Geoff McFetridge
Geoff McFetridge is a Los Angeles based artist and multidisciplinary auteur. Instinctively ignoring creative boundaries, McFetridge has created paintings, drawings and sculpture, poetry and animation, graphics and ceramics, title sequences and artistic direction for movies (Virgin Suicides, Adaptation, Where The Wild Things Are and HER) and wallpaper. He has exhibited widely throughout Europe, America and Japan. In conjunction to the the exhibition Coming Back Is Half The Trip a new large-scale mural by McFetridge titled As We Improvise We Disappear on the façade of Vesterbrogade 135 – commissioned by Vega and Tuborg. The work is a tribute to music, musicians and music culture.
Born 1971 in Calgary, Canada
Lives and works in Los Angeles, US
EDUCATION
1995
MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, US
1993
BFA, Alberta College of Art, Canada
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
Rust Drinkers, Louis Buhl & Co., Detroit, USA
2022
A Body as a Logo for Consciousness, V1 Gallery at Market Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweden
2021
Us as a Landscape, Recent Figures for the Film My Blue Suit, Cooper Cole West, Toronto, Canada
Sleeping Shapes, Half Gallery, New York, United States
2020
These Days are Nameless, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2018
Coming Back Is Half The Trip, Eighteen Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
The Beringians, Half Gallery, New York, US
2017
VOLTA13, V1 Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
2016
The Quiet Of Not Listening, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2015
It Looks Like It Says, Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, US
2014
MEDITALLUCINATION, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Á Cheval, Entre design graphique et art contemporain, Espace lvl, Nantes, France
2013
My Head Disappears When My Hands Are Thinking, PlayMoutain, Japan
2012
Floating, Cooper Cole, Toronto, Canada
Around Us & Between Us, Ivory & Black Soho, London, UK
2011
Us As A Logo, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2010
The Westest, Half Gallery, New York, US
You Can´t Put a Hat on a Hole in the Sky, Goethe-Institut, New York, US
2008
Bury Me In The Sand, Mollusk, San Francisco, US
In The Mind, Seattle Art Museum Olympic Sculpture Park Pavillion, Seattle, US
2007
Bend the Void, MU, Eindhoven, Netherlands
2006
That Line Rhymes, New Image Art Gallery, Los Angeles, US
2005
All Smiles Have Teeth, Kemistry Gallery, London, UK
2004
The Mind Trip: There and Back, Spiritroom, Berlin, Germany
The Mind Trip: There and Back, AD21, Tokyo, Japan
2001
A Way of Life, Parco Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2000
The Rock Machine, Colette, Paris, France
The Rock Machine, Houston Gallery, Seattle, US
The Rock Machine, George’s, Los Angeles, US
1999
30 days 30 shows, George’s, Los Angeles, United States
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
V1 XX - Twenty years of V1 Gallery, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Geoff McFetridge, CHART Art Fair x Tivoli, Tivoli Gardens, Copenhagen, Denmark
2021
It’s Weird to Disappear, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2020
Today’s Special #1, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Art Herning, Group Presentation with V1 Gallery, Herning, Denmark
MINE IV, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2019
MINE III, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2018
Tables, Pots & Plants – A song for Matisse, V1 Gallery at VOLTA14, Basel, Switzerland
Art Herning, V1 Gallery, Herning, Denmark
2017
Stay Gold, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2016
The Neon Wilderness: New Voices In Los Angeles, US
The Conversation, Berlin, Germany
Juxtapoz x Superflat, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2015
13, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Art on Paper, Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, US
2014
Your Favorite Artist’s Favorite Artist, Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, US
Volta10 Basel, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2013
What Are You Doing After This – in association with Vans Syndicate, Ivory & Black, Soho, London, UK
2012
Chicken Or Beef?, The Hole, New York, US
Summer Reading, The Hole, New York, US
These Friends, THIS, Los Angeles, US
Graphic Design: Now in Production, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US
2011
Art in the Streets, The Geffen Contemporary, MOCA, Los Angeles, US
STATUS – Somewhere between position and Condition, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Graphic Design Worlds, Triennale Design Museum of Milan, Italy
2008
Two Lines Align, Red Cat Gallery, Los Angeles, US
2007
California Design Biennial, US
Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, US
2006
Making Do, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, US
1000 Things, MU, Endhoven, Netherlands
Highmath, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2005
Sea Donkeys on Airplane Wings (people that surf that make stuff), New Image Art Gallery, Los Angeles, US
2004
Beautiful Losers: Contemporary Art and Street Culture, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, US
Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, US
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, US
The Moonshine Festival, The Surf Gallery, Laguna Beach, US
Time is a Map of our Failures, Colette, Paris, France
2003
National Design Triennial, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, US
California Design Biennial, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, US
2002
Communication What, Vasi Communication / Studio Cafumo, Venice, Italy
Streetwise 1, Apart Gallery, London, UK
2001
Move, New Image Art Gallery, Los Angeles, US
1998
George’s Gallery, Los Angeles, US
SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
2017
The Great Discontent
The California Sunday Magazine
2016
Artforum
Lowdown Magazine
2015
Sight Unseen
We Heart
High Snobiety
GQ
Observer
Artsy
Artnet
It’s Nice That
Four&Sons
T Magazine
Huck Magazine
2014
Esquire
Dazed
Gizmondo
Fast Company
2013
Juxtapoz Magazine
KIBLIND #47
La Centiene
Printed Pages
Blue Magazine
2012
Huck Anniversary Issue 2013
Casa
SELECTED AWARDS
2019
The medal of AIGA
2016
Cooper Hewitt Smithsonian National Design Award
2015
Award for Graphic Design, D&AD
2014
Award for Graphic Design and Animation, D&AD
Award Cannes International Festival of Creativity
2010
Award for Magazine & News Paper Design, D&AD
2008
Awards for Press Advertising and Art Direction, D&AD
2007
Award for Magazine & News Paper Design, D&AD
2004
Awards for Animation, D&AD
2001
Awards for Animation, and Design D&AD
Featured in Saatchi & Saatchi New Directors’ Showcase Cannes International Festival of Creativity
2000
Design Distinction Award, The International
Design Magazine
COLLABORATIONS
2015
Patagonia and Gold Coast Cycles MFG
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