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Robert Longo

(American, born 1953)

Robert Longo

Study for home (North and South Hemisphere), 2004

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Robert Longo

Halo B (from The sickness of reason series), 2003

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Biography

Timeline

1953: Born in Brooklyn, NY
1975: BFA, State University College, Buffalo, NY
2005: Goslar Award for Modern Art
: Lives in New York, NY

Exhibitions

2013: Legacy: Photographs from the Emily Fisher Landau Collection, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
Robert Longo: The Capitol Project, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
Inner Journeys, Maison Particulière Art Center, Brussels
Beg, Borrow and Steal - Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA
Disaster / The End of Days - Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Paris, Paris
Disaster / The End Of Days - Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Paris, Paris
Phantom Vessels - Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Salzburg, Salzburg
Robert Longo - Black and White - Galerie Fluegel-Roncak, Nuremberg
2012: Robert Longo, Capitain Petzel Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2010 - 2011: Kunsthalle Weishaupt, Ulm, Germany
The Art of Collaboration with Bottega Veneta
2009: No Wave, Galerie Saks, Geneva, Switzerland (solo)
Robert Longo Survey Exhibition: 1979-2009, Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Nicé, France. (solo)
Robert Longo at Metro Pictures: Surrendering the Absolutes, Metro Pictures, New York, New York. (solo)
Robert Longo: Dancing with Chains On, Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf, Germany. (solo)
Nights Bright Days, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California. (solo)
2008: Robert Longo: Intimate Immensity, Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain (solo)
2007: Children of Nyx, Metro Pictures, New York (solo)
Beginning of the world, Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf, Germany (solo)
Exhibitionism: An Exhibition of Exhibitions of Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (cat.)
Chelsea to Caochangdi, Chambers Fine Art, Bejing
History Will Repeat Itself, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (cat.)
Panic Attack! Art in the Punk Years, Barbican Art Gallery, London (cat.)
Lights, Camera, Action: Artist Films for the Cinema, Kaufman Astoria Studios, New York
Hot Rock, Transmission Gallery, Scotland
2006: Fifth Interpretation of the Collection, La Colección Jumex, Pachuca, Mexico (cat.)
The Movement of Images, Centre Pompidou Editions, Paris (Design)
The Outward Visible Signs of an Inward Invisible Grace, Metro Pictures, New York (solo)
Ouroboros, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris (solo)
New York New York: Fifty Years of Art, Architecture, Cinema, Performance, Photography and Video, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco (cat.)
Les Mouvement des Images, Centre Pompidou, France (cat.)
Ma+h Coun+s, Curated by Barry Rosenberg, University of Connecticut, Connecticut
The Downtown Art Show: The New York Art Scene 1974-1984,” Grey Art Gallery, Fales Library, New York University (cat.)
2005: Neo-Baroque, Byblos Art Gallery, Verona (cat.)
Atomica: Making the Visible Invisible, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York
Flashback: Revisiting the Art of the Eighties, Kunstmuseum Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel
Drawing from the Modern, MoMA, New York
Robert Longo: Fire, Water, Rock 2003-2005, Galleria Emilio Mazzoli, Modena, Italy (solo) (Curated by Richard Milazzo)
Something Wicked This Way Comes, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles (solo)
Robert Longo: Deep Silence, Monchehaus Museum, Goslar, Germany
2004: Laocoonte devoarto. Arte y violencia politica, Artium Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Comtemporaneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz
Our sickness of reason created monsters - The Colossus , Galerie Pièce Unique, Paris
Whitney Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American, New York, NY
by Amerika, Galerie Steinek, Vienna (group)
2003: The Eighties – Part II : USA, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich
Andy Warhol / Robert Longo – Cars, Daimler Chrysler Contemporary, Berlin
Robert Longo – Lust of Eye, galleria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid
Aufgeschraubt und Abgestaubt – Die Sammlung im Prozess der Neupräsentation, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen
M_ARS – Art and War, Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz
2002: Trance und Traum, Galerie Six Friedrich Lisa Ungar, Munich
Robert Longo : Sigmund Freud, Jündisches Museum Berlin, Galerie Steinek, Vienna
The Freud Drawings, Krefelder Kunstmuseen, Museen Haus Lange/ Huas Esters ; Albertina, Vienna
Monster Waves, Galerie Steinek, Vienna (solo)
20 years Galerie Steinek, Vienna (group)
2001: Pop Art & Co – Uniques, Graphics and Multiples, Galerie Burkhard Eikelmann, Essen
2000: Robert Longo - Superheroes, Lipanje Puntin Artecontemporanea, Trieste
Supermodel – Identity and Transformation, Lipanje Puntin
Artecontemporanea, Trieste
Robert Longo: 1980 - 2000, Galleria Emilio Mazzoli, Modena, Italy (solo) (Curated by Richard Milazzo)
1999: The Kiasma Collection, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinski
The Virginia & Bagley Wrught Collection, Seattle Art Museum
1998: Superheroes, Cotthem Gallery, Knokke-Zoute, Belgium
Superheroes, Cotthem Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
Superheroes, Cotthem Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
Superheroes, Cotthem Gallery, Knokke-Zoute, Belgium (solo)
1997: Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (solo)
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany (solo)
Metro Pictures, NY, USA (solo)
La Biennale di Venezia: XLVII Espozioione Internationale d'Arte, Venice, Italy
Landscape: The Pastoral to the Urban, Center for Curatorial Studies: Bard College
Views From Abroad: European Perspectives on American Art 3, Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY
Das Magellan Projekt, Kunsthalle Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany (solo)
Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (solo)
1996: Bang! The Gun as Image, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL
Metro Pictures, New York, New York 'Unplugged', Gallery Cotthem, Knokke-Zoute, Belgium
Robert Longo: Kreuze, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany (solo)
1995: Passion Privees, Musees d'art Moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris, France
Alternatives: 20 Years of Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center: 1975-1995, Burchfield-Penny, Art Center, Buffalo, NY
Robert Longo: A Retrospective, The Isetan Mseum of Art, Tokyo (solo)
Ashikaga City Museum, Kirin Plaza Art Space, Osaka (solo)
Essence and Persuasion: The Power of Black and White, Anderson Gallery Buffalo, NY
Johnny Paintings, Galerie Gana-Beaubourg Paris, France
1994: New York on Paper, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Paris, France
Generev Grunwald Gallery Toronto, Canada
1993: Lucio Silla Group Exhibit, Kleines Festspielhaus Salzburg, Austria
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Salzburg
1992: When Heaven and Hell Change Places, Galerie Hans Mayer Dusseldorf
Allegories of Modernism: Contemporary Drawing, The Museum of Modern Art New York, NY
1991: Power, Indianapolis Museum of Art Indianapolis
Linda Cathcart Gallery Los Angeles, USA

