Dennis Hopper
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Born 1936, Dodge City, Kansas
Died 2010, Venice, California
 
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012 "The Fort Worth 400", Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2010 "Double Standard", The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Colors, Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2006 “Dennis Hopper: A Survey,” Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  exhibited by Galerie Hans Mayer of Dusseldorf at Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
2005 “Bucharest Nights,” Jaxon House, Venice, CA
2004   “Billboards and Photographs,”Godt-Cleary Gallery, Las Vegas, NV
2003 “Haute Couture: Paris, Florence, Oaxaca,” Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2002 "Cape Town," Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York City, NY
2001 "Dennis Hopper: A System of Moments," MAK Vienna, Austria
  "Dennis Hopper: A Keen Eye," Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland
2000 "Dennis Hopper and Friends," Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
  "American Pictures 1961 - 1967," MAK Center, Los Angeles, CA
"Dennis Hopper Abstract Reality," Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1999 “Reflections,” Galerie Hans Mayer, Berlin, Germany
1998 “Dennis Hopper: Abstract Reality,” Galerie Hans Mayer, Dusseldorf, Germany
  exhibited by Galerie Hans Mayer of Dusseldorf at the International Cologne Art Fair 1998, Cologne, Germany
“Abstract Reality,” Parco Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
“Dennis Hopper: Fotografias,” Metta Galeria, Madrid, Spain
“Dennis Hopper: Four Decades,” Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco, CA
“Dennis Hopper” Sundance, Utah
1997 “Dennis Hopper: Italian Walls” at il Palazzo Marino alla Scala, Milan, Italy
1996-7 Solo exhibition and film series at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California
1996 Two-person exhibition with Bruce Conner at Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco
“New Photographs” at Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
color photography at Ochi Fine Art, Ketchum, Idaho
1995 “Dennis Hopper: Fotografie 1961 - 1967” at Gallery Karolinum (Agentura Carolina), Prague
1994 “Dennis Hopper: A Tourist” at Kiyomizudera Temple, Joju-in, Kyoto, Japan. Traveling to Kichijoji Parco Studio 0422, Tokyo, June-July; Sapporo Parco, Sapporo, August 5-23.
Photographic Resource Center at Boston University, Boston
Andorra, Spain
1993 “Bad Heart: Fotografies i pintures 1961- 1993” at Frontó Colom, Universitat Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona
1992-3 “Photographs and Paintings 1961 - 1993” at Spielraum für Kunst, Fürth, Germany
1992 “Photographs and Paintings 1961-1992” at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
Two-person exhibition “Dennis Hopper/William Burroughs” at Sena Galleries, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Two-person exhibition “Dennis Hopper/Ed Ruscha” at Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
exhibited by Galerie Hans Mayer of Düsseldorf at the international art fair Art Frankfurt 1992, Frankfurt, Germany
“New Work” at James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1991 Solo exhibition of silver and gold enamel silkscreens on aluminum at 72 Market Street Oyster Bar & Grill, Venice, California
1990 Exhibition of photographs at the Stockholm Film Festival
Exhibition at Boulakia Gallery, Paris
1989 “Photographs 1961-67” at Shibuya Parco Gallery, Tokyo. Traveling to Sapporo Parco, Sapporo, December 9-25, 1989; Kumamoto Parco, Kumamoto, March 16-30; Kiyomizudera Temple, Joju-in, Kyoto, April 2-8; Osaka Shinsaibashi Parco, Osaka, mid-April.
1988 Exhibition at Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf, Germany
Exhibition at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
“Out of the Sixties: Fotografie di Dennis Hopper” at Salone La Stampa, Torino, Italy
1987-8 "Dennis Hopper: From Method to Madness" at Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota. Traveling to Film Forum, New York, February 1988; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, March 1988; Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, Ohio, April 1988; Houston Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas, May 1988; Pacific Film Archives, Berkeley, California, June 1988.
1987 Tony Shafrazi Gallery of New York at the international art fair Art/LA '87, Los Angeles
“Out of the Sixties: Photographs” at Sena Galleries West, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Exhibition at Union County Gallery, Cranford, New Jersey
1986 “Dennis Hopper Photographs” at Arts Lab, Birmingham, England
“Dennis Hopper: Out of the Sixties” at Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
1984 “Dennis Hopper: New Paintings” (also included 1960s photography) at Return Gallery, Taos, New Mexico
1983 “Paintings and Assemblages by Dennis Hopper” at Studio One Gallery, Houston, Texas
100 photographs and opening night self-explosion performance “Shot on the Run” at Rice Media Center, Rice University, Houston, Texas
1982 “Dennis Hopper: Art on the Edge” at The Film Center, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Solo exhibition of photography at the Paton Gallery, England
1971 Exhibition at the Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1970 Exhibition at the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver
“Dennis Hopper: Black and White Photographs” organized by Henry T. Hopkins at the Fort Worth Art Center Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Exhibition of 200 documentary photographs, “Survey of the Sixties,” at the Spoleto Festival dei Due Mondi [Festival of Two Worlds] XIII, Spoleto, Italy
1968 Exhibition of the installation Bomb Drop at the Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena
1964 Solo exhibition of assemblages at Primus/Stuart Gallery, Los Angeles
1961 Solo exhibition of photographs at photo lab/gallery of Barry Feinstein, Los Angeles
 
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006 “Los Angeles 1955-1985: The Birth of an Art Capital, “Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
“LA: The Four,” Galerie Dominique Fiat, Paris, France
2002 "Hollywood is a Verb," Gagosian Gallery, London, England
  "Cologne Art Fair", Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany.
"Ferus Reunion," Gagosian Gallery, New York City,  NY
"I Shot Andy Warhol: Portraits of Andy and The Warhol Scene," Fahey/Klein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Whitney Biennial 2002," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY
  "Self-Medicated," Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2001 "LA loves NY" (exhibition to benefit families of WTC victims), Fred Hoffman Fine Art at Yamagata Studios, Malibu, CA
2000 "Made In California: Art, Image and Identity, 1900- 2000, " Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
"The New Frontier: Art and Television, 1960-1965," Austin Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
  "Urban Hymns," Harriet and Charles Luckman Fine Arts Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1999 “Glass: Tocoma To Taos,” (also includes glass work by Dale Chihuly ) Tony Abeyta Gallery, Taos, New Mexico
“So Far Away, So Close,” Encore....Bruxelles/Espace Meridian, Brussels, Belgium
  “Radical Past: Contemporary Art & Music in Pasadena, 1960 - 1974,” Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA
1998 “American Playhouse: The Theatre of Self-Presentation,” The Power Plant, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
“Kunstlerportraits,” Walter Storms Galerie, Munich, Germany
“L.A. Ways of Working”, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Los Angeles, CA
1997 “Heaven: Public View, Private View,” curated by Joshua Decter et al., PS1, Long Island City, NY
“Director’s Cut,” Thomas Nordanstad Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
“Face A` Face,” Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
1996 “Photographing the L.A. Art Scene 1955-77” at Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, California
“Hall of Mirrors: Art and Film Since 1945” at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Traveling to the Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio, September 21, 1996 - January 5, 1997; Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, May - September 1997; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
1995-6 “Beat Culture and the New America 1950- 65” at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Traveling to Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, June 2 - September 15, 1996; M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, October 5 - December 29, 1996.
1993 "Action/Performance and the Photograph" at Turner Krull Galleries, Los Angeles, California
“Proof: Los Angeles Art and the Photograph 1960-1980” at the Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California
1989 “1964-1974” at G. Ray Hawkins Gallery, Los Angeles
“Forty Years of California Assemblage” at Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles. Traveling to San Jose, California;
“The New Who’s Who” at Hoffman Borman Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1984 Stables Art Center, Taos, New Mexico
1966 (Larry Bell, Wallace Berman, Jess Collins, Bruce Conner, Llyn Foulkes, Dennis Hopper, Craig Kauffman, Ed Ruscha) “Los Angeles Now” at Robert Fraser Gallery, London