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Robert Smithson  1938-1973, US
Rank (2009): 123 
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 Most exhibitions in:
Country
USA 86
Germany 23
Spain 13
United Kingdom 12
France 11




 Most exhibitions shown with:
Artist Rank
Bruce Nauman  3 55
Sol LeWitt  9 45
Andy Warhol  1 43
Dan Graham  27 42
Gordon Matta-Clark  80 38




 Most exhibitions held at:
Institution
  James Cohan Gallery - New York, USA 7
  Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago - MCA Chicago, USA 4
  Whitney Museum of American Art, USA 4
  Walker Art Center, USA 4




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Robert Smithson 


1938 Born in Passaic, NJ (US)


1973 Died in Amarillo, TX (US)
 
Public exhibitions  200  Please report missing Information


until 5.4.2010
Description  1969 - P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island 

until 14.2.2010
   Die Kunst ist super! - Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin 

until 17.1.2010
   DIE MODERNE ALS RUINE. Eine Archäologie der Gegenwart - Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz 

until 10.1.2010
   MÁQUINAS DE MIRAR. O cómo se originan las imágenes - Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC), Sevilla 

until 3.1.2010
Description  Manmade: Notions of Landscape from the Lannan Collection - New Mexico Museum Arts, Santa Fe, NM 

until 12.12.
Description  Mirror Mirror: Then and Now - IMA Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD 


 Solo shows   18

2008
   Robert Smithson - - Las Vegas Art Museum - LVAM, Las Vegas, NV (closed, 2009)
   Robert Smithson - Hotel Palenque - Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía MNCARS, Madrid

2005
   Robert Smithson - Floating Island To Travel Around Manhattan Island - James Cohan Gallery - New York, New York City, NY
Description  Robert Smithson - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY

2004
Description and image  Robert Smithson - MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA

2001
   Robert Smithson - Mapping Dislocations - James Cohan Gallery - New York, New York City, NY

2000
   Robert Smithson - Kunsthalle Wien (Museumsquartier), Vienna
   Robert Smithson - James Cohan Gallery - New York, New York City, NY

1999
   Robert Smithson – Retrospective – Works 1955-1973 - ARKEN Museum for Moderne Kunst, Copenhagen
Description  Robert Smithson, retrospective - works 1955-1973 - Moderna Museet, Stockholm

1998
   Robert Smithson. Slideworks - The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA

1993
   Robert Smithson: Photo Works - ICP - International Center of Photography, New York City, NY

1983
   Robert Smithson - Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere

1980
   Robert Smithson: Sculpture - Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY

1977
   Robert Smithson - Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (England)

1976
   Robert Smithson - Mirror/Salt Works - The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

1974
   Robert Smithson Drawings - The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
   Robert Smithson - Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach


 Group shows   176

2009
   DAS BLAUE LICHT. Der Hang zum Kristallinen in Kunst und Design - Kunstverein Medienturm, Graz
Description  BLICKMASCHINEN / Visual Tactics or how pictures emerge - Műcsarnok Kunsthalle, Budapest
   Radical Nature - Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet 1969–2009 - Barbican, London (England)
Description  Die Moderna als Ruine - Eine Archäologie der Gegenwart - Generali Foundation, Vienna
Description and image  Poor. Old. Tired. Horse. - ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts London, London (England)
Description and image  2nd Athens Biennial 2009 - Heaven - Athens Biennial, Athens
Description  Rethinking Art: Objects and Ideas from the 1960s and 70s - Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
Description and image  SONIC YOUTH etc.: Sensational Fix - Malmö Konsthall, Malmö
Description and image  Pop Up! - Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen
   Waiting for Video: Works From the 1960s To Today - MOMAT The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Description and image  1968. Die Große Unschuld - Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld
   Drawings and Watercolors - Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York City, NY
Description and image Kunsthalle DüsseldorfSONIC YOUTH etc. : SENSATIONAL FIX - Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf 
Description and image  Nueva York - El Papel de las Ultimas Vanguardias - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia
   Vivre l'art - collection Venet - Espace de l’art concret, Mouans Sartoux
   Los tiempos de un luga - CDAN - Centro de Arte y Naturaleza - Fundación Beulas, Huesca

2008
   Sudden White part of Collision Course, GSK contemporary - Royal Academy of Arts, London (England)
   Blickmaschinen oder wie Bilder entstehen. Die zeitgenössische Kunst schaut auf die Sammlung Werner Nekes - Museum für Gegenwartskunst Siegen, Siegen
   A stake in the Mud, A hole in the Reel. Land Art's Expanded Field 1968–2008 - CA2M - Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Móstoles
   Nature, space and time - recent acquisitions - Kröller-Müller museum, Otterlo
   Full House - Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
   Sonic Youth etc. - Sensational Fix - MUSEION - Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst , Bolzano
   Julia Stoschek Collection: Destroy, she said - PinchukArtCentre, Kiev
   On Location: Art, Space and Place in the 1960s - Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts, Norwich (England)
   The sublime is now - Galleria Civica di Modena, Modena
   SONIC YOUTH etc. : SENSATIONAL FIX - LiFE - International Space for Emerging Arts, Saint-Nazaire
Description and image  16th Biennale of Sydney - Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, NSW
   PHotoEspaña 08 - PHotoEspaña, Madrid
   Peripheral vision and collective body - MUSEION - Museum für moderne und zeitgenössische Kunst , Bolzano
   Sol LeWitt x2 - Austin Museum of Art - AMOA, Austin, TX
   La Construccion del Paisaje Contemporaneo - CDAN - Centro de Arte y Naturaleza - Fundación Beulas, Huesca
   Traces du Sacré - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris
   A stake in the mud, a hole in the reel - Museo Tamayo, Mexico City
   In Collaboration: Early Works from the Media Arts Collection - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
   Geometry of Motion 1920s/1970s - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
   Screenings - Haunch of Venison - London, London (England)
   Based on Paper - The Marzona Collection - Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art - MIMA, Middlesbrough (England)

2007
   In The Poem About Love You Don't Write The Word Love - Overgaden - Institut for Samtidskunst, Copenhagen
   Artist’s Choice: Roy Arden Selects From the Collection - Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
   Fragments géographiques - Galerie Art & Essai, Rennes
   OUT OF THE CITY. Land art - City Gallery of Bratislava / Galéria mesta Bratislavy, Bratislava
   Elsewhere - University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL
   No. 1: Destroy, she said - Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf
   Organizing Chaos - P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island
   Before (Plus ou moins) - Palais de Tokyo, Paris
   In the Poem about love you don´t write the word love - Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN
   DUMP - Postmodern Sculpture in the Dissolved Field - The Art Hall at Tullinløkka, Oslo
   The Shapes of Space - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY
   What does the jellyfish want? - Museum Ludwig, Cologne
   Deambulatorios de una jornada, en el principio y el proyecto Tindaya - Centro de Arte Juan Ismael, Puerto de Rosario, Fuerteventura
   Speed #1 - natura naturata - velocidad sin movimiento - IVAM - Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia
   the Domain of the Great Bear 3/3 Kosmische Sehnsucht - Kunstraum München e.V., Munich
   Cosmologies, - James Cohan Gallery - New York, New York City, NY

2006
   Interventions - Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
   Radical Software - Art, Technology, and the Bay Area Underground - CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
   In The Poem About Love You Don't Write The Word Love - Artists Space, New York City, NY
Description  busy going crazy. the Sylvio Perlstein collection - La Maison Rouge, Paris
   Twice Drawn - The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
   Fragments géographiques - Galerie Art & Essai, Rennes
Description and image Kunsthalle BaselQUAUHNAHUAC - Die Gerade ist eine Utopie - Kunsthalle Basel, Basel 
   Espacio, Tiempo, Espectador.Instalaciones y nuevos medios en la Colección del IVAM - IVAM - Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia
   Data Mining - Wallspace Gallery, New York City, NY
   Time Frame - P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island
   Nineteen Sixty-Eight - Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Description  The Expanded Eye. Sehen - entgrenzt und verflüssigt - Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich
   Inventur - Kunsthaus Graz, Graz
   Von Carl Andre bis Bruce Nauman - Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
   Mapping the studio - Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam
   The other side - Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York City, NY
   Le mouvement des images - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris
Description and image Georg Kargl Fine ArtsI still love the 20th century - Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna 
Description  Universal Experience: arte e vita. Lo sguardo del turista - MART- Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto
   20ème anniversaire de la galerie - Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris

2005
   The Fluidity of Time - Selections from the MCA Collection - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago - MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
   Looking at Words - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY
   Fast nichts - Minimalistische Werke aus der Friedrich Christian Flick Collection - Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
Description  50 Jahre - Years documenta 1955 – 2005 - Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel
   Slide Show - CAC - Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
   The Transformative Power of Art - Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
   OpenSystems - Rethinking Art c.1970 - Tate Modern, London (England)
   Natur – Raum – Kunst. Aus den Sammlungen des Museums und Ernst Ploil - Museum der Moderne Salzburg Mönchsberg, Salzburg
   Highlights - Statens museum for kunst, Copenhagen
   The Last Picture Show - Artists using Photography 1960-1982 - Miami Art Central, Miami, FL
Description  Set Up - Recent Acquisitions in Photography - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY
   Group Loop - G Fine Art, Washington, DC

2004
Description and image  Attraversare Genova. Percorsi e linguaggi internazionali del contemporaneo. - Villa Croce Museo d´Arte Contemporanea, Genoa
Description and image Georg Kargl Fine ArtsFrom Above - Gruppenausstellung - Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna 
   Another space - Kröller-Müller museum, Otterlo
   The Summer Show - James Cohan Gallery - New York, New York City, NY
   Paisaje y Memoria - Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria
Description and image  Artists' Favourites - act I - ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts London, London (England)
Description and image  "The Big Nothing" - ICA - Institute of Contemporary Art - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Description  Behind the facts interfunktionen - Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona
Description and image  The Last Picture Show - Artists Using Photography, 1960-1982 - UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Description and image  OUROBOROS THE MUSIC OF THE SPHERES - CCA - Centre for Contemporary Art, Glasgow (Scotland)
   On Paper - Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York City, NY

2003
Description and image Kunsthalle Düsseldorf"Fernsehgalerie Gerry Schum/videogalerie schum" - Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf 
Description  Fine Lines: Drawings from the Collection of Wynn Kramarsky - Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
Description and image  The Last Picture Show - Artists Using Photography - 1960-1982 - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Description and image  A Simple Plan - James Cohan Gallery - New York, New York City, NY
Description and image  Recaptured Nature - Marian Goodman Gallery, New York City, NY
   exposition collective - CEAAC - Centre européen d'actions artistiques contemporaines, Strasbourg
Description and image  Basic Instinct: Minimalism Past, Present, and Future - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago - MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
   Warum! Bilder diesseits und jenseits des Menschen - Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin
   Merce Cunningham, Robert Smithson and Hannah Wilke - SolwayJones, Los Angeles, CA
Description and image  50th International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice
Description and image  Site Specific - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago - MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
   Imperfect Marriages - Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan
Description and image  PROJECTION - Konrad Fischer Galerie - Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf
Description and image  Elemental - Selections from the permanent collection - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
   From Modernism to the Contemporary, 1958-1999 - The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH
   upon reflection.... - Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, NY

2002
Description and image  „Concepts on Nature“ - Häusler Contemporary - Munich, Munich
   performing buildings - Moderna Museet, Stockholm
   The Mind is a Horse - Bloomberg Space, London (England)
Description  Representing Nature - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago - MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
Description and image  Moving Pictures - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY
   Skænket af…, Ny Carlsbergfondets 100 års jubilæumsudstilling - Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek, Copenhagen
   Summer - James Cohan Gallery - New York, New York City, NY
   My Head is on Fire but my Heart is full of Love - Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen
   Na Paisagem: Obras da Colecção da Fundação de Serralves - Museu Serralves - Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto

2001
   Robert Smithson/Berndt and Hilla Becher - Field Trips - Museu Serralves - Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto
Description and image  Points of Departure II: Connecting with Contemporary Art - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
Description  Ingenting / Nothing - - Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö (closed, 2006)
Description  Conception - The Conceptual Document 1968-1972 - The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
   Art Express, art minimal et conceptuel, état d’une collection - Mamco - musée d´art moderne et contemporain, Geneva
   Drawing is Another Kind of Language - The Contemporary Museum Honolulu, Honolulu, HI
   Eye of Modernism - Georgia O'Keeffe Museum, Santa Fe, NM
   Dillard Collection - The Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Portland, OR
Description and image  The Waste Land - Wüste und Eis. Ödlandschaften in der Fotografie. - Augarten Contemporary, Vienna
   Saying Seeing 4 From the Sixties - Leo Castelli Gallery, New York City, NY

