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ROBERT BUCK

NOTE: In 2008, I changed my father’s name as a work of art by a single vowel, from Beck to Buck.
Therefore my C.V. is formatted chronologically with my work as Buck listed before my work as Beck.
Solo Exhibitions
  • 2022    Robert Buck: Wound Filler, Von Ammon Co., Washington , D.C.
  • 2018    Formations, Angela Meleca Gallery, Columbus, OH
  •                 Second Hand, Ulterior Gallery, New York, NY
  • 2016    Exposure, Angela Meleca Gallery, Columbus, OH
  •                 Robert Beck | Robert Buck: States of America, Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH (catalog)
  • 2015    Robert Beck Buck, Iceberg Projects, Chicago, IL
  • 2014    New Work, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
  • 2013    Robert Beck | Robert Buck: Collected Works, Rennie Collection at Wing Sang, Vancouver, Canada (catalog)
  • 2012    Kahpenakwu (West), CRG Gallery, New York, NY
  • 2009    iPainting, Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
  • 2008    第二自然, (Second Nature), CRG Gallery, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
  • 2022    At Six and Seven, Ulterior Gallery, New York, NY
  • 2021    A Primer on the Commons, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
  • 2020    bodyweather: Robert Buck and Elizabeth Rogers, Liberal Arts, Roxbury, NY (forthcoming)
  •                  Love Letters, Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, Vermont (curated by Rachel Moore)
  •                   When We First Arrived…, The Corner at Whitman Walker, Washington, D.C. (organized by Mary Ellen Carroll and Lucas Michael and curated by Ruth Noack)
  • 2019    Triggered, Sphere, Berkeley, CA
  • 2018    Doppleganger, Diet Laboratories, Brooklyn NY
  •                 Mexico and Robert Beck/Robert Buck, Erin Cluley Gallery, Dallas, TX
  • 2017    The Dark State, Bushwick Open Studios, Brooklyn, NY (curated by Becky Kinder)
  •                 Strange Attractor, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX (curated by Gryphon Rue)
  •                 New Acquisitions, Margaret M. Walter Wing, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
  • 2016    Erik Hanson Two Years of Looking, New Art Projects, London, England (curated by Erik Hanson)
  •                 Tongue, Angela Meleca Gallery, Columbus, OH
  •                 We Are Not Things, Invisible Exports, New York, NY (curated by Hannah Whitaker)
  • 2015    The Art of Collecting, Napa Valley Museum of Art, Napa Valley, CA (catalog)
  •                 Russian Doll, M+B Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Matthew Porter)
  • 2013    Inaugural Exhibition: Looking Forward, Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH
  •                 Alchemical, Steven Kasher Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Kevin Moore [catalog])
  •                 Booth 548, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
  • 2012    No Person May Carry A Fish Into A Bar, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Julian Hoeber and Alix Lambert)
  •                 Summer Sculpture Show, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
  • 2011    The Air We Breathe, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (curated by Apsara DiQuinzio
  •                     [catalog])
  •                 Wishing and Praying, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
  • 2009    Of Other Spaces, Bureau for Open Culture at Columbus College of Art and Design (CCAD), Columbus, OH
  •                 (curated by Jim Voorhies [catalog])
  • 2008    Sorry We’re Closed, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
  •                 Duck Soup, La Mama Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Daphne Fitzpatrick)
  •                 The World Is All, Hudson Franklin Gallery, New York, NY
  •                 Beyond A Memorable Fancy, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Project Space, New York, NY (curated
  •                     by Michelle Levy [catalog])
Videoworks: Selected Group Exhibitions and Screenings
  • Grass Light on Flesh, 7:09 min. color, stereo sound
  • 2022     A Spirit Appears To A Pair of Lovers, Microscope Gallery, New York, NY
  • Out of the Blue, 5:11 min. color, stereo sound
  • 2020     Spring Studio Visit, Helen Day Art Center, Stowe, VT
Selected Bibliography
  • Mark Jenkins, “In the Galleries: Sobering Reminders of Gun Violence”, The Washington Post, November 11, 2022
  • Mike Verillo, “’Love Letters:’ Helen Day exhibit explores ways to say ‘I love you’”, Stowe Today, January 30, 2020
  •                 https://www.vtcng.com/stowetoday/arts/love-letters-helen-day-exhibit-explores-the-many-ways-to/article
  • Micaheal Granberry, “’Mexico’ and ‘Robert Beck/Robert Buck’ are two provocative new shows at Erin Cluley
  •                 Gallery”, Dallas News, August 25, 2018,
  •                 https://www.dallasnews.com/arts/visual-arts/2018/08/25/mexico-robert-beckrobert-buck-two-provocative-new-shows-erin-cluley-gallery
  • Stephanie Black, “Meet Robert Beck/Robert Buck”, WhiteHot Magazine, May 2018
  •                 https://whitehotmagazine.com/articles/meet-robert-beck-robert-buck/3943
  • Nancy Gilson, “Artist Robert Buck Addresses Violence Through Beauty; Exhibit Pizzuti Collection”, The Columbus
  •                 Dispatch, June 18, 2016, pg. F6
  • Diana Paulozky, “Entravista A Robert Buck”, PSIne, no. 2, April 2016
  • Stephen Friedman Gallery, Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition Summer 2015, 2015, pgs. 42-43
  • Stacy Stowe, “Storm Leaves Residue of Questions”, The New York Times, Arts & Leisure, May 12, 2013, pg. 24
  • Alex Quicho, “The Opening: Robert Buck / Robert Beck at the Rennie Collection”, Vancouver Is Awesome, March
  •                 21, 2013 http://www.vancouverisawesome.com/2013/03/21/the-opening-%E2%80%94-robert-buck-robert-beck-at-the-rennie-collection/
  • Lucy Hyslop, “The Art Of Reinvention”, The Vancouver Sun, Saturday, March 2, 2013, pg. E3
  • Matthew Porter, “500 Words”, artforum.com, February 7, 2012
  • Jane Harris, “Kahpenakwu”, Art In America, May 2012, pgs. 176-177
  • Shelly Silver, “What I Know About Penises”, One Star Press, 2012, pg. 102 and back cover
  • Steven T. Zevitas, Ed., New American Paintings, February/March 2012, Volume 17, Issue I, pgs. 36 – 39
  • Whitney Kimball, “Robert Buck CRG: This American Graveyard”, newamericanpaintings.wordpress.com,
  • Bill Horrigan, The Radiant Future, Donald Moffett, Columbus College of Art and Design, pg. 4
  • Aram Moshayedi, “Critic’s Picks: Los Angeles: No Person May Carry A Fish Into A Bar”, arforum.com
  • Eileen Myles, “My Gay Marriage”, The Air We Breathe, 2011, exhibition catalog, pg. 25
  • James Voorhies, Of Other Spaces, exhibition catalog, April, 2009, pp. 106 - 109
  • T.J. Carlin, “Robert Buck: Second Nature”, Time Out New York, July 17-23, 2008, Issue 668, 2008, pg. 58
  • Michelle Levy, Beyond a Memorable Fancy catalog, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Project Space, 2008
Publications
  • Robert Beck | Robert Buck: States of America, cataloge published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Pizzuti
  •                 Collection, Columbus, OH, May 10 to September 4, 2016, with an interview with the artist
  • Robert Beck | Robert Buck, catalog published on the occasion of the exhibition at Rennie Collection at Wing Sang,
  •                 Vancouver, B.C., Canada, March 2 to June 18, 2013, with an essay by James Voorhies
Awards / Grants / Fellowships
  • 2019    Pollock-Krasner Foundation Artist Grant, Pollock-Kranser Foundation, New York, NY
Teaching
  • 2019-    Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), Fine Arts Department, Adjunct Faculty
  • 2017-18    Low-Residency Mentor, MFA Program, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Fall and Spring semesters
Visiting Artist Lectures / Critiques / Presentations
  • 2019    Panelist, “Andy Warhol after Pop”, Whitney Museum of American Art, in collaboration with The New
  •                      School, New York, NY, March 1 – 2, 2019
  • 2018    Lecture, Modern Museum of Art at Fort Worth, Forth Worth, TX, September 11, 2018
  • 2018    Presentation Seminar, “Culture & Psychoanalysis: Robert Buck’s ‘Second Hand’”, Lacanian Compass,
  •                      Ulterior Gallery, May 23, 2018
  • 2017    Presentation, “Dialogues in the City: Robert Buck: Art With Psychoanalysis”
  •                      Lacanian Compass–Miami / New Lacanian School, Miami, FL, December 7, 2017
  •                 Lecture and Studio Critiques, SUNY Purchase, School of Art and Design, Purchase, NY
  •                 Presentation Screening, “Robert Beck / Robert Buck”, Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), New York, NY, May 16, 2017
  •                 Online Presentation, “Whitney Stories Interview Series, in conjunction with Human Interest: Portraits From
  •                      the Whitney’s Collection”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, January 23, 2107
  •                      https://whitney.org/WatchAndListen/11?series=52
  •                 Panelist, "Utopian Potentials and Media(ted) Realities”, BRIC Media, Brooklyn, NY, April 22,
  •                      2017
  • 2016    Panelist, “Edited at EAI: Artist to Artist: Screening & Conversation”, Electronic Arts Intermix, New York, NY,
  •                      June 16, 2016
  •                 Panelist, “Cheryl Donegan: Scenes and Commercials / Screening and Panel: Majorie Keller’s Daughters of
  •                      Chaos”, The New Museum, New York, NY, March 11, 2016
  •                 Lecture, “Slide/Show”, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH, May, 12, 2016
  •                 Class Presentation (via Skype), Guest of John Neff, Undergraduate Seminar, Art Theory and Practice
  •                      Program, Northwestern University Chicago, Chicago, IL, May 5, 2016
  • 2015    Lecture and Studio Critiques, School of the Art Instititue of Chicago, Fiber and Material Studies Dept.,
  •                      Chicago, IL, April 9 and 10, 2015
  •                 Panelist, “What We Know About Penises”, The Public School NYC, Brooklyn, NY, December 13, 2013
  • 2013    Lecture, “Macho Man, Tell It To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault”, Film and Video Program at Artists
  •                      Space, Books and Talks, Screening of DIVA TV and Sister Corita, New York, NY, December 5, 2013
  • 2012    Presentation Seminar, “Culture & Psychoanalysis: Robert Buck’s ‘Kahpenakwu'”, Lacanian Compass,
  •                      Barnard College, March 7, 2012
  • 2009    Panelist, “5 x 20 x 20”, Lecture series, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, May 14, 2009
  • 2008    Lecture, “Artists on Artists Talk”, Dia Center for the Arts, New York, NY, September 8, 2008
Related Activities
  • 2022    “Of Her Own Making: A Conversation with Lynne Cooke”, The Lacanian Review: The Woman, Issue 13, Fall 2022
  •                 Cover design, “The Lacanian Review: The Woman”, Issue 13, Fall 2022
  •                 Writer, "Conostellation", The Lacanian review: American Lacan, Issue 12, Spring 2022
  • 2022    Writer, “Enjoy!”, The Lacanian Review: American Lacan, Issue 12, Spring 2022
  • 2021    Writer, “Out There In ‘Nomadland’”, The Lacanian Review: The Art of Singularities, Issue 11, Spring 2021
  •                 Writer: “On and Off the Grid, The Lacanian Review: The Art of Singularities, Issue 11, Spring 2021
  •                 Cover design, The Lacanian Review: The Art of Singularities, Issue 11, Spring 2021
  • 2020    Cover design, The Lacanian Review: Paranoia, Issue 10, Fall, 2020
  •                 Writer, “Out of the Blue”, The Lacanian Review: Still Life?, Issue 9, Spring 2020
  •                 Cover design, The Lacanian Review: Still Life?, Issue 9, Spring 2020
  • 2019    Writer, “At the end of. the day...”, Strange Attractor, Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX, exhibition
  •                          catalog
  •                 Cover, “The Lacanian Review: Nightmare”, , in collaboration with Cyrus Saint Amand Poliakoff, Issue
  •                          8 Fall 2019
  •                 Writer, “Wake”, The Lacanian Review: Nightmare, Issue 8, Fall 2019
  •                 Cover, The Lacanian Review: Get Real, in collaboration with Cyrus Saint Amand Poliakoff, Issue 7, Spring
  •                         2019
  •                 Writer, “We’re Off the Deep End, Now”, in collaboration with Elizabeth Rogers, The Lacanian Review: Get
  •                         Real, Issue 7, Spring 2019
  •                 Art Contributor,The Candidate Journal: Screens, Issue 8, Spring 2019, http://www.thecandidatejournal.org/
  • 2018    Writer, “Warhol a”, Artists on Artists Lecture Series, Dia Art Foundation
  •                 Writer, “Shear\All\Done\Again”, Cheryl Donegan: GRLZ + VEILS, Aspen Art Museum exhibition catalog
  •                 Writer, “The License to Silence”, Lacanian Review Online
  •                 Cover Design, The Lacanian Review, “Delights of the Ego”, Issue 05, Spring 2018, in collaboration with
  •                    Cyrus Saint Amand Poliakoff
  •                 Interview, “Image Culture” podcast with William Laird, May 2018,
  •                     http://www.williamjesslaird.com/imageculture/
  •                 Interview, “A Conversation with Artist Robert Buck”, CUNY TV Digitial Series: Twilight Talks,
  •                     http://www.cuny.tv/show/twilighttalks/PR2007107
  •                 Cover Design, The Lacanian Review, “Family Dramas, Family Traumas”, Issue 04, Winter 2018, in
  •                    collaboration with Cyrus Saint Amand Poliakoff
  • 2017-  Art Editor, Lacanian Compass Express (LC Express), Lacanian Compass New York
  • 2017-  Member of the Lacanian Compass
  • 2017    Writer, “The Trumpet That Tweets”, Lacanian Review Online, January 8, 2017,
  •                     http://thelacanianreviews.com/lacanian_review_online080117.html
  •                 Artist page, “Marfa Myths 2017”, Mexican Summer and Ballroom Marfa, pg. 119, 2017
  •                 Cover, “The Lacanian Review, Segregations: Desire as Subversion of Identity”, in collaboration with
  •                     Cyrus Saint Amand Poliakoff, TLR 3, April 2017
  • 2016    Writer, The Lone Wolf All Alone, Lacanian Review Online, with Cyrus Saint Amand Poliakoff, June 24, 2016
  •                     http://www.thelacanianreviews.com/the-lone-wolf-all-alone/
  •                 Writer, “Why ‘The Revenant’ Is Relevant”, Lacanian Review Online, March 25, 2016
  •                     http://www.thelacanianreviews.com/why-the-revenant-is-relevant/
  • 2015    Writer, “Saccade Drawings by Patrick Keesey”, diSONARE, No. 3, Spring 2015
  •                 Artist pages, “What We Know About Penises”, OneStar Press, back cover and pg. 102, 2013
  •                 Writer, in collaboration with Cyrus Saint Aman Poliakoff, “A Hole in Horror: David Lynch’s INLAND
  •                     EMPIRE”, Enlaces: Psychoanalysis & Culture, 19, October 2013
  •                 Panelist, with Cyrus Saint Amand Poliakoff, “What Lacan Knew About Women”, Symposium for release of
  •                     Culture/Clinic, University of Minnesota Press, with sponsorship of the World Association of of
  •                     Psychoanalysis, New Lacanian School and University of Jacques Lacan, Miami, FL
  • 2011-  Culture and Psychoanalysis, an ongoing seminar in collaboration with Cyrus Saint Amand Poliakoff in
  •                     conjunction with Lacanian Compass, New York, NY
  • 2011    Panelist, “Reading the Unconscious”, Clinical Study Days 5, The Lacanian Compass Conference, Miami, FL
  • 2009    Writer, “Nomenclature”, VECTOR, Issue 2, 2009, pgs. 41 - 43 (Ed. Peter Gregorio)

ROBERT BECK

Solo Exhibitions
  • 2018    Vestige, Ulterior Gallery, New York, NY
  • 2007    dust, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH (curated by Bill Horrigan and Helen Molesworth [catalog])
  •                 “How Am I To Sign Myself”, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
  • 2006    Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
  •                 Olpalka Gallery, Sage College, Albany, NY (curated by Jim Richard Wilson [catalog])
  • 2005    Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
  • 2004    New Work, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
  •                 Art Basel Miami, The Design District, Miami, FL (curated by Stephen Holmes)
  • 2002    Anthony Meier Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
  • 2001    Drawings, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
  • 2000    Nature Mort, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
  •                 The Woods, Galerie Rainer Borgemeister, Berlin, Germany
  • 1997    Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY
  • 1996    Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY
  • 1994    I.C. Editions, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
  • 2022    Afterimages: Pop Art and Beyond from the Fischer and SF MOMA Collections, San Francisco Museum of
  •                        Art, San Francisco, CA
  •                 Donald Moffett + Nature Cult + The McNay, The McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX
  • 2021    Closer to Life: Drawings and Works on Paper in the Marieluise Hesel Collection, Hesel Museum of Art, CCS
  •                         Bard, Bard College, CCS Bard, Annendakle-on-Hudson, NY
  • 2021    World Peace, Museum of Contemporary Art, Westport, CT
  • 2019    A Specific Eye: Seven Collections, Demisch Danant, New York, NY (Collection of Bob Gober and Donald
  •                         Moffett)
  • 2018    Polaroid: The Disappearing, Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York, NY
  • 2017    Range: Experiments in New York: 1961 - 2007, The Met Breuer | Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,
  •                         NY (curated by Ian Alteveer)
  •                 Polaroid: The Disappearing, Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York, NY
  •                 Inaugural Exhibition, Bunker Artspace, West Palm Beach, FL
  • 2016    A Slow Secession With Many Interruptions, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
  •                 Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
  •                 Winter 2015/2016: Collected Works, Rennie Collection at Wing Sang, Vancouver, Canada
  •                 Receipt of a Magical Agent, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
  • 2015    Sitter, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH (curated by Michael Goodson)
  •                 Forensics: The Anatomy of Crime, Wellcome Center, London, England
  • 2014    Robert Gober: The Heart is not a Metaphor, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (curated by Ann Temkin
  •                     [catalog])
  •                 Panopticum, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Kevin Moore)
  •                 Sleuthing the Mind, Pratt-Manhattan Gallery, Pratt Institute, New York, NY (curated by Ellen Levy)
  • 2012    A Rebours, Adam Lindemann Gallery, New York, NY
  •                 Rorschach, Phillips De Pury & Co., New York, NY
  • 2011    Politics is Personal, Stonescape, San Francisco, CA (curated by Thea Westreich Art Advisory Services)
  •                 Crazy Lady, Schroeder Romero and Shredder, New York, NY (curated by Jane Harris)
  •                 Supply and Demand, Canzani Center Gallery, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH (curated by Lisa Dent)
  •                 Compass: Drawings of the Museum of Modern Art New York (The Judith Rothschild Foundation
  •                      Contemporary Drawings Collection), Berliner Festspielle, Berlin, Germany (curated by Christian Rattemeyer)
  •                 Wishing and Praying, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
  •                 Printer’s Proof: A Decade of Fine Art Printing, Bertrand Delacroix Gallery, New York, NY
  • 2010    Hunt and Chase, Salomon Contemporary, East Hampton, NY, (curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody [catalog])
  •                 Lush Life, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Franklin Evans and Omar Lopez Chahoud)
  •                 Beck & Moffet / Lucio Fontana, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY (catalog)
  •                 In and Out of Place, 176 Zabludowicz Collection, London, England (catalog)
  •                 The Language of Flowers, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
  • 2009    Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection,
  •                      The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (curated by Christian Rattemeyer [catalog])
  • 2008    White Columns Annual: Looking Back, White Columns, New York, NY (curated by Jay Sanders)
  •                 Come In, We’re Open!, Galerie Rodolphe Janssen, Brussels, Belgium
  • 2007    Exhibitionism: An Exhibition of Exhibitions of Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection, Hessel Museum
  •                 of Art Center For Cultural Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Huson, NY (curated by Matthew Higgs)
  •                      On The Marriage Broker Joke, Office Baroque Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
  •                 The Red Badge of Courage, Newark Arts Council Open Studio Tour Exhibition, Newark, NJ
  •                 ZING Magazine Exhibition, Circus of Books, Los Angeles, CA
  • 2006    Twice Drawn, Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY (curated by Ian Berry and Jack Shear
  •                     [catalog])
  •                 The Last Time They Met, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
  •                 Subject, Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, CT
  •                 Nightmares of Summer, Marvelli Gallery, New York, NY
  •                 Armed: Contemporary Art and Violence, Mandeville Gallery, Union College, Schnenectady, NY (catalog)
  • 2005    Past Presence, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
  •                 Monuments for the USA, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA (curated by Ralph Rugoff
  •                     [catalog])
  •                 Monuments for the USA, White Columns, New York, NY
  •                 Altered Spaces, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art (IMOCA), Indianapolis, IN
  •                 Heavenly, Or A Slice of White, Leubsdorf Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY (curated by Julia Jaquette
  •                     [catalog])
  •                 Back from Nature, Institute of Contemporary Art, Maine College of Art, Portland, ME (curated by Cindy Foley
  •                     [catalog])
  •                 Ten Year Anniversary Show, Stephen Friedman Gallery, London, England
  • 2004    Editions Fawbush: A Selection, Sandra Gering Gallery, New York, NY
  •                 Needful Objects: Recent Multiples, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (curated by Jeffrey Grove)
  •                 Neo Queer: New Visual Art by Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Artists, Center on Contemporary
  •                      Art (COCA), Seattle, WA (curated by David Loyd Brown, Maura Reilly and Craig Houser)
  •                 Your Heart Is No Match for My Love, The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN
  • 2003    Robert Beck, Russell Crotty, Shibon Liddel, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
  •                 Me, Myself and I, CRG Gallery, New York, NY
  •                 Somewhere Better Than This Place, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH (curated by Thom Collins [catalog])
  •                 Little Triggers, Cohan, Leslie and Browne Gallery, New York, NY
  • 2002    Acquiring Tastes, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
  •                 Song Poems, Cohan, Leslie and Brown Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Steven Hull [catalog])
  •                 Arrested Development, Castle Gallery, The College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, New York, NY
  • 2001    The Draftman’s Colors: 14 New Acquisitions, The Whitney Museum of American Arts, New York, NY
  •                 Crossing the Line, The Queens Museum, New York, NY
  •                 In Cold Blood: Sites of Conflict: Art in a Culture of Violence, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University
  •                      of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz, NY (curated by Nadine Wasserman [catalog])
  • 2000    Wild Life, Beverly Reynolds Gallery, Richmond, VA
  •                 Destruction/Creation, Ubu Gallery, New York, NY
  •                 Human/Nature, Caren Golden Fine Arts, New York, NY (curated by Jane Harris)
  •                 Animal Magnetism, Bucknell Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA
  • 1999    Anni Albers, Robert Beck, Cadie Noland, Joan Semmel, and Nancy Shaver, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY
  •                    (Curated by Robert Gober)
  •                 Calender 2000, The Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
  •                 Hindsight: Recent Work from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
  • 1998    Back-To-Back: Selected Fellows 1990-98, New York Foundation for The Arts (NYFA), New York, NY
  •                 Robert Beck and Jasmine Sian, Anthony Meier Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
  •                 Images for the Millenium, Long Island Center of Photography, New York, NY
  •                 Portraits: Inagural Exhibition, Paul Morris Gallery, New York, NY
  •                 Artists & Books: Picarone Editions 1997, Matisse Museum, Nice, France
  • 1997    Investigations of New Photography and Film: “The New God”, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY (curated by
  •                     John Connelly)
  •                 33rd Annual Art On Paper, Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
  •                 You Should Know Better: Truth and Artifice in Contemporary Photography, The Thread Waxing Space, New York,
  •                     NY (curated by Samatha Tsao)
  • 1996    Limited Edition Artists' Books Since 1990, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY
  •                 Sugar Mountain, White Columns Gallery, New York, NY
  •                 Show and Tell, Lauren Wittels Gallery, New York, NY
  •                 What I Did On My Summer Vacation, White Columns Gallery, New York, NY
  • 1995    Inaugural Exhibition, Morris Healy Gallery, New York, NY
  •                 Verisimilitude and the Utility of Doubt, White Columns, New York, NY (curated by Bill Arning and Gregory
  •                     Crewdson)
  •                 Faggots: A Communiqué from North America, Centro Cultural Ricardo Rojas, Universidad de Buenos Aires,
  •                    Buenos Aires (curated by Bill Arning)
  • 1994    Violence/Business/Power, Neue Gesellschaft fur bildende Kunst e.v., Berlin, Germany (curated by Frank Wagner
  •                     [catalog])
  •                 Who Chooses Who: Benefit Exhibition and Auction, New Museum, New York, NY (choice of Robert Gober)
  • 1992    7 Rooms, 7 Shows, P.S. 1 Museum, The Institute For Contemporary Art, New York, NY
  •                 Gegendarstellung: Ethics and Aesthetics in Times of AIDS, Kunstverien, Hamburg, Germany, and Kunstmuseum,
  •                     Lucerne, Switzerland (curated by Frank Wagner)
  • 1991    Saint Vitas Dance, Suzanne Biederberg Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  •                 New Era Space, New Era Building, Sponsored by Leo Castelli, New York, NY, in collaboration with Jeffrey
  •                 Litchfield (curated by Tricia Collins and Richard Milazzo)
  •                 Queer, Butch, Femme..., Minor Injury Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
  • 1990    AIDS/SIDA, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT (curated by Anne Pasternak)
  •                 Looking At A Revolution, Simon Watson Project Space, New York, NY
  • 1989    Erotophobia, Simon Watson Project Space, New York, NY
  •                 Group Material's "AIDS Timeline" Touring Exhibition, Matrix Gallery, University Art Museum, University of
  •                 California at Berkeley, Berkeley, CA (curated by Larry Rinder)
Videoworks / Selected Group Exhibitions and Screenings

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

  • 2017    Robert Beck / Robert Buck, Electronic Arts Intermix, New York, NY
  • 2016    Edited at EAI: Artist to Artist – Screening and Conversation, Electronic Arts Intermix, New York, NY
  • 2012    VHS, Museum of Art and Design (MAD), New York, NY (Curated by Matthew Desiderio, Rebecca Cleman and Jake
  •                     Yuzna)
  •                 VHS: The Exhibition, Franklin Street Works, Stamford, CT (curated by Rebecca Cleman)
  • 2005    Multiplex II, Smack Mellon, Brooklyn, NY (curated by Rebecca Cleman)
  • 2002    Different Class, Debs & Co., New York, NY
  • 2001    Song Poems, Cohan Leslie and Browne Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Steven Hull [catalog])
  •                 13th Videobrasil International Electronic Art Festival, Centro Cultural Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil (curated by
  •                     Lynne Cooke)

  • Nine Years Later (“Panic”) – Remix, 2001, 11 min, color, stereo sound

  • 2017    Robert Beck / Robert Buck, Electronic Arts Intermix, New York, NY
  • 2012    The MoMA Media Lounge, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
  • 2001    Cathartic-Disgust-Gestalt, The Project Room, Philidelphia, PA
  •                 Video Jam, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art (PBICA), Palm Beach, FL (curated by Galen Joseph Hunter
  •                     and Michael Rush)

  • Untitled (Dec, 29, 1993), 1999, 3:30 min, color, stereo sound

  • 2017    Robert Beck / Robert Buck, Electronic Arts Intermix, New York, NY
  • 2001    Video Jam, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art (PBICA), Palm Beach, FL (curated by Galen Joseph Hunter
  •                     and Michael Rush)

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

  • 2012    The MoMA Media Lounge, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
  •                 Television and Broadcast, LUX website exhibition, London, England
  • 2000    Below 54, London, England
  • 1999    Pop!, The Lux Centre, London, England
  •                 TELE-vision, University of the Andes, Bogota, Columbia, South America
  •                 13 Recontres Video Art, Centre d’art contemporain de Basse-Normandie, Herouville Saint-Clair, France
  •                 The New Festival, The Gay and Lesbian Film and Video Festival, New York, NY
  • 1998    Pandemonium: London Festival of the Moving Image, London Electronic Arts, London, England

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

  • 2000    RGB: Experumental Film, Video and Music Festival, Galapagos, Brooklyn, NY
  •                 Human/Nature, Caren Golden Fine Arts, New York, NY (curated by Jane Harris)
  •                 1998 I Love New York, Edinburgh International Art Festival, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
  •                 I'm Still In Love With You, Women's 20th Century Club, Eagle Rock, CA (curated by Steven Hull)

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

  • 2012    The MoMA Media Lounge, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
  • 1998    Almanac: Art On Television, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (cablecast)
  •                 Video Library, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY
  •                 Station Arts Electroniques, Rennes, France
  •                 Project Screening Room, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  •                 European Media Arts Festival, Osnabruck, Germany
  • 1997    Video Viewpoints, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
  • 1996    Chateau de Bionnay Gallery, Lacenas, France

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

  • 2016    Edited at EAI: Artist to Artist – Screening and Conversation, Electronic Arts Intermix, New York, NY
  • 2012    The MoMA Media Lounge, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
  • 2002    Whitechapel Gallery, London, England
  • 2001    Edges of the Earth, Void, New York, NY
  • 2000    Video Time, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
  • 1998    Kasseler Documentar und Videofest, Kassel, Germany
  • 1997    European Media Art Festival, Osnabruck, Germany
  •                 Video Viewpoints, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
  • 1996    Pandemonium: London Festival of the Moving Image, London Electronic Arts, London, England
  •                 Show and Tell, Lauren Wittels Gallery, New York, NY
  •                 The American Cinematheque, Hollywood, CA
  •                 5th Copenhagen Film & Video Festival, Film House Denmark/Danish Film Institute, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • 1995    Deuxieme Manifestation Internationale Video et Art Electronique, Champ Libre, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
  •                 The New York International Video Festival, New York, NY
  •                 Pantelleria Oasi Multimedia: 1 Video Festival Internazionale del Mediterraneo, Fondazio Orestiadi Comune Di
  •                     Pantelleria, Pantellaria, Italy

  • Summer, 1993, 1994, 7 min, color, stereo sound

  • 2017    Robert Beck / Robert Buck, Electronic Arts Intermix, New York, NY
  • 1995    American Cinematheque, Los Angeles, CA
  •                 8th Northwest International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, Evergreen State College, Olympia, WA
  • 1994    The 1994 New York Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, The New Festival, New York, NY
  •                 San Francisco International Gay & Lesbian Film & Video Festival, Frameline, San Francisco, CA
  •                 12th Annual LA International Gay Film & Video Festival, Gay & Lesbian Media Coalition, Los Angeles, CA
  •                 The 14th Chicago Lesbian & Gay International Film & Video Festival, Chicago Filmmakers, Chicago, IL
  •                 More Fabulous Queer Shorts, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Cambridge, MA

  • The Feeling of Power, 1990, 8:42 min, color, stereo sound

  • 2018    Broadcasting: Guerilla Media, Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
  • 2017    Oberhausen Film Festival, “EAI: New Artists/New Works”, Oberhausen, Germany
  •                 Robert Beck / Robert Buck, Electronic Arts Intermix, New York, NY
  • 2016    Edited at EAI: Video Interference, Activist Videos by Artists and Collectives, 1989-1995, Electronic Arts Intermix,
  •                     New York, NY
  • 2013    Love, AIDS, Riot, Sex, Neue Gesellschaft fur bildende Kunst, Berlin (curated by Frank Wagner [catalog])
  • 2011    Looking at Music 3.0, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (curated by Barbara London)
  • 1994    10th Rio Cine Festival, Centro Cultural Banco Do Brasil, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil
  • 1993    Video in the Reagen/Bush Years, University Art Gallery, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
  • 1991    Video: Violence, Ars Electronica, Linz, Austria
  •                 LA Freewaves: 2nd Celebration of Independent Video, LA Contemporary Exhibitions, CA (cablecast)
  •                 Metropolis, TVE Espanola, Madrid, Spain (broadcast)
  •                 Independent Focus, WNET/Channel 13, New York, NY (broadcast)
  •                 Atlanta Film and Video Festival, IMAGE Film & Video Center, Atlanta, GA
  •                 Video Events, Tom Cugliani Gallery, New York, NY
  •                 Visions of US, The American Film Institute, Los Angeles, CA
  •                 The Art of Music: 10 Years After, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
  •                 Tele-Visions: Channels for Changing TV, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
  •                 Video Witness: festival of New Journalism, Hall Walls, Buffalo, New York, NY
  • 1990    The Territory, Southwest Alternative Media Project/Laguna Gloria Museum of Art, Houston, TX (cablecast)
  •                 US Video Program: Video/Dystopia, European Media Arts Festival, Osnabruck, Germany
  •                 From This Side Of The Bridge, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
  •                 LA International Gay & Lesbian Film & Video Festival, Gay & Lesbian Media Coalition, Los Angeles, CA
  •                 The AFI National Video Festival, The American Film Institute, Los Angeles, CA
  •                 AIDS/SIDA, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
  •                 Dallas Video Festival, The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Dallas, TX
  •                 The New Festival: The 1990 New York Gay & Lesbian Film Festival, New York, NY
  •                 Art On Line for AIDS, Time Based Arts, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  •                 Commitment, Stedelijk Museum of Art, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  •                 State of Siege, Galeria Jorge Albers, Madrid, Spain
  • 1989    Made In 8, The Kitchen, New York, NY

  • W/hole: “I Dreamed Another Man Dreamed Me”, 1987, 6 min, color, stereo sound

  • 1990    Video and Dream, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
  • 1988    The Kitchen Presents, 4th International Video/Television Festival, Montbeliard, France
  •                 New Works, The Kitchen, New York, NY
  • 1987    New Independent Video, White Columns Gallery, New York, NY

  • Learning from “Dynasty”, 1986, 8:16 min, color, mono sound

  • 2018    Broadcasting, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philidelphia, PA
  • 2007    Open Studios Screening, The Distillery, Boston, MA (curated by Bill Arning [catalog DVD])

  • The Space Program, 1986, Twenty-six 28-minute videotapes originally cablecast on Manhattan Cable TV

  • 2018    Broadcasting: EAI at ICA, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Philadelphia, PA
  • 2017    Robert Beck / Robert Buck, Electronic Arts Intermix, New York, NY
  • 1996    Video Faz, Art & Idea Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
  • 1987    The Self-Portrait: Tangible Consciousness, Robeson Center Gallery, Rutgers State University at Newark, NJ
  • 1986    Emerging Artists Show, Anthology Film Archives, Anthology Video Program, New York, NY
  •                 New Independent Video, White Columns, New York, NY
Selected Bibliography
  • Sarah Cascone and Caroline Goldstein, “From a Cy Twombly Celebration to Imaginary Cowboys: 39 Must-See
  •              Gallery Shows in New York This March”, ArtNet News, March 1, 2018,
  •              https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/march-gallery-shows-new-york-1230176
  • Olivia Gauthier, "The Rich History of Video Art from 1973 to Today", Hyperallergic
  •              https://hyperallergic.com/433787/broadcasting-institute-of-contemporary-art-philadelphia/
  • Alisa Carroll, Art House: The Collaboration of Chara Schreyer and Gary Hutton, Assouline, 2017
  • Ellen K. Levy, “Imagining the Norm” in Transdiscourse 2, J. Scott (ed.), De Gruyter, pgs. 59-75
  • Holland Cotter, “Portraits of America in the Selfie Age”, The New York Times, April 29, 2016, pgs. C19 & C28
  • Peter Schjeldahl, “Found Meaning: A Robert Gober retrospective”, New Yorker, October 13, 2014, pgs. 124-125
  • Ellen K. Levy, “Sluething the Mind”, Leonardo: the International Society of Arts, Sciences and Technology, October
  •                 2014, Vol. 47, No. 5, pg. 429
  • Frank Wagner, Love AIDS Riot Sex, Neue Gesellschaft fur bildende Kunst, Berlin, RealismusStudio, pgs. 33,103
  • Roger G. Denson, “’Old’, ‘Crazy’ and ‘Hysterical’. Is That All There Is?” www.huffingtonpost.com, October, 5 2011
  • Zahid Sardar, West Coast Modern: Architecture, Interior and Design, Gibbs Smith, Layton, UT, 2012, pg. 222
  • Elizabeth A. T. Smith, “Range”, Beck & Moffett/Lucio Fontana, Marianne Boesky Gallery, 2010
  • Holland Cotter, “Lower East Side Tale, Refracted Nine Times”, The New York Times, July 9,2010, pgs. C21C23
  • Roberta Smith, “Art in Review: Lucio Fontana/Robert Beck and Donald Moffett”, The New York Times, May 7, 2010, p. C28
  • Carol Vogel, “Inside Art”, The New York Times, March 5, 2010, pg. C22
  • Steven Holmes, Ed., Festschrift: Selections from a Collection, 2008, pg. 20
  • Kyle Bentley, “Robert Beck: CRG Gallery”, Artforum, February 2008, XLVI, no. 6, pg. 293
  • Edward Leffingwell, “Robert Beck at CRG”, Art In America, March 2008, No. 3, p. 166
  • Nadine Wasserman, “Trigger-Happy”, Ruminations on Violence, Ed. Derek Pardue, Waveland Press, Inc. 2008,
  •                 pp. 201-02
  • Roberta Smith, “Robert Beck: How Am I to Sign Myself”, The New York Times, December 21, 2007, pg. E31
  • Amoreen Armetta, “New York: Robert Beck, CRG Gallery”, Artforum.com, December 1, 2007
  • Martha Schwhendener, “Galleries-Chelsea: Robert Beck”, The New Yorker, December 10, 2007, p. 21
  • Gregg Bordowitz, “dust: Wexner Center fot the Arts”, Artforum, November, 2007, XLVI, No.3, p. 362
  • Theodora Vischer, Ed., Robert Gober: Sculptures and Installations 1979-2007, pp. 410-411
  • Nadine Wasserman, Armed, Mandeville Gallery Nott Memorial Union College, October 26, 2006 – February 4, 2007,
  •                 pgs. 8 - 9
  • Ian Berry and Jack Shear, Ed., Twice Drawn: Modern and Contemporary Drawings in Context, The Fraces Young
  • Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY, pg. 266
  • Charles Danby, Untitled Magazine, November 2006, pp. 27-28
  • Bill Arning, “Early Work”, Aspect Magazine: The Chronicle of New Media Art, Vol. 8, DVD, Summer 2006
  • Sarah Kent, “Robert Beck: Stephen Friedman Gallery”, Time Out London, June 26, 2006
  • Ken Johnson, “Contemplating Childlike Wonder, Long Past Childhood”, The New York Times, September 2,
  •                 2005, p. E26
  • Tory Dent, “Robert Beck CRG Gallery”, Parachute -- Para (pullout), July/August/Spetember 2004, No. 115, p. 6
  • Jeffrey Kastner, “Reviews: Robert Beck”, Artforum, April 2004, Vol. XLII, pp. 159-60
  • Jane Harris, “Reviews: Robert Beck”, Time Out New York, February 19-26, 2004, p. 60
  • Thom Collins, Somewhere Better Than This Place: Alternative Social Experience in the Spaces of Contemporary
  •                 Art, Exhibition Catalogue, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, pg. 88
  • Ken Johnson, “Art Guide: Robert Beck”, The New York Times, May 16, 2003, p. E35
  • Alex Dodge, “Shot On Sight: A Conversation with Robert Beck”, Swingset, Issue 3, pp. 30-35
  • Faye Hirsch, “Working Proof: Robert Beck and Dale Peck”, Art On Paper, May-June 2002, Vol. 6, No. 5, p. 71
  • Wayne Northcross, “Art Portfolio”, Pride.02, 2002, Anniversary Edition, p. 116
  • Vince Aletti, “The Great Divide: Photography’s Two Different Worlds”, Village Voice, March 12, 2002, p. 59
  • Weidle Verlag, “Rainer Borgemeister: Lokomotive Denken”, Verlag, Bonn & Berlin, 2002, pp. 224-225, 255
  • Roberta Smith, “Armory Show, Grown Up and In Love with Color”, The New York Times, February 22, 2002, p. E38
  • Steven A. Holmes, Acquiring Tastes Exhibition Catalogue, Real Art Ways, 2002, pp. 9-22
  • Frances Richer, and Rosenzweig, Matthew, No. 1: First Works by 362 Artists, D.A.P., 2002, pg. 44
  • Roberta Smith, “A Benefit for Lover’s of Art and New York”, The New York Times, November 1, 2001, p. E3
  • Jutta Koether, “Robert Beck: ‘The Woods’”, Kunstforum, June – July, 2001, pp. 156-158
  • Martha Schwendener, “Behind the Music”, Time Out New York, August 2-9, pp. 52-53
  • Susan Hagen, “Things That Make You Go Ewwww”, Philadelphia City Paper, May 3 – 10, p. 9
  • Susanne Leeb, “Des Einen Freud, Des Anderen Leid (Robert Beck, ‘The Woods’, Galerie Rainer Borgemeister,
  •                 Berlin)”, Texte Zur Kunst, September 2000, pp. 197-199
  • Bill Arning, “Review of Exhibitions: Robert Beck at CRG”, Art in America, September 2000, p. 155
  • Ken Johnson, “Art In Review: Human/Nature”, New York Times, July 21, 2000, p. E30
  • Holland Cotter, “Art In Review: Robert Beck ‘Nature Mort’”, The New York Times, March 17, 2000, p. E37
  • Peter Schjeldahl, “Selected Affinities: The artist as curator”, New Yorker, Sept.6, 1999, pp. 86-87
  • Roberta Smith, “Art In Review: Anni Albers, Robert Beck, Cady Noland, Joan Semmel, Nancy Shaver”,
  •                 The New York Times, August 6, 1999, p. E40
  • Katy Siegel, “Anni Albers, Robert Beck, Cady Noland, Joan Semmel, Nancy Shaver”, Artforum, December 1999,
  •                 pp. 141-42
  • Jerry Saltz, “Mood Swings: Anni Albers, Robert Beck, Cady Noland, Joan Semmel, Nancy Shaver”,
  •                 The Village Voice, July 27, 1999, Vol. XLIV No. 29, p. 121
  • Tim Griffin, “Anni Albers, Robert Beck, Cady Noland, Joan Semmel and Nancy Shaver Photographs, 1975-77”,
  •                 Time Out New York, August 19-26, p. 57
  • Andrew Perchuk, "Reviews: Robert Beck”, Artforum, March 1998, Vol. XXXV No.2, pp. 101-102
  • Ken Johnson, "Art In Review: Portraits”, The New York Times, February 20, 1998, p. E-34
  • Roberta Smith, "Art In Review: Robert Beck”, The New York Times, October 17, 1997, p. E-37
  • Felica Feaster, "You Should Know Better”, Art Papers, Sept.-Oct. 1997, Vol. 21, Issue 5, p. 60
  • Roberta Smith, "Art In Review: The Celluloid Cave/You Should Know Better: Truth & Artifice in Contemporary
  •                 Photography”, The New York Times, June 27, 1997, p. C-24
  • Roberta Smith, "Art In Review: Sugar Mountain”, The New York Times, April 26, 1996, p. C-27
  • Roberta Smith, "Art In Review: Robert Beck”, The New York Times, February 9, 1996, p. C-23
  • Bill Arning, "Reviews: Robert Beck”, Time Out New York, January 31, 1996, p. 24
  • A.M. Homes, "Reviews: Robert Beck”, Artforum, February 1995, Vol. XXXIII, No. 6, p. 91
  • Frank Wagner, “GEWALT/Geschafte”, Neue Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst (NGBK), pp. 31 - 36
  • Adam Knee; "The Feeling of Power: AIDS Activism on/through Video”, The Minnesota Review, "The Politics of AIDS,"
  •                 Ns. 40, spring/summer 1993, pp. 94-101
  • Peter McKnight Bowen, "Not In Your Local Video Stores: AIDS Videos and Their Public(s)”, Public Art Issues,
  •                 No. 1, 1992, pp. 29-32
  • Roberta Smith, "New Galleries In SoHo, From Gallery To Not So”, The New York Times, Nov. 15, 1991, p. C26
  • Simon Watney; "Queer”, Frieze, Issue 2, 1991, p. 60
  • Peter McKnight Bowen, "America's Queerist Home Videos”, Outweek, No. 49, June 6, 1991, p. 63
  • Erika Milvy, “Bah! Bah! Say Black Sheep”, New York Post, Wednesday, July 10, 1991, p. 25
  • Steve Gallagher, “US Video Program: Video/Dystopia”, European Media Arts Festival Catalogue, 1990, pp. 80-81
  • Bill Berkson, "Group Material's AIDS Timeline”, Artforum, March 1990, Vol. XXVIII, No. 7, pp. 168-169
Publications
  • Beck & Moffett / Lucio Fontana, published on the occasion of the exhibitions Beck & Moffett: Range and Lucio
  •                 Fontana: Paintings 1956 - 1968, March 9 through May 15, 2010, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, NY
  •                 (with an essay by Elizabeth A. T. Smith)
  • dust, published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Wexner Center for the Arts, The Ohio State University,
  •                 Columbus, OH, May 12 through August 12, 2007 (with essays by Bill Horrigan, Robert Hobbs, and Helen
  •                 Molesworth)
  • Robert Beck, published on the occasion of the exhibition at Opalka Gallery, The Sage Colleges of Albany, NY,
  •                 August 14 through October 22, 2006 (with an essay by Helen Molesworth)
  • Robert Beck, Artist Book published by Thea Westreich and Ethan Wagner, 2003
Awards / Grants / Fellowships
  • 1999    The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennial Competition Award, New York, NY
  • 1995    New York Foundation for the Arts (NYFA) Fellowship, Printmaking/Drawing/Artist's Books, New York, NY
  •                      Art Matters, Inc. Grant, New York, NY
  • 1991    1st Prize, Experimental Category, “Visions of US Contest”, sponsored by the SONY Corporation of America and the
  •                     American Film Institute, Los Angeles, CA
  •                   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, NY
Education
  • 1993    The Independent Study Program of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Studio Program, New York, NY
  • 1983    Undergraduate Film and Television, New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, New York, NY
Teaching
  • 2005            Part-time Faculty, International Center of Photography, Bard College, New York, NY
  • 1996-02    Part-time Faculty, School of Visual Arts: Computer Arts Department and Department of Film, New York, NY
  • 1999-00    Part-time Faculty, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Graduate Program, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Visiting Artist Lectures / Presentations / Critiques
  • 2007    Lecture, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
  • 2006    Lecture and Undergraduate Critiques, Sage Colleges, Albany, NY
  • 2005    Lecture and Undergraduate Critiques, California College of Art, San Francisco, CA
  •                 Lecture, The Anderson Ranch, Aspen, CO
  •                 Lecture and Undergraduate Critiques, The Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
  • 2004    Lecture and Undergraduate and Graduate Critiques, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
  • 2002    Lecture, Castle Gallery, The College of New Rochelle, New Rochelle, NY
  • 2001    Presentation, Visual Arts Division, MFA Program, Columbia University, New York, NY
  • 2000    Presentation, Visual Arts Department, School of Education, New York University, New York, NY
  • 1999    Lecture/Presentation, Hartford Art School, University of Hartford, West Hartford, CT
  •                 Lecture/Presentation, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
  •                 Lecture/Presentation, Queens College, Queens, NY
  •                 Presentation, The Hetrick-Martin Institute for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning Youth, New
  •                     York, NY
  • 1997    Lecture, "Video Viewpoints," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
  • 1995    Presentation, The Hetrick-Martin Institute for Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual, Transgender and Questioning Youth, New
  •                     York, NY
  • 1994    Lecture, Hunter College, New York, NY
  • 1993    Lecture, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, New York, NY
  • 1992    School of Education, Health, Nursing, and Arts Professions (SEHNAP), New York University, New York, NY
Related Activities
  • 2006            Panelist, “Armed: Contemporary Art and Violence”, Mandeville Gallery, Union College Schnenectady, NY
  • 1997            Artist's Pages, "On Fire”, FAT Magazine, Issue No. 3, 1997 (Ed. Josephine Meckseper)
  • 1995            Artist's Pages, Felix: A Journal of Media Arts, Vol.2, No. 1, 1995 (Ed. Kathy High)
  • 1993            Guest Writer, "Paranoia By The Dashboard Light: Sophie Calle & Gregory Shephard's “'Double Blind'",
  •                              Parkett , #36
  • 1992            Video Producer – U.S.A., “Trans-Voices: French and American Artists Address a Changing World Order”,
  •                              Produced by the American Center, Paris, France, in collaboration with the Public Art Fund, New York,
  •                              NY, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
  • 1991            Editorial Associate, Electronic Arts Intermix: Video, EAI distribution catalogue, New York, NY
  •                         Curator, Video Program, “The Family Romance”, Simon Watson Project Space, New York, NY
  • 1989-91    Member, DIVA TV (Damned Interfering Activists Television), a media collective of ACT UP, New York, NY
  • 1990            Curator, in collaboration with Peter Bowen, Video Program, “Looking at a Revolution: Documenting the
  •                              AIDS Activist Movement”, Simon Watson Project Space, New York, NY
  •                         Guest Writer, "Artist Profile: An Interview With Dara Birnbaum", Media Arts Vol. 2, #5 and 6
  •                         Curator, Video Program, “State of Siege”, Galeria Jorge Albers, Madrid, Spain
  • 1989            Curator, Video Program, “Erotophobia presents: Erotological TV: Agitation Propaganda Video”, Simon
  •                              Watson Project Space, New York, NY
  •                         Curator, Video Program, “Erotophobia presents: Two Films by Robert Mapplethorpe”, Simon Watson Project
  •                             Space, New York, NY
  •                         Curator, Video Program, “Greenpeace: Environmental Activism and Video”, Simon Watson
  •                              Project Space, New York, NY
  •                         Curator, Video Program, “Agitation Propaganda Video”, Simon Watson Project Space,
  •                              New York, NY
  • 1986            Panelist, “Resolution: A Critique of Video Art”, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE),
  •                              Los Angeles, CA
Public Collections
  • Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
  • Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO), Toronto, Ontario, Canada
  • The Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
  • Columbus Museum of Art (CMOA), Columbus, OH
  • The Dallas Museum of Art (DMA), Dallas, TX
  • Fogg Art Museum, Harvard Art Museums, Cambridge, MA
  • J. Paul Getty Museum (The Getty), Los Angeles, CA
  • Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
  • High Museum of Art (HIGH), Atlanta, GA
  • Legion of Honor Museum, Fine Arts Museums San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
  • Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
  • The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, NY
  • Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University, Durham, NC
  • New Museum, New York, NY
  • The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SF MoMA), San Francisco, CA
  • Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
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