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Untitled from the Museum in Progress project Portraits of Artists
1994 · Lithograph, offset printed
sheet: 18 1/2 x 12 3/8" (47 x 31.5 cm)
Museum of Modern Art
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Vito Acconci
1940
InstallationContemporaryInstallation ArtPerformance Art
Representation
None documented
23
Institutional Exhibitions
82
Works in Collection
157
Assets Indexed
2
Authority-backed Facts
0
Publications Referenced
90%
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Movements
- • Contemporary
- • Installation Art
- • Performance Art
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Selected Institutional Exhibitions
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Video and Language
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1989
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Painters for the Theater
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1989
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Master Prints from the Collection
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1989
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Vito Acconci: Public Places
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1988
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Committed to Print
Museum of Modern Art, New York
1988
About
Why this artist matters now
Vito Acconci moved across performance, video, sculpture, and installation over a career defined by deliberate transgression and existential unease. His early body-based performances collapsed the boundaries between public and private, consensual and non-consensual, and art space and lived experience, often using his own body as both subject and instrument of provocation. That confrontational impulse carried into later architectural and landscape projects, where built environments became sites of discomfort and complicity rather than passive backdrop. His influence runs through the subsequent work of Laurie Anderson, Bruce Nauman, and Tracey Emin.
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Movement
Contemporary
Medium
Installation
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Artworks (82)
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In collection
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art
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Art Institute of Chicago
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Museum of Modern Art
New York, US
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Background
Education
College of the Holy Cross
Visual Arts
Regis High School
Visual Arts
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