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1950 born in Detroit, United States
Lives and works in Detroit, United States
Group Exhibitions
2008
Changing Cities: Chicago, ThreeWalls Gallery, Chicago, IL
Moving Walls (as Stig Eklund), Galerie Eva Bracke, Berlin, Germany
New Visions from China (as Shen-ba Wong), Museum of New Art, Pontiac, MI
Changing Cities: Bregenz (as Clara Beckmann), Galerie Lisi Haemmerle, Bregenz, Austria
2007
Lost & Found (curated from Charles Saatchi’s Your Gallery), Brick Lane Gallery, London, England
Found Footage (as Andy Warhol), Museum of New Art, Pontiac, MI
Intelligent Design: a traveling show (as Stig Eklund), Silvermine Guild Art Center, New Canaan, CT
The Minute-Man (as Douglas Gordon), Museum of New Art, Pontiac, MI
Bringing Back Sexy (as John Currin), Museum of New Art, Pontiac, MI
Art Photography, Jane Austen Book Club, Los Angeles
Silence (as Clara Beckmann, Hanne Bloot, Stig Eklund), Paint Creek Art Center, Rochester. MI
Intelligent Design (as Missy Wiggins, Stig Eklund), Museum of New Art, Pontiac, MI
Jef Bourgeau: A Retrospective, Oakland University Art Gallery, Rochester, MI
2005
Double Vision, The District Gallery, Birmingham, MI
None of the Above: A show without art, Museum of New Art, Pontiac, MI
New Work (as Kenzu Nagawa), The White Room, Los Angeles
Is London Burning (as Billy Conklin), Museum of New Art, Pontiac, MI
FiftyFifty (as Missy Wiggins), C-Pop Gallery, Detroit
2004
Photography Now, Urban Institute for the Contemporary Arts, Grand Rapids, MI
Biennale 2004 (as Jan de Groot), Museum of New Art, Pontiac, MI
A Day in the Life (video), The Majlis Cultural Center, Mumbai, India
In Flux, Marygrove College Gallery, Detroit
Piss Off! (as various artists), Museum of New Art, Pontiac, MI
Untitled, 555 Gallery, Detroit
2003
La Musee d'Art et d'Industrie - Roubaix, France
Detroit Contemporary - Detroit
Cranbrook Art Museum - Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
La Braderie - France
1999-2000
Detroit Institute of Arts - Detroit
Galerie Blu - Detroit
1998
Kalamazoo Institute for the Arts - Kalamazoo
Kumamoto Museum - Japan
Hokkaido Museum of Art - Japan
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art - Cleveland
Mitsukoshi Museum of Art - Fukuoka, Japan
1997
San Jose Museum of Art - San Jose
Takamatsu City Museum of Art - Japan
Honolulu Academy of Arts - Hawaii
San Francisco Art Hotel - California
Daimaru Museum - Osaka, Japan
Sogo Museum of Art - Yokohama, Japan
1996
Columbus Museum of Art - Columbus, Ohio
Cranbrook Art Museum
Art Seattle - Seattle, Washington
Portland Museum of Art - Oregon
1995
SoMa Gallery - La Jolla, California
Cleveland Museum of Art
The Mint Museum - Charlotte, NC
O.K Harris Works of Art
Space Gallery - Chicago
Contemporary Arts Museum - Houston
Detroit Institute of Arts
1994
Gahlberg Arts Center - Illinois
Institute of Contemporary Arts - Boston
Zolla/Lieberman - Chicago
The Drawing Room - Amsterdam
LedisFlam - New York
O.K. Harris Works of Art
AS CURATOR -
SELECT EXHIBITIONS:
ROOM 7, Pontiac Michigan:
JANUARY 1996 - MATISSE SLEPT HERE, a multi-media installation based on Matisse’s color palette and travels.
JANE SPEAKS MODERN ART, Pontiac Michigan:
SEPTEMBER 1996 - ART UNTIL NOW, an international survey of contemporary art.
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART (MCA), Pontiac Michigan:
September 1997 - DOCUMENTA USA, a multi-media investigation into the process of deciding art.
JUNE 1998 - THE WRONG SHOW, a review of politically incorrect art of the nineties.
August 1998 - NAKED IN THE NINETIES, an inquiry into controversial art of the last decades.
January 1999 - BLIMEY, the most comprehensive survey, before or since, of the Young British Artists working in the nineties. The exhibition included over 130 artists with eponymous catalogue, published in England by 21 publishing.
August 1999 - THE CHILDREN’S HOUR, an exhibition of children and their place in the art of the last 100 years.
URBAN INSTITUTE FOR THE CONTEMPORARY ARTS (UICA), Kalamazoo
March 1999 - DOCUMENTA USA, a multi-media investigation into the process of deciding art. Including Jenny Holzer, Peter Halley, Christo, Vito Acconci and 100 other artists.
MUSEUM OF NEW ART (MONA), Pontiac Michigan:
August 2000 - NEW GERMAN PHOTOGRAPHY, 15 young german photographers, with a solo exhibition of Wolfgang Tillmans work
September 2000 - E-MONA, artists from over 30 countries e-mailed their art to the museum, where it was printed out on a wide-format digital printer and exhibited. An example of "instant" art.
MUSEUM OF NEW ART (MONA), Detroit Michigan:
September-October 2001 - DOCUMENTA USA II, a new, improved version of the first Documenta USA.
March 9 - April 28 - kaBOOM!
Over the course of the exhibition, museum visitors were invited to smash, drop, throw and slash artworks, including work by Man Ray, Haim Steinbach and Lucio Fontana.
ARTCORE
August 2002 - April 2003
Founded and directed ARTCORE, an empty storefront-to-gallery project in downtown Detroit.
Nine such collective galleries were opened in abandoned buildings.
Projects
1997 ‘The Museum of New Art’, founding director of Detroit’s first contemporary museum.
1997 ‘The Detroit International Film & Video Festival’, bringing in 128 filmmakers from over 42 countries, from the USA, and England to Israel to Vietnam and China – sharing the screen alongside recent Detroit filmmakers’ work. Repeated over the next 8 years.
1998 ‘Aperto’, a project allowing any local artist to hang one work at the Museum of New Art until the next artist arrived. Planned for the Detroit Institute of Arts in 1999. Repeated at MONA in 2002
1999 ‘Documenta USA’, over 200 artists were invited to fill an archival box with their art. Most of the artists were from the Detroit region, but the project eventually included many established artists such as Christo, Peter Halley, Arman, Vito Acconci, and Jenny Holzer.
2000 ‘Documenta USA’, traveled to the UICA in Grand Rapids, where it also included artists from that region of Michigan.
2001 ‘ArtCore’, seven empty storefronts in downtown Detroit were renovated and given to art collectives to run as galleries.
2002 ‘Michigan Institute for the Arts’, a 10,000 square foot space in downtown Detroit was turned into a museum that showcased Michigan artists. Worked with Christine Schefman at ArtServe Michigan to curate artists from across Michigan.
2003 ‘12x12’, a gallery was reserved within the Museum of New Art to present new work by a different artist from the Detroit region each month.
2004 ‘ArtCore’, revived in empty storefronts in downtown Pontiac.
2006 ‘Moving Walls’, formed a collective of Cranbrook graduates, giving them a gallery to continue their work in Michigan. Over the next year, this project morphed into ‘Changing Cities’ and included more artists from throughout the region.
2007-2009 ‘Changing Cities’, a multi-city project to exchange Detroit artists with those of other regions, at home and overseas. Successful swaps with Chicago and Berlin have been mounted, with many upcoming exchanges planned.
Bibliography
Magazines and Newspapers
1991 Detroit News: ‘Coloring 20th-century art in an entertaining hue’ by Joy Colby, August 23, p.5D.
1992 Detroit Free Press: ‘Women, then and now’ by Marsho Miro, November 25, p.12D.
1992 Detroit Monthly: ‘Bourgeau on the Bourgeoisie’ by Veronica Pasfield, November, p. 20.
1993 Detroit News: ‘Two artists survive a brush with controversy: Jock Sturges and Jef Bourgeau’ by Joy Hakanson Colby, June 11, p. 9C.
1994 Chicago Tribune: ‘Bourgeau plays with presence and absence’ by David McCracken, February 4.
1994 Sculpture Magazine: ‘Jef Bourgeau’ by Matthew Kangas, June/July, p. 70-71.
1994 The New Yorker: ‘Jef Bourgeau’, July - August.
1994 The Village Voice: ‘Voice Choice: Jef Bourgeau’ by Sandra Levin, in the first such feature, August 24.
1994 Volkskrant (Netherlands): ‘Art Hotel’ by staff, November 2.
1995 Detroit Free Press: ‘Artists as seen through other artists’ eyes’ by Marsha Miro, March 3, p.7D.
1995 Art & Antiques: ‘Intimate Dramas’ by George Melrod, March, p. 21.
1995 The Birmingham Eccentric (Michigan): ‘Bernardino and Jef’ by Frank Provenzano, June.
1995 Ann Arbor News: ‘Familiar works shown in a different light at DIA’ by Roger Green, June 17, p. D2.
1995 Sculpture Magazine: ‘Provocative Issues’ by Thomas Wojtas, July-August, p.44.
1995 Detroit Free Press: ‘New icons reflect society’s divergence’ by Marsha Miro, November.
1996 Detroit News: ‘Artist goes high tech to evoke nostalgia’ by Joy Hakanson Colby, January 11, p. 6F.
1996 The Birmingham Eccentric (Michigan): ‘Contemplation fuels show’ by Mary Klemic, June 20, p. 1B.
1997 Detroit News: ‘Controversial art exhibit serves noble social purpose’ by Stephen R. Jaffe, June 15.
1997 Oakland Press (Michigan): ‘A museum that doesn’t collect’ by John Sousanis, June 20.
1997 Detroit News: ‘Naked asks us to go beyond labels in the 90’s’ by Joy Hakanson Colby, July 18.
1997 The Birmingham Eccentric (Michigan): ‘The ambiguous world of Jef Bourgeau’ by Frank Provenzano, October 26, p. 1D
1997 Hour Magazine (Detroit): ‘Consider the bird flipped’ by Veronica Pasfield, November, p. 99.
1998 Flash Art (Milan): ‘Flesh and I’ by Giancarlo Politi, January-February, p. 55.
1998 Flash Art (Milan): ‘Goings On’, by Owen Drolet, May-June, p. 50.
1998 Hour Magazine (Detroit): ‘Future of Art’ by Brenna Sanchez, September issue, p. 68.
1998 Metro Times Detroit: ‘NEWTOPIA’ by Casey Coston, October 14.
1999 Flash Art (Milan): ‘On the end of art as we know it’ by Giancarlo Politi, March-April, p. 49.
1999 Fineline (Detroit): ‘Size hardly matters’ by Frank Provenzano, Spring issue.
1999 Flash Art (Milan): ‘kaBOOM!’ by staff, November/December.
1999 Flash Art (Milan): ‘Let’s Destroy Art to Make Art: kaBOOM!’ by Giancarlo Politi, November/December.
1999 Detroit News: ‘Museum’s new director cancels exhibit’ by Joy Hakanson Colby, November 20.
1999 Chicago Sun-Times: ‘A matter of art’ by staff, November 23.
1999 The Independent (London): ‘Artist stages protest’ by John Davison, November 23
1999 USA TODAY: ‘Culture Clash’ by staff, November 23, front page.
1999 New York Times: ‘Another Art Battle, as Detroit Museum Closes an Exhibit Early’ by Robyn Meredith, November 23.
1999 Il Mattino (Naples): ‘Scandalo a Detroit’ by staff, November 24.
1999 Le Monde (Paris): ‘Un directeur de musee americain reporte une exposition par crainte de la polemique’ by staff, November 24.
1999 Boston Globe: ‘Detroit museum defends shutting down exhibit’ by staff, November 24.
1999 FineLine (Detroit): ‘A portrait of influence’ by Frank Provenzano, December issue.
2000 ARTnews, ‘The Three Day Show’ by staff, January issue, p. 50.
2000 Dialogue (Ohio): ‘Art Until Now No More: DIA CENSORS ITS OWN EXHIBITONS’ by Jeanette Wenig Drake, January/February issue, p. 41.
2000 MediaChannel (New York): ‘When did the media start hating artists?’ by Robert Atkins (Arts Editor and a Research Fellow at Carnegie Mellon's STUDIO for Creative Inquiry), January.
2000 Detroit Free Press: ‘Art dwells at 7 N. Saginaw in Pontiac’ by Keri Guten Cohen, January 16.
2000 Detroit Free Press: ‘Will controversy follow Bourgeau’s new exhibit’ by Frank Provenzano, January.
2000 Flash Art (Milan): ‘Van Gogh’s Ear’ a correspondence with Giancarlo Politi, February, p. 55.
2000 Oakland Press (Michigan): ‘Artist gets ticketed as panel discusses censorship’ by Erica Blake, March 5.
2000 Oakland Press (Michigan): ‘Artist shifts from Detroit to Pontiac’ by Doug Henze, March 6.
2000 Detroit News: ‘Bourgeau Fears No Art’ by Joy Hakanson Colby, March 10.
2000 Detroit Free Press, ‘Tradition, repression and censorship targeted’ by Keri Guten Cohen, March 12, p. 2F.
2000 Art Newsroom (England): ‘Police Raid Museum’ by staff, March 17.
2000 Oakland Press (Michigan): ‘Art sometimes challenges culture’ by Jillian Bogater, March 23.
2000 Real Detroit Weekly, ‘Art for the Moment’ by Natalie Haddad, September.
2000 Detroit Free Press: ‘New Space Opening’ by Keri Guten Cohen, October 1.
2000 Windsor Star (Canada): ‘Rules be Damned’ by Craig Pearson, October 12.
2000 Detroit News ‘New Museum fills Detroit’s need to showcase adventurous art’ by Joy Hakanson Colby, October 13.
2000 Detroit Free Press: ‘Museum opens with collectors’ pieces, e-mailed art’ by Keri Guten Cohen, October 15.
2000 Detroit Free Press: ‘Museum of New Art uses the term loosely’ by Frank Provenzano, October 15.
2001 Detroit News: ‘Detroit gains popularity among fine artists’ by Rhonda Bates-Rudd, April 18.
2001 Detroit News: ‘Metro Detroit artist finds home for contemporary art’ by Joy Hakanson Colby, May 16, p. 1D
2001 Detroit News: ‘Museum of New Art Downtown’ by Laura Berman, May 17.
2001 Metro Times Detroit: ‘Drowning MONA’ by Casey Coston, May 22.
2001 Metro Times Detroit: ‘There goes the hood’ by George Tysh, June 13-19, p. 21.
2001 Detroit Free Press: ‘New museum tests barriers’ by Frank Provenzano, September 9.
2001 Metro Times Detroit: ‘The latest evidence’ by Glen Mannisto, September.
2001 Detroit News: ‘Showtime at MONA’ by Joy Hakanson Colby, September 17.
2001 Flash Art (Milan): ‘Documenta USA’ by staff, October issue, p. 58.
2001 Hour Magazine (Detroit): ‘Drawing in people: new Detroit museum makes viewers part of its exhibit’ by Susan Howes, October 21, p. 99.
2001 Renaissance Times (Michigan): ‘Museum of New Art Opens Downtown’ by Gerald Scott, October.
2001 Tema Celeste (Milan): ‘Documenta USA unveiled at Detroit Museum’ by Simona Vendrame, November/December, p. 105.
2001 Metro Times Detroit: ‘Oh, MONA: the Museum of New Art shoulders the challenge’ by Glen Mannisto, December 19-25, p. 22.
2002 WSWS (Online): ‘Panel discusses role of art museum in twenty-first century’ by David Walsh, January 10.
2002 Detroit News: ‘Museum of New Art boasts 85 films from around the world’ by Joy Hakanson Colby, January 30, p. 1D.
2002 Metro Times Detroit: ‘Eve of destruction’ by Glen Mannisto, March 13-19, p. 34.
2002 Real Detroit Weekly: ‘kaBOOM! At Museum of New Art’ by Amy Bevevino, April 10, p. 45.
2002 Real Detroit Weekly: ‘Shoot! At Museum of New Art’ by Natalie Haddad, May 15, p. 15.
2002 Detroit Free Press, ‘Images of Ground Zero’ by Frank Provenzano, July 10.
2002 Detroit News: ‘Ground Zero engulfs the senses’ by Joy Hakanson Colby, July 27.
2002 WSWS (Online): ‘Ground Zero: signs of a more critical mood among US artists’ by David Walsh, July 29.
2002 Detroit News: ‘Art exhibits paint a better image for downtown storefronts’ by Joy Hakanson Colby, September 14.
2003 Tema Celeste (Milan): ‘Detroit Video Fest’ by staff, January-February, p. 116.
2003 Detroit Free Press: ‘Museum celebrates video as art form’ by Keri Guten Cohen, January 12, p. 19.
2003 Real Detroit Weekly: ‘An Artcore moment’ by Natalie Haddad, Jan 29.
2003 Real Detroit Weekly: ‘Shocking MONA’ by Jeremy Harvey, February 12, p. 18.
2003 Metro Times Detroit: ‘Pie in the eye’ by Lisa Collins, April 30-May 6.
2003 artforum: ‘Saving MONA’, by staff, Summer, p. 143.
2003 Tema Celeste (Milan): ‘Saving MONA’, artist protest, December, p. 20.
2004 Detroit News: ‘Renewed interest in reviving downtown Pontiac art scene’ by Joy Hakanson Colby, March 14.
2004 Metro Times Detroit: ‘Pontiac Pull’ by Christina Kallery, April 7.
2004 Tema Celeste (Milan): ‘New Home for MONA’ by Simona Vendrame, May/June, Issue 103.
2004 Metro Times Detroit: ‘Le Poseur in Wolf’s Clothing’ by Anita Schmaltz, May 26, pp. 20-22.
2004 Real Detroit Weekly: ‘Building Excitement: Biennale 2004’ by Natalie Haddad, May 12-18, cover story.
2004 The Detroiter: ‘When the audience becomes the art: Biennale 2004’ by Christina Hill, May 28.
2004 Oakland Press (Michigan): ‘Museum promotes new art’ by Karolyn Glowe, July 15.
2004 Art Times (London): ‘Inventing the Pixel: Abstraction in the 21st Century’ by Katherine Honzu, August 25, p. 40.
2004 Real Detroit Weekly: ’Before the right one’ by Natalie Haddad, July 21-27, p. 11.
2004 Circa Art Magazine (Ireland): ‘Murder Mystery: Bad News or Art Sham?’ by Isobel Harbison, September 7.
2004 Artdaily (Mexico City): ‘None of the Above’ by Ignacio Villarreal, November 30.
2005 Detroit Free Press: ‘Artistic License’ by Frank Provenzano, March 11.
2005 Artdaily (Mexico City): ‘Norwegian’s first American solo show’ by Ignacio Villarreal, March 12.
2005 Detroit News: ‘Exhibit captures demise of Detroit, terrorism and war’ by Joy Hakanson Colby, March 25.
2005 Metro Times Detroit: ‘Going Dutch: a Dutch treat’ by Eve Doster, April 13, p. 43.
2005 The Detroiter: ‘Going Dutch: New Photography from the Netherlands’ by Nick Sousanis, May.
2005 Real Detroit Weekly: ‘No Staples’ by Robert del Valle, September 21.
2005 Metro Times Detroit: ‘Swinging naked, slinging pie and multiphonic monks: On 25 years of art in Detroit’ by Rebecca Mazzei, October 19.
2005 Metro Times Detroit: ‘Art damage: A night of creative destruction’ by Jef Bourgeau, October 19.
2006 The Wall Street Journal: ‘The Invisible Artist’ by Jacob Hale Russell, Sunday January 1, p. 3.
2006 Real Detroit Weekly: ‘Earthshaking’ by Robert del Valle, January 18-24.
2006 Metro Times Detroit: ‘Questioning Identity’ by Nolan Simon, October 12.
2006 Metro Times Detroit: ‘The return of the minute man’ by Rebecca Mazzei, December 13-20.
2006 Real Detroit Weekly: ‘B is for ... Borrowed?’ by Robert del Valle, December 20.
2007 Reason Magazine (Los Angeles): ‘Shocking the bourgeoisie – it’s nice work if you can get it’ by Cheryl Miller, January, pp. 74-75.
2007 Real Detroit Weekly: ‘On The Wall’ by Robert del Valle, January 3, p. 42.
2007 Six New Things (Dallas): ‘Inspiring images ... just stand away from the
guy in the gallery wearing the trench coat’ by staff, February.
2007 Artdaily (Mexico City): ‘Changing Cities: Chicago at MONA’ by Ignacio Villarreal Jr., April 5.
2007 Metro Times Detroit: ‘Lake Effect (Changing Cities with Chicago)’ by Natalie Haddad, May 23, p. 48.
2007 Il Giornale Dell’Arte (Turin): ‘MONA d’Invenzione’ by Lucio Pozzi, May, p. 57.
2007 Metro Times Detroit: ‘Summer Fling’ by Vince Carducci, June 13, p. 69.
2007 Detroit News: ‘Bad boy back’ by Michael H. Hodges, September 9.
2008 Oakland Press: ‘Windy City Trade: Detroit artists send work to Chicago’ by Liz Voss, February 24.
2008 Metro Times: ‘City of Possibilities: Exhibit shows why Berliners embrace the Motor City’ by Rebecca Mazzei, July 23.
2008 Crain’s: ‘Detroit welcomes Berlin artists to the Museum of New Art’ by Liz Voss, July.
2008 Detroit News: ‘Berlin and Detroit swap artists’ by Michael H. Hodges, Thursday, July 3.
2008 Oakland Press: ‘Artwork from Europe to be displayed in area’ by Joe Szczesny, August 6, p. C-1
Catalogues, Books and Media
1993 ‘Summer Show’ by Cary Loren, Book Beat Gallery, catalogue of show, June, p. 17.
1994 ‘60 rooms with a view: Art Hotel’ by Peter Bouhof, Erik Hermida, Johan Jonker, Gabriele Rivet, catalogue of show, February 9-13, p. 42.
1994 ‘Jef Bourgeau’ by Kathryn Hixson, catalogue essay for Gahlberg Gallery (Eileen Broido, director), College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois.
1994 ‘On the Cover’ by staff, Gallery Guide, September issue, cover and p. 8.
1994 ‘ELVIS+MARILYN: 2xIMMORTAL’ edited by Geri DePaoli, foreword by David
Halberstam, commentary by Thomas McEvilley, a traveling exhibition with catalogue, Rizzoli publisher, p. 68.
1995 ‘IN /Justice’ by Carol Jacobsen, catalogue, Detroit Artists Market, March 17-April 14, p. 8.
1995 ‘Interventions’ curated by Jan van der Marck, Detroit Institute of Arts, June 4-September 3, (a CD catalogue).
1996 ‘Cranbrook’s Auto Show’ by Jerry Herron, Cranbrook Art Museum, June 1 – September 1.
1997 ‘Portfolio ’97’ foreword by Evie Wheat, Pontiac Artists’ Association, p. 5.
1997 ‘Jane Speaks Modern Art’ by ArtLook staff, CD catalogue embedded in ARTnews, Summer issue.
1998 ‘A New Kind Of Museum’ by Katherine Weider, for Backstage Pass, PBS Detroit, televised Fall.
1998 ‘Art And The American Experience’ by Jan van der Marck, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, September 13 – December 6, p. 38 (image), p. 43 (text) for catalogue.
2000 ‘An Interview with Jef Bourgeau’ by Ken Paulson, Speaking Freely (for NYC Public Station 13), broadcast September 2000.
2000 ‘Arguing Art’ by Chris Walny, for Backstage Pass, PBS Detroit, televised Spring.
2001 ‘A 21st Century Museum’ by Jef Bourgeau, foreword to the exhibition catalogue Lucio Pozzi at the Museum of New Art (Detroit), p. 3.
2004 ‘Photography Now’ by museum staff, Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts-Grand Rapids, April 4-May 8.
2006 ‘Visual Shock: A History of Art Controversies in American Culture’ by Michael Kammen, Knopf, 2006, p. 299.
2007 ‘Jef Bourgeau: A User’s Manual’ by Jan van der Marck, catalogue for retrospective at Oakland University Art Gallery, Oakland University Press.
Links
www.jefbourgeau.com
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