1993 (Rucksack), Architektenbüro Alsop & Störmer, Hamburg, Germany
Untitled 1994 (angst essen seele a uf), Friesenwall 116, Cologne, Germany
Untitled 1994 (Beauty), Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, US
1993
Untitled 1993 (Live and Eat, Eat and Die), Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, US
Untitled 1993 (Rucksack), Helga Maria Klosterfelde Editionen, Hamburg, Germany
1992
Untitled 1992 (Still), 303 Gallery, New York, US
1991
Untitled 1991 (Blind), Randy Alexander Gallery, New York, US
1990
Untitled 1990 (Pad Thai), Project Room, Paula Allen Gallery, New York, US
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Let The Sunshine In, Pilar Corrias, London, UK
2021
Helsinki Biennial
It’s Urgent, LUMA, Arles, France
The See that You See is not What the Others See, Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland
2020
Bangkok Biennial
2019
Artists Need to Create on the Same Scale that Society has the Capacity to Destroy: Mare Nostrum, The Brooklyn Rail, 58th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Tomorrow is the Question, ARoS Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark
A Few Things I Cannot Leave Behind, Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
Life to come, Metro Pictures, New York, US
2018
Wild West, Foundation De 11 Lijnen, Oudenburg, Belgium
Ceramics Now, Greenwhich House Pottery, Jane Hartsook Gallery, New York, US
Grand Reverse: The Odious Smell of Truth, Tommy Simoens, Antwerpen, Belgium
Voice of America: Vito Acconci, Paul Chan, Sharon Hayes, Barbara Kruger, and Rirkrit Tiravanija, Gladstone Gallery, New York, US
Land Art Mongolia 2018, Shukbaatar Square, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
New York by Night, HDM Gallery, Beijing, China
2017
Tobias Rehberger & Rirkrit Tiravanija: Portikus XXX, Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany
The Time. The Place. Contemporary Art from the Collection, Henry Art Gallery, Washington, US
Out of Sight! Art of the Senses, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York, US
Being Modern: MoMA in Paris, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
Take Me (I’m Yours), Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan, Italy
We Dream Under the Same Sky, Palais De Tokyo, Paris, France
The Present and Future, ARoS Triennial, Aarhus, Denmark
Graphic Witness, Drawing Room, London, UK
To Challenge The Earth, The Moon, The Sun, and The Stars, Socle du Monde Biennale 2017, Herning, Denmark
Exquisite Trust (Blindly Collective Collaborations), STPI, Singapore
2016
Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, Whitney Museum, New York, US
FREDERICK KIESLER: Life Visions, MAK Exhibition Hall – Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
The Collection Thea Westreich Wagner and Ethan Wagner, Pompidou, Paris, France
All Heritage is Poetry, Forum. Fundacao Eugenio de Almeida, Évora, Portugal
Répétition, Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium
Take Me (I'm Yours), Kunsthal Charlottenborg , Copenhagen, Denmark
untitled 2016 (unfortunes fortunes), Helga Maria Klosterfelde Edition, Berlin, Germany
Tobias Rehberger: presently, Neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany
The fire is gone but we have the light, Rirkrit Tirvanija/Korakrit Arunanondchai, Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, US
MIXTAPE, Pilar Corrias, London, UK
2015
A Brief History of the Future, Louvre, Paris, France
Who Interprets the World?, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Green Go Home, a two-man show with Tomas Vu, NFGalería, Madrid, Spain
Come as You Are: Art of the 1990s, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey, US
Arts & Food: Rituals Since 1851, Triennale di Milano, part of Expo Milano 2015, Milan, Italy
Sharjah Biennial 12: The past, the present, the possible, Sharjah, UAE
Nouveau festival, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Interior Day, Gallery Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Trouble in Paradise, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, Bonn, Germany
The Land, Art Basel 2015, Basel, Switzerland
Open Source, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
Do We Dream Under the Same Sky, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
All the World's Futures, the 56th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
The Tell-Tale Heart, Chi Art Space, Hong Kong, China
Scenes for a New Heritage, Contemporary Art from the Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
2014
Imagineering, Okayama Prefecture, Okayama, Japan
A stroll through a fun palace,Swiss Pavilion at 14th Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy
Take Liberty!, National Museum of Norway, Oslo, Norway
1984-1999. The Decade, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
Take It or Leave It: Institution, Image, Ideology, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, US
{Insert 2014} The Sharp Edge of the Global Contemporary, Mati Ghar, New Delhi, India
Zero Tolerance, MoMA PS1, New York, US
Carte Blanche, kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Patrick Seguin Gallery, Paris, France
Leeum 10th Anniversary Exhibition: Beyond and Between, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea
Solaris Chronicles, LUMA Foundation, Atelier de la Mécanique, Parc des Ateliers, Arles, France
UPSTAIRS DOWNSTAIRS, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany
On the Blue Shore of Silence, Fitzroy Gallery and Tracy Williams, New York, US
2013
Island, Dairy Art Centre, London, UK
Foreigners everywhere, 5th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, Jewish Museum and Tolerance Center Moscow, Moscow, Russia
Interruption: The 30th Biennial of Graphic Arts, International Centre of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
News/Prints: Printmaking and the Newspaper, International Print Center, New York, US
Revealed, Stonescape, Calistoga, US
do it 2013, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, UK
The Red Queen, Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, Australia
Unattained Landscape, Palazzetto Tito of Bevilacqua La Masa Foundation, Venice, Italy
Liberation Annlee, Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Montpellier, France
The Insides Are On The Outside / Interior está no Exterior, Casa de Vidro, São Paulo, Brazil
untitled 2012 (who if not we should at least try to imagine the future, again) (remember Julius Koller), Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, US
NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set. Trash and No Star, New Museum, New York, US
Day After Day: The Diaristic Impulse, University Art Museum, University at Albany, Albany, US
Without Reality There Is No Utopia, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, US
2012
Opening, 338 Oida Gallery, Bangkok, Thailand
Thai Transience, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
We the People, The Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Project Space, New York, US
Sammlung Boros #2, Boros Collection, Berlin, Germany
Art Moves Festival, Torun, Poland
ROUNDTABLE: 9th Gwangju Biennale, The Gwangju Biennale Foundation, Gwangju, South Korea
Ruptures: Forms of Public Address, Cooper Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York, US
John Baldessari / Rirkrit Tiravanija, 1301PE Gallery, Los Angeles, US
Echigo Tsumari Triennial, Japan
Fuori Uso in Opera, Cantiere Caldora, Pescara, Italy
Vers la lune en passant par la plage, Arles, France
Wide Open School, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
Struktur & Organismus, Marillenhof Kausl, Mühldorf, Austria
Soup/No Soup, as part of Intense Proximite, La Triennale, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
On Air, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Art and Press : Schwarz auf Weiss? Kunst – Zeitung – Wahreit, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany
Print/Out, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
Feast: Radical Hospitality in Contemporary Art, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, US
Lifelike, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, US
2011
Civic Action: A Vision for Long Island City, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, US
Spiral and the Square, Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Distant Star/Estrella Distante, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, US; kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico
Politics is Personal, Stonescape, Calistoga, US
Between Utopia and Dystopia, MUAC Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico, Mexico
Art Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Commercial Break, Garage Projects, 54th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2010
21st Century: Art in the First Decade, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane, Australia
Sanctuary, LA Art Core, Los Angeles, US
The Last Newspaper, The New Museum, New York, US
erasing 22'09" (unfinished), Gallery VER, Bangkok, Thailand
Living with Art: Collecting Contemporary in Metro New York, Neuberger Museum, New York – US One Room, One Work, 1301PE, Los Angeles, US
Jorge Pardo Scultpure Ink, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, US
FischGrätenMelkStand, Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin, Berlin, Germany
At Home/Not at Home, Hessel Museum of Art, New York, US
Post-Monument, XIV International Sculpture Biennale of Carrara, Carrara, Italy
The Page, Kimmerich, New York, US
Neue Heimat-zwischen den Welten, Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen, Friedrichshafen, Germany
Open Score Variations, Center for Curatorial Studies, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, US
Pilot Light, Espace le Carre, Lille, France
And So On, And So On, And So On, Harris Lieberman, New York, US
2009
The Social Critique: 1993-2005, Kalmar Konstmuseum, Kalmar, Sweden
The Spirit of the Haus, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Bródno Sculpture Park, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland
Il Tempo del Postino, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
De l’interprétation, Zoo Galerie, Nantes, France
Untitled, 2009 (Pay Attention), One Day Sculpture, Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand
Itʼs fine as long as you draw but donʼt film (Waltz with Bashir, 2008): An exhibition of drawings, Pilar Corrias, London, UK
Compass In Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
Reality Sandwiches, Artnews Projects, Berlin, Germany
1992009, DʼAmelio Terras, New York, US
The House the Cat Built, Galería Salvador Diaz, Madrid, Spain
Re-Imagining Asia, The New Art Gallery Walsall, West Midlands, UK
Desenhos: A-Z, Museu da Cidade, Lisbon, Portugal
Moral Imagination: Current positions in Contemporary Art in the face of Global Warming, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
The Puppet Show, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, US
Mind the Step, 1301PE Gallery, Los Angeles, US
2008
Inaugural Exhibition New Space, kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico
theanyspacewhatever, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
The Greenroom: Reconsidering the Documentary and Contemporary Art,Center for Curatorial Studies, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, US
Time Crevasse, Yokohama Triennial, Yokohama, Japan
An Unruly History of the Readymade, Colección Jumez, Mexico City, Mexico
Out Now!,E-Flux, New York, US
The New York Conversations, a project by Nico Dockx, Anton Vidokle, and Rirkrit Tiravanija, E-flux, New York, US
The Puppet Show, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, US
Vertrautes Terrain: Aktuelle Kunst in und über Deutschland, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
Reykjavík Experiment Marathon, Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland
Whoʼs Afraid of Jasper Johns?, conceived by Urs Fischer and Gavin Brown, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, US
From Gerhard Richter to Rebecca Horn: Works from the Contemporary Art Collection of the Federal Republic of Germany, Art and Exhibition Hall of the Federal Republic of Germany, Bonn, Germany
Glasgow International Festival of Contemporary Visual Art, Glasgow, UK
Pivot Points I: Defining Moca’s Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Miami, US
Art and Capital: Spiritual Odyssey, Alternative Space Loop, Seoul, South Korea
Servitude & Simulacre, Ce Soir, Paris, France
2007
Art Beijing 2007, Tang Gallery, Beijing, China
Tomorrow, Artsonje Center, Seoul, South Korea
Show Me Thai, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
Still Life: Art, Ecology and the Politics of Change, 8th Sharjah Biennial, Sharjah, UAE
Anyang Public Art Project, Anyang, South Korea
Copenhagen Bar Project, Karrier contemporary art & social life, Copenhagen, Denmark
The Place and the Plate, The Jim Johnson Art Center, the French Embassy in Thailand and Alliance Française in Bangkok, Bangkok, Thailand
The Lath Picture Show, Petzel Gallery, New York, US
Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Illinois, US
Just Use It, Nordjyllands Kunst Museum, Aalborg, Denmark
Scotiabank Nuit Blanche, Ontario College of Art and Design, Ontario, Canada
Trans(ient) city, Art Public Contemporain, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Lucelia Artist Award 2001 – 2002, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, US
00’s – The History of a Decade that Has not Yet Been Named, 9th Lyon Biennale, Lyon, France
Words Fail Me, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, US
Il Tempo del Postino, Manchester International Festival, Manchester, UK
The Shapes of Space, Guggenheim Museum, New York, US
Get Lost: Artists Map Downtown New York, New Museum Project, New York, US
The Freak Show, Musée dʼArt Contemporain de Lyon, France
New Economy, Artists Space, New York, US
Someone Else With My Fingerprints, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Generation 1.5, Queens Museum of Art, New York, UK
2006
Open Ended (the art of engagement), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US
All Hawaii Entrées / Lunar Reggae, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
25 x 25, White Columns at Cerealart, Philadelphia, US
The Exotic Journey Ends, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw, Poland; kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico
How to Live Together, Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Surprise, Surprise, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
Yes Bruce Nauman, Zwirner & Wirth, New York, US
Into Me / Out of Me, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, US
Anstoss Berlin: Kunst Mach Welt, Haus am Waldsee, Berlin, Germany
Thank You For the Music (London Beat), Sprüth Magers Projekte, Munich, Germany
Mapping the Studio, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Not all is visible: Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, Norway
The Large Piece of Turf – Contemporary Art in the Public Domain, Nuremberg, Germany
Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language (JG Reads, 2008), MoMA, New York, US
Again for Tomorrow, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Infinite Painting, Villa Manin Centre for Contemporary Art, Codroipo, Italy
Whitney Biennial 2006: Day for Night, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
a stop in RIGA, Emergency Biennale in Chechnya, Neatliekama Biennale, Riga, Latvia
Satellite of Love, Witte de With Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2005
36 x 27 x 10, White Cube Berlin im ehemaligen Palast der Republik, Berlin, Germany
FUSION. Aspects of Asian Culture in the MUSAC Collection, MUSAC Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León, Spain
Early Work, White Columns, New York, US
Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht, ZKM Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany
BEYOND: an extraordinary space of experimentation for modernization, The Second Guangzhou Triennial, Guangdong Museum of Art, Er-sha Island, Guangzhou, China
Looking at Words, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, US
Nach Rokytník: The EVN Collection, MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Wien, Austria
Post No Bills, White Columns, New York, US
Luna Park, Arte Fantastica, Villa Manin, Codroipo, Italy
Leçon Zéro, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, France
