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CV & chronology
A consolidated record of exhibitions, collaborative work, performances, publishing, sound, and artist-organized activity.
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Education
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Solo exhibitions
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Two-person exhibitions
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Group exhibitions
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Music & audio
Selected releases, sound works, radio, and artist-organized audio activity. Musical groups and aliases are kept distinct from the later Sex Objects curatorial platform.
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Projects & organizational work
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Published interviews & exhibition reviews
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Activity timeline
unknow better, with Paul Lee, David Shelton Gallery, Houston.
Standards, Matéria Core City, Detroit.
Millions Now Living Will Never Die!, Plague Space, Krasnodar.
Sunsetting, Catbox Contemporary, Ridgewood, New York.
a listless witness, ASHES/ASHES, New York.
B Sides and Marginalia, with Alex Bienstock, MX Gallery, New York.
More than ever, wholesome pleasure, As It Stands, Los Angeles.
Black Market Inhaler, Window on Broad / Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, Philadelphia.
my tree stays tree, 315 Gallery, Brooklyn.
cynics milk, David Shelton Gallery, Houston.
our shallow psychic death, Simone DeSousa Gallery, Detroit.
The Hunger, with Amalia Vekri, Hot Wheels Projects, Athens; presented with Catbox Contemporary.
feels like feels, ASHES/ASHES, Los Angeles.
Raft, final completed ego drift work with Wendy Ross; associated LA/DW~PS presentation.
Vital Shift in Central Observer, with Tao Kulczycki, BOSI Contemporary, New York.
a native fear…a featureless protagonist, DFS Contemporary, New York.
Sex Objects / objetosexual and ego drift activity continued through 2015.
Trade in Trade Up, Brought to You by Club-Mate, Sex Objects, Silent Barn, Brooklyn.
EDENunlimited, collaborative Sex Objects material with Andrew Birk and Jaakko Pallasvuo, presented by NO SPACE, Mexico City.
ego drift collaborative works with Wendy Ross presented at Re:View Contemporary during Noel Night, Detroit.
or or and, with Ivana Bašić, Free Paarking, St. Louis.
Swanson/Samuels collaboration at The Java Project, Brooklyn, organized by objetosexual.info, c. 2014–15.
studios pretty much an office rn, Welcome Screen, London.
Trū Romance, Cultural Affair, and Débora Delmar Corporation’s Pure Comfort, Hotel Art, New York.
SOULDRONE/SUPERDEMO, Sex Objects, adultcontemporary.us, Los Angeles.
/recent works, Re:View Contemporary, Detroit.
Mystic Pilgrims, with Johnny Stanish, Peekskill Project V / HVCCA, Peekskill.
Hotel Art / hotelart.us founded with Loney Abrams and Jonathan Stanish.
ANX.ARS, curatorial radio program on Pratt Radio.
Terminal Girls, Era Shift; Flat Black Animal, Strictly Nocturnal; and the split cassette Side Effects.
BRB/Total Id Pigs, one-night site-specific participatory performance at Re:View Contemporary, Detroit.
741hz, Ian Swanson and Christopher Samuels, Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Rochester, Michigan.
total fitness, Team Detroit, Dearborn.
The Spaces in Between, Magic and Mysticism, and Automobiles.
Terminal Girls, Weird Lights and Lost Hearts; Sex Objex, Major Magick.
all visible objects, Starkweather Arts Center, Romeo, Michigan.
Get Left, Mosaic Productions Gallery, Detroit.
Swim Lane, I don’t believe in art, I believe in artists, and Version 2010.
Alpine Meadow, Daniel Turner and Colin Snapp; final ORG Contemporary exhibition, May.
Flat Black Animal digital recordings begin; Terminal Girls formed by Ian Swanson and Mike Prezzato.
Lacquer, inaugural ORG Contemporary exhibition, Detroit.
Re:Collect, Re:View Contemporary; Replacements, Museum of New Art.
ORG Contemporary program: David Flaugher, Marketing; Vagner M. Whitehead, Gold Code; CONSTRUCTS, curated by Brian Barr; Kevin Beasley, Found Asleep Underwater; Lauren Rice, Vestiges; and the group exhibition Tread.
Occupied, Debt Collective, Cass Cafe, Detroit.
Collected, Debt Collective, Anton Art Center, Mt. Clemens.
Detroit Next, Detroit Artists Market, 2007.
Debt Collective founded with Christopher Samuels in Detroit.
First public Debt Collective presentation at the inaugural People’s Art Festival, Russell Industrial Center.
Rigged and Detroit Loves Company, Debt Collective-organized group exhibitions in Detroit.
Record policy. This page consolidates artist-confirmed information and published records. Solo, two-person, group, music, collaborative, and organizational histories are presented according to their original form; Debt Collective-organized exhibitions remain within the collective’s chronology.