Curriculum Vitae

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BORN
1952–1996, New York City, NY

EDUCATION
California State University, Long Beach, CA
University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2011

• “The Wedding of Everything”, Country Club, Los Angeles, CA

2009

• “NEWAGERIOT”, Country Club, Los Angeles, CA
• “MAN SON 1969”, Vom Schrecken der Situation, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany

2007

• “Into Me, Out of Me”, MACRO Future, Rome, Italy

2006

• “Renegades 25 Years of Performance at Exit Art”, Exit Art, New York, NY
• “INTO ME / OUT OF ME” Kunst-Werke Berlin e.V., KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
• “Into me / Out of me”, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island, NY

2003

• “Art, Lies and Videotape: Exposing Performance”, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England

2001

• “A Work in Progress, Selections from the New Museum Collection”, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY

1996

• “Dernières nouvelles des Fonds”, musée d´art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
• “Endurance: The Information”, Arcadia University Art Gallery, Glenside, PA

1995

• “Narcissistic Disturbance”, Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA

1994

• “Incertaine Identité”, Analix Forever, Geneva, Switzerland
• “Visiting Hours: An Installation by Bob Flanagan in collaboration with Sheree Rose”, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY
• “Transformers”, Hessel Museum of Art & Center for Curatorial Studies Galleries at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

1993

• “Up With People”, Feature Inc, New York City, NY
• “Artists’ Writing Reading Room: An Exhibition of Visual Artists Who Write and Writers Who Make Visual Art”, Side Street Projects, Santa Monica, CA

PERFORMANCES
1992

• “A Matter of Choice”, LACE, Los Angeles, CA
• “Bob Flanagan at the Movies”, Artists Television Access, San Francisco, CA

1991

• “Bob Flanagan’s Sick”, Art in the Anchorage, New York, NY, LACE, Los Angeles, CA
• “Bob Flanagan at the Movies”, The Lab, San Francisco, CA

1990

• “Why”, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
• “Product of My Environment”, Benefit for Highways, Santa Monica, CA
• “Under Grand Music”, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

1989

• “Body”, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
• “Nailed”, Olio, Los Angeles, CA, San Francisco, CA

1987

• “Tell Me What To Do: An Improvisational Reading and Performance”, Beyond Baroque, Los Angeles, CA

1986

• “Slave Sonnets”, Beyond Baroque, Los Angeles, CA

1982

• “The Wedding of Everything”, Beyond Baroque, Los Angeles, CA

1981

• “Gross Revisions” part of group show “Poets in Performance”, curated by Dennis Cooper

1978

• “The Kid is the Man”, Intellectuals & Liars Bookstore, Santa Monica, CA

VIDEOS / FILMS
1993

• “The New Age”, directed by Michael Tolkin
• “It’s Coming Down”, music video for Danzig, directed by Jonathan Reiss

1992

• “A Matter of Choice”
• “Do You Need Some?”, music video for Mind Bomb, directed by Jonathan Reiss
• “Happiness in Slavery”, music video for Nine Inch Nails, directed by Jonathan Reiss

1991

• “Story of Bob”
• “Body”
• “Bob Flanagan’s Sick”
• “100 Reasons”

1989

• “The Groundlings”

1987

• “Armageddon Outta Here”

1984

• “Leather from Home”

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS
1996

• Pain Journal

1993

• Bob Flanagan: Supermasochist (interviews)

1990

• A Taste of Honey with David Trinidad

1988

• Fuck Journal (Hanuman Books 1988)

1986

• SlLEave Sonnets

1983

• The Wedding of Everything

1978

• The Kid Is the Man