BILL ALBERTINI
Biography
Lives and works in New York, USA
Education
1982
Yale School of Art, MFA, New Haven, CT, USA
1978
Crawford College of Art, Cork, Ireland. NCEA Dip. AD
1975
Ravensbourne College of Art & Design, England
One-Person Exhibitions
2008
Structures & Facades Martos Gallery, New York, USA
Holiday, Brooklyn, New York, USA
2006
Liminal Cube
2004
Memory Index, Alona Kagan Gallery, New York, USA
2002
Dissecting Solaris, Temple Bar Galleries and Studios, Dublin, Germany
2001
Dissecting Solaris, Kagan Martos Gallery, New York, USA
Dissecting Solaris, Center for Visual Arts and Culture, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA
1999
Kagan Martos Gallery, New York, USA
1998
CUBEDROP, E.S. Vandam, New York, USA
1994
S.O.F.A, New York, USA
1993
The Irongate Triptychs, Muranushi Lederman, New York, USA
1991
New Work, Althea Viafora Gallery, New York, USA
New Work, Jacob Karpio Gallery, San José, Costa Rica
Fluid History: Sculpture by Bill Albertini, Kent State University Art Gallery, USA
1990
New Work, Althea Viafora Gallery, New York, USA
1988
White Room Program, White Columns, New York, USA
Group Exhibitions
2008
The Word Is…, Gallery Maisonneuve, Paris, France
Summer show, Martos Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2007
The End(s) of Photography: Modeling The Photographic McDonough Museum of Art,
Youngstown, Ohio, USA
2006
Video killed the Painting Curated by Bart de Koning Gans, Yoshiko Matsumoto Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland
2005
Dreaming of a more better future, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
2003
Imagining Architecture, Center for Visual Arts and Culture, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA
Imaging The Abstract, Feigen Contemporary, New York, USA
Gallery Artist, Alona Kagan Gallery, New York, USA
2001
Picnic, Kagan Martos Gallery, New York, USA
2000
Painting Function: Making It Real, Cleveland, USA
Benefit Exibition, White Columns, New York, USA
Toys, Kagan Martos Gallery, New York, USA
Nature, Kagan Martos Gallery, New York, USA
Working Digitally, Center for Visual Arts and Culture, University of Connecticut, Storrs, USA
1998
Exquisite Corpulence, KX Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
Hey, you never know, curated by Kenny Schachter, New York, USA
Group Show, William Busta Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio, USA
Gallery Artists, Kagan Martos Gallery, New York, USA
1997
Technophobia, CD-ROM produced by Dooley Le Cappelaine, New York, USA
1996
Sign Language, Polo Gallery, Edgewater, New Jersey, USA
Shadows of the Real, E.S. Vandam Gallery, New York, USA
1995
Lost Boundaries, CD-Rom produced by Stroom hcbk, Hague Center for Visual Arts, Holland
Transatlantica, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas
Semaphore: Placing the Mark, curated by Bill Bace, New York, USA
Works for a Fun House, curated by Canning, Ostrow and Muranushi. E.S. Vandam, New York, USA
1994
Sign Language, City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, USA
Group Show, Galeria Alternativa, Caracas
Group Show, Andrea Meza, Coral Gables
1993
Transient Decor, curated by Saul Ostrow and Stuart Horodner, Roger Smith Hotel, New York, USA
Dirty Ornament, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, USA
1992
Ten Steps, Muranushi Lederman and Horodner Romley Gallery, New York, USA
Man Alive, Dooley LeCapellaine, New York, USA
WFMU Music Art Convergence, Germans Van Eck Gallery, New York, USA
Group Show, Dooley LeCapellaine, New York, USA
The Wall Project, Sculpture Center, New York, USA
Benefit Exhibition, White Columns, New York, USA
1991
Exquisite & Sublime, New Jersey Center for Visual Arts, Summit, USA
Inherent Vice, The Center for Photography, Woodstock, New York, USA
July Fourth, Muranushi Lederman, New York, USA
Value, curated by Muranushi, Lederman, Cullen and Mahoney. New York, USA
1990
Group Show, Althea Viafora Gallery, New York, USA
Work on Paper, Paula Allen Gallery, New York, USA
1989
Directors Invitational, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, USA
Erotafobia, Simon Watson Gallery, New York, USA
Positive Show, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, USA
Sculpture, The Gallery, New York, USA
Gallery Artists, Althea Viafora Gallery, New York, USA
Frames of Reference, The Gallery, New York, USA
Update, White Columns, New York, USA
Act Up's Auction For Action, Simon Watson Gallery, New York, USA
1988
Group Exhibition, John Davis Gallery, New York, USA
Directors Invitational, Snug Harbor, Staten Island, USA
Visiting Faculty Show, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA
1987
Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, O.I.A., Staten Island, USA
1986
South Beach III, Organization of Independent Artists, Staten Island, USA
1984
Staff Exhibition, A&A Gallery, Yale School of Art, USA
1983
Four Sculptors, Four Architects. The Norfolk Projects, Norfolk, Connecticut, USA
1979
Malou '79, Brussels, Belgium
Group Show, Oliver Dowling Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Student/Staff, N.C.A.D., Dublin, Ireland
Bibliography
Articles :
2004
Scott Weiland, "Solaris: Eclipsing Memory, Bill Albertini @ Alona Kagan Gallery", NY Arts, 22 May 2004.
2002
Aiden Dunne, "A Voyage to Inner Space", The Irish Times, 20 March 2002 (illus., "20 0: 41 . 39 32")
Medb Ruane, "Wide Angle on Reality", The Sunday Times Culture Supplement, 24 Mar 2002 (Illus., "20 0: 41. 39 32")
2001
Saul Ostrow, "The Real, the Symbolic and the Imagined: Making the Present Presentable", NY Arts, May 2001 (illus., "09 0;52.15 09", 2000, From Set Props to Sculpture (Yellow Glass), 2000, 12 0;55.52 05, 2000) p.20.
Robert Mahoney, "Dissecting Solaris", Time Out, 29 March-5 April, 2001. (illus., "19 0; 31.10 04", 2001).
1999
Scott Weiland, "Virtual2, Bill Albertini and Mariko Mori", NY Arts, June 1999, p. 32.
1993
Joy Fyfe, "They Liked What They Saw at the Rotunda Gallery", The Phoenix, October 1993 (illus., Untitled, 1991).
1991
Susan Tallman, "At Althea Viafora", Art In America, January 1992 (illus., Display, 1991) p. 121.
Dorothy Shinn, "Sculpture Show at Kent State Mocks Postmodernist Aesthetics", The Beacon Journal, 3 November 1991 (illus., Untitled, 1988).
1990
Lawrence Chua, "High Prices Or Not, Today's Art Market Attracts New Collectors", The New York Times, 9 September 1990 (illus., Toaster, 1989) p. 54.
Robert Mahoney, "At Althea Viafora Gallery", Arts Magazine, April 1990 (illus., "Out of Order", 1989) p. 108.
Judd Tully, "Baroque-O-Vision", Cover Magazine, February 1990 (illus., Home Entertainment Center, 1989.) p. 10.
1989
Michael Brenson, " At Althea Viafora Gallery", The New York Times, 5 January 1989 p. C29.
Michael J. Fressola, "Invitational Shows Diversity of Island Art", Staten Island Sunday Advance, 1 4 May 1989. p. E1
Vivian Raynor, "Sculpture Dominates a Show on S.I.", The New York Times, 7 May 1989. p. 26.
Michael J. Fressola, "A 'Very Adventurous' Exhibit Sunday", Staten Island Advance, 21 April 1989.
Michael Brenson, "Positive Show, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York", The New York Times, 24 February 1989.
1988
Michael J. Fressola, "Newhouse: Bulletins from the Front Lines", Staten Island Advance, 12 February 1988. p. C12.
1987
Michael Brenson, "City as Sculpture Garden: Seeing the New and Daring", The New York Times, 17 July 1987. p. C1.
1986
Michael Brenson, "Di Suvero's Dream of a Sculpture Park Grows in Queens", The New York Times, 12 October 1986.
Michael Brenson, "A Bountiful Season in Outdoor Sculpture...", The New York Times, 18 July 1986. p. C1.
Exhibition Catalogs :
2000
Saul Ostrow, "Painting Function: Making It Real", Spaces, Cleveland (illus. Cover, Pole Drop Triptych)
1996
George J. Haas, "Sign Language", Polo Gallery, Edgewater, NJ (illus., Sign Red/Yellow/Blue 1992)
1995
Jacob Karpio, "Transatlantica", Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas (illus., Horodner Romley #1, 1995)
Bill Bace, "Semaphore: Placing the Mark", Art Initiatives, New York (illus., Working Study for Untitled, 1995)
1993
Maya Lin, "Yale Collects Yale. Yale University Art Gallery" (illus., Spin Out #4, 1991)
Robert Mahoney, "Inherent Vice: Old Photos", Center for Photography at Woodstock, (illus., Decal, 1991 Verdun Proposal, 1990)
1991
Robert Mahoney, "Fluid History: Sculpture", Kent State University, (illus., cover, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20,).
Margaret R. Lunn, "Exquisite and Sublime", New Jersey Center for the Arts (illus., Hang Up, 1990)
1989
Bill Arning, "Update 1988-1989", White Columns, New York (illus., Untitled, cover and interior).
John Perreault, "The Staten Island Invitational", Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, New York (illus., Shelved Prop, 1998).
1984
Bill Albertini, "Perspecta 21", The Yale Architectural Journal (illus., Redan III, 1983), p. 72.
1979
Francoise Knops-Mortier, "Malou '79", Brussels (illus., Untitled, 1978), p.160.