| SOL LEWITT | |
| BIOGRAPHY | |
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Born in Hartford, Connecticut
1928 |
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| B.F.A., Syracuse University, 1949 | |
| SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS | |
| 2004 | "Sol LeWitt", The RISD Museum of Art, Providence, Rhode Island |
| 2003 | “Sol LeWitt: Recent Acquisitions”, Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Anodver, Massachusets |
| “Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawings, Gouaches”, Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Rome, Italy | |
| “Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawing”, Kunstammlungen Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany | |
"Sol LeWitt", Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Wien, Austria |
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| "Sol LeWitt: New Works", Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany | |
"Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawings", Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois |
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| 2002 | “Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawing – New Gouaches”, Galerie Sfeir Semler, Hamburg, Germany |
| “Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawing”, Philip Alan Gallery, New York, NY | |
| 2001 | "Sol LeWitt: Incomplete Open Cubes", Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT |
| Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland OH | |
| “New Work,” Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California and Regen Projects, Los Angeles, California | |
| “New Wall Drawings,” Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany | |
| “Wall Drawing Structure Gouches”, Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland | |
| 2000 | "Sol LeWitt: A Retrospective," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco California. Traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York |
| "Sol LeWitt: Gouaches I gravats," Galeria Toni Tàpies — Edicions T, Barcelona, Spain | |
| "Sol LeWitt: Sculptures and Gouaches," Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts | |
| "Sol LeWitt 1971-1999 Etchings, Screenprints, Woodcuts," Crown Point Press, San Francisco, California and Refusalon and Helene Fried Associate Galleries, San Francisco, California | |
| "Prints by Sol LeWitt," Alva Gallery, New London, Connecticut | |
| "Lasting Impressions: Contemporary Prints from the Bruce Brown Collection," Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine | |
| "Sol LeWitt," Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy | |
| "Black Cubes," Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany | |
| 1999 | "Sol LeWitt: Neue Gouachen," Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich, Germany |
| "Decades and Dialogues: Perspectives on the MCA Collection," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois | |
| "Sol LeWitt: New Work," Galerie Meert Rihoux, Brussels | |
| "Sol LeWitt: New Work (Black + Colors)," Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia | |
| "Sol LeWitt: Irregular Forms," Galerie Franck + Schulte, Berlin, Germany | |
| "Sol LeWitt," Volume!, Rome, Italy | |
| "Sol LeWitt: New Work," Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, New York | |
| "Sol LeWitt: Circles Arcs and Bands," Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois | |
| "Sol LeWitt Indoors: Drawings and Models; Outdoors: Concrete Block Structures," P.S. 1, Long Island City, New York | |
| "Sol LeWitt: New Wall Drawings," Galerie Pietro Sparta, Changy, France | |
| 1998 | "Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawings and Photographs (1969-1998), Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, California |
| "Sol LeWitt," Liliana Tovar, Stockholm, Sweden | |
| "Sol LeWitt: Wall Pieces (Drawings and Maquettes for Large Scale Structures)," Lisson Gallery, London, Great Britain | |
| "Sol LeWitt: Flat and Glossy Colors," PaceWildenstein, Los Angeles, California | |
| "Sol LeWitt Recent Gouaches," PaceWildenstein, Los Angeles, California | |
| "Sol LeWitt in Italia," Rocca Paolina, Perugia, Italy | |
| "Sol LeWitt," Galleria d’arte Moderna e Contemporanea Palazzo Forti, Verona, Italy | |
| "Sol LeWitt," Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy | |
| "Sol LeWitt: Works on Paper," San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, California | |
| "Sol LeWitt: New Wall Paintings," Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, Australia | |
| "Sol LeWitt: New Wall Drawings," PaceWildenstein, New York, New York | |
| "Sol LeWitt: Bands of Lines: A Wall Drawing," Birmingham Bloomfield Art Center, Birmingham, Michigan | |
| "Sol LeWitt: Wall Works," Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, California | |
| "Sol LeWitt," Museum Moderner Kunst Landkreis Cuxhaven, Germany | |
| 1997-98 | "Sol LeWitt: Recent Works," Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland |
| 1997 | "Sol LeWitt: Stars," Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, Texas |
| "Sol LeWitt: New Work," Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, Texas | |
| "Sol LeWitt: 100 Cubes," Kunsthaus Aarau, Aarau, Switzerland. Traveled to: Karoter Landesgalerie; Galerie de la Ville de Prague; Kunsthalle Baden-Baden | |
| "Sol LeWitt: New Works," Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria | |
| "Sol LeWitt: Drawings and Structures," Montserrat College of Art Gallery, Beverly, Massachusetts | |
| "Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawing and Prints," Cummings Art Center, Connecticut College, New London, Connecticut | |
| "Sol LeWitt: New Work," Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois | |
| "Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawings," Donald Young Gallery, Seattle, Washington | |
| "Tables (1981-1997) & Related Work," A/D, New York, New York | |
| "Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawings and Photographs, 1969 through 1998," Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, California | |
| 1996 | "Sol LeWitt Prints: 1970-1995," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York. Traveled to: Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, Texas; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio; The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan |
| "Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawing Installation and Styrofoam Installation," St. Marks Position, New York, New York | |
| "Retrospektiv II: Sol LeWitt - Richard Tuttle: Werke/Works 1965-1995," Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland | |
| "Sol LeWitt: Dibujos Murales, Wall Drawings," Sala de las Alhajas, Caja de Madrid, Spain | |
| "Sol LeWitt: Drawings," Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine | |
| "Sol LeWitt Walls," Galerie Franck + Schulte, Berlin, Germany | |
| "Sol LeWitt: New Work," Skoto Gallery, New York, New York | |
| "Sol LeWitt: New Wall Drawings," The Pier Arts Centre, Stromess Orkney, England | |
| "Sol LeWitt: Drawings and Sculptures," Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts | |
| "Sol LeWitt: Stars," Betsy Senior Gallery, New York, New York | |
| United States Representative, 23 International Bienal of São Paolo, Brazil | |
| "Sol LeWitt: Gouaches," Dan Galeria, São Paolo, Brazil | |
| "Sol LeWitt: Large Scale Monoprints," Pace Prints, New York, New York | |
| Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf, Germany | |
| "Two Works by Sol LeWitt," Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands | |
| 1995 | "Sol LeWitt," Lisson Gallery, London, England |
| "Sol LeWitt: Working Drawings," John Weber Gallery, New York, New York. Traveled to: Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois | |
| "Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawings 1970-71," Lawrence Markey, New York, New York | |
| "Sol LeWitt: Cinderblock Structures," Ace Gallery, New York, New York | |
| "Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawings," Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea | |
| "Sol LeWitt: New Wall Works," Joseloff Gallery, West Hartford, Connecticut | |
| "Sol LeWitt: Styrofoam Wall Pieces," Kunstverein Ludwigsburg, Villa Franck, Ludwigsburg, Germany | |
| "Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawings," Ludwigsburger Schloßfestspiele, Ludwigsburg, Germany | |
| "Sol LeWitt: Structures," Galerie Pietro Sparta, Chagny, France | |
| "Sol LeWitt: Gouaches," Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, California | |
| "Sol LeWitt: Very Large Gouaches," Gagosian Gallery, New York, New York | |
| "Sol LeWitt: 25 Small Gouache Drawings," Gallery 128, New York, New York | |
| "Sol LeWitt: 26 Gouaches," Chester Gallery, Chester, Connecticut | |
| "Sol LeWitt: New Gouaches," PaceWildenstein, Beverly Hills, California | |
| 1994 | "Sol LeWitt," John Weber Gallery, New York, New York |
| "Sol LeWitt Wall Drawings," Pace Gallery, New York, New York | |
| "Sol LeWitt: Recent Works on Paper," Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zürich, Switzerland | |
| "Sol LeWitt Wall Drawings," Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland | |
| "Sol LeWitt Wall Drawings," Zerynthia, Contrada Cervinara de Paliano, Paliano, Italy | |
| "Sol LeWitt Wall Work: White Styrofoam on Black and Related Works on Paper," Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts | |
| "Sol LeWitt Working Drawings," Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts | |
| "Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawings, 1980," Marc Blondeau, Paris, France | |
| "Sol LeWitt Estructuras y Guaches," Galería Juana de Aizpuru, Madrid, Spain | |
| "Sol LeWitt: 25 Years of Wall Drawings, 1969-1994," RENN d'Art Contemporain, Paris, France | |
| 1993 | "Sol LeWitt Structures 1962-1993," Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England. Traveled to: Villa Stuck, München, Germany; Henry Moore Sculpture Trust, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, England; Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland |
| "Sol LeWitt: Recent Work," New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut | |
| "Sol LeWitt: Twenty-five Years of Wall Drawings, 1968-1993," Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, Massachusetts | |
| "Styrofoam Wall Installation (Room)," Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, California | |
| "Styrofoam Wall Installation (Room)," Julian Pretto, New York, New York | |
| "Styrofoam Wall Installation," Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France | |
| "New Wall Pieces," Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf, Germany | |
| 1992-95 | "Sol LeWitt Drawings 1958-1992," Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Holland. Traveled to: Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England; Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Münster, Germany; Henry Moore Sculpture Trust, Leeds City Art Gallery, Leeds, England; Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France; Fundació Tapiès, Barcelona, Spain; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts; The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland |
| 1992 | "New Aquatints," The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut |
| "Complex Forms," Akus Gallery, Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, Connecticut | |
| 1991 | Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur, Switzerland |
| 1990 | "Sol LeWitt: Recent Works," Tokyo Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, Japan |
| "Sol LeWitt: Books," Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany | |
| 1989 | "Sol LeWitt: Prints 1970-1986," New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut, and the Ezra & Cecile Zilka Gallery, Wesleyan University, Middletown, Connecticut |
| "Sol LeWitt Wall Drawings 1984-1989," Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland | |
| "Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawing Structures, Prints and Drawings," Spoleto Festival U.S.A., Gibbes Museum of Art and Gaillard Municipal Auditorium, Charleston, South Carolina | |
| 1988 | "Sol LeWitt Prints," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota |
| "Sol LeWitt Books," Minnesota Center for Book Arts (MCBN), Minneapolis, Minnesota | |
| "Wallworks," Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Massachusetts | |
| "Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawings: Continuous Forms," Wiener Secession, Vienna, Austria | |
| "Sol LeWitt: Forme di Righe in Bianco e Nero," Salone dei Camuccini, Museo Di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy | |
| "Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawings," Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany | |
| "Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawings," Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa | |
| 1987 | "Wall Drawings," Arc Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France |
| "Sol LeWitt Wall Drawings," The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio | |
| "Sol LeWitt Wall Drawings," Westfalischer Kunstverein, Münster, Germany | |
| "Sol LeWitt Wall Drawings," Alessandra Bonomo, Rome, Italy | |
| "Sol LeWitt Wall Drawings," Galerie Ressle, Stockholm, Sweden | |
| "Works: Sol LeWitt," Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC | |
| 1986 | Galerie Peter Pakesch, Vienna, Austria (also in '88) |
| "New Wall Drawings," Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois | |
| Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (also in '88) | |
| "Wall Drawings," Magasin, Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble, France | |
| "Inaugural Exhibition: Wall Drawings by Sol LeWitt," The Drawing Center, New York, New York | |
| "Sol LeWitt: Prints 1970-1986," The Tate Gallery, London, England | |
| "Sol LeWitt Wall Drawings," Institute for Contemporary Art, London, England | |
| 1985 | "Pyramid: A Wall Drawing by Sol LeWitt," Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York |
| "New Works: Sol LeWitt," Arthur M. Sackler Gallery, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC | |
| "Installation Series," Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts | |
| The Saatchi Collection, London, England | |
| 1984 | "Wall Drawings and Works on Paper," Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| "Structures," Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands | |
| "Books: 1968-1983," Gallery "A", Amsterdam, The Netherlands | |
| "Wall Drawings," Au Fond de la Cour à Droite, Chagny, France | |
| 1983 | Galleria Mario Pieroni, Rome, Italy (also in '85 with Mario Merz and in '86 with Jannis Kounellis) |
| 1982 | Banco Gallery, Milan, Italy |
| 1981 | Palace of Culture, Warsaw, Poland |
| "Sol LeWitt Wall Drawings: 1968-1981," Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut | |
| Real Art Ways, Hartford, Connecticut | |
| "Photogrids, Brick Wall, Autobiography. On the Walls of the Lower East Side," University Art Gallery, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico | |
| "Wall Drawings and Drawings," Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland (also in '87) | |
| 1980 | Ugo Ferranti Gallery, Rome, Italy (also in '82, '83, '87, '89) |
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Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas (also in '89) |
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| 1979 | Young/Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois (also in '80, '82) |
| 1978 | Hallen für Internationalle Neue Kunst, Zurich, Switzerland |
| "Prints," Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York | |
| 1978-79 | "Sol LeWitt," (Retrospective) Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York Traveled to: Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada; Krannert Museum of Art, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois; La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California |
| 1977 | The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia |
| National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia | |
| "Incomplete Open Cubes," Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England | |
| "Incomplete Open Cubes, Prints and Wall Drawings," University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Massachusetts | |
| 1976 | Dag Hammarskjold Plaza Sculpture Garden, New York, New York |
| "Incomplete Open Cubes," Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany | |
| "Wall Drawings, Structures and Prints," Fine Arts Gallery, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado | |
| "Wall Drawings," Matrix Gallery, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut | |
| "Incomplete Open Cubes," Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands | |
| Centre d'Art Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland | |
| 1975 | "Incomplete Open Cubes and Wall Drawings," Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland |
| Annemarie Verna, Zurich, Switzerland (also in '81, '84, '86, '88, '91) | |
| "Wall Drawings," Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel | |
| "Graphik: 1970-1975," Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland | |
| 1974-76 | "Fifty Drawings 1964-1974," New York Cultural Center, New York, New York. Traveled to: Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, B. C., Canada; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia; San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, California; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, North Carolina; Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, Texas; Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, Arkansas; Illinois State University, Normal, Illinois; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York |
| 1974 | Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium |
| Rijksmuseum Kröller Muller, Otterlo, The Netherlands | |
| "Prints," Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | |
| Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, Californai (also in '75, '81) Los Angeles, California ('85, '89) | |
| 1973 | Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England |
| Galleria Marilena Bonomo, Bari, Italy (also in '80, '82, '84, '87) | |
| Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, Oregon | |
| 1972 | "Wall Drawings, Sculpture," Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Hayden Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts |
| Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, Ohio | |
| Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland | |
| Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada | |
| 1971 | "Structures and Wall Drawings," John Weber Gallery, New York, New York (also in '73, '77, '78, '80, '82, '88, '92) |
| 1970 | Art & Project, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (also in '71, '72, '73, '75) |
| Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France (also in '73, '74, '79, '80, '84, '86, '87, '89, '91) | |
| Galleria Sperone, Turin, Italy (also in '74, '75) | |
| Lisson Gallery, London, England (also in '71, '73, '74, '77, '79, '83, '84, '88, '91) | |
| Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands | |
| Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, California | |
| 1969 | "Sol LeWitt: Sculptures and Wall Drawings," Museum Hause Lange Krefeld, Germany |
| 1968 | Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf, Germany (also in '69, '71, '72, '75, '77, '79, '81, '83, '87) |
| Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland (also in '69) | |
| 1966 |
Dwan Gallery, New York, New York (also in Los Angeles, '67 and in New York, '68, '70, '71) |
| 1965 | Daniels Gallery, New York, New York |
| Please contact the gallery for more information | |
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