BIOGRAPHY

intro

solo exhibitions

group exhibitions

video exhibitions

performances

collections

awards

Selected Video Exhibitions and Broadcasts

2005
General Idea, Filmwinter Stuttgart, Stuttgart, GERMANY
General Idea, Tate Modern, London, UNITED KINGDOM

2004
Toronto Xchange Club, Ocularis, Brooklyn, USA

2003
30 Jaar: Nederlandse Videokunst, Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst, Amsterdam
Eternal Network: Videos from the Western Front Archives 1973-2001, (touring exhibition):
   The Western Front, Vancouver, Canada;
   Video Pool, Winnpeg, Canada;
   Vidéographe, Montréal, Canada
Art Star: Video Art Biennial, Saw Gallery, Ottawa, Canada

2002
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

2000-2001
Video Time, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

1998
Fragile Electrons: Celebrating Twenty Years of Collecting Video Art - Videotapes from the Art Metropole Collection, The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, CANADA

1997
Documenta X, Kassel, GERMANY
Video Plaza, Monte Video, Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS

1994
General Idea, World Wide Video Center, Den Haag, THE NETHERLANDS

1993
The Sequel: Shut the Fuck Up, installation at 5e Semaine Internationale de Video, Geneva, SWITZERLAND
Videotapes by General Idea, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, CANADA

1992
General Idea, Taormina Arte Video, Taormina, ITALY

1991
General Idea, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, GERMANY

1990
Shut the Fuck Up (Spanish Television broadcast), SPAIN

1989
Test Tube, Cornucopia, Shut the Fuck Up (Dutch Television broadcast), THE NETHERLANDS
Video as Television, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
General Idea Video Retrospective, Images '89 Festival, Toronto, CANADA

1987
Japan 87 International Video Television Festival, SPIRAL, Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, JAPAN
Documenta 8, Kassel, GERMANY

1986
Video Viewpoints, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

1985
General Idea Retrospective, International Festival du Nouveau Cinema, Montreal, CANADA
Talking Back to the Media (festival), Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
Test Tube (television broadcast), Much Music, Toronto, CANADA

1983-85
Second Link - Viewpoints on Video in the Eighties (touring exhibition):
   Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, CANADA;
   Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA;
   Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS;
   A Space, Toronto, CANADA;
   Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, USA;
   Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UNITED KINGDOM;
   Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, JAPAN;
   Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, JAPAN;
   Hokkaido Asahikawa Museum of Art, Hokkaido, JAPAN;
   Education and Cultural City of Sapporo, Sapporo, JAPAN; Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, JAPAN;
   The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, JAPAN

1982
Prime Time Video (television broadcast), Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, CANADA
New Narratives for Livingroom Viewing, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, CANADA
Documenta 7, Kassel, GERMANY

1981
Portopia International Video Festival (award-winner), Kobe, JAPAN
San Francisco Video Festival (broadcast), San Francisco, USA
Frontiers (broadcast), WNED-TV, Buffalo, USA
Video Video, Toronto Film Festival, Toronto, CANADA

1980
Venice Biennale, Canadian Pavilion, Venice, ITALY
Test Tube, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, CANADA

1979
Colour Bar Lounge, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, THE NETHERLANDS
Video Weeks Essen, Museum Folkwang, Essen, GERMANY

1978
In Video (touring exhibition), Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, CANADA; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, CANADA; Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, CANADA
Another Dimension, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, CANADA
High Profile (slowscan transmission between the CN Tower and Video Inn), Toronto and Vancouver, CANADA
Video Open (cablecast), Calgary, CANADA
Artists and the Media, Graz, AUSTRIA
Towards an Audience Vocabulary ( cablecast), Toronto, CANADA
Open Line (slowscan transmission between cities), Toronto, New York, Memphis,
San Francisco, Vancouver, Victoria, CANADA and USA

1977
Pilot (television broadcast), OECA TV Ontario, Toronto, CANADA
Xth Biennale des Jeunes, Musée d'art moderne, Paris, FRANCE

1976
Projects Video VIII, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Forum '76, Musée des Beaux Arts, Montreal, CANADA
Video International, Aarhus, DENMARK
Festival Calgary, Parachute Centre, Calgary, CANADA

1975
Video Art (touring exhibition), Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA; Contemporary Art Centre, Cincinatti, USA;
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA;
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, USA

1974
Project '74, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, GERMANY
Videoscape, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, CANADA

1972
Light-On Documentation, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, CANADA

1971
Exposé –A Video Device, (video installation), A Space, Toronto, CANADA