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1970 Born in Castro Valley, CA
The artist lives and works in Frankfurt, Germany
Education
1994 —
UCLA, Los Angeles, CA
Biennials
2016 —
Manifesta 11, Zurich, Switzerland
10th Montreal Biennale, CA
2012 —
30th São Paulo Biennial, Brasil
2009 —
53rd Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
2007 —
2nd Moscow Biennial, Russia
2006 —
4th Berlin Biennial, Berlin, Germany
2001 —
1st Ghent Quadrennial, S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium
Solo Exhibitions
2017 —
Private Idano, Sariev Contemporary, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Carpe Denim (Rear View Mirror), Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY
Tender, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY
2016 —
Bounty, Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany
Push, Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt, Germany
MR2, Alaia Exhibitions, Paris, France
2015 —
Y ask Y, Kostyal, Stockholm, Sweden
2014 —
Power Lunch, Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany
Double Deck, in collaboration with Paul McCarthy, Marlborough Gallery, Monaco
Powered A-Hole Spanish Donkey Sport Dick Drink Donkey Dong Dongs Sunscreen
Model, in collaboration with Paul McCarthy, Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany
Spanish Donkey A-Hole Sport Drink Bilbao Sunscreen Model Drawings, in collaboration with Paul McCarthy, Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt, Germany
2013 —
Flood, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY
2012 —
Simulated Personal Rescue Enclosures, Hotel Gallery, London, U.K.
The Untitled Video, Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt, Germany
2011 —
Hollywood Deals, O.P.A. (Oficina para Proyectos de Arte), Guadalajara, Mexico
Argento Lawn Chairs, Art Basel Design Fair, Cumulus Studios, Basel, Switzerland
Impulse Strategies, Galerie Georges-Phillippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris, France
2010 —
HARD ON, Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt, Germany
New Living, COBRA Museum, Amstelveen, Netherlands
Neues Wohnen, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
Retreat, BAWAG Contemporary, Vienna, Austria
Diet Cola Works, The Box, Los Angeles, CA
2009 —
The New New Age Film Festival, Autocenter, Berlin, Germany
Sell and Destroy - Redrawing the Bottom Line, Frieze Projects, London, U.K.
2008 —
New New Age Film Festival, Galerie Parisa Kind, Frankfurt, Germany
CANBURGER, Galerie Georges-Phillippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris, France
16x9 Action Film, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
2007 —
Almost Every City in the World, Galerie Vallois, Paris, France
Fat Slices and Conscious Primers, MC Kunst, Los Angeles, CA
Reaction Time, Circus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Shitrock Crate and Tapestry Cartoons, The Box, Los Angeles, CA
16x9 Action Film, MOCA Los Angeles, CA
2006 —
Recent Jacuzzis, Galerie Michael Neff, Frankfurt, Germany
2005 —
Top, Back and Bottom of Mind Awareness, Maccarone, Inc., New York, NY
New Jacuzzis, Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
2004 —
Carpe Denim, Galerie Michael Neff, Frankfurt, Germany
2003 —
Overhead Baggage Treatment, Maccarone, Inc., New York, NY
1999 —
Business on Sunset, BOSS Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
Group Exhibitions
2018 —
Faithless Pictures, curated by Andrea Kroksnes, The National Museum, Oslo, Norway
2017 —
Let Them Draw II (Drawing and Withdrawing), Sariev Contemporary, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Sanguine / Bloedrood, curated by Luc Tuymans, Museum of Contemporary Art Antwerp (M HKA), Antwerp, Belgium
On Elizabeth, Olsen Gruin, New York, NY
Group Show, Marlborough, Madrid, Spain
Borderlines of the sculptural 1: Paper, Städtische Museen Heilbronn, Heilbronn, Germany
Modern Sculpture, Galería Casado Santapau, Madrid, Spain
2016 —
'Prototypology’, Gagosian Gallery, Rome, Italy
History of Nothing, White Cube Gallery, London, U.K.
Manifesta 11, Zurich, Switzerland
Impromptu, The Box, Los Angeles, CA
Omul Negru, Nicodim Gallery, Bucharest, Romania
Omul Negru, Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
SMS SOS, Marlborough Chelsea Gallery, New York, NY
2015 —
Paulin, Paulin, Paulin, Gallery Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris, France
The World is Made of Stories, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
American Esoterica, Sariev Contemporary, Plovdiv, Bulgaria
Brunch over Troubled Waters, Plutschow Gallery, Zurich
Six Advertisements, Marlborough Chelsea Gallery, New York, NY
EAGLES II, Marlborough Madrid, Madrid, Spain
2014 —
Sigmund Freud and the Play on the Burden of Representation, 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria
The Go Between, Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy
Group Spirit, Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany
2013 —
'Bald Eagle’, Haubrok projects, Berlin, Germany
356 Sculptures, 356 Mission Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012 —
EAGLES, Marlborough Madrid, Madrid, Spain
PRIVACY, Kunsthalle Schirn, Frankfurt, Germany
TRACK, S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium
Made in Germany Zwei, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover, Germany
2011 —
Everything Must Go, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, NY
Commercial Break, GARAGE Center of Contemporary Culture (Moscow), Venice, Italy
A painting show, AUTOCENTER, Berlin, Germany
Notes on Notes on Camp, Invisible Exports, New York, New York, NY
Informellnatur, Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich, Germany
My Beautiful Mongo, Thomas Brambilla Contemporary Art, Bergamo, Italy
Strictly Global, Deutsche Bank Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
Involuntary, Ford Project, New York, New York, NY
Das Meer: Traum and Wirklichkeit, Eres Stiftung, Munich, Germany
2010 —
TRANSZENDENZ INC, AUTOCENTER, Berlin, Germany
During Office Hours, VGF, Berlin, Germany
Auteur/Amateur, Layr Wüstenhagen, Vienna, Austria
Vaxination, Xippas Gallery, Athens, Greece
The Traveling Show, La Jumex Collection, Mexico City, Mexico
Where do we go from here?, selections from the Jumex Collection, CAC, Cincinnati, OH
The New New Age Film Festival, selected films, LICHTER Festival, Frankfurt, Germany
2009 —
Where do we go from here?, selects of the Jumex Collection, The Bass Museum, Miami, FL
Rotating View, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
Making Worlds, 53rd Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Remap 2, Athens, Greece
Nothingness and Being, 7th Interpretation of The Jumex Collection, Mexico City, Mexico
Quand la premiere ivresse des suces bruyants..., CAPC Musee d'art contemporain de
Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
When the mood strikes... The Collection of Wilfred & Yannicke Cooreman-De Smedt,
MDD Museum Dhont-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium
2008 —
Anthology, Otero Plassart, Los Angeles, CA
Meet Me Around the Corner, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Sweden
No Leftovers, Kunsthalle Bern, Berne, Switzerland
Walls in the Street, Museum of Contemporary Art, Belgrade, Serbia
Working Men, Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland
The Practice of Everyday Life, Feinkost Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Hotel California, Galerie Georges-Phillippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris, France
An Unruly History of the readymade, Jumex Collection, Mexico City, Mexico
Group Show, Sebastian Guinness Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
2007 —
27 Timer, Hollesgard, Hollesgard, Denmark
Pawnshop, e-Flux, New York, NY
Mind Hacking II, Wewerka Pavilion, Münster, Germany
Quotidian, BUIA Gallery, New York, NY
New Economy, Artists Space, New York, NY
Moscow Biennial 2, Moscow, Russia
Verbale, Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria
Uncertain States of America, Herning Kunstmuseum, Herning, Denmark
2006 —
5 Billion Years, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Uncertain States of America, Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
E-flux Video Rental, Seoul, Korea, Antwerp, Belgium
Uncertain States of America, Serpentine Gallery, London, U.K.
Mobile: Suro Collection, Triangle Project Space, San Antonio, TX
Uncertain States of America, Bard Curatorial Center, New York, NY
Sculpture Park, Offenburg, Germany
Nice Fine Arts, curated by Axel Huber, Städtische Galerie Laar, Lahr, Germany
Von Mäusen und Menschen / Of Mice and Men, 4th Berlin Biennial, Berlin, Germany
Palm D'Or Television Pitch, Frankfurt, Germany
Space Boomerang, Swiss Institute, New York, NY
2005 —
Strich, Zeichnung, Bild, BAWAG Foundation, Vienna, Austria
Uncertain States of America, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
Off Key, Kunsthalle Bern, Berne, Switzerland
La Vista Hermosa, Liste, Basel, Switzerland
Do You Like Stuff?, Swiss Institute, New York, NY
Greater New York, MoMA P.S.1, Long Island City, New York, NY
Situational Prosthetics, New Langston Art Center, San Francisco, CA
E-flux Video Rental, Kunst Werke Berlin Germany, Frankfurt, Germany
2004 —
Dedicated to a Proposition, Extra City Center for Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium
Sculpture Now, Galerie Michael Neff, Frankfurt, Germany
Kotzrohr and Popular Ceramics, Video Program, Wilkinson Gallery, London, U.K.
E-flux Video Rental, e-Flux, New York, NY
2003 —
High Desert Test Sites, Los Angeles, CA
Hands up, baby, hands up!, KVO, Kunstverein Oldenburg, Oldenburg, Germany
2002 —
Out of True, Santa Barbara University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
2001 —
Casino, S.M.A.K., Gent, Belgium
2000 —
Sebastian Clough and Mike Bouchet, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA
Life After The Squirrel, Location One, New York, NY
1997 —
Snowball, collaboration with Jason Rhoades and Peter Bonde, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1996 —
Size Matters, Special K Projects, Los Angeles, CA
1994 —
Common Denomination Language Expo, FAR, Los Angeles, CA
Public and Private Collections
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Francois Pinault Collection, Venice, Italy
The Jumex Collection, Mexico City, Mexico
LVMH Collection, Paris, France
Moderne Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway
FNAC, Fonds National D'Art Contemporain, Paris, France
Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria
Bernard Arnault Collection, Paris, France
CAPC, musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
DekaBank, Frankfurt, Germany
Deutsche Bank Collection, Frankfurt, Germany
Permanent Floor at Deutsche Bank AG, Frankfurt, Germany
DZ Bank, Frankfurt, Germany
The Margulies Collection, Miami, FL
Sammlung Boros, Berlin, Germany
Sammlung Axel Haubrok, Berlin, Germany
Ullens Collection, Beijing, China
Monographs
Mike Bouchet, “Selected Works 1989-2009”, published by Sternberg Press, 2009
Mike Bouchet, “New Living”, published by Kunsthalle Schirn, Frankfurt, 2010
Mike Bouchet, “Retreat”, published by BAWAG foundation, Vienna, 2010
Mike Bouchet, “The New New Age Film Festival Saint John of God of Ghent Pall Mall Empire
Psychiatric Center Agreement Guide”, published by S.M.A.K., Ghent, 2012
Mike Bouchet, “FLOOD”, published by Marlborough Chelsea, 2013
Mike Bouchet, “Power Lunch”, published by Peres Projects publications, 2014