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Ellsworth Kelly

Biography

Born:

May 23, 1923, Newburgh, New York

Solo Exhibitions:

2002 "Ellsworth Kelly: Works on Paper", John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1994 Installation, The Eli Broad Family Foundation, Santa Monica, CA
"Ellsworth Kelly: The Process of Seeing," Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
"Ellsworth Kelly: Works from the Permanent Collection," Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
"Ellsworth Kelly: Recent Paintings," Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London
1993 "Ellsworth Kelly Prints," Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY
1992 "Ellsworth Kelly: Les Annees Francais, 1948-1954," Galerie Nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris, France
"Ellsworth Kelly: Paintings and Sculpture," Laura Carpenter Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
"Ellsworth Kelly: Plant Drawings," Matthew Marks
Gallery, New York, NY
Installation, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
1991 "Ellsworth Kelly: Selected Graphic Works Published by Maeghteditions, Paris, and Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, 1960s - 1990s," BenedicteSaxe Gallery, Beverly Hills, CA
"Ellsworth Kelly: Wall Reliefs," Jack Glenn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Ellsworth Kelly: At Right Angles," Margo Leavin, Los Angeles, CA
"The Documenta Room," Anthony d'Offay Gallery, London, England
1990 "Portraits," Castelli Graphics, New York, NY
"Ellsworth Kelly Installation: Yellow Curve," Portikus, Frankfurt, Germany
"Artist's Choice: Ellsworth Kelly - Fragmentation and the Single Form" Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1989 "Ellsworth Kelly: Works on Paper," Museum Overholland, Amsterdam
"Ellsworth Kelly's Courtyard Installation," Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
"Ellsworth Kelly: Curves/Rectangles," Blum Helman Gallery, New York, NY
1988 "Ellsworth Kelly: New Work," Blum Helman Gallery, New York, NY
"Ellsworth Kelly: Recent Prints," Castelli Graphics, New York, NY
1987 "Ellsworth Kelly: Seven Painting (1952-55/1987)," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
"Ellsworth Kelly: Works on Paper," Fort Worth Art Museum,
Fort Worth, TX
"Ellsworth Kelly: Small Sculpture 1958-87," List Visual Arts Center, massachusettes Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
"Ellsworth Kelly: A Print Retrospective," The Detroit Instituete of Arts, Detroit, MI
"Ellsworth Kelly: Coral Leaf Drawings," Blum Helman Gallery, New York, NY
1986 "Ellsworth Kelly: Paintings," Blum Helman Gallery, New York, NY
"Ellsworth Kelly: Sculpture," Blum Helman Warehouse, New York, NY
1985 "Ellsworth Kelly: New Paintings," Blum Helman Gallery, New York, NY
"Ellsworth Kely: New Wall Reliefs," Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
"Ellsworth Kelly:Painted Wall Sculptures," Katonah Gallery, Katonah, NY
1984 "Painted Aluminum Wall Sculpture," Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Weather Steel Wall Sculpture," Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
"Ellsworth Kelly: Works in Wood," Blum Helman Gallery, New York, NY
"Ellsworth Kelly: New Editions," Castelli Graphics, New York, NY
1982 "Ellsworth Kelly: Sculpture Retrospective,"Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
"Ellsworth Kelly: Painted Wall Sculptures," John
Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Ellsworth Kelly: New Metal Wall Relief Sculptures," Castelli Graphics, New York, NY
1981 "Ellsworth Kelly," Blum/Helman Gallery, New York, NY
1979 "Ellsworth Kelly: Recent Paintings and
Sculptures," Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
"Ellsworth Kelly: Paintings and Sculptures, 1963-1979," Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
1976 "Ellsworth Kelly: Recent Sculptures," janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, TX
1975 "Ellsworth Kelly: Sculptures," Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
"Ellsworth kelly: Steel and Aluminum Sculptures," Ace Gallery, Venice, CA
1973 "Ellsworth Kelly: Retrospective," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
"The Chatham Series: Paintings by Ellsworth Kelly," Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
1971 "Ellsworth Kelly," Dayton's Gallery 12, Minneapolis, MN
1968 "An Exhibition of Paintings and Sculpture by Ellsworth Kelly," Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY
"Four Paintings and One Sculpture by Ellsworth Kelly," Irving Blum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1967 "New Work by Ellsworth Kelly," Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY
1966 "New Work by Ellsworth Kelly," Ferus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1964 "Ellsworth Kelly," Galerie Maeght, Paris, France
1963 "Ellsworth Kelly: Painting and Sculpture," Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY
"Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings by Ellsworth Kelly," Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, DC
1961 "Ellsworth Kelly," Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY
1959 "Ellsworth Kelly: Painting and Sculpture," Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY
1956 "Ellsworth Kelly," Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY
1951 "Kelly, peintures et reliefs," Galerie Arnaud, Paris, France


Selected Group Exhibitions:

