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"Untitled" (America)

1994

Twelve parts, each: 42 light bulbs, waterproof rubber light sockets, and waterproof electrical cord

Overall dimensions vary with installation

GF1994-017

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Core Tenets for Light String Works

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Exhibitions

Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Always to Return

National Portrait Gallery and Archives of American Art, The Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C. Cur. Charlotte Ickes and Josh Franco October 18, 2024 – July 6, 2025

Felix Gonzalez-Torres: The Politics of Relation

Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA), Barcelona, Spain Cur. Tanya Barson March 26 – September 19, 2021

OPEN AT NIGHT – Festival of Lights

Villa Medici, Rome, Italy Cur. Chiara Parisi December 16, 2017 – January 28, 2018

Permanent Collection Installation

The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY September 28, 2015 – March 1, 2017

America is Hard to See

The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Cur. Donna De Salvo, Carter E. Foster, Dana Miller, Scott Rothkopf with Jane Panetta, Catherine Taft, and Mia Curran May 1 – September 27, 2015

Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Specific Objects without Specific Form

MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany Cur. Elena Filipovic. Installation cur. Tino Sehgal [Second installation at third of three venues] March 18 – April 25, 2011

Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Specific Objects without Specific Form

MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany Cur. Elena Filipovic. Installation cur. Tino Sehgal [First installation at third venue. Third of three venues. Additional venues: Wiels Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, Belgium. 16 Jan. – 2 May 2010; Fondation Beyeler, Basel Switzerland. 21 May – 29 Aug. 2010] January 28 – March 14, 2011

Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Specific Objects without Specific Form

Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland Cur. Elena Filipovic. Installation cur. Carol Bove [First installation at second venue. Second of three venues. Additional Venues: Wiels Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, Belgium. 16 Jan. – 2 May 2010; MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany. 28 Jan. – 25 Apr. 2011] May 21 – July 25, 2010

Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Specific Objects without Specific Form

Wiels Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, Belgium Cur. Elena Filipovic. Installation cur. Danh Vo [Second installation at first of three venues] March 5 – May 2, 2010

Felix Gonzalez-Torres: Specific Objects without Specific Form

Wiels Contemporary Art Centre, Brussels, Belgium Cur. Elena Filipovic. Installation cur. Danh Vo [First installation at first venue. First of three venues. Additional venues: Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland. 21 May – 29 Aug. 2010; MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany. 28 Jan. – Apr. 2011] January 16 – February 28, 2010

Felix Gonzalez-Torres: America

The United States Pavilion, Giardini della Biennale, 52nd International Art Exhibition, La Biennale di Venezia [The Venice Biennial], Venice, Italy. Commissioned by Nancy Spector June 10 – November 21, 2007

Extra-Ordinary: The Everyday Object in American Art

The Frist Center for Visual Arts, Nashville, TN Cur. Dana Miller November 10, 2006 – February 11, 2007

New York, New York: Cinquante ans d’art, architecture, photographie, film et video [New York, New York: Fifty Years of Art, Architecture, Photography, Film and Video]

Grimaldi Forum Monaco, Monte Carlo, Monaco Cur. Lisa Dennison July 14 – September 10, 2006

The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Cur. Donna De Salvo March 25 – September 18, 2005

The Magic of Light

The Hudson River Art Museum, Yonkers, NY Cur. Carter Ratcliff, Michael Botwinick, and Arthur Zanjonc February 1 – May 19, 2002

In Between: Art & Architecture

Schindler House, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, CA Cur. LouAnne Greenwald [With billboard installed on W Pico Boulevard in conjunction with the exhibition] March 14 – September 2, 2001

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

Serpentine Gallery, London, England, United Kingdom Cur. Lisa G. Corrin [With satellite venues: Camden Arts Centre, Chelsea and Westminster Hospital, Royal College of Art, Victoria and Albert Museum, and Royal Geographical Society, London, England, United Kingdom] June 1 – July 16, 2000

The American Century: Art and Culture, 1950-2000

The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Cur. Lisa Phillips [Part two of the exhibition The American Century: Art and Culture, 1900-2000. 23 Apr. 1999 – 13 Feb. 2000] September 26, 1999 – February 13, 2000

Light x Eight: The Hanukkah Project: A Festival of Lights

The Jewish Museum, New York, NY Cur. Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson December 13, 1998 – January 31, 1999

Manifesta 2: European Biennial of Contemporary Art

Casino Luxembourg, Forum d'Art Contemporain, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg Cur. Robert Fleck, Maria Lind and Barbara Vanderlinden June 28 – October 11, 1998

Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA Cur. Sheryl Conkelton November 13, 1997 – February 1, 1998

1997 Biennial Exhibition

The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Cur. Louise Neri and Lisa Phillips March 20 – June 15, 1997

Felix Gonzalez-Torres (Girlfriend in a Coma)

Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France Cur. Suzanne Pagé, Béatrice Parent, and Nancy Spector [Third of three venues. Additional venues: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY. 3 Mar. – 10 May 1995. Shown under the exhibition title Felix Gonzalez-Torres; Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain. 12 Dec. 1995 – 3 Mar. 1996. Shown under the exhibition title Felix Gonzalez-Torres (A Possible Landscape)] April 11 – June 16, 1996

EV+A: Exhibition of Visual Art

Limerick City Gallery of Art, Limerick, Ireland Cur. Guy Tortosa March 8 – May 4, 1996

Felix Gonzalez-Torres (A Possible Landscape)

Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain Cur. Gloria Moure and Nancy Spector [Second of three venues. Additional venues: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY. 3 Mar. – 10 May 1995. Shown under the exhibition title Felix Gonzalez-Torres; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France. 11 Apr. – 16 Jun. 1996. Shown under the exhibition title Felix Gonzalez-Torres (Girlfriend in a Coma)] December 12, 1995 – March 3, 1996

Longing and Belonging: From the Faraway Nearby

Museum of Fine Arts/SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM Cur. Bruce W. Ferguson and Vincent J. Varga July 14 – October 8, 1995

About Place: Recent Art of the Americas

The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Cur. Madeleine Grynsztejn March 11 – May 21, 1995

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