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Hiroshi Sugimoto 2015

HIROSHI SUGIMOTO
Installation view,
The Phillips Collection, 2015

Jennifer Bartlett 2014

JENNIFER BARTLETT
Installation view,
Parrish Art Museum, 2014

James Lee Byars 2006

JAMES LEE BYARS
Installation view,
Mary Boone Gallery, 2006

Alchemy

THE MATERIALIZATION OF SENSIBILITY,
Installation view,
Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, 2006

David Hammons

DAVID HAMMONS
Installation view,
Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, 1990

James Lee Byars 2004

JAMES LEE BYARS
Installation view, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt 2004

selected exhibitions

KAREL APPEL: A GESTURE OF COLOR
The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
(June 17 – September 17, 2016)

HIROSHI SUGIMOTO: CONCEPTUAL FORMS AND MATHEMATICAL MODELS
The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.
(February– May 2015)

ANGELS, DEMONS, AND SAVAGES: POLLOCK, OSSORIO, DUBUFFET
(co-curated with Dorothy Kosinski)
The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. (February – May 2013); Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, N.Y. (July – October 2013)

JENNIFER BARTLETT: HISTORY OF THE UNIVERSE
(WORKS 1970–2011)
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia (June– October 2013); Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, N.Y. (Summer 2014)

PER KIRKEBY: PAINTINGS AND SCULPTURE
(co-curated with Dorothy Kosinski)
The Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C. (October 2012– January 2013)

FAIRFIELD PORTER: RAW – THE CREATIVE PROCESS OF AN AMERICAN MASTER
Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, N.Y. (April – June 2010)

RACKSTRAW DOWNES: ONSITE PAINTINGS, 1972–2008
Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, N.Y. (June – August 2010)

EV+A 2007: A SENSE OF PLACE. Limerick, Ireland (March – June 2007). Works by Shelley Corcoran, Patrick Corcoran, David Dunne, Melissa Earley, Barry Foley, Eric Glavin, Tony Gunning, Amy Hauft, Ashley Holmes, Ronnie Hughes, Eithna Joyce, Jesper Just, Orla Keeshan, Miriam Lohan, Sean Lynch, Enrique Martínez Celaya, Vanessa Marsh, Anthony McCall, Conor McGarrigle, Margot McLean, Marie Louise O’Dwyer, Eamon O’Kane, Alix Pearlstein, Christopher Reid, Andrei Roiter, Aura Rosenberg, Matthew Schenning, Wolfgang Staehle, Siobhán Tattan, Thorns Ltd., Suzannah Vaughan.

BODIES OF DESIRE: WORKS ON PAPER BY WILLEM DE KOONING AND CHLOE PIENE. Locks Gallery, Philadelphia (January – February 2007)

THE MATERIALIZATION OF SENSIBILITY: ART & ALCHEMY. Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York (September – October 2006). Works by Edgar Arceneaux, Lynda Benglis, James Lee Byars, Dean Byington, Walter de Maria, Teresita Fernández, Spencer Finch, Roni Horn, Yves Klein, Larry Miller, Man Ray, Dario Robleto, Beverly Semmes, Andy Warhol, Robert Watts, Lawrence Weiner, James Welling.

STILL POINTS OF THE TURNING WORLD: SITE SANTA FE'S SIXTH INTERNATIONAL BIENNIAL. SITE Santa Fe (July 2006 – January 2007). Works by Miroslaw Balka, Jennifer Bartlett, Patty Chang, Stephen Dean, Peter Doig, Robert Grosvenor, Cristina Iglesias, Jonathan Meese, Wangechi Mutu, Carsten Nicolai, Wolfgang Laib, Catherine Opie, and Thorns Ltd.

THE REST IS SILENCE: JAMES LEE BYARS. Mary Boone, Perry Rubenstein, and Michael Werner Galleries, New York (April – June 2006)

LIFE, LOVE, AND DEATH: THE WORKS OF JAMES LEE BYARS. Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt am Main, Germany (May – July 2004); Musée d’art moderne et contemporain, Strasbourg, France (December 2004 – March 2005)

EXTREME EXISTENCE. Pratt Manhattan Gallery, Pratt Institute, New York (September 2002). Works by Bill Viola, Chantal Akerman, Marc Quinn, Patty Chang, Tania Bruguera, Andrei Roiter, Hirsch Perlman, Lucy Gunning, William Kentridge, and Lotte Konow Lund.

WOLFGANG LAIB: A RETROSPECTIVE. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (October 2000); Henry Art Gallery, Seattle (February 2001); Dallas Museum of Art (May 2001); Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (September 2001); Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, Ca. (January 2002); Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (October 2002).

MARK MORRISROE: MY LIFE. POLAROIDS 1977-1989. Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. (1996); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (1997); the Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany (1997)

CONCRETE JUNGLE. Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. (1993). Works by Mark Dion, Alexis Rockman, Bob Braine.

IRONY & ECSTASY: CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN PAINTINGS AND DRAWINGS. Salama-Caro Gallery, London (1993). Works by Mary Beyt, Jessica Diamond, Peter Hopkins, Catherine Howe, James Hyde, Fabian Marcaccio, Suzanne McClelland, Carl Ostendarp, Raymond Pettibon, Jack Pierson, and others.

MARY KELLY: GLORIA PATRI. Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn.; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. (1992).

THE GOOD, THE BAD & THE UGLY: KNOWLEDGE AND VIOLENCE IN RECENT AMERICAN ART. Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. (1991): Nayland Blake, John Currin, Larry Clark, Cady Noland, Andres Serrano, and others.

THE BROKEN MIRROR. Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. (1990-91). Installations by Jessica Stockholder, Eve Andrée Laramée, and Amy Hauft.

EXOTISM. Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. (1990). Works by Carlos Ginsburg, David Hammons, Ana Mendieta, Gerry Morehead, Blinky Palermo, Adrian Piper, Elaine Reichek, and Robert Watts.

KIKI SMITH. Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. (1989).

ROTRAUT, UECKER, KLEIN. Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. (1989).

STRANGE ATTRACTORS: THE SPECTACLE OF CHAOS (co-curated with Suzan Rezac). 1440 N. Dayton, Chicago, Ill. In association with the New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (1989). Works by Richard Artschwager, Hirsch Perlman, Ellen Carey, Tony Robbin, Holt Quentel, Otto Künzli, Joyce Kozloff, Nachume Miller, and others.

FRANZ ERHARD WALTHER. Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn. (1988).

Anthony McCall 2007