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Barbara Kruger    (American, 1945)
Barbara Kruger - Untitled (Mixed Media)
Barbara Kruger
Untitled 2006
 		   

Biography
1945 Born in Newark, New Jersey
1965 Education: Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York
1966 Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
Lives in New York City and Los Angeles, California

Exhibitions
2010 Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
2009 “Barbara Kruger: Pre-digital 1980-1992”, Skarstedt Gallery, NYC, NY.
2009 “The Pictures Generation”, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, NYC, NY
2009 “Between Being Born and Dying”, Lever House, NYC, NY
2009 Sprüth Magers, London, England
2008 “Between Being Born and Dying”, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden.
2008 Southern Exposure, Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, Sydney, NSW
2007 Dangerous Beauty, CAM - Chelsea Art Museum, New York City, NY
2007 “’Picture/Readings’ 1978”, Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY
2006 Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, Germany
2006 Women Only! In Their Studios, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
2005 The Fluidity of Time - Selections from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
2005 Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, California
2005 Gallery of Modern Art, Glasgow, Scotland
2004 Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY
2004 “Twelve”, Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY
2004 “ipermercati dell’arte”/”Ill consumo rappresentato”, Palazzo Pubblico, Magazini del Sale.
2003 ‘Help’ Barbara Kruger, Sprueth Magers Lee, London
2003 Kunst-Station St. Peter, Köln.
2003 Sprüth/Magers/Lee, London.
2003 Skarstedt Fine Art, New York.
2002 Palazzo delle Papesse, Siena, Italy.
2002 Monika Sprüth / Philomene Magers, Köln.
2002 “Shopping”, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt / Main, Germany.
2002 Monika Sprüth / Philomene Magers, München.
2001 “The Overexcited Body”, SESC, São Paulo, Brazil.
2001 South London Gallery, London, England.
2000 Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California.
2000 Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, NY
2000 “Inner Eye: Contemporary Art from the Marc and Livia Straus Collection”, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York.
2000 “Sentimental”, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France.
2000 “Around 1984: A Look at Art in the Eighties”, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York.
2000 “Lux et Tenebrae: Peter Blum Edition”, Peter Blum/Blumarts, Inc., NYC, NY.
2000 “Picturing Women”, Steven Scott Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland.
2000 “S.O.S.: Scenes of Sounds”, The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, New York.
1999 “Inner Eye: Contemporary Art from the Marc and Livia Straus Collection”, Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, Tennessee.
1999 “Inner Eye: Contemporary Art from the Marc and Livia Straus Collection”, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, Georgia.
1999 “Inner Eye: Contemporary Art from the Marc and Livia Straus Collection”, The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia.
1999 “Art at the End of the Century: Contemporary Art from the Milwaukee Art Museum”, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama.
1999 “Veronica’s Revenge: Photographies de la collection LAC-Suisse”, Casino Luxembourg and Musee national d’histoire et d’art, Luxembourg.
1999 “Assumed Identity”, Fine Arts Gallery, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
1999 “Altered States”, Charles Cowles Gallery, NYC, NY.
1999 “The American Century: Art and Culture 1950-2000”, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, NY.
1999 Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France.
1998 Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York.
1998 “Read My Lips: Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Cindy Sherman”, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia.
1998 “Inner Eye: Contemporary Art from the Marc and Livia Straus Collection”, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
1998 “Art and the American Experience”, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, Michigan.
1998 “Fast Forward Trade Marks”, Kunstverein Hamburg.
1997 “The Mediated Object: Selections from the Eli Broad Collections”, Forum for Contemporary Art, Saint Louis, Missouri.
1997 “It’s Only Rock and Roll: Rock and Roll Currents in Contemporary Art”, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona.
1997 “Word to Word”, Linda Kirkland Gallery, NYC, NY.
1997 Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
1997 18 Wooster Street/Deitch Projects, NYC, NY.
1996 Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Melbourne, Australia.
1996 “Nudo & Crudo”, Claudia Gian Ferrari Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy.
1996 “NowHere/Incandescent”, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark.
1996 “Sexual Politics: Judy Chicago’s ‘Dinner Party’ in Feminist Art History”, Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, California.
1996 “Thinking Print: Books to Billboards, 1980-95”, The Museum of Modern Art, NYC, NY.
1996 “Is It Art?”, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York.
1996 “The Mediated Object: Selections from the Eli Broad Q Collections”, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge,
1995 “An American Century of Photography: From Dry-Point to Digital”, Mead Art Museum, Amherst, Massachusetts.
1995 “An American Century of Photography: From Dry-Point to Digital”, Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand.
1995 “An American Century of Photography: From Dry-Point to Digital”, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia.
1995 “An American Century of Photography: From Dry-Point to Digital”, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia.
1995 “An American Century of Photography: From Dry-Point to Digital”, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, California.
1995 “Civil Rights Now”, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
1995 “Civil Rights Now”, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio.
1995 “In a Different Light”, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, California.
1995 “Paste-Up: Past & Present”, Kent Gallery, NYC, NY.
1995 “Passions Privees”, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France.
1994 “Wall to Wall”, Serpentine Gallery, London, England.
1994 “World Morality”, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
1994 “Imprimatur”, Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts, Montreal, Canada.
1994 Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
1994 “Public Interventions”, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts.
1994 “Inaugural Group Show”, Off Shore Gallery, East Hampton, New York.
1994 “New York ‘Unplugged’”, Gallery Cotthem, Knokke-Zoute, Belgium.
1994 “Desire”, Charles Cowles Gallery, NYC, NY.
1994 “Gewalte - Geschaefte”, Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany.
1994 “An American Century of Photography: From Dry-Point to Digital”, Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri.
1993 “Dissent, Difference and the Body Politic”, Otis Parsons School of Art and Design, Los Angeles, California.
1993 “Photoplay”, Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, Florida.
1993 “The Mediated Image: American Photography in the Age of Information”, University Art Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico.
1993 “Biennale d’Art Contemporain”, Lyon, France.
1993 “Inside Out”, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy.
1993 “Commodity Image”, International Center of Photography Midtown, NYC, NY.
1993 “Image Makers”, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, New York.
1993 “Die Sprache der Kunst - The Language of Art”, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria.
1993 “Ciphers of Identity”, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland.
1992 Magasin, Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France.
1992 “Power: Its Myths and Mores in American Art, 1961-1991”, Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio.
1992 “Power: Its Myths and Mores in American Art, 1961-1991”, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia.
1992 “Devil on the Stairs: Looking Back on the Eighties”, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California.
1992 “Ars Pro Domo”, Museum Ludwig, Koln, Germany.
1992 “Chaos to Order”, Art Museum of Southeast Texas, Beaumont, Texas.
1992 “15th Anniversary Exhibition”, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
1992 “The Power of the City/The City of Power”, Whitney Museum of American Art Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, NYC, NY.
1992 “More Than One Photography: Works Since 1980 From the Collection”, The Museum of Modern Art, NYC, NY.
1992 “Dissent, Difference and the Body Politic”, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon.
1991 “Beyond the Frame: American Art, 1960-1990”, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan.
1991 “Beyond the Frame: American Art, 1960-1990”, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan.
1991 “Beyond the Frame: American Art, 1960-1990”, Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan.
1991 “Words and #s”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio.
1991 “Buchstablich: Bild und Wort in der Kunst Heute”, Von-der-Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal-Elberfeld, Germany.
1991 “Media Culture”, Studio Oggetto, Milan, Italy.
1991 “Compassion and Protest”, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California.
1991 “The Art of Advocacy”, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut.
1991 “Aussenraum-Innenstadt”, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hannover, Germany.
1991 “Transpositions”, University of South Florida Art Museum, Tampa, Florida.
1991 “Objects for the Ideal Home”, Serpentine Gallery, London, England
1991 “Devil on the Stairs: Looking Back on the Eighties”, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1991 “Anni 80: Artisti a New York”, Palazzo delle Albere, Museo Provinciale d’Arte Sezione Contemporanea, Trento, Italy.
1991 “Power: Its Myths and Mores in American Art, 1961-1991”, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana.
1991 Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
1991 “False Face”, N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
1990 “California Annual”, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California.
1990 Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina.
1990 Monika Spruth Galerie, Koln, West Germany.
1990 Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
1990 Kolnischer Kunstverein, Koln, Germany.
1990 “The Decade Show”, Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art/The New Museum of Contemporary Art/The Studio Museum in Harlem, NYC, NY.
1990 “The Indomitable Spirit”, The International Center of Photography Midtown, NYC, NY.
1990 “Opening Exhibition, 20th Century Pavilion”, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel.
1990 “The Last Decade: American Artists of the 80’s”, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, NYC, NY.
1990 “Art et Publicite”, Musee National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.
1990 “The Charade of Mastery”, Whitney Museum of American Art Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, NYC, NY.
1990 “Words as Symbols”, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut.
1989 Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
1989 Galerie Bebert, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.
1989 Fred Hoffman Gallery, Santa Monica, California.
1989 John Doyle Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
1989 “Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move Into the Mainstream, 1970-85”, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio.
1989 “Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move Into the Mainstream, 1970-85”, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana.
1989 “Prospect 89”, Frankfurt Kunstverein and Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany.
1989 “Bilderstreit”, Rheinhalle, Koln, West Germany.
1989 “A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation”, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California.
1989 “Magiciens de la Terre”, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.
1989 “Viennese divan: Sigmund Freud nowadays”, Museum of the 20th Century, Vienna, Austria.
1989 “Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move Into the Mainstream, 1970-85”, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado.
1989 “Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move Into the Mainstream, 1970-85”, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1989 “The Desire of the Museum”, Whitney Museum of American Art Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, NYC, NY.
1989 “Image World: Art and Media Culture”, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, NY.
1989 Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy.
1988 “Biennial of Sydney”, Sydney, Australia.
1988 “Modes of Address: Language in Art Since 1960”, Whitney Museum of American Art Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, NYC, NY.
1988 Fischbach Gallery, NYC, NY.
1987 Artists Space, NYC, NY.
1987 P.S. 1, Long Island City, New York.
1987 Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
1987 Crousel/Hussenot Galerie, Paris, France.
1987 Monika Spruth Galerie, Koln, West Germany.
1987 National Art Gallery, Wellington, New Zealand.
1987 “1987 Biennial Exhibition”, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, NY.
1987 “L’epoque, la mode, la morale, la passion”, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France.
1987 “El Arte y Su Doble”, Fundacion Caja de Pensiones, Madrid, Spain.
1987 “Documenta 8”, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, West Germany.
1987 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California.
1987 Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden.
1987 “Emerging Artists 1978-1986: Selections from the Exxon Series”, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC, NY.
1986 “New Acquisitions from New York”, Memphis Brooks Museum, Memphis, Tennessee.
1986 “Barbara Kruger and Jenny Holzer”, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel.
1986 “Rooted Rhetoric”, Lia Rumma Gallery, Naples, Italy.
1986 “American Myths”, Kent Fine Art, NYC, NY.
1986 “El Arte y Su Doble”, Centro Cultural de la Fundacio Caixa de Pensions, Barcelona, Spain.
1986 Annina Nosei Gallery, NYC, NY.
1986 Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
1986 University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, California.
1986 Hillman/Holland Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia.
1986 Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois.
1986 “The Real Big Picture”, Queens Museum, Queens, New York.
1986 “Admired Works”, John Weber Gallery, NYC, NY.
1986 Light Gallery, NYC, NY.
1986 Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, West Germany.
1986 Metro Pictures, NYC, NY.
1986 The Crescent Gallery, Dallas, Texas.
1986 Postmasters Gallery, NYC, NY.
1986 “Spectrum: In Other Words”, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC.
1986 “Maelstrom”, Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York.
1986 “Painting and Sculpture Today: 1986”, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana.
1986 “An American Renaissance: Painting and Sculpture from 1940 to the Present”, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
1986 “Dissent: The Issue of Modern Art in Boston”, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts.
1986 “Surrealismo: La Dolce Vita 80’s”, Barbara Braathen Gallery, NYC, NY.
1986 “Ein Anderes Klima: Kunsterinnen gebrauchen neue Medien”, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, West Germany.
1986 “Paravision”, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
1986 “Products and Promotion”, San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, California.
1985 “1985 Biennial Exhibition”, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, NY.
1985 “New York, New Art”, ARCA, Marseille, France.
1985 “Ecrans politiques”, Musee d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada.
1985 “Kunst mit Eigen-Sinn”, Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Vienna, Austria.
1985 “Secular Attitudes”, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California.
1985 “Subjects and Subject Matter”, London Regional Art Gallery, London, Ontario, Canada.
1985 “New York: Ailleurs et Autrement”, ARC, Musee d’Art Moderne, Paris, France.
1985 “New Editions by Peter Blum”, Lorence/Monk Gallery, NYC, NY.
1985 “New Art”, Modernism Gallery, San Francisco, California.
1985 Monika Spruth Galerie, Koln, West Germany.
1985 Center for Contemporary Art, Seattle, Washington.
1985 “Talking Back to the Media”, Multi Media Project, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
1985 “June Group Show”, Nature Morte Gallery, NYC, NY.
1985 Installation, AREA Nightclub, NYC, NY.
1985 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California.
1985 Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut.
1985 Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas.
1984 Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland.
1984 Kajima Gallery, Montreal, Canada.
1984 Nouveau Musee, Lyon, France.
1984 Watershed Gallery, Bristol, England.
1984 Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
1984 Crousel/Hussenot Galerie, Paris, France.
1984 Annina Nosei Gallery, NYC, NY.
1984 “Content: A Contemporary Focus”, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, DC.
1984 “Group Show”, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts.
1984 “Private Symbol/Social Metaphor”, Biennial of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
1984 “Sexuality and Representation”, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England.
1984 “Photography Used in Contemporary Art”, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan.
1984 “El Arte Narrativo”, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico.
1984 “Ansatzpunkte kritischer Kunst heute”, Berlin, West Germany.
1984 “Written Imagery Unleashed in the Twentieth Century”, Fine Arts Museum of Long Island, Hempstead, New York.
1984 “Holzer/Kruger Prints”, Spirit Square Art Gallery, Charlotte, North Carolina.
1984 “Contemporary Perspectives 1984”, Bucknell University Art Gallery, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania.
1984 “The Axis of Sexuality”, The Banff Art Center, Alberta, Canada.
1984 “The Difference: On Representation and Sexuality”, The New Museum, NYC, NY.
1984 “The Difference: On Representation and Sexuality”, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England.
1983 “Contemporary Photographers”, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan.
1983 “The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Laughter”, Protech/Mc Neil Gallery, NYC, NY.
1983 “Starting Points of Young Critical Artists”, Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany.
1983 “Artist-Critic”, White Columns, NYC, NY.
1983 “Currents”, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts.
1983 “Group Show”, Young/Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
1983 American Graffiti Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
1983 Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
1983 “Contra Media”, Alternative Museum, NYC, NY.
1983 “Fashion Fictions”, White Columns, NYC, NY.
1983 “1983 Biennial Exhibition”, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, NY.
1983 “Critical Content: Contemporary Perspectives”, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California.
1983 “Art and Social Change, U.S.A.”, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio.
1983 Times Square Spectochrome Sign, NYC, NY.
1983 Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England.
1983 Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, California.
1983 Annina Nosei Gallery, NYC, NY.
1982 Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1982 CEPA/Hallwalls Gallery, Buffalo, New York.
1982 “Documenta 7”, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, West Germany.
1982 “La Biennale di Venezia”, Venice, Italy.
1982 “Image Scavengers”, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts.
1982 “Photographs In”, Daniel Wolff Gallery, NYC, NY.
1982 “Frames of Reference”, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, NY.
1982 “The American Exhibition”, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
1982 “Art and Media”, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
1982 “Public Vision”, White Columns, NYC, NY.
1982 “The Atomic Salon”, Ronald Feldman Gallery, NYC, NY.
1981 “Nineteen Emerging Artists”, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC, NY.
1981 “Gender”, Group Material Gallery, NYC, NY.
1981 “Pictures and Promises”, The Kitchen, NYC, NY.
1981 “Love is Blind”, Castelli Photography Gallery, NYC, NY.
1981 “Inespressionismo Americano”, Genoa, Italy.
1981 “Biennial Photography”, Vienna, Austria.
1981 “Public Address”, Annina Nosei Gallery, NYC, NY.
1980 “Four Different Photographers”, Padiglione di Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy.
1979 “Imitation of Life”, University of Hartford, Hartford, Connecticut.
1979 Franklin Furnace Archive, NYC, NY.
1979 Printed Matter, NYC, NY.
1976 John Doyle Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
1973 “1973 Biennial Exhibition”, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, NY.
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