1966 |
Born in New York, NY USA B.A. Philosophy, Wesleyan University, Middletown CT, USA |
Lives and works in Los Angeles CA, USA |
Solo Exhibitions
Group Exhibitions
2023 |
Jonathan Horowitz & Rob Pruitt, Peacock Hill Houses, 303 Gallery, New York NY, USA |
2022 |
Coming Attractions: The John Waters Collection, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore MD, USA Flags, Boghossian Foundation, Villa Empain, Brussels, Belgium Welcome to the Desert of the Real, Collection Lambert, Avignon, France REPEATER, Sadie Coles HQ, Kingly Street, London, England |
2021 |
Catastrophe and Recovery, MMCA National Museum for Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea |
2020 |
Brainwashed, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany World Peace, MoCA Westport, Westport CT, USA DIS / Jonathan Horowitz, Sadie Coles HQ & Project Native Informant, London, England Drawing 2020, Gladstone Gallery, New York NY, USA Abortion is Normal, Eva Presenhuber, New York NY, USA |
2019 |
Never Again. Art against War and Fascism in the 20th and 21st centuries, Museum on the Vistula, Warsaw, Poland Kapital Melancholia, Det Fynske Kunstakademi, Odense, Denmark Sam Pulitzer. Whim or Sentiment or Chance, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany, curated by Ina Dinter |
2018 |
FRONT International: Cleveland Triennial for Contemporary Art: Digital Infinity, Cleveland OH, USA Michael Jackson: On the Wall, National Portrait Gallery, London, England; Grand Palais, Paris, France; Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany; EMME Espoo Museum of Modern Art, Espoo, Finland Zerrissene Gesellschaft (Broken Bonds), 8. Festival für Fotografie f/stop Leipzig (Festival for Photography f/stop Leipzig), Baumwollspinnerei, Leipzig, Germany Distortion, Willem Twee kunstruimte, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands Shanzini - Artist editions & publications by Shannon Michael Cane, Printed Matter, New York NY, USA |
2017 |
Main Street to Madison Avenue, Westport Art Center, Westport CT, USA Divided States of America, Stuart Comer and Robb Leigh Davis, The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center, New York NY, USA, curated by Alison M. Gingeras Take Me (I’m Yours), Pirelli Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Italy, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Roberta Tenconi and Chiara Parisi (Interlude), Cookie Butcher, Brussels, Belgium Activism as Art, organized by Mojave Animal Protection, Art Queen, Joshua Tree CA, USA We Need to Talk, Petzel Gallery, New York NY, USA Talking Pictures: Camera-Phone Conversations Between Artists, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY, USA, curated by Mia Fineman 99 Cents or Less, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit MI, USA, curated by Jens Hoffmann and Susanne Feld Hilberry |
2016 |
Moving Tales. Video works from the La Gaia Collection, Chiesa di San Francesco, Cuneo, Italy The Vedettes showboat, in conjunction with the exhibition Merci Raymond! at Monnaie de Paris, Les Vedettes du Pont-Neuf, Square du Vert Galant, Paris, France Take Me (I’m Yours), Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark, curated by Christian Boltanski and Hans Ulrich Obrist Identity Revisited, The Warehouse, Dallas TX, USA, curated by Allan Schwartzman Winter 2015: Collected Works, Rennie Collection at Wing Sang, Vancouver, Canada Broken Flag, Iceberg Projects, Chicago IL, USA Art as Social Force Exhibition: It’s Your Party, Cry If You Want To, Mobile Homestead, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, Detroit MI, USA Take Me (I’m Yours), The Jewish Museum, New York NY, USA, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jens Hoffman and Kelly Taxter The Power and the Glory, Charles Riva Collection, Brussels, Belgium The Natural Order of Things, Fundación Jumex Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico |
2015 |
Rainbow in the Dark, Malmö Art Museum, Malmö, Sweden Art Aids America, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma WA, USA Take Me (I’m Yours), Monnaie de Paris, Paris, France, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Christian Boltanski and Chiara Parisi |
2014 |
Black Milk, Holocaust in Contemporary Art,Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark Shit and Die – One Torino, Myriam Ben Salah and Marta Papini,Palazzo Cavour, Turin, Italy, organized by Maurizio Cattelan Rockaway!, Fort Tilden and Rockaway Beach, New York NY, USA, curated by MoMA PS1 FIERCE CREATIVITY, Pace Gallery, New York NY, USA |
2013 |
do it, Socrates Sculpture Park, New York NY, USA, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, touring exhibition through to December 2018 FOOD 1971/2013, Frieze Projects, Frieze New York, Randall's Island, New York NY, USA In the Heart of the Country, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland Paparazzi, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France Your Content Will Return Shortly, Franklin Street Works, Stamford CT, USA |
2012 |
Battleground States, Utah Museum of Contemporary Arts, Salt Lake City UT, USA R4, Special FIAC Project, Ile Seguin, Paris, France Video Killed the Radio Star, Warsaw MOCA, Warsaw, Poland Ministry of Truth, Boers-Li Gallery, Beijing, China |
