William Burroughs Art Exhibitions
Tags: Burroughs Artwork, William BurroughsSolo and Group Shows Featuring William S. Burroughs
Compiled by Barry Miles
(Italics indicate name of show and catalogue)
1964
Galerie Stadler, Paris, group show, catalog, [Peinture, Poésie, Musique: David Budd Recontre William Burroughs et Earl Brown Chez Rodolphe Stadler.] (View catalogue)
1982
B2 Gallery, London, group show supporting the Final Academy festival of readings and events celebrating WSB and his work. [cut-ups, collages, photographs] [ 27 September – 24 October, 1982]
1986
University of Kansas Libraries, Lawrence, Kansas, 1986. [William S. Burroughs: An Exhibit of His Work]
1987
Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, solo show, catalog [19 December, 1987 – 24 January 1988]
1988
Suzanne Biederberg Gallery at the Amsterdam Art Fair, catalog
October Gallery, London, solo show, 1 June – 2 July, 1988] [shares catalog with above]
The Western Front Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, solo show [5 July – 15 July, 1988]
Center on Contemporary Art, [Seattle, Washington, [w/ St. Eom]
Gallery Casa Sin Nombre, Santa Fe, New Mexico, solo show, catalog.
Paul Klein Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, [w/ Sam Gilliam] [21 October – 26 November, 1988
Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY, group show, catalog [Literary Vision][November, 1988]
1989
Paul Maenz Gallery, Cologne, Germany, [w/ Walter Dahn]
Gallerie OBORO and Atelier Roger Bellemare, Montreal, Canada, two gallery solo show [22 April – 21 May, 1989] [two lithographs issued]
Cold City Gallery, Toronto, Canada, solo show
Elliot Smith Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri, solo show
Galerie Carzaniga & Ueker, Basel, Switzerland, solo show, catalog [27 April – 20 May, 1989]
Cleto Polcina Artemodernna, Roma, Italy, solo show, catalog [25 May, 1989 - ]
Galerie Carzaniga + Ueker at the Basel Art Fair
Kellas Gallery, Lawrence, Kansas, solo show [30 September – 11 November, 1989]
Galeria EMI Valentim de Carvalho, Lisbon, Portugal, solo show, catalog, 1/800 [November 1989]
1990
Galeria EMI Valentim de Carvalho at ARCO Art Fair, Madrid
Vanguardia Galeria de Arte, Bilbao, Spain, [4 March – 27 March, 1990]
Galerie Waschsalon, Frankfurt, Germany, solo show [16 March - ]
Galerie K, Paris, solo show, catalog [23 March – 21 April, 1990]
XPO Galerie, Hamburg, Germany, [w/ Robert Wilson] catalog [Black Rider] [31 March – 28 April, 1990]
October Gallery, London, [w/ Keith Haring] [29 March – 5 May, 1990]
The Seed Hall / Seibu Shibuya, Tokyo, solo show, catalog [14 June – 3 July, 1990] [Shotgun Paintings, works on wood & paper]
Akarenga Hall / Seibu Sapporo, Sapporo, Japan, solo show [same catalog as above] [12 July – 30 July, 1990]
Venice Biennale, Venice, group show. ["Dimensione futuro"] [27 September – 30 September, 1990]
Gallery Casa Sin Nombre, Santa Fe, New Mexico, [w/Allen Ginsberg (photographs)] [ the "Paper Cloud, Thick Pages" series]
Earl McGrath Gallery, Los Angeles, California, solo show
Deutsch-Amerikanisches Institut, Tübingen, Germany, solo show
Galeria Sephira, Madrid, Spain, solo show, catalog [8 November – 7 December, 1990]
1991
Galerie Carzaniga + Ueker, Basel, Switzerland, solo show, catalog [10 April – 4 May, 1991]
Galerie Carzaniga + Ueker at D’Arte Contemporanea Art Fair in Milano [12 – 16 April, 1991]
Galerie Carzaniga & Ueker at the Basel Art Fair, [12 – 16 April, 1991]
Galerie K, Amsterdam, solo show, [15 May – 1 June, 1991]
1992
Atelier Marconi Gallery, Torino, Italy, solo show, catalog [Casa Burroughs: Shotgun Dipinti e Altro]
Transit Gallery, Bergamo, Italy, solo show
Project Theatre, Dublin, [w/ Brion Gysin]
The Sena Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico, [w/ Dennis Hopper]
The October Gallery, London, solo show ["The Seven Deadly Sins"] [28 April – 6 June, 1992]
Artists en Mass, Lawrence, Kansas, solo show ["The Seven Deadly Sins"]
Earl McGrath Gallery, Los Angeles, California, solo show ["The Seven Deadly Sins"]
1993
The Writer’s Place, Kansas City, Missouri, solo show ["The Seven Deadly Sins"]
Galeria Sephira, Madrid, Spain, solo show
Galerie Porte-Avion, Marseille, France, solo show
XLV Exposizione Internazionale d’Arte, Venice, Italy, group show, catalog
2ème Biennale d’Art Contemporain, Lyon, France, group show, catalog, [Et tous ils changent le Monde] [3 September – 13 October, 1993]
Center for Study and Exhibit of Drawings, Exquisite Corpse, New York, solo show
1994
Floria Brown Gallery, Woody Creek, Colorado, [w/ Hunter S. Thompson], ["Two Guys With Guns Making Art"] [22 January – 20 February, 1994]
The Bourgeois Pig, Lawrence, Kansas, solo show
Aktionsforum, Munich, Germany ["Nagual Marks"]
Vintage Gallery, Amsterdam, solo show [photographs 1962-1972] [17 June – 15 July 1994]
Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York, group show ["The Ossuary"] [19 February – 19 March, 1994]
New York University, New York, group show, catalog [Beat Generation Art]
1995
Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark, solo show ["The Seven Deadly Sins"] catalog. [21 January – 19 March, 1995]
Terrain Gallery, San Francisco, California, solo show
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, group show, catalog [Beat Culture and the New America] [2 June – 15 September, 1995]
1996
Ubu Gallery, New York, group show. ["The Gun"] [27 January – 9 March, 1996]
Webb Gallery, Waxahachie, Texas, solo show ["Paintings"] [20 January – 2 March, 1996]
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, group show, catalog ["Beat Culture and the New America"] [2 June – 15 September, 1996]
Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, California, solo show + supporting exhibits, catalog [Ports of Entry] [18 July – 6 October, 1996]
Track 16 Gallery and Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, California, solo show ["Concrete and Buckshot. William S. Burroughs Paintings 1987-1996"][18 July – 6 October, 1996]
Spencer Museum, University of Kansas, Lawrence, ["Ports of Entry" see above]
David Levik Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, solo show [19 November – 7 January, 1997]
Zola Café, Westport, Kansas City, solo show
Paolo Baldacci Gallery, New York, ["BANG – Gunshot Art"]
Ubu Gallery, New York, group show, ["The Gun: Icon of Twentieth Century Art"] [27 January – 9 March, 1996]
1997
Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, [w/ George Condo], catalog [6 December, 1997 – 7 January, 1998]
1999
Galerie Carzaniga + Ueker, Basel, Switzerland, solo show, catalog
[23 September – 31 October, 1999]
2004
Bloomberg SPACE, London, group show. ["Collage"] [27 March – 8 May, 2004]
Raab Galerie, Berlin, group show. ["William S. Burroughs – The 7 Deadly Sins"] [16 November – 31 December, 2004]
2005
Riflemaker, London, solo show [catalog] [Part One "Dead Aim"] [12 September – continues through all three shows]
Riflemaker, London, solo show [Part Two "Pistol Poem"] [10 October - ]
Riflemaker, London, solo show [Part Three "Rifle Range"] [31 October - 17 December, 2005]
2006
MACBA Barcelona, group show. ["Vinyl. Records and Covers by Artists"] [18 May – 3 September, 2006]
Galerie von Bartha, Basel, group show. ["Light and Shadow"] [1 September – 30 October, 2006]
CCA Wattis, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, group show. ["Radical Software"] [28 November, 2006 – 24 February, 2007]
New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK, group show. ["You'll Never Know"] [1 December 2006 – 7 January, 2007]
2007
Palais de Tokyo, Paris, group show [27 September – 30 December 2007]
2008
Kunstverein München, group show. ["Oh Girl, It's a Boy!"] [20 October 2007 – 10 February, 2008]
Palais de Tokyo, Paris, group show selected by Ugo Rondinone. ["The Third Mind, Carte blanche à Ugo Rondinone"] [16 November 2007 – 3 January 2008]
The Writer’s Brush: Visual Art by Writers, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY. Group show. [11 September – 27 October, 2007]
The Writer’s Brush: Visual Art by Writers, Pierre Menard Gallery, Cambridge, MA. Group show [5 December – 20 January, 2008]
Stellan Holm Gallery, New York, solo show ["Rub Out the Word"] [15 February – 29 March, 2008]
Irish Museum of Art, Dublin, [w/ Hans Christian Andersen], solo show, catalog [Cut-Outs and Cut-Ups, Hans Christian Andersen and William Seward Burroughs] [9 April – 29 June 2008]
White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO, group show.
Centre Pompidou, Paris, group show. ["Traces du Sacré"] [7 May – 11 August 2008]
["Bendover/Hangover: An Evening with Cinema Zero"] 10 May, 2008 – one night only]
Haus der Kunst, München, group show. ["Traces du Sacré"] [19 September, 2008 – 11 January, 2009] [from Paris, above]
Royal Academy of Arts, London, solo show ["Burroughs Live", part of the "Collision Course" series of exhibitions] [8 December – 18 January 2009]
Riflemaker, London, solo show. ["William S. Burroughs: Life File"] [16 December, 2008 – 10 January, 2009] [decorated folders]
Le Case d’Arte, Mailand, Italy, group show ["Omaggio a William Burroughs"] [18 December, 2008 – 20 January 2009]
2009
Maggs Bros, London, solo show ["William S. Burroughs, London photographs"] [19 January – 20 February, 2009]
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, group show. ["The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989"] [30 January – 19 April 2009]
Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, group show. [Sonic Youth etc.: "Sensational Fix"] [31 January – 10 May, 2009] [in two parts]
KIT Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf, group show. [Sonic Youth etc.: "Sensational Fix"] [31 January – 10 May, 2009] [in two parts]
Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, two man show [Bukowski and Burroughs"] Malcolm McNeill and WSB: The Lost Art of Ah Pook Is Here.] [4 April – 2 May, 2009]
Plattfon Record Store, Basel, documentation show ["Inside the Bunker, at Home With William S. Burroughs"] [24 April – 30 July, 2009]
Stellan Holm Gallery, New York, solo show ["The Sky Is Thin As Paper Here"] [12 September – 31 October, 2009]
Kunstverein München, group show. ["Rip It Up And Start Again"] [10 October – 22 November, 2009.]
2011
Kunst und Ausstellungshalle der Bunesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, group show. ["Arp, Beckmann, Munch, Kirchner, Warhol ... Klassiker in Bonn"] [28 January – 27 March, 2011]
2012
ZKM, Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany, solo show ["The Name Is Burroughs – Expanded Media"], [24 March – August, 2012]
Kunstalle Wien, Wien, Austria [Cut-ups Cut-ins Cut-outs. Die Kunst des William S. Burroughs] [15 June – 21 October, 2012]