Deborah Grant English

Born:
1968
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New York, New York, USA
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  • Documenta 14 is so vast, dispersed, and enigmatic, that it is literally impossible to experience all of it (not to mention that the other half of the quinquennial exhibition has yet to take place, in Kassel, Germany). Yet the earnest visitor should make the effort, while in Athens, not only to take in what he or she can of the international offerings of documenta, but to wander off the beaten path of the biennial map, and sample what the local art scene of Athens has to offer.

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  • The fifth edition of Art Basel's show in Hong Kong closed today, Saturday, March 25, 2017, with strong sales recorded across all levels of the market, demonstrating continued demand for high-quality works by the world's leading international collectors and institutions.

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  • From coalitions to exhibitions, here’s how artists and institutions are making their voices heard.

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  • With more than three decades of artistic output under his belt, Chen Shaoxiong couldn’t have been more than ‘prepared’ for his survey exhibition of that title, currently on view at Shanghai’s Power Station of Art.

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  • 10 Exhibitions Opening This Week

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  • Mendes Wood DM has the pleasure of presenting the exhibition “A Thousand Ways to Kill a Monster,” the first solo show by Cibelle Cavalli Bastos at the gallery.

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  • While the West witnessed Happenings and Joseph Beuys in the 1960s to ’80s, the East, specifically China, saw the emergence a decade later of the Big Tail Elephants: the first group in the country to use multimedia art forms.

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  • In Asia, there is Beijing, which means northern capital, Nanjing, southern capital, and Tokyo, eastern capital.

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  • A significant anniversary invites a retrospective view, and for SITE Santa Fe’s 20th, the institution is doing just that, in a yearlong series of exhibitions featuring artists who have presented major works at SITE in the past. But for this 20th-anniversary celebration, SITE is not only looking back at its own history, or reprising past projects, rather refreshingly the exhibits that comprise “SITE 20 Years/20 Shows” take the form of new work, commissions, and collaborations.

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  • 10 Opening Exhibitions to Watch

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  • The history of Chinese contemporary art is quite young, and the role of performance art within that history has rarely been investigated in depth. Many Chinese artists who have come to be known as major figures in the art world today have created influential works in the form of performances. No U-Turn (1989), for instance, carried all of the characteristics of a number of avant-garde collectives and movements that is now referred to as the ’85 New Wave...

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  • New MoMA installation, Modern Art from the Guggenheim Collection, Hiller, Landy, Gupta, Titian, Thek and many more.

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  • After many months of planning MANIFESTA 10 finally opened to the public on Saturday, 28 June 2014, in St. Petersburg, Russia.

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  • It's not often that so-called "outsider artists" get a chance to showcase their artwork on the walls of an established New York gallery, hanging with

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  • The critic Robert Hughes once said that while America is a deeply religious nation, Americans have "produced very little in the way of original

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  • It's not often that so-called "outsider artists" get a chance to showcase their artwork on the walls of an established New York gallery, hanging with

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  • Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver January 25 to March 9, 2014. For more than 30 years now, North Vancouver’s Presentation House Gallery has

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  • The critic Robert Hughes once said that while America is a deeply religious nation, Americans have "produced very little in the way of original

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  • Summer’s over, but Rothko (Tate Modern), Bacon (Tate Britain), Warhol’s television and films (The Hayward), and new Gerhard Richters (Serpentine

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  • 'Serve the people'' was the theme of a speech given by Mao Zedong in September 1944, while the Red Army was still engaged in combat with the Japanese.

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  • The Great White North, as Canada is affectionately known, could be called something altogether different in the heated summer months.

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  • Art Public, curated this year for the second time by Patrick Charpenel of Guadalajara, Mexico, features 9 projects by internationally renowned artists from seven countries.

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  • When Queensland Art Gallery’s fifth Asia Pacific Triennial opened in 2005, it could not help but play second fiddle to the vast new Gallery of Modern

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  • New York's largest art fair celebrates 100th birthday, but success of competitors places Armory in something of an identity crisis

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  • The history of Chinese contemporary art is quite young, and the role of performance art within that history has rarely been investigated in depth. Many Chinese artists who have come to be known as major figures in the art world today have created influential works in the form of performances. No U-Turn (1989), for instance, carried all of the characteristics of a number of avant-garde collectives and movements that is now referred to as the ’85 New Wave...

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  • VOLTA NY returns for its fourth consecutive year, filling its borders with an array of cutting-edge artists from 83 galleries, representing

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BIOGRAPHY

Born in Toronto, Canada, Deborah Grant grew up on Coney Island in Brooklyn, N.Y. She completed her BFA at Columbia College, Chicago (1996); an MFA in painting from Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia (1999); and did residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (1996); The Studio Museum in Harlem (2002/2003); Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA (2004); A.S.A.P. Residency in Mount Desert Island, Maine (2005). Among her solo exhibitions is Christ You Know it Ain’t Easy!! (2014) The Drawing Center, New York; Deborah Grant: The Provenance and Crowning of King William (2012), Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles;  Deborah Grant: Bacon, Egg, Toast in Lard (2009), University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Random Select Drawings and Paintings By Deborah Grant (2002), The Scene Gallery, New York. Her work has been exhibited in numerous group exhibitions including Sound Vision: Contemporary Art from the Collection (2014), Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham. NC; When the Stars Begin to Fall: Imagination and the American South (2014),The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY; After 1968 (2010), The Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY; Reinventing Ritual (2009-10), The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA and The Jewish Museum, New York, NY. In 2011 Deborah Grant received the William H. Johnson Award, an honor given annually to an outstanding early career African American artist. Deborah Grant lives and works in New York.

In her mixed media works, Deborah Grant draws upon the art historical canon of male artists such as Picasso, Basquiat, Traylor, Bacon and W.H. Johnson, adapting their work to narrate her own experiences. Grant’s work deals in the realm of identity, histories, politics and language. By isolating characters from prominent historical works and then incorporating them into theatrical installations, Grant uses portions of the historical masterpieces to comment on contemporary situations such as war, abuse and international tragedies.

 

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