John Baldessari

Born 1931 National City, California

Education

1957-59
Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA
Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA

1955-57
M.A., San Diego State College, CA

1955
University of California at Los Angeles, CA

1954-55
University of California at Berkeley, CA

1949-53
B.A., San Diego State College, CA

Honorary Degrees

2011
Doctor of Fine Arts, California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA

2006
Doctor of Fine Arts, National University of Ireland, Burren College of Art

2003
Doctor of Fine Arts, San Diego State University and the California State University

2000
Doctor of Fine Arts, Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design of the New School of Social Research

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2016
John Baldessari, Sprüth Magers Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
John Baldessari: Madame Cezanne’s Hairdos, Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl, NY
Madame Cézanne’s Hairdos, Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, CA
JOHN BALDESSARI – NEW WORKS, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich
L’image volee, Fondazione Prada, Milan

2015
Front Row, Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles
John Baldessari: The Städel Paintings, Städel Museum, Frankfurt, Germany
John Baldessari: Pictures and Scripts, Marian Goodman Gallery, London, England
John Baldessari: Early Work, Marian Goodman Gallery. Paris, France

2014
John Baldessari: The News, Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles
John Baldessari: The News, Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl, New York
John Baldessari – Scene ( ) / Take ( ), Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels
John Baldessari: Crowds & Recent Works, Meyerovich Gallery, San Francisco

2013
John Baldessari: Crowds, Mixografia, Los Angeles, CA

2011
Baldessari, Sprüth Magers Berlin, Germany
John Baldessari: Your Name in Lights, Australian Museum façade. Sydney, Australia

2010
John Baldessari: Sediment, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
John Baldessari: Foot and Stocking (With Big Toe Exposed) Series, Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, USA

2009
John Baldessari: Pure Beauty, Tate Modern, London, GB; Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
John Baldessari: Hands and/or feet (Part One), Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France
John Baldessari: Hands and/or Feet (Part Two), Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany
John Baldessari: Ear Sofa; Nose Sconces with Flowers (in Stage Setting), Sprüth Magers, London, England
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, USA
John Baldessari: Raised Eyebrows / Furrowed Foreheads: Part IV, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
John Baldessari: Raised Eyebrows / Furrowed Foreheads: Part III, Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels, Belgium
John Baldessari: Raised Eyebrows / 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

2008
John Baldessari: Raised Eyebrow / Furrowed Foreheads, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA
John Baldessari and Koen Van Den Broek: This an Example of that, Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels, Belgium; Bonnefantenmuseum Maastrich, Masstricht, Netherlands
John Baldessari: BACA Laureate 2008, Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht, Maastricht, Netherlands
John Baldessari and Matt Mullican: Pong, Tracy Williams Ltd, New York, USA
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, USA
John Baldessari and Alejandro Cesarco: Retrospective, Murray Guy, New York, USA
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’, curated by Christina Vegh, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany and ‘Music’, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany
John Baldessari: Noses & Ears, Etc. (Part Three), Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
John Baldessari: Eden: Adam and Eve (With Ear and Nose) Plus Serpent, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main

2006
John Baldessari: Noses & Ears, Etc. (Part Two), Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA
John Baldessari: The Prima Facie Series, organised by Ann Cesteleyn, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle
John Baldessari: Composition for Violin and Voices (Male), 1987, Une œuvre de la collection, Musée d’Art Contemporain Lyon, Lyon
John Baldessari: Noses & Ears, Etc., Cristina Guerra, Lisbon, Portugal
John Baldessari: Prima Facie (Fifth State), Sprüth Magers Lee, London, England
John Baldessari: Works 1982 – 1991, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris

2005
John Baldessari: Prima Facie (Fourth State), Galerie Meert Rihoux, Brussels, Belgium
John Baldessari: Prima Facie (Third State), Galeria Pepe Cobo, Madrid, Spain
John Baldessari: From Life, Carré d’ Art Musee Contemporain de Nimes, Nimes, Frances
John Baldessari: Prima Facie (Second State), Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
John Baldessari: Prima Facie, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
John Baldessari: The Blockage Series, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France
John Baldessari: Life’s Balance, (Works 84-04), Space 02, Kunsthaus Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
John Baldessari: A Different Kind of Order, (Works1962-1984), Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria

2004
John Baldessari: Somewhere Between Almost Right and Not Quite (With Orange), Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA
John Baldessari: Recent Maquettes & Prints, Art Affairs, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2003
John Baldessari: Vertical/Horizontal Series, Bernier/Elaides, Athens, Greece
John Baldessari: The Duress Series, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
John Baldessari: Editionen, Einladung zur Eröffnung, Hamburg, Germany

2002
John Baldessari: Junctions and Intersections, Sprüth Magers, Cologne, Germany; Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
John Baldessari, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA

2001
John Baldessari, Museo d’ Arte Moderna Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Trento, Italy
John Baldessari: The Overlap Series, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland

2000
John Baldessari, Meert Rihoux, Brussels, Belgium
Baldessari, While something is happening here, something else is happening there, Works 1988-1999, Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany

1999
Baldessari, Tetrad Series, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA
Baldessari und Goya, Albertina im Akademiehof, Vienna, Austria

1998
John Baldessari: Commissioned Paintings, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, USA
John Baldessari: Recent Works, Charim Klocker, Vienna, Austria
Tele Dolca Llar & Baldessari 4 HAB a/Vtes.:paper pintat, llums I plantes. NOU, Museu d’ Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain
Baldessari, 4 RMS W VU: WALLPAPER, LAMPS AND PLANTS. NEW, Witte de With, Rotterdam, NL; Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
John Baldessari, Mai 36 Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
John Baldessari, The Goya Series, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, USA

1997
John Baldessari, Theoretical Events, Naples, Italy
John Baldessari National City Paintings from 1967 and 1996, Galerie Philomene Magers, Cologne, Germany
John Baldessari, Marian Goodman, Paris, France
John Baldessari 1990-1996, Galerie Laage-Salomon, Paris, France
John Baldessari, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

1996
John Baldessari, Centro de Arte Moderna Jose de Azeredo Perdigao, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
John Baldessari: National City, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, USA
Hochschule fur Angewandte Kunst in Wien, Vienna, Austria
John Baldessari, Jürgen Becker, Hamburg, Germany

1995
John Baldessari: A Retrospective, Cornerhouse, Manchester, England; Serpentine Gallery, London, England; Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany; Moderna Gallerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Museet For Samtidskunst, Oslo, Norway; Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
John Baldessari, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

1994
Artist’s Choice: John Baldessari, e.g. Grass, Water Heater, Mouths, & etc. (for John Graham), The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

1990
John Baldessari, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA; The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., USA; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA; Musee d’ Art Contemporain de Montreal, Canada

1989
John Baldessari: Ni por esas, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, E; capc Musee d’art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France; IVAM Center Julio Gonzalez, Valencia, Spain

1986
John Baldessari: MATRIX BERKELEY 94, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA

1985
John Baldessari, Le Consortium, Centre d’ Art Contemporain, Dijon, France

1981
John Baldessari: Work 1966 – 1980, Exhibition organized by Marcia Tucker, The New Museum, New York, USA; The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, USA; Municipal Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven, Netherlands; Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany

Selected Group Exhibitions
2014
CODEX, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, California
Imaginary Portraits, Schwartz Gallery Met, Metropolitan Opera, New York
Time Pieces, The video art collection of Neuer Berliner Kunstverein at Nordstern Videokunstzentrum, Gelsenkirchen, Germany
Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since the 1950s, Mudam Luxembourg; Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
The Collection of the IVAM XXV Anniversary, Institut Valencia d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain
Spitting in the Wind, Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, California
Secondhand, Pier 24 Photography, San Francisco, California
The Avant-Garde Collection, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
Small Museum for the American Metaphor, REDCAT Gallery, Los Angeles, California

2013
ARTandPRESS, ZKM, Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany
Poesie der Reduktion – Minimal, Concept, Land Art, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
Beg, Borrow and Steal, Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, California
Besser scheitern, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Color Rush: 75 Years of Color Photography in America, Milwaukee Art Museum. Milwaukee, WI
LA Existancial, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. Los Angeles, CA

2012
The Very Large Array: San Diego/Tijuana Artists in the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art. San Diego, CA
Acts of Voicing, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart. Stuttgart, Germany
Faking It: Manipulated Photography Before Photoshop, Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY
Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965 – 1980, Vancouver Art Gallery. Vancouver, Canada
State of Mind: New California Art circa 1970, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery. Vancouver, Canada
Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years, Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY
12 Rooms, Museum of Folkwang. Essen, Germany
Arctic Summer, Margo Leavin Gallery. Los Angeles, CA,
Mash Up: Collage from 1930 to the Present, L & M Arts. Venice, CA
Analog to Digital, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art. Los Angeles, CA
Painting in Photography: Strategies of Appropriation, Städel Museum. Frankfurt, Germany
Real to Real: Photographs from the Traina Collection, de Young Museum. San Francisco, CA
dOCUMENTA (13), Museum Fridericianum. Kassel, Germany
Make Up, CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux. Bordeaux, France
Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Los Angeles, CA
Teatr życia, Centrum Sztuki Współczesna Znaki Czasu. Torun, Poland
Contemporary Painting: 1960 to the Present, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. San Francsico, CA,
Theater of Life, Centre of Contemporary Art. Torun, Poland
A Century of Collage, McNay Art Museum. San Antonio, TX
A House Full of Music: Strategien in Musik und Kunst, Mathildenhöhe Darmstadt. Darmstadt
In Protest, UC Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive. Berkeley, CA
Loughelton Revisited, Winkelman Gallery. Los Angeles, CA
Spectral Landscape (with Viewing Stations), Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago. Chicago, IL
Alternative Projections: Experimental Film in Los Angeles 1945-1980: Bright Eyes: Conceptual Art Films, Los Angeles Filmforum. Los Angeles, CA, April 22, 2012. Film screening of in the Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian Theater in Hollywood, CA.
Art Cologne, Artelier Contemporary. Graz, Austria
Compulsion, M+B. Los Angeles, CA
ARTandPRESS,” Stiftung für Kunst und Kultur e.V. Bonn, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin. Berlin, Germany
How to Make: Ideen, Notationen, Materialisierungen, Kunsthaus Dresden, Städtische Galerie für Gegenwartskunst. Dresden, Germany.
Utopia/Dystopia: Construction and Destruction in Photography and Collage, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Houston, TX
Celebrate the Wearable, Architecture and Design Museum. Los Angeles, CA
EST-3: Southern California in New York: Los Angeles Art from the Beth Rudin DeWoody Collection, Parrish Art Museum. Southampton, NY
True Stories: Amerikanische Fotografie aus der Sammlung Moderne Kunst, Pinakathek der Moderne, Sammulng Moderne Kunst. Munich, Germany,
Pinturas de la Rubell Family Collection, Fundación Banco Santander. Madrid, Spain
Humor, alvorligt talt, Esbjerg Kunstmuseum, Esbjerg, Denmark
The Way We Live Now, Brooke Alexander Editions. New York, NY
The Bear Necessities, John Berggruen Gallery. San Francisco, CA
Cure to Boredom: An Exhibition Engaging with the Ideas + Connotations Around Boredom. The Leeds Library. Leeds, United Kingdom
Super 8, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. San Francisco, CA
Spelling the Image, Marc Jancou Contemporary. New York, NY
Spirits of Internationalism: 6 Europese collecties, 1956 – 1886, Van Abbemuseum and Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen. Eindhoven, The Netherlands, and Antwerp, Belgium, January 21 – April 29, 2012. Work by JB appeared in the Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen.
Légerèté?, Maison Particulière. Brussels, Belgium,
John Baldessari: Class Assignments (optional), The CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts. San Francisco, CA
Artists’ Book Not Artists’ Book, Boo-Hooray. New York, NY
Drawn, Margo Leavin Gallery. Los Angeles, CA,

2011
Shape Of Things To Come: New Sculpture, Saatchi Gallery, London

2009
In & Out of Amsterdam: Art & Project Bulletin, 1968-1989, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Target Practice: Painting Under Attack 1949-78, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, USA
La Biennale di Venezia: 53. Exposizione Internazional d’Arte. Fare Mundi, Venice, I
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984, curated by Doug Eklund, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Into the Sunset: Photography’s Image of the American West, curated by Eva Respini, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

2008
The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
California Video, curated by Glenn Phillips, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA
Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today, organized by Ann Temkin, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA; Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, GB
BCAM at LACMA: The Inaugural Installation, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
Collecting Collections: Highlights from the Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
John Baldessari and Matt Mullican: Pong, Tracy Williams Ltd, New York, USA
John Baldessari and Koen Van Den Broek: This an Example of That, Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels, B; Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, NL

2007
What is Painting? Contemporary Art from the Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Hammer Contemporary Collection: Part I, Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, USA
Learn to Read, Tate Modern, London, GB
Not For Sale, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, USA
John Baldessari and Alejandro Cesarco: Retrospective, Murray Guy, New York, USA

2006
Red Eye: L.A. Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, USA
Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
Los Angeles 1955-1985: Birth of an Art Capital, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, F
Joy Pop! Pop Art 1960’s – 2000s: From Lichtenstein, Warhol to the Current Generation, Sieji Togo Memorial Sompo Japan Museum of Art, Tokyo, J
Emanuel Hoffmann Foundation, Work Groups and Installations, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, CH

2005
The Fluidity of Time: Selections from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
Drawing from the Modern 1975-2005, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
The Blake Byrne Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
Big Bang, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, F
Open Systems: Rethinking Art c.1970, Tate Modern, London, GB

2004
Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form, 1940s-70s, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA; Miami Art Museum, Miami, USA
Small: the Object in Film, Video, and Slide Instillation, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
California Dreaming, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Behind the Facts. Interfunktionen 1968-1975, Joan Miro Foundation, Parc de Montjuic, Barcelona, E; Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, D

2003
Jede Fotografie ein Bild. Siemens Fotosammlung, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, D
Utopia Station, Venice Biennale, Venice, I
The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960-1982, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collections, Museo Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, E
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, USA

2002
Comer o no Comer (To Eat or Not to Eat), Centro de Arts de Salamanca, Salamanca, E
Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain: Selected Works from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
Limits de la Percepcio, Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona, E
Kunst nach Kunst (Art After Art), curated by Peter Friese, Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Bremen, D
Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collections, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles (2002), USA
Visions From America: Photographs From The Whitney Museum of American Art, 1940-2001, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Conceptual Art in the Netherlands and Belgium 1965-1975 from Dutch and Belgian Collections, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, NL
Museum unserer Wünsche (Museum of Our Wishes), Museum Ludwig, Cologne, D

2001
Seeing, Boone Children’s Gallery, LACMA West, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
Tele[visions]: Kunst sieht Fern, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, A
Subject Plural: Crowds in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, USA

2000
Departures: 11 Artists at the Getty, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA; Kunsthalle, Basel, CH

1999
Crosscurrents: New Art from MoMA, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, J
Sight Gags, Grotesque, Charicature, and Wit in Modern and Contemporary Drawing, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin 1950s-1980s, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, USA
Circa 1968, Museu Serralves, Museu De Arte Contemporanea, Porto, P
Trouble Spot. Painting, MUHKA, Antwerp, B

1998
Big As Life: An American History of 8mm films, The Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Art Without the Unique Edition Artelier, 1985-1998, Künstlerhaus Graz, Graz, A
Artificial Figuracions Contemporanies, Museu d’ Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, E
Double Trouble, The Patchett Collection, The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, USA

1997
La Biennale di Venezia: 47th International Art Exhibition, Venice, I
Scene of the Crime, UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
Sunshine & Noir. Art in L.A. 1960-1997, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, DK; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, D; Castello di Rivioli, Museo d’ Arte Contemporanea, Rivioli, I; UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
Livers D’Artistes, Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, F

1996
Painting into Photography: Photography into Painting, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, USA
Hall of Mirrors: Art and Film since 1945, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
Comme un oiseau, Foundation Cartier pour l’ Art Contemporain, Paris, F
1965-1975: Reconsidering the Object of Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
Reflected Image: A selection of Contemporary Photography from the LAC Collection, Switzerland, Centro per l’ Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, I

1993
Construction Quotation: Collective images in Photography, Sprengel Museum, Hanover, D

1992
More than One Photographer: Works since 1980 from the Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

1991
Devil on the Stairs; Looking Back at the Eighties, curated by Robert Storr, ICA – Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, USA

1990
Art in Europe and America: The 1960s and 1970s, Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA

1986
Individuals: A Selected History of Contemporary Art 1945-1986, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA

1985
Carnegie International: Contemporary Art – Europe and America in Pittsburgh, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, USA

1983
Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA

1982
Documenta VII, Kassel, D
Photography Used in Contemporary Art, In and Around the 70’s, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, J

1978
Art About Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA

1972
Documenta V, Kassel, D

Awards

2009
Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, La Biennale di Venezia: 53
Artist of the Year, American Friends of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, New York, NY

2008
BACA Laureate, BACA International 2008 (Biennial Award for Contemporary Art)
American Academy of Arts and Letters, 2008 Member, New York, NY
Annual Tribute Award, Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies, Washington D.C.

2007
Archives of American Art Medal, the Archives of American Art, Washington D.C.

2006
Certificate of Recognition, the Los Angeles Convention and Visitors Bureau, Los Angeles, CA

2005
Americans for the Arts, Lifetime Achievement Award, New York, October 11, 2005
Rolex Mentor and Protégé’ Arts Initiative, Honoring, New York, November 7, 2005

2004
American Academy of Arts & Sciences fellowship, Cambridge Massachusetts

2003
“2nd Place Best Show Commercial Gallery National by US Art Critics Association for exhibit at Margo Leavin, 2003

2002
“Best Web-Based Original Art,” AICA USA Best Show Awards, 2001/2002 Season.
Los Angeles Institute for the Humanities Fellow, sponsored by the University of Southern California.

2000
Artist Space, New York

1999
Spectrum-International Award for Photography of the Foundation of Lower Saxony, Germany
Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement, The College Art Association, New York, NY

1997
Governor’s Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts, California.

1996
Oscar Kokoschka Prize, Austria.

1988
Guggenheim Fellowship