Biography
Born 1937, New York City
Lives and works in East Patchogue, NY
Education
Ohio State University, 1960
Solo Exhibitions
2007
Locks Gallery, Philadelphia
Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
RISD Museum, Providence, RI
2006
Teatro Garibaldi Bisceglie, Italy
2005
Locks Gallery, Philadelphia
Galeria Senda, Barcelona, Spain
Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
2004
Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
2003
Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City
2002
Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
1998
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
1997
Rena Bransten, San Francisco
Tower Air Terminal, JFK International Airport, New York
1996
Bohen Foundation, New York, New York
Baxter Art Gallery, Maine College of Art, Portland, OR
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
1994
Shadow Projection, Center for Curatorial Studies, Video Gallery,
Bard College,
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Grayscale Fields, Inaugural Internet Art Gallery Exhibition
1993
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
La Box, Bourges, France
1992
Recent Digital Photographs, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art,
Cleveland, OH
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
1991
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
1990
Photographs and Computer Drawings, Genovese Gallery, Boston
Projections, Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach,
Germany
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
1989
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Genovese Gallery, Boston
1988
Heath Gallery, Atlanta
Galleria Civica d'Arte Moderna, Ferrara, Italy
Film & Video, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Eighty Washington Square East Galleries, New York University
The High Museum, Atlanta
1987
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA. Traveled to: Institute
of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
1986
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
1985
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
1983
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
1982
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
1981
McIntosh-Drysdale Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
1980
Le Centre national d’art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Paris,
France
1979
Akron Art Institute, Akron, Ohio
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Protetch-McIntosh Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
1978
Film & Video, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
Atlantic Gallery, Boston
1977
The Kitchen, New York
Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
1976
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge,
MA
Projects Gallery, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1975
Bykert Gallery, New York
1974
Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
1973
Bykert Gallery, New York
1972
Bykert Gallery, New York
Group Exhibitions
2007
Vertigo: The century of off-media art from Futurism to the web, Museum of Modern Art, Bologna, Italy
Conceptual Photography, Zwirner and Wirth, New York
2006
Beyond Cinema: The Art of Projection, Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
L'Age d'or de la performance, La Batie - Festivale de Geneve, Centre pour l'image contermporain, Saint-Gervais, Geneva, Switzerland
Balance and Power: Performance and Surveillance in Video Art, Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA
Video: An Art, A History, 19652005, Miami Art Central (MAC), Miami
Signal Channel: Contemporary Video Art, Bemis Center, Omaha, NE
First Generation: Art and Moving Image, 1963-85, Museo Nacional d'arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
Screened and Selected: Contemporary Photography and Video Acquisitions 1999-2005, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT
And Therefore I Am, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skimore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
The Early Show: Video from 1969-79, The Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College, New York
2005
Balance and Power: Perfromance and Surveillance in Video Art, Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, Champaign, IL
Temps de Video, 1965-2000, collection nouveaux medias del centre pompidou de la coleccion de arte contemporaneo, CaixaForum, Barcelona. Traveled to the Fine Arts Museum, Taipai, Taiwan
Pairs, Groups, and Grids, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
Multiflorous, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York
Landscape, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Third Tape, Picasso Museum, Barcelon, Spain
2004
Les collections du Musée, nouvelle présentation des
oeuvres de 1960 à nos jours, Le Centre national d’art
et de culture Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
2003
Site and Insight: An Assemblage of Artists, PS1Contemporary Art
Center/MOMA, Long Island City, NY (curated by Agnes Gund)
Warum! Bilder diesseits und jenseits des Menschen, Martin-Gropius-Bau,
Berlin, Germany
Zero Visibility, Colonna Castle, Genazzano, Italy
Video Topiques, Musée d’Art Modern et Contemporain de
Strasbourg, France
Me, Myself & I: Looking at Portraiture, CRG Gallery, New York
2002
Into the Light, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Whitney Biennial 2002, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Time Share, Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York
The First Decade: Video From the EAI Archives, The Museum of Modern
Art, New York
Outer and Inner Space, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
2001
Into the Light, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
The Reality Effect, Guild Hall, East Hampton NY
Blind Vision: Video and the Limits of Perception, San Jose Museum
of Art
The Search for a Personal Vision in Broadcast Television: Fred Barzyk,
Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI
Seventies Show, David Zwirner Gallery, New York
2000
The Swamp: On the Edge of Eden, Samuel Harn Museum of Art, University
of Florida, Gainesville, Fla; traveled to the Cummer Museum of Art
& Gardens, Jacksonville, Fla.
Digital Photography, Lawrence Miller Gallery, New York
Odd Bodies, National Gallery of Canada, Oakville Galleries, Otawa,
Ontario. Traveled to: Nickle Arts Museum, Calgary, Alberta
Permanent Change: Contemporary Works from the Collection, Williams
College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
Video ist Kunst ist Video...Rewind to the Future, Neuer Berliner
Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
1999
The American Century, Whitney Museum of American Art, New Yorl
Faculty Exhibition, Eighty Washington Square East Galleries, New
York University
As Far As the Eye Can See, Atlanta College of Art Gallery and City
Gallery at Chastain, Atlanta, GA
Island, Sandpipers, Steps and Dreams, The Bohen Foundation, New
York
1998
The New Surrealism, Pamela Auchincloss Project Space, New York
From Warhol to Mapplethorpe: Three Decades of Art at ICA, Institute
of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Être nature, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain,
Paris, France
Formication, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York
Travel and Leisure, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
After Eden, MiddleburyCollege Museum of Art, Middlebury, VT
Utz: A Collected Exhibition, Lennon Weinberg, New York
As Far As the Eye Can See: Landscape and Nature, Atlanta College
of Art, Atlanta, GA
1997
Places That Are Elsewhere, David Zwirner Gallery, New York
Cyberealism (Photography Beyond Photography), Galleria Photology,
Milan, Italy
Metamorphoses: Photography in the Electronic Age, Ackland Art Museum,
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Surveying the First Decade: Video Art and Alternative Media in the
United States. Program II: Investigations of the Phenomenal World,
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
15th World Wide Video Festival, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands
Views from Abroad 3: A European Perspective Drawn from the Whitney
Museum of American Art’s Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum
of American Art, New York. Traveled to: Tate Gallery, London, England
Recent Acquisitions Installation, Bohen Foundation, New York
Object & Abstraction, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Taormina Festival, Italy
Pool, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
Rooms With A View: Environments for Video, Guggenheim Soho, New
York
Sunny Days/Critical Time, The Bohen Foundation, New York
Lus, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
Permanent Collection Exhibition, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo,
Mexico City
Dawn of the Magicians, National Gallery, Center for Modern and Contemporary
Art, Prague, Czech Republic
Between Lantern and Laser, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington,
Seattle
1996
Natural Spectacles, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University,
Providence, RI
New Art on Paper 2, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Reinterpreting Landscape, Maier Museum of Art, Randolph Macon Women's
College, Lynchburg, VI
1995
Biennale de Lyon: art contemporain, installation, cinéma,
vidéo, informatique, Musée d'art contemporain, Lyon,
France
1st Annual Holiday Exhibition, Aperture Book Center/Burden Gallery,
New York
Nature Studies II, University Gallery Fine Arts Center, University
of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
The Masters of Graphic Art, 3. International Graphics Biennial 1995,
Xantus Janos Museum, Györ, Hungary (curated by Elaine King)
Collisions, Arteleku, San Sebastian, Brazil
Peter Campus /John Huggins, David Floria Gallery, Woody Creek, CO
Face Value: American Portraits, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton,
NY. Traveled to: Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH; Tampa
Museum of Art, Tampa, Fla.
Recontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles Art Festival,
Arles, France
Summer Idylls, Beth Urdang Gallery, Boston
Bloom, Christinerose Gallery, New York
New Art on Paper Acquired with Funds from the Hunt Manufacturing
Company, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Mediated Images, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York
NYU 1995 Faculty Show Part One, Apex Art, New York
The MAC (McKinney Avenue Contemporary), Dallas, TX
Blind Spot, Dallas Artists Research and Exhibition, Dallas TX
Recent Acquisitions: Photography, The Museum of Modern Art, New
York
1994
Second Nature, The Friends of Photography, Ansel Adams Center for
Photography, San Francisco
Holiday Exhibition, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Big Shots Little Shots, Transamerica Pyramid Lobby, San Francisco
Metamorphoses: Photography in the Electronic Age (an Aperture exhibition),
The Fashion Institute of Technology, New York.Traveled to: Blaffer
Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX; Tampa Museum of Art,
Tampa, Fla.; Philadelphia Museum of Art; San Jose Museum of Art,
San Jose, CA; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art and Design, Kansas
City, MI; Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel
Hill, NC
After Images: Contemporary Directions in Photography, Caldwell College
Art Center, Caldwell, NJ
Des Objets Sans Fondation, Residence Secondaire, Paris, France)
A Garden, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston
Nature Studies, Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MI
Pictures of the Real World (In Real Time), Paula Cooper Gallery,
New York (curated by Robert Nickas). Traveled to: Le Consortium,
Dijon, France; Le Capitou, Centre d'Art Contemporain, Frejus, France;
Städisches Galerie, Göppingen, Germany; Massimo de Carlo,
Milan, Italy; Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
1993
Wings of Change: Images of Contradiction and Concensus, The Directors
Guild, Giorgio Beverly Hills, Beverly Hills, CA
Whitney Biennial 1993, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Traveled to: National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
Thresholds & Enclosures, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Binaera, Kunsthalle Wien, Austria
Hamburg Mediale, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
1992
Performing Objects, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
Choice Encounters, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Manifeste, Centre Geroges Pompidou, Paris, France
The Encompassing Eye: Photography As Drawing, Lehman College Art
Gallery, Bronx, NY
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Auction, Neiman Marcus, Union
Square, San Francisco
Gifts and Acquisitions in Context, Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York
More Than One Photography: Works since 1980 from the Collection,
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1991
Voices for Choice, Soho 20, New York
The Encompassing Eye: Photography as Drawing, University of Akron,
Akron, OH
1990
Points of Departure: Origins in Video, The Carnegie Museum of Art,
Pittsburgh PA
Passage de L'image, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre
Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Centre Cultural de la Fundació
"la Caixa," Barcelona, Spain; Power Plant, Toronto, Ontario;
Wexner Art Center, Columbus, OH; San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art
1989
Image World: Art and Media Culture, Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York
Self and Shadow, Burden Gallery, Aperture Foundation, New York
Eye For I: Video Self-Portraits, Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York. Traveled to:Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
Field and Frame: Meyer Schapiro's Semiotics of Painting, New York
Studio School
Video-Skulptur: Retrospektiv und Aktuell 1963-1989, Kölnischer
Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany. Traveled to: Kongresshalle, Berlin,
Germany; Kunsthaus, Zürich, Switzerland
1988
Druckgrafik und Fotografie, Galerie Albrecht, Munich, Germany
Galleria D'Art Moderna, Ferrara, Italy
Photography and Art: Interactions Since 1946, Queens Museum of Art,
Queens, NY
Black in the Light, Genovese Graphics, Boston
Planes of Memory, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
1987
Photography and Art: 1946-1986, Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Traveled to: Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Fla.; Queens Museum
of Art, Queens, New York
Art Against AIDS: A Benefit Exhibition, Paula Cooper Gallery, New
York
Clear Perceptions, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, MA
The Self-Portrait: Tangible Consciousness, Robeson Center Gallery,
Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
1986
Works from the Paula Cooper Gallery, John Berggruen Gallery, San
Francisco
1985
Opening Exhibition, McIntosh/Drysdale Gallery, Washington, D.C
Fukui International Video Festival, Fukui City, Japan
1984
Content: A Contemporary Focus 1974-1984, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture
Garden, Washington, D.C.
Artists Call: Against U.S. Intervention in Central America Benefit
Exhibition, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Highlights from the BankAmerica Corporation Collection, Plaza Gallery,
Concourse Gallery, A.P. Gianini Gallery, San Francisco
1983
Peter Campus: Photographs/David Deutsch: Paintings and Drawings,
Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge,
MA
Photography in America 1910 - Present, The Tampa Museum, Tampa,
Fla.
A Changing Group Exhibition, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Festival of the Arts, Center for the Arts, Muhlenberg College, Allentown,
PA
1982
postMINIMALism, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield,
CT
1981
Benefit Exhibition for Trisha Brown Dance Company, Leo Castelli
Gallery, New York
Schwartz, Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany
Dark/Light, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa
Barbara, CA. Traveled to: Lang Art Gallery, Claremont College, CA
Extended Photography, 5th Internationale Biennale, Association of
Visual Artists, Vienna, Austria
Videotapes aus Museumbesitz, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany
1980
Lynda Benglis, Jon Borofsky, Peter Campus, Michael Hurson, Paula
Cooper Gallery, New York
Paula Cooper at Yvon Lambert, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
Video Art Review, Anthology Film Archives, New York
Artists' Photographs, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield,
CT
ROSC'80, National Gallery of Ireland, University College, Dublin,
Ireland
Extensions of Photography, Santa Barbara Art Museum, University
of California, Santa Barbara, CA
1979
Five Artists, Five Technologies, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand
Rapids, MI
The Elusive Image,Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MI
One of a Kind, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art
Art on Paper 1979, University of North Carolina, Weatherspoon Art
Gallery, Greensboro, NC
Images of the Self, Hampshire College Gallery, Amherst, MA
1978
Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1977
Documenta 6, Kassel, Germany
1976
Autogeography, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Changing Channels, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
1975
São Paulo Biennale, São Paulo, Brazil
Video Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania,
Philadelphia. Traveled to: Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati,
OH; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford,
CT
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Projected Video, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1974
Project 74, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
Artpark, Lewistown, NY
Art Now '74, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington,
D.C.
Projected Images, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MI
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
The Kitchen, New York
Knokke Film Festival, Knokke-le-Zoute, Belgium
1973
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Circuit: A Video Invitational, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse,
NY. Traveled to: Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI;
Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle; Greenville County
Museum of Art, Greenville, SC; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Kölnischer
Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
Revision, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
1972
Bykert Gallery, New York
1971
Projected Art II, Finch College Museum of Art, New York
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Video Performances, Finch College Museum of Art, New York
Public Collections
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Le Centre national d’art et de culture Georges Pompidou, Paris,
France
Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin Germany.
Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany.
Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland
Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
The Black Center of the Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson,
NY
BankAmerica Corporation
Goldman Sachs, New York
Honors
John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, 1975
National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship, 1976
Fellowship, Center for Advanced Visual Studies, Massachusetts Institute
of Technology, Cambridge, 1976-1979
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