Tony Cokes

*1956 / United States

Solo exhibitions

Let Yourself Be Free

Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz (LI)
26 Sep 2025 – 1 Mar 2026
Fragments, or just Moments

Haus der Kunst, München (DE)
10 Jun 2022 – 23 Oct 2022
Fragments, or just Moments

Kunstverein München, München (DE)
11 Jun 2022 – 2 Sep 2022
If UR Reading This It's 2 Late, Vol. 3

Argos - Centre for Art & Media, Brussels (BE)
3 Oct 2020 – 20 Dec 2020
If UR Reading This It’s 2 Late: Vol I

Goldsmiths CCA, London (GB)
29 Sep 2019 – 12 Jan 2020
Evil, Mediation, and Power

Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen (NO)
24 Aug 2018 – 28 Oct 2018

Group

SOCIAL UNREST

Matta Gallery, Milano (IT)
13 Apr 2026 – 12 Sep 2026

with Hannah Black, Satoshi Fujiwara, Tiffany Sia
Superglue, or Inventing the Friend

Contemporary Art Centre (CAC) , Vilnius (LT)
30 Apr 2026 – 6 Sep 2026

with Noor Abed, Arvida Bystroem, Dorota Gaweda and Egle Kulbokaite, Milda Drazdauskaite, Kris Lemsalu, Goda Palekaite, Karol Radziszewski, Arturas Raila, Egle Rakauskaite, Virgilijus Sonta, Antanas Sutkus
Homage: Queer lineages on video

Columbia Uni - Wallach, New York (US)
27 Jun 2025 – 19 Oct 2025

with Dineo Seshee Bopape, Carolyn Lazard, Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Docs: Images and Records

Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2025

Museum of Photography, Tokyo (JP)
31 Jan 2025 – 16 Feb 2025

with Julia Margaret Cameron, Priyageetha Dia, William Henry Fox Talbot, Masaki Fujihata, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Kawita Vatanajyankur, Andy Warhol, Apichatpong Weerasethakul
A Model

Mudam Luxembourg, Luxembourg (LU)
9 Feb 2024 – 8 Sep 2024

with Sophia Al-Maria, Nina Beier, Tomaso Binga, Andrea Bowers, Ali Cherri, General Idea, Isaac Julien, Renzo Martens, Melvin Moti, Walid Raad (The Atlas Group), Krista Belle Stewart, Superflex (Jakob Fenger, Rasmus Nielsen, Bjørnstjerne Christiansen) …
Rewilding

Eröffnungsausstellung des neuen Kunsthaus Baselland

Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz (CH)
13 Apr 2024 – 18 Aug 2024

with Monira Al Qadiri, Andrea Bowers, Renate Buser, Rochelle Feinstein, Simone Forti, Gabrielle Goliath, Joan Jonas, Daniela Keiser, Anna Maria Maiolino, Alexandra Navratil, Pipilotti Rist, Anna Winteler
TECHNO WORLDS

Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden (DE)
5 May 2024 – 28 Jul 2024

with Aleksandra Domanovic, Loretta Fahrenholz, Ryoji Ikeda, Maryam Jafri, Robert Lippok, M+M (Marc Weis + Martin De Mattia), Vinca Petersen, Daniel Pflumm, Sarah Ancelle Schönfeld, Jeremy Shaw, The Otolith Group (Kodwo Eshun, Anjalika Sagar), Tobias Zielony
The Irreplaceable Human

Conditions of Creativity in the Age of AI

Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek (DK)
23 Nov 2023 – 1 Apr 2024

with Andrea Buettner, Trisha Baga, Bertille Bak, Ian Cheng, Tacita Dean, Jeremy Deller, Agnes Denes, Simon Denny, Rineke Dijkstra, Ryan Gander, Andreas Gursky, Josh Kline …
TECHNO WORLDS / THE PULSE OF TECHNO

Techno Culture in two exhibitions at Photobastei

Photobastei, Zürich (CH)
11 Jan 2024 – 31 Mar 2024

with Ryoji Ikeda, Tom Kawara, Robert Lippok, Hitori Ni, Carsten Nicolai, Rita Palanikumar, Vinca Petersen, Daniel Pflumm, Sarah Ancelle Schönfeld, Jeremy Shaw, Jules Spinatsch, The Otolith Group (Kodwo Eshun, Anjalika Sagar) …
Full Burn

Video from the Hammer Contemporary Collection

UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (US)
11 Mar 2023 – 10 Sep 2023

with ZHENG Bo, Alex Da Corte, Zackary Drucker, Rhys Ernst, Mario Garcia Torres, Jesper Just, Stanya Kahn, Tala Madani, Joiri Minaya, Michele O’Marah, James Richards, Frances Stark …
Shift: Music, Meaning, Context

MoCP Contemporary Photo, Chicago (US)
10 Apr 2023 – 6 Aug 2023

with Bani Abidi, Lawrence Abu Hamdan, Jeremy Deller, Hassan Hajjaj, Sven Johne, Andre Luetzen, Cecil McDonald Jr., Taryn Simon
Signals

How Video Transformed the World

MoMA Museum Modern Art, New York (US)
5 Mar 2023 – 8 Jul 2023

with John Akomfrah, Gretchen Bender, Dara Birnbaum, Emily Jacir, Amar Kanwar, Nam June Paik, Sondra Perry, Martine Syms, Sara VanDerBeek, Ming Wong
Is it morning for you yet?

58th Carnegie International

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (US)
24 Sep 2022 – 2 Apr 2023

with Banu Cennetoglu, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Aziz Hazara, Susan Meiselas, Carlos Motta, Vandy Rattana, Krista Belle Stewart, Hiromi Tsuchida
Whitney Biennial 2022

Quiet as It’s Kept

Whitney Museum Art, New York (US)
6 Apr 2022 – 5 Sep 2022

with Harold Ancart, Yto Barrada, Rebecca Belmore, Nayland Blake, Jacky Connolly, Matthew Connors, Alex Da Corte, Danielle Dean, Jane Dickson, Buck Ellison, Alia Farid, Coco Fusco …
Family Album

Dannielle Bowman, Janna Ireland and Contemporary Works from LACMA

LACMA Museum, Los Angeles (US)
27 Nov 2021 – 30 Jul 2022

with Dannielle Bowman, Mark Bradford, Micaiah Carter, LaToya Ruby Frazier, Genevieve Gaignard, Leslie Hewitt, Janna Ireland, Deana Lawson, Tyler Mitchell, Zora J Murff
Black Celebration (A Rebellion against the Commodity), 1988 // History and Memory: For Akiko and Takashige, 1991

I’d hammer out danger, I’d hammer out a warning

FotoFest, Houston (US)
15 Apr 2022 – 21 Apr 2022

with Rea Tajiri
Theater of Operations

The Gulf Wars 1991–2011

MoMA PS1, New York (US)
3 Nov 2019 – 1 Mar 2020

with Monira Al Qadiri, Tarek Al-Ghoussein, Miguel Angel Rios, Michel Auder, Dara Birnbaum, Paul Chan, Phil Collins, Alia Farid, Harun Farocki, Guerrilla Girls, Richard Hamilton, Hiwa K …
Museum

MMK Museum, Frankfurt (Main) (DE)
17 Aug 2019 – 16 Feb 2020

with A.K. Burns, Tony Conrad, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Fischli & Weiss, Parastou Forouhar, Ryan Gander, Gilbert & George, Anne Imhof, Bruce Nauman, Roman Opalka, Adrian Piper, Jeff Wall
Museum

MMK Zollamt, Frankfurt (Main) (DE)
17 Aug 2019 – 16 Feb 2020

with A.K. Burns, Tony Conrad, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Fischli & Weiss, Parastou Forouhar, Ryan Gander, Gilbert & George, Oliver Laric, LI Liao, Bruce Nauman, Roman Opalka, Adrian Piper …
Clipping the Din (1)

CURATED BY DANIEL BAUMANN, KATHRIN BENTELE AND MATTHEW HANSON

Krinzinger Projekte, Wien (AT)
13 Sep 2019 – 12 Oct 2019

with Gretchen Bender, Dara Birnbaum
Celebration of Our Enemies

Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection

UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (US)
9 Jun 2019 – 8 Sep 2019

with Klara Liden, Sondra Perry, Martine Syms, Christopher Williams
Double Takes: Historic and Contemporary Film + Video

MOCA Cleveland, Cleveland (US)
19 Oct 2018 – 11 Aug 2019

with Lynda Benglis, Dara Birnbaum, Elena Damiani, Harun Farocki, Simone Forti, Adelita Husni-Bey, Paul Kos, Cinthia Marcelle, Christian Marclay, Rabih Mroue, Bruce Nauman, Martha Rosler …
Hate Speech

Aggression und Intimität

Künstlerhaus Graz, Graz (AT)
2 Feb 2019 – 18 Apr 2019

with Candice Breitz, Ryan Gander, Signe Pierce, Jim Shaw, Amalia Ulman, Martha Wilson
Signal or Noise | The Photographic II

S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum, Gent (BE)
10 Nov 2018 – 10 Feb 2019

with Forensic Architecture, Lynn Hershman, David Horvitz, Louise Lawler, Sharon Lockhart, Hana Miletic, Jean-Luc Moulene, Sondra Perry, Marina Pinsky, Seth Price, R.H. Quaytman, Thomas Ruff
RENCONTRES INTERNATIONALES PARIS/BERLIN/MADRID

NEW CINEMA AND CONTEMPORARY ART

Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (DE)
25 Jun 2013 – 30 Jun 2013

with Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Rosa Barba, Francois Bucher, Daya Cahen, Clement Cogitore, Peter Downsbrough, Redmond Entwistle, Johan Grimonprez, Crispin Gurholt, John Menick, Tejal Shah, Sarah Vanagt …
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin/Madrid

Nouveau Cinema & Art Contemporain

Centre Pompidou
30 Nov 2012 – 8 Dec 2012

with Anna Ådahl, Yang Ah Ham, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Arne Bunk, Pedro Costa, Steven Day, Eléonore de Montesquiou, Johanna Domke, Alain Fleischer, Marianne Flotron, Johan Grimonprez, Burkhard von Harder …
Exchange and Evolution: Worldwide Video Long Beach 1974-1999

Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach (US)
7 Oct 2011 – 12 Feb 2012

with Robert Cahen, General Idea, Gary Hill, Nan Hoover, Mako Idemitsu, Sanja Ivekovic, Joan Jonas, Thierry Kuntzel, Marina Abramovic/Ulay, Bjoern Melhus, Antoni Muntadas, Marcel Odenbach …
38th International Film Festival Rotterdam

InternationalFilm Festival Rotterdam IFF, Rotterdam (NL)
21 Jan 2009 – 1 Feb 2009

with Chantal Akerman, Roy Arden, Rosa Barba, Neil Beloufa, Sebastian Buerkner, Miguel Calderon, Seoungho Cho, Martha Colburn, Bruce Conner, Jef Cornelis, Keren Cytter, Manon de Boer …
Stunt - videos

HAM Helsinki Art Museum, Helsinki (FI)
12 Feb 2003 – 27 Apr 2003

with Ville Heinonen, Miranda July, Kristin Lucas, Paul McCarthy, Pekka Niskanen
14th World Wide Video Festival

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam (NL)
26 Apr 1996 – 30 Apr 1996

with Anna Anders, Phyllis Baldino, George Barber, Zoe Beloff, Birgit Johnsen & Hanne Nielsen, Kjell Bjørgeengen, Andy Cameron, Shu Lea Cheang, Seoungho Cho, Marcel Dinahet, James Duesing, Merilyn Fairskye …

Events

Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2025

TOP 30th Anniversary: Docs: Images and Records

Museum of Photography, Tokyo (JP)
31 Jan 2025 – 16 Feb 2025

with Julia Margaret Cameron, Priyageetha Dia, William Henry Fox Talbot, Masaki Fujihata, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Kawita Vatanajyankur, Andy Warhol, Apichatpong Weerasethakul
The 10th Berlin Biennale for Contemporary Art

We don't need another hero / Mediation / (Ver-)Mittlung

Berlin Biennale, Berlin (DE)
9 Jun 2018 – 9 Sep 2018

with Heba Y. Amin, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Agnieszka Brzezanska, Mimi Cherono Ng Ok, Sara Haq, Liz Johnson Artur, Grada Kilomba, Basir Mahmood, Cinthia Marcelle, Ana Mendieta, Sondra Perry, Mario Pfeifer …
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Rencontres , Paris (FR)
30 Nov 2012 – 8 Dec 2012

with Anna Ådahl, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Rosa Barba, Ansuya Blom, Max de Esteban, Alain Fleischer, Johan Grimonprez, Hámos Gusztáv, Aurelia Mihai, Katja Pratschke, Tejal Shah, Phillip Warnell …
Optic Nerve 15

Video Festival

Museum of Contemporary , Miami (US)

with Uri Aran, Hámos Gusztáv, Mores McWreath, Katja Pratschke, Jon Rafman