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Tina Girouard

Tina Girouard

1946
Born in De Quincey, LA
Lived and worked in Louisiana, New York, and Haiti
2020
Died in Cecilia, LA

Education

1968
BFA, University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, LA

Solo Exhibitions

2025
Tina Girouard: SIGN IN, Rufino Tamayo Museum, CDMX, Mexico
2024
I Want You to Have a Good Time, Anat Ebgi, New York, NY
Tina Giroaurd: SIGN IN, The Center for Art, Research and Alliances (CARA), New York, NY
Tina Girouard: Conflicting Evidence, Magenta Plains, New York, NY
Tina Girouard: SIGN IN, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA
2020
Tina Girouard – A Place That Has No Name: Early Works, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA
2019
Tina Girouard: Pinwheel, Art Basel Miami Beach, with Anat Ebgi, Miami, FL
Bondye: Between and Beyond, New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA), New Orleans, LA
2018
Tina Girouard: Parts Known and Unknown, Acadiana Center for the Arts, Lafayette, LA
Tina Girouard – American Responses: Home, Salomon Contemporary, New York, NY
2004
Tina Girouard, CUE Art Foundation, New York City, NY
1983
Arthur Rogers Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1982
Remoat/Remote Installation, De Vleeshal, Middleburg, Netherlands
1983
Vamonos a México con Tina Girouard, Muséo Rufino Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo Internacional, México, D.F.
1982
Conflicting Evidence, Zeeuws Kunstenaarscentrum, Middleburg, Netherlands
Tina Girouard: Paintings, Prints and Drawings, Elmhurst Park Gallery, Lafayette, LA
1980
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
Works on Fabric and Paper, Holly Solomon Editions, New York, NY
Street Sights, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennseylvania, Philadelphia, PA
1979
Even-Odd, window installation, Forum Stadpark, Graz, Austria
Gallery Alexandra Monett, Brussels, Belgium
1978
Revival, The Clocktower (Institute for Art and Urban Resources), New York, NY
Metal, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
War Play Work Rest, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
1976
Video Installation, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
Stencil Sets, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
1975
Drawings for Video (with Richard Landry), 112 Greene Street, NY
Drawings, Scores, Histories, Vehicle Art Inc., Montreal, Canada
Color Photos and Video, Media Gallery, Alfred, NY
Memphis Breeze, Memphis Academy of Arts, Memphis, TN
Flags, 112 Greene Street, New York, NY
1974
Sky Above Earth Below, Saint Cloud State Gollege, Saint Cloud, MN
1973
Lay on Lie-No, University Gallery, Lafayette, LA
Patterns, 112 Greene Street, New York, NY
1972
Air Space State, Floor Space Stage, Sound Space Stage, 112 Greene Street, New York, NY
1971
Hung House Installation, 112 Greene Street, New York, NY
1968
University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, LA

Group Exhibitions

2025
Looking Back: White Columns Annual, White Columns, NY, group exhibition curated by Elisabeth Kley
2024
Mama’s in the Kitchen, group exhibition at Anat Ebgi, New York, NY
The First Taste, Anat Ebgi, New York, NY
A Walk on the Wild Side: ‘70s New York in the Norman E. Fisher Collection, MOCA Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL
2022
Fire, Figure, Fantasy, Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Miami, FL
2020
Good Company: Pt. 1, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA
Garden of Time: Textiles as Nature Poem, Mendes Wood DM, São Paulo, BR
Videotapes. Early Video Art (1965-76), National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
2019-2020
Pattern & Decoration: Ornament as Promise, travelling exhibition: Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary; museum moderner kunst stiftung ludwig wien, Vienna, Austria; Ludwig Forum Aachen, Germany
2019
With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972–1985, MoCA, Los Angeles, CA
Pattern, Crime & Decoration, travelling exhibition: Le Consortium, Dijon, France; Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
2017
Artist Run New York: The Seventies, Jean-Paul Najar Foundation, Dubai, UAE
2014
Horray for Hollywood, Mixed Greens Gallery, New York City, NY
2013
FOOD 1971/2013 – A tribute to Food Restaurant with Carol Goodden & Tina Girouard, Frieze Art Fair, New York, NY
Gordon Matta-Clark: Gordon Matta-Clark, Suzanne Harris, Tina Girouard: The 112 Greene Street Years, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2011
Patterns and Prototypes: Tina Girouard & Robert Gordy, curated by Dan Cameron, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
112 Greene Street, The Early Years: 1970-1974, David Zwirner, New York, NY
1983
Drive-In Disco (installation in collaboration with Richard Landry), New Orleans Contemporary Art Center, New Orleans, LA
1981
Alternatives in Retrospect, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY
Tangeman Fine Arts Gallery, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH
Inner/Urban, First Street Forum, St. Louis, MO
The Decoration Image, McIntosh/Drysdale Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1980
Drawings: The Pluralist Decade, Institute of Contemporary Art University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Fabric into Art, Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, S.U.N.Y. College at Old Westbury, New York, NY
Decoration, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
A Decade of Women’s Performance Art, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
Dekor, Manheimer, Kunstverein, Mannheim, Germany; Amerika Haus, Berlin, Germany; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England
Les Nouveaux Fauves—Die Neuen Wilden, Neue Galerie/Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen, Germany
Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, MO
1979
Pattern Painting/Decoration Art, Galerie Krinzinger, Innsbruck, Austria; Galerie Modern Art, Vienna, Austria
Clothing Constructions, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Patterns +, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
Patterning and Decoration on Paper, The Mayor Gallery, London; Galerie Habermann, Cologne, Germany
Patterning, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Patterning, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels
1978
Painting and Sculpture Today 1978, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Preview (Part of Gallery Opening Installation), Wade Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Surrogates/Self-Portraits, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
1977
Five From Louisiana, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
Pattern Painting, Institute for Art and Urban Resources at P.S.1, Long Island City, New York, NY
Art Works on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
Artist’s Sets and Costumes, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Projects of the Seventies, P.S.1, New York, NY
1976
Purchase Show, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX
Self-Portraits, Fine Arts Building, New York, NY
Non-Collectible Art from the Collection of Holly and Horace Solomon, Sarah Lawrence College Art Gallery, Bronxville, New York, NY; St. Lawrence University, Canton, New York, NY; Williams College, Williamstown, MA
Performances/Objects, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
New Work/New York, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
Rooms, P.S.1, New York, NY
Style and Process, Fine Arts Building, New York, NY
1974
Group Show, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
Anarchitecture, 112 Greene Street, New York, NY
Works Words, The Clocktower, New York, NY
Video Works, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
1973
Lie-No, 112 Greene Street, New York, NY
Dissolve, New York Cultural Center, New York, NY
1972
Oleo, 112 Greene Street, New York, NY
1970
Swept House, Brooklyn Bridge Event, New York, NY
1969
Special Effects, Loveladies, New Jersey

Special Projects and Performances

2018
‘Mardi Gras Suites and Quartets’ 1974/2018, Acadiana Center for the Arts, LaFayette, LA
1981
Other Realities—Installations for Performance (Performance 2C3TS), Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
1980
A Few, Dilworth Plaza, City Hall, Philadelphia, PA
1979
YAYA, Zagreb, Yugoslavia
W.A.W.A. (Worker Aristocrat Witness Ancient), Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
1978
Beached (with Creative Time Inc.), Battery City Landfill, New York, NY
Mass Transit Strosz-Zeit, Graz, Austria
Wedding is Black and White, Internationales Performance Festival, Vienna, Austria
Spread, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
1977
Petite Passe Partout, Grand Passe Partout, Paris Biennale ’77, Paris, France
Pinwheel, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
North-East-South-West, Documenta 6, Kassel, Germany
Visions (Sponsored by Creative Time for ‘Custom and Culture’), United States Customs House, New York, NY
1976
Race, Fordham University, New York, NY
Swiss Self, Salle Simon I Patino Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Bowl and Belly, Sarah Lawrence College Art Gallery, Bronxville, NY
1975
Mississippi Memphis Moon, Overton Park Amphitheatre, Memphis, TN
Persona Projections for a Proscenium, Fosdick-Nelson Gallery, Alfred, NY
1974
Video Tapes, The Kitchen, New York, NY
Stage (a functioning sculpture for the Mabou Mines’ production of B Beaver) Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Theater for the New City, New York, NY
Juxtaposed Contained Revealed, The Kitchen, New York, NY
Saint Cloud Air Space Stage, Saint Cloud State College, Saint Cloud, MN
1973
The Bridge (collaboration with Barbara Dilley), Cross, Invocation, Lafayette, LA
Allegory: Cloth River Road, Dance Gallery, New York, NY
1972
Proszenium II, Documenta V, Kassel, Germany
Proszenium I, Stadt Köln Kammerspiele, Köln, Germany
Autumnal Equinox, 112 Greene Street, New York, NY
Air Space Stage, Wall Space Stage, Sound Space Stage, Floor Space Stage, 112 Greene Street, New York, NY
Body Beat Loop, 20 Quadrophonic Pipe, Bleeker Street Project, New York, NY
1971-72
Tape-Video-Live, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
Food, 127 Prince Street, New York, NY
1971
Live House, 112 Greene Street, New York, NY
1970-71
Hung House, a maintained environmental structure, New York, NY
1970
Collaborative Performances with Richard Landry and Keith Sonnier, University of California at La Jolla, La Jolla, CA
1969-70
Video Loop, Sound Loop, Body Beat Loop (Time and Distance) Studio Performances, New York, NY

Selected Press

2025
MJ Thompson, "Tina Girouard," Bordercrossings, May 2025
2024
Siddhartha Mitter, "Tina Girouard: SIGN-IN at CARA," The New York Times, October 2024
Maxwell Rabb, Pioneering Textile Artist Tina Girouard is Finally Getting Her Due," Artsy, October 2024
Isa Luzarraga, "Review | Tina Girouard: I Want You to Have a Good Time," Flaunt, September 2024
Harriet Engelke, "Mama’s in The Kitchen at Anat Ebgi," Whitewall, July 2024
Lauren Stroh, "Review of Tina Girouard: SIGN-IN," Artforum, June 2024
Cat Kron, "Tina Girouard: SIGN-IN," E-Flux Criticism, April 2024
Chadd Scott, "Visit 1970’s New York City-Via Jacksonville," Forbes, February 2024
2021
Lynn Cooke, "Pattern Recognition," Artforum, October 2021
Anna Katz, "Highlights from ‘With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972-1985’," Interior Design Magazine, August 2021
2020
Tessa Moldan," Tina Girouard’s Elevated Patterns, Ocula, July 2020
Tausif Noor, "Tina Girouard: A Place That Has No Name," Artforum, July 2020
Jonathan Griffin, "We Called Her General Girouard," Active Cultures, July 2020
Olivia Gauthier, "With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art, 1972-1985," Brooklyn Rail, June 2020
Noor, Tausif. "Review: Tina Girouard." Artforum. July/August [Print] (Link)
Randy Kennedy, "Tina Girouard, Experimental Artist in 1970’s Soho, Dies at 73," The New York Times, April 2020
Moldan, Tessa. "Tina Girouard’s Elevated Patterns." Ocula. July 31, 2020. (Link)
"Tina Girouard (1946-2020)," Artforum, April 2020
Alex Greenberger "Tina Girouard, Freewheeling Artist of 1970’s New York Scene," ArtNews, April 2020
Daniel Fuller, "Tina Girouard: 1946-2020," Burnaway, April 2020
2019
Knight, Christopher. "More is more. Why the ‘Pattern and Decoration’ show at MOCA is pure pleasure." Los Angeles Times (November 4, 2019) (Link)
Is Bigger Better? Art Basel Miami Beach Tests the Waters with Meridians." Cultured Magazine (December 2019) (Link)
Cascone, Sarah. "Art Basel Miami Beach’s New ‘Meridians’ Section, Where the Fair’s Biggest (and Best) Artworks Shine" artnet (December 4, 2019) (Link)
2011
Richard, Frances. "’112 Greene Street: The Early Years (1970-1974)’ at David Zwirner." Artforum (March 2011): 262-263 [ill.]
Plagens, Peter. "True Grit." Art in America (March 2011): 41-42 [ill.]
Picchi, Francesca. "Gordon Matta-Clark at 112 Greene Street." Domuseb.it (January 27, 2011) [ill.] [online]
Schjeldahl, Peter. "Proto SoHo: Gordon Matta-Clark and 112 Greene Street." The New Yorker (January 17, 2011): 80-81 [ill.]
Walsh, Brienne. "Greener Days: Matta-Clark and Alternative Spaces." artinamericamagazine.com (January 11, 2011) [ill.] [online]
1981
Lippard, Lucy R. "Gardens: Some Metaphors for a Public Art," Art in America, vol. 56, no. 3, (November), pp. 136-150
Silverthorne, Jeanne. "Alternatives in Retrospect: Review," Artforum, vol. 20, no. 1, (October), pp. 78-79
Crossley, Mimi. "Performers Seek Other Realities," The Houston Post, July 26, pp. AA-10, 15
1980
Radice, Barbara. "Superfici, equipotenziali, piacevoli, dipinte," Modo, (September), pp. 60-64
1979
Olejarz, Harold. "Review," Arts Magazine, vol. 53, no. 5, (January), p. 16
Rickey, Carrie. "Decoration, Ornament, Pattern and Utility: Four Tendencies in Search of a Movement," Flash Art, no. 90-91, (June/July), pp. 18-30
Perrecault, John. "The New Decorativeness," Portfolio, vol. 1, no. 2, (June/July), pp. 46-50
Boudaille, Georges. "Pattern Painting," Connaissance des Arts, no. 331, (September), p. 54
1978
Howell, John. "Art Performance: New York," Performing Arts Journal, vol. 1, no. 3, (Winter), p. 28
1977
Rose, Barbara. "The Bayou Bunch," Vogue, vol. 167, no. 1, (January), p. 40
Lippard, Lucy R. "You Can Go Home Again: Five From Louisiana," Art In America, vol. 64, no. 4, (July/August), pp. 22-25

Awards/Residencies

1984
Grant, Louisiana Department of the Arts, Lafayette, LA
1983
Grants, National Endownment for the Arts
1976
Grants, National Endownment for the Arts
1973
Creative Artists Public Service Program (CAPS) Grant, New York, NY

Collections

Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, Florida
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Hessel Museum of Art, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, Miami, FL
Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst Aachen, Collection of the Peter and Irene Ludwig Foundation, Germany
Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
Rufino Tamayo Museum, Mexico City, Mexico
Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, S.M.A.K., Gent, BE