Tariq Alvi’s work is highly intuitive and defined by elaborate, thought-provoking, and politicized collages. Alvi recycles and re-contextualizes found printed matter in an undisputedly idiosyncratic manner as he habitually draws from newspaper and magazine advertising, in addition to ephemera of the everyday. Producing both small-format works on paper and large-scale installations alike, Alvi's meticulously assembled cutouts involve a labor-intensive process of dissection first and reconstruction later. Paper cutouts of jewelry are gathered and arranged in the likeness of a patterned carpet, for example, while bank brochures are diced up and reworked as charming paper flowers.
The works thus comprising Alvi’s oeuvre not only reconsiders the worth of disposed paper products, but it also points to the importance of neglected quotidian objects—logs, tree trunks, and coins, among other items, combine with the collages and subsequently meditate on themes of consumerism, economy, desire, and commercialism.
The works thus comprising Alvi’s oeuvre not only reconsiders the worth of disposed paper products, but it also points to the importance of neglected quotidian objects—logs, tree trunks, and coins, among other items, combine with the collages and subsequently meditate on themes of consumerism, economy, desire, and commercialism.
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1993-95 Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht, NL
East Sussex County Council Travel Award for B.A. Fine Art Degree Show
1989-92 B.A. Fine Art, University of Brighton, UK
1988-89 Foundation in Art & Design, Newham Community College, London
SOLO Shows
2010 XX, Michael Benevento Gallery, Los Angeles
2009 The Meaning, Chisenhale Gallery, London
2009 Badischer Kunstverien, Karlsruhe, Germany
2008 Hanging Matters, 2nd Floor Projects, San Francisco
2007 Everybody Everywhere, Cabinet, London
2005 Super Pride and Super Prejudice, Wattis Institute, San Francisco
2003 Terms and Conditions, Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam
2002 Cabinet, London
2001 Temporary Accommodation, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
2000 Gate Foundation, Amsterdam NL
GROUP Shows
2010 The Eleventh Hour, Tang Gallery, Beijing
2009 Everywhere, Sexual Diversity Policies in Art, CGAC, Galicia, Spain
2007 Open Space, Art Cologne, Germany
2006 Verisimilitude, The gallery at Wimbledon School of Art, London
2006 Wandering Star, Gana gallery, Seoul,
2006 Frieze Art Fair, Cabinet and Diana Stigter Gallery, London
2005 In the Neighbourhood of Infinity, Sixteen to One Gallery, Los Angeles
2005 Monuments for the USA, Wattis Institute, San Francisco
2005 Open Walls, White Columns, New York
2005 Between the Lines, Daniel Reich Gallery at the Chelsea Hotel, NY
2004 I can c my way Home, Space X, Exeter, UK
2004 Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Museum of Modern Art, China
2003 Tender Prey, Arti et Amitcae, Amsterdam
2003 La Cinca Project, Veemvloer, Amsterdam
2002 Hotel Sub Rosa, Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles
2001 Prodigal Prodigy, White Box, New York
2001 Sous-Titree X, University of Rennes, France
2001 Hemorrhaging of States, Tent, Rotterdam, NL
2000 John I’m only Dancing, Margaret Harvey Gallery, St. Albans UK
2000 Dare to Dream, Fringe Festival, Hong Kong
2000 Unlimited N.L. 3, De Appel, Amsterdam
2000 And if there were no stories, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
2000 John I’m only Dancing, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh,
2000 Protest and Survive, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1993-95 Jan van Eyck Akademie, Maastricht, NL
East Sussex County Council Travel Award for B.A. Fine Art Degree Show
1989-92 B.A. Fine Art, University of Brighton, UK
1988-89 Foundation in Art & Design, Newham Community College, London
SOLO Shows
2010 XX, Michael Benevento Gallery, Los Angeles
2009 The Meaning, Chisenhale Gallery, London
2009 Badischer Kunstverien, Karlsruhe, Germany
2008 Hanging Matters, 2nd Floor Projects, San Francisco
2007 Everybody Everywhere, Cabinet, London
2005 Super Pride and Super Prejudice, Wattis Institute, San Francisco
2003 Terms and Conditions, Galerie Diana Stigter, Amsterdam
2002 Cabinet, London
2001 Temporary Accommodation, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
2000 Gate Foundation, Amsterdam NL
GROUP Shows
2010 The Eleventh Hour, Tang Gallery, Beijing
2009 Everywhere, Sexual Diversity Policies in Art, CGAC, Galicia, Spain
2007 Open Space, Art Cologne, Germany
2006 Verisimilitude, The gallery at Wimbledon School of Art, London
2006 Wandering Star, Gana gallery, Seoul,
2006 Frieze Art Fair, Cabinet and Diana Stigter Gallery, London
2005 In the Neighbourhood of Infinity, Sixteen to One Gallery, Los Angeles
2005 Monuments for the USA, Wattis Institute, San Francisco
2005 Open Walls, White Columns, New York
2005 Between the Lines, Daniel Reich Gallery at the Chelsea Hotel, NY
2004 I can c my way Home, Space X, Exeter, UK
2004 Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai Museum of Modern Art, China
2003 Tender Prey, Arti et Amitcae, Amsterdam
2003 La Cinca Project, Veemvloer, Amsterdam
2002 Hotel Sub Rosa, Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles
2001 Prodigal Prodigy, White Box, New York
2001 Sous-Titree X, University of Rennes, France
2001 Hemorrhaging of States, Tent, Rotterdam, NL
2000 John I’m only Dancing, Margaret Harvey Gallery, St. Albans UK
2000 Dare to Dream, Fringe Festival, Hong Kong
2000 Unlimited N.L. 3, De Appel, Amsterdam
2000 And if there were no stories, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
2000 John I’m only Dancing, Collective Gallery, Edinburgh,
2000 Protest and Survive, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
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