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Robert Buck

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ROBERT BUCK

One Artist Exhibitions

2009 “iPainting” (Smoke Screens), Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco
2008 第二自然, (Second Nature), CRG Gallery, New York

Selected Group Exhibitions

2011 ”The Air We Breathe”, San Francisco Museum of Art, CA
CRG Gallery, New York, “Wishing and Praying”
2010 Lush Life, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York
2009 Bureau for Open Culture at Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH, “Of Other Spaces”
2008 “Sorry We’re Closed”, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
La Mama Gallery, New York, “Duck Soup”, Curated by Daphne Fitzpatrick
Hudson Franklin Gallery, New York, “The World Is All”
Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Project Space, New York, “Beyond A Memorable Fancy”

Selected Bibliography

2009 Voorhies, James, “Of Other Spaces” exhibition catalog
2008 Carlin, T.J., “Robert Buck: Second Nature”, Time Out New York, July 17-23, Issue 668, 2008, pg. 58
Levy, Michelle, “Beyond a Memorable Fancy” catalog, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Project Space

Related Activities

2011 Clinical Study Days 5, The Lacanian Compass Conference, “Reading the Unconscious”, Miami, FL
2009 5 x 20 x 20, Lecture series, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
VECTOR, Issue 2, 2009
2008 Artists on Artists Talk, Dia Center for the Arts, New York

ROBERT BECK

Education

1993 The Independent Study Program of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Studio Program, New York
1983 BA, Undergraduate Film and Television, New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, New York

One Artist Exhibitions

2007 dust, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
“How Am I To Sign Myself”, CRG Gallery, New York
2006 Stephen Friedman Gallery, London
Olpalka Gallery, Sage College, Albany, New York
2005 Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco
2004 CRG Gallery, New York
Art Basel Miami; The Design District, Miami, FL
2003 Once Across The Mason-Dixon, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York
2002 Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco
2001 Drawings, CRG Gallery, New York
2000 Nature Mort, CRG Gallery, New York
Galerie Rainer Borgemeister, Berlin
1997 Susan Inglett Gallery, New York
1996 Susan Inglett Gallery, New York

Selected Group Exhibitions

2011 Crazy Lady, Shroder Romero & Shredder, New York
Stonescape, San Francisco, CA, “Politics is Personal”
Berliner Festspielle, Berlin, “Compass: Drawings of the Museum of Modern Art New York (The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection)”
Bertrand Delacroix Gallery, New York, “Printer’s Proof: A Decade of Fine Art Printing”
2010 Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, “Robert Beck& Donald Moffet: Range, A collaborative work from 1997”
CRG Gallery, New York, “The Language of Flowers”
176 Zabludowicz Collection, London, “In and Out of Place”
2009 The Museum of Modern Art, “Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection”
2008 White Columns, New York, “White Columns Annual: Looking Back”, Curated by Jay Sanders,
Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium “Come In, We’re Open!”
2007 Hessel Museum of Art, Center For Cultural Studies, Bard Colleg, “Exhibitionism: An Exhibition of Exhibitions of Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection”
Office Baroque Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium, “On The Marriage Broker Joke”
Newark Arts Council Open Studio Tour Exhibition, Newark, NJ, “The Red Badge of Courage””
Circus of Books; ZING Magazine Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA
2006 Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY; “Twice Drawn”
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London; “The Last Time They Met”
Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, CT; “Subject”
Marvelli Gallery, New York; “Nightmares of Summer”
Mandeville Gallery, Union College Schnenectady, NY; “Armed: Contemporary Art and Violence”
2005 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; “Past Presence”
White Columns, New York; “Monuments for the USA”
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA; “Monuments for the USA”
Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN; “Altered Spaces”
Leubsdorf Gallery, Hunter College, New York; “Heavenly, Or A Slice of White”
Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME; “Back from Nature”
Stephen Friedman Gallery, London; “10 Year Anniversary Show”
2004 Sandra Gering Gallery, New York; “Editions Fawbush: A Selection”
Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio; “Needful Objects”
Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA; “Neo Queer”
The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN; “Your Heart Is No Match for My Love”
2003 CRG Gallery, New York; “Robert Beck, Russell Crotty, Siobhan Liddell”
Frieze Art Fair, London; CRG Gallery, New York
CRG Gallery, New York; “Me, Myself and I”
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; “Somewhere Better Than This Place”
CRG Gallery, New York; “Drawings: Gallery Artists”
Cohan, Leslie and Browne Gallery, New York; “Little Triggers”
Sculpture Center, New York; “Annual Benefit Exhibition”
2002 Debs & Co., New York; “Different Class”
Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT; “Acquiring Tastes”
CRG Gallery, New York; The Armory Show: The International Fair of New Art, New York
CRG Gallery, New York; “Gallery Artists Group Show”
Castle Gallery, The College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, New York; “Arrested Development
2001 The Whitney Museum of American Arts, New York; “The Draftman’s Colors: 14 New Acquisitions”
Centro Cultural Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil; “13th Videobrasil International Electronic Art Festival”
Cohan Leslie and Browne Gallery, New York; “Song Poems”
The Queens Museum, New York; “Crossing the Line”
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz, New York; “In Cold Blood”
2000 Beverly Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA; “Wild Life”
Ubu Gallery; New York; “Destruction/Creation”
Caren Golden Fine Arts, New York; “Human/Nature”
Bucknell Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA; “Animal Magnetism”
1999 Matthew Marks Gallery, New York; “Anni Albers, Robert Beck, Cadie Noland, Joan Semmel, and Nancy Shaver”; Curated by Robert Gober
The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York; “Calender 2000″
The Chicago International Art Fair, Chicago; one person installation with C/R/G, New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; “Hindsight: Recent Work from the Permanent Collection”
1998 New York Foundation for The Arts (NYFA), New York; “Back-To-Back: Selected Fellows 1990-98”
Anthony Meier Fine Art, San Francisco; “Robert Beck and Jasmine Sian”
Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles; “8th Biennial Benefit Art Auction”
Long Island Center of Photography, New York; “Images for the Millenium”
Paul Morris Gallery, New York; “Portraits: Inagural Exhibition”
Matisse Museum, Nice, France; “Artists & Books: Picarone Editions 1997″
1997 Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York; “Investigations of New Photography and Film: The New God”
Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, N.C. “33rd Annual: Art On Paper”
The Thread Waxing Space, New York; “You Should Know Better/Truth and Artifice in Contemporary Photography”
Empire State Pride Agenda, New York; “Sixth Annual Awards Auction & Exhibition”
1996 Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York; “Limited Edition Artists’ Books Since 1990″
White Columns Gallery, New York; “What I Did On My Summer Vacation” Benefit Exhibition
White Columns Gallery, New York; “Sugar Mountain”
Lauren Wittels Gallery, New York; “Show and Tell”
Susan Inglett Gallery, New York; “Gramercy International Contemporary Art Exhibition”
1995 Morris Healy Gallery, New York; “Summer Exhibition”
Morris Healy Gallery, New York; “Inaugural Exhibition”
White Columns, New York; “Verisimilitude and the Utility of Doubt”
Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires; “Faggots: A Communiqué from North America,” Curated by Bill Arning
1994 Neue Gesellschaft fur bildende Kunst e.v., Berlin; “Violence/Business/Power”
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York; “Gramercy International Contemporary Art Exhibition”
New Museum, New York; “Benefit Exhibition and Auction: Who Chooses Who,” Choice of Robert Gober
Morris Healy Gallery, New York; “Gramercy International Contemporary Art Exhibition,” Los Angeles
1992 P.S. 1 Museum, The Institute For Contemporary Art, New York; “7 Rooms, 7 Shows”
Kunstverien, Hamburg, Germany, and Kunstmuseum, Lucerne, Switzerland; “Gegendarstellung: Ethics and Aesthetics in Times of AIDS”
1991 Suzanne Biederberg Gallery, Amsterdam; “Saint Vitas Dance”
Collins and Milazzo’s “New Era” Exhibition, New York
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York; ACT UP Benefit Art Exhibition and Sale”
Minor Injury Gallery, Brooklyn, New York; “Queer, Butch, Femme…”
1990 Greenberg Wilson Gallery; New York
Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut; “AIDS/SIDA”
Simon Watson Project Space, New York; “Looking At A Revolution”
1989 Simon Watson Project Space, New York; “Erotophobia”
Matrix Gallery, University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley, CA; Group Material’s “AIDS Timeline” Touring Exhibition

Selected Group Video Exhibitions

Song Poem (Trips Visits), 2001, 6 min, color, stereo sound

2005 Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, New York; “Multiplex II”
2002 Debs & Co., New York; “Different Class”
2001 Cohan Leslie and Browne Gallery, New York; “Song Poems”
Centro Cultural Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil; “13th Videobrasil International Electronic Art Festival”

