Download PDF (473 K)Scott Burton [American. 1939-1989]
1989
Died, New York, NY
1989
Curated Artist's Choice: Burton on Brancusi. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1986
Retrospective exhibition held at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore MD
1978
Young American Artists: 1978 National Exxon Exhibition. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
1976
Pair Behavior Tableaux. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
1972
Group Behavior Tableaux. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1970
While a guest lecturer at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, Burton participated in two performance assemblies which he considered a turning point in his artistic career.
1963
M.A. New York University, New York, NY
1962
B.A. Columbia University
1957-59
Studied with Leon Berkowitz, at the Washington Workshop of the Arts, Washington D.C.
During summer months, Burton studied at the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts, Provincetown, MA
1939
Born, Greensborough, AL
Select Solo Exhibitions
2006
Scott Burton. Albion, London, England
2004
Scott Burton. IVAM Center Julio Gonzalez, Valencia, Spain
2001
Scott Burton Chairs. Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
1998
Scott Burton & Richard DeVore. Max Protetch Gallery, New York, N
1996
Chaise Longings. Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY; Delaware
Museum of Art, Wilmington, DE
1995
Scott Burton. Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY
1992
Scott Burton: The Concrete Work. Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY
1991
Scott Burton: The Last Tableau. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1990
Scott Burton: The Early Works. Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY
1989
Scott Burton/Sculpturen 1980-89. Kunstverein fur die Rheinland und Westfalen, Germany
Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany; Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France
Steel, Wood, Stone. Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY
1988
New Chair Sculptures. Lisson Gallery, London, England
1987
Scott Burton. Max Protetch, New York, NY
Scott Burton. Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne, Germany
1986
Scott Burton. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Furniture Sculpture: Recent Geometric Granite Works. Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
New Works in Granite and Selected Works in Wood. Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY
1985
Scott Burton. Tate Gallery, London, England
Geometric Granite Furniture. Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY
1984
Geometric Granite Furniture Series: Four New Works. McIntosh-Drysdale Gallery, Houston, TX
1983
Scott Burton Chairs. The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
1982
New Work. Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY
Recent Work. Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1981
Granite Chairs, a Pair. Dag Hammaeskjold Plaza Sculpture Garden, New York, NY
New Tables. Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY
1980
Recent Sculpture. Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Individual Behavior Tableaux. University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley
1979
Sculpture Equals Furniture. Protetch-McIntosh Gallery, Washington D.C.
1978
Four Tables. Brooks Jackson Iolas Gallery, New York, NY
1977
Pragmatic Structures. Droll/Kolbert Gallery, New York NY
1976
Pair Behavior Tableaux. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
1975
Two Chair Pieces. Artist's Space, New York, NY
1972
Group Behavior. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
American Theater Lab, New York, NY
1971
Eighteen Pieces. Finch College, New York, NY
Select Group Exhibitions
2008
Scott Burton, Richard DeVore and Buckminster Fuller. Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY
2004
Art by Design/Design by Art: Decorative Art by Minimalist and Post Minimalist Artist. Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, NY
Celebrating Sculpture. Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
2002
Finding AIDS: Representations. Parsons School of Design
Scott Burton, Mel Chin, Joan Jonas, Tobias Putrih. Max Protetch gallery, New York, NY
Art Downtown: New York Painting and Sculpture. Wall Street Rising, 48 Wall Street, New York, NY
2000
Richard Artschwager, Scott Burton, Donald Judd, Clay Ketter. Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY
1999
Morris Arboretum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
1997
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
1995
Alabama Impact: Contemporary Artists with Alabama Ties. Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL
1994
Significant Losses: Artists Who Have Died From AIDS. The Art Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD
1993
Differentes Natures. Paris La Defense, Paris, France
1991
El Sueno de Egipto. El Centro Cultural/Arte Contemporaneo, A.C., Mexico City, Mexico
1989
Prospect '89. Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
1988
Rotterdam '88. The City as Stage. Rotterdam, Netherlands
Furniture as Art: Recent Tendencies in Sculpture. Boymans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Architectural Art: Affirming the Design Relationship. American Craft Museum, New York, NY
1987
Documenta 8. Kassel, Germany
Skulptur Projekte Munster 1987. Munster, Germany
1986
The Museum of Contemporary Art: The Barry Lowen Collection. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
1985
Carnegie International. Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
High Styles: 20th Century American Design. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
The Artist as Social Designer: Aspects of Urban Art Today. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
1984
Content: A Contemporary Focus 1974-1984. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Furniture, Furnishings: Subject and Object. Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
1983
Currents 4: Art and Use. Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, WI
Konstruierte Orte: 6 x D + 1 x NY. Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland
New Art. Tate Gallery, London, England
1983 Art Park Projects. Artpark, Lewiston, New York
Directions 1983. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Beyond the Monument. Hayden Corridor Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
1982
Twenty American Artists: Sculpture in 1982. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
Seventy-Fourth American Exhibition. Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Documenta VII. Kassel, Germany
1981
Developments in Recent Sculpture. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Body Language. Hayden Corridor Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
1981 Biennial Exhibition. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Usable Art. Art Gallery Myers Fine Arts Building, State University of New York, Plattsburgh, NY
1980
Further Furniture. Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY
1979
Image and Object in Contemporary Sculpture. Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI
Ten Artists/Artists Space. Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, NY
1978
Young American Artists: 1978 Exxon National Exhibition. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
1977
Improbable Furniture. Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Patterning and Decoration. Museum of the American Foundation for the Arts, Miami, FL
Documenta VI. Kassel, Germany
1976
New York-Downtown Manhattan: SoHo. Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, Germany; Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark
1975
1975 Biennial Exhibition: Contemporary American Art. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1970
Two Evenings. University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA
Public Collections
Allen Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
Chase Manhattan Art Collection, New York, NY
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, NY
Courtald Institute of Art, London, England
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
General Mils, Minneapolis, MO
Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Honeywell, Minneapolis, MO
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark
Mellon Bank, Pittsburgh, PA
Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, WI
Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts, Montreal, Canada
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Saint Louis, MO
National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
Rolling Stone Magazine, New York, NY
Tate Gallery, England
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Wichita State University Outdoor Sculpture Collection
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Select Literature
Bromberg, Dr. Anne R. Dallas Museum of Art: Selected Works. Dallas: The Dallas `Museum of Art, 1983.
Domegue, Denise. Artists Design Furniture. New York: Harry Abrams, 1984.
Harris, Stacy Paleologos. Ed. Insights/On Sites. Washington D.C.: Partners for Livable Places, 1984.
Scott Burton: Chairs. Ohio: The Contemporary Arts Center, 1983.
Lyon, Christopher. Contemporary Art in Context. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1990.
Scott Burton: Chaise Longings. New York: Max Protetch Gallery, 1996.
Differentes Natures: Visions de l'Art Contemporain. Paris: Galerie Art 4 in collaboration with Galerie de l'Esplanade, Place de Défense, Ministère de la Culture et de la Francophonie Délégation aux arts plastiques, 1983.
Scott Burton: The Last Tableau. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1990.
Scott Burton: Sculpture 1980-89. Germany: Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, 1989.
Modern Painting, Drawing and Sculpture Collected by Emily and Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. Massachusetts: Harvard University, 1988.
Skulptur Projekte Munster in 1987. Germany: Westfalischen Landesmuseums fur Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, 1987.
An American Renaissance: Paintings and Sculpture Since 1940. Florida: Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, 1986.
New Visions in Contemporary Art: The RSM Company Collection. Ohio: Cincinnati Art Museum, 1986.
Scott Burton. Maryland: The Baltimore Art Museum, 1986.
Carnegie Institute. Pennsylvania: Carnegie Museum of Art, 1985.
Five Artists at NOAA: A Casebook on Art in Public Places. Seattle: The Real Comet Press National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, 1985.
Scott Burton. England: Tate Gallery, 1985.
High Styles: Twentieth Century American Design. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1985.
Focus on the Image: Selections from the Rivendell Colleciton. New York: ITA Corporation, 1985.
An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1985.
Artists and Architects Collaborate: Designing the Wiesner Building. Massachusetts: MIT, Committee on the Visuals Arts, 1985.
Maquettes, Models and Proposals. New York: Marisa del Re Gallery, 1985.
Art at Work: The Chase Manhattan Collection. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1984.
Art of Our Time: The Saatchi Collection. London: Lund Humphries Publishers, Ltd. in collaboration with Rizzoli, 1985.
Content: A Contemporary Focus 1974-84. Washington D.C.: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 1984.
Artpark: Visual Arts 1983. New York: Artpark, 1983.
Scott Burton: Chairs. Ohio: The Contemporary Arts Center, 1983.
Konstruierte Orte: 6 x D + 1 x NY. Switzerland, 1983.
Beyond the Moment. Massachusetts: MIT Hayden Corridor Gallery, 1983.
New Art at the Tate Gallery. London: The Tate Gallery, 1983.