John Berggruen Gallery
Mark di Suvero
Biography
Born: Shanghai, China, 1933Immigrated to the United States, 1941
Education: 1953-54 San Francisco City College
1954-55 University of California, Santa Barbara
1956 University of California, Berkeley, B.A. Philosophy
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS:
1960 The Green Gallery, New York, NY
1964 Park Place Gallery, New York, NY
1965 Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1966 Park Place Gallery, New York, NY
1967 Park Place Gallery, New York, NY
1968 LoGiudice Gallery, Chicago, IL
1972 Stedelijk Van Abbe Museum, Eindhoven and City of Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Wilhelm Lehmbrück Museum, Duisburg, Germany
1972-74 City of Chalon-sur-Saône, France (in cooperation with Centre National de Recherche, d’Animation et de Creation pour les Art Plastiques, Le Creusot, France)
1975 Le Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, France
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY: City-wide
1979 ConStruct, Chicago, IL
1980-81 Ace Gallery, Venice, CA
1983 Oil & Steel Gallery, New York City, NY
John Berggruen Gallery at Esprit Park, San Francisco, CA
1985 Oil & Steel Gallery, Long Island City, NY, Exhibition of Mahatma
Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY
1986 Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1987 Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1987-88 Oil & Steel Gallery, Long Island City, NY Exhibition of Quantum
1988 Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
1989-91 Oil & Steel Gallery, Long Island City, NY, Exhibition of Mozart’s Birthday
1990 City of Valence, France
Galerie de France, Paris
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
1991-95 Oil & Steel Gallery, Long Island City, NY, Exhibition of Yoga
1991 Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain de Nice, and City of Nice, France
Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
1992 Chalon-sur-Saône, France
Galerie Heike Curtze, Vienna, Austria
Verein fur Heimatpflege, Viersen, Germany
1993 Musée de Brest, Passerelle, France
Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
Rettig y Martinez Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
John Berggruen Gallery at Esprit Park, San Francisco, CA
1994 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez, Valencia, Spain
1995 Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY
Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
Venezia Biennale XLVI, Venice, Italy
Oil & Steel Gallery, Long Island City, NY, Exhibition of She
1996 The Sheldon Art Museum, Lincoln, NE
Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY
Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Weigand Gallery, Belmont, CA
Galerie Jeanne-Bucher, Paris, France
1997 Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
Mark di Suvero in Paris, Paris, France: City-wide
1998 Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
The Hiroshima Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1999 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000 Danese Gallery, New York, NY
2001 Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
2002 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
2003 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
Akira Ikeda Gallery/Berlin, Berlin, Germany
2004 Albion, Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art Limited, London, England
Madison Square Park, New York, NY
Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, grand Rapids, MI
2005 Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY
Knoedler & Company, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1959 March Gallery, New York, NY
1961 The Green Gallery, New York, NY
1962 The Green Gallery, New York, NY
Continuity and Change, The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
1963 66th Annual American Exhibition: Directions in Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, The Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Park Place Gallery, New York, NY
1964 Recent American Sculpture, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
Park Place Gallery, New York, NY
1965 Contemporary American Sculpture, Musee Rodin, Paris, France
The Green Gallery, New York, NY
Park Place Gallery, New York, NY
1966 Contemporary American Sculpture Section I, assembled by the Howard and Jean Lipman Foundation and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; traveled in NY State
Art of the United States: 1670-1966: Contemporary American Sculpture and Prints, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Annual Exhibition 1966: Contemporary American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Park Place Gallery, New York, NY
Toronto Symposium, Toronto, Canada
1967 Sculpture International, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
American Sculpture of the Sixties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
7 for 67: Works by Contemporary American Sculptors, The Saint Louis Art Museum, MO
Park Place Gallery, New York, NY
1968 1968 Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Plus by Minus, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Walter de Maria/ Mark di Suvero/ Richard Serra, Noah Goldowsky Gallery, New York, NY
Documenta IV, Kassel, Germany
Martin Luther King Benefit, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1969-70 New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940-1970, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
1970 Monumental Art, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
11th Biennale, Middelheim Sculpture Garden, Antwerp, Belgium
1972 Art in Space, Detroit Institute of the Arts, MI
Sculpture off the Pedestal, Grand Rapids Art Museum, MI
American Art – 3rd Quarter Century, Seattle Art Museum, WA
1973 American Drawings 1963-73, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Internationale Gartenbau-Ausstellung, Hamburg, Germany
New York Collection for Stockholm, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
A Selection of Recent Drawings, Noah Goldowsky Gallery, New York, NY
1974 Sculpture in the Park, Grant Park, Chicago, IL
Public Sculpture/urban Environment. The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
Drawings: Studies for Unrealized Work for the University of Nevada. University Art Gallery, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV
The Condition of Sculpture. Hayward Gallery, London, England
1975 Artist Make Toys, The Institute for Contemporary Art, P.S.I Museum and the Clocktower Gallery, New York, NY
Monument Sculpture, Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, TX
1976 Biennale of Sydney, North Sydney, Australia
California Painting and Sculpture: The Modern Era. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
1977 Projects/New Urban Monuments, Akron Art Institute, OH
California Collections, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
1978 Inaugural Exhibition of the Wave Hill Sculpture Garden, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY
New York: The State of Art. New York State Museum, Albany, NY
California: 3 By 8 Twice. Honolulu Academy of Arts, Hawaii
Group Show, ConStruct, Chicago, IL
Janie C. Lee Gallery, Houston, TX
1979 On Sculpture, Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, NY
The Prospect Mountain Sculpture Show. Lake George Arts Project, Lake George, NY
1980 Homage to Picasso, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
American Sculpture: Gifts of Howard and Jean Lipman, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Ten Abstract Sculptures: American and European 1940-1980. Max Hutchison Gallery, New York, NY
Urban Encounters: Art, Architecture, Audience. Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
1981 Contemporary Painting/Sculpture I. Oil & Steel Gallery, New York, NY
1982 Contemporary Painting/Sculpture II + III. Oil & Steel Gallery, New York, NY
20 American Artists: Sculpture 1982. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
1983 Sculpture: The Tradition in Steel. Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
The First Show: Painting and Sculpture from Eight Collections. 1940-1980. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
1984 Contemporary Painting and Sculpture: 1957-1984. Oil & Steel Gallery, New York, NY
Painting and Sculpture, Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1985 Sense and Sensibility, Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Ontogeny: Sculpture and Painting by 20th Century American Sculptors. New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, New York, NY
International Exhibition VII, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
The Third Dimension: Sculpture of the New York School. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1986 Oil & Steel Gallery, Long Island City, NY
An American Renaissance: Painting and Sculpture Since 1940. Museum of Art, For Lauderdale, FL
American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Selected Works of 20th Century Masters. John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Indoor/Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition. El Bohio Community and Cultural Center, New York, NY
The Second Newport Biennial: The Bay Area. Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
Inaugural Exhibition, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
Sculpture, Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Individuals: A Selected History of Contemporary Art 1945-1986. The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
1987 Oil & Steel Gallery, Long Island City, NY
Sculpture: Walk On/Sit Down/Go Through, Socrates Park, Long Island City, NY
Outside In: Socrates Sculpture Park, City Gallery, New York, NY
Aspects of Collage, Assemblage and the Found Object in the 20th Century, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
1988 Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
Selected Sculpture, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Sculpture Since the Sixties from the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art at Equitable Center, New York, NY
1989 Oil & Steel Gallery, Long Island City, NY
10th Anniversary, Tasende Gallery, La Jolla, CA
The “Junk” Aesthetic: Assemblage of the 1950’s and Early 1960’s. Whitney Museum of American Art at Equitable Center, New York, NY
A Decade of American Drawing. Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
1990 Sculpture City. Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
Sculpture. Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
Group Exhibition. Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1991 Grass Roots Art Energy. Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
1992 Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
Akira Ikeda Gallery, Taura, Japan
Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Table Sculpture by Modern and Contemporary Masters. Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York, NY
Winter’s Edge. Okun Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
1993 The Second Dimension” Twentieth Century Sculptor’s Drawings from the Brooklyn Museum, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM
1994 Le Temps d’un Dessin, Galerie de l’Ecole des Beaux Arts de Lorient, France
Spring Equinox Exhibition, Tasenade Gallery, La Jolla, CA
Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
Self Portrait, David Rettig Fine Arts, Inc., Santa Fe, NM
New Sculpture, L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
The Essential Gesture, Newport Harbor Arts Museum, Newport Beach, CA
Another Dimension: Paintings by Sculptors. John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
1995 T. Curtsnoc Fine Arts, N. Miami, FL
Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Twentieth Century American Sculpture II, The White House, Washington D.C.
Environmental Sculptures, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
1996 T. Curtsnoc Fine Arts, N. Miami, FL
tenth anniversary season, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
The Human Body in Contemporary American Sculpture, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
The Phillip Johnson Collection, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Sculpture Garden at 590 Madison Avenue, New York, NY
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Isetan Museum of Art, Japan
Franconia Sculpture Park, Shaffer, MI
Masters of American Sculpture, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
1997 International 97, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
Boom, T. Curtsnoc Fine Arts, N. Miami, FL
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
Two Sculptors Gallery, New York, NY
The Nasher Collection, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY
1998 all that is solid, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, NY
The Edward R. Broida Collection: A Selection of Works, Orlando, FL
100 Years of Sculpture: From the Pedestal to the Pixel, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
1999 Group Show, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
Contemporary Abstraction, Klein Art Works, Chicago, IL
The American Century: Art and Culture 1900-2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
RE-STRUCTURE, Grinnell College Art Gallery, Grinnell, IA
2000 Welded Sculpture in the Twentieth Century, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, New York
Acquisitions, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Renzo Piano, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris France
2001 Venice Art Walk, Venice, CA
Mark di Suvero/Renzo Piano/Nasher Sculpture Center, Galerie Bruno Mory, Besanceuil, France
Sculpture, Drawings and Works in Relief, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Mark di Suvero, Ellsworth Kelly, Donald Judd, Sol Lewitt, Rudolph Stingel: Sculpture, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
2002 Oh Beautiful!: American Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003 Sculpture Monumentale, Galerie Bruno Mory, Chateau de Flecheres Fareins, France
Intuition and Response: Masterworks from the Edward Broida Collection, Jacksonville Museum of Art, Jacksonville, FL
2004 Moved, Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, New York, NY
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Landeshauptstadt, Stuttgart, Germany
Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
Landesmuseum fur Teknik und Arbeit, Mannheim, Germany
La Ville Chalon-sur-Saône, France
La Ville de Valence, France
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Musée de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Museo Italo Americano, San Francisco, CA
National Gallery of Art, Canberra, Australia
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Rijksmuseum Kroller-Muller, Otterlo, The Netherlands
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
The City of Baltimore, Baltimore, MD
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
MARK DI SUVERO CATALOGS:
Mark di Suvero. Grand Rapids, Michigan: Frederik Meijer Gardens & Sculpture Park, 2004-2005
Mark di Suvero. London, England: Albion, Michael Hue-Williams Fine Art Ltd., 2004.
Mark di Suvero: Dragons in the Sky. St. Louis, Missouri: Laumeier Sculpture Park, 2003-2005
Mark di Suvero: Sculptures and Paintings. Berlin, Germany: Akira Ikeda Gallery/Berlin, 2003-2004
Beasacier, Hubert. Mark di Suvero. Besanceuil, France: Galerie Bruno Mory, 2001
Mark di Suvero: Orange County. Newport Beach, CA: Orange County Museum of Art, 1998
Mark di Suvero – Paris. Paris, France: Galerie Jeanne-Bucher, 1997
Mark di Suvero: The Hands, Belmont, CA: Wiegand Gallery, 1996
Sandler, Irving. Mark di Suvero at Storm King Art Center. Mountainville, NY, 1996
Carandente, Giovanni, et al. Mark di Suvero a Venezia. Milan, Italy: PradaMilanoArt/Charta, 1995
Mark di Suvero a Venezia. Venice, Italy: Gagosian Gallery, 1995
Mark di Suvero. Valencia, Spain: IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez, 1994-1995
Mark di Suvero. San Francisco, CA: John Berggruen Gallery, 1994
Mark di Suvero, Open Secret: 1990-1992. New York, NY: Gagosian Gallery/Rizzoli International, 1993
Beasacier, Hubert. Mark di Suvero: Extase. Brest. Ville de Brest, France, 1993
Bunk, Renate Luis, et al. Mark di Suvero, New Star. Stadt Viersen, Alemania, 1992
Dobbels, Daniel, et al. Mark di Suvero: Retrospective. Niza: Musee d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, 1991
Mark di Suvero. Nagoya, Japan: Akira Ikeda Gallery, 1992
Mark di Suvero: Valence. Ville de Valence, France, 1990
Mark di Suvero: Paris 1990. Paris, France: Galerie de France, 1990
Mark di Suvero. Stuttgart, Germany: Wurttembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, 1998
Mark di Suvero: New Sculpture. Tokyo, Japan: Akira Ikeda Gallery, 1987.
Mark di Suvero: Major Outdoor Sculpture. San Francisco, CA: John Berggruen Gallery, 1983
Mark di Suvero. Los Angeles, CA: Gemini G.E.L. 1979-1981
Monte, James K. Mark di Suvero. New York, NY: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1975
Evrard, Marcel, et al. Mark di Suvero. Chalon sur Saone, France: C.R.A.C.A.P., 1975
Mark di Suvero: Skulpturen im Freien. Duisberg, Germany: Wilhelm Lembruck Museum, 1972
Mark di Suvero. Eindhoven, The Netherlands: Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, 1972.
Artist Works
Frog Legs
2002
steel
26' 8" height x 11' radius
Ulalu
2001
stainless steel, painted steel
319 x 360 x 180 inches
Webatuck
2004
stainless steel, steel
64 x 51 x 57 inches
John Berggruen Gallery | Artist | Mark di Suvero
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