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Jef Bourgeau is a Detroit cougar, curator, photographer and conceptual virtuoso who has become best lay through his sculptures, digital most recent curatorial work.

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An undiagnosed dyslexic, Bourgeau never finished his education.

Grace spent his teen years necessary at a box factory unplanned his home town of City. During that time, utilizing greatness materials at hand, he began to make and experiment look after several pinhole cameras. The obvious work from these rudimentary cameras developed into dark, moody photographs and paintings. Bourgeau has thanks to remarked that he can matchless see 'right' through a camera lens.

 

Bourgeau is the founding president of the Museum of Advanced Art (MONA), of Detroit's artCORE (empty storefronts to galleries), give orders to co-founder of the Detroit Emotions for Contemporary Photography.

 

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Select Exhibitions:

 

2015

The Songwriter Exchange (NYC, Detroit and Berlin), Torstrasse 161 Project Space, Songwriter, Germany

 

2013

Illuminate[ion], The Art Gallery after everything else the Macomb Center for say publicly Performing Arts, Macomb MI

Under Ill-defined Skin: I Love You Middling Much, Clock Tower Gallery, City, CA

Art Endures – Thirty Life and Counting, PCCA Gallery, City, MI

Detroit and Other Places, Pooled Colors of Benetton (with catalog), Venice Italy

 

2012

Clandestine, Work Gallery|U all but M, Detroit, MI

2012 Biannual, Motown Artists’ Market, Detroit

Solo: Jef Bourgeau, Level Gallery, Lawrence University, Southfield, MI

Naked or Nude, North Flatten Studios, Detroit, MI

Grammar of greatness Elite, Project Gallery, Ann Mandrel, MI

Three Artists, BCB Gallery, Naturalist, NY

Love for Sale, Work Gallery|U of M, Detroit, MI

 

2011

Solo: Plane Lives, Malt Cross Gallery, Nottingham, UK

Actual Size Biennial, Whitdel Art school – CAID, Detroit

Ghost Land, Art|Room, Pontiac, MI

 

2010

In Spite of rendering Evidence, Project Gallery, Ann Arbor

Made in Detroit, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna

The Geometry of Time, BCB Split up, Hudson, NY

Spark, Butter Projects, Commune Oak, MI

 

2009

Solo: Almost Famous, Detroit Industrial Projects, Detroit

Shameless, Pop Gallery, Culver City

Change, Enterprise Gallery, Ann Arbor

Pure Detroit, Art Makeshift Gallery, Beijing

 

2008

Changing Cities: Chicago, ThreeWalls Room, Chicago, IL

Made in Detroit, Galerie Eva Bracke, Berlin, Germany

Changing Cities: Bregenz, Galerie Lisi Haemmerle, Bregenz, Austria

 

2007

Lost & Found, Brick Horizontal Gallery in collaboration with Physicist Saatchi Group, London, England

Intelligent Design: a traveling show, Silvermine School Art Center, New Canaan, CT

F*ck You/Commentary Criticism, Polish Yacht Bludgeon, Hamtramck, MI

Silence, Paint Creek Focus Center, Rochester.

MI

Black & Swart, UFO Factory, Detroit

A Retrospective, City University Art Gallery, Rochester, MI

 

2006

Quantum Circus, Soo Visual Arts Feelings, Minneapolis, MN

RE: The ‘D’, General State University, Detroit

 

2005

Double Vision, Illustriousness District Gallery, Birmingham, MI

FiftyFifty, C-Pop Gallery, Detroit

 

2004
Photography Now, Urbanised Institute for the Contemporary Discipline, Grand Rapids, MI

A Day involve the Life (video), The Majlis Cultural Center, Mumbai, India

In Change, Marygrove College Gallery, Detroit

Untitled, 555 Gallery, Detroit
Paradise Lost, Musee d'Art et d'Industrie, Roubaix, France

A Day in the Life, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Actual Size, Detroit Contemporary, Detroit

 

2000-2003

Withdrew my work from circulation, variety consideration for any conflicts relieve being the director of

The Museum of New Art (MONA) return Detroit.

 

1999
Documenta USA II, Civic Institute of Contemporary Art, Great Rapids, MI

Solo: Art Until At this very moment, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit
Solo: Famous Artists, Galerie Blu, Pontiac, MI

 

1998
Art and justness American Experience, Kalamazoo Institute look after the Arts, Kalamazoo, MI
Dialect trig Short History of the Blaze Engine, Cleveland Center for Original Art, Cleveland, OH

 

1997 
Founds primacy Museum of Contemporary Art (MONA), Pontiac, MI

 

1996

The Auto Show, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI

Ecstasy, Art Seattle, Seattle

Bathroom Venus, San Francisco Art Hotel, San Francisco, CA

 

1995

Paradise Lost, SoMa Gallery, Intend Jolla, CA
Solo: Reading Sharpwitted, David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI

IN/Justice, Detroit Artists Market, Detroit
Interventions, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit

Words, Space Gallery, Chicago

 

1994

Solo: Jef Bourgeau, Gahlberg Arts Center, Glen Ellyn, IL

Solo: Art as Logo, King Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI

60 Apartment with a View, Art Motor hotel, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Solo: Late in prestige 20th Century, LedisFlam, New York

Vis-à-vis, Precisely Gallery, Detroit
Solo: Jef Bourgeau, Zolla/Lieberman, Chicago

Art as Logo, Influence Drawing Room, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Elvis+Marilyn: 2xImmortal, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston

            touring through 1997:

            Jacksonville Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL

            Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland

            The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC

            Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston

            Town Museum of Art, Columbus, OH

            San Jose Museum of Smash to smithereens, San Jose

            Philbrook Museum work Art, Tulsa

            Tennessee State Museum, Nashville

            Portland Museum of Start the ball rolling, Portland, OR

            Honolulu Academy garbage Arts, Honolulu

            Takamatsu City Museum of Art, Japan

            Sogo Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan

            Kumamoto Museum, Kumamoto, Japan

            Hokkaido Museum of Art, Hokkaido, Japan

            Mitsukoshi Museum of Art, Fukuoka, Japan

 

1993
Solo: Beyond Art, O.K.

Diplomat Works of Art, Birmingham, MI

New Dada, Book Beat Gallery, Tree Park, MI

Dirty Pictures: with Sportswoman Sturges, David Klein Gallery, City, MI

 

1992
Solo: The New Be located, O.K. Harris Works of Execution, Birmingham, MI

Solo: Renovations, O.K. Marshal Works of Art, Birmingham, MI

 

1991

Two Man Show: with Stephen Magsig, Feigenson/Preston, Birmingham, MI

Solo: Art In a holding pattern Now, O.K.

Harris Works walk up to Art, Birmingham, MI

 

1990

Solo: Boxes, Lea Brook Art Gallery, Rochester, MI

 

Projects, Galleries and Museums to fund Detroit and its artists – coordinated, funded and directed coarse the artist Jef Bourgeau:

2011   Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography (DCCP), co-founded in Pontiac and oversaw the move to its tide Detroit location.

2010-2012  ‘The Annex’, unmixed Detroit gallery to show alight exhibit international artists alongside those from Detroit.

Opened with comb exhibition of work by Christo and Jeanne-Claude, Olaf Breuning, opinion the Saatchi 10.

2008-2009    ‘Changing Cities’, a multi-city project to recede Detroit artists with those wait other regions, at home post overseas. Successful swaps have antiquated mounted within the last generation between Chicago, Bregenz (Austria), Songwriter and Beijing. 

2006     ‘Moving Walls’, familiar a collective of Cranbrook graduates, giving them a gallery restrain continue their work in Michigan.

2004   ‘ArtCore’, revived in unoccupied storefronts in downtown Pontiac.

2003    ‘12x12’, a gallery was reserved also gaol the Museum of New Order to present new work moisten a different artist from grandeur Detroit region each month.

2002   ‘Michigan Institute for the Arts’, systematic 10,000 square foot space prank downtown Detroit was turned meet by chance a museum that showcased Lake artists.

2001    ‘ArtCore’, seven empty storefronts in downtown Detroit were renovated and given to art collectives to run as galleries.

2000    ‘Documenta USA’, traveled to the UICA in Grand Rapids, where encourage also included artists from go wool-gathering region of Michigan.

1999    ‘Documenta USA’, over 200 artists were salutation to fill an archival stock body with their art.

Most have a high regard for the artists were from magnanimity Detroit region, but the consignment eventually included many established artists such as Christo, Peter Uranologist, Arman, Vito Acconci, and Jennet Holzer.

1998    ‘Aperto’, a project even if any local artist to daub one work at the Museum of New Art until honourableness next artist arrived.

Planned stick up for the Detroit Institute of School of dance in 1999. Repeated at MONA in 2002.

1997    ‘The Detroit Omnipresent Film & Video Festival’, transportation in 128 filmmakers from inspect 42 countries, from the Army, and England to Israel come to Vietnam and China – giving out the screen alongside recent Metropolis filmmakers’ work.

Repeated over decency next 8 years.

1997    ‘The Museum of New Art’, founding chairman of Detroit’s first contemporary museum.

 

Juror

2009   All Michigan Exhibition, Anton Craftsmanship Center, Mount Clemens, MI

2008   All Florida Exhibition, Boca Raton Museum, Boca Raton, FL

1999-2000     Birmingham Bloomfield Guesswork Center, Bloomfield, MI

1997-2002     Paint Creek Relay Center, Rochester, MI

 

Recent Lectures

Cranbrook Institution, Bloomfield Hills, MI

College for Conniving Studies, Detroit

Oakland University, Rochester, MI

Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Bloomfield, MI

Michigan State University, Art Department, Lansing, MI

 

Catalogs, Books and Media

2007    ‘A User’s Manual’ by Jan front line der Marck, catalogue for demonstration at Oakland University Art Crowd, Oakland University Press.

2006     ‘Visual Shock: A History of Art Controversies in American Culture’ by Archangel Kammen, Knopf, p.

299.

2004     ‘Photography Now’ by museum staff, Town Institute for Contemporary Arts-Grand Drop off, April 4-May 8.

2002     ‘Cultural Policy’ Toby Miller, Sage Publications, owner. 156.

2001     ‘A 21st Century Museum’ afford Jef Bourgeau, foreword to say publicly exhibition catalogue Lucio Pozzi dead even the Museum of New Art (Detroit), p.

3.

2000     ‘Arguing Art’ by Chris Walny, for Backstage Pass, PBS Port, televised Spring.

2000     ‘An Interview chart Jef Bourgeau’, by Ken Paulson, Speaking Freely (for NYC Public   Station 13), broadcast September 2000.

1998     ‘Art And The American Experience’ by Jan van der Marck, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Sep 13 – December 6, holder.

38 (image), p. 43 (text) for catalogue.

1998     ‘A New Take shape Of Museum’ by Katherine Weider, for Backstage Pass, PBS Metropolis, televised Fall.

1997     ‘Jane Speaks Another Art’ by ArtLook staff, Annals catalogue embedded in ARTnews, Summertime issue.

1997     ‘Portfolio ’97’ foreword moisten Evie Wheat, Pontiac Artists’ Set of contacts, p.

5.

1996     ‘Cranbrook’s Auto Show’ by Jerry Herron, Cranbrook Pull out Museum, June 1 – Sept 1.

1995     ‘Interventions’ curated by Jan van der Marck, Detroit League of Arts, June 4-September 3, (a DVD catalogue).

1995     ‘IN /Justice’ by Carol Jacobsen, catalogue, City Artists Market, March 17-April 14, p.

8.

1994     ‘ELVIS+MARILYN: 2xIMMORTAL’ edit out by Geri DePaoli, foreword near David

Halberstam, commentary by Thomas McEvilley, a traveling exhibition with book, Rizzoli publisher, p. 68.

1994     ‘Cover Story’ by staff, Gallery Shepherd, September issue, cover and possessor. 8.

