GENERAL IDEA (1969-1994)
General Idea was formed in 1969 by AA Bronson, Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal.
AA Bronson, born Michael Tims, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 1946 -.
Felix Partz, born Ronald Gabe, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, 1945-94.
Jorge Zontal, born Slobodan Saia-Levy, Parma, Italy, 1944-94.
Solo Exhibitions and Projects
2006
Generl Idea: Early Work / Magic Bullet, Esther Schipper, Berlin
General Ideal Editions: 1967-1995, (touring exhibition):
Muenchen Kunstverin, Munich
Kunstwerke, Berlin
2005 General Idea, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburg, USA
General Idea, Project, Dublin, Ireland (upcoming)
General Idea, Vienna Secession, Vienna, Austria
General Ideal Editions: 1967-1995, (touring exhibition):
Luckman Fine Arts Complex, Los Angeles, USA
Victoria Art Gallery, Victoria, Canada
Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
General Idea, Galerie Frédéric Giroux, Paris, France
2004 General Idea Editions: 19671995, (touring exhibition):
Plug In, Winnipeg, Canada
Museum London, London, Canada
Dunlop Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada
Emily Carr College, Vancouver, Canada
Calgary, Canada
General Idea: Multiples et series, Galerie Frédéric Giroux, Paris, France
2003 General Idea Editions: 19671995, (touring exhibition):
Blackwood Gallery, U of T at Mississauga, Mississauga, Canada
Agnes Etherington Art Gallery, Kingston, Canada
Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax, Canada
McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Canada
Plug In ICA, Winnipeg, Canada
General Idea: Editions and Ephemera (1968-1995), 871 Fine Arts, San Francisco, USA
General Idea Editions: A Selection, Printed Matter, New York, USA
2002 General Idea, Galerie Frédéric Giroux, Paris
A Day without Art, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
2001 Negative Thoughts (with AA Bronson), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA
General Idea, 1301PE, Los Angeles, USA
Boutique Coeurs Volants, Florence Loewy, Paris, France
Black Floaters, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto, Canada
2000 Fin de Siecle, Plug In, Winnipeg, Canada
1998 General Idea, Camden Arts Centre, London, United Kingdom
General Idea, Robert Prime, London, United Kingdom
1997 Search for the Spirit: General Idea 1968-1975, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
General Idea, Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, USA
1996 One Day of AZT / One Year of AZT, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
INFE©TIONS, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
1995 General Idea, Galerie René Blouin, Montreal, Canada
General Idea, S. L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, Canada
General Idea: Showcards, Presentation House, Vancouver, Canada
1994 General Idea: Drawings 1989-1994, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam,
The Netherlands
One Year of AZT / One Day of AZT, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
General Idea: INFE©TIONS, World Wide Video Center, Den Haag, The Netherlands
Magi© Bullet / Magi© Carpet, Amoco Tower, Artweek, Calgary, Canada
White AIDS, Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany
INFE©TED, Galerie Mai 36, Zürich, Switzerland
Fin de siècle, Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan, Italy
General Idea: The Showcard Series from the 1984 Miss General Idea Pageant Pavillion, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Canada
1993 The Armoury of the 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion and Related Works, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
General Idea: Multiples, S. L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1992-93 Fin de siècle (touring exhibition)
Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany;
Centre d'Art Santa Monica, Barcelona, Spain;
Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany;
The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada;
Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, USA;
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
1992 Green (Permanent) PLA©EBO, Richard Foncke Gallery, Gent, Belgium
El Dorado (Maracaibo), Galeria Fucares, Madrid, Spain
GENERI© (Helium), Taormina Arte, Taormina, Italy
Magi© Bullet, Stux Gallery, New York, USA
Blue (Cobalt) PLA©EBO, Galerie Montenay, Paris, France
1991 BLAN© BLAN© BLAN©, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
Green (Permanent) PLA©EBO, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
Red (Cadmium) PLA©EBO, S. L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, Canada
AIDS, Project for Seattle buses, Seattle, USA
Black AIDS Paintings, Grey Art Gallery and Study Centre, New York University, New
York, USA
Maracaibo, Feature Gallery, New York, USA
AIDS (Nauman), Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona, Spain
PLA©EBO / General Idea's ¥en Boutique, Stampa Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
1990 AIDS, Project for Amsterdam trams, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
General Idea, Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan, Italy
Fin de siècle, Koury Wingate Gallery, New York, USA
1989 General Idea's ¥en Boutique, Dörrie-Priess Galerie, Hamburg, Germany
AIDS, Project for the New York Subway System, New York, USA
AIDS, Project for Spectacolor Board, Times Square, New York, USA
Nightschool: The Academy of the Miss General Idea Pavillion, Galerie Mai 36, Luzern, Switzerland
AIDS (project for Stampa Galerie) Frankfurt Art Fair, Frankfurt, Germany
General Idea 1968-1988, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
General Idea's ¥en Boutique, Galerie Esther Schipper, Cologne, Germany
General Idea, Hillman Holland Fine Arts, Atlanta, USA
Test Pattern: TV Dinner Plates from the 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion, Koury Wingate Gallery, New York, USA
1988 Test Pattern: TV Dinner Plates from the 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion, SPIRAL, Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
AIDS (window project), New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
AIDS, (poster project), Berlin, Germany
Mondo Cane (Destressed), Galerie Meyer-Hohmeister, Karlsruhe, Germany
AIDS Paintings, Koury Wingate Gallery, New York, USA
AIDS, YYZ Artists' Outlet, Toronto, Canada
AIDS (poster project) Toronto, Canada
General Idea, Stampa Galerie, Basel, SWITZERLAND
AIDS (billboard project) Billboard Café, San Francisco, USA
The Public and Private Domains of the 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion, Artspace, San Francisco, USA
AIDS (poster project), San Francisco, USA
1987 The Armoury of the 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
AIDS (serigraph edition) Koury Wingate Gallery, New York, USA
AIDS (poster project) New York City, New York, USA
1986-87 The Armoury of the 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion (touring exhibition)
Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA; 49th Parallel, New York, USA;
University Art Gallery, California State University, Long Beach, USA; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, USA
Cornucopia, Forest City Gallery, London, Canada
Ziggurat Paintings, Galerie Montenay-Delsol, Paris, France
1986 P is for Poodle, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, SCOTLAND
1985 The Remnants of the Miss general Idea Pavillion in de Vleeshal, de Vleeshal, Middleburg, The Netherlands
General Idea,International With Monument, New York, USA
1984-85 The 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion (touring exhibition)
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, SWITZERLAND;
Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands;
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada;
Musée d'art contemporain, Montreal, Canada
1984 General Idea's 1984, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Mondo Cane Kama Sutra, Centre d'art contemporain, Geneva, SWITZERLAND
Baby Makes 3, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Caniche à la Mode, Language Plus, Alma, Quebec, Canada
General Idea, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
General Idea Media Works 1968-1984, Stampa Galerie, Basel, SWITZERLAND
1983 P is for Poodle: The Milky Way from the 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion, Music Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto
General Idea's Jorge Zontal (curated by AA Bronson and Felix Partz), Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna, Austria
Mondo Cane, Stampa, Basel, SWITZERLAND
General Idea's Mondo Cane Kama Sutra, Baronian Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Canile, Galerie Françoise Lambert, Milan, ITALY
1982 Ziggurat Paintings (1968-69), Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada
General Idea's Jorge Zontal (curated by AA Bronson and Felix Partz), A Space, Toronto, Canada
Colour Bar Lounge, Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax, Canada
1981 The Miss General Idea Boutique, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada
The Honeymoon is Over, Stampa Galerie, Basel, SWITZERLAND
Représentation Confusés, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada
General Idea, 49th Parallel, New York, USA
1979 Consenting Adults, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Playing the Triangle, Samangallery, Genoa, ITALY
Colour Bar Lounge, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
General Idea, Krinzinger Gallery, Innsbruck, Austria; Modern Art Gallery, Vienna, Austria
Test Tube, de Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Ménage à Trois, Centre d'art contemporain, Geneva, SWITZERLAND
1978 Reconstructing Futures, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada;
Canada House, London, United Kingdom;
Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris, France
Ménage à Trois,Galerie Lucio Amelio, Naples, ITALY
Three Men, Zona Galerie, Florence, ITALY; Galerie Laboratorio, Milan, ITALY
1977 Artists and Models, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Going Thru the Motions, Galerie Optica, Montreal, Canada
The 1971 Miss General Idea Pageant Entries, Parachute Centre for Cultural Affairs, Calgary, Canada
The Frame of Reference, Western Front Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
S/HE, St. Lawrence College Gallery, Kingston, Canada
Sex and Responsibility, Nova Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
1976 Search for the Spirit, Galerie Gaetan, Geneva, SWITZERLAND
1975 Going thru the Notions, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1974 G.I. at the Western Front, Western Front Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
1973 Luxon V.B., Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Manipulating the Self, Galerie B, Montreal, Canada
1972 Light On, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Evidence of Body Binding, Galerie B, Montreal, Canada
1971 The 1971 Miss General Idea Pageant Entries, Art Gallery of Ontario and A Space, Toronto, Canada
1970 Betty's (collaboration with Ken Coupland and Ron Terrill), 78 Gerrard Street West, Toronto, Canada
Off Hand (Felix Partz), 567 Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Good Enough to Eat (Jorge Zontal), Rochdale College Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1969 The Belly Store (collaboration with John Neon), 78 Gerrard Street West, Toronto, Canada
Waste Age, 78 Gerrard Street West, Toronto, Canada
Inside Today's Home, Theatre Passe Muraille, Toronto, Canada
Group Exhibitions
2006 Into Me/Out of Me, PS1, New York
Medium Fotografie, Stampa, Basel
Winteraustellung, Esther Schipper, Berlin
Singular Multiples, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston
Persona: From the Collection, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa
2005 The Sixties in Canada, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa
Real Pictures, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver
Trade Show, MASS MoCA, North Adams
Collective Creativity, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Trade, White Columns, New York
Transformations, Galerie Fréderic Giroux, Paris
Expérience de la durée, Biennale de Lyon 2005, Lyon
2004 Performance et Photographie : POINT, Dazibao, Montreal
After Images: Art as Social Memory, Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Bremen
Assume vivid astro focus XI, at the home of Rosa de la Cruz, Biscayne, Miami
2003 30 Jaar: Nederlandse Videokunst, Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst, Amsterdam
Our Mutual Friend, Bloomberg SPACE, London, UK
On the Wall, (touring exhibition) The RISD Museum, Providence, USA
Stop & Go, regards croisés entre la collection et les acquisitions récentes, Frac Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, France
Eternal Network: Videos from the Western Front Archives 1973-2001 (touring exhibition), The Western Front, Vancouver, Canada; Video Pool, Winnpeg, Canada; Vidéographe, Montréal, Canada.
Corporate Profits vs. Labour Costs,John Connelly Presents at D'Amelio Terras, New York, USA
Today's Man, John Connelly Presents, New York, USA
Scatalogue,Saw Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
From the Flat Files, RAMP Gallery, Waikato Institute of Technology, Hamilton, New Zealand
Feigned Memories, University of Lethbridge Art Gallery, Lethbridge
2002 Comer O No Comer, Centro de Arte de Salamanca, Salamanca, Spain
Extra Art, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK
Multiformity: Multiples from the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Public Affairs, Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Mirror Image, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, USA
Art & Economy, Deichterhallen, Hamburg, Germany
Thinking in Painting, Stampa Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
Kunst Nach Kunst, Neue Museum Weserburg Bremen, Germany
Rapture: Art's Seduction by Fashion since 1970, Barbican Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Video Acts: Single Channel Works from the Collections of Pamela and Richard Kramlich and New Art Trust, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, USA
The Holiday Shopping Show, Wallspace, New York, USA
Golden Streams, Blackwood Gallery, Mississauga, Canada
Crack, Agnes Etherington Art Gallery, Kingston, Canada
2001 Collaborations with Parkett: 1984 to Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Extra Art, Logan Galleries, California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, USA
Shopping,Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria
Blondies + Brownies, Aktionsforum Praterinsel, Munich, Germany
Tele(visions), Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Vancouver Collects, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
2000-2001 Video Time, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Let's Entertain (touring exhibition):
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA;
Portland Art Museum, Portland, USA;
Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France;
Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany;
Miami Art Museum, Miami, USA
2000 Versiones del Sur: cinco propuestas en torno al arte en América, el Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, SPAIN
Loose Ends, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
From the Collection: Personalities, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Canada
Re-Play, Generali Foundation, Vienna, Austria
1999 Museum as Muse, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Word,Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia
Persuasion: Tales of Commerce and the Avant-Garde, University at Buffalo Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA
Recollect, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Internal Logic, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Canada
1998 Fragile Electrons: Celebrating Twenty Years of Collecting Video Art - Videotapes from the Art Metropole Collection, The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Picturing the Toronto Art Community, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
Roteiros. Roteiros. Roteiros. Roteiros. Roteiros. Roteiros. Roteiros., XXIV Bienal de Sã Paulo, Sã Paulo, BRAZIL
AIDS Worlds: Between Resignation and Hope, Centre d'art contemporain, Geneva, SWITZERLAND; Centro d'Arte Contemporanea Ticino, Ticino, SWITZERLAND
Editions: General Idea, Christian Jankowski, Kay Rosen, Helge Maria Klosterfelde Edition, Hamburg, Germany
Disappearing Act, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects/Bound & Unbound, New York, USA
1997 Bridge/The map is not the territory., Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Disrupture: Postmodern Media (with Dara Birnbaum, Nam Jun Paik), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Documenta 10, Kassel, Germany
Rococo Tattoo, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
Livres d'artistes - L'intervention d'un genre 1960-1980,Bibliothèque nationale de France, Paris, France
Produkt: Kunst!, Kunstmuseum Solothurn;
Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen;
Kunstsammlung Gera;
Ludwig Museum im Deutschherrenhaus, Konblenz, Germany
1996 a/drift, Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson,
New York, USA
Thinking Print: Books to Billboards,1980-95 (subsequent touring), Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Graphic Responses to AIDS, Victoria & Albert Museum, London, United Kingdom All in One,Galerie Schipper & Krone, Cologne, Germany
ReGrouping: A Living Legacy, McMichael Canadian Art Collection, Kleinburg, Canada
La Guerre, Pourquoi?, Galerie Montenay-Giroux, Paris, France
Sarah Charlesworth, Hannah Collins, General Idea, Laurie Simmons, Carolyn White,
S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1995 General Idea, Cindy Sherman, Laurie Simmons, S. L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Art Metropole: 20 Years, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Into a New Museum, Part 2, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Fashion is a Verb, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, USA
A Different Light, The University Art Museum at Berkeley, Berkeley, USA
Lesezimmer II, Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
1994-95 Art Unlimited: Multiples of the 60s & 90s (subsequent touring), Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA), Glasgow, SCOTLAND
1994 L'hiver de l'amour bis, Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris, France;
P.S.1 Museum, New York, USA
The Century of the Multiple, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Le Saut Dans Le Vide / Der Sprung Ins Leere, Maison Centrale des Artistes, Moscow, RUSSIA
Body and Soul, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA
Public Interventions, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
"Please, don't hurt me!", Galerie Snoei, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
don't look now, Thread Waxing Space, New York, USA
1993 Computerunterstützte Kunst, Künstlerwerkstatt Lothringerstraße München, Munich, Germany
Tema AIDS, (touring exhibition),
Sonje Henie-Neils Onstad Foundation, Hovikhodden, NORWAY;
