Felix Gonzalez-Torres
SELECTED SOLO AND TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
2005 “Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Joseph Kosuth”, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, January 20 – February 18
2004 Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, April 1 – May 29
2002 Andrea Rosen Gallery, NYC, “Felix Gonzlalez-Torres”, March 30 – May 4; simultaneous exhibition at Sadie Coles HQ, London, England, March 20 – April 20 (book), with global satellite sites of the billboard in the cities of Athens, Berlin, Bogota, Cambridge, Dublin, Kirkwall, London, Milan, New Delhi, New York, Rio de Janeiro, Sa o Paolo, Tokyo, Warsaw, Zurich
2001 Lever House Lobby Gallery, 400 Park Avenue, NY, “Felix Gonzalez-Torres”, December 7 – February 15, 2002
Museu de Arte Moderna, Sao Paolo, Brazil, “Felix Gonzalez-Torres”, August 9 – September 9, curated by Carlos Basualdo
(third venue of exhibition)
Le Consortium, Dijon, France, “Felix Gonzalez-Torres”, November 25, 2001 – February 2, 2002
2000 Andrea Rosen Gallery, NYC, “Felix Gonzalez-Torres”, December 2 – January 13, 2001 (pamphlett)
Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales, Montevideo, Uruguay, December 14 – January 31, 2001, curated by Alejandro Cesarco
(catalogue)
Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris, France, November 10 – December 23
Serpentine Gallery, London, England, “Felix Gonzalez-Torres”, June 1 – July 16 with satellite venues: Camden Arts Centre, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, Royal College of Art, Victoria and Albert Museum, Royal Geographical Society (catalogue)
1999 Banco de la Republica Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogota, Colombia, “sin titulo, bogota”, November 10 – January 16, 2000,
curated by Carlos Basualdo (catalogue); travels to Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela, “Felix Gonzalez-Torres”,
April 2, 2000 – June 25 and Museu de Arte Moderna, Sao Paolo, August 9 – September 9, 2001 (catalogue)
The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, “Felix Gonzalez-Torres”, December 9 – January 31, 2000
1998 Andrea Rosen Gallery, NYC, “Felix Gonzalez-Torres”, December 4 – January 16, 1999
Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria, September 12 – November 1, curated by Rainer Fuchs (third venue of Sprengel
Museum travelling exhibition) (catalogue)
Comme des Garcons, Tokyo, Japan, “Felix Gonzalez-Torres”, May
1997 Sprengel Museum in Hannover, Germany, June 1 - August 24, travels to Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland, September 6 - November 16 (catalogue)
Andrea Rosen Gallery, NYC, “‘Untitled’ (Beginning)”, January 3 - 25
1996 Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France, “Felix Gonzalez-Torres (Girlfriend in a Coma)”, April 11 - June 16 (catalogue) – third venue of the Guggenheim Museum exhibition
1995 Centro Galego de Arte Contemporaneo, Santiago de Compostella, Spain, “Felix Gonzalez-Torres (A Possible Landscape)”, December 12 - March 3, 1996 (catalogue) – second venue of the Guggenheim Museum exhibition
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, September 16 - October 14
Akademie der Bildende Kunst, Munich, Germany, with Roni Horn, May 16 - October 28, organized by Sammlung Goetz
(catalogue)
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC, March 3 - May 10, curated by Nancy Spector (catalogue)
1994 Printed Matter, NYC, “Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Details from Twenty Sculptures”, October 26 - November 24
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, “Traveling”, April 24 - June 19, organized by Amada Cruz, Ann
Goldstein and-- Suzanne Ghez, travels to: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington
D.C., June 16 - September 11; The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, October 2 - November 6 (catalogue)
The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA, February 14 - March 31, in conjunction with Beaver College Art Gallery, Glenside,
PA, February 14 - March 14
Matrix Gallery, University of California, Berkeley, January 19 - March 27
1993 Museum in Progress, Vienna, Austria, December - January 1994
Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris, France, "Travel #1", October 30 - December 1
