Bruce Nauman
Born in 1941, Fort Wayne, IN
EDUCATION
1964
Bachelor of Fine Arts, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
1966
Master of Fine Arts, University of California, Davis, CA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1966
Nicolas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1967
"Slant Step", Berkeley Gallery, Berkeley, CA
1968
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
Galerie Konrad Fischer, Dusseldorf, Germany
1969
Sacramento State College Art Gallery, Sacramento, CA
"Holograms, Videotapes and Other Works", Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Paris, France
20-20 Gallery, London, Ontario, Canada
Galerie Konrad Fischer, Dusseldorf, Germany
1970
Nicolas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Studies for Hologram", Galerie Rolf Ricke, Cologne, Germany
Galerie Konrad Fischer, Dusseldorf, Germany
Galleria Sperone, Turin, Italy
Galerie Ileanna Sonnabend, Paris, France
San Jose State College, San Jose, CA
Reese-Paley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1971
Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Paris, France
Galery Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
Galerie Konrad Fischer, Dusseldorf, Germany
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
Helman Gallery, St. Louis, MO
Betty Gold Fine Modern Prints, Los Angeles, CA
Ace Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Galleria Francoise Lambert, Milan, Italy
1972 "
Bruce Nauman: 16mm Films 1967-1970", Projection Gallery, Ursula Wevers, Cologne, Germany
1973
"Bruce Nauman: Works from 1965-1972", Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, and Whitney Museum of American; Art, New York, NY (traveled to Kunsthalle, Bern; Stadtische Kunsthalle,Dusseldorf; Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Palazzo Reale, Milan; Contemporary Arts Museum,Houston, TX; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA)
"Bruce Nauman-Floating Room", University of California, Irvine, CA
"Floating Room", Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Flayed Earth/Flayed Self (Skin/Sink)", Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1974
Ace Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Galerie Art in Progress, Munich, Germany
Galerie Konrad Fischer, Dusseldorf, Germany
"Wall with Two Fans", Wide White Space, Antwerp, Belgium
"Yellow Triangular Room", Santa Ana College Art Gallery, CA
1975
"Cones/Cojones", Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
"The Mask to Cover the Need for Human Companionship", Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
"Sundry Obras Nuevas", Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, CA
"Forced Perspective", Galerie Konrad Fischer, Dusseldorf, Germany
1976
"Enforced Perspective, Allegory and Symbolism", Ace Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
"White Breathing", UNLV Art Gallery, University of Las Vegas, Las Vegas, NV
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
"The Consummate Mask of Rock", Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY
Sperone Westwater Fischer Gallery, New York, NY
"Enforced Perspectives (Drawings)", Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Enforced Perspectives", Ace Gallery, Venice, CA
1977
"The Consummate Mask of Rock", Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles
Bruno Soletti, Milan, Italy
"Bruce Nauman Sculpture," Collection of Robert Rowan, on loan to the Sculpture Garden of the Art Center, College of Design, Los Angeles, CA
1978
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
"Floating Room," InK, Zurich, Switzerland
"Recent Sculpture", Ace Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Galerie Konrad Fischer, Dusseldorf, Germany
"1/12 Scale Study in Fiberglass and Plaster for Cast Iron of a Trench and Four Tunnels in Concrete at Full Scale", California State University, San Diego, CA
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, College Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
"White Breathing," UNLV Art Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
Sperone Westwater Fischer, New York, NY
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY
1979
Galerie Schmela, Dusseldorf, Germany
Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Bruce Nauman: An Installation", Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, OR
Hester van Royen Gallery, London, England
1980
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
"Smoke Rings", Hill's Gallery of Contemporary Art, Santa Fe, NM
Galerie Konrad Fischer, Dusseldorf, Germany
Carol Taylor Art, Dallas, TX
1981
Nigel Greenwood, London, England
"Bruce Nauman 1972-81", Rijksmuseum, Kroller-Muller, Otterlo, Holland(traveled to Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany)
"Bruce Nauman: New Iron Casting, Plaster and Drawings," Young Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
InK, Zurich, Switzerland
Maud Boreel Print Art, The Hague, Holland
Galerie Konrad Fischer, Dusseldorf, Germany
The Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque, NM
Ace Gallery, Venice, CA
Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
1982
Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, NY
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
"Bruce Nauman: Neons", Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
1983
Carol Taylor Art, Dallas, TX
Galerie Konrad Fischer, Dusseldorf, Germany
"Dream Passages", Museum Haus Esters, Krefelder Kunstmuseum, Krefeld, Germany
1984
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, NY
Carol Taylor Art, Dallas, TX
1985
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL
Galerie Elisabeth Kaufmann, Zurich, Switzerland
Galeri Konrad Fischer, Dusseldorf, Germany
1986
Galerie Jean Bernier, Athens, Greece
"Oeuvres Sur Papier", Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
"Bruce Nauman," Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland traveled to: ARC, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, England
"American/European Paintings and Sculpture 1986, Part I," L.A. Louver Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
Recipient of the 1986 Skowhegan Medal, Assorted Media at the Skowhegan 40th Anniversary Dinner
"Bruce Nauman, Drawings 1965-86", Museum fur Gegenwartkunst, Basel, Switzerland (travelling to Kunsthalle, Tubingen, Stadtisches Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany; Museum Boymans-van-Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Kunstraum Munchen, Munich, Germany; Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany; Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX; Museum of Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles, CA; University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA)
1987
"Bruce Nauman: Neon and Video", Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Bruce Nauman 1965-1986," and video installation of "Clown Torture," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
"Bruce Nauman: Drawings," Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
1988
"Bruce Nauman; Sex and Death 1985," Elisabeth Kaufmann, Zurich, Switzerland
"Bruce Nauman: Drawings, 1965-1986," University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA
"Southern California Summer 1988," Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Sperone Westwater, New York, NY
"Bruce Nauman: Drawings, 1965-1986, Video," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium
"Vices and Virtues," University of California at San Diego, San Diego, CA
"Sleep of Reason," Museum Fridericanum, Kassel, Germany
1989
"Bruce Nauman, New Work," Museum fur Gegenwartskunst Basel, Basel, Switzerland
"Zeitlos," curated by Harald Szeeman, Berlin, Konrad Fischer, Dusseldorf, Germany
Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
"Bruce Nauman: Prints 1970-89," Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Druckgraphik 1970-1988," Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich
Saatchi Collection, London, England
1990
"Radierungen, Lithographien, Multiples," Jurgen Becker Galerie, Hamburg, Germany
"Figuring the Body," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
"Bruce Nauman Sculpture and Installations 1985-1990 (Human Nature/Animal Nature)" Museum fur Gegenwartskunst Basel, Switzerland. (Traveled in 1991 to Stadtische Galerie im Stadelschen Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.)
"Bruce Nauman, Prints 1970-89," Lorence-Monk Gallery, New York, NY
"Animal Pyramid," Permanent Installation, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
Langer Fain Galerie, Paris, France
"Bruce Nauman: A Survey," Anthony D'Offay Gallery, London, England
Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York, NY
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
Galerie B. Coppens and R. van de Velde, Brussels, Belgium
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
65 Thompson Street, New York, NY
1991
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
"Bruce Nauman, Prints and Multiples," (organized by Thea Westreich, New York, NY) Traveled to: Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, The Netherlands; Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland; Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Heiligenkreuzerhof, Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria; City Museum, Stoke on Trent, England
"Human Nature - Animal Nature," (An Installation of Sculpture and Works on Paper), Stadtische Galerie im Stadel, Frankfurt, Germany
"Bruce Nauman Graphik 1970-89," Galerie Hummel, Vienna, Austria
"Bruce Nauman: Prints," Gallery 360°, Tokyo, Japan
"Bruce Nauman - OK OK OK," Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany
Galerie Metropol, Vienna, Austria
"Bruce Nauman," Fundacio Espai Poblenou, Barcelona, Spain
1992
"Bruce Nauman: Use Me (Graphics, Multiples, Videos and Installations," Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England
"Bruce Nauman Neons," Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, England
"Bruce Nauman," Ydessa Hendeles Foundation, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
"Bruce Nauman: Prints, Multiples and Video," Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
"Bruce Nauman," Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain (travelling exhibition organized by the Walker Art Center in association with the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden)
"Bruce Nauman," Salzburger Kunstverein, Salzburg, Austria
1993
"Light Works," Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, MO
"Prints," Galerie Rupert Walser, Munich, Germany
"Bruce Nauman," (curated by Morgan Spangle), Shoshona Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
"Bruce Nauman," Galleri Faurschou, Copenhagen, Denmark
1994
"Falls, Pratfalls and Sleights of Hand," Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
"Prints and Drawings," Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
"Seven Virtues and Seven Vices," Konrad Fischer Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany
"Falls, Pratfalls and Sleights of Hand," Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, England
"Bruce Nauman," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN (travelling exhibition organized by the Walker Art Center in association with the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden)
"Bruce Nauman," Wexner Center, Columbus, OH (travelling exhibition organized by the Walker Art Center in association with the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden)
"Bruce Nauman," Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY (travelling exhibition organized by the Walker Art Center in association with the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden)
"Bruce Nauman," Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC (travelling exhibition organized by the Walker Art Center in association with the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden)
"Bruce Nauman Prints 1970-1988," Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Dirty Version," Konrad Fischer Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany
"Falls, Pratfalls and Sleights of Hand," (Video installation, Dirty Version) Galerie Tschudi, Glarus, Switzerland
1995
"Elliotís Stones," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
"Bruce Nauman - Falls, Pratfalls and Sleights of Hand, 1993 (Dirty Version)," Jean Bernier, Athens, Greece
"Bruce Nauman," Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
"Bruce Nauman, " Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (travelling exhibition organized by the Walker Art Center in association with the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden) "Bruce Nauman - Fingers and Holes," Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl, New York, NY
"Bruce Nauman, Selected Prints and Drawings," Earl McGrath Gallery, New York, NY
1996
"Bruce Nauman: Rotating Glass Walls," Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
"Bruce Nauman," Konsthall Stockholm, Stockholm, Sweden
"Bruce Nauman: Spring 1996 Exhibition," Konrad Fischer Gallery, Dusseldorf
"Fifteen Pairs of Hands, White Bronze, "End of the World," with Lloyd Maines," Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
"Bruce Nauman - Video and Sculpture," Sperone Westwater, New York, NY
1997
"Bruce Nauman: Shadow Puppet Spinning Head," Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Zürich, Austria
"Bruce Nauman: Violent Incident," Saint-Gervais Genève, Switzerland
"Bruce Nauman: 1985-1996, Drawings, Prints, and Related Works," The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT. Traveled to: Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
"Bruce Nauman, Image/Text 1966 - 1996," Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany. Traveled to: Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Hayward Gallery, London, England; and Taiteen Museo/Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland
1999
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL
"Gesammelte Werke 1: Zeitgenossische Kunst seit 1968", Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany
2000
"Bruce Nauman: Selected Work," Zwirner and Wirth, New York, NY
2001
"Bruce Nauman, Four Works," Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
2002
"Bruce Nauman – Mapping the Studio," Museum für Gegenswartkunst, Basel, Switzerland
"Bruce Nauman: Mapping the Studio (Fat Chance John Cage)," Dia Center for the Arts, New York
"Bruce Nauman: New Video Works," Konrad Fischer Galerie, Dusseldorf, Germany
"Bruce Nauman: Setting a Good Corner," Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
"Bruce Nauman: Neons, Sculptures, Drawings," Van de Weghe Fine Art, New York, NY
2003
Bruce Nauman: Theatres of Experience, Guggenheim Deutsche Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2004
Bruce Nauman: Setting a Good Corner, (Allegory & Metaphor), Power House, Memphis, TN
2004-2005
Bruce Nauman, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London
2005
Circuito Fechado: Os Filmes e Video de Bruce Nauman, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro
2006
"Elusive Signs: Bruce Nauman Works with Light," Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee,
"Bruce Nauman: Make Me Think Me," Tate Liverpool
2007
"A Rose Has No Teeth: Bruce Nauman in the 1960s," University of California, Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, CA