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General Idea (Canadian)
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General Idea
Baby Makes 3 1982-1989
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General Idea
Fin de Siecle 1992
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General Idea
Installation view
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General Idea
Installation view
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General Idea
Nazi Milk 1979-1990
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General Idea
Nightschool 1989
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Biography |
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1969 |
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Formed by AA Bronson, Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal |
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1988 |
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The Gershon Iskowitz Prize, Toronto, Canada |
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1989 |
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Visual Arts Award, City of Toronto, Canada |
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1993 |
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The Banff Centre for the Arts National Award, Banff, Canada |
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1993 |
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Lifetime Achievement Award, City of Toronto, Canada |
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1994 |
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Jean A. Chalmers Award for Visual Arts, Toronto, Canada |
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1995 |
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Ovation! Namesake Awards, the General Idea Award , PWA Foundation, Toronto, Canada |
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2001 |
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Bell Canada Award in Video Art, Canada Coucnil for the Arts, Ottawa, Canada |
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2002 |
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Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts Award (awarded to AA Bronson), Toronto, Canada |
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2002 |
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Governor General's Visual and Media Arts Award (awarded to AA Bronson), Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa, Canada |
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Exhibitions |
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2002 |
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Multiformity: Multiples from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (group) |
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2002 |
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Public Affairs, Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich (group) |
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2002 |
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Mirror Image, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (group) |
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2002 |
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Art & Economy, Deichterhallen, Hamburg (group) |
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2002 |
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Thinking in Painting, Stampa Galerie, Basel (group) |
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2001 |
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Collaborations with Parkett: 1984 to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (group) |
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2001 |
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Extra Art, Logan Galleries, California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, USA (group) |
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2001 |
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Shopping, Generali Foundation, Vienna, AUSTRIA (group) |
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2001 |
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Blondies + Brownies, Aktionsforum Praterinsel, Munich, GERMANY (group) |
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2001 |
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Tele(visions), Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, AUSTRIA (group) |
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2001 |
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Vancouver Collects, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, CANADA (group) |
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2001 |
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Video Time, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (group) |
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2001 |
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Negative Thoughts (with AA Bronson), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA (solo) |
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2001 |
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General Idea, 1301PE, Los Angeles, USA (solo) |
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2001 |
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Boutique Coeurs Volants, Florence Loewy, Paris, FRANCE (solo) |
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2000 |
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Fin de Siecle, Plug In, Winnipeg, CANADA (solo) |
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2000 |
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Versiones del Sur: cinco propuestas en torno al arte en América, el Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, SPAIN (group) |
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2000 |
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Loose Ends, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (group) |
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2000 |
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From the Collection: Personalities, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, CANADA (group) |
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2000 |
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Re-Play, Generali Foundation, Vienna, AUSTRIA (group) |
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1999 |
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Museum as Muse, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (group) |
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1999 |
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Word, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, AUSTRALIA (group) |
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1999 |
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Persuasion: Tales of Commerce and the Avant-Garde, University at Buffalo Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA (group) |
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1999 |
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Recollect, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, CANADA (group) |
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1999 |
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Internal Logic, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, CANADA (group) |
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1998 |
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Fragile Electrons: Celebrating Twenty Years of Collecting Video Art - Videotapes from the Art Metropole Collection, The National Gallery of Canada, Ottowa, CANADA (group) |
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1998 |
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General Idea, Camden Arts Centre, London, UNITED KINGDOM (solo) |
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1998 |
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General Idea, Robert Prime, London, UNITED KINGDOM (solo) |
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1997 |
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Search for the Spirit: General Idea 1968-1975, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, CANADA (solo) |
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1997 |
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General Idea, Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, USA (solo) |
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1997 |
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Documenta 10, Kassel, GERMANY (solo) |
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1997 |
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Video Plaza, Monte Video, Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS (GROUP) |
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1996 |
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INFE©TIONS, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, CANADA (solo) |
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1996 |
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One Day of AZT / One Year of AZT, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (solo) |
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1995 |
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General Idea: Showcards, Presentation House, Vancouver, CANADA (solo) |
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1995 |
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General Idea, Galerie René Blouin, Montreal, CANADA (solo) |
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1995 |
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General Idea, S. L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, CANADA (solo) |
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Literature |
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1995 |
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XXX Voto (to the Spirit of Miss General Idea), offset publication, 128 pp. plus cover, color reproductions. Edition of 900 plus 1 A/P, signed and numbered (rubber-stamped). Published by Galerie René Blouin and S. L. Simpson Gallery, Montreal and Toronto |
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1992 |
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The Sequel: Shut the Fuck Up, (boxed hard-cover publication with text and a VHS video in PAL or NTSC formats); edition of 6, plus 1 A/P; signed and numbered. Published by Stampa Galerie, Basel |
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1989 |
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General Idea: The AIDS Project, three editions comprising: a) insert for C Magazine (no. 22 Summer 1989), Toronto, offset on paper, 12 pp. plus cover. Edition size unknown, unsigned and unnumbered; b) edition of about 100 off-prints of the above insert; c) edition of 1000 pamphlets, with additional text by Allan Schwartzman, offset, 28 pp. plus cover, Gershon Iskowitz Foundation, Toronto |
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1989 |
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FILE Megazine (“Final Issue, The City Issue”), no. 29, 1989 |
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1988 |
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AIDS: The Public and Private Domains of the Miss General Idea Pavillion, offset pamphet, 12 pp. plus cover, color reproductions. Edition of 1000, unsigned and unnumbered. Published by Artspace, San Francisco |
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1988 |
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Test Pattern: TV Dinner Plates from the Miss General Idea Pavillion, offset publication, 18pp. (contains 4 paper tear-out “placemats”) plus cover, color reproductions, text by Mary Anne Staniszewski. Edition size unknown, some signed, unnumbered. Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name by SPIRAL (Wacoal Art Center), Tokyo |
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