Walead Beshty

(Born) 1976 in London, UK
(Based) Los Angeles, CA, USA
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Walead Beshty works in a broad variety of media including sculpture, photography, painting, installation, and video. In his work Besthy explores the limits of the artistic production process by using unconventional methods and techniques, generally leaving a lot to chance which results in very unpredictable and random works of art. The transparency of the production context is central to his work, often even referring to this in his titles. He thereby lets the audience discover the social space that surrounds the artwork from its conception to its reception, through its distribution and circulation.
— LVB

Recent solo exhibitions include Kunst Museum Winterthur, Switzerland, Fondazione MAST, Bologna, Italy; Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland; Malmö Konsthall, Sweden; Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Madrid, Spain; Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China. His work was shown in group exhibitions at: Cloud Seven, Brussels, Belgium; Museum für Fotografie, Braunschweig, Germany [travelled to Kunstmuseum Wolfburg, Germany; Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany]; de la Cruz Collection, Miami, FL USA; Golden Eagle Art Museum, Nanjing, China; Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Jalisco, Mexico, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, England; Museum of Contemporary Art Busan, South Korea; Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Antwerp, Belgium; City Gallery Wellington Te Whare Toi, Aotearoa, New Zealand.

He has curated several shows: Picture Industry: A Provisional History of the Technical Image, 1844–2018, Fondation LUMA, Parc des Ateliers, Arles, France; Picture Industry, Bard CCS Hessel Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson NY; On the Matter of Abstraction (figs. A & B): Parallel Exhibitions of Post-War Non-Figurative Art from the Collection, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, in collaboration with Rose Art Museum Director Christopher Bedford; Picture Industry (Goodbye to All That), Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA (2010), The Gold Standard—co-curated with Bob Nickas, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City NY.

His work is included in several public collections such as: Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia, Art Institute of Chicago IL, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore MD, Waltham MA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA, Tate, London, England University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor MI, United States Department of State Embassy, Islamabad, Pakistan, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City UT Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, England

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  • Walead Beshty, THREE PICTURES
  • Walead Beshty, Blind Collage (Three 180° Rotations, de Standaard, Tuesday, September 3
  • Walead Beshty, THREE PICTURES
  • Walead Beshty, THREE PICTURES
  • Walead Beshty, Three Sided Picture (YRM), January 11, 2007, Santa Clarita, California, Fujicolor Crystal Archive
  • Walead Beshty, Three Sided Picture (YRM), January 11, 2007, Santa Clarita, California, Fujicolor Crystal Archive
  • Walead Beshty, THREE PICTURES
  • Walead Beshty, Blind Collage (Three 180° Rotations, The New York Times International Edition, Thursday, September 5, 2019)
  • Walead Beshty, THREE PICTURES
  • Walead Beshty, Walead Beshty
  • Walead Beshty, Walead Beshty
  • Walead Beshty, Walead Beshty
  • Walead Beshty, Walead Beshty
  • Walead Beshty, Walead Beshty
  • Walead Beshty, RA4 Contact Print / Processor Stall [Black Curl (9:6/MYC/Six Magnet: Los Angeles, California, July 15, 2014, Fuji Color Crystal Archive Super Type C, Em. No. 199-023, 75814), Kreonite KM IV 5225 RA4 Color Processor, Ser. No. 00092174]
  • Walead Beshty, Cross-Contaminated RA4 Contact Print [Black Curl (9:6/MCY/Six Magnet: Los Angeles, California, August 8th 2014, Fuji Color Crystal Archive Super Type C, Em. No. 112-012, Kodak Ektacolor RA Bleach- Fix and Replenisher, Cat. No. 847 1484, 80414), Kreonite KM IV 5225 RA4 Color Processor, Ser. No. 00092174]
  • Walead Beshty, All the World’s Futures, curated by Okwui Enwezor
  • Walead Beshty, All the World’s Futures, curated by Okwui Enwezor
  • Walead Beshty, All the World’s Futures, curated by Okwui Enwezor
  • Walead Beshty, All the World’s Futures, curated by Okwui Enwezor
  • Walead Beshty, La ciudad en llamas (February 17 – March 1, 2015: Cerámica Suro Contemporánea, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico)
  • Walead Beshty, Cross-Contaminated RA4 Contact Print [Black Curl (9:6/MYC/Six Magnet: Los Angeles, California, March 26th 2014, Fuji Color Crystal Archive Super Type C, Em. No. 107-016, 54514), Kreonite KM IV 5225 RA4 Color Processor, Ser. No. 00092174]
  • Walead Beshty, White Curl (YMC/Four Magnet: Los Angeles, California, February 27th 2013, Fuji Color Crystal Archive Super Type C, Em. No. 166-016, 05313)
  • Walead Beshty, Selected Works (2009–2012/March 16th 2012 - July 10th 2012)
  • Walead Beshty, Atopolis, Wiels at Mons 2015
  • Walead Beshty, <strike>Epson Stylus NX420</strike>
  • Walead Beshty, A Partial Disassembling of an Invention Without a Future: Helter-Skelter and Random Notes in Which the Pulleys and Cogwheels Are Lying Around at Random All Over the Workbench
  • Walead Beshty, Marginalis (Los Angeles, California, May 1 - August 1, 2014)
  • Walead Beshty, Fair Use
  • Walead Beshty, Aggregate XIII (August 20-22, 2013, Cerámica Suro, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico)
  • Walead Beshty, Securities and Exchanges
  • Walead Beshty, Copper Tube (FedEx® Tube© 2005 FEDEX 139752 REV 10/05 SSCC), Standard Overnight, Los Angeles-Los Angeles trk#861718438293, August 31-September 2, 2011
  • Walead Beshty, FedEx® Kraft Box ©2005 FEDEX 330504 REV 10/05 SSCC, International Priority, Los Angeles-Paris, trk#838049894399, October 12, 2011 - October 14, 2011
  • Walead Beshty, Large Copper ( FedexLargeBox ) ©2005 FEDEX 139751 REV 10/05 SSCC), International Priority, Los Angeles-Brussels
  • Walead Beshty, A Diagram of Forces
  • Walead Beshty, Diapositives
  • Walead Beshty, Diapositives
  • Walead Beshty, Diapositives
  • Walead Beshty, Copper Surrogate (Table: designed by Willy Van der Meeren, 1958; Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Frieze New York, New York, May 14-17, 2015)
  • Walead Beshty, Diapositives
  • Walead Beshty, Transparency (Positive) (Fujichrome RDPIII Provia 100F Em. No. 05481 : November 28 - 30, 2010 LAX/MIA MIA/LAX
  • Walead Beshty, Transparency (Positive) [Fujichrome RDPIII Provia 100F Em. No. 05481: January 11 - 15, 2011 LAX/IAD/ZRH ZRH/IAD/LAX]
  • Walead Beshty, Passages
  • Walead Beshty, Passages
  • Walead Beshty, Industrial Pictures
  • Walead Beshty, Industrial Pictures
  • Walead Beshty, Six-Sided Picture A (CMMYYC: Irvine California, July 16th 2008, Fuji Crystal Archive Type C)
  • Walead Beshty, Three-Sided Picture (CMY), March 25th 2010, Irvine, California, Fuji Crystal Archive Super Type C

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