Galerie Mezzanin

Christopher Williams
* 1956 in Los Angeles, lives and works in Cologne and Los Angeles.


Education


1981 M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts, Valencia
1978 B.F.A., California Institute of the Arts, Valencia


Solo Exhibitions


2016
Open Letter to Model No. 1740
Capitain Petzel, Berlin

 

2015
Christopher Williams, The Production Line of Happiness

Whitechapel Gallery, London

 

2014
Christopher Williams, The Production Line of Happiness
Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna
The Production Line of Happiness
The Art Institute of Chicago
[itinerary: The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitechapel Gallery, London] [catalogue]

 

2013
Christopher Williams
Volker Bradtke, Düsseldorf
For Example: Dix-Huit Leçons Sur La Société Industrielle (Revision 18)
David Zwirner, London
For Example: Dix-Huit Leçons Sur La Société Industrielle (Revision 17)
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne

 

2012
The Production Line of Happiness
Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany [catalogue]

 

2011
For Example: Dix-Huit Leçons Sur La Société Industrielle (Revision 15)
Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany [exhibition publication]
For Example: Dix-Huit Leçons Sur La Société Industrielle (Revision 14)
House of Art – Gallery of Contemporary Art, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
For Example: Dix-Huit Leçons Sur La Société Industrielle (Revision 13)
Museum Dhondt- Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium
For Example: Dix-Huit Leçons Sur La Société Industrielle (Revision 12)
David Zwirner, New York

 

2010
Andrea Fraser/Christopher Williams
Galerie Christian Nagel, Antwerp
For Example: Dix-Huit Leçons Sur La Société Industrielle (Revision 11)
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany [catalogue]
For Example: Dix-Huit Leçons Sur La Société Industrielle (Revision 10)
Bergen Kunsthall, Norway [catalogue]

 

2009
For Example: Dix-Huit Leçons Sur La Société Industrielle (Revision 9)
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
For Example: Dix-Huit Leçons Sur La Société Industrielle (Revision 8)
Capitain Petzel, Berlin
Mathias Poledna, Christopher Williams
Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany [two-person exhibition]

 

2008
For Example: Dix-Huit Leçons Sur La Société Industrielle (Revision 7)
David Zwirner, New York

 

2007
For Example: Dix-Huit Leçons Sur La Société Industrielle (Revision 6)
Kunsthalle Zürich [catalogue]
For Example: Dix-Huit Leçons sur La Société Industrielle (Revision 5)
Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy

Take That
Haubrokshows, Berlin

 

2006
For Example: Dix-Huit Leçons Sur La Société Industrielle (Revision 4)
David Zwirner, New York
For Example: Dix-Huit Leçons Sur La Société Industrielle (Revision 3)
Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal

 

2005
De Rijke/De Rooij
Secession, Vienna [catalogue]
For Example: Dix-Huit Leçons sur la Société Industrielle (Revision 2)
Gisela Capitain, Cologne
For Example: Dix-Huit Leçons sur la Société Industrielle (Draft 2)
Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver [catalogue]
For Example: Dix-Huit Leçons sur la Société Industrielle (Revision 1)
Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany [catalogue]

 

2004
Christopher Williams
Gisela Capitain, Cologne
Works 1994-2000
John Hope Franklin Center, Franklin Center Gallery, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina [exhibition brochure]

 

2003
Christopher Williams
Wako Works of Art, Tokyo

 

2002
Christopher Williams
David Zwirner, New York
Christopher Williams
Gisela Capitain, Cologne

 

2001
Poesin Måste Göras Av Alla! Transform The World! Förändra Världen! Poetry Must Be Made By All
Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand [catalogue]

 

2000
For Example: Die Welt ist schön (Revision 17): Couleur Européene, Couleur Soviétique, Couleur Chinoise
David Zwirner, New York
For Example: Die Welt ist schön (Revision 18): Couleur Européene, Couleur Soviétique, Couleur Chinoise
Galerie Esther Freund, Vienna
For Example: Die Welt ist schön (Revision 19): Couleur Européene, Couleur Soviétique, Couleur Chinoise
Galerie Kienzle & Gmeiner, Berlin
For Example: Die Welt ist schön (Revision 20): Couleur Européene, Couleur Soviétique, Couleur Chinoise
Le Magasin, Grenoble, France
For Example: Die Welt ist schön (Revision 21): Couleur Européene, Couleur Soviétique, Couleur Chinoise
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
For Example: Die Welt ist schön (Revision 22): Couleur Européene, Couleur Soviétique, Couleur Chinoise
Museum Haus Lange - Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany [catalogue]
For Example: Die Welt ist schön (Revision 23): Couleur Européene, Couleur Soviétique, Couleur Chinoise
Wako Works of Art, Tokyo

 

1999
For Example: Die Welt ist schön (Revision 16): Couleur Européene, Couleur Soviétique, Couleur Chinoise
Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris

 

1998
For Example: Die Welt ist schön (Revision 13)
Luhring Augustine, New York
For Example: Die Welt ist schön (Revision 14): Transform the World! Poetry Must be Made by All
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
For Example: Die Welt ist schön (Revision 15): Transform the World! Poetry Must be Made by All
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
Video Supplement 96
Stadkino, Basel [lecture and video screening]

 

1997
For Example: Die Welt ist schön (Revision 9): A retrospective from the first draft to the final draft
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam [catalogue]
For Example: Die Welt ist schön (Revision 10): A retrospective from the first draft to the final draft
Kunsthalle Basel [catalogue]
For Example: Die Welt ist schön (Revision 11)
Galleria Lia Rumma, Naples
For Example: Die Welt ist schön (Revision 12): A retrospective from the first draft to the final draft
Kunstverein Hamburg
For Example: Die Welt ist schön (Final Draft)
Wako Works of Art, Tokyo

