| 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 | |
2012 |
ArtAndPress, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin (Germany) |
2011 |
Are You Glad to be in America?, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milano (Italy) |
2010 |
Tracks and Traces, Galleria In Arco, Torino (Italy) |
| 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) |
| Three: The Triptych in Modern Art , Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart (Germany) | |
| The Pictures Generation. 1974-1984, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (USA) | |
2008 |
Future Tense: Reshaping the Landscape , Neuberger Museum of Art, New York (USA) |
| Sonic Youth etc.: Sensational Fix , Museion , Bolzano (Italy) | |
| The Big Bang , Museo Carlo Bilotti, Roma (Italy) | |
| Atomic Afterimage: Cold War Imagery in Cont. Art, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston (Italy) | |
| The Human Image in the Twentieth Century, Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi (Japan) | |
| Political Correct , BFAS Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneve (Switzerland) | |
| Landscope , Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris (France) | |
| To:Night, The Hunter College Art Galleries, New York (USA) | |
| Artisti, parole, immagini dal 1974 al 1989, Villa Remmert, Ciriè (Italy) | |
| That Was Then… This Is Now , P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York (USA) | |
2007 |
Chelsea to Caochengdi, Chambers Fine Art, Beijing (China) |
| Arte Fiera, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Bologna (Italy) | |
| History Will Repeat Itself, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin (Germany) | |
| Il futuro del Futurismo, GAMeC, Bergamo (Italy) | |
| History Will repeat Itself, hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund (Germany) | |
| Exhibitionism, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (USA) | |
| Supermodels II: Real vs Unreal, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Roma (Italy) | |
| Hot Rock, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow (Scotland) | |
| Lights, Camera, Action: Artists Films for Cinema, Kaufman Astoria Studios, New York (USA) | |
| Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll , Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montréal (Canada) | |
| Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll , Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami (USA) | |
| Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll , Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (USA) | |
| History Will Repeat Itself, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw (Poland) | |
| Panic Attack! Art in the Punk Years, Barbican Art Gallery, London (UK) | |
2006 |
The Mediated Gesture, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York (USA) |
| The Downtown Art Show: The New York Art Scene, Grey Art Gallery, Fales Library, NY Univ, New York (USA) | |
| Sound & Vision, Palazzo della Penna, Perugia (Italy) | |
| Galleria il Ponte, Roma (Italy) | |
| Wonderful, Serra di Villa Revoltella, Trieste (Italy) | |
| Everything White + Black, Nathan A. Bernstein Co. Ltd, New York (USA) | |
| The Neo-Baroque Era, Byblos Art Gallery, Verona (Italy) | |
| Collectors 1 - Collezione La Gaia, CESAC Filatoio di Caraglio, Caraglio, Cuneo (Italy) | |
2005 |
Drive. Automobili nell'arte contemporanea, GAM. Galleria d'Arte Moderna, Bologna (Italy) |
| Dead/Undead, Galerie Six Friedrich & Lisa Ungar, Munich (Germany) | |
| Metro Pictures, New York (USA) | |
| Flashback: Revisiting the art of the Eighties, Kunstmuseum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel (Switzerland) | |
| Drawing from the Modern, MoMA, New York (USA) | |
2004 |
Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (USA) |
| Trentacinquesimo, Studio d'Arte Cannaviello, Milano (Italy) | |
2003 |
Art, Lies and Videotape: Exposing Performance, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool (United Kingdom) |
2002 |
Melodrama, MARCO, Vigo (Spain) |
| Melodrama, Artium, Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain) | |
| Melodrama, Centro José Guerrero, Granada (Spain) | |
| The Human Factor: Figuration American Art 1950-'95, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Indiana (USA) | |
2001 |
Streit-Lust - For Argument's Sake, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen (Germany) |
| Pictures' at an Exhibition, Artists Space, New York (USA) | |
| Postmodern Americans, The Menil Collection, Houston (USA) | |
2000 |
End Papers, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York (USA) |
1999 |
The Virginia & Bagley Wright Collection, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle (USA) |
| The Kiasma Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki (Norway) | |
1998 |
The Edward R. Broida Collection, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida (USA) |
1997 |
Views From Abroad, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (USA) |
| La Biennale di Venezia, XLVII Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte, Venezia (Italy) | |
| Stills: Art and Cinema in the Marieluise Hessel C., Centro Cultural Light, Rio de Janeiro (Brasil) | |
| Stills: Art and Cinema in the Marieluise Hessel C., Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York (USA) | |
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 | |
2012 |
Stand, Capitain Petzel Galley, Berlin (Germany) |
| Kings, Metro Pictures, New York (USA) | |
| Stand, Capitain Petzel , Berlin (Germany) | |
2011 |
Robert Longo: God Machines, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris (France) |
| Mysterious Heart, Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid (Spain) | |
| God Machines, Gallerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris (France) | |
| Mysterious Heart, Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid (Spain) | |
2010 |
Kunsthalle Weishaupt, Ulm (Germany) |
| The Berardo Museum Collection, Lisbon (Portugal) | |
2009 |
Surrendering the Absolute, Metro Pictures, New York (USA) |
| Dancing With Chains On, Galerie Hans Mayer, Dusseldorf (Germany) | |
| Survey Exhibition 1980-2009, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemponain, Nice (France) | |
| Surrendering the Absolutes, Metro Pictures, New York (NY) | |
| 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) | |
| No Wave, SAKS Gallery, Geneve (Switzerland) | |
2008 |
Nights Bright Days, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles (USA) |
| Intimate Immensità, Galería Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid (Spain) | |
| Intimate Immensity, Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid (Spain) | |
| Nights Bright Days, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles (USA) | |
2007 |
Beginning of the World, Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf (Germany) |
| Beginning of the World, Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf (Germany) | |
| Children of NY, Metro Pictures upstairs Gallery, New York (USA) | |
2006 |
Robert Longo, Metro Pictures, New York (Usa) |
| Monsters, Adamson Gallery/Adamson Editions, Washington DC (Usa) | |
| Ouroboros, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris (France) | |
2005 |
Fire, Water, Rock 2003-2005, Galleria d'Arte Contemporanea, Modena (Italy) |
| Something Wicked This Way Comes, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles (USA) | |
| Robert Longo: Deep Silence, Monchehaus Museum, Goslar (Germany) | |
| Fire, Water, Rock 2002-2005, Emilio Mazzoli, Modena (Italy) | |
2004 |
The Sickness of Reason, Metro Pictures, New York (USA) |
| The Freud Cycle. Prints and drawings, Adamson Gallery/Adamson Editions, Washington DC (USA) | |
2003 |
Lust of the Eye, Galería Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid (Spain) |
| Drawings, Metro Pictures, New York (USA) | |
| The Print, Atrium Gallery, St. Louis (USA) | |
2002 |
Sigmund Freud, Jüdisches Museum, Berlin (Germany) |
| The Freud Drawings, Krefelder Kunstmuseen, Krefelder (Germany) | |
| Monsters, Metro Pictures, New York (USA) | |
| Scale it, Atrium Gallery, St. Louis (USA) | |
| The Freud Drawings, The Albertina, Vienna (Austria) | |
2001 |
Pictures' at an Exhibition, Artists Space, New york (USA) |
| New Works on Paper, Atrium Gallery, St. Louis (USA) | |
| Postmodern Americans, The Menil Collection, Houston (USA) | |
| The Freud Drawings, Metro Pictures, New York (USA) | |
2000 |
Superheroes, LipanjePuntin artecontemporanea, Trieste (Italy) |
| Robert Longo 1980-2000, Galleria Emilio Mazzoli, Modena (Italy) | |
| End Papers, Neuberger Museum of Art, New York (USA) | |
| Men in the Cities, Dorfman Projects, New York (USA) | |
1999 |
The Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection, Seattle Museum of Art, Seattle (USA) |
| The Kiasma Collection, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki (Finland) | |
1998 |
Superheroes, Cotthem Gallery, Barcelona (Spain) |
| Superheroes, Cotthem Gallery, Knokke-Zoute (Belgium) | |
| The Broida Collection: a Selection of Works, Museum of Art, Orlando (USA) | |
| Who?, Atrium Gallery, St. Louis (USA) | |
1997 |
Robert Longo, Metro Pictures, New York (USA) |
| Das Magellan Projekt, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld (Germany) | |
| Das Magellan Projekt, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam (The Netherlands) | |
| Das Magellan Projekt, Kunsthalle Tubingen, Tubingen (Germany) | |
1996 |
Robert Longo: Kreuze, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel (Germany) |
1995 |
Robert Longo: A Retrospective, The Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo (Japan) |
| Robert Longo: A Retrospective, Ashikaga City Museum, Ashikaga (Japan) | |
| Robert Longo: A Retrospective, Kirin Plaza Art Space, Osaka (Japan) | |
| Johnny Paintings, Galerie Gana-Beaubourg, Paris (France) | |
| Johnny Paintings, Galerie Lupke, Frankfurt (Germany) | |
| Johnny Mnemonic: Works on Paper, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris (France) | |
1994 |
Robert Longo, Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf (Germany) |
| Robert Longo, Genereux Grunwald Gallery, Toronto (Canada) | |
1993 |
Robert Longo, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg (Austria) |
| Robert Longo, Kleines Festspielhaus, Salzburg (Austria) | |
| Killing Time, Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona (Spain) | |
| Bodyhammers: Cult of the Gun, Metro Pictures, New York (USA) | |
| Killing Time, Galeria Joan Prats, New York (USA) | |
1992 |
Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf (Germany) |
| Dreams With the Wrong Solutions, Salzburg Grand Opera House, Salzburg (Austria) | |
1991 |
Hamburger Kunstverein and Deichtorhallen, Hamburg (Germany) |
| Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris (France) | |
1990 |
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris (France) |
| Robert Longo - Private and Corporate Collections | |
| Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (The Netherlands) | |
| Museum of Modern Art, New York (USA) | |
| Musée d'Art Contemporain, Montreal (Canada) | |
| Power Gallery of Contemporary Art, University of Sydney, Sydney (USA) | |
| Tate Gallery, London (United Kingdom) | |
| Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut (USA) | |
| Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (USA) | |
| Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro (USA) | |
| Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York (USA) | |
| The Albertina, Vienna (Austria) | |
| Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (USA) | |
| Eli Broad Family Foundation, Los Angeles (USA) | |
| Guggenheim Museum, New York (USA) | |
| High Museun, Atlanta (USA) | |
| The Jewish Museum, New York (USA) | |
| Jüdishes Museum, Berlin (Germany) | |
| Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles (USA) | |
| Ludwig-Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen (Germany) | |
| Menil Collection, Houston (USA) | |
| Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal (Canada) | |
| Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (USA) | |