1941 Born in Fort Wayne, Indiana Lives and works in New Mexico
Education
1964 University of Wisconsin, Madison
1966 University of California, Davis
Solo exhibitions
2021 Contrapposto Studies, Punta della Dogana, Venice
2020 Tate Modern, London touring to Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, and Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milan Models, Skulpturenhalle, Neuss, Germany
2019 Rooms, Bodies, Words, Museo Picasso Málaga, Spain Blue and Yellow Corridor, Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, California
2018 Disappearing Acts, Schaulager, Basel touring to The Museum of Modern Art, New York and MoMA PS1, New York No, No, New Museum, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, New York Parameters, Estancia Femsa – Casa Luis Barragán, Mexico City Time Tunnel: Bruce Nauman’s Corridor Installation with Mirror, Natalie and James Thompson Art Gallery, San Jose, California
2017 ARTIST ROOMS, Tate Modern, London 2016 Contrapposto Studies, I through VII, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania Language Body, Center for Contemporary Art & Culture, Portland, Oregon
2015 Prints 1970-2006, Sims Reed Gallery, London Selected Works from 1967-1990, Gagosian Gallery, Paris Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, Paris; Friedrich Kiesler Stiftung, Vienna; Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Wuppertal, Germany
2014 Bruce Nauman’s Words on Paper, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
2013 Some Illusions -- Drawings and Videos, Sperone Westwater, New York Göteburgs Konstmuseum, Gothenburg, Sweden Bruce Nauman: Mindfuck. Hauser & Wirth, London
2012 One Hundred Fish Fountain, Gagosian Gallery, New York Days, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London White Cube, London Basements, Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Portland, Oregon Infrared Outtakes, Soft Ground Etchings, and Crossbeams, Galeria La Caja Negra, Madrid
2011 Combinations Described (Chicago), Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Für Kinder / Beschriebene Kombinationen, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin Der Wahre Künstler, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Germany
2010 For Children/For Beginners, Sperone Westwater, New York Days, The Museum of Modern Art, New York Dream Passage, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
2009 One Video and Works on paper, Galleria Zabert, Turin, Italy Notations / Bruce Nauman: Days and Giorni, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania Drawings for Neons, Craig F. Starr Gallery, New York Topological Gardens, United States Exhibition of the 53rd Venice Biennale, United States Pavilion at the Giardini della Biennale, Venice, Italy; Universitá luav di Venezia at Tolentini, Venice, Italy; Exhibition Spaces at Universitá Ca’ Foscari, Venice, Italy Tramway, Glasgow Diamond Mind Circle of Tears Fallen All Around Me (1975), Peter Freeman, Inc., New York Dead Shot Dan, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Missouri Elusive Signs: Bruce Nauman Works with Light, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, California Studies for Holograms, Specific Object/ David Platzker, New York
2008 Drawings for Installations, Sperone Westwater, New York One Hundred Fish Fountain, Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany
2007 Soft Ground Etchings and Infrared Outtakes, Joni Moisant Eeyl, New York A Rose Has No Teeth: Bruce Nauman in the 1960s, University of California, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive; Castello di Rivoli Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin; The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas
2006 Elusive Signs: Bruce Nauman Works with Light, Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin; Indianopolis Museum of Art, Indiana; Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida; Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle; Musee d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada; Australian Center for Contemporary Art, Victoria; Queensland Art Gallery, South Brisbane, Australia Bruce Nauman: Mental Exercises, NRW – Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Düsseldorf, Germany Make Me Think Me, Tate Liverpool, UK Information as Poetry, Craig F. Starr Associates, New York
2005 Circuito Fechado: Filmes e videos de Bruce Nauman, 1967–2001, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil Audio Video Underground Chamber and Early Films, MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna Pay Attention: Bruce Nauman Videos from the Collection of Barbara Balkin Cottle and Robert Cottle, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona
2004 Raw Materials: The Unilever Series: Bruce Nauman, Tate Modern, London PKM Gallery, Seoul, Korea Setting a Good Corner (Allegory & Metaphor), Power House Memphis, Tennessee
2003 Theaters of Experience, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin Mapping the Studio I (Fat Chance John Cage), Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany
2002 Mapping the Studio II (Fat Chance John Cage), Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland Neons, Sculptures, Drawings, Van de Weghe Fine Art, New York All Action Edit – Mapping the Studio I, Office Edit I, Office Edit II with Color Shift, Flip, Flop & Flip/Flop, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany Mapping the Studio II (Fat Chance John Cage), Sperone Westwater, New York Mapping the Studio I (Fat Chance John Cage), DIA Center for the Arts, New York
2001 Selected Works, Zwirner & Wirth, New York
1999 Setting a Good Corner (Allegory & Metaphor), Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam 1973–88, Graphic Works, Pepe Cobo Gallery, Seville, Spain Flesh to White to Black to Flesh, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1998 Selected Works, 1970–96, Galleri Riis, Oslo Films, 1967–69, Dia Center for the Arts, New York Versuchsanordnungen, Werke 1965–1994, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany
1997 Image/ Text 1966–96, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany; Centre Georges Pompidou, Mnam- Centre de Création Industrielle, Paris, (1998); Hayward Gallery, London, (1998); Nykytaiteen Museo/ Museum of Contemporary Art Kiasma, Helsinki, (1999) Casa Masaccio, San Giovanni Valdarno, Florence, Italy 1985–1996: Drawings, Prints and Related Works, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut; Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Ohio, (1998) World Peace (Projected), Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst, München, Germany Shadow Puppet Spinning Head, Hauser & Wirth Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
1996 Sculpture and Video, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York Video and Sculpture, Sperone Westwater, New York Magasin III Museum for Contemporary Art, Stockholm Konsthall Neue Arbeiten, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
1995 Elliott’s Stones, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois Falls, Pratfalls and Sleights of Hand, Jean Bernier, Athens Recent Prints and Monoprints, Baumgartner Galleries, Washington, DC
1994 Falls, Pratfalls and Sleights of Hand, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London Sieben Tugenden und Sieben Laster, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany Falls, Pratfalls and Sleights of Hand, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
1993 Retrospective, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, (1994); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, (1994); Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, (1995); The Museum of Modern Art, New York, (1995); Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland (1995) Light Works, Steinberg Hall, Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, Missouri; Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1992 Ydessa Hendeles Art Foundation, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzberg, Austria Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London
1991 Fundacio Espai Poblenou, Barcelona, Spain Prints and Multiples, Museum van Hedendaagse, Ghent, Belgium; Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland; as Clear Vision, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands; Heiligenkreuzerhof, Hoschule für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna; as Use Me Graphics, Multiples, Videos and Installations, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; City Museum, Stoke on Trent, UK, (1992); as Prints, Multiples, Neon and Videos Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel, (1992) Galerie Metroprol, Vienna OK OK OK, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Prints, Gallery 360°, Tokyo
1990 Skulpturen und Installationen, 1985–1990, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland; Städtische Galerie, Städelsches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main, Germany (combined with exhibition entitled Bruce Nauman: Arbeiten auf Papier and called Bruce Nauman: Human Nature/ Animal Nature: Skulpturen, Installationen und Arbeiten auf Papier); Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland; Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica, California Galerie Langer Fain, Paris Redierungen, Lithographien, Multiples, Galerie Jürgen Beck, Hamburg, Germany 65 Thompson Street Gallery, New York Leo Castelli Gallery, New York Shadow Puppets and Instructed Mime, Sperone Westwater, New York Galerie B. Coppens and R. Van De Velde, Brussels
1989 A Survey, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London; Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica, California Prints 1970–89, Castelli Graphics, New York and Lorence – Monk Gallery, New York; Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois; Earl McGrath Gallery, Los Angeles, California; Pence Gallery, Santa Monica, California Heads and Bodies, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany Druckgraphik, 1970–1988, Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany New Sculptures, Texas Gallery, Houston New Prints (Published by Brooke Alexander in Conjunction with Coosje van Bruggen’s Monograph on the Artist), Sperone Westwater, New York
1988 Galeries Contemporaines, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris Sperone Westwater, New York Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf; Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium Video, 1965–1986, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
1987 Neon and Video, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois; Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1986 Drawings/ Zeichnungen, 1965–1986 Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland; Kunsthalle Tubingen, West Germany; Städtisches Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany; Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands, (1987); Kunstraum, Munich, Germany (1987); Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany (1987); New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, (1987); Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, (1988); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, (1988); University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley (1988) Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland; ARC, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris Oeuvres Sur Papier, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris Jean Bernier, Athens Texas Gallery, Houston
1985 New Neons, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany; Leo Castelli Gallery, New York New Work: Neons and Drawings, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1984 Seven Virtues and Seven Vices: White Anger, Red Danger, Yellow Peril, Black Death, Sperone Westwater, New York Room with My Soul Left Out, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York New Sculptures and Drawings, Carol Taylor Art, Dallas, Texas
1983 Dream Passage, Stadium Piece, Musical Chairs–Drei neue Arbeiten, Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany; Hallen für neue Kunst, Schaffhausen, Switzerland, (1984); Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, California, (1984) Hoffnung/ Neid, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
1982 Neons, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland; Carol Taylor Art, Dallas, Texas Violins, Violence, Silence, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York and Sperone Westwater, New York
1981 Photo Piece, Window Screen, Hologram, Neon Sculptures, Cast-Iron Sculpture, Drawings, 1967–1981, Galerie Konrad Fischer, Zurich, Switzerland New Iron Casting, Plaster, and Drawings, Young Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Lessons, Texas Gallery, Houston 1972–1981, Rijksmuseum Kröller- Müller, Otterlo, Netherlands; Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany Stone Sculpture: Enforced Perspective. Allegory and Symbolism, Ace Gallery, Venice, California 1/12 Scale Models for Underground Pieces, Albuquerque Museum, New Mexico
1980 Forced Perspective or False Perspective: Drawings by Bruce Nauman, Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London; Maud Boreel Print Art Gallery, The Hague, Netherlands InK, Halle für Internationale neue Kunst, Zurich; Carol Taylor Art, Dallas, Texas, (1981) North, East, South, South East, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany New Sculpture, Hill’s Gallery of Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
1979 Prints, Hester van Royen Gallery, London Large Scale Sculptures: Cor–Ten Steel, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, California An Installation, Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Oregon Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1978 Wood, Plaster and Steel Works and Cor–Ten Steel Sculpture, Ace Gallery, Vancouver, Canada; Galerie Schmela, Düsseldorf, Germany (1979) 1/12 Scale Study in Fibreglass and Plaster for Cast Iron of a Trench and Four Tunnels in Concrete at Full Scale, Art Gallery, California State University, San Diego InK, Halle für Internationale neue Kunst, Zurich, Switzerland Large Studies in Combinations of Olive, Mustard and Pink Fibreglass and Polyester Resin in 4 Groups and One Study in Cast Iron All at 1:50 Scale of Combinations of Shafts, Trenches, and Tunnels, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
1977 The Consummate Mask of Rock, Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, California; Bruna Soletti, Milan, Italy
1976 The Consummate Mask of Rock, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York The Consummate Mask of Rock, Ileana Sonnabend Gallery, Paris (in cooperation with Leo Castelli Gallery, New York) The Consummate Mask of Rock, Sperone Westwater Fischer, New York (in cooperation with Leo Castelli Gallery, New York) Enforced Perspective: Allegory and Symbolism, Ace Gallery, Venice, California Drawings, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, California White Breathing, UNLV Art Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas Enforced Perspectives: Allegory and Symbolism, Ace Gallery, Vancouver, Canada Installation, Diamond Mind, Atholl McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, California
1975 Forced Perspective: Open Mind, Closed Mind, Equal Mind, Parallel Mind (Allegory and Symbolism), Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany The Consummate Mask of Rock, Albright–Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York Cones/ Cojones, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
1974 Flayed Earth / Flayed Self (Skin/Sink), Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, California P. M. J. Self Gallery, London; Galerie Art in Progress, Munich; Galerie Sonnabend, Paris Wall with Two Fans, Wide White Space, Antwerp, Belgium Yellow Triangular Room, Santa Ana College Art Gallery, California Yellow Body, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
1973 Image Projection and Displacement (No Promises), Ace Gallery, Vancouver, Canada Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, California Floating Room, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York Floating Room, Fine Arts Gallery, University of California, Irvine
1972 Work from 1965 to 1972, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, (1973); Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland, (1973); Stadtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany, (1973); Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands, (1973); Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy, (1974); Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, (1974); San Francisco Museum of Art, California 16mm Filme 1967–1970, Ursula Wevers Gallery, Cologne, Germany; Helman Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
1971 Natural Light, Blue Light Room, Ace Gallery, Vancouver, Canada; Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland; Galleria Françoise Lambert, Milan, Italy, (1972) Left or Standing, Standing or Left Standing, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York; Helman Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri Studies on Holograms, Five Silkscreens and New Lithographs, Betty Gold Fine Modern Prints, Los Angeles, California
1970 Studies for Holograms, Galerie Ricke, Cologne, Germany; Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland; Helman Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri; Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, (1971); Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Paris, (1971); Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany Untitled: Corridor Piece with Mirror, San Jose State College, California Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany; 20/20 Gallery, London; Galleria Sperone, Turin, Italy; Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1969 Audio/ Video Projects, Palley Cellar, San Francisco, California Photographs, School of Visual Arts, New York Holograms, Videotapes and Other Works, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York; Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Paris
1968 6 Day Week: 6 Sound Problems, Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf, Germany; Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, California, (1969) Leo Castelli Gallery, New York; Sacramento State College Art Gallery, California
1966 Master of Arts Degree Exhibition, University of California, Davis; Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Selected group exhibitions
2020 The Invisible Show, Culturegest, Lisbon Glass and Concrete Manifestations of the Impossible, Marta Herford Museum, Germany
2019 Icons: Worship and Adoration, Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany How We Live: Selections from the Marc and Livia Straus Family Collection, Hudson Valley MOCA, Peeksill, New York Objects of Wonder – from Pedestal to Interaction, ARoS Aarhaus Art Museum, Denmark Artists Respond: American Art and the Vietnam War, 1965–1975, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minnesota Rodin / Nauman, Saarlandmuseum – Moderne Galerie, Saarbrücken, Germany Polke / Nauman: Drawings from the Froehlich Collection, Eykyn Maclean, New York
2018 Topologies, The Warehouse, Dallas, Texas West by Midwest, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois American Masters, National Gallery of Art Australia, Canberra Crossroads: Carnegie Museum of Art’s Collection, 1945 to Now, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania 250th Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London Experience Traps: The Contemporary Legacy of Baroque Landscape Architecture Middelheim Museum, Antwerp, Belgium A Luta Continua: The Sylvio Perlstein Collection, Hauser & Wirth Gallery, New York Dancing with Myself, Pinault Collection, Punta della Dogana, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy BOMBHEAD, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada The Classical Now, The Arcade at Bush House and Inigo Rooms, Somerset House East Wing, Kings College, London
2017 Being Modern: MoMA in Paris, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason 1950–1980, The Met Breuer, New York Dizziness: Navigating the Unknown, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria Generation Loss: 10 Years of the Julia Stoschek Collection, Julia Stoscheck Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany Words Without Thoughts Never To Heaven Go, Almine Rech Gallery, New York The Hysterical Material, Smart Museum of Art at the University of Chicago, Illinois Francis Bacon / Bruce Nauman – Face à Face, Musée Fabre, Montpellier, France Punto de Partida, Colección Isabel y Agustin Coppel, Fondación Banco Santander, Madrid
2016 Giacometti–Nauman, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany Wolke & Kristall: Die Sammlung Dorothee und Konrad Fischer / Cloud and Crystal: The Dorothee and Konrad Fischer Collection, K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein– Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany Mind Over Matter: Conceptual Art from the Collection, BAMPFA, the UC Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, California Rhona Hoffman: 40 Years, Part 1, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Embracing the Contemporary: The Keith L. And Katherine Sachs Collection, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania WITH A TOUCH OF PINK–WITH A BIT OF VIOLET–WITH A HINT OF GREEN– DOROTHEE FISCHER–IN MEMORIAM, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany Landscapes after Ruskin: Redefining the Sublime, Hall Art Foundation, Reading, Vermont Out of Their Hands: Bruce Nauman & Susan Rothenberg at Gemini G.E.L, Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl, New York Unfinished: Thoughts Left Visible, The Met Breuer, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Sculpture4tet: Luciano Fabro, Jean–Luc Moulène, Bruce Nauman & Danh Vō, Marian Goodman Gallery, London
2015 Fear Nothing, She Says, Museo Nacional de Escultura, Valladolid, Spain Strange Pilgrims, The Contemporary Austin, Texas Future Present – Emmanuel Hoffmann Foundation: Contemporary Art from Classic Modernism to the Present Day, Schaulager, Basel, Switzerland Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Blake Byrne Collection, Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina; Ohio State University Urban Arts Space, Columbus; Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery at Columbia University, New York, (2016); Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art at Lewis & Clark College, Portland, Oregon, (2016) Notations: Minimalism in Motion, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania Double Eye Poke: Lynda Benglis, Dan Flavin, Sol LeWitt, Bruce Nauman, Kamel Mennour, Paris Walking Sculpture 1967–2015, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, Massachusetts Drawing in Silver and Gold: Leonardo to Jasper Johns, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Occupational Therapy, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Missouri America is Hard to See, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Accelerazione, Herbert Foundation, Ghent, Belgium L’oeil et l’Esprit: Point of View on the Collection, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Canada Damien Hirst and Bruce Nauman in the Froehlich Collection, Stiftung Froehlich, Leinfelden–Echterdingen, Germany Embracing Modernism: Ten Years of Drawings Acquisitions, The Morgan Library and Museum, New York SELF: Portraits of Artists in Their Absence, National Academy Museum, New York Signs / Words, Sperone Westwater, New York
2014 Roll Up, Roll Up! An Anatomical Waxwork Cabinet Meets Art, Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden, Germany Inside, Palais de Tokyo, Paris 14 Rooms, Fondation Beyeler, Art Basel Potent Wilderness: Works from the Igal Ahouvi Art Collection, The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery at Tel Aviv University, Israel Ed Atkins, Bruce Nauman, Kunsthalle Mainz, Germany A Topography of Chance, Jessica Silverman Gallery / Fused Space, San Francisco, California Room by Room: Monographic Presentations from the Faulconer and Rachofsky Collections, The Warehouse, Dallas, Texas Body & Void: Echoes of Moore in Contemporary Art, Henry Moore Foundation, Hertfordshire, UK Play What’s Not There, Raven Row, London Interlaced: Selections for the CU Art Museum’s Video Collection, CU Art Museum at the University of Colorado, Boulder Reliable Tension, or: How to Win a Conversation about Jasper Johns, 32 Edgewood Avenue Gallery, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, Connecticut
2013 Body Pressure: Sculpture since the 1960s, Nationalgalerie Staatliche Museen zu Berlin Prima Materia, Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy Fail Better: Moving Images, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany When Attitudes Become Form, Fondazione Prada, Venice, Italy The Causes of Things, CENTRALE for Contemporary Art, Brussels Body Double: Jasper Johns / Bruce Nauman, Craig F. Starr Gallery, New York Less like an object, more like the weather: Don’t blame anyone, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annendale–on–Hudson, New York
2012 From Death to Death and Other Small Tales: Masterpieces from the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and D. Daskalopoulos Collection, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh A Bigger Splash: Painting after Performance, Tate Modern, London Mythos Atelier – von Spitzweg bis Picasso, von Giacometti bis Nauman, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Germany Explosion! Måleri som handling (Painting as Action), Moderna Museet, Stockholm Artists Rooms Tour, Tate Modern, London Cellblock II: An Essay in Exhibition Form, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York Something Along Those Lines, Barbara and Steven Grossman Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts Sint–Jan, Saint–Bavo Cathedral, Ghent, Belgium La La Insan Adimlari: Boijmans Van Beuningen Müzesi Koleksiyonundan Bir Seçki, Istanbul Modern, Karaköy Wish You Were Here: The Buffalo Avant–Garde in the 1970s, Albright–Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
2011 Sympathy for the Devil, Vanhaerents Art Collection, Brussels The Language of Less: Then and Now, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois Kindred Spirits: Native American Influences on 20th Century Art, Peter Blum, New York Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964–1977, The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois Pacific Standard Times: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture, 1950–1970, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, California State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1970, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, California Extended Drawing: Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, Bruce Nauman, Richard Serra, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Netherlands Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974–81, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California 3rd Thessaloniki Biennale of Contemporary Art, State Museum of Contemporary Art – Costakis Collection; Archaelogical Museum of Thessaloniki; The Museum of Byzantine Culture; The Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art; Thessaloniki Foundation of Art, Greece Melodymania, RH Gallery, New York Elogio del dubbio, (In Praise of Doubt), Palazzo Grazzi, Venice, Italy Politics is Personal, Stonescape, Calistoga, California Videosphere: A New Generation, Albright–Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York Off the Wall / Fora de Parede, Museu de Serralves, Portugal Il Mondo VI Appartiene, Francois Pinault Foundation, Punta Della Dogana, , Venice, Italy Topography / Typography, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York Nod Nod Wink Wink: Conceptual Art in New Mexico and Its Influences, Harwood Museum of Art at the University of New Mexico, Taos Investigating of a Dog: Works from the FACE Collections, Konsthall Stockholm Goldmine: Contemporary Works from the Collection of Sirje and Michel Gold, University Art Museum at California State University, Long Beach David Smith: Cubes and Anarchy, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California Out–Of–Sync: The Paradoxes of Time, Mudam Luxembourg, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg Videosphere: A New Generation, Albright–Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York The Parallax View, Lehmann Maupin, New York Hockney, Kelly, Nauman, Rauschenberg, Ruscha, Serra, Galerie Lelong, New York
2010 Exposed: Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera Since 1870, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, (2011) Res Publica, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon Between Here and There: Passages in Contemporary Photography, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York Framed, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana Move: Choreographing You, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century, The Museum of Modern Art, New York The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today, The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland A Bit of Matter and a Little Bit More: The Collection and the Archives of Herman and Nicole Daled, Haus der Kunst, Munchen, Germany Minima Moralia: Samuel Beckett, Matias Faldbakken, Glen Ligon, Bruce Nauman, Marvelli Gallery, New York You can’t get there from here but you can get here from there, Apexart, New York Maninbo–100 Lives, 3rd Gwangju Biennale, Gwanju Biennale Hall; Gwangju Museum of Art; Gwangju Folk Museum, Korea Kupferstichkabinett: Between Thought and Action, White Cube, London Magic Show, Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, UK Off the Wall: Part 1 – Thirty Performative Actions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Bilder in Bewegung, Künstler & Video / Film, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany Robert & Ethel Scull: Portait of a Collection, Acquavella Galleries, New York Come As You Are, Kunstraum Morgenstrasse, Karlsruhe, Germany Augenspiel, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Netherlands Territories of Time, Meesen De Clercq, Brussels
2009 Magic Show, QUAD, Derby, UK; The Grundy, Blackpool, UK, (2010); Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle, UK, (2010); Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff, UK, (2010); Pump House Gallery, London, (2010) Collection: MOCA’s First Thirty Years, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California 1969, MoMA PS1, New York Investigations of a Dog: Works from the FACE Collections, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy Talking Pictures, SITE, Santa Fe, California Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawing Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York Your Gold Teeth II, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York The Dor, Campo S. Agnese–Dorsoduro 810, Venice, Italy The Quick and the Dead, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota Installations Inside / Out: 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, California Group Show, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 15 Years of Collecting – Against the Grain, Kunstmuseum Wolfsberg, Germany Silences, A Statement by Marin Karmitz, Musées De La Ville De Strasbourg, France New at the Morgan: Acquisitions Since 2004, The Morgan Library & Museum, New York Holbein to Tillmans: Prominent Guests from the Kunstmuseum Basel, Schaulager, Basel, Switzerland Performer, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland Man Son 1969: The Horror of the Situation / Vom Schreken der Situation, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany SIGN / AGE, Part 3: Fight the Power, Armand Bartos Fine Art, New York Talk Dirty to Me, Larissa Goldston Gallery, New York
2008 Slightly Unbalanced, Chicago Cultural Center, Illinois; Museum London, Ontario, Canada, (2009); Huntington Museum of Art, West Virginia, (2009); Rodman Hall Arts Center, Ontario, Canada, (2009); Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, Los Angeles, California, (2009); Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, University of Richmond Museums, Virginia, (2010) Looking for Mushrooms: Beat Poets, Hippies, Funk, Minimal Art, San Francisco 1955–68, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany An Unruly History of the Readymade: Sexta Interpretación de La Colección Jumex, Fundación/ Colección Jumex, Ectapec de Morelos, Mexico City Oranges and Sardines: Conversations on Abstract Painting with Mark Grotjehn, Wade Guyton, Mary Heilmann, Amy Sillman, Charline von Heyl, and Christopher Wool, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California The Puppet Show, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Santa Monica Museum of Art, California; The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, (2009) The Panza Collection, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC Black, G Fine Art Gallery, Washington, DC Face to Face: The Daros Collection, Daros Exhibitions, Zurich, Switzerland Here is Every, Four Decades of Contemporary Art, The Museum of Modern Art, New York Meet Me Around the Corner – works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo From Nature, Carolina Nitsch Project Room, New York Selections from the Collection of Helga and Walther Lauffs, David Zwirner and Zwirner & Wirth, Zurich, Switzerland Revolutions–Forms That Turn: 2008 Biennale of Sydney, Biennale of Sydney, ` Australia Like Watching a Train Wreck, Galerie Groeflin Maag, Zurich, Switzerland The Sum of its Parts, Cheim & Read, New York
2007 Disorder in the House, Vamhaerents Art Collection, Brussels Brave Lonesome Cowboy, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland J’Embrasse pas / I Don’t Kiss, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France The Panza Collection: An Experience of Colour and Light, Albright–Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York Apocalypse Now: The Theatre of War, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, California Passage du Temps: A Selection of Works from the François Pinault Foundation, Tri Postal Exhibition, Lille, France The Future of Futurism, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Bergamo, Italy Beautiful People et La Blessure Secréte: Collection Frac Nord-Pas Calais, Frac Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, France Sign Language, Des Moines Art Center Downtown, Iowa Mark Making, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts Sculpture Projects Münster ’07, Munster, Germany Her(his)tory, Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens Think with the Senses – Feel with the Mind, Art in the Present Tense, 52nd Venice Biennale, Italy
2006 Fast Forward: Contemporary Collections for the Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas Museum of Art, Texas Le Movement des Images, (The Movement of Images), Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris Films, Videos and Installations from 1963 to 2005: Works from the Friedrich Christian Flick Collection In Hamburger Bahnhof, from the Kramlich Collection and Others, Nationaolgalerie Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin The Invisible Show, MARCO, Monterrey, Mexico Wrestle, CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York The Other Side #2, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York The Studio, Dublin City Gallery, The Hugh Lane, Dublin New York, New York: Fifty Years of Art, Architecture, Cinema, Performance, Photography and Video, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco Yes Bruce Nauman, Zwirner & Wirth, New York The Expanded Eye: Stalking the Unseen, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland The Eighth Square: Gender, Life and Desire in the Visual Arts Since 1960, Ludwig Museum – Museum of Contemporary Art, Cologne, Germany Mapping the Studio, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Against the Grain: Contemporary Art from the Edward R. Broida Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York Von Mäusen und Menschen, (Of Mice and Men), 4th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin I Not I: Samuel Beckett, Philip Guston, Bruce Nauman, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin The Mediated Gesture, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York Walking & Falling, Magasin III, Stockholm Konsthall Public Space / Two Audiences: Works from the Herbert Collection, Museu d’Art Contemporani De Barcelona, Spain
2005 Guardami: Percezione del Video, Palazzo Delle Papesse, Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena, Italy Part Object Part Sculpture, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio Looking at Words: The Formal Presence of Text in Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York Empreinte Moi, Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin, Paris Cindy Sherman: Working Girl, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Missouri Drawings from the Modern, 1945–1975, Museum of Modern Art, New York When Humour Becomes Painful, Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland The Experience of Art, 51st Venice Biennale, Italian Pavilion, Venice, Italy Videographies–The Early Decades from the EMST Collection, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens Colour after Klein: Rethinking Colour in Modern and Contemporary Art, Barbican Art Gallery, London Open Systems: Rethinking art circa 1970, Tate Modern, London MO(NU)MENTS! Works from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo Daumen Kino: The Flip Book Show, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany Contemporary Voices: Works from the UBS Art Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
2004 1000 Artists See God, The Contemporary Jewish Museum, San Francisco, California; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Contemporary Art Center of Virginia (2005); Albright College Freedman Gallery, Reading, Pennsylvania, (2005); Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, Tennessee, (2006) Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque, SITE Santa Fe Fifth International Biennial, Santa Fe, New Mexico L’ombre du temps: documents et experimentations dans la photographie du XXe siècle, Jeu de Paume, Paris Four–Ply, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York Animals, Haunch of Venison Gallery, London; 14th Sydney Biennale, Australia The Beauty of Failure / The Failure of Beauty, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain Á Angles Vif, CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporains de Bordeaux, France Speaking with Hands: Photographs from the Buhl Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York I am the Walrus, Cheim and Reid, New York Off the Wall: Works for the JP Morgan Chase Collection, The Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form 1940s–70s, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California Disturbing the Peace, Danese Corey Gallery, New York Bodily Space: New Obsessions in Figurative Sculpture, Albright–Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York A Minimal Future? Art as Object 1958–1968, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated): Art from 1951 to the Present, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Repetition, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York
2003 The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960–1982, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; The UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California, (2004); Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Spain, (2004); Fotomuseum Winterthur, Zurich, Switzerland (2004) Work Ethic, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland; Des Moines Art Center, Iowa (2004); Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio Drawing Modern: Works from the Agnes Gund Collection, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio Incommunicado, Sainsbury Center for Visual Arts, Norwich, UK; City Art Center, Edinburgh, Scotland, (2004); Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK, (2004) (Hayward Gallery, London, Arts Council touring exhibition) The Disembodied Spirit, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunwick, Maine; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri, (2004); Austin Museum of Art, Texas, (2004) Micropolitics, Art and Everyday Life (2001–1968), Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló, Spain
2002 Video Acts: Single Channel Works from the Collections of Pamela and Richard Kramlich and New Art Trust, MoMA PS1, New York Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain; Selected Works from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois Sunday Afternoon, 303 Gallery, New York Fantasy Underfoot, 47th Corcoran Biennial, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Vertigo, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York; Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Conceptual Art 1965–1975 from Dutch and Belgian Collections, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Photography by Gallery Artists, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Between Language and Form, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut The Culture of Violence, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
2001 Letters, Signs & Symbols, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York Nauman, Kruger, Jaar, Daros Collection, Zurich, Switzerland Into the Light: The Projected Image in American Art 1964–1977, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York CTRL Space, Rhetorik de Überwachung von Bentham bis Big Brother, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Germany Passage, Magasin III Stockholm Konsthall Loop – Alles auf Anfang, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich, Germany Green on Greene, Sperone Westwater, New York Space Odysseys: Sensation and Immersion, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia Making Time, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California Saying Seeing: 4 from the sixties, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
2000 Luci in Galleria. Da Warhol al 2000. Gian Enzo Sperone: 35 Anni di Mostre fra Europa e America / Lights in the Gallery: From Warhol to 2000, Gian Enzo Sperone: 35 Years Between Europe and America, Palazzo Cavour, Turin, Italy Crossroads of American Sculpture, New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisiana; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana, (2001) Seeing Time: Selections from the Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection of Media Art, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany Art Light, Galerie Ernst Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland Many Coloured Objects Placed Side by Side to Form a Row of Many Coloured Objects, Collection of Annick and Anton Herbert, Casino Luxembourg, Forum d’Art Contemporain Luxembourg Rodney Graham and Bruce Nauman: the nearest faraway place…, DIA Center for the Arts, New York Temps, vite, Musée Nationale d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome; Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Spain Sculptures, Sonnabend Gallery, New York media_city seoul 2000, Contemporary Art and Technology Biennial, Seoul, Korea Exorcism / Aesthetic Terrorism, Fiery Temperaments in Contemporary Art, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen Rotterdam, Netherlands Food for the Mind; Die Sammlung Udo und Anette Brandhorst, Staatsgalerie Moderner Kunst, Munich, Germany Art at Work: Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection, Queens Museum of Art, New York 12th Biennale of Sydney, Australia After Life 1, Thomas Dane Gallery, London Colour > Light, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland On Language, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York Arte Americana; Ultimo Decennio, Museo d’Arte della Citta di Ravenna, Italy Samuel Beckett / Bruce Nauman, Kunsthalle Wien Karlsplatz, Vienna Age of Influence: Reflections in the Mirror of American Culture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois Couples, Cheim & Read, New York
1999 Afterimage: Drawing through Process, The Museum of Contemporary Art and the Geffin Contemporary, Los Angeles, California; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, (2000); Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Washington State, (2000) Sculptors Drawings, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York Rewind to the Future, Bonner Kunstverein August-Mack-Platz, Bonn, Germany Casa de la Escultura / House of Sculpture, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico (The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas touring exhibition) The American Century: Art & Culture 1900–2000, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Seeing Time: Selections from the Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection of Media Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California Me, Myself & I, Selfimages 3000 years after Rembrandt, Haags Historisch Museum and Stroom hcbk, Den Haag, Netherlands A Sangre y Fuego, Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castelló, Valencia, Spain Encounter: Bruce Nauman / Kcho, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois Elizabeth Murray, Bruce Nauman, Dorothea Rockburne, Ed Ruscha / New Editions, Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl, New York Chronos & Kairos: Die Ziet in der Zeitgenössischen Kunst, Museum Fridericianum Kassel, Germany Transmute, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois The Hand, The Power Plant, Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Ontario Circa 1968, Museu de Serralves, Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto, Portugal Scripta Manent, Esso Gallery, New York Apposite Opposites: Pohotography from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois Contemporary German and American Art From the Froehlich Collection, Tate Liverpool, UK Spaced Out: Late 1990’s Works from the Vicki and Kent Logan Collection, California College of Arts and Crafts Institute, San Francisco House of Sculpture, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas Drawn from Artists’ Collections, The Drawing Center, New York Life / Forms (vital/ formae), Musée Fesch, Ajaccio, France The Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection, Seattle Art Museum, Washington State Art at Work: Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California and Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas
1998 Hedge: Between Time and Intent, Thomas Healy Gallery, New York 50 Espèces D’Espaces, MAC, Galeries Contemporaines des Musées de Marseille, France A Portrait of our Times: An Introduction to the Logan Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California Extensions: Aspects of the Figure, Joseloff Gallery, Hartford Art School at the University of Hartford, Connecticut XXIV Bienal de São Paulo, Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo, Parque Ibirapuera, São Paulo, Brazil Art in New Mexico, Part 1: Works by Agnes Martin, Bruce Nauman, Susan Rothenberg, Richard Tuttle, James Kelly Contemporary Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico Inner Eye: Contemporary Art from the Marc and Livia Straus Collection, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art at the University of Florida, Gainesville; Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee; Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia, The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia Video: Bruce Nauman, Tony Oursler, Sam Taylor- Wood, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California Sculpture, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Conceptual Photography from the 60s and 70s, David Zwirner, New York Spatiotemporal Verk Ur Samlingen, 1988–1998, Magasin III Stockholm Konsthall The Edward R.Broida Collection: A Selection of Works, Orlando Museum of Art, Florida Wounds: Between Democracy and Redemption in Contemporary Art, Moderna Museet, Stockholm Inner Self: Marcel Duchamp, Marc Quinn, Alberto Giacometti, Bruce Nauman, Robert Gober, Kiki Smith, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York Rubber, Robert Miller Gallery, New York Points of Origin: Sources of Academic Influence, Robert Arneson and Bruce Nauman, Dale Chihuly and Roni Horn, Ron Nagle and John Duff, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York
1997 Drawing is Another Kind of Language: Recent American Drawings from a New York Private Collection, Harvard University Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland, (1998); Kunstmuseum Ahlen, Ahlen, Germany, (1998); Akademie Der Künst, Berlin, (1999); Fonds Regional d’Art Contemporain / Musée de Picardi, Amiens, (1999); Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, (1999); May and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, Illinois, (2000); The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii, (2001) Magasin III Stockholm Konsthall på Arken: Udvalgte vaerker fra samlingen / Selections from the Collection, Arken Museum for Moderne Kunst, Isøj, Denmark Artists Projects, MoMA PS1, New York Le Miroir Vivant: René Magritte, Marcel Broodthaers, Bruce Nauman, Markus Raetz, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland On the Edge: Contemporary Art from the Werner and Elaine Dannheisser Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York Art at Work, De Moines Art Center, Iowa Envisioning the Contemporary: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois Sunshine & Noir: Art in L. A., 1960–1997, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany; Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy, (1998); The Armand Hammer Museum of Art at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, (1998) Anselmo, Boetti, Laib, Merz, Nauman, Paolini, Pistoletto, Vital, Zorio, Sperone Westwater, New York 97 Kwangju Biennale: Unmapping the Earth, Kwangju, Korea Scene of the Crime, UCLA, The Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, California Views from Abroad: European Perspectives on American Art 3, American Realities, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York L’Autre, 4th Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, Halle Tony Garnier, Lyon, France Selections from the Video Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York Lux / Lumen: Dan flavin, Bruce Nauman, James Turrell, Félix González-Torres, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain De Re Metallica, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London The Hirshhorn Collects: Recent Acquisitions 1992–1996, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC Selections from the Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York The Age of Modernism: Art in the 20th Century, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin 1997 Biennial Exhibition, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Along the Frontier: Ann Hamilton, Bruce Nauman, Francesc Torres, Bill Viola, Soros Center for the Contemporary Art Gallery at the Kyiv Mohyla Academy, Kiev Oblast, Ukraine
1996 The Froehlich Foundation: German and American Art from Beuys and Warhol, Tate Modern, London; Kunsthalle Tübingen, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Germany; Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Kunsthalle Hamburg, Germany, (1997); Bank Austria Kunstforum, Vienna Being & Time, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York Thinking Print: Books to Billboards, 1980–95, The Museum of Modern Art, New York Mediascape, Guggenheim Museum Soho, New York
1995 Critiques of Pure Abstraction, Sarah Blaffer Campbell Gallery at the University of Houston, Texas; Ilingworth Kerr Gallery of the Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery at the University of Nebraska, Lincoln; The Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, (1996); Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California, (1996); Madison Art Center, Wisconsin, (1996); The Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, Florida, (1996); Krannert Art Museum at the University of Illinois, Champaign (1997); Frederick R. Weisman Museum at the University of Minnesota, Minneapolis (1997) Main Stations, Casino Luxembourg – Forum d’Art Contemporain, Luxembourg Bruce Nauman: Selected Prints and Drawings, Earl McGrath Gallery, New York Identity and Alterity – Figures of the Body 1895/1995, Venice Biennale, Palazzo Grassi, Italy Longing and Belonging from the Faraway Nearby, SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico 20 Years of Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center 1975–1995, Burchfield-Penney Art Center at Buffalo State College, New York Attitudes / Sculptures, 1963–1972, CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain, Entrepot, Bordeaux, France
1994 Sculpture, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London Selected Works, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, California Viceral Responses, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York Drawn in the 1970’s, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York Drawings by Bruce Nauman & H.C. Westermann, Lawrence Markey, New York Dessins, 1894–1994, Marc Blondeau, Paris After and Before, The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Illinois Nauman Palermo Schwarzkogler - Spaces, The Arts Club of Chicago, Illinois Imprimatur, Galerie Graff, Montreal; Centre Des Arts Saidye Bronfman, Montreal; Galerie De L’Uqam, Montreal 1969, Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany Acting Out, The Body In Video: Then and Now, Henry Moore Gallery, Royal College of Art, London some kind of fact some kind of fiction, Sperone Westwater, New York
1993 Photoplay, Works from the Chase Manhattan Collection, Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, Florida; Museo Amparo, Puebla, Mexico; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Mexico; Centro Cultural Consolidado, Caracas, Venzuela; MASP/ Museo de Arte de Sao Paulo, Brazil; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile Schwerpunkt Skulptur (Center of Gravity), Kaiser Wilhelm Museum in Krefeld, Germany Sculptures (1832–1992), Espace 14/16 Verneuil and Marc Blondeau, Paris Sculpture, Laura Carpenter Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico Matthew Barney, Shigeko Kubota, Bruce Nauman, Marcel Odenbach, Pierrick Sorin, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York Four Centuries of Drawing: 1593–1993, Kohn Abrams Gallery, Los Angeles, California Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell, Don’t Pursue: Sexual Identity in Contemporary Printmaking, Fairfield University’s Lucaks Gallery, Loyola Hall, Connecticut An Anniversary Exhibition: Part III, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica, California De Verzameling, The Collection, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands New York on Paper, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland Pour la vie: Gilbert & George, Jeff Koons, Bruce Nauman, CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France British / American Sculpture, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York The Legacy of Hans Bellmer, Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, California The Spirit of Drawing, Sperone Westwater, New York Zeichnungen Setzen Zeichen - 44 Kunstler Der Documenta IX, Arbeiten Auf Papier, Galerie Raymond Bollag 1 & 2, Zurich, Switzerland Amerikanische Kunst im 20, Jahrhundert, (American Art in the 20th Century), Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin Vito Acconci, Bruce Nauman, Paul Thek, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York European and American Drawings 1961–1969, Nolan / Eckman Gallery, New York På Kanten af Kaos–nye billeder af verden, (At the Edge of Chaos–New Images of the World, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark Un’ avventura internazionale: Torino e le arti 1950–1970, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin, Italy Out of Sight Out of Mind, Lisson Gallery, London Sculpture & Multiples, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York Gravity & Grace: The Changing Condition of Sculpture, 1965–1975, Hayward Gallery, London Works on Paper, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris Artists’ Books: Selections from the Collection, Richard L. Nelson Gallery and The Fine Arts Collection at The University of California, Davis
1992 What is Political, Anyway? Boras Konstmuseum, Boras, Sweden Schwerpunkt Skulptur, Center of Gravity, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany 15th Anniversary Exhibition, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Bourgeois, Jaar, Kounellis, Nauman, Solano, Tapies, Galerie Lelong, New York Group Exhibition, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York Szenenwechsel, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Group Sculpture Show, Sperone Westwater, New York Nauman, Oppenheim, Serra: Early Works 1968–71, Blum Helman Warehouse, New York Psycho, KunstHall, New York; Documenta IX, Kassel, Germany Habeas Corpus, Stux Gallery, New York Allegories of Modernism: Contemporary Drawing, The Museum of Modern Art, New York Modern Art: Notable Works from the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, Ohio Arte Americana 1930–1970, Ligotto, Turin, Italy Giovanni Anselmo, Wolfgang Laib, Bruce Nauman, Günter Umberg, Galerie Miller Nordernhake, Cologne, Germany
1991 Devil on the Stairs: Looking Back on the Eighties, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California Korper + Einsatz – Pierre Molinier, Bruce Nauman, Franz West, Galerie Julius Hummel, Vienna A Passion for Art, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York Dislocation – Louise Bourgeois, Chris Burden, Sophie Calle, David Hammons, Ilya Kabokov, Bruce Nauman, Adrian Piper, The Museum of Modern Art, New York Carnegie International 1991, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Körpereinsatz, Pierre Molinier, Bruce Nauman and Frank West, Galerie Hummel, Vienna 1969, Daniel Newburg Gallery, New York Group Exhibition, Donald Young Gallery, Seattle, Washington State Selections from the Elaine and Werner Dannheisser Collection: Painting and Sculpture from the ‘80s and ‘90s, Parrish Art Museum, South Hampton, New York Immaterial Objects - Works from the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York Group Exhibition, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York Emmanuel Hoffmann-Stiftung 1980–1990, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland Inaugural Exhibition, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany Thirty Years of TB9: A Tribute to Robert Arneson, John Natsoulas Gallery, Davis, California Selection’ Oeuvres de la Collection, FAE Musée d’Art Contemporain, Lausanne, Switzerland Anselmo / Calzolari /Fabro /A.V. Janseens / Klingerholler / G.Mees / R. Graham/ B. Nauman / On Kawara, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium Mechanika, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio Metropolis – International Art Exhibition Berlin 1991, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin Drawings for Sculpture - Rodin to Robert Harris, JGM Galerie, Paris 1991 Biennial Exhibition, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Words Without Thoughts Never to Heaven Go, Central Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands Not on Canvas, Asher-Faure, Los Angeles, California Luciano Fabro, Dan Flavin, Jannis Kounellis, Sol Lewitt, Richard Long, Mario Merz, Bruce Nauman, Steingladstone, New York (in conjunction with Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York) 20th Century Collage, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California Telekinesis, Mincher-Wilcox Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1990 The Transparent Thread: Asian Philosophy is Recent American Art, Hofstra Museum at Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York; Edith C. Blum Art Institute at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; The Salina Art Center, Kansas, (1991); Crocker Blaffer Gallery at University of Houston, Texas, (1991); Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, California, (1991); Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California, (1992) Word as Image, American Art 1960–1990, Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin; Oklahoma City Art Museum; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas Beyond the Frame, Rubin Spangle Gallery, New York The New Sculpture: 1965–1975 Between Geometry and Gesture, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, (1991) American Masterworks on Paper, Susan Sheehan Gallery, New York Exposed, Vivian Horan Fine Art, New York and Thea Westreich, New York Work in Progress, Fundación Caja de Pensiones, Madrid, Spain The Future of the Object: A Selection of American Art, Minimalism and After, Museum of Contemporary Art, Antwerp, Belgium Works on Paper 1965–1975, Galerie Georges-Phillipe Vallois, Paris Life Size, Israel Museum, Jerusalem Neons, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany Pharmakon ’90, Nippon Convention Center, Makuhari Messe, Chiba, Japan Minimalism, Nicola Jacobs Gallery, London Group Exhibition, Kunsthalle, Nuremberg, Germany Drawings, Lorence-Monk Gallery, New York Opening Exhibition, Gallery Ronny Van De Velde, Antwerp, Belgium Multiples, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York American Masters of the 60s, Shafrazi Gallery, New York Jannis Kounellis, Bruce Nauman, Ulrich Rickriem, Richard Serra, Antoni Tapies, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois 1990 Energies, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam OBJECTives: The New Sculpture, Newport Harbor Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California Disturb Me, Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York Group Show, Stein Gladstone, New York Major Sculpture, Gagosian Gallery, New York Chris Burden, Mario Merz, Bruce Nauman, Fred Hoffman Gallery, Santa Monica, California Fragments, Parts, Wholes: The Body and Culture, White Columns, New York Time Span, Fundación Bancaria Caixa d’Estalvis i Pensions de Barcelona, Spain The 60’s Revisited: New Concepts / New Materials, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
