INTERVIEW
2008
EXHIBITIONS
LOCATION
SHOW
1969
Stadtiches Museum
Leverkusen, Germany
Concept Art
Dwan Gallery
New York City, NY
Language III
Raytheon
Bedford, MA
Experiments in Art and Technology Show
Hayden Gallery
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
The Moon Show
Seattle Art Museum
Seattle, WA
557087
Vancouver Art Gallery
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
995000
Kunsthalle Berne
Berne, Switzerland
Art from Plans
University of British Columbia
Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Photo Show
Paula Cooper Gallery
New York City, NY
Group Show
Bennett College
Millbrook, NY
One Man Exhibition
1970
The Jewish Museum
New York City, NY
Software
Museum of Modern Art
New York City, NY
Information
N.Y. Academy of Sciences
New York City, NY
The Third Conference on Planetology and Space Mission Planning
Allen Memorial Art Museum
Oberlin College
Oberlin, OH
Art in the Mind
New York Cultural Center
New York City, NY
Conceptual Art and Conceptual Aspects
Stadtische Kunsthalle
Dusseldorf, Germany
Between 5
Addison Gallery of American Art
Andover, MA
“Art Ideas for the Year 4000”
Kunsthaus
Hamburg, Germany
Art from Plans
1971
Museum of Fine Arts
Boston, MA
Earth, Air, Fire, Water
Centro de Arte y Comunicacion
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Art Systems
Schuring Galerie
Krefeld, Germany
“Context Completion Ideas”
Galerie Lambert
Milan, Italy
Eight Proposals
Institute of Contemporary Art
London, England
Unlikely Photography
City of Salem
Salem, MA
Hello Day
City-wide Event
1972
SS Statendam
Steamliner
The Conference on the Total Environment and the Future of Civilization
Sonnabend Gallery
Paris, France
The Observer is Observed
Rutgers: The State University
New Brunswick, NJ
One Man Exhibition
Leeds University
Yorkshire, England
Document Exhibition
III Bienal
Medellin, Columbia
Art Systems
Tokiwa Gallery
Chuo-Ku, Japan
Kuni Masa Kuriyama
Star Exhibition
Summerthing
Boston, MA
Park Street Subway Station Sculpture
Centro de Arte y Comunicacion
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Art Systems II
1973
California Institute of the Arts
Valencia, CA
One Man Exhibition
Moore College of Art
Philadelphia, PA
Artists Books
Centro de Arte y Comunicacion
Buenos Aires, Argentin
“This Page Is”
Project Inc.
Cambridge, MA
One Man Exhibition
1974
Kunstverein
Cologne, Germany
Circuit: A Video Invitational
The Imaginary Space Research Center
Nagano-Ken, Japan
The World Uprising III
University of Maryland
Riverdale, MD
The Third Annual Conference of Interdisciplinary Aspects of Systems Theory
Carpenter Center
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
Short Circuit
Milton Academy
Milton, MA
One Man Exhibition
Addison Gallery of American Art
Andover, MA
Interactions with Landscape
Sonnabend Gallery
New York City, NY
Group Show
1975
Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Language and Structure in North America
WGBH-TV
Boston, MA
New Television Workshop
Visiting Artist
Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna
Ferrara, Italy
Calendar Alteration Project
“Observation Idea”
Long Beach Museum
Long Beach, CA
Video / Landscape
Centro de Arte y Comunicacion
Buenos Aires, Argentina
International Open Encounter on Video
Espace Pierre Cardin
Paris, France
Recontre Internationale
Ouverte de Video
Addison Gallery of American Art
Andover, MA
Lecture
Institute of Contemporary Art
Boston, MA
Video Week
1976
Whitney Museum of American Art
New York City, NY
Art <––> World
Galeria Labirynt
Lubin, Poland
“Everything - Nothing” Video
Massachusetts College of Art
Boston, MA
Faculty Exhibition
“Holly”
WGBH-TV
Boston, MA
New Television Workshop
Artist in Residence
Coevolution Quarterly
Sausalito, CA
“Evolution Completion Idea”
The Intelligencer:
San Francisco Regional Mensa Newsletter
“Evolution Completion Idea”
1977
Los Angeles Institute
of Contemporary Art
Artwords and Bookworks
WGBH-TV
Boston, MA
Artist’s Showcase
“Food Observation Idea”
Museo de Arte Contemporano
Caracas, Venezuela
International Open Encounter on Video
International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations
Bradford College
Bradford, MA
.
