Taro Suzuki
b. New York, NY
EDUCATION
Cooper Union, New York, NY, BFA, 1976
School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, 1972-73
Syracuse University, Syracuse, New York, 1971-2
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
High Noon Gallery, New York, "Snakes on a Plane"
2011
Heidi Cho Gallery, New York, “Steven Alexander / Taro Suzuki” (Painting)
1991
Berland Hall Gallery, New York (Paintings)
1990
White Columns, N.Y. (Paintings)
Daniel Newburg Gallery, New York (Sculpture)
1988
Daniel Newburg Gallery, New York (Sculpture)
1987
Daniel Newburg Gallery, New York (Sculpture)
1986
Daniel Newburg Gallery, New York (Painting and Sculpture)
John Weber Gallery, New York (Installation)
Architectures Windows (Installation)
1985
Daniel Newburg Gallery (Painting and Sculpture)
The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN “C3I”, performance in collaboration with Jules Feinman-Baptiste
1982
Red Bar, New York (Installation)
1981
Stefanotti Gallery, New York (Installation)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017
Crush Curatorial, New York, “Second Sight, Charlotte Hallberg/Taro Suzuki”
MoMA PS 1 “Paradise”
Ely Center for Contemporary Arts, Hartford Conn. “Maniac, Manic Episode 5”
2016
SHFAP, New York, “Paradise”
National Arts Club, “Group Exhibition” Curated by Dee Shapiro
Crush Curatorial, Amagannsett, NY, “Territory”
2015
Central Booking Gallery, L.E.S N.Y. “Going Big” curated by Susan Carr and Suzan Shutan
2014
ASC Studios, New York, “Pipe Dreams, Wishful Thinking, Grand Gestures, and Dirty Lies”
2013
Marion Callis Fine Art, MCF_A@Cold Spring 2, “Lowell Boyers, Sean Capone, Taro Suzuki”, Cold Spring, NY
Phillip Glass Benefit Show & Concert, Ille Arts, Amagansett
Punchline, Institute Library, New Haven, CT
2012
Ille Arts Holiday Show, Amagansett
2011
Jeanette Powell Arts Center, University of the Pacific, Maniac Manic Episode II
Brickhouse Gallery, Sacramento, Maniac Manic Episode II
2010
Esso Gallery, “Bologna Art Fair” Bologna, Italy
Feature Gallery, “Power to the people”
Heido Cho Gallery, “As You Like It”
2009
Museum of Modern Art, NY, “Looking at Music” (performance video)
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, “Pictures Generation” (performance video)
Heidi Cho Gallery, New York, “Precious"
Esso Gallery, Torino, Italy
Spanierman Modern, New York, “Summer Selections”
Esso Gallery, “Bologna Art Fair” Bologna, Italy
Ingrid Dinter Fine Art, “How to Cook a Wolf”
2008
Spanierman Modern, New York, “Present Tense” curated by Don Chistensen & Mary Heilmann
2007
Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York, “Canal Street”
2006
Orange County Museum of Art, O.C. Cal. Curated by Mary Heilmann
2004
Van Brunt Gallery, New York, “Band of Abstraction” Curated by Joe Fyfe
138 Bayard Street, New York, “Compliment/Contrast”
2000
DNA Studios, New York, “Na’er Do Wells” Curated by Alfredo Martinez and Jacob Williams
Sharjah Arts Museum, U.A.E. “Millenium Show”
1999
Gale Gates et al. N.Y. “Size Matters”
Jeffrey Coploff Fine Art N.Y. “Selections”
Jorgensen Gallery, N.Y. “Chunk 3”
6th @Prince Gallery, N.Y. “A Room With a View”, curated by Mike Weiss
Postmasters Gallery, N.Y. “The War Show”
Jorgensen Gallery, N.Y. “Portrait Show”
Musee d’Art Contemporeain, Lyons, France “Collage Jukebox”
Jeffrey Koploff Fine Art, N.Y. “Little”
1997
Pat Hearn Gallery, N.Y. “Benefit for Pat Hearn”
1998
Kunsthauses, Bregenz Austria “Kunst in der Stadt” curated by Jerome Joy
N3 project Space, N.Y.C. “Six Painters”
1997
Up& Co. NYC “Supastore”
1995
Apex Art, N.Y. “Three Artists”, curated by Mary Heilman
U.S. Embassy, Ngoia, Japan, “ Benefit Show for Earthquake Victums”
1994
Rushmore Festival, Woodbury, New York, “Across the River and Into the Trees (A Sculpture Show)”, curated by Collins and Milazzo
Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, “About Color”, curated by Bill Carroll
Fawbush Gallery, New York, “Bomb Magazine Benefit”
Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA “What If Anything is An Object?” curated by Clive Dilnot
1992
White Columns, New York, “White Columns Benefit Show”
1991
Rempire Gallery, New York, “Invisible Body” curated by Alan Jones
Elysium Arts, New York, “The Tree”
Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta “Outside America-going into the 90’s”, curated by Collins and Milazzo
Arco Art Fair, Barcelona, Spain
1990
Marta Cervera Gallery, N.Y. “The Painter and His Occasion”, curated by Alan Jones
Scott Hanson Gallery, N.Y. “Token Gestures”, curated by Collins and Milazzo
Union College, New Jersey “Isotopy”
1988
ISO Corporation, New York, "Consonance”
Feature Gallery /Rezac Gallery, Chicago, IL “Information as Ornament”
University Gallery, Fine Arts Center, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
“Sixteen Cubes”, curated by Saul Ostrow
White Columns, New York, “White Columns Benefit”
1987
Galeria Fucares , Madrid “3x4: Ray Smith, Taro Suzuki, Donald Traver”, curated by Zaya
John Goode Gallery, New York, “Rigor”, curated by Stephen Westfall
Daniel Newburg Gallery, New York, “Art Against Aids”
Kunsthauses, Zurich “Art Cake”
Daniel Newburg Gallery, New York, “D’Ornamentation”
1986
Art and Industry, New York, “Illumination: The Art About the Future”
Piezo Electric, New York, “Physics”
Daniel Newburg Gallery, New York, “As Sculpture”
E.M. Donahue Gallery, New York, “Artists Choose Designer” in collaboration with Elizabeth Cannon
Mission Gallery, New York, “Light, Shadow, Optics”
American Fine Arts, New York
El Bohio, New York, “Indoor/Outdoor Sculpture
1985
Christminster Gallery, New York, “Auto/Genetic/Photopsia”
Kamikaze, New York, “Zero Gravity”
Sao Paulo Biennale, Brazil “Science Meets Fiction”
1984
Kamikaze, New York, “Light Moving”
Daniel Newburg Gallery, New York, “Halley, Schroder, Suzuki, Wasserman”
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, “Assemblages”
1983
Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA. “The Suspended Object”
Brooklyn Bridge Centennial Exhibition, sponsered by Creative Time “Art in The Anchorage”
Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York, “Light”
1983
John Weber Gallery, New York, “Science Fiction” curated by Peter Halley
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, “Dynamix”
ELAC, Lyons, France, “Energie-New York”
The Kitchen, New York, “ART OF THE STATE” (“Space Force” Installation)
Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, (Installation)
Hall Walls, Buffalo, New York, “Color, Light and Mass”
1983
The Mudd Club, New York, “Lower Manhatten Drawing Show”
Stefonotti Gallery, N.Y. “The First Energist Drawing Show”
Galerie Durban, Caracas, Venezuela, “Art For The Eighties”
La Grande Palais, Paris, “L’Amerique Aux Independents”
Stefanotti, New York
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, “Canal Street”
112 Greene Street, N.Y.” Group Indiscriminate
1982
Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, “Dynamix”
ELAC, Lyons, France, “Energie-New York”
The Kitchen, New York, “ART OF THE STATE” (“Space Force” Installation)
Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, (Installation)
1981
Hall Walls, Buffalo, New York, “Color, Light and Mass”
