Born: Islip, NY, 1969

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

Currently lives and works in San Francisco.

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

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 Daniel 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 Daniel 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

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

2016

MacArthur Foundation Fellowship

2006

Fellows of Contemporary Art Fellowship

2005

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship

1999

The Art Council Grant