1. Life

2. Education

3. Teaching and Residencies

4. Selected Solo Exhibitions

5. Selected Group Exhibitions

6. Collections

7. References

8. External links

Tom Burr (born 1963) is an American conceptual artist, based in New York City.

Life

Born in New Haven, CT Burr attended the Educational Center for the Arts high school, a multi-arts program taught in part by Yale University graduate students. It is here that Burr became aware of and developed an interest in Minimal and post-Minimalist artists, including Robert Smithson, Dan Graham, Eva Hesse and Gordon Matta Clark. Burr's senior thesis work reflected these influences, by merging sculptural elements with brief poetic texts. Simultaneously, Burr’s collage based work began at this time. After graduating from high school, Burr attended figure drawing classes at the Art Students League in New York. In the following years, Burr attended the School of Visual Arts and the Whitney Independent Study Program, where he studied with Craig Owens, Benjamin Buchloh, Yvonne Rainer, and Barbara Kruger, and Ull Hohn. During this time Burr immersed himself in the theoretical writings and conceptual practices that would expand his own work and thinking. While at the Whitney Program in 1988 Burr met art dealer Colin de Land and began a friendship that would lead to Burr joining de Land's seminal gallery, American Fine Arts, Co, in the early 90's.

In 1993 Burr was invited to participate in several large scale exhibitions in Europe, including Sonsbeek '93, curated by Valerie Smith, Unite in Firminy, France, curated by Yves Aupetaillot, and Kontext Kunst, curated by Peter Weibel. It was for the Sonsbeek exhibition that Burr created his highly regarded work "An American Garden," a scale recreation of a section of Central Park's Ramble, and a direct extension of Robert Smithson's writings and the culmination of a body of work dealing with public parks, landscape, naturalism, and gay male identity. Later that year a document based extension of An American Garden, (what Burr has referred to as "an informational non-site") was included in art historian James Meyer's influential exhibition "What Happened to the Institutional Critique?," at American Fine Arts, Co, in New York ( including works by Renee Green and other artists) In 1995, also at American Fine Arts, co, Burr created his exhibition "42nd Street Structures," which fused the distant forms of Minimalism with present-day conditions in New York, specifically the war on public sexuality during the Aids crisis. Accompanying the sculptural elements were brief written "moments," as Burr refers to them, which were then later expanded and published in October Journal (Spring 2007, No. 120, Pages 138-139).

Later that year, Burr participated in a four-person exhibition at the Kunsthalle Zurich, where he created his second earthwork, Circa '77. Like An American Garden, this work recreated a section of a park, this time the Platzspitz in Zurich, as it may have looked in a previous time, pointing to both the passage of time, and specific social and political moments that define landscape.

In the late 1990s Burr embarked on a body of work that remains ongoing; derived from the language and forms of both Tony Smith's sculptures, on the one hand, and closed architectural spaces such as bars, cages and boxes. These works, often borrowing Smith's matte black palette, evoke spaces of control and containment, as well as the "safe zones" of underground cultures.

Alongside these works, Burr developed his now iconic Bulletin Boards, originally created out of the excessive collecting of images and materials that are part of his working methods. Constructed through plays of juxtaposition, the boards are markers of place, often reflecting the situation of their exhibition.

Education

Whitney Independent Study Program, New York

1982-86

School of Visual Arts, New York

Teaching and Residencies

Critic in Sculpture, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

2010

Artist in Residence, Randolph Cliff, Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2018

• Sedimental, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
• No Access, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA

2017

• Tom Burr/New Haven, Bortolami Gallery, New Haven, CT
• Stages, Maureen Paley Gallery, London
• Surplus of Myself, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany
• Abridged, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany

2016

• Grips, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
• Put Down, pieceunique, Cologne, Germany

2015

• Circa, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY
• Ull Hohn and Tom Burr, Peep-Hole, Milan, Italy

2014

• Notes on Camp, curated by vienna: The Century Bed, Vienna, Austria
• Drunk Emily, Galleria Franco Noero, Torino, Italy
• Tom Burr. Screen, Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College (CCS Bard), Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

2013

• Dressage, Parcours, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
• Tom Burr and Linder, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, United Kingdom

2012

• Cloud in Trousers, Citta della Pieve, Umbria, Italy
• deep wood drive, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY
• Promiscuous Pleats, Galleria Franco Noero, Torino, Italy

2011

• Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London
• New York, Sommer Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel
• Black Lab, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY
• Felt Under Fingers, Almine Rech Galerie, Brussels, Belgium
• Gravity Moves Me, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France

