Born in 1940 in (United States). Died im 2017
Biographie
Bibliographie
Liste expositions

Lecture at the Centre Pompidou (Paris)
2005, oct. 10th

Liste des expositions

Solo exhibitions (selection)

2010
Vito Acconci 'Film-Landscape, Video Close Up', Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli (Italy)

2007
Albion Gallery, London (United Kingdom)

2005-2006
Vito Hannibal Acconci Studio, Word, Action, Architecture, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (Netherlands)

2004
Body Art anni '60-'70, Ierimonti Gallery, Milan (Italy)
Video Screening 1, CCA, Center for Contemporary Art, Kitakyushu (Japon)
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York (United States)
Vito Hannibal Acconci Studio, Musée des beaux-arts, Nantes (France)
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, N.Y. (United States)
Museo Tamayo arte contemporáneo, Mexico City (Mexico)
Vito Hannibal Acconci Studio, MACBA, Museu d'art contemporani, Barcelona (Spain)

2002
Berlin projects, Julian Solms, Berlin (Germany)

2001
Institut Français d'Architecture, Paris (France)
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pa. (United States)

2000
Vito Acconci, Performance Documentation and Photoworks, 1969-1973, Ubu Gallery, New York (United States)

1999
Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, Pa. (United States)

1998
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York (United States)

1997
Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo (Japan)
Permanent project at Laakhaven (Netherlands)
Stroom, The Hague (Netherlands)

1996
Acconci Studio, Centro galego de arte contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela (Spain)

1995
Dia Center for the Arts, BAM Visual Arts Initiative, New York (United States)

1994
Le Consortium, Centre d'art contemporain, Dijon (France)
Musée d'art moderne, Saint-Etienne (France)

1993
Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna (Austria).
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York (United States)
Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris (France)
Galerie Monika Sprüth, Cologne (Germany)
Stroom, Haags Centrum voor Beeldende Kunst, The Hague (Netherlands)
Centre pour l'image contemporaine, Saint-Gervais, Geneva (Switzerland)

1992
Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Prato (Italy)

1991
Le Magasin, Centre national d'art contemporain, Grenoble (France)
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York (United States)
Galerie Anne de Villepoix, Paris (France)

1989
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York (United States)
Sonnabend Gallery, New York (United States)

1988
Museum of Modern Art, New York (United States)
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Ill. (United States)

1987
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, Calif. (United States)

1985
City Hall Park, New York (United States)
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago (United States)

1983
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (United States)

1981
Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (Germany)
Kunsthaus, Zurich (Germany), Padiglione d'arte contemporanea, Milan (Italy)

1980
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Ill. (United States)
The Kitchen Center for Music, Video and Dance, New York (United States)

1979
capc, Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux (France)
De Appel, Amsterdam (Netherlands)

1978
Galleria Mario Diacono, Bologna (Italy)
ICC, International Cultureel Centrum, Antwerp (Belgium)
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, Calif. (United States)
Kunstmuseum, Lucerne (Switzerland)
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (United States)

1977
Anthology Film Archives, New York (United States)
Centre d'art contemporain, Geneva (Switzerland)
Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels (Belgium)
Galerie Stampa, Basel (Switzerland)
The Kitchen Center for Music, Video and Dance, New York (United States)

1976
Artist's Space, New York (United States)

1975
Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco, Calif. (United States)

1973
Galleria Schema, Florence (Italy)

1972
Galleria l'Attico, Rome (Italy)
Sonnabend Gallery, New York (United States)

1971
A Space, Toronto, Ont. (Canada)
John Gibson Gallery, New York (United States)
112 Greene Street, New York (United States)

1970
Nova Scotia Gallery of Art and Design, Halifax, N.S. (Canada)
Wabasch Transit Gallery, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Ill. (United States)

1969
Rhode Island School of Design, New York (United States)


Group exhibitions (selection)


2011-2012
Circa 1971, Early Video & Film from the EAI Archive, Dia Beacon, Beacon, N.Y. (United States)
Collector, Tripostal, Lille (France)
Wander, Labyrinthine Variations, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz (France)

2011
Video, an art, a History, 1965-2010, Singapore Art Museum, Singapore (Republic of Singapore)
Art 42 Basel, Basel (Switzerland)
Where Do We Migrate To ? Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture, Baltimore, Md. (United States)
Spaceship Earth, Znaki Czasu, Centre of Contemporary Art, Torun (Poland)
Architectures, Dessins, Utopies, works from the Centre des arts plastiques, Paris, MNAC, Bucharest (Romania)
 
2010-2011
Without You I'm Nothing, Art and Its Audience, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Ill. (United States)

2010
Traffic, Conceptual Art in Canada 1965-1980, University of Toronto, Toronto, Ont. (Canada)
Exquisite Corpse Drawings, Gasser Grunert Gallery, New York (United States)
Off the Wall, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (United States)
Giorno per giorno = Day by day, a month devoted to contemporary art in Piedmont, Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'arte contemporanea, Rivoli (Italy)
Pasado-presente, Colección Nuevos Medios Centro Pompidou, Espacio Fundación Telefónica, Madrid (Spain)
Acconci Studio and Ai Weiwei, a Collaborative Project, Para-Site Art Space, Hong Kong (People's Republic of China)
update_3 I body sound, Fondation Liedts-Zebrastraat, Ghent (Belgium)
Curious ? 21st Century Art from Private Collections, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn (Germany)
 
2009-2010
Just what is it ... 100 years of modern art from private collections in baden-Württemberg,10 years, Museum of Contemporary Art at ZKM, ZKM, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe (Germany)
Gagarin, the Artists in their Own Words, the first Decade, SMAK, Ghent (Belgium)
City Mobilization, 2009 Shenzhen & Hong Kong Bi-City Biennale of Urbanism-Architecture, Shenzhen (People's Republic of China)
 
2009
Poetry Marathon, Serpentine Gallery, London (United Kingdom)
Waiting for Video, Works from the 1960's to Today, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo (Japan)
Poor, Old, Tired, Horse, ICA, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (United Kingdom)
Unbuilt Roads, e-flux project space, New York (United States)
Performer, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw (Poland)
HK Sound Station, Para-Site Art Space, Hong Kong (People's Republic of China)
The Art of Participation, 1950 to Now, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, Calif. (United States)
Vito Acconci, Language Works, Video, Audio, Poetry-Karl Holmqvist, I'm with you in Rockland, Argos, Centre for Art & Media, Brussels (Belgium)
 
2008
Living Box, Le Hangar à bananes, Nantes (France)
Sonic Youth etc., Sensational fix, Life, Saint-Lazaire (France)
Gravity Art, TELIC Arts Exchange, Los Angeles, Calif. (United States)

2007-2008
Colecção Centre Pompidou no Museu do Chiado, Centre Pompidou Novos Media 1965-2003, Museu nacional de arte contemporânea, Museu do Chiado, Lisbon (Portugal)

2007-2008
Passage du temps, Collection François Pinault Foundation, Tri postal, Lille (France)

2007
Exten-sion du domaine de l'intime, Fonds regional d'art contemporain de Lorraine, Metz (France)
Centre Pompidou, Video Art 1965-2005, Australian Centre for the Moving Image, Melbourne (Australia)
Models for Tomorrow, Cologne, European Kunsthalle, Cologne (Germany)

2006-2007
The New Media Collection 1965-2005, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (Australia)
Into Me-Out me, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (Germany)

2006
Balance and Power, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis Univesity, Waltham, Mass. (United States)
Video, An Art, a History, 1965-2005, New Media Collection, Centre Pompidou, Miami Art Central, Miami, Fla. (United States)

2005-2006

Temps de vídeo 1965-2005, Col.lecció Nouveaux Medias del Centre Pompidou amb la participació de la col.lecció d'art contemporani Fundació 'La Caixa', Fundació La Caixa, Barcelona (Spain)
Projekt Migration, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (Germany)

2005
Universal Experience, Art, Life and the Tourist's Eye, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Ill. (United States)
Behind the Facts, Interfunktionen 1968-1975, Kunsthalle Friedricianum, Cassel (Germany)

