Paul Thek

 

Born in Brooklyn, New York NY, 1933

Died in New York NY, 1988

 

Education

Cooper Union School of Art, New York NY, 1954

Art Students League, New York NY, 1950

Pratt Institute, Brooklyn NY, 1950

 

Solo Exhibitions

 

2024

Paul Thek, MAMCO Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

Paul Thek: Untitled (rooftops), Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles CA

Paul Thek: 5 Paintings 1962-1963, Galerie Buchholz, New York NY

 

2022

Paul Thek: Italian Hours, Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio, Rome, Italy

 

2021

Paul Thek: Relativity Clock, Alexander and Bonin, New York NY

Paul Thek: Interior / Landscape, The Watermill Center, New York NY

 

2019

Paul Thek: I AM, AM I?, Galerie Jan Mot, Brussels, Belgium

 

2017
Paul Thek: Eye of the Beholder, Alexander and Bonin, New York NY

 

2016

Paul Thek, Hannah Hoffman Gallery, Los Angeles CA

 

2015

Paul Thek: Ponza and Roma, Alexander and Bonin, New York NY [travelled to: Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland]

Rotterdam Cultural Histories #4: Paul Thek, Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam, Netherlands

 

2013

Nothing But Time: Paul Thek Revisited 1964-1987, Pace Gallery, London, England

 

2012

Paul Thek, in Process, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland [travelled to: Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany; Modern Museet, Stockholm, Sweden]

Paul Thek: “if you don’t like this book you don’t like me,” The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland

 

2011

Prelude - Paul Thek in Process, Another Vacant Space, Berlin, Germany [travelled to: Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany]

Paul Thek: Cityscapes and other ideas, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland

 

2010

Paul Thek: Diver, A Retrospective, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY [travelled to: Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh PA; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA]

Paul Thek: Cityscapes and other ideas, Alexander and Bonin, New York NY

 

2009

Paul Thek, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain

 

2007

Paul Thek: Werkschau im Kontext zeitgenössischer Kunst [Works in the Context of Contemporary Art], ZKM Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe [travelled to: Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg, Germany; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain]

Paul Thek, Seamen’s Art Club, Hamburg, Germany

Paul Thek - newspaper paintings 1981-1983, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland [travelled to: Alexander and Bonin, New York NY]

 

2005

Paul Thek Luzern 1973/2005, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland

 

2004

Paul Thek: Paintings 1980–1988, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland

 

2003

Paul Thek: Paintings of the 1980’s, Alexander and Bonin, New York NY

 

2002

Paul Thek: “The chinaman erases my mind”: Skulptur, Objekt, Malerei, Zeichnung, Galerie Jöllenbeck, Cologne, Germany

 

2001

Paul Thek, Galerie Ascan Crone, Berlin, Germany

 

1999

Paul Thek, Camden Arts Centre, London, England [travelled to: Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland; Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn, England; Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland]

Paul Thek: Selected Drawings 1966–1988, Alexander and Bonin, New York NY

 

1998

Paul Thek: Paintings, Works on Paper and Notebooks 1970–1988, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago IL

 

1997

The Diözesanmuseum as Guest: Paul Thek, organized byKolumba, Museum of The Archdiocese of Cologne, St Peter’s Church, Cologne, Germany

 

1996

Paul Thek: A Station of the Cross, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands

 

1995

Paul Thek: Opere Scelte, Because I Love Gallery, Rome, Italy

Paul Thek: Etchings, XX Multiple Gallery, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Paul Thek - The Wonderful World That Almost Was, Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam, Netherlands [travelled to: Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany; Fundacio Antoni Tapies, Barcelona, Spain; Kunsthalle Zürich / Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland; musée d'art contemporain de Marseille, Marseilles, France]

 

1993

Paul Thek: Paintings of the 1970's and 1980's, Brooke Alexander, New York NY

Paul Thek: Skulpturen und Zeichnungen, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland

 

1992

Paul Thek: Sculpture and Drawings, Castello Di Rivara, Rivara, Italy

 

