Sweet Oblivion

1. The artist; sold through Semaphore Gallery, New York, to Rose and Morton Landowne, New York, 1984; sold through P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York, to the Society for Contemporary Art at the Art Institute of Chicago, given to the Art Institute of Chicago, Sept. 12, 2012.

Recorded by Art Institute of Chicago.

• New York, Bess Cutler Gallery, Situation, Jan. 14–Feb. 11, no cat.
• New York, Semaphore Gallery, Martin Wong: Paintings for the Hearing Impaired, Sept. 8–Oct. 6, 1984, no cat.
• Cleveland, OH, Cleveland State University, The Art Gallery, Acts of Faith: Politics and the Spirit, Jan. 8–Feb. 5, 1988, no cat. no.
• Normal, IL, Illinois State University Galleries, Normal, Sweet Oblivion: The Urban Landscape of Martin Wong, Jan. 13–Feb. 22, 1998, pl. 1; New York, New Museum, May 28–Sept. 13, 1998.
• New York, P.P.O.W Gallery, Big City Fall: Oiwa, Schneemann, Wojnarowicz, Wong, Nov. 30–Dec. 26, 2006, no cat.
• New York, La MaMa La Galleria, Side X Side, June 28–Aug. 3, 2008, cat. 16.
• Cologne, Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Martin Wong: Works 1980–1998, no cat.; May 28–Aug. 22, 2010; Galerie Daniel Buchholz, Berlin, Aug.27–Sept. 25, 2010.
• Art Institute of Chicago, Society for Contemporary Art 2012 Annual Acquisition Exhibition, May 7–Aug. 1, no cat.
• Kunsthalle Prague, Bohemia: History of an Idea, 1950–2000, Mar. 23–Oct. 16, 2023, no cat. no.

• Lucy R. Lippard, Acts of Faith: Politics and the Spirit, exh. cat. (Cleveland, OH: Cleveland State University Art Gallery, 1988), 6 (ill.), 7.
• Dan Cameron and Amy Scholder, Sweet Oblivion: The Urban Landscape of Martin Wong, exh. cat. (New York: New Museum Books; New York: Rizzoli, 1998), n.p., pl. 1 (color ill), 77.
• Holland Cotter, “The Streets of a Crumbling El Dorado, Paved with Poetry and Desire,” New York Times, June 5, 1998, E35 (ill.).
• Barry Schwabsky, “A City of Bricks and Ciphers,” Art in America, 86, no. 9 (September 1998): 103.
• Martin Wong, “Martin Wong Meets Martin Wong,” Giant Robot (Summer 1999): 50.
• Holland Cotter, “Art in Review,” New York Times, July 25, 2008, https://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/25/arts/design/25gall.html
• Dean Daderko, curator for Visual AIDS, Side X Side, exh. cat. (New York: Visual AIDS; New York: La Mama La Galleria, 2008), n.p., cat 16 (color ill.).
• Nate Cohan, “Everything Must Go: Martin Wong on His Turf,” ARTnews, March 13, 2014,
• https://www.artnews.com/art-in-america/features/everything-must-go-martin-wong-on-his-turf-59698/.
• Doryun Chong and Cosmin Costinas, Taiping Tianguo: A History of Possible Encounters: Ai Weiwei, Frog King Kwok, Tehching Hsieh, and Martin Wong in New York , exh. cat. (Berlin: Sternberg Press, 2015), 10, 113.
• Andrew Strombeck, DIY on the Lower East Side: Books, Buildings, and Art after the 1975 Fiscal Crisis (Albany: State University of New York Press, 2020), 83.
• Krist Gruijthuijsen and Augustín Pérez Rubio, eds., Martin Wong: Malicious Mischief, exh. cat. (Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, 2022), 107 (color ill.).

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