b. 1941, Sheffield, UK
Lives and works in Paris, France
education
2010
Honorary Degree of Doctor, Liege University
2005
Honorary Degree of Doctor, Sheffield Hallam University
1967
M.F.A., Yale University, New Heaven
1965
A.R.C.A. (1st Class), Royal College of Art, London
selected solo exhibitions
2020
Victor Burgin: Young Oaks, Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York, NY
2018
Victor Burgin: Voyage to Italy, Richard Saltoun Gallery, London, UK
2017
Victor Burgin: Some Cities, Galerie Thomas Zander, K, Germany
2016
Victor Burgin: Dear Urania, Galleria Lia Rumma, Naples, Italy
Midwest, Cristin Tierney Gallery, New York, NY
Then and Now, Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
UK76, Bridget Donahue, New York, NY
Galeria Lia Rumma, Naples, Italy
Barthes / Burgin, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK
2015
Prairie, Neubauer Collegium, Chicago, IL
UK76, Richard Saltoun Gallery, London, UK
2014
The Ideal City, Galeria Lia Rumma, Milan, Italy
Victor Burgin, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany
2013
Victor Burgin: On Paper, Richard Saltoun Gallery, London, UK
US77, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
Victor Burgin: A Sense of Place, Ambica P3, London, UK
2012
Victor Burgin: Three Decades, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
2011
A place to read, Campagne Première, Berlin, Germany
Voyage to Italy, Raum mit Licht, Vienna, Austria
2010
Bir okuma yeri/A place to read, Archeological Museum, Istanbul, Turkey
Histoires, Musée de Picardie, Amiens Dovedale, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
2009
HBerlin, Campagne Première, Berlin, Germany
HD, HDieu,Toulouse, France
2008
Solito posto & Tales from Freud, Con
Solito posto & Voyage to Italy, Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa,Venice, Italy
2007
The Fifth Promenade, and other works, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Nietzsche's Paris, and other works, Kunsthalle Bremerhaven, Bremerhaven, Germany
The Little House (sound installation version), MAK Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Fogliazzi, Galerie Art & Esssai, Université Rennes 2 Haute Bretagne, France
2006
Voyage to Italy, Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal, Canada
Voyage to Italy, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, France
2005
The Little House, Christine Burgin Gallery, New York, NY
2004
Assemblée dans un parc, Lille 2004, galerie l'Aquarium, École des Beaux-arts de Valenciennes, France
2003
Victor Burgin, Lisboa Photo 2003, Cordoaria Nacional, TorreNascente, Lisbon, Portugal
Room, Christine Burgin Gallery, New York, NY
Listen to Britain, Norwich Art Gallery, Norwich, UK
Listen to Britain, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK
2002
Watergate, Matt's Gallery, London, UK
Listen to Britain, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK
2001
Victor Burgin: some early works 1970-1983, Galeria Javier Lopez, Madrid, Spain
Victor Burgin, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain
Nietzsche's Paris, Christine Burgin Gallery, New York, NY
Nietzsche's Paris and Studies for Video, Galerie Liliane & Michel Durand-Dessert, Paris, France
2000
Nietzsche's Paris, Architectural Association, London, UK
1999
Lichtung, Weimar 99 Cultural Festival, Weimar, Germany
The Glue Man and other studies for video, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
1998
Case History, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
The Embrace and Studies for Video, Galerie Fotohof, Salzburg, Austria
1997
Szerelmes Levelek/Love Letters, Mücsarnok Museum, Budapest, Hungary
1996
Love Stories, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
1995
The End, University at Buffalo Art Gallery/Research Center in Art + Culture, Buffalo, NY
1994
The Four Seasons, Galerie Duran-Dessert, Paris, France
The End, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
1993
Family Romance, Center for Research in Contemporary Art, University of Texas at Arlington, TX
1992
Fiction Film, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
Passages, Espace Poulain, Ville de Blois, France
1991
Passages, Musée d'art moderne Villeneuve d'Ascq, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France
1990
Family Romance and Other Works, Karl Bornstein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Family Romance, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
1989
Object Relations, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
Minnesota Abstract, Film in the Cities, St. Paul, MI
Victor Burgin, Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris, France
1988
Park Edge, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Victor Burgin, Le Casa D'Arte, Milan, Italy
1986
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
Kettles Yard, Cambridge, UK
Orchard Gallery, Derry, UK
Office at Night, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
Office at Night, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Albert and Vera List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
Office at Night, Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, IL
1984
The Bridge, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris, France
Impressions Gallery of Photography, York, UK
1982
Tales from Freud, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
Tales from Freud, Yarlow-Salzman Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1981
Zwiczek Polskich Artsow Fotografickow, Warsaw, Poland
Musée de la Ville de Calais, Calais, France
1980
In Lyon, Espace Lyonnais d'Art Contemporain, Lyon, France
Victor Burgin US 77/Zoo 78, Picker Art Gallery, Hamilton, NY
Colgate University, Hamilton, NY
Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris, France
1979
Zoo, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
DAAD Gallery, Berlin, Germany
Max Hetzler Gallery, Stuttgart, Germany
1978
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK
Victor Burgin US 77, Galerie Durand--Dessert, Paris, France
1977
UK76 and US77, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
Victor Burgin, Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
1976
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK.
Foksal Gallery, Poznan, Poland
1975
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
Paul Maenz, Cologne, Germany
Galleria Daniel Templon, Milan, Italy
1974
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
Lisson Gallery, London, UK
1973
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
Paul Maenz, Cologne, Germany
Paul Maenz, Brussels, Belgium
1972
Galleria Daniel Templon, Milan, Italy
1971
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
Paul Maenz, Cologne, Germany
Galleria Daniel Templon, Milan, Italy
1970
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
selected group exhibitions
2016
Conceptual Art in Britain 1964 - 1979, Tate Britain, London, UK
2015
Species of Spaces, Museu D'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
2014
Collection Study III: Art in Europe after 1968, SMAK, Stedelijk Museum Voor Actuele Kunst, Gent, Belgium.
2013
Trapping Lions in the Scottish Highlands, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado, USA
2012
Spirits of Internationalism. 6 European Collections, 1956 - 1986, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
2011
ATLAS. How to Carry the World on One's Back?, Museo National Centro de Arte
Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain. This exhibition travelled to: ZKM, Karlsruhe and Deichtorhallen, Germany; Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg, Germany
Underwood, Galerie 1900-2000, Paris, France
After the Gold Rush, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
WAREHOUSE#2: Victor Burgin Love Stories #2, WAREHOUSE, Cologne, Germany
Hotel-Dieu, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Geneva, Switzerland
CUT, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany
2008
Desire, Art Forum Berlin, Germany
2007
Tempo Ao Tempo / Taking Time, Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, Vigo, Spain
Panic attack! Art in the Punk Years, Barbican Centre, London, UK
2006
Etranges méchaniques, Domaine de Rentilly, Bussy-Saint-Martin, France
The Secret Public, The last days of the British Underground 1978-1988, Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany
How to Improve the World: British Art 1946-2006, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Pictograms - A universal language?, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Kontexte der Fotografie, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany
2005
Strictement Confidential, Centre international d'art et du paysage de lde Vassivièere, Ile de Vassivièere, France
La Photographie à l, MAM de Saint-Etienne Métropole, Saint-Etienne, France
GU-Graz Umgebung, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria
Photography's Expanded Field, Preus Museum, Horten, Norway
Quand l'absence fait sens, Galerie d'Art Contemporain, Besançon, France
Projet Cone Sud, Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Chose parmi d'autres, Hangar G2, Bordeaux, France
2004
Des images qui ne seraient pas du semblant: La photographie écrite, Passage de Retz, Paris, France
Acquisitions récentes, Oeuvres contemporaines, Centre Pompidou, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, France
Short Stories, Museum voor Fotografie, Antwerp, Belgium
L'Art au Futur Anterieur, Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
Projet Cone Sud, Museo de Arte, Lima. This exhibition travelled to: Santiago de Chile, Chile; Buenos Aires, Argentina; Montevideo, Uruguay
The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography 1960-1982, Walker Art Center, MI
Eblouissement, Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
Artists' Choice, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
20 Years of the Turner Prize, Tate Modern, London, UK
2002
Rapture: Art's Seduction by Fashion Since 1970, Barbican Gallery, London, UK
Blast to Freeze: Britische Kunst im 20.Jahrhundert, Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany
Le Regard de l'Autre, Musée des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, Rouen, France
Récits, Centre d'Art Contemporain Meymac, Meymac, France
Sans commune mesure, Image et texte dans l'art actuel, Musée d'art moderne Lille, Métropole, Lille, France
I Promise It's Political, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
2001
The Conceptual Document 1968-1972, Norwich Gallery, Norwich, UK
Yale University Alumni Choice, Yale University School of Art, New Haven, CT
UK in the seventies: Victor Burgin, Alan Charlton, John Hilliard, David Tremlett, Galerie Durand-Dessert, Paris, France
Seven Print Projects from the Paragon Press, Gimpel Fils, London, UK
Double Vision, Galerie für ZeitgenKunst, Leipzig Gymnasion, Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz, Austria
2000
Media/Metaphor, 46th Corcoran Biennial, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Live In Your Head: Concepts And Experiment In Britain 1965-75, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
New Narrative Strategies, Rencontres Internationales, Arles, France
1999
Foul Play, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY
Notorious, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK. This exhibition travelled to: Sydney, Australia; Tokyo, Japan; Barcelona, Spain
Sleuth, Barbican Center Art Gallery, London, UK
Tomorrow is Forever, Künstlerwerkstatt LothringerstraMunich, Germany
1998
Chemical Traces: Photogaphy and Conceptual Art 1968-1998, Ferens Art Gallery, Kingston Upon Hull, UK
1997
Narrative Urge, Lombard/Freid Fine Arts, New York, NY
Biennale Internationale de l'Image: Instants de Ville, Palais des Congrès de Nancy, Nancy, France
Foto Text/Text Foto: dialog von fotografie und text in der gegenwartskunst, Fotomuseum, Winterhur, Germany
La stanza degli specchi: Arte e film dal 1945, Palazzo della Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
The Impossible Document: Photography and British Conceptual Art 1967-76, Camerawork Gallery, London, UK
1996
Face à l'Histoire 1933-1966: L'artiste moderne face à lhistorique, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France
Victor Burgin, Dan Graham, Rodney Graham, John Hilliard, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Hall of Mirrors: Art and Film Since 1945, The Museum of Contemporary Art/The Temporary Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
Photography after Photography: defining photography through digitality, Kunsthalle München, Germany
Text & Image, Kunstverein, Frankfurter, Germany. This exhibition travelled to: Museum of Modern Art, Bolzano, Italy
Styki/Contact Prints, Galeria Foksal, Warsaw, Poland
1995
1965-1975: Reconsidering the Object of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art/The Temporary Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
3rd Lyon Biennale: installation, cinéma, vidéo, informatique in Lyon, Lyon, France
1995
Dubbel Spel - Buiten Kennis (Double Play - Beyond Cognition), City Academy of Sint- Niklaas, Sint-Niklaas, Belgium
Contemporary British Art in Print, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK
Fotografie nach der fotografie (Photography after photography), Siemens Kulturprogramm, Munich, Germany
1994
New Acquisitions? New Work/New Directions 2, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Paper Work, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
Artists' Impressions, Kettle's Yard, University of Cambridge, UK. This exhibition travelled to: Castle Museum, Nottingham, UK; Walsall Museum and Art Gallery, Walsall, UK
1993
Iterations: The New Digital Imaging, International Center of Photography, New York, NY
Darkness + Light: Twentieth-Century Works from Texas Collections, Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, TX
Out of Sight, Out of Mind, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
1992
Artistes pour Amnesty International, Fondation Nationale des Arts, Paris, France
Amnesty International Benefit Exhibition and Auction, Hdes arts, Paris, France
L'Epreuve Numérique, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
1991
Shocks to the System, Royal Festival Hall, London, UK. This exhibition travelled to: Northern Centre for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK
The Political Arm, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
Works on Paper, John Weber Gallery, Madrid, Spain
1990
Four British Artists, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
65-75: Aspetti Pratiche dell'Arte Europea, Castello di Rivera, Turin, Italy
Inquiries: Language in Art, Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario, Canada
Art conceptuel Formes conceptuelles, Galerie 1900-2000 and Galerie de Poche, Paris, France
The Power of Words, P.P.O.W., New York, NY
l'art conceptuel, une perspective, ARC, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
1989
The Art of Photography: 1839-1989, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX. This exhibition travelled to: Royal Academy of Art, London, UK; Ministry of Culture of the Soviet Union, Moscow, Russia; National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: One Hundred and Fifty Years of Photography, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL. This exhibition travelled to: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Los Angeles County Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Estampes et Revolution: 200 Ans Après, Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris, France
International video exhibition, The Tate Gallery, London, UK
FOTO Biennale Enschede, Enschede, Netherlands
1789-1989, Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Paris, France
Homage aux collections particulière en France, Galerie La défense, Paris, France
Hannah Collins, George Rousse, Victor Burgin, Galeria La Máquina Espanola, Madrid, Spain
Malaise, Galeria La Máquina Espanola, Madrid, Spain
New Acquisitions/New Work/New Directions, George Eastman House, Rochester, New York, NY
Through the Looking Glass-Photographic Art in Britain 1945-1989, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
Corporate Identities, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK
1988
This is not a Photograph: Twenty Years of Large-Scale Photography, 1966-1986, Ringling Museum of Art, FL. This exhibition travelled to: Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH; The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
The Future of the Metropolis, Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
Something Solid, Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK
Presi per Incantamento, Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanes di Milano, Milan, Italy
Towards a Bigger Picture, Victoria and Albert Museum, London, UK
Under Construction: New Photomontage, Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, MI
Berliner Künstler Program-25 Jahre, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
1987
The British Edge, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston
Valokuva 87, Tampereen Nykytaiteen Museossa, Tampere, Helsinki, Finland
British Art in the Twentieth Century, The Royal Academy, London, UK
Englische Kunst im 20. Jahrhudert, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany
The Other Body, Photographic Resource Center, Boston University, MA
Perverted by Language, Hillwood Gallery, Long Island University, NY
At Issue: Art and Advocacy, Saint Louis Gallery of Contemporary Art
20th Anniversary Exhibition, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
The Lunatic of One Idea, Public Access, Toronto, Canada
U-Media, VMuseum, Ume, Sweden
Photography and Art, Los Angeles County Museum, CA. This exhibition travelled to: Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL; Queens Museum, New York, NY; Des Moines Art Center, IA
Politiques, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montreal, Canada
Berlinart 1961-1987, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Ghislain Mollet-Viévelle-Agent d'Art, Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Dunkirk, France
Difference: on Sexuality and Representation, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, UK. This exhibition travelled to: The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, IL; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
When Attitudes Became Form 1965-72, Le Nouveau Musée, Villeurbanne, France. This exhibition travelled to: Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK; Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK
1984
Conceptual-Antropologia-Graffiti, Scritti di Enrico Pedrini, Italy
1984 A Preview, Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, NY
Comment, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Photographic Image in Contemporary Art, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
1982
Photo (Graphic) Vision, The Winchester Gallery, Winchester, UK
1981
In Malmo, Malmo Konsthall, Malmo, Sweden
British Sculpture in the Twentieth Century, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
Ils se disent..., Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Artist and Camera, travelling exhibition organized by the Arts Council of Great Britain
1980
Europe '80, Espace Lyonnais de l'Art Contemporain, Lyon, France
Das Bild einer Geschichte 1956-76, Die Sammlung Panza de Biumo, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Wesfalen, Kunstmuseum and Kunsthall, Dusseldorf, Germany
Kunst in Europa na '68, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
Kunst im Sozialen Kontext, Badische Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
Foto Text, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
The Third Biennale of Sydney, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Three Perspectives on Photography, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
1979
Hayward Annual 1979, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Un Certain Art Anglais, ARC, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France. This exhibition travelled to: Palais des Beaux-Art, Brussels, Belgium
Languages, selected by Rudi Fuchs for the Arts Council of Great Britain
Jeunes Peintre 2, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
1977
Cinq Jeunes Artistes, Galerie Divergence, Metz, France. This exhibition travelled to Maison de la Culture, Bourges, France
Discussions, New York University, New York, NY
Hayward Annual, (part II), organized by Michael Compton, Howard Hodgkin, and
William Turnbull, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Europe in the Seventies: Aspects of Recent Art, Art Institute of Chicago, IL. This exhibition travelled to: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
1976
Robert Barry, Victor Burgin, Hamish Fulton, Gilbert & George, Hans Haacke, John Hilliard, Kosuth/Charlesworth, David Tremlett, Lawrence Weiner, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Contextual Art, Centre for Experimental Art and Communication, Toronto, Canada
York Festival, organized by Robert Self, Chapel Gallery, York, UK
Arte Inglese Oggi 1960-1976, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy
Foto & Idea, Galleria Comunale d'Arte Moderna, Parma, Italy
1975
Victor Burgin/Art and Language, Musée d'Art et d'Industrie, Saint-Etienne Art Fair, Mall Galleries, London, UK
Art as Thought Process, Serpentine Gallery, London, UK
Conceptual Art, Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg, Denmark
1974
Beyond Painting and Sculpture: Works bought for the Arts Council by Richard Cork, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, UK. This exhibition travelled to Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK; and Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK
Carl Andre/Marcel Broodthaers/Daniel Buren/Victor Burgin/Gilbert & George/On Kawara/Richard Long/Gerhard Richter, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium, Kunst-Uber-Kunst, Kolnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
13 'Projekt '74' Artists, Paul Maentz, Cologne, Germany
Art as Thought Process, Beecroft Art Gallery, Southend on Sea, organized by Michael Compton for the British Arts Council. This exhibition travelled to Huddersfield Art Gallery, Huddersfield, UK; Kettering Art Gallery, Kettering, UK; Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, UK; Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry, UK; Dartington College, Totnes, UK
Projekt '74: Kunstbleibt Kunst, Kunsthalle, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Kunst und Museums -bibliothek, Kolnischen Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
Art and Politics, Gallerie, Bochum 23 Directions, 23 Photographers, Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool, UK
1973
Henry Moore to Gilbert and George, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Modern British Art for the Tate Gallery, London, UK
Idee und Material, Progressive Museum, Basel, Switzerland
Contemporanea, Parcheggio di Villa Borghese, Rome, Italy
1972
Konzept-Kunst, Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland
36th International Art Exhibition of Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Documenta 5, Museum Fredericianum and Neue Galerie, Kassel, Germany
The New Art, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
1971
Guggenheim International Exhibition, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
The British Avant-Garde, The New York Cultural Center, New York, UK
XI Bienal de Sao Paolo Road Show: New English Inquiry, SPaolo, Brazil
Prospect 71, Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany
At the Moment, Kunsthalle, Sagreb, Croatia
In Another Moment, SKC, Belgrade, Serbia
Art Conceptual, Galleria Daniel Templon, Milan, Italy
Paris Biennale, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
1970
String and Rope, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY
Art in the Mind, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
Idea Structures, Camden Arts Center, London, UK
July/August Exhibition, Studio International, London, UK
Information, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Arte de Sistemas, Centro de Arte y Communicacion, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Concept-Theorie, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
1969
When Attitudes Become Form/Works-Concepts-Processes-Situations-Informations, Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland. This exhibition travelled to: The Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
557,087, organized by Lucy Lippard, Seattle Art Musuem, Seattle, DC; This exhibition travelled to: Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada as 995,000; and to Centro de
Arte y Communicacion, Buenos Aires, Argentina as 2,972,453
Konzeption-Conception, Scholoss Morsbroich, Stadtischen Museum, Leverkusen, Germany
1967
British Painting, British Pavilion, Expo '67, Montreal, Canada
British Painting from the Leicestershire Collection, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK
1965
Four Young Artists, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
public commissions
2004
Restored, Permanent video installation for London Symphony Orchestra, St. Luke's, Old Street, London
1997
Design for permanent multi-media installation, Bute Street Arts and Media Centre, Luton, England (shortlisted finalist)
1994
Permanent video installation for the Médiatheque d'Orléans, Ville d'Orléans, France
Design for permanent video installation for the Hotel Furkablick, Furkapassh, Switzerland
1993
Venise, 30 min video, Ville de Marseille, France
Poster for Images pour la lutte contre le sida, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, France/Agence française de lutte contre le sida: national poster campaign with posters commissioned from an international selection of 35 artists
1992
Design for city-wide illuminated poster installation for the Ville del Blois, France
1989
Original print for 'Estampes et Revolution: 200 Ans Après,' Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, France (100 sets of prints, commissioned from an international selection of artists, and distributed throughout France as part of the Bicentennial Celebration of the French Revolution)
Fall, Video-wall [Edited version (9 monitors)], two minute videodisk program, Tate Gallery, London
1987
Fall, Video-wall (36 monitors), two minute videodisk program, Mississauga Shopping Mall, and other locations, Toronto
1976
What does possession mean to you?, color poster, 1000 copies posted in the streets in the center of Newcastle upon Tyne, summer
collections
Centre Georges Pompidou
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Museum of Contemporary Art
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The Arts Council Collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art
The New York Public Library/The Corcoran Gallery of Art
The Tate Gallery
The Victoria and Albert Museum
The Walker Art Center
faculty positions
2015
Visiting Professor, Department of Cinema and Media Studies,
University of Chicago
2010
Professeur Invité, Paris-3, Sorbonne Nouvelle
2009
Professeur Invité, Paris-1, Panthéon-Sorbonne
2008
Professeur Invité, Paris-3, Sorbonne Nouvelle
2007
Professeur Invité, Paris-3, Sorbonne Nouvelle
2006 - Present
Emeritus Millard Chair of Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London
2003 - Present
Visiting Professor, European Graduate School, Saas-Fee / Valetta
2001 - Present
Professor Emeritus of History of Consciousness, University of California, Santa Cruz
2001-2006
Millard Professor of Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, University of London
2000
Robert Gwathmey Chair in Art and Architecture, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York
1997
Chair, History of Consciousness Department, UC Santa Cruz, Winter-Spring
1995-2001
Professor, History of Consciousness Department, UC Santa Cruz
1989-91
Chair, Board of Studies in Art History, UC Santa Cruz
1988-95
Professor of Art History, UC Santa Cruz
1987-88
Polytechnic Professor, Polytechnic of Central London
1987
Distinguished Visiting Scholar, State University of New York, Binghamton
1980
Picker Professor, Colgate University
1973-88
Senior Lecturer, Polytechnic of Central London
1967-73
Lecturer, Trent Polytechnic
arts residencies
2016
Mellon Artist in Residence, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (forthcoming)
2007
Josep Lluis Sert Practitioner in the Arts, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University
1997
Soros Foundation Center for Culture and Communication, Budapest, Hungary
1993
I.ME.RE.C (Institut Méditerranéen de Recherche et de Création), Marseille, France
1989
Simon Fraser University, British Columbia, Canada;
Film in the Cities, International Artist Residency Program, Saint Paul, Minnesota
1988
Adelaide Festival of the Arts, Adelaide, Australia
1987
University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado
1986
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass.
1981
Musée de Grenoble, Ville de Grenoble, France
1980
Espace Lyonais d'Art Contemporain, Ville de Lyon, France
fellowhips and awards
2015
Mellon Collaborative Fellowship, Grey Center for the Arts, University of Chicago.
1995
NEA Regional Initiative Artists' Regranting Program project grant
1991
Allocation de recherche et de séjour, Ministère de la Culture et de la Communication, Délégation aux Arts Plastiques (vidéo et nouvelles technologies de l'image), Paris
1978-79
Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD) Fellowship, Berlin
1976-77
US/UK Bicentennial Arts Exchange Fellow, New York
visiting residencies, lectureships, awards
Visiting appointments and public lectures at institutions that include:
United States:
Harvard University; Massachusetts Institute of Technology; Brown University; Yale University; Columbia University; CUNY Graduate Center; Princeton University; Cornell University; University of Pennsylvania; University of Chicago; Art
Institute of Chicago; Cranbrook Academy; UC Los Angeles; UC Berkeley; UC Irvine; UC Davis; University of Texas, Austin; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Los Angeles County Art Museum; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia.
Canada:
Public Access, Toronto; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Simon Fraser University, Vancouver; Art Gallery of Vancouver; Concord University, Montreal; Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal; National Gallery of Art, Ottowa.
England:
King's College, Cambridge; Department of Art History, Cambridge University; Ruskin College, Oxford; University College, London; King's College; London; Lancaster University; University of Warwick; Leeds University; The Courtauld Institute, London; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Tate Gallery, London.
Continental Europe:
American Universities Center for Cinema Studies, Paris; Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts, Paris; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Université de Paris VII; Ecole Nationale des Beaux Arts, Lyon; Université de Corte, Corsica; UniversitGesamthochschule Kassel; Soros Foundation Center for the Arts, Budapest; Center for Communication and Culture, Budapest; Center for British Cultural Studies, Belgrade; British Council Cultural Center, Skopje.
Australia:
Power Foundation, Sydney; University of Sydney; University of Melbourne; Monash University, Melbourne; University of Perth; National Gallery ofAustralia, Canberra.
editorial boards
2002 - Present
Visual Communication, London, Sage
1987 - Present
New Formations, London, Lawrence & Wishart
1993-5
Xoana, Images et sciences sociales, Paris, Jean Michel Place