Nine Years Later (“Panic”) — Remix, 2001, 11 min., color, mon sound

2001 The Project Room, Philidelphia, PA; “Cathartic Disgust Gesalt”
Palm Beach Institute of Contmeporary Art, Miami, FL; “Video Jam”

Nine Years Later (“Girlfriend In A Coma”), 1998, 12 min., color, stereo sound

2011 The Museum of Modern Art; New York, “Looking at Music 3.0”
2000 Below 54, London, England
1999 The Lux Centre, London, England; “Pop!”
University of the Andes, Bogota, Columbia, South America; “TELE-vision”
Centre d’art contemporain de Basse-Normandie, Herouville Saint-Clair, France; “13th Recontres Video Art”
The New Festival, New York; “The Gay and Lesbian Film and Video Festival”
1998 London Electronic Arts, London, England; “Pandemonium: London Festival of the Moving Image”

The Trophy, 1998, 4 min., color, stereo sound

2000 Experumental Film, Video and Music Festival, Galapagos, Brooklyn, NY; “RGB”
1998 Edinburgh International Art Festival, Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland; “I Love New York”
Women’s 20th Century Club, Eagle Rock, CA; “I’m Still In Love With You”

(“Panic”) Nine Years Later, 1996, 13 min., color, stereo sound

1998 SMART Project Space, Amsterdam, The Netherlands; “Almanac: Art On Television,” Cablecast
Station Arts Electroniques, Rennes, France
David Zwirner Gallery, New York; “Video Library”
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles; Project screening room
European Media Arts Festival, Osnabruck, Germany
1997 The Museum of Modern Art, New York; “Video Viewpoints”

Nine Years Later (“Bigmouth Strikes Again”), 1995, 11 min., color, stereo sound

2002 Whitechapel Gallery, London
2001 Void, New York; “Edges of the Earth”
2000 The Museum of Modern Art, New York; “Video Time”
1998 Kasseler Documentar und Videofest, Kassel, Germany
1997 European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck, Germany
The Museum of Modern Art, New York; “Video Viewpoints”
1996 London Electronic Arts, London; “Pandemonium: London Festival of the Moving Image”
1995 Champ Libre, Montreal, Canada; “Deuxieme Manifestation Internationale Video et Art Electronique”
Fondazio Orestiadi Comune Di Pantelleria, Pantellaria, Italy; “Pantelleria Oasi Multimedia: 1st Video Festival Internazionale del Mediterraneo”
The New York International Video Festival, New York

The Feeling of Power, 1990, 9 min., color, stereo sound

2011 The Museum of Modern Art; New York, “Looking at Music 3.0”
1994 Centro Cultural Banco Do Brasil, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil; “10th Rio Cine Festival”
1993 University Art Gallery, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM; “Video in the Reagen/Bush Years”
1991 Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions; “LA Freewaves: 2nd Celebration of Independent Video,” Cablecast
TVE Espanola, Madrid, Spain; “Metropolis,” Broadcast
WNET/Channel 13, New York; “Independent Focus,” Broadcast
IMAGE Film & Video Center, Atlanta; “Atlanta Film and Video Festival”
Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria; “Video: Violence”
The American Film Institute, Los Angeles; “Visions of US”
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, California; “The Art of Music: 10 Years After”
Hall Walls, Buffalo, New York; “Video Witness: festival of New Journalism”
1990 Southwest Alternative Media Project/Laguna Gloria Museum of Art, Houston; “The Territory,” Cablecast
European Media Arts Festival, Osnabruck, Germany; “US Video Program: Video/Dystopia”
Stedelijk Museum of Art, Amsterdam; “Commitment”
The American Film Institute, Los Angeles; “The AFI National Video Festival”
The Museum of Modern Art, New York; “Video and Dream”
The New Festival, New York, “The 1990 New York Gay & Lesbian Film Festival”
1989 The Kitchen, New York; “Made In 8″

W/hole, 1987, 6 min., color, stereo sound

1988 4th International Video/Television Festival, Montbeliard, France; “The Kitchen Presents” The Kitchen, New York; “New Works”
White Columns Gallery, New York; “New Independent Video”

Learning from Dynasty, 1986, 8:16 min., color, mono sound

2007 The Distillery, “Distillery Open Studios Screening”, Boston, MA

Selected Bibliography

“Beck & Moffett/Lucio Fontana”; Marianne Boesky Gallery, 2010
Cotter, Holland, “Lower East Side Tale, Refracted Nine Times”, The New York Times, July 9,2010, pgs. C21C23
Smith, Roberta, “Art in Review: Lucio Fontana/Robert Beck and Donald Moffett, The New York Times, May 7, 2010, p. C28
Vogel, Carol, “Inside Art”, The New York Times, March 5, 2010, pg. C22
Smith, Roberta, “Robert Beck: How Am I to Sign Myself”, The New York Times, December 21, 2007, pg. E31
Bentley, Kyle, “Robert Beck: CRG Gallery”, Artforum, February 2008, XLVI, no. 6, pg. 293
Leffingwell, Edward, “Robert Beck at CRG”, Art In America, March 2008, No. 3, p. 166
Wasserman, Nadine, “Trigger-Happy”, Ruminations on Violence Ed. Derek Pardue, Waveland Press, Inc. 2008, pp. 201-02
Schwhendener, Martha, “Galleries-Chelsea: Robert Beck”, The New Yorker, December 10, 2007, p. 21
Bordowitz, Gregg, “dust: Wexner Center fot the Arts”, Artforum, November, 2007, XLVI, No.3, p. 362
Vischer, Theodora, Ed., Robert Gober: Sculptures and Installations 1979-2007, pp. 410-411
Danby, Charles, “Untitled Magazine”, November 2006, pp. 27-28
Arning, Bill, Aspect Magazine: The Chronicle of New Media Art, “Learning from Dynasty”, Vol. 8, DVD
Kent, Sarah, “Robert Beck: Stephen Friedman Gallery,” Time Out London, June 26, 2006
Arning, Bill, “Early Work” Aspect DVD, Summer 2006
Johnson, Ken, “Contemplating Childlike Wonder, Long Past Childhood,” The New York Times, September 2, 2005, p. E26
Dent, Tory, “Robert Beck CRG Gallery,” Parachute — Para (pullout), July/August/Spetember 2004, No. 115, p. 6
Kastner, Jeffrey, “Reviews: Robert Beck,” Artforum, April 2004, Vol. XLII, pp. 159-60
Harris, Jane, “Reviews: Robert Beck,” Time Out New York, February 19-26, 2004, p. 60
Collins, Thom, “Somewhere Better Than This Place: Alternative Social Experience in the Spaces of Contemporary Art,” Exhibition Catalogue, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, pg. 88
Johnson, Ken, “Art Guide: Robert Beck,” New York Times, May 16, 2003, p. E35
Dodge, Alex, “Shot On Sight: A Conversation with Robert Beck,” Swingset, Issue 3, pp. 30-35
Hirsch, Faye, “Working Proof: Robert Beck and Dale Peck,” Art On Paper, May-June 2002, Vol. 6, No. 5, p. 71
Northcross, Wayne, “Art Portfolio,” Pride.02, 2002, Anniversary Edition, p. 116
Aletti, Vince, “The Great Divide: Photography’s Two Different Worlds,” Village Voice, March 12, 2002, p. 59
Verlag, Weidle, “Rainer Borgemeister: Lokomotive Denken,” Verlag, Bonn & Berlin, 2002, pp. 224-225, 255
Smith, Roberta, “Armory Show, Grown Up and In Love with Color,” New York Times, February 22, 2002, p. E38
Holmes, Steven A., Acquiring Tastes Exhibition Catalogue, Real Art Ways, 2002, pp. 9-22
Richer, Frances, and Rosenzweig, Matthew, “No. 1: First Works by 362 Artists”, D.A.P., 2002, pg. 44
Smith, Roberta, “A Benefit for Lover’s of Art and New York,” New York Times, November 1, 2001, p. E3
Koether, Jutta, “Robert Beck: ‘The Woods’,” Kunstforum, June – July, 2001, pp. 156-158
Schwendener, Martha; “Behind the Music,” Time Out New York, August 2-9, pp. 52-53
Hagen, Susan; “Things That Make You Go Ewwww,” Philadelphia City Paper, May 3 – 10, p. 9
Leeb, Susanne; “Des Einen Freud, Des Anderen Leid (Robert Beck, ‘The Woods’, Galerie Rainer Borgemeister, Berlin),” Texte Zur Kunst, September 2000, pp. 197-199
Arning, Bill; “Review of Exhibitions: Robert Beck at CRG,” Art in America, September 2000, p. 155
Johnson, Ken; “Art In Review: Human/Nature,” New York Times, July 21, 2000, p. E30
Cotter, Holland; “Art In Review: Robert Beck ‘Nature Mort’,”New York Times, March 17, 2000, p. E37
Schjeldahl, Peter; “Selected Affinities: The artist as curator,” New Yorker, Sept.6, 1999, pp. 86-87
Smith, Roberta; Art In Review: Anni Albers, Robert Beck, Cady Noland, Joan Semmel, Nancy Shaver,” New York Times, August 6, 1999, p. E40
Siegel, Katy; Anni Albers, Robert Beck, Cady Noland, Joan Semmel, Nancy Shaver,” Artforum, December 1999, pp. 141-42
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
Griffin, Tim; “Anni Albers, Robert Beck, Cady Noland, Joan Semmel” + “Nancy Shaver Photographs, 1975-77,” Time Out New York, August 19-26, p. 57
Perchuk, Andrew; “Reviews: Robert Beck,” Artforum, March 1998, Vol. XXXV No.2, pp. 101-102
Johnson, Ken; “Art In Review: Portraits,” New York Times, February 20, 1998, p. E-34
Smith, Roberta; “Art In Review: Robert Beck,” New York Times, October 17, 1997, p. E-37
Feaster, Felica; “You Should Know Better,” Art Papers, Sept.-Oct. 1997, Vol. 21, Issue 5, p. 60
Smith, Roberta; “Art In Review: The Celluloid Cave/You Should Know Better: Truth & Artifice in Contemporary Photography,” New York Times, June 27, 1997, p. C-24
Smith, Roberta; “Art In Review: Sugar Mountain,” New York Times, April 26, 1996, p. C-27
Smith, Roberta; “Art In Review: Robert Beck,” New York Times, February 9, 1996, p. C-23
Arning, Bill; “Reviews: Robert Beck,” Time Out New York, January 31, 1996, p. 24
Homes, A.M.; “Reviews: Robert Beck,” Artforum, February 1995, Vol. XXXIII, No. 6, p. 91
Knee, Adam; “The Feeling of Power: AIDS Activism on/through Video,” The Minnesota Review, Ns. 40, spring/summer 1993: “The Politics of AIDS,” pp. 94-101
Smith, Roberta; “New Galleries In SoHo, From Gallery To Not So,” New York Times, Nov. 15, 1991, p. C26
Watney, Simon; “Queer,” Frieze, Issue 2, 1991, p. 60
Gallagher, Steve; US Video Program: Video/Dystopia,” European Media Arts Festival Catalogue, 1990, pp. 80-81
Berkson, Bill; “Group Material’s AIDS Timeline, “Artforum, March 1990, Vol. XXVIII, No. 7, pp. 168-169
Bowen, Peter McKnight; “Not In Your Local Video Stores: AIDS Videos and Their Public(s), “Public Art Issues, No. 1, 1992, pp. 29-32
Bowen, Peter McKnight; “America’s Queerist Home Videos,” Outweek, No. 49, June 6, 1991, p. 63
Milvy, Erika; “Bah! Bah! Say Black Sheep,” New York Post, Wednesday, July 10, 1991, p. 25

Faculty

2005 Bard College, International Center of Photography, New York (Master Class)
1996-02 The School of Visual Arts: Computer Arts Department and Department of Film, New York
2000 Mason Gross School of the Arts, Graduate Program, Rutgers University, New Jersey

Visiting Artist

2011 Cornell University, College of Architecture, Art and Planning, New York
2006 Opalka Gallery, Russell Sages Collage, Albany, New York
2005 California College of Art, San Francisco, California
The Anderson Ranch, Aspen, Colorado
The Maine College of Art, Portland, Maine
2004 Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, Virginia
Castle Gallery, The College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, New York
2001 Visual Arts Division, MFA Program, Columbia University, New York
2000 Visual Arts Department, School of Education, New York University
1999 Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, New Jersey
Parsons School of Design, New York
Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, West Hartford, Connecticut
1995 The Hetrick-Martin Institute for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning Youth, New York
Queens College, New York
1994 Hunter College, New York
1993 Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, New York
School of Education, Health, Nursing, and Arts Professions (SEHNAP), New York University, New York

Grants and Fellowships

1999 The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Competition Award
1995 New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship (Printmaking/Drawing/Artist’s Books)
Art Matters, Inc. Grant

Awards

1991 1st Prize, Experimental Category: “Visions of US” Contest, sponsored by the SONY Corporation of America and the American Film Institute, Los Angeles
1st Prize, Experimental Documentary Category, Atlanta Film and Video Festival, sponsored by IMAGE Film/Video Center, Atlanta, GA
1989 “Made In 8″ Competition, sponsored by The Kitchen and the 8mm Video Council, New York