2000
   Changing Visions of the North American Landscape - The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH
   In Process - Curt Marcus Gallery, New York City, NY
   The Cities Collect - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Description and image  Land Art usw. - Kunstraum Innsbruck, Innsbruck
   Art at Work: Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection - Queens Museum of Art, New York City, NY
   Afterimage - Drawing Through Process - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX
Description  Campos de fuerzas - Un ensayo sobre lo cinético - Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA, Barcelona
Description  Postmedia - Conceptual Photography in the Guggenheim Museum Collection - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY

1999
   Tomorrow for ever - Photographie als Ruine - MKM Museum Küppersmühle für Moderne Kunst, Duisburg
   Drawing is Another kind of language - Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
   Impact: Revealing Sources for Contemporary Art - Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Baltimore, MD
   The American Century - Art & Culture 1900-2000 Part II - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY
   circa 1968 - Museu Serralves - Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto
   Tomorrow for ever - Photographie als Ruine - Kunsthalle Krems, Krems
   Art at Work - Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX

1998
   Conceptual Photography from the 60s and 70s - David Zwirner, Inc., New York City, NY
   Mesótica III - instalo-mesótica - MADC Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José
   100 Years of Sculpture: From the Pedestal to the Pixel - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

1997
   Places that are Elsewhere - David Zwirner, Inc., New York City, NY
   And then there were none - Meyer Riegger Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe
   Dan Graham / Robert Smithson - Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, CA

1996
   The World Over: Art in the Age of Globalisation - Wellington City Gallery, Wellington
Description  Reel Work: Artists Film and Video of the 1970’s - Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami (MOCA), Miami, FL

1994
   From Minimal to Conceptual Art - The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
   European and American Drawings 1961-69 - David Nolan Gallery, New York City, NY

1993
   MoMA Drawings - Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin
   On the Road: Selections from the Permanent Collecton of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX
   Motion and Document/Sequence and Time: Eadweard Muybridge and Contemporary American Photography - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA

1991
   La Vitesse - Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris

1990
   L'art conceptuel, une perspective - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC
   American Masters of the 60's - Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York City, NY

1988
   Zeichnung - - Galerie M + R Fricke - Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf (closed, 2006)
   Michael Heizer, Richard Serra, Robert Smithson - Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York City, NY

1985
   18° Bienal de Sao Paulo - Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo

1981
   Mythos und Ritual - Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg

1978
   Numerals 1924-1977 - Leo Castelli Gallery, New York City, NY

1977
   documenta 6 - Documenta, Kassel

1976
   Ideas on Paper 1970-1976 - The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

1973
   Whitney Biennial 1973 - Whitney Biennial, New York City, NY

1972
   documenta 5 - Documenta, Kassel

1970
   1970 annual exhibition Comtemporary American Sculpture - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY

1969
   When Attitudes Become Form - ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts London, London (England)
   When Attitudes become Form - Museen Haus Lange / Haus Esters, Krefeld
   When Attitudes Become Form - Kunsthalle Bern, Bern

1966
Description  Primary Structures: Younger American and British Sculpture - The Jewish Museum of New York, New York City, NY

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China

 James Cohan Gallery - Shanghai, Shanghai

France

 Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris

USA

 ACE Gallery - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
 James Cohan Gallery - New York, New York City, NY
 Peter Freeman, Inc., New York City, NY
 Lawrence Markey, San Antonio, TX


 Public collections  29   Please report missing Information


Australia

 Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD

Austria

 Augarten Contemporary, Vienna
 Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig - MUMOK , Vienna

Canada

 Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON

Denmark

 Statens museum for kunst, Copenhagen
 Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde

Finland

 Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki

Germany

 Julia Stoschek Collection, Dusseldorf

Portugal

 Museu Serralves - Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto

Switzerland

 Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur

United Kingdom

 Tate Liverpool, Liverpool (England)
 Tate Britain, London (England)
 Tate Modern, London (England)

USA

 University Art Museum , Albany, NY
 Dia: Beacon, Beacon, NY
 Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago - MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
 Nora Eccles Harrison Museum of Art, East Logan, UT
 The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
 Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
 Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
 Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
 Dia Art Foundation: Chelsea, New York City, NY
 Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY
 The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY
 MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
 The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH
 Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT
 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC


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