Public Collections

: Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Musée National d'Art Moderne, Paris, France
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Tate Modern, London, England
Walker ARt Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Dr. Nils Forsblom Collection, California

Literature

2008: Robert Longo: Intimate Immensity, Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain. Richard Millazzo, essay
2007: Panic Attack! Art in the Punk Years, Mark Sladen and Ariella Yedgar (ed.), Merrell Publishers Limited, London, pp. 102-103
: Collection Art Contemporain, Éditions du Centre Pompidou, Paris, pp. 284
: Bollen, Christopher, “Disaster Art,” Vman, Spring/Summer, Issue 8, pp. 88
: Jonathan T.D. Neil, “Robert Longo: The Outward and Visible Signs of an Inward and Invisible
: Grace, Art Review, February, pp. 132
: Sarah Valdez, “Robert Longo: Review,” Art on Paper, January/February, pp. 89
: Exhibitionism: An Exhibition of Exhibitions of Works from the Marlieluise Hessel Collection, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, pp. 28
: Joanne Bernstein, The UBS Art Collection: Drawings, UBS AG, Zürich, pp. 160-161
: “The Producers,” Artforum, October, pp. 352-359, 402
: Dorothy Spears, “It’s Only Rock and Art, but They Like It,” The New York Times, September 30, pp. 30
: History Will Repeat Itself, Inke Arns and Gabriele Horn (ed.), KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, pp. 134-137
: Hatje Cantz Verlag, Flashback: Revisiting the Art of the 1980s, Kunstmuseum Basel, Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Switzerland
: Germano Celant and Lisa Dennison, New York New York: Fifty Years of Art, Architecture, Cinema, Performance, Photography and Video, Skira, Monaco, pp. 480 - 483
: Tilman Osterwold, Irritation des Gleichgewichts, Snoeck, Cologne, pp.51-53
: No. 1, Francesca Richer and Matthew Rosenzweig (ed.), D.A.P., New York, pp. 225
: The Movement of Images, Centre Pompidou Editions, Paris, pp. cover, 102
: Sarah Douglas, “Staying Power,” Art + Auction, November, pp. 160-167
: “Robert Longo,” The New Yorker, December 4, pp. 24
2006: Fifth Interpretation of the Collection, La Colección Jumex, Pachuca, Mexico, pp. 213
: Galerie Daniel Templon: 40 ans, Communic’Art, Paris, pp. 304, 386, 595
: Werner Spies, Robert Longo: Deep Silence, Monchehaus Museum Publishing, Goslar (cat.)
2005: Neo-Baroque!, curated by Micaela Giovanotti and Joyce B. Korotkin, Byblos Gallery, Charta Publishers, Milan
: Richard Lacayo, “How Does ‘80s Art Look Now,” Time, 26 March, pp. 58-62
: Drawings on Geology, Serge Onnen, J & L Books, New York
: Robert Longo: Fire, Water, Rock 2003-2005, Galleria Emilio Mazzoli, Modena, Italy. Richard Milazzo and Achille Bonito Oliva, essays
: Jordan Kantor, Drawing from the Modern: After the Endgames, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, pp. 105
: Robert Longo, “A Universe in Climax Sonic Grandeur: Robert Longo Talks with Glenn Branca Yard, ed. Ellen Ross, London Terrace Station, New York pp. 46-53

Robert Longo

(American, born 1953)

Robert Longo

Robert Longo

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

Literature

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