SERGEI TCHEREPNIN
Born 1981 in Boston, Massachusetts
Lives and works in New York
Education
| 2011 | MFA, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY |
| 2004 | BFA, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2016 | Murray Guy, New York Karma International, Zurich |
| 2015 | Body Bound Notations, Overduin & Co, Los Angeles Vice Versa Cave, Foksal Gallery Foundation, Warsaw Early Awnings, with Henning Bohl, Blaffer Museum, Houston |
| 2014 | Body Bound Notations, Halle Für Kunst, Lüneburg Subharmonic Lick Thicket, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA |
| 2013 | Ear Tone Box, Murray Guy, New York Pied Piper Part Two: Ringing Rocks, Art Statements, Art Basel, Basel |
| 2012 | Karma International, Zürich Looking at Listening (with Ei Arakawa), Taka Ishii, Tokyo Pied Piper, Part 1, Audio Visual Arts, New York |
| 2011 | Be a speaker. So be it… (with Ei Arakawa & Gela Patashuri), CAC Brétigny, Brétigny, France Be a speaker. So be it… (with Ei Arakawa & Gela Patashuri), Showroom, London |
| 2010 | A Queer Balance, Audio Visual Arts, New York Welcome to the White Bottom (with Lucy Dodd), Pro Choice, Vienna |
| 2009 | Shindisi Autocenter (with Ei Arakawa & Gela Patashuri), New Jerseyy, Basel Quasar <> Lanterns (with Ei Arakawa), Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Germany |
| 2006 | Water and Stone, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2016 | Art-Music-Dance, Staging the Derra de Moroda Dance Archives, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Austria Room & Board & Crate & Barrel & Mother Vertical (collaboration with Ei Arakawa, Gela Patashuri, and Sergei Tcherepnin), Midway Contemporary, Minneapolis Autobiography, Index – The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm DAS INSTITUT, Serpentine Sackler Gallery, London |
| 2015 | The Secret Life, Murray Guy, New York The Radiants, Bortolami, New York Corruption Feeds Strings (concert with Will Benedict and Grieg Academy String Quartet), Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway Signal Failure, Pace Gallery, London AFTERSOUND: Frequency, Attack, Return, Regina Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh Greater New York, PS I MoMA, Long Island City, NY A Fragile But Marvelous Life, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado |
| 2014 | NYC Makers: The MAD Biennial, Museum of Arts and Design, New York 2014 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Love Aids Riot Sex 2, Neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin Looking Back: 8th White Columns Annual, White Columns, New York The Granite Block, Overduin & Co., Los Angeles Psychotic Music School (collaboration with Will Benedict), Pro Choice, Paris |
| 2013 | Soundings, The Museum of Modern Art, New York Kamikaze Loggia, Georgian Pavillion (with Gela Patashuri & Ei Arakawa), 55th Venice Biennale, Venice A Stone Left Unturned, Yvon Lambert, Paris Descartes’ Daughter (curated by Piper Marshall), Swiss Institute, New York |
| 2012 | The Imminence of Poetics, XXX Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil TCCA NEW THEATER, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland SOUNDWORKS, Institute for Contemporary Art, London Meeting Point, Mt Tremper Arts, New York |
| 2011 | A form is simply something which allows something else to be transported from one site to another, Murray Guy, New York Tax Day News & Smoke, Emily Harvey Foundation, New York Globe: For Frankfurt and the World, Deutsche Bank Towers, Frankfurt CAA MFA Exhibition, Hunter College Times Square Gallery, New York |
| 2010 | Hurt Locker Instruments (with Ei Arakawa, Gela Patashuri, Mari Mukai), Casco, Utrecht, Germany On Publications, Portraits, Public Art, and Performance, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland Quadruple Consciousness (with Ei Arakawa), Vox Populi, Philadelphia The Brown Bear: Neither Particular nor General, Recess Art, New York Betlemi Mikro-Raioni, various locations, Tbilisi, Georgia TBILISI 6. Never On Sunday (with Ei Arakawa), various locations, Tbilisi, Georgia |
| 2009 | TBILISI 5. Wednesday was Thursday (with Ei Arakawa, Gela Patashuri, and Daniel Baumann), various locations, Tbilisi, Georgia |
Selected Performances
| 2015 | Maize Mantis (with Lucy Dodd), The Kitchen, New York |
| 2014 | The Center for Experimental Lectures at Recess, New York |
| 2013 | Performance with Woody Sullender, Synth Nights, The Kitchen, New York Performance with Aki Takahashi and Ei Arakawa, Iwaki City Art Museum, Iwaki, Japan Roulette, Brooklyn, NY Finding Personality (magnetism for your room), Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland |
| 2012 | ARCHICACTUS (Outgrow/Autogrow) (with Ei Arakawa), The Imminence of Poetics, XXX Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil Between the Concert and the Wall, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Duo with Woody Sullender, Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY New Moon, New Sound (with Lucy Dodd and Dawn Kaspar), Balice, Hertling & Lewis, New York Tropical Year Zero (with Lucy Dodd), Issue Project Room, New York |
| 2011 | Into the Heartmind (with Lucy Dodd), Performa 11, Clemente Soto Velez, New York Look Inside (with Nils Bech & Bendik Giske), Performa 11, New Museum, New York Solo performance, APNews, Zurich Duo with Woody Sullender, Soloway, Brooklyn, NY Bowerbird, Philadelphia The Bridge, Charlottesville, VA Be a speaker. So be it… (with Ei Arakawa & Gela Patashuri), Bétonsalon, Paris Massage Performances, 47 Canal, New York Moon Marriage, Jupiter’s Ring, Société, Berlin Duo with Woody Sullender, Abrons Art Center, New York Reorienting Orientationalism, New Directions (haircolour) (with Ei Arakawa & Henning Bohl), Sound, Art & Performance Festival, Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo |
| 2010 | Screen Play (by Christian Marclay, with Kato Hideki & Marina Rosenfeld), The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York All Apologies (with Ei Arakawa), Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA Tsarz Carz: Presenting… Fallout Special! (with Stefan Tcherepnin, in Marina Rosenfeld’s Installation, “P.A.”), Marian Spore, Brooklyn, NY I Feel a Vague Nausea, The Stone, New York Æuroasia (with Tobias Madison & Nils Bech), Kunstraum Riehen, Basel, Switzerland Welcome to the White Bottom (with Lucy Dodd), Pro Choice, Vienna Paloma Presents Sergei Tcherepnin & Nils Bech, Swiss Institute, Milan Do it yourself, improvise! What a great injustice this is (with Lucy Dodd), Pro Choice, Vienna Endemic: A Very Noisy Silent Film (with Sari Carel), Momenta Art, New York |
| 2009 | Sky, Horse and Death (with Ei Arakawa), Calling Out of Context Festival, Institute of Contemporary Art, London Lanterns ⇔ Quasar (with Ei Arakawa), White Heat, Stuttgart, Germany TBILISI 6. Never On Sunday, (with Ei Arakawa), various locations, Tbilisi, Georgia Body Vortex, for “The Fantastic Tavern: The Tbilisi Avant-Garde,” Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York Solo Performance, “Telluric Currents,” i-Beam, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2008 | Regenerations, performed by St. Luke’s Chamber Ensemble, Dia:Beacon, Beacon, NY Regenerations, performed by Da Capo Chamber Players, Merkin Concert Hall, New York Rainbow Spirals, Diapason Gallery for Sound, New York Sound and Story, “Music with a View,” Renee Weiler Concert Hall, Greenwich House Music School, New York Nowhere You! Everywhere The Electric! (with Nate Wooley, Jeremiah Cymerman, Tucker Andrews, & Grey Gersten), The Stone, New York |
| 2007 | Voices of the Wind, performed by American Wind Symphony Orchestra, Yale University, New Haven Look Up Firefly the Night is Calling, performed by Dinosaur Annex, Boston |
| 2006 | Voices of the Wind, performed by University of Maryland Symphonic Wind Ensemble, University of Maryland, MD |
| 2005 | Fragment Fantasy, Cami Hall, New York Pythons of Ashen Stone, performed by Highland String Quartet, Massachusetts |
| 2004 | Look Up Firefly the Night is Calling, performed by Da Capo Chamber Players, Merkin Concert Hall, New York; Moscow Composers Union Concert Hall, Moscow; St. Petersburg Composers Union Concert Hall, St. Petersburg Fantasy for Piano and Orchestra, American Symphony Orchestra, Fisher Center for Performing Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY |
Awards
| 2014 | The Villa Romana Fellowship, Florence, Italy Artadia/NADA Award |
| 2012 | Artist in Residence, Issue Project Room, New York |
| 2011 | Artist in Residence, Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokyo |
| 2010 | Second Prize, Tokyo Wonder Site Sound Art Festival |
| 2009 | Associate Artist at Atlantic Center for the Arts, Florida |
| 2008 | New Works Residency, Diapason Gallery for Sound, New York |
| 2007 | Associate Artist, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Florida |
Books and Monographs
| 2012 | Sergei Tcherepnin and Ei Arakawa. Looking at Listening. Tokyo: Taka Ishi Gallery, 2012. |
Selected Bibliography
| 2015 | Guthery, Summer. “Sergei Tcherepnin.” Frieze, no. 172 (June 2015), p. 185 Levin, Kim. “The radiants.” ARTnews (May 2015), p. 102 Mizota, Sharon. “Sergei Tcherepnin makes music with his viewers.” LA Times, 3 April 2015 Piwowarska, Barbara. “Sergei Tcherepnin: Vice versa cave.” Art Review (June 2015), p. 135 |
| 2014 | Battaglia, Andy. “Sergei Tcherepnin.” Flash Art, no. 298 (October 2014), pp. 98–99 Bryant, Eric. “The Young Guns: 8 Whitney Biennial Artists Born after 1980.” Artspace, 6 March 2014 Cappetta, Andrew. “Listening at the Biennial.” PAJ: A Journal of Performance and Art 36, no. 3 (2014), pp. 57–65 Eppley, Charles. “Listening Deeply to the 2014 Whitney Biennial.” Hyperallergic, 28 May 2014 Eppley, Charles. “As Queer Listening: An Interview with Sergei Tcherepnin.” Rhizome.org, 17 September 2014 McQuaid, Cate. “Sergei Tcherepnin creates works for the senses at MIT.” Boston Globe, 12 July 2014 Mizota, Sharon. “Sergei Tcherepnin makes music with his viewers.” LA Times, 3 April 2015. Russeth, Andrew. “The 2014 Whitney Biennial.” Gallerist, 6 March 2014 Smith, Roberta. “Looking Back: The Eighth White Columns Annual.” New York Times, 14 February 2014, p. C30 Upitis, Alice. List Projects: Sergei Tcherepnin. Exhibition brochure. Cambridge, MA: MIT List Visual Arts Center, 2014 |
| 2013 | Castets, Simon. “All the Right Noises: Interview with Sergei Tcherepnin.” Mousse, no. 38 (April/May 2013), pp. 210–215 Chamberlain Colby. “Sergei Tcherepnin at Murray Guy.” Artforum (May 2013), pp. 327–28 Cotter, Holland. “Sergei Tcherepnin at Murray Guy.” The New York Times, 19 April 2013, p. C26 Guthrie, Kayla. “First Look: Sergei Tcherepnin.” Art in America (April 2013), p. 29 Kumpf, Lawrence. “Highlights: Sergei Tcherepnin.” Kaleidoscope, no. 18 (Summer 2013), pp. 14–19 Linnert, Nicolas. “Sergei Tcherepnin at Murray Guy.” Frieze, no. 156 (May 2013), p. 236 London, Barbara. “Soundings: From the 1960s to the Present.” In Soundings: A Contemporary Score. Ed. Barbara London. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2013, pp. 8–15, esp. p. 13 Lord, Jordan. “Sergei Tcherepnin: Critic’s Pick.” Artforum.com, 6 April 2013 Tcherepnin, Sergei, with introduction by Caroline Busta. “1000 Words: Sergei Tcherepnin and Gela Patashuri talk about the Bakhneli Archive, 2013.” Artforum (April 2013), pp. 228–229 Tcherepnin, Sergei. [Statement.] In Soundings: A Contemporary Score. Ed. Barbara London. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2013, pp. 66–69 |
| 2012 | Beta, Andy. “Getting Literal about ‘Inner Beauty.’” The Wall Street Journal, 9 November 2012 Cappetta, Andrew. “Breaking Down the 4th Wall – Again.” The Brooklyn Rail, February 2012 da Fonseca-Wollheim, Corinna. “I Hear, and Become, the Body Electric: Sergei Tcherepnin’s Music for One at Issue Project Room.” The New York Times, 28 November 2012 “Dialogue: Sergei Tcherepnin and Woody Sullender.” Issue Project Room, http://issueprojectroom.org, 4 April 2012 Matsui, Midori. “Geijyutsu no Kaitai to Atarashii Gekijyo (Deconstruction of Art and New Theatre).” Bijutsu Techo (April 2012) McGarry, Kevin. “Ei Arakawa and Sergei Tcherepnin at Taka Ishi Gallery, Tokyo.” Art Agenda, 22 January 2012 Perez-Oramas, Luis, et. al. XXX Bienal de São Paulo: The Imminence of Poetics. São Paulo: Fundação Bienal de São Paulo, 2012 “Sergei Tcherepnin.” Goings on About Town: Art, The New Yorker, 18 June 2012 |
| 2011 | Peterson, Spencer. “Tcherepnin and Sullender probe social dynamics with noise.” C-Ville, 22 November 2011 |