Jonathan Lasker, 1948
Over the last thirty years Jonathan Lasker has continued to discover new territory for abstract painting. The big, bold brushstrokes, lively squiggles, and bright colours in Lasker’s work seem to reveal an exuberant, playful approach to abstraction, but the paintings are anything but spontaneous. Working from small, meticulous studies to create what appear at first glance to be whimsical, offhand doodles, Lasker combines references to painters like Philip Guston, Robert Ryman and Jackson Pollock with graffiti and cartoon imagery, whilst investigating the various qualities of painting itself.
Artworks
An Image of the Self, 2009, Oil on linen
Assertive Existence, 1997, Oil on linen
Sensations of Identity, 1994, Oil on canvas
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Jonathan Lasker, 1948
“Over the last thirty years Jonathan Lasker has produced a body of work that, while operating within the general framework of late modernist painting and drawing practice, has mounted a serious challenge to painting’s status quo. In doing so, he has, as much as anyone, maintained the vitality and validity of contemporary abstraction … In Lasker’s work, images … are part of a larger schema, but independent in terms of form, colour, texture, and manner of paint application. Each image becomes a thing itself, an element to be examined, experienced and categorized; a component of the larger grammatical structure that Lasker has built.” – Richard Kalina, Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
Lasker has exhibited internationally since the early 1980s. A major retrospective of his work was held at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia in Madrid, Spain in 2003, which travelled to K-20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf. Other notable solo exhibitions include; Jonathan Lasker, Musee d'art Modern, Saint Etienne, France, 2015; Jonathan Lasker: Selective Identity – Paintings from the 1990s, which in 1999-2000 toured the Forum for Contemporary Art, St Louis, Missouri, USA; The Power Plant, Toronto, Canada; Rose Art Museum, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA and the Birmingham Museum of Art, Alabama,USA; Jonathan Lasker: Paintings 1977-1997, toured the Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland and Kunstverein St Gallen im Kunstmuseum, Switzerland in 1997-98.
Lasker is represented in numerous public collections, including the Eli Broad Foundation, LA, USA; Hirschhorn Museum, Washington D.C., USA; Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany; Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden; MoMA, New York, USA; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA and Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville, Spain.
Born in Jersey City, New Jersey in 1948, he attended the School of Visual Arts in New York and CalArts in Valencia, California in the late 1970s.
Biography
| 1948 | Born in Jersey City, New Jersey, USA |
| 1975–77 | School of Visual Arts, New York, USA |
| 1977 | California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California, USA |
| 1987 | Awarded National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant |
| 1989 | Awarded National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship Grant |
| 2000 | Awarded Honorary Visiting Professorship, The London Institute, London, England |
Selected Solo Exhibitions
| 2018 | Jonathan Lasker, Recent Paintings, Maruani Mercier, Brussels |
| 2017 | Bohman-Knäpper, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 2016 | Jonathan Lasker, Cheim & Read, New York, USA |
| 2015 | Jonathan Lasker, Musee d'art Modern, Saint Etienne, France |
| 2014 | Jonathan Lasker, Peder Lund, Oslo, Norway |
| 2012 | Jonathan Lasker: Early Works, Cheim & Read, New York, USA |
| Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany | |
| Jonathan Lasker, The 80s, Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden | |
| 2011 | Recent Paintings, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France |
| Jonathan Lasker, The 80s, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK | |
| 2010 | Jonathan Lasker, Recent Paintings, LA Louver, California, USA |
| 2009 | Jonathan Lasker, Galleri Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 2008 | Jonathan Lasker, Portland Art Museum, Portland, USA |
| Jonathan Lasker, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany | |
| 2007 | Jonathan Lasker: Studies for paintings, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK |
| Jonathan Lasker: Drawings 1979 – 2007, Sabine Knust Gallery, Munich, Germany | |
| Jonathan Lasker, Cheim & Read, New York, USA | |
| 2006 | Jonathan Lasker, Alain Noirhomme, Brussels, Belgium |
| Jonathan Lasker, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria | |
| 2005 | Jonathan Lasker: From Drawing to Painting, Kunsthallen Brandts Klædefabrik, Odense, Denmark |
| Jonathan Lasker, Galleria Cardi & Co, Milan, Italy | |
| 2004 | Coloured Scribbles, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK |
| 2003 | Drawings, Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany |
| Jonathan Lasker: Paintings, Drawings, Studies 1977-2003, Palacio de Velazquez, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain | |
| de Velasquez, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, | |
| Spain; K-20 Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf,Germany | |
| Drawing and Painting, Sperone Westwater, New York, USA | |
| 2002 | Sperone Westwater at the ADAA Art show, New York, USA |
| Jonathan Lasker, Galerie Kienzle und Gmeiner, Berlin, Germany | |
| Jonathan Lasker, Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany | |
| Jonathan Lasker, Galeri Wang, Oslo, Norway | |
| 2001 | Jonathan Lasker, Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden |
| 2000 | Complete Print Survey, Jan Weiner, Kansas City, USA |
| Jonathan Lasker, Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France | |
| 1999–00 | Jonathan Lasker: Selective Identity – Paintings from the 1990s, Forum for Contemporary Art, St Louis, USA; The Power Plant Contemporary Art at Harbourfront Centre, Toronto, Canada; Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, USA; Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama, USA |
| 1999 | Jonathan Lasker, Sperone Westwater, New York, USA |
| 1998 | Jonathan Lasker, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK |
| Jonathan Lasker: Paintings 1986-1997, Centre Nicolas Pomel, Association art Contemporain, Issore, France | |
| Jonathan Lasker, Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain | |
| 1997–98 | Jonathan Lasker: Paintings 1977-1997, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, German; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland; Kunstverein St Gallen im Kunstmuseum, St Gallen, Switzerland |
| 1997 | Jonathan Lasker, Velge et Noirhomme, Brussels, Belgium |
| Jonathan Lasker, Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France | |
| Jonathan Lasker, Galerie Kienzle und Gmeiner, Berlin, Germany | |
| Jonathan Lasker, Galleria Milleventi, Turin, Italy | |
| Jonathan Lasker, Schmidt Contemporary Art, St Louis, Missouri, USA | |
| 1996 | Jonathan Lasker, Sperone Westwater, New York, USA |
| 1995 | Jonathan Lasker, Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid, Spain |
| Jonathan Lasker, LA Louver, Los Angeles, USA | |
| 1994 | Jonathan Lasker, Galerie Buchmann, Basel, Switzerland |
| Jonathan Lasker, Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden | |
| Jonathan Lasker, Bravin Post Lee, New York, USA | |
| Rhona Hoffman, Munich, Germany | |
| Sperone Westwater, New York, USA | |
| Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany | |
| 1992 | Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia,USA |
| Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France | |
| Baumgartner Gallery, Washington DC, USA | |
| Eugene Binder, Dallas, Texas, USA | |
| 1991 | Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome, Italy |
| Schmidt Markow Gallery, St Louis, Missouri, USA | |
| Annette Gmeiner, Stuttgart, Germany | |
| Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden | |
| Sperone Westwater, New York, USA | |
| 1990 | Michael Werner, Cologne, Germany |
| Anders Tomberg, Lund, Sweden | |
| 1989 | Massimo Audiello, New York, USA |
| 1988 | Massimo Audiello, New York, USA |
| Gian Enzo, Sperone, Rome, Italy | |
| 1987 | Michael Werner, Cologne, Germany |
| Anders Tomberg, Lund, Sweden | |
| 1986 | Michael Werner, Cologne, Germany |
| Massimo Audiello, New York, USA | |
| Tibor De Nagy, New York, USA | |
| 1984 | Annette Gmeiner, Kirchzarten, Germany |
| Tibor De Nagy, New York, USA | |
| 1981 | Landmark Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany |
Selected Group Exhibitions
| 2018 | The Matter in Harmony, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany |
| Sumertime Picks, Tamarind Institute, Albuqueruque, USA | |