 

1996
For Example: Die Welt ist schön (Revision 6)
Patrick Painter Editions, Vancouver
For Example: Die Welt ist schön (Revision 7)
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
For Example: Die Welt ist schön (Revision 8)
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne

 

1995
Film Screening by Christopher Willams
Museum of Modern Art, Syros, Greece
For Example: Die Welt ist schön (Revision 5): Oehlen Williams 95
Wexner Center for the Arts, Colombus, Ohio [catalogue] [two-person exhibition]

1994

For Example: Die Welt ist schön (Revision 3)
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
For Example: Die Welt ist schön (Revision 4)
Galerie Borgmann Capitain, Cologne

 

1993
Christopher Williams
Person’s Weekend Museum, Tokyo [catalogue]
Christopher Williams
Room Tomoyo Kawai, Room 401, Casa de Verde, Tokyo
For Example: Die Welt ist schön (Revision 2)
Luhring Augustine, New York
For Example: Die Welt ist schön (First Draft)
Kunstverein München, Munich

 

1992
Christopher Williams
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
Christopher Williams
Luhring Augustine, New York [two-person exhibition with Sophie Calle]
Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Albert Oehlen
Margo Leavin, Los Angeles [curated by Christopher Williams] [two-person exhibition]
Two Evenings of Film
Film Festival Cologne, Cologne [two-person exhibition with Albert Oehlen] [catalogue]

 

1991
Christopher Williams
Galerie Crousel-Robelin BAMA, Paris
Christopher Williams
Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne [catalogue]
Christopher Williams
Galerie Nelson, Lyon, France

 

1990
Christopher Williams
Luhring Augustine Hetzler, Santa Monica, California

 

1989
Christopher Williams
Galerie Crousel-Robelin BAMA, Paris
Christopher Williams
Luhring Augustine, New York
Christopher Williams
Shedhalle Zürich [catalogue]

 

1985
Selections from ADWEEK, Western Advertising News, Vol. XXXIV, No. 20, April 30, 1984
Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, Venice, California [programmed with Herbert Gold]

 

1982
Christopher Williams
Jancar/Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles
Source: The Photographic Archive, John F. Kennedy Library
Jancar/Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles

1981
M.F.A. Exhibition
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia

 

1980
Christopher Williams
Mezzanine Gallery, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia

 

1979
3 Films
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia
One Film (Approximately 3 1⁄2 minutes in length) will be shown, rewound, and shown again
Bijou Theater, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia

 

Selected Group Exhibitions

 

2017

The Absent Museum
Wiels, Contemporary Art Center, Brussels, Belgium

 

2016
Albert Oehlen
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio
California and the West: Photography from the Campaign for Art
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
L’image Volée/The Stolen Picture
Fondazione Prada, Milan (cat.)
Mit anderen Augen/With Other Eyes
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Germany
Ordinary Pictures
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota (cat.)
We Call It Ludwig
Museum Ludwi, Cologne

 

2015
Le Souffleur: Schürmann meets Ludwig
Ludwig Forum, Aachen
America Is Hard To See
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Anatomies de l’automate
La Panacée, Montpellier, France
Chalet Dallas
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas
Display Show
Temple Bar Gallery, Dublin (itinerary: Eastside Projects, Birmingham, England,
Stroom Den Haag, The Netherlands)
Everything Must Go: Art and the Market
Lewis Glucksman Gallery, University College Cork, Ireland
It’s Obvious
Collection Vanmoerkerke, Ostend, Belgium
Perfect Likeness: Photography and Composition
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (cat.)
to expose, to show, to demonstrate, to inform, to offer: artistic practices around 1990
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (MUMOK), Vienna
Under the Clouds: From Paranoia to the Digital Sublime
Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal (cat.)
We Are A Parasite On The Institution of Cinema, An Institution Of Parasites
1st Studio for Propositional Cinema Film Festival
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig (MUMOK), Vienna

Open This End: Contemporary Art from the Collection of Blake Byrne
Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

 

2014
(Mis)Understanding Photography: Works and Manifestos
Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Propaganda für die Wirklichkeit

Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany cat.
Take It or Leave it: Institution, Image, Ideology
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
What is a Photograph?
International Center of Photography, New York cat.

1984 - 1999: The Decade
Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
Darren Bader: Photographs I Like
Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
Love Story: The Anne and Wolfgang Titze Collection
Winter Palace and 21er Haus, Belvedere, Vienna
A Machinery for Living
Petzel Gallery, New York [organized by Walead Beshty]
Potent Wilderness: Works from the Igal Ahouvi Art Collection
The Genia Schreiber University Art Gallery, Tel Aviv University
The Thing Itself
Yancey Richardson, New York
To do as one would
David Zwirner, New York

 

2013
55th Venice Biennale: Il Palazzo Enciclopedico/The Encyclopedic Palace
Venice [catalogue forthcoming]
Confusion in the Vault
Museo Jumex, Mexico City [catalogue published in 2014]
The Feverish Library (continued)
Capitain Petzel, Berlin
Life with Pop: A Reproduction of Capitalist Realism
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf [catalogue forthcoming]

Magnetic North
Ratio 3, San Francisco
Official Welcome - New works of the foundation for the acquisition of contemporary art
Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
Tradition. A selection from the Center for Research on Old Textiles (CSROT)
Marres, Maastricht, The Netherlands [itinerary: Grazer Kunstverein, Graz, Austria]

