1980 M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts, Valencia
1977 B.F.A., Northern Illinois University, DeKalb
1974 A.A., Carl Sandburg College, Galesburg
2003 Guggenheim Fellowship
1996 Künstlerhaus Bethanien Philip Morris Kunstförderung, Berlin
1995 Hirsch Farm Project: Conviviality, Hirsch Farm Project, Hillsboro (cat.)
1990 National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artist Fellowship
1988 Engelhard Foundation Fellowship
1987 National Endowment for the Arts, Visual Artist Fellowship
1985 Foundation for Art Resources Grant
2007 Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
2006 The Second Sentence of Everything I Read is You, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
2004 Retrospection Under Duress, Reprise, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge
Vinyl II, Cubitt, London
Homo Faber and Exquisite Corpse, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
2002 Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
Gaylen Gerber with Stephen Prina, The Art Institute of Chicago
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
2001 Stephen Prina, PMK Gallery, Seoul
What’s Wrong? Open the Door! ..., NIU Art Museum, Chicago
Galerie Max Hetzler, 1991 (Ten Years After), Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
Galerie Ghislane Hussenot, Paris
2000 To the People of Berlin, performance Freunde Guter Musik, Hamburger
To the People of Frankfurt am Main - At Least Three Types of Inaccessibility, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main
It was the best he could do at the moment, reprise, Art Pace, San Antonio
1999 Push Comes to Love, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
Push Comes to Love, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
Push Comes to Love, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
1998 2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (Second Investigation): Stephen Prina's Monochrome Painting, Musée d'art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCO), Geneva
Acropolis: Thanksgiving Day, 1989, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles. With Allen Ruppersberg.
Stephen Prina, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York. With Tobias Rehberger.
1996 Retrospection Under Duress - L.O.V.E. Installation (Ivory/Mahogany), Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
Retrospection Under Duress - H.O.P.E.-Installation (White/American Maple), Luhring Augustine, New York
Retrospection Under Duress - E.H.E.-Installation (Clear/Ramin), Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
Retrospection Under Duress, Reprise, DAAD Galerie, Berlin (cat.)
1994 Dom-Hotel, Room 101, Köln/Dom Hotel, Zimmer 101, Köln, American Fine Arts, New York
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
1993 Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
1992 Luhring Augustine Hetzler, Los Angeles
It was the best he could do at the moment, Museum Boijmans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam (cat.)
Beat of the Traps, performance with Mike Kelley and Anita Pace, The Remise, Vienna, Austria
1991 Gordon Lebredt/Stephen Prina: Comedies of Objecthood, The Power Plant, Toronto (cat.)
Galerie Peter Pakesch, Vienna
Galerie Max Hetzler, Cologne
Galerie Fricke, Düsseldorf
1990 Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne
Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago
1989 Galerie Crousel-Robelin, Paris
Monochrome Painting, The Renaissance Society, Chicago. Traveled to Los Municipal Art Gallery; P.S.1, New York. (cat.)
Luhring Augustine Hetzler, Los Angeles
Karsten Schubert, Ltd., London (cat.)
1988 Luhring Augustine & Hodes Gallery, New York
University Art Museum, University of California at Santa Barbara
1980 An Observation of Musical Function, California Institute of the Arts
1979 The Development of a Planar Standard, California Institute of the Arts
1978 Duet for Metronome and Frequency Analyzer, 1978, Carl Sandburg College
Related Projects, Galesburg Civic Center, Galesburg
1976 A Planar Delineation, Northern Illinois University
2006 Make Your Own Life: Artists In and Out of Cologne, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
2005 I Really Should..., Lisson Gallery, London
Critical Celebration, Galerie Karin Guenther Nina Borgmann, Hamburg
It Takes Some Time to Open an Oyster, Centro Cultural Andratx, Mallorca
2003 Adorno die Moeglihkkeit des Unmoeglichen, Frankfurter Kunstverein Frankfurt
Re-Produktion 2, Galerie Christine König, Kerstin Engholm Galerie and Gabriele Senn Galerie, Berlin. Curated by Thomas Locher.
2003 Extended Play: art remixing music, Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand, February
Charline von Heyl, Jorge Pardo, Stephen Prina, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, January
2002 Re-Produktion, Bernhard Knaus, Mannheim, Germany, Nov. 23- Jan. 25
in capital letters, Kunsthalle Basel, September 28- Nov. 17
Heaven Knows I’m Miserable Now, Low Gallery, Los Angeles, April- May
2001 Wert Wechsel Zum Wert Des Kunstwerks, Museum fur Angewandte Kunst, Cologne
ART/MUSIC: rock, pop, techo, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sidney
Beau Monde: Toward a Redeemed Cosmopolitanism, SITE Santa Fe Forth International Biennal
In Between: Art and Architecture, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles
2000 Departures: 11 Artists at the Getty, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles (cat.)
Library, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
Project #0004, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York.
Too Early Too Late, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
The 21st Annual Benefit Art Auction, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (cat.)
Pure de(Sign), Otis Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles
Fashion Show, George’s, Los Angeles
1999 Malerei, INIT-Kunst-Halle, Berlin
Painter Editions, Patrick Painter, Inc., Santa Monica
Weg aus dem Bild, Georg Kargl, Vienna. Curated by Martin Prinzhorn.
The Great Drawing Show 1550 to 1999, Kohn Turner Gallery, Los Angeles
Duration and Whenever, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica
Art/Journalism, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Santa Monica
1998 Crossings: art to see and to hear, Kunsthalle Vienna (cat.)
2 or 3 Things I Know About Her (First Investigation): The Hypothesis of the Stolen Painting, Musée d'art Moderne et Contemporain (MAMCO), Geneva
TransFiction I: Point Blank, Charim Klocker, Vienna
Recycling Art History, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh (cat.)
90069, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
Freeze Frame, Galerie Douyon, Miami
Works on Paper, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
1997 One of You, Among You, With You: For Martin Kippenberger, Galeria Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid
Sunshine & Noir: Art in Los Angeles 1960-1997, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Castello di Rivoli, Turin
Armand Hammer Museum of Art at UCLA, Los Angeles
Sequence, Richard Salmon, London
Heaven, P.S.1, New York. Curated by Joshua Decter.
1996 a/drift, Center for Curatorial Studies Museum, Bard College. Curated by Josh Decter (cat.).
Multiple Pleasure, Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York
Classifications, La Maitrise des sciences et Techniques, Rennes
École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris (cat.)
Sammlung Speck, Museum Ludwig, Cologne (cat.)
Exposure, Luhring Augustine, New York
Found footage, Gasser & Grunert GmbH, Cologne
NIU Collected, Northern Illinois University, Chicago
1995 The Compulsion to Repeat: Repetition and Difference in Works from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Untitled (Reading Room), Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles; American Fine Arts Co., New York
Pittura Immedia, Künstlerhaus Graz, Graz
1995 25 Years: An Exhibition of Selected Works, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles (cat.)
Installation 95, Ursula Blickle, Stiftung, Kraichtal. With Luka Lasareishvili and Wolfgang Stiller (cat.).
As I Remember It: Stephen Prina, Dokorder® 7140, 4 Track 4/2 Channel Stereo/Mono Tape Deck, The Museum of Modern Art Syros, Syros-Cyclades. With Cosima Von Bonin and Christopher Williams.
The Big Night, The Bradburry Building, Los Angeles
1994 In the Field: Landscape in Recent Photography, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
The First Fundraising Event to Benefit American Fine Arts, Co., American Fine Arts, Co., New York
Rodney Graham, Stephen Prina, Jeff Wall, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles
Die Orte der Kunst, Sprengel Museum Hannover (cat.)
Daniel Buren, Ken Lum, Stephen Prina, Rudolph Stingel, Home for Contemporary Theatre and Art. Curated by Colin deLand.
Don’t Look Now, Thread Waxing Space, New York. Curated by Joshua Decter (cat.).
MOCA Art Auction '94, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (cat.)
After and Before, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago
1993 A Complete Hand of One Suit, Donna Beam Fine Art Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Works by Younger Artists from the Collection of Richard Brown Baker, The Century Association, New York
Fragments and Form: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Other Places, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
Kontextualismus, Neue Galerie, Graz (cat.)
From the Hand to the Head, the Theoretical Object, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Kerguehennec
Drawing the line Against AIDS, Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York
Domaine: L’ordre du Temps des Choses, L’ordre des Idees, L’ordre du Sujet, Domaine de Kerguehennec, organized by Denys Zacharopoulos (cat.)
1992 Knowledge: Aspects of Conceptual Art, University Art Museum, Santa Barbara, Santa Monica Art Museum (cat.)
Dirty Data: The Collection of Wilhelm Schurmann, Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen
Allegories of Modernism: Contemporary Drawing, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Documenta IX, Kassel (cat.)
Fifth Anniversary Show, Karsten Schubert, Ltd., London
Works on Paper, Jim Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis
American Fine Arts, Co., New York
Art by Numbers, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles
Greatest Hits, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Cologne
Not Working in LA/Good Design, Nomadic Site, Pasadena
Locher, Prina, Williams, Wurm, Zobernig, Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco
1991 Beyond the Frame: American Art 1960-1990, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo. Traveled to National Museum of Art, Osaka; Fukuoko Art Museum (cat.).
Vanitas, Galerie Crousel-Robelin, Paris
Gulliver's Travels, Galerie Sophia Ungers, Cologne (cat.)
Graham, Prina, Williams, S.L. Simpson Gallery, Toronto
51st Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh (cat.)
Hybrid Abstract, Usdan Art Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont
The Continuous Past, Pence Gallery, Santa Monica
Selections from the Permanent Collection: 1975-90, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
The 1991 Benefit Auction, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York (cat.)
Feux pales, Musee d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France
In the Beginning..., Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland OH, Nov.- Jan.
Sophie Calle, Tim Rollins and K.O.S., Stephen Prina, Trans Avant-Garde Gallery, San Francisco, Nov.
1990 Prints and Multiples, Luhring Augustine Hetzler, Santa Monica
Stephen Prina, Christopher Wool and Sam Samore, Galerie Ursula Schurr, Stuttgart
The Readymade Boomerang: The Sydney Biennale, Sydney (cat.)
Aperto, The Venice Biennale, Venice (cat.)
1990 Drawings, Luhring Augustine Hetzler, Santa Monica
Prints and Related Works, Tomoko Liguori Gallery, New York
The Children's AIDS Project: A Benefit Exhibition, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica
Sophie Calle, Tim Rollins & K.O.S., Stephen Prina, Trans Avant-Garde Gallery, San Francisco
In the Beginning..., Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland
Feux Pales, Musée d'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux (cat.)
Marcia Hafif, Stephen Prina: Monochrome Painting, P.S.1, New York
1989 300 Years of Still Life Painting, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles
Mediated Knot, Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago (cat.)
Group Show, Richard Kuhlenschmidt Gallery, Santa Monica
A Brave New World, Karsten Schubert, London (cat.)
Constructing a History: A Focus on MOCA’s Permanaent Collection, The Museum of Contemporary Art,
Los Angeles, Nov-March
Prospect 89, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main (cat.)
Group Show, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
A Forest of Signs: Art in the Crisis of Representation, MOCA, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (cat.)
Group Show, Schmidt/Markow Gallery 1709, St. Louis
Oppningsutstallning, Galleri Nordenstad-Skarstedt, Stockholm
1989 Media Influences, The Forum, St. Louis
Recent Acquisitions at MOMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Constructing a History: A Focus on MOCA's Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Une Autre Affaire, Salle de Flore, Dijon (cat.)
Jon Kessler, Stephen Prina, Thomas Struth, Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
American Art of the Late 80's, Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart; Art Museum of the Ateneum, Helsinki
1988 Material Ethics, Milford Gallery, New York
Extended Play, Emily Harvey Gallery, New York (cat.)
MOCArt Auction '88, Jan Turner Gallery, Los Angeles
Tamara Bane Gallery , Los Angeles
The Temporary Contemporary, Los Angeles
James Casebere, Stephen Prina, Christopher Wool, Robbin Lockett Gallery, Chicago
Striking Distance, Museum of Contemporary Art/The Temporary Contemporary, Los Angeles (cat.)
The BiNational: American Art of the Late 80's, Institute of Contemporary Art and The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Traveled to Städtische Kunsthalle, Kunstsammlung, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Kunstverein NRW, Düsseldorf, Kunsthalle, Bremen, National Art Gallery, Athens
An Evening of 19th and 20th Century Piano Music, Ahmanson Auditorium, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Kunsthalle, Bremen, Athens National Art Gallery, Athens
American Art of the Late 80's, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart
Art Museum of the Ateneum, Helsinki (cat.)
Galerie Crousel-Robelin, Paris
Carecen 4th Annual Art Auction, Turske/Whitney Gallery, Los Angeles
Luhring Augustine & Hodes Gallery, New York
1987 2nd Annual Night of Erotica, Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center,Venice
Projections in Public, A Storefront Window Projection Project, Bloomsbury City Flower Mart, Los Angeles, Archimatics, San Diego
Tenth Anniversary Benefit Auction 1987,The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
Cal Arts: Skeptical Belief(s, The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago;
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach (cat.)
Nothing Sacred, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
Tim Ebner, John L. Graham, Stephen Prina, Christopher Williams, Kuhlenschmidt - Simon Gallery, Los Angeles
LA: Hot and Cool: The Eighties, MIT, List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge (cat.)
1986 TV Generations, LACE, Los Angeles (cat.)
The World-Wide Sound Sculpture, De Appel, Amsterdam
Rooted Rhetoric, Una Tradizione nell'Arte Americana, Castel dell'Ovo, Naples (cat.)
Mandelzomm, Castello di Vulci/Montalto di Castro, Rome (cat.)
1985 Stephen Prina, Mark Stahl, Christopher Williams, Galerie Crousel-Hussenot, Paris
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
Earsight: Visual Scores and Musical Images, Nexus, Philadelphia
Southern Alleghenies Museum, Johnstown
The Public Art Show, Nexus Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta. Traveled to University of South Carolina, Columbia, Austin Pea State University, Clarkville,Valencia Community College, Orlando, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, University of the South, Sewanee (cat.).
The Art of Memory/The Loss of History, The New Museum, New York (cat.)
1984 Jenny Holzer, Stephen Prina, Mark Stahl, Christopher Williams, De Appel, Amsterdam, Gewad, Ghent (cat.)
1982 74th American Exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago (cat.)
1980 Investigations: Probe-Structure-Analysis, The New Museum, New York (cat.)
1979 Group Exhibition of Some CalArts Works and Works by Other People Who Have Passed Through, Vancouver School of Art, Vancouver. Traveled to Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Claremont College, Claremont, Ryder Gallery, Kroeber Hall, University of California, Berkeley, University of Hartford, Hartford, The Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles
1978 University of California, Irvine
1976 5 Artists, Galesburg Civic Center