I think of my work as phenomenological. J.M.W. Turner painted the weather. Francis Bacon painted his own psychological warpage within a cage of classical Euclidean perspective. My work represents a non-specific/non-Euclidean warpage of space/time in which my hand and process capture the weather at a sub atomic level. They are intuitive investigations of the nature of matter and perception, like the experiments in quantum physics where photons are at once particles and waves and in The Double Slit Experiment where electrons create interference patterns. They are Zen exercises whereby my psychological disposition, or a breeze can cause my hand to err and create nuance that hints at the pictorial-and, like The Double Slit Experiment, invoke Heisenberg’s Principle and are changed by observation.
TARO SUZUKI
Education:
Cooper Union, New York , BFA degree, 1976 School of Visual Arts, New York, 1972-73 Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, 1971-2
Solo Exhibitions:
2019 High Noon Gallery, New York, “Snakes on a Plane”
2017 Crush Curatorial, New York, “Second Sight, Charlotte Hallberg/Taro Suzuki” (Painting)
2011 Heidi Cho Gallery “Steven Alexander / Taro Suzuki” (Painting) 1991 Berland Hall Gallery, New York (Paintings)
1990 White Columns, N.Y. (Paintings)
Daniel Newburg Gallery, New York (Sculpture) 1988 Daniel Newburg Gallery, New York (Sculpture) 1987 Daniel Newburg Gallery, New York (Sculpture)
1986 Daniel Newburg Gallery, New York (Painting and Sculpture) John Weber Gallery, New York (Installation)
Architectures Windows (Installation)
1985 Daniel Newburg Gallery (Painting and Sculpture)
The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN “C3I”, performance in collaboration with Jules Feinman-Baptiste
1982 Red Bar, New York (Installation)
1981 Stefanotti Gallery, New York (Installation) Selected Group Exhibitions
2017 MoMA PS 1 “Paradise”
Ely Center for Contemporary Arts, Hartford Conn. “Maniac, Manic Episode 5” 2016 SHFAP New York “Paradise”
National Arts Club, “Group Exhibition” Curated by Dee Shapiro Crush Curatorial, Amagansett “Territory”
2015 Central Booking Gallery, L.E.S N.Y. “Going Big” curated by Susan Carr and Suzan Shutan
2014 ASC Studios, New York, “Pipe Dreams,Wishful Thinking, Grand Gestures, And Dirty Lies”
2013 Marion Callis Fine Art, MCF_A@Cold Spring 2, “Lowell Boyers, Sean Capone, Taro Suzuki”, Cold Spring N.Y.
Phillip Glass Benefit Show & Concert, Ille Arts, Amagansett Punchline, Institute Library, New Haven Ct.
2012 Ille Arts Holiday Show, Amagansett N.Y.
2011 Jeanette Powell Arts Center, University of the Pacific, Maniac Manic Episode II Brickhouse Gallery, Sacramento, Maniac Manic Episode II
2010 Esso Gallery “Bologna Art Fair” Bologna, Italy Feature Gallery “Power to the people”
Heido Cho Gallery “As You Like It”
2009 Museum of Modern Art, N.Y. “Looking at Music” (performance video)
Selected Group Exhibitions Cont.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, N.Y. “Pictures Generation” (performance video) Heidi Cho Gallery, N.Y. “Precious”
Esso Gallery, Torino, Italy
Spanierman Modern N.Y. “Summer Selections” Esso Gallery “Bologna Art Fair” Bologna, Italy Ingrid Dinter Fine Art, “How to Cook a Wolf”
2008 Spanierman Modern N.Y. “Present Tense” curated by Don Chistensen & Mary Heilmann
Benefit for Bomb Magazine
2007 Mitchell Algus Gallery “Canal Street”
2006 Orange County Museum of Art, O.C. Cal. Curated by Mary Heilmann 2004 Van Brunt Gallery, N.Y. “Band of Abstraction” Curated by Joe Fyfe
138 Bayard Street, N.Y. “Compliment/Contrast”
2000 DNA Studios, N.Y. “Na’er Do Wells” Curated by Alfredo Martinez and Jacob Williams
Sharjah Arts Museum, U.A.E. “Millenium Show” 1999 Gale Gates et al. N.Y. “Size Matters”
Jeffrey Coploff Fine Art N.Y. “Selections” Jorgensen Gallery, N.Y. “Chunk 3”
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6 @Prince Gallery, N.Y. “A Room With a View”, curated by Mike Weiss
Postmasters Gallery, N.Y. “The War Show” Jorgensen Gallery, N.Y. “Portrait Show”
Musee d’Art Contemporeain, Lyons, France “Collage Jukebox” Jeffrey Koploff Fine Art, N.Y. “Little”
1997 Pat Hearn Gallery, N.Y. “Benefit for Pat Hearn”
1998 Kunsthauses, Bregenz Austria “Kunst in der Stadt” curated by Jerome Joy N3 project Space, N.Y.C. “Six Painters”
1997 Up& Co. NYC “Supastore”
1995 Apex Art, N.Y. “Three Artists”, curated by Mary Heilman
U.S. Embassy, Ngoia, Japan, “ Benefit Show for Earthquake Victums” 1994 Rushmore Festival, Woodbury, N.Y. “Across the River and Into the Trees
(A Sculpture Show)”, curated by Collins and Milazzo
Charles Cowles Gallery, N.Y. “About Color”, curated by Bill Carroll Fawbush Gallery, N.Y. “Bomb Magazine Benefit”
Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA “What If Anything is An Object?” curated by Clive Dilnot
1992 White Columns, N.Y. “White Columns Benefit Show”
1991 Rempire Gallery, N.Y. “Invisible Body” curated by Alan Jones Elysium Arts, N.Y. “The Tree”
Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta “Outside America-going into the 90’s”, curated by Collins and Milazzo
Selected Group Exhibitions Cont.
Arco Art Fair, Barcelona, Spain
1990 Marta Cervera Gallery, N.Y. “The Painter and His Occasion”, curated by Alan Jones
Scott Hanson Gallery, N.Y. “Token Gestures”, curated by Collins and Milazzo Union College, New Jersey “Isotopy”
1988 ISO Corporation, N.Y. Consonance”
Feature Gallery /Rezac Gallery, Chicago, IL “Information as Ornament” University Gallery, Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA “Sixteen Cubes”, curated by Saul Ostrow
White Columns, N.Y. “White Columns Benefit”
1987 Galeria Fucares , Madrid “3x4: Ray Smith, Taro Suzuki, Donald Traver”, curated by Zaya
John Goode Gallery, N.Y. “Rigor”, curated by Stephen Westfall Daniel Newburg Gallery, N.Y. “Art Against Aids” Kunsthauses, Zurich “Art Cake”
Daniel Newburg Gallery, N.Y. “D’Ornamentation”
1986 Art and Industry, N.Y. “Illumination: The Art About the Future” Piezo Electric, N.Y. “Physics”
Daniel Newburg Gallery, N.Y. “As Sculpture”
E.M. Donahue Gallery, N.Y. “Artists Choose Designer” in collaboration with Elizabeth Cannon
Mission Gallery, N.Y. “Light, Shadow, Optics” American Fine Arts, N.Y.
El Bohio, N.Y. “Indoor/Outdoor Sculpture
1985 Christminster Gallery, N.Y. “Auto/Genetic/Photopsia” Kamikaze, N.Y. “Zero Gravity”
Sao Paulo Biennale, Brazil “Science Meets Fiction” 1984 Kamikaze, N.Y. “Light Moving”
Daniel Newburg Gallery, N.Y. “Halley, Schroder, Suzuki, Wasserman” Holly Solomon Gallery, N.Y. “Assemblages”
1983 Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA. “The Suspended Object”
Brooklyn Bridge Centennial Exhibition, sponsered by Creative Time “Art in The Anchorage”
Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, N.Y. “Light”
John Weber Gallery, N.Y. “Science Fiction” curated by Peter Halley 1982 Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, “Dynamix”
ELAC, Lyons, France, “Energie-New York”
The Kitchen, New York, “ART OF THE STATE” (“Space Force” Installation) Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, (Installation)
1981 Hall Walls, Buffalo, N.Y. “Color, Light and Mass” Stefanotti Gallery, N.Y. “The First Energist Drawing Show”
1980 Galeria Durban, Caracas, Venezuela, “Art For The Eighties Stefanotti Gallery, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions Cont.
1979 Barbara Gladstone Gallery, N.Y. “Canal Street”
La Grande Palais, Paris, “L’Amerique Aux Independents” The Mudd Club, N.Y.., “Lower Manhatten Drawing Show Stefanotti Gallery, New York
1977 112 Greene Street, N.Y.” Group Indiscriminate”
Awards, Grants, Teaching Positions
2010-17 Fine Arts Professor, School of Visual Arts
2006
Pollock Krasner Grant
1988
Pollock Krasner Grant
1985
Professor, Sculpture Department, Rhode Island School of Design,
Spring Semester
1984
Visiting Artist, Rhode Island School of Design, Fall Semester
National Endowment For The Arts, Emerging Artist Grant: Sculpture
Selected Bibliography
2017 The New Yorker, “Taro Suzuki/Charlotte Hallberg” Will Heinrich 2016 Art In America Online, featured artist “Territory” review
East Hampton Star, “Territory” review Hamptons, featured artist “Territory” Dan’s Papers, “Territory”
2008 VILLAGE VOICE, Jul.2, R.C. Baker “Best in Show” (review, “Present Tense”) 2007 NEW YORK TIMES, Nov. 16 Roberta Smith, “Canal Street” review
ARTFORUM.COM Jul.22 John Reed ‘Critic’s picks’ “Band of Abstraction”(review)
NEW YORK SUN, Jul.22 David Cohen “Band of Abstraction” (review) 2000 NEW YORK TIMES Aug. 4. Roberta Smith “Na’er do wells” (review) 1999 ARTFORUM Glenn O’Brien “style Makes the Band” Oct.
ZINGMAGAZINE “Seven Whys and the Snow Dwarf” Fall Issue 1997 INTERIOR DESIGN “change, change, change” Sept.
1991 THE ARTIST PROJECT, Peter Bellamy
BOMB MAGAZINE, Feature, Spring Issue
1990 Collins, Trisha & Milazzo, Richard “Finding the Loophole in Sisyphus’ Contract Essay for the solo exhibition at White Columns, New York
NEW YORKER MAGAZINE, July 16 (review)
Jones, Alan, “The Painter and His Occasion”, catalogue for the exhibition at Marta Cervera
Gallery, N.Y.
Collins, Trisha & Milazzo, Richard “Token Gestures” (catalogue for the exhibition at Scott Hanson Gallery, New York
Selected Bibliography Cont.
1989 ARTS MAGAZINE , April pp. 17-18 (illustration) “Taro Suzuki”
JULIET ART MAGAZINE, Feb.-Apr. pp.39-40
JULIET ART MAGAZINE, Dec. –Jan. pp. 32&39 (profile)
1988 Kimmelman, Michael, “Diversity of Lower Broadway Galleries”Jun. 3,
THE NEW YORK TIMES
Maginnis, Kevin & Robbins, David, “Information as Ornament”, catalogue for the exhibition at Feature/Rezac, Chicago
1987 Mahoney, Robert, ARTSCRIBE “Rigor: John Goode Gallery” (review)
ARTS MAGAZINE, Sept. “Rigor: John Goode Gallery
Busche, Dr, Ernst, “Was ist der Stand der Kunst?” BUSHES ARTFOCUS, Berli Egger, Marc, “Art Cake”, exhibition catalogue, Kunsthauses, Zurich
Huichi, Fernando, EL PAIS, Jun. 9 (review) McCormick, Carlo. ARTFORUM, Sept. (review)
Smith, Roberta, “Where to See the Newest Of the New American Art,
THE NEW YORK TIMES, May 1
Zaya, “3x4”, catalogue for the exhibition, at Galerie Fucares, Madrid, Spain 1986 Westfall, Stephen, ART IN AMERICA, Oct, (review)
Jones, Alan, “Taro Suzuki: The Pornography of Utopia”,
ARCHITECTURES MAGAZINE, Nov.
Lurie, David, ARTS MAGAZINE, April (review) Smith, Kiki, PAPER, March (review)
Balet, Marc and Robert Becker, “Assemblages”. INTERVIEW MAGAZINE, No 1984 Robinson, Walter, “Lumps of All Kinds” “EAST VILLAGE EYE”, July
Cravin, David, “Science Fiction and the Future of Art”, ARTS MAGAZINE, Ma 1983 Flood, Richard, “Art In The Anchorage”, catalogue for the exhibition
Liebman, Lisa, ARTFORUM, Nov. (review)
Levin, Kim, “Fireworks Under the Bridge”. THE VILLAGE VOICE , Aug 2 Gluek, Grace, THE NEW YORK TIMES, May 27 (review)
Marzorati, Gerald, SOHO WEEKLYNEWS, Jan. “Art Picks” 1982 Bue, Marie, FLASH ART, May (review)
1981 Cohen, Ronny, “Why Younger American Artists are Drawing So Much Today”,DRAWING NEWSLETTER, July 8
Larson,Kay NEW YORK MAGAZINE, Nov. 23 (review)
Rose, Frank, “Exploring the Art-Rock Nexus”, ARTEXPRESS, Nov.
1980 Cohen, Ronny, “Energism: An Attitude” ARTFORUM, Sept.
Cook, Scott, “Art for the Eighties” catalogue for the exhibition Denson, Roger, “Color, Light and Mass” catalogue for the exhibition Friedman, Jon R. “Canal Street” ARTS MAGAZINE, Jan. 7
Perrault, John, “Canal Street Transfer”, SOHO WEEKLY NEWS, Jan. 7 Vallee, Jean Francois, “L’Amerique Aux Independents” catalogue for the exhibition