Born in Atlantic City NJ, 1927
Died in Encinitas CA on April 5, 2006
Solo Exhibitions
2008
Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, ‘Selections from the Athenaeum’s Artists’ Books Collection: Allan Kaprow Books’, La Jolla CA
Tate Modern, ‘Saturday Live
Happening Again: Fluids and Scales’,
London/UK
2006
Haus der Kunst, ‘Allan Kaprow. Art as Life’, Munich/DE [travels to Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven/NL; Kunsthalle Bern, Berne/CH; Museo Villa Groce Genova/IT; Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles CA]
2005
Hauser & Wirth, ‘Allan Kaprow’, Zurich/CH
Whitechapel Art Gallery, ‘A Short History of Performance – Part III. Allan Kaprow’, London/UK
2001
Galerie Inge Baecker, ‘Allan Kaprow – Activity-Fotos aus den 60ern und 70ern’, Cologne/DE
1997
Hyde Gallery, Grossmont College, ‘Allan Kaprow’, El Cajon CA
Biblioteca Communale, ‘Allan Kaprow: Installation’, Como/IT
Archivio Conz, ‘Photo-Text: Plans of Happenings 1960s-1970s’, Verona/IT
Fondazione Antonio Ratti, ‘Just Doing’, Como/IT
Galleria Caterina Gualco, ‘Just Doing’, Genoa/IT
1996
Kunsthalle Palazzo, ‘Allan Kaprow: Inventions/Reinventions’, Liestal/CH
1994
Galerie Beaubourg, Centre Georges Pompidou, ‘Work in Progress by Allan Kaprow’, Paris/FR (in preparation for exhibition ‘Hors Limites: l’art et la vie 1952–1994’)
1992
Studio Morra, ’7 Environments’, Naples/IT
Espace Donguy/Apegac, ’4 Environments’, Paris/FR
1991
Fondazione Mudima, ’7 Environments’, Milan/IT
1988
The Center for Research in Contemporary Art, ‘Allan Kaprow. Precedings’, Arlington TX
1986
Museum am Ostwall, ‘Allan Kaprow: Collagen, Environments, Videos, Broschüren, Geschichten, Happening und Activity-Dokumente 1956-1986’, Dortmund/DE
1979
Ulrich Museum, Wichita State University, Wichita KS
Ruhrpark, Bochum, ‘Tire Tower’ (public sculpture commission), Bochum/DE
1978
Museum of the University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls IA
1976
Kunsthalle Bremen, ‘Allan Kaprow: Activity-Dokumente 1968-1976’, Bremen/DE
Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles CA
Galerie René Block, Berlin/DE
1971
Galerie Inge Baecker, ‘City Works’, Bochum/DE
1967
Pasadena Art Museum, ‘Allan Kaprow’, Pasadena CA [travels to: Washington University, St. Louis MI; University of Texas, Austin TX]
1962
Smolin Gallery, ‘Allan Kaprow. Words’, New York NY
1959
Reuben Gallery, ’18 Happenings in 6 Parts’, New York NY
1958
Hansa Gallery, ‘Allan Kaprow’, New York NY
Hansa Gallery, ‘Allan Kaprow: An Exhibition’, New York NY
1957
Hansa Gallery, ‘Allan Kaprow: Collages and Sculpture’, New York NY
1956
The Jewish Community Center, Highland Park NJ
Art House, Rutgers University, New Brunswick NJ
1955
Urban Gallery, ‘Allan Kaprow’, New York NY
1954
Hansa Gallery, ‘Allan Kaprow: Paintings and Drawings, New York NY
Jewish Community Center, New Brunswick NJ
1953
Art House, Rutgers University, ‘Allan Kaprow: Paintings and Drawings’, New Brunswick NJ
Group Exhibitions
2009
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, ‘The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989’, New York NY
‘There Goes the Neighbourhood’, Refern, Sydney/AU
2008
Nam June Paik Art Center ‘NOW JUMP Festival’, Yongin-si/KR
‘I-podism: Cultural Promiscuity in the Age of Production’, TULCA 2008, Galway/IE
University Art Museum, ‘art/tapes/22’, Long Beach CA
Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina, ‘Circa 1958: Breaking Ground in American Art’, Chapel Hill NC
The Jewish Museum, ‘Action/Abstraction: Pollock, De Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976’, New York NY [travels to: Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis MO; Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo NY]
J. Paul Getty Museum, ‘California Video’, Los Angeles CA
Kunsthalle Wien, ‘GAMES’, Vienna/AT
MARTa Herford, ‘Ad Absurdum’, Herford/DE
MARTa Herford, ‘Die Hände der Kunst’, Herford/DE
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, ‘Paul McCarthy’s Low Life Slow Life: Part 1’, San Francisco CA
Neuberger Museum of Art, ‘Person of the Crowd: The Contemporary Art of Flânerie’, Purchase NY
Museum der Moderne Salzburg, ‘Sound of Art. Zur Musik in der bildenden Kunst’, Salzburg/AT
2007
PERFORMA 07, New York NY (recreation of 18 Happenings in 6 Parts, Fluids, Push and Pull)
MACBA, ‘A Theatre without Theatre’, Barcelona/ES [travelled to Berardo Museum Lisbon/PT]
2006
MUMOK, ‘Konzept. Aktion. Sprache. Fokus 03: Wiener Gruppe Wiener Aktionismus, Fluxus und Konzeptkunst aus der Sammlung’, Vienna/AT
Dorsky Gallery, ‘The Constant Possibility of Erasure’, Long Island City NY
Belgrader Oktobersalon, ‘Art, Life and Confusion’, Belgrade Cultural Center, Belgrade/RS
Galleria Francesca Kaufmann, ‘shape without form, shade without colour, paralysed force, gesture without motion’, Milano/IT
The Grimaldi Forum, ‘New York, New York: Fifty Years of Art, Architecture, Photography, Film and Video’, Monaco/MC
Centre George Pompidou, ‘Los Angeles 1955-1985’, Paris/FR
Galleria Civica d’Arte Contemporanea, ‘The Discovery of the Electronic Body. Art and Video in the 70s’, Torre Pellice/IT
Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, ‘Was ist Plastik? 100 Jahre – 100 Köpfe’, Duisburg/DE
Kunstverein Heidelberg, ‘Politische Wahrheiten’, Heidelberg/DE
Luhring Augustine, ‘Portraits of Artists’, New York NY
2005
The Backroom, ‘The Backroom’, Los Angeles CA
LACE, ‘Marking Time’, Los Angeles CA
Athenaeum Music and Arts Library, ‘Recent Acquisitions from the Athenaeum’s Artist’s Books and Artworks Collection’, La Jolla CA
Kunstmuseum Basel, ‘Covering the Real: Art and the Press Picture from Warhol to Tillmans’, Basel/CH
Fondazione Antonio Ratti, ‘Generations of Art – 10 Years at FAR’, Como/IT
Hochschule für Grafik und Buchkunst, ‘Nur hier? III’, Leipzig/DE
Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen, ‘FLUXUS und Freunde’, Magdeburg/DE
Museum der Moderne Salzburg, ‘Les Grands Spectacles’, Salzburg/AT
2004
Tretjakov Gallery, ‘Berlin-Moskau / Moskau-Berlin 1950-2000’, Moscow/RU
Galerie Schüppenhauer, ‘Mary Bauermeister’, Cologne/DE
Generali Foundation, ‘That bodies speak has been known for a long time’, Vienna/AT
San Francisco Art Institute, ‘Topographies’, San Francisco CA [traveled to Pasadena Museum of Californian Art, Pasadena CA]
Vlepo Gallery, ‘Life as Art: Dedicated to Allan Kaprow’, Staten Island NY
Museo d’arte contemporanea di Villa Croce, ‘Attraversare Genova: Percorsi e linguaggi internazionali del contemporaneo. Anni ‘60–’70’, Genoa/IT
2003
Martin Gropius Bau, ‘Berlin-Moskau / Moskau-Berlin’, Berlin/DE
Baltimore Museum of Art, ‘Work Ethic’, Baltimore MD [traveled to: Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines IA; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus OH]
Mead Art Museum, ‘Critical Mass: Happenings, Fluxus, Performance, Intermedia and Rutgers University 1958-1972’, Amherst MA [traveled to: Mason Gross Art Galleries, New Brunswick NJ]
Musée d’Art Contemporain, ‘Collection. Nouvelle présentation’, Lyon/FR
Castel Sant’Elmo, ‘Living Theater – Labirinti dell’Immaginario’, Naples/IT
Albin O. Kuhn Library & Gallery, University of Maryland, ‘Intermedia: The Dick Higgins Collection of U.M.B.C.’, Baltimore MD
2002
ZKM, ‘Iconoclash’, Karlsruhe/DE
Neues Museum Weserburg, ‘FLUXUS und Freunde’, Bremen/DE
Neue Nationalgalerie, ‘Räume des XX. Jahrhunderts III’, Berlin/DE
Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, ‘The Collection’, Vienna/AT
Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Representing Nature’, Chicago IL
Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Passanger: The Viewer as Participant, Oslo/NO
Cité de la musique, Pianos anné zero, Paris/FR
2001
Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, ‘Les Années Pop’, Paris/FR
MAK, ‘Dennis Hopper: A System of Moments’, Vienna/AT
Bergen Art Museum, The Stenersen Collection, ‘After the Beginning and Before the End: Instruction Drawings’, Bergen/NO
Museo Ideale Leonardo Da Vinci, ‘Leonardo in azione e poesia’, Florence/IT
2000
Sprengel Museum, ‘Aller Anfang ist Merz’, Hannover/DE
Kunsthaus Zürich, ‘HYPERMENTAL: Rampant Reality 1950-2000’, Zurich/CH [traveled to: Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg/DE]
Stedelijk Museum Voor Actuele Kunst, ‘Over the Edges: The Corners of Ghent’, Ghent/BE
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, ‘Made in California: NOW’, Los Angeles CA
Generali Foundation, ‘RE-PLAY: Beginnings of International Media Art in Austria’, Vienna/AT
Musée d’art contemporain, ‘La collection: Installations l’exotisme sans partage’, Lyon/FR
Museum Fridericianum, ‘Das Lied Von Der Erde’, Kassel/DE
Bergen Kunstmuseum, ‘Time: Suspend Your Flight’, Bergen/NO [traveled to: Listasafn Reykjavikur, Reykjavik/IS]
1999
Kunsthalle Fridericianum, ‘CHRONOS & KAIROS’, Kassel/DE
Newark Museum, ‘Off-Limits: Rutgers University and the Avant-Garde, 1957–63’, (cur. Joe
Jacobs), Newark NJ
Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, ‘Experiments in the Everyday: Allan Kaprow and Robert Watts – Events, Objects, Documents’, New York NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, ‘The American Century: Art and Culture 1950-2000’, New York NY
Galerie Vostell, ‘Fluxus in America’, Berlin/DE
1998
Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949–79’, (cur. Paul Schimmel), Los Angeles CA [travelled to MAK Center, Vienna/AT; Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo/JP; Museum of Contemporary Art, Barcelona/ES]
1997
Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, ‘Trash: When Trash Becomes Art’, Trento/IT
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, ‘Sunshine & Noir: Art in Los Angeles 1960-97’, Humlebaek/DK [travelled to Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg/DE; Castello di Rivoli, Turin/IT]
Galleria Andrea Contini, ‘Fluxus and Arte Povera’, Genoa/IT
1995
Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, ‘No! Art’, Berlin/DE
Whitney Museum of American Art, ‘Beat Culture and the New America: 1950–1965’, New
York NY [travelled to Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN; M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco CA]
1994
American Federation of Arts, ‘Neo-Dada: Redefining Art. 1958-1962’, New York NY
‘Minima Media: Documentation of the Medienbiennale Leipzig 94’, Leipzig/DE
1993
‘La Biennale di Venezia: XVL Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte 1993’, Venice/IT
Walker Art Center, ‘In the Spirit of Fluxus’, Minneapolis MN [travelled to Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL; Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Columbus OH; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco CA; Fundacio Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona/ES; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara CA]
1992
Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Hand-Painted Pop: American Art in Transition’, Los Angeles CA and New York NY
Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, ‘Pop Art’, Montreal/CA
1991
Royal Academy of Arts and Weidenfeld & Nicolson, ‘Pop Art. A Continuing Story’, London/UK
1987
documenta 8, Kassel/DE
1986
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, ‘Making an Art of Everyday Life’, New York NY
1984
Whitney Museum of American Art, ‘Blam!: The Explosion of Pop, Minimalism and Performance 1958-1964’, New York NY
1977
documenta 6, Kassel/DE
1976
Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, ‘Frames of Mind’, Berlin/DE
1973
Parcheggio di Villa Borghese, ‘Contemporanea: Incontri Internazionali d’Arte’, Rome/IT
1970
Neuer Kölnischer Kunstverein, ‘Happening and Fluxus’, (cur. Harald Szeemann), Cologne/DE
1967
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, ‘Pictures to be Read, Poetry to be Seen’, Chicago IL
1960
Judson Gallery, ‘The Ray Gun Spex’, New York NY
1958
Hansa Gallery, ‘Untitled Environment’, New York NY
