Education
MFA, w/ Distinction, Art Practice, Goldsmiths College, University of London, 2008
BFA, w/ Honors, Photography, Rochester Institute of Technology, 1999
Select Solo Exhibitions
2011 Over the Long Haul, Unosunove, Rome
2011 Love Notes, Franklin Artworks, Minneapolis
2011 Screen Tests Revisited, Fotograph, Prague
2010 Screen Tests Revisited, Momenta Art, NYC
2010 Forever and a Day, Rokeby, London
2009 Fragments of Fame, a project curated by Eric Shiner, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
2009 Where Have all the Flowers Gone?, Downtown Arts Projects, NYC
2009 This is My Life (Shirley Bassey), Forever & Today, NYC
2008 Conrad Ventur, Unosunove, Rome
2002 Portraits, Elizabeth Dee, NYC
Performance
28.10.2011 ... Future Has Two Faces, collaboration with Mario Montez, Triple Canopy, NYC
20.01.2011 60 Seconds... (of Fame), performative event with 280 people, PopRally, MoMA, NYC
27.11.2010 Against Gravity, featuring live music by HTRK, ICA, London
Screenings
12.02.2012 Bros Before Hos: Masculinity and Its Discontents: Female Trouble, curated by Bradford Nordeen, including works by Steven Arnold, Vaginal Davis, Zackary Drucker, Matthias Müller, Patti Podesta and Conrad Ventur, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
29.06.2011 Female Trouble, P.P.O.W., NYC
03.03.2011 Warhol, On Screen, Off Screen, Writer John Giorno performs his own poetry works inspired by the life and times of Andy Warhol, followed by Ventur’s screening his contemporary screen test films. A conversation follows moderated by director of MoMA PS1 and exhibition curator Klaus Biesenbach. MoMA, NYC
Select Group Exhibitions
2011 Taking Pleasure for a Ride, curated by Dylan Peet, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson
2011 Slipstreams, Franklin Street Works, Stamford, CT
2010
Greater New York, curated by Klaus Biesenbach, Connie Butler and
Neville Wakefield, MoMA PS1, NYC (catalogue)
2010 The Backroom, Rotating Gallery, curated by Kate Fowle, MoMA PS1, NYC
2010 Timing, Centro per l'arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, curated by Raffaele Gavarro, Prato, Italy
2010 Because We Are, Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston
2010 The Milkplus Bar, Josh Lilley, London
2010 il alla a lai de l'ail, Crimes Town, London
2010 Not Totally Oblivious, Nor Completely Naked, Galleria Comunale d'Arte Contemporanea di Montefalcone, Italy
2009 Last Stop for Love, Newseum Cultural Center, Rosslyn, VA
2009 Desiring Necessities, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK (catalogue)
2009 So Much More, MeetFactory, Prague
2009 When Half the Time They Don’t Know Themselves, Wassaic Project, NY
2009 Unfair Project, Tijdelijk Museum, De Service Garage, Amsterdam (catalogue)
2009 Image Search, P.P.O.W Gallery, NYC
2009 The Earth Not a Globe, Rokeby, London (catalogue)
2009 She Said No, Unosunove, Rome
2009 Landscape, Ruffin Gallery at The University of Virginia
2008 Hisham Bharoocha/Conrad Ventur, Normal Projects, Chicago
2008 It's not over yet..., Invisible Exports, NYC
2008 Art After Dark, Louis Blouin Institute, London
2008 3 a.m. Eternal, Alexandre Pollazzon Ltd., London
2008 M12, off-site project, Art-Athena, Greece
2008 Open City at Bucharest Architecture Annual, Romania
2008 Open City, Curated by the Mayor's Architecture & Urban Design
Studio, Somerset House, London
2008 Is the World Flat?, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam
2008 Wastestate, BEARSPACE, London
2008 Publish and be Damned, Ludlow 38, Kunstverein Munchen Goethe Institute, NYC
2007 Reading Room, Espacio Marzana Galeria de Arte, Bilbao, Spain
2006 Mega-zines, Visionarie Gallery, NYC
2005 Feng Hai / Conrad Ventur, Chris Mao Fine Art, Shanghai, China
2004 Phiiliip: Guided by Lightening, Deitch Projects, NYC
2003 Attack: The K48 Klubhouse, Deitch Projects, NYC
2003 What About New York? A New New York Scene, Galerie du Jour Agnes B., Paris
2003 Fox and Friends, New Millennium Post-Gay Photography, Garfield
Artworks, Pittsburgh, PA
2003 K48 Now Playing, D'amelio Terras, NYC
2002 K48 #3-Teenage Rebel: The Bedroom Show, John Connelly Presents, NYC
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