Robert Longo

(American, born 1953)

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Robert Longo

Jerk face, 1985

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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

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