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OTTERNESS Tom
1952 Born in Wichita, Kansas
1970 Art Students League, New York
1973 Independent Study Program, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1977 Member of Collaborative Projects, Inc., New York
PUBLIC COMMISSIONS (Post 1984)
2008 [work-in-progress]
Untitled (Large Millipede) Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University
Untitled (Phoenix Convention Center Installation) Phoenix, Arizona
2007 Untitled Claremont, California
DNA, University of Florida at Gainseville
Large Coqui, PS20 Anna Silver School, New York, New York
Immigrant Family, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
2005 Large Frog and Bee, Montefiore Childrens Hospital, Bronx, New York
Amorphophallus Titanum, New York Botanical Garden, Bronx, New York
2004 El Coqui Gigante de Las Cavernas del Rio Camuy, Camuy, Puerto Rico
Untitled, Museum Beelden aan Zee, Scheveningen, The Netherlands
Tornado of Ideas, Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
Life Underground, Metropolitan Transit Authority and Arts for Transit,
14th Street and 8th Avenue, New York, New York
2003 The Return of the Four-Leggeds, Northwest Museum of Arts and
Culture, Washington State Arts Commission, Spokane, WA
2002 Mortellito Memorial, Branchbrook Park Station, New Jersey
Transit, Newark, New Jersey
2001 Suspended Mind, Carl Sagan Discovery Center, Montefiore Childrens
Hospital, Bronx, NY
2000 Time and Money, Hilton Hotel at Times Square, Forest City Ratner
Corporation, NYC
1999 Rockman, Federal Courthouse, General Services Administration,
Minneapolis, MN
Kohn Pedersen Fox (Architect), Martha Schwartz (Landscape Architect)
Feats of Strength, Western Washington University, Bellingham, WA
The Music Lesson, Music School, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC
Calloway Johnson Moore & West (Architect)
Gold Rush, Federal Courthouse, General Services Administration,
Sacramento, California, Nacht & Lewis/Hansen Lind Meyer (Architects)
1998 The Gates, Cleveland Public Library, in collaboration with Maya
Lin (Artist) and Tan Lin (Poet) Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates
(Architect)
1997 Visionary, Metro Tech Center, Brooklyn, NY
Law of Nature, The Mark O. Hatfield US Courthouse, General Services
Administration, Portland, OR Kohn Pedersen Fox (Architect)
1996 The Marriage of Real Estate and Money, Roosevelt Island, NY
1995 Dreamers Awake, Wichita Art Museum, Kansas Untitled, Eli Broad
Family Foundation, Santa Monica, California
1993 Upside-Down Feet, Krannert Museum of Art, University of Illinois,
Urbana-Champaigne Die Überfrau, State Library, Münster, Germany,
Bolles-Wilson (Architect)
1992 The Real World, The Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Park Battery
Park City Authority, NY Carr Lynch Associates (Environmental Design)
1991 The New World, The Edward R. Roybal Federal Building, General
Services Administration, Los Angeles Ellerbe Beckett Associates
(Architect)
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
The Brooklyn Museum, New York
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Dallas Museum of Art, Texas
Guggenheim Museum, New York
Israel Museum, Jerusalem
IVAM Center Julio Gonzalez, Valencia, Spain
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS (Post 1984)
2003 BOMBEATER, Skoto Gallery, New York
2002 See No Evil, Marlborough Gallery, New York
Free Money and Other Fairy Tales, Marlborough Gallery, New York, (catalogue)
Free Money and Other Fairy Tales, Marlborough Gallery Chelsea, New
York, (catalogue)
1999 Marlborough Gallery, Madrid, Spain (catalogue)
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco (catalogue)
1998 Palm Beach Community College Museum of Art, Lake Worth, Florida
1997 Marlborough Gallery, New York (catalogue)
Life Underground, Battery Park City Authority, New York
1996 Motel Fine Arts, New York
1995 Recent Sculpture, Doris Freedman Plaza, New York; a project of
the Public Art Fund
On the Commons, Recent Sculpture, at Metro Tech Center, Brooklyn; a
project of the Public Art Fund
The Tables, Wichita Art Museum, Kansas
Brooke Alexander, New York
1994 Recent Drawings and Small Objects, Gallery of Contemporary Art,
Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL (catalogue with interview)
1993 Galerie Weber, Münster
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
The Tables, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
1992 Brooke Alexander, New York
1991 The Tables, Sculptures and Drawings, IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez,
Valencia. Traveled to Portikus/Senckenbergmuseum, Frankfurt am Main,
Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague (essay by Judith Russi Kirshner) Nancy
Drysdale Gallery, Washington, DC
1990 James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica and Brooke Alexander, New York
(essay by Hayden Herrera)
The Tables, Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles
1987 Projects, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (essay by Linda Shearer)
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1986 Tom Otterness, PPG Plaza, Pittsburgh (essay by Vicky A. Clark)
1985 Brooke Alexander, New York
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS (Post 1984)
2004 PublicArt in the Bronx, Lehman College Art Gallery The City
University of New York, Bronx
Empire: Views from a New World Order, Maryland Institute College of
Art, Baltimore
2003 Amazing Animal Exposition, 2003 Outstanding Student Achievement
in Contemporary Sculpture Awards, ISC New Jersey State Fair Grounds
for Sculpture
Ameri(c)an Dre@m: A Survey, Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York
Polarities, Durst Organisation, New York
Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of
Arts and Letters
2001 Sculpture, Drawing and Works on Relief, John Berggruen Gallery,
San Francisco, CA
Lighten Up: Art with a Sense of Humor, De Cordova Museum Sculpture
Park, Lincoln, MA
2000 Drawings and Photographs, Mathew Marks Gallery, organized by the
Foundation for Contemporary Performance Art, New York
Imaginary Beings, Exit Art, New York
DNCArt, a project for the Democratic National Committee, New York
Monte-Carlo International Sculpture Festival: Contemporary American
Sculpture, Marlborough Gallery, Monte-Carlo, Monaco
1998 An Exhibition for Children, 242, New York
1997 American Art in the Age of Technology, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Contemporary Sculpture: The Figurative Tradition, Woodson Art Museum, Wasau, WI
1996 Twentieth Century American Sculpture at the White House,
Exhibition IV, Washington, D.C.
A Century of American Drawing from the Collection, The Museum of
Modern Art, New York
1994 Eleventh Biennial Benefit, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Jahresmuseum 1994, Kunsthaus Murzzuschlag, Switzerland
1993 Art, Money & Myth, Palm Beach Community College Museum of Art, J.
Patrick Lannan Gallery, Lake Worth, FL
The Elusive Object: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Whitney
Museum of American Art, Stamford, CT Branch
1992 Allegories of Modernism, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Body, Leg, Heads and Special Parts, Westfaelischer Kunstverein, Munich
(essay by Lucy Lippard)
1991 No Laughing Matter, October 1991 - April 1993, a traveling
exhibition organized by Independent Curators International, New York.
Curated by Nina Felshin
Rope, Galeria Fernando Alcolea, Barcelona
Couleurs de l'argent (The Color of Money), Musée de la Poste, Paris
About Round Round About, Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund, Sweden
1989 Object of Thought, Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund, Sweden
1988 Aperto 88, XLIII Esposizione La Biennale di Venezia
New Sculpture/Six Artists, The Saint Louis Art Museum
Democracy: Education, Group Material at Dia Art Foundation, New York
1987 The Re-emergent Figure: Seven Sculptors at Storm King Art Center,
Mountainville, NY
1986 New Trends in Contemporary Sculpture, 10 New Outstanding
Sculptors of America and Japan, Sapporo Art Park, Tokyo
Spectrum: The Generic Figure, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC
1985 Working in Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Museum, New York
Nouvelle Biennale de Paris XIIIe, La Villette, Paris
1985 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
The Classic Tradition In Recent Painting and Sculpture, The Aldrich
Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
1985 Working in Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Museum, New York
Nouvelle Biennale de Paris XIIIe, La Villette, Paris
1985 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
The Classic Tradition In Recent Painting and Sculpture, The Aldrich
Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
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