1989 Carte Scoperte, Galleria Stein, Turin, Italy Einleuchten, (Illuminations), Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany Image World: Art and Media Culture, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Major Sculpture, Fred Hoffman Gallery, Santa Monica, California Selected Photographs from the Donnelley Collection, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York Bilderstreit: Widerspruch, Einheit und Fragment in der Kunst seit 1960, Museums Ludwig in den Rheinhallen, Cologne, Germany Bruce Nauman, Cindy Sherman, John Boskovich, Laurie Rubin Gallery, New York Wiener Diwan – Sigmund Freud – Heute, Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna 1st Triennal de Dibuix, Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain Bruce Nauman / Richard Long, Musée d’Art Moderne Saint-Etienne, France Seeing is Believing, Christine Burgin Gallery, New York Bruce Nauman, Robert Mangold, Saatchi Collection, London
1988 Carnegie International, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Zeitlos - Kunst von Heite, (The Still Presence of the Absent), Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin Altered States, Kent Fine Art, New York 1988 - The World of Art Today, The Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin Schlaf de Vernunft, Museum Fredericianum, Kassel, Germany; Elizabeth Kaufmann Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland; Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Artist Series Project, The New York City Ballet, New York; Sperone Westwater, New York Planes of Memory - Three Video Installations, Long beach Museum of Art, California
1987 Three Decades of Exploration - Homage to Leo Castelli, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida Lead, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York Photography and Art - Interactions since 1946, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, (1988); Queens Museum, Flushing, New York, (1988); Des Moines Art Center, Iowa Committed to Print, The Museum of Modern Art, New York Corps Etranger, Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris Computer and Art, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York 1987 Phoenix Biennial, Regionalism, Nationalism, Internationalism, Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona L’Epoque, La Mode, La Morale, La Passion, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris Avant Garde in the Eighties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California Skulptur Projekte in Münster, 1987, Westfälischen LandMuseums für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte in der Stadt Münster, Germany 1967: At the Crossroads, Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Hommage à Leo Castelli, Galerie Templon, Paris Multiples, Galerie Buchholz, Cologne, Germany Nauman, Serra, Sonnier, Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany Pictorial Grammar, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts Zeichnungen, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Germany Drawing, Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London Corps Etranger, Rene Denizot, Paris Lightworks 1965–86, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Merce Cunningham and His Collaborators, Lehman Center, Lehman College, New York A Tribute to Leo Castelli, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico Light, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico
1986 The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890–1985, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois; Kunstmuseum Den Haag, The Hague, Netherlands; Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London, (1987); Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, California, (1987) Individuals: A Selected History of Contemporary Art, 1945–1986, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California Drawings from the Collection of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, Department of Art Galleries at The University of Arkansas at Little Rock, Arkansas; Moody Gallery of Art at The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa (1987); Museum of Art at The Pennsylvania State University (1987) Illuminating Colour: Four Approaches in Contemporary Painting and Photography, The Pratt Institute Gallery, New York American / European Painting and Sculpture, 1986, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, California Chambre d’Amis, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, Belgium Drawings, Sperone Westwater, New York Deconstruct, John Gibson Gallery, New York Surrealismo! Barbara Braathen Gallery, New York Between Geometry and Gesture: American Sculpture, 1965–1975, Palacio de Velasquez, Madrid Preview Exhibition, M.O.C.A. Benefit Auction, Margo Leavin Gallery and Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, California Leo Castelli, Chicago International Art Expo, Illinois Art from Two Continents, Helander Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida Drawings by Sculptors, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York Recent Acquisitions, Donald Young gallery, Chicago, Illinois Sculptures, Waddington Galleries, London The Real Big Picture, The Queens Museum, New York Steirischer Herbst, Stadtmuseum Graz, Austria; Galerie Roger Pailhus, Marseille, France Monumental Drawings, The Brooklyn Museum, New York Sonsbeek ’86, Arnhem, Netherlands; Centre International d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada; Gabrielle Maubrie Gallery, Paris Homage a Beuys, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich The Science of Fiction, The Fiction of Science, Herron Gallery, Indianapolis Center for Contemporary Art, Indiana De Sculptura, Weiner Fest Wochen, U-Halle des Messepalastes, Vienna; Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1985 Lost / Found Language: The Use of Language as Visual or Conceptual Component, Deriving Directly or Indirectly from Popular Culture, Lawrence Gallery, Rosemont College, Pennsylvania An American Renaissance: Painting and Sculpture since 1940, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida Drawings, Knight Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina Drawing Exhibition, Barbara Toll Gallery, New York Amerikaniche Zeichnungen 1930–1980, Städtische Galeria im Städtischen Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt, Germany The Carnegie International, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Ouverture, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy Vom Zeichnen, Aspekte der Zeichnung 1960–1985, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, West Germany, Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel, Germany, (1986); Museum Modern Kunst, Vienna (1986) American Eccentric Abstraction, Blum Hellma Gallery, New York Large Drawings, Normal MacKenzie Art Gallery, University of Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada; Anchorage Historical and Fine Arts Museum, Anchorage, Alaska; Baden-Baden Germany; Tel Aviv Museum, Israel, (1986) Drawings, Lorence-Monk, New York AIDS Benefit Exhibition – Work on Paper, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, California Doch Doch, Arenberg Institute, Louvain, Belgium; Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne, Germany Affiliations: Recent Sculpture and Its Antecedents, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Fairfield County, Connecticut New Works, Gemini G.E.L., New York American / European Painting and Sculpture 1985, Part I, L.A. Louver Gallery, Los Angeles, California Illuminations: The Quality of Light, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pennsylvania Mile 4, Chicago Sculpture International, Illinois Not-For-Profit Organisation, State Street Mall, Chicago Recent Editions by Castelli Artists, Castelli Graphics, New York A Printer’s Prints from Gemini G.E.L. 1970–75, Gemini G.E.L., New York A Tribute to Leo Castelli, The Mayor Gallery, London The Maximal Implications of the Minimal Line, Edith C. Blum Institute, Bard College Annandale-on-the-Hudson, New York Beuys, Disler, Nauman, Elizabeth Kaufman Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland Schwarz auf Weiss von Manet bis Kiefer, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland Large Scale Drawings by Sculptors, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Illinois New Work on Paper 3, The Museum of Modern Art, New York Transformations in Sculpture, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Benefit for the Kitchen, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York; Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne, Germany; Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany Dialog, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon The Sculptor as Draughtsman, Visual Arts Museum, New York Selections from the William J. Hokin Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois 1985 Biennial Exhibition, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1984 Drawings by Sculptors: Two Decades of Non-Objective Art in the Seagram Collection, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada; Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada; The Nickel Arts Museum, Calgary, Canada; Seagram Building, New York; London Regional Art Gallery, Ontario, Canada, (1985); Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois L’Architecte est Absent, Works from the Collection of Annick and Anton Herbert, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands The Fine Art of the Knife, Elaine Horwitch Galleries, Santa Fe, New Mexico Group Exhibition, Carpenter & Hochman Gallery, Dallas, Texas Night Lights, Dart Gallery, Chicago, Illinois New Drawings by Castelli Artists, Castelli Graphics, New York Little Arena, Drawings and Sculptures from the Collection Adri, Martin and Geertjan Visser, Rijksmuseum Kroller-Muller, Otterlo, Netherlands The Sculptor as Draftsman, The Visual Arts Gallery at Florida International University, Miami An Invitational Exhibit of Neon Art and Sculpture, Madison Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico Praxis Collection, Vancouver Art Gallery, Canada American Sculpture, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California Projects: World’s Fair, Waterfronts, Parks and Plazas, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Selections from the Collection: A Focus on California, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California Bruce Nauman / Dennis Oppenheim: Drawings and Models for Albuquerque Commissions, University Art Museum at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque Content: A Contemporary Focus, 1974–1984, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC Quartetto, Arnoldo Mondadori Editore, Milan, Italy; Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois Rosc ’84, The Guinness Hop Stop, Dublin; L.A. Louver Gallery, Los Angeles, California Sculpture in the 20th Century, Brulinger Park, Basel, Switzerland
1983 Word Works, The Walker Art Center and the Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minnesota; CDS Gallery, New York Works on Paper: Graduate Students from U.C. Davis 1965–1982, Fine Arts Collection, Department of Art, University of California, Davis; Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois American / European Painting & Sculpture, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, California Kunst mis Photographie, Sammlung R. H. Krauss, Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany John Duff, Robert Mangold, Bruce Nauman, Blum Helman Gallery, New York Recent Acquisitions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York Objects, Structures, Artifice: American Sculpture 1970–1982, SVC / Fine Arts Gallery, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida; Center Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania Aspects of Minimalism, Flow Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, California Group Show, Konrad Fischer Gallerie, Düsseldorf, Germany Black & White: A Print Survey, Castelli Graphics, New York; Kunsthalle Tübingen, Germany Prints, Galleriet, Lund, Sweden Minimalism to Expressionism: Painting and Sculpture Since 1965 from the Permanent Collection, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Anne Marie Verna, Zurich, Switzerland The Sculptor as Draftsman: Selections from the Permanent Collection, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Sculpture, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York Drawings Photographs, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York Drawing Conclusions: A Survey of American Drawings 1958–1983, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, California American Sculptures from the Permanent Collection, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Neue Zeichnungen aus dem Kunstmuseum Basel, Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland; Kunsthalle Tübingen, Germany; Neue Galerie, Staatliche und Stadtische Kunstsammlungen Kassel, Kassel, Germany Small Bronzes, McIntosh / Drysdale Gallery, Houston, Texas De Statua, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
1982 A Century of Modern Drawing from the Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Museum of Modern Art, New York; The British Museum, London; The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts; Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio; Leo Castelli Gallery, New York 74th American Exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois 20 American Artists, Sculpture 1982, San Francisco Museum of Art, California Works from the Crex Collection, Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland Kunst nu / Kunst unserer Zeit, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Germany; Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands; Halle 6, Kampnagelfabrik, Hamburg, Germany Group Exhibitions, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York Sculptors at UC Davis: Past and Present, UC Davis, California Reinhard Mucha, Bruce Nauman, Galerie Max Hetzler, Stuttgart, West Germany The Written Word, Downey Museum of Art, California Postminimalism, The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut Attitudes, Concepts, Images, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Works in Wood, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California Casting: A Survey of Cast Metal Sculptures in the Eighties, Fuller Golden Gallery, San Francisco, California Castelli and His Artists: Twenty-Five Years, The Aspen Center for the Visual Arts, Colorado; La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, California; Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland; Leo Castelli Gallery, New York; Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Oregon; Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas Halle 6, Kampnagelfabrik, Hamburg, West Germany Works on Paper, Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, California Gemini, G.E.L. – Group Show, Thomas Babeon Gallery, La Jolla, California Amerikanische Zeichnungen der 70er Jahre Lenbachhaus, Städtische Galerie, Munich, Germany Bronze, Patricia Hamilton Gallery, New York Livres d’Artistes, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada Eight Lithographs, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California Reinhard Mucha, Bruce Nauman, Galerie Max Hetzler, Stuttgart, Germany Documenta 7, Kassel, Germany AntiForm et Arte Povera Sculptures 1966–69, Centre d’Arts Plastiques Contemporains de Bordeaux, France
1981 Schemes: A Decade of Installation Drawings, Elise Meyers Inc, New York Space, Time, Sound; 1970’s, A Decade in the Bay Area, San Francisco Museum of Art, California Selections from Castelli: Drawings and Works on Paper, Neil G. Ousey Gallery, Los Angeles, California Drawing Distinctions, Louisiana Museum, Denmark; Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland; Städtische Galerie im Leubachhaus, Munich, Germany; Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany Cast, Carved, Constructed, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California Neon Fronts: Luminous Art from the Urban Landscape, D.C. Space for Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC Seventeen Artists in the Sixties, The Museum as Site: Sixteen Projects, Los Angeles County Museum, California New Dimensions in Drawing, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut Lessons, Texas Gallery, Houston Working Drawings, Hunter College Art Gallery, New York Che Fare? Was Tun? Konellis, Merz, Nauman, Serra, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany Peter Stuyvesant Collection: A Choice within a Choice, Provincial Begijnhof, Belgium Soundings, Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase, New York Instruction Drawings, The Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection, Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan California: A Sense of Individualism, Part II, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, California Bronze, Hamilton Gallery, New York
1980 Pier + Ocean: Construction in the Art of the Seventies, Hayward Gallery, London Architectural Sculpture, Baxter Art Gallery, Pasadena, California Drawings to Benefit the Foundation for the Contemporary Performance Arts, Inc., Leo Castelli Gallery, New York XXXVIII Biennale di Venezia, Venice Biennale, Italy American Drawings in Black and White, The Brooklyn Museum, New York Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, California Architectural Sculpture, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, California Fall 1980, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York Zeichnungen Neuerwerbungen 1976–1980, Museum Haus Lange Krefeld, Germany Master Prints by Castelli Artists, Castelli Graphics, New York Donald Judd / Bruce Nauman / Richard Serra: Sculpture, Richard Hines Gallery, Seattle, Washington State From Rheinhart to Christo, Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin, Ohio Contemporary Sculpture: Selections from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Modern Art, New York Contemporary Art in Southern California, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia The New American Filmmakers Series, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Southern California Drawings, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, Connecticut Minimal and Conceptual Art aus der Sammlung Panza, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland Bruce Nauman, Barry Le Va, Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London Abbildungsteil der Auftragswerke, Wenkenpark Riehen, Basel, Switzerland; Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London
1979 Great Big Drawing Show, Institute of Art and Urban Resource, MoMA PS1, New York Drawings by Castelli Artists, Castelli Graphics, New York Images of the Self, Hampshire College Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts The Broadening of the Concept of Reality in the Art of the 60’s and 70’s, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany From Allan to Zucker, Texas Gallery, Houston Words Words, Museum Bochum, Bochum; Palazzo Ducale, Genoa Artists and Books: The Literal Use of Time, Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Kansas Thirty Years of Box Construction, Sunne Savage Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts New Spaces: The Holographer’s Vision, The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania American Portraits of the Sixties and Seventies, Aspen Center for the Visual Arts, Colorado The Sense of Self: From Self- Portrait to Autobiography, The New Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio Related Figurative Drawings, Hansen Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, California 73rd American Exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
1978 Kunst der 70er Jahre - Art of the Seventies from the Crew Collection, Halle für Internationale Neue Kunst, Zurich, Switzerland; Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark; Städtische Galerie in Lanbachhaus, Munich, Germany; Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands Sculpture, Richard Hines Gallery, Seattle, Washington State Conceptual Art, Julian Preto Gallery, New York Nauman, Serra, Shapiro, Jenney, Blum Helman Gallery, New York 20th Century American Drawings: Five Years of Acquisitions, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Salute to Merce Cunningham, John Cage and Collaborators, Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts Three Generations: Studies in Collage, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California Made by Sculptors, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Drawings and Other Works on Paper, Sperone Westwater, New York
1977 The Artist and the Photograph, Israel Museum, Jerusalem A View of a Decade, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois Whitney Annual: Sculpture 1977, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Skulptor Ausstellung in Münster, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Munster, Germany Documenta 6, Kassel, Germany Watercolours and Related Media by Contemporary Californians, Baxter Art Gallery, California Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Herber Vogel, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era, Museum of Art, San Francisco, California; The National Collection of Fine Arts, The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC Surrogates / Self-Portraits, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York Works on Paper by Contemporary American Artists, Madison Art Center, Wisconsin Drawings for Outdoor Sculpture: 1946–1977, John Weber Gallery, New York; Amherst College, Massachusetts; University of California at Santa Barbara, California; Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas; Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge A View of a Decade, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois Drawings, Sable-Castelli Gallery, Toronto, Canada Sculpture, Munster, Germany The Dada / Surrealist Heritage, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts Words at Liberty, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois Ideas in Sculpture 1965–1977, The Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago, Illinois Two Decades of Exploration: Homage to Leo Castelli on the Occasion of his 20th Anniversary, The Art Association of Newport, Rhode Island
1976 Drawing Now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland; Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden- Baden, Germany; Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna, (1977); Sonja Henie-Niels Onstad Foundation, Oslo (1977); The Tel Aviv Museum, Israel (1977) Ideas on Paper 1970–76, The Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago, Illinois Functions of Drawings / Seichnen / Bezeichnen, Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era, San Francisco Museum of Art, California; The National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC Drawing (in USA), Cannaviello Studio d’Art, Rome American Artists: A New Decade, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan; Fort Worth Art Museum, Texas Rooms P.S.1, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New York 200 Year of American Sculpture, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Sequential Imagery in Photography, Broxton Gallery, Los Angeles, California The Seventy-Second American Exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois Survey- Part II, Sable-Castelli Gallery, Toronto, Canada Autogeography, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York
1975 Functions of Drawings, Rijksmuseum Kroller- Muller, Otterlo, Netherlands Drawing Now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Kunsthalle, Zurich, Switzerland; Städtische Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany; Albertina Museum, Vienna; Sonia Henie-Neils Foundation, Oslo Sculpture, American Directions 1945–1975, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; Galleria Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome Body Works, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois Language and Structure in North America, Kensington Art Association, K.A.A. Gallery, Toronto Zeichnungen 3, U.S.A., Städtisches Museum Leverkusen, Schloss Morsbroich, Germany Menace, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois Light / Sculpture, William Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
1974 Art / Voir, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris Castelli at Berggruen, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California 4 x Minimal Art, Galerie Rolf Ricke, Cologne, Germany; University of Nevada, Las Vegas
1973 Prints from Gemini G.E.L., The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota Painting and Sculpture Today: 1974, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana; The Contemporary Art Center and The Taft Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio; Tate Modern, London Art Now, The John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC Images–Words, The New Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio The Ponderosa Collection, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio Videotapes: Six from Castelli, de Saisset Art Gallery, University of Santa Clara, California Idea and Image in Recent Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois Record as Artwork, Galerie Rolf Ricke, Cologne, Germany Artisti della West Coast, Françoise Lambert, Milan, Italy; Contemporanea, Rome Drawings, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York Cirrus Editions, The Oakland Museum, California American Drawings 1963–1973, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Graphics, Courtney Sale Gallery, Dallas, Texas Drawings: Seventies, Joseloff Gallery, Hartford, Connecticut American Art – Third Quarter Century, The Seattle Art Museum, Washington State; Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland; Galerie Art in Progress, Munich, Germany 3D into 2D: Drawing for Sculpture, The New York Cultural Center Video Tapes by Gallery Artists, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York Inventory, Janie C. Lee Gallery, Dallas, Texas Art in Evolution, Xerox Square Exhibit Center, Rochester, New York Diagrams and Drawings, Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland; Galerie Rolf Ricke, Cologne, Germany, Modern Art Agency, Naples, Italy; Texas Gallery, Houston; Amerika Haus, Berlin
1972 Dealer’s Choice, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, California; Art in Progress, Zurich, Switzerland USA West Coast, Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany Documenta V, Kassel, Germany; Galerie Rolf Ricke, Cologne, Germany Films by American Artists, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1971 American Artists: A New Decade, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan; Fort Worth Art Museum, Texas Rooms P.S.1., Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New York 200 Years of American Sculpture, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Los Angeles Artists, Palais des Beaux Arts, Paris; Arts Council of Great Britain, London Modern Painting, Drawing and Sculpture Collected by Louise and Joseph Pulitzer Jr, Fogg Art Museum at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut Young American Artists, Wide White Space, Antwerp, Belgium; 7th Paris Biennial, Paris The Artist as Filmmaker, Hansen-Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, California Works on Film, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York Looking West 1970, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska Recorded Activities, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Prospect 71, Städtischen Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany Klischee Und AntiKlischee, Neue Gallery, Aachen, Germany Kid Stuff, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York Air, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Sixth Guggenheim International Exhibition, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Projected Art: Artists at Work, Finch College Museum of Art, New York Body, Loeb Student Center, New York University; John Gibson Gallery, New York 11 Los Angeles Artists, Hayward Gallery, London; Galerie François Lambert, Milan Sonsbeek 71, Sonsbeek Park, Arnhem, Netherlands II Biennale Nürnberg, Was die Schönheit sei, das weiss ich nicht, Kunsthalle Nürnberg, Germany 300: New Multiple Art, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1970 Whitney Annual: Sculpture 1970, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Against Order: Chance & Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia Holograms and Lasers, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois; Helman Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri Young Bay Area Sculptors, San Francisco Art Institute, California Grafiek van de West Coast, Seriaal, Amsterdam Drawing of An American Artist, Yvon Lambert Gallery, Paris Information, The Museum of Modern Art, New York 3ème Salon International des Galeries-pilotes: Artistes et découvreurs de notre temps, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Palais de Rumine, Lausanne, Switzerland; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris Air, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; Ford Pavilion, Sydney, Australia American Art Since 1960, Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey Conceptual Art, Arte Povera, Land Art, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Turin, Italy Film Exhibition, UCSD Art Gallery at the University of California, San Diego Zeichnungen Amerkanischer Künstler, (Drawings of American Artists), Galerie Rolf Ricke, Cologne, Germany Tokyo Biennale ‘70: Between Man & Matter, 10th International Art Exhibition of Japan, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan; Kyoto Municipal Art Museum, Japan; Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Nagoya, Japan; Fukuoka Prefectural Cultural House, Japan. Art in the Mind, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio N Dimensional Space, Finch College Museum of Art, New York Conceptual Art and Conceptual Aspects, New York Cultural Center (in association with Fairleigh Dickinson University, New Jersey) Body Movements, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, California 1.Klischee + AntiKlischee: Bildformen der Gegenwart, Neue Galerie, Aachen, Germany String and Rope, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
1969 Art in Process IV, Contemporary Wing, Finch College Museum of Art, New York West Coast 1945–1969, Pasadena Art Museum, California; City Museum of St. Louis, Missouri, (1970); Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto (1970); Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas, (1970) Kompas 4: Westkunst USA / West Coast USA, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands; Museum am Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany; Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland 555.087, Seattle Art Museum, Washington State; Vancouver Art Gallery and Student Union Building Gallery, University of British Columbia, Canada 7 Objects / 69, Galerie Rolf Ricke, Cologne, Germany Benefit Exhibition: Art for the Moratorium, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York Time Photography, School of Visual Arts, New York Querschnitt II, Galerie Rolf Ricke, Cologne, Germany Art by Telephone, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois Drawings, The Fort Worth Art Center, Texas Konzeption / Conception: Dokumentation einer heutigen Kunstrichtung / Documentation of Today's Art Tendency, Städtisches Museum, Schloss Morsbroich, Germany Nine Young Artists: Theodoron Awards, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York Anti-Illusion: Procedures / Materials, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York The Sky's the Limit, University of St. Thomas, Houston, Texas Castelli At Dayton’s, Dayton's Gallery 12, Minneapolis, Minnesota Wenn Attitüden Form werden: Werke—Konzepte—Prozesse—Situationen— Information, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland; Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London Op Losse Schroeven: Situaties en Cryptostructuren, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany Young American Artists, Wide White Space, Antwerp, Belgium Repair Show, Berkeley Gallery, San Francisco, California 31st Biennial of Contemporary American Painting, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Here and Now: An Exhibition of Thirteen Artists, Steinberg Hall, Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, Missouri
1968 Soft Sculpture, American Federation of Arts, New York; Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, Georgia; State University of New York, College of Oswego; Cedar Rapids Art Center, Iowa, (1969); Michigan State University, East Lansing, (1969); Andrew Dickinson White Museum of Art, Cornell University, New York, (1969) 9 at Leo Castelli, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York Anti-Form, John Gibson Gallery, New York, Prospect 68: International Vorschau auf die Kunst in den Galerien der Avantgarde, Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany Primary Structure, Minimal Art, Pop Art, Antiform, Galerie Rolf Ricke, Kassel, Germany Documenta 4, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany Three Young Americans: Krueger, Nauman, Saret, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio The West Coast Now: Current Work from the Western Seaboard, Portland Art Museum, Oregon
1967 2nd Annual Arp to Artschwager Show, Noah Goldowsky Gallery, New York American Sculpture of the Sixties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Pennsylvania
1966 1st Annual Art to Artschwager Show, Noah Goldowsky Gallery, New York William Geis and Bruce Nauman, San Francisco Art Institute, California Eccentric Abstraction, Fischbach Gallery, New York The Slant Step Show, Berkeley Gallery, San Francisco, California New Directions, San Francisco Museum of Art, California
Selected awards
2014 Frederick Kiesler Prize for Architecture and the Arts, Austria
2009 Golden Lion for Best National Participation, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy Centennial Medal Laureates, American Academy in Rome
2004 Praemium Imperiale Prize for Visual Arts, Japan Beaux-Arts Magazine Art Awards: Best International Artist, Paris
2000 Member, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York Honorary Doctor of Arts, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
1999 Leone d’oro (The Golden Lion) 48th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy Sagamore of the Wabash, Indianapolis, Indiana
1997 Member, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
1995 Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts Aldrich Prize, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut
1994 The Wexner Prize, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
1993 Alumni Citation for Excellence, University of California, Davis, California The Wolf Foundation Prize in Arts (Sculpture), Herzlia, Israel
1990 Max Beckmann Prize, Frankfurt, Germany
1989 Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California
1986 Skowhegan Award, Skowhegan, Maine
1970 Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies Grant, Aspen, Colorado
1968 NEA Grant, Artistic Fellowship Award, Washington, DC
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