 Artist's arttributes:
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Male |
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Painting, Photography, Works on Paper, Printmaking, Sculpture, Installation |
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Conceptual Art |
Most exhibitions in: |
| Country |
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| USA | 101 |
| France | 34 |
| Germany | 17 |
| Spain | 13 |
| Netherlands | 11 |
Most exhibitions held at: |
| Institution |
№ |
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Margo Leavin Gallery, USA |
25 |
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MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, USA |
7 |
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Mamco - musée d´art moderne et contemporain, Switzerland |
6 |
Biography: 
1944 Born in Cleveland, OH (US)
Lives and works in New York, NY and Santa Monica, CA (US)
External links: | | Public exhibitions (Selection) 224
until 31.8.
Solo shows 45
2012
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| Allen Ruppersberg: No Time Left to Start Again/The B and D of R 'n' R - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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| Allen Ruppersberg - Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp |
2010
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| No Time Left To Start Again/2 - Air de Paris, Paris |
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| Allen Ruppersberg: No Time Left to Start Again - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Allen Ruppersberg - The Greene Naftali Gallery, New York City, NY |
2009
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| Allan Ruppersberg: you and me or the art of give and take - Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA |
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| Allen Ruppersberg - greengrassi, London (England) |
2008
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| Allen Ruppersberg - Camden Arts Centre, London (England) |
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| Allen Ruppersberg - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
2007
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| Allen Ruppersberg - Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp |
2006
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| Allen Ruppersberg - One of Many - Origins and Variants - IAC - Institut d'art contemporain Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, Villeurbanne |
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| Allen Ruppersberg - the singing posters - Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, CA |
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| Allen Ruppersberg - One of many - Origins ans Variants - Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC), Sevilla |
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| Allen Ruppersberg - One of Many - Origins & Variants - Visual Research Centre, Dundee (Scotland) |
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| Allen Ruppersberg - Poetry and Rearrangement - Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna |
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| Allen Ruppersberg: Photoworks 1970 – 1973 - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
2005
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| Allen Ruppersberg - greengrassi, London (England) |
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| The New Five Foot Shelf - Texas Gallery, Houston, TX |
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| Allen Ruppersberg - Lines, Drawings, Book Pages, Games and a Puzzle - Christine Burgin, New York City, NY |
2004
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| The Singing Posters - Rice Gallery, Houston, TX |
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| Allen Ruppersberg: The New Five Foot Shelf and Other New Projects - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Allen Ruppersberg. The Five Foot Shelf - De Hallen, Haarlem |
2003
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| Allen Ruppersberg - The Singing Posters - Art & Public, Geneva |
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| Allen Ruppersberg - Studio Guenzani, Milan |
2002
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| Allen Ruppersberg - Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp |
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| Allen Ruppersberg - Drawings 1973-1980 - Christine Burgin, New York City, NY |
2001
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| Allen Ruppersberg - The New Five Foot Shelf - Mamco - musée d´art moderne et contemporain, Geneva |
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| Allen Ruppersberg - Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp |
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| Allen Ruppersberg: The Novel that Writes Itself; Honey I Rearranged the Collection - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
2000
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| Allen Ruppersberg - Artpace - San Antonio, San Antonio, TX |
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| Allen Ruppersberg - Honey, I rearranged the collection - Christine Burgin, New York City, NY |
1999
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| Allen Ruppersberg - Studio Guenzani, Milan |
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| Allen Ruppersberg - Siste Viator (Stop Traveller) - 1993 - Mamco - musée d´art moderne et contemporain, Geneva |
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| Allen Ruppersberg: Honey, I Rearranged The Collection While You Were Gone - greengrassi, London (England) |
1998
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| Allen Ruppersberg - Letter to a Friend - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
1997
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| Allen Ruppersberg - Portikus, Frankfurt/Main |
1996
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| Allen Ruppersberg - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
1994
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| Allen Ruppersberg - Studio Guenzani, Milan |
1992
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| Allen Ruppersberg - The Difference Between Analytic And Poetic Language - Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam |
1991
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| Allen Ruppersberg - de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam |
1985
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| Allen Ruppersberg: The Secret of Life and Death - New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY |
1977
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| Allen Ruppersberg - The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX |
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| Projects: Allen Ruppersberg - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1973
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| Allen Ruppersberg - Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam |
Group shows 178
2013
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| Made in Space - Night Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Le Tamis Et Le Sable 1/3 : MÉlodies En Sous-sol - Maison populaire de Montreuil, Montreuil |
2012
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| Pink Caviar - Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk |
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| Tercera Trienal Poli/Grafica de San Juan - Trienal Poli/Grafica de San Juan, San Juan |
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| First Among Equals - ICA - Institute of Contemporary Art - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA |
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| Houdini: Art and Magic - MMoCA - The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI |
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| Cultural Production - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Drawn - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
2011
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| It Happened at Pomona: Art at the Edge of Los Angeles 1969-1973 (Part 2) - Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA |
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| Library Science - Artspace, New Haven, CT |
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| Two Schools Of Cool - Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach |
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| Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981 - The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Celebrating Hilldale, 1984-1995 - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Held Up By Columns - Leslie Fritz Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Out of Storage: Provisoire & Définitif - Marres - Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht |
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| I WAS A MALE YVONNE DE CARLO - El arte crítico puede ser sofisticado, incluso entretenido / Salas 4, 5 y 6 - Musac - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Léon |
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| Compass - Drawings from the Museum of Modern Art New York - Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin |
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| Entertainment - The Greene Naftali Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Echoes - Centre culturel Suisse, Paris |
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| Sculpture In So Many Words: Text Pieces 1960-75 - ZieherSmith, New York City, NY |
2010
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| Laokoon
II - COCO (Contemporary Concerns), Vienna |
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| The City Proper - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Laokoon
- COCO (Contemporary Concerns), Vienna |
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| The Last Newspaper - New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY |
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| Ear to the Page - The Center for Book Arts , New York City, NY |
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| You can't get there from here but you can get here from there - Apexart, New York City, NY |
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| ITEM - Mitchell-Innes & Nash - West Street, New York City, NY |
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| 89 Km. Colección CGAC - MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo |
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| Au verso des images - Mamco - musée d´art moderne et contemporain, Geneva |
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| On the Road - Artpace - San Antonio, San Antonio, TX |
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| Works in Edition - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| 25 OR 30 YEARS GALLERY: PART II - Papier, Paper, Papel, Carta - Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam |
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| How Many Billboards? Art In Stead - MAK Center for Art and Architecture, West Hollywood, CA |
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| DOUBLE BIND / Arrêtez d’essayer de me comprendre ! - Villa Arson, Nice |
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| Caractères - FRAC - Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême |
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| 101 Collection: Route 1 - R for Replicant - CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA |
2009
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| MOCA´s First Thirty Years - MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Nous, vous, ils ou elles... - FRAC - Picardie, Amiens |
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| Picture(s): Your California Dream - Civic Room, London (England) |
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| Là où je suis n'existe pas - les Abattoirs de Toulouse, Toulouse |
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| Group Show - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| LA SUITE[reset] - Air de Paris, Paris |
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| Black Hole - Nymphius Projekte Berlin, Berlin |
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| In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960–1976 - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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| And Other Essays - Hessel Museum of Art & Center for Curatorial Studies Galleries at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY |
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| No Bees, No Blueberries - Harris Lieberman, New York City, NY |
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| Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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| Sound of Music - Turner Contemporary, Margate, Kent |
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| Selective Knowledge - ITYS - Institute of Contemporary Art and Thought, Athens |
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| On second reading - Galería Estrany - De La Mota, Barcelona |
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| Reading Standing Up - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
2008
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| La gran transformacion - Arte y magia tactica - MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo |
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| Mysteries - Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| L'ÉTÉ - Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna |
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| HOTEL CALIFORNIA - Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris |
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| Deep Comedy - Marian Goodman Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Arts Le Havre 2008 - Biennale Arts Le Havre, Le Havre |
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| The Great Transformation - Kunst und taktische Magie - Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt/Main |
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| The artist is a mysterious entertainer - de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam |
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| Summer 2008 - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Headlines & Footnotes - Henie Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden |
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| Photography on Photography: Reflections on the Medium since 1960 - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY |
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| Selective Knowledge - The National Bank of Greece Cultural Foundation - Eynard Mansion, Athens |
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| Book/Shelf - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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| the Collector: Sound of Music - Marres - Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht |
2007
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| Im Wort - Kunsthalle Göppingen, Göppingen |
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| Multiplex: Directions in Art, 1970 to Now - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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| If Everybody had an Ocean: Brian Wilson, une exposition - CAPC - Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux |
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| A Theater without Theater - Berardo Museum - Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisbon |
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| Who remembers where they are from? - Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna |
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| Tiempo al Tiempo - MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo |
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| Romantischer Konzeptualismus - Bawag Contemporary - Bawag Foundation, Vienna |
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| “Uneasy Angel / Imagine Los Angeles” - - Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, Munich (closed) |
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| William Leavitt, Allen Ruppersberg and Mungo Thomson - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Some kind of Portrait - Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA |
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| If Everybody had an Ocean: Brian Wilson: An Art Exhibition - Tate St. Ives, St. Ives, Cornwall (England) |
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| A theatre without theatre - Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA, Barcelona |
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| Paper: Featuring traditional and innovative uses of the medium - Fisher Landau Center For Art, New York City, NY |
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| Fragments d'un temps oublié - FRAC - Bourgogne, Dijon |
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| Romantischer Konzeptualismus - Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Nuremberg |
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| Conceptual Photograpy 1964-1989 - - Zwirner & Wirth, New York City, NY (closed, 2009) |
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| SUBLIME OBJECTS. Collections sans frontières V - National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest |
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| Open and Shut - - Skestos Gabriele Gallery, Chicago, IL (closed, 2007) |
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| From Close To Home - Recent Acquisitions Of Los Angeles Art - MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA |
2006
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| Drapeaux gris - CAPC - Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux |
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| THE BONG SHOW or This Is Not a Pipe - Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York City, NY |
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| Kunst aus Los Angeles der 60er bis 90er Jahre - Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig |
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| Matthew Buckingham, Alejandro Cesarco, Louise Lawler, Allen Ruppersburg - Murray Guy, New York City, NY |
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| busy going crazy. the Sylvio Perlstein collection - La Maison Rouge, Paris |
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| Twice Drawn - The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY |
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| The Past Made Present: Contemporary Art and Memory - MFAH - Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX |
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| Grey Flags - SculptureCenter, New York City, NY |
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| Arquivar Tormentas - CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela |
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| Los Angeles 1955-1985 The birth of an art capital - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
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| Allen Ruppersberg - Guy de Cointet - Air de Paris, Paris |
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| 20ème anniversaire de la galerie - Galerie Gabrielle Maubrie, Paris |
2005
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| De la comtesse De Castiglione à Cindy Sherman - Galerie de France, Paris |
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| After Cézanne - MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA |
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| fter Cézanne - The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Sculptures, la tentation de la figure - FRAC - Limousin, Limoges |
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| Looking at Words - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| 8e Biennale de Lyon - Expérience de la durée - Experiencing Duration - La Biennale de Lyon, Lyon |
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| Kramlich Collection - The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA |
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| Private View 1980-2000 - Collection Pierre Huber - Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne |
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| 100 Artists See God - Virginia Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Virginia Beach, VA |
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| Un art de lecteurs - Galerie Art & Essai, Rennes |
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| The Last Picture Show - Artists using Photography 1960-1982 - Miami Art Central, Miami, FL |
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| A Walk to Remenber - LACE - Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Ascenseur pour Rio - FRAC - Bourgogne, Dijon |
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| From A to B and Back again - Galerie Chez Valentin, Paris |
2004
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| L’artiste éditeur - FRAC - Limousin, Limoges |
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| 100 Artists See God - ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts London, London (England) |
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| Group Exhibition - Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp |
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| The last picture show. Artistas que hacen uso de la fotografía. Tendencias conceptuales de 1960-1982 - MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo |
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| Is One Thing Better Than Another? - - Galerie Aurel Scheibler - Cologne, Cologne (closed, 2005) |
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| H2O (x) + 6 - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Playlist - Palais de Tokyo, Paris |
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| The Last Picture Show - Artists Using Photography, 1960-1982 - Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Un conte d’hiver - FRAC - Limousin, Limoges |
2003
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| Black-out (indices) - FRAC - Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême |
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| The Last Picture Show - Artists Using Photography - 1960-1982 - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
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| Une collection de « Chefs-d’œuvre » - Emprunts, pastiches, copies, citations et interprétations - FRAC - Limousin, Limoges |
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| Why is everything the same? - Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna |
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| 25th International Biennial of Graphic Arts - Ljubljana Biennial of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana |
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| Raid the Icebox - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| SELECTED MULTIPLES by JRP EDITIONS - mitterrand+cramer / art advisory, Geneva |
2002
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| It's Unfair! - Museum De Paviljoens, Almere |
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| Conversations - MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA |
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| JRP Editions - Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna |
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| Lost past 2002-1916 - Stedelijk Museum Ieper, Ieper |
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| Cadaver Exquis - Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris |
2001
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| Letters, Signs & Symbols - Paintings, Sculpture and Works on Paper - Brooke Alexander Editions, New York City, NY |
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| A Private Reading - Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Seeing or Believing - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Art Express, art minimal et conceptuel, état d’une collection - Mamco - musée d´art moderne et contemporain, Geneva |
2000
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| Library - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| too early too late - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| L.A. - - Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, Cologne (closed) |
1999
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| L.A. - - Sprüth Magers Projekte, Munich (closed) |
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| Group Show - Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Mamcoms (Mamco Magazine Show) - Mamco - musée d´art moderne et contemporain, Geneva |
1998
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| Sally Elesby, Jo Hormuth, Carlos Julio Molino, Allen Ruppersberg, Annelies Strba, Anne Walsh, And Jane And Louise Wilson - INOVA - Institute of Visual Arts, Milwaukee, WI |
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| Sunshine & Noir. Arte a Los Angeles 1960-1997 - Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin |
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| L’hypothèse du tableau volé - Mamco - musée d´art moderne et contemporain, Geneva |
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| L’étonnante gravité des choses simples - Abbaye St André - Centre d'art contemporain Meymac, Meymac |
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| 90069 - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
1997
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| Comme des Photos - Galerie Art & Essai, Rennes |
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| Moment Ginza - Färgfabriken Stockholm, Stockholm |
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| 4e Biennale de Lyon - La Biennale de Lyon, Lyon |
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| Skulptur. Projekte in Münster 1997 - Skulptur Projekte Münster, Münster |
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| SLAD - Apexart, New York City, NY |
1996
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| Reel Work: Artists Film and Video of the 1970’s - Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami (MOCA), Miami, FL |
1995
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| 1965-1975: Reconsidering The Object Of Art - The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA |
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| 25 Years: An Exhibition of Selected Works - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Untitled (Reading Room) - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
1994
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| In the Field: Landscape in Recent Photography - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Andreas Gursky / Allen Ruppersberg - de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam |
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| Tekening/drawing - Galerie Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam |
1993
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| Sampler - Studio Guenzani, Milan |
1991
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| Word As Image: American Art 1960–1990 - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
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| Twentieth-Century Collage - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
1990
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| Pharmacy - Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
1983
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| Language, Drama, Source & Vision - New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY |
1981
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| Stay Tuned - New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY |
1980
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| Printed Art Since 1965 - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1977
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| American Narrative/Story Art: 1967–1977 - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
1976
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| Via Los Angeles Six Artists - Portland Art Center, Portland, OR |
1972
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| documenta 5 - Documenta, Kassel |
1971
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| Projects: Pier 18 - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1969
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| When Attitudes Become Form - ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts London, London (England) |
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| When Attitudes become Form - Museen Haus Lange / Haus Esters, Krefeld |
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| When Attitudes Become Form - Kunsthalle Bern, Bern |
| Dealer Directory 13 |
Austria
| | Galerie Martin Janda, Vienna
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Belgium
| | Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp
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France
Germany
| | Galerie Karin Guenther, Hamburg
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Italy
Switzerland
United Kingdom
| | greengrassi, London (England)
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USA
| | Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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| | Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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| | Christine Burgin, New York City, NY
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| | The Greene Naftali Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | I.C. Editions, New York City, NY
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| | Landfall Press, Santa Fe, NM
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France
| | FRAC - Poitou-Charentes, Angoulême
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| | FRAC - Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque
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| | Rosenblum Collection & Friends, Paris
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| | IAC - Institut d'art contemporain Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, Villeurbanne
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Spain
| | Cal Cego - Colleccion de Arte Contemporaneo, Barcelona
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| | Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC), Sevilla
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Switzerland
| | Mamco - musée d´art moderne et contemporain, Geneva
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United Kingdom
| | Tate Britain, London (England)
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USA
| | MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
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| | Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
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