General Idea
Life & Work by Sarah E.K. Smith
multiples please see AA Bronson’s website. This site also outlines the group’s video
exhibitions and broadcasts and the group’s performances. The following exhibition list
uses Bronson’s website as an authoritative reference for the spelling of all exhibition
titles and venues.
Selected Solo Exhibitions During General Idea’s Active Years (1969–1994)
A detailed list of General Idea’s exhibitions to date can be found on AA Bronson’s
website.
1969
The Belly Store (collaboration with John Neon), 78 Gerrard Street West, Toronto.
Waste Age, 78 Gerrard Street West, Toronto.
1970
Betty’s (collaboration with Ken Coupland and Ron Terrill), 78 Gerrard Street West, Toronto.
1971
The 1971 Miss General Idea Pageant Entries, A Space, Toronto.
The 1971 Miss General Idea Pageant Awards Ceremony, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.
1972
Light On, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto.
Evidence of Body Binding, Galerie B, Montreal.
1973
Luxon V.B., Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto.
Manipulating the Self, Galerie B, Montreal.
1975
Going thru the Notions, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto.
Going thru the Motions, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.
1976
Search for the Spirit, Galerie Gaëtan, Geneva.
1978
Menage à Trois, Lucio Amelio, Naples.
Reconstructing Futures, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto; Canada House, London; Canadian Cultural
Centre, Paris.
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