FELIX GONZALEZ-TORRES
1957, Guaimaro, Cuba - 1996, Miami, Flordia
A member of Group Material
F / B / S / V / INSTV
| MULTIPLES/HAND-OUTS | ||
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| untitled, 1991 [45 1/4" x 38 1/2 " paper - waves] | Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York | 2005 |
| untitled (Death by Gun, 1990) [two copies from 2 different exhibitions] | uncertain installation ? year / Whitney Biennial | 2006 |
| untitled (for Parkett - postcard for Thinking Print exhibition) | The Museum of Modern Art, New York | 1996 |
| untitled (Passport, 1991) | BAK, basisvoor actuele kuns | 2004 |
| untitled (Passport II, 1993) | Museum Ludwig, Cologne | 2002 |
| untitled (Placebo II - Landscape - for Roni, 1993) | Deutsche Hygiene-Museum | 2004 |
| untitled (Placebo II - Landscape - for Roni, 1993) | Museum Ludwig, Koln | 2004 |
| untitled (Placebo II - Landscape - for Roni, 1993) | Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York | 2005 |
| untitled (Portrait of Rose in L.A., 1991) | Luhring Augustine | 2000 |
| BOOKS BY OR ABOUT GONZALEZ-TORRES | ||
| Felix Gonzalez-Torres [edited by Julie Ault] | Steidldangin, Germany | 2006 |
| PROJECTS | ||
| Felix Gonzalez-Torres selects photographic images for text: | Out There: Marginalization and Contemporary Cultures, MIT Press | 1990 |
| INDIVIDUAL CATALOGUES AND CATALOGUE RAISONNE | ||
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| Felix Gonzalez-Torres | Magasin 3 Stockholm Kohsthall | 1992 |
| Felix Gonzalez-Torres | Guggenheim Museum, NYC | 1995 |
| Felix Gonzalez-Torres | Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden | 1994 |
| Felix Gonzalez-Torres [America] | United States Pavilion, Venice Biennale | 2007 |
| Felix Gonzalez-Torres Catalogue Raisonne | Cantz | 1997 |
| Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Currents 22 [five-fold, ten page brochure] | Milwaukee Art Museum | 1993 |
| Felix Gonzalez-Torres: I always wonder if men in uniform sleep better after performing their duties. | Intar Latin American Gallery, New York | 1988 |
| OTHER PUBLICATIONS | ||
| Inserts ["Advertising Supplement to The New York Times" sponsored by the Public Art Fund] | Group Material | 1988 |
| CATALOGUES INCLUDING GONZALEZ-TORRES | ||
| ARS 95: Private/Public [Curator: Maria Hirvi] | Museum of Contemporary Art, Finnish National Museum, Helsinki | 1995 |
| Absent Territories [Curator: Gerardo Mosquera] | Casa de America, Madrid | 2000 |
| Archive Fever: Uses of the Document in Contemporary Art | International Center for Photography, New York | 2008 |
| Arte no es Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas, 19960-2000 | el Museo del Barrio, New York | 2008 |
| Berlin Biennale 1 - Berlin/Berlin [curator: Klaus Biesenbach] | Kunst Werke, Berlin | 1998 |
| Billboard Art on the Road | MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts | 1999 |
| Carnegie International [curator: Madeleine Grynsztejn] | Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania | 1999 |
| Cordially Invited | BAK - basis voor actuele kunst | 2004 |
| Constitution [organized by Group Material] | The Temple Gallery, Temple University, Philadelphia | 1987 |
| Dissent, Difference and the Body Politic [curators: Simon Watson and John S. Weber] | Portland Art Museum | 1992 |
| Do It | Independent Curators, Inc., New York | 1997 |
| I Love New York [curator: Jochen Poetter] | Museum Ludwig Koln | 1998 |
| I Promise It's Political: Perfomativity in Art | Museum Ludwig, Koln | 2002 |
| Istanbul Biennial # 5 On Life, Beauty, Translations and Other Difficulities | Istanbul | 1997 |
| la Biennale di Venezia 45: Aperto - Emergency [Achille Bonito Oliva, Helena Kontova, with Francesco Bonami, among others] | Venice, various locations | 1993 |
| Leaving Tracks: Artrenspennine 98 | Various locations, England | 1998 |
| Let's Entertain: Life's Guilty Pleasures | Walker Art Center | 2000 |
| Longing and Belonging From the Faraway Nearby | Site Santa Fe | 1995 |
| Manifesta 2 | Casino Luxembourg-Forum d'art contemporain + | 1998 |
| Nowhere / Now Here | Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebeak, Denmark | 1996 |
| ...om det sublima / ...on the sublime | Rooseum, Malmo | 1999 |
| Present Tense: Nine Artists in the Nineties [curator: Gary Garrels, Janet Bishop, and John S. Weber, with an essay by Julie Ault: "Everything is more complicated than visible"] | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | 1997 |
| Propositions | Musee Departmental de Rochechouart | 1996 |
| Public Information | San Francisco MoMA | 1994 |
| Pulse: Art, Healing, and Transformation | The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston | 2003 |
| Rhetorical Image | The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York | 1990 |
| Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated): Art from 1951 to the Present | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum | 2004 |
| Social Strategies: Redefining Social Realism | University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara | 2003 |
| Symptoms of Interference, Conditions of Possibility: Ad Reinhardt, Joseph Kosuth, Felix Gonzalez-Torres | Camden Arts Centere, London | 1994 |
| Tempo [curated by: Paulo Herkenhoff, Roxana Marcoci and Mariam Basilio] | The Museum of Modern Art, New York | 2002 |
| Temporarily Possessed: The Semi-Permanent Collection | The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York | 1995 |
| Territorios Ausentes / Absent Territories [Gerardo Mosquera] | Casa de America, Madrid | 2000 |
| The Fairy Tale: Politics, Desire, and Everyday Life | Artists Space, New York | 1986 |
| The Ten Commandments | Deutschen Hygiene Museum, Dresden | 2004 |
| The Art of Participation: 1950 to Now | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | 2008 |
| Thinking Print: Books to Billboards, 1980-1995 | The Museum of Modern Art, New York |
1996 |
| Transgressions in the White Cube: Territorial Mappings | Bennington College Suzanne Lemberg Usdan Gallery | 1992 |
| Trauma [Curators: Fiona Bradley, Katrina Brown and Andrew Nairne] | Haywood Gallery, Londan / National Touring Exhibition | 2001 |
| Vanitas: Meditations on Life and Death in Contemporary Art [Curator: John B. Ravenal] | Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond | 2000 |
| Whitney Biennial 1991 [Richard Armstrong, John G. Hanhardt, Richard Marshall, and Lisa Phillips] Single and with Group Material | Whitney Museum of American Art | 1991 |
| Whitney Biennial 1997 [Lisa Phillips and Louise Neri] | Whitney Museum of American Art | 1997 |
| Wounds: Between Democracy and Redemption in Contemporary Art | Moderna Museet, Stockholm | 1998 |
| Zero to Infinity: Arte Povera 1962-1972 | Walker Art Center | 2001 |
| GROUP MATERIAL EXHIBITIONS | ||
| MASS | The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York | 1986 |
| BOOKS INCLUDING GONZALEZ-TORRES | ||
| Alternative Art New York 1965-1985 | The Drawing Center / University of Minnesota Press | 2002 |
| Art and Artifact: The Museum as Medium | Thames & Hudson | 2001 |
| Art Matters: How the Culture Wars Changed America | New York University Press | 1999 |
| Collectivism After Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination After 1945 | University of Minnesota Press | 2007 |
| Conceptual Art | Phaidon | 1998 |
| Corpus Delecti: Performance Art of the Americas | Routledge | 1999 |
| Creative Time: The Book 33 Years of Public Art in NYC | Princeton Architectural Press | 2007 |
| Echoes: Contemporary Art in the Age of Endless Conclusions | The Monacelli Press | 1996 |
| English is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas [Fusco, Coco] | The New Press, New York | 1995 |
| 5000 Artists Return to Artists Space: 25 Years | Artists Space / D.A.P. Press | 1998 |
| Hans Ulrich-Obrist Interviews | Charta | 2003 |
| Mixed Blessings: New Art in a Multicultural America [Lucy Lippard] | Pantheon Books | 1990 |
| Real Life Magazine: Selected Writings and Project s 1979-1994 | Primary Information, New York | 2006 |
| Surface Tension: Prolematics of Site | Errant Bodies Press | 2003 |
| The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art | MIT Press | 2003 |
| The Bodies That Were Not Ours and other writings [Coco Fusco] | Routledge | 2001 |
| Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings | University of California Press | 1996 |
| PERIODICALS INCLUDING GONZALEZ-TORRES | ||
| Art in America [Setting Traps for the Mind and Heart by Robert Storr] | January | 1996 |
| Art Nexus Vol.18 [About Place by Rachel Weiss] | October-December | 1995 |
| Art Nexus Vol.25 [Transterritorial by Octavio Zaya] | July-September | 1997 |
| Art Nexus #41 [Perverting Minimalism: It's Not Just What You See] | August-October | 2001 |
| Flash Art [interview] | November / December | 1991 |
| Parkett # 22 | Parkett | 1989 |
| Parkett #39 | Parkett | 1994 |
| Parkett # 44 | Parkett | 1995 |
| Poliester, Vol.4 #12 | Summer | 1995 |
| The Print Collector's Newsletter [discussion of "Death by Gun" hand-out] | September-October | 1991 |
| Third Text # 33 [obituary] | Third Text, Winter | 1995 |
| Trans> arts.cultures.media #1 | Passim, Inc. | 1995 |
| EXHIBITION REVIEWS | ||
| Felix Gonzalez-Torres at Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York | Flash Art, November-December | 1993 |
| Felix Gonzalez-Torres at Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York | Art Nexus # 24, April-June | 1997 |
| Felix Gonzalez-Torres at Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany | Art Nexus Vol.27, January-March | 1998 |