Oliver HERRING
Born in Germany
Lives and work in New York City
SOLO SHOWS
2016
Oliver Herring: Areas for Action, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore
2015
Oliver Herring: Areas for Action, DiverseWorks, Houston
Oliver Herring: Action Selection, Mabsociety, Shanghai
Oliver Herrin, Front Line Contemporary, Shanghai
2010
TASK+ selected work by Oliver Herring - University Galleries at Illinois State University, Normal, Il
2009
Oliver Herring, Frist Center for Visual Arts, Nashville, TN.
Oliver Herring: Video Sketch - Emerson Gallery at Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
Opener 16: Oliver Herring: Me Us Them - The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
2008
TASK in Seattle, Seattle Public Library (in conjunction with Tacoma Art Museum, Frye Art Museum, On the Boards and the Seattle Public Library), Seattle, Washington
2007
Oliver Herring, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, New York.
OverCraft, Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa, Israel
2006
Art21 Artists, Bentley Projects, Scottsdale, Arizona
TASK — At The Hirshhorn (Directions: Oliver Herring), Hirshhorn Musem and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC.
Art21 Artists, Bentley Projects, Scottsdale, Arizona
2005
Taking and Making, Frye Art Museum, Seattle, Washington.
Oliver Herring: Videos, Media Test Wall, List Center for Visual Art, MIT, Cambridge, Massachussets
I Am Five, Parker’s Box, Brooklyn, New York
Collection2, Fondation pour l’art contemporain Claudine et Jean-Marc Salomon, Alex, France
2004
Oliver Herring, Max Protetch, New York
TASK — Dans le Cour Vitree, Ecole Superieur National des Beaux Arts, Paris
TASK – In the Great Eastern Temple, The Masonic Temple at the Great Eastern Hotel, London (performance)
Skin Deep, Museo Di Arte Moderna E Contemporanea Di Trento E Rovereto, Rovereto, Italy
2002
Little Dances of Misfortunes, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, New York.
2001
Alterations, James Grayham and Sons, New York, New York
New Media Room: Oliver Herring, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York.
2000
Oliver Herring, Rhodes + Mann, London, U.K.
Oliver Herring, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
1999
Oliver Herring, Max Protetch Gallery, New York
1997
Oliver Herring: Sculpture, Camden Art Center, London. England
Oliver Herring: Sculpture, Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance, England
Oliver Herring, New Work, Max Protetch Gallery, New York
1996
Oliver Herring, New Work, Manfred Baumgartner Gallery, Washington D.C.
Projects 53: Oliver Herring, Leonilson, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Oliver Herring: Selected Works, Max Protetch Gallery, New York
One Day (a performance), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
1994
A Flower for Ethyl Eichelberger – An Ongoing Project, Bernard Toale
Gallery, Boston, MA
Empty Pages, Max Protetch Gallery, New York
Island installation for A Flower for Ethyl Eichelberger – An Ongoing Project,
Space Untitled, New York
A Flower for Ethyl Eichelberger – An Ongoing Project, Max Protetch Gallery,
New York
1993
A Flower for Ethyl Eichelberger – An Ongoing Project; Bedding, Mannheimer
Kunstverein, Mannheim (catalogue)
A Flower for Ethyl Eichelberger – An Ongoing Project, Work Space Gallery,
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
GROUP SHOWS
2019
“Lust der Tauschung”, Ludwig Forum fur Internationale Kunst, Aachen
2017
Public Movement: One Art, Politics and Dance, Moderna Museet Malmo, Malmo
2016
Why The Performance?, Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai
Utopias and Heterotopias, Wuzhen International Contemporary Art Exhibition, Tongxiang
2015
Timely Manoeuvres, Ikkan Art Gallery, Singapore
Moving Light, Roving Sight, Ikkan Art Gallery, Singapore
2014
Video Art Video, Galería Leyendecker, Tenerife
Forced Collaboration II, Artspace, New Haven
Testing Grounds, Robischon Gallery, Denver
Migration, Claire Oliver, New York
2013
Ecce Homo, Pavel, Zoubok Gallery, New York
2012
Synchrony Contemporary Video Work, Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga
2011
Off Camera - Fleisher/Ollman Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2010
Aichi Triennal 2010 - Arts and Cities - Aichi Triennal, Nagoya
2009
Performa 09 - Performa, New York City, NY
Side by Side - Esopus Space, New York City, NY
Mirror Mirror: Contemporary Portraits and the Fugitive Self - Brigham Young University Museum of Art, Provo, UT
Slash: Paper Under the Knife - Museum of Arts & Design, New York City, NY
10e Biennale de Lyon - The Spectacle of the Everyday - Biennale de Lyon, Lyon
Dance with Camera - ICA - Institute of Contemporary Art - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Dress Codes: Clothing as Metaphor - Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY
2008
Alternating Beats - The RISD Museum - University of Rhode Island, Providence
Pretty Things: Confronting Sensuousness - Artspace, New Haven, CT
Stretching the Truth - John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI
2007
BoysCraft - Haifa Museum of Art, Haifa
50,000 Beds - Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
Sparkle Then Fade - Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
2006
Uta Barth / Oliver Herring / Christian Nielsen - Franklin Art Works, Minneapolis
New Now Next - The Contemporary Blanton - Blanton Museum of Art, Austin
2005
Sélest’art 05, biennale d’art contemporain - Sélest’art - Biennale d’art contemporain de la ville de Sélestat , Sélestat
Six Laws of Motion - Meulensteen (Former Max Protetch), New York City, NY
2003
Hands To Work - Mind To God - - Borusan Sanat Galerisi / Borusan Art Gallery, Istanbul (closed, 2006)
Perforations - McKenzie Fine Art, New York City, NY
Decade - Schroeder Romero & Shredder, New York City, NY
2002
Time Space Motion - Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Salzburg, Salzburg
2000
Picturing the Modern Amazon, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY (catalogue)
The Comforts of Home, Hand Workshop Arts Center, Richmond, VA
2000 Años Luz, Centro de Arte La Recova y Espacio Cultural
El Tanque, Tenerife, España
Six Signals: Videos by Contemporary Artists, Checkwood Installation Galleries, Nashville, TN
Potent/Present: Selections from the Vicki and Kent Logan Collection,nCCAC Institute, Oakland , CA (catalogue)
Inaugural Exhibition, Rhodes + Mann, London, UK (catalogue)
Art Film, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
1999
Regarding Beauty: A View of the Late 20th Century, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian, Washington D.C. travelling to the Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Weaving the World, Contemporary Art of Linear Construction, Yokohama Museum of Art, Japan (catalogue)
Artworkers, Oriel Mostyn Gallery, Llandudno, UK
Visions of the Body: Fashion or Invisible Corset, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan travelling to The Museum of Contemporary
Art, Tokyo, Japan (catalogue)
Chronologies, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Risk Cinema, Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
Back to Back, De Chiara/Stewart, New York
DNA Gallery International Video Festival, DNA Gallery, Providence, RI
1997
Un Bel Été, Casino Luxembourg, Forum d’Art Contemporain, Luxembourg catalogue)
Art/Fashion, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Sous le Manteau, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Anne Agee, Oliver Herring, Kara Walker, University of Michigan School of Art and Design, Ann Arbor, MI
No Man, Max Protetch Gallery, New York
Light Catchers, Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, VT
Works On Paper, Max Protetch Gallery, New York
Termite Terrace, Angstrom Gallery, Dallas, TX
1996
Shirts and Skins-Absence/Presence in Contemporary Art, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HI
A Millenium Celebration, The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia
Biennale di Firenze: la Tempo et la Moda, curated by Germano Celant and Ingrid Sichy, Florence, Italy (catalogue)
Disappeared, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
Festival Exit, Maison des Arts et de la Culture, Paris-Creteil , France
Leonardo Drew, Mark Francis, Oliver Herring, Mary Boone, New York
Time Wise, The Swiss Institute, New York
Untitled, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, New York
A Labor of Love, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
The Modern Landscape, Queens Library Gallery, New York
The Model Home, The Clocktower, New York
Embedded Metaphor, curated by Nina Felshin, Independent Curators
Incorporated, New York (catalogue)
1995
Thread Bare, Southeast Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC
Conceptual Textiles: Material Meanings, Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan
Folie, Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden e.v., Germany
Human/Nature, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Configura II: Dialog der Kulturen, Erfurt, Germany
Construction in Process V: Coexistence, Artists’ Museum, Mitzpe Ramon, Israel (catalogue)
Color in Space: Pictorialism in Contemporary Sculpture, David Winton Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Brown University, Providence, RI (catalogue)
Division of Labor: Women’s Work in Contemporary Art, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue)
1994
Athena and Arachne, Apex Art, New York (catalogue)
“...it’s how you play the game”, Exit Art, New York
Guys Who Sew, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA (catalogue)
Dyad, Sauce, Brooklyn, NY
Stories, Max Protetch Gallery, New York
Couples, Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York
Drama, Max Protetch Gallery, New York
Oliver Herring, Byron Kim, Glenn Ligon, Galerie Gilles Peyroulet, Paris, France
Jessica Diamond, Oliver Herring, Hunter Reynolds, Dan Walsh, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York Arts, New York
1993
Empty Dress: Clothing as a Surrogate in Recent Art, Neuberger Museum, SUNY, Purchase, NY; curated by Nina Felshin
Ciphers of Identity, Art Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore, and Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York
The Dennison Collection, The Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ (catalogue)
The Rag Trade, Inter Arts Center, New York, curated by Saul Ostrow
(Mal) Function, Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Beyond Loss: Art in the Era of AIDS, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington D.C.
On the Way Home: Projects from the Artists/Homeless Collaborative, Henry Street Settlement, New York
Simon Watson’s Living Room, New York
10 X 10 X 10, TZ’ Art & Co. Gallery, New York
Hybrid Sculpture, Marsha Fogel Gallery, Easthampton, NY
1992
Art at the Anchorage, The Anchorage, Brooklyn, NY
1989
Grove Street Gallery, Worcester, MA
1988
Pit Rivers Museum, Oxford, France
1986
Deutsche Bank AG, Frankfurt, Germany