Tony Oursler

2015

Bernier Eliades, Athens, Greece
“Imponderable: the Archives of Tony Oursler”, LUMA Foundation, Arles, France (cat.)
Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
“template/variant/friend/stranger”, Lisson Gallery, London, United Kingdom
“Influence Machine”, Blinc Festival Adelaide, Pink Flats, Adelaide, Australia

2014

X ERGO Y”, The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
“I/O underflow”, Oude Kerk, Amsterdam, Netherlands (cat.)
“Obscura”, Galerie Hans Mayer, Dusseldorf, Germany
“Passe-Partout”, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO

2013

“Phantasmagoria”, Grand-Hornu MAC’s, Hornu, Belgium (cat.)
“Glare Schematics”, A Baronian Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
“hopped (popped)”, Edward Hopper House, Nyack, New York
Galeria Leme, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Ekeberg Sculpture Park, Oslo, Norway
John Buckley Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
“Phobic / White Trash”, JGM Galerie & Campoli Presti, Paris, France
“strawberry ecstasy green”, Espace Louis Vuitton, Venice, Italy
“Tony Oursler: UFOs and Effigies”, Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, New York
“Little Worlds”, Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii
“agentic iced etcetera”, PinchukArtCentre, Kiev, Ukraine
“The Influence Machine”, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
“Norte Sul Leste Oeste”, Museu de Arte Moderna, Sao Paulo, Brazil

2012

“Oxt Variations”, 313 Art Project, Seoul, Korea
“Denouement”, FaMa Gallery, Verona, Italy (cat.)
“Open Obscura”, PAC – Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
Sculpture, Jensen Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Sculpture, Jensen/Fox, Auckland, New Zealand
“Super Pop (and Not)”, Contemporary by Angela Li, Hong Kong
“top–down–bottom–up”, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
“Lapsed Fantasist”, Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf, Germany
“False-Color Actions”, Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain
“Scribble, Adumbrations”, Avlskarl Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
“Face to Face”, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Denmark

2011

Adobe Museum of Digital Media, Online
“As Above, So Below”, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland
“Open Obscura”, PAC – Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
JMG Galerie, Paris, France

2010

Lehmann Maupin, New York
Oi Futuro, Rio de Janeiro (cat.)
“Valley,” Adobe Museum of Digital Media
“Peak,” Lehmann Maupin, New York
“ON/OFF,” Jensen Gallery, New Zealand
“Vertical Loop Task,” Baldwin Gallery, Aspen
“Number Seven, Plus or Minus 2,” Faurschou Gallery, Beijing, China

2009

Cell Phones Diagarams Cigarettes Searches and Scratch Cards, Metro Pictures, New York
Gaze Heuristic (with Droll), Galleria In Arco, Torino, Italia
Baronian Francey, Bruxelles, Belgio
Lock 2, 4, 6, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria

2008

Lisson Gallery, Londra, Inghilterra
La Nuit Blanche: L’invitation au Voyage, Gare du Nord, Parigi, Francia
Winzavod Contemporary Art Center, Mosca, Russia

2007

Lehmann Maupin, New York, USA
Bernier/Eliades, Atene, Grecia
Emi Fontana, Milano, Italia
Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finlandia
Paul Anglim Gallery, San Francisco, California, USA

2006

Spaced, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
The Living Eye of Tony Oursler and the Spirit of the Age, Galleria In Arco, Torino, Italia
Galerie Faurshou, Copenhagen, Danimarca
Sound Digression in Seven Colors, Nyehaus, New York, USA / Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italia
Thought Forms, Metro Pictures, New York, USA

2005

Perfect Partner, con Kim Gordon, Barbican, Londra, Inghilterra
Blue Invasion, Sydney Festival, Sydney, Australia
Studio and Climaxed, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Dispositifs, Jeu de Paume, Parigi, Francia / DA2. Domus Atrium 2002, Salamanca, Spagna / Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finlandia / GL Strand, Copenhagen, Danimarca

2004

Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spagna
Musée de Orsay, Parigi, Francia

2003

Aarhus Kunsthaus, Aarhus, Danimarca

2002

Tony Oursler – Drawings, Lehmann Maupin, New York, USA
Tony Oursler – Luftmetall, Galerie Hans Meyer, Düsseldorf, Germania
Station, Magasin 3, Stoccolma, Svezia
Museo D’Arte Contemporanea, Roma, Italia
Galerie H.S. Steinek, Vienna, Austria
Parallel Lines, Galleria In Arco, Torino, Italia / Studio d’Arte Raffaelli, Trento, Italia

2001

Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Parigi, Francia
Institut Valencià D’Art Modern, Valencia, Spagna
Flucht, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria
Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, San Sebastian, Spagna
Galerie Joan Prats, Barcellona, Spagna

2000

Sulfer, Glass, Silicon, 1000 Eventi, Milano, Italia
The Empty Cabinet, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, USA / University Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego, USA
Tony Oursler: The Darkest Color Infinitely Amplified, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA

1999

Introjection: Tony Oursler mid-career survey, 1976-1999, MASS MoCA, N. Adams, Massachussetts, USA / Williams College of Art, Williamstown, Massachusettes, USA / Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, USA, 2000 / Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA, 2000 / Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, USA 2001

1998

Directions – Tony Oursler: Video Dolls with Tracey Liepold, Hirshhorn Museum & Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C., USA
Videotapes, Dummies, Drawings, Photographs, Viruses, Heads, Eyes, & CD-ROM, Kunstverein Hannover, Germania / Malmö Konsthall, Mälmo, Svezia / Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israele / Wellington Museum of Art, Londra, Inghilterra

1997

Judy, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA
Aspen Art Museum, Colorado, USA
capc Musée, Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, Francia / Sala de Exposiciones Rekalde, Bilbao, Spagna

1996

Jean Bernier Gallery, Atene, Grecia
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California, USA
My Drawings 1976-1996, Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel, Germania

1995

System for Dramatic Feedback, Portikus, Francoforte, Germania / Les Musées de la Ville de Strasbourg, Strasburgo, Francia / Centre d’Art Contemporain, Ginevra, Svizzera / Stedlijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Olanda
Tony Oursler: Video Installations, Objects, Watercolors, Musée des Arts Moderne et Contemporain, Strasburgo, Francia
Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria

1994

Judy, Salzburger Kunstverein, Salisburgo, Austria

1993

White Trash and Phobic, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Ginevra, Svizzera / Kunstwerke, Berlino, Germania

1989

Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germania
Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basilea, Svizzera

1987

The Kitchen, New York, USA

1986

Spheres of Influence, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Parigi, Francia

1985

The American Center, Parigi, Francia

1982

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

1981

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

2015

“Cosa Mentale”, Art and Telepathy in the Twentieth Century, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
“La vie moderne”, Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France
“America is Hard to See”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
“TRANSMISSION: Legacies of the Television Age”, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
“The Triumph of Love: Beth Rudin DeWoody Collects”, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
“Future Seasons Past”, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY
“Blinc Festival Adelaide”, Adelaide, Australia

2014

“Momentum: An Experiment in the Unexpected”, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
“Disturbing Innocence”, curated by Eric Fischl, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, NY
“Four Drawings of a Farmer”, Bureau, New York, NY
“Aftershock: The Impact of Radical Art”, 135 East 74th Street, New York, NY

2013

“Disembodied”, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

2012

“The Royal Family”, Hayward Gallery Project Space, London, United Kingdom
“Glasstress New York: New Art from the Venice Biennales”, The Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY

2011

“Nothing in the World but Youth”, Turner Contemporary Gallery, Margate, United Kingdom
“Night Scented Stock”, Marianne Boesky, New York, NY
“Glasstress”, 54th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
“The Way We Are Now: Selections from the 21st Century Collection”, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH.”
“Unreal”, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

2010

Off the Wall: Part 1—Thirty Performative Actions, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Special Effects, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Germania
Larger Than Life – Stranger Than Fiction: 11th Triennial of Small Sculpture, Kulturamt Statd Fellbach, Germania
Julia Stoschek Collection: I Want To See How You See, Deichtorhallen, Amburgo, Germania
The Flower of May, Gwangju Museum of Art, Korea
C’est la Vie! Vanités—De Pompéï à Damien Hirst, Musée Maillol, Parigi

2009

Likeness, The Mattress Factory, Pittsburg

2008

California Video, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, USA
The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image. Part 1: Dreams, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., USA
, the Ellipse Foundation, Cascais, Portogallo
Sonic Youth etc.: Sensational Fix, LiFE International Space for Emerging Arts, Saint-Nazaire, Francia/ Museion Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano/ Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germania/ Malmö Konsthall, Svezia/ Centro Huarte de Arte Contemporáneo, Navarra, Spagna
Slightly Unbalanced, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago/ Museum London, Ontario/ Huntington Museum of Art, West Virginia/ Rodman Hall Arts Center, Ontario/ Paul and Lulu Hillliard University Art Museum, Lafayette, Louisiana/ Joel and Lila Harnett Museum of Art, Richmond, Virginia

2007

Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA / Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, USA / Musée D’Art Contemporain, Montréal, Canada
Panic Attack! Art in the Punk Years, Barbican Art Gallery, Londra, Inghilterra
Metro Pictures, New York, USA
Hessel Museum of Art, Bard, New York, USA
Vent’anni con gli amici, Galleria In Arco, Torino, Italia

2006

Into Me / Out of Me, P.S. 1, New York / KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlino, Germania / MACRO Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Roma, Italia
Super Vision, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
New York New York: Fifty Years of Art, Architecture, Cinema, Performance, Photography and Video, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco
Don’t Trust Anyone Over Thirty, Whitney Biennial, New York, USA

2005

14th Rome Quadriennale, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna di Roma, Roma, Italia
Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA

2004

Bodily Space: New Obsessions in Figurative Sculpture, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA
Disparities & Deformations – Our Grotesque, 5th International Site Santa Fe Biennial, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spagna

2003

Yanomami: Spirit of the Forest, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Parigi, Francia
The Poetics Project: 1977-1997, collaborazione con Mike Kelley, Barbican Centre, Londra, Inghilterra
Fast Forward, Media Art Sammlung Goetz, KZM, Karlsruhe, Germania
Art, Lies, and Videotape: Exposing Performance, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, Inghilterra
Lux, Andrew Jensen Gallery, Auckland, Nuova Zelanda / Mark Hutchins Gallery, Wellington, Nuova Zelanda
Strange but not Stranger, Galleria In Arco, Torino, Italia

2002

The First Decade – Video From the EAI Archives, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
New York Renaissance – Masterworks From the Whitney Museum of American Art, Palazzo Reale, Milano, Italia
Slow Motion, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germania
Hautnah- The Goetz Collection, Museum Villa Stuck, Monaco, Germania
Garten Landschaft OstWestfalenLippe, Gräflicher Kurpark Driburg, Driburg, Germania
Ce Qui Arrive, Fondation Cartier Pour L’Art Contemporain, Parigi, Francia
Video Acts, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, USA / Institute of Contemporary Arts, Londra, Inghilterra
Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA

2001

A Contemporary Cabinet of Curiosities- Selections from the Vicki and Kent Logan Collection, Oliver Art Center, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California, USA
Wechselstrom- Alternating Current, Sammlung Hauser und Wirth, St. Gallen, Svizzera
Black Box, Kunstmuseum Bern, Berna, Svizzera
Televisions, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria

2000

Spectacular Bodies, Hayward Gallery, Londra, Inghilterra

1999

Double Lives, Institut de Cultura de Barcelona, Barcellona, Spagna
Video Cultures, Center for Art and Media, MCA, Karlsruhe, Germania
American Century, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Skin, Deste Foundation Center for Contemporary Art, Atene, Grecia
Triennale Exhibition: Sentiment of the Year 2000, Triennale di Milano, Milano, Italiabr> Millennium My Eye!, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
6th International Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul Foundation for Culture and Arts, Istanbul, Turchia

1998

Video: Tony Oursler, Bruce Naumen, Sam Taylor-Wood, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California, USA
Sao Paulo Biennale XXIV, San Paolo, Brasile

1997

Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Skulptur Projekte, Munster, Germania
The Body, The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Documenta X, collaborazione con Mike Kelley, Kassel, Germania
The Poetics Project: 1977-1997, collaborazione con Mike Kelley, Watari-um, Watari Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Giappone

1996

Altered and Irrational, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Sex & Crime: On Human Relationships, Sprengel Musem, Hannover, Germania
Young Americans: New American Art in the Saatchi Collection, Saatchi Gallery, Londra, Inghilterra
Phantasmagoria, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
10th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
New Persona/New Universe, Biennale di Firenze, Firenze, Italia

1995

ARS 95 Helsinki, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finlandia
Zeichen & Wunder, Kunsthaus Zurigo, Svizzera / Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spagna
Video Spaces: Eight Installations, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, Maison de Lyon, Lione, Francia
Passions Privee, Museé d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Parigi, Francia

1994

Tony Oursler and John Kessler, Salzburg Kunstverein, Salisburgo, Austria

1993

3rd International Biennale in Nagoya-Artec ’93, Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Giappone

1992

Documenta 9, Kassel, Germania

1990

Tendance Multiples, Video des Annees 80, Centre Georges Pompidou, Parigi, Francia

1989

Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Video Sculpture 1963-1989, Kolnischer Kunstverein, Colonia, Germania

1988

The BiNational: American Art of the Late 80s, German Art of the Late 80s, Institute of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA / Stadtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germania / Kunsthalle Bremen, Brema, Germania / Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, Stoccarda, Germania

1987

L’époque, la mode, la morale, la passion, Centre Georges Pompidou, Parigi, Francia
Documenta 8, Kassel, Germania

1981

Beware the Dog!, Mud Club, New York, USA

1980

Tony Oursler and Van Waterford, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, USA

1978

Fifteen Artists: Videotapes, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA