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Wynne Greenwood

1977 Born in Seattle, WA
Lives and works in Washington State and Brooklyn, NY
2004 MFA, Milton Avery Graduate School for the Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
1995-1997 Undergraduate studies, Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Brunswich, NJ

Selected Exhibitions

2015
Kelly, New Museum, New York, NY
2011
“How we Pray”, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA
2010
“Strap on TVs”, Lawrimore Project, Seattle, WA
2009
Sister Taking Nap, On the Boards, Seattle, WA
2008
Face It, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
2007
Peas, Susanne Vielmetter Berlin Projects, Berlin, Germany
2006
DON’T FAKE LIVE, Participant, New York, NY (curated by Lauren Cornell)
ROOM, Tracy + the Plastics and Fawn Krieger, The Moore Space, Miami, FL (curated by Silvia Cubina)
concealer, project space, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA
New Report London, Hayward Gallery, London, UK (with K8 Hardy)
2005
Tracy + the Plastics US tour
The Kitchen, New York, NY
Tracy + the Plastics 101, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, WA
New Report Morning Edition, Reena Spaulings Fine Arts, New York, NY (with K8 Hardy)
The Dare Series, Foxy Productions, New York, NY (with K8 Hardy, curated by Lauren Cornell)
Wynne Greenwood + K8 Hardy, Reena Spaulings Fine Arts, New York, NY (with K8 Hardy)
ROOM, Tracy + the Plastics in collaboration with Fawn Krieger, The Kitchen, NYC (curated by Debra Singer and Sacha Yanow)
2004
Tracy + the Plastics, The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA
Maps to Radical Imagining, Tollbooth Gallery, Tacoma WA
Tracy + the Plastics, iEAR presents, Rensellear Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY
Tracy + the Plastics US tour w/ King Cobra, BARR, the Quails, Wikkid
2003
Tracy + the Plastics East Coast tour w/ King Cobra, US tour
2002
Tracy + the Plastics Midwest tour w/ Le Tigre, US tour w/ Jacqueline Bon Bon
2001
Tracy + the Plastics US tours w/ the Bangs, Panama, Erase Errata, Le Tigre
2000
Meme America, West Coast tour w/ the Need
1998
Meme America, West Coast tour w/ Miranda July

Group Exhibitions

2009
3 Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art, 25 September – 25 October 2009, Moscow, Russia
2008
Talkmasters II: VideoScreening, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
Half of the People Are Stoned and the Other Half Are Waiting for the Next Election, Light Industry, Brooklyn, NY, curated by Nick Hallett
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her, Harvard University, curated by Helen Molesworth
"Small Things End, Great Things Endure” , New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA, curated by Jill Dawsey and Maria Del Carmen Carrion
2007
Performance with Nicole Eisenman, ArtBasel Miami Beach, with Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Miami, FL
The Way That We Rhyme: Women, Art and Politics, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco (with Andrea Bowers, Vaginal Davis, MK Guth, Suzanne Lacy, Stephanie Syjuco and others)
The FM Ferry Experiment, live broadcast, Staten Island Ferry, NY
Put the light out, erase a line, screening, Studio 44, Stockholm
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, screening curated by Stanya Kahn and Harry Dodge
Dead Already, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York, screenings curated by Kim Gordon and Jutta Koether
USA: American Video Art at the Beginning of the 3rd Millennium, 2nd Moscow Biennale, Moscow, Russia, curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Gunnar Kvaran, and Hans Ulrich Obrist
2006
Media Burn, TATE, London, with Ant Farm, Josephine Meckseper, Martha Rosler, Jens Ulrich, K8 Hardy
New Report, David Kordansky, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Brendan Fowler)
New Report, The F Word, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
2005
Tracy + the Plastics, TBA Festival, Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
Tracy + the Plastics, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Alter Ego, The Kitchen, New York, NY (curated by Henriette Huldisch and Lauren Cornell)
What is Human?, Transmodern Age Festival of Experimental Performance, Baltimore, MD
LTMIXTR, Mix Festival, New York, NY
2004
Tracy + the Plastics, Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
DUMBO Short Film and Video Festival, Brooklyn, NY
Hot Topic and On the Verge, videos for Le Tigre live performance, world tour 2004-2005
Explosion LTTR, Art in General, New York, NY
2003
Opening, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Lauren Cornell)
Ocularis, Brooklyn, NY (curated by Lauren Cornell)
Ghost and the Video, Select Media Festival, Chicago, IL
Video Marathon, Art in General, New York, NY
2001
Tracy + the Plastics, Women in Punk and Hip Hop Conference, Cal State LA, Los Angeles, CA
2000
Cine-X, Olympia Film Festival, Olympia, WA

Bibliography

2011
Graves, Jen,” Wynne Greenwood”, Art in America, March
Simonson, Lily, “ Looking at Los Angeles, Nicole Eisenman and Wynne Greenwood”, Art:21 blog, May 26
2008
Hackett, Regina, "Issac Layman wins Betty Bowen”, Seattle Post Intelligencer, September 30
Graves, Jen, "Wynne Greenwood Profile”, (The Genius Awards), The Stranger, September 9
Harris, Lisa, "Two or Three Things I Know About Her”, Art Forum, May
"Live Cinema: A Contemporary Reader”, San Francisco Cinematheque, Interview with Lauren Cornell
"Art in General, NewCOMPANYline: Advertisement, Performance, Style and Authenticity by K8 Hardy”, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, March 14
"Continuing and Recommended” Wynne Greenwood at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, ArtScene, March 2008, Volume 27, Number 7
Farrugia, Mallory, "Wynne Greenwood: Face It” at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects”, Flavorpill Los Angeles, February 2
Pappas-Kelley, Jared, ”Wynne Greenwood of Tracy and the Plastics talks about her installation at the Tollbooth Gallery”, Writing/ Interviews, January 24
Harmanci, Reyhan, "Small Things End, Great Things Endure’: New look for feminism”, San Francisco Chronicle, January 17
2007
Lester, Paul, "We Remember Miami”, ArtNet, December
Dickson, Amy, "A New Team Under an Old Threat, Fictional Selves and Feminist Practice in the Collaborative Work of Wynne Greenwood and K8 Hardy”, ArtLies, Winter, Issue 56
Fichtner, Katharina, "Curator’s Voice: Wynne Greenwood’s ‘Peas’”,
NYArts Magazine, May/June
Molok, Nikolai (editor), Footnotes on Geopolitics, Market, and Amnesia: 2nd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art (catalogue), ArtChronika and Moscow Biennale Art Foundation
Tollmann, Vera, "Wynne Greenwood: Peas”, Kunst-blog.com, March 24
"2nd Moscow Biennale”, FlashArt Online News, January/February
2006
SK, "Musical Chairs”, artkrush, December 13
Arfiero, Michela, "C’e qualcosa nella mia stanza? ROOM di Tracy + the Plastics e Fawn Krieger”, Activa Magazine, December
Balaschak, Chris, "This Talk We Have/ This Talk We Have Had/ This Talk We Have/ Have Had”, ArtReview, October
Brooks, Amra, "Must See Art”, LA Weekly, July 26
2005
Rimanelli, David. "On the Ground, New York”, Artforum, December, Vol. XLIV, No. 4, pp 220-223
Neset, Anne Hilde. "Split Personalities”, Wire, September, Issue 259, p 14
Burton, Johanna. "Girl, Interrupted”, Artforum, Summer, Vol. XLIII, No. 10
Miller, Leigh Anne. "Tracy + the Plastics with Fawn Krieger at the Kitchen”, Art in America, June/July
Cotter, Holland. "Art in Review: Wynne Greenwood and K8 Hardy”, New York Times, May 20
Ruttenberg, Jay. "Backstage with Tracy + the Plastics”, Time Out New York, February 3-9, No. 4
2004
Stusoy, Brandon. "Band Wanted. Music Optional.”, NYFA, Fall, Vol. 3 No. 1, p 6
Smith, Nancy MacDonell. "Video Game”, Nylon, June/July, p 78
"Face Off: Tracy + the Plastics and BARR go head to head”, Anthem, June/July, No. 013
Boutin, Paul. "What’s (still) Experimental?”, The Independent, June, Vol. 27 No. 5
Pennington, Zac. "Mutually Inclusive”, the Stranger, April 15-21, Vol. 13 No. 31
Fateman, Johanna and Greene, Rachel. "People with Similar Turn-Ons”, Whitney Biennial Exhibition Catalogue
2003
McCrewcut, Lezzie. "Plastic Fantastic”, BUST, Fall
Hsu, Selena. "Plastic Passions”, XLR8R, March/April, No. 66, pp 58-60
Saval, Malina Sarah. "The Future’s in Plastics”, Resonance, Vol. 6 No. 3
2001
Charbonneau, Lisa. "Tracy + the Plastics”, Venus, August-October, No. 10, pp 11-14

Public Collections

Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Museum of Old and New Art, Tasmania, Australia

Presentations

2008
Visiting Artist, Art Center School of Design, Pasedena, CA
2007
Visiting Artist, University of California, San Diego
Visiting Artist, Washington University, St. Louis, MO
Visiting Artist, California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, CA
2005
Visiting Artist, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ (invited by Angela Ellsworth)
Visiting Artist, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
2004
Visiting Artist, School of the Arts, Tacoma, WA
Panelist, Barnard College, New York, NY
2003
Visiting artist, Harvard University, Cambridge, MASS (invited by Elisabeth Subrin)
2002
Visiting artist, College for Creative Studies, Detroit MI
2001
Teacher, Movie-Making Camp, Parks and Recreation, Olympia, WA
2000
Teacher, I was A Teenage Pirate, Middle School, Olympia, WA

Awards, Grants and Fellowships

2008
The Stranger Genius Award
PONCHO Special Recognition Award
2005
The Kitchen, New York, NY

Group Exhibition Catalogues and Books

2005
Everything was Slo-mo Remix, Giggles in the Dark LP, Alien8 Recordings
Layer Next to Me, essay, ANP Quarterly, Issue 2
Tracy + the Plastics, Culture for Pigeon, CD/DVD, Too Pure Records
2004
Tracy + the Plastics, Culture for Pigeon, CD/DVD, Troubleman Unlimited Records
2003
Can You Pause that for a Second… And let yourself groove, essay song, LTTR, Issue 2
2002
Tracy + the Plastics, Forever Sucks, EP, Chainsaw Records
2001
Tracy + the Plastics, Muscler’s Guide to Videonics, CD, Chainsaw Records