 

2012
Ändere dich, Situation!
Stadtgalerie Schwaz, Schwaz, Austria
A Blind Spot
Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), Berlin
The Deutsche Börse photography prize
The Photographers‘ Gallery, London [itinerary: Deutsche Börse, Frankfurt; C/O Berlin]
Fremde überall/Foreigners everywhere: Contemporary Art from the Pomeranz Collection
Jewish Museum, Vienna [catalogue]
Ghosts in the Machine
New Museum, New York [catalogue]
Poule!
Fundación/Colección Jumex, Ecatepec, Mexico [catalogue]
Stand still like the hummingbird
David Zwirner, New York
This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago [itinerary: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Institute of Contemporary Art Boston] [catalogue]

 

2011
After the Gold Rush: Contemporary Photographs from the Collection
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Anarchism Without Adjectives: On the Work of Christopher D’Arcangelo (1975-1979)
Artists Space, New York
Anti/Form: Sculptures from the MUMOK Collection
Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
The Boy Who Robbed You A Few Minutes Before Arriving At The Ball
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
Darren Bader - Chad Ochocinco
Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York
Jeff Wall: The Crooked Path
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels [itinerary: Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain] [two catalogues]
Marking By Disclosure
Maxwell Graham Fine Art, New York
Moshe Ninio, Haim Steinbach and Christopher Williams
Dvir Gallery, Tel Aviv
Museum of Desires, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna [catalogue]
Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981, Geffen Contemporary at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles [part of Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980 organized by the Getty Center, Los Angeles]

 

2010
8tGwangju Biennale: 10,000 Lives
Gwangju, South Korea [catalogue]
The Artist’s Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Atlas. How to Carry the World on One’s Back?
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid [itinerary: ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany; Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg] [catalogue]
Crash: Homage to J.G. Ballard
Gagosian Gallery, London
Endless Bummer / Surf Elsewhere
Blum & Poe, Los Angeles
Exhibition, Exhibition
Castello di Rivoli - Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin [catalogue]
Filmschönheit
Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna [itinerary: Greene Naftali, New York]
Ordinary Madness: Contemporary Works from the Collection
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh [exhibition publication]
Picture Industry (Goodbye to All That)
Regen Projects, Los Angeles [curated by Walead Beshty]
A Shot in the Dark
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Swagger, Drag, Fit Together
Wallspace Gallery, New York
Tasters’ Choice
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London

 

2009
Compass in Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Foundation of Contemporary Drawings Collection
The Museum of Modern Art, New York [catalogue]
Connected things collected
Sammlung Haubrok, Berlin
Dance with Camera
Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia [itinerary: Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Texas; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona] [catalogue]
Das Gespinst: Die Sammlung Schürmann zu Besuch im Museum Abteiberg
Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
FAX
The Drawing Center, New York
Männer Frauen – Porträts Aus Der Sammlung
Kunstraum Grässlin, St. Georgen, Germany
Modernologies: Contemporary Artists Researching Modernity and Modernism
Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona [itinerary: Museum of Modern Art Warsaw] [catalogue]
Then the work takes place. Zum Paradigma des Konzeptuellen in der zeitgenössischen Fotografie
Camera Austria, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
Walead Beshty, Kelley Walker, Christopher Williams
China Art Objects Gallery, Los Angeles
A Wild Night and a New Road
Altman Siegel, San Francisco

2008
Choosing
Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Hamburg
Collecting Collections: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles [catalogue]
Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today
The Museum of Modern Art, New York [itinerary: Tate Liverpool, England] [catalogue]
The Gallery
David Zwirner, New York
Index: Conceptualism in California from the Permanent Collection
The Geffen Contemporary at Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Kavalierstart, 1978-1982 Aufbruch in die Kunst der 80er
Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Not So Subtle Subtitle
Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York
Photography on Photography: Reflections on the Medium since 1960
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Quiet Politics
Zwirner & Wirth, New York
Re-Designed
Galleria Lia Rumma, Milan
Wako Works of Art: 15 Years, Part III
Wako Works of Art, Tokyo

 

2007
Angelegenheiten, die sich daraus ergeben
Künstlerhaus Bremen, Germany
Been Up So Long It Looks Like Down to Me
Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver [catalogue]
Brasil: desFocos [o olho de fora]
Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro [itinerary: Paço das Artes, São Paulo] [catalogue]
Conditions of Display
The Moore Space and Locust Projects, Miami [catalogue]
Cross-border: Fotografie und Videokunst aus dem MUMOK Wien
Kunstmuseum Stuttgart
Die Wörter die Dinge
Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Hammer Contemporary Exhibition
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Les Temps Modernes: Collection du Frac Bretagne
Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Bignan, France
What does the jellyfish want? Photographs from Man Ray to James Coleman,
Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Yäq
La Planta, Arte Contemporáneo Omnilife, Guadalajara, Mexico

 

2006
1,82
Haubrokshows, Berlin
Into a Journey
Meyer Riegger Galerie, Karlsruhe, Germany
Keep passing the open windows or Happiness
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
Kunst aus Los Angeles der 60er bis 90er Jahre
Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany [catalogue published in 2007]
Los Angeles 1955-1985, The Birth of an Art Capital
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris [catalogue]
Make Your Own Life: Artists In & Out of Cologne
Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia [itinerary: The Power Plant, Toronto; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami] [catalogue]
Motore Immobile
Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
Strange Drugs
Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels
Staged/Unstaged
Emily Tsingou Gallery, London
Surprise, Surprise
Institute of Contemporary Art, London
The Swan is Very Peaceful
Richard Telles Gallery, Los Angeles
Tomorrowland: CalArts in Moving Pictures
The Museum of Modern Art, New York [itinerary: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris]
Whitney Biennial 2006: Day for Night
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York [catalogue]
Why Pictures Now: Fotografie, Film, Video Heute
Museum für moderne Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna [catalogue]

 

2005
bildwechsel /01 sammlung f. c. gundlach
haus der photographie, Deichtorhallen Hamburg
Early Work
David Zwirner, New York
I Really Should
Lisson Gallery, London
It takes some time to open an oyster
Centro Cultural Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
Photography‘s Expanded Field
Preus Museum, Horten, Norway
Roe Etheridge, Zoe Leonard, Christopher Williams
Mai 36 Galerie, Zürich

 

2004
100 Artists See God
Naples Museum of Art, Naples, Florida [itinerary: The Jewish Museum, San Francisco; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California; Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, New York; Institute of Contemporary Art, London; Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach; Albright College Freedman Art Gallery, Reading, Pennsylvania; Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, Tennessee] [catalogue]
Artists’ Favourites: Act 1
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Before the End
Le Consortium, Dijon, France
The Ecstasy of Things
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Last One On is a Soft Jimmy
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Lodz Biennial
Lodz, Poland
Playing with Nature: Flowers Observed, Flowers Transformed
Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
Teil 2 “Quodlibet,”
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne

 

2003
2003 Society for Contemporary Art Acquisition Selections
Art Institute of Chicago
Fast Forward: Media Works from the Goetz Collection
ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany [catalogue]
Possibility of the Impossible
Kunstverein Frankfurt
Raid the Icebox
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angles
Re-Produktion-2
Georg Kargl, Vienna
Unreal Estate Opportunities
PKM Gallery, Seoul [catalogue]

 

2002
La Chinoise
Baumgartner Gallery, New York
Portrait Photography
Mai 36, Zürich
Prophets of Boom – Werke aus der Sammlung Schürmann
Staatlichen Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany
ReProduction
Galerie Bernhard Knaus, Mannheim, Germany
Solitudes
Galerie Michel Rein, Paris
Transform the World 2002
Wako Works of Art, Tokyo
Works from the Schürmann Collection
Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany [catalogue]

 

2001
25 Years: An Exhibition of Selected Works
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
Detourism
The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago
In Between: Art and Architecture
MAK Center, Los Angeles
Grässlin Collection
Deichtorhallen Hamburg
IΨ NY
David Zwirner, New York
Mobile Wall Systems
Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Sammlung Hauser and Wirth/Part 2/Alternating Current
Sammlung Hauser and Wirth, St. Gallen, Switzerland [catalogue]
Take Two/Reprise
The Ottawa Art Gallery, Canada [exhibition brochure]
Ziviler Ungehrosam, Die Sammlung Falckenberg, Hanover

 

2000
Foto Biennale
Rotterdam [catalogue]

 

1999
Gallery Artists Summer Show
David Zwirner, New York
The Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect
The Museum of Modern Art, New York [catalogue]
Summer Group Show
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
The work shown in this space is a response to the existing conditions and/or work shown preciously with the space III
Neugerriemschneider, Berlin

 

1998
90069
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
At the End of the Century: One Hundred Years of Architecture
Museum of Contemporary Art, Toyko [itinerary: Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City; Museum Ludwig, Cologne; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles]
Places that are elsewhere
David Zwirner, New York [curated by Diana Thater]
TransFiction I: Point Blank
Charim Klocker, Vienna
Travel & Leisure
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

 

1997
At One Remove
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, England
Nature Redux: Photographs by Ten Artists
Harris Art Gallery, University of La Verne, California
Someone else with my fingerprints
David Zwirner, New York [itinerary: Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Zürich; August Sander Archiv/SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne; Kunstverein München, Munich; Kunsthaus Hamburg [curated by Wilhelm Schürmann] [catalogue] Sunshine & Noir: Art in L.A. 1960-1997
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebæk, Denmark [itinerary: Castello di Rivoli - Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin; The Hayward Gallery, London; Haus der Kunst, Munich; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany] [catalogue]
Wachselstrom
Galerie Ulrich Fiedler, Cologne

 

1996
Nature Redux: Photographs by Ten Artists
Santa Barbara County Arts Commission at Channing Peake Gallery, California
Nobuyoshi Araki, Larry Clark, Thomas Struth and Christopher Williams
Kunsthalle Basel [catalogue]
Roy Arden, Dan Graham and Ed Ruscha, Christopher Williams
Blum and Poe, Santa Monica, California

 

1995
25 Years: An Exhibition of Selected Works
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
Dark Memories Hovering Below the Transparent Screen of the Present will Project Images of Reality in Sharp Silhouette to Create the Pleasurable Effect of a Double World
Marc Foxx Gallery, Santa Monica, California [organized by Larry Johnson]
Das Ende der Avantgarde: Kunst als Dienstleistung
Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich [catalogue published in 1996]
People (Stephan Balkenhol, Marlene Dumas, Thomas Ruff, Thomas Struth and Christopher Williams)
Monica de Cardenas Gallery, Milan
Untitled (Reading Room)
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles

 

1994
Archive
Forum Stadpark, Graz, Austria
Die Orte der Kunst
Sprengel Museum, Hanover [catalogue]
Installations: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Part One
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
In the Field: Landscape in Recent Photography
Margo Leavin Gallery, Santa Monica, California Labor and Leisure
John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin
Notational Photographs
Metro Pictures; Petzel Borgmann Gallery, New York
Radical Scavenger(s): The Conceptual Vernacular in Recent American Art
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago [catalogue]
Temporary Translation(s)
Kunst der Gegenwart und Fotografie Deichtorhallen Hamburg [curated by Sammlung Schürmann] [catalogue]

 

1993
A Complete Hand of One Suit
Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Fragments and Forms: Selections from the Permanent Collection
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Konstruktion Zitat: Kollektive Bilder in der Fotografie
Sprengel Museum, Hanover [catalogue] Kontextualismus
Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria [catalogue]
L.A. Stories
Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, Los Angeles
Other Places, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
Utopian Art – Artificial Utopia, Friedrichshof, Austria

 

1992
Autoren von Texte zur Kunst halten Reden u.a. auf der documenta 9
Horsaal der Gesamthochschule, Kassel [catalogue]
Dirty Data: The Collection of Wilhelm Schürmann
Ludwig Forum für internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany [catalogue]
Hollywood, Hollywood
Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California [curated by Fred Fehlau] [catalogue]
Knowledge: Aspects of Conceptual Art
University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, California [itinerary: Santa Monica Museum of Art, California; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh] [catalogue]
Mehr Licht
Galerie Crousel-Robelin, Paris American Fine Arts, New York, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco

 

1991
51 Carnegie International 1991
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh [catalogue] Enclosure, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
Facing the Finish: Some Recent California Art
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art [itinerary: Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, California; Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California] [catalogue]
Fassbinder-Oehlen-Prina
Castello di Riviera, Turin [catalogue] [slide presentation]
Gulliver’s Travels
Galerie Sophia Ungers, Cologne [catalogue]
The Legacy of Karl Blossfeldt
Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles
Lynn Cohen, Thomas Struth, Christopher Williams
Galerie Samia Saouma, Paris
Rodney Graham, Stephen Prina, Christopher Williams
S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto [catalogue] Vanitas, Galerie Crousel-Robelin, Paris

 

1990
Artedomani: 1990/ Punto di Vista
Galleria Communale d’Arte Moderna, Spoleto, Italy [catalogue]
De Aftsand
Witte de With, Rotterdam [catalogue]
Drawings
Luhring Augustine Hetzler, Santa Monica, California
Prints and Multiples
Luhring Augustine Hetzler, Santa Monica, California Galerie Ursula Schurr, Stuttgart

 

1989
Constructing a History: A Focus on MOCA’s Permanent Collection
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles [catalogue]
A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles [catalogue]
Group Exhibition
Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago
Group Show
Schmidt Markow Gallery 1709, St. Louis, Missouri
Materiality
CEPA, Buffalo, New York
Une Autre Affaire
Espace Frac, Dijon, France
Wittgenstein and the Art of the 20 Century
Secession, Vienna [itinerary: Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels] [catalogue] Galerie Ursula Schurr, Stuttgart

 

1988
Material Ethics
Milford Gallery, New York Galerie Crousel-Robelin, Paris

 

1987
CalArts: Skeptical Belief(s)
The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago [itinerary: The Newport Harbour Art Museum, Newport Beach, California] [catalogue]
The Castle
Documenta 8, Kassel [curated by Group Material]
L.A.: Hot and Cool: The Eighties
List Visual Arts Center at MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts [catalogue]
Nothing Sacred
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
Tim Ebner, John L. Graham, Stephen Prina, Christopher Williams
Kuhlenschmidt/Simon, Los Angeles

 

1985
Mandelzomm
Castello di Vulci, Rome
Rooted Rhetoric: Una Tradizione nell’Arte Americana
Castel dell’Ovo, Naples
T.V. Generations
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions [catalogue published in 1986] Foundation De Appel, Amsterdam

 

1985
The Art of Memory, The Loss of History
New Museum, New York [catalogue]
Prina, Stahl, Williams
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York

 

1984
Jenny Holzer, Stephen Prina, Mark Stahl, Christopher Williams
Galerie Crousel - Hussenot, Paris [itinerary: Gewad, Ghent; Foundation De Appel, Amsterdam] [catalogue]

 

1983
Unclaimed: 1 Pkg. Photos, 88lbs...Identification Number 085-65950006
U.S. Customs, Terminal Island, California [in association with Mark Stahl]

 

1981
74tAmerican Exhibition
Art Institute of Chicago [catalogue published in 1982]
Group Show
Jancar/Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Los Angeles

 

1980
5. International Biennale, Erweiterte Fotografie
Secession, Vienna
Public Speaking Work
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia [in association with Mark Stahl]

 

1979
Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts
[itinerary: University of Hartford, Connecticut]
Group Exhibition of Some CalArts Works and Other People Who Have Passed Through
Vancouver School of Art

 

1978
Approximately One-Half Hour of Dance Activity (An Unrehearsed Situation)
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia


Monographs & solo exhibition catalogues


2014
Christopher Williams: The Production Line of Happiness.
Texts by Mark Godfrey, Roxana Marcoci, Christopher Williams, and Matthew S. Witkovsky. The Art Institute of Chicago and The Museum of Modern Art, New York (exh. cat)

 

2012
Christopher Williams - The Production Line of Happiness.
Kabinett für aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven, Germany (exh. cat.)

 

2011
Christopher Williams. For Example: Dix-Huit Leçons Sur La Société Industrielle (Revision 15).
Text by Mark von Schlegell. Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany (exh. pub.)

 

2010
Christopher Williams. For Example: Dix-Huit Leçons Sur La Société Industrielle (Revision 10).
Texts by Diedrich Diederichsen, John Kelsey, and Christopher Williams. Bergen Kunsthall, Norway (exh. cat.)
Christopher Williams. For Example: Dix-Huit Leçons Sur La Société Industrielle (Revision 11).
Text by Mark Godfrey. Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne (exh. cat.)

2007
Christopher Williams: 97,5 Mhz*.
Text by John Kelsey. Kunsthalle Zürich (exh. cat.)

 

2005
Christopher Williams.
Texts by Christian Höller and Vanessa Joan Müller. Secession, Vienna (exh. cat.)
Christopher Williams.
Texts by Claudia Beck and John Miller. Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver (exh. cat.)
For Example: Dix-Huit Leçons Sur La Société Industrielle (Revision 1).
Text by Helmut Draxler. Lukas & Sternberg, Berlin (exh. cat.)

 

2004
Christopher Williams: Works 1994-2000.
Text by Robert Simon. Franklin Center Gallery, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina (exh. bro.)

 

2001
Christopher Williams: Poesin Måste Göras Av Alla! Transform The World! Förändra Världen! Poetry Must Be Made By All.
Edited by Gregory Burke. Texts by Gregory Burke and Thomas Crow. Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand (exh. cat.)

 

2000
Christopher Williams. Couleur Européenne Couleur Soviétique Couleur Chinoise.
Haus Lange - Haus Esters Krefeld, Germany (exh. cat.)

 

1997
Christopher Williams. For Example: Die Welt ist schon (Final Draft).
Texts by Timothy Martin, Richard J. Neutra, and Karel Schampers. Museum Boijmans Van Beunigen, Rotterdam and Kunsthalle Basel (exh. cat.)

 

1995
Fama & Fortune (Heft 16/Herbst 1995)
Texts by Helmut Draxler and Timothy Martin. Verlag Pakesch & Schlebrugge, Vienna (artist’s book)
Oehlen Williams 95.
Edited by Catherine Gudis. Texts by Thomas Crow, Diedrich Diederichsen, Timothy Martin, Stephen Melville, and Friedrich Petzel. Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio (exh. cat.)

 

1993
Christopher Williams.
Text by Raoul Coutard. Person’s Weekend Museum, Tokyo (exh. cat.)

1991
Christopher Williams: Bouquet (for Bas Jan Ader and Christopher D’Arcangelo).
Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne (exh. cat.)

1989
Angola to Vietnam*.
Imschoot, Uitgevers for IC, Ghent (artist’s book)
Christopher Williams.
Texts by David Deitcher and Harm Lux. Shedhalle Zürich (exh. cat.)


Selected books & group exhibition catalogues


2014
Confusion in the Vault.
Museo Jumex, Mexico City (exh. cat.)
Now Showing: A History of the Govett-Brewster Art Gallery.
Texts by Jim Barr, Mary Barr, Christina Barton, Jon Bywater, et al. Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
What is a Photograph?
Texts by George Baker, Geoffrey Batchen, Hito Steyer, and Carol Squiers. DelMonico Books/Prestel Verlag, New York (exh. cat.)

 

2013
55th Venice Biennale: Il Palazzo Enciclopedico/The Encyclopedic Palace.
Marsilio Editori, Venice (exh. cat.) [forthcoming]

 

2012
Fremde überall/Foreigners everywhere: Contemporary Art from the Pomeranz Collection.
Edited by Ami Barak and Marie Gautier. Texts by Hanna Alkema, Alexandra Alexopoulou, Ami Barak, Anna Kerekes, Marie Gautier, and Danielle Spera. Jewish Museum and EP Privatstiftung, Vienna (exh. cat.)
Ghosts in the Machine. Edited by Gary Carrion-Murayari and Massimiliano Gioni. Texts by Gary Carrion-Murayari, Massimiliano Gioni, Megan Heuer, and William S. Smith. New Museum and Skira Rizzoli, New York (exh. cat.)
Poule! Fundación/Colección Jumex, Ecatepec, Mexico (exh. cat.)
This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s.
Texts by Johanna Burton, Bill Horrigan, Elisabeth Lebovici, Helen Molesworth, et al. Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago and Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut (exh. cat.)

 

2011
Are You Experienced? How Psychedelic Consciousness Transformed Modern Art.
Text by Ken Johnson. Prestel, Munich
Jeff Wall: The Crooked Path.
Edited by Hans de Wolf. Bozarbooks, Brussels and Ludion, Antwerp (exh. cat.)
Jeff Wall: The Crooked Path/El sendero sinuoso.
Edited by Hans de Wolf. Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
(exh. cat.)
Measuring the World: Heterotopias and Knowledge Spaces in Art/Vermessung der Welt. Heterotopien und Wissensräume in der Kunst.
Kunstmuseum Graz, Austria (exh. cat.) Museum of Desires. Edited by Karola Kraus. Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna (exh. cat.)

 

2010
8 Gwangju Biennale: 10,000 Lives.
Edited by Judy Ditner and Massimiliano Gioni. Gwangju Biennale Foundation, South Korea (exh. cat.)
Atlas. How to Carry the World on One’s Back?
Edited by Georges Didi-Huberman. Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (exh. cat.)
Exhibition, Exhibition.
Edited by Adam Carr. Texts by Andrea Bellini and Adam Carr. Skira, Milan (exh. cat.)
Ordinary Madness: Contemporary Works from the Collection.
Texts by Dan Byers and Amanda Donnan. Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (exh. pub.)

 

2009
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection.
Texts by Christian Rattemeyer, Harvey S. Shipley Miller, Gary Garrels. The Museum of Modern Art, New York (exh. cat.)
Dance with Camera.
Edited by Jenelle Porter. Texts by Shirely Clarke, Edwin Denby, Jenelle Porter, Yvonne Rainer, et al. Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (exh. cat.)
Modernologies: Contemporary Artists Researching Modernity and Modernism. Texts by Sabine Breitwieser, Cornelia Klinger, and Walter Mignolo. Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (exh. cat.)
The Photograph as Contemporary Art.
Text by Charlotte Cotton. Thames & Hudson, London [second edition]
Propaganda für die Wirklichkeit.
Texts by Stefanie Kreuzer and Doris Krystof. DruckVerlag Kettler, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany (exh. cat.)
Life with Pop: A Reproduction of Capitalist Realism.
Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne (exh. cat.) [forthcoming]

 

2008
Albert Oehlen.
Thomas Dane Gallery, London
BESart: Banco Espírito Santo Collection / The Present: An Infinite Dimension.
Texts by María de Corral, Lorena Martínez de Corral, et al. Museu Colecção Berardo, Lisbon
Blasted Allegories: Works from the Ringier Collection.
Edited by Beatrix Ruf. Interview by Gerhard Mack, Michael Ringier, and Beatrix Ruf. JRP|Ringier, Zurich
Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today.
Texts by Briony Fer and Ann Temkin. The Museum of Modern Art, New York (exh. cat.)
Ten Years.
Emily Tsingou Gallery, London
This is Not to be Looked At:Highlights from the Permanent Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
Texts by Ann Goldstein, Rebecca Morse, and Paul Schimmel. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (exh. cat.)

 

2007
Been Up So Long It Looks Like Down to Me.
Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver (exh. cat.)
Brasil: desFocos [o olho de fora].
Texts by Nessia Leonzini and Paulo Herkenhoff. Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro (exh. cat.)
Conditions of Display.
The Moore Space, Miami (exh. cat.)
Konrad Klapheck: Paintings From 1955 to 1998.
Text by Christopher Williams. Steidl, Göttingen, Germany and Zwirner & Wirth, New York
Kunst aus Los Angeles der 60er bis 90er Jahre.
Text by Gregory Williams. Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany (exh. cat.)
Maps and Legends.
Edited by Luca Cerizza. BSI Art Collection, Lugano, Switzerland

 

2006
Catalog L.A.: Birth of an Art Capital, 1955-85.
Texts by Howard N. Fox, Catherine Grenier, et al. Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (exh. cat.)
Fotografia na Arte.
Edited by Ricardo Nicolau. Museu Serralves and Público, Porto, Portugal
Make Your Own Life: Artists In & Out of Cologne.
Texts by Diedrich Diederichsen, Andrea Fraser, Gareth James, Jutta Koether, Ingrid Schaffner, Bennett Simpson, Josef Strau, and Gregory Williams. Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (exh. cat.)
Whitney Biennial 2006: Day for Night.
Texts by Tony Burlap, Johanna Burton, Chrissie Iles, Molly Nesbit, Philippe Vergne, Neville Wakefield, et al. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (exh. cat.)
Why Pictures Now: Fotografie, Film, Video Heute.
Text by Edelbert Köb. Verlag für Moderne Kunst, Nuremberg, Germany (exh. cat.)

 

2005
Contemporary Voices: Works from the UBS Art Collection.
Texts by Ann Temkin, et al. The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Cuttings.
Text by Simon Starling. Hatje Cantz Publishers, Ostfildern, Germany
Jahresgaben 05/06, Impressum.
Kunstverein Braunschweig, Germany

 

2004
100 Artists See God.
Texts by John Baldassari, Meg Cranston, and Thomas McEvilley. Independent Curators International, New York (exh. cat.)
Kurzdavordanach: Gegenwart als Zwischenraum.
Texts by Susanne Lange and Matthias Winzen. Revolver, Frankfurt
Noon.
Edited by Diane Williams. Photographs by Christopher Williams. Noon Inc., New York
Ringier Annual Report 2003.
Text by Beatrix Ruf. Ringier AG, Corporate Communications, Zürich [supplement specially designed by Christopher Williams]

 

2003
Fast Forward: Media Art Sammlung Goetz.
Edited by Ingvild Goetz and Stephan Urbaschek. Texts by Sabine Himmelsbach, Mark Nash, Stephan Urbaschek, Peter Weibel, et al. Kunstverlag Ingvild Goetz, G.m.b.H., Hamburg (exh. cat.)
Unreal Estate Opportunities.
Text by David Rimanelli. PKM Gallery, Seoul (exh. cat.)

 

2002
Death, Ritual and Belief: The Rhetoric of Funerary Rites.
Text by Douglas J. Davies. Continuum, London [cover] [second edition]
Herzog & de Meuron: Natural History.
Edited by Philip Ursprung. Texts by Philip Ursprung, Kurt W. Forster, et al. Canadian Centre for Architecture, Montreal and Lars Müller, Zurich (exh. cat.)
Prophets of Boom – Werke aus der Sammlung Schürmann.
Text by Wilhelm Schürmann. Staatlichen Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany (exh. cat.)

 

2001
1tAuckland Triennial: Bright Paradise.
Texts by Gregory Burke, Nigel Clark, Leigh Davis, Allan Smith, Ian Wedde, et al. Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand
Art Now.
Edited by Burkhard Riemschneider and Uta Grosenick. Taschen, Cologne
Sammlung Hauser and Wirth/Part 2/Alternating Current.
Edited by Michaela Unterdorfer. Sammlung Hauser & Wirth, St. Gallen, Switzerland (exh. cat.)
Take Two/Reprise.
Texts by Sylvie Fortin, et al. The Ottawa Art Gallery, Canada (exh. bro.)

 

2000
Positions Attitudes Actions.
Foto Biennale Rotterdam (exh. cat.)

 

1999
Art at the Turn of the Millenium.
Taschen, Cologne
Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect.
Text by Kynaston McShine. The Museum of Modern Art, New York (exh. cat.)
Sharawadgi.
Edited by Mathias Poledna. Felsenvilla, Baden, Austria and Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Cologne

 

1997
Someone else with my fingerprints.
Texts by Hanjo Berressem and Wilhelm Schürmann. Salon Verlag, Cologne (exh. cat.)
Sunshine & Noir: Art in Los Angeles 1960-1997.
Texts by Lars Nittve, William R. Hackman, Mike Davis, Peter Schjeldahl, Laura Cottingham, Terry R. Myers, et al. Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark (exh. cat.)

 

1996
Das Ende der Avantgarde: Kunst als Dienstleistung.
Text by Katharina Hegewisch. Richter Verlag, Düsseldorf (exh. cat.)
Modern Art in the Common Culture.
Text by Thomas Crow. Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut
Nobuyoshi Araki, Larry Clark, Thomas Struth, Christopher Williams.
Texts by Walter Banjamin, Bill Buford, Sarah Nordgren, and Junichiro Tanizaki. Kunsthalle Basel (exh. cat.)

 

1994
Die Orte der Kunst.
Texts by Dietmar Elger and Anna Meseure. Sprengel Museum, Hanover (exh. cat.)
Radical Scavenger(s): The Conceptual Vernacular in Recent American Art.
Texts by Richard Francis, Kathryn Hixson, and Joseph Rykwert. Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago (exh. cat.) Temporary Translation(s): Kunst der Gegenwart und Fotografie, Sammlung Schürmann.
Text by Zdenek Felix. Deichtorhallen Hamburg (exh. cat.)

 

1993
Konstruktion Zitat: Kollektive Bilder in der Fotografie.
Texts by Stefan Iglhaut and Thomas Weskiant. Sprengel Museum, Hanover (exh. cat.)
Kontextualismus.
Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria and DuMont Verlag, Cologne (exh. cat.)
Photographie d’une Collection: Oeuvres Photographiques de la Caisse des Depots et Consignations.
Texts by Aline Pujo and Sophie Volatier. Hazan, Paris

 

1992
Autoren von Texte zur Kunst halten Reden u.a. auf der Documenta 9.
Texts by Thomas Crow, Diedrich Diederichsen, Jutta Koether, John Miller, et al. Kunst Verlag GMBH & Co. KG, Cologne and Horsaal der Gesamthochschule, Kassel (exh. cat.) [video tape]
Dirty Data: The Collection of Wilhelm Schürmann.
Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany (exh. cat.)
Hollywood, Hollywood: Identity under the Guise of Celebrity.
Texts by Fred Fehlau, Anne Friedberg, Michael Lassell, and David Robbins. Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California (exh. cat.)
Knowledge: Aspects of Conceptual Art.
Texts by Francis Colpitt and Phyllis Plous. University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, California
(exh cat.)
Two Evenings of Film.
Texts by Grert Berghoff, Dieter Thomas, and Johannes Rau. Cologne Film Festival

 

1991
51 Carnegie International.
Texts by Lynne Cooke, Mark Francis, and Fumio Nanjo. Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
(exh. cat.)
Facing the Finish: Some Recent California Art.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (exh. cat.)
Fassbinder-Oehlen-Prina.
Castello di Rivara, Turin (exh. cat.)
Gullivers Reisen/Gulliver’s Travels.
Galerie Sophia Ungers and DuMont Verlag, Cologne (exh. cat.)
Rodney Graham, Stephen Prina, Christopher Williams.
Texts by Robert Kleyn, Gordon Lebredt, Timothy Martin, and Benjamin Weissman. S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto (exh. cat.)

 

1990
Artedomani: 1990/Punto di Vista.
Texts by Cecilia Casorati, Cornelia Lauf, and Tatjana Salzin. Galleria Communale d’Arte Moderna, Rome (exh. cat.)
De Afstand.
Text by Jean-Francois Chevrier. Witte de With, Rotterdam (exh. cat.)

 

1989
Constructing a History: A Focus on MOCA’s Permanent Collection.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (exh. cat.)
A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation.
Texts by Ann Goldstein, Anne Rorimer, and Howard Singerman. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (exh. cat.)
Wittgenstein and the Art of the 20 Century.
Texts by Chris Bezzel, Gabriele Hammel-Haider, and Joseph Kosuth. Secession, Vienna and Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels (exh. cat.)

 

1987
CalArts: Skeptical Belief(s).
Texts by Douglas Huebler, Catherine Lord, Howard Singerman, et al. Newport Harbour Art Museum, Newport Beach, California and The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago (exh. cat.)
L.A.: Hot and Cool.
Text by Dana Friis-Hansen. MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts (exh. cat.)

 

1986
Rooted Rhetoric, Una Tradizione nell’Arte Americana.
Text by Gabriela Guericio. Guida Editori, Naples
T.V. Generations.
Texts by John Baldessari and Bruce Yonemoto. Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (exh. cat.)

 

1985
The Art of Memory, the Loss of History.
Text by David Deitcher, Abigail Solomon-Godeau, and William Olander. New Museum, New York (exh. cat.)

 

1983
Jenny Holzer, Stephen Prina, Mark Stahl, Christopher Williams.
Text by Coosje van Bruggen. Foundation De Appel, Amsterdam and Gewad, Ghent (exh. cat.)

 

1982

74tAmerican Exhibition.
Text by Anne Rorimer. Art Institute of Chicago (exh. cat.)

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