Oli Sihvonen

Education

1946-48 , North Carolina 1938-1941 The Art Students League of New York 1933-38 Norwich Art School, Connecticut

Selected Exhibitions

2011 Oli Sihvonen: The Final Years, The Harwood Museum of Art, Taos, NM 2008 Museu d'Art Espanyol Contemporani, Palma de Mallorca, Spain: Before and After Minimalism. 2007 James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM: Ellipse Paintings from the 1960s 2005 Sandra Gering Gallery, NY, The 3 x 3 paintings: 1975-77 2004 Daimler Chrysler’s exhibition Minimalism and After III. 1991 Art Gallery, NY, Selections 1988 American Abstract Artists, auspices of U.S.I.A 1987 Cultural Center, NY, American Abstract Artists Bard College and The Grey Art Gallery, NY, The Arts at Black Mountain College 1983 Craig Cornelius Gallery, NY, Sihvonen Hoshour Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, Sihvonen American Abstract Artists, auspices of U.S.I.A 1978 Hoshour Gallery, Albuquerque, NM, Sihvonen 1977 Roswell Museum and Art Center, Roswell, NM, Sihvonen 1976 Louisiana State University Art Gallery, Sihvonen 1970 Fine Arts Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM, Faculty Artists 1960-1970 1968 Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, Texas, Awarded Artists of the Southwest Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York, Plus X Minus, Today's Half Century Art Institute of Chicago, Society for Contemporary Art 28th Annual Exhibition 1967 Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, Inaugural Exhibit, Sihvonen Dallas Contemporary Art Museum, Dallas, Four Dallas Collectors The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, Whitney Annual 1967 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC, 30th Biennial Rice University Art Gallery, Houston, Inaugural Exhibit: Sihvonen 1966 The , NY, New Acquisitions, OP Art 1965 The Museum of Modern Art, NY, The Responsive Eye El Paso Museum, El Paso, Art & Atom The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, Whitney Annual 1965 Burpee Art Museum, Illinois, 50 States Exhibition Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan, 40 Key Artists of the Mid- 20th Century 1964 , Ann Arbor, The New Formalists Denver Art Museum, Colorado, 70th Western Annual 1963 Stable Gallery, NY, Sihvonen Washington Museum of Contemporary Art, Washington DC, The New Formalists The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, Whitney Annual 1963 1962 The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, Geometric Abstraction in America Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, Americans 1962 1961 Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, New Names 1960 Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, New Names 1956 Gallery Escondida, Taos Art Association, NM

Selected Public Collections

The Museum of Modern Art, NY, NY The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, NY The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC Dallas Museum of Fine Art, Dallas, TX University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan Albuquerque Museum of Art, Albuquerque, NM Fine Arts Museum, Santa Fe, NM Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA Northwestern University, Evanston, IL Burpee Museum, Illinois New York State Art Collection, Albany, NY Northwestern University, Evanston, IL Rockefeller University, New York Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA

Corporate Collections

Amstar Corporation, NY Chase Manhattan Bank, NY Citibank, NY Diamler Art Collection, Germany General Insurance Corporation, Connecticut Midland Federal Savings and Loan, Denver Midland Marine Bank, Buffalo The Taubman Company, Detroit, MI United Mutual Savings Bank, NY

Grants and Awards

1988 Pollock-Krasner Foundation 1985 Yaddo Art Colony Fellowship 1985 Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation 1980 Yaddo Art Colony Fellowship 1977 National Endowment for the Arts 1967 National Endowment for the Arts