Wes Lang
WES LANG
1972 Born in Chatham, New Jersey
Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2008 Are You Ready For the Country?, ZieherSmith, New York, NY
2006 Skulls and Shit, collaboration with Donald Baechler, Galleri Loyal, Stockholm, Sweden
2005 The Promised Land, ZieherSmith, New York
I Shall Be Released, Bucket Rider, Chicago
American Beauty, Galleri Loyal, Stockholm, Sweden
2004 Night of 100 Covers, Loyal Release, Passerby/Gavin Brown Enterprise, New York; Gallery Milliken, Stockholm, Sweden
Home At Last, ZieherSmith, New York
2003 Self-portraits as a Handsome Young Man, RARE Gallery, New York
2002 Wes Lang: New Works on Paper, GV/AS Gallery, Brooklyn
2001 Bras, Mark Pasek Gallery, New York, catalogue with essay by Edward Albee
2000 Blacks & Whites, Mark Pasek Gallery, New York, NY
Group Exhibitions
2008 The Boys Are Back In Town, Romo Gallery, Atlanta
Brevity's Rainbow, Cinders Gallery, Brooklyn
2007 Mail Order Monsters, curated by Kathy Grayson, Peres Projects, Berlin
True Faith, Greenberg Van Doren, New York, NY
Dark Victory, curated by Dimitrios Antonitsis, Ileana Tounta Contrmporary Art Centre, Athens, Greece
Five Painters, Galleri Loyal, Stockholm, Sweden
2006 10 Curatorial Perspectives, curated by Wayne Northcross, Haven Arts, Bronx, New York, NY
You have to be almost gifted to do what I do, Alexander an Bonin, New York
Panic Room – Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, curated by Kathy Grayson and Jeffrey Deitch, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece
Natural History Museum, The Arsenal Gallery in Central Park, New York
Don't Abandon The Ship, Allston Skirt, Boston
2005 Words: The Formal Presence of Text in Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper, Andrea Rosen, New York, NY
Loyal and his Band, Gallerie Loyal, Stockholm, Sweden
Working Artists in Brooklyn, Romo Gallery, Atlanta
Petits formats ou Miniatures, Galerie Quang, Paris
Everybody Knows This Is Nowhere, Gallerie Loyal, Stockholm, Sweden
2004 The Hunt For Your Family, V-1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark. Exhibition also Traveled to Odd Number, Stockholm, Sweden
2003 New York Dirt, Claska Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Stream, Rare Gallery, New York
2002 Waar, Andrew Andrew Curatorial Services, New York
What's New Pussycat?, Briggs Robinson Gallery, New York, NY
She's Crafty…and So Is He Sometimes, White Columns Gallery, New York, NY
T & A, GV/AS Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2001 Paper, Mark Pasek Gallery, New York, NY
Oil, Mark Pasek Gallery, New York, NY
2000 Hello My Name Is, Mark Pasek Gallery, New York
Meat Market, Mark Pasek Gallery, New York
1999 Under Scrutiny, Limner Gallery, New York
Awards
2002 Edward F. ALbee Foundation Residency, Montauk, New York, NY
Collections
Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Edward F. Albee Foundation, Montauk, New York, NY