Tauba Auerbach

Paula Cooper Gallery presents A Broken Stream, an exhibition of video, sculpture, drawing and painting by Tauba Auerbach. Working in several new media, Auerbach will probe fluid behaviors alongside new theories of anatomy, mind and the cosmos.

Tauba Auerbach was born in San Francisco in 1981 and earned a BA in Visual Art from Stanford University in 2003. She has exhibited internationally in important one-person exhibitions such as The New Ambidextrous Universe (2014) at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, and Tetrachromat (2011) that opened at Bergen Kunsthall, Norway, and traveled to Malmö Konsthall, Sweden, and Wiels Contemporary Art Center, Brussels. In July 2018, Auerbach presented a major public commission with the Public Art Fund and 14-18 NOW, entitled Flow Separation, for which she painted the historic John J. Harvey Fireboat in a vibrant ‘dazzle camouflage.’ The boat, which offered free trips to the public throughout the summer and fall, will remain docked on Pier 66 in Manhattan through May 12, 2019.

Auerbach’s work has been exhibited in a number of major museum shows, most recently in Induction: Tauba Auerbach and Éliane Radigue at MOCA Cleveland (2018). Other notable shows include Reciprocal Score: Tauba Auerbach + Charlotte Posenenske at Indipendenza Studio, Rome (2015); “Decorum: Carpets and tapestries by artists” at the Musée dʼArt Moderne, Paris (2014-15); the Walker Art Center’s Lifelike (2012); The Indiscipline of Painting at Tate St. Ives (2011-12); the 2010 Whitney Biennial; MoMA P.S.1’s Greater New York (2010) and the New Museum’s Younger Than Jesus (2009). In 2011 she received the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship Award.