Theodore Darst

RIPPLE, 2020. HD digital video loop & steel & hardware, duration: 5 minutes. Soundtrack by Kevin Carey.

Selected Press

The New York Times: Spring Gallery Guide: SoHo by Will Heinrich

Artforum: Film, Best of 2018 by Ed Halter

Office Magazine: Last Days in a Lovely Place by Drew Zeiba

artnet News: Editors’ Picks: 14 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week by Taylor Dafoe

Alpha Sixty: 6 Exhibitions to See in August by Rob Goyanes

Lives and works in New York, NY.

Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions

2019

Annihilation Holiday, with Kate Steciw, Roxbury Liberal Arts, Roxbury, NY

2018

Oath of Stone Oak, with Rob Fittrman, Broken Dimanche Projects, Berlin, Germany

Last Days in a Lovely Place, Lubov, New York, NY

Not Every Place You Fit In Is Where You Belong, with Collin Leitch, Kings Leap, Brooklyn, NY

2017

Cult Trash, Magenta Plains, New York, NY

2016

The Tourist: ghost wars, UNPAINTED 3.0, Munich, Germany

Ground & Pound, with Jennifer Mehigan, East Hampton Shed, NY

Yes, with Cristobal Cea, Microscope, Brooklyn, NY

2015

The Tourist: A Bad Neighborhood, PLHK, Chicago, IL

2014

Hybrid Theory, with Jennifer Chan, Roots and Culture, Chicago, IL

Only Real, with Peter Jellitsch, Public Works, Chicago, IL

Select Group Exhibitions and Screenings

2020

Die Giester. One Step Beyond, 427 Gallery, Riga, Latvia

I am thankful to be a ghost now, Aldea, Bergen, Norway

Boredom Breeds Mischief, Mery Gates,Brooklyn, NY

Collected Sessions (performance), Fridman Gallery, New York, NY

2019

Wastelands, The Drawing Center, New York, NY

28 Days, 6 Hours, 42 Minutes, 12 Seconds, Mikro, Zurich, Switzerland

What’s Love Got To Do With It, The Drawing Center, New York, NY

Scenes of the American Landscape, Team Gallery, New York, NY

EXE, Tzvetnik/Plague Pro, Krasnodar, Russia

Toby’s Diary, 15 Orient, Brooklyn, NY

Spamm Philosophy, Mapils Gallery, Naples, Italy

2018

Drop Out, Super Dutchess, New York, NY

Ambient Commons, 77 Mulberry, New York, NY

False Flag, Franklin Street Works, Stamford, CT

Moondog, East Hampton Shed, East Hampton, NY

Bunk Notes, Pilot Projects, Philadelphia, PA

Infinite Compressed Comparisons, Holiday, Los Angeles, CA

2017

Addition Before Subtraction, Practice Gallery, New York, NY

No Vacancy 3, Alt Esc Platform, Brooklyn, NY

Faceshifts, Microscope, Brooklyn, NY

The Icebox, King’s Leap, Brooklyn, NY

THIS KNOWN WORLD, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

2016

Artists’ Film Biennial, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England

PDF Objects, Mana Contemporary, Chicago, IL

Greater Chinatown, 67, New York, NY

Deraprim, LG, Brooklyn, NY

Bibliography

Heinrich,Will. “Spring Gallery Guide”, The New York Times. April 2019

Halter, Ed. “Film: Best of” Art Forum”, December 2018

Zeiba, Drew. “Last Days In a Lovely Place” Office Magazine. August, 2018

Pruitt, Ida. “Theodore Darst & Collin Leitch” The Brooklyn Rail. May, 2018

“Consumer Reports”, Artnews, April, 2017

Steck, Ed. “Nu-Metal Can Decay: In Conversation with Theodore Darst”, The Fanzine, 2016

Plaza, María Inés. “On UNPAINTED lab 3.0: Theodore Darst”, Reflektor M, February, 2016

Kuennen, Joel. "Deep Systems at Public Works”, ARTSLANT, February 2014

Joplin, Jay. “A short dialogue with Theodore Darst”, AQNB, December, 2014

Lee, Christina. “Melt Your Mind with Theodore Darst’s Music Video for The- Drum’s ‘/SYS’”, Creator’s Project, July 19, 2013

McCormack, Tom. “Code Eroded: At GLI.TC/H”, Rhizome, October 13, 2013

Publications

Oath of Stone Oak, with Rob Fitterman, Convolutions Journal, 2019

Darst, Theodore. Lazyitis, Soft City Publishing, 2018. Edition of 100

Darst, Theodore. Cult Trash, Soft City Publishing, 2017. Edition of 100

Residencies and Awards

2018-2020 Open Sessions, The Drawing Center, New York, NY

2016 The Lighthouse Works Fellowship, Fishers Island, NY

2012 Hatch Residency, Chicago Artists’ Coalition, Chicago, IL