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| USA | 47 |
| France | 12 |
| United Kingdom | 10 |
| Germany | 9 |
| Switzerland | 7 |
| Most exhibitions held at: |
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David Zwirner, Inc., USA |
6 |
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Espace de l’art concret, France |
5 |
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Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Canada |
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Zwirner & Wirth, USA |
5 |
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Lisson Gallery, United Kingdom |
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Biography: 
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1934 Born in Berkeley, CA (US)
McCracken's work can be called Minimalism. But his work is colourful and its smooth and coloured surface implies a certain sensuality that is alien to the work of people like Carl Andre and Robert Morris.
Techniques 1960 - 1980 The foundations of John McCracken's formal vocabulary were laid in the mid-1960s, in parallel with the work of such artists as Carl Andre, Donald Judd and Larry Bell. His quest for the distillation of the work of art led him to make monochrome geometric volumes that directly occupy the space. In 1966 he arrived at the form for which he is best-known, the "plank": a simple elongated form standing on the floor and leaning against the wall. At the same time as these "planks" he was also making freestanding columnar forms and geometric volumes whose singleness was their most important feature.
1980 - 2000 In the late Eighties and around 2000 he did a series of pieces in polished stainless steel worked by machines. They are completely reflective and mirror the surroundings and the viewer. They seem to examine the surrounding space, turn it inside out and cut a segment out of it. Some of them are set in outdoor locations by their owners. They then reflect the natural landscape and almost become absorbed into their environment. But in most cases they are shown in enclosed private and museum spaces, where they absorb the architecture around them.
Lives and works in Santa Fe, NM (US)
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Public exhibitions 106
until 5.4.2010
until 31.1.2010
Solo shows 16
2009
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| John McCracken - Inverleith House, Edinburgh (Scotland) |
2008
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| John McCracken - David Zwirner, Inc., New York City, NY |
2006
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| John McCracken - David Zwirner, Inc., New York City, NY |
2005
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| John McCracken. Early sculpture. - Zwirner & Wirth, New York City, NY |
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| John McCracken - Eighties - Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan |
2004
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| John McCracken - SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent |
2003
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| John McCracken - John McCracken - David Zwirner, Inc., New York City, NY |
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| John McCracken - New Sculpture - L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA |
2000
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| Stainless steel sculptures - Zwirner & Wirth, New York City, NY |
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| John McCracken - Galerie Almine Rech - Paris, Paris |
1998
1997
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| John McCracken - David Zwirner, Inc., New York City, NY |
1990
1987
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| Heroic Stance: The Sculpture of John McCracken 1965–1986 - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
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| Heroic Stance: The Sculpture of John McCracken, 1965-1986 - Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach |
Group shows 88
2009
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| The Secret Life of Objects - Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN |
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| 6 works, 6 rooms - David Zwirner, Inc., New York City, NY |
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| cycle rolywholyover, septième et dernier épisode - JEFFMUTE - Mamco - musée d´art moderne et contemporain, Geneva |
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| Hot Spots - Rio de Janeiro / Milano - Torino / Los Angeles - Kunsthaus Zürich, Zurich |
2008
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| India Moderna - IVAM - Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia |
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| Time & Place: Los Angeles 1957-1968 - Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Pretty Ugly - Gavin Brown's Enterprise GBE modern, New York City, NY |
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| Call it what you like - Collection Rik Reinking - Kunst Centret Silkeborg Bad, Silkeborg |
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| Selections from the collection of Helga and Walther Lauffs - Zwirner & Wirth, New York City, NY |
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| + de réalité - Galerie de l´ Erban, Nantes |
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| God is design - Galeria Fortes Vilaça, São Paulo |
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| The Skat Players - Vilma Gold, London (England) |
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| Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art - Barbican, London (England) |
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| Mitim - Maison populaire - Centre d’art Mira Phalaina, Montreuil |
2007
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| 20 ans du Musée d'Art Moderne - L'art après 1960 dans les collections - Musée d'Art moderne de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne |
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| If Everybody had an Ocean: Brian Wilson, une exposition - CAPC - Musée d'art contemporain, Bordeaux |
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| Sculpture - James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM |
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| A Midsummer Night's Dream - Galerie Tanit, Munich |
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| Documenta 12 - Documenta, Kassel |
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| If Everybody had an Ocean: Brian Wilson: An Art Exhibition - Tate St. Ives, St. Ives, Cornwall (England) |
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| TOMORROW NOW - when design meets science fiction - MUDAM - Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg |
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| Summer of Love - Art of the Psychedelic Era - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
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| e ricomincio da tre - Studio La Città, Verona |
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| The Shapes of Space - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY |
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| Aspects, Forms and Figures - Bellwether Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Sculpture Exhibition by Amir Mobed - Griffin Contemporary, Santa Monica, CA |
2006
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| regard 02 : minimalismes - Espace de l’art concret, Mouans Sartoux |
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| Elemental Form - L&M Arts, New York City, NY |
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| La collection - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC |
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| New presentation of works from the Musée's collection - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC |
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| Invisible Might - Nyehaus, New York City, NY |
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| Donald Judd & John McCracken - Selected Sculpture - John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
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| California Modern - Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach |
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| La Dolce Vita - Selections from the Ruth and Murray Gribin Collection - Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD La Jolla, La Jolla, CA |
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| Southern California Minimalism - - Las Vegas Art Museum - LVAM, Las Vegas, NV (closed, 2009) |
2005
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| Tracking and Tracing - Contemporary Acquisitions 2000-2005 - San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA |
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| Outdoor Sculpture - Zwirner & Wirth, New York City, NY |
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| Fast nichts - Minimalistische Werke aus der Friedrich Christian Flick Collection - Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin |
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| Private View 1980-2000 - Collection Pierre Huber - Musée cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne |
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| Summer of Love Art of the Psychedelic Era - Tate Liverpool, Liverpool (England) |
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| The Dazzling Show. Rolf Ricke zu Gast - Galerie Christian Roellin, St. Gallen |
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| Wilder a tribute to the Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles 1965-1979 - Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| EXIT- Ausstieg aus dem Bild - ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe |
2004
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| Visions of America - Essl Museum, Klosterneuburg |
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| Sculpture - L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA |
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| The Fine Line (Between Something and Nothing) - Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York City, NY |
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| Pour un Art Concret - Espace de l’art concret, Mouans Sartoux |
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| Monocromos - de Malevich al presente - Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía MNCARS, Madrid |
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| Sculptures - Galerie Almine Rech - Paris, Paris |
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| Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated) - Art from 1951 to the Present - Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY |
2003
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| L.A.´s Finisch Fetish - Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Gelijk het leven is - SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent |
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| Exodus - between promise and fulfilment - Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire (England) |
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| Surf Culture - The Art History of Surfing - The Contemporary Museum Honolulu, Honolulu, HI |
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| The Exquisite Object I - Lucas Schoormans Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Minimal L.A. - Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York City, NY |
2002
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| Nouvelle Simplicité - Espace de l’art concret, Mouans Sartoux |
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| From Pop to Now: Selections from the Sonnabend Collection - The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY |
2001
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| Timewave Zero / The Politics of Ecstasy - Grazer Kunstverein, Graz |
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| Geometrie & Gestus - Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac - Salzburg, Salzburg |
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| About Objects - The RISD Museum - University of Rhode Island, Providence, RI |
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| mimal - Zwirner & Wirth, New York City, NY |
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| Space Odyssey - Art Tower Mito ATM, Mito |
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| A Room of Their Own From Arbus to Gober - The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA |
2000
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| Art concret - Espace de l’art concret, Mouans Sartoux |
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| Exposition. Elysian Fields. Une proposition du Purple Institute - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
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| Now - The 30th Annual Mfa Graduate Exhibition - Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, CA |
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| Chromaform: Color in Contemporary Sculpture - Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA |
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| (extra)super[meta] - Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA |
1999
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| Der Künstler als Kurator: Günter Umberg - Galerie nächst St. Stephan - Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna |
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| U.S. Classics - Galerie Tanit, Munich |
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| SELECTIONS FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION: THE 1960S - Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD Downtown, San Diego, CA |
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| Postmark - An Abstract Effect - Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM |
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| Five Years (1993 - 1998) - David Zwirner, Inc., New York City, NY |
1998
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| Minimal-Maximal - Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Bremen |
1996
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| Œuvres phares : peintures et sculptures majeures - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC |
1994
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| Vue du collectionneur - Espace de l’art concret, Mouans Sartoux |
1993
1986
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| Point, ligne, plan - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC |
1979
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| Manifestations de l'art minimal - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC |
1970
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| 1970 annual exhibition Comtemporary American Sculpture - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
1966
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| Primary Structures: Younger American and British Sculpture - The Jewish Museum of New York, New York City, NY |
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France
| | Galerie Almine Rech - Paris, Paris
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Germany
Italy
| | Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan
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Japan
| | Galerie Sho Contemporary Art, Tokyo
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Sweden
| | Galerie Nordenhake - Stockholm, Stockholm
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Switzerland
United Kingdom
| | Hauser & Wirth London, London (England)
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USA
| | ACE Gallery - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
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| | Hauser & Wirth New York , New York City, NY
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| | David Zwirner, Inc., New York City, NY
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| | Zwirner & Wirth, New York City, NY
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| | L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA
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Public collections 12
Belgium
| | SMAK Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent
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Canada
| | Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC
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France
| | Espace de l’art concret, Mouans Sartoux
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Germany
| | Neues Museum Weserburg Bremen, Bremen
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| | Kunsthalle Weishaupt, Ulm
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Portugal
| | Berardo Museum - Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisbon
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USA
| | Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
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| | Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
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| | Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
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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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| | Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
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