MARK DION

Mark Dion (1961 New Bedford, Massachusetts, USA) lives and works in New York.

EDUCATION, AWARDS, RESIDENCIES

2023 Honorary Doctorate, UMass Dartmouth, Dartmouth, Massachusetts, USA

2019 Guggenheim Fellowship, New York, USA

2019 The Melancholy Museum, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, California, USA

2015 PhD, Wagner Free Institute of Science, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

2014 Honorary Research Fellowship, Falmouth University, UK

2012 Artistic Residency, Everglades, Florida, USA

2008 Lucelia Award, Smithsonian Museum of American Art, Washington DC, USA

2005 Joan Mitchell Foundation Award

2003 PhD, University of Hartford School of Art, Doctor of Arts

2001 9th Annual Larry Aldrich Foundation Award

1985 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Independent Study Program, New York, USA

1982-84 School of Visual Arts, New York, USA

1981-82, 86 University of Hartford School of Art, Connecticut, BFA

 

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2026

Mark Dion, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA

 

2025

Mark Dion & Dana Sherwood: The Garden of Earthly Delights and Sentimental Education, The Armour Stiner Octagon House, Irvington, USA (two-person)

The Sky We Stand On, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

The South Florida Wildlife Rescue Unit, Perez Art Museum, Miami, USA

New Prints and Drawings, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA

Journey to Nature’s Underworld, Palmer Museum of Art, Penn State, University Park, USA

The Melancholy Entomologist and of Tales of Ecological Despair, Pinksummer, Genoa, Italy

Mark Dion: The South Florida Wildlife Rescue Unit, Pérez Art Museum, Miami, USA

Mark Dion: Works on Paper, Mildred’s Lane Inc., Narrowsburg, USA

The Library for the Birds of New York and Other Marvels, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA

 

2024

All Heaven in a Rage, No Gallery, New York, USA

Delirious Toys, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany

The Michigan Curiosity Shop, Meijer Gardens, Grand Rapids Charter Township, Grand Rapids, USA (long-term installation)

Mrs. Christopher’s House, a Troy Hill Art House commission, Pittsburgh, USA (permanent commission)

Mark Dion: Investigations, Inquiries And A Few Good Jokes, In Situ, Paris, France

Anatomy of Melancholy, Nagel/Draxler, Munich, Germany

Journey to Nature’s Underworld, The Bruce Museum, Greenwich, USA

Catalyst Visiting Artist Series, Villa Maria College, Buffalo, New York, USA

Excavations, La Brea Tar Pits & Museum, Los Angeles, USA

 

2023

Excavations, La Brea Tar Pits & Museum, Los Angeles, USA

All Heaven in a Rage, No Gallery, New York, USA

Systema Naturae, Saskia Neuman Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden

Delirious Toys – The Berlin Toy Cabinet of Wonder, Museum Nikolaikirche, Berlin, Germany

Field Station of the Melancholy Entomologist, Ice House Project Space, Sharon, Connecticut, USA

Bureau de l’ornithologue, Musée Gassendi, Digne-les-Bains, France (commissioned installation)

Journey to Nature’s Underworld, The Bruce Museum, Greenwich, Connecticut, USA (two-person)

 

2022

Theater of Extinction, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

Journey to Nature’s Underworld, organized by American Federation of Arts The Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT (two-person), UK

Cabinet of Extinction, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA

The Witches’ Cottage, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany (permanent public commission)

Tree of Life, Art on the Meuse Z33, Hasselt, Belgium (permanent public project)

 

2021

By the Sea, Pinksummer, Genoa, Italy

The Field Station of the Melancholy Marine Biologist, Governor’s Island, New York, USA (long-term installation)

Cabinet of Electrical Curiosities, Kunsthalle Praha, Prague, Czech Republic (site-specific commission)

Barakat Contemporary, Seoul, South Korea

Mark Dion: The Accused, Verbeke Foundation, Kemzeke, Belgium

The Pavillon of Confectionary Curiosities, collaboration with Dana Sherwood, DeCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA, USA

Bureau de l’ornthologue, Musée Gassendi, Digne-les-Bains, France (commissioned installation)

Vivarium, Biologiezentrum, University of Vienna, St. Marx, Vienna, Austria (permanent installation)

 

2020

The Perilous Texas Adventures of Mark Dion, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth*

Mark Dion: Follies, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO, USA

Mark Dion, Planting Fields, Oyster Bay, NY, USA

 

2019

Wunderkammer 2, Esbjerg Museum of Art, Esbjerg, Denmark

Mark Dion: Our Plundered Earth, Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin, Ireland

Mark Dion: Follies, Storm King Art Center, Cornwall, New york, USA

Mark Dion: The Life of a Dead Tree, Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto, Canada

Fragile Earth: The Naturalist Impulse in Contemporary Art, Florence Griswold Museum, New Lyme, CT, USA

 

2018

Cabinet of Wonder, Gathering Place, Tulsa, OK, USA (public commission)

Fish Fountain for Stavoren, 11 Fountains Project, Stavoren, Netherlands (permanent commission)

Mark Dion: Theatre of the Natural World, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK

 

2017

Mark Dion: Print Re/View, Hartford Art School Galleries at the University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT American Politics—Dirty Tricks, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria

Mark Dion: The Wondrous Museum of Nature, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland

Mark Dion: Misadventures of a 21st Century Naturalist, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Boston* Exploratory Works: Drawings from the Department of Tropical Research Field

Expeditions, a cura di Mark Dion, Katherine McLeod e Madeleine Thompson, The Drawing Center, New York* Virginia Curiosity Shop: a Mark Dion Project for UVA, The University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA

Waiting for the Extraordinery, U-M Institute of the Humanities, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

 

2016

Mark Dion: The Wondrous Museum of Nature, Kunstmuseum, St. Gallen, Switzerland

Forschungsergebnisse aus den “The Floodwater Residency Program – Gartow” von Mark Dion (Findings from Mark Dion’s “The Floodwater Residency Program – Gartow”), Westwindischer Kunstverein, Gartow, Germany

The Conservator’s cupboard, Bard Graduate Center, New York, USA

Mark Dion: Fieldwork IV, Cairn Centre D’Art, Digne-les-Bains, France

ExtraNaturel: Voyage initiatique dans la collection des Beaux-Arts de Paris, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France

The Mark Dion Cabinet, Galerie für Landschaftskunst, Hamburg, Germany

Universal Collection: A Mark Dion Project, The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY, USA

Mark Dion – Reconnaissance, Waldburger Wouters, Brussels, Belgium

Mark Dion: Shooting Gallery, GFLK Halle Süd Tölz, Bad Tölz, Germany

Mark Dion: Library for the Birds of New York and Other Marvels, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA

Mark Dion: Against the Current, Ormston House, Limerick, Ireland

The World in a Box and Other Adventures in Cosmology: Recent Print Editions of Mark Dion, Ruffin Gallery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA

Reconnaissance, Waldburger Wouters, Brussels, Belgium

Mark Dion. Widerspenstige Wildnis / Wayward Wilderness, Drents Museum, Assen, Netherlands

 

2015

Mark Dion: The Phantom Museum – Wonder Workshop, Clifford Gallery and Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, New York, USA

The Future Museum & The Wonder Workshop, V-A-C Foundation, Venice, Italy

Mark Dion-Vanishing Wonders & New Curiosities, Galerie Nagel/Draxler, Germany

 

2014-2015

The Lost Museum: A Project of the Jenks Society, Department of Social Humanities, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

 

2014

Mark Dion: The Academy of Things, The Academy of Fine Arts Design, Dresden, Germany

 

2013

The Macabre Treasury, Museum Het Domein, Sittard, Netherlands

Mark Dion: Drawings, Prints, Multiples and Sculptures, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, NY, USA

The Octagon Room in esposizione a lungo termine al Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA, USA

The Curator’s Office in permanent show a The Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN, USA

Residency and exhibition at Flora ars + natura, curated by José Roca, Bogotá, Colombia

Above/Below Ground, a project by Mark Dion and Amy Yoes for the Siena Art Institute, Siena, Italy

Mark Dion: The Pursuit of Sir William Hamilton, Museo Pignatelli, Naples, organized by Fondazione Morra Greco, Italia

 

2012

MARK DION: Phantoms of the Clark Expedition, The Explorers Club, New York, organized by The Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA, USA

Mark Dion: Troubleshooting. University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL, USA

Den, Site-specific installation for the National Tourist Routes, Norway

 

2011

Ship in a Bottle, Public commission for Port of Las Angeles Waterfront Enhancement Project, Cabrillo Way Marina, San Pedro, CA, USA

Oceanomania: Souvenirs of Mysterious Seas, Musée Océanographique de Monaco e Nouveau Musée National de Monaco / Villa Paloma, Monte Carlo, Monaco The South Florida Wildlife Rescue Unit, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL, USA

Waiting for the Extraordinary, Michigan State University, Institute for the Humanities, East Lansing, MI, USA

 

2010-2011

The Marvelous Museum: A Mark Dion Project, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA*, USA

Fine Arts Center Gallery, University of Arkansas, Fayatteville; traveling to the University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, USA

 

2010

Mark Dion: Travels of William Bartram – Reconsidered, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA

Presidio Habitats, SITE Foundation & The Presidio, San Francisco, CA, USA

The Amateur Ornithologist Clubhouse, EMSCHER KUNST, European Capital of Culture, Ruhr, Germany

 

2009

Permanent installation for the Springhornhof Institute of Neolithic Archeology, Kunstverein Stiftung Springhornhof Neuenkirchen, Beuna, Germany

Le department archeologique des researches archeologiques subaquatiques et sour-marines du Musée de l’Arles et de la Provence antiques, Musée departmental Arles antiques, Arles, France

Permanent garden-installation at Toolie St. Hanging Garden, London Jungle Shop and Other Mischief, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, Germany

Mark Dion, Collected Editions 1984-2009, Trisolini Gallery, University of Ohio, Athens, OH, USA

 

2008-2010

Concerning Hunting, Arhus Kunstbygning, Denmark; traveling to Galleria Civica di Modena, Modena, Italy; Herbert Gerisch-Stifung Neumünster, Germany; Kunsthalle Krems, Krems an der Donau, Austria

 

2008

Mark Dion: The Octagon Room, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA

Mark Dion: Travels of William Bartram – Reconsidered, Bartram’s Garden, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA

Mark Dion: Maquettes, Goodwater Gallery, Toronto, USA

Recent Endeavors: New Works by Mark Dion, Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL, USA

 

2007

Systema Metropolis, Natural History Museum, London, UK

Memorial to Thomas Bewick, St Michael’s Church, Newcastle upon Tyne Public Art Project

The Natural History of the Museum, Carré d’Art, Nimes; Dunkers Kulturhus, Helsingborg, Sweden, 2007; Seedamm Kulturzentrum, Pfäffikon, Switzerland

Salon Jacqueline Sommer, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France

Library for the Birds of Paris, Galerie Michel Jorniac Unversite Paris 1, Paris Maquettes, Goodwater Gallery, Toronto, USA

 

2006

The South Florida Wildlife Rescue Unit, Miami Art Museum, USA

Seattle Vivarium, part of I AM SAM Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle Art Museum, USA

Neotropic (with Bob Braine), Galerie inSITU, Paris, France

 

2005

The Curiosity Shop, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA

Dungeon of the Sleeping Bear, the Phantom Forest, the Birds of Guam and other Fables of Ecological Mischief, Château d’Oiron, Oiron, France

Salon de Chasse, Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Château de Chambord, Chambord, France

The Brazilian Expedition of Thomas Ender – Reconsidered, Akademie der Bildenden Kunst, Vienna, Austria

Bureau of the Centre for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacy, Manchester Museum, UK

Microcosmographia and the Secret Garden Biological Field Unit, South London Gallery, London, UK

Memento Mori (My Glass is Run), Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT, USA

Dundee Bear Broch, Camperdown Wildlife Center in cooperation with Dundee, Scotland, UK

Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland, UK

 

2004

Projects 82, Rescue Archaeology, A Project for The Museum of Modern Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

Mark Dion: drawings and printed works, Goodwater, Toronto Office for the Center for the Study of Surrealism and its Legacies, Manchester Museum, UK

Universal Collection, Historisches Museum, Frankfurt am Main Tropical Travels, Thomas Ender (1817-1818) and Mark Dion (2003), Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria

 

2003

RN: The Past, Present and Future of the Nurse Uniform, The Fabric Workshop and Museum (in collaboration with J. Morgan Puett), Philadelphia, PA, USA

The Ichthyosaurus, the Magpie, and Other Marvels of the Natural World, Musée Gassendi and the Reserve Geologique de Haute Provence, Digne, France,Centro Sperimentale Art Contemporanea, Caraglio, Italy

Full House, 9th Annual Larry Aldrich Foundation Award, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, USA

Mark Dion: Collaborations 1987-2003, Joseloff Gallery, Hartford, CT and American fine Arts, Co., New York, USA

 

2002-2003

Mark Dion: Encyclomania, Villa Merkel, Esslingen to Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover and Bonner Kunstverien, Bonn, Germany

 

2002

Microcosmographia, University of Tokyo Museum, Tokyo, Japan

Vivarium, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA

Urban Wildlife Observation Unit, The Public Art Fund, Madison Square Park, NY Ursus Maritimus, Goodwater, Toronto, Canada

 

2001

New England Digs, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton, MA; Bell Art Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI; University of Massachusetts, Dartmouth, USA

Cabinet of Curiosity for the Weisman Art Museum, Wiesman Art, Germany

Museum, Minneapolis, MN, USA

 

2000

The Museum of Poison, Bonakdar Jancou Gallery, New York, USA

Nature Bureaucracies, American Fine Arts Co., New York, USA

 

1999

Two Banks (Tate Thames Dig), Tate Gallery, London, UK

Art Now 20: Tate Thames Dig, Tate Gallery, London, UK

Where The Land Meets The Sea, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco Adventures in Comparative Neuroanatomy, Deutsches Museum Bonn

Loot: Raiding Neptune’s Vault, Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan, Italy

The Ladies Field Club of York, National Railway Museum, York, UK (with J. Morgan Puett)

 

1998

Private Property, Galerie fur Landschaftskunst, Hamburg-Altona, Germany

 

1997

Trophies & Souvenirs, London Projects, London, UK

Mark Dion: The Museum of Natural History and Other Fictions, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham; Kunstverein, Hambourg, Scotland, UK

Homage – Jean-Henri Faber, Galerie des Archives, Paris, France

Cabinet of Curiosity for the Wexner Center of the Arts, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, USA

 

1996

Two Trees, American Fine Arts Co., New York, USA

A Tale of Two Seas: An Account of Stephan Dillemuth’s and Mark Dion’s Journey

Along the Shores of the North Sea and Baltic Sea and What They Found There, Galerie Christian Nagel, Colonia, Germania

 

1995

Unseen Fribourg, Fri-Art Centre D’Art Contemporain Kunsthalle, Fribourg American Fine Arts Co., New York, USA

Dodo, Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Amsterdam

Flotsam and Jetsam (The End of the Game), De Vleeshal, Middleburg, Netherlands

Schoharie Creek Field Station, Art Awareness, Lexington, NY, (with Bob Braine and J. Morgan Puett)

 

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2025

The Postcard Exhibition, Saskia Neuman Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden

Moby Dick, Palazzo Ducale Fondazione per la Cultura, Genoa, Italy

La Bella Estate, Fondazione Sandretto Re Debaudengo, curated by Tom Eccles, Liam Gillick and Mark Rappolt

Expedition to the World’s Oceans, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany

Best of SouthCoast, New Bedford Art Museum, New Bedford, USA

(Un)Settled: The Landscape in American Art, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, USA

Microkosm – The World in a Wunderkammerm, Drents Museum, Assen, Netherlands

ECHO DELAY REVERB: American Art and Francophone Thought, edited by Naomi Beckwith, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

Mark Dion and Alexis Rockman: Journey to Nature’s Underworld, Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, Pennsylvania, USA

The Campus, Hudson, USA

Prints Charming, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, USA

Enormément bizarre: Jean Chatelus collection Donation Fondation Antoine de Galbert, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

Why Look At Animals, EMΣT | The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece

 

2024

The sky we stand on, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, Los Angeles, California, USA

Kiel (re)connecting.earth Beyond Water, Stadtgalerie Kiel & Kiel Museum of Zoology, Germany

Beyond Water, Nomadic Biennial, Stadtgalerie Kiel, Germany

Start Making Sense, CCS Bard Galleries, Dutchess County, NY, USA

The Return of Histoire Naturelle, Chez Max and Dorothea, Los Angeles, California, USA

After Icebergs: Conceptual Photography and Climate Crisis, Humanities Center Gallery, University of San Diego, San Diego, USA

Home Again, Newfields, Indianapolis, IN, USA

From Art Colony to Connecticut Collection: Highlights from the Florence Griswold Museum, Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, CT, USA

The World In Which We Live: The Art of Environmental Awareness, Richard and Carole Cocks Art Museum, Miami University, Oxford, OH, USA

 

2023

Core Collections, Picker Art Gallery, Colgate University, Hamilton, USA

“A Singularly Marine & Fabulous Produce”: The Cultures of Seaweed, New Bedford Whaling Museum, New Bedford, USA

CHIRPING. ART FROM A BIRD’S-EYE VIEW, Kunsthalle Wilhelmshaven, Germany

Collection of Contemporary, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany

Un/Natural Selections: Wildlife in Contemporary Art, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, USA

Concerning Nature, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA

Tossed: Art from Discarded, Found and Re-purposed Materials, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, USA

Reimag(in)ing the Victorians, Djanogly Gallery, University of Nottingham Touch Nature, Austrian Culture Forum, New York, USA

Über den Wert der Zeit / On the Value of Time, Ludwig Museum, Köln, Germany

Tense Condition, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany

Kingdom of Nature, Nordiska Akvarellmuseet, Skarhamn, Sweden Diurnal/Nocturnal, curated by Mark Dion, LeRoy Neiman Gallery, Columbia University School of the Arts, New York, USA

The Gifted Eye, Tylers Museum, Haarlem, Netherlands

Home Again, Newfields, Indianapolis, USA

New acquisitions: Paul Bril to Wendy Red Star, British Museum, London, UK

 

2022

Earthly Observatory, SAIC Galleries, Chicago, USA

Temperaura ambiente Curaduria de la artista, Collection Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico

Lands End, FOR-SITE Foundation, San Francisco, USA

n/Natural Selections: Wildlife in Contemporary Art, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, WY, USA

Tense Condition, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany

Topographies: Changing Conceptions of the American Landscape, Binghamton University Art Museum, Broome County, NY, USA

Enjoy – the mumok Collection in Change, mumok, Vienna, Austria

Based on a True Story…, MCA Chicago, Chicago, USA

New Earthwork, curated by Mark Dion and Heather Lineberry, Arizona State University Art Museum, Arizona, USA

Conserving Active Matter, Bard Garduate Center, New York, USA

Fragile Earth: Naturalist Impulse Contemporary Art, The Brandywine River Museum of Art, Chadds Ford, PA, USA

Life Eternal, The Nobel Prize Museum c/o Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden

Synapse: Intersections of Art and Science, University Galleries of the University of Akron, Akron, Ohio, USA

The Witches’ Cottage, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany

Conserving Active Matter, Bard Garduate Center, New York, USA

Archiviare l’impossibile, Galleria Erica Ravenna, Rome, Italy

Based on a True Story…, MCA Chicago, Chicago, USA

New Earthwork, curated by Mark Dion and Heather Lineberry, Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ, USA

 

2021

Tense Condition, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany

Earthly observatory, SAIC Galleries, Chicago

Temperatura ambiente Curaduria de la artista, COLLECTION Jumex, Mexico City Lands End, FOR-SITE Foundation, San Francisco, California, USA

Un/Natural Selections: Wildlife in Contemporary Art, National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, Wyoming, USA

Topographies: Changing Conceptions of the American Landscape, Binghamton, New York, USA

University ART Museum, Broome County, NY, USA

Enjoy – the mumok Collection in Change, mumok, Vienna

The Vienna Biennial for Change, MAK, Vienna

Fragile Creation, Dom Museum, Vienna We Are Animals, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands

We Are Animals, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Body & Soul. Thinking Feeling Brushing Teeth, Museum Ostwall Dortmund, Germany

 

2020

On Everyone’s Lips, From Pieter Bruegel to Cindy Sherman, Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburg, Germany

LEPORICYPARAEA MAPPA ROSEA, Verbeke Foundation, Stekene, Belgium

Mark Dion & Dana Sherwood: The Pollinator Pavilion, Thomas Cole National Historic Site, Catskill, NY, USA

Return of the Real, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA

Potential Worlds, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland

Songs in the Dark, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA

Citizen Animalia, Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, USA

Animals in the Art, Arken Museum, Denmark

On Everyone’s Lips, From Pieter Bruegel to Cindy Sherman, Kunstmuseum, Wolfsburgg, Germany

LEPORICYPARAEA MAPPA ROSEA, Verbeke Foundation, Stekene, Belgium

Return of the Real, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA

 

2019

Plastic Entanglements: Ecology, Aesthetics, Materials, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA, USA

The Unbearable Impermanence of Things, Vicki Myhren Gallery, The University of Denver, Denver, CO, USA

Kith and Kin: Friends and Mentors of Lesley MFA College of Art and Design, Lesly University, Cambridge, MA, USA

Indicators: Artists on Climate Change, Storm King, Cornwall, NY Wild Designs, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA. USA

Transformations & Alterations, NYFA and McKinsey, New York. USA

Forgetting—Why We Don’t Remember Everything, Historisches Museum Frankfurt, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Heaven, Hell and Purgatory, The Greenwood Cemetery, New York, USA

Year 2: Occupy Colby Museum, Colby Museum of Art, Waterville, MA, USA

Santander Sala de Arte, Madrid, Spain

Fragile Earth, The Florence Griswold Museum, Old Lyme, CT, USA

From Theory to Practice: Trajectories of the Whitney Independent Study Program, curated by John Tyson and Sam Toabe, University of Massachusetts Boston, Boston, USA

 

2018

Wilderness, Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany

The Magic Kingdom, curated by Avi Lubin, Beit Uri and Rami Nehoshtan Museum, Ashdot Ya’akov Meuhad, Israel

Natural Spaces, Testing Grounds, curated by Marie-Noëlle Farcy, Marion LavalJeantet, Benoît Mangin, MUDAM: Mudam Luxembourg – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg City