1991

Paul Thek: Newspaper and Notebook Drawings, Brooke Alexander, New York NY [travelled to: Galerie Jollenbeck, Cologne, Germany]

 

1990

Paul Thek: Skulpturen, 1968–1971, Galerie Jöllenbeck, Cologne, Germany

Paul Thek: Sculpture 1965-1976, Brooke Alexander, New York NY [travelled to: Galerie Samy Kinge, Paris, France]

 

1989

Paul Thek: Technological Reliquaries, The Clocktower Gallery, New York NY

 

1988

Paul Thek, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville SC

Paul Thek: Some New Works, Mokotoff Gallery, New York NY

Paul Thek: Selected Works 1987-1988, Brooke Alexander, New York NY

 

1987

Paul Thek: Small Works, Mokotoff Gallery, New York NY

 

1984

Paul Thek: Recent Work, Iolas-Jackson Gallery, New York NY

Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York NY

 

1983

Paul Thek: Some New Works, Iolas-Jackson Gallery, New York NY

 

1982

Brooks Jackson Iolas Gallery, New York NY

Paul Thek: Little Paintings, Galerie Samy Kinge, Paris, France

 

1981

Paul Thek: cityscapes, seascapes, other ideas, etc., Brooks Jackson Gallery Iolas, New York NY

Paul Thek: A Procession in Honor of Aesthetic Progress, Galerie Jollenbeck, Cologne, Germany

 

1980

Paul Thek: Small Paintings, Brooks Jackson Gallery Iolas, New York NY

 

1978

Jack's Procession: What's Going on Here?, Lijnbaancentrum, Rotterdam, Netherlands

 

1977

Galleria Fante di Spada, Rome, Italy

Paul Thek/Processions, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA

Paul Thek: Small bronzes and drawings, Brooks Jackson Gallery Iolas, New York NY

 

1976

Paul Thek: The Personal Effects of the Pied Piper, Galerie Alexandre Iolas, Paris, France [travelled to: Brooks Jackson Gallery Iolas, New York NY; Galleria Fante di Spada, Rome, Italy]

 

1974

Galleria Schema, Florence, Italy

 

1973

Paul Thek, Galerie Staehli-Langenbacher und Wankmüller, Lucerne, Switzerland

Paul Thek: Ark, Pyramid-Christmas, Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum der Stadt Duisburg, Duisburg, Germany

Paul Thek: Ark, Pyramid-Easter, Kunstmuseum, Lucerne, Switzerland

 

1972

Paul Thek: The Riderless Boat, Willard Gallery, New York NY

Paul Thek: A Station of the Cross, Galerie M.E. Thelen, Essen, Germany

 

1971

Paul Thek, Stable Gallery, New York NY

Paul Thek: Pyramid/A Work in Progress, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

 

1970

Paul Thek: Blackboard Drawings, Stable Gallery, New York NY

Paul Thek: Crèche, Mickery Galerie Loenensloot, Loenen, Netherlands

 

1969

Decorations for a Tree, Wires and a Cross (The Artist’s Co-op), Galerie Mickery, Loenersloot, Netherlands

Paul Thek: Fishman, Stable Gallery, New York NY

Paul Thek: The Procession/Easter in a Pear Tree, Galerie Mickery, Loenersloot, Netherlands

Paul Thek: The Procession/The Artist's Co-op, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Paul Thek: Work in Progress at Brusseler Platz, sponsored by Galerie M.E. Thelen, Essen, Germany

 

1968

Paul Thek: A Procession in Honor of Aesthetic Progress: Objects Theoretically to Wear, Carry, Pull or

Wave, Galerie M.E. Thelen, Essen, Germany

 

1967

Paul Thek: The Tomb-Death of a Hippie, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY

Paul Thek: The Tomb, Stable Gallery, New York NY

 

1966

Paul Thek: Recent Work, Pace Gallery, New York NY

 

1964

Stable Gallery, New York NY

 

1963

Galleria 88, Rome, Italy

 

1957

Mirrell Gallery, Miami FL

 

 Group Exhibitions

 

2025

The Monster: Curated by Robert Nava, Pace Gallery, Los Angeles CA

Peter Hujar: Eyes Open in the Dark, Raven Row, London, England

 

2024

The Swimmer, FLAG Art Foundation, New York NY

Sensitive Skins, MAI 36 Galerie, Milan, Italy

 

2022

Portraits in Life and Death: Paul Thek & Peter Hujar, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg, Austria

Wild Strawberries, Gallery 125 Newbury, New York NY

Mad Women: Kornblee, Jackson, Saidenberg and Ward, Art Dealers on Madison Avenue in the 1960s,

David Nolan Gallery, New York NY

(Re)Frame, Alexander and Bonin, New York NY

Future Bodies from a Recent Past, Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany

something new, something old, something desired, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany

 

2021

Get Lifted!, Karma, New York NY

I Know Where I’m Going-Who Can I Be Now, The Modern Institute, Glasgow, Scotland

Technologies of the Self, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills CA

 

2020

Peter Hujar & Paul Thek, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland

 

2019

The Blazing World, S | 2, London, England

Installationen aus 25 Jahren Sammlung Falckenberg, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg, Germany

Direct Message: Art Language, and Power: Eugenio Dittborn, Paul Thek, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL

Between Them: An Installation Composed of Drawings: Michael Buthe, Stefan Kürten, Paul Thek, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco CA

Faith, Draiflessen Collection, Mettingen, Germany

NEWS!, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland

 

2018

Kunst ins Leben! Der Sammler Wolfgang Hahn und die 60er Jahre, mumok, Vienna, Austria

Sanguine-Luc Tuymans on Baroque: Paul Thek, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy

The Assassination of Leon Trotsky: Willie Cole, Paul Thek, David Lewis Gallery, New York NY

Pas de Deux Romano Germanic, Kolumbo, Cologne, Germany

Like Life: Sculpture, Color, and the Body: John Ahearn, Paul Thek, Rigoberto Torres, The Met Breuer,

New York NY

101 Drawings, Alexander & Bonin, New York NY

 

2017

ICON, Galerie Krinzinger, Vienna, Austria

Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason, 1950-1980: Paul Thek, The Met Breuer, New York NY

We Are Here: Jonathas de Andrade, Doris Salcedo, Paul Thek, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL

The Transported Man, Broad Art Museum, East Lansing MI

Jason Dodge / Paul Thek, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin, Germany

 

2016

Museum Revisited: 1996–2016, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland

 

2015

Painting 2.0: Malerei Im Informationszeitalter, Museum Brandhorst, Munich, Germany

Please write, Paul Thek, Franz Deckwitz, Museum van Boijmans Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands

 

2014

1965–1977: Richard Artschwager, Michael Buthe, Victor Grippo, Neil Jenney, Robert Kinmont, Ree Morton, Sylvia Plimack Mangold and Paul Thek, Alexander and Bonin, New York NY

Playing by heart, Kolumba, Museum of The Archdiocese of Cologne, Cologne, Germany [travelled to: Martos Gallery, New York NY]

Alexander the Great: The Iolas Gallery 1955-1987, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York NY

 

2013

Paul Thek and His Circle in the 1950s, Leslie + Lohman Museum of Gay and Lesbian Art, New York NY

The Polaroid Years: Instant Photography and Experimentation, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie NY

Tell it To My Heart: Collected by Julie Ault, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland [travelled to: Culturgest Lisbon, Lisbon, Portugal]

 

2012

A document, Alexander and Bonin, New York NY

Stimuli, Alexander and Bonin, New York NY

The Perfect Show, 303 Gallery, New York NY

Sinister Pop, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY

Affinity Atlas, Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, Clinton NY

Out of the Blue, Bortolami Gallery, New York NY

Art is Liturgy–Paul Thek and the Others, Kolumba, Museum of The Archdiocese of Cologne, Germany

