Jacob Dyrenforth
Born 1975 in Cincinnati, Ohio
Lives and works in New York
Education
2003 MFA Visual Arts, Columbia University School of the Arts, New York, NY
1998 BFA Visual Arts, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Solo Exhibitions
2009 "Monument to the New Cult of Sex and Anarchy," Renwick Gallery, NY, NY
2006 "some get strong, some get strange," Sandroni.Rey, Los Angeles, CA
2006 "The Yearn," Wallspace, New York, NY
2005 "Vice. And Versa," 31 Grand Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009 "Performance Series," Performance with Ohad Meromi, Renwick Gallery, NY
"On From Here," Guild & Greyshkul, New York, NY
2008 "Without Walls," Museum 52, New York, NY
"Undone," Renwick Gallery, New York, NY
"Microwave 6," Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY
2007 "The Line of Time, and the Plane of Now," Harris Lieberman/Wallspace, curated with Ohad Meromi, and Halsey Rodman New York, NY
"9 or 10 Works I Used to Like," curated by Luca Lo Pinto, Monitor Gallery, Rome, Italy
"I Will Be Alright," Country Club, Cincinnati, Ohio
"Cabaret (Tribunale)," Expodium, Copenhagen, Denmark, and Judson Memorial Church, New York, NY
2006 "The World is Round," Public Art Fund at Metrotech, Brooklyn, NY
"Only the Paranoid Survive," Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art- curated by Daniel Fuller, Peekskill, NY
"Expodium, Aantekeningen," curated by Public Holiday Projects, Utrecht, The
Netherlands
"Between the Spokes," KSArt, New York, NY
2005 "Star-Star," Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
"Downstrokes and Feedback," curated by Lisa Schiff, Allston Skirt, Boston, MA
"Musica-Video-Musica," Reina Sophia, Madrid, Spain
"Girls on Film," Zwirner and Wirth. New York, NY
"Bradford Bailey, Tova Carlin, Jacob Dyrenforth, Molly Smith, Philip Travers," KSArt, New York, NY
"Bucolica," Wallspace, New York, NY
"BROOKLin VIDEO," Futura Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
2004 "Video Salon 1," New York, NY
"Holiday Shopping Show," Wallspace, New York, NY
"EAF 2004," Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, NY
"Two-Person Show," Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
"Floorplay," Brooklyn War Memorial, New York, NY
2004 "Skull Turner," Year Project, New York, NY
"Shift:Drift," Linda Schwartz Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
2003 "High Desert Test Site 3," Joshua Tree, California.
M.F.A. Graduate Thesis Exhibition, Columbia University, New York, NY
"Dealerís Choice," 31 Grand Gallery, New York, NY
"Faking Real," Neiman Gallery Columbia University, New York, NY
C.A.A. MFA Exhibition, Hunter College Gallery, New York, NY.
"Pictures, Patents, Monkeys, and More On Collecting," Pittsburgh Center for the
Arts, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. (traveling exhibition)
Reviews and Publications
2009 Galleries-Downtown Review, The New Yorker, March 9, 2009.
Coburn, Tyler. "Monument to the New Cult," ArtReview, April 2009.
2008 Chelsea Galleries Review, The New Yorker, September 15, 2008.
Coburn, Jesse. "microwave, six," Time Out New York, September 2008.
2007 LoPinto, Luca. 9 or 10 Works I Used to Like (ex. catalogue), September 2007
Siegal, Kristine, Cabaret Tribunale (ex. catalogue), October 2007
2006 Steiner, Rochelle. The World is Round (ex. catalogue), September 2006
Vogel, Carol, "Inside Art: Art in the Commons," The New York Times,
October 6, 2006
Alyson Baker & Stephanie Cash, 2004 Emerging Artist Fellowship (ex. catalogue),
December 2006
2005 Lisa Anne Auerbach & Andrea Zittel, "A Text About High Desert Test
Sites," (with photograph of HDTS performace) Artforum, Summer 2005
Le Quesne, Lizzy, "Fast Tracks: New American Works Capture the Frenetic Pace
of Modern Living," The Prague Post, July 7, 2005
"Jacob Dyrenforth," The Village Voice, Voices Choices, June 2005
2004 Distel, Matt. Drift:Shift (ex. catalogue), January 2004
2003 Auerbach, Lisa Anne. High Desert Test Site 3 (ex. catalogue) October 2003
2002 Respini, Eva. Procession. (ex. catalogue), November 2002
Buehrle, Sarah. "Semantics: What's in a Name" New Art Examiner, January-
February, 2002
Pictures, Patents, Monkeys, and More On Collecting, Essays by Ingrid Schaffner,
Fred Wilson, Werner Muensterberger (ex. catalogue)
Awards and Grants
2004 Socrates Sculpture Park emerging artist fellowship
2003 Agnes Martin Fellowship, Columbia University