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Vito ACCONCI
(New York, 1940 - New York, 2017)

 

Biography

Vito Acconci initially pursued writing, enrolling in the University of Iowa’s MFA writing program in the early 1960s. In 1967 he co-founded the independent magazine 0 to 9, through which his own work transitioned to intermedia while the magazine became a model for future collaborative journals. Then, in 1968, he embarked on an eight-year period in which he expanded writing into street works, and interventions relayed via hand written text, photography, sound, film and video. Some of his best-known works from this period, such as Following Piece (1969),Trademarks(1970), and Seedbed (1972), were cornerstones of this era and have had an outsize influence on his peers and later generations of artists. Acconci’s work continued to transform during the mid-1970s, positioning him as an unconventional architect who would go on to design structures from a wide range of materials. He founded Acconci Studio in 1988. His public works—many of which were never realized—are provocative and memorable, while his architectural work combines design, architecture and environmental use at once. One of his best-known works is Mur Island, for Graz, Austria (2003), a floating platform in the middle of Mur river that was commissioned on the occasion of Austria’s being named as the European Capital of Culture. Vito Acconci was named Design Miami Designer of the Year in 2012. Where We Are Now (Who Are We Anyway?), his retrospective of early works from 1968 to 1976, was designed by Vito + Maria Acconci and took over the 3rd floor of MoMA PS1 in 2016.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2019

Vito Acconci. FAULT-LINE-ON-5, Pace Gallery, London UK 

2016

Vito Acconci, Where We Are Now (Who Are We Anyway?), MoMA PS1, New York US 

2014

Vito Acconci: Now and Then, Grieder Contemporary, Zurich CH 

2012

Vito Acconci: Vito Acconci, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago US 

2011

Space of the Body – opere e video 1969/1986, Galleria Fumagalli, Bergamo IT 

2010

AAA Talk Vito Acconci+Ai Weiwei: Artist in Conversation, Agnès b. Cinema, Wanchai HK Early Works – Vito Acconci, Basis Frankfurt, Frankfurt/Main DE

Coinvolgimenti, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Castello di Rivoli, Torino IT

Lobby-For-The-Time-Being, Bronx Museum of the Arts (BxMA), New York US 

2009

Vito Acconci: Language Works- Video, Audio and poetry, Argos, Bruxelles BE 

2008

Vigilancia y control, Centro de Arte La regenta, las Palmas de Gran Canaria ES Vito Acconci: Power Fields, Slought Foundation, Philadelphia US 

2006

Medium Fotografie, Stampa Galerie, Basel CH Dark Places, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica US 

2005

Mapping Space, Miami Art Museum, Miami US Looking at Words, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York US Self/City/Sound, Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT), Liverpool UK 

Vito Hannibal Acconci Studio, Stedelijk, Amsterdam NL

No Time in No-Land, Kenny Schachter Rove, London UK 

Vito Hannibal Acconci Studio, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno (CAAM), Las Palmas de Gran Canaria  & Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona

2004

Vito Acconci - Vito Hannibal Acconci Studio, Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA, Barcelona 

Vito Acconci, Ierimonti Gallery, Milano 

Diary of a Body, Gladstone Gallery, New York US 

Video Screening 1 - Vito Acconci, Center for Contemporary Art, CCA Kitakyushu, Kitakyushu 

2003

Rehearsals for Architecture, Kenny Schachter Rove, Perry St., New York US Acconci Studio - Slipping into the 21st Century, Pratt-Manhattan Gallery, New York US Selected Videos by Vito Acconci, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca US 

2002

Vito Acconci: Acts of Architecture, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO 

Vito Acconci: Acts of Architecture, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee US 

2001

Vito Acconci: Acts of Architecture, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Houston, TX 

VITO ACCONCI: Performance Documentation & Photoworks, 1969–1973, Ubu Gallery, New York City, NY

Vito Acconci, 11 Duke Street, London, UK

Vito Acconci / Acconci Studio, Architectural Models, The Institute for the Cooperation of Art and Research, New York US and Paris FR

Built, Unbuilt, Unbuildable. 1983-2001, ICAR Foundation, Paris FR

Para-Cities : Models for Public Spaces, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol UK Playing Amongst the Ruins, Royal College of Art, London UK

2000

Vito Acconci: Skatepark, Inst. Francais d’Architecture, Paris FR Video Time, Museum of Modern Art, New York US Vito Acconci: High-rise of Models, Munich Buildings Department, Munich DE 

1999

Vito Acconci: Public Art, University of the Arts, Philadelphia US 

1997

Acconci, Old, Refreshed and Re-viewed, Stroom, The Hague NL Vito Acconci, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo JP 

1996

Vito Acconci, CGAC, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela ES 

1995

Vito Acconci, Dia Center for the Arts, New York US 

1994

Vito Acconci : House of streets, Parks and Plazas, Le Consortium, Dijon FR 

1993

Vito Acconci: Models and projects for streets, squares and parks, Stroom, The Hague NL 

1992

Vito Acconci, Centro per l ́Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato IT 

Vito Acconci, Austrian Museum of Applied Arts, Wien AT 

Home Entertainment Centers 1991-1992, 303 Gallery, New York US 

1991

Vito Acconci, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York US Vito Acconci, Le Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble FR 

1990

Vito Acconci Retrospective, Landfall Press, New York US

New Work/Vito Acconci, James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles US 

1989

Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York US Mai 36 Galerie, Lucerne CH 

1988

Photographic Works from the 60’s, Brooke Alexander, New York US

Vito Acconci: Domestic Trappings, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen US

Vito Acconci: Part 2, Sculpture, Installations and Video 1972-1987, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago US

Vito Acconci, Museum of Modern Art, New York US

Vito Acconci: Part 1, Early Works, Photographs 1969-1972, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago US 

Galeria Il Ponte, Roma IT 

1987

Vito Acconci: Domestic Trappings, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla US Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego US 

1985

Vito Acconci, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago US University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill US Matrix, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford US

Face of the Earth, City Hall Park,New York US The Brooklyn Museum, New York US Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva CH Carpenter + Hochman Gallery, New York US 

1984

Nature Morte, New York US 

Print Survey, University of Nebraska, Omaha US 

1983

Vito Acconci: Video tapes: De Appel, Amsterdam NL Whitney Museum of American Art, New York US Miam1Dade Community College, Miami US Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown US 

1982

Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland US Institute for Contemporary Art at the Virginia Museum, Richmond US San Diego State University, California US University of Massachusetts, Amherst US 

1981

Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne DE Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milano IT Max Protetch, New York US 

The Kitchen, New York US 

1980

The Kitchen, New York US Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago US Atlanta Art Workers Coalition, Atlanta US 

1979

Young Hoffman Gallery, New York US Sonnabend Gallery, New York US

Rhode Island University, Kingston US

Town Square Projects, Traveled throughout The Netherlands Sonnabend, Paris FR 

1978

Salvatore Ala, Milano IT

The Kitchen, New York US Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco US

Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis US

Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne CH I.C.C., Antwerp BE

Galerie Nachst Ste. Stephen, Wien AT Mario Diacono, Bologna IT

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam NL

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York US 

1977

Galerie D, Brussels BE Modern Art Agency, Napoli IT Ohio State University, Columbus US Anthology Film Archives, New York US University of Massachusetts at Amherst US

The Clocktower, New York US Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva CH 

1976

The Kitchen, New York US Wright State University, Dayton US Sonnabend, New York US Anthology Film Archives, New York US 

1975

Sonnabend, New York US

Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, Oregon US And/Or, Seattle US CARP, Los Angeles US

Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco US James Mayor, London UK

Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York US 

1974

Kunsthalle Köln, Cologne DE Alessandra Castelli, Milano IT 

1973

Modern Art Agency, Napoli IT Galerie D, Brussels BE

Sonnabend, New York US Galeria Schema, Firenze IT 

1972

Sonnabend, New York US Sonnabend, Paris FR L’Attico, Roma IT Vito Acconci: Rehearsals/Checkpoints, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia US 

1971

Museum of Modern Art, New York US John Gibson, New York US Protetch-Rivkin, Washington D.C. US 

1970

Gain Ground, New York US

Vito Acconci: Accessibilities, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, California US 

1969

Rhode Island School of Design, Providence US 

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS 

2020

Body Art. Dall'azione alla narrazione, Osart Gallery, Milano 

Affinities and Outliers: Highlights from the University at Albany Fine Art Collections, University Art Museum, Albany US

Sounds Lasting and Leaving, Luxembourg & Dayan, New York US 

2019

Art After Stonewall, New York University - Grey Art Gallery, New York US

Flowers of Sulphur, Galerie Hubert Winter, Wien AT 

Too much is not enough! The Donation “Artelier Collection”, Neue Galerie Graz AT

Rehang: Archives, Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia IT Shadows. From the Renaissance to the Present Day, Fondation de l’Hermitage, Lausanne CH

Artistic License: Six Takes on the Guggenheim Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York US 

The Summer Haunts My Reverie, Rental Gallery, East Hampton, New York US

Look At Me! Il Corpo nell’Arte dagli anni ’50 a oggi, Fondazione Ghisla, Locarno CH Maskulinitäten. “A Cooperation between Bonner Kunstverein, Kölnischer Kunstverein and Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf”, Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf DE

Installations from 25 years of the Falkenberg Collection, Deichtorhallen Hamburg DE The Sonnabend Collection, Remai Modern, Saskatoon CA 

2018

Photosequences, Osart Gallery, Milano 

Situations/Follower, Fotomuseum Winterthur CH

Towards Infinity: 1965-1980, Simon Lee Gallery, New York US Des espaces autres - Saison 1, FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon FR

Picture Fiction: Kenneth Josephson and Contemporary Photography, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago US

Half the Picture: A Feminist Look at the Collection, Brooklyn Museum, New York US

Futuruins, Palazzo Fortuny, Venezia IT

Il museo immaginato. Storie da trent’anni di Centro Pecci, Centro Pecci, Prato IT

A Body Measured Against The Earth, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago US

Specters of Disruption, de Young Museum, San Francisco US 

2017

A Different Way to Move, Carré d’Arte, Nîmes FR

Dalla caverna alla luna, Centro Pecci, Prato IT

È solo un inizio. 1968, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Roma IT

Performance! Les collections du Centre Pompidou, 1967-2017, Le Tripostal, Lille FR

I am you, you are too, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis US

A Bit of Matter: the MoMA PS1 Archives, 1976-2000, MoMA PS1, New York US 

2016

Conceptual Photography, TOMAV- Torre di Moresco Centro Arti Visive - Moresco (FM)

2015

Endless House: Intersection of Art and Architecture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York US Vienna for Art’s Sake!, Winterpalais Prinz Eugen - Belvedere Museum, Wien AT 

2013

Swarm Street, Virginia Avenue Garage, Indianapolis US

Museum Of Needles & Pins, Stairway/Ramp/Roof, Lakeside Museum, Ichihara, Japan

Austin- Bergstrom International Airport Car Rental Facility, Austin US Canopy For Mur Island, Graz AT Way-Station, Middlebury College, Vermont US 

A Trip from Here to There, The Museum of Modern Art, New York US

CORPI IN AZIONE / CORPI IN VISIONE. Esperienze e indagini artistiche 1965/1980, Museo Pecci, Milano IT 

2012-2013

PROJECTS # 3, Zeichnung / Drawing 1969 - 1981, Stampa Gallery, Basel

2012

Unmonumental: The Object In The 21st Century New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY 

Fence On The Loose (Apartment-complex perimeter), Toronto CA 

2011

Video, an art, a History, 1965-2010, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore SG

Art 42 Basel, Basel CH

Where Do We Migrate To?, Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, Baltimore US

Spaceship Earth, Znaki Czasu, Centre of Contemporary Art, Torun PL

Architectures, Dessins, Utopies, works from the Centre des arts plastiques, Paris, MNAC, Bucharest RO

Collector, Tripostal, Lille FR Wander, Labyrinthine Variations, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz FR 

When Buildings Melt Into Air & The Air Re-forms Into Buildings, Augmented Reality, Roma IT 

2010

Without You I'm Nothing, Art and Its Audience, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago US 

Traffic, Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980, University of Toronto, Toronto CA Exquisite Corpse Drawings, Gasser Grunert Gallery, New York US Off the Wall, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York US Giorno per giorno = Day by day, a month devoted to contemporary art in Piedmont, Castello di Rivoli, Torino IT 

Pasado-presente, Colección Nuevos Medios Centro Pompidou, Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Madrid ES Acconci Studio and Ai Weiwei, a Collaborative Project, Para-Site Art Space, Hong Kong HK update_3 I body sound, Fondation Liedts-Zebrastraat, Gent BE 

Curious? 21st Century Art from Private Collections, Kunst und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn DE 

Newtown Creek Water Pollution Control Plant, Brooklyn US 

2009

PROJECTS #1: Vito Acconci - Dennis Oppenheim - Roman Signer, Stampa Gallery, Basel

Lobby for the Time Being, Bronx Museum, New York City, NY

Just what is it ... 100 years of modern art from private collections in Baden-Württemberg, ZKM, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe DE

Gagarin, the Artists in their Own Words, the first Decade, SMAK, Gent BE

City Mobilization, 2009 Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism-Architecture, Shenzhen CHN

Poetry Marathon, Serpentine Gallery, London UK

Waiting for Video, Works from the 1960's to Today, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo JP Poor, Old, Tired, Horse, ICA, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London UK

Unbuilt Roads, e-flux project space, New York US Performer, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw PL

Sound Station, Para-Site Art Space, Hong Kong HK

The Art of Participation, 1950 to Now, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco US

Vito Acconci, Language Works, Video, Audio, Poetry-Karl Holmqvist, I'm with you in Rockland, Argos, Centre for Art & Media, Bruxelles BE

 

2008

Immagine come linguaggio, Osart Gallery, Milano 

Living Box, Le Hangar à bananes, Nantes FR

Sonic Youth etc., Sensational fix, Life, Saint-Lazaire FR

Gravity Art, TELIC Arts Exchange, Los Angeles US

Artists in Depth: Works from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago US Blasted Allegories, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne CH

Las Implicaciones de la Imagen, Museo Universitario de Ciencias y Arte, Mexico City MEX

Broken Home, 1997/2007, The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, Massachusetts US 

2007

Colecção Centre Pompidou no Museu do Chiado, Centre Pompidou Novos Media 1965-2003, Museu nacional de arte contemporânea, Museu do Chiado, Lisbon PT

Passage du temps, Collection François Pinault Foundation, Le Tripostal, Lille FR

Exten-sion du domaine de l'intime, FRAC de Lorraine, Metz FR

Centre Pompidou, Video Art 1965-2005, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne AU Models for Tomorrow, European Kunsthalle, Cologne DE 

Videokunst, Stampa Gallery, Basel

Performa, SI Swiss Institute, New York City, NY 

Out of Time - A Contemporary View, MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY 

Paesaggi. Opere dalle collezioni del CAMeC, CAMeC - Centro de Arte Moderna e Contemporanea della Spezia, La Spezia 

Le cinque anime della scultura, Cesac - Centro Sperimentale per le Arti Contemporanee, Caraglio 

Silenzio. Una mostra da ascoltare, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin 

Before (Plus ou moins), Palais de Tokyo, Paris 

Love Addiction: pratiche video dal ‘61 ad oggi, Galleria Comunale d'Arte Contemporanea di Monfalcone, Monfalcone 

Conceptual Photograpy 1964-1989, Zwirner & Wirth, New York City, NY 

Video Resurrection: Works by Vito Acconci, Peter Campus and Joan Jonas, NGV National Gallery of Victoria International, Melbourne, VIC 

Conceptual Paper, Arndt & Partner - Berlin + Zurich, Zurich 

Into Me, Out of Me, MACRO Future, Rome 

Centre Pompidou Video Art 1965-2005, ACMI - Australian Center for the Moving Image, Melbourne, VIC 

Architectures : situations locales, Galerie Art & Essai, Rennes 

I am making Art - Chapitre 2 - Processus, Durée, Répétition, Centre d´Art Contemporain Geneve, Geneva 

Mulher, Mulheres, SESC Paulista, São Paulo 

Modelle für Morgen, Europäische Kunsthalle, Cologne 

Mapas, Cosmogonias e Puntos de Referencia, CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela 

Klio - Eine kurze Geschichte der Kunst in Euramerika nach 1945, ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst & Medienmuseum, Karlsruhe 

Il Futuro del Futurismo, GAMeC - Galleria d´Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Bergamo, Bergamo 

J´Embrasse Pas, Collection Lambert, Avignon 

Scenes and Traces - From the collection design, photography & video, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam 

Performa 07 - The Second Biennial of New Visual Art Performance, New York City, NY 

Open-Book Store, Armory Art Fair, New York City, NY

2006

Renegades 25 Years of Performance at Exit Art, Exit Art, New York City, NY 

Embodied Time - Art Video, 1970 - present, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork 

INTO ME / OUT OF ME, Kunst-Werke Berlin e.V. - KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin 

Radical NY! The Downtown show: the New York art scene, 1974-1984 and abstract expresionism: 1940-1960, Austin Museum of Art - AMOA, Austin, TX 

Primera generación. Arte e imagen en movimiento, 1963-1986, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía MNCARS, Madrid 

busy going crazy. the Sylvio Perlstein collection, La Maison Rouge, Paris 

femmeusesaction # 15, Centre d'Art du Parc Saint Léger, Pougues-les-Eaux 

The invisible Show, MARCO Museo de Arte Contemporánea de Vigo, Vigo 

Balance and Power - Performance and Surveillance in Video Art, The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA 

Video: An Art, A History 1965 - 2005, Miami Art Central, Miami, FL 

Artists at Work, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI 

Denial is a River, Sculpture Center, Long Island 

Art on the Edge, Mostly Harmless, Govett - Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth 

The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture - 60 Years, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME 

Into me / Out of me, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island 

Human Game. Winners And Loosers, Stazione Leopolda, Florence 

In Sight - Resent additions to the permanent collection, MoCP - The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL 

The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene, 1974–1984, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburg, PA 

A Curator´s Eye: The Visual Legacy of Robert A. Sobieszek, Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA 

Medium Fotografie, Stampa Gallery, Basel 

Who’s got the Big Picture?, MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp 2006

