Download PDF (1.2 MB)John Chamberlain was born April 16, 1927, in Rochester, Indiana. He grew up in Chicago and, after serving in the navy from 1943 to 1946, attended the Art Institute of Chicago from 1951 to 1952. At that time, he began making flat, welded sculpture, influenced by the work of David Smith. In 1955 and 1956, Chamberlain studied and taught sculpture at Black Mountain College, near Asheville, North Carolina, where most of his friends were poets, among them Robert Creeley, Robert Duncan, and Charles Olson. By 1957, he began to include scrap metal from cars in his work, and from 1959 onward he concentrated on sculpture built entirely of crushed automobile parts welded together. Chamberlain's first major solo show was held at the Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, in 1960.
Chamberlain's work was widely acclaimed in the early 1960s. His sculpture was included in The Art of Assemblage at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, in 1961, and the same year he participated in the Säo Paulo Biennial. From 1962, Chamberlain showed frequently at the Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, and in 1964 his work was exhibited at the Venice Biennale. While he continued to make sculpture from auto parts, Chamberlain also experimented with other mediums. From 1963 to 1965, he made geometric paintings with sprayed automobile paint. In 1966, the same year he received the first of two fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation, he began a series of sculptures of rolled, folded, and tied urethane foam. These were followed in 1970 by sculptures of melted or crushed metal and heat-crumpled Plexiglas. Chamberlain's work was presented in a retrospective at the Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum, New York, in 1971.
In the early 1970s, Chamberlain began once more to make large works from automobile parts. Until the mid-1970s, the artist assembled these auto sculptures on the ranch of collector Stanley Marsh in Amarillo, Texas. These works were shown in the sculpture garden at the Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza, New York, in 1973 and at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, in 1975. In 1977, Chamberlain began experimenting with photography taken with a panoramic Wide-lux camera. His next major retrospective was held at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, in 1986; the museum simultaneously co-published John Chamberlain: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Sculpture 1954–1985, authored by Julie Sylvester. In 1993, Chamberlain received both the Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture and the Lifetime Achievement Award in Contemporary Sculpture from the International Sculpture Center, Washington, D.C.
1999—2000
Whitney Museum of American Art, independent study program, New York, NY
1997
Recipient of The National Arts Club Artists Award, New York, NY
1990
Elected a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
1977
2nd Guggenheim fellowship
1966
Fellowship: John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
1955—1956
Attends Black Mountain College, Asheville, NC
1951—1952
Attends the Art Institute of Chicago, IL
1927
Born April 16th in Rochester, IN
SELECT SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2012
John Chamberlain: Choices. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Visit
John Chamberlain: Choices at the Guggenheim
2011
John Chamberlain: New Sculpture. Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY; Gagosian Gallery, London, UK
John Chamberlain: Pictures. Steven Kasher Gallery, New York, NY
Chamberlain at Pace. Pace Gallery, New York, NY
2010
Alfred Leslie, John Chamberlain Collage. Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY
John Chamberlain: SINKOPEEFEAST. More Gallery, Giswil, Switzerland
John Chamberlain. Galeria Elvira Gonzalez, Madrid, Spain.
John Chamberlain: Sculpture. Galerie Karsten Greve, St. Moritz,
Switzerland
2009
John Chamberlain: A Body of Work. More Gallery, Giswil, Switzerland
John Chamberlain: Early Years. L+M Arts, New York, NY
2007
Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France and Cologne, Germany
New Work. Anthony Meier, San Francisco, CA
2006
It's his show. Buchmann Galerie, Berlin, Germany
It's All in the Fit. Chianti Foundation, Marfa, TX
2005
Recent Sculpture. Pace Wildenstein, New York
John Chamberlain - Papier Paradisio. Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
John Chamberlain: Without Fear. Waddington Galleries, London, England
John Chamberlain: Foam sculptures (1966-1979) and Photographs
(1989-2004). Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX
2004
Chelsea Group Show 2004. Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY
Sommer 2004. Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY
John Chamberlain. LA Louver, Venice, CA
John Chamberlain: Recent Sculpture. Bemis Center for Contemporary
Arts, Omaha, NE
2003
Summer Travels. Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY
Recent Sculpture. Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY
John Chamberlain: Early Works. Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY
American Icon: The Art of John Chamberlain. Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY
2002
John Chamberlain: Sculpture 1988-2001. Waddington Galleries, London, England
Clark Fine Art, Southampton, NY
2001
John Chamberlain: The Hedge. The Center for Public Sculpture, New York, NY
L.A. Louver. Venice, CA
Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY
2000
John Chamberlain Sculpture: Selections from the Menil and Dia Center
for the Arts. The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
The Center for Public Sculpture, New York, NY
1999
John Chamberlain. Lever House, New York, NY
1998
John Chamberlain: Chamberlain's Fauve Landscape. Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY
John Chamberlain: Sculpture and Photographs. Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY
1997
John Chamberlain: Abstract Sculpture. Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, CA
Baby Tycoons: Skulpturen von John Chamberlain. Museum für Lackkunst, Münster, Germany
John Chamberlain. Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
John Chamberlain: "Sculptures." Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany
Pace Wildenstein, Los Angeles, CA
Cheim & Read, New York, NY
Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich, Germany
1996
John Chamberlain: Sculpture. Traveling exhibition: Stedelijk Museum,
Amsterdam, Netherlands; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
John Chamberlain: Couches and Related Sculpture 1967-1971. A/D Gallery, New York, NY
John Chamberlain: Recent Sculpture. Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY
1995
John Chamberlain. Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany
1994
John Chamberlain: Recent Sculpture. Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA
John Chamberlain: Recent Sculpture. Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY
John Chamberlain. Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
Wide Point: The Photography of John Chamberlain. Traveling exhibition:
The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY; Tampa Museum of Art,
Tampa, FL; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
1993
John Chamberlain. Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
Photographs by John Chamberlain. MiraMar Gallery, Sarasota, FL
John Chamberlain: Neue Skulpturen. Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany
1992
John Chamberlain: Recent Work. The Pace Gallery, New York, NY
John Chamberlain: Arbiten auf Papier. Galerie Meyer-Ellinger, Frankfurt, Germany
John Chamberlain: New Work. Dia Center for the Arts, Bridgehampton, NY
John Chamberlain: New Sculpture. Laura Carpenter Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM
John Chamberlain. Galleria Seno, Milan, Italy
John Chamberlain. Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1991
John Chamberlain. Traveling retrospective exhibition. Staatliche
Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany; Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, Germany
Famous Last Words and Works on Paper. Bradley University, Peoria, IL
John Chamberlain. Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
John Chamberlain: Monotypes. Pace Editions, New York, NY
John Chamberlain: New Sculpture. The Pace Gallery, New York, NY
John Chamberlain: Arbeiten auf Paper 1982/83: Sprays, Gondola Series, Giraffe Skin Series. Galerie Fred Jahn, Stuttgart, Germany
John Chamberlain: Gondolas, 1981-1985 and Dooms Day Flotilla, 1982.
Dia Art Foundation, New York, NY
1990
John Chamberlain. Waddington Galleries, London, England
John Chamberlain. Traveling exhibition: Vero Beach Center for the Arts, Inc. Vero Beach, FL; Museum of Fort Lauderdale, FL
1989
Sculpture 1960's – 1980's. Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, MI
John Chamberlain: New Sculpture. The Pace Gallery, New York, NY
John Chamberlain. Galerie Sonia Zannettacci, Geneva, Switzerland
1987
Sculpture 1960's – 1980's. The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
John Chamberlain: Recent Sculpture. The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, England
John Chamberlain: Skulpturen. Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany
John Chamberlain: Recent Sculpture. Xavier Fourcade, Inc. New York, NY
John Chamberlain: Recent Sculpture. Fabian Carlsson Gallery, London, England
1986
John Chamberlain: Sculpture, 1954-1985. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
John Chamberlain: Oils. Traveling exhibition: Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany; Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne, Germany; Brook Alexander, New York, NY
John Chamberlain. Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1985
John Chamberlain. Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
John Chamberlain: Sculpture. Galerie Gillespie-Laage-Salomon, Paris, France
1984
John Chamberlain/Esculturas. Palacio de Cristal, Parque del Retiro, Madrid
Xavier Fourcade Gallery, New York, NY
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY
American Tableau. The Seagram Plaza, New York, NY
Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne, Germany
Galerie Helen van der Meij, Amsterdam, Netherlands
John Chamberlain Sculpture: An Extended Exhibition. Dia Art Foundation, New York, NY
Chamberlain Gardens, Essex. Dia Art Foundation, Essex, CT
John Chamberlain. The Art Museum of the Pecos, Marfa, TX, Dia Art Foundation, Marfa, TX
1983
John Chamberlain: an Extended Exhibition. Dia Art Foundation, New York, NY
John Chamberlain. The Art Museum of the Pecos/Dia Art Foundation, Marfa, TX
John Chamberlain. LA Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
John Chamberlain. Miriam Goodman Gallery, New York, NY
John Chamberlain. Robert L. Kidd Galleries, Birmingham, MI
John Chamberlain: Recent Sculpture and Work on Paper. The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
John Chamberlain Reliefs 1960-1982. The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
1983—1982
An Exhibition of Sculpture by John Chamberlain. Dia Art Foundation, the Art Museum of the Pecos, Marfa, TX
1982
Chamberlain Gardens: Essex. Dia Arts Foundation, Essex, CT
John Chamberlain. Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
1981
Westkunst. Museum der Stadt Koln, Cologne
1980
John Chamberlain. Traveling exhibition: Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland;
Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
1978
John Chamberlain. Heiner Friedrich GmbH, Cologne, Germany
The Texas Pieces. Presented by the Dia Art Foundation, Manhattan
Psychiatric Center, Ward's Island, New York, NY
1978—1977
The Texas Pieces. Presented by the Dia Art Foundation at Manhattan
Psychiatric Center, Ward's Island, New York, NY
1977
John Chamberlain: An Exhibition of Sculpture: 1959—1962. The Mayor Gallery, London, England
John Chamberlain. Heiner Friedrich, Inc., New York, NY
View from the Cockpit. Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1976
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
1975
John Chamberlain: Recent Sculpture. Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX; St. Louis Botanical Gardens, St. Louis, MO; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN
John Chamberlain. Ronald Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, MO
John Chamberlain. James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1974
John Chamberlain. Walter Kelly Gallery, Chicago, IL
John Chamberlain. Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
John Chamberlain: The Texas Pieces. Dag Hammarskjold Plaza Sculpture Garden, New York, NY
1974—1973
John Chamberlain: Texas Pieces. Hammarskjold Plaza Sculpture Garden, New York, NY
1973
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
1972
John Chamberlain/F___g Couches. Lo Giudice Gallery, New York, NY in affiliation with Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
1971
Retrospective. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
1970
Hard and Soft: Recent Sculpture. Lo Giudice Gallery, Chicago, IL
John Chamberlain Couches. Locksley/Shea Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
1969
John Chamberlain. Leo Castelli Warehouse, New York, NY
John Chamberlain. Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1968
John Chamberlain. Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
1967
John Chamberlain. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
John Chamberlain. Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Munich, Germany
John Chamberlain. Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne, Germany
John Chamberlain. Pomona College Art Department, Claremont, CA
1966
John Chamberlain. Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1965
John Chamberlain. Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
1964
John Chamberlain. Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Paris, France
John Chamberlain. Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
1963
John Chamberlain. Pace Gallery, Boston, MA
Dilexi Gallery, New York, NY
1962
John Chamberlain. Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
John Chamberlain. Dilexi Gallery, New York, NY
1960
John Chamberlain. Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY
1958
John Chamberlain. Davida Gallery, New York, NY
1957
John Chamberlain. Wells Street Gallery, Chicago. IL
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2011
Dan Flavin & John Chamberlain: Sculptures, Gagosian Gallery, New
York, NY
A Summer of American Masters with Robert Indiana, KM Fine Arts,
Chicago, Illinois
2009
A Walk in the Park: Outdoor Sculpture at Pace Wildenstein. Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY
Oranges and Sardines. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2008
Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today. With Daniel Buren and
Lawrence Wiener Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY,
2006
Bilderwechsel III - Amerikanische Malerei. Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany
Plane/Figure. Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Venice 1948 – 1986: the art scene. The Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
Auto-nom-mobile. Kunstverein, Kassel, Germany
2005
La Photographie en parallele. La Maison Européenne de la Photographie
Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Design is not Art. AAM Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
Blickachsen 5. Blickachsen - Skulpturen im Kurpark Bad Homburg
v.d.Höhe Bad Homburg
Bilderwechsel. Museum Sammlung Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden
Sculpture. Danese Gallery, New York
EXIT_AUSSTIEG AUS DEM BILD. ZKM, Museum für Neue Kunst,
Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
John Chamberlain and Tony Feher – open House 2005. The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX
2003
Dan Flavin & John Chamberlain: Sculptures. Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
2002
Buchmann Skulpturenprojekte & Kunsthandel, Lugano, Switzerland
Happy New Year! Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY
Inside Contemporary Sculpture. Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
Treasures 2002, Carl Schlosberg Fine Arts, Beverly Hills, CA
Art Downtown: New York Painting and Sculpture. Wall Street Rising, New York, NY
2001
The Lenore and Burton Gold Collection of 20th-Century Art. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Summer in the City. Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY
The Cultural Desert: Art, Medicine & Environment. Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, Scottsdale, AZ
2000
D´Amelio Terras, New York, NY
Crossroads of American Sculpture. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Galerie Karsten Greve AG, St. Moritz, Switzerland
1999
Galerie Karsten Greve Milan, Italy
1997
Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
1995
Galerie Karsten Greve Paris, France
1994—1995
Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany
1994
São Paolo Biennial, Brazil
1993
Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
1992—1993
Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany
1991
Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
1989
Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany
1987
Biennial of Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1986
Retrospective. Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, CA
1985
Second Talent. Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Transformations in Sculpture: Four Decades of American and European Art. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
1984
Experiment Sammlung I: Une Collection imaginaire. Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
The First Show: Painting and Sculpture from Eight Collections 1940—1980. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
La Rime et la raison: Les collections Menil. Grand Palais, Paris, France
Inaugural Exhibition. Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
Forming. Parrish Museum, Southampton, NY
Ein anderes Klima. Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany
American Sculpture: Three Decades. Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Automobile and Culture. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Third Dimension. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Mile 4. Chicago Sculpture International, Chicago, IL
1983
Borofsky, Chamberlain, Dahn, Knoebel. Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany
De Statua. Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
Sculpture: Tradition in Steel. Nassau County Museum of Fine Arts, Roslyn, NY
The Nuclear Age: Tradition and Transition. Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
1982
Documenta 7. Kassel, Germany
Castelli and his Artists/Twenty Five Years. La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
American Sculpture from the Permanent Collection. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park. Governors State University, Park Forest South, IL
Sculpture from the Vanderbilt Art Collection. Vanderbilt Art Gallery, Nashville, TN
The New York School: Four Decades. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
1981
Twentieth Century American Art: Highlights of the Permanent Collection.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
International Florida Artists Exhibition. John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
Westkunst. Museum der Stadt, Cologne, Germany
1980
Faszination des Objekts. Museum moderner Kunst Wien, Vienna, Austria
The Guggenheim Collection 1900—1980. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
American Sculpture: Gifts of Howard and Jean Lipman. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Selections from the Permanent Collection. Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
Reliefs/Formproblem zwischen Malerei und Skulptur in 20. Jahrhundert.
Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland
1979
Auto Icons. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Collection: Art in American after World War II. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Soft Art Exhibition. Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland
Contemporary Art Acquisitions from Sydney and Frances Lewis. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Contemporary Sculpture: Selections from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
A Celebration of Acquisitions: Gifts and Purchases, 1975—1979. Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO
1978
Art and the Automobile. Flint Institute of Art, Flint, MI
Collection: American Sculpture. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
American Art 1950 to the Present. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Selections from the Fort Worth Art Museum Permanent Collection. Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, TX
1977 Two Decades of Exploration: Homage to Leo Castelli on the Occasion of his Twentieth Anniversary. The Art Association of Newport, Newport, RI
Pop Plus. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Collectors Collect Contemporary: A Selection from Boston Collections.
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
Jubilation: American Art during the Reign of Elizabeth II. The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England
Twentieth Century Art from Friends' Collections. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
New York: The State of Art. The New York State Museum, Albany, NY
Works on Paper by Contemporary American Artists. Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
Permanent Collection: Thirty Years of American Art 1945—1975. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Recent Acquisitions. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
1976
Two Hundred Years of American Sculpture. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
New York—Downtown Manhattan: SoHo. Akademie der Kunst, Berlin, Germany
7 + 5: Sculptors in the 1950s. Art Galleries, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
Three Hundred Years of American Art in the Chrysler Museum. Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
1975
Wreck: A Tragic-Romantic American Theme. The C.W. Post College Art Gallery, Greenvale, NY
Painting, Drawing and Sculpture of the Sixties and Seventies from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection. Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
Sculpture, American Directions, 1945—1975. National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Collection, Washington D.C.
San Diego Collects. La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
Sculpture of the 60s. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1974
Poets of the Cities New York and San Francisco 1950—1965. Dallas Museum of Fine Arts and Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
Large Scale Sculpture Show. Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
The Ponderosa Collection. The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
Works from Change Inc. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Wreck. Canton Art Institute, Canton, OH
Contemporary American Sculpture. The Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, FL
Inaugural Exhibition. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
1973
American Art 1948—1973. Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Biennial of Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Sculpture 3—New York Artists on Tour. World Trade Center, New York, NY
Selections from the Permanent Collection. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
New York Collection for Stockholm. Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
South Florida Collects. Fort Lauderdale Museum, Fort Lauderdale, FL
1972
Film-Video-Photographs-Projektion. Louisiana Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
Painting and Sculpture Today. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Recent American Painting and Sculpture. The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
American Art Since 1945. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Sixties to Seventy-two: American Art from the Collection of Ed Cauduro. Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
1971
Younger Abstract Expressionists of the Fifties. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Techniques and Creativity/Selections from Gemini G.E.L. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Art and the Automobile. Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY
Prospect '71. Städische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany
Highlights of the 1970—1971 Season. The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Selections from the Museum Collection and Recent Acquisitions, 1971. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Wilderness. The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
1970
The Highway. Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
Painting and Sculpture Today—1970. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
The Thing as Object. Kunsthalle Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany
Monumental Art. Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
Metamorphose des Dinges. Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Small Sculptures from Cincinnati Collections. Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
1969
New Media, New Methods. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Soft Art. New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
Painting and Sculpture Today—1969. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Sammlung 1968 Karl Ströher. Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940—1970. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
An American Report on the Sixties. Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
1968
Annual Exhibition of Sculpture. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Selections from the Collection of Hanford Yang. The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Sammlung Hahn: Zeitgenössische Kunst. Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany
Sammlung 1968 Karl Ströher. Galerie-Verein Munich, Neue Pinatothek, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Selections from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Mayer. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
1967
American Sculpture of the Sixties. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Sculpture: A Generation of Innovation. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
The 1960s: Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The 1967 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture. Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
1966
Art of the United States: 1970—1966. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Contemporary American Sculpture: Selection I. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Annual of Sculpture and Drawing. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1965
Painting and Sculpture Today. Herron Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Painting without a Brush. Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
American Sculpture 1900—1965. Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
Seven Sculptors. Institute for Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
Modern Sculpture USA. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Virginia Dwan Kondratief Collection. University of California at Los Angeles, CA
1964
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
Twenty-fourth Annual Exhibition by the Society for Contemporary American Art. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Atmosphere of '64. Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
Painting and Sculpture of a Decade. The Tate Gallery, London, England
XXXII Esposizione biennale internationale d'arte. Venice, Italy
The Biennial Eight. Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts
Recent American Sculpture. The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Sculpture Annual. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1963
Sculptors of Our Time. Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington D.C.
Mixed Media and Pop Art. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Premiere Salon international de galleries-pilotes. Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
Sculpture in the Open Air. Battersea Park, London
1962
Directions in Modern Sculpture. Providence Arts Club, Providence, RI
Modern Sculpture from the Joseph T. Hirschhorn Collection. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Annual of Sculpture and Drawing. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Sixty-Fifth Annual American Exhibition: Some Directions in Contemporary Painting and Sculpture. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1961
The Museum of Modern Art, New York/Painting and Sculpture
Acquisitions. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
VI Bienal. Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paolo, Brazil
The Art of Assemblage. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Ways and Means. Houston Contemporary Arts Association, Houston, TX
1960 Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY
New Sculpture Group. Stable Gallery, New York, NY
Annual of Sculpture and Drawing. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1959
Recent Sculpture USA. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1957
Wells Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
AWARDS
1999
Distinction in Sculpture Honor, Sculpture Center, New York, NY
1997
National Arts Club Artists Award, New York, NY
1993
Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, ME
Lifetime Achievement Award in Contemporary Sculpture, The International Sculpture Center, Washington D.C.
1984
Brandeis University Creative Arts Award Medal in Sculpture, MA
1977
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
1966
John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
MUSEUM AND PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX
Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
Clay Center, Charleston, WV
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Colby Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Dia Foundation for the Arts, Beacon, NY
Dia Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York, NY
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
IVAM Centro Julio Gonzalez, Valencia, Spain
Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria
Musée National D'Arte Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX
National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, IL
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Tate Gallery, London, England
University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, MO
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
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