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COMISSIONS/PUBLIC PROJECTS

2009
  • Two V’s, Belgacom Collection, Brussels, Belgium
2007
  • One Straight Line Crossed by One Curved Line, Novartis Campus, Basel,Switzerland
2004
  • Half-Square Half Crazy, 2004, Como, Italy
2003
  • Double Exposure, Serralves Foundation, Porto, Portugal
  • Yin/Yang Pavilion, MIT Dormitory, (building by Steven Holl), Cambridge,Massachusetts
  • Waterloo Sunset, Hayward Gallery, London, England
2002
  • Bisected Triangle, Interior Curve, Public Art Fund, Madison Square Park, New York, New York
2001
  • Stoffels Maze, Stoffels Skulpturenpark, Cologne, Germany
  • S-Curve, Sammlung Hauser & Wirth, St. Gallen, Switzerland
2000
  • Curved Two-Way Mirror Triangle, One Side Perforated Steel, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan
  • Two-Way Mirror, Curved Hedge, Open Parallelogram, Kirishima Open Air Museum, Kagoshima, Japan
  • 2 Half-Cylinders Off-Aligned, ING Bank, Brussels, Belgium
  • Two Different Anamorphic Surfaces (a collaboration of the Wanås Foundation and the Kulturboro 2000 Foundation), Wanås Park, Knislinge, Sweden
  • Rivoli Gate Pavilion, Castello di Rivloi, Brescia, Italy
1999
  • Pavilion for International Garden Year, Mageburg, Germany “Walkway for Hypo-Bank,” Bayerische Hypotheken und Wechselbank AG, Munich, Germany
  • Elliptical Pavilion, Neubau der Berliner Kraft und Licht (bewag) AG, Berlin, Germany Star of David Pavilion, Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
  • Truncated Garden Pyramid, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna, Austria Two-Way Mirror Curved and Straight Open Shoji Screen Triangle, Museum Ludvig, Cologne, Germany
1998
  • Café Bravo, Kunstwerk, Berlin, Germany
  • Two-Way Mirror Curved Hedge Zig-Zag Labyrinth, Middlebury College Center for the Arts, Middlebury, Vermont
1997
  • Triangular Solid With Circular Insert, Chiba City Museum of Art, Hikari, Areba
  • Empty Shoji Screen Pergola/Two-Way Mirror Container, Naoshima Cultural Village, Naoshima Island, Seto Inland Sea
1996
  • Two-Way Mirror Punched Steel Hedge Labyrinth, Minneapolis Sculpture Garden, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
  • Parabolic Triangular Pavilion I, Städtische Galerie Nordhorn, Nordhorn, Germany Two-Way Mirror Triangle With One Curved Side, Lofoten Islands, Norway Cylinder for Benesse, Naoshima, Japan
  • Two-Way Mirror and Punched Aluminium Solid Triangle, Skydebanehaven, Copenhagen, Denmark
  • Cylinder Bisected by Plane (Star of David Pavilion,) Schloss Buchberg, Austria
1995-96
  • Double Cylinder (The Kiss), San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
1994
  • Nouveau Labyrinth pour Nantes, Place du Commandment Jean l’Herminier, Nantes, France
1993
  • Gate of Hope, International Garden Year Exhibition, Stuttgart, Germany
1991
  • Two-Way Mirror Cylinder Inside Cube and Video Salon: Rooftop Urban Park, Dia Center for the Arts, New York, New York
1990
  • Gate of Hope, Internationale Garten-Ausstellung, Stuttgart, Germany “Open Two-Way Mirror Pyramid for Günther Steinle, Ulm, Germany (private collection)
  • Triangle Solid with Circular Inserts, Variation I, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia
  • Heart Pavilion, Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania (private collection)
  • Bob Mangold Pavilion, Marseilles, France (private collection)
  • Two-Way Mirror Triangular Pavilion With Shoji Screen, Yamaguchi Prefectorial Museum, Yamaguchi, Japan
  • Triangular Bridge Over Water, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, Missouri
1989
  • Two Triangles/Two Levels, Hamburg, Germany
  • Two-Way Mirror Bridge and Triangular Pavilion in Relation to Existing Mill House, Domaine de Kerguehennec, Brittany, France (proposal)
  • Triangular Solid with Circular Inserts, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia Triangle for Circular Inserts, Variation II, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Lyons, France
  • Newstand (collaboration with Tod Williams, Bille Tsein and Associates, Architects), New York, New York (proposal)
  • Two-Way Mirror Hedge Labyrinth, La Jolla, California (private collection)
  • Star of David Pavilion, Fahrhausstrasse, Aussenalster, Hamburg, Germany
1988
  • Triangular Two-Way Mirror Walkway for Fort Asperen, Fort Asperen, Utrecht, The Netherlands
  • Pyramid over Goldfish Basin, Villa Arson, Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Nice, France
1987
  • Altered Two-Way Mirror, Revolving Door, and Chamber with Sliding Door (for Loie Fuller) Consortium Dijon, France
  • Two-Way Mirror Pergola Bridge I,” Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Pays de la Loire, Glisson, France
  • Two Cubes, One 45° Rotated, Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Norde, Lille, France
  • Three Linked Cubes, Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels, Belgium and Nicole Klagsburn Gallery, New York, New York
1984
  • Pavilion/Sculpture II Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
1981
  • Two Adjacent Pavilions, Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, The Netherlands
1978-81
  • Pavilion/Sculpture for Argonne, Argonne National Laboratory, Argonne, Illinois

FILMOGRAPHY

Helix/Spiral, 1973, 16mm, color, 3 minutes (2 films to be projected simultaneously)
Body Press, 1970-72, 16mm, color, 20 minutes (2 films to be projected simultaneously)
Roll, 1970, super-8mm, color, 1 minute (2 films to be projected simultaneously)
Two Correlated Rotations, 1969, 16mm, black and white, 3 minutes (2 films to be projected simultaneously)
Binocular Zoom, 1970-69, 16mm, color, 40 seconds



VIDEOGRAPHY

Six Sculptures/Pavilions for Pleasure (collaboration with Apolonia Sustersic), 2000, color, sound, 21 minutes and 21 seconds
Two Pavilions in Italy, 2000-99, color, sound, 45 minutes
Outdoor Pavilion, 1999, color, 26 minutes
Video/Architecture/Performance, 1996, color and black and white, sound, 12 minutes and 32 seconds
Lax/Relax (video of performance at Lisson Gallery, London, England), 1995, color, sound, 24 minutes
Two-Way Mirror Cylinder Inside Cube and a Video Salon, 1992, color, sound, 19 minutes and 34 seconds
Rock My Religion, 1984-82, color and black and white, stereo sound, 55 minutes and 27 seconds (with original music by Glenn Branca and Sonic Youth)
Performance and Stage-Set Utilizing Two-Way Mirror and Video Time Delay (collaboration with Glenn Branca), 1983, black and white, stereo sound, 45 minutes and 45 seconds
Minor Threat, 1983, color, sound, 38 minutes and 18 seconds (interview with Craig Bromberg and Ian MacKaye)
Westkunst (Modern Period): Dan Graham Segment (collaboration with Ernst Mitzka), 1981-80, color, sound, 7 minutes and 10 seconds
Performer/Audience/Mirror (video of performance at Video Free America, San Francisco, California), 1978, black and white, sound, 22 minutes and 52 seconds
Past Future Split Attention (video of performance at Lisson Gallery, London, England) 1972, black and white, sound, 17 minutes and 3 seconds



SELECTED THEATER/PERFORMANCE WORKS

Performer/Audience/Mirror, 1977, De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands “Identification Projection,” 1977, Leeds Polytechnic, Leeds, England “Performer/Audience Sequence,” 1975, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, California Past Future Split Attention, 1972, Lisson Gallery, London, England
Two Consciousness Projection(s), 1972, 98 Greene Street Loft, New York, New York
Intention Intentionality Sequence, 1972, Lisson Gallery, London, England
Like, 1971 (This work was never realized before an audience. It was performed by Dan Graham, Ian Murray, and others at the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia, and documented with photographs.)
TV Camera/Monitor Performance, 1970, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia
Lax/Relax, 1969, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, New York
Like (Sound piece: tape recorders, tape loop, and approximately 30 participants), 1969, Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia

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Dan G raham
Pavilion for travelling Sonic Youth exhibition
Sensational Fix, 2008-2009
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Dan Graham
Ying/Yang Pavilion, 2003
tempered glass, steel, gravel, and water
2.1 x 3.35 x3.35 meters
commissioned with MIT Percent-for-Art Funds,
List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts;
installed at Simmons Hall, MIT Campus
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Dan Graham
Ying/Yang Pavilion, 2003
tempered glass, steel, gravel, and water
2.1 x 3.35 x3.35 meters
commissioned with MIT Percent-for-Art Funds,
List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts;
installed at Simmons Hall, MIT Campus
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Dan Graham
portrait by Mieko Meguro, 2010