Ari Marcopoulos (New York, USA)
Ari Marcopoulos, who was born in Amsterdam in 1957 and moved to New York City in 1980, is an artist, filmmaker, and photographer currently living and working in New York. He has been the subject of several solo exhibitions, at Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, the Netherlands; Berkeley Art Museum in California; MoMA PS1, New York; galerie frank elbaz, Paris; Marlborough Chelsea, New York; and Alleged Gallery, New York, among other locations.
Marcopoulos participated in two Whitney Biennials (in 2008 and 2010), and his photographs are in collections including the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; New Orleans Museum of Art; and Detroit Institute of Arts. His work has been published in the New York Times Magazine, Interview, Paper, Blind Spot, Transworld Snowboarding, and Snowboarder. His films include the documentary Larry Wright and Key to the Riddle, a documentary on the artist Forrest Bess.
Among Marcopoulos’s many books are Epiphany: Gucci (Idea, 2016), Not Yet (Rizzoli, 2016), Rome−Malibu (Roma, 2016), Fumes(Karma, 2015), Out to Lunch (Roth, 2012), Directory (Nieves/Rizzoli, 2011), Out and About (Damiani, 2005), Kids Born out of Fire (Perks and Mini, 2004), Pass the Mic: Beastie Boys 1991−1996 (powerHouse, 2001), and Transitions and Exits (powerHouse, 2000).
Selected Solo Exhibition
- 2021
- Gallery Frank Elbaz, Dallas, USA
- 2020
- Into the Now, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris, France
- 2019
- Films. Photographs, Fergus McCaffrey, New York, USA
3 Films. 3 Photographs, Fergus McCaffrey, Tokyo, Japan - 2017
- Machine, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris, France
L1032015, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, USA - 2012
- Wherever you go, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, USA
Here and Now, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Midway, Kavi Gupta Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA - 2011
- Abandoned Sleep, Ratio 3, San Francisco, USA
Directory, White Columns, New York, USA
This Week, Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris, France - 2010
- It Might Seem Familiar, Foam_Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, Netherlands
- 2009
- Within Arm’s Reach, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, USA
- 2008
- Always and Never, Galleria Patricia Armocida, Milan, Italy
Fear God, The Project, New York, USA
The Chance is Higher, Gallery White Room, Tokyo, Japan
Ari Marcopoulos: Architectures, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, USA - 2007
- The Chance Is Higher, MC, Los Angeles, USA
- 2006
- Under Penalty of Perjury, Someday Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
Flow, Mu, Eindhoven, Netherlands
New Work, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, USA
Even the president of the United States sometimes has got to stand naked, PS1/MOMA, New York, USA - 2004
- No. 12 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
- 2002
- Pass The Mic 1991-1996, Shibuya Tower, Tokyo, Japan
- 2001
- Alleged Gallery, New York, USA
The Deep Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Partobject Gallery, North Carolina, USA
- 2020
- 09.24.20 (Roma Publications, Holland)
Conrad McRae Youth League Tournament (Roma Publications, Holland)
Polaroids 92-95 (CA, NY) (Dashwood Books, New York) - 2018
- The Athens dialogues (Roma Publications, Holland)
- 2016
- Epiphany: Gucci (Idea, New York)
Not Yet (Rizzoli, New York)
Rome−Malibu (Roma Publications, Holland) - 2015
- Fumes: Ari Marcopoulos, Matthew Barney Studio (Karma Books, New York)
- 2012
- Out to Lunch (Roth, New York)
- 2011
- Directory (Nieves/Rizzoli, Zurich, Switzerland/New York)
- 2009
- Ari Marcopoulos: within arm's reach, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum
- 2008
- The chance is higher
- 2007
- Ad Rock
- 2005
- Out and About (Damiani, 2005)
Even the president of the United States sometimes has got to stand naked - 2004
- Kids Born out of Fire (Perks and Mini, 2004)
- 2001
- Pass the Mic: Beastie Boys 1991−1996 (powerHouse, New York)
- 2000
- Transitions and Exits (powerHouse, New York)
