Biography
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022
2021
2014
2011
2010
2009
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
2024
- Dreams of an Owl, Who the Bær and the Wounded Planet ,Kunsthalle Bielefeld ,Bielefeld, Germany
- 20th Annual Thanksgiving Collective: Breaking Bread ,Tripoli Gallery ,Wainscott, New York, USA
- Twentieth-Century Nudes from Tate ,Worcester Art Museum ,Worcester, Massachusetts, USA
- American Abstraction ,ACA Galleries ,New York, USA
- Portraiture: From Cassatt to Basquiat ,Acquavella Galleries, Palm Beach ,Palm Beach, Florida, USA
- The 85th Artist Members Exhibition ,Guild Hall Museum ,East Hampton, New York, USA
- An Adventure In The Arts: The Guild Hall Collection ,Naples Art Institute ,Naples, Florida, USA
- A Curated Selection from Private Sales ,Sotheby's New York ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- The Way I See It: Selections from the KAWS Collection ,The Drawing Center ,Soho, New York, USA
- Chapeau Fred II. American Drawings ,Galerie Jahn and Jahn, Munich ,Munich, Germany
- Modern Women: Visionary Artists ,New Britain Museum of American Art ,New Britain, Connecticut, USA
- A Little Grey For Color ,Plains Art Museum ,Fargo, North Dakota, USA
- ONLINE: Envisioning Freedom - The Rebellious Stokes of Abstract Expressionism ,Galerie von Vertes, Zürich ,Zürich, Switzerland
- Expansive Change: Distortion as Dialogue in Modern and Contemporary Art ,Leila Heller Gallery, New York ,New York, USA
- Crosscurrents. Selections from the Permanent Collection ,Pollock-Krasner House & Study Center ,East Hampton, New York, USA
- The Infinite Woman ,Villa Carmignac ,Hyères, France
- Revolutions: Art From The Hirshhorn Collection, 1860–1960 ,Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution ,National Mall, Washington D.C., District Of Columbia, USA
- Hovering on the Edge ,Timothy Taylor, London ,London, UK
- A Dark Hymn: Highlights from the Hill Collection ,Hill Art Foundation ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- Accordion Fields ,Lisson Gallery, London (Bell Street) ,Marylebone, London, UK
- Accordion Fields ,Lisson Gallery, London (Lisson Street) ,Marylebone, London, UK
- Between Worlds: Stories Of Artists And Migration ,Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute ,Utica, New York, USA
- Signs and Objects. Pop Art from the Guggenheim Collection ,Guggenheim Bilbao ,Bilbao, Spain
- Abstraction ,Mnuchin Gallery ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- A New York Minute ,Eric Firestone Gallery, West Palm Beach ,West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
- Highlights from the Permanent Collection ,Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth ,Ft. Worth, Texas, USA
- Collection III: 2023 ,Toyota Municipal Museum of Art ,Toyota, Japan
- Masterworks: From Bonnard to Barcelo ,Acquavella Galleries, New York ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
2023
- Contemporary & Modern Masters ,Sotheby's Palm Beach ,Palm Beach, Florida, USA
- Scenes of New York City: The Elie and Sarah Hirschfeld Collection ,The Society of the Four Arts ,Palm Beach, Florida, USA
- Muses: The City & The Artist ,Opera Gallery, New York ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- The Echo of Picasso ,Almine Rech, New York (Upper East Side) ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Black & White: Prints from the Permanent Collection ,Butler Institute of American Art ,Youngstown, Ohio, USA
- Heroines of the Abstract Expressionist Era ,Southampton Arts Center ,Southampton, New York, USA
- You're so Vain: (I Bet You Think This Painting's About You...) ,MM Fine Art, Southampton ,Southampton, New York, USA
- An Adventure in the Arts ,Boston University Art Gallery ,Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- The Echo of Picasso ,Museo Picasso Málaga ,Malaga, Spain
- Seven Rooms and a Garden: Rashid Johnson and The Moderna Museet Collection ,Moderna Museet, Stockholm ,Stockholm, Sweden
- The Post War Era: Innovations in American Art ,Christopher-Clark Fine Art ,San Francisco, California, USA
- Collection presentation ,De Pont Museum of Contemporary Art ,Tilburg, Netherlands
- Hidden Gems ,Housatonic Museum of Art ,Bridgeport, Connecticut, USA
- Dreamland: Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas ,McNay Art Museum ,San Antonio, Texas, USA
- The Monaco Masters Show 2023 ,Opera Gallery, Monaco ,Monaco, Monaco
- Abstraction: The Genesis and Evolution of Abstract Painting Cézanne, Fauvism, Cubism and on to Today ,Artizon Museum ,Chuo-ku, Tokyo, Japan
- Cobra 75: Freedom without Borders ,Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst ,Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Shared Visions ,Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art ,Eugene, Oregon, USA
- Show of Shows ,Upsilon Gallery, NY (23 E 67th Str.) ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Beautiful, Vivid, Self-contained ,Hill Art Foundation ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- From Provincial Status to International Prominence ,Hollis Taggart, New York (521 W 26th Str.) ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- ONLINE: Visual Poetry ,Galerie von Vertes, Zürich ,Zürich, Switzerland
- The Figure in Black and White ,Forum Gallery ,Midtown, New York, USA
- Black Mountain College: The Experimenters ,David Zwirner, London ,Mayfair, London, UK
- Reigning Queens: Modern and Contemporary Representations of Women, Power, and Religion ,Sheldon Museum of Art ,Lincoln, Nebraska, USA
- Faces & Figures ,Skarstedt, Paris ,8e, Paris, France
- Roma/New York, 1953–1964 ,David Zwirner, New York (20th Street) ,New York, USA
- Figurative Masters of the Americas ,Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert ,Palm Desert, California, USA
2022
- The Gift of Art ,Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert ,Palm Desert, California, USA
- Modern Masters: A Tribute to Anne Windfohr Marion ,Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth ,Ft. Worth, Texas, USA
- Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Joan Mitchell ,Albertina Modern ,Vienna, Austria
- Collection Reflection And Inversion ,Toyota Municipal Museum of Art ,Toyota, Japan
- The Creative Impulse: Post War Art in America ,Christopher-Clark Fine Art ,San Francisco, California, USA
- Your Heart’s Blood: Intersections Of Art And Literature ,Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert ,Palm Desert, California, USA
- Head On — Curated by Dieter Schwarz ,LGDR, New York (Madison Av.) ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Jackson Hole: Top Works ,Heather James Fine Art, Jackson Hole ,Jackson Hole, Wyoming, USA
- Making a Painting ,Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles (N Orange Grove) ,Los Angeles, California, USA
- Summer At Its Best ,Michael Rosenfeld Gallery ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- The Hamptons ,Sotheby’s East Hampton ,East Hampton, New York, USA
- Paper Cut: Unique Works on Paper ,Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert ,Palm Desert, California, USA
- Artists And Immigrants ,The Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation ,Greenwich Village, New York, USA
- Skarstedt at Sotheby’s ,Sotheby's Palm Beach ,Palm Beach, Florida, USA
- The Artist’s Eye ,BAMPFA , Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive ,Berkeley, California, USA
- A Remarkable Gathering: The Fisher Landau Family Collection ,Norton Museum of Art ,West Palm Beach, Florida, USA
- Amalgamation: Celebrating 10 Years of Shin Gallery ,Shin Gallery ,New York, USA
- Midcentury Abstraction: A Closer Look ,Yale University Art Gallery ,New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- Sculpture ,Skarstedt, Paris ,8e, Paris, France
- De Kooning/Shiraga ,Mnuchin Gallery ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Very Metal ,Theodore ,Tribeca, New York, USA
- Abstract Expressionism: Transcending the Radical ,Heather James Fine Art, Palm Desert ,Palm Desert, California, USA
- Highlights of Post-War and Contemporary Art ,Mnuchin Gallery ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
2021
- A Drawing Show ,Paula Cooper Gallery, Palm Beach ,Palm Beach, Florida, USA
- Nature Loves to Hide ,Levy Gorvy, Palm Beach ,Palm Beach, Florida, USA
- Impressionist, Modern and Contemporary Masters ,Acquavella Galleries, Palm Beach ,Palm Beach, Florida, USA
- Wild and Brilliant: The Martha Jackson Gallery and Post-War Art ,Hollis Taggart, New York (521 W 26th Str.) ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- 90 Years: Selections from the Permanent Collection ,Guild Hall Museum ,East Hampton, New York, USA
- Looking Back, Looking Forward: Highlights from St. Lawrence University’s Permanent Collection ,Richard F. Brush Art Gallery ,Canton, New York, USA
- To Be An Artist Is To Embrace The World In One Kiss ,Mark Borghi, Bridgehampton ,Bridgehampton, New York, USA
- Soutine & De Kooning: Painting Embodied ,Musée National de l'Orangerie ,1e, Paris, France
- Interior Lives ,Rosenberg & Co. ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Subject Matters: Selections From The Permanent Collection ,Artis—Naples, The Baker Museum ,Naples, Florida, USA
- Elaine And Willem De Kooning: Painting In The Light ,Heather James Fine Art, Jackson Hole ,Jackson Hole, Wyoming, USA
- Three Centuries of American Art: Masterpieces from the Fayez S. Sarofim Collection ,Museum of Fine Arts Houston ,River Oaks, Houston, Texas, USA
- Ciao Maschio ,Galleria Comunale d`Arte Moderna Roma ,Rome, Italy
- The Anderson Collection at the Cantor ,Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University ,Stanford, California, USA
- Willem de Kooning, Arshile Gorky, John Graham ,Shin Gallery ,New York, USA
- Painter / Sculptor ,Skarstedt, London ,St. James's, London, UK
- Highlights of Post-War and Contemporary Art ,Mnuchin Gallery ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Minimal - Conceptual - Abstract: Works From 1950 Until Today ,Fabian & Claude Walter Galerie ,Zürich, Switzerland
- Soutine / de Kooning: Conversations in Paint ,Barnes Foundation ,Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Faces and Figures ,Skarstedt, New York ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Prints and Drawings ,Josh Pazda Hiram Butler ,Houston, Texas, USA
2020
- Masterworks from Cézanne to Thiebaud ,Acquavella Galleries, New York ,Palm Beach, Florida, USA
- The 1960s ,Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton (4 Newtown Ln) ,East Hampton, New York, USA
- Subject Matters: Selections from the Permanent Collection ,Artis—Naples, The Baker Museum ,Naples, Florida, USA
- The Lion Is Hungry ,Fondation Beyeler, Basel ,Basel, Switzerland
- Private Eyes ,Kode, Lysverket ,Bergen, Norway
- Back then has always been now. Painting since 1947 reconsidered ,Hamburger Kunsthalle ,Hamburg, Germany
- American Prints II ,Museum of Art - DeLand Downtown ,Deland, Florida, USA
- ONLINE: Modern Masters ,Waterhouse & Dodd, New York ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Grayscale: Works in White & Black ,Ikon Ltd. ,Santa Monica, California, USA
- The Irascibles: Painters Against the Museum (New York, 1950) ,Fundacion Juan March, Madrid ,Madrid, Spain
- Pure Drawing: Seven Centuries Of Art From The Gray Collection ,The Art Institute of Chicago ,Loop, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Post-War and Contemporary Highlights ,Mnuchin Gallery ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
2019
- 100 Iconic Works From The Permanent Collection ,Artis—Naples, The Baker Museum ,Naples, Florida, USA
- Sedecim XVI ,Woodward Gallery ,Soho, New York, USA
- The Expressionist Figure: The Miriam and Erwin Kelen Collection of Drawings ,Walker Art Center ,Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- What We See, How We See ,Parrish Art Museum ,Water Mill, New York, USA
- L'homme qui marche - Verkörperungen des Sperrigen ,Kunsthalle Bielefeld ,Bielefeld, Germany
- Abstract Expressionism: A Social Revolution, Selections from the Haskell Collection ,Dixon Gallery and Gardens ,Memphis, Tennessee, USA
- Contemporary Masters ,Pace Prints, 57th Street ,57th Street, New York, USA
- Picasso–Gorky–Warhol. Sculptures and works on paper from the Hubert Looser Collection ,Kunsthaus Zürich ,Zürich, Switzerland
- Montauk Highway III: Postwar Abstraction in the Hamptons ,Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton (4 Newtown Ln) ,East Hampton, New York, USA
- Summer Show ,Pace Prints, 57th Street ,57th Street, New York, USA
- Summer 2019 ,Mnuchin Gallery ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Shaping Vision: Impressionism to Abstract Expressionism ,Palm Springs Art Museum ,Palm Springs, California, USA
- Continuing Abstraction ,Gagosian, Basel ,Basel, Switzerland
- Alvaro Barrington: Artists I Steal From ,Thaddaeus Ropac, London ,Mayfair, London, UK
- A line (a)round an idea: Selected Works on Paper ,Gagosian, Geneva ,Geneva, Switzerland
- Abstract or not ,Olivier Malingue Gallery ,London, UK
- Abstract Expressionism: A Social Revolution ,Tampa Museum of Art ,Tampa, Florida, USA
- Hopper to Pollock: American Modernism from the Munson-Williams-Proctor Arts Institute ,Reynolda House Museum of American Art ,Winston Salem, North Carolina, USA
- Aaron Siskind: A Painter’s Photographer and Works on Paper by BMC Artists ,Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center ,Asheville, North Carolina, USA
- From Gesture to Form. Postwar European and American Art from the Schulhof Collection ,Peggy Guggenheim Collection ,Venice, Italy
- Selections ,Pace Prints, 57th Street ,57th Street, New York, USA
2018
- A Life of Discovery: Works from the Allan Stone Collection ,Allan Stone Gallery ,Gramercy Park, New York, USA
- De Kooning X De Kooning ,Heather James Fine Art, New York ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Landmarks of 20th сentury American art ,Forum Gallery ,Midtown, New York, USA
- The joy of color ,Mnuchin Gallery ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Post-War American Art ,Waterhouse & Dodd, New York (Madison Av, Closed) ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Grand Salon The Visionary Eye of Allan Stone ,Allan Stone Gallery ,Gramercy Park, New York, USA
- New Space, New Acquisitions ,Hollis Taggart, New York (521 W 26th Str.) ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- Between Nature and Abstraction: Edwin Dickinson and Friends ,Philadelphia Museum of Art ,Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Paper ,James Barron Art ,Kent, Connecticut, USA
- Monet's Legacy ,Yokohama Museum of Art ,Kanagawa, Japan
- Un Art Autre ,Omer Tiroche Gallery, London ,Mayfair, London, UK
- Italy - USA: Two Art Worlds connected - Post War to Pop ,Tornabuoni Art, London ,Mayfair, London, UK
- New York Abstraction ,Sundaram Tagore, Singapore ,Singapore, Singapore
- Reds ,Mnuchin Gallery ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- General Rehearsal. A show in three acts from the collections of V-A-C, MMOMA and KADIST ,Moscow Museum of Modern Art, Petrovka Street ,Moscow, Russia
- Panorama: A New Perspective ,Sotheby's Hong Kong ,Hong Kong, Hong Kong
- Draughtsmanship: Selected Drawings from the Allan Stone Collection ,Allan Stone Gallery ,Gramercy Park, New York, USA
- Kiss Off ,Luxembourg + Co., New York ,Midtown, New York, USA
- Beyeler Collection. Material Matters ,Fondation Beyeler, Basel ,Basel, Switzerland
- Approaching the Figure ,Skarstedt, New York ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- 100 Years of Printmaking II ,Butler Institute of American Art ,Youngstown, Ohio, USA
2017
- Measures of Distance ,QAGOMA, Queensland Art Gallery & Gallery of Modern Art ,Brisbane, Australia
- About the Line: An Exhibition Exploring the Power of the Line in 20th and 21st Century Art ,Christie's Mayfair ,London, UK
- Montauk Highway: Postwar Abstraction in the Hamptons ,Eric Firestone Gallery, East Hampton (4 Newtown Ln) ,East Hampton, New York, USA
- 2D/3D ,Nasher Sculpture Center ,Dallas, Texas, USA
- Alicia Koplowitz. Grupo Omega Capital Collection ,Bilbao Fine Arts Museum ,Bilbao, Spain
- International Masters: Collaborations in Printmaking ,Cape Cod Museum of Art ,Dennis Port, Massachusetts, USA
- Restless Gestures. Works from the Hubert Looser Collection ,The National Museum in Oslo ,Oslo, Norway
- When Modern Was Contemporary: Selections from the Roy R. Neuberger Collection ,Boise Art Museum ,Boise, Idaho, USA
- Masterworks from the Hirshhorn Collection ,Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution ,National Mall, Washington D.C., District Of Columbia, USA
- Picasso - de Kooning ,Edward Tyler Nahem Fine Art ,57th Street, New York, USA
- Shaping a Modern Legacy: Karl and Jennifer Salatka Collect ,Carnegie Museum of Art ,Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA
- The Great Graphic Boom ,The National Museum in Oslo ,Oslo, Norway
- When Modern Was Contemporary: Selections from the Roy R. Neuberger Collection ,Westmoreland Museum of American Art ,Greensburg, Pennsylvania, USA
- The Beginning of Everything: Drawings from the Janie C. Lee, Louisa Stude Sarofim, and David Whitney Collections ,The Menil Collection ,Museum District, Houston, Texas, USA
- Willem de Kooning & Zao Wou-Ki ,LGDR, New York (Madison Av.) ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Building Identity: Chaim Gross and Artists' Homes & Studios in New York City, 1953-1974 ,The Renee and Chaim Gross Foundation ,Greenwich Village, New York, USA
- Advanced and Irascible: Abstract Expressionism from the Collection of Jeanne and Carroll Berry ,Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia ,Athens, Georgia, USA
- The Human Form ,Berggruen Gallery ,San Francisco, California, USA
2016
- When Modern Was Contemporary: Selections from the Roy R. Neuberger Collection ,The Society of the Four Arts ,Palm Beach, Florida, USA
- Artists and Lovers ,Ordovas, New York ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Chamberlain / de Kooning ,Mnuchin Gallery ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Artists Of The New York School ,Allan Stone Gallery ,Gramercy Park, New York, USA
- Abstract Expressionism ,Royal Academy of Arts ,Mayfair, London, UK
- The Painters of Black Mountain College: Selections from Southern Collections ,Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center ,Asheville, North Carolina, USA
- Nude: From Modigliani to Currin ,Gagosian, New York (980 Madison Avenue) ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933–1957 ,Wexner Center for the Arts ,Columbus, Ohio, USA
- Artists and Lovers ,Ordovas, London ,Mayfair, London, UK
- The Olga Hirshhorn Collection ,Artis—Naples, The Baker Museum ,Naples, Florida, USA
- 21 Etchings and Poems ,Syracuse University Art Galleries ,Syracuse, New York, USA
- A Work in Progress: Plaster in the Nasher Collection ,Nasher Sculpture Center ,Dallas, Texas, USA
- Flora, Fauna and Other Forms of Life ,Michael Werner, London ,Mayfair, London, UK
- People, Places, Things ,Tracy Williams ,Greenwich Village, New York, USA
- Group Exhibition ,Skarstedt, New York ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Master Works Revisit ,Palm Springs Art Museum ,Palm Springs, California, USA
