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Born: 1953 Brooklyn Lives: New York City

Education State University College, Buffalo, New York, 1975, BFA
Solo Exhibitions Selected One-person Exhibitions: 2009 Galerie Hans Mayer, D�sseldorf (and 1992, 1994, 2007) 2008 Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles (and 2005) Galer�a Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid (and 2003) (cat.) 2007 Metro Pictures, New York (and 1981, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1993, 1997, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2006) 2006 "Ouroboros," Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris 2005 "Robert Longo: Fire, Water, Rock 2003-2005," Galleria D'Arte Contemporanea Emilio Mazzoli, Modena, Italy (cat.) "Robert Longo: Deep Silence," Monchehaus Museum, Goslar 2002 "Robert Longo- Sigmund Freud," J�disches Museum Berlin, Germany "The Freud Drawings," Museen Haus Lange und Haus Esters; Krefelder Kunstmuseen, Germany; Albertina Museum, Vienna (cat.) 2000 "Robert Longo: Superheroes," Lipanjepuntin Artecontemporanea, Trieste, Italy "Robert Longo: 1980-2000," Emilio Mazzoli, Modena, Italy (cat.) 1998 Gallery Cotthem, Belgium; Cotthem Gallery Barcelona (cat.) 1997 "Das Magellan Projekt," Kunsthalle Tubingen; Kunsthal Rotterdam; Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany (cat.) 1996 "Robert Longo: Kreuze," Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany 1995 "Robert Longo: A Retrospective," The Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo; Ashikaga City Museum; Kirin Plaza Art Space, Osaka (cat.) Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg (and 1993) 1992 "Dreams With The Wrong Solutions," Salzburg Grand Opera House, Salzburg 1991 Hamburger Kunstverein and Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (cat.) Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris (and 1987, 1990) 1989 "Robert Longo 1976-1989," (Retrospective) The Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut (cat.) 1988 Menil Collection, Houston 1986 Donald Young Gallery, Chicago "Robert Longo: Studies and Prints," Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, University of Regina, Sasketchawan Spiral Gallery, Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo (cat.) "Sequences/Men in the Cities," University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana (cat.) 1985 The Brooklyn Museum, New York Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam "Robert Longo Dis-Illusions," University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City (cat.) 1984 "Robert Longo: Drawings & Reliefs," Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio (cat.) Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles (and 1981) 1983 Leo Castelli Gallery, New York 1979 The Kitchen, New York 1976 Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York
Group Exhibitions Selected Group Exhibitions: 2009 "Three: The Triptych in Modern Art," Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart 2008 "Interieur/Exterieur: Living in Art," Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg (2008-2009) (cat.) "Political Corect," BFAS Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva "to: Night," The Hunter College Art Galleries, New York "Landscope," Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris (cat.) "The Big Bang," Museo Carlo Bilotti, Rome (cat.) "That Was Then�This Is Now," P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York "Future Tense: Reshaping the Landscape," Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York 2007 "History Will Repeat Itself," KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund; Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (2007-2008) (cat.) "Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami; Mus�e D'Art Contemporain, Montr�al (2007-2009) (cat.) "Panic Attack! Art in the Punk Years," Barbican Art Gallery, London (cat.) "Hot Rock," Transmission Gallery, Scotland 2006 "Fifth Interpretation of the Collection," La Colecci�n Jumex, Pachuca, Mexico (cat.) "New York New York: Fifty Years of Art, Architecture, Cinema, Performance, Photography and Video," Grimaldi Forum, Monaco (cat.) "Les Mouvement des Images," Centre Pompidou, France (cat.) "The Downtown Art Show: The New York Art Scene 1974-1984," Grey Art Gallery, Fales Library, New York University (cat.) 2005 "Flashback: Revisiting the Art of the Eighties," Kunstmuseum Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel (cat.) "Drawing from the Modern," MoMA, New York 2004 "Biennial," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 2003 "Art, Lies, and Videotape: Exposing Performance," Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England (cat.) 2002 "The Human Factor: Figuration American Art, 1950-1995," Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana "Melodrama," Atrium, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain; Centro Jos� Guerrero, Granada, Spain, MARCO, Vigo, Spain (cat.) 2001 "Postmodern Americans," The Menil Collection, Houston "'Pictures' at an Exhibition," Artists Space, New York "Streit-Lust� For Argument's Sake," Ludwig Forum f�r Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany (cat.) 2000 "End Papers," Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York 1999 "The Kiasma Collection," Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki "The Virginia & Bagley Wright Collection," Seattle Art Museum 1998 "The Edward R. Broida Collection: a Selection of Works," Orlando Museum of Art, Florida (cat.) 1997 La Biennale di Venezia: XLVII Esposizioione Internationale d'Arte, Venice (cat.) "Views From Abroad: European Perspectives on American Art 3," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (cat.) "Stills: Art and Cinema in the Marieluise Hessel Collection," Centro Cultural Light, Rio de Janeiro; Center For Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (broch.) 1996 "New York 'Unplugged II'," Gallery Cotthem, Knokke-Zoute, Belgium 1995 "It's Only Rock and Roll," Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (traveling venues through 1998, (cat.) "Passions Privee," Mus�e d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris 1993 "The 21st Century," Kunsthalle Basel (cat.) 1992 "Allegories of Modernism: Contemporary Drawing," Museum of Modern Art, New York (cat.) 1990 "Affinities and Intuitions: The Gerald S. Elliott Collection of Contemporary Art," The Art Institute of Chicago (cat.) 1989 "A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (cat.) "Image World: Art and Media Culture," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (cat.) 1987 "Documenta 8," Kassel, Germany (cat.) "L'Epoque, La Mode, La Morale, La Passion, 1977-1987," Centre Georges Pompidou, Musee National D'Art Moderne, Paris (cat.) "Avant-Garde in the Eighties," Los Angeles County Museum of Art (cat.) "Implosion: A Postmodern Perspective," Moderna Museet, Stockholm (cat.) 1986 "The American Exhibition," The Art Institute of Chicago 1985 "Carnegie International," Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh (cat.) 1984 "Alibis," Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (cat.) "Content: A Contemporary Focus, 1974-1984," Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C. (cat.) "The Heroic Figure," Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; (1984-85) Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis; Alexandria Museum, Alexandria, Kentucky; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California (cat.) 1983 "Directions 1983," Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C. (cat.) "Biennial," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (cat.) "The New Art," Tate Gallery, London (cat.) "The Fifth Biennale of Sydney, Private Symbol: Social Metaphor," Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (cat.) "An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture," Museum of Modern Art, New York (cat.) 1982 "Eight Artists: The Anxious Edge," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (cat.) "Focus on the Figure: Twenty Years," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (cat.) "Documenta 7," Kassel, Germany (cat.) 1981 "Westkunst: Today Section," Museen der Stadt Koln, Cologne (cat.) 1980 "Extensions: Jennifer Bartlett, Lynda Benglis, Robert Longo, Judy Pfaff," Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (cat.) 1977 "Pictures," Artists Space, New York; (1977-78) Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio; Fine Arts Museum, University of Colorado, Boulder; Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art (cat.)
Bibliography Selected Bibliography: 2009 Boyer Tresaco, Best New York Art 2008/2009, Theredoom, New York, pp. 100-103 Glenn O'Brien, "Robert Longo," Purple, Issue #11, Spring/Summer, pp. 314-321 Christopher Miles, "Art Around Town," LAWeekly.com, January 7 2008 Interieur/Exterieur: Living in Art, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, pp. 49, 52, 186, 196-197 "Robert Longo," Dossier, Issue No. 1, pp. 26-31 New York Chanel Mobile Art, Issue #3, pp. 11-12, 17-18, 129-130 The Big Bang, Museo Carlo Bilotti, Rome, pp. 18-31 Matthieu Poirier (ed.), Landscope: Landscape and Contemporary Drawing, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, pp. 38-41 2007 Dominic Molon, Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, pp. 43-47 Joanne Bernstein, The UBS Art Collection: Drawings, UBS AG, Z�rich, pp. 160-161 "The Producers," Artforum, October, pp. 352-359, 402 Dorothy Spears, "It's Only Rock and Art, but They Like It," The New York Times, September 30, pp. 30 Panic Attack! Art in the Punk Years, Mark Sladen and Ariella Yedgar (ed.), Merrell Publishers Limited, London, pp. 102-103 Jonathan T.D. Neil, "Robert Longo: The Outward and Visible Signs of an Inward and Invisible Grace," Art Review, February, pp. 132 Sarah Valdez, "Robert Longo: Review," Art on Paper, January/February, pp. 89 2006 Fifth Interpretation of the Collection, La Colecci�n Jumex, Pachuca, Mexico, pp. 213 The Movement of Images, Centre Pompidou Editions, Paris, pp. cover design, 102 Sarah Douglas, "Staying Power," Art + Auction, November, pp. 160-167 No. 1, Francesca Richer and Matthew Rosenzweig (ed.), D.A.P., New York, pp. 225 Germano Celant and Lisa Dennison, New York New York: Fifty Years of Art, Architecture, Cinema, Performance, Photography and Video, Skira, Monaco, pp. 480 - 483 2005 Hatje Cantz Verlag, Flashback: Revisiting the Art of the 1980s, Kunstmuseum Basel, Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Switzerland Richard Lacayo, "How Does '80s Art Look Now," Time, 26 March, pp. 58-62 Robert Longo: Fire, Water, Rock 2003-2005, Emilio Mazzoli Galleria D\'Arte Contemporanea Modena, Italy Jordan Kantor, Drawing from the Modern: After the Endgames, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, pp. 105. Werner Spies, Robert Longo: Deep Silence, Monchehaus Museum Publishing, Goslar (cat.) Robert Longo, "A Universe in Climax Sonic Grandeur: Robert Longo Talks with Glenn Branca," Yard, ed. Ellen Ross, London Terrace Station, New York pp. 46-53 2004 Francine Koslow Miller, "Robert Longo � Metro Pictures," Tema Celeste, Milan, May/June, p. 90 Eleanor Heartney, "Robert Longo at Metro Pictures," Art in America, September, p. 127 2003 Peter Kalb, "Robert Longo at Metro Pictures," Art in America, January, p. 101 "Robert Longo Talks to Mary Haus," interview with Mary Haus, Artforum, March, pp 238-239 Recycled Culture in Contemporary Art and Film: The Uses of Nostalgia, Vera Dika, Cambridge University Press, New York, pp. 8, 9, 36-41 Christina Parra, "ARTE," Metaphore, vol. 7, June, pp. 90-93 2002 Melodrama, Atrium, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, pp. 36-41 Joyce Korotkin, "A Force of Nature," Tema Celeste, Milan, September/October, pp. 74-77 Paul H-O, "September Tsunami," Artnet.com Magazine, September Christopher Bollen, "Robert Longo, 'Monsters'," Time Out New York, 17-24 October, p. 80 The Freud Drawings, Krefelder Kunstmuseen, Krefeld, Germany Lilly Wei, "Robert Longo� Metro Pictures," Art News, December, p. 117 2001 Kim Levin, "Robert Longo," Village Voice, 6 February, p. 78 Joyce Korotkin, "Robert Longo, Metro Pictures," The New York Art World, March, p. 16 Donald Kuspit, "Robert Longo, Metro Pictures," Artforum, April, p. 138 Carey Lovelace, "Robert Longo at Metro Pictures," Art in America, May, p. 172 Robert Curcio, "Robert Longo: The Next Wave," dart, Spring, pp. 18-19 Postmodernism, Eleanor Heartney, Tate Publishing, London, pp. 32-33 David Rimanelli, "Signs of the Time," Artforum, October, pp. 130-122 Streit-Lust� For Argument's Sake, Ludwig Forum f�r Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany, p. 55 Werner Spies, "What was left of the Doctor: Robert Longo and His Cycle on Sigmund Freud's Apartment in Vienna," Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt, 8 September 2000 Art Since 1940: Strategies of Being, edited by Jonathon Fineberg, Calmann & King, London, p. 450 End Papers, edited by Judy Collischan, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York Robert Longo: 1980-2000, essays by Achille Bonito Oliva and Richard Milazzo, Emilio Mazzoli, Modena, Italy 1999 "The Wired Diaries," Wired, January, p. 127 Performance: Live Art Since 1960, Roselee Goldberg, Abrams, New York, p. 200 The Virginia & Bagley Wright Collection, essays by Trevor Fairbrother and Bagley Wright, Seattle Art Museum, p. 132 Laurence A. Rickels, "American Psychos," Art/Text, November, pp. 58-63 Ann Landi, "Robert Longo: Dorfman Projects," Art News, December, p. 175 The American Century: 1950-2000, Lisa Phillips, Whitney Museum of American Art, p. 308 1998 Owen Drolet, "A More Intimate Longo," Flash Art, Milan, January/February, p. 45 David Frankel, "Robert Longo: Metro Pictures," Artforum, March, p. 100 Grady G. Turner, "Robert Longo," Flash Art, Milan, March/April, pp. 113-114 The Edward R. Broida Collection: a Selection of Works, Sue Scott, Orlando Museum of Art, Florida Stills: A Selection from the Marieluise Hessel Collection, essay by Ivo Mesquita, Center For Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York Maia Damianovic, "Robert Longo," Tema Celeste, Milan, p. 62 Superheroes, Cotthem Gallery, Cotthem, Belgium; Cotthem Gallery, Barcelona History of Modern Art (4th edition), H.H. Arnason & Marla F. Prather, Abrams, New York, pp. 711-712 Art of the 20th Century (vol. I & II), essays by Klaus Honnef, Indigo F. Walther, Christiane Friche, Manfred Schneckenburger, Karl Ruhrburg, Benedikt Taschen, Cologne, pp. 561, 573-574
Grants/Awards Awards and Grants: 2005 The Goslar Kaiser Ring Museum collections: The Albertina, Vienna, Austria Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York Art Institute of Chicago Eli Broad Family Foundation, Los Angeles Guggenheim Museum, New York High Museum, Atlanta The Jewish Museum, New York J�disches Museum Berlin, Germany Los Angeles County Museum of Art Ludwig-Forum fur Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany Menil Collection, Houston Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada Musee d'Art Contemporain, Montreal Museum of Modern Art, New York Power Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Sydney, Australia Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Tate Gallery, London Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut Walker Art Center, Minneapolis Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Projects Film and Video Direction: 1995 "Johnny Mnemonic," feature-film starring Keanu Reeves, Dolph Lundgren, Barbara Sukowa, Henry Rollins, Ice-T, Takeshi Kitano, and Dina Meyer, adaptation of a short story by William Gibson, Caroloco Films, Tristar Pictures 1987 "Arena Brains," Elektra/Asylum Records, 34 minute film premiered at New York Film Festival, released on home video in 1988, produced by Victoria Hamburg and Jonathan Bender, edited by Rick Feist, written by Eric Bogosian, E. Max Frye, Robert Longo, Emily Prager, and Richard Price, Pressure Pictures R.E.M.'s "The One I Love," IRS Records, produced by Victoria Hamburg, edited by Gretchen Bender, nominated for Best Director, MTV Awards, 1988, Pressure Pictures 1986-1992 directed videos for New Order, REM, Helmet, and World Saxophone Quartet

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