Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects
ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2018
When Walls Become Pictures, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
2017
Color Photographs (1974–79), Early Works, Florence Loewy, Paris
2014
Ile Seguin, 11/25/11, The Library Project, Dublin
2013
The Girl’s and Boy’s Slides; Photographic Works 1973–81, Sometimes (works of art), New York
2012
Looks Matter, Florence Loewy, Paris
2011
Liquid Nostalgia, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
The Devil’s Half-Acre, Sometimes (works of art), New York
2005
Florence Loewy, Paris
2003
Traces, Presence, and Selected Studies, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York
2000
3 Charleston Road, Ranelagh, Ireland, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York
Falling in Love with Heavy Things, Project, Dublin
1999
Hotels, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
1997
The Lonely Place Where Memory is a Slave, Betsy Senior Gallery, New York
Out of Town, Encore, Brussels
1996
From the National Library of Ireland, Dublin, Betsy Senior Gallery, New York; University of Missouri at St. Louis
1993
Lipton Owens Company, New York (collaboration with Jennifer Bolande)
1992
121 Art Gallery, Antwerp
Brenda Wallace Gallery, Montreal
Amy Lipton Gallery, New York
1991
Matrix Gallery, University Art Museum, Berkeley, Calif.
New Work, Orchard Gallery, Derry, Northern Ireland
1990
Brenda Wallace Gallery, Montreal (collaboration with Jennifer Bolande)
1989
Why No One Writes Rock & Roll Songs About Connecticut, Real Art Ways, Hartford
1988
121 Art Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
1987
Art City, New York
New Work, Michael Bennett Gallery, New York
1986
Art City, New York
1984
A & M Artworks, New York
New Work, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y.
1983
Artist's Space, New York (installation with Fred Szymanski)
A & M Artworks, New York
J. Walter Thompson Company, New York
1982
A & M Artworks, New York
1981
Sixto/Notes, Milan, Italy
1980
Galleriaforma, Genoa, Italy
1979
Studio 46, Turin, Italy
J. Walter Thompson Company, New York
2017
Sara MacKillop/Tim Maul, Florence Loewy at FIAC, Paris
The (Partial) Autobiography of an Art Gallery, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
Starting from a book, Galerie Florence Loewy, Paris
Not Quite Under Ground, Skulptur Projekte Münster, Germany
2016
The Poetics of Place: Contemporary Photographs from The Met Collection, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
2014
We are hollow, We are meek, We are edible, FIAC, Florence Loewy, Paris
A Particular Kind of Solitude, An exhibition inspired by the writings of Robert Walser for the Elizabeth Street Gardens, New York
Permanent Collection, Smith College Museum, Northampton, Massachusetts
Allegories of Oblivion, The Nouveau Festival, 5th Edition, Centre Pompidou, Paris
2013
Everyday Epiphanies: Photography and Daily Life since 1969, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Exposition autour de nos éditions 1991–2013, Florence Loewy, Paris
Individual Mythologies, You me Haus, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Jean Dupuy; Defess Productions, Emily Harvey Foundation, New York
Bibliotheque Imaginaire, Book Machine, Nouveau Festival 2013, Centre Pompidou, Paris
2012
Betsy Kaufman, Robert Watts, Lawrence Weiner, Tim Maul, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
CAMERA ARTISTS, Onestar Press, The New York Art Book Fair, MoMA PS 1, Long Island City, N.Y.
2011
A Place to Which We Can Come, Saint Cecilia’s Convent, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Redacted Perfection, Drift Station Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
2010
Modernartifacts, San Francisco
PQ:100, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, N.Y.
2009
Camera/Chimera, Gallery Aferro, Newark, N.J.
2008
Been There, Department of Photography, School of Visual Arts, New York
2007
Seeing Is Believing, The Photographers’ Gallery, London
Someday All This Will Be (something else), Gallery Aferro, Newark, N.J.
Seeing Things, Dorsky Gallery/Curatorial Projects, Long Island City, N.Y.
2006
When Artists Say ‘We,’ Artists Space, New York
2005
Photography: Double Exposure, The Renaissance Society, Chicago
2004
Permutations on the Picturesque, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York
James Joyce’s Ulysses at the National Library of Ireland, Dublin
2003
Marking Time, Grant Pirrie, Sydney, Australia
Strangers: The First Triennial of Photography and Video, International Center of Photography, New York
You Are Here, Espacio La Rebeca, Bogota
You Are Here, Los 29 enchufes, Madrid
You Are Here, Galeria Metropolitana, Santiago, Chile
2002
404 Yellow Pages, Turmgalerie, Helmstedt, Germany
Four Walls at Devoe St., Parlour Projects, Brooklyn, N.Y.
School of Visual Arts Commemorates 9/11, Art & Observance, Visual Arts Museum, New York
Office Space, Janet Borden Gallery, New York
The Captain’s Road, The T.V. Project, Dublin, Ireland
2001
A Private Reading: The Book as Image and Object, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York
When Words and Pictures Become Books and Editions, Purple Institute, Paris
When Words and Pictures Become Books and Editions, Secession, Vienna
Visual Art is Disposable, Liberty Hall, Dublin
In the Lake, Malca Fine Arts, New York
2000
A Changing Summer Group Exhibition, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York
Air Conditioned; Interiors, Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York
Attack, Magnifk, Brooklyn, N.Y.
1999
Traces and Presence, Installation at Colette Editions, Paris, France
Summer Reading: Photographs of Books, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York
Pencils of Nature: A Dialogue, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
Five 29 Ninety 9, St. Anns Church, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Salon 1, A Photographic Installation, James Fuentes Gallery, New York
A Détacher, an installation at 262 Mott Street, New York
Andrea Geyer, Tim Maul, Clara Williams, Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, N.Y.
Fiction Reality, Deven Golden Gallery, New York
1998
La coscienza lucciante Sezione CD-ROM d’arte, Roma Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
Photographie & Cinema, Florence Loewy, Paris
The Cultured Tourist, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, and Carol Ehlers Gallery, Chicago
Into the Light, Irish Photography Archive, Dublin
MATRIX/Berkeley: 20 Years, University Art Museum, Berkeley, Calif.
The Cottingley Fairies and Other Apparitions, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York and The Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis
1997
He Was Okay at the Beginning—He Just Went Too Far, Weston Art Gallery, Aronoff Center, Cincinnati
Glorious Gardens, Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York
Critical Images, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York
1996
Dissociationism, Four Walls, Brooklyn, N.Y. Writing in Exile, Irish Pavilion, Frankfurt Book Fair, Germany
Anniversary Gifts to the Collection, University Art Museum, Berkeley, Calif.
Hello World, Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich
1995
It's Only Rock and Roll, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; Lakeview Museum of Arts and Sciences, Peoria, Ill.; Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, Virginia Beach, Va.; Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Wa.; Jacksonville Museum of Art; Jacksonville, Fla.; Bedford Gallery at the Regional Center for the Arts, Walnut Creek, Calif.; The Phoenix Art Museum; Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Cleveland; Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami; and Milwaukee Art Museum
The Cultured Tourist, The Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock, N.Y.
Technophobia, Dooley Le Cappellaine CD ROM Gallery, ISEA Conference, Montreal
Scrap Book/Book Art, The Art Gallery of Ramapo College, Mahwah, N.J.
Smells Like Vinyl, Roger Merians Gallery, New York
1994
Inaugural Exhibition, Famine Museum, Strokestown, Republic of Ireland
Shooting Blind, Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Conn.
1993
The Return of the Cadavre Exquis, The Drawing Center, New York
Bluebeard, Arthur Sackler Gallery of the Palace Theatre, Stamford, Conn.
Peter Pan, Dooley Le Cappellaine, New York
1992
E.S.P., Dooley Le Cappellaine, New York
CEPA Benefit Photography Auction, Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y.
1991
Art and Revolution, El Bohio Community Center, New York
Broadening the Collections, Roland Gibson Gallery, State University of New York, Potsdam, N.Y.
Incognito, Curt Marcus Gallery, N.Y.
1991
Invitational, Amy Lipton Gallery, New York
The American Scene: Contemporary Photographs, Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco
Library of Babel, Hallwalls, Buffalo, N.Y. and White Columns, New York
1990
Photographers on Ellis Island 1900–1990, The Ellis Island Immigration Museum, New York
121 Art Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Photo Graphic, Zabriskie Gallery, New York
As Seen on Television, City Without Walls Gallery, Newark, N.J.
1989
The Live Show, American Museum of the Moving Image, Astoria, N.Y.
The Photography of Invention: American Pictures of the 80s, National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
Embracing Mystery, Souyun Yi Gallery, New York
Faculty Collections,(Mac Adams), State University of New York, Old Westbury, N.Y.
1988
Colin Lee, Tim Maul, Lewis Stein, Milford Gallery, New York
1987
A Visible Order, University of Illinois, Chicago
A Visible Order, Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles
Photo Mannerisms, Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia
Benefit Exhibition, White Columns, New York
1986
Picture This, Hallwalls, Buffalo, N.Y.
Acceptable Entertainment, DePree Art Gallery, Hope College, Holland, Mich.; Emily Carr College Art Gallery, Vancouver; Alberta College of Art, Calgary; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles; State Museum, Albany, Ga.; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, N.Y.; Bruno Facchetti Gallery, N.Y.
1985
Photo/Graphic, Art City, New York
Laughing Matters, Brattle Theatre, Cambridge, Mass.
1984
Por La Paz, Universidad de Santo Domingo
Born to Survive, Museum Het Toreke, Belgium
1983
Hundreds of Drawings, Artist's Space, New York
Human Rights, Universidad de San Marcos, Lima, Peru
Live Radio, Fashion Moda, Bronx, N.Y.
1982
New Papers, Grommet Gallery, N.Y. Perspective Sonorities, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy; Sala D'Arte Contemporanea, Rimini, Italy; Kulturforum, Bonn, Germany (installation with Fred Szymanski); Kulturreferat, Munich, Germany; Oggi Musica, Lugano, Italy
Central Park Show, Central Park Gallery Annex, New York
Video/TV—Humor/Comedy, Media Study, Buffalo, N.Y.
1981
From the Academy to the Avant Garde, The Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, N.Y.
Extended Photography, Vienna Biennale, Austria
Love is Blind, Castelli Graphics, New York
Funny Videotapes, P.S. 1, Long Island City, N.Y.
1978
3 Mercer Street Store, New York
1977
11 x 33, 112 Greene Street, New York
Memory, C-Space, New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Smith College Museum of Art
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, Calif.
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Centre national des arts plastiques, Paris