Artist's arttributes:
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Painting |
Most exhibitions in:
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| USA | 60 |
| Germany | 25 |
| Switzerland | 19 |
| United Kingdom | 17 |
| France | 9 |
Most exhibitions held at:
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303 Gallery, USA |
10 |
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Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Switzerland |
8 |
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Mamco - musée d´art moderne et contemporain, Switzerland |
4 |
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The Greene Naftali Gallery, USA |
4 |
Biography: 
1962 Born in Philadelphia, PA (US)
1974 - 1976 Temple University, Philadelphia, PA (US)
Lives and works in Philadelphia, PA (US)
External links:
| | Public exhibitions (Selection) 151 
until 23.6.
until 26.5.
Solo shows 36
2013
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| Karen Kilimnik - Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich |
2012
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| Dance Rehearsal: Karen Kilimnik's World Of Ballet And Theater - Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA |
2011
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| Karen Kilimnik - 303 Gallery, New York City, NY |
2010
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| Intervention: Karen Kilimnik - Belvedere, Vienna |
2008
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| Heathers - Sprüth Magers Berlin, Berlin |
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| Karen Kilimnik - Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich |
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| Karen Kilimnik - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (MCA), Chicago, IL |
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| Karen Kilimnik - 303 Gallery, New York City, NY |
2007
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| Karen Kilimnik - Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO |
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| Karen Kilimnik - - Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, Cologne (closed) |
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| Karen Kilimnik - Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami (MOCA), Miami, FL |
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| Karen Kilimnik - Sprüth Magers London, London (England) |
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| Karen Kilimnik - ICA - Institute of Contemporary Art - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA |
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| Karen Kilimnik - Le Consortium, Dijon |
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| Karen Kilimnik - Serpentine Gallery, London (England) |
2006
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| Karen Kilimnik - Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris - MAM/ARC, Paris |
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| Karen Kilimnik - 303 Gallery, New York City, NY |
2005
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| Karen Kilimnik - Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice |
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| Karen Kilimnik in the Haus zum Kirschgarten - Historisches Museum Basel, Basel |
2004
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| Karen Kilimnik - Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich |
2003
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| Karen Kilimnik - - Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, Munich (closed) |
2002
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| Karen Kilimnik: Fairy Battle - Irish Museum of Modern Art - IMMA, Dublin |
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| Karen Kilimnik - Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich |
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| Karen Kilimnik - Drawings for the ARMORY - 303 Gallery, New York City, NY |
2001
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| Karen Kilimnik - 303 Gallery, New York City, NY |
2000
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| Karen Kilimnik - - Emily Tsingou Gallery, London (England) (closed, 2008) |
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| Karen Kilimnik - - Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, Munich (closed) |
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| Karen Kilimnik - Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn |
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| Karen Kilimnik - Solo Exhibition - SLG South London Gallery, London (England) |
1999
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| Karen Kilimnik - Rebecca M. Camhi Gallery, Athens |
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| Karen Kilimnik - - Schipper & Krome, Cologne (closed, 2000) |
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| Karen Kilimnik - 303 Gallery, New York City, NY |
1998
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| Karen Kilimnik - - Emily Tsingou Gallery, London (England) (closed, 2008) |
1995
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| Karen Kilimnik - CECCH - Centre d'édition contemporaine - Genève, Geneva |
1994
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| Karen Kilimnik - The Legacy - White Cube - Hoxton Square, London (England) |
1989
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| Karen Kilimnick - Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York City, NY |
Group shows 113
2013
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| The Time is Now - John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
2012
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| The Perfect Show - 303 Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| A Bigger Splash: Painting after Performance - Tate Modern, London (England) |
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| Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY |
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| Karen Kilimnik & Kim Gordon - 303 Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| A Complete Die, etc. - Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
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| Painting Now - Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich |
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| First Among Equals - ICA - Institute of Contemporary Art - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA |
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| The Old, The New, The Different - Kunsthalle Bern, Bern |
2011
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| The Deer - Le Consortium, Dijon |
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| Happy Holidays! Drawings! - Alex Zachary Peter Currie, New York City, NY |
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| the Avantgarde: Specters of the Nineties - Marres - Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht |
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| Six Rooms - Friedman Benda Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Sculpture Now - Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich |
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| Black Swan: The Exhibition - Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA |
2010
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| The Dandie’s Ball - Ritter/Zamet, London (England) |
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| Ordinary Madness - Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, PA |
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| Armitage Gone Dance Exquisite Corpse Project - Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc., New York City, NY |
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| Picture Industry (Goodbye to All That) - Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA |
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| In the Company of Alice - Victoria Miro Gallery, London (England) |
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| Joseph Cornell / Karen Kilimnik - Sprüth Magers London, London (England) |
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| HIGH IDEALS & CRAZY DREAMS - Compiled by Gerwald Rockenschaub - Galerie Vera Munro, Hamburg |
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| Don’t Look Back in Anger - Kenny Schachter / ROVE Projects LLP, London (England) |
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| Fritto Misto - Tanja Pol Galerie, Munich |
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| fragmentations - Centre d'Art Passerelle, Brest |
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| THE EPHEMERAL - Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam |
2009
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| We are sun kissed and snow blind - Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris |
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| American Printmaking since 196 - Museum of Modern Art Dubrovnik, Dubrovnik |
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| 20 YEARS: We gave a party for the gods and the Gods all came - Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, 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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| 1992009 - D'Amelio Terras, New York City, NY |
2008
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| Faces and Figures (Revisited) - Marc Jancou Contemporary, New York City, NY |
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| Mysteries - Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| IMPLANT - The Horticultural Society of New York Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Pretty Ugly - Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York City, NY |
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| Freeway Balconies - - Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin (closed, 2013) |
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| Painting Now and Forever Part II - The Greene Naftali Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Présence Panchounette - CAPC - Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux |
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| Looking Back - Mireille Mosler Ltd., New York City, NY |
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| Blasted Allegories - Werke aus der Sammlung Ringier - Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne |
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| WE ARE STARDUST WE ARE GOLDEN WOMEN - - Johnen & Schöttle, Cologne (closed, 2009) |
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| Whitney Biennial 2008 - Whitney Biennial, New York City, NY |
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| Nouvelles Collections III - Kunsthaus CentrePasquArt - Centre d'Art, Biel/Bienne |
2007
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| seconds issue 7: sci-fi, utopia, roadside picnics - E:vent, London (England) |
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| Jubilee Exhibition - Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich |
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| The Incomplete - CAM - Chelsea Art Museum, New York City, NY |
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| The third mind - Carte blanche a Ugo Rondinone - Palais de Tokyo, Paris |
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| Old School - - Zwirner & Wirth, New York City, NY (closed, 2009) |
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| Old School - - Hauser & Wirth, London (England) (closed, 2011) |
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| Timer 01 - Triennale Bovisa, Milan |
2006
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| Defamation of Character - MoMA PS1, New York City, NY |
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| Safe: an exploration of domesticity ... - Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York City, NY |
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| A Broken Arm - 303 Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Face to Face - Künstlerselbstporträts - Kunsthalle Münster, Münster |
2005
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| Goetz Meets Falckenberg - Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg |
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| Looking at Words - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY |
2004
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| Eye of the Needle - Roberts & Tilton, Culver City, CA |
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| Girls Don't Cry - Parco Museum, Tokyo |
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| American Idyll - The Greene Naftali Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Now is a good time - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY |
2003
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| Never mind your step - Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal |
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| "Game over" - Andreas Grimm - München, Munich |
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| Within Hours We Would be im the Middle of Nowhere - 303 Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Lee 3 Tau Ceti Central Armory Show - Villa Arson, Nice |
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| Intervista con la Pittura - Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice |
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| Breathing the Water - Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich |
2002
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| It's Unfair! - Museum De Paviljoens, Almere |
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| Die Wohltat der Kunst - Postfeministische Positionen der 90er Jahre - Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden |
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| "Reflections" - - Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, Munich (closed) |
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| Mary Cassatt, Alice Neel, Karen Kilimnik: Painted Faces - Galleries at Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, PA |
2001
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| Au rendez-vous des amis (La ligne seule) 2 - Mamco - musée d´art moderne et contemporain, Geneva |
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| The Mystery of Painting - Sammlung Goetz, Munich |
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| Works on Paper - Victoria Miro Gallery, London (England) |
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| il Dono - SMS Contemporanea, ex Palazzo Delle Papesse, Siena |
2000
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| Drawings - Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv |
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| Salon - - Delfina Project Space, London (England) (closed) |
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| Spring Thesis Exhibitions - Hessel Museum of Art & Center for Curatorial Studies Galleries at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY |
1999
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| horsePLAY - Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT |
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| Mamcoms (Mamco Magazine Show) - Mamco - musée d´art moderne et contemporain, Geneva |
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| draw - - Emily Tsingou Gallery, London (England) (closed, 2008) |
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| Deep Storage – Arsenale der Erinnerung - Museum Kunstpalast, Dusseldorf |
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| Free Coke - The Greene Naftali Gallery, New York City, NY |
1998
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| La Nuit, l’oubli (en souvenir de Gilles Dusein) - Mamco - musée d´art moderne et contemporain, Geneva |
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| Deep Storage: The Arsenal of Memory - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA |
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| Deep Storage, Arsenale der Erinnerung - MoMA PS1, New York City, NY |
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| Minis, Midis & Maxis - Künstlerhaus Palais Thurn & Taxis BV:BKV, Bregenz |
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| fast forward - 2. Abschnitt: FFWD trade marks - Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg |
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| The Sound of One Hand - Apexart, New York City, NY |
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| fast forward - 1. Abschnitt: FFWD image - Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg |
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| Super Freaks; Post Pop & the New Generation - The Greene Naftali Gallery, New York City, NY |
1997
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| Deep Storage - Sammeln, Speichern, Archivieren in der Kunst - Kulturforum Potsdamer Platz, Berlin |
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| Deep Storage – Arsenale der Erinnerung - Haus der Kunst München, Munich |
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| Group Exhibition - Collective Gallery, Edinburgh (Scotland) |
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| Ne dites pas non ! - Mamco - musée d´art moderne et contemporain, Geneva |
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| Deep Storage - Arsenale der Erinnerung - Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
1996
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| a/drift - Hessel Museum of Art & Center for Curatorial Studies Galleries at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY |
1995
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| Chocolate! - SI Swiss Institute, New York City, NY |
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| Audience 0.01 - Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Group Exhibition - - Schipper & Krome, Cologne (closed, 2000) |
1994
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| Cocktail I - Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg |
1993
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| Über-Leben - Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn |
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| Karen Kilimnik, Glenn Ligon, Suzanne McClelland, Daniel Oates - - Jack Hanley Gallery - San Francisco, San Francisco, CA (closed, 2010) |
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| Spielhölle - Grazer Kunstverein, Graz |
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| ECART - Galerie Susanna Kulli, Zurich |
1992
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| Teddy and Other Stories (A.V.) - Galleria In Arco, Turin |
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| Opere dalla Collezione 88-92 - Centro per l´Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, PO |
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| Small medium large. Lifesize - Centro per l´Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, PO |
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| Through the viewfinder - de Appel arts centre, Amsterdam |
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| Works on Paper - Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York City, NY |
1990
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| Work? Work in Progress? - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY |
Dealer Directory 6 |
Germany
| | Sprüth Magers Berlin, Berlin
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Greece
| | Rebecca M. Camhi Gallery, Athens
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Japan
Switzerland
| | Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich
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United Kingdom
| | Sprüth Magers London, London (England)
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USA
| | 303 Gallery, New York City, NY
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Collections 4

Germany
| | Burger Collection, Berlin
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USA
| | MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
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| | MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
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