| Biography: |
Born 1964, Sydney, Australia. Lives and
works in Los Angeles, California, USA
Awards
John D. and Catherine T MacArthur
Foundation, 2002
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
Regen Projects, 2006, Los Angeles, CA
Toba Khedoori, 2003, St. Louis Art
Museum, St. Louis, MO, USA
Royal Hibernian Society, 2002, Dublin,
Ireland
David Zwirner, 2002, New York, NY USA
Museum für Gegenswartskunst, 2001.
Basel, Switzerland
Whitechapel Art Gallery, 2001 London,
UK
Selected Group Exhibitions
Lo desacogedor: Escenas fantasmas en
la sociedad global, 2006, La Bienal
Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de
Sevilla, Seville, Spain
The Grand Promenade, 2006, National
Museum of Contemporary Art. Athens.
Greece
Work Zones: Three Decades of
Contemporary Art from San Francisco
Art Institute, 2006, Walter & McBean
Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute.
San Francisco, CA, USA
Drawing from the Modern: 1975-2005,
2005, Museum of Modern Art, New York,
NY USA
Fast Nichts: Minimal Artworks from the
Friedrich Christian Flick Collection im
Hamburger Bahn-hof, 2005, Hamburger
Bahnhof-Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin,
Germany
26th Bienal de São Paulo. 2004. São
Paulo, Brazil
Reinstallation of the Collection, 2004,
Museum of Modern Art, New York. NY
USA
Inaugural Exhibition, 2003, Regen
Projects, Los Angeles, CA, USA
For the Record: Drawing Contemporary
Life, 2003. Vancouver Art Gallery,
Vancouver, BC, Canada
Contemporary Drawing: Eight
Propositions, 2002, Museum of Modern
Art, Queens, New York, USA
Exile on Main Street. 2002, New
International Cultural Center. Antwerp,
Belgium
Public Offerings, 2001, Museum of
Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA,
USA
Form Follows Function, 2001, Castello
di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
I Love NY, 2001, David Zwirner. New
York, NY USA
The Mystery of Painting, 2001,
Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany
Further Reading
Currents 89: Toba Khedoori, St Louis,
MO: Saint Louis Art Museum, 2003.
Text by Robin Clark
Drawing Now: Eight Propositions, New
York: The Museum of Modern Art, 2002.
Edited by Laura Hoptman
For the Record: Drawing Contemporary
Life, Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery,
2003. Text by Daina Augaitis
Toba Khedoori - Gezeichnete Bilder,
Basel: Museum fur Gegenwartskunst,
2001. Texts by Lane Relyea and Hans
Rudolf Reust
Warped Space - Art, Architecture, and
Anxiety in Modern Culture, Cambridge,
MA: MIT Press. 2000. Text by Anthony
Vidler, pp. 11,152-8
| | | Source: | International 06, Liverpool Biennial exhibition catalogue | | | Date of source: | 2006 |
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| | Description: | Khedoori's conceptually charged
paintings on paper have a monumental
scale that contradicts the reticent
manner in which they are deployed.
Taken from the urban environment, her
subjects are typically isolated
architectural structures or details.
Always familiar to the viewer - windows,
doors, stairways, paths, benches - they
have been described as the building
blocks of the social world.
Occupying only a fraction of the entire
picture surface, the objects Khedoori
depicts are entirely removed from any
context and appear to float on a sea of
paper. Despite taking their subjects from
populated spaces, the paintings remain
starkly devoid of human presence, yet
retain a figurative quality through the
implication of the onlooker within them.
Filling our entire field of vision - it
is not uncommon for Khedoori's
paintings to span 6 or 7 metres - the
works envelop us and in consequence
inhabit a disconcerting realm somewhere
between painting and installation.
Khedoori begins by laying the paper on
her studio floor and covering it in a
translucent wax. Any incident that
occurs when painting - smudges,
mistakes, or dust and hair falling onto
the paper- is allowed to remain
imbedded within the picture, creating a
remarkable surface texture. The process
of making thus recorded contrasts with
the timelessness of the painted
subjects.
Laurence Sillars
| | Description Source: | International 06, Liverpool Biennial exhibition catalogue | | Description Source Date: | 2006 | | Type: | person |
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