| Set Adrift on Memory Bliss, Pablo’s Birthday, New York | |
| Sammlung Kienzle, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtentein | |
| 2017 Canadian Biennial, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada | |
| Permanent Repetition, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, Netherlands | |
| Abstract Painting Now!, Kunstalle Krems, Krems an der Donau, Austria | |
| Articulate, Silas Von Morisse Gallery, Brooklyn, NY | |
| 2017 | Think Paint, Unix Gallery, New York |
| Structural Integrity, Eugene Binder, Marfa, Texas | |
| ABC/123, Steven Zevitas Gallery, Boston, MA | |
| Affinities, Galeria Miguel Marcos, Barcelona, Spain | |
| How to Be Unique, Kienzle Art Foundation, Berlin, Germany | |
| Strange Abstraction, Fredericks & Freiser Gallery, New York, USA | |
Basquiat, Dubuffet, Soulages… A Private Collection, The Foundation Hermitage, Lausanne, Switzerland | |
| 2016 | The Conversation Continues: Highlights from the James Cottrell and Joseph Lovett Collection, Mr. and Mrs. Robert E. Brooker Sr. Grand Gallery, Orlando Museum of Art, Florida, USA |
| 2015 | Paul Klee, curated by Ashley Garrett & JJ Manford, Underdonk, Brooklyn, New York, USA |
| Deprez, Lasker, Leener, Retrospective Gallery, Hudson, New York, USA | |
| 2014 | Taking a Line for a Walk, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland |
| Bad Influence, Michael Thibault, Los Angeles, California | |
| Slow Learner, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK | |
| 2013 | Reinventing Abstraction: New York Painting in the 1980s, curated by Raphael Rubinstein, Cheim & Read, New York, USA |
| Painting 101, Sargent’s Daughters, New York, USA | |
| Wit, curated by Joanne Freeman, The Painting Center, New York, USA | |
| Thought, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany | |
| Spring Break, Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich, Germany | |
| Entrée Libre Mais Non Obligatoire, curated by Noël Dolla, Villa Arson, Nice, France | |
| Keine Parole: Akton-Malerei-Konzept, were aus der Sammlung Kienzle, Berlin | |
| Kunstmuseum Klost Unswer Lieben Frauen, Magdeburg, Germany | |
| PANORAMA, Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden | |
| Promenades d’Amateurs, Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, Monaco | |
| Lars Bohman Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden | |
| 2012 | Painting. Today, Kunstmuseum Kloster Unser Lieben Frauen in Magdeburg, Germany |
| American Art of the 1980s, Nosbaum and Reding Art Contemporain, Luxembourg | |
| A. ABSTR_ ACTION. Galerija Contra, Koper, Slovenia | |
| Outside In, Timothy Taylor, London, UK | |
| Art in Embassies Exhibition, U.S. Embassy, Luxembourg, Luxembourg | |
| Smile Amerikanische-Kunst—Sammlung Kienbaum, curated by Rolf Ricke, Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne, Germany | |
| Conceptual Abstraction, curated by Pepe Karmel and Joachim Pissarro, Hunter College, Times Square Gallery, New York, USA | |
| 2011 | Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York |
| Exhibition of Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, USA | |
| Jim Schmidt Presents: Abstraction, Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, MO, USA | |
| The Minimal Gesture, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK | |
| Longitudes de Onda, OTR espacio de arte, Madrid, Spain | |
| 2010 | Studies in Paint: Jonathan Lasker & John Noel Smith, Hillsboro Fine Art, Dublin, Ireland |
| Le Tableau: French Abstraction and its Affinities, curated by Joe Fyfe, Cheim & Read, New York, USA | |
| España / America The Redefined Abstraction: Angela de la Cruz, Luis Gordillo, Peter Halley, Jonathan Lasker Fabian Marcaccio, Jessica Stockholder, Juan Uslé, and Daniel Verbis, Galería Max Estrella, Madrid, Spain | |
| 2006 | Broken Surface, Galerie Sabine Knust, Munich, Germany |
| Patrick Heron, Jonathan Lasker, Katie Pratt, John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK | |
| Affinities, Centre Europeén d’Action Artistiques, Strassbourg, France | |
| The 181th Annual, National Academy, New York, USA | |
| 2005 | Willem De Kooning und Diev Foigen, BA-CA Kunstforum, Vienna, Austria: Kunsthal, Rotterdam, The Netherlands |
| Yankee Love & Latin Doodle, Galerie Thomas Schukte, Berlin, Germany | |
| Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA | |
| Galleria Alessandro Bagnai, Florence, Italy | |
| Glimpse, Mixed Greens, New York, USA | |
