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  EDUCATION

  1978 M.F.A., Committee on Art and Design, University of Chicago
  1972 B. A. in Art, Southern Illinios University at Carbondale

  SOLO EXHIBITIONS

  1999 University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA
  Zolla-Lieberman Gallery, Chicago
  1998 Cristinerose Gallery, New York
  Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington DC
  Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
  1997 Kerlin Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
  Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago, IL
  1996 Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington DC
  1995 Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL
  Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
  "Unpacking my Library," Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art (installation), Cleveland, OH
  1994 "Unpacking my Library," San Diego State University Art Gallery (installation), Lisa Sette Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
  1993 Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago
  1992 "Bibliography," Fisher Gallery, University of Southern California, Los Angeles (installation), CA
  Fiction/nonfiction, New York
  Laurence Miller Gallery, New York
  Roy Boyd Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

  GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  1999 "HYPERsalon: prints and multiples," Emerson Gallery, McLean
  Project for the Arts, McLean, VA
  "The Art of the Book," Society for Contemporary Crafts, Pittsburgh, PA
  "The Other Book," curated by Timothy Smith for the Art Gallery,
  Cleveland State University, Cleveland, OH*
  "Disorienting Signs," curated by Pablo Helguera for Leonora
  Vega Gallery, New York, NY*
  "The Art of Reading: Books and Non-Books," Institute of
  Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
  "Bookish," Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL*
  "Sarah Krepp and Buzz Spector," Betty Moody Gallery, Houston, TX
  "Buzz Spector / Timothy van Laar," Dynamite Gallery Project, Grand Rapids, MI
  1997 "Unbound: art in bookform/book as artform," Herron Gallery, Herron School of Art, Indianapolis, IN
  1996 "Art in Chicago: 1945-1995," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago *
  "Large Drawings and Objects," Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AK *
  1995 "On Beyond the Book," Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO *
  "Biblio Vertigo," curated by Brock Lueck and Michael Piazza, Northern Illinois University Art Museum, DeKalb, IL *
  1994 "Desire in Time, Time as Intimacy," University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Art Museum *
  "Psychic Borders," Tyler Galleries, Temple University, Philadelphia
  1993 "Like a Body Without a Shadow," curated by Christopher French,
  Marsha Mateyka Gallery, Washington DC
  "Beyond the Written Word," San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art,
  San Jose, CA
  1992 "Knowledge: Aspects of Conceptual Art," University Art Museum,
  University of California, Santa Barbara
  (*-catalogue available)

  BIBLIOGRAPHY

  2000 Charmelo, Julie. Blink: Interventions in the Salon (exh. Cat.), Northern Illinois University Art Gallery, Chicago: 9 (illus.)
  Wiens, Ann. "Bookish: Chicago Cultural Center," Dialogue, vol. 23, no.1, January / February 2000: 19.
  1999 Huisman, Holly. "Clarity and Distortion," The Paper, Grand Rapids, MI, November 11, 1999: 18.
  Estep, Jan, Kartofel, Graciela, and Vega, Leonora. Disorienting Signs (exh. cat.), New York, NY, Leonora Vega Gallery: 16 pages plus cover (illus.)
  Hubert, Renee Riese and Hubert, Judd. The Cutting Edge of Reading: Artists' Books, New York: Granary Books, Inc., 1999: 11,47,71,83,87,89,92.
  Eisler, Colin. "Author, Author!" Art on Paper, Vol. 3, no.3 (January-February 1999): 41-43 (illus.).
  1998 Ryan, Dinah. "Buzz Spector: Authors," Art Papers, November-December 1998: 47.
  Princenthal, Nancy. "Artist's Book Beat," Art on Paper, Vol. 2, no.6 (July-August 1998): 50.
  Carducci, Vincent. "Buzz Spector at Cranbrook Art Museum," New Art Examiner, Vol. 25 no. 10 (July-August 1998): 63-64 (illus.)
  Cohen, Keri Guten. "An inside look at the Cranbrook vision," Detroit Free Press, March 22, 1998:E7 (illus.)
  Protzman, Ferdinand. "Buzz Spector at Marsha Mateyka Gallery," Washington Post, March 19, 1998: D7
  1997 Marcoci, Roxana, Murphy, Diana, and Sinaiko, Eve, eds., New Art, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1997: 120-121 (Illus.)
  Vine, Richard. "Where the Wild Things Were," Art in America, Vol. 85 no.5 (May 1997): 98-111
  1996 Drucker, Johanna, "Static Object, Dynamic Form," Sculpture, Volume 15 no. 9 (November 1996): 20-25 (illus.).
  Feldman, Edmund Burke. "Buzz Spector," Large Drawings and Objects (Exh. Cat.) Arkansas Arts Center, Little Roock, AK: 50-51 (illus.).
  Yood, James. "Buzz Spector at Roy Boyd Gallery," Artforum, Volume XXXIV, no.8 (April 1996): 106 (illus.).
  Swartz, Mark. "Independent Labels: Marcel Broodthaers and Buzz Specter," Chicago Reader, January 5, 1996: Section 1, 24-25.
  Kugelman, Kerry. "Buzz Spector at Angles, "Art Issues, Number 41 (January-February 1996): 45 (illus.).
  1995 Drucker, Johanna. The Century of Artists' Books, Granary Books, New York, 1995: 13, 118-19 (illus.).
  Yard, Sally. "Tagged Turf in the Public Sphere, " essay in inSite94 (exh. cat.), Installation Gallery, San Diego, CA:46,146 (illus.).
  1994 Carley, Michal-Ann. Desire in Time, Time as Intimacy (exh. cat.),
  Wisconsin-Milwaukee Art Museum: n.p.
  Munoz, Neva Lindburg, and Spector, Buzz. Interview, Contemporary Impressions, Volume 2, no. 1 (Spring 1994): 18-20.
  1993 Pagel, David, and Spector Buzz. Interview, Bomb, Summer 1993, no. XXXIV: 8-11.
  Upshaw, Reagan. "Buzz Spector at fiction/nonfiction and Laurence Miller,"
  Art In America, Vol. 81, no. 3 (March 1993): 112-113.
  1992 Kandel, Susan, "LAX: L.A. Is Written All Over It," Los Angeles Times, December 10, 1992: F1, F8-F9.
  Hess, Elizabeth, "Freud on Ice," Village Voice, December 1, 1992: 53.

  RECENT WRITINGS BY THE ARTIST

  1995 The Book Maker's Desire, selected critical essays, published by Umbrella Editions, Santa Monica, CA.

  AWARDS


  1991 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award


  Fellowship Award, National Endowment for the Arts


  1985 Fellowship Award, National Endowment for the Arts


  1982 Fellowship Award, National Endowment for the Arts


  PUBLIC COLLECTIONS


  The Art Institute of Chicago


  Chicago Public Library


  Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.


  Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI


  Dickson Art Library, University of California, Los Angeles


  Mills College Library, Oakland, CA


  Museum of Modern Art/Franklin Furnace Archive Collection, New York


  Getty Research Institute Library, Santa Monica, CA


  Houghton Library, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA


  Illinois State Museum, Springfield, IL


  The Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles, CA


  Los Angeles County Museum of Art


  Luigi Pecci Centre for Contemporary Art, Prato, Italy


  Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago


  Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, FL


  Orange County Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA


  Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry, Miami Beach, FL


  University of California-Santa Barbara, Library Special Collections