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1949 Born in New York. Livesand works in New York
Education
1973 California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California, M.F.A
1971 New York University, New York, B.A.
Solo Exhibitions
2010 Mary Boone Gallery, New York (forthcoming)
2005 Galerie Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria
2003 Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Lehmann Maupin, New York
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, Colorado
2002 Mary Boone Gallery, New York
2001 Wilma Tolksdorf Gallery, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Galleria in Arco, Torino, Italy and Galleria Raffaelli,
Trento, Italy (cat.)
Mary Boone Gallery, New York
2000 Vaknin Schwartz Gallery, Atlanta
Victoria Miro gallery, England
Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta
Rebecca Camhi Gallery, Athens, Greece
Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland
Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston
Lococo Mulder Fine Art, Germany
Interim Art, London
Wetterling Teo, Singapore
1999 Emilio Mazzoli Galleria d’Arte Contemporanea, Modena, Italy
Heland Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm
Betsy Senior Gallery, New York
Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque
Martin Browne Fine Art, Sydney, Australia
1998 Lehmann Maupin, New York
Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, Colorado
Julie M. Gallery, Tel Aviv
Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, East Hampton, New York
“Ross Bleckner: The Last Decade,” Patrick Painter, Santa
Monica, California
Galerie Aglutinador, Havana, Cuba
1997 Bawag Foundation, Vienna
Galerie Larsen, Stockholm
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
Robert McClain & Company, Houston, Texas
Turner & Runyon Gallery, Dallas, Texas
1996 Galleria S.A.L.E.S., Rome
Larry Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills, California
Galerie Kyoko Chirathivar, Bangkok
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, Colorado
Mary Boone Gallery, New York
1995 University Art Gallery, University of California, San Diego, La
Jolla
Rebecca Camhi Gallery, Athens, Greece
Off Shore Gallery, East Hampton, New York
I.V.A.M., Centre Julio Gonzalez, Valencia, Spain
Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo, Normay
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston
Barbara Davis Gallery, Houston, Texas
1994 Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris
Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Turner & Byrne Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid
1993 Kohn Abrams Gallery, Los Angeles
Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York
Galerie Max Hetzler, Köln, Germany
Galerie 56, Budapest
Baumgartner Galleries, Washington, DC
Jason Rubell Gallery, Miami Beach, Florida
1992 Galerie Samia Saouma, Paris
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris
1991 Jason Rubell Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida
Fred Hoffman Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
1990 Kölnischer Kunstverein, Köln
Kunsthalle ZĂĽrich, ZĂĽrich
Heland Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm
Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
1989 Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston
Galerie Max Hetler, Köln, Germany
1988 Mary Boone Gallery, New York
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
Waddington Galleries, London
1987 Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
Mary Boone Gallery, New York
1986 Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston
1985 Boston Museum School, Boston
1984 Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Nature Morte Gallery, New York
1983 Mary Boone Gallery, New York
1982 Portico Row Gallery, Philadelphia
Patrick Verelist Galerie, Antwerpen, Belgium
1981 Mary Boone Gallery, New York
1980 Mary Boone Gallery, New York
1979 Mary Boone Gallery, New York
1977 Cunningham Ward Gallery, New York
1976 John Doyle Gallery, Chicago
1975 Cunningham Ward Gallery, New York
Group Exhibitions
2009 Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
2007 “Artists of the Hamptons”, Leila Heller Gallery, New York
“Pop Culture”, Leila Heller Gallery, New York
2006 I Love My Scene: Scene 3, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
2004 Birdspace: A Post-Audubon Artist’s Aviary, Hudson River
Museum, Yonkers, New York
Cultivating Landscape, Scott White Contemporary Art, San
Diego
Dialogue with Space, Esbjerg Art Museum, Denmark
Flowers, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Flowers Observed, Flowers Transformed, The Andy Warhol
Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
2002 Self and Soul: The Architecture of Intimacy,” Asheville Art
Museum, North Carolina, USA
Church of San Giorgio in Poggiale, Bologna, Italy
2001 Operativo, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City
2000 Works in Light, Galerie Beyler, Germany
Drawings 2000, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
1999 The Storytellers, Itochu Gallery, Japan
Botanica: Contemporary Art and the World of Plants, Tweed
Museum of Art, University of Duluth, Duluth, Minnesota
Collectors Collect Contemporary: 1990-1999, The Institute of
Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts (catalogue)
A room with a view, Sixth@Prince Fine Art, New York
Post-Hypnotic, University Galleries, Illinois State University,
Normal, Illinois
1998 Puntos Cardinales, Museo Alejandro Otero, Caracas,
Venezuela
Paper Thin, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, California
1997 A Reversal of Scale, Turner & Runyon Gallery, Dallas
Ross Bleckner, Mark Francis, Leigh Martin, Mervyn Williamss,
GOW Langsford, Auckland, New Zealand
Intimate Universe (Revisited), Robert Steele Gallery, New
York/James Howe Fine Arts/ Gallery, Kean University, Union,
New Jersey
Identity Crisis: Self-Portraiture at the End of the Century,
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin/ Aspen Art
Museum, Aspen, Colorado
Table Tops: Morandi’s Still Life’s to Mapplethorpe’s Flower
Studies, California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido,
California
Birth of the Cool: American Painting, Kunsthaus ZĂĽrich,
ZĂĽrich/Deichtorhallen Hamburg
After the Fall: Aspects of Abstract Painting since 1970,
Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor
Cultural Center, Staten Island, New York
1996 Blind Spot: The First Four Years, Paolo Baldacci Gallery, New
York
The Modern Landscape, Queens Library Gallery, Jamaica,
New York
Nuevas Abstracciones, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina
Sofia, Madrid, Spain/Kunsthallebielefeld, Bielefeld,
Germany/Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Barcelona
On Paper II, Schmidt Contemporary Art, Saint Louis, Missouri
Painting- Singular Object, The National Museum of Modern
Art, Kyoto, Japan/ The National Museum of Modern Art,
Tokyo, Japan (catalogue)
1995 Passions Privees, Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris,
Paris, France
Ross Bleckner, Peter Cain, Judith Eisler, Jack Pierson, Juan
Usle,
Christopher Wool, Galleri K, Oslo, Norway
American Interiors, Knoedler & Company, New York
New York Abstract, Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans,
Louisiana
Making a Mark: Drawings of the 1980s, The Bruce Museum,
Greenwich, Connecticut
Critiques of Pure Abstraction, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery,
University of Houston, Houston, Texas
In a Different Light, University Art Museum, University of
California, Berkeley, California
1994 Painting, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Desire, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York
Abstract Works on Paper, Robert Miller Gallery, New York
Painting and Sculpture: recent Aquisitions,, The Museum of
Modern Art, New York
30 Years- Art in the Present Tense, The Aldrich Museum of
Modern Art, New York
Inaugural Group Show, Off Shore Gallery , East Hampton,
New York
Absence, Activism and the Body Politic, Fishbach Gallery, New
York
Against All Odds: The Healing Powers of Art, The Ueno Royal
Museum, Tokyo, Japan/ The Hakone Open-Air Museum,
Tokyo, Japan
The Inward Eye: Ross Bleckner, Richmond Burton, Julian
Lethbridge Laura Carpenter Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Isn’t It Romantic?, On Crosby Street, New York
From Media to Metaphor: Art About AIDS, Grey Art Gallery,
New York University, New York
New York on Paper, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
1993 New York on Paper, Galerie Ernst Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
Italy-America Abstraction Redefined, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte
Moderna, San Marino
Extravagant: The Economy of Elegance, Tony Shafrazi Gallery,
New York/ Russisches Kulturzentrum, Berlin, Germany
I am the Enunciator, Thread Waxing Space, New York
Intimate Universe, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, New York
1992 Intimate Universe, Michael Walls Gallery, New York
Transmodern, Baumgartner Galleries, Washington, D.C.
Slow Art: Painting in New York Now, P.S. 1 Museum, Long
Island City, New York
Then and Now, Phillippe Staib Gallery, New York
Contemporary Masterworks, Feigen Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Theoretically Yours, Chiesa di San Lorenzo di Aosta, Italy
Recent Abstract Painting, Cleveland Center for Contemporary
Art, Cleveland, Ohio
A Passion for Art: Watercolors and Works on Paper, Tony
Shafrazi Gallery, New York
Easel Painting, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York
The City Influence: Ross Bleckner, Peter Halley, Jonathan
Lasker, Museum of Contemporary Art, Wright State
University,
Dayton, Ohio
Devils on the Stairs: Looking Back on the Eighties, Newport
Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California
1991 Devils on the Stairs: Looking Back on the Eighties
Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The New Abstraction, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Outrageous Desire, Rutgers University, Rutgers, New Jersey
Anni 80: Aristi a New York, Palazzo delle Albere, Museo
Provinciale d’Arte Sezione Contemporanea, Trento, Italy
La Metafisica della Luce, John Good Gallery, New York
From Media to Metaphore: Art About AIDS, Independent
Curators Incorporated, New York
Nayland Blake, Ross Bleckner, Donald Moffatt, Simon Watson
Gallery, New York
Metropolis, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany
Mitto y Magia en America: Los Ochenta, Museo de Arte
Contemporaneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico
Who Framed Modern Art or the Quantitative Life of Roger
Rabbit. Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Weitersehen, Museum Haus Esters and Museum Haus
Lange, Krefeld, Germany
Inconsolable, Louver Gallery, New York
The Last Decade: American Artists of the 80s, Tony Shafrazi
Gallery, New York
Token Gestures (A Painting Show), Scott Hanson Gallery, New
York
10 + 10: Contemporary Soviet and American Painters,
Tsentralnyi Zystavochnyi Zal, Leningrad, USSR/ Tsentralnyi
Zal Khudozhnikov, Tbilisi, USSR/ Artists’ Union Hall of the
Tretyakov Embankment, Moscow, USSR/ The Corcoran
Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C./ Milwaukee Art Museum,
Milwaukee,Wisconsin
1989 The Silent Baroque, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg,
Austria
Re-presenting the 80s, Simon Watson Gallery, New York
Viennese divan: Sigmund Freud Nowadays, Museum of the
20th Century, Vienna, Austria
10 + 10: Contemporary Soviet and American Painters,
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York/ San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California/ Modern
Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas
Prospect 89, Frankfurt Kunstverein and Schirn Kunsthalle,
Frankfurt, Germany
1989 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York
Pre-Pop Post-Appropriation, Stux Gallery, New York
Epiphanies, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York
1988 Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg,
Pennsylvania
Hybrid Neutral: Modes of Abstraction and the Social,
Independent Curators Incorporated, New York
Art at the End of the Social, The Rooseum, Malmo, Sweden
The Binational/Die Binationale,, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf,
Dusseldorf, Germany/Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Image of Abstraction, The Museum of Contemporary Art,
Los Angeles, California
Biennial of Sydney, Sydney, Australia
1987 Fall Invitational, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art,
Ridgefield, Connecticut
Armitage Ballet Benefit, Mary Boone Gallery, New York/
Ronald Greenberg Gallery, Saint Louis
The Ironic Sublime, Galerie Albrecht, Munich, Germany
Post-Abstract Abstraction, The Aldrich Museum of
Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Awards in the Visual Arts 6, Grey Art Gallery, New York
University, New York
1987 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York
Still Life, Beyond Tradition, Visual Arts Museum, New York
Atelier Conversations, John Good Gallery, New York
The Antique Future, Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York
1986 Intuitive Line, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York/ Christine
Burgin Gallery, New York
Landscapes. Luhring, Augustine and Hodes Gallery, New York
Emerging Artists 1986, Cleveland Center for Contemporary
Art, Cleveland, Ohio
End Game: Reference and Simulation in Recent American
Painting and Sculpture, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston,
Massachusetts
Paravision II, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California,
Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, Pat Hearn Gallery, New
York
1985 Cult and Decorum, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York
Lawrence Oliver Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Vernacular Abstraction, Wacoal Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
Paravision, Postmasters Gallery, New York
Final Love, Cash/Newhouse, New York
From Organism to Architecture, New York Studio School,
New York
Abstract Painting Redefined, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New
York
Group Drawing Show, New York Studio School, New York
1984 Still Life with Transaction II: Former Objects, New Moral
Arrangements, and the History of Surfaces, Galerie Jurka,
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Sex, Cable Gallery, New York
Natural Genre, Florida State University Gallery and Museum,
Tallahassee, Florida
Personal Views, Janus Gallery, Los Angeles, California
The Innovative Landscape, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
Still Life with Transaction: Former Objects, New Moral
Arrangements, and the History of Surfaces, International with
Monument Gallery, New York
Civilization and the Landscape of Discontent, Nature Morte
Gallery, New York
The Meditative Surface, The Renaissance Society, University
of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Newscapes-Land and City/States of Mind, One Penn Plaza,
New York
Modern Expressionists, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
1983 Science Fiction, John Weber Gallery, New York/ Portico Row
Gallery, Philadelphia
Mary Boone and Her Artists, Seibu Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Contemporary Light, Katherine Markel Gallery, New York
Selected Drawings, Jersey City Museum, Jersey City, New
Jersey
Drawing It Out, Baskerville + Watson Gallery, New York
Mary Boone Gallery, New York
1982 New York in Black and White, The Museum of Modern
Art/Penthouse, New York
Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, California Institute of the Arts,
Valencia, California/ Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New
York/Suzannne Lemberg Usdan Gallery, Bennington College,
Bennington, Vermont
1980 Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Nouva Immagine, Milan, Italy
1979 Four Artists, Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York
Mary Boone Gallery, New York
New Painting/New York, Hayward Gallery, London, England
C Space, New York
1978 University Gallery of Fine Arts, Ohio State University,
Columbus, Ohio
1976 New Work/New York, Fine Arts Gallery, California State
University, Los Angeles, California/John Doyle Gallery,
Chicago, Illinois/ Cunningham Ward Gallery, New York
Recent Work, The Johnson Gallery, Middlebury College,
Middlebury, Vermont
1975 Selected Works: New York, Meadow Brook Art Gallery,
Oakland University, Rochester, Michigan
John Doyle Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Contemporary Reflections, The Aldrich Museum of
Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
1975 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York
Selected Bibliography
2009 “Welcome to Gulu.” The New York Times:Weekend Arts, 5
June.
“Ross Bleckner at Lehmann Maupin, New York.”
Saatchigallery.co.uk, 22 May.
“Ross Bleckner Named U.N. Goodwill Ambassador.”
Artinfo.com, 22 April.
2005 Harrison, Helen, “An Artist’s Investigation of Loss and
Memory,” New York Times, January, 2, Section 14.
2003 Cameron, Dan. “Ross Bleckner talks to Dan Cameron,”
Artforum, March, Pages 230- 231.
2001 Coles, Alex. “Ross Bleckner,” Art Monthly, #242,
December/January.
Yablonsky, Linda. “Ross Bleckner, Mary Boone Gallery,”
Time Out New York, June 7-14.
2000 Morley, Simon. “Ross Bleckner,” The Independent on
Sunday,
Culture, 19 November.
1999 Schwabsky, Barry. “Ross Bleckner: Lehmann Maupin/Mary
Boone,” Artforum, March.
Diehl, Carol. “Ross Bleckner: Mary Boone, Lehmann
Maupin,”Artnews, March
1998 Ebony, David. “Ross Bleckner at Mary Boone and Lehman,”
Art in America, Page 139.
Smith, Roberta. Evocative Cells, “Downtown, All Around,”
The New York Times, November 27th.
Vincent, Steven. “Bleckner at mary Boone and Lehmann
Maupin,” Art & Auction, November 16.
Von Ziegesar, Peter. “Loft Life,” Out.
1994 Cotter, Holland. “Art after Stonewall, Twelve Artists
Interviewed.”
Art in America (New York) 82, pp.56-65.
1993 Seidner, David. “Endless Loss: Ross Bleckner in
Conversation with David Seidner.” Parkett (Zurich), no.38,
pp. 68-70.
1991 Bleckner, Ross. “Interview.” Art and Text (Melbourne), no.
38, pp. 77-78.
1990 Paparoni, Demetrio. “Ein Schleier aus Licht.” Noema Art
Magazine (Austria), no. 28, pp. 33-35.
Landey, Jenny, Bianca Jagger, and Ingrid Sischy. “Ross
Bleckner.” Interview (New York) 20, no. 2, pp. 112-19.
1989 Chua, Lawrence. “Ross Bleckner.” Flash Art International
(Milan), no.149, pp. 122-25.
Paparoni, Demetrio. “A Veil of Light: Ross Bleckner.” Tema
Celeste (Siracusa, Italy) 7, no.3, pp.52-54.
1988 McCarron, John. “Ross Bleckner.” Shift (San Francisco) 1,
no.2, pp. 22-23, 36.
Morgan, Stuart. “Strange Days.” Artscribe (London), no.68,
pp. 48-51.
Ross, David A., and Jürgen Harten. “Ross Bleckner.” in the
Binational: American Art of the Late 80s, German Art of the
Late 80s. Boston: The Institute of Contemporary Art and the
Museum of Fine Arts; Cologne: DuMont, Buchverlag, pp. 58-
61.
Zinsser, John. “Interview with Ross Bleckner.” Journal of
Contemporary Art (New York) 1, no.1, pp. 44-55.
1987 Rankin, Aimee. “Ross Bleckner.” Bomb (New York), no. 9,
pp. 22-27.
Wei, Lilly. “Talking Abstract.” Art in America (New York) 75,
no. 7, pp. 80-97.
Zaya, Octavio. “Entre la luz y la muerte (una conversacion
con Ross Bleckner).” Balcón (Madrid), no. 3, pp. 60-64.
1986 Bleckner, Ross. “Failure, Theft, Love, Plague, Phillip Taaffe.”
Pat Hearn Gallery, NewYork.
Drake, Peter. “Ross Bleckner.” Flash Art International (Milan),
no. 129, pp. 66-67.
Siegel, Jeanne. “Geometry Desurfacing: Ross Bleckner, Alan
Belchner, Ellen Carey, Peter Halley, Sherrie Levine, Phillip
Taafe, Jame Welling.” Arts Magazine (New York) 60, no.7, pp.
26-32.
1983 Bleckner, Ross. “Disavowal and Redemption: An Ideology of
Exhaustion and Renewal.” Effects: Magazine for New Art
Theory (New York)1, Summer 1983, p.15.
1979 Bleckner, Ross. “Transcendental Anti-Fetishism.” Artforum
(New York) 17, no. 7, pp. 50-55.
Museum & Public Collections
Albright-Knox Art Gallery
The Astrup Fearnley Collection
The Eli Broad Family Foundation
The Carnegie Museum of Art
The Chase Manhattan Bank
Fisher Landau Center
Marx Collection
Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Onnash Collection
The Revlon Collection
Rubell Family Collections
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
The Saint Louis Art Museum
Jerry and Emily Spiegel Family Foundation
The Whitney Museum of American Art
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