Born 1977 in Houston, TX, USA
Lives and works in Berlin

Selected Solo Shows

• 2023 —Hinge: 23 hours: ajar, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin, Germany
• 2019 —SPÄTKAUFF, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin
• —Fantasy of Life and Friends, Kristina Kite Gallery
• 2018 —Sivilization’s Wake, exhibition by Unknown Friend (Stephen G. Rhodes & Barry Johnston), curated by Marianna Vecellio, INCURVA, Palermo
• —Moral Support, S.Greer Rhodes & Keston Sutherland, 650mAh, Hove
• 2017 —A good Neighbour, 15th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
• 2016 —SWEETHAVEN ASSUMPTION, Eden Eden, Berlin
• 2015 —Or the Unpreparedness Prometheus and Pals, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
• —The Twelf Hobby : Lober xxbbyj, Religious Freedom Sex Magick, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo
• 2014 —The Eleventh Hobby, The Eleventh Hobby’
• 2013 —The Law of the Unknown Neighbor: Inferno Romanticized, Migros Museum for Contemporary Art, Zürich
• —‘Peccatum Leucocephalus’, Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles
• 2012 —The Law of The Unknown Neighbor, Isabella Bortolozzi Galerie, Berlin
• —7 Bankers and A couple of Brokers unpack a library, Misako & Rosen, Tokyo
• 2011 —About Painting, abc Art Berlin Contemporary, Berlin
• —Grundlegung Zur Krankisch Grundrisse Kopf Bis Magen Innere Wirkung Natur Kapputt Aus Gemach, Metro Pictures, New York
• —Receding Mind: Circle of the Narrative of a Circle As Told by Oneself, Ribordy Contemporary, Geneva
• 2010 —FIAC with Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Paris
• —Receding Mind: Circle of Shit, Receding Mind: Circle of Shit
• 2009 —Dar Allers war ne'er eny Bear Bear, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin
• —Reconstruction or Something, Vilma Gold, London
• —Art Statements with Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Basel
• —There is No Bear Bear Ladder, Misako & Rosen, Tokio
• 2007 —Ruined Dualisms, Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles
• —Recurrency, Guild & Greyshkul, New York

Selected Group Shows

• 2023 —Baroque, Champ Lacombe, Biarritz, France
• 2020 —No strings attached, hyphen PROJECTS, Milan, Italy
• 2019 —Mario Merz Prize 3rd Edition (Unknown Friend: S.Greer Rhodes & Barry Johnston), Fondazione Merz, Turin
• 2017 —A good Neighbour, The 15th Istanbul Biennial – On The Move, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich
• —Crumbling down, up and up we climb, Yarat Contemporary Art Space
• 2017 —Perverts, Cell Projects, London
• 2016 —Films By, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
• 2015 —Welcome to the Jungle, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
• —Rum, Sodomy, and the Lash, Eden Eden, Berlin
• 2014 —To the End of the Line, Chateau Shatto, Los Angeles
• 2013 —Nouvelle Vagues, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
• 2012 —Big Inexplicable Paravent Illusion, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi in collaboration with Magic Circle, Berlin
• 2011 —Undisclosed Destination, Kent and Vicky Logan Galleries, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
• —Dystopia, CAPC Museum of Contemporary Art, Bordeaux
• 2009 —Paulina Olowska, Stephen G. Rhodes and Catherine Sullivan, Metro Pictures, New York
• —Until The End of the World, AMP Gallery, Athens
• —Abstract America: New Painting and Sculpture, Saatchi Gallery, London
• —Second Nature: The Valentine – Adelson Collection, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
• —The Generational: 
Younger Than Jesus, New Museum, New York
• —On From Here, Guild & Greyshkul, New York
• 2008 —Prospect.1 New Orleans curated by Dan Cameron, New Orleans, LA
• —abc. art berlin contemporary, Postbahnhof am Gleisdreieck, Berlin
• —Nobody puts Baby in a Corner, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin
• —Barry Johnston, S.Greer Rhodes, Jim Shaw, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin
• —NOW: Selections form the Ovitz Family Collection, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, Arizona
• —KABUL 3000 Love Among the Cabbages, Zero Gallery, Milan
• —Self-Portrait, James Fuentes Gallery, New York
• —Shape of Things to Come: New Sculpture, Saatchi Gallery, London
• 2007 —Post Rose curated by Sterling Ruby, Galerie Christian Nagel, Berlin
• —Distinctive Messengers curated by Simon Watson and Craig Hensala, House of Campari, New York
• —USA Today, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
• —Between Two Deaths curated by Ellen Blumenstein and Felix Ensslin, ZKM Center for the Arts and Media, Karlsruhe
• —Aspects, Forms, and Figures curated by Joao Ribas and Becky Smith, Bellwether Gallery, New York
• 2006 —Dualism #2, ArtRock, Rockefeller Center, New York
• 2005 —LA Weekly Biennial curated by Doug Harvey, Track 16, Los Angeles
• —Autonomy curated by Sterling Ruby, Foxy Production, New York
• 2004 —Faith curated by Matthew Johnson, Champion Fine Art, Culver City
• 2001 —Entropy curated by James Fuentes, Brooklyn, NY
• —Wolf Songs for Lambs curated by James Fuentes, The Space, New York

Bibliography

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