1959 Born, Switzerland
Currently lives and works in New York
Education
1989 Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT - MFA in sculpture
1984-87 Parsons School of Design, New York - BFA in sculpture
1981-82 University of St.Gallen, Switzerland - Business and Law
Solo Exhibitions
2008 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York
2005/06 Louise Jones Brown Gallery, Duke University, Durham, NC
2005 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York
1999/00 Bonakdar Jancou Gallery, New York
1997 Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
1995 Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
1993/94 Cohen Gallery, New York
Group Exhibitions
2008 Supermarket, Art Fair, Stockholm, Sweden
2007 Mimesis, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, A.I.R., Omaha, NE
Art Cologne, 41st Int. Art Fair, Selected Artists by Sculptors Guild, NY
2006 Trees of Knowing, Arbons Art Center, Henry Street Settlement, New York, NY
In Material, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
Spot On, Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA
Archival to Contemporary, Hillwood Art Museum, Brookville, NY
2004 Touch and Temperature, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, TX
Greetings from Chelsea, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, NY
2003 Take Out, Zabriskie Gallery, New York
Miraculous: Contemporary Evotos Paintings, ChezTGN, Brooklyn, NY
Group Exhibition, Elizabeth Heskin Contemporary Art, New York, NY
2002 From Chelsea with Love, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York
2001 Fellowship Artists Exhibition, Commission on the Arts Gallery, Hartford, CT
Never Never Land, Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL
2000 Never Never Land, Florida Atlantic University Gallery, Boca Raton, FL
1998 Then and Now and Later, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
100 Years of Sculpture: From the Pedestal to the Pixel, Walker Art Center,
Minneapolis, MN
Summer Show, Bonakdar Jancou Gallery, New York
1997 Early Works in Artist Collections, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
1996 Summer Show, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
1995 Landskap, C/O Gallery, Oslo
Art 26’95, Basel Intl. Art Fair, represented by Tanya Bonakdar Gallery
1994 Appetittvekkere: Markus Baenziger, Michael Rees and Matthew Weinstein,
organized by Atle Gerhardsen for “Prosject I Gamlebyen”, Oslo
Drawing on Sculpture, Cohen Gallery, New York
1993 A Grand Tour, Swiss Institute, New York
1991 Zurich meets New York, Swiss Institute, New York
1990 Markus Baenziger, Cornelia Blatter, Felix Brunner, Andrea Wolfensberger,
Shedhalle, Zurich
1989 Yale at Rutgers, Mason Gross Gallery, New Brunswick
1987 Moment, Fabrik Goldmatt, Zug, Switzerland
1986 Small Works, Gallery 50W, New York
1983 Kunstscene St. Gallen, Haus zur Volksstimme St. Gall, Switzerland
Installations, Musee Deutsch, Lausanne, Switzerland
Reviews
2007 Michael Joe Krainak, “Show & Tell, Markus Baenziger”, Omaha City Weekly,
April 25, 2007
2006 Helen A. Harrison, “Archival to Contemporary, Markus Baenziger”, The New York Times,
March 19, 2006
2004 Patricia Johnson, “Touch and Temperature, Markus Baenziger”, Houston Chronicle,
October 12, 2004
Ken Johnson, “Greetings from Chelsea, Markus Baenziger”, The New York Times,
July 2, 2004
2003 Ken Johnson, “Take Out, Markus Baenziger”, The New York Times, July 4, 2003
Take Out, Markus Baenziger”, The New York Sun, July 3, 2003
“What’s On”, The Art Newspaper, No. 138, July - August 2003
2001 Mary Ann Marger, “It’s a play world, after all”, St. Petersburg Times, September 6, 1997
Kim Levin, “Voice Choices” The Village Voice, September 23, 1997, p. 12.
1996 Jude Schwendenwien, “Markus Baenziger”, Sculpture, May/June 1996, pp. 72-73
Mark Van de Walle, “Markus Baenziger”, Artforum, January 1996, p. 82
1994 Kim Levin, “Voice Choice, Markus Baenziger”, The Village Voice, January 1994
Angela Choon, “Openings”, Arts&Antiques, January 1994
Richard Eric Andre, “Markus Baenziger”, Cover, February 1994, p. 12.
Eleanor Heartney, “Markus Baenziger”, Art in America, May 1994
Awards
2006 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Artist Residency Fellowship
Roswell Artist-in-Residence Program, Artist Residency Fellowship (awarded)
2005 Theodore and Jane Norman Award for New Research/Scholarship Projects,
Brandeis University
2005 Theodore and Jane Norman Award for Faculty Research and Creative Projects,
Brandeis University
2000 State of Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Artist Fellowship
1998 Yale University, Rebecca Taylor Porter Award
Yale Norfolk Fellowship
Collections
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Agnes Gund, New York, NY
Private Collections
Teaching
Current Assistant Professor, Fine Arts Department, Brandeis University
Visiting Artist/Guest Critic
2007 Guest Critic, Rode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2007 Visiting Artist Lecture, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Omaha, NE
2007 Visiting Artist Lecture, University of Nebraska,
College of Communication, Fine Arts and Media, Omaha, NE
2006 Visiting Artist Lecture and Studio Critiques, Rutgers, State University of
New Jersey, Mason Gross School of the Arts, New Brunswick, NJ
2006 Guest Critic, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
2006 Visiting Artist Lecture, School of Visual Arts, Fine Arts Department,
New York, NY