Claude Wampler

Born 1966 in Pennsylvania

Lives and works in New York

Education

1998–1999 

Masters Degree in Performance Studies, New York University Tisch School of the Arts

1998–1999 

Masters Degree in Performance Studies, New York University Tisch School of the Arts

1992–94

Studied in Tokyo with the Hakutobo Butoh Company

1985–89

BFA, State University of New York at Purchase, Conservatory of Theater Arts & Dance with Academic Credits from Columbia University, School of Arts & Sciences; and Operatic Study at Carnegie-Mellon University, Music Division.

Solo Exhibitions and Performances

2008 

Average Groucho: Engorged, Forde Espace d'art contemporain, Geneva

PERFORMANCE (career ender), Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

2007 

PERFORMANCE (career ender), Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland & Diverse Works Arts Space, Houston

Rehearsed Reverse, Diverse Works Arts Space, Houston

2006 

PERFORMANCE (career ender), The Kitchen, NYC

Rehearsed Reverse, Monkeytown, NYC

2005 

Coat Check, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris

Pomerania, Postmasters Gallery, NYC

2004 

BETTERHUMAN, Z33 Museum, Hasselt, Belgium

Stable (Stupidity Project Part 10), Diverse Works Arts Space, Houston & Kaaistudios, Brussels

2003 

Richard Wampler, Hebbel Theater, Berlin

vive la france, Postmasters Gallery, New York

Stable (Stupidity Project Part 10), P.S. 122, New York

Song&Dance(and a good movie), TENT/Witte de With & Schouwburg Theater, Rotterdam

2002 

Strategies for Stagefright, Vooruit Arts Center, Gent, Belgium

denislavant, Menagerie de Verre, Paris

Song&Dance(and a good movie), Gulbenkian Foundation Center of Modern Art, Lisbon

Infiltration, Museumsquartier, Vienna

Ambulance, Diverse Works Arts Space, Houston

Richard Wampler, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

2001 

Don't Believe in Yourself, Richard Telles Gallery, Los Angeles

Present Absence, Kunsten Festival des Arts, Brussels

Bad Job/Cruel World: Stupidity 2001, Part II, US$700 Stunt with Wedgy, New Museum for Contemporary Art, New York

Exposé, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh

2000 

Painting, the movie, Postmasters Gallery, New York

Richard Wampler, IMPAKT Festival, Utrecht, the Netherlands

Transpeciality, Kaaistudios, Brussels

1999 

Bucket, the working title, P.S. 122, New York, Vroouit Theatre, Ghent, Belgium, Kaaistudios, Brussels & TripleX Festival, Amsterdam

1998 

Bucket, the working title, The Arches, Glasgow, Scotland,National Review of Live Arts, Glasgow

Blanket, the surface of her, City of Women, Ljubljana Slovenia & Somner Szene, Salzburg

Poor Traits, Postmasters Gallery, New York

Knitease: Ms.LeFarge Gives Another Historical Performance, Apex Art, New York

1997 

Muffle, Postmasters Gallery @ The International Gramercy Art Fair, New York

Blanket, the surface of her, P.S. 122, New York

1996 

Hydrobeastaphilia/Kohi/Mamanucleosis, Pilot Arts, New York

Vertical Smile, Postmasters Gallery, New York

Geisha Secretia, Panda's Glands: A Pheromonal Pursuit, P.S. 122, New York

Cult Of Claude, HERE, New York

1995 

The Adventures of HER (Part 1 of 4) Landing #01.19.30.12.15.19.95 TAN CHILLY Solid Lifeform, HERE, New York

Four Records One Dog, Judson Church, New York

The 17^th State, produced by Rebo Co. (Japanese/British Co-Production) for High Definition Television

Siamese Tease, One Dream Theater, New York

1-900-10-27 (LuvMe), The Knitting Factory, New York

She is high. True or False?, P.S. 122, New York

Cake Fur, HERE, New York

1994 

Shaft, SlimFit Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut

Felt Bell or Little Reverse Nurse, HERE, NYC

MAMA, P.S. 122/Mabou Mines, New York

1993 

She's Not Bad, She's Just Genetically Mean, SOHO, New York

Dozen, Chalmers Church Art Space, Tasmania, Australia

Gala's Gall Bladder, Melbourne Town Hall, Melbourne Arts Festival, Melbourne

Group Exhibitions and Collaborations

2008

Time Crevasse, curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Hu Fang, Akiko Miyake, Hans Ulrich Obrist and Beatrix Ruf, Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama

2007 

What we do is secret, curated by Amy O'Neill, Blankpain Art Contemporain, Geneva

Evacuation, curated by Herman Asselsberg and Edwin Carels, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerpen

BloodBath&Beyond, Hiromi Yoshii Gallery, Tokyo

PLASTIC, curated by John Tremblay, Musee d'art et d'histoire, Geneva

Melvins, curated by Bob Nickas, The Mandrake, Los Angeles

2006 

Domino, Air de Paris Gallery, Paris

2005 

designed and constructed paintings for Love is Everything, a dance piece by Sarah Michelson, Lyon Opera Ballet, Lyon

designed and constructed paintings for daylight for Minneapolis, a dance piece by Sarah Michelson, P.S. 122, New York

designed and constructed paintings for daylight for Minneapolis, a dance piece by Sarah Michelson, Walker Arts Center, Minneapolis

2003 

Melvins, curated by Bob Nikas, Anton Kern Gallery, New York

Fashion: The Greatest Show On Earth, curated by Ginger Gregg Duggan, Bellevue Art Museum, Seattle

Snare for the Eyes, curated by Alice Smits, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam

Static, curated by Edwin Carels, TENT/Witte de With, Rotterdam

2002 

Digital Sublime, curated by Wonil Rhee, media_city seoul 2002, Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul

New Attitudes in Sculpture, curated by Ken Fried, Gallery@Green Street, Boston

2001 

Panic, curated by Dan Cooney, Julie Saul Gallery, New York

Statuts, curated by Boris Charmatz, Menagerie de Verre, Paris

2000 

Painting, the movie, Postmasters Gallery, New York

Critic as Grist, curated by Michael Portnoy, White Box, New York

human/nature, curated by Jane Harris, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York

1999 

Story, curated by Elyse Goldberg, AC Project Room, New York

Minty, curated by Bruce Hainley, Richard Telles Gallery, Los Angeles

1998 

Bathroom, curated by Wayne Koestenbaum, Thomas Healy Gallery, New York

1997 

Threesome (with Anissa Mack and Aaron Rose), Postmasters Gallery, New York

1996 

Permanent Brain Damage, written and directed by Richard Foreman, Ontological Hysteric Theater, New York

CULT OF CLAUDE Instructional Ritual Video, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York

1995 

NEOPAN 8mm, Fourth World A.W.O.W. Gallery, New York

Bibliography

• Christy DeSmith, “Claude Wampler: What Just Happened?”, The Rake, January 28, 2008
• Rohan Preston, “Claude Wampler, Disappointing Yet Interesting”, Star Tribune, January 25, 2008
• Kelly Klaasmeyer, “Claude Wampler”, Houston Press, November 22, 2007
• Stephan Marc Beaudoin, “Wampler's (career ender) Is the Talk of TBA: 07”, Willamette Week, September 13, 2007
• Gia Kourlas, “The Best and Worst of 2006”, Time Out New York, December 28-January 3rd 2006/7.
• Matthew Sandoval, “Claude Wampler's PERFORMANCE (career ender) presented at The Kitchen”, The Brooklyn Rail, Dec-Jan 06/07
• John Rockwell, “Is It Dance? Does It Matter”, New York Times, November 24, 2006
• “Claude Wampler”, Goings On About Town, The New Yorker, November 20, 2006
• Gia Kourlas, “End of the Line”, Time Out New York, November 15-22, 2006
• “Maybe Some Spontaneity Can Happen”, Gia Kourlas, New York Times, September 10, 2006
• Sophie Fels, “Claude Wampler Pomerania”, Time Out New York, January 13-19, 2005
• “Voice Choice- Claude Wampler”, The Village Voice, January 5-11, 2005
• Claude Wampler, “Gustav”, AS, publisher: Antwerp Museum of Contemporary Art (MuHKA), Summer 2004
• Jeroen Peeters, “De toeschouwer vastgelegd”, De Morgen, March 15, 2004
• Pieter T'Jonck, “Kunst die zichzelf uitwist”, TIJD Cultuur, March 11, 2004
• David Usborne, “The Joy of Sex”, The Independent Magazine, September 20, 2003
• Claudia Galhos, “E danca? E artes plasticas?”, Diario Economico, September 19, 2002
• Maria Joao Caetano, “Um filme, varias cancoes e um solo do danca”, Diario de Noticias, September 9, 2002
• Davis Bernadas, “Obesession denislavant”, Mouvement.Net, September 25, 2002
• Chas Bowie, “Slapstick Disaster Verité,” Glass Tire: Texas Visual Art Online, January 18, 2002
• Michael Rush ,“A Note: Performance Art Lives,” Fashion Theory, September 2001
• Sally De Kunst, “De dwingende afwezigheid van Claude Wampler,” De Morgen, May 25, 2001
• Herman Asselberghs, “Broken Contract,” TIJD Cultuur, May 16, 2001
• Dominique LeGrand, “Claude Wampler: Goodbye to the Body,” Le Soir, May 2, 2001
• Wayne Koestenbaum ,“Sixteen Fables for Claude Wampler,” Dietsche Warande & Belfort, March 2001
• Jane Harris, “Claude Wampler,” Art&Text, December/January 2001
• Michael Rush, “Claude Wampler at Postmasters,” Art in America, February 2001
• Wayne Koestenbaum, “Top Ten/Figures and Faces,” Artforum, December 2000
• David Humphrey, “Claude Wampler at Postmasters/New York e-Mail,” Art Issues, November/December 2001
• “Claude Wampler,” Goings On About Town, The New Yorker, October 9, 2000
• Holland Cotter, “Claude Wampler,”, The New York Times, September 29, 2000
• Sarah Valdez, “Claude Wampler,” Time Out NY, September 21-28, 2000
• “Out There - Claude Wampler,” Interview, February 2000
• Bruce Hainley, “Best of the 90s - Claude Wampler,” Artforum, December 1999
• Tom Murrin, “Merry Prankster - The Canny and Controversial Claude Wampler,” Paper, February 1999
• Peter Plagens, “Claude Wampler- High Performance,”, Newsweek, January 25, 1999
• Peter Plagens, “Stage Fright,” Artforum, January 1999
• Wayne Koestenbaum, “The Best of 1998”, Artforum, December 1998
• Peter Plagens, “The Best of 1998”, Artforum, December 1998
• RoseLee Goldberg, Performance: Live Art Since the 1960ties, Harry N. Abrams, 1998
• E.E.F. “Ein dringendes Bedurfnis”, Sud Zeitung, July 1998
• Holland Cotter, “Bathroom”, New York Times, June 26, 1998
• David Rimanelli, “Bathroom”, New Yorker, July 6, 1998
• RoseLee Goldberg, “Blanket, the surface of her”, Artforum, September 1997
• Kim Levin, “Fair Play”, Village Voice, May 29, 1997
• Steven Druckman, “Send in the Claude”, Village Voice, April 22,1997
• Bruce Hainley, “Dumb Up”, Artforum, December 1996
• Sarah Schmerler, “Vertical Smile”, Time Out New York, July 3,1996
• Bruce Hainley, “All The Rage”, Artforum, March 1996
• Tom Murrin, “Summer Stage”, Paper Magazine, Summer 1995
• Bruce Hainley, “Cake Fur”, Artforum, April 1995
• Artforum, April 1995

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