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William S. Burroughs
(
American
, 1914–1997)
William S. Burroughs
Shot Sheriff Series, Nasty Young Cop,
1992
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1914
Born in St. Louis, MO, USA
1936
Graduated from Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, USA
1997
Died in Lawrence, KS, USA
Exhibitions
2014
Can you all hear me? October Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Animals in the Wall, Guerrilla Zoo, London, UK (solo)
Taking Shots, The Photography of William S. Burroughs, The Photographers Gallery, London, UK
Group exhibition, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Koln, Germany
2012
All out of time and into space, October Gallery, London, UK (solo)
The Name Is Burroughs – Expanded Media, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe (ZKM), Karlsruhe, Germany (solo)
Cut-ups Cut-ins Cut-outs. Die Kunst des William S. Burroughs, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria (solo)
2011
Arp, Beckmann, Munch, Kirchner, Warho ... Klassiker in Bonn, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany
William S. Burroughs, Allen Ginsberg, Th!nkart Salon, Chicago, USA
The Sky Is Thin As Paper Here, Stellan Holm Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
William S. Burroughs, London Photographs, Maggs Bros, London, UK (solo)
50th Anniversary Celebration of William S. Burroughs' The Naked Lunch, Th!nkart Salon, Chicago, USA (solo)
William S. Burroughs, London Photographs, Maggs Bros, London, UK (solo)
Naked Leftovers, DotDotDot Artspace, Lawrence, USA (solo)
Bukowski and Burroughs, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, USA
Rip It Up And Start Again, Kunstverein München, München, Germany
Sonic Youth etc.: Sensational Fix, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf; KIT Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf, Germany
Transvangarde, October Gallery, London, UK
2009
The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
The Sky Is Thin As Paper Here, Stellan Holm Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Oh Girl, It's a Boy!, Kunstverein München, Germany
Omaggio a William Burroughs, Le Case d’Arte, Milan, Italy
White Flag Projects, St. Louis, USA
The Writer’s Brush: Visual Art by Writers, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York; Pierre Menard Gallery, Cambridge, USA
The Third Mind, Carte blanche à Ugo Rondinone, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Cut-Outs and Cut-Ups, Hans Christian Andersen and William Seward Burroughs, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
William S. Burroughs: Life File, Riflemaker, London, UK (solo)
Rub Out the Word, Stellan Holm Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
2008
Burroughs Live, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK (solo)
Traces du Sacré, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Haus der Kunst, München, Germany
2007
The Third Mind, Carte blanche à Ugo Rondinone, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
You’ll Never Know: Drawing and Random Interference (Hayward Gallery Touring Exhibition), Harris Museum and Art Gallery, Preston; Glynn Vivian Gallery, Swansea; The Lowry, Salford; The New Art Gallery, Walsall; Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle, UK
The Writer's Brush: Visual Art by Writers, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY
The Writer's Brush: Visual Art by Writers, Pierre Menard Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Radical Software, CCA Wattis, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, USA
Light and Shadow, Galerie von Bartha, Basel, Germany
Light and Shadow, Galerie von Bartha, Basel, Germany
2006
Radical Software, CCA Wattis, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
Vinyl. Records and Covers by Artists, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona, Spain
2005
The Unseen Art of William S. Burroughs, Riflemaker Gallery, London, UK (solo)
2004
Collage, Bloomberg Space, London, UK
The Seven Deadly Sins, Raab Galerie, Berlin, Germany (solo)
1999
Galerie Carzaniga & Ueker, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
1997
Exhibition with George Condo, Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, USA
Concrete and Buckshot. William S. Burroughs Paintings 1987-1996, Track 16 Gallery and Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, USA (solo)
William Burroughs, Ports of Entry, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles; Spencer Museum, Lawrence, USA (solo)
Paintings, Webb Gallery, Waxahachie, Texas, USA (solo)
Nineties Beat Paintings, David Levik Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, USA (solo)
Paintings, Webb Gallery, Waxahachie, Texas, USA (solo)
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Webb Gallery, Waxahachie, TX (solo)
Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (solo)
Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS (solo)
El Dorado/David Levik Gallery, Kansas City, MO (solo)
Zola Cafe, Westport, Kansas City, MO (solo)
Bang-Gunshot Art, Paolo Balducci Gallery, New York, NY
The Vehicle, Ubu Gallery, New York, NY
Concrete and Buckshot. William S. Burroughs Paintings 1987-1996, Track 16 Gallery and Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, USA (solo)
William Burroughs, Ports of Entry, Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles; Spencer Museum, Lawrence, USA (solo)
BANG – Gunshot Art, Paolo Baldacci Gallery, New York
The Gun: Icon of Twentieth Century Art, Ubu Gallery, New York, USA
1996
Beat Culture and the New America, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
Nineties Beat Paintings, David Levik Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, USA (solo)
1995
The Seven Deadly Sins, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark (solo)
Terrain Gallery, San Francisco, USA (solo)
Beat Culture and the New America, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, USA (solo)
The Bourgeois Pig, Lawrence, USA (solo)
Nagual Marks, Aktionsforum Praterinsel, Munich, Germany (solo)
Photographs 1962-1972, Vintage Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (solo)
The Ossuary, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, USA
Beat Generation Art, New York University, New York, USA
1994
Two Guys With Guns Making Art (exhibition with Hunter S. Thompson), Floria Brown Gallery, Woody Creek, Colorado, USA
1993
The Seven Deadly Sins, Gagosian Gallery, New York; The Writer’s Place, Kansas City, USA (solo)
Galerie Porte-Avion, Marseille, France (solo)
Galeria Sephira, Madrid, Spain (solo)
Center for Study and Exhibit of Drawings, Exquisite Corpse, New York, USA (solo)
Poetry and Painting, Porte Galerie Avion, Marseille, France
Et tous ils changent le monde, 2ème Biennale d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France
The October Galleries, London, UK (solo)
Galeria Sephira, Madrid, Spain (solo)
Galerie Carzaniga & Ueker, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
Gagosian Gallery, New York City, NY (solo)
The Writer's Place, Kansas City, MO (solo)
Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Poetry and Painting, Porte Galerie Avion, Marseille, France
Biennale d'Art Contemporain, Lyon, France
Casa Burroughs: shotgun, dipinti e altro, Atelier Marconi Gallery, Torino, Italy (solo)
Transit Gallery, Bergamo, Italy (solo)
The Seven Deadly Sins, October Gallery, London, UK; Earl McGrath Gallery, Los Angeles; Nautilus Foundation, Lloyd; Hokin Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands; Mincher-Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco, USA; Artists en Mass, Lawrence, Kansas; George Mulder Fine Arts, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Galerie Kunst Parterre, Viersen, Germany
Casa Burroughs: shotgun, dipinti e altro, Atelier Marconi Gallery, Torino, Italy (solo)
Exhibition with Brion Gysin, Project Arts Centre, Dublin, Ireland
1992
Artists en Masse, Lawrence, KS (solo)
The October Galleries, London, UK (solo)
Nautilus Foundation, Lloyd, FL (solo)
Hokin Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, FL (solo)
Earl McGrath Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Mincher-Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
George Mulder Fine Arts, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (solo)
Galerie Kunst Parterre, Viersen, Germany (solo)
Atelier Marconi Gallery, Turin, Italy (solo)
Transit Gallery, Bergamo, Italy (solo)
Arco Art Fair, Galeria Sephira, Madrid, Spain
Project Theatre, Dublin, Ireland
Sena Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Exhibition with Dennis Hopper, Sena Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1991
Galerie Carzaniga & Ueker, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
Galerie K, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (solo)
Vanguardia Galeria de Arte, Bilbao, Spain (solo)
Exhibition with Keith Haring, Murray Feldman Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Basel Art Fair, Switzerland; Contemporary Art Fair, Milan, Italy, with Galerie Carzaniga & Ueker, Basel, Switzerland
Vanguardia Galeria de Arte, Bilbao, Spain (solo)
Galerie Carzaniga & Ueker, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
Galerie K, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (solo)
Art Basel, Galerie Carzaniga & Ueker, Basel, Switzerland
d'Arte Contemporanea Art Fair, Galerie Carzaniga & Ueker, Milan, Italy
Murray Feldman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Galerie Waschsalon, Frankfurt, Germany (solo)
Akarenga Hall/Seibu Shibuya, Seibu Sapporo, Sapporo, Japan (solo)
Shotgun Paintings, works on wood & paper, The Seed Hall/Seibu Shibuya, Tokyo (solo)
Earl McGrath Gallery, Los Angeles, USA (solo)
Galeria Sephira, Madrid, Spain (solo)
Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut, Tübingen, Germany (solo)
1990
Galerie Waschsalon, Frankfurt, Germany (solo)
Galerie K, Paris, France (solo)
The Seed Hall/Seibu Shibuya, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Akarenga Hall/Seibu Shibuya, Sapporo, Japan (solo)
Earl McGrath Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Deutsch-Amerikanische Institut, Tubingen, Germany (solo)
Galeria Sephira; Madrid, Spain (solo)
XPO Galerie, Hamburg, Germany
The October Galleries, London, UK
Gallery Casa Sins Nombre, Santa Fe, NM
Arco Art Fair, Galeria Emi Valentim de Carvalho, Madrid, Spain
Galerie K, Paris, France (solo)
Cold City Gallery, Toronto, Canada (solo)
Elliot Smith Gallery, St. Louis, MO (solo)
Galerie Carzaniga & Ueker, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
Cleto Polcina Artemoderna, Rome, Italy (solo)
Kellas Gallery, Lawrence, KS (solo)
Galeria Emi Valentim de Carvalho, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
Galerie Oboro & Atelier Roger Bellemare, Montreal, Canada (solo)
Paul Maenz Gallery, Cologne, Germany
Art Basel, Galerie Carzaniga & Ueker, Basel, Switzerland
Elliot Smith Gallery, St. Louis, USA (solo)
Cleto Polcina Artemodernna, Rome, Italy (solo)
Kellas Gallery, Lawrence, Kansas, USA (solo)
Galerie Carzaniga & Ueker, Basel Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
Cold City Gallery, Toronto, Canada (solo)
1989
Gallerie OBORO and Atelier Roger Bellemare, Montreal, Canada (solo)
Galeria EMI Valentim de Carvalho, Lisbon, Portugal (solo)
1988
The October Galleries, London, UK (solo)
The Western Front Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (solo)
Gallery Casa Sin Nombre, Santa Fe, NM (solo)
The Center for Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
Paul Klein Gallery, Chicago, IL
Literary Vision, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY
Amsterdam Art Fair, Suzanne Biederberg Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
October Gallery, London, UK (solo)
The Western Front Gallery, Vancouver, Canada (solo)
Gallery Casa Sin Nombre, Santa Fe, USA (solo)
Suzanne Biederberg Gallery, Amsterdam Art Fair, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (solo)
1987
Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY, USA (solo)
Select Public Collections:
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Saint Louis Art Museum; St. Louis, MO
British Museum, London, UK
Marseille Museum, Marseille, France
Kochi Museum of Art, Kochi, Japan
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