Jon Pylypchuk

Jon Pylypchuk (1972, Winnipeg, Canada) studied at Yale University Summer School of Music and Art, New Haven, Connecticut, USA (1996), has a BFA from the University of Manitoba, Canada (1997) and a MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles, EUA (2001). In Manitoba he co-founded the collective known as Royal Art Lodge in 1996 with the artists Michael Dumontier (1974, Winnipeg), Marcel Dzama (1974, Winnipeg), Neil Farber (1975, Winnipeg), Drue Langlois (1972, Winnipeg) and Adrian Williams (1979, Portland, USA).

Pylypchuk is a multidisciplinary artist working in painting, sculpture, installation, and video. Using simple materials (fake leather, wood, fabric, metal plates, beer cans, electric lamps, polyurethane foam, etc.), Pylypchuk reinterprets the gluing and DIY practices derived from Art Brut. 

He exhibited individually at Sydney Biennial, Sydney, Australia (2012); Jon Pylypchuk, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Canada (2010); Jon Pylypchuk, Blaffer Gallery, The Art Museum of Houston, USA (2009); Experimental Art and Culture: Jon Pylypchuk, The Art Gallery of Calgary, Canada (2009); Ausstellungshalle zeitgeno¨ssische Kunst Mu¨nster, Germany (2009); Blaffer Gallery, The Art Museum of the University of Houston, USA (2008); You asked me to come and see your routine, you call this a fucking routine?, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, USA (2006), among other institutions.

His work is featured in important museum collections, including: the Blaffer Museum of Art, Texas, USA; De la Cruz Collection, Miami, USA; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada; Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, USA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA; Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami. USA; Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA; MONA Museum, Berridale, Tasmania; Saatchi Collection, London, United Kingdom; Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent, Belgium; The Whitney Museum, New York, USA; The Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada.

PS, dezembro 2020