Stewart Uoo

Uoo was born and raised in California.{{Cite web|url=http://www.mendeswooddm.com/en/exhibition/52|title=Mendes Wood DM {{!}} Stewart Uoo – Viva la Juicy|website=www.mendeswooddm.com|language=en|access-date=2017-12-02}} Uoo graduated from California College of Arts in 2007 and went on to attend the Städelschule in Frankfurt, Germany.{{Cite news|url=http://www.crane.tv/stewart-uoo|title=Stewart Uoo|work=Crane.tv|access-date=2017-12-05}}

Titled Life is Juicy, Uoo's first solo New York exhibition opened at 47 Canal in 2012. The exhibition included three of the artist's signature cyborg mannequins cast in polyurethane resin and woven through with barbed wire and various electronics. The sculptures typically wear clothing worn down by the weather that the artist puts on their roof. Additionally, the exhibition included a video work and several pencil drawings.{{Cite web|url=http://47canal.us/main.php?1=su1ex&2=pics|title=47 Canal|website=47canal.us|access-date=2017-12-05}}

In 2014, Uoo had his first exhibition at Galerie Daniel Buchholz in Berlin, Germany, titled No Tears in Rain.{{Cite web|url=http://www.galeriebuchholz.de/exhibitions/stewart-uoo-berlin-2013/|title="No Tears in Rain" – Stewart Uoo – Exhibitions – Galerie Buchholz|website=www.galeriebuchholz.de|access-date=2017-12-05}} The exhibition presented new work by Uoo: security gate sculptures altered with silicone, paint, tufts of human hair and rust. The gates were shown alongside fashion editorial-inspired photographs by Heji Shin and featured DeSe Escobar, Juliana Huxtable, and Eliot Glass.{{Cite web|url=http://moussemagazine.it/stewart-uoo-daniel-buchholz/|title=Stewart Uoo "No Tears in Rain" at Galerie Buchholz, Berlin •Mousse Magazine|website=moussemagazine.it|language=it-IT|access-date=2017-12-05}}

In 2015, Uoo was selected for the Forbes 30 Under 30 list.{{Cite news|url=https://news.artnet.com/art-world/which-artists-made-forbes-30-under-30-list-211496|title=Which Artists Made Forbes' 30 Under 30 List? {{!}} artnet News|date=January 5, 2015|work=artnet News|access-date=2017-12-05|language=en-US}} His first show in Brazil opened at Mendes Wood in São Paulo.{{Cite web|url=http://www.contemporaryartdaily.com/2015/09/stewart-uoo-at-mendes-wood-dm/|title=Stewart Uoo at Mendes Wood DM (Contemporary Art Daily)|website=www.contemporaryartdaily.com|language=en-US|access-date=2017-12-05}} The show was titled Viva La Juicy. Claire Rigby of ArtReview wrote of the show, "There's a moving ruined elegance to the paper objects, in their careful preconstruction of an imagined future world, hacked, garbled artefacts and all, that seems to signal the way forward to something potentially important."{{Cite web|url=https://artreview.com/reviews/october_2015_review_stewart_uoo/|title=Stewart Uoo: Viva la Juicy, by Claire Rigby / ArtReview|website=artreview.com|language=en|access-date=2017-12-05}}

In 2016, the artist received institutional recognition with appearances in MoMA PS1's Greater New York and Human Interest: Portraits of the Whitney’s Collection at the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Later that year, Uoo held a two-person exhibition with mentor Franklin Williams, titled Curtains, at Canal 47.{{Cite web|url=http://www.artinamericamagazine.com/exhibitions/stewart-uoo/|title=Exhibitions – Stewart Uoo – Art in America|website=www.artinamericamagazine.com|access-date=2017-12-04}} The exhibition included several of Williams' soft sculptures, called moments, that, "often abstract (and obsess over) an idiosyncratic, near-alien biology into a flat, pop symbolism with a spindly, almost arachnid complexity."{{Cite web|url=http://www.contemporaryartdaily.com/2016/02/stewart-uoo-at-47-canal/|title=Stewart Uoo at 47 Canal (Contemporary Art Daily)|website=www.contemporaryartdaily.com|language=en-US|access-date=2017-12-04}} Alongside Williams' sculptures, Uoo presented similar collaged curtain works made from various sweaters and sweatpants, fleeces, fatigues, and polos. Side-by-side, the works by both artists are difficult to tell apart.{{Cite web|url=http://www.documentjournal.com/article/curtains-uoo|title="Curtains" by Stewart Uoo|last=Journal|first=Document|website=www.documentjournal.com|access-date=2017-12-04}} The exhibition also included photographs of musician and performer Contessa Stuto as a gallery assistant. The exhibition's press release was written by Stuto and further blurred the lines of artist, artwork, and gallery.{{Cite web|url=http://www.contemporaryartdaily.com/2016/02/stewart-uoo-at-47-canal/|title=Stewart Uoo at 47 Canal (Contemporary Art Daily)|website=www.contemporaryartdaily.com|language=en-US|access-date=2017-12-04}} Uoo was selected to participate in 9th Berlin Biennale curated by art collective DIS.{{Cite web|url=http://www.artnews.com/2016/05/04/2016-berlin-biennale-announces-artist-list/|title=2016 Berlin Biennale Announces Artist List|last=Greenberger|first=Alex|date=May 4, 2016|website=ARTnews|language=en-US|access-date=2017-12-05}} The Biennale explored a range of contemporary topics including advertising, digital technology, and the Internet.

In late 2017, Uoo had a second solo-exhibition at Canal 47, titled Handmade Paper.{{Cite web|url=http://47canal.us/main.php?1=su3ex&2=pics&3=_47|title=47 Canal|website=47canal.us|access-date=2017-12-05}} The show included several works of handmade paper using a number of materials such as designer shopping bags, cotton, flies, dust, synthetic fibers, and cockroaches. Two cyborg mannequin sculptures were included in the show.

Uoo organizes an annual performance-based event each summer titled It's Gets Better. First staged at Artists Space, New York, the performances have included a range of artists including K8 Hardy, Juliana Huxtable, Jacolby Satterwhite, Ryan Trecartin, and various members from House of Ladosha.{{Cite web|url=http://www.artnews.com/2016/07/18/9-art-events-to-attend-in-new-york-city-this-week-70/|title=9 Art Events to Attend in New York City This Week|last=The Editors of ARTnews|date=July 18, 2016|website=ARTnews|language=en-US|access-date=2017-12-05}}

Kat Herriman of Cultured Magazine writes that Uoo's, "dystopian sculptures and videos offer a humorous take on contemporary issues," specifically aspects of gender, sexuality, technology, and identity.{{Cite web|url=http://www.culturedmag.com/stewart-uoo/|title=Artist Stewart Uoo Reveals an Unrealized Art Project|website=www.culturedmag.com|language=en-US|access-date=2017-12-02}} Uoo often works with sculpture and video and typically includes collaborative photograph works alongside each of his shows.

Cassie Packard of Hyperallergic writes of Uoo's photographs, "The manner in which identity is some open-ended combination of gender performance, advertising theatrics, and artificial appendages feels uncomplicated, which may be Uoo's point. A couple of decades on, Judith Butler's Gender Trouble isn't as troubling as it used to be; with networks, branding, and affective labor everywhere we look, most representations of identity we encounter are to some degree dialogic, performed, and enhanced."{{Cite news|url=https://hyperallergic.com/211551/artists-explore-the-many-sides-of-our-21st-century-selves/|title=Artists Explore the Many Sides of Our 21st-Century Selves|date=June 4, 2015|work=Hyperallergic|access-date=2017-12-05|language=en-US}}

• Handmade Paper, 47 Canal, New York, NY, 2017{{Cite web|url=http://47canal.us/main.php?1=su3ex&2=pics&3=_47|title=47 Canal|website=47canal.us|access-date=2017-12-02}}
• Curtains, 47 Canal, New York, 2016{{Cite web|url=http://47canal.us/main.php?1=su2ex&2=pics|title=47 Canal|website=47canal.us|access-date=2017-12-02}}
• Viva La Juicy, Mendes Wood DM, Sāo Paulo, Brazil, 2015{{Cite web|url=http://www.mendeswooddm.com/en/exhibition/52|title=Mendes Wood DM {{!}} Stewart Uoo – Viva la Juicy|website=www.mendeswooddm.com|language=en|access-date=2017-12-02}}
• No Tears in Rain, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Berlin, 2014{{Cite web|url=http://www.galeriebuchholz.de/exhibitions/stewart-uoo-berlin-2013/|title="No Tears in Rain" – Stewart Uoo – Exhibitions – Galerie Buchholz|website=www.galeriebuchholz.de|access-date=2017-12-02}}
• Life is Juicy, 47 Canal, New York, NY 2012{{Cite web|url=http://47canal.us/main.php?1=su1ex&2=pics|title=47 Canal|website=47canal.us|access-date=2017-12-02}}

• Outside Inside Sensibility (with Jana Euler), curated by Jay Sanders, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 2013{{Cite web|url=https://whitney.org/Exhibitions/StewartUooAndJanaEuler|title=Stewart Uoo and Jana Euler: Outside Inside Sensibility {{!}} Whitney Museum of American Art|website=whitney.org|language=en|access-date=2017-12-02}}

• Teenscape, Schloss, 2017
• After Us, K11 Art Foundation, 2017
• High Anxiety, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL, 2016
• Streams of Warm Impermanence, David Roberts Art Foundation, 2016
• Baby I'm a Star, Romeo, 2016
• Good Dreams, Bad Dreams – American Mythologies, Aïshti Foundation, 2016
• All Around Amateur, Bergen Kunsthall, 2016
• Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney's Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, 2017
• Its Better for Sunday Sessions, MoMA PS1, 2016
• Greater New York, MoMA PS1, 2015
• Grand Opening Reception, km temporaer, 2015
• Mirror Effect, The BOX Gallery, 2015
• Artists' Film Club: Breaking Joints: Part 1, ICA London, 2015
• Looks, ICA, 2015
• Inhuman, Fridericianum, 2015
• An Interior That Remains an Exterior?, Kunstlerhaus, Halle fur Kunst & Medien, 2015
• Scan Scroll Surf: Frames and Windows, Mumok, Vienna, 2014
• 10th Gwangju Biennale: Burning Down the House, Gwangju, Korea, 2014
• Rockaway!, MoMA PS1, Fort Tilden and Rockaway Beach, 2014
• AIRBNB Pavilion, 2014 Venice Architecture Biennale, 2014
• Abandon the parents, Statens Museum for Kunst, 2014

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