Dan Graham: Beyond

Whitney Museum (New York)

June 25 - October 11, 2009

Dan Graham, one of the pioneering figures of contemporary art, is the subject of a landmark retrospective opening at the Whitney Museum of American Art on June 25. “Dan Graham: Beyond” is the first-ever comprehensive museum survey of Graham’s career to be done in the United States. Organized by The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in collaboration with the Whitney, it examines Graham’s extensive body of work in photographs, film and video, architectural models, indoor and outdoor pavilions, conceptual projects for magazine pages, drawings, prints, and writings.

Graham (b. 1942) has been a central participant in the development of contemporary art since the 1960s-from the rise of minimalism, conceptual art, video art, and performance art, to explorations of architecture and the public sphere, to collaborations with musicians and the culture of rock and roll. This exhibition traces the evolution of Graham’s work through each of its major stages, exploring his principal motifs and concerns, among them his key theme: the changing relationship of the individual to society, as filtered through American mass media and architecture.

“Dan Graham: Beyond” is the latest in a trio of collaborations between the Whitney and MOCA, following Gordon “Matta-Clark: You Are the Measure” and “Lawrence Weiner: As Far As the Eye Can See,” celebrating the work of three major figures in American art, each of whom emerged in the 1960s. Following its presentation at the Whitney from June 25 to October 11, 2009, the Graham exhibition travels to the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, from October 31, 2009 to January 31, 2010.

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