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Brian Oconnell
"Sergeant C.M. Battleship of Sydney, Australia, leader of a RAF (Royal Air Force) attack which destroyed six Junker 52s and damaged others at the El Aden airdrome, examining some of the telephone wire which was draped from the oil coolers, wireless masts, tail, and rudder if his plane when he returned to the base. Flying low over the road, he cracked through enemy telephone wires." silver plated copper wire, dims. variable and color photogram 30 x 40 in.
BORN 1972, LEUVEN, BELGIUM.
LIVES AND WORKS IN NEW YORK.

EDUCATION:
2002
Masters of Fine Arts, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA.

1996
Fulbright Scholarship, Institute for Media Studies, University of Siegen, Germany.

1995
Bachelor of Arts, German Studies, Columbia University, New York.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS:

2008
Forms in the Realm of Time, Laure Genillard, London

2007
House Beautiful, Adamski-Berlin, Berlin, Germany

2005
Flashbulbs: The Central Library Project, Central Library, Leuven, Belgium.
Mourning, High Quality, Bad Luck, Adamski Gallery, Aachen, Germany.

2003
To My Child-Friend, Adamski Gallery, Aachen, Germany.

2002
Here Between There, Adamski Gallery, Aachen, Germany.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS:

2008
Standard Sizes, Andrew Kreps, New York, curated by Joao Ribas

2007
Presque Rien 1 (Next To Nothing), Laure Genillard, London, UK

A for Alibi, De Appel, Amsterdam, NL

Nomadic Furniture, Vox Populi, Philadelphia, PA

2006
Prologue, Adamski at The Rental Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Ideal City, Invisible Cities, Potsdam, Germany

Wilder, Eames, Essenwin and Leeds,Inaugural
commission for Schürmann Berlin, Berlin, Germany

Ideal City, Invisible Cities, Zamosc, Poland

Back and Forth, 29th Duisburger Akzente, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany.

A is for Alibi, Uqbar Foundation, University Museum Utrecht, Utrecht, NL

2005
Menschensgladbach, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany

Never Odd or Even: Marres Center for Contemporary Art, Maastricht, NL.

2004
Book as Object and Performance, Gigantic Art Space, New York, NY.

Summer Camp, Adamski Gallery, Aachen, Germany.

Mengenbüro, The Changing Room, Stirling, Scotland,UK.

2003
Good Words and Credentials, Columbia University, New York, NY.

Gibt’s mich wirklich, K21, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfallen, Düsseldorf, Germany.

Float, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York, NY.

Drawing Show, Adamski Gallery, Aachen, Germany.

Drive into the Sunset, Western Front Society Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada.

2002

Making, LACMALab, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA.

Messy Fingers, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.

TONIGHT, Schnittraum, Cologne, Germany.

BIBLIOGRAPHY:
2008
Hey Hey Glossolalia, Creative Time, New York

Art and Research, Glasgow School of Art,(vol. 3) www.artandresearch.org.uk (forthcoming)

2007
A for Alibi, Uqbar Foundation, Sternberg Press, Berlin/New York

Art and Research, Glasgow School of Art, (vol. 1 and 2): artandresearch.org.uk

2006
Ideal City, Invisible Cities, European Art Projects, Potsdam, Germany

Back and Forth, Westdeutsche Zeitung insert, Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg Germany

2005
Flashbulbs, The Central Library Project, The University Library of the KUL, Leuven Belgium.

2003
Gibt’s mich wirklich, Vier Räume aus der Sammlung Schürmann, K21, Kunstsammlung
Nordrhein-Westfallen, Düsseldorf, Germany.