Anthony Goicolea

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Anthony Goicolea (* 1971 in Atlanta ) is a Cuban-American photographer . He lives and works in New York City .

life and work

Goicolea studied in Madrid (1989), Georgia (1989–1994) and at the Pratt Institute in New York (1994–1996). He then became a photographer, draftsman, video and installation artist, who mainly staged and made narcissistic self-portraits of himself. In these portraits he created humorous as well as terrifying scenarios in which he often played out events from childhood and adolescence .

Goicolea's interaction scenes of digital clones are constructed in a cinematographic-graphic style that copies current trends from fashion, advertising and music videos. This pop culture aesthetic is a deliberate strategy to place his work in the context of widespread advertising imagery and thus in the mainstream . This is how cross-over projects emerge such as with the designer Thom Browne with the film "The Septemberists", who used a version of the Goicolea film "The Septemberistst" in 2006 to announce his new collection.

The connection to science fiction and horror films can also be found in Goicolea's photographic landscape scenarios. His black-and-white "Almost Safe Series" shows places under a sky that is covered with dark, heavy clouds of smoke and thunderstorms. The depopulated landscapes with their industrial ruins and features of advanced environmental destruction cause a threatening doomsday mood.

Exhibitions (selection)

  • 1996 PRATT STUDIOS, Clot. Brooklyn, NY, MFA Thesis Exhibition
  • 1997 Flat Files PIEROGI 2000, Brooklyn, NY
  • 1998 TATE, Open, New York
  • 1998 THE BRONX MUSEUM OF ART, Artist in the Marketplace: Eighteenth Annual Exhibition, New York
  • 1999 RARE NY, You and What Army, New York
  • 2000 THE BRONX MUSEUM, Good Business Is the Best Art, New York
  • 2000 TATE, Hard, New York, Two Person Exhibiton
  • 2001 Collector's Choice, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
  • 2001 For Skin, Henrique Faria Fine Arts, New York
  • 2002 Situated Realities, Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
  • 2002 Interplay, Miami Design District, Miami
  • 2002 Home Movies, SF Cameraworks, San Francisco
  • 2002 Enough About Me, Momenta, Brooklyn
  • 2002 New photographs and drawings, Aurel Scheibler, Cologne
  • 2002 The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL
  • 2003 Mursollaici, Center Culturel Suisse, Paris
  • 2003 Interplay, Museo de Arte de Puerto Rico
  • 2003 Child in Time, Gemeente Museum, Helmond, The Netherlands
  • 2003 Naked Before God, The Museum of New Art, Parnu, Estonia
  • 2003 Snowscape, video installation, Art Unlimited, Basel
  • 2003 Reality vs. Fiction, Jamaica Center for the Arts, Queens, NY
  • 2003 Regarde, il neige (schizogéographie de la vie quotidienne), Center national d'art et du paysage de Vassiviere, France
  • 2003 Tombe La Neige, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris
  • 2003 Aurel Scheibler, Cologne
  • 2003 Videos, Gallery 845 / LAAA, Los Angeles
  • 2003 Cotthem Gallery, Brussels & Barcelona
  • 2004 The Amazing and the Immutable, University of South Florida, Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL
  • 2004 Nocturnal Emissions, Groninger Museum, Groningen, The Netherlands
  • 2004 Is One Thing Better Than Another, Aurel Scheibler, Cologne
  • 2004 Tea Party, video installation, Madison Avenue, Calvin Klein Space, New York
  • 2004 Sheltered Life, Aurel Scheibler, Cologne
  • 2005 Buenos Aires 7th Festival Internacional de Cine Independiente, Argentina
  • 2005 KunstFilmBiennale, Cologne
  • 2005 WESTERN BIENNALE, Guest currated by Edward Lucie-Smith, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, CA
  • 2005 OBSERVITORI 2005, Museo de las Artes, Valencia, Spain
  • 2006 Coolhunters, Budapest Art Gallery
  • 2006 The youth of today, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt / Main
  • 2006 KunstFilmBiennale, Cologne
  • 2006 The Septemberists, Aurel Scheibler, Berlin
  • 2007 War of Buttons, Ursula Blickle Foundation, Kraichtal, Germany, Art Museum Arhus, Denmark, Landesgalerie, Linz, Austria
  • 2007 Will Boys Be Boys? Indianapolis Museum of Art
  • 2008 Related, ScheiblerMitte, Berlin
  • 2008 Related, Haunch of Venison, London
  • 2009 the last man standing - a retrospective of photography and video works, Fireplace Project, East Hampton, New York
  • 2009 Related, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver
  • 2016 Rohkunstbau

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personal data
SURNAME Goicolea, Anthony
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Cuban-American photographer
DATE OF BIRTH 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Atlanta