Exhibitions

2013

Tony Oursler: Little Worlds, Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI

agentic iced etcetera, Pinchuk Art Center, Kiev, Ukraine

Stage Presence: Theatricality in Art and Media, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA

Paper Band, Jason McCoy Gallery, New York, NY

Cumuliform, Galerie Steinek, Vienna, AT (solo)

Tony Oursler – Face to Face, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, DK (solo)

Super Pop (and Not), Contemporary by Angela Li, Hong Kong, China (solo)

Summerland, Hassel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

Tony Oursler: False-Color Actions, Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain (solo)

Tony Oursler: Lapesed Fantasist, Galerie Hans Mayer, Dusseldorf, Germany (solo)

Oxt Variations, 313 Art Project, Seoul, Korea (solo)

2012

Denouement, FaMa Gallery, Verona, Italy (solo)

top-down-bottom-up, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA (solo)

2011 - 2012

Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland (solo)

The Royal Family, Hayward Gallery, London, England

Videosphere: A New Generation, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY

The view from a Volcano - The Kitchen´s Soho Years, 1971 – 85, The Kitchen, New York, NY

Off the Wall/Fora da Parede, Museu Serralves, Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto

Thirty are better than one, Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany

CLAP, Hessel Museum of Art & Center for Curatorial Studies Galleries at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

Paradise Lost,Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, Turkey

Blink! Light, Sound & the Moving Image, Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO

Lets Party For A Piece Of Art, Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich, Germany

Happy Tech. Macchine dal volto umano, Triennale Bovisa, Milan, Italy

Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974 – 1981, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

IMMOBILE ACTION - MITTERRAND+CRAMER/FINE ART/GENEVE, Geneva, Switzeland

Night Scented Stock, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY

On Shuffle, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY

AroS Aarhus Art Museum, Aarhus, Denmark (solo)

2011

JGM Gallery, Paris, France (solo)

Let the Healing Begin, IMA Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia

Bad Dreams - Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA

Armitage Gone Dance Exquisite Corpse Project, Klemens Gasser & Tanja Grunert, Inc., New York, NY

Autochtonous Too High, Le Carre, scene nationale, Chateau Gontier, France (solo)

Vertical Loop Task, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO (solo)

Valley, Adobe Museum of Digital Media (solo)

Tony Oursler: “dub” 2003, Galleria Six, Milano, Italy (solo)

Peak, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY (solo)

Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (solo)

Mortality - ACCA - Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melbourne, VIC

number seven, plus or minus two, Galleri Faurschou, Beijing, China (solo)

Pasado & Presente, Colección Nuevos Medios Centro Pompidou, Espacio Fundaciòn Telefònica,

Fourteen Again, CAM, Chelsea Art Museum, New York City, NY

The Rhythm of Istanbul, Akbank Sanat, Istanbul, Turkey

Things evoke feelings, CSW Centrum Sztuki Wspolczesnej / Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland

C'est la vie! Vanités de Caravage à Damien Hirst, Musée Maillol, Fondation Dina Vierny, Paris

Welt in der Hand, Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden, Germany

Global Art Show, The Columns, Seoul, South Korea

2010

Modern Times: responding to chaos, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, England

Julia Stoschek Collection - I want to see how you see,Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

At the edge, Portsmouth Museum of Art, Portsmouth, NH

Five in Istanbul - Lehmann Maupin, New York City, NY

Endgame, Slaughterhousespace, Healdsburg, CA

Tony Oursler, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA (solo)

Boule to Braid, Lisson Gallery, London, England

Cell Phones Diagrams Cigarettes Searches and Scratch Cards, Metro Pictures Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

Plastic Culture: Legacies of Pop 1962 – 2008 - Bradford 1 Gallery, Bradford (England)

Likeness, The Mattress Factory, Pittsburg, PA

Sothebys - Beyond Limits, Chatsworth House, Bakewell, England

Beyond Appearances, Lehman College Art Gallery, New York, NY

Huésped. Colección Musac en el MNBA, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires

Plastic Culture - The Exchange, Penzance, Cornwall, England

Art and Electronic Media, bitforms Gallery, New York, NY

live art /levende scene, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway

Group Exhibition, Metro Pictures Gallery, New York, NY

UNDERWATER, Western Bridge, Seattle, WA

The another mythology, National Center For Contemporary Art (NCCA), Moscow, Russia

XIVa Quadriennale di Roma, Quadriennale di Roma, Rome, Italy

Happy Birthday - The First Anniversary of the Gallery, GALLERY 1 - Black Cube Gallery - Calle Horitzontal, Barcelona, Spain

Tony Oursler, Galerie Baronian-Francey, Brussels, Belgium (solo)

Gaze Heuristic (with Droll), Galleria In Arco, Turin, Italy (solo)

Tony Oursler, Galerie Steinek, Vienna, Austria (solo)

2009

Tony Oursler, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria (solo)

Surrealism and Contemporary Art: Subversive Spaces, Compton Verney, Compton Verney, England

Destruction Party, Le Royal Marceau, Paris

The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image Part I: Dreams, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, USA

Mirada pensante, Centro de Arte la Regenta, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain; Espacio Cultural El Tanque, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain

California Video, J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Nuit Blanche, Gare Du Nord, Paris

Lisson Gallery, London

2008

Künstler der Galerie – Zeichnungen, Bilder, Skulpturen, Fotografien, Galerie Biedermann, Munich, Germany

2007

Zeichnungen, Collagen, Fotografien, Galerie Biedermann, Munich, Germany

Tony Oursler: Painting + Paper, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY (solo)
Anomalous Bodies, Resonant Dust, Worms, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA, USA (solo)
Stopover, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld, Germany

2005

Blue Invasion, Sydney, Australia (solo)
Jeu De Paume, Paris, France (solo)

Internationale Zeichnungen, Galerie Biedermann, Munich, Germany

2004

Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY (solo)
Aarhus Kunsthaus, Aarhus, Germany (solo)
Barcelona Civic Plaza, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain (solo)
Studio, Musee D’Orsay, Paris, France (solo)
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA (solo)
by Amerika, Galerie Steinek, Vienna, Austria (group)

2003

Metro Pictures, New York, NY (solo)
Jean Bernier Gallery, Athens, Greece (solo)
Lisson Gallery, London (solo)
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA, USA (solo)

2002

20 years Galerie Steinek, Vienna, Austria (group)
Videos and drawings, Galerie Steinek, Vienna, Austria (solo)
Galerie Hans Mayer, Dusseldorf, Germany
Institut Valencià D'Art Modern, Valencia, Spain

2001

Silent Sories, Galerie Steinek, Vienna, Austria (group)
Flucht, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, San Sebastian, Spain
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
Galerie Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain

2000

Drawings, Galerie Steinek, Vienna, Austria (solo)
Sulfer, Glass Silicon, 1000 Eventi, Milan, Italy
Face the face, Galerie Steinek, Vienna, Austria (group)
Tony Oursler: The Darkest Color Infinitely Amplified, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
The Empty Cabinet, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA; University of California, San Diego, CA, USA

1999

Galerie Biedermann Munich, Germany
Tel Aviv Museum of Art Tel Aviv, Israel
Introjection: Tony Oursler mid-career survey, 1976-1999, MASS
MOCA Los Angeles, CA, USA
Galerie Biedermann, Munich, Germany
Drawn by..., Metro Pictures Gallery New York, NY
Double Lives, Institut de Cultura de Barcelona Barcelona, Spain
Video Cult/ures, Center for Art and Media, MfCA Karlsruhe, Germany

The Secret Life of Clothes (exh. cat.), The Nishinippon Fukuoka, Japan

Presumed Innocence, Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University Richmond, VA, USA

Gian Enzo Sperone Rome, Italy

Sao Paulo Biennale XXIV, Sao Paulo Biennale XXIV Sao Paulo, Brazil

Exterminating Angel, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot Paris, France

Metro Pictures Gallery New York, NY

Video: Tony Oursler, Bruce Nauman, Sam Taylor-Wood, MOMA San Francisco, CA, USA

Directions-Tony Oursler: Video Dolls with Tracey Liepold, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Gards Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC, USA

Videotapes, Dummies, Drawings, Photographs, Viruses, Heads, Eyes & CD-ROM, Kunstverein Hannover, Hanover, Germany

1000 Eventi Milan, Italy

The Poetics Project (Documenta Version), Metro Pictures New York, NY

1998

The Poetics Project 1977-1997, Lehmann Maupin New York, NY

Lisson Gallery London, UK

Installations / Projects, P.S.1 New York, NY

Gallery Koyanagi Tokyo, Japan

Galerie Biedermann, Munich, Germany

Tony Oursler, CAPC Bordeaux, France

The Poetics Project 1977-1997, Documenta X, Kassel, Germany

Der menschliche Faktor - Das Individuum im Spiegel der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Hypo Bank; Kunsthandel Achenbach Dusseldorf, Germany

The Video Room White Columns, New York, NY

Museu D'art Contemporani Barcelona, Spain

Judy, Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, PA, USA

Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven, Netherlands

Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA

Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO, USA

Paule Anglim San Francisco, CA, USA

Galerie Biedermann Munich, Germany

Musée d'art contemporarin de Bordeaux, France

The Poetic Project, Documenta X, Kassel, Germany

Center for Contemporary Art, Malmo, Sweden

Barbara Krakow Gallery Boston, MA, USA

M.A. Thesis Exhibition, Center For Curatorial Studies Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, NY

Identité, Institut d'Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France

Being and Time: The Emergence of Video Projection (exh.cat.), Contemporary Arts Museum Texas

1997

The Body (exh. cat.), The Art Gallery of New South Wales Sydney, Australia

World Wide Video Festival, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

(with Mike Kelley), Patrick Painter, Santa Monica, CA, USA

Zones of Disturbance, Steirischer Herbst 97, Graz, Austria

The Eli Broad Family Foundation Santa Monica, CA, USA

The Poetics Project (with Mike Kelley), The Watari Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan

Anatomy of Space/Time, Kobe Fashion Museum, Kobe, Japan

Der Menschliche Faktor - Das Individuum im Spiegel zeitgenossischen Kunst (exh.cat.), Hypobank International S.A. Luxembourg, France

The Digital Video Wall Rockerfeller Center, New York, NY

Scream & Scream Again, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland

The Whitney Biennial (exh. cat.), Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art New York, NY

(performance with Constance DeJong and Stephen Vitiello), The Performing Garage New York, NY

Gothic (exh. cat.), The Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, MA, USA

Skulptur Projekte (exh.cat.), Munster, Germany

Engel:Engel, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria

Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

Kingdom of Flora, Shoshana Wayne Gallery Santa Monica, CA, USA

ID, Van Abbemueum Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Little Wonder (video), David Bowie

Sampler 2, David Zwirner New York, NY

Empty Dress, The Rubelle & Norman Schafler Gallery Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY

Altered and Irrational, Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY

Sex & Crime: On Human Relationships (exh.cat.), Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany

Human Technology, Revolution Ferndale, MI, USA

Intermission, Basilico Fine Arts, New York, NY

Metro Pictures New York, NY

Lisson Gallery London, UK

Tomorrow, Rockland Center for the Arts West Nyack, New York, NY

The Cincinnati Art Museum Cincinnati, OH, USA

New York 'Unplugged II', Gallery Cotthem Knokke-Zoute, Belgium

Phantasmagoria, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia

Metro Pictures New York, NY

Young Americans: New American Art in the Saatchi Collection (exh.cat.), Saatchi Gallery London, UK

Face Value: American Portraits, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, USA

Matthew Barney, Tony Oursler, Jeff Wall (exh.cat.), Sammlung Goetz Munich, Germany

Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst (exh.cat.) Ghent, Belgium

1996

Lisson Gallery London, UK

Metro Pictures New York, NY

Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA, USA

My Drawings 1976-1996, Kasseler Kunstverein Kassel, Germany (solo)

Jean Bernier Gallery, Athens, Greece

Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France

Radical Images, 2nd Austrian Triennial on Photography, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria

The Scream (exh.cat.), The Nordic Arts Center Helsingfors, Finland

10th Biennial of Sydney Sydney, Australia

Scream & Scream Again, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK

Being & Time: The Emergence of Video Projection, The Albright-Knox Art Gallery Buffalo, NY, USA

New Persona/New Universe, Biennale di Firenze, Florence, Italy

(performance with Constance DeJong), Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia, PA, USA

The Red Gate, Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY

Man & Machine: Technology Art, Dong-Ah Gallery Seoul, Korea

Configura 2 - Dialog Der Kulturen, Erfurt, Germany

Immagini in Prospective, Zerynthia Rome, Italy

L'Effet Cinéma, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada

Carnegie Internation, The Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Rum, Malmo, Sweden

Passions Privées, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France

Metro Pictures New York, NY

System for Dramatic Feedback, Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany

Tony Oursler: Video Installations, Objects, Watercolors, Musée des Arts Modernes et Contemporains, Strasbourg, France

Biennale d'Art Contemporain de Lyon, Maison de Lyon, France

Video Spaces: Eight Installations (exh.cat.), The Museum of Modern Art New York, NY

Playtime: Artists and Toys (exh.cat.), Whitney Museum of Art at Champion Stamford, CT, USA

Trust, Tramway Glasgow, UK

Inside Out: Psychological Self-Portraiture (exh.cat.), The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, USA

Le Printemps de Cahors, La Compagnie des Arts, France

Fantastic Prayers (with Constance DeJong and Stephen Vitiello), Dia Center for the Arts Rushmore Festiva,l New York, NY

Fetishism, Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, Brighton, UK

Entr'Acte 1, Stederijk Van Abbemuseum Eindhove, Netherlands

Zeichen & Wunder, Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland

The Message is the Medium: Issues of Representation in Modern Technologies, Castle Gallery College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY, USA

1995

ARS 95 Helsinki (exh. cat.), Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland

Mendelson Gallery Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY

Home Video Redefined: Media, Sculpture and Domesticity, Center of Contemporary Art North Miami, FL, USA

Oh Boy, It's a Girl: Feminismen in der Kunst (exh.cat.), Kunstverien Munich

Medienbiennale 94, Minima Media, Leipzig, Germany

Beeld, Museum van Hedendaagsekunst, Ghent, Belgium

Metro Pictures, New York, NY

Light, ARTprop New York, NY

Tony Oursler and John Kessler (exh.cat.), Salzburger Kunstverein, Austria

Laura Carpenter Fine Art Santa Fe, NM, USA

The Laugh of #12, Fort Asperen Amsterdam, Netherlands

The Figure, The Lobby Gallery Deutsche Bank, New York, NY

Linda Cathcart Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, USA

1994

Jean Bernier Gallery Athens, Greece

Tony Oursler - Recent Video Words, The Contemporary Museum Honolulu, HI, USA

Dummies, Flowers, Alters, Clouds, and Organs, Metro Pictures New York, NY

Lisson Gallery London, UK

Dummies, Dolls, and Poison Candy, IKON Gallery & Bluecoat Gallery Birmingham, Liverpool, UK

Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY

Private, Gallery F-15 Oslo, Norway

The Living Room San Francisco, CA, USA

1993

Love Again, Kunstraum Elbschloss, Hamburg, Germany

3rd International Biennale in Nagoya-Artec '93, Nagoya City Art Museum Nagoya, Japan

White Trash and Phobic, Centre d' Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland

1992-3

Triptych/Model Release (video), Constance DeJong

Paranoid Schizoid Position (video), Kim Gordon

Test (video), Karen Finlay

F/X Plotter, 2-Way, Kjkhuis, The Hague, Netherlands

1992

Toxic Detox (video), Joe Gibbons

Documenta 9, Kassel, Germany

Station Project, James Casebere, Kortrijk Railway Station, Belgium

The Space, Boston, MA, USA

The Knitting Factory New York, NY

Dummies, Hex Signs, Watercolors, The Living Room San Francisco, CA, USA

The Pacific Film Archives San Francisco, CA, USA

The New York Times Festival, Museum van Hedendaagsekunst Ghent, Belgium

1991

Diane Brown Gallery New York, NY

1990

On Our Own, Segue Gallery, New York, NY

The Technological Muse, Katonah Museum of Art Katonah, NY

Tendances Multiples, Video des Années 80, Centre Georges Pompidou Paris, France

Video/Objects/Installations/Photography, Howard Yezerski Gallery Boston, MA, USA

Hallwalls Buffalo, NY

Diane Brown Gallery, New York, NY

The Kitchen, New York, NY

Masterpieces, Stadtgarten Cologne, Germany

Museum fur Gegenwarskunst Basel, Switzerland

Collective for Living Cinema New York, NY

Folkwang Museum (exh. cat.) Essen, Germany

World Wide Video Festival, The Hague, Netherlands

Sanity is Madness, The Artists' Foundation Gallery Boston, MA, USA

Video and Language, The Museum of Modern Art New York, NY

Nepotism, Hallwalls Buffalo, NY

XII Salso Film & TV Festival, Salsomaggiore, Italy

Drawings, Objects, Videotapes, Delta Gallery, Dusseldorf Museum Dusseldorf, Germany

Relatives, Constance DeJong, The Kitchen, New York, NY

Bobo Gallery San Francisco, CA, USA

Video Sculpture 1963-1989, Kolnischer Kunstverein Cologne, Germany

1989

Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY

Videografia, Barcelona, Spain

New York Musikk, Oslo, Norway

Replacement, LACE Los Angeles, CA, USA

Festival International du Nouveau Cinéma et de la Video, Montreal, Canada

Serious Fun Festival, Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center New York, NY

New York Dagen, Kunstichting Rotterdam, Netherlands

Onourown (video), Joe Gibbons,

Interfermental 7, Hallwalls Buffalo, NY, USA

2nd Videonale, Bonn, Germany

Varitish, Korea

World Wide Video Festival, The Hague, Netherlands

Film Video Arts, 17 Years, The Museum of Modern Art New York, NY

The BiNational: American Art of the Late 80s, German Art of the Late 80s, Institute of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA, USA

Twilight, Festival Bellueard 88 Bolwerk, Freiburg, Germany

Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies/EZTV Los Angeles, CA, USA

Contellation: Intermission, Diane Brown Gallery New York, NY

1988

Tony Oursler's Works, Le Lieu Quebec City, Canada

1987

L' époque, la mode, la morale, la passion, Centre Georges Pompidou Paris, France

Aspects of Media: Video, Department of Video, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Japan 1987 Television and Video Festival, Spiral Tokyo, Japan

Documenta 8, Kassel, Germany

Schema, Baskerville + Watson Gallery, New York, NY

The Kitchen, New York, NY

Boston Film/Video Foundation Boston, MA, USA

New Langton Arts San Francisco, CA, USA

Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Canada

1986

Spheres of Influence, Centre Georges Pompidou Paris, France

1985

Kijkhuis, The Hague, Netherlands

Kunst Delft, Netherlands

ELAC, Espace Lyonnais d'Art Contemporain, Lyon, France

Schule fur Gestaltung, Basel, Switzerland

The American Center, Paris, France

L-7, L-5, The Kitchen, New York, NY

1984

Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY

David Mo Gallery, New York, NY

The Luminous Image, Stedjelijk Museum Amsterdam, Netherlands

1983

X Catholic, Mike Kelley, Beyond Baroque, Los Angeles, CA, USA

La Mamelle San Francisco, CA, USA

My Sets, Media Study Buffalo, NY, USA

Son of Oil, A Space Toronto, Canada

Boston Film/Video Foundation Boston, MA, USA

1982

The Walker Art Center Minneapolis, MN, USA

Complete Works, The Kitchen, New York, NY

Soho TV M/T Channel 10 New York, NY

A Scene, P.S. 1 New York, NY

1981

University Art Museum University of California, Berkeley, CA, USA

The School of the Art Institute Chicago, IL, USA

Video Viewpoints, The Museum of Modern Art New York, NY, USA

1976 - 1997

Poetic's Reenactment Rock Videos (video), Robert Appleton

Pole Dance (video), Mike Kelley, Ani, Armenia