1986 "Natural Forms and Forces: Abstract Images in American Sculpture," Massachusetts Institue of Technology List Visual Arts Center and Bank of Boston Gallery, Cambridge, MA
"In-Tandem: The Painter-Sculptor in the Twentieth Century," Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
"The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting, 1890-1985," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
"Seven Modern Masters," National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
"The Window in Twentieth Century Art," Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, NY
1985 "Drawing Acquisitions," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
"Cinquante Ans de Dessins Americains, 1930-1980," Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris
"A Second Talent: Painters and Sculptors who are also Photographers," Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
1984 "La Grande Parade: Highlights in Painting after 1940," Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
"Ten Painters and Sculptors Draw," Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
"Painted Aluminum Wall Sculpture," Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Weathering Steel Wall sculpture," Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
"Folding Image; Screens by Western Artists of the 19th and 20thCenturies," National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
"Gemini G.E.L.: Art and Collaboration," National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1983 "Drawing Conclusions: A Survey of American Drawings 1958-1983," Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"The Sculptor as Draftsman: Selections from the Permanent Collection," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1982 "Group Show," Janie C. Gallery, Houston, TX
"American Artists Abroad," Washburn Gallery, New York, NY
"'60-'80: Attitudes/Concepts/Images - A Selection from Twenty Years of Visual Arts," Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
"The New York School, Four Decades: Guggenheim Museum Collection and Major Loans," Solomon R.Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
"Works in Wood," Margo Leavin Gallery, New York, NY
"Steel Scupture," Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA
"Group Show," Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
1981 "1981 Biennial Exhibition," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
"Tracking the Marvelous," Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York, University, New York, NY
"Paris-Paris/Creations en France: 1937-1957," Centre National d'Art et de Culture, Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
"Cast, Carved and Constructed: An exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture," Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1980 "Sculpture on the Wall: Relief Sculpture of the Seventies," University of Massachusetts, Fine Arts Center, Amherst, MA
"American Sculpture: Gifts of Howard and Jean Lipman," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
"20 American Artists," San Francisco, Museum of Modern Art,
San Francisco, CA
"Group Show," Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
1979 "1979 Biennial Exhibition," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
"The 36th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting," The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
"Contemporary Sculpture: Selection from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art," New York, NY
1978 "Twentieth Century Sculpture," John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Masters of Modern Sculpture," Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
"Inside Outside Sculpture," Laumeire Sculpture Park Sunset Hills, MS
"Grids: Format and Image in 20th Century Art, " Pace Gallery, New York, NY
1977 "Paris-New York," Centre National d'Art et de Culture Georges Pompidou, Musee National d'Art Modern, Paris, France
1976 "Seventy-second American Exhibition," Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
"200 Years of American Sculpture," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1975 "Matrix I," Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
"Monumental Sculpture in the 1970s for Civic, Private, and Corporate Places," Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, TX
"Artist and Fabricator," University of Massachusetts, Fine Arts Center Gallery, Amherst, MA
"Sculpture: American Directions, 1945-1975," National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
1974 "Nine Artits/Coenties Slip," Whitney Museum of Art, Downtown Branch, New York, NY
1973 "1973 Biennial Exhibition: Contemporary American Art," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1971 "Tehnics and Creativity: Gemini G.E.L.," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1970 "String and Rope," Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY
"Color," UCLA Art Galleries, Los Angeles, CA
1969 "Contemporary American Sculpture: Selection 2," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
"New York Painting and Sculpture, 1940-1970," Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
"Fourteen Sculptors: The Industrial Edge," Dayton's Auditorium, Minneapolis, MN
1968 "Recent Acquisitions: June 1, 1967-May 10, 1968," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
"Documenta 4: Internationale Ausstellung," Museum Fridericanum, Kassel, Germany
"The Art of the Real: USA 1948-1968," Museum of Modern Art,
New York, NY
"1968 Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Sculpture," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1967 "American Sculpture of the Sixties," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
"Guggenheim International Exhibition, 1967" Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
1966 "Primary Structures: Younger American and British Sculptors," The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
"Helen Frankenthaler, Ellsworth Kelly, Roy Lichtenstein, Jules Olitski," 33rd Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
"New Shapes of Color," Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
"Annual Exhibition, 1966: Contemporary Sculpture and Prints," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1964 "Post-Painterly Abstraction," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
"Sculpture Pavilion," World's Fair, New York State Pavilion, Flushing, New York
1963 "Black and White," Jewish Museum, New York, NY
1962 "65th American Exhibition: Some Directions in Contemporary Painting and Sculpture," Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
"Geometric Abstraction in America," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1961 "The 1961 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture," Carnegie Institute, Department of Fine Arts, Pittsburgh
1959 "Sixteen Americans," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1956 "Group Show," New School For Social Research, New York
1950 "Premier Salon des jeunes peintres," Galerie Beaux-Arts, Paris, France





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