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TO M BURR (b. New Haven, CT 1963)
Education
1988
Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, NY
1986
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
Residencies/Teaching
2010
Artist in Residence, Randolph Cliff, Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland
2009
Critic in Sculpture, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, 2009-2010
Select Solo Exhibitions
2012
Cloud in Trousers, Citta della Pieve, Umbria, Italy
deep wood drive, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY
2011
Promiscuous Pleats, Franco Noero, Torrino, Italy
Head Ache, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, UK
New York, Sommer Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Felt Under Fingers, Almine Rech Galerie, Brussels
Gravity Moves Me, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, France
2009
Sentence, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY
Bonvicini/Burr, with Monica Bonvicini, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und
Kunstbau, Munich, travelling to Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel
Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, UK
2008
Descending, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy
Addict – Love, Sculpture Center, New York, NY
Black and Blue, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France
2007
Anxiety – A Showcase, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, Germany
Swiss Institute, New York, NY (with Walter Pfeiffer)
Moods, Secession, Vienna, Austria
2006
Extrospective, Museé Cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, Lausanne ,
Switzerland
Relapse, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, UK
2005 Complete Breakdown, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany
Privy, Please, The Norfolk Library, Norfolk, CT
The Complete Stories of Truman Capote, romaromaroma, Rome, Italy
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2004 Our Lady of the Flowers, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy
2003 Gone, Gone, American Fine Arts, New York, NY
Die Stalle/The Stalls, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, Germany
The Screens, Institute of Visual Culture, Cambridge, UK
2002 Piscine, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France
Deep Purple, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Dog Days, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, NY
2001 Brutalism, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany
2000 Low Slung, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
1999 Black Box, Artforum Berlin, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany
Private Property: Anti-Public Sculpture, Galerie Almine Reich, Paris, France
1998 Surface, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany
The Medical Show, Galeria Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain
1997 Stainless, American Fine Arts, New York, NY
1995 42nd Street Structures, American Fine Arts, New York, NY
1994 American Fine Arts, New York, NY
1992 Whitney Columns, New York, NY
Group exhibitions
2012 Everyday Abstract – Abstract Everyday, curated by Matthew Higgs, James
Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
The Quality of Presence, The Chelsea Hotel, New York, curated by Dmitry
Komis
relocated, Galerie Neu, Berlin
Utopia Gesamtkunstwerk, 21er Haus, Belvedere Museum,Vienna
2011 Verschiebungsersatz, curated by David Rimanelli, Kimmerich, New York
December: Organized by Howie Chen, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York
VERSCHIEBUNGSERSATZ, curated by David Rimanelli, Kimmerich, New York
After images, curated by Fionn Meade, Jewish Museum of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
Five Easy Pieces, Galleria Franco Noero, Torino, Italy
12th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
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Schnitte im Raum, Sculptural Collagen, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen,
Germany
The Smithson Effect, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT
SHAPES, Sammlung-Haubrok, Berlin, Germany
2009 Moby Dick, Curated by Jens Hoffman, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary
Arts, San Francisco, CA
The World is Yours, Louisiana Museum, Denmark
Rachel Harrison: Consider the Lobster and other Essays, Center for Curatorial
Studies and Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College (CCS Bard), Annendale-on
Hudson, New York
Saints and Sinners, curated by Laura Hoptman, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis
University, Boston
The Station curated by Shamim Momin & Nate Lowman Miami, FL
Abstract America: New Painting and Sculpture, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Political/Minimal curated by Klaus Biesenbach Kunst-Werke Berlin e.V. – KW
Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Recollection curated by Gianni Jetzer Barriera, Turin, Italy
La Fête Est Permanente / The Eternal Network FRAC – Champagne-Ardenne,
Reims, France
2008 The Eternal Flame. On the Promise of Eternity, Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz.
Not So Subtle Subtitle, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, NY
Marc Camille Chaimowitz, …In The Cherished Company of Others…, De
Appel, Amsterdam/PMMK, Oostende, Belgium
Sammlung/Collection 1978–2008, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst,
Zurich, Switzerland
Fais en sorte que je puisse te parler/Mache, dass ich zu dir sprechen kann/Act
so that I can speak to you, Kamm, Berlin, Germany
A new High in Getting Low (NYC), John Connelly Presents, New York, NY
Photos and Phantasy: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art
Foundation, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA
Une Saison à Bruxelles, Dépendance, Brussels, Belgium
2007 Walk!, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Oh Girl, It’s a Boy!, Munich Kunstverein, Munich, Germany
Body Politix, Witte de With, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
At Home, Yvon Lambert project space, New York, NY
The Happiness of Object, Sculpture Centre, Long Island, NY
Unmonumental: Falling to Pieces in the 21st Century, The New Museum, New
York, NY
OMNIA VANITAS IS ALL, Gavlack Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Pale Carnage, Arnolfini, Bristol, travelling to Dundee Contemporary Arts,
Dundee, Scotland
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2006 Wieder und Wider, Performance, MUMOK, Vienna, Austria
The Eighth Square, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
The Name of This Show Is Not GAY ART NOW, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York,
NY
Warum etwas zeigen, was man sehen kann, GAlerie fur Zeitgenossische Kunst,
Leipzig, Germany
2005 HaubrokShows, b Shapr, Xanter Strasse 7, Berlin, Germany
Down the Garden Path: The Artist’s Garden After Modernism, Queens
Museum of Art, New York, NY
Nolens Volens, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany
EXILE New York is a good Hotel, Broadway 1602, New York, NY
Residence, MICA Foundation, New York, NY
2004 Trafic d’influence: Art & Design, Collection Frac Nord Pas-de-Calais,
Dunkerque, France
Election, American Fine Art, Colin de Land Fine Art, New York, NY
When the lights go out…,Cohan & Leslie, New York, NY
Beginning Here: 101 Ways, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY
Strange Weather, Modern Art, London, UK
It’s all an Illusion, Migros Museum fur Gegenwartskurnst, Zurich, Switzerland
Flowers Observed, Flowers Transformed, The Andy Warhol Museum,
Pittsburgh, PA
2003 Le Rayon Noir, Circuit-Association d’Art Contemporain, Lausanne, Switzerland
New Space! Group Show! Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy
2002 Grey Gardens, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
My head is on fire but my heart is full of love, Charlottenborg
Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, Denmark
Xeros, Ecole du magasin, Center National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble,
France
2001 Deliberate Living, Greene naftali Gallery, New York, NY
Partnerschaften – Unterbrochene Karrieren, neue Gassellschaft fur Bildende
Kunst, Berlin, Germany
American Fine Arts, New York, NY
2000 Quiet Life, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal-Unteröwisheim, Germany
Sightings, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Space Open 2000, Space studios, London, UK
1998 Model, Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
I Hate Movies, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
Parasite, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
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1997 Sans Titre, Froment + Putnam, Paris, France
1996 Disappeared, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
American Fine Arts, New York, NY
Ideal Standard Life, Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan
Gramercy International Art Fair, New York, NY
1995 Birgit Kung, Zurich, Switzerland
_Architectures of Display_ with architect Toshiko Mori, Minetta Brook, New
York, NY
Platzwechsel, Kunsthalle Zurich und Schweizer National – museum, Zurich,
Switzerland
Mapping: A Response to MoMA, American Fine Arts, New York, NY
1994 Architecture and Display, Architectural Leagure of New York and Minetta
Book, New York, NY
Lace, Los Angeles, CA
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
1993 Kontext Kunst, Kunstlerhaus Graz, Austria
What Happened to the Institutional Critique, curated by James Meyer,
American Fine Arts, New York, NY
Social Subjects, YYZ Toronto, Ontario
Sonsbeek93 Arnheim, the Netherlands
Projet Unité, Firminy, France
1992 White Columns, New York, NY
American Fine Arts, New York, NY
1988 Hallwalls Contemporary Arts center, Buffalo, NY
Whitney Independent Study Program, Open Studios, New York, NY
Collections
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Migros Museum, Zurich
MuMOK, Vienna
Ludwig Museum, Koln
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne
Lenbachhaus Museum, Munich
Enea Righi Collection, Musein Bolzano, Italy
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Selected Bibliography
“Tom Burr: Questionnaire,” Frieze, June-Aug, p.252, 2008.
“Tom Burr: Vintage Vinyl,” The Art Newspaper, March 28, 2008.
Vezzoli, Francesco. “Tom Burr,” Mousse Magazine, March 2008.
Howe, David Everitt. “Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century,” Art Review,
March 2008.
Jones, Krisitin M. “Tom Burr,” ArtForum.com, February 13, 2008.
Decter, Joshua. “Tom Burr Talks About Addict-Love,” ArtForum, February 2008.
Bently, Kyle. “Burrs and the Bees,” ArtForum.com, January 16, 2008.
Unmonumental: Falling to Pieces in the 21st Century, (exhibition catalogue),
published by the New Museum and Phaidon 2007.
Shariatmadari, David. “Pale Carnage,” Art Review, May, p.131, 2007.
Frank, Rike. “Déjà vu All Over Again,” ArtForum, Issue XLV, p.113-114, 2007.
Rappolt, Mark. “The Man Who Wasn’t There,” Art Review, Issue 10, p.66-71, 2007.
Foll, Heike. Tom Burr & Jack Pierson, Artforum.com, December 1, 2007.
Baker, George. The Other Side of the Wall, October Magazine, Issue 120, Spring,
pp.106-137, 2007.
Burr, Tom. October Magazine, Issue 120, Spring, pp.138–139, 2007.
Tom Burr: Extrospective, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, exhibition
Catalogue, published by JRP Ringier, 2006.
Cattini, Sandra. “Tom Burr: Musee Cantonal Des Beaux Arts,” Flash Art, July September 2006.
Down The Garden Path: The Artist’s Garden After Modernism, Queens Museum of
Art, New York 2005.
Whitney Biennal 2004, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, p.160, 2004.
The Future Has A Silver Lining- Genealogies of Glamour, Migros Museum Fuer
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Gegenwartskunst, JRP/Ringier, Zurich, 2004.
Materials 05, Institute of Visual Culture, Cambridge, 2003.
My Head is on Fire my Heart is Full of Love, Charlottenborg, Udstillingsbygning,
Copenhagen, 2003.
Tom Burr: The Screens, Art Monthly, June 2003.
Hainly, Bruce and John Waters. Art- A Sex Book, Thames & Hudson 2003.
Tom Burr: Deep Purple, The Other Side of the Wall, George Baker, Whitney Museum
of American Art, New York 2002.
Xeros – Projet mobile et reproductible sur les sexualites et l’espace, Centre National
d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble 2002.
McDonough, Tom. Tom Burr at Greene Naftali-New York, Art in
November 2002.
America,
Hainley, Bruce. Black Box Recorder, Frieze, March 2002.
Rian, Jeff. _Tom Burr at Galerie Almine Rechs, Artnet.com, July 5, 1999.
Kravagna, Christian, ed. Tom Burr: Eight Renovations: A Constellation of Sites Across
Manhattan, Opening, Vienna, 1999.
Tom Burr, Thomas Trummer, Modelle, Austrian Gallery Belvedere, Printemps 1999.
Baker, George. Minimal Memory: Notes on Damaged Sculpture, Sharawadgi, Walther
Koenig, Cologne, 1999.
Miwon Kwon: ’One Place after Another: Notes on Site Specificity’, in; October 1997.
Trash, Platzwechsel, Kunsthalle Zurich & Schweizer Nationalmuseum, Zurich, 1996.
Fricke, Harold. Berlins groesster Promi als erotische Buehne, Die Tageszeitung, 1996.
Meyer, James. Tom Burr, Frieze, April 1996.
Schorr, Collier. Tom Burr at American Fine Arts, New York Fax, March – April 1996.
Sander, Joel, ed., Tom Burr: Circa ‘77, Stud, Princeton University Press, 1996.
Tom Burr: Trash, Platzwechsel, Ausst. Kat. Kunsthalle Zurich, 1995.
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Meyer, James. The Functional Site, Platzwechsel, Ausst.Kat, 1995.
Sunderburg , Erika, ed. Space, Site, Intervention: Situating Installation Art, University
of Minnesota Press Minneapolis, 1995.
Tom Burr: Unearthing the Public Restroom: Ruminations on an American Building
Type, Documents, 1995.
Meyer, James. What Happened to the Institutional Critique, American Fine Arts,
1993.
Fulland, Tom. Social Subjects, Ausst. Kat YYZ, Toronto, 1993.
Tom Burr: The Storage Project, Project Unite, Ausst. Kat Firminy, 1993.
Tom Burr: Just Outside the Museum, Kunst + Museums Journal, Number 4, 1993.
Site Specific, Metropolis M, May – June 1993.
Direkt vor dem Museum…, Kontext Kunst, Ausst.Kat. Steirischer Herbst, 1993.
Hermes, Manfred. Cruising and Birdwatchers, Texte zur Kunst, February 1992.
Aupetitallot, Yves. Passages, Forum International, January – February 1992.
Faust, Gretchen, Arts Magazine, March 1990.
Hirsh, David, New York Native, December 18, 1989.
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