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Vito Acconci
(
American
, 1940–2017)
Vito Acconci
Thou Shalt Not Commit Adultery,
1987
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Vito Acconci
Mobius Bench,
2003
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Biography
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Timeline
1940
Born in Bronx, NY
1962
BA Holy Cross College Worcester, Worcester, MA
1964
MFA University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA
Instructor at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia; California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA; The Cooper Union, New York, NY; School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL; Yale University, New Haven, CT; and Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY
Exhibitions
2012
Vito Acconci:Vito Acconci - Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
2011
Vito Acconi - Galleria Fumagalli, Bergamo
2010
AAA Talk Vito Acconci + Ai Weiwei: Artist in Conversation, Agnès b. Cinema, Wanchai, Hong Kong
2009
Vito Acconci: Language Works- Video, Audio and poetry, Argos, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
2008
Vigilancia y control, Centro de Arte La regenta, las Palmas de Gran Canaria, Spain (solo)
Vito Acconci : Power Fields, Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, PA (solo)
2006
Medium Fotografie, Stampa Galerie, Basel, Switzerland (solo)
Dark Places, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA (solo)
2005
Mapping Space, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL (solo)
Looking at Words, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Self/City/Sound, Foundation for Art and Creative Technology (FACT), Liverpool, UK
Vito Hannibal Acconci Studio, Centro Atlantico de Arte Moderno, Las Palmas, Gran Canary Island, Spain (solo)
Vito Hannibal Acconci Studio, Stedelijk, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (solo)
No Time in No-Land, Kenny Schachter Rove, London, UK (solo)
2004
Diary of a Body, Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Vito Hannibal Acconci, Musee d'Art Contemporain, Nantes, France; MACBA, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
Video Screening 1 - Vito Acconci, Center for Contemporary Art, CCA Kitakyushu, Kitakyushu, Japan (solo)
2003
Rehearsals for Architecture, Kenny Schachter Rove, Perry St., New York, NY (solo)
Acconci Studio - Slipping into the 21st Century, Pratt-Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Selected Videos by Vito Acconci, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, NY (solo)
2002
Vito Acconci: Acts of Architecture, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI (solo)
Vito Acconci: Acts of Architecture, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO (solo)
2001
Vito Acconci, 11 Duke Street, London, UK (solo)
Vito Acconci / Acconci Studio, Architectural Models, The Institute for the Cooperation of Art and Research, New York, NY and Paris, France (solo)
Para-Cities : Models for Public Spaces, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK
Playing Amongst the Ruins, Royal College of Art, London, UK
VITO ACCONCI : Performance Documentation & Photoworks, 1969–1973, Ubu Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
2000
Vito Acconci: Skatepark, Inst. Francais d’Architecture, Paris, France (solo)
Video Time, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1997
Acconci, Old, Refreshed and Re-viewed, Stroom, The Hague, The Netherlands (solo)
Vito Acconci, Tomio Koyama Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1996
Vito Acconci, CGAC, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain (solo)
1994
Vito Acconci : House of streets, Parks and Plazas, Le Consortium, Dijon, France (solo)
1993
Vito Acconci: Models and projects for streets, squares and parks, Stroom, The Hague, The Netherlands (solo)
1992
Vito Acconci, Centro per l´Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy (solo)
1988
Vito Acconci: Domestic Trappings, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO (solo)
Vito Acconci : Part 2, Sculpture, Installations and Video 1972-1987, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
Vito Acconci, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (solo)
Vito Acconci : Part 1, Early Works, Photographs 1969-1972, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
1987
Vito Acconci: Domestic Trappings, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA (solo)
1985
Vito Acconci, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
1983
Vito Acconci: Video tapes:De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (solo)
Tate Britain, London
United Kingdom
Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich
Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
Switzerland
Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA, Barcelona
CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela
Spain
Berardo Museum - Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisbon
Portugal
CAMeC - Centro de Arte Moderna e Contemporanea della Spezia, La Spezia
Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia
MART- Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto
Galleria Civica d´Arte Moderna e Contemporanea - GAM, Turin
Italy
National Museum of Contempory Art, Athens
Greece
Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz
Generali Foundation, Vienna
Museum für angewandte Kunst (MAK), Vienna
Germany
Le Musée de l’Objet, Blois
FRAC - Pays de la Loire, Carquefou
FRAC - Bretagne, Châteaugiron
Le Consortium, Dijon
FRAC - Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque
FRAC - Limousin, Limoges
Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris
Musée d'Art moderne de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne
France
Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
Finland
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, ON
National Gallery of Canada - Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, ON
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Canada
MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp
SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent
Belgium
USA
Austria
Public collections:
Museum Ludwig, Cologne
University Art Museum , Albany, NY
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago - MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA
Wright State University Art Galleries, Dayton, OH
The Contemporary Museum Honolulu, Honolulu, HI
Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Exit Art, New York City, NY
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY
MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Laumeier Sculpture Park, Saint Louis, MO
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
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Literature
2004
Volk, Gregory, and Vito Acconci. Vito Acconci: Diary of a Body 1969 -1973. Milan-New York: Charta, 2004
2001
Acconci, Vito, and Gloria Moure. Vito Acconci: Writings, Works, Projects. Barcelone: Poligrafa, 2001
Vito Acconci. Acconci Studio acts of architecture (exh. cat.). Milwaukee: Milwaukee Art Museum, 2001
1998
Contemporary Visual Arts, 20, pp. 36-38, Unbuilt Roads, Obrist, Hans Ulrich
1990
Critical Inquiry, 16, 4, Summer, pp. 900-918 Public Space in a Private Time, Acconci, V.
1988
ARTFORUM, XXVI, March, pp. 126-128, Projections of Home, Acconci, V.
Vito Acconci: Public Places. New York: Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1988
1980
Vito Acconci, A Retrospective: 1969 -1980 (exh. cat.). Chicago: Museum of Contemporary Art, 1980
1978
Vito Acconci: Catalogue of headlines and images. Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1978
1976
October, Spring, pp. 50-64, Video: The Aesthetics of Narcissism, Krauss