Artist's arttributes:
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Video, Installation |
Most exhibitions in:
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| USA | 50 |
| United Kingdom | 25 |
| Spain | 21 |
| Germany | 17 |
Most exhibitions held at:
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| Institution |
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Victoria Miro Gallery, United Kingdom |
7 |
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CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Spain |
5 |
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Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Australia |
4 |
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Galeria Helga de Alvear, Spain |
4 |
Biography: 
1960 Born in London (UK)
External links:
| | Public exhibitions (Selection) 189 
until 3.11.
Solo shows 54
2013
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| Isaac Julien - Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI |
2012
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| Scopic Landscapes - Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo |
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| Scopic Landscapes - Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo |
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| films4peace - H&R Block Artspace at Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO |
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| Better Life (ten Thousand Waves) - RONMANDOS - Amsterdam, Amsterdam |
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| Better Life / Ten Thousand Waves II - Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
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| Currents 34: Isaac Julien - Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI |
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| Isaac Julien: Ten Thousand Waves - Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD Downtown, San Diego, CA |
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| The Leopard - Dirimart, Istanbul |
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| Ten Thousand Waves - Valentine Willie Fine Art - VWFA Singapore, Singapore |
2011
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| Isaac Julien: Ten Thousand Waves - ICA - Institute of Contemporary ArtBoston, Boston, MA |
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| Isaac Julien - Ten Thousand Waves - Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid |
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| Isaac Julien - Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo |
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| Isaac Julien - Ten Thousand Waves - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
2010
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| Creative Caribbean Network - Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL |
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| Ten Thousand Waves - Victoria Miro Gallery, London (England) |
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| Isaac Julien: Ten Thousand Waves - Taidehalli - Kunsthalle Helsinki, Helsinki |
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| Isaac Julien’s Western Union: Small Boats - The Israel Museum, Jerusalem |
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| Ten Thousand Waves - Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
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| Arctic Re-visions: Isaac Julien's True North - Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH |
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| Isaac Julien - ShanghART Gallery, Shanghai |
2009
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| Isaac Julien - Two Rooms, Auckland |
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| Isaac Julien - WESTERN UNION: small boats - Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw |
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| Isaac Julien - Two Rooms, Auckland |
2008
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| Isaac Julien Western Union:Small Boats - MNAC - Museu do Chiado, Lisbon |
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| Isaac Julien - Kunsthalle Zürich, Zurich |
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| Fantôme Afrique - Art Museum at U.C. Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA |
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| Western Union: Small Boats - Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid |
2007
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| WESTERN UNION: Small Boats - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Isaac Julien - True North - Bildmuseet, Umeå |
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| Isaac Julien - True North - Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
2006
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| Currents 99: Isaac Julien - Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO |
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| Isaac Julien - kestnergesellschaft, Hannover |
2005
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| Isaac Julien - True North - Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami (MOCA), Miami, FL |
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| Isaac Julien - Victoria Miro Gallery, London (England) |
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| Isaac Julien - Irish Museum of Modern Art - IMMA, Dublin |
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| Isaac Julien - True North - MAK Center for Art and Architecture, West Hollywood, CA |
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| Isaac Julien - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
2004
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| Isaac Julien - Kunstforeningen GL Strand, Copenhagen |
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| Isaac Julien - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC |
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| Isaac Julien - Baltimore - - Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Baltimore, MD (closed, 2012) |
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| Isaac Julien - Baltimore - Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid |
2003
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| Isaac Julien - Artpace - San Antonio, San Antonio, TX |
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| Isaac Julien - Baltimore - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Isaac Julien - Victoria Miro Gallery, London (England) |
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| Isaac Julien - Baltimore - Yvon Lambert - Paris, Paris |
2002
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| Isaac Julien - The Film Art - Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA |
2001
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| The Film Art of Isaac Julien - Bildmuseet, Umeå |
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| Isaac Julien - The Long Road to Mazatlan - The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA |
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| Isaac Julien - Vagabondia and The Long Road to Mazatlan - MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA |
2000
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| Isaac Julien - Hessel Museum of Art & Center for Curatorial Studies Galleries at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY |
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| Isaac Julien - Victoria Miro Gallery, London (England) |
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| Isaac Julien - Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO |
1999
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| Isaac Julien - Victoria Miro Gallery, London (England) |
Group shows 134
2012
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| This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s - ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts London, London (England) |
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| This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s - ICA - Institute of Contemporary ArtBoston, Boston, MA |
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| Religion & Riten - Art Foyer der DZ Bank Kunstsammlung, Frankfurt/Main |
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| Biennale Regard Benin 2012 - Inventing the World: The Artist as Citizen - Biennale Regard Benin, Cotonou |
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| Language Games - Centro de Artes Visuales Helga de Alvear, Cáceres |
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| Happy Birthday! The Goetz Collection Turns 20 - Sammlung Goetz, Munich |
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| Open End - Sammlung Goetz im Haus der Kunst - Haus der Kunst München, Munich |
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| The Dwelling Life of Man - Kunsthal KAdE, Amersfoort |
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| Unfinished Journeys - Kunstforeningen GL Strand, Copenhagen |
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| Portrait/landscape: Genre Boundaries - Moscow museum of modern art - MMOMA, Moscow |
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| Room In My Head: Staging Psychological Spaces - Gallery 1600 - Savannah College of Art and Design SCAD, Atlanta, GA |
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| This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980 - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
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| Border Crossing - Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense |
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| Time out of Mind - Irish Museum of Modern Art - IMMA, Dublin |
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| Pink Caviar - Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk |
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| Sinopticon{plymouth} - Korean Cultural Centre UK (KCC), London (England) |
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| La Triennale 2012 - Intense Proximity - Palais de Tokyo, Paris |
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| Trade Routes Over Time - Stevenson, Cape Town |
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| Unfinished Journeys - The Museum of Contemporary Art Oslo, Oslo |
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| L'estatge De L'home. Fotografies De La Col·lecció Martin Z. Margulies - Fundacio Suñol, Barcelona |
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| This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), Chicago, IL |
2011
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| Groups Who - Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, NSW |
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| Roundabout: Face To Face - Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv |
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| 4th Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art - Moscow Biennale of contemporary art, Moscow |
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| Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art 2011 - Göteborg International Biennial for Contemporary Art, Gothenburg |
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| Move - Kunst Und Tanz Seit Den 60ern - K20 Grabbeplatz, Dusseldorf |
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| Videosphere: A New Generation - Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
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| Move - Kunst und Tanz seit den 60ern - Haus der Kunst München, Munich |
2010
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| 21st Century: Art in the First Decade - Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD |
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| 8th Shanghai Biennale - Shanghai Biennale, Shanghai |
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| Move: Choreographing You - Hayward Gallery, London (England) |
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| roundabout - Wellington City Gallery, Wellington |
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| Afro Modern. Journeys through the Black Atlantic - CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela |
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| fast forward 2. The Power of Motion - Media Art Sammlung Goetz - ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe |
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| Bienal de Pontevedra 2010 - Bienal de Pontevedra, Pontevedra |
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| Márgenes de Silencio / Margins of Silence - Centro de Artes Visuales Helga de Alvear, Cáceres |
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| 17th Biennale of Sydney - The Beauty and the Distance - Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, NSW |
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| Grand National / Britisk kunst - Vestfossen Kunstlaboratorium, Vestfossen |
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| Julia Stoschek Collection - I want to see how you see - Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg |
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| I love you - ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus |
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| Estancias, Residencias, Presencias. Una construcción particular - TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife |
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| Desire - Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX |
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| Afro Modern: Journeys through the Black Atlantic - Tate Liverpool, Liverpool (England) |
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| CUE: Artists’ Videos - Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC |
2009
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| 3rd AiM International Biennale - Marrakech Biennale, Marrakech |
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| The Moving Image: Scan to Screen, Pixel to Projection II - Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach |
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| The social critique 1993-2005 - Kalmar konstmuseum, Kalmar |
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| en todas as partes. políticas da diversidade sexual na arte - CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela |
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| The Moving Image: Scan to Screen, Pixel to Projection - Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach |
2008
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| Helga De Alvear im Dialog mit Harald Falckenberg - Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg |
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| Prospect.1 New Orleans - Prospect New Orleans, New Orleans, LA |
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| La vidéo, un art, une histoire 1965 - 2007 - Musée Fabre, Montpellier |
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| Gustos, colecciones y cintas de vídeo - CA2M - Centro de Arte Dos de Mayo, Móstoles |
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| 7th Gwangju Biennale - Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju |
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| Videodance: works from the Centre Pompidou - Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL |
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| The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image - Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC |
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| Print the Legend: The Myth of the West - Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (Scotland) |
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| Print the Legend - The Myth of the Western in Northern Contemporary Art - Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (Scotland) |
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| The Man Show - QPCA - Quality Pictures, Portland, OR |
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| Multiplex - Western Bridge, Seattle, WA |
2007
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| Résidents - Espace Fondation EDF, Paris |
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| Performa 07 - The Second Biennial of New Visual Art Performance - Performa, New York City, NY |
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| Centre Pompidou Novos Media 1965-2003 - MNAC - Museu do Chiado, Lisbon |
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| True Romance - Allegorien der Liebe von der Renaissance bis heute - Kunsthalle Wien (Museumsquartier), Vienna |
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| Existencias - Musac - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Léon |
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| Cuestión xeracional - CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela |
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| Ghosts in the Machine - Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM |
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| The Loaded Lens - Goodman Gallery Cape, Cape Town |
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| The Secret Public - ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts London, London (England) |
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| Centre Pompidou Video Art 1965-2005 - ACMI - Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne, VIC |
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| 3rd Auckland Triennial - Auckland Triennial, Auckland |
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| Lights, Camera, Action: Artists´ Films for the Cinema - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
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| Crossing the Waters - - Leicester City Art Gallery, Leicester (England) (closed, 2010) |
2006
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| Centre Pompidou Video Art - 1965-2005 - Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney - MCA, Sydney, NSW |
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| TOUCH MY SHADOWS - New Media from the GOETZ Collection in Munich - Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw |
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| The Wonderful Fund - Collecting Art for the New Millenium - Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, West Sussex (England) |
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| The Secret Publiv - Kunstverein München, Munich |
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| Video: An Art, A History 1965 - 2005 - Miami Art Central, Miami, FL |
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| NEW MEDIA 1965-2005 Selected works from Centre - Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei |
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| A Short History of Performance - Part IV - Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (England) |
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| Rethinking Nordic Colonialism - - NIFCA - Nordic Institute for Contemporary Art, Helsinki (closed, 2006) |
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| Une vision du monde - La Maison Rouge, Paris |
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| Making History - Art and Documentary in Britain from 1929 to Now - Tate Liverpool, Liverpool (England) |
2005
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| Point of view - Le Parvis - scène nationale Tarbes Pyrénées, Ibos |
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| multiplo_2 - multipli, molteplici moltiplicati - N.O.Gallery, Milan |
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| Wonderful Fund Collection - Musée de Marrakech, Marrakech |
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| Tiempos de Vídeo 1965-2005 - Colección Nouveaux Médias del Centre Pompidou - CaixaForum Barcelona, Barcelona |
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| Miradas y conceptos en la Colección Helga de Alvear - Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid |
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| Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image - Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN |
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| 3' - Museo Colecciones ICO, Madrid |
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| Fünfundzwanzig Jahre Sammlung Deutsche Bank - - Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin (closed, 2013) |
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| Collection in Context - The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City, NY |
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| Miradas y conceptos en la colección Helga de Alvear - Museo Extremeño e Iberoamericano de Arte Contemporáneo MEIAC, Badajoz |
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| Emergencies - Musac - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Léon |
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| Point of View - CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela |
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| 3´ - CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela |
2004
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| utopia station: auf dem weg nach porto alegre - Haus der Kunst München, Munich |
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| Point of View - An Anthology of the Moving Image - Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Video Projections - The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH |
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| Deviant Bodies - Cepa Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
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| Point of View - Chelouche Gallery of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv |
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| Busan Biennale 2004 - The Busan Biennale, Busan |
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| 6ème Biennale de l'Art Africain Contemporain - Dak'Art Biennale de l’art africain contemporain, Dakar |
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| Point of View - An Anthology of the Moving Image - Miami Art Central, Miami, FL |
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| Die Neue Kunsthalle III - materiell-Immateriell - Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim |
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| Point of view - Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City |
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| 2004 Whitney Biennial Exhibition - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
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| Point of View: An Anthology of the Moving Image - New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY |
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| 3. Berlin Biennale für Zeitgenössische Kunst - berlin biennale für zeitgenössische kunst, Berlin |
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| Unlimited Edition - BCA gallery - Bedford Creative Arts, Bedford, Bedfordshire (England) |
2003
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| Art, Lies and Videotape: Exposing Performance - Tate Liverpool, Liverpool (England) |
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| LOVE/HATE - Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim |
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| 24/7: Wilno - Nueva York (visa para) - Contemporary Art Centre (CAC), Vilnius |
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| FATE OF ALIEN MODES - Wiener Secession, Vienna |
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| Independence - SLG South London Gallery, London (England) |
2002
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| Future Cinema: The Cinematic Imaginary after film - ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe |
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| Les Enfants du Paradis - Yvon Lambert - Paris, Paris |
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| Documenta 11 - Documenta, Kassel |
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| Screen Memories - Art Tower Mito ATM, Mito |
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| Snapshot - The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT |
2001
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| Turner Prize 2001 - Tate Britain, London (England) |
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| I love NY Benefit - Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc., New York City, NY |
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| ARS 01 Unfolding Perspectives - Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki |
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| Enduring Love - Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc., New York City, NY |
2000
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| Isaac Julien & Javier de Frutos - Cinerama - SLG South London Gallery, London (England) |
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| Raw - Victoria Miro Gallery, London (England) |
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| Welcome to Our Community Everyone Here Loves God - - Jack Hanley Gallery - San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (closed, 2010) |
1999
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| Form Film - Victoria Miro Gallery, London (England) |
1998
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| Aids-Worlds; Betwee Resignation and hope - CACT Centro d´Arte Contemporanea Ticino, Bellinzona |
1997
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| Beauty and the Beast - The Banff Centre - Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, AB |
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| The Look of Love - - Rear Window, London (England) (closed, 1998) |
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| The Look of Love - The Approach, London (England) |
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Australia
| | Roslyn Oxley9 Gallery, Sydney, NSW
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Brazil
| | Galeria Nara Roesler, São Paulo
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France
| | Galerie Almine Rech - Paris, Paris
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Netherlands
| | RONMANDOS - Amsterdam, Amsterdam
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| | RONMANDOS - Rotterdam, Rotterdam
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Spain
| | Galeria Helga de Alvear, Madrid
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Sweden
| | Brandstrom stockholm, Stockholm
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United Kingdom
| | Victoria Miro Gallery, London (England)
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USA
| | Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY
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Collections 12

Australia
| | Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, QLD
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Canada
| | Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC
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Finland
| | Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
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France
| | FRAC - Ile-de-France Le Plateau, Paris
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Portugal
| | Ellipse Foundation, Alcoitão
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Spain
| | Centro de Artes Visuales Helga de Alvear, Cáceres
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| | Musac - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, Léon
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United Kingdom
| | Tate Britain, London (England)
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USA
| | The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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| | MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
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| | The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York City, NY
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| | The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
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