John Berggruen Gallery
Tom Otterness
Biography
1952 Born in Wichita, Kansas1970 Arts Students League, New York
1973 Independent Study Program, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1977 Founding member of Collaborative Projects, Inc., New York
The artist lives and works in New York City.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2004
Several Strange Objects, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Tom Otterness on Broadway, from Columbus Circle to 168th Street in New York City, NY; organized by Marlborough Gallery, the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, and the Broadway Mall Association
2003
BOMBEATER, Skoto Gallery, New York, NY
2002
Free Money and Other Fairy Tales, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
Free Money and Other Fairy Tales, Marlborough Gallery Chelsea, New York, NY
See No Evil, Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
1999
Tom Otterness, Galería Marlborough, Madrid, Spain (catalogue)
Tom Otterness: Gold Rush, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1998
Tom Otterness: The Marriage of Real Estate and Money and Other Redent Projects,
Palm Beach Community College Museum of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, FL
1997
Otterness’ World, Marlborough Gallery, New York (catalogue)
Life Underground, Battery Park City, New York (temporary installation through Spring 1998)
1996
Tom Otterness: Marriage of Real Estate and Money, Motel Fine Arts, New York, NY
1995
Tom Otterness, On the Commons: Recent Sculptures, MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, NY; a project of the Public Art Fund
Tom Otterness: The Tables, Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS
Tom Otterness: Drawings and New Sculpture, Brooke Alexander, New York, NY
Tom Otterness: Recent Sculpture, Doris Freedman Plaza, New York; a project of the Public Art Fund
1994
Otterness: Recent Drawings and Small Objects, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL (catalogue)
1993
Galerie Weber, Münster, Westfalen, Germany
Tom Otterness: New Sculpture, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Tom Otterness: The Tables, the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
1992
Tom Otterness, Brooke Alexander, New York
1991
Tom Otterness, The Tables, Sculptures and Drawings, IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez, Valencia, Spain; Portikus/Senckenbergmuseum, Frankfurt am Main, Germany; Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands (catalogue)
Tom Otterness, Nancy Drysdale Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1990
James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, and Brooke Alexander, New York, NY (catalogue)
The Tables, Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles, CA
1987
The Tables, Brooke Alexander, New York, NY
Projects: Tom Otterness, the Museum of Modern Art, New York (brochure)
Sculpture and Drawings, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
1986
Tom Otterness, PPG Plaza, Pittsburgh, PA (catalogue)
1985
Brooke Alexander, New York
1984
Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne, Germany
1983
Tom Otterness, Recent Drawings, Brooke Alexander, New York
Sculpture, Brooke Alexander, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2001
Sculpture, Drawing and Works on Relief, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Lighten Up: Art with a Sense of Humor, De Cordova Museum Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA
2000
Drawings and Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, organized by the foundation for Contemporary Performance Art, New York, NY
Imaginary Beings, Exit Art, New York
DNCart, A project for the Democratic National Committee, New York
Monte-Carlo International Sculpture festival: Contemporary American Sculpture
Marlborough Gallery, Monte-Carlo, Monaco
1998
Stages of Creation: Public Sculptures by National Academicians, National Academy, NY
Pop Surrealism, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield
An Exhibition for Children, 242, New York
1997
American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
Contemporary Sculpture: The Figurative Tradition, Woodson Art Museum, Wasau, WI
The Private Eye in Public Art, LaSalle Lobby Gallery, NationsBank Plaza, Charlotte, NC
Wit, Whimsy, and Humor, College of New Rochelle Castle Gallery, New Rochelle, NY
Socrates Sculpture Park, 10th Anniversary, New York
Structures: Buildings in American Art 1900-1997, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1996-97
The PaineWebber Collection, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN; San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA; Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL
1996
The Gun, Icon of the Twentieth Century, Ubu Gallery, New York
A Century of American Drawing from the Collection, the Museum of Modern Art, New York
Twentieth Century American Sculpture at the White House, Exhibition IV, Washington, D.C.
1995-6
Group Exhibition, Marlborough Gallery, New York
Imaginary Beings, Exit Art, New York
1995
Light Interpretations: A Hanukah Menorah Invitational, the Jewish Museum, San Francisco, CA
Obliquely, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
XXV Years, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
Content and Commentary, Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA
The Gift: Sculptures by Tom Otterness and Bright Bimpong, Skoto Gallery, New York
1994
The Art Cup, Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles
Head and Shoulders, Brooke Alexander, New York
The Second Parrish Art Museum Design Biennial: Mirrors, the Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
SEX, Adam Baumgold Fine Art, New York
Summer Academy 1, Pace Wildenstein, New York
Sculpture in the Center, Stamford Town Center, Stamford, CT
Eleventh Biennial Benefit, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Drawings: Reaffirming the Media, University of Missouri-Kansas City Gallery of Art, Kansas City, MO (catalogue)
Animal Farm, James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Sculpture, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Jahresmuseum 1994, Kunsthaus Murzzuschlag, Switzerland
1993
American Art Today: Heads Only, the Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL
Art and Application, Turbulence, New York
Studio to Site: Public Art in New York City, Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, NY
42nd Street Art Project, Creative Time, New York
Art, Money & Myth, Palm Beach Community College Museum of Art, J. Patrick Lannan Gallery, Lake Worth, FL
Essentials, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York
Table Sculpture, Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York
Spring/Summer Exhibition, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ
Sex Money Politics, Nancy Drysdale Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Sculpture & Multiples, Brooke Alexander, New York
The Elusive Object: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, Stamford, CT
1992
Functional Objects by Artists and Architects, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
Objects of Affection, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
Allegories of Modernism, Museum of Modern Art, New York
In Praise of Folly, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
15th Anniversary Exhibition, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Body, Leg, Heads and Special Parts, Westfaelischer Kunstverein, Munich, Germany (catalogue)
No Laughing Matter, Organized by ICI, New York. Traveled to University Gallery, University of North Texas, Denton; Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Canada; Dalhousie Art Gallery, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Aidekman Art Center, Tufts University, Medford, MA
The Realm of the Coin: Money and Contemporary Art, Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra Museum, Hempstead, NY; Queens Museum, Flushing, NY
Figures of Contemporary Sculpture (1970-1990): Images of Man, Organized by Martin Bush, ACA Galleries, New York. Traveled to Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan;
Daimaur Museum, Umeda-Osaka, Osaka, Japan; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary
Art, Hiroshima, Japan
1991
Bronze, Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York
Rope, Galeria Fernando Alcolea, Barcelona, Spain
Couleurs de l’argent (The Color of Money), Musée de la Poste, Paris, France
1990
Heads, BlumHelman Gallery, New York
About Round Round About, Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund, Sweden
1989
Object of Thought, Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund, Sweden
Sounding the Depths, 150 Years of American Seascape, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX; The Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL; Museum of Art, Science and Industry, Bridgeport, CT; The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH; Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI
1988
Aperto 88, XLIII Esposizione La Biennale di Venezia
New Sculpture/Six Artists, the Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Altered States, Kent Gallery, New York
Een keuze/A Choice, KunstRAI, Amsterdam, Holland
Democracy: Education, Group Material at Dia Art Foundation, New York
American Baroque, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
Interiors, Procter Art Center, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
BIG/little Sculpture, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
Columnar, the Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
Sammlung Thomas: Kunst aus den achtziger Jahren, A Art 11 Forum Thomas, Munich, Germany
Private Works for Public Spaces, R.C. Erpf Gallery, New York
1987
Bronze, Plaster & Polyester, Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Constitution, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
Appearances 10th Anniversary and Benefit Show, Sorkin Gallery, New York
The Reemergent Figure: Seven Sculptors at Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY
The Call of the Wild, Animal Themes in Contemporary Art, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Sacred Spaces, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
1986
Body & Soul, Aspects of Recent Figurative Sculpture, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; Knight Gallery, Spirit Square Art Center, Charlotte, NC; Fresno Arts Center, Fresno, CA; Loch Haven Art Center, Orlando; Visual Arts Gallery, Florida International University, Miami; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE; Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, FL
Sonsbeek 86, Arnhem, the Netherlands
New Trends in Contemporary Sculpture, 10 New Outstanding Sculptors of America and Japan, Sapporo Art Park, Tokyo, Japan
Spectrum: The Generic Figure, the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1985
Nouvelle Biennale de Paris XIIIe, La Villette, Paris, France
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Mile 4, Chicago Sculpture International, Chicago
The Classic Tradition in Recent Painting and Sculpture, the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
DRAWING: Painting and Sculpture, Brooke Alexander, New York
An American Renaissance Painting and Sculpture Since 1940, Museum of Art,
Fort Lauderdale, FL
Sculpture, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
Face It!, Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund, Sweden
Working in Brooklyn, the Brooklyn Museum, New York
Correspondences: New York Art Now, Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan; Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya, Japan; Tagaki Hall Espace Media, Kobe, Japan
Anniottanta, Chiostri della Loggetta Lombardesca e Biblioteca Classense, Ravenna, Italy. Organized by Galleria Comunale d’arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
Memento Mori, Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA; Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Palanco, Mexico
1984
Drawings, Knight Gallery, Spirit Square Arts Center, Charlotte, NC
Between Here and Nowhere, 9 New York Artists, Riverside Studios, London, England
Narrative Art, Museo Tamayo, Mexico; Institute for Art and Urban Resources, P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY
Content: A Contemporary Focus 1974-1984, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
A Decade of New Art, Artists Space, New York
An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture, the Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Human Condition: Biennial III, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Forming, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
Painting & Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Visions of Childhood: A Contemporary Iconography, Whitney Museum Downtown, New York
Totem, Germans van Eck, New York
1983
Art on Paper 1983, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
New Art at the Tate Gallery, the Tate Gallery, London, England
The Sixth Day, Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Back to the U.S.A., Kunstmuseum Luzern; Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany; Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
John Ahearn, Mike Glier, Jenny Holzer and Tom Otterness, Young Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Champions, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY; Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1981
Figurative Sculpture Now, P.S. 1, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, NY
Represent, Representation, Representative, Brooke Alexander, New York
1980
14 New Artists, Lisson Gallery, London, England
Benefit Exhibition for Collaborative Projects, Inc., Brooke Alexander, New York
Times Square Show, New York
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Beelden Aan Zee Museum, the Netherlands
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Eli Broad Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
Guggenheim Museum, New York
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
IVAM Center Julio Gonzalez, Valencia, Spain
Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City D.F., Mexico
Palm Beach Community College, Museum of Art, Lake Worth, FL
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
The Brooklyn Museum, New York
The Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
The PaineWebber Collection, New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS
2004
Untitled, Beelden aan Zee, the Museum Foundation, Scheveningen, The Netherlands
Tornado of Ideas, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, TX
2003
The Return of the Four-Leggeds, Northwest Museum of Arts and Culture, Washington State Arts Commission, Spokane, WA
2002
Life Underground, 14th Street and 8th Avenue (A line), Metropolitan Transit Authority, New York City; Skidmore Owings & Merril (Architect)
Mortellito Memorial, Branchbook Park Station, New Jersey Transit, Newark, NJ
2001
Suspended Mind, Carl Sagan Discovery Center, Montefiore Children’s Hospital, Bronx, NY
2000
Time and Money, Hilton Hotel at Times Square, Forest City Ratner Corporation, NY
1999
Gold Rush, United States Federal Courthouse Sacramento, General Services Administration, Sacramento, CA, 1999; Nacht & Lewis/Hansen Lind Meyer Design (Architects)
The Music Lesson, Music Building at the University of North Carolina in Greensboro, North Carolina Arts Council, 1999. Calloway Johnson Moore & West (Architect)
Feats of Strength, Western Washington University, Bellingham
Rockman, Federal Courthouse, General Services Administration, Minneapolis, MN Kohn Pedersen Fox (Architect), Martha Schwartz (Landscape Architect)
1998
The Gates, Cleveland Public Library, Cleveland, OH, 1998; in collaboration with Maya Lin (Artist) and Tan Lin (Poet); Hardy Holzman Pheiffer Associates (Architects)
1997
Law of Nature, United States Federal Courthouse Portland, General Services Administration, Portland, OR, 1997; Kohn Pedersen Fox (Architects)
Visionary, MetroTech Center, Brooklyn, NY, 1997
1996
Marriage of Real Estate and Money, Roosevelt Island, New York,
1995
Dreamers Awake, Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, KS
Untitled, Eli Broad Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
1993
Die Uberfrau, State Library, Munster, Germany, 1993; Bolles-Wilson (Architects)
Upside-Down Feet, Krannert Art Museum, Kinkead Pavilion, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaigne, IL
1992
The Real World, The Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Park (Battery Park City Authority), New York, NY; Carr Lynch Associates, Inc. (Environmental Design)
1991
The Frieze, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC, 1991
The New World, The Edward R. Roybal Federal Building, General Services Administration, Los Angeles Federal Building, Los Angeles, 1991; Ellerbe Beckett Associates (Architects)
Artist Works
Microscope
2007
bronze
17 1/2 x 9 x 3 1/2 inches
edition of 9
Woman with Oil Barrel
2007
bronze
13 x 6 x 9 inches
edition of 9
Woman With Raised Fist
2007
bronze
7 x 6 1/4 x 6 inches
edition of 9
John Berggruen Gallery | Artist | Tom Otterness
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