GROUP MATERIAL
Founded in 1979, first exhibition "The Inaugural Exhibition" opened on October 4, 1980 at their space at 244 East 13th Street (the Lower East Side) at which time they also distributed a "Calandar of Events" to the press and handed out at the gallery that outlined their program for the first year.
Members included: Doug Ashford, Julie Ault, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Mundy McLaughlin, and Tim Rollins
A New York City-based organization of artists dedicated to the creation, exhibition, and distribution of art that increases social awareness. (from The New Museum brochure, 1986)
| BOOKS BY OR ABOUT GROUP MATERIAL | ||
| Democracy: A Project by Group Material [Discussions in Contemporary Culture # 5 edited by Brian Wallis] | Dia Art Foundation | 1990 |
| EPHEMERA | ||
| MASS [brochure] - See "EXHIBITION" below for list of artists | The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York | 1986 |
| Resistance (Anti-Baudrillard) [photo: Catherine Allport] - See "EXHIBITION" below for list of artists / Also transcript of the Panel Discussion (January 25, 1987) held in conjunction with the exhibition including: Judith Barry / Peter Halley / William Olander / Julie Wachtel / Oliver Wasow | White Columns, New York | 1987 |
| EXHIBITIONS / PROJECTS CURATED [additional exhibitions listed below] | ||
| Constitution [organized by Group Material] | The Temple Gallery, Temple University, Philadelphia | 1987 |
| Inserts ["Advertising Supplement to The New York Times" sponsored by the Public Art Fund] | Group Material | 1988 |
| Liberty and Justice [with The Alternative Museum] | Alternative Museum, New York | 1986 |
| CATALOGUES INCLUDING GROUP MATERIAL | ||
| Billboard Art on the Road | MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts | 1999 |
| Blurring the Boundries: Installation Art 1969-1996 | Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego | 1996 |
| Committed to Print: Social and Political Themes in Recent American Printed Art | The Museum of Modern Art, New York | 1988 |
| Contemporary Perspectives 1984 | Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pennsylvania | 1984 |
| Cultural Economies:Histories from the Alternative Arts Movement, NYC | The Drawing Center, New York | 1996 |
| Documenta 8 [curator: Manfred Schneckenburger] | Kassel | 1987 |
| East Village USA [not in exhibition but mentioned in Cameron's catalogue essay] | The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York | 2004 |
| In and Out of Place: Contemporary Art and the American Social Landscape | Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | 1993 |
| Points of Entry - The Three Rivers Arts Festival | The Three Rivers Arts Festival, Pittsburgh | 1997 |
| Public Art | Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta | 1985 |
| Temporarily Possessed: The Semi-Permanent Collection | The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York | 1995 |
| The Decade Show: Frameworks of Identity in the 80s | The New Museum of Contemporary Art / The Studio Museum of Harlem / the Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art,, New York | 1990 |
| Whitney Biennial 1985 [Richard Armstrong, John G. Hanhardt, Barbara Haskell, Richard Marshall, Lisa Phillips, and Patterson Sims] | Whitney Museum of American Art | 1985 |
| Whitney Biennial 1991 [Richard Armstrong, John G. Hanhardt, Richard Marshall, and Lisa Phillips] | Whitney Museum of American Art | 1991 |
| BOOKS INCLUDING GROUP MATERIAL | ||
| ABC No Rio Dinero: The Story of a Lower East Side Art Gallery | ABC No Rio with Collaborative Projects | 1985 |
| A Guide to Democracy in America | Creative Time Books | 2008 |
| Alternative Art New York 1965-1985 | The Drawing Center / University of Minnesota Press | 2002 |
| Art After Midnight: The East Village Scene | St. Martin's Press | 1986 |
| Art After Modernism: Rethinking Representation | The New Museum of Contemporary Art | 1984 |
| Art and Artifact: The Museum as Medium | Thames & Hudson | 2001 |
| Art Matters: How the Culture Wars Changed America | New York University Press | 1999 |
| Art Workers: Radical Practice in the Vietnam Era | University of California Press | 2009 |
| But is it Art? The Spirit of Art as Activism | Bay Press | 1995 |
| Collectivism After Modernism: The Art of Social Imagination After 1945 | University of Minnesota Press | 2007 |
| Dialogues in Public Art | MIT Press | 2000 |
| 5000 Artists Return to Artists Space: 25 Years | Artists Space / D.A.P. Press | 1998 |
| Get the Message? A Decade of Art for Social Change [Lucy Lippard] | E.P. Dutton | 1984 |
| Mapping the Terrain: New Genre Public Art | Bay Press | 1995 |
| New Art | Rizzoli | 1991 |
| One Place After Another: Site-Specific Art and Locational Identity | MIT Press | 2004 |
| On the Beaten Tack: tourism, art, and culture | The New Press, New York | 1999 |
| Real Life Magazine: Selected Writings and Project s 1979-1994 | Primary Information, New York | 2006 |
| Rewriting Conceptual Art | Reaktion Books [Critical Views], London | 1999 |
| Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings | University of California Press | 1996 |
| EAST VILLAGE EXHIBITIONS [INVITATIONS ONLY] | ||
| 100 Years: A Tradition of Social and Political Art on the LOWER EAST SIDE | P.P.O.W. | 1988 |
| PERIODICALS INCLUDING GROUP MATERIAL | ||
| Art in America [Material World [Group Material] | January | 1989 |
| Art in America [The Heart of Darkness: Film and Video at the Whitney Biennial] | October | 1991 |
| PAD [Politicial Art and Documentation / Distribution] # 04 | PAD/D | 1982 |
| Parkett # 26 | Parkett | 1990 |
| Tema Celeste #91 | Gabrius, Milan | 2002 |
| Upfront # 10 - PADD [Politicial Art and Documentation / Distribution] | PAD/D | 1985 |
| Upfront # 14/15 - PADD [Politicial Art and Documentation / Distribution] | PAD/D | 1987/8 |
| EXHIBITION REVIEWS | ||
| Group Material at Dia (Wooster Street) | Art in America, January | 1989 |
| EXHIBITIONS | |
| MASS [brochure], 1986 at The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York | included: Dennis Adams / Ida Applebroog / Doug Ashford / Julie Ault / Eva Cockcroft / Jessica Diamond / Eric Drooker / Barbara Ess / Felix Gonzalez-Torres / Mike Glier / Matthew Geller / Hans Haacke / Edgar Heap of Birds / Jenny Holzer / Barbara Kruger / Tom Lawson / Michael Lebron / Dona MacAdams / Allan McCollum / Joseph Nechvatal / Saul Ostrow / Herb Perr / Tim Rollins / Erika Rothenberg / Christy Rupp / Andres Serrano / Nancy Spero / Haim Steinbach / Anton van Dalen / Richard Ray Whitman |
| Resistance (Anti-Baudrillard) | included: Gretchen Bender / Joseph Beuys / Mike Glier / Leon Golub / Hans Haacke / Edgar Heap of Birds / Janet Henry / Jenny Holzer / Barbara Kruger / Louise Lawler / Nancy Spero / Gaston Ugalde / Carrie Mae Weems / Krzysztof Wodiczko / Martin Wong |