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SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2014

Spill Paintings, Kavi Gupta CHICAGO | Project Space, Chicago, IL

 

2013

Domestic Abstractions: 1986 - 2013, Kavi Gupta BERLIN, Berlin, Germany

 

2012

Selected Works from the 80s and 90s, In/Situ at Expo Chicago, Chicago, IL

Rainbow, Sony Pictures Studios, Culver City, CA

 

2011

Tony Tasset, Kavi Gupta, Chicago

Judy, Leo Koenig, New York, NY

Life During War Time, Rochester Arts Center, Rochester, MN

 

2010

Selected Works 1986-1996, Kavi Gupta, Chicago, IL

Eye, Pritzker Park, Chicago, IL

 

2009

Squib, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria

 

2008

Kavi Gupta Gallery/Leipzig, Germany

 

2007

Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO

 

2006

Frownland, VonZweck Gallery, Chicago IL

 

2003

University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL

Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland, OR

 

2002

Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY

 

2001

Judy, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL

Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.

 

2000

Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY

Tony Tasset: As It Is, The Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH

 

1998

Tony Tasset, Institite of Visual Arts, Milwaukee, WI

Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

 

1997

Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY

Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

 

1996

Manfred Baumgartner Gallery, Washington,D.C.

Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

 

1995

Robert Smithson/Tony Tasset: Site/Nonsite, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (catalogue)

 

1994

Feature, New York, NY

 

1993

Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL

 

1992

Feature, New York, IL

Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto, Portugal (catalogue)

Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland (catalogue)

 

1991

Feature, New York, NY

Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL

 

1990

Feature, New York, NY

 

1989

Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL

 

1988

Feature, Chicago, IL

Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI

Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

Feature, Chicago, IL

 

1987

Karsten Schubert Ltd., London, England (catalogue)

 

1986

Domesticates, Feature, Chicago, IL (catalogue)

Christine Burgin Gallery, New York, NY

 

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2014

The Whitney Biennial, Artists Monument

Look at Me: Portraiture from Manet to the Present, curated by Beth Rudin DeWoody

and Paul Morris, Leila Heller Gallery 57th Street, New York, NY

Michael Sailstorfer: Every Piece is a New Problem and Shall I Tell You the Secret of the

Whole World?, Cincinnati Arts Center

 

2013

Pop Culture: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, curated by

Billie Milam Weisman, Boca Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL

The Way of the Shovel: Art as Archaeology, Musuem of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL

The 7 Borders, Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft, Louisville, KY

MCA DNA: Chicago Conceptual Abstraction, 1986-1995, Museum of Contemporary

Art, Chicago, IL

Think FIrst, Shoot Later: Photographs from the MCA Collection, Museum of

Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980’s, curated by Helen Molesworth,

ICA, Boston, MA

 

2012

This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980ʼs, curated by Helen Molesworth,

Walker Art Center,

Minneapolis, MN

This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980ʼs, curated by Helen Molesworth,

MCA, Chicago

(catalogue)

Drama, Baby, Drama, Kunsthaus Essen, curated by Uwe Schramm, Essen, Germany

 

2011

Farbe im Fluss, Weserberg Museum fur Modern Kunst, Breman, Germany

20th Century Fox, curated by Peter Dorshenko, Collection Vanmoerkerke, Oostende,

Belgium

Broodwork: Itʼs About Time, Otis Collage of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA

The Smithson Effect, Utah Museum of Fine Art, Salt Lake City, Utah

 

2010

Unnatural Rubber, Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA

Rewind: The 70’s-90’s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Chicago, IL

Contemporary Collecting: Selections from the Donna and Howard Stone Collection, Art

Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

100 Years a Draft of History, curated by Klaus Biesenbach and Rosalee Goldberg for

PS 1 Moma, NY and the Stoschek Foundation, Dusseldorf, Germany and The Garage

Center for Contemporary Culture, Russia.

 

2009

Practice, Practice, Practice, curated by Michael Smith and Jay Sanders, Lora Reynolds

Gallery, Austin, TX

From a Position, Evanston Art Center, curated by Maxwell C. Graham, Evanston, IL

Walls, Floors and Ceilings, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

 

2008

Recent Acquisitions: Focus on Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967, Museum of Contemporary

Art, North Miami, FL; traveling to Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal, Québec

25 artists x 2 screenings = 1 week, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA

 

2007

Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll from 1967, Museum of Contemporary

Art, Chicago

Into Me/ Out of Me, MACRO, Rome

 

2006

Into Me/Out of Me, Kunst-Werke (KW) Institute for Contemporary Art in Berlin,

curator Klaus Biesenbach

Figures in the Field: Figurative Sculpture and Abstract Painting from Chicago

Collections, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

 

2005-06

Situation Comedy: Humor in Recent Art, Independent Curators International, New

York, NY; The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii: The Chicago Cultural

Center, Chicago, IL: Winiipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; Museum of

Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL

25 Years: Selected Solo Exhibitions, Baumgartner, Gallery, New York, NY

 

2004

The Center is Anywhere, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

25th Anniversary: The LA Years Part I, Christopher Grimes Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

…lautloses irren, ways of worldmaking, too…, Postbahnhof am Ostbahnhof, Berlin

Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, MO

 

2003

M_ARS. Art and War, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria

Life, Death, Love, Hate, Pleasure, Pain, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

Chicago Artists in the New Millenium, Union League of Chicago, Chicago, IL

 

2002

Masquerade, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI

Kunst Nach Kunst, Neuen Museum Weserberg, Bremen, Germany

Basics, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland (catalogue)

Looking at America, Yale Univeristy Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

Individuality, Saks Fifth Avenue, New York, NY

Sculpture in Chicago Now, Part 11, Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago, IL

Family, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT

 

2001

Joy, Ursala Blickle Stifung, Kraichtal, Germany

New Works, Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY

At Home, Lennon Weinberg Inc., New York, NY

Pictures, Patents, Monkeys, and More…On Collecting, Western Gallery, Western

Center, Sheboygan, WI: Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH; Fuller Museum of Art,

Brockton, MA; Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania,

Philadelphia, PA; Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA

 

2000

Life After Squirrel, Location One, New York, NY

Warning Shots, The Royal Amouries, Leeds, England

The Body in Photographs: A Recent Gift from Eileen and Peter Norton, Bard College

Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

 

1999-98

Mayday, Centre d’Art Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Germany; Staaliche,

Kunshalle Baden-Baden, Germany; Centro Galego de Arte Contemporanea, Santiago

di Compostela, Spain; National Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea

Ingelnook II, University, Galleris, Normal, IL

Sweat, Camerawork, London, England

All of Me, New Langston Arts, San Francisco, CA

 

1997

ca-ca poo-poo, Kolnischer Kunstverin, Cologne, Germany

Shot Reverse-Shot, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Alberta, Canada

 

1996

The Moral Imagination, Plug-In Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada

Art In Chicago: 1945-1995, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

(catalogue)

Persona, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL;

Kunsthalle Basel, Basel Switzerland.

Shit, Baron/Boisante’ Gallery, New York, NY

Subvert Object, Ubu Gallery, New York, NY

AbFab, Feature, New York, NY

 

1995

It’s How You Play The Game, Exit Art, New York; curated by Thelma Golden, Nancy

Spector, Robert Storr, Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo

Strung Into the Appolonian Dream…an exhibition of a private collection, Feature, New

York, NY

Seven Llongish Wodden Sculptures, Feature, New York, NY

Art As Dramatic Comedy, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL

 

1994

The Ecstasy of Limits, Gallery 400, School of Art and Design, UIC, Chicago, IL

Amenities, Frederick Layton Gallery, Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design,

Milwaukee, WI

 

1993

Mixed Messages: A Survey of Recent Chicago Art, Forum for Contempoary Art, St.

Louis, MO

A Sequence of Forms: Sculpture by Illinois Artists, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL

New Works, Feigen Inc. Chicago, IL

Mettlesome & Meddlesome: Selections from the Collection of Robert J. Shiffler,

Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; Urbana-Champaign, IL; I Space,

University of Urbana-Champaign Gallery, Chicago, IL

15th Anniversary Exhibition, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL

 

1992

Editions Functional Objects by Artists and Architects, Rhona Hoffman Gallery,

Chicago, IL

Drawing New Conclusions, Betty Rymer Gallery, The School of the Art Institute of

Chicago, Chicago, IL

Multiples, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL

 

1991

Office Party, (March) Feature, New York, NY

Galerie Anselmo Alvarez, Madrid, Spain

Power: Its Icons, Myths and Structure in American Culture 1961-1991, Museum of

Fine Art, Richmond VA: curated by Holliday T. Day (catalogue)

Stillstand Switches, Shedhalle, Zurich, Switzerland

 

1990

Toward the Future Contemporary Art in Context, Museum of Contemporary Art,

Chicago, IL (brochure)

Machine Shop, The Machine Shop at Emery, Cincinnati, OH; curated by Derrick

Woodham

Awards in the Visual Arts, New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA;

Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC; Arthur M. Sackler

Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA; The BMW Gallery, New York, NY

(catalogue)

The Thing Itself, Feature, New York, NY (brochure)

Work on Paper, Paula Allen Gallery, New York, NY

Outdoor Sculpture Show: Chicago Artists from Chicago Galleries, Klein Art Works,

Chicago, IL

New Generations Chicago, Carnegie Mellon Art Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University,

Pittsburgh, PA; curated by Elaine A. King (catalogue)

Oh, Those Four Walls: The Gallery as Context, Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta,

GO; curated by Lisa Tuttle (catalogue)

Half-Truths, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY; curated by Marge

Goldwater (catalogue)

 

1989

Filling in the Gap, Feigen, Inc.,Chicago, IL; curated by Saul Ostrow (catalogue)

FUNCTIONFUNCTION, Suzan Rezac Gallery, Chicago, IL (catalogue)

On Kawara: Date Paintings 1966-1988, The Renaissance Society at the University of

Chicago, Chicago, IL

Signs of Life: Contemporary American Sculpture, Fundacao Calouste Gulbenkian;

Fundacao Luso-Americana Para O Desenvolvimento, Lisbon, Portugal; curated by

Judith Russi Kirshner (catalogue)

Romancing the Stone, Feature, New York, NY

Double Take, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; curated by Hudson

Reused, Althea Viafore Gallery, New York, NY

Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI

Exhibition 12, Studio Arts Faulty, UIC School of Art and Design, Gallery 400, Chicago,

IL (catalogue)

Dorothy, Center for Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; curated by Hudson

 

1988

Walk Out to Winter, Bess Cutler Gallery, New York, NY; curated by Christian Leigh

(catalogue)

Redefining the Object, University Art Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton, OH;

Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland OH; curated by Barry A.

Rosenberg (catalogue)

Material Art, Althea Viafore Gallery, New York, NY

Artschwager: His Peers and his Persuasion, 1963-1988, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los

Angeles, CA; Leo Castelli Gallery New York, NY (catalogue)

Near Miss, Feature, Chicago, IL

The Objects of Sculpture, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL; curated by Neal

Benezra (catalogue)

Chicago Buy the Square Foot, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL

Life Like, Lorance Monk Gallery, New York, NY; curated by Marvin Heiferman

Homecoming, Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH

NYC #1/Sculpture, Rotterdam Arts Council, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; curated by

Thord Thordeman; touring Sweden and Finland (catalogue)

Formal, Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL (catalogue)

Lattitudes Focus on Chicago, The Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO (catalogue)

Contemporary Icons and Explorations: The Goldstrom Family Collection, Davenport

Museum of Art, Davenport, IA (catalogue)

Liars: A Question of Reason, State of Illinois Gallery, Chicago, IL; curated by Debra

Donato.

Nature, Feature, Chicago, IL

A White Show, MoMing Gallery, Chicago, IL; curated by Jeanne Dunning

A Different Color: Definition and Redefinition, Painting in America, Biennial

International de Pintura, U.S. Pavillion, Museo de Arte Moderne, Cuenca, Ecuador:

curated by Christian Leigh (catalogue)

 

1986

July, Wolff Gallery, New York, NY

The Non-Spiritual in Art Abstract Painting 1985-????, Chicago, IL; curated by Hudson

(catalogue)

Larry Johnson, Tony Tasset, Christopher Wool, Kuhlenschmidt-Simon, Los Angeles, CA

One Hand Clapping, Karsten Schubert Ltd., London, England

Gilbert and George, Donald Judd, Tony Tasset, Christine Burgin Gallery, New York NY

Of Ever-Ever Land I speak, Stux Gallery, New York, NY; curated by Chrostian Leigh

Surfaces: Two Decades of Painting in Chicago, 1970s and 1980s, The Terra Museum of

Art, Chicago, IL; curated by Judith Russi Kirschner (catalogue)

Anxious Objects, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL; curated by

Barry Blinderman

A Spectacle of Reflexivity, UWM Art Museum, University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee,

WI; curated by Michelle Grabner (catalogue)

Industrial Icons, San Diego State University, San Diego, CA

Homer, Huttinger, Tasset, Feature, Chicago, IL

SAIC: A New Generation, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; curated by

Lynne Warren (catalogue)

Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN

(catalogue)

Promises, Promises, Feature, Chicago, IL; CAGE, Cincinnati, OH: curated by Hudson

Dull Edge, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL; curated by Jeanne Dunning and Tony

Tasset (catalogue)

 

1985

Post Modern Conceptual Pop Production, Feature, Chicago, IL

Two-person exhibition (with Mitchel Kane), School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Gallery, Chicago, IL

Wilder Scholarship Retrospective, Chidlaw Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

The Perfect Couple, CAGE, Cincinnati, OH

Invitational, Feature and Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL

 

1984

Two-person exhibition (with Greg Green), Bookspace, Chicago, IL

Sexuality in Art and the Media, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

 

1983

Artists Call, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL

 

AWARDS AND GRANTS

2006

The John Simon Guggenheim Foundation Award

1989

Artists Fellowship, Illinois Arts Council

The Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, Awards in Painting, Sculpure, Printmaking

and Craft Media

Awards in the Visual Arts 9, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, WinstonSalem,

NC

1986

John Quincy Adams Traveling Fellowship, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago

1984

Wilder Traveling Fellowhip, The Art Academy of Cincinnati

 

COLLECTIONS

Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, IL

Laumeier Sculpture Park, St Louis

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

The Baltimore Museum, Baltimore, MD

The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

The San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA

Goldblatt’s Building, City of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Nathan J. Manilow Sculpture Park, University Park, IL

David L. Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh, PA

Museum Fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany

Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI

 

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Southampton, NY, 1990

Grabner, Michelle, “Hello Mr. Soul”, Frieze, summer 1999, #47, p. 100

Grabner, Michelle, review, New Art Examiner, October, 1997, p. 50

Grabner, Michelle, catalogue essay, “A Spectacle of Reflexivity,” UWM Art Museum,

University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI, 1986

Green, Ann Hunter, "Making the Art Rounds," Where/Chicago, September 1993, p.

26-27

Hapgood, Susan, “’Shit’ at Baron/Boisanté,” Art in America, March, 1997, pp. 109-

110

Hawkins, Margaret, “It’s a Girl Thing”, Chicago Sun-Times, February 9, 2001, p. 46

Heartney, Eleanor, "Strong Debuts," Contemporanea, July/August 1988, p. 110

Henry, Gerrit, “Tony Tasset at Christine Burgin (review),” Art in America, June 1987

Hixson, Kathryn, catalogue essay, “Tony Tasset ‘As It Is’”, Feigen Contemporary, New

York, 2000

Hixson, Kathryn, “Transcendence to Transformation: The Art of Tony Tasset”, New

Art Examiner, May 2000, pp. 34-38

Hixson, Kathryn, review, Flash Art, March/April, 1996, p. 114

Hixson, Kathryn, The Journal of Art, February 1991, p. 68

Hixson, Kathryn, “Chicago in Review,” Arts, April 1991, p. 106

Hixson, Kathryn, "Cool, Conceptual, Controversial," New Art Examiner, May, 1988,

pp. 30-33

Hudson, Kevin Maginnis and Richard Brettell, catalogue essays “The Non-Spiritual in

Art Abstract Painting”, Chicago, IL, 1986

Hugunin, James R, review, New Art Examiner, March 1989, p. 44

Holg, Garrett, "Sculptors Make Statements with Everyday Objects," Chicago Sun

Times, March 7, 1993, p. 13

Johnson, Ken, “Tony Tasset (review),” New York Times, October 31, 1997

J.Z., “Tony Tasset at Christopher Grimes,” d’Art International, vol. 2, number 1,

winter 1999

Kandel, Susan, “Like Young,” Los Angeles Times, May 29, 1997, p. 18

Kertess, Klaus, catalogue essay, “Artschwager: His Peers and His Persuasion, 1963-

1988”, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA and Leo Castelli Gallery, New York,

NY

King, Elaine A, catalogue essay, “New Generations: Chicago,” University of

Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA, 1990

Kirshner, Judith Russi, "The Benefit of the Doubt or Loving Modernism to Death,"

Artforum, November 1988, pp. 106-111

Kittelman, Udo. Jackson Pollock und die Malerei nach der Organisation der Malerei.

Karlsruhe, Germany:

Englehardt & Bauer, 2004: p. 36

Knight, Christopher, review, Los Angeles Herald, July 31, 1987

Knode, Marilu, “Tony Tasset”, Art/Text 61, 1998, p. 48

Kutner, Janet, “Hybrid Film Mixes Facts, Fantasies,” The Dallas Morning News, March

8, 1998

Lambrecht, Luk (translated by Lynne George), “Olafur Gislason, Tony Tasset, Dieter

Wymann (review)”

(Shedhalle), Forum International, May 1992, pp. 86-87

Lebovici, Elisabeth, Liberation, Guide, October, 1996, p. 34

Leigh, Christian, catalogue essay, “Dorothy,” Center for Contemporary Art, Chicago,

IL, 1988

Leigh, Christian, “Summer Show (review)," Artscribe International,

November/December, 1987

Leigh, Christian, catalogue essay, “A Different Corner: Definition and Redefiniton,

Painting in America”, traveling exhibition, 1987

Leigh, Christian, “of Ever-Ever Land I speak”, catalogue essay, Stux Gallery, New

York, NY, 1986

Leuking, Stephen, review “New Works, Sequence of Forms”, Sculpture, July-August

1993, pp. 57-58

Lippard, Lucy, catalogue essay, “Awards in the Visual Arts 9”, The BMW Gallery, New

York, NY, 1990

Mauro, Lucia, "Local artists hop on the cutting edge," Pioneer Press, February 1,

1995, B4-B5

McCormick, Carlo, catalogue essay, “New York Now,” Goteborgs Kunstmuseum,”

toured Sweden and Finland, 1988

McCracken, David, "Tasset Offers a Backstage Look at Slippery Sculptures," Chicago

Tribune, January 11, 1991, Section 7, p. 8

McCracken, David, "Different Views of a Postmodernist World," Chicago Tribune,

January 11, 1988, section 7 p. 60

Miles, Christopher, "Sharon Ellis and Tony Tasset," Artforum.com, 2002 on website

Miro, Marsha, "Frames Tame Wild Things," Detroit Free Press, March 24, 1988, p. 5C

Moody, Tom, review, Art Papers, November/December, 1996, p. 56

Morgan, Robert, "New York in Review," Arts, February 1989, p. 98

Nagy, Peter, “Shit (review),” Time Out, Oct. 31-Nov. 7, 1996, Issue # 58, p. 48

New Yorker Magazine, April 29, 1991, p. 17

Noll, Damien, “Pixels and Particles, Pigment and Stone”, Chicago Journal, February

2001, p. 9

Ostrow, Saul, catalogue essay, “Filling in the Gap”, Feigen, Inc, Chicago, IL, 1989

Paine, Janice T., "Amenities: A strangely discomforting exhibit," Milwaukee Sentinel,

October 14, 1994, 8E

Pinto De Almeida, Bernardo, “Tony Tasset (catalogue essay), from exhibition at

Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Portugal, 1992

Robinson, Walter, “Weekend Update,” artnet.com>reviews, October 25, 2000

Robinson, Walter, "State of the Art: Young, Gifted and Affordable," Metropolitan

Home, November 1987, pp. 58-59

Rosenberg, Barry A, catalogue essay, “Redefining the Object”, University Art

Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton OH and Cleveland Center for

Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH, 1988

Runólfsson, Halldór Björn, catalogue essay, “Stillstand Switches”, Shedhalle, Zurich,

Switzerland, 1992

Russi-Kirchner, Judith, catalogue essay, “Art in Chicago: 1945-1995,” MCA Chicago,

IL

Russi-Kirchner, Judith, catalogue essay, “On Kawara: Date Paintings 1966-1988”,

traveling exhibition

Russi-Kirchner, Judith, catalogue essay, “Surfaces: Two Decades of Painting in

Chicago,” The Terra Museum, Chicago, Il, 1986

Scanlan, Joe, “Money-Market,” dialogue, January 1987, p. 26

Schaffner, Ingrid and Therese Cafaro, catalogue essays, “Shit”, Baron Boisante

Gallery, New York, NY

Schjeldahl, Peter, "At the Salon of April," Village Voice, May 14, 1991, p.86

Schultz, Jerome, “Postmodernism, A Spectacle of Reflexivity (review),” The New Art

Examiner, June 1987, p.55

Sherlock, Maureen P, "Tony Tasset," Arts, summer 1989, p. 82

Snodgrass, Susan, “Tony Tasset at Rhona Hoffman (review),” Art in America,

January, 1994, pp.110-111

Sobel, Dean, “Identity and Recent Self-Portraiture”, 1997, catalogue essay,

Milwaukee Art Museum, WI

Stevens, Mitchell, "Forms to Warm the Heart," The Reader, February 19, 1993, p. 29

“Sunday Style,” The New York Times, February 25, 2001.

Tasset, Tony, catalogue essay, “Domesticates,” Feature, Chicago, IL, 1986

Tasset, Tony, "The Beast is Now Under Control," Nit & Wit, October 1986, p. 15

Taylor, Sue, review of "Liars," Art in America, September 1987, pp. 187, 18

Vissault, Maïté, “Recrudescence,” ETCMontréal, Sept., Oct., Nov., 2004, pp. 22-27

Waddington, Christopher, “Contemporary Icons and Explorations: The Goldstrom

Family Collection”, Davenport Museum of Art, Davenport, IA, 1988

Wainwright, Martin, “Warning Shots: Royal Armouries Exhibits Art of Violence,” The

Guardian May 13, 2000

Walker, Hamza, “Eureka! I’ve Lost It,” catalogue essay, Persona, 1996

Walker, Hamza and Susan Stryker, catalogue essays, “Kunsthalle Basel,” Basel,

Switzerland

Warren, Lynne, catalogue essay, “S.A.I.C.: A New Generation”, Museum of

Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, 1986

Wehr, Anne, “Tony Tasset”, Time Out New York, November 23 – 30, 2000

Wilk, Deborah, “Robert Smithson, Tony Tasset (review),” The New Art Examiner,

January, 1996

Wilk, Deborah, “The Ecstasy of Limits (review),” New Art Examiner, February, 1995,

p. 38

Yood, James, catalogue essay, The Refco Collection, Sue Taylor, editor, The Refco

Group, Ltd, Chicago, 1990, pp. 178-79

Yood, James, catalogue essay, “Exhibition 12”, Studio Arts Faculty, School of Art &

Design, University of Illinois at Chicago, Gallery 400, Chicago, IL, 1988

Yood, James, “Tony Tasset (review)”, ArtForum, March 1991, p. 134

“What's happening in New York," Atelier, Magazine of International Art, April, 1994,

p. 45

 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, IL

Laumeier Sculpture Park, St Louis, MO

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MA

The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

The San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA

Goldblatt's Building, City of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Nathan J. Manilow Sculpture Park, University Park, IL

David L Lawrence Convention Center, Pittsburgh, PA

Museum Fur Modern Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany

Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI

 

EDUCATION

1985

M.F.A., The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

1983

B.F.A., The Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, OH

Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

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