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1998
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1981/1998
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Born on January 7, 1953 in Brooklyn, NY (Usa)
Attended State University College, Buffalo, New York, 1975, B.F.A.
Lives in New York City , NY (Usa).

Robert Longo's work has been exhibited extensively throughout the United States, Europe and Asia since 1980 including one-person shows at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam; the Menil Collection in Houston, Texas; The Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; the Kunstal Rotterdam, the Netherlands; the Kunsthalle Bielefeld, the Kunsthalle Tubingen, and the Deichtorhallen, Germany; the Isetan Museum, Tokyo; and the Museum Friedericianum, Kassel, Germany. His important group exhibitions include the Whitney Biennial (1983); the Sydney Biennial (1983); the Carnegie International (1985); Documenta 7 (1982) and 8 (1987); and the Venice Biennial (1997). His work is well represented in public collections including the Guggenheim Museum; the Menil Collection; the Museum of Modern Art; the Tate Gallery; the Walker Art Center and the Whitney Museum. Longo has also directed numerous rock videos for artists such as R.E.M., and co-directed and designed the set and costumes for Mozart's opera Lucio Silla, presented at the Mozart Festival in Salzburg, Austria (1992 & 1993) and at the Frankfurt Opera House (1995).
 
 
 
Robert Longo - Selected Group Exhibitions
 

2010

Andy Warhol. Cars. Works by warhol, Fleury, Longo, The Albertina, Vienna (Austria)

2009

Fuori cornice a Camogli, Fondazione Pierluigi e Natalina Remotti, Camogli, Genova (Italy)

2008

Artisti, parole, immagini dal 1974 al 1989, Villa Remmert, Ciriè (Italy)

2007

Il futuro del Futurismo, GAMeC, Bergamo (Italy)
  History Will Repeat Itself, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (Germany)
  Arte Fiera, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Bologna (Italy)
  Supermodels II: Real vs Unreal, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Roma (Italy)

2006

Collectors 1 - Collezione La Gaia, CESAC Filatoio di Caraglio, Caraglio, Cuneo (Italy)
  Galleria il Ponte, Roma (Italy)
  Everything White + Black, Nathan A. Bernstein Co. Ltd, New York (USA)
  Sound & Vision, Palazzo della Penna, Perugia (Italy)
  The Mediated Gesture, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York (USA)
  The Neo-Baroque Era, Byblos Art Gallery, Verona (Italy)
  The Downtown Art Show: The New York Art Scene, Grey Art Gallery, Fales Library, NY Univ, New York (USA)
  Wonderful, Serra di Villa Revoltella, Trieste (Italy)

2005

Drawing from the Modern, MoMA, New York (USA)
  Metro Pictures, New York (USA)
  Dead/Undead, Galerie Six Friedrich & Lisa Ungar, Munich (Germany)
  Drive. Automobili nell'arte contemporanea, GAM. Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna (Italy)
  Flashback: Revisiting the art of the Eighties, Kunstmuseum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel (Switzerland)

2004

Trentacinquesimo, Studio d'Arte Cannaviello, Milano (Italy)
  Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (USA)

2003

Art, Lies and Videotape: Exposing Performance, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool (United Kingdom)

2002

Melodrama, Centro José Guerrero, Granada (Spain)
  Melodrama, Artium, Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain)
  Melodrama, MARCO, Vigo (Spain)
  The Human Factor: Figuration American Art 1950-'95, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana (USA)

2001

Postmodern Americans, The Menil Collection, Houston (USA)
  Pictures' at an Exhibition, Artists Space, New York (USA)
  Streit-Lust - For Argument's Sake, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen (Germany)

2000

End Papers, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York (USA)

1999

The Kiasma Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki (Norway)
  The Virginia & Bagley Wright Collection, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle (USA)

1998

The Edward R. Broida Collection, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida (USA)

1997

Stills: Art and Cinema in the Marieluise Hessel C., Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (USA)
  Stills: Art and Cinema in the Marieluise Hessel C., Centro Cultural Light, Rio de Janeiro (Brasil)
  Views From Abroad, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (USA)
  La Biennale di Venezia, XLVII Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte, Venezia (Italy)

1996

New York Unplugged II, Gotthem Gallery, Knokke-Zoute (Belgium)

1995

It's Only Roch and Roll, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (USA)
  Passions Privée, Musée d'art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris (France)

1993

The 21st Century, Kunsthalle basel, Basel (Switzerland)

1992

Allegories of Modernism: Contemporary Drawing, Museum of Modern Art, New York (USA)
  Allegories of Modernism: Contemporary Drawing, Museum of Modern Art, New York (USA)

1990

Affinities and Intuitions: The G.S. Elliott Coll., The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (USA)
 
 
Robert Longo - Selected Solo Exhibitions
 

2010

The Berardo Museum Collection, Lisbon (Portugal)

2009

Surrendering the Absolute, Metro Pictures, New York (USA)
  Survey Exhibition 1980-2009, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemponain, Nice (France)
  Surrendering the Absolutes, Metro Pictures, New York (NY)
  Dancing With Chains On, Galerie Hans Mayer, Dusseldorf (Germany)
  Robert Longo: 1979-2009, Musée d'Art Moderne et Art Contemporain, Nice (France)
  Robert Longo, David Maljkovic and John Miller, Metro Pictures upstairs Gallery, New York (USA)
  Dancing with Chains on, Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf (Germany)

2008

Nights Bright Days, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles (USA)
  Nights Bright Days, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles (USA)
  Intimate Immensity, Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid (Spain)
  Intimate Immensità, Galería Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid (Spain)

2007

Beginning of the World, Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf (Germany)
  Children of NY, Metro Pictures upstairs Gallery, New York (USA)
  Beginning of the World, Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf (Germany)

2006

Monsters, Adamson Gallery/Adamson Editions, Washington DC (Usa)
  Ouroboros, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris (France)
  Robert Longo, Metro Pictures, New York (Usa)

2005

Something Wicked This Way Comes, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles (USA)
  Fire, Water, Rock 2003-2005, Galleria d'Arte Contemporanea, Modena (Italy)
  Fire, Water, Rock 2002-2005, Emilio Mazzoli, Modena (Italy)
  Robert Longo: Deep Silence, Monchehaus Museum, Goslar (Germany)

2004

The Freud Cycle. Prints and drawings, Adamson Gallery/Adamson Editions, Washington DC (USA)
  The Sickness of Reason, Metro Pictures, New York (USA)

2003

The Print, Atrium Gallery, St. Louis (USA)
  Drawings, Metro Pictures, New York (USA)
  Lust of the Eye, Galería Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid (Spain)

2002

Sigmund Freud, Jüdisches Museum, Berlin (Germany)
  The Freud Drawings, Krefelder Kunstmuseen, Krefelder (Germany)
  The Freud Drawings, The Albertina, Vienna (Austria)
  Monsters, Metro Pictures, New York (USA)
  Scale it, Atrium Gallery, St. Louis (USA)

2001

New Works on Paper, Atrium Gallery, St. Louis (USA)
  Pictures' at an Exhibition, Artists Space, New york (USA)
  The Freud Drawings, Metro Pictures, New York (USA)
  Postmodern Americans, The Menil Collection, Houston (USA)

2000

End Papers, Neuberger Museum of Art, New York (USA)
  Superheroes, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Trieste (Italy)
  Men in the Cities, Dorfman Projects, New York (USA)
  Robert Longo 1980-2000, Galleria Emilio Mazzoli, Modena (Italy)

1999

The Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection, Seattle Museum of Art, Seattle (USA)
  The Kiasma Collection, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki (Finland)

1998

Who?, Atrium Gallery, St. Louis (USA)
  The Broida Collection: a Selection of Works, Museum of Art, Orlando (USA)
  Superheroes, Cotthem Gallery, Knokke-Zoute (Belgium)
  Superheroes, Cotthem Gallery, Barcelona (Spain)

1997

Robert Longo, Metro Pictures, New York (USA)
  Das Magellan Projekt, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld (Germany)
  Das Magellan Projekt, Kunsthalle Tubingen, Tubingen (Germany)
  Das Magellan Projekt, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam (The Netherlands)

1996

Robert Longo: Kreuze, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel (Germany)

1995

Robert Longo: A Retrospective, The Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo (Japan)
  Johnny Mnemonic: Works on Paper, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris (France)
  Johnny Paintings, Galerie Lupke, Frankfurt (Germany)
  Johnny Paintings, Galerie Gana-Beaubourg, Paris (France)
  Robert Longo: A Retrospective, Kirin Plaza Art Space, Osaka (Japan)
  Robert Longo: A Retrospective, Ashikaga City Museum, Ashikaga (Japan)

1994

Robert Longo, Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf (Germany)
  Robert Longo, Genereux Grunwald Gallery, Toronto (Canada)

1993

Killing Time, Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona (Spain)
  Robert Longo, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg (Austria)
  Robert Longo, Kleines Festspielhaus, Salzburg (Austria)
  Killing Time, Galeria Joan Prats, New York (USA)
  Bodyhammers: Cult of the Gun, Metro Pictures, New York (USA)

1992

Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf (Germany)
  Dreams With the Wrong Solutions, Salzburg Grand Opera House, Salzburg (Austria)

1991

Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris (France)
  Hamburger Kunstverein and Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (Germany)

1990

Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris (France)
 
 
Robert Longo - Private and Corporate Collections
 
  Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (USA)
  Museum of Modern Art, New York (USA)
  Power Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Sydney, Sydney (USA)
  Tate Gallery, London (United Kingdom)
  Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (The Netherlands)
  The Albertina, Vienna (Austria)
  Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut (USA)
  Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (USA)
  Eli Broad Family Foundation, Los Angeles (USA)
  Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montreal (Canada)
  Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal (Canada)
  Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (USA)
  Guggenheim Museum, New York (USA)
  High Museun, Atlanta (USA)
  The Jewish Museum, New York (USA)
  Jüdishes Museum, Berlin (Germany)
  Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro (USA)
  Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles (USA)
  Ludwig-Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen (Germany)
  Menil Collection, Houston (USA)
  Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York (USA)
 
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