General Idea
Life & Work by Sarah E.K. Smith
1979
Colour Bar Lounge, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam.
Test Tube, de Appel, Amsterdam.
1980
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General Idea’s Carmen Lamanna Gallery – The Boutique from the 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion,
1980
The Canadian Pavilion at the 40th Venice Biennale.
1981
General Idea, 49th Parallel, New York.
1982
Documenta 7, Kassel, Germany.
Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto.
Ziggurat Paintings (1968–69), Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto.
1983
P is for Poodle: The Milky Way from the 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion, Music Gallery, Toronto; Carmen
Lamanna Gallery, Toronto.
General Idea's Mondo Cane Kama Sutra, Albert Baronian Gallery, Brussels.
1984
General Idea’s 1984, Vancouver Art Gallery.
Baby Makes 3, Carmen Lamanna Gallery, Toronto.
General Idea, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst (now Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst), Ghent.
1984
–85
The 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion, Kunsthalle Basel. Travelled to Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven;
1986
–87
The Armoury of the 1984 Miss General Idea Pavillion, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo. Travelled to 49th
1987
AIDS, Koury Wingate Gallery, New York.
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Musée d'art contemporain, Montreal.
Parallel, New York; University Art Gallery, California State University, Long Beach; Contemporary Arts
Museum Houston; Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo.
AIDS (poster project), New York.
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