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
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Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA |
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Central Cultural Art Museum, Mexico City, Mexico |
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Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, USA |
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Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA |
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International Center for Photography, New York, USA |
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IVAM Center, Valencia, Spain |
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La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA |
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA |
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McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, USA |
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Migros Museum für Gegenwarstkunst, Zurich, Switzerland |
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Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain |
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Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany |
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Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, USA |
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Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA |
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Museum of Modern Art, New York. USA |
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Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, USA |
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Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport, USA |
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San Diego Museum of Art, Sab Diego, USA |
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA |
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA |
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Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany |
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Tate, London, UK |
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Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands |
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Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Ohio State University, Ohio, USA |
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Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA |
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Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, USA |