2004-2005
Realm of the Senses, James Cohan Gallery, New York (United States)
Gegenwärtig, Selbst, Inszeniert, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg (Germany)
The Last Picture Show, Künstler werwenden Fotografie 1960-1982, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur (Switzerland)
D'une image qui ne serait pas du semblant, la photographie écrite, 1950-2005, Passage de Retz, Paris (France)

2004
Camera Action, Performance and Photography, Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago, Ill. (United States)
Place for the Self, Apex Art, New York (United States)
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, MoCAB, Museum of Contemporary Art Belgrade, Belgrade (Serbia)
Behind the Facts, Interfunktionen 1968-1975, Museu de arte contemporánea de Serralves, Porto (Portugal)
Prima e dopo immaginare, Museo d'arte contemporanea, Rivoli (Italy)
Speaking with Hands, Photographs from the Buhl Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (United States)
Portraits, ESSO Gallery and Books, New York (United States)
The Last Pictures Show, Artists Using Photography, 1960-1982, MARCO, Museo de arte contemporánea, Vigo (Spain)
Support, Neue Galerie Graz am Landesmuseum, Graz (Austria)
Grasduinen, SMAK, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuelle Kunst, Ghent (Belgium)
Photo Image in American Prints 1960-1990, FAMSF, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, Calif. (United States)
Behind the Facts, Interfunktionen 1968-1975, Fundació Juan Miró, Barcelona (Spain)
Sexy Beasts, 1963-2004, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, New York (United States)
Revolving Doors, Fundació Telefónica, Madrid (Spain)
The Artists in Their Own Words, MUHKA, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp (Belgium)

2003-2004
X-Screen, Filmische Installationen und Aktionen der 60er und 70er Jahre, MUMOK, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna (Austria)
Between Art and Life, From Joseph Cornell to Gabriel Orozco, MAM, Miami Art Museum, Miami, Fla. (United States)
Art, Lies and Videotape, Exposing Performance, Tate, Liverpool (United Kingdom)
The Last Picture Show, Artists Using Pgotography, 1960-1982, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minn. (United States)
C'est arrivé demain, 7ème Biennale d'art contemporain de Lyon, Lyon (France)

2003
Video Acts, Pamela and Richard Kramlich Collection and New Art Trust, ICA, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London (United Kingdom)
Focus, Videoteca GAM de Turin, Museo nacional, Centro de arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (Spain)
Video Acts, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Museum of Modern Art, New York (United States)

2002-2003
Moving Pictures, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (United States)

2002
13th Biennale of Sydney, The World May Be (Fantastic), Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney (Australia)

2001
Into the light, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (United States)
Vito Acconci, Acconci Studio, Arnolfini, Bristol (United Kingdom)
Playing amongst the ruins, Royal College of Art Galleries, London (United Kingdom)

1995
Self construction, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna (Austria)

1998
Voices = Voces = Voix, Witte de With, Rotterdam (Netherlands)

1997
Rooms with a View, Environments for Video, Guggenheim Museum (Soho), New York (United States)

1995
3e Biennale d'art contemporain, Musée d'art contemporain, Lyon (France)
Temporarily Possessed, The Semi-Permanent Collection, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (United States)
Fémininmasculin, le sexe de l'art, Musée national d'art moderne-Centre de création industrielle, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (France)

1993
Live in Your Head, Österreichisches Museum für Angewändte Kunst, Vienna (Austria)

1992
The Power of the City, The City of Power, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (United States)

1991
Power, Its Myths, Icons, and Structures in American Art, 1961-1991, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Ind. (United States)

1990
Word as Image, American Art 1960-1990, Milwaukee Museum of Art, Milwaukee, Wis. (United States)

1989
The Experience of Landscape, Three Decades of Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown at Federal Reserve Plaza, New York (United States)
Encontros luso-americanos de arte contemporánea, Fundacíao Calouste Gulbekian, Lisbon (Portugal)

1988
Sculpture at the Point, Point State Park, Pittsburgh, Pa. (United States)

1987
Musée national d'art moderne-Centre de création industrielle, les nouveaux médias, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (France)

1986
Wien Fluss, Vienna Festival, Vienna (Austria)
Real Time-Actual Space, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, Calif. (United States)

1985
Memory Jam, A Retrospective of Films and Performance at Artists Space 1974-1985, Artists Space, New York (United States)
Biennale des Friedens, Kunsthaus and Kunstverein, Hamburg (Germany)
Artists and Architects, Challenges in Collaborations, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Cleveland, Ohio (United States)

1984
Het Lumineuze Beeld = The Luminous Image, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (Netherlands)

1983
Art vidéo, rétrospectives et perspectives, Palais des beaux-arts, Charleroi (Belgium)

1982
documenta 7, Friedericianum Museum, Cassel (Germany)
60-80, Attitudes, Concepts, Images, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
National Video Festival, American Film Institute, Los Angeles, Calif. (United States)
Art and Dance, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Mass. (United States)
Methaphor, New Projects by Contemporary Sculptors, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C. (United States)

1981
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (United States)
Westkunst : Zeitgenossische Kunst Seit 1939, Museen der Stadt Köln, Cologne (Germany)
Radio by Artist, A Space, Toronto, Ont. (Canada)
Home Made Movies : 20 Years of American 8mm and Super 8 Films, Anthology Film Archives, New York (United States)

1980
A Sound Selection, Audio Works by Artists, Artists Space, New York (United States)
Artist and Printer, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minn. (United States)
The Sense of the Self, Independent Curators Incorporated, New York (United States)

1979
The Artist, Hermit ? Investigator ? Social Worker ? Kunstverein, Hamburg (Germany)
Sound, P.S.1, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New York (United States)

1978
38e Biennale de Venise, Venice (Italy)
Performance Art Festival, Cultureel Animatie Centrum Beursschounburg, Brussels (Belgium)
Made by Sculptors, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (Netherlands)
Journées interdisciplinaires sur l'art corporel et les performances, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris (France)

1977
Time, Philadelphia College of Art, Chicago, Ill. (United States)
Three Installations, Sonnabend Gallery, New York (United States)
1977 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (United States)
In Video, Dalhousie Art Gallery, Nova Scotia, Halifax, N.S. (Canada)
documenta 6, Friedericianum Museum, Cassel (Germany)

1976
Biennale di Venezia, Venice (Italy)
Rooms, P.S.1, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New York (United States)
Identité / Identifications, capc, Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux (France)

1975
Video Art USA, XIIe São Paolo Biennial, Sao Paulo (Brazil)
Video Art
, Museum of Modern Art, New York (United States)
Bodyworks, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Ill. (United States)
Autogeography, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (United States)

1974
Video Tapes, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne (Germany)
Kunst Bleibt Kunst, Project 74, Kunsthalle, Cologne (Germany)
Idea and Image in Recent Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Ill. (United States)
Eight Contemporary Artists, Museum of Modern Art, New York (United States)

1973
Some Recent American Art, Museum of Modern Art, New York (United States)
Aspects de l'art actuel, Musée Galliera, Paris (France)

1972
documenta 5, Friedericianum Museum, Cassel (Germany)

1971
Sonsbeek 71, Arnhem (Netherlands)
Projects, Pier 18
, Museum of Modern Art, New York (United States)
Lithographs
, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, N.S. (Canada)
Body Art
, John Gibson Gallery, New York (United States)
Biennale des Jeunes
, Paris (France)
Arte de Sisternas
, Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires (Brazil)
Acconci, Fox, Oppenheim
, Reese Palley Gallery, New York (United States)

1970
Perreault, Acconci, St. Mark's Church, New York (United States)
Information
, Museum of Modern Art, New York (United States)
Events
(Acconci, Perreault, H. Weiner), Grammercy Arts Theater, New York (United States)
Body Works
, Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco, Calif. (United States)
Prospect
, Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf (Germany)

1969
Street Works I-IV, St. Mark's Church, New York (United States)
Performance
, Unit Playhouse, Hunter Collage, New York (United States)
Coulisse, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York (United States)
Arakawa, Acconci, Perreault, Venet, The Theater, New York (United States)
Aleph 70
, New York University, New York (United States)

1968
Poetry Events, Central Park, New York (United States)
Language Events, Orient Expresso Coffee House, New York (United States)