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RESUME
name
born
email
website
Gabriel Lester
Amsterdam, February 6th 1972
[email protected]
www.gabriellester.com
education / residence
2012
Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo, Japan 2006
ROAD Capacete, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil 2005-2006
ISCP, New York, United States
2003-2004
IASPIS, Stockholm, Sweden
1999-2000
Rijksakademie van Beeldende Kunst (Royal Academy of the Arts), Amsterdam
1995-1996
Hogeschool Sint Lukas, Brussels
- film department
1994-1995
St.Joost Akademie voor Kunst en Vormgeving (Academy of Arts and Design), Breda
- audiovisual department
selected solo exhibitions
2014
The Ears Have Walls
Follies
Silent Trilogy
Blank Stare
2013
The Secret Life of Cities
Highlights & Chance Encounters,
2012
Roxy
The Future that Was
2011
Suspension of Disbelief
2010
Dilzis
2009
ProMotion
2008
The Last Smoking Flight
A Man of Action [Returns]
One Man Band II
2007
BIG BANG
Last piece of John Fare
Now for Something Completely
Different
2006
SEEN
4x4 hands
selected group exhibitions
2014
Sydney biennale
Marrakesh Biennale
CAFA museum
Folkestone trianial
The Crime Was Almost Perfect
Play Time
2013
Garden of Diversion
Performa 13
Momentum Biennale
Venice Biennale
Sharjah Bienniale
Call of the Mall
Bourgeois Leftovers
2012
dOCUMENTA (13)
Blind Cut
Arco Solo
2011
Secret Societies
Television Commune
I am not a Studio Artist
Leo Xu Projects, Shanghai (CH)
Bonner Kunstverrein, Bonn (D)
3’14 Bergen (NOR)
Gus Fisher Gallery, Auckland (NZ)
Galerie Fons Welters (NL)
Tetem, Enschede (NL)
Minsheng Museum, Shanghai (CH)
NASA/Smart, Amsterdam (NL)
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam (NL)
Rodea Gallery Istanbul, Turkey
Z33, Hasselt (B)
Gallery Fons Welters (NL)
Gallery BirteKleeman, Berlin (D)
Kiosk, Gent (B)
Bloomberg Space, London (UK)
GB-Agency, Paris (F)
IBID Projects, London (UK)
Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm (S)
Wako Works of Art, Tokyo (J)
Sydney (AUS)
Marrakesh (MOR)
Beijing (CH)
Folkestone (UK)
Witte de With, Rotterdam (NL)
Corner House, Manchester (UK)
Sifang museum, Nanjing (CH)
New York (USA)
Moss (NO)
Venice (IT)
Sharjah (UAE)
Utrecht (NL)
De Appel, Amsterdam (NL)
Kassel (D)
Marlborough Chelsea Gallery, New York (USA)
Arco art Fair, Madrid (SP)
Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt (D)
Nam June Paik Art Center, Seoul (SK)
SALT, Istanbul (TR)
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
Walk Trough Mudam,
Not Our Cup of Tea
De Nederlandse Identiteit
A Map Bigger Than Its Territory
Performa/The Prompt
Clifford Irving Show
The Prompt
C.I.S.
Secret Ninth Planet
Slow Movement
Lapses
Paper Exhibition
Made Up
Fear Minus One
The Clifford Irvin Variety Show
Lift Off
Capacete
Still Here
Drop it Like its Hot
Decoder
Night of the 25th
The first antechamber
Ontdekking van de Traagheid
Prix Jeune Peinture Belge 2007
Being in Brussels
Nederlands Film Festival
Undo/Redo
Busan Biennale
Le Nouveau Siècle
Cross Section
Luxembourg (Lux)
29th Sao Paulo Biennial (BR)
Museum De Paviljoens, Almere (NL)
Valand Fine Arts, Gothenburg (S)
TransArt, Bolzano (IT)
Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp (B)
Performa 09 Biennial, New York, (USA)
Kadist Foundation, Paris (F)
MA CCA, San Francisco (USA)
Kunsthalle Bern (CH)
FriArt, Fribourg (CH)
Artist Space New York (USA)
Liverpool Biennale (UK)
University Gallery San Diego (USA)
New Langton Arts, San Francisco (USA)
Onomatopee, Eindhoven (NL)
Gallery Friedrich Petzel, New York (USA)
ArtSpace Sydney (AUS)
Frieze Artfair / Frankfurter Kunstverein
Biennal for Video Art, Mechelen (B)
MiArt, Milan (I)
Project Arts Centre, Dublin (IRL)
KW14, Den Bosch (NL)
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussel (B)
Argos, Brussel (B)
Utrecht (NL)
Fridericianum, Kassel (D)
Busan, Korea
Museum van Loon, Amsterdam (NL)
Museum De Paviljoens, Almere (NL)
teaching, workshops, guest advisor
2014
Elam School of Arts, Auckland, New Zealand, Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam (NL)
2013
Sandberg Institute (NL), Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam (NL)
2012
CUHK Hongkong (CH), Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam (NL)
2011
Gerrit Rietveld Academie, Amsterdam (NL)
2010
Rijksakademie Amsterdam (NL), DAI Enschede (NL), Jan van Eyck Academie Maastricht (NL)
2009
NAI Rotterdam (NL), Piet Zwart institute Rotterdam (NL), Royal Academy of Art KABK,
The Hague (NL)
2008
NICC, Ghent (B), De Appel, Amsterdam (NL)
selected public commissions
2014
Sicco Mansholt, HNI Rotterdam (NL)
2013
Transition 2012, Drente (NL)
Twirl, Stockholm University (SW)
2012
Re-design of UN Delegates Lounge New York - icw Koolhaas, Boom, Jongerius
Design new entrance of Stockholm University, Stockholm (S)
2011
Martini Banners, Groningen (NL)
Orangerie Rabobank, Bergeijk (NL)
2010
Funenpark, Amsterdam (NL)
<15m3, Roombeek Enschede (NL)
2009
Gent Oude Dokken, Gent (B)
Trajectum Lumen, Utrecht (NL)
2007
APAP, Anyang City (SK)
Elevating Witte de With, Amsterdam (NL)
2006
Renovatie Anna, Ministerie van SZW, Den Haag (NL)
selected screenings
2014
Inward Gaze trilogy, Sydney biennale (AUS)
Inward Gaze Trilogy, 3’14 Bergen (NOR)
2013
2012
2011
2011
2010
2009
2008
2007
The Blank Stare, Utrecht (NL)
The Blanks Stare, Moss (DEN)
The Big One - Arco, Madrid (S)
The Big One - Error One, Cinema Zuid, Antwerpen (B)
The Big One – Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo (NOR)
Peace is Not the Absence of Conflict – Nam June Paik Centre, Seoul (SK)
All Right – Leu Xu Projects, Shanghai (CN)
All Right & All Wrong – Pera Plaza, Istanbul (TR)
Last Smoking Flight – BeursBis, Brussels (B)
Last Smoking Flight – Ninth Planet, San Francisco (USA)
NightShade – Lost&Found, Amsterdam (NL)
Last Smoking Flight – Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool (UK)
Last Smoking Flight, Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam (NL)
Urban Surface – Venice Biennale, Venice (I)
NightShade – Decoder 3d biennale for moving images, Mechelen (B)
All Wrong – Project Arts Centre, Dublin (IR)
Urban Surface – Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL)
NightShade – The Images Festival, Toronto (C)
Urban Surface – Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris (FR)

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