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Pyrrole Orange),2009
Acrylic on linen, window-blind mechanism
Signed and dated on accompanying certificate
Panel 1 and Panel 2:
180 x 81 3/4 inches (457.2 x 207.7 cm), maximum dimensions
Panel 3:
180 x 40 7/8 inches (457.2 x 103.8 cm), maximum dimensions
(Inventory #20844)
Born in 1954, Galesburg, Illinois
Lives and works in Cambridge, Massachusetts and Los Angeles, California
EDUCATION
1980 M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
1977 B.F.A., Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois
1974 A.A., Carl Sandburg College, Galesburg, Illinois
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016
Galesburg, Illinois +, Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve
Galesburg, Illinois +, Petzel, New York
Wade Guyton Stephen Prina, Petzel, New York
2015
Galesburg, Illinois +, Kunst Halle Sankt Gallen, St. Gallen
Wade Guyton Stephen Prina, Petzel, New York
2014
¡Hola! ¿Qué tal?, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
2013
As He Remembered It, Los Angeles County Museum Of Art, Los Angeles
Wade Guyton Stephen Prina, Petzel, New York
2012
Filthy Rat, Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna
Painting, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
Wade Guyton Stephen Prina, Petzel, New York
Stephen Prina, Maureen Paley, London
2011
As He Remembered It, Wiener Secession, Vienna
He was but a bad translation, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln
Wade Guyton Stephen Prina, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
Carve Out a Space of Intimacy, Capitain Petzel, Berlin
Fondazione Galleria Civica-Centro di Ricerca sulla Contemporaneità, Trento
2010
Modern Movie Pop, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis
Wade Guyton Stephen Prina, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
2009
The Second Sentence of Everything I Read Is You, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporaeno, Sevilla
Stephen Prina, Bergen Kunsthall, Bergen Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
The Way He Always Wanted It, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
The Way He Always Wanted It, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston
2008
The Second Sentence of Everything I Read Is You, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden Haubrok Works, Berlin
2007
Monochrome Painting, Art Unlimited, Art 38 Basel, Basel
The Second Sentence of Everything I Read is You, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
2006
The Second Sentence of Everything I Read is You, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
2004
Retrospection Under Duress, Reprise, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge
Vinyl II, Cubitt, London
Homo Faber and Exquisite Corpse, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
2002
To the People of Frankfurt am Main: Former Site of Reconstructed Schoenberg Study, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
Gaylen Gerber with Stephen Prina, The Art Institute of Chicago
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
2001
Stephen Prina, PMK Gallery, Seoul
What’s Wrong? Open the Door! …, NIU Art Museum, Chicago
Galerie Max Hetzler, 1991 (Ten Years After), Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
Galerie Ghislane Hussenot, Paris
Northern Illinois University Art Gallery, Dekalb, Illinois
Stephen Prina (with Gaylen Gerber): Backdrop/We Represent Ourselves to the World, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
2000
To the People of Berlin, performance Freunde Guter Musik, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
To the People of Frankfurt am Main – At Least Three Types of Inaccessibility, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main
It was the best he could do at the moment, reprise, Art Pace, San Antonio
1999 Push Comes to Love, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
Push Comes to Love, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
Push Comes to Love, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
1998
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (Second Investigation): Stephen Prina’s Monochrome Painting, Musée d’art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCO), Geneva
Acropolis: Thanksgiving Day, 1989, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles. With Allen Ruppersberg.
Stephen Prina, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York. With Tobias Rehberger.
1996
Retrospection Under Duress – L.O.V.E. – Installation (Ivory/Mahogany), Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
Retrospection Under Duress – H.O.P.E. – Installation (White/American Maple), Luhring Augustine, New York
Retrospection Under Duress – E.H.E. – Installation (Clear/Ramin), Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
Retrospection Under Duress, Reprise, DAAD Galerie, Berlin (cat.)
1994
Dom-Hotel, Room 101, Köln/Dom Hotel, Zimmer 101, Köln, American Fine Arts, New York
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
1993
Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
1992
Luhring Augustine Hetzler, Los Angeles
It was the best he could do at the moment, Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam (cat.)
Beat of the Traps, performance with Mike Kelley and Anita Pace, The Remise, Vienna
1991
Gordon Lebredt/Stephen Prina: Comedies of Objecthood, The Power Plant, Toronto (cat.)
Galerie Peter Pakesch, Vienna
Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne
Galerie Fricke, Düsseldorf
1990
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago
1989
Galerie Crousel-Robelin, Paris
Monochrome Painting, The Renaissance Society, Chicago; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, LA; P.S. 1, New York (cat.)
Luhring Augustine Hetzler, Los Angeles
Karsten Schubert, Ltd., London (cat.)
1988
Luhring Augustine & Hodes Gallery, New York
University Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara
1980
An Observation of Musical Function, California Institute of the Arts
1979
The Development of a Planar Standard, performance, California Institute of the Arts
1978
Duet for Metronome and Frequency Analyzer, 1978, Carl Sandburg College
Related Projects, Galesburg Civic Center, Galesburg
1976
A Planar Delineation, Gallery 214, Visual Arts Building, Northern Illinois University
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2015
Equal Dimensions, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston
Painting 2.0: Expression in the Information Age, Museum Brandhorst, Brandhorst
to expose, to show, to demonstrate, to inform, to offer, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwing Wien, Vienna
Jason Kraus: five hundred and thirty three x five hundred and ninety one, Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles
2014
Stars & Stripes: American Art of the 21st Century from the Goldberg Collection, Bathurst Regional Art Gallery, Bathurst
Titans of the Stratosphere: Rodney Graham, Mike Kelley, Paul McCarthy, Stephen Prina, Christopher Wook, Andrea Zittel, Patrick Painter Inc., Los Angeles
Lens Reflex, Thomas Duncan Gallery, Los Angeles
Le Nouveau Festival, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Take It or Leave It: Institution, Image, Ideology, co-curated by Anne Ellegood and Johanna Burton, The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (cat.)
CLUES: John Baldessari, Robert Barry, Sophie Calle, Peter Downsbrough, Hendrik Kerstens, Allan McCollum, Stephen Prina and Lorna Simpson, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston
2013
Lunch with Olympia curated by Robert Storr and Carol Armstrong, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven
Outside the Lines, Contemporary Arts Mseum Houston, Houston
Architecture Undigested, Fused Space, San Francisco
Mingei Are You Here?, Pace London, London
Art is: New Art, Arnold Schonberg Center, Vienna
Between This, That and the Other Thing, Harris Lieberman Gallery, New York
2012
The Feverish Library, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
Les Dérivers de L’imagnaire, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
The Skin We’re In, Yoshi Milo Gallery, New York
One Wish Is Always Left Unfulfilled, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Ghosts Before Breakfast, White Flag Projects, Saint Louis
Shelf Life, Kunsthalle am Hamburger Platz, Berlin
This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago
This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
2011
Museum of Desire, MUMOK, Vienna
The Boy Who Robbed You a Few Minutes Before Arriving at the Ball, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
2010
The Space Between Reference and Regret, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
Spray!, D’Amelio Terras, New York
Vertically Integrated Manufacturing, Murray Guy, New York
2009
KunstFilm Biennale, Filmforum in the Museum Ludwig, Köln
Nothingness and Being, Seventh Interpretation of La Coleccion Jumex, Curated by Shamim M. Momin, Fundación/Colección Jumex, Mexico City
Just What are They Saying, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans
Feed Back Stage, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin
2008
Kunst Im Heim, Capitain Petzel Gallery, Berlin
Painting Now and Forever Part II, Matthew Marks & Greene Naftali, New York
Not So Subtle Subtitle, Curated by Matthew Brannon, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York
Stephen Prina, James Welling, B. Wurtz, Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
Time Crevasse, Yokohama 2008: International Triennale of Contemporary Art, Yokohama
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum, New York
An Unrurly History of the Readymade, Curated by Jessica Morgan, Fundación/Collección Jumex, Ecatepec
2007
Oh Girl, It’s a Boy!, Kunstverein München, München
Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue?, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany (cat.)
Make Your Own Life: Artists In and Out of Cologne, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami; Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
Stuff: International Contemporary Art from the Collection of Burt Aaron, Museum of Contemporary Art, Detroit
2006
Eldorado, Musee d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
Repeat Redux, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Entangled Tongues, Nunnery Gallery, London
Kunst aus Los Angeles der 60er bis 90er Jahre, Kunstverein Braunschweig (cat.)
Los Angeles, 1955-1985, Centre Pompidou, Paris
Make Your Own Life: Artists In and Out of Cologne, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of
Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; The Power Plant, Toronto
2005
29 x 52-54 Bell Street, Lisson Gallery, London
Critical Celebration, Galerie Karin Günther Nina Borgmann, Hamburg
it takes some time to open an oyster, Centro Cultural Andratx, Mallorca, curated by Yilmaz Dziewior
Long Playing, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston
GOOD TIMING, Georg Kargi Fine Arts, Vienna
Merlin Carpenter, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne
Off Key, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland
Minimalist Kitsch, Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich
Present Perfect, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
I Really Should…, Lisson Gallery, London
The Lisson Gallery Summer Show, Lisson Gallery, London
2004
Stephen Prina: Vinyl II, Cubitt Gallery and Studios, London
Support 2 – Die neue Galerie als Sammlung, Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria
Ilya & Emilia Kavakov: The Empty Museum, Sculpture Center, Long Island
Support 1: Die neue Galerie aus Sammlung, Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria
2003
Adorno die Moeglihkkeit des Unmoeglichen, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt
Re-Produktion 2, Galerie Christine König, Kerstin Engholm Galerie and Gabriele Senn Galerie, Berlin, curated by Thomas Locher
Extended Play: art remixing music, Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Charline von Heyl, Jorge Pardo, Stephen Prina, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
2002
Eingang links, Kunstverein Düsseldorf, Germany
iconoclast, ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe
Keine Kleinigkeit, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
Re-Produktion, Bernhard Knaus, Mannheim, Germany
in capital letters, Kunsthalle Basel, Switzerland
Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now, Low Gallery, Los Angeles
SITE Santa Fe Biennial 2001, Santa Fe, New Mexico
2001
Wert Wechsel Zum Wert Des Kunstwerks, Museum fur Angewandte Kunst, Cologne
ART/MUSIC: rock, pop, techo, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sidney
Beau Monde: Toward a Redeemed Cosmopolitanism, SITE Santa Fe Forth International Biennal
In Between: Art and Architecture, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles
Neue Welt, Kunstverein Hamburg
2000
Departures: 11 Artists at the Getty, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (cat.)
Library, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
Project #0004, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
Too Early Too Late, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
The 21st Annual Benefit Art Auction, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (cat.)
Pure de(Sign), Otis Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles
Fashion Show, George’s, Los Angeles
1999
Malerei, INIT-Kunst-Halle, Berlin
Painter Editions, Patrick Painter, Inc., Santa Monica
Weg aus dem Bild, Georg Kargl, Vienna. Curated by Martin Prinzhorn, Georg Kargl, Wien
The Great Drawing Show 1550 to 1999, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles
Duration and Whenever, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica
Art/Journalism, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica
1998
Crossings: art to see and to hear, Kunsthalle Vienna (cat.)
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (First Investigation): The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting, Musée d’art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCO), Geneva
TransFiction I: Point Blank, Charim Klocker, Vienna
Recycling Art History, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh (cat.)
90069, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
Freeze Frame, Galerie Douyon, Miami
Works on Paper, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
1997
One of You, Among You, With You: For Martin Kippenberger, Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid
Sunshine & Noir: Art in Los Angeles 1960-1997, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark; Traveling to Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany; Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy; Armand Hammer Museum of Art at UCLA, Los Angeles
Sequence, Richard Salmon, London
Heaven, P.S.1, New York. Curated by Joshua Decter
1996
a/drift, Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, curated by Josh Decter (cat.)
Multiple Pleasure, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Classifications, La Maitrise des sciences et Techniques,Rennes, École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris (cat.)
Sammlung Speck, Museum Ludwig, Cologne (cat.)
Exposure, Luhring Augustine, New York
Found footage, Gasser & Grunert GmbH, Cologne
NIU Collected, Northern Illinois University, Chicago
1995
The Compulsion to Repeat: Repetition and Difference in Works from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Untitled (Reading Room), Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles; American Fine Arts Co., New York
Pittura Immedia, Künstlerhaus Graz, Austria
25 Years: An Exhibition of Selected Works, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles (cat.)
Installation 95, Ursula Blickle, Stiftung, Kraichtal. With Luka Lasareishvili and Wolfgang Stiller (cat.).
As I Remember It: Stephen Prina, Dokorder® 7140, 4 Track 4/2 Channel Stereo/Mono Tape Deck, The Museum of Modern Art Syros, Syros-Cyclades. With Cosima Von Bonin and Christopher Williams
The Big Night, The Bradburry Building, Los Angeles
1994
In the Field: Landscape in Recent Photography, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
The First Fundraising Event to Benefit American Fine Arts, Co., American Fine Arts, Co., New York
Rodney Graham, Stephen Prina, Jeff Wall, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles
Die Orte der Kunst, Sprengel Museum, Hannover (cat.)
Daniel Buren, Ken Lum, Stephen Prina, Rudolph Stingel, Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art. Curated by Colin deLand
Don’t Look Now, Thread Waxing Space, New York. Curated by Joshua Decter (cat.)
MOCA Art Auction ’94, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (cat.)
After and Before, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago
1993
A Complete Hand of One Suit, Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Works by Younger Artists from the Collection of Richard Brown Baker, The Century Association, New York
Fragments and Form: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Other Places, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
Kontextualismus, Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria (cat.)
From the Hand to the Head, the Theoretical Object, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Kerguehennec, France
Drawing the line Against AIDS, Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York
Domaine: L’ordre du Temps des Choses, L’ordre des Idees, L’ordre du Sujet, Domaine de Kerguehennec, organized by Denys Zacharopoulos (cat.)
1992
Knowledge: Aspects of Conceptual Art, University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, Santa Monica Art Museum (cat.)
Dirty Data: The Collection of Wilhelm Schurmann, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen
Allegories of Modernism: Contemporary Drawing, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Documenta IX, Kassel (cat.)
Fifth Anniversary Show, Karsten Schubert, Ltd., London
Works on Paper, Jim Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis; American Fine Arts, Co., New York
Art by Numbers, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles
Greatest Hits, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
Not Working in LA/Good Design, Nomadic Site, Pasadena
Locher, Prina, Williams, Wurm, Zobernig, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco
1991
Beyond the Frame: American Art 1960-1990, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo; National Museum of Art, Osaka; Fukuoko Art Museum (cat.)
Vanitas, Galerie Crousel-Robelin, Paris
Gulliver’s Travels, Galerie Sophia Ungers, Cologne (cat.)
Graham, Prina, Williams, S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto
51st Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (cat.)
Hybrid Abstract, Usdan Art Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont
The Continuous Past, Pence Gallery, Santa Monica
Selections from the Permanent Collection: 1975-90, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The 1991 Benefit Auction, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (cat.)
Feux Pales, Musee d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France
In the Beginning…, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland OH
Sophie Calle, Tim Rollins and K.O.S., Stephen Prina, Trans Avant-Garde Gallery, San Francisco
1990
Prints and Multiples, Luhring Augustine Hetzler, Santa Monica
Stephen Prina, Christopher Wool and Sam Samore, Galerie Ursula Schurr, Stuttgart
The Readymade Boomerang: The Sydney Biennale, Sydney (cat.)
Aperto, The Venice Biennale, Venice (cat.)
Drawings, Luhring Augustine Hetzler, Santa Monica
Prints and Related Works, Tomoko Liguori Gallery, New York
The Children’s AIDS Project: A Benefit Exhibition, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica
Sophie Calle, Tim Rollins & K.O.S., Stephen Prina, Trans Avant-Garde Gallery, San Francisco
In the Beginning…,, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland
Feux Pales, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux (cat.)
Marcia Hafif, Stephen Prina: Monochrome Painting, P.S.1, New York
1989
300 Years of Still Life Painting, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles
Mediated Knot, Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago (cat.)
Group Show, Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Santa Monica
A Brave New World, Karsten Schubert, London (cat.)
Constructing a History: A Focus on MOCA’s Permanaent Collection, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Prospect 89, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main (cat.)
Group Show, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation, MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (cat.)
Group Show, Schmidt/Markow Gallery 1709, St. Louis
Oppningsutstallning, Galleri Nordenstad-Skarstedt, Stockholm
Media Influences, The Forum, St. Louis
Recent Acquisitions at MOMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Constructing a History: A Focus on MOCA’s Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Une Autre Affaire, Salle de Flore, Dijon (cat.)
Jon Kessler, Stephen Prina, Thomas Struth, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
American Art of the Late 80’s, Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart; Art Museum of the Ateneum, Helsinki
1988
Material Ethics, Milford Gallery, New York
Extended Play, Emily Harvey Gallery, New York (cat.)
MOCArt Auction ’88, Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles; Tamara Bane Gallery, Los Angeles; The Temporary Contemporary, Los Angeles
James Casebere, Stephen Prina, Christopher Wool, Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago
Striking Distance, Museum of Contemporary Art/The Temporary Contemporary, Los Angeles (cat.)
The BiNational: American Art of the Late 80’s, Institute of Contemporary Art and The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Städtische Kunsthalle, Kunstsammlung, Nordrhein-Westfalen; Kunstverein NRW, Düsseldorf; Kunsthalle, Bremen; National Art Gallery, Athens. Exhibition continues as: American Art of the Late 80’s at: Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, 1989; Art Museum of the Atenerm, Helsinki, Galerie Crousel-Robelin, Paris
An Evening of 19th and 20th Century Piano Music, Ahmanson Auditorium, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Kunsthalle, Bremen, Athens National Art Gallery, Athens
American Art of the Late 80’s, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart
Art Museum of the Ateneum, Helsinki (cat.)
Galerie Crousel-Robelin, Paris
Carecen 4th Annual Art Auction, Turske/Whitney Gallery, Los Angeles
Luhring Augustine & Hodes Gallery, New York
1987
2nd Annual Night of Erotica, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, Venice, California
Projections in Public, A Storefront Window Projection Project, Bloomsbury City Flower Mart, Los Angeles; Archimatics, San Diego
Tenth Anniversary Benefit Auction 1987, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Cal Arts: Skeptical Belief(s), The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach (cat.)
Nothing Sacred, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
Tim Ebner, John L. Graham, Stephen Prina, Christopher Williams, Kuhlenschmidt/Simon Gallery, Los Angeles LA: Hot and Cool: The Eighties, MIT, List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge (cat.)
1986
TV Generations, LACE, Los Angeles (cat.)
The World-Wide Sound Sculpture, De Appel, Amsterdam
Rooted Rhetoric, Una Tradizione nell’Arte Americana, Castel dell’ Ovo, Naples (cat.)
Mandelzomm, Castello di Vulci/Montalto di Castro, Rome (cat.)
1985
Stephen Prina, Mark Stahl, Christopher Williams, Galerie Crousel-Hussenot, Paris; Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Earsight: Visual Scores and Musical Images, Nexus, Philadelphia; Southern Alleghenies Museum, Johnstown
The Public Art Show, Nexus Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta; University of South Carolina, Columbia, Austin
Pea State University, Clarkville; Valencia Community College, Orlando; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh; University of the South, Sewanee (cat.).
The Art of Memory/The Loss of History, The New Museum, New York (cat.)
1984
Jenny Holzer, Stephen Prina, Mark Stahl, Christopher Williams, De Appel, Amsterdam, Gewad, Ghent (cat.)
1982
74th American Exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago (cat.)
1980
Investigations: Probe-Structure-Analysis, The New Museum, New York (cat.)
1979
Group Exhibition of Some CalArts Works and Works by Other People Who Have Passed Through, Vancouver School of Art, Vancouver; Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover; Claremont College, Claremont; Ryder Gallery, Kroeber Hall, University of California, Berkeley; University of Hartford, Hartford; The Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles
1978
University of California, Irvine
1976
5 Artists, Galesburg Civic Center
PERFORMANCE/ EVENTS
2011
The Way He Always Wanted It II, MoMUK, Vienna
Vinyl II, MoMUK, Vienna
The Way He Always Wanted It II, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2010
Concerto for Modern, Movie, and Pop Music, Contemporary Museum Saint Louis, MO
2009
The Way He Always Wanted It II, Harvard Film Archive, The Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Cambridge
The Way He Always Wanted It II, film screening, Anthology Film Archives, New York
2008
The Way He Always Wanted It II, film screening, Tate Modern, London
Whitney Biennial, The Armory, New York
2006
Vinyl II, film screening, Whitney Museum of American Art, Altria
Power Plant, Toronto
2005
John Anson Ford Amphitheatre, Los Angeles
2004
Vinyl II, film screening, The Screen on the Green, London
2003
An Evening of 19th and 20th Century Music, Frankurter Kunstverein
Graffiti Composition by Christian Marclay, Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
To the People of Beacon, New York, Dia: Beacon, New York
2002
Vinyl II, film screening, Theater der Welt, Köln
Vinyl II, film screening, Die Kraft der Negation, Berli
My Barbarian Presents X-Mas Special, performance (2001), VHS. Produced by Malik Gaines and Alex Segade.
2001
James Benning, Sharon Lockhart, Stephen Prina: Vinyl II, film screening, Berlin/Los Angeles Film Festival of Architecture and Urbanism, University of Southern California, Los Angeles
Sonic Dan, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles
Vinyl II, film screening, Galerie Jiri Svestka, Prague Spring Music Festival, Prague
To the People of Berlin (Pasadena), Art Center College of Design, Pasadena
Vinyl II, film screening, Kunsthalle Basel
Galerie Jiri Svestka, Prague, Czech Republic, film screening
Prague Spring Music Festival, FFilm screening in concert with Jaroslav Tuma, cembalo
Vinyl II, filmscreening, PKM Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2000
To the People of Berlin, Konzert in der Nationalgalerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
1999
To the People of the City of the Euro, Concert, Frankfurter Kunstverein
Push Comes to Love, Performance, Studio 67, October 3, 1999, Cologne
Push Comes to Love: pop songs about love, sex, and death, performance as part of Rukus L.A.
(Dom-Ino Effect), an exhibition by Lincoln Tobier and Rirkrit Tiravanija,
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Push Comes to Love, CD/Vinyl Release Reception, China Arts Objects Galleries, Los Angeles
1998
Stephen Prina, Rectangle, Instants Chavirés, Paris
Stephen Prina, Spaceland, Los Angeles
Stephen Prina, Performance at the Gramercy Art Fair, Camel Smoking and Cocktail Lounge, Chateau Marmont, Los Angeles
Incidental Music, Beyond the Pink Festival in association with Out of Actions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Municipal Auditorium at Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles
Pendulum Music, Beyond the Pink Festival in association with Out of Actions, Santa Monica Art Museum
Stephen Prina, Templolabor, Basel
Sonic Dan, Crossings: Art to See and to Hear, Kunsthalle Vienna
Starter, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt Am Main
1997
Sunshine & Noir: Art in Los Angeles 1960-1997, performance, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Humlebaek
LOOK/ Hear, radio performance, KXLU 88.9
1996
Sonic Dan, Music-Performance, SO 36 Berlin
1994
Sonic Dan, musical performance, Lunapark, Los Angeles
Roulette, New York, June
Johanna Fähmel’s Monolog, book signing in Room 101, Dom Hotel, Cologne
1992
Beat of the Traps, performance collaboration with Mike Kelley and Anita Pace, The Remise, Vienna; Gindi Auditorium, University of Judaism, Los Angeles
Expanded Art II: Beat of the Traps, performance collaboration with Mike Kelley and Anita Pace, Wiener Festwochen, Remise Theatre, Vienna (cat.)
1990
American Art of the Late 80s, Performance: An Evening of 19th and 20th Century Music, Ateneumin Taidemuseo, Konstmuseet, Helsinki
The Readymade Boomerang, Biennale Music Program, Sydney, Australia, March
1989
The BiNational: American Art of the Late 80’s: Performance:
An Evening of 19th and 20th Century Music, Institute of Contemporary Art
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, September 1989; Athens National Art Gallery, Athens
Thomas Berhard Memorial Reading, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center, Venice, CA
Städtische Kunsthalle, Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Kunstverein NRW, Düsseldorf
1988
Striking Distance, Museum of Contemporary Art/The Temporary Contemporary,
Los Angeles (cat.)
An Evening of 19th and 20th Century Piano Music, Ahmanson Auditorium, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
1985
The Art of Memory/The Loss of History, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (cat.)
An Evening of 19th and 20th Century Piano Music, Symphony Space, presented by The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
1978
Duet for Metronome and Frequency Analyzer, Galesburg Civic Art Center, Galesburg, IL
SOLO AUDIO RECORDINGS
2011
Concerto for Modern, Movie, Pop Music for Ten Instruments and Voice, A Concert by Stephen Prina,
Contemporary Museum Saint Luis
2000
Vinyl II, CD, Cortical Foundation, Malibu
1999
Push Comes to Love, CD and vinyl, Drag City, Chicago
1980
A Structural Analysis and Reconstruction of: Arnold Schoenberg: The Complete Music for Solo Piano, Glenn Gould, As Determined by the Difference Between the Measurements of Duration and Displacement, vinyl, selfpublished
OTHER AUDIO RECORDINGS
2000
RAS: Revista de Arte Sonoro, Cums for Shove (track 3), CD, Universidad de Castilla-La Mancha, Spain
The Coxcomb Avocado Orange, CD by David Grubbs, Blue Chopsticks
The New Now Sounds of Today!, CD, Art Issues Press, Santa Monica
1999
Finger Painting, by vinyl and CD, The Red Krayola, Drag City, Chicago
The Coxcomb Avocado Orange, vinyl by David Grubbs, Rectangle Records
1998
Crossings: Art to See and to Hear, Kunsthalle Vienna, Exhibition CD, track 11 Band B
Camoufleur, vinyl and CD by Gasto Del Sol, Drag City, Chicago
1996
Hazel, vinyl and CD by The Red Krayola, Drag City, Chicago
1995
Chemistry, vinyl by The Red Krayola, Drag City, Chicago
amor and language, vinyl and CD by The Red Krayola, Drag City, Chicago
1994
The Red Krayola, vinyl and CD by The Red Krayola, Drag City, Chicago
Etude for Percussion (Square Root Function II), disc 2, track 4, CD Oostende, Big Truck Records, Hollywood
LECTURES/CONFERENCES
2004
Yale University, New Haven, Visiting Artist, April 5
2003
The School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Art Talk Art Impossible, Foundation for Art Resources, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles, Panelist (with Julie Carson), May 1
University of California, San Diego, Guest Lecturer, April 15
Harvard University, Cambridge, MA, Guest Lecturer, March 31
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, Visiting Artist, February 25
2002
University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Visiting Artist, November 5
Otis Institute, Los Angeles, Visiting Artist, November 24
Theater der Welt, Köln, Symposium Participant, June 28
Die Kraft der Negation, Symposium Participant, June 29
2001
NIU Art Museum, Chicago
Univeristy of Southern California, Visiting Artist
Dia Center for the Arts, New York, Lecture on Jorge Pardo
Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, Lecture
Tuesday Evenings at the Modern, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Lecture, October
Recycling Conceptual Art, Panelist with Lisbeth Beck, Thierry de Duve, Ulricke Kreimeier, Thomas Locher, Pashutan Buzari, Berlin Biennalle, May
Dia Center for the Arts, New York, Lecture, May
Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, Visiting Artist, April
San Francisco Art Institute, Visiting Artist, April
University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Visiting Artist, March
2000
Contemporary Returns to Conceptual Art: Renee Green, Silvia Kolbowski and Stephen Prina, New York University, Barney Building, New York
Columbia University, New York, Visiting Artist
1999
Practical Criticism: Art and Theory in the 90s, Pacific Design /California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles, Symposium Participant
Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, Visiting Artist
University of California, Los Angeles, Visiting Artist
1998
Jorge Pardo, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Lecture
Martin Kippenberger: The Last Stop West, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles, Lecture
[De Sade’s] [Ryman’s] Kippenberger’s Tact, Kunsthalle Basel, Lecture
Hollis Frampton’s Zorns Lema, Kunsthalle Basel, Lecture
1996
Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, Visiting Artist
University of California, Los Angeles, Visiting Artist
University of British Columbia, Visiting Artist
Merz Akademie, Stuttgart, Visiting Artist
1994
Arte Expo, Guadalajara, Mexico, Symposium Participant
Hochschule der Künste, Berlin, Visiting Artist
The Age of Sublime Stupidity: Styles of Apathy and Idiocy in Youth Culture, Panelist, October
Freien Klasse der HdK, Berlin, Visiting Artist
On Top of the World, Zaal de Unie, Rotterdam, Panelist
1993
Cage and Questions We Ask: An Open Discussion, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Panelist
1992
Visual Arts Overview Panel, National Endowment for the Arts, Panelist,
Freie Klasse Wien, Visiting Artist
1991
Visual Artists Fellowships/ New Genres panel, National Endowment for the Arts, Panelist
The Negative Center, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Lecture
1990
Rhode Island School of Design, Visiting Artist
University of California at Santa Barbara, Visiting Artist
1989
The Plausible Retrospective of Marcel Broodthaers, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Lecture, September 7
Thomas Bernhard Memorial Reading, Pre-recorded Reading
Beyond Baroque, Literary Arts Center, Venice, Los Angeles, May 12
Art and Criticism: Who Influences Whom?, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Symposium Participant
1987
The Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, CA, Visiting Artist
1982
California Institute of the Arts, Visiting Artist
EXHIBITION ORGANIZATION
1994
Nor Here Neither There, curated by Stephen Prina,, Charles Gaines, Fran Siegel and Paul McCarthy, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles
1981
Exhibition, Exhibition Coordinator, California Institute of the Arts (cat.)
