Exhibitions, Screenings, and Performances

1975    WHITNEY BIENNIAL, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, "Both, Translucent", John Handhardt Curator

            AKAGAWA, BYRNE, KAHN, LEICESTER, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, "Scale Drawing, Intra,Intro, Tangent, Both,

             Translucent", Philip Larson Curator

            VIDEO ART, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Suzanne Delahanty Curator. (This was one of the first                            major surveys of American video art.)

             Exhibition travelled to:

             Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati

            Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford 

            Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

            BIENAL DE SAO PAULO, Parque Ibirapuero, São Paulo 

           THE VIDEO SHOW, Serpentine Gallery, London; "Both" and "Translucent" This was one of the first exhibitions of          video art in London.And according to the press release, "Europe's most comprehensive survey of video art."

           JAMES BYRNE, The Kitchen, New York, first New York solo screening, "Both, Translucent, Handheld #2"

             Carlota Schoolman Curator, Robert Stearns Director 

           STATE OF THE ART, ART OF THE STATE, Minneapolis Institute of the Arts, Minnesota Artists Exhibition

            Program Inaugural Exhibition, "Floor Ceiling"

          MORNING EVENT No. 26, On the grounds of Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, August 17, 1975.  

            A television/time capsule was buried in the front lawn of Walker Art Center in a ritualistic      

            performance with audience involvement.  Will be dug up and exhibited in 2075.

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1976    JAMES BYRNE: VIDEO, The Kitchen, solo exhibition, installations "Floorceiling, Scale Drawing",

             "Series 29" video. First New York solo exhibition of installations, Carlotta Schoolman Curator,

             Robert Stearns, Director

          VIDEO: AN OVERVIEW, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, David Ross Curator,

            33 tapes by 29 artists, 4 installations, "Both", "Translucent", and "Handheld II" 

          JAMES BYRNE, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Moving Image Makers Program, solo screening

          FIELD PROJECT, Memorial Stadium, University of Minnesota Football Stadium, Minneapolis,

            This was a large scale, site specific video installation that placed six monitors on the football               field at twenty yard intervals to live broadcast an away football game with stadium audio                 system providing sound.  A displacement of time, space and experience.

          LIVE, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 6 monitor, 8 hour, performance in the lobby of

           Walker Art Center. This was my first live, live performance. Suzanne Weil Curator

 

 

 

 

 

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1977    10e BIENIAL DE PARIS, Musee d'Art Modern, Paris

          AMERICAN ART FROM THE 10e BIENNALE DE PARIS, Hudson River Museum, "Floor Ceiling"

          DO YOU HAVE ANY IDENTIFICATION?, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 8 monitor, 8 hour            live performance in the lobby of Walker Art Center, Suzanne Weil Curator. (photo at right)

         JAMES BYRNE, Hanson Cowles Gallery, Minneapolis, "Number Eight, Number Five,

          Live (the first print published by Vermillion Editions, Steve Johnson)

          and performance in the gallery for opening night. (photo at left)

          JAMES BYRNE and TOM DIBIASO, Kiehl Gallery, St.Cloud State University, St. Cloud

         WORKS FOR BROADCAST, live broadcast, June 3, 1977 on WCCO Television,         

          Minneapolis. Four different 30 second videos broadcast during the first four      

         commercial breaks during the Friday Night Movie.  There were four

         commercials in each commercial break. One of them was my video in which          I was on screen, looking at the camera, minimal performance, b/w.                  Intended to confront an unsuspecting TV viewer with something             very different than a typical commercial - my art.(photo at left)

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1978    VIDEO ART 78, Herbert Art Gallery, Coventry, small group survey of video art 1978

          VIDEO ART, Galleri Paloma, Stockholm, group show of American video art

          JAMES BYRNE, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Moving Image Makers, solo screening

          FOUR SQUARE, N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago, live video performance, 7 monitors

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1979   EIGHT ARTISTS: THE ELUSIVE IMAGE, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis,

            "Certain Events" installation 

          VIDEO: BEYOND BOREDON AND NOVELTY, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago        

            Gallery, group exhibition

         JAMES BYRNE, Media Study/Buffalo, Buffalo, solo screening

         AN EVENING OF VIDEO WITH JAMES BYRNE, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, solo screening

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1980   JAMES BYRNE, Anthology Film Archives, New York, solo screening

          JAMES BYRNE AND TOM DEBIASO, Gallery 209, University of Wisconsin - Stout

        MINNESOTA ENERGY, Tweed Museum, Duluth, group show

      BROADCAST OF "ONE WAY", WGBH Television, Boston

      BROADCAST OF "OF WATER, OF PLACE" KTCA Television, St.Paul 

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1981 DIRECTIONS 1981, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden

         a major national exhibition,"Phase", 4 monitor installation

       JAMES BYRNE VIDEOS, The Kitchen, New York, solo screening

       PROJECTS: VIDEO XXXXVIII, JAMES BYRNE, Museum of Modern Art,

        New York, Barbara London Curator, "One Way" 

       JAMES BYRNE, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Moving Image Makers,           solo screening

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​​1982 JAMES BYRNE:VIDEO WORKS, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute,    

        Pittsburgh, Bill Judson Curator,  This was my first individual        

        museum exhibition of the following works.(photo at left)

        "This Fountain is a Field of Fire", a 7 monitor site-specific          

        installation, commissioned by Museum of Art Carnegie          

       Institute; Phase,a 4 monitor installation; and videos "One Way,          of water of place Unnamed, and Tikala Soom".   

       4th BIENNALE OF SIDNEY, Vision in Disbelief,Sydney, 17 countries    

         participated, "One Way"

       VIDEO ROMA, Rome, group show of American video art

       VIDEO FESTIVAL MUNCHEN, Munich, group exhibition 

       VIDEO, P.S. 1, New York, Bob HarrisCurator, "Phase",an installation 

      VIDEO MUSIC;NEW CORRELATIONS, Organized by Whitney    

        Museum of American Art Downton Branch and exhibited             there first, "of Water of Place".

        Travelled to:

        Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

        San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco

 

 

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1983 AMERICAN VIDEO: TWENTY NEW WORKS, Organized by the    

        Museum of Modern Art, New York, videos from the

        4th Sydney Biennale, Barbara London Curator. "One Way"

        Also travelled to:

        Hyogo

        Kitakyushu Municipal Museum of Art

        Hara Museum of Contemporary Art

        Fukui Prefectural Museum of Art

        The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama

       THE SECOND LINK - VIEWPOINTS ON VIDEO IN THE EIGHTIES

        Walter Philips Gallery, Banff, organizer, "Swan Songs".

        I was one of thirty international artists selected      

       and one of ten American video artists      

      selected.Curators Brian MacNewvin, Kathy           Huffman, Barbara London, Dorine Mignot,           Peggy Gale, and Sandy Nairne.

        Travelled to:

        Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach

        Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

        Institute of Contemporary Arts, London

        A Space, Toronto 

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1984 JAMES BYRNE ; THREE VIDEO WORKS, Contemporary Arts      

        Center, Cincinnati, Sarah Lafferty-Rogers Curator.

        This was my second individual museum exhibition.

        Three installations:"Unforeseen Anomalies, Every Cloud                 and Stone Machu Picchu, Private Gathering"

       NEW VIDEO,Musee de Quebec, Quebec

       FROM TV TO VIDEO, La Biennale di Venezia, Bolgna

       CITY IMAGES IN VIDEO Art University of Milan, Milan

       SIXTy CYCLES:JAMES BYRNE and BRUCE CHARLESWORTH, 

        Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul,"These        

        Familiar Movements,PrivateGathering"installations

      NEW IMAGE MAKING- TECHNOLOGY AND THE ARTS, Valencia            Commuity College Gallery     

      JAMES BYRNE, Center for New Television,Chicago,                           solo screening

      JAMES BYRNE, Anthology Film Archives, New York,

        solo screening

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​1985 WORLDWIDE VIDEO FESTIVAL,Haags Gemeentemuseum,     

         Den Hagg, "Unforeseen Anomalies"installation

       JAMES BYRNE, Anthology Film Archives, New York,

         solo screening

       TOLEDO FEST, An outdoor 6 monitor installation in public                courtyard, "Waiting the Days Toledo",commissioned by                  Toledo Museum of Art and remains in their permanent        

         collection.

      SUMMER DANCE, Ordway Music Theater, screening of "Solo!"

      JAMES BYRNE, de Vleeshal, Middelburg, "Unforeseen Anomalies"

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1986 WATER/VIDEO, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh

        Toured to:

        American Museum of the Moving Image, New York

        Asia Society,New York

       FILM/VIDEO WORKS 1986, The Kitchen, New York

       JAMES BYRNE:COLLABORATIONS, Walker Art Center,        

        Minneapolis,solo screening

       JAMES BYRNE AND... Dance Theater Workshop,New York, solo     

        screening

       THIRD INTERNATIONAL VIDEO AND TELEVISION FESTIVAL,      

        Montbeliard

       UNFORESEEN ANOMALIES, installation, Kunstuitleen, Delft

       FESTIVAL OF DANCE AND VIDEO, Teatro Nuovo Torino, Torino

       COMMUNITY TELEVISION FESTIVAL, Silver Can Award for "Solo!"

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1987 JAMES BYRNE:DANCE VIDEO, Dance Theater Workshop, New York,         solo screening

       VIDEO: JAMES BYRNE, Northwest Film and Video          

         Center, Portland solo screening

       1987 ATHENS INTERNATIONAL VIDEO FESTIVAL, First Place for

        "Meditations on the Northern Shore"

       NEW YORK FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL,New York, "Meditations on           the Northern Shore"

       AVENUES OF THOUGHT: CULTURAL AND SPIRITUAL ABASTRACTIONS         IN VIDEO, Roberson Center Gallery,Rutgers University,        

        Newark

       5TH ASIAN AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL VIDEO FESTIVAL, ASIAN    

        CINEVISION, NEW YORK, "Lament"

       MONTREAL INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF NEW CINEMA AND VIDEO,

        Montreal

       THE ARTS FOR TELEVISION,"Lament" 

        Stedeleijk Museum,Amsterdam,

        Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles,

        Institute of Contemporary Art,   Boston, 

      COLORADO DANCE FESTIVAL, Commissioned "Weather" and                solo screening 

    

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​​1988 THE ARTS FOR TELEVISION,Forum Messe,Hamburg,

         Museum Moderne Kunst, Vienna,

         Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco

       JAMES BYRNE: DANCE VIDEO, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,                Richmond

       10TH ANNUAL NTIONAL SHORT FILM AND VIDEO COMPETITION,

        USA Film Festival, Dallas

       EYES WIDE OPEN, Dance Theater Workshop, New York

 

 

 

 

 

 

1989 JAMES BYRNE: RECENT DANCE VIDEO,

        Solo Screening, Museum of Modern Art, New York                

       ALIVE FROM OFF CENTER, PBS National Broadcast,"Undertow"

       VIDEO 101: AN INTRODUCTION TO AMERICAN VIDEO ART,

        Broklyn Museum of Art,"Undertow"

       NUCLEO DOS CINEASTAS INDEPENDENCE, Lisbon

       2ND EUROPEAN SYMPOSIUM FOR DANCE AND FILM,     

        Chateauvallon,Toulon

       JACOB'S PILLOW DANCE FESTIVAL, Commissioned "Trespass" and        solo screening

       1989 ATLANTA FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAL,Atlanta

       VIDEO DANCE FESTIVAL,Videografia,Barcelona

       JAMES BYRNE AND COLLABORATORS, 

        Intermedia Arts,MinneapoliS

       THE ARTS FOR TELEVISION, Museum of Modern Art, New York

       THE MILKY WAY, Amsterdam, Unforeseen Anomalies"

       ATHENS INTERNATIONAL FILM AND VIDEO FESTIVAl ,  Athens, Ohio

       VIDEO DANCE:BODIES IN WATER, New American Makers, 

        Opera Plaza Cinema, San Francisco

       GRANADA FESTIVAL OF DANCE VIDEO, Granada

       25 JAHRE OF VIDEO-SKUPTUR, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein,Berlin

       SANITY IS MADNESS: ALTERNATIVE REALITY IN VIDEO ART, Artists         Foundation Gallery, Boston

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2022 Minneapolis St. Paul International Film Festival, 

         "Memory of Water"

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2021 Global Groove, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany,  "Lament"

 

2020 The Body Electric,Museum of Art and Design, Miami,  

         "Scale Drawing" 

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2019 The Body Electric,Walker Art Center, Minneapolis,  

         "Scale Drawing"

         Also: Yerba Buena enter for the Arts, "Scale Drawing" 

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2018 Video Art, ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe,                      Germany, 

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