Born 1963, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.
Lives and works in New York, NY, USA.

Selected Press

Talk Art, Tom Burr in conversation with Russell Tovey and Robert Diament, 17 February 2023
November
, Tom Burr in conversation with Blake Oetting, No. 39, Volume 2, February 2022
Frieze
, Tom Burr: Nine Renovations, 24 April 2022
Modern Matter
, I ASK MYSELF by TOM BURR, Tom Burr, March 2021
Artforum, Tom Burr, Julian Elias Bronner, 3 February 2017
Arena Homme +, Tom Burr Meets Marcel Breuer/New Heaven, Andrew Durbin, Summer/Autumn 2017

Education

1987

Whitney Independent Study Program, New York, NY, USA

1986

School of Visual Arts, New York, NY, USA

Residencies/ Teaching

2010

Artist in Residence, Randolph Cliff, Edinburgh College of Art, Scotland, UK

2009

Critic in Sculpture, Yale University, New Haven, CT, USA

Solo Exhibitions

(C) denotes catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition.

2023

Tom Burr, Bortolami, New York, NY

2022

Compressions, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany
detention/suspension/expulsion, Maureen Paley: Studio M, London, UK

2021

Hélio-Centricities (New York), The Small Room, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2020

Conversions, Fondazione Converso, Milan, Italy

2019

Hélio-Centricities: coda, Escola De Artes Visuais Do Parque Lage, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Tom Burr / MATRIX 182 / Hinged Figures, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
Hélio-Centricities, auroras, São Paulo, Brazil

2018

Sedimental, SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, USA
No Access (public project), SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia, USA

2017

Tom Burr/New Haven: Phase One: Pre-Existing Conditions, part of Bortolami Gallery’s Artist/City initiative, Marcel Breuer’s Armstrong Rubber Company, Newhaven, Connecticut, USA
Abridged, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany
Surplus of Myself, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany
Stages, Maureen Paley, London, UK

2016

Grips, Sommer Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
Put Down, piece*unique, Cologne, Germany

2015

Circa, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2014

Notes on Camp, curated by_vienna: The Century Bed, Vienna, Austria
Drunk Emily, Galleria Franco Noero, Torino, Italy
Tom Burr. Screen, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annadale-on-Hudson, New York, NY, USA

2013

Dressage, Parcours, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Tom Burr, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, UK

2012

Cloud in Trousers, Citta della Pieve, Umbria, Italy
deep wood drive, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Art Unlimited, Art Basel, Basel, Switzerland

2011

Promiscuous Pleats, Galleria Franco Noero, Torino, Italy
New York, Sommer Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel
Felt Under Fingers, Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Gravity Moves Me, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France
Black Lab, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Tom Burr, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, United Kingdom

2010

Murmur, MD72, Berlin, Germany
Four Sides to Myself, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2009

Sentence, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Bonvicini/Burr, with Monica Bonvicini, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und
Kunstbau, Munich, travelling to Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland
Head Ache, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, United Kingdom

2008

Descending, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy
Addict – Love, Sculpture Center, New York, NY, USA
Black and Blue, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France

2007

Anxiety – A Showcase, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, Germany
Tom Burr, Swiss Institute with Walter Pfeiffer, New York, NY, USA
Moods, Secession, Vienna, Austria

2006

Extrospective, Museé Cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Relapse, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, UK

2005

Complete Breakdown, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany
Privy, Please, The Norfolk Library, Norfolk, Connecticut, USA
The Complete Stories of Truman Capote, romaromaroma, Rome, Italy

2004

Our Lady of the Flowers, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy

2003

Gone, Gone, American Fine Arts, New York, NY, USA
Die Stalle/The Stalls, Galerie Christian Nagel, Cologne, Germany
The Screens, Institute for Visual Culture, Cambridge, UK

2002

Piscine, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France
Deep Purple, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
Dog Days, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2001

Brutalism, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany

2000

Low Slung, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
American Fine Arts, Co - Colin De Land Fine Art, New York, NY, USA

1999

Black Box, Artforum Berlin, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany
Private Property: Anti-Public Sculpture, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France

1998

Surface, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany
The Medical Show, Galeria Marta Cervera, Madrid, Spain

1997

Stainless, American Fine Arts, New York, NY, USA

1995

42nd Street Structures, American Fine Arts, New York, NY, USA

1994

American Fine Arts, New York, NY, USA

1992

White Columns, New York, NY, USA

Two Person Exhibitions

2017

Concrete Realities: Tom Burr and Andrea Zittel, Bortolami, New York, NY

2015

painting, painting: Ull Hohn with Tom Burr, Peep-Hole, Milan, Italy

2011

Tom Burr and Linder, Stuart Shave/Modern Art, London, UK

2010

Monica Bonvicini and Tom Burr, Kunstmuseum Basel, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland (C)

2007

Tom Burr and Jack Pierson, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany

Group Exhibitions

(C) denotes catalogue published in conjunction with the exhibition.

2024

Games People Play, Nathalie Karg Gallery, Lower East Side, New York, USA

2023

Devils on Horseback, 032c Workshop, Berlin, Germany
Drawings by Sculptors, Helena Anrather, NY, USA
John Knight, Brandon Ndife, Tom Burr, Diamond Stingly, Green Naftali, NY, USA
Meet Me in the Middle of Nowhere, Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA
Make Sense of This: Minimal Art and the Measure of the Body, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US

2022

All the Lonely People, Bomuldsfabriken Kunsthall, Arendal, Norway
Life Between Buildings, MoMA PS1, NY, USA

2021

Church for Sale: Works from the Haubrok Collection and the Nationalgalerie Collection, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin, Germany
Guilty Pleasures, St.Moritz, Switzerland
La Suite, Fundación Proa, Caba, Argentina
Michel François, Vincent Lamouroux: La Suite, Institut D’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
Divine, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany
Any distance between us, RISD Museum, Providence, RI, USA
Toes, Knees, Shoulders, Heads + Butts & Guts, Meredith Rosen Gallery, New York, USA
Ladyfinger and Fig Mcflurry, 56 Henry, New York, USA
Inaspettatamente, Cloud Seven, Brussels, Belgium

2020

Emancipatory Dinner 4.9, Gabriele Senn Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
By a Thread, Espacio Artkunstarte, Madrid, Spain
Köln Skulptur #10, Über Natur – Natural Takeover, Skulpturenpark Köln, Cologne, Germany
John Dewey Who?, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany

2019

Chairs Beyond Right & Wrong, R & Company, New York, USA
In Plain Sight, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA, USA
Family Ties: The Schröder Donation, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Queer Spaces: London, 1980s – Today, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
Queer Abstraction, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa, USA, touring to Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas, USA
Cruising Pavilion, ArkDes, Stockholm, Sweden
Straying from the Line, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, Germany

2018

Between Bust and Boom: Artists in the Slack Years, 1990-2005, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio, USA
(collection display)
The Conditions of Being Art: Pat Hearn Gallery & American Fine Arts, Co. (1983-2004), Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College (CCS Bard), Annandale-on Hudson, New York, USA
Cruising Pavillion, Spazio Punch, 16th Venice Architecture Biennale, Venice, Italy
More than mere jelly, Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA
The House of Fame, curated by Linder, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK
Die Zelle (The Cell), Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Noon - One, CANADA, New York, NY, USA
Optik Schröder II, MUMOK, Vienna, Austria
balak #7, balak- espace temporaire d'art contemporain, Charleville Mézières, France

2017

Maison des ailleurs, Musée Arthur Rimbaud, Charleville-Mezieres, France
ENTRE NOUS, Bad Reputation, Los Angeles, CA, USA
concrete realities, Bortolami, New York, NY, USA
SUR/FACE: Mirrors, Museum Angewandtekunst, Frankfurt, Germany
Polaroids: The Disappearing, Karg Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Touchpiece, Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Cosima von Bonin + Tom Burr: Benz Bonin Burr, Skulptur Projekte Münster 2017, Münster, Germany
KölnSkulptur #9: La Fin de Babylone. Mich wundert, dass ich so fröhlich bin!, Skulpturenpark Köln, Cologne, Germany

2016

Question the Wall Itself, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Lost & Found, Galerie Bärbel Grässlin, Frankfurt, Germany
121 Street, BROADWAY 1602 HARLEM, New York, NY, USA
I Beam U Channel, Bortolami, New York, NY, USA
open spaces | secret places: Works from the SAMMLUNG VERBUND, Vienna, Bozar, Brussels, Belgium
Béton, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria
Garden Show, Regards Gallery, Chicago, USA
Ordinary Pictures, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Sculpture from the Hammer Contemporary Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA

2015

Body Proxy, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH, USA
to expose, to show, to demonstrate, to inform, to offer, Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria
Lustwarande ’15 – Rapture & Pain, Parque De Oude Warande, Tilburg, Netherlands
Köln Skulptur #8, Skulpturenpark Köln, Cologne, Germany
Matters of Pattern, Skarstedt Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2014

De Pictura, Galleria Franco Noero, Turin, Italy
The Present of Modernism, MUMOK, Vienna, Austria
Collection and Contact, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA, USA
Space & Reality: New Acquisitions & Gifts, MUMOK, Vienna, Austria
30/60 Works from the Collection of the FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Marino Marini Museum, Florence, Italy
The Century of the Bed, curated by Kristina Scepanski, Galerie Andreas Huber, Vienna, Austria
Klotz am Bein – Sculptures from the Grässlin Collection, Räume für Kunst (Spaces for Art), St. Georgen, Germany
Displayed, Anton Kern, New York, NY, USA
Galerie Neu at Gladstone, Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Soft Matter, WALLSPACE, New York, NY, USA
Deviance Credits, Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA
Take It or Leave It: Institution, Image, Ideology, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA
A Chromatic Loss, Curated by Jeffrey Uslip, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2013

Not Yet Titled, curated by Philip Kaiser, an exhibition displaying the Ludwig Collection, Museum Ludwig, Köln, Germany
Pommery Experience #11: “An odyssey: 30 Years of frac Champagne-Ardenne,” curated by Florence Derieux, Frac Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France
Relocation, Reallocation, Stockholm, curated by Stefania Bortolami, McCabe Fine Art, Stockholm, Sweden
Silent, Avlskarl Gallery, Copenhagen, DK
Outside the Lines, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, USA
My Crippled Friend, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, OH, USA
Anamericana, curated by Vincenzo de Bellis, co-organized by the Depart Foundation Collection, American Academy, Rome, Italy
Notes on Neo-Camp, curated by Chris Sharp, Office Baroque Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Notes on Neo-Camp, curated by Chris Sharp, Studio Voltaire, London, UK
Pivot Points: 15 Years & Counting, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL, USA
open spaces | secret places: Works from the SAMMLUNG VERBUND, MdM MÖNCHSBERG, Salzburg, Austria
Catch as Catch Can: Curated by Fionn Meade, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, USA
The Black Mirror, curated by James Welling and Diane Rosenstein, Diane Rosenstein Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Vertical Club, Curated by Will Benedict, Bortolami, New York, NY, USA

2012

No Desaster, Haubrok Collection at Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany
Stretching the Limits: Fibres in Contemporary Painting¸ SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, GA, USA
MOCA’s 15th Anniversary Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL, USA
More Light, Curated by Alexander Schröder & Thilo Wermke, Avlskarl Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Cellblock II, An Essay in Exhibition Form, Curated by Robert Hobbs, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Only parts of us will ever touch parts of others, curated by Timothée Chaillou, Galerie Thaddeus Ropac, Paris, France
Now I am quietly waiting for the catastrophe of my personality to seem beautiful again, and interesting, and modern, curated by Tom Burr, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Drawing a Blank (On Forgetting, Refusal, Censorship and Impotence), curated by Matthew Brannon and Jan Tumlir, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Everyday Abstract – Abstract Everyday, curated by Matthew Higgs, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Migros Meets Museion, curated by Letizia Ragaglia in collaboration with Heike Munder and Judith Welter, Museion, Bolzano, Italy
The Quality of Presence, curated by Dmitry Komis, The Chelsea Hotel, New York, NY, USA
relocated, Galerie Neu with MD72, Berlin, Germany
Utopia Gesamtkunstwerk, 21er Haus, Belvedere Museum, Vienna, Austria

2011

Verschiebungsersatz, curated by David Rimanelli, Kimmerich, New York, NY, USA
December, organised by Howie Chen, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY, USA
After images, curated by Fionn Meade, Jewish Museum of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
Five Easy Pieces, Galleria Franco Noero, Torino, Italy
12th Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
Schnitte im Raum, Sculptural Collagen, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
The Smithson Effect, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City, Utah, USA
SHAPES, Sammlung-Haubrok, Berlin, Germany

2010

Missing Beat, Sommer Gallery, Tel-Aviv, Israel
“…”, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany
ABOUT US, Johann König, Berlin, Germany
Cumulus, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Forced Exposure, Team Gallery, New York, NY, USA
The New Décor, The Hayward Gallery, London, UK
Mixed Use, Manhattan: Photography and Related Practices 1970s to the Present, Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
The Page, curated by John Stezaker and Matthew Higgs, Kimmerich Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Light Breaks Where No Sun Shines, Bortolami Gallery at The Webster, Miami Beach, FL, USA
Wall & Floor, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France
FREEZE, Nils Staerk, Copenhagen, Denmark
You’re scripted, curated by Marco Lulic, Gabriele Senn Galerie, Vienna, Austria
Behind the Curtain, Gio Marconi Gallery, Milan, Italy
The World is Yours, Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark

2009

Moby Dick, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA, USA
Rachel Harrison: Consider the Lobster and other Essays, Center for Curatorial Studies and Hessel Museum of Art at Bard College (CCS Bard), Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, USA
Saints and Sinners, curated by Laura Hoptman, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Boston, MA, USA
The Station, curated by Shamim Momin & Nate Lowman, Miami, FL, USA
Abstract America: New Painting and Sculpture, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
Political/Minimal curated by Klaus Biesenbach, Kunst-Werke Berlin e.V. - KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, Germany
Recollection, Gianni Jetzer Barriera, Turin, Italy
La Fête Est Permanente / The Eternal Network, FRAC - Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France
Dance in my Experience, Kunstverein Düsseldorf, Germany
Space as Medium, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL, USA
The Reach of Realism, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, Miami, FL, USA
Carpet and Friends, Mehringdamm 72, Berlin, Germany
Black Hole, CCA, Andratx/Mallorca, Mallorca, Spain
En todas as partes. Politicas da diversidade sexual na arte, CGAC, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
The Porn Identity, Kunsthalle Wein, Vienna, Austria
The World is Yours, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebaek, Denmark
Two Horizons: Works from the Collections of Charles Asprey & Alexander Schröder, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, UK

2008

The Eternal Flame. On the Promise of Eternity, Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz, Switzerland
Not So Subtle Subtitle, Casey Kaplan Gallery New York, NY, USA
Marc Camille Chaimowitz, …In The Cherished Company of Others…, De Appel Arts Centre, Amsterdam, Netherlands, travelled to PMMK, Ostende, Belgium
Sammlung/Collection 1978–2008, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
Fais en sorte que je puisse te parler/Mache, dass ich zu dir sprechen kann/Act so that I can speak to you, Kamm, Berlin, Germany
A New High in Getting Low (NYC), John Connelly Presents, New York, NY, USA
Photos and Phantasy: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA, USA
Une Saison à Bruxelles, dépendance, Brussels, Belgium
Recollection, Barriera, Turin, Italy
The Station, Miami, FL, USA
Political/Minimal, Kunst-Werke – Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin, DE
La Fête est permanent / The Eternal Network, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, France
The Eternal Flame. On the Promise of Eternity, Kunsthaus Baselland, Muttenz, Switzerland

2007

Walk!, Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
Oh Girl, It’s a Boy!, Munich Kunstverein, Munich, Germany
Body Politicx, Witte de With, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
At Home, Curated by Mario Testino, Yvon Lambert project space, New York, NY, USA
The Happiness of Objects, Sculpture Centre, Long Island, New York, NY, USA
Unmonumental: Falling to Pieces in the 21st Century, Ccurated by Richard Flood, Laura Hoptman and Massimiliano Gioni, The New Museum, New York, NY , USA
Sammlungspräsentation – Teil 1, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
OMNIA VANITAS: VANITY IS ALL, Gavlak Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Pale Carnage, Arnolfini, Bristol; travelling to Dundee Contemporary Arts, Dundee, United Kingdom UK
In Attesa di Risposta, Supportico Lopez 32, Naples, Italy

2006

Anxiety, performance in Wieder und Wider, MUMOK, Vienna, Austria
The Eighth Square, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
The Name of This Show Is Not GAY ART NOW, curated by Jack Pierson, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Warum etwas zeigen, was man sehen kann, Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig, Germany
Shape without form, shade without colour, paralyzed force, gesture without motion, Galleria Francesca Kaufmann, Milan, Italy
Optik Schröder. Werke aus der Sammlung Schröder, Kunstverein Braunschweig, Braunschweig, Germany
Frederick Weisman Museum of Art, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, USA
When Fathers Fail, Daniel Reich Gallery, New York, NY, US
Vom Pferd erzählen, Kunsthalle Göppingen, Göppingen, Germany
Räume für Kunst, Sammlung Grässlin, St. Georgen, Germany

2005

HaubrokShows. B Sharp, Xantener Strasse 7, Berlin, Germany
Down the Garden Path: The Artist’s Garden After Modernism, Queens Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
Nolens Volens, Galerie Neu, Berlin, Germany
EXILE New York is a good Hotel, Broadway 1602, New York, NY, USA
Residence, MICA Foundation, New York, NY, USA

2004

Trafic d’influence: Art & Design, Collection Frac Nord Pas-de-Calais, Dunkerque, France
Election, American Fine Art, Colin de Land Fine Art, New York, NY, USA
When the lights go out…, Cohan & Leslie, New York, NY, USA
The Future Has a Silver Lining: Genealogies of Glamour, Migros Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
Braunschweig Parcours 2004, Braunschweig, Germany
Whitney Biennial 2004, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
Beginning Here: 101 Ways, Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Strange Weather, Modern Art, London, UK
It’s all an Illusion, Migros Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland
Flowers Observed, Flowers Transformed, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
Braunschweig parcours 2004, Braunschweig, Germany

2003

Le Rayon Noir, Circuit Centre d’Art Contemporain, Lausanne, Switzerland

2002

Grey Gardens, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
My Head Is On Fire But My Heart Is Full of Love, Charlottenborg Udstillings-bygning, Copenhagen, Denmark
Xeros, Ecole du Magasin, Center National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France

2001

Deliberate Living, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York, NY
Parttnerschaften – Unterbrochene Karrieren, Neue Gessellschaft fur Bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany
American Fine Arts, New York, NY, USA

2000

Quiet Life, curated by Michael Neff, Ursula Blickle Stiftung, Kraichtal-Unterowisheim, Germany
Sightings, Bard College, curated by Jeffrey Walkowiak, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, NY, USA
Space Open 2000, Space studios, London, UK

1998

Model, Galerie Belvedere, Vienna, Austria
I Hate Movies, curated by Tom Borgese, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Parasite, The Drawing Center, New York, NY, USA

1997

Sans Titre, Froment + Putman, Paris, France

1996

Disappeared, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
American Fine Arts, New York, NY, USA
Ideal Standard Life, Spiral Garden, Tokyo, Japan
Gramercy International Art Fair, New York, NY, USA

1995

Birgit Kung, Zurich, Switzerland
Platzwechsel (with Ursula Biemann, Mark Dion, Christian Philipp Müller), Kunsthalle Zürich und Schweizer Nationalmuseum, Zürich, Switzerland
Mapping: A Response to MOMA, American Fine Arts, Co - Colin De Land Fine Art, New York, NY
Land Fine Art, New York, NY, USA

1994

Architecture and Display, with Toshiko Mori, Architectural League of New York and Minetta Book, New York, NY
Nor Here Neither There, LACE, Los Angeles, CA
The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY, USA

1993

Kontext Kunst, Künstlerhaus Graz, Austria
What Happened to the Institutional Critique, curated by James Meyer, American Fine Arts, Co - Colin De Land Fine Art, New York, NY, USA
Social Subjects, YYZ, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Sonsbeek 93, Arnhem, Holland
Projet Unité, Firminy, France

1992

Update 1992, White Columns, New York, NY, USA (C)
American Fine Arts, New York, NY, USA

1989

Paula Allen Gallery, New York, NY, USA
American Fine Arts, Co - Colin De Land Fine Art, New York, NY, USA

1988

Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, New York, NY, USA
Whitney Independent Study Program, Open Studios , New York, NY, USA

Lectures and Talks

2024

Jordan Carter presents Tom Burr, ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, California, USA

2023

Tom Burr in Conversation with Jordan Carter and Blake Letting, Bortolami, New York, USA

2019

In Plain Sight – Artists in Conversation: Andrea Bowers, Tom Burr, Beatriz Cortez, Nicole Miller, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Washington, USA
Tom Burr Reading, Chairs Beyond Right & Wrong, R & Company, New York, USA

2018

Tom Burr in Conversation with William J. Simmons, Hannah Hoffman, Los Angeles, California, USA

Special Projects

2022

Eight Renovations; The Ninth Renovation, 2022 (public commission presented as part of Frieze New York 2022), New York, USA

2020

The Backroom, Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico (online project)

2018

Tom Burr: A Few Golden Moments, Art Omi, Ghent, NY , USA (public sculpture commission)

Solo Publications

2017

Body / Building, Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Surplus of myself, Westfälischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany

2015

Anthology: Writings 1991–2015, Sternberg Press, London, UK

2009

Tom Burr (Städtische Galerie Im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau and Museum für Gegenwartskunst), DuMont Buchverlag, Köln, Germany

2008

Moods, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König, Köln, Germany

2006

Extrospective: Works 1994–2006, JRP | Ringier Editions

2000

Low Slung, Sternberg Press

Selected Bibliography

(C) denotes catalogue.

2023

Sandler, Robert, In the Studio: Tom Burr revisits, reflects, and thinks anew, art21, August 2023

Conroy, Violet; Pistachio, George, The Standout Shows From Paris Fashion Week Men’s, anothermag.com, 27 June 2023
___, Kiko Kostadinov Spring Summer 2024 Menswear Collection, designscene.net, 27 June 2023
Muret, Dominique, A weekend in Paris with Koché, Kolor and Kiko Kostadinov, fashionnetwork.com, 26 June 2023
Joselit, David, Do Say Gay, Artforum, Vol. 61, No. 10, Summer 2023

Bordowitz, Gregg, Burr, Tom, Dean, Aria, Fraser, Andrea, Meyer, James, Morgan, Nicholas C., Philipp Müller, Christian, Oetting, Blake, What Happened to the Institutional Critique?: A Roundtable, November, May 2023
Greenberg, Cement, Cement Greenberg #4: A Questionable and Seedy Spring, cultbytes.com, 6 April 2023
Herriman, Kat, A Night at the Opera: Diamond Stingily, Martinis and Infanticide, culturedmag.com, 4 April 2023

Oetting, Blake, Blake Oetting on Tom Burr, 6 March 2023

2022

–––, Collages, cyanotypes, and portraits of a fallen Metabolist icon are on view in these must-see winter exhibitions, archpaper.com, 7 November 2022
Mateos, Pierre-Alexandre and Teyssou, Charles, Priapic Architectural Tissues: Tom Burr in Conversation With Pierre-Alexandre Mateos and Charles Teyssou, 032c.com, 17 October 2022
Cristi, A. A., Bortolami Brings The latest Iteration Of Its Artist/City Initiative To The Plaza Hotel & Casino, broadwayworld.com, 12 October 2022
–––, Five-Star Review: Tom Burr, “Compressions” at Galerie Neu, Berlin, spikeartmagainze.com, 7 October 2022
Waddoups, Ryan, An Intimate Frieze New York’s Satisfying Return to Form, surfacemag.com, 19 May 2022
Cassady, Daniel, Frieze New York puts not-for-profit spaces centre stage, the artnewspaper.com, 18 May 2022
Duron, Maximiliano, On Its 10th Anniversary in New York, Frieze Deepens Its Connections to the City, artnews.com, 17 May 2022
Urist, Jacoba, The Six Best Solo Presentations at Frieze New York 2022, culturedmag.com, 17 May 2022
Yerebakan, Osman Can, Frieze kicks off a busy week of fairs around New York City, theartnewspaper.com, 17 May 2022
Westall, Mark, Preview: 10th Anniversary of Frieze New York, fadmagazine.com, 16 May 2022
Gerlis, Melanie, Return of Frieze New York proves that small is beautiful, ft.com, 13 May 2022
Freeman, Nate, So Who Bought Andy Warhol’s Marilyn for Nearly $200 Million?, vanityfair.com, 12 May 2022
Burr, Tom, Tom Burr’s Renovations Map a City in Transition, frieze.com, 10 May 2022
–––, Frieze New York 2022: Program Announced, frieze.com, 10 May 2022
–––, Tom Burr: Nine Renovations, frieze.com, 24 April 2022
Oetting, Blake; Burr, Tom, Tom Burr in conversation with Blake Oetting, No. 39, Volume 2, novembermag.com, February 2022
Mills, Charlie, Burr, Tom, Issue 07, émergent magazine, pp. 170–192, February 2022

2021

–––, RISD Museum announces new exhibition: ‘Any distance between us’, artdaily.com, 27 November 2021
–––, RISD Museum announces reopening, artdaily.com, 27 November 2021
Ballantyne-Way, Duncan, Gabriele Knapstein on saving the Rieckhallen, exberliner.com, 25 November 2021
–––Mills, Charlie, Interviews: Tom Burr, émergent magazine, Issue 07, November 2021, pp. 170 - 192 and cover artwork
Crump, James, Breuer’s Bohemia The Architect, His Circle, and Midcentury Houses in New England, The Monacelli Press, 14 September 2021
–––, James Crump – The Art for Home Interview, artspace.com, 1 September 2021
Byrnes, Mark, A Mural-Making spree Lifts Spirits in Buffalo, bloomberg.com, 12 August 2021
Malone, Peter, Adroit realizations and obdurate miscues at Meredith Rosen, twocoatsofpaint.com, 10 July 2021
Burr, Tom, I ask Myself, Modern Matter, Issue 18, February 2021, pp. 98 - 111

2020

Westall, Mark, Whitechapel Art Gallery Christmas Gift Ideas, fadmagaine.com, 15 December 2020
Clemans, Gayle, In Plain Sight, caareviews.org, 7 July 2020
Meyer, James, Hans Haacke, New Museum, artforum.com, 3 March 2020
Burr, Tom, May Stevens, artforum.com, March 2020
Walter, Alexander, New Haven’s Marcel Breuer building takes next step towards hotel redevelopment, archinect.com, 9 January 2020

2019

Spencer, Laura, Visitors Enter ‘A New Kind Of Queer World’ In The Nerman Museum’s Newest Exhibition, kcur.org, 27 December 2019
Jeppesen, Travis, Queer Abstraction (Or How to be a Pervert with No Body), Mousse #66, Winter, pp.182 – 191
Bowker, Brittany, NEMA Boston unveils luxury homes inspired by the Seaport, realestate.boston.com, 18 November 2019
Trusty, Rachel, Queer Abstraction at Des Moines Art Center, artmargins.com, 17 September 2019
–––, Museum Ludwig Exhibits Works Donated by Alexander Schröder, artdaily.com, 14 July 2019
Durón Maximiliano, Summer Preview: The Most Promising Museum Shows and Biennials Around the World, artnews.com, 5 June 2019
Lescaze, Zöe, What Happens When Site-Specific Art Outlasts Its Surroundings?, nytimes.com, 13 May 2019
Jovanovich, Alex, Queer Abstraction, Artforum, May 2019, p. 99
–––, Queer Spaces: New Whitechapel Gallery Exhibition Opens, artlyst.com, 2 April 2019

2018

Burr, Tom, Artist’s Page, Yes & No Magazine, Vol.2 Iss. 01, p. 106 (artwork on back cover)
Burr, Tom, Artist’s Page, Yes & No Magazine, Vol.1 Iss. 04, pp. 6 - 7
Cascone, Sarah, Editors’ Picks: 11 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week, news.artnet.com, 8 October 2018
–––, Drinks, canapés—and poppers—at the Cruising Pavilion in Venice, theartnewspaper.com, 18 May 2018
Zeiba, Drew, The Cruising Pavilion brings dark rooms out into the open at the Venice Biennale, archpaper.com, 9 May 2018
Guilford, Patrick, Tom Burr creates installations harkening back to age old landscape tradition, scaddistrict.com, 1 March 2018
Korman, Sam, Under Construction, The never-ending renovation of Tom Burr, ArtReview, March 2018, pp. 80 - 87
Walsh, Brienne, If You Love Contemporary Art, Go To Savannah To Visit The Museum of Art At SCAD, Forbes, February 2018

2017

Kalmar, Stefan, Appropriation-as-Survival, L’Officiel Art, December 2017
Moffitt, Evan, Reviews: TOM BURR, Pirelli Building, New, USA, Frieze, No. 191, November - December 2017,
p. 161
Dickinson, Duo, A modern masterpiece artfully re-inhabited (a little), nhregister.com, 23 October 2017
Byrnes, Mark, A Complicated Second Life for a Brutalist Icon, Bloomberg.com, 5 October 2017
Platonova, Elena, Pre-Existing Conditions in New Haven, Art Market Monitor, October 2017
Kino, Carol, Every Architectural Lover Should Take This Three-Day Road Trip, Travel + Leisure, October 2017
Markus, David, Article Title, Art in America, October
–––, ‘Tom Burr: Stages' at Maureen Paley, London, blouinartinfo.com, 13 September 2017
–––, Tom Burr's conceptual non-site at Maureen Paley, London, blouinartinfo.com, 13 September 2017
Fritchey, Sarah, Placing Pieces of Local History in an Empty Marcel Breuer Building, hyperallergic.com, 10 August 2017
Tarasoff, Sabrina, Tom Burr: Surplus of Myself, Mousse Magazine, August 2017, pp. 162 - 163
Burr, Tom, Body/Building, Yes & No magazine, Issue 01:03, Autumn 2017, pp. 6 - 9
Durbin, Andrew, Tom Burr Meets Marcel Breuer/ New Haven, Arena Homme +, Summer/ Autumn 2017, section 47.12.
Burr, Tom, Tom Burr/New Haven Body/Building–Phase 1: Pre-Existing Conditions, Yes & No Magazine, No. 01:02, Summer 2017, pp. 6 - 12,
Burr, Tom, Body/ Building, Yes & No Magazine, No. 01:01, Spring 2017, pp. 48 - 53
–––, Maureen Paley's Ten Top Exhibitions, galleriesnow.net, 28 July 2017
Appel, Alan, Pirelli building Reopens...To Art, newhavenindependent.org, 11 July 2017
Neuendorf, Henri, Stefania Bortolami on How Smaller Galleries Can Innovate to Survive the Age of the Mega-Gallery, artnet.com, 6 July 2017
Abrams, Matthew Jeffrey, Tom Burr | Body/ Building, Four On The Floor, July 2017
Backes, Phil, Tom Burr Cultivates Space at Marcel Breuer’s Pirelli Tire Building, Document, July 2017
Menking, William, Six can’t-miss sculptures from the Münster Sculpture Project, The Architect’s Newspaper, June 2017
Pasquarella, Sheri, Panorama: Interview with Artist Tom Burr, PIN-UP, Spring Summer 2017
Maum, Courtney, Tom Burr’s Latest Project is Inspired by Iconic Building in New Haven, Norfolk Now, April 2017
Bronner, Julian Elias, Tom Burr, 500 Words, ArtForum, 3 February 2017

2016

Vezzoli, Francesco, Tom Burr and Francesco Vezzoli in Conversation, 2006-2016: A Small Anthology, Mousse, December 2016

Feuer, Alan, Art Dealers Move Out of the Gallery and Into a Taco Bell, The New York Times, October 2016
Maum, Courtney, Tom Burr, Interview Magazine, December/January 2016

Kitnick, Alex, Unité as White Cube, Harvard Design Magazine, Fall/Winter 2016

2015

–––, Tom Burr Anthology: Writings 1991 – 201, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne; Sternberg Press, 2015
Ruiz, Alan, Tom Burr, BOMB Magazine 134, Winter 2015
Chittenden Morgan, Nicholas, New York: Critics’ Picks, Artforum, November 2015
Indrisek, Scott, Cruising and the City: Tom Burr at Bortolami Gallery, Artinfo, November 2015
Tarasoff, Sabrina, L’esprit De L’escalier: On (Marriage) Affairs of Art and Architecture, Mousse Magazine 50, October - November 2015
Boucher, Brian, Cruising Grounds in Tom Burr’s Bortolami Show, Artnet, 29 October 2015
–––, The New Yorker, 28 October 2015
–––, The Lookout: Tom Burr at Bortolami, Art in America, September 2015

2014

Harren, Natilee, Take It or Leave It: Institution, Image, Ideology, Artforum, June 2014
Bader, Graham, Outside the Lines, Artforum, April, 2014
Derieux, Florence, Parcours, Art Basel, 2014
Baker, George, Notes on Painting in Disguise, Take It or Leave It: Institution, Image, Ideology, Hammer Museum, 2014, p. 228

2013

Scrimgeour, Alexander, Notes on Neo-Camp, Artforum, November 2013
Meade, Fionn, Tom Burr, ‘Restless Painting’, Mousse Magazine, Summer 2013

2012

Hoberman, Mara, Paris: Critics’ Picks, Seuls quelques fragments de nous toucheront quelques fragments d’autrui, Artforum, December 2012
Baumgarden, Julie, Julie Baumgarden on Bortolami, New York, Paddle8.com, 20 September 2012
Kastner, Jeffrey, Tom Burr, Bortolami, Artforum, Summer 2012, p. 313
E. Howe, David, Tom Burr, Art Review Number 59, p. 120
–––, The New Yorker, 9 April 2012
Mayer, Mariano, Tom Burr, Neo2, April 2012
Fiske, Courtney, New York: Critics’ Picks, Artforum, March 2012
Bennett, Alissa Tom Burr Interview, Crush Fanzine, March 2012
Duray, Dan, Tom Burr Offers Nostalgia and Blankets at Bortolami, Gallerist, NY, March 2012
Wilson, Michael, Tom Burr, ‘Deep Wood Drive’, Time Out New York, 2012 p. 46

2011

Street, Ben, Tom Burr, Art Review, December 2011
Graw, Isabel, Ecce Homo: Art and Subjecthood, Artforum, November 2011
Steverlynck, Sam, Mondovision Fiac, November 2011
–––, After Images…, Musée Juif de Belgique, 28 August 2011
Steverlynck, Sam, Clothed paintings, Agenda.be, 29 April 2011
Thatcher, Jennifer, Robert Mapplethopre: Night Work, Art Review, April 2011, p. 110
Misheff, Johnny, Visiting Artists/Tom Burr, nytimes.com, 28 March 2011
Biennale di Venezia, Vergara, Angel, Feuilleton, n°54, 2011
Launay, Aude, Le bûcher des vanités, n°57, Spring 2011
Canevet, Rozenn, Tom Burr, peeping tom’s, zerodeux.fr, 2011
Archey, Karen; Cooke, Lynne; Crimp, Douglas, Bring Home, Mixed Use: Manhattan, in Public Art Fund Talk, Artinfo, 11 February 2011
Burr, Tom, Why I’m an Artist, Corduroy Magazine, 2011
Burr, Tom, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, Reims, Mousse Magazine, February 2011
Clark, Robert and Sherwin, Robert Mapplethorpe: Curated by Scissor Sisters, London, The Guardian, 15 January 2011
Jetzer, Gianni, A Way into the Unconscious of Objects, Spike, 2011

2010

Baker, George, Some Things Moyra Taught Me, Frieze, Issue 130, April 2010
Cairns, Steven, Interview: Tom Burr, MAP Magazine, December 2010
Hull, Timothy, Deep Histories: Tom Burr, Art in America, 1 October 2010
Burr, Tom, Questions of Style: Tom Burr I Built a Dream House, Artforum, September 2010p. 267
Cooke, Lynne; Crimp, Douglas; Poor, Kristin, Mixed Use, Manhattan: Photography and Related Practices, 1970s to the Present, Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain 2010
Rugoff, Ralph, The New Décor, Hayward, London, UK, 2010
–––, Tom Burr: Sentence, Kaiserin, Premier Semestre, 2010
–––, Tom Burr artist, Crush Fanzine, Auxiliary Issue 1, 2010
Kletke, Daniel, Galerie Neu: Tom Burr Addict-Love, Light Cavalry, Artnet Magazine, January 2010
Suarez De Jesus, Carlos, Two Miami Art Museum exhibits question how we view our surroundings, Miami, New Times, 7 January 2010

2009

Buchmann, Sabeth, Tom Burr, Monica Bonvicini / Tom Burr, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus und Kunstbau, Munich; Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland, 2009 (C)
Burr, Tom, Best of 2009. The Artists’ Artist: RH Quaytman, Art Forum, December 2009, p. 90 Boucher, Tom Burr, Bortolami, Art in America, November 2009
Wilson, Michael, Tom Burr, Artforum, November 2009, p. 228
Bell, Kirsty, Perversely Yours, Kaleidoscope, November - December 2009, p. 58
Boucher, Brian, Review: Tom Burr, Bortolami, Art in America, November 2009, p. 186
Katrib, Ruba, Obstruction, Instance, and Trace, The Reach of Realism: Uta Barth, Olaf Breuning, Tom Burr, Talia Chetrit, Anetta Mona Chişa and Lucia Tkácová, Phil Collins, Thomas Demand, Alex Hubbard, Matt Keegan, Ragnar Kjartansson, Elad Lassry, Lars Laumann, Adam McEwan, Wilhelm Sasnal, Xaviera Simmons, Martin Soto Climent, Wolfgang Tillmans, Sara VanDerBeek, Emily Wardill, Gillian Wearing, Judi Werthein, and Artur Żmijewski, North Miami, FL: Museum of Contemporary Art, USA, 2009
Juul Holm, Michael; Kold, Anders; Colstrup, Tine; Interview with Tom Burr, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Burr, Tom, Thoughts on a Given Name, Rachel Harrison: Consider the Lobster and Other Essays (C)
Annandale-on-Hudson: CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, 2009 Gronlund, Melissa, Tom Burr, Vitamin 3-D: New Perspectives in Sculpture and Installation, London, Phaidon, 2009
–––, Galleries Chelsea: Tom Burr, The New Yorker, October 2009 Zanichelli, Elena, Räume mit Aussicht, Texte zur Kunst, September 2009, Vol. 19, No. 75, p. 180 – 182
Lorch, Catrin Im Grau der Rigipsplatten, Süddeutsche Zeitung Feuilleton, 24 June 2009, p. 11-12
Decter, Joshua, 1000 Words: Tom Burr Talks About ‘Addict Love,’ 2008, ArtForum, April, 2009
–––, Inside the Artist’s Studio: Tom Burr, The Art Newspaper, April 2009
–––, New York Artist’s Dictionary/Part 1: Tom Burr, Flash Art, January - February 2009

2008

E. Mendelsohn, Adam, Change is inevitable, Spike, n°18, Winter, 2008, p. 24 - 29
–––, Tom Burr: Questionnaire, Frieze, June - August 2008, p. 252 Biesenbach, Klaus, Political/Minimal (C), ed. Klaus, Published by Nuremberg: Verlag für modern Kunst Joseph R. Wolin, Unmonumental, New Museum, New York, Modern Painters, May 2008, p. 88 – 89 Kletke, Daniel, Tom Burr, abc art berlin contemporary, Berlin, Germany, 2008
Laynay, Aude, Peeping Tom’s, 02, Summer, 2008, n°46
–––, Reviews: Tom Burr, Modern Painters, April 2008
Haber, John. Tom Burr, Artillery April, 2008, p 55
Komis, Dmitry, Tom Burr, Sculpture Centre, New York, Flash Art, March - April, 2008, p. 146
–––, Tom Burr: Vintage Vinyl, The Art Newspaper, 28 March 2008
Vezzoli, Francesco, ‘Tom Burr’, Mousse Magazine, March 2008
Everitt Howe, David, Unmonumental: The Object in the 21st Century, Art Review, March 2008
Jones, Krisitin, M. Tom Burr, ArtForum.com, 13 February 2008
Decter, Joshua, Tom Burr, Talks about addict-love, Artforum, February 2008, p. 258
Bently, Kyle, Burrs and the Bees, Artforum.com, 16 January 2008
Churner, Rachel, Tom Burr, Artforum, January 2008, p.132

2007

–––, Unmonumental: Falling to Pieces in the 21st Century, New Museum; Phaidon, 2007 (C)
Rike, Frank, Déjà vu All Over Again, Artforum, Issue XLV, 2007 p. 113 - 114
Rappolt, Mark, The Man Who Wasn’t There, Art Review, Issue 10, 2007, p. 66 - 71
Foll, Heike, Tom Burr & Jack Pierson, Artforum.com, 1 December 2007
Baker, George The Other Side of the Wall, October Magazine, Issue 120, Spring, 2007, p. 106 - 137
Burr, Tom, October Magazine, Issue 120, Spring, 2007, p. 138 - 139
Shariatmadari, David, Pale Carnage, ArtReview, May 2007 p. 131
Schmitt-Ulms, Ure, Tom Burr, Moods, April 2007
–––, Kunst im öffentlichen raum Wien. Monument for Homosexual and Transgender Victims of the Nazi Regime. Tom Burr, publicartvienna.at, 2007
Rappolt, Mark, Tom Burr – a disappearing act, ArtReview, April 2007, p. 66 - 71
Burr, Tom, Romantic Manifesto, Text zur Kunst, March 2007
Prince, Mark, Once more with Feeling, Art Monthly, March 2007
Martin Clark, Pale Carnage, ed. Arnolfini, Bristol, 2007
–––, Tom Burr: Moods, Secession, Vienna, 2007 (C)

2006

Cattini, Sandra, Tom Burr: Musée Cantonal Des Beaux Arts, Flash Art, July - September 2006
Cattini, Sandra, Reviews, n°249, Flash Art, July - September 2006, p. 122
Schellenberg, Samuel, Les coïncidences fictives de Tom Burr, La Liberté, 3 June 2006, p. 43
Soulez, Juliette, Tom Burr, Archistorm, May - June 2006
Senff, Boris, Un amour de Bourg, 24 Heures, 3 May 2006
Dumont, Etienne, Les WC de Tom Burr, Tribune de Genève week end, 27 April 2006, p. 31
–––, Tom Burr, coïncidences fictives, Le Courrier, 19 April 2006, p. 12
–––, Rétrospective Tom Burr au Musée des Beaux-Arts, La Côte, 10 April 2006, p. 20
Mathonnet, Philippe, L'Art, problème de digestion de génération, Le Temps, 8 April 2006, p. 22
Gnasso, Patricia, Tom Burr, Fan d'ambiguïté, Le Matin, 8 April 2006, p. 56
–––, Lausanne Rétrospective de l'artiste contemporain Tom Burr, Vtxnet.ch, 7 April 2006
Vuong, Isabelle, L'Amérique selon Tom Burr, 24 Heures Lausanne et Région, 8 April 2006, p. 14
–––, Tom Burr, WOZ Die Wochenzeitung, 6 April 2006, p. 22
Mathonnet, Philippe, Emprunter Tom Burr? Jamais!, Sortir, Le Temps, 6 April 2006, p. 17
–––, Au Pied du Mur, Profil Femme, 4 April 2006, p. 26
Bratshi, Une pincée de Sadomaso au musée des Beaux-Arts, Le Matin Dimanche, 2 April 2006, p. 84
M. B., L'Américain Tom Burr entre au Musée à Lausanne, La Tribune des Arts, 3 March 2006, p. 17
Renken, Raphaëlle, Quand Deep Purple se joue du Palais de Rumine, Le Protestant, 1 February 2006, p.6
–––, Tom Burr: Extrospective, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, JRP Ringier (C)

2005

Cresci, Simonal, Tom Burr, Flash Art, n°253, August - September 2005, p.114
Rabottini, Alessandro; Lavrador, Judicaël, Dossier beyond the dark lines, where pure angles lie, 02 Revue d'Art contemporain Trimestrielle et gratuite, n°34, Summer, 2005, p. 16 - 17
–––, Down The Garden Path: The Artist’s Garden After Modernism, Queens Museum of Art, New York, USA, 2005

2004

–––, Whitney Biennial 2004, Whitney Museum of Art, New York, USA 2004 p.160 (C)
–––, The Future Has A Silver Lining- genealogies of Glamour, Migros Museum Für Gegenwartskunst, JRP/Ringier Zurich, Switzerland, 2004

2003

Cotter, Holland, Art in review; Tom Burr, nytimes.com, 21 November 2003
–––, Materials 05, Institute of Visual Culture, Cambridge 2003
My Head is on Fire my Heart is Full of Love, Charlottenborg, Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen, Denmark 2003
–––, Tom Burr: The Screens, Art Monthly, June 2003
Hainly, Bruce; Waters, John; Art-A Sex Book, Thames & Hudson, 2003

2002

–––, Texte zur Kunst, December 2002
Tema Celeste, n°94, November - December 2002
–––, Art in America, November 2002
McDonough, Tom, Tom Burr at Greene Naftali-New York, Art in America, November 2002
–––, Frieze, n°65, March 2002
Hainley, Bruce, Black Box Recorder, Frieze, March 2002
Baker, George, Tom Burr: Deep Purple, The Other Side of the Wall, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA, 2002
–––, Xeros – Projet mobile et reproductible sur les sexualites et l’espace, Centre National d’Art Contemporain, Grenoble

2000

–––, Quiet Life, Ursula Blickle Foundation, Germany, March - May 2000 (C)
Partnerschaften, Neue Gesellschaft Für Kunst, Berlin, Germany, 2000, p. 25 - 29
–––, Tom Burr: Slow Slung, Kunstverein Braunschweig (C)

1999

–––, Special issue: Architecture, Artforum, November 1999
Rian, Jeff, Tom Burr at Galerie Almine Rech, Artnet.com, 5 July 1999
Van Parys, Bill, Travel & Leisure, The New Berlin, January 1999
Kravagna, Christian, Tom Burr: Eight Renovations: A Constellation of Sites Across Manhattan, Vienna, Austria, 1999
Burr, Tom; Trummer, Thomas, Modelle, Austrian Gallery Belvedere, George Baker, Minimal Memory: Notes on Damaged Sculpture, Sharawadgi, Walther Koenig, Cologne, Germany, 1999

1998

Burr, Tom, Sleazy City: Street Structures and Some Qualities of Life, October, n°85, Summer 1998

1997

Kwon, Miwon, One Place After Another: Notes on Site Specificity, October, n°80, Spring 1997
Burr, Tom, Eight Renovations: a constellation of sites across Manhattan, Opening, (Progetto Citta, Christian Kravagna, ed.) 1997

1996

Meyer, James, Der funktionale Art, Springer, December - February 1996
Meyer, James, Tom Burr, Frieze.com, March - April 1996
Burr, Tom, Circa 1977, Stud, Princeton University Press, Princeton, USA, 1996
–––, Trash, Platzwechsel, Kunsthalle Zurich & Schweizer Nationalmuseum, Zürich, 1996
Fricke, Harald, Berlins größter Promi als erotische Bühne, Die Tageszeitung, 1996
Meyer, James, Tom Burr, Frieze, April 1996
Schorr, Collier, Tom Burr at American Fine Arts, New York Fax, March - April 1996
Sander, Joel, Tom Burr: Circa 77, Stud, Princeton University Press, Princeton, USA, 1996

1995

–––, Tom Burr: Trash, Platzwechsel, Ausst. Kat. Kunsthalle Zürich, 1995
Burr, Tom, Unearthing the Public Toilet: A series of Ruminations on an American Building Type, Documents, n°6, Spring, 1995

1993

Meyer, James, What happened to the Institutional Critique? New York: American Fine Arts, Co. and Paula Cooper Gallery. Reprinted in Peter Weibel, ed., Kontext Kunst, Cologne: Dumont, 1993, 239 - 256.
Folland, Tom, Social Subjects, YYZ, Toronto, Canada, 1993 (C)
–––, Tom Burr: The Storage Project, Project Unite, Ausst. Kat Firminy, 1993
Burr, Tom, Just outside the Museum, Kunst & MuseumJournaal, vol.4, n°6, 1993
Burr, Tom, Site Specific, Metropolis M, May - June, 1993
Direkt vor dem Museum, Kontext Kunst, Ausst. Kat. Steirischer Herbst, 1993

1992

–––, Hermes, Texte zur Kunst, February 1992
Aupetitallot, Yves, Passage, Forum International, January-February 1992

1990

Faust, Gretchen, Arts Magazine, March 1990

1989

Hirsh, David, New York Native, December 1989

Public Collections

AÏSHTI Foundation, Beirut, Lebanon
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD, USA
Berezdivin Collection, Santurce, Puerto Rico
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Collezione La Gaia, Busca, Italy
Depart Foundation, Rome, Italy
Enea Righi Collection, Museion Bolzano, Italy
FRAC, Champagne Ardenne, France
FRAC, Nord-Pas de Calais, France
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Il Giardino dei Lauri, Italy
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Lenbachhaus Museum, Munich, Germany
Ludwig Museum, Koln, Germany
MART Museum, Rovereto, Italy
Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL, USA
Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL, USA
Migros Museum, Zurich, Switzerland
MOCA, Los Angeles, CA, USA
MuMOK, Vienna, Austria
New York Public Library, New York, NY, USA
RISD Museum, Providence, RI
Sammlung Grassin, Germany
Sammlung Verbund, Vienna, Austria
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA