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1953
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Born: in Brooklyn, NY on January 7th
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1975
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BFA, State University College, Buffalo, NY
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2005
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Recipient, the Goslar Kaiserring
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2013 |
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Legacy: Photographs from the Emily Fisher Landau Collectionq - The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT Robert Longo - The Capitol Project - The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT Inner Journeys - Maison Particulière Art Center, Brussels Beg, Borrow and Steal - Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA Disaster / The End of Days - Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Paris, Paris Disaster / The End Of Days - Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Paris, Paris Phantom Vessels - Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Salzburg, Salzburg Robert Longo - Black and White - Galerie Fluegel-Roncak, Nuremberg |
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2012 |
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Robert Longo - Capitain Petzel Gallery, Berlin |
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2009 |
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No Wave, Galerie Saks, Geneva, Switzerland. (solo) Robert Longo Survey Exhibition: 1979-2009, Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Nicé, France. (solo) Robert Longo at Metro Pictures: Surrendering the Absolutes, Metro Pictures, New York, New York. (solo) Robert Longo: Dancing with Chains On, Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf, Germany. (solo) Nights Bright Days, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California. (solo) |
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2008 |
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Robert Longo: Intimate Immensity, Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain (solo) |
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2007 |
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Children of Nyx, Metro Pictures, New York (solo) Beginning of the world, Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf, Germany (solo) Exhibitionism: An Exhibition of Exhibitions of Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (cat.) Chelsea to Caochangdi, Chambers Fine Art, Bejing History Will Repeat Itself, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (cat.) Panic Attack! Art in the Punk Years, Barbican Art Gallery, London (cat.) Lights, Camera, Action: Artist Films for the Cinema, Kaufman Astoria Studios, New York Hot Rock, Transmission Gallery, Scotland |
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2006 |
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Fifth Interpretation of the Collection, La Colección Jumex, Pachuca, Mexico (cat.) The Movement of Images, Centre Pompidou Editions, Paris (Design) The Outward Visible Signs of an Inward Invisible Grace, Metro Pictures, New York (solo) Ouroboros, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris (solo) New York New York: Fifty Years of Art, Architecture, Cinema, Performance, Photography and Video, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco (cat.) Les Mouvement des Images, Centre Pompidou, France (cat.) Ma+h Coun+s, Curated by Barry Rosenberg, University of Connecticut, Connecticut The Downtown Art Show: The New York Art Scene 1974-1984,” Grey Art Gallery, Fales Library, New York University (cat.) |
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2005 |
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Neo-Baroque, Byblos Art Gallery, Verona (cat.) Atomica: Making the Visible Invisible, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York Flashback: Revisiting the Art of the Eighties, Kunstmuseum Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel Drawing from the Modern, MoMA, New York Robert Longo: Fire, Water, Rock 2003-2005, Galleria Emilio Mazzoli, Modena, Italy (solo) (Curated by Richard Milazzo) Something Wicked This Way Comes, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles (solo) Robert Longo: Deep Silence, Monchehaus Museum, Goslar, Germany |
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2004 |
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Laocoonte devoarto. Arte y violencia politica, Artium Centro-Museo Vasco de Arte Comtemporaneo, Vitoria-Gasteiz Our sickness of reason created monsters - The Colossus , Galerie Pièce Unique, Paris Whitney Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American, New York, NY by Amerika, Galerie Steinek, Vienna (group) |
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2003 |
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The Eighties – Part II : USA, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich Andy Warhol / Robert Longo – Cars, Daimler Chrysler Contemporary, Berlin Robert Longo – Lust of Eye, galleria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid Aufgeschraubt und Abgestaubt – Die Sammlung im Prozess der Neupräsentation, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen M_ARS – Art and War, Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz |
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2002 |
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Trance und Traum, Galerie Six Friedrich Lisa Ungar, Munich Robert Longo : Sigmund Freud, Jündisches Museum Berlin, Galerie Steinek, Vienna The Freud Drawings, Krefelder Kunstmuseen, Museen Haus Lange/ Huas Esters ; Albertina, Vienna Monster Waves, Galerie Steinek, Vienna (solo) 20 years Galerie Steinek, Vienna (group) |
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2001 |
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Pop Art & Co – Uniques, Graphics and Multiples, Galerie Burkhard Eikelmann, Essen |
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2000 |
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Robert Longo - Superheroes, Lipanje Puntin Artecontemporanea, Trieste Supermodel – Identity and Transformation, Lipanje Puntin Artecontemporanea, Trieste Robert Longo: 1980 - 2000, Galleria Emilio Mazzoli, Modena, Italy (solo) (Curated by Richard Milazzo) |
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1999 |
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The Kiasma Collection, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinski The Virginia & Bagley Wrught Collection, Seattle Art Museum |
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1998 |
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Superheroes, Cotthem Gallery, Knokke-Zoute, Belgium Superheroes, Cotthem Gallery, Barcelona, Spain Superheroes, Cotthem Gallery, Barcelona, Spain (solo) Superheroes, Cotthem Gallery, Knokke-Zoute, Belgium (solo) |
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1997 |
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Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands (solo) Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany (solo) Metro Pictures, NY, USA (solo) La Biennale di Venezia: XLVII Espozioione Internationale d'Arte, Venice, Italy Landscape: The Pastoral to the Urban, Center for Curatorial Studies: Bard College Views From Abroad: European Perspectives on American Art 3, Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY Das Magellan Projekt, Kunsthalle Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany (solo) Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy (solo) |
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1996 |
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Bang! The Gun as Image, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL Metro Pictures, New York, New York 'Unplugged', Gallery Cotthem, Knokke-Zoute, Belgium Robert Longo: Kreuze, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany (solo) |
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1995 |
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Passion Privees, Musees d'art Moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris, France Alternatives: 20 Years of Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center: 1975-1995, Burchfield-Penny, Art Center, Buffalo, NY Robert Longo: A Retrospective, The Isetan Mseum of Art, Tokyo (solo) Ashikaga City Museum, Kirin Plaza Art Space, Osaka (solo) Essence and Persuasion: The Power of Black and White, Anderson Gallery Buffalo, NY Johnny Paintings, Galerie Gana-Beaubourg Paris, France |
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1994 |
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New York on Paper, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Paris, France Generev Grunwald Gallery Toronto, Canada |
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1993 |
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Lucio Silla Group Exhibit, Kleines Festspielhaus Salzburg, Austria Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Salzburg |
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1992 |
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When Heaven and Hell Change Places, Galerie Hans Mayer Dusseldorf Allegories of Modernism: Contemporary Drawing, The Museum of Modern Art New York, NY |
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1991 |
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Power, Indianapolis Museum of Art Indianapolis Linda Cathcart Gallery Los Angeles, USA |
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2008 |
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Robert Longo: Intimate Immensity, Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain. Richard Millazzo, essay |
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2007 |
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Panic Attack! Art in the Punk Years, Mark Sladen and Ariella Yedgar (ed.), Merrell Publishers Limited, London, pp. 102-103 |
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2007 |
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Collection Art Contemporain, Éditions du Centre Pompidou, Paris, pp. 284 |
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2007 |
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Bollen, Christopher, “Disaster Art,” Vman, Spring/Summer, Issue 8, pp. 88 |
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2007 |
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Jonathan T.D. Neil, “Robert Longo: The Outward and Visible Signs of an Inward and Invisible |
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2007 |
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Grace, Art Review, February, pp. 132 |
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2007 |
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Sarah Valdez, “Robert Longo: Review,” Art on Paper, January/February, pp. 89 |
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2007 |
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Exhibitionism: An Exhibition of Exhibitions of Works from the Marlieluise Hessel Collection, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, pp. 28 |
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2007 |
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Joanne Bernstein, The UBS Art Collection: Drawings, UBS AG, Zürich, pp. 160-161 |
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2007 |
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“The Producers,” Artforum, October, pp. 352-359, 402 |
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2007 |
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Dorothy Spears, “It’s Only Rock and Art, but They Like It,” The New York Times, September 30, pp. 30 |
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2007 |
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History Will Repeat Itself, Inke Arns and Gabriele Horn (ed.), KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, pp. 134-137 |
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2006 |
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Fifth Interpretation of the Collection, La Colección Jumex, Pachuca, Mexico, pp. 213 |
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2006 |
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The Movement of Images, Centre Pompidou Editions, Paris, pp. cover, 102 |
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2006 |
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“Robert Longo,” The New Yorker, December 4, pp. 24 |
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2006 |
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Sarah Douglas, “Staying Power,” Art + Auction, November, pp. 160-167 |
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2006 |
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Galerie Daniel Templon: 40 ans, Communic’Art, Paris, pp. 304, 386, 595 |
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2006 |
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No. 1, Francesca Richer and Matthew Rosenzweig (ed.), D.A.P., New York, pp. 225 |
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2006 |
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Tilman Osterwold, Irritation des Gleichgewichts, Snoeck, Cologne, pp.51-53 |
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2006 |
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Germano Celant and Lisa Dennison, New York New York: Fifty Years of Art, Architecture, Cinema, Performance, Photography and Video, Skira, Monaco, pp. 480 - 483 |
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2006 |
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Hatje Cantz Verlag, Flashback: Revisiting the Art of the 1980s, Kunstmuseum Basel, Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Switzerland |
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2005 |
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Neo-Baroque!, curated by Micaela Giovanotti and Joyce B. Korotkin, Byblos Gallery, Charta Publishers, Milan |
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2005 |
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Richard Lacayo, “How Does ‘80s Art Look Now,” Time, 26 March, pp. 58-62 |
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2005 |
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Drawings on Geology, Serge Onnen, J & L Books, New York |
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2005 |
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Robert Longo: Fire, Water, Rock 2003-2005, Galleria Emilio Mazzoli, Modena, Italy. Richard Milazzo and Achille Bonito Oliva, essays |
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2005 |
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Jordan Kantor, Drawing from the Modern: After the Endgames, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, pp. 105 |
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2005 |
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Werner Spies, Robert Longo: Deep Silence, Monchehaus Museum Publishing, Goslar (cat.) |
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2005 |
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Robert Longo, “A Universe in Climax Sonic Grandeur: Robert Longo Talks with Glenn Branca Yard, ed. Ellen Ross, London Terrace Station, New York pp. 46-53 |
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