Exhibitions Curated
1964 POP ART: AN ART HISTORICAL APPROACH, Columbia University, NY. Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Andy Warhol, Tom Wesselmann. A symposium on Pop Art at 8 p.m. Saturday, April 25, 1964, Horace Mann Auditorium, Columbia University. Moderated by Professor Meyer Schapiro with Lawrence Alloway, William Rubin, and Alan Solomon. No Catalogue.
1964 ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany, September 12 – October 18. Exhibition included 60 works, 26 paintings and 34 Dante Drawings. Catalogue. 20 pages, 12-5/8” X 9-5/8”. Introductory essay Robert Rauschenberg and the Objekt, by Willoughby Sharp. In English and German.
1966 KINETICISM, American Abstract Artists, NY. One day exhibition. Yaakov Agam, Pol Bury, Davide Boriani, Martha Boto, Alexander Calder, Hans Haacke, Julio Le Parc, Heinz Mack, Otto Piene, Jesus Rafael Soto, Takis, Jean Tinguely, Gunther Uecker. One day show. Catalogue. 6 pages, 8-1/4” X 5-7/8”, illustrated, with text, "Kineticism" by Willoughby Sharp.
1966 GUNTHER UECKER, Alfred Schmela Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany, September 9 – 29. Catalogue. 6 pages, 8-1/4” X 5-7/8”, illustrated, with text by Willoughby Sharp.
1966 GUNTHER UECKER, Howard Wise Gallery, NY, November 1–19. Catalogue. 16 pages, 9-11/16” X 6-5/8” illustrated, with essay "Uecker, Zero and the Kinetic Spirit" by Willoughby Sharp.
1966 KINETIC AND PROGRAMMED ART, November 25-December 4, 1966. Rhode Island School of Design, Museum of Art, Providence. Davide Boriani, Robert Breer, Hans Haacke, Joe Jones, Len Lye, Julio Le Parc, Sheldon Machlin, Nam June Paik, Otto Piene, George Rickey, Thomas Tadlock, Takis Vassilakis. 3-panel catalogue brochure.
1967 SLOW-MOTION, Rutgers University, NJ. Curated by Willoughby Sharp at the invitation of John Goodyear. Artists included:Antonio Asis, Davide Boriani, Robert Breer, Pol Bury, Alexander Calder, Gianni Colombo, Marcel Duchamp, Hans Haacke, Heinz Mack, Bruno Munari, George Rickey, Marcello Salvadori, Keith Sonnier, Jesus-Rafael Soto, Man Ray, Takis, Jean Tinguely, Gunther Uecker, USCO, John Van Saun, Gabriele de Vecchi. Catalogue. 6 pages, 8-1/4” X 5-7/8”, illustrated, with text "Kineticism and Slow-Motion" by Willoughby Sharp.
1967 LIGHT–MOTION-SPACE, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN. and the Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, WI. Stephen Antonakis, Ben Berns, Davide Boriani, Martha Boto, Chryssa, John Goodyear, Julio Le Parc, Heinz Mack, Preston McClanahan, Boyd Mefferd, Nam June Paik, Abraham Palatnick, Otto Piene, Martial Raysse, Thomas Tadlock, Takis, Gunther Uecker, John Van Saun, Gilles Larrain, others. Catalogue. 20 pages, 8” X 7-1/2”, illustrated with design and text "Luminism: Notes Toward an Understanding Of Light Art" by Willoughby Sharp.
1967 LUMINISM, The Artists Club, NY. One day exhibition. Stephen Antonakis, Bernard Aubertin, Ben Berns, Dan Flavin, Horacio Garcia-Rossi, John Goodyear, Richard Hogle, Hoppe, Lila Katzen, Gilles Larrain, Julio Le Parc, Heinz Mack, Preston McClanahan, Nam June Paik, Abraham Palatnick, Leo Rabkin, Marcello Salvadori, Takis, Gunther Uecker, USCO, John Van Saun, Williams, Zerlo. Catalogue. 6 pages, 8-1/4” X 5-7/8”, illustrated, with design and text by Willoughby Sharp. Published by Kineticism Press.
1967 KINETIC ENVIRONMENTS ONE & TWO, Central Park, NY. Hans Haacke, Richard Hogle, Gilles Larrain, Preston McClanahan, Charles Ross, Willoughby Sharp, John Van Saun. Kinetic Environment One, one day in April Kinetic Environment Two, one day in September
No catalogue.
1968 KINETICISM: SYSTEMS SCULPTURE IN ENVIRONMENTAL SITUATIONS (Official Olympic Games Exhibition), University Museum of Arts and Science, Mexico City, Mexico. Yaakov Agam, Hans Breder, Lucio Fontana, Hans Haacke, Julio Le Parc, Les Levine, Len Lye, Heinz Mack, Preston McClanahan, David Medalla, Robert Morris, Otto Piene, Jesus Rafael Soto, Takis, Jean Tinguely, Gunther Uecker, John Van Saun, Robert Whitman. Catalogue. 60 pages, 8-5/8” X 9-5/8”, illustrated with design and text by Willoughby Sharp.
1968-1969 AIR ART, Arts Council, YM/YWHA, Philadelphia, PA (March 13 – 31, 1968); Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH (April 25 – May 19, 1968); Lakeview Center for the Arts and Sciences, Peoria, Illinois (June 7 – 28, 1968); University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA (January 13 – February 16, 1969); Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH (February 25 – March 18, 1969) Hans Haacke, Kanayama, Les Levine, Preston McClanahan, David Medalla, Robert Morris, Marcello Salvadori, Graham Stevens, John Van Saun, Andy Warhol. Catalogue. 40 pages, 8” X 8”. Design and production by Preston McClanahan and Willoughby Sharp. Text, "Air Art", by Willoughby Sharp. Published by Kineticism Press.
1969 EARTH ART, Willoughby Sharp, at the invitation of Tom Leavitt, curated "Earth Art" at the Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Artists in the exhibition included Walter De Maria, Jan Dibbets, Hans Haacke, Michael Heizer, Neil Jenney, Richard Long, David Medalla, Robert Morris, Dennis Oppenheim, Robert Smithson, Gunther Uecker. Catalogue. 96 pages. Approx. 5” X 9”, illustrated. "Earth Art" published in 1970 with an introductory essay by Willoughby Sharp. Avalanche 1 was devoted to "Earth Art." (Also 6,000 feet of B/W silent film of each of the artists making their works at Ithaca, commissioned by Willoughby Sharp). Gordon Matta-Clark, who lived in Ithaca at the time, was invited by Willoughby Sharp to help the artists in "Earth Art" with the on-site execution of their works for the exhibition. Sharp then encouraged Matta-Clark to move to New York City where Sharp continued to introduce him to members of the New York art world.
1969 PLACE & PROCESS, The Edmonton Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada. Ian Baxter, Jan Dibbets, Hans Haacke, Bruce McLean, Les Levine, Richard Long, Robert Morris, Dennis Oppenheim, Klaus Rinke, John Van Saun, William Wegmen, Lawrence Weiner. No catalogue. 30 minute 16mm color/sound film, Place & Process, directed by Willoughby Sharp and Evander Schley and cinematography by Robert Fiori. Shown on Canadian National Television, CBC.
1970 BODY WORKS an exhibition of Video art with works by Vito Acconci, Terry Fox, Richard Serra, Keith Sonnier, Dennis Oppenheim and William Wegman which was presented at Tom Marioni's Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco, California.
1970 THIS IS YOUR ROOF exhibition is presented at the international art festival held in Pamplona, Spain. Willoughby Sharp produces a series of videos, mainly documentaries on the activities of New York artists, for the same event.
1971 PROJECTS: PIER 18, The Museum of Modern Art, NY. June, 1971. Vito Acconci, David Askevold, John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Bill Beckley, Mel Bochner, Daniel Buren, Jan Dibbets, Terry Fox, Dan Graham, Douglas Huebler, Lee Jaffe, Richards Jarden, Gordon Matta-Clark, Mario Merz, Robert Morris, Dennis Oppenheim, Allen Ruppersberg, Italo Scanga, Richard Serra, Michael Snow, Keith Sonnier, Wolfgang Stoerchle, George Trakas, John Van Saun, William Wegman, Lawrence Weiner. Approximately 600 photographs were exhibited. No catalogue at the exhibition. Photographs of the exhibition by Harry Shunk and Jean Kender were subsequently shown at the Musee d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice which published a catalogue, 164 pages .10-5/8” X 9”.
1971 Vito Acconci,Claim, 93 Grand Street, NY, September 10, 1971. A four-hour closed-circuit live video performance.
1971 William Beckley, bird (nightingale) on see saw, September 17, 18 and 19, 93 Grand Street, 8 until midnight. An installation with video and bird.
1971 William Wegman, Bobbing for Twins/Bobbing for Apples, 93 Grand Street, New York, NY. Live video performance/video tape
1971 Terry Fox, Yeast, 93 Grand Street, NY, October 1, 1971. Videotaped performance.
1973 JOSEPH BEUYS, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Inc., NY. Beuys’ first show in the U.S. No catalogue. The show consisted of a video program,"Willoughby Sharp Videoviews Joseph Beuys."
1973 AVALANCHE DIE ENTWICKLUNG EINER AVANTGARDE-ZEITSCHRIFT, Cologne Kunstverein, March 23 to April 23: Hanover Kunstverein, May 27 – July 22; Munster Kunstverein, Fall 1973; Frankfurt Kunstverein, Fall 1973. No catalogue.
1974 VIDEOPERFORMANCE, 112 Greene Street, Gallery, NY. Vito Acconci, Joseph Beuys, Chris Burden, Dennis Oppenheim, Ulrike Rosenbach, Richard Serra, Willoughby Sharp, Keith Sonnier, William Wegman. Avalanche magazine Issue Number 9 serves as a catalogue for this exhibition.
1979-1980 Joseph Beuys, Guggenheim Retrospective. Willoughby Sharp, Curator, video and film. Catalogue.
1984 Joseph Nechvatal, Machine Language Book by Willoughby Sharp, 74 pages
1988 Lawrence Weiner, Fine Arts Center, University of Rhode Island, Kingston Rhode Island. No catalogue.
1989 Joan Jonas, Fine Arts Center, University of Rhode Island, Kingston Rhode Island. No catalogue.
1990 MICROSCULPTURE, Fine Arts Center, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island. Catalogue. 40 pages. Illustrated, black and white. Introductory text by Willoughby Sharp
1990 Adrian Piper, Fine Arts Center, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island. No catalogue.
2001 CUANDO, Alan Scarritt, Duff Schweninger, Ben Knight, Tom Warren, et al. catalogue.
2003 POLARITIES, The Lobby Gallery, 1155 Avenue of the Americas, NY, February 20-March 24.John Ahearn, Claudia Vargas, Jene Highstein, Joan Jonas, Nancy Lorenz, Marisol, Joseph Nechvatal, Michele Oka Doner, Dennis Oppenheim, Tom Otterness, Alan Scarritt, Duff Schweninger, Keith Sonnier, John Torreano, Tom Warren, Lawrence Weiner. Brochure catalogue.
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