Mary Corse
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, USA
1968 BFA, Chouinard Art Institute, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1945 Born in Berkeley, CA, USA
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2021 ‘Mary Corse: Painting with Light’, Long Museum (West Bund), Shanghai, China ‘Mary Corse’, Pace Palm Beach, FL, USA
2020 ‘Mary Corse: Variations’, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
2019 ‘Mary Corse: Recent Paintings’, Pace, New York, NY, USA ‘A Survey in Light’, LACMA, Los Angeles, CA, USA Pace Gallery, Hong Kong
2018 ‘A Survey in Light’, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA Dia Art Foundation, Beacon, NY, USA Lisson Gallery, London, UK
2017 ‘Then and Now’, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles, CA, USA Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY, USA
2015 Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY, USA
2012 ‘Current Paintings’, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA ‘New Work’, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY, USA
2011 ‘Inside the White Cube’, White Cube Gallery, Bermondsey, London, UK
2006 Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2003 Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1995 Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1994 Ace Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
1987 Ace Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
1986 Flow Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1983 Janus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1981 The Clocktower, New York, NY, USA
1979 Janus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1975 Richard Bellamy Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2021 ‘Pure Form’, David Zwirner, New York, NY, USA Lisson Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2020 ‘Sculpture’, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles, CA, USA ‘Painting’, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles, CA, USA ‘Spectrum’, Lisson Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2019 ‘At the Edge of Things”, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles, CA, USA ‘Painter’s Reply: Experimental Painting in the 1970s and Now”, Lisson Gallery, New York, NY, USA ‘At the Edge of Things: Baer, Corse, Martin”, Pace, London, UK
2017 ‘Art and Space’, Guggenheim Bilbao, Spain ‘Deadeye Dick: Richard Bellamy and His Circle’, Peter Freeman, Inc., New York, NY, USA ‘Abstraction: Stories Told in Shape, Color, and Form’, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA ‘Plastic Show’, Almine Rech Gallery, London, UK ‘California Dreaming: Selections from the Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation’, Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA, USA
2016 ‘Material Considerations’, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA, USA
2015 ‘Light and Space’, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
2014 ‘Reductive Minimalism’, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI, USA
2013 ‘Mary Corse, Teresita Fernández, Maya Lin’, Lehmann Maupin, New York, NY, USA ‘Set Pieces’, Cardi Black Box, Milan, Italy
2011 ‘Surface, Support, Process: The 1960s Monochrome in the Guggenheim Collection’, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA ‘Phenomenal: California Light and Space’, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, CA, USA ‘Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture, 1950- 1970’, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA; travelled to Martin- Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany ‘Venice in Venice’, Collateral Exhibition in association with the J. Paul Getty Museum, 54th Venice Biennale, Italy
2009 ‘Collection: MOCA’s First 30 Years’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2008 ‘So Cal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s from LACMA’s Collection’, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2003 ‘The Spirit of White’, Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
1999 ‘Powder: Curated by Francesco Bonami’, Aspen Museum of Art, Aspen, CO, USA
1994 ‘Selections from the Permanent Collection’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1993 ‘Physical Abstraction’, Blum-Helman Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1992 ‘The New Physical Abstraction in Los Angeles’, Ace Contemporary Editions, Los Angeles, CA
1990 ‘Physical Abstraction/Painting 1990’, Ace Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA, USA ‘Minimal 1960-90’, Los Angeles, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1989 ‘Perceptual Investigations: Light and Space Works in the Permanent Collection’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1988 ‘Permanent Collection Exhibition’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1985 ‘Nine Artists’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1983 ‘New Acquisitions: The Menil Collection’, Rice University Museum, Houston, TX, USA ‘Young Talent Awards: 1963-1983’, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1980 ‘In the Constructivist Spirit’, Janus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1979 ‘Exploration in Drawing’, Janus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1976 ‘The Liberation: Fourteen American Artists’, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., USA
1974 ‘Group Exhibition’, Richard Bellamy Gallery, New York, NY, USA ‘LA Six’, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1973 ‘Art & Things: Paintings in the 60s’, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX, USA
1972 ‘Fifteen Los Angeles Artists’, Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, CA, USA ‘Twelve Statements Beyond the 60s’, Detroit Institute of the Arts, MI, USA
1971 ‘Ten Young Artists: Theodoron Awards’, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA ‘Twenty-Four Young Los Angeles Artists’, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1970 ‘1970 Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Sculpture’, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA ‘Permutations, Light and Color’, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, USA
1968 ‘The West Coast Now: Current Work from the Western Seaboard’, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, USA; travelled to Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, USA
Awards
1993 Cartier Foundation Award
1975 National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship
1971 Theodoron Award, Solomon R. Guggenheim, New York, NY, USA
1967 New Talent Award, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Collections
Amorepacific Museum of Art, South Korea Art institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, USA Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, TX, USA Chapman University, Orange, CA, USA Dia Art Foundation, New York, NY, USA Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, CA, USA J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA, USA Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA The Menil Collection, Houston, TX, USA Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA, USA National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., USA Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, FL, USA Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA, USA Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, USA San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, USA Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA, USA Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA