 Artist's arttributes:
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Female |
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Sculpture |
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Arte Povera, Process Art, Postminimalism |
Most exhibitions in: |
| Country |
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| USA | 110 |
| Germany | 23 |
| United Kingdom | 11 |
| Switzerland | 9 |
| Spain | 5 |
Most exhibitions held at: |
| Institution |
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Weatherspoon Art Museum, USA |
6 |
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The Allen Memorial Art Museum, USA |
6 |
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Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, USA |
5 |
Biography: 
1936 Born in Hamburg (DE)
1970 Died in New York City, NY (US)
External links: | | Public exhibitions (Selection) 184
Solo shows 33
2013
2012
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| Eva Hesse - Spectres and Studiowork - Kukje Gallery, Seoul |
2011
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| Eva Hesse Spectres 1960 - Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York City, NY |
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| Eva Hesse - Studiowork - ICA - Institute of Contemporary ArtBoston, Boston, MA |
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| Eva Hesse - Spectres 1960 - UNM Art Museum - University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM |
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| Eva Hesse: Studiowork - Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, CA |
2010
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| Eva Hesse - Spectres 1960 - Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Eva Hesse. Trabajos Del Estudio - Fundación Antoni Tàpies, Barcelona |
2009
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| Eva Hesse: Studiowork - Camden Arts Centre, London (England) |
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| Eva Hesse - Studiowork - Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh (Scotland) |
2006
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| Eva Hesse - Drawing - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
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| Eva Hesse - Drawing - MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Eva Hesse - Sculpture - The Jewish Museum of New York, New York City, NY |
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| Eva Hesse - Drawing - The Drawing Center, New York City, NY |
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| Eva Hesse Drawing - The Menil Collection, Houston, TX |
2004
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| Drawings by Eva Hesse: A Unique and Expressive Abstraction - Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC |
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| Eva Hesse - Transformationen - Die Zeit in Deutschland 1964/65 - Kunsthalle Wien (Museumsquartier), Vienna |
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| Eva Hesse - Kukje Gallery, Seoul |
2003
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| Drawings by Eva Hesse - A Unique and Expressive Abstraction - Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC |
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| Eva Hesse - Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco, CA |
2002
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| Eva Hesse - Tate Modern, London (England) |
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| Eva Hesse - Retrospektive - Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden |
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| Eva Hesse - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA |
1993
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| Eva Hesse - Jeu de Paume, Paris |
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| Eva Hesse - IVAM - Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia |
1985
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| Eva Hesse: Early Drawings & Selected Sculpture - The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA |
1983
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| Eva Hesse - Paintings and Reliefs From 1963 - 1966 - Metro Pictures Gallery, New York City, NY |
1982
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| Eva Hesse: A Retrospective of the Drawings - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
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| Eva Hesse - A Retrospective of the Drawings - The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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| Eva Hesse / MATRIX 53 - Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, CA |
1979
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| Eva Hesse - Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (England) |
Group shows 151
2012
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| Art on Paper 2012: The 42nd Exhibition - Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC |
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| Die Sammlung erneuert sich - Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur |
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| Notations: Contemporary Drawing as Idea and Process - Kemper Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO |
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| Portrait/landscape: Genre Boundaries - Moscow museum of modern art - MMOMA, Moscow |
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| Aufbruch - Malerei und realer Raum - Museum im Kulturspeicher, Würzburg |
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| Aufbruch. Malerei und realer Raum - AdK - Akademie der Künste, Berlin |
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| mk guth + eva hesse - Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| The Expanding Grid - Hood Museum of Art, Hanover, NH |
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| Fresh Widow - Fenster-Bilder seit Matisse und Duchamp - K20 Grabbeplatz, Dusseldorf |
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| Aufbruch - Malerei und realer Raum - Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern |
2011
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| Contemporary Drawings from the Irving Stenn Jr. Collection - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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| Drawings - Valerie Carberry Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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| Eva Hesse and Sol LeWitt - Craig F. Starr Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Bild / Objekt: Neuere Amerikanische Kunst aus der Sammlung - Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur |
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| Compass - Drawings from the Museum of Modern Art New York - Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin |
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| Meisterwerke der multiplizierten Kunst - Galerie Philipp Konzett, Vienna |
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| The Parallax View - Lehmann Maupin, New York City, NY |
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| Drawn/Taped/Burned: Abstraction on Paper - Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY |
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| An Exchange with Sol LeWitt - Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art - MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA |
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| a box is a box is a box - Florence Loewy, Paris |
2010
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| On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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| Compass in hand. Selección de la Colección de dibujo contemporáneo de la Fundación Judith Rothschild - IVAM - Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia |
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| At Work: Hesse, Goodwin, Martin - Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON |
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| Shifting the Gaze: Painting and Feminism - The Jewish Museum of New York, New York City, NY |
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| American Art: Circa 1950 - Selections from the Permanent Collection - Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC |
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| Form in Translation: Sculptors Making Prints and Drawings - Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO |
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| Tudo o que é sólido dissolve-se no ar: o social na Colecção Berardo - Berardo Museum - Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisbon |
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| Gipfeltreffen der Moderne. Das Kunstmuseum Winterthur - Museum der Moderne - MdM Rupertinum, Salzburg |
2009
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| MOCA´s First Thirty Years - MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Collect With Us - Armand Bartos Fine Art, New York City, NY |
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| Kunst und Kalter Krieg – Deutsche Positionen 1945-1989 Art of Two Germanys / Cold War Cultures - Deutsches Historisches Museum - DHM, Berlin |
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| Capolavori della modernità. La collezione del Kunstmuseum Winterthur - MART- Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Rovereto |
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| Young classics - chapters from the contemporary art collection - Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo |
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| Kunst und Kalter Krieg - Deutsche Positionen 1945 - 1989 - Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg |
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| elles@centrepompidou, artistes femmes dans les collections du Centre Pompidou - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
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| Awkward Objects - Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie / Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw |
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| Traces and Spaces - Henie Onstad Art Centre, Høvikodden |
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| Gipfeltreffen der Moderne - Das Kunstmuseum Winterthur - Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn |
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| Soft sculpture - National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT |
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| Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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| Paper: Pressed, Stained, Slashed, Folded - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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| Nueva York - El Papel de las Ultimas Vanguardias - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia |
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| Art of Two Germanys/Cold War Cultures - Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA |
2008
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| Great Women Artists: Feminist Art From The Permanent Collection - Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY |
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| Now's the time - Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin |
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| Collect With US - Armand Bartos Fine Art, New York City, NY |
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| Willem de Kooning Lucio Fontana Eva Hesse - Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution - Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC |
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| LINES, GRIDS, STAINS, WORDS - Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden |
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| Modern and Contemporary Art - The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH |
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| Pretty Ugly - Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York City, NY |
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| Sol LeWitt x2 - Austin Museum of Art - AMOA, Austin, TX |
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| Selections from the collection of Helga and Walther Lauffs - - Zwirner & Wirth, New York City, NY (closed, 2009) |
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| MATRIX/REDUX - Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, CA |
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| WACK!: Art and the Feminist Revolution - MoMA PS1, New York City, NY |
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| Action Painting - Fondation Beyeler, Riehen |
2007
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| Face to Face - The Daros Collections, Part 1 - Daros Exhibitions, Zurich |
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| Contemporary and Cutting Edge - Bruce Museum, Greenwich, CT |
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| WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution - National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC |
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| Block Party II - Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| a point in space is a place for an argument - David Zwirner, Inc., New York City, NY |
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| WACK! - Art And The Feminist Revolution - The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA |
2006
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| RESONANCE: The final exhibition at 59-60 Frith Street - Frith Street Gallery, London (England) |
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| Elemental Form - L&M Arts, New York, New York City, NY |
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| Twice Drawn - The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY |
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| Minimalism: On and Off Paper - Vivian Horan Fine Art, New York City, NY |
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| All the Best. The Deutsche Bank Collection and Zaha Hadid - Singapore Art Museum, Singapore |
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| All the Best - Die Sammlung Deutsche Bank und Zaha - Singapore Art Museum, Singapore |
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| New Frontiers - American Art Since 1945 - The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH |
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| Plane/Figure - Amerikanische Kunst aus Schweizer Sammlungen - Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur |
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| Feeling the line - Marian Goodman Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| In Edition: Books, Prints & Multiples from the 1960s & 1970s - Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC |
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| Tokyo Blossoms: Deutsche Bank Collection meets Zaha Hadid - Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo |
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| The Power of Women - Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea di Trento, Trento |
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| Skin is a Language - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
2005
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| 50 Jahre - Years documenta 1955 – 2005 - Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel |
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| OpenSystems - Rethinking Art c.1970 - Tate Modern, London (England) |
2004
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| From Pollock to Marden:Post-War Works on Paper from the Collection of Susan and - Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO |
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| Contemporary Works on Paper from the Collection - New Mexico Museum Arts, Santa Fe, NM |
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| Another space - Kröller-Müller Museum, Otterlo |
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| Beyond Geometry - Experiments in Form 1940s−70s - Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Modern Means: Continuity and Change in Art from 1880 to the Present - Mori Art Museum, Tokyo |
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| A Minimal Future? Art As Object 1958-1968 - MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA |
2003
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| Fine Lines: Drawings from the Collection of Wynn Kramarsky - Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA |
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| Drawing Modern - Works from the Agnes Gund Collection - The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH |
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| Das Recht des Bildes - Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum |
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| Group Show - G Fine Art, Washington, DC |
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| Women Artists from the Permanent Collection - Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC |
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| Turning Corners - Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, CA |
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| From Modernism to the Contemporary, 1958-1999 - The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH |
2002
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| Beyond Preconceptions - Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, CA |
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| Vertigo - Leo Castelli Gallery, New York City, NY |
2001
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| Black + White Post War Art - Simon C Dickinson Ltd, London (England) |
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| Isa Genzken, Eva Hesse, Karin Sander - - Lucas Schoormans Gallery, New York City, NY (closed) |
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| 1950 - 1965: Abstraction on Paper - Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Collecting the Vanguard: Art from 1900-1970 - The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH |
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| Late Modern and Contemporary Sculpture - The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH |
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| Minimalismos. Un signo de los tiempos - Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid |
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| Drawing is Another Kind of Language - Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI |
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| Points of Departure: Connecting with Contemporary Art - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA |
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| Anti-Form - - Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, Munich (closed) |
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| Dillard Collection - The Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Portland, OR |
2000
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| Changing Visions of the North American Landscape - The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH |
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| In Process - - Curt Marcus Gallery, New York City, NY (closed, 2002) |
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| The Cities Collect - Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN |
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| Drawing is Another kind of Language - Mary & Leigh Block Museum of Art, Evanston, IL |
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| Afterimage - Drawing Through Process - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
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| Works on Paper - Simon C Dickinson Ltd, London (England) |
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| Erwerbungen, Dauerleihgaben und Schenkungen der neunziger Jahre - Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden |
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| The End: An Independent Vision of Contemporary Culture, 1982-2000 - - Exit Art, New York City, NY (closed, 2012) |
1999
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| Drawing is Another kind of language - Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY |
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| Impact: Revealing Sources for Contemporary Art - - Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Baltimore, MD (closed, 2012) |
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| The American Century - Art & Culture 1900-2000 Part II - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
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| Petits Formats - Yoshii Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Drawings from the 60s & 70s - - Curt Marcus Gallery, New York City, NY (closed, 2002) |
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| Afterimage: Drawing Through Process - MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Mirror Images: Women, Surrealism, and Self-Representation - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA |
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| Impact: Revealing Sources for Contemporary Art - - Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Baltimore, MD (closed, 2012) |
1998
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| corpus virtu - Sean Kelly Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Small Paintings - Cheim & Read, New York City, NY |
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| Art of Four Decades: 1958 - 1998 - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA |
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| The '60s in the Seventies - Ubu Gallery, New York City, NY |
1997
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| Multiple Objects - Multiples from the 1960’s to the present - Kravets / Wehby Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Deutschlandbilder - Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin |
1995
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| Sniper's Nest: Art That Has Lived with Lucy R. Lippard - Hessel Museum of Art & Center for Curatorial Studies Galleries at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY |
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| Sculpture as Objects - - Curt Marcus Gallery, New York City, NY (closed, 2002) |
1994
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| Womens Sculptors Drawings - Frith Street Gallery, London (England) |
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| From Minimal to Conceptual Art - The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| European and American Drawings 1961-69 - David Nolan Gallery, New York City, NY |
1993
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| 1920: The Subtlety of Subversion/The Continuity of Intervention - - Exit Art, New York City, NY (closed, 2012) |
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| Kunstwerke von Künstlerinnen - Galerie Christian Nagel - Köln, Cologne |
1991
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| Twentieth-Century Collage - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
1990
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| L'art conceptuel, une perspective - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC |
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| American Masters of the 60's - Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York City, NY |
1987
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| The Window in Twentieth-Century Art - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
1984
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| Von hier aus – Zwei Monate neue deutsche Kunst in Düsseldorf - Halle 13 - Messe Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf |
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| Flyktpunkter - Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
1979
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| Contemporary Sculpture from Collection - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1977
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| documenta 6 - Documenta, Kassel |
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| Ideas in Sculpture 1965-1977 - The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
1974
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| Multiples. Ein Versuch, die Entwicklung des Auflagenobjekts darzustellen - NBK - Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin |
1972
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| documenta 5 - Documenta, Kassel |
1970
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| New Materials - Austin Art Center, Austin, TX |
1969
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| When Attitudes Become Form - ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts London, London (England) |
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| When Attitudes become Form - Museen Haus Lange / Haus Esters, Krefeld |
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| When Attitudes Become Form - Kunsthalle Bern, Bern |
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| Soft Art - The New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ |
| Dealer Directory 8 |
South Korea
United Kingdom
USA
| | Armand Bartos Fine Art, New York City, NY
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| | Peter Freeman, Inc., New York City, NY
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| | Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | Jason McCoy Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York City, NY
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Canada
| | Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
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Germany
| | Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden
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Israel
| | The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
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| | Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv
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Sweden
| | Moderna Museet, Stockholm
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Switzerland
| | Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
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| | Daros Exhibitions, Zurich
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United Kingdom
| | Tate Britain, London (England)
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USA
| | The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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| | Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
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| | Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
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| | Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
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| | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY
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| | MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
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| | The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH
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| | Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
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| | Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
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| | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
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| | New Mexico Museum Arts, Santa Fe, NM
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| | Swope Art Museum, Terre Haute, IN
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