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
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