b. 1931, National City, USA

d. 2020, Venice, USA

He made his B.A. after four years at San Diego State College, San Diego, USA in 1953 and studied at the University of California, Berkeley, USA, from 1954–55. 1955 he changed to the University of California, Los Angeles, USA, for one year and made his M.A. at San Diego State College Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, USA, in 1957. Afterwards he studied at Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, USA from 1957-59.

 

Teaching

1967–70 Professor of Art, University of California, San Diego, USA

1970–88 Professor of Art, California Institue of Arts, Valencia, USA

1996–2007 Professor of Art, University of California, Los Angeles, USA

 

Honorary Degrees

2006

Doctor of Fine Arts, Burren College of Art, National University of Ireland,

Ballyvaughan, Ireland

 

2003

Doctor of Fine Arts, San Diego State University and the California State University, USA

 

2000

Doctor of Fine Arts, Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design of the New School for Social Research, Los Angeles, USA

 

Selected solo exhibitions

2021

The Space Between, Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles, USA

John Baldessari: California Dreaming, Lawson Print Gallery, McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, USA

 

2020

John Baldessari. 30 Years at Gemini G.E.L., Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, USA

Yours in Art. John Baldessari und Konrad Fischer, Stiftung Kunstsammlung Nordrhein Westfalen, Dusseldorf, Germany

John Baldessari, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

What I Saw: John Baldessari Prints, 1976–2015, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

Master of Appropriation, Blue Sky Gallery, Portland A Brief Collection Display of John Baldessari, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany

 

2019

John Baldessari: Prints, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York, USA

I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art: Prints by John Baldessari, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, USA

Hot & Cold, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA

 

2018

Brain/Cloud (Two Views). With Palm Tree and Seascape, Marian Goodman Gallery, London, UK

Emoji Series, Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, USA

Blah, Mixografía, Los Angeles, USA

Links to the World: John Baldessari, Tartu Kunstimuuseum, Tartu, Estonia

Eight Colorful Inside Jobs, Librarie, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France

John Baldessari, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland

All Z’s (Picabia/Mondrian), Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA

John Baldessari: Interference Effects, Missoula Art Museum, Missoula, USA

 

2017

The Complementary Series, Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels, Belgium

Learning to Read with John Baldessari, Museum Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico

Piracy (Vol. 2), Super Dakota, Brussels, Belgium

John Baldessari, Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles, USA

John Baldessari: Wall Painting, MADA Gallery, Monash University, Melbourne, Australia

Hands & Feet, Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl, New York, USA

Hands & Feet, Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, USA

Madame Cezanne's Hairdos, Elizabeth Leach Gallery Eight Colorful Inside Jobs, Mixografia, Los Angeles, USA

Paintings: 1966–68, Craig Starr Gallery, New York, USA

Miró and Life in General, Marian Goodman Gallery, London, UK

 

2016

Gravures and Multiples, Galeries Roger Bellemare and Christian Lambert, Montreal, Canada

Pollock/Benton, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA

John Baldessari, Edward Ressle Gallery, New York, USA

Madame Cezanne's Hairdos, Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl, New York, USA

Engravings with Sounds, Sniffle, Snigger, Arg., Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

Madame Cezanne's Hairdos, Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, USA

New Work, MAI 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland

John Baldessari, Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles, USA

 

2015

Front Row, Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, USA

The Städel Paintings, Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany

Come, Sweet Death, Shin Gallery, New York, USA

John Baldessari, PKM Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

Early Work, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France

Pictures & Scripts, Marian Goodman Gallery, London, UK

 

2014

Movie Scripts/Art, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA

Boijmans Celebrates Art, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands

John Baldessari at Gemini G.E.L.: The News, Gemini G.E.L. & Joni Moisant Weyl, Los Angeles / New York, USA

Scene ( ) / Take ( ), Galerie Greta Meert Crowd with Shape of Reason Missing, Meyerovich Gallery, San Francisco, USA

John Baldessari: Four Short Films 1972–73, University of Maryland, Maryland, USA Your Name in Lights, La Monnaie de Paris, Paris, France

 

2013

John Baldessari: 1+1=1, Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia

Storyboard (in 4 Parts), Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany

John Baldessari: Installation Works, 1987-1989, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA

Morsels and Snippets, MAI 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland

Crowds, Mixografia and For Your Art, Los Angeles, USA

Eight Soups, Gemini G.E.L. and Joni Moisant Weyl, Los Angeles, USA

John Baldessari: Installation Works, 1987-1989, Robert Bills Contemporary, Chicago, USA

 

2012

Double Play, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA

Kaiserringträger der Stadt Goslar 2012, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Goslar, Germany

Double Bill (Part 2), Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

John Baldessari Videos, Casa de la Monedo, Bogotá, Columbia

Double Bill, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France

John Baldessari–Video Works 1970 – 1977, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands

John Baldessari: A Print Retrospective from the collections of Jordan D.Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA

 

2011

Double Feature, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany

I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art, Le Case D’Arte, Milano, Italy

Double Vision, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland

New and Recent Prints, Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, USA

Baldessari Sings LeWitt, Conceptual Art Center, Bukovje, Slovenia

John Baldessari: A Print Retrospective from the collections of Jordan D.Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Sorings, USA

Your Name in Lights, Australian Museum façade, Sydney, Australia

Your Name in Lights, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

 

2010

Not Prints. Posters 1966–2010, 1301PE, Los Angeles, USA

The Giacometti Variations, Fondazione Prada, Milano, Italy

Sediment (Part 2), Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA

Pure Beauty, The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Met, New York, USA

John Baldessari: A Print Retrospective from the collections of Jordan D.Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, USA

Foot and Stocking (With Big Toe Exposed) Series, Gemini G.E.L. & Joni Moisant Weyl, Los Angeles / New York, USA

Pure Beauty, Los Angeles County Museum of Art – LACMA, Los Angeles, USA

As Is for Ant, B is for Brain, Etc.: Selected Works by John Baldessari, Mixografìa, Los Angeles, USA

Sediment, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

John Baldessari: 1970s Film and Video Work, VOX, Centre de l'image contemporaine, Montreal, Canada

Je ne ferai plus d'art ennuyeux (I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art), École nationale supérieure d'architecture, Montpellier, France

Pure Beauty, MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain

John Baldessari: Noses & Ears, Etc., Galería La Caja Negra, Madrid, Spain

Blue Line (Holbein), Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

Why Borrow When You Can Steal?, Royale Projects, Indian Wells, USA

 

2009

A B C Art (Low Relief): A New Monumental Print by John Baldessari, Mixografía, Los Angeles, USA

Hands and/or Feet (Part Two), Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany

John Baldessari, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany

Hands and/or Feet (Part One), Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France

Pure Beauty, Tate Modern, London, UK

Ear Sofa; Nose Sconces with Flowers (In Stage Setting), Sprüth Magers, London, UK

John Baldessari: A Print Retrospective from the collections of Jordan D.Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, Fine Arts Museums, San Francisco, USA

Similar Spirits: John Baldessari and Tristram Shandy, Fine Arts Museums, San Francisco, USA

Raised Eyebrows / Furrowed Foreheads (Part Four), Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland

Raised Eyebrows / Furrowed Foreheads (Part Three), Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels, Belgium

Raised Eyebrows / Furrowed Foreheads (Part Two), Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal

Early Films, Le Case D'Arte, Milan, Italy

BRICK BLDG, LG WINDOWS W/XLENT VIEWS, PARTIALLY FURNISHED, RENOWNED ARCHITECT, Museen Haus Lange - Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany

 

2008

Raised Eyebrow / Furrowed Foreheads, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA

Sailboat, Mixografìa, Los Angeles, USA

BACA Laureate 2008: John Baldessari, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Netherlands

Arms & Legs (Specif. Elbows & Knees), Etc., Part II, Galería Pepe Cobo, Madrid, Spain

