Biography

1945
Born in Montreal

2003
Died in Los Angeles

Education

1970-1972
MFA, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia

1966-1969
BFA, Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles

Solo Exhibitions

2019
“Selectric Works”, Metro Pictures, New York

2017

Mamco, Geneva
Venus Over Manhattan, New York
“Selected Works”, Meliksetian | Briggs, Los Angeles

2015
“Early Paintings 1979-1983”, 1301PE, Los Angeles

           
2013
“Où est Jack Goldstein?”, Galerie Perrotin, Paris
“10000x Jack Goldstein”, The Jewish Museum, New York

2012
 “10000x Jack Goldstein”, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach

2010
“Sound Pieces”, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin

2009
Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (catalogue)
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Berlin

2008
Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York

2005
“Jack Goldstein Paintings: 1980-1985”, Metro Pictures, New York
“Paintings and Films”, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York

2004
“Under Water Sea Fantasy”, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne / Presentation House Gallery, North Vancouver (catalogue)

2003
“Jack Goldstein 1945-2003”, (film screening), Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg
“Jack Goldstein - Early Paintings 1979-1983”, 1301PE, Los Angeles

2002
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
“Jack Goldstein - Paintings from the 1980s”, Luckman Gallery, Los Angeles
Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg
Le Magasin, Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble (catalogue)

2001
“Jack Goldstein - Films, Records and Performance Documentation from 1974-1985”, 1301 PE, Los Angeles
“Jack Goldstein - An installation of films from the Artist (1974-1978)” Künstlerhaus, Stuttgart
“Jack Goldstein - Films 1974-1978”, Cubitt, London

2000
“Jack Goldstein - Filme, Schallplatten und Bilder aus den Jahren 1974-1992”, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne

1999
Kienzle & Gmeiner, Berlin
“Artist Once Removed: On the Performances, Records, Films and Paintings by Artist Jack Goldstein”, Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart

1993
S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto

1991
“Jack Goldstein”, Retrospective Exhibition, Mendel Art Gallery and Civic Conservatory, Saskatoon (catalogue)
Alberta College of Art Gallery, Calgary
Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina
The Power Plant, Toronto
Asher / Faure Gallery, Los Angeles
Galerie du Genie, Paris (catalogue)

1990
John Weber Gallery, New York

1989
Atrium Gallery Ltd., Hasselt
Sandra Simpson Gallery, Toronto
Simon Salama Caro Gallery, London (catalogue)
Asher / Faure Gallery, Los Angeles

1988
“Dike Blair - Works from 1981 to 1987, Jack Goldstein - New Paintings” Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati
John Weber Gallery, New York
“Recent Paintings” Asher / Faure Gallery, Los Angeles
Fruitmarket Gallery, (in occasion of the Edinburgh Arts Festival), Edinburgh (catalogue)

1987
“Jack Goldstein - Recent Work 1986-1987”, John Weber Gallery, New York (catalogue)
Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati
Dart Gallery, Chicago
Josh Baer Gallery, New York

1986
“Jack Goldstein - New York” Metro Pictures Gallery, New York
Josh Baer Gallery, New York
Dart Gallery, Chicago

1985
“Feuer / Körper / Licht”, Städtische Galerie Erlangen / Kunstverein Ingolstadt (catalogue)
Metro Pictures, New York
“Jack Goldstein - Paintings”, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati
Dart Gallery, Chicago

1984
Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago
“Spectacolor”, Times Square, New York
Vered Gallery, East Hampton, Long Island
Cash / Newhouse Gallery, New York

1983
Schellmann und Klüser Galerie, Munich
Museum van Hedendaagse Kunsten, Ghent
White Columns Gallery, New York
Lisson Gallery, London
Metro Pictures, New York

1982
Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles
Galerie Albert Baronian, Brussels

1981
Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva
Metro Pictures, New York

1980
The Kitchen, New York
Metro Pictures, New York

1979
Foundation for Art Resources, Los Angeles
The Groningen Museum, Groningen

1978
The Kitchen, New York
Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo (catalogue)

1977
Centre d’Art Contemporain, (performance), Geneva
“Two Fencers” (installation and performance), The Kitchen, New York

1976
Artists Space, New York (catalogue)
Kabinett für Aktuelle Kunst, Bremerhaven

1974
Galleria Francoise Lambert, Milan

1972
California Institute of the Arts, (performance), Valencia
Rico Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles
O.K. Harris New York
Project Inc., (performance), Boston

1971
Pomona College of Art Gallery, Montgomery Art Center, Claremont (catalogue)
Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London

