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Spencer Finch

Biography

Spencer Finch

 

Spencer Finch (b. 1962 New Haven, CT) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Finch received his MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and his BA from Hamilton College Clinton, NY. Finch has exhibited internationally since the early 1990s, and recent solo exhibitions include The ‘I’ is the Mind of an Object (2021) at the Madoo Conservancy in Sagaponack, NY; Only the band that erases writes the true thing (2021) at Lisson Gallery in London; The Enigma of Color (2021) at the Galerie Nordenhake in Berlin; Looking around, gazing intently, beholding (2020) at the Rhona Hoffman Gallery in Chicago; Botanica (2019) at Galerie Nordenhake in Mexico City.

Finch completed several large-scale public projects including Trying to remember the color of the sky on that September morning at the 9/11 Memorial Museum in New York City (2014); Moon Dust (2018), a long term installation at the Baltimore Museum of Art; When You Look on the River and Sky (2019) as part of Walt Whitman’s bicentennial celebration in Philadelphia; The Secret Life of Glass (2020) at the Corning Museum of Glass in Corning, NY; Orion (2020) at the Harvey Milk Terminal at The San Francisco Airport. His upcoming installation, A Cloud Index, is set to open this year at the Paddington Crossrail Station in London.

The artist is a recipient of the American Federation of Arts’ Cultural Leadership Award (2014) and his work is held in numerous museum collections, including the Art Institute of Chicago; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; the Glasgow Museum of Art; the High Museum of Art, Atlanta; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC; the Morgan Library, New York; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; and the Whitney Museum, New York.

 

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