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Biography - Vito Acconci

Born

1940 Bronx, New York. Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY.

Education

1962 Holy Cross College, Worcester, MA, BA
1964 University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, MFA

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2008 “Power Fields: Explorations in the Work of Vito Acconci”, Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
2005 “Self /Sound/City” Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT), Liverpool
“Vito Hannibal Acconci Studio,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona, Spain; Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas, Gran Canary Island, Spain; Stedelijk, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
2004 “Diary of a Body”, Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
“Vito Hannibal Acconci Studio,” Musee des Beaux Artes, Nantes, France; MACBA, Barcelona
2003 “Rehearsals for Architecture,” Kenny Schachter Rove, Perry St., New York, NY.
“Acconci Studio- Slipping into the 21st Century,” Pratt-Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY
2002 “Vito Acconci/Acconci Studio: Acts Of Architecture,” Milwaukee Museum of Art (Traveled to Aspen Art Museum, Miami Museum of Art 2001,Contemporary Art Museum Houston 2001)
2001 “Vito Acconci,” 11 Duke Street, London
“Vito Acconci / Acconci Studio, Architectural Models,” The Institute for the Cooperatic Research, New York and Paris
“Built, Unbuilt, Unbuildable. 1983-2001,” ICAR Foundation, Paris, France
“Para-Cities: Models for Public Spaces,” Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, England
Playing Amongst the Ruins, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2000 “Vito Acconci: Skatepark,” Institute Français d’Architecture, Paris, France
“Vito Acconci: High-rise of Models,” Munich Buildings Department, Munich, Germany
1999 “Vito Acconci: Public Art,” University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA
1997 “Vito Acconci: Old, Refined, and Re-Viewed,” Stroom, The Hague, Netherlands
1996 “Vito Acconci: Living Off the Museum,” Centro Gellego de Art Contemporanea, Santiago de Campostela, Spain
“Vito Acconci: House of Streets, Parks and Plazas”, L’Usine, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
1995 Dia Center for the Arts, New York, NY
Centra Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
1992 “Vito Acconci”, Museo D’Arte Contemporanea Prato, Prato, Italy
“Vito Acconci”, Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Austria
“The City Inside Us”, Mak Österreichisches Museum, Austrian Museum of Applied Arts
“Home Entertainment Centers 1991-1992”, 303 Gallery, New York
1991 “Vito Acconci”, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
“Vito Acconci”, Le Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
1990 “Vito Acconci Retrospective”, Landfall Press, New York
“New Work/Vito Acconci”, James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1989 Barbara Gladstone Gallery, NY
Mai 36 Galerie, Luzern, Switzerland
1988 “Photographic Works from the 60’s”, Brooke Alexander, NY
“Vito Acconci: Photographic Works 1969‑70”, Cirrus, Los Angeles, CA.
Traveled to Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL and Galerie Eric Franck, Geneva, Switzerland
Galeria Il Ponte, Rome, Italy
“Public Places”, The Museum of Modern Art, NY
1987 “Vito Acconci: Domestic Trappings”, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, CA
1985 University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC
“Matrix”, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
“Face of the Earth”, City Hall Park,NY
The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Carpenter + Hochman Gallery, NY
1984 Nature Morte, NY
“Print Survey”, University of Nebraska, Omaha, NE
1983 Miami‑Dade Community College, Miami, FL
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
1982 Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, OR
Institute for Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum, Richmond, VA
San Diego State University, CA
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, MA
1981 Kunstverein Koln, Cologne, Germany
Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
Max Protetch, NY
The Kitchen, NY
1980 The Kitchen, NY
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (retrospective)
Atlanta Art Workers Coalition, Atlanta, GA
1979 Young Hoffman Gallery, NY
Sonnabend Gallery, NY
Rhode Island University, Kingston, RI
“Town Square Projects”, Traveled throughout Holland
Sonnabend, Paris, France
1978 Salvatore Ala, Milan, Italy
The Kitchen, NY
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Minneapolis College of Art and Design, MN
Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland
I.C.C, Antwerp, Belgium
Galerie Nachst Ste. Stephen, Vienna, Austria
Mario Diacono,Bologna, Italy
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (retrospective)
Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
1977 Galerie D, Brussels, Belgium
Modern Art Agency, Naples, Italy
Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Anthology Film Archives, NY
University of Massachusetts at Amherst, MA
The Clocktower, NY
Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
1976 The Kitchen, NY
Wright State University, Dayton, OH
Sonnabend, NY
Anthology Film Archives, NY
1975 Sonnabend, NY
Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, OR
And/Or, Seattle, WA
CARP, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco, CA
James Mayor, London, England
Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY
1974 Allessandra Castelli, Milan, Italy
1973 Modern Art Agency, Naples, Italy
Galerie D, Brussels, Belgium
Sonnabend, NY
Galeria Schema, Florence, Italy
1972 Sonnabend, NY
Sonnabend, Paris, France
L’Attico, Rome, Italy
1971 John Gibson, NY
Protetch‑Rivkin, Washington, D.C
1970 Gain Ground, NY
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax

Selected Group Exhibitions

2007 “Conceptual Paper” Arndt & Partner, Zurich
2006 “Medium Fotografie” Stampa Galerie, Basel
“Dark Places” Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica
2005 “Looking at Words” Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
2004 “Excess: Fashion and Underground in the Eighties” Fondazione Pitti Immagine Discovery, Florence Italy
2003 “The Chairs Project” Emory University, Atlanta, GA
“Interfunktionen” Miro Foundation, Barcelona
“Art, Lies, and Videotape” Tate Liverpool, UK
“Work Ethic” Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Venice Bienalle, Venice Italy
“Video Acts: Selected Single Channel Video Works from the Kramlich Collection” PS1, Long Island City NY
2002 “Plotting: An Exhibition of Artist Studies” Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago
“En Route” Serpentine Gallery, London
“Passenger: the Viewer as Participant” Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art
“(The World May Be) Fantastic” Bienalle of Sydney, Art Gallery of NW, Sydney
“Time Share” Sarah Meltzer Gallery, New York
“Into the Light: The Projected Image in American Art 1964-1977” Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland OH
“Moving Pictures” Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York
“From Pop To Now: Selections from the Sonnabend Collection” The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs NY
Travels to the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
2001 “Brooklyn” Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, FL
“New York ca. 1975” David Zwirner Gallery, New York
“A Changing Group Exhibition” Barbara Gladstone, New York
“Works on Paper from Acconci to Zittel” Victoria Miro Gallery, London
“Playing Amongst the Ruins” Royal College of Art Galleries, London
“Affecting Invention” Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago IL
“Video Time” Museum of Modern Art, New York
“Bluer” Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago IL
“Media_city Seoul” Contemporary Art and Technology Biennale, Seoul Korea
“The City” Nicole Klagsburn Gallery, New York
“Soft White: Lighting, Designs by Artists” University Gallery, Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA
“Making Time: Considering Time as a Material in Contemporary Video and Film” Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Palm Beach, FL
“THE END: An Independent Vision of Contemporary Culture, 1982-2000” Exit Art, New York
“Into the Light: the projected image in American art 1964-1977” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Travelled to Cleveland Museum of Art, OH; ZKM, Karlsruhe Germany
“The Gift: Generous Offerings, Threatening Hospitality” (Independent Curators International, New York, organizers). Travelled to Palazzo delle Papesse Center for Contemporary Art, AZ; Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY; Art Gallery of Hamilton Ontario
2000 “Seeing Time: Selections from the Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection of Media Art” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
“Comfort Zone: Furniture by Artists” Painewebber Art Gallery, New York
1998 “Tracin” Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo
“Out of Actions: between performance and the object, 1949-1979” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
“Sculptors and Their Environments” Pratt Institute, Manhattan Gallery, New York
“Conceptual photography from the 60’s and 70’s” David Zwirner Gallery, New York
“Voices,” Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands. Travelled to Fundacion Joan Miro, Barcelona Le Fresnoy, Studio National des arts contemporains, Tourcoing, France
1997 “Broken Home” Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
“In Site ‘97: New Projects in Public Spaces by Artists of the Americas” San Diego, CA
“The Private Eye in Public Art” NationsBank Plaza, Charlotte, NC
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
“Rooms with a View: Environments for Video” Documenta X, Kassel, Germany
“Heaven” PS1, Long Island City, NY
“Kunst…Arbeit” Südwest LB Forum, from the collection Südwest LB, Stuttgart Germany
1996 “The Art Embodied,” MAC – Galeries Contemporain Musee de Marseilles, France
Bienne di Firenzi, Florence, Italy
“A History of Technological Visions since the 18th Century,” Kunsthalle Wien, Austria
“Sex & Crime. On Human Relationships,” Sprengel Museum, Hannover Germany
“NowHere” Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
“Skin Deep: Works on Image, Body, Text,” Mercer Union, Toronto, Ontario
“Retinal circus,” Art Space, Copenhagen Denmark
“Self Construction,” 20er Haus, Vienna, Austria
“Autoreverse 2” Centre National d’art Contemporain de Grenoble, France
“Passion Privees, “Musee d’Art Moderne, Paris
“From Figure to Object,” Firth Street Gallery, London
“a/drift” Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson” NY
“Biennale d’Art Contemporain de Lyon,” Musee d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, France
“Ripple Across the Water 95” WATARI-UM Museum, Tokyo
“1965-1975: Reconsidering the Object of Art” Museum of Contemporary Art at the Temporary Contemporary, Los Angeles
“Self Construction,” Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna Austria
“Artistes/Architectes” Nouveau Musee/Institut d’Art contemporain de Villeurbanne, France
“Les annees 80-90” Musee d’art moderne de Villeneuve d’Ascq, France
“Landscape: A Concept” California College of Art, Oakland CA
“Collisions” Artekelu, San Sebastian, Spain
American Fine Arts, New York
“Sculpture as Objects: 1915-1995” Curt Marcus, New York
“Foundations: Underwear/ Under Where?” Lawrence Gallery, Rosemont PA
“In a Different Light” University Art Museum, Berkeley CA
ARS 95 Helsinki Museum of Contemporary Art, Finland
1994 Monica Spirith Galerie, Cologne, Germany
“Hors Limites” Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Royal College of Art, London
“The Ossuary” Luhring Augustine, New York
“The Old Glory” Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art
“Tradition and Invention – Contemporary Artists Interpret the Japanese Garden” – Sogetsu Plaza, Sogetsu Kaikan Japan
“Outside the Frame” Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, OH, Traveled to Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island NY
1993 Brooke Alexander Editions, New York
Studio Oggetto, Milan, Italy
“45th Annual Academy Purchase Exhibition”, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
Tyne International, New Castle upon Tyne, England
1992 “15th Anniversary Exhibition”, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Transform”, Elizabeth Kaufman Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
“44th Annual Academy Institute Purchase Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters”, New York
“From Plastic Form to Printer’s Plate: 16 Contemporary Sculptors/Printmakers”, CCAC Oliver Art Center, California College of Arts &
Crafts, Oakland, CA
1991 “Whitney Biennial”, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
Group Show, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
American Fine Arts Company, NY
“Sixties”, John Gibson Gallery, New York
1990 “Politics in Print”, Landfall Press, New York
“Prints Made at Crown Point Press”, Tate Gallery, London
“Recent Print Acquisitions in Series”, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, NY
“God and Country/7th Anniversary Exhibition”, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WASH
1988 “Committed to Print”, Museum of Modern Art, NY
“Installation Series I & II, Brooke Alexander, New York, NY
“The Debt”, Exit Art, New York, NY
“The New Urban Landscape”, World Financial Center, NY
“A Leap into the Void”, Wolff Gallery, New York
“American Rainbow”, Galerie de Poche, Paris, France
1987 “Acid and Light: Contemporary Photo‑Etchings”, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, OH
1987 American Fine Arts Company, NY
“Perverted by Language”, Hillwood Art Gallery, C.W Post Campus of Long Island University, Brookville, NY
“Prints in Parts”, Crown Point Press, NY
1986 “Public and Private: American Prints Today”, The Brooklyn Museum, NY
1985 “A New Beginning”, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
“Works on Paper”, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
“Microcosms”, Galerie Maeght‑Lelong, NY
“The Bronx Celebrates”, Lehman College, NY
“State of the Art, Part II”, Twining Gallery, NY
“From Crown Point Press”, Georgia State University Gallery Atlanta, GA
1984 “Furniture and Furnishings”, Museum of Art, R.I.S.D, Providence, RI.
Traveled throughout the United States
“Content: Contemporary Focus”, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
“Art as Social Conscience”, Bard College, Annandale‑on‑Hudson, NY
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME
“Staged/Stages”, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, NY
“Drawings by Sculptors: Two Decades of Non‑Objective Art in the
SeagramsCollection”,TheMontreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada. Traveled throughout Canada.
“Luminous Images”, Steklijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland
“Soul Catchers”, Stellweg Seguy Gallery, NY
“The Maximal Implications of the Minimal Line”, Bard College, Annandale‑on‑Hudson, NY
“Armed”, Interim Art, London, England
“Artists’ Weapons”, Ted Greenwald Gallery, NY
1983 “Bridges”, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
Art Park, Lewiston, NY
“Urban Site”, 80 Langton Street, San Francisco, CA
“When Words Become Works”, Minneapolis College of Art and Walker Art Center, MN
“Urban Pulses:The Artist and the City”, Pittsburgh Plan for Art, PA
Paula Cooper Gallery, NY
“1984‑ A Preview”, Ronald Feldman Gallery, NY
Robert Friedus Gallery, NY
“Minimalism to Expressionism”, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
1982 “Prefiguration and Figuration of Catastrophe”, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Documenta VIII, Kassel, Germany
“Illegal America”, Franklin Furnace, NY
“Attitude/Concept/Image: A Selection from 20 Years of Visual Arts”, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland
1981 Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
“Machineworks”,Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
“Projects at the Precinct”, Creative Time, NY
“The Prison Show”, Whitney Museum Downtown, NY
“Metaphor”, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C
“Three Manifestations”, Lerner Heller Gallery, NY
1980 “Three Installations”, Sonnabend Gallery, NY
1979 “A Great Big Drawing Show”, P.S 1, Long Island City, NY
“Lourness Interdisciplinaires sur l’Art Corporeal et les Performances”, Centre Georges Pompidou,
Paris, France
“Concept,Narrative, Document”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
“Sound”, P.S 1, Long Island City, NY
“The Artist: Hermit? Investigator? Social Worker?”, Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany
1978 Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
“The Sense of the Self”, Independent Curators Inc, Washington, D.C
“Three Installations”, Tampa Bay Art Center, FL
“Made by Sculptors”, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland
“Walls”, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH
“Yesterday and After”, Museum of Fine Arts,Montreal, Canada
Venice Biennale
“Festival of Two Worlds”, Spoleto, Italy
1977 “Improbable Furniture”, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
“Filmex”, Los Angeles, CA
“Time”, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
“Art of the 70’s”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
“Three Installations”, Sonnabend Gallery, NY
“American Art in Belgian Collections”, Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium
1976 “72nd American Exhibition”, Art Institute of Chicago,IL
“Identite/Identifications”, CAPC, Bordeaux, France
Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
“In Transit”,Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, CA
“Video Art,An Overview”,Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
“Language and Structure in North America”, Kensington Art Center, Toronto, Canada
1975 “Video Art”, Museum of Modern Art, NY
“Lives”, Fine Arts Building, NY
“Autogeography”, Whitney Museum Downtown, NY
“Body Art”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
“VideoArt”,Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
1974 “Art Now”, Washington, D.C
“71st American Exhibition”, Art Institute of Chicago, IL
“Projekt 74”, Koln, Germany
“Eight Contemporary Artists”, Museum of Modern Art, NY
1973 “Recent Drawing”, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
“Some Recent American Art”,Museum of Modern Art sponsored show traveling throughout Australia
“Contemporanea”, Rome, Italy
1972 “Notes and Scores for Sounds”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
“Festival of Two Worlds”, Spoleto, Italy
“Documenta V”, Kassel, Germany
“Making Megalopolis Matter”,New York Cultural Center, NY
1971 “ArtSystems”,Museum of Modern Art,Buenos Aires,Argentina
“Projects‑Pier 17”, Museum of Modern Art, NY
“The Boardwalk Show”, Convention Hall, Atlantic City, NJ
“Artists Videotapes”, Finch College, NY
1970 “995,000”, Vancouver, Canada
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
“Information”, Museum of Modern Art, NY
“Software”, Jewish Museum, NY
“Recorded Activities”, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
1969 “Performance”, Hunter College, NY
“Coulisse”, Paula Cooper Gallery, NY
“Language III”, Dwan Gallery, NY.op
“Street Works”, Architectural League of NY
“55,087”, Seattle Art Gallery, WA
1968 “Events”, Central Park. NY
“Tiny Events”, Longview Country Club, Long Island, NY

Selected Public Projects & Architecture

2006 Facade, W8th Street Subway Station, Coney Island, NY
2004 Kenny Schachter Gallery Booth, Armory Art Fair, NY; Art Basel Miami, FL
Roof Like A Liquid Flung Over the Plaza, Performing Arts Center, Memphis TN
2003 Mur Island (Floating café, theater & playground), Graz, Austria
United Bamboo Clothing Store, Tokyo
Ceiling/Wall System for Projections, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, NY
Kenny Schachter Gallery Booth, Armory Art Fair, NY
2002 Wall-Slide (Wall & seating system), 161st St. Subway Station, Bronx NY
Kenny Schachter’s contTEMPorary (Adjustable gallery), New York NY
2001 Möbius Bench (Outdoor seating), Fukuroi City, Japan
Light-Beams for the Sky of a Transfer Corridor (Lighting & telephone booths),
San Francisco Airport, CA
2000 Screens for a Walkway Between Buildings & Buses & Cars (Entrance passageway), Shibuya Station, Tokyo, Japan
Courtyard In The Wind (Moving park), Buildings Department Administration Building, Munich, Germany
1999 Rooms From Below (Temporary store windows, Saks Fifth Avenue, New York, NY
A City That Rides the Garbage Dump (Temporary billboard), Bavel Garbage Dump, Breda, The Netherlands
1998 Flying Floors For The Main Ticketing Pavilion (Indoor Park for Departures Terminal), Philadelphia Airport, PA
Walkways Through The Wall (Exchangeable plaza and lobby, Midwest Convention Center, Milwaukee, WI
1997 Loloma Station (Transportation Center), Scottsdale, AZ (Collaboration with Douglas Sydnor & Angela Dye)
Park in the Water (Riverside Park), The Hague, The Netherlands
House up a Building, (Portable housing, temporary installation), Santiago de Campostela, Spain
Park up a Building (Portable park, temporary installation), Santiago de Campostela, Spain
High Rise of Trees (Urban Park, temporary), Atlanta, GA, 1995
Extra Spheres For Klapper Hall (Plaza), Queens College, NY
School On The Ground (Courtyard), P.S. 3, Bronx, NY
1994 Personal Island (1992) (Mobile Island), Zwolle, Netherlands
Bench / Bollard for Tachikawa City, Japan
Ribbon Pavement/Bench for Embarcadero Promenade, San Francisco, CA (Collaboration with Stanley Saitowitz & Barbara Stauffacher Solomon)
Personal River (Riverside park, temporary, Newcastle, UK
Renovation of Storefront for Art & Architecture, New York, NY, (Collaboration with Steven Holl)
1992 Floor Clock (1989) (Clock & Seating), Chicago Dock & Canal, Chicago, IL
Wall Of Ground (Outdoor/indoor wall & seating), Arvada Center for Art and Humanities, Arvada,CO
1991 Land of Boats (Playground), St. Aubin Park, Detroit, MI
Mobile Linear City (Mobile housing unit), Various locations
1988 Birth of the Car / Birth of the Boat (Fountain, temporary), Three Rivers Festival, Pittsburgh, PA
Bad Dream House II (Model house), John Wieland Homes, Atlanta, GA
House of Cars II (Urban park), Greenville, OH
Face of the Earth II (Miniature park), C.W. Post College, NY
Face of the Earth III (Miniature park), Laumeier Park, St. Louis, MO
Garden with Fountain (Fountain/Planter, temporary), World Financial Center, NY
Garden of Columns (Indoor town square), Coca Cola USA, Atlanta, GA
1986 House on the Ground (Miniature plaza, temporary), New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
Palladium Underground (Garden of Bodies) (Basement Lounge), The Palladium, New York, NY
1985 House of Used Parts (Portable model house, temporary installation), Harvard University, Cambridge, MA,
Bodies in the Park (Park seating, temporary)), Park Lullin, Geneva, Switzerland
1984 Bad Dream House (Model house, temporary installation), MIT, Cambridge, MA
Face of the Earth (Miniature park, temporary installation, Springfield, IL
1983 Way Station (Rest area, no longer extant), Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT
Sub-Urb (Underground rest area, temporary)), Art Park, Lewiston, NY
See-Saw Bridge (Portable playground, temporary installation), Pratt University, Brooklyn, NY
House of Cars (Urban park, temporary), Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA

Selected Artist Films

1974 “My Word, Color”, B/W, 90 min.
1972 “Hand to Hand, Face to Face”, 25 min. B/W
1971 “Conversations”, B/W, 72 min.
“Pick ups”, Color 15 min.
“Watch”, B/W, 9 min.
“Waterways”, Color, 6 min.
“Zone”, Color, 15 min.
1970 “Applications”, Color, 8 min
“Open Close”, Color, 6 min.
“Openings”, Color, 14 min.
“Rubbings”, Color, 8 min.
“See Through”, Color, 5 min.
“Three Adaptation Studies”, B/W, 9 min.
“Three Relationship Studies”, Color, 9 min.
“Two Cover Studies”, Color, 6 min.
“Two Takes”, Color, 6 min.
1969 “Three Frame Studies”, B/W, 9 min.

Selected Artist Videotapes

1977 “The Red Tapes”, 150 min., Color
1974 “Face of the Earth”, Color, 20 min.
“Open Book”, Color, 20 min.
“Turn On”, 20 min.
1973 “Command Performance”, B/W, 50 min.
“Full Circle”, B/W, 30 min.
“Stages”, B/W, 30 min.
“Theme Song”, B/W, 30 min.
“Walk Over”, B/W, 30 min.
1972 “Face Off”, B/W, 30 min.
“Undertone”, B/W, 30 min.
1971 “Association Area”, B/W, 60 min.
“Centers”, B/W, 20 min.
“Focal Point”, B/w, 30 min.
“Pryings”, B/W, 20 min.
“Pull”, B/W, 30 min.
“Remote Control”, B/W, 2 60. min tapes to be played simultaneously
1970 “Corrections”, B/W, 20 min.

Selected Articles and Reviews

2005 Lange, Christy, “Bound to Fail” Tate Etc., Summer 2005 pp.31
Lauf, Cornelia “Sound Art Museum Opens in Rome” Art in America, May 2005, pp 53-57
Patrick, Kieth, “Vito Acconci: MACBA” Flash Art Mar/Apr 2005 pp. 124
Taylor, Sue “A New Catholic Iconography?”Art in America Feb 2005, pp. 39
“Critics Top Picks for 2003-2004” Art in America, Feb 2005 pp. 33-34
2004 Diaz, Eva “Vito Acconci at Barbara Gladstone” Time Out New York. 04/29/04 pp.74
Saltz, Jerry “Body Heat” The Village Voice 04/23/04
Ryan, Zoe “Vito Acconci” Contemporary #60 pp.24-29
Jones, Amelia “Televisual Flesh: Activating Otherness in New Media Art” Parachute, Issue 13, pp. 70-91
Dailey, Meghan. “The open-plan man.” ArtReview. International Edition V3N2 pp. 76- 77.
Schwabsky, Barry, “Vito Acconci, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona” Artforum January 2004 pg. 74 (Preview)
2003 Vidal, Carlos, “Narcissism: The architecture of the body.” Exit Magazine.Mayo/Junio/Julio/ 2003 pg 132.
Morley, C.B. “Arts in the Public Eye.” The Bronx Times, v. 9 no. 47 November 20, 2003
2002 Cassina, Beatrice, Teama Celeste, December 2002 Boxer, Sarah, “Poet Turned Antic Architect Keeps Exploring Inner Space, New York Times, September 12 th, 2002
Joselit, David, “Tale of the Tape”, Artforum, May 2002, p.152-155, 196
Wilson, Michael, “Into the Light,” Frieze, March 2002
Golonu, Berin, “Utopia Now!” Frieze, March 2002
Betrakteren som deltaker, passasjer: the viewer as participant, astrup fearnley museet for moderne kunst, January 2002, p.33
Acconci Survey,” Flash Art, January February 2002, p.39
Turner, Elisa, “Vito, veni, vidi, vici,” The Herald, Sunday, January 6, 2002
Acconci, Vito & Schachter, Kenny, “Preliminary Proposal for Kenny Schachter’s Gallery,” Zing Magazine, Issue 16, Winter 2002
Princenthal, Nancy, “Illuminations For a Dark Place,” Art in America, March 2002
2001 “Acts of Architecture,” Coral Gables Gazette, December 13-19, 2001
“Miami Art Museum to display works by Acconci next,” Miami Today, December 13, 2001
Feijoo, Keny, “Art Lovers find a full palette,” The Herald, December 14, 2001
Vito Acconci: Acts of Architecture,” Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, ArtForum
Newhall, Edith, “La Dolce Vito,” New York, January 22, 2001
Sarah Schmerler, “Flashing into the shadows”, Time Out New York, January 11-18
“Aspen Art Museum, Tema Celeste, November-December 2001
“Repeat Performance, Flash Art, November-December 2001, p. 43
2000 Schwabsky, Barry, “Media city Seoul 2000”, November 2000, Artforum
“Vito Acconci”, Summer 2000, Modern Paintings

Selected Awards and Fellowships

2002 Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Pratt Institute
2002 Robert Gwathmey Chair, Cooper Union, New York NY
2001 Nancy Graves Grant for Visual Artists
2001 ID Magazine Award for Excellence in Design
2000 Honorary Doctorate of Fine Arts, Maine College of Art
2000 New York Foundation for the Arts, Architecture Fellowship
1999 ID Magazine Award for Excellence in Design
1999 AIA New York Chapter Special Citation
1999 New York City Art Commission Award for Excellence in Design
1998 ID Magazine Award for Excellence in Design
1997 Sculpture Center Award for Lifetime Achievement
1984 NEA Fellowship
1980 NEA Fellowship
1980 Skowhegan Award
1979 Guggenheim Fellowship
1977 New York State Council on the Arts
1976 NEA Fellowship

Museum Collections (Sculpture)

Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA

Prints

The Museum of Modern Art, NY
Smith College Art Museum, Northampton, MA
Stadlkische Museem Kulturbestitz, Berlin, Germany