Robert Longo

Brooklyn (NY) • 1953

Over the years, Robert Longo has explored and studied the fundamental forces that move human beings and the universe. In 2000 and in 2005 he had two solo exhibitions at Galleria Mazzoli. The first of these presented his first important group of works known as Men in the Cities (1979-1982), the Combines series from the 80s, and five important series from the 90s and the 2000’s. In Men in the Cities , Longo explored the social aspect of power, representing it metaphorically as dancing figures in elegant black suits who seem to have been subjected to electric shock, but in reality, are probably not manifesting anything else but the psychological distress caused by social pressure. The question that Longo posed was: “Are they dancing or are they dying?”.
Toward the middle of the 80s, Longo probably came to feel that these figures had become impotent, isolated, and overwhelmed by mysterious forces. And thus, the Combines were born, works that seem to embody the collision of the giant forces that Longo seeks to expose, the greater geo-sociological forces. The works in the series of the 90s, such as Black Flags (1990), Bodyhammers (1994), Johnny Mnemonic (1995) and Magellan (1996), seem to reflect a critical sweep of the various spheres of power. Longo subsequently changed the direction of his research, moving it toward powers that go beyond the limits of individual control, investigating forms of power in nature too. In The Wave Series (2000), the artist explored the majestic and uncontrollable power of the force of waves, a metaphor of a much greater power, that of the force of the universe. Freud Drawings, realized during the same period, seems to want to continue that research, but by examining the forces as they are revealed in the human mind. The artist also probes another form of power, that of bombs.
Longo's artistic journey reaches a synthesis in Fire, Water, Rock, an exhibition presented at Galleria Mazzoli in 2005, with works realized between 2003 and 2005. The title refers to the power of the universe and its energy, controlled not only by human beings, but also by its very elements. Weapons, bombs, waves, and planets reveal different forms of power, from the human to the natural. Weapons and bombs illustrate the negative power of the human mind, whereas waves and planets lead us to reflect beyond the insignificant presence of man on earth, especially when compared to the mystery, power, and infinity of the universe which contains an unattainable truth about the meaning of the energy that moves it, perhaps about the meaning of life itself. Robert Longo also invites us to reflect upon the subject of power and authority in other series of works in which he depicts blackened American flags, outsized pistols, tigers, icebergs, bishops from behind, cathedrals, synagogues, mosques, and women in burqas.

Lives and works in New York.

Source: Richard Milazzo, Robert Longo, Fire, Water, Rock, Emilio Mazzoli editore, Modena, 2005.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS - Selection

2016

Luminous Discontent, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France

2015

The Invention of Zero, Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf, Germany

2014

Gang of Cosmos, Metro Pictures, New York, USA

Strike the Sun, Petzel Gallery, New York, USA

2013

Phantom Vessels, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria

2012

The Capitol Project, The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield (CT), USA

STAND, Capitain Petzel Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2011

God Machines, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France

Mysterious Heart, Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain

2010

Robert Longo, Kunsthalle Weishaupt, Ulm, Germany

Robert Longo: Survey Exhibition 1980-2009, Museu Berardo, Lisbon, Portugal

2009

No Wave, SAKS Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland

Robert Longo: Survey Exhibition 1980-2009, Musee D’Art Moderne Et D’Art Contemporain, Nice, France

Surrendering the Absolutes, Metro Pictures, New York, USA

Dancing With Chains On, Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf, Germany

2008

Nights Bright Days, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles (CA), USA

Intimate Immensity, Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain

2007

Children of Nyx, Metro Pictures, New York, USA

Beginning of the World, Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf, Germany

2006

The Outward and Visible Signs of an Inward and Invisible Grace, Metro Pictures, New York, USA

Ouroboros, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France

2005

Robert Longo: Fire, Water, Rock (2003-2005), Galleria Emilio Mazzoli, Modena, Italy

Something Wicked This Way Comes, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles (CA), USA

Robert Longo: Deep Silence, Monchehaus Museum, Goslar, Germany

2004

The Sickness of Reason, Metro Pictures, New York, USA

2003

Lust of the Eye, Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain

2002

Monsters, Metro Pictures, New York, USA

Robert Longo: Sigmund Freud, Jüdisches Museum, Berlin, Germany

The Freud Drawings, Museen Haus Lange und Haus Esters, Krefelder Kunstmeseen, Krefeld, Germany; traveled to Albertina Museum, Wien, Austria

