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Artists›Bruce Nauman

Bruce Nauman

1941

WA-00001463

Fort Wayne, United States

Installation ArtPhotography

Representation

None documented

Institutional Exhibitions

154

Works in Collection

276

Assets Indexed

Authority-backed Facts

Publications Referenced

90%

Profile Completeness

Cultural Positioning

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Authority Records (2)

WikidataQ168665

MoMA

Selected Institutional Exhibitions

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No image

Mirrored Fiction

Gagosian

2026

No image

Bruce Nauman : Pasadena Years

Marian Goodman Gallery

Field Verification (6 fields)

3 cross-verified · 3 single-source

NationalityArtsy + Duplicate Merge+1· 85%✓
Birth yearWikidata + Unknown· 92%✓
LocationArtsy + Gallery· 85%✓
BiographyGallery Generic + Unknown· 72%
Primary mediumUnknown· 20%
DeceasedUnknown· 20%

Source Registry (5)

Christies-Artsyhttps://www.artsy.net/artist/bruce-nauman
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Sothebyshttps://www.sothebys.com/en/artists/bruce-nauman
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
White-Cubehttps://whitecube.com/artists
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
Marian-Goodmanhttps://www.mariangoodman.com/artists/
Tier 3 · Scraped/inferred100%
MoMA bulk 2026-05-04https://www.moma.org/artists/4243
Tier 1 · Institutional92%

About

Why this artist matters now

No biography available for Bruce Nauman yet.

Graph relationships

Taste overlap and adjacency

Movement

Installation Art

Medium

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Related Artists

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Institutional

Museum Collections

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum The Metropolitan Museum of Art Cleveland Museum of Art Tate Art Institute of Chicago

Canonical record

Artworks (154)

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Contrapposto Studies vi

2015 · Seven-channel video (color, sound)

Continuous duration. Dimensions variable.

Museum of Modern Art

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Contrapposto Studies iii

2015 · Seven-channel video (color, sound)

Continuous duration. Dimensions variable.

Museum of Modern Art

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Contrapposto Studies ii

2015 · Seven-channel video (color, sound)

Continuous duration. Dimensions variable.

Museum of Modern Art

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Contrapposto Studies iv

2015 · Seven-channel video (color, sound)

Continuous duration. Dimensions variable.

Museum of Modern Art

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Contrapposto Studies vii

2015 · Seven-channel video (color, sound)

Continuous duration. Dimensions variable.

Museum of Modern Art

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Contrapposto Studies i

2015 · Seven-channel video (color, sound)

Continuous duration. Dimensions variable.

Museum of Modern Art

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Contrapposto Studies v

2015 · Seven-channel video (color, sound)

Continuous duration. Dimensions variable.

Museum of Modern Art

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Contrapposto Studies, i through vii

2015 · Seven-channel video (color, sound)

Continuous duration. Dimensions variable.

Museum of Modern Art

Days

2009 · Stereo audio files, speakers, amplifiers, and additional equipment

8 1/2 x 11" (21.6 x 27.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Untitled

2008 · Ink on paper

8 1/2 x 11" (21.6 x 27.9 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Layout for Raw Materials 7 July 2004

2004 · Ink on papers

300 x 784 mm

Tate

Layout for Raw Materials 6 April 2004

2004 · Ink on paper

148 x 210 mm

Tate

Layout for Raw Materials 24 May 2004

2004 · Ink on papers

221 x 803 mm

Tate

Layout for Raw Materials

2004 · Ink on papers

220 x 806 mm

Tate

Mapping the Studio Notebook (Book 2)

2001 · Ink on paper

240 x 152 mm

Tate

Mapping the Studio Notebook (Book 1)

2001 · Ink on paper

unconfirmed: 240 x 152 x 10 mm

Tate

MAPPING THE STUDIO II with color shift, flip, flop, & flip/flop (Fat Chance John Cage)

2001 · Video, 7 projections, colour and sound (mono)

duration: 5hours, 45min Overall display dimensions variable

Tate

Setting a Good Corner (Allegory and Metaphor)

1999 · Video, monitor, colour and sound (stereo)

duration: 59min, 18sec

Tate

Donald Young Gallery, Who, What, Where, When

1999 · Color lithograph on white wove paper

Image: 53.7 × 81.1 cm (21 3/16 × 31 15/16 in.); Sheet: 76.2 × 86.4 cm (30 × 34 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

All Thumbs Holding Hands

1998 · Lithograph on paper on lithograph on paper

object: 60 x 607 x 550 mm

Tate

Life Fly Lifes Flies

1997 · Etching on white wove paper

Plate: 75.4 × 50.9 cm (29 11/16 × 20 1/16 in.); Sheet: 94 × 68.8 cm (37 1/16 × 27 1/8 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Partial Truth

1997 · Screenprint with embossing

composition: 17 11/16 × 23 5/8" (45 × 60 cm); sheet: 22 5/16 × 28 3/16" (56.6 × 71.6 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

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Artwork sources (5)

154 published of 252 catalogued · 216 with image

MoMA
94 publishedof 192 catalogued161 img
Tate
37 published35 img
Art Institute Chicago
20 published20 img
The Met
2 published
Cleveland Museum of Art
1 published

Per-Artwork Provenance Chains (top 10)

10 entries · 1 sources

Layout for Raw Materials 7 July 2004
2004 · Tate · 1 prov
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1970 · Tate · 1 prov
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Mapping the Studio Notebook (Book 2)
2001 · Tate · 1 prov
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Untitled (Three Large Animals)
1989 · Tate · 1 prov
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[title not known]
1990 · Tate · 1 prov
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NO (Black State)
1981 · Tate · 1 prov
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[title not known]
1990 · Tate · 1 prov
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Untitled
1994 · Tate · 1 prov
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Untitled (Drawing for Enforced Perspective)
1975 · Tate · 1 prov
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Raw Material Washing Hands, Normal (A of A/B) Raw Material Washing Hands, Normal (B of A/B)
1996 · Tate · 1 prov
Url Pattern Extraction 2026-05-27·accession_number

Record

Images

19 assets

Artsy

Art Institute of Chicago

Wikipedia

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Relationships

Peers & Context9

Felix Gonzalez-Torresco-exhibited Andreas Gurskyco-exhibited Duane Hansonco-exhibited Jeff Koonsco-exhibited Adam McEwenco-exhibitedDuane Hansonco-exhibited

Movements2

Installation Art Photography

Collections11

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum The Metropolitan Museum of Art Cleveland Museum of Art Tate Art Institute of Chicago Christie's

Institutional

Representation & Collections

Gallery

David Zwirner

Represented by

White Cube

Current

Gallery

Gagosian

Gallery

Marian Goodman Gallery

In collection

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum

In collection

The Metropolitan Museum of Art

In collection

Cleveland Museum of Art

In collection

Tate

In collection

Art Institute of Chicago

Market

Auction sale history

Houses that have sold works by this artist at auction

Background

Education

University of Wisconsin–Madison

Visual Arts

University of California, Davis

Visual Arts

Network

Related Artists

Felix Gonzalez-Torres

Record

Exhibitions and timeline

Group Exhibition Mirrored Fiction

2026

Exhibition Mirrored Fiction Gagosian

2026

Group Exhibition Robert Ryman: The Last Paintings

Solo Exhibition Bruce Nauman : Pasadena Years