1973Born in Ithaca, New York
Lives and works in New York
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010
Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
2009
drawings, Team Gallery, New York
La Conservera, Centro de Arte Contemporáneo, Murcia, Spain
Museum Dhont-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium
2008
Maureen Paley, London, UK
Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
Focus: Banks Violette, Museum of Modern Art, Fort Worth, Texas, USA
2007
Gladstone Gallery and Team Gallery, New York, USA
Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen, Norway
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
2006
Standard, Oslo, Norway.
Maureen Paley, London, UK
2005
on black wings / six-channel bleed, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
Untitled, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
2002
Arroyo Grande, 7.22.95, Team Gallery, New York, USA
2000
Team Gallery, New York, USA
TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2006
gallery.sora, Tokyo, Japan (with Gardar Eide Einarsson)
2005
Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York, USA (with Walter Redinger)
2004
MW Projects, London, UK (with Nigel Shafran)
Penteholocaust / The Sixty-Sided Stone of the Androgyne, Peres Projects, Los Angeles, USA (with Matt Greene)
2003
An Enquiry into those Kinds of Distress which excite agreeable Sensations (1773): Slater Bradley & Banks Violette, Team Gallery, New York, USA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009
Elevator to the Gallows (curated by Banks Violette and Gerald Matt), Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna,
Austria (travelling to DA2. Domus Artium, Salamanca)
The End (curated by Eric Shiner), The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh.
New York Minute, Macro Future Museum, Rome, Italy
2008
GSK Contemporary, Part II: Collision Course, Royal Academy of Art, London, UK
Sack of Bones, Asia Song Society, New York, USA
Extra-Light, Point Ephemere, Paris, France
For what you are about to receive, Gagosian Gallery, Red October Chocolate Factory, Moscow, Russia
Murder Letters, Galeria Filomena Soares, Lisbon, Portugal
That was then…This is now, P.S.1, New York, USA
The Great Transformation-Art and Tactical Magic, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
2007
Collection Show, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
Disorder in the House, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels, Belgium
The Eclectic Eye, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, USA
When We Build Let Us Think That We Build Forever, Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art, Newcastle, UK
My Sweet Sixteen Party, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
The Shapes of Space, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
U.S.A. Today, The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg, Russia
Bastard Creature, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
LAST ATTRACTION NEXT EXIT, Max Wigram Temporary Exhibition Space, London, UK
2006
Cosmic Wonder, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA (curated by Betty Nguyen)
Trial Balloons, MUSAC, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Leon, Spain(curated by Agustin Pérez Rubio, Octavio Zaya, Yuko Hasegawa)
Youth of Today, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
DARK, Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
I Love My Scene: Scene One, Mary Boone, New York, USA
The Image Is Gone, Galerie Lisa Ruyter, Vienna, Austria
The Monty Hall Problem, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, USA
While Interwoven Echoes Drip into a Hybrid Body, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Switzerland
U.S.A. Today, Royal Academy, London, UK
2005
Thank You for the Music, Sprüth Magers Projekte, Münich, Germany
Blankness is Not a Void, Standard, Oslo, Norway
Bridge Freezes Before Road, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, USA
La Beauté de l’Enfer: works on paper, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
Greater New York, P.S.1, New York, USA
Suburbia, Galerie Lisa Ruyter, Vienna, Austria
2004
The Black Album, Maureen Paley, London, UK
The Ice Age, Team Gallery, New York, USA
Beginning Here: 101 Ways, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, USA
Art and Illusion: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Foundation, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, USA
Power, Corruption and Lies, Roth Horowitz, New York, USA
Noctambule, alternative space, Paris, France (under the auspices of D’Amelio Terras Gallery, New York)
The Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Scream, touring exhibition: Anton Kern Gallery, New York & Moore Space, Miami, USA
2003
Kult 48 Klubhouse, Deitch Projects, Brooklyn, USA
Flesh and Blood, Michael Steinberg, New York, USA
A Matter of Facts, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, USA (curated by Clarissa Dalrymple)
Back in Black, Cohan Leslie and Browne, New York, USA
Melvins, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, USA
The Return of the Creature (The Continuing Saga of Elementalism, … Conceptual Practice and Romanticism After Robert Smithson, … New Quasi-Cinemas, … and Post-Punk Existentialism), Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn und Taxis Gartnerhaus, Bregenz, Austria
2001
Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta, USA
Ghost Stories, Sandroni-Rey Gallery, Venice, Los Angeles, USA
Learned America , P.P.O.W., New York, USA
Diversity Plus: Emerging Artists in a Rapid World Visual Arts Museum, New York, USA
2000
Summer with Friends, Team, New York, USA
Two Friends and So On, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, USA
Columbia University M.F.A. Exhibition, alternative space, Brooklyn, USA
1999
Rachel Lowther and Banks Violette, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, USA
1998
Group Show, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, USA
1997
Group Show Visual Arts Gallery, New York, USA
MX Group Show, Lower East Side Community Center, New York, USA