(1954–1992)

Solo Exhibitions
2006

Rimbaud in New York, CABINET, London, England.

David Wojnarowicz, Between Bridges, London, England.

2004

Out of Silence: Artworks with Original Text by David Wojnarowicz, P·P·O·W Gallery, New York, NY.

Rimbaud in New York, Roth Horowitz, New York, NY.

1999

Fever: The Art of David Wojnarowicz, New Museum, New York, NY.

David Wojnarowicz: Iconographer, Adam Baumgold Fine Art, New York, NY.

Some Sort of Grace: A Relationship, P·P·O·W Gallery, New York, NY.

Reality and Realism: The Vision of David Wojnarowicz, Fales Library, New York University, New York, NY.

1996

David Wojnarowicz, My Brain is Driving Me Crazy, The American Center, Paris, France.

David Wojnarowicz, Gallery 44 Center for Contemporary Photography, Toronto, ON, Canada.

1994

Hal Bromm Gallery, New York, NY.

Brushfires in the Social Landscape, P·P·O·W Gallery, New York, NY.

1993

7 Miles a Second – a collaborative comic book by David Wojnarowicz and James Romberger, P·P·O·W Gallery, New York, NY.

1991

In the Garden, Intermedia Arts, Minneapolis, MN.

1990

David Wojnarowicz:  Tongues of Flame, Curated by Barry Blinderman, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL;
Traveled to: Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA; Exit Art, New York, NY,     Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.

In the Garden, P·P·O·W Gallery, New York, NY.

One Person Exhibition, Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.

1989

New Work, P·P·O·W Gallery, New York, NY.

1988

Galeria Buades, Madrid, Spain.

1987

Ground Zero Gallery, New York, NY.

Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York, NY.

1986

Cartier Foundation, Paris, France.

Anna Friebe Galerie, Cologne, West Germany.

Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York, NY.

1985

Messages to the Public, Times Square Spectacolor Board, New York, NY.

1984

C.A.U.C., Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Civilian Warfare, New York, NY.

Anna Friebe Galerie, Cologne, West Germany.

Gracie Mansion, New York, NY.

1983

Hal Bromm Gallery, New York, NY.

Civilian Warfare, New York, NY.

1982

Milliken Gallery, New York, NY.


Group Exhibitions
2008

Street Art, Street Life, Bronx Musuem, Bronx, NY

Person of the Crowd, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY

2007

“30”, Hal Bromm Gallery, New York, NY

Legends Altered-Maps as Method and Medium
, Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago IL.

PULSE London Art Fair, Mary Ward House, London, England

The Price of Nothing: The Real Estate Show, EFA Gallery, New York, NY

NeoIntergrity, Derek Eller, New York, NY

Le Regard Bleu D' Arthur Rimbaud, Musee Arthur Rimbaud, Charleville-Mezieres, France

Panic Attack! Art in the Punk Years, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK

2006

Altered, Stitched, and Gathered, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY

Big City Fall, P·P·O·W Gallery, New York, NY

Rings of Saturn, Tate Modern, London, England.

Into Me/Out of Me, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY.

Down By Law, a Wrong Gallery Project for the 2006 Whitney Biennial: Day for Night, New York, NY.

The Gay Science: Moving Pictures and Living Money, Cabinet, London, England.

The Eighth Square: Gender, Life, and Desire in Art since 1960, curated by Frank Wagner and Kasper Köenig, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany.

The Downtown Show: The New York Art Scene, 1974-1984, Grey Art Gallery and Fales Library, New York University, New York, NY.

New York, New York: Fifty Years of Art, Architecture, Film, Music, and Video, curated by Germano Celant and Lisa Dennison of the Guggenheim Museum, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco, France.

Gender, Life, and Desire in the Visual Arts since 1960 : A Queer Show, curated by Frank Wagner and Kasper Köenig Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany.

2005

Looking at Words: The Formal Presence of Text in Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY.

Take Two Worlds and Views: Contemporary Art from the Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.

Jesus Christ Superstar: 140 years of Jesus Christ in photography, Bruce Silverstein, New York, NY.

Exceeding Paint/Expanding Painting, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY.

It’s a rough world, how’s your armor?, thebody.com (online exhibition).

2004

East Village USA, New Museum, New York, NY.

Off the Wall, Bruce Museum, CT.

The Armory Show, P·P·O·W booth, New York, NY.

2003

Crimes and Misdemeanors: Politics in U.S. Art of the 1980’s, Lois and Richard Rosenthal Center for Contemporary Art, Cincinnati, OH.

Saint Sebastian, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria.

Walking in the City, Apexart Curatorial Program, New York, NY and Kunsthalle
Fridericianum, Kassel, Switzerland.

Artist’s Choice: Mona Hatoum, Here is Elsewhere, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.

Basel Miami Beach Art fair, P·P·O·W, Miami Beach, FL.

Howl Festival, The Proposition, New York, NY.

2002

Recovering the Positive: Originals, Aronson Gallery, Parson’s School of Design, New York, NY.

Subject Matters, Kravets/Wehby Gallery, New York, NY.

The Culture Of Violence, University Gallery, UMASS Amherst, MA.

Art and Outrage, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY.

Social Landscape, P·P·O·W Gallery, New York, NY.

Visions of America: Photographs from the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1994-2001, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.

With and Without You: Re-visitations of Art in the Age of AIDS, curated by Royce Smith, Ivan Dougherty Gallery & Sydney 2002 Gay Games.

The Culture of Violence, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts Amherst, MA.
Crisis Response, The RISD Museum of Art, Providence, RI.

Corpus Christi: Photographic Representations of Christ 1855 - 2002, Paris, France and Jerusalem,   Israel.

2001

Panic, Julie Saul, New York, NY.

STRIKE! Printmakers as Social Critics, Gallery of Contemporary Art, Lewis & Clark College, Portland, OR.

Read all About It, Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA.

The South Bronx Story, The Point, Bronx, NY.

Heaven is a Place in Your Head…, Blue Heron Arts Center, New York, NY.

True Myth, a play written and directed by Christopher Eaves, adapted from the life and writings of David Wojnarowicz, Blue Heron Arts Center, New York, NY.

Featured Works VI: David Wojnarowicz- Earth and Wind, Fire and Water, Krannert Art
Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, IL.

Finding AIDS: Representations, Parson’s School of Design, New York, NY.

2000

The End: An Independent Vision of Contemporary Culture,1982-2000, Exit Art, New York, NY.

Horse: The Male As Sexual Entity, Ron Judish Fine Arts, Denver, CO.

Odd Bodies, The National Gallery of Canada, The Nickle Arts Museum, University of Calgary, Calgary, Canada.

On The Edge, El Paso Museum of Art, El Paso, TX.

1999

True West, curated by Jason Murison, P·P·O·W Gallery, New York, NY.

Persuasion, curated by Lea Fried and Roxana Marcoci, Lombard-Fried Fine Arts, New York, NY.

Love’s Body – Rethinking Naked and Nude in Photography, Suntory Museum, Osaka, Japan.

The Boys Go Off to War, Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York, NY.

Radiant Children: Art of the East Village – 1980’s, curated by Jonathan Weinburg and Joel Handorff, Lamia Ink!, New York, NY.

Botanica: Contemporary art and the world of plants, Tweed Museum of Art, University of
Minnesota, Duluth. Traveled to: Plains Art Museum, Fargo, ND; Illinois State University,
Normal, IL; Carleton College Art Gallery, Northfield, MN; Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA; Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois University, Charleston, IL, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL; University Gallery, University of Delaware, Newark, DE

Potent Present: Vicki and Kent Logan Collection, Logan Galleries, California College of Arts and Crafts, San Francisco, CA.

1998

Taboo: Repression and Revolt in Modern Art, Galerie St. Etienne, New York, NY.

Text and Territory: Navigating through Immigration and Dislocation, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL.

Love’s Body: Rethinking Naked and Nude in Photography, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan.

1997

Male, curated by Vince Aletti, Wessel O’Connor Gallery, New York, NY.

Of Blood and Affection: Family Post Mortem Documents, Gallery TPW, Toronto, ON,
Canada.

1996

Arts Communities/AIDS Communities: Realizing the Archive Project, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA.

Cultural Economies: Histories from the Alternative Arts Movement, NYC, organized by Julie Ault, The Drawing Center, New York, NY.

Reto Flury und David Wojnarowicz, Galerie Peter Kilchman, Zürich, Switzerland.

Arts’ Communitie/Aids’ Communities: Realizing the Archive Project, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA.

Sex and Crime:Von Den Verhaltnissen Der Menschen, Sprengel Museum Hannover, Germany.

Cultural Economies: Histories from the Alternative Arts Movement, NYC, The Drawing Center, New York, NY.

Thinking Print: Books to Billboards, 1980-95, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.

Transforming the Social Order, Tyler Galleries, Tyler School of Arts, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA.

1995

Under Construction: Rethinking Images of Identity, curated by Michael Anderson and Sue Spaid, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA, 

Sites of Being, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA.

Alternatives: 20 Years of Hallwalls Contemporary Art, Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Buffalo State College, Buffalo, NY.

Face Forward: Self-Portraiture in Contemporary Art, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI.

Male Desire: Homoerotic Images in 20th-Century American Art, Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY.

1994

Welt-Moral: Moralvorstellungen in der Kunst heute, curated by Thomas Kellein, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland

What You See..., Con Rumore, Breda, The Netherlands.

Figure as Fiction, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnatti, OH.

Three Person Exhibition, Revolution, Ferndale, MI.

Significant Losses, Artists Who Have Died From AIDS, The Art Gallery at the University of Maryland at College Park, College Park, MD.

Love, Life and Death, Le FNAC, France; Traveled to different branches of le FNAC in Spain and France until 1996.

1993

States of Loss, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, NJ.

The Subject of Rape, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.

Abject Art: Repulsion and Desire in American Art, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY.

Multiple Images: Photographs Since 1965 from the Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.

ITSOFOMO, 7th Annual Bang on a Can Festival, The Kitchen, New York, NY.

Tema: AIDS, Henie-Onstad Kunstsenter Høvikodden, Oslo, Norway.

Beyond Loss: Art in the Era of AIDS, Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC.

1992

The Order of Things: Toward A Politic Of Still Life, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI.

Corporal Politics, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA.

Photography: Expanding the Collection, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, NY.

Empowering the Viewer: Art, Politics and Community; Traveled to: The William Benton Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT; Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Elkins Park, PA.

Scandal, Outrage & Censorship: Controversy in Modern Art, Galerie St. Etienne, New York.

More Than One Photography, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY.

Recent Acquisitions: Photography, The New York Public Library, New York, NY.

The Power of the City/the City of Power, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown at
Federal Reserve Plaza, New York, NY.

Gegenarstellung-Ethics/Aesthetics in Times of AIDS, Kunstverein, Hamburg, Kunsthalle, Luzern, Switzerland; traveled to additional venues.

Re-Framing Cartoons, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH.

New York AIDS Polemics, TRAMWAY, Glasgow, Scotland.

The Realm of the Coin: Money in Contemporary Art, Hofstra Museum, Traveled to: Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX; Queens Museum of Art, Flushing, NY; Fullerton Museum Center, Fullerton, CA; Hyde Collection, Glen Falls, NY; Chicago Public Library, Chicago, IL; Salina Art Center, Salina, KS; Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC; Barton County Community College, Great Bend, KS; Sangre de Cristo Arts Center Museum, Pueblo, CO

Departures: Photography 1923-1990, curated by Independent Curators Incorporated, New York, Traveled to: Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Art Gallery, College of the Holy Cross,  Worcester,MA; Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE; Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, PA; The Goldie Paley Gallery at Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, PA; Telfair Academy of Arts & Sciences, Savannah, GA.

From Media to Metaphor: Art About AIDS, curated by Robert Atkins and Tom Sokolowski, organized by Independent Curators Incorporated. Traveled to: Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY; Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA; Sharidan Art Gallery, Kutztown, PA; Musee d'art Contemporain, Montreal, Quebec, Canada; Grey Art Gallery, New York, NY.

1991

The Figure in the Landscape, Baumgartner Galleries, Washington, DC.

From Desire...A Queer Diary, curated by Nan Goldin, Richard F. Brush Art Gallery, Canton, New York.

Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.

The Art of Advocacy, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT.

Hands Off!, The New School for Social Research, New York, NY.

Tableaux Du SIDA, Fondation Deutsch, Belmont-Sur-Lausanne, France.

The Third Rail, curated by Karin Bravin, John Post Lee Gallery, New York, NY.

Compassion and Protest: Recent Social and Political Art from the Eli Broad Family Foundation Collection, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA.

American Narrative Painting and Sculpture: the 1980's, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, NY.

Cruciformed: Images of the Cross since 1980, curated by David Rubin, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH.

Social Sculpture, curated by Steven Harvey and Elyse Cheney, Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, New York, NY.

The Interrupted Life, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY.

Outrageous Desire: The Politics and Aesthetics of Representation in Recent Works by Lesbian and Gay Artists, Rutgers University, Mason Gross School of the Arts, New Brunswick, NJ.

Awarded Louis Comfort Tiffany Award.

Art of the 1980's Selections from the Collection of Eli Broad Foundation, Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, NC.

Domenikos Theotokopoulos-A Dialogue, Philippe Briet Gallery, NY.

Fuel, curated by Jay Younger, traveled to: The Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia; The Australia Centre for Photography, Sydney, Australia; The Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Melboutne, Australia

1990

Retrospective Exhibition, David Wojnarowicz: Tongues of Flame, curated by Barry Blinderman, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL; Santa Monica Museum of Art, August to September, Santa Monica, CA; Exit Art, New York, NY, .

Strategies in Photography, Deson-Saunders Gallery, Chicago, IL.

The Indomitable Spirit, Traveled to: The International Center of Photography Midtown, February 9 - April 7, New York, NY; The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; auctioned at Sotheby's.

Life Before Art: Images From The Age of AIDS, Carlo Lamagna Gallery, New York, NY.

Images of Death in Contemporary Art, Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milwaukee, WI.

Ubers Sofa - Auf Die Strasse!, Neuen Gesellschaft fur Bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany.

NATURE/nature, Gallery 400, The University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL.

Assembled, University Art Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton, OH.

Joint Ventures, Artists Space, New York, NY.

Emulsionally Involved: Ten Photographers Respond to AIDS, IMAGES, Cincinnati, OH.

Critical Realism, Perspektief, Rotterdam, The Netherlands.

The Decade Show: Frameworks of Identity in the 1980's, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY.

Word As Image, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI.

Inside the Beast, Charles Lucien Gallery, New York, NY.

The Last Decade: American Artists of the 80's, curated by Collins & Milazzo, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY.

AIDS Timeline, curated by Group Material, Wadsworth Athenium, Hartford, CT.

Queer, Wessel O'Connor Gallery, New York, NY.

AIDS/SIDA, Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT.

The New School Collects: Recent Acquisitions, curated by Kathleen Goncharov, Exhibition Center, Parsons School of Design, New York, NY.

1989

I Bienal De Pintura, Cultural Rioja, Logkono Enero, Spain.

Golden Opportunity: the sale of major artworks to benefit resettlement of refugees in El Salvador, Leo Castelli, New York, NY.

Ulteriors, Lisa McDonald Gallery, New York, NY.

Witnesses: Against Our Vanishing, curated by Nan Goldin, Artist's Space, New York, NY.

The Assembled Photograph, University Art Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton, OH.

Departures: Photography 1924-89, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY.

New Work,
P·P·O·W, New York, NY.

Art About Aids, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, PA.

PERFORMANCE - "ITSOFOMO: In the Shadow of Forward Motion, by Ben Neill and David Wojnarowicz, The Kitchen, New York, NY.

Art on Paper, 1989, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, Greensboro, NC.

AIDS Timeline, Group Exhibition, University Art Museum Berkeley, University of California at Berkeley, curated by Group Material.

1988

Products and Promotion, Franklin Furnace, New York, NY.

Unknown Secrets: Art and the Rosenberg Era, Traveled to: University of Colorada Art Galleries, University of Colorado, Boulder, CO; Installation Gallery, San Diego, CA; Brunnier Gallery and Museum, Iowa State University, Ames, IA; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Gray Gallery, East Carolina State University, Greenville, NC; University Gallery, Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH; Johnson Center for the Arts Gallery, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA; Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA; Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA.

The Wolf at the Door, Harwock College, Oneonta, NY.

Street Art, Boca Raton Museum, Boca Raton, FL.

Billboards, Littlejohn-Smith Gallery, New York, NY.

Dislocations, curated by Don Hanson, New York, NY.

Small Works, Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York, NY.

Still Trauma, Milford, NY.

1987

Art Against AIDS, Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York, NY.

Exposed and Enveloped, Laurence Miller Gallery, New York, NY.

Group Exhibition, Gracie Mansion Gallery, New York, NY.

Group Exhibition, Anna Friebe Galerie, Cologne, West Germany.

Group Exhibition, Greene Gallery, Coral Gables, FL.

Group Exhibition, Hal Bromm Gallery, New York, NY.

Group Exhibition, Scott Hanson Gallery, New York, NY.

Group Exhibition, Karl Bornstein Gallery, Santa Monica, CA.

Redtape Magazine Benefit, E.M. Donahue Gallery, New York, NY.

1986

The All Natural Disaster Show, The Bronx Council on the Arts, New York, NY.

The East Village, Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, NY.

A Survey of Recent Trends in East Village Art, Mori Gallery, Sydney, Australia; Traveled to the George Paton Gallery, University of Melbourne, Australia.

In the Tropics, The Bronx Council on the Arts, New York, NY.

Homage to Nicolas A. Moufarrege, Gabrielle Bryers Gallery, New York, NY.

Toys Art Us, Bronx Council on the Arts, Bronx, NY.

Accrochage, Anna Friebe Galerie, Cologne, West Germany.

Ultime, Castello Di Volpaia, Italy.

Four American Artists, Stockholm Mobile, Stockholm, Sweden; Traveled to Favle Museum of Contemporary Art, Ornskoldsviks Museum of Contemporary Art, Umea New Culture Center, and the Boras Contemporary Art Center.

Of the Street, Aspen Museum of Art, and the University of Colorado at Boulder Art Gallery, Boulder, CO.

Walls: Glier, Rodriguez, Wojnarowicz, Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, FL.

Illumination: The Art of Your Future, Arte et Industrie, New York, NY.

Potpourri, Terra Artis Gallery, New York, NY.

Eight Urban Painters, State University of New York at Stony Brook, NY.

America, Albert Totah Gallery, New York, NY.

Fresh, DiLaurenti Gallery, New York, NY.

Annual Auction, National Abortion Rights League Auction, New York, NY.