Sean Raspet
Installation view, Deformulation, Société, Berlin, 2015
Inspired by technology and consumer society, Sean Raspet’s work extends beyond the sphere of art to intervene in the fields of science, food production, and finance. A number of his projects focus on how systems mutate and change material form, resulting in an approach to abstraction that involves working with intangible elements such as chemical compounds, currency valuation and financialization, legal administration, and data processing. Raspet became a self-taught chemist in order to produce compounds such as artificial flavors and fragrance formulations, cleaning products, new food prototypes, and a synthetic DNA tracking gel among others. His works do not merely circulate within the context of the exhibition space, but instead are “metabolized” both inside and outside of the art context—and sometimes quite literally within the human body.
Sean Raspet (b. 1981, Washington D.C.) is an artist and entrepreneur who lives and works between Los Angeles and Detroit. He has worked in the Research and Development department at Soylent and is a co-founder of Nonfood, a company that specializes in algae-based food products. Solo exhibitions of his work include the Soylent R&D Promotional Trade Show Booth at Frieze, New York; Minibar, Stockholm; Société, Berlin; Appendix Project Space, Portland; and Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami. Raspet’s work has also been represented in group shows, including Okayama Art Summit, Okayama; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Vienna Biennale, Vienna; The Artist’s Institute, New York; Sculpture Center, New York; and Palm Beach Biennial, West Palm Beach.
New Molecules and Stem Cell Retinoid Screen
Empty Gallery, Hong Kong, 2019
Installation view, New Molecules and Stem Cell Retinoid Screen, Empty Gallery, Hong Kong, 2019
Installation view, New Molecules and Stem Cell Retinoid Screen, Empty Gallery, Hong Kong, 2019
Installation view, New Molecules and Stem Cell Retinoid Screen, Empty Gallery, Hong Kong, 2019
Installation view, New Molecules and Stem Cell Retinoid Screen, Empty Gallery, Hong Kong, 2019
Installation view, New Molecules and Stem Cell Retinoid Screen, Empty Gallery, Hong Kong, 2019
Receptor-Binding Variations
Bridget Donahue, New York, 2018
Installation view, Receptor-Binding Variations, Bridget Donahue, New York, 2018
Installation view, Receptor-Binding Variations, Bridget Donahue, New York, 2018
Installation view, Receptor-Binding Variations, Bridget Donahue, New York, 2018
Installation view, Receptor-Binding Variations, Bridget Donahue, New York, 2018
Installation view, Receptor-Binding Variations, Bridget Donahue, New York, 2018
Deformulation
Société, Berlin, 2015
Installation view, Deformulation, Société, Berlin, 2015
Installation view, Deformulation, Société, Berlin, 2015
Installation view, Deformulation, Société, Berlin, 2015
Installation view, Deformulation, Société, Berlin, 2015
Calculus of Negligence
Sean Raspet with Marte Eknæs, Room East, New York, 2015
Installation view, Calculus of Negligence, Room East, New York, 2015
Installation view, Calculus of Negligence, Room East, New York, 2015
Installation view, Calculus of Negligence, Room East, New York, 2015
Installation view, Calculus of Negligence, Room East, New York, 2015
Installation view, Calculus of Negligence, Room East, New York, 2015
Installation view, Calculus of Negligence, Room East, New York, 2015
Installation view, Calculus of Negligence, Room East, New York, 2015
Installation view, Calculus of Negligence, Room East, New York, 2015
Sean Raspet
Solo exhibitions
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2021
Various Small Fires, Los Angeles
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2020
Société, Berlin
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2019
New Molecules and Stem Cell Retinoid Screen, Empty Gallery, Hong Kong
slashart, with Kota Ezawa, San Francisco
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2018
Structure, The Artist’s Institute, Hunter College, New York
Receptor-Building Variations, Bridget Donahue, New York
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2016
Soylent R&D Promotional Trade Show Booth, Frieze New York Art Fair, New York
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2015
Arche Apeiron, with Eva Löfdahl, Minibar, Stockholm
Calculus of Negligence, with Marte Eknæs, Room East, New York
Xyzzy, with Kelly Akashi, Chateau Shatto, Los Angeles
Deformulation, Société, Berlin
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2014
Residuals, Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco
Untitled (Registration/PIN: G0009296/78GY76DM; G0009297/99ER43TB; G0009298/39ZL54SJ), New Galerie, New York
New Flavors and Fragrances, New Galerie, Paris
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2013
Entity∆: Advance Viewing (featuring 2Registration::(ÒUntz‘tled (Police Incident (7[c])) 6, (((2007-2012) 2007-2011. Ó) Ó) 2012) 2012 – 2013), Appendix Project Space, Portland
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2012
Untitled (Sublet), Bund Deutscher Architekten, Berlin
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2011
Binder, Société, Berlin
