Born in Midland, Michigan, 1952
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA
 

EDUCATION

1974 BFA, University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
1978 MFA, California Institute of the Arts

FORTHCOMING

2010 CAPC, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
 

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009

2008
The Whole: A Study in Oist Integrated Movement, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK

Jim Shaw: New Arrivals, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
Amateurs, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, San Francisco, CA
In Geneva No One Can Hear You Scream, Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva (catalogue)
The Third (2007) LA Weekly Biennial: Some Paintings, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2007 Jim Shaw: Dr. Goldfoot and His Bikini Bombs, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
2012 - Montezuma’s Revenge, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Berlin, Germany
The Hole, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
Jim Shaw: The Donner Party, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
Jim Shaw: Distorted Faces & Portraits, 1978-2006, Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva, Switzerland (catalogue)
Jim Shaw, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan, Italy
2006 Left Behind #8, 9, 10, Patrick Painter West, Santa Monica, CA
Dream Object (I was in my Japanese gallery / museum in Japan…), Patrick Painter East, Santa Monica, CA
Vise Head, Patrick Painter East, Santa Monica, CA
Jim Shaw, My Mirage 1986-91, Skarstedt Fine Art, New York, NY
Bernier/Eliades, Athens, Greece
Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland
Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, England
2005 Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
The Inky Depths / The Woman in the Wilderness, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
The Dream That Was No More A Dream, Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, CA
Jim Saw : Art & Public, Geneva
2004 Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, England
2003 Kill Your Darlings, Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, CA
Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland
Drawings, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
Jim Shaw, Bernier/Eliades, Athens, Greece
Jim Shaw: O, Magasin, Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France; Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland (catalogue)
“O” Oeuvres d’inspiration O- iste, MAGASIN, Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble
2002 The Goodman Image File and Study, Swiss Institute, New York, NY
The Rite of the 360°, Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
Jim Shaw, Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan, Italy
O-ist Thrift Store Paintings, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
2001 Dreamt of Drawings, Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, England
Jim Shaw, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
Massimo de Carlo, Milan, Italy
Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
Le Dernier Salon, Mamco, Musee d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva
Jim Shaw : La Collection des Tableaux de Brocante – 1974-2000, Mamco, Musee d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva
2000 Thrift Store Paintings, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England
Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, CA
Everything Must Go, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
Everything Must Go, Musee d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Johnen + Schottle, Cologne, Germany
1999 Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
Metro Pictures, New York, NY
Jim Shaw Everything Must Go 1976 -1999, Casino-Luxembourg – Forum d'Art Contemporain,
Luxembourg; traveling to Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland; The
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH (catalogue)
1998 Frankfurt Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
Rupertinum, Salzburg, Austria
1997 The Deep, Tokyo, Japan
Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
Bookbeat, Detroit, IL
Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1996 Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan, Italy
The Sleep of Reason, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
Dreams, Cabinet Gallery, London, England
1995 What Exactly is a Dream and What Exactly is a Joke..., Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
I Dreamed I was performing in an Alternative Space w/ my Maidenform Bra, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1994 Dreams That Money Can Buy, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993 Dreams That Money Can Buy, Linda Cathcart Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Dreams That Money Can Buy, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
1992 Horror A Vacui, (with Benjamin Weissman), Linda Cathcart Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Metro Pictures, New York, NY
Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan, Italy
1991 Jim Shaw: My Mirage, St. Louis Museum of Art, St. Louis, MO
Feature Inc., New York, NY
Thrift Store Paintings, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
1990 Linda Cathcart Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Jim Shaw: My Mirage, Matrix Gallery, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA
Feature Inc., New York, NY
1989 Dennis Anderson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1986 The Nuclear Family, EZTV, Los Angeles, CA
1981 Jim Shaw: Life and Death, Zero Zero Club, Los Angeles, CA

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009 “Regift”, SI Swiss Institute, New York
2008 “Political Correct”, BFAS Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva
“Blasted Allegories: Works from the Ringier Collection”, Kunstmuseum, Luzern, (catalogue)
“Glossolaia: Languages of Drawing” The Museum of Modern Art, New York
“Amateurs”, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
“2008 Busan Biennale”, Busan, Korea
“Less is Less and More is More”, CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux
“Expenditude”, The Busan Biennale, Busan
“Hotel California”, Galerie Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois, Paris
“In the Lande of Retinal Delights : The Juxtapoz Factor”, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach
“Deformalismes”, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Berlin
“Noboby Putrs Baby in a Corner”, Galerie Isabella Bortolozzi, Berlin
“The Brotherhood of Subterranea”, Kunstbunker – Forum fur Zeitgenossische Kunst, Nuremberg
“Zuordnungsprobleme”, Johann Konig, Berlin
“Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art”, Barbican, London
“Animation/Fiction – Works from the FNAC Collection”, National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest
“Some Painting : 2007 LA Weekly Annual Biennal”, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica
2007 “Sympathy fot the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1976”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami; Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montréal; (catalogue)
Strange Events Permit Themselves the Luxury of Occurring, Camden Arts Centre, London, England
If Everybody Had an Ocean - Brian Wilson: An Art Exhibition, Tate St. Ives, Cornwall, England; traveling to
CAPC, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France (catalogue)
Ten Years, Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, England
Middle School: Smart Art Press, The First Thirteen Years, Track 16, Santa Monica, CA
Art Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland
Eden’s Edge: Fifteen LA Artists, The Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
(catalogue)
Hammer Contemporary Collection, The Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los
Angeles, CA
Olaf Breuning, Mike Kelley, Louise Lawler, John Miller, Tony Oursler, Sterling Ruby, Jim Shaw & Andreas Slominski, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
Group Show: Peter Callesen, Karen Kilimnik, Jim Shaw, Marnie Weber, Emily Tsingou Gallery, London,
England
Sound Art Limo, Melbourne, AC, New York
Refugees Of Group Selection, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York
Group Show, Bernier/Eliades Gallery, Athens
A Fantasy for the Moment, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern
Art Projects, Yvon Lambert, Paris
De Leur Temps (2) Art Contemporain et Collections Privees, Musee de Grenoble, Grenoble
If Everybody Had an Ocean : Brian Wilson : An Art Exhibition, Tate St.Ives, Cornwall
945+11, FRAC-Collection Aquitaine, Bordeaux
L’Homme-Paysage, Villa Oppenheim, Berlin
Panic Room – Works from the Dakis Joannou Collection, Deste Foundation, Centre for Contemporary Art,
Athens
From Close To Home – recent Acquisition of Los Angeles Art, MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles
2006 Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los
Angeles, CA (catalogue)
Multiplicity: Prints and Multiples from the Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art and the
University of Wollongong, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia (catalogue)
Red Eye: Artists from the Rubell Family Collection, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL (catalogue)
Works on Paper, Patrick Painter, Inc., Santa Monica, CA
Twice Drawn, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Saratoga Springs, NY
A Selected State, Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, England
Chain Letter, High Energy Constructs, Los Angeles, CA
Slow Burn, Galerie Edward Mitterrand, Geneva, Switzerland
The Aesthetics of Art and Music: Punk, Magasin, Grenoble, France
Los Angeles 1955-1985, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Olaf Breuning, Jim Shaw, Cindy Sherman, Metro Pictres, New York, NY
JSA, Rental Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Masters of American Comics, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Faces, Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva, Switzerland
Somnanbulist/Fabulist, The France Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skimore College,
Saratoga Spring, New York
Made in USA, Galerie Multiples, Paris
Noir c’est la Vie, Abbay St Andre – Centre d’Art Contemporain, Meymac
Hundert Kusse sind Besser als Einer 9Hundred Kisses are better than One), Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna
Dormir, Rever…et d’autres nuits, CAPC – Musee d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux
2005 Self Portraits, Skarstedt Fine Art, New York, NY
Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Louise Lawler, Robert Longo, John Miller, Jim Shaw, Cindy Sherman, Gary Simmons, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
Very Early Pictures, Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA
Drunk vs. Stoned 2, Gavin Brown Enterprises, New York, NY
Catherine Sullivan, Jim Shaw, Tony Oursler, Lucy McKenzie, Martin Kippenberger, MikeKelley, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
100 Artists See God, ICA Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England
