John Baldessari
(Born 1931)
John Baldessari was born in National City, California in 1931. He graduated from the San Diego State College in 1957 and began developing a highly experimental style, in which he used text and photographic images to explore the meaning of traditional representation and language. Baldessari has taught since the early 70’s and his oeuvre–which spans multiple mediums such as painting, photography, installation and film–has been highly influential for future generations of conceptual artists. Baldessari’s challenges the traditional role of art and its different mediums, as well as the role of the artist, through visually interesting, suggestive and humorous interactions of letters, images, spaces and absences arranged to convey a powerful meaning. This challenge to traditional artistic representation is further enhanced by the inclusion of pop imagery in his works–a practice also maintained by some of his predecessors like Marcel Duchamp, Robert Rauschenberg and Andy Warhol.
John Baldessari has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and Europe. Recent solo exhibitions of his work have been held in institutions such as the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 2010 and the Tate Modern in London in 2009, the Bonnefantenmuseum in Maastricht in 2008, and the Kunstmuseum Bonn in 2007. He has also participated in exhibitions in major institutions such as the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, and the Pinakothek der Moderne, Sammlung Moderne Kunst in Munich. Baldessari has also participated in two Venice Biennales and seven Whitney Biennials, and his work has been featured in multiple publications. John Baldessari lives and works in Santa Monica, California.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2018
Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
John Baldessari: All Z's (Picabia/Mondrian), Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
2017
Learning to Read with John Baldessari, Museo Jumex, Mexico City
John Baldessari, Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles
John Baldessari: Contemporary Color Series, Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels
John Baldessari, Craig Starr Gallery, New York
John Baldessari: Miro and Life in General, Marian Goodman Gallery, London
2016
John Baldessari, Sprüth Magers Los Angeles, Los Angeles
John Baldessari: Mai 36, Zurich, Switzerland
John Baldessari: Pollock/Benton, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
John Baldessari at Gemini G.E.L.: Madame Cezanne's Hairdos, Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles
2015
John Baldessari: The Städel Paintings, Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
John Baldessari: Pictures and Scripts, Marian Goodman Gallery London, London, United Kingdom
John Baldessari: Early Work, Marian Goodman Gallery Paris, Paris, France
Stadel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
2014
John Baldessari: Movie Scripts/Art, Marian Goodman Gallery New York, New York
John Baldessari: Scene () / Take (), Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels, Belgium
The News,Gemini G.E.L at Joni Moisant Weyl, New York
John Baldessari & Ed Ruscha, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico
2013
John Baldessari 1+1=1, Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia
John Baldessari: Installation Works, 1987-1989, Marian Goodman Gallery New York, New York
Morsels and Snippets, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
John Baldessari: Crowds, Mixografia and For Your Art, Los Angeles, California
Keep it Simple. Keep it Fresh. Galerie Michael Janssen, Singapore
2012
John Baldessari, Mӧnchehaus Museum Goslar, Goslar, Germany
John Baldessari: A Print Retrospective from the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego La Jolla, La Jolla, California
John Baldessari: Double Bill, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France
2011
John Baldessari: Double Feature, Sprüth Magers Berlin, Berlin, Germany
John Baldessari: Double Vision, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
John Baldessari: Your Name in Lights, Australian Museum, William Street façade. Sydney, Australia. Traveled to Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
2010
John Baldessari: The Giacometti Variations, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy. Specific works exhibited on rotation.
