Selected Press

The New York Review of Books, Art Is a Drug, Jarrett Earnest, 11 May 2023
Artforum
, General Idea, National Gallery of Canada, Dan Adler, 2 January 2023
Frieze
, Top 10 Shows from Across the World in 2022, Lisa Yin Zhang, 20 December 2022
Frieze
, The Irreverent Advocacy of General Idea, Charlene K. Lau, 23 August 2022
AnOther
, Circa and AA Bronson Debut a New Film to Mark World Aids Day, 1 December 2021
Wallpaper, ‘Image as virus’: World AIDS Day 2021 marked with powerful new public film, Harriet Lloyd-Smith, 1 December 2021
Dazed Digital, Circa is broadcasting a ‘viral’ activist film to commemorate World AIDS Day, 1 December 2021
MOMA
, When the Magic Bullets Fall: AA Bronson
on General Idea’s Installation at MoMA
, 14 April 2021
Frieze
, AA Bronson + General Idea: Creativity as Viral Transmission, Ellen Mara De Wachter, 30 October 2018
Frieze
, The Best Shows in London During Frieze Week, Hettie Judah, 28 September 2018
Artforum
, The Conformists: Alex Kitnick on the art of General Idea, Alex Kitnick, March 2017
Mousse Magazine
, “General Idea: Broken Time” at Museo Jumex, Mexico City, January 2017

AA Bronson, born Michael Tims, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, 1946.
Felix Partz, born Ronald Gabe, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, 1945-1994.
Jorge Zontal, born Slobodan Saia-Levy, Parma, Italy, 1944-1994.

General Idea were formed in 1969 by friends AA Bronson, Felix Partz and Jorge Zontal; for the next 25 years they lived and worked together to produce the living artwork of their being together, undertaking over 100 solo exhibitions, and countless group shows and temporary public art projects.

They were known for their magazine FILE (1972-1989), their unrelenting production of low-cost multiples, and their early involvement in punk, queer theory, AIDS activism, and other manifestations of the other. In 1974 they founded Art Metropole, Toronto, a distribution center and archive for artists’ books, audio, video, and multiples, which they conceived as the shop and archive for their Gesamtkunstwerk: The 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion, a kind of meta-museum. From 1987 through 1994, they focused their work on the subject of AIDS. The group was de facto dissolved with the deaths of Partz and Zontal in 1994 although General Idea’s work continues to be exhibited.

Solo Exhibitions

2023

General Idea: 25 Years 25 Works, Caviar20, Toronto, Canada

General Idea, Gropius Bau, Berliner Festspiele, Berlin
Ecce Homo: Drawings of General Idea, Musée d’art moderne et contemporain (MAMCO), Geneva, Switzerland
General Idea, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

General Idea, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada

2022

National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, travelling to: Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Netherlands (C)
Ecce Homo: The Drawings of General Idea, The Drawing Center, New York, NY, USA, travelling to MAMCO, Geneva, Switzerland

2020

Playing Doctor: General Idea Multiples, Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queen’s University, Ontario
Fin de Siècle: General Idea 1992, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

2018

Maureen Paley, London, UK
Catch me if you can! AA Bronson and General Idea, Esther Schipper, Berlin, Germany

2017

GENERAL IDEA: Ziggurat, Michell-Innes & Nash, New York, USA
General Idea: Broken Time/Tiempo Partido, MALBA, Buenos Aires, Argentina (C)
General Idea: Photographs (1969-1982), MAMCO Geneva, Switzerland

2016

General Idea: Broken Time/Tiempo Partido, Fondation Jumex, Mexico City, Mexico

2015

Tenderbooks, London
Works included in AA Bronson: Hexenmeister, Maureen Paley, London, UK

2013

General Idea: P is for Poodle, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
General Idea: P is for Poodle, Esther Schipper, Berlin, Germany
General Idea, Taro Nasu Gallery, Tokyo

2011

Haute Culture: General Idea 1969-1994 (touring exhibition),
Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris France;
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada

2011

FILE Magazine/General Idea Editions, Torpedo Kunstbokhandelen, Oslo, Norway

2010

General Idea: Editionen und Multiples, Helga Maria Klosterfelde Edition, Berlin, Germany

2009

General Idea: Works 1987 – 1994, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
General Idea: Works 1968 – 1975, Esther Schipper, Berlin, Germany
The 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion, The Art Gallery of York University, Toronto

2008

General Idea: Works 1968-1995, Stampa Gallery, Basel, Switzerland

2007

Sex + Death, Galerie Fréderic Giroux, Paris, France
General Ideal Editions: 1967-1995, (touring exhibition):
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle; Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Seville, Spain

2006

General Idea, White Cubicle Toilet Gallery, London, UK
General Idea: Found Formats, Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
General Ideal Editions: 1967-1995, (touring exhibition):
Muenchen Kunstverin, Munich, Germany; Kunstwerke, Berlin, Germany
General Idea: Early Work / Magic Bullet, Esther Schipper, Berlin, Germany

2005

General Idea, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburg, USA
General Idea, Vienna Secession, Vienna, Austria
General Ideal Editions: 1967-1995, (touring exhibition):
Luckman Fine Arts Complex, Los Angeles, USA; Victoria Art Gallery, Victoria, Canada
General Idea, Computer paintings 1979-1992, Galerie Frédéric Giroux, Paris, France

2004

General Idea: Multuples et series, Galerie Frédéric Giroux, Paris
General Idea Editions: 1967-1995, (touring exhibition): Plug In, Winnipeg, Canada Museum London, London, Canada Dunlop Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada Emily Carr College, Vancouver, Canada Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art & Design, Calgary, Canada

2003

General Idea Editions: 1967-1995, (touring exhibition):
Blackwood Gallery, U of T at Mississauga, Mississauga, Canada
Agnes Etherington Art Gallery, Kingston, Canada
Leonard and Bina Ellen Art Gallery, Concordia University, Montreal, Canada
Mount Saint Vincent University Art Gallery, Halifax, Canada
McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Canada
General Idea: Editions and Ephemera (1968-1995), 871 Fine Arts, San Francisco, USA
General Idea Editions: A Selection, Printed Matter, New York, USA

2002

General Idea, Galerie Giroux, Paris, France

2001

General Idea, 1301PE, Los Angeles, USA

2000

Fin de siècle, Plug In, Winnipeg, Canada

1998

General Idea, Camden Arts Centre, London, United Kingdom
General Idea, Robert Prime, London, United Kingdom

1997

Search for the Spirit: General Idea 1968-1975, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada

1995

General Idea, Galerie René Blouin, Montreal, Canada
General Idea, S. L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, Canada
General Idea: Showcards, Presentation House, Vancouver, Canada

1994

General Idea: Drawings 1989-1994, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
General Idea: Infe©tions, World Wide Video Center, Den Haag, The Netherlands
General Idea: The Showcard Series from the 1984 Miss General Idea Pageant Pavillion, Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Canada

1993

The Armoury of the 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion and Related Works, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
General Idea: Multiples, S. L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Videotapes by General Idea, National Gallery of Canada, Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, Canada General Idea’s Fin de siècle – The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada

1990

General Idea, Galleria Massimo de Carlo, Milan, Italy

1989

General Idea’s ¥en Boutique, Dörrie-Priess Galerie, Hamburg, Germany
AIDS, Project for the New York Subway System, New York, USA
AIDS, Project for Spectacolor Board, Times Square, New York, USA
Nightschool: The Academy of the Miss General Idea Pavillion, Mai 36 Galerie, Lucerne
AIDS (project for Stampa Galerie) Frankfurt Art Fair, Frankfurt, Germany
General Idea 1968-1988, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
General Idea’s ¥en Boutique, Galerie Esther Schipper, Cologne, Germany
General Idea, Hillman Holland Fine Arts, Atlanta, USA
Test Pattern: TV Dinner Plates from the 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion, Koury Wingate Gallery, New York, USA

1998

Test Pattern: TV Dinner Plates from the 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion, SPIRAL, Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
AIDS (window project), New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
AIDS, (poster project), Berlin, Germany
Mondo Cane (Distressed), Galerie Meyer-Hohmeister, Karlsruhe, Germany
AIDS Paintings, Koury Wingate Gallery, New York, USA
AIDS, YYZ Artists’ Outlet, Toronto, Canada
AIDS (poster project) Toronto, Canada
General Idea, Stampa Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
AIDS (billboard project) Billboard Café, San Francisco, USA
The Public and Private Domains of the 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion, Artspace, San Francisco, USA
AIDS (poster project), San Francisco, USA

1987

The Armoury of the 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
AIDS (serigraph edition) Koury Wingate Gallery, New York, USA
AIDS (poster project) New York City, New York, USA
The Armoury of the 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion (touring exhibition)
Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA; 49th Parallel, New York, USA;
University Art Gallery, California State University, Long Beach, USA;
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, USA
Cornucopia, Forest City Gallery, London, Canada
Ziggurat Paintings, Galerie Montenay-Delsol, Paris, France

1986

P is for Poodle, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland

1985

The Ruins of the Kroma Key Klub, de Vleeshal, Middleburg, The Netherlands
Miss General Idea’s Achievement, International With Monument, New York, USA
The 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion (touring exhibition):
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland;
Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands;
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada;
Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal, Canada

1984

General Idea’s 1984, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Mondo Cane Kama Sutra, Centre d’art contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Baby Makes 3, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Caniche à la Mode, Language Plus, Alma, Quebec, Canada
General Idea, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
General Idea Media Works 1968-1984, Stampa Galerie, Basel, Switzerland

1983

P is for Poodle: The Milky Way from the 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion, Music Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto
General Idea’s Jorge Zontal (curated by AA Bronson and Felix Partz), Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna, Austria
Mondo Cane, Stampa, Basel, Switzerland
General Idea’s Mondo Cane Kama Sutra, Baronian Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Canile, Galerie Françoise Lambert, Milan, Italy

1982

Ziggurat Paintings (1968-69), Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada
General Idea’s Jorge Zontal, A Space, Toronto, Canada
Colour Bar Lounge, Centre for Art Tapes, Halifax, Canada

1981

The Miss General Idea Boutique, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada
The Honeymoon is Over, Stampa Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
Représentation Confusés, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada
General Idea, 49th Parallel, New York, USA

1979

Consenting Adults, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Playing the Triangle, Samangallery, Genoa, Italy
Colour Bar Lounge, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
General Idea, Krinzinger Gallery, Innsbruck, Austria;
Modern Art Gallery, Vienna, Austria
Test Tube, de Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Ménage à Trois, Centre d’art contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland

1978

Reconstructing Futures, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada;
Canada House, London, United Kingdom;
Canadian Cultural Centre, Paris, France
Ménage à Trois, Galerie Lucio Amelio, Naples, Italy
Three Men, Zona Galerie, Florence, Italy;
Galerie Laboratorio, Milan, Italy

1977

Artists and Models, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Going Thru the Motions, Galerie Optica, Montreal, Canada
The 1971 Miss General Idea Pageant Entries, Parachute Centre for Cultural Affairs, Calgary, Canada
The Frame of Reference, Western Front Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
S/HE, St. Lawrence College Gallery, Kingston, Canada
Sex and Responsibility, Nova Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

1976

Search for the Spirit, Galerie Gaetan, Geneva, Switzerland

1975

Going Thru the Notions, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada

1974

G.I. at the Western Front, Western Front Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

1973

Luxon V.B., Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Manipulating the Self, Galerie B, Montreal, Canada

1972

Light On, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Evidence of Body Binding, Galerie B, Montreal, Canada

1971

The 1971 Miss General Idea Pageant Entries, Art Gallery of Ontario and A Space, Toronto, Canada

1970

Betty’s, 78 Gerrard Street West, Toronto, Canada
Off Hand (Felix Partz), 567 Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Good Enough to Eat (Jorge Zontal), Rochdale College Art Gallery, Toronto, Canada

1969

The Belly Store (collaboration with John Neon), 78 Gerrard Street West, Toronto, Canada
Waste Age, 78 Gerrard Street West, Toronto, Canada
Inside Today’s Home, Theatre Passe Muraille, Toronto, Canada

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024

A Model: Prelude - Rayyane Tabet. Trilogy, Mudam Museum, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
A Model, Mudam Museum, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
A Model: Epilogue - Jason Dodge, Mudam Museum, Luxembourg, Luxembourg
Under Construction: Moving Scenes, Brigitte March International Contemporary Art, Stuttgart, Germany

2023

Statement Chairs, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands
KUNSTWERKE, Stampa Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
Everything at Once: Postmodernity, 1967-1992, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, GermanyBrian O’Doherty: Phases of the Self, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, LiechtensteinEditions Part One, Paul Petro, Toronto, CanadaApparition Room, Western Front, Vancouver, CanadaMake Your Dream Last Longer Than the Night, Musée Départemental d'Art Contemporain de Rochechouart, Rochechouart, France
Signals, How Video Transformed the World, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Alles auf einmal: die Postmoderne, 1967-1992, Bundeskunsthalle Bonn, Bonn, Germany
Paul Jaray - Die Vernunft der Stromlinie, Kunsthaus Dahlem, Berlin, Germany
Seduction of the Bureaucrat, De Garage, Mechelen, Belgium
Plastic Heart: Surface All the Way Through, Centre Culturel Canadien, Paris, France
Broken Music Vol. 2, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
(Un)Defining Queer, The Whitworth Art Gallery of the University of Manchester, Manchester, UK
Offset, Le Centre du Livre D'Artiste, Saint-Yrieix, France
Chopped & Screwed, White Cube - New York, New York City, United States
Aux temps du sida. Oeuvres, récits et entrelacs, Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCS), Strasbourg, France
Fragment of an Infinite Discourse, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus & Kunstbau, Munich, Germany
Kunsthal Charlottenborg Biennale, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen, Denmark
Shows Of Solidarity: 50 Years Of Video And Performance At Saw, Galerie SAW Gallery, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Homo Ludens, Woods Art Institute (WAI), Hamburg, Germany

2022

Art for the Future: Artists Call and Central American Solidarities, Aidekman Arts Center, Medford, USA; SMFA at Tufts, Boston, MA, USA
Blurred Boundaries: Queer Visions in Canadian Art, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Plastic Heart: Surface All the Way Through, Art Museum at the University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
Hildebrand Collection, G2 Schaulager, G2 Kunsthalle, Dittrichring, Leipzig, Germany
Broken Music Vol. 2, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany
What is Left Unspoken, Love, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Take Care, Art and Medicine, Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Every Moment Counts – AIDS and its Feelings, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Høvikodden, Norway
Brian O’Doherty: Phases of the Self, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
(Un)Defining Queer, The Whitworth, Manchester, UK
Robyn Brentano & Andrew Horn, Carlos Bunga, Spencer Finch, General Idea, Kapwani Kiwanga, Eric N. Mack, Joseph del Pesco and Johnny Pootoogook, 3+1 Gallery, Lisbon, Portugal

2021

Closer to Life: Drawings and Works on Paper in the Marieluise Hessel Collection, CCS Bard, Hessel Museum of Art, New York, USA
Comedy, Gabriele Senn Galerie, Vienna, Austria
An apology, a pill, a ritual, a resistance, Remai Modern, Saskatoon, Canada
The Way We Are 3.0, Weserburg Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany
VIDEONALE.scope #8, Filmforum NRW & Filmclub 813, Cologne, German
Sous le fil/ Under the Thread, les Abattoirs - FRAC Midi-Pyrénées, Toulouse, France
Two Truths and a Lie, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canada
Esther Schipper in Tapei, PPP / PPAPER Space, Taipei, Taiwan
Pride 2021, Caviar20, Toronto, Canada
Le Souffleur: Schumann trifft Ludwig, Ludwig Forum Aachen, Aachen, Germany
The Line of Wit, Guggenheim Bilbao, Bilbao, Spain

2020

Psychic Wounds: On Art and Trauma, The Warehouse, Dallas, USA
Uncommon Language, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
The Tin Man was a Dreamer: Allegories, Poetics and Performances of Power, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Artists by Artists, Confederation Centre of the Arts Art Gallery, Charlottetown, Canada
Karol Radziszewski. The Power of Secrets with General Idea, CCA – Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland
Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, USA
PS 81E, Esther Schipper, Berlin, Germany
Looking At The Sun At Midnight, Lenbachhaus, KiCo Foundation, Munich, Germany

2019

Crossroads: Carnegie Museum of Art’s Collection, 1945 to Now, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pensylvannia, USA
Installationen Aus 25 Jahren Sammlung Falckenberg, Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg, Germany
Altered After, Curated by Conrad Ventur for Visual AIDS, Participant Inc., New York, USA
United By AIDS- An Exhibition about Loss, Remembrance, Activism and Art in response to HIV/AIDS, Migros Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
On Paper, Arts Council Collection Touring Exhibition, Thelma Hubert Gallery, Honiton, UK, Travelling to Gallery Oldham, Oldham, UK
Des mots et des choses, Frac Bretagne, Rennes, France
Salle des maquettes, Galerie de l’UQAM, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montreal, Canada
Superscreen: The Making of an Artist-Run Counterculture and the Grand Western Canadian Screen Shop, MacKenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

2018

The 80s Image, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
Echte Luxe…, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
RE-IMAGE-IN, Vancouver Biennale, Vancouver, Canada
Art & Entertainment, Mamco, Geneva, Switzerland
Canadian and Indigenous Art: 1968 to Present, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Art & Entertainment, Mamco, Geneva, Switzerland
True Luxury: Art Acquisitions 2012 – 2018, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Brand New: Art and Commodity in the 1980s, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC, USA
On Paper (Arts Council Touring Exhibition) Perth Museum and Art Gallery, Perth, UK; travelling to Gallery Oldham, Oldham; Inverness Museum and Art Gallery, Inverness; Oriel Wrecsam, Wrexham; Glynn Vivian Art Gallery, Swansea; Victoria Art Gallery, Bath and Thelma Hubert Gallery, Honiton.
Art Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Being Modern: MoMA in Paris, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
MoMA at the NGV: 130 Years of Modern and Contemporary Art, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia

2017

Bye Bye De Stijl, Centraal Museum, Utrecht, The Netherlands
An Incomplete History of Protest, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Exposition De Groupes, Galeries Roger Bellemare et Christian Lambert, Montreal, QC, Canada
The American Dream. Pictures of American Realism since 1965, Kunsthalle Emden, Emden, Germany
Being Modern: Moma in Paris, Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris, France
The American Dream: pop to present, The British Museum, London, UK (C)
Over the Rainbow, Praz-Delavallade, Los Angeles, USA
Dying well – False death, Museum für Neue Kunst, Freiburg, Germany

2016

Form Follows Fiction: Art and Artists in Toronto, Justina M Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON Canada
Toronto: Tributes + Tributaries, 1971-1989, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON Canada

2015

Vanità/Vanitas, Museo Ettore Fico, Turin, Italy
Art AIDS America, Tacoma, Washington, USA (touring)
Collecting Line II – Drawings from the Ringier Collection, Villa Flora, Winterthur, Switzerland
Homosexuality_ies, Schwules Museum, Berlin, Germany
Under the Clouds: From Paranoia to the Digital Sublime, Serralves Museum, Porto, Portugal
Hôtel Dunkerque, FRAC – Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque, France
The Illusion of Light, François Pinault Foundation, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
A Republic of Art French International Collections of Contemporary Art, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

2014

FOOD | produire, manger, consommer, MuCEM, Marseille, France
«La décennie – Une histoire des années 90» (The decade – An history of the 90’s), Centre Pompidou – Metz, Metz, France.

2014

Abandon the Parents, Statens Museum for Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark
Another, Once Again, Many Times More, Martos, New York, USA
THIS IS ME, THIS IS ALSO ME, McMaster Museum of Art, McMaster University, Hamilton, USA
Une histoire, art, architecture et design, des années 80 à aujourd’hui, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
The Illusion of Light, François Pinault Foundation, Palazzo Grassi, Venice, Italy
Collective III, Galerie Guy Bärtschi, Geneva, Switzerland
Over the Rainbow: Seduction and Identity, Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada
Before Normal: Concept after Concept, Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, Denmark
What It Means To Be Seen: Photography And Queer Visibility, Ryerson Image Centre, Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada
Fan the Flames: Queer Positions in Photography, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada In Character: Self Portrait of the Artist as Another – mocca – Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art, Toronto, Canada
Video Container: Museum As Method, MOCA at Goldman Warehouse, Miami, USA
J’En Veux Plus, Toujours Plus! /// And I Still Want More!, Galerie Thomas Henry Ross Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada
Haver fet un lloc on els artistes tinguin dret a equivocar-se, Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
Love Aids Riot Sex 2, Kunst Aids Aktivismus 1995 Bis Heute, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin, Germany
1984? – Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland

2013

Love Aids Riot Sex 1. Kunst Aids Aktivismus 1987-1995, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin
Affordable Bananas or Whatever, Nosbaum&Reding, Luxembourg
Oeuvres De La Collection Philippe Cohen 20 Ans D’acquisitions, Passage de Retz, Paris, France
Mínima resistencia, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
The Temptation of AA Bronson, Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, Nertherlands
Continental Drift I & II, Konzeptkunst in Kanada: Die 1960er und 70er Jahre, Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruhe, Germany
Video Vintage 1963-1983, Beirut Art Center, Beirut, Lebanon
Le Grand Tout , 30 ans du Frac Limousin, FRAC, Limousin, Limoges, France
The Magic Bullet, 2013, TORRI, Paris, France

2012

This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s, Institute of Contemporary Arts London, UK; Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, USA; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA; Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, USA Traffic: Conceptual Art in Canada 1965–1980, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada Questions D’images (visages De Sable), Carré d´art, Musée d´art contemporain de Nîmes, Nîmes, France Stage Presence – Theatricality In Art And Media, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Editions!, Grieder Contemporary, Zürich, Switzerland relocated, MD 72, Berlin, Germany Gold, Belvedere, Vienna, Austria Beyond Occupied Images, Galerija Skuc, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Vidéo Vintage 1963-1983, Centre Pompidou, Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris, France
A for artists / E for Exhibitions / Part I and II, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam, Netherlands

2011

40 Ideal Home, Chelsea space, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, UK
The Concept Sublime: 35 Years Brigitte March Gallery, Brigitte March International Contemporary Art, Stuttgart, Germany
XXX Thirty Years Peter Blum Edition, Peter Blum Gallery, NYC, USA
Play Time, Œuvres de la collection Klosterfelde, Lieu d’Art Contemporaine, Sigean, France
Out of Storage: Provisoire & Définitif, Marres, Centre for Contemporary Culture, Maastricht, Nertherlands
My Winnipeg, La Maison Rouge, Paris, France
Beziehungsarbeit, Kunst und Institution, Künstlerhaus Wien, Vienna, Austria
Estáis Listos Para La Televisión?, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
Group show, Galerie Frédéric Giroux, Paris, France
Cover Girl, La Galerie des Galeries Lafayette, Paris, France

2010

Electro Géo,FRAC, Limousin, Limoges, France
¿Estáis listos para la televisión?, Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
Covering the wall, Musée de Pully, Pully, Switzerland
Jeder Künstler ist ein Mensch, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany
Destrøy Design, Aarhus Kunstbygning, Center for Contemporary Art, Aarhus, Denmark
PRINTS & MULTIPLES / im SHOWROOM, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
Neo Geo & Cie L’image de l’abstraction à la fin du xxème siècle, FRAC, Limousin, Limoges, France
DO / REDO / UNDO – WIELS, Centrum voor Hedendaagse kunst, Brussels, Belgium
Dorm, The Model, Sligo, Ireland
This and That, Corvi-Mora, London, UK
Changing Channels, Kunst und Fernsehen 1963-1987, Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, MUMOK, Vienna, Austria
Seconde main, Musée d´Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris – MAM/ARC, Paris
Destroy Design, MUDAC – Musée de design es d`arts appliques contemporains, Lausanne, France
Neugierig? Kunst des 21. Jahrhunderts aus privaten Sammlungen – Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany

2009

World upside down, Musée D´Art de Joliette, Joliette, Québec, Canada
Playing Homage, CAG – Vancouver Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
TOP 10 ALLEGORIES, Galerie Francesca Pia, Zurich, Switzerland
The Studio Sessions, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Pop, Surrey Art Gallery, Surrey, BC, Canada
All that is solid melts into air, MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp, The Netherlands
Proiezioni, Castello di Rivara , Centro d´arte contemporane, Rivara, Canada
Coalesce: Happenstance, Smart Project Space, Amsterdam

2008

Recent Acquisitions, Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Canada
Ideas of Landscape/ Landscape of Ideas 2, Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
2 × [ (2 × 20) (2 × 2) ] 2 = × x (desperately) trying to figure out the world – Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
Political Corect, BFAS Blondeau Fine Art Services, Geneva, Switzerland
L’Argent, FRAC, Ile-de-France Le Plateau, Paris, France
Gewoon Anders! / Just Different! – Cobra Museum, Amstelveen, The Netherlands
Less is less, more is more, that’s all, CAPC – Musée d’art contemporain, Bordeaux, France
ANALOGUE: Pioneering Video from the UK, CANADA and POLAND (1968-88) – Artspace, Peterborough, ON, Canada
Construction, 1301PE, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Make Art/Stop AIDS, Fowler Museum at UCLA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
P2P, Casino Luxembourg, Forum d’art contemporain, Luxembourg
Art Metropole: The Top 100, MSVU Art Gallery, Halifax, NS, Canada

2007

World Upside Down, Agnes Etherington Art Center, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Forms of Resistance Artists and the desire for social change from 1871 to the present – Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, the Netherlands
Kopf an Kopf Serielle Porträtfotografie, Kunsthalle Tübingen, Tübingen, Germany
BODYPOLITCX – Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam, the Netherlands
WORDS AND PICTURES: Recent Acquisitions in Context – Justina M Barnicke Gallery, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada
Handsome Young Doctor: A Show About Trust, CUBITT, London, UK
Rückblende. Die Fotosamlung der Neuen Galerie Graz, Neue Galerie Graz, Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz, Austria
TOMORROW NOW, when design meets science fiction, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg Scenes and Sequences (touring), Peter Blum Edition, New York, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland
Into Me, Out of Me, MACRO Testaccio (MACRO Future), Rome, Italy
General Idea, Christian Jankowski, Kay Rosen, Lawrence Weiner, Helga Maria Klosterfelde Edition – Berlin, Berlin, Germany
Videostampa, Stampa, Basel, Switzerland

2006

Persona – From the Collection, National Gallery of Canada, Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, Canada
INTO ME / OUT OF ME, Kunst-Werke Berlin, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
The Full White Cube, Le Cube Blanc Plein, Galerie Frédéric Giroux, Paris, France
Multiplicity, Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, MCA, Sydney, Austraia
World Upside Down, The Banff Centre, Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Canada
TEMENOS EL DUCHAMP… Galería de Arte Mexicano, GAM, Mexico City
Das Achte Feld – Geschlechter, Leben u. Begehren in der bildenden Kunst s. 1960, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Mister Man, Agnes Etherington Art Center, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Into me / Out of me – MoMA PS1, New York City, USA
Access for All – Museum Jan Cunen, Oss, the Netherlands
Packageing, Galerie Frédéric Giroux, Paris
Medium Fotografie – Stampa, Basel, Switzerland
Hundert Küsse sind besser als einer (Hundred Kisses are better than one) – Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna, Austria
Madame la baronne était plutôt maniérée, assez rococo et totalement baroque, Acte 1 – Maison populaire de Montreuil, Montreuil, France
Storefront, National Gallery of Canada, Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
Winterausstellung, Esther Schipper, Berlin, Germany

2005

Looking at Words, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, USA
8e Biennale de Lyon, Expérience de la durée, Experiencing Duration, La Biennale de Lyon, Lyon, France
Transformations, Expositions des artistes de la galerie, Galerie Frédéric Giroux, Paris, France
Subject to Rule, Agnes Etherington Art Center, Kingston, Ontario, Canada
Sliding Tense: Identifying Toronto Art – UTAC – University of Toronto Art Centre, Toronto, Canada
Kollektive Kreativität – Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany
Just do it!, Die Subversion der Zeichen von Marcel Duchamp bis Prada Meinhof , Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz, Austria
Trade – White Columns, New York City, USA

2004

L’artiste éditeur, FRAC, Limousin, Limoges, France
Multiple Strategies, CAC, Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA
La lettre volée, Musée des Beaux Arts de Dôle, Dôle, France
Coup de coeur II, Crac Alsace, Altkirch, France
After Images, Weserburg, Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany
POINT, Dazibao, centre de photographies actuelles, Montreal, Canada
The Real Thing, Steven Wolf Fine Arts, San Francisco, USA

2003

“Game over” , Andreas Grimm München, Munich, Germany
Une collection de « Chefs-d’œuvre » Emprunts, pastiches, copies, citations et interprétations FRAC, Limousin, Limoges, France
Now Playing: Daniel Reich Gallery, K48, John Connelly Presents, D’Amelio Terras, New York City, USA Zona People 1974-1985 Non profit art space – Firenze – Mamco – musée d´art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland On the Wall, Wallpaper and Tableau, The Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia, USA
False Innocence, Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain
Our Mutual Friend, Bloomberg Space, London, UK

2002

STARS and BRIGHTS – Brigitte March International Contemporary Art, Stuttgart, Germany
Public Affairs – Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland
Kunst nach Kunst, Weserburg, Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany
Animagerie, Animagery, Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
Art & Economy, Gemeinschaftsprojekt mit dem Siemens Arts Program, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Mirror Image, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA

2001

L’art vu à distance, FRAC, Limousin, Limoges, France
Let´s entertain, MAM, Miami Art Museum, Miami, USA
Stuffed, 1301PE, Los Angeles, USA
Dévoler, IAC, Institut d’art contemporain Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes, Villeurbanne, France
Missing Link. Menschen-Bilder in der Fotografie – Kunsthaus Dresden, Dresden, Germany
Il ne faut pas se fier aux apparences, un train peut en cacher un autre, Abbaye St André, Centre d’art contemporain Meymac, Meymac, France
Televisions, Kunst sieht fern, Kunsthalle Wien (Museumsquartier), Vienna, Austria

2000

Versiones del Sur: Cinco propuestas en torno al arte en América. F®icciones – Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
Au-delà du spectacle, Centre Pompidou, Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris, France
Let´s entertain, Portland Art Museum, Portland, Canada
Self-service, Five Years, London, UK
Let’s Entertain, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA

1999

Persuasion: Tales of Persuasion and the Avant-Garde – UB Art Galleries – University of Buffalo, Buffalo, USA
Missing Link. Menschen-Bilder in der Fotografie – Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switxerland
Le Capital, CRAC – Centre Régional d’Art Contemporain de Sète, Sète, France

1998

Aids-Worlds; Between Resignation and hope – CACT Centro d´Arte Contemporanea Ticino, Bellinzona, Switzerland
Word Perfect, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, USA
Disappearing Act, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York City, USA
fast forward – 2. Abschnitt: FFWD trade marks, Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Produkt Kunst: Wo bleibt das Original? Ludwig Museum im Deutschherrenhaus, Koblenz, Germany
Thinking Print: Books to Billboards, 1980-1995, Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, USA

1997

Produkt Kunst: Wo bleibt das Original? (touring) – Kunstsammlung Gera – Orangerie, Gera – Weserburg | Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen
Group Show, Corvi-Mora, London, UK
Rococo Tattoo: The Ornamental Impulse in Toronto Art, The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
Disrupture: Postmodern Media Nam June Paik, Dara Birnbaum, and General Idea – San Francisco Museum of Modern Art – SFMOMA, San Francisco, USA
La collection : œuvres phares – Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
Produkt Kunst: Wo bleibt das Original?, Kunstmuseum Solothurn, Solothurn, Switzerland

1996

a/drift – Hessel Museum of Art & Center for Curatorial Studies Galleries at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, USA

1995

Art Unlimited: Multiples of the 60s & 90s (subsequent touring), Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA), Glasgow, Scotland

1994

L’hiver de l’amour bis, Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris, Paris, France;
P.S.1 Museum, New York, USA
The Century of the Multiple, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
Le Saut Dans Le Vide / Der Sprung Ins Leere, Maison Centrale des Artistes, Moscow, Russia
Body and Soul, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA
Public Interventions, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
“Please, don’t hurt me!”, Galerie Snoei, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
don’t look now, Thread Waxing Space, New York, USA

1993

Computerunterstützte Kunst, Künstlerwerkstatt Lothringerstraße München, Munich, Germany
Tema AIDS, (touring exhibition),
Sonje Henie-Neils Onstad Foundation, Hovikhodden, Norway;
Bergen Kunstforning, Stockholm, Sweden
Prints and Issues, Kunstwerke Berlin, Berlin, Germany
From Media to Metaphor: Art About AIDS (ICI touring exhibition):
Emerson Gallery, Hamilton College, Clinton, USA;
Center of Contemporary Art, Seattle, USA;
Sharadin Art Gallery, Kutztown, USA;
Musée d’art contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, Canada;
Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, New York, USA

1992

Transgressions in the White Cube: Territorial Mappings, Bennington College, Bennington, USA
Multiples, Dörrie-Priess Galerie, Hamburg, Germany
Art meets Ads, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Düsseldorf, Germany
Stampa, Stampa Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
Transform, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Wiener Fest Wochen, Vienna, Austria
David Clarkson, General Idea, Allan McCollum, S. L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Ballots and Bullets, Sally Hawkins Gallery, New York, USA
Three or More-Multiplied art from Duchamp to the present, SPIRAL, Tokyo, Japan

1991

Multiples: Brian Boigon, General Idea, Douglas Walker, S. L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Curatorial Laboratory Project #7: Atlas, Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Canada
In Public: Seattle 1991, Security Pacific Gallery, Seattle, USA
The Art of Advocacy, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, USA
ECART, Genève, Galerie van Gelder, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
All For Love, Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA
Words & #’s, Wright State University, Dayton, USA
Proiezioni, Castello di Rivara, Rivara, Italy
Team Spirit (Independent Curators Incorporated touring exhibition):
Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, USA;
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art,Cleveland, USA;
The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, USA;
Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale Cultural Council, Scottsdale, USA; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada;
Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, USA;
Salina Art Center and the Wichita Museum of Art, Salina and Wichita, USA
Graphothek (touring exhibition), Goethe-Institut Vancouver, Vancouver, Canada; London Regional Art & Historical Museum, London, Canada;
Maison de la Culture, Plateau Mont-Royal, Montreal, Canada;
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada
Inquiries: Language into Art (touring exhibition): Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada;
McMaster University Art Gallery, Hamilton, Canada;
Thunder Bay Art Gallery, Thunder Bay, Canada;
Laurentian University Museum and Art Gallery, Sudbury, Canada;
Rodman Hall Arts Centre, St. Catharines, Canada

1990

Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Koury Wingate Gallery, New York, USA
Grids, Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, New York, USA
Language in Art, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, USA
Art Meets Science and Spirituality in a Changing Economy, Museum Fodor, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Word As Image, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, USA
Stendhal Syndrome: The Cure, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, USA
Serieel, Galerie Akinci, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
The Young and the Restless, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA
The Indomitable Spirit (touring exhibition),
International Centre of Photography, New York, USA;
The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

1989

Art About AIDS, Freedman Gallery, Albright College, Reading, USA
A Call to Healing and Action, The Jewish Museum, New York, USA
General Idea, Serge Kliaving, Wolfgang Staehle, Koury Wingate Gallery, New York, USA
Fictions, Mirabel Montreal International Airport, Montreal, Canada
D & S Austellung, Hamburger Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany
Homo Genius, Mercer Union Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Zeichnung und Skulptur, Stampa Galerie, Basel, Switzerland
The Subject is AIDS, Nexus, Atlanta, USA
Messages, Didactic Gallery, Plano, USA

1988

Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany
Dike Blair, Stephen Ellis, General Idea, Koury Wingate Gallery, New York, USA
Des Emblemes Comme Attitudes, Ecole des Beaux Arts, Tourcoing, France
Toward Common Ground, Real Art Ways, Hartford, USA
Summer ’88, Koury Wingate Gallery, New York, USA
Der Hund in mir – The Dog Within, Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna, Austria
1988: The World of Art Today (touring exhibition), Milwaukee Art Museum, USA;
Roger Ramsay Gallery, Chicago, USA;
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada;
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA

1987

Modern Living, Jeffrey Linden Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Peter Blum Edition: Enzo Cucchi, General Idea, Brice Marden, James Turrell, Lorence-Monk Gallery, New York, USA
Sign of the Times, Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
Material Functions, (touring exhibition): 49th Parallel, New York, USA;
University of New York, Binghamton, USA
(of Ever-Ever Land I Speak), Stux Gallery, New York, USA
Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne, Germany
Japan 87 International Video and Television Festival, SPIRAL, Tokyo, Japan
Documenta 8 , Kassel, Germany
A Play of History, Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
Sea to Shining Sea, Power Plant, Toronto, Canada
Animal Art, Steirischer Herbst, Graz, Austria

1986

End Game: Reference and Simulation in Recent Painting and Sculpture , Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
Caravelle, Magasin, Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
The Interpretation of Architecture, YYZ Artists’ Outlet, Toronto, Canada
How We See, What We Say, Harbourfront Gallery, Toronto, Canada

1985

Four Legs Good, Harbourfront Gallery, Toronto, Canada
International With Monument, New York, USA
Aurora Borealis, CIAC, Montreal, Canada
De Duppelganger, Aorta, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
TIME, (touring exhibition),: Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium;
Musée Rath, Geneva, Switzerland;
Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark;
Kunsthalle, Mannheim, Germany;
Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria;
Barbican Centre, London, United Kingdom
Artistic Collaboration in the Twentieth Century (touring exhibition),
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C., USA;
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, USA;
J. I. Speed Museum, Louisville, USA

1984

An International Survey of Recent Painting & Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Dog Work – Dog Show, Interim Art, London, United Kingdom
1984, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria
International Art, Baskerville + Watson, New York, USA

1983

O Kanada, Akademie der Kunst, Berlin, Germany
Künstler aus Kanada, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
Artists’ Architecture: Scenes and Conventions, ICA, London, United Kingdom
Museums by Artists, (touring exhibition): Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada;
Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal, Canada;
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Canada
Chromaliving, The Colonnade, Toronto, Canada
Attitudes, Canadian National Exhibition, Toronto, Canada
Pierre et Marie (in ruins of church), Paris, France

1982

Manner/sm: A Theory of Culture, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Sydney Biennale, Sydney, Australia
Fiction (touring exhibition): Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada;
Windsor Art Gallery, Windsor, Canada;
Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Canada;
Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Canada;
Laurentian University Art Gallery, Sudbury, Canada;
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada;
49th Parallel, New York, USA
Prefiguration and Figuration of the Catastrophe, Centre d’art contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Documenta 7, Kassel, Germany
Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada
New Narratives for Living and Viewing, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Destroy Those Pictures, Chromazone, Toronto, Canada
Beast, PS1, New York, USA
Monumenta, YYZ, Toronto, Canada
Prime Time Video, Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada
Transmissions, Cambridge Art Gallery, Cambridge, Canada
Celebration, ARC, Toronto, Canada

1981

Terminal Building, A Space, Toronto, Canada
New Acquisitions, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada

1980

Architectural References, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Venice Biennale, Canadian Pavilion, Venice, Italy
Pluralities, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Words and Image, National Film Board Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
Nuova Immagine, XVI Triennale, Palazzo Triennale, Milan, Italy
Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada

1979

Perspective ‘79, Basel Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland
Station to Station, A Space, Toronto, Canada
Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Galerie Marielle Mailhot, Montreal, Canada

1978

Kanadischer Künstler, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada

1977

Biennale des Jeunes, Paris, France
03 23 03, Parachute, Montreal, Canada
Transparent Things (touring exhibition): Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada; London Art Gallery, London, Canada;
Art Gallery of Victoria, Victoria, Canada;
Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal, Canada
Punk Press, A Space, Toronto, Canada
Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada

1976

Forum ‘76, Musée des Beaux Arts, Montreal, Canada
Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada

1975

Present Company, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Carmen Lamanna at the Owens Art Gallery, Owens Art Gallery, Sackville, Canada

1974

Sincerely Yours, Granada Gazelle, Memo from Turner, Toronto, Canada

1973

Canada Trajectoires ‘73, Musée d’art moderne, Paris, France
Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Aktionen der Avant-garde, DAAD Gallery, Berlin, Germany

1972

New Acquisitions, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
Better Body Works, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, Canada
Burnaby Print Show, Burnaby Art Gallery, Burnaby, Canada
Realism, Emulsion and Omission: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Kingston, Canada;
University of Guelph Art Gallery, Guelph, Canada
Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada

1971

Image Bank Post Card Show, UBC Fine Arts Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada

1970

Concept 70, Nightingale Gallery, Toronto, Canada

Selected Video Exhibitions & Broadcasts

2023

VideoVirus, AA Bronson + General Idea, Circa in collaboration with Gropius Bau, Kurfürstendamm, Berlin

2021

VideoVirus, AA Bronson + General Idea, Circa, Piccadilly Lights, London, UK; Coex K-Pop Square, Seoul, South Korea; Fed Square, Melbourne, Australia; Luxottica, Pizalle Cadorna, Milan, Italy; Luxottica, Times Square, New York, USA; Yunika Vision, Tokyo, Japan

2013

The Universal Addressability of Dumb Things, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program, Berlin, Germany
The image is a virus. Histories of Cinema 1980-1990s – Session 2. Parodies of the Subject, 1980s Television Proposals, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sophia, Madrid, Spain
Indiana University Libraries, Bloomington, USA

2012

Vidéo vintage, (touring exhibition organized by Centre Pompidou, Paris, France),
ZKM (Zentrum für Kunst und Medietechnologie), Karlesruhe, Germany;
Beirut Art Center, Beirut, Lebanon;
Oi Futuro Cultural Center, Belo Horizonte, Brazil;
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea

2012

Young and Not Stupid / Radical Even Though Old, Anthology Film Archives, New York, USA Video Vintage, Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France

2011

Momentarily Learning from Mega-Events, Makan, Amman, Jordan
Exchange and Evolution: Worldwide Video, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, USA

2011

General Idea: Films and Videos, 1969-85 part of Queer Cinema from the Collection: Today and Yesterday, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA; Swarm, Western Front, Vancouver, Canada; Postmodernism: A video programme, Oakville Galleries, Oakville, Canada; ARGOS Centre for Art and Media, Brussels, Belgium

2010

Changing Channels: Kunst und Fernsehen 1963-1987 / Art and Television 1963-1987, MUMOK, Vienna, Austria
Are You Ready for TV?, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain; CGAC (Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporánea), Santiago de Compostela, Spain

2007

53rd International Short Film Festival, Oberhausen, Germany
Videokunst, Stampa, Basel, Switzerland

2005

General Idea, Filmwinter Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
General Idea, Tate Modern, London, United Kingdom

2004

Toronto, Xchange Club, Ocularis, Brooklyn, USA

2003

30 Jaar: Nederlandse Videokunst, Nederlands Instituut voor Mediakunst, Amsterdam
Eternal Network: Videos from the Western Front Archives 1973-2001 (touring exhibition), The Western Front, Vancouver, Canada;
Video Pool, Winnpeg, Canada;
Vidéographe, Montréal, Canada.
Art Star: Video Art Biennial, Saw Gallery, Ottawa

2002

Video Acts: Single Channel Works from the Collections of Pamela and Richard Kramlich and New Art Trust, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, USA

2000

Video Time, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA (touring)

1997

Video Plaza, Monte Video, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1994

General Idea, World Wide Video Center, Den Haag, The Netherlands

1993

The Sequel: Shut the Fuck Up, 5e Semaine Internationale de Video, Geneva, SUISSE
Videotapes by General Idea, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada

1992

General Idea, Taormina Arte Video, Taormina, Italy

1991

General Idea, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany

1990

General Idea, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany

1989

Test Tube, Cornucopia, Shut the Fuck Up (broadcast), The Netherlands
Video as Television, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
General Idea Video Retrospective, Images ‘89 Festival, Toronto, Canada

1987

Japan 87 International Video Television Festival, SPIRAL, Tokyo, Japan

1986

Video Viewpoints, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

1985

General Idea Retrospective, International Festival du Nouveau Cinema, Montreal, Canada
Talking Back to the Media [festival], Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Test Tube (television broadcast), Much Music, Toronto, Canada

1983

Second Link – Viewpoints on Video in the Eighties (touring exhibition),
Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff, Canada;
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA;
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;
A Space, Toronto, Canada;
Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, USA;
Institute of Contemporary Art, London, United Kingdom;
Fukuoka Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan;
Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan;
Hokkaido Asahikawa Museum of Art, Hokkaido, Japan;
Education and Cultural City of Sapporo, Sapporo, Japan;
Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Kobe, Japan;
The Museum of Modern Art, Saitama, Japan

1982

Prime Time Video [television broadcast], Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada
New Narratives for Livingroom Viewing, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Documenta 7, Kassel, Germany

1981

Portopia International Video Festival (award-winner), Kobe, Japan
San Francisco Video Festival (broadcast), San Francisco, USA
Frontiers [broadcast], WNED-TV, Buffalo, USA
Video Video, Toronto Film Festival, Toronto, Canada

1980

Venice Biennale, Canadian Pavilion, Venice, Italy
Test Tube, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada

1979

Colour Bar Lounge, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Video Weeks Essen, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany

1978

In Video (touring exhibition): Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada;
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada;
Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Canada
Another Dimension, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
High Profile [slowscan transmission], Toronto, Canada
Video Open (cablecast), Calgary, Canada
Artists and the Media, Graz, Austria
Towards an Audience Vocabulary [cablecast], Toronto, Canada
Open Line [slowscan transmission between cities0, Toronto, New York, Memphis, San Francisco, Vancouver, Victoria, Canada and USA

1977

Pilot [television broadcast[ OECA TV Ontario, Toronto, Canada

1976

Projects Video VIII, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
Forum ‘76, Musée des Beaux Arts, Montreal, Canada
Video International, Aarhus, Denmark
Festival Calgary, Parachute Centre, Calgary, Canada

1975

Video Art (touring exhibition): Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, USA;
Contemporary Art Centre, Cincinatti, USA;
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA;
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, USA

1974

Project ‘74, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germany
Videoscape, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada

1972

Light-On Documentation, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto, Canada

1971

Exposé —A Video Device, (video installation), A Space, Toronto, Canada

Performances

2003

XXX rose, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, USA

1984

XXX bleu, Centre d’Art Contemporarin, Geneva, Switzerland

1982

P is for Poodle: The Milky Way from the 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion,
O Kanada, Akademie der Künste, Berlin, Germany;
The Music Gallery, Toronto, Canada
The Honeymoon is Over, Sydney Biennial, Sydney, Australia

1981

The Honeymoon is Over, A Space, Toronto, Canada

1979

An Anatomy of Censorship, Body Politic Rally, Toronto, Canada;
De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands;
Galerie Krinzinger, Innsbruck, Austria;
Galerie Lucio Amelio, Naples, Italy;
Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland;
Art ‘79, Basel Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland;
Modern Art Gallery, Vienna, Austria;
I.C.C., Antwerp, Belgium;
Agora Studios, Maastricht, The Netherlands

1978

Glamour, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, United Kingdom;
Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, United Kingdom;
Galeria Lucio Amelio, Naples, Italy;
Zona Galerie, Florence, Italy;
Galeria Laboratorio, Milan, Italy;
Art ‘78, Basel Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland
Towards an Audience Vocabulary, Fifth Network/Cinquième Réseau, Toronto, Canada
High Profile, CN Tower, Toronto, Canada

1977

Press Conference, The Western Front, Vancouver, Canada
Hot Property!, Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
Fleshed Out, St. Lawrence College, Kingston, Canada
The Ruins of the 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion, Kingston, Canada
Glamour, The Western Front, Vancouver;
Parachute Centre, Calgary;
03 23 03, Montreal, Canada

1976

New York Gossip, A Space, Toronto, Canada
Glamour, Plug In, Winnipeg, Canada

1975

Glamour, Columbia University, New York, USA
Going thru the Motions, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada

1974

Art’s Birthday/the Hollywood Decca Dance [collaboration w/ Lowell Darling, Willoughby Sharp, Image Bank, Glenn Lewis and the New York Corres Sponge Dance School of Vancouver, Dr. Brute and Lady Brute of Banal Beauty Inc. and the Western Front, and others] Elk’s Building, Hollywood, USA
Blocking, The Western Front, Vancouver, Canada

1972

Humpty Dumpty, For Example, Norman Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Canada

1971

The 1971 Miss General Idea Pageant, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada

1970

A Frame of Mind (with Kati Hewko), Simon Fraser University and Vancouver School of Fine Arts, Vancouver, Canada
Gertrude Stein Memorial Events, Simon Fraser University, Vancouver, Canada
Mantra/Naming Event, Nightingale Gallery, Toronto, Canada
“What Happened,” Festival of Underground Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, Toronto, Canada
“The 1970 Miss General Idea Pageant,” Festival of Underground Theatre, St. Lawrence Centre for the Arts, Toronto

1969

Purse Snatching (Felix Partz) Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada
Laundromat Special #1, Theatre Passe Muraille, Toronto, Canada
Laundromat Special #2 (on the streets of Toronto), Toronto, Canada
Match My Strike, Poor Alex Theatre, Toronto, Canada
Air Earth Fire Water Mantra, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada

Selected Awards & Prizes

2006

The Skowhegan Medal for Multimedia, New York, USA

2002

The Governor General’s Award in the Media and Visual Arts, Ottawa, Canada

2001

The Bell Canada Award for Video Art, The Canada Council, Ottawa, Canada

1995

Ovation! Namesake Awards, the General Idea Award, PWA Foundation, Toronto, Canada (awarded to General Idea in its first year and named after them)

1994

Jean A. Chalmers Award for Visual Arts, Toronto, Canada

1993

The Banff Centre for the Arts National Award, Banff, Canada
Lifetime Achievement Award, City of Toronto, Canada

1989

Visual Arts Award, City of Toronto, Canada

1988

The Gershon Iskowitz Prize, Toronto, Canada

1981

International Video Art Festival, Portopia, Kobe, Japan

Solo Publications

2022

Ecce Homo: General Idea Drawings (1985-1993), JRP Ringier, Geneva, Switzerland
General Idea, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada

2020

General Idea: P is for Poodle, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, Co-published in part by Maureen Paley, London; Esther Schipper, Berlin; and Mai 36, Zurich

2017

Ziggurat: General Idea 1968–1994, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, co-published in part by Maureen Paley, London; Esther Schipper, Berlin and Mai 36, Zurich

2016

General Idea: Broken Time #07

2013

Glamour Is Theft: A User's Guide to General Idea: 1969-1978, Art Gallery of York University, Toronto, Canada

2011

General Idea: A Retrospective (1969-1994), (Paris, Musée d’art Moderne – Haute Culture. A Retrospective, 1969–1994. Catalogued. by Frédéric Bonnet. Paris/Toronto), JRP | Ringier, Zürich, Switzerland

2010

Bordowitz, Gregg, General Idea: Imagevirus, One Work Series Distributed by Afterall Books, London, UK

2003

General Idea: Editions 1967–1995, Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto, Mississauga, Ontario, Canada

1995

XXX VOTO (For the Spirit of Miss General Idea), Galerie René Blouin and S.L. Simpson Gallery, Montreal and Toronto

1992

Pharma©opia, Generalitat de Catalunya Departament de Cultura, Barcelona, Spain

1984

The 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion, no. 101, Nieves, Zurich

1971

Shoe Journal (Jorge Zontal) (Issue #5 of Snore Comix) Offset, 64 pp. plus cover, Edition of 100, Coach House Press, Toronto, Canada

Bibliography

2024

Welch, Adam, Tour de Force: General Idea, Elephant, Issue 49, 2024, pp. 192 – 201
–––, Call for applications: General Idea Fellowship 2024, e-flux.com, 28 February 2024
Khandelwal, Sakchi, National Gallery of Canada Launches Prestigious General Idea Fellowship for Contemporary Art Scholars, bnnbreaking.com, 26 February 2024

2023

–––, Spotlight: A Sprawling Exhibition Traces the Influence of Experimental Artist Collective General Idea, news.artnet.com, 9 November 2023

–––, AIDS Sculpture By General Idea Finds Permanent Home In Amsterdam Park, artlyst.com, 9 October 2023

Brörken, Lara, Pimpernde Pudel – General Idea im Gropius Bau, gallerytalk.net, 28 September 2023

Art aber fair, “General Idea” im Gropius Bau, BB Rradioeins, 5:32, 27 September 2023

Chk, Nutzen steht für Infizieren. General Idea im Gropius Bau, art-in-berlin.de, 26 September 2023

Ruthe, Ingeborg, Kopulierende pinke Pudel vor bunten Placebos: Wer hat noch Angst vor Aids?, Berliner Zeitung, 26 September 2023

Nalbach, Maximilian, General Idea in Berlin, kunstmarkt.com, 25 September 2023

Jung, Sophie, Liebe als Aufklärung, taz.de, 24 September 2023

Krämer, Axel, “General Idea”: Leben mit Aids als Quelle der Inspiration, queer.de, 23 September 2023

Von Duerhen, Claudia, Wie eine kanadische Kunst-WG die Welt eroberte, BZ, 22 September 2023

Fazit, Lebende Legende. Das kanadische Künstlerkollektiv General Idea im Gropius-Bau, Deutschlandfunk Kultur, 8:15, 21 September 2023

–––, Aids und Robben: Ausstellung und neue Direktorin im Gropius Bau, Deutsche Press Agentur, 21 September 2023

–––, General Idea - Announcements, e-flux.com, 19 September 2023

Hadland, Gracie, AA Bronson in Conversation with Gracie Hadland, Flash Art International, Summer 2023, Issue 343

Davies, Jon, The Word Made Flesh: On John Bentley Mays’s “Miracles of Emanuel Jaques”, RACAR, no 1 vol 48, Spring 2023

Wong, Eric, Voortbordurend op General Idea in Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam – over marge, mainstream, dood en troost, Mister Motley, 26 June 2023

Vicente, Álex, La carga viral de General Idea, El País, 6 June 2023

Conley, Christine, General Idea, RACAR, no 1 vol 48, Spring 2023

Nut te Zien!, General Idea, npostart.nl, 28 May 2023

De Wolf, Joke, Beeldvirus in rood, groen en blauw, De Groene Amsterdammer, no 21, 24 May 2023

Burke, Emily, The Generosity of General Idea, Elephant, 17 May 2023

Scheppe, Wolfgang, ed. Paul Jaray – Die Vernunft der Stromlinie, Berlin: Kunsthaus Dahlem, 2023

Tozzi, Carla, Exhibitions not to be missed now and this summer, domusweb.it, 14 May 2023

Ikramullah, Shireen, Viewing 'General Idea' at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, fadmagazine.com 12 May 2023

Comer, Stuart, Kuo, Michelle, eds. Signals: How Video Transformed the World, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 2023

Wesseling, Janneke, Canadees trio General Idea speelde een indrukwekkend satirisch spel met de kunstwereld, NRC, 4 May 2023Earnest, Jarrett, Art Is a Drug, The New York Review of Books, 11 May 2023

Kitnick, Alex, No Resolution: Video Art in and Around the Contemporary, artforum.com, 1 May 2023

Golland, Martin, General Idea, Border Crossings, vol 41 no 3, Issue 161, April 2023

Van de Velde, Paola, General Idea: de ‘Kwik, Kwek en Kwak’ van de kunst, Telegraaf, 14 April 2023

Van Dijk, Harmen, De kunstwerken van General Idea warden heel concrete toen de aidsepidemie toesloeg, Trouw 13 April 13 2023

Madou, Sara, Opstandig collectief: General Idea in het Stedelijk Museum, Tableau Magazine, 2023Thaddeus-Johns, Josie, How Artist Collective General Idea Made the Art World Pay Attention to the AIDS Crisis, artsy.net, 12 April 2023

Keijer, Kees, Collectief General Idea in Stedelijk Museum: ‘Het was ook pijnlijk om aan deze show te werken, Het Parool, 5 April 2023Bovier, Lionel, Une Conversation entre AA Bronson, Claire Gilman et Lionel Bovier, in MAMCO Journal, No. 11, January, 2023, pp. 48-57

Oakes, Julie, Engaging Art With Life: General Idea at the National Gallery of Canada, Vie des Arts, no 269, Winter 2023Adler, Dan, General Idea, National Gallery of Canada, ArtForum, Vol. 61, No. 5, January 2023, p. 139

Marcus, J.S., Fortescue, Elizabeth, McGivern, Hannah, Hannah, Jansen Hannah, Ashby, Chloë, Planning an art pilgrimage in 2023? The best cities to visit for groundbreaking exhibitions this year, theartnewspaper.com, 3 January 2023

–––, 17 Art Exhibitions Worth Travelling for in Europe This Year, From a Blowout Survey of Yayoi Kusama’s Inflatables to the Largest Showcase of Vermeer’s Work Yet, news.artnet.com, 2 January 2023

2022

Yin Zhang, Lisa, Top 10 Shows from Across the World in 2022, frieze.com, 20 December 2022
K. Lau, Charlene, General Idea’s Irreverent Advocacy, Frieze, No. 231, November/December 2022, pp. 142, 151
Fateman, Johanna, Goings on About Town: General Idea, newyorker.com, November 1 2022
A. Ramírez, Juan, AA Bronson’s Lifetime of Gay Joy and Provocation, nytimes.com, 28 October 2022
Kitnick, Alex, Make Life Beautiful, Alex Kitnick on the art of Wolfgang Tillmans, in: Artforum, Vol. 61, No. 2, October 2022, pp. 135 - 145
McStravick, Conal, General Idea, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Art Monthly, October 2022, pp. 29-30
Gilman, Claire and Bovier, Lionel (eds.), General Idea: Ecce Homo, Drawings (1985–1993), JRP Ringier, Switzerland, 2022
Gilman, Claire, Ecce Homo: The Drawings of General Idea, MAMCO Journal, No. 10, Geneva, Switzerland, 2022, pp. 20-25
–––, What to See Across the Americas in September, frieze.com, 16 September 2022
–––, Hyperallergic Fall 2022 New York Art Guide, hyperallergic.com, 31 August 2022
K. Lau, Charlene, The Irreverent Advocacy of General Idea, frieze.com, 23 August 2022
Conrad, Ryan, Art, AIDS & AA Bronson, catie.ca, 12 July 2022. In print: The Positive Side, Summer 2022
Scott, Melanie, How Legendary Art Group General Idea Predicted Meme and Tiktok Culture, artnews.com, 11 June 2022
Fisher, Alice, June design news: edible sticky tape and celebrating Virgil Abloh, theguardian.com, 29 June 2022
Lloyd, Joe, AA Bronson – interview: ‘Suddenly, we were artists’, studiointernational.com, 27 June 2022
Power, Tom, AA Bronson reflects on General Idea’s legacy of artistic troublemaking, cbc.ca, 27 June 2022
——, General Idea's AA Bronson on Q: A visual companion guide, cbc.ca, 27 June 2022
Perry, Barlo, General Idea – National Gallery of Canada, paris-la.com, 27 June 2022
Taylor, Kate, Retrospective of Toronto’s General Idea at the National Gallery of Canada shows art collective retains power after 30 years, theglobeandmail.com, 24 June 2022
Loiseau, Benoît, AA Bronson on the radical, enduring legacy of General Idea, wallpaper.com, 18 June 2022
Dorris, Jesse, Revisiting the Legacy of the Preeminent Queer Art-World Agitators, surfacemag.com, 9 June 2022
Thompson, Nicole, Queer collective General Idea's AIDS project on display at the National Gallery, mountainviewtoday.ca, 8 June 2022
Tuck, Andrew; Bronson, AA, General rules, The Monocle Minute, monocle.com, 4 June 2022
——, General Idea Get Retrospective At National Gallery Canada, artlyst.com, 2 June 2022
Taylor, Kate, A primer on Toronto’s General Idea, Canada’s most radical art collective, theglobeandmail.com, 1 June 2022
Lorimer, Brandon, General Idea retrospective opening at National Gallery of Canada, art-critique.com, 23 May 2022
Dirlin, Deanna, Time, tenderness, taboos in the High's 'What Is Left Unspoken, Love’, arc.com, 20 April 2022
Lowe, Melanie, Oakville Galleries presents Two Truths and a Lie, oakvillenews.org, 2 February 2022
Humber, Larry, Subversive Canadian art collective General Idea go mainstream with major Ottawa show, theartnewspaper.com, 30 May 2022
Westall, Mark, Cork Street Attack Grey Organisation, fadmagazine.com, 5 January 2022
——, Virales Bild, Monopol Magazine, January 2022, pp.12-13
——, What ArtReview Editors Are Looking Forward to in January 2022, artreview.com, 11 January 2022

2021

Brier, Jennifer, Wizinsky, Matthew, The battle against AIDS was waged on the streets, xtramagazine.com, 1 December 2021
Bronson, AA, Cherix, Christophe, and Lax, Thomas J., When the Magic Bullets Fall: AA Bronson on General Idea’s Installation at MoMA, moma.org, 14 April 2021
Fairley, Gina, ICYMI: the week’s arts news, artshub.com.au, 10 December 2021
Heinrich, Will and Schwendener, Martha, Frieze New York, First Live Art Fair in a Year, Kicks Off at the Shed, nytimes.com, 6 May 2021
Lloyd-Smith, Harriet, Image as virus’: World AIDS Day 2021 marked with powerful new public film, wallpaper.com, 1 December 2021
Moffit, Evan, Silhouettes and Illuminations: Ray Johnson at David Zwirner, artnews.com, 5 May 2021
Sutton, Benjamin, The 10 Best Booths at Frieze New York 2021, artsy.net, 6 May 2021
Westall, Mark, Four galleries team up to debut monumental AIDS work by General Idea at Art Basel Unlimited, fadmagazine.com, 17 September 2021
–––, Circa and AA Bronson Debut a New Film to Mark World Aids Day, anothermag.com, 1 December 2021
–––, Circa is broadcasting a ‘viral’ activist film to commemorate World AIDS Day, dazeddigital.com, 1 December 2021
–––, General Idea exercise the art of infiltration to relentlessly hit the drifts of a world dominated by the image, Anal Magazine Vol.3, 2021, pp. 28-30
–––, General Idea/ Guerrilla Girls, Le MAMCO Journal, No. 7, 2021, pp. 53-65

2020

Brain, Eric, HIV Awareness Charity Positive East Enlists 14 Artists To Explore Activism Within Visual Arts, hypebeast.com, 1 December 2020
Johnson, Dominic, Going Viral: AA Bronson interviewed by Dominic Johnson, Art Monthly, May 2020, pp.1–5
Luckow, Dirk, Falckenberg, Harald, Counter Culture. 25 Years Sammlung Falckenberg. Objects and Installations, Snoeck, 2020, pp. 58-59
Mitchell, Rory, Maureen Paley: A Trailblazing Gallerist, ocula.com, 19 June 2020
–––, Best of Atlanta 2020: Arts & Culture, atlantamagazine.com, 4 December 2020
–––, Purple #34 The Love Issue, Purple Magazine, 2020
–––, Wear the art—charity t-shirt pieces by Wolfgang Tillmans, Linder and Sunil Gupta go on sale for £30, theartnewspaper.com, 30 October 2020

2019

Dupuis, Chris, World AIDS Day: How these 5 artists are responding to the ever-evolving reality of HIV, cbc.ca, 29 November 2019.
Duron, Maximiliano, Here’s the Artist List for the First Toronto Biennial, artnews.com, 20 June 2019
Eblen, Shannon, Seeing the Past from the Future, nytimes.com, 23 October 2019
Martin, Ashley, Superscreen at the MacKenzie Art Gallery explores Prairies counterculture history, thewhig.com, 8 March 2018.
–––, Superscreen, the making of a counterculture, news.umanitoba.ca, 11 October 2019.

2018

Batycka, Dorian, AA Bronson Reflects on Rochdale College, His Family’s Colonial History, and General Idea, hyperallergic.com 27 November 2018.
Bronson, AA, After General Idea, Three Star Books, 2018
Carrigan, Margaret, Juliet Helmke and Guelda Voien, The 51 Artists, Curators, Directors and Dealers Changing the Art World in 2018, observer.com, 9 May 2018.
Carter Robinson, Paul, Gallery Weekend Berlin 2018 Round-Up, artlyst.com, 2 May 2018.
De Wachter, Ellen Mara, AA Bronson + General Idea: Creativity as Viral Transmission, www.frieze.com, 30 October 2018.
Judah, Hettie, The Best Shows in London During Frieze Week, frieze.com, 28 September 2018.
Lebar, Nar Teki, 5 Shows in October, www.exhibitionary.com, 26 October 2018.
Loiseau, Benoît, How a New Generation of Artists Tackles the Realities of HIV/AIDS, them.us, 11 April 2018.
McDermott, Emily, 9 Highlights from Gallery Weekend Berlin, 30 April 2018.
Michalska, Julia, Laurie Rojas, Art fest: Gallery Weekend Berlin takes over the city, theartnewspaper.com, 29 April 2018.
Rojas, Laurie, Four must-see shows at Berlin’s gallery weekend, theartnewspaper.com, 26 April 2018.
——-, On View: Collection Highlights, Tate Etc., Issue 44, Autumn 2018, pp. 14-15
——-, AA BRONSON + GENERAL IDEA’ at Maureen Paley, www.artnews.com, 1 November 2018

2017

The American Dream: pop to the present. London: Thames and Hudson in collaboration with the British Museum, pp.256-7. “General Idea: Broken Time” at Museo Jumex, Mexico City, moussemagazine.it, January 2017.
Diner, Eli, General Idea, Museo Jumex/ Mexico City, Flash Art, March-April 2017, p.84.
Kitnick, Alex, The Conformists, Artforum, pp.222-229.
Viveros-Fauné, Christian, Museo Jumex Surveys ‘Fake News’ Pioneers General Idea, artnet.com, 3 February 2017.
Viveros-Fauné, Christian, Feeding the Feedback Loop, ArtReview, March 2017, p. 47.
—-, Artlyst Chooses Ten Of The Best From Frieze London 2017, artlyst.com, 5 October 2017.

2016

De Wachter, Ellen Mara, A Brief History of Collective, Elephant, Issue 29, Winter 2016-17, pp.84-87.
Arning, Bill, Previews – General Idea: Broken Time, Artforum, vol.55, no.1, September 2016, p.177.
Thom, Ian, General Idea’s Poodles, Mash Up: The Birth of Modern Culture, Black Dog Publishing Limited, Vancouver Art Gallery, 2016, pp. 184-185.—-, Review: Mexico-Mexico City, Fundación Jumex: General Idea: Broken Time, Mousse., vol 33, December 2016- January 2017, p 430.

2015

Friedman, Julia, The Limits of What We Can Learn from Food-Themed Art, 5 January 2015

2014

Buck, Louisa, Outset: curators pick four, Frieze donates two more, The Art Newspaper, U. Allemandi &Co., 15 October 2014, p. 2
Denson, G. Roger, Day without Art: Looking Back 25 Years, huffingtonpost.com, 01 December 2014

2012

Philip Monk, Glamour is Theft: A User’s Guide to General Idea: 1969-197, The Art Gallery of York University, Toronto
Cosmic Laughter No. 1, Berlin: Sternberg Press, 28-29.
Molesworth, Helen. This Will Have Been: Art, Love, & Politics in the 1980s, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago / Yale University Press, Chicago / New Haven.
Print/Out, New York: Museum of Modern Art, 127, 219.

2011

Abeltshauser, Thomas. “Mit Whiskey, Butt- Plugs und Hahnenfedern.” Monopol, Berlin, October
Aubart, Francois. “General Idea.” Flash Art, Milan, April. 98.
Beauvallet, Eve. “General Idea: La Classe Canadienne.” Vogue Paris, Paris.
Becourt, Julian. “Plus d’Art.” Chronic’art, April 01, p81.
Benhamou, Eric. “Une Certaine idée de l’art et de la societé.” La Tribune, Paris, March 03, p27.
de Bourbon Parme, Aude. “General idea: L’ Esprit Contestataire Des Annees 1970-1980.” Art Actuel, March 03, pp103-105.
Broqua, Cecile and Cyril Verges, “ Tritherapie de Group.” 02, April, p65.
Burleley, Isabella. “ Haute Culture: General Idea.” I.D. Online.
“Caniche, glamour et subversion.” Technikart, April. 115.
Edmonson,Tess. “General Idea: AA Bronson Talks Haute Culture.” Canadian Art, Toronto, July 28 canadianart.ca
Fetis, Laurent. “AA Bronson General Idea.” Clark Magazine, Paris, January 01, pp107-115.
General Idea. [monograph] Zurich/Paris: JRP/Ringier “General Idea: A Major Retrospective,” Art Matters, Toronto, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp10-11.
Genies, Bernard. “Chercheurs de realite.” Le Nouvel Obs Tele, March 03, p.20.
Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture. [exhibition catalogue] Washington: Smithsonian Books, Washington, D.C.
Ippolito, Enrico. “Versuchen Sie doch mal, im Restaurant über das Arschloch zu redden.” Taz: die Tagezeitung, Berlin, 29/30 October, pp. 26-27.
Kenig, Ariel. “Culture General.” Art Programme, March 01, 2011. p16.
Lefort, Gerard. “General Idea, la grande vadrouille.” Libération. March 22, pp32-33.
Lequex, Emmanuelle. “General Idea, ‘art delicat de l’infiltration’.” Le Monde, Paris, February 17 p23.
Neyrat, Frédéric. “Coalitions: Points de vue sur le monde.” Multitudes, Les Lilas, No. 45, pp64-71, 222.
Oddos, Valerie. 2011. “ Le collectif General Idea au Musee d’art modern.” France 2. culture.france2.fr
d’Olivier, Cena. “ La Marque du pluriel.” Telerama_Chronique. March 09, 2011. p49.
Perra, Daniele. “Il Trio di canadesi che invento gli anni 80.” GQ, Italy, February 2011. p188.
Picard, Gregory. 2011. “General Idea: culture hautemement actuelle” Artinfo-france. www.lepost.fr
Quaintance, Morgan. “ General Idea: Haute Culture.” Art Monthly, April 2011. p345.
Ramade, Benedicte. “Good Idea!” L’Oeil, Paris, February 01, 2011. pp64-71.
Reneau, Olivier, “General Idea Contre-Attaque.” L’Optimum, February 01, pp36-37.
Rigollet, Catherine. “General Idea. Retrospective, 1969 – 1994.” L’Agora des Arts lagoradesarts.fr
Rosenberg, Karen. “A Haunting Tour, One Room at a Time.” The New York Times, New York, January 20, 2011. C31.
Saltz, Jerry. “ Up Close and Personal.” New York Magazine, New York, January 21, 2011.
Trembley, Nicolas. “Get the Idea.” Artforum, New York, 2011. artforum.com
Troncy, Eric. “aux origins de General Idea.” art press, Paris, February 01, 2011. pp48-53.
Vartanian, Hrag “ Paris Gets the General Idea” March 11, 2011 hyperallergic.com

2010

Abeltshauser, Thomas. “Mit Whiskey, Butt- Plugs und Hahnenfedern.” Monopol, Berlin, October
Aubart, Francois. “General Idea.” Flash Art, Milan, April. 98.
Beauvallet, Eve. “General Idea: La Classe Canadienne.” Vogue Paris, Paris.
Becourt, Julian. “Plus d’Art.” Chronic’art, April 01, p81.
Benhamou, Eric. “Une Certaine idée de l’art et de la societé.” La Tribune, Paris, March 03, p27.
de Bourbon Parme, Aude. “General idea: L’ Esprit Contestataire Des Annees 1970-1980.” Art Actuel, March 03, pp103-105.
Broqua, Cecile and Cyril Verges, “ Tritherapie de Group.” 02, April, p65.
Burleley, Isabella. “ Haute Culture: General Idea.” I.D. Online.
“Caniche, glamour et subversion.” Technikart, April. 115.
Edmonson,Tess. “General Idea: AA Bronson Talks Haute Culture.” Canadian Art, Toronto, July 28 canadianart.ca
Fetis, Laurent. “AA Bronson General Idea.” Clark Magazine, Paris, January 01, pp107-115.
General Idea. [monograph] Zurich/Paris: JRP/Ringier “General Idea: A Major Retrospective,” Art Matters, Toronto, Vol. 19, No. 2, pp10-11.
Genies, Bernard. “Chercheurs de realite.” Le Nouvel Obs Tele, March 03, p.20.
Hide/Seek: Difference and Desire in American Portraiture. [exhibition catalogue] Washington: Smithsonian Books, Washington, D.C.
Ippolito, Enrico. “Versuchen Sie doch mal, im Restaurant über das Arschloch zu redden.” Taz: die Tagezeitung, Berlin, 29/30 October, pp. 26-27.
Kenig, Ariel. “Culture General.” Art Programme, March 01, 2011. p16.
Lefort, Gerard. “General Idea, la grande vadrouille.” Libération. March 22, pp32-33.
Lequex, Emmanuelle. “General Idea, ‘art delicat de l’infiltration’.” Le Monde, Paris, February 17 p23.
Neyrat, Frédéric. “Coalitions: Points de vue sur le monde.” Multitudes, Les Lilas, No. 45, pp64-71, 222.
Oddos, Valerie. 2011. “ Le collectif General Idea au Musee d’art modern.” France 2. culture.france2.fr
d’Olivier, Cena. “ La Marque du pluriel.” Telerama_Chronique. March 09, 2011. p49.
Perra, Daniele. “Il Trio di canadesi che invento gli anni 80.” GQ, Italy, February 2011. p188.
Picard, Gregory. 2011. “General Idea: culture hautemement actuelle” Artinfo-france. www.lepost.fr
Quaintance, Morgan. “ General Idea: Haute Culture.” Art Monthly, April 2011. p345.
Ramade, Benedicte. “Good Idea!” L’Oeil, Paris, February 01, 2011. pp64-71.
Reneau, Olivier, “General Idea Contre-Attaque.” L’Optimum, February 01, pp36-37.
Rigollet, Catherine. “General Idea. Retrospective, 1969 – 1994.” L’Agora des Arts lagoradesarts.fr
Rosenberg, Karen. “A Haunting Tour, One Room at a Time.” The New York Times, New York, January 20, 2011. C31.
Saltz, Jerry. “ Up Close and Personal.” New York Magazine, New York, January 21, 2011.
Trembley, Nicolas. “Get the Idea.” Artforum, New York, 2011. artforum.com
Troncy, Eric. “aux origins de General Idea.” art press, Paris, February 01, 2011. pp48-53.
Vartanian, Hrag “ Paris Gets the General Idea” March 11, 2011 hyperallergic.com

2009

Berührungs-punkte/correspondences. Zurich: Edition Fink, 2009.
Madesclaire, Tim. “Was General Idea Gay Enough?” La Revue Monstre, Paris, Numéro 1, December 2009. pp8-41.

2008

Fitzpatrick, Andrea D. “The Life in Death of Photography: A Portrait by AA Bronson and Jorge Zontal.” BlackFlash, Saskatoon, Vol. 26. #1, 2008. pp7-16.
Fusco, Maria, That’s Life, Frieze 119, November-December 2008
Obrist, Hans Ulrich. “General Idea.” Uovo 17, Turin, April-June 2008. 196-220.
Revues d’artistes. Une selection. Fougères, Rennes, Paris: Association Arcade, Lendroit Galerie, Éditions Provisoires, 2008. pp17, 80, 82-85, 92-95, 114.
They Shoot Homos Don’t They? Melbourne, Issue 005, August 2008. pp100-101.
“Unter Viren: File Megazine.” spex, Berlin, May/June, 2008. pp132-135.

2007

Decter, Joshua. “Infect the Public Domain with an Imagevirus: General Idea’s AIDS Project.” Afterall, London, Number 15, 2007. pp96-105.
“El contra arte de General Idea.” El Pais, Madrid, January 28, 2007. p40.
Fonds régional d’art contemporain Limousin. Limoges:Frac Limousin, 2007. pp104-105.
Kunstlerplakate, Pfaffikon/Cologne: Seedamm Kulturzentrum/Kathe Kollwitz Museum. pp232-233.
Mays, John. “Letter from Toronto.” Canadian Art, Toronto, Winter 2007. pp76-79.
O’Brian, John, and Peter White, eds. Beyond Wilderness: The Group of Seven, Canadian Identity, and Contemporary Art. Montreal: McGill Queens University Press, 2007.
O’Neil, Paul. “Group Practice.” Art Monthly, London, March 2007. pp7-10.
Scenes and Sequences, Peter Blum Edition, New York. Aarau: Aargauer Kunsthaus, 2007. pp98-101.
Trebay, Guy. “Gay Art: A Movement, Or at Least A Moment.” The New York Times, New York, Sunday, May 6, 2007. Section 9, pp1-2.
Trembley, Nicholas. “L’exorciste”, Numéro, Paris, #84, 2007.
Untitled Magazine, New York: Feature Gallery, 2007.

2006

Analogue. Preston: University of Central Lancashire, 2006.
Art Now: 2007 Taschen Calendar. Cologne: Taschen, 2006.
Cheetham, Mark A. Abstract Art Against Autonomy: Infection, Resistance, and Cure Since the 60s. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006.
Henry, Victoria, ed. Art at Work / L’Art au travail. Ottawa: Goose Lane Editions and Canada Council for the Arts, 2006. pp86, 87, 94, 95.
Leisure: an art journal #0, Los Angeles, 2006. p6.
Lovely Daze Issue 3: When I am alone, everything is so surreal, New York, 2006. pp4-9.
Release. Zurich: JRP | Ringier, 2006. p43.

2005

At the Mercy of Others. [exhibition catalogue] New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2005.
Auricchio, Laura. “New York.” Art Papers, New York, May/June 2005. pp48-49.
Cheetham, Mark A. “Matting the Monochrome: Malevich, Klein, and Now.” Art Journal, New York, Winter 2005. pp94-109.
Collective Creativity/Kollective Kreativitat. [exhibition catalogue] Kassel: Kunsthalle Fridericianum, 2005.
Cotter, Holland. “Trade.” The New York Times, February 23, 2005.
Expérience de la durée: Biennale de Lyon 2005. Paris: Paris Musées, 2005. pp142-145.
Frank, Peter. “The Dish: Art.” Angeleno, Los Angeles, 2005.
Gallo, Peter. “The Enduring Ephemera of General Idea.” Art in America, New York, March 2005. pp80-83.
Kelley, Mike. Interviews, Conversations, and Chit-chat (1986-2004). Zurich/Dijon: JRP/Ringier and Les Presses du réeal, 2005. pp240-251.
Miller, Earl. “FILE Under Anarchy.” C Magazine, Toronto, Issue 88, Winter 2005. pp30-35.
Pagel, David. “The message is back—this time with tales to tell.” Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, March 30, 2005.
Renard, Emelie. “Une Avalanche de Crème Chantilly du Canada.” 02 Revue d’art contemporain, spring 2005. pp26-27
Renaud, Jean-François. Beyond redemption: Gay Erotic Art. Vancouver: Belkin Satellite, 2005.
Robinson, Andrew. “The Way Art Should Work.” Gay City, New York, 10-16 March 2005.

2004

Dempsey, Shawna. Live in the Centre [exhibition catalogue] Winnipeg: Winnipeg Art Gallery, 2004.
Enright, Robert. “Particularizing Some General Idea.” BorderCrossings, Winnipeg, Issue No. 89. pp28-44.
Harwood, Andrew. “Transcendental Kiss.” Xtra West, Vancouver, July 22, 2004. p54.
Laurence, Robin. “Death and Rebirth Meet Disco Mirrors.” The Georgia Straight, Vancouver, July 15, 2004.
les 20 ans du CIAC : 1984 – 2004. Montreal: CIAC, 2004. p30.
McLaughlin, Gord. “From art to death to life.” Eye Weekly, Toronto, February 5, 2004.
Michael Petry, Hidden Histories, Artmedia Press, London, 2004.
Michael Turner, “Solo show asks viewer to look for its artist”, The Vancouver Sun, Vancouver, July 24, 2004.
Milroy, Sarah. “Taking the Road less Travelled.” The Globe and Mail, Toronto, May 1, 2004
Zielinski, Ger. “General Idea:Editions 1967-1995.” Parachute, Montreal, #113 (January, February, March 2004). p114.

2003

AIDS RIOT: Artist Collectives against AIDS, New York, 1987-1994. Grenoble: Magasin, 2003.
Berry, Ian. Nayland Blake: Some Kind of Love. [exhibition catalogue] Saratoga Springs: The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, 2003.
“Bursting Life.” Xtra!, Toronto, December 11, 2003
Carr, C. “A World of Their Own: General Idea Made Art from Culture’s Forgotten Shell.” Village Voice, June pp18-24, 2003.
Cotter, Holland. “By and About Men, and They’re Running With It.” New York Times, New York, August 8, 2003.
Cousineau-Levine, Penny. Faking Death: Canadian Art Photography and the Canadian Imagination. Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2003.
Freedman, Adele. “BZZZ BZZZ BZZZ.” Elm Street: The Look, Toronto, Spring 2003.
Goddard, Peter. “at the Power Plant.” The Toronto Star, December 20, 2003.
Goddard, Peter. “The General Idea assimilated.” Toronto Star, Toronto, January 26, 2003. D11.
Golonu, Berin. “Sited on Paper: A Defining View of Artist’s Publications.” Sight Lines: Thesis Projects 2003. San Francisco: CCAC, 2003.
Greco, Michael. “General Idea Editions 1967-1995.” Lola 16, Toronto, Summer
Heartney, Eleanor. “Is the Body More Beautiful When It’s Dead?” New York Times, June 1, 2003.
Heartney, Eleanor. “Images of death: pushing the boundaries.” International Herald Tribune, June 4, 2003.
Jonquet, François. “Arriere-train d’avant-garde.” Nova Magazine, Paris, November 2003.
Joos, Jean-Ernest. “Being One Among Others: The Uniqueness of the Artist in the Face of Anonymity.” Parachute 109, Montreal, Canada, 2003.
“Jorge Zontal, Felix Partz and AA Bronson.” a&u, Albany, February 2003.
The Magnetic Era: Video Art in the Netherlands 1970 – 1985. Rotterdam: Nai Publishers, 2003
Milroy, Sarah. “The Enigma that was General Idea.” Globe & Mail, Toronto, February 14, 2003.
Milroy, Sarah. “Reflections of a survivor.” The Globe and Mail, Toronto, December 29, 2003.
Osborne, Catherine. “Method in his Madness.” National Post, Toronto, December 20, 2003.
Pandemic: Facing AIDS. New York: Umbrage Editions and Moxie Firecracker Films, 2003.
Phillips, Tony. “Tick Tick Boom.” Gay City News, New York, January 3-9, 2003.
Strong, Lester. “Hanging in There.” a&u, Issue 106, August 2003.

2002

10 Jahre. Kraichtal: Ursula Blickle Stiftung, 2002.
Art & Economy. [exhibition catalogue] Hamburg: Hatje Cantz, Hamburg, 2002.
Bonnet, Frédéric. “Mademoiselle General Idea.” Vogue, Paris, No. 830, September, 2002.
Cabello, Helena, and Ana Carceller. “En las distancias cortas. Anotaciones sobre la creacion artistica en colaboracion.” Exit 7, Madrid, 2002.
Diedrichsen, Diedrich. “Glad Rag.” Artforum, New York, April, 2002.
Elias, Dan. “Rediscovering the Value of Art.” artsMedia, Boston, March 15-April 15, 2002.
Ferber, Lawrence. “Ultimate aesthete.” New York Blade, New York, April 5, 2002.
Flores, Andrea E. “Holding a Mirror to Human Tragedy.” The Harvard Crimson, Cambridge, February 15, 2002.
Golden Streams. [exhibition catalogue] Mississauga: Blackwood Gallery, University of Toronto, 2002.
Hill, Shawn. “The look of AIDS.” Bay Windows, Boston, March 14, 2002.
Lebovici, Elisabeth. “Trente ans de détournements.” Libération, Paris, 13 September, 2002.
McQuaid, Cate. “A brazen ‘Mirror’ reflects our mortality.” The Boston Globe, Boston, 2/22/2002.
Mirror Mirror. [exhibition catalogue] Cambridge: MIT List Visual Arts Center,
2002.
“Pasta Paintings: Méchants plateaux-repas.” Nova Magazine, Paris, September, 2002.
Public Affairs. [exhibition catalogue] Zurich: Kunsthaus Zurich, 2002.
Rapture: Art’s Seduction by Fashion. [exhibition catalogue] London: Thames & Hudson, 2002.
Sherman, Mary. “MIT show ‘Mirrors’ artist’s meditative journey.” Boston Sunday Herald, February 17, 2002.
Stoffman, Judy. “Canadian Artist Honoured.” The Toronto Star, January 3, 2002.
Thomas, Catherine, ed. The Edge of Everything. Banff: Banff Centre Press, 2002.
Tragatschnig, Ulrich. “Angst.” Camera Austria, #77, 2002.
Whitney Biennial 2002. [exhibition catalogue] New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 2002.

2001

Cheetham, Mark A. Kant, Art, and Art History. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001.
Dault, Gary Michael. “General Idea at Susan Hobbs.” The Globe and Mail, Toronto, Saturday, February 3, 2001.
“The Death of Irony.” BorderCrossings, Issue No. 77, 2001.
Domains.” The Toronto Star, Toronto, February 10, 2001.
Extra Art: A Survey of Artists’ Ephemera, 1960-1999. [exhibition catalogue] San Francisco/Santa Monica: CCAC/Smart Art Press, 2001.
F®ICCIONES. [exhibition catalogue] Madrid: Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, 2001.
Glusker, Anne. “Collective Memory.” Elle, New York, January 2001.
Gordon, Daphne. “The Copyright Marks The Border Between The Public And Private
Princenthal, Nancy. “Artist’s Book Beat.” Art on Paper, July-August 2001.
Rooks, Michael. “Letting Go of General Idea.” Dialogue, Chicago, January/February 2001.
Rosenfeld, Kathryn. “Triple Self-Portrait Minus Two.” New Art Examiner, Chicago, July- August, 2001.
Shewey, Don. “Good Grief.” The Advocate, February 13, 2001.
Taylor, Kate. “Why Gallery-going is an art form.” The Globe & Mail, July 26, 2001.
Televisions. [exhibition catalogue] Vienna: Kunsthalle Wien, 2001.

2000

“Augen der Seele.” Neue Wochenschau, Vienna, November 1, 2000.
Baker, Steve. The Postmodern Animal. London: Reaktion Books, 2000.
Horny, Henriette. “Bilder über Lieber.” Kurier, Vienna, October 5, 2000.
Krumpl, Doris. “Der Abschied als Neubeginn.” Der Standard, Vienna, October 21, 2000.
Let’s Entertain: Life’s Guilty Pleasures [exhibition catalogue] Minneapolis: Walker Art Center, 2000.
MacDonald, Anne, ed. Artspace was a Place in Time. San Francisco: Artspace Books, 2000.
Magnetic North [exhibition catalogue] Minneapolis/Winnipeg: Walker Art Center/Video Pool, 2000.
Martinez, Christina Sofia. “Marques déposées. General Idea, la critique de l’art et de la propriété intellectuelle.” Les Cahiers du Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Hiver 1999-2000.
Martinez, Christina Sofia. “Marques déposées. General Idea, la critique de l’art et de la propriété intellectuelle.” Les Cahiers du Musée national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, Hiver 1999-2000.
Mayer, Antje. “Alptraum: AA Bronson erinnert an Jorge und Felix.” Kunstzeitung, November 2000.
Rian, Jeff. “Purple Special: General Idea, A Visual History.” purple, Paris, Number 5, Summer ‘00.
Schor, Gabriele. “Dort, wo das Leben endet.” Neue Züricher Zeitung, Zurich, October 30, 2000.
Tout le Temps/Every Time [exhibition catalogue] Montreal: La Biennale de Montréal, CIAC, 2000.

1999

Exley, Roy. “General Idea.” Parachute, Montreal, Issue 93, January-March 1999.
Kelley, Mike. “Geheimgeschichten: Interviews mit Mary Woronov, Sebastian, Pamela des Barres, AA Bronson.” Texte zur Kunst, Cologne, Heft 35, September 1999.
Lee, Pamela M. “Freiwillige Musealisierung”, Texte zur Kunst, Cologne, Heft 34, June 1999.
Mark, Lisa Gabrielle. “General Idea”, Poliester, Col. Condesa, Vol. 8, #26, fall 1999.
Murray, Joan. Canadian Art in the Twentieth Century. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1999.
The Museum as Muse. [exhibition catalogue] New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1999.
Nasgaard, Roald. “The Museum as Muse Amused.” Canadian Art, Toronto, Summer, 1999.
Riemschneider, Burkhard, and Uta Grosenick, eds. Art at the Turn of the Millennium. Cologne: Benedikt Taschen Verlag GMBH, 1999.
Wege, Astrid. “In der Glaskugel.” Texte zur Kunst, Heft 34, June 1999. 157-162.

1998

Exley, Roy. “General Idea.” Parachute, Montreal, Issue 93, January-March 1999.
Kelley, Mike. “Geheimgeschichten: Interviews mit Mary Woronov, Sebastian, Pamela des Barres, AA Bronson.” Texte zur Kunst, Cologne, Heft 35, September 1999.
Lee, Pamela M. “Freiwillige Musealisierung”, Texte zur Kunst, Cologne, Heft 34, June 1999.
Mark, Lisa Gabrielle. “General Idea”, Poliester, Col. Condesa, Vol. 8, #26, fall 1999.
Murray, Joan. Canadian Art in the Twentieth Century. Toronto: Dundurn Press, 1999.
The Museum as Muse. [exhibition catalogue] New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1999.
Nasgaard, Roald. “The Museum as Muse Amused.” Canadian Art, Toronto, Summer, 1999.
Riemschneider, Burkhard, and Uta Grosenick, eds. Art at the Turn of the Millennium. Cologne: Benedikt Taschen Verlag GMBH, 1999.
Wege, Astrid. “In der Glaskugel.” Texte zur Kunst, Heft 34, June 1999. 157-162.

1997

Adams, Kathleen Pirrie. “Exploding Possibilities.” XTRA! (No. 341), Toronto, November 20, 1997.
General Idea. [exhibition catalogue] Chicago: Arts Club of Chicago, 1997.
Green, Charles. “General Idea.” World Art Number 14, Victoria, Australia, 1997.
Hume, Christopher. “When Toronto got the General Idea.” The Toronto Star, Toronto, October 18, 1997.
Mark, Lisa Gabrielle. “Letter from Toronto.” C Magazine, Issue #56, Toronto, November 1997.
Mays, John Bentley. “A General Idea whose time has come.” The Globe and Mail, Toronto, 1997.
Rococo Tattoo. [exhibition catalogue] Toronto: Power Plant, 1997.
The Search for the Spirit: General Idea 1968-1975. [exhibition catalogue] Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1997.

1996

Ardene, Paul. Art, l’Age Contemporain. Paris: Editions du Regard, 1996.
“Art of Dogs.” Brutus, Tokyo, March 1, 1996.
Bridger, Steve. “Virus at the VAG.” Angles, Vancouver, July 1996.
Gale, Peggy, and Lisa Steele, eds. Video re/View. Toronto: Art Metropole and V tape, 1996. 14, 119, 403-10.
Immen, Wallace. “AIDS hope tempered with caution.” The Globe and Mail, Toronto, July 4, 1996. A8.
Insite, Toronto, (Vol. V, no. 3), March 1996 (cover and table of contents).
Laurence, Robin. “A Ghostly Space for Grieving.” Georgia Straight, Vancouver, July 4-11, 1996.
Le Thorel-Daviot, Pascale. Petit Dictionnaire des artistes contemporains. Paris: Bordas, 1996.
McLeod, Donald W. Lesbian and Gay Liberation in Canada. Toronto: ECW/Homewood Books, 1996.
Ord, Douglas. “An Archeology of Desires.” BorderCrossings, Winnipeg, summer, 1996.
Perucchi-Petri, Ursula. Künstler-Videos. [exhibition catalogue] Zurich: Kunsthaus Zurich, 1996.
ReGROUPING: A Living Legacy. [exhibition catalogue in video format] Kleinburg: McMichael Collection, 1996.
Ross, Christine. Images de surface. L’art vidéo reconsidéré. Montreal: Editions Artextes, 1996.
Roy, Charles. Living & Serving: Persons with HIV in the Canadian AIDS Movement. Ottawa: Canadian AIDS Society, 1996
Sava, Sharla. “As If the Oceans Were Lemonade: The Performance Vision of Robert Filliou and the Western Front.” Vancouver: Master’s thesis, University of British Columbia, 1996.
Scott, Michael. “AIDS is the General Idea.” The Weekend Sun, Vancouver, June 1, 1996.
Smith, Roberta. “Savoring a Medium Whose Bite Has Grown With Time.” The New York Times, New York, June 24, 1996.
Tone, Lilian. “General Idea/Projects 56.” [exhibition brochure] New York: Museum of Modern Art, November 28, 1996-January 7, 1997.
Trescher, Stephan. General Idea. Die Kanadische Künstlergruppe. [monograph] Nürnberg: Verlag für Moderne Kunst, 1996
Wye, Deborah. Thinking Print: Books to Billboards, 1980-95. [exhibition catalogue] New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1996.
Wye, Deborah. Thinking Print: Books to Billboards, 1980-95. [exhibition newsprint pamphlet] New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1996.
Sava, Sharla. “As If the Oceans Were Lemonade: The Performance Vision of Robert Filliou and the Western Front.” Vancouver: Master’s thesis, University of British Columbia, 1996.

1995

AIGA Journal of Graphic Design, Vol. 12, #4, New York, 1995. 53 and back cover.
Aquin, Stephane. “Etats generaux.” Voir, Montreal, September 7, 1995.
Blake, Nayland, and Lawrence Rinder. In a Different Light: Visual Culture, Sexual Identity, Queer Practice, San Francisco: City Lights, San Francisco, 1995.
Cheetham, Mark. “The Sublime is Again (Now).” C Magazine, Toronto, winter, 1995.
Collison, Robert. “Party of Three.” Saturday Night, September 1995. 85-90.
Couelle, Jennifer. “Les traces d’une complicite tenace.” Le Devoir, Montreal, September 9 & 10, 1995.
Duncan, Ann. “Farewell to a Notion.” The Gazette, Montreal, September 16, 1995.
Fulford, Robert. “A shining example of propaganda art.” The Globe & Mail, Toronto, April 26, 1995.
Gale, Gale. Videotexts. Toronto: The Power Plant, 1995.
Hanna, Deidre. “General Idea’s fab last stand mocks Modernism.” Now, Toronto, June 8-14, 1995.
Hannon, Gerald. “General Idea.” Canadian Art, Toronto, Volume 12, Number 3. 93.
Indiana, Gary. “from LOVE to AIDS: the Death and Life of General Idea.” Village Voice, New York, December 5, 1995.
Laurence, Robin. “Ironic and anarchic – get the General Idea?” The Sun, Vancouver, April 1, 1995.
Mays, John Bentley. “End of an era for Canadian art’s big Idea.” The Globe & Mail, Toronto, June 24, 1995.
Nannucci,Maurizio. Bookmakers. Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche: Pays-Paysage, 1995.
Russell, Bruce. “Bronson, AA.” Allgemeines Künstler-Lexikon: Die Bildenden Künstler aller Zeiten und Völker. Munich and Leipzig: K.G. Saur, 1995 (vol. 14).
Sheehan, Nik. “The infectious glamour of General Idea.” Xtra!, Toronto, June 9, 1995.
Trescher, Stephan. “General Idea: Alles in der Schwebe halten.” Jahrbuch ‘95. Institut für moderne Kunst Nürnberg, Nürnberg, 1995.
Vanel, Hervé. “ONU soit qui mal y pense!” Beaux Arts, Paris, September, 1995.
von Furstenberg, Adelina, ed. Dialogues of Peace. [exhibition catalogue] Geneva: Palais des Nations, 1995.

1994

Ballantyne, Robert. Glamour, Pageantry and Knives: Gay Identity in FILE Megazine. Vancouver: Master’s thesis, University of British Columbia, 1994
Bradley, Jessica, and Lesley Johnstone, eds. Sightlines: Reading Contemporary Canadian Art. Montreal: Artextes editions, 1994. 10, 14, 125-26, 277-78, 282.
Dault, Michael Gary. Canadian Art, Toronto, spring 1994. back page.
Dorsey, John. “Body and Soul.” The Baltimore Sun, Baltimore, June 19, 1994. 10H.
Gale, Peggy. Showcards, General Idea. Ottawa: Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, 1994.
“Imagevirus (Times Square).” Canadian Art, Toronto, fall 1994. 15.
Jaarverslag 1994: World Wide Video Centre. The Hague: World Wide Video Centre, 1994.
Lesezimmer II [exhibition catalogue] Stuttgart: Künstlerhaus Stuttgart, 1994.
Mays, John Bentley. “A high loss of poetry, wisdom.” The Globe and Mail, Toronto, June 11, 1994. C11.
Mays, John Bentley. “General Idea’s brilliant trinity diminished by Zontal’s death.” The Globe and Mail, Toronto, February 5, 1994. C13.
Meneguzzo, Marco. “Tre cuccioli di foca per «General Idea».” L’Avvenire, Milan, February 26, 1994.
Trescher, Stephan. “General Idea: INFE©TED.” Kunstforum, Cologne, November/ December 1994. 413-414.

1993

Baker, Kenneth. “Art and AIDS – a Fine Line.” San Francisco Chronicle, July 22, 1993. D1, D3.
Buchanan, Hamish. “Get the Idea?” Xtra!, Toronto, March 5, 1993. 13.
Daneen, Janice. “The Toronto Arts Awards: Felix Partz, AA Bronson, Jorge Zontal / General Idea / Lifetime Achievement.” The Toronto Star, Toronto, September 9, 1993. E3.
Friedman, Roberto. “Happy ‘Fin de siècle’.” Bay Area Reporter: Arts & Entertainment, July 29, 1993, Volume XXIII, No. 30. 37, 44.
General Idea: Multiples – Catalogue Raisonné, Multiples and Prints 1967-1993. Toronto: S.L. Simpson Gallery, 1993.
Jones, Gareth. “Real Life in Maracaibo.” publicsfear, New York, 1993. 4-10.
McGrath, Jerry. “General Idea.” C Magazine, Toronto, summer 1993. 44-45.
Parreno, Philipe. “General Idea.” Documents, Paris, October 1993. 21-26.
Riley, Bob. “Approaching the Fin de siècle with General Idea.” 1993 At the Modern, July/August, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, 1993. 2.
Roche, Harry. “Infectious Appeal.” San Francisco Sentinel: The Other Side, August 11, 1993, Volume 21, Number 32. Cover, 31.
Smolik, Noemi. “General Idea’s Fin de siècle.” Canadian Art, Toronto, spring 1993. 67-68.
Taylor, Kate. “Peeking behind the façade that is General Idea.” The Globe & Mail, Toronto, March 6, 1993. C10.
Wallace, Keith, ed. Whispered Art History: Twenty Years at the Western Front. Vancouver: Western Front, 1993.

1992

Becker, Jochen. “General Idea’s »Fin de siècle«.” Kunstforum, Cologne, November/December 1992. 362-363.
Foss, Paul. “General Idea: Fin de siècle.” Art + Text, Paddington, Australia, September 1992. 30-35.
Forstbauer, Nikolai B. “General Idea: Fin de siècle.” Zyma, Stuttgart, September/October 1992. 4-11.
General Idea: El Dorado (Maracaibo) [exhibition catalogue] Madrid: Galeria Fucares, 1992.
General Idea’s Fin de Siècle. [exhibition catalogue] Stuttgart: Württembergischer Kunstverein; Hamburg: Kunstverein in Hamburg; and Toronto: The Power Plant, 1992.
General Idea’s PHARMA©OPIA [exhibition catalogue] Barcelona: Centre d’Art Santa Mònica, 1992.
Hübl, Michael. “Spurenelement.” Kunstforum, Cologne, November/December 1992. 97-107.
Koether, Jutta. “Exit Art.” Artscribe, London, March 1992. 78-79.
Messler, Norbert. “General Idea, Daniel Buchholz.” Artforum, New York, February 1992. 131.
Nesbitt, Lois. “General Idea, Stux Gallery.” Artforum, New York, September 1992. 98-99.
Princenthal, Nancy. “What’s Love Got To Do With It?: General Idea’s AIDS Project.” Public Art Issues, Vol. 1, No. 1, 1992. 8-11.
Roulette, Todd. “Ideal Generals.” QW, New York, May 17, 1992. 38-39.
Rudakoff, Judith, ed. Dangerous Traditions: Theatre Passe Muraille Anthology. Winnipeg: Blizzard Publishing, 1992.
Sans, Jérôme. “General Idea, Gallery Montenay, Paris.” Forum International, September/October 1992. 95.
Southgate, MD, M. Therese. “The Cover.” The Journal of the American Medical Association, Chicago, July 22/29, 1992. Cover, 455.
Vander Spek, Corneil. “General Idea, S. L. Simpson Gallery.” C Magazine, Toronto, winter 1992. 43-44.
Wallace, Keith. “On the Set at Babyland.” Hand of the Spirit. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Fine Arts Gallery, 1992. 29-47.
Watson, Scott. “Hand of the Spirit: Documents of the Seventies from the Morris/Trasov Archive.” Hand of the Spirit. Vancouver: University of British Columbia Fine Arts Gallery, 1992. 5-28
Whitesell, Jr., Richard D. “General Idea, Stux.” Flash Art, Milan, October 1992. 98-99.
Wijers, Louwrien. “Placebo als statement.” Het Financieele Dagblad, May 9-11, 1992. 12.

1991

Bianchi, Paolo. “General Idea: Kunstlergruppen.” Kunstforum, Cologne, November-December 1991. 250-255.
Bianchi, Paolo. “Neubegegnung Mit General Idea.” Artis, Zurich, June 1991. Cover, 18-23.
Boigon, Brian, and David Clarkson. “Interview with General Idea.” M5V, Toronto, September 1991. 12-17.
From Media to Metaphor: Art About AIDS [exhibition catalogue] New York: Independent Curators Incorporated, 1991. 36.
General Idea. “Placebo.” Interview, New York, March 1991. 148.
Holubizky, Ihor. Curatorial Laboratory Project #7: Atlas. Hamilton: Art Gallery of Hamilton, 1991.
Holubizky, Ihor. “Mo’ Better Modern, Toronto in the 1980’s.” Arts, New York, February 1991. 55-59.
Milroy, Sarah. “Lethal Dose.” Canadian Art, Toronto, fall 1991. 59-63.
Richard, Alain-Martin, and Clive Robertson. Performance au-in Canada, Quebec and Toronto: Editions Intervention and Coach House Press, 1991.
Team Spirit [exhibition catalogue] New York: Independent Curators Incorporated, 1991. 40-41.

1990

Art Gallery of Ontario: Selected Works. [catalogue] Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1990.
Art Meets Science and Spirituality in a Changing Economy. Amsterdam: Museum Fodor, September 1990
Denson, Roger. “Model Morality: General Idea Face the Endangerment of the Species.” Artscribe, London, summer 1990. 62.
Faust, Gretchen. “New York in Review.” Arts, New York, summer 1990. 100.
“General Idea.” Print Collector’s Newsletter, New York, May-June 1990. 63.
Princenthal, Nancy. “General Idea at Koury Wingate.” Art in America, New York, July 1990. 161-162.
Smith, Roberta. “General Idea.” The New York Times, New York, March 24, 1990. C-32.
Tallman, Susan. “General Idea.” Arts, New York, May 1990. 21.
Vogel, Sabine. “General Idea.” Kunstbulletin, Switzerland, April 1990. 6.

1989

Banz, Stefan. “General Idea, Mai 36.” Artscribe, London, November-December 1989. 89.
Birnie Danzker, Jo-Anne. “General Idea: Kunst des Unsagbaren.” WolkenKratzer Art Journal, Frankfurt, May-June 1989. 42-49.
D & S Ausstellung. [exhibition catalogue] hamburg: Hamburg Kunstverein, 1989.
Lebrero Stals, Jose. “General Idea: Art in the AIDS Era.” Lapiz, Madrid, October 1989.
Levi Strauss, David. “Reviews.” Artscribe, London, March-April 1989. 86.
Sans, Jerome, ed. Fictions. [exhibition catalogue] Montreal: LGE & Aubes 3935 Galerie, 1989.
Schwartzman, Allan. General Idea: The AIDS Project. Toronto: Gershon Iskowitz Foundation, 1989.
Staniszewski, Marianne. “General Idea.” Shift #6, Vol. III, no. 2, San Francisco, 1989.
Takemura, Mitsuhiro. “Summon the Muse of the Imagination.” Bijutsu Techo, Tokyo, Vol. 40, No. 603, January 1989. 73-89.

1988

Berkson, Bill. “General Idea, Artspace.” Artforum, New York, April 1988. 153-154.
Bijutsu Techo, [cover] Tokyo, Vol. 40, no 602, December 1988.
Decter, Joshua. Arts, New York, September 1988. 108.
General Idea. “General Idea: Artists’ Statement.” Flash Art, Milan, November-December 1988. 115.
General Idea. “Insert.” Parkett, Zurich, No. 15, 1988. 117.
Goldberg, RosaLee. Performance Art from Futurism to the Present. New York, 1988. 179.
The Print Collector’s Newsletter, New York, Vol. XIX, no. 5, November-December 1988. 115.
Staniszewski, Marianne. Test Pattern [exhibition catalogue/artists’ project] Tokyo: SPIRAL, Wacoal Art Center,1988.

1986

Bernard, Serge. “General Idea.” Parachute , Montreal, #42, 1986.
Carr-Harris, Ian. How We See What We Say [exhibition catalogue] Toronto: Harbourfront Gallery, 1986.
Gale, Peggy. “Narratives: Cornucopia.” Parachute, Montreal, #41, 1986.
General Idea: The Armoury of the 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion. [exhibition catalogue] Buffalo: Albright-Knox Gallery, 1986.
McCormick, Carlo. “General Idea at 49th Parallel.” Artforum, New York, December 1986. 114.

1985

Cole, Susan G. “General art Idea.” NOW, Toronto, May 2-8, 1985.
General Idea. [catalogue/ multiple] Middelburg: de Vleeshal, 1985.
“General Idea 1968-1984.” Museum Journal #6, Amsterdam, 1985.
“News d’Europa.” Domus, Milan, June 1985. 82.
Pelenc, Arielle. “General Idea.” Public Magazine, no.3, Paris, 1985.
Vereschagin, David. “What’s the Big Idea?” The Body Politic, No. 1115, Toronto, June 1985. .29-32

1984
  1. [exhibition catalogue] Vienna: Museum Moderner Kunst, 1984
    An International Survey of Painting and Sculpture. [exhibition catalogue] New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1984.
    Artistic Collaboration in the Twentieth Century. [exhibition catalogue] Washington, D.C.: Hirshhorn Museum, 1984.
    Bentley Mays, John. “Forum.” Artforum, New York, February 1984.
    Bentley Mays, John. “From the FILEs of General Idea.” The Globe and Mail, Toronto, July 21, 1984.
    Birnie Danzker, Jo-Anne, and General Idea. General Idea’s 1984 (FILE Megazine, Vol. 6, Nos. 1 & 2, 1984). Vancouver and Toronto: Vancouver Art Gallery and Art Official Inc., 1984.
    Gale, Peggy. “What about the Early Days?” Evidence of the Avant Garde since 1957: Selected Works from the Collection of Art Metropole including Audio Tapes, Records, Videotapes, Film, Multiples, Kitsch, Manuscripts, Stamps, Buttons, Flyers, Posters, Correspondence, Catalogues, Porn, T-shirts, Postcards, Drawings, Poems, Mailers, Books, Photographs and Ephemera. Toronto: Art Metropole, 1984.
    General Idea 1968-1984. [exhibition catalogue] Eindhoven: Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, 1984.
1983

Artists’ Architecture. London: Institute of Contemporary Art, 1983.
Bentley Mays, John. “A Not-So-Fond Farewell to Modernism.” The Globe and Mail, Toronto, January 1, 1983.
Bentley Mays, John. “The Poodle as Canada’s Emblem: At Least That’s the General Idea.” The Globe and Mail, Toronto, April 15, 1983.
Bronson, AA, and Peggy Gale, eds. Museums by Artists, Toronto: Art Metropole, 1983.
Burnett, David, and Marilyn Schiff. Contemporary Canadian Art. Edmonton: Hurtig Publishers, 1983
General Idea. “Triple Entendre,” Artforum, New York, November 1983.
Künster aus Kanada. [exhibition catalogue] Stuttgart: Württembergischer Kunstverein, 1983.
Monk, Phillip. “Editorials: General Idea and the Myth of Inhabitation.” Parachute, Montreal, December/January/February 1983/84.
Moszynska, Anna. “General Idea.” Performance Magazine, London, No. 23, April/May 1983.
O Kanada. [exhibition catalogue] Berlin: Akademie der Künst, 1983.
The Second Link: Viewpoints on Video in the Eighties. [exhibition catalogue] Banff: Walter Philips Gallery, 1983.
Vancouver: Art and Artists 1931-1983. Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery, 1983.
Visions. Vancouver: Douglas and McIntyre, 1983.
Wallace, Ian. “La Transavantguardia in Canada.” Flash Art, Milan, No. 111, XVI, 1983.

1982

D’Agostino, Peter, and Antonio Muntadas, eds. “General Idea’s Boutique”, Un/necessary Image. Cambridge: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 1982.
Annear, Judy. “An Interview with General Idea.” Art & Text. Melbourne: Summer, 1982-83.
Bentley Mays, John. “Hot Pink Pyramids’ Antiques of the 60’s.” The Globe and Mail, Toronto, September 18, 1982.
Birnie Danzker, Jo-Anne. Mannerism: A Theory of Culture. [exhibition catalogue] Vancouver: Vancouver Art Gallery, 1982.
Catastrophe. [exhibition catalogue] Geneva: Centre d’art contemporain, 1982.
“Cornucopia.” Furor, No. 6, 1982.
Documenta 7. [exhibition catalogue] Kasse: 1982.
Flood, Richard. “Documenta 7.” Artforum, New York, October 1982.
Town, Elke. Fictions. [exhibition catalogue] Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1982.
Town, Elke. Transmissions. [exhibition catalogue] Cambridge: Cambridge Library and Art Gallery, 1982.

1981

Fry, Jacqueline. “Le Musée dans quelques Oeuvres Recentes.” Parachute, Montreal, Fall 1981.
General Idea. [information sheet] New York: 49th Parallel Gallery, New York, 1981.
Guest, Tim. Books by Artists. Toronto: Art Metropole, 1981.
Lamoreaux, Johanne. “General Idea: ‘Le Conte’ du Temps.” Parachute, Montreal, Winter 1981.
Lawson, Thomas. “General Idea, 49th Parallel.” Artforum, New York, September 1981.
“Quelques Artistes Contemporaines.” Grande Encyclopedie Larousse. Paris: Larousse, 1981.
Wilde, Virginia, and Janis Runge. “General Idea, Test Tube and the Colour Bar Lounge.” Artsatlantic, Charlottestown, Winter 1981.
Wilde, Virginia. “Test Tube: Some General Instruction for Media Artists.” Parallelogramme, Toronto, December/January 1981-82.

1980

Bentley Mays, John. “G.I. Makes Honeymoor Detour.” The Globe and Mail, Toronto, December 23, 1980.
Brandt Corstius, Liesbeth. “Test Tube.” Museumjournaal, Amsterdam, January 1980.
Caroli, Flavio. Nuova Immagine. [exhibition catalogue] Milan/Regione Lombardia: XVI Triennale, 1980.
Durand, Douglas. “G.I. Image and Enforcement.” Body Politic, Toronto, June/July 1980.
Ferguson, Bruce. Canadian Video Biennale di Venezia. [exhibition catalogue] Ottawa: Venice Biennale/National Gallery of Canada, 1980.
Freedman, Adele. “The Venice Tapes.” Toronto Life, Toronto, March, 1980.
Glowen, Ron. “Evaluations of Architecture.” Artweek, San Francisco, May 17, 1980.
Gooderick, Frank. “Liquid Assets from the Colour Bar Lounge.” Videomania, Toronto, Vol.1, No. 1, December 1980.
Handforth, Robert. “Test Tube.” Fuse, Toronto, March, 1980.
Hanna, Martha. Words and Images. Ottawa: National Film Board of Canada, 1980.
Pluralities. [exhibition catalogue] Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1980.
Prospect 80/2. Ghent: Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, 1980.
Shapiro, Babs. “Architectural References.” Vanguard, Vancouver, May 1980.

1979

Bentley Mays, John. “But Is It Art?” Macleans, Toronto, November 1979.
General Idea. [information sheet] Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1979.
Goldberg, RosaLee. Performance. London: Thames and Hudson, 1979.
Lewis, Glenn. “Performance Notes from the Western Front.” Performance by Artists, Toronto: Art Metropole, 1979. 270-287.
Video Weeks Essen. Essen: Museum Folkwang, 1979.

1978

Ammann, Jean-Christophe. Kanadischer Künstler. [exhibition catalogue] Basel: Kunsthalle Basel, 1978.
Art, Artists and the Media. Graz: International Video Conference, 1978.
Birnie Danzker, Jo-Anne. “General Idea: Towards an Audience Vocabulary.” Centerfold, Calgary/Toronto, December, 1978.
Coutts-Smith, Kenneth. “General Idea.” artscanada, Toronto, issue 218/219, 1978.
Robertson, Clive. “General Idea and the Metaphive.” Centerfold, Calgary/Toronto, Vol. 2, No. 2/3, 1978.
Skira Annual No. 4. Geneva: Skira Editions, 1978.

1977

Biennale des Jeunes. [exhibition catalogue] Paris: Musée d’art moderne/Paris Biennale, 1977.
Gale, Peggy. In Video. Halifax: Dalhousie Art Gallery, 1977.
Gale, Peggy. “Toronto Video: Looking Inward.” Vie des Arts, Montreal, Vol. XXI, No. 86 (Spring 1977). 85-86.
Gale, Peggy. “Video has Captured Our Imagination.” Parachute, Montreal, Summer 1977.
James, Geoffrey. Transparant Things. Ottawa: Canada Council Art Bank, 1977.
“LIFE is Dead, but FILE goes on.” Toronto Life, Toronto, January 1977.
O’Brien, Glenn. “Extremist Glamour.” Oui, New York, December 1977.
Robertson, Clive. “Architects on the Run.” Centerfold, Calgary/Toronto, Vols. 7 & 8, 1977. 2-3.

1976

Battock, Gregory. “The Last Estate: FILE Megazine.” The Soho Weekly News, New York, May 27, 1976. 22-23.
Cameron, Eric. “Structural Video Tape in Canada.” Video Art. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976. 188-195.
Carpi, Eve, and Jo-Anne Birnie Danzke., “General Idea and the Cultural Cliché.” Flash Art, Milan, No. 58-59 (January 1976).
Gale, Peggy, ed. Video by Artists. Toronto, Art Metropole, 1976.
Gale, Peggy. “Video Art in Canada: Four Worlds.” Studio International, London, May/June 1976.
General Idea. “Form Follows Fiction.” Unmuzzled Ox, New York, Vol. 4, No. 2 (1976). 23-39.
Goldwasser, Noë. “Canadian Crazies Blow into Town.” The Village Voice, New York, February 9, 1976, p. 90
Goldwasser, Noë. “Time-Life Files a Suit.” The Villlage Voice, New York, March 15, 1976. 24.

1975

The Carmen Lamanna Gallery. Sackville: Owens Art Gallery, 1975.
Chairs. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1975.
Cutrone, Ronnie. “Fantasy Architecture.” Andy Warhol’s Interview, New York, December 1975. 47.
Dault, Gary Michael. “3 Trendy Young men market themselves.” Toronto Star, Toronto, November 3, 1975. D8.
“In the Year of 1984.” Winnipeg Free Press, Winnipeg, September 19, 1975.
Marchand, Philip. “The general idea behind General Idea.” Toronto Life, Toronto, November 1975. 30-37.
McDonald, Marci. “What Did You Do in The Seventies Dada?” Maclean’s, Toronto, May 1975. 10.

1974

Bentley.Mays, John. “General Idea.” Open Letter, Toronto, Second series, No. 8 (Summer 1974). 5-36.
Bodolai, J. S. “Luxon V.B. General Idea at Carmen Lamanna December 15 to January 3.” Proof Only, Toronto, Vol 1, No. 3 (January 15, 1974).
Celant, Germano. ”General Idea i Canadada: Un Gruppo Canadese.” Domus, Milan, October, 1974. 52.
“Jorge Saia. Un venezolano en la vanguardia artistica canadiense.” El Nacional, Caracas, June 27, 1974.
“Mirrors Stop Them Turning a Blind Eye.” Pilkington News, Toronto, April 25, 1974. 3.
Moore, Alan. “New Voices.” Artforum, New York, December 1974. 63-65.
Subtle, Susan. “Their Arts Belong to Dada: Cheer and Clothing in California and Other Points West.” Esquire, New York, August, 1974. 50-56
Project ’74. Cologne: Wallraf-Richartz Museum, 1974.
Videoscape. Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario, 1974.

1973

Andre, Michael. “Art: General Idea’s ‘Collage or Perish.’” Columbia Daily,Spectator, Columbus, October 16, 1973
Anthony, George. “Literati.” Toronto Sun, Toronto, January 23, 1973.
Canada Trajectories 73. [exhibition catalogue] Paris: Musée d’art moderne, 1973.
Craig, Jamie. “In spite of all that…Each of us encounters a daily parade of images that need a home….” Vancouver Sun, Vancouver, February 9, 1973. 4A-5A.
Fulford, Robert. “Correspondence art: Collages in Time, Distance and the Mind.” Toronto Star, Toronto, March 17, 1973. 49.
“’Glamour Art’. Un venezolano en el movimiento canadiense ‘General Idea’.” El Nacional, Caracas, September (n.d.), 1973.
Klepac, Walter. “Getting it all Apart. FILE Magazine: Special Double Issue; International Image Exchange Directory; IS 12/13: West Coast Issue.” Books in Canada, July-September 1973.
Nicholson, Annabel. “canadada fragments.” Art & Artists, London, Vol. 8, No. 1 (April 1973). 28-33.
Philpott, Clive. “Feedback.” Studio International, London, April, 1973.
Ross, Gary. “File it under ‘D’- for different.” Toronto Life, Toronto, June 1973. 29.
Sharp, Willoughby. “The Gold-Diggers of ‘84: An Interview with General Idea, Toronto.” Avalanche, New York, Winter/Spring, 1973. 14-21.
Zack, David. “An Authentik and Historikal Discourse on the Phenomenon of Mail Art.” Art in America, New York, January/February 1973. 46-53.

1972

Albright, Thomas. “Correspondence Art.” Rolling Stone, New York, April 27, 1972. 28-29.
Amussen, Robt. [Robert]. “’FILE’ not Rank.” The Grape, Vancouver, May 31-June 5, 1972.
“Des potina à la torontoise.” Mediart Magazine, Montreal, May 1972.
“FILE: The Great Canadian Art Tradegy.” The Grape, Vancouver, May 24-30, 1972.
“General ideas.” Body Politic, Toronto, May 1972. 20.
Image Bank. International Image Exchange Directory. Vancouver: Talon Books, 1972.
Image Nation, Toronto, No. 8. (c. 1972).
“..in view.” Art & Artists, London, September, 1972. 8-9.
Klepac, Walter. “General Idea.” Guerrilla, Toronto, June 14,1972. 15.
Lowndes, Joan. “Directions—Art.” Vancouver Sun, Vancouver, May 12, 1972.
Martin, Robert. “A Truly Illuminating Exhibition.” The Globe and Mail, Toronto, June 10, 1972. 28.
“New low at Global Village.” Unidentified newspaper clipping, General Idea’s Press File, 1972.
Realism: Emulsion and Omission. [exhibition catalogue] Kingston: Agnes Etherington Art Centre, 1972.
Vazan, Bill. “Montreal Visits General’s Headquarters.” Beaux Arts, Montreal, Summer 1972. 24.
“Vive l’éphémère. Les ‘lightbox’ de General Idea à la Galerie B.” La Press, Montreal, April 8, 1972.
White, Michael. “New art magazines for group communication.” Montreal Gazette, Montreal, May, 1972.

1971

Buckley, John. “Keeping it together in Vancouver: the search for alternatives.” artscanada, Toronto, June/July 1971. 39-43.
Image Bank. The Image Bank Post Card Show. Toronto: Coach House Press, 1971.
McCabe, Nora. “Men Join in Beauty Pageant.” The Toronto Star, Toronto, October 2, 1971.
Terry, Michael. “Well…do you get the general idea?” Pilkington News, Toronto, 1971.

1970

Bronson, AA, ed. and with some illustrations. IS, Toronto, Vol. 9 (Fall 1970).
Carter, Joyce. “Authentic Unreality.” The Globe and Mail, Toronto, January 22, 1970. W1.
Kritzwiser, Kay. “Three Artists in Pursuit of Commitment.” The Globe and Mail, Toronto, January 17, 1970. 26.
Unidentified newspaper clipping (review of Off Hand exhibition at 567 Gallery, Toronto, 1970) located in Felix Partz, Notebook, 1969 (General Idea Archive)

Collections

Artworks by AA Bronson and General Idea are in the following collections:

Aldridge Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, USA
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Art Institute, Chicago, USA
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA
Canadian Museum of Contemporary Photography, Ottawa, Canada
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
Essl Collection, Vienna, Austria
FNAC Paris La Défense, Paris, France
FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Rheims, France
FRAC Languedoc-Roussillon, Montpellier, France
Hamilton Art Gallery, Hamilton, Canada
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA
Hildebrand Collection, Leipzig, Germany
Hirschhorn Museum, Washington, DC, USA
Jewish Museum, New York, USA
Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada
List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, USA
Musee d’art contemporain, Montreal, Canada
Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, MUDAM, Luxembourg
Museum of Contemporary Art, Gent, Belgium
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Australia
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, USA
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Tate, London, UK
Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada