Lizzi Bougatsos
Born 1974, Queens, NY
Lives and works in New York, NY
Installation view, Lizzi Bougatsos with 200-120 Rob Pruitt, Home Alone Gallery, New York, 2012
Installation view, Angelblood, Lizzi Bougatsos with Rita Ackermann, Home Alone 2, New York, 2014
Installation view, I'm Not Pregnant, James Fuentes, New York, 2012
Installation view, FREEZER BURN, Hauser & Wirth, New York, 2014
Your Highness, I present a rave, 2012, digital prints, wood and neon tube, 65 x 42 x 3 inches
Installation view, I'm Not Pregnant, James Fuentes, New York, 2012
Audrey Hepburn, 2012, found poster, earring and hair, 36 x 24 inches
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Born 1974, Queens, NY
Lives and works in New York, NY
Education
1997
BFA Sculpture and Performance, West Virginia University College of Creative Arts
Solo Exhibitions
2016
Work Habits, James Fuentes, New York
2012
I’m Not Pregnant, James Fuentes, New York
2010
Slut Freak, James Fuentes, New York
2009
The Breeder, Athens, Greece
2007
Street Feather, James Fuentes, New York
2014
Angelblood, with Rita Ackermann, Home Alone 2, New York
2013
Greetings from Bitburg, with Sadie Laska and Spencer Sweeney, Entrepot-galerie du
Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France
2012
Lizzi Bougatsos “JERRY!!! and Rob Pruitt “Dinosaur dropping, Styrofoam varnished in
cosmic-chrome”, Home Alone Gallery, New York
I’m Not Pregnant, James Fuentes, New York
2005
Failurisms with Kim Gordon, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York
2000
Boug & Worth II, American Fine Arts, Co., New York
Boug & Worth, Fuck All Our Art Heroes/Assholes, American Fine Arts, Co., New York
Group Exhibitions
2014
Joyride, Marlborough Chelsea, New York
Purple States, Andrew Edlin, New York
Rockaway!, PS1, New York
Is This A Social Experiment?, MoMA, New York
Urbanities, James Fuentes, New York
Bakerman, Moca Tucson, Tucson, OK
Freezer Burn, Hauser & Wirth, New York
2012
BAD FOR YOU curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody, Shizaru Gallery, London
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
Data Trash, I-20 Gallery, New York
Hot Trigger, The NewBridge Project, London
Portrait of a Generation, The Hole, New York
Four by Four: Collector Series, Victoria Myhren Gallery at the University of Denver,
Denver, CO
2011
In the Name of the Artists – American Contemporary Art from the Astrup Fearnley Collection,
29th Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo, Brazil
New York Minute, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow
Performances
2015
MTV RE:DEFINE Benefit for the Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas, TX
2014
Performing John Cage, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2013
Kim Gordon, Jutta Koether, I.U.D., Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY, 2013
2012
Sunday Sessions Party with I.U.D., P.S. 1 Center for Contemporary Art, New York
Performance for Wade Guyton Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New
York
Blasting Voice, Suzanne Geiss Company, New York
Commissions
2010
Print commissioned for the Guggenheim Museum Young Collectors Council
Bibliography
2013
Dalamangas, Rachel Cole, “Interview: Lizzi Bougatsos on Art’s Coming Shift in
Consciousness”, Zing Magazine, December 2013
Kim, Amanda, “Suitcase Meets: Lizzi Bougatsos”, Suitcase Magazine, Winter 2013
2012
Uszerowicz, Monica, “Lizzi Bougatsos in Conversation,” Dossier, November 2012
“Lizzi Bougatsos,” Paper Magazine, November 2012
2010
Piccinini, Amalia, “Un’Artista Italiana A New York,” Flash Art Online Italy, June
Ashman, Angela, “Spring Guide: Shopping with Gang Gang Dance’s Lizzi Bougatsos,”
Village Voice, March
Jackson, Nate, “Lizzi Bougatsos: Poking holes in the stuffy art world,” Flaunt, January
Bibliography
2014
HER PERFUME TEARS, Boo-Hooray with Exile Books, New York
2007
The Process V, Nieves Edition, Zurich
2004
The Process III, Nieves Edition, Zurich
2002
Simpson, Bennett, "Boug & Worth Take Manhattan," International Center for Contemporary Art Catalogue, 2002
Public Collections
Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo, Norway
Dikeou Collection, Denver, CO
Discography
I.U.D., The Proper Sex, Social Registry, New York
Gang Gang Dance, Saint Dymphna, Social Registry, New York
Gang Gang Dance, First Communion, Social Registry, New York
Gang Gang Dance, Retina Riddim, DVD, Social Registry, New York
Gang Gang Dance, God's Money, Social Registry,New York
Gang Gang Dance, Hilleluh, Social Registry.New York
Gang Gang Dance, s/t. Fusetron Records, New York
Gang Gang Dance, Revival of the Shittest, Social Registry, New York
Angelblood, Labia Minoraptain Trip Records and Printed Matter Inc., Japan, New York
Angelblood, Mass for the Daggersptain Trip Records, Japan
Angelblood, Trip Records, Japan
Angelblood,Mambo Mange, New York
U-Sounds, Black Magic, Parallelism
Awards
2004
Rema Hort Mann Foundation Visual Art Grant
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