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Selected Photographs      / Selected Installations         /Selected Curatorial Projects

2026
Carrier

2025
Scherben: Two Roses & A Briar Pipe
White Hydrogen
2024
Maison Fragile
Millennial Hallway
2023
Athi Patra Ruga: …looking for The One.
Survival on Land & Sea
Desire
Reckless Rolodex
2022
Sketch for a Movie
Soccer Pictures
2021
Amina Ross: Man’s Country
Oli Rodriguez: Papi
John Neff: 101
2020
Bequest of Robert Blanchon
2018
Kevin Killian: Spreadeagle
Kelly Kaczynski, Thomas Kong, Patric McCoy, and John Neff: Curated by John Neff, Curated by Jamie Stevens
Coop Fund, Amalle Dublon, Constantina Zavitsanos, Devin Kenny, John Neff
2017
Blue Bathroom Blues Set for Frederick Weston
Authorization Sessions 
Dani and Sheilah ReStack: Stack for Carrington’s Hyena
Hervé Guibert: How Could It Be Otherwise?
Arnold Kemp
Eternal Youth
Militant Eroticism: The Art+Positive Archives

2016
Joe Cassan: Bed, Bath, and Beyond
Chicago and Vicinity
Tony Greene Movie (2014-2016)
2015
Thomas Kong / John Neff Making Chances Militant Eroticism: The Art+Positive Archives
Robert Beck / Robert Buck
Kelly Kaczynski: Oh! Oh! Oh!
2014
Tony Green
2013
Kaplan Project
Mark Jackson / Tony Lewis / John Neff
John Neff
2012
Mark Jackson: Darkness and Light
John Neff
Spectral Landscape (with Viewing Stations)
2011
Intimacies
John Neff Prints Robert Blanchon
Kelly Kaczynski
2010
The Book of the Tumblr on Fire
Production Site: The Artist’s Studio Inside-Out
2009
The Analog Hole (Or “Abundance”)
Artist Run Chicago/ Artists Run Chicago Digest
Basic or Boring Pictures
Doug Ischar: An Interview. In “Marginal Waters.”
2008
Dead Center / Marginal Notes Bathers and Other Liquid Pictures Father, can’t you see I’m burning Nocturnes for Boston Trans Blueprints and Trans Study
2007
Snowfall 
Printed Space
I’m Not Saying It Does & I’m Not Saying It Doesn’t- An Interview with Fred Camper.
2006
Pornographic Pantograph with Allusion to Juan Sanchez Cotan (In Progress, Patent Pending)
Monuments of the Prosaic. BAT Journal
2004
Travels Between the First and Third Dimension
2003
Hysterical Pastoral
Stray Show Catalogue (with Hypothetical Continent)
2002
Loop
Papers on Work- Collages and Explanations
2001
Triptych
Untitled (To My Mother)
2000
Cold Conceptualism
Figure / Ground
Repetitions
1999 Empty Space
1998
Two Comparsions
1997
Documentuh
Vexations
1996
214 West Gilman St. #2


2015 Robert Beck / Robert Buck
Curated by John Neff Curatorial Project

School of the Art Institute of Chicago and
Iceberg
Chicago, IL
On April 11th, Iceberg Projects is pleased to open an exhibition of early works by Robert Beck and announce a recent outdoor installation by Robert Buck at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Together, they comprise the artist’s first exhibition in Chicago.

In 2008, as an artistic act or maneuver, one precipitated by the evolution of his work, the artist changed his last name by a single vowel – from Beck to Buck. Curator John Neff saw Beck’s “true crime” photomontages in reproduction in the mid-1990s. In 2014, he sought out Buck to organize an exhibition of those works, one of which, The Corn Field (1995), will be on display.  With the inclusion of other “evidentiary” pieces, the exhibition presents an abridged survey of fundamental images and themes in Buck’s work through the framework of his name change. 

The exhibition will include two elements presented outside Iceberg’s gallery site. Buck will install his public work, The Shrine (from e to u) (2000/2012), on the exterior of the School of the Art Institute’s Columbus Avenue building. He will also collaborate with scholar Jeremy Biles on a recorded dialogue for future release. 

At the time of his self-nomination, Buck wrote: I have always described my artwork as having been a means to create a index by which I could make sense of earlier, often traumatic experiences that at the time I could not bear, or symbolize, or make legible, so to endure or transcend them.  Basically, by making art, I strove to establish a bulwark against my fears of being overtaken by a surplus of affect or drives – emotion, anxiety, longing, enjoyment – that chance events and contingencies could ignite within me.  Evidence of my struggle infuses my work, just look at it: violence, bodies, wounds, holes, camouflage, mimicry, memorials, erasure, guilt, corruption, sex, and death – even my own.