biography
G.T. Pellizzi was born in 1978 in Tlayacapan, Mexico. He studied literature and philosophy at St. Johns College before graduating from the Channin School of Architecture at the Cooper Union, New York.
Before working as a solo artist, Pellizzi was a founding member of the Bruce High Quality Foundation, a Brooklyn-based art collective, with whom he exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, the Whitney Biennial, MoMA PS1, the Pompidou Centre in Paris and various art galleries. In 2016 he has also been awarded the Inga Maren Otto Fellowship.
In the past years he has participated in exhibitions at the Jeu de Paume in Paris, the Museo del Barrio in New York, the Biennial of the Americas in Denver, and at L&M. Gallery in Los Angeles.
Pellizzi lives between Mexico and New York.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
G.T. Pellizzi - White Noise, Tobias Mueller Modern Art, Zurich
2016
G.T. Pellizzi: Constellation in Red, Yellow and Blue, The Watermill Center, Water Mill
I Transport, Sala de Arte Publico Siqueiros, Mexico City
2010
THE WORLD IS NOT ENOUGH: The Retrospective 2001-2010, Bruno Bischofberger Galerie, Zurich
Self Portraits, The Fireplace Project, East Hampton
2009
Happy Endings, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami
Empire, Cueto Project, New York
2008
L'eau de Vie, Un Film de Jean-Luc Godard, Fundacion Jumex, Cine Morelos, Cuernavaca
2007
Arthur Kills Again, Arthaus, Miami
Public Sculpture Tackle, Various locations, New York
Rent Strike! & Other Activist Jingles from the Crypt of Bruce High Quality, Various locations, New York
CATS on Broadway, The Bruce High Quality Foundation, Brooklyn
2005
Maybe Not Today, Maybe Not Tomorrow. But Soon and for the Rest of Your Life, Buick Building, Miami
2004
Hot Dog Cart, The Armory Show, New York
Art Basel Car Crash, Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami