Edy Ferguson
Born in Chicago
Lives and works in New York
Background
1996 Hunter College, MFA. Painting, Combined Media: Film, Video, Music Installation, New York
1990-1995 Art Direction. Commercial Film and Video projects: Independent films, Music Videos, New York
1990 Parson?s School of Design. Architectural Drafting, New York
1988 BFA. Sculpture and Painting, Washington University in St. Louis
1982-1984 Early College Program: Drawing, Painting, Printmaking, Art Institute of Chicago
Selected solo exhibitions
2014 Coke Tragedy, Cortex Athletico, Paris, France
Solo Show, ArtGeneve, Cortex Athletico, Geneva, Switzerland
2013 Conspiracy Theory, Bernier-Eliades Gallery, Athens, Greece
2013 America, Faggionato Fine Art, London, United Kingdom
2012 Edy Ferguson, Centre D?Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
2012 Selected Works 1993 ? Present, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece
2008 Recent Paintings, Salon Am Hof, Vienna, Austria
2007 Post Punk Glam Rock, Sensei Gallery, New York, USA
2002 Rockumental, Suite 106 Gallery, New York, USA
1998 Fin de siècle, Nantes Art Festival, Nantes, France
Selected group exhibitions
2012 Double Take, 2nd Biennale of Mardin, Turkey
Parnassos, Wiener Art Foundation, Athens, Greece
Faces, Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece
2011 Forgotten Bar, Remap, Athens, Greece
2010 Tiroler Landes Museen, Innsbruck, Austria
2009 5 x 5 Pluralism, The Mission Cultural Centre, San Francisco, USA
2008 5 x 5 Pluralism, Museo de Arte Acarigua-Araure, Venezuela
2005 Red White and Blue, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York, USA
2001 Song Poems, Cohen and Leslie, New York, USA
1999 Free Coke, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, USA
1998 Oriental Nights, Gavin Brown?s Enterprise, New York, USA
Studio Program, PS1 Institute of Contemporary Art, MOMA, New York, USA
Video Library, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, USA
1997 PS1 Institute of Contemporary Art, MOMA, New York, USA
Perfomances
2013 Sympathy, Centre d?Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
2010 Now + Here, MIR Festical, QBox Gallery, Athens, Greece
2006 The Magician and the Exorcist, Monkey Town, New York, USA
2002 Rockumental, Suite 106 Gallery, New York, USA
2000 Heavy Energy Machine 2: Imperialist Games, Momenta Art, New York, USA
1999 Heavy Energy Machine, Judson Memorial Hall, New York, USA
1998 Fin de Siècle, Nantes Arts and Music Festival, Nantes, France
1994 All My Troubles Seem, New York, Hunter College Studios, USA
Residencies
2011 Hydra Island, School of Fine Arts, Athens
2010 Crete School of Fine Arts, Athens
2009 Tiroler Landes Museen, Innsbruck
2008 Art Factory, Mikonos
2007 Drawing project of Ancient Greek Sculpture, Corfu, Delphi and Athens
1998 Long Island City High School, New York
1998 National Studio Program, PS1 Institute of Contemporary Art, New York
Awards
1999 Annenburg Grant , New York, PS1 Institute of Contemporary Art
1993 Art Direction, Jeremy by Pearl Jam. MTV Video Music Awards, Best Video.
1984-88 Fred Conway Arts Scholarship, Washington University, St Louis
1982-84 Early College Program Scholarships for Painting, Drawing and Printmaking School, Chicago, Art Institute of Chicago
Collections
Museo de Arte Acarigua-Araure (MAAA), Portuguesa, Venezuela
George Economou collection, Athens, Greece
Bibliography
Exhibition Catalogues
Bernier/Eliades Gallery, Agra Publications, Edy Ferguson Conspiracy Theory, Exhibition Catalogue, 2013
Onassis Cultural Center, Faces, Exhibition Catalogue, 2012, pages 78 ? 81
Press
El Elephant Magazine, Issue 13, Winter 2012/13, page 8
KunstForum International, Bd. 219, Januar-Februar, 2013, pages 240 ? 242
Agma, Issue 13, New York, 2013
Art Forum, October 2013
Art Daily, December 26, 2012
Le Courrier, December 2012, page 22
Le Temps, December 15, 2012
Athens Insider, Interview, May 2010
Athens Katamerini, BH Magazine, June 20, 2010
Art Newspaper, September 2002
Voice Choices, October 2002