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Robert Beck Biography
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1959 |
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Born in Baltimore, Maryland
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1973 |
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Yeager Fine Arts, Studio Arts Program, Baltimore, MD
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1983 |
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BA, Undergraduate Film and Television, New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, New York, NY
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1989 |
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“Made in 8” Competition, sponsored by THE Kitchen and the 8mm Video Council, New York, NY
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1991 |
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1st Prize, Experimental Category: “Visions of US” Contest, sponsored by the SONY Corporation of America and the America Film Institute, Los Angeles, CA
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1991 |
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1st Prize, Experimental Documentary Category, Atlanta Film and Video Festival, sponsored by IMAGE Film/Video Center, Atlanta, GA
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1993 |
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The Independent Study Program of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Studio Program, New York, NY
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1995 |
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Art Matters, Inc., Grant
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1995 |
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New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship
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1999 |
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Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Competition Award
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Lives and works in New York City
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The artist is now known as Robert Buck.
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2009
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Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA (solo)
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2008
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CRG Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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2008
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Beyond a Memorable Fancy, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Project Space, NY (group)
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2008
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Sorry We’re Closed, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium (group)
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2008
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The World is All, Hudson Franklin Gallery, New York, NY (group)
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2008
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Second Nature, CRG Gallery, New York (solo)
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2008
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Second Thoughts, Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College, New York, NY (group)
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2007
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On The Marriage Broker Joke Office, Baroque Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium (group)
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2007
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Circus of Books, ZING Magazine Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA (group)
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2007
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dust, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH (solo)
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2006
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Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (solo)
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2006
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Opalka Gallery, The Sage Colleges, Albany, New York (solo)
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2006
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Twice Drawn, Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY (group)
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2006
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ARMED - Contemporary Art and Violence, Mandeville Gallery, Union College, Schenectady, NY (group)
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2006
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The Last Time They Met, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (group)
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2006
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SUBJECT, Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, CT (group)
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2005
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MULTIPLEX 2, Smack Mellon, NY (group)
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2005
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Past Presence: Childhood and Memory, Whitney Museum at Altria (group)
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2005
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Monuments for the USA, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA (group)
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2005
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Altered Spaces, The Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN (group)
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2005
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Heavenly, Or A Slice of White, Hunter College, New York, NY (group)
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2005
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Back from Nature: The Sportsman Redux, The Maine College of Art, Portland, ME (group)
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2005
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10 Year Anniversary Show, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London (group)
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2005
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Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA (solo)
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2005
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Multiplex II, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, New York
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2004
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Art Loves Design, Miami Design District, Miami, FL (solo)
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2004
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CRG Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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2004
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Editions Fawbush: A Selection, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York (group)
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2004
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Needful Objects: Recent Multiples, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (group)
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2004
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Your Heart is No Match For My Love, Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN (group)
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2004
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neoqueer, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA (group)
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2003
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Robert Beck, Russell Crotty, and Shibon Liddel, CRG Gallery, New York (group)
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2003
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Me, Myself and I CRG Gallery, New York (group)
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2003
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Somewhere Better Than This: Alternative Social Experience in the Spaces of Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH (group)
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2003
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Drawings: Gallery Artists, CRG Gallery, New York (group)
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2003
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Little Triggers, Cohan Leslie and Browne, New York, NY (group)
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2003
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Once Across The Mason-Dixon, Susan Inglett, New York, NY (solo)
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2002
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Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA (solo)
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2002
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Different Class, Debs & Co., New York, NY (group)
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2002
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Acquiring Tastes, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT (group)
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2002
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CRG Gallery, New York; The Armory Show: The International Fair of New Art, New York (group)
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2002
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Gallery Artists Group Show, CRG Gallery, New York (group)
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2002
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Arrested Development, Caste Gallery, The College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY (group)
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2002
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Different Class, Debs & Co., New York
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2002
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Whitechapel Gallery, London
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2001
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Song Poems, Cohan Leslie and Browne Gallery, New York
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2001
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Song Poems, Cohen Leslie and Browne Gallery, New York, NY (group)
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2001
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The 13th Videobrasil, International Electronic Art Festival, curated by Lynne Cooke, Centro Cultural Sao Paulo, Brazil (group)
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2001
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Gray to Black: Johns, Kelly, Puryear and Serra, The Whitney Museum of America Arts, New York, NY (group)
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2001
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Crossing the Line, The Queens Museum, Queens, NY (group)
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2001
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In Cold Blood, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Platz, New Platz, NY (group)
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2001
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Cathartic Disgust Gestalt, Project Room, Philadelphia, PA (group)
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2001
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Drawings, CRG Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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2001
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13th Videobrasil International Electronic Art Festival, Centro Cultural Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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2001
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Cathartic Disgust Gesalt, The Project Room, Philadelphia, PA
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2001
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Video Jam, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
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2001
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Edges of the Earth, Void, New York
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2000
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Nine Years Later ("Girlfriend In A Coma"), Below 54, London, England
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2000
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RGB, Experimental Film, Video and Music Festival, Galapagos, Brooklyn, NY
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2000
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Video Time, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
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2000
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Nature Morte, CRG Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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2000
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Galerie Rainer Bourgemeister, Berlin (solo)
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2000
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Wildlife, Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA (group)
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2000
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human/nature, curated by Jane Harris, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York, NY (group)
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2000
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Destruction/Creation, Ubu Gallery, New York, NY (group)
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2000
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animal magnetism, Bucknell Art Gallery, Lewisburg, PA (group)
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1999
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Hindsight: Recent work from the Private Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (group)
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1999
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Calendar 2000, The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (group)
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1999
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The Chicago International Art Fair, Chicago; one person installation CRG, New York (group)
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1999
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Annie Albers, Robert Beck, Cadie Noland, Joan Semmel and Nancy Shaver, curated by Robert Gober, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY (group)
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1999
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Pop!, The Lux Center, London, England
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1999
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TELE-vision, University of the Andes, Bogota, Columbia
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1999
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13th Recontres Video Art Plastique, Centre d’art contemporain de Basse-Normandie, Herouville Saint-Clair, France
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1999
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The Gay and Lesbian Film and Video Festival, The New Festival, New York
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1998
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Almanac: Art On Television, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; Cablecast
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1998
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Station Arts Electroniques, Rennes, France
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1998
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Video Library, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY
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1998
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I Love New York, Edinburgh International Art Festival, Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland
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1998
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Screening Room, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
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1998
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Pandemonium: London Festival of the Moving Image, London Electronic Arts, London, England
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1998
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I’m Still in Love With You, Women’s 20th Century Club, Eagle Rock, CA
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1998
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Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles; Project screening room
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1998
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European Media Arts Festival, Osnabruck, Germany
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1998
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Back-to-Back: Selected Fellows 1990-98, New York Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY (group)
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1998
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Robert Beck and Jasmin Sian, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA (group)
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1998
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Images for the Millennium, Long Island Center of Photography, New York, NY (group)
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1998
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Portraits, Paul Morris Gallery, New York, NY (group)
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1998
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I’m Still in Love With You, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (group)
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1998
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Artists & Books: Picarone Editions 1997, Matisse Museum, Nice, France (group)
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1998
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Kasseler Documentar und Videofest, Kassel, Germany
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1997
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European Media Arts Festival, Osnabruck, Germany
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1997
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Video Viewpoints, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
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1997
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The New God: Investigations of New Photography and Film, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY (group)
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1997
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33rd AnnualArt on Paper Exhibition, Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC (group)
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1997
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You Should Know Better/Truth and Artifice in Contemporary Photography, The Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY (group)
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1997
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Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, Germany (solo)
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1996
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Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1996
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Limited Edition Artists’ Books Since 1990, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY (group)
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1996
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What I Did On My Summer Vacation, White Columns Gallery, New York, NY (group)
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1996
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Sugar Mountain, White Columns Gallery, New York, NY (group)
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1996
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Show and Tell, Lauren Wittels Gallery, New York (group)
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1996
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Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY
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1996
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Chateau de Bionnay, Lacenas, France
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1996
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Pandemonium: London Festival of the Moving Image, London, England
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1996
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Show and Tell, Lauren Wittels Gallery, New York, NY
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1995
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Deuxieme Manifestation Internationale Video et Art Electronique, Champ Libre, Montreal, Canada
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1995
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Pantelleria Oasi Multimedia: 1st Video Festival Internazionale del Mediterraneo, Fondazio Orestiadi Comune Di Pantelleria, Pantellaria, Italy
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1995
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The New York International Video Festival, New York
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1995
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Inaugural Exhibition, Morris Healy Gallery, New York, NY (group)
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1995
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Summer Exhibition, Morris Healy Gallery, New York (group)
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1995
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Verisimilitude and the Utility of Doubt, White Columns Gallery, New York, NY (group)
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1995
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Faggots: A Communiqué from North America, curated by Bill Arning , Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires, Argentina (group)
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1995
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American Cinemathique, Los Angeles, CA
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1994
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The 1994 New York Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, The New Festival, New York, NY
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1994
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10th Rio Cine Festival, Centro Cultural Banco Do Brasil, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
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1994
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San Francisco International Gay & Lesbian Film & Video Festival, Frameline, San Francisco, CA
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1994
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12th Annual Los Angeles International Gay & Lesbian Film & Video Festival, Gay & Lesbian Media Coalition, Los Angeles, CA
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1994
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Violence/Business/Power, Neue Gesellschaft fur bildende Kunst e.v., Berlin, Germany (group)
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1994
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Who Chooses Who: Benefit Exhibition, Auction and Gala, choice of Robert Gober, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY (group)
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1994
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Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1993
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Video in the Reagen/Bush Years, University Art Gallery, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
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1992
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7 Rooms, 7 Shows, P.S. 1 Museum, The Institute For Contemporary Art, New York, NY (group)
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1992
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Gegendarstellung: Ethics and Aesthetics in Times of AIDS, Kunstverien in Hamburg, Germany, and the Kunstmuseum in Lucerne, Switzerland (group)
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1991
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Saint Vitas Dance, Suzanne Biederberg Gallery, Amsterdam, Holland (group)
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1991
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New Era Exhibition, curated by Collins and Milazzo, New York, NY (group)
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1991
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Queer, Butch, Femme..., Minor Injury Gallery, Brooklyn, NY (group)
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1991
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LA Freewaves: 2nd Celebration of Independent Video, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions; Cablecast
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1991
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Metropolis, TVE Espanola, Madrid, Spain; Broadcast
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1991
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Independent Focus, WNET/Channel 13, New York; Broadcast
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1991
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Atlanta Film and Video Festival, IMAGE Film & Video Center, Atlanta, GA
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1991
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Video: Violence, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
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1991
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Visions of US, The American Film Institute, Los Angeles, CA
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1991
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The Art of Music: 10 Years After, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
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1991
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Video Witness: Festival of New Journalism, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY
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1990
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The Territory, Southwest Alternative Media Project/Laguna Gloria Museum of Art, Houston; Cablecast
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1990
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US Program: Video/Dystopia, European Media Arts Festival, Osnabruck, Germany
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1990
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Commitment, Stedelijk Museum of Art, Amsterdam, Holland
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1990
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The AFI National Video Festival, The American Film Institute, Los Angeles, CA
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1990
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Video and Dream, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
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1990
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The 1990 New York Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, The New Festival, New York
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1990
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Couples, Greenberg Wilson Gallery, New York, NY (group)
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1990
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AIDS/SIDA, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT (group)
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1990
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Looking At A Revolution, Simon Watson Project Space, New York, NY (group)
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1989
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Erotophobia, Simon Watson Project Space, New York, NY (group)
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1989
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Group Material’s AIDS Timeline Touring Exhibition, Matrix Gallery, University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA (group)
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1989
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Made in 8, The Kitchen, New York, NY
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1988
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The Kitchen Presents, 4th International Video/Television Festival, Montbeliard, France
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1988
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New Works, The Kitchen, New York
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1988
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New Independent Video, White Columns Gallery, New York
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| Literature |
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2008
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Carlin, T.J., Robert Buck, Time Out, July 17th, 2008
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2006
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Danby, Charles. “Untitled Magazine”, November 2006, pp. 27-28
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2006
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Arning, Bill. Aspect Magazine: The Chronicle of New Media Art, Vol. 8, online publication
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2006
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Kent, Sarah. “Robert Beck: Stephen Friedman Gallery,” Time Out London, June 26, 2006
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2006
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Opalka Gallery, The Sage College of Albany, Robert Beck, 14 August - 22 October 2006.
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2005
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Johnson, Ken. “Contemplating Childlike Wonder, Long Past Childhood,” The New York Times, September 2, 2005, p. E26
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2004
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Dent, Tory. “Robert Beck, CRG Gallery,” Parachute, no.115, Para-para insert, pg. 6
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2004
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Kastner, Jeffrey. Artforum, April 2004, p. 159-160.
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2004
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Harris, Jane. “Art Review,” Time Out New York, 19-26 February 2004, p. 60.
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2003
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Collins, Thom. Somewhere Better Than This Place: Alternative Social Experience in the Spaces of Contemporary Art. Exhibition Catalogue, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, 2003. pg. 88
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2003
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Johnson, Ken, “Robert Beck: Once Across the Mason-Dixon,” New York Times, May 16.
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2003
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Dodge, Alex, “Shot on Sight: A Conversation with Robert Beck,” Swing Set, Issue No. 3, p. 30-35.
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2002
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Hirsch, Faye, “Robert Beck & Dale Peck,” Art on Paper, May - June Issue, p.71
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2002
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Northcross, Wayne, “Art Portfolio,” Pride.02, 2002, Anniversary Edition, p. 116
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2002
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Aletti, Vince, “The Great Divide: Photography's Two Different Worlds,” The Village Voice, March 12, 2002. p. 59
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2002
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Verlag, Weidle, “Rainer Borgemeister: Lokomotive Denken,” Verlag, Bonn & Berlin, 2002, pp. 224-225, 255.
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2002
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Smith, Roberta, “Art Review,” The New York Times, February 22, 2002, p. E38
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2002
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Johnson, Ken, “Art Guide,” The New York Times, February 1, p. E37
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2002
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Holmes, Steven A., Acquiring Tastes Exhibition Catalogue, Real Art Ways, 2002, pp. 9-22
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2001
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Smith, Roberta, "A Benefit for Lover’s of Art and New York," The New York Times, November 1, 2001, p. E3
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2001
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Koether, Jutta, "Robert Beck: ‘The Woods’," Kunstforum, June-July, 2001, pgs. 156-158
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2001
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Schwendener, Martha, "Behind the Music – Two Shows Get in the Groove With LP Art," Time Out New York, August 2, 2001, p. 52
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2001
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Hagen, Susan, "Things That Make You Go Ewwww…," Philadelphia City Paper, May 3 – 10, 2001, p. 9
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2000
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Leeb, Susanne, "Des Einen Freud, Des Anderen Leid,” Texte zur Kunst, September 2000, p. 197-199
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2000
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Arning, Bill, "Review of Exhibitions: Robert Beck at CRG," Art In America, September 2000, p. 155
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2000
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Johnson, Ken, "Art In Review: human/nature," The New York Times, July 21, 2000, p.E30
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2000
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Cotter, Holland, "Art In Review: Robert Beck 'Nature Mort,'" The New York Times, March 17, 2000, p. E37
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1999
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Siegel, Katy, "Anni Albers, Robert Beck, Cady Noland, Joan Semmel, Nancy Shaver," Art Forum, December 1999, p.141
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1999
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Smith, Roberta; "Anni Albers, Robert Beck, Cady Noland, Joan Semmel, Nancy Shaver," The New York Times, August 6, 1999 p. E-40
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1999
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Schjeldahl, Peter, "Selected Affinities: The Artist as Curator," The New Yorker, September 6, 1999, p. 86-87
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1999
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Saltz, Jerry, "Mood Swings: Anni Albers, Robert Beck, Cady Noland, Joan Semmel, Nancy Shaver," The Village Voice, July 27, 1999, Vol. XLIV No. 29, p. 121
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1998
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Perchuk, Andrew, "Reviews: Robert Beck," Artforum, March 1998, Vol. XXXV, No. 2, p. 101-102.
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1998
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Johnson, Ken, "Portraits," The New York Times, February 20, 1998, p. E-34
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1997
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Smith, Roberta, "Robert Beck," The New York Times, October 17, 1997, p. E-37
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1997
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Feaster, Felicia, "You Should Know Better," Art Papers, September-October 1997, Vol. 21, Issue 5, p. 60
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1997
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Smith, Roberta, "Celluloid Cave/You Should Know Better," The New York Times, June 27, 1997, p. C-24
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1996
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Smith, Roberta, "Sugar Mountain," The New York Times, April 26, 1996, p. C-27
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1996
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Smith, Roberta, "Robert Beck," The New York Times, February 9, 1996, p. C-23
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1996
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Arning, Bill, "Robert Beck," Time Out New York, January 31, 1996, p. 24
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1995
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Homes, A.M., "Reviews: Robert Beck," Artforum, February 1995, Vol. XXIII, No. 6, p. 91
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1993
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Knee, Adam, "The Feeling of Power: AIDS Activism on/through Video," The Minnesota Review, Nos. 40, Spring/Summer 1993: "The Politics of AIDS," pp. 94-101
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1992
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Bowen, Peter McKnight, "Not In Your Local Video Stores: AIDS Videos and Their Public(s)," Public Art Issues, No. 1, 1992, pp. 29-32
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1991
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Smith, Roberta, "New Galleries In Soho To Not So, " The New York Times, November 15, 1991, p. C26
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1991
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Milvy, Erika; “Bah! Bah! Say Black Sheep,” New York Post, Wednesday, July 10, 1991, p. 25
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1991
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Bowen, Peter McKnight; "America's Queerest Home Videos," Outweek, No. 49, June 6, 1991, p. 63
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1991
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Watney, Simon, "Queer," Frieze, Issue 2, 1991, pg. 60
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1990
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Gallagher, Steve, “US Video Program: Video/Dystopia," European Media Arts Festival Catalogue, 1990, pp. 80-81
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1990
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Berkson, Bill, "Group Material's AIDS Timeline," Artforum, March 1990, Vol. XXVIII, No. 7, pp. 168-169
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