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2010
As If Written In, The Kitchen, New York
20/02, Max Hans Daniel, Berlin
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2008
A Brief History, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami
The Generations, Daniel Reich Gallery, Chelsea Hotel Space, New York
The Ones We Work For, Daniel Reich Gallery, New York
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2007
A Modest Proposal, Daniel Reich Gallery, Frieze Art Fair, London
Group exhibitions
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2019
with Kota Ezawa, Slash Art, San Francisco
Okayama Art Summit, Okayama
Cookbook, La Panacée, Montpellier
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2018
I Was Raised on the Internet, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago
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2017
Genre-Nonconforming: The DIS Edutainment Network, de Young Museum, San Francisco
What’s Up Doc?, curated by Pierre-Alexandre and Charles Teyssou, New Galerie, Paris
99 Cents or Less, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit
Heart of the Tin Man, M Woods Museum, Beijing
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2016
Vinny Dotolo Summer Group Show, M+B, Los Angeles
War Games, Curated by Benjamin Godsill, Moran Bondaroff, Detroit
Not in the Berlin Biennale, Berlin Biennale 2016, Berlin
ESPERANTO, Curated by CURA, Rowing Projects, London
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2015
1,000 Islands, Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong
Office Space, YBCA, San Francisco
In the Flesh Part l: Subliminal Substances, Martos Gallery, Los Angeles
PAVILLON DE L’ESPRIT NOUVEAU 2.0, The Swiss Institute, New York
Take Me (I’m Yours), Monnaie de Paris, Paris
…Looking down at myself from the second floor of an Italian restaurant in the Catskills…,American Medium, Brooklyn
Any Human Measure, M + B Gallery, Los Angeles
DIDING – An Interior That Remains an Exterior?, Künstlerhaus KM–, Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz
Castles Burning, Room East, New York
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2014
Passive Collect,Chin’s Push, Los Angeles
Scars of Our Revolution,Yvon Lambert, Paris
Strauss Bourque-LaFrance, Caitlin Keogh, Sean Raspet, Pam Lins, Rachel Uffner Gallery, New York
The Stuff That Dreams Are Made Of, C L E A R I N G, New York
+/-, The Artist’s Institute, New York
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2013
Time Machine, M-ARCO Foundation, Marseille, France
Digital Infinity, Jessica Silverman, San Francisco, CA
Rematerialized, New York Gallery/New Galerie, New York
Brand Innovations for Ubiquitous Authorship, Organised by Eva and Franco Mattes, Carroll/Fletcher, London
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2012
Brand Innovations for Ubiquitous Authorship, organized by Artie Vierkant, Higher Pictures, New York
Domino Effect, Catherine Bastide, Brussels
Motion, Seventeen Gallery, London
In Practice: You never look at me from the place from which I see you, Sculpture Center, New York
Images Rendered Bare, Vacant, Recognizable, Stadium, New York
Jannic Yoray, Jeanette Mundt, Sean Raspet, Gruppenausstellung 3, Société, Berlin
Synthetic Vertigo, Elaine, Basel
BCC#8, Control Room, Los Angeles
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2011
Forms and Inflections, Jessica Silverman, San Francisco
Untitled Document, Tony Wight Gallery, Chicago
Discursive Arrangements, or Stubbornly Persistent Illusions, Klaus Von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York
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2010
A Relative Expanse, Curated by Maxwel G. Graham, Renwick Gallery, New York
The Morning News, Curated by Lumi Tan, BE-PART Contemporary Art Center, Waregem
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2009
RU-486 Artisterium, Curated by Benjamin Godsill, Tbilisi
Exhibition, 211 Elizabeth Street, New York
Convention, Curated by Ruba Katrib, MOCA, Miami
If the Dogs are Barking, Artist’s Space, New York
To One Whose Love was Service with Amir Mogharabi, Daniel Reich Gallery, New York
1999 – Ten Year Anniversary Show, China Art Objects, Los Angeles
The Shape of Things to Come, The Saatchi Gallery, London
A Starting Point: Intrude Art & Life 366, Zendai MOMA, Shanghai
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2008
Intrude: Art & Life 366, Curated by Biljana Ciric, Zendai MOMA, Shanghai
Palm Beach Biennial, Gavlak, West Palm Beach
PDF, Curated by Summer Guthry, Lumi Tan and Nicholas Weist, Various Locations
Without Walls, Museum 52, New York
Poster Project, Nine Things, Frankfurt
Whitney ISP Studio Practice Exhibition, New York
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2007
Ilya Lipkin, Sean Raspet, Ned Vena, Organized by Arnd Seibert, Cohan and Leslie, New York
Untitled (Perfect Lovers), BC Project Room, New York
Inaugural Exhibition, Museum 52, New York
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2006
Frisbee – Poster Project, Miami
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2005
Cynisme, Atelier Ford, Geneva
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2004
Cardboard Motherboard, Numbers Gallery, London