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'''Guy Overfelt''' (born 1968) is an artist based in [[San Francisco]].<ref>[http://www.happenstand.com/global/people/2665-guy-overfelt Happenstand]</ref> |
'''Guy Overfelt''' (born 1968) is an artist based in [[San Francisco]] and [[Bolinas]], California.<ref>[http://www.happenstand.com/global/people/2665-guy-overfelt Happenstand]</ref> |
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Overfelt was born in [[Baltimore]]. He works in [[sculpture]], [[performance]], [[photography]] and [[drawing]].<ref>[http://museumca.org/exhibit/guy-overfelt Oakland Museum of California ]</ref> |
Overfelt was born in [[Baltimore]]. He works in [[sculpture]], [[performance]], [[photography]] and [[drawing]].<ref>[http://museumca.org/exhibit/guy-overfelt Oakland Museum of California ]</ref> |
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Guy Overfelt (born 1968) is an artist based in San Francisco and Bolinas, California.[1]
Overfelt was born in Baltimore. He works in sculpture, performance, photography and drawing.[2]
Guy Overfelt’s artwork references subjects as diverse as car culture, art history and notions of identity, such as gender, age, and class. His art practice is one in which ideas, and the strategies he creates to realize those ideas, constitute the artwork. His multidisciplinary approach includes performance art, sculpture, photography, work on paper, and video.
Education
Master of Fine Arts from San Francisco Art Institute[3]
Bachelor of Fine Arts from Maryland Institute College of Art[3]
Selected exhibitions
2011
- Ever Wash, Ever Gold Gallery, San Francisco
- Spread, SOMArts Gallery, San Francisco
2010
- No Vacancy, Butcher's Daughter Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI (curator: Valaire Van Slyck)
- Freebird, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA
- Auto-Manic: Car as Image and Icon, The LAB, SF, CA (curator: Peter Foucault)
- Equal Opportunity Destroyer, NY, NY
2009
- group show, Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, SF, CA
- Warhol Revisted?, De Young Museum + OFF Space, Oakland, CA
2008
- Highway To Hell, Garage Biennale, SF, CA
- 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
- group show, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
- QNA Royale, Queens Nails Annex, SF, CA
- Facts and Figures, Amsterdam, Netherlands (e
2006
- Art Basel, Miami Beach, Miami, FL (via linc art)
- Impressive Nature, 1015 folsom, SF, CA
2005
- For the Better and for the Worst, New Langton Arts, SF, CA
- Video-intervencion Casa de las Americas, Havana, Cuba
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)
- 'Muestra de Video, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba
2003
- American Dream: A Survey, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, NY, NY
- Super You, Silverstein Gallery, NY, NY (curator: Fashion Institute of Technology)
2002
- PowerSlave, eyelevel gallery, Halifax, N.S., Canada
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.)
- 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
- Liste 2000: The Young Art Fair, Basel, Basel, Switzerland
- Achieving Failure: Gym Culture 2000, Thread Waxing Space, NY, NY (curator: Bill Arning) (ex. cat.)
1999
- Game Over, Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, NY, NY
- Free Beer, Refusalon Gallery, SF, CA
1998
- SBMA, Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, NY, NY
- Burn-Out Trial, San Francisco Hall of Justice, SF, CA
- The World #54, The Poetry Project, Taser Project, Summer (repro).
- Basel Art Fair, Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland (curator: Daniella Salvioni)
- group show, Frankfurt Messe, Frankfurt, Germany
- group show, Dogenhaus Galerie, Leipzig, Germany
1997
- Four Real Walls, Four Walls Gallery, SF, CA
- Project Evidence, White Columns, White Room, NY, NY
References
External links
Guy Overfelt is represented by Jack Hanley:http://www.jackhanley.com/
- Smith, Roberta, Prop Fiction, NY Times.com
- Guy Overfelt on Artadia.org
- Further information from Happenstand