Charles Atlas

♂ *1949 / United States

Works

Solo exhibitions

Kiss the Day Goodbye

Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa (US)
22 Aug 2025 – 4 Oct 2026
Hail the New Puritan

Contemporary Art Gallery , Vancouver (CA)
3 Oct 2025 – 28 Feb 2026
About Time

ICA Institute Contemp Art, Boston (US)
10 Oct 2024 – 16 Mar 2025
Selected Videos 1987–2015

Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk (US)
22 Sep 2023 – 24 Mar 2024
A Prune Twin

Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York (US)
28 Jan 2023 – 11 Mar 2023
LIFE’S A BEACH

STUK Arts Centre, Leuven (BE)
26 Sep 2022 – 2 Oct 2022
Scary, Scary, Community Fun, Death

migros museum, Zürich (CH)
17 Feb 2018 – 13 May 2018
Scary, Scary, Community Fun, Death

migros museum, Zürich (CH)
17 Feb 2018 – 13 May 2018
Glacier

Bloomberg SPACE, London (GB)
25 Jan 2013 – 31 Mar 2013
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HAL - Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem (NL)
16 Mar 2012 – 3 Jun 2012
The Illusion of Democracy

Luhring Augustine Gallery, Brooklyn (US)
18 Feb 2012 – 20 May 2012
Joints Array

New Museum, New York (US)
6 Jul 2011 – 28 Aug 2011
( / + )

Vilma Gold, London (GB)
25 Feb 2011 – 10 Apr 2011
Tornado Warning

Vilma Gold, London (GB)
14 Nov 2008 – 7 Dec 2008
Instant Fame!

Vilma Gold, London (GB)
23 Nov 2006 – 3 Dec 2006
Hail the New Puritan: Videos 1975–2005

Tate Modern, London (GB)
16 Nov 2006 – 20 Nov 2006

Group

Yasumasa Morimura and Charles Atlas

Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York (US)
30 Jan 2026 – 21 Mar 2026

with Yasumasa Morimura
Leigh Bowery!

Tate Modern, London (GB)
27 Feb 2025 – 2 Sep 2025

with Fergus Greer, Nick Knight, Stephen Willats, Cerith Wyn Evans
Seasonal Affective

80WSE Gallery | NYU, New York (US)
9 Nov 2023 – 3 Feb 2024

with Merce Cunningham, Chris Marker
UNSERE GEGENWART

MGK Siegen, Siegen (DE)
14 Feb 2020 – 1 Jun 2020

with Andrea Robbins & Max Becher, John Baldessari, Eric Baudelaire, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Vajiko Chachkhiani, Forensic Architecture, Simone Forti, Bernhard Fuchs, Dan Graham, Candida Hoefer, Hans Haacke, Hans Hartung …
GENERATION LOSS

Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf (DE)
10 Jun 2017 – 10 Jun 2018

with Marina Abramovic, Vito Acconci, Eleanor Antin, Ed Atkins, Lutz Bacher, Lynda Benglis, Bernadette Corporation, Johanna Billing, Dara Birnbaum, Hannah Black, Chris Burden, Matt Calderwood …
Unspeakable

Atlas, Kruger, Walker: Hammer Contemporary Collection

UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (US)
20 Jan 2018 – 13 May 2018

with Barbara Kruger, Kara Walker
Elements of Vogue

A case study of radical performance

CA2M, Madrid (ES)
17 Nov 2017 – 6 May 2018

with Ellen Gallagher, Gerard H. Gaskin, Lyle Ashton Harris, Zoe Leonard, Glenn Ligon, Kalup Linzy, Rashaad Newsome, Adrian Piper, Martha Rosler
The 57th International Art Exhibition - VIVA ARTE VIVA

The Venice Biennale, Venezia (IT)
13 May 2017 – 26 Nov 2017

with Bas Jan Ader, Nevin Aladag, Leonor Antunes, Jelili Atiku, Kader Attia, Irma Blank, Michel Blazy, Dirk Braeckman, Julian Charriere, Attila Csoergoe, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Mariechen Danz …
Marching to the Beat

Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco (US)
14 Jul 2017 – 26 Aug 2017

with Kutluğ Ataman, Andrea Bowers, Rineke Dijkstra, Karen Kilimnik, Catherine Opie, Malick Sidibe, Wolfgang Tillmans
Human Interest

Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection

Whitney Museum Art, New York (US)
27 Apr 2016 – 2 Apr 2017

with Diane Arbus, David Armstrong, Alvin Baltrop, Dawoud Bey, John Coplans, Jay DeFeo, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Lee Friedlander, Nan Goldin …
Greater New York

over 400 works by 157 artists

MoMA PS1, New York (US)
11 Oct 2015 – 7 Mar 2016

with Chantal Akerman, Alvin Baltrop, Sadie Benning, Huma Bhabha, Dara Birnbaum, Ben Thorp Brown, Mary Beth Edelson, Joy Episalla, Loretta Fahrenholz, Rosalind Fox Solomon, David Hammons, Katherine Hubbard …
America Is Hard to See

Whitney Museum Art, New York (US)
1 May 2015 – 27 Sep 2015

with Berenice Abbott, Vito Acconci, Eleanor Antin, Diane Arbus, Alex Bag, Bernadette Corporation, Stan Brakhage, Robert Breer, Walter de Maria, Roy DeCarava, Maya Deren, William Eggleston …
10th Gwangju Biennale: Burning Down the House

The Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju (KR)
5 Sep 2014 – 9 Nov 2014

with Abbas Akhavan, Jane Alexander, Andrea Bowers, AA Bronson, Lee Bul, Banu Cennetoglu, Heman Chong, Jonathas de Andrade, Jeremy Deller, Jack Goldstein, Sharon Hayes, Robert Heinecken …
This Is Not a Love Song

Interfaces between visual arts and pop music

La Virreina Centre de la Imatge, Barcelona (ES)
22 May 2013 – 13 Oct 2013

with Adel Abidin, Vito Acconci, Ana Laura Alaez, John Baldessari, Judith Barry, Joseph Beuys, Guillaume Bijl, Dara Birnbaum, Olaf Breuning, Carles Congost, Jeremy Deller, Douglas Gordon …
Number Five: Cities of Gold and Mirrors

Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf (DE)
2 Jul 2011 – 15 Jul 2012

with Francis Alys, Carlo Bevilacqua, Johanna Billing, David Claerbout, Louise Crawford, Keren Cytter, Simon Denny
Whitney Biennial 2012

Whitney Museum Art, New York (US)
1 Mar 2012 – 27 May 2012

with Art & Language , Lutz Bacher, Moyra Davey, Liz Deschenes, Nathaniel Dorsky, Kevin Jerome Everson, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Jerome Hiler, K8 Hardy, Mike Kelley, George Kuchar, Michael Robinson
The view from a volcano : the kitchen's Soho years 1971-1985 (revisite)

Centre d'art Passerelle, Brest (FR)
29 Feb 2012 – 28 Apr 2012

with Vito Acconci, Laurie Anderson, Robert Ashley, Trisha Brown, Simone Forti, Joan Jonas, Bill Jones, Robert Longo, Christian Marclay, John Miller, Matt Mullican, Tony Oursler …
DANCE WITH CAMERA

Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (US)
7 Aug 2010 – 17 Oct 2010

with Eleanor Antin, Trisha Brown, Bruce Conner, Merce Cunningham, Tacita Dean, Mike Kelley, Joachim Koester, Elad Lassry, Bruce Nauman, Uri Tzaig, Christopher Williams
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Kunstverein Nürnberg, Nürnberg (DE)
10 Jul 2010 – 26 Sep 2010

with Nina Koennemann
The Inhabitants

Vilma Gold, London (GB)
14 Mar 2010 – 25 Apr 2010

with Helena Almeida, Alex Hubbard, Joao Maria Gusmao og Pedro Paiva, Matt Mullican
Tanzen, Sehen

MGK Siegen, Siegen (DE)
18 Feb 2007 – 28 May 2007

with Eleanor Antin, Sven Augustijnen, Samuel Beckett, Andrea Bowers, Rineke Dijkstra, Dan Graham, Jiri Kovanda, Bruce Nauman, Erwin Wurm
The Last Days of the British Underground 1978 - 1988

ICA Inst Contemporary Arts, London (GB)
23 Mar 2007 – 6 May 2007

with Victor Burgin, Gilbert & George, Isaac Julien, Wolfgang Tillmans, Stephen Willats
The Secret Public

The Last Days of the British Underground 1978-1988

Kunstverein München, München (DE)
7 Oct 2006 – 26 Nov 2006

with Victor Burgin, Gilbert & George, Isaac Julien, Wolfgang Tillmans, Stephen Willats
Scanners 06: The New York Video Festival

New York Video Festival, New York (US)
26 Jul 2006 – 30 Jul 2006

with Tamy Ben-Tor, Alina & Jeff Bliumis, Daniel Burkhardt, Seoungho Cho, Jordan Crandall, Donigan Cumming, R. Luke duBois, Michelle Handelman, Julia Heyward, Tessa Knapp, George Kuchar, Luke Lamborn …
my people were fair and had cum in their hair

Team Gallery, New York (US)
18 Oct 2003 – 15 Nov 2003

with Brice Dellsperger, Michael Meads, Walter Pfeiffer, Wolfgang Tillmans, T.J. Wilcox
New Trends

World Wide Video Festival ’95

MNCARS - Museo REINA SOFIA, Madrid (ES)
14 Jun 1995 – 1 Jul 1995

with Max Almy, Julián Álvarez, George Barber, Breda Beban, Sadie Benning, Jem Cohen, Marcel Dinahet, Cheryl Donegan, Elsa Stansfield & Madelon Hooykaas, Johan Grimonprez, Nelson Henricks, Jose Antonio Hernandez-Diez …
13th World Wide Video Festival

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL)
27 Apr 1995 – 30 Apr 1995

with Max Almy, Julián Álvarez, George Barber, Breda Beban, Sadie Benning, Jem Cohen, Marcel Dinahet, Cheryl Donegan, Elsa Stansfield & Madelon Hooykaas, Johan Grimonprez, Nelson Henricks, Jose Antonio Hernandez-Diez …

Events

The 57th International Art Exhibition - VIVA ARTE VIVA 2

The Venice Biennale, Venezia (IT)
13 May 2017 – 26 Nov 2017

with Bas Jan Ader, Nevin Aladag, Jelili Atiku, Kader Attia, Attila Csoergoe, George Drivas, Raymond Hains, Taus Makhacheva, Gabriel Orozco, Philippe Parreno, Agnieszka Polska, Liliana Porter …