2010

• Murmur, MD72, Berlin, Germany
• Four Sides to Myself, Bortolami Gallery, NY

2009

• Sentence, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY
• Bonvicini/Burr, with Monica Bonvicini, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich, travelling to Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland
• Head Ache, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, United Kingdom

2008

• Descending, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy
• Addict – Love, Sculpture Center, New York, NY
• Black and Blue, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France
• Space, Turin, Italy

2007

• Anxiety – A Showcase, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, Germany
• Swiss Institute with Walter Pfeiffer, New York, NY
• Moods, Secession, Vienna, Austria

2006

• Extrospective, Cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
• Relapse, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, United Kingdom
• Tom Burr & Jack Pierson, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany

2005

• Complete Breakdown, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany
• Privy, Please, The Norfolk Library, Norfolk, CT
• The Complete Stories of Truman Capote, romaromaroma, Rome, Italy

2004

• Our Lady of the Flowers, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy

2003

• Gone, Gone, American Fine Arts, New York, NY
• Die Stalle/The Stalls, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, Germany
• The Screens, Institute for Visual Culture, Cambridge, United Kingdom

2002

• Piscine, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France
• Deep Purple, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
• Dog Days, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, NY

2001

• Brutalism, Galerie Neu
• The Gramercy Art Fair, New York, NY, USA

2000

• Low Slung, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig
• AFA – American Fine Arts, CO – Colin De Land Fine Art, New York, NY

1999

• Black Box, Artforum Berlin, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany
• Private Property: Anti-Public Sculpture, Galerie Almine Reich, Paris, France

1998

• Surface, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany
• The Medical Show, Galeria Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain

1997

• Stainless, American Fine Arts, New York, NY

1995

• 42nd Street Structures, American Fine Arts, New York, NY

1994

• American Fine Arts, New York, NY

1992

• White Columns, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2018

• Optik Schröder II, MUMOK, Vienna, Austria
• Noon - One, CANADA, New York, NY
• Die Zelle, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
• The House of Fame, curated by Linder, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, United Kingdom
• More than mere jelly, Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College (CCS Bard), Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
• The Conditions of Being Art: Pat Hearn Gallery & American Fine Arts, Co. (1983-2004), Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College (CCS Bard), Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

2017

• Maison des ailleurs, Musée Arthur Rimbaud, Charleville-Mezieres, France
• ENTRE NOUS, Bad Reputation, Los Angeles, CA
• concrete realities, Bortolami, New York, NY
• SUR/FACE: Mirrors, Museum Angewandtekunst, Frankfurt, Germany
• Benz Bonin Burr, with Cosima von Bonin, Skulptur Projekte, Münster, Germany

2016

• Question the Wall Itself, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
• Lost & Found, Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt, Germany
• I Beam U Channel, Bortolami, New York, NY
• Béton, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
• Garden Show, Regards Gallery, Chicago, IL
• Ordinary Pictures, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
• Sculpture from the Hammer Contemporary Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

2015

• Body Proxy, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH
• To expose, to show, to demonstrate, to inform, to offer, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria
• Lustwarande ’15 – Rapture & Pain, Parke De Oude Warande, Tilburg, Netherlands
• Köln Skulptur #8, Skulpturenpark Köln, Cologne, Germany

2014

• The Present of Modernism, MUMOK, Vienna, Austria
• Collection and Contact, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
• Space & Reality: New Acquisitions & Gifts, MUMOK, Vienna, Austria
• 30/60 Works from the Collection of the FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Marino Marini Museum, Florence, Italy
• The Century of the Bed, curated by Kristina Scepanski, Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna, Austria
• Klotz am Bein – Sculptures from the Grässlin Collection, Raume für Kunst (Spaces for Art), St. Georgen, Germany
• Displayed, Anton Kern, New York, NY
• Galerie Neu at Gladstone, Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
• Soft Matter, WALLSPACE, New York, NY
• Deviance Credits, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
• Take It or Leave It: Institution, Image, Ideology, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
• Chromatic Loss, curated by Jeffrey Uslip, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY
• Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt, Germany

