 Artist's arttributes:
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Male |
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Painting |
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Abstract Expressionism, Color Field |
Most exhibitions in: |
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| USA | 76 |
| Germany | 10 |
| Switzerland | 6 |
| United Kingdom | 2 |
| France | 1 |
Most exhibitions held at: |
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Loretta Howard Gallery, USA |
9 |
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Robert Miller Gallery, USA |
6 |
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Manny Silverman Gallery, USA |
5 |
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The Rose Art Museum, USA |
4 |
Biography: 
12.10.1928 Born in New York City, NY (US)
27.7.2005 Died in Todi-Camerata, PG (IT)
External links: | | Public exhibitions (Selection) 95
Solo shows 20
2013
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| Al Held: Alphabet Paintings - Cheim & Read, New York City, NY |
2012
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| Black and White 1967 - Loretta Howard Gallery, New York City, NY |
2011
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| Al Held - Paintings 1959 - Craig F. Starr Gallery, New York City, NY |
2010
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| Al Held - Concrete Abstraction - Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe , New York City, NY |
2008
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| Al Held - Paintings 1989 - 1993 - Waddington Custot Galleries, London (England) |
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| Al Held - Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Watercolors - John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| Al Held: The Evolution of Style - UAM - University Art Museum, Long Beach, CA |
2006
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| In memory of Al Held (1928-2005) - Galerie Renée Ziegler, Zurich |
2005
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| Al Held - Robert Miller Gallery, New York City, NY |
2004
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| Expanding Universe - The Recent Paintings of Al Held - University of Maine Museum of Arts - UMMA, Bangor, ME |
2003
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| Al Held - Robert Miller Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Expanding Universe: The Recent Paintings of Al Held - Boston University Art Gallery - BUAG, Boston, MA |
2000
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| Al Held - Robert Miller Gallery, New York City, NY |
1993
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| Al Held: The Italian Watercolors - Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL |
1984
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| Al Held - Richard Gray Gallery - Chicago, Chicago, IL |
1980
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| Al Held - Quadrat Bottrop - Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop |
1969
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| Al Held: Recent Paintings - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
1968
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| Al Held - The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| Al Held - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA |
Group shows 75
2013
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| My Echo My Shadow - Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL |
2012
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| Post War American Art - David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI |
2011
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| Contemporary Drawings from the Irving Stenn Jr. Collection - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
2010
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| Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art Since the 1960s - Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY |
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| Inquiring Eyes: Greensboro Collects Art - Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC |
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| Artists at Max’s Kansas City, 1965-1974 - Loretta Howard Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Group Show Summer 2010 - Loretta Howard Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art since the 1960s - San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, TX |
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| Group Show 2010 - Loretta Howard Gallery, New York City, NY |
2009
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| Pearlstein/Held - Betty Cuningham Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Circa 1959 - Loretta Howard Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Pop to Present - Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA |
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| Geometry as Image - Russell Bowman Art Advisory, Chicago, IL |
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| Personal Geometry - Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York City, NY |
2008
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| Circa 1958: Breaking Ground in American Art - Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC |
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| GEOMETRY AS IMAGE - Robert Miller Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| New York Cool: Paintings and Sculptures from the NYU Art Collection - Grey Art Gallery, NYU, New York City, NY |
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| Die Hände der Kunst - MARTa Herford, Herford |
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| Paradigms and the Unexpected: Modern and Contemporary Art from the Shey Collection - Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, Gainesville, FL |
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| Sensory Overload: Light, Motion, Sound and the Optical in Art Since 1945 - Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI |
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| Arp to Reinhardt: Rose Geometries - The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA |
2007
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| Inaugural Exhibition of New Space - Loretta Howard Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Black & White and a little red... - David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI |
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| What Is Painting? - Contemporary Art from the Collection - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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| Grand Gestures: The Gordon F. Hampton Collection - UAM - University Art Museum, Long Beach, CA |
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| Anniversary - Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York City, NY |
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| Group Show - Loretta Howard Gallery, New York City, NY |
2006
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| Berlin-Tokyo/Tokyo-Berlin. Die Kunst zweier Städte - Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
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| Black & Blue - Robert Miller Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Outside Europe - Stadtgalerie Kiel, Kiel |
2005
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| In Black and White - Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York City, NY |
2004
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| Kleinformate und Originalgraphik - Galerie Renée Ziegler, Zurich |
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| New Prints 2004/Autumn - International Print Center New York, New York City, NY |
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| Geometric Abstraction & Beyond - Loretta Howard Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Ground - Field - Surface - Robert Miller Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Watercolor Worlds - Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs (DGCP), New York City, NY |
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| Under $2,000 Albers < Zaugg - Brooke Alexander Editions, New York City, NY |
2003
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| Classic Works From the 1960s - Loretta Howard Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Black White - Danese, New York City, NY |
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| Guest Art. Das Kunsthaus mit Leihgaben zu Gast - Haus Konstruktiv, Stiftung für konstruktive und konkrete Kunst, Zurich |
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| Painting Explosion - 1958 1963, Part I - Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX |
2002
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| Al Held & George Sugarman - The Early Sixties - Washburn Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Group Exhibition - Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Plotting: An Exhibition Of Studies - Carrie Secrist Gallery, Chicago, IL |
2001
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| Au rendez-vous des amis (La ligne seule) 2 - Mamco - musée d´art moderne et contemporain, Geneva |
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| A defining generation. Then and Now. 1961 and 2001 - The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA |
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| Early Modern Art - The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA |
2000
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| Ligne(s) de conduite - Espace de l’art concret, Mouans Sartoux |
1999
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| Primed & Unprimed - Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Alchemies of the Sixties. From the Rose Art Museum Permanent Collection - The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA |
1998
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| Constructing Structure - Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL |
1995
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| Au rendez-vous des amis, coll. A. L'H. - Mamco - musée d´art moderne et contemporain, Geneva |
1993
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| The Usual Suspects - Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
1992
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| Al Held/Milton Resnick: 1955-1965 - Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
1990
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| Large Works on Paper - Center for Art and Visual Culture, Baltimore, MD |
1989
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| Abstract Expressionism - Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
1988
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| Abstract Work From The 1950s - Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
1985
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| Contrasts of Form: Geometric Abstract Art 1910-1980 - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1983
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| Language, Drama, Source & Vision - New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY |
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| Twentieth-Century Art from the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Selected Recent Acqui - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY |
1982
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| In Our Time: Houston’s Contemporary Arts Museum 1948–1982 - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
1979
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| The 1970s: New American Painting - New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York City, NY |
1977
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| documenta 6 - Documenta, Kassel |
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| André Emmerich zu Gast bei Brusberg - Eine Galerie zu Gast - - Galerie Brusberg - Hannover, Hannover (closed, 1985) |
1976
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| New York in Europa - Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
1973
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| Whitney Biennial 1973 - Whitney Biennial, New York City, NY |
1968
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| documenta 4 - Documenta, Kassel |
1967
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| 1967 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
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| Frank O'Hara, In Memory of my Feelings - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1965
1964
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| American Paintings and Sculpture 67th Annual - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
1962
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| Geometric abstraction in America : March - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
1960
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| The Mysterious Sign - ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts London, London (England) |
| Dealer Directory 12 |
Spain
| | Polígrafa Obra Grafica, Barcelona
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United Kingdom
| | Austin/Desmond Fine Art, London (England)
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| | Annely Juda Fine Art, London (England)
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USA
| | Tandem Press, Madison, WI
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| | Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe , New York City, NY
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| | Mark Borghi Fine Art - New York, New York City, NY
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| | Loretta Howard Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | Pace Prints, New York City, NY
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| | Washburn Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
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| | Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
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Collections 17
Germany
| | Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
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Portugal
| | Berardo Museum - Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisbon
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Switzerland
United Kingdom
| | Tate Britain, London (England)
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USA
| | Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
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| | Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
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| | Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
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| | Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
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| | UAM - University Art Museum, Long Beach, CA
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| | Chazen Museum of Art, Madison, WI
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| | Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
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| | Grey Art Gallery, NYU, New York City, NY
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| | MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
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| | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
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| | Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
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| | Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
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