Guy Overfelt (USA)



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Guy Overfelt
operating from San Francisco, California, USA

SELECTED SOLO and GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008
Cantocore, Ping Pong Space, Guangzhou Triennial, China
100 Performances for the Hole, Garage Biennale, SF, CA
This Is Not An Auction / This Is A Terrarium, Queens Nails Annex, SF, CA

2007
For The Duration, spare room project, SF, CA
Burning Rubber
, St. Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada (ex. cat.)
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO (ex. cat.)
QNA Royale, Queens Nails Annex, SF, CA
Winterfest Art, SF Bike Coalition Art Auction, SF, CA
Facts and Figures, Amsterdam, Netherlands (ex. cat.)
Telefunken U-47
, Kwan Spot, SF, CA

2006
Blackout, Feibusch Gallery, SF, CA
Later Lived, Army Space, SF, CA
Sick, one piece gallery, SF, CA
Winterfest Art, SF Bike Coalition Art Auction, SF, CA
Speed, Venere Gallery, SF, CA
Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, FL (via linc art)
Impressive Nature, 1015 folsom, SF, CA

2005
Video-intervencion Casa de las Americas, Havana, Cuba
SFAI Lecture Series, SF, CA
CCA Lecture, SF, CA

2004
Nova G.O., Linc Art, SF, CA (with Nils Nova)
Performance Anxiety, Berkeley Art Museum Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA
Minifesto, Kunstpanorama, Luzern (curator:Stephan Wittmer)
Dots and Stripes, Linc Art, SF, CA
Roadside, Mighty, SF, CA (curator: Linc Art Projects)
Muestra de Video, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba

2003
PYRO, evo gallery, Santa Fe, NM
American Dream: A Survey, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, NY, NY
150 ARTISTS MAKE 150 T-SHIRTS, Silverstein Gallery, NY, NY
Super You, Silverstein Gallery, NY, NY (curator: Fashion Institute of Technology)

2002
PowerSlave, eyelevel gallery, Halifax, N.S., Canada
One-Liner, Linc Art, SF, CA

2001
Bongzilla, Detour 888 Gallery, SF, CA (curated series Prime Time / Tony Labat)
Sons of Liberty Tour, Charas/ El Bohio, NY, NY
.... (with Sabbra Cadabra / worlds greatest Black Sabbath tribute band)
Action Jackson, Silverstein Gallery, NY, NY (curator: David Hunt)
Purloined, Artists Space, NY, NY (curator: Christine Y. Kim)
Marked, Hunter College, NY, NY (curator: Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson) (ex. cat.)
Marked, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, CA (curator: Heidi Zuckerman-Jacobson)
reMix, I-space, Chicago Gallery of the Univ. of Ill at Urbana-Champaign
.... (curator: Kevin Kaempf and Lora Lode)

2000
Cruzen USA, Jack Hanley Gallery, SF, CA
Deluxe, Refusalon Gallery, SF, CA (with Tony Labat and Mads Lynnerup)
Destroy, First Vienna Austrotel Contemporary Art Fair, Vienna, Austria
Wine, Women and Wheels, White Columns, NY, NY (curator: Paul Ha)
Ride Free, Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, NY, NY
San Francisco International Art Exposition 2000, SF, CA
Liste 2000: The Young Art Fair in Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
Achieving Failure: Gym Culture 2000, Thread Waxing Space, NY, NY
.... (curator: Bill Arning) (ex. cat.)

1999
Game Over, Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, NY, NY
Fuck You Too Heros, San Francisco Art Institute, SF, CA
Free Beer, Refusalon Gallery, SF, CA
Basel Art Fair, Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland (curator: Daniella Salvioni)
White Columns, NY, NY STHLM Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweden
Domesticated, Refusalon Gallery, SF (w. Matmos, T. Labat & Anna Novakov)

1998
SBMA, Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, NY, NY (with Kara Hammond)
Burn-Out Trial, San Francisco Hall of Justice, SF, CA
Why a Mullet Won't Slow Me Down, Worth Ryder Gallery, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
Fuck You Heros, San Francisco Art Institute, SF, CA
The World #54, The Poetry Project, Taser Project, Summer (repro).
Basel Art Fair, Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland (curator: Daniella Salvioni)
Open Container, Refusalon Gallery, SF, CA (curator: David Hunt)
Pets, Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, NY, NY
Video Pole, Winnepeg, Canada
Club Zonne Gallery, Kobe, Japan
David Geffen Museum, LA, CA
Artist Television Access, SF, CA
2nd Space Gallery, SF, CA
Yale University, New Haven, CN
Frankfurt Messe, Frankfurt, Germany
Annual Benefit and Silent Auction, White Columns, NY, NY
Dogenhaus Galerie, Leipzig, Germany

1997
Four Real Walls, Four Walls Gallery, SF, CA
Project Evidence, White Columns, White Room, NY, NY
White Columns, NY, NY
Whatever, Southern Exposure, SF, CA (ex. cat.)
Art Santa Fe, New Mexico

1996
work/ space, Southern Exposure, SF, CA
Nothing Matters, Refusalon Gallery, SF, CA (ex. cat.)
ACME Custom, Acme Gallery, SF, CA
University Tennessee, Knoxville, TN (curator: Dave Hickey)

1995
Walter /McBean Gallery, SF, CA
Pro Arts Gallery, Oakland, CA (curator: Sandra Phillips)
Bay Area Surveillance, HotWired Retina Gallery / Wired Magazine
Tech Bash, Blasthaus Gallery, SF, CA
Bodies in Space, Studio 10, SF, CA (curator: Doug Hall/ Sam Cucher)
Intersection For The Arts, SF, CA (curator: Sandra Phillips)
Walter /McBean Gallery, SF, CA

1994
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD (curator: Margot Kernan)
Re:Drawing, Southern Exposure, SF, CA (curator: Anne Ayres)
School 33 Art Center, Baltimore, MD (curator: Alice Yang)
Decker Gallery, Baltimore, MD (curator: Aimee Morgana)
Voices From The East, Intermedia Gallery, Ypsilanti, MI

AWARDS // HONORS
2005 Finalist, Creative Capital Foundation Project Grant, New York
2002 Whitney Biennial (nomination list), New York
2001 Artadia Grant, New York
1999 ArtPace (nomination list), San Antonio, Texas
1998 SECA AWARD (nomination list), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1996 Chauncy McKeever Award, San Francisco, California

EDUCATION
M.F.A., San Francisco Art Institute, CA, 1996
B.F.A., Maryland Institute College of Art, MD, 1994


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