The American artist Sturtevant is best known for her repetitions of the works of other artists, which she recreated manually from memory after having seen a piece that intrigued her. These can immediately be identified with the original, but they are not copies. The artists with whose work she engaged include her contemporaries in American Pop – Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Claes Oldenburg, James Rosenquist, Andy Warhol and Tom Wesselmann – as well as Marcel Duchamp, Joseph Beuys, Frank Stella, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Keith Haring and Anselm Kiefer, among others. Her aim was not to achieve an exact replica, but rather to address notions of authorship, authenticity and originality that would later come to the fore in our own digital age, characterised by the endless circulation and recombination of images.
Sturtevant's first exhibition, held in 1965 at the Bianchini Gallery, New York, featured her versions of Andy Warhol's silkscreened flowers, a Jasper Johns flag, a Frank Stella concentric square, a Claes Oldenburg garment and other paintings suspended on a clothes rack. The relationship between repetition and difference, as articulated in Gilles Deleuze's seminal philosophical text, was central to her practice. Before it became available in English translation, Sturtevant read Différence et répétition (1968) in the original French with the aid of a dictionary. The disparities between versions encourage the viewer to look beyond their surface similarities and 'trigger thinking' about the underlying conceptual structure of art. She achieved these crucial differences by working 'predominantly from memory, using the same techniques, making the same errors and thus coming out in the same place'. When Warhol was asked how he made his work he famously replied: 'I don't know. Ask Elaine [Sturtevant]'.
Sturtevant worked across media, ranging from painting and sculpture to photography, wallpaper and, from 2000 onwards, video works that combined advertising and internet images with her own film material. These later video works turn a critical gaze on today's image-saturated media culture, creating repetition of a different kind on a continuous loop. As the artist stated in 2012, 'What is currently compelling is our pervasive cybernetic mode, which plunks copyright into mythology, makes origins a romantic notion, and pushes creativity outside the self. Remake, reuse, reassemble, recombine – that's the way to go.'
Born Elaine Frances Horan in Lakewood, Ohio in 1924, she was known professionally by her married surname even after the couple separated. Sturtevant received her BA from the University of Iowa, followed by an MA in psychology from Columbia University. In 1990, she relocated from the US to Paris, where she lived and worked until her death in 2014. She was awarded the Golden Lion for lifetime achievement at the 54th Venice Biennale in 2011, and her pioneering work has been featured in numerous exhibitions, including at The Museum of Modern Art, New York (2014); Serpentine Galleries, London (2013); Kunsthalle, Zürich (2012); Moderna Museet, Stockholm (2012); Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris (2010) and the Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt (2004).
2022
Dialectic of Distance: Sturtevant Oldenburg Store, Thaddaeus Ropac, London, UK
Dialectic of Distance: Sturtevant Oldenburg Store, Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris Marais, France
2020
Sturtevant, SOCIÉTÉ, Berlin, GermanySturtevant, Peder Lund, Oslo, Norway
Ça va aller, Air de Paris, Romainville, France
2019
Bethlehem Hospital, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York, NY, USA
Sturtevant: MEMES, Freedman Fitzpatrick Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2018
I Am Never Am the Other, Power Station, Dallas, TX, USA
Vice Versa, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London, UK
2017
Undeniable Allusion, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Sturtevant, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York, NY, USA
2016
Drawings: 1964-1994, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Gober Partially Buried Sinks, Gavin Brown's enterprise, Sant'Andrea de Scaphis, Rome, Italy
KILL STUPIDITY, Air de Paris, Paris, France
2015
The House of Horrors (le Train fantôme), Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, Paris, France
Sturtevant Sturtevant, Madre, Napoli, Italy
Double Trouble, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2014
Reloaded, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Sturtevant. Drawing Double Reversal, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany; Albertina, Vienna, Austria; Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Double Trouble, MoMA | The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
Number eight: Sturtevant, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany
2013
Leaps Jumps and Bumps, Serpentine Galleries, London, UK
House of Horrors, Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany
Finite / Infinite, Gavin Brown's enterprise, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2012
Image over Image, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Rock and Rap / C Simulacra, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York, NY, USA
L'abécédaire de Deleuze, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Image over Image, Kunsthalle Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
2011
In Praise of Doubt, Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy
2010
The Razzle Dazzle of Thinking, Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, Paris, France
Vertical Nomad, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany
Elastic Tango, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, UK
2009
Blow Job, Air de Paris, Paris, France
2008
Vertical Monad, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, UK
Sturtevant, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
2007
Raw Power, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
RE-Run, Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna, Austria
2006
Cold Fear, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, UK
Dillinger Running Series, Site Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
Digital Click, Art Unlimited, Basel, Switzerland
2005
The Brutal Truth, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, USA
Push and Shove, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2004
The Brutal Truth, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York, USA
2003
The Dark Threat of Absence, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna, Austria
The Sixties. Lichentenstein, Warhol, Wesselmann, Rosenquist, Galerie Daniel Blau, Berlin, Germany
2002
Shifting Mental Structures, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin, Germany
Sturtevant. Work on paper 1965/66/69, Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich, Germany
I love Arlette, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
2001
Dillinger Running Series, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Ça va aller, Galerie Hans Mayer, Berlin, Germany
2000
Copy without Origins: self as disappearance, École Régionale des Beaux-arts de Nantes, Nantes, France
1999
Duchamp 1200 Coal Bags, MAMCO Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
Sturtevant. 1225 Objects, Casino Luxembourg, Forum d'Art Contemporain, Luxembourg
1998
Int./Ext. Visibilities, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
Ça va aller, Air de Paris, Paris, France
1997
Galerie Six Friedrich, Munich, Germany
1996
Ecole Régionale des Beaux-Arts, Le Mans, France
1995
Powerful Reversals, Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf, Germany
1994
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
1993
Villa Arson, Nice, France
Stux Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf, Germany
1992
Sturtevant, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
1991
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
1990
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL, USA
1989
Sturtevant. Werke aus 25 Jahren, Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne, Germany
Art Basel 89, Galerie Six Friedrich, Munich, Germany
1988
Drawing 1988–65, Bess Cutler Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1987
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Stux Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1986
White Columns, New York, NY, USA
1974
Various Studies for Beuys Actions, Objects and Films, Onnasch Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1973
Studies for Warhols' Marilyns, Beuys' Actions and Objects Duchamps' Etc. including film, Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY, USA
1971
Sturtevant. Studies for De Maria's New York Is Shit, Reese Palley Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1970
Sturtevant. Huit Tableaux et un Prototype, Galerie Claude Givaudan, Paris, France
1969
Sturtevant. Huit Tableaux et un Prototype, Galerie Claude Givaudan, Paris, France
1967
The Store of Claes Oldenburg, 623 East, New York, NY, USA
Picabia's Ballet Relâche, School of Visual Art, New York, NY, USA
1966
America, America, Galerie J, Paris, France
1965
Sturtevant, Bianchini Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2024
Le monde comme il va, Bourse de Commerce, Paris, France
Jordan Wolfson: Body Sculpture, National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
2023
Drawn into the Present: Portraits on Paper, Thaddaeus Ropac, London, UK
POP. Love, Fame & Power curated by Lawrence Van Hagen, NMACC, Mumbai, India
L’autre musée, the treasures of a major contemporary art collection, Frac Bretagne, Rennes, France
Ridiculously Yours! Art, Awkwardness and Enthusiasm, Neue Galerie Graz/Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
Inheritance, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
Forever Sixties, Collection Pinault, Couvent des Jacobins, Rennes, UK
Alchemy, Thaddaeus Ropac, London, UK
Anything Goes: die Postmoderne, 1967 – 1992, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany
Ridiculously Yours?! Art, Awkwardness and Enthusiasm, Falckenberg Collection, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
La Répétition, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
2022
WORLDBUILDING: Gaming and Art in the Digital Age, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany; Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
Museum of Modern Art of Bogotá (MAMBO) and Cinemateca Distrital, Bogotá, Colombia
Faking the Real, Kunsthalle Graz, Graz, Austria
ERNSTHAFT? Albernheit und Enthusiasmus in der Kunst, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany
Somewhere Downtown, UCCA Museum, Beijing, China
The Double: Identity and Difference in Art Since 1900, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA
2021
Sturtevant & Tina Braegger: Curiosity Killed the Cat, cur. Udo Kittelmann, De 11 Lijnen, Oudenburg, Belgium
Amazons of Pop! Women artists, icons, superheroines 1961–1973, Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Kiel, Germany
New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century, BAMPFA – Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, CA, USA
Zeros and Ones, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Stop Painting, Fondazione Prada, Ca' Corner della Regina, Venice, Italy
Carte blanche à Anne Imhof, Natures Mortes, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
2020
30 Years in Paris, Thaddeaus Ropac, Paris Pantin, France
She-Bam Pow POP Wizz ! Les Amazones du POP, MAMAC, Nice, France
No Dandy, No Fun, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Retail apocalypse, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland
Risquons-tout, WIELS, Forest, Belgium
2019
Straying from the line, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, Germany
Luogo e segni, Punta della dogana, Venice, Italy
Ikonen, Kunsthalle Bremen, Bremen, Germany
More, Air de Paris, Romainville, France
Food, Yoshii Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Just what is it that makes today so different, so appealing?, Gavin Brown's enterprise, Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris, France
2018
DRAG: Self-portrait and Body Politics, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London, UK
Fake as More, Simon Lee Gallery, New York, NY, USA
33rd Bienal de São Paulo, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo, São Paulo, Brazil
Art & Entertainment, MAMCO Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
Faithless Pictures, National Museum of Norway, Oslo, Norway
2017
Robert Rauschenberg: Among Friends, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
I am a Problem, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
The Everywhere Studio, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL, USA
If Not Apollo, the Breeze, Kadist, San Francisco, CA, USA
Sturtevant and the Salon Pour Rire, Chewday's, London, UK
Screen Memory, Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK
2016
Life Itself, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Foot Foraine, Grande Halle La Villette, Paris, France
Ordinary Pictures, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MI, USA
Images, Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
2015
Space Age, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Pantin, France
The Great Mother, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi – Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy
The Shell, Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France
Open Source: Art at the eclypse of capitalism, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
2014
In These Great Times, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
69 / 96., Gebert Foundation, Rapperswil, Switzerland
2013
second reflection / symmetrical contents STURTEVANT and SECONDEDITIONS, Chelsea Space, London, UK
Des images comme des oiseaux, La Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille, France
Pop Art Design, Barbican Centre, London, UK
Virginia Dwan, Filmaker, Videographer, and Film Producer, Emily Harvey Foundation, New York, NY, USA
Ausweitung der Kampfzone. Die Sammlung. 1968–2000, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
2012
Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK
Sinister Pop, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
2011
ILLUMInazioni – ILLUMInations, 54th Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Eloge du doute, Punta della Dogana, Venice, Italy
The Personal is Political: Women artists from the collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Role Models and Role Playing, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria
2010
Seconde main, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Pop Life, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
2009
Die Kunst ist Super!, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin, Berlin, Germany
The Quick and The Dead, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MI, USA
Pop Life, Tate Modern, London, UK
Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London, UK
VOID, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
53rd Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
2008
Set 5, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, Germany
The Archer and the Goat, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, UK
Exposing Flesh, CCS Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA
2007
Début de siècle, Musée départemental d'Art Contemporain de Rochechouart, Rochechouart, France
it (is not) a fake, Galerie Sho Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Wack! Art and the feminist revolution, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Ten Curators, Colette, Paris, France
Good Morning Midnight, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Steven Parrino – La Marque, Noire, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France
Group Show, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London, UK
2006
Twice Drawn, Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA
Air de Paris, Paris, France
MoMA PS1, New York, NY, USA
Whitney Biennial 2006: Day for Night, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
2005
De Singel, Antwerp, Belgium
Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna, Austria
MAMCO Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
Joy, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Kunstforum, Vienna, Austria
Kunsthalle Vienna, Austria
2004
20 Jahre / 20 Years, 1984–2000, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Besides, popularity is a rather lumpy concept, no?, Kunthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
About Painting, Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA
Frac Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Marseille, France
Before the End, Le Consortium, Dijon, France
2003
Aftershock, Dickinson Roundell, New York, NY, USA
Das Lebendige Musuem, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
University of Sunderland, Sunderland, UK
Ishtar, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MI, USA
The DaimlerChrysler Collection, Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany
Influence, Anxiety and Gratitude, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, USA
Une Collection de 'Chefs d'oeuvre' – emprunts, pastiches, copies, citations et interprétations, FRAC-Artothèque du Limousin, Limoges, France
Living with Duchamp, Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY, USA
Re-Production 2, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria
Un tableau dans le décor, Peintures 1970–2000, Musée des Ducs de Bretagne, Nantes, France
Site, Düsseldorf, Germany
2002
Virement 2002, MAMCO Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
Pace/Macgill Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Nederlande Foto Institut, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Manifeste oder Ergriffenheit – Was ist das, Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich, Germany
Minimalism and After, DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Iconoclash. Jenseits der Bilderkriege in Wissenschalft, Religion und Kunst, Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany
Min Marilyn, Lijevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
Private/Corporate: A Dialogue, Haus Huth, Berlin, Germany
Kunst nach Kunst, Neues Museum Werserburg, Bremen, Germany
2001
Répertoire (Replay) 'Oh cet écho!' (Duchampiana) 2, MAMCO Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
Répertoire (Replay) 'ce qu'il plait 2', MAMCO, Geneva, Switzerland
Ornament und Abastraktion, Foundation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
Trade-Waren, Wege und Werte im Welthandel Heute, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
Candice Breitz, Claude Closky, Elaine Sturtevant, Martin Walde, Erwin Wurm, Gallery Mezanin, Vienna, Austria
La Bretagne collectionne l'art de notre temps: les vingt ans du Frac Bretagne 1981–2001, Musée des beaux-arts de Rennes, Rennes; Manoir de la Grande Cour, Taden; Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Bignan; École supérieure d'art de Lorient, Lorient; Domaine de Trévarez, Saint-Goazec; Le Quartier – Centre d'art contemporain, Quimper, France
Georg Karl Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria
2000
Protest & Survive, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
Copy Right/Copy Wrong, École des beaux-arts de Nantes Saint-Nazaire, Nantes, France
The 100 Smiles of Mona Lisa, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo; Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka; Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum, Hiroshima, Japan
1999
Original. Echt/Falsch, Neues Museum, Bremen, Germany
Air de Paris, Paris, France
Werke aus der Sammlung FER, Froelich, Grässlin, Weishaupt, ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe, Germany
Apropos of Marcel: The Art of Making Art after Duchamp in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Patchwork in progress 5 'Oh cet écho !' (Duchampiana), MAMCO Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
Weg aus dem Bild, Georg Karl Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria
1998
Das Jahrhundert der Kunslerischen Freiheit, Wiener Sezession, Vienna, Austria
Sequence, Edition Schellmann Munich, New York, NY, USA
Upfreshing Wind from Changing Directions, Weimar Neues Museum, Weimar, Germany
Painting Now and Forever, Pat Hearn Gallery, New York, NY, USA
One Hundred Years of Artistic Freedom, City Art Musem, Helsinki, Finland
Auffrischender Wind aux weschselnden Richtungn. Internationale Avantgarde seit 1960. Die Sammlung Paul Maenz, Neues Museum, Weimar, Germany
1997
Galerie von Lintel, Munich, Germany
From One Point to Another, L'Atelier Soardi, Nice, France
Sous le manteau, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
1996
Magritte, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
Kunstsammlung Nordhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany
La Criée, Centre d'Art, Rennes, France
L'Art du Plastique, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
Museum der Kultur der Welt, Berlin, Germany
Now/Here, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaeck, Denmark
Shift, neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany
1994
MAMCO Genève, Geneva, Switzerland
Qui est Libre?, École des beaux arts, Rouen, France
Leap into the Void, Tsentral'ny dom khudozhnika / Central House of Artists, Moscow, Russia
Zentrum Paris, Art Frankfurt 94, Frankfurt, Germany
1993
Zentrum Paris, Kunsthalle Ritter, Klagenfurt, Austria
Drawings 30th Anniversary Exhibitions, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1992
Galerie Sylvana Lorenz, Paris, France
Galerie Six Friederich, Munich, Germany
Objects for an ideal home, Serpentine Galleries, London, UK
1991
Charade of Mastery, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
Denk-Bilder, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstifstun, Munich; Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany
Aspect de l'art du XXéme siécle, Abbaye Saint André, Meymac, France
(Art), California State University, Fullerton, CA, USA
Hybrid Abstraction, Bennington College, Bennington, VT, USA
Das Goldene Zeitalter, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
1990
Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Charade of Mastery. Deciphering Modenism in the Contemporary Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
Spellbound, Mark Richard Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1989
Prospect 89, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
D&S Ausstellung, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
A Decade of Drawing, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
The Silent Baroque, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
1988
Complexity & Contradiction, Scott Hanson Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Vraiment Faux, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Jouy-en-Josas, France
Hommage-Demontage, Neue Galerie Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen; Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen; Stadtisches Museum Gelsenkirchen, Gelsenkirchen, Germany
Provinciaal Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Hasselt, Belgium
Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria
1987
Bienal Internacional de Pintura, Museo de Arte Moderno, Cuenca, Ecuador
Glittering Prize, Stux Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Post-Abstract Abstraction, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT, USA
1986
Investigations, McIntosh/Drysdale Gallery, Washington, D.C., USA
Production Re-Production, Galerie 345, New York, NY, USA
1985
The Art of Appropriation, Alternative Museum, New York, NY, USA
1967
Art in the Mirror, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
1966
Institute Of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA
Austria
Secession, Vienna
France
FRAC Bretagne | Fonds Régional d'Art Contemporain, Rennes
Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, Paris
Germany
MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe
Neues Museum Weimar, Weimar
Italy
Pinault Collection, Palazzo Grassi, Venice
Netherlands
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Portugal
Museu das Artes de Sintra, Sintra
Switzerland
MAMCO Gèneva, Geneva
USA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MI
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2013
College Art Association, for the exhibition Rock & Rap /c Simulacra, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York, NY, USA
Kurt Schwitters Prize for Lifetime Achievement, Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany
2011
Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, 54th Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
2008
Greenburger Award, New Museum, New York, NY, USA
2006
Beaux-arts Magazine Award (best international exhibition), Paris, France
2005
Beaux-arts Magazine Award (best international exhibition), Sturtevant: The Brutal Truth, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
2004
Art Award (best exhibition of the year), Paris, France