Institute of Contemporary Art
Chicago, IL
Words at Liberty
R. Mutt Galleries
Northridge, CA
The Great California Drought of ’77 Exhibition
Museu de Arte Contemporanea
Da Universidade de Sao Paulo
San Paulo, Brazil
Decada de 70
“Composition of Fruit”
Fundacio Joan Miro
Center d’Estudis d’Art Contemporani
Barcelona, Spain
International Open Encounter on Video
Fylkingen Foundation
Stockholm, Sweden
Video Arts Festival
1978
Museu de Arte Contemporanea
Universidade de Sao Paulo
Sao Paulo, Brazil
Decada de 70
California Institute of the Arts
Valencia, CA
Visiting Artist
Thomas Lewellen Gallery
Los Angeles, CA
One Man Show of Video
Helen Schlein Gallery
Boston, MA
Narrator in Harris Barron’s Einstein’s Vanishing Point
Minneapolis College of Art and Design
Minneapolis, MN
Notebook Excerpts Video
Institute of Contemporary Art
Boston, MA
Artist's Store
“Time Exchange #2”
International Open Encounter on Video
Tokyo, Japan
.
Atlantic Gallery
Boston, MA
Huebler / Burgy
Two Man Show
WBAI Radio
New York City, NY
Sound Art
“Notebook Excerpts”
WGBH
Boston, MA
Artist’s Showcase
“Contexts”
“One-Many”
Addison Gallery of American Art
Andover, MA
“Art of the Future”
Performance
Artist’s Space
New York City, NY
Audio Works
1979
Franklin Furnace
New York City, NY
“The Observer is the Observed”
University of Colorado
Boulder, CO
Traveling Correspondence Art Show
Boston Film and Video Foundation
Boston, MA
WGBH Retrospective
Tyler School of Art
Philadelphia, PA
Mail Etc. Art
Digital Equipment Corporation
Maynard, MA
Visiting Artist
1980
Music America Program
WGBH Radio
Boston, MA
Name Idea #3
Il Centro Documentazione
Arti Visive / Archivio
Castel San Giorgio, Italy
Mail Art Exhibition
“Prepared Paper for Future Artists”
The Next Whole Earth Catalog
“Evolution Completion Idea”
Helen Schlein Gallery
Boston, MA
Performance
Galleria Images 70
Padova, Italy
The Mythical Image
“Giotto” Audio Recording
Art Access / Networking
Bath, England
Teleconferencing Network Project
The International Mail Operation
Milan, Italy
.
Readers Digestible #2
Artniks Press
Providence, RI
My Artist’s Manifesto
American Video in the 70’s
DeCordova Museum
Lincoln, MA
“Contexts”
“Food Observation Idea”
Lower Cape Arts and Humanities Council
Provincetown Art Association
Provincetown, MA
Fall Arts Festival 1980
Studio for Interrelated Media
Massachusetts College of Art
Boston, MA
“Conversation”
The First International Mail Art
Badge, Patch and Button Show
Forte Dei Marmi, Italy
“Gallaxy”
The International Center of the Future
Arc et Senans, France
“The Farther Light Travels...”
1981
DeCordova Museum
Lincoln, MA
Big Video
La Galleria Apollinaire
Milano, Italy
Mail Art:
The Mythical Image
Centre de Documentacio
D’Art Actual
Barcelona, Spain
Llibres d’Artista
“This Page Is”
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
Sky Art Conference
“Context Completion Ideas”
Lesley College
Cambridge, MA
Colloquium on the Expressive Therapies
Grove Street Gallery
Worcester, MA
Rubber Stamp and Mail Art
Boston Film and Video Foundation
Boston, MA
First Night
“Food Observation Idea”
Boston Center for the Arts
Boston, MA
Vernal Equinox Celebration
Creative Arts Center
Wright State University
Dayton, OH
Agreements
1982
Post Office Square Park
Post Office Square
Boston, MA
Sculpture and Park Redesign
City-Life, Boston
Mason Gross School of the Arts
Rutgers: The State University
New Brunswick, NJ
Rutgers MFA
20th Anniversary Exhibition
New Jersey State Museum
Trenton, NJ
Rutgers MFA
20th Anniversary Exhibition
Assembling Press
Brooklyn, NY
Eleventh Assembling
Universita Di Pavia
Collegio Cairoli
Pavia, Italy
Mail Art: The Mythical Image
San Vito Dei Normanni
Palazzo Comunale
Provincia Di Brindisi, Italy
Mail Art
1983
Van Buren, Brazelton, Cutting Gallery
Cambridge, MA
Antique Store of the 20th Century
“20th Century Art Cards”
Children’s Museum
Boston, MA
Vernal Equinox Celebration
International Impact Art Festival ’83
Kyoto City Museum
Kyoto, Japan
.
National Contemporary Art Museum
Seoul, Korea
.
C.A.G.E. Gallery
Boston, MA
“History”
First Night
Hynes Auditorium
Boston, MA
Disasters Video
1984
Latin American Literary Review Press
Pittsburgh, PA
Brujas y Algo Mas
By Margorie Agosin
Book Cover Design
Metropolitan Artists and Poets
Assembly Press
Boston, MA
Book and Lecture
1985
International Impact Art Festival ’85
Kyoto International Art Center
Kyoto, Japan
.
1986
Boston College Art Gallery
Boston College
Newton, MA
Artwords and Bookworks
Stadt Museum
Linz, Austria
Imagining Antarctica
“Imagining Future Antarcticas”
Carpenter Center
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
Portraits: Research Fellowship Report
Center for Advanced Visual Studies
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
Sky Art
“The Large Scale Structure of Space”
Studio for Interrelated Media
Massachusetts College of Art
Boston, MA
The Origins of Art
Lecture to benefit Eventworks
Assembling 12
Brooklyn, NY
“The Base of the Portland Vase”
1987
Museum of Modern Art
Paris, France
Sky Art
International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations Conference
Ohio University
Athens, OH
“Storyknives” Lecture
International Impact Art Festival ’87
Kyoto, Japan
“Cascades”
Ethical Culture Society
New York City, NY
Synthesis: Art, Science and Philosophy in a Planetary Culture
“The Aether”
Reflux
New York City, NY
The Search for Accidental Significance for Brian Buczak
“Cascades”
Mobius Artists Space
Boston, MA
Science Projects
“Helen and the Portland Vase”
Massachusetts College of Art
Boston, MA
Artists' Book Symposium and Book Show
“Art Ideas for the Year 4000”
1988
International Impact Art Festival ’88
Kyoto, Japan
Map and Chronology of Earliest Human Images
Massachusetts College of Art
Boston, MA
The Big SIM Show
“Gravitation and Acceleration”
1989
Alternative Museum
New York City, NY
The Theater of the Object
Herning Kunstmuseum
Herning, Denmark
KEGLE, KVAERN, LYS
Massachusetts College of Art
Boston, MA
The Paleoshow
1990
Mobius Artists Space
Boston, MA
Art Rages
The Alchemic Gallery
Boston, MA
Read the Sky for Signs of Snow
“20th Century Art Cards”
Massachusetts College of Art
Boston, MA
“Helen Burgy”
Video and Performance
Mobius Artists Space
Boston, MA
Art Rages: 13th Birthday
“Three Kisses”
Massachusetts College of Art
Boston, MA
Mass Miracle
“Light”
1991
Digital Equipment Corporation
Bedford, MA
Artist in Residence
Center for Advanced Visual Studies
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
Art Transition
Mobius Artists Space
