Ugo Rondinone,
air gets into everything even nothing &
get up girl a sun is running the world
February 1 - August 31, 2007

Ugo Rondinone was born in 1963 in Brunnen, Switzerland, and lives and works in New York. After first exhibiting in 1985, he attended Vienna’s Hochschule für angewandte Kunst from 1986 to 1990, and came into prominence in Europe in the early 1990’s. Working primarily within an environmental and installation-based context, Rondinone often combines sound pieces, sculpture, drawing, photography, live actors, painting, and video.

Rondinone is recognized internationally, having held solo exhibitions at White Chapel, London (2006); Ausstellungshalle für zeitgenössische Kunst, Münster (2006); Galeria Civica di Modena, Modena (2006); Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne (2004); Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (2003); Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna (2002); Herzliya Museum of Contemporary Art in Herzliya, Israel (2001); Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome (2001); P.S.1, New York (2000); Galerie für zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig (1999); Kunsthaus, Glarus (1999); and other venues. He participated in the San Paolo Biennial (1996), the Berlin Biennial (1998), and the Istanbul Biennial (1999), as well as in group shows at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (2006); the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (2005); the Hayward Gallery, London (2005); the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (2004); P.S.1, New York (2004); the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2002); the Miami Art Museum, Miami (2001); Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg (2001); Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (2000); the Portland Art Museum, Portland (2000); and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2000). He is represented by Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich; Matthew Marks Gallery, NY; and Sadie Coles HQ, London.