Barry X Ball

Barry X Ball (born 1955 in Pasadena, California) is an American sculptor^[1] based in New York City.^[2]

From January 29 – May 31, 2004 he had a solo one piece exhibition at MoMA PS1 with a piece entitled "The Head of Matthew Barney.^[3] At the Venice Biennale in 2011, the artist installed nine marble sculptures depicting Count Giuseppe Panza di Biumo's head in different scales and surfaces at Ca' Rezzonico.^[4]

Solo exhibitions

• 1988 New York City. Craig Cornelius Gallery. 19 May – 18 June. 1986 New York City. Craig Cornelius Gallery. 15 March – 16 April.
• 1990 Brittany, France. Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain. Domaine de Kerguéhennec. (exh. cat.) Curated by Jean-Pierre Criqui. 30 June – 2 September.
• 1995 New York City. Luhring Augustine. Fall. 1993 Stockholm. Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthalle. 18 March – 4 June. (exh. cat.) 1991 Brussels. Galerie Isy Brachot. 22 May – 29 June. (exh. cat.)
• 1997 Boston. Mario Diacono Gallery. 19 April – 24 May. New York City. Luhring Augustine. 11 January – 8 February.
• 2003 Boston. Mario Diacono Gallery. 7 November – 3 January 2004.
• 2004 24 September – 17 October. (exh. cat.) New York City. PS1 / MoMA Contemporary Art Center. 2-* 2004 Barry X Ball: (Matthew Barney). Curated by Bob Nickas. 29 January – 31 May.
• 2004 Toulouse, France. Printemps de Septembre at the Eglise des Jacobins. In Extremis. Curated by Jean- Marc Bustamante and Pascal Pique.
• 2007 Venice. Galleria Michela Rizzo. 6 June – 15 September. (exh. cat.) Santa Fe, New Mexico. SITE Santa Fe. One-Person Exhibition curated by Laura Heon. 10 February – 13 May. (exh. cat.)
• 2009 New York City. Salon 94 Freemans. Masterpieces. 29 October – 12 December. 2008 Zurich. De Pury & Luxembourg. 2 June – 16 August.
• 2011 Venice. Ca’ Rezzonico. Portraits and Masterpieces. 4 June – 6 November. (In conjunction with the 54th International Art Exhibition—la Biennale di Venezia.)
• 2012 Paris. Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Gallery II. Barry X Ball: Matthew Barney / Barry X Ball Dual-Dual Portrait. 17 March – 16 May.
• 2012 Lucca, Italy. Palazzo Mansi branch of the Lucca National Museums. Barry X Ball: The Obsession with the Object (L’Ossessione dell’Oggetto). 17 October – 17 November.
• 2014 Porto Cervo, Italy. Louise Alexander Gallery.

Group exhibitions

• 1987 Precious: An American Cottage Industry of the Eighties. 19 March – 4 May.
• 1985 New York City. Grey Art Gallery, New York University.
• 1986 New York City. Carlo Lamagna Gallery. Traps, Elements of Psychic Seduction. Curated by Charles Luce and Leslie Dill. 11 December – 24 January.
• 1986 New York City. Craig Cornelius Gallery. Geometry Now. Curated by Ruth Kaufmann. October.
• 1987 Santa Monica, California. Maloney Gallery. The Gold Show. 10 December – 10 January.
• 1987 New York City. 541 Sixth Avenue Gallery. Bigger and Deffer. Curated by D.D. Chapin. 22 September – 11 October.
• 1987 New York City. John Good Gallery. Rigor. Curated by Stephen Westfall. 19 June – 11 July.
• 1987 Chicago. Rhona Hoffman Gallery. Primary Structures. Curated by Bob Nickas. 11 September – 10 October.
• 1987 Los Angeles. Asher / Faure Gallery. Abstract Painting. 18 April – 16 May.
• 1987 New York City. Mission Gallery. Reduction–Plan. 21 January – 15 February.
• 1988 Bob Nickas. February.
• 1988 Marjorie Harth Beebe. 6 March – 17 April. Paris. Gilbert Brownstone Gallery. Primary Structures. Curated by
• 1988 College Alumni Artists. Curated by
• 1988 Raspail. 7 October – 5 December. Claremont, California. Montgomery Gallery. Pomona College. Pomona
• 1988 Franchetti, Edmond Charriere, Dieter Schwartz, Bob Nickas, Alain Charre. Curated by Thierry
• 1988 Lyon, France. Musée Saint-Pierre art contemporain (since renamed: Musée d'art contemporain de Lyon). La Couleur Seule: The Monochrome Experiment. Catalog essays by Thomas McEvilley, Thierry de Duve, Jean-Claude Marcade, * * 1988 Richard Stanislawski, Pierre Restany, Ursula Perucchi-Petri, Giorgio
• 1989 Paris. Gilbert Brownstone Gallery. Pièces Choisies. 30 September – 25 October.
• 1990 Santa Monica, California. Angles Gallery. Sculpture. 2 November – 26 November. Brussels. Galerie Isy Brachot. Red. Curated by Bob Nickas. 27 June – 29 September. (exh. cat.) San Francisco. Terrain. Information. 4 January – 3 February.
• 1991 Amsterdam. Galerie Barbara Farber. The Museum of Natural History. Curated by Bob Nickas. 27 April – 15 June. (exh. cat.)
• 1991 Paris. Galerie Renos Xippas. Painted Desert. Curated by Bob Nickas. 8 June – 31 July. (exh. cat.)
• 1992 Lugano, Switzerland. Museo Cantonale d’Arte. Panza di Biumo, The Eighties and the Nineties from the Collection. 10 April – 5 July. (exh. cat.)
• 1993 New York City. Luhring Augustine. Nobuyoshi Araki, Sophie Calle, Larry Clark, Jack Pierson, Barry X Ball. 27 March – 24 April.
• 1994 San Francisco, California. Terrain. The Use of Pleasure. Curated by Bob Nickas. February–March. New York. Luhring Augustine. 8 January – 12 February.
• 1995 Paris. Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume. Générique 2 Double Mixte (4 person exhibition with Lynne Cohen, Pascal Convert, Rachel Whiteread). Curated by Jean-Pierre Criqui. 28 February – 17 April. (exh. cat.)
• 1996 Santa Monica, California. Angles Gallery. 2 person exhibition with Anish Kapoor. 28 June – 7 September.
• 1997 New York City. Kent Gallery. A Private View: Works of Art from Paleolithic to Present. Curated by Damon Brandt and Craig Cornelius. 5 April – 29 April.
• 1997 Fairfield, Connecticut. The Thomas J. Walsh Art Gallery. The One Chosen: Images of Christ in Recent New York Art. Curated by James R. Blaettler, S.J. and Regnerus Steensma, Ph.D. 18 April – 31 May. (exh. cat.)
• 1998 Stockholm. Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall. Spatiotemporal / Verk Ur Samlingen 1988–1998. 28 March – 14 June.
• 1999 New York City. Baumgartner Galleries. Loaf. Curated by Steve DiBenedetto and Manfred Baumgartner. 6 November – 8 December.
• 2001 Brittany, France. Le Quartier, center d’art contemporain de Quimper. Affinités. Curated by Dominique Abensour. (La Bretagne Collectionne—l’Art de Notre Temps: Les Vingt Ans du Frac Bretagne.) 1 July – 7 October.
• 2002 New York City. Paula Cooper Gallery. From the Observatory. Curated by Bob Nickas. 16 March – 20 April.
• 2002 Rovereto, Italy. Museo di Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto (MART). Le Stanze dell’Arte: Figure e immagini del XX secolo. 15 December – 13 April 2003.
• 2006 7 March. 2003 Miami. The Art Museum at Florida International University. American Art Today: Faces and Figures. Curated by Dahlia Morgan and Roni Feinstein. 17 January – 9 March.
• 2006 New York City. Jack the Pelican Presents. The Matthew Barney Show. Curated by Eric Doeringer. 1–23 April. 2004 Palm Beach. Norton Museum of Art. Minimal to the Max: The Brownstone Collection. 22 November 2003-
• 2006 San Francisco. Bar of Contemporary Art. The Matthew Barney Show. Curated by Eric Doeringer. 1 August – 15 September.
• 2006 New York City. PS1 / MoMA Contemporary Art Center. The Gold Standard. Group Exhibition. Curated by Bob Nickas and Walead Beshty. 29 October – 15 January 2007.
• 2007 Reggio Emilia, Italy. The Maramotti Collection. 29 September. Opening of the museum with the permanent installation of 4 BXB works from the collection. Curated by Mario Diacono.
• 2007 Stockholm. Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall. To be continued... 7 September – 9 December. 20th Anniversary Exhibition with 2 BXB works from the collection.
• 2007 Marfa, Texas. Ballroom Marfa. Every Revolution is a Roll of the Dice. 22 September – 3 February 2008. Curated by Bob Nickas. Includes 1 BXB work.
• 2008 Milano. Galleria Pack. Corpo Sociale. Curated by Lóránd Hegyi. 3–5 April. Venice. Galleria Michela Rizzo. An Exhibition of Gallery Artists. 3 March – 4 May. New York City. Salon 94. Carlo Mollino, Casa Del Sole, With New Work By Barry X Ball.
• 2008 Poughkeepsie, New York. Vassar College. Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center. Excerpt: Selections from the Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn Collection. 26 September – 4 January 2009. (exh. cat.)
• 2008 Beijing. Beijing Today Art Museum. e-form (rapid-prototype exhibition). October. Traveling to Shanghai Duolun Museum of Modern Art, Shanghai (November); Jinse Gallery, Chongqing (December–January, 2009). (exh. cat.)
• 2009 New York City. Paula Cooper Gallery. Every Revolution is a Roll of the Dice. Curated by Bob Nickas. 8 January – 10 February.
• 2010 Hasselt, Belgium. Modemuseum Hasselt. Ultramegalore: Fashion Icon Testimony. 27 March – 6 June. Bologna. Bologna Art First. Here and Now. Curated by Julia Draganovic. 29 January – 28 February.
• 2010 Berlin. Me Collectors Room Berlin. Passion Fruits Picked from the Olbricht Collection. Curated by Wolfgang Schoppmann. 1 May – 12 September.
• 2010 New York City. Salon 94 Freemans. Barry X Ball, Huma Bhabha, Jon Kessler. 7 May – 11 June. (Also part of New York Gallery Week. 7–10 May.)
• 2010 Lugano, Switzerland. Museo Cantonale d’Arte. Omaggio a Giuseppe Panza di Biumo. Curated by Marco Franciolli. 4 July – 26 September. Exhibition of works donated to the museum by Panza.
• 2010 Krems, Austria. Kunsthalle Krems. Lebenslust und Totentanz. Curated by Wolfgang Schoppmann and Hans-Peter Wipplinger. 18 July – 7 November. Exhibition of works from the Olbricht Collection.
• 2010 New York City. White Columns. Looking Back / The Fifth White Columns Annual. Curated by Bob Nickas. 11 December – 29 January 2011. (exh. cat.)
• 2011 New York City. The FLAG Art Foundation. Art2. 23 September – 17 December. Bridgehampton, New York. Martos Gallery. The 2011 Bridgehampton Biennial. 9 July – 5 September. Curated by Bob Nickas. (exh. cat.)
• 2012 New York City. Sperone Westwater. Marble Sculpture: From 350 B.C. to Last Week. 12 January – 25 February. Curated by Gian Enzo Sperone. (exh. cat.)
• 2012 Miami Beach. Bass Museum of Art. the endless renaissance – six solo artist projects: eija-liisa ahtila, barry x ball, walead beshty, hans-peter feldmann, ged quinn and araya rasdjarmrearnsook. 6 December – 17 March 2013.
• 2013 Pantin, France. Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac. Disaster / The End of Days. Curated by Séverine Waelchli and Michael Bracewell. 3 March – 29 June.
• 2013 East Marion, NY. Martos Gallery. LAT. 41° 7' N., LONG. 72° 19' W. Organized by Bob Nickas. 13 July – 2 September.
• 2013 New York City. The Museum of Arts and Design. Out of Hand: Materializing the Postdigital. 16 October – 6 July 2014. Group Exhibition.
• 2014 Istanbul, Turkey, Art International Istanbul. Louise Alexander Gallery. Group Exhibition.

Public and Museums collections

Ball's work is held in the following public collections:

• Collezione Maramotti
• Hammer Museum, California, USA
• The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California, USA ^[5]
• Le Fonds régional d’art contemporain Bretagne, France
• Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthalle, Sweden ^[6]
• The Maramotti Collection, Italy
• Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano, Switzerland
• Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Italy
• The Norton Museum of Art, Palm Beach, Florida, USA
• The Berlingieri Collection, Italy
• The Thomas Olbricht Collection, Germany
• The Panza Collection, Italy, Switzerland

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