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1980 Born, Paris
Lives and works in Berlin

EDUCATION

2005 L'Ecole Cantonale d'Art de Lausanne (ECAL)


PRIZES

2011 National Gallery Prize for Young Art, Berlin
2010 Marcel Duchamp Prize, Paris


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2012
MIMA, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, 1 March – 1 July

2011
Cyprien Gaillard, Prix Marcel Duchamp 2010 - UR, Centre Pompidou, Paris, 21 September – 9 January
National Gallery Prize for Young Art, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum fuer Gegenwart, Berlin, Cyprien Gaillard, 9 September 2011 - 8 January 2012
Neon Indian, Haus der Statistik, Berlin, Berliner Künstlerprogramm/DAAD in collaboration with Based in Berlin
The Withworth Park Obelisk, Withworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 1 July
Salt 3 / The Smithson Effect, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, 26 May – 21 August
The Recovery of the Discovery, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany, 27 March – 22 May
Koudlam & Cyprien Gaillard - The fight against vegetation part 2, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, as part of IMMA 20th Anniversary Performance Season, 27 May
You Are Here: Architecture and Experience (with Candida Hofer), Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA

2010
Prix Marcel Duchamp 2010, Espace 315, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Cities of Gold and Mirrors, Arthouse at the Jones Center, Austin, Texas, USA
Cyprien Gaillard, Solo Exhibition, Museum für Modern Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
MCA 13, Cyprien Gailllard, Malta Contemporary Art, Valletta
Cyprien Gaillard: Obstacles to Renewal, Solo exhibition at Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
Cyprien Gaillard: Disquieting Landscapes, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio

2009
Cyprien Gaillard, Sprüth Magers, Berlin
Performa 09, Biennial of Performing Arts, New York, November 20
Sedimented Landscapes, Laboratorio 987, MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, León, Spain
Cyprien Gaillard, Live at Tate Modern, Turbine Hall, London, July 4
Cyprien Gaillard, FRAC Champagne Ardenne, Reims, France
Pruitt-Igoe Falls, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Beton Belvedere, Stroom Den Haag, The Hague, The Netherlands, curated by Zoë Gray

2008
Cyprien Gaillard, SMS Contemporanea, Siena, Italy
Glasgow 2014, The Hayward Gallery Project Space, Hayward Gallery, London, curated by Tom Morton
Le Canard de Beaugrenelle, CAC, Centre d'art Contemporain de Brétigny, Brétigny sur Orge, France
Real Remnants of Fictive Wars I, Centre d'Art Les Eglises, Chelles, France

2007
Homes & Graves & Gardens, Centre d'art et du Paysage de l'Ile de Vassiviere, Vassiviere, France, curated by Chiara Parisi
Pentagone, Cyprien Gaillard, L'Atelier du Musee du Jeu de Paume, Paris
Desniansky Raion, Cosmic Gallery, Paris,

2006
The Lake Arches, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London

2004
It's Just Me And My Brother, Nuit d'Encore, Paris


PERFORMANCES/LIVE EVENTS

2008
Desniansky Raion, Live performance with Koudlam, Complesso Monumentale Santo Spirito Rome, 4 November, Curated by Valentina Ciarallo and Pier Paolo Pancotto
Crazy Horse, Live performance with Koudlam, When Things Cast No Shadow, BB5, Berlin Biennial, 5 April, Skulpturenpark Berlin

2006
Desniansky Raion, Live performance with Koudlam, 30th Floor, Guy's Tower, 22 November, Guys Hospital, London


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2012
Made in Germany Zwei, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Kestnergesellschaft, Kunstverein Hannover, 17th May - 19th August
La La La Human Steps, A Selection From The Collection Of Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, curated by Sjarel Ex, Istanbul Modern Museum, Istanbul, 16 February – 6 May
... I should learn to look at an empty sky and feel its total dark sublime, Galerie Bugada & Cargnel, Paris, 26 January – 10 March

2011
Illuminations, Venice Biennale
Commercial Break, project curated by Neville Wakefield and Emma Dexter, Venice
MMK 1991 – 2011, 20 Years of Presence, MMK, Frankfurt Museum of Modern Art
A Horse With No legs Still Makes Him a Winner, Galeria Perdida, Mexico City
Incidents of Mirror. Travel in Yucatàn, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City
Aether. Une Proposition de Christoph Keller, Centre Pompidou
Paris – Delhi – Bombay…, Centre Pompidou
Le Mondo Vi Belongs / The World Vous Appartienne / II Monde Appartient to you, Palazzo Grassi
French Art Today: Marcel Duchamp Prize, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
Cities of Gold and Mirrors, Julia Stoschek Collection, Duesseldorf

You Are Here: Architecture and Experience, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
Ausstellung zum Preis der Nationalgalerie für junge Kunst 2011 Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
French Window: Looking at the contemporary art through the Marcel Duchamp prize 2010, Mori Art Museum, Tokio, Japan
The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture from 1839 to the Present, Kunsthalle Zurich, Curated by Roxana Marcoci


2010
Palms Won't Grow Here and Other Myths,John Divola/Cyprien Gaillard, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London
Cyprien Gaillard, Mario Garcia Torres, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washingon DC
The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture from 1839 to the Present, MoMA, New York, curated by Roxana Marcoci
Art and Cities, Aichi Trienniale, Aichi Art center and Aichi Arts Museum, Japan, curated by Akira Tatehata
10,000 Lives, Eighth Gwangju Biennale, South Korea, curated by Massimiliano Gioni
Post Monument, XIV International Sculpture Biennale of Carrara, Carrara, curated by Fabio Cavallucci
Muting seemed a Probability, Fondazione Giuliani, Rome, Italy, curated by Adrienne Drake
One Fine Morning in May, GAK, Bremen
Perpetual Battles, Baibakov Art Projects, Moscow, May 27 - July 25
Crash, Gagosian Gallery, London
MORALITY: Act III, Group exhibition, Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam


2009
Warsaw Under Construction, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw
Performa 09, Biennal of Performing Arts, New York, November 1 - November 22
Projections, Le Carré d'Art, Musée d'art contemporain de Nïmes, Nïmes, curated by Françoise Cohen,October 14, 2009 - January 3, 2010
Platform 2009, KIMUSA, Seoul, South Korea
Actual Fears 2, CAN, Centre d'art Neuchâtel, Neuchâtel
Modernism as a Ruin, An Archaeology of the Present, Generali Foundation, Vienna, curated by Sabine Folie
Summertime; or, Close-ups on Places We've (Never) Been - an Exhibition of Film and Video Works, San Francisco Art Institute
Desiring Necessities, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, curated by Ilaria Gianni
The Generational: Younger Then Jesus, New Museum, New York
Sounds and Visions, Art Film and Video from Europe, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel, Commissioned by the European Parliament, curated by Angelo Gioé and Maria Rosa Sossai
27 November - 21 January, Dependance/Catherine Bastide, Brussels
Cronostasi 2, Modern Art Gallery-GAM, Turin, Italy, Curated by Ilaria Gianni

2008
Sudden White, Royal Academy, London, curated by Mark Beasley
Modern(c)ité, Le Grand Café Centre d'art contemporain, Saint-Nazaire, France
second_nature, Parc Heintz, Dexia BIL, Luxembourg (traveling to Centre artistique et culturel Chamarande
After October, Elizabeth Dee, New York
La consistence du visible, Prix Fondation d'entreprise Ricard, Fondation Ricard, Paris, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud
Re-construction, Biennial of Young Artists, Bucharest
I desired what you were, I need what you are, Maze, Turin, curated by Ilaria Gianni, April
Art Focus 2008, International Biennale of Contemporary Art, Jerusalem, curated by Ami Barak and Bernard Blistène
Expenditure, Busan Biennale, Busan Museum of Modern Art, Busan
Can Art Do More, Art Focus 5, Pavillion, Jerusalem, curated by Ami Barak and Bernard Blistène
The Sublime is Now, Galleria Civica di Modena, Modena, Italy, curated by Marco de Michelis
Degrees of Remove: Landscape and Affect, Sculpture Center, New York
Josef Hannibal, Now, Blancpain Art Contemporain, Genève, curated by 1m3
Greenwashing. Environment: Perils, Promises and Perplexities, Palazzo Ducale di Laurino, Parco Nazionale del Cilento, Salerno, curated by Ilaria Bonacossa and Latitudes
Modern Ruin, Queensland Art Gallery, Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane
Arcadia, Château d'Oiron, Oiron, curated by Dominique Pineau and Paul Hervé Parsy
Untamed Paradises, CAAC, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, curated by Virginia Torrente
My Brain’s a Cliff and My Heart’s a Bitter Buffalo, Castillo/Corrales, presented at Jonathan Viner / Fortescue Avenue, London
L'art contemporain en Europe (Experience Pommery # 5), Domaine de Pommery, Reims, curated by Fabrice Bousteau and Barbara Soyer
Les mondes disparus – Une archéologie du futur, Centre d'art Bastille, Grenoble
Landscope, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, curated by Matthieu Poirier
Second_nature, Park Heintz, Dexia Building, Luxembourg (traveling to Centre artistique et culturale du domaine de Chamarande, Chamarande)
1st Exhibition from the FRAC, Fondo Regional Arte Contemporanea Regione Piemonte, ARCA, Vercelli
Fragile Democracy, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK, curated by Alistair Robinson
BB5, Fifth Berlin Biennale, Berlin, April 5 - June 15, curated by Elena Filipovic and Adam Szymczyk
Building, Dwelling, Thinking, Laura Bartlett Gallery, London, curated by John Slyce
I desired what you were, I need what you are, Maze, Turin, curated by Ilaria Gianni
A Stake in the Mud, A Hole in the Reel, Museo Tamayo, México City; touring to MARCO, Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo (8–9 May), Stadtkino, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, 27 May; CAAC, Centro Andaluz Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla (24–25 June), Fundació Suñol, Barcelona (7–8 July), Barn Hongersdijk Farmstead, Wilhelminapolder, Zeeland, The Netherlands (11 July), curated by Mariana Canepa Luna and Max Andrews
Painting the Glass House: Artists Revisit Modern Architecture, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, (touring to Yale Museum, Connecticut; Mills College of Art Museum), curated by Jessica Hough and Monica Ramirez Montagut
Untamed Paradises, MARCO, Museum of Contemporary Art Vigo, curated by Virginia Torrente
Greenwashing. Environment: Perils, Promises and Perplexities, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, curated by Ilaria Bonacossa and Latitudes
Paraísos Indómitos / Untamed Paradises, MARCO, Museum of Contemporary Art, Vigo; touring to CAAC, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla, curated by Virginia Torente
Estratos, PAC, Proyecto Arte Contemporánea, Murcia, Curated by Nicolas Bourriaud
Cyprien Gaillard: Prospectif Cinéma, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Fusion/Confusion, Museum Folwang Essen, Germany


2007
Beyond the Country Perspectives of the Land in Historic and Contemporary Art, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, curated by Rene Zechlin
Série Noire, Villa Bernasconi, Geneva, curated by Frédéric Latherrade
The Collection One, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Voices of the Moon - A Triibute to Federico Fellini, GCAC, Galleria d'arte moderna di Monfalcone, Monfalcone, curated by Andrea Bruciati
The History Of A Decade That Has Not Yet Been Named, Lyon Biennale 2007, Lyon, France, curated by Stephanie Moisdon and Hans-Ulrich Obrist
ReMAp KM, Destroy Athens, 1st Athens Biennial, Open Air Screening Room, Athens
Are We There Yet, Elizabeth Foundation, New York, Curated by Marco Antonini
Tbilisi IV: Everyday is Saturday, Cumberto/Space, Tbilisi, curated by Daniel Bauman
Real Remnants of Fictive Wars V, Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'Archéologie de Besançon, Besançon
The Landsc Apes, Music & Performance, Stadtkino Basel, Basel, organized by Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
Enlarge Your Practice, La Friche de la Belle de Mai, Marseille, France
Unknown Pleasures, Stadtgalerie, Bern, Switzerland, curated by Angelique Campens
Exit, Maison des arts de Creteil, Creteil, France
Dazed and Confused Versus Warhol, Baltic C.C.A, Newcastle, UK
Black & White, IBID Projects, London
Salon Nouveau, Engholm Engelhorn Galerie, Vienna, curated by Jasper Sharp
Architectures / Exploring Concrete, Maison de l'architecture et de la ville, Lille, France