2013

• Not Yet Titled, curated by Philip Kaiser, an exhibition displaying the Ludwig Collection, Mueum Ludwig, Köln, Germany
• Pommery Experience #11: “An odyssey: 30 Years of frac Champagne-Ardenne,”, curated by Florence Derieux, Frac Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France
• Relocation, Reallocation, Stockholm, curated by Stefania Bortolami, McCabe Fine Art, Stockholm, Sweden
• Outside the Lines, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
• My Crippled Friend, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH
• Anamericana, curated by Vincenzo de Bellis, co-organized by the Depart Foundation Collection, American Academy, Rome, Italy
• Notes on Neo-Camp, curated by Chris Sharp, Office Baroque Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
• Notes on Neo-Camp, curated by Chris Sharp, Studio Voltaire, London, United Kingdom
• Pivot Points: 15 Years & Counting, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL
• Open spaces | secret places. Works from the SAMMLUNG VERBUND, MdM MÖNCHSBERG, Salzburg, Austria
• Catch as Catch Can, curated by Jeffrey Uslip, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY
• The Black Mirror, curated by James Welling and Diane Rosenstein, Diane Rosenstein Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
• Vertical Club, curated by Will Benedict, Bortolami, New York, NY

2012

• No Desaster, Haukbrok Collection at Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
• Stretching the Limits: Fibers in Contemporary Painting, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA
• MOCA’s 15th Anniversary Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
• More Light, curated by Alexander Schröder & Thilo Wermke, Avlskarl Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
• Cellblock II, An Essay in Exhibition Form, curated by Robert Hobbs, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
• Only parts of us will ever touch parts of others, curated by Timothée Chaillou, Gallery Thaddeus Ropac, Paris, France
• Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern, curated by Tom Burr, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY
• Drawing a Blank (On Forgetting, Refusal, Censorship and Impotence), curated by Matthew Brannon and Jan Tumlir, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• Everyday Abstract – Abstract Everyday, curated by Matthew Higgs, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
• Migros Meets Museion, curated by Letizia Ragaglia in collaboration with Heike Munder and Judith Welter, Museion, Bolzano, Italy
• The Quality of Presence, curated by Dmitry Komis, The Chelsea Hotel, New York, NY
• relocated, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany
• Utopia Gesamtkunstwerk, 21er Haus, Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria

2011

• Verschiebungsersatz, curated by David Rimanelli, Kimmerich, New York, NY
• December, organized by Howie Chen, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY
• After images, curated by Fionn Meade, Jewish Museum of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
• Five Easy Pieces, Galleria Franco Noero, Torino, Italy
• 12th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
• Schnitte im Raum, Sculptural Collagen, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
• The Smithson Effect, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, UT
• SHAPES, Sammlung-Haubrok, Berlin, Germany

2010

• Missing Beat, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel-Aviv, Israel
• “…”, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany
• ABOUT US, Johann König, Berlin, Germany
• Cumulus, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA
• Forced Exposure, Team Gallery, New York, NY
• The New Décor, The Hayward Gallery, London, UK
• Mixed Use, Manhattan: Photography and Related Practices 1970s to the Present, Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
• The Page, Kimmerich Gallery, New York, NY
• Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines, Bortolami Gallery at The Webster, Miami Beach, FL
• Wall & Floor, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France
• The World is Yours, Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark

2009

• Moby Dick, curated by Jens Hoffman, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA
• Rachel Harrison: Consider the Lobster and other Essays, , Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College (CCS Bard), Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
• Saints and Sinners, curated by Laura Hoptman, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Boston, MA
• The Station, curated by Shamim Momin & Nate Lowman, Miami, FL
• Abstract America: New Painting and Sculpture, Saatchi Gallery, London, United Kingdom
• Political/Minimal, curated by Klaus Biesenbach, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
• Recollection, curated by Gianni Jetzer, Barriera, Turino, Italy
• La Fête Est Permanente / The Eternal Network, FRAC - Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France

2008

• The Eternal Flame. On the Promise of Eternity, Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz, Switzerland
• Not So Subtle Subtitle, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, NY
• Marc Camille Chaimowitz, …In The Cherished Company of Others…, De Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands, travelled to PMMK, Oostende, Belgium
• Sammlung/Collection 1978–2008, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
• Fais en sorte que je puisse te parler/Mache, dass ich zu dir sprechen kann/Act so that I can speak to you, Kamm, Berlin, Germany
• A New High in Getting Low (NYC), John Connelly Presents, New York, NY
• Photos and Phantasy: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA
• Une Saison à Bruxelles, Dépendance, Brussels, Belgium

