Anthony McCall

Education

1968 Design, Ravenbourne-College of Art and Design, London, England.

  

Exhibitions

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024

Rooms. Museu de Arte, Arquitetura e Tecnologia - MAAT, Lisbon, Portugal

Solid Light. TATE Modern, London, United Kingdom

Split Second. Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain

 

2023

New Solid Light Works and Early Drawings. Sean Kelly Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

 

2021

Anthony McCall. Solid light and Performance works. Mieres Centru Cultural, Mieres, Spain

 

2019

Art Unlimited. Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland

Dark Rooms, Solid Light. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA 

Eyes On. Denver Art Museum, Denver, USA

 

2018

Anthony McCall: Split Second. Sean Kelly, New York, USA

Solid Light Works. The Hepworth Wakefield, Wakefield, UK

Solid Light Works. Pioneer Works, New York, USA

 

2017

Lismore Castle Arts, Lismore, Ireland

 

2016

Fundació Gaspar, Barcelona, Spain

Leaving (With Two-Minute Silence). Galerie Martine Aboucaya, Paris, France

 

2015

Anthony McCall: Solid Light Works. LAC Lugano Arte e Cultura, Lugano, Switzerland

Anthony McCall: Night Ship. MONA, Dark Mofo Festival, Hobart, Australia

Leaving (With Two-Minute Silence). Stanford University, Stanford, USA

Notebooks & Duration Drawings, 1972 – 2013. Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA

Face to Face. Trish Clark Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

 

2014

Traveling Wave. Yale University 32 Edgewood Gallery, New Heaven, USA

Circulation Figures. Luciana Brito Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil

Solid Light Films and Other Works (1971 – 2014). EYE Film Museum, Amsterdam, Holland

 

2013

You and I, Horizontal. Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis, USA

El Alaph. Faena Art Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Face to Face. Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA; Galerie Martine Aboucaya, Paris, France

Two Double Works. Kunstmuseum St Gallen, Lokremise, Switzerland

Solid-Light Works. Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France

Crossing the Elbe. Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany

1970’s Solid Light Works. Spreuth Magers, Berlin, Germany

Face to Face IV. Martine Aboucaya, Paris, France

 

2012

Five Minutes of Pure Sculpture. Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany

Meeting You Halfway II. Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany

Early Performance Films. Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany

Phenomenologies of Projection, Aesthetics of Transition. The University of Chicago, USA

Anthony McCall: The Complete Cone Films. The Tanks, Tate Modern, London, UK

 

2011

Luciana Brito Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil

Light Sculptures. Laboral Centro de Arte, Asturias, Spain

Vertical Works. Ambika P3, University of Westminster, London, UK

Between You and I. Solid Lights, Le Collège des Bernardins, Paris, France

Works on Paper. Sprüth Magers, London, UK

Throes. Martine Aboucaya, Paris, France

 

2010

Anthony McCall: Drawing with Light. Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

Anthony McCall: Leaving (with Two-Minute Silence). Sean Kelly, New York, New York

 

2009

Anthony McCall: Leaving (with Two-Minute Silence). Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA; Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany

Nu/Now: Anthony McCall. Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

Anthony McCall: Breath [The Vertical Works]. Hangar Bicocca, Milan, Italy

Anthony McCall: The Vertical Works. Estuaire, Nantes, France

Anthony McCall: Line Describing a Cone. Pompidou Metz, France

The Roman Church of St-Pierre-aux-Nonnains, Metz, France

 

2008

Anthony McCall: Elements for a Retrospective. Utzon Center Aalborg, Denmark

Anthony McCall. Galerie Martine Aboucaya, Paris, France

Geometry As Image. Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA

 

2007

Anthony McCall. Serpentine Gallery, London, UK

Anthony McCall: Elements pour une Retrospective (1972-1979 / 2003- 2007). Musee de Rochechouart, Rochechouart, France

Anthony McCall: Between You and I. Art Cologne Special Exhibition, Cologne, Germany

Anthony McCall: You and I, Horizontal (III). Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA

 

2006

Anthony McCall: ‘Between You and I’ etautres films de lumière solide. IAC: Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France

Anthony McCall: You and I, Horizontal. Lieu d’Imagesetd’Art, Fort de la Bastille, Grenoble, France

Four Projected Movements: A Film Project by Anthony McCall. Arthur Ross Architecture Gallery, Columbia University, New York, USA

Peer. Round Chapel, London, UK

Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany

Vardy Gallery, University of Sunderland, UK

 

2005

Galerie Martine Aboucaya, Paris, France

Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany

Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain

 

2004

Long Film for Four Projectors. Tate Britain, London, UK

Doubling Back/ Turning Under. Gagosian Gallery, London, UK

Anthony McCall: Films de Lumière Solide. Centre Pompidou/La Maison Rouge, Foundation Antoine de Galbert, Paris, France

Anthony McCall: Film Installations. Mead Gallery, Warwick Art Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK

 

1976

NeueGalerie, Aachen, Germany

Cineprobe. MoMA The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

Musée Nationale d’Art Moderne, Paris, France

Millennium Film Workshop, New York, USA

 

1975

Serpentine Gallery, London, England

Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, USA

Galerie St. Petri, Lund, Sweden

Collective for Living Cinema, New York, USA

London Film-Makers’ Cooperative, London, UK

 

1974

Millennium Film Workshop. New York, USA

Artists Space. New York, USA

London Film-Makers’ Cooperative, London, UK

Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK

Anthony McCall: Solid Light Films. Collective for Living Cinema and Film Forum, New York, USA

The Clocktower, New York, USA

 

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024

Sensation: Lumières, Levant. Galerie Duchamp, Yvetot, France

Drawing Biennieal 2024. Tannery Arts Drawing Room, London, England

 

2023

CO-EXTENSIVE. Galerie Rudolfinum, Prague, Czech Republic

 

2022

Air. Queensland Art Gallery - Gallery of Modern Art, Queensland, Australia

at dawn. Julia Stoschek Collection, Berlin, Germany

Traverser la nuit. Works from the Antoine the Galbert Collection. Museum of Art, Architecture and Technology - MAAT, Lisboa, Portugal

 

2021

The Light Between Us. Online Film Exhibition, Kadist

 

2020

Deceptive Images - Playing with Painting & Photography. Marta Herford Museum for Art, Architecture and Design, Herford, Germany

LB/Online Video Festival. Luciana Brito Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil

 

2016

Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, New York, New York

What is Cinema? Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

About Time: Photography in a Moment of Change. Musem of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA

California Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905-2016. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA

Light Show. Corpartes, Santiago, Chile

A World View The Tim Fairfax Gift. QAGOMA Queen’s Land Art Gallery Australia, Brisbane, Australia

Dreamlands: Immersive Cinema and Art, 1905-2016. Whitney Museum, New York, USA

 

2015

15. Luciana Brito Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil    

Luz Do Mundo. 5a Bienal Internacional de Curitiba, Curitiba, Brazil

Imaterialidade. Sesc Belenzinho, São Paulo, Brazil

Light Show. Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia; Sharjah Art Foundation, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates; Neon Foundation, Athens, Greece

Sensory Systems. Grundy Art Gallery, Blackpool, UK

Going Public: International Art Collectors in Sheffield. Millennium Gallery, Sheffield, UK

¡DARK! Center for International Light Art, Unna, Germany 

 

2014

Simple Forms. Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France

El Hotel Eléctrico – Rooms Available. Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, Belgium

Cinema & Painting. Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand

In The Beginning / End-States. Sgorbati Projects, New York, USA

En el Camino/On the Road. Palacio de Gelmírez, Santiago de Compostela, Spain

Extracts and extractions. Les Abattoirs, Toulouse, France

Landscape: the virtual, the actual, the possible? Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, USA

Uncommon Ground: Land Art in Britain, 1966 – 1979. Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, UK; Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield, UK

Light Show. Auckland Art Museum, Auckland, New Zealand

  

2013

On Nature. Sean Kelly, New York, USA

El Aleph: Anthony McCall & Mischa Kuball. Faena Art Center, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Uncommon Ground: Land Art in Britain 1966-1979. Southbank Centre, Southampton, UK; National Museum of Wales, Cardiff Light Show, Hayward Gallery, London, UK

When Now Is Minimal: The Unknown Side Of The Goetz Collection. New Museum, Nuremberg, Germany

Lunch with Olympia. Yale University School of Art, New Haven, USA

 

2012

For the Martian Chronicles. L&M Gallery, Venice, USA

Double-and-Add: Angela Bulloch | Haroon Mirza | Anthony McCall. RISD Museum, Providence, USA

Light and Landscape. Storm King, New Windsor, USA

Ends of the Earth: Art of the Land to 1974. MoCA The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA

Ends of the Earth: Art of the Land to 1974. Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany

Graphology. The Drawing Room, London, UK

Collection’12. Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France

Art Unlimited / Art 43 Basel. Basel, Switzerland

Luzes da Cidade. Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Open Spaces / Secret Places. Works from the Sammlung Verbund. Museum der Moderne Kunst, Salzburg, Austria

 

2011

MMK 1991 — 2011: Twenty Years. Museum Fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany

Time Out Of Mind: Sol Le Witt. Gordon Matta-Clark, Anthony McCall, Sprueth Magers, Berlin, Germany

The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image. Fundació La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain

Off the Wall. Fundação Serralves, Porto, Portugal

Electric Nights. Laboral Centro de Arte, Asturias, Spain

Seeing Now: Photography Since 1960. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA

On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

Behind the Light. Nathan A. Bernstein & Co. LTD, New York, USA

Frames and Documents: Conceptualist Practices. CIFO, Miami, USA

  

2010

Behind the Light. Nathan A. Bernstein & Co. Ltd., New York, USA

Between You and Me. Centro Nacional de Artes Visuales, Madri, Spain

Contemplating the Void. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA

L’Exposition Lunatique. Kadist Art Foundation, Paris, France

Monitoring. Kasseler Kunstverein, Kassel, Germany

Landscape as an Idea, Projects and Projections: 1960–1980. Koldo Mitxelena Kulturunea, Donostia–San Sebastián, Spain

Landscapes / (Confini in Disordine). Magazzino d’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy

Electric Nights. Multimedia Art Museum, Moscow, Russia

Sensorialités Excentriques. Musée Départemental d’Art Contemporain, Rochechouart, France

I Want to See What You See. Julia Stoschek Collection, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany

Light in Darkness. Zero Foundation, Media Harbor, Düsseldorf, Germany 

 

2009

Anthony McCall: Vertical Works. Estuaire 2009, St Nazaire, France

PLOT09: This World and Nearer Ones. Creative Time, Governor´s Island, USA

Anthony McCall / Finnbogi Petursson. 8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland

Art Unlimited. Art Basel, Switzerland

Anthony McCall & Finnbogi Pétursson. Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA

Seeing Double. Galerie Thomas Zander, Berlin, Germany

Cinema Indeed: Narratives & Projections. Instituto Itaú Cultural, São Paulo, Brazil

 

2008

Drawings on Graph Paper, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects. New York, USA

L'artdanstoussesétats. Regional Contemporary Art Foundation of Ile-de-France, France

Cancelled, Erased, and Removed. Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA

Singapore Biennial

Synthetic Times. National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China

Spring Wound. Orchard, New York, USA

To Infinity and Beyond: Mathematics and Contemporary Art. Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, New York, USA

Geometry of Motion 1920s/1970s. MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

Moving Light, Pole Culturel Intercommunal. Pau Pyrenees, France

The Cinema Effect: Illusion, Reality, and the Moving Image. Hirshhorn Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, USA

Notation. Akademie de Kunste, Berlin, Germany

 

2007

Project, Transform, Erase: Anthony McCall and Imi Knoebel. SFMoMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA

A Sense of Place. OPEN e V+ a 2007, Limerick, Ireland

Das Kapital: Blue Chips and Masterpieces. Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt, Germany

Held Together with Water: Art from the Sammlung Verbund. Sammlung Verbund, Vienna, Austria

Number One: Destroy, She Said. Julia Stoschek Collection, Düsseldorf, Germany

Projecting Light: Anthony McCall and Imi Knoebel. SFMoMA San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, São Francisco, USA

PURE. Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, USA

Insubstantial Pageant Faded. Westernbridge, Seattle, USA    

 

2006

Art 37 Basel / Art Unlimited. Basel, Switzerland

Beyond Cinema: The Art of Projection. Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany

Doubling Back, Nuit Blanche. Paris, France

The Expanded Eye. Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland

Experimenta 2006. Fourth Festival of Experimental Cinema in India, Bombay, India

On/Off. Fonds Regional D’ArtContemporain de Lorraine, Metz, France

Projections beyond Cinematic Space. Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany

Sudden Impact. Le Frac Ile-de-France, Paris, France

Tunnel Vision. Fotomuseum, Antuérpia, Belgium

  

2005

The Continuous Present. Peter Campus & Anthony McCall: Works from the Seventies. Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, USA

LichtkunstausKunstlicht. ZKM Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany

Produced at Eyebeam. Eyebeam, New York, USA

The Trouble with Talkies. Double Agents / ADI Space, London, UK

Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Espanha

Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Alemanha

 

2004

Kill Your Timid Notion festival. Dundee Contemporary Arts, Sachiko M, USA

Avanto Helsinki Media Art Festival, Finland

Eyes, Lies & Illusions. Hayward Gallery, London, UK

Expanded Cinema: Film as Spectacle. Medien Kunst Verein, Dortmund, Germany

Wavelengths. Toronto International Film Festival 2004, Canada

Whitney Biennial. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA

 

2003

X-Screen: The Expanded Screen: Actions and Installations of the Sixties and Seventies. MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria

 

2002

Cooperative & British Avant-Garde Film 1966 – 76. 51st Melbourne International Film Festival, Australia

Tate Modern, London, UK

 

2001

Into the Light: The Projected Image in American Art 1964 – 1977. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA; The Cleveland Museum; Fundação Centro Cultural de Belém, Lisboa, Portugal; Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany

 

2000

The American Century: Art & Culture 1900 – 2000. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA

  

1995

L’Artet la Vie 1952 – 1994. Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

 

1990

Artists Films. Anthology Film Archives, New York, USA

 

1980

Camere Incantate: Espansione dell’Immagine. Commune di Milano Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy

 

1978

Art and Cinema. Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

La Mano dell’Occhio: Giornate Internazionali del Cinema d’Artista. Salone Brunelleschi ano dell’Istituto degli Innocenti, Florence, Italy

Préface. Centre d’ArtContemporainet Ecart, Geneve, Switzerland

 

1977

Four and Seven. San Francisco Art Institute, USA

Film als Film: 1910 bis Heute. Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany

Documenta 6. Kassel Plan & Space, Academy of Fine Arts, Ghent, Germany

 

1976

Where Are You Standing? Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

International Forum of Avant-Garde Film. 30th International Film Festival, Edinburgh, Scotland

The Festival of Expanded Cinema. Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, UK

 

1975

Luminous Realities. Wright State University Art Gallery, Dayton, USA

Paris Biennale, Paris, France

New Media I. Malmö Konsthall, Sweden

Ideas. The Idea Warehouse, New York, USA

Festival of Independent British Cinema. Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK

 

1974

Works: Words. The Clocktower. New York, USA

 

1973

Autumn Arts Festival. Fylkingen Society for Contemporary Music and Arts, Stockholm, Sweden

 

Prizes

2024

National Academician, The National Academy of Design, United States

 

2016

American Academy of Arts and Letters Awards in Art

 

2008

John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellow

 

2006

International Association of Art Critics, Alemanha

 

1975

Marie-Josi, 5ª Competição Internacional de Filmes experimentais de Knokke  [Bélgica] por Line Describing a Cone

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