Indicators: Artists on Climate Change, Storm King, Cornwall, NY, USA

Dime-Store Alchemy, The FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA

Plastic Entanglements: Ecology, Aesthetics, Materials, The Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, PA [traveling to Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, OR; Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA; Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI, USA

Everything Was Forever, Until It Was No More, curated by Katerina Gregos, Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art, Riga, Latvia

Endangered Species: Artists on the Front Line of Biodiversity, Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA, USA

Wild Designs, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA, USA

The Atlantic Triangle, 11th Mercosul Biennial, Porto Alegre, Brazil

Big Botany, Spencer Museum of Art, the University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS, USA

Art/Nature – Artistic Interventions, Museum für Naturkunde (Museum of Natural History), Berlin, Germany

Nature’s Nation: American Art and Environment, Princeton Art Museum, Princeton, NJ, USA

Plastic Entanglements, Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, PA, USA

The Conditions of Being Art: Pat Hearn Gallery & American Fine Arts, Co. (1983-2004), Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY, USA

The 33rd São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil

 

2017

Artist Need to Create on the Same Scale That Society Has the Capacity to Destroy, Part I, Mana Contemporary, Jersey City, USA

Ambiguous Territory: Architecture, Landscape, and the Postnatural, University of Michigan Taubman College Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Natural Histories, Traces of the Political, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna

The Unreliable Narrator, Sun Valley Center for the Arts, Ketchum, ID, USA

Mark Dion Waiting for the Extraordinary, Institute of the Humanities, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI, USA

Prospect 4. The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp, Prospect New Orleans, New Orleans, USA

A Good Neighbor: the 15th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey

Dioramas, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

Art around 1992, Centro Andalusia de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain

Constructing Paradise, Austrian Cultural Forum New York, New York, USA

Just the Facts, The Milwaukee Institute of Art & Design Frederick Layton Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, USA

Wundercamera,Telefair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA, USA

The Garden—End of Times, Beginning of Times, ARoS Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark

Naturalia, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, USA

Art and Culture around 1992, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain

Die Idee der Freien Flusszone / The Idea of the Free River Zone, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg, Germany

 

2016

20 – An Exhibition in Three Acts, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland

Emscherkunst 2016, multiple sites, Germany

Come As You Are: Art of the 1990s, Blanton Museum, University of Texas, Austin, Texas, USA

Don’t Look Back: The 1990’s at MOCA, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, California, USA

Sublime. The Tremors of the World., Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France

Radical Seafaring, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York, USA

The Ocelots of Foothill Blvd, Mark Dion, Jessica Rath, Dana Sherwood, Pitzer Art Galleries, Pitzer College, Claremont, California, USA

Manmade: Contemporary Art on the Relationship between Man and Earth, Raversyde, Oostende, Belgium

FOOD—Ecologies of the Everyday, 13th Fellbach Small Sculpture Triennial, Fellbach, Germany

Animality, Marian Goodman Gallery, London, UK

Dead Animals, or the curious occurrence of taxidermy in contemporary art, David Winton Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

Freie Flusszone Süderelbe, Galerie für Landschaftskunst im Kunstverein, Langenhagen, Germany

El orden natural de las cosas, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico

A Critical Mass Is What We Have Left, George Kargl BOX, Vienna

 

2015 – 2016

Hunters and Gatherers in Contemporary Art, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany

Come As You Are: Art of the 1990s, Montclair Art Museum, NJ; traveling to Telfair Musuem of Art, Savannah, GA, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI; Blanton, USA Museum of Art, UT Austin, Ausitn, Texas, USA

 

2015

The Order of Things: Mark Dion, Judy Pfaff and Fred Wilson, The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia Emanation: Art + Process, Wheaton Arts, Millville, New Jersey, USA

 

2014-2015

Late Harvest, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada, USA

The Academy of Things: 250 Years at the Kunstakademie Dresden, The Art Academy of Dresden, Germany

 

2014

The Colours of the Labyrinth, Waldburger Wouters, Brussels, Belgium

Anthropocene Monument, Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France

The Bigger Picture: Work from the 1990s, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York Wundercamera, Holden Gallery, Manchester, UK

The Lost Museum: A Project of the Jenks Society, Department of Social Humanities, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island, USA

Back to Eden: Contemporary Artists Wander the Garden, Museum of Biblical Art (MOBIA), New York, USA

Groundwork: life spent with nature, Wave Hill Public Garden and Cultural Center, New York, USA

Between the lines, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA

Forecast, Virginia Commonwealth University Anderson Gallery, Virginia, USA

Noah’s Ark, Museum Ostwal, Dortmund, Germany

The Trouble with Jellyfish, Le Laboratoire, Paris, France

Orders in Motion: On Collecting, Dynamic Histories, and Lost Things – 250 Years of the Dresden Art Academy, The Art Academy of Dresden, Germany

New York Makers Open, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA

Unity of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt and the Americas, Americas Society, NY Wonder Cabinet s / The Art of Collecting, Children’s Museum of New York, New York, USA

Mansion as Muse: Contemporary Art at Victorian Mansion, Victorian Mansion, Portland, Maine, USA

Beyond Earth Art: Contemporary Artists and the Environment, a cura di Andrea Inselman, Cornell University, Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York, USA

The Invisible Hand: Curating as Gesture, The 2nd CAFAM Biennale, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing, China

Take It or Leave It: Institution, Image, Ideology, curated by Johanna Burton and Anne Ellegood, Hammer Museum, California, USA

GYRE: The Plastic Ocean, Anchorage Museum, Anchorage, Alaska

 

2013

Arqueologica, Matadero Madrid Contemporary Art Center, Spain

Yes, Naturally: How Art Saves the World, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Netherlands

EXPO 1: New York, organized by Klaus Biesenbach with Christopher Y. Lew and Lizzie Gorfaine, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, New York, USA

Beyond the Wunderkammer, The Art Institute of Boston at Lesley University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

EMSCHERKUNST2013 Triennial, Emscher Island, Germany

The Maritime Artist, Porthmeor Studios, St. Ives, Cornwall, UK

 

2013-2014

Orders in Motion: On Collecting, Dynamic Histories, and Lost Things – 250 Years of the Dresden Art Academy, The Art Academy of Dresden, Germany

New York Makers Open, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, USA

Unity of Nature: Alexander von Humboldt and the Americas, Americas Society, NY Wonder Cabinet s / The Art of Collecting, Children’s Museum of New York, USA

 

2012-2013

More Real? Art in the Age of Truthiness. SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico; traveling to Minneaplos Institute of Art, Minnesota, USA

El Gran Sur, Bienal de Montevideo, Uruguay

The Black Whale, curated by Pablo de Llano, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Vigo, Spain

 

2012

Gyre, curated by Julie Decker, Anchorage Museum, Alaska

The Black Whale, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Vigo, Spain

Cisneros Collection, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Havana, Cuba

Zoologie, Montreal Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal, Quebec, Canada

Collaboration with Dana Sherwood for International Orange, FOR-SITE Foundation, San Francisco, California, USA

dOCUMENTA 13, curated by Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Kassel, Germany

On Dilettantism, ACC Galerie Weimar, Germany

 

2011-2012

BELVEDERE: Why is Landscape Beautiful?, Arp Museum Bahnhof Rolandseck, Remagen, Germany Windflower: Perceptions of Nature, Kröller – Müller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands

Scramble for the Past: A Story of Archeology in the Ottoman Empire 1750 – 1914 Istanbul, SALT Galata, Istanbul, Turkey

 

2011

The Luminous Interval: an exhibition of the D.Daskalopoulos Collection, Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain

The Smithson Effect, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, Utah

Measuring the World: Heterotopias and Knowledge Spaces in Art, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria

 

2010-2011

Weltwissen – World Knowledge. 300 years of Science in Berlin, Martin- Gropius-Bau, Berlin Beyond/In Western New York 2010: Alternating Currents, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA

New acquisitions of the Art Foundation Mallorca Collection, CCA Kunsthalle Andratx, Majorca, Spain

(re) designing nature, Kunstlerhaus Wien, Vienna, Austria; traveling to Städtische Galerie Bremen, Germany

 

2010

Strange Travelers, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, curated by project by the artist

Doppler Effect: Images in Art and Science, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany

The Traveling Show, curated by Adriano Pedrosa, Fundación/Colección Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico

Larger Than Life – Stranger Than Fiction, Triennial Kleinplastik 11, Fellbach, Germany

Adaptation: Between Species, curated by Helena Reckitt, The Powerplant, Toronto, Canada

Multiple Pleasures: Functional Objects in Contemporary Art, curated by Nathalie Karg/Cumulus Studios, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA

The Crude and the Rare, curated by Saskia Bos and Steven Lam, 41 Cooper Gallery, The Cooper Union, New York, USA

Kunstfestivalen Tumult, Kykobing, Denmark

 

2009-2010

Rummaging in the Rubbish: Waste and Recycling in Contemporary Art, Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, San Sebastian, Spagna; Centro de Arte y Naturaleza, Huesca, Spagna Investigations of a Dog: Works from the FACE Collections, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy

Radical Nature: Art and Architecture for a Changing Planet 1969-2009, Barbican Art Gallery, London; traveling to the Dick Institute, Kilmarnock, Scotland

 

2009

Assume Nothing: New Social Practice, Art Gallery of Greater Victoria, Victoria, BC Human Nature, Berkeley Art Museum e Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA Trouble in Paradise: Examining Discord between Nature and Society, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, ARizona, USA

Classified, Tate Gallery of Modern Art, London, UK

Dream Time, Les Abattoirs and the La Grotte dumas d’Azul, Toulouse, France Surrealism and Beyond, Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland

A Duck for Mr. Darwin, Baltic Center for Contemporary Art, Newcastle, UK Watou2009, Watou, Belgium

Summer Show, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA

Ferne Nähe: Nature in der Kunst der Gegenwart, Kunst Museum, Bonn, Germany Collections Collected, Kennedy Museum of Art, Athens, Ohio, USA

Interstices: Works from the Jumex Collection, MUMOK, Vienna, Austria

 

2008

Human/Nature: Artists Respond to a Changing Planet, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California, USA

Archeology of Mind, Malmö Art Museum, Malmö, Sweden Mildred’s Lane, Alexander Gray Associates, New York, USA, NeoFutur, Les Abbatoirs, Toulouse, France

Revolutions – Forms That Turn, Biennale of Sydney, Australia Folkestone Sculpture Triennial, Folkestone, UK

ESTRATOS, Proyecto Arte Contemporaneo Murcia, Spain

Naked Wonder, Gallery Co, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA

Underkammer: A Century of Curiosities, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

 

2007

Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas, USA

Surrealism and Beyond in the Israel Museum, The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

die stadt von morgen, Beiträge zu einer Archäologie des Hansavierels, Berlin Genesis: Life at the End of the Information Age, Centraal Museum, Utrecht Multiple Interpretations: Contemporary Print Portfolios, New York Public Library, New York, Miami

 

2006

Forms of Classification: Alternative Knowledge and Contemporary Art, Cisneros Fontanals Arts Foundation, Miami, Florida, USA

Drawing as Process in Contemporary Art, Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Artists and Specimens: Documenting Contemporary Experience, The Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, Lewis and Clark College, Oregon, USA

The Unhumane Society, Momenta Art, Brooklyn, New York, USA

Zerstörte Welten und die Rekonstruktion, Kunstraum Dornbirn, Austria Cryptozoology: Out of Time Place Scale, Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine, USA

The Tar Museum, Galerie Georg Kargl, Vienna, Austria

Sammlung Grässlin, Räume für Kunst, St. Georgen, Germany

Ecotopia: The 2nd ICP Triennial of Photography and Video, International Center of Photography, New York, USA

Drawing as Process in Contemporary Art, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Rare Specimen: The Natural History Museum Show, Arsenal Gallery, Central Park, New York, USA

Birdspace: A Post-Audubon Artists Aviary, Tucson Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona, USA

 

2005

Controlled, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA

Drawing from the Modern 1975-2005, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

Gotik und Moderne in Dialog, Frankischen Galerie, Kronach, Germany

Becoming Animal: Contemporary Art in the Animal Kingdom, MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts, USA

Gordon Matta-Clark: Odd Lots, Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA

Birdspace: A Post-Audubon Artists Aviary, Tuscon Museum of Art, Tucson, Arizona

Our Surrroundings, Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, Scotland, UK

Desenhos: A-Z (Drawings: A-Z), Colecção Madeira Corporate Services, Porta 33, Funchal, Ilha da Madeira, Portugal

Showcase: Contemporary Art for the UK, City Art Centre and Talbot Rice Gallery, Edimburgh, Scotland, UK

 

2004

São Paulo Bienal, São Paulo, Brazil

Interventions, The Fine Arts Center Galleries, Bowling Green State University, Ohio, Connecticut

Birdspace: A Post-Audubon Artists Aviary, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, travelling to Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, McDonough Museum of Art, and Youngstown State University Field: Science Technology and Nature, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, New York, USA

Animals & Us: The Animal in Contemporary Art, The Galerie St. Etienne, New York For the Birds, Artspace, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

Past Presence: Contemporary Reflections on the Main Line, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, Pennsylvania, USA

 

2003

De L’homme et Des Insectes, L’Espace EDF Electra, Paris, France

Hommage Jean-Henri Fabre, Musee Histoire Naturele, Paris, France

Kunstlerisches Freilander Seegeniederung, West-Wendischer Kunstverein in Gatow The Magic of Trees, De Zonnehof, Amersfoort, Netherlands

Global Priority, Herter Art Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA

Artist’s Lecture as Performance, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK

 

2002

Kunstverein Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany

The House of Fiction, Sammlung Hauser und Wirth, St. Gallen, Switzerland

Concrete Jungle, Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York, USA

Museutopia, Karl Ernst Osthaus Museum der Stadt Hagen, Germany

 

2001

Hellgreen, Hofgarden, Dusseldorf, Germany

Lateral Thinking: Art of the 1990s , (2001-2004), Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, California, USA

Fresh Kills, Snug Harbor Center for Contemporary Art, New York, USA

Museum as Subject, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan

Words and things, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow, Scotland

 

2000

American Art Today: Fantasies & Curiosities, The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, Florida, USA

In-Sites 2000, San Diego, California, USA

Crossing the Line, The Queens Museum of Art, NY Ecologies, The David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Small World- Dioramas in Contemporary Art, MCA , San Diego, California, USA

 

1999

The Museum as Muse, Museum of Modern Art, New York Carnegie International, 99/00, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

 

1998

The Natural World, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC 1997 The Spiral Village, Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, Netherlands

Nordic Pavilion, XVVII La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

 

1996

Città Natura, Palazzo delle Esposizioni e Museo Zoologico, Rome, Italy

Skulptur Projekte in Münster, Germany

Vehicle, Paolo Baldacci Gallery, New York, USA

Multiple Pleasure, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York, USA

Berechenbarkeit der Welt, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany

Cabines de Bain, Piscine de la Motta, Fri-Art, Centre D’Art Contemporain- Kunsthalle, Fribourg, Switzerland

Hybrids, De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands

21st Century Sculpture, John Gibson Gallery, New York, USA

Campo 6, Galleria Civica D’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Torino, Italy Let’s Talk About Art, Art Metropole, Toronto, Canada

25th Anniversary: 25 Younger Artists, John Weber Gallery, New York, USA

 

1995

Mapping: A Response to MoMA, American Fine Arts Co., New York, USA

Zeichen und Wunder/Signos y Milagros, Kunsthaus Zurich; Centro Galego De Arte Contemporanea, Santiago De Compostela, Spain

It’s Not a Picture, Galleria Emi Fontana, Milan, Italy

Searching for Sabah, Sabah Museum, Sabah, Malaysia Platzwechsel, Kunsthalle Zürich, Switzerland

Das Ende der Avant Garde: Kunst als Dienstleistung, Kunsthalle der Hypo- Kulturstiftung, Munich, Germany

Aufforderung in schönster Weise, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, Germany

 

1994

Living in Knowledge: An Exhibition About Questions Not Asked, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina, USA

Pro-Creation? Fri-Art Centre D’Art Contemporain Kunsthalle, Fribourg Don’t Look Now, Thread Waxing Space, New York, USA

Services, Kunstverein München, Munich, Germany

Temporary Translation(s) Sammlung Schurmann, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg Garbage, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Green, Torch, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Concrete Jungle, Marc Jancou Gallery, London, UK

Frauenkunst/Männerkunst, Kunstverein Kippenberger, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany \Cocido y Crudo, Museo Macional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain

 

1993

Simply Made in America, Aldrich Museum for Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne, Germany

Travelogue/Reisetagebuch, Hochschule für Angewandte Kunst in collaboration with Galerie Metropol, Vienna, Austria

Parallax View, P.S. 1, The Institute for Contemporary, London, UK

Art, Long Island City; Goethe House, New York, USA

Culture in Action, Sculpture Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Animals, Galerie Tanya Rumpff, Netherlands

Spielhölle; Esthétique et Violence, Galerie Sylvana Lorenz, Paris, France

Project Unité, Unité d’Habitation, Firminy, France

Sonsbeek 93, Arnhem, Netherlands

Kinder, Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich, Germany

Naturkunden, Paszti-bott Galerie, Cologne, Germany

Restaurant, La Bocca, Paris, France

Art-Culture-Ecology, Bea Voigt Galerie, Munich, Germany

What Happened to the Institutional Critique, American Fine Arts Co., New York, USA

Installation, Project for the Birds of Antwerp Zoo, On taking a normal situation and retranslating it into overlapping and multiple readings of conditions past and present, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium

Kontext Kunst: Kunst der 90er Jahre, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz e DuMont Verlag, Cologne, Germany

Concrete Jungle, Ezra and Cecile Zilka Gallery, Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut, USA

Transgressions in the White Cube: Territorial Mappings, Bennington College, Vermont, USA

 

1992

Concrete Jungle, Tanja Grunert Galerie, Cologne Wohnzimmer/Büro, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, Germany

Animals, Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris, France

Nos Sciences Naturelles, Fri-Art Centre D’Art Contemporain Kunsthalle, Fribourg Arte Amazonas, Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro; Staatiche Kunsthalle, Berlin, Germany

Translation, Centrum Sztuki Wspoteczesnej, Zamek Ujazdowski, Warsaw Animals, Kubinski Köln, Cologne, Germany

Natural Science, John Gibson Gallery, New York, USA

Oh! Cet écho!, Le Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris, France

Proiezioni, Buchholz und Buchholz, Cologne, Germany

Twenty Fragile Pieces, Galerie Analix-B & L Polla, Geneva, Switzerland

True Stories: Part II, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK

Proposals for the Museum of Natural History, Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, USA

 

1991

Counter-Media, Key Gallery, Richmond, Virginia Sweet Dreams, Barbara Toll Fine Art, New York Arte Joven en Nueva York, Consejo Nacional de la Cultura, Sala Mendoza e Sala R.G., Caracas, Venezuela

Mud, True to Life, 303 Gallery, New York, USA

The Hirsch Farm Project, Hillsboro, Wisconsin, USA

 

1990

Commitment, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada American Fine Arts Co., New York, USA

The Köln Show, Cologne, Germany

Videoworks, Galleri Nordanstad-Skarstedt, Stockholm, Sweden

Biodiversity: An Installation for the Wexner Center, Wexner Center for Visual Arts, Columbus, Ohio, USA

The (Un)Making of Nature, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York, Whitney Museum of American Art, Stamford, Connecticut, USA

Art Supplies and Utopia, Galerie Ralph Wernicke, Stuttgart, Germany

In the Beginning, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio, USA

Diane Brown Gallery, New York, USA

 

1989

Xavier Hufkens Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

After the Gold Rush, Milford Gallery, New York Film, Artful History: A Restoration Comedy, with Jason Simon, Collective for Living Cinema, New York, USA

Pathetique, Galerie Schmela, Dusseldorf, Germany

Here and There: Travels, Clocktower Gallery, Institute for Contemporary Art, New York American Fine Arts Co., New York, USA

The Desire of the Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York, USA

Le Magasin L’École L’Exposition, Le Magasin, Grenoble, France

Perspektivismus, Galerie Gleich-Rossi, Graz, Austria

The Elements: Sex, Politics, Money & Religion, Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut, USA

End of the Weather, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, USA

 

1988

The Pop Project Part IV, Nostalgia as Resistance, Clocktower Gallery, Institute for Contemporary Art, New York, USA

Poetic Justice, Ward-Nasse Gallery, New York, USA

Artists and Curators, John Gibson Gallery, New York 1987 Fake, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA

The Castle, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany

303 Gallery, New York, USA

New Concepts of Art in Public Space, Sonne Gallery, Berlin, Germany

 

1987

Fake, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York The Castle, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany

303 Gallery, New York, USA
New Concepts of Art in Public Space, Sonne Gallery, Berlin, Germany

 

1986

Rooted Rhetoric, Castel dell’Ovo, Neaples, Italy

Cutting ‘Em off at the Pass, Thirty-Third Arts Festival of Atlanta, Georgia, USA

The Fairy Tale: Politics, Desire and Everyday Life, Artists Space, New York, USA

 

1985

Four Walls, Hoboken, New Jersey, USA

Whitney Independent Study Program Show, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, USA

Transitional Objects, Philip Nelson Gallery, Lione, France

 

 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, USA

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada

The Art Gallery of New South Wales, New South Wales, Australia Aspen Re Collection, New York, USA

Aspen Re Collection, New York, USA

Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France

British Museum, London, UK

Camperdown Wildlife Park, Dundee, Scotland

Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan, USA

Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

CCA Kunsthalle Andratx, Maiorca, Spain

Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain

Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, Massachusetts, USA

Château d’Orion, France

FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, France

Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, Netherlands

Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hambourg, Germany

Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA

Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK

Het Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Antwerp, Belgium

Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA

Hunterian Museum and Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, Scotland, UK

Israel Museum of Art, Jerusalem, Israel

The J. Paul Getty Museum Collection, Los Angeles, California, USA

Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland

Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Germany

Kunstwegen EWIV, Nordhorn, Germany

Kunst im Öffentlichen Raum Niederösterreich, Pölten, Austria Manchester Museum, Manchester, UK

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida, USA

Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, Vermont, USA

Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, USA

Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, New Jersey, USA

Musée de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris, France

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois, USA

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, USA

Museum Gassendi, Digne, France

Museum Het Domein, Sittard, Netherlands

Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany

Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

Museum Ostwall, Dortmund, Germany

New York Public Library, New York, USA

Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monaco-Ville, Munich Porthmeor Studios, St. Ives, UK

Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, USA

Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois, USA

Storey Institute, Lancaster, UK

Tate Gallery, London, UK

The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA

Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita, Kansas, USA

Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA

Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, USA

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA