FRANCIS CAPE
Born 1952 in Lisbon, Portugal
Lives and works in Narrowsburg, NY, and New York
Education
| 1991 | MFA, Goldsmiths College, University of London |
| 1989 | Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture |
| 1982 | BFA, City and Guilds of London Art School |
| 1974-79 | Apprenticed to a wood carver, York, England |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2016 | Bancs d’Utopie, We Sit Together, Le Familistére de Guise, France |
| 2015 | Bancs d’Utopie, We Sit Together, FRAC Franche-Compté, Besançon, France Angle of Repose (with Harmony Hammond), Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM We sit together: Bancs d’utopie de Francis Cape, Familistère de Guise, Guise, France |
| 2014 | Utopian Benches, The Shaker Museum, New Lebanon, NY Utopian Benches, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA |
| 2013 | Utopian Benches, Murray Guy, New York |
| 2012 | Utopian Benches, ICA/Maine College of Art, Portland, ME |
| 2011 | Utopian Benches, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, PA |
| 2010 | The Other End of the Line, The High Line, New York Behind the Levees, Clifford Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY Francis Cape & Paul Kennedy, Calicoon Fine Arts, Calicoon, NY |
| 2009 | Home Front, Murray Guy, New York Home Front, Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA |
| 2008 | It Happened Here, Suraci Gallery, Marywood University, Scranton, PA |
| 2006 | Richard & Dolly Maass Gallery, SUNY Purchase, NY Grimm Rosenfeld, Munich Waterline, Murray Guy, New York |
| 2005 | Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, Narrowsburg, NY |
| 2004 | Currents, Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO Murray Guy, New York |
| 2002 | Eli Marsh Gallery, Amherst College, Amherst, MA |
| 2001 | Murray Guy, New York Galerie Andreas Grimm, Munich |
| 2000 | Art Statements, Art 31 Basel, Switzerland Cabinets, The College of Saint Rose Art Gallery, Albany, NY |
| 1999 | Murray Guy, New York |
| 1997 | Steffany Martz, New York |
| 1996 | The Showroom, London |
| 1992 | Francis Cape and Lucy Hayward, Mario Flecha Gallery, London |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2015 | Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria SITE 20 Years/20 Shows: SUMMER, Santa Fe, NM |
| 2013 | Summer of love: found and lost, artsites, Riverhead, NY |
| 2012 | House Arrest , Franklin Street Works, Stamford, CT |
| 2011 | Social Structures, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, ID |
| 2010 | Minimalism: More than meets the eye, Delaware Valley Arts Alliance, Narrowsburg, NY |
| 2008 | Prospect 1. New Orleans, curated by Dan Cameron, New Orleans (cat.) Informed by Function, Lehman College Art Gallery, New York Trapdoor, Public Art Fund at Metrotech Center, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2007 | About Face/ Façade, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL Matthew Buckingham, Francis Cape, Kota Ezawa, Matthew Higgs, Murray Guy, New York The HandMaking, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA Emily Dickinson Rendered, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY |
| 2006 | Disaster! One Year After, Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT The Line of Beauty, Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts |
| 2005 | Spectrum, Galerie Lelong, New York Monochrome Image, Elizabeth Harris Gallery, New York |
| 2004 | Open, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, PA Nothing Compared to this: ambient, incidental and new minimal tendencies in current art, Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH Art…chitecture: From defies Function, Evo Gallery, Santa Fe, NM |
| 2003 | Off, Murray Guy, New York The Paper Sculpture Show (ICI traveling exhibition 2003-2005), Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY; Diverse Works, Houston, TX; Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA; Contemporary Art Center, Virginia Beach, VA; Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TX, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC; Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA Subtle Occupation, Murray Guy, New York Game Over, Grimm/Rosenfeld, Munich Impressions of a Revolution: New Prints, Dan Elias Gallery, Boston, MA Winter Selections, International Print Center, New York |
| 2002 | Multiples: An Incomplete Survey, Brent Sikkema , New York View Six: Surface to Surface, curated by Max Henry, Mary Boone Gallery, New York Raum ohne Raum, curated by Barbara Hoffmann, KulturAllianzen, Cologne, Germany Art on Paper 2002, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC Building Structures, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York On Paper, Galerie Andreas Grimm, Munich Floor to Ceiling, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT Interior, Galerie Andreas Grimm, Munich Mathematique, Danielle Arnaud Contemporary Art, London |
| 2001 | The (Ideal) Home Show, Gimpel Fils, London definition, Murray Guy, New York |
| 2000 | Exhibition Room (with Josiah McElheny & Yinka Shonibare), Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT Extra Ordinary, James Cohan Gallery, New York The Conversation, Murray Guy, New York Greater New York, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York Artworkers, curated by Melissa Feldman, Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn, UK; Oriel Mostyn, Llandudno, UK; Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston-upon-Hull, UK (cat.) |
| 1999 | Drawings, Alexander and Bonin, New York |
| 1998 | The Future Lasts Forever, Steffany Martz, New York Sculpture Center at Roosevelt Island, New York Sculpture Center Benefit, Sculpture Center, New York |
| 1997 | Kevin Appel, Francis Cape, Jorge Pardo (curated by Margaret Murray), Janice Guy, New York I met a man who wasn’t there… (curated by Margaret Murray), Basilico Fine Arts, New York L.A. Angelmaker and Francis Cape, Momenta, Brooklyn, NY Emerging Artists, Sculpture Center, New York Sculpture Center Benefit, Sculpture Center, New York Stairmasters, Stairmasters, New York |
| 1996 | Space, Mind, Place (curated by Michelle Reyes & John Connelly), Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York Handmade Readymades (curated by Thomas Weaver), Hunter Galleries, New York |
| 1995 | Rest & Motion, Margaret Murray Fine Arts, New York |
| 1994 | Critics Choice, Tribeca 148 gallery, New York Roll, Clove Gallery, London Carpenters Road Studios, London |
| 1991 | Into the Nineties 3, Mall Gallery, London Goldsmiths College, London |
| 1990 | Carpenters Road Studios, London |
| 1989 | Project Space, The Gymnasium, London |
| 1987 | Rivington Street Gallery, London |
| 1986 | 25th February, Rivington Street Gallery, London |
| 1985 | The Whitechapel Open, Whitechapel Gallery, London |
Awards
| 2010 | Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, New York |
| 2003 | Henry and Natalie E. Freund Teaching Fellowship, Washington University School of Art, St. Louis, MO |
Public Collections
Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane
Books and Monographs
| 2014 | Francis Cape. We sit on the same bench. San Francisco: San Francisco Art Institute, Walter and McBean Galleries, 2014. Texts by Francis Cape and Claire Burborow. |
| 2013 | Francis Cape. We Sit Together: Utopian Benches from the Shakers to the Separatists of Zoar. New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2013. Texts by Francis Cape. Foreword by Richard Torchia. |
| 2011 | Francis Cape. We sit on the same bench. Arcadia University Gallery, 2011. Texts by Francis Cape and Claire Durborow. |
| 2007 | Francis Cape. New Orleans 2005/2007. |
Selected Bibliography
| 2016 | M.B. “The new utopias.” The Economist, 25 May 2016 |
| 2015 | Abatemarco, Michael. “Flesh and wood: Harmony Hammond and Francis Cape’s “Angle of Repose.” Pasatiempo.com, 17 July 2015 Daviatte, Eric. “Tous égaux, assis sur un banc.” l’Est Republicain, 9 October 2015 Hegert, Natalie. “Celebrating 20 Years, SITE Santa Fe Shows New Commissions and Collaborations.” The Huffington Post, 8 August 2015 |
| 2013 | Calabrese, Nickolas. “The Utopian Grave / The Grave Utopian.” X-TRA 16, no. 2 (Winter 2013), pp. 100–107 Gopnik, Blake. “Seating Takes a Political Stand: Francis Cape looks at where communitarians sat.” The Daily Beast, 18 July 2013 Green, Penelope. “Taking a Load Off, Together.” The New York Times, 25 July 2013, p. D2 Keats, Jonathan. “Change The World With A Chair? Carpenter Francis Cape Shows His Utopian Benches At The Museum Of Arts And Design.” Forbes, 18 July 2013 Lookofsky, Sarah. “Francis Cape: Murray Guy.” Artforum.com, 24 July 2013 Richard, Frances. “Francis Cape: Murray Guy.” Artforum (October 2013), p. 293 Russeth, Andrew. “Francis Cape: Utopian Benches at Murray Guy.” New York Observer, July 2013 Smith, Roberta. “Francis Cape: Utopian Benches.” The New York Times, 19 July 2013, p. C26 |
| 2011 | Fallon, Rachel. “Francis Cape: Utopian Benches.” Philadelphia Daily News, 2 December 2011 Newhall, Edith. “Utopian Benches by Francis Cape at Arcadia University Art Gallery.” The Philadelphia Inquirer, 27 November 2011 |
| 2010 | “Francis Cape.” The New Yorker, 15 November 2010 “High Line Trailer Park”, artnet, 28 October 2010 Schulz, Charles. “Francis Cape: The Other End of the Line.” The Brooklyn Rail, 22 October–21 November 2010 |
| 2009 | Amir, Yaelle. “Francis Cape: Home Front.” Artslant (May 2009) Gopnik, Blake. “Critics’ Pick: Francis Cape.” Artforum.com, 5 May 2009 Smith, Roberta. “Francis Cape – Home Front.” The New York Times, 29 May 2009 |
| 2007 | Schwendener, Martha. “How a Solitary Poet of the Past Speaks to 10 Artists of Today.” The New York Times, 9 March 2007 |
| 2006 | “Munro Galloway/Francis Cape.” The New Yorker, 5 June 2006, p. 16 Saltz, Jerry. “Healing Arts – the balm of art amid Katrina’s devastation.” The Village Voice, 1 June 2006 Weskott, Hanne. “Auf der Linie gegen den Strich.” Suddeutsche Zeitung, 3 May 2006 |
| 2004 | Bonetti, David. “Woodcarver/painter Francis Cape reopens the question: Craft or art?” St. Louis Post Dispatch, 1 April 2004, p. 33 Clark, Robin. Currents 91: Francis Cape. Exhibition brochure. St. Louis: Saint Louis Art Museum, 2004 Lombardi, D. Dominick. “Dialogue: Francis Cape.” Sculpture 23, no. 6 (July/August 2004), pp. 22–23 Princenthal, Nancy. “Francis Cape at Murray Guy.” Art in America (November 2004), p. 172 Schwendener, Martha. “Francis Cape at Murray Guy.” artforum.com, 10 March 2004 |
| 2003 | Hirsch, Faye. “Working proofs: print reviews.” Art on Paper 7, no. 5 (March 2003), p. 62–63 |
| 2002 | Hoffman, Barbara. Raum ohne Raum. Exhibition brochure. Cologne: Allianz Versicherungs-AG, 2002. Klein, Richard. Floor to Ceiling. Exhibition brochure. Ridgefield, CT: The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, 2002. The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation 2001 Awards. New York: Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, 2001, pp. 18–19. (ill.) |
| 2001 | Cape, Francis. Front and back cover, Cabinet, no. 5 (Winter 2001) Wilson, Michael. “Francis Cape’s Magical Realism” Artforum.com, 28 September 2001 The New Yorker, 15 October 2001, p. 28 Johnson, Ken. The New York Times, 21 September 2001, p. E30 Williams, Gregory. ”Flux Interior.” Interior Design, Special Art issue, 72, no.10 (August 2001), pp. 206–215 (ill.) |
| 2000 | Feldman, Melissa. “Artworkers: The Politics of Labour in Contemporary Art.” In Artworkers. Newlyn: Newlyn Art Gallery; Llandudno: Oriel Mostyn, 2000, pp. 12–37 (ill.) Henry, Max. “Gotham Dispatch.” artnet (June 2000) Jaeger, William. “Constructing a polished look.” Times Union [Albany NY], 13 February 2000, p. 12 Johnson, Ken. “Extra Ordinary.” The New York Times, 9 June 2000, p. E29 Kino, Carol. “Surveying the Scene II: The Emergent Factor.” Art in America (July 2000), pp. 44–49 Koplos, Janet. “Francis Cape at Murray Guy.” Art in America 88, no.1 (January 2000), pp.16–117 (ill.) Martini, Filippo. “Concept: Art looks at design and studies its meanings.” Casa Vogue, no. 5 (October 2000), pp. 94, 96 (ill.) Morris, Stacey. “British Sculptor Cape exhibiting works.” Glens Falls Post Star, 11 February 2000 Reardon, Valerie. “Artworkers.” Art Monthly (April 2000), p. 22 Saltz, Jerry. “Greater Expectations.” The Village Voice, 8–15 March 2000 |
| 1999 | Schmerler, Sarah. “Francis Cape.” Time Out New York, no. 190, 13–20 May 1999, p. 64 (ill.) |
| 1997 | Freedman, Matt. “Between High & Low: Tradition.” Review, 1 May 1997, pp. 10–12 Greene, David A. New York Sidewalk (November 1997) Hein, Lisa. “Francis Cape: 167 East 69th Street, Sculpture Center.” Zing Magazine (Summer 1997), pp. 278–279 (ill.) Mangini, Elizabeth. “I met a man who wasn’t there…”The Exhibitionist (Fall 1997), p. 58 McKenna, Max. “New York Diary.” The Art Newspaper, no. 75 (November 1997), p. 53 Nahas, Dominique. “I met a man who wasn’t there…” Review (July/August 1997), pp. 57–58 Review, (January 1997) Smith, Roberta. “I met a man who wasn’t there…” The New York Times, 4 July 1997 Smith, Roberta. “Francis Cape.” The New York Times, 14 March 1997 Volk, Gregory. “Francis Cape.” Art in America (October 1997), p. 121 (ill.) |
| 1996 | Arning, Bill. Time Out New York, 31 July–7 August 1996, p. 28 Cooper, Diana. “Francis Cape and Catherine Havemeyer” (interview). Brooklyn: Bildco Books, 1996. Cotter, Holland. “Roosevelt Island.” The New York Times, 9 August 1996 Halle, Howard. “Ready or Not.” Time Out New York, 14–21 February 1996 Schmerler, Sarah. ‘Projects’, Time Out New York, 21–28 August Servetar, Stuart. “This Way Please.” New York Free Press, 24–30 July 1996 Servetar, Stuart. New York Free Press, 28 February–5 March 1996 Smith, Roberta. “Handmade Readymades.” The New York Times, 3 March 1996 Smith, Roberta. “Space, Mind, Place.” The New York Times, 19 July 1996 (ill.) Weaver, Thomas. “Handmade Readymades.” In Handmade Readymades. New York: Hunter College of The City University of New York, 1996, pp. 2–15 (ill.) |
| 1993 | Currah, Mark. “Francis Cape, The Showroom.” Untitled, no. 3 (Winter 1993/94) (ill.) Jennings, Rose. “Francis Cape, The Showroom.” Time Out, 13–20 October 1993 Sweet, Kim. Interview. Exhibition brochure. London: The Showroom, 1993 (ill.) |
| 1992 | Hubbard, Sue. Time Out (May 1992) Jennings, Rose. Time Out (May 1992) |
| 1991 | Collings, Matthew. ‘”Into The Nineties.” City Limits, 29 August–5 September 1991 (ill.) |