Dorothy Ianonne
Tickles My Fancy
2009
Gouache and ink on board
51 × 40 cm
Courting Ajaxander
1990
Acrylic and gouache on synthetic board
105 × 128 cm
This Can’t Be Wrong Because I Feel So Wonderful
2007
Gouache on board
65 × 55 cm
I Was Thinking Of you
1975
Acrylic on wood, monitor, film converted to DVD video, 5 min, loop
233 × 174 × 54 cm
A Souvenir for Ajaxander
1989-90
Wooden piano, acrylic paint and white lacquer
146 × 160 × 100 cm
Aua Aua
1972-2005
Acrylic on wood, monitor, 16 mm film from 1972 converted to DVD video, 2.40 min, loop
192 × 140 × 60 cm
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Hommage Aux Femmes Et Aux Hommes
1983
Acrylic on wood
160 × 120 cm
Let Me Squeeze Your Fat Cunt
1970-71
Acrylic and collage on canvas
190 × 150 cm
On The Continuing Journey
2008
Gouache and ink on board
40 × 30 cm
Always Alluring
1980-2019
Acrylic paint (Liquitex) on wood
180 × 143 cm
Welcome To My Art
1983
Gouache and ink on board mounted on wood
100 × 84 cm
Ms Liberty
1972-2007
Gouache and acrylic on board
84 × 66 cm
Your Treasures
1962
Oil on Bristol board
73 × 82 cm
Strings
1963-64
Oil on canvas
175 × 158 cm
Breathless
2014
Diptych, gouache and acrylic on paper on wood
45 × 37 × 2 cm
Ewig Grün
2015
Diptych, gouache and india ink on carboard
36 × 68 × 3 cm
Tickles My Fancy 2009 Gouache and ink on board 51 × 40 cm
Courting Ajaxander 1990 Acrylic and gouache on synthetic board 105 × 128 cm
This Can’t Be Wrong Because I Feel So Wonderful 2007 Gouache on board 65 × 55 cm
I Was Thinking Of you 1975 Acrylic on wood, monitor, film converted to DVD video, 5 min, loop 233 × 174 × 54 cm
A Souvenir for Ajaxander 1989-90 Wooden piano, acrylic paint and white lacquer 146 × 160 × 100 cm
Aua Aua 1972-2005 Acrylic on wood, monitor, 16 mm film from 1972 converted to DVD video, 2.40 min, loop 192 × 140 × 60 cm
Hommage Aux Femmes Et Aux Hommes 1983 Acrylic on wood 160 × 120 cm
Let Me Squeeze Your Fat Cunt 1970-71 Acrylic and collage on canvas 190 × 150 cm
On The Continuing Journey 2008 Gouache and ink on board 40 × 30 cm
Always Alluring 1980-2019 Acrylic paint (Liquitex) on wood 180 × 143 cm
Welcome To My Art 1983 Gouache and ink on board mounted on wood 100 × 84 cm
Ms Liberty 1972-2007 Gouache and acrylic on board 84 × 66 cm
Your Treasures 1962 Oil on Bristol board 73 × 82 cm
Strings 1963-64 Oil on canvas 175 × 158 cm
Breathless 2014 Diptych, gouache and acrylic on paper on wood 45 × 37 × 2 cm
Ewig Grün 2015 Diptych, gouache and india ink on carboard 36 × 68 × 3 cm
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Dorothy Iannone (1933–2022) was a gentle but determined warrior for the liberation of art and society from rigid moral concepts. With her courageous, personal work, she ranks among the pioneers of sexual and artistic emancipation in the 20th century. It is only fitting that her idiosyncratic and autobiographical multimedia oeuvre defies classification within the traditional categories of art history. It can be traced somewhere between Fluxus, Pop Art, and Nouveau Réalisme, yet all these classifications fall short. Iannone is an artist and feminist entirely in her own right.
Iannone got her start in the US and lived in Europe, mostly in Germany, starting in 1967. While her early paintings were rooted in Abstract Expressionism, she later developed her own distinctive visual language, combining image and text in bold, contrasting colors to tell her stories. Her compositions are spread out across the canvas in a flat, ornamental way. She filled her paintings with archetypal figures of lust and desire. Her figures unapologetically communicate their desires and anxieties, thus revealing a certain fearless vulnerability. Iannone herself often described her narratives, which span various media, as depictions of a spiritual and sexual “ecstatic unity.” With this, Iannone often challenged her contemporaries. Again and again, her work, which is bursting with love, was suspected of being pornographic, causing the artist to face the police, censorship, confiscations, and the cancellation of exhibitions.
From the start, Iannone worked on paintings and drawings, adding sculptures in the 1960s, followed by artist’s books, audio works, and, eventually, video sculptures. Her legendary Singing Boxes, in which she combined audio, painting, objects, and texts into small Gesamtkunstwerke, gave rise in the 1970s to her painted Video Boxes, in which reality and painterly imagination merge in touching ways. In her series I Was Thinking of You (from 1975), for example, we see a video recording of the artist’s face during masturbation, around which an erotic-sexual imagination was painted. This is typical of Iannone’s multimedia approach, which is concerned with perceiving—and addressing—people on all sensory levels. Even cooking became an art form for Iannone and was immortalized in her own cookbook. Iannone’s quest for other dimensions of perception also inspired her to practice Tantric Buddhism. The artist also had a dedicate room for meditation at home which was later on donated to Dharma Mati (Rigpa Zentrum) in Berlin.
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Her encounter with Dieter Roth, with whom she had an intense love affair and, after its end, a lifelong friendship, was to have a lasting impact on her life and work. Roth became her eternal muse. Many works refer explicitly to this long-term partner, turning the private into the general and political. Eroticism, sexuality, desire, rejection, union, and the spiritual dimensions of all these facets of human life can be identified as the major themes of Iannone’s practice. The artist once reflected on the explicit autobiographical dimension of her work: “There is practically no difference between me and my work. Both are about the longing for ecstatic unity and a journey to unconditional love.”
In recent years, Iannone’s work has been honored with major retrospectives at the Centre Pompidou, the Louisiana Museum, the Camden Art Centre, the Berlinische Galerie (who now keeps most of the artist’s archive), and the Migros Museum. In 2026, the CA2M in Madrid will host the next retrospective. Since 2025, Galerie Judin represents The Estate Of Dorothy Iannone in close collaboration with Air de Paris, the artist’s gallery of many years.
Chronology
Biography
1933
Born in Boston, Massachusetts
1953–57
Undergraduate study at Boston University, B.A. American Literature
1958
Graduate study at Boston University, English Literature
1959
Begins working as an autodidactic painter
1963–1967
Runs the Stryke Gallery in New York together with her husband James Upham
1976
Stipend from the Berlin Artists Programme of the DAAD
1977–1979
Conducts several open workshops at the Academy of Arts, Berlin
1988
Stipend from Kunstfonds e.V. in Bonn.
1994
Stipend from the Berlin Senate’s Women Artist Program, Berlin
2022
Died in Berlin on February 26
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024
Dorothy Iannone & Sarah Pucci: the hands that do things so sweetly, Nogueras Blanchard, Madrid
2023
Dorothy Iannone: Love Is Forever Isn’t It?, M KHA, Antwerpen
Dorothy Iannone, Billboard, n.b.k., Berlin
Ms. D. Iannone and her mother Sarah Pucci, Air de Paris, Romainville
2022
Sarah Pucci and Dorothy Iannone, Hannah Hoffman, Los Angeles
Dorothy Iannone, Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg
Dorothy Iannone, Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek
2021
Dorothy Iannone & Juliette Blightman, The Vleeshal Opera, Middleburg
2020
Dorothy Iannone: The Köln Concert, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne
Dorothy Iannone: Extase and The Roulette Table, Air de Paris, Romainville
2019
Dorothy Iannone: Lady Liberty Meets Her Match, Peres Projects, Berlin
Dorothy Iannone: Liberties, Remai Modern, The Art Gallery of Saskatchewan, Saskatoon
Dorothy Iannone, toujours de l’audace, Focus, Centre Pompidou, Paris
2018
Dorothy Iannone: The Movie People Perpetual Performance, Parades pour la FIAC, Petit Palais, Paris
Dorothy Iannone: The Movie People Perpetual Performance, Serpentine Pavilion, London
2016
Dorothy Iannone: Lineage of Love, Kiosk, Ghent
Dorothy Iannone: The Story Of Bern (Or) Showing Colors + The (Ta)Rot Pack + A Cookbook, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris
2015
Dorothy Iannone: The Next Great Moment in History is Ours, Reykjavik Arts Festival, GAMMA Gallery, Reykjavik
Dorothy Iannone: Welcome to Our Show, Air de Paris, Paris
2014
Dorothy Iannone, Peres Projects, Berlin
Dorothy Iannone, Printed Matter’s NY Art Book Fair 2014, MoMA PS1, New York
Dorothy Iannone: Censorship and The Irrepressible Drive Toward Love and Divinity, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunt, Zurich
Dorothy Iannone: This Sweetness Outside of Time. A Retrospective of Paintings, Objects, Books and Films from 1959 to 2014, Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
2013
Dorothy Iannone: Imperturable, Cneai, Chatou
Dorothy Iannone: Encore!, Galerie des Multiples, Paris
Dorothy Iannone: Innocent and Aware, Camden Arts Center, London
2012
Dorothy Iannone: Sunny Days and Sweetness, Peres Projects, Berlin
2010
Dorothy Iannone: This Sweetness Outside of Time, Peres Projects, Los Angeles
2009
Dorothy Iannone: Lioness, New Museum, New York
Dorothy Iannone: Anton Kern Gallery, New York
Dorothy Iannone, Lily van der Stokker: Dorothy & Lily fahren Boot, Air de Paris chez Esther Shipper, Paris–Berlin
2008
Dorothy Iannone: Follow Me, September Galerie, Berlin
Dorothy Iannone, Galerie Steinek, Vienna
2007
Dorothy Iannone: Prints and Books, Griffelkunst, Hamburg
Dorothy Iannone: She’s a freedom fighter, Air de Paris, Paris
2006
Seek the Extremes: Dorothy Iannone and Lee Lozano, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Dorothy Iannone: People, Random Gallery, Air de Paris, Paris
2005
Dieter Roth & Dorothy Iannone, Sprengel Museum, Hanover
Dorothy Iannone, The Wrong Gallery, Tate Modern, London
2002
Dorothy Iannone: I Was Thinking of You, Laura Mars Gallery, Berlin
2001
Dorothy Iannone, Galerie Andy Jllien, Zurich
Dorothy Iannone: Pictures and Books, Barbara Wien Wilma Lukatsch Galerie und Buchhandlung für Kunstbücher, Berlin
1998
Dorothy Iannone, Museum of Modern Art, Arnhem
1997
Dorothy Iannone: Love Is Forever, Isn’t It, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin
1996
Dorothy Iannone. Bilder der 60er Jahre, Galerie Heinz Holtmann, Cologne
1995
Dorothy Iannone, Galerie Roche, Bremen
Dorothy Iannone, Galerie Stähli, Zurich
1994
Dorothy Iannone: From Diamonds to Heart – Alte und Neue Arbeiten, Galerie und Edition Hundertmark, Cologne
1992
Dorothy Iannone, Kunst-Werke, Berlin
1990
Dorothy Iannone, Galerie Bernhard Steinmetz, Bonn
Dorothy Iannone, Kunstraum, Kunstfonds, Bonn
1989
Dorothy Iannone, Petersen Galerie, Berlin
1986
Dorothy Iannone, Boekie Woekie, Amsterdam
1984
Dorothy Iannone, Galerie Rosenberg, Zurich
1982
Dorothy Iannone, Nikolaj, Copenhagen
Dorothy Iannone, Galerie Ars Viva, Berlin
1981
Dorothy Iannone, Galerie Wallner, Malmö
1980
Dorothy Iannone and Her Mother, Sarah Pucci, Neue Galerie – Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen
1979
Dorothy Iannone, Studio Galerie Mike Steiner, Berlin
1978
Dorothy Iannone, DAAD at Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin
1977
Dorothy Iannone, Studio Galerie Mike Steiner, Berlin
Dorothy Iannone, Galerie M. Würthle und O. Wiener, Berlin
Dorothy Iannone, Other Books and So, Amsterdam
1976
Dorothy Iannone, Galerie Bama, Paris
1975
Dorothy Iannone, Galerie 38, Copenhagen
Dorothy Iannone, Galerie Ben Vautier, Nice
1974
Dorothy Iannone, Galerie SUM, Reykjavik
1973
Dorothy Iannone, Galerie Steinmetz, Bonn
Dorothy Iannone, Galerie Edith Wahlandt, Schwäbisch-Gmünd
1972
Dorothy Iannone, Eat Art Galerie, Düsseldorf
1971
Dorothy Iannone, Galerie Wilbrand, Cologne
Dorothy Iannone, Galerie Jule Hammer, Berlin
1969
Dorothy Iannone, Galerie Handschin, Basel
1967
Dorothy Iannone, Galerie Hansjörg Mayer, Stuttgart
1964–67
Dorothy Iannone, Stryke Gallery, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
La torre invertida, Casa Encendida, Madrid
Presque partout, FRAC Lorraine, Metz
L’amitié: ce tremble, CRAC Alsace, Aktkirch & Centre d’art contemporain d’Ivry – le Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine
The Infinite Woman, Villa Carmignac, Porquerolles
2023
Switch. Pop, Points and Politics, Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany
Andersch Collection/Archive. Field Test # 3: Fine – Knowles, Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
See Yourself As Lovers See You: William N.Copley | Dorothy Iannone, Sammlung Philara, Düsseldorf
If the Berlin Wind Blows My Flag. Art and Internationalism before the Fall of the Berlin Wall, n.b.k Neue Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
Nous buvons le soleil, Sultana Summer Set, Arles
Robert Filliou, Là où tout a commencé, cela commence à nouveau, Immanence, Paris
2022
The House of Dust, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Saint-Etienne, France
Femme fatale. Blick–- Macht – Gender, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
2021
Barock Modern, Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf
WTF Willumens (virtual exhibition), Willumens Museum, Frederikssund
One Is Always a Plural, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
Stations: Some Recent Acquisitions, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver
Acht Räume, Kunst (Zeug)Haus, Rapperswil
2020
“Fuck You Be Nice”, Air de Paris, Romainville
Die Spielstrasse München 1972, Urbane Künste Ruhr, Bochum
Juliette Blightman & Dorothy Iannone, Arcadia Missa, London
She-Bam Pow POP Wizz!, MAMAC, Nice
2019
More, Air de Paris, Romainville
J’aime le rose pâle et les femmes ingrates, Centre d’art contemporain d’Ivry – le Crédac, Ivry-sur-Seine
Curves to the Apples, Hollybush Gardens, London
The Pleasure Principle, Maccarone, Los Angeles
Une Poétique du Multiple, Artothèque Espaces d’Art Contemporain, Caen
A Woman Looking at Men Looking at Women, Muzeum Susch, Zernez
And Berlin Will Always Need You: Art, Craft and Concept Made in Berlin, Gropius Bau, Berlin
El hecho alegre, La Casa Encendida, Madrid
2018
Steve & the girls, Semiose, Paris
Uniques, Fondation Bodmer, Genève
Group show, Freedman Fitzpatrick Gallery, Paris
Strange Messengers, Peres Projects, Berlin
Uniques. Carnets et cahiers inimprimés, Fondation Bodmer, Genève
1998, Air de Paris, Paris
Le destin des châteaux croisés, Château Shatto, Los Angeles
2017
Traversées Ren@rde, Le Transpalette, Bourges
CUNT, Venus, Los Angeles
Poïpoï, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco
Zeitgeist, Mamco, Genève
1977-2017: L’Encyclopédie des images, 40 ans du Centre Pompidou, Cneai, Chatou
2016
Portrait Mine, Galerie Marion + Roswitha Fricke, Berlin
Cycle Music And Art Festival, Gerdarsafn Museum, Kópavogur
Olympia, Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris
Laughter and Forgetting, MeetFactory, Prague
Quand fondra la neige où ira le blanc, Palazzo Fortuny, Vienna
Das gute alte West-Berlin: Gunter Brus und das Berlin der 1970er Jahre, BRUSEUM/Neue Galerie Graz, Graz
Ministère Ta Mère, GDM – Galerie des Multiples, Paris
From Transhuman to South Perspectives, Rowing, London
2015
Laughter and Forgetting, Bucharest Art Week, Bucharest
The Rainbow Serpent, Gagosian Gallery, Athens
Live to Tape: The Mike Steiner Collection, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
Everyone’s Heart is Full of Fire, FLAX Foundation, Los Angeles
The Great Mother, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi – Palazzo Reale, Milan
Daniel Spoerri, Studio for Propositional Cinema, Düsseldorf
@TheShrink, Shanaynay, Paris
Shit And Die (cur. Maurizio Cattelan, Myriam Ben Salah & Marta Papini), Palazzo Cavour, Torino
2014
Alasdair Gray Season: Sphere of Influence II, The Glasgow School of Art, Glasgow
And away with the minutes, Dieter Roth and Music, Kunsthaus Zug, Zug
Revelry, Kunsthalle Bern
Group Spirit, Peres Projects, Berlin
2013
Painting Forever!, Kunstwerke, Berlin
Paginations et Machinations, Air de Paris, Paris
2012
Köstliche Mischung, Sammlung Grobhaus, Kreuzstall Schloss Gottorf
On the beach, Galerie Commune de l’ESA, Tourcoing
Air de Paris Summer Show, 11 Columbia, Monaco
In the pink, Joe Sheftel Gallery, New York
Jetzt, Wien Lukatsch, Gallery & Bookshop for Art books, Berlin
Météorologies mentales, Oeuvres de la collection Andreas Züst, Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris
Ever Living Ornement, Micro Onde, Vélizy-Villacoublay
Arthur Rainbow, Air de Paris, Paris
Perpetual Conceptual: Echoes of Eugenia Butler, LAND, Los Angeles
2011
True Collectors, Privatsammlung Catherine Laubier-Yves Brochard: A mon seul désir, Kosmetiksalon Babette, Berlin
Come in, we bite!, Barbara Wien, Berlin
X, Gio Marconi Gallery, Milano
Live to Tape, The Mike Steiner Collection at the Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
Bob and Breakfast: Robert Filliou et ses invités par François Curlet, Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris
2010
Seductive Subversion: Contemporary Women Artists 1958-1968, Brooklyn Museum, New York
Get behind me Satan and push!, Peres Projects, Berlin
Power Up: Women Pop Artists, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Städische Galerie, Bietigheim-Bissingen
For your eyes only, De Markten, Bruxelles
2009
Die Kunst ist super, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
Künstlerbücher, White Trash Contemporary, Hambug
Looking Back: The White Columns Annual, White Columns, New York
Access All Areas: A Drawing Exhibition, Max Hetzler Gallery, Berlin
Heaven, 2nd Athens Biennal, Athens
Rebelle: Art and Feminism 1969-2009, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem
More Love Hours Than Can Ever Be Repaid, Feinkost, Berlin
Faux Jumeaux, SMAK, Gent
2008
Ad Absurdum, MARTa Herford, Herford
Revolutions 1968, Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw
It’s not over yet, Invisible-Exports, New York
Peripheral Vision and Collective Body, MUSEION, Bolzano
Read my Lips, Peres Projects, Berlin
2007
Bodypoliticx, Witte de With, Rotterdam
Re-Dis-Play, Heidelberger Kunstverein, Heidelberg
2006
Day for Night, Whitney Biennial, New York
Féminine mystique, Galerie Steinek, Wien
Domino, Air de Paris, Paris
2005
Berlin Beauties, Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art, Gagosian Gallery, Berlin
The Wrong Gallery, Tate Modern
1997
Stretch & Squeeze – Dieter Roth and Bjorn Roth, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Marseille
1995
Die Bücher der Künstler, Institut für Auslandsbeziehungen, Berlin,
Goethe Institut, Tel Aviv, and others
En Passant, Podewil, Berlin
1993
La Donation Vicky Remy, Musée d’Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne
Berlin Americans: Dorothy lannone and Emmett Williams and special guest from New York, William Copley, Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin
1992
Mit Haut und Haar, Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf
Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin
Public Conversation with Emmett Williams, Kunst-Werke, Berlin
1991
La Caravane Passe et…, MAMAC, Nice
1990
La caravane des caravanes, Dunkirk ; Mers-les-Bains ; Dieppe ; and others
Friends of Fluxus Exhibition, Venice Biennial, Venice
Pianofortissimo, Fondazione Mudima, Gino Di Maggio, Milan
1989
André Thomkins: Retrospektive, Friends Collection, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
1988
Hommage à Robert Filliou, Fondation Daniie, Pouilly, Valdampierre
Ten Years Living Art Museum, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik
Das Verborgene Museum, Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
1987
Vom Essen und Trinken, Kunst-und Museumsverein, Wuppertal
1986
20 Jahre Rainer Verlag, DAAD Galerie, Berlin
Art in Bookform (cur. by Maurizio Nannucci and Pier Luigi Tazzi), The Alvar Alto Museum, Jyviiskylii and The Pori Art Museum, Pori
1985
Galerie Camomille, Brussels (with Lugo Gosewitz, Tomas Schmit and Jan Voss)
Livres d’Artistes: Collection Sémaphore, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Hommage aux Femmes, ICC, Berlin
1984
Kokskönster, Malmö Kunsthalle, Malmö
1983
Karl Gerstners Private Pinakothek, Kunstmuseum, Solothurn
1982
Kunstquartier Aus/indische Künstler in Berlin, Berlin
Frauen Ausstellung, Elefanten Press, Berlin
1981
Typisch Frau, Bonner Kunstverein, Galerie Magers, Cologne and Städtische Galerie Regensburg, Regensburg
1980
Ecouter avec les yeux, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
1978
Museum of Modern Art, Tehran
From Bookworks to Mailworks, Alkmaar Municipal Museum, Alkmaar
Robin Crozier’s Blue Show, Galerie Sudurgata 7, Reykjavik
L’Estampe aujourd’hui, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris
1977
Boîtes, Maison de la Culture, Rennes
Artists’ Books, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
1976
Boîtes, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Daily Bul show, organized by Pol Bury and André Balthazar, Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence; Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; Studio du Passage 44, Brussels; Neue Galerie der Stadt Aachen, Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen
American Art Today, Galerie Nothelfer, Berlin
1975
Daniel Spoerri, Moulin des Jouissances, 37th Venice Biennial, Venice
San Antonio Show-George Brecht & His Friends, Galerie Bama, Paris
MAGNA, International Woman’s Exhibition, Galerie Nachst St. Stefan, Vienna
1973
Winter Ausstellung, Düsseldorf
Amnesty International, Cologne
1972
Die Spielstrasse, Munchen 1972, Munich
1971
Nik’s Malergaard, Copenhagen
Stadt der Künstler, Düsseldorf
Eat Art Galerie, Düsseldorf
1970
Damen Friseur, Düsseldorf
Action Galerie, Bern
Edinburgh Festival of Arts, Edinburgh
1969
Freunde+Freunde, Friends+Freund, Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf and Kunsthalle Bern
Sum III, Gallery Sum, Reykjavik
1968
Collection Drs. P. & E. Kronhausen, Denmark, Sweden, Germany
1967
Dieter Roth und Dorothy lannone, Galerie Zwirner, Cologne
1966
Lending Collection, Museum of Modern Art Los Angeles
La Cédille Qui Sourit, Villefranche-sur-Mer
Jacqueline Ranson Galerie, Paris
Zabriskie Gallery, New York
1965
Hudson River Museum, New York
Lending Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1964
St. Mark’s Church in the Bowerie, New York City
Collections
Artothèque de Lyon,
Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
Centre Pompidou, Paris
Centre National des Arts Plastiques – CNAP, Paris
Castello di Rivoli, Torino
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Sammlung Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Nouveau Musée National de Monaco
Tate Modern, London
Editions
1968
Dorothy Iannone, Lists IV (A Much More Detailed than Requested Reconstruction), edition of 30, Cologne: Diver Press
1970
Dorothy Iannone, The Story of Bern Or Showing Colors, numbered and signed edition of 500, Düsseldorf: Dieter Roth and Dorothy Iannone
Dorothy Iannone and Robert Filliou, Extase, Cologne: Diver Press
1971
Dorothy Iannone, 75 Complimentary Cards, 75 Uncomplimentary Cards, numbered and signed edition of 100
1973
Dorothy Iannone, Danger in Düsseldorf (or)I Am Not What I Seem, numbered and signed edition of 200, Stuttgart/London/Reykjavfk: Hansjorg Mayer
1978
Dorothy Iannone & Mary Harding, Speaking to Each Other, numbered and signed edition of 299, Berlin/Boston/Rensselaer Falls/ Flayosc/ Zurich: Mary Dorothy Verlag (The Passion Press)
Dorothy Iannone, The Berlin Beauties oder Du hast ja keine Ahnung wie schön du bist, Berlin, numbered and signed edition of 500, Berlin/Boston/Rensselaer Falls/Flayosc/ Zurich: Mary Dorothy Verlag (The Passion Press)
Dorothy Iannone, Die Peitsche/The Whip, edition of 700, German /English
1982
Dorothy Iannone, Censorship and the Irrepressible Drive Toward Love and Divinity, Berlin: Ars Viva (later editions Arnheim, 1998, Amsterdam, 1999)
1993
Dorothy Iannone, First Recording (1969-72), numbered and signed edition of 100, Berlin: Wien’s Laden und Verlag
1994
Dorothy Iannone And Her Friends Play with the Ouija Board, numbered and signed edition of 20, Cologne: Hundertmark
1996
Dorothy Iannone, 75 Apologies, 75 Complimentary Cards, 75 Uncomplimentary Cards, numbered and signed edition of 20
2013
Imperturbable, LP and posters, signed and numbered special edition of 10, CNEAI=, Chatou, 2013
2015
Dorothy Iannone: Dear Dieter, Berlin: Tochnit Aleph (LP)
2016
A Fluxus Essay, Berlin: Tochnit Aleph
Ewig Grün, Berlin: Tochnit Aleph (LP)
Selected Solo Exhibition Catalogues and Monographs
1978
Dorothy Iannone: Follow Me. Exh. cat. Haus am Lützowplatz, Berlin: Künstlerprogramm des DAAD
1989
Dorothy Iannone: Works from 1961-1966. How I Began to Paint. Exh. cat. Petersen Galerie, Berlin
1993
Dorothy Iannone: Courting Ajaxander, Berlin: Haus am Lützowplatz
1997
Ulrike Abel, Patricia Krey, Dorothy Iannone: Dorothy Iannone: Love Is Forever, Isn’t It? Exh. cat. Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin
2001
Dieter and Dorothy: Their Correspondence in Words and Works, 1967-1998. Edited by Dorothy Iannone. Zurich: Bilgerverlag
2005
Dieter Roth & Dorothy Iannone. Exh. cat. Sprengel Museum Hannover and Stiftung Ahlers, Hanover
2013
Dorothy Iannone: A catalogue raisonné of éditions and books, 1964-2013. Edited by Yves Brochard. Lille: Université Charles de Gaulle
2014
Dorothy Iannone: This Sweetness Outside of Time. Exh. cat. Berlinische Galerie. Berlin: Kerber Verlag
Dorothy Iannone: Censorship And The Irrepressible Drive Toward Love And Divinity. Exh. cat. Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst. Zurich: JRP Ringier
Trinie Dalton, Dorothy Iannone: You Who Read Me With Passion Now Must Forever Be My Friends. Edited by Lisa Pearson. New York: Siglio Press
2017
Dorothy Iannone: Pleased to Meet You n°3. Paris: Sémiose éditions
2021 (TA)ROT TAROT: Dorothy Iannone & Juliette Blightman. Exh. cat. Kölnischer Kunstverein & Vleeshal Center for Contemporary Art. Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König
The Studio Kitchen. Culinary Creations by Artists. London / New York: Phaidon Press Limited
2022
Dorothy Iannone. Edited by Lærke Rydal Jørgensen and Tine Colstrup. Humlebaek: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
Selected Articles and Essays about the Artist
1967
Pol Bury and André Balthazar: “Qui Etes-Vous. Who are you.” Daily Bul 12
1989
Barbara Wien: “John Lennon & Cleopatra.” Magazin Berlin 6
2002
Robert Storr: “Lovesickness: Dieter Roth and Dorothy Iannone.” Parkett 65, September
2004
Silke Müller: “Die wunderbare Reise der wilden Dorothy.” Art 7, July
2005
Niklas Maak: “Die Kunst der Stunde.” Frankfurter Allgemeine, 30 September
Andreas Schiaegel: “Dorothy lannone, Dieter Roth and Emmett Williams.” Flash Art, November–December
“Dorothy Iannone. Dieter Roth and His Work.” Wrong Times, October
Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni, Ali Subotnick: “El Topo: Dorothy Iannone.” Domus 886, November
Chrissie Iles: “Film Best of 2005.” Artforum, December
2006
Maurizio Cattelan: “A revolutionary life.” Flash Art, March–April
Chrissie Iles and Philippe Vergne: Whitney BienniaI 2006. Day for Night, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art
Massimiliano Gioni: “Hindsight Foresight.” Art Review, April
Ines Gebetsroither: “Critique.” spike art quarterly, September
Sabine B. Vogel: “Review: Ein kritischer Blick zurück auf Lee Lozano und Dorothy Iannone, das Guggenheim in Bonn, Tino Sehgal in Bregenz, eine Jonathan-Meese-Performance und Isa Genzken in Wien.” Monopol 5, October–November
Chrissie Isles: “Best of 2006.” Artforum, December
Yves Brochard: “Entretien/Dorothy Iannone: ‘Follow Me’.” Particules, 17, December–January
2007
Sergio Edelsztein: “Dorothy Iannone.” Ice Cream: contemporary art in culture. New York: Phaidon
Linde Rohr-Bongard: “Das Hohelied der Erotik.” Capital, 14, June
“Dorothy Iannone & Larry Sultan: Sex.” Wrong Times, 2007
Judicaël Lavrador: Les Inrockuptibles 616, 18–24 September
2008
Maurizio Cattelan, Massimiliano Gioni and Ali Subotnick (ed): “Dorothy Iannone.” Charley 05, January
Domenick Ammirati: “Do Not Go Genitally.”Modern Painters, February
Yves Brochard: “Dorothy Iannone.” Frog 6, January–June
Esther Buss: “Inside out.” Texte zur Kunst, December
2009
Yves Brochard: “Dorothy et Lily vont en bateau.” H art 46, 22 January
Karen Rosenberg: “An Iconoclast Who Valorizes the Erotic and Ecstatic.” The New York Times, 30 July
Lauren O’ Neill-Butler: “Critics’ Picks.” Artforum, August [web]
Brian Sholis: “Dorothy Iannone.”, Kaléidoscope 3, September–October,
Johanna Burton: “Dorothy Iannone.” Artforum, October
Dorothy Iannone: “The Second Sex.” V Magazine 62
Kara L. Rooney: “Lioness The New Museum.” The Brooklyn Rail, September
Anne Pundyk: “Unconsciousness Raising.” The Brooklyn Rail, September
“Questionnaire: Dorothy Iannone.” Frieze 127, November–December
Trinie Dalton: “Review: Dorothy Iannone, Anton Kern Gallery.” Modern Painters, November
Julian Kreimer: “Review.” Art in America, November 13
Amy Sillman: “Best of 2009.” Artforum, December
2010
Sharon Mizota: “Erotic passion serves as a guide.” Los Angeles Times, April 23
Trinie Dalton: “I’m still game: Dorothy Iannone. ” Paris, LA 4
Carmen Antelo: “Skeletons in the closet.” Mousse 25, September-October
Dorothy Iannone: “The Artist’s Artists.” Artforum, December
2011
Yves Brochard: “Obsolète, Centre d’Art Contemporain Septentrion, L’Hazewind.” Frog 10
Meike Romppel: “Female pop art.” Ludwigsburger Kreiszeitung, July
Dorothy Iannone: “Echtachromes.” Frieze d/e 3
2012
“Alte Meister, von neuen geliebt, Dorothy Iannone.” Monopol 6, June
2013
Tish Wrigley: “In Pictures.” AnOther Magazine, March [web]
Marie-Sophie Müller: “Die Liebhaberin.” AD Magazine 143, October
2014
Ursula Richard: “Die Suche nach der Einheit.” Buddhismus aktuell 2, April, May, June
Karen Archey: “An Ecstatic Unity.” Flash Art 297, vol. 47, July-August-September
Kirsty Bell: “The Whole Truth.” Frieze d/e 16, September-November
Alexander Forbes: “Hello To 80-Year-Old Dorothy Iannone And Her Sex-Fueled Retrospective.” Artnet, March [web]
2014
Karl Holmqvist: “This Sweetness Outside of Time.” May 13
Elena Filipovic: “Best Of 2014.” Artforum 53, vol. 4, December
Maurizio Cattelan: “Shit And Die.” Damiani, Bologna, October
2015
Stéphane Corréard: “Iannone nature.” Libération Next 69
Heike Munder: “Mein Kunstkosmos.” Emotion – Das Frauenmagazin, June
Sini Rinne-Kanto: “Dorothy Iannone: Welcome To Our Show.” The Art Markets, May 16 [web]
Ingeborg Ruthe: “Ekstatisch féminin.” Berliner Zeitung, 26 January
2016
Vincent Romagny: “L’art c’est la vie.” Le Phare 23, April–July
Yves Brochard: “You will go far.” H Art, 2 June
Rianne van Dijck: “Het genot om te koken voor jou.” See All This 3
2017
Barbara Casavecchia: “I Cook For You.” Spike Art Quaterly 51, Spring
“Amour.” The Drawer 13, Autumn
Le guide Hazan de’art contemporain, Paris: Hazan
Louisa Buck: “Frieze Art Fair.” The Art Newspaper, October 5
2018
“Uniques – Cahier écrits dessinés imprimés.” Fondation Martin Bodmer, Paris: Flammarion
Agathe Miossec: “Dorothy Iannone sur la High Line de New York.”Connaissance des Arts, 1 March [web]
Elsa Ferreira: “Qui sont les pionnières de l’art féministe ?” L’Officiel Art, 11 April [web]
“Dorothy Iannone, An Alternative History of Art.” BBC, March 16
2019
“Never Cry While You Cook: the Art of Dorothy Iannone’s Recipe Book.” Picture Piece, Frieze News Desk, 6 March [web]
Shelby Shaw: “Dorothy Iannone: A Cookbook.” The Brooklyn Rail, June [web]
Madeleine Morley: “Designing a Cookbook That’s as Much about Life, Love, and Sex as Food.” EIGA Eye of Design, 30 May [web]
Kasia Redzisz: “The Next Great Moment in History Is Ours: Dorothy Iannone.” MOUSSE 67
Chloe Stead: “Dorothy Iannone’s Statue of Sexual Liberty.” Frieze 204, June–July–August
El Hecho Alegre: “The Happy Fact.” La casa Encendida, Madrid
Sylvain Silleran: “Dorothy Iannone au Centre Pompidou.” France Fine Art [web]
Guillaume Lasserre: “Dorothy Iannone, artiste non exclusive.” Mediapart, 29 December [web]
Camille Delon, Floriane Laurichesse: “Dorothy Iannone, extase créative.” Balises: Le magazine de la Bpi, 15 October [web]
Dorothy Iannone: “The Darling Duck.” Index, Active Culture, 22 January [web]
Will Heinrich: “A Striking Balance of New and Rediscovered at the Independent Fair.” Art Review, The New York Times, 5 March [web]
Eva Zanardi: “Independent 2020: A Cornucopia of Leading-Edge Art.” Art & Object, 8 March, [web]
Pierre B.: “Dorothy Iannone, Toujours de l’audace au Centre Pompidou.” Sortir à Paris, 30 September [web]
Cecilia Alemani: “Amanti e matrone per infrangere regole e tabù.” D: La Repubblica delle Donne, 11 April
Sam Gaskin: “Art Basel Viewing Rooms: Editorial Selections.” Ocula Magazine, 19 June [web]
2020
Bernard Blistène: “Les saisons du plaisir.” Beaux-Arts Magazine 431
Daphné Bétard: “Le sexe dans tous ses états.” Beaux-Arts Magazine 434, August
Mathilde de Croix: “Dorothy Iannone.” Aware Women Artists, November [web]
2021
Frac Île-de-France – La collection, Italy: Musumeci
Musée d‘Art Moderne de Paris: Les Flammes. L’âge de la céramique. Exh. cat. Musée d’art moderne de la ville de Paris. Paris: Flammarion
Selected Contributions by the Artist (Text or Illustration)
1967
George Brecht and Robert Filliou: Games at the Cedille, or the Cedilla Takes off, New York/Toronto/Frankfurt: Something Else Press
1970
Robert Filliou: Teaching and Learning as Performing Arts. With contributions by John Cage, Benjamin Patterson, George Brecht, Allan Kaprow, Marcelle, Vera, Bjoessi and Karl Rot, Dorothy Iannone, Dieter Rot, and Joseph Beuys, Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König
1972
SUM, Reykjavik, 4 June-21 July
1975
MAGNA, Feminismus: Kunst und Kreativität 7. März bis 5. April 1975, Exh. cat. Galerie nächst St. Stephan, Vienna
1976
Dorothy Iannone: “Le cul dans les plumes, Entretien.” ArTitudes International 30/32, January–May
1977
Dorothy Iannone: “Never cry while you cook.”Artitudes International 39/44, April–November
Sondern 2. Jahrbuch für Text/Bild, Edited by Dieter Schwarz. Berlin: Edition am Mehringdamm
Polaroid Portraits, volume 2, Edited by Richard Hamilton. Stuttgart/London/Reykjavik: Edition Hansborg Mayer
1978
Sondern 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 edited by Dieter Schwarz & Hans Peter Bühler, Zurich: Seedorn Verlag (respectively 1979, 1981, 1983, 1986)
1979
Arthur Köpcke – North no 7/8. Roskilde: North
1980
Wolfgang Becker: Dorothy Iannone And Her Mother Sarah Pucci. Editing and Design by Dorotyh Iannone. Exh. cat. Stadt Aachen Neue Galerie – Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen
1985
Zeitschrift für Alles 8, 9, 10A, Basel: Diether Roth (respectively 1985, 1986, 1987)
1992
“For Emmett, who hasn’t changed a bit.” 241, vol. 2, Winter 1992/93, Berlin
1993
Robert Filliou: Armin Hundertmark! There Was A Drawing ln The Center Of This Page. Foreword by Dorothy Iannone. Cologne: Galerie and Editon Hundermark
1993
The Art of Sarah Pucci, Works from 1959-1993. Edited and with a foreword by Dorothy lannone, contributions by Dieter Roth and Sarah Pucci. Amsterdam: Voss Forlag.
Karl Gerstner: “Wahn. Sinn. Kunst. Müll. Dieter Roth in der Fabrik.” Du – Zeitschrift der Kultur 6, June
1998
Enseigner Et Apprendre, Arts Vivants, par Robert Filliou et le lecteur, s’il le désire. With contributions by J, Cage, G. Brecht, D, Iannone, A. Kaprow, Marcelle, D. Rot, B. Patterson, Vera, Bjoessi and Karl Rot, Beuys, and an afterword by A. Moeglin-Delcroix. Paris/Brussels: Archives Lebeer Hossmann
2003
“The King Is Dead, Long Live His Work.” Deutsche Bank Arts online magazine 11, August [web]
2005
“Dieter Roth and His Work.” Wrong Times, London
2007
Get Lost. Edited by Massimiliano Gioni. New York: New Museum
2008
Daddy VII: Red Daddy. Edited by Javier Peres. Peres Projects: Los Angeles
2014
Artists Talk. Edited by Gerald A. Matt. Vienna: Verlag für Moderne Kunst
Dorothy Iannone: Murders and Matriarchies, Het Andre Behr Pamflet 34, Amsterdam: Boekie Woekie and Zurich: Galerie & Edition Marlene Frei
2016
Quand fondra la neige où ira le blanc. Florence: Polistampa
Other Imaginings, New York: 5 Year Plan
2020
Beau Geste Press. Edited by Alice Motard. Bordeaux: CAPC Musée d’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux and Les presses du réel
She-Bam Pow POP Wizz! Les Amazones du POP. MAMAC Nice, Paris: Flammarion