David Lamelas
Born in Buenos Aires, 1946
Lives and works in Los Angeles and Buenos Aires
1966 B.A., Academia Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires
1969 M.A., St. Martin’s School of Arts, London
Awards and Fellowships
Honorary prize, Premio de honor ver y estimar, Galeria Van Riel, Buenos Aires, 1965
Honorable mention for sculpture, Premio Georges Braque, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, 1966
Special jury prize, Premio Nacional, Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires, 1966
Special prize, Plástica con plásticos, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, 1966
Prize for sculpture, IX Bienal de São Paulo, San Paulo, 1967
Honorable mention, Premio Georges Braques, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, 1967
British Arts Council Fellowship, London, 1968
Guggenheim Fellowship, New York, 1993
DAAD Stipendium, 1998
Solo Exhibitions
2023
David Lamelas. I Have to Think About it, Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare, Bolzano (IT)
2021
Life as Activity: David Lamelas, Hunter College Art Galleries, New York (US)
David Lamelas. Far, América, Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela (ES)
2019
David Lamelas: Nomadic Architecture, Galeria Jacqueline Martins, São Paulo (BR)
In Our Time, Cinematek, Brussels, (screening)
2018
David Lamelas. Arquitectura Nomade, Galeria Henrique Faria, Buenos Aires
Time, Instituto Inhotim, Brumadinho (BR), (performance)
Murs pliés. Gevouwen muren, Jan Mot, Brussels
David Lamelas: Fiction of a Production, Eli and Edythe Broad Art Museum Michigan State University, East Lansing, Michigan, (US)
The Desert People, Cinema 2, Centre Pompidou, Paris, (screening)
A Life of Their Own/ Con vida Propia, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA), Buenos Aires
In Our Time: An Evening of Film with David Lamelas, The Getty Center, Los Angeles (US), (screening)
David Lamelas. The Other Side, Maccarone, Los Angeles (US)
2017
David Lamelas. Tausendvierhundertsechzehn for Tenor and String Quartet
David Lamelas and Gavin Gamboa: As performed with León de Castillo and the Marcel-Rubin-Quartett , Maccarone Gallery, Los Angeles (US)(performance)
Desert People, The Invention of Dr. Morel, CINEMATEK, Brussels, 02/10 (screening)
David Lamelas: A Life of Their Own, Pacific Standard Time LA/LA Initiative, University Art Museum, Long Beach (US)
Time as Activity, Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles (US)
Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, (screening)
2016
Intimidad Territorial, Parra Romero, Madrid
Artist’s Film Club: David Lamelas, ICA, London (screening)
Experiencias Visuales 1962 & 1968, Jan Mot, Brussels
Hammer Contemporary Collection: David Lamelas, The Desert People, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
David Lamelas, Sprüth Magers, Berlin
2015
Mon Amour (y guerra), Ignacio Liprandi Arte Contemporáneo, Buenos Aires
V, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel (CH)
On The Moon, FRAC Lorraine, Metz (FR)
Mon Amour. Reading Films, Jan Mot, Brussels
La disparition des lucioles, Collection Lambert, Avignon (FR)The Eden’s Edge Project, MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles (US)
GARAGE EXCHANGE: The Eden’s Edge Project, MAK, Mackey Garage Top, Los Angeles (US)
Lia Rumma, Milano (IT)
2014
On the Moon, FRAC Lorraine, Ile de France (FR)
2013
Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles (US)
Stiftelsen Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
2012
Parra & Romero, Madrid
Ignacio Liprandi Arte Contemporaneo, Buenos Aires
Jan Mot, México D.F.
Maccarone, New York (US)
2011
David Lamelas, COMMA 36, Bloomberg Space, London
David Lamelas, Buenos Aires, MUNTREF, Buenos Aires
David Lamelas, Limit of a projection II, Jan Mot, Brussels
David Lamelas, Ignacio Liprandi Contemporary Art, Buenos Aires
2009
AppleLife, Gaudel de Stampa, Paris
Encounters, Jan Mot, Brussels
David Lamelas, Centro Guerrero, Granada (ES)
2008
Above-the-Fold, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel (CH)
2007
David Lamelas, Early Works, Sprüth-Magers, Munich (DE)
David Lamelas, Michele Maccarone, New York
David Lamelas. Time as Activity, Neue Kunst Halle, Sankt Gallen (CH)
David Lamelas, Sprüth-Magers, London
2006
David Lamelas – Tiempo como actividad (Buenos Aires), 2006, MALBA- Colección Costantini, Museo de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires / Malba, Buenos Aires
David Lamelas, Wiener Secession, Vienna
David Lamelas. Los Angeles Time As Activity, MC, Los Angeles (US)
David Lamelas. Part 1 and Part 2, Jan Mot, Brussels
Time as Activity. Warsaw, Fundacja Galerii Foksal, Warsaw
Time is a Fiction, Kunsthalle, Basel (CH)
Time is a Fiction, Lumen, Leeds (UK)
Time is a Fiction, Ocularis, New York
Time is a Fiction, Cinema Spoutnik, Geneva (CH)
Time is a Fiction, Outpost, Norwich (UK)
Time is a Fiction, Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow (UK)
Time is a Fiction, Musee d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Strasbourg (FR)
Time is a Fiction, Centre de Culturia Contemporania Barcelona (ES)
Time is a Fiction, Redcat, Los Angeles (US)
2005
David Lamelas, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid (ES)
Foreigner, Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico (MX)
Time is a Fiction, Side Cinema, Newcastle (UK)
2004
Pièce d’angle, La vitrine, Ecole nationale de Cergy, Paris
Space / Time / Fiction, Sala Rekalde, Bilbao (ES)
David Lamelas. Exhibiting Mediality, ICA Institute of Contemporary Art – University of Pensylvania, Philadelphia (US)
L’Effet Ecran. David Lamelas, CAC, Brétigny and Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris
2002
David Lamelas. Dentro y fuera de la pantalla, MAMBA – Museo de Arte Moderno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
The light at the Edge of a nightare I & II, Galerie Kienzle & Gmeiner, Berlin
The invention of Dr Morel, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
2001
Harmony Korine. David Lamelas, Fri-Art – Centre d’Art Contemporain, Fribourgh (FR)
2000
David Lamelas. Projects on Canvas and Paper, Galerie Kienzie and Gmeiner, Berlin
1999
David Lamelas, Galerie Gisela Capitain, Cologne (DE)
1998
Time Cuts, Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart, Stuttgart (DE)
1997
A New Refutation of Time, traveling exhibition, Kunstverein München, Munich and Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, Rotterdam (NL)
House - People, Encore Bruxelles, Brussels
1995
Lecture ‘Reading Films.’ APP.BXL LOBBY, Brussels
1993
Galleria Fac-Simile, Milan (IT)
8 Disegni, Studio Michela Scotti, Milan (IT)
1991
Lavandula, Labiatae, Lamiales, Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
1989
Inner & Outer, Willoughby Sharp Gallery, New York
Adriana Rosenberg Galeria, Buenos Aires
1988
Art House Galeria, Buenos Aires
1980
Scheherazade, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach (US)
1978
Fifteen Years, Centro de Arte y Communicación e el Muséo de Arte Moderno de la Ciudad de Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
1977
University Art Museum, University of California, Irvine (US)
1976
The Desert People - Five Actors Dreaming about a Documentary Movie, Contemporary Art Survey, Dickson Auditorium, UCLA, Los Angeles (US)
A Fiction, Claire Copley Gallery Inc., Los Angeles (US)
1975
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
A Fiction, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
Cast: Carol Gary, Chris Holmes, Manuel Thomas Lucas, Michael Schwartz, John Volstad, Wide White Space Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
Musée National d’Art Moderne, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
The Violent Tapes of 1975, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
1974
Films, M. Poirier dit Caulier, Antwerp (BE)
The Desert People, Jack Wendler Gallery (Collegiate Cinema), London
Cumulative Script, Galleria Françoise Lambert, Milan (IT)
1973
Royal College of Art, London
Jack Wendler Gallery, London
To Pour Milk into a Glass, Wide White Space Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
Wide White Space Gallery, Brussels
1972
Film Script, Nigel Greenwood Inc., London
Reading of an Extract from ‘Labyrinths’ by J.L. Borges, Galleria Françoise Lambert, Milan (IT)
Film Script, Galleria Françoise Lambert, Milan (IT)
Cumulative Script, Wide White Space Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
Lia Rumma/Studio d’Arte, Naples (IT)
1971
Reading of an Extract from ‘Labyrinths’ by J.L. Borges, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
1970
Wide White Space Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
Gente - Milano. Un Film, Galleria Françoise Lambert, Milan (IT)
Interview, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
Publication, Nigel Greenwood Inc., London
1965
El Super Elastico, Galeria Lirolay, Buenos Aires
1964
Carlos Gardel, Galeria Lirolay, Buenos Aires
1962
Dibujos, Galeria Estimulo, Buenos Aires
Group Exhibitions
2024
Presque partout, 49 Nord 6 Est - Frac Lorraine, Metz (FR)
2023
Implosion. Conceptual Art in the CGAC Collection (1965-1975), CGAC, Santiago de Compostela (ES)
Time, Kunsthaus Zürich (CH)
Chosen Memories, The Museum of Modern Art, MoMA, New York (US)
Endless, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago (US)
2022
10 milliards d'années, Musée d’art et d'histoire, Geneva (CH)
Eros Rising: Visions of the Erotic in Latin American Art, The Institute for Studies on Latin American Art (ISLAA), New York (US)
El verano que nunca fue (videos de la colección CIAC), Laboratorio Arte Alameda, Mexico City
Almond shaped eyes for circles and dots • Circles for eyes and almond shaped dots • Dots and almonds for circles in eyes, Galerie Nordenhake Mexico, Mexico City
2021
Ludwig Wittgenstein. Photography as analytical practice, Leopold Museum, Vienna
Os Conviventes, Galeria Nuno Centeno, Porto (PT)
Ian Wilson, David Lamelas, Traces of Speech and Time in Michel Claura's Miscellanies, Jan Mot, Brussels
2020
Pictures, Revisited, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City (US)
Collection 1940s–1970s, MoMA New York, New York City (US)
Images liées, Château de Servières, Marseille (FR)
Back to the Future, Artissima XYZ, Torino (IT) (online)
Welcome Back, Space ISU, Seoul
2019
Bodies-Cities, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg (AT)
Jef Cornelis: Kunst is voor weinigen, Roger Raveelmuseum, Machelen-Zulte (BE)
Lamelas, Irwin, Kusama: Regarding Perception, Galeria Lago, Instituto Inhotim, Brumadinho (BR)
Fly me to the Moon. 50 Jahre Mondlandung, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg (AT) Moon Landing. The View from the Moon 50 Years later, Kunsthaus Zürich (CH)
AMBERES-Roberto Bolaño's Antwerp, MHKA, Antwerp (BE)
Jef Cornelis: Kunst is voor weinigen, Roger Raveelmuseum, Machelen-Zulte (BE)
Grado Zero, Lia Rumma, Milano (IT)
On Kawara, David Lamelas, Jan Mot, Brussels
2018
A 37 90 89 – The Invention of the Neo-Avant-Garde, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin
Lamelas, Irwin, Kusama: Regarding Perception, Galeria Lago, Instituto Inhotim, Brumadinho (BR)
Is it language that they´re after? (keine*r antwortete.), Kunsthalle Exnergasse, Vienna
Matriz Do Tempo Real, Museu de Arte Contemporanea da Universidade de Sao Paulo (BR)
A Tale of Two Worlds: A Dialogue Between the MMK Collection and the History of Experimental Latin American Art, 1940s - 1980s, Museo de arte Moderno de buenos Aires (MAMBA), Buenos Aires
2017
Art and Space, Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao (ES)
A Tale of Two Worlds: A Dialogue between the MMK Collection and the History of Experimental Latin American Art, 1940s – 1980s, Museum für moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main (DE)
Parapolitics: Cultural Freedom and the Cold War, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Learning from Documenta, Cultuur Centrum, Strombeek (BE)
Narrative Art, Mamco, Geneva (CH)
Documenta 14, Kassel (DE)
VIS-À-VIS, UGM, Maribor (SVN)
Modus Operandi, Société, Brussels
Documenta 14, Athens
Punto de Partida. Colección Isabel y Agustín Coppel, Fundación Banco Santander, Madrid
This Way Out of England: Gallery House in Retrospect, Raven Row, London
MACBA Collection 31, MACBA, Barcelona (ES)
2016
Rebel, Rebel, MAC's, Hornu (BE)
La Biennale de Montréal 2016, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal (CA)
SITElines.2016 Much Wider Than a Line, SITE Santa Fe (US)
MACBA Collection 31, MACBA, Barcelona (ES)
Time, The new Tate Modern opening weekend, Tate Modern, London
Under the Same Sun: Art From Latin America Today, South London Gallery, London
2015
Seth Siegelaub: Beyond Conceptual Art, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Looking at Tomorrow: Light and Language from The Panza Collection, 1967–1990, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo (US)
Transmissions: Art in Eastern Europe and Latin America, 1960–1980, Museum of Modern Art, New York City (US)
Eppur si muove (Et pourtant elle tourne), Mudam, Luxembourg
Formes biographiques, Carré d'Art, Musée d'art contemporain, Nîmes (FR)
America Is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City (US)
From the Object to the World – Inhotim Collection, Palácio das Artes, Belo Horizonte (BR)
Systems & Subjects. Works from the Generali Foundation, MAP and Museum der Moderne Salzburg Collections, Museum der Moderne Salzburg, Salzburg (AT)
Genuine Conceptualism, Herbert Foundation, Ghent (BE)
Under The Same Sun. Art From Latin America Today, Guggenheim UBS MAP Global Art Initiative, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City (US)
Words As Doors, Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien, KM-, Graz (AU)
Other Primary Structures, The Jewish Museum, New York City (US)
Ray Barrie, David Lamelas, Patrick Killoran, Samuel Freeman, Los Angeles (US)
Uncommon Ground: Land Art in Britain 1966-1979, Mead Gallery Warwick Arts Centre
, Coventry (UK)
2014
Glam, LENTOS Kunstmuseum Linz, Linz (AT)
National Museum Cardiff, Cardiff (UK),
Images of an Infinite Film, Museum of Modern Art, New York City (US)
Uncommon Ground. Land Art in Britain 1966 – 1979, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefiend (UK)
2013
Extension of the combat zone. The collection. 1968 - 2000, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Glam, Lentos Kunstmuseum, Linz (AT)
Uncommon Ground: Land Art in Britain 1966-1979, National Museum Cardiff, Cardiff (UK)
Against Method, Generali Foundation, Vienna
Various Stages, Kunsthaus Dresden (DE)
Images of an Infinite Film, Museum of Modern Art, New York (US)
Glam, kestnergesellschaft, Hanover (DE)
Dear Portrait, Mostyn, Llandudno (UK)
Susan Vérité. Des méthodes, CRAC Alsace (FR)
Friends of London, David Roberts Art Foundation, London
The Whole Earth, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
Glam, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt/Main (DE))
Glam, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool (UK)
Conceptual Geographies: Frames and Documents, Selections from the Ella Fontanals-Cisneros Collection, Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University (US)
2012
Shiver in the Shift, Parra & Romero, Madrid
Jan Mot, Zona MACO Sur, México D.F.
Formes brèves, autres, 25, FRAC Lorraine, Metz (FR)
2011
Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981, MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles (US)
Pacific Standard Time - Performance Art and Public Art Festival, LAXART, Los Angeles (US)
Viewpoint: 2011 CIFO Grants & Commissions Program Exhibition, CIFO Art Space, Miami (US)
Sistemas, Acciones y Procesos. 1965-1975, Fundacion PROA, Buenos Aires
I Am a Clichè – Ecos da Estètica Punk, Centro Cultural Banco do Brasil, Rio de Janeiro (BR)
Les paradoxes du temps, MUDAM, Luxembourg
Jan Mot, Art 42 Basel, Basel (CH)
Je croix aux miracles. Dix ans de la Collection Lambert, Collection Lambert, Avignon (FR)
The Talent Show, MoMa PS1, New York
Simon Starling: Never The Same River (Possible Futures, Probable Pasts), Camden Arts Centre, London
2010
There’s Always a Cup of Sea to Sail In, The 29th Sao Paulo Biennial, Sao Paulo (BR)
De frente al sol, Galerie Marin Janda, Vienna
Iman: Nueva York, Fondation Proa, Buenos Aires
Les Rencontres d’Arles International Photography Festival, Arles (FR)
Jan Mot, Art 41 Basel, Basel (CH)
Mixtapes: Popular Music in Contemporary Art, Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork (IE)
Curated by_, Marko Lulic, Vienna 2010, Galerie Senn, Vienna
Che cosa sono le nuvole? Artworks from the Enea Righi Collection, Museion Bolzano, Bolzano (IT)
It Is It, Espacio 1414, Santurce (PR)
Changing Channels, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna
2009
A Study Of The Relationships Between Inner And Outer Space, Art Film, Basel (CH)
Play Van Abbe, Strange and Close, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (NL)
Berlin 89/09 - Kunst zwischen Spurensuche und Utopie (in 36 days), Berlinische Galerie, Berlin
Time As Activity, Netwerk, Aalst (BE)
The Death Of The Audience, Secession, Vienna
Earth - Moon - Earth, David Lamelas and Katie Paterson, Djanogly Gallery, Lakeside Arts Centre, Nottingham (UK)
Jan Mot, Art 40 Basel, Basel (CH)
Time As Matter. MACBA Collection. New Acquisitions, MACBA, Barcelona (ES)
The Quick And The Dead, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (US)
2008
Un Coup de Dés, Writing Turned Image, An Alphabet of Pensive Language, Foundation Generali, Vienna
I Have Nothing To Say And I’m Saying It, Platform Seoul, Seoul
This Is Not a Void, Galerie Luisa Strina, Sao Paulo (BR)
The 7th Gwangju Biennale: Annual Report, Gwangju (KR)
It Cannot Be Visited But Is Experienced, Platform Seoul 2008, Seoul
Index: Conceptualism in California from the Permanent Collection, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles (US)
Weder Entweder Noch Oder, Wurttembergischer Kunstverrein, Stuttgart (DE)
Jan Mot, Art 39 Basel, Basel (CH)
Peripherical Vision and Collective Body, Museion, Bolzano (IT)
Time Pieces, Jan Mot, Brussels
Other than Yourself – An Investigation Between Inner and Outer Space, T-B A21, Vienna
The Living Currency, Tate Modern, London
2007
In the Poem About Love You Don’t Write the Word Love, Overgaden – Institute of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen
Desert People, Out Of Place / Argos Files, Brussels
Jan Mot, Art 38 Basel, Basel (CH)
Die Geschichte wiederholt sich nicht!, Bielefelder Kunstverein, Bielefeld (DE)
Some Time Waiting, Kadist Art Foundation, Paris
A Theatre Without Theatre, MACBA, Barcelona (ES)
A Theatre Without Theatre, Museu Berardi, Lisbao (PT)
Collection, Generali Foundation, Vienna
Playground / Living Currency, Kunstencentrum STUK, Leuven (BE)
2006
Frieze Art Fair, London
Primera Generacion Arte en Imagen en Movimiento (1963-1986), Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
Was Wäre Wenn # 6: Für die Ewigkeit, Jet, Berlin
Programme, Jan Mot, Brussels
La Monnaie Vivante / Living Currency, CAC – Centre d’Art Contemporain de Brétigny, Brétigny (FR)
Uchronies et Autres Fictions, 49 Nord 6 Est, Frac Lorraine, Metz (FR)
Los Angeles-Paris1955-1985, Musée National d’Art Moderne – Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Foksal Gallery, Warsaw
Jan Mot, Art 37 Basel, Basel (CH)
Thank You For The Music, Sprüth Magers Lee, London
Thank You For The Music, Sketch, London
50 JPG, Centre de la Photographie, Genève (CH)
2005
The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960-1982, Miami Art Central, Miami (US)
Today is Just a Copy of Yesterday, Jan Mot, Brussels
Jan Mot, Frieze Art Fair, London
Wall Pieces, Jan Mot, Brussels
Thank you For the Music, Sprüth Magers Projecte, Munich (DE)
