1986 Born in Portland, Oregon Lives and works in Paris, France
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Selected Public Collections
AkzoNobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY Alfond Collection of Contemporary Art at Rollins College at the Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Winter Park, Florida DESTE Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy KRC Collection, Amsterdam, Netherlands Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Switzerland Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia Serpentine Galleries, London, UK Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Yuz Foundation, Jakarta, Indonesia
Solo Exhibitions
2020 Megafauna - NGV Triennial 2020, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia, NO PARKING (retrospective), Edward Ressle, Shanghai, China,
2019 FlatEarth.io, Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands VON AMMON CO, Washington DC, MENTAL
2017 Team Gallery, New York, New York, Quantaspectra
2016 Johan Berggren Gallery, Malmö, Sweden, Sunflower Seed Team (bungalow), Los Angeles, California, Sunflower Seed
2015 Team Gallery, New York, New York, Fake Shrimp
2013-2014 Team Gallery, New York, New York, Next-Gen Open Beta
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 CODA Museum, Apeldoorn, Netherlands, Behind The Screens 2022 Super Dakota, Brussels, Belgium, Liquid Life La Venaria Reale, Venaria Reale, Italy, Play - Video Game Art and Beyond The Photographers' Gallery, London, UK, How to Win at Photography
2021 AkzoNobel Art Foundation, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Reflections beyond the Surface Oklahoma Contemporary, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Open World: Video Games & Contemporary Art Rhizome/Hyundai Motorstudio Seoul, Seoul, South Korea, World on a Wire (curated by Michael Connor) Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland, How to Win at Photography Rhizome/Hyundai Motorstudio Beijing, Beijing, China, World on a Wire (curated by Michael Connor)
2020 MoCA Westport, Westport, Connecticut, World Peace (curated by Todd von Ammon Ars Electronica/König Galerie, Linz, Austria, Better Off Online (curated by Anika Meier) Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Art in the Age of Anxiety (curated by Omar Kholeif) Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, New Hampshire, Open World: Video Games & Contemporary Art (curated by Theresa Bembnister) Upstream Gallery/Art Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands
2019 Stads Triennale, Genk, Belgium, SCREEN IT (curated by Pieter-Jan Valgaeren) Jeffrey Deitch & Gagosian, Miami, The Extreme Present VON AMMON CO, Washington DC, Focus Group Akron Art Museum, Ohio, Open World: Video Games & Contemporary Art (curated by Theresa Bembnister) Photo London, United Kingdom, Crossing The Borders of Photography (presented by Artuner) Halsey McKay, New York, SMILE (curated by Todd Von Ammon) Museum of Modern Art, New York, New Order: Art and Technology in the 21st Century Anonymous Gallery, Paris, France, 100 Sculptures Artuner, Paris, France, Lost and Found in Paradis
2018 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, I Was Raised on the Internet (curated by Omar Kholeif) Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, We The People Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Live and Let Live ARCOmadrid, Madrid, Spain, Ryan McGinley and Tabor Robak Golinelli Art and Science Center, Bologna, Italy, UNPREDICTABLE Anonymous Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico, 100 Sculptures
2017 Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California, Botanica (curated by Todd von Ammon) Barclays Center, Brooklyn, New York, Public Art Fund: Commercial Break Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Lisbon, Portugal, Utopia/Dystopia Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands, Human/Digital: A Symbiotic Love Affair University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, Painting in the Network: Algorithm and Appropriation
2016 Yuz Museum Shanghai, Shanghai, China, OVERPOP: New Art from Yuz Collection and beyond (Curated by Jeffrey Deitch & Karen Smith) Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan, Tokyo Remix: Creative Power from the Metropolis
2015 Serpentine Galleries, London, England, Special Projects: Drinking Bird (Seasons) 2nd Beijing Photo Biennial, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China, Unfamiliar Asia (selected by Yuko Hasegawa) Pavillon de l’Arsenal, Paris, France, Artists and Architecture Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland, Toys Redux - On Play and Critique (curated by Raphael Gygax & Judith Welter) Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany, Playing Future (curated by Dörte Zbikowski) Max Hetzler Gallery, Berlin, Germany, Open Source: Art at the Eclipse of Capitalism (curated by Lisa Schiff, Leslie Fritz and Eugenio Re Rebaudengo) Ellis King, Dublin, Ireland, Constructed Culture Sounds Like Conculture (curated by Samuel Leuenberger) Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, Screen Play: Life in an Animated World Artuner, Turin, Italy, Michael Armitage, Paul Kneale, Tabor Robak
2014 Pablo’s Birthday, New York, New York, LIKENEWLANDSCAPE Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna, Austria, Instrumental Assistance (curated by Kristina Scepanski) Upstream Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands, Shifting Optics Barbican Centre, London, England, Digital Revolution Swiss Institute Contemporary Art, New York, New York, The St. Petersburg Paradox (curated by Simon Castets) Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany, Smart New World (curated by Elodie Evers and Magdalena Holzhey)
2013 La Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France, Meanwhile…Suddenly and Then (curated by Gunnar B. Kvaran) MoMA: PS1, Long Island City, New York, ProBio (curated by Josh Kline), EXPO 1: New York (curated by Klaus Biesenbach and Hans-Ulrich Obrist) Frieze Art Fair, London, England, Cory Arcangel, Ryan McGinley, Tabor Robak (under the auspices of Team Gallery) Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy, Empire State: New York and Beyond (curated by Sir Norman Rosenthal and Alex Gartenfeld) Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France, Empire State: New York and Beyond (curated by Sir Norman Rosenthal and Alex Gartenfeld) Karma International, Zürich, Switzerland, Cherry Picking (curated by Simon Castets) Kunstraum Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany, In that Weird Age Team Gallery, New York, NY, Black Cake (curated by Alex Gartenfeld)
2012 Algus Greenspon, New York, NY, Inside The Banana
2011 New Museum, New York, NY, Rhizome Benefit PM Galerie, Berlin, Germany, BCC #1 (curated by Aurélia Defrance, Julie Grosche and Aude Pariset) 319 Scholes, Brooklyn, NY, READ/WRITE Extra Extra, http://www.eexxttrraa.com, Online, BNPJ.exe The Future Gallery at Gentili Apri, Berlin, Germany, Post-Internet Survival Guide
2010 The State, http://thestate.tumblr.com, Online, Carbon NewGallery, London, England, New Age Default Belo Horizonte, Brazil, Festival de Arte Digital Future Gallery, Berlin, Germany, Paint FX Live! Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, Oregon, BFA Thesis Exhibition
2009 Higgins Gallery, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, Oregon, World Wide Weird
2007 BFA Gallery, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, Oregon, Text Me
2006 Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, Oregon, BFA Juried Show
Special Projects
2019 Maison Margiela, ongoing MiniJumbo installation at concept store in New York City Balenciaga, “Nightlife,” video made in collaboration with Balenciaga and DJ Hell
2017 Microsoft, “Sundial,” video commissioned architectural façade of flagship store on 5th avenue in New York City
Performances & Screenings
2013 EXO performance w/ Gatekeeper, Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt, Berlin, Germany Vatican Vibes and Explosions screening, Roulette, Brooklyn, NY
2012 EXO performance w/ Gatekeeper, VIA festival, Pittsburgh, PA Vatican Vibes screening, Genre-Specific Xperience (Fatima Al Qadiri), Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy Vatican Vibes screening, Genre-Specific Xperience (Fatima Al Qadiri), Share Conference, Belgrade EXO performance w/ Gatekeeper, Public Assembly, Brooklyn, New York Vatican Vibes screening, Genre-Specific Xperience (Fatima Al Qadiri), Sultan Gallery, Kuwait Vatican Vibes screening, Genre-Specific Xperience (Fatima Al Qadiri), Nottingham Contemporary, England
2011 Vatican Vibes screening, Genre-Specific Xperience (Fatima Al Qadiri), New Museum, New York, New York HDBOYZ performance, DIS_RT (Dis Magazine, Ryan Trecartin) MoMA PS1. Long Island City, New York Explosions screening, New Mutants, Worksound, Portland, Oregon
Teaching
2013 Instructor, NYU, full-semester studio class,“Digital Spaces,” co-taught with Aaron Meyers
Guest Lectures / Public Speaking:
2020 NGV Triennial 2020, Guest presenter in “A Dark Horizon”
2019 Bloomberg Art + Technology, Interview with Executive Director of Rhizome, Zachary Kaplan Düsseldorf University of Applied Sciences, Guest speaker at “PRE_INVENT: Beyond the Visible”
2017 Yale, Visiting artist lecture and studio visits Cheddar News, Live TV presentation of collaboration with Microsoft The Armory Show, Panelist in “Art, Technology, Preservation & Prosperity in the Digital Age”
2015 Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Panelist in “Screen Play: Life in an Animated World”
2014 Swiss Institute Interview with Simon Castets for “The St. Petersburg Paradox” Art Basel Miami Beach, Panelist in “Playfulness: Artists as online gamers, surfers and armchair digital revolutionaries.”
2013 NYU,Visiting artist lecture
Grants & Awards
2011 Rhizome Commission, Rhizome of the New Museum, New York, New York
2010 General Fine Arts Departmental Award, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, Oregon
2005 Merit Scholarship, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, Oregon
Education
2005-2010 BFA, Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, Oregon.
Selected Bibliography
2022 Jennings, Will, “A flâneur in uncanny valley: traversing the digital landscape,” recessed.space, August 22.
2021 González-Cohen, Adrián, et al., “Buffalo Viral: Tabor Robak,” Buffalo Zine, May 15. Hantao, Shi, “Feature: Tabor Robak,” Modern Weekly, January 30. Zhao, Georgina, “Optical Game,” Nylon China, January 15. Dowse, Nicola, “Best works to see at the NGV Triennial 2020,” Time Out Melbourne, January 7. Knezic, Sophie, “NGV Triennial 2020,” Australian Book Review, January 4.
2020 Miller, Nick, “From famine to feast: the mega art show coming soon to Melbourne,” The Sydney Morning Herald, October 8. Whyte, Murray, “At the Currier, the under-traveled intersection of video games and art,” The Boston Globe, September 3. Tripathi, Shailaja, “‘Art in the age of Anxiety’ in the UAE investigates our digitized life,” STIR world, August 19. Bennett, Rachel, “Art in the Age of Anxiety - A Conversation with Omar Kholeif,” Fad Magazine, June 5. Tanguy, Sarah, “Tabor Robak,” Sculpture Magazine, April 30 Sharma, Larina, “Sharjah Art Foundation Explores Art in a Digital Age of Anxiety,” Vogue Arabia, March 12.
2019 Rose Sharp, Sarah, “Tracing the Interconnectedness of Art and Video Games,” Hyperallergic, December 31. Jenkins, Mark, “‘Focus Group’ takes a playful approach to life and death,” The Washington Post, December 27. Williams, Maxwell, “From Picasso to Pac-Man,” artnet, November 19. Hudak, Brittany M., “Video Games as Art,” CAN Journal, August 21. Capps, Kriston, "Reviews: Tabor Robak," Artforum International, June 1. Dingfelder, Sadie, "Is This The Future of Art?," The Washington Post, March 04. Jenkins, Mark, "'Focus Group' takes a playful approach to life and death," The Washington Post, December 27. Dijksterhuis, Edo, "Pixelangelo Makes a High Mass For The Digital Supreme Being," Het Parool, September 13. Schwendener, Martha, "Encountering the 'New Order' at MoMA," The New York Times, June 6.
2017 Yerebakan, Osman Can, “Tabor Robak: Quantaspectra,” The Village Voice, May 24. Licursi, E.P., “Tabor Robak: The New Old Master,” SSENSE, July 6. Yerebakan, Osman Can, “Tabor Robak’s Sundial Takes Over 5th Avenue,” Arte Fuse.
2015 Wise, Lloyd, “Openings: Tabor Robak,” Artforum International, November, pp. 288-291 (with illustrations). Hampton, Chris, “Unpacking and Decoding the World of Animation,” The New York Times, July 31, pp. C1. Halle, Howard and Heather Corcoran, “See Mesmerizing Works From Digital Artist Tabor Robak,” Time Out New York, June 16. Yerebakan, O.C., “New York – Tabor Robak: ‘Fake Shrimp’ at Team Gallery Through June 7, 2015,” Art Observed, June 5. Smith, Roberta, “Tabor Robak; ‘Fake Shrimp’”, The New York Times, May 29, pp. C23. Chayka, Kyle, “Can Digital Artist Tabor Robak Become Pixelangelo,” New York Magazine, May 7. Zhong, Fan, Art 2.0, W Magazine, May 7. Burns, Charlotte, “Serpentine Galleries’ patron gives digital gift, The Art Newspaper, May 1. Nihal, Mariam, “Film at Art Basel: Documenting an egalitarian perspective”, Saudi Gazette, January 30. Adams, Susan, “From Michelle Phan to Christian Sirian: 30 Under 30 In Art And Style”, Forbes, January 5.
2014 Burns, Charlotte, “Art world faces reality check”, The ArtNewspaper, December 5. Smith, Roberta, “’The St. Petersburg Paradox’ at the Swiss Institute”, The New York Times, August 7, pp. C22. Heinrich, Will, “’The St. Petersburg Paradox’ at Swiss Institute”, Gallerist, June 6. Reyburn, Scott, “On screen and on the block”, International New York Times, June 2, pp. 15. Gat, Orit, “Tabor Robak Next-Gen Open Beta,” ArtReview, March, p. 124. Smith, William S., “Tabor Robak,” Art in America, March 14, p.149.
2013 Gentles, Tim, “Commercial and Then Some” : An Interview with Tabor Robak,” Art in America Online, December 16. Alemani, Cecilia, “I Love Screens,” Mousse, December, pp. 126-129. Russeth, Andrew, “‘Tabor Robak: Next-Gen Beta’ at Team Gallery,” New York Observer, December 3. Elizalde, Molly, “Tabor Robak’s Virtual Dreamscapes,” InterviewMagazine.com, November 22. Saxelby, Ruth, “New Worlds,” Dazed & Confused, December, p. 72. Indrisek, Scott, “Game On: Tabor Robak’s High-Tech Wizardry,” Modern Painters, November, pp. 70-72. Smith, S. William, “ProBio,” Art in America, October 3.
2012 Friedlander, Emilie, “Artist Profile: Tabor Robak,” Ad Hoc, September 4. Saxelby, Ruth, “Enter the Void,” Dazed & Confused, August, pp. 60-63. Johnson, Ken, “Inside the Banana,” The New York Times, August 3, p. C25.
Publications
2023 Included in: Kholeif, Omar, “Internet_Art: From the Birth of the Web to the Rise of NFTs,” Phaidon, Hardcover, 296pp. 2020 Included in: Kholeif, Omar, “Art in the Age of Anxiety,” MÖREL/MIT Press, Paperback, 400pp. Adamson, Glenn, et al. “NGV Triennial 2020,” National Gallery of Victoria, Multi-volume hardcover, 1088pp. AkzoNobel Art Foundation, et al. “WE ARE THE COLLECTION,” AkzoNobel Art Foundation, Softcover, 426pp. Pieter-Jan Valgaeren, et al. “SCREEN IT,” Stockmans, Softcover, 232pp.
2019 Theresa Bembnister, Andrew Williams, Samantha Blackmon, “OPEN WORLD,” Akron Art Museum, Hardcover, 96pp.
2017 Francesca Gavin, “Watch This Space,” Pentagram, Hardcover, 226pp. Pedro Gadanho, et al. “UTOPIA/DYSTOPIA,” Mousse Publishing, Softcover, 264pp.
2016 Jeanne-Salomé Rochat, et al. “Novembre N°10,” K.D. Presse, Softcover, 500pp. Swiss Institute, et al. “The St. Petersburg Paradox,” Karma Books, Hardcover, 168pp.
2015 Liliana Albertazzi, et al. “Artists & Architecture,” Change is Good, Hardcover, 183pp. Yuko Hasegawa, et al. “Tokyo: Sensing The cultural Magma of the Metropolis,” Seigensha Art Publishing, Softcover, 160pp. Carlos Cardenas, Vincent Justin, Marie Maertens, “Collecting Digital Video Art,” les presses du réel, Softcover, 208pp. Raphael Gygax, et al. “Toys Redux,” les presses du réel, Hardcover, 264pp. Thomas Boutoux, et al. “Meanwhile... Suddenly, and Then,” les presses du réel, Hardcover, 111pp.
2013 Alex Gartenfeld, Norman Rosenthal, “Empire State: New York Art Now,” Rizzoli, Softcover, 205pp.
