BORN
1944 San Francisco, CA
EDUCATION
1969 Rinehart School of Sculpture of the Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, M.F.A., Sculpture
1967 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
1966 Harvard University, B.A., Anthropology
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
1994 Visiting Artist: University of Windsor, Canada
1990 Visiting Artist: University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
1987&1994 Visiting Artist: Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL
1983 Visiting Artist: Minneapolis College of Art and Design
1981-Present Faculty, Department of Performance/Video, San Francisco Art
Institute, CA, Department chair 1989-91, Associate Professor
1979-80 Visiting Artist: Department of Performance/Video, San Francisco Art Institute, CA
1978 Visiting Artist: Sculpture Department, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
PRIZES AND HONORS
1995-6 The Gilmore D. Clarke & Michael Rapuano Rome Prize in Visual Arts,
The American Academy in Rome
1982 Award in video art, United States Film and Video Festival, Park City, UT
1981 Governor of Prefecture's Award, Protopia '81,Tokyo, Japan
1977 Mobius Video Exhibition, award in video art, San Francisco, CA
1976 Mobius Video Exhibition, award in video art, San Francisco, CA
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
1999-2000 Flintridge Foundation Awards for Visual Artists
1992-93 Artists Fellowship, California Arts Council
1992 Fellowship for research and production at the Banff Center for the
Arts, Alberta, Canada
1991-92 John Simmon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship
1989-91 National Endowment for the Arts, Media Arts Production Fellowship
1989 Rockefeller Foundation Fellowship
1989 National Endowment for the Arts National Services
1989 National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists
1988-89 Western States Regional Media Arts Fellowship
1988-89 Fulbright Senior Lecture Fellowship, Brazil
1986-87 Massachusetts Council for the Arts and Humanities, New works Program
1985-86 National Endowment for the Arts (Media Arts), Contemporary Art
Television Fund Production Grant
1984 William and Flora Hewlett/Film Arts Foundation Video Production Grant
1984-86 Endowment for the Arts
1983 James D. Phelan award in Video Art Awards in the Visual Arts 2
1979-80 Individual Artists' Fellowship, National
1966-69 Rinehart Fellowship for Graduate Study
ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2006 Doug Hall, Some Places, Numark Gallery, Washington, DC
2005 "Doug Hall: Photographs," Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005 "Doug Hall: New Work," Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY
2004-2005 "Doug Hall's GDR Project Revisited," Galerie Kapinos, Berlin, Germany
2004-2005 "Doug Hall: Infinite Spaces," Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL
2004 "Doug Hall: Infinite Spaces," University of California, San Diego, University Art Gallery, La Jolla, CA
2004 "Doug Hall: Infinite Spaces," University of California, Santa Cruz, Sesnon Gallery, Santa Cruz, CA
2003 "Doug Hall: Infinite Spaces," Newcomb Art Gallery, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA, Traveling (Catalogue)
2003 Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003 Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY
2003 Consorcio Salamanca 2002, Salamanca, Spain
2002 VOX, centre de diffusion de la photographie, Montreal, Canada
2001 "Doug Hall: Some Places," Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA (catalogue)
2001 Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY
2001 "Doug Hall: Photographs," Bellevue, Art Museum, Bellevue, WA
2001 "Doug Hall," 20.21 Galerie Edition Kunsthandel, Essen, Germany
1999 "Doug Hall: Near and Far," Galerie Micha Kapinos, Berlin, Germany
1999 "Doug Hall: Photographs 1989-1998," Feigen, New York, NY
1998 "Doug Hall: Pictures," Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997 "Doug Hall: Appearance (advancing and retreating)," Rena Bransten Gallery,
San Francisco, CA
1997 Dogenhaus Projekt, Berlin, Germany
1995 "Doug Hall: Terminal Landscape," Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1994 "Das DDR-Projekt," Kunstwerke, Berlin, Traveling
1994 "Projects," Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993 "UNIVERSITY," University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
1992 "People and Buildings," Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1991 "Film Forum," Tokyo, Japan
1990 "Sexo E Violencia," Centro Cultural Sao Paulo, Brazil
1990 "Doug Hall: New Work," Fuller Gross Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1990 "The Terrible Uncertainty of the Thing Described," Portland Museum
of Art, OR (catalog, essay by John S. Weber)
1988 "Doug Hall: New Work," Fuller Gross Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1987 "Doug Hall: The Spectacle of Image," Institute of Contemporary Art,
Boston, MA (catalogue)
1987 "Storm and Stress and Songs of the 80's," video screening, Pacific Film
Archive and Matrix Program, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
1987 "The Plains of San Augustin," Virginia Museum of Art, Richmond, VA
(catalog)
1986 "The CAT Fund Presents," Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
1986 "The Victims' Regret," Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, PA (catalog)
1986 "Works on Paper," Ted Greenwald Gallery
1985 "Retrospective screening of tapes," San Francisco Video Gallery
1985 "Video," The American Center, Paris, artist-in-residence
1984 "The Victims' Regret," University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, (brochure)
1984 "Machinery for the Re-education of a Delinquent Dictator," Whitney
Museum, New York, NY (catalog), video installation
1983 "The Tyrant's Last Dream," 80 Langton Street, San Francisco, CA, video installation
1981 "The Great Confrontation," Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary
Art, CA, installation
1981 "Retrospective of videotapes," The Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
1980 "Situations for Main Street," 1708 East Main Street (an art space), Richmond,
VA, installation
1980 "The Washington Project for the Arts," Washington, DC, video
1980 "The Amarillo News Tapes," The Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
(brochure), installation
1980 "The Great Confrontation," 80 Langton Street, San Francisco, CA, installation
1979 "I Hardly Ever Leave This Room," University Art Museum, Berkeley,
CA, 3 channel video installation (with Diane Andrews Hall)
1978 "Edited by Fire," La Mamelle Arts Center, San Francisco, CA,
installation of works on paper and objects that survived the fire that
destroyed theT.R. Uthco studio
1976 The Eternal Frame, The Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA, video
installation and The San Francisco Mobius Video Festival, video
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007 New Urban Vistas, curated by Michael Klein, Arthur Roger Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2007 Ingenuity: Photography and Engineering, Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
2006 Imposing Order: Contemporary Photography and the Archive, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
2006 The Gray Area: Uncertain Images (Bay Area Photography 1970s to Now), Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA
2005 "The Anniversary Show," Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005 "Downtime: Constructing Leisure," New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA
2005 "The Big Picture," University Art Gallery, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA
2005 "On View: Photographing the Museum," Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
2005 "Worth a Thousand Words: the Book as Image," Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA
2004-2005 "Dreamscapes," Aeroplastics Contemporary, Brussels, Belgium
2004 "Landscape," Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 "Artitecture," Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 "Doug Hall, Vik Muniz, Christina Iglesias, Kara Walker," Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
2003-2004 "Contemporary Spaces, Underlying Culture, Photographs by Philip-Lorca diCorcia, doug Dubois, Doug Hall, Louise Lawler and Georges Rousse," Museum of Art, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT
2003-2004 "The Gray Area: Uncertain Images (Bay Area Photoography 1970s to Now)," California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA
2003-2004 "The Discerning Eye: Southern California Collects," Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
2003 "Scenery," Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003 "Pretty, as a Picture," Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003 "Affinities...Now and Then," Artspace, Kansas City, MO
2003 "Hines," 101 California Street, San Francisco, CA
2003 "Parallax Views, Art and the JFK Assassination," Hallways Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
2003 "Environs," Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY
2002 "XXV Bienal de Sao Paulo," Sao Paulo, Brazil
2002 "Asphalt," Elias Fine Art, Boston, MA
2002 "The Photographic Impulse: Highlights from the Joseph and Elaine Monsen Photography Collection,"The Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2002 "Iconos Metropoltanos; Vanessa Beecroft, Nancy davenport, Lucinda Devlin, Doug Hall, Shirin Neshat,"
PROA Fundacion, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2002 "Time Share," Sarah Meltzer Gallery, New York, NY
2002 "Divine the Grid," Vedanta Gallery, Chicago, IL
2002 "Family," The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
2002 "First Decade: Video from the EAI Archives," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2001 "West World," Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
2001 "There, Not Here?," Fine Arts Center Gallery, University of Rhode Island (brochure)
2001 "Present Compose," The Ottawa Art Gallery, Canada
2001 "Depicting Absence/Implying Presence," San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
2001 "Beyond Boundaries," Ansel Adams Center for Photography, San Francisco, CA
2001 "Paradise in Search of a Future," CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY
2001 "A Private Reading: the Book as Image and Object," Senior and Shopmaker Gallery, New York, NY
2001 "Video Time," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (catalogue)
2000 "Made in California: Art, Image and Identity 1900-2000, Section 5: 1980-2000" LACMA, CA (catalogue)
