Ari Marcopoulos
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Ari Marcopoulos is an Amsterdam-born photographer and filmmaker, living and working in New York and California. As a photographer, film artist and adventurist, Marcopoulos, who began his career in New York City assisting Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol
Andrew Warhola , known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art...

, transplants himself into the intimate lives of people living on the edge. Artists, snowboarders, musicians and skateboarders have been both muses and commercial subject-matter throughout his quarter century career as a photographer. His stunning landscapes and playful portraiture offer a dramatic take on every day life, and a glimpse into all things awesome. The Berkeley Art Museum presented Marcopoulos’s first mid-career survey in the United States in 2010.

Books

Stoopz, 2010

The Chance is Higher, 2008

living in the new rome, 2006

Flow, 2006

Even the President of the United States sometimes has got to stand naked, 2006

Ari Marcopoulos, 2005

Out & About, 2005

Transitions & Exits, 2000

Within Arm's Reach, 2009

Directory, 2010

The Maestro / Kids Born Out of Fire, 2004

Artwork in Collections

Whitney Museum of American Art

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Exhibitions

"Under Penalty of Perjury," Someday Gallery, Melbourne, 2006, solo

"Flow," Mu, Eindhoven, Netherlands, 2006, solo

2005 "Even the president of the United States sometimes has got to stand naked," PS1/MOMA, New York, NY, 2005, solo

No. 12 Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2004, solo

"Downtown 81, Friends of Basquiat," Agnes B. Skyline, Paris, France, 2006, group

"In the Alps," Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland, 2006, group

"Coooool Sky," The JRNL Gallery, New York, NY, 2006, group

"Sound Zero," Kunst Meran, Merano, Italy, 2006, group

"De la comtesse de Castiglione a Cindy Sherman," Galerie de France, Paris, France, 2005, group

"Nieves Books Exhibition," Rocket Gallery, Tokyo, Japan, 2005, group

"Fresh: Youth Culture & Identity in Contemporary Photographs," Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, NY, 2004, group

"Danger Zone," Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland, 2003, group

"Strange Glue," Ratio 3, Brooklyn, NY, 2002, group

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