 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 | 59 |
| Germany | 31 |
| Austria | 9 |
| Spain | 7 |
| United Kingdom | 5 |
Most exhibitions held at: |
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Neue Nationalgalerie, Germany |
4 |
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Paul Kasmin Gallery, USA |
3 |
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The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, USA |
3 |
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MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, USA |
3 |
Biography: 
28.11.1912 Born in Baltimore, MD (US)
7.9.1962 Died in Washington, DC (US)
External links: | | Public exhibitions (Selection) 121
until 23.2.2014
Solo shows 24
2011
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| Morris Louis - The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC |
2007
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| Morris Louis - Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Morris Louis now - an American Master Revisted - Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC |
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| Morris Louis Now: An American Master Revisited - Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD Downtown, San Diego, CA |
2006
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| Morris Louis now. An American master revisited - The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA |
2004
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| Morris Louis - Riva Yares Gallery - Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM |
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| Morris Louis - Riva Yares Gallery - Scottsdale, Scottsdale, AZ |
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| Morris Louis - Riva Yares Gallery - Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM |
2001
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| Morris Louis - Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
2000
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| Morris Louis - Paintings - Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London (England) |
1996
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| Morris Louis - Musee de Grenoble, Grenoble |
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| Morris Louis - LWL - Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte Münster, Münster |
1992
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| Rooseum Re-Vision I: Morris Louis - - Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö (closed, 2006) |
1987
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| Morris Louis - The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX |
1986
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| Morris Louis - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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| Morris Louis: Recent Acquisitions - The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX |
1977
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| Morris Louis: The Veil Cycle - The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX |
1976
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| Morris Louis: Major Themes and Variations - The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
1974
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| Morris Louis - Hayward Gallery, London (England) |
1967
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| Morris Louis 1912-1962 - Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO |
1965
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| Morris Louis - Whitechapel Art Gallery, London (England) |
1962
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| Morris Louis - - Galerie Schmela, Dusseldorf (closed, 2008) |
1960
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| Morris Louis: Recent Painting - ICA - Institute of Contemporary Arts London, London (England) |
Group shows 96
2012
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| Les référents - Galerie Edouard-Manet, Genevilliers |
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| Language Games - Centro de Artes Visuales Helga de Alvear, Cáceres |
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| Aufbruch - Malerei und realer Raum - Museum im Kulturspeicher, Würzburg |
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| Abstract Expressionism - National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, ACT |
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| Braman, Buren, Falls, Heilmann, Louis, Thurman - Eleven Rivington, New York City, NY |
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| Aufbruch. Malerei und realer Raum - AdK - Akademie der Künste, Berlin |
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| De La Generosidad. Obras De La ColecciÓn Helga De Alvear - CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela |
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| Aufbruch - Malerei und realer Raum - Museum Pfalzgalerie Kaiserslautern, Kaiserslautern |
2011
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| Farbe im Fluß - Weserburg | Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen |
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| Farbe im Fluss - 20 Jahre Weserburg - Weserburg | Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen |
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| MMK 1991-2011: 20 Jahre Gegenwart - Museum für Moderne Kunst (MMK), Frankfurt/Main |
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| Silence and Time - Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX |
2010
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| Washington Color and Light - The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
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| Das Geistige in der Kunst – Vom Blauen Reiter zum Abstrakten Expressionismus - Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden |
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| Color Fields - - Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin (closed, 2013) |
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| Painting, Process and Expansion - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig - MUMOK , Vienna |
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| Process / Abstraction - Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Corso. Werke der Sammlung Essl im Dialog - ESSL MUSEUM - KUNST DER GEGENWART, Klosterneuburg |
2009
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| Just what is it... - ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe |
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| MOCA´s First Thirty Years - MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Illustre Gäste - Amerikanische Kunst 1950 bis 1970 aus der Sammlung des Museum Folkwang im Josef Albers Museum - Quadrat Bottrop - Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop |
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| The Passionate Pursuit: Gifts and Promised Works from Donna and Cargill MacMillan, Jr. - Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA |
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| Summer Select - David Klein Gallery, Birmingham, MI |
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| Modern Masters - Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD Downtown, San Diego, CA |
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| Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940–1976 - Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
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| Synthetic - Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY |
2008
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| Action/Abstraction - Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO |
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| Color as Field. American Painting 1950-1975 - Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN |
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| Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976 - The Jewish Museum of New York, New York City, NY |
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| Color as Field - American Painting, 1950–1975 - Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC |
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| Action Painting - Fondation Beyeler, Riehen |
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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| Inaugural Exhibition of New Space - Loretta Howard Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Color as Field - American Painting, 1950–1975 - Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO |
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| Die aufregende Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts - Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
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| Abstract Expressionism and Other Modern Works: The Muriel Kallis Steinberg Newman Collection in The Metropolitan Museum - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY |
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| Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue? - Positionen der Farbfeldmalerei - Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden |
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| Breaking the Mold: Selections from the Washington Gallery of Modern Art, 1961-1968 - Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK |
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| Twin Bill - Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK |
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| Lyrical Color: Morris Louis, Gene Davis, Kenneth Noland and the Washington Color School - The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC |
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| Morris Louis - Kenneth Noland - - El Sourdog Hex, Berlin (closed, 2009) |
2006
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| Faster! Bigger! Better! - ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe |
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| Review - 25 Jahre Österreichische Ludwig Stiftung - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig - MUMOK , Vienna |
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| Sin Título - El arte del siglo XX en la Colección Berardo - Fundación Pedro Barrié de la Maza - A Coruña , A Coruña |
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| Big Juicy Paintings - MAM - Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL |
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| Color: Theory and Practice - Nicholas Robinson Gallery (former Briggs Robinson Gallery), New York City, NY |
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| A New Age: American Painting from the 1950s and 1960s - Ulster Museum, Belfast (Northern Ireland) |
2005
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| The Shape of Colour - Excursions in Colour Field Art, 1950-2005 - Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON |
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| Natur – Raum – Kunst. Aus den Sammlungen des Museums und Ernst Ploil - Museum der Moderne Salzburg Mönchsberg, Salzburg |
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| COLOR - Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York City, NY |
2004
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| Vision einer Sammlung - Museum der Moderne Salzburg Mönchsberg, Salzburg |
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| Visions of America - ESSL MUSEUM - KUNST DER GEGENWART, Klosterneuburg |
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| My America - Art from The Jewish Museum Collection, 1900-1955 - The Jewish Museum of New York, New York City, NY |
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| Picasso to Thiebaud - Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA |
2003
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| Classic Works From the 1960s - Loretta Howard Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| El Expresionismo Abstracto Americano en las Colecciones Españolas - Museo de Arte Contemporáneo Esteban Vicente, Segovia |
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| Das Recht des Bildes - Kunstmuseum Bochum, Bochum |
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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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| Linking Collection And Community - MAM - Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL |
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| From Modernism to the Contemporary, 1958-1999 - The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH |
2002
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| Rechteckakzeptanz - Galerie Schafschetzy, Graz |
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| Claude Monet - ...bis zum digitalen Impressionismus - Fondation Beyeler, Riehen |
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| Raum für Malerei - The Painting Room - Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld |
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| Collector´s Choice - Neue Galerie Graz - Universalmuseum Joanneum, Graz |
2001
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| Claude Monet und die Moderne - Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich |
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| A defining generation. Then and Now. 1961 and 2001 - The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA |
2000
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| Color-Field Painting - MFA - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA |
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| Collección MMKSLW: Viena, de Warhol a Cabrita Reis - CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela |
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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| Exhibition of the century - Wellington City Gallery, Wellington |
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| Abstraction - Fogg Museum, Cambridge, MA |
1996
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| Hans Hofmann and the New York School - Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive BAM/PFA, Berkeley, CA |
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| Color Field - Galerie nächst St. Stephan - Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna |
1985
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| Neue Dauerleihgaben aus der Sammlung Reinhard Onnasch, Berlin - Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach |
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| American Abstract Painting: 1960-1980 - Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
1978
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| Aspekte der 60er Jahre- Aus der Sammlung Reinhard Onnasch - Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
1977
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| André Emmerich zu Gast bei Brusberg - Eine Galerie zu Gast - - Galerie Brusberg - Hannover, Hannover (closed, 1985) |
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| Arte USA - Fundación Joan Miró, Barcelona |
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| Arte USA - Fundación Juan March, Madrid |
1976
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| New York in Europa - Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
1969
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| Sammlung 1968 Karl Ströher - Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin |
1968
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| Sammlung 1968 Karl Ströher - Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg |
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| Art Of The Real - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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| documenta 4 - Documenta, Kassel |
1967
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| Group Exhibition - Richard Gray Gallery - Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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| Vom Bauhaus bis zur Gegenwart - Kunstverein in Hamburg, Hamburg |
1966
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| Society for Contemporary Art 26th Annual - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
1965
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| Washington Color Painters - - Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, DC (closed, 1968) |
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| The Responsive Eye - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1964
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| documenta 3 - Documenta, Kassel |
1963
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| American Painting and Sculpture 66th Annual - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
1957
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| New Work - Leo Castelli Gallery, New York City, NY |
| Dealer Directory 7 |
France
Switzerland
USA
| | Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York City, NY
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| | Ameringer | McEnery | Yohe , New York City, NY
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| | Richard Gray Gallery - New York, New York City, NY
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| | Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | Riva Yares Gallery - Scottsdale, Scottsdale, AZ
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Collections 45
Austria
| | ESSL MUSEUM - KUNST DER GEGENWART, Klosterneuburg
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| | Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig - MUMOK , Vienna
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Canada
| | Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, ON
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Denmark
| | Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk
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France
| | MAMAC - Musee d´Art Moderne et d`Art Contemporain Nice, Nice
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Germany
| | Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen
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| | ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe
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| | Kunsthalle Weishaupt, Ulm
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Israel
| | The Israel Museum, Jerusalem
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Japan
| | Kawamura Memorial Museum of Art, Chiba
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| | Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima
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| | Iwaki City Art Museum, Iwaki
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| | Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka
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Portugal
| | Berardo Museum - Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisbon
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Spain
| | Museu d´Art Contemporani de Barcelona - MACBA, Barcelona
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| | Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza, Madrid
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United Kingdom
| | Ulster Museum, Belfast (Northern Ireland)
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| | Tate Britain, London (England)
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| | Tate Modern, London (England)
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USA
| | Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
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| | The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
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| | MFA - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA
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| | The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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| | Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
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| | The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
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| | The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
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| | Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, HI
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| | Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
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| | MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
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| | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY
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| | The Jewish Museum of New York, New York City, NY
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| | The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY
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| | MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
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| | Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY
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| | The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH
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| | Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK
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| | Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, FL
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| | North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
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| | Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO
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| | San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
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| | Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
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| | UAMA - The University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson, AZ
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| | The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA
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| | Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
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| | Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL
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