GRADY GERBRACHT

Page 1 | Biography

Born: 1974
Lives: New York

Education
2002-2003
Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program
Architecture and Urban Studies Program

1997-1999
SMVisS Master of Science in Visual Studies Massachusetts Institute of Technology

1997-1998
Visual and Environmental Studies Program Harvard University, Cambridge MA

1992-1996
BFA Bachelor of Fine Arts the Cooper Union School of Art, New York NY

1995-1996
Gerrit Reitveld Akademie, Amsterdam, Netherland

Group Exhibitions
2005
Pineapple Videobar Screening Tour, Stockholm, Sweden; Malm� Konsthall, Malm�, Sweden; Helsingborg, Sweden
Passerby, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Pearl, Sheffer Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Lucky Draw, Philips de Pury & Co. New York, NY
Parakeet Video Salon #3, New York, NY

2004
underLINE with Claudia Vieira, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, Japan
Treble, Sculpture Center, New York, NY
Two person exhibition with Alex Villar, Universidade Estacio de Sa, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Ad-Hoc, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
Recent Visions: Four Featured Faculty, Stony Brook University Gallery, Stony Brook, NY

2003
Global Priority, Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amhearst, MA
San Francisco Arts Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Film @ 33 video screening, Trans Urban Roaming Forum, Brooklyn, NY
RAW Smack Melon, New York, NY
Urban Visionaries Benefit Exhibition, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art Independent Study Program Exhibition, New York, NY
Site&Sound; for Engine 27, Engine 27, New York, NY
Fragmental Realities, Musawwir Art Space, Midland Park, NJ
TEXT, Raid Projects, Los Angeles, CA
New Work, Stony Brook University Gallery, Stony Brook, NY

2002
25th Aniversary Benefit Exhibition, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Looking In, a Storefront Exhibition and Performance Project in Lower Manhattan
7a*11d 4th International Festival of Performance Art, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Urban Visionaries Benefit Exhibition, The Cooper Union, New York, NY
Hopscotch: Associative Leaps in the Construction of Narrative, Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
International Video Festival, Ramallah, Palestine
Curatorial Market-Curatorial Mutiny Part V, Cuchifritos gallery, Artist Alliance Inc. New York, NY
White Box Annual Benifit Exhibition, White Box, New York, NY
Motel Jezevo, group exhibition responding to Jezevo detention center for illegal migrants, curated by Nada Beros, Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Croatia
In and Out of Control, Archive & Video program, Holden Gallery, Manchester University, UK

2001
Submerge, group exhibition Kunstbunker Forum fur Zeitgenossische Kunst, Nuremberg, Germany
Temporary Occupations/Language of 82%, video screening curated by Alex Villar and Katya Sander, Halle fur Kunst, Luneburg, Germany
Transitory Audio Archive Organized by Nomads and Residents
Ground Zero 01 29 Lafayette Street, New York, NY
AccessZONE, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
Occupations of Public Transit Space, Vacancy Gallery, Bronx NY

2000
Selections: Fall 2000, The Drawing Center, New York NY
Site and Sound, a series of improvised performances, CD recordings, and multi-channel audio installations. In collaboration with Ellen Wetmore at UMASS Amherst, Amherst MA
Snapshot, group exhibition, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore MD; Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside PA; Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield CT
Photographic Imagination, group exhibition, Here Here Gallery, Cleveland OH
Spontaneous Contagious Hysterical Laughter, Public Performance, New York NY (part of Contagions series)
Commutes MTA series, public performance-interventions, New York NY
Faculty Exhibition, Bergen Community College, Paramus NJ

1999
Commutes NJ Transit series, A series of situational performance-interventions New York metropolitan area
A Portrait Extended, public photo-architectural intervention, Cambridge MA
A Visual Archaeology of Building 13, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA
Stratagems, public project, Cambridge MA
Passage, public installation, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA
Legend, public intervention, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge MA
Repeat Reverse, group exhibition Yale Gallery of Art and Architecture, Yale University New Haven CT

Bibliography
Boucher, Brian. Essays Related to the Back and Forth exhibitions. 23 Dec. 2001. 31 Dec. 2001 .
Bush, Diana. "Grady Gerbracht." Drawing Papers 11 2000: 2-3.
Christ, John. Essays Related to the Back and Forth exhibitions. Nov. 2001. 31 Dec. 2001 .
Cooper, Rhonda, comp. Recent Visions, Exhibition Catalog. Stony Brook: Stony Brook University, 2004. 6.
Cox, Christoph. "Treble." ARTFORUM Sept. 2004: 262.
Ed. Grady Gerbracht, and Susan Jahoda. Rethinking Marxism Vol. 15 No. 3 (2003).
Falkenstein, Michelle. "Not-So-Still Lifes." The New York Times 23 Jan. 2005: 1-1.
Flavorpill #205 inspired flavor NYC. May 2004. .
Gerbracht, Grady. "Commutes: MTA Series." Ed. Masoud Golsorkhi, and Andreas Laeufer. reMINED n.d.: 321-323.
Gerbracht, Grady. "Commutes: NJ Transit Series." Ed. Frans Jacobi. Pist Protta No. 47 Feb. 2001: 32-35
Gerbracht, Grady. "Commutes." Rethinking Marxism Vol. 13 No.2 (2001): 73-91.
Gerbracht, Grady. "Time In Between." Ed. Zarko Paic. ART-e-FACT 2003. Aug. 2004.
Gerbracht, Grady. "Untitled Pairings." Ed. Nada Beros. ART-e-FACT 2002. July 2004.
Grady Gerbracht and Claudia Vieira. Aug. 2004. Kyoto Art Center. Aug. 2004 .
"Grady Gerbracht and Claudia Vieira." art #49 20 May 2004: 3.
Grady Gerbracht, and Susan Jahoda. "Curators' Introduction." Introduction. Global Priority Exhibition Catalog. London: Taylor and Francis, 2003. 313-315.
Hawke, John. "RAW." Rev. of RAW at Smack Mellon. The Brooklyn Rail Apr. 2003: 19.
L�rmigeWelt (noisy world). Dir. Katrin Petroschat. Independent video documentary, 2004.
Kasegawa, Hisayo. "Let's Talk About Art." U18 Aug. 2004: 2-3.
Licht, Alan. "Cross Platform." Rev. of Treble at Sculpure Center. The WIRE July 2004: 81.
McKay, Courtney. �Recent Visions.� The Statesman 11 Oct. 2004: 6.
Novakov, Anna. Online posting. Sept. 2000. Postmedia Magazine. Nov. 2000 .
"Passersby Encounter Passage in MIT's Passageways." Online posting. 16 Dec. 1998. MIT Arts Homepage. 30 Sept. 2000 .
Pederson, Laura Lee. "Enter The Trans-Urban." NY Arts Magazine Jan. 2004. May 2004.
Rosof, Libby. "Road Movies and Other Sights." Online posting. 11 Jan. 2005. Artblog. 3 Feb. 2005
Snapshot exhibition catalog. Baltimore, MD: The Contemporary Museum, 2001.
Takeshita, Akiko. "underLINE: An Interview With the Artists." art #51 20 July 2004: 1.
Taylor, Tess. "Bronx Cheer." METROPOLIS Oct. 2001: 54.
"underLINE at Kyoto Art Center." art #50 20 June 2004: 3.
underLINE in Kyoto - a documentary. Dir. Ken Okano. Feat. Grady Gerbracht and Claudia Vieira. Independent video documentary, 2004.
Weissman, Terri and Demos, T.J. "Photographic Imagination." 2000.

Grants/Awards
2002
UMASS Arts Council Grant

2001
UMASS Faculty Research Grant

1998
MIT Council for the Arts Grant

1998
MIT School of Architecture and Urban Planning Grant

1998
MIT Department of Architecture Grant

1997-1999
MIT Department of Architecture Graduate Fellowship Award

1992-1996
Full Tuition Scholarship Awarded by The Cooper Union for the Advancement of
Science and Art for undergraduate studies

Projects
Curatorial Projects

2003
Global Priority an exhibition that explores how artists are responding to the accelerating hybridization of identities in relation to dispersed flows of economic and cultural values. Herter Art Galleries, University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA

2002
Curatorial Market - Curatorial Mutiny Part V symposium and exhibition. Cuchifritos gallery, Artist Alliance Inc. New York, NY

2001
Back and Forth a series of exhibitions exploring notions of commuting and itineraries:
Mapping the Commute May 19-June 9 Featuring Sara Eichner, Danica Phelps, Christopher Moore
Appropriations of Public Transit Space July 15-Aug 5 Featuring Grady Gerbracht & Alex Villar
Made in Transit Sept 8-30 Featuring Emily Jacir, Scott Teplin & Michael Rakowitz
Mapping Memory October 6-28 Featuring Susan Jahoda & A. S. Bessa