BAD ASS MOTHER FUCKER (BADASS MOTHERFUCKER)

Upcoming / Current
  • September 3, 2016 – January 21, 2017: Priska Pasquer, RESET II and FUTURISM, Cologne, Germany
  • September 22 - December 31, 2016: NYUAD Art Gallery, Invisible Threads, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates
  • October 1, 2016 - January 8, 2017: Triennale Hasselt, Hasselt, Belgium
  • October 28, 2016 - February 5, 2017: Whitney Museum of American Art, Dreamlands: : Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016 (Ways of Something, curated by Lorna Mills), NYC
  • November 11, 2016 - February 25, 2017: Carroll/Fletcher, Looking at one thing and thinking of something else, London, UK
  • November 9 - November 30, 2016: Carroll/Fletcher, n50.204520e1.538171.fr, London, UK
  • November 23, 2016: Carroll/Fletcher, Evan Roth in Conversation with Orit Gat and Steve Fletcher, London, UK
  • February 2 - March 5, 2017: transmediale: ever elusive, Berlin, Germany
  • Recent News:
  • Evan Roth presents “Internet Landscapes” at the 2016 Creative Capital Retreat
  • Internet Landscapes: Sydney at the 20th Biennale of Sydney
  • Masters & Servers: Networked Cultures in the Post-Digital Age commission, 2016
  • Creative Capital Emerging Fields Award Recipient, 2016
  • E is for Electronic: what does the internet look like to you?, the Guardian
  • Collections
  • Whitney Museum of American Art (as part of Lorna Mill's 'Ways of Something', 2014-2015)
  • The Israel Museum, Jerusalem (Self Portrait: Multi-Touch Painting series, 2013)
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York (Graffiti Taxonomy: New York, 2011)
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York (Graffiti Taxonomy: Paris, 2011)
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York (Eyewriter, 2009)
  • Museum of Modern Art, New York (L.A.S.E.R. Tag, 2008)
  • National Media Museum, Bradford UK (Eyewriter, 2012)
  • Solo Exhibitions
  • Belenius/Nordenhake, Kites & Websites, Stockholm, Sweden, 2016
  • Belenius/Nordenhake, Silhouettes, Stockholm, Sweden, 2015
  • Foosaner Art Museum, Intellectual Property Donor, Melbourne, Florida, 2015
  • Knoxville Museum of Art, Intellectual Property Donor, Knoxville, Tennessee, 2015
  • Carroll/Fletcher, Voices Over the Horizon, London, UK, 2015
  • Ulrich Museum of Art, Intellectual Property Donor, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas, 2015
  • Gallery Niklas Belenius, Memory, Stockholm, Sweden, 2014
  • Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Intellectual Property Donor, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, 2014
  • XPO Gallery, View In Room, Paris, France, 2013
  • Parsons Paris, New York to Paris, Paris, France, 2013
  • Aksioma Institute for Contemporary Art, Flight Mode, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2013
  • Kibel Gallery (University of Maryland), Casual Computing, College Park, Maryland, 2013
  • N2 Galeria, Evan Roth: La Vanguardia Americana, Barcelona, Spain, 2012
  • Eastern Michigan University Gallery of Art, Welcome to Detroit, Detroit, Michigan, 2012
  • 90 Bowery, When We Were Kings, New York City, New York, 2011
  • Group Exhibitions 2016

  • Whitechapel Gallery, Electronic Superhighway (2016-1966), London
  • Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
  • Skuc Gallery, The Black Chamber: surveillance, paranoia, invisibility & the internet, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  • Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, The Black Chamber: surveillance, paranoia, invisibility & the internet, Rijeka, Croatia
  • Lehmbruck Museum, On Surface, Duisburg, Germany
  • 2015