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France, "Travel #2", October 30 - December 1
Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France, "Migrateurs: Felix Gonzalez-Torres", October 27 - November 28
Teweles Gallery, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI, "Currents 22: Felix Gonzalez-Torres", May 28 - September 12
(pamphlet)
Andrea Rosen Gallery, NYC, April 23 - May 29
1992 Magasin 3 Stockholm Konshall, Sweden, October 15 - January 15, 1993 (catalogue)
Galerie Peter Pakesch, Vienna, Austria, October 9 - November 20
Andrea Rosen Gallery, NYC, June 18 - June 27
Museum of Modern Art, NYC “Projects 34: Felix Gonzalez-Torres”, 24 New York City locations, May 16 - June 30 (pamphlet)
1991 Luhring Augustine Hetzler, Los Angeles, October 19 - November 16
Massimo de Carlo, Milan, September 17 - October 19 (catalogue)
Andrea Rosen Gallery, NYC, "Every Week There Is Something Different", May 2 - June 1
Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany, simultaneous one person exhibition with Cady Noland, February 8 - March 17
(catalogue)
Julie Sylvester Editions, NYC, "Untitled"(Implosion)
1990 Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst, Berlin, simultaneous one person exhibition with Cady Noland, December 17 - January 30 (catalogue)
Billboard Project, NYC, 10 Manhattan locations, December - January, in cooperation with INTAR Gallery, with support from
Lannan Foundation
University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, “Strange Ways, Here We Come”, simultaneous one person exhibition with
Donald Moffet, November 16 - December 22 (catalogue)
Andrea Rosen Gallery, NYC, January 20 - February 24
1989 Sheridan Square, NYC, billboard, sponsored by the Public Art Fund, March -September
Petrocino Park, NYC, sculpture project sponsored by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, June 7 - August 30
Brooklyn Museum, NYC, installation
1988 The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NYC, "The Workspace", September 16 - November 20, essay by Laura Trippi
INTAR Gallery, NYC (catalogue)
Rastovski Gallery, NYC
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2005 PaceWildenstein, New York, NY, “Distillation to Complication: 40 Years of Rule-Based Art”, February 18 – March 26
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, “Universal Experience: Art, Life and the Tourist’s Eye”, January 29 – September 30,
curated by Francesco Bonami
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, “Material Matters”, January 22 – March 20 (catalogue)
2004 James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY, “Realm of the Senses”, December 11, 2004 – January 22, 2005
Frac Ile de France, Paris, France, “Ralentir Vite”, December 9, 2004 – February 20, 2005, curated by Caroline Bourgeois
Antiguo Arsenal de Marina, Old San Juan, Puerto Rico, “Trans/Migrations: Graphics as Contemporary Art – San Juan
Poly/Graphic Triennial: Latin America and the Caribbean”, December 4, 2004 – March 6, 2005, curated by Mari Carmen
Ramirez, Justo Pastor Mellado, Harper Montgomery, Jose Ignacio Roca and Margarita Fernandez Zavala (catalogue)
The Art Institute of Boston, Lesley University, Boston, MA, “Immersion”, November 10, 2004 – January 18, 1005, curated by Gary Sangster (brochure)
deSingel, International Arts Centre, Antwerp, Belgium, “Schoner Wohnen”, October 30, 2004 – January 16, 2005, curated by Moritz Kung (catalogue)
BAK- basis voor actuele kunst, Utrecht, Netherlands, “Cordially Invited”, one of the seven European exhibitions comprising "Who if not we...?", the visual art program of "Thinking Forward" October 30 – December 31, curated by Maria Hlavajova and Gerardo Mosquera (catalogue)
Terminal 5, John F. Kennedy International Airport, Queens, NY, “9/12” portion of “Terminal 5”, October 1, 2004 – January 31, 2005, curated by Tobias Wong
AR/GE Kunst Galerie Museum, Bolzano, Italy, “Entropie: uber das Verschwinden des Werkes”, September 19 – October 30, curated by Moritz Kung (catalogue)
Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany, “Portrat ohne Antlitz. Abstrakte Strategien in der Bildniskunst”, July 24 – October 17 (catalogue)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, “Modern Photographs from the Collection”, July 20, 2004– January 16, 2005
White Cube, London, England, “Eclipse: Towards the Edge of the Visible”, July 16 – August 21, curated by Annushka Shani (catalogue)
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY, “Four Ply.”, July 15 – August 20
Modern Art, London, England, “Overcast”, July 8 – August 15
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA, “Between Art and Life: The Contemporary Painting and Sculpture Collection” (ongoing), July 1 – ongoing, curated by Madeleine Grynsztejn
Roth Horowitz, New York, NY, “Power Corruption and Lies”, June 23 – July 23, curated by Adam McEwen and Neville
Wakefield
Stiftung Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany, “Die Zehn Gebote”, June 19 – December 5, curated by Klaus
Biesenbach (catalogue)
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY, “Reflecting the Mirror”, June 14 – August 27, curated by Karina Daskalov
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, “Between Art and Life: The Contemporary Painting and Sculpture
Collection”, June - September
Bruce Museum of Art and Science, Greenwich, CT, “Off the Wall: Works from the JP Morgan Chase Collection:”, May 15 – September 5 (catalogue)
Department of State, Washington DC, “Art in Embassies Program: Around the World in 40 Years”, May 6 – June 18 (pamphlet)
La Casa Encendida, Madrid, Spain,”Paisaje y Memoria”, March 31 – June 13, curated by Alicia Chillida; travls to Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain, June 30 – August 22 (catalogue)
Tucson Museum of Art, Az, “Contemporary Art and Latin America: Selections from the Diane and Bruce Halle Collection”, March 25 – July 4 (catalogue)
La Coleccion Jumex, CMD/ Galeria, Mexico City, Mexico, “La Colmena”, March 16 – October 29, curated by Guillermo Santamarina
Musee Departmental D’Art Contemporain de Rouchechouart, France, “La Fabrique du Sensible”, March 6 – May 23
Guggenheim Museum, New York, “Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated): Art from 1951 to the Present”, March 4 – May 19 (catalogue)
El Museo del Barrio, New York, “MoMA at El Museo: Latin American and Caribbean Art from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art”, March 4 – July 25, curated by Miriam Basilio, Gary Garrels and Luis Enrique Perez Oramas from MoMA and Fatima Bercht and Deborah Cullen from El Museo del Barrio (catalogue)
CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA, “Likeness: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists”, February 26 – May 8, 2004, curated by Matthew Higgs, traveling exhibition organized by Independent Curators Incorporated (catalogue) until May 2006
Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, “If it’s not love, it’s the bomb”, February 1 – 15, curated by Cecilia Alemani, Lyra Kilston, Jyeong Yeon Kim, Risa Puleo, Yasmeen Siddiqui and Pelin Uran (brochure)
Platform Garanti Contemproary Art Center, Istanbul, Turkey, “Last Winter Spring Never Came”, January 22 – February 28
2003 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, “SUPERNOVA: Art of the 1990’s from the Logan Collection”, December 13, 2003-May 23, 2004 (catalogue)
Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL, “Not Afraid. Rubell Familyl Collection.”, December 1 , 2003 – May 30, 2004 (catalogue)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, “Primary Matters: The Minimalist Sensibility, 1959 – Present”, November 8, 2003 – January 11, 2004
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, “Artist’s Choice: Mona Hatoum, Here is Elsewhere”, November 7, 2003 – February 2, 2004 (brochure)
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, “Work Ethic”, October 12, 2003 – January 4, 2004; travels to Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH, September 17, 2004 – January 2, 2005 (catalogue)
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX, “The Heroic Century: The Museum of Modern Art Masterpieces, 200 Paintings and Sculptures”, September 21, 2003 – January 4, 2004, organized by John Elderfield. Travels to Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany, (titled: “Das MoMA in Berlin”), February 20 – September 19, 2004 (catalogue)
Dallas Museum of Art ,Dallas, TX, “Celebrating Sculpture: Modern and Contemporary Works From Dallas Collections”, September 7, 2003 – April 25, 2004
