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ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS

2023

Laurel Nakadate: The Kingdom, Lesley Art + Design, Cambridge, Mass.

Laurel Nakadate: Ten Performances from “365 Days: A Catalogue of Tears”
Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill

2022

Laurel Nakadate: Mother Line, Tephra ICA, Reston, Virginia

2021

Laurel Nakadate 365 Days: A Catalogue of Tears, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Bowdoin, Maine

2018

Laurel Nakadate: The Kingdom, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

Laurel Nakadate, Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin

2015

Laurel Nakadate: Strangers and Relations, Des Moines Art Center, Iowa

2014

Strangers and Relations, The University Art Gallery, University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee

Strangers and Relations, The ART MUSEUM at the University of Kentucky

2013

Strangers and Relations, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

Laurel Nakadate: Photographs, Videos & Performances, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center

2012

Laurel Nakadate: Polaroids from “Stay the Same never Change,” Art Academy of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio

Laurel Nakadate: Photographs, Videos & Performances, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center

2011

Laurel Nakadate: Say You Love Me, Carpenter Center for the Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Laurel Nakadate, The Zabludowicz Collection, London

Laurel Nakadate, Galerie Anita Beckers, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

365 Days: A Catalogue of Tears, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

Laurel Nakadate: Only the Lonely, MOMA PS 1, Long Island City, N.Y.

2010

Some Recent Fever Dream, Chalk Horse, Sydney, Australia

2009

Fever Dreams at the Crystal Motel, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

2008

Pleasure Dome, Toronto

Stay the Same Never Change, Grand Arts, Kansas City, Missouri

2007

Chalk Horse, Sydney, Australia

2006

A Message to Pretty, Danziger Projects, New York

Trouble Ahead, Trouble Behind, Adamson Gallery, Washington, D.C.

2005

Love Hotel and Other Stories, Danziger Projects, New York

2004

Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno—CAAM, Las Palmas, Canary Islands

2002

We Are All Made of Stars, Daniel Silverstein Gallery, New York


GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024

Cowboy, Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas

See and Be Seen II, Praise Shadows Art Gallery, Brookline, Mass.

2023

Cowboy, Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver

Life Cycles, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago

Vidéothèque, Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin

2022

Images Unbound, Des Moines Art Center

MOTHER, Mason Exhibitions, Arlington, Virginia

Mama Mia, J. F. Willumsens Museum, Frederikssund, Denmark

Where Words Falter: Art and Empathy, Tang Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

Pop Stars! Popular Culture and Contemporary Art, 21c Museum Hotel, Chicago

2021

Car Shows Near Me, Rumpelstiltskin, Brooklyn, N.Y.

Fiction? Better than Reality!, Villa Merkel, Esslingen, Germany

Horses?, Chart Gallery, New York

A glitter of seas, Dreamsong, Minneapolis

2020

HOW TO HUMAN: Ten Years of Galerie Tanja Wagner, Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin

Never Done: 100 Years of Women in Politics and Beyond, Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

Labor: Motherhood & Art, New Mexico State University Art Museum, Las Cruces

2019

Rust & Bones, Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin

2018

Wide Angle: Photography Out of Bounds, Alice F. and Harris K. Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio

MOTHER, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

Downstage from Meatyard, University of Kentucky Art Museum

Sit-In, September Gallery, Hudson, NY

In(di)visible, Station Museum of Contemporary Art, Houston

2017

Learning From Big Mistakes, Galerie Tanja Wagner at 53 Orchard Street, New York

Pop Stars! Popular Culture and Contemporary Art, 21C Museum, Louisville, Kentucky

The (Partial) Autobiography of an Art Gallery, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + ProjectsStreet, New York

Dizziness: Navigating the Unknown, CCA Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland

Affecting Images: Photography’s Pursuit of Intimacy, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, N.Y.

Navigating the Unknown: Elastic Actions in a Dizzying World, Kunsthaus Graz, Space 02, Austria

2016

Blue Jean Baby, SEPTEMBER, Hudson, N.Y.

