Robert Longo

Robert Longo

www.robertlongo.com

Born on January 7, 1953 in Brooklyn; lives in New York City Attended State University College, Buffalo, New York, 1975, BFA

Selected One-person Exhibitions:

2009
"Robert Longo: 1979-2009," Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Nice; The Berardo Museum Collection, Lisbon (2009-2010) (cat.)
Metro Pictures, New York (and 1981, 1983, 1984, 1986, 1988, 1990, 1993, 1997, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2006, 2007)
Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf (and 1992, 1994, 2007)
2008
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles (and 2005)
Galería Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid (and 2003) (cat.)
2006
"Ouroboros," Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
2005
"Robert Longo: Fire, Water, Rock 2003-2005," Galleria D'Arte Contemporanea Emilio Mazzoli, Modena, Italy (cat.)
"Robert Longo: Deep Silence," Monchehaus Museum, Goslar
2002
"Robert Longo- Sigmund Freud," Jüdisches Museum Berlin, Germany
"The Freud Drawings," Museen Haus Lange und Haus Esters; Krefelder Kunstmuseen, Germany; Albertina Museum, Vienna (cat.)
2000
"Robert Longo: Superheroes," Lipanjepuntin Artecontemporanea, Trieste, Italy
"Robert Longo: 1980-2000," Emilio Mazzoli, Modena, Italy (cat.)
1998
Gallery Cotthem, Belgium; Cotthem Gallery Barcelona (cat.)
1997
"Das Magellan Projekt," Kunsthalle Tubingen; Kunsthal Rotterdam; Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany (cat.)
1996
"Robert Longo: Kreuze," Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
1995
"Robert Longo: A Retrospective," The Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo; Ashikaga City Museum; Kirin Plaza Art Space, Osaka (cat.)
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg (and 1993)
1992
"Dreams With The Wrong Solutions," Salzburg Grand Opera House, Salzburg
1991
Hamburger Kunstverein and Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (cat.)
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris (and 1987, 1990)
1989
"Robert Longo 1976-1989," (Retrospective) The Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut (cat.)
1988
Menil Collection, Houston
1986
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
"Robert Longo: Studies and Prints," Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, University of Regina, Sasketchawan
Spiral Gallery, Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo (cat.)
"Sequences/Men in the Cities," University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana (cat.)
1985
The Brooklyn Museum, New York
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
"Robert Longo Dis-Illusions," University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City (cat.)
1984
"Robert Longo: Drawings & Reliefs," Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio (cat.)
Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles (and 1981)
1983
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
1979
The Kitchen, New York
1976
Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York

Selected Group Exhibitions:
2010
"The Surreal House," Barbican Art Gallery, London (cat.)
"Off the Wall: Part 1—Thirty Performative Actions," The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
"Human," Musée d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Nice
"Disquieted," Portland Art Museum, Oregon
"Cars: Warhol, Fleury, Longo, Szarek—Works from the Daimler Collection," The Albertina, Vienna
2009
"Just What Is It: 100 Years of Modern Art From Private Collections in Baden-Württemberg," ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe (2009-2010)
Metro Pictures, New York (and 2003, 2005) (2009-2010)
"Beg Borrow and Steal," The Rubell Family Collection Museum, Miami (2009-2010) (cat.)
"The Pictures Generation: 1974-1984," The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (cat.)
"Three: The Triptych in Modern Art," Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart
2008
"Interieur/Exterieur: Living in Art," Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg (2008-2009) (cat.)
"Political Corect," BFAS Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva
"to: Night," The Hunter College Art Galleries, New York
"Landscope," Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris (cat.)
"The Big Bang," Museo Carlo Bilotti, Rome (cat.)
"That Was Then…This Is Now," P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York
"Future Tense: Reshaping the Landscape," Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York
2007
"History Will Repeat Itself," KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin; Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund; Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (2007-2008) (cat.)
"Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami; Musée D'Art Contemporain, Montréal (2007-2009) (cat.)
"Panic Attack! Art in the Punk Years," Barbican Art Gallery, London (cat.)
"Hot Rock," Transmission Gallery, Scotland
2006
"Fifth Interpretation of the Collection," La Colección Jumex, Pachuca, Mexico (cat.)
"New York New York: Fifty Years of Art, Architecture, Cinema, Performance, Photography and Video," Grimaldi Forum, Monaco (cat.)
"Les Mouvement des Images," Centre Pompidou, France (cat.)
"The Downtown Art Show: The New York Art Scene 1974-1984," Grey Art Gallery, Fales Library, New York University (cat.)
2005
"Flashback: Revisiting the Art of the Eighties," Kunstmuseum Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel (cat.)
"Drawing from the Modern," MoMA, New York
2004
"Biennial," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2003
"Art, Lies, and Videotape: Exposing Performance," Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England (cat.)
2002
"The Human Factor: Figuration American Art, 1950-1995," Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana
"Melodrama," Atrium, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain; Centro José Guerrero, Granada, Spain, MARCO, Vigo, Spain (cat.)
2001
"Postmodern Americans," The Menil Collection, Houston
"'Pictures' at an Exhibition," Artists Space, New York
"Streit-Lust– For Argument's Sake," Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany (cat.)
2000
"End Papers," Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York
1999
"The Kiasma Collection," Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
"The Virginia & Bagley Wright Collection," Seattle Art Museum
1998
"The Edward R. Broida Collection: a Selection of Works," Orlando Museum of Art, Florida (cat.)
1997
La Biennale di Venezia: XLVII Esposizioione Internationale d'Arte, Venice (cat.)
"Views From Abroad: European Perspectives on American Art 3," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (cat.)
"Stills: Art and Cinema in the Marieluise Hessel Collection," Centro Cultural Light, Rio de Janeiro; Center For Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (broch.)
1996
"New York 'Unplugged II'," Gallery Cotthem, Knokke-Zoute, Belgium
1995
"It's Only Rock and Roll," Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (traveling venues through 1998, (cat.)
"Passions Privee," Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
1993
"The 21st Century," Kunsthalle Basel (cat.)
1992
"Allegories of Modernism: Contemporary Drawing," Museum of Modern Art, New York (cat.)
1990
"Affinities and Intuitions: The Gerald S. Elliott Collection of Contemporary Art," The Art Institute of Chicago (cat.)
1989
"A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (cat.)
"Image World: Art and Media Culture," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (cat.)
1987
"Documenta 8," Kassel, Germany (cat.)
"L'Epoque, La Mode, La Morale, La Passion, 1977-1987," Centre Georges Pompidou, Musee National D'Art Moderne, Paris (cat.)
"Avant-Garde in the Eighties," Los Angeles County Museum of Art (cat.)
"Implosion: A Postmodern Perspective," Moderna Museet, Stockholm (cat.)
1986
"The American Exhibition," The Art Institute of Chicago
1985
"Carnegie International," Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh (cat.)
1984
"Alibis," Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (cat.)
"Content: A Contemporary Focus, 1974-1984," Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C. (cat.)
"The Heroic Figure," Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; (1984-85) Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis; Alexandria Museum, Alexandria, Kentucky; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California (cat.)
1983
"Directions 1983," Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C. (cat.)
"Biennial," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (cat.)
"The New Art," Tate Gallery, London (cat.)
"The Fifth Biennale of Sydney, Private Symbol: Social Metaphor," Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia (cat.)
"An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture," Museum of Modern Art, New York (cat.)
1982
"Eight Artists: The Anxious Edge," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (cat.)
"Focus on the Figure: Twenty Years," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (cat.)
"Documenta 7," Kassel, Germany (cat.)
1981
"Westkunst: Today Section," Museen der Stadt Koln, Cologne (cat.)
1980
"Extensions: Jennifer Bartlett, Lynda Benglis, Robert Longo, Judy Pfaff," Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (cat.)
1977
"Pictures," Artists Space, New York; (1977-78) Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio; Fine Arts Museum, University of Colorado, Boulder; Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art (cat.)

Film and Video Direction:

1995
"Johnny Mnemonic," feature-film starring Keanu Reeves, Dolph Lundgren, Barbara Sukowa, Henry Rollins, Ice-T, Takeshi Kitano, and Dina Meyer, adaptation of a short story by William Gibson, Caroloco Films, Tristar Pictures
1987
"Arena Brains," Elektra/Asylum Records, 34 minute film premiered at New York Film Festival, released on home video in 1988, produced by Victoria Hamburg and Jonathan Bender, edited by Rick Feist, written by Eric Bogosian, E. Max Frye, Robert Longo, Emily Prager, and Richard Price, Pressure Pictures
R.E.M.'s "The One I Love," IRS Records, produced by Victoria Hamburg, edited by Gretchen Bender, nominated for Best Director, MTV Awards, 1988, Pressure Pictures
1986-1992
directed videos for New Order, REM, Helmet, and World Saxophone Quartet

Selected Bibliography:
2010
Marina Faust, "Robert Longo," Frog, Number 9, pp. 244-253
Jane Alison, The Surreal House, Barbican Art Gallery; Yale University Press, London, pp. 100-103
Tomás Vio, "Robert Longo: Myth Hunter," Arte al Limite, March/April, pp. 16-25, cover
Jeff Rian, "Robert Longo's Men in the Cities," Purple, Issue #13, Spring/Summer, pp. 354-359
2009
Juan Roselione-Valadez (ed.), Beg Borrow and Steal, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, pp. 158-159
Harriet Häußler & Aeneas Bastian (ed.), According to the Artists: 13 Questions—51 Interviews, Kerber Art, Bielefeld, Germany, pp. 107-110, 230
Christian Rattemeyer, The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection: Catalogue Raisonné, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, pp. 179
Robert Longo, Skira Flammarion; Musee d'Art Modern et d'Art Contemporain, Nice, pp. 175
David Galloway, "Provocative Visions of Apocalypse," The International Herald Tribune, September 26-27, pp. 23
Dorothy Spears, "Performance: Moonlighting," Art in America, June/July, pp. 81-84
Steve Pulimood, "Robert Longo Surrenders the Absolutes," Art in America, May 28
Robert Longo: Men in the Cities, Schirmer/Mosel, Munich, pp. 128
Douglas Eklund, The Pictures Generation, 1974-1984, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Peter Schjeldahl, "Alien Emotions: Pictures Art Revisited," The New Yorker, May 4, pp. 74-75
T. J. Carlin, "Studio Visit: Robert Longo," Time Out New York, May 13, pp. 64-65
Holland Cotter, "At the Met, Baby Boomers Leap Onstage," The New York Times, April 24, pp. C27, C30
Boyer Tresaco, Best New York Art 2008/2009, Theredoom, New York, pp. 100-103
Glenn O'Brien, "Robert Longo," Purple, Issue #11, Spring/Summer, pp. 314-321
Christopher Miles, "Art Around Town," LAWeekly.com, January 7
2008
Interieur/Exterieur: Living in Art, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Ostfildern, pp. 49, 52, 186, 196-197
"Robert Longo," Dossier, Issue No. 1, pp. 26-31
New York Chanel Mobile Art, Issue #3, pp. 11-12, 17-18, 129-130
The Big Bang, Museo Carlo Bilotti, Rome, pp. 18-31
Matthieu Poirier (ed.), Landscope: Landscape and Contemporary Drawing, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, pp. 38-41
2007
Dominic Molon, Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, pp. 43-47
Joanne Bernstein, The UBS Art Collection: Drawings, UBS AG, Zürich, pp. 160-161
"The Producers," Artforum, October, pp. 352-359, 402
Dorothy Spears, "It's Only Rock and Art, but They Like It," The New York Times, September 30, pp. 30
Panic Attack! Art in the Punk Years, Mark Sladen and Ariella Yedgar (ed.), Merrell Publishers Limited, London, pp. 102-103
Jonathan T.D. Neil, "Robert Longo: The Outward and Visible Signs of an Inward and Invisible Grace," Art Review, February, pp. 132
Sarah Valdez, "Robert Longo: Review," Art on Paper, January/February, pp. 89
2006
Fifth Interpretation of the Collection, La Colección Jumex, Pachuca, Mexico, pp. 213
The Movement of Images, Centre Pompidou Editions, Paris, pp. cover design, 102
Sarah Douglas, "Staying Power," Art + Auction, November, pp. 160-167
No. 1, Francesca Richer and Matthew Rosenzweig (ed.), D.A.P., New York, pp. 225
Germano Celant and Lisa Dennison, New York New York: Fifty Years of Art, Architecture, Cinema, Performance, Photography and Video, Skira, Monaco, pp. 480 - 483
2005
Hatje Cantz Verlag, Flashback: Revisiting the Art of the 1980s, Kunstmuseum Basel, Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Switzerland
Richard Lacayo, "How Does '80s Art Look Now," Time, 26 March, pp. 58-62
Robert Longo: Fire, Water, Rock 2003-2005, Emilio Mazzoli Galleria D\'Arte Contemporanea Modena, Italy
Jordan Kantor, Drawing from the Modern: After the Endgames, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, pp. 105.
Werner Spies, Robert Longo: Deep Silence, Monchehaus Museum Publishing, Goslar (cat.)
Robert Longo, "A Universe in Climax Sonic Grandeur: Robert Longo Talks with Glenn Branca," Yard, ed. Ellen Ross, London Terrace Station, New York pp. 46-53
2004
Francine Koslow Miller, "Robert Longo – Metro Pictures," Tema Celeste, Milan, May/June, p. 90
Eleanor Heartney, "Robert Longo at Metro Pictures," Art in America, September, p. 127
2003
Peter Kalb, "Robert Longo at Metro Pictures," Art in America, January, p. 101
"Robert Longo Talks to Mary Haus," interview with Mary Haus, Artforum, March, pp 238-239
Recycled Culture in Contemporary Art and Film: The Uses of Nostalgia, Vera Dika, Cambridge University Press, New York, pp. 8, 9, 36-41
Christina Parra, "ARTE," Metaphore, vol. 7, June, pp. 90-93
2002
Melodrama, Atrium, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, pp. 36-41
Joyce Korotkin, "A Force of Nature," Tema Celeste, Milan, September/October, pp. 74-77
Paul H-O, "September Tsunami," Artnet.com Magazine, September
Christopher Bollen, "Robert Longo, 'Monsters'," Time Out New York, 17-24 October, p. 80
The Freud Drawings, Krefelder Kunstmuseen, Krefeld, Germany
Lilly Wei, "Robert Longo– Metro Pictures," Art News, December, p. 117
2001 Kim Levin, "Robert Longo," Village Voice, 6 February, p. 78
Joyce Korotkin, "Robert Longo, Metro Pictures," The New York Art World, March, p. 16
Donald Kuspit, "Robert Longo, Metro Pictures," Artforum, April, p. 138
Carey Lovelace, "Robert Longo at Metro Pictures," Art in America, May, p. 172
Robert Curcio, "Robert Longo: The Next Wave," dart, Spring, pp. 18-19
Postmodernism, Eleanor Heartney, Tate Publishing, London, pp. 32-33
David Rimanelli, "Signs of the Time," Artforum, October, pp. 130-122
Streit-Lust– For Argument's Sake, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany, p. 55
Werner Spies, "What was left of the Doctor: Robert Longo and His Cycle on Sigmund Freud's Apartment in Vienna," Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, Frankfurt, 8 September
2000
Art Since 1940: Strategies of Being, edited by Jonathon Fineberg, Calmann & King, London, p. 450
End Papers, edited by Judy Collischan, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York
Robert Longo: 1980-2000, essays by Achille Bonito Oliva and Richard Milazzo, Emilio Mazzoli, Modena, Italy
1999
"The Wired Diaries," Wired, January, p. 127
Performance: Live Art Since 1960, Roselee Goldberg, Abrams, New York, p. 200
The Virginia & Bagley Wright Collection, essays by Trevor Fairbrother and Bagley Wright, Seattle Art Museum, p. 132
Laurence A. Rickels, "American Psychos," Art/Text, November, pp. 58-63
Ann Landi, "Robert Longo: Dorfman Projects," Art News, December, p. 175
The American Century: 1950-2000, Lisa Phillips, Whitney Museum of American Art, p. 308
1998
Owen Drolet, "A More Intimate Longo," Flash Art, Milan, January/February, p. 45
David Frankel, "Robert Longo: Metro Pictures," Artforum, March, p. 100
Grady G. Turner, "Robert Longo," Flash Art, Milan, March/April, pp. 113-114
The Edward R. Broida Collection: a Selection of Works, Sue Scott, Orlando Museum of Art, Florida
Stills: A Selection from the Marieluise Hessel Collection, essay by Ivo Mesquita, Center For Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Maia Damianovic, "Robert Longo," Tema Celeste, Milan, p. 62
Superheroes, Cotthem Gallery, Cotthem, Belgium; Cotthem Gallery, Barcelona
History of Modern Art (4th edition), H.H. Arnason & Marla F. Prather, Abrams, New York, pp. 711-712
Art of the 20th Century (vol. I & II), essays by Klaus Honnef, Indigo F. Walther, Christiane Friche, Manfred Schneckenburger, Karl Ruhrburg, Benedikt Taschen, Cologne, pp. 561, 573-574
1997 Robert Longo: Magellan, essay by Thomas Kellein, Kunsthalle Tubingen, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, du Mont, Cologne
Adam Gopnik, "The Repressionists: A New Group of Painters Haunts the Biennale," New York, July, pp. 86-88
Views From Abroad: European Perspectives on American Art 3, essays by Nicholas Serota, Sandy Narine, Clement Greenberg, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Grace Glueck, "Robert Longo: Magellan Series," New York Times, 12 December, p. E41
Stills: Art and Cinama in the Marieluise Hessel Collection, essays by Vasif Kortun & Ivo Mesquita, Centro Cultural Light, Rio de Janeiro
A/Drift, edited by Joshua Decter, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
Whitney Scott, "TV Junkie," Manhattan File, December/January, p. 34
1995
Robert Longo: A Retrospective, Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo; Ashikaga City Museum, Ashikaga; Kirin Plaza Art Space, Osaka, Japan
1991
Robert Longo, Hamburg Kunstverein
1990
Black Flags, essay by Caroline Smulders, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
1989
Robert Longo, essays by Howard N. Fox, Hal Foster, Katherine Dieckman, Brian Wallis, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Rizzoli, New York
1986
Robert Longo: Studies and Prints, essay by Michael Parke-Taylor, Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, University of Regina, Sasketchawan
Robert Longo: Sequences/Men in the Cities, essay by Lucinda Barnes, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach
Robert Longo: Men in the Cities, introduction and interview by Richard Price, Abrams, New York
Longo in Toyko, essay by Junji Itoh, Spiral Gallery, Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo
1985
Robert Hobbs, Robert Longo Dis-Illusions, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City
1983
Carter Ratcliff, "Robert Longo," Interview Magazine, April
Robert Longo: Drawings & Reliefs, introduction by I. Michael Danoff, essay by Hal Foster, Akron Art Museum, Ohio
New Art, Tate Gallery, London
1977
Pictures, essay by Douglas Crimp, Artists Space, New York

Awards and Grants:
2005 The Goslar Kaiser Ring


Museum collections:

The Albertina, Vienna, Austria
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Art Institute of Chicago
Eli Broad Family Foundation, Los Angeles
Guggenheim Museum, New York
High Museum, Atlanta
The Jewish Museum, New York
Jüdisches Museum Berlin, Germany
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Ludwig-Forum fur Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany
Menil Collection, Houston
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
Musee d'Art Contemporain, Montreal
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Power Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Sydney, Australia
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Tate Gallery, London
Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Kansas
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven