Sergej Tcherepnin

born 1981 in Boston, lives and works in New York and Berlin
Villa Romana Fellow 2014 (with Ei Arakawa)

Biography

2011
MFA, Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York

2004
BFA, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York

Awards and Scholarships

2012
Artist in Residence, Issue Project Room, New York

2011
Artist in Residence, Tokyo Wonder Site, Tokio

2010
Second Prize, Tokyo Wonder Site Sound Art Festival

2009
Associate Artist at Atlantic Center for the Arts, Florida

2008
New Works Residency, Diapason Gallery for Sound, New York

2007
Associate Artist, Atlantic Center for the Arts, Florida

Ei Arakawa and Sergei Tcherepnin, Looking at Listening (2011),
performance in the Taka Ishii Gallery, Tokio

Ei Arakawa and Sergei Tcherepnin & Aki Takahashi, Owls’ Ear Trap (detail / 2013),
various materials (copper, ink-jet print, vintage clocks), dimensions variable, Set of 3

Solo Exhibitions (selection)

2013
Murray Guy, New York Art Statements, Art Basel, Basel
Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland

2012
Karma International, Zurich
Looking at Listening, with Ei Arakawa, Taka Ishii, Tokio
Pied Piper, Part 1, Audio Visual Arts, New York

2011
Be a speaker. So be it..., with Ei Arakawa & Gela Patashuri, CAC Brétigny, Brétigny, FR
Be a speaker. So be it..., with Ei Arakawa & Gela Patashuri, Showroom, London

2010
A Queer Balance, Audio Visual Arts, New York
Welcome to the White Bottom, with Lucy Dodd, Pro Choice, Vienna

2009
Shindisi Autocenter, with Ei Arakawa and Gela Patashuri, New Jersey, Basel
Quasar <> Lanterns, with Ei Arakawa, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart

2006
Water and Stone, Meridian Gallery, San Francisco


Group Exhibitions (selection)

2013
Soundings, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Georgian Pavillion, with Gela Patashuri and Ei Arakawa, 55th Venice Biennial 
A Stone Left Unturned, Yvon Lambert, Paris

2012
The Imminence of Poetics, XXX Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo
TCCA NEW THEATER, Kunsthalle Bern
SOUNDWORKS, Institute for Contemporary Art, London
Meeting Point, Mt Tremper Arts, New York

2011
A form is simply something which allows something else to be transported from one site to another, New York
Tax Day News & Smoke, Emily Harvey Foundation, New York
Globe: For Frankfurt and the World, Deutsche Bank Towers, Frankfurt/M
CAA MFA Exhibition, Hunter College Times Square Gallery, New York

2010
Hurt Locker Instruments, with Ei Arakawa, Gela Patashuri, Mari Mukai, Casco, Utrecht
On Publications, Portraits, Public Art, and Performance, The Modern Institute Glasgow
Quadruple Consciousness, with Ei Arakawa, Vox Populi, Philadelphia
The Brown Bear: Neither Particular nor General, Recess Art, New York
Betlemi Mikro-Raioni, various locations, Tbilisi, GE
TBILISI 6. Never On Sunday, mit Ei Arakawa, various locations, Tbilisi, GE

2009
TBILISI 5. Wednesday was Thursday, with Ei Arakawa, Gela Patashuri and Daniel Baumann, various locations, Tbilisi, GE