John Baldessari
National City, California, 1931 - 2020, Venice, California
University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, California 1954-55
University of California at Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, 1955
M.A., San Diego State College, San Diego, California, 1955-57
Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles, California, 1957-59
Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, California, 1957-59
Awards:
Honorary Ph.D., San Diego State University, San Diego, California, June 2003
Spectrum International Award for Photography of the Foundation of Lower Saxony, Germany, 1999
College Art Association Lifetime Achievement Award, 1999
Governor's Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts, California, 1997
Oscar Kokoschka Prize, Austria, 1996
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2002
"John Baldessari," Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
2001
"While something is happening here, something else is happening there:
Works 1965-2001," Reykjavík Art Museum, Reykjavík, Iceland
2000-01
"John Baldessari," Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Trento, Italy
1999
"Baldessari. While something is happening here, something else is happening there. Works 1988-1999," Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany; Staatlich Kunstammlungen Dresden, Germany
1998
"John Baldessari, The Goya Series," Sonnabend Gallery, New York
"Baldessari, 4 RMS W VU: WALLPAPER, LAMPS AND PLANTS. NEW," Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
"Baldessari, 4 RMS W VU: WALLPAPER, LAMPS, AND PLANTS. NEW," Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
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, New York
1997
Marian Goodman Gallery, Paris, France
"John Baldessari 1990-1996," Galerie Laage-Salomon, Paris, France
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Theoretical Events, Naples, Italy
1996
Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst in Wien, Vienna, Austria
Jurgen Becker, Hamburg, Germany
"John Baldessari: National City," San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California
Centro de Arte Moderna Jose de Azeredo Perdigao, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal 1996-95
"John Baldessari: A Retrospective," Cornerhouse, Manchester, England; Serpentine Gallery, London, England; Wurttembergicher Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany; Moderna Gallerija Ljubljana, Slovenia; Museet For Samtidskunst, Oslo, Norway; Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal
1995
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1994
"Artist's Choice: John Baldessari, e.g. Grass, Water Heater, Mouths, & etc. (for John Graham)," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
1992-90
"John Baldessari," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York; Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montreal, Quebec
1989
"John Baldessari: Ni por esas" ("Not Even So"), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; CAPC Musée d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France; IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez, Valencia, Spain
1986
"John Baldessari: MATRIX BERKELEY 94," University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, California
1985
Le Consortium, Centre d'art Contemporain, Dijon, France
1981
"John Baldessari: Work 1966-1980," The New Museum, New York, New York; The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas; Municipal Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands; Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany,
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2004-03 “Work Ethic,” Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore; Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa
2003
-"Imperfect Innocence: The Debra and Dennis Scholl Collection," Palm Beach Institute
Of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, Florida
-"Utopia Station," Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
2001
"Dévoler, Vivent les Frac (suite)," Institut d'art contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
"John Baldessari, Jeff Koons, Tom Wesselman," Sonnabend Gallery, New York, New York
2001-99
"Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin 1950's - 1980's," Queens Museum, Queens, New York; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota; Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida; List Visual Art Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia
2000
Galerie Jürgen Becker, Hamburg, Germany
"Departures: 11 Artists at the Getty," J. Paul Getty Museum, Santa Monica, California
2000-99
"Regarding Beauty: A View of The Late Twentieth Century," Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
1999
"Crosscurrents: New Art from MoMA," Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
"American Century: Art and Culture (1950-2000)," The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
"Sight Gags, Grotesque, Caricature and Wit in Modern and Contemporary Drawing," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
"Altered States," Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York
"Diary," Cornerhouse, Manchester, England
1998
"Big As Life: An American History of 8mm films," The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art/Cinematheque, San Francisco, California
"The Lure of Language," Lopdell House Gallery, New Zealand
"Amnesty International Benefit Drawing Show," Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, New York
"Konzeptuelle Arbeiten der 1960er bis 1980er Jahre," Galerie Rudiger Schottle, Munich, Germany
"Breaking Ground," Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York
"Art Without the Unique Edition Artelier, 1985-1998," Kunstlerhaus, Graz, Austria
"Artificial Figuraci—ns Contemporanies," Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
"Travel & Leisure," Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, New York
"Conceptual Photography," David Zwirner, New York, New York
"Thirty five years at Crown Point Press: Making Prints, Doing Art," University Art Gallery, San Diego, California
"Double Trouble, The Patchett Collection," The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California
1998-97
"Sunshine & Noir. Art in L.A. 1960-1997," Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebaek, Denmark; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany; Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy; University of California Los Angeles Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California
