Darren Bader

New York-based artist, Darren Bader is best known for conceptual sculptures using found objects in often initially absurd-seeming juxtapositions. Solo exhibitions of his work include “(@mined_oud),” Museo Madre, Naples (2017-2018); “Meaning and Difference,” The Power Station, Dallas (2017); “Reading Writing Arithmetic,” Radio Athènes, Athens (2015); “Where Is a Bicycle’s Vagina (and Other Inquiries) or Around the Samovar,” 1857, Oslo (2012); and “Images,” MoMA-PS1, New York (2012).

Awarded the Calder Prize in 2013, Bader’s work has been featured in numerous group exhibitions, including the 2015 Biennale de Lyon; the 2014 Whitney Biennial, New York; “Greater New York,” MoMA PS1, New York (2010); and “To Illustrate and Multiply: An Open Book,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2008).

Bruce Hainley

Bruce Hainley is the author of Art—A Sex Book (with John Waters) (Thames & Hudson, 2003), Foul Mouth (2nd Cannons Publications, 2006), Art & Culture (Semiotext(e), 2014), and Under the Sign of [sic]: Sturtevant’s Volte-Face (Semiotext(e), 2014). A contributing editor of Artforum, he is the editor of Gary Indiana’s Vile Days: The Village Voice Art Columns 1985-1988 (Semiotext(e), 2018).

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