Ari Marcopoulos
Ari Marcopoulos is a photographer and filmmaker who gravitates toward elusive subcultures, Ari Marcopoulos photographs objects and cultures that pique his interest, such as sneakers with wide laces from New York’s 1980s hip-hop scene. Creating images with anthropological and ethnographic undertones, Marcopoulos has said that most of his photographs arise “through accidents or circumstances that just happen to present themselves.” Rather than romanticize his subjects, he depicts them in a straightforward manner that reveals their beauty and anxieties. Working as an assistant to Andy Warhol after emigrating to the United States, Marcopoulos favors analog film for its slowness and for the time it asks of the viewer. Most recently, he has begun to explore high-contrast landscape photography that conjures a vague and fleeting sense of familiarity.
Born 1957 in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Lives and works in New York, US
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021
#PUNK nora chipaumire, galerie frank elbaz, Paris, France
2020
Into the Now | Ari Marcopoulos, galerie frank elbaz, Paris, France
2019
The Park, Eighteen, Copenhagen, Denmark
Ari Marcopoulos. Films. Photographs. Fergus McCaffrey, New York, US
Ari Marcopoulos. 3 Films. 3 Photographs. Fergus McCaffrey, Tokyo, Japan
2017
Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris, France
2015
L1032015, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY, US
2012
Wherever you go, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, US
Here and Now, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Midway, Kavi Gupta. Chicago, US
2011
Abandoned Sleep, Ratio 3, San Francisco, US
Directory, White Columns, New York, US
This Week, galerie frank elbaz, Paris, France
2010
It Might Seem Familiar, Foam_Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, Netherlands
2009
Within Arm’s Reach, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, US
2008
Fear God, The Project, New York, US
The Chance is Higher, Gallery White Room, Tokyo, Japan
Ari Marcopoulos: Architectures, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, US
2007
The Chance Is Higher, MC, Los Angeles, US
2006
Under Penalty of Perjury, Someday Gallery, Melbourne, US
Flow, Mu, Eindhoven, Netherlands
New Work, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, US
2005
Even the president of the United States sometimes has got to stand naked, MOMAPS1, New York, US
2004
No. 12 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan Work…ethic, Space Gallery, Portland, US
2002
Pass The Mic 1991-1996, Shibuya Tower, Tokyo, Japan
2001
Alleged Galleries, New York, US
The Deep Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Partobject Gallery, Carrboro, US
1990
Midtown Y-Gallery, New York, US
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022
V1 XX- Twenty Years of V1 Gallery, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
2020
pre sent tense, galerie frank elbaz, Paris, France
2019
MINE III, V1 Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Ding / Unding. The Artist’s Book Unbound, Graphische Sammlung ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
2016
Making & Unmaking, Camden Arts Centre, London, UK
2015
CONSEQUENCES, Fondazione Giuliani, Rome, Italy
2014
Only the Good Ones. The Snapshot Aesthetic Revisited, Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic
Joyride, Marlborough Broome Street, New York, NY, US
2013
Double Hamburger Deluxe, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, US
Le Futur Commence Ici, Frac Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkirk, France
Aboslut, White Flag Projects, Saint Louis, Missouri, US
2012
Route 3 : Selections from the 101 collection, Wattis Institute, San Francisco, US
2011
Detroit Revealed : Photographs 2000-2010, Detroit Institute of the Arts, Detroit, US
2010
Street and Studio: From Basquiat to Séripop, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria Detroit Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
The Whitney Biennal, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
2009
An Autobiography of the San Francisco Bay Area, Part One: San Francisco Plays Itself, San Fran-cisco, USA Camerawork, San Francisco, US
Copy, White Columns, New York, US
2008
In the Company of Artists: Photographs from the DIA Collection, Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, USA Mini Market, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, US
Nieves Library, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, France
Gravity Art, Telic Arts Exchange, Los Angeles, US
Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue, Marella Gallery, Milan, Italy A Curator’s Gift: Contemporary Photography from Diego Cortez, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, US
Male, work from the collection of Vince Aletti, White Columns, New York, US
2007
7 photographers, Community Outreach, London, Ontario, US
Hommies, Fuse Gallery, New York, US
In the Fullness of Time: Celebrating Twenty Years, The Luggage Store, San Francisco, US
Making the Scene: The Midtown Y Photography Gallery, (1972-1996), New York, US
Public Library, New York, US
JH ENGSTRöM, LEIGH LEDARE, ARI MARCOPOULOS, Cohan and Leslie Gallery, New York Collectivity, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, US
Allusive Moments, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, US
2006
Looking Back, White Columns, New York, US
Zine Library, No. 12 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Downtown 81, Friends of Basquiat, Agnes B. Skyline, Paris, France
In the Alps, Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland
JRP/Ringier-We Make books With Art, Christophe Daviet-Thery, Paris, France
Coooool Sky, The JRNL Gallery, New York, US
Sound Zero, Kunst Meran, Merano, Italy
An Ongoing Low-Grade Mystery, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, US
Shoot the Family, Cranbrook Museum, Detroit, US
Portraits of Artists: A selection of photographic works from the collection of Rex Capital, Rhode Is-land, US
Luhring-Augustine Gallery, New York, US
Bastard Kids of Drella, Le consortium, Dijon, curated by Steven Parrino, France
Last Chance Texaco, Jean Deaux, Brooklyn, US
Drive In, Parking de l’Hôpital Archet 2, Nice, France (organized by La Station, with John Armleder, Olivier Mosset, Fabrice Gygi, Ben, Sylvie Fleury, etc.)
2005
De la comtesse de Castiglione a Cindy Sherman, Galerie de France, Paris, France
The Backroom, The Backroom, Los Angeles, US
Bay Area Now 4, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, US
Nieves Books Exhibition, Rocket Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2004
Beautiful Losers, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, US
Fresh: Youth Culture & Identity in Contemporary Photographs, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, US
The Gray Area: Uncertain Images: Bay Area Photography 1970’s to Now, CCAC Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, US
2003
Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil
Danger Zone, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Study, Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
My Xerox Weighs a Ton, Australian Centre for Photography, Australia
The Bowl, Deitch Projects, New York, US
Who? Me?, Zabriskie Gallery, New York, US
2002
Mystic Mountains, Aosta, Tour Fromage, Italy
Overnight to Many Cities, The Photgraphers’ Gallery, London, UK
Strange Glue, Ratio 3, Brooklyn, USA Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum, New York, US
2001
Overnight to Many Cities, 303 Gallery, New York, US
2000
A Beastie Boys Exhibition, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise Corp., New York, US
1999
Coup d’Etat, Alleged Galleries, New York, US
1995
The Happiest People in the World, Alleged Galleries, New York, US
SELECTED SCREENINGS
2019
The Park, Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan
The Park, Unlimited at Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland, in collaboration with Fergus McCaffrey and Galerie Frank Elbaz
2000
New Documentaries, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, US Screenings, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, US
1999
Captain Powder: Exploring the Snow Sport Genre, 911 Media Arts Center, Seattle, WA, USA
The 42nd San Francisco International Film Festival, San Francisco, CA, USA
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque
Berkeley Museum of Art and Pacific Film Archive
Detroit Institute of the Arts
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center,
Poughkeepsie, NY
Rex Capital Collection,
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
Switzerland Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
