Stephen Prina
*1954 Galesburg, Illinois, lives and works in Los Angeles
Solo Exhibitions (selection)
2017
english for foreigners
MADRE, Napoli, Italy
2016
Galesburg, Illinois+
Petzel Gallery, New York, USA
Galesburg, Illinois+
Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Germany
2015
Galesburg, Illinois+
Kunsthalle St. Gallen, Switzerland
Wade Guyton and Stephen Prina
Petzel Gallery, New York, USA
2014
¡Hola! ¿Qué tal?
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany
Take It or Leave It: Institution, Image, Ideology
curated by Johanna Burton and Anne Ellegood
Hammer Museum, UCLA, Los Angeles, USA
2013
As He Remembered It
LACMA, Los Angeles, USA
Wayde Guyton, Stephen Prina
Friedrich Petzel, New York, USA
2012
Stephen Prina
Maureen Paley, London, UK
Filthy Rat
Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna, Austria
Painting
Friedrich Petzel, New York, USA
2011
Stephen Prina. Carve Out a Space of Intimacy
Capitain Petzel, Berlin, Germany
Again. Stephen Prina
in collaboration with Wade Guyton
Friedrich Petzel, New York, USA
Stephen Prina. As he remembered it
Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria
Stephen Prina. He was but a bad translation
Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
Fondazione Galleria Civica-Centro di Ricerca sulla Contemporaneità, Trento, Italy
2010
Modern Movie Pop
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, USA
Wade Guyton and Stephen Prina
Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, USA
2009
Stephen Prina
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, USA
Stephen Prina
Bergen Kunsthall, Norway
The Second Sentence of Everything I Read is You
Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC), Sevilla, Spain
The way He Always Wanted it
Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, USA
Kölniches Kunstverein, Köln, Germany
2008
The Way He Always Wanted It II
film screening
Cineplex Filmcollier Baden-Baden, Germany
The Second Sentence of Everything I Read is You
Staatliche Kunstsammlung Baden-Baden, Germany
Sammlung Haubrok, Berlin, Germany
2007
The Second Sentence of Everything I Read is You
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany
Monochrome Painting
Art unlimited, Art38 Basel, Switzerland
2006
The Second Sentence of Everything I Read is You
Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, USA
2004
Retrospection Under Duress, Reprise
Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, MA, USA
Homo Faber and Exquisite Corpse
Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, USA
Vinyl II
Cubitt, London, UK
2002
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany
To the people of Frankfurt am Main: Former site of Reconstructed Schoenberg study
Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, USA
Gaylen Gerber with Stephen Prina
The Art Institute of Chicago, USA
2001
Stephen Prina
PMK Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Galerie Max Hetzler, 1991 (Ten Years After)
Friedrich Petzel, Gallery, New York, USA
What’s Wrong? Open the Door!…
NIU Art Museum, Chicago, USA
Galerie Ghislane Hussenot, Paris, France
Northern Illinois University Art Gallery, Dekalb, Illinois, USA
Stephen Prina (with Gaylen Gerber): Backdrop/We Represent Ourselves to the World
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
To the People of Berlin, performance Freunde Guter Musik
Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
2000
To the People of Frankfurt am Main - At Least Three Types of Inaccessibility
performance
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt/M, Germany
It was the best he could do at the moment, reprise
Art Pace, A foundation for Contemporary Art, San Antonio, USA
1999
Push Comes to Love
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Push Comes to Love
Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, USA
Push Comes to Love
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany
1998
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (Second Investigation): Stephen Prina’s Monochrome Painting
Musée d’art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCO), Geneva, Switzerland
Acropolis: Thanksgiving Day, 1989, (with Allen Ruppersberg)
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Stephen Prina (with Tobias Rehberger)
Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, USA
1996
Retrospection Under Duress – L.O.V.E. Installation (Ivory/Mahogany)
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Retrospection Under Duress – H.O.P.E.-Installation (White/American Maple)
Luhring Augustine, New York, USA
Retrospection Under Duress – E.H.E.-Installation (Clear/Ramin)
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany
Retrospection Under Duress, Reprise
DAAD Galerie, Berlin, Germany
1994
Dom-Hotel, Room 101, Cologne/Dom Hotel, Zimmer 101, Cologne, Germany
American Fine Arts/Colin de Land, Inc., New York, USA
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany
1993
Luhring Augustine, New York, USA
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
1992
Luhring Augustine Hetzler, Los Angeles, USA
It was the best he could do at the moment
Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam , Netherlands
Beat of the Traps
performance with Mike Kelley and Anita Pace
The Remise, Vienna, Austria
1991
Gordon Lebredt/Stephen Prina: Comedies of Objecthood
The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
Galerie Peter Pakesch, Vienna, Austria
Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne, Germany
Galerie Fricke, Düsseldorf, Germany
1990
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany
Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, USA
Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago, USA
1989
Galerie Crousel-Robelin, Paris, France
Monochrome Painting, The Renaissance Society
Chicago, travelled to Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery and P.S.1, New York, USA
Luhring Augustine Hetzler, Los Angeles, USA
Karsten Schubert, Ltd., London , UK
1988
Luhring Augustine & Hodes Gallery, New York, USA
University Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara, USA
1980
An Observation of Musical Function
California Institute of the Arts, Gallery D301, Los Angeles, USA
1979
The Development of a Planar Standard
performance
California Insitute of the Arts, Valencia, USA
1978
Duet for Metronome and Frequency Analyzer, 1978
Carl Sandburg College, Galesburg, USA
Related Projects
Galesburg Civic Center, Galesburg, USA
1976
A Planar Delineation
Northern Illinois University, Gallery 214, Visual Arts Building, Dekalb, USA
Concerts, Film Screenings, Performances (selection)
2016
Tre Amici, Cayre Art Group
Ocean Avenue, Long Branch, USA
For the Love of Things: Still Life
Albright - Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA
2015
Concerto for Modern, Movie, Pop music for ten instruments and voice
The Kitchen, New York, USA
2014
Hammer presents: Stephen Prina - Take it or leave it
UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
2013
The Way He Always Wanted It VIII
concert, flute sextet
LACMA, Los Angeles, USA
String Quartet For Six Players
concert
Arnold Schönberg Center, Vienna, Austria
2011
Vinyl II; The Way He Always Wanted It II
film screening
Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
Stephen Prina and the Ensemble Garage
concert
Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
2010
The Way He Always Wanted It II
film screening
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Concerto for Modern, Movie and Pop Music for Ten Instruments and Voice
Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, USA
2009
The Way He Always Wanted It II
film screening
Architecture Film Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands
The Way He Always Wanted It II
film screening
part of an international competition (KunstFilmBiennale), Cologne, Germany
2008
Vinyl II, The Way He Always Wanted It II
film screenings
Kino Arsenal, Berlin, Germany
The Way He Always Wanted It II
film screening
Cineplex Filmcollier Baden-Baden, Germany
The Second Sentence of Everthing I Read Is You
performance
Orangerie des Brenner’s Park Hotel & Spa, Baden-Baden, Germany
The Way He Always Wanted It II
film screening on the occasion of a Bruce Goff Symposion
Tate Modern, London, UK
The Second Sentence of Everthing I Read Is You
concert organised by the Whitney Biennial and Art Production Fund, 18 March, Park Avenue Armory, New York, USA
2006
Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria
film screening
New York, USA
Power Plant
film screening and concert
Toronto, Canada
2005
In Concert
Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
John Anson Ford Amphitheater (concert), Los Angeles, USA
2004
Vinyl II
film screening
Cubitt, Gallery and Studios, The Screen on the Gree, London, UK
Retrospection Under Duress, Reprise
film screening and concert
The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA
2003
An Evening of 19th and 20th Century Music
concert
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
Graffiti Composition by Christian Marclay
concert
Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
To the People of Beacon
concert
Dia: Beacon, New York, USA
2002
Vinyl II
film screening
Theater der Welt, Cologne, Germany
Vinyl II
film screening
Die Kraft der Negation, Berlin, Germany
2001
My Barbarian Presents X-Mas Special
VHS produced by Malik Gaines and Alex Segade, 2002
Los Angeles, USA
Sonic Dan
performance, 24-25 August
MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, USA
James Benning, Sharon Lockhart, Stephen Prina: Vinyl II
film screening
Berlin/Los Angeles Film Festival of Architecture and Urbanism, University of Southern Calilfornia, Los Angeles, USA
To the People of Berlin (Pasadena)
film screening
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, USA
Vinyl II
film screening
Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
Galerie Jiri Svestka
film screening, Prague, Portugal
Prague Spring Music Festival
film screening in concert with Jaroslav Tuma, Cembalo
Prague, Portugal
Vinyl II
film screening
PMK Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2000
To the People of Berlin
concert, 21 June
Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
1999
To the People of the City of the Euro
concert
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
Push Comes to Love
performance, October 3
Studio 67, Cologne, Germany
Push Comes to Love: Pop Songs about Love, Sex, and Death
performance, July 10, part of Rukus L.A., curated by Lincoln Tobier and Rirkrit Tiravanija
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA
Push Comes to Love
CD/Vinyl Release Reception, March 26
China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles, USA
1998
Stephen Prina. Rectangle
concert, June 25
Instants Chavirés, Paris, France
Stephen Prina
concert
Spaceland, Los Angeles, USA
Stephen Prina
concert, December 4
Gramercy Art Fair, Camel Smoking and Cocktail Lounge, Chateau Marmont, Los Angeles, USA
Brecht, George, Incidental Music
concert, February 12, Beyond the Pink Festival in association with Out of Actions
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Municipal Auditorium at Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles, USA
Steve Reich, Pendulum Music
concert, February 14, Beyond the Pink Festival in association with Out of Actions
Santa Monica Art Museum, Santa Monica, USA
Stephen Prina
concert
Tempolabor, Basel, Switzerland
Sonic Dan, Crossings: Art to see and to hear
concert
Kunsthalle Wien, Austria
Starter
concert, July 9
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
1997
Sunshine & Noir: Art in Los Angeles 1960–1997
concert
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Danemark
Look/Hear
radio-Performance, December 21
KXLU 88.9FM, Los Angeles, USA
1996
Sonic Dan
concert, November 3, SO 36
Berlin, Germany
1994
Sonic Dan
concert, March 6
Lunapark, Los Angeles, USA
Johanna Faehmel’s Monologue
book signing
Room 101, Dom-Hotel, Cologne, Germany
1992
Beat of the Traps
performance with Mike Kelley and Anita Pace
Gindi Auditorium, University of Judaism, Los Angeles, USA
Expanded Art II: Beat of the Traps
performance with Mike Kelley and Anita Pace
Wiener Festwochen, Remise, Vienna, Austria
1990
The Readymade Boomerang
concert, March
Biennial Music Program, Sydne, Australia
The BiNational: American Art of the Late 80s, An Evening of 19th- and 20th- Century Music
concert, November
Ateneumin Taidemuseo, Helsinki, Islande
1989
The BiNational: American Art of the Late 80s, An Evening of 19th- and 20th- Century Music
Institute of Contemporary Art, The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (September); National Art Gallery, Athens (November); Städtische Kunsthalle / Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen / Kunstverein NRW, Dusseldorf (December)
Thomas Bernhard Memorial Reading
pre-recorded reading
Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, Venice, USA
1988
Striking Distance (concert, March)
The Temporary Contemporary, Los Angeles, USA
An Evening of 19th- and 20th-Century Piano Music (concert, April)
Ahmanson Auditorium, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
1985
The Art of Memory/The Loss of History (November)
New Museum, New York, USA
An Evening of 19th- and 20th-Century Piano Music (concert, 4 December), Symphony Space, New York, December 4, 1985
1978
Duet for Metronome and Frequency Analyzer (concert, July), Galesburg Civic Art Center, USA
Group Exhibitions (selection)
2016
Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age
Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany
As He Remembered It...Curated by Samuel Gross
Gallery Mezzanin, Geneva, Switzerland
2015
To expose, to show, to demonstrate, to inform, to offer
MUMOK, Vienna, AustriaSprayed, Gagosian Gallery, London, UK
RIDEAUX / blinds
Institut d’art Contemporain, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, France
2013
Lunch with Olympia
curated by Robert Storr and Carol Armstrong
Yale University Art Gallery, New Heaven, USA
Reflexionen zu Schönberg in der Gegenwartskunst
Arnold Schönberg Center, Vienna, Austria
2012
This Will Have Been: Art, Love and Politics in the 1980s
curated by Helen Molesworth
MCA, Chicago (travelled to The Walker, Minneapolis; The ICA, Boston), USA
Les Dérives de l’imaginaire
Palais de Toyo, Paris, France
The Feverish Library
Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, USA
Ein Wunsch bleibt immer übrig
Museum Ludwig, Köln, USA
2011
Museum of Desires /museum der Wünsche
MUMOK Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
I hate Paul Klee
Leopold-Hoesch-Museum & Papiermuseum Düren, Germany
The boy who robbed you a few minutes before arriving at the ball
curated by Regina Fiorito and Kelley Walker
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne, Germany
Shapes
haubrokshows, Berlin, Germany
2010
The Artist’s Museum
MOCA, Los Angeles, USA
The space between reference and regret
Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, USA
Von realer Gegenwart
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany
Wunschzettel, im Rahmen der Ausstellung: Nur Papier, und doch die ganze Welt
Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
Twennty Five
Luhring Augustine, New York, USA
Wade Guyton und Stephen Prina
Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, USA
Krieg/Individuum
Ausstellungshalle zeitgenössischer Kunst Münster, Germany
Vertically Integrated Manufacturing
Murray Guy, New York, USA
2009
An Unruly History of the Readymade
Fundación/Colección Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico
Feedbackstage
Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria
The Way He Always Wanted It II
Architecture Film Festival, Rotterdam, Netherlands
The Way He Always Wanted It II
KunstFilmBiennale, Cologne, Germany
Feedbackstage
Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria
2008
Painting: Now and Forever, Part II
Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, USA
Index: Conceptualism in California from the Permanent Collection
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
Not So Subtle Subtitle
Casey Caplan, New York, USA
Zuordnungsprobleme
Galerie Johann König, Berlin, Germany
Whitney Biennial, New York, USA
54. Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen, Germany
Kavalierstart, 1978 – 1982 Aufbruch in die Kunst der 80er
Museum Morsbroich Leverkusen, Germany
Stephen Prina, James Welling, B. Wurtz
Richard Telles Fine Art, Boston, USA
2007
Make Your Own Life: Artists in and Out of Cologne
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, USA
Michel Würthle and his Companions, Too far for Binoculars
NYE Haus, New York, USA
on paper, Amerikanische Zeichnung ab 1960
Gesellschaft für Gegenwartskunst e.V., Augsburg, Germany
Oh Girl, it´s a Boy!
Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany
Who´s afraid of Red Yellow and Blue? Positionen der Farbfeldmalerei
Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany
2006
Eldorado
Musee d´Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxemburg
Entangled Tongues
Nunnery Gallery, London, UK
Kunst aus Los Angeles der 60er bis 90er Jahre
Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany
Los Angeles, 1955-1985
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Make Your Own Life: Artists In and Out of Cologne
Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
2005
29 x 52-54 Bell Street
Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Critical Celebration
Galerie Karin Günther Nina Borgmann, Hamburg, Germany
I really should...
Lisson Gallery, London, UK
it takes some time to open an oyster
curated by Yilmaz Dziewior
Center Cultural Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
Long Playing
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, USA
Merlin Carpenter
Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, Germany
Off Key
Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland
Minimalist Kitsch
Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich, Switzerland
Present Perfect
Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, USA
The Lisson Gallery Summer Show
Lisson Gallery, London, UK
2004
Stephen Prina „Vinyl II“
Cubitt Gallery and Studios, London, UK
Support 2 – Die neue Galerie als Sammlung
Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria
Ilya & Emilia Kavakov – The Empty Museum
Sculpture Center, Long Island, USA
Support 1 – Die neue Galerie als Sammlung
Neue Galerie, Graz, Autria
2003
Re-Production 2
curated by Stephan Lochner
Galerie Christine König, Kerstin Engholm Galerie, Gabriele Senn Galerie, Vienna, Austria
Adorno. Die Möglichkeit des Unmöglichen
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt/M., Germany
Extended Play: art remixing music
Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Charline van Heyl, Jorge Pardo, Stephen Prina
Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, USA
2002
Eingang links
Kunstverein Düsseldorf, Germany
iconoclash
ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
in capital letters
Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now
Low gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Keine Kleinigkeit
Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
Reproduktion
Galerie Bernhard Knaus, Mannheim, Germany
SITE Sante Fe Biennial 2001, USA
2001
Wert Wechsel Zum Wert des Kunstwerks
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Cologne, Germany
ART/MUSIC. rock, pop, techno
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Beau Monde: Toward a Redeemed Cosmopolitanism
SITE Santa Fe Fourth International Biennial, USA
In Between: Art and Architecture
MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, USA
Neue Welt
Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany
2000
Departures: 11 Artists at the Getty
The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA
Library
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Project #0004
Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, USA
Too Early Too Late
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
The 21st Annual Benefit Art Auction, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
Pure de(Sign)
Otis Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, USA
Fashion Show, George’s, Los Angeles, USA
1999
Malerei
INIT-Kunst-Halle, Berlin, Germany
Painter Editions
Patrick Painter, Inc., Santa Monica, USA
Weg aus dem Bild
Curated by Martin Prinzhorn, Georg Kargl
Georg Kargl, Vienna, Austria
The Great Drawing Show 1550 to 1999
Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Duration and Whenever
Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
Art/Journalism
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
1998
Crossings: art to see and to hear
Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (First Investigation): The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting
Musée d’art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCO), Geneva, Switzerland
TransFiction I: Point Blank
Charim Klocker, Vienna, Austria
Recycling Art History
Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, USA
90069
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Freeze Frame
Galerie Douyon, Miami, USA
Works on Paper
Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, USA
1997
One of You, Among You, With You: For Martin Kippenberger
Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid, Spain
Sunshine & Noir: Art in Los Angeles 1960-1997
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Travelling to Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany; Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy, August 1998; UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
Sequence
Richard Salmon, London, UK
Heaven
Curated by Joshua Decter
P.S. 1 Museum, New York, USA
1996
a/drift
curated by Josh Decter
Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA
Multiple Pleasure
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA
Classifications
La Maitrise des sciences et Techniques, Rennes, École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris, France
Sammlung Speck
Museum Ludwig Köln, Cologne, Germany
Exposure
Luhring Augustine, New York, USA
Found footage
Gasser & Grunert GmbH, Cologne, Germany
NIU Collected
Northern Illinois University, Chicago, USA
1995
The Compulsion to Repeat: Repetition and Difference in Works, from the Permanent Collection
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
Untitled
Reading Room
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, American Fine Arts Co., New York, USA
Pittura Immedia
Künstlerhaus Graz, Austria
25 Years: An Exhibition of Selected Works
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Installation 95
with Luka Lasareishvili and Wolfgang Stiller
Ursula Blickle, Stiftung, Kraichtal, Germany
As I Remember It: Stephen Prina, Dokorder® 7140, 4 Track 4/2 Channel Stereo/Mono Tape Deck, with Cosima Von Bonin and Christopher Williams
The Museum of Modern Art Syros, Syros-Cyclades, Greece
The Big Night
The Bradburry Building, Los Angeles, USA
1994
In the Field: Landscape in Recent Photography
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
The First Fundraising Event to Benefit American Fine Arts, Co.
American Fine Arts, Co., New York, USA
Rodney Graham, Stephen Prina, Jeff Wall
Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Die Orte der Kunst
Sprengel Museum Hannover, Germany
Daniel Buren, Ken Lum, Stephen Prina, Rudolph Stingel
Curated by Colin de Land
Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art, New York, USA
Don’t Look Now
Curated by Joshua Dector
Thread Waxing Space, New York, USA
MOCA Art Auction ‘94, Musseum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
After and Before
The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, USA
1993
A Complete Hand of One Suit
Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery,University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA
Works by Younger Artists from the Collection of Richard Brown Baker
The Century Association, Fragments and Form: Selections from the Permanent Collection
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
Other Places
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Kontextualismus
Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria
From the Hand to the Head, the Theoretical Object
Centre d’Art Contemporain, Kerguehennec, France
Drawing the line Against AIDS
Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York, USA
Domaine: L’ordre du Temps des Choses, L’ordre des Idee, L’ordre du Sujet
organized by Denys Zachropoulos
Domaine de Kerguehennec, France
1992
Knowledge: Aspects of Conceptual Art
University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, Santa Monica Art Museum, USA
Dirty Data: The Collection of Wilhelm Schurmann
Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany
Allegories of Modernism: Contemporary Drawing
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Documenta IX, Kassel, Germany
Fifth Anniversary Show
Karsten Schubert, Ltd., London, UK
Works on Paper
Jim Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis, USA
American Fine Arts
Co., New York, USA
Art by Numbers
Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Greatest Hits
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
Not Working in LA/Good Design
Nomadic Site, Pasadena, USA
Locher, Prina, Williams, Wurm, Zobernig
Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1991
Beyond the Frame: American Art 1960-1990
Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, travelling to: National Museum of Art, Osaka, Fukuoko Art Museum, Japan
Vanitas
Galerie Crousel-Robelin, Paris, France
Gulliver’s Travels
Galerie Sophia Ungers, Cologne, Germany
Graham, Prina, Williams
S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, Canada
51st Carnegie International
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
Hybrid Abstract
Usdan Art Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont, USA
The Continuous Past
Pence Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
Selections from the Permanent Collection: 1975-90
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
The 1991 Benefit Auction, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York , USA
In the Beginning...
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, USA
Sophie Calle, Tim Rollins, and K.O.S., Stephen Prina
Trans Avant-Garde Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1990
Prints and Multiples
Luhring Augustine Hetzler, Santa Monica, USA
Stephen Prina, Christopher Wool and Sam Samore
Galerie Ursula Schurr, Stuttgart, Germany
The Readymade Boomerang
The Sydney Biennial, Sydney, Australia
Aperto
The Venice Biennial, Italy
Drawings
Luhring Augustine Hetzler, Santa Monica, USA
Prints and Related Works
Tomoko Liguori Gallery, New York, USA
The Children’s AIDS Project: A Benefit Exhibition
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
Sophie Calle, Tim Rollins & K.O.S., Stephen Prina
Trans Avant-Garde Gallery, San Francisco, USA
In the Beginning...
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, USA
Feux Pales
Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France
Marcia Hafif, Stephen Prina: Monochrome Painting
P.S. 1 Museum, New York, USA
1989
300 Years of Still Life Painting
Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Mediated Knot
Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago, USA
Group Show
Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
A Brave New World
Karsten Schubert, London, UK
Prospect 89
Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt/M, Germany
Group Show
Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, USA
A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation
MOCA, Los Angeles, USA
Group Show
Schmidt/Markow Gallery 1709, St. Louis, USA
Oppningsutstallning
Galleri Nordenstad-Skarstedt, Stockholm, Sweden
Media Influences
The Forum, St. Louis, USA
Recent Acquisitions at MOMA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Constructing a History: A Focus on MOCA’s Permanent Collection
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
Une Autre Affaire
Salle de Flore, Dijon, France
Jon Kessler, Stephen Prina, Thomas Struth
Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, USA
American Art of the Late 80’s
Würtembergiscer Kunstverein, Stuttgart; Art Museum of the Ateneum, Helsinki, Islande
1988
Material Ethics
Milford Gallery, New York, USA
Extended Play
Emily Harvey Gallery, New York, USA
MOCArt Auction ‘88
Jan Turner Gallery, Tamara Bane Gallery & The Temporary Contemporary, Los Angeles, USA
James Casebere, Stephen Prina, Christopher Wool
Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago, USA
Striking Distance
Museum of Contemporary Art/The Temporary Contemporary, Los Angeles, USA
The BiNational: American Art of the Late 80’s
Institute of Contemporary Art and The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston,USA, travelling to: Städtische Kunsthalle, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Kunstverein NRW, Düsseldorf; Kunsthalle, Bremen, 1989, Athens National Art Gallery.
Exhibition continues as: American Art of the Late 80’s at: Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, 1989; Art Museum of the Ateneum, Helsinki, 1990
Galerie Crousel-Robelin, Paris, France
Carecen 4th Annual Art Auction, Turske/Whitney Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Luhring Augustine & Hodes Gallery, New York, USA
An evening of 19th and 20th Century Piano Music
Ahmanson Auditorium, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
1987
2nd Annual Night of Erotica
Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, Venice, USA
Projections in Public: A Storefront Window Projection Project
Bloomsbury City Flower Mart, Los Angeles, Archimatics, San Diego, USA
Tenth Anniversary Benefit Auction 1987
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
Cal Arts: Skeptical Belief(s)
The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, USA
Nothing Sacred
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Tim Ebner, John L. Graham, Stephen Prina, Christopher Williams
Kuhlenschmidt/Simon Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
LA: Hot and Cool: The Eighties
MIT, List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, USA
1986
TV Generations
LACE, Los Angeles, USA
The World-Wide Sound Sculpture
De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Rooted Rhetoric, Una Tradizione nell’Arte Americana
Castel dell’Ovo, Naples, Italy
Mandelzomm
Castello di Vulci/Montalto di Castro, Rome, Italy
1985
Stephen Prina, Mark Stahl, Christopher Williams
Galerie Crousel-Hussenot, Paris, France
Stephen Prina, Mark Stahl, Christopher Williams
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA
Earsight: Visual Scores and Musical Images
Nexus, Philadelphia and Southern Alleghenies Museum, Johnstown, USA
The Public Art Show
Nexus Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta and University of South Carolina, Columbia, USA
travelling to: Austin Pea State University, Clarkville; Valencia Community College, Orlando; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh; University of the South, Sewanee
The Art of Memory/The Loss of History
The New Museum, New York, USA
1984
Jenny Holzer, Stephen Prina, Mark Stahl, Christopher Williams
De Appel, Amsterdam and Gewad, Ghent, Netherlands
1982
74th American Exhibition
The Art Institute of Chicago, USA
1980
Investigations: Probe-Structure-Analysis
The New Museum, New York, USA
1979
Group Exhibition of Some CalArts Works and Works by Other People Who Have Passed Through
Vancouver School of Art, Vancouver, B.C.
travelling to: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover Claremont College, Claremont, Ryder Gallery, Kroeber Hall, University of California, Berkeley, University of Hartford, Hartford/CT, The Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, USA
1978
University of California, Irvine, USA
1976
5 Artists
performance
Galleries I & II, Galesburg Civic Center, USA
Education
1980
M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
1977
B.F.A., Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois
1974
A.A., Carl Sandburg College, Galesburg, Illinois