Marianne Vitale

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Marianne Vitale (b. 1973/NY) is a New York-based contemporary artist who works with film, video, sculpture, drawing and performance. (see www.mariannevitale.com)

Vitale's work is represented by IBID Projects, London. Vitale is co-founder of CHOPSHOP, the legendary underground holiday food palace & performance extravaganza which launched December 2007 on the Lower East Side, Manhattan. (see www.chopdelancey.com).

[edit] Exhibitions / Screenings / Performances

TRYST AT URN STYE. Solo exhibition of video & installation. Deborah Colton Gallery. May 08.

OK KO: BROODIES IN THE NESTING. Performance & installation with Agathe Snow. White Columns, NYC. Curated by Matthew Higgs. Part of PERFORMA07.

CRUDE OIL on SILK & Flipper Baritone. Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, Texas. Chemical City - curated by Liutauras Psibilskis, with Jonas Mekas, Michael Portnoy, Agathe Snow, Maripol, Michael Auder. September '07. Reviewed in Houston Press October 07.

THE MISSING BOOK OF SPURS.
Tensta Konsthall. Stockholm, Sweden. Solo exhibition of drawings, video, sculptural architecture. Curated by Ylva Ogland. April '07.

THAT BRUTE BEASTS MAKE USE OF REASON.
White Columns, NYC. Video & sculptural architecture. The Perfect Man / Curated by Rita Ackermann. January '07. Reviewed in Frieze Magazine - March '07.

INVASIONISTAS
Kling and Bang Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland. October '06. Multi-media, collaborative project/exhibition. Curated by Hrafnhildur "Shoplifter" Arnardottir, with Rita Ackermann, David Adamo, Theodore Fivel, Michal Jurewicz, Agathe Snow, Michael Portnoy.

CHOP SHOP
December '06. Lower East Side underground food palace & performance extravaganza, with Agathe Snow & Anne Apparu. (ABC Sunday Dinners - Beatrice Inn, NYC . Food sculpture & kitchen theatrics. Winter '07.)

The "K" Sound
The Kitchen, NYC '06. Performer. Eighteen-person cast theatre production. Directed by Michael Portnoy. Music by Pete Drungle.

I KNOW WHO I AM !
'Sakanama Collective, L'ile-d'Yeu, France '04. Video. Screenings: Brooklyn International Film Festival, Brooklyn Museum, 2006, Wayward Gallery (London), NADA Fair (Miami).

DAY CARE: STARVATION IN AMERICA, starring John King, Walter Gambini & Michael Archangel. Video Installation, NYC '03

Shuckin' the What
Film. Screened at Fairsbie Tabs's Broadcaster Festival, NYC '05

Weight, Blase: K5 Ulterior
Film. '97 Film Forum, NYC screening.

Heights of the Marvelous
Published poetry. Edited by Todd Colby. St Martin's Press, '00.

RED DOOR
Director of this collective. Lower East Side. 1995 - 2005

Shots from Zapatistaville!
Super 8mm film, with Al Giordano. Chiapas, Mexico, ’98.

THE YOGHURT BOYS
Performance group since 1998, with Todd Colby & Michael Portnoy. NYC venues include St. Mark's Church, Henry Street Settlement, Bowery Poetry Club, Knitting Factory, DUMBO Arts Festival.

Dorian Mornthong: Consider the Idiots!
Anthology Film Archives, NYC, premier screening. '98