BIOGRAPH

MFA from Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow.

Lives and works in New York City.
E-mail: Noqontrol@aol.com

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2000 Pori Art Museum, Finnland, Obsession
Lombard Freid Fine Arts, New York City, Stairs 2 Heaven
1997 Lombard Freid Fine Arts, New York City, A Season in Hell
1996 Galeria Camargo Vilaca, Sao Paulo, Brazil, Obsession
Lombard Freid Fine Arts, New York City, Lure
1994 Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York, Obsession
1991 Galeria Wschodnia, Lodz, Poland, Maciej Toporowicz,

SOUND PROJECTS
2002 Erased, compact disc, Noqontrol & Eiko Ashizuka
2001 The Cell, compact disc, Noqontrol & Transport / Takuro Iwabuchi
2000 Sairs 2 Heaven, compact disc,Maciej Toporowicz & Peter Busboom
1998 Tokyo Loops, compact disc, Maciej Toporowicz & Eiko Ashizuka
Seventh Seal, compact disc, Maciej Toporowicz & Eiko Ashizuka

VIDEO
2000 Stairs 2 Heaven
1997 Lure, (remixed on DVD by Noqontrol in 2001)
1996 Love Will Tear Us Apart , (remixed on DVD by Noqontrol in 2001)
1993 Obsession, (remixed on DVD by Noqontrol in 2001)

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
2002 The Jewish Museum, New York City, Mirroring Evil
Trieste Film Festival, Trieste, Videozone
2001 Venice Biennale, Italy, Markers
2000 Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, Mass. Confronting the Figure
Dulcinea, Istanbul, Confession of a Voyeur
Bunkier Sztuki, Cracow, After Hours
Construction in Process, Poland, Earth is a Flower
1999 Lombard Freid Fine Arts, New York City, Propaganda
Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York, Your I
1998 Edsvik Konst Kultur, Stockholm, Medialization
ICP, Moscow, Photobiennale
Paco Das Artes, Sao Paulo, Canibal City
Tallin Art Hall, Tallin, Tangents,
Katherine Nash Gallery, Minneapolis, Absence/Presence
Lombard Freid Fine Arts, New York City, Urban Romantics-Part 2
1996 Stux Gallery, New York City, Sex/Industry
Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York, Untitled
Lombard Freid Fine Arts, New York City, The Experimenters
American Fine Arts, New York City, 100 Photographers
Franklin Furnace, New York City, Voyers Delight
1995 Goethe Institute, Cracow, Giordano Bruno
Bowling Green University, Ohio, Tangled Roots
Work Space, New York City, Accumulation
Gallery 400, Chicago, Arresting Images
Mitzpe Ramon, Israel, Construction in Process 5
1994 Bronx Museum, New York, Beyond the Borders
1993 The Artist Museum, Lodz, Poland, Construction in Process 4
Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin, Hair
1990 P.S.1 Museum, Long Island City, Sites of Intolerance
1989 Stux Gallery, New York City, Invitational

SELECTED PERFORMANCES
1995 BWA Gallery, Cracow, Antoni Artaud
Podewil, Berlin, 10 Commandments
Galata Festival, Istanbul, 10 Commandments
1994 Chapter Gallery, Cardiff, 10 Commandments
1987 New Langton Arts, San Francisco, Ultragothic
Franklin Furnace, New York City, Ding an Sich,
1986 P.S.122, New York City, Ding an Sich
1985 Negerhalle, Munich, Apocalypse Now
1984 Moltkerai, Cologne, Ding an Sich
1983 Art Now Gallery, Mannheim, Performance

PUBLIC PROJECTS
1995 Auslånder Raus, mailing action, Frankfurt
1994 Obsession, street posting action, New York City
Forza Italia, stamp mailing action, Rome
Serial Killers, stamp mailing action, New York City

AWARDS
1991 Studio Program Award, P.S.1 Museum, New York

BIBLIOGRAPHY
2002 "It‚s Only Nazis", Christian Viveros-Faune, New York Press, vol 15,
"The Art of Banality", Editorial Page, New York Times, 3.22.2002
Jerry Saltz, "Mild Thing", Village Voice, 4.2.2002
Michael Frank, "Springtime for Hitler", Los Angeles Times, 3.31.02
Fabrice Rousselot, "Polemique Autour..", Liberation, 3.20.02
Andrian Kreye, "Alles, was trivial ist", Suddeutsche Zeitung,
3.22.2002
Michelle Goldberg, "No business like Shoah business", salon.com,
4.3.02
2001 Maciej Toporowicz."Suicide Forest". The Fader ( Winter)
Norman Kleeblatt. "Mirroring Evil". Rutgers University Press.
2000 Robert Morgan. "Stairs 2 Heaven".Review. (March)
Sarah Valdez. "Maciej Toporowicz at Lombard Freid". Art in America
( September)
"Obsessed by Options". Art by Maciej Toporowicz. Civilization
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1998 "L‚ obsession de Maciej". Etapes Graphiques (April)
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1983 "Maciej Toporowicz: Radio Ebb". High Performance (nr. 22)
1982 "AWACS". High Performance (Spring-Summer)