JOHN FEKNER
1950, Bronx, New York
John Fekner's website link.
| ARTIST'S BOOKS | ||
| Beauty's Only Screen Deep | Wedge Press [Wedge Pamphlet 10] | 1983 |
| Queensites [signed and numbered] | Wedgepress & Cheese | 1982 |
| EXHIBITIONS CURATED BY FEKNER | ||
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| Artist as Apolitical Sensor [catalogue includes a one act play by Fekner: "Foreigners in the Library Americans at the Beach"; exhibition included Bullet, Lou Forgione, Don Leicht, John Piper, and Sara Spinelli, among others.] | Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island University | 1990 |
| Tawkin' New Yawk City Walls [see catalogues cited] | Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island University | 2005 |
| WRITINGS BY FEKNER | ||
| Article/Bio by Fekner in "The 70s Show: New York City in the 1970s" | powerhouse magazine #2 | 2007 |
| RECORDINGS | ||
| John Fekner City Squad: Election Year Special - Another (4 with a slash through it - "not") Years [a small single 33 1/3 thin vinyl record] | Vinyl Gridlock Records | 1984 |
| John Fekner City Squad: Idioblast [words and music (except Wheels Over Indian Trails) and cover design by Fekner] | Vinyl Gridlock Records / Recorded at Monkey Hill Studio, Queens, NY | 1984 |
| INDIVIDUAL CATALOGUES | ||
| John Fekner: Stencil Projects: Lund & New York 1978-1979 [800 copies Edition Sellem] | Galerie S:t Petri Archive of Experimental and Marginal Art, Lund, Sweden | 1979 |
| CATALOGUES INCLUDING FEKNER | ||
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| Art & Social Change | Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Ohio | 1983 |
| Billboard Art on the Road [included in survey] | MASS MoCA, North Adams, Massachusetts | 1999 |
| Committed to Print: Social and Political Themes in Recent American Printed Art | The Museum of Modern Art, New York | 1988 |
| Cultural Economies:Histories from the Alternative Arts Movement, NYC | The Drawing Center, New York | 1996 |
| Digital Avant-Garde: Celebrating 25 Years of Ars Electronica | Eyebeam, New York / American Museum of the Moving Image, New York / Austrian Cultural Forum, New York | 2004 |
| Dispossessed Installations | Florida State University Gallery and Museum | 1992 |
| East Village USA [not in exhibition but mentioned in Cameron's catalogue essay] | The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York | 2004 |
| Events: Fashion Moda / Taller Boricua / Artists Invite Artists | The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY | 1980 |
| Natural History | Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York | 1982 |
| New Work New York | The New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY | 1982 |
| Public Art Program 1985-1988 [catalogue of projects] | Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University | 1989 |
| Tawkin' New Yawk City Walls | Hillwood Art Museum, Long Island University | 2005 |
| The East Village Scene | Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia | 1984 |
| The End: An Independent Vision of Contemporary Culture, 1982-2000 [curators: Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo] | Exit Art, New York | 2000 |
| The 1984 Show | Ronald Feldman Fine Art, Inc, New York | 1983 |
| The Television's Impact on Contemporary Art | The Queens Museum, New York | 1986 |
| Word as Image: American Art 1960-1990 | Milwaukee Art Museum | 1990 |
| EAST VILLAGE + EXHIBITIONS [invitations / posters - no catalogues] | ||
| Massive Political Group Show II: Visual Art, Performance, Music, Poetry, Video. [poster / no catalogue] | ABC No Rio, New York | 1985 |
| Micro Wave | Now Gallery, 430 East 9th Street | 1985 |
| Real Politik | Fashion Moda, New York | 1984 |
| BOOKS INCLUDING FEKNER | ||
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| ABC No Rio Dinero: The Story of a Lower East Side Art Gallery | ABC No Rio with Collaborative Projects | 1985 |
| Alternative Art New York 1965-1985 | The Drawing Center / University of Minnesota Press | 2002 |
| 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 |
| Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today | PM Press, Oakland | 2009 |
| Stencil Nation: graffiti, community and art [by Russell Howez, Fekner is the first artist featured / cover image above] | Manic D Press | 2008 |
| Stencil Pirates: A Global Study of the Stree Stencil | Soft Skull Press | 2004 |
| The Lure of the Local: senses of place in a multicentered society | The New Press, New York | 1997 |
| OTHER PUBLICATIONS | ||
| Your House Is Mine | Bullet Space, New York | 1993 |
| PERIODICALS INCLUDING FEKNER | ||
| Cover # 4 | Artcover, New York | 1980-1 |
| PAD [Politicial Art and Documentation / Distribution] # 03 | PAD/D | 1981 |
| The Flue Vol.1 #3 | Franklin Furnace, December | 1980 |
| Upfront # 6/7 - PADD [Politicial Art and Documentation / Distribution] | PAD/D | 1983 |
| Wedge #3/4/5 | Wedge | 1985 |