Darren Bader

Darren Bader is a conceptual artist working across a broad range of media. He is known for his experiments with language, misattribution, found objects. With works that have included gestures like selling money, releasing live goats into a gallery, or a sculpture that has its owner buy every item in an eBay seller’s shop, Bader’s practice considers the processes through which we ascribe value to objects and how they become art. “Contemporary art is by its very nature kind of a tenuous proposition and category,” Bader claims, “I always sense these fault lines, and perhaps I’m overly sensitive to it—perhaps paranoid, I don’t know.” Darren Bader (b. 1978, Bridgeport) lives and works in New York. Selected solo exhibitions include MACRO, Rome; MoMA Ps1, New York; and Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne. He has exhibited work at the 2019 Venice Biennale and 2014 Whitney Biennial, as well as group exhibitions at UCCA, Beijing; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; MOCA, Miami; Palais de Tokyo, Paris; and Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art.