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| USA | 55 |
| Germany | 7 |
| Netherlands | 1 |
| Austria | 1 |
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Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., USA |
9 |
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Ubu Gallery, USA |
5 |
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Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago - MCA Chicago, USA |
4 |
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Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, USA |
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Biography: 
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Courtesy by "The Menil Collection, Houston, TX"
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1922 Born in Los Angeles, CA (US)
1940 he went to Los Angeles City College
1941 - 1942 worked as a woodcutter, stone mason and carpenter
1942 - 1946 he served in the U.S. Marine Corps
1946 - 1947 he worked as an acrobat and toured the Orient
1947 - 1952 studied commercial art and painting, 1952, at the Art Institute of
Chicago.
Fought in the Korean War
1954 made his first sculptures
1956 He had his first one-man exhibition
1959 he was included in the exhibition New Images of Man at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
1968 he was given a retrospective at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
He was represented at the documenta "4" and "5", Kassel
1976 he showed at the Venice Biennale
1978 - 1979 he had a retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, which was shown in several cities in the USA
1980 - 1981 the Arts Council organized a retrospective exhibition for a tour of Great Britain
Awards 1973 he won the Grand Prix at the Sao Paulo Biennale
1981 Died in Danbury, CT (US)
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Public exhibitions 64
Solo shows 16
2007
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| Dreaming of a Speech Without Words: The Paintings and Early Objects of H. C. Westermann - Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA |
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| H.C. Westermann: Selected Work - Zwirner & Wirth, New York City, NY |
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| Dreaming of a Speech Without Words: The Paintings and Early Objects of H.C. Westermann - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA |
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| H.C. Westermann - Dreaming of a Speech Without Words - Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ |
2006
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| Dreaming of a speech without words - The Contemporary Museum Honolulu, Honolulu, HI |
2005
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| H. C. Westermann | Woman, “the sweetest flower” - Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York City, NY |
2002
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| H.C. Westermann - The Menil Collection, Houston, TX |
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| See America First: The Prints of H.C. Westermann - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
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| H. C. Westermann - The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA |
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| H.C. Westermann | The Complete Lithographs, 1968-1972 - Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York City, NY |
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| H.C. Westermann - Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC |
2001
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| H. C. Westermann - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago - MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL |
2000
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| H. C. Westermann | Deathship: Important Sculpture, Drawings, Prints - Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York City, NY |
1998
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| H. C. Westermann | The Connecticut Ballroom and Related Works - Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York City, NY |
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| H.C. Westermann - Selected Sculpture & Drawings - Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York City, NY |
1996
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| H. C. Westermann | Sculpture - Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York City, NY |
Group shows 48
2009
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| Wood - Maccarone Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Exile on Main St. Humour, exaggeration & anti-authoritarianism in American art - Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht |
2008
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| Sack of Bones (Los Angeles) - Peres Projects - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Looking for mushrooms. Beat Poets, Hippies, Funk und Minimal Art: Kunst und Counterculture in San Francisco um 1968 - Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
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| Works on Paper: The Natalie and Irving Forman Collection - Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
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| Flow Charting - Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York City, NY |
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| Artists in Depth: Works from the MCA Collection - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago - MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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| Collecting for Chicago: Prints, Drawings, and Patronage - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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| Robots: Evolution of a Cultural Icon - San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA |
2007
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| The Comic Uncanny - Shaheen Modern and Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH |
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| Paradise - Patrick Painter Inc., Santa Monica, CA |
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| This Place is Ours! Recent Acquisitions at the Academy - Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA |
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| Automatic - Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Upon an Ether Sea: Water and Ship Imagery from the MCA Collection - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago - MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL |
2006
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| The Subverted Object - Ubu Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Drawings - Valerie Carberry Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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| GROUP SHOW - George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
2005
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| Highlights - New Acquisitions - John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
2004
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| Toys in the Attic - Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York City, NY |
2003
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| Painter's Forms - - The Work Space, New York City, NY (closed) |
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| Multiple Artists: Print and Editioned Works, 1967-2003 - George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Gallery Group Show - Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York City, NY |
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| Road Show - George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Museum Store Collects - ASU Art Museum - Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe, AZ |
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| Tools as Art - The Hechinger Collection - DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA |
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| Drawings, Drawings, Drawings - Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| War (What Is It Good for?) - Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago - MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL |
2002
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| Whisper - Sammelausstellung zum elfjährigen Jubiläum - - Galerie Aurel Scheibler - Cologne, Cologne (closed, 2005) |
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| Something Anything - Matthew Marks Gallery - 522 West 22th Street, New York City, NY |
2001
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| West of Westermann - Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York City, NY |
2000
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| American Bricolage - Sperone Westwater Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Destruction / Creation - Ubu Gallery, New York City, NY |
1999
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| Deep Storage – Arsenale der Erinnerung - Stiftung Museum Kunst Palast, Dusseldorf |
1998
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| Deep Storage: The Arsenal of Memory - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA |
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| Selections From the Collection of Marne and James DeSilva - Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD La Jolla, La Jolla, CA |
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| UTZ, A Collected Exhibition - Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York City, NY |
1997
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| Deep Storage - Sammeln, Speichern, Archivieren in der Kunst - Kulturforum Potsdamer Platz, Berlin |
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| Deep Storage – Arsenale der Erinnerung - HDK - Haus der Kunst - München, Munich |
1996
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| The Subverted Object - Ubu Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| The Gun: Icon of Twentieth Century Art - Ubu Gallery, New York City, NY |
1994
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| The Box: From Duchamp to Horn - Ubu Gallery, New York City, NY |
1991
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| Word As Image: American Art 1960–1990 - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
1989
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| Arbeit mit Papier - Galerie Eugen Lendl, Graz |
1982
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| The Americans: The Collage - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
1977
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| Ideas in Sculpture 1965-1977 - The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
1972
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| documenta 5 - Documenta, Kassel |
1968
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| documenta 4 - Documenta, Kassel |
1959
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| Out of the Ordinary - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
| Dealer Directory 5 |
United Kingdom
| | Waddington Galleries, London (England)
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USA
| | Robert Henry Adams Fine Art, Chicago, IL
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| | George Adams Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York City, NY
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| | Landfall Press, Santa Fe, NM
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Public collections 5
USA
| | The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
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| | Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago - MCA Chicago, Chicago, IL
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| | Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
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| | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
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| | Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
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