2000 "Between Earth and Heaven - New Classical Movements in the Art of Today,"
Museum of Modern Art, Ostend, Belgium
2000 "Photography Now," Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
2000 "Vision Ruhr," Zeche Zollern II/IV, Dortmund, Germany (catalogue)
2000 "Beyond Boundaries," California State University, Long Beach, CA, traveling
2000 "Museum Pieces," M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco, CA
1999 "Summer Reading: Photographs of Books," Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York, NY
1999 "IMAGO 99," Centro de Fotografia, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
1999 "Eye Candy," Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1998 "California Landscapes: an Urban/ Rural Dialogue," Triton Museum of
Art, Santa Clara, CA
1998 "Plugged In," Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1998 "Ground Control," Lombard/Fried Gallery, New York, NY
1998 "Matrix: Twenty Years," University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
1997 "Insided Story," Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1997 "Rethinking Topographies," Gallery RAM, Santa Monica, CA
1997 "Spaces and Forms II, Maryland Institute College of Art
1996 "Dislocations, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
1996 "Annual Exhibition," American Academy in Rome, Italy (catalogue)
1996 "Noch nie gezeigt," Berlinische Galerie
1996 "System Aesthetics: Works from the Permanent Collection," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
1995 "Garden Variety," Rena Bransten Gallery, San Francisco, California
1995 "Photography after Photography," Siemans Kultur Program, Munich, Germany
1994 "Scratching the Belly of the Beast: Cutting Edge Media in Los
Angeles, 1922-1994," Film Forum, Los Angeles, CA (catalog)
1994 "Identity, The Logic of Appearance," Galerie Krin Zinger, Vienna
1993 "Les Lieux de Video: Int'l Video Art Exhibition," United Media Arts
and The Durham Art Gallery, Durham, Ontario, Canada
1993 "Out of Place," Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Canada (catalog)
1993 "Art 24 '93," Basel, Switzerland
1992-93 "Video: Two Decades," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1992-93 "Art At the Armory: Occupied Territory," Museum of Contemporary Art,
Chicago, IL (catalog)
1992 "Revelation/Transformation: selected photographs," Rena Bransten
Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1992 "Transparent: Dokumentarische Zonen in Video," Medienwerkstatt,
Vienna, Austria (catalog)
1991 Mincher Wilcox Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1991 "A Presumption of Faith," Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1990 "Waterworks," Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA (catalog)
1990 "New Acquisitions," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
San Francisco, CA
1990 "Bay Area Media," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art,
San Francisco, CA (catalog)
1989 "Witness," Fuller Gross Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1989 "Doug Hall, George Kuchar and Het Weer," Kijkhuis, The Haag, The Netherlands
1988-89 "American Landscape Video: The Electronic Grove," The Carnegie
Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA, traveled to The San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art and The Newport Harbor Museum (catalog)
1988 "Video Art 1988," The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
1987 "World Wide Video Festival," The Hague, The Netherlands (catalog)
1987 "Japan 87 Video Television Festival," Tokyo, Japan
1987 "The Importance of Drawing," Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1986 "National Video Festival of the American Film Institute," AFI
Campus, Los Angeles, CA (catalog), Premiere screening of "Storm and Stress"
1986 "Video Installed," New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA (catalog)
1986 "3rd International Video and Television Festival," Montbelliard, France (catalog)
1985 "Video Nacht," NDR, Hamburg, Germany
1985 "Resolution: A Critique of Video Art," Los Angeles Contemporary
Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA (catalog)
1985 "A Passage Repeated," Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA (brochure)
1985 "San Francisco International Video Festival," various Bay Area art
spaces, CA (catalog)
1985 "Whitney Museum Biennial Exhibition," New York, NY (catalog)
1985 "Video from Vancouver to San Diego," Museum of Modern Art, New York
1984 "2nd Video Rio," Centro Cultural Candido Mendes, Brazil (catalog)
1984 "Video: A Retrospective," Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA (catalog)
1984 "Mediated Narratives," Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA,
Traveled (brochure)
1984 "National Video Festival," American Film Institute, Los Angeles, CA (catalog)
1984 "Video '84," Place Guy Farreant, Montreal, Canada
1984 "Heroes/Anti-heroes," Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX (catalog)
1984 "The Science of Fiction, The Fiction of Science," Video Data Bank
and the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1984 "Video: Recent Acquisitions," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1984 "California Video: 1984," Long Beach Museum of Art, CA (catalog)
1984 "2nd International Video Festival," Montbeliard, France
1984 "Primero Festival Nacional de Video," Madrid, Spain
1984 "Berlin Film Festival," West Germany (catalog)
1984 "From TV to Video, From Video to TV," Cineteca Communale, Bologna, Italy (catalog)
1984 "United States Film and Video Festival," Park City, Utah (brochure)
1984 "Prime Time Video," Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, MA (brochure)
1983 "5 Installations," Visual Studies Workshop, Rochester, NY,
1983 "Machinery for the Re-education of a Delinquent Dictator," video installation
1983 "About T.V.," Just Above Midtown Gallery, New York, NY, curated by Robert Atkins
1983 "When Words Become Works," The Minneapolis College of Art and Design
and the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
1983 "The San Francisco International Video Festival," various Bay Area
museums, CA (catalog)
1983 "Awards in the Visual Arts 2," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,
IL; The Mint Museum, Charlotte, NC; and the De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, MA (catalog)
1983 "Funny/Strange," Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
1983 "New American Video," Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland
1983 "Video/TV: Humor/Comedy," traveling, curated by John Minkowski and
Media Study (catalog)
1983 "The Whitney Museum Biennial Exhibition," New York, NY
1982 "Reading Video," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1982 "The San Francisco International Video Festival," various Bay Area
museums, CA (catalog)
1982 "Festival of Festivals," Toronto, Canada, videotapes
1982 "The Denver Film Festival," Denver, CO
1982 "Media Study," Buffalo, NY, performance
1982 "Input '82," Toronto, Canada, video
1982 "The United States Film and Video Festival," Park City, UT (catalog)
1981 "Protopia '81," Tokyo, Japan (catalog)
1981 "The American Film Institute Video Festival," Washington, DC (catalog)
1981 "Independent Vision," The American Center, Paris
1980 "Videoart: The Electronic Medium," Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston, TX
1980 "The San Francisco International Video Festival," various Bay Area
museums and art spaces, CA (catalog)
1979 "Space/Time/Sound-1970's: A Decade in the Bay Area," The San
Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA (catalog)
1978 "Two Channel Video," The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
1977 "Documenta 6," Kassel, Germany (catalog)
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
1983 Film in the Cities, Minneapolis, MN
1982 The Western Front, Vancouver, B.C.
1981 Songs of the 80's, 80 Langton Street, San Francisco, CA
1980 The San Francisco Art Institute Annual: "Seven Chapters from the
Life of...(A Soap Opera)", SITE Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1979 It's Difficult to be Sure About Most Things, in series titled
1979 'Verbal Eyes,' The Farm, San Francisco, CA
1977 Sometimes Things Are Less Than They Appear, with video, The Maryland
Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1977 Really, I've Never done Anything Like that Before, He Said, with
video, La Mamelle Arts Center, San Francisco, CA; The Otis Art
Institute Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1976 Thirty-Two Feet Per Second Per Second, La Mamelle Arts Center, San Francisco, CA
1974-75 Great Moments, The Theater Project, Baltimore, MD; The Ninety-Nine
Cent Floating Theater, Pittsburgh, PA; Detroit Institute of
the Arts, Detroit, MI; University of Michigan Art Department,
Ann Arbor, MI; The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX;
Center for Contemporary Music at Mills College, Oakland, CA;
The Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, OR; The
Seattle Center, Seattle, WA; Virginia Commonwealth University,
Richmond,VA; McComb Community College, Detroit, MI; Nazareth College, Kalamazoo, MI
1975 Some Things End The Way They Begin, University of Michigan Art
Department, Ann Arbor, MI
1975 The Eyes of Texas, the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
1975 The Eternal Frame, for videotape, Dealay Plaza, Dallas, TX
1975 Media Burn (Ant Farm), for videotape, The Cow Palace, San Francisco
1974 Standing Man, The Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
1974 Partially Intentional Discord, Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, IL
1974 Intentional Discord, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver B.C., Canada
PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS
1992 Panelist, California Arts Commission
1989 Panelist National Endowment for the Arts, Media Arts
1987 Panelist, California Arts Commission
1984 89 Board of Directors of the Bay Area Video Coalition
1980 85 Board of Trustees of the San Francisco Art Institute
1979 85 Artist's Committee of the San Francisco Art Institute
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Vienna, Austria
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, NY
Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
University Museum, Berkeley, CA
Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France
Berlinische Galerie, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin
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