JOHN BALDESSARI
Artist Bio

Born: National City, California, 17 June 1931.
Education: 1949-53 B.A., San Diego State College, California.
1954-55 University of California at Berkeley.
1955 University of California at Los Angeles.
1955-57 M.A., San Diego State College, California.
1957-59 Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles.
Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles.
Lives and works in Santa Monica, California.

Honorary Degrees:
2000 Doctor of Fine Arts, Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design Of the New School of Social Research.
2003 Honorary Ph.D., San Diego State University, San Diego, California,

Awards:

1999 Spectrum-International Award for Photography of the Foundation of Lower Saxony, Germany College Art Associations Lifetime Achievement Award.

1997 Governor's Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts, California.
1996 Oscar Kokoschka Prize, Austria.
1986 Guggenheim Award

One-Person Exhibitions:

2003
Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland, June 8 - August 2003

2002-03
Galerie Monika Spruth, Munich, Germany, October 30, 2002 - February 28, 2003
2002 Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California, October 26 - December 7, 2002
Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France, May 3 - June 15, 2002
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York, February 14 - March 30, 2002

2001
"John Baldessari," Museo d'Arte Moderna Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Trento, Italy, December 15, 2000 - March 11, 2001.
"While Something Is Happening Here, Something Else Is Happening There: Works 1965-2001," Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland, March 31-June 17.
"Tetrad Series," Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany, March 30 - September 2.
Philomene Magers, Munich, Germany, June 2 - July 31.
"John Baldessari: The Overlap Series," Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland, June 2 - July 14.
"John Baldessari," Museo d'Arte Moderna Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Trento, Italy. December 15, 2000-March 11, 2001.
"Read/Write/Think/Dream", University of California San Diego
"Seeing" Los Angeles County Museum of Art Laboratory, Los Angeles, California November 18. Interactive installation entitled "Still Life"

2000
"John Baldessari" Meert Rihoux, Brussels, Belgium. May 2000
"John Baldessari" Galleri Grandstrup Oslo, Norway. August, 2000.

1999 "Baldessari, While something is happening here, something else is happening there. Works 1988-1999", Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany. September 26- January 2, 2000.
"Baldessari, Tetrad Series" Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, N.Y. April 24 - May 21.
"The Elbow Series 1999", Massimo Martino Fine Art & Projects, Mendrisio, Switzerland. June 1- October 8.
"Baldessari und Goya", Albertina im Akademiehof, Vienna, Austria. February 18- March 28.

1998
"John Baldessari, The Goya Series", Sonnabend Gallery, New York, N.Y. January 10- February 14.
"Baldessari, 4 RMS W VU: WALLPAPER, LAMPS AND PLANTS. NEW", Witte de With, Rotterdam, Holland. January 24- March 22.
"Baldessari, 4 RMS W VU: WALLPAPER, LAMPS, AND PLANTS. NEW", Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland. January 31- March 22.
"John Baldessari", Mai 36 Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland. January 31- March 14.
"Tele Dolca Llar & Baldessari 4 HAB a/Vtes.:paper pintat, llums I plantes. NOU" Museu D'Art Contemporani, Barcelona, Spain. July 16, - September 27, 1998.
"John Baldessari Recent Works" Charim Klocker, Vienna, Austria. September 11-November 7, 1998.
" John Baldessari, Commissioned Paintings", Sonnabend Gallery, New York, N.Y November 14-December 9.

1997
"John Baldessari", Marian Goodman, Paris, France, April 4 - May 31.
"John Baldessari 1990-1996", Galerie Laage-Salomon, Paris, France, April 4 - May 17.
"John Baldessari", Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California. April 19 - May 24.
"John Baldessari", Theoretical Events, Napoli, Italy. June 5- July 31.
"John Baldessari National City Paintings from 1967 and 1996" Galerie Philomene Magers, Köln, Germany. May 23- July 31.

1996
"John Baldessari" Hochschule fur Angewandte Kunst in Wien, Vienna, Austria. March 5-April 27.
"John Baldessari" Jurgen Becker, Hamburg, Germany. January- February.
"John Baldessari: National City," San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA. March 9 - June 30.
"John Baldessari". Centro de Arte Moderna Jose de Azeredo Perdigao, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal. June 4 - September 1.

1995
"John Baldessari" Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. April 22- May 20.
"John Baldessari: A Retrospective," Cornerhouse, Manchester, England. May 6- June 25; Serpentine Gallery, London, England. July 11- August 28; Wurttembergicher, Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany. September 21- November 19; Moderna Gallerija Ljubljana, Slovenia. December 14- January 27, 1996; Museet For Samtidskunst, Oslo, Norway. February 17- May 5, 1996. Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian, Lisbon, Portugal. June 4 - September 1, 1996.

1994
"Artist's Choice: John Baldessari, e.g. Grass, Water Heater, Mouths, & etc. (for John Graham)," The Museum of Modern Art, New York. March 17- May 10, 1990
"John Baldessari," The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA. March 25- June 17.
Traveling to: The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco,
July 12- September 9; The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., October 16-January 6,

1991;
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. July 10- October 13, 1991;
Musee d'Art Contemporain de Montreal, Canada. November 21- February 13, 1992.

1989
"John Baldessari: Ni por esas" ("Not Even So"),Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid. January 11- February 20.
Traveling to: capc Musee d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, France. March 10- April 22; IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez, Valencia. May 15 - July 15.

1986
"John Baldessari: MATRIX BERKELEY 94," University Art
Museum, University of California.

1985
"John Baldessari," Le Consortium, Centre d'art Contemporain, Dijon, France. March 11- April 18.

1981
"John Baldessari: Work 1966-1980," Exhibition organized by Marcia Tucker, The New Museum, New York. Part I: March 14- April 4. Part II: April 8-28, catalogue. Traveled to The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, January 14- February 21, 1982; Contemporary Arts Museum,Houston, March 6- April 18, 1982.Municipal Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands. May 22- June 21; traveled to Museum Folkwang, Essen Germany, September 4- October 18. Catalogue.

Group Exhibitions
2003
Imperfect Innocence: The Debra and Dennis Scholl Collection, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, Florida, April 12 - June 15, 2003
Utopia Station, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy, June 15 - November 2, 2003
Video Acts: Single Channel work from the Collections of Pamela and Richard Kramlich and the New Art Trust, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England, July 30 - October 19, 2003
Work Ethic, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, October 12, 2003 - January 11, 2004; Des Moines Art Center, May 15 - August 1, 2004
The Disembodied Spirit, Bowdoin College, Bowdoin, Maine, September 25
December 7, 2003; Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri, March 19 - May 30, 2004; Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas, September - November 2004
The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960-1982, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, October 11, 2003 - January 4, 2004; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California, February 8 - May 11, 2004
Work Ethic, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, October 12, 2003 - January 4, 2004; Des Moines Art Center, May 15 - August 1, 2004; The Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, September 17, 2004 - January 2, 2005
Behind the Facts (Interfunktionen 1968-75), Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona, Spain, February 19 - May 2, 2004

2002
2002 The Flag Show, Pasadena Armory, Pasadena, California
Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona, Spain
Kunst Nach Kunst (Art After Art), Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Bremen, Germany, August 18 - November 3, 2002
10th Anniversary Celebration: California Art from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, California, August 31 - November 24, 2002
Limits of Perception, Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona, Spain, September 18 - November 3, 2002
Sans Commune Mesure: Image et Texte dans l'Art Actuel, Musee d'Art Moderne, Villeneuve d'Ascq, France, September 22, 2002 - January 19, 2003
Some Assembly Required: Collage Culture in Post War America, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, September 28, 2002 - January 26, 2003
The 1970s: Art in Question, capcMusee d'art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France, October 17, 2002 - January 19, 2003
Video Acts: Single Channel work from the collection of Pamela and Richard Kramlich and the New Art Trust, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York, November 4, 2002 - April 2003
Comer o no Comer (To Eat or Not to Eat), Salamanca 2002, Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Spain, November 20, 2002 - January 13, 2003

