Luther Price

  • Sugar Fracture(slide still), 2015, 16mm film

  • Meat Chapter 3(slide still), 2015, 16mm film

  • Number 9: A Study in Decay, 2013, The 2013 James and Audrey Foster Prize, Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, © Charles Mayer Photography, Installation View

  • Number 9: A Study in Decay, 2013, The 2013 James and Audrey Foster Prize, Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston, © Charles Mayer Photography, Installation View

  • Luther Price and K’wao Kagoshima, 2013, Vilma Gold, London, Installation View

  • Sorry Series, 2013, Photographic print, 24 x 16.39 cm, 9.5 x 6.5 ins

  • Sorry Series, 2013, Photographic print, 24 x 16.39 cm, 9.5 x 6.5 ins

  • Sorry Series, 2013, Photographic print, 24 x 16.39 cm, 9.5 x 6.5 ins

  • Night Studio, 2012, Vilma Gold, London, Installation View

  • Night Studio, 2012, Vilma Gold, London, Installation View

  • Night Studio, 2012, Vilma Gold, London, Installation View

  • 1999, Handmade slide, 3.8 x 3.8 cm, 1.5 x 1.5 ins

  • Sally’s Mouth, 1999, Sally’s Mouth, 3.8 x 3.8 cm, 1.5 x 1.5 ins

  • Meat (still), 1992, super 8 mm on video, colour, sound, 60 minutes

  • Meat (still), 1992, super 8 mm on video, colour, sound, 60 minutes

  • Lives and works in Revere, MA

    1962Born in Marlboro, MA

    Education

    1987Massachusetts College of Art, BFA

    Solo Exhibitions

    2016Flesh Fracture, Mana Contemporary, Chicago, US
    Vilma Gold, London

    2015Callicoon Fine Arts, New York, NY
    Meat, Chapter 3: The Maggots Will Find You, Usdan Gallery, Bennington, Vermont
    Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

    2014Participant INC., New York, NY

    2013Vilma Gold, London (with E’Wao Kagoshima)

    2012Callicoon Fine Arts, New York, NY

    1999Imitation Of Life, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY

    Group Exhibitions (selected)

    2016Home, Greater Manchester Arts Centre, Manchester, UK (upcoming)
    In the Dust of This Planet, curated by Anna Stothart, San Antonio Museum of Art, TX (upcoming)

    2015MIT Student Center, ​MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
    From the Ruins, curated by Jane Harris, 601 Art Space, New York, NY
    To the End of the Line, Chateau Shatto, Los Angeles

    2014Cut to Swipe, MoMA, New York, NY

    2013ICA, Fotene Demoulas Gallery, James and Audrey Foster Prize, Boston

    2012Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
    Second Nature: Abstract Photography Then and Now, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
    Night Studio, Michaela Eichwald, David Harrison, Andrew Mania, Luther Price, Carl Van Vechten, Vilma Gold, London

    Performances

    2000Glitter Fat Fashion Maggot, CBGB, New York, NY

    Selected Film Screenings

    2015Re-visions, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
    Avant-Noir, Volume 2, ICA, London
    Modern Mondays, curated by Thomas Beard, MoMA, New York, NY

    201360th Oberhausen Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany Lincoln Center for Performing Arts, New York, NY

    200635th International Film Festival, Rotterdam, the Netherlands The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Mass
    Onion City Film Festival, Chicago, IL

    2005Views From the Avant Garde, The New York Film Festival, New York,NY Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
    Project Cotton Candy, Participant Inc; Performa, New York, NY Momenta Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

    2004Film Society, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA

    2003Oni Performance Art Space, Boston, MA
    Balagan Experimental Film Series, Coolidge Corner Theater, Brookline, MA

    2002Fruit Farm Film Festival, McMinnville, OR
    NYUFF, Views from the Avant Garde, New York, NY Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago, IL
    Film Society, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

    2001Balgan Experimental Film Series, Coolidge Corner Theater, Brookline, MA Do It Yourself, Roxy Cinema, San Francisco, CA

    200029th International Film Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands The Whitney Museum, New York, NY
    The International Film Series, Boulder, CO (retrospective)
    3rd Annual Super8 Film Festival, Pleasure Dome, Toronto, CA
    Home Movies from Hell, SF Cinemateque, (retrospective) San Francisco, CA Not Every Picture Tells a Story, Sundance Channel
    International Short Film and Video Series, Cinematexas, Austin, TX

    1999Views From The Avant Garde, NYFF New York, NY
    Big as Life: An American History of Super8 Film, MoMa, New York, NY Boston Underground Film Festival, Boston, MA

    1998An Evening of Objectionable Art, SFAI, San Francisco,CA Transience and Sentimentality, ICA, Boston, MA

    1997International Film Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands Chicago Filmmakers, Kino Eye Cinema, Chicago, IL

    1996Cinemateque, Paris, France
    Brussels Film Festival, Belgium
    Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY

    Filmography

    Selected Super8 Films

    2003Clown (complete revised)

    2002Mother (revised)

    2000Recitations

    1999Home; Mother; I’ll Cry Tomorrow; Yellow Goodbye; Ritual 629; Meat (dry 02);Meat (blue 03); Meat (situation 04)

    1998Door #2-37

    1996Slam; These and Those

    1995A; Me Gut No Dog Dog

    1994Jellyfish Sandwich; In Black & White; Bottle Can

    1993Run

    1992Clown (part 1); Meat

    1991Nostril Hair; The Chronic Chapsters

    1990A Porcelain Ribbon; Nancy; HSC

    1989Sodom; Eruption Erection

    1988Green; Mr. Wonderful; Friend; The Look of Love

    1987Warm Broth; Red Rooster; Noni (75)

    1986Cold, Cold Heart; Chicago Film; Portrait

    16mm Films

    2006Velvet K; Rocket; Fancy; Dreammaker; Birthday; Deaf for Chicken Lip; Nice Baskets; URF16

    2005Nice Biscotts (1); Nice Biscotts (2); Same Day, Nice Biscotts; Domestic Blue; Turbulent Blue; September Song;
    Have a Pickle; Dipping Sauce; 6789; Jelly Flower; You’ve Got The Toni

    2004Patch of Green; Dirty Ribbon; Ribbon Candy; Dirty Rosa; Andy Warhol

    Bibliography

    2015Cicely.M.Eastman, The New England Home Movie Tour This Saturday, Reformer, Online, February 18, 2015

    2014Andrew Durbin, On Disintegration, Mousse Magazine n.45, December 2014
    Berentsen, Mirthe Maria. Reviews in Breif: Karthik Pandian- Betonsalon, Paris, Modern Painters, Vol 26, Issue 6, June 2014

    2013Jennifer Bormann, Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen: Auf der Suche nach dem Kino, Kino-zeit, Online, 10 May 2013
    Claus Loser, Macht des Analogen, TagesSpiegel/Kultur, Online, 10 May 2013
    Luther Price: Poetry of the Found, online essay, Los Angeles Film Forum, 6 April 2013
    Sherlock, Amy. Reviews: Karthik Pandian Vilma Gold, London, Frieze, January - February 2013

    2012Ed Halter, Luther Price: Body of Work, Mousse Magazine n.36, December 2012
    Nagesh, Ashitha. Critics Picks, ArtForum Online, 11th October 2012
    Leigh Anne Miller, Decoding Images: Luther Price, No. 9 2012, Art in America
    Nathan, Emily, Art Basel 13: Staking Claims at Art Statements, Artnet.com, Online, 15th June 2012
    Domanovic, Alexandra. I-D/Art: Some Like it Hot, I-D, March 2012
    Aaron Cutler and Mariana Shellard, The hand made Luther Price, IDIOM
    Tara Merenda Nelson, KITTENS GROW UP: Tara Nelson & Luther Price in conversation, Luther Price: Fancy Days, Fancy Times, Big Red & Shiny
    Chloe Penman, Nine Films by Luther Price: Thomas Beard and Ed Halter at the LUX/ICA Biennial, Reel Reel Journal Andrew Lampert, Luther Price, BOMB 120

    2011Bradford Nordeen, Luther Price: Fancy Days, Fancy Times, Dirty Looks
    Ou, Arthur, Karthik Pandian: Unearth, Bidoun, Spring 2011, p. 163
    Brunner, Bettina. unExhibit, Frieze, issue 139, May 2011
    Myers, Julian. Openings: Karthik Pandian, Artforum, March 2011
    Alemani, Cecilia. Architecture, Archeology, and the Solar Unconscious, Mousse, issue 27,
    February/March 2011

    2010Pandian, Karthik. Late Culture in the American Bottom, Before the Sun- Late Culture in the American Bottom (Catalogue), 2010
    Stephenson, Sarah. Karthik Pandian: Porous Reality, Timeless Architecture, Art in America, online, December 17, 2010

    2000Gary Morris, Home Movies from Hell: The Films of Luther Price, Bright Lights, Issue 29
    Campagnola, Sonia, Review: Karthik Pandian, Flash Art, July - September, 2009