LIZZI BOUGATSOS
Born 1974 in Queens, New York, Lives and works in New York

Education

1997 BFA Ceramic Sculpture and Performance, Minor Women!s Studies / Art History West Virginia University College of Creative Arts 

Commissions

2024 Collaborative Artwork with Lonnie Holley, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL

2023 Photography, Chloë Sevigny for Fucking Awesome
2014 Installation and Design, Chloë Sevigny for Opening Ceremony, Collection
2011 Sound Installation for Calvin Klein, Art Production Fund
2010 Print commissioned for the Guggenheim Museum Young Collectors Council in collaboration with Jonas Mekas

Grants 

2022 FCA Emergency Grant
2020 Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant 2004 Rema Hort Mann Foundation Visual Art Grant 1999 Artist!s Space Performance Grant 

Residencies 

2020 Pioneer Works, NY
2018 Elaine De Kooning House, NY
2015 Frontispiece Inc., Coxsackie, NY 2014 MoCA, Tuscon, AZ
2013 Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, FR 

Solo Exhibitions 

2024 Stage Exit, Galerie Molitor, Berlin, GER  

2023 Idolize the Burn, An Ode to Performance, Tramps, NY 

2021 Works in Progress, James Fuentes Gallery, NY 

2017 Boo-Hooray, Summer Rental, Montauk, NY 2015 Work Habits, James Fuentes Gallery, NY 

2010 Slut Freak, James Fuentes Gallery, NY 2009 The Breeder, Athens, Greece
2007 Street Feather, James Fuentes Gallery, NY 

Two and Three Person Exhibitions 

2024 Help Me Lift You Up with Rob Pruitt, Air de Paris, Paris, FR
2024 Never the Same Song with Lonnie Holley, Museum of Fine Arts, St. Petersburg, FL 

2014 BAKERMAN, with I.U.D, MoCA, Tuscon, AZ

2014 Angelblood, with Rita Ackermann, Home Alone 2, New York, NY

2013 I.U.D. Out of Bounds, Le Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France

2013 Greetings from Bitburg, with I.U.D, Entrepot-galerie du Confort Moderne, Poitiers, France

2012 I!m Not Pregnant, with Thornton Dial, James Fuentes Gallery, NY

2005 Failurisms with Kim Gordon, Reena Spaulings Fine Art, New York, NY

2004 Indigestible Correctness, Curated by Rita Akerman and Lizzi Bougatsos, Participant Inc. & Kenny Schachter/Rove, New York, NY

2004 The Face is an Empty Force, A Field of Death, Curated by Angelbood, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam

2003 Angelblood Tour Works ‘01-’03, Printed Matter Inc., New York, NY

2000 Boug & Worth II, American Fine Arts, Co., New York, NY

2000 Boug & Worth Fuck All Our Art Heroes/Assholes, American Fine Arts, Co., New York, NY

Group Exhibitions 

2024 VAGABONDI, TRAMPS x La Pulce, Rome, IT

2024 Le Samourai, Ermes Ermes, Rome, IT 

2023 TRAMPS Bar Paris, FR  

2023 Calling, Curated by Kathrin Bentele, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, GER
2020 Dance, Dance, Dance, Curated by Tyson Reeder, Arts of Life Gallery, Chicago IL
2018 ADAM MCEWEN SELECTS: Exhibition and Sale to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Barbara Gladstone, NY 

2018 Kathy Acker: Who Wants to be Human All the Time, curated by Bjarne Melgaard, Performance Space New York, East Village Series, NY
2017 O Superman to Girls, Tricky. I am Here, Where are you on Vocal Performance; Bergen Kunsthall Bergen 

2017 Animal Farm curated by Sadie Laska; Brant Foundation, Greenwich, CT
2016 Freezer Burn, curated by Rita Ackermann, Hauser & Wirth, New York, NY
2016 Berlin Biennale, curated by DIS, 9th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Berlin, GER

Performances 

2024 I.U.D. Performance at Gropius Bau, Berlin, GER

2024 Performance at HOUSE Berlin, GER

2024 Performance at the Bours de Commerce for closing of Mike Kelley “Ghost and Spirit” Exhibition, Paris, FR 

2023 Soundtrack Creation & Live Performance for Mugler, Paris, FR  

2023 Robert Whitman!s American Moon, Re-staging by Pace Live, Pace Gallery, NY
2023 I.U.D. Performance with Sadie Laska, Performance Space, David Zwirner Gallery, NY
2022 Silo City Performance with Dara Friedman, UB Arts Collaboratory, Buffalo NY
2021 Agnes Martin: Music for Healing, Lizzi Bougatsos and Brian DeGraw, Pace Live, Pace Gallery, NY 2021 Gang Gang Dance, Issue Project Room, at the First Unitarian Congregational Society in Brooklyn Heights, NY
2019 The Kitchen SPRING GALA BENEFIT Honoring ANOHNI and Robert Gober
2018 Gang Gang Dance with The Ecstatic Music of Alice Coltrane, BAM Howard Gilman Opera House, Alice Coltrane Turiyasangitananda, The Ashram Experience, Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY
2018 Judson Dance Theater: The Work Is Never Done, Gang Gang Dance in collaboration with Deborah Hay, Museum of Modern Art, NY
2018 Kathy Acker, "In the Beginning There was a Young Girl, Organized by Tina Satter, I.U.D. Performance, Performance Space New York
2018 DREAM MACHINE, FORM Festival, ArcoSanti, AZ
2017 Perfect Stranger IUD performance; Perez Art Museum, Miami
2017 Performa 17 Biennial Opening Night Gala; Harlem, New York City
2017 O Superman to Girls, Tricky. I Am Here, Where Are You: On Vocal Performance; Bergen Kunsthall Bergen. 

2017 Concert for Yoko Ono, Washington and the World; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
2017 Performa Gala honoring Yoko Ono, Performa Biennial Opening Night, New York, NY
2016 Atmosphere for Enjoyment: Harry Bertoia!s Environment of Sound, Lizzi Bougatsos performs #The 

Last Hope,!$Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY

2015 MTV RE:DEFINE Benefit for the Goss-Michael Foundation, Dallas, TX

2014 Performing John Cage, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

2013 Kim Gordon, Jutta Koether, I.U.D., Issue Project Room, Brooklyn, NY

2012 Sunday Sessions Party with I.U.D., P.S. 1 Center for Contemporary Art, New York, NY

2012 Performance for Wade Guyton Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY 2012 Blasting Voice, Suzanne Geiss Company, New York, NY 

Bibliography 

2024 ‘Lizzi Bougatsos: Stage Exit’, Berlin Art Week 

2024 ‘Lizzi Bougatsos “Stage Exit” at Galerie Molitor, Berlin’ Exhibition Review, Mousse Magazine 

2024 ‘Lizzi Bougatsos Critics Pick Berlin’ Exhibition Review, ARTFORUM

2024 ‘Vision du Silence Punitions et Monde Hypercontrôle’ Exhibition Review, The Art Newspaper France 

2024 ‘Rob Pruitt x Lizzi Bougatsos “Help Me Lift You Up” CARTE BLANCHE’, Paris Gallery Weekend

2024 ‘Rob Pruitt x Lizzi Bougatsos “Help Me Lift You Up” at Air De Paris’ Exhibition Review, Mousse Magazine

2024 ‘“Le Samourai” at ERMES ERMES, Rome’ Exhibition Review, Mousse Magazine 

2024 'Never the Same Song' Exhibition Review, Purple Magazine
2024 'With 'Showtime', Lizzi Bougatsos Sets an 'Absurdist Stage', Surface Magazine 

2023 ‘Calling’ Exhibition Review, Annelie Pohlen, Kunstforum, No. 291

2023 ‘Calling’ Exhibition Review, Jörg Restorff, Rheinische Post 

2023 ‘Calling’ Exhibition Review, Barbara Hess, Kölner Stadtrevue 

2023 ‘Calling’ Exhibition Review, TAZ by Robert Schlücker 

2023 What to See in NYC Galleries in March, The New York Times
2023 17 Must-See Exhibitions This Winter and Spring, From New York to the Ivory Coast, Vogue
2023 Lizzi Bougatsos Plays with Fire, Frieze Magazine
2023 Flaming Creatures, Artforum
2023 Interview with Andre Walker, Marfa Journal #19
2023 Interview with Violet Handforth, Superstars Only
2023 A Century of the New York "It” Girl, New York Magazine
2022 Purple 30 Yrs, Purple Magazine
2022 Film Screening and Panel Discussion with Dara Friedman and Lizzi Bougatsos, FotoFocus Biennial, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
2021 Big Window, Stilettos and High Heels by Phoebe d!Heurle accompanied by unstuck video by Lizzi Bougatsos
2019 (Im)migration: Music of Displaced People, Critical Issues..University of Washington, Critical Issues Lecture: Lizzi Bougatsos
2019 Performa Reports//Saicobab and I.U.D.
2019 Are Artists!$Bands Still an #F You!$to the Art World, Vulture
2018 Lizzi Bougatsos on what it means to identify as an artist, The Creative Independent
2018 How Natasha Lyonne and Lizzi Bougatsos Became Best Friends, The New York Times
2018 Lizzi Bougatsos of Gang Gang Dance on Finally Being an Artist, -The Muse/Jezebel
2018 Lizzi Bougatsos on the Release of the New Gang Gang Dance Album, Ravelin
2018 Gang Gang Dance-Albums, Songs and News/ Pitchfork
2018 Gang Gang Dance announce Kazuashita, their first Album in seven years, Consequence of Sound 2017 The Summer of Yoko Ono Ends with Shrieks and Screams, Smithsonian.com
2017 TVD Live: Concert for Yoko Ono, Washington DC and the World at the Hirshhorn, The Vinyl District.com
2017 Music Monday: A Concert for Yoko Ono Reveals a Bright Young Artist, Lenny Letter
2017 The Washington Post, Concert for Yoko Ono
2016 True Art Hates Capitalism: Lizzi Bougatsos performs #The Last Hope, #$VICE
2016 A Hands on Experience with Harry Bertoia!s Sonic Sculptures, Hyperallergic
2016 Lizzi Bougatsos on Composing Music Inspired by Harry Bertoia Sculptures, Curbed.com
2015 10 Great Contemporary Art and Music Crossovers, Paste Magazine
2015 From John Lennon to Moby, 10 Musicians Who Have Crossed Over Into Visual Art, Artsy 

2013 Party with I.U.D. hosted by Lizzi Bougatsos and Sadie Laska, MoMA
2013 Dalamangas, Rachel Cole, “Interview: Lizzi Bougatsos on Art’ s Coming Shift in Consciousness”, Zing
Magazine, December 2013
2013 Kim, Amanda, “Suitcase Meets: Lizzi Bougatsos”, Suitcase Magazine, Winter
2012 Uszerowicz, Monica, “Lizzi Bougatsos in Conversation,” Dossier, November 2012
“Lizzi Bougatsos,” Paper Magazine, November 2012
2010 Piccinini, Amalia, “Un’ Artista Italiana A New York,” Flash Art Online Italy, June
Ashman, Angela, “Spring Guide: Shopping with Gang Gang Dance’ s Lizzi Bougatsos,” Village Voice, March
Jackson, Nate, “Lizzi Bougatsos: Poking holes in the stuffy art world,” Flaunt, January
2008 Rose, Aaron, “I.U.D.,” ANP Quarterly, Winter
Colly, Joe, “Gang Gang Dance: Feral Art Rockers,” Xlr8r, November Dunn,Cheryl,“RandomActs,”P aper,October
Valloire, Delphine, “T he Art Gang of New York, Les Enfrants Terribles,” Jalouse, September Interview for WOW: A
New Perspective on Women and their World, Fall
“Gang Gang Dance at the Whitney Biennial,” interview with Tyler Coburn, artreview.com, March
Mayer, Aubrey, “Artist Residency: Brian DeGraw and Lizzi Bougatsos of Gang Gang Dance,” Papermag.com, March
Grayson, Kathy, "New York Art Girls," I-D Magazine, February
Rian, Jeff, "Lizzi Bougatsos," Purple, February
Davis, Ben, “Genre-Jumping at James Fuentes’s New Gallery,” Village Voice, February Moriam, Scott, "Parties:
Lizzi's Gang," V Magazine, Spring Preview
Maine, Stephen, "Report from the Lower East Side: Mapping New Territory," Art in America, February 2007 Cotter, Holland, "An Upbeat Moment for a Downtrodden Area," New York Times, December Abbott, Jeremy,
"Gang Gang Dance," I-D Magazine, November
"Featured Artist," Paper Magazine, November
"Short List - Downtown Galleries," The New Yorker, November
Sherwin, Skye, "Lizzi Bougatsos on Living in the Present," Art Review, October Honigman, Ana Finel, "Rare Bird,"
Style.com, October
Baron, Zach, "No Context," Village Voice, July
2006 “Bring the War Home,” Artforum.net
“Reena Spaulings Group show,” Artforum.net
2005 Higgs, Matthew, "Top Ten, April 2005”, ArtForum.net Featured artist, Me Magazine, Spring
2004 McColl, Katy, "It’s Tough being a muse these days," Jane, April “Greetings from Miami,” V Magazine, Spring
Walzak, Antek, “Out of Bounds, Angelblood,” Pacemaker No.4, March Kelsey,John,“Angelblood,”A rtforum,March
Hezard, Daphne "Confort Punk," Jalouse, March
Rivoire, Annick "C’est pas de l’art, c’est de la rage," Liberation, February Wolf, Mike. "For Folk’s Sake," Time Out New
York, February
Simpson, Bennett. "From Noise to Beuys," Artforum, February
2003 Richardson, Terry, "Grand National Styling," Purple, Winter
Asha Penzlein, Isabel, "You and me vs. the World," I-D Magazine, December 

Knox, Rosalie, "New York Girls: Rita Ackermann & Lizzi Bougatsos,” Relax, November "Geeky Glamour-Chloe
Sevigny," Vogue, August
Alexia Sailer, "Bloss keine Ideologien," Suedkurier, 11 July 

Spinelle, Claudia, "Gut is obszoen," Die Weltowche, 10 July
Bollen, C., "Under the Influence of the Underground,” V Magazine, July/August "Anti-Pure," (red.), Saiten, July/August
Nicol, Michelle, "Stadt im Trend," Bilanz, July
Kroner, Magdalena, "Anti-Pure," Kunstforum, June
"Alles ausser sauber," Ursula Badrutt Schoch, St. Galler Tagblatt, June
"Der auserwaehite Seele des Schweines," (sib), St. Galler Tagblatt, June
Steinberg, Claudia, “Wenn Gefallene Engel Bluten,” Kunstzeitung, May
Perra, Mostbacher, "Ordnung ins Chaos,"Lift, Stuttgart, March
Gatsas, Georg, "Martyrertum der Verzweiflung," Heute Eroffnung
Zahm, Olivier, "Une Muse Moderne,” Liberation
“Music,” Purple, Spring/Summer
“Angelblood,” Buzz, Volume. 40, March
Jetzer, Gianni, "Anti-Pure Catalog," Ursula Blickle Stifung
“Purple Stars,” Purple, printed in Japan,
2002 “Angelblood, Gang Gang Dance,” Ryuko Tsushin
Mullins, Marcella, “M y Venal Muse,” F luid Magazine
Giovianni, Stefano, "Beauty," The International 3
Giovianni, Stefano, "Williamsburg Sounds," Sportswear International Kelsey, John, "Portraits," Purple, Winter
Phillips, Richard, "Artforum -Top Ten List," Gang Gang Dance, Artforum
Moore, Thurston, & Byron Coley, "Bull Tongue: Exploring the Void of all known undergrounds,” Arthur, October
Richardson, Terry, "Eye-Spy New York," Dazed and Confused, July
"Rock Tribes," New York Magazine
Bollen, Christopher, "Culture Keeps a Model Brain Handy Made with it’s grain to put in place of your own," Time-Out
New York
Antitch, Alex & Marcello Krasilcic, "Destroy All Monsters," Liberation, Modete
2001 Pierson, Jack, Interview, September
2000 Aroch, Guy, "Meet a Daring Duo," Interview
Griffin, Tim, "Can you see the real me," Time-Out New York, August Pouncey, Edwin "In Brief: Outer Limits," Wire,
Issue 196, June Simpson, Bennett, "Actress," Artext, May
"Lizzi Bougatsos photographs Chloe Sevigny," Self-Service, Spring
1999 "Easy E, Frayed Jeans, Mohawk," Purple, Winter "Actress," Self-Service
Bernadette Corporation, "Actress," Made in U.S.A.
Art Club 2000, "Artforum Top Ten List," Artforum
McGraw, Gary, "Null New York," Music Magazine, Summer
"Besides on Changes, Soho is still very much Soho," New York Times Bag, Alex, "A Night Without Armour Series II,"
Purple, Summer Cosmic Wonder, “The Dress Attatchable a Wall”
Schachter, Kenny, "Russia," ZingMagazine 

Publications 

2014 HER PERFUME TEARS, Boo-Hooray with Exile Books, New York
2007 The Process V, Nieves Edition, Zurich
2004 The Process III, Nieves Edition, Zurich
2002 Simpson, Bennett, "Boug & Worth Take Manhattan," International Center for Contemporary Art Catalogue 

Public Collections 

Brant Foundation, Greenwich, CT
Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo, Norway Dikeou Collection, Denver, CO
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY 

Discography 

I.U.D. Weird Ho, Gagosian Records
Gang Gang Dance, KAZUASHITA, 4AD Records, London UK
There Will Never Be Silence: Scoring John Cage’s 4’33”, MoMA/MoMA PS1 Records, NY Gang Gang Dance, EYE
CONTACT, 4AD Records, London UK
I.U.D., Wade Guyton, Kunsthalle Zurich, Crystal Hotel Records
I.U.D., The Proper Sex, Social Registry, New York
Gang Gang Dance, Saint Dymphna, Social Registry, New York
Gang Gang Dance, Oxygen Riddim Demo, Palm Springs Press, Young Turks, UK
Gang Gang Dance, First Communion, Social Registry, New York
Gang Gang Dance, Retina Riddim, DVD, Social Registry, New York
Gang Gang Dance, God's Money, Social Registry,New York
Gang Gang Dance, Hilleluh, Social Registry.New York
Gang Gang Dance, s/t. Fusetron Records, New York
Gang Gang Dance, Revival of the Shittest, Social Registry, New York
Angelblood, Labia Minora, Captain Trip Records and Printed Matter Inc., Japan, New York Angelblood, Mass for the Daggers, Captain Trip Records, Japan
Angelblood, Trip Records, Japan
Angelblood,Mambo Mange, New York
Electrophilia, Steven Parrino, Jutta Koether and Lizzi Bougatsos
U-Sounds, Black Magic, Parallelism