Exhibitions

2011

"That’s The Way We Do It. The Techniques and Aesthetic of Appropriation", Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria

"Unsettled: Photography and Politics in Contemporary Art", Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA

"No Substitute", Glenstone, Potomac, Maryland

"The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973-1992", Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, North Carolina

"The Deconstructive Impulse: Women Artists Reconfigure the Signs of Power, 1973-1992", Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, Purchase, New York

"The Globe Shrinks", Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany (solo)

L & M Arts Los Angeles, Venice, California (solo)

2010

"America: Now and Here", cross-country traveling exhibition

"Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography", The Museum of Modern Art, NYC, NY

"PQ: 100", The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, New York

"Your History is Not Our History", Haunch of Venison, NYC, NY

"In the Vernacular", The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

"Plenty", Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York, NY (solo)

“The Globe Shrinks”, Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY. (solo)

Sprüth Magers, London, England

“Between Being Born and Dying”, Lever House, New York City, NY

“The Pictures Generation”, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY

2009

“Barbara Kruger: Pre-digital 1980-1992”, Skarstedt Gallery, New York, NY

2008

Southern Exposure, Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, Sydney, NSW

“Between Being Born and Dying”, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden.

2007

Dangerous Beauty, CAM - Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY

“’Picture/Readings’ 1978”, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY

2006

Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, Germany

Women Only! In Their Studios, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL

2005

The Fluidity of Time - Selections from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL

Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA

Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland

2004

Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY

“Twelve”, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY

“ipermercati dell’arte”/”Ill consumo rappresentato”, Palazzo Pubblico, Magazini del Sale

Skarstedt Fine Art, New York.

Sprüth/Magers/Lee, London, England

Kunst-Station St. Peter, Köln, Germany

2003

‘Help’ Barbara Kruger, Sprueth Magers Lee, London, England

2002

Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy

Monika Sprüth / Philomene Magers, Köln, Germany

“Shopping”, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt / Main, Germany

Monika Sprüth / Philomene Magers, München, Germany

2001

“The Overexcited Body”, SESC, São Paulo, Brazil

South London Gallery, London, England

“S.O.S.: Scenes of Sounds”, The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY

“Picturing Women”, Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, MD.

“Lux et Tenebrae: Peter Blum Edition”, Peter Blum/Blumarts, Inc., New York, NY.

“Around 1984: A Look at Art in the Eighties”, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York.

“Inner Eye: Contemporary Art from the Marc and Livia Straus Collection”, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York.

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

2000

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

“Sentimental”, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France.

“Altered States”, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY.

Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France.

“The American Century: Art and Culture 1950-2000”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.

“Assumed Identity”, Fine Arts Gallery, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC

1999

“Inner Eye: Contemporary Art from the Marc and Livia Straus Collection”, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN

“Art at the End of the Century: Contemporary Art from the Milwaukee Art Museum”, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL

“Inner Eye: Contemporary Art from the Marc and Livia Straus Collection”, The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA

“Inner Eye: Contemporary Art from the Marc and Livia Straus Collection”, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA

“Veronica’s Revenge: Photographies de la collection LAC-Suisse”, Casino Luxembourg and Musee national d’histoire et d’art, Luxembourg.

1998

Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY.

“Read My Lips: Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman”, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia.

“Inner Eye: Contemporary Art from the Marc and Livia Straus Collection”, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

“Art and the American Experience”, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI

“Fast Forward Trade Marks”, Kunstverein Hamburg, Germany

Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY.

“Word to Word”, Linda Kirkland Gallery, New York, NY.

18 Wooster Street/Deitch Projects, New York, NY.

1997

“The Mediated Object: Selections from the Eli Broad Collections”, Forum for Contemporary Art, Saint Louis, MO

“It’s Only Rock and Roll: Rock and Roll Currents in Contemporary Art”, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ

1996

Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne, Australia.

“Nudo & Crudo”, Claudia Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy.

“NowHere/Incandescent”, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark.

“Sexual Politics: Judy Chicago’s ‘Dinner Party’ in Feminist Art History”, Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, California.

“Thinking Print: Books to Billboards, 1980-95”, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.

“Is It Art?”, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York, NY.

“The Mediated Object: Selections from the Eli Broad Q Collections”, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge,

“Passions Privees”, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France.

“Paste-Up: Past & Present”, Kent Gallery, New York, NY.

“Civil Rights Now”, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH

“Civil Rights Now”, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC

“In a Different Light”, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA

“An American Century of Photography: From Dry-Point to Digital”, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.

“An American Century of Photography: From Dry-Point to Digital”, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.

“An American Century of Photography: From Dry-Point to Digital”, Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand.

1995

“An American Century of Photography: From Dry-Point to Digital”, Mead Art Museum, Amherst, MA

“An American Century of Photography: From Dry-Point to Digital”, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA

“An American Century of Photography: From Dry-Point to Digital”, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO

“Gewalte - Geschaefte”, Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany.

“Desire”, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY.

“New York ‘Unplugged’”, Gallery Cotthem, Knokke-Zoute, Belgium.

“Inaugural Group Show”, Off Shore Gallery, East Hampton, NY

“Public Interventions”, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

“Imprimatur”, Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts, Montreal, Canada.

“World Morality”, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

1994

“Wall to Wall”, Serpentine Gallery, London, England.

Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.

“Ciphers of Identity”, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD

“Die Sprache der Kunst - The Language of Art”, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria.

“Image Makers”, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY

“Inside Out”, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy.

“Commodity Image”, International Center of Photography Midtown, New York, NY.

“The Mediated Image: American Photography in the Age of Information”, University Art Museum, Albuquerque, NM

“Photoplay”, Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL

1993

“Dissent, Difference and the Body Politic”, Otis Parsons School of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA

“Biennale d’Art Contemporain”, Lyon, France.

“Dissent, Difference and the Body Politic”, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR

“More Than One Photography: Works Since 1980 From the Collection”, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.

“The Power of the City/The City of Power”, Whitney Museum of American Art Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York, NY.

“Chaos to Order”, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, TX

“15th Anniversary Exhibition”, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL

“Devil on the Stairs: Looking Back on the Eighties”, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA

“Power: Its Myths and Mores in American Art, 1961-1991”, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA

“Power: Its Myths and Mores in American Art, 1961-1991”, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH

1992

Magasin, Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France.

“Ars Pro Domo”, Museum Ludwig, Koln, Germany.

“Transpositions”, University of South Florida Art Museum, Tampa, FL

“False Face”, N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago, IL

“Power: Its Myths and Mores in American Art, 1961-1991”, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana.

“Anni 80: Artisti a New York”, Palazzo delle Albere, Museo Provinciale d’Arte Sezione Contemporanea, Trento, Italy.

Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY.

“Devil on the Stairs: Looking Back on the Eighties”, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA

“Objects for the Ideal Home”, Serpentine Gallery, London, England

“Aussenraum-Innenstadt”, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hannover, Germany.

“Words and #s”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Wright State University, Dayton, OH

“Compassion and Protest”, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA

“Media Culture”, Studio Oggetto, Milan, Italy.

“Buchstablich: Bild und Wort in der Kunst Heute”, Von-der-Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal-Elberfeld, Germany.

“Beyond the Frame: American Art, 1960-1990”, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan.

“Beyond the Frame: American Art, 1960-1990”, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan.

1991

“Beyond the Frame: American Art, 1960-1990”, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan.

“The Art of Advocacy”, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT

“Opening Exhibition, 20th Century Pavilion”, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel.

“Words as Symbols”, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT

“The Charade of Mastery”, Whitney Museum of American Art Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York, NY.

“The Last Decade: American Artists of the 80’s”, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY.

“The Indomitable Spirit”, The International Center of Photography Midtown, New York, NY.

“Art et Publicite”, Musee National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.

Kolnischer Kunstverein, Koln, Germany.

Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL

Monika Spruth Galerie, Koln, West Germany.

“The Decade Show”, Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art/The New Museum of Contemporary Art/The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY.

Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC

1990

“California Annual”, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy.

“Image World: Art and Media Culture”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.

“The Desire of the Museum”, Whitney Museum of American Art Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York, NY.

“Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move Into the Mainstream, 1970-85”, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

“Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move Into the Mainstream, 1970-85”, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO

“Viennese divan: Sigmund Freud nowadays”, Museum of the 20th Century, Vienna, Austria.

“A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation”, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

“Magiciens de la Terre”, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.

“Prospect 89”, Frankfurt Kunstverein and Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany.

“Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move Into the Mainstream, 1970-85”, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA

“Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move Into the Mainstream, 1970-85”, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH

John Doyle Gallery, Chicago, IL

Fred Hoffman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Galerie Bebert, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

1989

Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY.

“Bilderstreit”, Rheinhalle, Koln, West Germany.

Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY.

1988

“Biennial of Sydney”, Sydney, Australia.

“Modes of Address: Language in Art Since 1960”, Whitney Museum of American Art Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York, NY.

“L’epoque, la mode, la morale, la passion”, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.

Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden.

“Emerging Artists 1978-1986: Selections from the Exxon Series”, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY.

“Documenta 8”, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, West Germany.

“El Arte y Su Doble”, Fundacion Caja de Pensiones, Madrid, Spain.

“1987 Biennial Exhibition”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

Monika Spruth Galerie, Koln, West Germany.

1987

Artists Space, New York, NY.

P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY

National Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand.

Crousel/Hussenot Galerie, Paris, France.

Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY.

“Products and Promotion”, San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, CA

“Paravision”, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

“Ein Anderes Klima: Kunsterinnen gebrauchen neue Medien”, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, West Germany.

Metro Pictures, New York, NY.

“Dissent: The Issue of Modern Art in Boston”, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

“An American Renaissance: Painting and Sculpture from 1940 to the Present”, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL

“Painting and Sculpture Today: 1986”, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN

“Maelstrom”, Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY.

“Spectrum: In Other Words”, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.

Postmasters Gallery, New York, NY.

The Crescent Gallery, Dallas, TX

“Surrealismo: La Dolce Vita 80’s”, Barbara Braathen Gallery, New York, NY.

Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, West Germany.

“Admired Works”, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY.

1986

“New Acquisitions from New York”, Memphis Brooks Museum, Memphis, TN

Light Gallery, New York, NY.

“Rooted Rhetoric”, Lia Rumma Gallery, Naples, Italy.

“American Myths”, Kent Fine Art, New York, NY.

“El Arte y Su Doble”, Centro Cultural de la Fundacio Caixa de Pensions, Barcelona, Spain.

“Barbara Kruger and Jenny Holzer”, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel.

Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL

University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA

Hillman/Holland Gallery, Atlanta, GA

Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL

“The Real Big Picture”, Queens Museum, Queens, NY

Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY.

Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX

Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

Installation, AREA Nightclub, New York, NY.

“June Group Show”, Nature Morte Gallery, New York, NY.

“Talking Back to the Media”, Multi Media Project, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Center for Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA

Monika Spruth Galerie, Koln, West Germany.

“New York: Ailleurs et Autrement”, ARC, Musee d’Art Moderne, Paris, France.

“New Editions by Peter Blum”, Lorence/Monk Gallery, New York, NY.

1985

“1985 Biennial Exhibition”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.

“New York, New Art”, ARCA, Marseille, France.

“Ecrans politiques”, Musee d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada.

“New Art”, Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, CA

“Secular Attitudes”, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

“Subjects and Subject Matter”, London Regional Art Gallery, London, Ontario, Canada.

“Kunst mit Eigen-Sinn”, Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Vienna, Austria.

“Group Show”, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

“El Arte Narrativo”, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico.

“The Difference: On Representation and Sexuality”, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England.

“The Difference: On Representation and Sexuality”, The New Museum, New York, NY.

“The Axis of Sexuality”, The Banff Art Center, Alberta, Canada.

“Contemporary Perspectives 1984”, Bucknell University Art Gallery, Lewisburg, PA

“Holzer/Kruger Prints”, Spirit Square Art Gallery, Charlotte, NC.

“Written Imagery Unleashed in the Twentieth Century”, Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, Hempstead, NY

“Ansatzpunkte kritischer Kunst heute”, Berlin, West Germany.

“Content: A Contemporary Focus”, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC.

“Photography Used in Contemporary Art”, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan.

“Private Symbol/Social Metaphor”, Biennial of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.

Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY.

Crousel/Hussenot Galerie, Paris, France.

Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL

Watershed Gallery, Bristol, England.

Nouveau Musee, Lyon, France.

Kajima Gallery, Montreal, Canada.

1984

Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland.

“Sexuality and Representation”, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England.

“1983 Biennial Exhibition”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.

“Critical Content: Contemporary Perspectives”, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA

“Art and Social Change, U.S.A.”, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH

Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY.

Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England.

Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Times Square Spectochrome Sign, New York, NY.

“Fashion Fictions”, White Columns, New York, NY.

American Graffiti Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY.

“Group Show”, Young/Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL

“Currents”, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

“Artist-Critic”, White Columns, New York, NY.

“Starting Points of Young Critical Artists”, Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany.

“The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Laughter”, Protech/Mc Neil Gallery, New York, NY.

1983

“Contemporary Photographers”, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI

“Contra Media”, Alternative Museum, New York, NY.

“The Atomic Salon”, Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, NY.

“Public Vision”, White Columns, New York, NY.

“Art and Media”, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL

“Frames of Reference”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.

“Photographs In”, Daniel Wolff Gallery, New York, NY.

“The American Exhibition”, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

“La Biennale di Venezia”, Venice, Italy.

“Documenta 7”, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, West Germany.

CEPA/Hallwalls Gallery, Buffalo, NY

1982

Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

“Image Scavengers”, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA

“Public Address”, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY.

“Biennial Photography”, Vienna, Austria.

“Inespressionismo Americano”, Genoa, Italy.

“Love is Blind”, Castelli Photography Gallery, New York, NY.

“Gender”, Group Material Gallery, New York, NY.

1981

“Nineteen Emerging Artists”, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY.

“Pictures and Promises”, The Kitchen, New York, NY.

1980

“Four Different Photographers”, Padiglione di Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy.

1979

“Imitation of Life”, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT

Franklin Furnace Archive, New York, NY.

Printed Matter, New York, NY.

1976

John Doyle Gallery, Chicago, IL

1973

“1973 Biennial Exhibition”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.