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Most exhibitions in: |
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| USA | 54 |
| France | 20 |
| Germany | 13 |
| Spain | 11 |
| Netherlands | 9 |
Biography: 
1920 Born in London, England (UK)
1965 - 1967 director of the art gallery of the university of california
1967 - 1970 senior curator at the pasadena art museum (a.o. exhibitions `serial imagery´ `roy lichtenstein´ `andy warhol´ `donald judd´ and curator of the first museumexhibitions of james turrel, robert irwin, richard serra)
1978 - 1980 director of the akron art museum (a.o. exhibitions of brancusi´s photography and the first american show of john heartfield´s photomontages)
21.8.2003 Died in New York, NY (US)
External links: | | Public exhibitions (Selection) 151
until 22.6.
until 19.5.
Solo shows 31
2009
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| self portrait - Galerie Sandrine Mons, Nice |
2007
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| John Coplans - A Legacy - Galerie Nordenhake - Berlin, Berlin |
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| Project Room: John Coplans - Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris |
2006
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| John Coplans - one-person exhibition - Listasafn Reykjavikur - Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavik |
2005
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| John Coplans: Backs and Fingers - Galería Elvira González, Madrid |
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| John Coplans - One Man Show - Art & Public, Geneva |
2004
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| John Coplans: Photographs - Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA |
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| John Coplans - Galerie Peter Kilchmann, Zurich |
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| John Coplans - Body Parts - A Self-Portrait - MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA |
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| John Coplans - Shirley-Jones Gallery, Yellow Springs, OH |
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| John Coplans - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| John Coplans - Early Photographs - Skarstedt Fine Art, New York City, NY |
2001
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| John Coplans - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| John Coplans - Galerie Nordenhake - Berlin, Berlin |
2000
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| John Coplans - Galerie Nordenhake - Stockholm, Stockholm |
1999
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| John Coplans - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| John Coplans - Malmö Konsthall, Malmö |
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| John Coplans. Self portraits - Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh (Scotland) |
1998
1997
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| John Coplans - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY |
1996
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| Self Portraits - Spectrum Sotos, Zaragoza |
1995
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| John Coplans - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY |
1994
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| John Coplans - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| John Coplans - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
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| John Coplans: A Self-Portrait - National Gallery of Canada - Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, ON |
1992
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| John Coplans - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY |
1991
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| John Coplans / Matrix 113 - The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT |
1989
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| John Coplans - Passages - Centre d'art contemporain, Troyes |
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| A Body of Work: Photography by John Coplans - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
1988
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| A Body of Work: Photographs by John Coplans - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1981
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| Photographs by John Coplans - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
Group shows 118
2012
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| Der Nackte Mann - Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz |
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| Körper als Protest - Albertina, Vienna |
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| Out Figured - Center for Visual Art (CVA) - Metropolitan State College of Denver, Denver, CO |
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| Exquisite Corpses: Drawing and Trasfiguration - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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| Abstraction Paintings and Works on Paper - Redfern Gallery, London (England) |
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| Reconsidering the Photographic Masterpiece - UNM Art Museum - University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM |
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| "Umstülpung - curated by Günter Umberg" - Galerie Nordenhake - Berlin, Berlin |
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| Theatre Of The World - Mona - Museum of Old and New Art, Hobart, TAS |
2011
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| Fotógrafos da Cena Contemporânea - Museu de Arte Contemporânea da Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo |
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| Black And White - Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
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| Carolina Collects: 150 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art from Alumni Collections - Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC |
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| Mortel ! - FRAC - Basse-Normandie, Caen |
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| Naked - Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA |
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| Magie des Objekts - Photographie aus drei Jahrhunderten - Leopold Museum, Vienna |
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| Sex Drive - Cantor Fitzgerald Gallery (CFG), Haverford, PA |
2010
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| El Cuerpo Inventado - TEA Tenerife Espacio de las Artes, Santa Cruz de Tenerife |
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| Post-War American Art: The Novak/O’Doherty Collection - Irish Museum of Modern Art - IMMA, Dublin |
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| Off the Wall Part 1: Thirty Performative Actions - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
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| Starter Works from the Vehbi Koç Foundation Contemporary Art Collection - ARTER - space for art, Istanbul |
2009
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| Self-Portraits - Skarstedt Fine Art, New York City, NY |
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| The Lining of Forgetting: Internal and External Memory in Art - Austin Museum of Art - AMOA, Austin, TX |
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| Pequeña historia de la fotografía - CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela |
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| Impacto! Obras de la colección olorVISUAL - Fundació Vall Palou, Lleida |
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| PhotoDimensional - MoCP - The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL |
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| John Coplans + Amanda Means: Distilled - Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA |
2008
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| Hands - SolwayJones, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Xviii Biennale Internazionale di Scultura - Accademia di Belle Arti di Carrara, Carrara |
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| Ein Leben lang / All your life - Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin |
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| El don de la vida. En torno al envejecimiento y su representación artística - Centre d’Art la Panera, Lleida |
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| Images Du Corps, Vertiges Et Vestiges - Musée Régional D'Art Contemporain Languedoc-Roussillon, Sérignan |
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| Pasións Privadas, Visións Públicas - MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo |
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| About Us - Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Boulder, CO |
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| Continuum - Collection Frac Basse-Normandie - Musée des Beaux-Arts de Saint-Lô, Saint-Lô |
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| The Lining of Forgetting: Internal & External Memory in Art - Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC |
2007
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| In Focus - The Nude - The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA |
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| California Context - MMoCA - The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI |
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| Passion Complex - Selected Works from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery - 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art - Kanazawa, Kanazawa |
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| Le cinque anime della scultura - - Cesac - Centro Sperimentale per le Arti Contemporanee, Caraglio (closed) |
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| Collectors 1 - Collezione La Gaia - - Cesac - Centro Sperimentale per le Arti Contemporanee, Caraglio (closed) |
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| Encore! - Shirley-Jones Gallery, Yellow Springs, OH |
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| Stichwort Gegenwart - Zwölf Kapitel der Sammlung Ludwig - Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen |
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| Mapas, Cosmogonias e Puntos de Referencia - CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela |
2006
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| Caroll Ross & John Coplans - Janos Gat Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Photo-Kunst der letzten 40 Jahre in der Graphischen Sammlung - Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart |
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| Bernd and Hilla Becher, John Coplans, Yayoi Kusama, Thomas Ruff, Richard Serra and Thomas Struth - André Simoens Gallery, Knokke-Heist |
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| The Wonderful Fund - Collecting Art for the New Millenium - Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, West Sussex (England) |
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| Mémoires - Œuvres du FRAC Champagne Ardenne - Passages - Centre d'art contemporain, Troyes |
2005
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| De la comtesse De Castiglione à Cindy Sherman - Galerie de France, Paris |
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| Wonderful Fund Collection - Musée de Marrakech, Marrakech |
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| BIG BANG - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
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| Private View 1980-2000 - Collection Pierre Huber - Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne |
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| agir proche - Maison de la Culture d'Amiens, Amiens |
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| Exposed! - Thirty Years of collecting Photography - Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY |
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| La Photographie á l'Épreuve - IAC - Institut d'art contemporain Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, Villeurbanne |
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| The Telefonica Contemporary Photography Collection - MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo |
2004
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| Portraits/Autoportraits - Photographies - Guy Ledune, Brussels |
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| In Focus - Themes in Photography - Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
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| Main - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC |
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| John Coplans, Craigie Horsfield, Ingrid Mwangi - Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris |
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| Exhibiting Signs of Age - Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME |
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| About Corporeality in Editions - Artist Books, Prints, Photography - Galerie Lelong - Zürich, Zurich |
2003
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| Counterparts: The Self-Portraiture of Joan Semmel and John Coplans - Ramapo College Art Galleries, Mahwah, NJ |
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Encounters in Live Situations / Changing Spaces - Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki |
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| A body / Ciało - LAZNIA - Centre for Contemporary Art, Gdansk |
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| In faccia al mondo. Il ritratto contemporaneo nel medium fotografico - Villa Croce Museo d´Arte Contemporanea, Genoa |
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| Warum! Bilder diesseits und jenseits des Menschen - Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin |
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| Visions and Revisions - Art on Paper since 1960 - MFA - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA |
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| Photo - Kunst - 1852 - 2002 - Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart |
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| The Affair is over - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| À Mains Nues - FRAC - Haute-Normandie, Sotteville-lès-Rouen |
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| Imperfect Innocence - Debra & Dennis Scholl Collection - - Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Baltimore, MD (closed, 2012) |
2002
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| Le corps et ses absences - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC |
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| Der Akt in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts - Kunsthalle in Emden, Emden |
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| El lenguaje del cuerpo - Galería Elvira González, Madrid |
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| John Coplans - Chris Burden - Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris |
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| Collection 1 - Fondation pour L'art Contemporain, Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon, Alex |
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| Fallen Heroes. Masculinity and Representation - EACC - Espai d´Art Contemporani de Castelló, Castellon de la Plana |
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| acquiring taste - Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT |
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| Escape from the Vault - Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI |
2001
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| Fresh - Recent Acquisitions - Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
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| Missing Link. Menschen-Bilder in der Fotografie - Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden |
2000
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| GROUP SHOW - BARTHA CONTEMPORARY, London (England) |
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| Le Siecle Du Corps Photographies 1900-2000 - Musée de l´Elysée, Lausanne |
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| Narcisse Blesse - Passage de Retz, Paris |
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| Der anagrammatische Körper - ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe |
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| Les Voluptes - - Borusan Sanat Galerisi / Borusan Art Gallery, Istanbul (closed, 2006) |
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| 3rd Gwangju Biennale - Man+Space - Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju |
1999
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| Der anagrammatische Körper: Der Körper und seine mediale Konstruktion - Kunsthaus Muerz, Mürzzuschlag |
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| Missing Link. Menschen-Bilder in der Fotografie - Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern |
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| The Hand - The Power Plant, Toronto, ON |
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| The nude in contemporary art - The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT |
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| Hello Mr. Soul - Gallery 400 - University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL |
1998
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| Œuvres phares et acquisitions récentes - la collection depuis John Lyman - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC |
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| Texture - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC |
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| Saptiotemporal - Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm |
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| Surrogate: The Figure in Contemporary Sculpture and Photography - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA |
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| Group Exhibition - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY |
1996
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| Double vie, Double vue - Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris |
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| Prospect 96: Photography in Contemporary Art - Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt/Main |
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| Prospect 96: Photography in Contemporary Art - Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/Main |
1995
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| Album: The photographic collection of Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen Rotterdam - Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, Rotterdam |
1994
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| Pictures Of The Real World (In Real Time) - Le Consortium, Dijon |
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| Pictures of The Real World (In Real Time) - Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Passing Through - Kunstraum Walcheturm, Zurich |
1993
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| Up With People - Feature Inc, New York City, NY |
1990
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| The Decade Show: Frameworks of Identity in the 1980s - New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY |
1989
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| Bodies of Experience - Arcadia University Art Gallery , Glenside, PA |
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| Un'altra obiettivitá - Centro per l´Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, PO |
1987
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| The Other Man: Alternative Representations of Masculinity - New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY |
1985
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| Self Portrait: The Photographer's Persona 1840-1985 - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
| Dealer Directory 10 |
Belgium
| | André Simoens Gallery, Knokke-Heist
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France
| | Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris
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Germany
| | Galerie Nordenhake - Berlin, Berlin
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Netherlands
Spain
| | Espaivisor - Galería Visor, Valencia
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Sweden
| | Galerie Nordenhake - Stockholm, Stockholm
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Switzerland
USA
| | Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston, MA
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| | Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla, CA
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| | ACE Gallery - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
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Canada
| | Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC
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| | National Gallery of Canada - Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, ON
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Finland
| | Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
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France
| | FRAC - Basse-Normandie, Caen
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| | FRAC - Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur, Marseille
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| | 49 NORD 6 EST – Frac Lorraine, Metz
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| | FRAC - Ile-de-France Le Plateau, Paris
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| | Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris
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| | FRAC - Champagne-Ardenne, Reims
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| | Musée Départemental d'Art Contemporain de Rochechouart, Rochechouart
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| | Musée d'Art moderne de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne
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| | Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCS), Strasbourg
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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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| | Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA, Barcelona
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| | CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela
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Sweden
| | Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm
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United Kingdom
| | Tate Britain, London (England)
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| | Tate Modern, London (England)
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USA
| | MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
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| | The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA
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| | MMoCA - The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
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| | Frost Art Museum, Miami, FL
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| | MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
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| | Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
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| | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
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