 Artist's arttributes:
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Photography, Installation |
Most exhibitions in: |
| Country |
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| USA | 118 |
| Greece | 10 |
| France | 9 |
| Germany | 8 |
| United Kingdom | 7 |
Most exhibitions held at: |
| Institution |
№ |
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MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, USA |
11 |
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The Pace Gallery - 32 East 57th Street, USA |
11 |
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Margo Leavin Gallery, USA |
8 |
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The Pace Gallery - 534 West 25th Street, USA |
7 |
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PaceWildenstein - Greene St. (closed), USA |
5 |
Biography: 
1936 Born in Kastoria (GR)
External links: | | Public exhibitions (Selection) 170
Solo shows 35
2010
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| Lucas Samaras: Poses / Born Actors - The Pace Gallery - 534 West 25th Street, New York City, NY |
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| Lucas Samaras - Polaroids from the 70’s - Lund Fine Art, Oslo |
2008
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| Lucas Samaras: NYC Chairs - The Pace Gallery - 534 West 25th Street, New York City, NY |
2007
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| Lucas Samaras - Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (England) |
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| Lucas Samaras - Russell Bowman Art Advisory, Chicago, IL |
2006
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| Lucas Samaras: i Movies - The Pace Gallery - 534 West 25th Street, New York City, NY |
2005
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| Lucas Samaras: PhotoFlicks (iMovies) and PhotoFictions (A to Z) - The Pace Gallery - 534 West 25th Street, New York City, NY |
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| Lucas Samaras- PhotoFlicks (iMovies) and PhotoFictions (A to Z) - Pace / Macgill Gallery, New York City, NY |
2004
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| Lucas Samaras - Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| Lucas Samaras - Photofictions - Waddington Custot Galleries, London (England) |
2003
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| Unrepentant Ego: The Self-Portraits of Lucas Samaras - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
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| Lucas Samaras: Photofictions - The Pace Gallery - 32 East 57th Street, New York City, NY |
2002
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| Lucas Samaras - Galerie Xippas France, Paris |
2001
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| Lucas Samaras - Paint - The Pace Gallery - 534 West 25th Street, New York City, NY |
2000
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| Lucas Samaras - sittings 1978-1980 - Galerie Xippas France, Paris |
1998
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| Lucas Samaras - Gold - The Pace Gallery - 32 East 57th Street, New York City, NY |
1996
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| Lucas Samaras - Photo-Transformations 1973–1976 - - PaceWildenstein - Greene St. (closed), New York City, NY (closed) |
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| Lucas Samaras - Kiss Kill, Perverted Geometry, Inedibles, Self-Absorption - The Pace Gallery - 32 East 57th Street, New York City, NY |
1994
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| Lucas Samaras - Cubes Pragmata + Trapezoids - - PaceWildenstein - Greene St. (closed), New York City, NY (closed) |
1992
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| The Photographs of Lucas Samaras - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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| The Photographs of Lucas Samaras: Selections from a Recent Gift - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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| Lucas Samaras - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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| Self:1961-1991 - Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima |
1991
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| Lucas Samaras - Yokohama Museum of Art, Nishi-ku, Yokohama |
1990
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| Samaras: Photographs 1969 - 1987 - The Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary, AB |
1989
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| Samaras on Paper - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY |
1986
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| Lucas Samaras: Polaroid Photographs, 1969-1983 - Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL |
1984
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| Lucas Samaras: Polaroid Photographs 1969–1983 - ICP - International Center of Photography, New York City, NY |
1983
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| Lucas Samaras - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
1982
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| Lucas Samaras Pastels - The Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX |
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| Lucas Samaras - Richard Gray Gallery - Chicago, Chicago, IL |
1980
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| Lucas Samaras: Reconstructions - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
1979
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| Lucas Samaras - Reconstructions, Boxes, and... - Richard Gray Gallery - Chicago, Chicago, IL |
1975
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| Lucas Samaras - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1969
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| Lucas Samaras: Book - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
Group shows 135
2012
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| Things Beyond Our Control - Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, FL |
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| Ideas in Things - George Eastman House International Museum of Photography and Film, Rochester, NY |
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| Panegyric - Forde - Espace d'art contemporain, Geneva |
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| À rebours - Venus Over Manhattan Art, New York City, NY |
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| Futures - Artiscope, Brussels |
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| Happenings: New York, 1958–1963 - The Pace Gallery - 534 West 25th Street, New York City, NY |
2011
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| Images of the Artist - The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA |
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| The Last Grand Tour - Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens |
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| Compass - Drawings from the Museum of Modern Art New York - Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin |
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| Master Drawings - Mireille Mosler Ltd., New York City, NY |
2010
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| Iles jamais trouvées - Musée d'Art moderne de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne |
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| Where in the World? - Pace / Macgill Gallery, New York City, NY |
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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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| Isole mai Trovate – Islands never found - Greek State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki |
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| Pastel Drawings 1950s - 1970s and Two Sculptures - Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Pastiche - The Pace Gallery - 545 West 22nd Street, New York City, NY |
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| Isola mai trovate / Islands never found - Palazzo Ducale, Genoa |
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| La collection s'expose - Polaroïd en péril ! - Musée de l´Elysée, Lausanne |
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| Pieces of 9: Reframing the Collection - UAM - University Art Museum, Long Beach, CA |
2009
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| MOCA´s First Thirty Years - MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Polaroid - Atlas Gallery, London (England) |
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| Shake It: An Instant History of the Polaroid - Pump House Gallery, London (England) |
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| The Passionate Pursuit: Gifts and Promised Works from Donna and Cargill MacMillan, Jr. - Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA |
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| The Lens and the Mirror: Self-Portraits from the Collection, 1957–2007 - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY |
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| assises - Galerie Xippas France, Paris |
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| A Walk in the Park: Outdoor Sculpture at PaceWildenstein - The Pace Gallery - 545 West 22nd Street, New York City, NY |
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| heart in heart - National Museum of Contemporary Art - EMST, Athens |
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| 53nd International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia - La Biennale di Venezia, Venice |
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| Photo-OP - Russell Bowman Art Advisory, Chicago, IL |
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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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| Goldfish Suddenly Dead - Extra City - Kunsthal Antwerpen, Antwerp |
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| Photography in the Abstract - Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, TX |
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| Artists Making Photographs: Chamberlain, Rauschenberg, Samaras, Ruscha, Warhol - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
2008
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| Circa 1958: Breaking Ground in American Art - Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC |
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| A Mind at Play - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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| Trans-experiences Greece 2008 - National Museum of Contemporary Art - EMST, Athens |
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| Transexperiences - 798 Space, Beijing |
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| Sculpture - Texas Gallery, Houston, TX |
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| Self-Portraits 1966-2008 - James Fuentes LLC, New York City, NY |
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| Stretching the Truth - John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI |
2007
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| Works on Paper - Rosenbaum Contemporary, Boca Raton, FL |
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| PEEP: Glimpses of the last 4 decades of the Kerry Stokes Collection - TarraWarra Museum of Art, Box Hill, VIC |
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| Light Time and Three Dimensions - The Pace Gallery - 534 West 25th Street, New York City, NY |
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| Conceptual Photograpy 1964-1989 - - Zwirner & Wirth, New York City, NY (closed, 2009) |
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| Ithaca Regained - Kouros Gallery, New York City, NY |
2006
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| Masquerades - Femininity, masculinity and other certainties - Greek State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki |
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| The Alpha Bank Collection - Greek Art since 1920 - MMCA Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki |
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| Beyond Real: Dressing Up - Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, NSW |
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| Das Achte Feld - Geschlechter, Leben u. Begehren in der bildenden Kunst s. 1960 - Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
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| Dereconstruction - Gladstone Gallery - New York - 24th Street, New York City, NY |
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| Odyssey: Greek Art from the Last Fifty Years - Galerie Gmurzynska - Zürich, Zurich |
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| Flowers in Contemporary Art - Benaki Museum, Athens |
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| Recent Acquisitions. Part I - Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art - SMoCA, Scottsdale, AZ |
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| Rethinking the Photographic Image - UMMA - The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI |
2005
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| The years of defiance - The Art of the 70s in Greece - National Museum of Contemporary Art - EMST, Athens |
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| De la comtesse De Castiglione à Cindy Sherman - Galerie de France, Paris |
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| Beyond Real - Part 1 Dressing Up - Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, NSW |
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| Lynda Benglis, The Center For Land Use Interpretation, Dan Colen, Gino De Dominicis, Jeremy Deller, Sam Durant, Lucio F - Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Interstate - Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Mavericks of Color: Photographs from the Collection - Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA |
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| The Art of Greece meets China - Platform China Contemporary Art Institute, Beijing |
2004
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| Contemporary Art: Floor to Ceiling, Wall to Wall - The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT |
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| Summer 2004 - The Pace Gallery - 32 East 57th Street, New York City, NY |
2003
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| Content - Rem Koolhaas und OMA-AMO - Bauten, Projekte und Konzepte seit 1996 - Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
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| on - inaugural show - Galerie Xippas Greece, Athens |
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| Summer Travels - The Pace Gallery - 32 East 57th Street, New York City, NY |
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| Flesh Tones - 100 Years of the Nude - Robert Mann Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Critical Mass: Happenings, Fluxus, Performance, Intermedia and Rutgers University - Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA |
2002
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| Something Anything - Matthew Marks Gallery - 522 West 22th Street, New York City, NY |
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| Escape from the Vault - Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI |
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| Happy New Year! - The Pace Gallery - 32 East 57th Street, New York City, NY |
2001
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| Naked since 1950 - L&M Arts, New York, New York City, NY |
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| Summer in the City - The Pace Gallery - 32 East 57th Street, New York City, NY |
2000
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| Modern Odysseys. Greek-American Artists of the 20th Century - Greek State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki |
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| Watchful Eyes - Catherine Edelman Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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| Narcisse Blesse - Passage de Retz, Paris |
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| Summer Group Exhibition 2000 - The Pace Gallery - 32 East 57th Street, New York City, NY |
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| Group Exhibition of Gallery Artists - - PaceWildenstein - Greene St. (closed), New York City, NY (closed) |
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| 10th Anniversary Exhibition - Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York City, NY |
1999
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| The Eye of the Collector - Works from the Lipman Collection of American Art - ASU Art Museum - Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ |
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| Modern Odysseys: Greek American Artists of the 20th Century - Queens Museum of Art (QMA), New York City, NY |
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| Summer 99 - The Pace Gallery - 32 East 57th Street, New York City, NY |
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| Carved, Modeled, Assembled, Welded, Drawn - Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
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| Coming to Life - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA |
1998
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| Fetiches & Fetichismes - Passage de Retz, Paris |
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| The '60s in the Seventies - Ubu Gallery, New York City, NY |
1997
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| Winter Group Exhibition - The Pace Gallery - 32 East 57th Street, New York City, NY |
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| Group Exhibition of Gallery Artists - - PaceWildenstein - Greene St. (closed), New York City, NY (closed) |
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| Inside - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA |
1996
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| Group Exhibition of Gallery Artists - - PaceWildenstein - Greene St. (closed), New York City, NY (closed) |
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| Summer Academy 3 - The Pace Gallery - 32 East 57th Street, New York City, NY |
1995
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| Imaginary Beings - - Exit Art, New York City, NY (closed, 2012) |
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| Bloom - Cristinerose Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Sculpture as Objects - - Curt Marcus Gallery, New York City, NY (closed, 2002) |
1994
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| The Box: From Duchamp to Horn - Ubu Gallery, New York City, NY |
1993
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| Acquisitions Gallery - Leslie Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York City, NY |
1992
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| A visage decouvert - Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris |
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| News Modern and Contemporary Masters - Zeisler Collection - Richard Gray Gallery - Chicago, Chicago, IL |
1990
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| Photography Until Now - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1988
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| BIG little Sculpture - Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA |
1987
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| Legacy of Light - ICP - International Center of Photography, New York City, NY |
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| Sculpture of the Sixties - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
1986
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| 75th American Exhibition - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
1985
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| Self Portrait: The Photographer's Persona 1840-1985 - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1984
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| American Sculpture - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
1983
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| American Still Life: 1945–1983 - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
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| Kunst mit Photographie - Die Sammlung Dr. Rolf H. Krauss - Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne |
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| Kunst mit Photographie - Die Sammlung Dr. Rolf H. Krauss - Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
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| Self-Portraits Part II: The Antic Vision - Allan Frumkin Gallery, New York City, NY |
1982
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| Photo-Collage - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
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| The Americans: The Collage - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
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| Ébauches : dix ans de dessins d'installations - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC |
1981
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| The New Color: A Decade of Color Photography - ICP - International Center of Photography, New York City, NY |
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| Cast, Carved & Constructed - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Mirrors and windows - Fundación Juan March, Madrid |
1980
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| currents 8: LUCAS SAMARAS AND CLAIRE ZEISLER - Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO |
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| other media - Visual Arts Gallery, Florida International University, Miami, FL |
1978
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| Three Generations: Studies in Collage - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
1977
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| documenta 6 - Documenta, Kassel |
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| Fine Paintings and Drawings - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Recent Portraiture - The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
1975
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| Eight artists, eight attitudes, eight Greeks - ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts London, London (England) |
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| The Condition of Sculpture - Hayward Gallery, London (England) |
1974
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| Printed, Folded, Cut and Torn - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1972
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| documenta 5 - Documenta, Kassel |
1971
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| Sculptors' Drawings - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| The New Curiosity Shop - The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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| Ways of Looking - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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| Highlights of the 1970-71 Art Season - The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT |
1970
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| Pace in Los Angeles - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
1968
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| documenta 4 - Documenta, Kassel |
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| The Obsessive Image 1960-1968 - ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts London, London (England) |
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| Dada, Surrealism and their Heritage - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1967
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| Drawings: Recent Acquisitions - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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| Sculpture: A Generation of Innovation - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
| Dealer Directory 14 |
Belgium
| | Galerie Pascal Polar, Brussels
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China
United Kingdom
| | Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (England)
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USA
| | Richard Gray Gallery - Chicago, Chicago, IL
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| | Artware Editions, New York City, NY
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| | Mark Borghi Fine Art - New York, New York City, NY
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| | Richard Gray Gallery - New York, New York City, NY
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| | Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | Pace / Macgill Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | The Pace Gallery - 32 East 57th Street, New York City, NY
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| | The Pace Gallery - 534 West 25th Street, New York City, NY
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| | The Pace Gallery - 545 West 22nd Street, New York City, NY
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| | Pace Prints, New York City, NY
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France
| | Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris
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Germany
Greece
| | National Museum of Contemporary Art - EMST, Athens
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Portugal
| | Berardo Museum - Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisbon
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United Kingdom
| | Tate Britain, London (England)
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| | Tate Modern, London (England)
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USA
| | Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
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| | Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
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| | Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI
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| | UAM - University Art Museum, Long Beach, CA
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| | The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA
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| | Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
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| | MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
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| | Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY
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| | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY
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| | Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY
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| | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
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