Tauba Auerbach (b. 1981, San Francisco, CA) creates works that explore how our world is constructed and connected. Known for painterly experimentation, Auberbach often plays with various techniques to explore perception and dimensionality. Their work has exhibited internationally in solo exhibitions at Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany (2023); San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA (2021); Institute of Contemporary Art, London (2014); Bergen Kunsthall, Norway (2011; travelled to Malmö Konsthall, Sweden, and Wiels Contemporary Art Center, Brussels). Their work has also been exhibited in a number of notable group shows, including Tauba Auerbach and Yuji Agematsu: Meander, The Clark, Williamstown, MA (2022); Saturated: The Allure and Science of Color, Cooper-Hweitt, Smithsonian Institution, New York City (2018); INDUCTION: Tauba Auerbach and Éliane Radigue, MOCA Cleveland, OH (2018); Reciprocal Score: Tauba Auerbach + Charlotte Posenenske, Indipendenza Studio, Rome (2015); DECORUM: Carpets and tapestries by artists, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris (2014–15); Lifelike, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (2012); The Indiscipline of Painting, Tate St. Ives, Cornwall, England (2011–12); the 2010 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City; Greater New York at MoMA PS1, New York City (2010); and Younger Than Jesus, New Museum, New York City (2009). In 2011 they received the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship Award. Auerbach’s work is the collections of The Museum of Modern Art, New York City; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City; and Centre George Pompidou, Paris. Auerbach lives and works in New York City.
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