Artist | Vito Acconci (1940 - 2017)

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    • Vito Acconci

      Multi-Bed #51991
    • Vito Acconci

      Convertible Clam Shelter1990
    • Vito Acconci

      Adjustable Wall Bra1991
    • Vito Acconci

      Fluorescent Bed1992

Biography

Biography

born 1940 in New York
lives and works in Brooklyn, New York

Solo Exhibitions (selection)

Solo Exhibitions (selection)

1993 MAK - Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, Vito Acconci. The City Inside Us
1992 Museo de Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato,Italy
1991 MAGASIN, Centre National dArt Contemporain, Genoble, France
1991 Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris
1990 James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles landfall Press, New York, Vito Acconci. Graphic Retrospective
1989 Mai 36 Galerie, lucerne
1989 Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York Sonnabend Gallery, New York
1989 Gray Art Gallery, Jenkins Fine Arts Center, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina, Vito Acconci: Models for Public Projects Plus
1988 Sous-Sol, Geneva, Vito Acconci: Photoworks, Videos, et Films Super 8, 1969- 1972
1988 Galleria II Ponte, Rome
1988 B. R. Kornblatt Gallery, Washington, D.C., Vito Acconci: Installations, Working Drawings, and Models
1988 The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Vito Acconci. Public Places
1988 Rhona Hoffrnan Gallery, Chicago
1988 Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, Vito Acconci Photographic Works 1969-1970
1988 Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University Public Art Programm, Outdoor Installation, Face of the Earth
1987 La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California, Vito Acconci. Domestic Trappings. Travelled to Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York; Aspen Art Museum, Aspen Colorado; Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, Missouri
1987 International Center of Photography, New York International with Monument, New York
1986 Kent State University School of Art Gallery, Ohio
1986 The Palladium, New York
1986 USF Art Galleries, University of South Florida, Tampa;
1986 Knight Gallery, Spirit Square Art Center, Charlotte, North Carolina
1986 Zone, New York
1985 Ackland ArtMuseum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
1985 Carpenter+ Hochman Gallery, New York City Hall Park, New York
1985 Rhona Hoffrnan Gallery, Chicago The Brooklyn Museum, New York Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
1984 Gallery Nature Morte, New York University of Nebraska, Omaha
1984 Zone Center for the Arts, Springfield, Massa-chusetts
1983 Miami-Dade Community College, Florida
1983 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Williams College Museum of Art, Williams-town, Massachusetts
1982 Institute of Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia
1982 Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Oregon San Diego State University, California
1982 University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
1981 KöInischer Kunstverein, Cologne, West Germany;
1981 Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland
1981 Max Protetch Gallery, New York
1981 Padiglione d'Art Contemporanea, Milan, Italy
1981 The Kitchen, New York
1981 University of California, Los Angeles
1981 Young Hoffrnan Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1980 Art Gallery, Center for the Arts, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, Pennsylvania
1980 Atlanta Art Workers Coalition, Georgia
1980 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Illinois
1980 The Kitchen, New York
1979 Centre d'Arts Plastiques Contemporains (CAPC), Bordeaux, France
1979 De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Galerie Sonnabend. Paris, France
1979 Sonnabend Gallery, New York
1979 Main Gallery, University of Rhode Island, Kingston
1979 Young Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1978 Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna. Austria
1978 Galleria Mario Diacono, Bologna, Italy
1978 International Cultureel Centrum (ICC), Antwerp, Belgium
1978 Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minnesota
1978 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California
1978 Studio Ala, Milan, Italy
1978 The Kitchen, New York
1978 Kunstmuseum, Lucerne, Switzerland, Vito Acconci: Cultural Space Pieces 1974 - 1978
1978 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Vito Acconci. Headlines and Images
1978 Whitney Museum of American Art. New York
1977 Anthology Film Archives, New York
1977 Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
1977 Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels. Belgium
1977 Galerie Stampa, Basel Switzerland
1977 Gallery of Fine Art, Ohio State University, Columbus
1977 Modern Art Agency, Naples, Italy
1977 The Clocktower, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New York
1977 The Kitchen, New York
1977 University of Massachusetts, Amherst
1976 Anthology Film Archives, New York
1976 Artists Space, New York
1976 Franklin Furnace, New York
1976 Sonnabend Gallery, New York
1976 Wright State University Art Gallery, Dayton, Ohio
1976 University of California, Los Angeles
1975 And/Or Gallery, Seattle, Washington
1975 Carp Gallery, Los Angeles
1975 Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York
1975 James Mayor Gallery, London, Great Britain
1975 Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco, California
1975 Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Oregon
1975 Sonnabend Gallery, New York
1974 Galleria Alessandra Castelli, Milan, Italy
1974 Galleria Forma, Genoa, Italy
1974 112 Greene Street, New York
1973 Festival d'Automne, Paris, France
1973 Galerie D, Brussels, Belgium
1973 Galleria Schema, Florence, Italy
1973 Modern Art Agencies, Naples, Italy
1973 Sonnabend Gallery, New York
1972 California Institute of the Arts, Valencia
1972 Galerie Sonnabend, Paris, France
1972 Galleria I'Attico, Rome, Italy
1972 Sonnabend Gallery, New York
1971 A Space, Toronto, Canada
1971 John Gibson Gallery, New York
1971 New York University
1971 93 Grand Street, New York
1971 112 Greene Street, New York
1971 Protetch-Rivkin Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1971 Rhode Island School of Design. Providence
1970 Gain Ground Gallery, New York
1970 Nova Scotia Gallery of Art and Design, Halifax
1970 Wabash Transit Gallery, Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
1969 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence

Group Exhibitions (selection)

Group Exhibitions (selection)

1992 AllocationslArt for a Natural andArtificial Envi-
1992 ronment, Zoetermeer, The Netherlands
1992 Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York, The Power of the City1The City of Power
1992 Departures: Photography 1923-1990, Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia
1992 Still, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York
1992 Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Animals
1992 Stux Gallery, New York, Habeas
1991 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1997 Biennial
1991 Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Power: Its Myths, Icons, and Structures in American Art, 1967-1997; Traveled to Aron Museum of Art, Akron, and Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond
1991 VI Rossegno Internazionale del Video d'Autore, Taormina, Italy, Dissensi. Tra Film Video Televisione
1991 Whitney Museum of American Art at Equitable Center, New York, Immaterial Objects
1991 Independent Curators Incorporated, New York (Organizers), Departures: Photography 1923 - 1990, Travelled to Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery, Massachusetts; Denver Art Museum, Denver; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha; Pittsburgh Ctr. for the Arts; Goldie Paley Gallery, Philadelphia; Telfair Academy, Savannah
1991 American Academy and Institute of Arts and letters, New York, 43rd Annual Academy Institute Purchase Program
1991 Josh Baer Gallery, New York, Devices (curated by Bruce Ferguson)
1991 American Fine Arts, New York, Group Show (with Jeff Koons and Joel Shapiro)
1991 303 Gallery, New York, True to Life
1991 Mincher/Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco, Telekinesis
1991 Brooke Alexander Editions, New York, PoetsI Painters Collaborations
1991 Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, Video Library
1990 Milwaukee Museum of Art, Milwaukee, Wordas Image: American Art 1960-1990, Travelled to Oklahoma City Arts Museum, Oklahoma City, and Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
1990 Casino Municipale di Venezia, Venice, Casino Fantasma
1990 Galerie 1900/2000, Paris, Conceptual ArtsI Conceptual Forms
1990 Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Recent Print Acquisitions in Series
1990 Vivian Horan Fine Art, New York, Exposed
1990 Mai 36 Galerie, Lucerne, Switzerland, Selected Prints and Multiples
1990 Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, Pharmacy
1990 The University Art Galleries, Wright State U niversity, Dayton, Ohio, Assembled: Works of Art Using Photography as a Construction Element
1990 The Art Museum at Florida International University, American Art Today: The City
1990 Ben Shahn Galleries, William Paterson College of New Jersey, Wayne, New Jersey, Hand, Body, House
1990 Nahan Contemporary, New York Concept Decorative: Anti-Formalist Art of the 70's
1989 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Image Worl:. Art and Media Culture
1989 Whitney Museum of American Art Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York, The Experience of Landscape-Three Decades of Sculpture
1989 North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, Immaterial Objects: Works from the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art
1989 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, First Impressions: Early Prints by Forty-Six Contemporary Artists
1989 Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama. Japan, ContemporaryArt from New York-The Collection of the Chase Manhattan Bank
1989 Festival Nouvelles Scenes '89, Dijon. France, Une Autre Affaire
1989 Asian American Arts Center, New York, China (Artist wall project)
1989 Collett Art Gallery, Weber State College, Ogden, Utah, Recent Acquisitions
1989 XPO Galerie. Hamburg, West Germany. Internotional Landscape
1989 Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, Taboo, Brochure
1988 Whitney Museum of American Art Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York, Identity: Representations of the Self
1988 Galerie Christoph Dürr, Munich, West Ger-many, International Landscape
1988 The World Financial Center, New York, The New Urban Landscape
1988 Exit Art, New York. The Debt
1988 Point State Park. Pittsburgh, Sculpture at the Point, sponsored by The Three Rivers Arts Festival R. D. Erpf Gallery, New York, Private Works for Public Spaces
1987 Crown Point Press, New York. Prints in Parts; Hillwood Art Gallery. C. W. Post Campus. Long Island University, Greenvale, New York, Pervvverted by language
1987 Exit Art, New York. Concrete Crisis: Urban Images of the 80's
1987 American Fine Arts/Collin De land Fine Arts. New York. Acconci / Brenner / Gayman / Younger Independant Curators Incorporated. New York, The Success of Failure
1986 Kunstverein and Kunsthaus. Hamburg, West Germany, Zugehend auf eine Biennale des Friedens
1986 Wiener Festwochen, Vienna, Austria, Wienfluß
1986 303 Gallery. New York, Vito Acconci, Nancy Dwyer, Matt Mullican
1986 The Kitchen. New York, Two Moon July
1986 Gallery Hirondelle, New York, The Watermelon Show
1986 Barbara Gladstone Gallery. New York, The Low and Order Show
1986 The Freedman Gallery, Albright College. Reading, Pennsylvania. The First Decade
1986 Artists' Space, New York, The Fairy Tale: Politics, Desire and Everyday Life
1986 Kilcawley Center Arts Gallery, Youngstown State University, Ohio, The Doll Show
1986 Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts, Single Shots: A Video History of Personal Expression
1986 Carpenter+ Hochman Gallery, New York, Sculpture: AcconcilShermanISteinbachlWentworth
1986 Brooklyn Museum, New York, Public and Private: American Prints Today (traveling exhibition)
1986 New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, Places Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York, Picture This: Films Chosen by Artists
1986 Socrates Sculpture Park, long Island City, New York, Opening Exhibition
1986 City Gallery, New York, 1986: A Celebration of the Arts Apprenticeship Program
1986 Turman Gallery, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, Intimatelintimate
1986 The Clocktower, New York, Engaging Objects
1986 La Galleria en EI Bohio, New York, Artists Support Block Liberation
1986 Boca Raton Museum of Art, Florida, Art in the Environment
1986 Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
1986 Zona Archives, Florence, Italy, A. P: Artists' Photographs
1986 Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, An American Renaissance: Painting and Sculpture Since 1940
1986 La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California, Real Time-Actual Space
1985 Skironio Museum Polychronopoulos, Athens, Greece, Veme Biennale Internationale de Sculptura en Plein Air
1985 Public Art Space, Seattle, Washington, Urban Artworks
1985 American Academy of Arts and letters, New York, 37th Annual Purchase Exhibition
1985 Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, The Maximal Implications of the Minimal Line
1985 Hillwood Art Gallery, C. W. Post Campus, long Island University, Greenvale, New York, The Doll Show: Artists' Dolls and Figurines
1985 Lehman College Art Gallery, City University of New York, Brorix, The Bronx Celebrates
1985 University Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Ten: The First Decade
1985 Twining Gallery, New York, State of the Art
1985 Parc Lullin, Centre dArt Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland, Promenades
1985 Künstlerwerkstätten, Munich, West Germany, Prozeß und Konstruktion
1985 Maeght-Lelong Gallery, New York, Microcosms
1985 Artists' Space, New York, Memory Jam: A Retrospective of Films and Performances at Artists Space 1974-1985
1985 Graduate School of Architecture and Design, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Making Shelter
1985 Hillwood Art Gallery, C. W. Post Campus, long Island University, Greenvale, New York, Long Island Estate Gardens
1985 Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Aca-demy, Andover, Massachusetts, LandlSpacel Sculpture
1985 Buscaglia-Castellani Gallery, Niagara University, Niagara Falls, New York, In Addition: Other Works by Artpark's 1985 Project Artists Newhouse Gallery, Snug Harbor, New York, Houses
1985 Art Gallery at Harbor Front, Toronto, Canada, Four Legs -The Dog Show
1985 University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Festival 85: Art Now
1985 EI Bohio, New York, Contemporary Art Auction to Benefit EI Bohio
1985 The Gallery, New School of Art, Kent State University, Ohio, Blossom Festival School Art Program
1985 Kunsthaus and Kunstverein, Hamburg, West Germany, Biennale des Friedens
1985 La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, California, A Salute to the National Endowment for the Arts Twentieth Anniversary
1985 Artpark, Lewiston, New York
1985 Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Ohio, Artists and Architects: Challenges in Collaborations
1985 Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium, Art and Time
1985 10 on 8, New York, Arresting Images
1985 The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York, A New Beginning: 1968- 1978
1985 Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, Adornments (traveling exhibition)
1984 Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, Visions of Paradise: Installations by Vito Acconci, David Ireland, and James Surls
1984 BACA Downtown, New York, The Xmas Tree Show
1984 Diane Brown Gallery, New York, The Success of Failure (traveling exhibition)
1984 Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, The Skowhegan Celebration Exhibition
1984 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Het Lumineuze Beeld / The Luminous Image
1984 Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, Staged/ Stages (traveling exhibition)
1984 The Sculpture Center, New York, Sound Art
1984 Stellwig-Seguy Gallery, New York. Soul Catchers Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, Selections From the Permanent Collection
1984 Rhona Hoffrnan Gallery. Chicago, Illinois, Projects: World's Fairs, Waterfronts, Parks, and Plazas
1984 The Red Studio, New York, Outdoor Life
1984 Visual Arts Center of Alaska, Anchorage, International Sculptural Invitation: Time and Space Gallery 345, New York, Hungry for Words
1984 Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Furniture, Furnishings: Subject and Object (traveling exhibition)
1984 Pace Editions, New York, Etchings and Woodblocks
1984 Villa Arson, Nice, France, Ecritures dans la Peinture
1984 The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada, Drawings by Sculptors: Two Decades of Non-Objective Art in the Seagram Collection (traveling exhibition)
1984 1. Magnin, San Francisco, California Crown Point Pure Silk
1984 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., Content: A Contemporary Focus, 1974-1984
1984 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, Baubles
1984 Ted Greenwold Gallery, New York, Artists' Weapons: Peace and Good Will to all Men
1984 Interim Art, London, England, Armed
1984 New Langton Arts, San Francisco, The Last 80 Langton Street Cotalog
1984 Artpark, Lewiston, 1984 VisualArts Program
1983 Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minne-sota, When Words Become Works
1983 80 Langton Street, San Francisco, California, Urban Site
1983 Pittsburgh Plan for Art, Pennsylvania, Urban Pulses: The Artist and the City
1983 The Sculpture Center, New York, SoundlArt
1983 Brooklyn Army Terminal, New York, Preparing for War
1983 Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York, 1984
1983 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Minimalism to Expressionism
1983 Pratt Institute, Brooklyri, New York, Bridges
1983 Palais des Beaux-Arts, Charleroi, Belgium, Art Video: Retrospectives et Perspectives
1983 Artpark, Lewiston, New York
1983 Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, Art of Social Conscience
1983 192-97, Helsinki, Taitelijan Video Tanaan (Artists' Video Today)
1982 Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, West Germany, Documento 7
1982 Pratt Institute, Brooklyri, New York, Tracking, Tracing, Marking, Pacing (Movement Drawings) Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, '60-'80: Attitudes / Concepts / Images
1982 White Columns, New York, Record Covers for Show
1982 Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, Post-Minimalism
1982 Daniel Wolf Inc., New York, Photographs in Painting and Sculpture
1982 Galerie France Morin, Montreal, Canada, Photogrophs by Artists
1982 Art Galleries, American Academy of Arts and letters, New York, Painting and Sculpture by Candidates for Art Awards
1982 EI Museo del Barrio, New York, Octopus
1982 Museum of Art, Fort Lauderciale, Florida, New Directions: Contemporary Art from the Commodities Corporation Collection
1982 American Film Institute, Los Angeles, National Video Festival
1982 Giardini de Bellariva, Florence, Italy, 11Pennello Improprio
1982 Exit Art, New York, Illegal America
1982 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, Group Exhibition: Painting, Drawing, Sculpture, and Prints
1982 Lerner-Heller Gallery, New York, Four Manifestos: AcconcilBorraniklBeuysIMendieto
1982 Gallery 'W', Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Editions
1982 Fourteen Sculptors Gallery, New York, Drawings, Models, and Sculptures
1982 Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland, De /a Catastrophe
1982 Crown Point Gallery, Oakland, California, Artists' Photographs
1982 Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts, Art and Dance
1982 William Patterson College, Wayne, New Jersey, Anti-Apocalypse: Artists Respond to the Nuclear Peril
1982 Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead. New York, Androgyny in Art
1982 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., Metaphor: New Projects by Contemporary Sculptors
1982 Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland, De la Catastrophe
1981 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1987 Biennial Exhibition
1981 Museen der Stadt Köln, Cologne, Westkunst. Zeitgenössische Kunst seit 1939
1981 Bronx Museum of Arts, New York, Video Classics
1981 Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University Houston, Variants: Drawings by Contemporary Sculptors Whitney Museum of American Art Downtown, New York, The Prison Show: Realities and Representations
1981 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, The Kitchen Benefit Exhibition
1981 Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, Soundings
1981 University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Selections from the Chase Manhattan Bank Collection
1981 A Space, Toronto, Radio by Artists
1981 Creative Time, New York, Projects at the Precinct Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Other Realities: Installations for Performance
1981 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., Metaphor: New Projects by Contemporary Sculptors
1981 Lerner-Heller Gallery, New York, Manifestoes
1981 Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Machineworks: Vito Acconci, Alice, Aycock, Dennis Oppenheim Crown Point Gallery, Oakland, California, Italians and American Italians
1981 Anthology Film Archives, New York, Home Mode Movies: 20 Years of American 8 mm and Super-8 Films
1981 Printed Matter, New York, Heart. A Collection of Artists' Books for Libraries, Museums, and Collectors
1981 Arts Council of Great Britain, London, Films by American Artists: One Medium Among Many Muhlenberg College, Alientown, Pennsylvania, Art in Pursuit of a Smile
1981 Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes College, Pennsylvania, A Range of Contemporary Drawings
1981 The New Museum, New York, Alternatives in Retrospect
1981 The Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Cranbrook, Instruction Drawings: The Gilbert and Lisa Silverman Collection
1981 Kutztown State College, Kutztown, In and Out of Kutztown: A Documentation of the Art Series Program 1974-87
1980 Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, walls
1980 Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana, Painting & Sculpture Today-1980
1980 Sonnabend Gallery, New York, Morris, Acconci, Oppenheim
1980 The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada, Hier et ApreslYesterday and After
1980 Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland, 56 Artistes + 7
1980 San Nicolo, Spoleto, Italy, Festival of Two Worlds Venice Biennale, Italy, Drawings: The Pluralist Decade
1980 Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Drawings: The Pluralist Decade Palazzo Reale, Teatro del Falcone, Genoa, Italy, Dal Corpo a/ Nucivii Media FilmIPerformance
1980 International Cultureel Centrum, Antwerp, Belgium, Biennale van de Kritiek
1980 Artists Space, New York, A Sound Selection: Audio Works by Artists (traveling exhibition)
1980 Fine Arts Gallery, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, Art of Conscience: The Lost Decade
1980 Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, Artist and Printer
1980 Independant Curators Incorporated, New York, The Sense of the Self
1979 Museum Bochum, West Germany, Words
1979 De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 72 Films Chosen by Artists
1979 Museum for (Sub) Kultur, Berlin, West Germany, The International Strike of Artists?
1979 Kunstverein, Hamburg, West Germany, The Artist: Hermit? Investigator? Social Worker?
1979 P.S. 1, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New York, Sound
1979 Galerie Lydia Megert, Bern, Switzerland, Künstlerbücher
1979 Sichtung Forum, Middleburg, The Netherlands, Forum Audio Visueel
1979 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, Concept / Narrative / Documen:. Recent Photographic Works from the Morton Neuman Family Collection
1979 Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, Ateliers Aujourdhui. OEuvres: Contemporains des Collections Nationales Anchorage Ill
1979 P.S. 1, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New York, A Great Big Drawing Show
1978 University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Herbert Yogel
1978 Long Beach Museum of Art, California, Video Art
1978 Venice, Italy, 38th Venice Biennale
1978 Tampa Bay Arts Center, Florida, Three Installations
1978 Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, The Sense of the Self: From Self-Portrait to Autobiography
1978 Corps de Garde, Groningen, The Netherlands, Policeband Cancelled
1978 Cultureel Animatie Centrum Beursschounburg. Brussels, Belgium, Performance Art Festival
1978 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Made by Sculptors
1978 Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France, Journees Interdisciplinaires sur l'Art Corporel et les Performances
1978 Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Artwords and Bookworks
1978 Zona, Florence, Italy, Artists' Books
1977 Whitney Museum of American Art Downtown, New York, Words
1977 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, View of a Decade
1977 Philadelphia College of Art, Pennsylvania, Time Sonnabend Gallery, New York, Three Installations
1977 Corps de Garde, Groningen, The Netherlands, 16 Days
1977 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1977 Biennial Exhibition
1977 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, Landfall Press: A Survey of Prints 1970-1977
1977 Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, In Video
1977 Fine Arts Gallery, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, Installation and Print Projects by Visiting Artists at Wright State University 1974-1977
1977 Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Improbable Furniture (traveling exhibition)
1977 Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, West Germany, Documenta 6
1977 Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Collection in Progress: 200 or so Selections from the Collection of Milton Brutten and Helen Herrick
1977 Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium, American Art in Belgian Collections
1977 School of Visual Arts Gallery, New York, Acconci / Jonas: Video Installations
1976 San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California, Video Art. An Overview
1976 Venice, Italy, 36th Venice Biennale
1976 Second Triennial of Photography, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, The Artist and the Photograph
1976 The Fine Arts Building, New York, Style and Process
1976 Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, 72ndAmerican Exhibition
1976 P.S. 1, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New York, Rooms
1976 Philadelphia College of Art, Pennsylvania, Private Notations: Artists' Sketchbooks 11
1976 Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, In Transit
1976 Centre d'Arts Plastiques Contemporains (CAPC), Bordeaux, France, ldentité / Identifications
1976 Lerner-Heller Gallery, New York, A Patriotic Show
1976 The Fine Arts Building, New York, Style and Process
1975 XIIIe Sao Paolo Biennial, Brazil, Video Art USA
1975 The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Video Art
1975 Institute of Contemporary Art, University of
1975 Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Video Art
1975 The Fine Arts Building, New York, Lives
1975 Kensington Art Association, Toronto, Canada,
1975 Language and Structure in North America
1975 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, Bodyworks
1975 Whitney Museum of American Art Downtown, New York, Autogeography
1974 Kölnischer Kunstverein Cologne, West Germany, Video Tapes
1974 Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois, 71st American Exhibition
1974 Kunsthalle Köln. Cologne, West Germany, Kunst bleibt Kunst. Proiekt 74
1974 Artinstitute of Chicago, Illinois, Idea and Image in Recent Art
1974 The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Eight Contemporary Artists
1974 John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, D.C., Art Now '74
1974 Long Beach Museum of Art, California, Americans in Florence: Europeans on Florence
1973 The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Some Recent American Art (traveling exhibition)
1973 Kentucky, Kith and Kin
1973 Rome, Italy, Contemporanea
1973 Musée Galliera, Paris, France, Aspects de l'Art Actuel
1973 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, American Drawings 1963-1973
1972 Universiteitsmuseum, Utrecht, The Netherlands, Toeval
1972 Galerie Sum, Reykjavik, Iceland, Sum
1972 School of Visual Arts, New York, Performance Spaces
1972 Mills College, Oakland, California, Notes and Scores for Sounds
1972 New York Cultural Center, Making Megolopolis Matter
1972 San Nicolo, Spoleto, Italy, 420 West Broadway at Spoleto Festival
1972 Museo de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain, Encuentros
1972 Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, West Germany, Documento 5
1971 Wisconsin State University, Whitewater
1971 University of Rhode Island, Kingston
1971 Protetch-Rivkin Gallery, Cenvention Hall, Atlantic City, New Jersey, The Boardwalk Show Arnheim, The Netherlands, Sonsbeek 77
1971 Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, West Germany, Prospect
1971 The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Projects: Pier 78
1971 Finch College, New York, Projected Art Mönchengladbach, West Germany
1971 The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Lithographs: Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
1971 Daniel Templon, Paris, France
1971 Cheltenham Art Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1971 New York University, Body
1971 John Gibson Gallery, New York, Body Art Paris, France, Biennale des Jeunes
1971 Finch College, New York, Artists' Videotapes
1971 Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires, Argentina, Arte de Sisternas
1971 Reese Palley Gallery, New York, Acconci / Fox / Oppenheim
1970 Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut Tyler College of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Max's Kansas City, New York, The Saturday Afternoon Show
1970 The Jewish Museum. New York, Software
1970 Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Recorded Activities
1970 St. Mark's Church, New York, Perreault / Acconci
Vancouver Art Gallery, British Columbia, Canada, 995,000
1970 The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Information
1970 Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, Four Theater Pieces (Acconci / Burton / Costa / Perreault)
1970 Grammercy Arts Theater, New York, Events (Acconci / Perreault / H. Weiner)
1970 Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco, California, Body Works
1970 Alien Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio, Art in the Mind New York University, Aleph 71
1969 New York, Street Works /- /V
1969 St. Mark's Church, New York
1969 SUBArtGallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, Photo Show
1969 The Unit Playhouse, Hunter College New York, Performance
1969 Dwan Gallery, New York, Language Ill
1969 Gain Ground Gallery, New York
1969 Seattle Art Museum, Washington, 557,087
1969 Emanu-el Midtown YM-YWHA, New York
1969 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, Coulisse
1969 The Theater, New York, Arakawa / Acconci / Perreault / Venet
1969 New York University, Aleph 70
1968 Longview Country Club, New York, Tiny Events
1968 Central Park, New York, Poetry Events
1968 Orient Expresso Coffee House, New York, Language Events

