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Most exhibitions in: |
| Country |
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| USA | 87 |
| Germany | 31 |
| Italy | 14 |
| France | 11 |
| Spain | 10 |
Most exhibitions held at: |
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Metro Pictures Gallery, USA |
42 |
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Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Canada |
6 |
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Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, USA |
5 |
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Galerie Daniel Templon, France |
5 |
Biography: 
7.1.1953 Born in Brooklyn, NY (US)
1975 Attended State University College, Buffalo, New York, B.F.A.
Robert Longo´s work has been exhibited extensively throughout the United States, Europe and Asia since 1980 including one-person shows at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam; the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas; The Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Kunstal Rotterdam, the Netherlands; the Kunsthalle Bielefeld, the Kunsthalle Tubingen, and the Deichtorhallen, Germany; the Isetan Museum, Tokyo; and the Museum Friedericianum, Kassel, Germany. His important group exhibitions include the Whitney Biennial (1983); the Sydney Biennial (1983); the Carnegie International (1985); Documenta 7 (1982) and 8 (1987); and the Venice Biennial (1997).
His work is well represented in public collections including the Guggenheim Museum; the Menil Collection; the Museum of Modern Art; the Tate Gallery; the Walker Art Center and the Whitney Museum. Longo has also directed numerous rock videos for artists such as R.E.M., and co-directed and designed the set and costumes for Mozart´s opera Lucio Silla, presented at the Mozart Festival in Salzburg, Austria (1992 & 1993) and at the Frankfurt Opera House (1995).
Lives and works in New York City, NY (US)
| | Public exhibitions 194 
until 28.2.2010
until 24.1.2010
until 20.12.
Solo shows 35
2009
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| Dancing with chains on - Galerie Hans Mayer, Dusseldorf |
2008
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| Robert Longo: nights bright days - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Robert Longo - Galería Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid |
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| Intimate Inmensity - Galería Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid |
2007
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| Children of Nyx - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Robert Longo: Berginning of the world - Galerie Hans Mayer, Dusseldorf |
2006
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| Robert Longo - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Robert Longo - Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris |
2005
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| Robert Longo - deep Silence - Mönchehaus-Museum Goslar, Goslar |
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| Robert Longo: Men in the Cities - Greenfield Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
2004
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| Robert Longo - Our sickness of reason created monsters -The Colossus - Galerie Pièce Unique, Paris |
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| Robert Longo - Edition Schellmann, Munich |
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| Robert Longo - The Sickness of Reason - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
2003
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| Robert Longo - Lust of the Eye - Galería Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid |
2002
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| Robert Longo - The Freud Drawings - Museen Haus Lange / Haus Esters, Krefeld |
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| Robert Longo - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Robert Longo - Galerie Steinek, Vienna |
2001
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| Robert Longo - The Freud Drawings - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
2000
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| Robert Longo - Superheroes - LipanjePuntin Artecontemporanea - Trieste, Trieste |
1997
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| Robert Longo - Magellan - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
1995
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| Robert Longo - Johnny Mnemonic - Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Paris, Paris |
1993
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| Robert Longo - Bodyhammers: Cult of the Gun - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
1991
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| Robert Longo - Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg |
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| Robert Longo - Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris |
1990
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| Robert Longo - Black Flags - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Robert Longo - Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris |
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| Robert Longo - Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris |
1988
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| Robert Longo - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
1987
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| Robert Longo - Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris |
1986
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| Robert Longo - Steel Angels, Part II - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Robert Longo: Sequences/Men in the Cities - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
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| Robert Longo - Steel Angels: Part I - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
1984
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| Robert Longo - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
1983
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| Robert Longo - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
1981
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| Robert Longo - Men in the Cities - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
Group shows 156
2009
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| An die Natur. Altana Kunstsammlung - ALTANA Kulturstiftung im Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg |
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| Summer Select - David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI |
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| Kunst aus einhundert Jahren 1909 – 2009. Highlights der Daimler Kunst Sammlung - Galerie im Prediger, Schwäbisch Gmünd |
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| The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984 - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY |
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| American Concepts and Global Visions/Selections from the AT&T Collection: Contemporary Paintings and Sculpture - The McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX |
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| Drei. Das Tryptichon in der Moderne - Kunstmuseum Stuttgart - Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart, Stuttgart |
2008
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| Interieur/Exterieur. Wohnen in der Kunst - Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg |
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| is it tomorrow yet? - Singapore Art Museum, Singapore |
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| Natur. Zeitgenössische Kunst aus der ALTANA Kunstsammlung - Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden |
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| Full House - Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki |
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| Iconic Heroes - Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX |
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| Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967 - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC |
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| Rock My Religion 1 - DA2 - Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca |
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| Landscope - Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Salzburg, Salzburg |
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| "Infinite Light" in "to:Night" - The Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| (NO) VACANCY - Galleria Maze, Turin |
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| Political Corect - BFAS Blondeau Fine Art Services SA, Geneva |
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| Monsters - Rental Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Atomic Afterimage - Boston University Art Gallery - BUAG, Boston, MA |
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| That Was Then...This Is Now - P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island |
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| Landscope - Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Paris, Paris |
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| Punk. No One is Innocent - Kunsthalle Wien (Museumsquartier), Vienna |
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| Future Tense: Reshaping the Landscape - Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY |
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| Second Thoughts - Hessel Museum of Art & Center for Curatorial Studies Galleries at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY |
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| History Will Repeat Itself - Strategies of Re-enactment in Contemporary Art - CSW Centrum Sztuki Wspolczesnej / Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw |
2007
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| SUPERMODELS II: Real vs Unreal - LipanjePuntin Artecontemporanea - Roma, Rome |
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| From Chelsea to Caochangdi - Chambers Fine Art - Beijing, Beijing |
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| History Will Repeat Itself - Kunst-Werke Berlin e.V. - KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin |
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| Performa 07 - The Second Biennial of New Visual Art Performance - Performa, New York City, NY |
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| Kunst nach 1970. Aus der Sammlung der Albertina - Albertina, Vienna |
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| Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967 - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago - MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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| Il Futuro del Futurismo - GAMeC - Galleria d´Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Bergamo |
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| Da Bauhaus (Agora!) - Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand - MASP, São Paulo |
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| frisch gestrichen - museum franz gertsch, Burgdorf |
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| History will repeat itself - HMKV - Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund |
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| Seestücke - Von Max Beckmann bis Gerhard Richter - Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg |
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| Collectors 1 - Collezione La Gaia - - Cesac - Centro Sperimentale per le Arti Contemporanee, Caraglio (closed) |
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| The Sublime is Now! Das Erhabene in der zeitgenössischen Kunst - museum franz gertsch, Burgdorf |
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| O debuxo por diante - CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela |
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| Lights, Camera, Action: Artists´ Films for the Cinema - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
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| "REALLIFE 1979-1990" - Artists Space, New York City, NY |
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| HOT ROCK - Transmission Gallery, Glasgow (Scotland) |
2006
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| Radical NY! The Downtown show: the New York art scene, 1974-1984 and abstract expresionism: 1940-1960 - Austin Museum of Art - AMOA, Austin, TX |
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| make room for the invisible man - Forde - Espace d'art contemporain, Geneva |
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| Faster! Bigger! Better! - ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe |
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| Group Dynamic - Portfolios, Series, and Sets - Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA |
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| PAPER - Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, ON |
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| Irritation des Gleichgewichts - Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern |
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| The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene, 1974–1984 - The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburg, PA |
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| Sound & Vision - Museo della Città, Perugia |
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| The Sublime is Now! Das Erhabene in der zeitgenössischen Kunst - museum franz gertsch, Burgdorf |
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| The Mediated Gesture - Brooke Alexander Editions, New York City, NY |
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| The Mediated Gesture - Leo Castelli Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Conversation with Art, on Art. bauhaus to Contemporary Art - Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo |
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| The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene, 1974–1984 - Grey Art Gallery, NYU, New York City, NY |
2005
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| Mostra collettiva - Il Ponte Contemporanea, Rome |
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| Drive. Automobili nell'arte contemporanea - Galleria d´Arte Moderna di Bologna - GAM, Bologna |
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| Atelier Adamson - David Adamson and his friends - Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul |
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| Flashback - Revisiting the Art of the Eighties - Museum für Gegenwartskunst - Emanuel Hoffmann-Stiftung, Basel |
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| Neo - Baroque! - Byblos Art Gallery, Verona |
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| In the middle of the night - neuerwerbungen seit 1996 - Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld |
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| unburied/reburied - Kunstbunker - Forum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Nuremberg |
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| Les Grands Spectacles - 120 Jahre Kunst und Massenkultur - Museum der Moderne Salzburg Mönchsberg, Salzburg |
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| Atomica - Lombard-Freid Projects, New York City, NY |
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| Group Show - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Atelier David Adamson - Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris |
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| (my private) Heroes - MARTa Herford, Herford |
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| Dead / Undead - Galerie Six Friedrich Lisa Ungar, Munich |
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| Seducidos por el accidente - Fundación Luis Seoane, Coruna |
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| Von Spitzweg bis Baselitz - Streifzüge durch die Sammlung Würth - Museum Würth, Künzelsau |
2004
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| ‘De wereld deugt, wijzelf helaas wat minder’ - De Appel, Amsterdam |
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| The DaimlerChrysler Collection - Iziko South African National Art Gallery, Cape Town |
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| Contemporánea Arte, Colección Pilar Citoler - Sala Amós Salvador, Logroño |
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| NetworkBaraka - Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Subway Series - The New York Yankees and the American Dream - Bronx Museum of the Arts (BxMA), New York City, NY |
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| per amore - Galleria Civica d’arte contemporanea Montevergini, Siracusa |
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| DaimlerChrysler Collection for South Africa - Museum Africa, Johannesburg |
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| The Daimler Art Collection - Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria |
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| 2004 Whitney Biennial Exhibition - , New York City, NY |
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| Dass die Körper sprechen, auch das wissen wir seit langem. - Generali Foundation, Vienna |
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| Under $2,000 Albers < Zaugg - Brooke Alexander Editions, New York City, NY |
2003
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| Crimes and Misdemeanors - Politics in U.S. Art of the 1980s - CAC - Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH |
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| Art, Lies and Videotape: Exposing Performance - Tate Liverpool, Liverpool (England) |
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| The Eighties - Part II: USA - Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich |
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| Table Turners: Album Covers by Artist Who Hardly do Album Covers - Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
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| Group Show - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Contemporary Art - Recent Acquisitions - The Jewish Museum of New York, New York City, NY |
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| Aufgeschraubt und abgestaubt I - Die Sammlung im Prozess der Neupräsenation - Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen |
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| Drawings - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Melodrama - MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo |
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| M_ARS - Art and War - Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz |
2002
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| Trance und Traum - Galerie Six Friedrich Lisa Ungar, Munich |
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| 20 Jahre Galerie Steinek: ein Porträt - Galerie Steinek, Vienna |
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| Strategie della Differenza - Arte contemporanea tra decostruzione e superamento - MLAC - Museo Laboratorio d'Arte Contemporaneo, Rome |
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| Geometrical Affairs / Cars. 60 Werke aus der Daimler Kunst Sammlung - Galerie der Stadt Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen |
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| Group Show - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Made in USA - Ludwig Galerie - Schloß Oberhausen, Oberhausen |
2001
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| Letters, Signs & Symbols - Paintings, Sculpture and Works on Paper - Brooke Alexander Editions, New York City, NY |
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| De Artaud ... à Twombly - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
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| Pictures - Artists Space, New York City, NY |
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| Benefit 2001 Raffle - Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY |
2000
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| Idées de paysage, paysages d'idées - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC |
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| Supermodel - Identity and Transformation - LipanjePuntin Artecontemporanea - Trieste, Trieste |
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| Uma galeria é uma galeria é uma galeria - Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto |
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| Americanos - Galeria Moises Perez de Albeniz, Pamplona |
1999
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| Still (in) Motion - LipanjePuntin Artecontemporanea - Trieste, Trieste |
1998
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| Freeze Frame - University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL |
1997
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| 47th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
1996
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| a/drift - Hessel Museum of Art & Center for Curatorial Studies Galleries at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY |
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| L'œil du collectionneur - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC |
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| Group Show - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
1995
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| Group Show - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Group Show - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
1994
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| Recent Acquisitions from the Rivendell Collection - Hessel Museum of Art & Center for Curatorial Studies Galleries at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY |
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| Group Show - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
1993
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| Group Show - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
1992
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| Adam & Eve - Museum of Modern Art Saitama, Saitama |
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| Group Show - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
1991
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| Group Show - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
1990
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| Broken Music - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC |
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| High Season 1: A Multiple/Print Show. - Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna |
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| Group Show - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Drawings - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
1989
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| Downstairs - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| The Arts for Television - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
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| Group Show - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Don't Bungle in the Jungle! - A Benefit Exhibition for the Rainforest - Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| The arts for television - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC |
1988
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| Gran Pavese, The Flag Project - MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp |
1987
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| Group Show - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Homage to Beuys - Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (Scotland) |
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| Group Show - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| documenta 8 - Documenta, Kassel |
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| Art Against Aids - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
1986
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| Group Exhibition - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
1985
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| Écrans politiques - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC |
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| Selected Works - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Group Show - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
1984
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| The Heroic Figure - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
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| René Daniels, Mike Kelley, Robert Longo, Cindy Sherman - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Group Show - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Artists Call Against U.S. Intervention in Central America - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
1983
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| Group Show - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| The Sixth Day - The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
1982
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| In Our Time: Houston’s Contemporary Arts Museum 1948–1982 - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
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| documenta 7 - Documenta, Kassel |
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| Group Exhibition - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| A Fatal Attraction - Art and the Media - The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
1981
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| Drawings - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
1980
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| Opening Group Show - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Extensions: Jennifer Bartlett, Lynda Benglis, Robert Longo, Judy Pfaff - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
Dealer Directory 18 |
France
| | Galerie de multiples - GDM, Paris
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| | Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
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Germany
| | Galerie Hans Mayer, Dusseldorf
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| | Galerie Hafenrichter & Flügel (ex Galeria2000), Nuremberg
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Italy
| | Galleria Changing Role - Move Over Gallery, Naples
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| | Galleria Lia Rumma, Naples
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| | Galleria Perlini Arte, Reggio Calabria
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| | LipanjePuntin Artecontemporanea - Trieste, Trieste
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Spain
| | Cotthem Gallery, Barcelona
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United Kingdom
| | Eyestorm, Exeter (England)
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| | Eyestorm, Ipswich (England)
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| | Eyestorm, London (England)
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USA
| | Art of this Century, New York City, NY
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| | Eyestorm, New York City, NY
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| | Max Lang Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | Greenfield Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
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Public collections 21

Australia
| | Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney - MCA, Sydney, NSW
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Austria
| | T-B A21 - Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna
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Canada
| | The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts - Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Montreal, QC
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Finland
| | Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
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France
| | Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris
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Germany
| | ALTANA Kulturstiftung im Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg
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| | Städtische Galerie Erlangen, Erlangen
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| | Kunsthalle Weishaupt, Ulm
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Hungary
| | Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art - Budapest, Budapest
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Portugal
| | Berardo Museum - Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisbon
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Spain
| | CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela
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United Kingdom
| | Tate Britain, London (England)
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USA
| | MOCA - Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL
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| | Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
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| | Castellani Art Museum, Lewiston, NY
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| | Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
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| | Broad Contemporary Art Museum, Santa Monica, CA
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| | Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO
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