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Tony Tasset
Cincinnati, OH, 1960 -
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2003
Tony Tasset: Works 1993-2003, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL and Portland Institute of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR
2001 Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2000
Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY
Tony Tasset: As it Is, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
1998
Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Tony Tasset, Institute of Visual Arts, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI
1997
Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY
1996
Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Manfred Baumgartner Gallery, Washington, DC
1995
Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Robert Smithson/Tony Tasset: Site/Nonsite, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (Catalog: Dialogue with Lucinda Barnes)
1994 Feature, New York, NY
1993 Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
1992
Feature, New York, NY
Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto, Portugal (Catalog: Essay by Bernardo Pinto de Almeida)
Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland (Catalog: Essay by Halldór Bjorn Runólfsson)
1991
Feature, New York, NY
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
1990 Feature, New York, NY
1989 Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
1988
Feature, Chicago, IL
Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Feature, New York, NY
1987 Karsten Schubert Ltd., London, Great Britain (Catalog: Essay by Lynne Cooke)
1986
Domesticates, Feature, Chicago, IL (Brochure: Text by Tony Tasset)
Christine Burgin Gallery, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2002 Masquerade, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
2000
The Body in Photographs: A Recent Gift from Eileen and Peter Norton, Bard College, Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Annandale- on-Hudson, NY
Life After the Squirrel, Location One, New York, NY
Warning Shots, Royal Armouries Museum, Leeds, United Kingdom
Powersources, Centre d’Art Contemporain Kunsthalle, Fribourg, Switzerland
The Visionary Landscape, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1999
I Me Mine, Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, Cal. State University, Los Angeles, CA
Mayday, Centre D’Art Neuchatel, Switzerland
Video Lounge, work included in installation by Patrick Huber and Costa Vece for Swiss Pavilion, 48th Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
minimal-MAXIMAL, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Inglenook II, University Galleries, Normal, IL
1998
Bodies in Motion, Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto, Portugal
Sweat, Camerawork, London, England
All of Me, New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
1997
Shot Reverse-Shot, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Alberta, Canada (Cur. by C. Crowston)
Just Past, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
ca-ca poo-poo, Kolnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
1996
Art in Chicago 1945-1995, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (Curated by Lynn Warren, Catalog: Essay by Judith Russi Kishner)
Identity Crisis: Self-Portraiture at the End of The Century, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
The Moral Imagination, Plug-In Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
Subverted Object, Ubu Gallery, New York, NY
AbFab, Feature, New York, NY
Persona, Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland (Curated by Suzanne Ghez, Catalog in German and English, Essays by Susan Stryker and Hamza Walker)
Shit, Baron/Boisante Gallery, New York, NY (Poster: Essays by I. Schaffner & T. Cafaro)
1995
It’s how you play the game, Exit Art, New York, NY, Curated by Thelma Golden, Nancy Spector, Robert Storr, Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo
Strung into the Appolonian Dream...An exhibition of a private collection, Feature, NY, NY
Seven Longish Wooden Sculptures, Feature, NY NY
Art as Dramatic Comedy, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL, Curated by Marie Shurkus
1994
The Ecstasy of Limits, Gallery 400, School of Art and Design, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL, Curated by Yvette Brackman
Amenities, Frederick Layton Gallery, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design, Milwaukee, WI; Curated by CAP
1993
Mixed Messages: A Survey of Recent Chicago Art, Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO; Curated by Christopher Scoates and Debra Wilbur
A Sequence of Forms: Sculpture by Illinois Artists, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL; Curated by Edward M. Maldonado
New Works, Feigen, Inc., Chicago, IL
Mettlesome & Meddlesome: Selections from the Collection of Robert J. Shiffler, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
Paper Trails: The Eidetic Image, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL
I-Space, University of Urbana-Champaign Gallery, Chicago, IL; curated by Jerry Savage and Dan Socha
1992
15th Anniversary Exhibition, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Editions: Functional Objects by Artists and Architects, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Drawing New Conclusions, Betty Rymer Gallery, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Multiples, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
1991
Office Party, (March) Feature, NY
Galerie Anselmo Alvarez, Madrid, Spain; curated by Jane Gekler
Power Its Icons, Myths and Structure in AmericanCulture, 1961-1991, Indianapolis Art Museum, Indianapolis, IN; Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH; Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA; curated by Holliday T. Day (Catalog)
1990
Stillstand Switches, Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland
Toward the Future Contemporary Art in Context, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (Brochure)
Machine Shop, The Machine Shop at Emery, Cincinnati, OH; Curated by Derrick Woodham
Awards in the Visual Arts 9, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA; Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC; Arthur M Sackler Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; The BMW Gallery, New York (catalogue essay by Lucy R. Lippard)
The Thing Itself, Feature, New York (brochure)
Work on Paper, (invitational) Paula Allen Gallery, New York
Outdoor Sculpture Show, Chicago Artists from Chicago Galleries, Klein Art Works, Chicago
New Generations Chicago, Carnegie Mellon Art Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA; curated by Elaine A King (catalogue: Essay by Elaine A King)
Oh, Those Four White Walls!, The Gallery as Context, Atlanta College of Art Gallery; curated by Lisa Tuttle (catalogue)
Half-Truths, The Parrish Art Museum, Southhampton New York; Curated by Marge Goldwater (Catalogue: Essay by Marge Goldwater)
1989
Filling in the Gap, Richard L. Feigen, Inc., Chicago; curated by Saul Osterow (Catalogue: Essay by Saul Osterow)
FUNCTIONONFUNCTION, Suzan Rezac Gallery, Chicago (Catlogue: Essay by David Sedaris)
On Kawara: Date Paintings 1966-1988, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, IL
Chicago Signs of Life Contemporary American Sculpture, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian; Fundacao Luso-Americana Para O Desenvolvimento, Lisbon, Portugal; curated by Judith Kirshner (Catalog: Essay by Judith Russi Kirshner)
Romancing the Stone, Feature, New York, NY
Double Take, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
Reused, Althea Viafora Gallery, New York, NY, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Exhibition 12, Studio Arts Faculty, School of Art and Design, University of Illinois at Chicago, Gallery 400, Chicago (catalogue essay by James Yood)
Dorothy, Center for Contemporary Art, Chicago; Curated by Hudson
1988
Walk Out to Winter, Bess Cutler Gallery, New York Curated by Christian Leigh (catalogue)
Curated “Sex, Death & Jello”, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago (catalogue)
Redefining the Object, University Art Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton, OH and Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH; curated by Barry A. Rosenberg(Catalog: Essay by Dan Cameron)
Material Art, Althea Viafora Gallery, New York, NY
Artschwager His Peers and His Persuasion, 1963-1988, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA and Leo Castelli Gallery, New York (Catalog: Essay by Klaus Kertess)
Near Miss, Feature, Chicago, IL
The Objects of Sculpture, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago; curated by Neal Benezra
Chicago Buy the Square Foot, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago
Life Like, Lorence Monk Gallery, New York; Curated by Marvin Heiferman
Homecoming, Art Academy Downtown, Cincinnati, OH
NYC #1/Sculpture, Rotterdam Arts Council, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Curated by Cees van der Geer
Information as Ornament, Suzan Rezac Gallery and Feature, Chicago (Catalog: Essay by David Robbins)
New York Now, Goteborgs Kunstmuseum; curated by Thord Thordeman, touring Sweden and Finland (Catalogue essay by Carlo McCormick)
Formal, Dart Gallery, Chicago (catalogue essay by Joseph Maheck)
Latitudes Focus on Chicago, The Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO (Catalogue essay by Kathryn Hixson)
Contemporary Icons and Explorations: The Goldstrom Family Collection, Davenport Museum of Art, Davenport, IA (catalogue essay by Christopher Waddington)
1987
Liars: A Question of Reason, State of Illinois Gallery, Chicago; curated by Debra Donato
Nature, Feature, Chicago, IL
A White Show, MoMing Gallery, Chicago, IL; curated by Jeanne Dunning
A Different Corner: Definition and Redefinition, Painting in America, Biennal International de Pintura, U.S. Pavilion, Museo de Arte Moderne, Cuenca, Ecuador; curated by Christian Leigh (catalogue essay by Christian Leigh)
1986
July, Wolff Gallery, New York
The Non-Spiritual in Art Abstract Painting 1985-????, Chicago; curated by Hudson (Catalogue essays by Hudson, Kevin Maginnis, and Richard Brettell)
Larry Johnson, Tony Tasset, Christopher Wool, Kuhlenschmidt-Simon, Los Angeles
One Hand Clapping, Karsten Schubert, Ltd, London
Gilbert & George, Donald Judd, Tony Tasset, Christine Burgin Gallery, New York
of Ever-Ever Land i speak, Stux Gallery, New York Curated by Christian Leigh (Catalogue essay by Christian Leigh)
Surfaces: Two Decades of Painting in Chicago, 1970s and 1980s, The Terra Museum, Chicago; Curatorial and Catalog essay by Judith Russi Kirshner
Anxious Objects, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL; curated by Barry Blinderman (Catalogue essay by Barry Blinderman)
A Spectacle of Reflexivity, IWM Art Museum, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI; Curated by Michelle Grabner (Catalogue essay by Michelle Grabner)
Industrial Icons, San Diego State University, San Diego
Homer, Huttinger, Tasset, Feature, Chicago, IL
S.A.I.C.: A New Generatio”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Curated by Lynne Warren (Catalogue essay by Lynne Warren)
Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis (Catalogue essay by Holliday T. Day)
Promises, Promises, Feature, Chicago and CAGE, Cincinnati; curated by Hudson
Dull Edge, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago; Curated by Jeanne Dunning and Tony Tasset (catalogue essay by Jeanne Dunning)
1985
Post Modern Conceptual Pop Production, Feature, Chicago, IL
Two-person exhibition (with Mitchell Kane), School of the Art Institute of Chicago Gallery
Wilder Scholarship Retrospective, Chidlaw Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
Invitational, Feature and Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Perfect Couple, CAGE, Cincinnati, OH
1984
Two-person exhibition (with Greg Green), Bookspace, Chicago, IL
Sexuality in Art and the Media, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1983 Artist’s Call, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
AWARDS AND GRANTS
1989
Artist Fellowship, Illinois Arts Council
The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Awards in Painting, Sculpture, Printmaking, & Media
Awards in the Visual Arts 9, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
1986 John Quincy Adams Traveling Fellowship, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
1984 Wilder Traveling Fellowship, The Art Academy of Cincinnati, OH
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2003
Brown, Nate. “Art Appreciation: Chicag-area Conceptual Artist Brings Works to Galleries,” Daily Vidette, 17 January 2003.
2000
Hixson, Kathryn. Trancendence to Transformation: The Art of Tony Tasset," New Art Examiner, 2000 May: 34-37, 68-69.
Findsen, Owen. "Banali Burbs Turn into Authentic Art," The Cincinnati Enquirer, April 2000
Tumlir, Jan. “The Visionary Landscape,” frieze, 2000, p. 115.
1999 Grabner, Michelle. "Hello Mr. Soul," Frieze, Summer
1998
Knode, Marilu. “Project: Tony Tasset,” Art/Text 61, 1998, p. 48.
Cash, Stephanie, “Tony Tasset at Feigen Contemporary,” Art in America, March: p 101
1997
Hapgood, Susan. "Tony Tasset," Art in America, March
Johnson, Ken, "Art in Review," The New York Times, Oct. 30
Arning, Bill, Time Out, New York, Nov 20-27
Grabner, Michelle.”Tony Tasset, Christopher Grimes Gallery,” New Art Examiner, October
Kandell, Susan. review, Los Angeles Times, 29 May
Sobel, Dean. "Identity and Recent Sef-Portraiture," catalogue essay, Identity
Vine, Richard. “Where the Wild Things Were,” Art in America, May
1996
Hixson, Kathryn. Review, Flash Art, March/April: 114
Wilk, Deborah. Review, New Art Examiner, January
Artner, Alan G. “Persona Non Grata”, Chicago Tribune, March 17
Taylor, Brandon. “Stolen Forms: 1976-90”, from the book Avant-Garde and After, Rethinking Art Now. Harry N. Abrams, Inc., Publishers.
1995
Barnes, Lucinda. Robert Smithson/Tony Tasset: Site/Nonsite, Exhibition catalog, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Wilk, Deborah. Review, New Art Examiner, February, 38
Mauro, Lucia. “Local Artists Hop on the Cutting Edge”, Pioneer Press, 1 February, B4-B5
1994
Brackman, Yvette. The Ecstasy of Limits, Exhibition catalog, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago
Snodgrass, Susan. Review, Art in America, January, 110-111
“What’s Happening in New York”, Atelier, Magazine of International Art, April, 45
Paine, Janice T. “Amenities: A Strangely Discomforting Exhibit”, Milwaukee Sentinel, 14 October, 8E
1993
Artner, Alan. “Sharp Conceptual Show Dares to be Different”, The Chicago Tribune, 22 January, Section 7, 56
Artner, Alan. “Art in 3-D: Artists Today Do Almost Anything -- Except Sculpt”, The Chicago Tribune, 7 February, Arts, 14 & 15
Stevens, Mitchell. “Forms to Warm the Heart”, The Reader, 19 February, 29
Holg, Garrett. “Sculptors Make Statements with Everyday Objects”, Chicago Sun Times, 7 March, 13Leuking, Stephen. Review, “New Works, Sequence of Forms”, Sculpture, July-Aug. 57-58
Duffy, Robert W. “Getting the Message: Knowledge Distilled”, St. Louis Post Dispatch, 19 September, 3 & 11 (excerpt)
Green, Ann Hunter. “Making the Art Rounds”,Where/Chicago, September, 26-27
Coburn, Marcia Froelk. “Minimalism to the Max”, Chicago Magazine, 13 October, 94-99
1992
Lambrecht, Luk. Review, “Shedhalle”, Forum International, May, 86-7
Pinto, Bernardo. Exhibition catalog, Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto, Portugal
Runolfsson, Halldor Bjorn. Exhibition catalog, Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland
1991
McCracken, David. “Tasset Offers a Backstage Look at Slippery Sculptures”, Chicago Tribune, 11 January, Section 7, 8
Hixson, Kathryn. The Journal of Art, February, 68
Yood, James. Artforum, March, 134
Bulka, Michael. New Art Examiner, March 34-5
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Schjeldahl, Peter. “At the Salon of April”, Village Voice, May 14, 86
1990
Decter, Joshua. “New York in Review”, Arts, Summer, 82
“The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation 1989 Awards in Painting, Sculpture, Printmaking, Craft, and Media”, 54-55 (reproduction)
Yood, James. Essay on Tony Tasset, The Refco Collection, Sue Taylor, ed., The Refco Group Ltd, Chicago, 178-9 (reproduction)
1989
Artner, Alan. “Tasset’s Work Activates Viewer’s Participation”, Chicago Tribune, 13 January (reproduction)
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Hugunin, James R. Review, New Art Examiner, March 44
Sherlock, Maureen P. “Tony Tasset”, Arts, Summer 82 (reproduction)
1989
Colby, Joy Hakanson. “Lean Exhibit, Lots of Thought”, The Detroit News, 13 March, 3D, (reproduction)
Miro, Marsha. “Frames Tame Wild Things”, Detroit Free Press, 24 March, 5C (reproduction)
Artner, Alan. “Tasset’s Art Focuses on Presentation”, Chicago Tribune, 15 April, Section 7, 58 (reproduction)
McCracken, David. “Different Views of a Post modernist World”, Chicago Tribune, 15 April, Section 7, 60
Hixson, Kathryn. “Cool, Conceptual, Controversial”, New Art Examiner, May, 30-3 (reproduction)
Heartney, Eleanor. “Strong Debuts”, Contemporanea, July/August, 110 (reproduction)
Kirshner, Judith Russi. “The Benefit of the Doubt or Loving Modernism to Death”, Artforum, November, 106-111 (reproduction)
1987
Tasset, Tony. “All My Friends”, (exhibition proposal) Farm, published by Instituting Contemporary Idea and Feature, Chicago
Scanlon, Joe. “Money-Market”, dialogue, January, 26 (reproduction)
Golden, Deven. Review, “A White Show”, New Art Examiner, March
Henry, Gerrit. Review, Art in America, June
Knight, Christopher. Review, Los Angeles Herald, 31 July
Gardner, Colin. Review, Los Angeles Times, 7 August, Part IV, 16
Taylor, Sue. Review, “Liars”, Art in America, September, 187, 189
Robinson, Walter. “State of the Art: Young, Gifted and Affordable”, Metropolitan Home, November, 58-59 (reproduction)
Leigh, Christian. Review, “July”, Artscribe International, November/December
Bonesteel, Michael. “Medium Cool New Chicago Abstraction”, Art in America, December, 138-147 (reproduction)
Cooke, Lynne. Exhibition catalog, Karsten Schubert Ltd., London, Great Britain
1986
Artner, Alan. “Tony Tasset at Home with Clever Concept”, Chicago Tribune, 19 September, Section 7, 55 (reproduction)
Tasset, Tony. “The Beast is Now Under Control”, Nit & Wit, October 15 (reproduction)
Tasset, Tony. “Domesticates,” Exhibition brochure, Feature, Chicago, IL
SELECTED COLLECTIONS
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
The Baltimore Museum, Baltimore, MD
Person TypeIndividual
Terms
- Male
Füssen, Germany, 1952 - 2013, Freiburg, Germany
