John Baldessari
(b. 1931, National City, California. Lives and works in Santa Monica, California.)
John Baldessari studied at San Diego State College, U.C. Berkeley, UCLA, the Otis Art Institute, and the Chouinard Art Institute. Baldessari received an honorary Doctor of Fine Arts in 2000 from the Otis Art Institute, an honorary Ph.D. from San Diego State University, San Diego, California in 2003, and was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2004. His many awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship (1986), the Oscar Kokoschka Prize, Austria (1996), the Governor's Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts, California (1997), and the Spectrum-International Award for Photography of the Foundation of Lower Saxony, Germany (1999). His work has been exhibited in the 47th Venice Biennial (1997); the Carnegie International (1985-86), the Whitney Biennial (1983), and Documenta V (1972) and VII (1982), and he has exhibited recent retrospectives at the Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien and the Kunsthaus Graz in Austria.
RECENT SOLO SHOWS
2009
John Baldessari: Brick Bldg, Lg Windows w/ Xlent Views, Partially Furnished, Renowned Architect, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany
John Baldessari: Pure Beauty, Tate Modern, London, England
2008
Biannual Award for Contemporary Art Exhibition, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands
2007
John Baldessari: Music, Kunstmuseum Bonn. Bonn, Germany.
RECENT GROUP SHOWS
2009
Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984," Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
2008
Alphabetical Order, Index, The Swedish Contemporary Art Foundation, Stockholm, Sweden
Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
2007
Learn to Read, Tate Modern. London, England
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John Baldessari Exhibitions
30/40 Part I
A Selection of Forty Artists from Thirty Years at Marian Goodman Gallery
September 10 - October 13, 2007
New York
John Baldessari Publications
Tetrad SeriesJohn Baldessari
Brown and Green and Other Parabels
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Somewhere Between Almost Right and Not Quite (With Orange)
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The Prima Facie Series
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Noses & Ears, Etc. (Part Two)
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Music
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Arms & Legs (Specif. Elbows & Knees), etc.
John Baldessari
Marian Goodman Gallery
24 West 57th Street
New York, NY 10019
Telephone 212-977-7160
Fax 212-581-5187
Summer Hours
Monday - Friday, 10 AM - 6 PM
Galerie Marian Goodman
79 Rue Du Temple
75003 Paris
Telephone 33-1-48-04 7052
Fax 33-1-40-27-8137
Hours
Tuesday - Saturday, 11 AM - 7 PM
Closed from July 24th through August 23rd
