Contemporary Arts Center
Lois & Richard Rosenthal Center
for Contemporary Art
44 E. 6th Street,
Cincinnati, OH 45202
513 345 8400
Artist Details
John Armleder was born in 1948 in Geneva, Switzerland. He graduated in 1967 from Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Geneva, Switzerland. He has been the subject of many solo and two-person exhibitions, including Nylistasafnik, The Living Arts Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland (1982); Works on Paper 1966-1992, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands (1992); Projects 72: John Armleder/Piotr Uklanski, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (2000); Quicksand, Dairy Art Centre, London, UK (2013); and Again, Just Again, Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, China (2021). Armleder has also participated in numerous group exhibitions, including Concept Art, Centro de Arte y Comunicación, Buenos Aires, Argentina (1975); More Songs about Buildings and Food, Centre d’Art Contemporain de Martigny, Martigny, Switzerland (1992); Collaborations with Parkett 1984 to Now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (2001); On the Subject of the Ready-Made or Using a Rembrandt as an Ironing Board, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany (2016); and Light Falls, Blanc Art Group, Beijing, China (2021). Armleder currently lives and works in Geneva, Switzerland.
Bio updated as of 2023.