Commissions / Public Projects

Commissions / Public Projects

1992 Project for Arvada Art Center, Arvada, Colorado
1991 Land of Boots-Project for St. Aubin Park, Detroit
1988 Face of the Earth 42, C. W. Post Center, Long Island University, BrookAlle
1988 Face of the Earth 43, Laurnier Sculpture Park, St. Louis
1987 Displaced Person, La Joila Museum of Contemporary Art, La Joila, California
1986 House in the Ground, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico
1986 Garden of Columns (Town Square for Workers), Atlanta, Georgia
1985 Coca Cola, USA
1985 Palladium Underground (Garden of Bodies). The Palladium, New York
1983 Way Station # 1 (Study Chamber), Middlebury College, Middlebury, Vermont

Bibliography

Bibliography

Selected Writings by Vito Acconci
Bodies of Land. 1992.
Frames for Life: The Public Organization of Private Experience. 1990. Panel Discussions, Dia Center for the Arts, N.Y.C. April-May 1991.
Public Space in a Private Time. 1990, in: Critical Inquiry, Vol. 1614. 1990.
Performance After The Fact, 1989, in: DOCUMENTS, No. 0, Paris, 1992.
Making Shelter. 1988.
Projections of Home. 1988, in: Artforum, Vol. XXVI. March 1988.
A Possible Model for Fairy Tales. 1986, in: New Observations Nr. 45. 1987.
Playing With The World "Doll", 1986, in: THE DOLL SHOW, Hillwood Art Gallery, C. W. Post College, Greenvale, New York.
Coming Out (Notes on Public Art). 1987.
Notes on Language. 1986.
Homebodies. 1985.
Some Notes on a Show Called Visions of Paradise. 1984.
Television, Furniture & Sculpture: The Room with the American View. 1984.
Art and Authority. 1983.
Normal Art. Art in Public Places. A course at the San Francisco Art Institute. 1983.
Lecture in: Site: The Meaning of Place in Art and Architecture, in: Design Quaterly. Summer 1983.
Some Grounds for Art as a Political Model. 1981. Vehicle / Architecture / Propagando. 1981.
Notes in: Situation Esthetics: Impermanent Art and the Seventies Audience, in: Artforum. January 1980.
Steps into Performance (and out), in: A. A. Bronson & R Gale, Performance by Artists. Toronto 1979.
Some Notes on Video as a Base, in: D. Davis & A. Simmons, The New Television: A Public / Private Art. Cambridge 1978.
Some Notes on Documenta 6 and My Place Inside and Out of it, in: Parachute. Autumn 1977.
Ten Point Plan for Video, in: I. Schneider & B. Korot, Video Art: An Anthology. New York 1976.
Notes on Drawing, in: Kunstforum, 1975.
West, He Said (Notes on Framing). 1975.
Notebook: On Activity and Performance, in: Art and Artists. May 1971.


Selected Articles and Reviews
Fleck, Robert, Vito Acconci: Body Trap, Flash Art, Vol. 25, No. 163, March/April 1992
Gintz, Claude, Vito Acconci: L'Impossibilité de I'art public (interview), Art Press, No. 166, February 1992
Heartney, Eleanor, Skeptics in Utopia, Art in America, July 1992
Bourne, Cécile, Vito Acconci: The Embodiment of an Idea (interview), Arti, Vol. 7, November/December 1991
Kimmelman, Michael, At the Whitney, a Biennial that's Eager to Please, The New York Times, April 19, 1991
Prince, Richard, Vitc, Acconci (interview), Bomb Magazine, No. XXXVI, Summer 1991
Burke & Hare, Vito Acconci: the Man with the Voice (Interview), July 1990
Ledes, Richard C., Vito Acconci: Artscribe, November/ December 1989
Lotringer, Sylvere, Vito Acconci: House Trap, Flash Art, No. 147, 1989
Woodward, Richard B., Documenting an Outbreak of Self Presentation, The New York Times, Sunday, January 22, 1989
Levin, Kim, Disorientation, The Village Voice, March 8, 1988
Schwartzman, Allan, The Outsider Moves Indoors, Manhattan, Inc. Vol. 5, February 1988
Homeyer, Jürgen, Freud und Götterfunken, Der Spiegel, May 1986
Greenburg, Blue, Vito Acconci. The State of the Art, 1985, Arts Magazine, Juni/Summer 1985
Marter, Joan, Artpork: Site installations in Retrospect, Arts Magazine, January 1985
McEvilley, Thomas, I Think Therefore I Art, Artforum, Summer 1985
Foster, Hal, For a Concept of the Political in Art, Art in America, April 1984
Gilbard, Florence, An Interview with Vito Acconci. Video Works 1970-1978, Afterimage, November 1984
Rice, Shelly, The Luminous Image: Video Installations at the Stedelijk Museum, Afterimage, December 1984
Van Wagner, Judy, K. Collischen, Sound Art, Arts Magazine, September 1984
McEvifley, Thomas, Art in the Dark, Artforum, Summer 1983
Harvey, Donald, An Interview with Vito Acconci, Dialogue, January/ February 1982
Platt, Susan, Vito Acconci: The Sheltering City, Artweek, September 4, 1982
Taylor, Paul, Self as Theatricality. Samuel Beckett and Vito Acconci, Art and Text 5/1982
Schwartz, Ellen, Vito Acconci: I Want to Put the Viewer on Shaky Ground, Art News, Summer 1981
Auer, James, Acconcis Talks About a Revolution that Failed, The Milwaukee Journal, April 27, 1980
Celant, Germano, Dirty Acconci, Artforum, November 1980. Biennale '80: Sonie Risvegli, Domus, July/August 1980
Kunz, Martin, The Development of Physical Action into a Psychic Intensity of the Picture, Flash Art, Summer 1980
Kuspit, Donald, Art of Conscience: The Last Decade, Dialogue, September/ October 1980
Arnaudet, Didier, Vito Acconci: Installations, Flash Art, October 1979
Barber, Bruce, Indexing: Conalitionalisrn and Its Heretical Equivalents, Performance by Artists, Toronto 1979
Gibbs, Michael, Vito Acconci at the Stedelijk Museum, Artzien, December 1978
Davis, Douglas, Artculture: Essays on the Post-Modem, New York 1977
Krauss, Rosalind, Notes on the Index: Seventies Art in America, October, Spring 1977
Levine, Ed, In Pursuit of Acconci, Artforum, April 1977.
Vito Acconci, Arts January 1977
Morin, France, Documenta et les: Artistes, Parachute, Autumn 1977
Salle, David, Vito Acconci's Recent Work, Arts, December 1976
Burnham, Jack, Flesh Is More :. A Modest Display of Bodyworks, New Art Examiner, April 1975
Sondheim, Alan, Vito Acconci: Work 1973- 1984, Arts Magazine, March 1975
Bourdon, David, Body Artists without Bodies, The Village Voice, February 24, 1974
Kozloff, Max, Traversing the Field ... "Eight Contemporary Artists" at MOMA, Artforum, December 1974
Pincus-Witten, Robert, Theater of the Conceptual: Autobiography and Myth, Artforum, October 1974
Celant, Germano, Vito Acconci, Domus, April 1972
Kirby, Michael, Performance at the Limits of Performance, The Drama Review, March 1972
Pluchart, François, Body as Art, Artitudes, October 1971
Perrault, John, Street Works, Arts Magazine, January 1970

Exhibition Publications
The Power of the City1The City of Power. Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York, 1992.
Vito Acconci. Museo dArte Contemporanea, Prato, Italy, 1991.
Power: Its Myths, Icons, and Structures in American Art, 1967-1997. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, 1991.
Word as Image: American Art 1960 - 1990. Milwaukee Museum of Art, Milwaukee, 1990.
Contemporary Art From New York - The Collection of the Chase Manhattan Bank. Yokohama Museum of Art, Yokohama, Japan, 1989.
Image World: Art and Media Culture. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1989.
Vito Acconci: Public Places. Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1988.
Vito Acconci Photographic Works: 1969- 1970. Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, 1988.
Vito Acconci: Domestic Trappings. La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California, 1987.
Wienfluß, The Vienna Festival. Vienna', Austria, 1986.
Public and Private: American Prints Today. Brooklyn Museum, New York, 1986.
Real Time-Actual Space. La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California, 1986.
Vito Acconci: The House and Furnishings as Social Metaphor. USF Art Galleries, University of South Florida, Tampa, 1986.
A New Beginning, 1968-1978. The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York, 1985.
Vito Acconci / IMATRIX 87. Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, 1985.
The Doll Show: Artists' Dolls and Figurines. Hillwood Art Gallery, C. W. Post Campus, Long Island University, Greenvale, New York, 1985.
Furniture and Furnishings: Subject and Object. Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence,1984.
Visions of Paradise: Installations by Vito Acconci, David Ireland, and James Surls. Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, 1984.
Het Lumineuze Beeld / The Luminous Image. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1984.
Content: A Contemporary Focus, 1974-1984. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., 1984.
Metaphor: New Projects by Contemporary Sculptors. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., 1982.
Documenta 7. Kassel, West Germany: D. + V. Paul Dierichs GmbH & Co. KG, 1982.
Machineworks: Vito Acconci, Alice Aycock, Dennis Oppenheim. Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1981.
Other Realities- Installations of Performance. Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, 1981.
Vito Acconci. Arbeiten in Deutschland, 1979-1987 Vito Acconci: Padiglione Arte Contemporanea. 1981 Workshop in Zürich. KöInischer Kunstverein, Cologne, West Germany, and Kunsthaus Zürich, 1981.
Vito Acconci: A Retrospective 1969-1980. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 1980.
VitoAcconci: Headlines and Images. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, 1978.
Vito Acconci: Cultural Space Pieces 1974 - 1978. Kunstmuseum Lucerne, 1978.
Time. Philadelphia College of Art, 1977.
Improbable Furniture, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1977.
ldentité / Identifications. Centre dArts Plastiques Contemporains, Bordeaux (France), 1976.
Video Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 1975.
Bodyworks. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 1975.
Eight Contemporary Artists. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1974.

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Exhibitions in artist-info 194 (S 36/ G 158) Did show together with - Top 5 of 2913 artists
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Bruce Nauman (59)- 614
John Baldessari (41)- 314
Dan Graham (39)- 259
Dennis Oppenheim (33)- 146
Robert Smithson (32)- 207
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194:   47 / 80 / 64 / 3
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Curators 117
artist-info records May 1969 - Apr 2018
Countries - Top 5 of 16
United States (91)
Germany (34)
Switzerland (9)
France (8)
Italy (7)
Cities - Top 5 of 74
New York (55)
Houston (5)
München (5)
Hamburg (5)
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Venues (no. of shows ) Top 5 of 147
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American Fine Arts, Co. Ltd. - AFA (5)
Contemporary Arts Museum - CAMH (4)
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Barbara London(4), Ulrich Wilmes(3), Barbara Fischer(2), Anja Casser(2), Kynaston McShine(2)
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The Time. The Place.

 - Contemporary Art from the Collection
Henry Art Gallery University of Washington G Nov 2017 - Apr 2018 Seattle (16) +0
Bozicnik, Nina (Curator)       +0
Sourakli, Judy (Curator)       +0
Schoening, Krista (Curator)       +0
Exhibition Title

From the Cavern to the Moon

 - A Journey Through the Collection of the Pecci Centre
Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci G Apr 2017 - Jan 2018 Prato (9) +0
Pezzato, Stefano (Curator)       +0
Exhibition Title

Vito Acconci

 -  Where We Are Now (Who Are We Anyway?), 1976
MoMA PS1 S Jun 2016 - Aug 2016 Long Island City (320) +0
Aldredge-Diamond, Margaret (Curator)       +0
Biesenbach, Klaus (Curator)       +0
Exhibition Title

Detail ist alles

Kunsthalle Mainz G Jun 2016 - Oct 2016 Mainz (45) +0
Exhibition Title

Letztes Jahr in Marienbad

 - Ein Film als Kunstwerk
Kunsthalle Bremen G Nov 2015 - Mar 2016 Bremen (193) +0
Grunenberg, Christoph (Curator)       +0
Exhibition Title

Cosa mentale

 - Les imaginaires de la télépathie dans l'art du XXe siècle
Centre Pompidou - Metz G Oct 2015 - Mar 2016 Metz (27) +0
Rousseau, Pascal (Curator)       +0
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