Dave Hullfish Bailey
Born 1963
Lives and works in Los Angeles
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Dave Hullfish Bailey moves with dazzling skill between different systems: the world of materials and their influence on our way of sensing and acting; the realm of objects as already constituted things; and language as our method of describing what we see, feel and think. In his work, Bailey shows the possible interrelations between all these ways of making the world, constructing a universe in which all elements are equally important, and where the material and the immaterial dance together in order to make us reflect on how meaning moves between them. Bailey's research-based approach is inherently experimental and speculative and the material form his work takes is inextricably a part of its conceptual subject.
(taken from: Chus Martínez 'Dave Hullfish Bailey' in Creamier, Phaidon 2010)
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SELECTED ONE AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2014
School Selection by Dave Hullfish Bailey; Tensta Konsthall, Sweden
2013
Broken Country; Malmö Konsthall, Sweden
2010
Sci-Fi + Fantasy; Mud, Salt Crystals, Rocks, Water; Wind; Rotation; Revolution; KROME GALLERY, Berlin
2009
Dave Hullfish Bailey & Nils Norman: Surrounded by Squares; Raven Row, London
Dave Hullfish Bailey; The Suburban, Oak Park
CityCat Project; David Pestorius Projects, Brisbane
2008
Ditch/School; Mesler & Hug, Los Angeles
2007
What’s left to its own devices (On reclamation); CASCO, Utrecht
2006
Elevate/Or; Centre d’Art Santa Mónica, Barcelona
Elevator; Secession, Vienna
2005
Bastard Science; Daniel Hug Gallery, Los Angeles
2004
Banding Station; IBID Projects, London
2002
Schindler Shelter, in conjunction with the exhibition project re-public relations; Parkhaus im Malkasten, Düsseldorf
1998
NOTINMYBACKYARD; Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
1997
Casing; 7562 LR, Chicago
1995
1/4 ton; ACME, Santa Monica
SELECTED SIDE-BASED PROJECTS
2009
CityCat Project (second iteration), Brisbane
2006
CityCat Project, commissioned by the University of Queensland Art Museum, Brisbane for the exhibition project Turrbal-Jagera.
2004
Listening Post, commissioned by the Herning Kunstmuseum, Herning, Denmark for the exhibition project Socle du Monde
2002
Untitled, commissioned for Rent-a-Bench, an exhibition project for public spaces in Los Angeles
2001
Schindler Shelter, commissioned by the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles for the exhibition 20/35 Vision
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND COLLABORATIVE PROJECTS (*CATALOGUE)
2014
KIRUNATOPIA - Kunst zu Landschaft und Ressourcen im 21. Jahrhundert; Kunsthaus Dresden - Städtische Galerie für Gegenwartskunst, Germany
2013
item perspectiva: Von flüssigen Stammbäumen im Geröll der Vernetzung:ein Familienporträt; Beaumont Public invites KROME, Espace Beaumont, Luxemburg
2010
Pre-Specifics: Access X!; Röda Sten, Göteborg
For the blind man in the dark looking for the black cat that isn’t there; Culturgest, Lisbon
Abstract Derive; Ludlow 38, New York
For the blind man in the dark looking for the black cat that isn’t there; de Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam
For the blind man in the dark looking for the black cat that isn’t there; Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit
2009
For the blind man in the dark looking for the black cat that isn’t there; Institute of Contemporary Art, London
For the blind man in the dark looking for the black cat that isn’t there; Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis *
Queensland Art; David Pestorius Projects, Brisbane
Green Platform: Art, Ecology, Sustainability, Centro di Cultura Contemporanea a Palazzo Strozzi, Florence *
2008
Desertshore, Luckman Gallery at California State University Los Angeles
Katastrophenalarm, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin-Kreuzberg *
2007
Biennale d’art contemporain de Lyon 2007, Lyon *
Sculptors’ Drawings: Ideas, Studies, Sketches, Proposals and more,
Angles Gallery, Santa Monica
Ohio, Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, Chicago *
2006
Turrbal-Jagera: The University of Queensland Art Projects 2006,
University Art Museum, Brisbane *
Copylandia, in collaboration with GRATIS, Centro de Arte de Sevilla
2005
The Lateral Slip, Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California, Riverside
2004
World Watchers, Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden *
Documents from the Land, Appendiks, Copenhagen
Groundhog Day, Pestorius Sweeney House, Brisbane
Kommando Pfannenkuchen, Daniel Hug Gallery, Los Angeles *
Spacemakers, in collaboration with The Suburban and Temporary Services/Brett Bloom.
Lothringer Dreizehn, Munich
A More Perfect Union—Political Posters for the 2004 Election, Max Fish, New York, and The Suburban, Oak Park
2003
World Watchers, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin-Kreuzberg *
Book Trade, Centre d’édition contemporaine, Genève, Switzerland
Rent-a-Bench, Trapholt Kunstmuseum, Kolding, Denmark *
Affinity Archive, The Metropolitan Complex, Dublin
2002
Perspective 2002, Ormeau Baths Gallery, Belfast *
Layered Histories, Staatsbank (Plattform with Verein Berliner Künstler), Berlin *
Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, Low Gallery, Los Angeles
Charley, P.S. 1 Center for Contemporary Art *
2001
New Settlements, Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen
Stone Soup, Three Day Weekend, Los Angeles
2000
Urban Hymns, Luckmann Gallery at California State University Los Angeles
1998
Berlin/Berlin Biennale, “Plattform” section, Postfuhramt, Berlin-Mitte *
Baustop.randstadt,- collaborative project at Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin*
1997
Work & Progress, LACE, Los Angeles
Palace, Walkers Point Center for the Arts, Milwaukee, Chicago
Huge Garage Sale, curated by Swetlana Heger and Plamen Dejanov. MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles
1996
100 Photographs, American Fine Arts/Colin de Land Fine Arts, New York.
Junge Szene, (with Swetlana Heger and Plamen Dejanov), Secession, Vienna*
VI International Biennale, (with Swetlana Heger and Plamen Dejanov), Cairo
Affairs, (with Swetlana Heger and Plamen Dejanov), ICA, Vienna
Além da Água, (collective work organized by GRATIS), Guadiana River and El Museo de Arte Extremeño e Iberoamericano, Badajoz
Pension Stadtpark, Forum StadtPark, Graz
SELECTED EVENTS, PERFORMANCES AND PRESENTATIONS
2009
CityCat Dreaming, a follow-on conversation with Sam Watson, Sr., State Library of Queensland, Brisbane
2007
Manual Intuition and Makeshift Fashion, workshop, Casco, Utrecht
2006
A Conversation with Sam Watson, Sr., University of Queensland, Brisbane
2003
Schindler Shelter: Los Angeles and the Post-Traumatic Utopia, lecture/performance, The Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane
Schindler Shelter: Los Angeles and the Post-Traumatic Utopia lecture/performance,
Department of Architecture, University of Queensland, Brisbane
Schindler Shelter: Los Angeles and the Post-Traumatic Utopia lecture/performance,
School of Design and Built Environment, Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane
2002
Schindler Shelter: Los Angeles and the Post-Traumatic Utopia, lecture/performance,
Parkhaus im Malkasten, Düsseldorf. Organized by Horten.
2001
A Modest Proposal, lecture/performance, MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House, Los Angeles.
Union Pacific, lecture/performance, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
2000
Hatching Escapes, lecture/performance, MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House, Los Angeles.
Organized by the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design.
Making Way, lecture/performance, Kunstverein Düsseldorf.
Union Pacific, collaborative presentation/performance with Diedrich Diederichsen and Jochen Becker, b_books, Berlin.
1998
3 Days Is What I Say, lecture/performance, MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House, Los Angeles.
Organized by the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design.
1997
Retinal Tear, multimedia performance, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
Abriendo la Piñata, collective event, Rhona Hoffman Gallery
1996
Expert Witness, multimedia lecture/performance, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
Hardly Rains, performance, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles
Loving Las Vegas, reading, Whiskey Pete’s Casino, Primm, Nevada
SELECTED GRANTS AND FELLOWSHIPS
2008
Getty Fellowship/California Community Foundation Individual Artist Fellowship
2007
Durfee Foundation, ARC Grant, Santa Monica
2006
Durfee Foundation, ARC Grant, Santa Monica
2006
Art Center Faculty Development Grant
1998
Artist Grant, Philip Morris Kunstförderung, Munich
1998
Residency Grant, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
oks, Berlin.
1998
3 Days Is What I Say, lecture/performance, MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House, Los Angeles.
Organized by the Los Angeles Forum for Architecture and Urban Design.
1997
Retinal Tear, multimedia performance, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
Abriendo la Piñata, collective event, Rhona Hoffman Gallery
1996
Expert Witness, multimedia lecture/performance, Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
Hardly Rains, performance, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles
Loving Las Vegas, reading, Whiskey Pete’s Casino, Primm, Nevada
SCI-FI + FANTASY; MUD, SALT CRYSTALS, ROCKS, WATER; WIND; ROTATION; REVOLUTION
Exhibition view at Krome Gallery, Berlin, 2010
Document Shredder (reading device for a dark
and wind-wracked place / sixth prototype)
2010
Pencil on plywood, steel, aluminum, cable ties,
film canister, magnets, copper wire, red LED bulbs
73 x 60 x 20 cm
from the series 'Working approximation of a conventional form,
re-determined by prevailing conditions`
2007 / 2009
16 c-prints
Each 26,7 x 26,7 cm
When there was nothing left to see, we looked for a place where we couldn’t be seen doing that
Modified trailer, wood, Correx plastic sheeting, string, yarn, wooden dowels, printed Google satellite imagery
ca. 3 x 5 x 6 m
Installation view at "For the blind man in the dark looking for the black cat that isn’t there", Culturgest, Lisbon, 2009 / 2010
To do with a wide spot along a dusty road crossing a dry channel, somewhere between the old end of Old Red and the dead end of the New West
Modified boat trailer, photocopier, photocopied research materials,
Google satellite imagery, soil samples, Lego chess boards and bricks,
rope, twine, cable, shovels, sediment screens, traffic cones, galvanized
drain pans, water pumps, buckets, hoses, tubing, sandbags, other materials
ca. 8,5 x 4,5 x 3,75 m
Installation view at "For the blind man in the dark looking for the black cat that isn’t there", Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, 2009/2010