| CV Brian Calvin |
| CV William N. Copley |
| CV Karl Wirsum |
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| Brian Calvin | |
| 1969 | born in Visalia, CA, USA |
| 1991 | BA, University of California, Berkeley, USA |
| 1994 | MFA, Scholl of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA |
| lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, USA | |
Solo Exhibitions
| 2022 | Something or Other, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago (upcoming) More, Almine Rech, Brussels, Belgium New Year, Corvi-Mora, London |
| 2021 | More Days, Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France |
| 2020 | Waiting, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY Sound, Almine Rech Gallery, Shanghai, China |
| 2019 | Fugue, Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France |
| 2018 | Pressing On, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL Cosi fan tutte, Arnold & Marie Schwartz Gallery, Met Opera, New York, NY |
| 2017 | Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY States, Almine Rech Gallery, Brussels, Belgium |
| 2016 | Brian Calvin: Major Minor, Corvi-Mora, London, UK Brian Calvin: The Meditations: Chicago 1991-1999, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL Brian Calvin: Early Work, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY Hours, Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France |
| 2015 | End of Messages, Le Consortium, Dijon, France |
| 2014 | Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2013 | End of Messages, The Finley, Los Angles, CA Corvi-Mora, London, UK |
| 2011 | New Paintings, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL |
| 2010 | Corvi-Mora, London, UK |
| 2009 | Head, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2007 | Corvi-Mora, London, UK Things, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2006 | Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2005 | Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA Corvi-Mora, London, UK |
| 2004 | Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2003 | Corvi-Mora, London, UK The Conversation, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2002 | Unreal, Gallery Side 2, Tokyo, Japan Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2001 | Corvi-Mora, London, UK |
| 2000 | Days, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1999 | It's Easy To Make Friends, Gallery Side 2, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1998 | Good News, Gallery Side 2, Tokyo, Japan |
| 1996 | God's Plot & John Wilkes Booth, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery Inc., Chicago, IL |
| 1994 | New Paintings: Brian Calvin, Contemporary Art Workshop, Chicago, IL |
Group Exhibitions
| 2022 | Something Like A Self, William N. Copley, Brian Calvin, Karl Wirsum, Linn Luehn, Duesseldorf, Germany |
| 2021 | Brian Calvin Marcus Jahmal at WINDOW, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY Salon de Peinture, Almine Rech Gallery, New York Retrouvailles, Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France |
| 2020 | Sympathetic Magic, Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, CA Painting Someone, Almine Rech, Shanghai, China Summer, Almine Rech, Paris, France Spring, Almine Rech, Shanghai, China Drawing 2020, Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY 2019 Small Painting, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL Reflections, Gana Art Center, Seoul, South Korea |
| 2018 | Cliché, Almine Rech, New York Line and Verse, Andrehn-Schiptjenko, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 2017 | Tomorrow’s Man 4, curated by Jack Pierson, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA La mere la mer, McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, San Francisco, CA Brian Calvin | Wendy White, Cabinet, Milan American Genre: Contemporary Painting, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, ME Forrest on the Edge on Time, The Pit II, Los Angeles, CA Los Angeles: A Fiction, Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France |
| 2016 | Implosion 20, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY Los Angeles: A Fiction, Astrup Fearnley Museet, Oslo, Norway Outside, curated by Matthew Higgs, Karma, Amagansett, New York Wild Style, Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany |
| 2015 | The Shell (Landscapes, Portraits & Shapes), A show by Eric Troncy, Almine Rech Gallery, Paris, France |
| 2013 | California Landscape Into Abstraction: Works From The Orange County Museum Of Art, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA |
| 2012 | We the People, Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Project, New York, NYAbout Face, ACME, Los Angeles, CA |
| 2011 | Brian Calvin, Charles Garabedian, Zach Harris, John McAllister, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Knock, Knock!, Anderson Gallery VCU Arts, Richmond, VA Dystopia, CAPC Museé d’art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France |
| 2010 | This and That, Corvi-Mora, London, UK |
| 2009 | Electric Mud, Blaffer Gallery, The Art Museum of the University of Houston, Houston, TX |
| 2008 | Dinner and a Group Show, GBE@passeby, New York, NY Pretty Ugly, Gavin Brown’s enterprise, Maccarone, New York, NY Live Undead, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland If Everybody had an Ocean, Musée d´art contemporain, Bordeaux, France Friends and Family, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2007 | Good Morning, Midnight, Casey Kaplan, New York, NY If Everybody Had an Ocean Brian Wilson: an Art Exhibition, Tate St Ives, St Ives; Travelling to CAPC, Bordeaux, France After Cezanne, MOCA The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA Very Abstract and Hyper Figurative, Thomas Dane, London, UK |
| 2006 | Implosion (Ten Year Anniversary), Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY 2004 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA Red Eye, Rubell Family Collection, Miami, FL [cat.] Now and Then Some, curated by David Pagel, Claremont College, Claremont, CA |
| 2003 | Baja to Vancouver: The West Coast in Contemporary Art, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle; MCA San Diego; Vancouver Art Gallery; Vancouver, British Columbia; CCAC Watts Institute, Oakland, CA Painting Pictures, Painting and Media in the Digital Age, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany [cat.] ISHTAR curated by Bruce Hainley, Midway, St. Paul, MN [cat.] Giverny, Salon 94, New York, NY Prague Biennale 1, Veletrzní Palác, Prague, Czech Republic The Great Drawing Show: 1550-2003 AD, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA The Fourth Sex: Adolescent Extremes, Stazione Leopolda, Florence, Italy (curated by Francesco Bonami & Raf Simons) [cat.] Youngstars, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna, Austria Painting Pictures, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg, Germany Dear Painter, paint me, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt am Main, Germany [cat.] 2002 Dear Painter, paint me..., Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France [cat.] Paintings, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA Grey Gardens, curated by Bruce Hainley, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Painting and Illustration, Luckman Gallery, California State University, Los Angeles, CA Collectors Program: Sammlung Köhn, Krinzinger Projekte, Vienna, Austria Grey Gardens, curated by Bruce Hainley, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA The Galleries Show: Contemporary Art in London, The Royal Academy of Arts, London Paintings, Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA Dear Painter, paint me, Centre Pompidou, Paris; Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna, Austria [cat.] |
| 2001 | The Devil is in the Details, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, MAThe Americans. New art. The Barbican, London, UK [cat.] |
| 2000 | Marc Foxx, Los Angeles, CA Collector’s Choice, Exit Art, New York, NY |
| 1999 | Brian Calvin, Keiko Sono, Maureen Gallace, Gallery Side 2, Tokyo, Japan Meanwhile..., Jan Cicero Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 1996 | Brian Calvin, Suzanne Doremus, Edward Henderson & Deborah Orapallo, Foster Gallery, The University of Wisconsin, Eau-Claire, WI |
| 1995 | X-sightings, Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
| 1994 | Discontents & Debutantes: Brian Calvin & Mike Cockrill, Center for the Visual Arts, Illinois State University, Normal, IL Don Baum's Grab Bag, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL Recent Paintings, Gallery 2, School of The Art Institute, Chicago, IL Created Here: a salon d'Ecole, Richard Himmel Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 1993 | Whose Broad Stripes & Bright Stars: Death, Reverence & the Struggle for Equality In America, Betty Rymer Gallery, Chicago, IL All-Illinois Graduate Art Exhibition, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL |
| 1991 | New & Improved, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA Merit Scholarship Exhibition, Worth Ryder Gallery, Berkeley, CA |
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| William N. Copley | |
| 1919 | born in New York City |
| 1932 - 1938 | Phillips Academy in Andover, Massachusetts and Yale University |
| 1942-46 | Soldier in Italy and Africa |
| 1947-48 | Direction of the Copley Galeries in Beverly Hills (with John Ployardt) He exhibited the in the US unkown surrealists Max Ernst, René Magritte, Man Ray, Roberto Matta, Yves Tanguy and Joseph Cornell. Beginning of composition of an own art collection. |
| 1947 | begins to paint |
| 1951–61 | moves to Paris, lives and works in the circle of the surrealists |
| 1963 | returns to New York City |
| 1992 | moves to Key West, Florida |
| 1996 | Copley died in Key West, Florida |
Solo shows (selection)
| 2022 | Sadie Coles HQ, London, United Kingdom William N. Copley: Works on Paper, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany |
| 2020 | The New York Years, Kasmin, New York, NY The Temptation of St. Anthony (Revisited) and William N. Copley: Drawings, 1964- 1991, in collaboration with Kasmin, Nino Mier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA The Ballad of William N. Copley, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany |
| 2018 | The Coffin They Carry You Off In, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL Publishing the Portable Museum: William N. Copley’s The Letter Edged in Black Press,” Alden Projects, New York, NY |
| 2017 | Women, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2016 | The World According to CPLY, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX and Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy William N. Copley, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy |
| 2015 | Drawings: 1962 – 1973, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York Galerie 1900 – 2000, Paris, France |
| 2014 | William Copley: Paintings and Mirrors, Michael Fuchs Galerie, Berlin, Germany |
| 2013 | Finally We Laugh Linn Lühn, Düsseldorf, Germany (Kat.) Confiserie Copley, Basel, Switzerland |
| 2012 | The Patriotism of Cply and All That, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York William N. Copley (Retrospective), Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany (C) Reflection on a Past Life, Linn Lühn, Düsseldorf, Germany |
| 2011 | See Yourself as Lovers See You, Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese, Stuttgart, Germany |
| 2010 | X-Rated, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York (C) |
| 2009 | Linn Lühn, Köln Western Songs, El Sourdog Hex, Berlin Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese, Stuttgart (K) |
| 2007 | Linn Lühn, Köln |
| 2006 | Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York Galerie manus presse, Stuttgart |
| 2005 | Galerie Onrust, Amsterdam |
| 2004 | Copley - au bonheur des dames, 1958-1990, MAMCO, Musée des Arts Moderne et Contemporain, Genf Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich |
| 2003 | Johann König, Berlin Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York Easy to Read Storybook, BAWAG Foundation, Wien |
| 2002 | Drawings 1956-1994 Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich |
| 2001 | Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht, Niederlande William Copley, Herning Kunstmuseum, Dänemark Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York |
| 2000 | Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York |
| 1999 | Galerie Fred Jahn, München L.A.C., Lieu d’Art Contemporain, Sigean, Frankreich |
| 1998 | Galerie Lelong, Zürich Galerie Onrust, Amsterdam Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York |
| 1997 | Ulmer Museum, Ulm Galerie Fred Jahn, München |
| 1996 | Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1995 | Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover (Retrospektive) Galerie Lelong, Zürich |
| 1994 | Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1993 | Galerie Zell am See, Schloss Rosenberg, Österreich Haus Am Lützowplatz, Berlin |
| 1991 | David Nolan Gallery, New York Galerie Fred Jahn, München Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York & Chicago |
| 1990 | Galerie Klewan, München Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago |
| 1988 | Galerie 1900/2000, Paris |
| 1987 | Kewenig Galerie, Frechen Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York |
| 1986 | The Tomb of the Unknown Whore, Installation at Workspace, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York |
| 1985 | Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York The Quay Gallery, San Francisco |
| 1983 | Post-Raphaelite Painting by William N. Copley, Reinhard Onnasch Ausstellungen, Berlin Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York |
| 1982 | Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago |
| 1981 | CPLY, Galerie Klewan, München Künstler Werkstatt Lothringerstrasse, Munich Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York |
| 1980-81 | Traveling Retrospective: Badischer Kunstverein e.v., Karlsruhe Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven Musee National D’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris Kunsthalle Bern, Bern |
| 1980 | Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York |
| 1979 | CPLY: Reflections on a Past Life, Institute for the Arts, Rice University, Houston CPLY/X-Rated Paintings, Galerie Fassbender, München |
| 1978-79 | Variations on a Theme by Francis Picabia, David Stuart Galleries, Los Angeles Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Köln |
| 1978 | Galerie Fassbender, München Galerie Springer, Berlin Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York |
| 1977 | Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago |
| 1976 | Washington Art Association, Washington, CT David Stuart Galleries, Los Angeles Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York |
| 1974 | Western Songs, Onnasch Galerie, Köln Onnasch Gallery, New York Moore College of Art, Philadelphia CPLY/X-Rated, New York Cultural Center, New York |
| 1973 | Gallerie Il Fauna, Turin |
| 1972 | Gallery Suzanne Saxe, San Francisco Galerie Iolas, Milan & Paris Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York David Stuart Galleries, Los Angeles |
| 1971 | Nouns, Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York |
| 1970 | Galerie Aspects, Brüssel Galerie Neuendorf, Köln Galerie Springer, Berlin |
| 1969 | Ballads, Galerie Iolas, Genf Gallerie de Leone, Venedig Merida Gallery, Louisville, KY |
| 1967 | Bodley Gallery, New York Homage to Robert W. Service, Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York Galerie Iolas, Paris |
| 1966 | Copley - Entertainment for Men, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Galerie Iolas, Paris Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York |
| 1965 | Allan Frumkin Gallery, Chicago Southwestern College, Chula Vista, CA Louisiana Gallery, Houston |
| 1963 | Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York Les Suffragettes Erotiques de Bill Copley, Galerie Iris Clert, Paris The Hanover Gallery, London Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York |
| 1962 | Gallerie Schwarz, Mailand |
| 1961 | The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York |
| 1960 | Galleria Cavallino, Venedig Galleria d'Arte del Naviglio, Mailand Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York |
| 1959 | Galerie Furstenberg, Paris |
| 1958 | Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York |
| 1956 | Galerie du Dragon, Paris Alexander Iolas Gallery, New York |
| 1954 | Galleria Montenapoleone, Mailand |
| 1953 | Nina Dausset, Paris |
| 1951 | Royer's Book Shop, Los Angeles |
Group shows (selection)
| 2022 | Something Like A Self, William N. Copley, Brian Calvin, Karl Wirsum, Linn Luehn. Duesseldorf, Germany |
| 2020 | Karel Appel, André Butzler, William N. Copley, Ida Ekblad, Jeff Elrod, Walton Ford, Tursic & Mille, Galerie Max Hetzler, London, United Kingdom Valley of Gold: Southern California and the Phantasmagoric, Kasmin, New York, NY |
| 2019 | Candice Breitz: Sex Work, In Dialogue with Works by William N. Copley from the Frieder Burda Collection, Museum Frieder Burda, Salon, Berlin, Germany Recline: Portraiture & Henri Matisse Prints, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX Fringe: William N. Copley, Saskia Pintelon & Jenny Watson, Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Sint-Martens- Latem, Belgium |
| 2018 | Kinder Gentler Nation, Karma, New York, NY Mr. Natural: And Other Works from the Allan Frumkin Gallery (1952 – 1987), VENUS, New York, NY Nudes, Sadie Coles, London, United Kingdom Atlas, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy Remember to React: 60 Years of Collecting, Nova Southeastern University Art Museum Fort Lauderdale, Fort Lauderdale, FL Trance, Aïshti Foundation, Jal El Dib, Lebanon París pese a todo: Artistas extranheros, 1944-1968 (Lost, Loose and Loved: Foreign Artists in Paris, 1944 – 1968), Museo Nacional Centro de Arta Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain |
| 2015 | The Violent Crab, David Roberts Art Foundation, London, Greatbritain L'Impasse Ronsin, ADAA Art Fair, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York Viewer Discretion: Children of Bataille, Stux & Haller Gallery, New York The Shadow is Taken, Algus Greenspon, New York |
| 2014 | Pop Abstraction, Fredericks and Fraser Gallery and Garth Greenan Gallery, New York Purple States, Andrew Edlin Gallery Live and Let Die, Modern Art, London, England Alexander the Great: The Iolas Gallery 1955 - 1987, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York Miami Art Basel, Sadie Coles HQ, Miami The Surrealist Bungalow, Linn Lühn, Düsseldorf, Germany What Nerve!: Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to the Present, RISD Museum, Providence |
| 2013 | Re-View, Hauser and Wirth Gallery, London, England Gang Bust: William N. Copley & Big Fat Black Cock. Inc, Venus Over Manhattan, New York Masculine / Feminine, Michael Fuchs Galerie, Berlin, Germany Building the Sukka, House of Gaga, Mexico City, Mexico |
| 2012 | Interiors, Andrew Kreps Gallery, New York |
| 2011 | William N. Copley and Andreas Slominski – X-RATED, Me Collectors Room, Berlin The ADAA Art Fair, New York |
| 2009 | And Other Essays, Bard College, Annandale-on Hudson Exile on Main St., Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht Jr. and Son’s, Zach Feuer Gallery, New York |
| 2008 | Diana und Aktaion: Der Verbotene Blick auf die Nacktheit, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf Karl Bohrmann/William N. Copley, Galerie Klaus Gerrit Friese, Stuttgart Carte Blanche III: “Gedichte der Fakten,” Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Leipzig Liebe, Love, Paare, Gustav-Lübcke-Museum, Hamm, Germany Museum im Kulturspeicher, Würzburg Ulmer Museum, Ulm Mirror, Mirror, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York |
| 2007 | Deutsche und Amerikanische Malerei, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden Rockers Island: Olbricht Collection, Museum Folkwang, Essen Sixties! Art, Fashion, Design, Film and Photography, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag AFFINITIES, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin |
| 2006 | Die anderen Bilder, Museum der Stadt, Ratingen Ele-Mental, David Nolan Gallery, New York Six Feet Under: Autopsie unseres Umgangs mit Toten, Kunstmuseum Bern Models and Prototypes, Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Saint Louis L’Amateur d’estampes, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Tourcoing, France Collage Effect, 1301PE, Los Angeles Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York |
| 2005 | Internationale Zeichner, Galerie Biedermann, Munich Bilderwechsel III: Amerikanische Malerei, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden |
| 2004 | FUNNY CUTS: Cartoons und Comics in der zeitgenössische Kunst, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart Eröffnungsausstellung Sammlung Frieder Burda, Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden Christmas Art Gifts, Artiscope, Brussels Baume, Galerie Biedermann, Munich |
| 2003 | Imagine: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami |
| 2001 | Kunst Sammeln I: Werke zeitgenössischer Kunst aus den Sammlungen von Cramm, Falckenburg, Kalkmann Kunstverein Bad Salzdetfurth, Bodenburg, Germany Museum unserer Wünsche, Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
| 2000 | Prints, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York Im Gegenüber: Landschaften, Stilleben, Portraits, Galerie von Braunbehrens, Munich |
| 1998 | Summer Group Show. Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York Imagined World, David Nolan Gallery, New York |
| 1997 | Magie der Zahl in der Kunst des 20. Jahrhunderts, Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart Spiral Village, Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht |
| 1996 | Hommage a Copley, Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich Think, Galerie Brigitte Ihsen, Cologne Disegni americani degli anni ottanta: 15 artisti, Galleria Milano, Milan |
| 1995 | Bunnies: A Group Show, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York Drawing the Line: Reappraising Drawing Past and Present, Southampton City Art Gallery, Southampton, England; Manchester City Art Galleries, England; Ferens Art Gallery, Hull, England; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London |
| 1994 | Old Glory: The American Flag in Contemporary Art, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art |
| 1989 | Bilderstreit: Widerspruch, Einheit und Fragment in der Kunst seit 1960, Museum Ludwig in den Rheinhallen der Kölner Messe, Cologne |
| 1988 | Gran Pavese, The Flag Project, MuHKA Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst Antwerpen, Antwerp Roger Brown, William Copley, Duncan Hannah, Gloria Luria Gallery, Miami |
| 1987 | The Amused Eye: A National Sampling of Humor in Art, The Evanston Art Center, USA |
| 1986 | Column, Galerie Jule Kewenig, Frechen, Germany Europa/Amerika: die Geschichte einer kunstlerischen Faszination seit 1940, Museum Ludwig, Cologne |
| 1985 | Cinquante ans de dessins americains, 1930–1980, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris Paravents, Schloss Lorsfeld, Kerpen, Germany |
| 1984 | Auto and Culture, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Detroit Institute of Arts |
| 1983 | Looking at Women, Artemesia Gallery, Chicago Festival of the Arts, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA Contemporary Paintings from the Weatherspoon Art Gallery. University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC The Last Laugh, Southern Ohio Museum and Cultural Center, Portsmouth, OH |
| 1982 | documenta 7, Kassel, Germany The Erotic Impulse. Roger Litz Gallery, New York |
| 1981 | Westkunst, Museen der Stadt Köln, Cologne |
| 1980 | American Painting of the Sixties and Seventies: The Real, Ideal and the Fantastic, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (and other venues) The Figurative Tradition and The Whitney Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
| 1978 | Aspekte der 60er Jahre: aus der Sammlung Reinhard Onnasch, Nationalgalerie, Berlin American Nude, Harold Reed Gallery, New York Box Museum, Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York |
| 1977 | Artist’s Renderings of Paintings, Pinoteca di Brera, Milan, Musée du Louvre, Paris The Dada/Surrealist Heritage, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, Williamstown, MA Art Outside the Mainstream/Bad Painting, The New Museum, New York |
| 1976 | The William Seitz Memorial Exhibition, Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ |
| 1975 | Three Generations of the American Nude, New York Cultural Center, New York |
| 1972 | documenta 5, Kassel, Germany |
| 1971 | Erotic Art, The Art Center of the New School for Social Research, The New Museum, New York |
| 1970 | Hot Show, Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery, New York Copley, Brauner and Magritte, Louisiana Gallery, Houston Box Top Art, Illinois State University, Bloomington, IL |
| 1967 | Around the Automobile, Museum of Modern Art, New York Mixed Masters, University of St. Thomas, Houston |
| 1966 | Hommage à Caissa: Exhibition for the Chess Foundation of the Duchamp Fund, Cordier & Ekstrom Gallery, New York Surrealist Exhibition, University of California, Santa Barbara Le Portrait, Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris 25 Years of Art in San Diego, La Jolla Museum of Art, La Jolla, CA |
| 1965 | Pop Art, Nouveau Réalisme, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels Surrealist Exhibition, Byron Gallery, New York Visiting Artists at the Tamarind Lithography Workshop, Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles Group Show, Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles Whence Pop, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY |
| 1964 | Selections from the L. M. Asher Collection, University Art Gallery, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque New Directions in American Painting, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA Nieuwe realisten, Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague The Maremont Collection, Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, D.C. Le Surréalisme: Sources, Histoire, Affinities. Galerie Charpentier, Paris |
| 1963 | Pop Art USA, Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA XIX Salon de Mai, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris 18ième Salon de Réalitiés Nouvelles, Musée Municipal d’Art Moderne, Paris Paris Lettriste, Galerie Schmidt, Paris |
| 1962 | Collage out of California, Pasadena Art Museum, CA Antagonismes 2: L’objet, Musée des Arts Decoratifs, Palais du Louvre, Pavillon de Marsan, Paris Surrealismus: Phantastische Malerei der Gegenwart, Künstlerhaus, Vienna XVIII Salon de Mai, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris |
| 1961 | XVII Salon de Mai, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris Bewogen beweging-Rorelse i Konsten, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam Moderna Museet, Stockholm |
| 1959 | XVI Salon de Mai, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris Exposition Internationale du Surréalisme, Galerie Daniel Cordier, Paris Arte Fantastica, Museo de Castillo di San Giusto, Trieste, Italy The Maremont Collection at the Institute of Design, Illinois Institute of Technology at Crown Hall, Chicago |
| 1957 | Verzameling Urvater, Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, The Netherlands; The Museum and Art Gallery, Leicester, England; City of York Gallery, York, England; The Tate Gallery, London |
| 1956 | XV Salon de Mai, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris Exposition Internationale de l’art actuel, Nagaoka Museum, Nagaoka, Japan |
| 1954 | Americans in Paris, Galerie Arthur Craven, Paris |
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| Karl Wirsum | |
| 1939 | born in Chicago, IL, USA |
| 1961 | BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA |
| 2021 | died in Chicago, IL, USA |
| Full Adjunct Professor, Scholl of the Art Institute of Chicago, USA | |
Solo shows (selection)
| 2022 | Karl Wirsum: Correctly Misunderstood in Johnson City, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL |
| 2019 | Unmixedly at Ease: 50 Years of Drawing, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY Karl Wirsum, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL |
| 2018 | Drawing It On, 1965 to the Present, organized by Dan Nadel and Andreas Melas, Martinos, Athens, Greece |
| 2017 | Mr. Whatzit: Selections from the 1980s, Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY No Dogs Aloud, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, IL |
| 2015 | Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2013 | Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2010 | Derek Eller Gallery, New York, NY Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 2008 | Winsome Works(Some): Career Retrospective, Herron School of Art & Design, Indianapolis, IN Karl Wirsum: Paintings & Prints, Contemporary Art Center of Peoria, Peoria, IL |
| 2007 | Winsome Works(Some): Career Retrospective, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI Karl Wirsum: Plays Missed It For You, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 2005 | Union Art Gallery, University of Wisconsin Milwaukee, Milwaukee, WI |
| 2004 | Hello Again Boom A Rang: Ten Years of Wirsum Art, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 2002 | Paintings and Cutouts, Quincy Art Center, Quincy, IL Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 2001 | Rockford College Gallery, Rockford, IL |
| 2000 | Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 1998 | Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL University Club of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
| 1997 | The University of Iowa Museum of Art, Sculpture Court, Iowa City, IA |
| 1994 | Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL J. Maddux Parker Gallery, Sacramento, CA |
| 1992 | Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 1991 | Retrospective, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign, IL |
| 1989 | Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 1988 | Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL |
| 1986 | Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1984 | Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 1983 | Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1982 | Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC |
| 1981 | Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL Hare Toddy Kong Tamari: Selected Objects, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL |
| 1980 | Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 1979 | Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1978 | Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 1977 | Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1976 | Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 1971 | Wabash Transit Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 1970 | St. Xavier College, Chicago, IL |
| 1967 | Dell Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 1963 | Fairweather-Hardin Gallery, Chicago, IL |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2022 | Something Like A Self, William N. Copley, Brian Calvin, Karl Wirsum, Linn Luehn, Duesseldorf, Germany Some Kind of Monster Roster, Analog Diary, New York |
| 2020 | Condo London, The approach, London, England |
| 2019 | One hundred drawings, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY Alfred Schmeller: The Museum as a Flashpoint, mumok, Vienna, Austria Paper View, The Hole, New York, NY Beyond The Cape! Comics and Contemporary Art, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL How Chicago! Imagists 1960s & 1970, Goldsmiths Center for Contemporary Art, Goldsmiths University of London, London, England |
| 2018 | Harry Who? 1966-1969, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL 3-D Doings: The Imagist Object in Chicago Art, 1960-1980, Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY The Figure and the Chicago Imagists: Selections from the Elmhurst College Art Collection, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL New to Mia: Art from Chicago, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MI Eye Deal: Abstract Bodies of the Chicago Imagists, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, WI Infinite Space: Rediscovering PAFA's Permanent Collection, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA Painting: Now and Forever III, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY Out of Control, curated by Peter Saul, Venus Over Manhattan, New York, NY The Chicago Show, curated by Madeleine Mermall, Brooklyn, NY Carol Cole: Cast A Clear Light, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greenboro, NC |
| 2017 | Famous Artists from Chicago 1965 – 1975, curated by Germano Celant, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy World Premiere of Kings and Queens: Pinball, Imagists and Chicago, curated by Dan Nadel, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhustr, IL Others, Rockford Art Museum, Rockford, IL |
| 2015 | A Shared Space: KAWS, Karl Wirsum and Tomoo Gokita, Newcomb Art Museum, New Orleans, LA What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to Present, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY America is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Painting 2.0, Museum Brandhorst, Munich |
| 2014 | What Nerve! Alternative Figures in American Art, 1960 to Present, RISD Muesum, Providence, RI If You’re Accidentally Not included, Don’t Worry About It, curated by Peter Saul, Zürcher Studio, New York, NY |
| 2013 | Chicago Imagists, Karma International, Zurich, Switzerland |
| 2012 | Sinister Pop, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY The Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY Re-Source, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL Objets Extraordinaire, Highland Park Art Center, Highland Park, IL Multiple Encounters Indo-US Print Exhibition, Lalit Kala Akademi Galleries, New Delhi |
| 2011 | Pretty on the Inside, Kasmin Gallery, New York City, NY : Hypercolon :, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam, Netherlands Chicago Imagists, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI Works on Paper: Selections from the Elmhurst College Collection, Elmhurst Art Museum, Elmhurst, IL DRAWN, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, NY Pretty on the Inside, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY The Paper Show, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL Play Ball, Lancaster Museum of Art, Lancaster, PA The Art of Collecting, the Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI Re: Chicago, DePaul Art Museum, Chicago, IL |
| 2009 | Cool! Cool! Cool! Cool!, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 2008 | The Baseball Show, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 2007 | On Line, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2006 | Drawn into the World, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL The Artful Jester, The Painting Center, New York, NY & Brattleboro Museum & Art Center, Brattleboro, VT 181st Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National Academy of Design, New York, NY The Wirsum-Gunn Family Show, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL 2003-6 Faces, Places & Inner Spaces, Art Institute of Chicago, IL |
| 2005 | The Cartoonist’s Eye, A + D Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, IL 25th Anniversary Show, Block Museum, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL Next in the Gallery: Karl Wirsum, Paul Lurie, & Hans Richter, Herron Gallery, Indiana University; Purdue University, Indianapolis, IN The John Cain Sideshow, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 2004 | Painting the Town Red, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL Out of the Blues, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL From Folk to Funk: Selections from the Robert A. Lewis Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC That 70s Show, Northern Indiana Arts Association, Munster, IN The Artist as Collector, Northern Indiana Arts Association, Munster, IN |
| 2003 | The Ganzfeld (unbound), Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, NY January White Sale, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL Scape of the Land, Sisson Art Gallery, Henry Ford Community College, Dearborn, MI Chicago Artists in the New Millennium, Union League Club of Chicago, IL |
| 2002 | Made in Chicago: Circa 1970, Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York, NY Absolut Vision VII: Contemporary Views of Nature, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 2001 | The Lopsided Grin: Facing the New Century, Williard Wankelman Gallery, Fine Art Center Galleries, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH Reflections: Fifteenth Anniversary Exhibition, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 2000 | Chicago Loop: Imagist Art 1949-1979, Whitney Museum of American Art, Fairfield County, CT Jumping Jack Backflash, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL; Northern Illinois Art Association, Munster, IN The Figure: Another Side of Modernism, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, New House Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, NY |
| 1999 | Chicago Subjects, Laura Mesaros Gallery, University of West Virginia, Morgantown, WV Primary Colors, Jean Albano Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 1998 | Making Marks, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI Roger Brown and Friends in the 90’s, Van Every/Smith Galleries, Davidson College Visual Arts Center, Davidson, NC |
