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Biography - John Baldessari

Born

1931 National City, CA. Currently lives and works in Santa Monica, CA.

Education

1949-53 San Diego State College, California, B.A.
1954-55 University of California, Berkeley
1955 University of California, Los Angeles
1955-57 San Diego State College, California, M.A.
1958 Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles
1959 Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles

Honorary Degrees

2000 Doctor of Fine Arts, Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design of the New School of Social Research.
2003 Honorary Ph.D., San Diego State University, San Diego, California

Awards

1999 Spectrum-International Award for Photography of the Foundation of Lower Saxony, Germany College Art Associations Lifetime Achievement Award.
1997 Governor’s Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts, California.
1996 Oscar Kokoschka Prize, Austria.
1986 Guggenheim Award

Selected One Person Exhibitions

1960 La Jolla Museum of Art, La Jolla, CA
1962 “John Baldessari: X Exhibition,” Art Works Galleries, San Diego, CA
Southwestern College, Chula Vista, CA
1964 Southwestern College, Chula Vista, CA
1966 “Fragments,” La Jolla Museum of Art, La Jolla, CA
1968 “Pure Beauty,” Molly Barnes Gallery, Los Angeles
1970 Eugenia Butler Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“John Baldessari: Recent Paintings,” Richard Feigen Gallery, New York
1971 “I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art,” Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
“Art Disasters,” Art & Project, Amsterdam, Netherlands
“Ingres and Other Parables,” Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf, Germany
1972 “John Baldessari: 1. Choosing: Mushrooms. 2. Xylophone,” Galerie MTL, Brussels, Belgium
“Video Tapes,” Jack Wendler Gallery, London, England
“John Baldessari: Choosing Carrots; Asparagus,” Art & Project, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
Galerie Franco Tosselli, Milan, Italy
1973 Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY
Galerie Sonnabend, Paris, France
Galeria Schema, Florence, Italy
Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf, Germany
1974 Galeria Toselli, Milan, Italy
Jack Wendler Gallery, London, England
Art & Project/Galerie MTL, Antwerp, Belgium
Galerie Skulima, Berlin, Germany
1975 “The Italian Tape,” The Kitchen, New York, NY
Southwestern College, Chula Vista, CA
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY
“John Baldessari: Recent Work,” Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Galerie Sonnabend, Paris, France
“Affectionate Yellow/Giallo Affezionato, Morbid Red/Rosso Morboso,
Vindictive Blue/Azzurro Vendicativo,” Lucio Amelio, Naples, Italy
Felix Handschin Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
Samangallery, Genoa, Italy
1976 “John Baldessari: Recent Work,” Gallery of Fine Art, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH; Emily H. Davis Art Gallery, University of Akron, Akron, OH; George
Paton Gallery, Melbourne University Union, University of Melbourne, Victoria,
Australia; Experimental Art Foundation, St. Peter’s, Adelaide, Australia; Undercroft
Gallery, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia; Institute of Modern Art,
Brisbane, Australia; Institute of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
“John Baldessari: Recent Work,” James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1977 “Photographic Works,” Robert Self Gallery, London, England
Julian Pretto Gallery, New York, NY
“John Baldessari/Matrix 32,” Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
“New American Filmmakers Series/Baldessari: New Films,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Galeria Massimo Valsecchi, Milan, Italy
1978 “Blasted Allegories,” Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, OR
“Films,” Artists Space, New York, NY
“Blasted Allegories,” Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
1980 Galleria Locus Solus, Genoa, Italy
“Oasis: John Baldessari, Title,” Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art Downtown, Los Angeles, CA
“Fugitive Essays,” Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY
Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
1981 “John Baldessari: Work 1966-1980,” The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New
York, NY; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, TX
“Shape Derived from Subject (Snake): Used as a Framing Device to Produce New
Photographs,” CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Rüdiger Schöttle Gallery, Munich,
Germany; Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY
“John Baldessari: Selected Works,” Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
“John Baldessari: Werken 1966-81,” Municipal Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands; Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany.
Samangallery, Genoa, Italy
1982 “Art as a Riddle,” University Art Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton, OH; Long Beach Musuem of Art, Long Beach, CA; Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
1983 “Vanitas Series: Balanced Bowling Ball, Cockroach/Cool (Short Depth of Field),
Bubbles/Dandelion, Cockroach, Wire (Close Up),” Stampa Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
