CV (Selection)

Born 1922, Lithuania
Lives and works in New York, NY

Solo Exhibitions

2018

Jonas Mekas – Personale, Palazzo della Ragione, Bergamo, IT

2017

Again, Again It All Comes Back to Me in Brief Glimpses, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
(MMCA), Seoul

Jonas Mekas: Film in the Line of Fire, Fundação Serralves, Porto, Portugal

Boo-Hooray Summer Rental, Montauk, New York

"I Sing I Celebrate," La Neomudéjar, Madrid

2016

Let Me Introduce Myself, Nina Johnson Gallery, Miami

2015

All These Images, These Sounds, A Palazzo Gallery, Brescia, Italy

Internet Saga Pavilion, Venice
Frozen Film Frames: Portraits of Filmmakers, Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, Oregon

2014

Jonas Mekas: 365 Days, ZKM, Germany

Jonas Mekas: One Man Show, Cesis Art Festival, Latvia

2013

MUAC, Mexico City

The Sixties Quartet, Kiasma, Helsinki, Finland

DOX Center for Contemporary Art, Prague, Austria

Retrospective @ CCBB in Sao Paulo, Brazil

I Lift My Glass of Wine to You, My Vienna Friends!, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna, Austria

Outlaw: New Works, Microscope Gallery, Brooklyn, New York

Let Me Introduce Myself, My Russian Friends!, State Hermitage Museum, Saint Petersburg, Russia

Jonas Mekas: In Praise of the Ordinary, The Phi Centre, Montreal, Canada

Jonas Mekas / The Fluxus Wall, Bozar Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium

Life Goes On… I Keep Singing, Deborah Colton Gallery, Houston, Texas

2012

Serpentine Gallery, London

Film retrospective, Centre Pompidou, Paris

Reminiszenzen aus Deutchsland, Stadtmuseum, Wiesbaden, Germany

Prisiminimai is Vokietijos, Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center, Vilnius, Lithuania

Images Out of Darkness Reminiscences of a Displaced Person Postwar Germany 1945-1949, James
Fuentes, New York

2010

TO NEW YORK WITH LOVE, James Fuentes, New York

Two-Person Exhibitions

2017

Cinema Lituanien, La Cinematheque Francaise, Paris

2012

Jonas Mekas / Jose Luis Guerin – Cineastes en Correspondance, Musee Pompidou, Paris

Portraits: Jonas Mekas and Robert Polidori,” Edwynn Houk Gallery, New York

Group Exhibitions

2017

Documenta 14, Athens and Kassel

2016

The Velvet Underground - New York Extravaganza, Philarmonie de Paris, Paris

2012

The 365 Day Project, 2B Gallery, Budapest, Hungary

2011

Ostalgia, The New Museum, New York

Musique Plastique, agnes b. Galerie, Paris and New York

This Side of Paradise, agnes b. rue du jour boutique, Paris

2010

Bienal de São Paolo, São Paolo, Brazil

Illegal Living, 80 Wooster, New York

Inaugural Show, Microscope, New York

Eve of Fluxus, The Emily Harvey Foundation, New York

1989, Kunsthalle, Wien, Austria

See this Sound, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz, Austria

Commissions

2010

Work commissioned by the New York City Guggenheim Young Collectors Council

Catalogues and Books

2009

“A Few Things I Want to Share with You, My Paris Friends,” Galerie du Jour, Paris

2008

“Jonas Mekas,” Koenig Books, for the exhibition at the Museum Ludwig, Cologne

“Jonas Mekas,” Fondazione Ragghianti, Lucca, Italy [Italian]

2007

“The Avante-Garde from Futurism to Fluxus,” Jonas Mekas Visual Arts Center, Vilnius

Extended Essays and Interviews

2010

Northover, Benn, “Jonas Mekas,” AnOther Man, Autum/Winter

Lack, Hannah, “New York Stories,” Dazed and Confused, August

Rose, Aaron, “Jonas Mekas,” ANP Quarterly, January

2009

Haden-Guest, Anthony, “Dispatches from the Inside,” Art Newspaper, November

Kley, Elisabeth, “Jonas Mekas at James Fuentes,” Artinfo, November

Honors and Awards

2013

Commandeur de lʼOrdre des Arts et des Lettres, Ministry of Culture, Lithuania
Francis J. Greenburger Award

Elected member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

2011

George Eastman Honorart Scholar Award

2010

Life Achievement Award at the second annual Rob Pruittʼs Art Awards

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