Michael Rey
Michael Rey
Gaba-Stobbe, 2016
Oil on plasticine clay on panel
99,1 × 67,3 cm (39 × 26 1/2 inches)
Michael Rey
Elipzo-Bome, 2017
Oil on plasticine clay on panel
152,4 × 68,6 cm (60 × 27 inches)
Michael Rey
VOLPKE, 2017
Oil on plasticine clay on panel
50,8 × 137,2 cm (20 × 54 inches)
Michael Rey
installation view, Plydis Kave,
Galleria Zero, Milan, 2016
Michael Rey
installation view, Plydis Kave,
Galleria Zero, Milan, 2016
Michael Rey
Muta, 2015
oil on plasticine clay on panel
195,6 × 182,2 cm (77 × 71 3/4 inches)
Michael Rey
installation view, Michael Rey
Office Baroque, Brussels, 2015
Michael Rey
installation view, Michael Rey
Office Baroque, Brussels, 2015
Michael Rey
Zejglz, 2015
oil on plasticine clay on panel
204,5 × 60,6 cm (80 1/2 × 23 7/8 inches)
Michael Rey
Kre-Seppty, 2015
oil on plasticine clay on panel
123,2 × 107,6 cm (48 1/2 × 42 3/8 inches)
Michael Rey
Installation view, About a work #4
Zero, Milan, Italy, 2015
Michael Rey
BTE (noomes), 2015
oil on plasticine clay on panel
45,7 × 243,8 cm (18 × 96 inches)
Michael Rey
Installation view, A Peg to Hang It On
White Flag Projects, St. Louis, USA, 2015
Michael Rey
Icendo, 2014
oil on plasticine clay on panel
106,7 × 114,3 × 3,8 cm (42 × 45 × 1 1/2 inches)
Michael Rey
Muu, 2013
oil on plasticine clay on panel
165 × 48.3 cm (64 15/16 × 19 inches)
Michael Rey
Amote Craws V, 2014
oil on plasticine clay on panel
Michael Rey
HU 1982, 2014
oil on plasticine clay on panel
86,4 × 40,6 cm (34 × 16 inches)
Michael Rey
dayx, 2014
oil on plasticine clay on panel
121,9 × 162,6 × 3,8 cm (48 × 64 × 1 1/2 inches)
Michael Rey
Vector Stampa, 2014
oil on plasticine clay on panel
213,4 × 172,7 × 3,8 cm (84 × 68 × 1 1/2 inches)
Michael Rey
Pineapple Grit #36 (tete-a-tete), 2014
powder-coated steel
137.2 × 101.6 cm (54 × 40 inches)
Michael Rey
Kippizanne, 2014
oil on plasticine clay on panel
100.3 × 106.7 cm (39 1/2 × 42 inches)
Michael Rey
Fat Fang!, 2014
oil on plasticine clay on panel
127 × 106,7 cm (50 × 42 inches)
Michael Rey
Ploe, 2014
oil on plasticine on panel
226 × 104 cm (89 × 40 15/16 inches)
Michael Rey
Bu Pennant, 2014
oil on plasticine on panel
145 × 94 cm (57 1/16 × 37 inches)
Michael Rey
Bolus Lapes, 2014
oil on plasticine clay on panel
147,3 × 111,8 cm (58 × 44 inches)
Michael Rey
Ocelli, 2013
oil on plasticine clay on panel
94 × 24,1 cm (37 × 9 1/2 inches)
Michael Rey
Ocelli, 2013
oil on plasticine clay on panel
94 × 24,1 cm (37 × 9 1/2 inches)
Michael Rey
Fungg, 2013
oil on plasticine clay on panel
188 × 55,9 cm (74 × 22 inches)
Michael Rey
Ludus (Cat Snores), 2015
oil on plasticine clay on panel
Michael Rey
Rad Faker, 2013
oil on plasticine clay on panel
59 × 170.2 cm (23 1/4 × 67 inches)
Michael Rey
Bis Swing, 2014
oil on plasticine clay on panel
236.5 × 107 cm (93 1/8 × 42 1/8 inches)
Michael Rey
California Night Plant, Bathos Shade, 2011
oil on plasticine clay on panel
220.9 × 63.5 cm (87 × 25 inches)
Michael Rey
I.L.M.C., 2013
oil on plasticine clay on panel
57.1 × 156.8 cm (22 1/2 × 61 3/4 inches)
Michael Rey
HUTTE – Life’s a Beach, 2011
oil on plasticine clay on panel
142.2 × 100.3 cm (56 × 39 1/2 inches)
Michael Rey
Val Kilmer, 2011
oil on plasticine clay on panel
55 × 55 cm (21 5/8 × 21 5/8 inches)
Born 1979, Sarasota, USA. Lives and works in Los Angeles, USA.
EDUCATION
| 2008 | MFA, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, USA |
| 2002 | BFA, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, USA |
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| 2020 | Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (forthcoming) |
| 2018 | Dei inzomniitz, Michael Rey and Barry Johnston, SOUTHFIELD, Southfield, USA |
| 2017 | Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium |
| 2016 | Zero, Milan, Italy |
| 2015 | Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium About a work #4, Zero, Milan, Italy Omes, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, USA |
| 2014 | 2732 Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, USA Ibject, Room East, New York, USA |
| 2011 | Dracula Plus Plus, Young Art, Los Angeles, USA |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2019 | Zero, Milan, Italy (forthcoming) It’s All Black and White: Contemporary Art from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Malibu, USA |
| 2018 | Do Something To It. Do Something Else To It., Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA Black & White & In Between (curated Billie Milam Weisman), Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, USA |
| 2017 | Perfectly Concocted Context by Jonathan Monk, Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA Process and Reality, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Malibu, USA Group Exhibition 2017, James Fuentes Gallery, New York, USA Top Heavy, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, USA |
| 2016 | Top Heavy, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, USA The Congregation (curated by Joshua Abelow), Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, USA They Want EFX, Neuer Kunstverein Wien, Vienna, Austria Expanded Fields, Nymphius Projekte, Berlin, Germany |
| 2015 | Back to Basics, Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, USA Vom Grossen und Ganzen, Herbert Gerisch-Stiftung, Neumünster, Germany Object Painting – Painting Object, Jonathan Viner, London, UK Rio (curated by Louis-Philippe Van Eeckhoutte), Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium A Peg to Hang It On, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, USA Crunchy (organized by Gregory Linn and Clayton Press), Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, USA |
| 2014 | Amy Feldman & Michael Rey, Freddy, Baltimore, USA Matt Connors, Bernard Piffaretti, and Michael Rey, Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, USA Another Cats Show, 356 Mission, Los Angeles, USA Where Were You?, Lisson Gallery, London, UK Green Circle, Black Diamond, Ratio 3, San Francisco, USA Hephaestus, Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium |
| 2013 | Alexandre da Cunha, Michael Rey, Michael Williams, B. Wurtz, Office Baroque, Antwerp, Belgium California Visual Music: Three Generations of Abstraction, Chapman University, Orange, USA |
| 2012 | Chasm of The Supernova (curated by Adam Miller), Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, USA |
| 2010 | What Now? (curated by Christian Jendreiko), Schmela House, Dusseldorf, Germany Ooga Booga Reading Room (in collaboration with Lucena Valle-Rey, curated by Wendy Yao), Swiss Institute Contemporary Art, New York, USA |
| 2009 | Is What It Is What It Is, Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, USA Sculpture Park, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, USA Wet Paint: Ten Young LA Painters, Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, USA Salon No. 1, Works 001 – 029, Marine, Los Angeles, USA ACCOMMODATION, Higher Institute for Fine Arts, Ghent, Belgium |
| 2008 | Cocktail Hour with Skip Arnold and Friends, Bonelli Contemporary, Los Angeles, USA |
| 2007 | My Buddy, UCLA New Wight Biennial, New Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, USA |
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, USA
MoMCA Trento and Reovereto, Trento, Italy
Sabanci Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
ADN Collection, Bolzano, Italy
Weisman Foundation, Los Angeles, USA
Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy
Michael Rey in It’s All Black and White: Contemporary Art from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation at Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
27 August – 8 December 2019
Michael Rey in Black & White & In Between (curated Billie Milam Weisman) at Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, USA
11 March – 27 May 2018
Michael Rey in DO SOMETHING TO IT. DO SOMETHING ELSE TO IT. at Philip Martin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
28 April – 27 May 2018
Michael Rey with Barry Johnston in Dei Inzomniitz at SOUTHFIELD, Southfield, USA
5 May – 2 June 2018
Michael Rey in Perfectly Concocted Context by Jonathan Monk at Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, USA
24 June – 19 August 2017
Michael Rey in Process and Reality at Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Malibu, USA
13 May – 6 August 2017
Michael Rey in Group Exhibition 2017 at James Fuentes Gallery, New York, USA
11 January – 29 January 2017
Michael Rey in Top Heavy at Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, USA
5 November 2016 – 7 January 2017
Michael Rey at Zero, Milan, Italy
15 September – 21 October 2016
Michael Rey in The Congregation (curated by Joshua Abelow) at Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, USA
8 September – 9 October 2016
A Film to be Determined by Michael Rey at White Flag Projects, St. Louis, USA
1 July 2016 at 9pm
Michael Rey in They Want EFX at Neuer Kunstverein Wien, Vienna, Austria
1 – 22 May 2016
Michael Rey in Expanded Fields at Nymphius Projekte, Berlin, Germany
16 January – 16 April 2016
Michael Rey in Back to Basics at Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Malibu, USA
31 August – 6 December 2015
Aaron Bobrow and Michael Rey in Object Painting – Painting Object at Jonathan Viner, London, UK
31 July – 29 August 2015
Matthew Brannon, Mathew Cerletty and Michael Rey in Rio (curated by Louis-Philippe Van Eeckhoutte), Office Baroque, Brussels, Belgium
4 June — 18 July 2015
About a work, Michael Rey at Zero, Milan, Italy
7 – 18 July 2015
Michael Rey in A Peg to Hang It on at White Flag Projects, St. Louis, USA
18 April – 30 May 2015
Michael Rey in Crunchy at Marianne Boesky, New York, USA
15 January – 21 February 2015
Michael Rey in Matt Connors, Bernard Piffaretti and Michael Rey. at Cherry and Martin, Los Angeles, USA
8 November 2014 – 3 January 2015
Amy Feldman and Michael Rey at Freddy, Baltimore, USA
12 December 2014 – 3 January 2015
Michael Rey in Another Cats Show at 356 Mission, Los Angeles, USA
16 August – 14 September 2014
Michael Rey in Where Were you? at Lisson Gallery, London, UK
19 July – 23 August 2014
Louis-Philippe Van Eeckhoutte, ‘Michael Rey’, Drawing Room Play, June 2018
Mario Cutajar, “Michael Rey ‘PLYDIS KAVE’ at ZERO…Milan”, Mousse Magazine, October 2016
‘Michael Rey at ZERO… gallery: ‘The uncanny is not something you can produce at will’’, Conceptual Fine Arts, September 2016
Blake Gopnik, ‘Daily Pic: Michael Rey’s Imaginary Readymades’, The Daily Pic, 1 May 2014