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2011
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Wach, von Alexandra, Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger Der Unfall wird zum Glücksfall June 16, 2011
Lawson, Thomas and Annette Südbeck, Stephen Prina As He Remembered It, Secession, Vienna, 2011
Stephen Prina, Concerto for Modern Movie, and Pop Music for Ten Instruments and Voice, Contemporary Art Museum Saint Louis, 2011
2010
Wilson, Michael, Spray!, Time Out New York, August 5 – 11, 2010
Smith, Roberta, Spray!, New York Times, July 16, 2010, p.C26
Pulimood, Steve, Wade Guyton and Stephen Prina, Art Review, Issue 40, April 2010, p.113
Ulrichs, David, “Berlin:Playing for Keeps”, Art in America, Insight, March 2010
Wilson, Michael Stephen Prina: Modern Movie Pop: Contemporary Art Museum St.Louis, Artforum, January 2010, p.91
Moynihan, Miriam “Artist’s self-questioning on view at Contemporary,” stltoday.com, January 2010
2009
Stephen Prina, Artforum, December 2009, pg 57
Hafner, Hans-Jürgen, Innocence and Dirty Hands, Spike, No. 19, 2009, pp. 58-65
Cate McQuaid, Context in Question, The Boston Globe, May 13 2009
Eichler, Dominic, Point Counter Point, Frieze, May 2009, pp. 98 – 103
Holert, Tom, Flaming Feature, ArtForum, May 2009, pp.148-153
Goings on About Town ART, The New Yorker, April 2009, p. 4
Scheyerer, Nicole, Feuer aus dem Plattenspieler, Die Presse, Thursday, February 19, 2009, p. 29
Scheyerer, Nicole, Büglebrett und Wa-Wa-Pedal, Artnet Online, March, 5, 2009
2008
Comer, Stuart, Film: Best of 2008, #8 The Way He Always Wanted It I (Stephen Prina), Artforum, December 2008, p. 63
Please Recommend Us, Texte Zur Kunst, September 2008, pp. 140-150
Roeschmann Dietrich, Kunstgeschichte und Eigensinn, Kunstmagazin, September 2008
Banai, Nuit, Stephen Prina: Mutating Modernism, Art Papers, September/October 2008,
pp. 22-25
Vortrag zur Prina-Ausstellung, Badische Neueste Nachrichten, September 3, 2008
White, Ian, Stephen Prina: The Way He Always Wanted It II, Art Review, September 2008, p. 132
Filmvortrag in der Kunsthalle, Badische Neueste Nachrichten, August 26, 2008
Filmvortrag in der Kunsthalle, Badisches Taglbatt, August 25, 2008
Heute Führung durch Prina-Ausstellung, Badisches Neueste Nachrichten, August 13, 2008
Schön, Andreas, Einfach prima, dieser Prina, Schwarzwälder Bote, August 12, 2008
Artnet Spotlight Spezial, Artnet.De, August 8, 2008
Stephen Prina Exhibits at Staatlichen Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, ArtDaily.Org, August 7, 2008
Stephen Prina, Béton Brut, August 1, 2008
Rombach, Elena, Fußspuren der Besucher als Bestandteil des Werkes, Badener Tagblatt, August
2008
Sander, Johannes, Stephen Prina in der Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, KunstMarkt.Com, July 31, 2008
Anspruchsvolle Dimensionen der Begegnung, Kurstadt-Nachrichten, July 30, 2008
Stephen Prina, Ka-City.De, July 29, 2008
Stephen Prina: Brenner’s Artist in Residence 2008, Brenners.Com, July 25, 2008
Stephen Prina ist Brenner’s Artist in Residence, Badische Neueste Nachrichten, July 25, 2008
Performance mit Stephen Prina, Badisches Tagblatt, July 25, 2008
Zwischen Hoch- und Massenkultur, Kurstadt-Nachrichten, July 23, 2008
The Way He Always Wanted It II, Kurstadt-Nachrichten, July 23, 2008
Prinas Film läuft morgen im Cineplex, Badische Neueste Nachrichten, July 23, 2008
Kino-Premiere zu Ausstellung, Badener Tagblatt, July 23, 2008
Zerbst, Rainer, Kopien und Konzeptkunst, Dradio.De, July 21, 2008
Müller, Gerald, Raumgriefende Installationen von hoher Intensität, Badener Tagblatt, July 21, 2008
Retrospektive Aussicht, Badische Neueste Nachrichten, July 21, 2008
Minimalismus und Konzeptkunst, Badender Taglbatt, July 19, 2008
Gronemeyer, Wiebke, Gib mir fünf!, Art-Magaazine.De, July 17, 2008
Graf, Susanne, “Ich dachte, das ist mie eine Kameralinse hier,” Badische Neueste Nachrichten, July 16, 2008
Installation als fahrendes Spektakel, Badender Tagblatt, July 16, 2008
Termine: Highlights, Kunstaspekte.De, July 11, 2008
Volk, Gregory, Lean on visual pleasure but limned with thoughtful commentary on the state of the world, the current Whitney Biennial gives a quieter than usual voice to a general malaise, Art in America, May 2008, pp. 159-163
Alden, Todd, Stephen Prina, Whitney Biennial 2008, exhibition catalogue, 2008, pp. 200-201
Falconer, Margan, Stephen Prina, Frieze, May 2008, p. 48
Volk, Gregory, Spring in Dystopia, Art in America, May 2008, No. 5, pp. 158-163
Kunsthalle Baden-Baden: Stephen Prina, BadenCity.De
2007
Grasslin, Karola, Vorwort, Kunst aus Los Angeles der 60er bis 90er Jahre, 2007, p. 5-8
Wer hat Angst vor Rot, Gelb, Blau?, Monopol, September 2007, p. 82
Art Unlimited: Art Basel 38, exhibition catalogue, pp.116-17
Wege, Astrid, Stephen Prina: Gisela Capitain, Artforum, Summer 2007, pp. 513-514
Austin, Tom, MOCA show explores ‘80s artistic sensibilities, Miami Herald online, May 27, 2007
Carlson, Ben, Stephen Prina, Modern Painters, March 2007, p. 93
2006
Smith, Roberta, Art in Review: Stephen Prina, The New York Times, December 15, 2006, p. E47
Kitnick, Alex, Review: Stephen Prina, Time Out New York, November 30-December 6, 2006, p. 76
Viladas, Pilar, Art + Commerce, The New York Times Magazine, Design Fall 2006 issue, p. 144-50, 148-49
Smith, Roberta, Cologne as Mythic Hot Spot (Cue the Background Music), The New York Times, June 2, 2006, pp. E27- 30
Rattemeyer, Christian, Make Your Own Life: Artists In & Out of Cologne, Artforum, Summer 2006, pp.344-345
Sozanski, Edward J., Art | ICA exhibitions feature art both inspired and ingrown, Philadelphia Inquirer, May 7, 2006
Make Your Own Life: Artists In & Out of Cologne (exh. cat.), Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, 2005, pp. 50-51
Pym, William, Rhine Shrine, Artforum.com/Diary, April, 25, 2006
2005
Retrospection Under Duress, Reprise, A Solo Exhibition by Stephen Prina,
http://www.vews.fas.harvard.edu/events/prina.html, January, 2005,
2004
Gewertz, Ken, Stephen Prina A man for all media, Harvard University Gazette, December 9, 2004
Hopkins, Randy, All Duressed Up, Arts and Entertainment, December 3, 2004, p. 23
Harris, Larissa, Harvard Bard, ArtForum.com/diary, December 2004,
Bankowsky, Jack, et al., Pop After Pop: A Roundtable, Art Forum, October 2004, pp. 166-175, 288, 292, 294, 296
Rimanelli, David, Pop Life:David Rimanelli on Los Super Elegantes, Art Forum, October 2004, p.247.
Simpson, Bennett, From Noise to Beuys, in: Artforum, February 2004, pp. 59f.
2003
Prina, Stephen, Sweep’s Stakes, Artforum, February 2003, p. 104
Prina, Stephen, You Haven’t Taught Until You See the Light Bulb in Their Eyes Light Up, ArtReview,
Intermational Edition V1N09, London, 2003
Locher, Thomas, Reproduktion, Exhibition catalogue, Galerie Bernhard Knaus, Mannheim
Prina, Stephen. Begin Anecdotally, Exhibition catalogue, Martin Kippenberger Das 2. Sein, Museum Für Nueu Kunst ZKM, Karlsruhe
Joseph. Stephen Prina, on-line review, Harlequin Knights, July 25, 2003
2002
Ross, Alex, Whistling in the Dark, The New Yorker, February 18 & 25, 2002, pp. 176-183
Friedman, Rebecca (ed.), Beau Monde: Toward a Redeemed Cosmopolitanism, Exhibition Catalogue, Site Santa Fe’s Fourth International Biennial, 2002, pp. 120-121
Tillman, Lynne. “This is Not It: Stories.” Distribute Art Publishers, Inc., New York, 2002, pp. 41-42,
Hickey, Dave. “Beau Monde: Toward a Redeemed Cosmopolitanism Site Sante Fe’s Fourth International Biennal.” Exhibition catalogue
Gaines, Malik. “Stephen Prina: The Importance of Being Earnest.” Contemporary, November 2002, p. 42-43
Von Bismarck, Beatrice. “Der Zucker Ist Immer Noch D, Er Hat Nr Eine Andere Form Angenommen: An Interview with Stephen Prina.” Texte Zur Kunst, September 2002
Artner, Alan G. “Gaylen Gerber Dulls Art’s Cutting Edge.” Chicago Tribune, February 14
Robinson, Walter, Maximum Miami, Artnet.com, December 6, 2002
Robertson, Ian, Seoul’s Gallery Scene, ArtNewspaper.com, August 2002
Artforum, November 2002, p. 71
Exhibition Catalogue, Kunsthalle Basel, May 2002
2001
Anderson, Maxwell L., American Visionaries, Selections from the Whitney Museum, Exhibition Catalogue, 2001, p. 246
Hainley, Bruce, Top 10, Artforum, no. 4, December 2001, p. 104
Mitchell, Charles Dee, Making the Case for Pleasure, Art in America, November 2001, pp. 122-130
Harris, Susan, Beau Monde, Tema Celeste, September- October 2001, p. 100
Leffingwell, Edward, Stephen Prina at Friedrich Petzel, Art in America, September 2001 p. 151
Knight, Christopher. “A World of Pleasures.” Los Angeles Times, Tuesday, July 17, 2001, p. F1, F10
Leung, Simon. “Contemporary Returns to Conceptual Art: Renee Green, Silvia Kolbownski, and Stephen Prina.”
Art journal, Summer 2001, pp. 54-71, pp. 60-61
Stephen Prina, The Village Voice, March 27, 2001, p.80
Prina, Stephen. “The Permanent Collection.” The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Annual Report, 2000-2001, p. 9, illus.
Ginell, Richard S., Prina Infuses Rock with Romanticism, Los Angeles Times, August 27, 2001, p. F7
Riemschneider, Burkhard, and Uta Grosenick (ed.), Icons, Art Now, Taschen, 2001
Artner, Alan G., Art Review, Chicago Tribune, June 1, 2001, p. 36
Weinstein, Michael, NIU Art Gallery, New City Chicago, May 24, 2001, p. 27
Johnson, Ken, Stephen Prina, The New York Times, March 23, 2001, p. E35
Henderson, Richard, Stephen Prina, Wire, March 2001
Levin, Kim, Stephen Prina, The Village Voice, March 27, 2001, p. 80
2000
Tumlir, Jan, ’90s Art in Los Angeles, Art & Text, no. 71, November 2000-January 2001, pp. 42-51
Verwoert, Jan, Stephen Prina, Frieze, issue 54, September-October 2000, p. 132
Intra, Giovanni, Departures, Artext, no. 70, August-October 2000, p. 76
Rimanelli, David, Best of 2000, #4, Artforum, December 2000 p. 114
Hainley,Bruce. “Best of 2000, #5” Artforum December, 2000: p. 132
Cooper, Dennis. “Best of 2000.” Artforum, December, 2000, p. 136
Grubbs, David, Stephen Prina, Purple 5, Summer 2000, pp. 292-293
Stark, Frances, Type: The Secret Life, Artext, August-October, pp. 22-23
Simpson, Bennett, The Red Krayola, Frieze, June-August 2000, issue 53, p. 128
Diederichsen, Diedrich, Don’t Lose That Number, Texte zur Kunst, June 2000, pp. 171-174
To the People of Berlin, Exhibition Catalogue, National galerie im Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, June 2000
Holert, Tom, Flaming Feature, Artforum, May 2000, pp. 148-153
Vahland, Kla, Zwischen Frankfurt und Los Angeles, Art, no. 4, April 2000
Prina, Stephen, Robert Bresson: 1901-1999 – (Brief Article): Devil’s Advocate, Artforum International, April, 2000
De Vries, Janneke, Gespräch mit Stephen Prina, Artkaleidoscope, no. 1, 2000
Pagel, David, Fresh Riffs on a Theme, Los Angeles Times, March 1, 2000, p. F1
Lyons, Lisa, Departures, Exhibition Catalogue, The J. Paul Getty Museum of Art, Los Angeles, 2000, pp. 44-47
De Vries, Janneke, Conversation with Stephen Prina, Artkaleidoscope, pp. 6-8
Pesch, Martin, Mimikry eines Lebenswerks, TAZ, March 17, 2000
Withers, Rachel, Impure Thoughts, Artforum, January 2000, p. 53
Pagel, David, Themes Out of School: Art and Education in Los Angeles, Exhibition Catalogue, Creative Artists Agency, Los Angeles, p. 86
Meyer, James, Best of 2000, #7, Artforum, December 2000, p. 114
Rimanelli, David, Best of 2000, #4, Artforum, December 2000, p. 120
Hainley, Bruce, Best of 2000, #5, Artforum, December 2000, p. 132
Cooper, Dennis, Best of 2000, Artforum, December 2000, p. 136
Tumlir, Jan, Baldessari’s Urn, Artext, November 2000-January 2001, pp. 42-51
Grubbs, David, Stephen Prina, Purple, no. 5, Summer 2000, pp. 292-293
Prina, Stephen, To the People of Berlin/Excerpt To the People of Wien: Part Thirteen: Generic Score III, Der Standard, September 2000, pp. 8-9
Dinco, Dino, The Fashion Show, Exhibition Catalogue, George’s, Los Angeles
Tumlir, Jan, The Fashion Show, Artext, no. 69, May-July 2000, pp. 94-95
Prina, Stephen, Devil’s Advocate, Artforum, April 2000, p. 124
The 21st Annual Benefit Art Auction, Auction Catalogue, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
1999
Griffin, Tim, Stephen Prina at Friedrich Petzel, Art in America, October 1999, p. 162
Dziewior, Yilmaz, Stephen Prina, Artforum, Summer 1999, p. 165
Heiser, Jörg, Bildungsroman, Texte Zur Kunst, June 1999, p. 102
Klopotek, Felix, Bildende Musik, Gesungene Kunst?, Spex, May 1999, pp. 10-11
Riemschneider, Burkhard and Uta Grosenick (ed.), Art at the turn of the Millennium, Taschen, pp. 406-408
Gilbert-Rolfe, Jeremy, Perhaps it Depends on the Pressure, Exhibition Catalogue, Chinati Foundation
Newsletter, pp. 25-32
McGonigal, Mike, Pop Start, Artforum, March 1999, p. 37
Haase, Amine, Songs als Sicht-Filter, Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, no. 78, 1999
Haase, Amine, Jeder Ist Sein Eigener Filter, Kunstforum, July-August 1999, pp. 322-327
Bruno, Franklin, Thompson’s Twins, New Times Los Angeles, June 10, 1999, pp. 71-74
Ise, Claudine, An Exhibit of an Exhibit: Prina Looks Back, Los Angeles Times, May 31, p. F6
Prina, Stephen, Music: Best of the 90’s, Artforum, December 1999, p. 127
Mueller, Britt, 506 – Space discussions, Blitz, April 19, 1999
Newman, Michael and Jon Bird (ed.), Rewriting Conceptual Art, Reaktion Books, London
Clifford, Dave, Stephen Prina: Push Comes to Love, Alternative Press, August 1999, p. 86
Sepiol, Alex, Stephen Prina: Push Comes to Love (Drag City), The Stanford Daily, April 1,1999
Ridge, Tom, In Brief: Stephen Prina’s Push Comes to Love, The Wire, June 1999
Stephen Prina Push Comes to Love, Blastmag.com, Nashville, May 1999
Stephen Prina: Push Comes to Love, Faster Than Sheep, Idaho, May 1999
Bass, Solomon, Disc Combobulated, Ventura Reporter
Breeze, Jeff, Drag City Records, Denotel, May 1999, p. 28
Bernis, Alec Hanley, 1/2 Stephen Prina, Push Comes to Love Drag City, The Boston Phoenix, May 14, 1999
Margasak, Peter, Post No Bills, The Chicago Reader, October 2, 1999
Lawson, Thomas, Schools Out, Artforum, October 1999, p. 10
Stephen Prina, Angbaje, May 1999, p. 43
Prina, Stephen, Music Magazine, Japan, April 1999
Doherty, Brendan, Clothes Call: Robbie Fulks Takes His Pants Off For Rock, The Met, March 10-March 17, 1999, p. 25
Erickson, Karl, Compact Disc, New Art Examiner, July-Augst 1999, p. 61
Horn, Lee Chung, Stephen Prina: Push Comes to Love, Bigo, no. 163, p. 30
Prina, Stephen, Reviews, Music, no. 3
Stephen Prina, New Times, July 8-14, 1999, pp. 62-64
Frank, Peter, Art Picks of the Week, New Times Los Angeles, June 4, 1999, p. 170
1998
Bruno, Franklin, Art and Language, New Times Los Angeles, September 1998, pp. 58-60
Zwirner, Dorothea, Art of Administration, B Magazine, no. 5, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, May 1998, pp. 107-111
The Chichinati Foundation Newsletter, vol. 3 (ill) p. 25
Crossings: art to see and to hear, Exhibition Catalogue, Kunsthalle Vienna, pp. 212-213
Clark, Vicki, Recycling Art History, Exhibition Catalogue, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, 1998, p. 18
Kane, Mitchell, The Complete Hirsch Farm Project, Exhibition Catalogue, Hirsch Foundation, Northbrook Smith, Roberta, Stephen Prina and Tobias Rehberger, The New York Times, p. E36, August 7, 1998
Prina, Stephen, Regarding the Pit, Martin Kippenberger, Exhibition Catalogue, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Vienna, pp. 10-19
Prina, Stephen, [Sade’s] [Ryman’s] Kippenberger’s Tact, Martin Kippenberger, Exhibition Catalogue, Kunsthalle Basel, pp. 81-125
1998 Music Awards, New Times LA online, October 1, 1998
Bruno, Franklin, Art and Language, The New Times, Los Angeles, 10 September, 1998, pp. 58, 60
Smith, Roberta, Stephen Prina and Tobias Rehberger, New York Times, Aug. 7, 1998, sec E, p. 36
Zwirner, Dorothea. Art of Administration, Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, B Magazine 5, May, 1998, pp. 107-111
Deliss, Clementine, Tempolablor, A Libertine Laboratory?, Metronome, No. 3, fig. 69, 76
Huther, Christian, Agiler Krisenmanager. Main-Echo, September 9, 1998; Tagespost Speyer,, September 14, 1998
Wolk, Douglas, Music: Nightstick, New Time Los Angeles, August 1998, pp. 20-26, p. 60
Hildebrand, Lee, Dan Strachota and Sarah Cahill, Over There, East Bay Express, August 21, 1998, p. 55
Knight, Christopher, A Changing Picture, Los Angeles Times, October 7, 1998, pp. F1-4
Crain, Mary Beth, Touch Down In The Land of Superheroes, La Weekly, October 9-15, 1998, p. 172
Deliss, Clementine, Tempolablor, A Libertine Laboratory?, Metronome, no. 3, pp.69, 76
Bengal, Rebecca, Stephen Prina: Push Comes to Love, Eye Mag Online
1998 Music Awards, New Times LA online, October 1, 1998
1997
Sunshine & Noir: Art in L.A. 1960-1997, Exhibition Catalogue, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark, 1997 p. 232
Martin, Timothy, Stephen Prina: Monumental Restraint, Artext, February-April 1997, pp. 70-75, cover Knight, Christopher, Lots of Sunshine, Little Light, Los Angeles Times, July 27, 1997, pp.4-5, 85
Holert, Tom, Das Charts-System, Spex, March 1997
Decter, Joshua (ed.), Stephen Prina and Mike Kelley in discussion with Joshua Decter, Bard College Publication, pp. 47-55
Prina, Stephen, Retrospection Under Duress, Reprise, Exhibition Catalogue, Künstlerhaus Bethanien, December 1997, pp. 28, 44, 53-55, cover
Sammlung Speck, Exhibition Catalogue, Museum Ludwig Köln, pp. 220-221
Ebeling, Knut, …Ruhe der Distanz, Berliner Zeitung, no. 302, December 27, 1997
Graw, Isabelle, Von Hindernissen, die erst mal in den Weg gelegt sein müssen, Texte zur Kunst, August 6, 1997, no. 23, pp. 195-198
1996
Manet aufs 20. Jahrhundert getrimmt, Berliner Mergenpost, December 1996, pp. 24-25
Princenthal, Nancy, Stop Making Sense, On Paper, vol. 1, no. 2, November-December 1996, pp. 22-25
Drohojowska, Hunter, L.A.s Künstler auf der Jagdnach dem Teen Spirit, Kunstforum, no. 134, May- September 1996, pp. 194-198
Butler, Kateri, The Low Life, LA Weekly, May 24-30, 1996, p. 174
Raetselbilder von Stephen Prina in der Galerie Capitain, Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger, July 2, 1996
McKenna, Kristine, Getting His Chaos in Order, The Los Angeles Times, January 21, 1996, pp. 69, 73
MÜLLER, KATRIN BETTINA, ZIRKULATION DES MATERIALS: STEPHEN PRINA IN DER DAAD
GALERIE, DER TAGESSPIEGEL, DECEMBER 22, 1996, (ILL.)
Kandel, Susan, Memories of Prina’s Past Benefit Present Installation, The Los Angeles Times, January 25, 1996, p. F7
1995
Thill, Robert, Stephen Prina: Scanning the Field of Available Forms, Flash Art, February 1995, pp. 77-79
25 Years (1970–) Margo Leavin Gallery, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, vol. 1, pp. 14-15
Decter, Joshua, Review: Stephen Prina at American Fine Arts, Co., Artforum, January 1995, pp. 87-88
Greene, David A., Stephen Prina’s Public Domain, Los Angeles Reader, January 6, 1995, p. 18
Witte de With Cahier no. 3, Witte de With Center for Contempoary Art, Rotterdam, Verlag, February 1995, cover, p. 160
Kane, Mitchell, 1995 Hirsch Farm Project: Conviviality, Exhibition Catalogue
Weibel, Peter, Pittura/Immedia: Malerei in den 90er Jahren, Exhibition Catalogue, p. 113
Installation 95, Exhibition Catalogue, Ursula-Blickle Foundation, pp. 30-42, cover
1994
McKenna, Kristine, On the Fast Track, New York Newsday, June 1994, pp. 5-4, 39
What Next-Keanu U?, People, May 2, 1994, p. 91
Keanu Reeves (In Theory), The New Yorker, March 21, 1994, p. 57
Most Bodacious Course Offered–Keanu 101, San Francisco Chronicle, p. E3
Movie Course Ponders Keanu, The Orlando Sentinel, April 3, 1994, p. F2
Dear, Michael, Ann Goldstein, Karin Higa and Stephen Prina, Mappings from the Cultural Cringe, Exhibition Catalogue, 1994, pp. 9-23
Weeks, Janet, Bodacious! Teacher Offers Keanu Class, Los Angeles Daily News, March 29, 1994, p. 15
Hofleitner, Johanna, Kontext Kunst, Flash Art, January-February 1994, p. 95
Harper’s Index, Harper‘s, May, pp. 15, 70
Martin, Timothy, La Constrainte Monumentale, Exposé, no. 1, Spring, pp. 88-95
Weibel, Peter, Kontext Kunst, Exhibition Catalogue, DuMont Buchverlag, Cologne, pp. 502-509
Die Orte der Kunst, Exhibition Catalolgue, Sprengel Museum Hannover, pp. 82, 98.
Scarborough, James, Stephen Prina, Flash Art, January-February 1994, p. 99
MOCA Art Auction ’94, Auction Catalogue,
Don’t Look Now, Exhibition Catalogue, Thread Waxing Space, New York, curated by Joshua Decter
1993
Kremer, Mark and Camiel van Winkel, I’ve been described as an impure conceptual artist. And I celebrate and embrace that!, Archis, pp. 74-80
Hammond, Pamela, Review, Artnews, December 1993, pp. 142-143
Greene, David, Stephen Prina, Art Issues, November-December 1993, p. 41
Brody, Jacqueline, The Print Collector’s Newsletter, September-October 1993, p. 148
Pagel, David, Prina Shows Urbane Archival Exercise, Los Angeles Times, September 17, 1993, p. F21
Drawing the Line against AIDS, AMFAR International, Venice Biennale, pp. 261, 263, 277, 280, 320, 323, 323
From the Hand to the Head, the Theoretical Object, Exhibition Catalogue, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Kerguehennec
Galerie Peter Pakesch 1981-1993, Galerie Peter Pakesch, Vienna,
Hewitz, Daniel, Making Theory, Constructing Art: Authority of the Avant Garde, The University of Chicago Press, p. 295
1992
Brudelin, Markus, Christian Philipp Müller, Kunstverein, Artforum, October 1992, p. 199
Prina, Stephen, We Represent Ourselves To the World: Institutional Narrativity, The Lectures 1992, Witte De With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, pp. 59, 66, 73
Adcock, Craig, Documenta IX, Tema Celeste, Autumn 1992, pp. 84-86
Morgan, Stuart, Documenta IX: Three Perspectives. Body Language, Frieze, September-October 1992, pp. 28-34
Kunz, Martin, USA-Blickpunkt Eastcoast, Kunstforum International, September 1992, pp. 164-174
Baker, Kenneth, New York: Allegories of Modernism, Artspace, July-August 1992, pp. 62-63
Expanded Art II, Exhibition Catalogue, Performance Documentation, Wiener Festwochen
Segal, Lewis, Troupe Drums Up Rocks Barest Essence, Los Angeles Times, July 1, 1992, p. F11
Jinker-Lloyd, Amy, Musing on Museology, Art In America, June 1992, pp. 44-51
Steiner, Bettina, Vereinzelung für Auge und Ohr, Die Presse, June 5, 1992, p. 17
Documenta ’92: West Coast Artists, Produced and directed by Alexander von Wechmar, broadcast on Public German Television ARD and the European Cultural Channel ARTE, June 1992
Tilroe, Anna, Golgotha nummer 1 op Billboard’s Top One Hundred, Volskrant, April 17, 1992
Weibel, Peter and Ulrike Lehmann, Aesthetic of Absence: Pictures Between Presence and Absence, Munich, 1992
Westen, Mirjam, Lege tekens van Stephen Prina, Vaz Dias, April 25, 1992, p. 20
Zellen, Jody, The Thoughts that Count: Immaculate and Not-So-Immaculate Concepts in Santa Monica, Visions, Fall 1992, pp. 33-34
De Bundel, Anneke, Stephen Prina: de kunst van het weglaten, Leidsch Dagblad, March 28, p. 6
Chattopadhyay, Collette, An Ordered Past: Stephen Prina at Luhring Augustine Hetzler, Artweek, February
1992
Die Magische Dose, Documenta IX, Exhibition Catalogue, Neue Galerie, Kassel, 1992, pp. 9, 11, 18, 20, 22, 23, 44, 52, 61
Dirty Data: The Collection of Wilhelm Schurmann, Exhibition Catalogue, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, 1992, p. 5
Knowledge: Aspects of Conceptual Art, Exhibition Catalogue, University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, Documenta IX, Kassel, Exhibition Catalogue, 1992, vol. 1, pp. 205-206; vol. III, pp. 438-439
Drohojowska, Hunter, Cumulus from America. Artists in Pursuit of the Teen Spirit, Parkett, no. 34, pp. 152-155
It was the best he could do at the moment, Exhibition Catalogue, Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, 1992
Kimmelman, Michael, Just What is Drawing? Definitions, Definitions, The New York Times, February 21, 1992, p. 29
Kandel, Susan, Skewering Institutional Myths, Los Angeles Times, January 24, 1992, p. F19
Classifications, Exhibition Catalogue, PUR Presses Universitaires de Rennes, pp. 92-97
MOCA Art Auction ’92, Auction Catalogue, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Ein Interview mit Pierre Bourdieu von Isabelle Graw, Text zur Kunst, June 1992, pp. 115-129, pp. 124, 129
Rose, Bernice, Allegories of Modernism, Exhibition Catalogue, Museum of Modern Art, New York, pp.112-113
1991
Saltz, Jerry, Carnegie International, Galleries Magazine, December 1991, pp. 62-65, 130
Decter, Joshua, History as Image, Flash Art, November-December 1991, p. 128
Gopnik, Adam, The Art World: Empty Frames, The New Yorker, November 25, 1991, pp. 110-120
Schneider, Maria, Stephen Prina, Metropolis, no. 6, p. 44
51st Carnegie International, Exhibition Catalogue, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, 1991, pp. 120-121
Draxler, Helmut, Articulatory Practice (The Message as Medium), Parkett, no. 29, pp. 160-162
Pagel, David, The Politics of Negativity, Art Issues, Summer 1991, p. 13-17
Cash Flow, May 1991, no. 5, pp. 126-129
Der Standard, April 25, 1991, pp. 20-21
Prina, Stephen, Who Owns Criticality?, Work to Frame and Back Again: Looking at three decades of American Art, Exhibition Catalogue
Beyond the Frame: American Art, 1960-1990, Exhibition Catalogue, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo National Museum of Art, Osaka Fukuoka Art Museum, 124-125
Lebredt, Gordon, Reapplication: Protocols of a (De)monstration: A few words in Parentheses: An Introduction, Exhibition Catalogue
Lebredt, Gordon, Comedies of Objecthood, Exhibition Catalogue, The Toronto, pp. 10-11
Gulliver’s Travels, Exhibition Catalogue, Galerie Sophia Ungers, Cologne,
DuMont Buchverlag, p. 120
The 1991 Benefit Auction, Auction Catalogue, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Graham, Prina, Williams, Exhibition Catalogue, S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, pp. 20-22
1990
La Chair est triste, helas! et j’ai lu tous les livres, Feux Pales, Exhibition Catalogue, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, December-March 1991, pp. 93-104
New Progressive Artists in New York, Japan, no. 181, p. 256
American Art of the Late 80s, Exhibition Catalogue, National Gallery, Athens
Artner, Alan, Stephen Prina, Chicago Tribune, October 19, 1990, pp. 76-77
Reviews: Stephen Prina, The New Yorker, p. 18
Malsch, Friedemann, Stephen Prina, Kunstforum, October 1990, pp. 326-327
Hapgood, Susan, Stephen Prina at Luhring Augustine, Art In America, October 1990, p. 217
New Art, Harry Abrams, Inc., New York, 1990, p. 156
Lumby, Catherine, Sydney Biennial, Art gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Flash Art, Summer 1990, p. 180
Rimanelli, David, Stephen Prina at Luhring Augustine, Artforum, Summer 1990, pp. 165-166
Works in Progress, Photographic Portfolio, La Style, June 1990, pp. 188-199
Clearwater, Bonnie, Letter from the Editor: The Order of Chaos, Visions, Spring 1990, pp. 2-4
Collins, Amy Fine, Arte Duro, Vogue España, July 1990, pp. 112-116
Damjanov, Maja, Stephen Prina, Tema Celeste, July-October 1990, p. 56
The Readymade Boomerang: Certain Relations in 20th Century Art, Exhibition Catalogue, Sydney Biennale, April-June, 1990, pp. 412-413
Faust, Gretchen, Stephen Prina, Arts, April 1990, p. 104
Smith, Roberta, Stephen Prina, The New York Times, April 13, 1990, p. C26
Pagel, David, Stephen Prina: Municipal Art Gallery and Luhring Augustine Hetzler,
Artscribe, January-February 1990, p. 84
Smith, Roberta, Minimalism on the March: More and More, Less and Less, The New York Times, January 26, 1990, p. C1
1989 Knight, Christopher, Diving into the Meat and the Potatoes, Los Angeles Times, December 31, 1989, p. 8
Prina, Stephen, Twelve Artists on the Year’s Books, Artforum, December 1989, pp. 130-131
Gilbert-Rolfe, Jeremy, The Price of Goodness, Artscribe, November-December, 1989, pp. 48-53.
Halpern Brougher, Nora, Stephen Prina, Flash Art, November-December 1989, p. 145
Caley, Shaun, A Forest of Signs, One is Ushered into a Wonderland of Banality, Flash Art, 1989, pp.134
Constructing a History: A Focus on MOCA’s Permanent Collection, Exhibition Catalogue, Museum of
Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, November-March 1989
Kandel, Susan, LA in Review, Arts, November 1989, pp. 112-133
Adams, Brooks, Into the Words: Thoughts on a Forest of Signs, Visions Art Quarterly, Winter 1989, p. 20-22
Drohojowska, Hunter, Stop Making Sense, Artnews, October 1989, pp. 146-151
Prospect 89, Exhibition Catalogu, Frankfurter Kunstverein, pp.166-167
Martin, Timothy, Exquisite Corpse: The Complete Paintings of Manet, ’57 through 66 of 55, Exhibition Catalogue, Karsten Schubert, Ltd., October 1989
Steffen, Barbara, Los Angeles: Something New in the West, Artscribe, November-December 1989, pp. 9-11
Curtis, Cathy, Stephen Prina at Luhring Augustine Hetzler, Los Angeles Times, September 29, 1989, p. VI 22
Palmer, Laurie, Stephen Prina: The Renaissance Society, Artforum, September 1989, p. 151-152
Mercuri, Bernardo and Peter Weiermair, Prospect ‘89, Tema Celeste, July-September, pp. 69-71
Geer, Susan, An Intelligent Foray into One Color Painting, Los Angeles Times, August 12, 1989, p. V6
Prina, Stephen, Monochrome Painting, Exhibition Catalogue, Renaissance Society, Chicago; Los Angeles
Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles; P.S. 1, New York
Knight, Christopher, Prina Paints the Color of Money, Los Angeles Herald, July 28, 1989, p. 32
Rugoff, Ralph, Lost in the Woods, La Weekly, July 14-20, 1989, p. 35
Artner, Alan, Green with Irony, Chicago Tribune, June 1, 1989, p. 8
Herwitz, Daniel, A Forest of Signs, Modern Painters, June 7,1989, pp. 84-85
Knight, Christopher, Obscurs Objets du Desir: Une Forêt de Signes, Art Press, pp. 21-25
Smith, Richard, MOCA Navigates A Forest of Signs, New Art Examiner, Summer 1989, pp. 28-31
A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation, Exhibition Catalogue, MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, May-June, 1989
Knight, Christopher, Temporary Points Way with ‘Signs’, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, May 21, 1989, p. E1
Miller, Daryl, Stephen Prina’s Creative Synergy, Daily News, LA Life, May 7, 1989, p. 15
French, Christopher, La-La Land Goes Legitimate, Journal Of Art, April 1989
Gardner, Colin, A Brave New World, Exhibition Catalogue, Karsten Schubert, Ltd., March 1989, pp. 14-15
Striking Distance, Exhibition Catalogue, MOCA/Temporary Contemporary,
Los Angeles, March 1989
Kornblau, Gary, Stephen Prina, Art Issues, no. 2, February 1989, p. 24
Siegle, Robert, Lynne Tillman: Madame Realism’s Feminist Ethnology, Suburban Ambush: Downtown Writing
and the Fiction of Insurgency, John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore and London, 1989
Wilson, William, Art Exhibit Represents ‘Signs’ of the Times, Journal Star, Peoria, July 23, p. B2
Artner, Alan G., When Words Fail, Chicago Tribune, February 23, 1989, p. 11B
Sand, Gregory, Sampling Beastie Boys’ Complexity, Los Angeles Herald Examiner,
August 20, 1989, p. E6
Degener, Patricia, L.A. Is Appropriate For ‘Crisis of Representation’, St-Louis Dispatch, July 23, 1989, p. 4C
Wilson, William, When Words (and Images) Collide, Los Angeles Times, June 18, 1989, p. 8
Marks, Ben, Wandering Among the Trees, Artweek, July 1989, f15, p. 1
Gaver, Eleanor, The Big Sleep, Art & Antiques, September 1989, pp. 65-68
Woodward, Richard B., For Art, Coastal Convergences, The New York Times, July 16, 1989, pp. 1, 33
Pincus, Robert L., Ironic ‘Signs’:Work of Artists Point to a Bleak, Banal Future, San Diego Union, June 18, 1989, pp. E1, E6
Knight, Christopher, MoCA Pitches its Tent in ‘A Forest’, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, May 5, 1989, pp. 6-7
Wilson, Willian, Comments on Our Life and Times: Polite Agit-Pop Exhibit in ‘A Forest of Signs’, Los Angeles Times, May 7, 1989, pp. 6, 90-92
Venant, Elizabeth, And Exhibition in Search of the ‘Real’ Reality, Los Angeles Times, May 7, 1989, p. 7
Skelly, Jack, ’A Forest of Signs’ Leads to Eighties Art, Los Angeles Downtown News, June 5, 1989, pp. 1, 20-21, 24
1989
McKenna, Kristine, In the Footsteps of Warhol, Los Angeles Times, May 7, 1989, p. 9
Smith, Roberta, A Shift in Perspective, Vogue, pp. 232, 234, 236
Mediated Knot, Exhibition Catalogue, Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago
Atkinson, Terry, KCET’s ‘Take Five’ Starts With Avant-Garde Art, Los Angeles Times, June 19, 1989, p. 10
Lippert, Werner, Various Small Fires in the Gutenberg Galaxy, Parkett, no. 22, p.101-104
1988
Martin, Timothy, In the Years Preceding Olympia: Notes on the Systems Activity of Steve Prina, Visions, Winter 1988
Stapen, Nancy, Review of Binational, MFA & ICA, Artnews, December, pp. 167-168
Dyer, Richard, Prina’s Distressing ‘Beethoven’ Program, The Boston Globe, November 17, 1988
Martin, Timothy, In the Years Preceding Olympia, Visions Art Quarterly, Winter, pp. 6-10
Decter, Joshua, Stephen Prina, Flash Art, International Edition, October 1988, issue 142, p. 133
Knight, Christopher, A Binational Survey of the State of the Art, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, October 30, 1988, p. E2
Dean, Robert, Stephen Prina: Museum for Contemporary Art, Artforum, September, 1988, pp. 151-152
Ross, David and Jürgen Harten, American Art of the Late 80’s: The Binational, Exhibition Catalogue, ICA & MFA, Boston, September, pp. 156-159
Raczka, Robert, MOCA Sights Local Art in Striking Distance,
NewArt Examiner, Chicago, June 1988, pp. 139-140
Selwyn, Marc, New Art LA, Flash Art, Summer 1988, pp. 109-115
Knight, Christopher, Contemporary Art Concerns, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, April 3, 1988, p. F4
Knight, Christopher, Constructive Engagement, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, April 15, 1988, p. 33
Muchnic, Suzanne, Cohesive Show Looks at Life from Distance, Los Angeles Times, April 27,1988, p. V1
Wager, Gregg, West Coast Premiere of Prina Work at MOCA, Los Angeles Times, April 12, 1988, p. V10
Artner, Alan, At the Galleries, Chicago Tribune, March 24, 1988, Section 5, p. 12
Knight, Christopher, Focusing on the Hidden Meaning of the ‘Untitled’ Works,
Los Angeles Herald Examiner, February 7, 1988, p. E2
Pincus, Robert L., Cal Arts Alumni Show Skeptical Beliefs in a Variety of Ways, San Diego Union, February 28, 1988
Frank, Peter, Extended Play, Exhibition Catalogue, Emily Harvey Gallery, New York, February 1988
Jalon, Allan, Skeptical Belief(s) Exhibit Displays Varied Styles of Cal Arts Graduates, Los Angeles Times, Orange County Edition, January 24, 1988, pp. 49C-D
Lord, Catherine, Cal Arts: Skeptical Belief(s), Exhibition Catalogue, Newport Harbor Art Museum and The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago (By These Walls, by Stephen Prina), January 1988, pp. 14-16, 49, 71, 77
Tuchman, Laura J., Skeptical Belief(s) Raises Doubts, Orange County Register, January 24, 1988, p. K22
Woodard, Joseph, Playing with Information, Artweek, November 11, 1988, p. 5
Wilson, William, Radical Things Are Happening in Orange County, Los Angeles Times, February 28, 1988, pp. 93, 96
Koenig, Peter L., MIT Exhibit Celebrates Los Angeles Artists, The Enterprise, Falmouth, February 5, 1988, p. 4A
Taylor, Robert, LA Hot and Cool A Rewarding Exhibit, The Boston Globe, January 17, 1988
Aziz, Anthony, Bank of Boston/Boston, MIT List Visual Arts, LA Hot and Cool: Pioneers, Center/Cambridge, LA
Hot and Cool: The Eighties, Art New England, March, 1988
Bonetti, David, Welcome to LA: Art that blows hot and cool, The Boston Phoenix, January 1988
Striking Distance, Museum of Contemporary Art, Guide To The Galleries, Premier Issue, February 1988
Knight, Christopher, Contemporary Art Concern, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, April 3, 1988, p. F4
Striking Distance, The Contemporary, Spring, vol. 5, no. 2, pp. 8-9
1987
Friis-Hansen, Dana, LA: Hot and Cool: The Eighties, Exhibition Catalogue, MIT
Visual Arts Center, December, 1987, pp. 28, 29, 64, 68
Gardner, Colin, Stephen Prina and Christopher Williams, Artforum, December, 1987, pp. 125-126
Fehlau, Fred, Tim Ebner, John L. Graham, Stephen Prina, Christopher Williams, Flash Art, November-December, 1987, pp. 108-109
Prina, Stephen and Christopher Williams, New Observations, Journal, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, no. 46, vol. 6, Winter, 1987, pp. 4-5
Prina, Stephen and Christopher Williams, The Construction and Maintenance of our Enemies, New
Observations, New York, no. 44
1987
Artner, Alan, Cal Arts’ has more questions than answers, Chicago Tribune, June 19, 1987, section 7, p. 41
Cotter, Holland, Eight Artists Interviewed, Art in America, May, 1987, pp. 162, 163, 178, 199
McManus, Michael, An Anxious Space, Artweek, April 25, 1987
Glatt, Cara, California Art Students Display Work Here, The Herald, May 13, 1987, pp. 7, 26
Knight, Christopher, Sixties Sculpture Relieves Summer Doldrums, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, July 17, 1987, pp. 33, 37
Rugoff, Ralph, Art Pick of the Week, La Weekly, July 24-30, 1987
Yood, James, Cal Arts: Skeptical Belief(s), New Art Examiner, Summer 1987, p. 45
Indiana, Gary, Agitations, The Village Voice, July 28, 1987, p. 84
Shimmel, Paul, Skeptical Belief(s), Symphony, December-January, 1987, p. 26
Berland, Dinah, Projection Art Hits L.A. Streets, Los Angeles Herald Examiner,
February 13, 1987, p. 35
1986
Singerman, Howard, Stephen Prina, La Weekly, December 12-18, 1986, p. 49
Prina, Stephen and Christopher Williams, New Observations, Marginalia, vol. 1, no. 1, November 1986
Indiana, Gary, Rooted Rhetoric: Castel dell’Ovo, Naples, Flash Art, October-November 1986, pp. 83-84
Mueller, Cookie, Art and About, Details, October 1987, vol. V, no. 4
Nickas, Robert, Stephen Prina, Mark Stahl, Christopher Williams, Video And The Arts, San Francisco, no. 11, Winter 1986, pp. 53-54
Indiana, Gary, Castle to Castle, The Village Voice, August 19, 1987
Geurico, Gabriele, Rooted Rhetoric, Una Tradizione Nell’Arte Americana, Exhibition Catalogue, Guida Editori, Napoli, 1986, pp. 72-75.
Electa, Milan, Mandelzomm, Exhibition Catalogue, Castello di Vulci/Montalto di Castro, Rome, 1986
TV Generations, Exhibition Catalogue, LACE, Los Angeles, February 1986, p. 57
Litt, Steven, ‘Public Art’ Parodies Culture, Questions Society, News & Observer, Raleigh, August 15, 1986, pp. 1B, 3B
Mandelzomm, Exhibition Catalogue, Electa, Milan
Fox, Catherin, ‘Public Art’ is a Disconcerting Attack on Media, Atlanta Constitution, December, 1986, p. 2C
1985
Prina, Stephen, Excerpts From the 9 Symphonies of L. van Beethoven, 1983-1985, p.36-37
Jones, Ronald, Public Art, Exhibition Catalogue, Nexus Contemporary Art Gallery, Atlanta, p. 16
Olander, William, The Art of Memory/The Loss of History, Exhibition Catalogue, The New Museum, New York, November 1985, pp. 12, 36, 37, 57
Prina, Stephen, The Twenty-Six Inch Experience, TV Guides, The Kuklapolitan Press, New York
Prina, Stephen and Christopher Williams, A Conversation with Sheila McLaughlin and Lynne Tillman, Journal, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, no. 4, vol. 5, Spring 1985, pp. 40-45
Gibbs, Michael, Defferal of Meaning, De Appel, Amsterdam, pp. 26-34
Dagen, Phillipe, Prina, Stahl, Williams: Galerie Crousel-Hussenot, Art Press, no. 91, Paris, April, p. 68
Soutif, Daniel, Un pinceau aristotelicien, Liberation, Paris, February 15, 1985, p. 36
Indiana, Gary, Memories are Made of This, The Village Voice
1984
van Bruggen, Coosje, Jenny Holzer, Stephen Prina, Mark Stahl, Christopher Williams, Gewad/Appel, Ghent, Amsterdam, December 1984, p. 4-6, 13-22
Prina, Stephen, Los Angeles Times, January 3-7, 1984, Whitewalls, Chicago, Spring-Summer 1984, pp. 59-63
1982
Kirschner, Judith Rossi, Chicago: 74th American Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Artforum, October 1982, pp. 74-76
Rorimer, Anne, 74th American Exhibition, Exhibition Catalogue, The Art Institute of Chicago, June 1982, pp. 5-11, 38, 60.
1981
Zanetti, Paola Serra, New Work/New York, META: Parole & Immagini, Florence, no. 3, February 1981
Exhibition, Exhibition Catalogue, California Institute of the Arts
1980
Gumpert, Lynn and Alan Schwartzman, Investigations: Probe Structure Analysis, Exhibition Catalogue, The New Museum, New York, 1980, pp. 6-19, 32-35, 44
TEACHING
2004 – present
Harvard University, Cambridge, Professor, Visual and Environmental Studies
2003
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, Sabbatical, Fine Art Graduate Studies
2001-2002
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, Acting Chair, Fine Art Graduate Studies
2000
École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, visiting faculty
1994
California Institute of the Arts, visiting faculty, two-week workshop
1987
California Institute of the Arts, visiting faculty, Fall semester
1981-1987
Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, faculty
1980-2003
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, Core Faculty,
Fine Art Graduate Studies and Liberal Arts and Sciences
AWARDS, HONORS, RESIDENCIES
2003
Guggenheim Fellowship
1996
Künstlerhaus Bethanien Philip Morris Kunstförderung, Berlin
1995
Hirsch Farm Project: Conviviality, Hirsch Farm Project, Hillsboro (cat.)
1990
National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artist Fellowship
1988
Engelhard Foundation Fellowship
1987
National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artist Fellowship
1985
Foundation for Art Resources Grant
Selected Public Collections
Los Angeles County Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
CARNEGIE MUSEUM OF ART, PITTSBURGH
HAMMER MUSEUM, LOS ANGELES
LOS ANGELES COUNTY MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, LOS ANGELES
MUSEUM BOIJMANS-VAN BEUNINGEN, ROTTERDAM
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, LOS ANGELES
MUSEUM OF MODERN ART, NEW YORK
MUSEUM LUDWIG, COLOGNE
VANCOUVER ART GALLERY, VANCOUVER
WHITNEY MUSEUM OF AMERICAN ART, NEW YORK