 Artist's arttributes:
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Sculpture |
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Minimalism |
Most exhibitions in: |
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| USA | 93 |
| France | 17 |
| Germany | 13 |
| United Kingdom | 11 |
| Switzerland | 7 |
Most exhibitions held at: |
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David Zwirner, Inc., USA |
8 |
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Espace de l’art concret, France |
6 |
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Franklin Parrasch Gallery, USA |
5 |
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Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Canada |
5 |
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Zwirner & Wirth, USA |
5 |
Biography: 
9.12.1934 Born in Berkeley, CA (US)
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)
8.4.2011 Died in New York City, NY (US)
External links: | | Public exhibitions (Selection) 172
Solo shows 19
2012
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| John McCracken: 'IV' (1985) and 'Neon' (1989) - Henry Moore Institute, Leeds (England) |
2011
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| John McCracken - Castello di Rivoli Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Turin |
2010
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| New Works in Bronze and Steel - David Zwirner, Inc., New York City, NY |
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 (closed, 2009) |
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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 (closed, 2009) |
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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 153
2013
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| The Permanent Collection - Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA |
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| A Stone Left Unturned - Yvon Lambert - Paris, Paris |
2012
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| Art, science & fiction - MAC's Grand Hornu - Musée des Arts Contemporains, Hornu |
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| Language Games - Centro de Artes Visuales Helga de Alvear, Cáceres |
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| John McCracken / Daniel Turner - Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Minimalism - Not Stricly Formal - Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Polarized Space - Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York City, NY |
2011
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| It Happened at Pomona: Art at the Edge of Los Angeles 1969-1973 (Part 2) - Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA |
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| Best Kept Secret: UCI and the Development of Contemporary Art in Southern California, 1964-1971 - Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA |
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| Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface - Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD Downtown, San Diego, CA |
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| Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface - Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD La Jolla, La Jolla, CA |
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| La's Risen - Sullivan Goss - An American Gallery - Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA |
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| At Art 42 Basel - L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA |
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| Venice in Venice - Nyehaus, New York City, NY |
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| Group Show - L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA |
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| Square Dancing - Nyehaus, New York City, NY |
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| Take me to your leader - Bergen Kunstmuseum, Bergen |
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| What's New, Pussycat? - Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA |
2010
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| Take Me To Your Leader! The Great Escape Into Space - The Museum of Contemporary Art Oslo, Oslo |
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| Ordinary Madness - Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, PA |
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| Endless Bummer / Surf Elsewhere - Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Double Rotation - Werke aus der Sammlung Lafrenz - Weserburg | Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen |
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| He'e nalu - Galerie Frank Elbaz, Paris |
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| Aber Schwarz ist doch gar keine Farbe! - Konrad Fischer Galerie - Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf |
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| \ (LEAN) - Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Think Pink - Gavlak Gallery, Palm Beach, FL |
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| Wall & Floor - Galerie Almine Rech - Paris, Paris |
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| Primary Atmospheres: Works from California 1960-1970 - David Zwirner, Inc., New York City, NY |
2009
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| Looking Back: The White Columns Annual, selected by Primary Information - White Columns, New York City, NY |
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| MOCA´s First Thirty Years - MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA |
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| 1969 - MoMA PS1, New York City, NY |
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| Le Mythe du Monochrome - Espace de l’art concret, Mouans Sartoux |
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| California Calling: Works from Santa Barbara Collections, 1948 - 2008 (Part II) - Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA |
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| Die Kunst ist super! - Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin |
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| The Secret Life of Objects - Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis, MN |
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| California Calling: Works from Santa Barbara Collections, 1948 - 2008 (Part I) - Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA |
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| 6 works, 6 rooms - David Zwirner, Inc., New York City, NY |
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| arte povera bis minimal - Einblicke in die Sammlung Lafrenz - Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden |
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| Anish Kapoor, John McCracken, David Rabinowitch, and Rachel Whiteread - Fredericks & Freiser Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| La nada y el ser - Galeria de Fundaciíon/Coleccion Jumex, Mexico City |
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| The Minimalist Site - Barbara Mathes Gallery, 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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| 1968-69: 40 Years Later - Armand Bartos Fine Art, New York City, NY |
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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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| Small Works: A Selection of Portable Treasures - Sullivan Goss - An American Gallery - Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA |
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| Time & Place: Los Angeles 1957-1968 - Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
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| Pretty Ugly - Gavin Brown's Enterprise, 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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| Inaugural Exhibition - Armand Bartos Fine Art, New York City, NY |
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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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| + 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 Art Gallery, London (England) |
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| Mitim - Maison populaire de Montreuil, 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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| Deconstructed Geometry - Vivian Horan Fine Art, New York City, NY |
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| “Uneasy Angel / Imagine Los Angeles” - - Monika Sprüth Philomene Magers, Munich (closed) |
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| Sculpture - James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM |
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| The Eclectic Eye - Pop and Illusion - Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO |
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| A Midsummer Night's Dream - Galerie Tanit, Munich |
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| Documenta 12 - Documenta, Kassel |
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| The Montecito Salon Iii - Sullivan Goss - An American Gallery - Montecito, Montecito, CA |
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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 (closed, 2009) |
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| Carniceria / Stasis - - Meat Market Gallery, Washington, DC (closed) |
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| Sculpture Exhibition by Amir Mobed - William Griffin Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
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| Performance Week - - Meat Market Gallery, Washington, DC (closed) |
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, 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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| Los Angeles 1955-1985 The birth of an art capital - Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris |
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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 (closed, 2009) |
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| 2D from 3D - Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR |
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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, 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 - KUNST DER GEGENWART, Klosterneuburg |
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| The LA That Influenced My Eye - Sullivan Goss - An American Gallery - Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA |
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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, Madrid |
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| Sculptures - Galerie Almine Rech - Paris, Paris |
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| Tre - Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan |
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| A Minimal Future? Art As Object 1958-1968 - MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA |
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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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| Matando el tiempo y escuchando entre las líneas - Galeria de Fundaciíon/Coleccion Jumex, Mexico City |
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| Surf Culture - The Art History of Surfing - Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI |
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| The Exquisite Object I - - Lucas Schoormans Gallery, New York City, NY (closed) |
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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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| Algo con qué tropezar. Reflexiones sobre la escultura contemporánea - Museo Tamayo, Mexico City |
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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 (closed, 2009) |
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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 |
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| Painting: Zero Degree - Center for Art and Visual Culture, Baltimore, MD |
2000
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| Art concret - Espace de l’art concret, Mouans Sartoux |
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| 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 - Weserburg | Museum für moderne Kunst, 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
1991
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| Carnegie International - Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, PA |
1987
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| Sculpture of the Sixties - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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 |
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| Contemporary Sculpture from Collection - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1971
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| Sculptors' Drawings - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Ways of Looking - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1970
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| 1970 annual exhibition Comtemporary American Sculpture - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
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| Unitary Forms: Minimal Sculpture by Carl Andre, Don Judd, John McCracken, and Tony Smith - San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA |
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| American Painting and Sculpture 69th Annual - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
1968
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| Art Of The Real - MoMA - Museum of Modern 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
Japan
| | Galerie Sho Contemporary Art, Tokyo
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Switzerland
United Kingdom
| | David Zwirner, London (England)
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USA
| | ACE Gallery - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
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| | Armand Bartos Fine Art, New York City, NY
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| | Mark Borghi Fine Art - New York, New York City, NY
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| | Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | David Zwirner, Inc., New York City, NY
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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
| | Weserburg | Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen
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| | Kunsthalle Weishaupt, Ulm
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Israel
| | The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
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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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| | MOCA Grand Avenue, 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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