Bortolami Dayan, New York, NY
The Meeting, Center for the Arts Eagle Rock, Los Angeles, CA
WivesHusbands, Domestic Setting, Los Angeles, CA
Superstars : Von Warhol bis Madonna, BA-CA Kunstforum Wien, Vienna
Looking at Words, Andrea Rosen gallery, New York
Closing Down, Bortolami, New York
Boost in the Shell, AEROPLASTICS Contemporary, Brussels
L.A Lucas Shoormans Gallery, New York
Tauchfahrten Zeichnung als reportage, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf
The Anniversary Show, Rena Bransten gallery, San Francisco
2004 Walking on Elbows, Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Information and the mythological machine, Mead Galery, University of Warwick, Coventry, England
Self Portraits, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
The Dogs, Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Paper, Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, England
Disparities & Deformations, Site Sante Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico (catalogue)
100 Artists See Satan, Grand Central Art Center, Santa Ana, CA (catalogue)
Diaries and Dreams – Contemporary Drawings, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy (catalogue)
Selected Works…, Marc Jancou Fine Art, New York, NY
100 Artists See God, organized by Independent Curators International; Naples Museum of Art, Naples, FL; The Jewish Museum San Francisco, CA; Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA; Memorial Art Gallery, Universtity of Rochester, NY; Institute of Contemporary Arts, London; Contemporary Art Center of Virginia, Virginia Beach, VI; Albright College Freedman Art Gallery, Reading, PA; Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville, TN
Tauchfahrten – Zeichnung als Reportage, Kunstverein Hannover, Hannover
Diaries and Dreams, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal-Unterowisheim
SITE Santa Fe’s Fifth International Biennial, SITE Santa Fe Biennale, Santa Fe
Drawings, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris
2003 Ivan Morley, Christian Schumann, Jim Shaw, Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, CA
Variations on the Theme of Illusion, Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, England
Drawings, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
Il Passato Non Esiste, Aurora, Rovereto, Italy
Extra, Swiss Institute, New York, NY (catalogue)
Group Show, Patrick painter Inc., Santa Monica
LA Post Cool, Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and design, Los Angeles
Still Waters, Roberts & Tilton, Culver City
War (What Is It Good For?), Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago – MCA Chicago, Chicago 
2002 Metro Pictures, New York, NY
L.A. Post-Cool, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA (catalogue)
2002 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (catalogue)
Amused, Perth Institute of Contemporary Art, Perth, Australia; Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Super Heroes, Galerie Edward Mitterand, Geneva, Switzerland
(The World May Be) Fantastic, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Australia (catalogue)
Shoot the Singer: Music on Video, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
French Connection, Mamco – Musee d’Art Contemporain et Moderne , Geneva
Doublures, FRAC – Haute-Normandie, Sctteville-les-Rouen
Biennale of Sydney 2002, Biennale of Sydeney, Sydney
Elvis has just Left the Building, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
2001 22nd Annual Benefit Art Auction, L. A. C. E, Los Angeles, CA
Amused, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Magic Hour, Neue Galerie Graz im Künstlerhaus, Graz, Austria
The Artist’s World, Logan Galleries, CCAC Institute, San Francisco, CA (catalogue)
All Work and No Play Makes Jack a Dull Boy, Bern, Switzerland
Tony Oursler, Jim Shaw, John Miller, Mike Kelley, Galerie Biedermann, Munich, Germany
Pop & Post-Pop (On Paper), Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
Comic Relief, Rena Branstein Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Heads or Tails, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris
Artists Take on detroit : Projects for the Tricentennial, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit
2000 Jim Shaw, Yoshitomo Nara, Johnen + Shottle, Cologne, Germany
Destroy All Monsters, CoCa, Seattle, WA
La Bienniale de Montreal 2000, Montreal, Canada
Made in California, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
Representing LA, Friart Museum, Seattle, WA
Musé d’arts Modeste, Sette, France
El Podar del Nar, Centre d’arte Castille, Spain
Dreaming Machines, London, England
Diary, London, England
Projection 24/7, The Standard, Hollywood, CA
The Goodbye Show, Pasadena, CA
The Power of Narration, Mapping Stories, EACC – Espai d’Art Contemporani de Castello, castellon de LaPlana
Projections, FRAC – Bourgogne, Dijon
L.A Art in the Early 90s ReCharge, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach
1999 Drawn by..., Metro Pictures, New York, NY
Basement Series #1, Pasadena, CA
In Sickness and in Health: Jim Shaw and Marnie Weber, Recent Works, Project Gallery, Wichita, KS
Drawn from the Artist’s Collections, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Anne Philbin
and Jack Shear)
I, Me, Mine, Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA (curated by Mike Mehring)
God Don’t Make No Junk, Angstrom Gallery, Dallas, TX
Videos of Artist Discussions, Rupertinum, Salzburg, Germany
Pasadena Adjacent, Richard Heller Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Anisi de Suite 3, Centre Regional d’art Contemporain, Languedoc-Roussillon, France
At Century’s End, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, FL
Drawings, Copenhagen, Denmark
A Girl Like You, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris
On paper, Stalke Gallerie, Kirke Saaby
1998 Tell me a Story, Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble, France
Time After Time…, Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, England
Pop Surrealism, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT (catalogue)
I Rip You, You Rip Me (Honey, We’re Going Down in History), Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Eccentric Drawing, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany
Affinities and Collections, California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA
Everybody Loves a Clown, Baby, Why Don’t You?, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA (catalogue)
Night Vision, Junior Arts Center Gallery, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, CA (curated by Michael Miller)
Spread, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Bean Show, Dirt Gallery, Hollywood, CA
Slip Stream, Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland
Life Lessons: How Art Can Change Your Life: The Judy and Art Spence Collection, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
Affinities and Collections, California Center for the Arts, Escondido, CA
Fictional Biographies, Rio Hondo College, Whittier, CA
LA on Paper: Relax, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
Educating Barbie, Trans Hudson Gallery, New York, NY (catalogue)
From Head to Toe: Concepts of the Body in 20th Century Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue)
Carte Blanche, Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Institut Français, Turin, Italy
Graphic, Monash University Gallery, Clayton, Victoria, Australia
The New Surrealism, Pamela Auchincloss, New York, NY
Performance Anxiety, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe
1997 Slad, Apex Art, New York Metro Pictures, New York, NY
Angel: Angel, Kunsthalle Wien, Galerie Rudolfinum Prague, Czech Republic (catalogue)
Display, The Charlottenborg Exhibition Hall, Copenhagen, Denmark (catalogue)
Drawings, Meyerson and Nowinski, Seattle, WA
Performance Anxiety, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Sunshine & Noir, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany; Castello di Rivoli, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Italy; UCLA Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue)
I Have a Dream, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
KunstlerInnen, Künsthaus Bregenz, Austria
Kunstlerinnen, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz
A Last Legacy : Selections From the Lannan Foundation Gift, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles
Bring your Own Walkman, W139, Amsterdam
Now on View 2, Metro Pictures Gallery, New York
Group Show, Metro Pictures Gallery, New York
1996 Psy-Fi, Real Art Ways (RAW), Hartford, CT
Anomalies, The Contemporary Arts Collective, Charleston, Las Vegas, NV
The Comic Depiction of Sex in American Art, Sabine Knust Gallery, Munich, Germany
Haus 19; Andreas Binder Gallery; Mathias Kampl Gallery, Munich, Germany
Dean Jensen Gallery, Milwaukee, IL
Group Show, Malma, Sweden
Be Specific, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Popcultural, South London Gallery; Southhampton City Art Gallery, London, England
1995 Feature Inc., New York, NY
It’s Only Rock and Roll, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, IL; Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, VI; Tacoma Art Museum, WA; Jacksonville Museum of Art, FL; Bedford Gallery at the Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, CA; The Phoenix Art Museum, AZ; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC; Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, FL, Milwaukee Art Museum, WI; Arkansas Art Center, AK; Fresno Metropolitan Museum, CA; Austin Museum of Art, TX (catalogue)
Galerie Praz-Delavallade, Paris, France
Metro Pictures, New York, NY
Galleri Andreas Brändström, Stockholm, Sweden (with Marnie Weber)
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC (catalogue)
Metro Pictures Gallery, New York
Representation Drawings, Feature Inc., New York
1994 Can You Always Believe Your Eyes?, De Beyerd, Breda, Holland
Metro Pictures, New York, NY
Laura Carpenter Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM (with Tony Oursler)
Single-Cell Creatures: Cartoons and their Influence on the Contemporary Arts, Katonah Museum of Art, NY
Arrested Childhood, Center of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL (catalogue)
Metro Pictures, New York, NY
Facts and Figures, Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
Summer Academy I, PaceWildenstein Gallery, New York, NY
The Return Of the Cadavre Exquis, Santa Monica Gallery, Santa Monica
1993 Prospect ‘93, Frankfurter Kunstverein/Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany
Der Zerbrochene Spiegel (Thrift Store Painting Collection), Staatliche Akademie der Bildenden Kuenste, Vienna; Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany (catalogue)
The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Sampler-Southern California Video Tape Collection, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY
Into the Lapse, Royal Academy of Fine Art, Copenhagen, Denmark (video)
Four Centuries of Drawing: 1593-1993, Kohn Abrams Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
SoHo at Duke IV, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC
Kustom Kultur, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
The Language of Art, Kunsthalle, Vienna, Austria
Summer Reading, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
Sampler: Southern California Video Tape Collection 1970-1993, Studio Guenzani, Milan, Italy (organized by Paul McCarthy)
Four Centuries of Drawing: 1593-1993, Kohn Abrams Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1992 Helter Skelter: L.A. Art in the 1990s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue)
Songs of Innocence/Songs of Experience, Whitney Museum of American Art at Equitable Center, New York, NY
How It Is, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
Drawings, Stuart Regen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Just Pathetic, American Fine Arts Co., New York, NY
Re-Framing Cartoons, Wexner Art Center, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
True Stories, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, England
Tattoo Collection: autour du tatouage, une collection de projets, photos et textes, Air de Paris, Nice, France and Urbi et Orbi, Paris; Daniel Bucholz, Cologne, Germany
American Art of the 80’s, Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento, Italy (catalogue)
Metro Pictures, New York, NY
The Day the Earth Stood Still, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
LAX, Galerie Ursula Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria
Rosamund Felsen Clinic and Recovery Center, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Irony and Ecstasy: Contemporary American Drawings, Center for the Arts, Wesleyan University, Middletown, CT 
1991 1991 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (catalogue)
Metro Pictures, New York, NY
Presenting Rearwards, Rosamund Felsen, Los Angeles, CA
Ovarian Warriors vs. Knights of Crissum, Sue Spaid Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
HAH, Roy Boyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
The Store Show, Richard/Bennett Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue)
The Kelly Family, Bucholz/Schipper, Cologne, Germany
Thrift Store Paintings, Metro Pictures, New York, NY
California North and South, Aspen Museum of Art, CO
No Man’s Time, Villa Arson, Nice, France (catalogue)
1990 Video and Dream, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Thrift Store Paintings, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
Berlin Film and Video Festival (video), Berlin
Recent Drawings: Roni Horn, Charles Ray, Jim Shaw, Michael Tetherow, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY 
1989 Total Metal, Simon Watson, New York, NY
boys will be boys, Linda Cathcart Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Dennis Anderson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Erotophobia, Simon Watson, New York, NY
L.A. Six, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Buttinsky, Feature Inc., New York, NY
ACCEPTABLE ENTERTAINMENT & ABOUT T.V. Appropriation and Parody in Contemporary Video Art, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Thick and Thin, Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
No Stomach, San Diego, CA
Romancing the Stone, Feature Inc., New York, NY
Amerikarma, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY
1988 Dennis Anderson Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Feature Gallery, Chicago, IL
In the Afterglow of TV Land, Infermental VIII, Tokyo
Telling Tales, Artists Space, New York, NY
Saxon-Lee Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1988 Videonale, Bonn, Germany (video) 
1987 L.A. Hot and Cool: The Eighties, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
New California Video, A Survey of Open Channels: Open Channels III, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Cal Arts; Skeptical Belief(s), The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, IL;
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
Heterodoxy, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
LA2DA, Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA 
1986 Social Distortions, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
Hang 12, Piezo Electric Gallery, Venice, CA 
1985 B & W, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
TV Generations, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
The Magic Show, Atelier Gallery, University of Southern California, Santa Monica, CA
1984 The Floor Show, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
1976 Rackum Gallery, Ann Arbor, MI

 

AWARDS AND GRANTS

2004 John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
1989 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Grant
1988 Art Matters Inc
1986 National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists Fellowship Grant

MUSEUM AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

 

FRANCE Fond National d’Art Contemporain (FNAC), Paris, France
FRAC Normandie, France
FRAC Angouleme, France
FRAC Bordeaux, France
FRAC Dijon, France
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
ITALY Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea Palazzo Forti, Italy
SWITZERLAND Fri-Art Museum, Switzerland
Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
USA Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA
The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Los Angles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, USA