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Bruce Conner    (American, 1933-2008)

 Bruce Conner - Emily Feather, February 8 (Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.)) h: 19 x w: 21.9 in / h: 48.3 x w: 55.6 cm
Bruce Conner
Emily Feather, February 8 2004
 
 Bruce Conner - Emily Feather, Frost Work, March 15 (Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.)) h: 19 x w: 21.9 in / h: 48.3 x w: 55.6 cm
Bruce Conner
Emily Feather, Frost Work, March 15 2004
 
 Bruce Conner - Visit Magritte Caverns, September 12, 1996 (Mixed Media) h: 20.5 x w: 16.5 in / h: 52.1 x w: 41.9 cm
Bruce Conner
Visit Magritte Caverns, September 12, 1996 1996
 

Biography
1933 Born in McPherson, Kansas
1950 East High School, Wichita, Kansas
1951 - 1952 Wichita University
1956 Brooklyn Museum Art School
1956 B.F.A., Nebraska University
1957 University of Colorado

Exhibitions
2008 "Jesuvian Process," Elizabeth Dee, New York
2008 "The Cinema Effect," The Hirshhorn Museum, Washington DC
2007 "Bruce Conner" Susan Inglett Gallery, New York
2007 “Bruce Conner,” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
2007 "Bruce Conner," Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles
2007 Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago
2007 “The Third Mind,” Palais de Tokyo, Paris
2007 "Jesuvian Process," Elizabeth Dee, New York
2007 "Lights Camera Action: Artist's Film for the Cinema," Whitney, New York
2006 “Punk Photographs” NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft, Dusseldorf
2006 “Good Vibrations” Centro Arte Contemporanea Papese, Italy
2006 “Of Mice and Men,” 2006 Berlin Biennale
2006 "The Big Nothing," ICA Universiity of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
2006 "In The Poem About Love You Don't Write The Word Love," Artists Space, New York
2006 “Semina Culture,” Grey Art Gallery, New York
2006 "Rough Trade," Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles
2006 “Thank You for the Music,” Galerie Spruth Magers, Munich
2005 “Drunk vs. Stoned”, General Store in association with Gavin Brown’s enterprise, New York
2005 “Emily Feather,” Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angles
2005 “Tapestries and Drawings,, Paintings, Sculpture and Wood Engraving Collages,” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
2005 “After Bruce Conner,” Katzen Art Center, American University, Washington, DC
2004 “Bruce Conner: Punk Photographs and LUKE,” Gladstone Gallery, New York
2004 “Tapestries,” Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles
2004 “Bruce Conner and Company,” Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles
2004 "Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque," SITE Santa Fe's Fifth International Biennial Exhibition, New Mexico
2004 "Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque," SITE Santa Fe's Fifth International Biennial Exhibition, New Mexico
2003 “Sight and Insight: an Assemblage of Artists”, P.S.1 Moma, Long Island City, New York
2003 "The Dennis Hopper One Man Show Volume II," Susan Inglett, New York
2003 "The Dennis Hopper One Man Show Volume II," Susan Inglett, New York
2002 “Bruce Conner: 2002 B.C.” Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
2002 “Bruce Conner,” Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago
2002 "Bruce Coner," Arion Press Gallery, San Francisco
2002 “Bruce Conner,” Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles
2002 "Sunday Afternoon", 303 Gallery, New York
2001 "The Dennis Hopper One Man Show Vol. III," Susan Inglett, NY
2000 “Asynchronous Snapping of the Synapses,” de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara
2000 “Bruce Conner,” Paule Anglim Gallery, San Francisco
2000 “Dead Punks & Ashes”, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York
2000 “Wood Engraving Collages”, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York
1999 “2000 B.C., The Bruce Conner Story Part II”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; traveling exhibition through 2000. Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX; M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA.
1999 “Looking for Mushrooms, Drawings by Bruce Conner, 1960-1968”, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles
1998 “Persistence of Vision; Inkblot Drawings 1975-1997,” Curt Marcus Gallery, New York
1997 “Biennial Exhibition,” Whitney Museum, New York
1997 “Bruce Conner: Engraving Collages,” Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
1997 “Bruce Conner: Editions,” Smith-Andersen Editions, Palo Alto, CA
1996 “Art and Film Since 1945,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (travels to Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Wexner Center, Columbus Ohio; Palazzo delle Esposizione, Rome)
1992 “Gifts and Acquisitions in Context,” The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Literature
2005 After Bruce Conner: Anonymous, Anonymouse, and Emily Feather, American University Museum, Washington DC, 2005
2002 The Ballad of Lemon and Crow, Glenn Todd, Arion Press, Presidio, San Frrancisco, 2002
2000 Bruce Conner: “2000 BC: The Bruce Conner Story Part II”, Peter Boswell, Joan Rothfuss, Bruce Jenkins, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
1999 Bruce Conner Drawings, Volume I: 1960-1968, Text by Barry Schwabsky, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, 1999.
1999 Angels: Bruce Conner, 1973-1975, San Francisco:San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Exhibition brochure, Text by Judith Cizek, 1999
1997 Bruce Conner: Engraving Collages,1961-1995, Essay by James Johnson, Wichita Art Museum, 1997
1997 Bruce Conner: Inkblot Drawings, Engraving Collages, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, 1997
1990 Bruce Conner: Assemblages, Paintings, Drawings, Engraving Collages, Dean, Robert and Dennis Hopper, Los Angeles: Michael Kohn Gallery, 1990
1987 Bruce Conner: Matrix/Berkeley 102, Berkeley: University Art Museum, 1987
1985 Bruce Conner: Photograms, San Francisco: Art Museum Association of America, 1985
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