Paul Thek, in Process, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland

Natural History, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh PA

The Quality of Presence, Chelsea Hotel, New York NY

Chambres d'Amis | Collection presentation, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium

First Among Equals, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia PA

 

2011

HAPPY HOLIDAYS! DRAWINGS!, Alex Zachary Gallery, New York NY

Influential Friends by Peter Hujar, John McWhinnie, Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, New York NY

D'un autre monde, Printemps de Septembre, Toulouse, France

Distant Star/Estrella Distante, Regen Projects, Los Angeles CA [travelled to: Kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico]

Colors for a new home, Signs of Love and other paintings, Alexander and Bonin, New York NY

Time Again, Sculpture Center, New York NY

 

2010

Never The Same River (Possible Futures, Probable Pasts), Camden Arts Centre, London, England

Looking Back / The Fifth White Columns Annual–Selected by Bob Nickas, White Columns, New York NY

10,000 Lives, The 8th Gwangju Biennale, South Korea

Kunst aus der Kölner Privatsammlung Ulrich Reininghaus, Sammlung Reininghaus bei Phoenix, Sammlung Falckenberg, Hamburg, Germany

Held Up By Columns, Renwick Gallery, New York NY

Keeping it Real: An exhibition in Four Acts (Act 1: The Corporeal), Whitechapel Gallery, London, England

Inside Installations, S.M.A.K., Ghent, Belgium

Margins of Silence, The Helga de Alvear Foundation, Caceres, Spain

Dead Flowers, Vox Populi, Philadelphia PA

 

2009

Hinterlassenschaft—Eine deutches Erbe, Kolumba—Kunstmuseum des Erzbistums Köln, Cologne, Germany

Source Codes, Sprüth Magers, Berlin, Germany

whaddaya wanna be, a flower?!, Alexander and Bonin, New York NY

Compass in Hand: Selections from The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings

Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York NY

 

2008

Strange Bodies: Figurative Works from the Hirshhorn Collection, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture

Garden, Washington, D.C.

Der Mensch verlässt die Erde, Kolumba—Kunstmuseum des Erzbistums Köln, Cologne, Germany

Oranges and Sardines: Conversations on Abstract Painting, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA

2 x [ (2 x 20) + (2 x 2) ] + 2 = X x (desperately) trying to figure out the world, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland

Matthew Marks Gallery, New York NY

Painting Now and Forever, Part II, Greene Naftali Gallery, New York NY

Sammlung, 1978–2008, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland

Sguardo periferico & corpo collettivo, Museion—Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano, Italy

Traces du Sacré, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France [travelled to: Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany]

Life on Mars: 55th Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh PA

 

2007

Hold the Line, Ferenbalm Gurbrü Station, Karlsruhe, Germany

13, Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, Birmingham, England

Strange Weight, Martos Gallery, New York NY

The Third Mind—Carte Blanche à Ugo Rondinone, Palais de Tokyo, Paris, France

A Point in Space Is a Place for an Argument, David Zwirner Gallery, New York NY

Bodycheck, 10. Triennale Kleinplastik, Alte Kelter Fellbach, Fellbach, Germany

Neolithic Porns, Isabella Bortolozzi Galerie, Berlin, Germany

 

2006

Das Menschenbild der Moderne, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany

The Last Show, Cooper Union, New York NY

Six Feet Under: Autopsie unseres Umgangs mit Toten, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Twice Drawn, The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College,

Saratoga Springs, New York NY

Small Sculpture, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York NY

Plane/Figure: Amerikanische Kunst aus Schweizer Privatsammlungen und aus dem Kunstmuseum

Winterthur, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Wintherthur, Switzerland

Das achte Feld: Geschlechter, Leben, und Begehren der Kunst seit 1960/The Eighth Square: Gender,

Life, and Desire in the Arts Since 1960, Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany

Into Me/Out of Me, P.S.1 Center for Contemporary Art, Long Island City, New York NY [travelled to: Kunst-Werke Institute for Contemporary Art—Gesellschaft für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Berlin, Germany; MACRO Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy]

Transforming Chronologies: An Atlas of Drawings, Part Two, The Museum of Modern Art, New York NY

 

2005

Bidibidobidiboo: Works from Collezione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo, Fondazione Sandretto Re

Rebaudengo, Turin, Italy

editions, Alexander and Bonin, New York NY

At Years End, Rethinking The Family of Man, De Appel, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Looking at Words: The Formal Use of Text in Modern and Contemporary Works on Paper, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York NY

50 Jahre Documenta, 1955–2005, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany

Document 2 and 3 made by Paul Thek and Edwin Klein, Janos Gat Gallery, New York NY

Mythologies, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota MN

 

2004

East Village USA, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York NY

Stadtlicht—Lichtkunst, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum, Zentrum Internationaler Skulptur, Duisburg,

Germany

Klütterkammer: An Exhibition by John Bock, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England

Mike Kelley—The Uncanny, Tate Liverpool, England [travelled to: Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig Wien, Vienna, Austria]

the gallery selects . . ., Alexander and Bonin, New York NY

L’Air du Temps, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland

 

2003

Fuori Uso 2003: Great Expectations, Associazione Culturale Arte Nova, Pescara, Italy

My People Were Fair and Had Cum in Their Hair, Team, New York NY

Global Village: The 1960s, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada

Bewitched, Bothered, and Bewildered: Spatial Emotion in Contemporary Art and Architecture, Migros

Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland [travelled to: Centrum Sztuki Współczesnej Łaźnia, Gdańsk, Poland]

 

2002

Manifeste, oder: Ergriffenheit–was ist das? Frühe Standards seit 1960, Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich, Germany

Bits ’n Pieces, Galerie Jöllenbeck, Cologne, Germany

Imagine, You Are Standing Here in Front of Me: Caldic Collectie, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen,

Rotterdam, Netherlands

A document made by Paul Thek and Edwin Klein, Janos Gat Gallery, New York NY

The Object Sculpture, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, England

From the Observatory, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York NY

das weiss dahinter, Kunsthalle Palazzo Liestal, Liestal, Switzerland

 

2001

Eine Barocke Party, Augenblicke eines Welttheaters in der zeitgenössischen Kunst, Kunsthalle Wien,

Vienna, Austria

The Devil is in the Details, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston MA

Prodigal Prodigy, White Box, New York NY

(Self) Portraits, Alexander and Bonin, New York NY

Painting at the Edge of the World, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN

 

2000

Face To Face: works on paper from the Museum, Overholland Collection, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Full Serve, presented by Mixed Greens and Kenny Schacter/Rove, New York NY

Sweet ’N Low, presented by Kenny Schachter/Rove, New York NY

 

1999

Highlights from The Dillard Collection of Art on Paper: Drawn Across the Country, Weatherspoon Art

Gallery, Greensboro NC

Art in Our Time: 1950 to the Present, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN

Circa 1968, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal

l’Ouverture, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Gand, Ghent, Belgium

The American Century: Art & Culture, 1950¬–2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY

 

1998

Der unendliche Raum dehnt sich aus, Kolumba, Museum of The Archdiocese of Cologne, Cologne, Germany [travelled to: Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, Germany]

From Warhol to Mapplethorpe: Three Decades of Art at ICA, ICA Philadelphia, Philadelphia PA

 

1997

Meisterwerke aus sechs Jahrhunderten, Kunsthalle Bremen zu Gast, Bonn, Germany

A Decade of Collecting: Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Drawings, The Museum of Modern Art,

New York NY

The Hirshhorn Collects: Recent Acquisitions 1992–1996, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,

Washington, D.C.

From Body to Being: Reflections on the Human Image, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines IA

Belladonna, Institute Contemporary Arts, London, England

A Living Testament to the Blood Fairies, Printed Matter, New York NY

 

1996

The Collection Reviewed: Contemporary Art, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington,

D.C.

Bringing It All Back Home, Gracie Mansion/Fred Dorfman Projects, New York NY

Arts’ Communities/AIDS’ Communities: Realizing the Archive Project, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston MA

Deformations: Aspects of the Modern Grotesque, The Museum of Modern Art, New York NY

 

1995

Duck!, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York NY

Sacred Geometry, Galerie des Beaux-Arts Galerij, Brussels, Belgium

Glaube, Hoffnung, Liebe, Tod, Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria

 

1994

Drawn in the 1970's, Brooke Alexander, New York NY

Significant Losses, The Art Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park MD

Prospect/Retrospect. Zeitgenössische Kunst aus der Sammlung des Kunstmuseums Luzern, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland

Contemporary Art from the Collection of the Federation of Migros Cooperatives, Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Zurich, Switzerland

 

1993

Wiederbegegnung mit Unbekanntem. Ein Rundgang, Kolumba, Museum of The Archdiocese of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Already Buddha, Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville SC

Lucian Freud, Paul Thek: Etchings, Miami-Dade College Art Gallery, Kendall FL

Abject Art: Repulsion and Desire in American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY

The Uncanny, Gemeentemuseum Arnhem, Arnhem, Netherlands

Nachtschattengewachse/The Nightshade Family, Museum Fredericianum, Kassel, Germany

Vito Acconci, Bruce Nauman, Paul Thek, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York NY

Sculpture & Multiples, Brooke Alexander, New York NY

 

1992

Drawings, Brooke Alexander, New York NY

Word & Image, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York NY

Mssr. B's Curio Shop, Thread Waxing Space, New York NY

 

1991

Paris 1971, Galerie Carol Johnssen, Munich, Germany

(Dis)member, on the Hundredth Anniversary of Gericault’s Death, Simon Watson, New York NY

Bildhauerzeichnungen des Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Duisburg, Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum,

Duisburg, Germany

 

1990

Contemporary Assemblage: The Dada and Surrealist Legacy, LA Louver, Los Angeles CA

Word as Image: American Art 1960-1990, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee WI [travelled to: Oklahoma City Art Museum, Oklahoma City OK; The The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston TX]

Fragments, Parts, Wholes: Body and Culture, White Columns, New York NY

 

1989

human concern/personal torment: The Grotesque in American Art Revisited, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York NY [travelled to: Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago IL]

 

1987

The Pyramid Show, Mokotoff Gallery, New York NY

The Success of Failure, Independent Curators Incorporated, New York NY [travelled to: Laumeier Sculpture Garden, Saint Louis MO; University Art Gallery, North Texas State University, Denton TX; Johnson Gallery, Middlebury College, Middlebury VT; University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson AZ]

Artcake, 1980–1986: Private Sammeln Gegenwartskunst, Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland

 

1986

The City and the Street: Paintings, Photographs, and Sculpture, La Mama La Galleria, New York NY

Chambre d'Amis, Museum van Heedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, Belgium

 

1985

Chiaroscuro, Art City, New York NY

Memento Mori, Goldie Paley Gallery, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia PA

18th Bienal Internacional de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil

Stigmata, Bond Gallery, New York NY

The Gathering of the Avantgarde: The Lower East Side, Kenkelba House, New York NY

 

1984

Content: A Contemporary Focus 1974-1984, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.

Disarming Images: Art for Nuclear Disarmament, Art Museum Association, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati OH [travelled to: University Art Gallery, San Diego State University, San Diego CA; Washington State University, Pullman WA; New York State Museum, Albany NY; University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara CA; Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute Museum of Art, Utica NY; Fine Arts Gallery, University of

Nevada, Las Vegas NV; Baxter Art Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena CA; Yellowstone Art Center, Billings MT; Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York NY]

Artists Call: 50/50, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York NY

 

1983

Special Projects (Winter 1983), P.S.1 Center for Contemporary Art, Long Island City, New York NY

Urban Pulses: The Artists and the City, Pittsburgh Plan for Art, Pittsburgh PA

Terminal New York, Harborside Industrial Center, Brooklyn, New York NY

New Art at the Tate Gallery 1983, The Tate Gallery, London, England

The Sixth Day: A Survey of Recent Developments in Figurative Sculpture, Bergman Gallery, The

Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago IL

 

1982

Tableaux. Nine Contemporary Sculptors, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati OH

Drawing Distinctions, American Drawings of the Seventies, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark [travelled to: Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland; Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany; Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany]

Tendenzan der Amerikanischen Zeichung, Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany

 

1981

Drugs: Kruiden van hemel en hel [Drugs: Herbs from Heaven and Hell], Museum voor Land en Volkenkunde, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Figuratively Sculpting, The Institute for Art and Urban Resources, P.S.1, New York NY

Contemporary Art Since 1939, (Death of a Hippie), International Exhibition, Cologne, Germany

Westkunst: Zeitgenossiche Kunst seit 1939, Museums of the City of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

A Feast for the Eyes, Hecksher Museum, Huntington, New York NY

Continuous Creation, Serpentine Gallery, London, England

Amerikanischer Zeichnung in den siebziger Jahren, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switerland

 

1980

Art of the 70s, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

Zeichen des Galubens—Geist der Avantgarde, Charlottenburg Palace, Berlin, Germany

 

1976

Amerikanische Kunst heute: Bilder, Skulpturen, Objekte, Zeichnungen, Graphiken, Berliner

Festwochen, Berlin, Germany

La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy

 

1975

Menace, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL

 

1974

Return to Sender, Galleria Schema, Florence, Italy

 

1973

Galerie M. E. Thelen, Cologne, Germany

 

1972

documenta 5, Kassel, Germany

 

1971

Funf Sampler, Wuppertal: Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal, Germany

Kunsthistorici verzamelen eigentijdse kunst: van Appel tot Sykor, Kunsthistorisch Institut, Amsterdam, Netherlands

The Riderless Boat, Willard Gallery, New York NY

Gene Swenson: Retrospective for a Critic, The Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence KS

Depth and Presence, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Continuing Surrealism, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla CA

 

1970

Figures/Environments, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN

 

1969

Galerie 20, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Kunst der sechziger Jahre, Collection Ludwig, Wallraff-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany

Human Concern/Personal Torment-The Grotesque in American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY

Irritarte, Galleria Milano, Milan, Italy

The Dillard Collection, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro NC

Art ’69, Atheneumin Taisemuseum, Tampereen Nykytaiteen Museo, Tampere, Finland

 

1968

Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis IN

Art of the 60’s: Selections from the Collection of Hanford Yang, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art,

Ridgefield CT

documenta 4, Kassel, Germany

The Obsessive Image 1960-1968, The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England

 

1967

The Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Paintings and Sculpture, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh PA

 

1966

Contemporary American Still Life, The Museum of Modern Art, New York NY

Art in the Mirror, The Museum of Modern Art, New York NY

Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro NC

The Other Tradition, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia PA

 

1965

A Contemporary Collection of Painting and Sculpture, Selected from the Collection of Eleanor Ward, Lyman Allyn Museum, New London CT

Beyond Realism, Pace Gallery, New York NY

One Hundred Contemporary American Drawings, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor MI

 

1958 
The Gallery, Miami FL

 

Public Collections

 

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh PA

Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines IA

Kolumba - Museum of The Archdiocese of Cologne, Cologne, Germany

Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, Switzerland

Greenville County Museum of Art, Greenville SC

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Johnssen Collection, Essen, Germany

Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA

Ludwig Museum, Cologne, Germany

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands

Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany

The Museum of Modern Art, New York NY

The Newark Museum of Art, Newark NJ

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia PA

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis MN

Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY