Born July 18, 1924, in Leningrad, Russia. Together with his parents he moved to Riga in 1925/26. Captured by the Germans 1941 and suffered in the ghettos and concentration-camps of Riga, Salapils, Stutthof and Buchenwald-Magdeburg in Germany. Emigration to USA in 1946. Lived in Paris from 1954 to 1955. Founded together with Sam Goodman and Stanley Fisher the NO!art movement in 1959 at March gallery in the Tenth Street in New York. Since 1978 he collaborates with Dietmar Kirves for continuation the NO!art movement. Together they realised the first NO!art anthology, the NO!art in Buchenwald show, more NO!art exhibitions, and the NO!art website. Died on January 7th, 2008, in New York.
2012BORIS LURIE ART REFERENCE ROOM | Tel Aviv Museum of Art
2011THE ART OF BORIS LURIE | Chelsea Art Museum, New York
ONE-on-ONE | Dialog between Boris Lurie and Estera Milman, New York 2000
BORIS LURIE: NO!art | Pierre Menard Gallery, Cambridge, MA
2010BORIS LURIE: NO!art | Westwood Gallery, New York
NO!art INFRINGEMENT | Gertrude Stein Counsel, New York
SAYING YES TO NO! | Review by Douglas Century, Art news, New York
2009ZEIGEN / POINTING | Groupshow, Temporaere Kunsthalle Berlin
ART FAIR 2009  |  New York | Pierre Menard Gallery, Cambridge
NO!art MAN | Screening at CCA Wattis Institute, San Francisco
2008CONDOLENCE LETTERS for Boris Lurie
BORIS LURIE, R.I.P. | Jan Herman, in: artsjournal, New York
2006SHOAH AND PIN-UPS | Film by Reinhild Dettmer-Finke
2005THE ARTIST AS PROVOCATEUR | Review by David Katz, New York
WILD BOYS, BAD BOYS, OUTSIDERS ... | Clayton Gallery, New York
THE 80s | Clayton Gallery & Outlaw Art Museum, New York
2004FEEL-PAINTINGS/ NO!art Show No 4 | Janos Gat Gallery, New York
OPTIMISTIC - DISEASE - FACILITY | Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin
2003OPTIMISTIC - DISEASE - FACILITY | Buchenwald Memorial, Weimar
optimistic - disease - facility | Video about Boris Lurie by Naomi T. Salmon
2002NO!art and the Aesthetics of Doom | University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa
NO!art MAN | Film documentary by A. Goldman about Lurie, New York
2001NO!art and the Aesthetics of Doom [Groupshow] | Block Museum, Evanston, IL
2000BORIS LURIE - NOT MINCE MATTERS | Interview by Rogákos & Gat
1999LIFE - TERROR - MIND | Weimar-Buchenwald Memorial, Weimar
1998WORKS 1947-1998 | Weimar-Buchenwald Memorial, Weimar
NO!art SHOW No 3 with Kirves, Patterson & Vostell | Janos Gat Gallery, New York
1997CONGRESS OF RESISTANCE, New York
1995NO!art | Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst, Berlin
BORIS LURIE and NO!art | Haus am Kleistpark, Berlin
1988NO!art | Anthology, Edition Hundertmark, Cologne