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Robert Longo  1953, US
Rank (2009): 338 
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 Most exhibitions in:
Country
USA 87
Germany 31
Italy 14
France 11
Spain 10




 Most exhibitions shown with:
Artist Rank
Cindy Sherman  8 41
Andy Warhol  1 37
Mike Kelley  39 32
Louise Lawler  185 24
Jack Goldstein  821 22




 Most exhibitions held at:
Institution
  Metro Pictures Gallery, USA 42
  Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Canada 6
  Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, USA 5
  Galerie Daniel Templon, France 5




 Biography:  Please report missing Information

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  Please report missing Information


until 28.2.2010
Description and image Daimler ContemporaryDrawing Sculpture: Zeichnung, Skulptur, Video aus der Daimler Kunst Sammlung - Daimler Contemporary, Berlin 

until 24.1.2010
   At 21: Gifts and Promised Gifts in Honor of The Contemporary Museum's 20th Anniversary - The Contemporary Museum Honolulu, Honolulu, HI 

until 20.12.
   Robert Longo - MAMAC - Musee d´Art Moderne et d`Art Contemporain Nice, Nice 


 Solo shows   35

2009
   Dancing with chains on - Galerie Hans Mayer, Dusseldorf

2008
   Robert Longo: nights bright days - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
   Robert Longo - Galería Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid
   Intimate Inmensity - Galería Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid

2007
   Children of Nyx - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY
   Robert Longo: Berginning of the world - Galerie Hans Mayer, Dusseldorf

2006
   Robert Longo - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY
   Robert Longo - Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris

2005
   Robert Longo - deep Silence - Mönchehaus-Museum Goslar, Goslar
   Robert Longo: Men in the Cities - Greenfield Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2004
Description and image  Robert Longo - Our sickness of reason created monsters -The Colossus - Galerie Pièce Unique, Paris
Description  Robert Longo - Edition Schellmann, Munich
   Robert Longo - The Sickness of Reason - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY

2003
Description and image  Robert Longo - Lust of the Eye - Galería Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid

2002
   Robert Longo - The Freud Drawings - Museen Haus Lange / Haus Esters, Krefeld
   Robert Longo - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY
   Robert Longo - Galerie Steinek, Vienna

2001
   Robert Longo - The Freud Drawings - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY

2000
Description and image  Robert Longo - Superheroes - LipanjePuntin Artecontemporanea - Trieste, Trieste

1997
   Robert Longo - Magellan - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY

1995
   Robert Longo - Johnny Mnemonic - Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Paris, Paris

1993
   Robert Longo - Bodyhammers: Cult of the Gun - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY

1991
   Robert Longo - Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg
   Robert Longo - Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris

1990
   Robert Longo - Black Flags - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY
   Robert Longo - Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
   Robert Longo - Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris

1988
   Robert Longo - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY

1987
   Robert Longo - Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris

1986
   Robert Longo - Steel Angels, Part II - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY
   Robert Longo: Sequences/Men in the Cities - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX
   Robert Longo - Steel Angels: Part I - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY

1984
   Robert Longo - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY

1983
   Robert Longo - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY

1981
   Robert Longo - Men in the Cities - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY


 Group shows   156

2009
   An die Natur. Altana Kunstsammlung - ALTANA Kulturstiftung im Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg
   Summer Select - David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI
   Kunst aus einhundert Jahren 1909 – 2009. Highlights der Daimler Kunst Sammlung - Galerie im Prediger, Schwäbisch Gmünd
   The Pictures Generation, 1974–1984 - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY
Description and image  American Concepts and Global Visions/Selections from the AT&T Collection: Contemporary Paintings and Sculpture - The McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
   Drei. Das Tryptichon in der Moderne - Kunstmuseum Stuttgart - Galerie der Stadt Stuttgart, Stuttgart

2008
   Interieur/Exterieur. Wohnen in der Kunst - Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg
Description  is it tomorrow yet? - Singapore Art Museum, Singapore
   Natur. Zeitgenössische Kunst aus der ALTANA Kunstsammlung - Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden
   Full House - Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
   Iconic Heroes - Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, TX
   Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967 - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC
   Rock My Religion 1 - DA2 - Domus Artium 2002, Salamanca
   Landscope - Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Salzburg, Salzburg
   "Infinite Light" in "to:Night" - The Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, New York City, NY
   (NO) VACANCY - Galleria Maze, Turin
   Political Corect - BFAS Blondeau Fine Art Services SA, Geneva
   Monsters - Rental Gallery, New York City, NY
   Atomic Afterimage - Boston University Art Gallery - BUAG, Boston, MA
   That Was Then...This Is Now - P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island
   Landscope - Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Paris, Paris
   Punk. No One is Innocent - Kunsthalle Wien (Museumsquartier), Vienna
   Future Tense: Reshaping the Landscape - Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
   Second Thoughts - Hessel Museum of Art & Center for Curatorial Studies Galleries at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
   History Will Repeat Itself - Strategies of Re-enactment in Contemporary Art - CSW Centrum Sztuki Wspolczesnej / Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw

2007
   SUPERMODELS II: Real vs Unreal - LipanjePuntin Artecontemporanea - Roma, Rome
   From Chelsea to Caochangdi - Chambers Fine Art - Beijing, Beijing
   History Will Repeat Itself - Kunst-Werke Berlin e.V. - KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin
Description and image  Performa 07 - The Second Biennial of New Visual Art Performance - Performa, New York City, NY
   Kunst nach 1970. Aus der Sammlung der Albertina - Albertina, Vienna
   Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967 - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago - MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
   Il Futuro del Futurismo - GAMeC - Galleria d´Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Bergamo
   Da Bauhaus (Agora!) - Museu de Arte de São Paulo Assis Chateaubriand - MASP, São Paulo
   frisch gestrichen - museum franz gertsch, Burgdorf
   History will repeat itself - HMKV - Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund
   Seestücke - Von Max Beckmann bis Gerhard Richter - Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
   Collectors 1 - Collezione La Gaia - - Cesac - Centro Sperimentale per le Arti Contemporanee, Caraglio (closed)
   The Sublime is Now! Das Erhabene in der zeitgenössischen Kunst - museum franz gertsch, Burgdorf
   O debuxo por diante - CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela
   Lights, Camera, Action: Artists´ Films for the Cinema - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY
   "REALLIFE 1979-1990" - Artists Space, New York City, NY
   HOT ROCK - Transmission Gallery, Glasgow (Scotland)
  MITTERRAND+CRAMER/FINE ART/GENEVELink - MITTERRAND+CRAMER/FINE ART/GENEVE, Geneva 

2006
   Radical NY! The Downtown show: the New York art scene, 1974-1984 and abstract expresionism: 1940-1960 - Austin Museum of Art - AMOA, Austin, TX
   make room for the invisible man - Forde - Espace d'art contemporain, Geneva
   Faster! Bigger! Better! - ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe
   Group Dynamic - Portfolios, Series, and Sets - Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
   PAPER - Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto, ON
   Irritation des Gleichgewichts - Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern
   The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene, 1974–1984 - The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburg, PA
   Sound & Vision - Museo della Città, Perugia
Description  The Sublime is Now! Das Erhabene in der zeitgenössischen Kunst - museum franz gertsch, Burgdorf
   The Mediated Gesture - Brooke Alexander Editions, New York City, NY
   The Mediated Gesture - Leo Castelli Gallery, New York City, NY
   Conversation with Art, on Art. bauhaus to Contemporary Art - Tokyo Opera City Art Gallery, Tokyo
   The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene, 1974–1984 - Grey Art Gallery, NYU, New York City, NY

2005
   Mostra collettiva - Il Ponte Contemporanea, Rome
   Drive. Automobili nell'arte contemporanea - Galleria d´Arte Moderna di Bologna - GAM, Bologna
   Atelier Adamson - David Adamson and his friends - Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul
   Flashback - Revisiting the Art of the Eighties - Museum für Gegenwartskunst - Emanuel Hoffmann-Stiftung, Basel
   Neo - Baroque! - Byblos Art Gallery, Verona
   In the middle of the night - neuerwerbungen seit 1996 - Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld
   unburied/reburied - Kunstbunker - Forum für zeitgenössische Kunst, Nuremberg
   Les Grands Spectacles - 120 Jahre Kunst und Massenkultur - Museum der Moderne Salzburg Mönchsberg, Salzburg
   Atomica - Lombard-Freid Projects, New York City, NY
   Group Show - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY
   Atelier David Adamson - Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris
   (my private) Heroes - MARTa Herford, Herford
Description and image  Dead / Undead - Galerie Six Friedrich Lisa Ungar, Munich
   Seducidos por el accidente - Fundación Luis Seoane, Coruna
   Von Spitzweg bis Baselitz - Streifzüge durch die Sammlung Würth - Museum Würth, Künzelsau

2004
Description  ‘De wereld deugt, wijzelf helaas wat minder’ - De Appel, Amsterdam
   The DaimlerChrysler Collection - Iziko South African National Art Gallery, Cape Town
   Contemporánea Arte, Colección Pilar Citoler - Sala Amós Salvador, Logroño
   NetworkBaraka - Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York City, NY
   Subway Series - The New York Yankees and the American Dream - Bronx Museum of the Arts (BxMA), New York City, NY
   per amore - Galleria Civica d’arte contemporanea Montevergini, Siracusa
Description  DaimlerChrysler Collection for South Africa - Museum Africa, Johannesburg
Description  The Daimler Art Collection - Pretoria Art Museum, Pretoria
Description and image  2004 Whitney Biennial Exhibition - , New York City, NY
   Dass die Körper sprechen, auch das wissen wir seit langem. - Generali Foundation, Vienna
   Under $2,000 Albers < Zaugg - Brooke Alexander Editions, New York City, NY
Description and image ARTIUM Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte ContemporáneoLaocoonte devorado - Arte y violencia política. - ARTIUM Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Contemporáneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz 

2003
   Crimes and Misdemeanors - Politics in U.S. Art of the 1980s - CAC - Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
Description  Art, Lies and Videotape: Exposing Performance - Tate Liverpool, Liverpool (England)
Description and image  The Eighties - Part II: USA - Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich
Description  Table Turners: Album Covers by Artist Who Hardly do Album Covers - Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  Burkhard Eikelmann ComThe Pop Art Show - Burkhard Eikelmann Com, Dusseldorf 
   Group Show - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY
Description and image Daimler ContemporaryAndy Warhol / Robert Longo - Cars - Daimler Contemporary, Berlin 
Description  Contemporary Art - Recent Acquisitions - The Jewish Museum of New York, New York City, NY
Description  Aufgeschraubt und abgestaubt I - Die Sammlung im Prozess der Neupräsenation - Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen
   Drawings - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY
   Melodrama - MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo
Description and image  M_ARS - Art and War - Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz

2002
Description and image  Trance und Traum - Galerie Six Friedrich Lisa Ungar, Munich
   20 Jahre Galerie Steinek: ein Porträt - Galerie Steinek, Vienna
   Strategie della Differenza - Arte contemporanea tra decostruzione e superamento - MLAC - Museo Laboratorio d'Arte Contemporaneo, Rome
   Geometrical Affairs / Cars. 60 Werke aus der Daimler Kunst Sammlung - Galerie der Stadt Sindelfingen, Sindelfingen
   Group Show - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY
   Made in USA - Ludwig Galerie - Schloß Oberhausen, Oberhausen

2001
   Letters, Signs & Symbols - Paintings, Sculpture and Works on Paper - Brooke Alexander Editions, New York City, NY
   De Artaud ... à Twombly - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris
   Pictures - Artists Space, New York City, NY
  Pop Art & Co - Uniques, Graphics and Multiples - , Dusseldorf 
   Benefit 2001 Raffle - Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY

2000
   Idées de paysage, paysages d'idées - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC
Description and image  Supermodel - Identity and Transformation - LipanjePuntin Artecontemporanea - Trieste, Trieste
   Uma galeria é uma galeria é uma galeria - Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto
   Americanos - Galeria Moises Perez de Albeniz, Pamplona

1999
   Still (in) Motion - LipanjePuntin Artecontemporanea - Trieste, Trieste

1998
   Freeze Frame - University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL

1997
   47th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice

1996
   a/drift - Hessel Museum of Art & Center for Curatorial Studies Galleries at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
   L'œil du collectionneur - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC
   Group Show - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY

1995
   Group Show - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY
   Group Show - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY

1994
   Recent Acquisitions from the Rivendell Collection - Hessel Museum of Art & Center for Curatorial Studies Galleries at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
   Group Show - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY

1993
   Group Show - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY

1992
   Adam & Eve - Museum of Modern Art Saitama, Saitama
   Group Show - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY

1991
   Group Show - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY

1990
   Broken Music - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC
   High Season 1: A Multiple/Print Show. - Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna
   Group Show - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY
   Drawings - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY

1989
   Downstairs - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY
   The Arts for Television - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX
   Group Show - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY
   Don't Bungle in the Jungle! - A Benefit Exhibition for the Rainforest - Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York City, NY
   The arts for television - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC

1988
   Gran Pavese, The Flag Project - MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp

1987
   Group Show - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY
   Homage to Beuys - Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (Scotland)
   Group Show - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY
   documenta 8 - Documenta, Kassel
   Art Against Aids - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY

1986
   Group Exhibition - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY

1985
   Écrans politiques - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC
   Selected Works - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY
   Group Show - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY

1984
   The Heroic Figure - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX
   René Daniels, Mike Kelley, Robert Longo, Cindy Sherman - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY
   Group Show - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY
   Artists Call Against U.S. Intervention in Central America - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY

1983
   Group Show - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY
   The Sixth Day - The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

1982
   In Our Time: Houston’s Contemporary Arts Museum 1948–1982 - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX
   documenta 7 - Documenta, Kassel
   Group Exhibition - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY
   A Fatal Attraction - Art and the Media - The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

1981
   Drawings - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY

1980
   Opening Group Show - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY
   Extensions: Jennifer Bartlett, Lynda Benglis, Robert Longo, Judy Pfaff - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX

 Dealer Directory  18

France

 Galerie de multiples - GDM, Paris
 Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris

Germany

 Galerie Hans Mayer, Dusseldorf
 Domberger, Filderstadt
 Galerie Hafenrichter & Flügel (ex Galeria2000), Nuremberg

Italy

 Galleria Changing Role - Move Over Gallery, Naples
 Galleria Lia Rumma, Naples
 Galleria Perlini Arte, Reggio Calabria
 LipanjePuntin Artecontemporanea - Trieste, Trieste

Spain

 Cotthem Gallery, Barcelona

United Kingdom

 Eyestorm, Exeter (England)
 Eyestorm, Ipswich (England)
 Eyestorm, London (England)

USA

 Art of this Century, New York City, NY
 Eyestorm, New York City, NY
 Max Lang Gallery, New York City, NY
 Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY
 Greenfield Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica, CA


 Public collections  21   Please report missing Information


Australia

 Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney - MCA, Sydney, NSW

Austria

 Albertina, Vienna
 T-B A21 - Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna

Canada

 The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts - Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Montreal, QC

Finland

 Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki

France

 Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris

Germany

 ALTANA Kulturstiftung im Sinclair-Haus, Bad Homburg
Daimler ContemporaryDaimler Contemporary, Berlin  
 Städtische Galerie Erlangen, Erlangen
 Museum Würth, Künzelsau
 Kunsthalle Weishaupt, Ulm

Hungary

 Ludwig Museum - Museum of Contemporary Art - Budapest, Budapest

Portugal

 Berardo Museum - Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisbon

Spain

 CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela

United Kingdom

 Tate Britain, London (England)

USA

 MOCA - Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL
 Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
 Castellani Art Museum, Lewiston, NY
 Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
 Broad Contemporary Art Museum, Santa Monica, CA
 Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO


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