2004
Minimal Artists Try to Make Something Look Like Nothing and Conceptual Artists Try to Make Nothing Look Like Something or Is It the Other Way Round?, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
Behind the Facts. Interfunktionen 1968-1975, Museu de Arte Contemoranea de Serralves, Porto (PT)
The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography (1960-1982), MARCO. Museo de Arte Contemporanea de Vigo, Vigo (ES)
Behind the Facts. Interfunktionen 1968-1975, Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona (ES)
Berlin Biennale für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Barcelona (ES)
X-SCREEN. Filmische Installationen und Aktionen der 60er und 70er Jahre, MUMOK Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna
A Century of Artists’ Film in Britain, Tate Britain, London
L’Effet Ecran. David Lamelas, CAC, Brétigny and Centre Culturel Suisse, Paris
2003
The Last Picture Show. Artists Using Photography. 1960-1982, Walker Art Centrer, Minneapolis (US)
2001
Doublelife – Identität und Transformation in der Zeitgenössischen Kunst, Generali Foundation, Vienna
2000
Flight Patterns, MOCA the Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles (US)
Global Conceptualism – Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge (US)
Vivências – Lebenserfahrung, Generali Foundation, Vienna
Inaugural Exhibition Making Time – Considering Time As a Material in Contemporary Art, The Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth (US)
1997
The Impossible Document: Photography and British Conceptual Art 1967-1976, Camerawork, London
InSITE97, Installation Gallery, San Diego (US)
1996
Qualsiasi cosa vi venga in mente, Galleria Fac-Simile, Francesca Testori, Milan (IT)
Zoersel ’96, Domein Kasteel van Halle, Zoersel (BE)
Perfect, Galerie Mot & Van den Boogaard, Brussels
1995
Reconsidering the Object of Art 1965-1975, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (US)
Fundazion Baur Patucus, Buenos Aires
1994
Cuarta Pared, Museum Jacobo Borges, Caracas (VE)
Leandro Katz, David Lamelas, Liliana Porter, Instituto Culturale Iberico, Buenos Aires
Dialogues, Provinciaal Museum, Hasselt (BE)
The Belly of the Beast. Cutting Edge Media in Los Angeles (film festival), Los Angeles (US)
Wide White Space 1966-1976. Behind the Museum, traveling exhibition, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Kunstmuseum Bonn and M.A.C. Galeries Contemporaines des Musées de Marseille, Marseilles (FR)
1993
Galerie des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
1992
America. Bride of the Sun. 500 Years of Latin America and the Low Countries, Royal Museum of Fine Arts, Antwerp (BE)
Lichtspiele, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
1991
Carla Stellweg Gallery, New York
1990
Galleri Nordanstad-Skarstedt, Stockholm
Art Conceptuel Formes Conceptuelles/Conceptual Art Conceptual Forms, Galerie 1900-2000; Galerie de Poche, Paris
David Lamelas/Luis Camnitzer, Carla Stellweg Gallery, New York
Au Commencement, Centre d’Art de Guérigny, Guérigny (FR)
1989
Heat the Roof, curated by Catherine Arthus-Bertrand, New York
Adriana Rosenberg Galeria, Buenos Aires
Pervasive Symbiosis. Ten Argentine Artists, Carla Stellweg Gallery, New York
1987
Variations III, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles; University of California, Fine Arts Gallery, Irvine and California State
University, Art Gallery, Northridge (US)
1985
EZTV (television channel), Los Angeles (US)
Video from Vancouver to San Diego, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1984
Flowers of Life for Central America, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (US)
Video: A Retrospective. Long Beach Museum of Art. 1974-1984, Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach (US)
1983
Film as Installation, The Clocktower, New York
1982
Lately in L.A., Beyond Baroque, Venice (IT)
1978
Video Art, Long Beach Museum of Art, Some Serious Business and Santa Barbera Cable TV, Long Beach (US)
Internationale Film Festspiele Berlin. 8. Internationales Forum des jungen Films,
Akademie der Kunste, Arsenal, Berlin
The New American Filmmakers Series: Short Video Narratives, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1977
Filmex (film festival), Los Angeles (US)
The New American Filmmakers Series: Clark/Lamelas, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Southland Video Anthology II, Part 5, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (US)
1976
The New American Filmmakers Series: California Images, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Artists Film Series, Artists Space, New York
Marginal Documents, Independent Film Oasis, Los Angeles (US)
Filme, Städtisches Museum Mönchengladbach, Monchengladbach (DE)
1974
Projekt 74, Kunst bleibt Kunst, Kunsthalle, Kölnischer Kunstverein and Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne (DE)
Kölner Kunstmarkt, Kunsthalle (Wide White Space Gallery), Cologne (DE)
1973
Combattimento per un’immagine. Fotografi e Pittori, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Turin (IT)
Artists Books, traveling exhibition, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia; University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley (US)
Beyond Painting and Sculpture, Arts Council of Great Britain, Royal College of Art, London
Contemporanea, Parcheggio di Villa Borghese, Rome
1972
Documenta 5, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel (DE)
A Survey of the Avant-Garde in Britain, Gallery House, London
Book as Artwork 1960-1972, Nigel Greenwood Inc., London
Actualité d’un Bilan, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
1971
Multiples, The First Decade, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia (US)
Arte de sistemas, Centro de Arte y Communicación en el Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires
Septième Biennale de Paris, Parc Floral de Paris, Bois de Vincennes, Paris
In Another Moment, Galerya Studentski Kulturni Centar, Belgrade
Prospect 71: Projection, Städtische Kunsthalle (Wide White Space Gallery), Dusseldorf (DE)
1970
Les Arcs (FR)
Art Concepts from Europe, Bonino Gallery, New York
18 Paris IV. 70, curated by Michel Claura and Seth Siegelaub, Paris
3e Salon International de Galeries Pilotes, traveling exhibition, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts (Wide White Space Gallery), Lausanne and Musée d’Art Moderne de la
Ville de Paris (Wide White Space Gallery), Paris
Information, Museum of Modern Art, New York
Multipels en grafische werken, Wide White Space Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
1969
Environments Reversal, Camden Arts Centre, London
Socha Pieštanských Parkov ‘69’ (International Exhibition of Plastic Oeuvres, Sculptures, Objects. Sculpture in the Parks of Pieštany ‘69’), Kúpel’ný ostrov, Pieštany (SK)
Prospect 69, Städtische Kunsthalle (Wide White Space Gallery), Dusseldorf (DE)
Garden Project, Christ Church, Oxford (UK)
Konzeption-Conception, Städtisches Museum Leverkusen - Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen (DE)
1968
Beyond Geometry. An Extension of Visual-Artistic Language in Our Time, Art Gallery, Center for Inter American Relations, New York
La XXXIV Biennale di Venezia, Padiglione de l’Argentina, Venice (IT)
Prospect 68, Städtische Kunsthalle (Wide White Space Gallery), Dusseldorf (DE)
Materiales, nuevas técnicas, nuevas expresiones, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires
Experiencias 68 at the Instituto Torcuato di Tella
Beuys, Broodthaers, Christo, Lamelas, Lohaus, Palermo, Panamarenko, Ruthenbeck, Venet, Wide White Space Gallery, Antwerp (BE)
1967
IX Bienal de São Paulo, San Paulo (BR)
Premio Georges Braque, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires
Experiencias Visuales, Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires
Más allá de la geometría. Extensión del lenguaje artístico-visual en nuestros días, Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires
Estructuras primarias II, Sociedad Hebraica Argentina, Buenos Aires
1966
Premio Georges Braque, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires
Galeria Ronald Lambert, Buenos Aires
Premio Nacional, Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires
Premio ver y estimar, Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires
Plástica con plásticos, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires
1965
Artistas Jovenes de Latinoamerica, Galeria Lirolay, Buenos Aires
La Menesunda, Instituto Torcuato Di Tella, Buenos Aires
Premio de honor ver y estimar, Galeria Van Riel, Buenos Aires
Premio Georges Braque, Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires
Selección de Jorge Romero Brest, Galeria Guernica, Buenos Aires
1964
Salón de Latinoamerica, Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires
Feria de la Feria, Galeria Lirolay, Buenos Aires
Objeto 64, Museo de Arte Moderno, Buenos Aires