Biography - Galerie Francesca Pia

1971	born in Nashville, Tennessee, USA
2005 2002	University of Memphis, MFA University of Memphis, BFA

Lives and works in New York

Solo Exhibitions (selection)

2025	White Cube Mason’s Yard, London
2024	Bortolami, New York
2023	Landcraft Garden Foundation, Mattituck, curated by Ugo Rondinone, New York
2022	Frist Art Museum, Saved, Nashville Goldsmiths CCA, Animal Magnetism, London The Mill, Lismore Castle Arts, Ireland
2020	White Cube, Alone in the Wilderness, Hong Kong
2019	Francesca Pia, Fresh Hot Pizza, Zurich Bortolami, Água Viva, New York
2018	Don River Valley Park, Toronto Secret Space, Biel Socrates Sculpture Park/Don River Valley Park Built, New York/Toronto Martha and Robert Fogelman Galleries of Contemporary Art at the University of Memphis, Memphis
2017	Westfälischer Kunstverein Jahresgaben, Munster Germany Museum of Contemporary Art, Why?! Why Did You Take My Log?!?!, Tucson 500 Capp Street, The Disagreeable Object, San Francisco
2016	Art Basel (Parcours), Untitled (HILUX), Basel White Cube Bermondsey, London Whitney Museum of American Art, Sculpture Gardens, New York The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield
2015	Freymond-Guth (with Heidi Bucher), Zurich White Cube, London
2014	Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Flat Rock, Miami
2013	Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster Kunsthalle Bern, Bern Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York
2012	The Kitchen, New York The Power Station, Deluxe, Dallas
2011	Freymond-Guth, Zurich
2010	N.O. Gallery, Untitled (Milano), Milan Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville Dispatch, True Grit, New York
2008	White Box, Moving on South, curated by Dana Orland, New York Artlab at AMUM, This Is Not A Ladder, Memphis
2007	Powerhouse, Skytracker, Memphis

Group Exhibitions (selection)

2024	Loggia dei Vini, Villa Borghese, Lavinia, Primo gusto arancia e erba cedrina, Rome Artists Garden, Temple Tube Station, Mary Mary, London Bortolami, June 21, New York
2023	The Ranch, Drunk vs Stoned, New York Office Baroque, Basic Fit, Antwerp Bortolami, Junkyard of Dreams, New York White Cube, Daren Almond, Isamu Noguchi, Virginia Overton, West Palm Beach
2022	La Biennale di Venezia, 59th International Art Exhibition, The Milk of Dreams, curated by Cecilia Alemani, Venice Arley Hall and Gardens, White Cube at Arley Hall and Gardens, Cheshire White Cube, City, West Palm Beach Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit
2021	The Ranch, Camp Hero: Frank Benson, Aaron Curry, Virginia Overton, Marianne Vitale, Montauk The Line, London The Upstairs Bortolame Gallery, Richard Aldrich, Ei Arakawa, Virginia Overton, New York The Kitchen, Ice and Fire: A Benefit Exhibition in Three Parts, New York Galerie Nordenhake, Reassembly, Wisconsin Sculpture Milwaukee, Milwaukee
2020	The Kitchen, Ice and Fire: A Benefit Exhibition in Three Parts, New York Whitney Museum of American Art, Nothing is so humble: Prints from everyday objects, New York Hayward Gallery, Among the Trees, London Kanal Centre Pompidou, It Never Ends, curated by John Armleder, Brussels Goldsmiths CCA, Transparent Things, London Borch, Marina Adams, Mamma Andersson, Virginia Overton, Berlin Goldsmiths CCA, Transparent Things, London
2019	MAMCO, Ecart at Art Basel, Geneva Gio Marconi, I campi magnetici, Milan Peter Freeman, Downtown Painting, New York
2018	Galerie Francesca Pia, Lampen, Zurich Office Baroque, Above The Treeline, Brussels White Cube, Remembering Tomorrow: Artworks and Archives, Hong Kong White Cube Bermondsey, Memory Palace, London Emalin Gallery, a window, a floor, credit cards, a bench, London Beeler Gallery at the Columbus College of Art & Design, Season Zero: How well do you behave? IN THE FLAT FIELD., Columbus Bernal Espacio Gallery, Balance: Gravity in Contemporary Art, Madrid
2017	Boom Boom Room, EUCALYPT US, Brooklyn Westfälischer Kunstverein, Jahresgaben, Münster BORCHs Butik, Everberg, Overton, Saunders, Taylor, Whitney, Zurier, Copenhagen Maisterravalbuena, N. Dash \| Virginia Overton \| B. Wurtz (form, content, place), Lisbon Spencer Brownstone Gallery, 1107 Manhattan Ave Pt.II., curated by Olivier Mosset, New York Apples, Alley Show, organized by Israel Lund and Sam Korman, Brooklyn Freymond-Guth, Reflections on the Surface, Basel Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, 99 Cents or Less, curated by Jens Hoffman, Detroit Lever House, MIDTOWN, organized by Maccarone, Salon 94 Design, and Salon 94, New York Moran Bondaroff, Where the Sidewalk Ends, Los Angeles Galerie Francesca Pia, L’image, curated by Vincent Romagny, Zurich Shulamit Nazarian Gallery, Escape Attempts, curated by Kathy Battista, Los Angeles Border Patrol, Now Burning, Portland
2016	Bortolami, Michael François, Liz Larner, Tony Lewis, Virginia Overton, Morgan Fisher: Screening Room, New York Koppe and Astner, These Are Flat Things and Things Which are Not Flat, curated by Katarina Burin, Glasgow Freymond-Guth, Basel Galerie Patrick Seguin, Pièces-Meublés, curated by Bob Nickas, Paris Freymond-Guth/Harlem, Touching Surface, Touching Ground, New York Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Descent, curated by Charlotte Ickes, Philadelphia Freymond-Guth, Decade, Zurich Kai Matsumiya Gallery, Redeux (Sort of), organized by Foundation Barbin and Lucky DeBellevue, New York
2015	Jewish Historical Museum, Excavating The Contemporary, curated by Renee Bloch and Sara Tas, Amsterdam Galerie Frank Elbaz, Lost in the Flood, Paris APPLES, Fence Show, organized by Israel Lund and Sam Korman, Brooklyn Freymond-Guth, Virginia Overton / Heidi Bucher, Zurich Palais–Galerie, Primo, Neuchâtel Rothman’s Gallery, MOMMA with Servane Mary, Virginia Overton, John Miller & Richard Hoec, Olivier Mosset, and Michael Auder (text by Bob Nickas), Southold Laleh June Galerie, By Olivier Mosset, Basel Salon 94, American Idle, organized by Lydia Kutko, New York Marlborough Broome Street, Marlborough Lights, curated by Leo Fitzpatrick, New York Sikkema Jenkins & Co., Over & Under, organized with the cooperation of Matt Keegan, New York 138 Eldridge Street, OMM: Overton/Mary/Mosset, New York Capital Gallery, Touch the Spindle, San Francisco Triple V, Mary/Miller/Mosset/Overton, Paris
2014	Invisible-Exports, and Samson Projects, Great Expectations: A Group Exhibition in the Home of Nina Johnson-Milewski and Daniel Milewski, organized by Gallery Diet with the Box, Miami Freymond-Guth, Monumental Fatigue, Zurich Office Baroque at former Entrepots Gérard Koninckx frères, Nuit Américaine, Brussels Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Days Inn, curated by Justine Kurlan, New York Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Visiting Faculty 2014–15, Cambridge Cave, Video Works by Sarah Dornner, GOD, Sarah Magenheimer, Virginia Overton, Jacolby Satterwhite and Matthew Schlanger, selected by Bridget Finn and Erin Somerville, Detroit Roberts & Tilton, Infinitude, Culver City Max Wigram Gallery, Ice Fishing, curated by Darren Flook, London A Palazzo Gallery, Servane Mary / Virginia Overton / Olivier Mosset, Brescia Habersham Mills, Roving Room, curated by Kelly Kaczynski and Cori Williams, Demorest Freymond-Guth, Le Salon Particulier, Zurich VI, VII, Like a Virgin, Oslo Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Work Order, Change Order, curated by Daniel Lefcourt, New York
2013	Bill Brady / KC, Israel Lund, Virginia Overton, Steinman and Tear, Kansas City Venus Over Manhattan, Piston Head, Miami Cookie Butcher, Ground Control to Major Tom: Works from the Verhaegen Family Collection, Antwerp Disjecta Contemporary Art Center, subject, answer, countersubject, curated by Summer Guthery, Portland Contemporary Art Museum, Place is the Space, curated by Brad Cloepfil and Dominic Molon, St. Louis Martos Gallery, LAT. 41° 7' N., LONG. 72° 19' W., organized by Bob Nickas, East Marion Richard Telles Fine Art, Illuminations, curated by Matthew Higgs, Los Angeles Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Transforming the Known: Works from the Bert Kreuk Collection, The Hague Institut curatorial de la Head, Electric Fields, Geneva L&M Arts, Neo Povera, Los Angeles Ausstellungsraum Klingental, within the horizon of the object, curated by Samuel Leuenberger, Basel Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Rien faire et laisser rire, organized by Bob Nickas, Brussels Cafe Dancer, Salon for Contemporary Dancing, organized by Sam Gordon, New York apexart:Memphis, Memphis Social, organized by Tom McGlynn, Memphis Palazzo delle Esposizioni/ Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Empire State, curated by Alex Gartenfeld and Norman Rosenthal, Rome/ Paris Museum of Arts and Design, E.S.P. TV Live Taping: Public Service Announcement, New York Carriage Trade, The Pathos of Things, New York Freymond–Guth, Nicola Martini, Virginia Overton, Magali Reus: Heavy duty, silent haze, racing hearts, Zurich Brand New Gallery, Beyond the Object, Milan
2012	Angstrom Gallery, Matterdaddy, curated by Israel Lund and John Roebas, Dallas Whitney Museum, Emergency Cheesecake, curated by Wade Guyton and Jay Sanders, New York Carl Freedman Gallery, Plenitude, curated by Stephan Tanbin Sastrawid, London Venus Over Manhattan, Bulletin Boards, New York Martos Gallery, Creature from the Blue Lagoon, curated by Bob Nickas, Bridgehampton Office Baroque, Henry Codax, Virginia Overton, Kyle Thurman, Antwerp James Cohan Gallery, Abstract Everyday–Everyday Abstract, curated by Matthew Higgs, New York Freymond-Guth, Physical! Physical!, Zurich Hard Hat, Different Strokes, Geneva Praz-Delavallade, Shake and Bake, curated by Hard Hat, Paris
2011	Freymond-Guth, The Secret Garden, Zurich Air de Paris, Florbelle (after Sade), curated by Vincent Romagny, Paris, Gavlak, Sentimental Education, Palm Beach Spencer Brownstone, 1107 Manhattan Avenue, New York Wassaic Project, The Finishers, curated by Eric Gleason and Ethan Greenbaum, Wassaic Blum and Poe, GLEE, curated by Cecilia Alemani, Los Angeles Martos Gallery, The 2011 Bridgehampton Biennial, curated by Bob Nickas, Bridgehampton Laurel Gitlen, Broken Umbrellas, curated by Christopher Aque, New York fordProject, Summer Affair, curated by Tim Goossens, New York IMO, I don't know if it makes any sense – I feel quite dizzy and a little drunk due to the blow. I will return with more info shortly..., curated by Howie Chen & Tim Saltarelli, Copenhagen Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Against the Way Things Go, New York Nicelle Beauchene Gallery, Indeterminate Activity, New York The Wrong Again Gallery, Road to Nowhere, a collaborative effort between Virginia Overton and Aaron Suggs, Memphis White Flag Projects, Impossible Vacation, St. Louis
2010	Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Jacob Kassay, Robert Morris, Virginia Overton, New York White Columns, Looking Back / The Fifth White Columns Annual, organized by Bob Nickas, New York N.O. Gallery, Multipli D'Artista, Milan SUArt Galleries, Run and Tell That! New Work from New York, Syracuse University, Syracuse Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, The Artist as Collector: Olivier Mosset, Tuscon Galerie Chantal Crousel, The Rule of the Game, Paris Elizabeth Dee Gallery, Today I Made Nothing, curated by Tim Saltarelli, New York Marlborough Gallery, Grass Grows By Itself, curated by Sima Familant, New York Martos Gallery, Wait for Me at the Bottom of the Pool, curated by Bob Nickas, Bridgehampton MoMA PS1, the backroom, organized by Kate Fowle, Long Island City MoMA PS1, Greater New York, Long Island City Windows at Saks 5th Avenue, New York Burning Bridges, Be Yourself, New York Michel Allen Projects, From the Mississippi to the Hudson, New York Foundation Barbin, Media Int'l Group, organized by Lucky DeBellevue, New York Le Magasin-CNAC, Portrait de l’artiste en motocycliste, Grenoble Friedrich Petzel Gallery, The Audio Show, organized by Seth Kelly, New York SculptureCenter, In Practice, Long Island City
2007	Greene Naftali Gallery, String Show, curated by Josh Smith, New York
2006	Marshall Arts and Powerhouse, VA4398UV, curated by Virginia Overton, Memphis
2005	Art Museum of the University of Memphis, MAX 2005: The Inner Voice of Art, curated by David Moos, Memphis MFA Thesis Show, Art Museum of the University of Memphis, Memphis

Commissions and Public Works

2024	Domino Sugar Refinery, Untitled (reverse virgule), commission by Two Trees, New York
2023	Hypermaremma, Virginia Overton TULIP, Polveriera Guzman, Orbetello
2022	La Guardia Airport, Delta Terminal, New York
2021	Foreland, Untitled (Cardinal C-80), Catskill
2018	Frieze Sculpture, Regents Park, London FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art: An American City, Eleven Cultural Exercises, curated by Michelle Grabner and Lisa Kurzner, University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center
2016	Art Basel, Parcours, Untitled (HILUX), curated by Samuel Leuenberger, Basel
2015	ALL RISE, Seattle
2014	High Line Art, Pier 54, curated by Cecilia Alemani, New York Storm King Art Center, Outlooks: Virginia Overton, Mountainville
2013	Art Production Fund, Pop-Up 1: Montauk, Montauk
2012	Ile Seguin, R4 in association with FIAC, Untitled, Paris commission for High Line Art, Untitled, New York Frieze Projects, Untitled (Mirrors for Randall’s Island), curated by Cecilia Alemani, Randall’s Island
2011	ReMap 3, Freymond-Guth Fine Arts presents: Marc Bauer, Loredana Sperini & Tanja Roscic, Virginia Overton, Yorgos Sapountzis, Athens
2006	Brooks Museum of Art, Off the Grid, Memphis

Special Projects

2018	Virginia Overton for Kunsthalle Bern Special Edition, 100 Years Kunsthalle Bern
2017	VO for WKV, Westfälischer Kunstverein Jahresgaben, Münster Amy O’Neill – Virginia Overton, MAY68 at Martos Gallery, New York Print Residency at Niels Borch Jensen Editions, Copenhagen Visiting Artist Series in conjunction with The Disagreeable Object, co-curated by Bob Linder and Diego Villalobos, The David Ireland House at 500 Capp Street, San Francisco
2016	Servane Mary: Pop Up Postcard Project, produced by Shoot the Lobster, NY, White Columns at Printed Matter NY Art Book Fair, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, Ny Servane Mary and Aura Rosenberg: The Pop-Up Postcard Project, JOAN, Los Angeles, CA Tribeca Film Festival Artists Award Program, curated by Alex Gartenfeld, Tribeca Film Festival Hub, 50 Varick Street, New York The Pop-Up Postcard Project, organized by Servane Mary and Michel Auder, Cleopatra’s, Brooklyn, NY
2014	Independent Projects, Center548, New York Another, Once Again, Many Times More, organized by Walead Beshty and Kelley Walker, Carol Bove, Bob Nickas and Virginia Overton, and Ryan Foerster, Martos Gallery, East Marion, NY
2013	A Film to be Determined by Virginia Overton, White Flag Projects, St. Louis Street Trash, organized by James Campbell, Motoko Fukuyama, Virginia Overton, and Aaron Suggs, Memphis Change of State, organized by Nuit Blanche New York, a site-specific projection commissioned for the façade of the New Museum, New York
2011	Street Trash, organized by James Campbell, Sadie Laska, and Virginia Overton, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY Zabludowicz Collection Artist Residency, Sarvisalo, Finland Top 100 vol. 5 by Davide Bertocchi
2010	Ecart, organized by John Armleder and Mai-Thu Perret, Basel 41, Basel

Panels, Talks, Lectures

2018	Public Art in the City, FRONT International, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland Whitney Talks: Virginia Overton and Jane Panetta, Halsey McKay Gallery, East Hampton Virginia Overton and Jocko Weyland in Conversation, University of Memphis
2017	Artist Talk With Virginia Overton, Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson
2016	An Evening with Virginia Overton: Contemporary Forum Lecture Series, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix
2015	99 Objects: Virginia Overton on The Whitney’s Building by Renzo Piano, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York ECAL Lectures: Virginia Overton & Wade Guyton, Ecole cantonale d’art de Lausanne, Renens Bellwether Series Artist Talk, organized by the Cleveland Art Museum, Happy Dog at the Euclid Tavern, Cleveland
2013	Conversation XXII: Virginia Overton in conversation with Tenzing Barshee, Le Foyer, Zurich
2012	SC Conversations: Unidentified Influences with artists Rachel Foullon, Virginia Overton, Kilian Ruthemann and moderated by Ruba Katrib, Curator, SculptureCenter, Long Island City

Collections

The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Kunstmuseum Bern
Kunsthaus Zürich
Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson
The San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio
University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center, Cleveland