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Bruce Nauman    (American, 1941)

 Bruce Nauman - Studio Floor Detail  (Merce Cunningham Photography Portfolio 2006) (Photographs) h: 30 x w: 39 in / h: 76.2 x w: 99.1 cm
Bruce Nauman
Studio Floor Detail (Merce Cunningham Photography Portfolio 2006) 2006
 
 Bruce Nauman - The Negative Shape of the Right Half of my Body Carved Into a Tree (Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.)) h: 47.7 x w: 60 cm / h: 18.8 x w: 23.6 in
Bruce Nauman
The Negative Shape of the Right Half of my Body Carved Into a Tree 1966-1967
 
 Bruce Nauman - TV Clown (Prints) h: 30 x w: 40 in / h: 76.2 x w: 101.6 cm
Bruce Nauman
TV Clown 1988
 
 Bruce Nauman - Violent Incident (Video/Film)
Bruce Nauman
Violent Incident 1986
 
 Bruce Nauman - Violins/Violence (Prints) h: 28 x w: 39 in / h: 71.1 x w: 99.1 cm
Bruce Nauman
Violins/Violence 1985
 
 

Biography
1941 Born: Fort Wayne, IN (December 6)
1960 - 1964 University of Wisconsin. Madison, WI
1964 - 1966 MFA, University of California in Davis. Davis, CA
1966 - 1968 Taught. San Francisco Art Institute. San Francisco, CA
NEA Grant, Artistic Fellowship Award Washington, DC
1970 Aspen Institute for Humanistic Studies Grant Colorado
Taught sculpture. University of California. Irvine, CA.
1986 Skowhegan Award, Skowhegan, Maine
1989 Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree from the San Francisco Art Institute
married artist Susan Rothenberg
1991 Max Beckmann Award from the City of Frankfurt, Germany
1993 Wexner Prize
The Wolf Foundation Prize in Arts (Sculpture), Herzlia, Israel
Alumni Citation for Excellence, University of California, Davis, California
1995 Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, Massachusetts
Aldrich Prize, Aldrich Museum Ridgefield, CT
1997 Member, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany
1999 Leone d'oro (The Golden Lion) 48th Venice Biennale, Italy
2000 Member, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, New York
Honorary Doctor of Arts, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
2004 Praemium Imperiale Prize for Visual Arts, Japan
Beaux-Arts Magazine Art Awards: Best International Artist, Paris
2009 American representative to the 2009 Venice Biennale

Exhibitions
2009 1968. Die große Unschuld, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany (group)
2008 - 2009 Biennale di Venezia, U.S. Pavilion
2008 - 2009 Heavy Metal, Kunsthalle Kiel, Kiel, Germany
Ich kann mir nicht jeden Tag ein Ohr abschneiden., Nationalgalerie Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
Minimal is More. Sammlung Lafrenz, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Netherlands
2008 Beautiful People, Centre d'Art la Panera, Lerida
Body Work, Le Case d'Arte, Milan
2006 Renegades 25 Years of Performance at Exit Art, Exit Art, New York City, NY
2004 London, Tate Modern, The Unilever Series - Bruce Nauman -solo
2003 Cologne, Museum Ludwig-solo
Berlin, Deutsche Guggenheim, Bruce Nauman -solo
2002 Basel, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Bruce Nauman - Mapping the Studio -solo
Genève, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain -solo
New York, Sperone Westwater, Mapping the Studio II-solo
New York, Dia: Chelsea, Bruce Nauman -solo
2001 New York, ICA Gallery, New York Video 1967 - 73-solo
New York, Zwirner & Wirth Gallery, Selected Work -solo
2000 Samuel Beckett/Bruce Nauman, Kunsthalle Wien Karsplatz Vienna
1997 - 1999 Bruce Nauman: Image/Text, 1966-1996, Centre Georges Pompidou (& other locations) Paris
1993 - 1995 Bruce Nauman, Museum of Contemporary Art (& other locations) Los Angeles
1990 Bruce Nauman: Skulpturen und Installationen, 1985-1990, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts (& other locations) Lausanne, Switzerland
1986 - 1987 London, Whitechapel Art Gallery -solo
Bruce Nauman, Kunsthalle Basel (& other locations)
Paris, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville -solo
1985 New York, Museum of Modern Art -solo
1982 - 1983 Bruce Nauman: Neons, The Baltimore Museum of Art Baltimore, MD
1972 - 1974 Bruce Nauman: Work from 1965-1972, Whitney Museum of American Art (& other locations) NY
1968 "Bruce Nauman," Leo Castelli Gallery. New York.-solo
"6 Day Week: 6 Sound Problems," Konrad Fischer Galerie. Dusseldorf -solo
1966 Los Angeles, Nicholas Wilder Gallery -solo
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