Gould Galleries

 

John  BALDESSARI     (born 1931)


JOHN BALDESSARI  

BIOGRAPHY  


 
1931 Born National City, California.  
Lives and works in Santa Monica, California.  
 
SOLO EXHIBITIONS  
 
2011 John Baldessari: Double Vision, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland  
John Baldessari: Your Name in Lights, Temporary Stedelijk 2, Amsterdam, the Netherlands  
John Baldessari: A Print Retrospective from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, Palm Springs Art Museum, California.  
2009/ Pure Beauty  
2010 - Tate Modern, London, October 13, 2009 – January 10, 2010.  
- Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, February 11 –  
  April 25, 2010.  
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, June 27 – September 12,  
  2010.  
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 17, 2010 – January 9,   
  2011.  
A Print Retrospective from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His  
Family Foundation  
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Legion of Honor. San Francisco, CA,  
  July 11 – November 8, 2009.  
Raised Eyebrow / Furrowed Foreheads Part IV  
Mai 36 Galerie. Zurich, Switzerland, June 7 – August 8, 2009.  
Raised Eyebrow / Furrowed Foreheads: Part III  
Galerie Greta Meert. Brussels, Belgium, May 14 – June 17, 2009.  
Raised Eyebrow / Furrowed Foreheads: Part II  
Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art. Lisbon, Portugal, May 7 – June 20, 2009.  
BRICK BLDG, LG WINDOWS W/ XLENT VIEWS, PARTIALLY FURNISHED,  
RENOWNED ARCHITECT  
Museum Haus Lange. Krefeld, Germany, March 1 – July 19, 2009.  
2008 Raised Eyebrow / Furrowed Foreheads  

Marian Goodman Gallery. New York, NY, November 25, 2008 – January 10,  

2009.  

John Baldessari and Koen Van Den Broek: This an Example of That  

Galerie Greta Meert and Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht (two parts in two  

locations). Brussels, Belgium, October 15 – November 22, 2008, and  

Maastricht, The Netherlands, October 5, 2008 – January 29, 2009.  

BACA Laureate 2008  

Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht. Maastricht, The Netherlands, October 5,  

2008 – January 25, 2009.  

John Baldessari and Matt Mullican: PONG  

Tracy Williams Ltd. New York, NY, May 2 – June 28, 2008.  

John Baldessari: Arms & Legs (Specif. Elbows & Knees), Etc., Part II  

Galería Pepe Cobo. Madrid, Spain, January 31 – March 22, 2008.  
2007 Beethoven’s Trumpet; In One Ear and Out the Same Ear  

The Arts Club of Chicago. Chicago, IL, November 7, 2007 – January 18, 2008.  

John Baldessari and Alejandro Cesarco: retrospective  

Murray Guy. New York, NY, November 3 – December 22, 2007. Exhibition  

featuring collaborative work made with Alejandro Cesarco.  

Arms & Legs (Specif. Elbows & Knees), Etc.  

Marian Goodman Gallery Paris. Paris, France, October 19 – November 24,  

2007.  

Noses & Ears, Etc. (Part Four)  

Mai 36 Galerie. Zurich, Switzerland, June 1 – July 28, 2007.  

Music  

curated by Stephan Gronert, Kunstmuseum Bonn. Bonn, Germany, May 12 –  

July 29, 2007. Presented in conjunction with “Beethoven’s Trumpet; In One  

Ear and Out the Same Ear” at the Bonner Kunstverein.  

Beethoven’s Trumpet; In One Ear and Out the Same Ear  

curated by Christina Végh, Bonner Kunstverein. Bonn, Germany, May 12 –  

July 29, 2007. Presented in conjunction with “Music” at the Kunstmuseum  

Bonn.  

Noses & Ears, Etc. (Part Three)  

Margo Leavin Gallery. Los Angeles, CA, April 7 – May 5, 2007.  

Eden: Adam and Eve (With Ear and Nose) Plus Serpent  

Portikus. Frankfurt am Main, Germany, February 9 – March 18, 2007.  
2006 Noses & Ears, Etc. (Part Two)  

Marian Goodman Gallery. New York, NY, October 19 - November 25, 2006.  

The Prima Facie Series  

organized by Ann Cesteleyn, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens. Deurle, Belgium,  

September 17, 2006 - December 3, 2006.    

Composition for Violin and Voices (Male)  

Une œuvre de la collection,” Musée d’Art Contemporain Lyon. Lyon,  

France, June 16 - August 13, 2006.  

Noses & Ears, Etc  

Cristina Guerra, Lisbon, Portugal, June 6 – September 9, 2006.  

Prima Facie (Fifth State)  

Sprüth, Magers, Lee Gallery, London, UK, April 28 - June 24, 2006.  

Works 1982 – 1991  

Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France, March 18 – April 22, 2006.  
2005 Prima Facie (Fourth State)  

Galerie Meert Rihoux, Brussels, Belgium, December 16 – January 28, 2005.  

Prima Facie (Third State)  

Galeria Pepe Cobo, Madrid Spain, September 14 – November 10, 2005.  

From Life  

Carré d’Art Musee Contemporain de Nimes, France, October 19, 2005 –  

January 8, 2006.  

Prima Facie (Second State)  

Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland, June 11-July 30, 2005.  

Prima Facie  

Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, April 9 – May 14, 2005.  

The Blockage Series  

Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France, March 11 – April 23, 2005.  

Life’s Balance, (Works  84-04)  

Space 02, Kunsthaus Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria.  

Catalogue, March 5 – May 16, 2005.  

A Different Kind of Order, (Works1962-1984)  

Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Austria, Catalogue. March 4  

– July 3, 2005.  
2004 Somewhere Between Almost Right and Not Quite (With Orange)  

Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany, October 30, 2004 – January 16,  

2005.  

John Baldessari  

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, November 17, 2004 – January 8, 2005.  

Recent Maquettes & Prints  

Art Affairs, Amsterdam, February 7 – March 13, 2004.  

Vertical/Horizontal Series  

Bernier/ Elaides, Athens, Greece, December 4, 2003 – January 31, 2004.  

The Duress Series  

Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland, June 7 – July 19, 2003.  

Editionen  

Einladung zur Eroffnung, Hamburg, Germany, January 31 – April 5, 2003.   
2002 Junctions and Intersections  
Monika Spruth Philomene Magers, Cologne, Germany, October 31, 2002 –  
February 28, 2003.  
Junctions and Intersections  
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California, October 26 – December 7,  
2002.  
John Baldessari  

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York, February 14 – March 30,  

2002.  
2001 John Baldessari  
Museo d’Arte Moderna Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Trento, Italy,  
December 15, 2000 - March 11, 2001.  
The Overlap Series  
Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland, June 2 - July 14, 2001.  
2000 John Baldessari  
Meert Rihoux, Brussels, Belgium, May 2000.  
While something is happening here, something else is happening there,  
Works 1988-1999  
Sprengel Museum, Hannover Germany, September 26, 1999 - January 2,  
2000.  
1999 Tetrad Series  
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York, April 24 - May 21, 1999.  
Baldessari und Goya  
Albertina im Akademiehof, Vienna, Austria, February 18 - March 28, 1999.  
1998 Commissioned Paintings  

Sonnabend Gallery, New York, New York, November 14 – December 9, 1998  

Recent Works  

Charim Klocker, Vienna, Austria, September 11 – November 7, 1998.  

Tele Dolca Llar & Baldessari 4 HAB a/Vtes.:paper pintat, llums I plantes. NOU  

Museu D’Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain, July 16 – September 27, 1998.  

4 RMS W VU: WALLPAPER, LAMPS AND PLANTS. NEW  

   - Witte de With, Rotterdam, Holland, January 24 – March 22, 1998.  

   - Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland, January 31 – March 22,  

     1998.  

John Baldessari  

Mai 36 Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland, January 31 – March 14, 1998.  

The Goya Series  

Sonnabend Gallery, New York, New York, January 10 – February 14, 1998.  
1997 John Baldessari  

Theoretical Events, Napoli, Italy, June 5 – July 31, 1997.  

National City Paintings from 1967 and 1996  

Galerie Philomene Magers, Köln, Germany, May 23 - July 31, 1997  

1990-1996  

Galerie Laage-Salomon, Paris, France, April 4 – May 17, 1997.  

John Baldessari  

Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California.  April 19 – May 24, 1997.  
1996 John Baldessari  

Centro de Arte Moderna Jose de Azeredo Perdigao, Fundacao Calouste

Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal, June 4 – September 1, 1996.

National City

San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California, March 9 –

June 30, 1996.

John Baldessari

Hochschule fur Angewandte Kunst in Wien, Vienna, Austria, March 5 – April

27, 1996.

John Baldessari

Jurgen Becker, Hamburg, Germany, January – February 1996.
1995 A Retrospective

    - Cornerhouse, Manchester, England, May 6 – June 25, 1995

-       Serpentine Gallery, London, England, July 11 – August 28, 1995

-       Wurttembergicher Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany, September 21 – November 19, 1995  

-       Moderna Gallerija Ljubljana, Slovenia, December 14, 1995 – January  

         27, 1996  

-       Museet For Samtidskunst, Oslo, Norway, February 17 – May 5, 1996  

    - Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal, June 4 - September 1,      

      1996.  

John Baldessari  

Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California, April 22 – May 20, 1995.  
1994 Artist’s Choice: John Baldessari, e.g. Grass, Water Heater, Mouths, & etc. (for  

John Graham)  

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, March 17 – May 10, 1994.  
1990 John Baldessari  

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, March 25 – June  

17, 1990  

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, July 12 –  

September 9, 1990  

The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington  D.C., October  

16, 1990 – January 6, 1991  

The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, July 10 –  

October 13, 1991, Musee d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, Canada,  

November 21, 1991 – February 13, 1992  
1989 John Baldessari: Ni por esas (Not Even So)  

Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, January 11 – February 20, 1989  

capc Musee d’art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France, March 10 – April 22,  

1987  

IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez, Valencia, Spain, May 15 – July 15, 1987.  
1886 MATRIX BERKELEY 94  

University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, California.  

John Baldessari  

Le Consortium, Centre d’art Contemporain, Dijon, France, March 11 – April  

18, 1985.  

Work 1966 - 1980  

Exhibition organized by Marcia Tucker, The New Museum, New York Part I:  

March 14 – April 4, 1981, Part II: April 8 - 28, 1981.  

The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, January 14 – February 21,  

1982, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, March 6 – April 18, 1982,  

Municipal Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, May 22- June 21,  

1982, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, September 4 – October 18, 1982.  

