TAUBA AUERBACH
CURRICULUM VITAE
BIOGRAPHY
1981 Born in San Francisco, California
Lives and works in New York and San Francisco
EDUCATION
1999 - 2003 BA Visual Art, Stanford University, California
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 New Year, Western Bridge, Seattle
2009 Here and Now/And Nowhere, Deitch Projects, New York
2008 Passengers, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, California
2008 The Uncertainly Principle, Standard (Oslo), Oslo, Norway
2007 The Answer/Wasn’t Here, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, California
2006 Yes and Not Yes, Deitch Projects, New York
2005 All Time, All the Time, San Francisco Art Commission, San Francisco, California
2005 How to Spell the Alphabet, New Image Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection, New Museum, New York. Curated by Jeff Koons
2010 2010 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum, New York. Curated by Francesco Bonami and Gary Carrion-Murayari
2010 Seven on Seven, New Museum, New York. Organized by Rhizome
2010 Fragments of Machines, IMO Projects, Copenhagen, Denmark. Curated by Will Bradley
2010 What Where, Sutton Lane, London, England. Curated by Tom Duncan
2009 Punctuation, Right Window, San Francisco, California. Curated by Curated by Chris Fitzpatrick and Kevin Killian
2009 Maximal Minimal, Art Advisory, Lugano, Switzerland
2009 New York Minute, Macro Museo D’Arte, Rome, Italy. Curated by Kathy Grayson
2009 Brooklyn Queens, The Journal Gallery, Brooklyn, New York. Curated by Eddie Martinez
2009 Fax, The Drawing Center, New York
2009 Younger than Jesus, The New Musuem, New York
2009 SECA Award Show, SFMoMA, San Francisco, California
2009 Almost Always Is Nearly Enough, Standard (Oslo), Oslo, Norway
2009 The Word is Mine, Gallery Lange and Pult, Zurich, Switzerland
2009 A Twilight Art, Harris Liebermann Gallery, New York
2008 Paper, Scissors, Stone, Galerie Nordenhake, Sotckholm, Sweden
2008 No Information Given, Gladstone Gallery, Brussles. Curated by Francesco Bonami
2008 Constraction, Deitch Projects, New York
2008 Idiolects, Brown Gallery, London
2008 Gut of the Quantifier, Lisa Cooley Gallery, New York
2008 Successive Approximation, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York
2007 Signs and Messages from Modern Life, Kate MacGarry Gallery, London, England
2007 Passengers, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, California
2007 Cabinet of Curiosities, The Journal Gallery, Brooklyn, New York. Curated by Kathy Grayson
2007 Paintings, Props and Problems (Still Unresolved), Standard (Oslo), Oslo, Norway
2007 Dream and Trauma, Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria
2007 Words Can’t Describe It, Creative Growth Art Center, Oakland, California
2007 Words Fail Me, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit, Michigan. Curated by Matthew Higgs
2007 For Sale, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal. Curated by Jens Hoffman
2007 Late Liberties, John Connelly Presents, New York. Curated by Augusto Arbizo
2007 Cosmic Dreams, Kunsthalle Andratx, Mallorca, Spain. Curated by Friederike Nymphius
2007 Analogous Logic, Temporary Storage, Brooklyn, New York
2007 Warhol And..., Kantor Feuer Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2007 Beneath the Underdog, Gagosian Gallery, New York. Curated by Nate Lowman and Adam McEwen
2007 Euphorion, Pierogi Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
2007 Almost Home, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, California
2006 Calli/Graffi, Fine Arts Gallery, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California
2006 Panic Room, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece
2006 Mafia or One Unopened Packet of Cigarettes, Standard-Oslo, Oslo, Norway
2006 California Print Show, Paulson Press, Berkeley, California
2006 New Prints 2006/Winter, International Print Center, New York
2005 December Benefit, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, California
2005 Writing Letters: Tauba Auerbach, Joe Amrhein, Steve Powers, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, California
2005 Signs of the Real and Infinite, Tauba Auerbach and Nico Dios, New Image Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2005 4 Squared, Motel, Portland, Oregon
2005 Dreamland Artist’s Club, Coney Island, New York
2004 The Primary Pleasures of Eating, or Drinking, or Looking, or Sex, Adobe Books, San Francisco, California
2004 The San Francisco Show, New Image Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2004 What’s In a Book?, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, California
2004 Hot and Cold #7, Mama Buzz Gallery, Berkeley, California
2004 More Often than Not, Needles and Pens, San Francisco, California
2004 In the Street, Luggage Store Street Theater Festival, San Francisco, California
2002 No War, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, California
2001 ING: Ben Prince, Will Yackulic, Tauba Auerbach, Luggage Store Gallery, San Francisco, California
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2009 Scott, Andrea K., Chaos Theory, The New Yorker, September 28, 2009
2009 Johnson, Ken, Art in Review, The New York Times, September 10, 2009
2009 Work in Progress, V Magazine, March 2009
2009 Walleston, Aimie, The Last Magazine, February 2009
2009 Kazanjian, Dodie, Optic Nerve, Vogue, January 2009
2008 Auerbach, Tauba, Top Ten, Artforum, October 2008
2008 Cover, Nero Magazine, October 2008
2008 Tauba Auerbach on Science, Paper Magazine, October 2008
2008 Rose, Aaron, TAUBA AUERBACH, ANP Quarterly, August 2008
2008 Portfolio, The Journal, August 2008
2008 Clayton, Laura, Talent Profile, Grafik Magazine, April 2008
2007 Cover, ArtReview, November 2007
2007 Adelantado, Olga; and Momin, Shamim; Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast, Work 4: The Impossibilty of Translation, edited by Centro Cultural Montehermoso, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
2007 Gage, Mark Foster, The Memetics of Beauty, Perspecta, Yale University Architectural Journal
2007 Greyson, Kathy, Salon XX, The Journal, October 2007
2007 Labong, Leilani, Hot Twenty Under Forty, 7x7 magazine, October 2007
2007 Dos Santos, Sofia, 2.805 Caracteres: Tauba Auerbach, NEO2 Magazine, Article and featured font, September 2007
2007 Safire, William, On Language, The New York Times Magazine, Featured drawing, June 17, 2007
2007 Print Magazine, Regional Design Annual, Featured drawing, November 2007
2007 Helfand, Glen, Critic’s Pick, The Answer/Wasn’t Here, ArtForum Online, May 2007
2007 Georgopoulus, Alexis, The Answer/Wasn’t Here, SF Bay Guardian, May 2007
2006 Schwabsky, Barry, Panic Room, ArtForum, December 2006
2006 Ollman, Leah, Alpha and Omega, Art in America, December 2006
2006 Smith, Roberta, Yes and Not Yes, The New York Times, October 2006
2006 Beatty, Dustin A., Cover Story: Tauba Auerbach, Anthem Magazine, September, 2006
2006 Host, Vivian, Vis:Ed: Tauba Auerbach, XLR8R Magazine, July 2006
2006 Zyzzyva, featured drawings, Issue 78, Winter 2006
2005 McCormick, Carlo, Artist’s Portfolio: Tauba Auerbach, Paper Magazine, December/January 2005
2005 Buckley, Sarah, Tauba Auerbach, Riot Magazine, December 2005
2005 Ollman, Leah, Tauba Auerbach at New Image Art, Art in America, December 2005
2005 Kurtz, Katie, Critic’s Choice: Writing Letters, San Francisco Bay Guardian, November 2005
2005 Baker, Kenneth, What’s In a Word? Artists at Luggage Store Have Ideas, San Francisco Chronicle, November 2005
2005 Ollman, Leah, An Artist Mines her P’s and Q’s, Los Angeles Times, April 29 2005
2004 Artist’s Sketch Book: Tauba Auerbach, Educated Community, Summer 2004
2004 Hot and Cold, Issue Seven, 2004
2003 Towhidy, Mandana, Eyes Wide, Anthem Magazine, October 2003
BOOKS AND CATALOGUES
2008 Tauba Auerbach, 50/50, Deitch Projects, New York
2006 Tauba Auerbach, Tauba Auerbach – How to Spell the Alphabet, Deitch Projects, New York
2006 Tauba Auerbach, Frequency, self-published
2005 Tauba Auerbach, ALL TRUE #2, self-published
2005 Tauba Auerbach, ALL TRUE #1, self-published
2004 Tauba Auerbach, Twenty Six #3, self published
2004 Tauba Auerbach, Twenty Six #2, self published
2003 Tauba Auerbach, Twenty Six #1, self published
AWARDS
2008 SECA Art Award, SFMoMA, San Francisco, California
2010 (Announced 2007) Eureka Fellowship, The Fleischhacker Foundation