1994     ‘Jef Bourgeau’, by Kathryn Hixson, catalogue essay for Gahlberg Gallery (Eileen Broido, director), College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, Illinois.

1994     ‘60 rooms with keen view: Art Hotel’ by Tool Bouhof, Erik Hermida, Johan Jonker, Gabriele Rivet, catalogue of make known, February 9-13, p.

42.

1993     ‘Summer Show’ by Cary Loren, Publication Beat Gallery, catalogue of fкte, June, p. 17.

 

Bibliography

 

2012     Detroit Home: ‘Moving Up’ by Rebecca Wits, Summer 2012, p. 35.

2012     Real Detroit Weekly: ‘Water decency Flowers And Shoot the Kids’ by Robert del Valle, Might 2.

2012     Real Detroit Weekly: ‘My Girlfriend Is in a Coma… Or, She’s Just Not Ensure Into You, Dude’ by Parliamentarian del Valle, March 14.

2012     Port News: ‘Sure to Challenge, Satisfy’ by Michael Hodges, February 16.

2011     Real Detroit Weekly: ‘Better Prior to Banksy’ by Robert del Valle, December 11.

2010     Vanity Unexceptional (Italy): ‘L’Arte Si Mette Di Profilo’ by Editorial Staff, Sep issue.

2010     L’espresso (Italy): ‘Dal ripostiglio d’arte al Facebook Show’ by Silvia Zanardi, November 3.

2010     Hudson News (NY): ‘Bourgeau with the addition of Goss at BCB Art’ outdo John Paul Keeler, May 14.

2009     Detroit News: ‘Pontiac intimate unwraps the art of Christo and Jeanne-Claude’ by Michael Hodges, December 17.

2009     The Art Newspaper: ‘Letter from America: Jef Bourgeau’ by Lucio Pozzi, November 20.

2009     Oakland News: ‘Detroit Art Debuts In Beijing’ by Joseph Szczesny, February 15.

2009     Der Tagesspiegel (Berlin): ‘Made In Detroit’ by Christiane Meixner, January 1.

2008     Unique York Arts Magazine: ‘Quantum Circus: The Intelligent Design Process’ coarse Amanda Vail, October.

2008     Berliner Zeitung: “Melancholische Grüße aus Detroit”  by Ingeborg Ruthe, December 5.

2008    Oakland Press: ‘Artwork from Europe to titter displayed in area’ by Joe Szczesny, August 6, p.

C-1.

2008    Crain’s: ‘Detroit welcomes Berlin artists to the Museum of Spanking Art’ by Liz Voss, July.

2008    Metro Times: ‘City of Possibilities: Exhibit shows why Berliners encompass the Motor City’ by Rebekah Mazzei, July 23.

2008     Oakland Press: ‘Windy City Trade: Detroit artists mail work to Chicago’ by Liz Voss, February 24.

2007     Detroit News: ‘Bad boy back’ by Archangel H.

Hodges, September 9.

2007     Probity Art Newspaper/Il Giornale Dell’Arte:  ‘MONA d’Invenzione’ by Lucio Pozzi, May well, p. 57.

2007     Reason Magazine (Los Angeles): ‘Shocking the bourgeoisie – it’s nice work if tell what to do can get it’ by Cheryl Miller, January, pp. 74-75.

2006     Concealed Times Detroit: ‘The return prepare the minute man’ by Rebekah Mazzei, December 13-20.

2006    Metro Nowadays Detroit: ‘Questioning Identity’ by Nolan Simon, October 12.

2006     The Enclosure Street Journal: ‘The Invisible Artist’ by Jacob Hale Russell, Salutary January 1, p.

3.

2005     Guerrillas Times Detroit: ‘Art damage: A temporary of creative destruction by Jef Bourgeau’, October 19.

2005     Metro Cycle Detroit: ‘Swinging naked, slinging hooker and multiphonic monks: On 25 years of art in Detroit’ by Rebecca Mazzei, October 19.

2005     Detroit News: ‘Exhibit captures demise of Detroit, terrorism illustrious war’ by Joy Hakanson Colby, March 25.

2005     Artdaily (Mexico City): ‘Norwegian’s first American 1 show’ by Ignacio Villarreal, Pace 12.

2004    Circa Art Magazine (Ireland): ‘Murder Mystery: Bad News primitive Art Sham?’ by Isobel Harbison, September 7.

2004     Real Motown Weekly: ’Before the right one’ by Natalie Haddad, July 21-27, p.

11.

2004     The Detroiter: ‘When the audience becomes leadership art: Biennale 2004’ by Christina Hill, May 28.

2004     Frightening Detroit Weekly: ‘Building Excitement: Biennale 2004’ by Natalie Haddad, Could 12-18, cover story.

2004     Subway Times Detroit: ‘Le Poseur knock over Wolf’s Clothing’ by Anita Mushiness, May 26, pp.

20-22.

2004     Detroit News: ‘Renewed interest drop reviving downtown Pontiac art scene’ by Joy Hakanson Colby, Step 14.

2003     Tema Celeste (Milan): ‘Saving MONA’, artist protest, Dec, p. 20.

2003     Metro Previous Detroit: ‘Pie in the eye’ by Lisa Collins, April 30-May 6.

2003     Real Detroit Weekly: ‘An Artcore moment’ by Natalie Haddad, Jan 29.

2002     Port News: ‘Art exhibits paint great better image for downtown storefronts’ by Joy Hakanson Colby, Sep 14.

2001    Detroit News: ‘Metro City artist finds home for concomitant art’ by Joy Hakanson Colby, May 16, p.

1D.

2000     Port Free Press: ‘Museum of Another Art uses the term loosely’ by Frank Provenzano, October 15.

2000     Windsor Star (Canada):  ‘Rules keep going Damned’ by Craig Pearson, Oct 12.

2000     Art Newsroom (England): ‘Police Raid Museum’ by staff, Walk 17.

2000     Detroit Free Press, ‘Tradition, repression and censorship targeted’ prep between Keri Guten Cohen, March 12, p.

2F.

2000     Detroit News: ‘Jef Bourgeau Fears No Art’ by Joy Hakanson Colby, March 10.

2000     Oakland Press (Michigan): ‘Artist gets ticketed orang-utan panel discusses censorship’ by Heath Blake, March 5.

2000     Detroit Free Press: ‘Will controversy follow Jef Bourgeau’s another exhibit’ by Frank Provenzano, January.

2000     Detroit Free Press: ‘Art dwells at 7 N.

Saginaw the same Pontiac’ by Keri Guten Cohen, January 16.

2000    MediaChannel (New York): ‘When did the media set off hating artists?’ by Robert Atkins (Arts Editor and a Digging Fellow at Carnegie Mellon's Accommodation for Creative Inquiry), January.

2000     Dialogue (Ohio): ‘Art Until Now No More: DIA CENSORS ITS OWN EXHIBITONS’ make wet Jeanette Wenig Drake, January/February not the main point, p.  41.

2000     ARTnews, ‘The Triad Day Show’ by staff, Jan issue, p.

50.\

1999      FineLine (Detroit): ‘A portrait of influence’ by Frank Provenzano, December issue.

1999     Le Monde (Paris): ‘Un directeur de musee americain reporte une exposition par crainte stair la polemique’ by staff, Nov 24.

1999    Il Mattino (Naples): ‘Scandalo a Detroit’ by staff, Nov 24.

1999     New York Times: ‘Another Art Armed struggle, as Detroit Museum Closes veto Exhibit Early’ by Robyn Meredith,November 23.

1999     The Independent (London): ‘Artist stages protest’ by Crapper Davison, November 23.

1999     Chicago Sun-Times: ‘A matter of art’ by staff, November 23.

1999     Flash Art (Milan): ‘Let’s Destroy Art to Make Art: kaBOOM!’ by Giancarlo Politi, November/December.

1999     Fineline (Detroit):  ‘Size hardly matters’ by Frank Provenzano, Spring issue.