PAUL SIETSEMA
Born: Los Angeles, 1968
Education: University of California, Los Angeles, M.F.A. 1999
University of California, Berkeley, B.A. 1992
Currently lives and works in Los Angeles and Berlin.
Selected One-Person Exhibitions:
2013 [forthcoming]
Paul Sietsema, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
2012
Paul Sietsema, The Drawing Room, London
Paul Sietsema, Kunsthalle Basel
2011
Paul Sietsema - Anticultural Positions, Midway Contemporary Art in collaboration with Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Paul Sietsema, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
2010
Paul Sietsema: Anticultural Positions, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin
2009
Paul Sietsema: Figure 3, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue)
. Traveled to Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
2008
Paul Sietsema, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (brochure)
Paul Sietsema, de Appel Foundation, Amsterdam (catalogue)
2003
Paul Sietsema: Empire, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2012
Lifelike, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Traveled to New Orleans, New Orleans Museum of Art. Will travel to Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Darren Almond, Katharina Fritsch, Martin Honert, Gary Hume, Paul Sietsema, Rebecca Warren, Terry Winters, Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles
The Shock of the News, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
2011
All of This and Nothing, Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles
Drawn from Photography, The Drawing Center, New York
2010
Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection, Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles
A Selection of Works From MOCA’s Permanent Collection, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Hauntology, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley
The Artist’s Museum, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The More Things Change, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
2009
Collection: MOCA's First Thirty Years, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Second Nature: The Valentine-Adelson Collection at the Hammer Museum, Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles
2008
Progress, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Life on Mars: 55th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Inside Architecture: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art at the Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles (catalogue)
5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, Berlin
2007
From Close to Home: Recent Acquisitions of Los Angeles Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
USA: American Video Art at the Beginning of the 3rd Millennium, Second Moscow Biennale
Live/Work: Performance into Drawing, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Radio Daniele, broadcast by Citta del Capo Radio Metropolitana, in collaboration with Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Italy
2006
Uncanny Nature, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Victoria, Australia
Le Mouvement des Images, Centre Pompidou, Paris
2005
Recent Acquisitions, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Ecstasy: In and About Altered States, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (catalogue)
Uncertain States of America, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo. Traveled to Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; Serpentine Gallery, London; Reykjavik Art Museum; Herning Kunstmuseum, Herning, Denmark; Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw; Le Musée de Sérignan, Sérignan, France; Galerie Rundolfinum, Prague; Songzhuan Art Centre, Beijing (catalogue)
La Séance du Dimanche, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris
2004
Real World: The Dissolving Space of Experience, Modern Art Oxford
2003
Celebrating Sculpture: Modern and Contemporary Works from Dallas Collections, Dallas Museum of Art
2002
Play it as it Lays, London Institute
2001
Sonsbeek 9: Locus/Focus, Arnhem, The Netherlands
Bright Paradise: Exotic History and Sublime Artifice / The 1st Auckland Triennial, The University of Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland (catalogue)
2000
Mise en Scene: New Los Angeles Sculpture, Santa Monica Museum of Art, CA. Traveled to CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco (catalogue)
1999
The Perfect Life: Artifice in L.A., Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC (catalogue