2011 |
Miracles, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany Day of the Locust, White Flags Projects, St. Louis MO, USA |
2010 |
Viaggio in Italia, Palazzo Fabroni, Pistoia, Italy BigMinis, Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux, France Christmas in July, Yvon Lambert, New York NY, USA Moving Images: Artists & Video/Film, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany The woods that see and hear, dertien hectare, 's-Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands Che cosa sono le nuvole? Artworks from the Enea Righi Collection, Museion - Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano, Italy SIR Cinema, Sculpture International Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
2009 |
Beg Borrow and Steal, Rubell Family Collection, Miami FL, USA Edition Bewegte Bilder - Sammlung Rheingold, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany The Living and the Dead, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York NY, USA Saints and Sinners, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham MA, USA Good News for People who Love Bad News, Studio 495, Swiss Institute, New York NY, USA |
2008 |
Sudden White (after London), GSK Contemporary Season, Royal Academy, London, England An Unruly History of the Readymade, La Coleccion Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico, curated by Jessica Morgan Moral Imagination – Contemporary Art and Climate Change, Kunstmuseum Thurgau, Kartause Ittingen, Switzerland Rom Report, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany Italia Italie Italien Italy Wlochy, ARCOS Museo d'Arte Contemporanea,Benevento, Italy, curated by Gigiotto Del Vecchio, Alessandro Rabottini, Elena Lydia Scipioni and Andrea Viliani Good News for People Who Love Bad News, Swiss Institute, New York NY, USA, curated by Gianni Jetzer Other Than Yourself - An Investigation Between Inner and Outer Space, Thyssen - Bornemisza Art Contemporary, Vienna, Austria |
2007 |
RAW,Museum of Modern Art, New York NY, USA In The Poem About Love You Don't Write The Word Love, Overgarden Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, Denmark, curated by Tanya Leighton Lines, Grids, Stains, Words,Museum of Modern Art, New York NY, USA New York State of Mind, House of World Cultures, Berlin, Germany The Wonderful Fund: Art for the New Millennium 2000-2005, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, England Das Kapital – Blue Chips and Masterpieces,Museum for Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany Art in America: 300 Years of Innovation, organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and the Terra Foundation for American Art, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China; Shanghai Museum and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Shanghai, China (cat.) Raw. Among the Ruins, Marres Center for Contemporary Art, Maastricht, The Netherlands, curated by Lisette Smits and Alexis Vaillant Playback, ARC/Musee d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France |
2006 |
Defamation of Character, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, New York NY, USA, curated by Neville Wakefield Repeat Redux, Screening and Performance Series,Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York NY, USA Figures de l’acteur: Le Paradoxe du comedien,Collection Lambert, Avignon, France (cat.) The Wonderful Fund: Art for the New Millennium 2000 – 2005, Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, England The Eighth Square: Gender, Life, and Desire in the Visual Arts Since 1960, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany, curated by Kasper Konig and Frank Wagner Into Me/Out of Me, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York NY, USA, curated by Klaus Biesenbach; KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany; MACRO Museo d’Arte Contemporanea di Roma, Rome, Italy (cat.) Down by Law, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY, curated by Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni, and Ali Subotnick Modern Times, Museo d'Arte Provincia di Nuoro, Nuoro, Italy, curated by Maria Rosa Sossai The name of the Show is Not Gay Art Now, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York NY, USA, curated by Jack Pierson Object of Desire / The Kate Moss Show, Museum of Photography, Amsterdam, The Netherlands Survivor, Bortolami Dayan Gallery, New York NY, USA, curated by David Rimanelli Take One, Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston TX, USA, curated by Domenick Ammirati The Kate Show, Foam Fotografiemuseum Amsterdam, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, curated by Rita Ackermann and Olivier Zahm The Fact, Abstract, Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs, Long Island City NY, USA, curated by Claire Barliant |
2005 |
Realit;-)t. 30 Video Works from the Goetz Collection in Munich. From Olaf Breuning to Sam Taylor-Wood, Seedamm Kulturzentrum, Pfaffikon, Switzerland Jump Cut Nights, SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne, Germany Museumsnacht, SK Stiftung Kultur, Cologne, Germany What’s New Pussycat? Museum fur Modern Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany 5 ans, Collection Lambert en Avignon, Avignon, France The Wonderful Fund Collection, La Musée de Marrakech, Marrakech, Morocco Log Cabin, Artists Space, New York NY, USA, curated by Jeffrey Uslip Theorema. Une Collection Privee en Italie, la Collection d'Enea Righi,Collection Lambert, Avignon, France Superstars: From Warhol to Madonna,Kunsthalle Wien and Kunstforum Wien, Vienna, Austria |
2004 |
100 Artists See God,ICA, London, England Genealogies of Glamour: The Future has a Silver Lining, Migros Museum, fur Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland The Ten Commandments, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany, curated by Klaus Biesenbach Drunk vs. Stoned, Gavin Brown's Enterprise at Passerby, New York NY, USA A Fripon, Fripon et Demi- A School for Truants,Collection Lambert, Avignon, France Aus acktuellem Anlass, Johann Konig, Berlin, Germany Let the Bullshit Run a Marathon, Nicole Klagsbrun, New York NY, curated by Nate Lowman Marilyn, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York NY, USA |
2003 |
La Nuit Americaine, Yvon Lambert, New York NY, USA 20th Anniversary Exhibition, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York NY, USA Dust Memories, Swiss Institute, New York NY, curated by Emmanuel Latreille Love, Magazin 4 Bregenzer Kunstverein, Bregenz, Austria Fast Forward: Media Art Sammlung Goetz, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany Drop Out, China Art Objects Galleries, Los Angeles CA, USA First Person, Mercer Union, Toronto, Canada, curated by Kim Simon Homeland, The Whitney Independent Study Program, New York NY, USA Nation,Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany, curated by Rene Zechlin Parle a Mes Peres, Collection Lambert at PhotoEspana, Madrid, Spain |
2002 |
Just Love Me: Post-Feminist Positions of the Nineties,Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden- Baden, Goetz Collection, Munich, Germany; Bergen Art Museum, Bergen, Germany; Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, The Netherlands The Object Sculpture, The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, England, selected by Tobias Rehberger, Joelle Tuerlinckx and Keith Wislon, curated by Penelope Curtis Tableaux Vivants, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria, curated by Sabine Folie and Michael Glasmeier Non-Places, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt-am-Main, Germany, curated by Nicolaus Schafhausen Dark Spring, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal-Unterowisheim, Germany,curated by Liam Gillick Zusammenhaenge Herstellen, Hamburg, Germany, curated by Yilmaz Dziewor, Kunstverein Mensaje De Texto, Galeria Helga De Alvear, Madrid, Spain, curated by Waling Boers |
2001 |
4Free, BuroFriedrich, Berlin, Germany Metropolis Now, Borusan Art Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey Casino, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium, curated by Jeanne Greenberg The Americans,Barbican Art Centre, London, England Annonyme, Rencontres Internationales de La Photographie, Arles, France Televisions, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria, curated by Joshua Decter Third Annual Altoids Curiously Strong Collection, Los Angeles CA, USA Video Mania, Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland The Choice Between Anonymity and Notoriety, 32nd Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Arles, France, curated by Eric Mezil Site Co-opted, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York NY, USA Desins, Ecole Regionale des Beaux-Arts, Dunkerque, France Do You Have Time, Liebman Magnan, New York NY, USA Pause, Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles CA, USA |
2000 |
New York Projects, Delfina Project Space, London, England, curated by Luke Dowd Over the Edges, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium, curated by Jan Hoet & Giacinto di Pietrantonio Pop Unlimited, International Short Film Festival - Special Program, Oberhausen, Germany New Work from New York, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville TN, USA Making Time: Considering time as a material in contemporary film &video, Palm Beach Institute for Contemporary Art, Palm Beach FL, USA, curated by Amy Cappellazzo; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA, USA Greater New York: New Art in New York Now, P.S. 1/MOMA, New York NY, USA Two Friends and So On…, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York NY, USA (curatorial project by Jonathan Horowitz & Rob Pruitt) Achieving Failure: Gym Culture 2000, Thread Waxing Space, New York NY, USA, curated by Bill Arning CAN 303s HEAL?,Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland, curated by Toby Webster Kosmobiologie-12 Artists/12 Zodiac Signs, Bellwether, New York NY, USA, curated by Nancy Chaikin Trailer, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York NY, USA Full Serve, presented by mixed greens & Kenny Shachter/Rove, New York NY, USA |
1999 |
Interplay, The Contemporary Museum of Art, Tucson AZ, USA, curated by Caitlin Masley Zeitwenden - The Outlook, Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany; Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Wien, Vienna, Austria Regarding Beauty in Performance and Media Arts, 1967-1998; Program III-Icons of Beauty, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, USA; Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany Exit, Chisenhale, London, England, curated by Alison Gingeras A Place Called Lovely, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York NY, USA, curated by Sima Familant Persuasion: Tales of Commerce and the Avant-garde, University of Buffalo Art Gallery/Research Center in Art + Culture, Buffalo NY, USA The Opening, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium New York Neither/Nor, Grand Arts, Kansas City MO, USA, curated by Bill Arning Compromising Situations, Galerie Montenay-Giroux, Paris, France, curated by Muriel Colin-Barrand Conceptual Art as Neurobiological Praxis,Thread Waxing Space, New York NY, USA, curated by Warren Neidich Free Coke, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York NY, USA |
1998 |
Invited Exhibition of Visual Art 1998, Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland Oriental Nights, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York NY, USA, curated by Jennifer Bornstein and Chivas Clem Group Show, The Fifth International, New York NY, USA Biovoid, Museum of Natural History, Lisbon, Portugal Tune In, Lawing Gallery, Houston TX, USA Superfreaks: Post Pop & the New Generation - Part I: Trash, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York NY, USA Cambio, Museo Universitario del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico and Sandra Gering Gallery, New York NY, USA, curated by Kenny Schachter |
1997 |
Bring Your Own Walkman, Achterzaal, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, curated by Jack Jaeger Thriller, 303 Gallery, New York NY, USA, curated by Tom Borgese Group Show, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York NY, USA Video Flash, Hohenthal und Bergen Gallery, Cologne, Germany Screentest, Hotel 17 performance series, 192 Third Avenue, New York NY, USA |
1996 |
Password: Ferdydurke, Postmasters Gallery, New York NY, USA The Strange Power of Cheap Sentiment, White Columns, New York NY, USA, curated by Bill Arning Shit,Baron/Boisante Gallery, New York NY, USA Facing the Millennium, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington TX, USA, curated by Kenny Schacter (cat.) Sex and Drugs and Explosives, London Artforms Gallery, London, England, curated by Kenny Schachter |
1995 |
Gang Warfare, Independent Art Space, London, England; McKinney Avenue Contemporary, Dallas TX, USA, curated by Michael Corris; The Consortium, Dijon, France (cat.) Looky Loo,Sculpture Center, New York NY, USA, curated by Kenny Schachter (cat.) |
1994 |
Personal Cinema Program, Millennium, New York NY, USA Played,Printed Matter, New York NY, USA, curated by Kenny Schachter |
1993 | Arts Festival of Atlanta, Atlanta GA, USA (cat.) |
1992 | Morality Café, Postmasters Gallery, New York NY, USA, curated by Kenny Schachter |
1991 | Unlearning, 142 Greene Street, New York NY, USA |
1989 | Document and Dream, Artists Space, New York NY, USA |
Public Projects
2017 |
1612 Dots, Westfield Trade Center’s Oculus, New York NY, USA |
2016 |
Presidential Debate Party, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York NY, USA |
2015 |
160 Dots (in conjunction with Niele Toroni), Swiss Institute, New York NY, USA 170 Dots, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, Frieze NY, Randall’s Island, New York NY, USA |
2014 |
590 Dots, 356 S. Mission Road, Los Angeles CA, USA |
Curatorial Projects
2020 |
We Fight to Build a Free World: An Exhibition by Jonathan Horowitz, The Jewish Museum, New York NY, USA |
2017-2021 |
Daily Trumpet, @dailytrumpet on Instagram |
2006 | Two Friends and So On, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York NY, USA, curated by Jonathan Horwitz and Rob Pruitt |
2001 |
Two Friends and So On, Marc Foxx Gallery, Los Angeles CA, USA, curated by Jonathan Horwitz and Rob Pruitt |
1996 | Howard the Duck, zing magazine, Autumn-Winter |
Solo Screenings
2009 | Light Industry, Brooklyn NY, USA |
2005 | L’Entrepot, Paris, France, presented by Ann Bonnin |
2000 | Personal Cinema Program, Millennium, New York NY, USA |
Public Collections
AGSA Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia Centre Pompidou, Paris, France Collection Lambert, Avignon, France CNAP French National Centre for Visual Art, Paris, France Goetz Collection, Munich, Germany Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany The Jewish Museum, New York NY, USA MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst Frankfurt am Main, Frankfurt, Germany Mudam Luxembourg - Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg City, Luxemburg Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zürich, Switzerland MET Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY, USA MCA SD Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego CA, USA Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York NY, USA Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa, Wellington, New Zealand New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York NY, USA |