Reena Spaulings is a fictional artist based in New York City. Some time in 2004, the she emerged from the daily operation of an art gallery of the same name (Reena Spaulings
Fine Art). Often playing on the double-identity of art dealer and artist, Spaulings’ work undermines professional distinctions while interrogating notions of individual authorship
and artistic authenticity. 

For her solo show The One & Only at Haswellediger, 2005, Reena Spaulings presented a series of hybrid painting/sculptures in the form of wall-mounted flags. Using the
kind of ready-made flagpole fittings commonly seen on suburban American house fronts and small New York business-fronts, this gesture claimed a territory in another
dealer’s Chelsea gallery and problematized the question of how to “represent” a fictional artist comprised of many artists (most represented by Reena Spaulings Fine Art).
The flags, as well as sections of steel pipe taken from Reena Spaulings’ downtown gallery space, were accompanied by a press release that appropriated the invitation card
text for Marcel Broodthaers’ first gallery exhibition. Whereas Broodthaers was announcing his career-shift from poetry to visual art, Spaulings’ press release made a public
declaration of her shift from gallerist to artist and explained her decision to show up in another dealer’s space as a conceptual tactic.

During the summer of 2005, Reena Spaulings produced a series of large “money paintings” for a group show in Vilnius, Lithuania.  Appropriating the wide format of bank notes,
the “money paintings” are a play on Marx’s notion of “real abstraction.” As aesthetically generic and authorless as new Euro dollars, these works stand in for “real painting”
while foregrounding their own destiny as circulating, speculative objects within the global art market.  Taking their colors and compositions from various international currencies,
the money paintings can be thought of as “aesthetic dollars” or “painterly cash.”

Reena Spaulings has also produced publications, performances and underground dance music. Reena Spaulings Fine Art is located on Manhattan’s
Lower East Side.

www.reenaspaulings.com

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008
Contemporary art museum, Saint Louis (USA), from September
Courbet your enthusiasm, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris, June-July 2008.

2007
How To Cook a Wolf, Kunsthalle Zurich

2006
Bialystoker, Sutton Lane, London
Beware of a Holy Whore, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris

2005
The One & Only, Haswellediger & Co. Gallery, NYC

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008
Painting: Now and Forever, Part II, Carol Greene and Matthew Marks, New York, Summer 2008.
Mehringdamm 72, MD72, Berlin, Summer 2008
L’argent, Le Plateau / Frac Ile-de-France, Paris, June-August 2008.
Some Neighbors,Kunstverein München, Munich, May 2008.
Records played backwards, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, April-May 2008.

2007
945 + 11, Frac-Collection Aquitaine, Bordeaux, Marc - April 2007
Group Show, Sutton Lane, Paris
Terrible Video, Kunsthalle Zurich
Someone else with my fingerprints, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
Otra De Vaqueros, Bâtiment d’art contemporain, Geneva
Make Your Own Life, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami
Uncertain States of America, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw
Otra De Vaqueros (curated by Perros Negros), Mexico City
Make Your Own Life, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
For the People of Paris, Sutton Lane, Paris

2006
Uncertain States of America, Serpentine Gallery, London
Make Your Own Life, The Power Plant, Toronto
Bring The War Home, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, NY/LA
Make Your Own Life (curated by Bennett Simpson), ICA, Philadelphia
Whitney Biennial 2006: Day For Night, Whitney Museum, NYC

2005
Painters Without Paintings & Paintings Without Painters (curated by Gareth James), Orchard, NYC
Tbilisi2 (curated by Daniel Baumann), Tbilisi (Georgia)
The Baltic Triennial 2005 (Black Market Worlds), CAC, Vilnius
Concrete Castle, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers
Lesser New York, curated by Fia Backstrom, NYC

2004
Publish and Be Damned, Cubitt Gallery, London
Robert Smithson, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, NYC
Curious Crystals, PS1/MoMA, NYC

OTHER PROJECTS

How To Cook A Wolf at Kunsthalle Zurich
A year-long curatorial project dealing with the use of fictional and double identities in contemporary art.
Lee Williams  - ongoing
An artist-persona created by Jutta Koether & Emily Sundblad.
Grand Openings – ongoing
A performance project by Ei Arakawa, Jutta Koether and Emily Sundblad. Versions have been presented at Anthology Film Archives, NYC and in Tblisi, Georgia.
A Night of Country (2004 – present).
An ongoing country music performance project in collaboration with playwright Richard Maxwell.
White Light/White Heat (2004).
A CD box set remake of the Velvet Underground album, featuring Barbara Sukowa, Rita Ackermann, Seth Price, Emily Sundblad, Gang Gang Dance and others.
All The King’s Horses (2004 – 2005). 
A bootleg translation of Michèle Bernstein’s 1959 novel Tous les Chevaux du Roi.