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Biography
31.5.1923
Born in Newburgh, NY (US)
Ellsworth Kelly has recently celebrated his 80th birthday. He is without question one of the most singular and influential American artists of the 20th century and he is still making art at the height of his powers. Kelly was born in Newburgh, New York in 1923 and came to international prominence in the 1950s with his unmistakable form of minimal abstraction.
For 50 years his shaped and cut-out paintings and sculptures have been exhibited in the world's most prestigious museums and galleries with one man exhibitions that include the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston (1963), the Museum of Modern Art, New York (1973), the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, the Pompidou Centre, Paris (1979), the Saint Louis Art Museum (1982), the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1987), and the Tate Gallery, London (1997).
Awards
2000
Awarded the Praemium Imperiale prize for painting.
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Public exhibitions 152 
until 14.9.
Rhythmus 21 - Positionen des Abstrakten
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus & Kunstbau, Munich 
until 7.9.
Face to Face - The Daros Collections. Part2.
Daros Exhibitions, Zurich
until 27.7.
The American Evolution - A History through Art
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
until 8.6.
Die aufregende Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
until 25.5.
Degas to Diebenkorn: The Phillips Collects
The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
until 18.5.
How Artists Draw: Toward the Menil Drawing Institute and Study Center
The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
Solo shows 33
2007
Front Room: Ellsworth Kelly
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Ellsworth Kelly: Paris/New York, 1949–1959
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Focus: Ellsworth Kelly
MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
2006
Ellsworth Kelly
Matthew Marks Gallery - 523 West 24th Street, New York City, NY
Ellsworth Kelly
Matthew Marks Gallery - 522 West 22th Street, New York City, NY
Ellsworth Kelly
Serpentine Gallery, London (England)
Ellsworth Kelly - Editions 1972-2005
 Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh (Scotland)
Ellsworth Kelly - Paris/New York, 1949–1959
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Ellsworth Kelly in St Ives
Tate St. Ives, St. Ives, Cornwall (England)
2005
Ellsworth Kelly - Tablet
The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
Ellsworth Kelly: Small Paintings, 1955 - 63
Peter Freeman, Inc., New York City, NY
2004
Ellsworth Kelly in Dallas
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
ELLSWORTH KELLY
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh (Scotland)
2003
Elsworth Kelly
Van de Weghe Fine Art, New York City, NY
Ellsworth Kelly - Red Green Blue
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY
Ellsworth Kelly - Recent Painting and Sculpture
Matthew Marks Gallery - 523 West 24th Street, New York City, NY
Ellsworth Kelly - Red Green Blue
MFAH - Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
ELLSWORTH KELLY: RED GREEN BLUE
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD La Jolla, La Jolla, CA
2002
Ellsworth Kelly - Obra Gráfica
La Caja Negra, Madrid
Ellsworth Kelly - Works 1956-2002
Foundation Beyeler, Riehen
Ellsworth Kelly in San Francisco
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
Ellsworth Kelly
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Ellsworth Kelly, Tablet: 1949–1973
The Drawing Center, New York City, NY
2001
Ellsworth Kelly - Blue
White Cube, London (England)
Ellsworth Kelly - Gray 1975-77
Matthew Marks Gallery - 523 West 24th Street, New York City, NY
Ellsworth Kelly
Matthew Marks Gallery - 522 West 22th Street, New York City, NY
2000
Ellsworth Kelly
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Ellsworth Kelly - The Early Drawings 1948-1955
Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn
1999
Ellsworth Kelly
Mitchell-Innes & Nash - Madison Av., New York City, NY
Ellsworth Kelly - Drawings 1960-1962
Matthew Marks Gallery - 523 West 24th Street, New York City, NY
Ellsworth Kelly: Sculpture for a Large Wall and Other Recent Acquisitions
MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
1998
Ellsworth Kelly - New Paintings
Matthew Marks Gallery - 523 West 24th Street, New York City, NY
Ellsworth Kelly
Matthew Marks Gallery - 522 West 22th Street, New York City, NY
Group shows 113
2008
Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today
MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
For the Spirit - From the UBS Art Collection
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Arp to Reinhardt: Rose Geometries
The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA
2007
The Complexity of the Simple
L&M Arts, New York City, NY
No Answer is also an answer - Recent Acquisitions 2005 – 2007
Dublin City Gallery The Hugh Lane, Dublin
Art in the USA: 300 años de innovación
Museo Guggenheim de Arte Moderno y Contemporáneo, Bilbao
Bold Expressions in Modern Art: The Buddy Greenberg Collection
Wichita Art Museum WAM, Wichita, KS
Who’s Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue? - Positionen der Farbfeldmalerei
Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden
Guggenheim Collection: 1940s to Now
NGV National Gallery of Victoria International, Melbourne, VIC
Grand Gestures: The Gordon F. Hampton Collection
UAM - University Art Museum, Long Beach, CA
52nd International Art Exhibition Venice Biennale / Biennale di Venezia
La Biennale di Venezia, Venice
Modern American Masters
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD Downtown, San Diego, CA
Twin Bill
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK
Breaking the Mold: Selections from the Washington Gallery of Modern Art, 1961-1968
Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, OK
Return to Cézanne
Collection Lambert, Avignon
Living Color
Vasarely Museum, Budapest
2006
Picasso to Pop: Aspects of Modern Art
The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
Form and Line. Prints
Green On Red Gallery, Dublin
Nothing and everything
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Modulated Abstraction
Brooke Alexander Editions, New York City, NY
Selected Works
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Small Sculptures
Matthew Marks Gallery - 523 West 24th Street, New York City, NY
Soulages, Kelly, Ryman
Galerie Lelong - Paris, Paris
redefined
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Works on Paper
Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
Dark Matter
White Cube, London (England)
Berlin-Tokyo/Tokyo-Berlin. Die Kunst zweier Städte
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Selections From The Werner H. Kramarsky Collection
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, MI
Select Views
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
L´amateur d´estampes
Musee des Beaux Arts Tourcoing, Tourcoing
At Home - Recent Acquisitions
MMoCA - The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
Le mouvement des images
Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris
Line and Surface - Works on Paper
Peter Blum Gallery, New York City, NY
Recent Drawings
Matthew Marks Gallery - 523 West 24th Street, New York City, NY
Presses, Pop, and Pomade: American Prints Since the Sixties
The Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Poughkeepsie, NY
2005
Spectrum
Galerie Lelong - New York, New York City, NY
For Meyer Schapiro - A portfolio of 12
Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI
Ripe for Picking - Fruit & Flowers
Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York City, NY
Recent Acquisitions - From the Grunwald Center
UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Quartet - Johns, Kelly, Mitchell, Motherwell
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Elemental
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Amish Quilts: Kaleidoscope of Color - From the Collection of Faith and Stephen B
Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
Leporello, Een reis door de collectie
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Wahlverwandtschaften
Städel Museum, Frankfurt/Main
Major Prints
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Sets, Series, and Suites: Contemporary Prints
MFA - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA
EXIT- Ausstieg aus dem Bild
ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst & Medienmuseum, Karlsruhe
2004
Human Presence: Works from the Museum´s Collection
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
Suites - From the Permanent Collection
University of Massachusetts - Amherst Fine Arts Center, Amherst, MA
Retro
Fries Museum, Leeuwarden
Monocromos - de Malevich al presente
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía MNCARS, Madrid
Beyond Geometry - Experiments in Form 1940s−70s
Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
Modern Means: Continuity and Change in Art from 1880 to the Present
Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated) - Art from 1951 to the Present
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY
2003
Fine Lines: Drawings from the Collection of Wynn Kramarsky
Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
The Spirit of White
Galerie Beyeler, Basel
Drawing Modern - Works from the Agnes Gund Collection
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Einbildung - Das Wahrnehmen in der Kunst
Kunsthaus Graz, Graz
Sculpture
Matthew Marks Gallery - 523 West 24th Street, New York City, NY
Sculpture
Matthew Marks Gallery - 522 West 22th Street, New York City, NY
Pencil: Drawings from the Collection
MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
Game over
Galerie Grimm | Rosenfeld - München, Munich
Vincent van Gogh and the contemporary art
Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam
Elemental - Selections from the permanent collection
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Not Exactly Photographs
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002
Memoir of Freedom
CAM - Chelsea Art Museum, New York City, NY
Works on Paper
The Douglas F. Cooley Memorial Art Gallery, Portland, OR
An American Legacy, A Gift to New York
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY
All American, Part II
Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York City, NY
Pas de deux
Fries Museum, Leeuwarden
Ferus
Gagosian Gallery - 24th Street, New York City, NY
The New York School: Abstract Expressionism and Beyond
UMMA - The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
Impressions
Galerie Beyeler, Basel
American Beauty
Annely Juda Fine Art, London (England)
Color Field: Spotlight on the Collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
MFAH - Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Images of Nature
MFA - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA
Flatline
Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Claude Monet - ...bis zum digitalen Impressionismus
Foundation Beyeler, Riehen
Henri Matisse / Ellsworth Kelly : dessins de plantes
Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris
2001
Rotating Group Exhibition
Jim Kempner Fine Art, New York City, NY
Tenth Anniversary Exhibition - 100 Drawings and Photographs
Matthew Marks Gallery - 523 West 24th Street, New York City, NY
Vital forms - American Art in the anatomic age, 1940-1960
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
A defining generation. Then and Now. 1961 and 2001
The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA
Monets Vermächtnis - Serie - Ordnung und Obsession
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
Early Modern Art
The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA
SITE Santa Fes Fourth International Biennial
SITE Santa Fe Biennial, Santa Fe, NM
Minimalismos. Un signo de los tiempos
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía MNCARS, Madrid
Light and Movement of the Century Abstract Art
Gallery Hyundai, Seoul
De Artaud ... à Twombly
Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris
Ornament und Abstraktion
Foundation Beyeler, Riehen
Drawing is Another Kind of Language
The Contemporary Museum Honolulu, Honolulu, HI
Eye of Modernism
Georgia OKeeffe Museum, Santa Fe, NM
The Draftsmans Colors
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY
2000
CROSS SECTION - WORKS FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION, 1962-2000
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD Downtown, San Diego, CA
Century of Innocence – The History of the White Monochrome
Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö
Modernism & Abstraction - Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
Art concret
Espace de l’art concret, Mouans Sartoux
Flora
Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, QC
Farbe > Licht
Foundation Beyeler, Riehen
Persuasive Images: Selections from the Art Collections at the University at Albany
University Art Museum , Albany, NY
1999
Cool and Square
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Cézanne und die Moderne
Foundation Beyeler, Riehen
Drawing is Another kind of language
Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
group exhibition
Matthew Marks Gallery - 522 West 22th Street, New York City, NY
Primed & Unprimed
Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York City, NY
Alchemies of the Sixties. From the Rose Art Museum Permanent Collection
The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA
Paper Paths - 20th-Century Works on Paper from the Permanent Collection
Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY
Trouble spot - painting
MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp
Petits Formats
Yoshii Gallery, New York City, NY
SELECTIONS FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION: THE 1960S
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD Downtown, San Diego, CA
1998
KölnSkulptur 1
Skulpturenpark Köln, Cologne
Art of Four Decades: 1958 - 1998
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
Master Drawings of the Twentieth Century
Mitchell-Innes & Nash - Madison Av., New York City, NY
Dealer Directory 37
Canada
Jessica Bradley Art + Projects, Toronto, ON
Colombia
Luis Perez Galeria, Santafé de Bogota
Netherlands
Willem Baars Art Consultancy, Amsterdam
Spain
La Caja Negra, Madrid
Estiarte, Madrid
Switzerland
Galerie Beyeler, Basel
United Kingdom
Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh (Scotland)
Archeus, London (England)
USA
Rosenbaum Contemporary, Boca Raton, FL
The Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO
Vered Gallery, East Hampton, NY
Parkerson Gallery, Houston, TX
Kiechel Fine Art, Lincoln, NE
ACE Gallery - Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA
Adam Biesk Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Anthony Grant, Inc., New York City, NY
Brooke Alexander Editions, New York City, NY
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York City, NY
Peter Freeman, Inc., New York City, NY
Gemini G.E.L. at Joni Moisant Weyl, New York City, NY
Matthew Marks Gallery - 522 West 22th Street, New York City, NY
Matthew Marks Gallery - 523 West 24th Street, New York City, NY
Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York City, NY
Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York City, NY
Susan Sheehan Gallery, New York City, NY
Van de Weghe Fine Art, New York City, NY
Woodward Gallery, New York City, NY
Works on Paper, Inc. WP Editions, Philadelphia, PA
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Graystone, San Francisco, CA
Cynthia Drennon Fine Arts, Inc., Santa Fe, NM
Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
IKON Ltd, Santa Monica, CA
Greg Kucera Gallery, Seattle, WA
Burton Marinkovich Fine Art, Washington, DC
Public collections 55
Canada
National Gallery of Canada - Musée des beaux-arts du Canada, Ottawa, ON
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
Denmark
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk
Finland
Kiasma - Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki
France
Centre Pompidou - Musée National d´Art Moderne, Paris
Musée d'Art moderne de Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne
Germany
Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
K20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen - am Grabbeplatz, Dusseldorf
Städel Museum, Frankfurt/Main
ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst & Medienmuseum, Karlsruhe
Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach
Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus & Kunstbau, Munich
Museum gegenstandsfreier Kunst, Otterndorf
Kunsthalle Weishaupt, Ulm
Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal
Korea (Republic)
Leeum - Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul
Netherlands
Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam
Kröller-Müller museum, Otterlo
Portugal
Berardo Museum - Collection of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisbon
Spain
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía MNCARS, Madrid
Switzerland
Foundation Beyeler, Riehen
Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur
United Kingdom
Tate Modern, London (England)
USA
University Art Museum , Albany, NY
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
MFA - Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA
Columbia Museum of Art, Columbia, SC
The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
MFAH - Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD La Jolla, La Jolla, CA
Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS
Fisher Landau Center For Art, Long Island
Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
MMoCA - The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York City, NY
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY
MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY
Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA
Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art - SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA
Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Daum Museum of Contemporary Art, Sedalia, MO
Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Palmer Museum of Art, University Park, PA
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
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