Tony Labat selected work

Curriculum Vitae

Tony Labat received both a BFA and an MFA from the San Francisco Art Institute.

Labat has presented his work internationally, including exhibitions at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles; the Laguna Art Museum; the Museum of Modern Art in New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art; the M.H. de Young Memorial Museum, San Francisco; Palais des Beaux-Arts in Brussels, Belgium; the National Gallery of Poland; Helsinki Museum of Art; the Tel Aviv Museum of Art; the National Gallery of Greece in Athens; Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco; Gallerie Ute Parduhn, Dusseldorf, Germany;
Artspace, San Francisco; and Capp Street Project, San Francisco.

He is the winner of grants from the Fleishacker Foundation, the Film Arts Foundation, the California Arts Council, an Award in the Visual Arts from SECA, an Engelhard Award from the Institute of Contemporary Art in Boston, the 1987 Sculpture Award from San Francisco Artspace, Open Channels Award from the Long Beach Museum of Art and two awards from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Labat is the chair and professor in the New Genres department and has taught at the San Francisco Art Institute since 1985.

Tony Labat's work has taken many different forms over the years-mixed-media installations, video, painting, and sculpture. Invariably it has a performance component, one that stems from the conceptual lineage of Chris Burden, Vito Acconci, and Bruce Nauman, whose work in the 70's questioned the institutional limits of art through radical
experimentation.