Tabboo!

Tabboo!

Tabboo! (Stephen Tashjian, b. 1959; Leicester, Massachusetts) has exhibited his work extensively in New York, including at Gordon Robichaux (2022, 2021, 2019, 2017); Karma (2023, 2022, 2020); Howl! Happening (2016); Participant Inc. (2008); Paul Kasmin Gallery (2006), Rupert Goldsworthy (1999 and 1995); Wooster Gardens (1998); Tricia Collins Grand Salon (1995); Tom Cugliani (1994); LIMBO (1986); ABC No Rio (1982); and Lucky Strike Gallery (1982).

He has participated in group exhibitions at the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Matthew Marks, New York; New Museum, New York; Grey Art Gallery, New York University; Shoot the Lobster, New York; Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York; Rental Gallery, New York; White Columns, New York; Pat Hearn Gallery, New York; ABC No Rio, New York; Artists Space, New York;  Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Parker Gallery, Los Angeles; Karma, Los Angeles; Artist Curated Projects, Los Angeles; GAVLAK, Los Angeles; Herald St, London; White Cube, London; Cincinnati Art Museum, Ohio; ICA Boston; Colette, Paris; and the Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.

His work is held in the collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; ICA Miami; and Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.

Tabboo! has performed extensively; created murals for public projects; designed flyers, album covers, and ephemera for contexts including Wigstock, Deee-Lite, Book of Love, Printed Matter, A1 Records, Studio Voltaire, White Columns); produced 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) and flyers and posters for underground venues (Club 57, Pyramid Club); and collaborated with fashion designers (Supreme, Marc Jacobs, Fiorucci, Willi Wear). He has been a muse to artists and photographers including Nan Goldin, Steven Klein, Steven Meisel, and Ai Weiwei.

Tabboo!’s work was reviewed in numerous publications including Artforum, The New Yorker, The New York Times, New York Magazine, Cultured Magazine, VICE, Candy Magazine, the Miami Herald, and the Financial Times.

Five books dedicated to his art have been published: Cityscapes (Gordon Robichaux/Karma, 2022); Tabboo! The Art of Stephen Tashjian (Damiani, 2013), Paintings by Tabboo! (Howl Arts Inc., 2016), and Pearl: Poems by Vincent Katz, Paintings by Tabboo! (Powerhouse Books, 1998).

Works

Autumn in "Minty" NYC

Acrylic and glitter on canvas

60 × 50 inches

2020

Big Pink and Purple Cityscape

Acrylic and glitter on canvas

76 x 104 inches

2021

Snowstorm Out My Window (Bigger Flakes)

Acrylic on linen

24 x 36 inches

2017

The Blue Moon

Acrylic and glitter on canvas

42 × 38 inches

2020

Chrysler Building

Acrylic on linen

42 x 32 inches

2017

Beautiful Sunset Down 14th Street

Acrylic on paper

1993

Union Square, Empire Building and Zeckendorf Towers

Acrylic on paper

30 x 22 inches

2018

West Side Story

Acrylic on canvas

60 x 50 inches

2021

Night Snowscape #2, NYC

Acrylic and glitter on canvas

18 x 24 inches

2021

The Empire State Building

Acrylic on canvas

60 × 50 inches

2021

Looking North Out of My Studio

Acrylic and glitter on canvas

50 × 60 inches

2021

Untitled

Acrylic and glitter on canvas

8 x 42 inches

1995

Snow Blankets Loisada

Acrylic and glitter on canvas

50 × 60 inches

2021

Flying into Newark

Acrylic and glitter on canvas

50 × 60 inches

2021

Ultra Violet Is the "Pantone Color of 2018"

Acrylic and glitter on paper

22 × 30 inches

2018

The Clock

Acrylic and glitter on linen

60 × 60 inches

2018

Bengal Tiger

Acrylic and glitter on linen

42 × 32 inches

2018

Baltimore Oriole

Acrylic on linen

42 × 32 inches

Chinese Puppets

Acrylic on linen

42 x 32 inches

2017

Black-Eyed Susans

Acrylic on linen

32 x 42 inches

2017

Summer Sunflowers

Acrylic on linen

44 x 28 inches

2014

Oranges on Aqua

Acrylic and glitter on linen

42 × 32 inches

2018

Still Life

Acrylic on linen

2017

Pink Garden

Acrylic on linen

38 x 66 inches

2015

Cactus and Palm

Acrylic on linen

38 x 42 inches

2016

Supremes​

Acrylic on canvas

48 x 52 inches

2005

Self-Portrait in Drag

Acrylic on advertising paper board

27 x 20.25 inches

1982

Pyramid Drawing

Pen on silver gelatin print

11 x 14 inches

1987

Mark Morrisroe

Acrylic on canvas

68 x 36 inches

1985

Three Pyramid Figures

Acrylic and collage on paper

28 1/4 × 21 1/2 inches

1985

Self-Portrait in Drag as Popcorn

Acrylic on found paper board

27 × 20 1/4 inches

1983

Flamenco

Acrylic and glitter on paper

30 × 23 inches

1988

Sally Bowles

Acrylic on found advertising paper

35 x 47.5 inches

1982

Exhibitions

Tabboo!

Cityscapes

Mar. 6–Apr. 17, 2022

Tabboo!

Tabboo! 1982–1988

Dec. 6, 2020–Jan. 10, 2021

A Page From My Intimate Journal (Part II) —

Wilder Alison, Leilah Babirye, Matt Connors, Jenni Crain, Stephanie Crawford, Florence Derive, DW Fitzpatrick, Gillian Garcia, Daniel Marcellus Givens, Janice Guy, Otis Houston Jr., Miles Huston, KIOSK, Marco ter Haar Romeny, Clifford Prince King, Elisabeth Kley, Wayne Koestenbaum, Siobhan Liddell, Rosemary Mayer, McDermott & McGough, Reverend Joyce McDonald, Matt Paweski, Signe Olson, Sanou Oumar, Kerry Schuss, Dean Spunt, Tabboo!, Ken Tisa, Boris Torres, Frederick Weston

Mar. 1–Apr. 19, 2020

Tabboo!, Elisabeth Kley

Garden

Sept. 22–Nov. 10, 2019

Happening group exhibition

Nayland Blake, Anne Collier, Lecia Dole-Recio, Eve Fowler, Daniel Marcellus Givens, Matthew Higgs, Ray Johnson, Elizabeth Karp-Evans, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Devin N. Morris, Lorraine O'Grady, LJ Roberts, Sur Rodney (Sur), Tabboo!, Andre Walker, Shyvette Williams

Apr. 28–June 16, 2019

Tabboo!

World of Tabboo! Early and Recent Work

Sept. 24–Nov. 19, 2017

Projects

Dallas Art Fair

Apr. 21–Apr. 23, 2023

Bandanas

May 1, 2020

Paris Internationale: Florence Derive, DW Fitzpatrick, McDermott & McGough, Sanou Oumar, Tabboo!, Frederick Weston

Oct. 16–Oct. 19, 2019

NADA Miami: Tabboo!

Dec. 6–Dec. 9, 2018

PORTFOLIO, 2017

Sept. 16, 2017

Let Go Or Be Dragged

Mar. 2–Mar. 5, 2017

Publications

Tabboo!, Tabboo! Cityscapes

2022

Gordon Robichaux and Karma

Tabboo!, Tabboo! 1982-88

2021

Gordon Robichaux and Karma

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