Lives and works in Chicago

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

New Yorker Magazine, 29 April, 17

Hixson, Kathryn. Arts, April 106

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)

Morgan, Robert. “New York in Review”, Arts, February, 98 (reproduction)

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