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Born 1977, Cleveland, Ohio.

Currently lives and works in New York City.

Juan Fontanive is represented by Riflemaker Gallery.

 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008 Tin Tan, Riflemaker Gallery, London, UK

2006 Paper Films, Riflemaker Gallery, London, UK

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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011

Precarious Interchange, Waxy Pith, Brussels, Belgium

7+1, Bushwick Open Studios, NY, New York, USA

Trompe Le Monde, Occupy Space, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Ireland

2010

For The Sake of the Image, Jerwood Gallery, London, UK

2009

Obsession: contemporary art from the Lodeveans Collection, Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds, UK

Zoo Solo Works, Zoo Art Enterprises, London, UK

2008

Indica, Nyehaus Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2007

Ingenuity, The Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal

2006

Magnetic Vision, Kinetica Museum, London, UK

Riflemaker becomes Indica, Riflemaker Gallery, London, UK

Sensory Material, Bonhams, London, UK

photoLondon, The Royal Academy of Art, London, UK

The Show, Royal College of Art, London, UK

2005

Dead Aim, Riflemaker Gallery, London, UK

Under Five's, 39 Space, London, UK

60 Seconds, The Gallery Southwark Park, Bermondsey, London, UK

Typography and Gridlock, Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, London, UK

MAN Group Drawing Prize Exhibition, Royal College of Art, London, UK

 

EDUCATION

2006 M.A., Animation, The Royal College of Art, London

1999 B.A., English and Textual Studies, Syracuse University, New York

 

Often recycling the mechanical parts of found clocks and pushbikes as the portable containers of his 'animations', Juan Fontanive's interest lies in the beauty of sequential and repetitive movement. Hand drawn characters, human and typographical, occur in a cranky flip-book module powered by oxide. Pages fall in neat layers in the manner of a paper fountain, somewhere between film and sculpture - there is no 'screen' as such. His filmstock is often pulped card or metal leaves.

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