Mel Bochner was born in Pittsbugh, Pennsylvania, in 1940. Considered a pioneer of the Post-Minimal and Conceptual art movements, Bochner is best known for his exploration of connections between language, perception and meaning. His works can be found in collections from around the world including the MOCA in Los Angeles, the Musée National d’Art Moderne in Paris as well as the Menil Collection, Houston, the Whitney Museum of American Art and Museum of Modern Art in New York.

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024

TOTAH, New York, NY

2022

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

TOTAH, New York, NY

Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA

 

2021

Collaborations, Copenhagen, Denmark

 

2020

Noire Gallery, Torino, Italy

 

2019

Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA

Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK

Peter Freeman Gallery, New York, NY

Dia:Beacon, Beacon, NY

 

2018

Fine Arts, Sydney, Australia

Peter Freeman, Inc., ADAA: The Art Show, New York, NY

 

2017

Simon Lee Gallery, FIAC, Louvre Museum, Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, France

Gladstone Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

Simon Lee Gallery, Hong Kong

Peter Freeman, Inc., New York, NY

 

2016

Akira Ikeda Gallery, Berlin, Germany

 

2015

Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA

Galeria Hispanica, México DF, México

Craig Starr Gallery, New York, NY

Marc Selwyn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

 

2014

Jewish Museum, New York, NY

Simon Lee Gallery, London, UK

Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA

 

2013

Peter Freeman Gallery, New York, NY

 

2012

Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK; Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (2013) and Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto, Portugal (2013)

Karsten Schubert Gallery, London, UK

Egeran Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey

Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA

Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA

 

2011

National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Peter Freeman, Inc., New York, NY

 

2010

Galerie Nelson Freeman, Paris, France

Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA

Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA

 

2009

Metroquadro, Rivoli, Italy

Lawrence Markey, San Antonio, TX

Rhona Hoffman, Chicago, IL

 

2008

Peter Freeman, Inc., New York, NY

Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA

 

2007

Galerie Nelson Freeman, Paris, France

Galleria d’Arte Il Gabbiano, Rome, Italy

Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA

Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Bignan, France

 

2006

Spertus Museum, Chicago, IL

Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL

Peter Freeman, Inc., New York, NY

Wynn Kramarsky, New York, NY

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

 

2004

Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

 

2003

Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA

Musée d’art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland

Galleria d’Arte Il Gabbiano, Rome, Italy

Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY

 

2002

Harvard University Art Museum, Cambridge, MA

Akira Ikeda Gallery, Berlin, Germany

Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

Michael Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, GA

 

2001

Grant Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills, CA

Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya, Japan

Galleria Primo Piano, Rome, Italy

Lawrence Markey Gallery, New York, NY

Bound & Unbound, New York, NY

 

2000

Grant Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills, CA

FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, France

Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY

 

1999

Centro de Arte Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Akira Ikeda Gallery, Yokosuka, Japan

 

1998

Lawrence Markey Gallery, New York, NY

Betsy Senior Gallery, New York, NY

The Drawing Center, New York, NY

 

1997

Cabinet des estampes du Musée d’art et d’histoire, Geneva, Switzerland

Musée d’art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland

 

1996

Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY

Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany

La Société des Exposition du Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium

Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany

 

1995

Betsy Senior Gallery, New York, NY

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

 

1994

Galerie Arnaud Lefebre, Paris, France

 

1993

Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY

Betsy Senior Gallery, New York, NY

Gallery 360, Tokyo, Japan

One Five, Antwerp, Belgium

Museo Storico della Liberazione di Roma, Rome, Italy

 

1992

Galerie Vega, Plainevaux/Liege, Belgium

Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA

 

1991

SteinGladstone, New York, NY

Studio Casoli, Milan, Italy

The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH

 

1990

David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY

Galleria Primo Piano, Rome, Italy

Galerie Jahn und Fusban, Munich, Germany

Barbara Kornblatt Gallery, Washington DC

Roger Ramsey Gallery, Chicago, IL

 

1989

Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY

The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD

 

1988

Martina Hamilton Gallery, New York, NY

Paul Cava Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY

Greene Gallery, Coral Gables, FL

 

1987

Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY

Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL

Galerie Montenay, Paris, France

 

