Scott Burton [American. 1939-1989]

1989 Died, New York, NY

1989 Curated Artist’s Choice: Burton on Brancusi. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

1986 Retrospective exhibition held at the Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore MD

1978 Young American Artists: 1978 National Exxon Exhibition. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY

1976 Pair Behavior Tableaux. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY

1972 Group Behavior Tableaux. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1970 While a guest lecturer at the University of Iowa, Iowa City, IA, Burton participated in two performance assemblies which he considered a turning point in his artistic career.

1963 M.A. , New York, NY

1962 B.A.

1957-59 Studied with Leon Berkowitz, at the Washington Workshop of the Arts, Washington D.C. During summer months, Burton studied at the Hans Hofmann School of Fine Arts, Provincetown, MA

1939 Born, Greensborough, AL

Select Solo Exhibitions

2006 Scott Burton. Albion, London, England

2004 Scott Burton. IVAM Center Julio Gonzalez, Valencia, Spain

2001 Scott Burton Chairs. Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH

1998 Scott Burton & Richard DeVore. Max Protetch Gallery, New York, N

1996 Chaise Longings. Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY; Delaware Museum of Art, Wilmington, DE

1995 Scott Burton. Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY

1992 Scott Burton: The Concrete Work. Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY

1991 Scott Burton: The Last Tableau. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1990 Scott Burton: The Early Works. Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY

1989 Scott Burton/Sculpturen 1980-89. Kunstverein fur die Rheinland und Westfalen, Germany; Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany; Musee des Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France Steel, Wood, Stone. Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY

1988 New Chair Sculptures. Lisson Gallery, London, England

1987 Scott Burton. Max Protetch, New York, NY Scott Burton. Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne, Germany

1986 Scott Burton. Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD Furniture Sculpture: Recent Geometric Granite Works. Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA New Works in Granite and Selected Works in Wood. Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY

1985 Scott Burton. Tate Gallery, London, England Geometric Granite Furniture. Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY

1984 Geometric Granite Furniture Series: Four New Works. McIntosh-Drysdale Gallery, Houston, TX

1983 Scott Burton Chairs. The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH; Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX

1982 New Work. Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY Recent Work. Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1981 Granite Chairs, a Pair. Dag Hammaeskjold Plaza Sculpture Garden, New York, NY New Tables. Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY

1980 Recent Sculpture. Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA Individual Behavior Tableaux. University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley

1979 Sculpture Equals Furniture. Protetch-McIntosh Gallery, Washington D.C.

1978 Four Tables. Brooks Jackson Iolas Gallery, New York, NY

1977 Pragmatic Structures. Droll/Kolbert Gallery, New York NY

1976 Pair Behavior Tableaux. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY

1975 Two Chair Pieces. Artist’s Space, New York, NY

1972 Group Behavior. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY; American Theater Lab, New York, NY

1971 Eighteen Pieces. Finch College, New York, NY

Select Group Exhibitions

2008 Scott Burton, Richard DeVore and Buckminster Fuller. Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY

2004 Art by Design/Design by Art: Decorative Art by Minimalist and Post Minimalist Artist. Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, NY Celebrating Sculpture. Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX

2002 Finding AIDS: Representations. Parsons School of Design Scott Burton, Mel Chin, Joan Jonas, Tobias Putrih. Max Protetch gallery, New York, NY Art Downtown: New York Painting and Sculpture. Wall Street Rising, 48 Wall Street, New York, NY

2000 Richard Artschwager, Scott Burton, , Clay Ketter. Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY

1999 Morris Arboretum, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

1997 Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL

1995 Alabama Impact: Contemporary Artists with Alabama Ties. Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL

1994 Significant Losses: Artists Who Have Died From AIDS. The Art Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD

1993 Differentes Natures. Paris La Defense, Paris, France

1991 El Sueno de Egipto. El Centro Cultural/Arte Contemporaneo, A.C., Mexico City, Mexico

1989 Prospect ’89. Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany

1988 Rotterdam ’88. The City as Stage. Rotterdam, Netherlands Furniture as Art: Recent Tendencies in Sculpture. Boymans van Beuningen Museum, Rotterdam, Netherlands Architectural Art: Affirming the Design Relationship. American Craft Museum, New York, NY

1987 Documenta 8. Kassel, Germany Skulptur Projekte Munster 1987. Munster, Germany

1986 The Museum of Contemporary Art: The Barry Lowen Collection. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

1985 Carnegie International. Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA High Styles: 20th Century American Design. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY The Artist as Social Designer: Aspects of Urban Art Today. Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

1984 Content: A Contemporary Focus 1974-1984. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Furniture, Furnishings: Subject and Object. Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

1983 Currents 4: Art and Use. Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, WI Konstruierte Orte: 6 x D + 1 x NY. Kunsthalle, Bern, Switzerland New Art. Tate Gallery, London, England 1983 Art Park Projects. Artpark, Lewiston, New York Directions 1983. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C. Beyond the Monument. Hayden Corridor Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

1982 Twenty American Artists: Sculpture in 1982. San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA Seventy-Fourth American Exhibition. Art Institute of Chicago, IL Documenta VII. Kassel, Germany

1981 Developments in Recent Sculpture. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Body Language. Hayden Corridor Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA 1981 Biennial Exhibition. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY Usable Art. Art Gallery Myers Fine Arts Building, State University of New York, Plattsburgh, NY

1980 Further Furniture. Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY

1979 Image and Object in Contemporary Sculpture. Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI Ten Artists/Artists Space. Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, NY

1978 Young American Artists: 1978 Exxon National Exhibition. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY

1977 Improbable Furniture. Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA Patterning and Decoration. Museum of the American Foundation for the Arts, Miami, FL Documenta VI. Kassel, Germany

1976 New York-Downtown Manhattan: SoHo. Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, Germany; Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark

1975 1975 Biennial Exhibition: Contemporary American Art. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1970 Two Evenings. University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA

Public Collections Allen Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH Chase Manhattan Art Collection, New York, NY Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, NY Courtald Institute of Art, London, England Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI General Mils, Minneapolis, MO Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY Honeywell, Minneapolis, MO Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark

Mellon Bank, Pittsburgh, PA Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, WI Montreal Museum of Decorative Arts, Montreal, Canada Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA Princeton University Art Museum, Princeton, NJ Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, Saint Louis, MO National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. Rolling Stone Magazine, New York, NY Tate Gallery, England Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN Wichita State University Outdoor Sculpture Collection Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Select Literature Bromberg, Dr. Anne R. Dallas Museum of Art: Selected Works. Dallas: The Dallas `Museum of Art, 1983.

Domegue, Denise. Artists Design Furniture. New York: Harry Abrams, 1984.

Harris, Stacy Paleologos. Ed. Insights/On Sites. Washington D.C.: Partners for Livable Places, 1984.

Scott Burton: Chairs. Ohio: The Contemporary Arts Center, 1983.

Lyon, Christopher. Contemporary Art in Context. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1990.

Scott Burton: Chaise Longings. New York: Max Protetch Gallery, 1996.

Differentes Natures: Visions de l’Art Contemporain. Paris: Galerie Art 4 in collaboration with Galerie de l’Esplanade, Place de Défense, Ministère de la Culture et de la Francophonie Délégation aux arts plastiques, 1983.

Scott Burton: The Last Tableau. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1990.

Scott Burton: Sculpture 1980-89. Germany: Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, 1989.

Modern Painting, Drawing and Sculpture Collected by Emily and Joseph Pulitzer, Jr. Massachusetts: , 1988.

Skulptur Projekte Munster in 1987. Germany: Westfalischen Landesmuseums fur Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, 1987.

An American Renaissance: Paintings and Sculpture Since 1940. Florida: Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, 1986.

New Visions in Contemporary Art: The RSM Company Collection. Ohio: Cincinnati Art Museum, 1986.

Scott Burton. Maryland: The Baltimore Art Museum, 1986.

Carnegie Institute. Pennsylvania: Carnegie Museum of Art, 1985.

Five Artists at NOAA: A Casebook on Art in Public Places. Seattle: The Real Comet Press National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration, 1985.

Scott Burton. England: Tate Gallery, 1985.

High Styles: Twentieth Century American Design. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1985.

Focus on the Image: Selections from the Rivendell Colleciton. New York: ITA Corporation, 1985.

An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture. New York: Museum of Modern Art, 1985.

Artists and Architects Collaborate: Designing the Wiesner Building. Massachusetts: MIT, Committee on the Visuals Arts, 1985.

Maquettes, Models and Proposals. New York: Marisa del Re Gallery, 1985.

Art at Work: The Chase Manhattan Collection. New York: E.P. Dutton, 1984.

Art of Our Time: The Saatchi Collection. London: Lund Humphries Publishers, Ltd. in collaboration with Rizzoli, 1985.

Content: A Contemporary Focus 1974-84. Washington D.C.: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, 1984.

Artpark: Visual Arts 1983. New York: Artpark, 1983.

Scott Burton: Chairs. Ohio: The Contemporary Arts Center, 1983.

Konstruierte Orte: 6 x D + 1 x NY. Switzerland, 1983.

Beyond the Moment. Massachusetts: MIT Hayden Corridor Gallery, 1983.

New Art at the Tate Gallery. London: The Tate Gallery, 1983.