James Hoff

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James Hoff
WM Concept 2, 2013
Oil on Canvas, 76 x 61 cm
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James Hoff
WM Concept 1, 2013
Oil on Canvas, 76 x 61 cm
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James Hoff
Stuxnet, 2013
Audio Piece
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James Hoff
Paris Syndrome, 2014
Oil on Canvas, 40.5 x 30.5 cm
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Missing White Women Syndrome, 2011
Oil on Canvas, 45.5 x 30.5 cm
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James Hoff
Photographing Detroit Syndrome, 2013
Oil on Canvas, 152.5 x 101.5 cm
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Alien Hand Syndrome, 2013
Oil on Canvas, 152.5 x 101.5 cm
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James Hoff
Genital Retraction Syndrome, 2011
Oil on Canvas, 76 x 51 cm
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James Hoff
Alice In Wonderland Syndrome, 2011
Oil on Canvas, 76 x 51 cm
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James Hoff
Milking the flat cow, 2012
Oil on canvas, 76 x 101 cm
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Untitled, 2012
Oil on canvas, 120 x 120 cm
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Morris Worm No. 1, 2013
Installation view at Kunsthall Oslo, 2013
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James Hoff
Stuxnet, 2012
audio, 11:21 min., Stux score, 2012, ink on paper, MCA Denver, 2012
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James Hoff
Stuxnet (for Piano), 2015
Stuxnet, 1.7 Days of Audio, USB Pen, Box
Edition of 3 plus I AP
Eugen Gomringer & ...", exhibition view at Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld, 2015
Photo by Philipp Ottendörfer
Eugen Gomringer & ...", exhibition view at Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld, 2015
Photo by Philipp Ottendörfer
Eugen Gomringer & ...", exhibition view at Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld, 2015
Photo by Philipp Ottendörfer
James Hoff
Useless Landscape 04, 2015
Copper etching on Fiberglass, Aluminum, Wood, Wax, 76.20 x 50.80 cm
James Hoff, "B=r=i=c=k=i=n=g", exhibition view at Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, 2015
James Hoff, "B=r=i=c=k=i=n=g", exhibition view at Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, 2015
James Hoff, "B=r=i=c=k=i=n=g", exhibition view at Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, 2015
James Hoff, "Black Box",
exhibition view at BACO - Base Arte Contemporanea, Bergamo, 2016
James Hoff, "Black Box",
exhibition view at BACO - Base Arte Contemporanea, Bergamo, 2016
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Stuxnet No. 14, 2015
Chromaluxe transfer on aluminum, 76.20 x 50.80 cm
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Stuxnet No. 12, 2015
Chromaluxe transfer on aluminum, 102 x 76 cm
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Skywiper No. 44, 2015
Chromaluxe transfer on aluminum, 76 x 51 cm
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Skywiper No. 45, 2015
Chromaluxe transfer on aluminum, 30 x 20 inches
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Stuxnet No. 11, 2015
Chromaluxe transfer on aluminum, 60.96 x 40.64 cm
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Skywiper No. 49, 2015
Chromaluxe transfer on aluminum, 91.44 x 60.96 cm
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Light Cycle, 2016
pigment, PVA, acrylic on stone
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Delinquent Pornography, 2016
pigment, PVA, lacquer, acrylic on aluminum keyboard, 45,5 x 11,5 cm
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21 Days a Week, 2016
Pigment, PVA, lacquer, acrylic on aluminum keyboard
45,5 x 11,5 cm
James Hoff
Euphoria Headache, 2016
pigment, PVA, lacquer, acrylic on aluminum keyboard, 45,5 x 11,5 cm
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Snorting Data, 2016
pigment, PVA, lacquer, acrylic on aluminum keyboard, 45,5 x 11,5 cm
James Hoff
Xerox Vampire, 2016
pigment, PVA, lacquer, acrylic on aluminum keyboard, 45,5 x 11,5 cm
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Useless Landscape No. 48, 2016
copper etching on fiberglass, aluminum, wood, lacquer
125 x 85 cm (
James Hoff
Useless Landscape No. 9, 2016
copper etching on fiberglass, aluminum, wood, wax
45.5 x 30.5 cm
James Hoff
Useless Landscape No. 44, 2016
copper etching on fiberglass, aluminum, wood, lacquer
80 x 55 cm
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Useless Landscape No. 49, 2016
copper etching on fiberglass, aluminum, wood, lacquer
125 x 85 cm
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Useless Landscape No. 50, 2016
copper etching on fiberglass, aluminum, wood, wax
34 x 24 cm
James Hoff "Like Insects Smacking Themselves Senseless Against a Screen at Night to Get to the Light Inside" Installation view at Supportico Lopez, Berlin, 2016
James Hoff "Like Insects Smacking Themselves Senseless Against a Screen at Night to Get to the Light Inside" Installation view at Supportico Lopez, Berlin, 2016
James Hoff "Like Insects Smacking Themselves Senseless Against a Screen at Night to Get to the Light Inside" Installation view at Supportico Lopez, Berlin, 2016

Bio

Born 1975 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, US

Lives and works in New York, NY and Oslo, NO

Education

1998 Bachelor of Arts, Indiana University, US

Solo Exhibitions

2017

The Air You Breathe is Metallic. NSCAD, Halifax, CA

2016

Like Insects Smacking Themselves Senseless Against a Screen at Night to Get to the Light Inside, Supportico Lopez, Berlin, DE

Utopia Landfill or Vacation in the Age of Sad Passion, Callicoon Fine Arts, New York, US

Black Box, BACO – Base Arte Contemporanea, Bergamo, IT

2015

B=r=i=c=k=i=n=g, Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, US

To Any Reader, Hide Awhile (Wait), the Curtain Remembers a Useless Landscape, VI VII, Oslo, NO

The Quick Brown Fox Jumps Over the Lazy Dog, Supportico Lopez, Berlin, DE

2014

Skywiper, Callicoon Fine Arts, New York, US

How Wheeling Feels When the Ground Walks Away, OR Gallery, Vancouver, CA

2012

I’m Already a Has-Been,VI, VII, Oslo, NO

Milking the Flat Cow, Callicoon Fine Arts, New York, US

Group Exhibitions

2018

A Page from My Intimate Journal (Part I), Gordon Robichaux, New York, NY

2016

We are the center for curatorial studies, Hessel Museum of art, New York, US

From Minimalism into Algorithm, The Kitchen, New York, US

2015

Eugen Gomringer &, with James Hoff, Eugen Gomringer, Ann Cotten, Natalie Czech, Kenneth Goldsmith & John Ashbery, Karl Holmqvist, Sophia Le Fraga, Tan Lin, Hanne Lippard, Nils Menrad, Michalis Pichler, Cia Rinne, Kunstverein Bielefeld, Bielefeld, DE

Mediated Images, Brand New Gallery, Milan, IT

2014

The Word Today Serves No One Except To Say To The Grocer Give Me A Pound Of Lentils, Supportico Lopez, Berlin, DE

Itself Not So, Lisa Cooley, New York, US

Farm to Table, Foxey Production, New York, US

Ellsworth Kelly’s Spectrum II (1966-67), Apples, New York, US

Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art, Broad Art Museum, Lansing, Michigan, US

Poetry Will Be Made By All, LUMA Foundation/Westbau, Zürich, CH

Bachelor Machine, Room East, New York, US

Some Woolly Buzz, Publication Studio Vancouver, Vancouver, CA

2013

New Humans, Bureau, New York, US

Parasitic Gaps, TEAM Gallery, New York, US

Reading List: Selections from the MoMA Library Collection Museum of Modern Art, New York, US

LYNX Satellite Pavillion, Norsk Skulpturbiennale, Oslo, NO

Drop Shadow, Oslo Kunsthall, Oslo, NO

The String and the Mirror, Lisa Cooley, New York, US

Pulp 3, Beta Pictoris Gallery, Birmingham, US

Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art, Power Plant, Toronto, CA

Sound Spill, Zabludowicz Collection, New York, US

2012

Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art , Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver, US

Can’t Stop The Rock Lobster, Martos Gallery/Shoot the Lobster, New York, US

2011

I Don’t Know if It Makes Any Sense, IMO, Copenhagen, DK

Freaks and Geeks, Air De Paris, Paris, FR

2010

Pig Latin, Nice & Fit Gallery, Berlin, DE

Mapping the Studio, Bastard, Oslo, NO

2009

Indian Ocean, Dispatch Bureau, New York, US

2008

Black Friday , Printed Matter, New York, US

Artist-Initiated Magazines, Rekord, Oslo, NO

Psychotic Reactions, KS Art, New York, US

Performances

2017

HOBO UFO (version Basel), performed at Renèe Bar, Basel, CH

2016

ICA Associates: PAN present James Hoff, Lee Gamble, Steve Warwick & Nora Khan, TCF, ICA Theater, London, UK

Post Tree, with Sarah Crowner and Carolyn Schoerner, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA

2015

Hecker Leckey Sound Voice Chimera (Sunday Sessions), with Florian Hecker, Mark Leckey, Bill Kouligas, TCF, M.E.S.H., Aleksandra Domanović, Harm van den Dorpel, MoMA PS1, New York, US

2014

La Monnaie / De Munt, Brussels, BE

Nicelle Beauchene, New York, US

Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK

2013

Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY, USA

Dancing Lessons for the Advanced in Age, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver, Denver, US

2012

PennSound: Edit Series, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, US

2009

How Wheeling Feels When the Ground Walks Away, Artists Space, New York, US

Selected Readings

2014

Yale Union, Portland, US

Emily Carr Institute, Vancouver, CA

The Kitchen, New York, US

Academy of Fine Arts, Dresden, DE

Castillos Corrales, Paris, FR

Perez Art Museum of Miami, Miami, US

Museum of Modern Art, New York, US

Museum of Modern Art/PS1, New York, US

2013

Goethe Institut, New York, US

Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, US

Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver, US

2012

PS1/MoMA, New York, US

Bowery Poetry Club, New York, US

Torpedo Books, Oslo, NO

2011

Museum of Modern Art Library, New York, US

2010

Center for Book Arts, New York, US

New School for Social Research, New York, US

CAA, Chicago, US

Pompidou, Paris, FR Sorbonne, Paris, FR

2009

Academy of Art, Oslo, NO

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US

2008

Ronnells/OEI Reading Series, Stockholm, SE

École Normale Supérieure Lettres et Sciences Humaines, Lyon, FR

Academy of Art, Oslo, NO, February 11

St. Marks Poetry Project, New York, US, January 14

Selected Curatorial Projects

2013

Excursis IV, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, US

2012

Memoirs of a Shy Pornographer, Tidens Krav, Oslo, NO; co-curated with Børre Sæthre

2011

Hungry for Death (Destroy All Monsters), Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, US

2010

Ear to the Page, co-curated with Alan Licht, Center for Book Arts, New York, US

Hungry for Death (Destroy All Monsters), AMP Gallery, Athens, GR

Hungry for Death (Destroy All Monsters), American Academy of Rome, Rome, IT

Hungry for Death (Destroy All Monsters), SPACE Gallery, London, UK

2009

Year in Review, White Columns, New York, US

Hungry for Death (Destroy All Monsters), Projekt 0047, Oslo, NO

Hungry for Death (Destroy All Monsters), White Flag Project, St. Louis, US

Hungry for Death (Destroy All Monsters), Printed Matter, New York, US

2008

Leaderless: Contemporary Cassette Culture Now, Torpedo, Oslo, NO

2007

Fuck for Peace: A History of The Fugs , Printed Matter, New York, US

Leaderless: Contemporary Cassette Culture Now, Printed Matter, New York, US

Discography

2011

How Wheeling Feels When the Ground Walks Away, LP, PAN

2008

In Dreams Begin Responsibility (AW Records), LP

2007

Wedding Album (Collaboration with the New Humans/AW Records), LP

Live at New Museum (AW Records), CD

Airport War/Religious Knives CD

2006

Wall As Mistress (AW Records), LP

2005

Over and Over the Endless Corner (AW Records), 16 record album

Website

http://james-hoff.com

Bibliography

Selected Press

2015

Technology fuses with art in Hoff, Humphries CAC exhibits, The New Orleans Advocate, December

Interview with James Hoff, The Tapeworm, November

‘James Hoff – the art of infection’, Ableton, June

Hannah Gregory, Viral Compositions, Postmatter, May

2014

Frieze, Battaglia, Andrew, November-December

The Wire, Barry, Robert, October

Contagion! James Hoff’s Infected Media, Rhizome, Brown, DeForrest and Khan, Nora, September 18

10 of the Most Exciting Musical Art Shows Right Now, Gavin, Francesca, Dazed, September 11

The playlist, Beaumont-Thomas, Ben, The Guardian, August 25

Micchelli, Thomas, Hyperallergic, A Fundamental Rupture

Interview, Keszler, Eli, BOMB Magazine, September

I Like People, and I like People to Like Me, Del Torre, Mónica, Harriet, Poetry Foundation, July 29

NADA New York Delivers, Russeth, Andrew, The Galleriest, May 9

Discover Pan, Battaglia, Andy, emusic.com, January 24

Bachelor Machine, The New Yorker, January 20

2013

The Mating of Separates, Kincheloe Megan Liu., artslant.com, September 24

Parasitic Gaps at TEAM Gallery, Fiske, Courtney., Critics’ Pick, artforum.com, September 14

The String and the Mirror at Lisa Cooley, Russeth, Andrew., GalleristNY.com, August 13

Surround Sound, Dayal, Geeta. , Frieze d/e, May 1

Oslo City Report, Hoegsberg, Milena. Frieze no. 154, April 1

Postscript: Writing After Conceptual Art at MCA Denver, Wright, Lauren A., Frieze no. 154, April 1

Hoff, James. 2Paragraphs, Fichter, Mary, March 7

James Hoff: VI, VII, Oslo., Rana, Matthew. , Frieze no. 152, February 1

2012

James Hoff, Greenberg, Kevin., The Last Magazine. December 20

James Hoff at Callicoon Fine Arts, Balestin, Juliana, New York, Purple Diary, December 5

James Hoff, I’m Already a Has-Been, Ceramics Now Magazine, September 29

James Hoff at VI, VII, Contemporary Art Daily, September 26

James Hoff Auto Correct and Callicoon Fine Arts, Kalm, James, Art Review, November 24

Time Out Recommends, Time Out, November 8

James Hoff’s Paintings Are Based on Language and Abstraction as a Culture-Bound Illness, Mutantspace.com, September 29

Selected Publications

2014

Everybody’s Pixelated, Printed Matter

Blaster, PAN

Every Second One Hundred Bolts of Lighting. . ., Publication Studios Vancouver

Stuxnet (Version 2013), Invisible-Exports

2012

Milking the Flat Cow (No Input Books), artists’ book

Toilet Paper Anthology (with Maurizio Cattelan), Damiani/DAP

Iodine Pilz (with Cary Loren and Elizabeth Sporleder), artist magazine

2011

Inventory Arousal (Bedford Press), artist book

2009

Memoirs (No Input Books), artist book

2008

Endless Nameless (No Input Books), artist book

Topten (No Input Books), artist book

Wavelength, artist book

Selected Writings

2014

Mobius Striptease, I Make Another Room / Eline Mugaas, Galleri Riis, Oslo, NO

2013

Seth Siegelaub, artforum.com

Distributing Books, Art Papers

How the Box Found The Hat and Chair Floored the Table, Convolution No. 2

2011

Argot (Winter Edition), OEI, Stockholm, SE

A rabbit in a hat is not a wonder, it is just a weird accident, Ole Jørgen Ness, Monograph, TI

2010

Get It In Writing (Winter Edition), OEI, Stockholm, SE

2009

Sweet Sweat, ArtForum, December

In Which End Meets End, Éditions Loevenbruck, Paris, FR

2008

Introduction to 0 To 9 (Fall Edition), OEI, Stockholm, SE