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
1985     Sculpture Department, Rhode Island School of Design
1984     Visiting Artist, Rhode Island School of Design
1982     National Endowment for the Arts, Emerging Artist Award, Sculpture

 

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