Mike Bidlo

A conceptual artist, Mike Bidlo (b. 1953, Chicago) has made a career in the genre of appropriation art, creating faithful copies of masterpieces by some of the artistic titans of the 20th century including Constantin Brancusi, Pablo Picasso, Fernand Leger, Marcel Duchamp, Man Ray, Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol. Done as if he was an actor getting into character, Bidlo studies the artists and their techniques using reproductions as his guide. While mostly sticking to painting, drawing and sculpture, he has incorporated performance into his practice from the beginning recreating a scene of Pollock pissing into Peggy Guggenheim’s fireplace, an evening at Andy Warhol’s Factory, and a session of nude body painting as Yves Klein. Bidlo has shown with Galerie Bruno Bishofberger, Paolo Curti & Co., Tony Shafrazi Gallery, Daniel Templon, Gagosian Gallery and Leo Castelli Gallery. He has had solo museum exhibitions at PS1, New York (2003); Astrup Fernley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo, Norway and Bergen Art Museum, Bergen (2002); Sezon Museum, Tokyo, Japan and Saatchi Collection, London (1991); and Grey Art Gallery, New York (1989). Bidlo lives and works in New York.

Past exhibitions

Biography

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2016
  • Mike Bidlo: Not Duchamp Fountain and Bottle Rack, Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, 57th Street, New York, USA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021
  • Line, Shape, Color, and Form, Hollis Taggart, Southport, Southport, Connecticut, USA
  • Accumulate, Krakow Witkin Gallery, Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  • New York in the 80s: Selections from the Barry Blinderman Collection, Western Exhibitions, West Town, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2020
  • Olivier Mosset & Mike Bidlo, Bob Rauschenberg Gallery, Ft. Myers, Florida, USA
  • Duchamp Threads the Needle, David Nolan, Upper West Side, New York, USA
2018
  • Group Exhibition, Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, 57th Street, New York, USA
  • Rose Ocean: Living with Duchamp, Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, New York, USA
2017
  • VERY APPROPRIATE, Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, California, USA
  • Relatives, Krakow Witkin Gallery, Newbury Street, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
  • Marcel Duchamp: Fountain, Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, 57th Street, New York, USA
  • Exuberant 80s: An East Village Painters Circle, Johannes Vogt, Upper East Side, New York, USA
2015
  • Icons: The Art of Appropriation, Sotheby’s New York, Upper East Side, New York, USA
2014
  • Post Pop: East Meets West, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
  • Positivilly Marvillainous, Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton, East Hampton, New York, USA
  • Jeannette Montgomery Barron: Scene, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy
2013
  • Miquel Barcelo, Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, St. Moritz, St. Moritz, Switzerland
2012
  • No Person May Carry a Fish into a Bar, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, Palms, Los Angeles, California, USA
2011
  • Sentimental Education, Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, Palm Beach, Florida, USA
  • The Bewildered Image: American Painters From The 1980’s, Patricia Low Contemporary, Gstaad, Gstaad, Switzerland
  • The 80s Revisited, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
2010
  • The Visible Vagina, David Nolan, Upper West Side, New York, USA
2008
  • The Future Must Be Sweet, International Print Center New York, Chelsea, New York, USA
2007
  • Demoiselle Revisited, Francis M. Naumann Fine Art, 57th Street, New York, USA

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