Back to images

Tom Burr

Born in New Haven 1963
Lives and works in New York

Education

  • 1987-1988 Whitney independent Study Program, New York
  • 1982-1986 School of Visual Arts, New York

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2009
  • Bonvicini/Burr, with Monica Bonvicini, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich, travelling to Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel (catalogue)
  • Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London
  • Bortolami Gallery, New York
2008
  • Descending, Franco Noero, Turin
  • Addict – Love, Sculpture Center, New York
  • Black and Blue, Galerie Almine Reich, Paris
    • 2007
    • Anxiety – A Showcase, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin
    • Swiss Institute, New York (with Walter Pfeiffer)
    • Moods, Secession, Vienna
    2006
    • Extrospective, Museé Cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne
    • Relapse, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London
    2005
    • Complete Breakdown, Galerie Neu, Berlin
    • Privy, Please, The Norfolk Library, Norfolk (Connecticut)
    • The Complete Stories of Truman Capote, romaromaroma, Rome
    2004
    • Our Lady of the Flowers, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin
    2003
    • Gone, Gone, American Fine Arts, New York
    • Die Stalle/The Stalls, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne
    • The Screens, Institute for Visual Culture, Cambridge
    2002
    • Piscine, Galerie Almine Reich, Paris
    • Deep Purple, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
    • Dog Days, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
    2001
    • Brutalism, Galerie neu, Berlin
    2000
    • Low Slung, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig
    1999
    • Black Box, Artforum Berlin, Galerie Neu, Berlin
    • Private Property: Anti-Public Sculpture, Galerie Almine Reich, Paris
    1998
    • Surface, Galerie Neu, Berlin
    • The Medical Show, Galeria Marta Cervera, Madrid
    1997
    • Stainless, American Fine Arts, New York
    1995
    • 42nd Street Structures, American Fine Arts, New York
    1994
    • American Fine Arts, New York
    1992
    • White Columns, New York

    Group exhibitions

    2008
    • A Season in Brussels, Galerie neu at Dépendance, Brussels
    • A New High in Getting Low (nyc), Connelly Presents, New York
    2007
    • Walk!, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin
    • Oh Girl, It’s a Boy!, Munich Kunstverein, Munich
    • Body Politicx, Witte de With, Rotterdam
    • At Home, Curated by Mario Testino, Yvon Lambert project space, New York
    • The Happiness of Objects, Sculpture Centre, Long Island, New York
    • Unmonumental: Falling to Pieces in the 21st Century, Curated by Richard Flood, Laura Hoptman and Massimiliano Gioni, The New Museum, New York
    • OMNIA VANITAS: VANITY IS ALL, Gavlack Gallery, Los Angeles
    • Pale Carnage, Arnolfini, Bristol, travelling to; Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee
    2006
    • Wieder und Wider, Performance, MUMOK, Vienna
    • The Eighth Square, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
    • The Name of This Show Is Not GAY ART NOW, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, curated by Jack Pierson
    • Warum etwas zeigen, was man sehen kann, Galerie fur Zeitgenossische Kunst, Leipzig
    2005
    • HaubrokShows. B Sharp, Xantener Strasse 7, Berlin
    • Down the Garden Path: The Artist’s Garden After Modernism, Queens Museum of Art, New York
    • Nolens Volens, Galerie Neu, Berlin
    • EXILE New York is a good Hotel, Broadway 1602, New York
    • Residence, MICA Foundation, New York
    2004
    • Trafic d’influence: Art & Design, Collection Frac Nord Pas-de-Calais, Dunkerque
    • Election, American Fine Art, Colin de Land Fine Art, New York
    • When the lights go out…, Cohan & Leslie, New York
    • The Future Has a Silver Lining, Migros Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
    • Braunschweig Parcours 2004, Braunschweig
    • Whitney Biennial 2004, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
    • Beginning Here: 101 Ways, Visual Arts Gallery, New York
    • Strange Weather, Modern Art, London
    • It’s all an Illusion, Migros Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
    • Flowers Observed, Flowers Transformed, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
    2003
    • Le Rayon Noir, Circuit-Assossiation d’Art Contemporain, Lausanne
    • New Space! Group Show!, Galeria Franco Noero, Turin
    2002
    • Grey Gardens, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles
    • My head is on fire but my heart is full of love, Charlottenborg Udstillings-bygning, Copenhagen
    • Xeros, Ecole du Magasin, Center National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble
    2001
    • Deliberate Living, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
    • Parttnerschaften – Unterbrochene Karrieren, Neue Gessellschaft fur Bildende Kunst, Berlin
    • American Fine Arts, New York
    2000
    • Quiet Life, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal-Unterowisheim, curated by Michael Neff
    • Sightings, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, curated by Jeffrey Walkowiak
    • Space Open 2000, Space studios, London
    1998
    • Model, Galerie Belvedere, Wien, Austria
    • I Hate Movies, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, curated by Tom Borgese
    • Parasite, The Drawing Center, New York
    1997
    • Sans Titre, Froment + Putman, Paris
    1996
    • Disappeared, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago
    • American Fine Arts, New York
    • Ideal Standard Life, Spiral Garden, Tokyo
    • Gramercy International Art Fair, New York
    1995
    • Birgit Kung, Zurich
    • _Architectures of Display _with architect Toshiko Mori, organised by Minetta Brook, New York
    • Platzwechsel (with Ursula Biemann, Mark Dion, Christian Philipp Muller), Kunsthalle Zurich und Schweizer National – museum, Zurich
    • Mapping: A Response to MOMA, American Fine Arts, New York
    1994
    • Architecture and Display, Architectural League of New York and Minetta Book, New York (with Toshiko Mori)
    • Lace, Los Angeles, California
    • The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
    1993
    • Kontext Kunst, Kunstlerhaus Graz, Austria
    • What Happened to the Institutional Critique, curated by James Meyer, American Fine Arts, New York
    • Social Subjects, YYZ, Toronto, Ontario
    • Sonsbeek 93, Arnheim
    • Projet Unité, Firminy
    1992
    • White Columns, New York (Catalogue)
    • American Fine Arts, New York
    1989
    • Paula Allen Gallery, New York
    • American Fine Arts, New York
    1988
    • Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, New York
    • Whitney Independent Study Program,Open Studios , New York

    Selected Bibliography

    2009
    Gronlund, Melissa, Vitamin 3-D: New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation, Phaidon Press, London, p. 66-67
    • Tom Burr, Städtishce Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau München, Kunstmuseum Basel Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Dumont, 2009.
    2008
    • Tom Burr: Questionnaire, Frieze, June-Aug, p.252
    • Tom Burr: Vintage Vinyl, The Art Newspaper, March 28
    • Vezzoli, Francesco. Tom Burr, Mousse Magazine, March
    • Howe, David Everitt. Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century, Art Review, March
    • Jones, Krisitin M. Tom Burr, ArtForum.com, February 13
    • Decter, Joshua. Tom Burr Talks About Addict-Love, ArtForum, February
    • Bently, Kyle. Burrs and the Bees, ArtForum.com, January 16
    2007
    • Unmonumental: Falling to Pieces in the 21st Century, (exhibition catalogue), published by the New Museum and Phaidon
    • Shariatmadari, David. Pale Carnage, Art Review, May, p. 131
    • Frank, Rike. Déjà vu All Over Again, ArtForum, Issue XLV, p. 113-114
    • Rappolt, Mark. The Man Who Wasn’t There, Art Review, Issue 10, p. 66-71
    • Foll, Heike. Tom Burr & Jack Pierson, Artforum.com, December 1
    • Baker, George. The Other Side of the Wall, October Magazine, Issue 120, Spring, pp. 106-137
    • Burr, Tom. October Magazine, Issue 120, Spring, pp. 138–139
    2006
    • Tom Burr: Extrospective, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, exhibition Catalogue, published by JRP Ringier
    • Cattini, Sandra. Tom Burr: Musee Cantonal Des Beaux Arts, Flash Art, July-September
    2005
    • Down The Garden Path: The Artist’s Garden After Modernism, Queens Museum of Art, New York
    2004
    • Whitney Biennal 2004, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, p.160
    • The Future Has A Silver Lining- genealogies of Glamour, Migros Museum Fuer Gegenwartskunst, JRP/Ringier, Zurich
    2003
    • Materials 05, Institute of Visual Culture, Cambridge
    • My Head is on Fire my Heart is Full of Love, Charlottenborg, Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen
    • Tom Burr: The Screens, Art Monthly, June
    • Hainly, Bruce and John Waters. Art- A Sex Book, Thames & Hudson
    2002
    • Tom Burr: Deep Purple, The Other Side of the Wall, George Baker, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
    • Xeros – Projet mobile et reproductible sur les sexualites et l’espace, Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble
    • McDonough, Tom. Tom Burr at Greene Naftali-New York, Art in America, November
    • Hainley, Bruce. Black Box Recorder, Frieze, March
    2000
    • Tom Burr: Slow Slung, Kunstverein Braunschweig exhibition Catalogue.
    • Tom Burr: ’Private Property: anti-public sculpture’, in Quiet Life, exhibition Catalogue. Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal
    • Partnerschaften, Neue Gesellschaft Fuer Kunst, Berlin. p.25-29
    1999
    • Rian, Jeff. _Tom Burr at Galerie Almine Rechs, Artnet.com, July 5
    • Kravagna, Christian, ed. Tom Burr: Eight Renovations: A Constellation of Sites Across Manhattan, Opening, Vienna
    • Tom Burr, Thomas Trummer, Modelle, Austrian Gallery Belvedere, Printemps
    • Baker, George. Minimal Memory: Notes on Damaged Sculpture, Sharawadgi, Walther Koenig, Cologne
    1997
    • Miwon Kwon: ’One Place after Another: Notes on Site Specificity’, in; October
    1996
    • Trash, Platzwechsel, Kunsthalle Zurich & Schweizer Nationalmuseum, Zurich
    • Fricke, Harold. Berlins groesster Promi als erotische Buehne, Die Tageszeitung
    • Meyer, James. Tom Burr, Frieze, April
    • Schorr, Collier. Tom Burr at American Fine Arts, New York Fax, March-April
    • Sander, Joel, ed., Tom Burr: Circa ‘77, Stud, Princeton University Press
    1995
    • Tom Burr: Trash, Platzwechsel, Ausst. Kat. Kunsthalle Zurich.
    • Meyer, James. The Functional Site, Platzwechsel, Ausst.Kat.
    • Sunderburg , Erika, ed. Space, Site, Intervention: Situating Installation Art, University of Minnesota Press Minneapolis.
    • Tom Burr: Unearthing the Public Restroom: Ruminations on an American Building Type, Documents
    1993
    • Meyer, James. What Happened to the Institutional Critique, American Fine Arts
    • Fulland, Tom. Social Subjects, Ausst. Kat YYZ, Toronto
    • Tom Burr: The Storage Project, Project Unite, Ausst. Kat Firminy
    • Tom Burr: Just Outside the Museum, Kunst + Museums Journal, Number 4
    • Site Specific, Metropolis M, May-June
    • Direkt vor dem Museum…, Kontext Kunst, Ausst.Kat. Steirischer Herbst
    1992
    • Hermes, Manfred. Cruising and Birdwatchers, Texte zur Kunst, February
    • Aupetitallot, Yves. Passages, Forum International, January-February
    1990
    • Faust, Gretchen, Arts Magazine, March
    1989
    • Hirsh, David, New York Native, December 18