2006
L'Usage du Monde, Musee d'Art Moderne et contemporain, Rijeka, Croatia
Getting Along, Island 6 Art Center, Shangai
Black Flag, Galerie de Multiples, Paris
Tunnel Vision, FotoMuseum, Antwerp
Super, Programmation vidéo dans le cadre du festival Exit, Maison des arts, Créteil, curated by Eric Dalbin
Bring The War Home, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York
Bring The War Home, QED Gallery, Los Angeles
Super, Le Festival Eist, Maison des Arts de Creteil, France
Abstraction/Surface, Bureau des Videos, Pompidou Centre, Paris

2005
ECAL, Galerie de Multiples, Paris

L'ELAC, Espace Lausannois d'Art Contemporain,Lausanne, Switzerland
The Elated Pedestrian, Champion Fine Arts, Los Angeles

2004
Anciennes Usines Sprint Court, Nuke, Paris

2003
Moph, Parko, Tokyo


CATALOGUES

2010
Geographical Analogies, exh. cat. Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, ISBN 978-3037641484
The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today, Geoffrey Batchen, Tobia Bezzola, Roxana Marcoci, MOMA, New York, ISBN 978-0870707575
Muting seemed a Probability, exh. cat. Fondazione Giuliani, Rome, Italy

2008
"When things cast no shadow", exh. cat. for the 5th Berlin Biennial, Edited by Adam Szymczyk and Elena Filipovic
"The Sublime Is Now", exhibition catalogue, Galleria Civica di Modena
"Fusion/Confusion", Museum Folkwang Essen, Germany, Curated by Prof. Dr. Sabine Maria Schmidt, exhibition catalogue
2007
Art 38 Basel, “Art Unlimited - Cyprien Gaillard”, catalogue pp 60-61
Claire Jacquet “Entre Hubert Robert et Robert Smithson: Cyprien Gaillard”, Document 4, Jeu de Paume catalogue for the exhibition Territoires en Expansion, une Nouvelle Generation d’Artistes

2006
World Tour 2002 – 2003, exh. cat., October

2005
Belief in the Age of Disbelief”, exh. cat., Galerie Nuke, Paris, October
John Trembley “The Elated Pedestrian”, exh. cat., April
Payam Sharifi “The Rear Guard of the Avant Garde- Some Thoughts on Cyprien Gaillard’s Belief in the Age of Disbelief”, exhibition catalogue, Galerie Nuke, Paris, October


PRESS

2012
Cyprien Gaillard’s Artefact (2011) wins the People’s Choice Prize at the Hamburgerbahnhof, flashart online, 16 January

2011
Christopher Bollen, First we take Berlin - Cyprien Gaillard, Interview Magazine, December/January
Susanne Pfeffer, Interview with Cyprien Gaillard, November-December
Hal Foster, Best of 2011: Cyprien Gaillard: The Recovery of Discovery, Art Forum, Vol. 50, No. 5, December
Markus Jans and Michelle Fossi, Art and Destruction, Cyprien Gaillard’s philosophy, Vogue Italy, July

2010
Cyprien Gaillard: Dust Lines, Mono.Kultur Issue 24, Summer
Jonathan Griffin New Romantic, FRIEZE, No. 130, April
Christopher A Yates Images encourage reflection on relationships to landscape, The Columbus Dispatch, ohio, February
Leora Maltz-Leca Cyprien Gaillard and Mario Garcia Torres, www.artforum.com, critics' picks

2009
Screen Savers, NY Times Style Magazine, Fall Issue
Relocating the Past, Art Forum, Issue XLVIII, No. 2, October
Cyprien Gaillard, Art Monthly, July-August
The Generational: Younger Than Jesus, FRIEZE, Issue 14, June-July
"Cyprien Gaillard", Art Forum, Issue XLVII, No.6, February

2008
"Recycling The Ruins", Map Magazine, No. 16, Winter
Payam Sharifi "Geplet verleden", Metropolis M, Monument, No. 5, October/November
Skye Sherwin "Cyprien Gaillard", Art Review, Issue 26, October
Vivian Rehberg, Prospectif Cinema, Frieze, Issue 115, May
Skye Sherwin, Building, Dwelling,Thinking, Art Review, Issue 21, April
Dominic Eichler “5th Berlin Biennial For Contemporary Art”, Frieze, Issue 112, January-February

2007
Ines Gebetsroither “Portrait: Cyprien Gaillard” , Spike, Fall
Jean Loïc Pace, Ruines Modernes, Blast,Fall
Indigo Clark "Concrete Castles", Another Man, No. 5, Fall
Olivier Sauvy, Cyprien Gaillard, Vestiges du futur, Audimagazine,Fall
Juliette Soulez, Cyprien Gaillard, Archistorm,September-October
Daniela Cascella "Eyeswideshut", Blow Up Magazine, Fall
“Ouverture - Cyprien Gaillard”, Flash Art International, Issue 256, October
"Le phénomène Cyprien Gaillard", Beaux Arts,September
Silke Hohmann, Die Monopol-Watchlist. Fünf Künstler, die uns aufgefallen sind, Monopol, September
Julie Boukobza "Cyprien Gaillard à l'épreuve du feu", L'Officiel, No. 917, August
Jean-Max Colard, Voyage au bout de la ruine, Les Inrockuptibles,24 July–30 July
Edoardo Bonaspetti “Cyprien Gaillard”, Mousse,Issue 9, Summer
Emmanuelle Lequeux, Cyprien Gaillard – L'or en barres, Beaux Arts Magazine, No. 277, July
Payam Sharifi “Cyprien Gaillard, A Portrait of Violence as a Young Romantic”, 032c,Issue 13, Summer
Aude Launay, Cyprien Gaillard – Reloaded Land Art, 02, Spring, 12 May
Jean-Max Colard "Cyprien Gaillard - Cosmic Gallerie" , Art Forum, Issue XLV, No. 9, May
Cedric Vincent “Portfolio – Cyprien Gaillard”, ART21, No. 1, March-April
Cyprien Gaillard, entre romantisme et vandalisme, Direct Soir, 6 March
Lillian Davies, Artist profile, UOVO,Issue No.13
Caroline Corbetta “The Wonderland of Utopia”, L’Uomo Vogue,March
Gilles De Bure “Cyprien Gaillard: Order et chaos”, Numero,March
Marie Bonnet “Critic’s Pick: Cyprien Gaillard, Desniansky Raion”, Artforum.com, March
Lara Gardellini, Cyprien Gaillard: The Lake Arches, Tema Celeste, March
Anne Malherbe “Cyprien Gaillard: Desniansky Raion”,, Artpress,No. 332, March
Millie Ross, “Artist Profile: Cyprien Gaillard”, Dazed and Confused, March
Six raisons d’aller voir Cyprien Gaillard, VSD Supplement, February
Cherry Smyth “Cyprien Gaillard: The Lake Arches", ArtReview,February
Marc Arlin “Art Brut”, Spray, February
Jean Max Colard “Cyprien Gaillard: Desniansky Raion”, Les Inrockuptibles, 30 January-5 February

2006
Ossian Ward “Cyprien Gaillard: The Lake Arches”, Time Out London, 6-13 December
“Cyprien Gaillard The Lake Arches”, Kultureflash.net, No. 186, 6 December
Emily Hill “Cyprien Gaillard, The Lake Arches”, DazedDigital.com, 4 December
Robin Wilson “Cyprien Gaillard: The Lake Arches”, Architects’ Journal, No. 20, Vol, 224, 30 November
Laura Jones “How to film a fire extinguisher", The Guardian, 1 November
Matt Price “Early Risers, London’s Young Commercial Galleries Program Highlights: Cyprien Gaillard at Laura Bartlett”, Flash Art International, November
“BABYLON:DON”, Royal College of Art, London, Architecture Annual, On the occasion of 10 Mostra Internazionale di Architettura, Venezia
Payam Sharifi “Crosscurrents, Bring the War Home at Elizabeth Dee”, ArtReview, June
Nicolas Trembley "Cyprien Gaillard", Programme Costes, May/June

2005
Le meilleur de la semaine - Best Of The Week, Les Inrockuptibles, No. 513, 5 November-6 December
Le meilleur de la semaine - Best Of The Week, Les Inrockuptibles, No. 512, 23-29 November
Jean Max Colard, Feux Pales, Les Inrockuptibles, 16 November
Cyprien Gaillard, Paris-Art, October
Cyprien Gaillard, www.pourinfos.org, October
2003
Loic Prigent, Pol’art, Beaux Arts Magazine,October
Nick Barkley, Why Scotland needs Tramway, The List,October
Mago Journal, Japan, August
So-En, Japan, August
L’affaire de Colette, DS, France