BENJAMIN WEISSMAN

Born 1957
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

 

EDUCATION

1981          BFA           California Institute of the Arts, Post Studio Art

 

SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2016
We Never Kissed, The Box, Los Angeles, CA

2013-14
What Every Snowflake Knows in its Heart (in collaboration with Yutaka Sone), Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA

2009
Quilting Sessions 1997 – 2008 (in collaboration with Paul McCarthy), Galleria Zacheta Narodowa Galeria Sztiki, Warszawa

2008
Quilting Sessions 1997 – 2008 (in collaboration with Paul McCarthy), Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento

1997
Two Snowmen (in collaboration with Paul McCarthy), Christopher Grimes Gallery

1996
I, Robot, Christopher Grimes Gallery

1992
Horror A Vacui (in collaboration with Jim Shaw), Linda Cathcart Gallery
The Virility Room and Other Stories, Roy Boyd Gallery

 

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2018
Remote Castration, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA
Benjamin Weissman and Ravi Jackson, The Pit II, Glendale, CA

2015
Black & White Mike (curator), Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, CA
Drawing Show, Greene Exhibitions

2014
A Public Fiction: Made in L.A., Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Men in L.A.: 3 Generations of Drawing, The Box, Los Angeles, CA
Valley Vista: Art in the San Fernando Valley, 1970 – 1990, curated by Damon Willick, Cal State University, Northridge, CA
Four Figures, curated by Tom Knechtel, Marc Selwyn Gallery, CA
Cherub, curated by Andrew Berardini & Brian Kennon, 2nd Cannons, CA

2011
The Pursuit of Happiness: Experiments in Radical Leisure, (w/David Humphrey), curated by Kiersten Puusemp, The Archives: A Ship in the Woods, Del Mar, CA

2005
The Lateral Slip, curated by Jan Tumlir, Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California, Riverside, CA
The Picture I Carry in My Head, curated by Terri Phillips, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2004
Pet Sounds, Walking on Elbows, curated by Mindy Shapiro, Anna Helwings Gallery
The Dogs, curated by Francesca Gabbiani, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery
100 Artists See God, traveling, ICA, London & elsewhere, curated by John Baldessari & Meg Cranston
Frozen Fears & The Axxxpressunizm Show, Vilma Gold Gallery, London, UK
80 X 80 (in collaboration with Damon McCarthy), Athens

2003
Kohn: Youngstars, Galerie Krinzinger, 2003

2002
Mapping the Process (in collaboration with Paul McCarthy),Essor Gallery, London, UK
Homage to Rudolf Schwarzkogler, Galerie Krinzinger
Line Up: A drawing Show, Lord Mori aka The Happy Lion
London is Balling, Bart Wells Institute

2001
Snow, Practice Space, Los Angeles, CA
Civil Disobedience, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover
Recent Acquisitions Featuring The Norton Gift, Berkeley Art Museum, CA

2000
The Fashion Show, George’s Los Angeles, CA
Not Coming, Projections: Intermission images VII, Laemmle Grande Fourplex

1998
Alpenblick, Kunssthalle, Vienna, 1998
L.A. On Paper 1, RE-LAX, Galerie Krinzinger, 1998
I’m Still In Love With You, Woman’s 20th Century Club, 1998

1997
The Eagle Rock Show, Eagle Rock, CA

1996
The Comic Depiection of Sex in American Art, Lisa Ungar Galerie
Art Against AIDS, Galerie Mikael Anderson, Copenhagen
Mass Ive Lie Be (sound artists meet visual artists), Kunstwerk/Brasilica, Vienna

1995
Raymond Pettibon, Jim Shaw, Benjamin Weissman, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris, FR
An Offering to San Simon, Christopher Grimes Gallery

1994
Red Rover Red Rover, Three Day Weekend
Utopische Kunst Kunstliche Utopie, Verein Kunst Werk
Grammarians, Chapman University

1993
Bair, Cranston, Strode, Weissman, 1301 Gallery
The Language of Art, Kunsthalle, Vienna
Mr. Serling’s Neighborhood, Christopher Grimes Gallery
The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center

1992
LAX: Burden, Kelley, McCarthy, Pettibon, Pittman, Rubens, Shaw, Weissman, Vallance
Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna
Examples Cool & Lonely, Roy Boyd Gallery 

1991
Helter Skelter  (in collaboration w/Jim Shaw)

  

BOOKS
Headless & Dear Dead Person (2007, U-Factory, Russian language edition)
Headless (2004, Akashic)
Dear Dead Person (1994, Serpent’s Tail)

 

ARTIST BOOKS
Paul McCarthy & Benjamin Weissman: Quilting Sessions 1997 – 2008 Silvana Editoriale)

 

MAGAZINE PUBLICATIONS

McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern, Night Papers, Artforum, Bookforum, Modern Painters, Amokkoma, Parkett, The Believer, L.A. Times Book Review, Frieze, Freeze, Powder, Snow, Salon, Spin, Surfing, Women Outside, Western Humanities Review, Purple, Bomb, Index, Santa Monica Review, L.A. Weekly, L.A. Reader, Los Angeles Magazine, Village Voice Literary Supplement, Shiny, Hub, Snap, Hand Turkey, Cake Walk, Ribot, Rodentia, Tongue, The Crunge, High Performance, LAICA Journal, L.A. Style, Blind Date, Visions, Documents SurL’Art, Farm, Framework, Mirage, Magazine, Pee Stories Magazine, Animal Magazine Stories, Color This, Barney, Postille, Silver Jews (Lookout Mountain Lookout Sea), Soft Targets, Spectacle, Springer, B-City, Rut Roh, New Observations, Brooklyn Review, Art Issues, Artspace, Adult Video News, More & Less, X-tra, Nerve, V-Life, Zyzzyva

 

EDITING
Freeze Magazine, Features Editor (Time Warner) 1999 – 2001
Bomb, Contributing Editor, 1994 – present
Fishwrap, Advisory Editor (Art Center College of Design) 2001 – 2008
Issue, Advisory Editor (Art Center College of Design) 1999 – 2001
Snowflake,
Editor (Smart Art Press), 1996 – 1997
Otis Magazine, Editor (Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design), 1989 – 1992
Harbinger: Fiction & Poetry by L.A. Writers (w/Terry Wolverton) (Los Angeles Festival), 1990
Forehead, Fiction Editor (Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center), 1987 - 1990
Storytellers, Editor (Foundation for Art Resources), 1985 – 1986

 

REVIEWS:(of Headless & Dear Dead Person)

New York Times, London Times, The Believer, Entertainment Weekly, Art in America, The Oregonian, Los Angeles Times, Spin, Library Journal, Kirkus Review, Publishers Weekly, The Bay Chronicle, Small Press, Cups, City Pages, Main, Options, Attitude, L.A. Reader, The Rocket, Rain Taxi, Art Das Kunstmagazin

 

 

 

ANTHOLOGIES/EXHIBITION CATALOGUES

 

ANTHOLOGIES:

The Pursuit of Happiness: Experiments in Radical Leisure (editor Kiersten Puusemp), 2011

Steven Hull’s Multi-book Extravaganza Which I Don’t know the Exact Name of, 2007

A Fictional History of the United States with Huge Chunks Missing (ed, T. Cooper & Adam Mansbach), 2006

Ab Ovo, (Hull Editions), 2006

Frozen Tears (ed, John Russell), 2004

Another City: Writing from Los Angeles (City Lights), 2001

Unnatural Disasters (Incommunicado), 1996

Absolute Disasters (Dove), 1996

High Risk 2, Writings of Death, Sex, and Subversion (Plume), 1994

 

EXHIBBITION CATALOGUES

Boris Lurie (The Box), 2013

Nine Dwarves, Paul McCarthy, (Kukje Gallery), 2012

Paul McCarthy: Three Sculptures (L & M Arts), 2010

Yutaka Sone, The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, 2006

Matthew Greene, Deitch Projects, 2006

Raymond Pettibon (CAC Malaga: Centro De Arte Contemporaneo de Malaga), 2006

Yutaka Sone (Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo), 2003

Tom Knechtel (Otis Gallery), 2002

Lari Pittman (Goetz Collection, Munchen), 2002

Darren Waterston (St. Anne’s Press), 2002

Patrick Hogan (Otis Gallery), 2001

Ghosts Adrift: Thaddeus Strode (Kunstverein Heilbronn), 2000

Park: The Main Exhibition of Momentum (Nordic Festival of Contemporary Art), 2000

