Matthew Marks Gallery

Paul Sietsema

  • Born: Los Angeles, 1968



    Education: University of California, Los Angeles, M.F.A., 1999

    University of California, Berkeley, B.A., 1992



    Currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

  • One-Person Exhibitions

    2024

    Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles

    2023

    Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

    2022

    Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris

    2020

    Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles

    2018

    Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

    2016

    Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles

    2015

    Project Room
    , Nouveau Musée Nacional de Monaco

    2014

    Films and Works
    , Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (catalogue)
    Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
    At the hour of tea, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

    2013

    Mercer Union: A Centre for Contemporary Art, Toronto (brochure)
    Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH. Traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (catalogue)

    2012

    Kunsthalle Basel (catalogue)
    The Sentence, Tulips & Roses, Brussels
    The Drawing Room, London (brochure)

    2011

    Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

    2010


    Anticultural Positions
    , Schinkel Pavilion, Berlin
    Anticultural Positions, Midway Contemporary Art in collaboration with Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
    Cubitt Gallery and Studios, London


    2009 


    Figure 3
    , The Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue)
    Figure 3, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid



    2008 


    New Work
    , San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (brochure)

    Three films, de Appel Foundation, Amsterdam

    2003


    Empire
    , Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)



    2002 


    Empire
    , Regen Projects, Los Angeles 



    1998 


    Brent Petersen Gallery, Los Angeles

  • Selected Group Exhibitions

    2024

    A String of Tongueless Bells, Francis Irv, New York

    2022

    The Purloined Masterpiece. Images as Time Machines, Akademie der bildenden Künste, Vienna (catalogue)

    2021

    Leidy Churchman, Alex Da Corte, Michel Majerus, Meret Oppenheim, Martin Puryear, Paul Sietsema, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

    2020

    Drawing 2020, Gladstone Gallery, New York(catalogue)

    2019

    16th Istanbul Biennial: The Seventh Continent – II, MSFAU Istanbul Museum of Painting and Sculpture
    One hundred drawings, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)

    2017

    Strange Days
    , Frac île-de-France/Le Plateau, Paris
    Unpacking: The Marciano Collection, The Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles
    The Times, The Flag Art Foundation, New York
    Fleming Faloon, Office Baroque, Brussels
    Neither, Mendes Wood DM, Brussels

    2016

    A Slow Succession with Many Interruptions
    , San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
    From Minimalism into Algorithm, The Kitchen, New York
    Pavlova’s Dawg and Other Works by Gallery Artists, Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles
    Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
    Question the Wall Itself, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (catalogue)
    Up, Down, Top, Bottom, Strange and Charm, Art Sheffield 2016, United Kingdom

    2015

    The Biography of Things
    , Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Victoria
    Drawing | The Bottom Line, S.M.A.K. Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent, Belgium
    The Noing Uv It, Bergen Kunsthall, Norway
    Drawing Now, The Albertina, Vienna
    The Parliament of Things, firstsite, Colchester, United Kingdom
    Geometries On and Off the Grid: Art from 1950 to the Present, The Warehouse, Dallas

    2014

    Nuit Américaine
    , Office Baroque, Brussels
    Allegory of the Cave Painting, Extra City Kunsthal and Braem Pavilion, Middelheim Museum, Antwerp

    2013

    Endless Bummer II/ Still Bummin’,
    Marlborough Gallery, New York
    A preface, Frac Ile-de-France/Le Plateau, Paris
    AT WORK: Studio and Production as a Subject of Today’s Art, Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Germany

    2012

    Nounou: Cage aux lions
    , Galerie de l’ERG, Brussels
    Lifelike, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Traveled to New Orleans Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla; Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin; and Phoenix Museum of Art
    Il Regalo, Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles
    Darren Almond, Katharina Fritsch, Martin Honert, Gary Hume, Paul Sietsema, Rebecca Warren, Terry Winters, Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles
    The Shock of the News, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

    2011


    All of This and Nothing
    , Hammer Museum, Los Angeles(catalogue)
    Exhibition of Distances, Tulips and Roses, Brussels
    Drawn from Photography, The Drawing Center, New York (catalogue)
    Alberto Martini - Paul Sietsema, Kaleidoscope Project Space, Milan

    2010


    Rethinking Location: Anytime, Anywhere, Everything
    , Sprüth Magers, Berlin

    The Page, Kimmerich, New York

    Barry Macgregor Johnston, Paul Sietsema, Erika Vogt, Galerie Micky Schubert, Berlin

    Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

    A Selection of Works from MOCA’s Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

    Hauntology, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley
    Following A Line, Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver

    Image by Image: Film and Contemporary Art from the Collection of the Centre Pompidou, Museum Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany

    The Artist’s Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
    NOVEL, dépendance, Brussels
    The More Things Change, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
    Held up by Columns, Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC

    2009

    Chinese Box
    , Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles

    Against Interpretation, Studio Voltaire, London

    3 Artists Selected by Dan Graham and a work by Dan Graham, 303 Gallery, New York

    Collection: MOCA’s First Thirty Years, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
    Second Nature: The Valentine-Adelson Collection at the Hammer Museum, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

    2008


    When a clock is seen from the side it no longer tells the time
    , Johann König, Berlin

    Progress, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

    Life on Mars: 55th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (catalogue)
    Inside Architecture: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art at the Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles(catalogue)

    When things cast no shadow: 5th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, Berlin (catalogue)
    Index: Conceptualism in California from the Permanent Collection, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
    When It’s a Photograph, Bolsky Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles

    2007


    Fit to Print: Printed Media in Recent Collage
    , Gagosian Gallery, New York

    Fast Forward: Contemporary Collections for the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Art
    Uneasy Angel / Imagine Los Angeles, Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers and Sprüth Magers Projekte, Munich

    L.A. Desire (Part 2), dedicated to the memory of Brent Petersen (1972–2007), Galerie Dennis Kimmerich, Düsseldorf

    From Close to Home: Recent Acquisitions of Los Angeles Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

    Exit Music (For a Film), Grimm/Rosenfeld, Munich (catalogue)
    USA: American Video Art at the Beginning of the 3rd Millennium, Second Moscow Biennale, Moscow (catalogue)
    Live/Work: Performance into Drawing, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
    Radio Daniele, broadcast by Citta del Capo Radio Metropolitana in collaboration with Museo d’Arte Moderna di Bologna, Italy

    2006

    Uncanny Nature
    , Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Victoria, Australia (catalogue)
    Le Mouvement des Images, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (catalogue)
    Advancing Specifically to Get Lost, World Class Boxing, Miami

    2005


    Recent Acquisitions
    , Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

    Ecstasy: In and About Altered States, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (catalogue)

    Uncertain States of America,Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo. Traveled to Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY; Serpentine Gallery, London; Reykjavik Art Museum, Iceland; HEART Herning Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark; Centre for Contemporary Art, Warsaw; Le Musée de Sérignan, France; Galerie Rundolfinum, Prague; and Songzhuang Art Centre, Beijing (catalogue)

    La Séance du Dimanche, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris

    Hyperfocal – Five from L.A., Galerie Nelson, Paris (catalogue)

    A Certain Tendency in Representation – Cineclub, Thomas Dane, London



    2004

    Group Show
    , Regen Projects, Los Angeles

    Real World: The Dissolving Space of Experience, Modern Art Oxford, United Kingdom (catalogue)

    2003 


    Inaugural Exhibition
    , Regen Projects, Los Angeles

    Celebrating Sculpture: Modern and Contemporary Works from Dallas Collections, Dallas Museum of Art

    Shadow and Light, Sprüth Magers Lee, Salzburg



    2002

    Play it as it Lays
    , London Institute Gallery



    2001

    T
    he Americans: New Art, Barbican Art Galleries, London (catalogue)
    Sonsbeek 9: Locus/Focus, Arnhem, Netherlands (catalogue)
    Drawings, Regen Projects, Los Angeles

    Bright Paradise: Exotic History and Sublime Artifice / The 1st Auckland Triennial, The University of Auckland Art Gallery (catalogue)



    2000

    00: Drawings 2000
    , Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York (catalogue)

    L.A., Sprüth Magers, Cologne. Traveled to Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Center, Athens

    Mise en Scene: New Los Angeles Sculpture,Santa Monica Museum of Art, CA. Traveled to CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco (catalogue)



    1999

    Los Angeles
    , Philomene Magers Projekte and Sabine Knust Galerie, Munich
The Perfect Life: Artifice in L.A., Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC (catalogue)



    1998


    Local Heroes
    , Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA
    Transfiction I / Transfiction II, Charim Klocker Gallery, Vienna

  • Honors and Awards

    2010

    Wexner Center Residency Award, Columbus, OH

    2008

    DAAD Fellowship, Berlin

    2005

    Guggenheim Fellowship, New York

    2002

    Foundation for Contemporary Arts Award for Visual Arts, New York