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Bruce Conner

(American, 1933–2008)

Bruce Conner

BOY WITH GREEN HAIR, 2001

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Bruce Conner

DIOGENES WHO?, 1990

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Biography

Timeline

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

Exhibitions

2014: INHERENT VICE: THIS IS NOT A BRUCE CONNER EXHIBITION, di Rosa, Napa, CA
: Inkblots 1992-2003, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA (solo)
: 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)
: Mabuhay Gardens: Punk Photography and Collage, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA (solo)
: Bruce Conner and the Primal Scene of Punk Rock, MCA Denver, Denver, CO (solo)
: Bruce Conner: An Anonymous Memorial, the American University Museum, Washington, D.C
: Picture For Picture, Museum Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany
: Kompass, Zeichnungen and Museum of Modern Art New York, Berlin, Germany
: Imagine Being Here Now, 6th Momentum Biennial 2011, Moss, Sweden
: September 11, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center – MoMA, New York, NY
2011: Bruce Conner: Falling Leaves: An Anonymous Memorial, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: The Late Bruce Conner, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: Long Play: Bruce Conner and the Singles Collection, SFMOMA, San Francisco (solo)
: 4 ½, Creative Time, New York, NY (solo)
: I am Not Bruce Conner, Ursula Blickle Foundation, Krachtal, Germany (solo)
: Bruce Conner: 1970’s, Kunstalle Wien, Vienna, Austria (travelled to Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland) (solo)
: Abstract Resistance, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
: AV Festival 10: Energy, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlersbrough, UK
: Bruce Conner, Inova/Kenilworth Institute, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, Peck School of the Arts (solo)
: Direct Art, Stiftung Ludwig Museum of Modern Art, Vienna, Austria
: Sunless (Journeys in Alta California since 1933), Thomas Dane Gallery, London, UK
: R for Replicant, CC Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
: Collecting Biennials, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: 101 Collection: Route 1, CCAWattis, San Francisco, CA
2010: Telling Stories, Werkstatten und Kulturhaus, Vienna, Austria
: Pictures in Motion, Museum Ludwig Koln, Koln, Germany
: Conner Lockhart Warhol: Screening Real, Kunsrhaus Graz, Graz, Austria
: Dark Americana, Baer Ridgway Exhibitions, San Francisco, CA
: SPECTACULAR TIMES: The 60s, Moderna Museet Malmo, Malmo, Sweden
: MOCA’s First Thirty Years, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Intelligent Design: Untitled Lithographs 1970-1971, Milwaukee Art Museum, Mlwaukee, WI (solo)
: Bruce Conner in the 1970s, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
2009: Bruce Conner: Discovered, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA (solo)
: Altered States: The Collection in Context, di Rosa Preserve, Napa, CA
2008: Jesuvian Process, Elizabeth Dee, New York
: The Cinema Effect, The Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC
: Lights Camera Action: Artist's Film for the Cinema, Whitney, New York
: Jesuvian Process, Elizabeth Dee, New York
: The Third Mind, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
: Bruce Conner," Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles
: Bruce Conner, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
2007: Bruce Conner, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York
: Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago
: Semina Culture, Grey Art Gallery, New York
: Thank You for the Music, Galerie Spruth Magers, Munich
: Rough Trade, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles
: In The Poem About Love You Don't Write The Word Love, Artists Space, New York
: Good Vibrations, Centro Arte Contemporanea Papese, Italy
: Of Mice and Men, 2006 Berlin Biennale
: The Big Nothing, ICA Universiity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
2006: Punk Photographs, NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Dusseldorf
2005: Drunk vs. Stoned, General Store in association with Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
: Emily Feather, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angles
: Tapestries and Drawings, Paintings, Sculpture and Wood Engraving Collages,” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
: After Bruce Conner, Katzen Art Center, American University, Washington, DC
: Tapestries, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles
: Bruce Conner: Punk Photographs and LUKE, Gladstone Gallery, New York
: Bruce Conner and Company, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles
2004: Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque, SITE Santa Fe's Fifth International Biennial Exhibition, New Mexico
: Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque, SITE Santa Fe's Fifth International Biennial Exhibition, New Mexico
2003: The Dennis Hopper One Man Show Volume II, Susan Inglett, New York
: Sight and Insight: an Assemblage of Artists, P.S.1 Moma, Long Island City, New York
: The Dennis Hopper One Man Show Volume II," Susan Inglett, New York
2002: Sunday Afternoon, 303 Gallery, New York
: Bruce Conner: 2002 B.C., Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
: Bruce Conner, Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago
: Bruce Conner, Arion Press Gallery, San Francisco
: Bruce Conner,” Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles
2001: The Dennis Hopper One Man Show Vol. III, Susan Inglett, NY
: 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
: Wood Engraving Collages, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York
2000: Asynchronous Snapping of the Synapses, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara
: Bruce Conner, Paule Anglim Gallery, San Francisco
: Dead Punks & Ashes, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York
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.
: 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
: Bruce Conner: Engraving Collages, Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
: 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
: 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
: 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
: University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson.
: Addison Gallery, Andover, 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
: Worchester Art Museum, Worchester, Massachusetts
: Indiana University Art Museum, Bloomington
: Guggenheim Museum, New York
: Achenbach Foundation, San Francisco
: 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
: 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
: 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
: 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.
: Angels: Bruce Conner, 1973-1975, San Francisco:San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Exhibition brochure, Text by Judith Cizek, 1999
: Local Color: The diRosa Collection of Contemporary California Art, Chronicle Books, 1999
: The American Art Book, Phaidon Press, 1999
1997: Bruce Conner: Engraving Collages,1961-1995, Essay by James Johnson, Wichita Art Museum, 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

Bruce Conner

(American, 1933–2008)

Bruce Conner

Bruce Conner

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

Literature

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