User:Llgilpin03/John Baldessari

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Exhibitions
Baldessari was in over 200 solo shows and 1,000 group shows in his six-decade career. He had his first gallery solo exhibition at the Molly Barnes Gallery in Los Angeles in 1968. His first retrospective exhibition in the U.S. in 1981 was mounted by the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York, and traveled to the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, the CAM, Houston, the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, and the Museum Folkwang, Essen.

His work has since been exhibited in:


 * Documenta V (1972) and VII (1982)
 * the Whitney Biennial (1983)
 * the Carnegie International (1985–86)
 * the 47th Venice Biennial (1997)

Solo presentations of his work at museums have included exhibitions at:


 * Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK (1995)
 * the Albertina, Vienna, Austria (1999)
 * Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany (1999–2000)
 * Museo d'Arte Moderna Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Trento, Italy (2000–2001)
 * Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, the Kunsthaus Graz, and Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin (2004, 2005)
 * Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico (2017)

Retrospectives of his work were shown at MOCA, Los Angeles, which traveled to SFMOMA, the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Whitney Museum and the Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montreal in 1990–92. His show, titled "This Not That" was shown at Cornerhouse, Manchester, and traveled to London, Stuttgart, Ljubljana, Oslo, and Lisbon in 1995-96; and Pure Beauty opened at the Tate Modern, London, in 2009 and travelled to MACBA, Barcelona; LACMA, Los Angeles; and The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, through 2011.

There was an "Artist's Choice: John Baldessari" at the Museum of Modern Art in 1994. In 2006, the artist was invited to curate the exhibition "Ways of Seeing: John Baldessari Explores the Collection" at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. He also created the exhibition design for "Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images" at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.

For the 2017/2018 season at the Vienna State Opera he designed the large-scale image (176 m2) "Graduation" for the ongoing series "Safety Curtain", conceived by museum in progress.