Matthew Marks Gallery

Vincent Fecteau

  • Born: Islip, NY, 1969

    Education: Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT, B.A., 1987–92,

    Currently lives and works in San Francisco.

  • One-Person Exhibitions

    2024

    greengrassi, London

    2023

    Crèvecœur, Paris

    2022

    Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

    2021

    Fridericianum, Kassel
    I hear the ancient music of words and words, yes, that's it.
    , MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles. Traveled to Galerie Buchholz, Berlin

    2020

    Galerie Buchholz, Berlin

    2019

    Misako & Rosen, Tokyo
    CAA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco

    2018

    greengrassi, London
    Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles

    2016

    Secession, Vienna (catalogue)

    2015

    You Have Did the Right Thing When You Put That Skylight In, Kunsthalle Basel (catalogue)

    2014

    Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
    Night (1947–2015), The Glass House, New Canaan, CT

    2012

    Galerie Buchholz, Berlin

    2010

    Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh
    greengrassi, London

    2009

    Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

    2008

    Vincent Fecteau: New Work, The Art Institute of Chicago (brochure)

    2006

    Galerie Buchholz, Cologne

    2005

    greengrassi, London

    2004

    journal #7, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands

    2003

    Feature, Inc., New York
    Marc Foxx, Los Angeles

    2002

    Recent Sculpture, MATRIX 199, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. Traveled to Pasadena Museum of California Art (brochure)

    2000

    greengrassi, London

    1999

    Marc Foxx, Los Angeles

    1998

    Feature, Inc., New York

    1997

    Ynglingagatan 1 Gallery, Stockholm

    1996

    New Work, Feature, Inc., New York

    1995

    Introductions, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco

    1994

    Ben, Kiki, San Francisco

  • Selected Group Exhibitions

    2024

    Always Being Relation: 50 Years of the Gallery at the CFA, Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT

    2023

    The last thing you see is the first, greengrassi, London

    2022

    Friends in a Field: Conversations with Raoul De Keyser, Mu.ZEE, Oostende, Belgium
    Coming Attractions: The John Waters Collection, Baltimore Museum of Art
    Footnotes I have never seen, BELETAGE Art Space, Zurich (catalogue)
    Space as a Medium of Art, MAK – Museum of Applied Arts, Schindler House, Los Angeles

    2019

    Artists's Choice: Amy Sillman, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
    Magic Ben Big Boy, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue)

    2018

    Dime-Store Alchemy, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York
    Crossroads: Carnegie Museum of Art’s Collection, 1945 to Now, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

    2017

    Tomma Abts, Lutz Bacher, Trisha Donnelly, Vincent Fecteau, Mark Lecky, Jack Goldstein, Hervé Guibert, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin

    2016

    Home Improvements, Fraenkel Lab, San Francisco
    The New Contemporary, The Art Institute of Chicago (catalogue)
    Primary structures and speculative forms, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
    The Campaign for Art: Contemporary, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (catalogue)
    Embracing the Contemporary: The Keith L. and Katherine Sachs Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art (catalogue)

    2015

    National Gallery 2: Empire, Chewday’s, London
    Le Souffler: Schürmann meets Ludwig, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany
    Second Chances, Aspen Art Museum, CO
    Off Broadway, CCA Wattis, San Francisco

    2014

    Abandon the Parents, Statens Museum for Kunst, National Gallery of Denmark, Copenhagen
    Quiz, Galerie Poirel, Nancy, France

    2013

    Carnegie International, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh (catalogue)
    Nayland Blake, Thomas Demand, Trisha Donnelly, Vincent Fecteau & Wade Guyton, Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles
    Elie Nadelman, Jim Nutt, Tomma Abts, Vincent Fecteau, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne

    2012

    Automaton, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne
    Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)
    Closer – The Dennis Cooper Papers, Kunstverein Amsterdam
    B. WURTZ & CO., Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles

    2011

    Absentee Landlord, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
    Sculptural Acts, Haus der Kunst, Munich
    Cloud, Foxy Production, New York
    Quodlibet III-Alphabets & Instruments, Galerie Buchholz, Berlin

    2010

    Contemporary Collecting: Selections from the Donna and Howard Stone Collection, The Art Institute of Chicago
    Hauntology, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
    The More Things Change, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

    2009

    Quodlibet II, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne
    Chinese Box, Overduin and Kite, Los Angeles

    2008

    Begin Again Right Back Here, White Columns, New York
    Shit, Feature, Inc., New York
    Passageworks: Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
    Kiki: The Proof is in the Pudding, Ratio 3, San Francisco

    2007

    Strange Events Permit Themselves the Luxury of Occurring, Camden Arts Centre, London
    The Recognitions, The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, NY
    a point in space is a place for an argument, David Zwirner Gallery, New York
    Good Morning, Midnight, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York
    You Always Move in Reverse, Leo Koenig, Inc., New York
    The Recognitions, The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, NY
    Exit Music (For a Film), Grimm/Rosenfeld, New York

    2006

    FOCA Fellowship, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
    Dereconstruction, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
    Pure Land: Fecteau-Hill-Pederson, Ratio 3, San Francisco
    Galerie Buchholz at Metro Pictures, Metro Pictures, New York

    2004

    Teil 1 Mullberg, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne
    Abstract Reality, SEAD Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
    Happy Medium, Clementine Gallery, New York
    Gallery Artists, Feature, Inc., New York

    2003

    The Alumni Show, Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT
    Ishtar, Midway Contemporary Art, Saint Paul

    2002

    The Longest Winter, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton
    Artists Imagine Architecture, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
    Now is the Time, Dorsky Gallery, New York
    Tomma Abts and Vincent Fecteau, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles
    Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
    Guide to Trust No.2, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco

    2001

    The Devil is in the Details, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston
    Marked: Bay Area Drawings, Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, CA. Traveled to Hunter College at City University of New York (catalogue)
    Maureen Gallace and Vincent Fecteau, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
    Off the Wall, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Smallish, greengrassi, London

    2000

    Here Kitty, Kitty, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta
    Juvenilia, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco

    1999

    Calendar 2000, Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
    Persuasion, University at Buffalo Art Gallery
    The Art Council 1999 Grants to Artists, Jernigan Wicker Fine Arts, San Francisco,
    B.m.W. black met white, ANP, Antwerp, Belgium

    1998

    Softcore, Arkipelag Festival, Historiska Museet, Stockholm
    Architecture and Inside, Paul Morris, New York
    Inglenook, Feigen Contemporary, New York
    Lovecraft, South London Gallery, London

    1997

    Hello, Feature, Inc., New York
    Bay Area Now, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
    The Scene of the Crime, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles

    1996

    Feature Inc., New York

    1995

    Wildside, L.A.C.E, Los Angeles
    lo-fi, Lauren Wittels, New York
    In a Different Light, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA

    1994

    The Ecstasy of Limits, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago
    Next to Nothing, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
    Bong, Kiki, San Francisco
    Sparkalepsy, Feature, Inc., New York

    1993

    Dress Code, San Francisco Art Commission Gallery
    Caca at Kiki, Kiki, San Francisco

  • Awards and Honors

    2016

    MacArthur Foundation Fellowship

    2006

    Fellows of Contemporary Art Fellowship

    2005

    John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship

    1999

    The Art Council Grant