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WALEAD BESHTY

BIBLIOGRAPHY

EXHIBITION CATALOGUES, MONOGRAPHS, AND PUBLICATIONS

2011
Collection Vanmoerkerke, published by Rispoli Books, Brussels, Belgium, 2011, pp. 20-21 (ill.)
Walead Beshty: Natural Histories, Monograph, Zurich, Switzerland: JRP | Ringier, 160pp
After Images, (Ex. Cat.) published by the Jewish Museum Belgium, Brussels, 2011
Antidote 7, published by the Galerie des Galeries, Paris, 2011

2010
Thanks for Being With Us: Contemporary Art from the Douglas Nielsen Collection, published by the Tucson Museum of Art, 2010, p. 12 (ill)
Beshty, Walead, Walead Beshty: Selected Correspondences 2001-2010, Bologna, Italy: Damiani, 2010, 127pp
Walead Beshty, Monograph, Zurich, Switzerland: JRP | Ringier, 160pp
Blessing, Jennifer, and Nat Trotman, Haunted: Contemporary Photography, Video, Performance (Ex. cat), New York: Guggenheim Museum.
Hammer Projects 1999-2009, Los Angeles: Hammer Museum.
Iversen, Margaret, ed. Chance (Documents of Contemporary Art), London: Whitechapel Gallery/Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, March.
Johnston Marklee and Walead Beshty, (Ex. cat) Grottaferrata, Italy: Depart Foundation.

2009
Bright, Susan, The Self-Portrait in Contemporary Art, London: Thames & Hudson.
Colin, Davies and Monika Parrinder, eds. Limited language – rewriting design, Basel: Birkhauser.
Walead Beshty: Pulleys, Cogwhells, Mirrors, and Windows (Ex. cat) Ann Arbor: Unviersity of Michigan Museum of Art. 50pp.
Rexler, Lyle, The Edge of Vision: The Rise of Abstraction in Photography, New York: Aperture Books. Portfolio, pp 140-145.
Grabner, Michelle, ed. Studio Reader, Chicago: University of Chicago Press.
Stoschek, Julia, ed., Julia Stoschek Collection, Number Two: Fragile, (Ex. cat) Düsseldorf: Hatje Cantz, May.
Crist, Steve, ed. Contact Sheet, Los Angeles: AMMO Books.
Cotton, Charlotte, The Photograph as Contemporary Art, London: Thames & Hudson, Fall (revised edition)
Bourriaud, Nicolas, ed. Altermodern: The 2009 Tate Triennial, (Ex. cat) London: Tate Publishing, February.

2008
Zuckerman Jacobson, Heidi, "Pay Attention Mother Fuckers," Now You See It, (Ex. cat) Aspen: Aspen Art Press, December.
Jeffrey Kastner and Sina Najafi, eds., The Book of Stamps, New York: Cabinet Books, August.
California Biennial 2008, (Ex. cat) Newport Beach: Orange County Museum of Art, October.
Momin, Shamim M., "Time Change," 2008 Whitney Biennial, (Ex. cat) New Haven: Yale University Press

2007
Momin, Shamim M., ed. Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast. Spain: Centro Montehermoso, November.
Blumenstein, Ellen and Feliz Ensslin, eds., between two deaths, (Ex. cat), Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz.

2006
Molon, Dominic, "Walead Beshty," Vitamin PH, New York: Phaidon Press.
Chang, Aimee, "Walead Beshty," The California Biennial, (Ex. cat) Newport Beach: Orange Country Museum of Art, October.


SELECTED ARTICLES AND REVIEWS

2011
2011 Tumlir, Jan, "Walead Beshty at Regen Projects" Artforum, September 2011, pp.353-354
Coburn, Tyler, "Walead Beshty's 'PROCESSCOLORFIELD' at Regen Projects II, Los Angeles," art agenda, May 16, 2011, http://www.art-agenda.com/reviews/walead-beshty's-processcolorfield-at-regen-projects-ii-los-angeles/
Lieb, R, "Don't Miss- Los Angeles: Walead Beshty at Regen Projects, Through May 14 2011," Art Observed, May 10, 2011, http://artobserved.com/2011/05/dont-miss-los-angeles-walead-beshty-at-regen-projects-through-may-14th-2011/
Wagley, Catherine, "Turning a Negative Into a Positive," LA Weekly, April 28, 2011,
http://www.laweekly.com/2011-04-28/art-books/turning-a-negative-into-a-positive/
Moore, Caitlin, "Walead Beshty at Regen Projects," Dailyserving, April 27, 2011, http://dailyserving.com/
"Abstraction in Image, Art and Civilization," Chinese Photography, April 2011

2010
Buckley, Richard, "L.A. a l'art libre," Vogue Paris, December.
Fogle, Douglas, "Brute materiality" Creamier, New York: Phaidon.
Simblist, Noah, Concreteness and Circumstance: Noah Simblist in Conversation with Walead Beshty, Art Papers, March/April.
Dexter Sinister, Portable Document Format, New York: Lukas & Sternberg Press.
Foam Album 09, Amsterdam: Foam_Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam.
Gartenfeld, Alex, "Walead Beshty's Revolution Will Be Colorful", Art in America, online, January.


2009
Ciezadio, Janina, "Light Revisited", Afterimage, November.
Wolf, Alexander, "Walead Beshty at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden Washington, D.C.", Modern Painters, November.
Rosenberg, Karen, "Into the Darkroom, With Pulleys, Jam and Snakes" New York Times, November 6.
Aletti, Vince, "Big Picture", Critic's Notebook, The New Yorker, November 2.
Herbertb, Martin, "Walead Beshty", Time Out London, October 23.
Gartenfeld, Alex, "Frieze Day One: Pre-Frozen", Interview Magazine / Art in America, October 13.
Schwendener, Martha, "Contemporary Art Photographers Mess with the Medium", The Village Voice, October 13.
Kotz, Liz, "The Medium and the Messages", Artforum, October.
Hutchinson, Jack, "Walead Beshty" Dazed & Confused, Vol. 2, Issue 79, September.
"Walead Beshty and Eileen Quinlan in Conversation" Bomb Magazine, September.
"Roundtable Discussion on Abstraction and Photography with Christopher Bedford, Walead Beshty, Liz Deschenes, and Eileen Quinlan", Frieze, September. (cover)
"The Pier Conversation: Walead Beshty and Oliver Mosset", Mousse 19, Summer.
Schmitz, Edgar, "Tate Triennial 2009", Artforum, May.
Trigg, David, "Altermodern: Tate Triennial 2009", Art Papers, May/June.
Klimek, Chris, "Walead Beshty's chroma keys at Hirshhorn", Washington Examiner, April 26.
Pulimood, Steve, "Popular Mechanics: Walead Beshty", Art in America, April.
Goode, Chris, "This post is invisible until you read it (part 1 of 2)", Thompson's Bank of Communicable Desire, April 11.
Lambrianou, Nickolas, "Altermodern: Movement or Marketing?", Mute Magazine, April 23.
Heiser, Jörg, "Tate Triennial 2009", Frieze, Issue 122, April.
Smith, Sarah-Neel, "Walead Beshty", Frieze, Issue 122, April.
Myers, Holly, "Ever Changeable, Ever Surprising: Walead Beshty at LAXART", Los Angeles Times, April 3.
"After Materiality and Style", roundtable discussion, Art in America, April.
"Walead Beshty puts four questions to Karl Haendel", Modern Painters, April.
"Material World", portfolio and interview with Clare Grafik, IANN, Volume 3. (cover)
"Walead Beshty", "goings on about town", The New Yorker, March 30.
Kerr, Merrily, "Walead Beshty: Popular Mechanics", Time Out New York, March 26.
Grabner, Michelle, "Meanwhile, in Baghdad…and Black Is, Black Ain't," X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly, Volume 11 No. 2, Winter.
Bernard, Etienne, "Walead Beshty," Zero Deux, Issue 48, Winter.

2008
DOT DOT DOT, Vol. 17, (cover), collaboration with Dexter Sinister (cover/inside cover), Winter.
"Scenes from Tschaicowskistrasse 17…", portfolio, Art Lies, No. 60, Winter, pp.54-60
Menzies, Michelle, "James Welling/Walead Beshty," Flash Art International, Issue No. 263, November .
Tumlir, Jan, "Walead Beshty: Piece by Piece," Aperture 192, Fall.
Bedford, Christopher, "Walead Beshty at China Art Objects," Art in America, May.
Mansoor, Jaleh, "Matters that Matter: On the Whitney Biennial," Texte zur Kunst, Issue Number 70, June.
Baker, Kenneth, "Review: Highlights from 2008 Whitney Biennial," San Francisco Chronicle, March 22.
Gopnik, Blake, "10 Others to Seek Out at the Whitney Biennial," The Washington Post, Friday, March 7.
Bryant, Eric, "The Indecisive Image," ARTnews, March. (cover).
Berardini, Andrew, "Walead Beshty: Science Concrete," Art Review, Issue 20, March.
Machida, Nico, "A Look at Walead Beshty," Artslant, January – February.
Miles, Christopher, "Gallery Roundup," January 23.
Buckley, Annie, "Critics' picks: Walead Beshty," Artforum.com, January – February.

2007
Grabner, Michelle, "I am Eyebeam," Artforum.com Critics' Picks, November.
Morton, Julia, "Eye Candy v. Hard Candy," Artnet Magazine, November 15.
"Artists Projects: CMYK—curated by Walead Beshty," Cabinet, Issue 27.
"Special Focus Photography," Art Review, Issue 15, November. (portfolio)
Walead Beshty: Tschaicovskii Strasse 17, Blindspot Issue 36. (portfolio)
Coomer, Martin, "Anything You Want," Time Out London, August 31.
Barnes, Freire, "Changing Faces," BBC.com, August 31.
"Concrete Works," The New Yorker, July 9,16, & 23.
Schwendener, Martha, "Concrete Works," The New York Times, Art in Review, July 6.
Cotter, Holland, "Art in Review: Spectral Evidence," Art in Review, The New York Times, February 23.
Cole, Lori, "Critics' Pick: Spectral Evidence," Artforum.com, February.
Hart, Hugh, "Hammer Struts its Recent Stuff," Los Angeles Times, January 14.
Kleiman, Molly, "People Sticking Their Heads in Things," NY Arts Magazine, Jan/Feb.

2006
Smith, Roberta, "Menace, Glitter and Rock in Visions of Dystopia," The New York Times, Art Review: P.S.1, December 29.
Cotter, Holland, "Looking Back: White Columns Annual," The New York Times, Art in Review, December 1.
Velasco, David, "Walead Beshty," Artforum, December.
Wulffson, Goodell, Jennifer, "Place, Process and Passage," X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly, Volume 9 Issue 2, Winter.
"Dice Thrown (Will Never Annual Chance)," The New Yorker, November 6.
Doran, Anne, "Dice Thrown (Will Never Annual Chance)," Time Out New York, November 2.
Smith, Roberta, "Art in Review: "Dice Thrown (Will Never Annul Chance)," The New York Times, November 3.
Mummolo, Jonathan, "Exhibitions: A Museum Gold Rush," Newsweek, October 30.
Schmidt, Kirsten, "Poetic Vision and Abundant Culture," NY Arts Magazine, September/October.
"Walead Beshty," The New Yorker, October 16.
Masters, H.G. "Walead Beshty: The Maker and the Model," Artkrush, September 19-25.
Knight, Christopher, "The Faces of this Place," The Los Angeles Times, October 7.
Amoreen, Armetta, "Out of the Box: North Drive Press," Art on Paper, October.
Bedford, Christopher, "Museum Previews: The California Biennial," Artforum, October.
Kushner, Rachel, "California's Rising Art Stars," C, October.
Ribas, Joao, "Photography's Digital Divide," Art Info, October 17.
O'Reilly, Sally, "Studio City," Frieze, Issue 100, June-July.
Nunez-Fernandez, Lupe, "Object of the Week NDP3," Saatchi-gallery.co.uk, July 26.
Bedford, Christopher, "Critics' Picks: Walead Beshty," Artforum.com, May.
Chang, Aimee, "Interview with Walead Beshty," Brochure for the Hammer Project Embassy: A Dismal Science Waiting Room, March.
Ackley, Brian, "Exhibition Review: Whitney Museum of American Art", Bidoun, Winter.
Sumpter, Helen, "Exhibition Review: Studio City at Pescali & Sprovieri", Time Out London, March 29- April 5.
Glueck, Grace, "Art in Review: The New City: Sub/Urbia in Recent Photography," The New York Times, January 6.
Balaschak, Christopher, "Exhibition Review: Walead Beshty at China Art Objects" Frieze, January-February Issue.
Firstenberg, Lauri, "Exhibition Review: The Backroom", Frieze, January-February Issue.

2005
Klara, Robert, "Domestic Anxiety", Architecture Magazine, November.
"The New City: Sub/Urbia in Recent Photography," The New Yorker, October 3.
Wilson, Michael, "Post No Bills," Artforum, XLV Vol. 2, October.
Arriola, Magali, "A Victim and a Viewer: Some Thought on Anticipated Ruins," Afterall, Issue 12, Fall.
Snow, Jennifer, "The Very Best of the Fall Arts Season: The New City: Sub/Urbia in Recent Photography," The Village Voice, September 12 – 18.
Davis, Ben, "August Company," Artnet Magazine, August 26.
Cotter, Holland, "Art Listings: Precious Moments," The New York Times, August 19.
Cotter, Holland, "Fanciful to Figurative to Wryly Inscrutable," The New York Times, July 8.
Daniel Kunitz & Joao Ribas, "The Art Review 25: Emerging US Artists," ArtReview, April.
Scanlan, Joe, "First Take: Walead Beshty" Artforum, January.
Ekardt, Philipp. "The Phenomenology of Fondling: Shopping," NY Arts, Vol. 10 No. 1/2, January/February.

2004
Kastner, Jeffrey. "Exhibition review of 'The Body-Body Problem,'" Artforum, December.
Ribas, Jaoa. "The Faces of the Future," ArtReview, International Edition (V2N7), p.87.
Aletti, Vince, "Voices Choices: Walead Beshty," The Village Voice, October 6 – 12.
"P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center: Walead Beshty," The New Yorker, "Goings on About Town," September 6.
Smith, Roberta. "Art Listings: P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center", The New York Times, July 23, p. E32.
Smith, Roberta. "Art Review: Summertime at P.S.1: Where Opposites Like Hands On/Hands Off Attract," The New York Times, July 16, p. E28.
Smith, Joel, "Curators Choice: Walead Beshty, Absent Self-Portrait #3 (Age Progressions)", Art at Vassar, Spring.
Selbach, Gérard. "Buy American," Paris-Art.com, April 24.
Meyers, Holly. "Review: Cool Intentions," The Los Angeles Times, February 27.
Silver, JoAnne. "Visual Arts; Contemporary Self-Portraits Echo Life Views at DeCordova," The Boston Herald, February 13.
Hopkins, Randi. "Showing I.D.—'Self-Evidence' at the DeCordova, 'Spiritual Geometry' in Newton, and 'Traveling Scholars' at the MFA," The Boston Phoenix, January 30 – February 5.
Lafo, Rachel Rosenfeld, Self Evidence: Identity in Contemporary Art, (ex. cat.), January.

2003
Aletti, Vince. "Listings: Antisocial", Village Voice, February.
Lombardi, D. Dominic. "Armed With Cameras, Seeking Different Types of Truth," The New York Times, March 30.
Bembnister, Theresa. "Photo Realism: Seven Photographers Capture the Moments of our Lives," The Pitch, April 10.
Robinson, Walter. "Weekend Update," Artnet.com, February 3.


ESSAYS

Toward a Minor Photography: Annette Kelm's Discrete Cosmologies, Parkett, No. 87, 2010.
Preliminary Remarks on the Persistence of Allegorical Critique, Texte zur Kunst, Issue NR. 74
"Statements on Contemporary Art", June 2009.
Abstracting Photography, Words Without Pictures, Charlotte Cotton, Alex Klein, eds., LACMA Books, Los Angeles CA, 2009. Originally published online October 16, 2008.
On the Ground: Los Angeles, Artforum, December 2008.
Parallax View: on Michael Asher at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, Text zur Kunst, Issue Nr. 70, May 2008.
On American Ingenuity, Afterall, No. 17, Spring 2008, pp. 21-34
Absolu Avec Vache (and the Spectre of the Gun), Exhibition catalogue for Material Presence at Project Space 176, London, September 2008.
Tell it Like it Was (A Brief Note on the Appropriation of Radicality), Art on Paper, January/February 2007.
Wolfgang Tillmans, Texte zur Kunst, November, 2006.
In Their Own Words: Walead Beshty, New York Foundation for the Arts website, July 2006. www.nyfa.org
L.A. Material: James Welling and Walead Beshty in Conversation, North Drive Press, Issue 3, 2006.
How to Take In Sculpture; Jan Timme at Marc Foxx, Texte zur Kunst, May 2005 (German, English)
Annette Kelm's Discrete Cosmologies, Stipendium, ex cat. Hamburger Kunstverein.
The Colossus: The Remains of the Triumph Arch in Berlin (with Eric J. Schwab), Cabinet, Fall 2005. (English)
Toward an Empathic Resistance: Boris Mikhailov's Embodied Documents, Afterall, Issue 12, Fall 2005. (English)
The Neo Avantgarde and the Service Industry: The Brave New World of Relational Aesthetics, Texte zur Kunst, September 2005. (German)
Piracy at the Docks, ex cat. Invisible Hands and the Common Good, Champion Fine Art, 2005. (English)
Preview of Stephen Shore's American Surfaces, Artforum, September, 2005. (English)
Reflecting the Canon: Some notes on Tim Davis' Materialist Contingencies, Tim Davis: Permanent Collection (Monograph), Nazarelli Press, New York NY, Fall 2005. (English)
The Discrete Tastes of the Bourgeoisie: Erlea Maneros' Temporal Painting, Meanwhile, in Another Place, Rekalde, Bizkaiko Foru Aldundia, Bilbao, Spain, Ex Cat. Spring 2005. (English, Basque, Spanish)
Rachel Harrison at SFMoMA, Art Review, March 2005. New York, NY. (English)
Wilkommen in Irak: images from the former Iraqi Embassy in the former DDR (with Eric J. Schwab), Cabinet Magazine, Fall 2004. Brooklyn, New York. (originally published in Bidoun, Issue 00, Spring 2004. Dubai, Paris, and New York.) (English)
Guilt by Association: Mike Kelley's "Street Credibility" at MoCA, Aperture Magazine, Issue 176, August 2004. New York, New York. (English)
Subject Without Qualities: from the cowboy flanéur to Mr. Smith, Afterall, Issue 8, November 2003. Los Angeles, California/London, UK. (English)
Das Reale an der Rückholfeder: Die Fotografieausstellung "Cruel & Tender" in der Tate Modern, London, Texte zur Kunst, Issue 51, September 2003. Berlin, Germany. (German)
City Without Qualities: Photography, Cinema, and the Post-Apocalyptic Ruin, Influence magazine, Issue 1, October 2003. New York, New York. (English)
Reprint: Site Journal, Spring 2004. Stockholm, Sweden (English, Swedish). Trouble Journal, Spring 2005. Paris France. (French)
Tim Davis: Permanent Collection, The Bardian, Fall 2003. New York, New York. (English)
Uncommon Places Revisited: the Unpublished Work of Stephen Shore, Artforum, May 2003. New York, New York. (English)
"Three Models of Collaboration: Ethics and Context in the work of Sarah Martin, Pierre Huyghe, and Trent Harris,"(2002) delivered as a visiting lecturer at Hampshire College, January, 2003.
"Beauty and The Market: Questioning the Rhetoric of Art School," (2002). Paper delivered as panel member: Yale University, Graduate Student Symposium, 2002.
Grey Room, Issue 1, Fall 2000, M.I.T. Press (portfolio)