Education:

2003-2005

Slade School of Art - MFA Painting - London, UK

1998-2003

Pratt Institute - BFA, Film - Brooklyn, NY

Solo shows:

2016

Vernissage, Overcoat Gallery, Moscow, Russia

2015

Damaged Goods, Cuadro Gallery, Dubai, UAE
Souvenirs, Ruttkowski;68, Cologne, Germany

2014

Sculptures, Leftovers and Documentation, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin, Germany
Inside Out - Upside Down, NUN, Berlin,Germany

2013

The Spat Upon, SIC Space, Helsinki, Finland
The Floor, the Table and the Wall, Kulturzentrum Marstall am Schloss Ahrensburg, Germany

2011

Shallow, Kunstverein Bucholz, Germany
We Are Begining, Cuadro - Dubai, UAE

2010

I Forget What I Wanted To Say, Die Ausstellungsstrasse, Vienna, Austria

2009

Broken Horizon, Reinking Projekte, Hamburg, Germany
An Honest Thief, Stolenspace, London, England

Group shows:

2016

Essentials, , Haus der Kunst Munich, Germany
Planet B, at NRW Forum, Duesseldorf, Germany
UM Festival for Contemporary Art, Uckermark, Germany
The Thaw, , CCI Fabric, Moscow, Russia
Artmossphere, Manege, Moscow, Russia
Wertical I, Michael Horbach Foundation, Cologne, Germany
Life O' Banner, Fundacja Nośna, Kraków, Poland
Crossing Borders/ Crossing Boundaries, SAM, St. Petersburg, Russia
The Impossibility of Being, WUK, Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna, Austria
Venturing Beyond , Somerset House, London, UK.
Einschmiegen III, Galerija EPEKA, Maribor, Slovenija
2te 11te, Interventionale , Haus am Lützowplatz, Ausstellungsraum der IG Metall, Berlin, Germany
Sweat Shop, Schau Fenster, Berlin, Germany

2015

Einschmiegen III, Kunsthalle Graz, Graz, Austria
Catastrofe, Studio Cromie, Grottaglie, Italy
Einschmiegen III, Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna, Austria
Tsekh, Smena, Kazan, Russia
Icastica,, Piazza Grande, Arezzo, Italy
Canal Street, Kulturprojekte Littmann, Basel, Switzerland
Chasing Max Mustermann, Universal Museum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
Kongress der Möglichkeiten, Kunstraum Kreuzberg Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
The Artist As Curator’s Art vol.V. Shau Fenster, Berlin, Germany
Einschmiegen III, Galerija EPEKA, Maribor, Slovenija
Konkrete Utopien , Realismus Club, Berlin, Germany
Mapping The City, Somerset House, London, UK

2014

Market Ready- Untitled, Schau Fenster, Berlin, Germany
CASTLE DIS-PLAY, Städtische Galerie Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
Kiasma Hits, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
Show Me (Your Idols), Kreuzberg Pavillon, Berlin, Germany
Casus Pacis,(Manifesta 10 Parallel Exhibition), Street Art Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Video Shrines, Artbox, Melbourne, Australia
Dry Tide - Enact Fluidity, LE6B, Paris, France

2013

Brutal, Lazarides Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Galeria Autonomica, Münchner Stadtmuseum, Munich, Germany
Akce Z, Trafačka Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
What is Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Roskilde, Denmark
Petites Résistances, Weltkunstzimmer, Düsseldorf, Germany
Small Gestures, MU / Strijp-S, Eindhoven, Netherlands
POESIA, Staedtische Galerie, Delmenhorst, Germany

2012

Bios, Concepts Of Life in Contemporary Sculpture, Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin, Germany
The Samawi Collection II, Ayyam Art Center, Dubai, UAE
reKOLLECT, Kunstraum Kreuzberg Bethanien - Berlin, Germany
Street Smart, Kulturehuset, Stockholm, Sweden
Stuck On The City, Galerie hlavního města Prahy, Prague, Czech Republic

2011

Bits + Pieces, Artitude Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
Farbe Im Fluss, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Weserburg, Germany
Kunstkorperlich - Korperkunslich 3, Bodies, Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche, Osnabruck, Germany
Walk This Way, KOES, Museum Of Art In The Public Space - Koege, Denmark
Do Not Think, Awangarda Gallery at BWA, Wroclaw-Breslau, Poland
Meanwhile In Deepest East Anglia Thunderbirds Were Go, Von Der Heyt Museum - Wuppertal, Germany
Wilde Zeichen, Kunsthalle Krems Forum Frohner - Krems, Austria
City Mechanisms, The 30 Gallery - Prague, Czech Republic
What is Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Roskilde, Denmark
I Don't Need Your Money Honey All I Need Is Love, Traffic Gallery, Dubai, UAE

2010

Hacking the City, Museum Folkwang,- Essen, Germany
Street as Studio, Kunsthalle Wien - Vienna, Austria
Sub-Glob 2, Örebro - Konsthall, Örebro, Sweden
Gestures, Museum of Contemporary Art Roskilde, Denmark
Newpaper Research & Reading Room, Christophe Daviet-Thery, Paris, France

2009

Backjumps volume 4 #1, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien – Berlin, Germany
Black River Festival, Vienna, Austria
Nuart- Stavanger, Norway
Urban Art, Museum for Moderne Kunst, Weserburg, Germany

2008

Call It What You Like, Kunstcentret Silkeborg Bad, Denmark
Fresh Air Smells Funny, Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche, Osnabruck, Germany

2007

It’s the Thought That Counts, Backjumps Volume 3, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Adaptation, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen, Scotland

2006

Anti Climb Fence, Seven Seven gallery, London, England

2005

Our Work Makes Us Free, Backjumps volume 2, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Fresh Milk, Milk Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2004

Santa's Ghetto, Laz, Inc., London, England

2003

The Beauty is the Act, Urban art info, Backumps volume 1, Berlin, Germany

Public Projects (Commissioned):

2013

Fountain, Kunstverein Lendhauer, Klagenfurt, Austria

2012

Portrait of My Father, Flux Projects, Atlanta, USA
Bike Nettelbeckplatz, Wedding Walls, Berlin, Germany

2010

Operation Beton, KUNSTHALLE Wien, Vienna, Austria
General 21 the Star Destroyer, (in collaboration with Erik Tidemann), Storaas Festival - Sroraas, Norway
The Beginning and the End, Dockville Festival, Hamburg, Germany

2009

I'm Lovin It, ARTotale, Lephana University, Urban Art Project, Luneburg, Germany
The Bi-Product of The Process, (in collaboration with Erik Tidemann), Storaas Festival, Storaas, Norway
The Sleeping Policeman, Art-Boom Festival, Krakow, Poland

2008

Bench Marks, Rubbish, and Apple Tree, Names Fest, Prague, Czech Republic

2007

Long Weight, Ashford O Temporary Artworks for the Tour de France and received a SEEDA Arts Plus award, Ashford, England
Ladder Stick Up, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen, Scotland

2006

3 Site Specific Works, Conjunction, London, Birmingham, Stoke on Trent, England
A Rose With A Thorn In Its Side, Rottenrow Workshop and Dragon Bar, London England

2005

The Rules Of Space, (ICA) Institute of Contemporary Art London, London, England

2004

American Paranoia, (in collaboration with Tahu Deans), Lummus Park, Miami, Florida

Awards/ Grants/ Residencies:

2013

Kulturstiftung Stormarn

2011

10th Internationaler Syrlin-Kunstpreis
Oxylane Foundation - Artist in Residence - Berlin Germany

2010

Museum Quartier 21 - Artist in Residence and Stipendium - Vienna Austria

2008

Goethe Institute- Amsterdam - project production grant/ Residency

2007

SEEDA Arts Plus award - project production grant/ Residency

2006

Anita Shapolsky Foundation - project development award/ Residency

2002

Toy Shop Collective - Evolutionare Zellen award from Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst - Berlin, Germany, Grant
School of Visual Art - Post Production Grant

Selected Lectures/ Teaching Experience/ Workshops:

2013

Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art Helsinki, Finland

2011

Turner Broadcasting Station, Atlanta GA, USA
Weissensee Kunsthochschule - Spatial Strategies Teacher and Lecturer, Berlin, Germany

2010

Akademie der bildenden Kunste Wien- Lecture - Vienna, Austria
Screening Battle- Pixel Gallery- lecture- Copenhagen, Denmark

2009

OFFSET-2 week workshop - Machester, England
Ecole Nationale Supérieure D´art De Bourges, -workshop- Bourges, France

2008

Play With The City, Tate Modern - Lecture - London, UK

2007

Taking A Block For A Walk Around The Block., Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien – lecture, performance – Berlin, Germany
Kunstakademiet/ Oslo – lecture – Oslo, Norway

2006

Invisible Monuments, Pratt institute – lecture - Brooklyn, NY

2005

Borderlines Film Festival – Lecture/slide show – Hereford, England

2004

Not For Human Consumption – slide show, lecture, Canterbury, England
Ill Communication 2 – Urbis – slide show, lecture, performance -Manchester, England
Institute Contemporary Art London - Branding the street - lecture- London
Cube - Street Logos –lecture- Bristol, England

2003

Doku und Gesprache, Eiszeit – lecture– Kino, Berlin, Germany
Hunter College, graduate documentary program - visiting lecturer, Manhattan, NY

2001-2002

Project Reach Youth Film and video teacher- Brooklyn, NY

Public Collections:

Von der Heydt-Collection
Museum Contemporary Art, Roskilde
KØS Museum Of Art in Public Spaces
The Reinking Collection
The Farook Foundation
The Samawi Collection
The Teuchtler Collection

Selected Bibliography:
Books and Exhibition Catalogues

2012

BIOS - Konzepte des Lebens in der zeitgenössischen Skulptur, exhibition catalogue, published by Georg-Kolbe-Museum Texts by Marc Wellmann

2011

Hacking the City, exhibition catalogue, Edition Folkwang / Steidl Edited by Sabine Maria Schmidt
The Vanity Project, Publisher: OneStarPress, Text: Monika Vykoukal
Spontaneous Sculptures, Publisher: Gestalten, Text: Jennifer Thatcher, Mel Gooding
Farbe Und Fluss, Publisher: Kerber, Text: Peter Friese, Bernd Neumann, Jens Bohrnsen, Guido Boulboulle, Ingo Clauss, Raimar Stange

2010

Street As Studio: From Basquiat to Seripop, Publisher: Verlag Modern Kunst Nurnberg, Text: Gerald Matt, Cathérine Hug, Thomas Mießgang, Interview with Thomas Mießgang
Urban Interventions: Personal Projects in Public Spaces, Publisher: Gestalten, Text: Michalis Huebner, Alain Bieber
Beyond The Street: The 100 Leading Figures in Urban Art, Publisher: Gestalten, Text: Patrick Nguyen
Beton Blumen (in collaboration with the Teuchtler Collection, Publisher: Museum Quartier with support from KUNSTHALLE Wien, Text: Michalis Pichler

2009

Urban-Art, Exhibition catalogue from the Urban-Art Show at the Weserburg, Museum of modern Art, Publisher: Hatje Cantz Verlag, Text: Ingo Clauß, Sotirios Bahtsetzis and Stephen Riolo

2008

The Adventures of Darius and Downey As Told To Ed Zipco, Publisher: Thames and Hudson, Text: Jen Thatcher, Swoon and Ed Zipco
Street Art, Publisher: TATE MODERN, Text: Cedar Lewisohn
Call It What You Like, Exhibition catalogue Call it What You Like, Art Centre Silkeborg Bad, Text: Sven Nommensen
Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant To Be Viewed, Put together by Michalis Pichler, Publisher: Revolver
Fresh Air Smells Funny, Exhibition catalogue Fresh Air Smells Funny, Kunsthalle Dominikanerkirche Osnabrueck, Text: André Lindhorst, Rik Reinking

2007

Adaptation, Exhibition Catalogue Adaptation, Peacock Visual Arts, Text: Giles Bailey
Street Renegades: New Underground Art, Publisher: Laurence King, Text: Francesca Gavin

Articles And Reviews:

2009

(Jan) - ART Magazin - Die Neue Stadtguerilla, Text: Alain Bieber

2008

(April) # 190 - Kunstforum - Fresh Air Smells Funny, Text: Hajo Schiff
(May 5) - TAZ - Das Krokodil hat sich verbissen, Text: Jan Joswig
(Feb 16) - The Gaurdian Weekend Magazine - A Sign Of Good Times, Text: Esther Teichmann
(March) - Art Investor - Urban Affairs, Text: Evelyn Pschak

2005

(July-August) - Art Review – Top 25 up-and- coming London Artists, Text: Charlotte Edwards