2007

• Walk!, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
• Oh Girl, It’s a Boy!, Munich Kunstverein, Munich, Germany
• Body Politicx, Witte de With, Rotterdam, Netherlands
• At Home, curated by Mario Testino, Yvon Lambert project space, New York, NY
• The Happiness of Objects, Sculpture Centre, Long Island, New York, NY
• Unmonumental: Falling to Pieces in the 21st Century, Curated by Richard Flood, Laura Hoptman and Massimiliano Gioni, The New Museum, New York, NY
• OMNIA VANITAS: VANITY IS ALL, Gavlack Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• Pale Carnage, Arnolfini, Bristol, travelled to Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, United Kingdom

2006

• Wieder und Wider, Performance, MUMOK, Vienna, Austria
• The Eighth Square, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
• The Name of This Show Is Not GAY ART NOW, curated by Jack Pierson, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
• Warum etwas zeigen, was man sehen kann, Galerie fur Zeitgenossische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany

2005

• HaubrokShows. B Sharp, Xantener Strasse 7, Berlin, Germany
• Down the Garden Path: The Artist’s Garden After Modernism, Queens Museum of Art, New York, NY
• Nolens Volens, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany
• EXILE New York is a good Hotel, Broadway 1602, New York, NY
• Residence, MICA Foundation, New York, NY

2004

• Trafic d’influence: Art & Design, Collection Frac Nord Pas-de-Calais, Dunkerque, France
• Election, American Fine Art, Colin de Land Fine Art, New York, NY
• When the lights go out…, Cohan & Leslie, New York, NY
• The Future Has a Silver Lining, Migros Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
• Braunschweig Parcours 2004, Braunschweig, Germany
• Whitney Biennial 2004, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
• Beginning Here: 101 Ways, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY
• Strange Weather, Modern Art, London, United Kingdom
• It’s all an Illusion, Migros Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
• Flowers Observed, Flowers Transformed, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA

2003

• Le Rayon Noir, Circuit-Assossiation d’Art Contemporain, Lausanne, Switzerland
• New Space! Group Show!, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy

2002

• Grey Gardens, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
• My Head Is On Fire But My Heart Is Full of Love, Charlottenborg Udstillings-bygning, Copenhagen, Denmark
• Xeros, Ecole du Magasin, Center National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France

2001

• Deliberate Living, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, NY
• Parttnerschaften – Unterbrochene Karrieren, Neue Gessellschaft fur Bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany
• American Fine Arts, New York, NY

2000

• Quiet Life, curated by Michael Neff, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal-Unterowisheim, Germany
• Sightings, Bard College, curated by Jeffrey Walkowiak, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
• Space Open 2000, Space Studios, London, United Kingdom

1998

• Model, Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
• I Hate Movies, curated by Tom Borgese, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY
• Parasite, The Drawing Center, New York, NY

1997

• Sans Titre, Froment + Putman, Paris, France

1996

• Disappeared, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
• American Fine Arts, New York, NY
• Ideal Standard Life, Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan
• Gramercy International Art Fair, New York, NY

1995

• Birgit Kung, Zurich, Switzerland
• Architectures of Display with architect Toshiko Mori, organized by Minetta Brook, New York, NY
• Platzwechsel (with Ursula Biemann, Mark Dion, Christian Philipp Muller), Kunsthalle Zurich und Schweizer Nationalmuseum, Zurich, Switzerland
• Mapping: A Response to MOMA, American Fine Arts, New York, NY

1994

• Architecture and Display, with Toshiko Mori, Architectural League of New York and Minetta Book, New York, NY
• Lace, Los Angeles, CA
• The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY

1993

• Kontext Kunst, Kunstlerhaus Graz, Austria
• What Happened to the Institutional Critique, curated by James Meyer, American Fine Arts, New York, NY
• Social Subjects, YYZ, Toronto, Ontario
• Sonsbeek 93, Arnheim, Netherlands
• Projet Unité, Firminy, France

1992

• White Columns, New York, NY (Catalogue)
• American Fine Arts, New York, NY

1989

• Paula Allen Gallery, New York, NY
• American Fine Arts, New York, NY

1988

• Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
• Whitney Independent Study Program, Open Studios, New York, NY

Collections

Collections of art that own examples of Burr's work include

References

External links

• Frieze Magazine
• Public Art Vienna
• Whitney Museum of American Art
• Tom Burr on ArtFacts.net
• [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sb76gFy8Hy4 Interview with Tom Burr], Executive Director Mary Ceruti
• http://www.moussemagazine.it/articolo.mm?id=19
• Tom Burr by Alan Ruiz Bomb
• Tom Burr Artist Page at Sommer Contemporary Art

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