Universal Experience: Art, life and the touristʼS eye, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US; Hayward Gallery, London, UK
2004
Small: The Object in Film, Video and Slide Installation. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
Utopia Station, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Gordon Matta-Clark – In the Belly of Anarchitect with Pamela M. Lee, Pierre Huyghe & Rirkrit Tiravanija, Portikus, Krankfurt, Germany
70/90 Engagierte Kunst, Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design in Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany
The Encounters in the 21st Century: Polyphony - Emerging Resonances, 21st Century Museum of Modern Art, Kanazawa, Japan
Klütterkammer, ICA, London, UK
International 04, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
e-flux video rental, e-flux, New York, US
Artists’ Favourites, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
Social Capital: Forms of Interaction, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
Dakar Biennial 2004, Dakar, Senegal
Big Nothing, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, US
Qualsiasi (TV), base, Florence, Italy
2003
Installation art 1969-2002, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, US
Utopia Station Posters, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Writing Identity. Autobiography in Art. Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany
Utopia Station, Tiravanija, 50th Venice Biennale, Arsenale, Venice, Italy
Perfect Timeless Repetition, c/o Alte Gerhardsen, Berlin, Germany
2002
En Route, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool, UK
The Object Sculpture, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK
2001
Points of Departure, SF MoMA, San Francisco, US
Fig-1, 50 projects in 50 weeks, conceived and developed by Mark Francis and Jay Jopling, London, UK
Public Offerings, MOCA, Los Angeles, US
Beautiful Productions Parkett, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
2000
Loneliness in the City, Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerlan
Ein/raumen-Arbeiten im Museum, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Beruhmte Künstler Helfen Koch und Kesslau, Koch und Kesslau, Berlin, Germany
M(odel)4∞, BüroFriedrich, Berlin, Germany
Das Unheimliche Heim, Kunstverein, Wolfsburg, Germany
Continental Shift, Ludwig Forum Aachen – DE; Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht;
Stadsgalerij Heerlen, Netherlands; Musee d’Art Moderne, Liege, Germany
1999
dAPPERTutto, 48, Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
go away: artists and travel, Royal College of Art, London, UK
Beautiful Productions Parkett, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
1998
Berlin Biennale, Berlin, Germany
Sydney Biennale, Sydney, Australia
Kunst und papier auf dem Laufsteg, Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Deserted & Embraced, Goethe-Institute, Bangkok, Thailand
1997
Cities on the Move, no. 2, CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
Enterprise, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, US
Kunst...Arbeit, Sudwest LB, Stuttgart, Germany
Deserted & Embraced, Chiang Mai – TH; Helga Maria Klosterfelde, Hamburg, Germany
Truce: Echoes of Art in an Age of Endless Conclusions, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, US
Medium of Exchange, Congress Centrum Hamburg, Confinea 1997, Hamburg, Germany
Letter and Event, Apex Art C.P. New York, US
Performance Anxiety, MCA Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; MCA Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, US
skulptur.projekte, Münster 97, Münster, Germany
A Summer Group Show, Neugerriemschneider, Berlin, Germany
Wandstucke IV, Gallerie Bob Van Orsouw, Zurich, Switzerland
Campo 6, the Spiral Village, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Netherlands
1996
Gary Hume, Udomsak Krisanamis, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Gavin Brown's enterprise,
New York, US
Thinking Print, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
Biennale D'Art Contemporain De Lyon, Lyon, France
Carsten Holler, Philippe Parreno, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy
Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju, South Korea
1995
The Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
1994
Rirkrit Tiravanija & Andy Warhol, Gavin Brown’s enterprise,New York, US
1990
Post-Consumerism, The Storefront for Art & Architecture, New York, US
Work on Paper, Paula Allen Gallery, New York, US
EDUCATION
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
The Whitney Independent Studies Program, New York
The Banff Center School of Fine Arts, Banff, Canada
The Ontario College of Art, Toronto, Canada
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
2018
Inaugural Resident - The Wunderkammer Residence by Hans Op de Beeck, Museum Dhondt Dhaenens'
2010
Absolut Art Award
2007
Ontario College of Art and Design, Nomadic Residents: International Artist Residency Project April 2-5, 2007, Silpathorn Award
2004
Hugo Boss Prize
2003
Lucelia Artist Award, Smithsonian American Art Museum
Benesse, Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Japan
1996
Central Kunst Prize
1994
Naoshima Contemporary Art Museum, Benesse
National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artist Fellowship
1993
Gordon Matta Clark Foundation Award
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Competition Award
1991
Gordon Matta-Clark Grant