Sean Raspet

Sean Raspet (born 1981) is an artist and entrepreneur based in Los Angeles. Raspet is known for his installations that explore the relationship between objects, images, and information, and more recently his artworks that use food as a subject.[1] His work is informed by philosophy and metaphysics.[2]

Life

Raspet was born in Washington DC and raised in Jacksonville Florida.

Art career

In 2016, Raspet exhibited a large installation at the Frieze New York Art Fair that presented viewers with large friedges fileld with Soylent.[3][4] Raspet was formerly an employee of Soylent, where he worked as a flavorist.[5][6]

In 2017, he founded a company company called non/food, in order to develop food products based on micro-algaes.[7][8] As part of his transcisicplinary practice, Raspet exhibited some of the company's products in an exhibition at the SculptureCenter in 2018.[9]

In 2018 Raspet was one of seven artists invited to headline the Rhizome Seven on Seven digital conference.[10] The same year, Raspet exhibited an installation of ten scent-diffusing machines at Bridget Donahue gallery in New York City.[11]

Selected exhibitions

2007

  • A Modest Proposal, Daniel Reich Gallery at the Frieze Art Fair, London
  • Ilya Lipkin, Sean Raspet, Ned Vena, Cohan and Leslie, New York
  • Untitled (Perfect Lovers), BC Project Room, New York
  • Way Things Are, Daniel Reich Gallery, New York
  • Inaugural Exhibition, Museum 52, New York
  • "The Ones We Work For", Daniel Reich Gallery, New York

2008

  • The Shape of Things to Come, Saatchi Gallery, London
  • "A Brief History", Art Positions, Daniel Reich Gallery at Basel Miami Art Fair

2015

2017

2018

  • I was raised on the Internet, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago[14]

References

  1. ↑ Kenney, Ellen, HustlerOfCulture.com
  2. ↑ "Artnews.org: Sean Raspet & Arnd Seibert at Daniel Reich New York". artnews.org.
  3. ↑ Petrarca, Emilia. "Frieze New York 2016: What the Hell Is Soylent and Why Is Everyone Drinking It at Frieze?".
  4. ↑ Greenberger, Alex (4 May 2016). "Sean Raspet Brings Soylent Products and Prototypes to Frieze New York".
  5. ↑ Cashdan, Marina (5 May 2016). "The 20 Best Booths at Frieze New York".
  6. ↑ "The Foods of the Future Are Being Flavored by This Artist". 16 June 2016.
  7. ↑ Williams, Maxwell (30 May 2017). "Is Pond Scum the Future of Food?".
  8. ↑ "'Nonfood' Wants to Sell You Green Algae Bars".
  9. ↑ Fuse, Arte (2 June 2018). "74 million million million tons at SculptureCenter".
  10. ↑ Greenberger, Alex (2 April 2018). "Petra Cortright, Mika Tajima, Sean Raspet Tapped for Rhizome's 2018 Seven on Seven Conference".
  11. ↑ Russeth, Andrew (18 June 2018). "Wish You Were Here: Spring Shows in New York, from Doug Aitken to Quay Quinn Wolf".
  12. ↑ "Interoffice Memo on the Occasion of 'Office Space,' the Exhibition". 18 November 2015.
  13. ↑ "In Detroit, Artists Explore the Riches of the 99-Cent Store".
  14. ↑ "'I Was Raised on the Internet' - Landmark Exhibition Debuts at MCA, Chicago in 2018". ArtfixDaily.
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