Spencer Finch

Spencer Finch (b. 1962, New Haven, CT) lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. Having exhibited extensively internationally, his solo shows and projects include Ulysses, Marfa Contemporary, TX (2014); Colour/Temperature, Hanes Gallery, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC (2014); Spencer Finch: Yellow, Montclair Art Museum, NJ (2014); A Certain Slant of Light, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York City (2014); The Skies can’t keep their secret, Turner Contemporary, Margate, England (2014); Painting Air, RISD Museum, Providence, RI (2012); Lunar, Art Institute of Chicago (2011); Rome, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA (2011); Between the light—and me, Emily Dickinson Museum, Amherst, MA (2011); My Business, With the Cloud, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (2010); Evening Star, Pallant House, Chichester, England (2010); Between The Moon and The Sea, Frac des Pays de la Loire, Carquefou, France (2010); and As if the sea should part and show a further sea, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia (2009). He has taken part in numerous group exhibitions including Light and Landscape, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY (2012); NEON, La material luminosa dell’arte, MACRO, Rome (2012); More Light, Museum De Fundatie, Zwolle, Netherlands (2011); Haunted: Contemporary Photography/Video/Performance, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City (2010); 53rd Venice Biennale (2009); 50 Moons of Saturn, Turin Triennial, Italy (2008); Refract, Reflect, Project: Light Work from the Collection, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (2007); Light Art from Artificial Light, ZKM Karlsruhe, Germany (2005); and Colour After Klein, Barbican Art Gallery, London (2005). His work can be found in the collections of the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City. Finch is represented by James Cohan Gallery, New York City; Lisson Gallery, London; Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago; Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris; and Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin and Stockholm.

(as of 2014)