- Masterworks from the Hirshhorn Collection ,Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution ,National Mall, Washington D.C., District Of Columbia, USA
- And Now the Good News ,Collezione Giancarlo e Danna Olgiati ,Lugano, Switzerland
- The Looser Collection. Dialogues ,Museum Folkwang Essen ,Essen, Germany
- Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection ,Whitney Museum of American Art ,Greenwich Village, New York, USA
- Talking on Paper ,Pace Beijing ,Beijing, China
- When Modern Was Contemporary: Selections from the Roy R. Neuberger Collection ,Mississippi Museum of Art ,Jackson, Mississippi, USA
- From Kandinsky to Pollock. The Art of the Guggenheim Collections ,Peggy Guggenheim Collection ,Venice, Italy
- From Kandinsky to Pollock. The Art of the Guggenheim Collections ,Palazzo Strozzi ,Florence, Italy
- Tête à Tête: Portraits in Dialogue ,Allan Stone Gallery ,Gramercy Park, New York, USA
- Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957 ,Hammer Museum ,Westwood, Los Angeles, California, USA
- De Kooning in Company ,Weatherspoon Art Museum ,Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
- Gerhard Richter: Birkenau ,Museum Frieder Burda ,Baden-baden, Germany
- Ray Spillenger ,Black Mountain College Museum + Arts Center ,Asheville, North Carolina, USA
2015
- Modern Masters from the Guild Hall Collection: Warhol, Pollock, Lichtenstein, Rauschenberg, de Kooning, Motherwell ,Arlington Museum of Art ,Arlington, Texas, USA
- Picturing Artists ,Parrish Art Museum ,Water Mill, New York, USA
- Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933 – 1957 ,Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Boston ,Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Looking Back: 45 Years ,Berggruen Gallery ,San Francisco, California, USA
- Diebenkorn in the Bedroom, DeFeo in the Den: Generous Gifts from the Dixon and Barbara Farley Collection ,San Jose Museum of Art ,San Jose, California, USA
- The Ceramic Presence in Modern Art: Selections from the Linda Leonard Schlenger Collection and the Yale University Art Gallery ,Yale University Art Gallery ,New Haven, Connecticut, USA
- Modern Masters ,Palm Springs Art Museum ,Palm Springs, California, USA
- Glenn Ligon: Encounters and Collisions ,Tate Liverpool ,Liverpool, UK
- Modern Masters ,Palm Springs Art Museum ,Palm Springs, California, USA
- Painting and Sculpture – from Classical Modernism to the Present Day ,Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein ,Vaduz, Liechtenstein
- St Ives Artists from The Clive Beardsmore Gift ,The New Art Gallery Walsall ,Walsall, UK
- America Is Hard to See ,Whitney Museum of American Art ,Greenwich Village, New York, USA
- Figure Ground ,Lennon, Weinberg, Inc. ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- De Kooning - Mitchell - Riopelle ,Galerie Lelong & Co., Paris (rue de Téhéran) ,8e, Paris, France
- Modern Works from the Collection ,Palm Springs Art Museum ,Palm Springs, California, USA
- Imagining the Oceans ,Iris & B. Gerald Cantor Center for Visual Arts at Stanford University ,Stanford, California, USA
- Edith Schloss: A Retrospective ,Sundaram Tagore, New York ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- Van Gogh to Rothko: Masterworks from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery ,Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art ,Bentonville, Arkansas, USA
- Nice to See You! 160 Works from the Collection ,Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein ,Vaduz, Liechtenstein
- Rose Projects 1C | Painting Blind ,The Rose Art Museum ,Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
- 75 Gifts for 75 Years ,Walker Art Center ,Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- Rothko to Richter: Mark-making in Abstract Painting from the Collection of Preston H. Haskell ,Cummer Museum of Art & Gardens ,Jacksonville, Florida, USA
- Vis-à-vis ,Andrew Edlin Gallery ,Lower Manhattan, New York, USA
- Chamberlain, de Kooning & Others ,Allan Stone Gallery ,Gramercy Park, New York, USA
- Salon du Dessin ,Lennon, Weinberg, Inc. ,Chelsea, New York, USA
2014
- ".....Höhere Wesen befehlen" Works on Paper from the Frieder Burda Collection ,PalaisPopulaire by Deutsche Bank ,Mitte, Berlin, Germany
- 40|10 Bilderwechsel ,Museum Frieder Burda ,Baden-baden, Germany
- Paul Jenkins ,Robert Miller Gallery ,New York, USA
- Innovations in Painting: Selections from the Collection ,Weatherspoon Art Museum ,Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
- A Drawing Show ,Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (526 W 22nd) ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- Gauguin to Warhol: 20th Century Icons from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery ,San Diego Museum of Art (SDMA) ,San Diego, California, USA
- Transfigurations: Modern Masters from the Wexner Family Collection ,Wexner Center for the Arts ,Columbus, Ohio, USA
- Thorn in the Flesh ,The George Economou Collection ,Athens, Greece
- Modern American Drawings and Prints from the Kainen Collection ,National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. ,Washington D.C., District Of Columbia, USA
- Forty Years of the Collection - Ten Years of the Museum ,Museum Frieder Burda ,Baden-baden, Germany
- Form Figure Abstraction 1940-1960 ,DC Moore Gallery ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- Rothko to Richter: Mark-Making in Abstract Painting from the Collection of Preston H. Haskell ,Princeton University Art Museum ,Princeton, New Jersey, USA
- Water and Stone: Julia Loken and Les Perhacs ,Santa Fe Art Auction ,Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
- On Paper: Figure Drawings from the Benesch Collection ,Baltimore Museum of Art ,Baltimore, Maryland, USA
- Robert Longo: Gang of Cosmos ,Metro Pictures ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- From the Guggenheim Collection to the Cobra Museum Amstelveen ,Cobra Museum voor Moderne Kunst ,Amsterdam, Netherlands
- Modern Masters: 20th Century Icons from the Albright-Knox Art Gallery ,Denver Art Museum ,Sun Valley, Denver, Colorado, USA
- Richard Hawkins: Hijikata Twist ,Tate Liverpool ,Liverpool, UK
- #NSFW: BODIES ,Vered Gallery ,East Hampton, New York, USA
2013
- Into Abstraction: Works from the Dorsky Collection ,Dorsky Gallery Curatorial Programs ,Long Island City, New York, USA
- Leon Berkowitz: Unity ,David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe ,Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
- Midnight Party ,Walker Art Center ,Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- Crosscurrents in Modern Art ,Moeller Fine Art New York ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- The Show is Over ,Gagosian, London (Britannia Street) ,London, UK
- Legacy: The Emily Fisher Landau Collection ,Joslyn Art Museum ,Omaha, Nebraska, USA
- American Gestures: Abstract Expressionism ,Museum of Fine Arts, Boston ,Back Bay, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
- Navigating Art Languages: The James M. Shelton Jr. Collection ,El Paso Museum of Art ,El Paso, Texas, USA
- John Ashbery: Poet Among Things ,Loretta Howard Gallery ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- Esteban Vicente ,Morrison Gallery ,Kent, Connecticut, USA
- Made in the USA: from the Abstract Expressionists to the Color Field Painters ,Palm Springs Art Museum ,Palm Springs, California, USA
- Sweating Out Cubism: Abstract Expressionism and its Critics ,Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art ,Kansas City, Missouri, USA
- Across Dimensions: Graphics and Sculpture from the Permanent Collection ,Palm Springs Art Museum ,Palm Springs, California, USA
- The 15th Annual Independence Day Weekend Silent Art Auction ,Vered Gallery ,East Hampton, New York, USA
- Opening Abstraction ,The Philbrook Museum of Art ,Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
- Transforming the Known ,Kunstmuseum Den Haag ,The Hague, Netherlands
- The Hubert Looser Collection ,Kunsthaus Zürich ,Zürich, Switzerland
- Selections from the Permanent Collection ,The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA ,Downtown Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Preview 2013 ,Vered Gallery ,East Hampton, New York, USA
- Nouveau to Modern: Transition in Art and Design ,Allan Stone Gallery ,Gramercy Park, New York, USA
2012
- The Grotesque Factor ,Museo Picasso Málaga ,Malaga, Spain
- OC Collects ,OCMA, Orange County Museum of Art ,Costa Mesa, California, USA
- Muse: Exploring Inspiration ,Gray, Chicago (N Michigan Ave) ,River East, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- This Is How We Do It ,Driscoll Babcock ,Midtown, New York, USA
- Between Abstract and Figurative ,Palm Springs Art Museum ,Palm Springs, California, USA
- Abstract Drawings ,Smithsonian American Art Museum ,Downtown, Washington D.C., District Of Columbia, USA
- MCA DNA: New York School ,MCA, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago ,Near North Side, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Art of Another Kind: International Abstraction and the Guggenheim, 1949-1960 ,Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- The Tides of Provincetown: Pivotal Years in America's Oldest Continuous Art Colony (1899-2011) ,Cape Cod Museum of Art ,Dennis Port, Massachusetts, USA
- Gallery Selections ,Spanierman Modern ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Transnational Modernism: The Gutai Art Association, Christo Coetzee and the legacy of Abstract Expressionism in South Africa ,University of Johannesburg Art Gallery ,Johannesburg, South Africa
- American Vanguards: Graham, Davis, Gorky, De Kooning, and their Cicrle, 1927-1942 ,Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College ,Purchase, New York, USA
- ReFocus: Art of the '60s ,Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville ,Jacksonville, Florida, USA
- Abstract Expressionisms: Paintings and Drawings from the Collection ,BAMPFA , Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive ,Berkeley, California, USA
2011
- Companion Pieces: Artist Circles from the Permanent Collection ,Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art ,Kansas City, Missouri, USA
- Experiments in Abstraction ,San Diego Museum of Art (SDMA) ,San Diego, California, USA
- The Expressive Voice: Selections from the Permanent Collection ,Danforth Museum of Art ,Framingham, Massachusetts, USA
- The Private Collection of Robert Rauschenberg ,Gagosian, New York (980 Madison Avenue) ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Art at the Origin: The Early Sixties ,The Rose Art Museum ,Waltham, Massachusetts, USA
- Saul Leiter: New York Reflections ,Jewish Historical Museum, JHM ,Amsterdam, Netherlands
- The New York School: Selections from The Gollay Collection ,Museum of Fine Arts, Saint Petersburg ,St. Petersburg, Florida, USA
- Threat and Degradation ,Gray, New York ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Out of the Dark Room: The David Kronn Collection ,IMMA, Irish Museum of Modern Art ,Dublin, Ireland
- The Tides of Provincetown: Pivotal Years in America's Oldest Continuous Art Colony 1899-2011 ,New Britain Museum of American Art ,New Britain, Connecticut, USA
- Abstract Expressionism and its Discontents ,The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts ,Middle City East, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Painterly Abstraction, 1949-1969: Selections from the Guggenheim Collections ,Guggenheim Bilbao ,Bilbao, Spain
- Painterly Abstraction, 1949–1969: Selections from the Guggenheim Collections ,Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Absentee Landlord - Curated by John Waters ,Walker Art Center ,Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- Abstract Expressionist New York ,AGO, Art Gallery of Ontario ,Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Works in Progress - Rodin and the Ambassadors ,Musée Rodin ,7e, Paris, France
- Weatherspoon Art Museum: 70 Years of Collecting ,Weatherspoon Art Museum ,Greensboro, North Carolina, USA
- Building a Modern Collection: A Look Back ,Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion ,Champaign, Illinois, USA
- Drawings and Prints: Selections from the Permanent Collection ,The Metropolitan Museum of Art ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
2010
- The Maginot Line ,David Castillo Gallery ,Miami, Florida, USA
- Abstract Expressionist New York ,MoMA, The Museum of Modern Art ,Midtown, New York, USA
- Masters of the Gesture ,Gagosian, Beverly Hills ,Beverly Hills, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Earth Paint Paper Wood: Recent Acquisitions ,The Menil Collection ,Museum District, Houston, Texas, USA
- The Esprit of Gestures: Hans Hartung, Informel and Its Impact ,Kupferstichkabinett (Collection of Drawings & Prints) ,Tiergarten, Berlin, Germany
- Robert & Ethel Scull: Portrait of a Collection ,Acquavella Galleries, New York ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Sculptors' Prints ,Steven Vail Fine Arts ,Des Moines, Iowa, USA
- Vertical Thoughts: Morton Feldman and the Visual Arts ,IMMA, Irish Museum of Modern Art ,Dublin, Ireland
- Goya and the Modern World ,Palazzo Reale ,Milan, Italy
- Abstract Resistance ,Walker Art Center ,Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
- Monet and Abstraction ,Museo Nacional Thyssen-Bornemisza ,Madrid, Spain
- Modern in America: Works on Paper, 1900–1950s ,The Art Institute of Chicago ,Loop, Chicago, Illinois, USA
- Collecting Biennials ,Whitney Museum of American Art ,Greenwich Village, New York, USA
2009
- Drawing ,Locks Gallery ,Washington Square, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- Drawing Attention: Tiepolo, Rembrandt, Van Gogh, Picasso and more ,Dulwich Picture Gallery ,London, UK
- Arshile Gorky in Context ,Philadelphia Museum of Art ,Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
- The Figure and Dr Freud ,Haunch of Venison, New York ,Midtown, New York, USA
- Paint Made Flesh ,The Phillips Collection ,Washington D.C., District Of Columbia, USA
- Graphic Masters Ii: Highlights From The Smithsonian American Art Museum ,Smithsonian American Art Museum ,Downtown, Washington D.C., District Of Columbia, USA
- The Sweeney Decade: Acquisitions At The 1959 Inaugural ,Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- Cecily Brown ,Deichtorhallen Hamburg ,Hamburg, Germany
- Highlights from the Nasher Collection ,Nasher Sculpture Center ,Dallas, Texas, USA
- Gestures, Fields, and Rising Suns ,Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art ,Kansas City, Missouri, USA
- Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper ,The Art Institute of Chicago ,Loop, Chicago, Illinois, USA
2008
- Inspired by Literature: Art and Fine Books ,Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University ,New Brunswick, New Jersey, USA
- American Modern ,Fundació Joan Miró ,Barcelona, Spain
- Willem de Kooning Lucio Fontana Eva Hesse ,Andrea Rosen Gallery ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940–1976 ,Saint Louis Art Museum (SLAM) ,St. Louis, Missouri, USA
- De Kooning, Mitchell, Richter: Paintings From The 1980S ,Tina Kim Gallery ,Chelsea, New York, USA
- for what you are about to receive ,Gagosian, Moscow ,Moscow, Russia
- Abtstract Expressionism - a World Elsewhere ,Haunch of Venison, New York ,Midtown, New York, USA
- "New Acquisitions Part One: Modern Art": Works By De Kooning, Diebenkorn, Kandinsky And Picasso ,Leslie Sacks Gallery ,Bel Air Estates, Los Angeles, California, USA
- Focus on 20th-century Art: Highlights from SCAD’s Collection ,Savannah College of Art and Design Galleries ,Savannah, Georgia, USA
- Action/Abstraction ,The Jewish Museum New York ,Upper East Side, New York, USA
- An Adventure in the Arts: The Permanent Collection of the Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York ,LSU Museum of Art ,Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA
- Monet, Kandinsky, Rothko and Their Inheritance ,Kunstforum Wien ,Vienna, Austria
Willem de Kooning
Born: 1904 Rotterdam, Holland
Died: 1997 East Hampton, NY
1904
Born in Rotterdam, Holland.
1916–25
Studies at the Rotterdam Academy of Fine Arts & Letters in Rotterdam, Holland.
1926
Immigrates to the United States at age 22. Lives in New York and supports himself as a house painter
and commercial artist.
1934
Joins the Artist's Union, New York.
1935
Joins the mural and easel divisions of the W.P.A. Federal Art Project, where he becomes acquainted with
Stuart Davis, John Graham, and Arshile Gorky.
1936
Devotes himself full-time to a career as an artist. De Kooning's work is represented in New Horizons in
American Art, Museum of Modern Art New York, NY.
1938
Starts his first series of Women, which becomes a major recurrent theme.
1939
Shares a studio with Arshile Gorky.
1940s
Participates in group shows with Gorky and other artists who would form the New York School and
become known as abstract expressionists. He distinguishes himself by his ability to move between
figurative and abstract modes.
1948
First solo exhibition of de Kooning's black-and-white abstractions held at the Egan Gallery in New York.
Establishes de Kooning’s reputation as a major artist.
1950
Work is exhibited at the Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy.
1958
Included in the major exhibition The New American Painting, organized by the Museum of Modern Art,
New York. Exhibition traveles to eight European countries.
1962
Becomes a citizen of the United States.
1963
Moves from New York City to Springs, Long Island.
1964
Included in the major exhibition The New American Painting, organized by the Museum of Modern Art,
New York. Exhibition traveles to eight European countries.
1962
Becomes a citizen of the United States.
1963
Moves from New York City to Springs, Long Island.
1964
Receives Presidential Medal of Freedom from Lyndon B. Johnson, Washington, D.C.
1968
De Kooning visits the Netherlands for the first time since 1926, for the opening of his retrospective at
the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.
1969
While visiting Rome, de Kooning executes his first sculpture.
1974
The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis organizes a show of de Kooning's drawings and sculpture that
travels throughout the United States.
1975
Begins a new series of dense, richly colored abstractions. Awarded the Gold Medal from the American
Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY.
1976–77
The traveling exhibition Willem de Kooning: Painting and Sculpture, was organized by the Smithsonian
Institution, Washington, D.C.
1978
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York mounts a solo exhibition of de Kooning's recent work.
1979
De Kooning receives the Andrew W. Mellon Prize, which is accompanied by an exhibition at the Museum
of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA.
1982
Elected to the Akademie der Künste Berlin, Germany.
1985
Receives the National Medal of Arts from U.S. President Ronald Reagan, Washington, DC.
1997
Dies on March 19, in Springs, NY. De Kooning is honored with a retrospective at the Museum of Modern
Art, New York.