I PRIMI ANNI 1927 Nato a Richmond Hill, Queens, New York 1945 Servizio Militare, 82ma Divisione Aeronautica, Francoforte, Colonia 1948 Berlino, Germania. 1950 Aeronautica Usa, Commando tattico aereo 1954 Sud Carolina ISTRUZIONE 1949 Lega Studenti d’Arte, New York City - John Groth 1950 Brooklyn College - Al Terris 1956 New School For Social Research – Musica sperimentale - John Cage 1959 Pratt Institute 1963 Studio Loft Ambientale e Studi sull’Avvenimento a Media Misti. INSEGNAMENTO 1967-74 Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey 1970 Parsons School of Design 1979 Scuola d’Arte Eskimo, Nuuk-G., Greenland 1987 Fondò l’Ultimate Akademie insieme a Lisa Cieslik, Colonia, Germania 1988 Hochschule fur Bildende Kunst, Amburgo, Germania Mostre personali \ Edizioni di nota 1960 New York 6 Gallery, Watercolors. New York City, New York 1961 New York Walking Show, New York, New York 1964 Judson Gallery, New York, New York 1966 Eastend Gallery, Massachussetts 1967 Ringelhaupt Gallery, Boston, Massachussetts Hallmark Gallery, New York, New York 1969 25-27 aprile, The Hamlet of Gertrude Stein, New York 1970 Galerie Block, Berlino, Germania Galerie Ingo Kummel, Colonia, Germania 1972 Galerie Inge Baecker, Bochum, Germania 1974 Galerie der Spiegel, Colonia, Germania- Archive Show 1979 "Collage and Construction", Galerie A, Amsterdam, Olanda Henie Museum, Oslo, Norvegia Royal Academy of Art, Copenhagen, Danimarca 1980 Munchatelier, Kultusministerium, Oslo, Norvegia 1981 Edition e Galerie Hundertmark. "Black Book" Colonia, Germania Karl Valentin Museum, Monaco, Germania. 1982 Petersom Galerie Berlino, Germania. "The secret of the whole thing" Petersen Galerie, Berlino, Germania 1986 "Structures and Sculptures" Galerie Offermann, Colonia, Germania "In Search of the Goddess" Gracie Mansion Gallery, NYC, New York Zeichnungen, Aquerelle. "Andy Warhol Attentat" Edition Hundertmark, Colonia, Germania 1988 "Collagen, Objekte, Fingerbilder." Galerie Klewan, Monaco, Germania Gracie Mansion Gallery, NYC, New York "Mama Vesuvia Mia" Studio Morra, Napoli Italia 1989 Artothek Koln, Colonia, Germania Galerie Kolon, Colonia, Germania Gracie Mansion Gallery, NYC, New York 1990 "The Temple of the Goddess" Galerie Kolon, Colonia, Germania "A Visitation of Fantoms 1989-1990" Studio Morra, Napoli, Italia 1991 Galerie Klewan, Monaco, Germania "Exposition" Galerie 1900-2000 Marcel Fleiss, Parigi, Francia 1992 Lisi Hamerle Gallery, Bregenz, Austria 1993 Galerie Klewan, Monaco, Germania 1994 Troy Gallery Los Angeles, California Lattuda Studio, Milan 1995 Michael Wewerka Gallery, Berlino, Germania Gracie Mansion Gallery, NYC, New York "A.H. Una retrospettiva", Fondazione Morra, Napoli, Italia Kunstverein Rosenheim, Rosenheim, Germania 1996 Kölnisches Stadt Museum, Colonia, Germania 1998 Emily Harvey Gallery in associazione con la Gracie Mansion Gallery Galerie Helmut Klewan, Monaco Germania 1999 Galerie und Edition Hundertmark Objekte, Collagen, Aqurarelle, Fotos 2000 Galerie Inge Baecker MOSTRE COLLETTIVE 1959 "Below Zero" con Rauschenberg, Oldenburg, Dine, Kaprow, Reuben Gallery, NYC, New York 1960 "Ray Gun Spex" con Kaprow, Dine, Oldenburg, Judson Gallery (Hansen: Proiezioni multiple), New York City, New York 1963 "Fluxus Anti-Musik Festival" con Beuys, Hansen, Paik, e Spoerri Staatliche Kunstakademie, Dusseldorf, Germania 1966 "Juxtapositionen." Neue Galerie, Aachen, Germania 1969 "Happening & Fluxus." Kolnischer Kunstverein, Colonia, Germania 1970 "This Is Not Here Show" con Yoko Ono e John Lennon, Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York. 1973 Galerie Block, Berlino, Phenomenatransactionskunst: A Hansen Mini-Retrospective 1975 Galerie Baecker, Bochum. Collage/Decollage Opere di Brecht, Filliou, Hansen, Schwitters, Spoerri, Vostell, Watts ed altri. 1977 Galerie Rene Block, Berlino. Photographie Exhibition. Opere di: Beuys, Duchamp, Baumgarten, Becher, Hansen, Hodicke, Kaprow, Knoebel. 1982 "Attersee Party Performance." con Beuys, Dieter Rot, Lupertz, Attersee, Wurthie, Iannone in der Exil Bar, Kreuzberg, Berlino 1984 "Gruppenausstel" con Hansen, Cieslik e Yilmaz, Colonia 1986 "Unausgewogen." Kolnischer Kunstverein. Colonia, Germania 1987 "Conflux-Ausstellung." Wewerka Galerie, Berlino, Germania 1988 "Mobel als Kunstobjekt." Kunstlerwerkstatt, Monaco, Germania "Parallel, Dokumentas Banana, Erotica, Fotografica"Ultimate Akademie Ausstellungen, Colonia, Germania 1989 "The Junk Aesthetic" Whitney Museum, NYC, New York "Happening & Fluxus" Galerie 1900 bis 2000, Parigi, Francia "Walk Don't Walk" Walkman Show, Kunstlerbuch Galerie, Colonia 1992 "Fluxus-Virus" Colonia Kuntsverein, Colonia, Germania "L'Art Est Inutile" Bregenzer Kunstverein, Palais Thurm und Taxis, Bregenz, Austria 1994 Galerie Mamus, Copenhagen, Danimarca, con Hansen, Gyr, Den Fria, Henryk Pryds Beck ed altri 1995 Fluxus Virus – San Pietroburgo Mosca, Russia- con Hansen e Ben Patterson, Vautier, Joe Jones, Bob Watts, Nam June Paik, Alison Knowles, Larry Miller, Emmett Williams, Dick Higgins ed altri Louis Stern Gallery, Los Angeles - "Pasted Papers" Collage in the 20th Century" UBU Gallery, NYC, New York "The Gun: Icon of Twenthieth Century Art" 1996 Fotouhi Cramer Gallery, "Box", NYC, New York Rafael Vostell Fine Art, Berlino, Germania "Aus der Sammlung" 1998 And I Quote... Mary Delahoyd Gallery New York; curato da Pavel Zoubok Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia, "Franciasco Conz-Intermedia and the Avant Garde" Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, "Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object 1949-1979" Museum für angewnadte Kunst (MAK), Vienna "Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object 1949-1979" Santa Monica Museum of Art, "Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches" Channing Hansen recitò la "Elegy for the Fluxus Dead" di Al Hansen e "Yoko Ono Piano Drop" durante le due sere di apertura, il sette e l’otto maggio. Thread Waxing Space, New York, "Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches"; performances di Channing Hansen, Beck Hansen, Marianne Faithfull, foot (Thurston Moore, Don Fleming, Jim Dunbar), Larry Miller, Rebecca Moore ed ospiti speciali; Happening condotto da Bibbe Hansen; dibattito pubblico con Hannah Higgins, Wayne Baerwaldt, Carlo McCormick, Franciasco Conz e Bibbe Hansen Plug, In, Winnipeg, Canada, "Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches"; performance di Channing Hansen – l’"Elegy for the Fluxus Dead" di Al Hansen 1999 Art Beatus, Vancouver, Canada, "Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches"; performance di Channing Hansen - l’"Elegy for the Fluxus Dead" di Al Hansen LaForet, Tokyo, Japan, "Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches"; performance di Channing Hansen - l’"Elegy for the Fluxus Dead" di Al Hansen LaForet, Fukuoka, Japan, "Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches" LaForet, Nagoya, Japan, "Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches" Walter Phillips Gallery, Banff Centre for the Arts, Canada, "Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches" Dibattito pubblico di Bibbe Hansen, Franciasco Conz e Wayne Baerwaldt, performance di Channing Hansen - l’"Elegy for the Fluxus Dead" di Al Hansen 2000 Power Plant, Toronto, Canada, "Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches"; performance di Channing Hansen - l’"Elegy for the Fluxus Dead" di Al Hansen Schloss Moyland Museum, Joseph Beuys Institute, Germania, "Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches"; Dibattito pubblico di Bibbe Hansen, Channing Hansen, Wayne Baerwaldt, Beck Hansen Agnes Etherington Art Centre, Queens University, Kingston, Canada, "Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches"; Lezione "Al Hansen, His Life and Art" di Bibbe Hansen; performance di Channing Hansen - l’"Elegy for the Fluxus Dead" di Al Hansen 2001 Cheekwood Botanical Garden and Museum of Art, "Beck & Al Hansen: Playing With Matches"; Performance Workshop condotto da Bibbe Hansen; Happening condotto da Bibbe Hansen insieme ai partecipanti del workshop; Lezione "Al Hansen, His Life and Art" di Bibbe Hansen; performance di Channing Hansen - l’"Elegy for the Fluxus Dead" di Al Hansen Galerie Berndt, Colonia, Germania