Boston, MA
Art Rages Again
“Down on the Street” Performance
U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Waltham, MA
Currituck Video Narration
1992
Tozzer Library
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
Reading of Integration of Vision
Carnegie Mellon University
Pittsburgh, PA
Paleolithic Art
Lecture
1993
Habitat Institute for the Environment
Belmont, MA
Nature and Inquiry Performance:
Human Figurines of the Paleolithic
Carpenter Center
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
Arthur Loeb 70th Birthday Celebration
Abuse Magazine #3
Allston, MA
Remembering “Flash”
1994
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
Cambridge, MA
Nature and Inquiry Performance:
Human Figurines of the Paleolithic
Impulse Dance
Boston, MA
Voice Over
Anthology Film Archives
New York City, NY
World’s First Digital Arts Festival
Bristol Art Museum
Bristol, RI
Let There Be Light
Massachusetts College of Art
Boston, MA
Faculty Show
“20th Century Art Cards”
Armenian International Women’s Association Conference
Church House Westminster
London, England
Documentary Video
1995
Fricke Gallery
Dusseldorf, Germany
The Context of Art
The Art of Context
Tufts University Art Gallery
Medford, MA
In Light of Our Reflection
“Reflecting Together on the Earliest Human Images”
1996
Kunst & Museum Journal
Amsterdam, Netherlands
The Context of Art / The Art of Context
Artist’s Statement
Art Press Numero 17, 1996
Paris, France
Documentation of Mental and Physical Characteristics of Donald Burgy
Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Boston, MA
The 1996 Conference on Human Evolution, Extraterrestrials, and the Arts
Lectures:
• Did Extraterrestrials Visit Earth During the Last Ice Age?
• Is Faster Than Light Speed Communication Across the Galaxy Possible?
Mobius Artists Space
Boston, MA
“Three Toasts” Performance
1997
Concord Lafayette Hotel
Paris, France
Armenian International Women’s Association
Conference Video
Higgins Art Gallery
Cape Cod Community College
West Barnstable, MA
Art of Correspondences
1998
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Boston, MA
Somakatoligon: Art and Mind Physics Symposium
Syracuse University Press
Syracuse, NY
“Scattered Like Seeds”
Book by Shaw Dallal
Book Jacket Design by Donald Burgy and Biz Stone
1999
Institute of Contemporary Art
Boston, MA
Friezes
Lecture/Performance
2000
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
Information and Visual Language Lecture
Abbott Memorial Theater
Waltham, MA
Voice Over
“How I Learned to Drive”
A Play by Paulo Vogel
Harvard University
Cambridge, MA
Creative New Media and the World Wide Web Symposium
Information and Visual Language Lecture
First Night International
14th Annual Conference
Weston Hotel
Boston, MA
Founders Panel
Statement and Event
Massachusetts College of Art
Boston, MA
Art and Science
“Connection Idea”
2001
List Arts Center
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Cambridge, MA
Five Ideas
Live Event, Website and Mailings
Three Abreast Sitcom
World Wide Web
Performance of Character: “Mr. Gerrity”
The International Society for the Comparative Study of Civilizations
Rutgers University
Newark, NJ
“The Foresight of 25 Francis Road”
Hendricks Farm
Cape Breton Island, Canada
Geoffrey Hendricks’ 70th Birthday
“Prepositions”
2002
Camden Arts Center
London, England
Statement About Douglas Huebler’s Basketball Piece
Variable Piece #46, 1971
Empty Set Gallery
Pittsfield, MA
The Paper Show: Five Drawings
“The Three, The Tree, and The Well”
2003
Comparative Civilizations Review
No. 48, Spring 2003
Review of Paper:
Nikolai Roerich: East Meets West in a Landscape Painter
Copley Society Gallery
Boston, MA
The Cyber Arts Festival
“Invisible Ideas” Series
Collaboration with Nature and Inquiry
“Vision Beyond the Horizon”
A Walk Down Commonwealth Avenue
PDA/GPS Event/Website
Mobius Artists Space
Boston, MA
Mobius 25
“A Collection of Images to Consider a Question”
Performance and Drawing Collection Hand-out
University of Massachusetts
Boston, MA
“Vision Beyond the Horizon”
Lecture
Smart Worlds
Cambridge, MA
Voice Over for Promo Video
Smith College
Northampton, MA
Review of Course for Commonwealth:
“Teaching of Art”
Cathy Topal, Instructor
2004
Art Interactive
Cambridge, MA
Participatory Democracy
Narrator/Host Video
Comparative Civilizations Review
No. 51, Fall 2004
Article:
“Reading Europe’s Paleolithic Writing”
2005
Empty Set Gallery
Pittsfield, MA
The Paper Show 2: Connection Idea
Comparative Civilizations Review
No. 53, Fall 2005
Article:
“Reading Europe’s Paleolithic Writing”
2006
Ravi Jain
Internet Blog
Drive Time
Played Role of “Dr. B”
Axiom Gallery
Cambridge, MA
Symbiosis
“Reading Homo Erectus Engraving”
Massachusetts College of Art
Boston, MA
Harris Barron Birthday T-shirt/Invitation:
Available online prior to the event so participants could wear T-shirt to the event
2007
Comparative Civilizations Review
No. 56, Spring 2007
Article:
“Reading Europe’s Paleolithic Writing”
The Getty Research Institute
Los Angeles, CA
“Sound Drawings”
Douglas Huebler and Donald Burgy
Sound Recording for Internet Radio
Editions Mix, Publisher
Paris, France
Art Conceptuel:
Une Entologie de la Litterature
11 pieces published from “Art Ideas for the Year 4000”
Book by Donald Burgy
2008
Axiom Gallery
Boston, MA
Collision 13 Exhibit Critic
Commission by Dr. W. Michael Bryant
Sarasota, FL
Watercolor:
“The Fires of Aurignacia 32,000 Years B.C.”
Sainsbury Center for the Visual Arts
University of East Anglia
Norwich, England
“On Location”
Order Idea, Rock #5
2010
Comparative Civilizations Review
No. 62, Spring 2010
Article:
“A Symbol in the Ceiling Mural in the Cave of Altamira”
artscience.org
“Orders of Magnitude”
2011
GLIMPSE Issue #7, Text
glimpsejournal.com
Article:
“Reading Europe’s Paleolithic Writing”
Provincetown Conservation Trust
Provincetown, MA
Appearances:
Provincetown Green Arts Festival
artscience.org
“A Pair of Connected Galaxies”
saint-lucy.com (view)
“Death Blowing Bubbles”
2012
Churner & Churner
New York City, NY
“Project Inc., Revisited”
2013
Hunter College Art Galleries
New York City, NY
“Open Work in Latin America, New York & Beyond: Conceptualism Reconsidered, 1967-1978”
Eco-Arts Festival
Provincetown, MA
Appearances 2013
Democracy Center
Cambridge, MA
Evolver - HiveMind
Museum of Science
Boston, MA
Lecture
Brian George Salon
Roxbury, MA
.
2014
Centre de Culture Contemporaine
Montpellier, France
“Last News From the Ether”
Eco-Arts Festival
Provincetown, MA
Appearances 2014
Brian George Salon
Roxbury, MA
.
Les Presses du réel (Livre)
Paris, France
“Une Traduction d’une Langue en une Autre”
by Sébastien Pluot
2015
Eco-Arts Festival
Provincetown, MA
Appearances 2015
Brian George Salon
Roxbury, MA
Lecture
Noguchi Museum
Long Island City, NY
“Museum of Stones”
The Art Guys
Houston, TX
“Please Disbelieve”
Performance
Aporeia
Arnhem, Netherlands
“Name Idea #1”
2016
Eco-Arts Festival
Provincetown, MA
Appearances 2016
“Biophoton Space”
Brian George Salon
Roxbury, MA
Invisible Art
Kim Priels Gallery
Waregem, Belgium
Selection of Burgy’s Books
Emily Harvey Foundation
New York City, NY
Book: A Translation From One Language to Another
Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Boston, MA
“Ekthrasis”
Massachusetts College of Art and Design
Morton R. Godine Library
Boston, MA
A Tribute to the Work of Donald Burgy
(Retrospective)
2018
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Boston, MA
Invisible Art
2019
Getty Research Institute
Los Angeles, CA
1. This Page Exists...
Small Book
2. Context Contemplation Ideas
Small Book
3. Art Ideas for the Year 4000
Small Book
4. The Observer is the Observed
20 Photographs and Statements
2020
National Gallery of Art
Warsaw, Poland
Early Video Art (1965 - 1976)
2022
FarO (view)
Lisbon, Portugal
“Food Observation Idea”
Video Screening