Bruce Conner
Born in McPherson KS, 1933
Died in San Francisco CA, 2008
Education
University of Colorado, Boulder CO 1957
Brooklyn Museum Art School, New York NY 1956
B.F.A., Nebraska University, Lincoln NE 1956
Solo Exhibition
2022
Bruce Conner: Light out of Darkness, Fundació Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona, Spain
REPORT: A FILM BY BRUCE CONNER, Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2021
Bruce Conner: Light out of Darkness, Museum Tinguely, Basel, Switzerland
Bruce Conner REPORT, 1963-1987, presented by the Alex Hank Collection and Tarmak22, Tarmak22, Gstaad, Switzerland
2019
Bruce Conner, BREAKAWAY, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, England
BREAKAWAY, Bergamin & Gomide, São Paulo, Brazil
Retrospectiva Bruce Conner, IMS Paulista, São Paulo, Brazil
Screening. Bruce Conner Films, GARAGE, Moscow, Russia
2018
Please Enjoy and Return: Bruce Conner Films from the Sixties, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque NM
Bruce Conner: Untitled Prints, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle WA
Out of Body, Bellas Artes Projects, Manilla and Bataan, Philippines
Bruce Conner, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York NY
2017
Forever and Ever, Speed Art Museum, Louisville KT
A MOVIE, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, England
Bruce Conner: It's All True, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
2016
CROSSROADS + The War Game, Cinematek Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
A MOVIE, Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Bruce Conner: It's All True, Museum of Modern Art, New York NY; travelled to: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA
Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905–2016, Whitney Museum of American Art, New
York NY
Total Environment, Total Consciousness, Anglim Gilbert Gallery, San Francisco CA
BRUCE CONNER: DENNIS HOPPER ONE MAN SHOW, Crown Point Press,
San Francisco CA
The Rat Bastard Protective Association, the Landing, Los Angeles CA
Bruce Conner: DENNIS HOPPER ONE MAN SHOW, 1971-73, Senior & Shopmaker,
New York NY
Bruce Conner, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York NY
2015
CROSSROADS, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, England
Bruce Conner, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York NY
Bruce Conner: Somebody Else’s Prints, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose CA
2014
Bruce Conner: CROSSROADS 1976, Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Bruce Conner: The Art of Montage, Tallgrass Film Festival, Wichita KS
Bruce Conner: Somebody Else’s Prints, Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University KS
Bruce Conner: Inkblot Drawings, 1992–2003, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco CA
2013
Bruce Conner, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York NY
Cinespia Salon Presents the Films of Bruce Conner, Cinefamily, Los Angeles CA
MOCAtv and Cinefamily Present BRUCE CONNER: The Godfather of Music Videos,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA
Anthology Film Archives, New York NY
2012
Afterimage: The Prints of Bruce Conner, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York NY
Bruce Conner: The Art of Montage, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston TX
Bruce Conner and the Primal Scene of Punk Rock, Museum of Contemporary Art Denver CO
Bruce Conner—Mabuhay Gardens: Punk Photography and Collage, Gallery Paule Anglim,
San Francisco CA
2011
EYE-RAY-FOREVER, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Bruce Conner Film Marathon: The Art of Montage, Beursschouwburg, Brussels, Belgium
Bruce Conner: The Art of Montage, International House, Philadelphia, PA
Bruce Conner: An Anonymous Memorial, American University, Katzen Arts Center, Washington D.C.
Falling Leaves: An Anonymous Memorial, Paula Cooper Gallery, New YorkNY
Bruce Conner: An Anonymous Memorial, American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center,
Washington, DC
CIRCA SIXTY: Bruce Conner and Jean Conner. Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles CA
BEFORE THERE WAS MTV THERE WAS BRUCE CONNER, Curtas Vila do Conde Festival
Internacional de Cinema, Vila do Conde, Portugal, Spain
Special: Bruce Conner, VIDEOEX International Experimental Film and Video Festival,
Zurich, Switzerland
2010
Bruce Conner for Supervisor, Specific Object, New York NY
Bruce Conner: Cinéma et vidéo—Séance, Musée National d’Art Moderne,
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Breakaway: Films by Bruce Conner, 1958–2006, Sprocket Society and Third
Eye Cinema, Northwest Film Forum, Seattle WA
Bruce Conner: The Art of Montage, Film Forum, New York NY
Bruce Conner: 1970’s, curated by Gerald Matt and Barbara Steffen, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna; [travelled to: Kunsthalle Zurich]
Bruce Conner: The 70s, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Germany
Bruce Conner: An American Original, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
I Am Not Bruce Conner, Ursula Blickle Foundation, Krachtal, Germany
INOVA/Kenilworth Institute, Peck School of the Arts, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI4 1/2, Creative Time, New York NY
Long Play: Bruce Conner and the Singles Collection, SFMOMA, San Francisco CA
The Late Bruce Conner, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York NY
At 44 ½: Creative Time Presents Bruce Conner, Times Square, New York NY
2009
Art Kabinett Bruce Conner, Michael Kohn Gallery, Art Basel Miami, Miami, FL
Bruce Conner in the 1970s, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Bruce Conner Discovered, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco CA
LUKE, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Bruce Conner: In Memoriam, Portland Documentary and Experimental Film Festival and Cinema Project, Northwest Film Center, Portland, OR
Bruce Conner: A Tribute, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
The Films of Bruce Conner, Gene Siskel Film Center, School of the Art Institute of Chicago,
Chicago, IL
Bruce Conner Retrospective, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Michigan, WI
CROSSROADS: The Films of Bruce Conner, San Francisco Cinematheque, Yerba
Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA
Bruce Conner’s Explosive Cinema: A Tribute, Part 2, Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater,
Los Angeles, CA
Bruce Conner: Prints, Posters, Books, etc., 871 Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
Bruce Conner’s Explosive Cinema: A Tribute, Part 1, UCLA Film and Television Archive,
Los Angeles, CA
New Jersey Film Festival Spring 2009: A Tribute to Bruce Conner, Rutgers Film Co-op/New
Jersey Media Arts Center, New Brunswick, NJ
Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Intelligent Design: Untitled Lithographs 1970-1971, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee WI
2008
Austin Film Society Presents Avant Cinema 2.3: In Honor of Conner, Alamo Drafthouse,
The Ritz, Austin TX
A Tribute to Bruce Conner, Cornell Cinema, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York NY
Bruce Conner, The Last Magician of the 20th Century, Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge MA
Applause, Miyake Fine Art, Tokyo, Japan
Hommage à Bruce Conner, 37e Festival du Nouveau Cinéma, Montréal, Canada
Bruce Conner: Mabuhay Gardens, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, University of California,
Berkeley CA
2007
Punks (1978) and Dead Ashes (1997), Eve-Ray-Forever (1965/2006), Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco CA
Bruce Conner: Works on Paper, 1961 to 2005, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York NY
Bruce Conner and Company, Michael Kohn Gallery at Art Basel 38, Switzerland
Bruce Conner: Assemblages, 1954–1963, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York NY
2006
Punk Photographs, NRW-Forum Kultur und Wirtschaft,, Dusseldorf, Germany
Cinema Invisible, Centre de Cultura Contemporarània de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Good Vibrations, Centro Arte Contemporanea Papese, Italy
Miyake Fine Art, Tokyo, Japan
Of Mice and Men, 4th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
The Big Nothing, ICA University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA
In The Poem About Love You Don't Write The Word Love, Artists Space, New York NY
Semina Culture, Grey Art Gallery, New YorkNY
Rough Trade, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los AngelesLA
Thank You for the Music, Galerie Spruth Magers, Munich, Germany
2005
An Exhibition full of Mysteries, Smith Andersen Editions, Palo Alto CA
After Conner: Anonymous, Anonymouse and Emily Feather, Katzen Art Center Museum, American University, Washington D.C.
