Peter Fend was born in 1950 in Columbus, Ohio.
He lives and works in New York.

 

EDUCATION

1973
BA, Carleton College, Northfield, Minnesota

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024

Peter Fend, AZIONI SULLA TERRA, Pinksummer, Genoa, Italy

 

2021
Peter Fend, Georg Kargl BOX, Vienna, Austria

 

2020
BIRDS REIGN, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin, Germany

 

2019
Peter Fend. AFRICA-ARCTIC FLYWAY, Museo Nivola, Orani, Sardinia, Italy
Filling the absence – Peter Fend and Yona Friedman, Pinksummer, Genoa, Italy

 

2018
HACE SENTIDO / MAKES SENSE, Embajada, San Juan, Puerto Rico
Costa Verso Costa, Pinksummer, Palermo, Italy

 

2017
Forse, Pinksummer, Genoa, Italy
Shadow Cabinet: A Loyal Opposition Response, Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space, New York, USA

 

2015
TO BE BUILT, Galerie Barbara Weiss, Berlin, Germany
AFRIKA EUROPA BRÜCKE, Oracle, Berlin, Germany

2014
REBELS ARE REASONABLE, ESSEX STREET, New York, USA
Lomonosov Furthered, with Shane Munro, LISTZ, Berlin, Germany

 

2012
Über die Grenze: May Not Be Seen Or Read Or Done, ESSEX STREET, New York, USA
WHAT TO DO NEXT, Peanut Underground Art Projects, New York, USA

 

2011
“Arab Springs”/ Atlantic Wealth: Trading Room, White Box / MA.P.S, New York, USA
Ricchezza D’Italia, Galeria Cesare Manzo, Pescara, Italy

 

2010
Situation Room, 391 Victoria Street, Hamilton, New Zealand

 

2009
Situation Room: Technology Change Climate Stability, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK

 

2007
Elbegas, Galerie für Landschaftskunst, Hamburg, Germany
BET AND WIN: Way Out Too, Unit 2 Gallery, London, UK

 

2005
Parallel Projects: Proposals for Condoleezza Rice / Parallelprojekte: Vorschläge für Condoleezza Rice, Christian Nagel, Berlin, Germany

 

2004
Reverse Global Warming, Spacex, Exeter, UK
One to Another (foreign policy proposal), American Fine Arts, New York, USA
Correspondence, American Fine Arts, New York, USA

 

2003
Independence from Big Oil, Dublin City Council and Fingal County Council, Dublin, Ireland
Proposals for Arabia, Galeria Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain

 

2002
Global Gas / Super Gas, Ocean Earth vis-à-vis Superflex, Kunstruimte Wagemans, Netherlands

 

2001
Naval Action, Mars Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Big Deal: Revival of the Americas, Nikolai Fine Art, New York, USA
Sea Change, Spacex Gallery, Exeter, UK
Ocean Earth: Policy Models, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL, USA
Economic Potential, Roger Smith Gallery, New York, USA

 

2000
RAPID: Post-Petroleum Gas Stations, Launching a Brand, American Fine Arts, New York, USA
EURAFRICA/AMERICAS/MONDO, Galeria Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain
NEWS ROOM NEW YORK (Chaikin, Fend, Lehman, Lombardi, RR), Roger Smith Gallery, New York, USA

 

1999
Global Warming: A Rapid Response Remark, at Chelsea Exxon station, Nikolai Fine Art, New York, USA
Chase Scene, American Fine Arts, New York, USA

 

1998
NEWS ROOM GRAZ, Kunst und Neue Medien, Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria

 

1997
Spiral Ramp, Woodlawn Cemetery, The Bronx, New York, USA

 

1996
Chernobyl Solutions, Steffany Martz Gallery, New York, USA
Art Meets Science, Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark

 

1995
Landkraft/Swiss Split, Ars Futura, Zurich, Switzerland
Landkraft, Kunstlerhaus Palais Thurn & Taxis, Bregenz, Austria
Architecture for the 21st Century, Artspace, Sydney, Australia

 

1994
Eurasian Scenario, Marc Jancou Gallery, London, UK
Startbahn Oesterreich, Galerie Metropol, Vienna, Austria
Global Spiral, installation at Global Forum, G-Mex Centre, Manchester, UK
Ocean Earth, Strauss & Adamopolous, Frankfurt, Germany
NEWS ROOM COPENHAGEN, with Globe, Copenhagen, Denmark

 

1993
Strategie Globale: Giant Algae System for France, FRAC Poitou-Charentes, Angouleme, France
Habitus, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
OCEAN EARTH: FOR A WORLD WHICH WORKS, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum, Graz, Austria
NEWS ROOM PARIS, Galerie des Archives, Paris, France

 

1992
Site Simulator, Tivat Bay, American Fine Arts, New York, USA
Beach Party Deutschland, Galerie Esther Schipper, Cologne, Germany
Beach Party Yugoslavia, Riverside Studios, London, UK
Documenta Flags, Galerie de Marseille, Marseille, France
Documenta Flags, Le Case D’Arte, Milan, Italy
Espace Circulant/Spinning Room, Galerie Roger Pailhas, Paris, France
Floriade, The Hague, Netherlands
Corse Divise, Assemblee Nationale, Paris, France
NICAF, Yokohama, Japan
Means to Wealth/Mittel und Wohlstand, Galerie Tanja Grunert, Cologne, Germany

 

1991
Europa, Kunstraum Daxer, Munich, Germany
Beach Party, American Fine Arts, New York, USA
NEWS ROOM STOCKHOLM, Galerie Nordenstad-Skarstedt, Stockholm, Sweden
Salle du Monde, long-term installation at L’Hôpital éphémère, Paris, France

 

1990
City of the Dead / Die Totenstadt, Galerie Tanja Grunert, Cologne, Germany
Cities as Bodies / Staedte als Koerper, Esther Schipper, Cologne, Germany
NEWS ROOM FRANKFURT, Institut fuer Neue Medien / Pavilion Varisella, Frankfurt, Germany
NEWS ROOM NEW YORK/NEWS ROOM AMSTERDAM, American Fine Arts, New York and Museum Fodor, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Progetto Adriatico, Le Case D’Arte, Milan, Italy
Einheiten, Galerie Ryszard Varisella, Frankfurt, Germany
Kleine Fragen, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, Germany

 

1989
Completion of the War, American Fine Arts, New York, USA
Global Monitoring and Assessments: Towards the 21st Century, Fondazione Cini, Venice, Italy

 

1988
BODY, American Fine Arts, New York, USA
Peter Fend, Scott Hanson Gallery, New York, USA
Art at the End of the Social, Rooseum, Malmo, Sweden

 

1985
Bacino Torbido, Museo Santa Barbara, Calabria, Italy

 

1983
Image/Process, The Kitchen, New York, USA

 

1982
Space Force in Action, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany
Art of the State, The Kitchen, New York, USA
Global System, Chase Manhattan Plaza, sponsored by Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, USA

 

1979
IRON LUNG: A ROOM DEFINED NOT BY ITS WALLS BUT BY A PUMP, Peter Nadin Gallery, New York, USA
WEALTH OF BASINS, DEATH OF NATIONS, Peter Nadin Gallery, New York, USA
World Space: Political Economies After Oil, Peter Nadin Gallery, New York, USA

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022
The State I Am In, Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany
Visual Natures: The Politics and Culture of Environmentalism in the 20th and 21st Century, Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon, Portugal
Conditions and Frameworks: Infrastructure as Form and Medium, Academy of Fine Arts Vienna, Austria

 

2020
Politiche della Natura_Masters, MAAB Gallery, Milan, Italy
Critical Zones, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe, Germany
Potential Worlds 2: Eco-Fictions, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
Excerpts: Works from the Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art Collections, Marjorie Barrick Museum of Art, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA

 

2019
RESET, Kai Matsumiya, New York, USA

 

2018
Brand New: Art and Commodity in the 1980s, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C., USA
Unthought Environments, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, Illinois, USA
The Conditions of Being Art: Pat Hearn Gallery & American Fine Arts, Co. (1983-2004), CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA
The Dutch Savannah, De Domijnen Museum, Sittard, Netherlands
We stared at the Moon from the centre of the Sun, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne, UK
The Second Yinchuan Biennale: Starting from the Desert, Ecologies on the Edge, Museum of Contemporary Art Yinchuan, Yinchuan, China

 

2017
EUtopia | 28, Museumcultuur Strombeek/Gent, Strombeek, Belgium
Tomorrow Will Still Be Ours, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York, USA
Aubades. Land Art for Aliens, Weiss Falk, Basel, Switzerland
Water Worlds #1, Centre international d’art et du paysage, Beaumont-du-Lac, France

2016
World Made By Hand, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, USA
Changing Circumstances: Looking at the Future of the Planet, FotoFest Biennial, Houston, Texas, USA
History Made By Artists, C L E A R I N G, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Tomorrow’s Man, Sheppard Contemporary, University Galleries, University of Nevada, Reno, Nevada, USA
You Cannot Do Nothing, Galerie Alte Schule, Berlin, Germany
Oceans After Nature, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, California, USA
Politics of Nature, Fondazione Zimei, Pescara, Italy
Global Terror, Nagel Draxler Kabinett, Berlin, Germany
Mean Machine (Up Jumped the Devil), The Meeting, New York, USA

 

2015
Territories: Alighiero e Boetti and Peter Fend, Le Case D’Arte, Milan, Italy
Globale – Exo-Evolution, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
The Fountainhead, Fondazione Zimei, Pescara, Italy
to expose, to show, to demonstrate, to inform, to offer: Artistic Practices around 1990, Mumok, Vienna, Austria
2050. A Brief History of the Future., Royal Museums of Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium; travelling to Palazzo Reale Milan, Italy
Dojima River Biennale 2015: Take Me To The River – currents of the contemporary, Dojima River Forum, Osaka, Japan
Anthems for the Mother Earth Goddess, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, USA
Drawings | Fridges, Greene Exhibitions, Los Angeles, USA
DUMP! Multispecies Making and Unmaking, Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
Decolonized Skies, organized by High&Low Bureau, ADN Platform, Barcelona, Spain
For Troedsson Villa, curated by Tam Ochiai and Anne Eastman, Troedsson Villa, Nikko, Japan
ECO-TAX, Cannonball and Dimensions Variable, Miami, USA
Looking Back / The 9th White Columns Annual, selected by Cleopatra’s, White Columns, New York, USA
Hollywood Hills House, curated by Pierre-Alexandre Mateos and Charles Teyssou, ltd los angeles, Los Angeles, USA

2014
WORK IT OUT, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Decolonized Skies, organized by High&Low Bureau, Apexart, New York, USA
TEDxVaduz redux, T293, Rome, Italy
The Real Estate Show Was Then: 1980, James Fuentes, New York, USA

 

2013
Looking Back / The 7th White Columns Annual, selected by Richard Birkett, White Columns, New York, USA
Scott Burton, curated by Oscar Tuazon, Fondazione Giuliani, Rome, Italy
Yes Naturally: How Art Saves The World, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands

 

2012
OilScapes, Peacock Visual Arts, Aberdeen, UK

 

2010
Islands and Ghettos, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberger, Germany

 

2008
This is the Gallery…, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK
Come Out & Play, apexart, New York, USA

 

2007
Green Dreams, Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany
Aussen vor/On The Outside, ACC Galerie, Weimar, Germany
Still Life. Art, Ecology & The Politics of Change, Sharjah Biennial 8, Emirate of Sharjah
Arrêt sur Images, FRAC Provence Alpes Côte d’Azur, Marseille, France

 

2006
The Drop, Exit Art, New York, USA

 

2005
Gotik und Moderne, Fraenkische Galerie, Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Kronach, Germany
Temporary Spaces, Ausstellungsraum Glue, Berlin, Germany
Mirage, curated by Martin Beck and Julie Ault, Alexander and Bonin, New York, USA
Dry Wells that Upwell Groundwater to Revive Margins of Salt Lakes, Harper Dry Lake, CA, USA
Waterways, Venice Biennale, Italy

 

2004
Election, American Fine Arts, New York, USA
Hortus, Independent Section, Liverpool Biennial, UK
Wonderful, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK
Le Dessus des Cartes, ISELP, Brussels, Belgium
Adaptations, Apexart, New York, USA

 

2003
Attack: Art and War, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Banquete/Bankett, Barcelona Cultural Center, Barcelona, Spain; travelling to Zentrum fuer Kunst und
Medientechnologie (ZKM), Karlsruhe, Germany; Medialab, Madrid, Spain
GNS, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Hardcore, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Utopia Station, Venice Biennale, Italy
Collaborations, Centre d’art Contemporain, Meymac, France

 

2002
Ars Electronica 2002, Ars Electronica Center, Linz, Austria
Oekonomien der Zeit, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany; travelling to Akademie der Kunste, Berlin Germany; and Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
Ecovention, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA
Ways Out, Stroom, The Hague, Netherlands
Empire/State: Artists Engaging Globalization, Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, USA

 

2001
The South Bronx Story, James Fuentes / The Point, The Bronx, New York, USA
Cartographie des artistes, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France
Sao Paulo Biennale, Azerbaijan/Armenia/Georgia Pavilion, Sao Paulo, Brazil

 

2000
Ecologies, The Smart Museum, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Undo, Theater for the New City, New York, USA
Dystopia, Tribes Gallery, New York, USA
World Trade, Roebling Hall, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Carnival in the Eye of the Storm, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR, USA

 

1999
Post-War Architecture, Venice Biennale, Italy
Crash, ICA, London, UK

1998
Your Utopia, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Hey, You Never Know, Kenny Schachter / ROVE, New York, USA
Cartographers, Center for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
Cartographers, Umnetnosta Galerie, Maribor, Slovenia, Entrance display
Desert Flood, ROVE, New York, USA

 

1997
The Experimenters, curated by Kenny Schachter, Lombard-Fried Fine Arts, New York, USA
French Pavilion TV Studio, with Fabrice Hybert, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Cartographers, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
Géographiques: territoires vécus, territoires voulus, territories figures, FRAC Corse, Corsica, France

 

1996
Atopic Site, curated by Yukiko Shikata, Tokyo International Exhibition Center, Tokyo, Japan
Art Meets Science, in conjunction with “Copenhagen, European City of Culture,” Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark

 

1995
Faith, Hope, Love, Death, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Mapping: A Response to MoMA, curated by Peter Fend, American Fine Arts, New York, USA
On Board, Aperto, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Photography After Photography, Siemens Kulturprogramm, Munich; travelling to Kunsthalle, Krems, Austria; Städtische Galerie Erlangen, Brandenburgische Kunstsammlungen, Cottbus, Germany; Museet for Fotokunst, Odense, Denmark; Fotomuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland; ICA London, UK; ICA Philadelphia, PA, USA
Infrasound, Kunst im öffentlichen Raum, Hamburg, Germany

1994

Cloaca Maxima, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Stadtentwasserung, Zurich, Switzerland
Bifurcations, Centre d’art Contemporain, Meymac, France; travelling to Musée des Beaux-arts de Dole, France; Cimaise et portique, espace d’art contemporain, centre culturel de l’Albigeois Albi, France
Mission Impossible, Gashouder, Amsterdam

 

1993
Aperto, Venice Biennale, Italy
Kunst in Weltmasstab, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Fontanelle, Potsdam, Germany
Kontext Kunst, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
First Europeans, Schloss Charlottenberg, Berlin, Germany
Antwerp Cultural Center, European City of Culture, Antwerp, Belgium
The Edge of Chaos: New Ways of Seeing, Louisiana Museum for Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Viennese Story, Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria
Tutto Tondo, Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne, Germany

 

1992
Documenta IX, Kassel, Germany
Documatter, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, USA
Il Faut Construire Hacienda, curated by Nicholas Bourriaud, CCC, Tours, France
Multiplici Culturali, selected by Angela Vettesse, Rome, Italy
Floriade, The Hague, Netherlands
Corse Divise, Assemblée Nationale, Paris, France
Nippon International Contemporary Art Fair, Yokohama, Japan
Reconnaissance, Simon Watson Gallery, New York, USA

1991
Teorici Americani, Ottagano, Milan, Italy
Wiener Festwochen, subway station installations, Vienna, Austria
FRAC Corse, Corsica, France
Iberian Current, FRAC Pays de la Loire, France

 

1990
Around the World, PS 1, Long Island City, New York, USA
The Köln Show, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
California Project, Terrain Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
Reconnaissance, Simon Watson Gallery, New York, USA

 

1989
Art at the End of the Social, Rooseum, Malmo, Sweden
Video Works, Galerie Nordenstadt, Stockholm, Sweden
Competition Diomede, The Clocktower, New York and sites in the USA & USSR
On-Site: Response to Conditions, Anne Plumb Gallery, New York, USA
Jet Lag, Turon Travel, New York, USA
Project DMZ, Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, USA
Completion of the War, American Fine Arts, New York, USA
Global Monitoring and Assessments: Towards the 21st Century, two-part presentation in conference sponsored by UN Food & Agriculture Organization and UN Environment Program, Fondazione Cini, Venice, Italy

 

1988
The New Poverty II, Meyers-Bloom Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
International Landscape, XPO Gallery, Hamburg, Germany
International Landscape, Galerie Christoph Duerr, Munich, Germany
Computer Images of Architecture, NY Chapter, American Institute of Architects, New York, USA
Competition Diomede, The Clocktower, New York, USA
Kunstrai, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Public Discourse, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT, USA
The Drawing Show, Cable Gallery, New York, USA

 

1987
Documenta VIII, Kassel, Germany
The New Poverty, John Gibson Gallery, New York, USA
Corporate Crime, alternative spaces, San Francisco and San Diego, CA, USA

 

1986
Surveillance, LACE Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

 

1985
Deutsche Kunst, 1945-1985, Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany

 

1984
Kunst und Medien, Kunsthalle Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Via Satellite, Amerika Haus, Cologne, Germany
The International Show, curated by Michael Smith, Baskerville & Watson, New York, USA

 

1983- 1984
Show, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts/Village Voice, New York, USA
Image/Process, The Kitchen, New York, USA
Documenta VII, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Germany

 

1982
Natural History, curated by Scott Cook, Grace de Borgenicht Gallery, New York, USA

 

1981
New York, New Wave, curated by Diego Cortez, PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, USA
Forrest Avenue Maze, on-site project, Forest Avenue School, The Bronx, New York, USA
Jamaica Fish/Bird Port, Urban Animals II, ABC No Rio / Collaborative Projects

 

1980
The Real Estate Show, New York, USA
Ruhrgebiet Projects, Duisburg, Germany
The Times Square Show, New York, USA
Public Policy: Architecture Propositions, organized by Peter Fend, 626 Broadway, New York, USA

 

1979
World Space: Political Economies After Oil, Peter Nadin Gallery, New York, USA
Manifesto Show, New York, NY and Milan, Italy
Participation in Urban Animals shows, South Bronx and ABC No Rio, New York, USA
Participation in Collaborative Projects shows (1978-83, 1979 being the peak year)

 

1978
Poetry of Systems, Baxter Art Museum, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA, USA