Tony Labat

Since the early 1980s, Labat has been a participant in the California performance and video scene and has spent most of his career in San Francisco.^[16]

On June 4, 1981, Labat boxed sculptor Tom Chapman in a four-round bout at Kezar Pavilion in San Francisco. "They went into the Kezar Pavilion ring to create a 'performative piece' of pugilistic conceptual art," wrote San Francisco Examiner columnist Bill Mandel, "and ended up in a four-round street fight."^[17] From video footage of the fight, Labat created a piece titled "Challenge: POV" (1981).^[18]

Labat's artwork is included in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art, New York;^[19] Centre Pompidou, Paris;^[20] and Oakland Museum of California.^[21]

In 2005, Labat had a survey exhibition of his work in conjunction with the publication of "Trust Me" at New Langton Arts.^[16] Other exhibitions include:

• “I Want You,” San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California
• "Tony Labat and Ignacio Lang," at Harris/Lieberman Gallery, New York City, New York
• "I Like To Watch," The Canal Chapter, New York City, New York
• "Xtreme Sparring," El Museo del Barrio, New York City, New York
• Gallery Paule Anglim,^[22] San Francisco, California
• "Time and Transition in Contemporary Cuban Art," Mestna Galerija, Ljubljana, Slovenia
• "Mata Crush," Havana Bienal, Havana, Cuba;^[23]
• "Trading Places," Gallery Hit, Bratislava, Slovakia, Czech Republic
• "Mapping the Outside: (Fat Chance Bruce Nauman)," Seville Biennial, Seville, Spain
• "Mayami: Between Cut and Action," Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
• "Moving Target," Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki
• "Random Topography," NoD Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic
• "Performance Anxiety," UC Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California
• "Tony Labat: Four Installations," Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), Los Angeles, California^[24]