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ROBERT BUCK


Solo Exhibitions


2022 Robert Buck: Wound Filler, Von Ammon Co., Washington , D.C. 

2018 Second Hand, Ulterior Gallery, New York, NY

Vestige, Ulterior Gallery, New York, NY

Formations, Angela Meleca Gallery, Columbus, OH

2016 Robert Beck | Robert Buck: States of America, Pizzuti Collection, Columbus, OH (catalog)

Exposure, Angela Meleca Gallery, Columbus, OH

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

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 


2024 Extra Taste, International Objects, Brooklyn, NY

2023 Focus Group Four, Von Ammon Co, Washington, DC

2022 At Six and Seven, Ulterior Gallery, New York, NY

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 A Primer on the Commons, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH

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

2020 bodyweather: Robert Buck & Elizabeth Rogers, Liberal Arts, Roxbury, NY (postponed due to COVID-19)

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

Polaroid: The Disappearing, Nathalie Karg Gallery, New York, 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 [catalog]) 

New Acquisitions, Margaret M. Walter Wing, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH

Experiments in New York: 1961-2007, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (curated by Ian Alteveer)

Inaugural Exhibition, Bunker Artspace, West Palm Beach, FL

2016 Erik Hanson Two Years of Looking, New Art Projects, London, England (curated by Erik Hanson)

Tongue, Angela Meleca Gallery, Columbus, OH 

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  

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)  

Sitter, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH (curated by Michael Goodson) 

Forensics: The Anatomy of Crime, Wellcome Center, London, England 

Alchemical, Steven Kasher Gallery, New York, NY (curated by Kevin Moore [catalog]) 

Booth 548, CRG Gallery, New York, NY 

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)

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

A Rebours, Adam Lindemann Gallery, New York, NY

Rorschach, Phillips De Pury & Co., New York, NY

2011 The Air We Breathe, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA (curated by Apsara DiQuinzio [catalog])

Wishing and Praying, CRG Gallery, New York, NY

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 Drawings Collection), Berliner Festspielle,

Berlin, Germany (curated by Christian Rattemeyer)

Wishing and Praying, CRG Gallery, New York, NY

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

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 Of Other Spaces, Bureau for Open Culture at Columbus College of Art and Design (CCAD), Columbus, OH

(curated by Jim Voorhies [catalog])

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 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] 

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 

 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, Cady Noland, Joan Semmel, and Nancy Shaver, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY (Curated by Robert Gober) 

Calendar 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 Millennium, Long Island Center of Photography, New York, NY  

Portraits: Inaugural 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  

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) 

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) 


Selected Bibliography


Mrinmayee Bhoot, “International Object’s exhibition puts American culture’s ‘Extra Taste’ on display,” Stir World,

https://www.stirpad.com/news/stir-news/international-objects-exhibition-puts-american-culture-s-extra-taste-on-display/

Mark Jenkins, “In the galleries: Artists clean, clinical depictions of the impact of gun violence packs a wallop,” The

Washington Post, November, 15, 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

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, pp. 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, pg. 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, pg. 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

Rebecca Cleman and Alex Klein, Eds., Broadcasting: EAI at ICA, Institute of Contemporary Art , University of

Pennsylvania / Electronic Arts Intermix, 2022, pg. 170-171

Douglas Fogle and Hanneke Skerath, Eds., Making Strange: The Chara Schreyer Collection, DelMonico Books

/D.A.P. New York, 2021, pp. 221, 221 and 407

Tom Eccles and Amy Zion, Eds., Closer to Life: Drawings and Works on Paper in the Marieluise Hessel Collection

Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, 2020, pg. 42 – 43

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, pg. 59-75

Holland Cotter, “Portraits of America in the Selfie Age”, The New York Times, April 29, 2016, pg. C19 & C28

Peter Schjeldahl, “Found Meaning: A Robert Gober retrospective”, New Yorker, October 13, 2014, pg. 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, pg. 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, pg. C21C23

Roberta Smith, “Review: Lucio Fontana/Robert Beck & 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”, Rumination 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 for 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 Union College, October 26, 2006 – February. 4, 2007, pg. 8, 9

Ian Berry and Jack Shear, Ed., Twice Drawn: Modern and Contemporary Drawings in Context, The Frances 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/September 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

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

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 Bowen, "Not In Your 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


Awards | Grants | Fellowships


2019 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant Award, New York, NY

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/Television, New York University, Tisch School of the Arts, New York, NY


Teaching


2023-24 Low-Residency Mentor, MFA Program, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Fall and Spring semesters

2017-18 Low-Residency Mentor, MFA Program, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Fall and Spring semesters

2019-22 Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT), Fine Arts Department, Adjunct Faculty: Experimental Drawing I, and

Experimental Drawing II and Fundamentals of Design for Photography

2005-06 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 | Critiques | Presentations


2024 Presentation/Discussion, “DIVA TV (Damned Interfering Video Activist Television) Screening”, New York City

Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), Pageant, Brooklyn, NY, July 13, 2024

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

Studio Critiques, Texas Christian University (TCU), Fort Worth, TX, September 12, 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, October 11, 2017

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

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 Institute of Chicago, 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

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

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

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

1997 Lecture, "Video Viewpoints," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

1995 Presentation, The Hetrick-Martin Institute for LGBT 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 Lecture, School of Education, Health, Nursing and Arts Professions New York University, New York, NY


Publications


Robert Beck | Robert Buck: States of America, catalogue 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

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, solo exhibition catalog, 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


Related Activities


2024 Writer: “Nature/Cut”, The Lacanian Review: CUT, Issue 15, Spring 2024

Cover design, The Lacanian Review: CUT, Issue 15, Spring 2024

2023 “Of Her Own Making: A Conversation with Lynne Cooke”, The Lacanian Review: The Woman, Issue 13,

Fall 2022

2022 Cover design, The Lacanian Review: The Woman Issue 13, Fall 2022

Writer, “Constellation”, 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 design, 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 design, 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

2018- Art Editor, The Lacanian Review, New Lacanian School (NLS), London, England, and World Association of Psychoanalysis (WAP),

Paris, France

Writer, “Warhol a”, Artists on Artists Lecture Series, Dia Art Foundation, New York

Writer, “Shear / All / Done / Again”, Cheryl Donegan: GRLZ + VEILS, Aspen Art Museum exhibition catalog,

Aspen, Colorado

Writer, “Pay Attention Mother Fuckers”, The Lacanian Review: Urgent!, Issue 6, Fall 2018

Cover design, The Lacanian Review: Urgent!, Issue 6, Fall 2018

Interview, Double Feature, Diet Laboratories, Brooklyn, NY, September 11, 2018

Guest, “A Conversation with Artist Robert Buck”, CUNY TV Digitial Series: Twilight Talks,

http://www.cuny.tv/show/twilighttalks/PR2007107

Cover design, The Lacanian Review: Delights of the Ego, Issue 5, Summer 2018

Cover design, The Lacanian Review: Family Dramas, Family Traumas, Issue 4, Winter 2018

2018 Writer, “Warhol a”, Artists on Artists Lecture Series, Dia Art Foundation, New York

Writer, “Shear / All / Done / Again”, Cheryl Donegan: GRLZ + VEILS, Aspen Art Museum exhibition catalog, Aspen, Colorado

Writer, “Pay Attention Mother Fuckers”, The Lacanian Review: Urgent!, Issue 6, Fall 2018

Cover design, The Lacanian Review: Urgent!, in collaboration with Cyrus Saint Amand Poliakoff, Issue 6, Fall 2018

Interview, Double Feature, Diet Laboratories, Brooklyn, NY, September 11, 2018

Guest, “A Conversation with Artist Robert Buck”, CUNY TV Digital Series: Twilight Talks, http://www.cuny.tv/show/twilighttalks/PR2007107

Cover design, The Lacanian Review: Delights of the Ego, in collaboration with Cyrus Saint Amand Poliakoff, Issue 5, Summer 2018

Cover design, The Lacanian Review: Family Dramas, Family Traumas, in collaboration with Cyrus Saint Amand Poliakoff, Issue 4, Winter 2018

2017-22 Art Editor, Lacanian Compass Express (LCE), Lacanian Compass New York, https://www.lacaniancompass.com/lcexpress/

2017- Member of the Lacanian Compass New York, New Lacanian School (NLS), London, England

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 design, The Lacanian Review: Segregations: Desire as Subversion of Identity,

in collaboration with Cyrus Saint Amand Poliakoff, Issue 3, Spring 2017

2016 Writer, “Why ‘The Revenant’ Is Relevant”, Lacanian Review Online, March 25, 2016

http://thelacanianreviews.com/lacanian_review_online250316.html

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, “A Hole in Horror: David Lynch’s INLAND EMPIRE”, Enlaces: Psychoanalysis & Culture, 19,

in collaboration with Cyrus Saint Aman Poliakoff, October 2013

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)

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 Ghetty), 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




Videoworks: Selected Group Exhibitions and Screenings



Grass Light on Flesh, 2022, 7:09 min., color, stereo sound

2022 A Spirit Appears to a Pair of Lovers, Microscope Gallery, New York, NY


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)


Cruising (Back to Front), 1998, 101 mins.color, stereo sound

2021 Electronic Arts Intermix 50th Anniversary Celebration, New York, NY


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

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 Strikes Again”), 1995, 11 min, color, stereo sound

2021 Short Works by Robert Beck, 1990-2021, Metrograph Theater, New York, NY

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

2022 If I Had A Hammer, Biennial, 2022, FotoFest, Houston, TX

2019 We Interrupt This Program, directed by Charles Atlas for Day Without Art, 1991, The Kitchen, New York, NY

2018 The Feeling of Power: Bodies of Resistance, National Museum of Ancient Art, Lisbon, Portugal

Broadcasting: Guerilla Media, Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, PA

2017 Utopian Potentials and Media(ted) Realities, BRIC (Brooklyn Information & Culture) Media, Brooklyn, NY

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

The AFI National Video Festival, The American Film Institute, Los Angeles, CA

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, Philadelphia, 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

2022 Broadcasting: EAI at ICA, Electronic Arts Intermix, New York, NY

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



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