| 25 Years Baumgartner Gallery: Selected One Person Exhibitions, Part Two, Baumgartner Gallery, New York, USA | |
| The Spirit of an Open Mind, Felix Ringel Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany | |
| Campo En Expansion: Los Ochenta En La Coleccion De La Foundation “La Caixa”, Museo de Arte Del Banco de la Republica Bogota, Columbia | |
| New World Orders: Vision and Revision, Domo Gallery, Summit, New Jersey, USA | |
| 2004 | Co-conspirators: Artist & Collector: The Collection of James Cottrell & Joseph Lovett Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida; Samuel dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, New York; Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA |
| Painting, LA Louver, Los Angeles, USA | |
| Summer Eyes/ Summarize, Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, USA | |
| 20 Years 1984-2004, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria | |
| …So Fresh, So Cool!, Galleria Cardi & Co, Milan, Italy | |
| Abstraction, Galerie Monika Reitz, Frankfurt, Germany | |
| A Collective Image of America: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, USA | |
| Lemburg Gallery, Ferndale, USA | |
| Le Syndrome de Babylone: Collection Du FRAC D’Auvergne, Centre D’Art Contemporain de la Villa du Parc, Annemasse, France | |
| Gyroscope: Rotations from the Collection, Hirshorn Museum, Washington DC, USA | |
| New Editions, Galerie Kugler, Innsbruck, Austria | |
| 2003 | La Langue dans la Boue, Musée du Tapis et des Arts Textiles, Clermont- Ferrand, France |
| Edition Speciale, Galerie Suzanne Tarasiève, Paris, France | |
| Some Fuzzy Logic: The Joan Simon Menkes Gift, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California, USA | |
| Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK | |
| New Abstract Painting: Painting Abstract Now, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany | |
| Les 20 Ans des FRAC: Un Tableau Dans Le Décor, Peintures 1970 - 2000, Chateau des Ducs de Bretagne, Nantes, France | |
| Fragmente des Paradieses, Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liesthal, Switzerland | |
| Greetings From New York – A Painting Show, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France | |
| 2002 | A Rose is a Rose: La Collection FRAC Auvergne, Ecole Régionale des Beaux-Arts, Valence, France |
| L’art d’aujourd’hui: un choix dans la collection du FNAC, Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble, France | |
| Between Language and Form, Jennifer Gross, Curator, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, USA | |
| Choose Your Partner, Nusser & Baumgart, Munich, Germany | |
| La Caixa, Fundaciaó, Barcelona, Spain | |
| Transcendent & Unrepentant, Rosenwald- Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, USA | |
| USA American Art Since 1980, Alain Noirhomme, Brussels, Belgium | |
| Spieglein, Spieglein an der Wand, Galerie Mark Müller, Zurich, Switzerland | |
| 2001 | Künstlerraume/ Sammlerräame, Kunstverein St Gallen im Kunstmuseum, St Gallen, Switzerland |
| New Paintings, Kevin Bruck, Miami, USA | |
| Encuentros: Dialogos de Complidad en la Pintura Internacional, Palacio Episcopal, Malaga, Spain | |
| American Art from the Goetz Collection, Rudolfinium Centre for Contemporary Art, Prague, Czech Republic | |
| New Acquisitions, Johnson County Communiuty College, Overland Park, Kansas, USA | |
| Geometrie & Gestus, Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria | |
| Boxy, Carl Ostendarp, Curator, Dee Glasoe, New York, USA | |
| Patterns: Between Object and Arabesque, Kunsthallen Brandts | |
| Klaeddfabrik, Odense, Denmark | |
| Port Art Museum, Pori, Finland | |
| The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica, California, USA | |
| Green on Greene, Sperone Westwater, New York, USA | |
| Staedtische Galerie Waldkraiburg, Waldkraiburg, Germany | |
| Die Sammlung als Bild: Kugelkopf, Klaus Merkel, Curator, Neuhasen, Neuhausen/ Fildern, Germany | |
| To Be a Mirror: Portraits by Six Painters, Eugene Binder, TX, USA | |
| Rupprecht Geiger and Eugené Leroy: Sunbursts and the Earth’s Shelter, Roger Smith, New York, USA (curated) | |
| 2000 | Galerie Naechst St Stephen, Vienna, Austria |
| Universal Abstraction 2000, Jan Weiner, Kansas City, USA | |
| Universal Abstraction 2000, Jan Weiner, Kansas City, USA | |
| Works On Paper, Timothy Taylor Gallery, UK | |
| Post Pop, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, USA | |
| Paintings, I Love, Michael Hue-Williams, London, UK | |
| Eugene Binder, Long Island City, New York, USA | |
| Arte Americana, Ultimo Decennio, Claudio Spadoni, Curator,Loggetta Lombardesca Ravenna, Italy | |
| Das Gedaechtnis der Malerei: Ein Ruckblick auf das 20. Jahrhundert, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland | |
| Lasker, Scully, Barcelo, Kuitca, Dokoupil, Baechler, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK | |
| Lasker, Maracaccio, Usle, Marcel Sitcoske, San Francisco, California, USA | |
| Da Warhol al 2000: Gian Enzo Sperone, 35 Anni di Mostre fra Europa e America, Palazzo Cavour, Turin, Italy | |
| Works on Paper 2000, The American Embassy, Bratislava, Slovakia | |
| Rough Edge: Selections from the Broad Art Foundation, Crocker ArtMuseum, Sacramento, California, USA | |
| Lasker Curates Paintings from the Brandeis University Art Collection, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, USA | |
| 1999 | Works on Paper, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK |
| Free Cake: Lines, Drawing & Paper, Green Naftali, New York, USA | |
| One by One: Painting Versus Drawing, Von Lintel & Nusser, Munich,Germany | |
| Benefit Exhibition, Feigen Contemporary, New York, USA | |
| Mixed Bag, Schmidt Contemporary Art, St Louis, USA | |
| Abstrakt, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria | |
| In Site: Constructing the JCCC Collection, Johnson County Community | |
| College Gallery of Art, Overland Park, Kansas, USA | |
| 17 Contemporaries, Menil Collection, Houston, Texas, USA | |
| Contemporary Abstract Painting, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis | |
| University, Waltham, USA | |
| Daniel Templon, Paris, France | |
| N.F.S., Tricia Collins Contemporary Art, New York, USA | |
| Super-Abstr-Action, The Box Associati, Turin, Italy | |
| 1998 | Sensation der Farbe, Mark Müller, Zurich, Switzerland |
| Pop/ Abstraction, Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania | |
| Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, USA | |
| Raise the Roof: Benefit Exhibition, White Columns, New York, USA | |
| Painting Objectives, Gallerie Evelyne Canus, La Colle-Sur-Loup, France | |
| Arterias: Collection of Contemporary Art Fundacio La Caixa, Malmo, Konsthall, Malmo, Sweden | |
| Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK | |
| Exploiting the Abstract, Feigen Contemporary, New York, USA | |
| From Here to Eternity: Painting 1998, Max Protetch, New York, USA | |
| The Erotic Sublime, Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria | |
| Summer Exhibition, Sperone Westwater, New York, USA | |
| Abstracciones, Galleria Siboney, Santander, Spain | |
| Ideas for the Home, Sperone Westwater, New York, USA | |
| 1997 | Abstraction/ Abstractions Geometrie Provisoires, Musée d’Art Moderne, St Étienne, France |
| New York on Paper, Baumgartner Galleries, Washington DC, USA | |
| After The Fall: Aspects of Abstract Painting Since 1970, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Staten Island, New York, USA | |
| Turning the Corner: Abstraction at the End of the Twentieth Century, Bertha & Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery, Hunter College, New York, USA | |
| Summer Exhibition, Sperone Westwater, New York, USA | |
| Groi in de Collectie, Peter Stuyvesant Foundation, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | |
| Essential Gestures, Johnson County Community College Gallery of Art, Overland Park, Kansas, USA | |
| Licht Raum…Schwarz, Berufsvereinigung Der Bildenden Künstler, Wein, Austria | |
| 1996 | Pratiques Abstraites, Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France and Salzburg, Austria |
| Art at Work, Banque Bruxelles Lambert, Brussels, Belgium | |
| Malerei II, Monika Sprüth, Cologne, Germany | |
| NUevas Abstracciones, Palacio de Velazquez, Museo Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain | |
| Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany | |
| Museu D’Art Contemporain, Barcelona, Spain | |
| Form Als Ziel Mündet Immer In Formalisms, Rolfe Ricke, Cologne, Germany | |
| Summer Exhibition, Sperone Westwater, New York, USA | |
| The New York Scene, Gotland Museum, Gotland, Sweden | |
| Investigations: American Abstraction, Robert McClain, Houston, Texas, USA | |
| Playpen & Corpus Delerium, Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland | |
| Reconditioned Abstraction, Forum for Contemporary ART, St. Louis, USA | |
| Bravin Post Lee, New York, USA | |
| New York Abstraction, Macdonald Stewart Art Centre, Universtiy of Ontario, Guelph, Canada | |
| 12 Years After: Jonathan Lasker, Thomas Nozkowski, Gary Stephen, Baumgartner Galleries,Washington DC, USA | |
| 1995–97 | Critiques of Pure Abstraction, January 1995 – June 1997, a travelling exhibition organised by Independent Curators International, New York; Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, USA; Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art, Edmonton, Canada; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Crocker Art Museum, Sacremento, California; Madison Art Center, Madison; Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, Florida; Krannert Art Museum, Univerity of Ilinois, Champaign, Illinois; Frederick R. Weisman Museum, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA |
| 1995 | Emblems and Contours, Sperone Westwater, New York, USA |
| Mesotica (the American Non-Representiva), Museo de Arte y Diseno Contemporaneo, San Jose, Costa Rica | |
| Recapturing Abstraction, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, Virginia, USA | |
| Ars ’95, Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki, Finland | |
| Swinging Sixties, Sparkling Nineties, Casino Luxembourg, Luxembourg | |
| Architecture of the Mind, Barabara Farber, Amsterdam, Holland | |
| Das Abenteuer Der Malerei, Kunstverein Rheinland-Westfalen, Düsseldorf, Germany; Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany | |
| Transatlantica: The American Europa Non Representiva, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas, Venezuela | |
| Positionen: Beobachtungen Zum Stand Der Malerei In Den 90er Jahren, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany | |
| Summer Exhibition, Sperone Westwater, New York, USA | |
| Refab – Painting Abstracted, Fabricated and Revised, Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida; Wolfson Galleries, Miami – Dade Community College, Miami; Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermoont, Burlington, Vermont, USA | |
| Under Glass, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, USA | |
| More Hysteria Please, Deutsches Haus, Columbia University, New York, USA | |
| Manfred Baumgartner, Washington DC, USA | |
| Morceaux Choisis Du FNAC, Centre National D’Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France | |
| Colour and Piant, Kunstverein St Gallen in Kunstmuseum, St Gallen, Switzerland | |
| La Louver, Los Angeles, USA | |
| 1994 | Possible Things, Gallery Bardamu, New York, USA |
| Choice, Chance and Irony, Todd Gallery, London, UK; John Hansard Gallery, University of Southampton, Southampton, UK | |
| Unbound: Possibilities in Painting, Hayward Gallery, London, UK | |
| Le Temps D’Un Dessin, Gallerie De L’Ecole Des Beaux-Arts, Lorient, France | |
| Written/ Spoken/ Drawn in Lacanian Ink, Thread Waxing Space, New York, USA | |
| Bravin Post Lee, New York, USA | |
| Painting, Rhona Hoffman, Chicago, USA | |
| About Color, Charles Cowles, New York, USA | |
| 8 Rooms for Painting, Galleri FI5 Alby, Moss, Norway | |
| Summer Exhibition, Sperone Westwater, New York, USA | |
| The Assertive Image: Artists o the Eighties from the Eli Broad Foundation, UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA | |
| Abstract Works on Paper, Robert Miller, New York, USA | |
| On Paper, Schmidt Contemporary Art, St Louis, USA | |
| Abstraction: A Tradition of Collecting, Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, USA | |
| American Painting Now, Galleries Caterina Fosati, Eva Menzio Giovani Rimoldi, Turin, Italy | |
| Tutti Questi Mondi, Galleria Carini, Prato, Italy | |
| 1993 | The Brush Stroke, Ruth Bloom, Los Angeles, USA |
| The Permanent Collection Revisited, Hirshorn Museum &Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, USA | |
| New Work on Paper, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France | |
| Drawing the Line Against Aids, Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy; Guggenheim Museum, Soho, New York, USA | |
| Color, Pamela Auchincloss, New York, USA | |
| New York Painters, Sammlung Götz, Munich, Germany | |
| New Moderns, Baumgartner Gallery, Washington DC, USA | |
| Off the Mall: Inside Washington’s Foremost Art Gallery, Art Museum of the Americas, Washington DC, USA | |
| Zeichnugen Setzen Zeichen, Künstler Der Documenta IX, Raymond Bollag, Zurich, Switzerland | |
| Galerie Nächst St Stephen, Vienna, Austria | |
| The American Livre De Peintre, Grolier Club, New York, USA | |
| The Spirit of Drawing, Sperone Westwater, New York, USA | |
| Italy- America: Abstraction Redefined, Galleria Nationale D’Arte Moderna, San Marino, Italy | |
| Jours Transquilles a Clichy, Paolo Goyannes, Paris, France; Teenisport, Long Island City, New York, USA | |
| Summer Exhibition, Sperone Westwater, New York, USA | |
| 1992 | Stubborn Painting: Now and Then, Max Protech, New York, USA |
| Shades of Difference, Sandra Gehring, New York, USA | |
| Abstrakte Malerie Zwischen Analyse Und Synthese, Galerie Nächst St Stefan, Vienna, Austria | |
| The City Influence, Dayton Art Institute & Museum of Contemporary Art, Wright State University, Dayton, Ohio, USA | |
| Slow Art: Painting In New York Now, P,S I Museum, Long Island City, New York, USA | |
| Theoretically Yours, Museo Regione Autonoma Della Valle D’Acosta, Acosta, Italy | |
| Abstract Painting 1992, Schmidt Contemporary Art, St Louis, USA | |
| Documenta IX, Documenta Halle, Kassel, Germany | |
| Sperone Westwater, New York, USA | |
| Kunstprodu kt Heimat, Morat Institute Für Kunst Und Kunstwissenschaft, Freiburg, Germany | |
| Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France | |
| Who’s Afraid of Duchamp, Minimalism and Passport Photography?, Annina Nosei, New York, USA; Galleria Galliani, Geneva, Italy | |
| 1991 | Strategies for the Next Painting, Wolf Gallery, New York, and Feigen Inc. Chicago, USA |
| Between Intuition and Reason, Saint Clair Cemin/ Jonathan Lasker, Grossman Gallery, School of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA | |
| Hybrid Abstract, Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, Bennington, Vermont, USA | |
| Anni Novanta, Gallery of Modern Art, Bologna, Italy | |
| The Thing, Perry Rubenstein, New York, USA | |
| Sperone Westwater, New York, USA | |
| New Acquisitions, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC, USA | |
| Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, USA | |
| The Metaphysics of Light, Demetrio Paparoni, New York, USA | |
| Conceptual Abstraction, Sidney Janis, New York, USA | |
| Benefit Exhibition, Mathew Marks, New York, USA | |
| 1990 | Spellbound, Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles, USA |
| Token Gestures, Scott Hansen Gallery, New York, USA | |
| Anders Tomberg, Lund, Sweden | |
| Mythic Moderns, Real Art Ways, Hartford, USA | |
| Benefit Exhibition, Nicole Klagsbrun, New York, USA | |
| Maailmat, Worlds ’90 International Art Show, Joensuu Art Museum, Joensuu, Finland | |
| Benefit Exhibition, Daniel Weinberg, Los Angeles, USA | |
| The Last Decade: American Artists of the 80’s, Toni Shafrazi, New York, USA | |
| Painting Alone, Pace Gallery, New York, USA | |
| Clifford Still: A Dialogue, Philippe Briet, New York, USA | |
| On Paper: The History of Art, New York Public Library, Gottesman Exhibition Hall, New York, USA | |
| Fortieth Anniversary Exhibition, Tibor De Nagy, New York, USA | |
| 1989 | Diagrams & Surrogates, Shea & Beker, New York, USA |
| Horn of Plenty, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands | |
| The Pellizzi Collection, Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, USA | |
| The Silent Baroque, Thaddaeus Ropac Gallery, Salzburg, Austria | |
| Specchi Ustori, Galleria Regionale di Palazzo Bellomo, Siracusa, Italy | |
| Drawings, Daniel Newburg, New York, USA | |
| 1988 | NY Art Now, Saatchi Collection, London, UK |
| Lang & O’Hara, New York, USA | |
| Art at the End of the Social, Rooseum, Malmo, Sweden | |
| Hybrid Neutral, University of North Texas, Denton, USA; J. B. Speed Art Museum, Louisville, USA; Alberta College of Art, Edmonton, Canada; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA; Richard F. Brush Gallery, St. Lawrence University, Canton, USA; Santa Fe Community College, Gainesville, USA | |
| International, New York, USA | |
| The Kaldewey Press, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Thomas J. Watson Library, New York, USA | |
| Schwarzwaldbild, Kunstverein Hochrhein e.v., Villa Berberich, Bad | |
| Säckingen, Germany | |
| Benefit Exhibition, White Columns, New York, USA | |
| The Shape of Abstraction, Rathbone Gallery, Russel Sage College, Albany, USA | |
| Interstices, Laurie Rubin, New York, USA | |
| Fortieth Biennial Exhibition of Painting, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC, USA | |
| Postmasters Gallery, New York, USA | |
| Post-Abstract Abstraction, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, USA | |
| Cal-Arts: Sceptical Belief(s), Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, USA; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, USA | |
| Massimo Audiello, New York, USA | |
| Meine Maler, Annette Gmeiner, Stuttgart, Germany | |
| Michael Werner, Cologne, Germany | |
| 1986 | Drawings, Annette Gmeiner, Kirchzarten Germany |
| Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, USA | |
| Abstraction/Abstraction, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA; Klein Gallery, Chicago, USA | |
| Paravision II, Margo Leavin, Los Angeles, USA | |
| What It Is, Tony Shafrazi, New York, USA | |
| Modern Sleep, American Fine Arts Co, New York, USA | |
| The Kaldewey Press, Tibor De Nagy, New York, USA | |
| The Intuitive Line, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, USA | |
| 1985 | 2. Smart Art, Too, 55 Mercer Gallery, New York, USA |
| Final Love, Cash/Newhouse Gallery, New York, USA | |
| Smart Art: New Work from NY, Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, USA | |
| Paravision, Postmasters Gallery, New York, USA | |
| Abstract Painting, Wolff Gallery, New York, USA | |
| Summer Exhibition, Tibor De Nagy, New York, USA | |
| Kölner Herstsalon, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany | |
| Abstract/Issues, Sherry French Gallery, New York, USA | |
| Vernacular Abstraction, Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, Japan | |
| Cult and Decorum, Tibor De Nagy, New York Jay Gorney Modern Art, New York, USA | |
| 1984 | Fact and Fiction, Tibor De Nagy, New York, USA |
| Jonathan Lasker/Renee Lynch, Gabrielle Bryers, New York, USA | |
| Proctor Art Center, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY | |
| Hadler Rodriguez Gallery, New York, USA | |
| 1983 | On An Intimate Dimension, Tibor De Nagy, New York, USA |
| New Biomorphism and Automatism, Hamilton Gallery, New York, USA | |
| 1982 | Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, Landmark Gallery, New York, USA |
| 1981 | Landmark Gallery, New York, USA |
| Tony Shafrazi, New York, USA | |
| Novo Gallery, New York, USA | |
| Patrick Verelst, Antwerp, Belgium |
Selected Public and Private Collections
| Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA |
| Banque Bruxelles Lambert, Brussels, Belgium |
| Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, USA |
| The Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica, USA |
| Casino Luxembourg, Forum of Contemporary Art, Luxembourg |
| The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, USA. |
| Fond National d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France |
| Fond Regional d’Art Contemporain, Auvergne, France |
| Fundacio ‘La Caixa’, Barcelona, Spain |
| High Museum, Atlanta, USA |
| Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, USA |
| Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas, USA |
| Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, USA |
| Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA |
| The List Center for the Visual Arts, Mass. Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA |
| Misumi Collection, Tokyo, Japan |
| Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden |
| Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France |
| Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Seville, Spain |
| Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain |
| Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA |
| Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany |
| Progressive Companies, Pepperpike, USA |
| Sammlung Goetz, Munich, Germany |
| Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich, Germany |
| De Peter Stuyvesant Stichting, Amsterdam, Holland |
| Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, Japan |
| Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA |
| Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas, USA |
Selected Publications
| 2002 | Lütticken, Sven, ‘Allegories of Abstraction’, dissertation publication, Vrije Universiteit |
| Ryan, David, Masheck, Joseph, ‘Talking Painting: Dialogues with Twelve Contemporary Abstract Painters’, Routledge Press | |
| Sachs, Sid, ‘Transcendant & Unrepentant’, pamphlet for group exhibition at Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia, PA | |
| 1994 | Searle, Adrian, ‘Unbound: Possibilities in Painting’, Catalogue essay for exhibition at Hayward Gallery, London, UK |
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