AA Bronson's virtual gallery

BIOGRAPHY

AA BRONSON

born: Vancouver, June 16, 1946
lives and works in Toronto and New York

AA Bronson lived and worked as part of the artists' group General Idea from 1969 until the deaths of his two partners in 1994. The exhibitions and bibliography listed below concern exhibitions of AA Bronson's solo work since that time.

Solo Exhibitions:

1999
1301PE, Los Angeles

2000
AA Bronson 1969-2001, Vienna Secession, Vienna
AA Bronson, Ecart, Basel

2001
Negative Thoughts, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
The Copyright marks the border between public and private domains, The Balcony, Toronto
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
A Day without Art, The Jewish Museum, New York

2002
Mirror, Mirror, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge
The Hanged Man, Solo Exhibition, Toronto
TICK TOCK, Gallery M, Harlem, USA

2003
AA Bronson, IKON Gallery, Birmingham, UK
AA Bronson*Healer, Galerie Frederic Giroux, Paris
AA Bronson: The Quick and the Dead, The Power Plant, Toronto

2004
AA Bronson: The Quick and the Dead, The Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver
AA Bronson*Healer, John Connelly Presents, New York

2005
AA Bronson*Healer, Vera List Center for Art & Politics, New School, New York, USA

2007
Sex + Death, Galerie Frederic Giroux, Paris, France

2008
Invocation of the Queer Spirits (with Peter Hobbs), Plug In ICA, Banff, Canada
Invocation of the Queer Spirits (with Peter Hobbs), Creative Time, New Orleans, USA
Invocation of the Queer Spirits (with Peter Hobbs), Banff Center for the Arts, Banff, Canada
AA Bronson*School for Young Shamans, John Connelly Presents, New York, USA

Group Exhibitions:

1998
Brain Multiples, Art Metropole, Toronto

1999
Dream City, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich

2000
La Biennale de Montréal 2000, CIAC, Montreal

2001
Angst: Fear of Loss (touring): Blickle Foundation, Karlsruhe; Kunsthalle Graz, Graz

2002
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Crack, Agnes Etherington Art Gallery, Kingston, Canada

2003
Today's Man, John Connelly Presents, New York, USA
Contemporary Art/Recent Acquisitions, The Jewish Museum, New York, USA

2004
Performance et Photographie : POINT, Dazibao, Montreal
Get Off!, Museum of Sex, New York
Reality Check (touring exhibition), National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Likeness: Portraits of Artists by Other Artists (travelling exhibition), CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco
Freedom Salon, Deitch Project, New York
Phiiliip: Divided by Lightning, Deitch Project, New York
None of the Above, Swiss Institute, New York

2005
The Log Cabin, Artists Space, New York
The Sixties: Photography in Question, The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Trade, White Columns, New York
Collective Creativity, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Beyond Redemption: Gay Erotic Art, Belkin Satellite, Vancouver, Canada

2006
Faking Death, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York
Sound and Vision, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal
Persona: From the Collection, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Canada
Six Feet Under, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
We Can Do This Now, Power Plant, Toronto, Canada

2007
Six Feet Under, Deutsches Hygiene-Museum, Dresden, Germany
4 Editeurs / 4 Publishers, Le MusÈe Royal de Mariemont, Brussels, Belgium

2008
Every Picture Tells a StoryÖ or at least is a Picture, Small A Projects, Portland, USA
Pleinairism, Galerie i8, Reykjavik, Iceland
Bureau de Change, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Canada

Bibliography:

1999
Astrid Wege, "In der Glaskugel", Texte zur Kunst, Heft 34, June 1999, pp. 157-162
AA Bronson, "Afterthought", Canadian Art, Toronto, Summer, 1999
Matthias Schübler, "Dream City", Das Münchner Kunstjournal, Heft 8/1999
Heinz Schütz, "Dream City", Kunstforum International, Band 145, May/June 1999

2000
AA Bronson 1969-2000 (solo exhibition catalogue), Vienna Secession, Vienna
Henriette Horny, "Bilder über Lieber", Kurier, Vienna, October 5, 2000
"Bronson seeks life after death", Wiener Zeitung, Vienna, 17-23 October, 2000
Doris Krumpl, "Der Abschied als Neubeginn", Der Standard, Vienna, October 21, 2000
Gabriele Schor, "Dort, wo das Leben endet", Neue Züricher Zeitung, Zurich, October 30, 2000
"Augen der Seele", Neue Wochenschau, Vienna, November 1, 2000
Antje Mayer "Alptraum: AA Bronson erinnert an Jorge und Felix", Kunstzeitung, November 2000.
Molly Amoli K. Shinhat, "Past, Present & Future", Ottawa Xpress, Ottawa, November 30, 2000.
Tout le Temps/Every Time (exhibition catalogue), La Biennale de Montréal, CIAC, Montreal

2001
AA Bronson, Negative Thoughts (artist book), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Anne Glusker, "Collective Memory", Elle, New York, January 2001
Dieter Buchhart, "AA Bronson", Kunstforum, Bd. 153, Januar-Marz 2001
Don Shewey, "Good Grief", The Advocate, Los Angeles, February 13, 2001
Michael Rooks, "Letting Go of General Idea", Dialogue, Chicago, January/February 2001
Daphne Gordon, "The Copyright Marks The Border Between The Public And Private Domains, corrugated plastic, 2000", The Toronto Star, Toronto, February 10, 2001
John Mays, "A Tale of Two Friends", National Post, Toronto, April 4, 2001
Achy Obejas, "Piercing Negative Thoughts forces a rethinking of AIDS crisis", The Chicago Tribune, April 23, 2001
Kathryn Rosenfeld, "Triple Self-Potrait Minus Two", New Art Examiner, Chicago, July-August, 2001 (cover story)
Nancy Princenthal, "Artist's Book Beat", Art on Paper, July-August 2001
Gerald Hannon, "Negative Thoughts", Canadian Art, Toronto, Fall 2001
Kate Taylor, "Why Gallery-going is an art form", Globe & Mail, Toronto, July 26, 2001
"Out 100", Out, New York, December 2001

2002
Judy Stoffman, "Canadian Artist Honoured", The Toronto Star, Toronto, January 3, 2002
Cate McQuaid, "A brazen 'Mirror' reflects our mortality", The Boston Globe, Boston, 2/22/2002
Andrea E. Flores, "Holding a Mirror to Human Tragedy", The Harvard Crimson, Cambridge, February 15, 2002
Randi Hopkins, "Moving Pictures: AA Bronson's body and soul", The Boston Phoenix.com, Boston, 2/28/2002
Whitney Biennial 2002 (exhibition catalogue), The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 2002
Mirror Mirror (exhibition catalogue), MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, 2002

Ulrich Tragatschnig, "Angst", Camera Austria, 77, 2002
Shawn Hill, "The look of AIDS", Bay Windows, Boston, March 14, 2002
Mary Sherman, "MIT show 'Mirrors' artist's meditative journey", Boston Sunday Herald, February 17, 2002
Dan Elias, "Rediscovering the Value of Art", artsMedia, Boston, March 15-April 15, 2002
Lawrence Ferber, "Ultimate aesthete", New York Blade, New York, April 5, 2002
Ray Conlogue, "Bronson, Gagnon among G-G winners", The Globe and Mail, March 13, 2002
Holland Cotter, "Depicting Spiritual America, From Ecstatic to Transcendent", The New York Times, New York, Friday, March 8, 2002
10 Jahre, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal, 2002
Matthias Herrmann, "AA Bronson", Camera Austria, #80, 2002
AA Bronson, Tick-Tock, self-published, New York
Holland Cotter, "AA Bronson: Tick-Tock", The New York Times, New York, December 13, 2002

2003
AA Bronson (exhibition catalogue), IKON Gallery, Birmingham, UK
Tony Phillips, "Tick Tick Boom", Gay City News, New York, January 3-9, 2003
Eleanor Heartney, "Is the Body More Beautiful When It’s Dead?", New York Times, June 1, 2003
C. Carr, "A World of Their Own: General Idea Made Art from Culture¹s Forgotten Shell", Village Voice, June 18-24, 2003
Jop van Bennekom, "AA Bronson Canadian Artist from New York gives Great Butt Massage to Butt Reporter", Butt, Amsterdam, Summer, 2003
Holland Cotter, "By and About Men, and They're Running With It", New York Times, New York, August 8, 2003
Lester Strong, "Hanging in There", a&u, Issue 106, August 2003
Penny Cousineau-Levine, Faking Death: Canadian Art Photography and the Canadian Imagination, McGill-Queen's University Press, Montreal
AA Bronson: The Quick and the Dead (exhibition catalogue), The Power Plant, Toronto
Peter Goddard, "at the Power Plant", The Toronto Star, December 20, 2003
"Bursting Life", Xtra!, December 11, 2003
Catherine Osborne, "Method in his Madness", National Post, December 20, 2003
Robert Collison, "Art's healing Power", National Post, December 20, 2003
Sarah Milroy, "Reflections of a survivor", The Globe and Mail, Toronto, December 29, 2003

2004
Gord McLaughlin, "From art to death to life", Eye Weekly, Toronto, February 5, 2004
Cris Rossel, "Arts Section, featuring A.A. Bronson", Gargoyle, Toronto, Vol. 48, Issue 8, 2004
Robert Enright, "Particularizing Some General Idea", BorderCrossings, Winnipeg, Issue No. 89, pp. 28-44
AA Bronson, "AA Bronson: Excerpts from NEST" (artist's project), BorderCrossings, Winnipeg, Issue No. 89, pp. 63-65
AA Bronson, "War is Over" (artist's project), This is the Salivation Army, Toronto, Issue X
Praxis, "Conversation avec AA Bronson", Esse, Montreal, No. 51, 2004
Sarah Milroy, "Taking the Road less Travelled", The Globe and Mail, Toronto, May 1, 2004
"Untitled (Self-portrait) by AA Bronson", The Village Voice, New York, April 28- May 4, 2004
Yam Lau, "AA Bronson: The Quick and the Dead", Parachute, Montreal, No.115, 2004
Robin Laurence, "Death and Rebirth Meet Disco Mirrors", The Georgia Straight, Vancouver, July 15, 2004
Michael Turner, ìSolo show asks viewer to look for its artistî, The Vancouver Sun, Vancouver, July 24, 2004
Andrew Harwood, Transcendental Kiss, Xtra West, Vancouver, July 22, 2004, p. 54
"What the World Needs Now", frieze, London, Issue 87, November-December 2004, pp. 76-89
les 20 ans du CIAC : 1984 - 2004, CIAC, Montreal, 2004, p. 30
"AA Bronson", Self Service, Paris, Fall & Winter 2004, p. 331-332
Domenick Ammirati, "AA Bronson", Artforum, New York, September 2004, p.271

2005
Holland Cotter, "Trade", The New York Times, New York, February 23, 2005
AA Bronson, "Trade with Erik Hanson" and "Trade with Arne Svenson", WC #1, White Columns, New York
Andrew Robinson, "The Way Art Should Work", Gay City, New York, 10-16 Mar, 2005
Laura Auricchio, "New York", Art Papers, New York, May/June 2005, pp. 48-49
Collective Creativity/Kollective Kreativitat (exhibrtion catalogue), Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel
AA Bronson, "Publications: Manifestos of the Artist-run Centres", TirÈ a Part \ Off Printing, RCAAQ, Montreal, pp. 11-23
AA Bronson, "I have it bad", 5th Artistbook International, Paris
Jean-Francois Renaud, Beyond redemption: Gay Erotic Art, Belkin Satellite, Vancouver

2006
Lestor Strong, "Then and Now", a&u, New York, Issue 135, January 2006, pp.25-26
Adriano Sack, "A Long and Winding Road: AA Bronson", Sleek, Berlin, Issue 11, 2006, pp. 54-65
Sound and Vision, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, 2006
Lovely Daze Issue 3: When I am alone, everything is so surreal, New York, 2006, pp. 4-9
AA Bronson and Donít Rhine, "Is This Where We Should Begin?", Make Everything New: A Project on Communicsm, Book Works, London, 2006, pp. 38-53
Six feet Under, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland

2007
Richard Lidinsky, "AA Bronson: Poodles & Koh", Daddy Number 1, Los Angeles, pp. 58-61 & 88- 91
Guy Trebay, "Gay Art: A Movement, Or at Least A Moment", The New York Times, New York, Sunday, May 6, 2007, Section 9, pp. 1-2
Eric Bryant, "Creates Well with others", ARTnews, New York, September 2007, pp. 126-127
AA Bronson, "Ceci n'est pas un livre d'artiste", 4Editeurs / 4 Publishers, MusÈe Royal de Mariemont, Brussels, Belgium, pp. 11-14
Bronson, AA, "Sex Work: The Museum as Brothel; Art House as Porn House", 53. Internationale Kurzfilmtage Oberhausen 3.-8. Mai 2007, Oberhausen, 2007, pp. 103-107

2008
Holland Cotter, "AA Bronson's School for Young Shamans", The New York Times, New York, January 18, 2008, p. E27
Bronson, AA, "A Word of Caution", decentre, YYZ Books, Toronto, 2008, pp. 35-37.
Bronson, AA, "Artistís Favourites", Spike Art Quarterly, Vienna, Summer 2008, pp. 18-20
Bronson, AA, "Desiderata, New York City, 3.3.07", Formulas for Now, London, Thames and Hudson, 2008, pp. 32-33
Fitzpatrick, Andrea D., "The Life in Death of Photography: A Portrait by AA Bronson and Jorge Zontal", BlackFlash, Saskatoon, Vol. 26.1, 2008, pp. 7-16
They Shoot Homos Don't They?, Issue 005, August 2008, pp. 100-101
Bronson, AA, "Reading Gareth Long", Gareth Long Second Third Fourth, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, 2008, pp. 50-67
Bronson, AA, "Burning Down the House"/"Documenta Sex", Kinomusum: Towards an Artists' Cinema, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Koenig, Cologne, 2008, pp. 71-84

Awards:

2001
Bell Canada Award in Video Art

2002
The Governor General's Visual Art and Media Award
The Toronto Friends of the Arts Award

2003
2001-2002 Best Monographic Museum Show (second place), AICA Awards, Boston Chapter, Boston
     (for the exhibition Mirror Mirror at the MIT List Visual Arts Center)
The Chalmers Fellowship

2004
2004 OAAG Awards:
     AA Bronson:The Quick and the Dead for best exhibition installation;
     AA Bronson: The Quick and the Dead (limited edition) for best artist's book.

2006
The Skowhegan Medal in Multi Media

2008
Officer of the Order of Canada

 

 

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