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Willoughby Sharp was an internationally known artist, independent curator, independent publisher, gallerist, teacher, author, and telecom activist. In 1968, Sharp co-founded Avalanche magazine (in publication from 1970-1976) with writer/filmmaker Liza Béar. He wrote several essays for the magazine and published interviews he and Béar conducted with contemporary artists such as Vito Acconci

Vito Acconci

Vito Hannibal Acconci is a Bronx, New York-born, Brooklyn-based designer, landscape architect, performance and installation artist.-Education:...

, Dennis Oppenheim, William Wegman

William Wegman

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, and Yvonne Rainer

Yvonne Rainer

Yvonne Rainer is an American dancer, choreographer and filmmaker, whose work in these disciplines is frequently challenging and experimental. Her work is classified as minimalist art.- Early life :...

Biography

Born in New York City

New York City

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, Sharp studied art history at Brown University and graduated with a BA in 1957. He undertook graduate study in art history at the University of Paris

University of Paris

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, the University of Lausanne

University of Lausanne

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, and Columbia University

Columbia University

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. Sharp began his media work in 1967 by shooting a small number of films in 8mm

8 mm film

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, Super 8mm, and 16mm including “Earth

Earth

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,” (1968, Collection: Museum of Fine Arts

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

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, Boston

Boston

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) and “Place & Process,” (1969, Collection: MoMA

Moma

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, New York). After these films, he started producing a prodigious body of video works in 1/2, 3/4 and 1-inch tape. These works included video sculpture, video installations, “Videoviews,” (1970–1974), Videoperformances (1973–1977), cable television programs (1985–1986), and broadcast TV programs (2001-).

In February 1969, at the invitation of Hans Haacke

Hans Haacke

Hans Haacke is a German-American artist who lives and works in New York.- Early life :Haacke was born in Cologne, Germany. He studied at the Staatliche Werkakademie in Kassel, Germany, from 1956 to 1960. He was a student of Stanley William Hayter, a well-known and influential English printmaker,...

, he presented a three-part video installation, “Earthscopes,” at Cooper Union

Cooper Union

The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, commonly referred to simply as Cooper Union, is a privately funded college in the East Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City, United States, located at Cooper Square and Astor Place...

, N.Y., which included the only showing of a video catalogue of the historic “Earth Art” exhibition that he had curated at the Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Cornell University

Cornell University

Cornell University is an Ivy League university located in Ithaca, New York, United States. It is a private land-grant university, receiving annual funding from the State of New York for certain educational missions...

, Ithaca

Ithaca

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, New York

New York

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. In March 1969, Sharp created “Einstein’s Eye,” a closed-circuit b/w video sculpture exhibited at the Richard L. Feigen Gallery in Soho

Soho

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, N.Y.

The following year, Sharp’s film “Place and Process” was included in MoMA

Moma

’s “INFORMATION” exhibition curated by Kynaston McShine. Also in 1970, Sharp curated “Body Works,” an exhibition of Video art

Video art

Video art is a type of art which relies on moving pictures and comprises video and/or audio data. . Video art came into existence during the 1960s and 1970s, is still widely practiced and has given rise to the widespread use of video installations...

with works by Vito Acconci

Vito Acconci

Vito Hannibal Acconci is a Bronx, New York-born, Brooklyn-based designer, landscape architect, performance and installation artist.-Education:...

, Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman is a contemporary American artist. His practice spans a broad range of media including sculpture, photography, neon, video, drawing, printmaking, and performance. Nauman lives in Galisteo, New Mexico....

, Terry Fox

Terry Fox

Terrance Stanley "Terry" Fox , was a Canadian humanitarian, athlete, and cancer research activist. In 1980, with one leg having been amputated, he embarked on a cross-Canada run to raise money and awareness for cancer research...

, Keith Sonnier

Keith Sonnier

Keith Sonnier is a Postminimalist, performance, video and light artist. Sonnier was one of the first artists to use light in sculpture in the 1960s, and has been one of the most successful with this technique...

, Dennis Oppenheim and William Wegman

William Wegman (photographer)

William Wegman is an artist best known for creating series of compositions involving dogs, primarily his own Weimaraners in various costumes and poses.-Life and career:...

which was presented at Tom Marioni's Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco, California

California

California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...

.

At the San Jose State TV studios in 1970, Sharp began the “Videoviews” series of videotaped dialogues with artists which he continued after he bought one of the first Sony

Sony

, commonly referred to as Sony, is a Japanese multinational conglomerate corporation headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan and the world's fifth largest media conglomerate measured by revenues....

3400 Porta-Pac video recording systems in 1972. The “Videoviews” series consists of Sharp's dialogues with Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman

(1970), Joseph Beuys

Joseph Beuys

Joseph Beuys was a German performance artist, sculptor, installation artist, graphic artist, art theorist and pedagogue of art.His extensive work is grounded in concepts of humanism, social philosophy and anthroposophy; it culminates in his "extended definition of art" and the idea of social...

(1972), Vito Acconci

Vito Acconci

Vito Hannibal Acconci is a Bronx, New York-born, Brooklyn-based designer, landscape architect, performance and installation artist.-Education:...

(1973), Chris Burden

Chris Burden

Christopher "Chris" Burden is an American artist working in performance, sculpture, and installation art.-Education:Burden studied for his B.A...

(1973), Lowell Darling (1974), and Dennis Oppenheim (1974). More recently, working with ARTENGINE, N.Y., a collaborative video production/post-production company in partnership with Duff Schweninger, Mr. Sharp has produced an ongoing series of 30-minute documentary programs on Dennis Oppenheim (2001), Keith Sonnier

Keith Sonnier

(2002), Earle Brown

Earle Brown

Earle Brown was an American composer who established his own formal and notational systems...

(2002), and Morton Subotnick

Morton Subotnick

Morton Subotnick is an American composer of electronic music, best known for his Silver Apples of the Moon, the first electronic work commissioned by a record company, Nonesuch...

(2003).

In 1976, under an NEA grant to Center for New Art Activities, Inc., he co-produced [with Liza Bear] “Five Video Pioneers: Vito Acconci

Vito Acconci

Vito Hannibal Acconci is a Bronx, New York-born, Brooklyn-based designer, landscape architect, performance and installation artist.-Education:...

, Richard Serra

Richard Serra

Richard Serra is an American minimalist sculptor and video artist known for working with large-scale assemblies of sheet metal. Serra was involved in the Process Art Movement.-Early life and education:...

, Willoughby Sharp, Keith Sonnier

Keith Sonnier

, William Wegman

William Wegman (photographer)

William Wegman is an artist best known for creating series of compositions involving dogs, primarily his own Weimaraners in various costumes and poses.-Life and career:...

(Collection: MoMA

Moma

, N.Y.). That year he also represented the United States

United States

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in the Venice Biennale

Venice Biennale

The Venice Biennale is a major contemporary art exhibition that takes place once every two years in Venice, Italy. The Venice Film Festival is part of it. So too is the Venice Biennale of Architecture, which is held in even years...

.

Shortly afterward, Sharp started to produce a series of international, multi-casting, pre-Internet projects which simultaneously interlaced information from computers, telefax, In September 1977, he participated in Send/Receive Satellite Network: Phase II, co-produced and directed by Keith Sonnier

Keith Sonnier

and Liza Bear in collaboration with a group of San Francisco and New York

New York

artists; this was the first trans-continental interactivesatellite

Satellite

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work made by artists. His participation in Send/Receive in part led to Sharp’s current preoccupation with global collaborative work through a series of interactive telecommunications and streaming transmissions. This ongoing series of projects honors the accomplishments of electrical geniuses Guglielmo Marconi

Guglielmo Marconi

Guglielmo Marconi was an Italian inventor, known as the father of long distance radio transmission and for his development of Marconi's law and a radio telegraph system. Marconi is often credited as the inventor of radio, and indeed he shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand...

(1981), Heinrich Hertz (1986) and Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla

Nikola Tesla was a Serbian-American inventor, mechanical engineer, and electrical engineer...

(2005-2006). In 2006 his interview with Serkan Ozkaya

Serkan Özkaya

Serkan Ozkaya is a contemporary conceptual artist whose work deals with topics of appropriation and reproduction, and typically operates outside of traditional art spaces. Ozkaya lives in Istanbul, Turkey, and New York City, USA. He holds an M.F.A...

(conceptual artist) has been published under the title Have You Ever Done Anything Right? in English and Spanish, by Kuenstlerhaus Bethanien and Smart Art Press.

Beginning in 1964 with "POP ART" at Columbia University

Columbia University

, N.Y., Sharp independently curated numerous important exhibitions. Among others these include: "Robert Rauschenberg

Robert Rauschenberg

Robert Rauschenberg was an American artist who came to prominence in the 1950s transition from Abstract Expressionism to Pop Art. Rauschenberg is well-known for his "Combines" of the 1950s, in which non-traditional materials and objects were employed in innovative combinations...

" (1964) Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld

Krefeld

Krefeld , also known as Crefeld until 1929, is a city in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany. It is located northwest of Düsseldorf, its centre lying just a few kilometres to the west of the River Rhine; the borough of Uerdingen is situated directly on the Rhine...

, Germany; "LIGHT, MOTION, SPACE" (1967) Walker Art Center; "KINETIC ENVIRONMENTS I AND II" (1967) Central Park, N.Y.; "AIR ART" (1968) Philadelphia and six other locations; "KINETICISM: SYSTEMS SCULPTURE IN ENVIRONMENTAL SITUATIONS" (1968) Mexico City; "EARTH ART" (1969) Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y.; "PLACE AND PROCESS" (1969) Edmonton, Canada; "PROJECTS: PIER 18" (1971) MoMA, N.Y.; "JOSEPH BEUYS" (1973) Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Inc., N.Y.; "VIDEOPERFORMANCE' (1974) 112 Greene Street Gallery, N.Y.

Since 1969, Sharp has had more than 20 solo exhibitions at museums, and art galleries such as:
Brown University

Brown University

Brown University is a private, Ivy League university located in Providence, Rhode Island, United States. Founded in 1764 prior to American independence from the British Empire as the College in the English Colony of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations early in the reign of King George III ,...

; the University Art Museum, Berkeley, California

Berkeley, California

Berkeley is a city on the east shore of the San Francisco Bay in Northern California, United States. Its neighbors to the south are the cities of Oakland and Emeryville. To the north is the city of Albany and the unincorporated community of Kensington...

; The Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco; CAYA, Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires

Buenos Aires is the capital and largest city of Argentina, and the second-largest metropolitan area in South America, after São Paulo. It is located on the western shore of the estuary of the Río de la Plata, on the southeastern coast of the South American continent...

, Argentina

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

; the University of Iowa

University of Iowa

The University of Iowa is a public state-supported research university located in Iowa City, Iowa, United States. It is the oldest public university in the state. The university is organized into eleven colleges granting undergraduate, graduate, and professional degrees...

; the Ontario College of Art, Toronto

Toronto

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; the University of California

University of California

The University of California is a public university system in the U.S. state of California. Under the California Master Plan for Higher Education, the University of California is a part of the state's three-tier public higher education system, which also includes the California State University...

, Los Angeles

Los Ángeles

Los Ángeles is the capital of the province of Biobío, in the commune of the same name, in Region VIII , in the center-south of Chile. It is located between the Laja and Biobío rivers. The population is 123,445 inhabitants...

; the Vancouver Art Gallery

Vancouver Art Gallery

The Vancouver Art Gallery is the fifth-largest art gallery in Canada and the largest in Western Canada. It is located at 750 Hornby Street in Vancouver, British Columbia...

, and Pumps Gallery, Vancouver

Vancouver

Vancouver is a coastal seaport city on the mainland of British Columbia, Canada. It is the hub of Greater Vancouver, which, with over 2.3 million residents, is the third most populous metropolitan area in the country,...

. His work has also been seen in many group shows in the United States

United States

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, Canada

Canada

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, Europe

Europe

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and Asia

Asia

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.

Willoughby Sharp died December 17, 2008, after a long battle with throat cancer

Head and neck cancer

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.
On October 15, 2009 a memorial was held for Sharp at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum is a well-known museum located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan in New York City, United States. It is the permanent home to a renowned collection of Impressionist, Post-Impressionist, early Modern, and contemporary art and also features special exhibitions...

and among the speakers were Dennis Oppenheim, Les Levine , Ronald Feldman , Liza Bear , Carolee Schneeman, and his widow Pamela Seymour Smith Sharp.

Exhibitions Curated

1964 POP ART: AN ART HISTORICAL APPROACH, Columbia University, NY. Jasper Johns

Jasper Johns

Jasper Johns, Jr. is an American contemporary artist who works primarily in painting and printmaking.-Life:Born in Augusta, Georgia, Jasper Johns spent his early life in Allendale, South Carolina with his paternal grandparents after his parents' marriage failed...

, Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein was a prominent American pop artist. During the 1960s his paintings were exhibited at the Leo Castelli Gallery in New York City and along with Andy Warhol, Jasper Johns, James Rosenquist and others he became a leading figure in the new art movement...

, Claes Oldenburg

Claes Oldenburg

Claes Oldenburg is a Swedish sculptor, best known for his public art installations typically featuring very large replicas of everyday objects...

, Robert Rauschenberg

Robert Rauschenberg

, James Rosenquist

James Rosenquist

James Rosenquist is an American artist and one of the protagonists in the pop-art movement.-Background and education:...

, Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol

Andrew Warhola , known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art...

, Tom Wesselmann

Tom Wesselmann

Tom Wesselmann was an American artist associated with the Pop art movement who worked in painting, collage and sculpture.-Early years:...

. A symposium on Pop Art

Pop art

Pop art is an art movement that emerged in the mid 1950s in Britain and in the late 1950s in the United States. Pop art challenged tradition by asserting that an artist's use of the mass-produced visual commodities of popular culture is contiguous with the perspective of fine art...

at 8 p.m. Saturday, April 25, 1964 , Horace Mann Auditorium, Columbia University. Moderated by Professor Meyer Schapiro

Meyer Schapiro

Meyer Schapiro was a Lithuanian-born American art historian known for forging new art historical methodologies that incorporated an interdisciplinary approach to the study of works of art...

with Lawrence Alloway

Lawrence Alloway

Lawrence Alloway was an English art critic and curator who worked in the United States from the 1960s. In the 1950s he was a leading member of the Independent Group in the UK and in the 1960s was an influential writer and curator in the US...

, William Rubin, and Alan Solomon. No Catalogue.

1964 ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany, September 12 – October 18. Exhibition included 60 works, 26 paintings and 34 Dante Drawings. Catalogue. 20 pages, 12-5/8” X 9-5/8”. Introductory essay Robert Rauschenberg and the Objekt, by Willoughby Sharp. In English and German.

1966 KINETICISM, American Abstract Artists

American Abstract Artists

American Abstract Artists was formed in 1936 in New York City, to promote and foster public understanding of abstract art. American Abstract Artists exhibitions, publications, and lectures helped to establish the organization as a major forum for the exchange and discussion of ideas, and for...

, NY. One day exhibition. Yaakov Agam, Pol Bury

Pol Bury

Pol Bury was a Belgian sculptor who began his artistic career as a painter in the Jeune Peintre Belge and COBRA groups. Among his most famous works is the fountain-sculpture L'Octagon, located in San Francisco....

, Davide Boriani, Martha Boto, Alexander Calder

Alexander Calder

Alexander Calder was an American sculptor and artist most famous for inventing mobile sculptures. In addition to mobile and stable sculpture, Alexander Calder also created paintings, lithographs, toys, tapestry, jewelry and household objects.-Childhood:Alexander "Sandy" Calder was born in Lawnton,...

, Hans Haacke

Hans Haacke

, Julio Le Parc

Julio Le Parc

Julio le Parc is a modern Latin American kinetic artist born in 1928 and active mainly in Argentina. He is also an Op artist.-External links:**...

, Heinz Mack

Heinz Mack

Heinz Mack is a German artist. Together with Otto Piene he founded the ZERO movement in 1957. He exhibited works at documenta in 1964 and 1977 and he represented Germany at the 1970 Venice Biennale. He is best known for his contributions to op art, light art and kinetic art.- Biography :Heinz Mack...

, Otto Piene

Otto Piene

Otto Piene is a German artist. He lives and works in Düsseldorf and Groton, Massachusetts.-Biography:...

, Jesus Rafael Soto

Jesús Rafael Soto

Jesús Rafael Soto was a Venezuelan op and kinetic artist, a sculptor and a painter.He was born in Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela. He began his artistic career as a boy painting cinema posters in his native city...

, Takis

Takis

Vassilakis Takis is an artist living in Greece. Adopted by France, his works can be found in many public locations in and around Paris.-Life and work:1940–1950...

, Jean Tinguely

Jean Tinguely

Jean Tinguely was a Swiss painter and sculptor. He is best known for his sculptural machines or kinetic art, in the Dada tradition; known officially as metamechanics...

, Gunther Uecker

Günther Uecker

Günther Uecker, also known as Guenther Uecker, is a German sculptor, op artist and installation artist.- Biography :...

. One day show. Catalogue. 6 pages, 8-1/4” X 5-7/8”, illustrated, with text, "Kineticism" by Willoughby Sharp.

1966 GUNTHER UECKER, Alfred Schmela Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany, September 9 – 29. Catalogue. 6 pages, 8-1/4” X 5-7/8”, illustrated, with text by Willoughby Sharp.

1966 GUNTHER UECKER, Howard Wise Gallery, NY, November 1–19. Catalogue. 16 pages, 9-11/16” X 6-5/8” illustrated, with essay "Uecker, Zero and the Kinetic Spirit" by Willoughby Sharp.

1967 SLOW-MOTION, Rutgers University, NJ. Curated by Willoughby Sharp at the invitation of John Goodyear

John Goodyear

John M. Goodyear was an American football running back in the National Football League for the Washington Redskins. He played college football at Marquette University and was drafted in the tenth round of the 1942 NFL Draft....

. Artists included:Antonio Asis

Antonio Asis

Antonio Asis is an Argentine painter, an exponent of Op Art. His works were presented at the Paris Biennale and in Casa de Cultura de Grenoble .-Biography:...

, Davide Boriani, Robert Breer

Robert Breer

Robert Carlton Breer was an experimental filmmaker, painter, and sculptor."A founding member of the American avant-garde," Breer was most well known for his films, which combine abstract and representational painting, hand-drawn rotoscoping, original 16mm and 8mm film footage, photographs, and...

, Pol Bury

Pol Bury

, Alexander Calder

Alexander Calder

, Gianni Colombo, Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp

Marcel Duchamp was a French artist whose work is most often associated with the Dadaist and Surrealist movements. Considered by some to be one of the most important artists of the 20th century, Duchamp's output influenced the development of post-World War I Western art...

, Hans Haacke

Hans Haacke

, Heinz Mack

Heinz Mack

, Bruno Munari

Bruno Munari

Bruno Munari was an Italian artist and designer, who contributed fundamentals to many fields of visual arts and non visual arts with his research on games, didactic method and creativity.-Biography:Bruno Munari was born in Milan but spent his...

, George Rickey

George Rickey

George Rickey was an American kinetic sculptor.Rickey was born on June 6, 1907 in South Bend, Indiana.-Life and work:...

, Marcello Salvadori, Keith Sonnier

Keith Sonnier

, Jesus-Rafael Soto, Man Ray

Man Ray

Man Ray , born Emmanuel Radnitzky, was an American artist who spent most of his career in Paris, France. Perhaps best described simply as a modernist, he was a significant contributor to both the Dada and Surrealist movements, although his ties to each were informal...

, Takis

Takis

Vassilakis Takis is an artist living in Greece. Adopted by France, his works can be found in many public locations in and around Paris.-Life and work:1940–1950...

, Jean Tinguely

Jean Tinguely

Jean Tinguely was a Swiss painter and sculptor. He is best known for his sculptural machines or kinetic art, in the Dada tradition; known officially as metamechanics...

, Gunther Uecker

Günther Uecker

Günther Uecker, also known as Guenther Uecker, is a German sculptor, op artist and installation artist.- Biography :...

, USCO

USCO

USCO was a media art collective in the 60s and 70s, founded by Michael Callahan and Gerd Stern, who also founded Intermedia Systems Corporation which produced multimedia art internationally. Influenced by media theorist Marshall McLuhan, they were using stroboscopes, projectors and audiotapes in...

, John Van Saun, Gabriele de Vecchi. Catalogue. 6 pages, 8-1/4” X 5-7/8”, illustrated, with text "Kineticism and Slow-Motion" by Willoughby Sharp.

1967 LIGHT–MOTION-SPACE, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN. and the Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, WI. Stephen Antonakis, Ben Berns, Davide Boriani, Martha Boto, Chryssa, John Goodyear

John Goodyear

, Julio Le Parc

Julio Le Parc

Julio le Parc is a modern Latin American kinetic artist born in 1928 and active mainly in Argentina. He is also an Op artist.-External links:**...

, Heinz Mack

Heinz Mack

, Preston McClanahan, Boyd Mefferd, Nam June Paik

Nam June Paik

Nam June Paik was a Korean American artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the first video artist....

, Abraham Palatnick, Otto Piene

Otto Piene

Otto Piene is a German artist. He lives and works in Düsseldorf and Groton, Massachusetts.-Biography:...

, Martial Raysse

Martial Raysse

Martial Raysse is a French artist born in Golfe-Juan on 12 February 1936. He lives in Issigeac - France.-Biography: Raysse was born in a ceramicist family in Vallauris and began to paint and write poetry at age 12. After studying and practising athleticism at a high level, he began to accumulate...

, Thomas Tadlock, Takis

Takis

Vassilakis Takis is an artist living in Greece. Adopted by France, his works can be found in many public locations in and around Paris.-Life and work:1940–1950...

, Gunther Uecker

Günther Uecker

Günther Uecker, also known as Guenther Uecker, is a German sculptor, op artist and installation artist.- Biography :...

, John Van Saun, Gilles Larrain

Gilles Larrain

Born in Da Lat, Vietnam in 1938, Gilles Larrain was first a painter, who went through the École des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and one of the pioneers in kinetic art in the 1960s, using air, smoke, light, water and neon tubes...

, others. Catalogue. 20 pages, 8” X 7-1/2”, illustrated with design and text "Luminism: Notes Toward an Understanding Of Light Art" by Willoughby Sharp.

1967 LUMINISM, The Artists Club, NY. One day exhibition. Stephen Antonakis, Bernard Aubertin, Ben Berns, Dan Flavin

Dan Flavin

Dan Flavin was an American minimalist artist famous for creating sculptural objects and installations from commercially available fluorescent light fixtures.-Early life and career:...

, Horacio Garcia-Rossi, John Goodyear

John Goodyear

, Richard Hogle, Hoppe, Lila Katzen, Gilles Larrain

Gilles Larrain

, Julio Le Parc

Julio Le Parc

Julio le Parc is a modern Latin American kinetic artist born in 1928 and active mainly in Argentina. He is also an Op artist.-External links:**...

, Heinz Mack

Heinz Mack

, Preston McClanahan, Nam June Paik

Nam June Paik

Nam June Paik was a Korean American artist. He worked with a variety of media and is considered to be the first video artist....

, Abraham Palatnick, Leo Rabkin, Marcello Salvadori, Takis

Takis

Vassilakis Takis is an artist living in Greece. Adopted by France, his works can be found in many public locations in and around Paris.-Life and work:1940–1950...

, Gunther Uecker

Günther Uecker

Günther Uecker, also known as Guenther Uecker, is a German sculptor, op artist and installation artist.- Biography :...

, USCO

USCO

, John Van Saun, Williams, Zerlo. Catalogue. 6 pages, 8-1/4” X 5-7/8”, illustrated, with design and text by Willoughby Sharp. Published by Kineticism Press.

1967 KINETIC ENVIRONMENTS ONE & TWO, Central Park, NY. Hans Haacke

Hans Haacke

, Richard Hogle, Gilles Larrain

Gilles Larrain

, Preston McClanahan, Charles Ross

Charles Ross

Charles Ross may refer to:*Charles Ross , English historian, biographer of Edward IV and Richard III*Charley Ross , US missing person case in the 1870s...

, Willoughby Sharp, John Van Saun.
Kinetic Environment One, one day in April
Kinetic Environment Two, one day in September

No catalogue.

1968 KINETICISM: SYSTEMS SCULPTURE IN ENVIRONMENTAL SITUATIONS (Official Olympic Games Exhibition), University Museum of Arts and Science, Mexico City, Mexico. Yaakov Agam, Hans Breder, Lucio Fontana

Lucio Fontana

Lucio Fontana was an Italian painter, sculptor and theorist of Argentine birth. He was mostly known as the founder of Spatialism and his ties to Arte Povera.-Early life:...

, Hans Haacke

Hans Haacke

, Julio Le Parc

Julio Le Parc

Julio le Parc is a modern Latin American kinetic artist born in 1928 and active mainly in Argentina. He is also an Op artist.-External links:**...

, Les Levine, Len Lye

Len Lye

Len Lye, born Leonard Charles Huia Lye , was a Christchurch, New Zealand-born artist known primarily for his experimental films and kinetic sculpture. His films are held in archives such as the New Zealand Film Archive, British Film Institute, Museum of Modern Art in New York City, and the Pacific...

, Heinz Mack

Heinz Mack

, Preston McClanahan, David Medalla

David Medalla

David Medalla is a Filipino international artist. His work ranges from sculpture and kinetic art to painting, installation and performance art. He lives and works in London, New York and Paris....

, Robert Morris

Robert Morris (artist)

Robert Morris is an American sculptor, conceptual artist and writer. He is regarded as one of the most prominent theorists of Minimalism along with Donald Judd but he has also made important contributions to the development of performance art, land art, the Process Art movement and installation...

, Otto Piene

Otto Piene

Otto Piene is a German artist. He lives and works in Düsseldorf and Groton, Massachusetts.-Biography:...

, Jesus Rafael Soto

Jesús Rafael Soto

, Takis

Takis

Vassilakis Takis is an artist living in Greece. Adopted by France, his works can be found in many public locations in and around Paris.-Life and work:1940–1950...

, Jean Tinguely

Jean Tinguely

Jean Tinguely was a Swiss painter and sculptor. He is best known for his sculptural machines or kinetic art, in the Dada tradition; known officially as metamechanics...

, Gunther Uecker

Günther Uecker

Günther Uecker, also known as Guenther Uecker, is a German sculptor, op artist and installation artist.- Biography :...

, John Van Saun, Robert Whitman

Robert Whitman

Robert Whitman is an American artist best known for his seminal theater pieces of the early 1960s combining visual and sound images, actors, film, slides, and evocative props in environments of his own making...

. Catalogue. 60 pages, 8-5/8” X 9-5/8”, illustrated with design and text by Willoughby Sharp.

1968-1969 AIR ART, Arts Council, YM/YWHA, Philadelphia, PA (March 13 – 31, 1968); Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH (April 25 – May 19, 1968); Lakeview Center for the Arts and Sciences, Peoria, Illinois (June 7 – 28, 1968); University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA (January 13 – February 16, 1969); Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH (February 25 – March 18, 1969) Hans Haacke

Hans Haacke

, Kanayama, Les Levine, Preston McClanahan, David Medalla

David Medalla

David Medalla is a Filipino international artist. His work ranges from sculpture and kinetic art to painting, installation and performance art. He lives and works in London, New York and Paris....

, Robert Morris

Robert Morris (artist)

, Marcello Salvadori, Graham Stevens, John Van Saun, Andy Warhol

Andy Warhol

Andrew Warhola , known as Andy Warhol, was an American painter, printmaker, and filmmaker who was a leading figure in the visual art movement known as pop art...

. Catalogue. 40 pages, 8” X 8”. Design and production by Preston McClanahan and Willoughby Sharp. Text, "Air Art", by Willoughby Sharp. Published by Kineticism Press.

1969 EARTH ART, Willoughby Sharp, at the invitation of Tom Leavitt, curated "Earth Art" at the Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Artists in the exhibition included Walter De Maria

Walter De Maria

-Early life and career:De Maria was born in Albany, California on October 1, 1935. He studied history and art at the University of California, Berkeley from 1953 to 1959. Although trained as a painter, De Maria soon turned to sculpture and began using other media...

, Jan Dibbets

Jan Dibbets

Jan Dibbets , is a Dutch conceptual artist.In 1994, he was commissioned by the Arago Association to create a memorial to the French astronomer François Arago, known as Hommage à Arago...

, Hans Haacke

Hans Haacke

, Michael Heizer

Michael Heizer

Michael Heizer is a contemporary artist specializing primarily in large-scale sculptures and earth art .Heizer was born in Berkeley, California in 1944; and he attended the San Francisco Art Institute. Traveling to New York City in 1966, he began his career producing more conventional, small-scale...

, Neil Jenney

Neil Jenney

Neil Jenney is a self-taught artist born in 1945. He attended Massachusetts College of Art in 1964. In 1966 he moved to New York City where he currently resides....

, Richard Long

Richard Long (artist)

Richard Long is an English sculptor, photographer and painter, one of the best known British land artists. Long is the only artist to be shortlisted for the Turner Prize four times, and he is reputed to have refused the prize in 1984...

, David Medalla

David Medalla

David Medalla is a Filipino international artist. His work ranges from sculpture and kinetic art to painting, installation and performance art. He lives and works in London, New York and Paris....

, Robert Morris

Robert Morris (artist)

, Dennis Oppenheim, Robert Smithson

Robert Smithson

Robert Smithson was an American artist famous for his land art.-Background and education:Smithson was born in Passaic, New Jersey and studied painting and drawing in New York City at the Art Students League of New York....

, Gunther Uecker

Günther Uecker

Günther Uecker, also known as Guenther Uecker, is a German sculptor, op artist and installation artist.- Biography :...

. Catalogue. 96 pages. Approx. 5” X 9”, illustrated. "Earth Art" published in 1970 with an introductory essay by Willoughby Sharp. Avalanche 1 was devoted to "Earth Art." (Also 6,000 feet of B/W silent film of each of the artists making their works at Ithaca, commissioned by Willoughby Sharp). Gordon Matta-Clark

Gordon Matta-Clark

Gordon Matta-Clark was an American artist best known for his site-specific artworks he made in the 1970s. He is famous for his "building cuts," a series of works in abandoned buildings in which he variously removed sections of floors, ceilings, and walls.-Life and work:Both of Gordon Matta-Clark's...

, who lived in Ithaca at the time, was invited by Willoughby Sharp to help the artists in "Earth Art" with the on-site execution of their works for the exhibition. Sharp then encouraged Matta-Clark to move to New York City where Sharp continued to introduce him to members of the New York art world.

1969 PLACE & PROCESS, The Edmonton Art Gallery, Alberta, Canada. Ian Baxter, Jan Dibbets

Jan Dibbets

Jan Dibbets , is a Dutch conceptual artist.In 1994, he was commissioned by the Arago Association to create a memorial to the French astronomer François Arago, known as Hommage à Arago...

, Hans Haacke

Hans Haacke

, Bruce McLean

Bruce McLean

Bruce McLean is a Scottish performance artist and painter.McLean was born in Glasgow and studied at Glasgow School of Art from 1961 to 1963, and at St Martin's School of Art, London,from 1963 to 1966...

, Les Levine, Richard Long

Richard Long (artist)

, Robert Morris

Robert Morris (artist)

, Dennis Oppenheim, Klaus Rinke, John Van Saun, William Wegmen, Lawrence Weiner

Lawrence Weiner

Lawrence Weiner was a central figure in the formation of conceptual art in the 1960s His work often takes the form of typographic texts.- Life and career :...

. No catalogue. 30 minute 16mm color/sound film, Place & Process, directed by Willoughby Sharp and Evander Schley and cinematography by Robert Fiori. Shown on Canadian National
Television, CBC.

1970 BODY WORKS an exhibition of Video art

Video art

with works by Vito Acconci

Vito Acconci

Vito Hannibal Acconci is a Bronx, New York-born, Brooklyn-based designer, landscape architect, performance and installation artist.-Education:...

, Terry Fox

Terry Fox (artist)

Terry Fox was an American video, conceptual, sound, and performance artist.-Biography:Fox was born in Seattle, Washington. At the age of seventeen, he was diagnosed with Hodgkin’s disease, later referencing the cycles of illness and wellness in several artworks...

, Richard Serra

Richard Serra

, Keith Sonnier

Keith Sonnier

, Dennis Oppenheim and William Wegman

William Wegman (photographer)

William Wegman is an artist best known for creating series of compositions involving dogs, primarily his own Weimaraners in various costumes and poses.-Life and career:...

which was presented at Tom Marioni's Museum of Conceptual Art, San Francisco, California.

1970 THIS IS YOUR ROOF exhibition is presented at the international art festival held in Pamplona, Spain. Willoughby Sharp produces a series of videos, mainly documentaries on the activities of New York artists, for the same event.

1971 PROJECTS: PIER 18, The Museum of Modern Art, NY. June, 1971. Vito Acconci

Vito Acconci

Vito Hannibal Acconci is a Bronx, New York-born, Brooklyn-based designer, landscape architect, performance and installation artist.-Education:...

, David Askevold

David Askevold

David Askevold was an experimental Canadian artist who lived in Nova Scotia.Askevold studied art and anthropology at the University of Montana. In 1963 he won a Max Beckmann Scholarship to study painting for a year at the Brooklyn Museum School of Art in New York...

, John Baldessari

John Baldessari

John Anthony Baldessari is an American conceptual artist known for his work featuring found photography and appropriated images. He lives and works in Santa Monica and Venice, California...

, Robert Barry

Robert Barry (artist)

Robert Barry is an American artist. Since 1967, Barry has produced non-material works of art, installations, and performance art using a variety of otherwise invisible media...

, Bill Beckley

Bill Beckley

Bill Beckley , an American narrative/conceptual artist.-Biography:Born in Hamburg, Pennsylvania, a small farming town in the Amish countryside, Bill Beckley attended college at Kutztown University from 1964 to 1968 and in 1970 received a Master of Fine Arts from Tyler School of Art, Temple University...

, Mel Bochner

Mel Bochner

Mel Bochner is an American conceptual artist. Mr. Bochner received his BFA in 1962 and honorary Doctor of Fine Arts in 2005 from the School of Art at Carnegie Mellon University...

, Daniel Buren

Daniel Buren

Daniel Buren is a French conceptual artist.- Work :Sometimes classified as an abstract minimalist Buren is known best for using regular, contrasting maxi stripes to integrate the visual surface and architectural space, notably historical, landmark architecture.Among his chief concerns is the...

, Jan Dibbets

Jan Dibbets

Jan Dibbets , is a Dutch conceptual artist.In 1994, he was commissioned by the Arago Association to create a memorial to the French astronomer François Arago, known as Hommage à Arago...

, Terry Fox

Terry Fox (artist)

, Dan Graham

Dan Graham

Dan Graham , is a conceptual artist now working out of New York City. He is an influential figure in the field of contemporary art, both a practitioner of conceptual art and an art critic and theorist. His art career began in 1964 when he moved to New York and opened the John Daniels Gallery....

, Douglas Huebler

Douglas Huebler

Douglas Huebler was an American conceptual artist.-Life and career:Douglas Huebler grew up in rural Michigan during the Depression and served in the Marines in World War II...

, Lee Jaffe

Lee Jaffe

-Early life:Born in the Bronx to a Jewish family, Jaffe grew up in New York City. Having fulfilled his high school requirements at the age of sixteen, Jaffe left New York to attend Penn State University, where he studied American history and literature, art history, and modern philosophy...

, Richards Jarden, Gordon Matta-Clark

Gordon Matta-Clark

, Mario Merz

Mario Merz

Mario Merz was an Italian artist, and husband of Marisa Merz.-Life:Born in Milan, Merz started drawing during World War II, when he was imprisoned for his activities with the Giustizia e Libertà antifascist group. He experimented with a continuous graphic stroke–not removing his pencil point from...

, Robert Morris

Robert Morris (artist)

, Dennis Oppenheim, Allen Ruppersberg

Allen Ruppersberg

Born in 1944 in Cleveland, Ohio. Allen Ruppersberg is one of the first generation of American Conceptual artists that changed the way art was thought about and made. His work includes paintings, prints, photographs, sculptures, installations, and books.- Biography :...

, Italo Scanga

Italo Scanga

Italo Scanga Italian-born American artist.-Biography:Born in Lago, Calabria to Giuseppe and Serafina Ziccarelli, youngest of four children: Carolina, Mafalda and Nicolino.-About his work:...

, Richard Serra

Richard Serra

, Michael Snow

Michael Snow

Michael Snow, CC is a Canadian artist working in painting, sculpture, video, films, photography, holography, drawing, books and music.-Life:...

, Keith Sonnier

Keith Sonnier

, Wolfgang Stoerchle, George Trakas, John Van Saun, William Wegman

William Wegman (photographer)

William Wegman is an artist best known for creating series of compositions involving dogs, primarily his own Weimaraners in various costumes and poses.-Life and career:...

, Lawrence Weiner

Lawrence Weiner

Lawrence Weiner was a central figure in the formation of conceptual art in the 1960s His work often takes the form of typographic texts.- Life and career :...

. Approximately 600 photographs were exhibited. No catalogue at the exhibition. Photographs of the exhibition by Harry Shunk and Jean Kender were subsequently shown at the Musee d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice which published a catalogue, 164 pages .10-5/8” X 9”.

1971 Vito Acconci

Vito Acconci

Vito Hannibal Acconci is a Bronx, New York-born, Brooklyn-based designer, landscape architect, performance and installation artist.-Education:...

,Claim, 93 Grand Street, NY, September 10, 1971. A four-hour closed-circuit live video performance.

1971 William Beckley

William Beckley

William Beckley is an American actor, best known for his role as Gerard the butler in the television series Dynasty.Other TV credits include: Combat!, Batman, Mission: Impossible, Hogan's Heroes, Night Gallery, Marcus Welby, M.D., Planet of the Apes, Charlie's Angels, Kojak, Fantasy Island, Hawaii...

, bird (nightingale) on see saw, September 17, 18 and 19, 93 Grand Street, 8 until midnight. An installation with video and bird.

1971 William Wegman

William Wegman (photographer)

William Wegman is an artist best known for creating series of compositions involving dogs, primarily his own Weimaraners in various costumes and poses.-Life and career:...

, Bobbing for Twins/Bobbing for Apples, 93 Grand Street, New York, NY. Live video performance/video tape

1971 Terry Fox

Terry Fox (artist)

, Yeast, 93 Grand Street, NY, October 1, 1971. Videotaped performance.

1973 JOSEPH BEUYS, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Inc., NY. Beuys’ first show in the U.S. No catalogue. The show consisted of a video program,"Willoughby Sharp Videoviews Joseph Beuys."

1973 AVALANCHE DIE ENTWICKLUNG EINER AVANTGARDE-ZEITSCHRIFT, Cologne Kunstverein, March 23 to April 23: Hanover Kunstverein, May 27 – July 22; Munster Kunstverein, Fall 1973; Frankfurt Kunstverein, Fall 1973. No catalogue.

1974 VIDEOPERFORMANCE, 112 Greene Street, Gallery, NY. Vito Acconci

Vito Acconci

Vito Hannibal Acconci is a Bronx, New York-born, Brooklyn-based designer, landscape architect, performance and installation artist.-Education:...

, Joseph Beuys

Joseph Beuys

, Chris Burden

Chris Burden

Christopher "Chris" Burden is an American artist working in performance, sculpture, and installation art.-Education:Burden studied for his B.A...

, Dennis Oppenheim, Ulrike Rosenbach, Richard Serra

Richard Serra

, Willoughby Sharp, Keith Sonnier

Keith Sonnier

, William Wegman

William Wegman (photographer)

William Wegman is an artist best known for creating series of compositions involving dogs, primarily his own Weimaraners in various costumes and poses.-Life and career:...

. Avalanche magazine Issue Number 9 serves as a catalogue for this exhibition.

1979-1980 Joseph Beuys

Joseph Beuys

, Guggenheim Retrospective. Willoughby Sharp, Curator, video and film. Catalogue.

1984 Joseph Nechvatal

Joseph Nechvatal

Joseph Nechvatal is a post-conceptual art digital artist and art theoretician who creates computer-assisted paintings and computer animations, often using custom-created computer viruses.-Life and work:Joseph Nechvatal was born in Chicago...

, Machine Language Book by Willoughby Sharp, 74 pages

1988 Lawrence Weiner

Lawrence Weiner

Lawrence Weiner was a central figure in the formation of conceptual art in the 1960s His work often takes the form of typographic texts.- Life and career :...

, Fine Arts Center, University of Rhode Island, Kingston Rhode Island. No catalogue.

1989 Joan Jonas

Joan Jonas

Born in 1936 in New York City, Joan Jonas is a pioneer of video and performance art and one of the most important female artists to emerge in the late 1960s and early 1970s.She began her career in New York City as a sculptor...

, Fine Arts Center, University of Rhode Island, Kingston Rhode Island. No catalogue.

1990 MICROSCULPTURE, Fine Arts Center, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island. Catalogue. 40 pages. Illustrated, black and white. Introductory text by Willoughby Sharp

1990 Adrian Piper

Adrian Piper

Adrian Margaret Smith Piper is a first-generation conceptual artist and analytic philosopher who was born in New York City and lived for many years on Cape Cod, Massachusetts before emigrating from the United States...

, Fine Arts Center, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island. No catalogue.

2001 CUANDO, Alan Scarritt, Duff Schweninger, Ben Knight

Ben Knight

Ben Knight is a typographic coordinator for the United Nations. In 2002, Knight joined the UN in New York City where he started working closely with Maxim Zhukov to help with multilingual typographic design teaching, solutions, and co-ordination. Knight took over the responsibility UN typographic...

, Tom Warren

Tom Warren

Tom Warren born 14 January 1983 in Sevenoaks, Kent, England is a rugby union player for Gran Parma Rugby in the Italian Super 10.He previously played for London Irish in the Guinness Premiership.Tom Warren's position of choice is as a prop.-External links:...

, et al. catalogue.

2003 POLARITIES, The Lobby Gallery, 1155 Avenue of the Americas, NY, February 20-March 24.John Ahearn, Claudia Vargas, Jene Highstein, Joan Jonas

Joan Jonas

, Nancy Lorenz, Marisol

Marisol (actress)

Josefa Flores González, better known as Marisol or Pepa Flores, is a Spanish singer and actress. She is considered one of the most popular icons of the 60s in Spain.-Biography:...

, Joseph Nechvatal

Joseph Nechvatal

, Michele Oka Doner

Michele Oka Doner

Michele Oka Doner is an American artist and author. "The breadth of her artistic production encompasses sculpture, public art, furniture, jewelry and functional objects…Oka Doner is perhaps best known for her numerous public art commissions, including…Radiant Site, at New York's Herald Square...

, Dennis Oppenheim, Tom Otterness

Tom Otterness

Tom Otterness is an American sculptor whose works adorn parks, plazas, subway stations, libraries, courthouses and museums in New York---most notably in Rockefeller Park in Battery Park City and in the 14th Street/8th Avenue subway station---and other cities around the world...

, Alan Scarritt, Duff Schweninger, Keith Sonnier

Keith Sonnier

, John Torreano

John Torreano

John Torreano is an American artist from New York City. He is currently Clinical Professor of Studio Art at the Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development at New York University. Torreano is known for utilizing faceted gems in a variety of mediums in order to create "movement...

, Tom Warren

Tom Warren

, Lawrence Weiner

Lawrence Weiner

Lawrence Weiner was a central figure in the formation of conceptual art in the 1960s His work often takes the form of typographic texts.- Life and career :...

. Brochure catalogue.

Magazine Contributions

Sharp has been the contributing editor to four publications: Impulse, Toronto

Toronto

, Canada

Canada

(1979–1981); Video magazine

Video magazine

Video magazines are a series of online videos that follow the print magazine format in which the reader/viewer consumes an issue on a periodic basis. They are primarily used as a marketing tool in which a company engages their online database with interview-style informational video. Century 21...

, San Francisco (1980–1982); Art Com, San Francisco (1984–1985), and the East Village Eye, N.Y. (1984–1986). He has published three monographs on contemporary artists, contributed to many exhibition catalogues and has written articles, essays, and interviews featured in Artforum

Artforum

Artforum is an international monthly magazine specializing in contemporary art.-Publication:The magazine is published ten times a year, September through May, along with an annual summer issue...

, Art In America

Art in America

Art in America is an illustrated monthly, international magazine concentrating on the contemporary art world, including profiles of artists and genres, updates about art movements, show reviews and event schedules. It is designed for collectors, artists, dealers, art professionals and other...

, Arts

ARts

aRts, which stands for analog Real time synthesizer, is an audio framework that is no longer under development. It is best known for previously being used in KDE to simulate an analog synthesizer....

magazine, Avalanche magazine, Leica Journal, Quadrum, and Studio International.

Teaching career

Mr. Sharp taught on the faculties of the School of Visual Arts

School of Visual Arts

The School of Visual Arts , is a proprietary art school located in Manhattan, New York City, and is widely considered to be one of the leading art schools in the United States. It was established in 1947 by co-founders Silas H. Rhodes and Burne Hogarth as the Cartoonists and Illustrators School and...

, Humanities and Science Department (1984–1988); the University of Rhode Island

University of Rhode Island

The University of Rhode Island is the principal public research university in the U.S. state of Rhode Island. Its main campus is located in Kingston. Additional campuses include the Feinstein Campus in Providence, the Narragansett Bay Campus in Narragansett, and the W. Alton Jones Campus in West...

, Kingston, where he was also the director of the Fine Arts Center (1988–1990); and the New School University, Parsons The New School for Design

Parsons The New School for Design

Parsons The New School For Design, known colloquially as Parsons, is the art and design college of The New School university. It is located in New York City's Greenwich Village, and has produced artists and designers such as Marc Jacobs, Dean and Dan Caten, Norman Rockwell, Donna Karan, Jane...

, Graduate Faculty, Digital Design Department, N.Y. (2000–2003). For the last 38 years he has been a visiting artist at numerous art institutions and he has shown his video in museums in the U.S. and abroad.

Collaboration with Joseph Beuys

Sharp met Joseph Beuys

Joseph Beuys

in Düsseldorf in 1958. From then until Beuy’s death in 1986, they had a close, collaborative relationship. Sharp was instrumental in bringing Beuys’ work to the attention of the American art world. Starting with an ARTFORUM interview (December, 1969), he also featured Beuys in the first issue of Avalanche magazine (1970). Then in 1972, Sharp produced the Beuys Videoview which constituted Beuys’ first solo show in New York

New York

at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, Inc., N.Y. He also produced “Public Dialogue” in which Beuys performed as part of Mr. Sharp’s “Videoperformance” exhibition in 1974. In 1974, at Beuys’ request, Sharp videotaped “I Like America, America Likes Me” his performance at the Rene Block Gallery, New York

New York

, which has recently been released as “America” (1974–2003). In 1979, Beuys invited Sharp to curate the film/video sections of his retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Accolades

Sharp has received numerous grants, awards and fellowships both as an individual or under the sponsorship of the three non-profit arts organizations that he co-founded.

The Center for New Art Activities, Inc. N.Y.
The Franklin Street Arts Center, Inc. New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

WORLDPOOL, Toronto

Toronto

, Canada

Canada

A DAAD Berlin
Berlin
Berlin is the capital city of Germany and is one of the 16 states of Germany. With a population of 3.45 million people, Berlin is Germany's largest city. It is the second most populous city proper and the seventh most populous urban area in the European Union...

grant with Pamela Seymour Smith, (2006)
An Emily Harvey Foundation artists-in-residence grant with Pamela Seymour Smith (2006)
An ACE award (1986)
The Department of Communications, Canadian Government (1981)
The Canada Council, Explorations Department, (1981)
The NEA (1976–1978, 1980–1981)
The New York State Council on the Arts
New York State Council on the Arts
The New York State Council on the Arts is an arts council serving the U.S. state of New York. It was established in 1960 through a bill introduced in the New York State Legislature by New York State Senator MacNeil Mitchell , with backing from Governor Nelson Rockefeller, and began its work in 1961...

(1975–1977, 1979, 1985)
A Rockefeller Foundation
Rockefeller Foundation
The Rockefeller Foundation is a prominent philanthropic organization and private foundation based at 420 Fifth Avenue, New York City. The preeminent institution established by the six-generation Rockefeller family, it was founded by John D. Rockefeller , along with his son John D. Rockefeller, Jr...

individual artists grant (1971)

Museum Collections

His video and film works are in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art

Museum of Modern Art

The Museum of Modern Art is an art museum in Midtown Manhattan in New York City, on 53rd Street, between Fifth and Sixth Avenues. It has been important in developing and collecting modernist art, and is often identified as the most influential museum of modern art in the world...

New York

; the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

, N.Y.; ZKM (Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie) in Karlsruhe

Karlsruhe

The City of Karlsruhe is a city in the southwest of Germany, in the state of Baden-Württemberg, located near the French-German border.Karlsruhe was founded in 1715 as Karlsruhe Palace, when Germany was a series of principalities and city states...

, Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

; The Collection of the Venice Biennale

Venice Biennale

, Venice

Venice

Venice is a city in northern Italy which is renowned for the beauty of its setting, its architecture and its artworks. It is the capital of the Veneto region...

, Italy

Italy

Italy , officially the Italian Republic languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Italy's official name is as follows:;;;;;;;;), is a unitary parliamentary republic in South-Central Europe. To the north it borders France, Switzerland, Austria and...

; The Museum of Fine Arts

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

, Boston

Boston

; the Rhode Island School of Design

Rhode Island School of Design

Rhode Island School of Design is a fine arts and design college located in Providence, Rhode Island. It was founded in 1877. Located at the base of College Hill, the RISD campus is contiguous with the Brown University campus. The two institutions share social, academic, and community resources and...

, Rhode Island

Rhode Island

The state of Rhode Island and Providence Plantations, more commonly referred to as Rhode Island , is a state in the New England region of the United States. It is the smallest U.S. state by area...

; the National Art Gallery, Ottawa

Ottawa

Ottawa is the capital of Canada, the second largest city in the Province of Ontario, and the fourth largest city in the country. The city is located on the south bank of the Ottawa River in the eastern portion of Southern Ontario...

, Canada

Canada

; The Western Front, Vancouver

Vancouver

, British Columbia

British Columbia

British Columbia is the westernmost of Canada's provinces and is known for its natural beauty, as reflected in its Latin motto, Splendor sine occasu . Its name was chosen by Queen Victoria in 1858...

, Canada

Canada

, as well as many private collections worldwide.

Body of Work

Joseph Beuys' America (1974–2003) 12 min
Earle Brown
Earle Brown
Earle Brown was an American composer who established his own formal and notational systems...

By Artengine, New York (2002) 28 min
Dennis Oppenheim By Artengine, New York (2001) 28 min
Keith Sonnier By Artengine, New York (2002) 28 min
Who Killed Heinrich Hertz? (1986–1987) 20 min
Willoughby Sharp's Downtown New York (1986) 58 min
Art And Telecommunications (1983) 60 min
The Space Shuttle Is A Robot (1983) 20 min
Willoughby Sharp's Beta 1: DBS (1982) 20 min
Five Video Pioneers: Acconci, Serra, Sharp, Sonnier & Wegman (1977) 30 min
Two-Way Demo(1977) 20 min
Willoughby Sharp Videoviews Chris Burden (1975) 27:45 min
Art Stars in Hollywood: The DeccaDance (with Chip Lord and Megan Williams) (1974) 60 min
Art Stars Interviews (with Chip Lord and Megan Williams) (1974) 60 min
Joseph Beuys' Public Dialogue (1974) 120 min
Willoughby Sharp's Videoperformances (1973–1974) 58 min
Chris Burden Videoview (1973) 30 min
Joseph Beuys Videoview (1973) 30 min
Vito Acconci Videoview (1973) 30 min

External links

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