Max Wigram Gallery
John Houck
ijJohn Houck (b. 1977 in South Dakota) lives and works in Los Angeles. Recent solo exhibitions include A History of Graph Paper, On Stellar Rays, New York, 2013; To Understand Photography You Must First Understand Photography, Kansas Gallery, New York, 2012; Recursion, Bill Brady/KC, Kansas City, 2012. His work has been included in exhibitions at Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, 2013; Art in General, New York, 2010; The Kitchen, New York, 2010; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, 2007; Millennium Museum, Beijing, 2006; Centre Pompidou, Paris, 2006. In 2010 Houck participated to the Whitney Independent Study Program, New York.
John Giorno
EVERYONE GETS LIGHTER
John Giorno (b. 1936 in Brooklyn) lives and works in New York. Giorno’s solo exhibitions include EATING THE SKY, Broadway Billboard at Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island, NY; Faux Movement, Centre d’art contemporain, Metz; Star 69: Dial-A-Poem Relics, Venice Biennale, and gallery exhibitions at Galerie Almine Rech, Paris 2012 and 2009, Almine Rech Brussels, 2010, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, 2010, Galerier de Jour AgnesB, Paris 2005. Group exhibitions include Imagine the Imaginary, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, 2012; Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language, MoMA, New York, 2012; Traces du sacré, Centre Pompidou, 2008; Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Centre, London, 2008. Giorno has been a prolific performer since the 1960s, and as Giorno Poetry Systems he released more than 50 albums of music and poetry. He famously was the subject of Andy Warhol’s first film, Sleep. He is the author of several poetry collections including Subduing Demons in America: Selected Poems, 1962–2007. Giorno’s work is part of important public collections, including Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris; MUDAM, Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg; MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York. Giorno will be the subject of a major retrospective of his life and work at Palais de Tokyo, Paris in 2015.