John Baldessari: Sediment (Part 2), Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
John Baldessari: Foot and Stocking (With Big Toe Exposed), Gemini G.E.L. Los Angeles, California. Traveled to Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl, New York
John Baldessari: Sediment, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, Califonia
John Baldessari: Blue Line (Holbein), Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2009
John Baldessari: Hands and/or Feet (Part Two), Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany
John Baldessari: Hands and/or Feet (Part One), Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France
John Baldessari: Pure Beauty, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom. Traveled to Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
John Baldessari: Ear Sofa; Nose Sconces with Flowers (in Stage Setting), Sprüth Magers, London, United Kingdom
John Baldessari: 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, California
John Baldessari: Raised Eyebrow / Furrowed Foreheads: Part IV, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
John Baldessari: Raised Eyebrow / Furrowed Foreheads: Part III, Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels, Belgium
John Baldessari: Raised Eyebrow / Furrowed Foreheads: Part II, Cristina Guerra Contemporary Art, Lisbon, Portugal
John Baldessari: BRICK BLDG, LG WINDOWS W/ XLENT VIEWS, PARTIALLY FURNISHED, RENOWNED ARCHITECT, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany
2008
John Baldessari: Raised Eyebrow / Furrowed Foreheads, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
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, and Maastricht, The Netherlands
John Baldessari: BACA Laureate 2008, Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht, Maastricht, The Netherlands
John Baldessari and Matt Mullican: Pong, Tracy Williams Ltd., New York
John Baldessari: Arms & Legs (Specif. Elbows & Knees), Etc., Part II, Galería Pepe Cobo. Madrid, Spain
2007
John Baldessari: Beethoven’s Trumpet; In One Ear and Out the Same Ear, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
John Baldessari and Alejandro Cesarco: Retrospective, Murray Guy, New York Exhibition featuring collaborative work made with Alejandro Cesarco
John Baldessari: Arms & Legs (Specif. Elbows & Knees), Etc., Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France
John Baldessari: Noses & Ears, Etc. (Part Four), Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
John Baldessari: Music, curated by Stephan Gronert, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany. Presented in conjunction with Beethoven’s Trumpet; In One Ear and Out the Same Ear at the Bonner Kunstverein
John Baldessari: Beethoven’s Trumpet; In One Ear and Out the Same Ear, curated by Christina Végh, Bonner Kunstverein. Bonn, Germany. Presented in conjunction with “Music” at the Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
John Baldessari: Noses & Ears, Etc. (Part Three), Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
John Baldessari: Eden: Adam and Eve (With Ear and Nose) Plus Serpent, Portikus. Frankfurt am Main, Germany
2006
John Baldessari: Noses & Ears, Etc. (Part Two), Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
John Baldessari: The Prima Facie Series, organized by Ann Cesteleyn, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium
John Baldessari: Composition for Violin and Voices (Male), 1987, Une œuvre de la collection, Musée d’Art Contemporain Lyon. Lyon, France
John Baldessari: Noses & Ears, Etc. Cristina Guerra, Lisbon, Portugal
John Baldessari: Prima Facie (Fifth State) Sprüth, Magers, Lee Gallery, London, United Kingdom
John Baldessari: Works 1982 – 1991, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France
2005
John Baldessari: Prima Facie (Fourth State) Galerie Meert Rihoux, Brussels, Belgium
John Baldessari: Prima Facie (Third State), Galería Pepe Cobo, Madrid, Spain
John Baldessari: From Life, Carré d’Art Musée d’Art Contemporain, Nimes, France
John Baldessari: Prima Facie (Second State), Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
John Baldessari: Prima Facie,Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
John Baldessari: The Blockage Series, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France
John Baldessari: Life’s Balance: Works 84-04,Kunsthaus Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
John Baldessari: A Different Kind of Order (Works 1962-1984), MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria
2004
John Baldessari: Somewhere Between Almost Right and Not Quite (With Orange), organized by Tracey Bashkoff, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany. Traveled to Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Bremen, Germany
John Baldessari, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
John Baldessari: Recent Maquettes & Prints, Art Affairs, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
2003
John Baldessari: Vertical/Horizontal Series, Bernier/Eliades, Athens, Greece
John Baldessari: The Duress Series, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich Switzerland
John Baldessari: Editionen, Galerie Gabriele Völkers, Hamburg, Germany
2002
John Baldessari: Junctions and Intersections, Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, Cologne, Germany
John Baldessari: Junctions and Intersections, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
John Baldessari, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France
2001
John Baldessari: The Overlap Series, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
2000
John Baldessari, curated by Gabriella Belli, Museo d’Arte Moderna Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Trento, Italy
John Baldessari: Selections from: The Goya Series - The Tetrad Series - The Elbow Series, Galerie Meert Rihoux, Brussels, Belgium
1999
Baldessari: While Something Is Happening Here, Something Else Is Happening There: Works 1988 - 1999, curated by Thomas Weski, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hanover, Germany. Traveled to Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Dresden, Germany
John Baldessari: Tetrad Series, Marian Goodman Gallery. New York
Ich habe es gesehen: Baldessari und Goya, Albertina im Akademiehof, Vienna, Austria
1998
John Baldessari: The Commissioned Paintings, Sonnabend Gallery, New York
John Baldessari: Recent Works, Charim Klocker. Vienna, Austria
Baldessari: 4 RMS W VU: Wallpaper, Lamps, and Plants. New, Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art. Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Presented concurrently with and in conjunction with an exhibition of the same name at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland. Traveled to Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
John Baldessari, Mai 36 Galerir, Zurich, Switzerland
John Baldessari: The Goya Series, Sonnabend Gallery, New York
1997
John Baldessari, Theoretical Events, Naples, Italy
John Baldessari: National City: Paintings from 1967 and 1996, Galerie Philomene Magers, Cologne, Germany
John Baldessari: The Goya Series, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
John Baldessari, Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France
John Baldessari: 1990-1996, Galerie Laage-Salomon, Paris, France
1996
John Baldessari, Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto, Portugal
John Baldessari Recent Works, Galerie Meert Rihoux, Brussels, Belgium
John Baldessari: National City, curated by Hugh M. Davies and Andrea Hales, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, California
John Baldessari, Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst in Wien, Vienna, Austria
John Baldessari, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
1995
This Not That, Cornerhouse, Manchester, United Kingdom. Traveled to Serpentine Gallery, London, United Kingdom; Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany; Moderna Galleria Ljubljana, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Museet for Samtidskunst, Oslo, Norway; Centro de Arte Moderna José de Azeredo Perdigão, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
John Baldessari: New Work, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1994
Artist’s Choice: John Baldessari, e.g. Grass, Water Heater, Mouths, & etc. (for John Graham), The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1990
Artist’s Choice: John Baldessari, e.g. Grass, Water Heater, Mouths, & etc. (for John Graham), The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1989
Ni por Ésas / Not Even So: John Baldessari, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía. Madrid, Spain. Traveled to CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France, as John Baldessari: Oeuvres de 1966 à 1988,; IVAM, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Valencia, Spain
1986
John Baldessari: Matrix 94, University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California
1985
John Baldessari, organized by Le Coin du Miroir (Dijon, France), Le Consortium, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Dijon, France
1981
John Baldessari: Work 1966 - 1980, organized by Marcia Tucker, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. Traveled as John Baldessari: Werken 1966 - 1981, Municipal Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands; Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen, West Germany; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018
Paradise is Now: The Iconography of Palm Trees in Contemporary Art, Salon Dahlmann, Berlin
Fashion Drive – Extreme Clothes in Arts, Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Before/On/After: William Wegman and California Conceptualism, Metropolitain Museum of Art, New York
2017
Mario Sorrenti & John Baldessari: Noses Elbows and Knees, Half Gallery, New York
The Everywhere Studio, ICA Miami, Miami, FL
I am you, you are too, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Field Guide, Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada
Magritte, Broodthaers & Contemporary Art, Royal Museum of Fine Arts Belgium, Brussels
Cinéma mon amour. Film in Art, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
Matisse and American Art, Monclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
2016
Mashup: The Birth of Modern Culture, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University, New York
Ordinary Pictures, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Pandora’s Box : a history of photography by Jan Dibbets, Musee d’art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
Collected: Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, CA
Berkeley Eye: Perspectives from the Collection, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMFA), Berkeley, CA
The Serial Impulse at Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Los Angeles - A Fiction, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway
[un]expected: The Art of Chance, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
The Uses of Photography, Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
Present Tense: Prints from the Jordan D. Schnitzer Collection, Montana Museum of Art & Culture, Missoula, MT
Reinventing Photography: The Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker Collection, National Gallery of Art Washington, Washington DC
Seeing/Saying – Visual Verbal Exchanges, Davidson College Van Every/Smith Galleries, Davidson, NC
Animality, Marian Goodman, London
2015
Mirror Images in Art Und Medicine, Medizinhistorisches Museum, Berlin, Germany
On Pictures: Strategies of Appropriation, Kunstmuseum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland
Future Present, Schaulager, Basel, Switzerland
America is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2011
Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964-1977, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
It Happened at Pomona: Art at the Edge of Los Angeles, 1969-1973, Part 2: Helene Winer at Pomona, Pomona College Museum of Art. Claremont, California
State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Los Angeles, California
Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture, 1950-1970, J. Paul Getty Museum. Los Angeles, California. Traveled to Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
11 Rooms, curated by Klaus Biesenbach and Hans Ulrich Obrist. Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester International Festival, Manchester, United Kingdom
Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Traveled as Legacy: Selections from Emily Fisher Landau’s Gift to the Whitney Museum of American Art to the Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, New York
2010
How Soon Now, Rubell Family Collection / Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami, Florida
The City Proper, curated by James Welling, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
IVAM: Donaciones, IVAM, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Valencia, Spain
Hide and Seek, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Outside the Box: Edition Jacob Samuel, 1988 – 2010, Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, California
Disquieted, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
The View from Here, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
2009
Collection: MOCA’s First Thirty Years, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
Collecting History: Highlighting Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
Sculpture, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
In & Out of Amsterdam: Art & Project Bulletin, 1968–1989, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Target Practice: Painting Under Attack 1949-78, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington
La Biennale di Venezia: 53. Exposizione Internazionale d’Arte: Fare Mundi, Venice, Italy
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Into the Sunset: Photography’s Image of the American West, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2008
The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. San Francisco, California
California Video, curated by Glenn Phillips, J. Paul Getty Museum. Los Angeles, California
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today, organized by Ann Temkin, Museum of Modern Art, New York. Traveled to Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, United Kingdom
BCAM at LACMA: The Inaugural Installation, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Collecting Collections: Highlights from the Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
2007
What is Painting? Contemporary Art from the Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Hammer Contemporary Collection: Part I, Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, California
Learn to Read, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
Not For Sale, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York
2006
Red Eye: L.A. Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Florida
Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles. Los Angeles, California
Los Angeles 1955-1985: Birth of an Art Capital, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France.
Joy Pop! Pop Art 1960’s - 2000s: From Lichtenstein, Warhol to the Current Generation, Sieji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan
Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation, Work Groups and Installations, Museum Für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland
2005
The Fluidity of Time: Selections from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
Drawing from the Modern 1975 – 2005, Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Blake Byrne Collection,Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
Big Bang Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Open Systems: Rethinking Art c.1970, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
2004
Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form, 1940s – 70s, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California. Traveled to Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida (catalogue)
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
California Dreaming, films by Kenneth Anger, John Baldessari, Will Handle, David Lamelas, and Ed Ruscha, Whitney Museum of Art, New York
Derrere els fets: Interfunktionen 1968-1975 (Behind the Facts: Interfunktionen 1968-1975), Foundació Joan Miró. Barcelona, Spain. Traveled to Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
2003
Jede Fotographie Ein Bild Seimens Fotosammlung, Pinakothek der Moderne, Sammlung Moderne Kunst, Munich, Germany (catalogue)
Utopia Station, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960 – 1982, Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, Minnesota. Traveled to UCLA Hammer Museum (Catalogue)
Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collections, Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain
Video Acts: Single Channel Works From the Collections of Pamela and Richard Kramlich and New Art Trust, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York (catalogue)
2002
Comer o no Comer (To Eat or Not to Eat), Centro de Arts de Salamanca, Spain (catalogue)
Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain: Selected Works from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois (catalogue)
Límites de la Percepción, Foundació Joan Miró. Barcelona, Spain
Kunst Nach Kunst (Art After Art), curated by Pete Friese, Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Bremen, Germany (catalogue)
Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collections, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts
Visions From America: Photographs From The Whitney Museum Of American Art, 1940-2001, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)
Conceptual Art in the Netherlands and Belgium 1965-1975 from Dutch and Belgian Collections, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Museum Unserer Wunsche (Museum of Our Wishes), Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany. Exhibition of art in permanent collection (catalogue)
2001
Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collections, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California. Traveled to Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts; Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain
Seeing, Boone Children’s Gallery, LACMA West, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Tele[visions]: Kunst Sieht Fern, curated by Joshua Decter, guest curator, Kunsthalle Wein, Wein, Austria (catalogue)
2000
Departures: 11 Arists at the GettyThe J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California (catalogue); Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland, “Quartett.”
1999
Crosscurrents: New Art from MoMA Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan. Catalogue w/text by Robert Storr
Sight Gags, Grotesque, Charicature, and Wit in Modern and Contemporary Drawing The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin 1950s - 1980s, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York (catalogue)
Circa 1968, Museu Serralves, Museu De Arte Contemporanea, Porto, Portugal June- September (Catalogue)
Trouble Spot. Painting, MUHKA Antwerp, Belgium (catalogue)
1998
Big As Life: American History of 8mm Film, Museum of Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco, California
Kunst ohne Unikat, Künstlerhaus Graz, Graz, Austria
Artificial: Figuracions Contemporànies, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Double Trouble: The Patchett Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, California. Traveled to Museo de las Artes and Insituto Cultural Cabañas, Guadalajara, Mexico; Museo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico; Museo Universitario Contemporáneo de Arte, Mexico City, Mexico; Auditorio de Galicia and Iglesia Santa Domingos de Bonaval, Santiago de Compostela, Spain; Sala Amós Salvador, Logroño, Spain
1997
La Biennale di Venezia: 47th International Art Exhibition, Venice, Italy (catalogue)
Scene of the Crime, UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California (catalogue)
Sunshine & Noir. Art in L.A. 1960-1997 Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark (catalogue). Traveled to Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany; Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy; Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Rome, Italy; UCLA Arm and Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Livres d’Artistes: L’invention d’un Genre 1960-1980, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France
1996
Painting into Photography: Photography into Painting, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida
Hall of Mirrors: Art and Film since 1945, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California. Traveled to Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio; Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
Comme un oiseau, Foundation Cartier pour l’art contemporain. Paris, France.
The Reflected Image: A Selection of Contemporary Photography from the LAC Collection, Switzerland, Centro Per L’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
1995
1965-1975: Reconsidering the Object of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California
1993
Konstruktion Zitat: Kollektive Bilder in der Fotographie, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hanover, Germany
1992
More than One Photographer: Works since 1980 from the Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1991
Devil on the Stairs; Looking Back at the Eighties, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia. Curated by Robert Storr. Traveled to Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California
1990
Art in Europe and America: The 1960s and 1970s, Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
1986
Individuals: A Selected History of Contemporary Art 1945-1986, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
1985
1985 Carnegie International: Europe and America in Pittsburgh, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1983
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1982
Documenta 7, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, West Germany
1978
Art About Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Traveled to North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina; Frederick Wight Art Gallery, University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California; Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
1972
Documenta 5: Befragung der Realität: Bildwelten - heute, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, West Germany