2001
Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collections," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, October 7, 2001 - January 6, 2002.
"Cross References: Celebrating the Stuart Collection," Museum of Contemporary Art, Diego, La Jolla, California, September 16, 2001 - January 8, 2002.
"Athenaeum Artists' Books by Stuart Collection Artists," thenaeum Music and Arts Library, La Jolla, California, November 2, 2001 - January 12, 2002.
"Best Impressions: 35 Years of Prints and Sculpture from Gemini G.E.L.," National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
"Seeing," Boone Children's Gallery, LACMA West, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California, November 16.
"Postcards From the Edge: Visual AIDS Annual Benefit Show and Sale," Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York, New York, November 18, 2001.
"Female Sensibility," Charim Gallery, Salzburg, Austria, July 21 - August 31.
"El Nopal Press: Mechanical Reproductions by Mexico City and L.A. Artists," Peppers Art Gallery, University of Redlands, Redlands, California, October 24 - December 9.
"Superphat: Big Time Innovation at Mixografia Workshop and Remba Gallery" Cypress College Fine Art Gallery, Cypress, California, March 22 - April 24.
"Change of Scene XIX," Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany, March 30 - September 2.
"Jeff Koons, Tom Wesselman," Sonnabend Gallery, New York, New York, May 12 - August 2.
"Summer Show," Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, New York, July - August.
"Beyond Boundaries," The Friends of Photography at the Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco, California, January 7 - March 25.
"Making Time," UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California, February 4 - April 29.
"Counter-Narratives," The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, March 11. Part of Film Program- December 10-March 11.
"Big As Life: American History of 8mm Film," Museum of Modern Art and San Francisco Cinematheque, San Francisco, California, February 6 - April 26.
"Digital Printmaking Now," Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York, June 21 - September 2.
"Tele[visions]: Kunst Sieht Fern," curated by Joshua Decter, guest curator, Kunsthalle Wein, Wein, Austria, October 18, 2001 - January 6, 2002. Catalogue.
"Subject Plural: Crowds in Contemporary Art," Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Houston, Texas, March 10 - April 29. Catalogue published by Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston with text by Marti Mayo, Peter Wollen and Paola Morsiani.
"Conception: Conceptual Documents 1968-1972," Norwich Gallery, Norwich School of Art and Design, Norwich, England, January 24 - March 3. Traveled to the Library, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, England, March 10 - April 22; Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver British Columbia, Canada, October 12 - December 2001.

2000
" Departures: 11 Arists at the Getty" The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA. February 29 - May 7. Catalogue.
"Diary" Cornerhouse, Manchester, England. January 15- March 12.
"Seascape" Christopher Grimes Gallery, Los Angeles, Ca. March 30- April 29.
"The Standard Projection:24/7" The Standard, Los Angeles, Ca.
February 15- August 15.
Kunsthaslle, Basel, Switzerland. "Quartett" September 9-November 12.

1999
"Crosscurrents: New Art from MoMA" Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan. 2 April- 28 May. Catalogue w/text by Robert Storr.
"Sight Gags, Grotesque, Charicature, and Wit in Modern and Contemporary Drawing" The Museum of Modern Art, New York, N.Y. January 21- May 5.
" Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin 1950s - 1980s" Queens Museum of Art, Queens, New York. April 27-August 29. Catalogue
" Circa 1968", Museu Serralves, Museu De Arte Contemporanea, Porto, Portugal. June- September. Catalogue.
" Trouble Spot. Painting", MUHKA Antwerp, Belgium. May-August. Catalogue.

1998
"Big As Life: An American History of 8mm films", The Museum of Modern Art/ San Francisco Cinematheque, California. February- December 1999. Catalogue. Curated by Steve Anker &Jytte Jensen.
"The Lure of Language", Lopdell House Gallery, New Zealand. 2 October - 1 November.
"Konzeptuelle Arbeiten der 1960er bis 1980er Jahre", Galerie Rudiger Schottle, Munich, Germany. 5 December - 16 January, 1999.
"Fuck You We Paint" , New Image Art, Los Angeles, Ca. 14 November - January 2, 1999.
"Breaking Ground", Marian Goodman Gallery, New York. 25 September - 7 November.
"Art Without the Unique Edition Artelier, 1985-1998" Kunstlerhaus, Graz, Austria. 26 September- 26 October. Catalogue. Texts by Friedrich Tietjen.
"Artificial Figuracions Contemporanies" , Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain. January 21- March 15, 1998. Catalogue. Texts by Francesco Bonami, Jose Lebrero Stals.
"The Information Age: Baldessari, Berry, Heubler, Weiner, 1969-1971", Susan Inglett, New York. May 14- June 27, 1998. Curated by David Platzker.
"Travel & Leisure", Paula Cooper Gallery, New York.May 2-June 26, 1998.
" Conceptual Photography", David Zwirner, New York. April 25,- May 30.
"Artistes et Photographes", Galerie Laage-Salomon, Paris, France. April 25- May 30.
"Thirty five years at Crown Point Press: Making Prints, Doing Art", University Art Gallery, San Diego, CA. June 27 - ?, 1998
"Double Trouble, The Patchett Collection", The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, Ca. June 27 - Sept. 5, 1998.
1997 "La Biennale di Venezia: 47th International Art Exhibition"
Venice, Italy. June 15- November 9. Catalogue. Texts by Germano Celant and Antonella Soldaini. Exhibition curator: Germano Celant.
"Scene of the Crime" UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA.July 21 - October 5. Catalogue.
"Sunshine & Noir. Art in L.A. 1960-1997" Louisiana Museum of
Modern Art, Denmark. Summer 1997. Catalogue. Texts by Anne Ayres, Laura Cottingham, Mike Davis, Russell Ferguson, William R. Hackman, Timothy Martin, Terry Myers, Lars Nittve, and Peter Schjeldahl. Traveled to Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany, Fall 1997; Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte. Contemporanea, Italy, Spring 1998; UCLA Arm and Hammer Museum of Art, L.A. Ca. Fall 1998.
"Livers D'Artistes" Bibliotheque nationale de France, France. May 29- October 12.

"The Pleasure of Reading" John Gibson Gallery. New York. Nov. 7 - December 31.

1996
"Painting into Photography: Photography into Painting" The Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, Florida. December 20, 1996- February 16, 1997.
"Hall of Mirrors: Art and Film since 1945"MOCA Los Angeles, California. March 17 - July 28. Curated by Kerry Brougher. Catalogue.
"Think Print, Books to Billboards, 1980-95" The Museum of Modern Art, New York, June-September, 1996.
"Comme un oiseau" Foundation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris, France, June 19- October 13, 1996.
"Prospect 96" Frankfurt, Germany. March 4-May 12.
"Wheel of Fortune Artists Interpret the Tarot," Curated by Any Lipton, Lombard/Freid Fine Arts, New York, December 6 - January 6, 1996.
"John Baldessari, Vito Acconci, Lees Levine, and Lawrence Weiner" Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich. October 12- November 26.
"1965-1975: Reconsidering the Object of Art," MOCA, Los Angeles, CA. October 17- February 4.
"Chain Reaction: An Abbreviated Survey of Idea-Based Art," Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. October 6-December 22.
"25 Years:An Exhibition of Selected Works, " Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. September 23- October 28.
"Ideal Standard Summertime", Lisson Gallery, London, England. July 17- September 30.
"Untitled (Reading Room)", Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. July 8 - August 19.
"Reflected Image: A selection of Contemporary Photography from the LAC Collection, Switzerland" Centro perl'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato,Italy.
"Go Figure", Patricia Faure Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. March 15- April 12.
"John Baldessari and Bernd and Hilla Becher". Kamakura Gallery Tokyo, Japan.

1994
"In the Field: Landscape in Recent Photography", Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. October 22 - December 17.

1993
"Construction Quotation: Collective images in Photography", Museum, Hannover,Germany. August 29-October 31.

1992
"More than One Photographer: Works since 1980 from the Collection" Museum of Modern Art, New York. May 14- August 9.

1991
"Devil on the Stairs; Looking Back at the Eighties", Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia. October 5- January 5. Curated by Robert Storr. Traveled to Newport Harbor Art Museum, April 16- June 21.
"Motion and Document: Sequence and Time: Edward Muybridge and Contemporary American Photography", National of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC. June 28- September 8; Addison Gallery of American Art, Philips Academy, Andover, MA. October 18- December 15; Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA. July 16- September 6; Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle. January 14- March 21 1993; Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford,Ct. May 9- August 8; International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House and Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, N.Y. Fall 1993.

1990
"Art in Europe and America: The 1960s and 1970s," Wexner for the Visual Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio. May 19- August 5.

1989-90
"John Baldessari, Robert Rauchenberg, James Rosenquist, Tishan Hsu, Holt Quentel," Busche Galerie, Koln, Germany. November 16, 1989 - January 1990.

1987
"Los Angeles Today: Contemporary Visions," Amerika Haus, Berlin, Germany. May 2-30; The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, July 1-26.

1986-88
"Individuals: A Selected History of Contemporary Art 1945-1986," The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA. December 10, 1986- January 10, 1988.

1985-1986
"Carnegie International: Contemporary Art- Europe and America in Pittsburgh," Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute , Pittsburgh, PA. November 9, 1985 - January 5, 1986.

1983
"Whitney Biennial Exhibition," (also included in Whitney Biennial in 1979, 1977, 1972, and 1969) Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

1982
"Documenta 7," Kassel, W.Germay.
"Photography Used in Contemporary Art, In and Around the 70's", National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo.

1978
"Art About Art", Whitney Museum of American Art, N.Y.
1972
"Documenta 5," Kassel, Germany.

Catalogues (one person)

1999
Sprengel Museum Hannover. John Baldessari, While Something Is Happening Here, Something Else is Happening There. Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany.
Marian Goodman Gallery. John Baldessari, Tetrad Series. Marian Gallery, New York, N.Y.

1998
Museum Fur Gegenwartskunst Zurich. Baldessari- RMS W VU: LAMPS, AND PLANTS. (NEW) . Museum fur Gegenwartskunst Zurich. Switzerland.

1996
Davies,Hugh & Hales,Andrea . John Baldessari: National City, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California.
Prinzhorn, Martin.John Baldessari, Hochschule für angewandte Kunst in Wien, Germany.
Pyo,John Baldessari, Pyo Gallery, Seoul, Korea

1995
Snoddy, Stephen.This Not That, Cornerhouse, Manchester, England.

1994
Varnedoe, Kirk, and John Baldessari .Artist's Choice: John Baldessari, e.g.. Grass, Water, Heater, Mouths, & etc. (for John Graham). The Museum of Modern Art, New York, N.Y.

1990
van Bruggen, Coosje. John Baldessari, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Rizzoli, New York.

1989
Ni Por Esas/ Not Even So: John Baldessari, published by CAPC Musee d'art contemporain de Bordeaux for exhibition traveling to: Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, CAPC, Musee d'art Contemporain, Bourdeos, and IVAM, Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Valencia.

1981 John Baldessari, essays by Marcia Tucker & Robert Pincus-Witten, and an interview by Nancy Drew, pub. by The New Museum, New York; co-pub. with University Art Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio. The New Museum. Library of Congress #81-80231.
John Baldessari, introduction and interview by Rudi Fuchs, pub. by Municipal Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; Museum Folkwang, Essen, edited by Jan Debbaut.

Writings and Books by the Artist

2001
Brown and Green and Other Parables. Reykjavik, Iceland: i8 and Reykjavik Art Museum.

1999
The Metaphor Problem Again. Collaboration with Lawrence Weiner. Ink-Tree Kunsnacht and Mai 35 Galerie Zurich, Switzerland.

1998
Zorro ( Two Gestures and One Mark). Octagon Press.
1989
Lamb. Collaboration with Meg Cranston. Valencia, Spain: IVAM Centre, Julio Gonzlez.

1988
The Telephone Book (With Pearls). Gent, Belgium: Imschoot,Uitgevers for IC, The Life and Opinions of Tristam Shandy. Thirty-nine photo-collage illustrations for the novel by Laurence Sterne; produced at San Francisco as three volumes, in an edition of 400 sets, of which fifty are issues with a suite of five lithographs by the artist. Produced by Arion Press.

1981
Close-Cropped Tales. Buffalo: CEPA Gallery; and Buffalo: Albright-Knox Art Gallery.

Articles and Reviews

1999
Richard, Frances. " John Baldessari " Artforum, April 1999, p. 121
Melchart, Erin. " Albertina/Akademiehof: Goya & Baldessari" Erscheinungsort: Wien (Vienna, Austria) February 18.
Marboe, Isabella. "Drei Paar Augen sehen" Kirchen Zeitung (Austria) February 28.
Smith, Roberta. "Conceptual Art: Over, and yet everywhere", The New York Times, Arts & Leisure, cover photo, April 25.

1998
Schjeldahl, Peter. "Wonderful Cynicism: John Baldessari" Village Voice. Feb. 4. issue.
Johnson, Ken. "John Baldessari ' The Commissioned Paintings' The New York Times. December 11, pg. B37.
Lawrence, Diane. "John Baldessari, the Coagula interview", Coagula, (Los Angeles, Ca.). March-April #32, 1998, pp. 26-30.
Tilroe, Anna. "Lachjes van verontschuldiging, Tv kijken in het museum met John Baldessari" NCR Handelsblad, January 30, 1998, p.CS7.
Speigel, Olga. "Baldessari ultima ina intalacion de gran formato enel Macba" La Vanguardia, July 11, 1998.
Fontivoa, Rosario. "Un paradis per a teleaddictes El Macba exposa les visions de tres artistes nord-americanas" el Periodico, July 15.
Minjee Cho. "Create and Destroy" ARTnews Summer 1998. p.36.

1997
McKenna, Kristine. "Turning Gray to Black and White", Los Angeles Times, April 20, 1997, (calendar) p. 54-55.
"Kunstmatkt" Frankfurter Allemeine Zeitung. Germany.July 19:
Nr. 165/ Seite 35.
"Tips und Termine" Kolner Stadt Hunzeiger . (Germany) July 4:Nr. 154/Seite 5.
Knight, Christopher. "An Enlightened Twist on Tradition", Los Angeles Times. April 30: F1 & F5 with photo.
Princenthal, Nancy."John Baldessari", On Paper The journal of Prints, Drawings, and Photography, May-June 1997, p.38.
Lindgard, Jade. "John Baldessari", Les Inrockuptibles (Paris), 30 April- 6 May: 19 and insert.
"John Baldessari le Manipulateur" Le Monde (Paris), April 15:22.
Hüllenkremer, Marie. "Die Vergangenheit muß man zerstören" Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger (Germany), June 10.

1996
Meyer, James, "Reconsidering the Object of Art," Artforum, February, p.78,79,109.
Greene, Davis A., "1965-1975: Reconsidering the Object of Art," Frieze, January/February,p.62.
Kornblau, Gary. "1965-1975: Reconsidering the Object of Art," Art Issues, January/ February, p.36-37.
Albertini, Rosanna. "John Baldessari: I Colori Della Discordanza," Flash Art, Italia, December 1995/ January 1996, p. 57-60.

1995
Relyea, Lane. "John Baldessari: Margo Leavin Gallery," Artforum, October, 1995, p.107.
"Buzz Bets: Art," Buzz Magazine, May 1995, p. 25.
Knight, Christopher. "A Mysterious Place Between Paintings and Photographs", Los Angeles Times. May 10, p.F1.

1994
Kimmelman, Michael. "For Baldessari, de Chirico is Just One of the Guys", New York Times, April 10.

1993
Smith, Roberta. "John Baldessari: Working Materials", The New York Times, Sept. 17, p.C18.

1991
"Collaboration John Baldessari / Cindy Sherman," Parkett, # 29, September, pp. 28-73, illus.; articles by Howard Singerman, Thomas Lawson, Patrick Frey, James Lewis, Dave Hickey, Susan A. Davis Woodward, B. Richard. "Just Who Begat Whom?", World Monitor, July, pp.58-60.

Films by the Artist

Isocephaly, 1968 Super-8, color 3 minutes
What To Leave Out, 1968 Super-8, color 3 minutes
Cremation, 1970 16mm, black-and-white 10 minutes
New York City Art History, 1971 Super-8, color 3 minutes
New York City Postcard Painting, 1971 Super-8, color 3 minutes
Waterline, 1971 Super-8, black-and-white 3 minutes
Dance, 1971 Super-8, color 3 minutes
Minimalism, 1971 Super-8, black-and-white 3 minutes
Tabula Rasa, 1971 Super-8, black-and-white 3 minutes
Black-Out, 1971 Super-8, black-and-white 3 minutes
Easel Painting, 1972-73 Super-8 film loop (originally in 16mm), color 34 seconds
Time-Temperature, 1972-73 Super-8 film loop (originally in 16mm), color 4 minutes, 56 seconds
Water to Wine to Water, 1972-73 Super-8 film loop (originally in 16mm), color 36 seconds
The Hollywood Film, 1972-73 Super-8 film loop (originally in 16mm), color 66 seconds
Title, 1973 16mm, black-and-white and color, sound 25 minutes
Throwing Leaves Back at Tree, 1973 Super-8 film loop, color 3 minutes
Ice Cubes Sliding, 1974 Super-8 film loop, color 3 minutes
Taking a Slate: Ilene and David (#1), 1974 Super-8 film loop (originally 16mm), black-and-white 20 seconds
Taking a Slate: Ilene and David (#2), 1974 Super-8 film loop (originally 16mm), color 3 minutes
Taking a Slate: David, 1974 Super-8 film loop (originally 16mm), black-and-white 48 seconds
Ted's Christmas Card, 1974 Super-8 film loop, color 3 minutes
Script, 1973 - 77 16mm, black-and-white and color, sound 25 minutes
Six Colorful Inside Jobs, 1977 16mm, color 30 minutes

Videotapes by the Artist

Folding Hat: Version 1, 1970 Black-and-white, sound 30 minutes
Folding Hat, 1970 Black-and-white, sound 30 minutes
Black Painting, 1970 Black-and-white 15 minutes
Black Curtain, 1970 Black-and-white, sound 15 minutes
Life Drawing, 1970 Black-and-white 30 minutes
I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art, 1971 Black-and-white 30 minutes
Walking Forward-Running Past, 1971 Color 20 minutes
I Am Making Art, 1971 Black-and-white, sound 19 minutes
Art Disasters, 1971 Black-and-white 30 minutes
Police Drawing, 1971 Black-and-white, sound 30 minutes
Xylophone, 1972 Black-and-white, sound 5 minutes
Baldessari Sings LeWitt, 1972 Black-and-white, sound 19 minutes
Inventory, 1972 Black-and-white, sound 24 minutes
Teaching a Plant the Alphabet, 1972 Black-and-white, sound 19 minutes
Ed Henderson Reconstructs Movie Scenarios, 1973 Black-and-white, sound 25 minutes
How We Do Art Now, 1973, Black-and-white, sound, 30 minutes overall
Segments: How Various People Spit Out Beans
Comparing Two Sounds
A 20" Tape
The Eye Does Not Naturally Pan
Cigar Lexicon
On Making a Masterpiece
Haste Makes Waste, 1973 Black-and-white, video loop 2 minutes
Practice Makes Perfect, 1973 Black-and-white, video loop 2 minutes
The Way We Do Art Now and Other Sacred Tales [The Birth of Art and Other Sacred Tales], 1973, Black-and-white, sound, 30 minutes overall
Segments: Some Words I Mispronounce
You Tell Me What I Do
Anna Names Animals She Has Never Seen
Taping a Stick; Lifting It from the Other End
No Dice
Talking With One Knee to Another
Examining Three 8d Nails
What Follows Is What He Liked to Do Best
For Sylvia Plath
A Riddle
Insincerely Promising a Cat a Carrot
A Sentence with Hidden Meaning
For Marcel Proust
Close-up
Flight Bag (This is a kind of interesting object...)
It is Cruel to Put a Dog on a Mirror
The Way We Do Art Now (The Birth of Abstract Art)
The Sound Made by Kicking a Bottle, 1973 Black-and-white, sound 3 minutes
Ed Henderson Suggests Soundtracks for Photographs, 1974 Black-and-white, sound 28 minutes
The Italian Tape, 1974 Black-and-white, sound 8 minutes
Six Colorful Tales: From the Emotional Spectrum (Women), 1977 Color, sound 17 minutes
Two Colorful Melodies, 1977 Color, sound 6 minutes

Curatorial Exhibitions

1994
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, "Artist's Choice: John Baldessari", March 17 - May 10
1993
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, "Not Painting: Some Views from the Permanent Collection", Oct 10 - Jan 9

Teaching

1996 - U.C.L.A. - Visiting Professor of Art
September 1, 1970-July 14, 1988 Cal Arts- general art faculty.

 

RELATED LINKS

http://www.findarticles.com/cf_dls/m0268/6_40/82800078/p1/article.jhtml

http://www.bcn.fjmiro.es/

http://www.artcyclopedia.com/artists/baldessari_john.html

http://www.philamuseum.org/exhibitions/video/baldessari.shtml

http://www.kunstbus.nl/index.html?http://www.kunstbus.nl/verklaringen/john+baldessari.html

http://www.broadartfoundation.org/collection/baldessari.html

http://www.artfacts.net/index.php/pageType/artistInfo/artist/1832/name/John-Baldessari

http://www.hammer.ucla.edu/exhibitions_upcoming.htm

http://www.hausderkunst.de/englisch/aus/daten_pages/0125.html

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