Tabboo!
June 15 — July 05
Tabboo! (Stephen Tashjian, Born 1959 in Leicester, MA) has exhibited his work extensively including at Gordon Robichaux, Karma, Participant Inc, Matthew Marks, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New Museum, New York University’s Grey Art Gallery, Shoot the Lobster, Andrew Edlin Gallery, Rental Gallery, White Columns, Howl! Happening, ABC No Rio, Artists Space, Tom Cugliani, Tricia Collins, Wooster Gardens, Rupert Goldsworthy, and LIMBO in New York; Parker Gallery, Artist Curated Projects (ACP) and GAVLAK in Los Angeles; Herald St and White Cube in London; the Cincinnati Art Museum; ICA Boston; Colette in Paris; and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. In 2017, a group of his works was featured in Club 57: Film, Performance, and Art in the East Village, 1978–1983, an exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York where his work is included in the permanent collection. His work is also held in the collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art and The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Tabboo! has performed extensively, created murals for public projects, designed flyers, album covers, and ephemera (Wigstock, Deee-Lite, Book of Love, Rufus Wainwright, Printed Matter, A1 Records, Studio Voltaire), illustrations for major publications (French Vogue, Italian Vogue, M, le magazine du Monde, Artforum, Interview, Paper, Penguin Paperbacks’ The Naked Civil Servant by Quentin Crisp), flyers and posters for underground venues (Club 57, the Pyramid Club) and collaborated with fashion designers (Supreme, Marc Jacobs, Fiorucci, Willi Wear). He’s been a muse to artists and photographers including Nan Goldin, Ai Weiwei, Steven Klein, Steven Meisel, and Ryan McGinley. In 2016, his celebrated collaboration with Marc Jacobs for Jacob's Fall collection was profiled in Harper’s Bazaar and Le Monde.