Bergen Kunstforning, Stockholm, SWEDEN
Prints and Issues, Kunstwerke Berlin, Berlin, Germany
1992-93 From Media to Metaphor: Art About AIDS (Independent Curators Incorporated touring exhibition), Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Clinton, USA;
Center of Contemporary Art, Seattle, USA; Sharadin Art Gallery, Kutztown, USA; Musée d'art contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, Canada;
Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, New York, USA
1992 Transgressions in the White Cube: Territorial Mappings, Bennington College, Bennington, USA
Multiples, Dörrie-Priess Galerie, Hamburg, Germany
Art meets Ads, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
Stampa, Stampa Galerie, Basel, SWITZERLAND
Transform, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, SWITZERLAND
Wiener Fest Wochen, Vienna, Austria
David Clarkson, General Idea, Allan McCollum, S. L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Ballots and Bullets, Sally Hawkins Gallery, New York, USA
Three or More - Multiplied art from Duchamp to the present, SPIRAL, Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
1991 Multiples: Brian Boigon, General Idea, Douglas Walker, S. L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Curatorial Laboratory Project #7: Atlas, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Canada In Public: Seattle 1991, Security Pacific Gallery, Seattle, USA
The Art of Advocacy, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, USA
ECART, Genève, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
All For Love, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA
Words & #'s, Wright State University, Dayton, USA
Proiezioni, Castello di Rivara, Rivara, Italy
1990-92 Team Spirit (Independent Curators Incorporated touring exhibition),
Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, USA;
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art,Cleveland, USA;
The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, USA;
Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale Cultural Council, Scottsdale, USA; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada;
Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, USA;
Salina Art Center and the Wichita Museum of Art, Salina and Wichita, USA
1990-91 Graphothek (touring exhibition), Goethe-Institut Vancouver, Vancouver, Canada; London Regional Art & Historical Museum, London, Canada;
Maison de la Culture, Plateau Mont-Royal, Montreal, Canada;
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada
Inquiries: Language into Art (touring exhibition), Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto,
McMaster University Art Gallery, Hamilton, Canada;
Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Thunder Bay, Canada;
Laurentian University Museum and Art Gallery, Sudbury, Canada;
Rodman Hall Arts Centre, St. Catharines, Canada
1990 Iain Baxter, Ian Carr-Harris, Robin Collyer, Paterson Ewen, Murray Favro, General Idea, Diane Keaton, Joseph Kosuth, Brice Marsdden, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada
General Idea, Joanne Tod, Shirley Wiitasalo, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Koury Wingate Gallery, New York, USA
Grids, Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, New York, USA
Language in Art, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, USA
Art Meets Science and Spirituality in a Changing Economy, Museum Fodor, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Word As Image,Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA
Stendhal Syndrome: The Cure, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, USA
Serieel, Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Young and the Restless, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA
The Indomitable Spirit (touring exhibition),
International Centre of Photography, New York, USA;
The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
1989 Art About AIDS, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, USA
A Call to Healing and Action, The Jewish Museum, New York, USA
General Idea, Serge Kliaving, Wolfgang Staehle, Koury Wingate Gallery, New York, USA
Fictions, Mirabel Montreal International Airport, Montreal, Canada
D & S Austellung, Hamburger Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany
Homo Genius, Mercer Union Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Zeichnung und Skulptur, Stampa Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
The Subject is AIDS, Nexus, Atlanta, USA
Messages, Didactic Gallery, Plano, USA
1988 Vollbild, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany
Dike Blair, Stephen Ellis, General Idea, Koury Wingate Gallery, New York, USA
Des Emblemes Comme Attitudes, Ecole des Beaux Arts, Tourcoing, France
Toward Common Ground, Real Art Ways, Hartford, USA
Summer '88, Koury Wingate Gallery, New York, USA
Der Hund in mir - The Dog Within, Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, Austria
1988: The World of Art Today (touring exhibition), Milwaukee Art Museum, USA;
Roger Ramsay Gallery, Chicago, USA;
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada;
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA
1987 Modern Living, Jeffrey Linden Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Peter Blum Edition: Enzo Cucchi, General Idea, Brice Marden, James Turrell, Lorence-Monk Gallery, New York, USA
Sign of the Times, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
Material Functions, 49th Parallel, New York, USA;
University of New York, Binghamton, USA
(of Ever-Ever Land I Speak), Stux Gallery, New York, USA
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
Japan 87 International Video and Television Festival, SPIRAL, Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
Documenta 8, Kassel, Germany
A Play of History, Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
From Sea to Shining Sea, Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
Animal Art, Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria
1986 End Game: Reference and Simulation in Recent Painting and Sculpture, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
Caravelle, - Quadriennale internationale de design/General Idea/Ken Lum, Magasin,
Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
The Interpretation of Architecture, YYZ Artists' Outlet, Toronto, Canada
How We See, What We Say, Harbourfront Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1985 Sarah Charlesworth, Robert Garratt, General Idea, Peter Halley, Jeff Koons, Peter Nagy,
Laurie Simmons, International with Monument, New York, USA
Four Legs Good, Harbourfront Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Sarah Charlesworth, General Idea, Peter Halley, Jeff Koons, Peter Nagy, Richard Prince,
and Laurie Simmons,International With Monument, New York, USA
Aurora Borealis, CIAC, Montreal, Canada
De Doppelganger, Aorta, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1984-86 TIME, (touring exhibition), Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium;
Musée Rath, Geneva, Switzerland;
Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark;
Kunsthalle, Mannheim, Germany;
Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria;
Barbican Centre, London, United Kingdom
1984-85 Artistic Collaboration in the Twentieth Century (touring exhibition),
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., USA;
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, USA;
J. I. Speed Museum, Louisville, USA
1984 An International Survey of Recent Painting & Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Dog Work - Dog Show, Interim Art, London, United Kingdom
1984, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria
International Art, Baskerville + Watson, New York, USA
1983 O Kanada, Akademie der Kunst, Berlin, Germany
Künstler aus Kanada, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
Artists' Architecture: Scenes and Conventions, ICA, London, United Kingdom
Museums by Artists, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada;
Musée d'art contemporain, Montreal, Canada;
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Canada
Chromaliving, The Colonnade, Toronto, Canada
Attitudes, Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto, Canada
Pierre et Marie (in ruins of church), Paris, France
1982 Manner/sm: A Theory of Culture, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Sydney Biennale,Sydney, Australia
Fiction (touring exhibition), Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada;
Windsor Art Gallery, Windsor, Canada;
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Canada;
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Canada;
Laurentian University Art Gallery, Sudbury, Canada;
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada;
49th Parallel, New York, USA
Prefiguration and Figuration of the Catastrophe, Centre d'art contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Documenta 7, Kassel, Germany
Robin Collyer, General Idea, Shirley Wiitasalo,Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada
New Narratives for Living and Viewing, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Destroy Those Pictures, Chromazone, Toronto, Canada
Beast, PS1, New York, USA
Monumenta, YYZ, Toronto, Canada
Prime Time Video, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada
Transmissions, Cambridge Art Gallery, Cambridge, Canada
Celebration,ARC, Toronto, Canada
1981 Terminal Building, A Space, Toronto, Canada
New Acquisitions, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1980 Architectural References, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Venice Biennale, Canadian Pavilion, Venice, Italy
Pluralities, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Words and Image, National Film Board Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
Nuova Immagine, XVI Triennale, Palazzo Triennale, Milan, Italy
Ian Carr-Harris, Sarah Charlesworth, General Idea,Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto,
Canada
1979 Perspective '79, Basel Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland
Station to Station,A Space, Toronto, Canada
Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Galerie Marielle Mailhot, Montreal, Canada
1978 Kanadischer Künstler, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1977 Biennale des Jeunes, Paris, France
03 23 03, Parachute, Montreal, Canada
Transparent Things (touring exhibition), Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada; London Regional Art Gallery, London, Canada;
Art Gallery of Victoria, Victoria, Canada;
Musée d'art contemporain, Montreal, Canada
Punk Press, A Space, Toronto, Canada
Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1976 Forum '76, Musée des Beaux Arts, Montreal, Canada
Carr-Harris/Collyer/General Idea/Kosuth/D. Rabinowitch,Carmen Lamanna Gallery,
Toronto, Canada
Carr-Harris/Ewen/General Idea/Janitch/Mackenzie/Martin/D. Rabinowitch/Tangredi,
Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1975 Present Company, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Carmen Lamanna at the Owens Art Gallery, Owens Art Gallery, Halifax, Canada
1974 Sincerely Yours, Granada Gazelle(curated by General Idea), Memo from Turner,
Toronto, Canada
1973 Canada Trajectoires '73, Musée d'art moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris, France
Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Aktionen der Avant-garde, DAAD Gallery, Berlin, Germany
1972 New Acquisitions, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Better Body Works, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, Canada
Burnaby Print Show, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, Canada
Realism, Emulsion and Omission, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston;
University of Guelph Art Gallery, Guelph, Canada
Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1971 Image Bank Post Card Show, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada
1970 Concept 70, Nightingale Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Selected Video Exhibitions and Broadcasts
2004 Toronto, Xchange Club, Ocularis, Brooklyn, USA
2003 30 Jaar: Nederlandse Videokunst, Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst, Amsterdam
Eternal Network: Videos from the Western Front Archives 1973-2001 (touring exhibition), The Western Front, Vancouver, Canada; Video Pool, Winnpeg, Canada; Vidéographe, Montréal, Canada.
