Bruce Nauman - Exhibitions

Exhibitions

• In 1966, the Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, held Nauman’s first solo exhibition of fibreglass sculptures just before the artist received his master's degree
• In 1968, the Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, and the Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf, initiated a long series of solo shows. Also in 1968, he was invited for the first time to participate in documenta 4 in Kassel, and received a grant from the National Endowment for the Arts that enabled him to work in New York for one year.
• As early as 1972, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Marcia Tucker at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, organized the first solo museum exhibition of the artist’s work, which traveled in Europe and the United States.
• In 1981 a major retrospective was held at the Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo, and the Kunsthalle Baden-Baden.
• Nauman retrospective was organized by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and traveled to many venues throughout America and Europe from 1993 to 1995.
• In 1997, the Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg mounted another major retrospective, which toured the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris, Hayward Gallery in London and Nykytaiteen Museo in Helsinki.
• Nauman has had major solo exhibitions at Dia Art Foundation (2002), Deutsche Guggenheim, Tate Modern (2004), Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art (2005), Tate Liverpool (2006), Milwaukee Art Museum (2006), Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (2007) and Hamburger Bahnhof (2010).
• For the Venice Biennale in 2009, the Philadelphia Museum of Art curated a 33-work survey of Nauman’s art. The American display was shown at the U.S. Pavilion and carried over to spaces outside the Biennale, the Ca' Foscari and the University Iuav of Venice at Tolentini.

Nauman's work has been included in documenta (1968, 1972, 1977, 1992), the Whitney Biennial (1977, 1985, 1987, 1991, and 1997), and the Venice Biennale (1978, 1980, 1999, 2005, and 2007).