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, “Gyroscope”, August 1, 2003 – January 4, 2004, billboard sites in Washington DC, Maryland and Virginia, beginning July 15, including Corcoran Gallery of Art, National Gallery of Art
Artemis Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, “puddle-wonderful”, July 9 – August 15, curated by Sima Familant
Dickinson Roundell Inc., New York, NY, “Aftershock: The Legacy of the Readymade in Post-War and Contemporary American Art”, May 5 - June 20 (catalogue)
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Germany, “Migration”, June 28 – November 2, curated by Christiane Meyer-Stoll (catalogue)
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany, “I promise it’s political”, June 20 – September 8 (catalogue)
Miami Art Museum, FL, “American Tableaux: Many Voices, Many Stories”, June 20 – September 7, organized by Walker Art Center (pamphlet)
Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, “Crosscurrents at Century’s End: Selections from the Neuberger Berman Art Collection”, June 14 – September 21; travels to Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, October 18 – December 28, 2003; Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL, January 25 – April 11, 2004; Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL, April 24 – June 27, 2004 (catalogue)
The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, “Somewhere better than this place./Nowhere better than this place. Alternative Social Experience in the Spaces of Contemporary Art”, June 7 – November 23 (catalogue)
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, “Past, Present, Future”, July, 2003 – December 2004
Z33, Hasselt, Belgium, “Guided by Heroes”, May 25 – August 31, 2003, curated by Raf Simons
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, “Pulse: Art, Healing and Transformation”, May 14 – August 31 (catalogue)
Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA., “s(how)”, May 3 – July 27
Atelier Augarten, Zentrum fur zeitgenossische Kunst der Osterreichiscghen Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Austria, “Trauer”, April 16 – July 27, curated by Thomas Trummer
The Approach, London, England, “Someone to Share My Life With”, March 31 – May 12, 2003
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland, "Striptease - Vom Verschleiern und Enthullen in der Kunst" March 29 – August 24
Antiguo Colegio de San Ildefonso, Mexico City, Mexico, “Eden”, March 18 – June 15, curated by Patricia Martin and Patrick Charpenel, traveled to Biblioteca Luis Angel Arango, Bogota, Colombia, May 15, 2004 – July 5, 2004 (catalogue)
University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA, “Social Strategies: Redefining Social Realism”, March 18 – May 11; curated by Pamela Auchincloss and Klaus Ottman; travels toUniversity Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL, August 15 - October 19, 2003; The Richard E. Peeler Art Center, De Pauw University, Greencastle, IN, November 15, 2003 – February 15, 2004; Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, March 9 – April 11, 2004; The Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, August 21 – October 1, 2004 (catalogue)
Le Coleccion Jumex, Mexico, “Killing Time and Listening Between the Lines”, March 15, 2003 – February 13, 2004, curated by Douglas Fogle and Philippe Vergne
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada, “The Big Picture: Recent Acquisition from the Collection of Alison and Alan Schwartz”, March 15 – September 1
Foundation to Life, Inc., Mt. Kisco, NY, “Presence: An Examination of the Relationship Between Abstraction and Representation in Recent Art”, March 9, 2003 – March 9, 2004 (approximately), curated by Alan Schwartzman
Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC, “Self and Soul: The Architecture of Intimacy”, March 7 - May 25 (catalogue)
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA, “Not Exactly Photographs”, March 6 – April 26
D’Amelio Terras, New York, “Stacked”, February 22 – March 22
Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, “Space Matters”, February 17 – 24, curated by Kazeem Adeleke, Jose Blondet, Ingrid Chu, Kate Green and na Vejzovic (brochure)
2002 Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL, “globe>miami>island”, December 13, 2002 – February 3, 2003 (pamphlet)
Ville de Paris, Maison de Balzac, Paris, France, “Quel meilleur endroit?”, December 11, 2002 – March 16, 2003, organized by Cedric Aurelle (catalogue)
St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, “A Day Without Art”, November 29 – December 3, 2002
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, “Object, Image, Text: Contemporary Art from 1950 to the Present”, November 22, 2002 – June 15, 2003
Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Concorcio Salamanca 2002, “Comer o no Comer”, November 20 – January 20, 2003 (pamphlet)
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, “Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain – Selected Works from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Collection”, November 16, 2002 – April 20, 2003 (catalogue)
San Francsico Art Institute, Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco, CA, “Touch: Relational Art from the 1990’s to Now”, October 18 – December 14, 2002, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud (catalogue)
Melbourne Festival of the Arts, Melbourne, Autralia, “A History of Happiness”, October 17 – November 2, curated by Juliana Engberg (catalogue)
Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, San Sebastian, Spain, “The Pons’ Archive”, October 17 – December 17
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA; “Touch Relational Art from the 1990’s to Now”, curated by Nicolas Bourriaud October 16 – December 14, 2002
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, “Structures of Difference”, October 12, 2002 – July 2, 2003
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, “Mask or Mirror: A Play of Portraits”, October 6, - January 26, 2003, curated by Susan Stoops
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA, “Mirror, Mirror”, October 5, 2002 – January 31, 2003
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA, “Mask or Mirror: A Play of Portraits”, October 5 – January 26, 2003, curated by Susan Stoops (catalogue)
The University of New South Wales, Ivan Dougherty Gallery, Sydney, Australia, “With and Without You: Re-Visitations of Art in the Age of AIDS”, October 3 – November 9, 2002, curated by Royce W. Smith (brochure)
Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, “The Arch of Desire: Women in the Marieluise Hessel Collection”, September 29 – December 13, co-curated by Ilaria Bonacossa and Cecilia Brunson
Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, Re(f)use, September 29 – December 13, curated by Rachel Gugelberger
Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY,”Text, Texture and Touch”, September 29 – December 13, Tobias Ostrander
Logan Galleries, CCAC San Francisco Campus, San Francisco, CA, “To Whom It May Concern”, September 5 – October 26, 2002
California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, CA, “To Whom it May Concern”, September 4 – October 26
United States Ambassador’s Resident, Paris, France, August 2002 – August 2005
Art Resources Transfer, NYC, “Chapter V”, August 1 – 23, curated by Aejandro Cesarco
Museum of Modern Art, NYC, “Tempo: Time Collapsed” and “Tempo: Liquid Time”, July 29 – September 9, 2002, curated by Paolo Herkenhoff, Roxana Marcoci and Miriam Basilio (catalogue)
American Embassy in Paris, France, July 2002 – July 2005 approximately
Centre d’Art Contemporain La Synagogue de Delme, France, “Surfaces de Projections”, June 29 – September 8
Guggenheim Museum, NYC, “Moving Pictures”, June 28, 2002 – January 12, 2003 (pamphlet)
Museum of Modern Art, MoMA QNS, NY, “To Be Looked At: Painting and Sculpture from the Collection”, an ongoing installation of works from the Museum’s collection at MoMA QNS, June, (catalogue)
City of Ieper, Belgium, “Anno 02”: “The Lost Past: Memorial Signs for the Present”, June 15 – September 15, curated by Moritz Kung (catalogue)
Wall Street Rising, “Art Downtown: New York Painting and Sculpture”, 48 Wall Street, NYC, June 14 – September 15, curated by Richard Marshall (pamphlet)
303 Gallery, NYC, “Sunday Afternoon”, May 30 – July 19, curated by Patricia Martin (pamphlet)
Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany, “Hautnah – Die Sammlung Goetz”, May 29 – August 18 (catalogue)
Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, ON, Canada and The Koffler Gallery, Toronto, ON, Canada, “Regarding Landscape”, May 12 – July 30, curated by Gregory Salzman