Guy Overfelt


Guy Overfelt is an American multi-disciplinary post-conceptual artist. He works with various media including sculpture, performance, photography, video and drawing. He is based in San Francisco and Bolinas, California.

Biography

Overfelt received a B.F.A. degree from the Maryland Institute College of Art; and an M.F.A. degree from San Francisco Art Institute.
Best known for his burnout works made using a 1977 Pontiac Trans AM as an artist's utensil and subject matter, San Francisco-based Guy Overfelt’s projects are raucous explorations of the American Dream via car culture. His body of work presents a special mix of printmaking, performance and sculpture that investigates the modern industrial complex by expropriating the symbolic brands of automotive corporations.
Guy Overfelt’s work has been exhibited internationally in galleries and museums including the Oakland Museum of California; Guangzhou Triennial, China; St. Mary's University, Halifax, Canada; The Havana Biennial, Cuba; Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York; Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, and White Columns, New York City. His work has been acquired by the Berkeley Museum Collection and the JPMorgan Chase Collection, as well as private collections. His work has been reviewed and featured in numerous publications, including the New Yorker, The New York Times, Art Net, Art Papers, Index Magazine, Paper Magazine, Time Out, Kobe Japan, Time Out, New York, Boing Boing, SF Guardian, Surface Magazine, and the San Francisco Chronicle, as well as other publications and catalogs. His work was featured in the documentary film ‘Burning Rubber’ which recently aired on Bravo.

Solo exhibitions

Four Real Walls, Four Walls Gallery, San Francisco, California Project Evidence, White Columns, White Room, New York City, New York SBMA, Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, New York City, New York Burn-Out Trial, San Francisco Hall of Justice, San Francisco, CaliforniaThe World #54, The Poetry Project, Taser Project, Summer., New York City, New York Game Over, Bronwyn Keenan Gallery, New York City, New York Free Beer, Refusalon Gallery, San Francisco, California Cruzen USA, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CaliforniaDeluxe, Refusalon Gallery, San Francisco, California Destroy, First Vienna Austrotel Contemporary Art Fair, Vienna, Austria Sons of Liberty Tour, Charas/El Bohio, New York City, New York Bongzilla, Detour 888 Gallery, San Francisco, California PowerSlave, eyelevel gallery, Halifax, N.S., Canada Nova G.O., Linc Art, San Francisco, California Highway To Hell, Garage Biennale, San Francisco, California Freebird, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, California Ever Wash, Ever Gold Gallery, San Francisco, California
  • "ASSED OUT AND THE MINI DRAMAS", Queens Nails Projects, San Francisco, California

Group exhibitions

Basel Art Fair, Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland Achieving Failure: Gym Culture 2000, Thread Waxing Space, New York City, New York Wine, Women and Wheels, White Columns, New York City, New York Action Jackson, Silverstein Gallery, New York City, New York Marked, Hunter College, New York City, New York American Dream: A Survey, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York City, New York Performance Anxiety, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California Burning Rubber, St. Mary's University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada A THIN SLICE, Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, San Francisco, California Warhol Revisited?, De Young Museum + OFF Space, Oakland, California
  • "Radical Light: That Little Red Dot", Artists' Television Access, San Francisco, California Who Dares Wins, Butcher's Daughter Contemporary Art, Detroit, Michigan Spread - Conceptualism Then and Now, SOMArts Gallery, San Francisco, California
  • "Water McBeer", Ever Gold Gallery, San Francisco, California
  • "I AM CRIME", SOMArts Gallery, San Francisco, California