Artist's arttributes:
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Male |
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Video, Film, Object |
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Postminimalism |
Most exhibitions in:
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| USA | 80 |
| Italy | 10 |
| Norway | 7 |
| France | 6 |
| Switzerland | 5 |
Most exhibitions held at:
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Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Norway |
7 |
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Walker Art Center, USA |
5 |
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Regen Projects, USA |
5 |
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MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, USA |
4 |
Biography: 
1953 Born in Chicago, Illinois (US)
Awards 1997 Larry Aldrich Award
External links:
| | Public exhibitions (Selection) 125  from 1.6.
until 2.6.
until 26.5.
Solo shows 16
2012
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| Charles Ray - Matthew Marks Gallery - 522 West 22th Street, New York City, NY |
2009
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| Charles Ray - Ink Line, Moving Wire, Spinning Spot - Matthew Marks Gallery - 523 West 24th Street, New York City, NY |
2007
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| Charles Ray - Matthew Marks Gallery - 522 West 22th Street, New York City, NY |
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| Charles Ray - Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA |
2006
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| Charles Ray: Pumpkin Poster - Matthew Marks Gallery - 521 West 21th Street, New York City, NY |
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| Charles Ray - Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo |
1999
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| Charles Ray - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), Chicago, IL |
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| Charles Ray - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), Chicago, IL |
1998
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| Charles Ray - MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Charles Ray - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
1997
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| Charles Ray - Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA |
1996
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| Charles Ray - Studio Guenzani, Milan |
1994
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| Charles Ray - - Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö (closed, 2006) |
1990
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| Charles Ray / MATRIX 140 - Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, CA |
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| Charles Ray - Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach |
Group shows 106
2013
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| A Stone Left Unturned - Yvon Lambert - Paris, Paris |
2012
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| Lifelike - New Orleans Museum of Art NOMA, New Orleans, LA |
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| I'll Be Your Mirror - Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Lifelike - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
2011
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| In the Name of the Artists - Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo |
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| The World Belongs to You - Palazzo Grassi - Francois Pinault Foundation, Venice |
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| The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today - Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich |
2010
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| New Work - Matthew Marks Gallery - 522 West 22th Street, New York City, NY |
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| Gestures & Procedures - ACCA - Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, VIC |
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| Selections From The Hammer Contemporary Collection - Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection - New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY |
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| Whitney Biennial 2010 - Whitney Biennial, New York City, NY |
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| Disquieted - Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR |
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| Size does matter - FLAG Art Foundation, New York City, NY |
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| Floor Corner Wall: Selected Work from The Rachofsky Collection - Fort Worth Contemporary Arts, Fort Worth, TX |
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| Collecting Biennials - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
2009
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| Beg Borrow and Steal - Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL |
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| WALL ROCKETS: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha - Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
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| The Lens and the Mirror: Self-Portraits from the Collection, 1957–2007 - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY |
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| The Quick and the Dead - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
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| Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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| Esposizione Universale - GAMeC - Galleria d´Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Bergamo |
2008
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| WALL ROCKETS: Contemporary Artists and Ed Ruscha - FLAG Art Foundation, New York City, NY |
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| Political Corect - BFAS Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva |
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| Art Since the 1960s: California Experiments - Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach |
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| Pretty Ugly - Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York City, NY |
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| Meet Me Around the Corner - Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection - Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo |
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| Drawn Together - FLAG Art Foundation, New York City, NY |
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| MATRIX/REDUX - Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, CA |
2007
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| More than the World - Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection - Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo |
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| The Lath Picture Show - Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Equal, That is, to the eal itself - Marian Goodman Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Conceptual Photograpy 1964-1989 - - Zwirner & Wirth, New York City, NY (closed, 2009) |
2006
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| Red Eye - Los Angeles Artists from the Rubell Family Collection - Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL |
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| The Francois Pinault Collection - A Post-Pop selection - Palazzo Grassi - Francois Pinault Foundation, Venice |
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| THE 1980s - A TOPOLOGY - Museu Serralves - Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto |
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| Small Sculptures - Matthew Marks Gallery - 523 West 24th Street, New York City, NY |
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| 5'000'000'000 d'années - Palais de Tokyo, Paris |
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| Yes Bruce Nauman - - Zwirner & Wirth, New York City, NY (closed, 2009) |
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| Where are we going - Selections from the Francois Pinault Collection - Palazzo Grassi - Francois Pinault Foundation, Venice |
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| Los Angeles 1955-1985 The birth of an art capital - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
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| Figures in the Field - Figurative Sculpture and Abstract Painting from Chicago C - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), Chicago, IL |
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| Recent Drawings - Matthew Marks Gallery - 523 West 24th Street, New York City, NY |
2005
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| Flashback - Revisiting the Art of the Eighties - Museum für Gegenwartskunst - Emanuel Hoffmann-Stiftung, Basel |
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| Ecstasy - In and About Altered States - The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Take Two - Worlds and Views - Contemporary Art from the Collection - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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| Drunk vs. Stoned - Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York City, NY |
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| OpenSystems - Rethinking Art c.1970 - Tate Modern, London (England) |
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| MO(NU)MENTS! Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection - Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo |
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| Mythologies - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
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| The Last Picture Show - Artists using Photography 1960-1982 - Miami Art Central, Miami, FL |
2004
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| 15 year anniversary of Regen Projects. - Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA |
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| The Last Picture Show - Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur |
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| Camera/Action - Performance and Photography - MoCP - The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL |
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| monument to now - Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens |
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| The last picture show. Artistas que hacen uso de la fotografía. Tendencias conceptuales de 1960-1982 - MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo |
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| Persona - IKON Ltd, Santa Monica, CA |
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| Close up - Contemporary US Art - Listasafn Islands - National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik |
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| Bodily Space: New Obsessions in Figurative Sculpture - Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
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| Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated) - Art from 1951 to the Present - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY |
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| The Last Picture Show - Artists Using Photography, 1960-1982 - Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA |
2003
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| The Last Picture Show - Artists Using Photography - 1960-1982 - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
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| Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo collection - Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin |
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| Everyday Aesthetics - Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection - Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo |
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| Celebrating Sculpture : Modern and Contemporary Works from Dallas Collections - Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX |
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| In full view - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| 50th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
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| Drawings - Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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| Inaugural Exhibition - Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA |
2002
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| Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons - Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collections - MFA - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA |
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| Tempo - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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| Realitetsfantasier - Post-modern Art from the Astrup Fearnley Collection - Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo |
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| Five by Five - Contemporary Artists on Contemporary Art - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
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| Photography by Gallery Artists and DYG Projects: Joshua Mosley - Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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| Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons - Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collections - The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
2001
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| The Inward Eye - Transcendence in Contemporary Art - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
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| Naked since 1950 - L&M Arts, New York, New York City, NY |
2000
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| Au-delà du spectacle - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
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| Veronica's Revenge - Contemporary Perspectives on Photography - Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney - MCA, Sydney, NSW |
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| Mixing Memory and Desire - Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne |
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| Let's Entertain - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
1999
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| Culbutes - Œuvre d'impertinence - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC |
1998
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| THE PATCHETT COLLECTION - Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD La Jolla, La Jolla, CA |
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| 16mm films: Jennifer Bornstein, Steve Doughton & Charles Ray - greengrassi, London (England) |
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| Early Works - Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA |
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| L.A. Times - Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin |
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| Veronica's Revenge - Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg |
1997
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| A Lasting Legacy: Selections From The Lannan Foundation Gift - The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA |
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| 4e Biennale de Lyon - La Biennale de Lyon, Lyon |
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| Skulptur. Projekte in Münster 1997 - Skulptur Projekte Münster, Münster |
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| Objects of Desire: The Modern Still Life - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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| Whitney Biennial 1997 - Whitney Biennial, New York City, NY |
1996
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| Transformers: Amoving Experience - Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland |
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| A Glimpse of the Norton Collection As Revealed by Kim Dingle - Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM |
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| Transformers: A Moving Experience - Wellington City Gallery, Wellington |
1995
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| A Glimpse of the Norton Collection As Revealed by Kim Dingle - Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA |
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| Representational Drawings - Feature Inc, New York City, NY |
1994
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| Pictures Of The Real World (In Real Time) - Le Consortium, Dijon |
1993
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| Seeing the Forest Through the Trees - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
1992
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| Post Human - Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin |
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| documenta 9 - Documenta, Kassel |
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| Helter Skelter: L.a. Art In The 1990s - The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA |
1991
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| Act-Up Benefit Exhibition - Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Group Show - Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Cadences: Icon and Abstraction in Context - New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY |
Dealer Directory 3 |
USA
| | Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL
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| | Matthew Marks Gallery - 522 West 22th Street, New York City, NY
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| | Matthew Marks Gallery - 523 West 24th Street, New York City, NY
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Collections 13

Italy
| | Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin
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| | Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin
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| | Punta della Dogana - Francois Pinault Foundation, Venice
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Norway
| | Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo
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Switzerland
United Kingdom
| | Tate Britain, London (England)
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USA
| | The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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| | MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
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| | Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL
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| | Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
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| | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY
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| | Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY
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| | Broad Contemporary Art Museum, Santa Monica, CA
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