TARO
SUZUKI
EDUCATION
Cooper Union, New
York, BFA degree, 1976
School of Visual
Arts, New York, 1972-73
Syracuse
University, Syracuse, New York, 1971-72
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1991 Berland Hall Gallery,
New York (Paintings)
1990 White Columns, New
York (Paintings)
Daniel Newburg
Gallery, New York (Sculpture)
1988 Daniel Newburg Gallery, New York (Sculpture)
1987 Daniel Newburg Gallery, New York (Sculpture)
1986 Daniel Newburg Gallery, New York (Painting and
Sculpture)
John Weber Gallery,
New York (Installation)
Architectures
Windows, New York (Installation)
1985 Daniel Newburg
Gallery, New York (Painting and Sculpture)
The Walker Art
Center, Minneapolis, MN, “C3I”, performance in collaboration with
Jules
Feinman-Baptiste
1982 Red Bar, New York
(Installation)
1981 Stefanotti Gallery,
New York (Installation)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011 Jeanette Powell Arts
Center, University of the Pacific, Maniac Manic Episode II
Brickhouse Gallery, Sacramento,
Maniac Manic Episode II
Heidi Cho Gallery,
New York, “Steven Alexander / Taro Suzuki”
2010 Esso Gallery,
“Bologna Art Fair”, Bologna, Italy
Feature Gallery, New
York, “Power to the people”
Heidi Cho Gallery,
New York, “As You Like It”
2009 Museum of Modern Art,
New York, “Looking at Music” (performance video)
Metropolitan Museum
of Art, New York, “Pictures Generation” (performance video)
Heidi Cho Gallery,
New York, “Precious”
Esso Gallery,
Torino, Italy
Spanierman Modern,
New York, “Summer Selections”
Esso Gallery,
“Bologna Art Fair”, Bologna, Italy
Dinter Fine Art, New
York, “How to Cook a Wolf”
2008 Spanierman Modern,
New York, “Present Tense” curated by Don Chistensen &
Mary Heilmann
Benefit for Bomb
Magazine
2007 Mitchell Algus
Gallery, New York, “Canal Street”
2006 Orange County Museum
of Art, Orange County, California, curated by Mary
Heilmann
2004 Van Brunt Gallery,
New York, “Band of Abstraction”, curated by Joe Fyfe
138 Bayard Street New
York, “Compliment/Contrast”
2000 DNA Studios, New
York, “Na’er Do Wells” Curated by Alfredo Martinez and
Jacob
Williams
Sharjah Arts Museum,
U.A.E., “Millenium Show”
1999 Gale Gates et al, New
York, “Size Matters”
Jeffrey Coploff Fine
Art, New York, “Selections”
Jorgensen Gallery,
New York, “Chunk 3”
6th @ Prince Gallery,
New York, “A Room With a View”, curated by Mike Weiss
Postmasters Gallery,
New York, “The War Show”
Jorgensen Gallery,
New York, “Portrait Show”
Musee d’Art
Contemporain, Lyons, France, “Collage Jukebox”
Jeffrey Koploff Fine
Art, New York, “Little”
1998 Kunsthaus, Bregenz,
Austria, “Kunst in der Stadt”, curated by Jerome Joy
N3 Project Space, New
York, “Six Painters”
1997 Pat Hearn Gallery,
New York, “Benefit for Pat Hearn”
Up& Co., New
York, “Supastore”
1995 Apex Art, New York, “Three Artists”,
curated by Mary Heilman
U.S. Embassy, Ngoia,
Japan, “ Benefit Show for Earthquake Victims”
1994 Rushmore Festival,
Woodbury, NY, “Across the River and Into the Trees
(A Sculpture
Show)”, curated by Collins & Milazzo
Charles Cowles
Gallery, New York, “About Color”, curated by Bill Carroll
Fawbush Gallery, New
York, “Bomb Magazine Benefit”
Fogg Museum,
Cambridge, MA, “What If Anything is An Object?”, curated by Clive
Dilnot
1992 White Columns, New
York,“White Columns Benefit Show”
1991 Rempire Gallery, New York,“Invisible
Body” curated by Alan Jones
Elysium Arts, New
York, “The Tree”
Fay Gold Gallery,
Atlanta GA, “Outside America-going into the 90’s”, curated by
Collins
& Milazzo
Arco Art Fair,
Barcelona, Spain
1990 Marta Cervera
Gallery, New York, “The Painter and His Occasion”, curated by
Alan Jones
Scott Hanson Gallery,
New York, “Token Gestures”, curated by Collins & Milazzo
Union College, New
Jersey, “Isotopy”
1988 ISO Corporation, New
York, “Consonance”
Rezac Gallery, in
conjunction with Feature Gallery, Chicago, IL, “Information as
Ornament”
University Gallery,
Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA,
“Sixteen
Cubes”, curated by Saul Ostrow
White Columns, New
York, “White Columns Benefit”
1987 Galeria Fucares ,
Madrid, Spain, “3x4: Ray Smith, Taro Suzuki, Donald
Traver”,
curated by Octavio Zaya
John Goode Gallery,
New York,“Rigor”, curated by Stephen Westfall
Daniel Newburg
Gallery, New York, “Art Against Aids”
Kunsthaus, Zurich,
Switzerland, “Art Cake”
Daniel Newburg
Gallery, New York, “D’Ornamentation”
1986 Art & Industry,
New York, “Illumination: The Art About the Future”
Piezo Electric, New
York, “Physics”
Daniel Newburg
Gallery, New York, “As Sculpture”
E.M. Donahue Gallery,
New York, “Artists Choose Designer”, in collaboration with
Elizabeth
Cannon
Mission Gallery, New
York, “Light, Shadow, Optics”
American Fine Arts,
New York
El Bohio, New York,
“Indoor/Outdoor Sculpture”
1985 Christminster
Gallery, New York, “Auto/Genetic/Photopsia”
Kamikaze Gallery, New
York, “Zero Gravity”
Sao Paulo Biennale,
Brazil “Science Meets Fiction”
1984 Kamikaze Gallery, New
York, “Light Moving”
Daniel Newburg
Gallery, New York, “Halley, Schroder, Suzuki, Wasserman”
Holly Solomon
Gallery, New York, “Assemblages”
1983 Berkshire Museum,
Pittsfield, MA, “The Suspended Object”
Brooklyn Bridge
Centennial Exhibition, sponsered by Creative Time “Art in The
Anchorage”,
New York
Lowe Gallery, Hofstra
University, Hempstead, NY, “Light”
1983 John Weber Gallery,
New York, “Science Fiction”, curated by Peter Halley
Contemporary Arts
Center, Cincinnati, OH, “Dynamix”
ELAC, Lyons, France,
“Energie-New York”
The Kitchen, New
York, “ART OF THE STATE” (“Space Force” Installation)
Carl Solway Gallery,
Cincinnati, OH, (Installation)
Hall Walls, Buffalo,
NY, “Color, Light and Mass”
The Mudd Club, New
York, “Lower Manhatten Drawing Show”
Stefonotti Gallery,
New York, “The First Energist Drawing Show”
Galerie Durban,
Caracas, Venezuela, “Art For The Eighties”
La Grande Palais,
Paris, France, “L’Amerique Aux Independents”
Stefanotti Gallery,
New York
Barbara Gladstone
Gallery, New York, “Canal Street”
112 Greene Street,
New York, “Group Indiscriminate”
AWARDS, GRANTS, TEACHING POSITIONS
2010-12 Fine Arts
Professor, School of Visual Arts, New York
2006 Pollock Krasner Grant
1989 Pollock Krasner Award
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
2008 VILLAGE VOICE, July
2, R.C. Baker “Best in Show” (review, “Present Tense”) 2007 NEW YORK TIMES, November 16, Roberta Smith “Canal Street” (review)
ARTFORUM.COM, July
22, John Reed ‘Critic’s picks’ “Band of Abstraction”(review)
NEW YORK SUN, July
22, David Cohen “Band of Abstraction” (review)
2000 NEW YORK TIMES,
August 4, Roberta Smith “Na’er do wells” (review)
1999 ARTFORUM, Glenn O’Brien, “style Makes the Band”,
October
ZINGMAGAZINE, “Seven
Whys and the Snow Dwarf”, Fall Issue
1997 INTERIOR DESIGN, “change, change, change”,
September
1991 THE ARTIST PROJECT,
Peter Bellamy
BOMB MAGAZINE,
Feature, Spring Issue
1990 Collins, Trisha &
Milazzo, Richard, “Finding the Loophole in Sisyphus”,
Contract
Essay for the solo exhibition at White Columns, New York
NEW YORKER MAGAZINE,
July 16 (review)
Jones, Alan, “The
Painter and His Occasion”, catalogue for the exhibition at Marta
Cervera
Gallery, New York
Collins, Trisha & Milazzo, Richard, “Token
Gestures”, catalogue for the exhibition
at Scott
Hanson Gallery, New York
1989 ARTS MAGAZINE, April
pp. 17-18 (illustration) “Taro Suzuki”
JULIET ART MAGAZINE,
February-April pp.39-40
JULIET ART MAGAZINE,
December–January pp. 32&39 (profile)
1988 Kimmelman, Michael,
“Diversity of Lower Broadway Galleries”, June 3, THE
NEW YORK
TIMES
Maginnis, Kevin &
Robbins, David, “Information as Ornament”, catalogue for the
exhibition at Rezac
Gallery, Chicago IL
1987 Mahoney, Robert,
ARTSCRIBE, “Rigor: John Goode Gallery” (review)
ARTS MAGAZINE,
September, “Rigor: John Goode Gallery”
Busche, Dr., Ernst,
“Was ist der Stand der Kunst?” BUSHES ARTFOCUS, Berlin,
Germany
Egger, Marc, “Art
Cake”, exhibition catalogue, Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland
Huichi, Fernando, EL
PAIS, June 9 (review)
McCormick, Carlo.
ARTFORUM, September (review)
Smith, Roberta,
“Where to See the Newest Of the New American Art,” THE NEW
YORK TIMES,
May 1
Zaya, Octavio, “3x4”,
catalogue for the exhibition, at Galerie Fucares, Madrid,
Spain
1986 Westfall, Stephen,
ART IN AMERICA, October (review)
Jones, Alan, “Taro
Suzuki: The Pornography of Utopia”, ARCHITECTURES
MAGAZINE,
November
Lurie, David, ARTS
MAGAZINE, April (review)
Smith, Kiki, PAPER,
March (review)
Balet, Marc and
Robert Becker, “Assemblages”. INTERVIEW MAGAZINE, November
1984 Robinson, Walter,
“Lumps of All Kinds”, EAST VILLAGE EYE, July
Cravin, David,
“Science Fiction and the Future of Art”, ARTS MAGAZINE, May
Flood, Richard, “Art
In The Anchorage”, catalogue for the exhibition
Liebman, Lisa,
ARTFORUM, November (review)
Levin, Kim, “Fireworks Under the Bridge”, THE
VILLAGE VOICE , August 2
Glueck, Grace, THE
NEW YORK TIMES, May 27 (review)
Bue, Marie, FLASH
ART, May (review)
Marzorati, Gerald,
SOHO WEEKLY NEWS, January, “Art Picks”
Cohen, Ronny, “Why
Younger American Artists are Drawing So Much Today”,
DRAWING
NEWSLETTER, July 8
Larson, Kay, NEW YORK
MAGAZINE, November 23 (review)
Rose, Frank,
“Exploring the Art-Rock Nexus”, ARTEXPRESS, November
Cohen, Ronny,
“Energism: An Attitude”, ARTFORUM, September
Cook, Scott, “Art for
the Eighties”, catalogue for the exhibition
Denson, Roger,
“Color, Light and Mass” catalogue for the exhibition
Friedman, Jon R.,
“Canal Street”, ARTS MAGAZINE, January 7
Perrault, John,
“Canal Street Transfer”, SOHO WEEKLY NEWS, January 7
Vallee, Jean
Francois, “L’Amerique Aux Independents” catalogue for the
exhibition
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