| MARTIN
PURYEAR |
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| BIOGRAPHY |
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| 1941 |
Martin
Puryear was born in Washington, DC |
| 1963 |
Catholic
University of America, Washington, DC, B.A. in Art. Puryear had studied
biology,
then became an art major, concentrating on painting and also beginning
to make sculpture.
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| 1964-66 |
Puryear
traveled to Sierra Leone, West Africa, with the Peace Corps, where he
learned traditional
techniques of wood craftsmanship from African carpenters.
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| 1966-68 |
Swedish
Royal Academy of Art, Stockholm, Sweden. Puryear was a guest student in
printmaking and
sculpture, and was interested in Scandinavian woodworking and furniture
design.
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| 1969-71 |
Yale
University, School of Art and Architecture, M.F.A. in Sculpture. |
| 1972 |
First
one-person exhibitions of Puryear's sculpture in the United States were
presented at
the Fisk University Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee, and at Henri 2 Gallery,
Washington, DC
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| 1973-77 |
Puryear
established a studio in Brooklyn, New York. |
| 1977 |
The
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, presented a one-person exhibition
of Puryear's sculpture. |
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Puryear
completed his first major outdoor sculpture commission for Artpark in Lewistown,
New York. |
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A
fire in his Brooklyn studio damaged or destroyed much of Puryear's sculpture. |
| 1978 |
Puryear
exhibited at The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, in the "Young
American
Artists 1978 Exxon National Exhibition."
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Puryear
moved to Chicago, Illinois. |
| 1979,
1981 |
Puryear's
work was included in the 1979 and 1981 Whitney Biennial Exhibitions,
Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York, New York.
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| 1980 |
Visiting
Artist, Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine. |
| 1982 |
"Bodark
Arc," a major outdoor sculpture commission for the Nathan Manilow Sculpture
Park, Governors
State University, University Park, Illinois, was completed by Puryear.
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| 1983 |
Puryear
traveled to Japan on a John S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Grant. |
| 1984 |
A
ten-year survey travelling exhibition of Puryear's sculpture was organized
by the University Gallery, University
of Massachusetts, Amherst.
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| 1986 |
Visiting
Artist, American Academy in Rome, Italy. |
| 1989 |
Recipient
of the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship Award. |
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Puryear's
work was included in the 1989 Whitney Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum
of American Art,
New York, New York.
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Puryear
represented the United States at the São Paulo Bienal, Brazil, and
received the grand prize for best artist. |
| 1990 |
Awarded
the Skowhegan Prize for Sculpture, Skowhegan School for Painting and Sculpture,
Skowhegan, Maine. |
| 1992-93 |
Artist-in-Residence,
Atelier Calder, Saché, France |
| 1997-98 |
Artist-in-Residence,
American Academy in Rome, Italy |
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| SELECTED
SOLO EXHIBITIONS |
| 1977 |
The
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC |
| 1978 |
Protetch-McIntosh
Gallery, Washington, DC |
| 1979 |
Protetch-McIntosh
Gallery, Washington, DC |
| 1980 |
Young
Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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"Options 2," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (brochure, text by
Judith Russi Kirshner) |
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"I-80
Series: Martin Puryear," Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE (exhibition catalogue,
text by Holliday T. Day) |
| 1981 |
"Martin
Puryear," Delahunty Gallery, Dallas, TX, and and/or, Seattle, WA |
| 1982 |
McIntosh/Drysdale
Gallery, Washington, DC |
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Young
Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 1983 |
Donald
Young Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 1984 |
"Martin
Puryear: Ten Year Survey," travelling exhibition organized by the University
Gallery, University
of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA; traveled to: The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield,
MA; Museum
of the National Center of Afro-American Artists, Boston, MA; The New Museum
of Contemporary Art, New
York, NY; The La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA (catalogue,
text by Hugh M. Davies,
interview by Hugh Davies and Helaine Posner)
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| 1985 |
Margo
Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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Donald
Young Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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"Martin
Puryear: Matrix/Berkeley 86," University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA (brochure,
text by Constance Lewallen) |
| 1987 |
"Martin
Puryear: Public and Personal," Chicago Public Library Cultural Center,
Chicago, IL (catalogue,
essays by Patricia Fuller and Judith Russi Kirshner)
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"Martin
Puryear: Sculpture and Works on Paper," Hewlett Art Gallery, Carnegie
Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA (brochure,
text by Elaine King)
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Donald
Young Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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"Martin
Puryear: Stereotypes and Decoys," David McKee Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1988 |
"Martin
Puryear: New Wall Sculpture," McIntosh/Drysdale Gallery, Washington, DC |
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Grand
Lobby Installation, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY |
| 1989 |
Margo
Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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"20th
International São Paulo Bienal," São Paulo, Brazil (catalogue,
texts by Kellie Jones and Robert Storr) |
| 1990 |
"Connections:
Martin Puryear," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA (brochure, texts by Vishakha
N. Desai and Kathy Halbreich) |
| 1991 |
"Martin
Puryear," travelling retrospective exhibition at the Art Institute of
Chicago, Chicago, IL (organized
by the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL)
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| 1992 |
"Martin
Puryear," travelling retrospective exhibition at the Hirshhorn Museum
and Sculpture Garden, Washington
D.C. (organized by the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL)
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"Martin
Puryear," travelling retrospective exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary
Art, Los
Angeles, CA (organized by the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL) |
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"Martin
Puryear," travelling retrospective exhibition at the Philadelphia Museum
of Art, Philadelphia, PA (organized
by the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL) |
| 1993 |
"Martin
Puryear," travelling retrospective exhibition at the Cleveland Center for
Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio |
| 1995 |
"Martin
Puryear: New Sculpture," McKee Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1997 |
Donald
Young Gallery, Seattle, WA |
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"Martin
Puryear," Fundación "la Caixa," Madrid, Spain |
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"Martin
Puryear," American Academy, Rome, Italy |
| 1999 |
“Drawing
into Sculpture: Martin Puryear,” The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati,
Ohio |
| 2001 |
"Martin
Puryear: The Cane Project," The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York,
New York |
| 2001-02 |
“Martin
Puryear”, Traveling Exhibition: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond,
Virginia; Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida; University of California Berkeley
Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California: Des Moines Art
Center, Des Moines, Iowa |
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| 2003 |
BALTIC:
The Centre for Contemporary Art”, Gateshead, England |
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| SELECTED
GROUP EXHIBITIONS |
| 1974-78 |
National
Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, DC |
| 1977 |
"The
Material Dominant: Some Current Artists and Their Media," The Pennsylvania
State University Museum
of Art, University Park, PA (brochure) |
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"The
Program in the Visual Arts," Artpark, Lewiston, NY (catalogue, text by Nancy
Rosen) |
| 1978 |
"Young
American Artists, 1978 Exxon National Exhibition," The Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum, New
York, NY (catalogue, interview by Linda Shearer) |
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"The Presence of Nature," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (brochure,
text by Cindy Schwab) |
| 1979 |
"Art
and Architecture, Space and Structure," Protetch-McIntosh Gallery, Washington,
DC |
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"Wave
Hill: The Artist's View," Wave Hill, Bronx, NY (catalogue, text by Kirk
Varnedoe) |
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"1979
Whitney Biennial Exhibition," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York,
NY (catalogue, texts by John G. Hanhardt, Barbara Haskell, Richard Marshall,
Mark Segal, and Patterson Sims) |
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"Customs
and Culture," U.S. Customs House, Bowling Green, New York, NY (exhibition
organized by Creative Time) |
| 1980 |
"Afro-American
Abstraction," Institute for Art and Urban Resources, P.S.1, Long Island
City, NY;
traveled to: Everson Gallery, Syracuse, NY |
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"Chicago,
Chicago," Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH |
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"The
Black Circle," A. Montgomery Ward Gallery, University of Illinois at Chicago,
IL |
| 1981 |
"1981
Whitney Biennial Exhibition," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York,
NY (catalogue, text by John G. Hanhardt, Barbara Haskell, Richard Marshall,
and Patterson Sims) |
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"Sculptural Density," Visual Arts Museum, School of Visual Arts, New York,
NY |
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"Artists'
Gardens and Parks," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL (brochure,
text by Mary Jane Jacob and Lynne Warren) |
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"City
Sculpture," The Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, Chicago, IL (catalogue,
text by Judith Russi Kirshner) |
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"Instruction
Drawings," Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI (catalogue, text
by Michael Hall and Roy Slade) |
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"The New Spiritualism: Transcendent Images in Painting and Sculpture," organized
by the Oscarsson Hood Gallery, New York, NY; traveled to: Jorgensen Gallery,
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT; Robert Hull Fleming Museum,
University
of Vermont, Burlington, VT (catalogue, text by April Kingsley) |
| 1982 |
"Invitational
Exhibition," Bell Gallery of List Art Center, Brown University, Providence,
RI (catalogue, text by Roger Mayer) |
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"Form
and Function, Proposals for Public Art in Philadelphia," Pennsylvania Academy
of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA
(catalogue, text by Penny Balkin Bach) |
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"Mayor ByrneÌs Mile of Sculpture," International Art Exposition, Chicago,
IL |
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"N.A.M.E.
