FORREST MYERS Present Lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and Damascus, PA 2002 Lecture: Designers in Their Environment. Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY 1999 Woodward Lecture Series. Center for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI 1998 Lecture: Parallel Lines: The Distinctions Between Art and Furniture. Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI 1994 Teaching position: Parsons School of Design, New York, NY, Art Furniture and Design 1990 Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY 1987 Teaching position: Visiting critic. Yale School of Architecture, New Haven, CT 1986 Lecture: Ettore Sottsass and the Memphis Movement. Furniture of the 20th Century, New York, NY 1984 Teaching position: Visiting critic. Yale School of Architecture, New Haven, CT 1982 Lecture: Envirometal. New York Atelier of Design, NY 1980 Lecture: Artist Series. Albany Institute of History & Art, NY 1979 Lecture series. Montclair State College, NJ 1978 Lecture: Advanced Sculpture. Kent State University, OH Teaching position: Undergraduate Sculpture. Kent State University, OH 1974 Teaching position: Advanced Sculpture. The School of Visual Arts, New York, NY 1973 Lecture: Spirituality and Modern Sculpture. Baltimore School of Art, MD 1971 Lecture: Experiments in Art and Technology. I.B.M. Corporation, Armonk, NY 1968 Lecture: The Techniques & Fabrication of Contemporary Sculpture. The San Francisco Art Institute, CA Teaching position: Beginning Sculpture. San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA 1965 Lecture: The Definition of Modern Sculpture. The Artist Club, New York, NY 1958-60 San Francisco Art Institute, CA 1941 Born in Long Beach, CA Solo Exhibitions and Projects 2011 Luminus Flux, Regina Rex Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2009 Innagural Opening of Forrest and Debra Arch Myers’ private garden, Wild Turkey Sculpture Park, Damascus, PA 2008 Not Furniture. Hedge Gallery, San Francisco, CA 2007 Forrest Myers. Friedman Benda, New York, NY 2006 Right Brain / Left Brain – Selections from 1960 to 2006. Yellow Bird Gallery, Newburgh, NY 1997 Forrest Myers: Recent Sculpture. Art & Industrie, New York, NY 1996 Forrest Myers. Art & Industrie, New York, NY 1991 Forrest Myers. Art & Industrie, New York, NY 1990 Forrest Myers. Art & Industrie, New York, NY 1988 Forrest Myers: Solo Exhibition. Art & Industrie, New York, NY 1987 Forrest Myers: Solo Exhibition. Art & Industrie, New York, NY 1983 Furniture of the Twentieth Century. New York, NY 1982 Forrest Myers. Art & Industrie, New York, NY 1980 Ehrlich Gallery, New York, NY 1979 Search Light Sculpture. Dallas Symphony Orchestra, TX 1976 Design and installation works. Lower Manhattan Ocean Club, New York, NY 1975 Unocycle, one wheel motorcycle made for the film Gizmo, Parrot Production Tanglewood Music Festival, Lenox, MA Artpark, Lewinston, NY 1974 Forrest Myers. Sculpture Now, Inc., New York, NY 1973 The Wall, Art in Public Places. Permanent Installation on Broadway and Houston, New York, NY 1971 Forrest Myers. Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY 1967 Search Light Sculptures. Thompkins Square Park, New York, NY Forrest Myers – Tony Magar. Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Designs the Long View Country Club, New York, NY 1966 Forrest Myers. Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Tamara Melcher Paintings and Forrest Myers Sculpture. Park Place, New York, NY 1965 Park Place Gallery, New York, NY Robert Graham Gallery, New York, NY Group Exhibitions 2013 Forrest Myers: Domesticated Monumentalism, Lynden Sculpture Garden, Milwaukee, WI Free Enterprise: The Art of Citizen Space Exploration, Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California, Riverside; Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA 2011-2013 Picasso to Koons: The Artist as Jeweler, Museum of Art and Design, New York, NY; Benaki Museum, Athens, Greece; Bass Museum of Art, Miami, FL 2012 Invitational Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY 2011 Museum Show Part 1, Arnolfini, Bristol, UK January White Sale, Loretta Howard Gallery, New York, NY 2010 New Image, Post Minimalism, and the Legacy of Pop, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA Max’s Kansas City, Stephen Kasher Gallery, New York, NY Artists at Max’s Kansas City, 1965-1974, Hetero-holics and some women too, Loretta Howard Gallery, New York, NY It’s a Wonderful 10th, Sideshow Gallery, Williamsburg, Brooklyn. The Moon Museum, Special showing for the History Detectives, Tampa Museum of Fine Art, Tampa, FL 2009 Sculptors Draw, Lesley Heller Gallery, New York, NY 1969, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY All Suffering SOON TO END, Callicoon Fine Arts, Callicoon, NY 2008 Zerocarat, Artists’ Jewelry at afsoun, Friedman Benda Gallery, New York, NY Reimagining Space: The Park Place Gallery Group in 1960’s New York. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, TX Fifty Works for Fifty States, The Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection, The National Gallery of Art, Washington DC Design contre design: Deux Siècles de Créations. Galeries nationals du Grand Palais, Paris, France Formless Furniture. MAK, Vienna Design Miami/New York Galleries, March 2008 2007 Miami Basel, Friedman Benda Gallery, Miami, FL Structure et Surface, Magen H Gallery XX Century Design, Harris Lieberman, NYC 2006 The War is Over. Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Miami Basel, Friedman Benda Gallery, Miami, FL Art Miami 2006, Yellow Bird Gallery, Miami, FL 2005 Modernism: a Century of Style and Design. Seventh Regiment Armory, New York, NY Miami Basel 2005 – Design Center, Barry Friedman Ltd, and Magen H Galleries, Miami, FL 2004 Max’s Kansas City. Nikolaj Copenhagen Contemporary Art Center, Denmark Peace. Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Teknologi for Livet – Om Experiments in Art and Technology. Norrkopings Konstmuseum, Kristinaplatsen, Sweden 21st Annual Exhibition & Auction for Women’s Cancer. Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Pax Americana. The Lake Huntington Center for the Arts, NY 2003 Merry Peace. Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2002 Ultra Delux. Sideshow Gallery, Brooklyn, NY Function & Fantasy: The Design Show. Rockland Center for the Arts, Nyack, NY 2001 Designers at Work – A Visual Journal. Pratt University, New York, NY Aluminum by Design. The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Canada 1999 Dysfunctional Sculpture. Center for Creative Studies Galleries, Detroit, MI Sticker Shock. Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA Primarily Structural – Minimalist and Post-Minimalist Works on Paper. PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY 1998 Dick Bellamy Memorial Exhibition. PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY Regatta ’98. Sideshow Gallery Inc., Inaugural Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY 20th Anniversary Exhibition. Art & Industrie, New York, NY Sculptors Draw. Rosenberg & Kaufman, New York, NY 1997 Form Function or Metaphor. Paint Creek Center for Arts, Rochester, MI 1996 Between Form and Image: Art of the 1970’s and 1980’s. Ackland Art Museum, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC 1995 Adding It Up: Print Acquisitions 1970-1995. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Return from Vacation. Art et Industrie, New York, NY USA – Valle d’Aosta: Models for Large Scale Sculpture Regione Autonoma. Valle d’Aosta, Italy Annual Sculpture Show. Lookout Sculpture Park, Damascus, PA Susquehanna Studio’s 20th Annual Exhibition. The Art Exchange, Uniondale, PA 1994 Grounds for Sculpture. Johnson Atelier, Mercerville, NJ Annual Sculpture Show. Lookout Sculpture Park, Damascus, PA Art at Work. Los Angeles Design Center, CA Susquehanna Studio’s 19th Annual Exhibition. The Art Exchange, Uniondale, PA Stoned Moon. Mary Ryan Gallery, New York, NY 1993 Grounds for Sculpture. Johnson Atelier, Mercerville, NJ Design Perspective. Chateau du Fresne, Decorative Art Museum, Montreal, Canada Models for Large Scale Sculpture. Lookout Sculpture Park, Damascus, PA 1992 Chair as Art. Gallery of Functional Art, Santa Monica, CA Then and Now. Philippe Staib Gallery, NY Bench Marks. Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY On and Off Your Rocker. Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York, NY Vered Gallery. Easthampton, NY 1991 On Scale. Bennet-Siegel Gallery, NY International Furniture Design for the ‘90’s Full Scale Gallery, New York, NY 91 Objects by 91 Designers. Gallery 91, New York, NY Masks, Benefit for Victim Services. Dyansen Gallery, New York, NY The Chair: From Artifact to Object. Weatherspoon Art Gallery, The University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC 1990 The Technological Muse. Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY 1980-1990, Art & Industrie. New York, NY Aquarian Artists. University of Rhode Island Fine Arts Center, Kingston, RI Functional Art NY. Brutus Gallery, Osaka; IMZ Building, Fukuoka, Japan Real – Placebo. Bennet-Siegel Gallery, New York, NY 1989 Art & Industrie, New York, NY 1987 Sculpture: Before and After. Mission Gallery, New York, NY 10th Anniversary Exhibition. Art & Industrie, New York, NY 1986 The Chair. Traveling Exhibition: San Francisco Airport Museum, CA Halley’s Comet Show, Light Gallery, New York, NY Ritual Objects, Art & Industrie, New York, NY Unlimited Possibilities of Structures, Gallery 91, New York, NY Modern Chair, North Carolina State University, NC Functional Objects, Art & Industrie, New York, NY The Chair. Traveling Exhibition: San Francisco Airport Museum, CA 1985 New Works ’86. Art & Industrie, New York, NY Bars. Art & Industrie, New York, NY New Art. Diverse Works, Houston, TX New Furniture. Novo Gallery, New York, NY The Chair. Traveling Exhibition: San Angelo Museum, TX Material Pleasures – Furniture for a Post-Modern Age. The Queens Museum, NY Made in the USA. Gallery 91, New York, NY Time