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Conrad Bakker

Conrad Bakker‘s ongoing Untitled Projects engage the careful construction and specific placement of carved and painted objects so as to critically comment upon and make tangible the existing economies between persons and things and spaces. Bakker has exhibited his work nationally and internationally, including Tate Modern (London), Galerie Analix Forever (Geneva), the New Museum of Contemporary Art (New York), the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago (Chicago), Fargfabriken Center for Contemporary Art and Architecture (Stockholm), The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery (Saratoga Springs), The Blanton Museum of Art (Austin), Art in General (New York City), Lora Reynolds Gallery (Austin), Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies, Contemporary Art Museum Houston, in mailboxes and on his front lawn. His work has been the subject of articles in Art World Magazine, ArtUS, Art Papers, UOVO, The Chicago Tribune, Dagens Nyheter (Sweden), The New York Times, Contemporary, Flash Art, and Sculpture magazine. Recent projects include: Conrad Bakker: Objects & Economies [Untitled Projects 1997-2007], a survey of ten years of Untitled Projects at the Des Moines Art Center Downtown; Untitled Project: LIBRAIRIE [Geneva] at Galerie Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland; Untitled Project: Book of the Month Club for the group exhibition: Hand+Made: The Performative Impulse in Contemporary Art at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston; RELAX AND TAKE YOUR FUCKING TIME at Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX; and Untitled Project: USED BOOKS at the NY Art Book Fair at MOMA/PS1.