PAST EXHIBITIONS, ELECTROMEDIA PERFORMANCES, SCREENINGS AND BROADCAST TELEVISION
2024
Black Infinitude, Black Film Series, Black Video 3, Listen, and The Event of the Screw, Screening, The Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI
2023
Black Film Series, Listen, and The Event of the Screw, Screening, The São Paulo Museum of Modern Art, São Paulo, Brazil
2022
Black and Light: Aldo Tambellini, Exhibition & Screening, Ulsan Art Museum, Ulsan, Korea
2021
Writing the History of the Future, Signature Works of the ZKM Media Art Collection, Group Exhibition, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea
2020
In the beginning all was black, Webinar, Casanova Arte. São Paulo, Brazil
2019
No! Art, Group Exhibition, Janco Dada Museum, Ein Hod, Israel
Shit and Doom: NO! Art, Group Exhibition, Cell Project Space, London, United Kingdom
Boris Lurie and No! Art, Group Exhibition, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Koroska, Gallery Slovenj Gradec, Slovenia
2018
Aldo Tambellini, Exhibition, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
Art, Activism, and Anarchy, Exhibition and Panel Discussion. Narrative / Counter-narrative: (Re)defining the Sixties at NYU: Bobst Library, NYU, New York, NY.
Black TV Revisited, Screening, WGBH, Boston, MA
Flashes of the Future-The Art of the 68ers or Power to the Powerless, Group Exhibition, Ludwig Forum fur Internationale Kunst, Aasche, Germany
Vision of Television, Group Exhibition Emerson Urban Art Gallery, Boston, MA
Respire, Performance, Leneas Theatre Group, New York and Boston
2017
Aldo Tambellini: Black Matters, Exhibition, ZKM Center for the Art and Media, Karlsuhe, Germany
Black Fragments, Screening, Fitchburg University, Fitchburg, MA
Behind the Black Door, Featured Artist with performance of “Moondial”, Screening & Performance, (S8) Mostra del Cinema Periiferico. Caruna, Spain
Films of Aldo Tambellini, 60s Avante Garde Work, Screening, Experimental Response Cinema and Austin Film Society, Austin, Texas
Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City 1952 to 1965, Group Exhibition, NYU Grey Gallery, NYC, NY
2016
Emanations, The Art of the Cameraless Photograph, Group Exhibition, Len Lye Center, New Plymouth, New Zealand
2015
The Study of Internal Shapes & Outward Manifestations, 56th International Art Exhibition, Group Exhibition, Italian Pavilion, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
Atlantic in Brooklyn, Morning, Noon and Night. Installation, The Boiler, Brooklyn, NY
Electric Pilgrims, Group Exhibition, Emerson College, Boston, MA
2014
Aldo Tambellini: Retrospective, Screening, Nitehawk Shorts Festival, Nitehawk’s ART SEEN, Brooklyn, NY
If I can’t dance to it, it’s not my revolution, Exhibition, Haverford College, Haverford, PA
2013
Save and Project: The 11th MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation, Screening, Museum of Modern Art, New, York, NY
2013 Festival du Nouveau Cinéma de Montréal, Screening and Performance, Musée des beaux-arts de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
Aldo Tambellini: We Are the Primitives of a New Era, Paintings and Projections 1961-1989, Exhibition, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
2012
Aldo Tambellini: Retracing Black, Performance, Installation and Screening, The Tanks, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom
Back to Black: Aldo Tambellini’s Black Films, Screening, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
2011
Aldo Tambellini: Black Zero, Exhibition. New York: Chelsea Art Museum, New York, NY
Aldo Tambellini: The Black Films, Exhibition & Screening, Emerson College, Boston, MA
One of a Kind: A Unique Artists’ Book Show, Exhibition, Pierre Menard Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2010
Black Film Series, Screening, Artium, Vitoria, Spain.
Changing Channels, Group Exhibition, Kunst und Fernsehen 1963-1987, MUMOK, Vienna, Austria.
Zelluloid- Cameraless Films, Screening, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany.
Aldo Tambellini: Black Is, Exhibition, Pierre Menard Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Aldo Tambellini’s Black on Black-2009 & Black Film Series-1965-69, Screening, Harvard Film Archive, Cambridge, MA
2009
Black Gate Cologne, Otto Piene & Aldo Tambellini, Screening, Pierre Menard Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Black Zero (1966), Performance, PERFORMA 09, White Box Theatre, New York, NY
Film and Video Retrospective, Featured Artist, in Mash Up, International Media Festival, Osnabruck, Germany
2008
Interstitial Zones: Historical Facts, Archaeologies of the Present & Dialectics of Seeing, Group Exhibition, Argos, Brussels, Belgium
Masters of Texture, Screening, Cinematheque Francaise, Paris, France
Aldo Tambellini: Film and Video Retrospective, Screening, Circuit Off program, Anthology Film Archive, New York, NY
The Writers Brush, Group Exhibition, Pierre Menard Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Text In Video, Group Exhibition, Axiom Gallery, Boston, MA
2007
Aldo Tambellini: Film and Video Retrospective, Screening, Lucca Film Festival, Lucca, Italy
Aldo Tambellini: Film Retrospective, Screening, Evolution Film Festival, Leeds, United Kingdom
Aldo Tambellini: Film and Video Retrospective, Screening, Syracuse Film and Video Festival, Syracuse, NY
History of Syracuse, Exhibition, ThinC Gallery, Syracuse, NY
2006
Guerilla Art-art as activism, Group Exhibition, Altered Esthetics Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
2005
Art of the Festival, Group Exhibition, ThinC Gallery, Syracuse, NY
Listen, Screening, Syracuse International Film and Video Festival, Syracuse, NY
Listen, Screening, New England Film and Video Festival, Brookline, MA
3rd Howl Film Festival, -1, Screening, New York, NY
2004
NO! ART, Group Exhibition, Berlin, Germany
2nd Howl Festival, Aldo Tambellini: Retrospective of Film and Video, Screening, New York, NY
2003
A Syracuse Rebel In New York, Exhibition, Outlaw Museum, New York, NY
Aldo Tambellini Film Retrospective, Screening, 1st HOWL Festival, Fusion Art Museum, New York, NY.
1st Howl Festival, Screening, Black Film Series, New York, NY
1994
The Howard Wise Gallery: TV as a Creative Medium, 1969, Group Exhibition, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1987
The Artist In the Computer Age Part II, Group Exhibition, The MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA
1986
Communicationsphere Show, Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
The Artist in the Computer Age Part I, Group Exhibition, Owens-Illinois Art Center, Toledo, OH
1983
Boston Now ’83, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
Sao Paulo Biennale, Group Exhibition, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1982
ARS Electronica, Group Exhibition, Linz, Austria
1980
Copy Art, Exhibition, Oce Museum, Amsterdam, the Netherlands; exhibit toured Europe
1979
International Biennial Exhibition of Graphic and Visual Art, Group Exhibition, Vienna, Austria
Aldo Tambellini: Two-way Live, TV Broadcast, Boston Film and Video Foundation, Boston, MA
Numbers, Group Exhibition, Galleria Nova 13, Alessandria, Italy
1978
Aesthetics and Technology, Exhibition, The Institute of Design, Offenbach am Main, Germany
1977
Documenta 6, Group Exhibition, Kassel, Germany.
Moonblack—An Homage to Leonardo, Performance, Centerscreen, Visiting Artist Series, Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
Photography and Video Work, Exhibition, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
1976
New Work in Abstract Video Imagery, Exhibition, Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY; North Carolina Museum of the Arts, Raleigh, NC; Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth, MN; Flint Institute of Art, Flint, MI; and the Memphis State University Museum, Memphis, TN
Aldo Tambellini, Screening and Workshop, Media Studies Center, Buffalo, NY
1975
10 Second Delay, Performance, Art-transition, Center for Advanced Visual Studies, MIT, Cambridge, MA
Aldo Tambellini: Photography and Video Work, Exhibition, Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY
1974
Projekt ’74, Exhibition, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany
Aldo Tambellini: From Film to Video, Screening, Anthology Film Archives, New York, NY
1973
15 American Visual Artists, Exhibition, Center Cultural American, Paris, France
Circuit: A Video Invitational, Exhibition, Everson Museum, Syracuse, NY; Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Cranbrook Academy, Bloomfield Hills, MI; Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
1972
First National Videotape Festival, Exhibition, Minneapolis Art Institute in collaboration with Walker Art Center, MN
The Kitchen Video Festival, Screening, “Atlantic in Brooklyn", a one-man show, Mercer Center, New York, NY
1971
A Special Video Show, Group Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (The first video art show in New York)
Cineprobe, Screening, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1970
Aldo Tambellini, Black Film series, Screening, Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Vision and Television, Group Exhibition, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA (The first museum show in television as an art form in the United States)
1969
Television as a Creative Medium, Group Exhibition, Howard Wise Gallery, New York, NY (The first video art gallery show in the United States)
Black Zero, Performance, multi-media, split-screen performance for Sights and Sounds in the Arts Now, New York State Education Department, Albany, NY
Black TV, Screening, Oberhausen Film Festival, Germany. Grand Prix for Black TV
The Medium is the Medium, Broadcast, WBGH, Boston, MA (The first broadcast in the United States on public TV by artists)
Black Gate Düsseldorf, Performance in collaboration with Otto Piene, Germany
1968
Some More Beginnings- Experiments in Art and Technology, Performance, Brooklyn Museum in Collaboration with Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
6th Annual Avant-Garde Film Festival, Screening, New York, NY
Black Sound, Performance, mixed media concert with electronic composer David Behrman
Black TV, Screening, Yale Film Festival, Yale University, New Haven, CT
Light as Art, Exhibition, Howard Wise Gallery, New York, NY
Black Plus X, Screening, Ann Arbor Film Festival, Ann Arbor, MI
X Screen, Screening, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germany
Film Festival, Screening, San Franciso State College, San Francisco, CA
Black Zero, Performance, Intermedia ’68, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York, NY
Black Gate Cologne, Broadcast with Aldo Tambellini and Otto Piene, on WDR-TV, Cologne, Germany (The first national television broadcast by artists)
1967
2nd Underground Film Festival, Screening, Tokyo, Japan
Sogetsu International Experimental Film Festival, Screening, Sogetsu, Japan
1st Festival of North American Cinema, Screening, Cinecity, Toronto, Canada
Black Zero and Moondial, Performances, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ
Blackout by Aldo Tambellini and Otto Piene’s Proliferation of the Sun, Performances to inaugurate the Black Gate Theatre, New York, NY
Black Air, Performances, Black Gate Theatre, New York, NY
EXPO 67 International Festival of Film for Young People, Screening, Montreal, Canada
Kompas 3 Exhibition, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhovem, Netherland
Festival of Lights, Group Exhibition, Howard Wise Gallery, New York, NY
Projected Art, Screening, Finch College Museum of Art, New York, NY
Black Video I, Broadcast, first videotape by Aldo Tambellini, on ABC TV News, NY
1966
Black Round, Performance, The Fountain at Washington Park, New York, NY
Moonblack, Performance, Syracuse University, NY
Black Zero and Moondial, Performances, University of Western Ontario, London, Canada
Moondial, Performance, The Dom, St Mark’s Square, New York, NY
1965
Black Zero, Performance, Expaned Cinema Festival, Filmmakers Cinematheque, New York, NY.
Black, Black 2, Black Zero, and Moondial, Performances, The Bridge Theatre & Open Space, New York, NY
Quantum 1 & 2, Group Exhibition, Noah Goldowsky & A.M. Sachs Galleries, New York, NY. Curated by Aldo Tambellini
Black, first “Electromedia” Performance, Columbia University, New York, NY
1963
Festival of the Arts, Group Exhibition, June 3-16, 1963, St. Mark’s-in-the-Bouwerie, New York, NY, organized by Aldo and Elsa Tambellini, juried by Alexander Lieber, KL McShine, Robert Gwathmey, and Chiam Gross
Loft Show, first recorded loft exhibition by artists in SOHO. Curated by Aldo Tambellini
1962
Black and White, Group Exhibition, Brata Gallery, New York, NY
The Event of the Screw, Agitprop Performance, July 12, 1962, Museum of Modern Art, Whitney and Guggenheim Museums, New York, NY,
1960
Sculpture Show, Nonagon Gallery, New York, NY
Sculpture Show, Cirinno and Aldo Tambellini. Buenvita Gallery, New York, NY
1955
Drawing Painting, Exhibition, Coffee Encores Gallery, Buffalo, NY
1954
Risveglio, Group Exhibition, June 4-27, 1954, Syracuse Museum of Fine Arts, Syracuse, NY
