James Lee Byars

♂ *1932-1997 / United States

Solo exhibitions

James Lee Byars

Pirelli HangarBicocca, Milano (IT)
12 Oct 2023 – 18 Feb 2024
The Palace of Perfect

Kewenig Galerie, Berlin (DE)
16 Feb 2019 – 13 Apr 2019
World Question Center

single-channel video, b/w, sound

Galería Kewenig, Palma (ES)
16 Feb 2019 – 16 Mar 2019
The Perfect Kiss

Argos - Centre for Art & Media, Brussels (BE)
4 Oct 2018 – 20 Jan 2019
The Perfect Kiss

MUHKA Museum, Antwerp (BE)
5 Oct 2018 – 20 Jan 2019
1/2 an Autobiography

MoMA PS1, New York (US)
15 Jun 2014 – 7 Sep 2014
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MoMA Museum Modern Art, New York (US)
17 Aug 2014 – 7 Sep 2014
Le Mont Fuji n'existe pas

Frac Ile-de-France, Paris (FR)
7 Jun 2012 – 29 Jul 2012
Ordinary Madness: James Lee Byars at Carnegie Museum of Art

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (US)
15 Oct 2010 – 20 Feb 2011
from life to art and back again

Argos - Centre for Art & Media, Brussels (BE)
2 Feb 2010 – 27 Mar 2010
From Life to Art and back again

three videos

Argos - Centre for Art & Media, Brussels (BE)
2 Feb 2010 – 27 Mar 2010

Group

Exposition Générale

forty years of international contemporary art , 600 works by over 100 artists.

Fondation Cartier, Paris (FR)
25 Oct 2025 – 23 Aug 2026

with Absalon, Robert Adams, Claudia Andujar, Matthew Barney, Lothar Baumgarten, Christian Boltanski, Andrea Branzi, James Coleman, Thomas Demand, Raymond Depardon, William Eggleston, Fernell Franco …
To Exalt the Ephemeral: The (Im)permanent Collection

Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley (US)
14 Aug 2024 – 6 Jul 2025

with Nayland Blake, Sarah Charlesworth, Bruce Conner, Imogen Cunningham, Tacita Dean, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Hans Haacke, Eva Hesse , Paul Kos, Zoe Leonard, Andy Warhol
I am you, you are too

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (US)
7 Sep 2018 – 23 Feb 2020

with Vito Acconci, Chantal Akerman, Francis Alys, Mark Bradford, Sarah Charlesworth, Bruce Conner, SONG Dong, Stan Douglas, Ellen Gallagher, Dan Graham, David Hammons, Leslie Hewitt …
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Galerie Fons Welters, Amsterdam (NL)
26 Apr 2019 – 15 Jun 2019

with Juliette Blightman, Marina Pinsky, Maurice van Es
To the Racy Brink

MCA Museum Contemp Art, Chicago (US)
1 Jul 2017 – 10 Dec 2017

with Bruce Nauman, Lorna Simpson
Alchemy: Transformations in Gold

Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines (US)
11 Feb 2017 – 5 May 2017

with Dorothy Cross, Lalla Essaydi, Luis Gispert, Laurent Grasso, Hank Willis Thomas
VERSUS

La sfida dell'artista al suo modello in un secolo di fotografia e disegno

FMAV - Palazzo, Modena (IT)
16 Sep 2016 – 5 Feb 2017

with Claudio Abate, Vito Acconci, Vincenzo Agnetti, Alighiero e Boetti, Adriano Altamira, Stefano Arienti, Eugene Atget, Olivo Barbieri, Gabriele Basilico, Joseph Beuys, Irma Blank, John Bock …
Mind Over Matter: Conceptual Art from the Collection

Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley (US)
19 Oct 2016 – 23 Dec 2016

with Vito Acconci, Ant Farm, Eleanor Antin, John Baldessari, Lynda Benglis, Chris Burden, Jan Dibbets, Robert Filliou, Hamish Fulton, Dan Graham, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Lynn Hershman …
The Venice Biennale - 55th International Art Exhibition

The Encyclopedic Palace

The Venice Biennale, Venezia (IT)
1 Jun 2013 – 24 Nov 2013

with Kasper Akhoj, Victor Alimpiev, Yuri Ancarani, Uri Aran, Ed Atkins, Nikolay Bakharev, Morton Bartlett, Hans Bellmer, Neil Beloufa, John Bock, Roberto Cuoghi, Enrico David …
He disappeared into complete silence: rereading a single artwork by Louise Bourgeois

HAL - Frans Hals Museum, Haarlem (NL)
23 Sep 2011 – 4 Dec 2011

with Sven Augustijnen, Robert Barry, Zarina Bhimji, Roni Horn, Mike Kelley, Zoe Leonard, Paul McCarthy
Yokohama Triennale 2011

Our Magic Hour: How Much of the World Can We Know?

Yokohama Triennale, Yokohama (JP)
6 Aug 2011 – 6 Nov 2011

with Nobuyoshi Araki, Mircea Cantor, Björn Dahlem, Aurelien Froment, Ryan Gander, Henrik Hakansson, Manabu Ikeda, Naoto Kobayashi, Joachim Koester, Sigalit Landau, Man Ray , Jun Nguyen-Hatsushiba …
An Imaginary Party

Luis Adelantado Valencia, Valencia (ES)
20 Jul 2011 – 16 Sep 2011

with Elena Blasco, Pedro Cabrita Reis, Carmen Calvo, Susy Gómez, Luis Gordillo, Jordi Mitjá, Priscilla Monge, Miquel Navarro, José Noguero, Marco Papa, Javier Penafiel, Valeska Soares …
Deutsch

Galerie Crone, Berlin (DE)
2 Jul 2011 – 30 Aug 2011

with Bernd & Hilla Becher, Helmut Newton, Marcel Odenbach, Rosemarie Trockel
Gwangju Biennale 2010 - 10,000 Lives

The Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju (KR)
3 Sep 2010 – 7 Nov 2010

with Pawel Althamer, Anna Artaker, Tauba Auerbach, Morton Bartlett, Hans Bellmer, Ernest James Bellocq, Nayland Blake, Irina Botea, Duncan Campbell, Jacques Charlier, Anne Collier, Roberto Cuoghi …

Events

Gallery Weekend Berlin 2019

Gallery Weekend Berlin, Berlin (DE)
26 Apr 2019 – 28 Apr 2019

with Andrea Robbins & Max Becher, Julian Charriere, Clegg & Guttmann , Fischli & Weiss, Robert Frank, Ryan Gander, Axel Huette, Camille Henrot, Clemens Krauss, Saul Leiter, Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven