Alan Belcher

Lives and works in Toronto /Tkaronto
Born 1957 in Toronto, Canada

SOLO Exhibitions

2024 "Italian Art", Hunt Gallery, Toronto

2022 "Pasunmot", Parc Offsite, Montréal

2021 "untitled exhibition by Alan Belcher", MKG127, Toronto

2019 "Friends", Downs & Ross, New York City
"On view...", Galerie Lange + Pult, Zürich
“Condemned”,Vie d’Ange, Montréal
"Friends", Beauty Supply, Toronto

2018 "On view...", MKG127, Toronto
"GIANT", LMAKgallery, New York City

2017 "Objects", greengrassi, London UK
"Preview", Le Consortium, Dijon

2016 "Objects", MKG127, Toronto
“Objets”, Galerie Laroche/Joncas, Montréal

2014 "Objects", Marlborough Gallery, New York City
"Pieces", The Suburban, Oak Park, Chicago

2013 “Untitled”, The Apartment, Vancouver

1999 “Private Language”, The Japan Foundation, Toronto

1998 “Ne Touche Pas”, Galerie Yves LeRoux, Montreal

1997 “Friends”, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York City
“Friends”, Cold City, Toronto
Art Metropole, Toronto

1995 Jack Shainman Gallery, New York City
“Complex”, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada

1994 “Complex”, Spazio Via Farini, Milano
“Complex”, White Columns, New York City

1993 Buchholz und Buchholz, Cologne
Studio Guenzani, Milano

1992 Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
“Complex”, Genereux Grunwald, Toronto

1991 “Complex ‘91”, Spiral Garden, Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo
   “Schmozone”, Nordanstad-Skarstedt, Stockholm
   Galerie Franz Paludetto, Torino
   Josh Baer Gallery, New York City
   “Complex”, Castello di Rivara, Rivara /Torino

1990 Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago
   “Schmozone”, Josh Baer Gallery, New York City
   Galerie Brenda Wallace, Montreal
   “Pork Chops”, Anna Freibe, Cologne

1989 The Power Plant, Toronto
“Experimental & Pop”, Galerie Dorrie-Preiss, Hamburg
“Made In Canada”, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne

1988 “Traveling Exhibition”, Josh Baer Gallery, New York City
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne

1987 “Work”, Cable Gallery, New York City
“Travelling Exhibition”, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles

1986 “Expo”, Josh Baer Gallery, New York City
Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago

1985 “Made In New York”, Cable Gallery, New York City

GROUP Exhibitions

2024 “Perhaps Sunny Days”, PODO Museum, Jeju Island, South Korea
"Saint Laurent", Galerie Eli Kerr, Montréal

2023 "Explorations of Photography", Musée Nicéphore Niépce, Chalon-sur-Sâone, France
"Bibliography", MKG127, Toronto

2022 "Beyond Photography", Galerie 1900–2000, Paris

2021 “100 Sculptures” curated by Todd von Ammon and Joseph Ian Henrikson; Anonymous Gallery, New York City
Princess Beatrix House, Hudson, NY

2020 "Crocodile Tears", Unit 17, Vancouver

“100 Sculptures” curated by Todd von Ammon and Joseph Ian Henrikson; Anonymous Gallery, Los Angeles

2019 Le Case D'Arte, Milano
Galerie Lange + Pult, Zürich
   “69/19”, Gallery 52, Jeffersonville, New York
"For Every Atom Belonging to Me as Good Belongs to You", curated by Mary-Dailey Desmarais; Musée des
Beaux-Arts de Montréal
“100 Sculptures” curated by Todd von Ammon and Joseph Ian Henrikson; Anonymous Gallery, Paris

2018    "Brand New: Art and Commodity in the 1980s" curated by Gianni Jetzer; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,
   The Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC

“Readymades Belong To Everyone” curated by Fredi Fischli & Niels Olsen; Swiss Institute /Contemporary Art,
   New York City
   "FRONT International Cleveland Triennial —The Great Lakes Research", curated by Michelle Grabner;
   Cleveland Institute of Art /Reinberger Gallery, Cleveland

“L’Almanach 18 Biennial /Nouvelles Oeuvres de la Collection du Consortium”, Le Consortium, Dijon
   "Rose Ocean: Living with Duchamp" curated by Ian Berry; The Tang Museum, Skidmore College, New York
   "Nomadic Murals: Contemporary Tapestries & Carpets", Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida
"Tales From The Crate Room", curated by E.V. Day; Bunker Art Space, Beth De Woody's Private Contemporary
Art Collection, West Palm Beach, FL.
"Guarded Future II", Downs & Ross, New York City
  “100 Sculptures” curated by Todd von Ammon and Joseph Ian Henrikson; Anonymous Gallery, Mexico City
"u and Alan Belcher", a collaboration with Sean MacAlister; The Lily, Calgary