Wendy L. Moore (leveland Center for Contemporary Art), 1998

Hirsch Perlman (Museum of Modern Art), 1998

Concrete and Buckshot: William Burroughs (Smart Art Press), 1997

Things That Quicken the Heart (ed, Soo Jin Kim), 1996

Binaera: 14 Interaktionen—Kunst Und Technologie (Kunsthalle, Vienna), 1993

Helter Skelter (Museum of Contemporary Art), 1991

Cindy Bernard Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery), 1990

The Conceptual Impulse (Security Pacific Gallery), 1990

Loaded (Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery), 1989

L.A. Hot and Cool (M.I.T. List Visual Arts Center) 1987

TV Generations (LACE)

Mike Kelley, Assignment Outback (w/Tim Martin), (Newport Harbor Art Museum), 1985

 

SELECTED LECTURES/READINGS

Los Angeles Downtown Public Library, forthcoming, February 2015

Visiting Artist (reading, slide talk), USC Graduate School of Fine Art, 2000, 2001, 2004, 2013

Drawings & Paintings UCLA Graduate School of Fine Art, 2004

The Autobiography of Paul McCarthy (lecture), Museum of Contemporary Art, 2000

Ed Ruscha, (lecture w/Amy Gerstler), Walker Art Center, 2000

Loser Fiction ( lecture/reading), California Institute of the Arts, 2005 & 2000

Visiting Artist (reading/lecture), Otis Art Institute, 2004, ’03, ’02, ’01, ‘00

History of Beyond Baroque (w/Dennis Cooper, et al) New School University, 1999

Get It In Writing (reading w/Aimee Bender) Beyond Baroque, 1999

Fiction Reading (w/James Elroy), Huntington Beach Art Center 1996

Fiction Reading (w/John Cale), The Drawing Center, NYC, 1994

Narrative Strategies for Center’s End,  (w/Kathy Acker) New College, San Francisco, 1993

Christopher Williams, MoCA, 1991

Fiction Reading (w/Edmund White) Beyond Baroque, 1990 

 

SONG WRITING/AUDIO/LPs & EPs

Push Comes to Love, Stephen Prina (Drag City), 1999
45 (Jim Shaw), 1996
Oostende (Bigg Truck Records), 1994

 

TEACHING

UCLA Graduate School of Fine Art, grad & under, 2016-Present; 2002, 1997

Art Center College of Design, Graduate Advisor, 2004 – Present

Otis College of Art and Design, Fine Art Grad Dept 2001 – Present

Otis College of Art and Design, Graduate writing 2004 - 2008

University of Utah, graduate school of writing, 1999

California Institute of the Arts, 1996, 2008

Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design, 1988 – 1992

 

LITERARY CURATING

New American Writing, UCLA Hammer Museum, 2001 – 2012

Raymond Pettibon Tribute, Museum of Contemporary Art, 2000

Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center,Director of Programming, 1986 - 1996

 

 

Jul 6 2017pdflink

Review: Benjamin Weissman

Flash Art

by Jared Baxter

July 6, 2017

Jun 29 2017link

KCRW Art Talk: Chris Finley, Benjamin Weissman and Cindy Bernard

Jun 16 2017pdflink

It started with a sex dream about a gorilla

Los Angeles Times

Sharon Mizota

6/16/17

Jul 29 2018

Benjamin Weissman in Remote Castration at LAXART

Remote Castration

July 29—September 15, 2018

Opening Reception: Sunday, July 29, 2018, 3:00pm—6:00pm 

John Altoon
Nancy Buchanan
Kathryn Garcia
Daniel T Gaitor-Lomack
Jenny Holzer
Nova Jiang
Paul McCarthy
Jahni Moore
Sue Williams
Benjamin Weissman

 

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