DENNIS OPPENHEIM

1938, Mason City (electric City) Washington - Lives and works in New York

ARTISTS BOOKS AND MULTIPLES    

 
   
Cancelled Crop / Forest Project / Notes on Ecologic Projects   Aspen Magazine # 8  1970-1 
Flower Arrangement for Bruce Nauman [from Artists and Photographs Box] Multiples, Inc. 1970
Proposals 1967 - 1974 (signed and numbered)  Lebeer-Hossmann, Bruxelles, Hamburg  1974
     
RECORDINGS     
     
Broken Record Blues (Airwaves) 110 Records  1976 
Theme from a Major Hit ("It ain't what you make it's what makes you do it."  American Narrative / Story Art 1967-1977 - Record 1978
     
VIDEO AND FILM     
   
Tooth and Nail: FIlm and VIdeo 1970 - 74 by Dennis Oppenheim Slought Foundation 2008
     
EPHEMERA   

 
   
Dennis Oppenheim (announcement card) John Gibson Commissions, New York 1970
Dennis Oppenheim (announcement card) John Gibson Gallery, New York 1977
Mind Twists: A portfolio of burned out thoughts (invitation card)  Multiples, Inc. (Marian Goodman Gallery)  1977 
Timetrack [individual mailed announcement card for work in Land Art exhibition] Fernsehgalerie Gerry Schum, Berlin 1969 
     
ARTICLES AND CONTRIBUTIONS     
     
Discussion with Michael Heizer, Dennis Oppenheim, and Robert Smithson  in Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings  1996
Top Raw Marerial (contribution to catalogue: Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark's Fake Estates) White Columns / Queens Museum, New York  2005 
     
OTHER PUBLICATIONS     
     
Dokumente zur Aktuellen Kunst 1967 -1970 [materials from the archives of Harald Szeemann]  Kunstkreis AG Luzern 1972
On Site #4 - Not Seen and/or Less Seen of... Site, Inc., New York 1973
The Kitchen Center for Video and Music 75-76  The Kitchen, New York 1976
     
INDIVIDUAL CATALOGUES    
     
Dennis Oppenheim: Explorations Charta 2001
Dennis Oppenheim: Retrospective - Works 1967-1977 [plus: Three Interviews - excerpts and Checkist - Art Gallery of Ontario] Musee d'Art Contemporain, Montreal 1978
Dennis Oppenheim: Selected Works 1967 - 1990  P.S. 1  1991
Nine Days with Dennis Oppenheim CAYC - Centro de arte y Comunicacion 1971 
     
SELECTED CATALOGUES INCLUDING OPPEBNHEIM    
     
Actualite d'un Bilan  Yvon Lambert, Paris  1972
American Narrative / Story Art 1967-1977  Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas 1978
Art by Telephone  Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago  1969 
Arte de Sistemas  Museo De Arte Moderno / CAYC - Centro de Arte y Communicacion, Buenos Aires 1971
A Second Talent: Painters and Sculptors Who are Also Photographers  The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art 1985
A View of a Decade 1967-1977  Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago  1977
Behind the Facts: Interfunktionen 1968-1975 Fundacio Jan Miro, Barcelona 2004 
Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form, 1940s-1970s  Los Angeles County Museum of Art 2004 
Blurring the Boundries: Installation Art 1969-1996 Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego 1996
Conceptual Art Conceptual Aspects The New York Cultural Center 1970
Construction in Process  37 Pkwn Street, Lodz, Poland  1981 
Content: A Contemporary Focus 1974-1984  Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden  1984 
Deconstruct / Reconstruct  John Gibson Gallery, New York 1986
Documenta 5 Kassel, Germany 1972
Documenta 6 [curator: Manfred Schneckenburger]  Kassel, Germany  1977 
Earth Andrew Dickson White 1969
Early Work by Five Contemporary Artists [Curator: Marcia Tucker - including interviews with each artist] The New Museum of Contemporary Art , New York 1977
Earth, Air, Fire, Water: Elements of Art Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 1971 
Earth Works (no catalogue, anouncement card written in sand) Virginia Dawn Gallery 1968
18'6" x 6'9" x 11'21/2" x 47' x 11 3/16" x 29'8 1/2" x 31' 9 3/16 [poster] San Francisco Art Institute 1969
557,087 Seattle 1969
Gerry Schum  Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam  1980
Information MoMA, New York 1970
Into the Light: The Projected Image in American Art 1964-1977  Whitney Museum 2001
La Biennale di Venezia 1976 - International Events Venice  1976 
la Biennale di Venezia 45: Opera Italiana - Transiti - Museo Elettronico Venice, various locations  1993
Land Art  Fernsehgalerie Berlin Gerry Schum  1969 
Land Marks: New site proposals by twenty-two original pioneers of environmental art   Bard College Center  1984
995,000 Vancouver 1970
1967: At the Crossroads  Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia 1987
One Month: March 1969 Seth Siegelaub 1969
Op Losse Schtoeven (Square Peg in Round Holes) Stedelijk Museum 1969 
Prospect 69  Kunsthalle Dusseldorf  1969 
Pulsa 2: Report on a Phenomenon [curator: Phyllis Plous] University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, California  1990
Ready to Shoot: Fernsehgalerie Gerry Schum / videogalerie schum  Kunsthalle Dusseldorf  2003
Reasoned Space  Center for Creative Photography, U. of Arizona 1980
Reconsidering the Object of Art: 1965-1975  The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles 1995
Reel Work: Artists' Film and Video of the 1970s  Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami  1996
Rooms, P.S.1 P.S.1 1977
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art: A Selections from the Permanent Collection  San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art 1990
Schemes: A Decade of Installation Drawings Elise Meyer Inc 1981
Sculptural Ideas: 29th Annual Contemporary Art Exhibition  Leheigh University Art Galleries, Bethlehem, Pennsylvania 1984
'60 - '80: Attitudes / Concepts / Images Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam 1982
Slide Show: Projected Images in Contemporary Art  The Baltimore Museum of Art  2005 
Sonsbeek 71 Park Sonsbeek, Arnhem  1971
The Last Picture Show The Walker Art Center  2003
The Museum as Muse: Artists Reflect  The Museum of Modern Art, New York 1999
The Television's Impact on Contemporary Art  The Queens Museum, New York 1986
Valencia Biennial #2 - The Ideal City  Valencia, Spain  2003
Video Art Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennyslvania, Philadelphia  1975
When Attitudes Become Form (Bern and London)  Kunsthalle Bern 1969
Whitney Biennial 1981 [John G. Hanhardt, Barbara Haskell, Richard Marshall, and Patterson Sims] Whitney Museum of American Art 1981
Whitney Museum Sculpture Annual 1970  Whitney Museum of American Art 1970
Word as Image: American Art 1960-1990  Milwaukee Art Museum 1990
X-Screen: Film Installations and Actions in the 1960s and 1970s  Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wein 2004 
     
SELECTED BOOKS OF THE INCLUDING OPPENHEIM    
     
Alternative Art New York 1965-1985 The Drawing Center / University of Minnesota Press 2002
Art and Life Praeger 1971
Art in the Land: A Critical Anthology of Environmental Art E. P. Dutton 1983
Art Povera: Earthworks - Impossible Art - Actual Art - Conceptual Art  Praeger 1969
Changing: Essays in Art Criticism [Lucy Lippard]  E. P. Dutton & Co. 1971
Conceptual Art Dutton 1972
Conceptual Art  Phaidon 1998
Conceptual Art and the Politics of Publicity  MIT Press  2003 
Earthworks: Art and the Landscape of the Sixties  Boettger, Suzaan  2002
Fantastic Architecture Something Else Press 1969
From the Center: feminist essays on women's art  Dutton  1976 
Great Western Salt Works: essays on the meaning of Post-Formalist art  George Braziller 1974
Individuals: Post-Movement Art in America E.P. Dutton & Co., Inc. 1977 
New Art in the 60s and 70s: Redefining Reality  Thames and Hudson  2001 
112 Workshop / 112 Greene Street  New York University Press 1981
Out of the Box: The Reinvention of Art, 1965-1975  School of Visual Arts  2000 
Overlay: Contemporary Art and the Art of Prehistory  Pantheon  1983 
Performance: Live Art Since 1960 Harry N. Abrams 1998
Recording Conceptual Art  Norvell, Patricia 2001 
The Context of Art / The Art of Context  Navado Press, Trieste  2004 
The Contingent Object of Contemporary Art  MIT Press  2003 
Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings  University of California Press 1996 
Video Art Harcourt Brace Jovanovich 1976 
     
PERIODICALS INCLUDING OPPENHEIM     
     
Artforum [Earthworks and the New Picturesque] December 1968
Artforum [Real Time Systems] September 1969
Art in America, [Article: Impossible Art] May-June  1969 
Arts Magazine [Paris]  February 1970 
Aspen Magazine No. 8 Fall / Winter 1970-1 
Avalanche # 01  Avalanche 1970 
Avalanche # 02  Avalanche 1971
Frieze [Labours of Love - Flavin and Oppenheim] November - December 2001
Interfunktionen # 03 Interfunktionen 1969
Interfunktionen # 04 Interfunktionen 1970
Interfunktionen #05  Interfunktionen  1970
Interfunktionen #06 Interfunktionen 1971 
Interfunktionen # 07 Interfunktionen  1971
Interfunktionen # 09 Interfunktionen 1972
Parachute # 9 (interview)  Parachute  1977
     
EXHIBITION REVIEWS     
     
Dennis Oppenheim at John Gibson  Art in America, March-April  1970 
Dennis Oppenheim at Sonnabend Art in America, May-June 1973
Dennis Oppenheim at Francoise Lambert, Milan  Artforum, February  1980
Vito Acconci, Robert Morris, Dennis Oppenheim at Sonnabend Artforum, Summer, 1980
     
ADVERTISEMENTS     
     
Dennis Oppenheim at John Gibson (with image - "Snow Projects")  Artforum, January 1969