Crown Point Press

Biography - Tom Marioni

Born

1937 Cincinnati, Ohio. Lives in San Francisco, CA

Education

1955-1959 Cincinnati Art Academy

Selected One-person Exhibitions

2007 “Out-of-Body Free-Hand Circles,” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
“Out of Body Action Drawings” East Tennessee State University, Slocumb Galleries
2006 “Tom Marioni: Beer, Art, and Philosophy-the Exhibition”
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
2004 “Golden Rectangle” Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
2003 Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York NY
2001 “On line project,” Silent Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000 Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York, NY
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
1999 Y-1 Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden. “Beer with friends etc” 1970
Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA “Trees and Birds: a drawing retrospective” 1969-1999
Cincinnati Art Academy, Cincinnati, OH
1998 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1996 Refusalon, San Francisco, CA (Conceptual Works 1969-1973)
“Elegant Solutions”, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
1994 Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York, NY (Shadowgrams)
1993 Seascapes, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
“Landscapes,” Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
“Photograms,” Robert Koch Gallery, San Francisco, CA
University of Nevada, Reno, NV
1990 Tom Marioni, Fuller Gross, San Francisco, CA
“Starting Over: the Artist’s Studio,” Capp Street Project, San Francisco, CA
1989 Fuller Gross, San Francisco, CA
1988 “Astronomy Piece,” Artspace Annex, San Francisco, CA
Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York, NY
1987 Margarete Roeder Fine Arts, NY
“The Italians, the Germans, the Japanese,” Museo Italo Americano, San Francisco, CA
Yoh Art Gallery, Osaka, Japan
1986 “The Back Wall of MOCA,” New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
Kuhlenschmidt/Simon, Los Angeles, CA
1985 “The Marriage of Art and Music for L.A.,” Otis Art Institute of
Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, CA
Eaton/Shoen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1984 Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
“Cutting the Mustard,” A La Limit, Dijon, France
1981 “The Past,” Site, Inc., San Francisco, CA
1980 Felix Handschin Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
1979 “The Museum of Conceptual Art at the San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art,” San Francisco, CA
“The Power of Suggestion,” Modern Art Gallery, Vienna, Austria
“A Penny from Heaven,” Conchise Fine Arts Center, Bisbee, AZ
1977 “The Sound of Flight” M. H. deYoung Museum of Art, San Francisco,CA
1975 “Thinking Out Loud,” Galleria Foksal, Warsaw, Poland
1972 Richard DeMarco Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
1970 The Oakland Museum, CA
1968 Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA
1963 Bradley Memorial Museum of Art, Columbus, GA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2005 “Lyon Biennale d’art contemporain, Lyon France
“Sounds Like Drawing” The Drawing Room, London England
2004 “Photo Image in American Prints” Legion of Honor Museum, San Francisco, CA
2000 “Replay: The Beginning of Media Art in Austria” Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria
“Reenactment/Rapprochement” Chester Springs Studio, Chester Springs, PA
“Made in California” LACMA, Los Angeles CA
“Drawings of Choice” Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, Ill
“Bay Area Conceptual art of the 70’s” Pasadins Art Museum, Pasadena CA
“Extra Art” California College of Arts, San Francisco CA
“Walk Ways” Independent Curators International, New York
“Work Ethic” Baltimore Museum of Art, traveled to Wexner Center, Columbus OH
“Unexpected Dimensions” Works from the Lewitt Collection, Wesleyan University, Middleton CT
1999 “SOUND” Refusalon, San Francisco, CA
“Museum Pieces” M.H. deYoung Museum, San Francisco, CA
“Die Kunst Der Linie” Landesmusem, Linz, Austria
1998 “Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949-1979,” Geffen Contemporary, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Traveled to Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna; Museum d’art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan; Centre George Pompidou, Paris; Dijon/Consortium, Dijon, France
1996 Marks, Metaphor and Magic: New Editions by Pat Steir, Tom Marioni and William T. Wiley, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
“The Art Embodies,” Musees de Marseille, France
1995 Index Gallery, Osaka, Japan. Benefit for the Kobe earthquake victims
“Endurance, EXITART,” New York City, NY 1965-1975 “Reconsidering the Object of Art,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
1994 “Lasting Concepts,” Artists Space, NY
“Solid Concept 3,” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA
“Conceptual Art from the Bay Area,” Artists Space, New York City, NY (Tom Marioni and David Ireland installations)
Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA (New Photogravures)
1993 “Rolywholyover: A Circus,” LAMOCA, Guggenheim SoHo, NYC, Houston. Philadelphia, and Tokyo Museums (traveling show organized by John Cage)
1992 “From Plastic Form to Printer’s Plate,” Oliver Art Center, California
College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, CA
“John Cage and Tom Marioni: Landscapes,” Crown Point Press, NY, San Francisco
Montgomery Glasoe Fine Art, Minneapolis, MN
John Cage Memorial Exhibition, Jernigan-Wicker Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
1991 “Prints by Sculptors,” Crown Point Press, NY
1990 In Site, Gallery, Univ. Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, NY
1989 “Forty Years of California Assemblage,” University of California, LA, Wight Art Gallery
“Bay Area Conceptualism: 2 Generations,” Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY
1988 “Solid Concept,” Gallery Paule Anglim
1987 “Works on Paper: Third Annual Master Print Exhibition,” Lizardi/Harp
Gallery, Pasadena, CA
“Object Lesson,” Banff Center, Alberta, Canada
“For 25 Years: Crown Point Press,” Museum of Modern Art, NY
1986 “Inspired by Leonardo,” San Francisco Art Institute, CA
“Under One Roof,” Gallery Route One, Pt. Reyes Station, CA
1985 “Alles und Noch Viel Mehr (All and Even More),” Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland
“From Sound to Image,” Stuttgart Straatsgalerie, Germany
“Art in the San Francisco Bay Area: 1945-1980,” Oakland Museum, CA
“The Marriage of Art and Music for L.A.,” Otis Art Institute of the Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, CA (installation for “New Music America Festival”)
1984 “The Sound Art Show,” The Sculpture Center, New York, NY
“Awards in Visual Arts,” San Antonio Art Museum, San Antonio, TX; Lock Haven Art Center, Orlando, FL
1983 “Art Against War,” San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
“In Other Words,” Franklin Furnace, New York, NY
1982 “Twenty Americans,” Biennial II, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
CA
“100 Years of California Sculpture,” Oakland Museum, CA
“Live to Air,” Tate Gallery, London, England
“Sonorita Propettiche,” Sound Art, Rimini, Italy
“Sound,” Los Angeles Insititute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
“Elegant Miniatures from San Francisco,” Belca House, Kyoto, Japan
1980 “For Eyes and Ears,” Academy der Kunst, Berlin, Germany. Traveled to:
ACR Museum of Modern Art, Paris, France
“Music/Sound/Language/Theater,” Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland
“Word of Mouth,” Island of Ponape, Micronesia. Artist’s conference
organized by Crown Point Press, Oakland, CA
1979 “Art as Photography,” Salzburger Kunstverein, Austria
“Space/Time/Sound,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
1975 “Kontra punkt,” Fiuro Wystaw Artyslyczynch, Warsaw, Poland
1972 “The San Francisco Performance,” Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport
Beach, CA
“Notes and Scores for Sounds,” Mills College Art Gallery, Oakland, CA
1971 “Fish, Fox, Kos,” DeSaisset Museum, University of Santa Clara, CA
1970 “Sound Sculpture As,” Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco, CA

Performances

2005 “Beer with Friends etc.” Lyon, France Biennale
2004 “Buddhist Band” Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco
2000 “Studio” Chester Springs Center for Visual Art, PA
“Beer Drinking Sonata” Acustica International, Goethe Institute, San Francisco CA
1998 “Studio Berkeley 1980,” Berkeley Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley, CA
A Social Action, 1978” Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna Austria
1997 “The Art Orchestra,” California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
1996 “Acoustic Festival,” WDR Radio, Cologne, Germany
1986 “Double Portrait, with Shoichi Ida,” The American Center, Kyoto, Japan
1985 Commencement Speaker, Cincinnati Art Academy, Cincinnati, OH
1984 Consortium, Dijon, France
1982 “Studio Kyoto,” Ohara Shinto Shrine, Kyoto, Japan
Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany
Kolnishcer Kunstverein, Koln, Germany
University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, WI
“Social Action,” Intersection Theater, Performance Festival, San Francisco, CA University of California, San Diego
1981 “Studio Chicago,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
International Performance Festival, Lyon, France
“Studio,” teahouse of the Saito Family, Kamakura, Japan
Performance Festival, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, West Germany
1980 “Studio Bern,” Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland
“Studio Basel,” Kunsthalle Museum, Basel, Switzerland
“Bending Light,” Berner Gallery, Bern Switzerland
“Atelier,” Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France
“Studio Berkeley,” University Art Museum, UC Berkeley, CA
“Spirit in the Dark,” Crown Point Press, Oakland, CA
“Studio Berlin,” Akademie der Kunst, Berlin, West Germany
“Word of Mouth,” conference, Ponape Island, Pacific Ocean
1979 “A Social Action,” Danny Keller Gallerie, Munich, Germany
“Talking Drumming,” Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, CA
“Freibier (Free Beer),” Vienna Performance Biennial, Vienna, Austria
“Action,” Krinzinger Gallery, Innsbruck, Austria
“Liberating Light and Sound,” Pellegrino Gallery, Bologna, Italy
“A Theatrical Action to Defend Non-Theatrical Principles,” Santa Barbara Museum of Art, CA
1978 “Now We’ll Have a Party,” International Performance Festival, Vienna, Austria
Artist-in-residence, ZBS Media, New York State
“Predictions,” Alternative Art Space Conference, Los Angeles, CA
1977 “Yellow is the Color of the Intellect,” Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, OR
“The Sound of Flight,” M.H. deYoung Museum of Art, San Francisco,CA
1976 “Bird in Space: A Psychic Sculpture,” And/Or Gallery, Seattle, WA
1975 “East-West,” with Peter Stembera, Prague, Czechoslovakia
“Duologue with Terry Fox,” CARP, Los Angeles, CA
“Morning Action,” Salon of the Museum of Modern Art, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
“Lecture/Reception/Action,” Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN
“Thinking Out Loud,” Galerie Foksal, Warsaw, Poland
1974 “A Sculpture in 2/3 Time,” Student Cultural Center, Belgrade, Yugoslavia
“One-Minute Demonstration,” Gallery of Contemporary Art, Zagreb, Yugoslavia
“Drum Lecture,” 63 Bluxome Street, San Francisco, CA
“The Sun’s Reception,” residence of David and Mary Robinson, Sausalito, CA
1973 “A Talk,” PROJECT, Inc., Cambridge, MA
MOCA Ensemble, St. Mary’s Cathedral, Edinburgh Festival, London, England
Concert, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England
Concert, San Francisco MOMA, San Francisco, CA
“Demonstration,” University Art Museum, UC Berkeley, CA
Radio Performance, KPFA, Berkeley, CA
1972 “Sunday Scottish Landscape,” Richard DeMarco Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
“Sound Actions,” Whitechapel Gallery, London, England
“The Creation: A Seven Day Performance,” Reese Palley Gallery, San Francisco
1971 “Chain Reaction,” de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara, CA
“Identity Transfer,” Berkeley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1970 “Sound Sculpture As,” Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco, CA
1969 “One Second Sculpture,” San Francisco, CA
“Abstract Expressionist Performance Sculpture,” San Francisco, CA
1966 Worked in night club, sketching nude model, San Francisco, CA