1986

Kunstmuseum, Luzern, Switzerland

Galleria Primo Piano, Rome, Italy

 

1985

Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY

Janet Steinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Carnegie Mellon University Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

 

1984

Roger Ramsay Gallery, Chicago, IL

 

1983

Yarlow Salzman Gallery, Toronto, Canada

Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Pace Editions, New York, NY

Carol Taylor Gallery, Dallas, TX

Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY

1982

Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY

Abbaye de Senanque, Gordes, France

 

1981

Texas Gallery, Houston, TX

Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX

 

1980

Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY

 

1979

Art in Progress Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany

 

1978

Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY

Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Schema Gallery, Florence, Italy

Sonnabend Gallery, Paris, France

 

1977

Bernier Gallery, Athens, Greece

 

1976

Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY

Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD

 

1975

Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY

Ricke Gallery, Cologne, Germany

 

1974

Sonnabend Gallery, Paris, France

Schema Gallery, Florence, Italy

University Art Museum, Berkley, CA

 

1973

Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY

Sonnabend Gallery, Paris, France

 

1972

MTL Gallery, Brussels, Belgium

Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY

Lisson Gallery, London, UK

Bonomo Gallery, Bari, Italy

Sonnabend Gallery, Paris, France

Toselli Gallery, Milan, Italy

 

1971

112 Greene Street, New York, NY

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

 

1970

Sperone Gallery, Turin, Italy

Toselli Gallery, Milan, Italy

Art and Project Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands

 

1969

Heiner Friedrich Gallery, Munich, Germany

Konrad Fischer Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany

Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

 

1966

School of Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY

 

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024

Clockwise, TOTAH, New York, NY

2023

The Double: Identity and Difference in Art Since 1900, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

2022

Unrepeated: Unique Prints from Two Palms, David Zwirner, New York, NY

 

2020

Multiples, Inc. 1965-1992, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY

Bochner Boetti Fontana, Magazzino, Cold Spring, NY

To Be Determined, Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX

Drawing 2020, Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY

WÄNDE I WALLS, Kunstmuseum Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

The Shadow, TOTAH, New York, NY

 

2019

Direct Message: Art, Language, and Power, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

 

2018

Towards Infinity: 1965-1980, Simon Lee Gallery, New York, NY

Do I Have To Draw You A Picture? Heong Gallery, Downing College, Cambridge, MA

 

2017

Things Not Necessarily Meant to Be Viewed as Art, Marseille Expos, Marseille, France

Colori, Castello di Rivoli Museum of Contemporary Art, Turin, Italy

Modus Operandi, Société, Brussels, Belgium

The American Dream: pop to the present, London, UK

Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason, 1950-1980, MET Breuer, New York, NY

On Paper: Finding Form, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD

Variable Dimensions – Artists and Architecture, MAAT, Belém, Lisboa

 

2016

Cosmic Connections, TOTAH, New York, NY

Après Babel, traduire, MuCEM, Marseilles, France

Manifesta 11; The European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Löwenbräukunst, Zurich, Switzerland

Los Angeles to New York: Dwan Gallery, 1959–1971, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Mel Bochner and Alighiero Boetti; Verba Volant Scripta Manent, TOTAH, New York, NY

Group Exhibition, Rhona Hoffman

Greater New York, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, NY

Two Palms, Contemporary Fine Arts, Berlin, Germany

Artists and Architecture, Variable Dimensions, Pavillon de l’Arsenal, Paris, France

Museum of Stones, The Noguchi Museum, Long Island City, NY, US

Drawing Dialogues: The Sol LeWitt Collection, The Drawing Center, New York, NY

2015

Boolean Expressions: Contemporary Art and Mathematical Data, The Lewis Glucksman Gallery, Cork, Ireland

Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily Meant To Be Viewed as Art (After Bochner), Conceptual Art Centre Bukovje/Landskrona, Võru, Estonia

Pangrammar Part II, P! Gallery, New York, NY

The Self: Portraits of the Artists in their Absence, National Academy Museum, New York, NY

Twenty by Sixteen, Morgan Lehman Gallery, New York, NY

Eppur Si Muove, Art and Technology, A Shared Sphere, Mudam Luxembourg Museum, Luxembourg City, Luxembourg

Hello Walls, Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, US

Raccontare un luogo (Tales of a Place), Galleria Enrico Astuni, Bologna, Italy

Self: Portraits of Artists in their Absence, National Academy, New York, NY

2014

Une lettre arrive toujours à destinationS, La Panacée, Montpellier, France

Art by Telephone… Recalled, La Panacée, Montpellier, France

Nouveau Festival, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

2013

Ileana Sonnabend: Ambassador for the New, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

The Ceiling Should Be Green (天花板應該是綠色的), P! Gallery, New York, NY

Xerography, Firstsite, Colchester, UK

Re-Making When Attitudes Become Form, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy

Sign, Image, Object, 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria

Temptations of The Diagram, Andrea Rosen Gallery 2, New York, NY

Merci/Mercy, Restoin Roitfeld Gallery, New York, NY

The Collection #3: Sign, Image, Object, 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria

 

2012

A Window on the World, Museo d’Arte, Lugano, Switzerland

Notations: Contemporary Drawing as Idea and Process, Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, MO

Second Nature: Abstract Photography Then and Now, deCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA

Minimal Myth, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

Toward A Warm Math, On Stellar Rays, New York, NY

Alice in the Wonderland of Art, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany

 

2011

Alice in Wonderland, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK

The Private Collection of Robert Rauschenberg, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY

Malevich and the American Legacy, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY

Systems, Actions, and Processes, 1965–1975, Fundacion Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Art = Text = Art, University of Richmond Museum, Richmond, VA, US

Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964–1977, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Drawings from the Collection of Irving Stenn, Jr., Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Arte Povera International, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy

Syntax: Text and Symbols for a New Generation, The Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL

Notable Henchman, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, New York, NY

2010

Third Thoughts, CCA Andtrax, Majorca, Spain

Forms of Contingency: New York and Turin, 1960s–1970s, Philadelphia Museum, Philadelphia, PA

Weniger ist mehr. Bilder, Objekte, Konzepte aus Sammlung und Archiv von Herman und Nicole Daled: 1966–1978, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany

Graphic Masters III, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC

Double Bind/Stop Trying To Understand Me, Villa Arson, Nice, France

Double Up, Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA

 

2009

1969, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY

If We Could Imagine, Glenstone Foundation, Potomac, MD

Target Practice: Painting Under Attack 1949–78, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA

Inventing Marcel Duchamp: The Dynamics of Portraiture, National Portrait Gallery, Washington DC

Sculpture Show, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK

L'arte è una parola, Galleria il Ponte Firenze, Florence, Italy

 

2008

Close-Up, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland

Notation, Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, Germany; Zentrum fur Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany

Mel Bochner, Alighiero Boetti, Hanne Darboven, Collège Jacques Cartier, Chauny, France

Genau und Anders: Mathematik in der Kunst von Durer bis Sol LeWitt, Museum Ludwig, Vienna, Austria

 

2007

Lines, Grids, Stains, and Words, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Conceptual Photography, 1964–1989, Zwirner & Wirth, New York, NY

If Everybody Had an Ocean: Brian Wilson, an Art Exhibition, Tate St Ives, St Ives, UK

Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

Live/Work: Performance into Drawing, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

 

2006

Nothing and Everything, Peter Freeman, Inc., New York, NY

Mel Bochner/Alfred Jensen: Hommage to Pythagoras, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA

Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

Nineteen Sixty-Eight, Solo Projects Studio B, Los Angeles, CA

 

2005

Logical Conclusions: 40 Years of Rule-Based Art, Pace Wildenstein Gallery, New York, NY

Drawing From the Modern, 1945–1975, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Open Systems: Rethinking Art c.1970, Tate Modern, London, UK

Wordplay, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY

Down The Garden Path: The Artist’s Garden After Modernism, Queens Museum, New York, NY

Threshold, Max Wigram Gallery, London, UK

Rub Out The Word, Dumbo Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY

Looking At Words, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY

Building and Breaking the Grid, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

The Top Room, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, UK

The Photograph in Question, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY

 

2004

A Minimal Future?, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Beyond Geometry, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

Intra-Muros, Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice, France

Traces, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan

Infinite Possibilities, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA

The Copy Age – From Duchamp Through Warhol to Morimura, The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan

 

2003

Pittsburgh Platforms, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA

Work Ethic, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD

The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography 1960–1982, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

Under Pressure: Prints from Two Palms Press, The Cooper Union, New York, NY

Dust Memories, Swiss Institute, New York, NY

eXhibition3, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

 

2002

Flashing Into the Shadows: The Artists’ Film 1966–1976, Tate Modern, London, UK

Copy, Roth Horowitz Gallery, New York, NY

Ad Infinitum, Wynn Kramarsky, 560 Broadway, New York, NY

The Object Sculpture, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK

Visions from America, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Shimmering Substance, Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK

After the Beginning and Before the End: From the Drawings of the Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection, Detroit, Bergen Kunstmuseum, Bergen, Norway

An Empty Space, Akira Ikeda Gallery, New York, NY

 

2001

Art Express: Art Minimal et Conceptual Americain, Cabinet des Estampes du Musée d’art et d’histoire, Geneva, Switzerland

Saying Seeing, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY

As Painting: Division and Displacement, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH

Flashing Into the Shadows: The Artist’s Film After Pop and Minimalism 1966–1976, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

 

2000

Contemporary Drawings from the Sarah-Ann and Werner Kramarsky Collection, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX

Zig–Zag, FRAC Picardie, Amiens, France

Retrospective, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY

Open Ends, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

In Process, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY

Presumés Innocents - L' Art Contemporain et l' Enfance, CAPC, Bordeaux, France

The Object Sculpture, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, England

Painting Function: Making it Real, Spaces, Cleveland, OH

L'elemento Verbale Nell' Arte Contemporanea, Galleria Milano, Milan, Italy

 

1999

The American Century: Art and Culture 1900–2000 (Part II, 1950–2000), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Circa 1968, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto, Portugal

After Image: Drawing Through Process, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

Drawn to Scale, Dieu Donne Gallery, New York, NY

Drawings from the 1970s, Lawrence Markey Gallery, New York, NY
Drawings from the 1960s, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY, US

Scripta Manent, Esso Gallery, New York, NY

American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY

LeWitt, Bochner, Tschubarov, Tatunz Gallery, New York, NY

 

1998

The Serial Attitude, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA; Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH

Paper Plus, Dieu Donne Gallery, New York, NY

Deep Thought, Basilico Fine Arts, New York, NY

More Pieces for the Puzzle; Recent Additions to the Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Back to Back, DeChiara/Stewart Gallery, New York, NY

Art Pared Down: Exploring Minimalism Across Media, Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia

 

1997

Gravity-Axis of Contemporary Art, National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan

Drawing is another kind of language, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA

One- Line Drawing, Ubu Gallery, New York, NY

Laying Low: Postminimalism/Scatter Art, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway

Au pied du mur, FRAC Picardie, Amiens, France

Magie der Zahl, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

Collection in Context, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY

The Serial Attitude, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA

Geometric Abstraction: Mel Bochner, Imi Knoebel, Sol LeWitt, Andrew Spence,

Numark Gallery, Washington, D.C.

Group Exhibition, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY

 

1996

Limited Edition Artists Books Since 1990, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY

The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: 1945–1995, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Two-part exhibition: From Figure to Object: A Century of Sculptors’ Drawings, Frith Street Gallery, London, UK and Karsten Schubert, London, UK

Sammlung Sonnabend, Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany

L’informe: mode d’emploi, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

Thinking Print: Books to Billboards, 1980–95, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Mel Bochner, Erik Satie, Philippe Seux, Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris, France

New Art on Paper, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA

 

1995

Mapping: A Response to MoMA, American Fine Arts, New York, NY

1965–1995: Reconsidering the Object of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

Repicturing Abstraction: The Politics of Space, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA

Drawing on Chance: Selections from the Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Printmaking in America: 1960–1990, Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL

1965-1995: Reconsidering the Object of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA

 

1994

A Century of Artists Books, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Extended Relations, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY

From Minimal to Conceptual Art: Works from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC

Location I: Bickerton, Bochner, Morris, Basilico Fine Arts, New York, NY Painting and Sculpture: Recent Acquisitions,

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Group Exhibition, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY

 

1993

A Matchbox Enclosed, Yavne Art Workshop, Yavne, Israel

The American Livre de Peintre, Grolier Club, New York, NY

Do All Roads Lead to Rome?, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy

Extended Relations, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY

European & American Drawings 1961-1969, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York, NY

 

1992

Arte Americana 1930–1970, Lingotto, Turin, Italy

Marking The Decades: Prints 1960–1990, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD

Bochner, Chung, LeWitt, Galleria Primo Piano, Rome, Italy

Postcards from Alphaville: Jean-Luc Godard in Contemporary Art 1963–1992, PS1 Museum, New York, NY

 

1991

A view from the 60’s: Selections from the Leo Castelli Collection and the Michael and Ileana Sonnabend Collection, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY, NY

Dots, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

American Abstraction, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA

Immaterial Objects, Whitney Museum at Equitable Center, New York, NY

Motion and Document/Sequence and Time: Eadweard Muybridge and Contemporary American Photography, organized by the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA (touring)

Drawings, Lorence Monk Gallery, New York, NY

1990

Amerikanische Zeichnungen in den Achtziger Jahren, Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria and Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany

Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY

Concept Art, Minimal Art: Sammlung Marzona, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

Minimalism and Post-Minimalism: Drawing Distinctions, Hood Museum, Dartmouth, NH

The Unique Print, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Art Conceptual, Formes Conceptuelles, Galerie 1900–2000, Paris, France

Mel Bochner, Peter Halley, Robert Rauschenberg, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY

An Overview of Drawings, David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY Divergent Styles: Contemporary American Drawing, University Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL

Concept-Decoratif: Anti-Formalist Art of the 70’s, Nahan Contemporary, New York, NY

Minimalist Prints, Susan Sheehan Gallery, New York, NY

Mel Bochner, Peter Halley, Robert Rauschenberg, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY

 

1989

l’Art Conceptuel, Une Perspective, Musée d’Art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France and La Fundacion Caja de Pensiones, Madrid, Spain

Conspicuous Display, Stedman Art Gallery, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ

Lines & Geometry, Rickey Renier Gallery, Chicago, IL

Projects and Portfolios, The 25th National Print Exhibition, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

Immaterial Objects, organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, traveling to: Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC, US; Albany Museum of Art, Albany, GA and San Jose Museum of Art, CA

Repetition, Herschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY

New Works by Gallery Artists, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY

 

1988

Raw Materials, Althea Viafora Gallery, New York, NY

Collection Sonnabend, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; CAPC, Musée D’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France; Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany; Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy; Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Trento, Italy; Musée Rath, Geneva, Switzerland; Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan; Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan and The Fukuyama Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Japan

Amerikanishce Druckgraphik: Recent American Prints, Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany

Systems and Abstraction, Leubsdorf Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY

US Turning Point; Art and Politics in 1968, Lehman College Gallery, Bronx, NY

Abstracted Image, Elizabeth McDonald Gallery, New York, NY

 

1987

The Shape of Abstraction, Russell Sage College, Albany, NY

This is not a Photograph; 20 Years of Large-Scale Photography, 1966–1986, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL, US and Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH

1967: At the Crossroads, The Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA

Reconnecting, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI

Points of Contact, Laurie Rubin Gallery, New York, NY

Drawings from the Eighties, Carnegie Mellon University Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA

Early Concepts of the Last Decade, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY

 

1986

Spirit Tracks: Big Abstract Drawing, Pratt Institute Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

An American Renaissance: Painting & Sculpture Since 1940, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL

Contemporary Issues III: Robert and Nancy Kaye Collection, Holman Hall Art Gallery, Trenton State College, Trenton, NJ

The Shape of Abstraction, Stux Gallery, New York, NY

1985

The Maximal Implications of the Minimal Line, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

New Abstraction, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI

Drawings, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

 

1984

Viewpoint ’84, Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI

Vanishing Points, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden

Minding Measure: Measuring Mind, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY

 

1983

Minimalism to Expressionism, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Sculptors as Draftsmen, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

1982

74th American Exhibition, Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL

Prints by Contemporary Sculptors, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT

One, Two, Three, Musée des Beaux Arts, Besancon, France

1981

Murs, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

Summer Group Show, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY

 

1980

Mel Bochner/Richard Serra, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA

Explorations in the 70s, Pittsburgh Plan for Art, Pittsburgh, PA

 

1979

Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

The Minimal Tradition, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT

Pittura Ambiente, Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy

The Decade in Review, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Oeuvres Contemporaines des Collections Nationales, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

 

1978

Eight Artists, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA

Contemporary Drawing/New York, University of California Museum, Santa Barbara, CA

Numerals 1924–1977, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY

Three Installations: Acconci, Bochner, Le Va, Tampa Bay Art Center, Tampa, FL

 

1977

Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

Ten Years, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL

Photonotations II, Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY

Acconci/Bochner/Le Va, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY

 

1976

Drawing Now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Photonotations, Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY

Seventy-Second American Exhibition, Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL

Fourteen Artists: The New Decade, Fort Worth Museum, Fort Worth, TX and Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, MI

 

1975

Bochner, Le Va, Rockburne, Tuttle, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH

Print Sequence, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Drawings 3, American Drawings, Museum Leverkusen, Leverkusen, Germany

The New Image, High Museum, Atlanta, GA

Fourteen Artists: The New Decade, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD

Prints, Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario, Canada

 

1974

Line as Language: Six Artists Draw, Princeton Art Museum, Princeton, NJ

Some Recent American Art, organised by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, US, travelled to: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia; West Australian Art Gallery, Perth, Australia; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, Australia and City of Auckland Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

Idea & Image in Art, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL

Project ’74, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germany

 

1973

Festival d’Automne à Paris, Paris, France

New American Graphic Art, Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA

American Art, Third Quarter Century, Seattle Museum of Art, Seattle, WA

American Drawings 1963-1973, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

2d into 3d, New York Cultural Center, New York, NY

Contemporanea, Parcheggio di Villa Borghese, Rome, Italy

 

1972

420 West Broadway at the Spoleto Festival, Spoleto, Italy

dOCUMENTA (5), Kassel, Germany

13 Artists Chosen for Documenta, Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY

Konzept-Kunst, Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland

 

1971

Situation Concepts, Gallerie Nächst St. Stephen, Vienna, Austria

 

1970

Information, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Conceptual Art/Arte Povera/Land Art, Museo Civico d’Arte Moderna, Turin, Italy

Conceptual Art and Conceptual Aspects, New York Cultural Center, New York, NY

Using Walls, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY

Art in the Mind, Allen Memorial Museum, Oberlin, OH

Language IV, Dwan Gallery, New York, NY

Artists and Photographs, Multiples Gallery, New York, NY

Recorded Activities, Moore College, Philadelphia, PA

 

1969

Art in Progress IV, Finch College Museum of Art, New York, NY

When Attitudes Become Form, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland

Konzeption/ Conception, Museum Leverkusen, Leverkusen, Germany

577,087, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA

Groups, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY

 

1968

Language II, Dwan Gallery, New York, NY

No.7, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY

Group Exhibition, Bykert Gallery, New York, NY

Rejective Art, organised by American Federation of Arts, New York, NY (touring)

 

1967

Art in Series, Finch College Museum of Art, New York, NY

Scale Models and Drawings, Dwan Gallery, New York, NY

Monuments, Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY

PUBLICATIONS

2017

Hors Les Murs, under the auspices of Simon Lee Gallery, FIAC and the Louvre, Jardin des Tuileries, Paris, France

 

2015

Blah, Blah, Blah, La Jolla, CA

 

2014

Blah, Blah, Blah, I-70 Sign Show, Hatton, MO

 

2013

Blah, Blah, Blah, San Diego, CA

Blah, Blah, Blah, Bowery, NY

 

2012

The Joys of Yiddish, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany

 

2009

Win!, Dallas Cowboys AT&T Stadium, Arlington, TX

 

2006

The Joys of Yiddish, Spertus Institute, Chicago, IL

 

2005

Kraus Campo, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA