Allan McCollum
Biography
1944, Los Angeles, USA. Lives and works in New York, USA.
Allan McCollum is known for the large installations created from the combination of several small items, produced by hand, but influenced by industrial production methods. Based on the concept, its production is characterized by collaborative and democratic processes, which require the participation of professionals and communities. His research explores issues related to mass production methods and the value of work in the context of mass culture, as well as the need to understand how objects acquire cultural, public and subjective meanings within contemporary societies.
The most important solo exhibitions by the artist were featured in well-known institutions, such as ICA Miami (2020, USA), Metropolitan Museum of Art – MET-NY (2009, EUA), Museum of Modern Art – MoMA (2007, EUA), Serpentine Gallery (1990, London, UK), etc. Among the group shows are 48th and 55th Venice Biennale (1988, 2013), 28th Sao Paulo Biennial (2008) and 9th Mercosul Biennial (2013), as well as institutions like Hammer Museum (2014, Los Angeles, EUA), Whitney Museum (2010, New York, USA), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (2004 e 2010, New York, USA), Centre Georges Pompidou (1998, Paris, France). His work integrates more than 50 public collections around the world, as in MoMA (USA), Metropolitan Museum (USA), The New Museum (USA); Musée National d’Art Moderne (France), Centre Georges Pompidou (France), Fondation Cartier (France), Museu Berardo (Portugal), New Tokyo Metropolitan Museum (Japan), National Museum of Contemporary Art Seoul (South Korea), among others.
Works
Exhibitions
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27 November - 27 February 2015Curated by Jacopo Crivelli Visconti, Maria Montero and Rafael Vogt Maia Rosa, the show is the last one presented in the space at Gomes de Carvalho street, as in 2016 the gallery will move to a house designed by Rino Levi at Jardim Europa. The selection of works includes pieces by artists such as Regina Silveira, Nelson Leirner, Marina Abramović, Geraldo de Barros, Rochelle Costi, Caio Reisewitz, Thomaz Farkas and Tiago Tebet, exhibited exactly at the same location where they where originally shown in the gallery.Read more -
Allan McCollum: Obras 1980-2008: Uma Seleção
27 July - 9 September 2009Allan McCollum’s solo exhibition, to be held from August 26 through October 9, 2009, will take up the whole of Luciana Brito Gallery – his exclusive representative in Brazil. As...Read more