Stephen Prina

1954 born in Galesburg, Illinois
  lives and works in Los Angeles

 

EDUCATION

1980 M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
1977 B.F.A., Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois
1974 A.A., Carl Sandburg College, Galesburg, Illinois

 

Solo Exhibitions

2012 Maureen Paley, London
  Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna
2011 Stephen Prina. Carve Out a Space of Intimacy, Capitain Petzel, Berlin
  Again. Stephen Prina (in collaboration with Wade Guyton), Friedrich Petzel,
  New York
  Stehen Prina. As he remembered it, Wiener Secession, Vienna
  Stephen Prina. He was but a bad translation, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
2010 Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, USA
2009 Stephen Prina, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston
Stephen Prina, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen
The Second Sentence of Everything I Read is You, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo (CAAC), Sevilla, S
Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
2008 The Way He Always Wanted It II, film screening, Cineplex Filmcollier Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden
The Second Sentence of Everything I Read is You
Staatliche Kunstsammlung Baden-Baden,
Baden-Baden
Sammlung Haubrok, Berlin
2007 The Second Sentence of Everything I Read is You, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
2006 The Second Sentence of Everything I Read is You, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
2004 Retrospection Under Duress, Reprise, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge, MA
  Homo Faber and Exquisite Corpse, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
  Vinyl II, Cubitt, London
2002 Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
  Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
  Gaylen Gerber with Stephen Prina, The Art Institute of Chicago
2001 Stephen Prina, PMK Gallery, Seoul
  Galerie Max Hetzler, 1991 (Ten Years After), Friedrich Petzel, Gallery, New York
  Galerie Ghislane Hussenot, Paris
  Northern Illinois University Art Gallery, Dekalb, Illinois
  Stephen Prina (with Gaylen Gerber): Backdrop/We Represent Ourselves to the World, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
2000 To the People of Berlin, performance, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
  To the People of Frankfurt am Main - At Least Three Types of Inaccessibility, performance, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt/M.
  It was the best he could do at the moment, reprise, Art Pace, A foundation for Contemporary Art, San Antonio
1999 Push Comes to Love, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
  Push Comes to Love, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
  Push Comes to Love, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
1998 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (Second Investigation):
  Stephen Prina's Monochrome Painting, Musée d'art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCO), Geneva
  Acropolis: Thanksgiving Day, 1989, (with Allen Ruppersberg)
  Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
  Stephen Prina (with Tobias Rehberger), Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
1996 Retrospection Under Duress – L.O.V.E. Installation (Ivory/Mahogany), Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
  Retrospection Under Duress – H.O.P.E.-Installation (White/American Maple), Luhring Augustine, New York
  Retrospection Under Duress – E.H.E.-Installation (Clear/Ramin),Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
  Retrospection Under Duress, Reprise, DAAD Galerie, Berlin (cat.)
1994 Dom-Hotel, Room 101, Cologne/Dom Hotel, Zimmer 101, Cologne
  American Fine Arts/Colin de Land, Inc., New York
  Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
1993 Luhring Augustine, New York
  Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
  Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
1992 Luhring Augustine Hetzler
  It was the best he could do at the moment, Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam (cat.)
  Beat of the Traps, performance with Mike Kelley and Anita Pace, The Remise, Vienna
1991 Gordon Lebredt/Stephen Prina: Comedies of Objecthood, The Power Plant, Toronto (cat.)
  Galerie Peter Pakesch, Vienna
  Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne
  Galerie Fricke, Düsseldorf
1990 Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
  Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
  Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago
1989 Galerie Crousel-Robelin, Paris
  Monochrome Painting, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, travelled to Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery and P.S.1, New York (cat.)
  Luhring Augustine Hetzler, Los Angeles
  Karsten Schubert, Ltd., London (cat.)
1988 Luhring Augustine & Hodes Gallery, New York
  University Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara
1980 An Observation of Musical Function, California Institute of the Arts, Gallery D301
1979 The Development of a Planar Standard, performance, California Insitute of the Arts, Mezzanine Gallery
1978 Duet for Metronome and Frequency Analyzer, 1978, Carl Sandburg College
  Related Projects, Galesburg Civic Center, Galesburg
1976 A Planar Delineation, Northern Illinois University, Gallery 214, Visual Arts Building

 

Group Exhibitions

2012 This Will Have Been: Art, Love and Politics in the 1980s (curated by Helen Molesworth), MCA, Chicago (travelled to The Walker, Minneapolis; The ICA, Boston)
2011 Museum of Desires /museum der Wünsche, MUMOK Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
  I hate Paul Klee, Leopold-Hoesch-Museum & Papiermuseum Düren, Düren
  The boy who robbed you a few minutes before arriving at the ball (curated by Regina Fiorito and Kelley Walker), Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
  Shapes, haubrokshows, Berlin
2010 The Artist’s Museum, MOCA, Los Angeles
  The space between reference and regret, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
  Von realer Gegenwart, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf
  Wunschzettel, im Rahmen der Ausstellung: Nur Papier, und doch die ganze Welt, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart
  Twennty Five, Luhring Augustine, New York
  Wade Guyton und Stephen Prina, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
  Krieg/Individuum, Ausstellungshalle zeitgenössischer Kunst Münster, Münster
  Vertically Integrated Manufacturing, Murray Guy, New York
2009 An Unruly History of the Readymade, Fundación/Colección Jumex, Mexico City
  Feedbackstage, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
  The Way He Always Wanted It II, Architecture Film Festival, Rotterdam
  The Way He Always Wanted It II, KunstFilmBiennale, Cologne
Feedbackstage, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
2008 Painting: Now and Forever, Part II, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
Index: Conceptualism in California from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Not So Subtle Subtitle, Casey Caplan, New York
Zuordnungsprobleme, Galerie Johann König, Berlin
Whitney Biennial, New York
54. Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen
Kavalierstart, 1978 – 1982 Aufbruch in die Kunst der 80er, Museum Morsbroich Leverkusen
Stephen Prina, James Welling, B. Wurtz, Richard Telles Fine Art, Boston
2007 Make Your Own Life: Artists in and Out of Cologne, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
Michel Würthle and his Companions, Too far for Binoculars, NYE Haus, New York
on paper, Amerikanische Zeichnung ab 1960, Gesellschaft für Gegenwartskunst e.V., Augsburg
Oh Girl, it´s a Boy!, Kunstverein München, Munich
Who´s afraid of Red Yellow and Blue? Positionen der Farbfeldmalerei, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden
2006 Eldorado, Musee d´Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxemburg
  Entangled Tongues, Nunnery Gallery, London
  Kunst aus Los Angeles der 60er bis 90er Jahre, Kunstverein Braunschweig
  Los Angeles, 1955-1985, Centre Pompidou, Paris
  Make Your Own Life: Artists In and Out of Cologne, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, The Power Plant, Toronto
2005 29 x 52-54 Bell Street, Lisson Gallery, London
  Critical Celebration, Galerie Karin Günther Nina Borgmann, Hamburg
  I really should..., Lisson Gallery, London
  it takes some time to open an oyster, curated by Yilmaz Dziewior, Center Cultural Andratx, Mallorca
  Long Playing, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston
  Merlin Carpenter, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne
  Off Key, Kunsthalle Bern
  Minimalist Kitsch, Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich
  Present Perfect, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
  The Lisson Gallery Summer Show, Lisson Gallery, London
2004 Stephen Prina „Vinyl II“, Cubitt Gallery and Studios, London
  Support 2 – Die neue Galerie als Sammlung, Neue Galerie, Graz
  Ilya & Emilia Kavakov – The Empty Museum, Sculpture Center, Long Island
  Support 1 – Die neue Galerie als Sammlung, Neue Galerie, Graz
2003 Re-Production 2, Galerie Christine König, Kerstin Engholm Galerie, Gabriele Senn Galerie, Vienna, cureated by Stepahn Lochner
  Adorno. Die Möglichkeit des Unmöglichen, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt/M.
  Extended Play: art remixing music, Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
  Charline van Heyl, Jorge Pardo, Stephen Prina, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
2002 Eingang links, Kunstverein Düsseldorf
  iconoclash, ZKM, Karlsruhe
  in capital letters, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel
  Heaven Knows I'm Miserable Now, Low gallery, Los Angeles
  Keine Kleinigkeit, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel
  Reproduktion, Galerie Bernhard Knaus, Mannheim
  SITE Sante Fe Biennial 2001, Santa Fe
2001 Wert Wechsel Zum Wert des Kunstwerks, Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Cologne
  ART/MUSIC. rock, pop, techno, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sidney
  Beau Monde: Toward a Redeemed Cosmopolitanism, SITE Santa Fe Fourth International Biennial
  In Between: Art and Architecture, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles
  Neue Welt, Kunstverein Hamburg
2000 Departures: 11 Artists at the Getty, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles
  Library, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
  Project #0004, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York,
  Too Early Too Late, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
  The 21st Annual Benefit Art Auction, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (cat.)
  Pure de(Sign), Otis Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles
  Fashion Show, George’s, Los Angeles
1999 Malerei, INIT-Kunst-Halle, Berlin
  Painter Editions, Patrick Painter, Inc., Santa Monica
  Weg aus dem Bild, Curators: Martin Prinzhorn, Georg Kargl, Vienna
  The Great Drawing Show 1550 to 1999, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles
  Duration and Whenever, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica
  Art/Journalism, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1998 Crossings: art to see and to hear, Kunsthalle Vienna (cat.)
  2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (First Investigation):
  The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting, Musée d'art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCO), Geneva
  TransFiction I: Point Blank, Charim Klocker, Vienna
  Recycling Art History, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh (cat.)
  90069, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
  Freeze Frame, Galerie Douyon, Miami
  Works on Paper, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
1997 One of You, Among You, With You: For Martin Kippenberger,
  Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid
  Sunshine & Noir: Art in Los Angeles 1960-1997,
  Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
  Travelling to Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany; Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy, August 1998; UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles
  Sequence, Richard Salmon, London
  Heaven, Curated by Joshua Decter, P.S. 1 Museum, New York
1996 a/drift, Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, curated by Josh Decter (cat.)
  Multiple Pleasure, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
  Classifications, La Maitrise des sciences et Techniques, Rennes, École nationale supérieure des beaux-arts, Paris (cat.)
  Sammlung Speck, Museum Ludwig Köln, Cologne (cat.)
  Exposure, Luhring Augustine, New York
  Found footage, Gasser & Grunert GmbH, Cologne
  NIU Collected, Northern Illinois University, Chicago
1995 The Compulsion to Repeat: Repetition and Difference in Works, from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
  Untitled (Reading Room), Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, American Fine Arts Co., New York
  Pittura Immedia, Künstlerhaus Graz
  25 Years: An Exhibition of Selected Works, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles (cat.)
  Installation 95 (with Luka Lasareishvili and Wolfgang Stiller), Ursula Blickle, Stiftung, Kraichtal, Germany (cat.)
  As I Remember It: Stephen Prina, Dokorder® 7140, 4 Track 4/2 Channel Stereo/Mono Tape Deck, (with Cosima Von Bonin and Christopher Williams)
  The Museum of Modern Art Syros, Syros-Cyclades, Greece
  The Big Night, The Bradburry Building, Los Angeles
1994 In the Field: Landscape in Recent Photography, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
  The First Fundraising Event to Benefit American Fine Arts, Co., American Fine Arts, Co., New York
  Rodney Graham, Stephen Prina, Jeff Wall, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles
  Die Orte der Kunst, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Hannover (cat.)
  Daniel Buren, Ken Lum, Stephen Prina, Rudolph Stingel
  Curated by Colin de Land at Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art
  Don’t Look Now, Thread Waxing Space, New York, Curated by Joshua Dector (cat.)
  MOCA Art Auction '94, Musseum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (cat.)
  After and Before, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago
1993 A Complete Hand of One Suit, Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery,University of Nevada, Las Vegas
  Works by Younger Artists from the Collection of Richard Brown Baker, The Century Association,
  Fragments and Form: Selections from the Permanent Collection,
  Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
  Other Places, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
  Kontextualismus, Neue Galerie, Graz (cat.)
  From the Hand to the Head, the Theoretical Object, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Kerguehennec
  Drawing the line Against AIDS, Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York
  Domaine: L'ordre du Temps des Choses, L'ordre des Idee, L'ordre du Sujet, Domaine de Kerguehennec, organized by Denys Zachropoulos
1992 Knowledge: Aspects of Conceptual Art, University Art Museum,
  Santa Barbara, Santa Monica Art Museum (cat.)
  Dirty Data: The Collection of Wilhelm Schurmann, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen
  Allegories of Modernism: Contemporary Drawing, Museum of Modern Art, New York
  Documenta IX, Kassel (cat.)
  Fifth Anniversary Show, Karsten Schubert, Ltd., London
  Works on Paper, Jim Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis
  American Fine Arts, Co., New York
  Art by Numbers, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles
  Greatest Hits, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
  Not Working in LA/Good Design, Nomadic Site, Pasadena
  Locher, Prina, Williams, Wurm, Zobernig, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco
1991 Beyond the Frame: American Art 1960-1990, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, travelling to: National Museum of Art, Osaka,Fukuoko Art Museum (cat.)
  Vanitas, Galerie Crousel-Robelin, Paris
  Gulliver's Travels, Galerie Sophia Ungers, Cologne (cat.)
  Graham, Prina, Williams, S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto
  51st Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (cat.)
  Hybrid Abstract, Usdan Art Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont
  The Continuous Past, Pence Gallery, Santa Monica
  Selections from the Permanent Collection: 1975-90, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
  The 1991 Benefit Auction, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (cat.)
  Feux pales, Musee d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux
  In the Beginning..., Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
  Sophie Calle, Tim Rollins, and K.O.S., Stephen Prina, Trans Avant-Garde Gallery, San Francisco
1990 Prints and Multiples, Luhring Augustine Hetzler, Santa Monica
  Stephen Prina, Christopher Wool and Sam Samore, Galerie Ursula Schurr, Stuttgart
  The Readymade Boomerang: The Sydney Biennale, Sydney (cat.)
  Aperto: The Venice Biennale, Venice (cat.)
  Drawings, Luhring Augustine Hetzler, Santa Monica
  Prints and Related Works, Tomoko Liguori Gallery, New York
  The Children's AIDS Project: A Benefit Exhibition, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica
  Sophie Calle, Tim Rollins & K.O.S., Stephen Prina, Trans Avant-Garde Gallery, San Francisco
  In the Beginning..., Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland
  Feux Pales, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux (cat.)
  Marcia Hafif, Stephen Prina: Monochrome Painting,P.S. 1 Museum, New York
1989 300 Years of Still Life Painting, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles
  Mediated Knot, Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago (cat.)
  Group Show, Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Santa Monica
  A Brave New World, Karsten Schubert, London (cat.)
  Prospect 89, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt/M. (cat.)
  Group Show, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
  A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation, MOCA, Los Angeles (cat.)
  Group Show, Schmidt/Markow Gallery 1709, St. Louis
  Oppningsutstallning,Galleri Nordenstad-Skarstedt, Stockholm
  Media Influences, The Forum, St. Louis
  Recent Acquisitions at MOMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York
  Constructing a History: A Focus on MOCA's Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
  Une Autre Affaire, Salle de Flore, Dijon (cat.)
  Jon Kessler, Stephen Prina, Thomas Struth, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
  American Art of the Late 80's, Würtembergiscer Kunstverein, Stuttgart; Art Museum of the Ateneum, Helsinki
1988 Material Ethics, Milford Gallery, New York
  Extended Play, Emily Harvey Gallery, New York (cat.)
  MOCArt Auction '88, Jan Turner Gallery, Tamara Bane Gallery & The Temporary Contemporary, Los Angeles
  James Casebere, Stephen Prina, Christopher Wool, Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago
  Striking Distance, Museum of Contemporary Art/The Temporary Contemporary, Los Angeles (cat.)
  The BiNational: American Art of the Late 80's, Institute of Contemporary Art and The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, travelling to: Städtische Kunsthalle, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Kunstverein NRW, Düsseldorf; Kunsthalle, Bremen, 1989, Athens National Art Gallery, Athens. Exhibition continues as: American Art of the Late 80's at: Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, 1989;
  Art Museum of the Ateneum, Helsinki, 1990 (cat.)
  Galerie Crousel-Robelin, Paris
  Carecen 4th Annual Art Auction, Turske/Whitney Gallery, Los Angeles
  Luhring Augustine & Hodes Gallery, New York
  An evening of 19th and 20th Century Piano Music,Ahmanson Auditorium, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
1987 2nd Annual Night of Erotica, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, Venice, CA
  Projections in Public: A Storefront Window Projection Project, Bloomsbury City Flower Mart, Los Angeles, Archimatics, San Diego
  Tenth Anniversary Benefit Auction 1987, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
  Cal Arts: Skeptical Belief(s), The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach (cat.)
  Nothing Sacred, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
  Tim Ebner, John L. Graham, Stephen Prina, Christopher Williams, Kuhlenschmidt/Simon Gallery, Los Angeles
  LA: Hot and Cool: The Eighties, MIT, List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge (cat.)
1986 TV Generations, LACE, Los Angeles (cat.)
  The World-Wide Sound Sculpture, De Appel, Amsterdam
  Rooted Rhetoric, Una Tradizione nell'Arte Americana, Castel dell'Ovo, Naples (cat.)
  Mandelzomm, Castello di Vulci/Montalto di Castro, Rome (cat.)
1985 Stephen Prina, Mark Stahl, Christopher Williams, Galerie Crousel-Hussenot, Paris
  Stephen Prina, Mark Stahl, Christopher Williams, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
  Earsight: Visual Scores and Musical Images, Nexus, Philadelphia and Southern Alleghenies Museum, Johnstown
  The Public Art Show, Nexus Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta and University of South Carolina, Columbia,
  travelling to: Austin Pea State University, Clarkville; Valencia Community College, Orlando; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh; University of the South, Sewanee (cat.)
  The Art of Memory/The Loss of History, The New Museum, New York (cat.)
1984 Jenny Holzer, Stephen Prina, Mark Stahl, Christopher Williams, De Appel, Amsterdam and Gewad, Ghent (cat.)
1982 74th American Exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago (cat.)
1980 Investigations: Probe-Structure-Analysis, The New Museum, New York (cat.)
1979 Group Exhibition of Some CalArts Works and Works by Other People Who Have Passed Through, Vancouver School of Art, Vancouver, B.C., travelling to: Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover Claremont College, Claremont,
  Ryder Gallery, Kroeber Hall, University of California, Berkeley, University of Hartford, Hartford/CT, The Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles
1978 University of California, Irvine
1976 5 Artists, Galesburg Civic Center, Galleries I & II, performance

 

 

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