Art Star: Vidoe Art Biennial, SawGallery, Ottawa
2002 Video Acts: Single Channel Works from the Collections of Pamela and Richard Kramlich and New Art Trust, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, USA
2000-2001 Video Time, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
1998 Fragile Electrons: Celebrating Twenty Years of Collecting Video Art - Videotapes from the Art Metropole Collection, The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
1997 Documenta 10, Kassel, Germany
Video Plaza, Monte Video, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
1994 General Idea, World Wide Video Center, Den Haag, The Netherlands
1993 The Sequel: Shut the Fuck Up, 5e Semaine Internationale de Video, Geneva,
Switzerland
Videotapes by General Idea, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
1992 General Idea, Taormina Arte Video, Taormina, Italy
1991 General Idea, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
1990 Shut the Fuck Up (Spanish Television broadcast), SPAIN
1989 Test Tube, Cornucopia, Shut the Fuck Up (broadcast), The Netherlands
Video as Television, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
General Idea Video Retrospective, Images '89 Festival, Toronto, Canada
1987 Japan 87 International Video Television Festival, SPIRAL, (Wacoal Art Center), Tokyo,
Japan
Documenta 8, Kassel, Germany
1986 Video Viewpoints, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
1985 General Idea Retrospective, International Festival du Nouveau Cinema, Montreal, Canada
Talking Back to the Media (festival), Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Test Tube (television broadcast), Much Music, Toronto, Canada
1983-85 Second Link - Viewpoints on Video in the Eighties (touring exhibition),
Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Canada;
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA;
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;
A Space, Toronto, Canada;
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, USA;
Institute of Contemporary Art, London, United Kingdom;
Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan;
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan;
Hokkaido Asahikawa Museum of Art, Hokkaido, Japan;
Education and Cultural City of Sapporo, Sapporo, Japan; Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan;
The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan
1982 Prime Time Video (television broadcast), Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada
New Narratives for Livingroom Viewing, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Documenta 7, Kassel, Germany
1981 Portopia International Video Festival (award-winner), Kobe, Japan
San Francisco Video Festival(broadcast), San Francisco, USA
Frontiers (broadcast), WNED-TV, Buffalo, USA
Video Video, Toronto Film Festival, Toronto, Canada
1980 Venice Biennale, Canadian Pavilion, Venice, Italy
Test Tube, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1979 Colour Bar Lounge, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Video Weeks Essen, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
1978 In Video (touring exhibition), Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada; Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Canada
Another Dimension, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
High Profile (slowscan transmission),Toronto, Canada
Video Open (cablecast), Calgary, Canada
Artists and the Media, Graz, Austria
Towards an Audience Vocabulary ( cablecast), Toronto, Canada
Open Line (slowscan transmission between cities), Toronto, New York, Memphis,
San Francisco, Vancouver, Victoria, Canada and USA
1977 Pilot (television broadcast), OECA TV Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Xth Biennale des Jeunes, Musée d'art moderne, Paris, France
1976 Projects Video VIII, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Forum '76,Musée des Beaux Arts, Montreal, Canada
Video International, Aarhus, Denmark
Festival Calgary,Parachute Centre, Calgary, Canada
1975 Video Art (touring exhibition), Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA; Contemporary Art Centre, Cincinatti, USA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA; Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, USA
1974 Project '74, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germany
Videoscape, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
1972 Light-On Documentation, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1971 Exposé - A Video Device,(video installation), A Space, Toronto, Canada
Film and Video Works
1993 - 94 AIDS, (computer animation), video, colour, silent, 30 min.
1992 The Sequel: Shut the Fuck Up, (In boxed, hand-bound hardcover book with gold- stamping, die-cut pages. Edition of 8 plus 1 A/P, published by Stampa Galerie, Basel), video, colour, sound, 30 min. Also a video installation.
1985 Shut the Fuck Up (produced for "Talking Back to the Media" symposium, Amsterdam), video, colour, sound, 14 min.
1982 Cornucopia, video, colour, sound, 10 min. (Produced by the Western Front, Vancover). Also an installation.
Loco (produced by Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, for CBC television), video, colour, sound, 10 min.
1980 Off the Wall (General Idea segment conceived by General Idea; produced by National Film Board of Canada), 35mm film, sound, 5 min.
1979 Test Tube (produced for television by De Appel, Amsterdam), video, colour, 28 min.
1978 - 80 Hot Property, video, colour, sound, 26 min.
1977 Press Conference, video, colour, sound, 5 min.
Pilot(produced for television by OECD (TV Ontario), video, colour, sound, 29 min.
1976 Interview with Foreman Lamanna, video, colour, sound, 7 min.
1975 - 76 Going thru the Motions, video, colour, sound, 53 min.
1974 Blocking, video, video, colour, sound, 17 min.
1972 - 73 Humpty Dumpty, For Example, video, sound, b/w, 8 min. (edited version 4.40 min.)
1971 - 74 Light-On, video, black and white, sound, 20 min.
1971 Fire Mirror Video (with Image Bank and Michael Goldberg), video, b/w, 5 min., 57 sec.
Double Mirror Video, video, b/w, sound, 5 min.
Exposé - A Video Device, video installation, A Space, Toronto
1969 God Is My Gigolo (incomplete), 16mm, black and white, 30 min.
A Purse Snatching (Felix Partz), Super 8 transfer to video, colour, sound, 4 min., 40 sec.
Performances
2003 XXX (rose), MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, USA
1984 XXX bleu, Centre d'Art Contemporarin, Geneva, Switzerland
1982 P is for Poodle: The Milky Way from the 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion,
O Kanada, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany;
The Music Gallery, Toronto, Canada
The Honeymoon is Over, Sydney Biennial, Sydney, Australia
1981 The Honeymoon is Over, A Space, Toronto, Canada
1979 An Anatomy of Censorship, Body Politic Rally, Toronto, Canada;
De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;
Galerie Krinzinger, Innsbruck, Austria;
Galerie Lucio Amelio, Naples, Italy;
Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland;
Art '79, Basel Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland;
Modern Art Gallery, Vienna, Austria;
I.C.C., Antwerp, Belgium;
Agora Studios, Maastricht, The Netherlands
1978 Glamour, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, United Kingdom;
Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, United Kingdom;
Galeria Lucio Amelio, Naples, Italy;
Zona Galerie, Florence, Italy;
Galeria Laboratorio, Milan, Italy;
Art '78, Basel Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland
Towards an Audience Vocabulary, Fifth Network/Cinquième Réseau, Toronto, Canada
High Profile, CN Tower, Toronto, Canada
1977 Press Conference, The Western Front, Vancouver, Canada
Hot Property!, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
Fleshed Out, St. Lawrence College, Kingston, Canada
The Ruins of the 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion, Kingston, Canada
Glamour, The Western Front, Vancouver;
Parachute Centre, Calgary;
03 23 03, Montreal, Canada
1976 New York Gossip, A Space, Toronto, Canada
Glamour, Plug In, Winnipeg, Canada
1975 Glamour, Columbia University, New York, USA
Going thru the Motions, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
1974 Art's Birthday/the Hollywood Decca Dance (in collaboration with Lowell Darling, Willoughby Sharp, Image Bank, Glenn Lewis and the New York Corres Sponge Dance School of Vancouver, Dr. Brute and Lady Brute of Banal Beauty Inc. and the Western Front, the John Dowd Fan Club, Ace Space Co. and others), Elk's Building, Hollywood, USA
Blocking, The Western Front, Vancouver, Canada
1972 Humpty Dumpty, For Example, Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Canada
1971 The 1971 Miss General Idea Pageant, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
1970 A Frame of Mind (AA Bronson and Kati Hewko), Simon Fraser University and Vancouver School of Fine Arts, Vancouver, Canada
Gertrude Stein Memorial Events (AA Bronson), Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
Mantra/Naming Event, Nightingale Gallery, Toronto, Canada
What Happened, Festival of Underground Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, Toronto, Canada
The 1970 Miss General Idea Pageant, Festival of Underground Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, Toronto
1969 A Purse Snatching(Felix Partz) Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
Laundromat Special #1, Theatre Passe Muraille, Toronto, Canada
Laundromat Special #2(on the streets of Toronto), Toronto, Canada
Match My Strike, Poor Alex Theatre, Toronto, Canada
Air Earth Fire Water Mantra, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Publications
For a complete list of publications, multiples and other editions, see General Idea: Multiples, (Toronto: S. L. Simpson Gallery, 1993).
(Note: FILE Megazine, listed below, was published by Art Official Inc., Toronto, in varying edition sizes ranging from 1,500 to 3,500 copies)
1995 XXX Voto (to the Spirit of Miss General Idea), offset publication, 128 pp. plus cover, color reproductions. Edition of 900 plus 1 A/P, signed and numbered (rubber-stamped). Published by Galerie René Blouin and S. L. Simpson Gallery, Montreal and Toronto
1992 The Sequel: Shut the Fuck Up,(boxed hard-cover publication with text and a VHS video in PAL or NTSC formats); edition of 6, plus 1 A/P; signed and numbered. Published by Stampa Galerie, Basel
1989 General Idea: The AIDS Project, three editions comprising: a) insert for C Magazine (no. 22 Summer 1989), Toronto, offset on paper, 12 pp. plus cover. Edition size unknown, unsigned and unnumbered; b) edition of about 100 off-prints of the above insert; c) edition of 1000 pamphlets, with additional text by Allan Schwartzman, offset, 28 pp. plus cover, Gershon Iskowitz Foundation, Toronto
FILE Megazine ("Final Issue, The City Issue"), no. 29, 1989
1988 AIDS: The Public and Private Domains of the Miss General Idea Pavillion, offset pamphet, 12 pp. plus cover, color reproductions. Edition of 1000, unsigned and unnumbered. Published by Artspace, San Francisco
Test Pattern: TV Dinner Plates from the Miss General Idea Pavillion, offset publication, 18pp. (contains 4 paper tear-out "placemats") plus cover, color reproductions, text by Mary Anne Staniszewski. Edition size unknown, some signed, unnumbered. Published to accompany the exhibition of the same name by SPIRAL (Wacoal Art Center), Tokyo
1987 FILE Megazine, no. 28, 1987 ("The Journal of the New Art Market Issue")
FILE Megazine, no. 27, Spring 1987 ("The Journal of the New Mortality Issue")
1986 FILE Megazine, no. 26, 1986 ("Artnews Issue")
FILE Megazine, no. 25, 1986 ("Sex, Drugs, Rock 'n' Roll Issue")
1985 FILE Megazine, vol. 6, no. 3, 1985 ("Diane Frankenstein Issue")
1984 Marital Triangles: A Psychological Presentation of Extra-Marital Affairs,found offset pamphlet with trimmed color postcard mounted on cover, 32 pp. plus cover,. Edition of 6; signed and numbered. Self-published
FILE Megazine, vol. 6, no.1/2, 1984 ("General Idea's 1984 and the 1968-1984 FILE Retrospective Issue")
1983 FILE Megazine, vol. 5, no. 4, 1983 ("Mondo Cane Kama Sutra")
1982 FILE Megazine, vol. 5, no. 3, Spring 1982 ("X Ray Sex Issue")
1981 FILE Megazine, vol. 5, no. 2, Fall 1981 ("The Rematerialization of the Art Object")
FILE Megazine, vol. 5, no. 1, March 1981 ("Special $ucce$$ Issue,"), with flexidisc insert by the League of Gentlemen
1980 The Getting into the Spirits Cocktail Book from the 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion,
offset publication, 64 pp. plus cover. Two versions: a) edition of 900, signed, rubber-stamped, and numbered, with hot-stamped black linen cover and, b) edition of 100, signed, rubber-stamped, and numbered, soft cover with tipped-on colour photograph (also included in the multiple, "Magic Palette"). Self-published
FILE Megazine, vol. 4, no. 4, Fall 1980 ("Foreign Agents")
FILE Megazine, vol. 4, no. 3, Summer 1980 ("Special Global Downtown Issue")
1979 FILE Megazine, vol. 4, no. 2, Fall 1979 ("Special Transgressions Issue")
1978 General Idea: Ménage à Trois, offset pamphlet, 24 pp. plus cover, black-and-white reproductions. Edition of 500, some signed, unnumbered. Published by Art Metropole, Toronto
Bound to Please: FILE Megazine1972-1975, black linen portfolio with white hot-stamping containing 7 issues of FILE (vol. 1, no. 1, 15 April 1972 to vol. 3, no. 1, Autumn 1975), which have been bound into a single volume with black leather cover with white hot satmping. Edition of 30, signed, rubber-stamped, and numbered, of which only 18 produced. Self-published
FILE Megazine, vol. 4, no. 1, Summer 1978 ("1984: A Year in Pictures")
1977 S/HE: The 1984 Miss General Idea Pageant No. 102, offset pamphlet, 12 pp. plus cover, black-and-white reproductions. Edition of 500, signed, rubber-stamped and numbered. Self-published
Reconstructing Futures, offset publication, 24 pp. plus cover, black-and-white reproductions and spot colour. Edition size unknown. Self-published
FILE Megazine, vol. 3, no. 4, Fall 1977 ("Punk til You Puke")
FILE Megazine, vol. 3, no. 3, Spring 1977 ("Special People Issue")
1976 FILE Megazine, vol. 3, no. 2, Spring 1976("New York City Edition")
General Idea: Search for the Spirit, offset pamphlet, 12 pp. plus cover, black-and-white reproductions. Edition size unknown; unsigned and unnumbered. Published by Galerie Gaetan, Geneva
"Form Follows Fiction", Unmuzzled ox, vol. IV, no. 2, 1976.
1975 FILE Megazine, vol. 3, no. 1, Autumn 1975 ("Glamour Issue"), with 8-page tabloid insert by Image Bank (a.k.a. Michael Morris and Vincent Trasov). There is a variant with the High profile logo screenprinted on the cover which was given to the audience at the High profile performance event (1978)
Victor Coleman (Vic d'Or), ed. and AA Bronson," Mondo Artie Episode No. 1681", IS, no. 17, fall 1975
1974 FILE Megazine, vol. 2, no. 5, February 1974 ("Annual Artists' Directory"), with flexidisc insert by the Residents
1973 Luxon V.B.: The 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion No. 101, offset pamphlet, 16 pp.
plus cover, black-and-white reproductions. Edition of 500 of which #1-100 are signed and numbered on heavier stock, and #101-500 are numbered only. Self-published
FILE Megazine, vol. 2, no. 4, December 1973 ("(Mondo Nudo Issue")
FILE Megazine, vol. 2, no. 3, September 1973 ("IFEL Issue")
FILE Megazine, vol. 2, no. 1/2, May 1973 ("Special Double Issue"), with offset insert by Image Bank (a.k.a. Michael Morris and Vincent Trasov)
1972 FILE Megazine, vol. 1, no. 4, December 1972 ("Eye of the Shadow")
FILE Megazine, vol. 1, no. 2/3, May/June 1972 ("Manipulating the Self")
FILE Megazine, vol. 1, no. 1, April 15, 1972, ("Mr. Peanut Issue") with offset insert by Dana Atchley
"Fumeti" (collaboration with Victor Coleman and Dennis Young), in Open Letter, 2nd series, no. 2, summer 1972
1971 Shoe Journal (Jorge Zontal), (Issue # 5 of Snore Comix), offset publication, 64 pp. plus cover, black-and-white reproductions. Edition size unknown (only 120 remain of approximately 200), unsigned and unnumbered. Published by Coach House Press, Toronto
The 1970 Miss General Idea Pageant, offset pamphlet, 12 pp. plus cover, black-and-white reproductions. Edition of approximately 50, some signed, unnumbered. Self-published
The 1971 Miss General Idea Pageant Programme, offset pamphlet, 16 pp. plus cover, black-and-white reproductions. Edition of approximately 500, some signed, unnumbered. Self-published
Manipulating the Self, offset pamphlet, 20 pp. plus cover, black-and-white reproductions. Edition of 500, unsigned and unnumbered. Published by Coach House Press, Toronto, Canada
Awards
2006 TheSkowhegan Medal, The Skowhegan School of Painting & Sculpture, New York
2004 2004 Melva J. Dwyer Award, The Art Librarians
Society of North America (ARLIS) for the publication General Idea Editions: 1968-1995.
2002 Toronto Friends of the Visual Arts Award (awarded to AA Bronson), Toronto, Canada
Governor General's Visual and Media Arts Award (awarded to AA Bronson), Canada Council for the Arts, Ottawa, Canada
2001 Bell Canada Award in Video Art,Canada Coucnil for the Arts, Ottawa, Canada
1995 Ovation! Namesake Awards, the General Idea Award, PWA Foundation, Toronto, Canada
1994 Jean A. Chalmers Award for Visual Arts, Toronto, Canada
1993 The Banff Centre for the Arts National Award, Banff, Canada
1993 Lifetime Achievement Award,City of Toronto, Canada
1989 Visual Arts Award,City of Toronto, Canada
1988 The Gershon Iskowitz Prize, Toronto, Canada
1981 Portopia Award,International Video Art Festival, Portopia, Kobe, Japan
1978 Arton's Industrial Award, Arton's, Calgary, Canada: "To General Idea for their decade of achievement (1968-78) in measuring success".
1974 Best Glossy Zine for 1973, The Eternal Network, Art's Birthday, the Hollywood Deccadance, Hollywood, USA
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