Artist's arttributes:
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Appropriation Art |
Most exhibitions in:
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| USA | 67 |
| Germany | 31 |
| Austria | 13 |
| France | 7 |
Most exhibitions held at:
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Jablonka Galerie - Köln, Germany |
10 |
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Gagosian Gallery, USA |
5 |
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Barbara Mathes Gallery, USA |
5 |
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Luhring Augustine Gallery, USA |
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Biography: 
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Image: www.the-artists.org
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1955 Born in Elizabeth, NJ (US)
External links:
| | Public exhibitions (Selection) 145 
until 15.6.
Solo shows 33
2012
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| Philip Taaffe - Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO |
2011
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| Philip Taaffe - Jablonka Galerie - Köln, Cologne |
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| Philip Taaffe - Paintings 2009 - 2011 - Gagosian Gallery, London (England) |
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| Philip Taaffe - Anima Mundi - Irish Museum of Modern Art - IMMA, Dublin |
2010
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| Philip Taaffe - Jablonka Galerie - Köln, Cologne |
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| Ekstasis - Gagosian Gallery, Athens |
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| Monotypien und Bilder - Galerie Rhomberg, Innsbruck |
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| Philip Taaffe - Galerie Rhomberg, Innsbruck |
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| Philip Taaffe - Gagosian Gallery, New York City, NY |
2009
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| Philip Taaffe - Opere recenti - Studio d'Arte Raffaelli - Palazzo Wolkenstein, Trento |
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| New Works - Jablonka Galerie - Köln, Cologne |
2008
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| Philip Taaffe: Das Leben der Formen. Werke 1980 – 2008 - Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg |
2007
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| Taaffe - Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Philip Taaffe - Gagosian Gallery , New York City, NY |
2004
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| Philip Taaffe - Recent Paintings and Drawings - Jablonka Galerie - Köln, Cologne |
2003
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| Philip Taaffe - Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG, Zurich |
2002
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| Philip Taaffe - Poesia di Wallace Stevens - Studio d'Arte Raffaelli - Palazzo Wolkenstein, Trento |
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| Philip Taaffe - New Paintings - Jablonka Galerie - Köln, Cologne |
2001
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| Philip Taaffe - Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Paris, Paris |
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| Philip Taaffe - University Art Gallery, UCSD, La Jolla, CA |
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| Philip Taaffe - Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea di Trento, Trento |
2000
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| Philip Taaffe - Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA |
1999
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| Philip Taaffe, New Paintings - Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO |
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| Philip Taaffe - - Gagosian Gallery, London (England) (closed) |
1998
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| Philip Taaffe - Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG, Zurich |
1997
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| Philip Taaffe: Composite Nature - Peter Blum Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Philip Taaffe Recent Paintings - Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA |
1996
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| Philip Taaffe - Wiener Secession, Vienna |
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| Philip Taaffe - Galerie Max Hetzler - Berlin, Berlin |
1993
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| Philip Taaffe - - Galerie Max Hetzler - Cologne, Cologne (closed, 1993) |
1991
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| Philip Taaffe Recent Paintings - Gagosian Gallery , New York City, NY |
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| Phillip Taaffe - - Galerie Max Hetzler - Cologne, Cologne (closed, 1993) |
1989
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| Philip Taaffe - Mary Boone Gallery - 745 Fifth Avenue, New York City, NY |
Group shows 111
2012
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| Conceptual Abstraction - Leubsdorf Art Gallery - Hunter College, New York City, NY |
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| Reference - Drawings - Galerie Priska Pasquer, Cologne |
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| Sammlung Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg - Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg |
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| Contemporary Galleries: 1980–Now - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
2011
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| Alchemy & Inquiry - James Cohan Gallery - Shanghai, Shanghai |
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| Ornamental Structures - Stadtgalerie Saarbrücken, Saarbrücken |
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| Alchemy and Inquiry: Philip Taaffe, Fred Tomaselli, Terry Winters - Wave Hill, New York City, NY |
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| Künstler der Galerie - Jablonka Galerie - Köln, Cologne |
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| Invitational Exhibition Of Visual Arts - The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York City, NY |
2010
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| Galaxy & Cosmos - Jason McCoy Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art Since the 1960s - Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY |
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| Sell and Repent - Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Philip Taaffe • Christine Streuli • Timo Nasseri - Galerie Sfeir-Semler - Beirut, Beirut |
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| Accrochage - Jablonka Galerie - Köln, Cologne |
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| Summer Sale: Drawings, Paintings and Objects - Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Miquel Barceló - John Chamberlain - Eric Fischl - Sherrie Levine - Philip Taaffe - Andy Warhol - Jablonka Galerie - Köln, Cologne |
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| Wall to Wall - Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| The 80s Revisited. Sammlung Bischofberger I - Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld |
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| Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art since the 1960s - San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX |
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| Your History is not Our History - Haunch of Venison - New York, New York City, NY |
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| Seconde main - Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris - MAM/ARC, Paris |
2009
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| Beg Borrow and Steal - Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL |
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| A Tribute To Ron Warren - Mary Boone Gallery - 541 West 24 Street, New York City, NY |
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| Gallery Selections - Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Ecstatic Abbstraction - Gagosian Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| The Tree - James Cohan Gallery - Shanghai, Shanghai |
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| Blue - James Graham & Sons, New York City, NY |
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| Slough - David Nolan Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| 15_Jahre Sammlung Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg - Gegen den Strich - Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg |
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| Opere recenti - Studio d'Arte Raffaelli - Palazzo Wolkenstein, Trento |
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| Die Macht des Ornaments - Belvedere, Vienna |
2008
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| Donald Baechler / Philip Taaffe - Galerie Nikolaus Ruzicska, Salzburg |
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| Reverb - Jablonka Galerie - Köln, Cologne |
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| How To Cook A Wolf: Part One - Dinter Fine Art, New York City, NY |
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| Invisible Rays: The Surrealism Legacy - The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA |
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| Now and Forever, Part II - Matthew Marks Gallery - 522 West 22th Street, New York City, NY |
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| Harry Smith Anthology Remixed - Centre for Contemporary Arts (CCA), Glasgow (Scotland) |
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| Social Diagrams. Planning Reconsidered - Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart |
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| Horror Vacui - McKenzie Fine Art, New York City, NY |
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| Sensory Overload: Light, Motion, Sound and the Optical in Art Since 1945 - Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI |
2007
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| 25 Jahre GALERIE CRONE - Galerie Crone, Berlin |
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| Paper - Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Gifts from the Alex Katz Foundation - Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME |
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| POP ART 1960's to 2000's - Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima |
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| Paper: Featuring traditional and innovative uses of the medium - Fisher Landau Center For Art, New York City, NY |
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| Painting as Fact - Fact as Fiction - de Pury & Luxembourg, Zurich |
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| Passion for Art - 35 Jahre Essl Museum - ESSL MUSEUM - KUNST DER GEGENWART, Klosterneuburg |
2006
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| no))) 2 - Galerie Kunstbuero, Vienna |
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| The Painted World - MoMA PS1, New York City, NY |
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| Spring Paper 8 - Woodward Gallery, New York City, NY |
2005
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| printemps de septembre - Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse |
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| Le Printemps de septembre - vertiges - les Abattoirs de Toulouse, Toulouse |
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| 8e Biennale de Lyon - Expérience de la durée - Experiencing Duration - La Biennale de Lyon, Lyon |
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| Nach Rokytnik - Die Sammlung der EVN - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig - MUMOK , Vienna |
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| Works on Paper - Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA |
2004
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| East Village USA - New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY |
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| Vision einer Sammlung - Museum der Moderne Salzburg Mönchsberg, Salzburg |
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| Visions of America - ESSL MUSEUM - KUNST DER GEGENWART, Klosterneuburg |
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| Drawings - - Gagosian Gallery, London (England) (closed) |
2003
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| Painting Lesson - Galleria Cardi - Milano, Milan |
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| The Spirit of White - Galerie Beyeler, Basel |
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| Warped Space - CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA |
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| New Abstract Painting - Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen |
2002
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| Living Room - Jablonka Galerie - Köln, Cologne |
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| The Heavenly Tree Grows Downward - James Cohan Gallery - New York, New York City, NY |
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| Time Space Motion - Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Salzburg, Salzburg |
2001
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| Shortcuts - Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art, Athens |
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| Ornament und Abstraktion - Fondation Beyeler, Riehen |
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| Mythic Proportions - Painting in the 1980’s - Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami (MOCA), Miami, FL |
2000
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| Opulent - Cheim & Read, New York City, NY |
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| Art at Work: Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection - Queens Museum of Art (QMA), New York City, NY |
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| Botanica - University Galleries at Illinois State University, Normal, Il |
1999
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| Real Stories II - Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Botanica - Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, MN |
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| The Stroke: An Overview of Contemporary Painting - - Exit Art, New York City, NY (closed, 2012) |
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| Post-hypnotic - University Galleries at Illinois State University, Normal, Il |
1998
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| Reflections of Monet - MFA - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA |
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| Summer Group Show - - Gagosian Gallery, London (England) (closed) |
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| Painting - Now and Forever, Part I - Matthew Marks Gallery - 522 West 22th Street, New York City, NY |
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| An exhibition of paintings - Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA |
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| Mode und Textiles - Wissenschaftspark Gelsenkirchen, Gelsenkirchen |
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| UTZ, A Collected Exhibition - Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York City, NY |
1997
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| Theories of the Decorative - Abstraction and Ornament in Contemporary Painting - Inverleith House, Edinburgh (Scotland) |
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| Künstlerinnen - Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz |
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| Summer Group Show - Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA |
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| 8 Paintings - Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Birth Of The Cool – Amerikanische Malerei Von Georgia O’keeffe Bis Christopher Wool - Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg |
1996
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| Nuevas abstracciones - Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA, Barcelona |
1995
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| Malerei - Galerie Max Hetzler - Berlin, Berlin |
1994
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| The Ossuary - Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York City, NY |
1993
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| New York Painters - Sammlung Goetz, Munich |
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| Drawn In the ‘90’s - Huntsville Museum of Art, Huntsville, AL |
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| Drawn In the ‘90’s - Illingworth Kerr Gallery at Alberta College of Art, Calgary, AB |
1992
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| Drawn In the ‘90’s - Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY |
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| Group Show - - Galerie Max Hetzler - Cologne, Cologne (closed, 1993) |
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| Slow Art/ Painting in New York Now - MoMA PS1, New York City, NY |
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| Group Show - Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Parkett - CECCH - Centre d'édition contemporaine - Genève, Geneva |
1991
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| Act-Up Benefit Exhibition - Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Carnegie International - Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, PA |
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| Aspect de l’art au XXème siècle : l’oeuvre re-produite - Abbaye St André - Centre d'art contemporain Meymac, Meymac |
1989
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| Bi-Nationale, Amerikanische Kunst der späten 80er Jahre - GAK - Gesellschaft für Aktuelle Kunst e.V. Bremen, Bremen |
1988
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| Art at the End of the Social - - Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö (closed, 2006) |
1987
1986
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| Motives for Collecting: Collection Peter Brams, Hamilton '68 - - Emerson Gallery at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY (closed, 2011) |
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| What It Is - Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Tableaux abstraits - Villa Arson, Nice |
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| Signs of Painting - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
1985
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| Geometrie, Abstraktion, Ornament - 3 Beispiele - Galerie nächst St. Stephan - Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna |
Dealer Directory 18 |
Austria
| | Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Salzburg, Salzburg
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Belgium
| | Maruani & Noirhomme Gallery, Brussels
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Canada
| | Nikola Rukaj Gallery, Toronto, ON
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France
| | Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Paris, Paris
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Germany
| | Jablonka Galerie - Berlin, Berlin
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| | Jablonka Galerie - Köln, Cologne
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Greece
| | Rebecca M. Camhi Gallery, Athens
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Italy
| | Studio d'Arte Raffaelli - Palazzo Wolkenstein, Trento
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San Marino
| | Compagnia dell'Arte, San Marino
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Switzerland
| | Thomas Ammann Fine Art AG, Zurich
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United Kingdom
| | Gagosian Gallery, London (England)
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USA
| | Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
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| | Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
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| | Peter Blum Gallery - Chelsea, New York City, NY
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| | Gagosian Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | Gagosian Gallery , New York City, NY
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| | I.C. Editions, New York City, NY
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| | Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York City, NY
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Collections 6

Austria
| | ESSL MUSEUM - KUNST DER GEGENWART, Klosterneuburg
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Germany
Italy
| | Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia
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USA
| | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
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| | Broad Contemporary Art Museum, Santa Monica, CA
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