| 1997 | Breadth of Aesthetic, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL Grins: Humor and Whimsy in Contemporary Art, Millard Sheets Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1996 | Art in Chicago: 1945-1995, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL Second Sight: Modern Printmaking in Chicago, Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL Dealer’s Choice: 25 Chicago Dealers Bring Their Art to Indiana, Northern Indiana Arts Association, Munster, IN Arts Center 10th Anniversary: Illinois Artists, College of DuPage, Glen Ellyn, IL |
| 1995 | Phyllis Kind Gallery Revisited, The Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Eau
Claire, WI Off the Wall, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 1993 | Chicago Art Festival, The Union League Club, Chicago, IL Imagery: Incongruous Juxtapositions, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 1992 | From America’s Studio: Drawing New Conclusions, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Illinois Painter’s Invitational, Western Illinois University Art Gallery, Macomb, IL The Chicago Imagists: Art with an Edge To It, Land’s End Gallery, Dodgeville, WI N.A.M.E.’s 11th Annual Saint Valentine’s Day Exhibition and Benefit Auction, N.A.M.E. Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 1991 | Spirited Visions: Portraits of Chicago Artists by Patty Carroll, The State of Illinois Art Gallery (traveling exhibition) Zero Gravity, Citibank, Long Island City, NY Word as Image/American Art 1960-1990, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI (traveling to Oklahoma City Art Museum, OK; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX) Portraits of a Kind, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL Figuration, Pfizer Inc., New York, NY Zero Gravity, Citibank, New York, NY |
| 1990 | Drawing Invitational/29 Chicago Artists, Central Washington University, Sarah Spurgeon Gallery, Ellensburg, WA Cast, Constructed, and Site-Specific Paper Works, The Paine Art Centerand Arboretum, Oshkosh, WI California A to Z and Return, The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH |
| 1989 | Chicago Painters in Print: Brown, Paschke, Hull, Lostutter, Pasin-Sloan, Bramson, Wirsum, Landfall Press, Chicago, IL Human Concern/Personal Torment-Revisited, Phyllis Kind Gallery, New York, NY and Chicago, IL |
| 1988 | Seymour Rosofsky and the Chicago Imagist Tradition, The Milwaukee Art Museum at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI |
| 1987 | Contemporary Cutouts: Figurative Sculpture in Two Dimensions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Frida y Diego: Una Pareja, The Prairie Avenue Gallery, Chicago, Illinois – organized by Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL Made in the U.S.A.: An Americanization in Modern Art. the 50s and 60s,University of California at Berkley, and traveled to Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, Virginia Museum of Art, Richmond, VA Urgent Messages, The Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, Chicago, IL Of New Account: The Chicago Imagists, The School of Art Gallery, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH Surfaces: Two Decades of Painting in Chicago – Seventies and Eighties, Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago, IL Diamonds are Forever: Artists and Writers on Baseball, New York State Museum, Albany, NY and traveling exhibition: Norton Gallery of Art, West Palm Beach, FL; Museum of Art and History, San Juan, Puerto Rico; Contemporary Arts center, Cincinnati, OH; Utah Museum of Fine Arts, Salt Lake City UT; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX,; Baltimore Museum of Art, MD; Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, Chicago, IL; Oakland Museum of Art, CA; New York Public Library, New York, NY; The Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA: Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston Salem, NC; The Skydome, Toronto, Canada; Yurakucho Art Forum/Seibu Department Store, Tokyo, Japan; The Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei, Taiwan; Denver Art Museum/Downtown Branch, Denver, CO; Scottsdale Center for the Arts, Scottsdale, AZ; Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY Drawings of the Chicago Imagists, Renaissance Society of the University of Chicago, Chicago, IL The Chicago Imagist Print: Ten Artists’ Works, 1958-1987, The David and Alfred Smart Gallery, The University of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
| 1986 | Biennial III, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH and traveling; Cleveland Institute of Art; Herron Gallery of Contemporary Art, Indianapolis, IN; Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI Komic Ikonoclasin, I.C.A. Gallery, London, England and traveling exhibition Sculpture Exhibition, Phyllis Kind Gallery, NY Art in Paper, Swen Parson Gallery, Northern Illinois University, Dekalb, IL Correspondences: New York Art Now, Laforet Museum, Tokyo, Japan and traveling exhibition; Tochigi Prefectural Museum of Fine Art, Tochigi, Japan; Tasaki Hall, Espace Media, Kobe, Japan |
| 1985 | Modern Masks, The Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, New York, NY Bases are Loaded, Gallery 53,Cooperstown, NY Wood Hue or Knot?, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL Works on Paper, Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO |
| 1984 | Visions of Childhood: A Contemporary Iconography, Whitney Museum of Art at Federal Hall, New York, NY 80th Exhibition by Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, Art Institute of Chicago, IL 10 Years of Collecting at the M.C.A., Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL Chicago Cross- Section, Trisolini Gallery, University of Ohio at Athens, OH Small But Hot, Burpee Art Museum, Rockford, IL Chicago Imagist Update, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL Contemporary Works on Paper, University of Tennessee at Knoxville, TN Heads, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL Artists’ Call Against Nicaragua, Artemisia Gallery, Chicago, IL The Museum of Contemporary Art Selects: Paintings and Sculptures From Chicago’s Best, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL Joseph Yoakum, His Influence on Contemporary Art and Artists, Carl Hammer Gallery, Chicago, IL 1983 Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, Ed Paschke, Suellen Rocca, Karl Wirsum, Gallery Bonnier, Geneva, Switzerland Marathon ‘83, International Running Center, New York Road Runners Club, NY The Comic Art Show, Whitney Museum of Art At Federal Hall, New York, NY Chicago Scene, Mandeville Art Gallery, University of California at San Diego, CA |
| 1983 | The Last Laugh, Southern Ohio Museum and Cultural Center, Portsmouth, OH, and traveling exhibition Festival of the Arts, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA The Big Pitcher Show: Twenty Years of the Abstracted Figure in Chicago Art, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL Fans/ Invitational Exhibit for the Benefit of the Hyde Park Art Center, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL Dialect=Dialectic: A Group Show of Artists With Complex and Individual Vocabularies, Phyllis Kind Galleries, New York, NY and Chicago, IL |
| 1982 | Paintings and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN Chicago on Paper, Ray Hughes Gallery, Brisbane, Australia Chicago Images, Kansas City Art Institute, MO; Saginaw Museum of Art, Saginaw, MI Hot Chicago, Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City, KS From Chicago, Pace Gallery, New York, NY Selections From the Dennis Adrian Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL Who Chicago? An Exhibition of Contemporary Imagists, Sunderland Arts Centre, Ceolfrith Gallery, London, England; and traveling to Camden Arts Centre; London; Third Eye Centre, Glasgow; The Scottish National Gallery, Edinburg Scotland; The Welsh Arts Council, Glynvivian Gallery, Swansea, Wales; Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA |
| 1981 | Figuratively Sculpting, Institute for Art and Urban Resources at P.S. 1 Gallery, Long Island, NY New Dimensions in Drawing, The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut The Broken Surface, Bennington College, Vermont; Tibor de Nagy Gallery, NY; Virginia Technical Institute, Blacksberg, Virginia 50 Works of Art That Shouldn’t Leave Madison, Madison Art Center, Wisconsin |
| 1980 | Contemporary Drawings and Watercolors, Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, New York Six Artists From Chicago, The Ackland Museum of Art, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill; San Diego Museum of Art, California Seen in Chicago, Illinois Bell Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 1979 | Art, Inc. – American Paintings from Corporate Collections, Montgomery Museum of Fine Art, Alabama; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana Painters From New York Galleries, James Madison University, Harrisburg, Virginia; Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, Virginia; Roanoke College. Salem, Virginia Chicago Currents: The Koffler Foundation, The National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington DC Material Pleasures, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, and Philadelphia, PA |
| 1978 | Contemporary Chicago Painters, University of Northern Iowa Gallery of Art, Cedar Rapids, Iowa Eleven Chicago Painters, University of Southern Florida Gallery of Art, Tallahassee Chicago Collects, Northern Illinois University Gallery 200, Dekalb, IL |
| 1977 | Masterpieces of Chicago Art, Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, Chicago, IL The Chicago Connection, E.B. Crocker Art Gallery, Sacramento and traveling exhibition to Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport , California; Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ; Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis, Tennessee; Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, NY |
| 1976 | Old and New Works by the Artists From the Phyllis Kind Gallery, Foster Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Eau Claire 100 Artists/100 Years: Alumni of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
| 1975 | Art Now, Artrend Foundation, John F. Kennedy Center, Washington, DC |
| 1974 | 75th Exhibition of Artists of Chicago and the Vicinity, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
| 1973 | XII Bienal de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo , Brazil and traveling throughout South America (an enlarged exhibition entitled Made In Chicago was installed at the National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL) Cook County Art Machine, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL What They’re Up To In Chicago, The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Ontario and traveling exhibition |
| 1972 | Chicago Imagist Art, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; New York Cultural Center, New York |
| 1971 | Chicago Antigua, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL Phyllis’ Teens, Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 1970 | Surplus Slop from the Windy City, San Francisco Art Center; Sacramento State College of Art, CA Marriage Chicago Style, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL Thirteen Artists from Chicago, Richard Feigan Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1969 | Around the Automobile, Museum of Modern Art, New York Mixed Masters, University of St. Thomas, Houston The Spirit of the Comics, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, PA Human Concern/Personal Torment, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Don Baum Sez ‘Chicago Needs Famous Artists,’ Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL The Hairy Who: Drawings, The School of the Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY da Hairy Who?, Dupont Center, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. |
| 1968 | Now! Hairy Makes You Smell Good, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY 1966-67 The Hairy Who?, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL/td> |
Selected Commissions
| 2000 | Glass Wall Aviation Mural Installation, Midway Airport Terminal, Chicago, IL Sculpture, Dawn Foods Corporation, Munster, IN |
| 1998 | Cut-Out, Playboy.com, Chicago, IL |
| 1997 | Mural, University of Iowa Sports and Recreation Center, Iowa City, IA |
| 1991 | Installation, Harold Washington Library, Chicago Plug Bug mural, City of Chicago Public Arts Program, Commonwealth Edison Dearborn Substation, Chicago, IL |
| 1988 | Mural, The First National Bank of Chicago, IL |