The Mudd Club, New York, “Lower Manhatten Drawing Show”
Stefonotti Gallery, New York, “The First Energist Drawing Show”
1980
Galerie Durban, Caracas, Venezuela, “Art For The Eighties”
Le Grande Palais, Paris, “L’Amerique Aux Independents”
Stefanotti Gallery, New York
1979
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, “Canal Street”
1977
112 Greene Street, New York, "Group Indiscriminate”
AWARDS, GRANTS, TEACHING POSITIONS
Fine Arts Professor, School of Visual Arts, 2010-2017
Pollock Krasner Grant, 2006
Pollock Krasner Grant, 1988
Professor, Sculpture Department, Rhode Island School of Design, Spring Semester, 1985
Visiting Artist, Rhode Island School of Design, Fall Semester, 1984
National Endowment For The Arts, Emerging Artist Grant: Sculpture, 1984
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2016
East Hampton Star, “Territory” review
Art In America Online, featured artist “Territory” review
Hamptons, featured artist “Territory”
Dan’s Papers, “Territory”
2008
Village Voice, Jul.2, R.C. Baker, “Best in Show” (review, “Present Tense”)
2007
New York Times, Nov. 16, Roberta Smith, “Canal Street” review
Artforum.com, Jul. 22, John Reed ‘Critic’s picks’ “Band of Abstraction”(review)
New York Sun, Jul. 22, David Cohen “Band of Abstraction” (review)
2000
New York Times, Aug. 4. Roberta Smith “Na’er do wells” (review)
1999
Art Forum, Glenn O'Brien, “Style Makes the Band” Oct.
Zing Magazine, “Seven Whys and the Snow Dwarf” Fall Issue
1997
Interior Design, “change, change, change” Sept.
1991
The Artist Project, Peter Bellamy
Bomb Magazine, Feature, Spring Issue
1990
Collins, Trisha & Milazzo, Richard “Finding the Loophole in Sisyphus’ Contract, essay for the solo exhibition at White Columns, New York
New Yorker Magazine, July 16 (review)
Jones, Alan, “The Painter and His Occasion”, catalogue for the exhibition at Marta Cervera Gallery, New York
Collins, Trisha & Milazzo, Richard “Token Gestures," catalogue for the exhibition at Scott Hanson Gallery, New York
1989
Arts Magazine, April pp. 17-18 (illustration) “Taro Suzuki”
Juliet Art Magazine, Feb.-Apr. pp.39-40
Juliet Art Magazine, Dec. –Jan. pp. 32&39 (profile)
1988
New York Times, Kimmelman, Michael, “Diversity of Lower Broadway Galleries”Jun. 3
Maginnis, Kevin & Robbins, David, “Information as Ornament”, catalogue for the exhibition at Feature/Rezac, Chicago
1987
Artscribe, Mahoney, Robert, “Rigor: John Goode Gallery” (review)
Arts Magazine, Sept. “Rigor: John Goode Gallery
Bushes Artfokus, Busche, Dr, Ernst, “Was ist der Stand der Kunst?”
Egger, Marc, “Art Cake”, exhibition catalogue, Kunsthauses, Zurich
El Pais, Huichi, Fernando, Jun. 9 (review)
Artforum, McCormick, Carlo., Sept. (review)
New York Times, Smith, Roberta, “Where to See the Newest Of the New American Art, May 1
Zaya, “3x4”, catalogue for the exhibition, at Galerie Fucares, Madrid, Spain
1986
Art in America, Westfall, Stephen, Oct, (review)
Architecture Magazine, Jones, Alan, Nov, “Taro Suzuki: The Pornography of Utopia”,
Arts Magazine, Lurie, David, April (review)
Paper, Smith, Kiki, March (review)
Interview Magazine, Balet, Marc and Robert Becker, “Assemblages," Nov.
1984
East Village Eye, Robinson, Walter, “Lumps of All Kinds," July
Arts Magazine, Cravin, David, “Science Fiction and the Future of Art”, May
1983
Flood, Richard, “Art In The Anchorage”, catalogue for the exhibition
Artforum, Liebman, Lisa, Nov. (review)
Village Voice, Levin, Kim, “Fireworks Under the Bridge," Aug 2
New York Times, Gluek, Grace, May 27 (review)
Soho Weekly News, Marzorati, Gerald, Jan. “Art Picks”
1982
Flash Art, Bue, Marie, May (review)