Public, Private, Secret, International Center of Photography, New York

Land/Sky: Temporal Concepts, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

2015

Self-Timer Stories, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León (MUSAC), Spain

Partial Presence, The Zabludowicz Collection, London

Hamster Hipster Handy, Museum Angewandte Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany

 

2014

Sitebound: Photography from the Collection, The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C

Self-Timer Stories, Austrian Cultural Forum, New York; Museum der Moderne, Rupertinum, Salzburg, Austria

SKIT, curated by Tisch Abelow, The Hole, New York

Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950, Kunsthaus Graz, Austria

Wrong’s What I Do Best, Walter and McBean Galleries, San Francisco Art Institute

Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950, MUDAM Luxembourg

Cast, Philadelphia Photo Arts Center, Philadelphia

Imprints, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

2013

Dis-semblance: Perceiving and Projecting Identity Today, 21c Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio

War Baby/Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago

In the Heart of the Country, Muzeum sztuki nowoczesnej, Warsaw, Poland

Double Indemnity, Cornerhouse, Manchester, United Kingdom

Damage Control: Art and Destruction Since 1950, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.

Day After Day: The Diaristic Impulse, University Art Museum, SUNY Albany, New York

More Love: Art, Politics and Sharing since the 1990s, Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, Nashville, Tennessee

2012

Next Generation: Contemporary American Photography, Pasinger Fabrik, Munich, Germany

On Sincerity, 808 Gallery, Boston University, Boston

Daegu Photo Biennale, South Korea

Privat, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, Germany

Summer Camps: Rêverie américaines sur l'adolescence, Suzanne Tarasieve, Paris

The Virgins Show, Family Business, New York

Kinomuzeum, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw, Poland

Out of Focus: Photography, The Saatchi Gallery, London

Desire, KODE Kunstmuseene, Bergen, Norway

In Character: Artists' Role Play in Photography and Video, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Massachusetts

Campaign, C24 Gallery, New York

2011

Staging Action: Performance in Photography Since 1960, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Inner Piece: Works from the Collection of Heather and Tony Podesta, American University Art Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C.

Images from a Floating World: 19th-Century Erotic Prints and the Echo in Modern and Contemporary Art,

Fredericks & Freiser Gallery, New York

Nothing in the World But You, Turner Contemporary, Margate, Kent, UK

International Incheon Women Artist's Biennale, Incheon, South Korea

Sex Drive, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center

She Devil 5, MACRO, Rome, Italy

Involuntary, Ford Projects, New York

Alice in Wonderland, Turku 2011, Turku, Finland

 

2010

Seks Is Mer, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands

Love Sick, Stills Gallery, Paddington NSW, in association with the Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Arts Centre,

Gymea NSW, Australia

Back to New York, HP Garcia Gallery, New York

Desire, The Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texan, Austin

Group Show, Luis de Jesus, Los Angeles

Saccharine, Grimm Museum, Berlin

She: In Her Teens and Twenties, University Art Gallery, San Diego State University

Day & Night, The Copenhagen Photo Festival

Medianation: Performing for the Screen, FotoFest 2010 Biennial, Houston

Out of the Woods, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

Art Star, Galerie SAW, Ottowa, Canada

2009

100 Years, P.S.1/MoMA Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, N.Y.

and the Julia Stoschek Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany

Endurance: Daring Feats of Risk, Survival and Perseverence, Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, Penn.

"Now That I'm By Myself," she says, "I'm Not By Myself," DiverseWorks, Houston, Texas

55th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany

KunstFilmBiennale, Kunst-Werke, Berlin; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Museo Nacional

Reina Sofía, Madrid

Pictures: Tracey Baran, Nikki S. Lee, Laurel Nakadate, & Kunié Sugiura, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York

Invisible Adversaries, Northern Gallery for Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK

2008

As Others See Us, Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, Brattleboro, Vermont

One Way or Another, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii

The Way That We Rhyme: Women, Art & Politics, Yerba Buena, San Francisco

One Way or Another, Japanese American National Museum, Los Angeles

Weight of the World, Reed Gallery, Cincinnati

Chalk Reindeer 2008, Chalk Horse, Sydney, Australia

2007

Americans in New York, Gallery Michel Rein, Paris

Keeping up with the Joneses, Schroeder Romero Gallery, New York

KunstFilmBiennale, Cologne

One Way or Another, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California

Weather Report, Centro Atlántico de Arte Moderno – CAAM, Las Palmas, Canary Islands

This Is My Country, Seminal Projects, San Diegov

Dallas Video Festival, Dallas, Texas

The End is Nigh, Higher Pictures, New Yor

Identity Thieves, Gallery 4a, Asia-Australia Arts Centre, Sydney

50,000 Beds, The Aldrich Museum Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut

Idiot Joy Showland, IFC Film Center, New York

Fung Wah, Howard Yezerski Gallery, Boston

A Night at the Museum, Museo Nacional Reina Sofía, Madrid

M*A*S*H, The Helena, New York

One Way or Another, Blaffer Gallery, The Art Museum of the University of Houston

2006

Heartbreaker, Mary Boone Gallery, New York

Haunted States, Grand Arts, Kansas City, Missouri

KunstFilmBiennale, Kunst-Werke, Berlin

Video And Performance, Okay Mountain, Austin, Texas

One Way or Another – Asian American Art now, Asia Society, New York

Reckless Behavior, The Getty Center, Los Angeles

Tokyo National University of Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan

2005

Dead of Winter, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, N.Y.

Oh Boy, New Center for Contemporary Art, Louisville, Kentucky

I Was Only Acting, Museo Nacional Reina Sofía, Madrid

Greater New York, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, N.Y.

Nine Portraits, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco

Vicious, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco

KunstFilm Biennale, Cologne, Germany

Art Review: 25 – 25 Best Emerging Artists, Phillips, De Pury and Co, New York

2004

Get Off, Museum of Sex, New York

2003

Towards a Low-End Theory, Minnesota Center for Photography, Minneapolis

Fresh Blood, Center for Experimental Photography, Buffalo, N.Y.

25 Under 25, Center for Documentary Studies, Duke University, Chapel Hill, N.C.

2002

Enough About Me, Momenta, Brooklyn, N.Y.

Holiday Shopping, Wallspace Gallery, New York

 
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, N.C.

Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, Maine

DePaul Art Museum, Chicago

Krannert Art Museum, Urbana-Champagne, Ill.

Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, N.Y.

Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami

Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago

Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art, Eugene, Ore.

Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Ill.

Vero Beach Museum of Art, Fla.

Mint Museum, Charlotte, N.C.

21c Museum, Louisville, Kentucky

Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts

The Art Museum at the University of Kentucky, Lexington

CCS Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, N.Y.

Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio

Des Moines Art Center

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.

Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)

The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Muzeum sztuki nowoczesnej, Warsaw, Poland

Nasher Museum of Art, Durham, N.C.

Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, N.J.

Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, N.Y.

University Art Gallery, University of the South, Sewanee, Tenn.

Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, N.C.

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn.

The Zabludowicz Art Trust, London

 
SELECTED FILM SCREENINGS

2023

The Wolf Knife, Roxy Cinema, New York

 

2013

An Open Confession, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, N.Y.

Grrls on Girls, Nighthawk Cinema, Brooklyn, N.Y.

2011

Three Performances in Search of Tennessee, in collaboration with James Franco, Performa 11

Abrons Art Center, New York

Institute of Contemporary Art, London

Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge

Modern Monday, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

San Francisco Film Society, Roxie Theater, San Francisco

 

2010

Gotham Awards, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Philadelphia Film Festival, Philadelphia

Pleasure Dome, Toronto, Canada

The Museum of Modern Art: Recent Film Acquisitions: Continuum 2, New York

Los Angeles Film Festival, Los Angeles

Chicago Underground Film Festival, Chicago (prize for Best Narrative Feature)

The Danish Film Institute, Cinemateque, Copenhagen, Denmark

Civil Disobedience, White Box Gallery, New York

The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

Fotofest, Houston

University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisconsin

University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee

175/Zabludowicz Art Collection, London

Sewanee Conference on Women, University of the South, Sewanee, Tennessee

Art, Image and Exploitation (conference), Talinn, Estonia

Pleasure Dome, Toronto

 

2009

Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah

New Directors/New Films, The Museum of Modern Art & The Film Society of Lincoln Center,

New York

San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco

Rooftop Films 2009 Independent Film Festival, Brooklyn, N.Y.

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Leeds International Film Festival, Leeds, UK

New Directions in Documentary Film Conference, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts

 
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Blanch, Andrea. “Museé Talks to Laurel Nakadate,” Museé Magazine, May 7, 2013

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Chang, Alexandra. “Stay the Same Never Change,” ArtKrush, March 5, 2008

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