OOG, Toronto

2017    "Strange Attractors —The Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Art (Volume 1, Life On Earth)"
   organized by Robert Nickas; Redling Fine Art, Los Angeles
   "Wall To Wall: Carpets By Artists", curated by Cornelia Lauf; Katonah Museum Of Art, Katonah, NY
   "Again and Again", MKG127 tenth anniversary exhibition; Toronto
   "The Interior and The Carpet", VAROLA, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles
   "The Carpet Kartell", Tanja Grunert Gallery, New York City
   "Must/Have", Theodore:Art, Brooklyn

2016 "Every Future Has a Price: 30 Years After Infotainment", Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York City

   “Dream Song 386”, curated by Keith J. Varadi; Cooper Cole Gallery, Toronto
   "Wall To Wall: Carpets By Artists", curated by Cornelia Lauf, Museum Of Contemporary Art Cleveland (MoCA)
   The Suburban Walkers Point, curated by Michelle Grabner & Brad Killam; Milwaukee
   "Ceramics —concept of function", LMAKGallery, New York City
   Vie D'Ange, Montréal

2015    "Exposition anniversaire 10 ans", Galerie Laroche/Joncas, Montréal

"Occasional Furniture", The Apartment, Vancouver

2013 “Bummer Of Love” curated by Drew Heitzler; Marlborough Chelsea, New York City

2012 “25 Years Of Talent” curated by Michelle Grabner; Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York City
“The Way We Live Now”, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York City
“The John Riepenhoff Experience”, Pepin Moore Gallery, Los Angeles

2010 Corvi-Mora, London, U.K.

2009 “Phot(o)bjects” curated by Robert Nickas; Presentation House, Vancouver

“Phot(o)bjects” curated by Robert Nickas; Lawrimore Projects, Seattle

2008 Fotomuseum Winterthur, “Set 5 –Jederman Collection”; Winterthur (Zurich), Switzerland

2004 Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, organized with Clarissa Dalrymple, New York City
“Headspace”, curated by Eileen Sommerman; Holt Renfrew (Bloor), Toronto

2003 “Here and There”, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver

“Living with Duchamp”, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College,
Saratoga Springs, NY

2002 “Art Walks”, National Gallery Of Canada Library and Archives

1999 “Fluffy”, curated by Anthony Kiendl; Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan

1998 “Travelogue”, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York City
   Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia (U.B.C.), Vancouver
   “The Not-Quite Doll Show”, curated by Susan J. Baker; O’Kane Gallery at University of Houston, Texas
   “Art Multiples, Reproduction and Fine Print”, Saw Gallery, Ottawa

1997 “Pseudonyms and Similarities”, Mercer Union, Toronto

1996    "Controfigura", Studio Guenzani, Milano
   Free Parking, Toronto
   Robert Prime Gallery, London, U.K.
   “Labor of Love”, curated by Marcia Tucker; The New Museum, New York City
   “Be Specific”, curated by Michael Duncan; Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles
   “Altered States: Rituals of Exchange”, curated by Catherine Crowston; Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Canada
   “Still Life”, curated by Shelly Ross; The St. Paul Companies, Minneapolis

1995 “Human / Nature”, The New Museum, New York City

“Fashion is A Verb (Expanding the Definition)”, Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology, (F.I.T.),
   New York City
   Dru Arstark Gallery, New York City
   “Smells Like Vinyl”, curated by Thadeus Strode; Roger Merians Gallery, New York City
   “Inside Out (Psychological Self-Portraiture)”, curated by Marc Straus; The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut

1994 “Up The Establishment”, curated by Dan Cameron; Sonnabend Gallery, New York City

Garnet press Gallery, Toronto
“Rob-o-Rama”, YYZ, Toronto

1993 “Belcher, Höller, General Idea, Tillmans, Odenbach”, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
   “Commodity Image”, International Center of Photography (I.C.P.) Midtown, New York City
   “Six Weeks Brussells”, Lukas und Hoffmann Galerie (Berlin), Brussells
   “Temporal Borders: Image and Site”, curated by Karen Antaki; Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery,
   Concordia University, Montreal

“Photoplay (Works from the Chase Manhattan Collection)”, organized by Lisa Phillips and Manuel E. Gonzales; Center for the Fine Arts, Miami; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Caracas, Venezuela; Museo de Arte de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile

1992 “Beyond Glory: Re-presenting Terrorism”, curated by David J. Brown and Nina Felshin; Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore
   “Les Survivants”, curated by Elein Fleiss and Jean-Luc Vilmouth; La Galerie de Paris, Paris
   Genereux Grunwald Gallery, Toronto
   “Apocalypse and Resurrection”, Gallery Three Zero, New York City
   “Paradise Europe”, billboard project organized by BizArt; Copenhagen
   Galerie du Mois, Paris
   “Selected Passages”, Galerie Jousse Sequin, Paris
   Galerie Dorrie-Preiss, Hamburg
   Galerie 1900 / 2000, Paris
   “Tattoo Collection”, Urbi et Orbi, Paris; Air de Paris, Nice; and Daniel Buchholz, Cologne

1991 “Anni Novanta”, curated by Renato Barilli; Musei Comunal, Rimini, Italia
   “Serien”, Galerie Juergen Becker, Hamburg
   “Editions Belle Haleine”, Buchholz und Schipper, Cologne
   “Just What Is It That Makes Today’s Homes So Different, So Appealing?”, curated by Dan Cameron; The Hyde Collection, Glen Falls, New York
   Postmasters Gallery, New York City
   Galerie du Mois, Paris
   “Barenlese / Zum Wesen des Teddy’s”, Ruhrland Museum, Essen
   “Presenting Rearwards”, curated by Ralph Rugoff; Rosamund Felson Gallery, Los Angeles
   “Constructing Images: Synapse Between Photography and Sculpture”, curated by Ingrid Schaffner; Lieberman
   and Saul Gallery, New York City
   “Proiezioni”, curated by Gregorio Magnani; Castello di Rivara, Rivara / Torino

1990 “Stendhal Syndrome”, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City
   “Assembled”, curated by Barry Rosenberg; University Art Galleries at Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio
   “The Indomitable Spirit”, organized by Photographers and Friends Against AIDS; International Center for Photography (I.C.P.) Midtown, New York City
   "Disconnections”, Galerie Nordanstad-Skarstedt, Stockholm
   “Pop 90”, Postmasters Gallery, New York City
   “Information”, curated by Robert Nickas, Terrain Gallery, San Francisco
   “Get Well Soon”, Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago
   “All Quiet On The Western Front?”, Galerie Antoine Candau, Paris
   “Detritus: Transformation and Reconstruction”, Jack Tilton Gallery, New York City
   “Photos?”, Tresor D’Art, Gstaad
   “No, Not That One. It’s Not A Chair”, curated by Elein Fleiss; Galerie 1900 / 2000, Paris
   “Arte de Camera”, Galeria Matteo Remolino, Torino
   “On The Edge: Between Sculpture and Photography”, curated by Toby D. Lewis; Cleveland Center
   for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio

1989 “20th Sao Paulo Bienal Internacionale”, curated by Carlos Von Schmidt; Sao Paulo
   “Psychological Abstraction”, curated by DESTE Foundation; House of Cyprus, Athens
   “Natura Naturata (An Argument for Still Life)”, curated by Cornelia Lauf; Josh Baer Gallery, New York
   “Semi(Op)tics / Une Autre Affaire”, curated by Robert Nickas; Le Consortium, Dijon

“D & S Austellung”, Hamburg Kunstverein, Hamburg (including two window displays at Selbach menswear stores)
   “Homogenius”, Mercer Union, Toronto
   Galerie Brenda Wallace, Montreal
   “Order of Facts”, curated by Haim Steinbach; Galerie Achim Kubinski, Stuttgart
   “Abstraction in Contemporary Photography”, curated by Jimmy de Sana, Steven High, & Bill Salzillo;
   Hamilton College, Clinton, New York and Virginia Commonwealth University
   “International Camera”, Salama-Caro Gallery, London, U.K.
   Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
   “Don’t Bungle the Jungle”, organized by Madonna and Kenny Sharf; Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
   “Obscured”, Josh Baer Gallery, New York City
   “Painting, Object, Photograph”, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston
   “Revamp, Review”, curated by Corine Diserens, International Center for Photography at Woodstock, New York

1988 “New Urban Landscape”, organized by Olympia and York; World Financial Center, New York City
   “Reprises de Vues”, curated by Corinne Desirens; Halle Sud, Geneva
   “Presi Per Incantamento”, curated by Gregorio Magnani, Daniela Salvioni, & Georgio Versoti;
   Pagdiglioni d’Art Contemporanea, Milano
   “Belief Structures”, curated by Andy Fabo; Mercer Union, Toronto
   “When Attitudes Become Form”, curated by Robert Nickas, Galerie Hans Mayer, Dusseldorf
   “Photography On The Edge”, Patrick & Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee
   “New York Special, Photographic Works”, Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Hamburg
   “Publics Art”, curated by Denise Oleksijczuk (two-person exhibition with Dennis Adams); Cold City, Toronto
   “A Visible Order, Contemporary Still Life Photography”, curated by Renee Ricardo & Paul Laster;
   Otis / Parsons Gallery, Los Angeles
   “A Drawing Show”, curated by Jerry Saltz; Cable Gallery, New York City

1987 Metro Pictures, New York City
   “Le Courtiers du Desire”, curated by Walter Hopps and Howard Halle; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
   “The Castle”, curated by Group Material; Documenta 8, Kassel
   “Material Fictions”, curated by France Morin; The 49th Parallel Gallery, New York City and State University
   of New York (S.U.N.Y.)
   Coburg Gallery (two-person exhibition with Ken Lum), Vancouver
   “The Hallucination of Truth”, curated by Renee Ricardo & Paul Laster; P.S. One, New York City
   “Wet Paint”, Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago
   XPO Galerie, Hamburg
   “Sculpture / Object / Sculpture”, Galerie Barbara Farber, Amsterdam
   “The Image In Singular”, Gallery Amer, Vienna
   Le Case D’Arte, Milano
   “Grand Desire”, curated by Jack Bankowsky & Steve Saltzman; Proctor Art Center, Bard College,
   Annadale-on-Hudson, New York
   Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
   Galerie Christophe Durr, Munich
   Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati
   Cold City Gallery, Toronto
   “Infotainment”, organized by Gallery Nature Morte (New York); Galerie Montenay, Paris
   “Infotainment”, organized by Gallery Nature Morte (New York); DeSelby Galerie, Amsterdam

1986 “As Found”, curated by Benjamin Buchloh; Institute of Contemporary Art (I.C.A.), Boston
   “Infotainment”, organized by Gallery Nature Morte (New York); Aspen Art Museum
   “Infotainment”, organized by Gallery Nature Morte (New York); Vanguard Gallery, Philadelphia
   “Arts and Leisure”, curated by Group Material; The Kitchen, New York City
   “Brokerage of Desire”, curated by Walter Hopps & Howard Halle; Otis /Parsons Gallery, Los Angeles
   “Public Art”, curated by Ronald Jones; Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta
   “In Tradition of Photography”, curated by P. Collier Schorr; Light Gallery, New York
   “Poetic Resemblance”, curated by Barbara Broughel; Hallwalls, Buffalo
"MASS" curated by Group Material; Artspace, SanAntonio, Texas
   “P”, 303 Gallery, New York City
   Cable Gallery, New York City

1985 “Infotainment”, organized by Gallery Nature Morte (New York); Texas Gallery, Houston
   “Infotainment”, organized by Gallery Nature Morte (New York); Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
   “Transitional Objects”, curated by Joseph Kosuth; Galerie Philippe Nelson, Lyon
   “Split Vision”, curated by Robert Mapplethorpe & Laurie Simmons; Artists Space, New York City
   “Americana”, curated by Group Material for the Whitney Biennial; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
   303 Gallery, New York City
   Holly Solomon Gallery, New York City
   “Audacious”, curated by Dan Cameron; Randolf Street Gallery, Chicago
   “Paravision”, Postmasters Gallery, New York City
   Bette Stoler Gallery, New York City
   “Seduction”, curated by Marvin Heifferman; White Columns, New York
   Benefit for the Kitchen, curated by Howard Halle; Brook Alexander Gallery, New York City
   Holly Solomon Gallery, New York City
   “A Brave New World, A New Generation”, curated by Thomas Solomon; Exhibition Hall at Charlottenberg, Copenhagen
   “Benefit for J.A.A. Magazine”, curated by Barbara Ess; Cash-Newhouse Gallery, New York City
   303 Gallery, New York City
   “Dealers / Critics”, curated by Robert Nickas; Mo David Gallery, New York City
   “57th Between A and C”, curated by Manuel Gonzales; Holly Solomon Gallery, New York City
   “Neo-York”, curated by Dean Savard; Center for Contemporary Art, Seattle
   “East Village”, curated by Katya Arnold; Centre Saidye Bronfman, Montreal

1984 “The New Capital”, White Columns, New York City
   “Still-Life with Transaction”, International with Monument, New York City
   “Natural Genre”, Florida State University, Tallahassee
   “Semi(Op)tics”, curated by Steven Parrino; International with Monument, New York City
   “Objectivity”, curated by Robin Dodds; Hallwalls, Buffalo

1983 Civilian Warfare Gallery, New York City
Gallery Nature Morte, New York City

1982 Gallery Nature Morte, New York City

1980 Club 57; curated by Keith Haring, New York City