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James Lee Byars Biography
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1932 |
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Born: in Detroit, MI
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1967 |
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Won the Copely Prize by Cassandra Foundation
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1974 |
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Received the DAAD scholarship
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Died: in Cairo, Egypt
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Education: Wayne State University, Meril Palmer School of Psychology
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2010
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James Lee Byars – The Perfect Axis, Schloss Benrath, Düsseldorf; Germany
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2009
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James Lee Byars, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, UK
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2009
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Matthew Brannon, Marcel Broodthaers, James Lee Byars, William E. Jones, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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2009
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The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, KS
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2009
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1968: The Great Innocents, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany
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2009
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I’m Full of Byars, Milton Keynes Gallery, London, UK
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2009
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The Quick and the Dead, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
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2009
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Imminence, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris, France
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2009
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James Lee Byars Lived Here, organized by Milton Keynes Gallery, Palazzo Pesaro Papafava, Venice, Italy (solo)
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2008 - 2009
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I’m Full of Byars: James Lee Byars - Eine Hommage, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland (solo)
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2008 - 2009
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NeoHooDoo: Art of a Forgotten Faith, PS1/MoMA, New York, NY; Miami Art Museum, Miam, FLi
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2008
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James Lee Byars: JB: Q.I.I.T.R. T.F.T.I.P. T.S.T., Galerie de France/Galerie Michael Werner, Paris, France (solo)
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2008
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Power, Foxy Production, New York, NY
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2008
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Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK
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2008
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James Lee Byars: Five Points Make a Man, Michael Werner Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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2008
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Old Masters, Modern & Contemporary Art and Fine Arts, Galerie Marie-Puck Broodthaers, Brussel, Belgium
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2008
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Pretty Ugly, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, NY
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2008
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Im full of Byars. James Lee Byars in Bern - eine Hommage, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland
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2007
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Selection, Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne, Germany
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2007
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The Invisible Show, Centro José Guerrero, Granada, Spain
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2007
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James Lee Byars: The Art of Writing, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (solo)
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2006
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The Materialization of Sensibility: Art and Alchemy, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, NY
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2006
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Elemental Form, L&M Arts, New York, NY
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2006
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Strange Powers, Creative Time, New York, NY
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2006
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James Lee Byars. The Rest is Silence, Michael Werner, Perry Rubenstein and Mary Boone Galleries, New York, NY (solo)
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2006
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Worlds: James Lee Byars, Jörg Immendorff, Thomas Lehmerer, Hermann Nitsch, Reiner Ruthenbeck and others, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
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2005
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James Lee Byars: Selected Works, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen Colorado (solo)
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2005
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James Lee Byars, Barbican, London, UK (solo)
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2005
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James Lee Byars, Griffin Contemporary, Santa Monica, CA (solo)
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2004 - 2005
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James Lee Byars, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
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2004
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Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated): Art from 1951 to the Present, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
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2004
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Los Monocromos, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
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2004
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James Lee Byars, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX (solo)
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2004
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James Lee Byars: Life, Love and Death, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany (solo)
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2003
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'The Moon Books: Above and Below, An Exhibition of James Lee Byars', Michael Werner Gallery, New York
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2003
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'Louise Bourgeois, James Lee Byars – Il disparut dans le silence total', Centre Pompidou, Paris
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2002
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'The Inward Eye: Transcendence in Contemporary Art', Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
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2002
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'The Angel', Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
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2001
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Galerie Er Rashid, Düsseldorf; 'Letters to Joseph Beuys', Museum für Kommunikation, Frankfurt
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2001
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'Works on Paper from the 1960s and 1990s and Sculpture from the 1990s', Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
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2001
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'Ephemera', Low, Los Angeles
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2001
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'Beau Monde: Toward a Redeemed Cosmopolitanism', SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe
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2001
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'Alchemie de la rencontre', FRAC/Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Champagen-Ardenne, Reims
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2001
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'The Museum of our Wishes', Museum Ludwig, Cologne
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2001
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ARC, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris Paris, France
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2000
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'The Poetic Conceit and Other Black Works', Michael Werner Gallery, New York and Cologne
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1999
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Michael Werner Gallery, New York and Cologne; 'The Epitaph of Con.Art is Which Questions Have Disappeared?', Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover
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1999
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Venice Biennale, Venice
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1998
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Out of Actions, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, CA
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1997
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The Palace of Perfect-Retrospective, Fundacao de Serralves Porto, Portugal
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1996
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Henry Moore Foundation-Henry Moore Institute Leeds
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1996
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Galerie Joan Prats Barcelona
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1996
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Under Capricorn, City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand
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1996
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Under Capricorn, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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1996
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The Angel, Michael Werner Gallery New York
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1996
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Negotiating Rapture, , Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL
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1996
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Instituto de America Santa Fe, NM and Granada
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1995 - 1996
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Amerikaanse Perspectieven, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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1995
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Five Points Make a Man, The Moons and Constellations, Michael Werner Gallery New York
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1995
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James Lee Byars, Fondation Cartier pour L'art Contemporain Paris, France
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1995
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Views from Abroad, Whitney Museum of American Art New York
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1994 - 1995
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The Perfect Moment, , IVAM Valencia
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1994
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Couplet 2, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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1994
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Outside the Frame: Performance and the Object, Cleveland Center fro Contemporary Art Cleveland, OH
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1994
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The Perfect Love, Laura Carpenter Fine Art Santa Fe, NM
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1993
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Sun, Moon, and Stars, Württenmbergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart
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1993
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American Art in the 20th Century, Martin Gropius Bau Berlin, Germany and London, England
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1993
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The Red Angel, Venice Biennale
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1993
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The Red Angel, Cirva Marseille
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1993
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James Lee Byars IS IS, Mulier Mulier Gallery Knokke-Heist, Belgium
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1993
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James Lee Byars, SCAI The Bathhouse-Shiraishi Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan
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1993
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Works from the Sixties and Recent Works, Michael Werner, Inc. New York
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1992
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IS, Vrej Baghoomian Gallery New York
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1992
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The Human Figure, Mary Boone Gallery New York
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1992
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IS, Galeria La Maquina Espanola Madrid, Spain
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1992
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Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall Stockholm
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1992
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Galerie de Alhambra Foundation Granada
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1992
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Galerie de France Paris, France
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1992
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Documenta IX, Kassel
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1992
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Plus Ultra, Alhambra Foundation Granada
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1991
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The Path of Luck, Michael Werner Inc. New York
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1991
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The Path of Luck, Galerie Michael Werner Cologne, Germany
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1990 - 1991
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Vies D'Artistes, Le Havre-Musée des Beaux Arts André Malraux
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1990
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The Perfect Thought, University Art Museum @ University of CA, Berkeley Berkeley, CA
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1990
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The Perfect Thought, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX
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1989 - 1990
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Galerie Michael Werner Cologne, Germany
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1989
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Monument to Cleopatra, Cleto Polcina Arte Moderna Rome, Italy
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1989
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Mary Boone Gallery New York
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1989
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The Palace of Good Luck, Castello di Rivoli-Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Turin, Italy
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1989
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Galerie de France Paris, France
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1988
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James Lee Byars, Mary Boone Gallery New York
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1988
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Hoffman Borman Gallery Santa Monica, CA
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1987
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Zeichnungen, Galerie Fred Jahn Munich, Germany
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1987
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The Letter Reading Society of James Lee Byars, Galerie des Beaux-Arts Brussels, Belgium
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1986 - 1987
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Beauty Goes Avantgarde, Galerie Michael Werner Cologne, Germany
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1986
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Palast der Philosophie/The Philosophical Palace, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf Dusseldorf, Germany
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1985
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Galerie Michael Werner Cologne, Germany
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1985
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Mary Boone Gallery New York
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1984
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Galerie Michael Werner Cologne, Germany
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1984
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Museum of Fine Art Philadelphia, PA
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1984
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The Perfect Quiet, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, MA
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1983
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Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven
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1982
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James Lee Byars im Westfälischen Kunstverein, Westfälischen Kunstverein Munster, Germany
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1981
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Galerie Michael Werner Cologne, Germany
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1981
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The Classical Exhibition of to Be Quiet, Galerie Helen van der Meij Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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1980
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The Exhibition of Perfect, Busch Reisinger Museum at Harvard University Cambridge, MA
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1978
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The Perfect Kiss, University of California Art Museum Berkeley, CA
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1978
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Hear Th In Ph Around This Chair and It Knocks You Out, Marian Goodman Gallery New York
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1978
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The Exhibition of Perfect, Kunsthalle Bern Switzerland
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1977
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The Play of Death, Domplatz-Dom Hotel Cologne, Germany
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1977
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The First Total Interrogative Philosophy, Städtisches Museum Monchengladbach, Germany
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1976
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The Perfect Performance is to Stand Still, I.C.C. Antwerp, Belgium
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1975
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The Perfect Kiss, Pavillon Denon-Musée du Louvre Paris, France
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1974
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The Perfect Love Letter, Palais des Beaux-Arts Brussels, Belgium
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1974
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The Golden Tower, Galerie Rudolf Springer Berlin, Germany
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1973
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Wide White Space Gallery Antwerp, Belgium
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1971
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The Black Book, Galerie Michael Werner Cologne, Germany
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1970
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The Gold Curb, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY
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1969
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The World Question on Belgian TV, Wide White Space Gallery Antwerp, Belgium
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1968
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The World Question Center, Hudson Institute Croton-on-Hudson, NY
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1964
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Carnegie Museum Pittsburgh, PA
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1962
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Paper of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
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1961
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Willars Gallery New York
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1958
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Museum of Modern Art New York, NY
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