JOHN GIORNO
Born 1936 in New York, NY, US
Died 2019 in New York, NY, US
EDUCATION
1958 Columbia University, New York, NY, US
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
I am a Poet, Almine Rech, Shanghai
2022
Cherry Blossoms are Razor Blades, Morán Morán, Los Angeles, US
2021
John Giorno, Almine Rech, London, UK
John Giorno, Sperone Westwater, New York, US
2019
John Giorno: DO THE UNDONE, Sperone Westwater, New York, US
2017
Perfect Flowers, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, US
Space Forgets You, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, CH
Ugo Rondinone: I ♥John Giorno, a cross-institutional exhibition (Artists space, High Line, Howl, The Kitchen, New Museum, Red Bull Studios, Sky Arts, Swiss Institute, White Columns, Hunter College), New York, US
John Giorno: New Work, Cahiers d’Art, Paris, FR
2016
Le Case D’Arte, Milan, IT
2015
Ugo Rondinone: I ♥ John Giorno, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
God Is Man Made, Almine Rech Gallery, Paris
Un mois autour de la poésie– John Giorno, Flux Laboratory, Carouge, CH
Space Forgets You, Elizabeth Dee, New York, US
John Giorno, Elizabeth Dee, New York, US
2014
John Giorno, Max Wigram at Independent Projects, New York, US
2013
Everyone Gets Lighter, Max Wigram Gallery, London
Le cri du mur, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
2012
John Giorno - Paintings, Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, FR
Thanx 4 Nothing, Faux Mouvement Centre d'Art contemporain, Metz, FR
Interventions sur le bâtiment, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
2011
Star 69: Dial-A-Poem Relics, The Bauer Hotel, Campo San Moise, Venice, IT
2010
Eating the Sky, Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, BE
Black Paintings and Drawings, Nicole Klagsbrun, New York
Diagonales, Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Puteaux, FR
Sonopoetics (de la parole à l’image, de la poésie au son), Institut Supérieur pour l'Étude du Langage Plastique, Brussels, BE
2009
LIFE IS A KILLER, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, FR
Thanx 4 Nothing: Drawings and Print Poems, Galerie du Jour Agnès b., Paris, FR
2007
LA SAGEZZA DELLE STREGHE/ WISDOM OT THE WITCHES / LA SAGESSE DES SORCIÈRES, Kaplan Project n°3, Napoli, IT
2005
Millions of Stars Come into my Heart, Welcome home, Galerie du Jour Agnès b., Paris, FR
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Something Else Press and Intermedia (1963-1974), Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
2022
Pas Sommeil: La Fête Dans Tous Ses États, FRAC Bretagne, Rennes, France
Space Forgets You, Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh, UK
Nature Doesn't Know About Us, Sculpture Milwaukee, WI
Phraseology, The Bass, Miami Beach, FL
2021
From The Archives: White Columns & 112 Greene Street – 1970-2021, White Columns, New York, NY
Petits papiers du 20e siècle, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
I know where I'm going, Who can I be now?, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK
Rites of Spring, LongHouse Reserve, Easthampton, NY
WHAT A DUMP, David Zwirner, New York, NY
Doomed and Famous: Selections from the Adrian Dannatt Collection, Miguel Abreu, New York, NY
2020
Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, CH
In Focus: Statements, Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen
Color & Complexity: 30 Years at Durham Press, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA
Andy Warhol, Tate Modern, London, UK curated by Gregor Muir (catalogIt Never Ends, Kanal Centre Pompidou, Brussels
John Giorno Poetry Day, MAMCO, Geneva
2019
Do The Undone, Sperone Westwater, New York, NY
You Got to Burn to Shine, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome
2017
Voyage d’hiver, curated by The Palais de Tokyo, the Palace of Versailles, Versailles, France
Call and Response: Recent Acquisitions from The Bass Collection, The Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach
OVER THE RAINBOW, Praz-Delavallade Gallery, Los Angeles
The World Is Sound, The Rubin Museum of Art, New York, US
2016
SEEABLE/SAYABLE, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
Ill Seen Ill Said, White Flag Projects, Saint Louis
Looking Back / The 10th White Columns Annual, selected by Matthew Higgs, White Columns, New York
2015
The Exhibition of a Film, by Matthew Copeland, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Artists and Poets, Secession, Vienna
2014
Sed Tantum Dic Verbo (Just Say The Word), Blain Southern, Berlin
2013
Ceremonie, Melina Gloss Gallery, Paris
Futur simple: saison 1, FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, France
Kilomètres / heure, Musée du Château des ducs de Wurtemberg, Montbéliard, France
39 Great Jones, Eva Presenhuber Gallery, Zurich
2012
Le paysage, l'art et le fleuve, Estuaire Nantes <> Saint-Nazaire, FR
Ecstatic Alphabets / Heaps of Language, MoMA, NY, US
Les Maîtres du désordre, Musée du quai Branly, Paris, FR
2011
15 Minutes: Homage to Andy Warhol, Pollock Krasner House & Study Center, East Hampton, NY, US
It's For You: Conceptual Art and the Telephone, Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT, US
Star 69: Dial-A-Poem Relics, The Bauer Hotel, Campo San Moise, Venice, IT
2010
It's All American, Inaugural exhibition, New Jersey Museum of Contemporary Art, NJ, US
Rip It Up and Start Again, Artists Space, New York, NY, US
2009
Modern modern, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY, US
2008
Traces du Sacré, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, FR
Printed in France, Jordan Seydoux Gallery, Berlin, DE
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Centre, London, UK
LA CHUTE OU LA LUTTE/LA CADUTTA O LA LOTTA/FALL OR FIGHT, Kaplan's
Project n°3, Napoli, IT
KAPLAN'S PROJECTIONS: dans un monde de plus en plus sombre / in a darkest and
darkest mood / in un contesto sempre più buio, Kaplan's Project n°3, Napoli, IT2007
Galerie d’art Contemporain, Hôtel de Ville de Besançon, Besançon, FR
WELCOMING THE FLOWERS, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York, NY, US
Words and Music, Michael Berger Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, US
2006
Renegades: 25 Years of Performance at Exit Art, Exit Art, New York, NY, US
2005
Multiplo – 3, N.O.Gallery - Giannattasio, Milan, IT
Multiplo – 1, N.O.Gallery - Giannattasio, Milan, IT
2004
Multiple Strategies, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, US
c:neai= ephemeras, Centre National de l’Estampe de l’Art Imprimé, Chatou, FR
2003
Zona People 1974-1985, Non profit art space – Firenze, Musée d´Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, CH
2002
Lowland Lullaby, SI Swiss Institute, New York, NY, US
1997
Konkrete Poesie: Konzeptuelle Kunst, Städtische Galerie, Rosenheim, DE
1993
Galerie Donguy, Paris, FR
FABULOUS SEX/COMPASSION, Artists Space, New York, NY, US
1992
Kunstwerke Gallery, Berlin, DE
Marcel Sitcoske Gallery, New York, NY, US
1988
Whatever Window Is Your Pleasure, George Mulder Fine Art, London, UK
1970
Information, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1969
Software, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
DIAL-A-POEM
2017
Red Bull Arts, New York, NY
2015
Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
1992
Poemfone, New York, US
1985
Montreal, CA
1983
Berlin and 12 Cities in West Germany, DE
1980
Amberson, PA, US
1976
TELEPOEM, Venice, CA, US
DIAL-A-POEM, Milwaukee, WI, US
Indianapolis, IN, US
Louisville, KY, US
1975
PHONE-A-POEM, Cambridge, MA, US
1973
Albany, NY, US
1972
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, US
1970
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, US
Amsterdam, NL
Cardiff, Wales, UK
London, UK
1969
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, US
Operaseji Fers, (Frisian Language), Leeuwarden, NL
1968
The Architectural League of New York, New York, NY, US)
Born 1936 in New York, NY, US
Died 2019 in New York, NY, US
EDUCATION
1958 Columbia University, New York, NY, US
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023
I am a Poet, Almine Rech, Shanghai
2022
Cherry Blossoms are Razor Blades, Morán Morán, Los Angeles, US
2021
John Giorno, Almine Rech, London, UK
John Giorno, Sperone Westwater, New York, US
2019
John Giorno: DO THE UNDONE, Sperone Westwater, New York, US
2017
Perfect Flowers, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York, US
Space Forgets You, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, CH
Ugo Rondinone: I ♥John Giorno, a cross-institutional exhibition (Artists space, High Line, Howl, The Kitchen, New Museum, Red Bull Studios, Sky Arts, Swiss Institute, White Columns, Hunter College), New York, US
John Giorno: New Work, Cahiers d’Art, Paris, FR
2016
Le Case D’Arte, Milan, IT
2015
Ugo Rondinone: I ♥ John Giorno, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
God Is Man Made, Almine Rech Gallery, Paris
Un mois autour de la poésie– John Giorno, Flux Laboratory, Carouge, CH
Space Forgets You, Elizabeth Dee, New York, US
John Giorno, Elizabeth Dee, New York, US
2014
John Giorno, Max Wigram at Independent Projects, New York, US
2013
Everyone Gets Lighter, Max Wigram Gallery, London
Le cri du mur, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
2012
John Giorno - Paintings, Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, FR
Thanx 4 Nothing, Faux Mouvement Centre d'Art contemporain, Metz, FR
Interventions sur le bâtiment, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
2011
Star 69: Dial-A-Poem Relics, The Bauer Hotel, Campo San Moise, Venice, IT
2010
Eating the Sky, Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, BE
Black Paintings and Drawings, Nicole Klagsbrun, New York
Diagonales, Centre National des Arts Plastiques, Puteaux, FR
Sonopoetics (de la parole à l’image, de la poésie au son), Institut Supérieur pour l'Étude du Langage Plastique, Brussels, BE
2009
LIFE IS A KILLER, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, FR
Thanx 4 Nothing: Drawings and Print Poems, Galerie du Jour Agnès b., Paris, FR
2007
LA SAGEZZA DELLE STREGHE/ WISDOM OT THE WITCHES / LA SAGESSE DES SORCIÈRES, Kaplan Project n°3, Napoli, IT
2005
Millions of Stars Come into my Heart, Welcome home, Galerie du Jour Agnès b., Paris, FR
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023
Something Else Press and Intermedia (1963-1974), Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
2022
Pas Sommeil: La Fête Dans Tous Ses États, FRAC Bretagne, Rennes, France
Space Forgets You, Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh, UK
Nature Doesn't Know About Us, Sculpture Milwaukee, WI
Phraseology, The Bass, Miami Beach, FL
2021
From The Archives: White Columns & 112 Greene Street – 1970-2021, White Columns, New York, NY
Petits papiers du 20e siècle, Centre Pompidou, Paris, FR
I know where I'm going, Who can I be now?, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, UK
Rites of Spring, LongHouse Reserve, Easthampton, NY
WHAT A DUMP, David Zwirner, New York, NY
Doomed and Famous: Selections from the Adrian Dannatt Collection, Miguel Abreu, New York, NY
2020
Eva Presenhuber, Zurich, CH
In Focus: Statements, Copenhagen Contemporary, Copenhagen
Color & Complexity: 30 Years at Durham Press, Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA
Andy Warhol, Tate Modern, London, UK curated by Gregor Muir (catalogIt Never Ends, Kanal Centre Pompidou, Brussels
John Giorno Poetry Day, MAMCO, Geneva
2019
Do The Undone, Sperone Westwater, New York, NY
You Got to Burn to Shine, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Rome
2017
Voyage d’hiver, curated by The Palais de Tokyo, the Palace of Versailles, Versailles, France
Call and Response: Recent Acquisitions from The Bass Collection, The Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach
OVER THE RAINBOW, Praz-Delavallade Gallery, Los Angeles
The World Is Sound, The Rubin Museum of Art, New York, US
2016
SEEABLE/SAYABLE, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
Ill Seen Ill Said, White Flag Projects, Saint Louis
Looking Back / The 10th White Columns Annual, selected by Matthew Higgs, White Columns, New York
2015
The Exhibition of a Film, by Matthew Copeland, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Artists and Poets, Secession, Vienna
2014
Sed Tantum Dic Verbo (Just Say The Word), Blain Southern, Berlin
2013
Ceremonie, Melina Gloss Gallery, Paris
Futur simple: saison 1, FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, France
Kilomètres / heure, Musée du Château des ducs de Wurtemberg, Montbéliard, France
39 Great Jones, Eva Presenhuber Gallery, Zurich
2012
Le paysage, l'art et le fleuve, Estuaire Nantes <> Saint-Nazaire, FR
Ecstatic Alphabets / Heaps of Language, MoMA, NY, US
Les Maîtres du désordre, Musée du quai Branly, Paris, FR
2011
15 Minutes: Homage to Andy Warhol, Pollock Krasner House & Study Center, East Hampton, NY, US
It's For You: Conceptual Art and the Telephone, Housatonic Museum of Art, Bridgeport, CT, US
Star 69: Dial-A-Poem Relics, The Bauer Hotel, Campo San Moise, Venice, IT
2010
It's All American, Inaugural exhibition, New Jersey Museum of Contemporary Art, NJ, US
Rip It Up and Start Again, Artists Space, New York, NY, US
2009
Modern modern, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY, US
2008
Traces du Sacré, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, FR
Printed in France, Jordan Seydoux Gallery, Berlin, DE
Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Centre, London, UK
LA CHUTE OU LA LUTTE/LA CADUTTA O LA LOTTA/FALL OR FIGHT, Kaplan's
Project n°3, Napoli, IT
KAPLAN'S PROJECTIONS: dans un monde de plus en plus sombre / in a darkest and
darkest mood / in un contesto sempre più buio, Kaplan's Project n°3, Napoli, IT2007
Galerie d’art Contemporain, Hôtel de Ville de Besançon, Besançon, FR
WELCOMING THE FLOWERS, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York, NY, US
Words and Music, Michael Berger Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA, US
2006
Renegades: 25 Years of Performance at Exit Art, Exit Art, New York, NY, US
2005
Multiplo – 3, N.O.Gallery - Giannattasio, Milan, IT
Multiplo – 1, N.O.Gallery - Giannattasio, Milan, IT
2004
Multiple Strategies, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, Ohio, US
c:neai= ephemeras, Centre National de l’Estampe de l’Art Imprimé, Chatou, FR
2003
Zona People 1974-1985, Non profit art space – Firenze, Musée d´Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, CH
2002
Lowland Lullaby, SI Swiss Institute, New York, NY, US
1997
Konkrete Poesie: Konzeptuelle Kunst, Städtische Galerie, Rosenheim, DE
1993
Galerie Donguy, Paris, FR
FABULOUS SEX/COMPASSION, Artists Space, New York, NY, US
1992
Kunstwerke Gallery, Berlin, DE
Marcel Sitcoske Gallery, New York, NY, US
1988
Whatever Window Is Your Pleasure, George Mulder Fine Art, London, UK
1970
Information, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1969
Software, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
DIAL-A-POEM
2017
Red Bull Arts, New York, NY
2015
Palais de Tokyo, Paris, FR
1992
Poemfone, New York, US
1985
Montreal, CA
1983
Berlin and 12 Cities in West Germany, DE
1980
Amberson, PA, US
1976
TELEPOEM, Venice, CA, US
DIAL-A-POEM, Milwaukee, WI, US
Indianapolis, IN, US
Louisville, KY, US
1975
PHONE-A-POEM, Cambridge, MA, US
1973
Albany, NY, US
1972
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, US
1970
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, US
Amsterdam, NL
Cardiff, Wales, UK
London, UK
1969
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, US
Operaseji Fers, (Frisian Language), Leeuwarden, NL
1968
The Architectural League of New York, New York, NY, US)
