E. V. Day

E. V. Day (born 1967, New York) is a New York based installation artist and sculptor. Day’s work explores themes of feminism and sexuality, while employing various suspension techniques and reflecting upon popular culture. Day received her MFA in Sculpture from Yale University in 1995, and began her “Exploding Couture” series in 1999, the first installment of which, “Bombshell,” was included in the 2000 Whitney Biennial and is now in the museum’s permanent collection.

For “G-Force,” her 2001 solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum at Altria, Day suspended hundreds of resin-coated pairs of thong underwear from the ceiling in fighter-jet formations. In 2004, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University mounted a ten-year survey of her work. More recently, in 2006, Day exhibited “Bride Fight”, a site-specific installation of two bridal gowns in mid-explosion, in the lobby of the Lever House on Park Avenue. That same year, the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum exhibited “Intergalactic Installations”, a solo exhibit of 3-D drawings in black light, which was reprised later that year at Art Basel Miami with Deitch Projects.

E.V. Day has recently exhibited her works with Carolina Nitsch Contemporary, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Salomon Contemporary and at public venues such as Lincoln Center in New York and The Kentucky Center for Performing Arts in Louisville. Her work is in numerous collections, including the [Museum of Modern Art], the Whitney Museum of American Art, NASA, The Lever House Art Collection, San Francisco MOMA, The National Museum of Women in the Arts, The New York Public Library, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, The Peter Norton Collection, The Progressive Corporation, and the Herbert F. Johnson Museum at Cornell University.^[1]

Contents 1 Solo exhibitions 1.1 2011 1.2 2010 1.3 2009 1.4 2008 1.5 2006 1.6 2005 1.7 2004 1.8 2003 1.9 2001 1.10 2000 2 Selected Group Exhibitions 2.1 2011 2.2 2010 2.3 2009 2.4 2008 2.5 2007 2.6 2006 2.7 2005 2.8 2004 2.9 2003 3 Fellowships, awards and commissions 4 References 5 External links

Solo exhibitions

2011

• "Flamenco Tornado," Sephora Meatpacking Store, New York, NY.
• "Butterfly," Salomon Contemporary, New York, NY.
• "Catfight," ArtPace, San Antonio, TX.
• "Ascending Divas," The Kentucky Center for Performing Arts, Louisville, KY.
• "The Seducers," Carolina Nitsch Contemporary Art, New York, NY.

2010

• "Ascending Divas," New York City Opera at Lincoln Center, New York NY.

2009

• "Ascending Divas," New York CIty Opera at Lincoln Center, New York, NY
• "E.V. Day," Otero/Plassart Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.
• "E.V. Day," Dieu Donne Paper Mill, New York, NY.

2008

• "E.V. Day," New Work Under Tension, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL.

2006

• "Intergalactic Installations", Deitch Projects, Design District-Buena Vista Building, Miami/Basel
• "Sweet Heat", site specific sound installation in the Boiler Room, PS1, Queens, NY.
• "Bride Fight", May–August, Lever House, 390 Park Ave, New York, Deitch Projects.
• "E.V. Day; Intergalactic Installations", Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA.

2005

• "E.V. Day", G Fine Art Gallery, Washington, D.C.

2004

• "E.V.Day ", 10 year survey exhibition, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art; Cornell University, Ithaca, NY.

2003

• "Galaxy" Henry Urbach Architecture New York, NY.
• "G-Force Forum" Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA.

2001

• "G-Force" Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris New York, NY.

2000

• "Transporter" Henry Urbach Architecture New York, NY^[2]

Selected Group Exhibitions

2011

• "Intersection: Photography/Painting/Document," Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY.
• "Works on Paper," Amy Simon Gallery, Westport, CT.
• "Contemporary Magic," The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA.
• "Alice Aycock and E.V. Day," James Salomon Contemporary, New York, NY.
• "January White Sale," Curated by Beth Rudin Dewoody, at Loretta Howard Gallery, New York, NY.
• "Legal Tender," Martha Otero Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

2010

• "Emerging Images: The Creative Process in Prints," International Print Center, New York, NY.
• "Contemplating the Void," Guggenheim Museum of Art, NY.
• "Ways of Looking: E.V. Day, Richard Dupont and Alyson Shotz," Carolina Contemporary Art, New York, NY.
• "10 Years of Editions and Multiples," Carolina Nitsch Contemporary Art, New York, NY.
• "Pictures and Statues," Country Club Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio.
• "In Stitches," curated by Beth De Woody, LTMH Gallery, New York.

2009

• "Sensate: Bodies and Design," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA.
• "Collections Exhibition: Henry Gallery of Art," University of Washington, Seattle, WA.
• "Dress Codes," Katonah Museum of Art; Katonah, NY.
• "Evading Customs," Brown Gallery, London, England.

2008

• "I Won't Grow Up," curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody and Donald Baechler, Cheim and Read
• "Good Doll Bad Doll," Curated by Michael Duncan, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California
• "Wedded Bliss: The Marriage of Art and Ceremony," Peabody Essex Museum, Essex, MA
• "Blown Away," Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL

2007

• "Multiple Interpretations," The New York Public Library, New York
• "Contemporary and Cutting Edge: Pleasures of Collecting, Part III," Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT
• "What's Your Hobby," The Fire Place Project, East Hampton, New York
• "Crash, Pause, Rewind," Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, MT
• "Fashion, Accidentally," Museum of Contemporary Art, Taipei
• "Dangerous Beauty," Home of the Miotte Foundation, Naples, Italy
• "Womanizer," Deitch Projects, New York

2006

• "The Female Machine," Sister Gallery, Los Angeles.

2005

• "Crash, Pause, Rewind," Western Bridge; Seattle, WA.
• "Marilyn," Sean Kelly Gallery; New York, NY.

2004

• "Whitney Museum of American Art Gala - Stealth" (commissioned installation)
• "Open House: Working in Brooklyn", Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY.
• "Needful Things, Recent Multiples", Cleveland Museum of Art; Cleveland, Ohio.
• "Airborn", Henry Urbach Architecture Gallery, NY.

2003

• "Paper Sculpture Show" Sculpture Center; Long Island City, NY, (traveled nationally)
• "Doublures," Musée Nationale des Beaux-Arts du Quebec, Quebec, Canada

Fellowships, awards and commissions

• ArtPace Foundation 11.1 International Artist-in-Residence Program, San Antonio, TX, 2011.
• Munn Artist-in-Residence, Versailles Foundation/Fondation Claude Monet, Giverny, France, 2010.
• Dieu Donne Papermill Lab Grant Residency, New York, NY, 2009.
• NYFA Sculpture Fellow, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY, 2007.
• NASA Commission, "Project Mars", 2005.
• Susan Whedon Award for Outstanding Student in Sculpture, Yale University, New Haven, CT, 1995.^[2]

References

• Judith Collins, (2007). Sculpture Today, New York, Phaidon. ISBN 978 0 7148 4314 8.
• Andrea Inselmann and Wayne Koestenbaum, (2004). E.V. Day, Ithaca, New York, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, at Cornell University.
• Catherine Morris, (2009). Flying Without a Net, New York, Dieu Donne (series # 13).
• Kembra Pfahler and Julie Atlas Muz, (2007). Womanizer, New York, Deitch Projects. ISBN 978 0 9778686 1 2
• Whitney Biennial: 2000 Exhibition, (2000). New York, Whitney Museum of Art. ISBN 10: 0810968290 ISBN 10: 0810968290
• E.V. Day: Seducers, 2011. New York, Carolina Nitsch Project Room.

External links

• P.S.1 Museum Interview
• Frieze Magazine Review
• Cornell University Interview

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