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Brice Marden

Biography

BRICE MARDEN

Born:

1938 Bronxville, New York

Education:

1961 B.F.A. Boston University School of Fine Arts
1963 M.F.A. Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut

Selected Group Exhibitions:
2005 An Empty Space, Brice Marden, Akira Ikeda Gallery, New York (catalogue forthcoming) -solo
Willem de Kooning, Kunstforum, Vienna; Traveled to Kunsthal, Rotterdam (catalogue)
Contemporary Voices: Works from the UBS Collection, The Museum ofModern Art, New York (catalogue)
Imageless Icons: Abstract Thoughts, Gagosian Gallery, London (catalogue)
2004 Brice Marden at Daros, Daros, Zurich -solo
Matisse to Freud: A Critic’s Choice, The Alexander Walker Bequest, The British Museum, London
Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated), Guggenheim Museum, New York (catalogue)
A Minimal Future? Art as Object 1958-1968, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (catalogue)
From Pollock to Marden: Post-War Works on Paper from the Collection of Susan And Larry Marx, Aspen Art Museum (catalogue)
2003 Not Exactly Photographs, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco
The Stage of Drawing: Gesture and Act Selected from the Tate Collection The Drawing Center, New York; Traveled to The Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, Australia; and Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England
Forty Years, Richard Gray Gallery, New York. Travels to Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago
2002 Brice Marden: Attendants, Bears, and Rocks, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (catalogue) -solo
Brice Marden Prints, Alumni Gallery, Boston University -solo
Brice Marden: Works on Paper 1964-2001, Instituto Nationale per la Grafica, Rome;Traveled to Archivio di Stato in the Royal Palace, Turin; and Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Münster (catalogue) -solo
Looking East, Boston University Art Gallery (catalogue)
Rocks and Art, Nature Found and Made, Chambers Fine Art, New York
2001 “Prints by Lucian Freud and Brice Marden,” John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
1998 “Master Drawings of the 20th Century,” Mitchell-Innes & Nash, NY
“Painting: Now and Forever,” Matthew Marks Galleries, New York
“Judd Marden Ryman – Prints”, Susan Sheehan Gallery, New York
1997 “Color and Paper/Von Farebn und Papieren,” Galerie Nachst St. Stephan/Rosemarie Schwarzwalder, Vienna
“Die Sammlung Anne-Marie und Ernst Vischer-Wadler: Ein Vermachtnis,” Kunstmuseum Basel
“Biennale,” Venice
1996 “The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: 1945 to 1995,” National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
“In the Shadow of Storms: Art in the Postwar Era from the MCA Collection,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
“In Quest of the Absolute,” Peter Blum Edition, New York
1995 “About Place: Recent Art of the Americas,” The Art Institute of Chicago
“ARS 95,”Museum of Contemporary Art, Finnish National Gallery, Helsinki
“Diary of a Human Hand: Betty Goodwin, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Susan Rothenberg,” Galerie du Centre des Arts Saidye Bronfman, Montreal
“1995 Whitney Biennial,” Whiney Museum of American Art, New York
“Painting – Singular Object,” The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo; The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
“Du trait a la ligne,” Galerie d’art graphique, Musee national d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
“Meisterwerke aus dem Kupferstichkabinett Basel, ‘zu Ende gezeichnet’: Bildhafte Zeichnungen von der Zeit Durers und Holbeins bis zur Gegenwart,” Westfalisches Landesmuseum, Muntser
1994 “The Ossuary,” Luhring Augustine Gallery, New York
“From Minimal to Conceptual Art: Works from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection,” National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1993 “American Art in the 20th Century,” Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin; Royal Academy, London
“Timely and Timeless,” The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
“New Etchings,” Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
1992 “Marking the Decades: Prints 1960-1990,” The Baltimore Museum of Art
“Slow Art,” P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York
“Documenta IX,” Kassel
“Jasper Johns/Brice Marden/Terry Winters: Drawings,” Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
“Allegories of Modernism: Contemporary Drawing,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1991 “An Overview of Drawing,” David Nolan, New York
Bildlicht: Malerie zwischen Material und Immaterialitat,” Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna
“Artists’ Sketchbooks,” Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
“Strategies for the Next Painting,” Jamie Wolff Gallery, New York; Feigen, Incorporated, Chicago
“Dead Heroes,” Lorence Monk, New York
“Kulturen-Verwandtschaften in Geist und Form,” Galerie Nachst St. Stephan/Rosemarie Schwarzwalder, Vienna
1990 “Minimal Art,” BlumHelman Gallery, New York
“Minimalist Prints,” Susan Sheehan Gallery, Inc., New York
“Amerikanische Zeichnungen in den Achtziger Jahren,” Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna; Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
“Seven American Artists,” Vivian Horan Fine Art, New York
“American Masters of the 60’s,” Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
“Concert Art, Minimal Art, Arte povera, Land Art: Slg. Marzona,” Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany
“Brice Marden/Sammuel Buri/Ernst Messerli: Projecte fur das Basler Munster,” Kunsthalle Palazzo, Liestal, Switzerland
“Master Drawings 1520-1990,” organized by Jamie c. Lee Master Drawings, New York, and Kate Ganz Ltd., London, 63 Thompson Street, New York
“Polyptiques,” Musee du Louvre, Paris
“Le Diaphane,” Musee des Beaux-Arts, France
1989 “Bilderstreit: Wilderspruch, Einheit, und Fragment in der Kunst seit 1960,” organized by the Museum Ludwig, Cologne, at Rheinhallen der Kolner Messe, Cologne
“1989 Biennial Exhibition,” Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
“Art in Place: Fifteen Years of Acquisitions,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
“Abstraction, Geometry, Painting: Selected Geometric Abstract Apinting in America Since 1945,” Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Center for Fine Arts, Miami; Milwaukee Art Museum; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
1988 “Fifty Years of Collecting: An Anniversary Selection – Painting Since World War II: North America,” Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NY
“Amerikkalaista Nykytaidetta/Amerikansk Samtidskunst/Contemporary American Art,” Sara Hilden Art Museum, Tampere, Finland
Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo
“La couleur seule:l’experience du monochrome,” Musee d’Art Contemporain, Lyons
“1988 Carnegie International,” Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
1987 “Works on Paper,” Anthony d’Offay Gallery, London
“The Menil Collection: A Selection from the Paleolithic to the Modern Era,” The Menil Collection, Houston
1986 “An American Renaissance: Painting and Sculpture Since 1940,” Museum
of Art, Fort Lauderdale
“The Barry Lowen Collection,” The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
“Major Acquisitions Since 1980: Selected Paintings and Sculpture,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
“The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1985,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago; Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague
“Individuals: A Selected History of Contemporary Art, 1945-1986” The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
“Abstrakte Malerei aus Amerika und Europa,” Galerie Nachst St. Stephan, Vienna
“Art Minimal II: De la surface au plan,” CAPC Musee d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux
1985 “Selections from the William J. Hokin Collection,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
“Fifty Years of Drawing: 1930 – 1980,” organized by The Menil Collection, Houston, traveled to Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris; Stadtische Galerie im Stadtisches Kunstinstitut, Frankfurt
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
“Von Twombly bis Clemente: Selected Works from a Private Collection,” Kunsballe Basel
“Georg Baselitz/Joseph Beuys/Brice Marden,” Mary Boone/Michael Werner Gallery, New York
“1985 Carnegie International,” Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
1984 “The Tremaine Collection: 20th Century Masters – The Spirit of Modernism,” Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut
“American Art Since 1970,” organized under the auspices of the National Committee of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, traveled to La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California; Museo Tamayo, Mexico City; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska-Lincoln; Center for the Fine Arts, Miami
“The Meditative Surface,” The Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago
“La rime et la raison: Les collections Menil (Houston-New York),” Galleries Nationales du Grand Palais, Paris
“La Grande Parade: Highlights in Painting After 1940,” Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1983 “Abstract Painting: 1960 – 1969,” P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, New York
“Affinities: Myron Stout, Bill Jensen, Brice Marden, Terry Winters,” Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge
“Minimalism to Expressionism: Painting and Sculpture Since 1965,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
“Mangold, Marden, Ryman,” Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
“The First Show: Painting and Sculpture from Eight Collections 1940 – 1980,” The Museum of Contemporary Art/The Temporary Contemporaty, Los Angeles
“In Honor of de Kooning,” Xavier Fourcade, New York
1982 “Surveying the Seventies,” Whitney Museum of American Art, Fairfield County, Connecticut
“’60 – ’80: Attitudes/Concepts/Images,” Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
“Abstract Drawings, 1911 – 1981, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
“The Americans: The Collage,” Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
1981 “A New Spirit in Painting,” Royal Academy of Arts, London
“20 Artists: Yale School of Art 1950-1980,” Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
“Amerikanische Malerei 1930 – 1980,” Haus der Kunst, Munich
“De Picasso a Sol LeWitt: 80 dessins du Musee de Grenoble, Musee des Beaux-Arts, Calais
1980 “Dessins de la Fondation Maeght,” Fondation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
“Sammlung Panza,” Stadtische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf
“American Drawing in Black and Whiten 1970 – 1980,” Brooklyn Museum of Art
1979 “1979 Biennial Exhibition,” Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
“The Reductive Object,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
“The Minimal Tradition,” The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
“The 1970s: New American Painting,” organized by The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, and the International Communication Agency, circulated internationally through 1980
1978 “Art About Art,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh; The Frederick S. Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles; Portland art Museum, Oregon
“Late Twentieth-Century Art from The Sydney and Frances Lewis Foundation Collection,” Anderson Gallery, School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, circulated nationally through May 1983
“American Painting of the 1970s,” Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Newport Beach, California; Oakland Museum of California; Cincinatti Art Museum; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi; Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign
“Grids: Format and Image in 20th Century Art,” The Pace Gallery, New York, Akron Art Museum, Ohio
1977 “1977 Biennial Exhibition,” Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
1976 “Drawing Now,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York; circulated under the auspices of The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, traveled to Kunsthaus Zurich; Stadtliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden; Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna; Tel Aviv Museum of Art
“72nd American Exhibition,” The Art Institute of Chicago
“Minimal Art: Druckgraphik,” Kestner-Gesellsschaft, Hannover
“Three Decades of American Art Selected by the Whitney Museum,” Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo
“American Artists: Anew Decade,” The Detroit Institute of Arts; Fort Worth Art Museum
1975 “Color,” organized under the auspices of The International Council of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, at the Museo de Arte Moderno de Bogota
“Carl Andre, Brice Marden, Bruce Nauman,” Gian Enzo Sperone, NY
“Fourteen Abstract Painters,” Frederick S. Wright Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles
“Marden, Novros, Rothko,” Rice Museum and Sewall Gallery, Rice University, Houston
“Fundamentele Schildkundst/Fundamental Painting, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