  • Museum of Modern Art, This Is for Everyone, New York City
  • NRW-Forum, Ego Update, Dusseldorf, Germany
  • Galerie Krinzinger, MANKIND / MACHINEKIND, Vienna, Austria
  • Biennial of Asuncion, Asuncion, Paraguay
  • Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Panopticon, Salt Lake City, UT
  • Kunsthaus Kaufbeuren, #NEULAND (with Aram Bartholl and JODI), Kaufbeuren, Germany
  • LISTE Art Fair Basel (with HeK), PEBKAC - IMHO, Basel, Switzerland
  • Hessel Museum of Art, Signal from Noise, Bard College, NY
  • Belenius/Nordenhake, STATE OF BEING, Stockholm, Sweden
  • Gray Area Foundation, F.A.T. GOLD: San Francisco, San Francisco, California
  • HOST, Gothenburg, Sweden
  • PRISKA PASQUER, RESET 1, Cologne, Germany
  • 2014

  • Alingsas Konsthallen, SNEL HEST, Alingsas, Sweden
  • Carroll Fletcher Gallery, Unoriginal Genius, curated by Domenico Quaranta, London, UK
  • Carroll Fletcher Gallery, Pencil / Line / Eraser, London, UK
  • Mestna galerija Ljubljana, net.art Painters and Poets, Ljubljana, Solvenia
  • MuseumPark, Data Culture: Browser-Based Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands
  • Furtherfield, Piracy as Friendship, London, UK
  • House of Electronic Arts Basel, Art & Arcade, curated by Alain Bieber, Basel, Switzerland
  • MU, Art & Arcade, curated by Alain Bieber, Eindhoven, Netherlands
  • XPO Gallery, FULL SCREEN, curated by Aram Bartholl, Paris, France
  • MU, F.A.T.Gold, Eindhoven, Netherlands
  • 2013

  • Museum of Moving Image, A Tribute to Heather, New York City, New York
  • Rua Red, Beyond the White Cube (dual show with Constant Dullaart), curated by Nora O'Murchu, Dublin, Ireland
  • House of Electronic Arts Basel, Und Everybody Says Yeah, curated by Bieber Alain, Basel, Switzerland
  • Museum of Art, Seoul National University, Data Curation, Seoul, Korea
  • Import Projects, Gordian Conviviality, curated by Max Schreier, Berlin, Germany
  • XPO Gallery, OFFLINE ART: new2, Paris, France
  • Kasseler Kunstverein, OFFLINE ART: Hardcore, curated by Aram Bartholl, Kassel, Germany
  • FAT Gold, Eyebeam, New York City, New York
  • Kim? Contemporary Arts, Save As, Riga, Latvia
  • 2012

  • Collect the WWWorld: The Artist as Archivist in the Internet Age, 319 Scholes, Brooklyn, New York
  • Kunsthalle Wien, BLK River, Vienna, Austria
  • Arts Le Havre, Biennale d'Art Contemporian, Le Prix Partouche, Le Havre, France
  • Museum of the Moving Image, DVD Dead Drop, curated by Aram Bartholl, New York City, New York
  • Jeu de Paume Virtual Space, Form@ts, Paris, France
  • House for Electronic Arts Basel, Collect the WWWorld: The Artist as Archivist in the Internet Age, curated by Domenico Quaranta, Basel, Switzerland
  • Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, "Transceiver", curated by Drift Station and Joel Damon, Omaha, Nebraska
  • Centre de Cultura Contemporania de Barcelona, The Influencers 2012, curated by Eva and Franco Mattes, and Bani Brusadin, Barcelona, Spain
  • Contemporary Art Center, Is This Thing On?, Cincinnati, Ohio
  • 2011

  • Museum of Modern Art, Talk To Me, New York City, New York
  • Portsmouth Museum of Art, iImage: The Uncommon Portrait, Porstmouth, New Hampshire
  • Collect the WWWorld: The Artist as Archivist in the Internet Age, Brescia, Italy
  • NIMk, Cloud Sounds, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  • 2010 [14th] Japan Media Arts Festival, Tokyo, Japan
  • Welat Internetcafe, SPEED SHOW vol.5: Open Internet, Paris, France
  • 2010

  • Centre Pompidou, Studio 13/16, Paris, France
  • British Design Museum, Brit. Insurance Design of the Year 2010, London, United Kingdom
  • Kunsthalle Wien, Street and Studio From Basquiat to Seripop, Vienna, Austria
  • SPEED SHOW vol.1 & 2: TELE-INTERNET, Berlin, Germany
  • Pointe Ephemere, In Famous Carousel, Paris, France
  • 2009

  • Fondation Cartier, Born In The Streets, Paris, France
  • Kurzfilmtage, 55th International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany
  • Filmwinter, Festival For Expanded Media, Stuttgart, Germany
  • NIMk - Montevideo / Time Based Arts, Versions, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • CREAM, International Festival for Arts and Media, Yokohama, Japan
  • Future Gallery, Michael Jackson Doesn't Quit (Part 2), Berlin, Germany
  • 2008

  • Museum of Modern Art, Rough Cut: Design Takes a Sharp Edge, New York City, New York
  • Tate Modern, Street Art, London, UK
  • Museum of Modern Art, Design and the Elastic Mind, New York City, New York
  • Sundance Film Festival, New Frontiers 2008, Park City, Utah
  • NIMk, Speaking Out Loud, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  • Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Beyond a Memorable Fancy, New York City, New York
  • Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Hack the City! & Play-ing, Seoul, Korea
  • Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, New York
  • Awards and Commissions
  • Masters & Servers: Networked Cultures in the Post-Digital Age commission, 2016
  • Creative Capital Emerging Fields Award Recipient, 2016
  • 2013 Commission by the Museum of Moving Image, New York City, New York
  • Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt 2012 National Design Award in Interaction Design
  • Eastern Michigan University, 2012 McAndless Distinguished Professorship, Detroit, Michigan
  • La Gaite Lyrique, Artist in Residence (July 2011), Paris, France
  • Transmediale, 2011 Open Web Award, Berlin, Germany
  • 2010 [14th] Japan Media Arts Festival, Excellence Prize in Interactive Art, Tokyo, Japan
  • Turku 2011, Grand Prix in Digital, Turku, Finland
  • Ars Electronica, 2010 Golden Nica in Interactive Art, Linz, Austria.
  • FutureEverything, 2010 FutureEverything Award, Manchester, United Kingdom
  • Rhizome at the New Museum, Seven on Seven (2010), New York City, New York
  • Transmediale, 2010 Award Nomination, Berlin, Germany
  • British Design Museum, Nominated for the Brit Insurance Interactive Award 2010, London, United Kingdom
  • British Design Museum, Brit Insurance Interactive Award 2010, London, United Kingdom
  • Transito_MX, 03/Autonomies of Disagreement Project Selection, Mexico City, Mexico
  • Rhizome at the New Museum, 2009 Rhizome Commission, New York City, New York
  • Rhizome at the New Museum, 2007 Rhizome Commission, New York City, New York
  • Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Off the Record Commission 2006, New York, New York
  • Ars Electronica Prix, 2006 Award of Distinction in Interactive Art, Linz, Austria
  • Eyebeam, Fellow (2005 to 2007), New York, New York
  • Press and Reviews
  • Alexander, N 2013, 'Evan Roth presents: art security check', Haaretz, 17 April.
  • Briz, N 2011, 'Work smarter not harder: An interview with Evan Roth', Art:21 Blog, 29 June.
  • Bosco, R 2013, "Evan Roth, el midas del arte emergente", El Pais, 4 Jan.
  • Caulfiend, B 2010, 'Pranksters Attach GPS Device To Google Street View Car', Forbes, 7 February.
  • Danzico, M 2011, 'Hacker artist takes over internet cafe for speed show', BBC News Online, 29 July.
  • David, S 2013, CoffeeTalk: Evan Roth, The Huffington Post, 6 June.
  • Day, A 2012, 'When Skyscrapers Are Your Screen', New York Times, 25 January.
  • Dayal, G 2006, 'High-tech Graffiti: Spray paint is so 20th century', The New York Times, 25 June.
  • France 24 2013, The Influence of the Internet on Street Art, 30 September
  • Gallagher, D 2007, 'Tracking Michael Jackson's glove online', The New York Times, 3 July.
  • Kennedy, R 2010, 'New Museum merges artistic and tech brains', The New York Times, 18 April.
  • Kurtz, S 2012, "Evan Roth, an Award-Winning Man of Many Tags", New York Times, 2 May.
  • Lechner, M 2013, Offline Art, il faut savoir réseaux garder, écrans / La Liberation, 1 March.
  • Lechner, M 2012, Art numérique, la récupe est pleine, La Liberation, 17 April.
  • Lechner, M 2010, 'C'est graff docteur?', La Liberation 10 July.
  • Lechner, M 2006, 'Detouch, traqueur de retouche', La Liberation, 3 March.
  • Lyden, J 2013, Hacker-Artist's Mantra: 'Fun Makes The Politics Go Down', National Public Radio, 24 August.
  • McNamara, P 2008, 'Airport "X-ray art" courts TSA trouble', Network World, 1 October.
  • Neural 2009, 'Evan Roth - Explicit Content Only' 10 August.
  • Page, S 2010, 'Connecting the dots of digital art', Los Angeles Times, 2 July.
  • PBS Arts 2011, 'Off book: F.A.T. Lab' 14 September.
  • Popovich, N 2013, 'Evan Roth: the badass artist hacking popular culture', the Guardian, 20 August
  • Quaranta, D 2013, 'F.A.T. Gold', Flash Art, May - June, p.43
  • Quaranta, D 2009, 'Firefox art', Flash Art, February-March, no. 274, p. 42.
  • Tarrant, A 2010, 'Evan Roth', Juxtapoz 10 October, no. 117, p. 124-135.
  • WAMC Public Radio 2007, 'Retouching celebrity photographs' 5 January.
  • Webley, K 2010, 'The 50 Best Inventions of 2010: Eyewriter', Time Magazine, 11 November.
  • Yaffa, J 2007, 'The writing's on the wall. (The writing's off the wall.)', The New York Times, 12 August.
  • Bibliography
  • Adz, K 2011, Street Knowledge, The Overlook Press, New York.
  • Alonzo, P, Bieber, A, Hübner, M, Jansen, G & Klanten, R (ed.) 2011, Art & Agenda, Gestalten, Berlin.
  • Antonelli, P (ed.) 2008, Design and the elastic mind, Museum of Modern Art, New York.
  • Antonelli, P (ed.) 2011, Talk to Me: Design and the communication between people and objects, Museum of Modern Art, New York.
  • Beyond a memorable fancy: an EFA Project Space exhibition, 2008, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York.
  • Buchhart, D, Hug, C, Matt, G & Miessgang, T 2010, Street and Studio: From Basquiat to Seripop, Verlag für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany.
  • Burkman, DB & LoCascio, M 2010, Stickers: From punk rock to contemporary art, Universe Publishing, New York.
  • Carrier, D 2013, Wild Art, Phaidon Press, London, UK
  • Cook, G 2013, The Best American Infographics 2013, Mariner Books, Boston, USA
  • Delamarre, T & Sacramone, L 2009, Ne dans la rue: Graffiti, Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris.
  • Ehmann, S, Hanschke, V & Klanten, R 2011, A touch of code, Gestalten, Berlin.
  • Feireiss, L & Klanten, R (ed.) 2007, Spacecraft: Fleeting architecture and hideouts, Gestalten, Berlin.
  • Hundertmark, C 2005, The art of rebellion: The world of street art, Gingko Press, Berkeley, California.
  • Hundertmark, C 2006, The art of rebellion: The world of urban art activism, Gingko Press, Berkeley, California.
  • Hüebner, M & Klanten, R (ed.) 2010, Urban interventions personal projects in public places, Gestalten, Berlin.
  • Jones, P 2011 'A white right hand' Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 17 August, p 237-244.
  • Lewisohn, C 2008, Street art: The graffiti revolution, Abrams, New York.
  • McCormick, C, Schiller, M, Schiller, S & Seno, E 2010, Trespass: A history of uncommissioned urban art, Tachen, Cologne.
  • Ruiz, M (ed.) 2011, Walls & Frames: Fine art from the streets, Gestalten, Berlin.












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