JON PYLYPCHUK






BIOGRAPHY

Born in Winnipeg, Canada

Education
M.F.A., University of California, Los Angeles, CA
B.F.A., University of Manitoba, Canada
Yale University Summer School of Music and Art, New Haven, CT

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS


2015
Feed Your Baby Valium, China Art Objects, Los Angeles, CA
2013
after the royal art lodge, Galerie Division, Montreal
2012
Sydney Biennial, Sydney, Australia
Jon Pylypchuk, Tomio Koyama, Tokyo, Japan
I won’t give up on you, Fred Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL

2011

Jon Pylypchuk, Galerie Hussenot, Paris, France

2010

Jon Pylypchuk, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Canada

2009

Jon Pylypchuk, Blaffer Gallery, The Art Museum of Houston, Houston, TX
The War, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
Experimental Art and Culture: Jon Pylypchuk, The Art Gallery of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
Ausstellungshalle zeitgenössische Kunst Münster, Münster, Germany
2008
China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
Blaffer Gallery, The Art Museum of the University of Houston, Houston, TX
2007
Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Sies + Höke Galerie, Dusseldorf, Germany
2006
Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Jon Pylypchuk, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
you are all too close to dropping off now, Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK
you asked me to come and see your routine, you call this a fucking routine?, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
i have thought deep into this trouble, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY Jon Pylypchuk, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
2004
i will live with my hands like this, Massimo de Carlo, Milan, Italy
you wont live past 30 (with Adrian Williams), China Art Objects, Los Angeles, CA
you are the only one left, Galleri Christina Wilson, Copenhagen, Denmark
Jon Pylypchuk, Locust Projects, Miami, FL
Erections Pointing at Stars and Angels, aspreyjacques, London, UK
2003
Jon Pylypchuk and Diena Georgetti, Hamish McKay Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand
Jon Pylypchuk, Tomio Koyama, Tokyo, Japan
i will plug your wound to protect everyone now / plug everyone now, Galerie Borgmann-Nathusius, Cologne, Germany
and now occasionally, and reluctantly I lift my head from where it hangs in shame, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
2002
if wishes were horses, China Art Objects, Los Angeles, CA
2001
don’t let me down/ this is all you are allowed, Galerie Borgmann-Nathusius, Cologne
the crying, no arms, mournful thoughts society, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
2000
how to live to 100, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
1999
one day art sale, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2015
SEINFELD [ a show about nothing ], Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL

2009
Group Show, Kadeamersfoort in Amersfoort, Netherlands
Selections from the Rothschild Drawings Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Group Show, The Art Gallery of Calgary, Calgary, Canada
2008
Emerson vs Nietzche, China Art Objects Galleries at Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CA
Lustwarande 08, Wanderland, Fundament Foundation, Tilburg, The Netherlands
2007
Looking at Words: The formal presence of text in modern and contemporary works on paper, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
The Program, Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, Dallas, TX
Cult Fiction, Tullie House, Carlisle
Aberystwyth Art Gallery, Aberystwyth, UK
The Lath Picture Show, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, NY
Phantasmania, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City*
Cult Fiction, Hayward Gallery, London, UK (traveling exhibition)
2006
USA Today: New American Art from the Saatchi Gallery, Royal Academy of Art, London
Meditations in an Emergency, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, MI
Scarecrow, Evangelos Averoff Museum, Metsovo, Greece
Nightmares of Summer, Marvelli Gallery
Humor Me, Kansas City Art Institute
2005
Gallery Exchange, Bowie Van Valen, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Desired Constellations, Daniel Reich Gallery, New York, NY
2004
The Royal Art Lodge: Ask the Dust Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
3 Rooms 3 Artists, Alison Jacques Gallery, London, UK
Mossimo de Carlo, Milan, Italy
The Elaine L. Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit, MI
Dessins et Des Autres, Gallerie Anne De Villepoix, Paris, France
2003
project room, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo. Japan
Atto Primo, Studio Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy
Rendered: Works on paper from 46 artists, Sara Metlzer Gallery, New York, NY
Some Things We Like…, aspreyjacques, London, UK
The Royal Art Lodge: Ask the Dust, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
De Vleeshal, Middleburg, The Netherlands
Works for Giovanni, China Art Onjects Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
Smoking Pencils Rolling Papers, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA
De Vleeshal, Middleburg
2002
Stranger Than Fiction, Nylon, London,
I’m From Orange County and I Drink Johnny Walker Red, Gallerie Julius Hummel, Vienna
Necessary Fictions, De Chiara, New York, NY
The Dubrow Biennale, Kagan Martos Gallery, New York, NY
21 Paintings from L.A., Robert V. Fullerton Art Musem, Cal State University, San Bernadino. Curated by James Gobel.
Drive By, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond. Curated by Katie Brennan
Fantasyland, D’Amelio Terras, New York
Song Poems, Angstrom Gallery, Dallas, TX
2001
Kim Fisher, David Korty, JP Munro, Jon Pylypchuk, Eric Wesley, China Art Objects, Los Angeles
Dickson Art Centre, Los Angeles
Paper, Galerie Borgmann – Nathusius, Cologne
Song Poems, curated by Stephen Hull, Cohan, Leslie and Browne, New York Snapshot: New Art from Los Angeles, UCLA Hammer Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
Michael Dumontier, Jonathan Pylypchuk, Adrian Williams, The Living Room, Santa Monica
Cancelled Art Fair!, China Art Objects, Los Angeles
MFA Thesis Show #2, New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles
2000
Project # 0004, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
China Art Objects, Sadie Coles HQ, London
New School, works on paper, inc. Los Angeles
Circles, ZKM Museum, Karlsruhe
1997
Royal Art Lodge, Winnipeg
Drawings from the Royal Art Lodge, University of Houston
Fresh Popped, Plug in Gallery, Winnipeg


BIBLIOGRAPHY

Enright, Robert, Pressing a Weight Through Life, Border Crossings, October 2008, Issue No. 107, pp. 32-46 (ill)
Mahony, Emma, “Jon Pylypchuk”, Cult Fiction, Hayward Gallery Publishing, 2007, pp. 66-67 & 92, (ill.)
Stillman, Nick, Jonathan Pylypchuk, ArtForum, November 2007, pp. 366-367 (ill.)
Turner, Elisa, 'Why Don't You Come and Install It?', ArtNews, October 2007, pp. 162-165 (ill.)
Mediations in an Emergency, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Catalogue pp. 34-39 (ill.)
Rosenberg, Karen, Jonathan Pylypchuk, The New York Times, September 21, 2007, p.E37
Lowenstein, Kate, Jonathan Pylypchuk, Time Out New York, September 20 – 26, 2007 (ill.)
Meditations in an Emergency, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit exhibition catalogue, October 26, 2006 - April 29, 2007, pp. 34-39 (ill.) Curated by Klaus Kertess.
Smith, Brianna M., Visual Arts: Opening: Jon Pylypchuk, Flavorpill SF, January 30 – February 5, 2007
USA Today: New American Art from The Saatchi Gallery exhibition catalogue, Royal Academy of Arts, 2006, p. 300-311 (ill.)
Honigman, Ana Finel, Jon Pylypchuk in Conversation with Ana Finel Honigman, The Saatchi Gallery Daily Magazine Online, November 2, 2006, (ill.)
Litt, Steven, Jon Pylypchuk: Museum of Contemporary Cleveland, Canadian Art, Fall 2006, p. 135 (ill.)
Frazer, Joe, Jon Pylypchuk, Flash Art, May – June, 2006, p. 124
Niemi, Ilona, Humor Me: Kansas City, Art Papers, May/June 2006, p. 60
Page l, David, One scene, but plenty of pathos, Los Angeles Times, May 12, 2006
Litt, Steven, Installation Raises Provocative Issues, The Plain Dealer, May 2, 2006
Walsh, Meeka, The Winnipeg Alphabestiary: The Many and the Marvellous, Border Crossings, vol.25, #1, issue No. 97, March, 2006, pp. 52- 85 (ill)
Forest, Tim, Art & Antiques, Mayfair & St. James’s Life, April, 2006, p. 10
Enright, Robert & Maddin, Guy, City Report: Winnipeg, Frieze, March, 2006, p.144-151
Brown, Neal, Cuddly toys on crack, First Post, March 2006
Neil, Jonathan T.D., ars nova, Modern Painters, March 2006
Jon Pylypchuk, Kultureflash, No. 157, March 2006
Enright, Robert, Return of the Crazy Gang, ArtReview, March, 2006, pp. 64-69
Thorson, Alice, ‘Humor Me’ is Heavier Than it Looks, The Kansas City Star, February 23, 2006, p. 30
Buck, Louisa, Young Germans take over De La Cruz Mansion, The Art Newspaper, December 3, 2005, p. 6
Princenthal, Nancy, Jon Pylypchuk at Friedrich Petzel, Art in America, December 2005, pp.142-143
Saltz, Jerry, Ups and Downs, The Village Voice, September 23, 2005
Yablonsky, Linda, The Wry Appeal of Dzama’s Severed Heads, Pylypchuk’s Sad Cats, Bloomberg.com (
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/muse.html), September 30, 2005
Tully, Judd, Making it Personal, Artforum, September 2005, p. 159
Yablonsky, Linda, Storm und Drang, Artforum.com, September 14, 2005 (ill.)
Smith, Roberta, Art in Review, The New York Times, August 5, 2005
Yablonsky, Linda, Sticky Situation, ArtNews, April 2005, p. 107 (ill.)
Harper, Paula, Dynamic Domesticity, Art in America, December 2005, p. 75
Jon Pylypchuk: Drawings, KULT, November 2005, p. 99-109
Houpt, Simon, In Snow’s Wake a New Generation of Canadian Artists Take Manhattan, The Globe and Mail, October 5, 1990, p. R1
Nelson, Arty, Canadian Club, The Royal Art Lodge Spikes LA Scene, LA Weekly, December, p. 55
Jon Pylypchuk, Vitals, September 2004, p. 222
Morton, Tom, Jon Pylypchuck, Asprey Jacques, London, Frieze, issue no. 83, May 2004, pp. 104-105
Einspruch, Franklin, Horrible prettiness, Street, April 9-15, 2004, p. 53 (ill.)
Forrest, Tim, Not for the Faint-hearted, Mayfair Life, March, p. 16 (ill.)
Burnett, Craig, Jon Pylypchuk, Art Monthly, March, p. 29 (ill.)
Wilsher, Mark, Jon Pylypchuk: Erections Pointing at Stars and Angels, What’s on in London, March 3-10, p. 28 (ill.)
Comer, Martin, Jon Pylypchuk, Time Out, March 3-10
Gonzalez, Veronica and Stapleton, Lara, Juncture, Soft Skull Press, New York, 2003, p. 155
Pollack, Barbara, The New Visionaries, Artnews, December, p. 92-97 (ill.)
Duponchelle, Valérie, L’Europe en pleine fiévre contemporainé, Le Figaro, November 21, p.32-33 (ill.)
 Murray, Derek, Jon Pylypchuk at Friedrich Petzel, Art in America, October 2003, p. 128
Jon Pylypchuk,
artnet.com, October 23, 2003
Trainor, James, Winnipeg on the Hudson, Border Crossings, issue no. 87, vol. 22, 2003, pp. 36-47
Ask the Dusk, exhibition catalogue from The Royal Art Lodge, pp. 94-97
Dyer, Richard, News, London, contemporary, issue 55, September, p. 14-15 (ill.)
Sculpture Forever, Flash Art, July - September 2003, no. 231, p. 106
The Royal Art Lodge, Canadian Art, Summer 2003, pp. 88-89
Dunn, Melissa, and Charles Gute, The Royal Art Lodge: Ask The Dust:  Flash Art
International, no.229, March-April 2003, p. 55
Bradley, Will, Giovanni Intra 1968-2002, Frieze, no.73, March 2003, pp. 54-55
Lewis, Sascha (ed.), Conversation on Contemporary Art Collectives,
flavorpill.com, Issue 143, March 4-10, 2003
Nakazawa, Hideki, Saison Art Program, Newsletter, no. 44, February 2003, p. 6
Johnson, Ken, Jon Pylypchuk, The New York Times, February 21, 2003
Levin, Kim, ShortList, The Royal Art Lodge: Ask the Dust, The Village Voice, February 19-25, 2003
Levin, Kim, Jon Pylypchuk + Nicola Tyson, The Village Voice, February 12, 2003
Stern, Steven, The imaginative faculty, Time Out New York, February 13 – 20, 2003, p.59
The Royal Art Lodge, in: The New Yorker, February 10, 2003
Saltz, Jerry, Paper Trail, in: The Village Voice, January 29- February 4, 2003, p. 56
Cattelan, Maurizio, Bettina Funcke, Massimiliano Gioni & Ali Subotnick (ed.), Charley 01, 2002, p.109
Out Out West,
artnet.com Magazine, September 20, 2002
Jon Pylypchuk, The Village Voice, Fall Arts – Art and Photo, September 4-10, 2002, p.72
Honigman, Ana Finel, Fantasyland, Time Out New York, June 20 -27, 2002, p. 60
Kimmelman, Michael, Fantasyland, The New York Times, June 14, 2002, p.E38
Lineup for Dubrow Biennial, Artnet.com, March 22, 2002
Dambrot, Shana Nys, Snapshot: New Art from Los Angeles, Tema Celeste, September-October 2001, p. 100
Subotnick, Ali, Snapshot: New Art from Los Angeles, Frieze, October 2001, p. 99
Goodman, Wendy, White Hot, Elle Decor, October 2001, pp. 223-227
Mahoney, Robert, Jon Pylypchuk  a.k.a. Rudy Bust at Friedrich Petzel, Art in America, October 2001, pp.166-167
Trainor, James, Woebegone Daze, Border Crossings, no. 78, May 2001, pp.133-134
Smith, Roberta, Jonathan Pylypchuk, The New York Times, February 9, 2001
Jon Pylyphcuk, The Village Voice, February 13, 2001, p.104
Jon Pylypchuk, The New Yorker, February 5, 2001, p.18
Smith, Roberta, Jonathan Pylypchuk, The New York Times, January 26, 2001, p. E41
Hoptman, Laura, The Shape of Things To Come, Flash Art, January-February 2001, pp. 86-88
Dailey, Meghan, Jon Pylypchuk, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, Artforum, April 2001, p.137
Harvey, Doug, It’s Chinatown, LA Weekly, May 3, 2000
Stark, Frances, Frances Stark’s Top Ten, Artforum, November 1999, p. 60

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Moorilla Museum, Berridale, Tazmania
The Whitney Museum, New York, NY