Conner Obscura, Film Screening, SFMOMA, San Francisco CA
Bruce Conner: Tapestries and Drawings, Paintings, Sculpture and Wood Engraving Collages, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco CA
Wielcy Amerykanscy Filmowcy Eksperymentalni: Bruce Conner i inni z Canyon Cinema, Centre for Contemporary Art Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
2004
Bruce Conner: Prints, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York NY
Bruce Conner and Company, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Bruce Conner: Tapestries, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles CA
The Films of Bruce Conner, The Seventh Art: New Dimensions in Cinema, SFMOMA, San Francisco CA
Punk Photographs, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York NY
2003
BRUCE CONNER and the DENNIS HOPPER ONE MAN SHOW VOLUME II, Susan Inglett, New York NY
Bruce Conner: Prints, Drawings, Collages, Tapestries, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York NY
Site and Insight: An Assemblage of Artists, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York NY
2002
2002 B.C., Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco CA
A Silent Peotry, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, England
An Evening of Bruce Conner Films:, Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena CA
Sunday Afternoon, 303 Gallery, New YorkFerus, Gagosian Gallery, New York NY
Other Artworks by Anonymous, ANON, Anon and Anonymouse, Micheal Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Bruce Conner, Collages 1966-1996, Alan Koppel Gallery, Chicago IL
Bruce Conner: Intaglio Prints: Illustrations for ‘The Ballad of Lemon and Crow’, Arion Press Gallery, San Francisco CA
2001
BRUCE CONNER and THE DENNIS HOPPER ONE MAN SHOW VOLUME III, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York NY
Obsessions, University Art Gallery, UC, San Diego CA
Ce Qui Arrive, Fondation Cartier, Paris, France
2000
Bruce Conner : Early Assemblages and Recent Inkblot Drawings, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco CA
Bruce Conner: Wood Engraving Collages 1961-1996, Susan Inglett, New York NY
Dead Punks and Ashes, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York NY
Asynchronous snapping of the Synapses: Permanent Collection Works by Bruce Conner, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara CA
Twenty-Two Inkblot Drawings, 1991 to 1999, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles CA
1999
2000 B.C.: The Bruce Conner Story Part II, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN [travelled to: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth TX; M. H. de Young Memorial Museum , San Francisco; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA]
Looking for Mushrooms, Bruce Conner Drawings 1960-1968, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles CA
1998
Bruce Conner: Persistance of Vision, Inkblot Drawings 1975-1997, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York NY
1997
Fearful Symmetry: Inkblot Drawings and Engraving Collages, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Bruce Conner: Engraving Collages, Wichita Art Museum, Kansas MO
1996
Elite Novelties: Salon Art of the Nineties, Thirteen Engraving Collages by Bruce Conner, Smith-Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto CA
Bruce Conner Editions, Smith Andersen Editions, Palo Alto CA
1995
15 Beautiful Mysteries, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Bruce Conner: Prints, Multiples, Illustrated Books, Films 1957-1991, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York NY
Prints and Multiples, I.C. Editions, New York Curt Marcus Gallery, New York NY
15 Beautiful Mysteries, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York NY
San Francisco Cinematheque Presents …, Sundance Kabuki Cinemas, San Francisco CA
Tribute to Bruce Conner, Pacific Film Archive, Univeristy Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley CA
1994
Bruce Conner: A Benefit for Amnesty International, Eleven Photocopy Prints of Engraving Collages, San Francisco CA
1993
Bruce Conner: Assemblage, Drawing, Collage 1957-1964, Zabriskie Gallery, New York NY
Bruce Conner: Drawings, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco CA
Bruce Conner: Inkblot Drawings, 1991-1993, Kohn Abrams Gallery, Los Angeles CA
1992
Bruce Conner: Engraving Collages, Feigen Incorporated, Chicago
Angels: Bruce Conner, 1973-1975, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA
Retrospektive Kurzfilme Bruce Conner, Neues Kino, Basel, Switzerland
Bruce Conner: Engraving Collages, 1960-1992, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York NY
Bruce Conner: World’s Greatest Drawings, 1962-1992, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York NY
1991
Drawings 1962 to 1991 by Bruce Conner, Michael Kohn Gallery, Santa Monica CA
Smith-Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto CA
1990
Bruce Conner: Assemblages, Paintings, Drawings, Engraving, Collages, Michael Kohn Gallery, Santa Monica CA
1989
Bruce Conner: Paintings, Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto CA
1988
Bruce Conner Group Show, 56 Bleecker Gallery, New York NY
1987
13 Short Films by Bruce Conner, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego CA
Inanimate Objects/Destroyed Works, Pink and Pearl Gallery, San Diego CA
Tribute to Bruce Conner, Sons and Daughters of Wichita, Wichita Art Association, Wichita KS
Bruce Conner: Lost and Found 1960’s, Smith Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto CA
1986
Bruce Conner: Mabuhay Gardens, 1978, Smith Anderson Gallery, Palo Alto CA
Bruce Conner: Lithographs, Smith Anderson Gallery, Palo Alto CA
Bruce Connor: Selected Works (with Photographs), Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco CA
Bruce Conner: MATRIX/Berkeley 102, University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley CA
1985
Bruce Conner: Photograms and Drawings, Redding Museum and Art Center CA [travelled to: Falkirk Community Cultural Center, San Rafael CA; Nickle Arts Museum, University of Calgary Alberta; Tacoma Art Museum, Washington; University of Tennessee]
Film Forum, Wallenboyd Center, Los Angeles CA
The Films of Bruce Conner, Sheldon Film Theater, University of Nebraska, Lincoln NE
BOMB SCARE, National Mall, Washington D.C.
California State University, Chico CA
1984
Collective for Living Cinema, New York NY
Madison Art Center, Madison WI
Cinematheque Presents: A Bruce Conner Celebration, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco CA
1983
Bruce Conner: Angels 1973-1975, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco CA
Smith-Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto CA
1982
This Man is Dangerous! The Films of Bruce Conner, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco CA
Films by Bruce Conner, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco CA
1981
Bruce Conner: Selected Works, North Point Gallery, San Francisco CA
Recycled Cinema, Part 2: The Films of Bruce Conner + Found Footage Open Screening, Pasadena Film Forum, Bank Playhouse, Pasadena CA
1980
Bruce Conner: Selected Works, North Point Gallery, San Francisco CA
1979
Roxie Theatre, San Francisco CA
The Movies of Bruce Conner, Univeristy of South Florida, Tampa FL
Eight Avant-Garde Films by Bruce Conner, Miami Dade Community College, Miami FL
Bruce Conner Films, American Cultural Center, Tokyo, Japan
Bruce Conner: Twelve Independent Films, Twenty-Four Photo Etchings and One Collage, Madison Art Center, Madison WI
1978
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN
Evenings for New Films: Bruce Conner, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo NY
1977
Bruce Conner: Drawings and Lithographs, Fine Arts Building Gallery and University Memorial Center Gallery, University of Colorado, Boulder CO
The Dennis Hopper One Man Show, Denver Art Museum, Denver CO
1976
Films by Bruce Conner, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA
Angels and Other Works, California State University, Fresno CA
Cineprobe: An Evening with Bruce Conner, The Museum of Modern Art, New York NY
1975
Visiting Filmmaker: Bruce Conner, Walker Art Centre, Minneapolis MN
The Films of Bruce Conner, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco CA
Angels: Bruce Conner, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco CA [travelled to: Braunstein/Quay Gallery, New York NY]
1974
Quay Gallery, San Francisco CA
Bruce Conner: The Dennis Hopper One Man Show, Tyler Art Museum TX
Film Show and Lecture: THE COMPLETE WORKS 1958-73… Bruce Conner, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL
Bruce Conner Prints, Galerie Smith-Anderson, Palo Alto CA
Bruce Conner: Drawings 1955-1972, M.H, DeYoung Museum, San Francisco CA [travelled to: Joslyn Museum, Omaha NE; Wadsworth Athenaum, Hartford, Connecticut CT; Otis Art Gallery, Los Angeles CA; Chicago Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL; Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle SE]
1973
The Complete Dennis Hopper One Man Show by Bruce Conner, Texas Gallery, Houston TX
The Films of Bruce Conner, Pacific Film Archive, University of California, Berkeley CA
1972
Vol. 2: The Dennis Hopper One Man Show, Reese Palley Gallery, New York NY
Contract Graphics, Houston TX
Bruce Conner: Lithographs, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York NY
Bruce Conner Films, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA
1972 B.C., Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles CA
1971
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco CA
Bruce Conner: Recent Work, Molly Barnes Gallery, Los Angeles CA
The Dennis Hopper One Man Show, Reese Palley Gallery, San Francisco CA
1968
Eight Films by Bruce Conner, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco CA
1967
One-Man Show: Bruce Conner, Quay Gallery, San Francisco CA
Bruce Conner: Sculpture Assemblages, Collages, Drawings, Films, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania PA
1966
Quay Gallery, San Francisco CA
1965
Bruce Conner: A One-Man Show, Fine Arts Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
Bruce Conner Assemblages 1954-1964 and New Drawings, Alan Gallery, New York NY
Bruce Conner: Sculpture, Assemblages, Drawings, Films, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham MA
Bruce Conner: New Prints, Drawings, Swetzoff Gallery, Boston MA
1964
Alan Gallery, New York NY
Touch/Do Not Touch, Batman Gallery, San Francisco Alan Gallery, New York NY
Bruce Conner Assemblages, Robert Fraser Gallery, London, England
1963
Works by Bruce Conner from Bay Area Collections, Batman Gallery, San Francisco CA
Boxcar Show, Car #91640, Wichita, Kansas KS
Bruce Conner: San Francisco Art Institute Neallie Sullivan Award Exhibition, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco CA
Bruce Conner: Assemblages, Swetzoff Gallery, Boston MA
1962
Jacobo Glantz Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
Antonio Souza Gallery, Mexico City, Mexico
Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles CA
1961
Alan Gallery, New York NY
1960
Alan Gallery, New York NY
Batman Gallery, San Francisco CA
1959
Works by the Late Bruce Conner, Spatsa Gallery, San Francisco CA
1958
Designers Gallery, San Francisco East West Gallery, San Francisco CA
1956
Rienzi Gallery, New York NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2024
Forthcoming: New American Cinema, Eye Filmmuseum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2023
OFF THE GRID: Post-Formal Conceptualism, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco CA
We Begin Again, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco CA
2022
The Animal Within - Creatures in (and outside) the mumok collection, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien (mumok), Vienna, Austria
Lyrical Cool: A Tribute to Shirley Berman, Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2021
BOMBHEAD, Nanaimo Art Gallery, Nanaimo, Canada
Bruce Conner & Jay Defeo ("we are not what we seem"), Paula Cooper Gallery, New York NY
ASSEMBLED, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco CA
Hindsight/Insight: Reflecting on the Collection, The University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque NM (online)
2019
5th Ural Industrial Biennial of Contemporary Art, Ural Optical and Mechanical Plant, Yekaterinburg, Russia
Regime of Images, Durden and Ray, Los Angeles CA
Landscape Without Boundaries: Selections from the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Museum of Art, Davis CA
A line (a)round an idea: Selected Works on Paper, Gagosian Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland
Going Public, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach FL
2018
Speed, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
War of Nerves: Psychological Landscapes of the Cold War, The Wende Museum, Culver City CA
Intimate Infinite: Imagine a Journey, Lévy Gorvy, New York NY
La llum negra, Centre de Cultura Contemporània de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
EVA International, Limerick, Ireland
Anchorage Museum, Anchorage AK
A Movie, Screening, Akademie der Künste der Welt, Cologne, Germany
Bombhead, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Selections from the Department of Drawings and Prints: Portraits and States, The Met, New York NY
Thomas Dane Gallery, Naples, Italy
2017
I am you, you are too, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN
William Blake and the Age of Aquarius, Block Museum of Art Northwestern, Evanston IL
17th Vienna Film Festival, Vienna, Austria
Floating Worlds, 14th Biennial de Lyon, Lyon, France
Truth: 24 Frames per second, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas TX
Doubles, Dobros, Pliegues, Pares, Twins, Mitades, The Warehouse, Dallas TX
Unsettled, Nevada Museum of Art, Reno NV; travelling to: Anchorage Museum, Anchorage AL; Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs CA
Rat Bastard Protective Association, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY
2016
Beat Generation, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
The Avant-Garde Collection, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
2013
Rhythm in it: On Rhythm in Contemporary Art, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
Répétition: 1960 – 1975, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York NY
Renaissance on Fillmore, 1955-1965, curated by Michael Schwagger, Gatehouse Gallery, di Rosa, Napa CA
2012
INTO THE MYSTIC, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Carte Blanch a Paula Cooper Gallery, Galerie Patrick Seuin, Paris, France
FranceRenaissance on Fillmore, 1955-1965, curated by Michael Schwagger, Gatehouse Gallery, di Rosa, Napa CA
Interruption; A Break in the Continuity of the Interstitial, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Over, Under, Next, curated by Evelyn Hankins, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.
Bruce Conner and the Primal Scene of Punk Rock, MCA Denver, Denver CO
Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A., 1945-1980, Traveling exhibition beginning at the Getty Center, Los Angeles CA; Martin Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
2011
Accumulations: Bruce Conner, Yayoi Kusama, Christian Marclay, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York NY
Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in LA Painting and Sculpture, 1950-1970, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles CA
Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles CA
Drawn/Taped/Burned: Abstraction on Paper, The Katonah Museum of Art, New York NY
2010
25th Anniversary Show, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Sunless, curated by Walead Beshty, Thomas Dane Gallery, London, England
Shred, curated by Carlo McCormick, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, NY
2009
California Maximalism, Foundation 20 21/Nyehaus, New York NY
Metamorphosis Victorianus, Ubu Gallery, curated by Meredith Harper, New York NY
Source Codes, Sprueth Magers, Berlin
Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collections, Museum of Modern Art, New York NY
Messages and Magic: 100 Years of Collage and Assemblage in American Art, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan WI
2008
2008 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, CAThe Wizard of Oz, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, CA
On the Road, Gwangju Biennale, Korea
Looking for Mushrooms, Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum, Philadelphia, PACalifornia Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image, Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Tapestry, Karen Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2007
The Third Mind, curated by Ugo Rondinone, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Be-Bomb, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Barcelona, Spain Pioneers curated by Jens Hoffman, CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco CA
2004
Lost But Found: Assemblage, Collage and Sculpture, Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena CA
Disparities and Deformations: Our Grotesque, SITE Santa Fe’s 5th International Biennial, Santa Fe NM
2003
Site and Insight: an assemblage of Artists, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island NY
Several Exceptionally Good Recently Acquired Pictures, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco CA
Stranger in the Village, The Museum of Modern Art, New York NY
Not Exactly Photographs, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco CA
No War, Luggage Store, San Francisco CA
Unknown Quantity, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris, France
Ferus, Gagosian Gallery, New York NY
Sunday Afternoon, 303gallery, New York NY
A Silent Poetry, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, England
2001
Obsessions, University Art Gallery, UCSD, San Diego CA
The Universe: Creation, Constellations and the Cosmos, Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena CA
2000
Cross-Currents in Modern Art: A Tribute to Peter Selz, Achim Moeller Fine Art, New York NY
Tamarind: Forty Years, University of New Mexico Art Museum, Santa Fe NM
Celebrating Modern Art: Highlights of the Anderson Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA
1999
The American Century, Art & Culture 1900-2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY
The Art of Collaborative Printmaking: Smith Andersen Editions, de Saisset Museum, Santa Clara Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara CA
Homage to the San Francisco Art Institute, Hackett Freedman Gallery, San Francisco CA
Group Exhibition, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York NY
Impressing the Body, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst MA
Meaning and Message: Contemporary Art from the Museum Collection, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland CA
Second Impressions, Meaning and Message in Contemporary Art, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland CA
The Great Drawing Show: 1550 to 1999, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Pattern, James Graham & Sons, New York NY
Drawn from Artists' Collections, The Drawing Center, New York, NYRadical Past: Contemporary Art & Music in Pasadena, 1960 - 1974, Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena CA
1997
Biennial 1997, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York Scene of the Crime. Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA
Bruce Conner and Barbara Ess, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York NY
Media in Media, Soros Center for Contemporary Arts, Ljubljana, Slovenia
1996
Art and Film, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA
Beat Culture and the New America: 1950-1965, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA
Bruce Conner and Dennis Hopper, Paula Anglim Gallery, San Francisco CA
1995
Beat Culture and the New America: 1950-1965, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY
The Rational World, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles CA
A Bay Area Connection: Works from the Anderson Collection, Triton Museum of Art, Santa Clara CA
1968 SMS, I.C. Editions, Inc., New York NY
Sight/Vision: The Urban Milieu, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco CA
1994
Drawn in the 70’s, Brook Alexander Gallery, New York NY
1993
Zabriskie Gallery, New York NY
Kohn Abrams Gallery, Los Angeles LA
1991
Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York NY
1989-90
40 Years of California Assemblage, Curated by Ann Ayres; Wight
Art Gallery, Los Angeles; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Fresno Art Museum, Fresno CA; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha NE
1986
Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York NY
Sight Vision the Urban, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco CA
1983
Smith-Andersen Gallery, Palo Alto Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco CA
1982
100 Years of California Sculpture, Oakland Museum, Oakland CA
California Art of the 60's, deSaisset Museum, Santa Clara CA
The Americans: The Collage, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston TX
1978
Aspekte der 60er Jahre, Nationalgalerie, Berlin, West Germany
1977
Paris/New York, Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Perceptions of the Spirit, Indianapolis Museum of Art; University Art Museum, Berkeley CA
Improbable Furniture, Institute of Contemporary Art, La Jolla CA
1975
Drawing Show, Newport Harbor Museum of Art, Newport Beach CA
Poets of the Cities, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas; San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford CT
1972
Family Show, Quay Gallery, San Francisco; Jaqueline Anhalt Gallery, Los Angeles CA
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco CA
1967
Funk Art, University Art Museum, Berkeley CA
Sculpture of the 60's, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA
1964
Nieuwe Realisten, The Hague, Netherlands
1963
66th Annual of American Painting, Chicago Art Institute, Chicago IL
1962
50 California Artists, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY
1961
Illinois Biennial, Chicago IL
1960
Gang Bang, Batman Gallery, San Francisco CA
1958
San Francisco Art Association Annual, San Francisco CA
1957
Six Gallery, San Francisco CA
Public collections
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago IL
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA
KADIST Foundation, San Francisco CA
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley CA
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego CA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York NY
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY
Museum of Modern Art, New York NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY
National Gallery of Art, Washington DC
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Park, Washington DC
di Rosa Center for Contemporary Art, Napa CA
Nasher Museum of Modern Art, Durham NC
Glenstone Museum, Potomac MD
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh PA
The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham MA
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee WI
The Carl & Marilynn Thoma Art Foundation, Santa Fe NM
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
D. Daskalopoulos Collection & NEON, Greece
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
