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exhibitions

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (selected)

 

2023

“Machine Organic,” Expanded Art, Berlin, Germany

“Land Sea Sky,” Artwrld, online exhibition

2021

“Lincoln2Lincoln,” Fiendish Plots, Lincoln, NE

2020

"Paper Mirror," 601 Artspace, New York, NY

2019

“Cleaner,” Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY

2018

“Projections: Jennifer and Kevin McCoy,” IFP Film Center, New York, NY.

“Broker,” Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX

2017

“Inhabiting the World We Made,” John Hartell Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

“Broker,” Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH

2016

“Broker,” Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY

2015

“Priests of the Temple,” Rowe Art Gallery, Charlotte, NC

2014

“All Exit”, Johansson Projects, Oakland, CA

“Jennifer and Kevin McCoy”, The Electronic Gallery, Salisbury, MD

2013

“Jennifer and Kevin McCoy” 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA

2012

“Twenty One Twelve,” Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY

 “Northwest Passing,” Project Space, Seattle, WA

“The Index,” EMPAC, Troy, NY

2011

“Installation View,” (curatorial project), 601Artspace, New York, NY

“Installation View, “(curatorial project), Collectorspace, Istanbul, Turkey

“Abu Dhabi is Love Forever,” Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY

2009

“The Family Show,” The Freedman Gallery at Albright College, Reading, PA

“Constant World: The Work of Jennifer and Kevin McCoy,’ 21c Museum, Louisville, KY

“Show Me” Johanssen Projects, Oakland, CA

2008

“Constant World” Beall Center for Art and Technology, touring to 21c, Louisville, KY

“Traffic,” Visualize, Carlew, Ireland

“The Allure of the Literal”, University Art Museum, SUNY Albany, NY

2007

“Tiny, Funny, Big and Sad,” British Film Institute Galleries Southbank, London traveling to VIVID, Birmingham and Newlyn Art Gallery, The Exchange, Cornwall

2006

Galerie Guy Bartschi, Geneva

“Special Things/Scary Things,” Fringe exhibitions, Los Angeles

“Stop Motion,” Edith Russ Haus for Media Art, Oldenburg, Germany (catalog)

“Directed Dreaming,” Postmasters Gallery, New York

2005

“Image is a Projection”, Galeria Mille Eventi, Milan

“Soft Rains,” The Joseloff Gallery, University of Connecticut, Hartford, Connecticut

2004

“Soft Rains,” Postmasters Gallery, New York

“Learning to Watch,” Sala Rekalde, Bilbao (catalog)

2003

“Eternal Return” Galerie Guy Bartschi, Geneva, Switzerland

“Soft Rains,” FACT Liverpool, UK (catalog)

“Stardust,” San Jose State University Art Gallery San Jose, CA

2002

"We Like To Watch," Van Laere Contemporary Art Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium

“Love and Terror”, Butler Art Institute, Youngstown, Ohio

"We like To Watch," Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY

2000 "Pink Light", Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY 

 

PUBLIC WORKS / COMMISSIONS

2020

*“Paper Mirror,” 601 Artspace, New York, NY

2019
*“Public Key/Private Key,” Artport, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

2011

“Installation View,” 601 Artspace, New York, NY

2007

*“The Constant World,” The British Film Institute, London, England.

2004

*”How We Met,” Terminal 4, JFK Airport, New York, NY.

 

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

The Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX

The Speed Museum, Louisville, KY

The Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI

The Nevada Art Museum, Reno, NV

Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA

Institute of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA

MUDAM Contemporary Art Museum, Luxembourg

Francisco Carolinum, Linz, Austria

Private Collections in

USA, Canada, France, Belgium, Germany, Italy, England, Austria, South Korea, China

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AWARDS

2022 Lifetime Achievement Webby Award, International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences

2021 New York Council on the Arts, Film Awardee

2018 The Whitney Museum of American Art, Artport Commission

2018 Kickstarter Creators in Residence

2017 Brooklyn College Award for Excellence in Creative Achievement

2017 Leonard and Claire Tow Award for Creative Achievement

2014 Headlands Center for the Arts Studio Residency, Sausalito, CA

2011 Guggenheim Fellowship, New York, NY

2009 Harpo Foundation, Headlands Center for the Arts Fellowship and Residency, Sausalito, CA

2005 Visual Artist of the Year, Wired Rave Award, Wired Magazine, San Francisco, CA

2003, Critics Choice Award, Rotterdam Film Festival

2001 New Media Art Fellowship, Colbert Foundation, New York, NY

2001 Finishing Funds Grant, Experimental Television Center, Owego, NY

2000 Net Art Commission/Residency, The Alternative Museum, New York, NY

1999 New York Foundation for the Arts Computer Arts Grant recipient, New York, NY

1999 "World Views" Thundergulch Artist in Residence, New York, NY

1999 "Emerging Artist/Emergent Media" Grant, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN.

1999 HarvestWorks Artist in Residence, New York, NY.

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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND SCREENINGS 

2024

"Conversions," Postmasters, Budapest
"New Beginnings: Pioneers of AI Art," HOFA Gallery, London, UK

"Natively Digital," Sotheby's, online exhibition

"A Time Was Had," Maison Lune, Los Angeles, CA

2023

"Machine Violence," Postmasters, New York, NY

"Chain Reaction," Feral File, online exhibition

"4.5 Billion Years," Brief Histories, New York, NY

"Spring/Break Secret Show," New York, NY

2022

"New Frontiers," Sundance Film Festival, Park City, UT

2021

"Between Angels and Beasts," Structura Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria and Radiator Gallery, New York. 

"Essential Work," Putnam Place, Brooklyn, NY

2020

"Time Lapse," Auxiliary Projects, Brooklyn, NY

2019

"Cartooney," The New Media Gallery, Vancouver, BC

"TVGUIDE," SpringBreak, New York, NY

2018

“FotoFest,” Aurora Picture Show, Houston, TX

2017

“Demo Day,” Kunstraum, Brooklyn, NY

“Alt-Facts,” Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY

“Bklyn Immersive” Spring/Break, City Point, Brooklyn, NY

2016

“Design and Violence,” The Science Gallery, Dublin, Ireland

“Source to Code: 50 Years of Media Art in the Goldsen Archive,” Cornell University, Ithaca, NY

“A Celebration of the Speed Collection,” The Speed Museum, Louisville, KY

2015

“The Scary”, New Media Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

“Your smarter than me. i don’t care.”, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA

“Objects of Wonder,” Beall Art Center, Irvine, CA

“From the Ruins,” curated by Jane Harris, 601 Artspace, New York, NY

“AND,” curated by Jennifer Dalton, 601 Artspace, New York, NY

“Wave/Particle” Ronald Feldman, New York, NY

“The 27th Dimension” Spring/Break, New York, NY

2014

“thingworld,” The National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

2013

“Suddenly, There”, Garis & Hahn, New York, NY

“ParaReal” 601 Artspace, New York, NY

“HEIMsuchung. Uncanny Spaces in Contemporary Aty,” KunstMuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany

“2112,” Moving Image Contemporary Video Art Fair, New York, NY

“Hors Piste,” Pompidou Center, Paris, France

“The Halflifers,” 400 Gallery, Chicago, IL

2012

“Hors Piste,” Pompidou Center, Paris, France

“art.ware”, Hong Kong Arts Center, Hong Kong

“Common Frequency,” Radiator Gallery, NY

2011

“The Architecture of Fear”, Z33, Hasselt, Belgium

“Mods & Hackers”, The Paul Young Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

“Brief Histories”, University of Sharjah, UAE

2010

“No Customs,”(curatorial project), SamaSpace, Abu Dhabi, UAE

2009

“FeedForward,” Laboral Centro de Arte, Gijon, SPAIN

“The Horror Show,” The Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY

“Playing Around,’“ The Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, VT

“Modernizing Melodrama,“ Carleton College Art Collection, Northfield, MN

2008

“Rélèvé,” Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, NY

“SuperLight, “ The San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

“Holy Fire art of the digital age,” iMAL Center for Digital Cultures and Technology, Brussels,

Belgium

“Stutter and Twitch,”Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, Hart House, University of Toronto, Ontario

“The New Normal”, curated by Michael Connor, iCI, Artists Space, New York (traveling to Huarte

Centro de Arte Contemporaneo, Spain, then to Decker Gallery at the Maryland

Institute College of Art, then to Canzani Center Gallery, Columbus College of Art & Design, the to Pomona College Museum of Art, California) (catalog)

“Capturing Time, Mapping the Moment,” Artefact Festival, STUK Kunstcentrum, Leuven,

BELGIUM

2007

“The World is My Imagination”, CUBE, Manchester, England

“Serendipitous Tangents,” Gallery Factory, Seoul, Korea

“Automatic Update,” curated from the collection by Barbara London, Museum of Modern Art, New York

“Experimenta Playground” International Biennial of Media Arts, Melbourne, Australia

“Our Second Date: Jennifer and Kevin McCoy,” Nevada Museum of Art; Reno, Nevada

“JiffyPop” ROCA, Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, New York

“Art responsive to instructions, input, or its environment,” Exhibition curated by Christiane Paul &

Jemima Rellie, Laboral Centro de Arte y Creacion Industrial; Spain

2006

“Collective One”, Galerie Guy Bartschi, Geneva

“New York, Interrupted,” curated by Dan Cameron, pkm Gallery, Beijing

“Through the Rabbit Hole,” 21c Museum, Louisville, KY

“Complicit! Contemporary American Art and Mass Culture,” University of Virginia Art

Museum, Charlottesville, VA

“Frontiers,” Sundance Film Festival, Park City, UT

2005

“Dreaming of A More Better Future,” curated by Saul Ostrow, Cleveland Institute of Art, Rehberger

Galleries, Cleveland, OH

“Night Sites,” Kunstverein Hanover, Hanover, Germany

“Identita & Nomadismo,” Palazzo delle Pappesse, Centro di Arte Contemporanea, Siena,

Italy

“360 – Art in the Round,” Wood Street Galleries, Pittsburgh, PA

“Land-e-scape,” Postmasters Gallery, New York

2004

"Cut, Film as Found Object in Contemporary Video,” curated by Stefano Basilico, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, Fl, traveling to Milwaukee Art Museum (2005)

“Terminal Five,” curated by Rachel Ward, JFK Airport, New York

“Database Imaginary” Banff Centre, Banff, Canada

“Zones of Confluences,” curated by Benjamin Weil, Villette Numerique, Paris

“Slouching Towards Bethlehem,” The Project, New York

“Frame, Analysis of Movement,” Center of Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY

“Special Exhibition” related to “August Sander, People of the 20th Century” (works from the permanent collection), Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

"Our Grotesque,” curated by Rob Storr, Fifth International Biennial, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe,New Mexico

“Open House: Working in Brooklyn,” The Brooklyn Museum, New York

“Game Show,” James Cohan Gallery, New York

2003

“Tag Team,” White Box, New York, NY

2002

“American Dream,” Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York

"Animations," Kunstwerke, Berlin

Rotterdam Film Festival, main venue, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

“Future Cinema,” ZKM (Zenter fur Neue Media) Karlsruhe, Germany, traveling 2003-2004 to

Kiasma Museum of Art, Helsinki, Finland ICC Media Center, Tokyo,

“Watery, Domestic,” curated by Hamza Walker, Renaissance Society, Chicago

“Omega Manual,” Smack Mellon Studios, Brooklyn, New York

“Where Do We Go From Here,” curated by Kathy Rae Huffman,” Cornerhouse Arts Centre,

Manchester, UK

“New Acquisitions,“ Department of Photographs, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New

York, NY

“Flay, Splay, Play,” Espace Paul Ricard, Paris

“The Armory Show,” New York, NY.

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EDUCATION

Jennifer McCoy

Rensselaer University, Troy NY, MFA,1994

Cornell University: Ithaca, NY, BA,1990

University of Paris III: Paris, France; Critical Studies Film Program with CIEE.

Kevin McCoy

Rensselaer University, Troy NY; MFA.1994

Whitman College: Walla Walla, WA; BA, 1989

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