Carlos Reyes
Carlos Reyes
b. 1977, Chicago, IL
Lives and works in New York, NY and Caguas, Puerto Rico
Carlos Reyes’ work explores ephemeral phenomena—breath, wind, heat, light, time—as they are imprinted onto material sites and objects, his projects cataloging pregnant indices of human activity. Recent works include cedar panels from shuttered mens clubs, displaced and displayed as surrogates for the bodies whose private activities they contained; used jewelry store displays, bleached by sunlight save the shadows that index their former wares; and lamps whose fluctuating illuminations demonstrate in real time the ongoing power crises in Puerto Rico, in which environmental and economic factors have led to rolling blackouts as a fixture of daily life. Consistently, Reyes’ interventions in everyday objects demonstrate how broad social shifts are enacted individually, incrementally, and quietly.
EDUCATION
| 2011 | MFA, New York University, Steinhardt School, New York, NY |
| 1999 | BFA, Pomona College, Claremont, CA |
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| 2024 | Stucco, Soft Opening at Paul Soto, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2023 | 18, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA |
| 2021 | PROMESA, Soft Opening, London, United Kingdom |
| 2020 | saltwaterfarm, Waldo, Searsport, ME |
| 2019 | Sarah (New York, Chicago, San Juan), Meca, San Juan, PR Sarah, Galerie Joseph Tang, Paris, France |
| 2018 | 7129619, Art Basel Miami Beach, Bodega (Derosia), Miami, FL Wst Sd Clb, Vie d’ange, Montreal, Canada West Side Club, Bodega (Derosia), New York, NY |
| 2017 | Liste, Galerie Joseph Tang, Basel, Switzerland |
| 2016 | Fashion Cafe, Cordova Gallery, Vienna, Austria Night Club, Night Club Gallery, Chicago, IL Feather Belly, Rear Window, New York, NY |
| 2015 | Carlos Reyes, White Flag Projects, Saint Louis, MO Pindul’s Reward, Arcadia Missa, London, United Kingdom (in collaboration with Centro Studi Pier Paolo Pasolini) The Armory Show, TORRI, New York, NY Cinnamon + sidewalks, seeps < sleeps, Tomorrow, New York, NY |
| 2014 | Day rate same as night rate, TORRI, Paris, France Material Art Fair, TORRI, Mexico City, Mexico |
| 2013 | Awkward Chairs VS Future King’s Feet, Michael Jon Gallery, Miami, FL |
| 2012 | The Superfluidity of an Interior, Taon Art Space, Ivry-sur-seine, France |
SELECTED TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
| 2022 | Laps, Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal, Canada (with Gabriele Beveridge) |
| 2017 | 11, Museum Gallery, New York, NY (with Dominic Nurre) The Armory Show, Galerie Joseph Tang, New York, NY (with Jo-ey Tang) |
| 2016 | Black door code 31A5 à gauche puis 2ème étage toutdroit à gauche, Galerie Joseph Tang, Paris, France (with Jo-ey Tang) A Yolk to Blue Ratio, Jan Kaps, Cologne, Germany (with David Flaugher) |
| 2015 | Reverse Vampire Monologues, Berlin, Germany (with Sonja Englehardt) |
| 2014 | L’advance, L’advance, L’advance, 247365, Brooklyn, NY (with Eli Ping) |
| 2013 | A Salted Quarterly; Notes from the Why Axis, Tomorrow Gallery, Toronto, Canada (with Ben Schumacher) |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2024 | Flow States – La Trienal 2024, El Museo del Barrio, New York, NY Does Anyone Still Wear a Hat?, Hans Goodrich, Chicago, IL The Apple Stretching, Helena Anrather, New York, NY |
| 2023 | Downbeat, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY Distribuidx, Lisson Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2022 | Fields of Vision, Winter Street Gallery, Edgartown, MA Possession Obsession, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO You're Finally Awake!, Theta, New York, NY |
| 2021 | Recovery, P.P.O.W., New York, NY |
| 2020 | The Plates of the Present, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Eigenheim, Soft Opening, London, UK Salon Solaire, Sun Works, Zurich, Switzerland An Artist Age Mess, Bodega (Derosia), New York, NY Cause à effet, Bradley Ertaskiran, Montreal, Canada 100 Sculptures, No Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2019 | Horology, curated by Elizabeth Jaeger, Jack Hanley Gallery, New York, NY An Autumn Pantomime, Galerie Joseph Tang, Paris, France Cruising Pavilion: Gay Sex, Architecture, & Cruising Culture, ArkDes, Stockholm, Sweden A Fickle Aggregate, Chen’s, New York, NY U:L:O curated by Museum Gallery, Interstate Project, Brooklyn, NY Tri Volta, organized by Liam Neff, 521 W 26th St, New York, NY Cruising Pavilion, New York: Gay Sex, Architecture, & Cruising Culture, Ludlow 38, New York, NY TOTEMISTS, LY Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2018 | Darren Bader: I don’t know, Société, Berlin, Germany 100 Sculptures, curated by Todd von Ammon and Joseph Ian Henrikson, Anonymous Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico NYU Alumni Show, curated by Chrissie Iles, The Commons Gallery at NYU, New York, NY Cruising Pavilion, 16th Venice Architecture Biennale, Spazio Punch, Venice, Italy Another Place and Time, curated by Tim Gentles, The Meeting, New York, NY Who Built the Moon?, Restaurant Projects, New York, NY |
| 2017 | Contingencies; Arte Povera & After, Luxembourg & Dayan, New York, NY Knives, In Limbo, New York, NY Faire L’Andouille, Bahamas Bienneal, Detroit, MI Apples, organized by Sam Korman and Israel Lund, Brooklyn, NY The Plates of the Present, So Far, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France Eric Schmidt is an Idiot, What Pipeline, Detroit, MI |
| 2016 | Group Show, Rear Window, New York, NY An Idle Visitation, Plaza Mercado, Santa Fe, NM More than lovers, More than friends, Futura Center for Contemporary Art,Prague, Czechia X Bienal de Nicaragua, Queer Thoughts at Palacio Nacional de Cultura, Managua, Nicaragua |
| 2015 | Smoothie Conference, Jenifer Nails, Frankfurt, Germany Dust: The Plates of the Present, Baxter St at CCNY, New York, NY The Humane Society, The Loon, Toronto, Canada Doc, DOC Gallery, Paris, France mutter der mann mit dem koks ist da, Kensington Church presented by William Gaucher, Montreal, Canada “...Looking at myself...”, American Medium, Brooklyn, NY Under a Thawing Lake, Dark Arts International at Material Art Fair, Mexico City, Mexico Tantrum, De Geest, Brussels, Belgium Painting the Sky Blue, Mallorca Landings, Palma de Mallorca, Spain The Pain Quotidian, HQHQ Projects, Portland, OR |
| 2014 | Musique Concrète, Michael Thibault, Los Angeles, CA Me and Benjamin, Galerie Xippas, Paris, France Degeneration of Painting, Fondazione 107, Turin, Italy Dylan’s lost it-maybe, Croy Nielsen, Berlin, Germany Changing Table, Kate Werble, New York, NY Passive Collect, Chin’s Push, Los Angeles, CA Coupling, Taylor Macklin Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland From whose ground heaven and hell compare, Croy Nielsen, Berlin, Germany. Santal 26 / 33, Grand Century, New York, New York. Bloomington: Mall of America, North side food court, across from Burger King & the bank of payphones that don’t take incoming calls, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY Plop Fall the Plums, Bodega, New York, NY Urbanities, James Fuentes, New York, NY One Trace After, Nurture Art, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2013 | Turnkey of Forever After, Bed Stuy Love Affair, Brooklyn, NY Arsenio, Shoot the Lobster, Luxembourg Lowe’s Sculpture Garden & Fishing in the Dark, Violet’s Cafe, Brooklyn, NY Day Before This Place, Tanya Leighton, Berlin, Germany Forming the Loss in Darkness, Praz-Delavallade/Palais de Tokyo, as part of Nouvelle Vagues, Paris, France Smiler’s Delicatessen, Times Square, New York, NY None the Wiser, Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (catalog) |
| 2012 | Deep Space Insides, Joe Sheftel Gallery, New York, NY Two Coffees, Two Brandies, Denniston Hill, Woodridge, NY |
| 2011 | Yin Yang Music, Non-Objectif Sud, Tulette, France (catalog) Entanglement, Regina Rex and Art Blog Art Blog, New York, NY Hakka, The Notary Public, New York, NY St. Lawrence Ice, Wolfe Island, Ontario, Canada |
CURATORIAL PROJECTS
| 2020 | Shared Artist Copies |
| 2017 | Webatuck Vuitton, The Re-Institute, Millerton, NY Artists: Becky Howland, Gavin Kenyon, Rose Marcus, Dominic Nurre, Katie Ryan, Eric Veit, G. William Webb |
| 2012 | 2012 Two Coffees, Two Brandies, Denniston Hill, Woodridge, NY Artists: John Andrews, Elaine Cameron-Weir, Jacob Cohen, David Flaugher, Amy Granat, Andrew J. Greene, Yin Ho, Eli Ping, Ben Schumacher, Jo-ey Tang, G. William Webb |
| 2011 | Trout Spots, Denniston Hill, Woodridge, NY & Denniston Hill Outpost, New York, NY Artists: John Andrews, Colby Bird, Elaine Cameron-Weir, Shane Campbell, Sonja Engelhardt, Joe Graham- Felsen, Amy Granat, Ethan Greenbaum, Jennie C. Jones, Jo-ey Tang, G. William Webb |
| 2010 | Lefty’s, co-organized with Ben Schumacher, New York University, The Commons Gallery, New York, NY Artists: Jennie Bringaker, Mike Caputo, Lauren Christiansen, Joe Graham-Felsen, Dominic Nurre, Ben Schumacher, Brad Troemel |
| 2009 | Video and Audio Screening from Fales Library Downtown Collections, co-organized with Jo-ey Tang Artists: 3 Teens Kill 4, Andrea Callard, Jaime Davidovich, Richard Foreman, Richard Kern, Gordon Matta- Clark, John Sex, Sonic Youth, David Wojnarowciz |
SELECTED PRESS
Carlos Reyes’s Minimalist Monuments To Lost Gay Clubs, Greg Cook, Wonderland, November 27, 2023
Eigenheim at Soft Opening, Molly Cranston, Editorial Magazine, August 10, 2020
Cruising Pavilion Considers the Architecture of Queer Sex, Michael Bullock, PIN-UP 27, Fall Winter 2019/20, Print
The Angel Is in the Details, Border Crossings Magazine, Issue 148, December 2018, Print
34 Highlights from Art Basel Miami Beach 2018, Andrew Russeth, ArtNews, December 5, 2018
Still the Main Attraction, Art Basel Returns to Miami Beach, Paul Laster, Galerie Magazine, November 30, 2018
In Miami Beach, young galleries bring a blazing world to the Positions sector, ArtBasel.com, November 2018
Carlos Reyes: West Side Club, Vijay Masharani, The Brooklyn Rail, April 4, 2018, Print
Carlos Reyes, Nicholas Chittenden Morgan, Artforum, March 2018
Contemporary Artists Take on Arte Povera Masters at Luxembourg & Dayan, Christina Ohly Evans, Financial Times, October 23, 2017
Carlos Reyes and Jo-ey Tang, Kate Sutton, Artforum, October 2016
Carlos Reyes, Gabriel H. Sanchez, Artforum, March 2016
Pindul’s Rewards: Pierre Paolo Passolini and Carlos Reyes, Jamie Sterns, Artnews, June 1, 2015
Pindul’s Rewards, Ajay Hothi, DIS Magazine, June 18, 2015
Carlos Reyes Is Exploring the Passolini Archive, Harry Burke, i-D Vice, May 7, 2015
Passive Collect, Travis Diehl, Artforum, July 2014
AWARDS AND RESIDENCIES
| 2021 | City Artist Corps Grants |
| 2017 | Urban Glass Visiting Scholarship |
| 2013 | NYU Visiting Scholar |
| 2012 | Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, Workspace Residency Denniston Hill Artist-in-Residence |
| 2011 | Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne Fellow |
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France