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John Divola (American, 1949)
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John Divola
D24 Run Sequence from "Dogs Chasing My Car in the Desert" 1996-2000
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Biography |
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1971 |
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B.A., California State University, Northridge, CA |
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1973 |
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M.A., University of California, Los Angeles, CA |
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1973-1974 |
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National Endowment for the Arts Photography Fellowship |
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1974 |
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M.F.A., University of California, Los Angeles, CA |
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1976-1978 |
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National Endowment for the Arts Photography Fellowship |
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1986-1987 |
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John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship |
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1987-1988 |
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Mellon Fellowship, California Institute of the Arts |
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1990-1991 |
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National Endowment for the Arts Photography Fellowship |
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1991-1992 |
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Fellowship, Center for Ideas in Society, UC Riverside |
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1998 |
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Flintridge Foundation Fellowship |
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1998 |
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California Arts Council Individual Artist Grant |
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1999 |
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COLA, City of Los Angeles Artist Grant |
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Exhibitions |
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2009 |
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“The Conspiracy” Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland |
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2009 |
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“Sundown” Office Baroque Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium |
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2009 |
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Gallery Luisotti, Santa Monica, CA (solo) |
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2009 |
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“Animal Kind”, University Art Gallery, San Diego State University |
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2008 |
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“On the Ground in L.A.,” Carl Berg Gallery, Los Angeles |
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2008 |
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“This Side of Paradise: Body and Language in L.A. Photography”, The Huntington Library, San Marino, CA |
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2008 |
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Huntington Library, Art Collections, and Botanical Gardens, San Marino, CA |
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2007 |
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Edenhurst Gallery, Palm Desert, California |
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2006 |
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Patricia Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, California |
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2006 |
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“A piece of History from LA…But Not Paris,” Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY |
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2006 |
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“666,” USC Roski School of Fine Arts, Los Angeles, California |
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2006 |
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“Los Angeles 1955-85," Centre Pompidou, Paris, France |
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2005 |
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Arles Recontres De La Photographie, Espace Van Gogh, Arles, France |
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2004 |
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Charles Cowles Gallery, NY, NY |
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2004 |
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"Esperando Unha Chamada (Awaiting a Call)," The Centro Galago de Arte Contemporanea, Galicia, Spain |
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2003 |
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Patricia Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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2002 |
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'Imago 2002', Museo de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain |
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2002 |
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'New Acquisitions/New Work/New Directions 3: Contemporary Selections', Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA |
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2002 |
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'Friends of the West', Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA |
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2002 |
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G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, Washington (solo) |
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2001 |
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Marella Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy (solo) |
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2001 |
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Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (solo) |
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2001 |
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'Capturing Light: Masterpieces of California Photography 1950 to the present', Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA |
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2001 |
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'Blind Date', Three person Exhibition, Brent Sikkema Gallery, NY, New York |
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2001 |
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'Modern Times III/ Something Happened', Hasselblad Center, Goteborg, Sweden |
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2000 |
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'Photography: Process, Preservation, and Conservation', The Metropolitan Museum of Art |
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2000 |
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'Architecture Hot and Cold', The Museum of Modern Art, New York |
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2000 |
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'Topophobia: A Sense of Place', Art Gallery, Occidental College, Los Angeles, CA |
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2000 |
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'Made in California' Art, Image and Identity, 1900-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art |
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2000 |
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'Beyond Boundaries: Contemporary Photography in California', organized by The Friends of Contemporary Photography San Francisco, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA |
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2000 |
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Janet Borden, Inc. New York, NY (solo) |
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2000 |
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Palm Springs Museum of Art, Jorgensen Gallery, Palm Springs (solo) |
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2000 |
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Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (solo) |
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1999 - 2000 |
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Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA |
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1999 |
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G. Gibson Gallery, Exhibition of works by John Divola and J. John Priola |
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1999 |
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'Size Matters', Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
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1999 |
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'Innovation/Imagination: 50 years of Polaroid Photography', Friends of Photography, Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco, CA (catalogue) |
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1999 |
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G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA (solo) |
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1999 |
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Blue Sky Gallery, Portland, OR (solo) |
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1998 |
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Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (solo) |
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1998 |
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'Ghost Story', Kunstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria |
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1998 |
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'Recent Acquisitions,' Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI |
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1998 |
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John Divola and Wim Wenders, Museo de Arte Carillo Gil, Mexico City, Mexico |
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1997 |
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'Scene of The Crime', Hammer/UCLA Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA (catalog) |
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1997 |
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'Ocean View', California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA |
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1997 |
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'Rethinking Topographics', Gallery Ram, Los Angeles, CA |
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1997 |
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Wooster Gardens, New York, NY (solo) |
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1997 |
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Jessica Fredericks Gallery, New York, NY (solo) |
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1996 |
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Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo) |
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1996 |
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'Crossing the Frontier: Photographs of the Developing West, 1849 to the Present', San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, S.F., CA (catalog) |
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1996 |
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'Location, Location', The San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA |
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1996 |
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'Perpetual Mirage: The Desert in American Photographic Books and Prints', Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (catalog) |
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1996 |
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'About Places and About Faces', Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA |
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1996 |
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Gail Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA |
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1996 |
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'Truths and Trails: Color Photography Since 1975,' The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN |
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1996 |
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'Absence', Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Los Angeles, CA |
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1995 |
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Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA (solo) |
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1995 |
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Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo) |
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1994 |
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Southern Illinois University at Carbondale, Carbondale, IL (solo) |
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1994 |
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Southeastern Illinois College, IL (solo) |
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1991 |
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Turner/Krull Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (with Robert Adams) |
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1988 |
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Mitchell Museum, Mt. Vernon, IL (with Chris Koules) |
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1988 |
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Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA (with Jack Fulton) |
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1987 |
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'Intrusions: The Contemporary Landscape', G. Gibson Gallery, Seattle, WA |
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1985 - 1987 |
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'Eileen Cowin & John Divola: New Work,' Jtraveling, (catalog) La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA, Aug. - Oct. 1985; Arvada Center for the Arts and Humanities, Arvada, CO, June - uly 1986; Madison Art Center, Madison, WI, Oct. - Dec. 1986 HalleSud, Geneva, Switzerland, Jan.-Feb. 1987 |
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1981 |
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Northlight Gallery, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ (with William Paris) |
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1980 |
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Color Transformations, 'Jo Ann Callis and John Divola', University Art Gallery, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA |
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Literature |
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2003 |
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Pioselli, Allesandra, ' John Divola ń Marella', review of exhibition at Marella Art Contemporanea, Milan, Italy. Flash Art (Italian Edition) |
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2002 |
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'Imago 2002: Encuentros de Fotographia y Video,' Museo de Salamanca, exhibition catalog, Salamanca, Spain, Essay by Jan Tumlir. 2002 p33, 38,76,77,98-100. |
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2001 |
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California Pop Up Book, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Universal Publisher |
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2001 |
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Artweek, Cover |
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2001 |
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Exit, 'Crimes and Misdemeanors', p157 |
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2001 |
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Lincoln Center Theatre Review, Issue Number 27, image reproduced, p16 |
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2001 |
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Pollack, Barbara, “John Divola / JanetBorden,” Art News |
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2001 |
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Duncan, Michael, 'John Divola at Patricia Faure', Art in America |
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2001 |
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Hasselblad Center #9, exhibition catalog for 'Modern Times III/Something Happened', Hasselblad Center, Goteborg, Sweden, three images reproduced |
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2001 |
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Johnson, Ken, 'In Galleries', New York Times, review of exhibition at Janet Bordon Gallery |
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2000 |
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Moratto, Rossella, 'Los Angeles Panoramas,' Art Job Magazine |
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2000 |
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Kirk Varnedoe, Modern Contemporary: Aspects of Art at MOMA since 1980,Henry H.Abrams, MOMA, image reproduced |
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2000 |
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Themes Out of School: Art & Education in Los Angeles, CAART, Catalog, Los Angeles, CA |
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2000 |
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Peter Galassi, Walker Evans and Company, Henry H, Abrams, Museum of Modern Art, image reproduced |
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2000 |
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Divola, John, Isolated Houses, book of original artwork with essay by Jan Tumlir, 48 pages with 24 color plates, Nazraeli Press |
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2000 |
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Tumlir, Jan, 'John Divola', Artext, Review of Exhibition at Patricia Faure Gallery, p80-81 |
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2000 |
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'The Lay of the Land,' The Center for and Use Interpretation Newsletter, Review of 'Isolated Houses' |
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