Group Exhibitions 

2022

“Recent Acquisitions 2002-2022”, The Modern Art Museum of Fort Morth, Fort Morth
“Untitled (hands)”, Carriage Trade, New York
“Flanagan’s wake”, Kristina Kite Gallery, Los Angeles
“Pattern Recognition. Revisiting the Municipal Collection Erlangen”, Kunstpalais Erlangen, Erlangen

2021
“THE 80S. ART OF THE EIGHTIES”, Albertina Modern, Vienna

2017
“Cosmic Communities: Coming Out Into Outer Space - Homofuturism, Applied Psychedelia & Magic Connectivity”, Galerie Buchholz, New York
Galerie Buchholz, Berlin

2015
“Le Souffleur. Schürmann trifft Ludwig”, curated by Wilhelm Schürmann, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen

2009
“Quodlibet II”, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
“The Picture Generation 1974-1984”, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (catalogue)
“Sonic Youth etc.: Sensational Fix”, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf / Kunst im Tunnel, Düsseldorf
“See This Sound”, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria
“Images et (re)presentations”, Le Magasin, Centre d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble
“Summer Exhibition”, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York

2008
“Sonic Youth etc.: Sensational Fix”, Museion Bozen / Bolzano
“Approximately Infinite Universe” New Jerseyy, Basle
“Im Licht milder Verklärung”, Galerie Kienzle & Gmeiner, Berlin
“Kavalierstart”, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen
“Not So Subtle Subtitles”, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York
“Now and Forever, Part II”, Matthew Marks Gallery / Greene Naftali Gallery, New York
“Made in Munich”, Haus der Kunst, Munich
“Construction”, 1301PE, Los Angeles
“Beautiful People”, Centre d’Arte la Panera, Lleida
“Helmut Draxler: Shanyismus… “, Kunsthaus, Dresden
“Von Bill Viola bis Aermoout Mik”, Hamberger Bahnhof, Berlin
“Blasted Allegories Werke aus der Sammlung Ringier”, Kunstmuseum, Luzern

2007
“Uneasy Angel / Imagine Los Angeles”, Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, Munich “Shandyismus - Autorschaft als Genre - Ausstellungsgespräch”, Wiener Secession, Vienna
“The California File: Re-Viewing Side Effects of Cultural Memory”, Watts Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco
“Marie Jager: The Purple Cloud and other stories”, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
“Kilo. Eine kurze Geschichte der Kunst in Euramerika nach 1945”, ZKM, Karlsruhe
“Beautiful People”, Crac Alsace, Altkirch
“Shandyismus-Autorschaft als Genre”, Wiener Secession, Vienna
“Aspects, Forms and Figures”, Bellweather Gallery, New York
“Realife 1979-1990”, Aritsts Space, New York
“The Downtown Show”, Austin Museum of Art, Austin

2006
“Super Vision”, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
“Los Angeles 1955-1985”, Centre Pompidou, Paris
“The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene, 1974-1984”, Gray Art Gallery, New York / Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
“Art Metropole Collection”, The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
“Spiralen der Erinnerung”, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg
Eldorardo Musee d”art Moderne, Grand-Duc Jean, Louxemburg
“Galerie Daniel Buchholz at Metro Pictures”, Metro Pictures Gallery, New York
“Flashback: Revisiting the art of the 80’s”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Basel

2005
“Re: Modern 1”, (film screening curated by Florian Pumhösl), Filmmuseum, Vienna
“Elements of Nature”, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
“100 Artists See God”, Contemporary Art Center of Virginia / ICA, London
“Tear Down This Wall”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

2004
“.ipeg - bild.ton.maschine”, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin
Whitney Biennale, Whitney Museum of Ameriecan Art, New York
“The Big Nothing”, The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia

2003
“MACBA Collection”, Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona
“Fate of Alien Modes”, Wiener Secession, Vienna
MJC Terre Neuve, Dunkerque
“American Dream: A Survey”, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York

2002
Sammlung Schürmann, K21 Kunstsammlung im Ständehaus, Düsseldorf

2001
“Timewave Zero - The Politics of Ecstasy”, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz
“Andy Warhol & Sound and Vision”, ICA, London (catalogue)
“Pictures at an Exhibition”, Artist’s Space, New York
“Museum unserer Wünsche”, Museum Ludwig, Cologne (catalogue)
“The Unlimited Dream Company”, L’elac, Lausanne

1998
“Size Matters”, Patricia Faure Gallery, Los Angeles

1996
“860m2”, Magasin, Centre National d’art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble

1995
“Twenty Years of Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center 1975-1995”, Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Buffalo State College, Buffalo

1994
“Light”, Artprop, New York
“Media Visions in Contemporary Art: Selections from the Weatherspoon Collection”, Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro

1991
“Sound by Artists”, Notes on the Phonograph Records by Jack Goldstein, Sydney
“Drawings by Artists”, Josh Baer Gallery, New York
“Anni Ottanta Artisti à New York”, Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Trento (catalogue)

1990
“World Image”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
“Landscape”, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown Branch, New York
“Not Painting”, S. Bitter Larkin Gallery, New York (catalogue)
“Toward a History of the Found Object”, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon (catalogue)
Asher / Faure Gallery, Los Angeles
“A Light in the Landscape”, Scott Hanson Gallery, New York
Dart Gallery, Chicago
“Technical Abstraction”, Wright University Art Gallery, Dayton (catalogue)
Kryger / Landau Gallery, Los Angeles
“Collapsing Light”, Laurie Rubin Gallery, New York
“Artists of the 80’s: Selected Works from the Maslow Collection”, Sardoni Gallery, Wilkes College, Pennsylvania (catalogue)
“Landscape”, S.L.Simpson Gallery, Toronto
“V.I.P. (video-image(s)-peinture)”, Galerie du Genie, Paris

1989
“A Forest of Signs”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (catalogue)
“Unstable Universe”, Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles
“d.i.s.c.o.t.h.è.q.u.e.: expériences sonores d’artistes”, Maison du Livre, de l’Image et du Son, Ville de Villeurbanne (catalogue)
“Diagrams and Surrogates”, Shee and Becker Gallery, New York (catalogue)

1988
“Computers and Art”, IBM Gallery, New York
John Weber Gallery, New York
“John Weber Gallery Artists at The Fay Gold Gallery”, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta
“Appropriated Images”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
“The Drawing Show”, Cable Gallery, New York
“Painting and Photography”, Milford Gallery, New York
“Altered States”, Kent Gallery, New York

1987
“Physics”, Piezo Electric Gallery, New York
“Monsters: The Phenomena of Dispassion”, Barbara Toll Gallery, New York
“A different Corner/Definition and Redefinition/Painting in America”, First Ecuador Painting Biennial, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cuenca (catalogue)
“L’Epoque, La Mode, La Morale, La Passion”, Musée National d´Art Contemporain Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
“The New Romantic Landscape”, The Whitney Museum of American Art, Fairfield County, Connecticut
“Material Fictions”, 49th Parallel, Canadian Center for Contemporary Art, New York
“The Errant Sign”, Milford Gallery, New York
“Computer Assisted: The Computer in Contemporary Art”, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading
“CalArts: Sceptical Beliefs”, The Renaissance Society, Chicago, and Newport Harbor Art Museum
“Art against AIDS”, Wolff Gallery New York
“Documenta 8”, Kassel (catalogue)

1986
“Artists Photographs”, Palazzo Venezia, Rome
“Artists Films”, White Columns Gallery, New York
“Prospect 86/Eine Internationale Ausstellung aktueller Kunst”, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
“Landscape in the Age of Anxiety”, Lehan College Art Gallery, The City University of New York, New York (catalogue)
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland
“Benefit for the Kitchen”, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York
“Hot and Cold”, Simon Cergio Gallery, New York
“Signs of Painting”, Metro Pictures, New York
“Summer Group Exhibition”, Metro Pictures, New York
Dart Gallery, Chicago
“Film Artists”, The School of Visusual Arts, New York
“An American Renaissance in Art: Painting and sculpture since 1940”, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale

1985
“1985 Biennial”, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
“Rounding Out the Usual Suspects”, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta
“Summer Selection”, Castelli Gallery, New York
“Group Exhibition”, Metro Pictures, New York
“Selected Works”, Metro Pictures, New York
Jack Shinman Gallery, Washington DC
“Anni ottanta”, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna (catalogue)
“Halley’s Comet Exhibition”, Light Gallery, New York
“Video: Famous for 30 Seconds: Artists in the Media”, Artists Space, New York
“New York Now: Correspondences”, Laforet Museum, Harafuko / Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Tochigi / Tazaki Hall Espace Media, Kobe

1984
“The Year One: 1984-2001”, Chrysler Museum, Norfolk
“Newscapes: Land and City / States of Mind”, Contemporary Art at One Penn Plaza, New York
“Urban Confrontations”, Ben Shahn Gallery, William Paterson College, Waine
“The Elements: Weather in Art”, Tweed Gallery, Plainfield
“Cardboard Canvases: Record Albums in Art”, The Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, Long Island
“Painiting/Photography”, Thorpe Intermedia Gallery, Sparkill
“An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture”, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
“Contemporary Landscapes”, A Project of the Associate Council, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
“The Innovative Landscape”, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
“Summer Group Exhibition”, Metro Pictures, New York
“Umgang mit der Aura”, Städtische Galerie Regensburg
“Drawings: After Photography”, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin / Mitchell Museum, Mt. Vernon / Aspen Center for the Visual Arts, Aspen / Newport Harbor ArtMuseum, Newport Beach (catalogue)
“Currents”, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
“Contemporary Perspectives”, Center Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg / Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre (catalogue)
“Nightlights”, Dart Gallery, Chicago
“On the Wall - On the Air: Artists Make Noise”, Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
“Art on paper 1984”, Weatherspoon Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
“Memory Jam: A Retrospective of Films and Performances at Artists Space, 1973-1985”, Artists Space, New York (catalogue)

1983
“New York Painting Today”, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh
“Back to the USA”, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne / Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn / Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart (catalogue)
“New Art at The Tate Gallery, 1983”, The Tate Gallery, London (catalogue)
“New Editions”, Pace Editions, New York
“La Forma e l’informe”, Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna (catalogue)
“Summer Group Exhibition”, Metro Pictures, New York
“Invite”, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva
“Angoisses à New York”, Plan K, Brussels
“A Decade of new Art: Artists Space”, Artists Space, New York (catalogue)

1982
“Painting”, Metro Pictures, New York
“Eight Critical Perspectives”, PS1, New York
“Prefiguration and Figuration of the Catastrophe”, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva
“Documenta 7”, Kassel (catalogue)
“74th American Exhibition”, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (catalogue)
“Seven from Metro Pictures”, Middendorf/Lane Gallery, Washington
“New York Panorama”, Stockholm International Art Expo, Stockholm
“A Fatal Attraction: Art and the Media”, The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Chicago (catalogue)
“The Atomic Salon”, Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York
“Summer Group Exhibition”, Metro Pictures Gallery, New York
“Shift LA / NY”, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA / Neuberger Museum, Purchase (catalogue)
“Image Scavengers: Painting”, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (catalogue)
“Hundreds of Drawings”, Artists Space, New York
“Catastrophe”, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Geneva

1981
“Il Gergo Inquieto”, Museo Sant Agostino, Genova
“Picturealism - New York”, Galerie Chantal Crousel, Paris
“Westkunst - Heute”, Museen der Stadt Köln, Cologne
“Drawings”, Metro Pictures, New York
“On Location”, Texas Gallery, Houston
“Soundings”, Neuberger Museum, Purchase
“Exhibition: Tenth Anniversary”, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia (catalogue)
“35 Artists Return to Artists Space”, Artists Space, New York (catalogue)

1980
“Horror Pleni: Pictures in New York Today”, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, Milan
“New Image”, Palazzo dela Triennale, Milan
“Film as Installation”, The Clocktower, New York
“A Sound Selection: Audio Works by Artists” at:Artists Space, New York / The Hartford Art School, Hartford / St. Lawrence, Canton, New York / The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston / Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans / Aspen Center for the Visual Arts, Aspen / Albuquerque Museum, Albuquerque / Alberta College of Art Gallery, Calgary (catalogue)
“Opening Group Exhbition”, Metro Pictures, New York
Project Art Space, Florence
Annina Nosei Gallery, New York

1979
“Recognizable Images”, Studio Cannaviello, Milano
“Filmworks”, The Kitchen, New York
“The Groningen Arts Festival”, Groningen
The Groningen Museum, Groningen
“Sound”, The Institute for Art and Urban Resources, PS1, New York
“1974-1979”, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva (catalogue)

1978
“Records, Films and Video”, Thomas/Lewellan Gallery, Los Angeles
“Audio Works”, Artists Space, New York
“Masters of Love” New Langton Arts, San Francisco

1977
“16 Dagen”, The Groningen Museum, Groningen (catalogue)
“January”, State University College at Buffalo, Buffalo
“Pictures”, Artists Space, New York / Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin / University of Colorado Art Gallery, Boulder / The Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
“The Record as Artwork from Futurism to Conceptual Art”, The Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth / Moore College of Art Gallery, Philadelphia / The Kitchen, New York / Musée d’Art Contemporain, Montreal / Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago / The Los Angeles Institute of Contermporary Art, Los Angeles (catalogue)

1976
“Avant-Garde Film”, The Art Institute of Chicago (catalogue)
“Soho Downtown Manhattan”, The Berlin Arts Festival, Akademie der Künste, Berlin (catalogue)
“Artists Use Photography”, Hallwalls, Buffalo

1974
“Artists Films”, Kunstmuseum, Basel

1973
Copely / Lambert Gallery, Los Angeles

1971
“Twenty-four Young Los Angeles Artists”, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
“Studio Show”, 1359 South Figueroa (Jack Goldstein’s studio), Los Angeles

1970
“Temple Street Artists” Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach