JUAN FONTANIVE

• 2013
• Ornithology

• 2012
• Tabaré
• Movement 2
• Sound Lines

• 2011
• Fountain
• Violetear
• Colibri
• New Lines
• Stranger Than

• 2010
• Liveliness
• Illuminated

• 2009
• Quiknesse
• The Shapes Arise
• Roses

• 2008
• Movement 1
• Timelines
• Labyrinth
• Cicada
• Flashing 1

• 2006
• The Lake

• 2005
• Transference
• Mr Friendly
• Askew

• 2004
• Yodelayee

• CV / BIO
• CONTACT

JUAN FONTANIVE grew up climbing the rusted iron bridges of Cleveland. He breathed spirits into Victorian clocks while at The Royal College of Art, London. Currently, his studio is in a buzzing factory in Bushwick, NYC.

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Often recycling the mechanical parts of found clocks and pushbikes as the portable containers of his 'animations', Juan Fontanive's interest lies in the beauty of sequential and repetitive movement. Hand drawn characters, human and typographical, occur in a cranky flip-book module powered by oxide. Pages fall in neat layers in the manner of a paper fountain, somewhere between film and sculpture - there is no 'screen' as such. His filmstock is often pulped card or metal leaves. -Riflemaker Gallery

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EDUCATION

2006 M.F.A., The Royal College of Art, London.

1999 B.A., Syracuse University, New York.

ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2012 See-Sounds, Riflemaker Gallery, London.

2010 Liveliness, Volta 6, Basel, Switzerland

2009 Zoo Solo Works, Zoo Art Enterprises, London.

2008 Tin Tan, Riflemaker Gallery, London.

2006 Paper Films, Riflemaker Gallery, London.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2013 Voyage Autour De Ma Chambre, Noire Gallery, Switzerland.

Thelma Hulbert Gallery, Honiton, Devon, UK.

2012 Reveal + Hidden, Guestspot, Baltimore.

LEAP!, Contemporary Art Society, London.

A Gush of Water Cleared the Land, The Running Horse, Beirut.

2011 photo LA., Santa Monica Civic Auditorium, Los Angeles, CA.

Precarious Interchange, Waxy Pith, Brussels, Belgium.

7+1 Group Show, Brooklyn, New York.

Trompe Le Monde, Occupy Space, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Ireland.

2010 For The Sake of the Image, Jerwood Gallery, London.

Intimate Spaces, Galerie8, London.

2009 Obsession: contemporary art from the Lodeveans Collection, Stanley and Audrey Burton Gallery, Leeds, UK.

2008 Indica, Nyehaus Gallery, New York, NY.

2007 Ingenuity, The Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon.

2006 Magnetic Vision, Kinetica Museum, London.

Riflemaker becomes Indica, Riflemaker Gallery, London.

Sensory Material, Bonhams, London.

photoLondon, The Royal Academy of Art, London.

The Show, Royal College of Art, London.

2005 Dead Aim, Riflemaker Gallery, London.

Under Five's, 39 Space, London.

60 Seconds, The Gallery Southwark Park, Bermondsey, London.

Typography and Gridlock, Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, London.

MAN Group Drawing Prize Exhibition, Royal College of Art, London.

AWARDS

2010 Jerwood Painting Prize, shortlist, Jerwood Space, London.

2004 Desmond Preston Drawing Prize.

1999 Louise Wetherbee Phelps Award for Writing.

PUBLICATIONS

2012 Juan Fontanive, Riflemaker Gallery, catalog.

2012 Moving Pictures, IMAGE OBJECT TEXT, post January 2012.

2009 Obsession: Contemporary Art From The Lodeveans Collection, catalog.

2008 Ingenuity, The Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal, catalog.

2007 Andrew Wilson, "Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow," Art Monthly, March 2007.

2006 Ian White, "Frames Per Second," Art Review, March 2006.

2006 Gemma De Cruz, "Paper Films," BBC Collective, 12 January 2006.

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Images and video © Juan Fontanive 2013.
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