2001

The Freud Drawings, Metro Pictures, New York, USA

2000

Robert Longo: Superheroes, Lipanjepuntin Artecontemporanea, Trieste, Italy

Robert Longo: 1980–2000, Galleria Emilio Mazzoli, Modena, Italy

1998

Robert Longo, Gallery Cotthem, Belgium; traveled to Cotthem Gallery, Barcelona, Spain

1997

Magellan, Metro Pictures, New York, USA

Das Magellan Projekt, Kunsthalle Tubingen, Tubingen, Germany; traveled to Kunsthal Rotterdam, Rotterdam, The Netherlands; Kunstalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

1996

Robert Longo: Kreuze, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany

1995

Robert Longo: A Retrospective, The Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan; traveled to Ashikaga City Museum; Kirin Plaza Art Space, Osaka, Japan

Johnny Paintings, Galerie Gana-Beaubourg, Paris, France; traveled to Galerie Lüpke, Frankfurt, Germany

Johnny Mnemonic: Works on Paper, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France

1994

Robert Longo, Genereux Grunwald Gallery, Toronto, Canada

Robert Longo, Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf, Germany

1993

Bodyhammers: The Cult of the Gun, Metro Pictures, New York; traveled to Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria

Robert Longo, Kleines Festspielhaus, Salzburg, Austria

Killing Time, Galeria Joan Prats, Barcelona, Spain; traveled to Galeria Joan Prats, New York, USA

1992

When Heaven and Hell Change Places, Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf, Germany

Dreams With The Wrong Solutions, Salzburg Grand Opera House, Salzburg, Austria

1991

Robert Longo, Linda Cathcart Gallery, Los Angeles (CA), USA

Robert Longo, Texas Gallery, Houston (TX), USA

Robert Longo, Hamburger Kunstverein and Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany

Faith in Zero Project, Five Gallery installation: Galerie Daniel Templon, Galerie Antoine Candau, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, A.B. Galleries, Galerie Gordon Pym et Fils, Paris, France

1990

Black Flags, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France; traveled to Metro Pictures, New York, USA

1989

Robert Longo 1976-1989, The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles (CA), USA ; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and the Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford (CT), USA

Robert Longo, Seibu Contemporary Art Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

Robert Longo, Linda Cathcart Gallery, Los Angeles (CA), USA

1988

Robert Longo, Metro Pictures, New York, USA
Robert Longo, Menil Collection, Houston (TX), USA

Robert Longo, Museum Boymans van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

1987

Robert Longo, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France

1986

Steel Angels Part I & Part II, Metro Pictures, New York, USA

Robert Longo, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago (IL), USA

Robert Longo, Spiral Gallery, Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, Japan

Sequences/Men in the Cities, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach (CA), USA ; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (TX), USA ; Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne (IN), USA

1985

Robert Longo, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn (NY), USA

Robert Longo, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Robert Longo, Lia Rumma Gallery, Naples, Italy

Robert Longo: Dis-Illusions, University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City (IA), USA

1984

Robert Longo, Metro Pictures, New York,USA

Robert Longo: Drawings & Reliefs, Akron Art Museum, Akron (OH), USA

Robert Longo, Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles (CA), USA

1983

Robert Longo, Metro Pictures, New York, USA

Robert Longo, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA

Robert Longo, Galerie Schellmann & Kluser, Munich, Germany

1982

Robert Longo, Texas Gallery, Houston (TX), USA

1981

Men in the Cities, Metro Pictures, New York, USA

Robert Longo, Fine Arts Center, University of Rhode Island, Kingston (RI), USA

1980

Robert Longo, Studio Cannaviello, Milan, Italy

1979

Robert Longo, The Kitchen, New York, USA

1976

Robert Longo, Hallwalls, Buffalo (NY), USA

GROUP EXHIBITIONS - Selection

2016
Proof: Francisco Goya, Sergei Eisenstein, Robert Longo, The Garage Museum of Contemporary Art, Moscow, Russia

2015

The Inaugural Installation, Broad Museum, Los Angeles (CA), USA

Last Year in Marienbad: A Film as Art, Kunsthalle Bremen, Germany

Colección Jumex, In Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimur Igni, Museo Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico

FIRE AND FORGET. ON VIOLENCE, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany

Picasso in Contemporary Art, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Germany

Cannibalism? On Appropriation in Art, Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland

Space Age, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France

Looking Back / The 9th White Columns Annual, White Columns, New York, USA

2014

To Have and To Hold, Rubell Family Collection/Contemporary Arts Foundation, Miami (FL), USA

Bad Thoughts: Collection Martijn and Jeanette Sanders, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Urban Theater: New York Art in the 1980s, The Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth (TX), USA

Bard Girls Can Fly, White Flag Projects, Saint Louis (MI), USA

Une Historie. Art, architecture, design. Des annèes 1980 à nos jours, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

2013

Holes in the Walls: Early Works 1948-2013, FRI ART, Kunsthalle Freiburg, Switzerland

Something about a Tree, FLAG Art Foundation, New York, USA

Disaster Show, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France

2012

Graphite, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis (IN), USA

Wish You Were Here: The Buffalo Avant-garde in the 1970s, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo (NY), USA

We the People, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Project Space, New York, USA

Poule!, Fundacion/Colección Jumex, Ecatepec, Mexico

Art & Press, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany

2011

View From a Volcano: The Kitchen’s Soho Years, 1971-85, The Kitchen, New York, USA

2009

The Pictures Generation 1974-1984, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA

Three: The Triptych in Modern Art, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

2008

Sonic Youth etc.: Sensational Fix, Museion Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano, Italy

Political Correct, BFAS Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva, Switzerland

to: Night, The Hunter College Art Galleries, New York, USA

The Human Image in the Twentieth Century: Works from the Collection of the Tokushima Modern Art Museum, Gunma Museum of Art, Tatebayashi, Japan

Atomic Afterimage: Cold War Imagery in Contemporary Art, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston (MA), USA

The Big Bang, Museo Carlo Bilotti, Rome, Italy

That Was Then…This Is Now, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA

Landscope, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France

Future Tense: Reshaping the Landscape, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase (NY), USA

2007

Sympathy for the Devil: Art and Rock and Roll Since 1967, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (IL), USA; traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami (FL), USA; Musée D’Art Contemporain, Montréal, Canada

Exhibitionism: An Exhibition of Exhibitions of Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson (NY), USA

Chelsea to Caochangdi, Chambers Fine Art, Bejing, China

History Will Repeat Itself, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany; traveled to Hartware MedienKunstVerein, Dortmund, Germany; Centre for Contemporary Art, Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland

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

Lights, Camera, Action: Artist Films for the Cinema, Kaufman Astoria Studios, New York, USA

Hot Rock, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, UK

2006

Fifth Interpretation of the Collection, La Colección Jumex, Pachuca, Mexico

New York New York: Fifty Years of Art, Architecture, Cinema, Performance, Photography and Video, Grimaldi Forum, Monaco

Les Mouvement des Images, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France

Ma+h Coun+s, University of Connecticut, Storss (CT), USA

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

2005

Neo-Baroque, Byblos Art Gallery, Verona, Italy

Atomica: Making the Visible Invisible, Lombard-Freid Fine Arts, New York, USA

Flashback: Revisiting the Art of the Eighties, Kunstmuseum Museum for Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland

Drawing from the Modern, MoMA, New York, USA

2004

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

American Art of the 1980s: selections from the Broad Collections, Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis (MI), USA

Freud – The Creative Analysis of Analysis, University of Connecticut, Storrs (CT), USA

NY Collects Buffalo State, Buffalo State College, Buffalo (NY), USA

News From Home (Orientalism <> Occidentalism), The Annex, New York, USA

Perspectives at 25, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (TX), USA

Off the Wall, Bruce Museum of Arts and Science, Greenwich (CT), USA

2003

Drawings, Metro Pictures, New York, USA

Art, Lies, and Videotape: Exposing Performance, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

2002

Group Show, Metro Pictures, New York, USA

The Human Factor: Figuration in American Art, 1950-1995, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne (IN), USA

Super Heroes, Galerie Edward Mitterand, Geneva, Switzerland

Melodrama, Atrium, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain; traveled to Centro José Guerrero, Grenada, Spain; MARCO, Vigo, Spain

2001

Postmodern Americans, The Menil Collection, Houston (TX), USA

I Need You to Be There, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson (NY), USA

Pictures at an Exhibition, Artists Space, New York, USA
Streit-Lust - For Argument’s Sake, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany

2000

End Papers, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York, USA

Around 1984, A Look at the Eighties, P.S. 1, New York, USA

Group Show, Metro Pictures, New York, USA

1999

The Kiasma Collection, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland

1998

I Love Art, In Kahn, New York, USA

The Edward R. Broida Collection: A Selection of Works, The Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando (FL), USA

Stills: A Selection from the Marieluise Hessel Collection, Center for Curatorial Studies, Annandale-on-Hudson (NY), USA

1997

Landscape: The Pastoral to the Urban, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson (NY), USA

Biennale di Venezia: XLVII Esposizione Internationale d'Arte, Venice, Italy

Views from Abroad: European Perspectives on American Art 3, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA

Stills: Art and Cinema in the Marieluise Hessel Collection, Centro Cultural Light, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil

1996

Group Show, Metro Pictures, New York, USA

New York “Unplugged II”, Gallery Cotthem, Knokke-Zoute, Belgium

Bang! The Gun as Image, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee (FL), USA

1995

Essence and Persuasion: The Power of Black and White, Anderson Gallery, Buffalo (NY), USA

Group Show, Metro Pictures, New York, USA

It’s Only Rock and Roll, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati (OH), USA

Passions Privee, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France

Alternatives: 20 Years of Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center: 1975-1995, Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Buffalo (NY), USA

(Op) Art Galerie, Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf, Germany

1994

New York on Paper, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France

Drawings: Reaffirming the Media, Kansas City Gallery of Art, University of Missouri, Kansas City (MO), USA

Le Temps d’un Dessin, Galerie de l’Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Lorient, France

Old Glory: The American Flag in Contemporary Art, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland (OH), USA; traveled to American Embassy, Copenhagen, Denmark

Art in Embassies Program, American Embassy, Copenhagen, Denmark

New York “Unplugged”, Gallery Cotthem, Knokke, Belgium

Summer Academy I, Pace Wildenstein Gallery, New York, USA

Fuori USO 1994, Kulturna Manifestacija; traveled to Ex Opificio Gaslini, Pescara, Italy; Trevi Flash Art Museum of Contemporary Art, Trevi,Italy; Cankarjev Dom, Ljubljana, Slovenia

For 25 Years: Brooke Alexander Editions, MoMA, New York, USA

Group Show, Metro Pictures, New York, USA

Oh Boy, It’s a Girl: Feminismen in der Kunst, Kunstverein, Munich, Germany

Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro (NC), USA

After Art: Rethinking 150 Years of Photography, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle (WA), USA - Traveling exhibition

Sustainable Earth/ Sustainable Art, Remba Gallery, West Hollywood (CA), USA

1993

Lucio Silla Group Exhibit, Kleines Festspielhaus, Salzburg, Austria

Group Show, Metro Pictures, New York, USA

American Postmodern Art (Longo, Schnabel, Salle, Fischl), Ho-Am Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea

The 21st Century, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland

8 American Artists, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany

1992

Allegories of Modernism: Contemporary Drawing, MoMA, New York, USA

Group Show, Metro Pictures, New York, USA

American Art of the 80’s, Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Trento, Italy

Killing Time, collaborative installation with Jon Kessler, Centre de Recherche d’Exchange et de Diffusion pour l’Art Contemporain (CREDAC), Ivre Sur Seine, France

1991

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

Power, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis (IN), USA

1990

Affinities and Intuitions: The Gerald S. Elliot Collection of Contemporary Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (IL), USA

1989

A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (CA), USA

Fondation Daniel Templon: Musee Temporaire Exposition Inaugurale, Frejus, France

Image World: Art and Media Culture, The Whitney Museum of Art, New York, USA

1988

Altered States, Kent Fine Arts, New York, USA

Concept et Imaginatione (recent works from the photographic collection of the Stedelijk Museum), L’Institut Neerlandais, Paris, France

1988 The World of Art Today, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee (WI), USA

Visions/ Revisions: Contemporary Representation, Marlborough Gallery, New York, USA

The Postmodern Explained to Children, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands

American Art Since 1945, Tochigi Prefectual Museum of Fine Arts, Japan

Three Decades: The Oliver Hoffman Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago (IL), USA

1987

Documenta 8, Kassel, West Germany

L’Epoque, La Mode, La Morale, La Passion, 1977-1987, Musee National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

Avant-Garde in the Eighties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles (CA), USA

Implosion: A Postmodern Perspective, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

Process and Product: The Making of Eight Contemporary Masterworks, Blum Art Institute, Bard College, Anandale-on Hudson, New York, USA

Post-Abstract Abstraction, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield (CT), USA

1986

An American Renaissance in Art: Painting and Sculpture Since 1940, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale (FL), USA

The American Exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago (IL), USA

Das Automobil in der Kunst 1886-1986, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Hommage a Beuys, Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany

Monumental Drawing: Works by 22 Contemporary Americans, The Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, USA

1985

Figure It Out: Exploring the Figure in Contemporary Art, Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin (TX), USA

New York 85, ARCA Centre d’Art Contemporain, Marseille, France

Body and Soul: Aspects of Recent Figurative Sculpture, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (OH), USA

Anniottanta, Galleria Comunale d’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy

Carnegie International, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh (PA), USA

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

1984

Endgame: Robert Morris, Laurie Anderson, Robert Longo, Hunter College Art Gallery, New York, USA

The Fifth Biennale of Sydney, Private Symbol: Social Metaphor, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Alibis, Centre Georges Pompidou, Musee National d’Art Moderne, Paris, France

Automobile and Culture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (CA), USA; traveled to Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit (MI), USA

The Human Condition: Biennial III, Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco (CA); traveled to USA

The Heroic Figure, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (PA); USA; traveled to Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis (TN), USA; Alexandria Museum, Alexandria (KY), USA; The Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara (CA), USA

Currents, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (MA), USA

Content: A Contemporary Focus, 1974-1984, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C., USA

La Narrativa Internacional de Hoy, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico; traveled to P.S. 1, New York, USA

Szene New York ’84, Rheinhallen, Koln Messe, Cologne, Germany

1983

Drawing Conclusions, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles and San Francisco (CA), USA

Directions 1983, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.

1983 Biennial exhibition, The Whitney Museum American Art, New York, USA

The New Art, Tate Gallery, London, UK

Brave New Works: Recent American Painting and Drawing, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MA), USA

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

Dahn, Daniels, Genzken, Holzer, Longo, Visch, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

Drawings Photographs, Leo Castelli, New York, USA

The Heroic Figure: Thirteen Artists from the United States, Museum de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brasil; Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago, Chile; Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Caracas, Venezuela

An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture, MoMA, New York, USA

1982

Dynamix, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (OH), USA; Ohio State University, Colombus (OH), USA; Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin (OH), USA; The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown (OH), USA; The University Art Museum, University of Kentucky, Lexington (KY), USA
The Human Figure in Contemporary Art, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans (LA), USA

Eight Artists: The Anxious Edge, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (MN), USA

Focus on the Figure: Twenty Years, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA

Documenta 7, Kassel, West Germany

A Fatal Attraction: Art and the Media, The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago (IL), USA

Drawings, Blum Helman Gallery, New York, USA

New Figuration in America, Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee (WI), USA

The American Expressionist Image from Pollock to Today, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, USA
The Image Scavengers, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (PA), USA

Body Language, Committee for the Visual Arts, MIT, Cambridge (MA), USA

Urban Kisses, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK

1981

Il Gergo Inquieto, Museo Sant’Agostino, Genoa, Italy

Tableau, Wave Hill, New York, USA

Picturealism – New York, Galerie Chantel Crousel, Paris, France

Westkunst: Today Section, Museen der Stadt Koln, Cologne, Germany

Drawings, Metro Pictures, New York, USA

Body Language: Figurative Aspects of Recent Art, Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge (MA), USA; traveled to Forth Worth Art Museum (TX), USA; University of South Florida Art Gallery, Tampa (FL), USA; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati (OH), USA

Figures: Forms and Expressions, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo (NY), USA

1980

Extensions: Jennifer Bartlett, Lynda Benglis, Robert Longo, Judy Pfaff, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston (TX), USA

Illustration & Allegory, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, USA

Opening Group Exhibition, Metro Pictures, New York, USA

1979

Re: Figuration, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, USA

1977

In Western New York, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo (NY), USA

Pictures, Artists Space, New York, USA; traveled to: Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin (OH), USA; Fine Arts Museum, University of Colorado, Boulder (CO), USA; Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (CA), USA

1976

Convergence and Dispersal, S.E.M. Festival, Albright -Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo (NY), USA

Hallwalls Group Show, Artists Space, New York, USA

1975

Working on Paper, Hallwalls (opening exhibition), Buffalo (NY), USA

on-line exhibitions

June 2005 - September 2005
Robert Longo | FIRE, WATER, ROCK
Mazzoli, Modena

SELECTED WORKS

Untitled (Head of Christ), 2019
Charcoal on mounted paper, handcraft gold leaf frame, leather pouch and 30 pieces of silver, 199,1 x 122,9 x 7,6 cm

Untitled (Burning Cross – From the American Stories Cycle), 2017
Charcoal on mounted paper, 237,8 x 253 cm

Untitled (Piaina Burka), 2015
Charcoal on mounted paper, 245 x 179 cm

Untitled (Treblinka), 2015
Charcoal on mounted paper, 110,8 x 304,8 cm

Untitled (Tiger), 2012
Charcoal on mounted paper, 234 x 178 cm

Untitled, 2013
Charcoal on mounted paper, 152,5 x 284,5 cm

Untitled (Desdemona), 2013
Charcoal on mounted paper, 152,5 x 223,5 cm

Untitled, 2008
Charcoal on mounted paper, 179 x 245 cm

Untitled (Gretchen), 1980-91
Charcoal on mounted paper, 244 x 152 cm