“USA: Zeichnungen 3,” Stadtische Museum fur modern Kunst, Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
“Funkties van teken/Functions of Drawing,” Kroller-Muller Museum, Otterlo, Netherlands
“Recent Drawings: William Allan, James Bishop, Veja Celmins, Brice Marden, Jim Nutt, Alan Saret, Pat Steir, Richard Tuttle,” circulated under the auspices of The American Federation of Arts. New York; traveled to Gallery of Art, University of Alabama in Huntsville; The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey; Cummer Museum of Art, Jacksonville, Florida
“Tendances actuelles de la nouvelle peinture americane,” ARC2, Musee d”Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
“Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture of the ‘60s and the ‘70s from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection,” Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
“David Novros/Brice Marden,” Texas Gallery, Houston
“Drawings,” Bykert Gallery, New York
“Works on Paper,” Greenberg Gallery of Contemporary Art, St. Louis
“Prints,” Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
“Drawings,” Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
1974 “Strata: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints by Ellsworth Kelly, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Robert Ryman, and Cy Twombly,” Royal College of Art Galleries, London
“Brice Marden: Etchings and Drawings/David Novros: Paintings,” Bykert Gallery, New York
“Some Recent American Art,” organized under the auspices of The International Council of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, traveled to National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Art Gallery of South Australia, Perth; Auckland City Art Gallery
“Geplante Malerie,” Westfalischer Kunstverein Munster; Galleria del Milione, Milan
“Five Artists: A Logic of Vision,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
“New Painting: Stressing Surface,” Katonah Gallery, Katonah, New York
“Continuing Abstraction in American Art,” Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown Branch, New York
“Eight Contemporary Artists,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1973 “Gallery Group Show,” Bykert Gallery, New York
“1973 Biennial Exhibition: Contemporary American Art,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
“Arte come Arte,” Centro Comunitario di Brera, Milan
“Options and Alternatives: Some Directions in Recent Art,” Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
“American Drawings 1963 – 1973,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
“Une exposition de peinture reunissant certains peintres qui mettraient la peinture en question,” 16 Place Vendome, Paris; International Cultural Centre, Antwerp; Stadtisches Museum, Monchengladbach, Germany
“American Art: Third Quarter Century,” Seattle Art Museum Pavilion
“Prospect ’73: Maler, Painters, Peintres,” Stadtische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf
“Art and Things: Painting in the Sixties from the Michener Collection,” Michener Galleries, University Art Museum, The University of Texas at Austin
“Contemporanea,” Parcheggio di Villa Borghese, Rome
1972 “Painting: New Options,” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
“Painting and Sculpture Today 1972,” Indianapolis Museum of Art
“Eight New York Painters,” University of California Berkley Art Museum
“Drawings/72,” Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston
“70th American Exhibition,” The Art Institute of Chicago
“Documenta 5,” Kassel
“Actualite d’un Bilan,” Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
“The Michener Collection: American Painting of the Twentieth Century,” Michener Galleries, University Art Museum, The University of Texas at Austin
1971 “The Structure of Color,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
“Drawings USA/’71,” Minnesota Museum of American Art, St. Paul
“Lynda Benglis/Porfirio di Donna/Sol LeWitt/Brice Marden/Dorthea Rockburne/Robert Ryman/Richard Tuttle, Bykert Gallery, New York
“Drawings and Prints,” Bykert Gallery, New York
“Invitational,” University Gallery, University of Massachusetts at Amherst
“Aspects of Current Painting: New York,” Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, New York
“White on White: The White Monochrome in the 20th Century,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
1970 “Brice Marden/Bob Duran,” Bykert Gallery, New York
“The Drawing Society of New York Regional Exhibition: 1970,” Cooper-Hewitt Museum of Decorative Arts and Design, Smithsonian Institution, New York, circulated nationally under the auspices of the American Federation of Arts, New York
“Brice Marden – Jo Baer: Major Works,” Gordon Locksley Gallery, Minneapolis
“Modular Painting,” Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
“Gallery Group Show,” Bykert Gallery, New York
“L’art vivant aux Etats-Unis,” Foundation Maeght, Saint-Paul-de-Vence, France
“American Drawings,” Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris
“Drawings by New York Artists,” Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah, Salt Lake City; Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle; Arizona State University Art Museum, Tempe; Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens
“Drawing Show,” Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston
1969 “Concept,” Vassar College Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, New York
“Prospect ’69,” Stadtische Kunshalle, Dusseldorf
“Drawings: An Exhibition of American Drawings,” Fort Worth Art Center Museum
“1969 Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Painting,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1968 “Painting and Sculpture,” Bykert Gallery, New York
1967 “Drawings 1967,” Ithaca College Museum of Art, Ithaca, New York
“Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture 1967,” Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
“Gallery Group Show,” Bykert Gallery, New York
“A Romantic Minimalism,” Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
“Rejective Art,” circulated under the auspices of the American Federation of the Arts, New York, traveled to University of Omaha, Nebraska; The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Rudolph E. Lee Gallery, College of Architecture, Clemson University, Clemson, South Carolina
1966 “Park Palace Invitational,” Park Place Gallery, New York
1965 “Drawings Benefit: The Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts,” Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
1963 “7 Yale Painters,” Munson Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
1960 “The Second Competitive Drawing Exhibition,” Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, Connecticut



Selected Solo Exhibitions:
1999 “Brice Marden, Work of the 1990s: Paintings, Drawings and Prints,” Dallas Museum of Art; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.; Miami Art Museum; Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
1998 “Brice Marden Drawings: The Whitney Museum of American Art Collection,” The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1997 “Brice Marden: Two New Paintings with Five Tang Dynasty Epitaphs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New YOrk
“Brice Marden: Work Books 1964 – 1995,” Stadtliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich; Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; Wexner Center for the Arts, The State University of Ohio, Columbus; Harvard University Art Museums, Cambridge, Massachusetts
1996 “Brice Marden,” Thomas Ammann Fine Art, Zuich
1995 “Brice Marden: Drawings 1964 – 1994,” PaceWildenstein, New York
“Brice Marden: New Paintings and Drawings,” Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
1994 “Brice Marden: Etchings,” Annemarie Verna, Zurich
1993 “Brice Marden: Paintings, Drawings, Etchings,” Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
“Brice Marden,” Museum fur Gegenwartskunst, Basel; Museum Fridericianum, Kassel
“Brice Marden: Paintings 1985 – 1993,” Kunsthalle, Bern; Vienna Secession; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
“Brice Marden: A Painting, Drawings, and Prints,” The Saint Louis Art Museum
1992 “Brice Marden Prints: 1961 – 1991,” Tate Gallery, London; Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris; The Baltimore Museum of Art
1991 “Brice Marden: The Grove Group,” Gagosain Gallery, New York
“Connections: Brice Marden,” Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
“Brice Marden: Prints from the Early Seventies,” Curwen Gallery, London
“Brice Marden – Cold Mountain,” Dia Center for the Arts, Minneapolis; The MenilCollection, Houston; Museo National Reina Sofia, Madrid; Stadtisches Kunstmuseum Bonn
1989 “Brice Marden,” Galerie Maichael Werner, Cologne





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