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ROSS BLECKNER
1949 Born in New York City Lives and works in New York City
EDUCATION
1973 MFA, California Institute for the Arts, Valencia, CA 1971 BA, New York University, New York, NY
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 Mary Boone Gallery, New York Ross Bleckner Paints Like Freddie Mercury Sings, Patrick Painter, Inc., Santa Monica, California Ross Bleckner Paints Like Freddie Mercury Sings, Patrick Painter, Inc., at the Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood, CA
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
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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
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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 Zürich, Zürich 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
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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, CA 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
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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 Zürich, Zürich/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,
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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 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
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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
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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
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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
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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.
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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 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,
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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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