EDY FERGUSON
Education
Hunter College of The City of New York. MFA, Painting and Combined Media.
Washington University in St. Louis. BFA, Sculpture.
Art Institute of Chicago. Early College Program: Drawing, Painting, Printmaking.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Fall 2021 Electric Warrior Xi’an, OCAT Xi’an, China
2016 New Paintings and Selected Photography, House of St. Barnabas, London.
2015 Eclectic Cuts: Portraits, CCA Galleries International, Jersey.
2014 Coke Tragedy, Cortex Athletico, Paris.
2014 New Paintings and Drawings, Solo Project with Cortex Athletico, Geneva.
2013 Conspiracy Theory, Bernier-Eliades Gallery, Athens, Greece.
2013 America, Faggionato Fine Art, London.
2012 Selected Works 1993 – Present, Centre D’Art Contemporain, Geneva.
2012 Selected Works 1993 – Present, Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece.
2008 Recent Paintings, Salon Am Hof, Vienna, Austria.
2005 New Paintings, Sensei Gallery, New York.
2002 Rockumental, Studio 406, New York.
2000 Heavy Energy Machine 2: Imperialist Games, Momenta Art, Brooklyn New York.
1998 Fin de Siècle, New York à Nantes, Nantes Art Festival by CRDC, France.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020 After Decameron, Open Space Contemporary, London.
2019 International Public Arts Workshop Exhibition, Xi’an Fine Art Academy, China.
2017 The London Original Art Car Boot Sale, London.
2016 Art Thessoloniki International Art Fair, Thessoloniki, Greece.
2015 Arena, Centre of Contemporary Art, Znaki Czasu, Torun.
2015 Original Print Fair, The Royal Academy of Arts, London.
2015 She Devil 7, Stefania Marscetti Studio, Rome.
2015 Multiplied, Christies, Contemporary Art in Editions, London.
2012 Double Take, 2nd Biennale of Mardin, Turkey.
2012 Parnassos, Wiener Art Foundation Vienna, in Athens.
2012 Faces, Onassis Cultural Centre, Athens, Greece.
2011 Remap, Athens, Greece.
2010 Watercolours, Tiroler Landes Museen, Innsbruck, Austria.
2008 5 x 5 Pluralism, Museo de Arte Acarigua-Araure, Caracas, Venezuela.
2005 Red White and Blue, Spencer Brownstone Gallery, New York.
2001 Song Poems, Cohen and Leslie, New York.
1999 Free Coke, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York.
1998 Oriental Nights, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York.
1998 Studio Program Exhibition, PS1 Institute of Contemporary Art, MOMA, New York.
1998 Exhibition Video Library, David Zwirner Gallery, New York.
Awards and Residences
2020 Covid Relief Grant for all projects, Arts Council England.
2019 Travel Grant, British Council, China Connections Through Culture.
2019 Xi'an Academy of Fine Arts, International Public Art Workshop, China.
2018 The Petrol Station, White Noise. Studio residency located in White City, London.
2016 The V.Tassis Sculpture Award. Biennial competition for sculptors working in London.
2010-13 Athens School of Fine Art, Residency: School of Fine Arts, Hydra Island, Greece.
2010 Athens School of Fine Art, Residency: School of Fine Arts, Crete, Greece.
2009 Innsbruck, Watercolour Painting Residency: Tiroler Landes Museen.
2008-9 The Art Factory, Mykonos, Greece.
1999 Teaching Grant, Annenburg Foundation, New York.
1998 PS1 MoMA, National Studio Residency Program.
1998 Resident Artist, Long Island City High School, Queens, New York.
1993 MTV Video Music Awards, Best Video 1993, Art Direction for Jeremy by Pearl Jam.
1984-88 The Fred Conway Scholarship of Art, Washington University in St. Louis.
1982-84 Early College Program, full scholarship, Art Institute of Chicago.
Performances and Projects
2019 International Public Art Workshop. Proposals for Yangling Mausoleum, Xi’an.
2018 The Petrol Station. Series of Performance collaborations with local artists, London.
2017 Maggot Brain. Vauxhall, The Original Art Car Boot Sale, London.
2017 Good Thoughts/Bad Thoughts. Design commission for Vauxhall Motors, London.
2016 Open House. Wharton Hall Studios, Coriander Studio, London.
2016 The Story of Water. The House of St. Barnabas, London.
2015 The Pursuit of Happiness. Music video featuring performances by students from Oak Lodge School for the Deaf, London.
2014 The Man Who Sold the World. UK Tour Photographer. With Tony Visconti and Woody
Woodmansy of David Bowie’s original band, The Spiders from Mars.
2013 Conspiracy Theory. Exhibition for The Athens and Epidaurus Festival, Athens.
2013 Sympathy. Centre d’Art Contemporain, for Art Night, Geneva.
2011 Now + Here. MIR Dance Festival, Athens.
2006 The Magician and the Exorcist. Monkey Town, New York.
2002 Rockumental. Suite 106 Gallery, New York.
2000 Heavy Energy Machine 2: Imperialist Games, Momenta New York.
1999 Heavy Energy Machine. Judson Memorial Hall. New York.
Public Collections
The George Economou Collection, Athens, Greece.
Anthea Art Investments, Switzerland
LAC Geneva, Switzerland
The Colin De Land, American Fine Arts, and Pat Hearn Gallery Archives
Museo de Arte Acarigua-Araure, Venezuela.
Bibliography
She Devil, Group Exhibition Catalogue, Cura Books, 2020.
China Central Television, interview for International Public Art Workshop, Xi’an, 2019.
White Noise,
BBC Jersey, Live Radio Interview, October 20, 2015.
Blouin Art and Auction, Review, October 2015.
Elle Magazine Hong Kong, October 2015.
Sloan Square Magazine, October 2015.
The Telegraph London, Review, October 12, 2015.
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Kunstbulletin 1-2/2013, Review, pages 78 and 79.
Bernier/Eliades Gallery, Agra Publications, Conspiracy Theory, Exhibition Catalogue, 2013.
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The Art Newspaper, Review, September 2002.
Voice Choices, New York, October 2002.