c.1997
NORMAN TUCK
Education
M.F.A. Pennsylvania State University, University Park, 1972
B.F.A. University of Florida, Gainesville, 1967
Art Related Employment
1972-86 Part-Time Gallery Worker, Art Transporter, Art Installer, NYC
1978-79 Assistant Professor of Art, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
1982-83 Visiting Director, University Gallery, Wake Forest Univ., Winston-Salem, NC.
1984-85 Artist-in-Residence, The New York Hall of Science, Queens, NY
1986-87 Visiting Assistant Professor of Art, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC.
Solo Exhibitions
2021 The Center for New Music Window Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
1999 Art Machines, Science Museum of Minnesota, St Paul, MI.
1998 Art Machines, The Discovery Center of Idaho, Boise, ID.
1996 Art Machines, Inventure Place, Akron, OH.
1994 Art Machines, The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA.
Art Machines, Liberty Science Center, Jersey City, NJ.
1993 Art Machines, Technorama Museum, Winterthur, Switzerland.
North Carolina Museum of Life and Science, Durham, NC.
1992 Art Machines, City Gallery of Contemporary Art, Raleigh, NC.
SciWorks, Winston-Salem, N.C.
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1991-92 Mindless Mechanisms, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC.
1984 Art Galaxy, New York, NY.
1982 Fashion Moda, Bronx, NY.
1978 Fine Arts Gallery, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, NC.
1977 O.K. Harris Gallery, New York, NY.
1974 O.K. Harris Gallery, New York, NY.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2015-16 Mechanix, Phaeno Museum, Wolfsburg, Germany.
2009 Automatas, Arte y Mechanica, Parque de las Ciencias, Granada, Spain.
2008 Phantasie Mechanik, Phaeno Museum, Wolfsburg, Germany.
2000 Small Objects for Light and Sound, Sonoma Mus. of Visual Art, Santa Rosa, CA.
1999 Fusion: Art and Science, Wake Forest University, Winston- Salem, NC.
1997 Electricity is Your Friend, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
Homemade Instrument Day, Lincoln Center, New York, NY.
1996 Natural Phenomena, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA.
1995 Sculpture on the Move, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY.
Universe of Meaning, Brattleboro Museum, Brattleboro, VT.
Sculpture on the Move, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY.
1993 Experimenta '93, Villa Gualino, Turin, Italy.
1992 Navigation, The Exploratorium, San Francisco, CA.
Centennial Biennial Invitational, O.K. Harris Gallery, New York, NY.
1991 Art from the Exploratorium, Traveling Exhibition, New York, London, Haifa.
1988 Clockwork, List Visual Art Center, M.I.T. Cambridge, MA.
San Francisco Festival, The Kennedy Center, Washington, DC.
1986 Physics, Piezo Electric Gallery, New York, NY.
Two Person Exhibition, Exit Art Gallery, New York, NY.
1984 Labor Intensive Abstraction, The Clock tower Gallery, New York, NY.
Mechanisms, P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY.
The Sound Art Show, The Sculpture Center, New York, NY.
1983 Terminal New York, Brooklyn Army Terminal, Brooklyn, NY.
1982 Williamsburg All Fools Show, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, NY.
1981 The Monumental Show, Gowanus Memorial Art Yard, Brooklyn, NY.
1979 Sound, P.S.1, Long Island City, NY.
1978 Contemporary Artists Series, Rutgers University Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ.
1973 Sculpture 3, Opening of the World Trade Center, New York, NY.
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1966 Group Exhibition, The Subterranean Circus, Gainesville, FL.
Collections
Pieces have been purchased for the permanent collections of:
The Alaska Science Center, Anchorage, AK.
The Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum, Ann Arbor, MI.
The Arizona Science Center, Phoenix. AZ.
Beijing Oriental Plaza, Beijing, China.
The Big Bang Museum, Osaka, Japan.
The Children's Discovery Center, San Jose, CA.
La Citta della Scienza, Napoli, Italy.
Copernicus Science Center, Warsaw, Poland.
Discovery Science Center, Santa Anna, CA.
Discovery World, Milwaukee, WI.
The Don Harrington Discovery Center, Amarillo, TX.
Experimentanium, Moscow, Russia.
The Experimentarium, Hellerup, Denmark.
The Exploratorium , San Francisco, CA.
The Explorium, Mobile, AL.
Fundacion Tiempos Nuevos, Santiago, Chile.
GWIZ Gulf Coast Wonder and Imagination Zone, Sarasota, FL.
The Great Lakes Science Center, Cleveland, OH.
Hong Kong Science Museum, Kowloon, Hong Kong, China.
Japan Science Foundation, Tokyo, Japan.
The McWane Center, Birmingham, AL.
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Museo de la Ciencia, Barcelona, Spain.
Museo Sol Del Nino, Mexicali, Mexico.
The New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science, Albuquerque.
The New York Hall of Science, Queens, NY.
The North Carolina Museum of Life and Science, Durham, NC.
Phaeno Museum, Wolfsburg, Germany.
Parque de las Ciencias, Granada, Andaluci, Spain.
Patronato Museo Sol Del Nino A.C., Mexicali, Mexico.
The Science Museum of Minnesota, St. Paul, MN.
The Science Museum of Western Virginia, Roanoke, VA.
Science World of British Columbia Vancouver, Canada.
SciQuest, The North Alabama Science Center, Huntsville, AL.
SciWorks, Winston-Salem, NC.
SEE Science Center, Manchester, NH.
Science Center, Singapore.
Stichting Flanders Technology International, Brussels, Belgium.
Techniquest, Cardiff, Wales.
Technorama Museum, Winterthur, Switzerland.
Trans Studio World, Bandung, Indonesia.
The Whitaker Center, Harrisburg, PA.
Wonderlab, Bloomington, IN.
The Whitaker Center, Harrisburg, PA.