 
GROUP EXHIBITIONS  
 
2010 Home for the Holidays, Gemini G.E.L, Los Angeles, California  
How Soon Now, Rubell Family Collection / Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami, Florida  
The City Proper, curated by James Welling, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California  
Map Marathon, Serpentine Gallery, London, United Kingdom  
The Exquisite Corpse Drawing Project, curated by David Salle, Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc, New York  
Happy Birthday Mr. Blum! An Exhibition of Works Selected by Irving Blum, Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, California  
Prints & Multiples, Mai 36 Gallerie Showroom, Zurich, Switzerland  
Medium: Photography: Important Photo Works Over the Last Forty Years, Patrick Painter Inc, Santa Monica, California  
Supernatural, Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles, CA  
Malerei: Prozess und Expansion: Von den1950er Jahren bis heute, MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria  
Off the Wall Part 1: Thirty Performative Actions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York  
Christmas in July, Yvon Lambert, New York  
PORTRAIT: John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth, Ed Ruscha, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles, California  
Make it New, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Los Angeles, California  
Calder to Warhol: Introducing the Fisher Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. San Francisco, California  
Das versprochene Land, Albertinum, Dresden, Germany  
Sound & Vision, Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago  
Mixed Use, Manhattan: Photography and Related Practices 1970s to the Present, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain  
Hide and Seek, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago  
Outside the Box: Edition Jacob Samuel, 1988 – 2010, Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, California  
On the Road, curated by Jens Hoffmann, Artpace San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas  
Esopus 14 Group Exhibition, Esopus Space, New York  
Works in Edition, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California  
In-Between Minimalisms: Play Van Abbe, Part 2: Time Machines,Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands  
Divergence: The Work of John Baldessari, Deborah Butterfield, and Andrea Zittel, San Diego State University Downtown Gallery, California  
Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden  
Disquieted, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon  
Conversations II, Travesia Cuatro, Madrid, Spain  
A Roll of the Dice, curated by David Barro, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal  
The View from Here, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California  
2009 Picturing the Studio, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago  
GAGARIN: The Artists In Their Own Words, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium  
Five Decades of Passion: Part Two: The Founding of the Center, 1989-1991, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, New York  
Where Do We Go From Here? Selections from La Colección Jumex, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Florida  
Beg Borrow and Steal, Rubell Family Collection / Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami, Florida  
For the Use of Those Who See, KW Institute for Contemporary Art. Berlin, Germany  
Harsh Terrain, Roberts & Tilton. Los Angeles, California  
Going to Market, Henie Onstad Art Centre. Høvikodden, Norway  
Collection: MOCA’s First Thirty Years, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California  
Serralves 2009: A Colecção, Rua Cåndido dos Reis, 74. Porto, Portugal  
Mille e tre, Musée du Louvre, Paris, France  
45 Years of Performance Video from EAI, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center. Long Island City, New York. Traveled to Wiels Center for Contemporary Art, Brussels, Belgium  
The Los Angeles Printmaking Society 20th National Exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, California  
The Sigmund Freud Museum Contemporary Art Collection, Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna, Austria  
Back to Earth: Revisiting Magiciens de la Terre, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery. Philadelphia  
The Moving Image: Scan to Screen, Pixel to Projection: Part II, Orange County Museum of Art, California  
Pete and Repeat: Works from the Zabludowicz Collection, London, United Kingdom  
The Black Page, Shandy Hall Gallery, Shandy Hall, Coxwold, United Kingdom  
200 Artworks - 25 Years: Artists’ Editions for Parkett, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa Japan  
See This Sound: Promises in Sound and Vision, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz. Linz, Austria  
Venice/Venice, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, California  
The MATRIX Effect, Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Connecticut  
El Nopal Press: Selección de obra gráfica de 1990 a 2009, curated by Francesco X. Siqueiros, Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico  
Sculpture, Margo Leavin Gallery. Los Angeles, California  
Printed Matter. Learn to Read Art, Museo de Arte Contemporàneo de Castilla y León. León, Spain  
Collecting History: Highlighting Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California  
Learn to Read Art: A History of Printed Matter: Artists Books and Editions (1976-2009), curated by AA Bronson, Badischer Kunstverein. Karlsruhe, Germany  
In & Out of Amsterdam: Art & Project Bulletin, 1968–1989  
Museum of Modern Art. New York, NY, July 1 – November 9, 2009.  
Target Practice: Painting Under Attack 1949-78  
Seattle Art Museum. Seattle, WA, June 25 – September 7, 2009.  
La Biennale di Venezia: 53. Exposizione Internazionale d’Arte: Fare Mundi  
The Plate Venice, Italy, June 7 – November 22, 2009  
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation  
Contemporary Drawings Collection  
Museum of Modern Art. New York, April 22, 2009 – January 4, 2010.  
The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984  
curated by Doug Eklund, Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, April 21 –  
August 2, 2009.  
Into the Sunset: Photography’s Image of the American West  
curated by Eva Respini, Museum of Modern Art. New York, NY, March 29 –  
June 8, 2009.  
2008 The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now       
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. San Francisco, CA, November 8, 2008  
– February 8, 2009.  
California Video  
curated by Glenn Phillips, J. Paul Getty Museum. Los Angeles, CA, March 15  
– June 8, 2008.  
2008 Whitney Biennial  
Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, March 6 – June 1, 2008.  
Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today  
organized by Ann Temkin, Museum of Modern Art. New York, NY, March 2 –  
May 12, 2008. Traveled to Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, May 29  
– September 13, 2009.  
BCAM at LACMA: The Inaugural Installation  
Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles, CA, February 16 -  
September 2008.  
Collecting Collections: Highlights from the Collection of the Museum of  
Contemporary Art, Los Angeles  
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Los Angeles, CA, February 10 –  
May 26, 2008.  
2007 What is Painting? Contemporary Art from the Collection  
Museum of Modern Art. New York, NY, July 7 – September 17, 2007.  
Hammer Contemporary Collection: Part I  
Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center. Los Angeles, CA,  
January 16 – April 8, 2007.  
Learn to Read  
Tate Modern. London, United Kingdom, June 19 – September 2, 2007.  
Not For Sale  
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center. Long Island City, NY, February 11 – April 30,  
2007.  
2006 Red Eye: L.A. Artists from the Rubell Family Collection  
Rubell Family Collection. Miami, FL, December 4, 2006 – May 31, 2007.  
Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images  
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles. Los Angeles, CA,  
November 19, 2006 - March 4, 2007.  
Los Angeles 1955-1985: Birth of an Art Capital  
Centre Pompidou. Paris, France, March 8 - July 17, 2006.  
Joy Pop! Pop Art 1960’s - 2000s: From Lichtenstein, Warhol to the Current  
Generation  
Sieji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Museum of Art. Tokyo, Japan, July 8 -  
September 3, 2006.  

Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation. Work Groups and Installations  

Museum Für Gegenwartskunst. Basel, Switzerland, June 10 - September 3,  

2006.  
2005 The Fluidity of Time: Selections from the MCA Collection  
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, November 25, 2005 –  
February 25, 2006  
Drawing from the Modern 1975 – 2005  
September 14, 2005 – January 9, 2006, Museum of Modern Art, New York.  
The Blake Byrne Collection  
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, July 3 - October 10, 2005.  
Big Bang  
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, June 15, 2005 – Februrary 27, 2006  
Open Systems: Rethinking Art c.1970  
Tate Modern, London, England, June 1 – September 18, 2005.  
2004 Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form, 1940s – 70s  
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, June 13 – October 3,  
2004.   
Traveling to Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida, November 18, 2004 – May 1,  
2005.   
Small:  the Object in Film, Video, and Slide Installation  
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, includes John Baldessari,  
Matthew Higgs, Sol LeWitt, Jonathan Monk, Alan Phelan, Michael Snow, and  
Rirkrit Tiravanija, November 18, 2004 – February 6, 2005.  
California Dreaming  
Films by Kenneth Anger, John Baldessari, Will Handle, David Lamelas, and Ed  
Ruscha, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, July 1 – August 22, 2004.   
Behind the Facts  
Interfunktionen 1968-1975” Joan Miro Foundation.  Parc de Montjuic,  
Barcelona, Spain.  February 19 – May 2, 2004. traveling to Kunsthalle  
Fridericianum Kassel, January 30 – April 3, 2005.  
2003 Jede Fotographie Ein Bild Seimens Fotosammlung  
Pinakothek der Moderne, Sammlung Moderne Kunst, Munich, Germany,  
December 18, 2003 – March 7, 2004.  
Utopia Station  
Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, June 15 – November 2, 2003.   
The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960 – 1982  
Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 2003 – January 2004.  
Traveling to UCLA Hammer Museum, February 7 – May 2004.  
Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons:  Four Decades of Art from the Broad       
Collections  
Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain, February 15 – September 7, 2003.  
Video Acts: Single Channel Works From the Collections of Pamela and  
Richard Kramlich and New Art Trust,  
P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, November 4,  
2002 – May 9, 2003.  
2002 Comer o no Comer (To Eat or Not to Eat)  
Salamanca 2002, Centro de Arts de Salamanca, Spain, November 20, 2002  
– January 13, 2003  
Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain: Selected Works from the MCA  
Collection  
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, November 16, 2002 – April 20, 2003.  
Limits de la Percepcio  
Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona, Spain, September 17 – November 3, 2002.  
Kunst Nach Kunst (Art After Art)  
curated by Pete Friese, Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Bremen,  
Germany, August 18 – November 3, 2002.  
Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons:  Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collections  
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, July 28 – October 20, 2002.  
Visions From America: Photographs From The Whitney Museum Of American  
Art, 1940-2001  
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, June 27-  
September 22, 2002.   
Conceptual Art in the Netherlands and Belgium 1965-1975 from Dutch and  
Belgian Collections.  
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.   April 20 – June 23, 2002.  
Museum Unserer Wunsche (Museum of Our Wishes)  
Museum Ludwig, Koln, Germany, January 11 – April 28, 2002.  Exhibition of art  
in permanent collection.   
2001 Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons:  Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collections  
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, October 7, 2001  
– January 6, 2002.  Travelling to: Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC,  
March 16 – June 3, 2002; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, July 21 – October 20,  
2002; Guggenheim Bilbao, February 15 – September 7, 2003.   
Seeing  
Boone Children’s Gallery, LACMA West, Los Angeles County Museum of Art,  
Los Angeles, California, November 16, 2001 – September 2, 2002.  
Tele[visions]: Kunst Sieht Fern  
curated by Joshua Decter, guest curator, Kunsthalle Wein, Wein, Austria,  
October 18, 2001 – January 6, 2002.  
Subject Plural: Crowds in Contemporary Art  
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Houston, Texas, March 10 – April 29.  
Catalogue published by Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston with text by  
Marti Mayo, Peter Wollen and Paola Morsiani.  
2000 Departures:11 Arists at the Getty  
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, February 29 - May 7. Catalogue.  
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland. “Quartett” September 9- November 12.  
1999 Crosscurrents: New Art from MoMA  
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan. 2 April- 28 May.  
Catalogue w/text by Robert Storr.  
Sight Gags, Grotesque, Charicature, and Wit in Modern and Contemporary   
Drawing  
The Museum of Modern Art, New York,  N.Y. January 21- May 5.  
Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin 1950s - 1980s  
Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York. April 27-August 29.  
Circa 1968  
Museu Serralves, Museu De Arte Contemporanea, Porto, Portugal. June-  
September.  
Trouble Spot. Painting  
MUHKA Antwerp, Belgium. May-August.  
1998 Big As Life: An American History of 8mm films  
The Museum of Modern Art/ San Francisco Cinematheque, California.   
February- December 1999.  
Art Without the Unique Edition Artelier, 1985-1998  
Kunstlerhaus, Graz, Austria. 26 September- 26 October.  
Artificial Figuracions Contemporanies  
Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. January 21-  
March 15, 1998.  
Double Trouble, The Patchett Collection  
The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, Ca. June 27 - Sept. 5, 1998.  
1997 La Biennale di Venezia: 47th International Art Exhibition  
Venice, Italy. June 15- November 9. Catalogue. Exhibition curator: Germano  
Celant.  
Scene of the Crime  
UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Ca.July 21 - October 5.  
Sunshine & Noir. Art in L.A. 1960-1997  
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark. Summer 1997. Catalogue.  
Traveled to Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany, Fall 1997; Castello di Rivoli,  
Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Italy, Spring 1998; UCLA Arm and Hammer  
Museum of Art, L.A. Ca. Fall 1998.  
Livers D’Artistes  
Bibliotheque nationale de France, France.  May 29- Oct 12.  
1996 Painting into Photography: Photography into Painting  
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida. December 20, 1996-  
February 16, 1997.  
Hall of Mirrors: Art and Film since 1945  
MOCA Los Angeles, California.  March 17 - July 28. Curated by Kerry  
Brougher.  
Comme un oiseau  
Foundation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France, June 19-October  
13, 1996.  
1965-1975: Reconsidering the Object of Art  
MOCA, Los Angeles, CA. October 17-February 4.  
Reflected Image: A selection of Contemporary Photography from the LAC  
Collection, Switzerland  
Centro perl’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato,Italy.  
1993 Construction Quotation: Collective images in Photography  
Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany. August 29-October 31.  
1992 More than One Photographer: Works since 1980 from the Collection  
Museum of Modern Art, New York. May 14-August 9.  
1991 Devil on the Stairs; Looking Back at the Eighties  
Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia. October 5- January 5.  Curated  
by Robert Storr. Traveled to Newport Harbor Art Museum, April 16- June 21.  
1990 Art in Europe and America: The 1960s and 1970s  
Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.  
May 19- August 5.  
1986 Individuals: A Selected History of Contemporary Art 1945-1986  
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA. December 10, 1986-  
January 10, 1988.  
1985 Carnegie International: Contemporary Art- Europe and America in  
Pittsburgh  
Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute Pittsburgh, PA. November 9, 1985 -  
January 5, 1986.  
1983 Whitney Biennial Exhibition  
(also included in Whitney Biennial in 1979, 1977, 1972, and 1969) Whitney  
Museum of American Art, New York.  
1982 Documenta 7  
Kassel, W.Germay. “Photography Used in Contemporary Art, In and Around   
the 70’s” National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.  
1978 Art About Art  
Whitney Museum of American Art, N.Y.  
1972 Documenta 5  
Kassel, Germany.  

                                                                                           
            




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JOHN BALDESSARI  

BIOGRAPHY  


 
1931 Born National City, California.  
Lives and works in Santa Monica, California.  
 
SOLO EXHIBITIONS  
 
2011 John Baldessari: Double Vision, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland  
John Baldessari: Your Name in Lights, Temporary Stedelijk 2, Amsterdam, the Netherlands  
John Baldessari: A Print Retrospective from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, Palm Springs Art Museum, California.  
2009/ Pure Beauty  
2010 - Tate Modern, London, October 13, 2009 – January 10, 2010.  
- Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, February 11 –  
  April 25, 2010.  
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, June 27 – September 12,  
  2010.  
- Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, October 17, 2010 – January 9,   
  2011.  
A Print Retrospective from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His  
Family Foundation  
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, Legion of Honor. San Francisco, CA,  
  July 11 – November 8, 2009.  
Raised Eyebrow / Furrowed Foreheads Part IV  
Mai 36 Galerie. Zurich, Switzerland, June 7 – August 8, 2009.  
Raised Eyebrow / Furrowed Foreheads: Part III  
Galerie Greta Meert. Brussels, Belgium, May 14 – June 17, 2009.  
Raised Eyebrow / Furrowed Foreheads: Part II  
Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art. Lisbon, Portugal, May 7 – June 20, 2009.  
BRICK BLDG, LG WINDOWS W/ XLENT VIEWS, PARTIALLY FURNISHED,  
RENOWNED ARCHITECT  
Museum Haus Lange. Krefeld, Germany, March 1 – July 19, 2009.  
2008 Raised Eyebrow / Furrowed Foreheads  

Marian Goodman Gallery. New York, NY, November 25, 2008 – January 10,  

2009.  

John Baldessari and Koen Van Den Broek: This an Example of That  

Galerie Greta Meert and Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht (two parts in two  

locations). Brussels, Belgium, October 15 – November 22, 2008, and  

Maastricht, The Netherlands, October 5, 2008 – January 29, 2009.  

BACA Laureate 2008  

Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht. Maastricht, The Netherlands, October 5,  

2008 – January 25, 2009.  

John Baldessari and Matt Mullican: PONG  

Tracy Williams Ltd. New York, NY, May 2 – June 28, 2008.  

John Baldessari: Arms & Legs (Specif. Elbows & Knees), Etc., Part II  

Galería Pepe Cobo. Madrid, Spain, January 31 – March 22, 2008.  
2007 Beethoven’s Trumpet; In One Ear and Out the Same Ear  

The Arts Club of Chicago. Chicago, IL, November 7, 2007 – January 18, 2008.  

John Baldessari and Alejandro Cesarco: retrospective  

Murray Guy. New York, NY, November 3 – December 22, 2007. Exhibition  

featuring collaborative work made with Alejandro Cesarco.  

Arms & Legs (Specif. Elbows & Knees), Etc.  

Marian Goodman Gallery Paris. Paris, France, October 19 – November 24,  

2007.  

Noses & Ears, Etc. (Part Four)  

Mai 36 Galerie. Zurich, Switzerland, June 1 – July 28, 2007.  

Music  

curated by Stephan Gronert, Kunstmuseum Bonn. Bonn, Germany, May 12 –  

July 29, 2007. Presented in conjunction with “Beethoven’s Trumpet; In One  

Ear and Out the Same Ear” at the Bonner Kunstverein.  

Beethoven’s Trumpet; In One Ear and Out the Same Ear  

curated by Christina Végh, Bonner Kunstverein. Bonn, Germany, May 12 –  

July 29, 2007. Presented in conjunction with “Music” at the Kunstmuseum  

Bonn.  

Noses & Ears, Etc. (Part Three)  

Margo Leavin Gallery. Los Angeles, CA, April 7 – May 5, 2007.  

Eden: Adam and Eve (With Ear and Nose) Plus Serpent  

Portikus. Frankfurt am Main, Germany, February 9 – March 18, 2007.  
2006 Noses & Ears, Etc. (Part Two)  

Marian Goodman Gallery. New York, NY, October 19 - November 25, 2006.  

The Prima Facie Series  

organized by Ann Cesteleyn, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens. Deurle, Belgium,  

September 17, 2006 - December 3, 2006.    

Composition for Violin and Voices (Male)  

Une œuvre de la collection,” Musée d’Art Contemporain Lyon. Lyon,  

France, June 16 - August 13, 2006.  

Noses & Ears, Etc  

Cristina Guerra, Lisbon, Portugal, June 6 – September 9, 2006.  

Prima Facie (Fifth State)  

Sprüth, Magers, Lee Gallery, London, UK, April 28 - June 24, 2006.  

Works 1982 – 1991  

Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France, March 18 – April 22, 2006.  
2005 Prima Facie (Fourth State)  

Galerie Meert Rihoux, Brussels, Belgium, December 16 – January 28, 2005.  

Prima Facie (Third State)  

Galeria Pepe Cobo, Madrid Spain, September 14 – November 10, 2005.  

From Life  

Carré d’Art Musee Contemporain de Nimes, France, October 19, 2005 –  

January 8, 2006.  

Prima Facie (Second State)  

Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland, June 11-July 30, 2005.  

Prima Facie  

Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, April 9 – May 14, 2005.  

The Blockage Series  

Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France, March 11 – April 23, 2005.  

Life’s Balance, (Works  84-04)  

Space 02, Kunsthaus Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria.  

Catalogue, March 5 – May 16, 2005.  

A Different Kind of Order, (Works1962-1984)  

Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Austria, Catalogue. March 4  

– July 3, 2005.  
2004 Somewhere Between Almost Right and Not Quite (With Orange)  

Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany, October 30, 2004 – January 16,  

2005.  

John Baldessari  

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, November 17, 2004 – January 8, 2005.  

Recent Maquettes & Prints  

Art Affairs, Amsterdam, February 7 – March 13, 2004.  

Vertical/Horizontal Series  

Bernier/ Elaides, Athens, Greece, December 4, 2003 – January 31, 2004.  

The Duress Series  

Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland, June 7 – July 19, 2003.  

Editionen  

Einladung zur Eroffnung, Hamburg, Germany, January 31 – April 5, 2003.   
2002 Junctions and Intersections  
Monika Spruth Philomene Magers, Cologne, Germany, October 31, 2002 –  
February 28, 2003.  
Junctions and Intersections  
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California, October 26 – December 7,  
2002.  
John Baldessari  

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York, February 14 – March 30,  

2002.  
2001 John Baldessari  
Museo d’Arte Moderna Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Trento, Italy,  
December 15, 2000 - March 11, 2001.  
The Overlap Series  
Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland, June 2 - July 14, 2001.  
2000 John Baldessari  
Meert Rihoux, Brussels, Belgium, May 2000.  
While something is happening here, something else is happening there,  
Works 1988-1999  
Sprengel Museum, Hannover Germany, September 26, 1999 - January 2,  
2000.  
1999 Tetrad Series  
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York, April 24 - May 21, 1999.  
Baldessari und Goya  
Albertina im Akademiehof, Vienna, Austria, February 18 - March 28, 1999.  
1998 Commissioned Paintings  

Sonnabend Gallery, New York, New York, November 14 – December 9, 1998  

Recent Works  

Charim Klocker, Vienna, Austria, September 11 – November 7, 1998.  

Tele Dolca Llar & Baldessari 4 HAB a/Vtes.:paper pintat, llums I plantes. NOU  

Museu D’Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain, July 16 – September 27, 1998.  

4 RMS W VU: WALLPAPER, LAMPS AND PLANTS. NEW  

   - Witte de With, Rotterdam, Holland, January 24 – March 22, 1998.  

   - Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland, January 31 – March 22,  

     1998.  

John Baldessari  

Mai 36 Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland, January 31 – March 14, 1998.  

The Goya Series  

Sonnabend Gallery, New York, New York, January 10 – February 14, 1998.  
1997 John Baldessari  

Theoretical Events, Napoli, Italy, June 5 – July 31, 1997.  

National City Paintings from 1967 and 1996  

Galerie Philomene Magers, Köln, Germany, May 23 - July 31, 1997  

1990-1996  

Galerie Laage-Salomon, Paris, France, April 4 – May 17, 1997.  

John Baldessari  

Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California.  April 19 – May 24, 1997.  
1996 John Baldessari  

Centro de Arte Moderna Jose de Azeredo Perdigao, Fundacao Calouste

Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal, June 4 – September 1, 1996.

National City

San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California, March 9 –

June 30, 1996.

John Baldessari

Hochschule fur Angewandte Kunst in Wien, Vienna, Austria, March 5 – April

27, 1996.

John Baldessari

Jurgen Becker, Hamburg, Germany, January – February 1996.
1995 A Retrospective

    - Cornerhouse, Manchester, England, May 6 – June 25, 1995

-       Serpentine Gallery, London, England, July 11 – August 28, 1995

-       Wurttembergicher Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany, September 21 – November 19, 1995  

-       Moderna Gallerija Ljubljana, Slovenia, December 14, 1995 – January  

         27, 1996  

-       Museet For Samtidskunst, Oslo, Norway, February 17 – May 5, 1996  

    - Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal, June 4 - September 1,      

      1996.  

John Baldessari  

Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California, April 22 – May 20, 1995.  
1994 Artist’s Choice: John Baldessari, e.g. Grass, Water Heater, Mouths, & etc. (for  

John Graham)  

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, March 17 – May 10, 1994.  
1990 John Baldessari  

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, March 25 – June  

17, 1990  

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, July 12 –  

September 9, 1990  

The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington  D.C., October  

16, 1990 – January 6, 1991  

The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, July 10 –  

October 13, 1991, Musee d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, Canada,  

November 21, 1991 – February 13, 1992  
1989 John Baldessari: Ni por esas (Not Even So)  

Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, January 11 – February 20, 1989  

capc Musee d’art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France, March 10 – April 22,  

1987  

IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez, Valencia, Spain, May 15 – July 15, 1987.  
1886 MATRIX BERKELEY 94  

University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, California.  

John Baldessari  

Le Consortium, Centre d’art Contemporain, Dijon, France, March 11 – April  

18, 1985.  

Work 1966 - 1980  

Exhibition organized by Marcia Tucker, The New Museum, New York Part I:  

March 14 – April 4, 1981, Part II: April 8 - 28, 1981.  

The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, January 14 – February 21,  

1982, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, March 6 – April 18, 1982,  

Municipal Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands, May 22- June 21,  

1982, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany, September 4 – October 18, 1982.  

 
GROUP EXHIBITIONS  
 
2010 Home for the Holidays, Gemini G.E.L, Los Angeles, California  
How Soon Now, Rubell Family Collection / Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami, Florida  
The City Proper, curated by James Welling, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California  
Map Marathon, Serpentine Gallery, London, United Kingdom  
The Exquisite Corpse Drawing Project, curated by David Salle, Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc, New York  
Happy Birthday Mr. Blum! An Exhibition of Works Selected by Irving Blum, Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, California  
Prints & Multiples, Mai 36 Gallerie Showroom, Zurich, Switzerland  
Medium: Photography: Important Photo Works Over the Last Forty Years, Patrick Painter Inc, Santa Monica, California  
Supernatural, Jancar Gallery, Los Angeles, CA  
Malerei: Prozess und Expansion: Von den1950er Jahren bis heute, MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria  
Off the Wall Part 1: Thirty Performative Actions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York  
Christmas in July, Yvon Lambert, New York  
PORTRAIT: John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Douglas Huebler, Joseph Kosuth, Ed Ruscha, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner, Thomas Solomon Gallery, Los Angeles, California  
Make it New, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Los Angeles, California  
Calder to Warhol: Introducing the Fisher Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. San Francisco, California  
Das versprochene Land, Albertinum, Dresden, Germany  
Sound & Vision, Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago  
Mixed Use, Manhattan: Photography and Related Practices 1970s to the Present, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain  
Hide and Seek, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago  
Outside the Box: Edition Jacob Samuel, 1988 – 2010, Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, California  
On the Road, curated by Jens Hoffmann, Artpace San Antonio, San Antonio, Texas  
Esopus 14 Group Exhibition, Esopus Space, New York  
Works in Edition, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California  
In-Between Minimalisms: Play Van Abbe, Part 2: Time Machines,Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands  
Divergence: The Work of John Baldessari, Deborah Butterfield, and Andrea Zittel, San Diego State University Downtown Gallery, California  
Throwing Three Balls in the Air to Get a Straight Line, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö, Sweden  
Disquieted, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon  
Conversations II, Travesia Cuatro, Madrid, Spain  
A Roll of the Dice, curated by David Barro, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal  
The View from Here, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California  
2009 Picturing the Studio, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago  
GAGARIN: The Artists In Their Own Words, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium  
Five Decades of Passion: Part Two: The Founding of the Center, 1989-1991, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, New York  
Where Do We Go From Here? Selections from La Colección Jumex, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, Florida  
Beg Borrow and Steal, Rubell Family Collection / Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami, Florida  
For the Use of Those Who See, KW Institute for Contemporary Art. Berlin, Germany  
Harsh Terrain, Roberts & Tilton. Los Angeles, California  
Going to Market, Henie Onstad Art Centre. Høvikodden, Norway  
Collection: MOCA’s First Thirty Years, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California  
Serralves 2009: A Colecção, Rua Cåndido dos Reis, 74. Porto, Portugal  
Mille e tre, Musée du Louvre, Paris, France  
45 Years of Performance Video from EAI, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center. Long Island City, New York. Traveled to Wiels Center for Contemporary Art, Brussels, Belgium  
The Los Angeles Printmaking Society 20th National Exhibition, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, California  
The Sigmund Freud Museum Contemporary Art Collection, Sigmund Freud Museum, Vienna, Austria  
Back to Earth: Revisiting Magiciens de la Terre, Fleisher/Ollman Gallery. Philadelphia  
The Moving Image: Scan to Screen, Pixel to Projection: Part II, Orange County Museum of Art, California  
Pete and Repeat: Works from the Zabludowicz Collection, London, United Kingdom  
The Black Page, Shandy Hall Gallery, Shandy Hall, Coxwold, United Kingdom  
200 Artworks - 25 Years: Artists’ Editions for Parkett, 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, Kanazawa Japan  
See This Sound: Promises in Sound and Vision, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz. Linz, Austria  
Venice/Venice, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, California  
The MATRIX Effect, Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Connecticut  
El Nopal Press: Selección de obra gráfica de 1990 a 2009, curated by Francesco X. Siqueiros, Instituto de Artes Gráficas de Oaxaca, Oaxaca, Mexico  
Sculpture, Margo Leavin Gallery. Los Angeles, California  
Printed Matter. Learn to Read Art, Museo de Arte Contemporàneo de Castilla y León. León, Spain  
Collecting History: Highlighting Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California  
Learn to Read Art: A History of Printed Matter: Artists Books and Editions (1976-2009), curated by AA Bronson, Badischer Kunstverein. Karlsruhe, Germany  
In & Out of Amsterdam: Art & Project Bulletin, 1968–1989  
Museum of Modern Art. New York, NY, July 1 – November 9, 2009.  
Target Practice: Painting Under Attack 1949-78  
Seattle Art Museum. Seattle, WA, June 25 – September 7, 2009.  
La Biennale di Venezia: 53. Exposizione Internazionale d’Arte: Fare Mundi  
The Plate Venice, Italy, June 7 – November 22, 2009  
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation  
Contemporary Drawings Collection  
Museum of Modern Art. New York, April 22, 2009 – January 4, 2010.  
The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984  
curated by Doug Eklund, Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, April 21 –  
August 2, 2009.  
Into the Sunset: Photography’s Image of the American West  
curated by Eva Respini, Museum of Modern Art. New York, NY, March 29 –  
June 8, 2009.  
2008 The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now       
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. San Francisco, CA, November 8, 2008  
– February 8, 2009.  
California Video  
curated by Glenn Phillips, J. Paul Getty Museum. Los Angeles, CA, March 15  
– June 8, 2008.  
2008 Whitney Biennial  
Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, March 6 – June 1, 2008.  
Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today  
organized by Ann Temkin, Museum of Modern Art. New York, NY, March 2 –  
May 12, 2008. Traveled to Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom, May 29  
– September 13, 2009.  
BCAM at LACMA: The Inaugural Installation  
Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Los Angeles, CA, February 16 -  
September 2008.  
Collecting Collections: Highlights from the Collection of the Museum of  
Contemporary Art, Los Angeles  
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Los Angeles, CA, February 10 –  
May 26, 2008.  
2007 What is Painting? Contemporary Art from the Collection  
Museum of Modern Art. New York, NY, July 7 – September 17, 2007.  
Hammer Contemporary Collection: Part I  
Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center. Los Angeles, CA,  
January 16 – April 8, 2007.  
Learn to Read  
Tate Modern. London, United Kingdom, June 19 – September 2, 2007.  
Not For Sale  
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center. Long Island City, NY, February 11 – April 30,  
2007.  
2006 Red Eye: L.A. Artists from the Rubell Family Collection  
Rubell Family Collection. Miami, FL, December 4, 2006 – May 31, 2007.  
Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images  
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles. Los Angeles, CA,  
November 19, 2006 - March 4, 2007.  
Los Angeles 1955-1985: Birth of an Art Capital  
Centre Pompidou. Paris, France, March 8 - July 17, 2006.  
Joy Pop! Pop Art 1960’s - 2000s: From Lichtenstein, Warhol to the Current  
Generation  
Sieji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Museum of Art. Tokyo, Japan, July 8 -  
September 3, 2006.  

Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation. Work Groups and Installations  

Museum Für Gegenwartskunst. Basel, Switzerland, June 10 - September 3,  

2006.  
2005 The Fluidity of Time: Selections from the MCA Collection  
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, November 25, 2005 –  
February 25, 2006  
Drawing from the Modern 1975 – 2005  
September 14, 2005 – January 9, 2006, Museum of Modern Art, New York.  
The Blake Byrne Collection  
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, July 3 - October 10, 2005.  
Big Bang  
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France, June 15, 2005 – Februrary 27, 2006  
Open Systems: Rethinking Art c.1970  
Tate Modern, London, England, June 1 – September 18, 2005.  
2004 Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form, 1940s – 70s  
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, June 13 – October 3,  
2004.   
Traveling to Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida, November 18, 2004 – May 1,  
2005.   
Small:  the Object in Film, Video, and Slide Installation  
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, includes John Baldessari,  
Matthew Higgs, Sol LeWitt, Jonathan Monk, Alan Phelan, Michael Snow, and  
Rirkrit Tiravanija, November 18, 2004 – February 6, 2005.  
California Dreaming  
Films by Kenneth Anger, John Baldessari, Will Handle, David Lamelas, and Ed  
Ruscha, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, July 1 – August 22, 2004.   
Behind the Facts  
Interfunktionen 1968-1975” Joan Miro Foundation.  Parc de Montjuic,  
Barcelona, Spain.  February 19 – May 2, 2004. traveling to Kunsthalle  
Fridericianum Kassel, January 30 – April 3, 2005.  
2003 Jede Fotographie Ein Bild Seimens Fotosammlung  
Pinakothek der Moderne, Sammlung Moderne Kunst, Munich, Germany,  
December 18, 2003 – March 7, 2004.  
Utopia Station  
Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, June 15 – November 2, 2003.   
The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960 – 1982  
Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 2003 – January 2004.  
Traveling to UCLA Hammer Museum, February 7 – May 2004.  
Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons:  Four Decades of Art from the Broad       
Collections  
Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain, February 15 – September 7, 2003.  
Video Acts: Single Channel Works From the Collections of Pamela and  
Richard Kramlich and New Art Trust,  
P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, November 4,  
2002 – May 9, 2003.  
2002 Comer o no Comer (To Eat or Not to Eat)  
Salamanca 2002, Centro de Arts de Salamanca, Spain, November 20, 2002  
– January 13, 2003  
Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain: Selected Works from the MCA  
Collection  
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, November 16, 2002 – April 20, 2003.  
Limits de la Percepcio  
Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona, Spain, September 17 – November 3, 2002.  
Kunst Nach Kunst (Art After Art)  
curated by Pete Friese, Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Bremen,  
Germany, August 18 – November 3, 2002.  
Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons:  Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collections  
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, July 28 – October 20, 2002.  
Visions From America: Photographs From The Whitney Museum Of American  
Art, 1940-2001  
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, June 27-  
September 22, 2002.   
Conceptual Art in the Netherlands and Belgium 1965-1975 from Dutch and  
Belgian Collections.  
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.   April 20 – June 23, 2002.  
Museum Unserer Wunsche (Museum of Our Wishes)  
Museum Ludwig, Koln, Germany, January 11 – April 28, 2002.  Exhibition of art  
in permanent collection.   
2001 Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons:  Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collections  
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, October 7, 2001  
– January 6, 2002.  Travelling to: Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC,  
March 16 – June 3, 2002; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, July 21 – October 20,  
2002; Guggenheim Bilbao, February 15 – September 7, 2003.   
Seeing  
Boone Children’s Gallery, LACMA West, Los Angeles County Museum of Art,  
Los Angeles, California, November 16, 2001 – September 2, 2002.  
Tele[visions]: Kunst Sieht Fern  
curated by Joshua Decter, guest curator, Kunsthalle Wein, Wein, Austria,  
October 18, 2001 – January 6, 2002.  
Subject Plural: Crowds in Contemporary Art  
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Houston, Texas, March 10 – April 29.  
Catalogue published by Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston with text by  
Marti Mayo, Peter Wollen and Paola Morsiani.  
2000 Departures:11 Arists at the Getty  
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, February 29 - May 7. Catalogue.  
Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland. “Quartett” September 9- November 12.  
1999 Crosscurrents: New Art from MoMA  
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan. 2 April- 28 May.  
Catalogue w/text by Robert Storr.  
Sight Gags, Grotesque, Charicature, and Wit in Modern and Contemporary   
Drawing  
The Museum of Modern Art, New York,  N.Y. January 21- May 5.  
Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin 1950s - 1980s  
Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York. April 27-August 29.  
Circa 1968  
Museu Serralves, Museu De Arte Contemporanea, Porto, Portugal. June-  
September.  
Trouble Spot. Painting  
MUHKA Antwerp, Belgium. May-August.  
1998 Big As Life: An American History of 8mm films  
The Museum of Modern Art/ San Francisco Cinematheque, California.   
February- December 1999.  
Art Without the Unique Edition Artelier, 1985-1998  
Kunstlerhaus, Graz, Austria. 26 September- 26 October.  
Artificial Figuracions Contemporanies  
Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. January 21-  
March 15, 1998.  
Double Trouble, The Patchett Collection  
The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, Ca. June 27 - Sept. 5, 1998.  
1997 La Biennale di Venezia: 47th International Art Exhibition  
Venice, Italy. June 15- November 9. Catalogue. Exhibition curator: Germano  
Celant.  
Scene of the Crime  
UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Ca.July 21 - October 5.  
Sunshine & Noir. Art in L.A. 1960-1997  
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark. Summer 1997. Catalogue.  
Traveled to Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany, Fall 1997; Castello di Rivoli,  
Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Italy, Spring 1998; UCLA Arm and Hammer  
Museum of Art, L.A. Ca. Fall 1998.  
Livers D’Artistes  
Bibliotheque nationale de France, France.  May 29- Oct 12.  
1996 Painting into Photography: Photography into Painting  
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida. December 20, 1996-  
February 16, 1997.  
Hall of Mirrors: Art and Film since 1945  
MOCA Los Angeles, California.  March 17 - July 28. Curated by Kerry  
Brougher.  
Comme un oiseau  
Foundation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France, June 19-October  
13, 1996.  
1965-1975: Reconsidering the Object of Art  
MOCA, Los Angeles, CA. October 17-February 4.  
Reflected Image: A selection of Contemporary Photography from the LAC  
Collection, Switzerland  
Centro perl’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato,Italy.  
1993 Construction Quotation: Collective images in Photography  
Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany. August 29-October 31.  
1992 More than One Photographer: Works since 1980 from the Collection  
Museum of Modern Art, New York. May 14-August 9.  
1991 Devil on the Stairs; Looking Back at the Eighties  
Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia. October 5- January 5.  Curated  
by Robert Storr. Traveled to Newport Harbor Art Museum, April 16- June 21.  
1990 Art in Europe and America: The 1960s and 1970s  
Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio.  
May 19- August 5.  
1986 Individuals: A Selected History of Contemporary Art 1945-1986  
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA. December 10, 1986-  
January 10, 1988.  
1985 Carnegie International: Contemporary Art- Europe and America in  
Pittsburgh  
Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute Pittsburgh, PA. November 9, 1985 -  
January 5, 1986.  
1983 Whitney Biennial Exhibition  
(also included in Whitney Biennial in 1979, 1977, 1972, and 1969) Whitney  
Museum of American Art, New York.  
1982 Documenta 7  
Kassel, W.Germay. “Photography Used in Contemporary Art, In and Around   
the 70’s” National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.  
1978 Art About Art  
Whitney Museum of American Art, N.Y.  
1972 Documenta 5  
Kassel, Germany.