Dennis OppenHeim

Lives andworks in New York since 1967


BORN

1938                         ElectricCity, Washington


EDUCATION

1996                        M.F.A.Stanford University, Stanford, California

1997                         B.F.A.School of Arts and Crafts, Oakland California


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2004                       ROVE, Kenny Schachter, New York

White Box, New York

Fond Regional dÕArt Contemporain de Picardie, Galleries de Lycee, Amiens,France

2003                       WhitneyMuseum of Art, New York

Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, Nevada

Sa Nostra, Centre de Cultura, Palma de Mallorca, Spain

Ieritmonti Gallery, Milan, Italy

Eaton Fine Arts, West Palm Beach, Florida

2002                       MichaelH. Lord Gallery, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

John Gibson Gallery, New York

Eaton Fine Arts, West Palm Beach, Florida

Joseph Helman Gallery, New York

2001                        GuildHall, East Hampton, USA

Joan Guaita, Palma, Spain

Musee des Beaux-Arts dÕArras, Arras, France

Dorfman Projects, New York

Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany

The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland

1999                         CorcoranGallery of Art, Washington D.C.

1998                        StefanStux Gallery, New York

Museo de Arte Alvar, Mexico City, Mexico

1997                         VeniceMarghera,Pilkington SIV, Venice, Italy

1996                        RijksmuseumKroller-Muller, Otterlo, Holland

MAMCO, Geneva, Switzerland

Fundacao de Serralves, Porto, Portugal

Galerie Eugen Lendl, Graz, Austria

Vestsjaellands Kunstmuseum, Sotrgade, Denmark

Galerie Lucien Durand, Paris, France

Galerie Pro Arte, Freiburg, Germany

Mannheimer Kunstberein, Mannheim, Germany

Palazzo Delle Exposizioni, Rome, Italy

Tweed Museum of Art, Duluth, Minnesota

Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, Austin, Texas

1995                         KunstsammlungTumulka, Munich, Germany

Butler Art Institute, Youngstown, Ohio

California Center for the Arts, Oakland, CA

Huntington Art Gallery, Austin, Texas

Tweed Art Museum, Duluth, Minnesota

1994                        MuseedÕArt Moderne Villeneuve dÕAscq, France

Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona,Spain

Musee dÕArt Moderne de laCommunaute Urbaine de Lille, France




1993                        SalaDÕExposicions, Principality of Andorra, Andorra

Retrospective, Porin Taidesmuseio, Pori, Finland

Retrospective, Oulu Taidesmuseo, Oulu, Finland

Retrospective, Ujazdoski Castle, Warsaw, Poland

1991                         P.S.1,Institute of Contemporary Art, Long Island, New York

1990                        PieridesMuseum, Athens, Greece

1984                        SanFrancisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California

Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel

1982                        VancouverArt Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

Riksmuseum Kroller-Muller, Otterlo, Holland

1980                        MuseedÕArt et dÕHistoire, Geneva, Switzerland

1979                          KunstvereinStuttgart, Stuttgart, West Germany

                                    ARC2, Musee dÕArtModerne de la Ville de Paris, Paris

                                    KunsthalleBasel, Basel, Switzerland

                                    TheIsrael Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

1978                          Retrospective, Musee dÕArt Contemporain,Montreal, Canada

                                    Retrospective,Art Gallery ofOntario, Toronto, Canada

1976                          MuseumBoymans-van-Beuningen, Rotterdam, Holland

1975                          Palaisdes Beaux-Arts, Bruxelles, Belgium

1974                          StedelijkMuseum, Amsterdam, Holland

1972                          TateGallery, London, England

1969                         Museumof Modern Art, Ocean Project, New York


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2004                        LesEnvironmentales #3,Tecomah, Jouy-en-Josas, France

                                    Art,Lies, and Videotape,Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England

2003                        TheIdeal City,Valencia Biennal, Valencia, Spain

                                    Readyto Shoot – Fernsehgalerie Gerry Schum, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany

2002                        IIBuenos Aires International Art Biennial, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina

1999                         TheAmerican Centuty 1950-2000, Part II, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1998                         XXIVBiennale Sao Paulo,Sao Paulo, Brazil

1997                          LÕempreinte, Contre Georges Pompidou, Pairs,France

1996                         Museumof Modern and Contemporary Art, Nice, France

                                    Museumof Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California

                                    MacGaleries Contemporaines des Musees de Marsaille, France

                                    MuseedÕArt Moderne et dÕArt Contemporain, Nice, France

                                    BallerupKommune, Copenhagen, Denmark

1995                          Universityof Massachusetts at Amherst, Massachusetts

                                    PhoenixArt Museum, Phoenix, Arizona

                                    Reconsideringthe Object of Art, 1965-1975, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California

                                    BiennaledÕArt, Lyon, France

1993                         TheBrooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York

1991                          Wordas Image,Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas

1982                         Metaphor, The Hirshhorn Museum, WasingtonD.C.

1981                          WhitneyBiennale, WhitneyMuseum of American Art, New York

1980                         VeniceBiennale, Venice, Italy

1977                          DocumentaVI, Kassel, West Germany

                                    WhitneyBiennale, WhitneyMuseum of American Art, New York

1976                          VeniceBiennale, Venice, Italy



1975                          VideoArt, Institute ofContemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

1971                           Films/Sonsbeek, Rijksmuseum Kroller-Muller,Otterlo, Holland

                                    ProjectionCE71, KunsthalleDusseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany

1970                          Information, Museum of Modern Art, New York

                                    Body, Museum of Contemporary Art, SanFrancisco, California

1969                        EarthArt, AndrewDickson White Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York



SELECTEDCOMMISSIONS

2003                        CrystalGarden,University of Cincinnatti, Ohio

2001                         StageSet for a Film (and Event Sculpture), Commission by the Regional Arts and Culture Council forthe Expo Center in Portland, Oregon

2000                        PerformancePiece, Collectionof the Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas

1999                         Monumentto Escape,Commissioned by the Committee for Monuments to Victims of State Terrorism,Buenos Aires, Republic of Argentina.

                                    BusHome,Commissioned by the City of Beunaventura, California

                                    Jumpand Twist,Collection of the Albert-Luwigs University of Freiburg, Germany

1998                         DrinkingStructure with Exposed Kidney Pool, Collection of Europos Parkas, Vilniaus, Lithuania

                                    StageSet for a Film,Collection of the City of Valladolid, Spain

1997                          Engagement, Collection of the City ofLeoben, Austria, and the Collection of the Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki,Finland.

                                    Deviceto Root out Evil,Collection of the Denver Art Museum, Denver Colorado, and the city of Palma deMallorca, Spain

1996                         TarRoses, PrivateCollection, U.S.

1995                          RabbitFactory, Collectionof the Ballerup Kommune, Copenhagen, Denmark

                                    Chair/Pool, Collection of Europos Parkas,Vilniaus, Lithuania

1992                         Tempestin a Teacup, Collectionof the Principality of Andorra

1988                         ImpersonationStation,Collection of the Olympic Park, Seoul, South Korea

1985                         LevitationCelebration, Separation, Collection of the City of Theirs, France

1984                         ImageIntervention,Collection of the University of Alaska at Anchorage, Alaska

                                    Dreamsand  Nightmares.  Journey of an exploded weave (Mondrianunder pressure), Collectionof the Tel-Hai College Art Institute, Upper Galilee, Israel

                                    Dreamsand Nightmares. Journey of Broken  weave, Collection of the University ofNew Mexico Art Museum, Albequerque, New Mexico

                                    Basketand Wave,Collection of the Museum of Modern Art at Heide, Victoria, Australia

                                    RollingExplosion,Collection of the Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, Missouri

1983                         Rootsin Cubism. Hearts Starts in the Stars. Forest for Cezanne, Collection of BundesgartenschauBerlin, Germany

1982                         Stationfor Detaining and Blinding Radio-Active Horses, Collection of the Kroller MullerMuseum, Otterlo, Netherlands

                                    FormulaCompound. A Combustion Chamber.  AnExorcism (From the Fireworks Series), Gori Collection, Fattoria di Celle, Pistoia, Italy

                                    Scan.(A Detection Device),Collection of the Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana


SELECTED COLLECTIONS


Akron Art Institute, Akron, Ohio

Albright-Knox Art Gallery,Buffalo, New York

Art Gallery of New South Wales,Sydney, Australia

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto,Canada

Art Gallery of South Australia,Adelaide, Australia

Art Gallery of Winnipeg, Manitoba,Canada

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago,Illinois

ArtPark, Lewsiton, New York

Atlantic Richfield (ARCO) Centerfor Visual Arts, Los Angeles, CA

BallState University, Muncie, Indiana

BardCollege, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York

BonnerKunstverein, Artithek, Bonn, Germany

Boymans-van-Beuningen,Rotterdam, Holland

BrainerdArt Gallery, State University of New York at Potsdam, New York

BrooklynMuseum of Art, Brooklyn, New York

Bundesgarten,Berlin, Germany

CargoCentre International dÕArts Visuels, Marseille, France

CedarhurstSculpture Park Mount Vernon, Illinois

Centred-Art Plastique Contemporain, Bordeaux, France

ChibaCity Museum, Chiba City, Japan

CorcoranGallery of Art, Washington D.C.

CranbrookAcademy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

DanforthMuseum of Art, Framingham, Massachusetts

DenisonUnversity, Granville, Ohio

DenverArt Institute, Denver, Colorado

DesMoines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa

DetroitArt Institute, Detroit, Michigan

EdmontonArt Gallery, Edmonton, Canada

EmanuelHoffman-Stiftung, Basel, Switzerland

EversonMuseum of Art, Syracuse, New York

Fattoriadi Celle, Pistoia, Italy

FloridaAtlantic University, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

FloridaInternational University, Miami, Florida

FondsNational d-Art Contemporain, La Defense, France

FortLauderdale Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

FortWayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, Texas

F.R.A.C.Nord Pas-de-Calais, Lille, France

F.R.A.C.Picardie, Amiens, France

F.R.A.C.Aquitaine, Aquitaine, France

Fundacaoder Serralves, Porto, Portugal

GrandRapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, Michigan

GroningerMuseum, Groningen, Holland

GuildHall, East Hampton, New York

HagsGemeenstemuseum, Den Haag, Holland

HallwallsContemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, New York

HelsinkiCity Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland

HelsinkiMuseum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland

HerbertF. Johnson Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York

HighMuseum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia

HiroshimaCity Museum, Hiroshima City, Japan

HoustonContemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas

IndianapolisMuseum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana



Institutefor Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, New York

IsraelMuseum, Jerusalem, Israel

JewishMuseum of Art, New York, New York

KunsthausZurich, Zurich, Switzerland

LannanFoundation, Los Angeles, California

LÕartContemporain au Musee Departmental des Vosges, Epinal, France

LaumeirSculpture Park, St. Louis, Missouri

Le MuseedÕArt Moderne de St-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France

ListVisual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge,Massachusetts

LosAngeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California

LouisianaMuseum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark

LudwigForum fur Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany

LudwigMuseum, Koln, Germany

MetropolitanMuseum of Art, New York, New York

MilwaukeeArt Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

MintMuseum, Charlotte, North Carolina

MississippiMuseum of Art, Jackson, Mississippi

MontclairMuseum of Art, Montclair, New Jersey

Mot, TheMuseum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan

Munson-Williams-ProctorInstitute, Utica, New York

MuseedÕArt Contemporain Entrepot, Bordeaux, France

MuseedÕArt et dÕHistoire, Geneva, Switzerland

MuseedÕArt Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France

Musee dÕArtModerne et dÕArt Contemporain, Nice, France

Musee deToulon, Toulon, France

Musee deGrenoble, Grenoble, France

MuseeNational dÕArt Moderne, Centre George Pompidou, France

MuseeRoyaux des Beaux-Arts, Brussles, Belgium

MuseumLudwig, Koln, Germany

Museum ofArt, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Museum ofFine Arts, Houston, Texas

Museum ofContemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois

Museum ofContemporary Art, Miami, Florida

Museum ofContemporary Art, Honolulu, Hawaii

Museum ofContemporary Art, Los Angeles, California

Museum ofModern Art, Heide Park, Melbourne, Australia

Museum ofModern Art, New York, New York

Museumvan Hedendaagse Kunst, Gent, Belgium

NationalGallery of Art, Ottawa, Canada

NationalGallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

NationalGallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia

NationalMuseum of Contemporary Art, Kyungkido, Korea

NeubergerMuseum, Purchase, New York

NewarkMuseum, Newark, New Jersey

NewportHarbor Art Museum, Nweport Beach, California

NiagaraUniversity, Castellani Art Museum, Niagara, New York

NortonGallery of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida

OaklandMuseum, Oakland, California

OberlinCollege, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio

OhioState University, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio

OlympicPark, Seoul, South Korea

OrlandoMuseum of Art, Orlando, Florida

Oulu ArtMuseum, Oulu, Finland

PennsylvaniaAcadamy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania



PhiladelphiaArt Alliance, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

PhiladelphiaMuseum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

PhoenixArt Museum, Phoenix, Arizona

PoriTaidemuso, Pori, Finland

P.S.1Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, New York

QueenslandArt Gallery, Brisbane, Australia

ReinaSofia, Madrid, Spain

RijksmuseumKroller-Muller, Otterlo, Holland

Rose ArtMuseum, Brandeis University, Massachusetts

SamsungFoundation of Art and Culture, Korea

San DiegoMuseum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California

SanFrancisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California

San JoseMuseum of Art, San Jose, California

SeattleArt Museum, Seattle, Washington

SkulpturenMuseum der Stadt Marl, Marl, Germany

SohioDevelopment Company, Cincinnati, Ohio

SpencerMuseum of Art, Lawrence, Kansas

SprengelMuseum, Hannover, Germany

StaatsgalerieStuttgart, Stuttgart, West Germany

StadtischerMuseum Abteiberg Monchengladbach, West Germany

StadtischesKunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn, Germany

StedelijkMuseum, Amsterdam, Holland

TateGallery, London, England

Tel AvivMuseum, Jerusalem, Israel

Tel Hai,Upper Galilee, Israel

Total ArtMuseum, Korea

University of Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska

University of California Art Museum, Berkeley, California

University of Illinois Art Museum, Normal, Illinois

University of Massachusetts University Gallery, Massachusetts

University of Minnesota, Tweed Art Museum, Duluth, Minnesota

University of Nebraska, Sheldon Memorial Art Galleries, Lincoln, Nebraska

University of New Mexico Art Museum, Albuquerque, New Mexico

Ville deThiers, Thiers, France

WadsworthAthenuem, Hartford, Connecticut

WalkerHill Art Center, Korea

WhitneyMuseum of America Art, New York, New York

WeismanFoundation, Los Angeles, California

WorcesterArt Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts


AWARDS


1981                          NationalEndowment for the Arts Fellowship

1974                          NationalEndowment for the Arts Fellowship

1971                           GuggenheimFoundation Fellowship