 Artist's arttributes:
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Video, Performance |
Most exhibitions in: |
| Country |
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| USA | 66 |
| Germany | 26 |
| Austria | 10 |
| Greece | 7 |
| France | 6 |
Most exhibitions held at: |
| Institution |
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Paula Cooper Gallery, USA |
20 |
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Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, USA |
6 |
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Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Salzburg, Austria |
6 |
Biography: 
1941 Born in Waco, TX (US)
Lives and works in New York, NY (US)
External links: | | Public exhibitions (Selection) 145
Solo shows 59
2012
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| Robert Wilson - Video Portreti - Galerija Klovićevi dvori, Zagreb |
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| Robert Wilson - Ritratti A Palazzo Madama - Palazzo Madama, Turin |
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| Robert Wilson: Video 50 - UMMA - The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI |
2011
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| Robert Wilson - Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Robert Wilson - Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Salzburg, Salzburg |
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| Video Portrait Drawings - Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Salzburg, Salzburg |
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| Robert Wilson - Video Portraits - Museum der Moderne - MdM Mönchsberg, Salzburg |
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| Robert Wilson Video Portraits - Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX |
2010
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| Video portraits - Jiri Svestka Prague, Prague |
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| Deafman Glance: Video Installation - Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Robert Wilson. Video Portraits - ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe |
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| Robert Wilson - Video Portraits, A Collectors View - Kunsthalle Koidl , Berlin |
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| Robert Wilson - Video Portraits - Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin |
2009
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| Tin-sects - Coleman Burke Gallery - Portland, Portland, ME |
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| Robert Wilson: Voom Portraits - Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg |
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| Robert Wilson - Voom Portraits - Neue Galerie Graz - Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz |
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| Robert Wilson: Voom Portraits - Palazzo Reale, Milan |
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| VOOM PORTRAITS: Robert Wilson - Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, FL |
2008
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| VOOM PORTRAITS Robert Wilson - National Museum of Singapore, Singapore |
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| Voom Portraits - Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL |
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| VOOM Portraits: Robert Wilson - Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE |
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| VOOM Portraits: Robert Wilson - University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA |
2007
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| Voom Portraits. A still life is a real life - Museo D'Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina - MADRE, Naples |
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| VOOM. Portraits by Robert Wilson - Cultural Foundation Ekaterina, Moscow |
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| Robert Wilson - Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City, NY |
2006
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| Robert Wilson - Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Paris, Paris |
2005
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| Robert Wilson - Video 50 (1978-80) - The RISD Museum - University of Rhode Island, Providence, RI |
2004
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| Robert Wilson - Galerie Baronian-Francey, Brussels |
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| ROBERT WILSON - Sculptures and drawings - Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
2003
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| Robert Wilson - On a Clear Day You Yan See Your Mother II - Galerie Nordenhake - Berlin, Berlin |
2002
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| Robert Wilson - Galerie de France, Paris |
2001
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| Robert Wilson - Bernier/Eliades Gallery, Athens |
2000
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| Robert Wilson - Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich |
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| Robert Wilson - Recent Sculpture - Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Robert Wilson - Annemarie Verna Gallery, Zurich |
1998
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| Robert Wilson - Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Salzburg, Salzburg |
1997
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| Robert Wilson. Ein Environment aus 12 Tableaux - Museum Villa Stuck, Munich |
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| Robert Wilson: Sets for Alceste and Parsifal - University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA |
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| Robert Wilson - Pelleas & Melisande - Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Salzburg, Salzburg |
1996
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| Robert Wilson - Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City, NY |
1995
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| Robert Wilson - Erwartung - Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Paris, Paris |
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| Robert Wilson - The Rooms of Seven Women - Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Salzburg, Salzburg |
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| Robert Wilson - Zauberflöte - Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Salzburg, Salzburg |
1994
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| Three Rooms - Akira Ikeda - New York, New York City, NY |
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| Robert Wilson - Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City, NY |
1993
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| Robert Wilson - Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Robert Wilson - Monsters of Grace - Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin |
1992
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| Einstein on the Bench - Kamakura Gallery, Kanagawa |
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| Robert Wilson - Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City, NY |
1991
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| Robert Wilson - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
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| Robert Wilson’s Vision - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
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| Robert Wilson - Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City, NY |
1987
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| Robert Wilson - Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City, NY |
1986
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| Robert Wilson Drawings - University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA |
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| Robert Wilson: Drawings for "the CIVIL warS" - Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL |
1984
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| Robert Wilson - Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Robert Wilson's Civil warS: Drawings, Models & Documentation - Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA |
1977
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| Robert Wilson - Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City, NY |
Group shows 86
2012
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| Wagner 2013. Künstlerpositionen - AdK - Akademie der Künste, Berlin |
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| Einstein on the Beach - Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Stage Presence - Theatricality In Art And Media - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA |
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| Group Show - Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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| Vidéo Vintage 1963-1983 - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
2011
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| Christmas Group Show - Bernier/Eliades Gallery, Athens |
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| Elemental - Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City, NY |
2010
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| Law Of The Jungle - Lehmann Maupin, New York City, NY |
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| Josef Svoboda – Robert Wilson - Museum Kampa - The Jan and Meda Mládek Foundation, Prague |
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| Die Leichtigkeit des Seins Teil 3 - Dany Keller Galerie, Munich |
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| Armitage Gone Dance Exquisite Corpse Project - Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc., New York City, NY |
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| Winter Group Exhibition - Coleman Burke Gallery - Brunswick, Brunswick, ME |
2009
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| HELLWACH GEGENWÄRTIG - MARTa Herford, Herford |
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| Isabelle Huppert: Woman of Many Faces - UCCA - Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing |
2008
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| Contemporary Art for 30 years PART 1 - Kamakura Gallery, Kanagawa |
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| Aquilo Sou Eu - Fundação Carmona e Costa, Lisbon |
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| Die lucky Bush - MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp |
2007
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| 20th Century Design Art - The Columns, Seoul |
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| Sculpture - James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM |
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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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| Not For Sale - MoMA PS1, New York City, NY |
2006
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| Radical NY! The Downtown show: the New York art scene, 1974-1984 and abstract expresionism: 1940-1960 - Austin Museum of Art - AMOA, Austin, TX |
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| "Behausungen" - Dany Keller Galerie, Munich |
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| The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene, 1974–1984 - The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburg, PA |
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| 40jahrevideokunst.de - Teil 1 - K21 Ständehaus, Dusseldorf |
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| Kunst als Möbel im Widerstand - MARTa Herford, Herford |
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| The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene, 1974–1984 - Grey Art Gallery, NYU, New York City, NY |
2005
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| Ecos y Contrastes - Arte Contemporáneo en la Colección Cisneros - MADC Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, San José |
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| Indeterminate States - Video in the Ella Fontanals - CIFO - Cisneros Fontanals Art Foundation, Miami, FL |
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| Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht - ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe |
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| Sammlung MARTa Herford - MARTa Herford, Herford |
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| Videographies – The Early Decades - II Cycle - National Museum of Contemporary Art - EMST, Athens |
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| Salon d'automne - Annemarie Verna Gallery, Zurich |
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| Videographies – The Early Decades - I Cycle - National Museum of Contemporary Art - EMST, Athens |
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| (my private) Heroes - MARTa Herford, Herford |
2004
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| 25th Anniversary Exhibition - MODERNISM, San Francisco, CA |
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| "Eine kurze Zeit ...lang" - Dany Keller Galerie, Munich |
2003
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| Heiliger Sebastian - A Splendid Readiness For Death - Kunsthalle Wien (Museumsquartier), Vienna |
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| Independence - SLG South London Gallery, London (England) |
2002
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| Merce Cunningham Foundation Benefit 50th Anniversary Art Sale - Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Multimedia Installation Bam! Bam! Bam! Catching the next wave for 20 years - Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York City, NY |
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| Wächserne Identitäten - Figürliche Wachsplastik am Ende des 20. Jahrhunderts - Georg Kolbe Museum, Berlin |
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| SHOW PEOPLE: Downtown Directors and the Play of Time - - Exit Art, New York City, NY (closed, 2012) |
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| Lewis Caroll - ... confiture demain et confiture hier. Mais jamais confiture auj - CRAC - Centre Régional d'Art Contemporain de Sète, Sète |
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| Sammlerstücke - Dany Keller Galerie, Munich |
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| Selections from the permanent collection of video art - National Museum of Contemporary Art - EMST, Athens |
2001
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| The Inward Eye - Transcendence in Contemporary Art - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
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| About Objects - The RISD Museum - University of Rhode Island, Providence, RI |
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| The “classics” of video art ( 1965- 1995)-New Media - National Museum of Contemporary Art - EMST, Athens |
2000
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| Joan Banach, Ansuya Blom and Robert Wilson - Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam |
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| Times are changing - Auf dem Wege! Aus dem 20. Jahrhundert! - Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen |
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| Soft White - Lighting Designs by Artists - Amherst Fine Arts Center - University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA |
1999
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| 1999 Drawings - Alexander and Bonin, New York City, NY |
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| Head to Toe - Impressing the Body - Amherst Fine Arts Center - University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA |
1998
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| Amnesty International Benefit Drawing Show - Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Mode und Textiles - Wissenschaftspark Gelsenkirchen, Gelsenkirchen |
1997
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| Tableaux - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
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| The Lois Beurman Torf Print Collection - Amherst Fine Arts Center - University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA |
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| Pablo Cano: The Pursuit of Love and Animated Altarpieces - Museum of Contemporary Art - North Miami (MOCA), Miami, FL |
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| Whitney Biennial 1997 - Whitney Biennial, New York City, NY |
1996
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| Black Grey & White - Part II - Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Dusseldorf |
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| Black Grey & White - Part I - Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Dusseldorf |
1994
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| Some American Drawings - The Menil Collection, Houston, TX |
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| Exhibition of Prints - Ileana Tounta Contemporary Art Centre, Athens |
1993
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| Seeing the Forest Through the Trees - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
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| Magazin m Magazin - Magazin4 - Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz |
1992
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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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| 21° Bienal de São Paulo - Bienal de Sao Paulo, São Paulo |
1990
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| Group Exhibition - Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Broken Music - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC |
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| Energieën - Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam |
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| A Video: Dream - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1989
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| 20° Bienal de São Paulo - Bienal de Sao Paulo, São Paulo |
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| The Arts for Television - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
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| Video: Arts for Television - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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| The arts for television - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC |
1988
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| Daine Ostoich and Rob Wilson - Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC |
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| 100 Odd Ways to Have Fun - Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC |
1987
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| documenta 8 - Documenta, Kassel |
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| Art Against Aids: A Benefit Exhibition - Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City, NY |
1986
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| Die Maler und das Theater im 20. Jahrhundert / Painters and Theater in the Twentieth Century - Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/Main |
1984
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| International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1982
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| The Next Wave - Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City, NY |
1981
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| Other Realities – Installations for Performance - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
| Dealer Directory 11 |
Belgium
| | Galerie Albert Baronian, Brussels
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| | Galerie Baronian-Francey, Brussels
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France
| | Galerie Catherine Putman, Paris
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| | Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Paris, Paris
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Germany
| | Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich
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| | Dany Keller Galerie, Munich
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Switzerland
| | Parkett Editions - Zürich, Zurich
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| | Annemarie Verna Gallery, Zurich
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USA
| | ACE Gallery - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
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| | Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | MODERNISM, San Francisco, CA
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Germany
| | Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
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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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Sweden
| | The Wanas Foundation, Knislinge
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United Kingdom
| | Design Museum, London (England)
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USA
| | MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
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| | MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
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