Vito Acconci
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vito_Acconci| Born in the Bronx, New York, 1940. Lives and Works in Brooklyn, New York. Selected Public Projects: 1983 Way Station I (Study Chamber), Middlebury College, VT 1984 Bad Dream House, MIT, Cambridge, MA, temporary 1985 House of Used Parts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, temporary 1986 House on the Ground, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM 1987 Garden of Columns, Coca Cola USA, Atlanta, Georgia 1988 Birth of the Car / Birth of the Boat, 3 Rivers Festival, Pittsburgh, PA, temporary 1991 Land of Boats, St. Aubin Park, Detroit, MI 1992 Floor Clock (1989), Chicago Dock & Canal, Chicago, IL Earth Wall for Arvada Center for Art and Humanities, Arvada, CO 1993 Personal River, Newcastle, temporary 1994 Personal Island (1992), Zwolle, Netherlands 1995 Plaza for Klapper Hall, Queens College, NY 1996 House up a Building, (portable: various locations ) 1997 Loloma Station, Scottsdale, AZ 1998 Indoor Park for Departures Terminal, Philadelphia Airport, PA Plaza and Lobby for Midwest Convention Center, Milwaukee, WI Selected Solo Exhibitions: 1999 "Vito Acconci: Public Art", University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA 1998 Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY 1997 "Vito Acconci: Old, Refined, and Re-Viewed," Stroom, The Hague, Netherlands 1996 "Vito Acconci: Living Off the Museum," Centro Gellego de Art Contemporanea, Santiago de Campostela, Spain "Vito Acconci: Video," Monika Spruth Gallery, Koln, Germany 1995 "Theater Project for A Rock Band," Dia Center for the Arts, for the Brooklyn, Academy of Music, New York, NY "Vito Acconci," La Criee Centre d'Art Contemporain, Rennes, France 1994 "Vito Acconci: House of Streets, Parks and Plazas," L'Usine, Le Consortium, Dijon, France "Vito Acconci," Williams College of Art, Williamstown, MA "Vito Acconci: A Print Retrospective," University of Missouri, Kansas City "Vito Acconci: Private Houses," American Fine Arts, New York, NY 1993 "Vito Acconci: Making Public," Stroom, Netherlands "Vito Acconci: The City Inside Us," Osterreichsches Museum Fur Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY 303 Gallery, New York, NY Monkia Spruth Gallery, Koln, Germany Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France "Vito Acconci," Museo de Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy 1991 "Vito Acconci," Centre d'Art Contemporain, Grenoble Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France 1990 James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "Vito Acconci: Graphic Retrospective," Landfall Press, New York, NY 1989 Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY "Vito Acconci: Models for Public Projects Plus," Gray Art Gallery, Jenkins Fine Art Center, East Carolina University 1988 "Vito Acconci: Public Places,", The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY "Vito Acconci: Photoworks, Videos, et Films Super 8, 1969-1972," Sous-Sol, Geneva Galleria Il Ponte, Rome, Italy "Vito Acconci: Installations, Working Drawings, & Models," B.R. Kornblatt Gallery, Washington, D.C. "Vito Acconci: Photographic Works 1969-1970," Brooke Alexander Gallery, NY 1987 "Vito Acconci: Domestic Trappings," La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, CA "Vito Acconci: HomeBodies," USF Art Galleries, University of South Florida 1985 The Brooklyn Museum, NY Carpenter + Hochman Gallery, New York, NY Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 1984 Gallery Nature Morte, New York, NY University of Nebraska, Omaha 1983 Miami-Dade Community College, FL Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Williams College of Art, Williamstown, MA 1982 Institute of Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond Portland Center for the Visual Arts, OR San Diego State University University of Massachusetts, Amherst Selected Awards and Fellowships: Guggenheim Fellowship: 1979 NEA Fellowship: 1976, 1980, 1984 New York State Council on the Arts: 1977 Skowhegan Award: 1980 Sculpture Center Award for Lifetime Achievement: 1997 Parks Council Award for Excellence in Design: 1998 ID Magazine Award for Excellence in Design: 1998 New York City Art Commission Award for Excellence in Design 1999 |
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