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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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
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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
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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
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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
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2001, p. 9
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Paine, Janice T., "Amenities: A strangely discomforting exhibit," Milwaukee Sentinel,
October 14, 1994, 8E
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Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Portugal, 1992
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Home, November 1987, pp. 58-59
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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
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Gallery, New York, NY
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January, 1994, pp.110-111
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Milwaukee Art Museum, WI
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“Sunday Style,” The New York Times, February 25, 2001.
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Family Collection”, Davenport Museum of Art, Davenport, IA, 1988
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Guardian May 13, 2000
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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
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January, 1996
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p. 38
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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
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“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