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1980

14 New Artists, Lisson Gallery, London, England

Benefit Exhibition for Collaborative Projects, Inc., Brooke Alexander, New York, New York

Times Square Show, New York, New York

1981

Figurative Sculpture Now, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York

Represent, Representation, Representative, Brooke Alexander, New York, New York

1983

Art on Paper 1983, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, North Carolina

New Art at the Tate Gallery, The Tate Gallery, London, England

The Sixth Day, Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

Back to the U.S.A., Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland; traveled to Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany; Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany

John Ahearn, Mike Glier, Jenny Holzer and Tom Otterness, Young Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

Champions, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, New York; traveled to Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia

1984

Drawings, Knight Gallery, Spirit Square Arts Center, Charlotte, North Carolina

Between Here and Nowhere, 9 New York Artists, Riverside Studios, London, England

Narrative Art, Museo Tamayo, Mexico; traveled to Institute for Art and Urban Resources, P.S. 1, Long Island City, New York

Content: A Contemporary Focus 1974-1984, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.

A Decade of New Art, Artists Space, New York, New York

An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York

The Human Condition: Biennial III, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California

Forming, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York

Painting & Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana

Visions of Childhood: A Contemporary Iconography, Whitney Museum Downtown, New York, New York

Totem, Germans van Eck, New York, New York

Nouvelle Biennale de Paris XIIIe, La Villette, Paris, France

1985

Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York

Mile 4, Chicago Sculpture International, Chicago, Illinois

The Classic Tradition In Recent Painting and Sculpture, The Aldrich Museum of

Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut

Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, Brooke Alexander, New York, New York

American Renaissance: Painting and Sculpture Since 1940, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida

Sculpture, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, New York

Face It!, Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund, Sweden

Working in Brooklyn, The Brooklyn Museum, New York, New York

Correspondences: New York Art Now, Laforet Museum Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan; traveled to Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Arts, Utsunomiya, Japan; Tagaki Hall Espace Media, Kobe, Japan

Anniottanta, Chiostri della Loggetta Lombardesca e Biblioteca Classense, Ravenna, Italy Organized by Galleria Comunale d’arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy

Memento Mori, Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; traveled to Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Palanco, Mexico

1986

Body & Soul: Aspects of Recent Figurative Sculpture, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio; traveled to Knight Gallery, Spirit Square Art Center, Charlotte, North Carolina; Fresno Arts Center, Fresno, California; Loch Haven Art Center, Orlando, Florida; Visual Arts Gallery, Florida International University, Miami, Florida; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska; Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, Florida

Sonsbeek 86, Arnhem, The Netherlands

New Trends in Contemporary Sculpture: 10 New Outstanding Sculptors of America and Japan, Sapporo Art Park, Tokyo, Japan

Spectrum: The Generic Figure, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

1987

Bronze, Plaster & Polyester, Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Constitution, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Appearances 10th Anniversary and Benefit Show, Sorkin Gallery, New York, New York

The Reemergent Figure: Seven Sculptors at Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York

The Call of the Wild: Animal Themes in Contemporary Art, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island

Sacred Spaces, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York

1988

Aperto 88, XLIII Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

New Sculpture/Six Artists, The Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri

Altered States, Kent Gallery, New York, New York

Een keuze/A Choice, KunstRAI, Amsterdam, Holland

Democracy: Education, Group Material at Dia Art Foundation, New York, New York

American Baroque, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, New York

Interiors, Procter Art Center, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York

BIG/little Sculpture, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts

Columnar, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York

1988

Sammlung Thomas: Kunst aus den achtziger Jahren, A Art 11 Forum Thomas, Munich, Germany

Private Works for Public Spaces, R.C. Erpf Gallery, New York, New York

1989

Object of Thought, Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund, Sweden

Sounding the Depths: 150 Years of American Seascape, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin; traveled to Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas; The Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida; Museum of Art, Science and Industry, Bridgeport Connecticut; The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio; Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii

1990

Heads, BlumHelman Gallery, New York, New York

About Round Round About, Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund, Sweden

1991

Bronze, Frumkin/Adams Gallery, New York, New York

Rope, Galeria Fernando Alcolea, Barcelona, Spain

Couleurs de l’argent, Musée de la Poste, Paris, France

1992

Functional Objects by Artists and Architects, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

Objects of Affection, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California

Allegories of Modernism, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York

In Praise of Folly, John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, Wisconsin

15th Anniversary Exhibition, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois

Body, Leg, Heads and Special Parts, Westfaelischer Kunstverein, Munich, Germany (catalogue with essay by Lucy Lippard)

No Laughing Matter, organized by Independent Curators International, New York. Curated by Nina Felshin. Traveled to University Gallery, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas; Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art, Calgary, Canada; Dalhousie Art Gallery, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, Nebraska; Aidekman Art Center, Tufts University, Medford, Massachusetts

The Realm of the Coin: Money and Contemporary Art, Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra Museum, Hempstead, New York; traveled to Queens Museum, Flushing, New York

Figures of Contemporary Sculpture (1970-1990): Images of Man, Organized by Martin Bush, ACA Galleries, New York, New York. Traveled to Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan; Daimaur Museum, Umeda-Osaka, Osaka, Japan; Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan

1993

American Art Today: Heads Only, The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, Florida

Art and Application, Turbulence, New York, New York

Studio to Site: Public Art in New York City, Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, New York

42nd Street Art Project, Creative Time, New York, New York

Art, Money & Myth, Palm Beach Community College Museum of Art, J. Patrick

Lannan Gallery, Lake Worth, Florida

Essentials, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, New York

Table Sculpture, Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, New York

Spring/Summer Exhibition, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey

Sex, Money, Politics, Nancy Drysdale Gallery, Washington, D.C.

1993

Sculpture & Multiples, Brooke Alexander, New York, New York

The Elusive Object: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, Stamford, Connecticut

1994

The Art Cup, Garth Clark Gallery, Los Angeles, California

Head and Shoulders, Brooke Alexander, New York, New York

The Second Parrish Art Museum Design Biennial: Mirrors, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York

SEX, Adam Baumgold Fine Art, New York, New York

Summer Academy 1, PaceWildenstein, New York, New York

Sculpture in the Center, Stamford Town Center, Stamford, Connecticut

Eleventh Biennial Benefit, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California

Drawings: Reaffirming the Media, University of Missouri-Kansas City Gallery of Art, Kansas City, Missouri (catalogue)

Animal Farm, James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica, California

Sculpture, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Jahresmuseum 1994, Kunsthaus Murzzuschlag, Switzerland

1995

Light Interpretations: A Hanukah Menorah Invitational, The Jewish Museum, San Francisco, California

Obliquely, Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, California

XXV Years, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California

Content and Commentary, Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts

The Gift: Sculptures by Tom Otterness and Bright Bimpong, Skoto Gallery, New York, New York

1995-6

Group Exhibition, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York

Imaginary Beings, Exit Art, New York, New York

1996

The Gun: Icon of the Twentieth Century, Ubu Gallery, New York, New York

A Century of American Drawing from the Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York

Twentieth Century American Sculpture at the White House, Exhibition IV, The White House, Washington, D.C.

1996-97

The PaineWebber Collection, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan; traveled to Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota; San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California; Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, Florida

1997

American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, New York

Contemporary Sculpture: The Figurative Tradition, Woodson Art Museum, Wasau, Wisconsin.

The Private Eye in Public Art, LaSalle Lobby Gallery, NationsBank Plaza, Charlotte, North Carolina

Wit, Whimsy, and Humor, College of New Rochelle Castle Gallery, New Rochelle, New York

Socrates Sculpture Park, 10th Anniversary, Long Island City, New York

Structures: Buildings in American Art 1900-1997, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, California

1997-98

Alternating Currents: American Art in the Age of Technology, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California

1998

Contemporary Sculpture: The Figurative Tradition, Margaret Woodson Fisher Sculpture Gallery, Wausau, Wisconsin

Stages of Creation: Public Sculptures by National Academicians, National Academy, New York

Pop Surrealism, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut

An Exhibition for Children, 242, New York, New York

Money, Rotunda Gallery, Brooklyn, New York

1999

Important Sculptors of the Late Twentieth Century, Stamford Sculpture Walk, Stamford, Connecticut

2000

American Sculpture, International Sculpture Festival of Monte-Carlo, Monte-Carlo, Monaco

Summer Show, Marlborough Gallery, New York

2001

Retorn al País de les Meravelles L’Art Contemporani i la Infancia, Centre Cultural de la Fundació "la Caixa," Barcelona

2002

Navy Pier Walk 2002, The Chicago International Sculpture Exhibition, Chicago, Illinois