Thesis Exhibitions Series Two, The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 

Crisis of Modernism: The Post-Minimal Rebellion, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI 

Dark Places, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA 

The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene, 1974–1984, Grey Art Gallery,NYU, New York City, NY 

Portraits of Artists, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York City, NY 

The New Media Collection 1965-2005, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney AU

Into Me-Out me, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin DE

Balance and Power, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis Univesity, Waltham, Massachusetts US

Video, An Art, a History, 1965-2005, New Media Collection, Centre Pompidou, Miami Art Central, Miami US 

2005

The Gravity in Art, De Appel, Amsterdam 

De la comtesse De Castiglione à Cindy Sherman, Galerie de France, Paris 

Lichtkunst aus Kunstlicht, ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst & Medienmuseum, Karlsruhe 

Mapping Space, MAM - Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL 

Looking at Words, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY 

Balance and Power - Performance and Surveillance in Video Art, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL 

Crowd of the Person, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Baltimore, MD 

Universal Experience – Art, Life and the Tourist\'s Eye, Hayward Gallery, London (England) 

Videographies – The Early Decades - II Cycle, recommended institution National Museum of Contemporary Art - EMST, Athens 

Projekt Migartion, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne 

When Humour Becomes Painful, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich 

Videographies – The Early Decades - I Cycle, recommended institution National Museum of Contemporary Art - EMST, Athens 

Habitação Nómada - Joalharia Contemporânea: Intimidade e Domínio Público, Centro Cultural de Belém - CCB, Lisbon 

Area '70, Cannaviello, Milan 

Les Grands Spectacles - 120 Jahre Kunst und Massenkultur, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg 

collectie zomer 2005 - de Zomer van Middelburg, MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp 

Group Exhibition, James Cohan Gallery, New York City, NY 

Faces in the Crowd - Picturing Modern Life from Manet to Today, Museo d´arte contemporanea Castello di Rivoli, Turin 

Wave-A-Wall, Facade, W8th Street Subway Station, Coney Island, New York US 

2005

Benefit Auction, White Columns, New York City, NY 

Der Traum vom Ich, der Traum von der Welt, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur 

The Last Picture Show - Artists using Photography 1960-1982, Miami Art Central, Miami, FL 

Edizione Straordinaria - Le case d’arte 1985-2005, Assab One, Milan 

Camera fissa, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin 

Universal Experience - Art, Life, and the Tourist’s Eye, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago - MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL 

Marking Time, LACE - Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA 

Reflection Part II, Sutton Lane - London, London (England) 

Selected video pogramme from the Collection of New Media, Centre Georges Pompidou 

Galerija Miroslav Kraljević, Zagreb 

Temps de vídeo 1965-2005, Collecció Nouveaux Medias del Centre Pompidou; Fundació La Caixa, Barcelona ES

Projekt Migration, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne DE

Universal Experience, Art, Life and the Tourist's Eye, Museum of Contemporary Art, ChicagoUS Behind the Facts, Interfunktionen 1968-1975, Kunsthalle Friedricianum, Kassel DE

2004

Dear ICC - Aspects of contemporary art in Belgium 1970-1985, MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp 

Presentation of the collection, MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp 

The Last Picture Show, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur 

performing_sounds, ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst & Medienmuseum, Karlsruhe 

Democracy was Fun, White Box, New York City, NY 

Attraversare Genova. Percorsi e linguaggi internazionali del contemporaneo, Villa Croce Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Genoa 

Realm of the Senses, James Cohan Gallery, New York City, NY 

Camera/Action - Performance and Photography, MoCP - The Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, IL 

Dimension Folly, Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento 

Friedrich Christian Flick Collection im Hamburger Bahnhof, Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin 

Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam at Usce, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade / Muzej savremene umetnosti Beograd, Belgrade 

Artists Interrogate: Politics and War, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI 

Collezione permanente, Centro per l´Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato 

It's All an Illusion. A Sculpture Project, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich 

Portraits, Esso Gallery and Books, New York City, NY 

collection summer 2004, MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp 

Support - Die Neue Galerie als Sammlung - 1950 - Heute, Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz 

Ambulantes. Cultura portátil, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC), Sevilla 

Grasduinen I - S.M.A.K.-at-the-sea, S.M.A.K. - Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent 

Photo Image in American Prints: 1960s–1990s, Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA 

Behind the facts interfunktionen, Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona 

The Last Picture Show - Artists Using Photography, 1960-1982, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA 

Roof Like A Liquid Flung Over the Plaza, Performing Arts Center, Memphis US Kenny Schachter 

D'une image qui ne serait pas du semblant, la photographie écrite, 1950-2005, Passage de Retz, Paris FR

Speaking with Hands, Photographs from the Buhl Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York US

Portraits, ESSO Gallery and Books, New York US

The Last Pictures Show, Artists Using Photography, 1960-1982, MARCO, Museo de arte contemporánea, Vigo ES

Grasduinen, SMAK, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuelle Kunst, Gent BE

Photo Image in American Prints 1960-1990, FAMSF, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco US Behind the Facts, Interfunktionen 1968-1975, Fundació Juan Miró, Barcelona ES

Sexy Beasts, 1963-2004, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York US

Revolving Doors, Fundació Telefónica, Madrid ES

The Artists in Their Own Words, MUHKA, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp BE 

2003

X-Screen. Filmische Installationen und Aktionen, MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst, Stiftung Ludwig im MQ, Vienna 

Art, Lies and Videotape: Exposing Performance, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool (England) 

Sitings: Installation Art 1969-2002, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA 

The Last Picture Show - Artists Using Photography - 1960-1982, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN 

7e Biennale de Lyon - C'est arrivé demain, La biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon 

Potential Images Of The World, Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY 

THE GIFT: Generous Offerings, Threatening Hospitality, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, ON 

Video Acts..., ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts London, London (England) 

The Squared Circle, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN 

Updated Collection Presentation (IV), MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp 

The Gift - Generous Offerings, Threatening Hospitality, Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL 

Acquisitions 2001-2002 - Photography and Video, recommended institution National Museum of Contemporary Art - EMST, Athens 

0003-Edition, Artelier Contemporary, Graz 

Between Art and Life, From Joseph Cornell to Gabriel Orozco, MAM, Miami Art Museum US

Art, Lies and Videotape, Exposing Performance, Tate, Liverpool UK

The Last Picture Show, Artists Using Photography, 1960-1982, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis US C'est arrivé demain, 7ème Biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon FR

Focus, Videoteca GAM de Turin, Museo nacional, Centro de arte Reina Sofía, Madrid ES

Video Acts, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Museum of Modern Art, New York US 

Mur Island (Floating café, theater & playground), Graz AT United Bamboo Clothing Store, Tokyo JP Ceiling/Wall System for Projections, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York US

2002

Moving Pictures, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York US 

Biennale of Sydney, The World May Be (Fantastic), Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney AU 

THE GIFT - Generous Offerings, Threatening Hospitality, Bronx Museum of the Arts (BxMA), Bronx, NY 

After the Beginning and Before the End - Instruction Drawings, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA 

Into the Light: The Projected Image in American Art, 1964–1977, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH 

Moving Pictures, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY 

From Pop to Now: Selections from the Sonnabend Collection, Tang Museum at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY 

Eva Schlegel & Friends, recommended institution Galerie 422, Gmunden 

13th Biennale of Sydney - The World May Be (Fantastic), Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, Sydney, NSW 

Biennale of Sydney 2002, Sydney, NSW 

Aquaria, Kunstsammlungen Chemnitz, Chemnitz 

Enough about me, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, NY 

Material World - From Lichtenstein to Viola 25 Years of The Fabric Workshop and Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, Sydney, NSW 

THE GIFT: Generous Offerings, Threatening Hospitality, Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art - SMoCA, Phoenix, AZ 

Aquaria, Landesgalerie am Oberösterreichischen Landesmuseum, Linz 

Unprincipled Passions, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton (England) 

Hommage an Rudolf Schwarzkogler, recommended institution Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna 

time/frame, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX 

Passenger - The Viewer as Participant, Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo 

Wall-Slide (wall & seating system), 161st St. Subway Station, Bronx, New York US Kenny Schachter’s contemporary (adjustable gallery), New York US 

2001

Playing amongst the ruins, Royal College of Art Galleries, London UK 

Landfall Press - 1970 - 2000 H&R; Block Artspace at Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO 

Televisions - Kunst sieht fern, Kunsthalle Wien (Halle 1, Halle 2 im MQ), Vienna 

Into the Light - The Projected Image in American Art 1964-1977, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY 

Rhethorics of surveillance from Bentham to Big Brother, ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst & Medienmuseum, Karlsruhe 

Brooklyn!, The Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art (PBICA), Lake Worth, FL

(untitled) 654321, Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense 

Works on Paper, Victoria Miro Gallery, London (England) 

il Dono, Palazzo delle Papesse - Centro Arte Contemporanea, Siena 

Art Express, art minimal et conceptuel, état d’une collection, Mamco - musée d´art moderne et contemporain, Geneva 

Graduate Thesis Exhibitions - Group 3, The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 

I Am Making Art, Wilkinson Gallery, London (England) 

Into the light, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York US

Vito Acconci, Acconci Studio, Arnolfini, Bristol UK 

Mobius Bench (Outdoor seating), Fukuroi City JP 

Light-Beams for the Sky of a Transport Corridor (Lighting & telephone booths), San Francisco Airport US 

2000

Seeing Time, ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst & Medienmuseum, Karlsruhe 

Performing Bodies, Tate Modern, London (England) 

Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Niigata-ken 

The City, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York City, NY 

Le Jeu des 7 familles, Mamco - musée d´art moderne et contemporain, Geneva 

Soft White - Lighting Designs by Artists, University of Massachusetts - Amherst Fine Arts Center, Amherst, MA 

Inaugural Exhibition Making Time - Considering Time As a Material in Contemporary, The Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art(PBICA), Lake Worth, FL

Destruction / Creation, Ubu Gallery, New York City, NY 

Postmedia - Conceptual Photography in the Guggenheim Museum Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY 

Action/Performance Photography, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, KS 

Screens for a Walkway Between Buildings & Buses & Cars (Entrance passageway), Shibuya Station, Tokyo JP

Courtyard in the Wind(Moving Park), Buildings Department Administration Building, Munich DE 

1999

Stimuli, Witte de With, Rotterdam 

Espace, modes d'emploi, Centre d'Art Passerelle, Brest 

Head to Toe - Impressing the Body, University of Massachusetts - Amherst Fine Arts Center, Amherst, MA 

Calendar 2000, The Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 

Impact: Revealing Sources for Contemporary Art, Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Baltimore, MD 

Flowers on Fabric - Flora and Friends, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA 

La voix, Le Fresnoy, Studio national des arts contemporains, Tourcoing 

Rooms From Below (Temporary store windows), Saks Fifth Avenue, New York US A City That Rides the Garbage Dump (temporary billboard), Bavel Garbage Dump, Breda NL 

1998

Voices, Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona 

Print Portfolios since 1960, The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH

Poèmes à petite vitesse, Musée d'Art Contemporain Lyon, Lyon 

Voices, Witte de With, Rotterdam 

The '60s in the Seventies, Ubu Gallery, New York City, NY 

Conceptual Photography from the 60s and 70s, David Zwirner, Inc., New York City, NY 

Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949-1979, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA 

Acconci, Old, Refreshed and Re-viewed, Stroom, Den Haag 

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles US

Flying Floors For The Main Ticketing Pavilion (Indoor Park for Departures Terminal), Philadelphia Airport US

Walkways Through The Wall (Exchangeable plaza and lobby), Midwest Convention Center, Milwaukee US 

1997

Rooms with a View, Environments for Video, Guggenheim Museum, New York US 

Loloma Station (Transportation Center), Scottsdale, AZ (Collaboration with Douglas Sydnor & Angela Dye)

Park in the Water (Riverside Park), The Hague NL 

1996

House Up a Building (Portable housing, temporary installation), Santiago de Compostela ES

High Rise of Trees (Urban Park, temporary installation), Atlanta US 

1995

Extra Spheres For Klapper Hall (Plaza), Queens College, New York US School On the Ground (Courtyard), P.S.3, Bronx US

3e Biennale d'art contemporain, Musée d'art contemporain, Lyon FR

Temporarily Possessed, The Semi-Permanent Collection, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York US

Fémininmasculin, le sexe de l'art, Musée national d'art moderne-Centre de création industrielle, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris FR 

1994

Personal Island (1992) (Mobile Island), Zwolle NL Bench / Bollard for Tachikawa City JP Ribbon Pavement / Bench for Embarcadero Promenade, San Francisco US (Collaboration with Stanley Saitowitz & Barbara Stauffacher Solomon) 

Center Georges Pompidou, Paris FR 

1993

Live in Your Head, Österreichisches Museum für Angewändte Kunst, Wien AT 

Personal River (Riverside park, temporary), Newcastle UK

Renovation of Store front for Art & Architecture, New York US (Collaboration with Steven Holl) 

1992

The Power of the City, The City of Power, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York US 

Floor Clock (1989) (Clock & Seating), Chicago Dock & Canal, Chicago US

Wall Of Ground (Outdoor/indoor wall& seating), Center for Art and Humanities, Arvada US 

1991

Land of Boats (Playground), St. Aubin Park, Detroit US Mobile Linear City (Mobile housing unit), various locations 

Power, Its Myths, Icons, and Structures in American Art, 1961-1991, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis US

1990

Word as Image, American Art 1960-1990, Milwaukee Museum of Art, Milwaukee US

1989

The Experience of Landscape, Three Decades of Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York US

Encontros luso-americanos de arte contemporánea, Fundacíao Calouste Gulbekian, Lisbon PT

1988

Sculpture at the Point, Point State Park, Pittsburgh US 

Birth of the Car/Birth of the Boat (fountain, temporary), three Rivers, Festival, Pittsburgh US Bad Dream House II (Model house), John Wieland Homes, Atlanta US House of Cars II (Urban park), Greenville, Ohio US

Face of the Earth II (Miniature park), C.W. Post College, New York US

Face of the Earth III (Miniature park), Laumeier Park, St. Louis, Missouri US 

Garden with Fountain (Fountain/Planter, temporary), World Financial Center, New York US 

1987

Garden of Columns (Indoor town square), Coca Cola USA, Atlanta US 

Musée national d'art moderne-Centre de création industrielle, les nouveaux médias, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris FR

1986

Wien Fluss, Vienna Festival, Wien AT

Real Time-Actual Space, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla US

House on the Ground (Miniature plaza, temporary), New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico US

Palladium Underground (Garden of Bodies) (Basement Lounge), The Palladium, New York US 

1985

Memory Jam, A Retrospective of Films and Performance at Artists Space 1974-1985, Artists Space, New York US

Biennale des Friedens, Kunsthaus and Kunstverein, Hamburg DE

Artists and Architects, Challenges in Collaborations, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio US

House of Used Parts (Portable model house, temporary installation), Harvard University, Cambridge US 

1984

Bad Dream House (Model house, temporary installation), MIT, Cambridge US

Face of the Earth (Miniature park, temporary installation), Pratt University, Brooklyn US

House of Cars (Urban Park, temporary), Langton Arts, San Francisco US 

Het Lumineuze Beeld = The Luminous Image, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam NL

1983

Art vidéo, rétrospectives et perspectives, Palais des beaux-arts, Charleroi BE

1982

documenta 7, Friedericianum Museum, Kassel DE

60-80, Attitudes, Concepts, Images, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam NL

National Video Festival, American Film Institute, Los Angeles US

Art and Dance, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston US

Methaphor, New Projects by Contemporary Sculptors, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. US

1981

Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York US

Westkunst : Zeitgenossische Kunst Seit 1939, Museen der Stadt Köln, Cologne DE

Radio by Artist, A Space, Toronto CA

Home Made Movies : 20 Years of American 8mm and Super 8 Films, Anthology Film Archives, New York US

1980

A Sound Selection, Audio Works by Artists, Artists Space, New York US Artist and Printer, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis US

The Sense of the Self, Independent Curators Incorporated, New York US

1979

The Artist, Hermit? Investigator? Social Worker? Kunstverein, Hamburg DE Sound, P.S.1, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New York US

1978

38e Biennale de Venise, Venezia IT

Performance Art Festival, Cultureel Animatie Centrum Beursschounburg, Bruxelles BE

Made by Sculptors, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam NL

Journées interdisciplinaires sur l'art corporel et les performances, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris FR

1977

Time, Philadelphia College of Art, Chicago US

Three Installations, Sonnabend Gallery, New York US

Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York US In Video, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Nova Scotia, Halifax CA

documenta 6, Friedericianum Museum, Kassel DE

1976

Biennale di Venezia, Venezia IT

Rooms, P.S.1, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New York US Identité / Identifications, CAPC, Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux FR

1975

Video Art USA, XIIe São Paolo Biennial, Sao Paulo BR

Video Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York US

Bodyworks, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago US Autogeography, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York US

1974

Video Tapes, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne DE

Kunst Bleibt Kunst, Project 74, Kunsthalle, Cologne DE

Idea and Image in Recent Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago US

Eight Contemporary Artists, Museum of Modern Art, New York US

1973

Some Recent American Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York US Aspects de l'art actuel, Musée Galliera, Paris FR

1972

documenta 5, Friedericianum Museum, Kassel DE

1971

Sonsbeek 71, Arnhem NL

Projects, Pier 18, Museum of Modern Art, New York US Lithographs, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax CA Body Art, John Gibson Gallery, New York US

Biennale des Jeunes, Paris FR

Arte de Sisternas, Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires AR Acconci, Fox, Oppenheim, Reese Palley Gallery, New York US

1970

Perreault, Acconci, St. Mark's Church, New York US

Information, Museum of Modern Art, New York US

Events (Acconci, Perreault, H. Weiner), Grammercy Arts Theater, New York US Body Works, Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco US

Prospect, Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf DE

1969

Street Works I-IV, St. Mark's Church, New York US Performance, Unit Playhouse, Hunter Collage, New York US Coulisse, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York US

Arakawa, Acconci, Perreault, Venet, The Theater, New York US Aleph 70, New York University, New York US

1968

Poetry Events, Central Park, New York US

Language Events, Orient Expresso Coffee House, New York US

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