1997
47th Venice Biennial, Venice, Italy
"Scene of the Crime," University of California Los Angeles Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California
"Livres d'Artistes," Bibliothèque Nationale de France, Paris, France
"The Pleasure of Reading," John Gibson Gallery, New York, New York
1996
"Painting into Photography: Photography into Painting," The Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida
"Hall of Mirrors: Art and Film since 1945," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
"Think Print, Books to Billboards, 1980-95," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
"Comme un oiseau," Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, France
Prospect 96, Frankfurt, Germany
"Wheel of Fortune Artists Interpret the Tarot," Lombard/Freid Fine Arts, New York, New York
Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
"25 Years: An Exhibition of Selected Works, " Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
"Ideal Standard Summertime," Lisson Gallery, London, England
"Untitled (Reading Room)," Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
"Reflected Image: A Selection of Contemporary Photography from the LAC Collection, Switzerland," Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy
"Go Figure," Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, California
"John Baldessari and Bernd and Hilla Becher," Kamakura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1996-95
"1965-1975: Reconsidering the Object of Art," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
1994
"In the Field: Landscape in Recent Photography," Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1993
"Construction Quotation: Collective images in Photography," Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany
1993-91
"Motion and Document: Sequence and Time: Eadweard Muybridge and Contemporary American Photography," National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C.; Addison Gallery of American Art, Philips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts; Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California; Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington; Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Connecticut; International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House and Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, New York
1992
"More than One Photographer: Works since 1980 from the Collection," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
1991
"Devil on the Stairs; Looking Back at the Eighties," Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California
1990
"Art in Europe and America: The 1960s and 1970s," Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio
1989-90
"John Baldessari, Robert Rauchenberg, James Rosenquist, Tishan Hsu, Holt Quentel," Busche Galerie, Cologne, Germany
1987
"Los Angeles Today: Contemporary Visions," Amerika Haus, Berlin, Germany; The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1986-88
"Individuals: A Selected History of Contemporary Art 1945 -1986," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
1985-1986
Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1983
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
1982
Documenta 7, Kassel, Germany
"Photography Used in Contemporary Art, In and Around the 70's," National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
1978
"Art About Art," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
1972
Documenta 5, Kassel, Germany
COMMISSIONS/PUBLIC PROJECTS
"READ/WRITE/THINK/DREAM," The Stuart Collection at the University of California, San Diego
FILMOGRAPHY
"Six Colorful Inside Jobs," 1977, 16mm, color, 30 minute
"Script," 1973-77, 16mm, black and white and color, sound, 25 minutes
"Ted's Christmas Card," 1974, super-8mm film loop, color, 3 minutes
"Taking a Slate: David," 1974, super-8mm film loop (originally 16mm), black and white, 48 seconds
"Taking a Slate: Ilene and David (#1)," 1974, super-8mm film loop (originally 16mm), black and white, 20 seconds
"Taking a Slate: Ilene and David (#2)," 1974, super-8mm film loop (originally 16mm), color, 3 minutes
"Title," 1973, 16mm, black and white and color, sound, 25 minutes
"Throwing Leaves Back at Tree," 1973, super-8mm film loop, color, 3 minutes
"Easel Painting," 1972-73, super-8mm film loop (originally in 16mm), color, 34 seconds
"Time-Temperature," 1972-73, super-8mm film loop (originally in 16mm), color, 4 minutes and 56 seconds
"Water to Wine to Water," 1972-73, super-8mm film loop (originally in 16mm), color, 36 seconds
"The Hollywood Film," 1972-73, super-8mm film loop (originally in 16mm), color, 66 seconds
"New York City Art History," 1971, super-8mm, color, 3 minutes
"New York City Postcard Painting," 1971, super-8mm, color, 3 minutes
"Waterline," 1971, super-8mm, black and white, 3 minutes
"Dance," 1971, super-8mm, color, 3 minutes
"Minimalism," 1971, super-8mm, black and white, 3 minutes
"Tabula Rasa," 1971, super-8mm, black and white, 3 minutes
"Black-Out," 1971, super-8mm, black and white, 3 minutes
"Cremation," 1970, 16mm, black and white, 10 minutes
"Isocephaly," 1968, super-8mm, color, 3 minutes
"What to Leave Out," 1968, super-8mm, color, 3 minutes
VIDEOGRAPHY
"Six Colorful Tales: From the Emotional Spectrum (Women)," 1977, color, sound, 17 minutes
"Two Colorful Melodies," 1977, color, sound, 6 minutes
"Ed Henderson Suggests Soundtracks for Photographs," 1974, black and white, sound, 28 minutes
"The Italian Tape," 1974, black and white, sound, 8 minutes
"Ed Henderson Reconstructs Movie Scenarios," 1973, black and white, sound, 25 minutes
"How We Do Art Now," 1973, segments: How Various People Spit Out Beans, Comparing Two Sounds, A 20" Tape, The Eye Does Not Naturally Pan, Cigar Lexicon, On Making a Masterpiece. Black and white, sound, 30 minutes overall
"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, 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). Black-and-white, sound, 30 minutes overall
"The Sound Made by Kicking a Bottle," 1973, black and white, sound, 3 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
"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
"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
©Marian Goodman Gallery
Person TypeIndividual
Terms
- Male
Johannesburg, South Africa, 1955 -