 

2007

Beethoven’s Trumpet; In One Ear & Out the Same Ear, The Arts Club of Chicago, USA

Arms & Legs (Specif. Elbows & Knees), Etc., Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France

Composition for Violin and Voices (Male), Le Magasin – Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France

Noses & Ears, Etc. (Part Four), Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland

John Baldessari: Music, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany

Beethoven’s Trumpet; In One Ear & Out the Same Ear, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany

Noses & Ears, Etc. (Part Three), Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

Nose & Ears, Etc. The Gemini Series, Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl, New York, USA

Eden: Adam and Eve (With Ear and Nose) Plus Serpent, Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany

 

2006

Nose & Ears, Etc. The Gemini Series, Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, USA

Noses & Ears, Etc. (Part Two), Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA

Color Films, Sketch Gallery, London, UK

The Prima Facie Series, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens - MDD, Deurle, Belgium

Maquettes 1987–1994, 1301PE, Los Angeles, USA

Collection in Context: John Baldessari, Smithsonian Institution - Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, USA

Composition for Violin and Voices (Male), 1987, Une œuvre de la collection, MAC - Musée d’art contemporain Lyon, France

Noses & Ears, Etc., Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal

Six Mixografìa Editions, Mixografìa, Los Angeles, USA

Prima Facie (Fifth State), Sprüth Magers Lee, London, UK

John Baldessari: Works 1982–1991, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France

Raw Prints & Others, Estampes 1976–2005, Florence Loewy, Paris, France

Stonehenge (With Two Persons), Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, USA

 

2005

Prima Facie (Fourth State), Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels, Belgium

Guitars, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, Mexico

John Baldessari: From Life, Carré d’ Art Musee Contemporain, Nimes, France

Prima Facie (Third State), Galería Pepe Cobo, Madrid, Spain

Person with Guitar Series, Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl, New York, USA

John Baldessari, Center for Contemporary Art Kitakyushu Prima Facie (Second State), Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland

Person with Guitar Series, Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, USA

Prima Facie, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

The Blockage Series, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France

Life's Balance (Works 84–04), Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Switzerland

A Different Kind of Order (Works 1962–1984), Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien - mumok, Vienna, Austria

I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, USA

 

2004

John Baldessari, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA

Somewhere Between Almost Right and Not Quite (With Orange), Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany

Recent Maquettes & Prints, Art Affairs, Amsterdam, Netherlands

A Lamp and Its Shadow, Mixografia, Los Angeles, USA

 

2003

Vertical/Horizontal Series, Bernier/Elaides, Athens, Greece

The Duress Series, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland

 

2002

Junctions and Intersections, Sprüth Magers, Cologne, Germany

Junctions and Intersections, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

John Baldessari, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA

 

2001

Trying to look between things instead of at things, Galerie Philomene Magers, Munich, Germany

John Baldessari, Museo d’Arte Moderna Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Trento, Italy

The Overlap Series, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland

 

2000

John Baldessari, MART, Museo di arte moderna e contemporeanea di Trento e Rovereto, Trento, Italy

John Baldessari, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden, Germany

John Baldessari, Meert Rihoux, Brussels, Belgium

 

1999

The Commissioned Paintings, Sprüth Magers, Cologne, Germany

While Something Is Happening Here, Something Else Is Happening There: Works 1988 - 1999, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany

Tetrad Series, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA

Baldessari und Goya, Albertina im Akademiehof, Vienna, Austria

 

1998

The Commissioned Paintings, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, USA

Recent Works, Charim Klocker, Vienna, Austria

Tele Dolca Llar & Baldessari 4 HAB a/Vtes.: Paper pintat, ilums i plantes. NOU, MACBA Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain

Baldessari, 4 RMS W VU: WALLPAPER, LAMPS AND PLANTS. NEW, Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Baldessari, 4 RMS W VU: WALLPAPER, LAMPS AND PLANTS. NEW, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland

John Baldessari, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland

The Goya Series, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, USA

 

1997

National City Paintings from 1967 and 1996, Galerie Philomene Magers, Cologne, Germany

John Baldessari, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France

John Baldessari, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

John Baldessari 1990-1996, Galerie Laage-Salomon, Paris, France

 

1996

John Baldessari, Hochschule fur Angewandte Kunst in Wien, Vienna, Austria

John Baldessari, Centro de Arte Moderna Jose de Azeredo Perdigao, Fundaçao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal

National City, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, USA

 

1995

John Baldessari, Galerie J. Becker, Hamburg, Germany

John Baldessari, Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne, Germany

John Baldessari, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

John Baldessari: A Retrospective, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK

John Baldessari: A Retrospective, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK

John Baldessari: A Retrospective, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany

John Baldessari: A Retrospective, Moderna Gallerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia

John Baldessari: A Retrospective, Museet For Samtidskunst, Oslo, Norway

John Baldessari: A Retrospective, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal

 

1994

John Baldessari, e.g. Grass, Water Heater, Mouths, & etc. (for John Graham), The Museum of Modern Art - MoMA, New York, USA

 

1991

John Baldessari, Musée d'art contemporain, Montréal, Canada

John Baldessari, Whitney Museum of American Art - The Whitney, New York, USA

John Baldessari, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA

John Baldessari, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, USA

 

1990

John Baldessari, Smithsonian Institution - Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, USA

John Baldessari, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art – SFMoMA, San Francisco, USA

John Baldessari, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles – MOCA, Los Angeles, USA

John Baldessari, Whitney Museum of American Art - The Whitney, New York, USA

John Baldessari, Musée d'art contemporain, Montréal, Canada

 

1989

Ni por esas, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain

Ni por esas, CAPC - Musée d'Art Contemporain, de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France

Cedex Ni por esas, IVAM Centre Julio González, Valencia, Spain

 

1986

MATRIX BERKELEY 94, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, USA

 

1985

John Baldessari, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Dijon, France

 

1980

John Baldessari: Work 1966 – 1980, The New Museum, New York, USA

John Baldessari: Work 1966 – 1980, The Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA

John Baldessari: Work 1966 – 1980, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, USA

John Baldessari: Work 1966 – 1980, Municipal Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, Netherlands

John Baldessari: Work 1966 – 1980, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany

 

1977

Photographic Works, Robert Self Ltd, London, USA

 

1975

Recent Work, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

 

1970

Recent Paintings, Richard Feigen Gallery, New York, USA

John Baldessari, Eugenia Butler Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

 

Selected Group exhibitions

2022

The Dream of Ulysses, Fondation Carmignac, Porquerolles Island, France

And Now the Good News. Works from the Nobel Collection, Pera Museum, Istanbul, Turkey

The Artist's Eye, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive The Printer's Proof: Artist and Printer Collaborations, Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, USA

A Trillion Sunsets: A Centrury of Image Overload, International Center of Photography, New York, USA

 

2021

Radium Palace, K-Gold Temporary Gallery, Lesvos, Greece

Since Unveiling, The Broad, Los Angeles, USA

Ludwig Wittgenstein. Photography as analytical practice, Leopold Museum, Vienna, Austria

The Art of Food, University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, USA

Albrecht Fuchs. Album. Portraits, Leopold-Hoesch-Museum & Papiermuseum, Düren, Germany

American Art, 1961–2001, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy

Stop Painting, Fondazione Prada, Venice, Italy

We Are Animals, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands

 

2020

00s. Collection Cranford: the 2000s, Mo.Co. Contemporary, Montpellier, France

City of Tomorrow, Seattle Art Museum, Seatlle, USA

Hotel Beethoven, Centre For Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium

Beethoven Bewegt, Kunsthistorisches Museum Wien, Vienna, Austria

The Clouds and the Cloud, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany

Where Art Might Happen: The Early Years of CalArts, Kunsthaus Graz, Graz, Switzerland

Le Cours des Choses, CAPC - Musée d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France

We Are Animals, ARKEN - Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark

Kleine Geschichte(n) der Fotografie (#2), Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany

 

2019

Inaugural Exhibition, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA

Where Art Might Happen: The Early Years of CalArts, Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, Germany

The Foundation of the Museum: MOCA's collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles – MOCA, Los Angeles, USA

La Source, Fondation Carmignac, Paris, France

Besser scheitern, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany

Five Ways In: Themes from the Collection, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA

California Artists from the Marciano Collection, The Marciano Art Foundation - MAF, Los Angeles, USA

Local: Gemini G.E.L. Collaborations with Los Angeles Artists, Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, USA

Mirror Images – Immagini speculari in arte e medicina, Castello di Sasso Corbaro, Bellinzona, Italy

 

2018

Zéro de Conduite: Works from the Serralves Collection, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal

Class Reunion: Works from the Gaby and Wilhelm Schürmann Collection, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien - mumok, Vienna, Austria

This Brush for Hire: Norm Laich & Many other Artists, Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA

Die Zahl als Chiffre in der Kunst, Art-Foyer DZ-Bank Kunstsammlung, Frankfurt, Germany

The Pull of a Well Placed Comma, MACE – Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Elvas, Lisbon, Portugal

Faithless Pictures, The National Museum, Oslo, Norway

PIZZA IS GOD, NRW Forum, Dusseldorf, Germany

 

2017

Remastered - Die Kunst der Aneignung, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Austria

Living Apart Together: Recent Acquisitions from the Hammer Contemporary Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA

99 Cents or Less, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit, USA

Oh…, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien - mumok, Vienna, Austria

Los Angeles - a Fiction, Musée d'art contemporain, Lyon, France

Mehr als nur Worte (Über das Poetische), Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria

American Cool, Mirat, Madrid, Spain

MIRROR IMAGES – Spiegelbilder in Kunst und Medizin, Kunstmuseum Thun, Thun, Switzerland

Variable Dimensions – Artists and Architecture, MAAT | Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology, Fundação EDP, Lisboa, Portugal

 

2016

L.A. Exuberance: New Gifts by Artists, Los Angeles County Museum of Art – LACMA, Los Angeles, USA

Present Tense: Prints from the Jordan D. Schnitzer Collection, Montana Museum of Art & Culture, Missoula, USA

Los Angeles - a Fiction, Astrup Fearnley Museum, Oslo, Norway

The Serial Impulse at Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles County Museum of Art – LACMA, Los Angeles, USA

Berkeley Eye: Perspectives from the Collection, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, USA

Good Dreams, Bad Dreams - American Mythologies, Aïshti Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon

Paper in Profile, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Greece

Drawing Dialogues: The Sol LeWitt Collection, The Drawing Center, New York, USA

Pandora’s Box – Jan Dibbets on Another Photography, Musée d'Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, France

L’Image Volée, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy

Ordinary Pictues, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA

Return to that Partciular Moment, 601 Artspace, New York, USA

A Fresco, Palace of Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium

(un)expected: The Art of Chance, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

The Uses of Photography, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, USA

 

2015

Mirror Image, Museum of Medical History at Charité and the Schering Foundation Project Space, Berlin, Germany

Inaugural Exhibition, The Broad, Los Angeles, USA

Benefit Auction, Schinkel Pavillon e. V., Exhibition Gallery for Contemporary Sculpture, Berlin, Germany

Future Present, Schaulager, Basel, Switzerland

America is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art - The Whitney, New York, USA

Poor Art – Rich Legacy. Arte Povera and Parallel Practices 1968-2015, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Oslo, Norway

Selbstjustiz durch Fehleinkäufe - Neuerwerbungen der Sammlung Falckenberg 2011 -2014, Deichtorhallen Hamburg - Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg, Germany

Occupational Therapy, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, USA

La Carte Postale Revisitée, La Compagnie, Marseille, France

The Hergott Shepard Photography Collection, University of Michigan Museum of Art UMMA, Ann Arbor, USA

American Encounters: The Simple Pleasures of Still Life, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville , USA

 

2014

Damage Control. Art and Destruction Since 1950, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria

Damage Control. Art and Destruction Since 1950, Kunsthalle Graz, Graz, Austria

Beg, Borrow and Steal, Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, USA

Sigmund Freud and the Play on the Burden of Representation, 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria

The Avant-Garde Collection, OCMA Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana, USA

Slow Learner, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK

Was das ich von selbst erfährt? (Lernen in Eigenregie), Stiftung Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany

Concept After Concept: Before Normal, Museet for Samtidskunst / Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark

Time Pieces, The Video Art Collection of Neuer Berliner Kunstverein at Nordstern Videokunstzentrum, Gelsenkirchen, Germany

CODEX, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA

ABOVE THE ROOFS OF BERLIN, Penthouse of Olivaer Platz 2, Berlin, Germany

The Collection of the IVAM XXV Anniversary, IVAM - Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia, Spain

Spitting in the Wind, Oceanside Museum of Art Secondhand, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, USA

Damage Control. Art and Destruction Since 1950, Mudam Luxembourg Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg-Kirchberg, Luxembourg

 

2013

Damage Control. Art and Destruction Since 1950, Smithsonian Institution - Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, USA

Adventures of truth—Painting and philosophy: a narrative, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul, France

Beg Borrow and Steal, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, USA

Poesie der Reduktion – Minimal, Concept, Land Art, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien - mumok, Vienna, Austria

The Human Touch: Selections from the RBC Wealth Management Art Collection, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, USA

Bonjour Monsieur Matisse! Rencontre(s), MAMAC – Museé d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice, France

Everyday Epiphanies, Photography and Daily Life Since 1969, The Metropolitan Museum of Art - The Met, New York, USA

Double Feature - Art And The Movies, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, USA

Ileana Sonnabend: Ambassador for the New, The Museum of Modern Art - MoMA, New York, USA

 

2012

California, Charles Riva Collection, Brussels, Belgium

In the Holocene, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, UK

The Feverish Library, Petzel Gallery, New York, USA

The Mash Up: Collage from the 1930's to the present, L&M Arts, Los Angeles, USA

Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles – MOCA, Los Angeles, USA

The Residue of Memory, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, USA

Pacific Standard Time: Kunst in Los Angeles 1950–1980, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin, Germany

Paintings from the Rubell Family Collection, Fundación Banco Santander, Madrid, Spain

Spirits of Internationalism: 6 European Collections 1956–1986, Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerpen, Belgium

Punkt.Systeme – Vom Pointillismus zum Pixel, Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany

Malerei in Fotografie – Strategien der Aneignung / Painting in Photography: Strategies of Appropriation, Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany

América, América En La Colección Del IVAM, IVAM - Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia, Spain

Theatre of Life, CoCA Centre of Contemporary Art, Torun, Poland

A House Full of Music – Strategien In Musik und Kunst, Institut Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt, Germany

Super 8, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA

State of Mind: California Art circa 1970, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, USA

How to Make – Ideen, Notationen, Materialisierungen, Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Ends of the Earth. Land Art to 1974, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany

True Stories – Amerikanische Fotografie, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany

Inside a book a house of gold, Artists' editions with parkett in Peking, UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing, China

ARTandPRESS, Stiftung für Kunst und Kultur e.V., Bonn, Germany

Class Assignments (optional), CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA

 

2011

Lost & Found: Abstracting Los Angeles 1945-1980, Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, USA

Through the Looking Brain: A Swiss Collection of Conceptual Photography, Kunstmuseum, St. Gallen, Switzerland

Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture, 1950–1970, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA

Atlas. How to carry the world on one's back, Deichtorhallen Hamburg - Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg, Germany

Six colorful tales: From the emotional spectrum (women), Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool, UK

Two Versions of Imaginary, Annet Gelink Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands

20 Jahre Gegenwart. MMK 1991-2011, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany

The Shape of Things to Come - New Sculpture, The Saatchi Gallery, London, UK

Theatre of the World, The collection, migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland

Atlas. How to Carry the World on One’s Back?, ZKM|Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany

California Dreamin: Myths and Legends of Los Angeles, Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France

Nereden Nereye (From Where To Where), Galeri Mxanâ, Istanbul, Turkey

MMK 1991-2011: 20 Jahre Gegenwart, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany

Staging the Archive, MACE – Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Elvas Museum of Affects, Moderna Galerija Ljubljana, Slovenia

Die Kunst der Entschleunigung, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany

BEYOND, Art Museum of Estonia, Kumu Art Museum, Tallinn, Estonia

Six Colorful Tales: From the Emotional Spectrum (Women), Ceri Hand Gallery, London, UK

Circa 1971: Early Video & Film from the EAI Archive, Dia:Beacon, New York, USA

Paradigm Shift Serralves Collection 60’s 70’s, MUSAC – Museo de arte contemoráneo de Castilla, León, Spain

I was a male, Yvonne de Carlo, MUSAC - Museo de arte contemporáneo de Castilla, León, Spain

Produced by Migros, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany

Geld, Reception, Berlin After Images, Musée Juif de Belgique, Brussels, Belgium

 

2010

How Soon Now, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA

Atlas. How to Carry the World on One’s Back?, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain

Happy Birthday Mr. Blum! An Exhibition of Works Selected by Irving Blum, Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, USA

Off the Wall: Part 1 — Thirty Performative Actions, Whitney Museum of American Art - The Whitney, New York, USA

 

2009

Beg, Borrow and Steal, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA

Source Codes, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany

The Making of Art, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour, 1950 to Today, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

Magritte et la lumière, Galerie Almine Rech, Brussels, Belgium

Waiting for video: Works from the 1960s to today, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan

Exile on Main St., Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Netherlands

Live Art / Living Scene, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway

See this Sound: Promises in Sound and Vision, LENTOS , Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz, Austria

 

2008

Wall Rockets: Contemporaty Artist and Ed Ruscha, FLAG art foundation, New York, USA

Blasted Allegories - Werke aus der Sammlung Ringier, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Austria

Kavalierstart 1978-1982 Aufbruch in die Kunst der 80er, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany

Second Thoughts, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, USA

Matrix / Redux, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, USA

2008 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art - The Whitney, New York, USA

Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today, The Museum of Modern Art - MoMA, New York, USA

Collecting Collections: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles – MOCA, Los Angeles, USA

For the spirit - From the Ubs Art Collection, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan

 

2007

Beauty and the Blonde, Washington University - Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, USA

Uneasy Angel / Imagine Los Angeles, Sprüth Magers, Munich, Germany

Art Since the 1960s: California Experiments, OCMA Orange County Museum of Art, Santa Ana, USA

The Contemporary Art Collection of the Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna, Austria

Stella Art Foundation, Moscow, Russia

Kunst aus Los Angeles der 60er bis 90er Jahre, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany

John Baldessari and Alejandro Cesarco: Retrospective, Murray Guy Gallery, New York, USA

 

2006

Red Eye: L.A. Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA

Thank You For The Music (London Beat), Sprüth Magers Lee, London, UK

Wrong, Helga Maria Klosterfelde Edition, Berlin, Germany

Los Angeles 1955–1985: Birth of an Art Capital, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

Singular Multiples: The Peter Blum Archive. 1980- 1994, Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA

 

2005

Thank You For The Music, Sprüth Magers Projekte, Munich, Germany

Area 70, Studio D´Arte Cannaviello, Milano, Italy

Paint on Metal: Modern and Contemporary Explorations and Discoveries, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, USA

Exit—Ausstieg aus dem Bild, ZKM - Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany

 

2004

The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960-1982, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland

Beyond Geometry: Experiment in Form, 1940s–70s, Miami Art Museum, Miami, USA

Work Ethic, Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University, Columbus, USA

Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form, 1940s–70s, Los Angeles County Museum of Art – LACMA, Los Angeles, USA

The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960-1982, Museo de Arte Contemporanea, Vigo, Spain

Work Ethic, Des Moines Art Center Collage, Bloomberg Space, London, UK

The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960-1982, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles , USA

 

2003

Utopia Station Sindelfingen, Galerie der Stadt Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen, Germany

Work Ethic, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA

The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960-1982, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA

Shadow and Light, Sprüth Magers Lee, Salzburg, Austria

20th Anniversary Show, Sprüth Magers, Cologne, Germany

 

2002

Keine Kleinigkeit, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland

From Pop to now: Selections from the Sonnabend Collection, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, New York, USA

Reflexions, Sprüth Magers, Munich, Germany

Museum unserer Wünsche (Museums of our wishes), Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany

Visions from America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940– 2001, Whitney Museum of American Art - The Whitney, New York, USA

 

2000

Departures: 11 Artists at the Getty, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA

 

1999

Painter Editions, Patrick Painter, Inc., Santa Monica, USA

Tomorrow for ever - Photographie als Ruine, MKM Museum Küppersmühle für Moderne Kunst, Duisburg, Germany

Tomorrow for ever: Photographie als Ruine, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Austria

 

1998

Sunshine & Noir: Art in L.A., 1960–1997, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA

(re) Mediation: The Digital in Contemporary American Printmaking, Institute for Research in Art Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa, USA

Sunshine & Noir: Art in L.A., 1960–1997, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli – Torino, Italy

 

1997

Sunshine & Noir: Art in L.A., 1960–1997, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany

Some Lust, Patricia Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

Sunshine & Noir: Art in L.A., 1960–1997, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark

50 Positions of International Contemporary Art, Video–Portraits and Works, Vorarlberger Kulturhäuser-Betriebsgesellschaft mbH, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria

 

1995

Made in L.A.: The Prints of Cirrus Editions, Los Angeles County Museum of Art – LACMA, Los Angeles, USA

25 Years: An Exhibition of Selected Works, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

Critiques of Pure Abstraction, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, USA

 

1993

Konstruktion Zitat: Kollektive Bilder in der Fotografie, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany

Tutto Tondo, Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne, Germany

Real Real, Vereinigung bildender KünstlerInnen, Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria

 

1992

Territorium Artis, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany

 

1991

Group show, Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne, Germany

 

1988

Identity: Representations of the Self, Whitney Museum of American Art - The Whitney, New York, USA

Das Licht von der anderen Seite - Teil II Fotografie, Monika Sprüth Galerie, Cologne, Germany

Modes of Address: Language in Art Since 1960, Whitney Museum of American Art - The Whitney, New York, USA

 

1986

Individuals: A Selected History of Contemporary Art, 1945-86, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles – MOCA, Los Angeles, USA

A Southern California Collection, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

 

1983

Whitney Biennial 1983, Whitney Museum of American Art - The Whitney, New York, USA

 

1982

Documenta VII, Kassel, Germany

 

1979

Whitney Biennial 1979, Whitney Museum of American Art - The Whitney, New York, USA

 

1976

Los Angeles: Selections from the Art Lending Service, The Museum of Modern Art - MoMa, New York, USA

 

1972

>Konzept< - Kunst, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland

California Prints, The Museum of Modern Art - MoMa, New York, USA

 

1970

955,000, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

 

Public collections

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA

Central Cultural Art Museum, Mexico City, Mexico

Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, USA

Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA

International Center for Photography, New York, USA

IVAM Center, Valencia, Spain

La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA

McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, USA

Migros Museum für Gegenwarstkunst, Zurich, Switzerland

Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain

Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany

Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, USA

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA

Museum of Modern Art, New York. USA

Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, USA

Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport, USA

San Diego Museum of Art, Sab Diego, USA

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA

Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany

Tate, London, UK

Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands

Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Ohio State University, Ohio, USA

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA

Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, USA