Buzz Spector (American, born )

Timeline

1972
BA, art, Southern Illinois University at Carbondale
1978
MFA, Committee on Art and Design, University of Chicago
Currently lives and works in Ithaca, NY

Exhibitions

2005
Redux: drawings and word works 1975–2005, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL (September)
2004
Re:Reading, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, DC (solo)
2003
Pos(e)itioning the Author, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA (solo)
The Consistency of Shadows: Exhibition Catalogs as Autonomous Works of Art, Betty Rhymer Gallery, School of Art Institute of Chicago
2003
Hand, Writing, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery Inc., Chicago, IL
2002
Some Readings, Wayne State University Art Gallery, Detroit, MI
2002
Fine and Folk: the Ruth and Robert Vogele Gift, Milwaukee Art Museum, WI
Visually Speaking, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
2001
Public/Private Peace, Swarthmore College, Swarthmore, PA (solo)
Libri fotografici, La Cuba d’Oro, Assoicazione Culturale, Rome, Italy
2000
Out of Line: Drawings of Ilinois Artists, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
Under the Influence, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Blink: Interviews in the salon, Northern Illinois State University, Chicago, IL
1999
Authors & Thinkers, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA (solo)
Bookish, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
The Art of Reading Books and Non-Books, Institue of Contemporary Art, Portland ME
Disorienting Signs, Leonora Gallery, New York, NY
The Other Book, Art Gallery, Cleveland, Ohio
Templates, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
1998
Beautiful Scenes: Selections from the Cranbrook Archives, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI (solo)
Cristinerose Gallery, New York, NY
Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington DC
Chicago Hip, Rocket Gallery, London, England
Testo e Contesto: il libro-ambiente, Accademia d'Ungheria, Palazzo Falconieri Rome, Italy
1997
Buzz Spector: Painting, New Paper Works, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
1996
Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1996
Art in Chicago: 1945–1995, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
1995
Unpacking my Library, Cleveland Contemporary for Art, Cleveland, OH, and San Diego State University Art Gallery (installation for “inSITE94") (solo)
1994
Obsession and the Artist’s Book, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies
1993
Like a Body Without a Shadow, Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington, D.C.
The Eidetic Image: Contemporary Works on Paper, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign
1992
Bibliography, Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA (installation for “LAX: The Los Angeles Exhibition”) (solo)
Knowledge: Aspects of Conceptual art, University Art Museum, University of California-Santa Barbara. Traveled to: Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
1991
Cold Fashioned Room, The Mattress Factory, Pittsburgh, PA (installation) (solo)
1990
Transgressions: Donald Lipski and Buzz Spector, Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC (solo)
1988
The Library of Babel, The Art Institute of Chicago (installation) (solo)