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 (1965), 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