Bruce Conner (American, –2008)

Timeline

1933
Born in McPherson, Kansas
1950
East High School, Wichita, Kansas
1951–1952
Wichita University
1956
Brooklyn Museum Art School
1956
B.F.A., Nebraska University
1957
University of Colorado

Exhibitions

2014
INHERENT VICE: THIS IS NOT A BRUCE CONNER EXHIBITION, di Rosa, Napa, CA
2014
Inkblots 1992-2003, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2014
Bruce Conner: Somebody Else's Prints, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas (solo exhibition)
2013
Bruce Conner, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2012
Afterimage: The Prints of Bruce Conner, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2012
Mabuhay Gardens: Punk Photography and Collage, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2012
Bruce Conner and the Primal Scene of Punk Rock, MCA Denver, Denver, CO (solo)
2011
Bruce Conner: Falling Leaves: An Anonymous Memorial, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2011
September 11, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center – MoMA, New York, NY
2011
Imagine Being Here Now, 6th Momentum Biennial 2011, Moss, Sweden
2011
Kompass, Zeichnungen and Museum of Modern Art New York, Berlin, Germany
2011
Picture For Picture, Museum Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany
2011
Bruce Conner: An Anonymous Memorial, the American University Museum, Washington, D.C
2010
Telling Stories, Werkstatten und Kulturhaus, Vienna, Austria
2010
101 Collection: Route 1, CCAWattis, San Francisco, CA
2010
Collecting Biennials, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2010
R for Replicant, CC Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
2010
Sunless (Journeys in Alta California since 1933), Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK
2010
Direct Art, Stiftung Ludwig Museum of Modern Art, Vienna, Austria
2010
Pictures in Motion, Museum Ludwig Koln, Koln, Germany
2010
AV Festival 10: Energy, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlersbrough, UK
2010
Abstract Resistance, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
2010
Bruce Conner: 1970’s, Kunstalle Wien, Vienna, Austria (travelled to Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland) (solo)
2010
I am Not Bruce Conner, Ursula Blickle Foundation, Krachtal, Germany (solo)
2010
Bruce Conner, Inova/Kenilworth Institute, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Peck School of the Arts (solo)
2010
4 ½, Creative Time, New York, NY (solo)
2010
Long Play: Bruce Conner and the Singles Collection, SFMOMA, San Francisco (solo)
2010
The Late Bruce Conner, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2009
Bruce Conner: Discovered, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2009
Bruce Conner in the 1970s, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
2009
Intelligent Design: Untitled Lithographs 1970-1971, Milwaukee Art Museum, Mlwaukee, WI (solo)
2009
Altered States: The Collection in Context, di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA
2009
SPECTACULAR TIMES: The 60s, Moderna Museet Malmo, Malmo, Sweden
2009
Dark Americana, Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA
2009
MOCA’s First Thirty Years, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2009
Conner Lockhart Warhol: Screening Real, Kunsrhaus Graz, Graz, Austria
2008
Jesuvian Process, Elizabeth Dee, New York
2008
The Cinema Effect, The Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC
2007
Bruce Conner, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York
2007
Bruce Conner, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
2007
Bruce Conner," Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles
2007
Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago
2007
The Third Mind, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2007
Jesuvian Process, Elizabeth Dee, New York
2007
Lights Camera Action: Artist's Film for the Cinema, Whitney, New York
2006
Punk Photographs, NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Dusseldorf
2006
Good Vibrations, Centro Arte Contemporanea Papese, Italy
2006
Of Mice and Men, 2006 Berlin Biennale
2006
The Big Nothing, ICA Universiity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
2006
In The Poem About Love You Don't Write The Word Love, Artists Space, New York
2006
Semina Culture, Grey Art Gallery, New York
2006
Rough Trade, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles
2006
Thank You for the Music, Galerie Spruth Magers, Munich
2005
Drunk vs. Stoned, General Store in association with Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
2005
Emily Feather, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angles
2005
Tapestries and Drawings, Paintings, Sculpture and Wood Engraving Collages,” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
2005
After Bruce Conner, Katzen Art Center, American University, Washington, DC
2004
Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque, SITE Santa Fe's Fifth International Biennial Exhibition, New Mexico
2004
Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque, SITE Santa Fe's Fifth International Biennial Exhibition, New Mexico
2004
Bruce Conner: Punk Photographs and LUKE, Gladstone Gallery, New York
2004
Tapestries, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles
2004
Bruce Conner and Company, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles
2003
The Dennis Hopper One Man Show Volume II, Susan Inglett, New York
2003
Sight and Insight: an Assemblage of Artists, P.S.1 Moma, Long Island City, New York
2003
The Dennis Hopper One Man Show Volume II," Susan Inglett, New York
2002
Sunday Afternoon, 303 Gallery, New York
2002
Bruce Conner: 2002 B.C., Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
2002
Bruce Conner, Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago
2002
Bruce Conner, Arion Press Gallery, San Francisco
2002
Bruce Conner,” Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles
2001
The Dennis Hopper One Man Show Vol. III, Susan Inglett, NY
2000
Asynchronous Snapping of the Synapses, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara
2000
Bruce Conner, Paule Anglim Gallery, San Francisco
2000
Dead Punks & Ashes, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York
2000
Wood Engraving Collages, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York
2000
2000 BC: The Bruce Conner Story, Part II, the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, traveled to the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art
1999
2000 B.C., The Bruce Conner Story Part II, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; traveling exhibition through 2000. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX; M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA.
1999
Looking for Mushrooms, Drawings by Bruce Conner, 1960-1968, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles
1998
Persistence of Vision; Inkblot Drawings 1975-1997, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York
1997
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum, New York
1997
Bruce Conner: Engraving Collages, Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
1997
Bruce Conner: Editions, Smith-Andersen Editions, Palo Alto, CA
1996
Art and Film Since 1945, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (travels to Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Wexner Center, Columbus Ohio; Palazzo delle Esposizione, Rome)
1992
Gifts and Acquisitions in Context, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1989–1990
40 Years of California Assemblage, Curated by Ann Ayres; Wight Art Gallery, Los Angeles; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California Fresno Art
1986
Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York, NY
1986
Sight Vision the Urban, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1983
Smith-Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
1982
California Art of the 60's, deSaisset Museum, Santa Clara, California
1978
Aspekte der 60er Jahre, Nationalgalerie, Berlin, West Germany
1977
Paris/New York, Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris
1975
Drawing Show, Newport Harbor Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
1972
Family Show, Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Jaqueline Anhalt Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1961
The Art of Assemblage at The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Public Collections

Musee Moderna, Stockholm, Sweden
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Steinberg Gallery, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
Elder Art Gallery, Nebraska Wesleyan University, Lincoln, Nebraska
Richard Nelson Gallery, University of California, Davis
Museum of Art and Architecture, University of Missouri, Columbia Missouri
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey
National Museum of American Art, Washington D.C.
Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California
Netherlands Film Museum, Amsterdam
Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Oakland Museum, Oakland, California
Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
Achenbach Foundation, San Francisco
Guggenheim Museum, New York
Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington
University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson.
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska
Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,Washington D.C.
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
University Art Museum, Berkeley
Rockhill Nelson Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri
Addison Gallery, Andover, Massachusetts
Worchester Art Museum, Worchester, Massachusetts
Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska
St. Louis Art Museum
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Metropolitan Museum of Art
the Museum of Modern Art, New York
the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Literature

2005
After Bruce Conner: Anonymous, Anonymouse, and Emily Feather, American University Museum, Washington DC, 2005
2005
Yeo, Rob, “Cutting Through History: Found Footage in Avant-Garde Filmmaking,” CUT: FILM AS FOUND OBJECT IN CONTEMPORARY VIDEO, copyright 2005 Milwaukee Art Museum, pp. 16-18, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, June 25 – September 25, 2005
2005
Joan Rothfuss and Elizabeth Carpenter, BITS AND PIECES PUT TOGETHER TO PRESENT A SEMBLANCE OF A WHOLE: WALKER ART CENTER COLLECTIONS, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 2005, pp. 9, 41, 45, 79, 166-169, 171, 265, 334, 527. Illustration: p. 45 Bruce Conner, Visiting Filmmakers Series, 1978 (Photo of artist); p. 166, THE BRIDE (sculpture); p. 167, Bruce Conner, UNTITLED 1954 – 1961 (collage); p. 168 ANGEL (photogram); p. 169 BREAKAWAY (film), 1966
2002
The Ballad of Lemon and Crow, Glenn Todd, Arion Press, Presidio, San Frrancisco, 2002
2000
Bruce Conner: “2000 BC: The Bruce Conner Story Part II”, Peter Boswell, Joan Rothfuss, Bruce Jenkins, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
1999
Bruce Conner Drawings, Volume I: 1960-1968, Text by Barry Schwabsky, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, 1999.
1999
Angels: Bruce Conner, 1973-1975, San Francisco:San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Exhibition brochure, Text by Judith Cizek, 1999
1999
Local Color: The diRosa Collection of Contemporary California Art, Chronicle Books, 1999
1999
The American Art Book, Phaidon Press, 1999
1997
Bruce Conner: Engraving Collages,1961-1995, Essay by James Johnson, Wichita Art Museum, 1997
1997
Bruce Conner: Inkblot Drawings, Engraving Collages, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, 1997
1990
Bruce Conner: Assemblages, Paintings, Drawings, Engraving Collages, Dean, Robert and Dennis Hopper, Los Angeles: Michael Kohn Gallery, 1990
1987
Bruce Conner: Matrix/Berkeley 102, Berkeley: University Art Museum, 1987
1985
Bruce Conner: Photograms, San Francisco: Art Museum Association of America, 1985
1977
Barr, Alfred H., Jr. Painting and Sculpture in the Museum of Modern Art, 1929-1967, New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1977
1965
Becker, Jurgen, and Wolf Vostell. Happenings: Fluxus, Pop Art, Nouveau Realisme, Reinbek bei Hamburg: Rowohlt, 1965
English (US)

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