Related Professional Activities

2005 Produced “A Motion Picture”, video movie with 18 San Francisco Artists
2000 Founder, Society of Independent Artists, San Francisco
1996 Founder, The Art Orchestra, San Francisco CA
1992 Consultant for public art, Embarcadero project, City of San Francisco, CA
1990 Artist-in-Residence, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA
Artist-in-Residence, The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA
1981 Artist-in-Residence, Djerassi Foundation, Woodside, CA
1975-1982 Editor/Designer, Vision, art journal published by Crown Point Press, Oakland, CA
1970-1984 Founding Director, Museum of Conceptual Art (MOCA), San Francisco, CA
1968-1971 Curator of Art, Richmond Art Center, Richmond, CA

Publications

2003 Beer, Art, and Philosophy: A Memoir. The Act of Drinking Beer with Friends Is the Highest Form of Art
2000 Conceptual Writings on Art: 1969-1999
1999 Trees and Birds: 1969-1999
1999 Sculpture and Installations: 1969-1997

Awards, Grants, and Fellowships

1986 Asian Cultural Council Travel Grant to Japan
1984 National Endowment for the Arts Grant in Sculpture
1981 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship in Conceptual Art
1980 National Endowment for the Arts Grant in Sculpture
1976 National Endowment for the Arts Grant in Sculpture

Commissions

1991 2-page project, Contemporanea, (magazine) January 1991, New York, NY
1990 The Yellow Sound for Kandinsky, West Deutscher Rundfunk (German Radio), Koln, West Germany
1988 Observatory Bird, Public Sculpture, Marin County Civic Center, San Rafael, CA
Cover Design. Shift #3, publisher: Artspace, San Francisco, CA, 1988
1976 San Francisco Magazine, May 1976, p. 42.

Bibliography

Review. Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, September 17, 1993.
Review. Marcia Tanner, Artnews, April 1993.
“In Process.” (review) Artweek, 4 March 1993
“Playing with chance and process.” (review) David Bonetti, San Francisco Examiner, 17 February 1993.
Review. Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, 14 February 1993.
Review. Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, 16 June 1990.
“Art through the eyes of the beer glass.” (review) David Bonetti, San Francisco Examiner, 8 June 1990.
“Significant Engagement” (review) Terri Cohn, Art Week, 7 June 1990
“Conceptual Cafe” Ann Powers, SF Weekly, 2 May 1990
“Shadow Boxes Hold Wit, Art Homages.” (review) Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 Feb. 1990
Review. Mark Levy, Art International, Spring 1989, p. 66
Art and Antiques, April 1989, p. 49
Review. Ken Johnson, Art in America, February 1989
Review. Robert Atkinks, Village Voice, October 1988
Interview. Nancy Frank, SOMA, July 1988, p. 8.
Review. Leslie Dawn, Vanguard, 12/87-1/88.
Review. Kenneth Baker, SF Chronicle, 18 February 1987.
Review. Charles Shere, The Tribune, 19 February 1987, Oakland CA.
Review. Mark Levy, Art in America, June 1987.
Review. Kristine McKenna, Los Angeles Times, August 1986
Review. David Winter, Artnews, April 1986.
Review. Bill Berkson, Artforum, May 1986.
Interview. Jamie Brunson, Expo-see, Spring 1986, #19, San Francisco CA.
Review. Will Torphy, Artweek, 25 January 1986.
Review. Charles Shere, The Tribune, 14 January 1986.
Review. Kenneth Baker, San Francisco Chronicle, 4 January 1986.
“Interview # 32.” Barbara Smith, High Performance, November 1985.
Art in the San Francisco Bay Area. 1945-1980. Thomas Albright, University of California Press. 1985
“Establishing an Object’s Worth.” (review) Christopher French, Artweek, 28 Jan 1984
“Museums by Artists” Art Metropole, 1983, Toronto, Canada.
“The Merging of Visual Arts with the Theater.” (review) Thomas Albright, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 August 1982.
Marioni a Master Illusionist’s Act. (Review) Thomas Albright, San Francisco Chronicle, 17 August 1982.
“Sculpture as the Mirror of Life.” (Review: “Twenty Americans, Sculpture”, 1982, SF Museum of Modern Art.), Frank Cebulski, Artweek, 14 Aug 1982
Review. Kunstmuseum Bern performance. Der Bund, Bern Switzerland, 6 June 1980
Review. Alan G. Artner, The Chicago Tribune, Jan. 23, 1981
Performance Anthology-California Performance Art. 1980, Contemporary Arts Press, San Francisco CA.
“Performing with Sound” (review: J.& N. Stodde, Terry Fox & Tom Marioni) Artweek, August 11 1979
“Denk-Bilder” von Walter Beyer, Observer, 13 June 1979, Vienna Austria.
Review. (Galerie Dany Keller) Suddentsee Zeitung, 23 June 1979.
“Art to Make One Foam at the Mouth.” Alfred Frankenstein, San Francisco Chronicle, 22 May 1979.
“The Sound of Tooting My Own Horn” (Sound Sculpture) Journal LAICA, Mar/Apr 1979, #22 p. 63-64.
“Toward a History of California Performance: Part One.” Moria Roth, Arts, February, 1978
“An Artist’s Right to Remain Silent.” Thomas Albright, San Francisco Chronicle, 29 Sept. 1977.
“Tom Marioni and the Sound of Flight.” Bill Kleb, Artweek, 4 June 1977, p. 7
Report from San Francisco. Carter Ratcliff, Art in America, May/June 1977.
“Mellow Marioni Still off the Wall.” (review) Thomas Albright, San Francisco Chronicle, 30 April 1977.
“Deja Vu.” San Francisco Magazine, December 1976, p.55
“The Two Faces of California” Newsweek, 6 September 1976, p. 55.
Interview. La Mammelle, Spring 1976, San Francisco CA.
“Radical Rhetoric in New Journals,” review, (VISION), Thomas Albright, San Francisco Chronicle Jan. 1976
“South of the Slot” (group of performances at Bluxome St.), Phil Linhares, Artweek, 11 Jan. 1975
The Painted Word. Tom Wolfe. 1975, p. 107-08.
Il Corpo Come Linvaggio (Body Art) 1974, Milan, Italy.
“Music for the Avant Garde>” Source, # 11, 1974.
“Kaliforna ‘Actionismus.’ der Lowe #1, 1074, Bern, Switzerland.
Review. Artforum, June 1974, p. 78.
“The Arts in America.” Newsweek, 24 December 1973.
“Four Museums” Artforum, October 1973, p. 82-84.
Revista Domencial de “El Nacional,” Caracas, 5 August 1973
“Activity as Sculpture,” (interview Art and Artists, August 1973, London)
“The Arena- was it art?” Thomas Albright, San Francisco Chronicle, 6 July 1973, San Francisco CA
Moment #3 & #4, 1973, Student Culture Center, Belgrade Yugoslavia.
Interview. Studio International, June 1972
“Man of Sound Vision.” The Guardian, 5 June 1972, Edinbugh, Scotland.
Cover story. Pacific Sun, 7-13 July 1971, San Raphael CA.

Public Collections

Oakland Museum
Santa Barbara Museum of Art
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Regional Collections, Dijon, France
Museum of Modern Art, New York City.
Stadtische Kunsthalle, Mannheim Germany
de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara Ca
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York City New York
Bank of America, San Francisco CA
UC Med Center, San Francisco
M.H. deYoung Memorial Museum, San Francisco CA
Mills College Art Museum, Oakland CA
California State University, Los Angeles, CA
Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany