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Group Exhibitions

2007
Tomorrow now - when design meets science fiction, MUDAM, Luxembourg
Scenes and Sequences, Kunsthaus Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland
Kopf an Kopf, Kunsthalle Tuebingen, Tuebingen, Germany
BodyPoliticX, Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Forms of Resistance, van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands

2006
Medium Fotografie, Stampa, Basel
Into Me/Out of Me, PS1, New York; Kunstwerke, Berlin
Winteraustellung, Esther Schipper, Berlin
Singular Multiples, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston
Persona: From the Collection, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa
Dissent, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge
ART METROPOLE: Top 100, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa

2005
Canada in the Sixties, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Real Pictures, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Trade Show, MASS MoCA, North Adams
Collective Creativity, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Trade, White Columns, New York
Transformations, Galerie FrÈderic Giroux, Paris
Experience de la duree, Biennale de Lyon 2005, Lyon

2004
Performance et Photographie : POINT, Dazibao, Montreal
After Images: Art as Social Memory, Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Bremen
Assume vivid astro focus XI, at the home of Rosa de la Cruz, Biscayne, Miami

2003
Our Mutual Friend, Bloomberg SPACE, London, UK
On the Wall, (touring exhibition) The RISD Museum, Providence, USA
Stop & Go: regards croises entre la collection et les acquisitions recentes, Frac Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, France
Eternal Network: Videos from the Western Front Archives 1973-2001 (touring exhibition),
   The Western Front, Vancouver, Canada;
    Video Pool, Winnpeg, Canada;
   Videographe, Montreal, Canada.
Corporate Profits vs. Labour Costs, John Connelly Presents at D'Amelio Terras, New York, USA
Today's Man, John Connelly Presents, New York, USA
Scatalogue, Saw Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
From the Flat Files, RAMP Gallery, Waikato Institute of Technology, Hamilton, New Zealand
30 Jaar: Nederlandse Videokunst, Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Feigned Memories, University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge

2002
Comer O No Comer, Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
Extra Art, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
Multiformity: Multiples from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Public Affairs, Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich
Mirror Image, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, USA
Art & Economy, Deichterhallen, Hamburg
Thinking in Painting, Stampa Galerie, Basel
Kunst Nach Kunst, Neue Museum Weserburg Bremen, Germany
Rapture: Art's Seduction by Fashion since 1970, Barbican Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Video Acts: Single Channel Works from the Collections of Pamela and Richard Kramlich and New Art Trust, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, USA
The Holiday Shopping Show, Wallspace, New York, USA
Golden Streams, Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga, Canada

2001
Collaborations with Parkett: 1984 to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Extra Art, Logan Galleries, California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, USA
Shopping, Generali Foundation, Vienna, AUSTRIA
Blondies + Brownies, Aktionsforum Praterinsel, Munich, GERMANY
Tele(visions), Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, AUSTRIA
Vancouver Collects, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, CANADA

2000-2001
Video Time, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Let’s Entertain (touring exhibition):
   Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
   Portland Art Museum, Portland, USA;
   Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, FRANCE;
   Museo Rufino Tamayo, MEXICO;
   Miami Art Museum, Miami, US

2000
Loose Ends, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
From the Collection: Personalities, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, CANADA
Re-Play, Generali Foundation, Vienna, AUSTRIA

1999
Museum as Muse, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Word, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, AUSTRALIA
Persuasion: Tales of Commerce and the Avant-Garde, University at Buffalo Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA
Recollect, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, CANADA
Internal Logic, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, CANADA

1998
Fragile Electrons: Celebrating Twenty Years of Collecting Video Art - Videotapes from the Art Metropole Collection, The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, CANADA
Picturing the Toronto Art Community, The Power Plant, Toronto, CANADA
Roteiros. Roteiros. Roteiros. Roteiros. Roteiros. Roteiros. Roteiros., XXIV Bienal de São Paulo, São Paulo, BRAZIL
AIDS Worlds: Between Resignation and Hope, Centre d'art contemporain, Geneva, SWITZERLAND; Centro d'Arte Contemporanea Ticino, Ticino, SWITZERLAND
Editions: General Idea, Christian Jankowski, Kay Rosen, Helge Maria Klosterfelde, Hamburg, GERMANY
Disappearing Act, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects/Bound & Unbound, New York, USA

1997
Bridge/The map is not the territory., Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, GERMANY
Disrupture: Postmodern Media (with Dara Birnbaum, Nam Jun Paik), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Documenta 10, Kassel, GERMANY
Rococo Tattoo, The Power Plant, Toronto, CANADA
Livres d'artistes - L'intervention d'un genre 1960-1980, Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, FRANCE

1996
a/drift, Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson,New York, USA
Thinking Print: Books to Billboards,1980-95 (subsequent touring), Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
GraphicResponses to AIDS, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, UNITED KINGDOM All in One, Galerie Schipper & Krone, Cologne, GERMANY
ReGrouping:A Living Legacy, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, CANADA
LaGuerre, Pourquoi?, Galerie Montenay-Giroux, Paris, FRANCE
SarahCharlesworth, Hannah Collins, General Idea, Laurie Simmons, Carolyn White,
S.L.Simpson Gallery, Toronto, CANADA

1995
General Idea, Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons, S. L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, CANADA
Art Metropole: 20 Years, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, CANADA
Into a New Museum, Part 2, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Fashion is a Verb, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, USA
A Different Light, The University Art Museum at Berkeley, Berkeley, USA
Lesezimmer II, Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart, GERMANY

1994-95
Art Unlimited: Multiples of the 60s & 90s (subsequent touring), Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA), Glasgow, SCOTLAND

1994
L'hiver de l'amour bis, Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris, FRANCE;
P.S.1 Museum, New York, USA
The Century of the Multiple, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, GERMANY
Le Saut Dans Le Vide / Der Sprung Ins Leere, Maison Centrale des Artistes, Moscow, RUSSIA
Body and Soul, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA
Public Interventions, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
"Please, don’t hurt me!", Galerie Snoei, Rotterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
don't look now, Thread Waxing Space, New York, USA

1993
Computerunterstützte Kunst, Künstlerwerkstatt Lothringerstraße München, Munich, GERMANY
Tema AIDS, (touring exhibition), Sonje Henie-Neils Onstad Foundation, Hovikhodden, NORWAY; Bergen Kunstforning, Stockholm, SWEDEN
Prints and Issues, Kunstwerke Berlin, Berlin, GERMANY

1992-93
From Media to Metaphor: Art About AIDS (Independent Curators Incorporated touring exhibition):
   Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Clinton, USA;
   Center of Contemporary Art, Seattle, USA;
   Sharadin Art Gallery, Kutztown, USA;
   Musée d'art contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, CANADA;
   Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, New York, USA

1992
Transgressions in the White Cube: Territorial Mappings, Bennington College, Bennington, USA
Multiples, Dörrie-Priess Galerie, Hamburg, GERMANY
Art meets Ads, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, GERMANY
Stampa, Stampa Galerie, Basel, SWITZERLAND
Transform, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, SWITZERLAND
Wiener Fest Wochen, Vienna, AUSTRIA
David Clarkson, General Idea, Allan McCollum, S. L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, CANADA
Ballots and Bullets, Sally Hawkins Gallery, New York, USA
Three or More-Multiplied art from Duchamp to the present, SPIRAL, Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, JAPAN

1991
Multiples: Brian Boigon, General Idea, Douglas Walker, S. L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, CANADA
Curatorial Laboratory Project #7: Atlas, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, CANADA In Public: Seattle 1991, Security Pacific Gallery, Seattle, USA
The Art of Advocacy, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, USA
ECART, Genève, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
All For Love, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA
Words & #’s, Wright State University, Dayton, USA
Proiezioni, Castello di Rivara, Rivara, ITALY

1990-92
Team Spirit (Independent Curators Incorporated touring exhibition)
Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, USA;
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art,Cleveland, USA;
The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, USA;
Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale Cultural Council, Scottsdale, USA;
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, CANADA;
Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, USA;
Salina Art Center and the Wichita Museum of Art, Salina and Wichita, USA

1990-91
Graphothek (touring exhibition),
Goethe-Institut Vancouver, Vancouver, CANADA;
London Regional Art & Historical Museum, London, CANADA;
Maison de la Culture, Plateau Mont-Royal, Montreal, CANADA;
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, CANADA
Inquiries: Language into Art (touring exhibition),
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, CANADA;
McMaster University Art Gallery, Hamilton, CANADA;
Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Thunder Bay, CANADA;
Laurentian University Museum and Art Gallery, Sudbury, CANADA;
Rodman Hall Arts Centre, St. Catharines, CANADA

1990
Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, CANADA
Koury Wingate Gallery, New York, USA
Grids, Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, New York, USA
Language in Art, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, USA
Art Meets Science and Spirituality in a Changing Economy, Museum Fodor, Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
Word As Image, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA
Stendhal Syndrome: The Cure, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, USA
Serieel, Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
The Young and the Restless, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA
The Indomitable Spirit (touring exhibition), International Centre of Photography, New York, USA; The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

1989
Art About AIDS, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, USA
A Call to Healing and Action, The Jewish Museum, New York, USA
General Idea, Serge Kliaving, Wolfgang Staehle, Koury Wingate Gallery, New York, USA
Fictions, Mirabel Montreal International Airport, Montreal, CANADA
D & S Austellung, Hamburger Kunstverein, Hamburg, GERMANY
Homo Genius, Mercer Union Gallery, Toronto, CANADA
Zeichnung und Skulptur, Stampa Galerie, Basel, SWITZERLAND
The Subject is AIDS, Nexus, Atlanta, USA
Messages, Didactic Gallery, Plano, USA

1988
Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin, GERMANY
Dike Blair, Stephen Ellis, General Idea, Koury Wingate Gallery, New York, USA
Des Emblemes Comme Attitudes, Ecole des Beaux Arts, Tourcoing, FRANCE
Toward Common Ground, Real Art Ways, Hartford, USA
Summer ’88, Koury Wingate Gallery, New York, USA
Der Hund in mir - The Dog Within, Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, AUSTRIA
1988: The World of Art Today (touring exhibition), Milwaukee Art Museum, USA;
Roger Ramsay Gallery, Chicago, USA;
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, CANADA;
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA

1987
Modern Living, Jeffrey Linden Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Peter Blum Edition: Enzo Cucchi, General Idea, Brice Marden, James Turrell, Lorence-Monk Gallery, New York, USA
Sign of the Times, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, FRANCE
Material Functions, 49th Parallel, New York, USA; and the University of New York, Binghamton, USA
(of Ever-Ever Land I Speak), Stux Gallery, New York, USA
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, GERMANY
Japan 87 International Video and Television Festival, SPIRAL, Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, JAPAN
Documenta 8 , Kassel, GERMANY
A Play of History, Power Plant, Toronto, CANADA
Sea to Shining Sea, Power Plant, Toronto, CANADA
Animal Art, Steirischer Herbst, Graz, AUSTRIA

1986
End Game: Reference and Simulation in Recent Painting and Sculpture , Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
Caravelle, Magasin, Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble, FRANCE
The Interpretation of Architecture, YYZ Artists' Outlet, Toronto, CANADA
How We See, What We Say, Harbourfront Gallery, Toronto, CANADA

1985
Four Legs Good, Harbourfront Gallery, Toronto, CANADA
International With Monument, New York, USA
Aurora Borealis, CIAC, Montreal, CANADA
De Duppelganger, Aorta, Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS

1984-86
TIME, (touring exhibition), Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, BELGIUM;
Musée Rath, Geneva, SWITZERLAND;
Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, DENMARK;
Kunsthalle, Mannheim, GERMANY;
Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, AUSTRIA;
Barbican Centre, London, UNITED KINGDOM

1984-85
Artistic Collaboration in the Twentieth Century (touring exhibition),
   Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., USA
   Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, USA
   J. I. Speed Museum, Louisville, USA

1984
An International Survey of Recent Painting & Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Dog Work - Dog Show, Interim Art, London, UNITED KINGDOM
1984, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, AUSTRIA
International Art, Baskerville + Watson, New York, USA

1983
O Kanada, Akademie der Kunst, Berlin, GERMANY
Künstler aus Kanada, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, GERMANY
Artists' Architecture: Scenes and Conventions, ICA, London, UNITED KINGDOM
Museums by Artists, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, CANADA; Musée d'art contemporain, Montreal, CANADA; Glenbow Museum, Calgary, CANADA
Chromaliving, The Colonnade, Toronto, CANADA
Attitudes, Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto, CANADA
Pierre et Marie (in ruins of church), Paris, FRANCE

1982
Manner/sm: A Theory of Culture, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, CANADA
Sydney Biennale, Sydney, AUSTRALIA
Fiction (touring exhibition), Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, CANADA;
Windsor Art Gallery, Windsor, CANADA;
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, CANADA;
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, CANADA;
Laurentian University Art Gallery, Sudbury, CANADA;
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, CANADA;
49th Parallel, New York, USA
Prefiguration and Figuration of the Catastrophe, Centre d'art contemporain, Geneva, SWITZERLAND
Documenta 7, Kassel, GERMANY
Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, CANADA
New Narratives for Living and Viewing, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, CANADA
Destroy Those Pictures, Chromazone, Toronto, CANADA
Beast, PS1, New York, USA
Monumenta, YYZ, Toronto, CANADA
Prime Time Video, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, CANADA
Transmissions, Cambridge Art Gallery, Cambridge, CANADA
Celebration, ARC, Toronto, CANADA

1981
Terminal Building, A Space, Toronto, CANADA
New Acquisitions, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, CANADA
Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, CANADA

1980
Architectural References, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, CANADA
Venice Biennale, Canadian Pavilion, Venice, ITALY
Pluralities, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, CANADA
Words and Image, National Film Board Gallery, Ottawa, CANADA
Nuova Immagine, XVI Triennale, Palazzo Triennale, Milan, ITALY
Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, CANADA

1979
Perspective '79, Basel Art Fair, Basel, SWITZERLAND
Station to Station, A Space, Toronto, CANADA
Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, CANADA
Galerie Marielle Mailhot, Montreal, CANADA

1978
Kanadischer Künstler, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, SWITZERLAND
Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, CANADA

1977
Biennale des Jeunes, Paris, FRANCE
03 23 03, Parachute, Montreal, CANADA
Transparent Things (touring exhibition), Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, CANADA; London Art Gallery, London, CANADA;
Art Gallery of Victoria, Victoria, CANADA;
Musée d'art contemporain, Montreal, CANADA
Punk Press, A Space, Toronto, CANADA
Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, CANADA

1975
Present Company, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, CANADA
Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, CANADA
Carmen Lamanna at the Owens Art Gallery, Owens Art Gallery, Halifax, CANADA

1974
Sincerely Yours, Granada Gazelle(curated by General Idea), Memo from Turner, Toronto, CANADA

1973
Canada Trajectoires ‘73, Musée d'art moderne, Paris, FRANCE
Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, CANADA
Aktionen der Avant-garde, DAAD Gallery, Berlin, GERMANY

1972
New Acquisitions, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, CANADA
Better Body Works, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, CANADA
Burnaby Print Show, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, CANADA
Realism, Emulsion and Omission, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston; University of Guelph Art Gallery, Guelph, CANADA
Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, CANADA

1971
Image Bank Post Card Show, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, CANADA

1970
Concept 70, Nightingale Gallery, Toronto, CANADA