Gallery in Pittsburgh," Hewlett Gallery, Carnegie Mellon College of Fine
Arts, Pittsburgh, PA |
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"74th
American Exhibition," The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (catalogue,
text by Anne Rorimer) |
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"Works
in Wood," Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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"American Abstraction Now," The Institute of Contemporary Art of the Virginia
Museum, Richmond, VA
(catalogue, text by Julia Boyd) |
| 1982-84 |
"Afro-American Abstraction," organized by the Art Museum Association, New
York; traveled to:
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; The Oakland Museum,
Oakland, CA;
Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis, TN; The Art Center, South Bend, IN;
The Toledo Museum of Art,
Toledo, OH; Bellevue Art Museum, Bellevue, WA; Laguna Gloria Art Museum,
Austin, TX; Mississippi Museum of Art,
Jackson, MI (catalogue, text by April Kingsley) |
| 1983 |
"Five
Artists / NOAA Collaboration," Seattle Art Museum Pavillion, Washington |
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"Invitational
Exhibition," Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY"Invitational Exhibition,"
Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY |
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"Beyond
the Monument, Documentation of Public Art Projects and Proposals,"
Hayden
Corridor Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA |
| 1984 |
"American
Sculpture," Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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"An
International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture," Museum of Modern
Art, New York, NY
(catalogue, text by Kynaston McShine) |
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"Proposals
and Projects: World Fairs, Waterfronts, Parks and Plazas,"
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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"Transformation of the Minimal Style," The Sculpture Center, New York, NY |
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"American
Sculpture," Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
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"Collaborating:
The Power of the Artist and Architect Co-Designing Parks, Plazas,
Public
Places from New York to Seattle," McIntosh-Drysdale Gallery, Houston, TX |
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"Primitivism
in 20th Century Art: Affinity of the Tribal and Modern," Museum of Modern
Art,
New York, NY (catalogue, texts by William S. Rubin and Kirk Varnedoe) |
| 1985 |
"Choosing:
An Exhibit of Changing Perspectives in Modern Art and Art Criticism by
Black
Americans, 1925-1985," organized by the Hampton University, Hampton, VA;
traveled
to Portsmouth Museum, Portsmouth, VA; Chicago State University, Chicago,
IL;
Howard University, Washington, DC (catalogue, texts by Kathy Halbreich,
Douglas Dreishpoon and Katy Kline) |
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"Sculpture Overview 1985," Evanston Art Center, Evanston IL (brochure, text
by Stephen Luecking) |
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"The Artist As Social Designer: Aspects of Public Urban Art Today," Los
Angeles County Museum of Art,
Los Angeles, CA (brochure, text by Maurice Tuchman) |
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"Inaugural Exhibition," Tyler Gallery, Temple University Center City, Philadelphia,
PA |
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"Chicago
Sculpture International/Mile 4," State Street Mall, Chicago, IL |
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"Transformations
in Sculpture: Four Decades in American and European Art,"
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (catalogue, text by Diane Waldman) |
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"Anniottanta,"
Galleria Communale dÌArte Moderna, Bologna, Italy (catalogue, edited by
Carlo Gentili) |
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"Basically
Wood," Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA |
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"Black
Creativity, Generations in Transition: 80 Years of Black American Expression,"
Museum
of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL |
| 1986 |
"After
Nature," Germans van Eck, NY (brochure, text by Steven Henry Madoff) |
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"Sculpture
on Stetson: 1986," Chicago, IL |
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"Installations
and Sculpture," Inaugural Exhibition, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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"Natural
Forms and Forces: Abstract Images in American Sculpture," Hayden Gallery,
List
Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
and Bank of Boston,
Boston, MA (catalogue, text by Kathy Halbreich) |
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"Personal
References," Charlotte Crosby Kemper Gallery, Kansas City Art Institute,
Kansas City, MO |
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"Individuals:
A Selected History of Contemporary Art, 1945-1986," Museum of Contemporary
Art,
Inaugural Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue, text by Julia Brown Turrell) |
| 1987 |
"Structure
to Resemblance: Work by Eight American Sculptors," Albright-Knox Art Gallery,
Buffalo,
NY (catalogue, text by Susan Krane and Michael Auping) |
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"Fifty Years of Collecting: An Anniversary Selection of Sculpture of the
Modern Era,"
The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (catalogue) |
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"Emerging
Artists 1978-1986: Selections from the Exxon Series," The Solomon R. Guggenheim
Museum,
New York, NY (catalogue, text by Diane Waldman) |
| 1988 |
"Private
Works for Public Spaces: Drawings, Maquettes and Documentation for Unrealized
Public
Artworks," R.C. Erpf Gallery, New York, NY (brochure, text by Jenny Dixon) |
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"Vital
Signs: Organic Abstraction from the Permanent Collection," Whitney Museum
of American Art,
New York, NY (catalogue, text by Lisa Phillips) |
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"1988:
The World of Art Today," Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI |
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"Sculpture
Inside Outside," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; traveled to:
The Museum
of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (catalogue, texts by Martin Friedman, Donna Harkavy,
and Peter W. Boswell) |
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"SKULPTUR:
Material + Abstraktion: 2 x 5 Positionen," organized by the Aargauer Kunsthaus,
Aarau,
Switzerland; traveled to: Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne,
Switzerland; City Gallery, New York, NY;
Swiss Institute, New York, NY (catalogue, texts by Corinne Diserens, Steven
Henry Madoff, and Beat Wismer) |
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"New
Sculpture / Six Artists," The Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO (brochure,
text by Michael Edward Shapiro) |
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"From
the Southern Cross, A View of World Art c. 1940-88," The Biennale of Sydney,
Art
Gallery of New South Wales Foundation, Sydney, Australia |
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"Enclosing
the Void: Eight Contemporary Sculptors," Whitney Museum of American Art
at Equitable Center,
New York, NY (catalogue, text by Susan Lubowsky) |
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"Innovations
in Sculpture," Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT |
| 1989 |
"Introspectives:
Contemporary Art by Americans and Brazilians of African Descent," The California
Afro-American
Museum, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue, texts by Henry J. Drewel and David C.
Driskell) |
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"Traditions and Transformations in Contemporary Afro-American Sculpture,"
The Bronx Museum
of the Arts, Bronx, NY (catalogue, text by Philip Verre) |
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"1989
Whitney Biennial Exhibition," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York,
NY (catalogue, texts by Richard Armstrong, John G. Hanhardt, Richard Marshall
and Lisa Phillips) |
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"New
Sculpture: Tony Cragg, Richard Deacon, Martin Puryear, Susana Solano," Donald
Young Gallery, Chicago, IL |
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"Art
in Place: Fifteen Years of Acquisitions," The Whitney Museum of American
Art, New York, NY (catalogue,
text by Tom Armstrong and Susan C. Larsen) |
| 1990 |
"Objects
of Potential: Five American Sculptors From the Anderson Collection," Wiegand
Gallery, College
of Notre Dame, Belmont, CA (brochure, text by David Cateforis) |
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David
McKee Gallery, New York, NY |
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"Black
USA," Museum Overholland, Amsterdam, Holland (catalogue) |
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"The
Decade Show: Frameworks of Identity in the 1980s," The Studio Museum in
Harlem, New York, NY (catalogue) |
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"Selected
Artists from the First Twenty Years," Max Protech Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1991 |
"Small
Scale Sculpture," Sewell Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, TX |
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"Reprise:
The Vera List Collection," David Winton Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Brown
University, Providence, RI (catalogue) |
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"Devil on the Stairs: Looking Back at the Eighties," Institute of Contemporary
Art, Philadelphia, PA;
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA (catalogue) |
| 1992 |
"Allegories
of Modernism: Contemporary Drawing," The Museum of Modern Art, New York,
NY (catalogue) |
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"Process
to Presence: Issues in Sculpture 1960 to 1990," in conjunction with the
14th International Sculpture
Conference, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
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Donald Young Gallery, Seattle, WA |
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Documenta
IX, Kassel, Germany |
| 1993 |
"Collective
Pursuits: Mt. Holyoke Investigates Modernism," Mt. Holyoke College Art Museum,
South
Hadley, MA (collection of Renee and David McKee) |
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"Yale
Collects Yale," Yale University, New Haven, CT (catalogue) |
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"Drawing
the Line Against AIDS," 45th Venice Biennale, Peggy Guggenheim Collection,
Venice, Italy (catalogue) |
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"American
Art in the 20th Century: Painting and Sculpture 1913-1993," Martin-Gropius-Bau,
Berlin, Germany; Royal Academy of Arts, London, England; Saatchi Gallery,
London, England (catalogue) |
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"Visual
Arts Encounter: African Americans and Europe," Salle Clemenceau, Palais
du Luxembourg, Paris, France |
| 1994 |
"Landscape
as Metaphor - Visions of America in the Late Twentieth Century", Denver
Art Museum,
Denver, CO, and Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH |
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Donald
Young Gallery, Seattle, WA |
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"Putting
Things Together," Art Museum of Santa Cruz County, Santa Cruz, CA |
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"Western
Artists / African Art," Museum of African Art, New York, NY (selected collection
of Martin PuryearÌs African textiles) |
| 1995 |
"American
Color: A Late 20th Century Perspective," Louis Stern Fine Arts, Los Angeles,
CA |
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"New
Works on Paper: Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, Martin Puryear, Richard Serra,"
Donald Young Gallery, Seattle, WA |
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"The
Material Imagination," Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York, NY |
| 1996 |
"Abstraction
in the Twentieth Century: Total Risk, Freedom, Discipline," The Solomon
R. Guggenheim Museum,
New York, NY |
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"Wanås
1996," Knislinge, Sweden |
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Elena
Zang Gallery, Woodstock, NY |
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"Art
in Chicago, 1945-1995," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL |
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"Faret
Tachikawa: City and Art Today," National Technical Museum, Prague, Czech
Republic |
| 1997 |
"A
Century of Sculpture: The Nasher Collection," Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum,
New York, NY |
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"Envisioning
the Contemporary: Selections from the Permanent Collection," Museum of Contemporary
Art, Chicago, IL |
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"Selections
from the Permanent Collection: Identity/Identidad," Museum of Contemporary
Art, San Diego, CA |
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"American
Stories: Amidst Displacement and Transformation," travelling exhibition
organized by the Cultural Projects Division, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1998 |
"Face
to Face: Art in the Public," Marlborough Chelsea, New York, NY |
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"Narratives
of African American Art of the 20th Century: The David C. Driskell Collection,"
The Art
Gallery of the University of Maryland, College Park, MD |
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"The
African-American Odyssey: A Quest for Full Citizenship," The Library of
Congress, Washington, DC (http://www.loc.gov.
"American Memory") |
| 1999 |
"Weaving
the World: Contemporary Art of Linear Construction," Yokohama Museum of
Art, Yokohama, Japan |
| 2001 |
“Strength
and Diversity: A Celebration of African American Artists,” Carpenter
Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts |
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"Making
Choices," Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York |
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“New-Land-Marks:
Public Art, Community, and the Meaning of Place,” Pennsylvania Academy
of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
| 2002 |
“New
to the Modern: Recent Acquisitions from the Department of Drawings”,
MoMA, New York, New York |
| 2003 |
In
the spirt of Martin: The Living Legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.”,
Traveling Exhibition: Charles H. Wright Museum of African American History,
Detroit, MI, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL, Frederick R. Weisman Art
Museum, Minneapolis, MN, Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, Memphis Brooks
Museum of Art, Memphis, TN, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery,
AL. |
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“Drawings:
Anne Chu, Rodney Graham, Sol LeWitt, Robert Mangold, Joshua Mosley, Bruce
Nauman, Thomas Schütte, Martin Puryear, Charles Ray, Jana Sterbak,
Richard Serra, Rosemarie Trockel,” Donald Young Gallery, Chicago |
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