1984 “John Baldessari: Selected Works from 1974-1984,” Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City, MO, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Galerie Gillespie-Laage-Salomon, Paris, France
1985 Centre d’Art Contemporain, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
1986 “John Baldessari: Matrix/Berkeley 94,” University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY
“John Baldessari: California Viewpoints,” Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Hegel’s Cellar,” Multiples, Inc., New York, NY
1987 Fotogaleria im Forum Stadtpark, Graz, Austria
Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli, Italy
“John Baldessari: Recent Work,” Dart Gallery Alternative Space, Chicago, IL
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY
1988 Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Lisson Gallery, London, England
Galerie Laage-Salomon, Paris, France
“Oeuvres Récentes,” Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
“A Print Retrospective,” Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1989 Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Ni por ésas/Not Even So: John Baldessari,” Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Galerie Meert Rihouz, Brussels, Belgium
1990 Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Behind-The-Scenes Tour: John Baldessari,” The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
“John Baldessari,” The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA; The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, Canada
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY
“Hegel’s Cellar, 1986,” Pence Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1991 Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Musee d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, Canada
1992 Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1995 “John Baldessari” Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“John Baldessari: A Retrospective,” Cornerhouse, Manchester, England; Serpentine Gallery, London, England; Wurttembergicher, Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany; Moderna Gallerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia; Museet For Samtidskunst, Oslo, Norway
1996 Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
“John Baldessari” Hochschule fur Angewandte Kunst in Wien, Vienna, Austria
“John Baldessari” Jurgen Becker, Hamburg, Germany
“John Baldessari: National City,” San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
“John Baldessari” Centro de Arte Moderna Jose de Azeredo perdigao, Fundacao
Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
1997 “John Baldessari” Marian Goodman, Paris, France
“John Baldessari 1990-1996,” Galerie Laage-Salomon, Paris, France
“John Baldessari” Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“John Baldessari” Theoretical Events, Napoli, Italy
“John Baldessari National City Paintings from 1967 and 1996” Galerie Philomene Magers, Koln, Germany
1998 “John Baldessari, The Goya Series,” Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY
“Baldessari, 4RMS W VU: WALLPAPER, LAMPS, AND PLANTS. NEW,” Witte de With, Rotterdam, Holland
“Baldessari, 4RMS W VU: WALLPAPER, LAMPS, AND PLANTS. NEW,” Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
“John Baldessari,” Mai 36 Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
“Tele Dolca Llar & Baldessari 4 HAB a/Vtes: paper pintat, llums I plantes. NOU” Museu
D’Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain
“John Baldessari Recent Works” Charim Klocker, Vienna, Austria
“John Baldessari: Commissioned Paintings,” Sonnabend Gallery New York, NY
1999 “Baldessari: While Something is Happening Here, Something Else is Happening There, Works 1988 – 1999,” Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
“Baldessari, Tetrad Series” Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
“The Elbow Series 1999” Massimo Martino Fine Art & Projects, Mendrisio, Switzerland
“Baldessari und Goya,” Albertine im Akademiehof, Vienna, Austria
2000 “John Baldessari” Meert Rihoux, Brussels, Belgium
“John Baldessari” Galleri Grandstrup Oslo, Norway
2001 “John Baldessari,” Museo d’Arte Moderna Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto,
Trento, Italy, December 15, 2000 – March 11, 2001
“While Something is Happening Here, Something Else is Happening There: Works 1965-
2001,” Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland
“Tetrad Series,” Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany,
Philomene Magers, Munich, Germany.
“John Baldessari: The Overlap Series,” Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland.
“Read/Write/Think/Dream,” University of California San Diego
“Seeing” Los Angeles County Museum of Art Laboratory, Los Angeles, CA
2002 Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Galerie Monika Spruth, Munich Germany
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
2003 “Obra Gráfica,” Galería Estiarte, Madrid, Spain
Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
2004 Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin, Germany
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
2007 “Arm & Legs (Specif. Elbows & Knees), etc.” Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France
“John Baldessari: Beethoven’s Trumpet: In One Ear and Out the Same Ear” The Art Club of Chicago, Chicago IL

Selected Group Exhibitions

1960 “1960 Annual: Artists of Los Angeles County and Vicinity,” Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA
“Pacific Coast South: The Uncommon Denominator: Thirteen San Diego Painters,” Art
Center in La Jolla, La Jolla, CA; Museum of New Mexico Art Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1961 “24th Annual Drawing, Print and Sculpture Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Association,” San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
“Arts of Southern California: Collage,” Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
1962 “1962: California: South,” San Diego Fine Arts Gallery, San Diego, CA
“81st Annual Painting Exhibition of the San Francisco Art Institute,” San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
“68th Western Annual,” Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
“The Southwest: Painting and Sculpture,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
1963 “Arts of Southern California-XIII: Painting,” Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
1965 “3rd Annual Southern California Juried Exhibition of the Long Beach Museum of Art,” Long Beach, CA
“Some Aspects of California Painting and Sculpture,” La Jolla Museum of Art, La Jolla Museum of Art, La Jolla, CA
1967 “2nd Annual Small Images Competition,” Los Angeles State College, Los Angeles, CA
1968 “New Work/Southern California,” Art Gallery, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA
“John Baldessari, Carol Brown, David Milne, Ralph Pomeroy,” Richard Feigen Gallery, New York, NY
1969 “Microcosm 69,” Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
“The Appearing Disappearing Image Object,” Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
“Pop Art Redefined,” Hayward Gallery, London, England
“557,087,” Seattle Worlds Fair Pavilion and Environs, Seattle, WA; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
“Konzeption-conception,” Städtischen Museum, Leverkusen, Germany
“Art by Telephone,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
“1969 Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Painting,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1970 “Art in the Mind,” Allen Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
“Information,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
“Software,” The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
“Recorded Activities,” Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
“995,000,” Vancouver Museum, Vancouver, Canada
1971 “Situation Concepts,” Galeria nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria
“Pier 18,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
“Prospect ‘71-Projection, Film,” Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany; Louisiana
Musuem, Humlebaek, Denmark
1972 “La Biennale di Venenzia: 36,” Venice, Italy
“Konzept-Kunst,” Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland
“Documenta 5,” Kassel, Germany
“La muestra arte de sistemas II International,” El Museo de Arte Moderno de Buenos Aires; Centro de Arte y Comunicacion, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Galerie 16, Kyoto, Japan
“Southern California Attitudes ‘72,” Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA
“Pier 18,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
“Los Angeles,” San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY
1973 “1973 Biennial Exhibition,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
“Story,” John Gibson Gallery, New York, NY
“Circuit: A Video Invitational,” Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Fine Arts Gallery, School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
“Festival d’Automne: Aspects de l’art actuel,” Musée Galliera, Paris, France
“Prospect ‘73,” Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany
Sperone/Fischer Gallery, Rome, Italy
Galerie Sonnabend, Paris, France
1974 “Films: Vito Acconci, John Baldessari, David Haxton, David Shulman,” Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY
“Some Recent American Art,” National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adeleaide, Australia; West Australian Art Gallery, Perth, Australia; City of Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
“Idea and Image in Recent Art,” The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
“Narrative Art,” Cannaviello Studio d’Arte, Rome, Italy
“Art Video/Confrontation 74,” A.R.C.2/Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France
“Projekt ‘74,” Cologne, Germany
“Art Now,” Kennedy Center, Washington, D.C.
“Kunst Informatie Centrum,” Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
1975 “Video Art,” Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
“Projects: Video III,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
“New Media 1,” Malmö Kunsthalle, Malmö, Sweden
“The Video Show,” Serpentine Gallery, London, England
Paula Cooper, New York, NY
“Word/Number IMAGE,” Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, NY
1976 “New American Filmmakers Series,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
“Commissioned Video Works,” University Art Museum, Berkeley, University of California, Berkeley, CA
“Foto & Idea,” Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna, Parma, Italy
“Rooms P.S. 1,” P.S. 1/Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, NY
“The Artist and the Photograph (II): 2nd Triennale of Photography,” Israel Museum, Jerusalem
“Boîtes,” A.R.C.2/Musée d’Arte Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
“Painting and Sculpture in California: The Modern Era,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco; National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.
1977 “1977 Biennial Exhibition,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
“Words: A Look at the Use of Language in Art, 1967-1977,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
“Some Color Photographs,” Castelli Uptown, New York, NY
“A View of a Decade,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
“Contemporary American Photographic Works,” The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
“American Narrative/Story Art: 1967-1977,” Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX; Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA; Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA
“Wit and Wisdom: Works by Baldessari, Hudson, Levine, and Oppenheim,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
“American Artists: A New Decade,” Fort Worth Art Center Museum, Fort Worth, TX; Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI
1978 “A Selection of Conceptual Works by Eight Americans,” Julian Pretto Gallery, New York, NY
“Narration,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
“Art About Art,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
“Film/Video Works 1976-78,” Castelli/Sonnabend Tapes & Films, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
“Color Photography,” Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA
“Painting and Sculpture Today,” Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN
1979 “1979 Whitney Biennial,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
“Text-Foto-Geschichten: Story Art/Narrative Art,” Heidelberger Kunstverein, Germany; Bonne Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany; Krefelder Kunstverein, Krefeld, Germany
“American Photography in the 1970s,” Art Institute of Chicago, IL
“Concept, Narrative, Document,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
“Attitudes: Photographs of the 1970s,” Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
“Word/Object/Image,” Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
1980 “Contemporary Art in Southern California,” High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
“Pier + Ocean: Construction in the Art of the Seventies,” Arts Council of Great Britain, Hayward Gallery, London, England; Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, Netherlands
“Artist and Camera,” Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, England; City Museum & Art Gallery, Stoke-On-Trent, England; Durham Light Infantry Museum and Arts Centre, Durham, England; Cartwright Hall, Bradford, England
“Departure from the Single Image,” Folkwang Museum, Essen, Germany
“Visual Articulation of Idea,” Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY
1981 “Westkunst,” Museen der Stadt Köln, Cologne, Germany
“The Museum as Site: Sixteen Artists,” Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA
“Soundings,” Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase, NY
“US Art Now: Aktuella tendenser i amerikansk konst,” Nordiska Kompaniet, Stockholm
“Instant fotografie,” Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
“Benefit Exhibition for the Kitchen,” Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
1982 “California Photography,” Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
“74th American Exhibition,” The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
“Documenta 7,” Kassel, Germany
“Peter Blum Edition, New York,” Groninger Museum, Groningen, Netherlands
“Three Portfolios: John Baldessari, Jonathan Borofsky, Francesco Clemente,” Multiples, Inc., New York, NY
1983 “1983 Biennial Exhibition,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
“Photography in Contemporary Art,” National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
“Language, Drama, Source & Vision,” The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
“John Baldessari/Robert Cumming,” Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
1984 “Verbally Charged Images,” The Queens Museum, Flushing, NY; University of South Florida Art Gallery, University of South Florida, Tampa, FL; University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA; University Art Gallery, California State College at San Bernadino, CA; Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Fort Dodge, IA
“New American Video Art: A Historical Survey, 1967-1980,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Video Culture Canada, Toronto; Mandeville Gallery, University of California at San Diego, La Jolla, CA; Institute of North American Studies, Barcelona, Spain; Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, TX; Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, CO; Williams College, Williamstown, MA; University Art Gallery, University of California at Riverside, Riverside, CA
“Content: A Contemporary Focus, 1975-1984,” Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
“Sex,” Cable Gallery, New York, NY
1985 “1985 Biennial Exhibition,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
“La Nouvelle Biennale de Paris,” La Grande Halle du Parc de la Villette, Paris, France
“The Maximal Implications of The Minimal Line,” Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
“Extending the Perimeter of Twentieth Century Photography,” San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
“1985 Carnegie International,” Carnegie Institute, Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
“T.V. Generations,” Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
XIII Biennale de Paris
1986 “An American Renaissance: Painting and Sculpture Since 1940,” Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
“The Real Big Picture,” The Queens Museum, Flushing, NY
“Die Wahlverwandtschaften-Zitate,” Stadtmuseum Graz, Graz, Austria
“Individuals: A Selected History of Contemporary Art 1945-1986,” The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
1987 “Surveillance,” Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
“This is Not a Photograph: 20 Years of Large-Scale Photography, 1966-1986,” John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL; Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH; Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
“Made in U.S.A.,” University Art Museum, University of Califronia at Berkeley, CA; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
“John Baldessari, Christian Boltanski, James Coleman, Dan Graham, Rebecca Horn, Sol LeWitt, Giulio Paolini, Lawrence Weiner,” Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY
“Avant-Garde In the ’80s,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
“Photography and Art: Interaction Since 1946,” Los Angles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL; The Queens Museum, Flushing, NY; Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
“Toyama Now ‘87,” Toyama Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
“The New Who’s Who,” Hoffman/Borman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
“Conceptual Languages,” Galleria Schema, Florence, Italy
“25 añosde selección y de actividad: Colección Sonnabend,” Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; Musée d’Arte Contemporain, Bordeaux, France; Halmburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany; Galleria Nazional d’Arte Moderna Rome, Rome, Italy
1988 “As Far As the Eye Can See,” Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY
“Life Stories: Myth, Fiction, and History in Contemporary Art,” Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
“The Turning Point: Art and Politics in Nineteen Sixty-Eight,” Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH; Lehman College Art Gallery, Lehman College, City University of New York, Bronx, NY
“L’Observatoire,” Observatoire de Paris, Paris, France
“Identity: Representations of the Self,” Whitney Museum of American Art Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York, NY
“Art of the 1980s: Artists from the Eli Broad Family Foundation Collection,” Kresge Art Museum, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI
1989 “Five Themes in Photography 1920s-1980s,” Germans Van Eck, New York, NY
“300 Years of Still Life,” Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Words,” Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
“Photography Expanded,” G.H. Dalsheimer Gallery, Baltimore, MD
“Richard Artschwager, John Baldessari, Jonathan Borofsky, Robert Gober, Peter Halley, Nancy Shaver,” Paula Cooper, New York, NY
“A Brave New World,” Karsten Schubert Ltd, London, England
“Forty Years of California Assemblage,” Wight Art Gallery, University of California at Los Angeles, CA; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; Fresno Art Museum, Fresno, CA; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NB
“L.A. Pop in the Sixties,” Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA; Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs, CA; Neuberger Museum, State Univeritsy of New York, Purchase, NY; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
“On the Art of Fixing a Shadow: 150 Years of Photography,” National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C; The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
“A Photo Show,” Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY
“Magiciens de la Terre,” Centre Georges Pompidou; and La Grande Halle du Parc de la Villette, Paris, France
“Invention and Continuity in Contemporary Photographs,” The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
“California Photography: Remaking Make-Believe,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
“Symbolism,” Cooper Union School of Art, Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY
“Departures: Photography 1924-1989,” Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY
“Image World,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1990 “John Baldessari, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Tishan Hsu, Holt Quentel,”
Busche Galerie, Koln, Germany
“Art in Europe and America: The 1960s and 1970s,” Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
“John Baldessari, Lothar Baumgarten, Christian Boltanski, Jean Marc Bustamante,
Richard Long: ‘De acui para alla.’,” Galeria Marga Paz, Madrid, Spain
1991 “20th Century Collage,” Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Centro Cultural
Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico; Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice, France
“This Land..,” Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY
“El Sueno de Egipto,” La Fundacion Cultural Televisa, A.C., and El Centro Cultural/Arte Contemporaneo, A.C.
“Bas Jan Ader, John Baldessari, Robert Cumming, Ger Van Elk, William Leavitt, Allen Ruppersberg, William Wegman: Los Angeles 1970-75,” Christine Burgin Gallery, New York, NY
“Beyond The Frame/American Art 1960-1990,” Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
1992 “New Work by Four Artists: Christopher Brown, John Baldessari, VIja Celmins,
Clinton Adams,” Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
1993 “The Return of the Cadavre Exquis,” The Drawing Center, New York, November 6-December 1.
“Spheres of Influence: Artists and Their Students in the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art,” Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, Connecticut, October 1 – November 20.
“Construction Quotation: Collective images in Photography,” Sprengel Museum, Hannover, August 29 – October 31.
1994 “Jonathan Hammer The Books: Read ‘em and Weep,” Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, September 27 – November 26.
“Talking Pictures: People Speak About The Photographs That Speak To Them,” International Center Photography Midtown, New York, September 21.
“Southern California: The Conceptual Landscape,” Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin, September 10.
1995 “Altered And Irrational: Selections from the Permanent Collection,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Venal Tongue exhibited.
1996 “Work in Progress,” Stampa, Basel, November – March 1, 1997.
1997 “La Biennale di Venezia: 47th International Art Exhibition,” Exhibition curator Germano Celant, Venice, Italy, June 15 – November 9. Catalogue with texts by Germano Celant and Antonella Soldaini.
“Wallpapers: An Installation and Installation of Wallpaper Work,” curated by Richard Mueller, Gallery of Nova Scotia, Canada, June 17 –January 14, 2001.
2003 “Projection: Video, Film, Dia, Skulptur, Malerei, Zeichnung und Dokuments von 1967-1974,” Konrad Fischer Galerie, Dusseldorf, Germany, March 29 – June 21, 2003.
“Utopia Station Poster Project,” Haus der Kunst, Munich Germany
“Imperfect Innocence: The Debra and Dennis Scholl Collection, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, Florida
“Utopia Station” Venice Biennale, Venice Italy
“Video Acts: Single Channel work from the Collections of Pamela and Richard Kramlich and the New Art Trust, Institute of Contemporary Art, London England
“The Disembodied Spirit”, Bowdoin College, Maine, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, St Louis Missouri, Austin Museum of Art, Texas
“The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960-1982, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
“Work Ethic” Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore Maryland, Des Moines Art Center, Idaho, The Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus Ohio
“Behind the Facts (Interfunktionen 1969-75)” Fundacion Joan Miro, Barcelona Spain
2004 “Only Skin Deep: Visions of the American Self” International Center of Photography, New York
“Reflecting the Mirror” Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
“Drift” (film project with John Baldessari and Juliao Sarmento), Fundacao Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisboa Portugal
2007 “A Selection: 40 Artists from 30 years of exhibitions”, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York

Selected Catalogues (one person)

1999 Sprengel Museum Hannover. John Baldessari, While Something Is Happening Here, Something Else is Happening There. Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany.
Marian Goodman Gallery. John Baldessari, Tetrad Series. Marian Gallery, New York, N.Y.
1998 Museum Fur Gegenwartskunst Zurich. Baldessari- RMS W VU: LAMPS, AND PLANTS. (NEW) . Museum fur Gegenwartskunst Zurich. Switzerland.
1996 Davies,Hugh & Hales,Andrea . John Baldessari: National City, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California.
Prinzhorn, Martin.John Baldessari, Hochschule für angewandte Kunst in Wien, Germany.
Pyo,John Baldessari, Pyo Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1995 Snoddy, Stephen.This Not That, Cornerhouse, Manchester, England.
1994 Varnedoe, Kirk, and John Baldessari .Artist’s Choice: John Baldessari, e.g.. Grass, Water, Heater, Mouths, & etc. (for John Graham). The Museum of Modern Art, New York, N.Y.
1990 van Bruggen, Coosje. John Baldessari, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Rizzoli, New York.
1989 Ni Por Esas/ Not Even So: John Baldessari, published by CAPC Musee d’art contemporain de Bordeaux for exhibition traveling to: Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, CAPC, Musee d’art Contemporain, Bourdeos, and IVAM, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Valencia.
1981 John Baldessari, essays by Marcia Tucker & Robert Pincus-Witten, and an interview by Nancy Drew, pub. by The New Museum, New York; co-pub. with University Art Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio. The New Museum. Library of Congress #81-80231.
John Baldessari, introduction and interview by Rudi Fuchs, pub. by Municipal Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Museum Folkwang, Essen, edited by Jan Debbaut.

Writings and Books by the Artist

2001 Brown and Green and Other Parables. Reykjavik, Iceland: i8 and Reykjavik Art Museum.
1999 The Metaphor Problem Again. Collaboration with Lawrence Weiner. Ink-Tree Kunsnacht and Mai 35 Galerie Zurich, Switzerland.
1998 Zorro ( Two Gestures and One Mark). Octagon Press.
1989 Lamb. Collaboration with Meg Cranston. Valencia, Spain: IVAM Centre, Julio Gonzlez.
1988 The Telephone Book (With Pearls). Gent, Belgium: Imschoot,Uitgevers for IC, The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy. Thirty-nine photo-collage illustrations for the novel by Laurence Sterne; produced at San Francisco as three volumes, in an edition of 400 sets, of which fifty are issues with a suite of five lithographs by the artist. Produced by Arion Press.
1981 Close-Cropped Tales. Buffalo: CEPA Gallery; and Buffalo: Albright-Knox Art Gallery.

Articles and Reviews

1999 Richard, Frances. ” John Baldessari ” Artforum, April 1999, p. 121
Melchart, Erin. ” Albertina/Akademiehof: Goya & Baldessari” Erscheinungsort: Wien (Vienna, Austria) February 18.
Marboe, Isabella. “Drei Paar Augen sehen” Kirchen Zeitung (Austria) February 28.
Smith, Roberta. “Conceptual Art: Over, and yet everywhere”, The New York Times, Arts & Leisure, cover photo, April 25.
1998 Schjeldahl, Peter. “Wonderful Cynicism: John Baldessari” Village Voice. Feb. 4. issue.
Johnson, Ken. “John Baldessari ’ The Commissioned Paintings’ The New York Times. December 11, pg. B37.
Lawrence, Diane. “John Baldessari, the Coagula interview”, Coagula, (Los Angeles, Ca.). March-April #32, 1998, pp. 26-30.
Tilroe, Anna. “Lachjes van verontschuldiging, Tv kijken in het museum met John Baldessari” NCR Handelsblad, January 30, 1998, p.CS7.
Speigel, Olga. “Baldessari ultima ina intalacion de gran formato enel Macba” La Vanguardia, July 11, 1998.
Fontivoa, Rosario. “Un paradis per a teleaddictes El Macba exposa les visions de tres artistes nord-americanas” el Periodico, July 15.
Minjee Cho. “Create and Destroy” ARTnews Summer 1998. p.36.
1997 McKenna, Kristine. “Turning Gray to Black and White”, Los Angeles Times, April 20, 1997, (calendar) p. 54-55.
“Kunstmatkt” Frankfurter Allemeine Zeitung. Germany.July 19:Nr. 165/ Seite 35.
“Tips und Termine” Kolner Stadt Hunzeiger . (Germany) July 4:Nr. 154/Seite 5.
Knight, Christopher. “An Enlightened Twist on Tradition”, Los Angeles Times. April 30: F1 & F5 with photo.
Princenthal, Nancy.”John Baldessari”, On Paper The journal of Prints, Drawings, and Photography, May-June 1997, p.38.
Lindgard, Jade. “John Baldessari”, Les Inrockuptibles (Paris), 30 April- 6 May: 19 and insert.
“John Baldessari le Manipulateur” Le Monde (Paris), April 15:22.
1996 Meyer, James, “Reconsidering the Object of Art,” Artforum, February, p.78,79,109.
Greene, Davis A., “1965-1975: Reconsidering the Object of Art,” Frieze, January/February,p.62.
Kornblau, Gary. “1965-1975: Reconsidering the Object of Art,” Art Issues, January/ February, p.36-37.
Albertini, Rosanna. “John Baldessari: I Colori Della Discordanza,” Flash Art, Italia, December 1995/ January 1996, p. 57-60.
1995 Relyea, Lane. “John Baldessari: Margo Leavin Gallery,” Artforum, October, 1995, p.107.
“Buzz Bets: Art,” Buzz Magazine, May 1995, p. 25.
Knight, Christopher. “A Mysterious Place Between Paintings and Photographs”, Los Angeles Times. May 10, p.F1.
1994 Kimmelman, Michael. “For Baldessari, de Chirico is Just One of the Guys”, New York Times, April 10.
1993 Smith, Roberta. “John Baldessari: Working Materials”, The New York Times, Sept. 17, p.C18.
1991 “Collaboration John Baldessari / Cindy Sherman,” Parkett, # 29, September, pp. 28-73, illus.; articles by Howard Singerman, Thomas Lawson, Patrick Frey, James Lewis, Dave Hickey, Susan A. Davis Woodward, B. Richard. “Just Who Begat Whom?”, World Monitor, July, pp.58-60.

Films by the Artist

Isocephaly, 1968 Super-8, color 3 minutes
What To Leave Out, 1968 Super-8, color 3 minutes
Cremation, 1970 16mm, black-and-white 10 minutes
New York City Art History, 1971 Super-8, color 3 minutes
New York City Postcard Painting, 1971 Super-8, color 3 minutes
Waterline, 1971 Super-8, black-and-white 3 minutes
Dance, 1971 Super-8, color 3 minutes
Minimalism, 1971 Super-8, black-and-white 3 minutes
Tabula Rasa, 1971 Super-8, black-and-white 3 minutes
Black-Out, 1971 Super-8, black-and-white 3 minutes
Easel Painting, 1972-73 Super-8 film loop (originally in 16mm), color 34 seconds
Time-Temperature, 1972-73 Super-8 film loop (originally in 16mm), color 4 minutes, 56 seconds
Water to Wine to Water, 1972-73 Super-8 film loop (originally in 16mm), color 36 seconds
The Hollywood Film, 1972-73 Super-8 film loop (originally in 16mm), color 66 seconds
Title, 1973 16mm, black-and-white and color, sound 25 minutes
Throwing Leaves Back at Tree, 1973 Super-8 film loop, color 3 minutes
Taking a Slate: Ilene and David (#1), 1974 Super-8 film loop (originally 16mm), black-and-white 20 seconds
Taking a Slate: Ilene and David (#2), 1974 Super-8 film loop (originally 16mm), color 3 minutes
Taking a Slate: David, 1974 Super-8 film loop (originally 16mm), black-and-white 48 seconds
Ted’s Christmas Card, 1974 Super-8 film loop, color 3 minutes
Script, 1973 - 77 16mm, black-and-white and color, sound 25 minutes
Six Colorful Inside Jobs, 1977 16mm, color 30 minutes

Videotapes by the Artist

Folding Hat: Version 1, 1970 Black-and-white, sound 30 minutes
Folding Hat, 1970 Black-and-white, sound 30 minutes
Black Painting, 1970 Black-and-white 15 minutes
Black Curtain, 1970 Black-and-white, sound 15 minutes
Life Drawing, 1970 Black-and-white 30 minutes
I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art, 1971 Black-and-white 30 minutes
Walking Forward-Running Past, 1971 Color 20 minutes
I Am Making Art, 1971 Black-and-white, sound 19 minutes
Art Disasters, 1971 Black-and-white 30 minutes
Police Drawing, 1971 Black-and-white, sound 30 minutes
Xylophone, 1972 Black-and-white, sound 5 minutes
Baldessari Sings LeWitt, 1972 Black-and-white, sound 19 minutes
Inventory, 1972 Black-and-white, sound 24 minutes
Teaching a Plant the Alphabet, 1972 Black-and-white, sound 19 minutes
Ed Henderson Reconstructs Movie Scenarios, 1973 Black-and-white, sound 25 minutes
How We Do Art Now, 1973, Black-and-white, sound, 30 minutes overall
Segments: How Various People Spit Out Beans
Comparing Two Sounds
The Eye Does Not Naturally Pan
Cigar Lexicon
On Making a Masterpiece
Haste Makes Waste, 1973 Black-and-white, video loop 2 minutes
Practice Makes Perfect, 1973 Black-and-white, video loop 2 minutes
The Way We Do Art Now and Other Sacred Tales [The Birth of Art and Other Sacred Tales], 1973, Black-and-white, sound, 30 minutes overall Segments: Some Words I Mispronounce
You Tell Me What I Do
Anna Names Animals She Has Never Seen
Taping a Stick; Lifting It from the Other End
No Dice
Talking With One Knee to Another
Examining Three 8d Nails
What Follows Is What He Liked to Do Best
For Sylvia Plath
A Riddle
Insincerely Promising a Cat a Carrot
A Sentence with Hidden Meaning
For Marcel Proust
Close-up
Flight Bag (This is a kind of interesting object…)
It is Cruel to Put a Dog on a Mirror
The Way We Do Art Now (The Birth of Abstract Art)
The Sound Made by Kicking a Bottle, 1973 Black-and-white, sound 3 minutes
Ed Henderson Suggests Soundtracks for Photographs, 1974 Black-and-white, sound 28 minutes
The Italian Tape, 1974 Black-and-white, sound 8 minutes
Six Colorful Tales: From the Emotional Spectrum (Women), 1977 Color, sound 17 minutes
Two Colorful Melodies, 1977 Color, sound 6 minutes

Curatorial Exhibitions

1994 The Museum of Modern Art, New York, “Artist’s Choice: John Baldessari”, Mar. 17- May10
1993 The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, “Not Painting: Some Views from the Permanent Collection”, Oct 10 - Jan 9

Teaching

1996 U.C.L.A. - Visiting Professor of Art
September 1, 1970-July 14, 1988 Cal Arts- general art faculty.