Lives and works in New York

1949 Born in St. Louis, Missouri

Solo Exhibitions

2013
Glacier, South London Gallery's offsite exhibition at Bloomberg SPACE
The Tank, Charles Atlas and Collaborators, Tate Modern
2012
Joints 4tet Ensemble, University of Michigan Humanities Institut
Charles Atlas, Luhring Augustine
De Hallen, Haarlem, The Netherlands
2011
Charlottenborg Kunsthal, Copenhagen
Joints Array, New Museum, New York
Charles Atlas and the New Humans, South London Gallery, London
( / + \ ), Vilma Gold, London
Ocean, screening, The Baryshnikov Arts Center, New York
2010
William Kentridge: Anything is Possible, screening, co-directed with Susan Sollins, MOMA, New York
Charles Atlas/Michael Clarke, screening of ‘Torse’ (1977), Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London
Ocean, screening, Walker Arts Centre, Minneapolis
2009
Festival D'Automne, Paris
A video Tribute to Merce Cunningham, Baryshnikov Art Center, New York
2008
Tornado Warning, Vilma Gold, London
Images Festival, Toronto
2007
Jerusalem Film Festival, Israel, (retrospective screenings)
Cinematheque Francaise, Paris
2006
Instant Fame!, Vilma Gold Gallery, London
Tate Modern, London, (retrospective screenings)
New York Video Festival, Lincoln Center, New York
2005
Institute for Contemporary Art, Boston
Performa ’05, New York
2004
Rubin Museum of Art, New York
2003
Shadow Festival 4, Amsterdam
Participant, Inc., New York
2002
Kjubh, Cologne, Germany
2000
Magazin 4, Bregenz, Austria
The Kitchen, New York
1999
Xavier La Boulbenne Gallery, New York
1998
Cinematheque Francaise, Paris, France
1997
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1996
Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis
1995
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
1991
Video Galleriet, Copenhagen, Denmark, (retrospective screenings)

Group Exhibitions (selected)
2012
The Piano Lesson,Vilma Gold, London
Effects & Affects: The Alphabet, curated by Tobias Madison and Martin Jaeggi, Fumetto Festival, Luzern, Switzerland
‘Leigh Bowery’, Kunsthalle, Vienna
‘John Cage and... The visual Artist John Cage’, Museum der Moderne, Monchsberg, Salzburg
‘The Third Sculpture’, Straat van Sculpturen, Amsterdam
'Dance Your Life', Pompidou, Paris
2011
‘Everyday is a Good Day’, De la Warr Pavilion, East Sussex
‘He Disappeared into Complete Silence’, De Hallen Haarlem, The Netherlands
Transaction Abstrait, New Galerie, Paris
2010
‘Today is not a Dress Rehearsal’, SFMOMA live installation in collaboration with Mika Tajima/ New Humans, New York
‘Dance With Camera’, ICA Philadelphia and touring to Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
‘Virtuoso Illusion: Cross Dressing and the New Media Avant Garde’, MIT/LIST Visual Art Centre, Cambridge, Massachusetts
‘Albrecht Dürer Gessellschaft’, Kunstverein Nürnberg, Nürnberg, Germany
‘Recent Acquisitions’, De Hallen Haarlem, The Netherlands
‘Move: Choreographing You’, Hayward Gallery, London
‘Body/Space Mechanics’, De Hallen Haarlem, The Netherlands
‘100 years, (Version no.2, Nov 2009): 45 Years of Performance Video from EAI’,PS1, New York, touring to Garage Centre for Contemporary Art, Moscow
‘Time Based Arts Festival’, PICA, Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Portland ‘Nobody Gets to See the Wizard. Not Nobody. Not Nohow’, Anna Kustera Gallery, New York Group Exhibitions continued ‘The Inhabitants’, Vilma Gold, London
‘ShadowDance’, Kade Kunsthale in Amersfoot, The Netherlands
‘Supernature: An Exercise in Loads’, AMP, Athens
‘Dead Flowers’, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia
2009
‘Dan Graham: Beyond’, Whitney Museum, New York
‘Merce Cunningham: Video Tribute’, Video Project Space at X ‘FUSO’ Video Art Festival. Lisbon
Festival Côté Court, Pantin
‘All that is Solid Melts Into Air’, MMMechelen, Mechelen, Belgium
‘Timeline’, Participant Inc., New York
2008
‘Looking at Music’, MOMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York
‘Leigh Bowery’, Kunstverein Hannover
‘Bailando Sin Salir de la Casa’, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City
‘Storytelling’, CRG Gallery New York
‘The Skat Players’, Vilma Gold Gallery, London
‘Panorámica-ciclo’, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporáneo, Mexico City
2007
Lyon Biennale. Lyon, France
‘Playback’, ARC/Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris
‘Cinema Cavern’, PS1, New York
‘The 80’s: A Tipology’, Serralves Foundation, Porto, Portugal
‘Tanzen, Sehen’ Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Siegen, Germany
‘Rock ‘n Roll Vol. 1’ Norrköpings Museum of Art, Sweden
2006
‘International and National Projects’, PS1, New York
‘The Secret Public, The Last Days of the British Underground 1978-1988’, Kunstverein, Munich
‘SLAPstick’, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Texas
2005
‘Useless Man’, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York
2004
‘One Channel Only’, Storrs, The University of Connecticut
2003
‘Take a Bowery: The Art and (larger than) Life of Leigh Bowery’,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
‘My People Were Fair and Had Cum in their Hair ... ‘,
Team Gallery, New York
‘Phantom Of Desire’, Neue Galerie am Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
2002
‘Cerebellum’ Performance Space, Sydney, Australia
‘Electric Dreams’, The Curve, London, England
‘Campy, Vampy, Tacky’, La Criee, Rennes, France
2000
‘Open Ends’, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
‘Performing Bodies’, Tate Modern, London, England
‘Speed of Vision’, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Connecticut
1999
‘Regarding Beauty’, Hirshorn Museum, Washington, D.C.
1995
‘Klapstuk ‘95’, Louvain, Belgium
1994
‘The Laugh of No, 12’, Fort Asperen Foundation, Amsterdam, Holland
1993
‘1993 Biennial Exhibition’. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1991
‘1991 Biennial Exhibition’ Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Public Collections
MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin

Time Based Media Works (selected)
2009
CRISES. video Document. choreography Merce Cunningham.
2008
INTERSCAPE. video document. choreography Merce Cunningham
2007
Suite for Five, video document, choreography Merce Cunningham.
Marc Jacobs Spring ’08, video installation, four-channel video work.
2005
You Are My Sister, music video for Antony and the Johnsons.
Views on Video, video/dance. collaboration with Merce Cunningham.
2004
Magic City, U.S.A., TV documentary film.
2003
Instant Fame, installation, real-time video performance.
2002
Rainer Variations, video montage
The Legend of Leigh Bowery, documentary feature film.
2000
Martha, Martha, Martha ... installation, five-channel video work.
Melange, video/dance. collaboration with Merce Cunningham.
Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance, TV documentary film.
1999
Mrs. Peanut Visits New York, video short.
Oh, Misha, video/collage.
Three Portraits, video installation. 3 video projections.
1998
Staten Island Sex Cult, video feature.
1997-99
The “Martha” Tapes, video/collage. 12 videos.
The Hanged One, mixed media installation. four multi-channel video works.
1994
Superhoney, video feature.
1993
Television Dance Atlas, 2 1/2 hour TV presentation.
1992
We Interrupt This Program. live TV broadcast.
1991
Son of Sam and Delilah, video short.
1990
Because We Must, TV video/dance. choreography, Michael Clark.
1989
SSS. collaboration with Marina Abramovic. video short.
Put Blood in the Music, TV documentary film.
1987
As Seen on TV, TV comedy short. collaboration with Bill Irwin.
1986
Hail the New Puritan, TV mockumentary film.
Ex-Romance. TV video/dance. choreography, Karole Armitage.
1984
Parafango, TV video/dance. choreography, Karole Armitage.
1983
Coast Zone. 16mm film/dance. collaboration with Merce Cunningham.
Secret of the Waterfall, TV video/dance. collaboration with choreographer,
Douglas Dunn and poets, Reed Bye, Anne Waldman.
Times Five, for Merce. installation. five-channel video work.
1982
More Men. two-channel video work.
1981
Channels/Inserts, 16mm film/dance. collaboration with Cunningham.
1980
Roamin’ I. 16mm documentary short.
1977
Torse (Left Screen) and Torse (Right Screen). choreography, Merce Cunningham. 16mm film. two-screen work.
1976
Blue Studio: Five Segments. TV video/dance. collaboration with Merce Cunningham.
1975
Mayonnaise, Number One. 16mm film portrait

Live Performance Work (selected)
2012
‘Turning’, in collaboration with Anthony Hegarty, Meltdown Festival, Southbank Centre, London
2011
New Work, in collaboration with Michael Clark, Tate Modern, London
Residency and live performance, New Museum, New York
2010
New Dance/theatre piece with live video in collaboration with Irish Modern Dance Theatre, Dublin, Ireland
Live AV Tour with Christian Fennesz
Live AV Performance with Sergei Tcherepnin
Live performance and screening, Itau Cultural Institute, Sau Paulo, Brazil
2009
‘Today is not a Dress Rehearsal’, in collaboration with Mika Tajima & New Humans, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
2008
Atlas / Licht. Live video performance in collaboration with Alan Licht, Images Festival, Toronto.
2007
Atlas / Fennesz. Live video performance in collaboration with Christian Fennesz. IMAX Theater, London,;Centre Pompidou, Paris; Volksbühne, Berlin.
2006
Toward the Delights of the Exquisite Corpse, Live video performance.
Choreography by Richard Move. DTW, New York. The Intensity Police are Working My Last Gay Nerve II. Live video performance in collaboration with Chris Peck. Lincoln Center, NY.
2004
Turning, Live video performance in collaboration with Antony and the Johnsons. St. Ann’s Warehouse, Brooklyn, NY. Glimpse, Video design and projection. Collaboration with choreographer Cesc Gelabert and composer, Carlos Miranda. Barcelona, Spain (traveled).
2003
Muscle Shoals, Live video performance and costume design. Collaboration with choreographer Douglas Dunn and composer Steve Lacy. Theatre de la Bastille, Paris, and Danspace, NYC.
2000
Pastforward, Video projectIons (introduction and interstital sequences). White Oak Dance Project. Brooklyn Academy of Music. (traveled)
1994
Delusional, Multi-media performance/theater work in two acts. Collaboration with Marina Abramovic. Co-produced by Theater Am Turm (Frankfurt), Munty Theater (Antwerp), and Consort (Amsterdam).
1988
S & D, Multi-media performance/theater work in three acts. Collaboration with John Kelly, David Linton and Diane Martel. The Kitchen, New York City.
1982
Slaughter on Macdougal Street, Set, costume, and lighting design. The Paris Opera Ballet, Paris, France. Karole Armitage, choreography

Selected Awards and Grants
2011
Critical Path, residency, Sydney, Australia
2008
Peabody Award for Art:21(Power), PBS TV series, Director
2006
Foundation for Contemporary Art Biennial John Cage Award
2003
Melbourne Queer Film Festival,
Best Documentary for "The Legend of Leigh Bowery"
2000
Dance Screen 2000, Best Documentary for "Merce Cunningham: A Lifetime of Dance"
1998
New York Dance and Performance Award [“Bessie”], for The “Martha” Tapes
1988
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
1987
New York Dance and Performance Award [“Bessie”], for sustained achievement in video
1987
New York Dance and Performance Award [“Bessie”], for costume design
1985
France Ministry of Culture, 1st prize for VideoDance

Selected Bibliography and Published Texts