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Biography - Eric Fischl

Born

1948 New York, NY. Currently lives in New York.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2010 Barbara Edwards Contemporary Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2006 Eric Fischl. Sculpture and Watercolor: Yoshii Gallery, NYC, NY
Eric Fischl: Delaware Center For the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, Delaware
Thomas Ammann fine Art AG, Zurich. “Eric Fischl: Masterworks from the Early Eighties,”
2005 Eric Fischl: Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY
Eric Fischl, New Painting, Jablonka Gallery, Koln, Germany
2004 Eric Fischl: Paintings, Fondazione Cassa Di Risparmio in Bologna, Bologna, Italy
Eric Fischl: The Krefeld Project, Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany Kunstmuseum.
Eric Fischl: Paintings and Drawings 1979-2001, Wolfsburg, Germany
2003 Eric Fischl: Krefeld Project: Studies, Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
Eric Fischl: Museum Opening Exhibition, Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany.
Eric Fischl: Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY
2002 Eric Fischl: St Tropez Photographs 1982-1988, Mary Ryan Gallery, NYC, NY
2001 Eric Fischl: Paintings, Jablonka Galerie, Köln, Germany Eric Fischl: Watercolors, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO
2000 Gagosian Gallery, London, England
Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY
1999 Change of Scene XVI, Museum fur Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
Eric Fischl: Unique Works, Mary Ryan Gallery, NYC, NY
Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY
1998 Gagosian Gallery, NYC, NY
Galleria Lawrence Rubin, Milan, Italy
1997 Works on Paper, 1996-1997, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, Colorado
Saint-Tropez: Photographies, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
1996 Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY
1995 Michael Nagy Fine Art, Potts Point, Australia
1994 Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, California
Eric Fischl: Watercolors, Off Shore Gallery, East Hampton, New York
Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
Eric Fischl: New Paintings and Watercolors, Laura Carpenter Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1993 Galeria Soledad Lorenzo, Madrid
1992 Mary Boone Gallery, New York, New York
St. Tropez 1982-1988: Photographs, Michael Kohn Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Eric Fischl Drawings, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, Alabama
Eric Fischl Drawings, Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, Florida
1991 Scenes and Sequences, The Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.
Aarhus Kunstmuseum, Aarhus, Denmark.
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark.
Eric Fischl: A Cinematic View, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York
Currents 19: Eric Fischl Drawings, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1990 Mary Boone Gallery, New York, New York
“St. Tropez: An Exhibition of Photographs”, Koury Wingate Gallery,NY
Akademie der Bildenden Kunste, Vienna, Austria
Musee Cantonal des Beaux-Arts de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland
Scenes and Sequences, Frederick Wight Art Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, California
Scenes and Sequences, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Scenes and Sequences, Yale University Art Museum, New Haven, Connecticut
Eric Fischl: Photographs and Prints, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Ohio
1989 Waddington Galleries, London
1988 Mary Boone Gallery, New York, New York
Galerie Michael Werner, Koln, West Germany
1987 Mary Boone Gallery, New York, New York
Sable-Castelli Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Scenes Before the Eye, Contemporary Arts Center, Honolulu, Hawaii
Scenes Before the Eye, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Ohio
Scenes Before the Eye, The Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis Missouri
1986 Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, New York
Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, California
University Art Museum, Long Beach, California
1985 Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Canada
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, England
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Sable Castelli Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
1984 Mary Boone Gallery, New York, New York
1983 Sir George Williams Art Galleries, Montreal, Canada
Saidye Bronfman Centre, Montreal, Canada
Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Galleria Mario Diacono, Rome, Italy
Multiples Inc., New York, New York
1982 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, New York
University of Colorado Art Galleries, Boulder, Colorado
Sable Castelli Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1981 Sable Castelli Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, New York
1980 Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, New York
Davis Art Gallery, University of Akron, Akron, Ohio
1976 Studio Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada
Galerie B., Montreal, Canada
1975 Dalhousie Art Gallery, Halifax, Novia Scotia, Canada

Group Exhibitions

2007 PS1, New York. “Not For Sale,”
2006 Salon 2006: New York Academy of Art, NYC, NY
American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York. “Exhibition of Works by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards,” Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiiftung, Munchen June 2nd - August 13th, Musum Franz Gertsch, Burgdorf , October 14th to February 11th.. “Zuruch Zur Figur, Malerei der Gegenwart,” (cat.)
Nagasaki Prefectural Museum (Nagasaki, Japan); 7/12 - 8/21/2005 - Fuchu City Museum of Art 8/27 - 10/2/2005; 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art (Kanazawa, Japan) 10/7 - 11/11/2005 ; Kita- Kyushu Municipal Museum of Art 11/20/2005 - 1/9/2006; Koriyama City Museum 1/28 - 3/12/2006. “Picturing America ; Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art,”
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas “Singular Multiples: The Peter Blum Edition Archive, 1980-1994,”
Geoffrey Young Gallery, MA. “Likeness,”
2005 Recenti Acquisizioni: Fondazione Cassa Di Risparmio, Galleria Nazionale, Bologna.
14th Quadriennale: Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome.
Potentially Harmful: The Art of American Censorship: Georgia State University Welch School of Art and Design, Atlanta, Georgia.
The Divine Body: LeRoy Neiman Gallery, NYC, NY.
Along the Way, MTA Arts for Transit: The UBS Art Gallery and MTA Arts for Transit, NYC, NY.
Male Desire Two: Mary Ryan Gallery, NYC, NY.
Every Picture Tells a Story (The Narrative Impulse in Modern and Contemporary Art), NYC, NY.
Works on Paper: Danese Gallery, NYC, NY
2004 Innocence and Insight: Claire Oliver Fine Art, NYC, NY.
Northfork/Southfork: The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY.
Academy of the Arts, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
2003 33 Women: Thomas Ammann Fine Art, Zurich, Switzerland.
Face to Face: 200 Years of Figurative Art on L.I.: The Long Island Museum, Stonybrooke. NY.
The Burbs: DFN Gallery, NYC, NY.
Der Akt in der 20.Jahrhunderts: Kunsthalle in Emden, Germany
2002 American Standard: Normality and Everyday Life: Barbara Gladstone Gallery, NYC, NY.
The Wall of Time Part I: The Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy.
The Passions: From Brueghel to Viola: James Cohen Gallery, NYC, NY
2001 Vancouver Collects: Between Passion and Logic: Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
Naked Since 1950: C & M Arts, NYC, NY.
Collaborations with Parkett 1984 to Now: The Museum of Modern Art, NYC, NY.
Mythic Proportions Painting in the 1980s: Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
Hypermental Rampant Reality 1950-2000 From Salvador Dali to Jeff Koons: Kunsthaus Zürich. Traveling to Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg
MAN - Body in Art from 1950 – 2000: Arken Museum of Modern Art, Ishøj, Denmark
2000 Works on Paper 2000: Residence of the American Ambassador, The Slovak Republic
Maquettes, Models & Muses: Winston-Wächter Mayer Fine Art, NYC, NY.
Drawings 2000: Barbara Gladstone Gallery, NYC, NY.
A Plurality of Truths: Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY.
Change of Scene XVII: Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany.
Modernism & Abstraction-Treasures from the Smithsonian American Art Museum: The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL. Traveling to Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME; Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, NY; Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA; First Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN; Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA; National Academy Museum, New York, NY; Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA; Oakland Museum of California, Oakland, CA.
Dreams 1900-2000- Science, Art, and the Unconscious Mind: The Equitable Gallery, NYC, NY; traveled to Historisches Museum der Stadt Wien, Vienna, Austria; Binghamton University Art Museum, Binghamton, NY; Passage de Retz, Paris, France.
David Salle, Francesco Clemente and Eric Fischl: Gagosian Gallery, NYC, NY.
The American Century/ Art and Culture, 1900-2000, Part II: The Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, NY
1999 20 Years/20 Artists: Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO.
Figuration - Outsider or a New Trend?: Blickle Foundation, Kraichtal, Germany. Traveled to: Rupertinum, Salzburg, Austria; Museion Bolzano, Bolzano, Italy
Change of Scene XVI: Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt.
Decades in Dialogue: Perspectives on the MCA Collection; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. IL.
Cleveland Collects Contemporary Art: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
1998 Ideal and Reality; The image of the Body in 20th-Century Art From Bonnard to Warhol: The Salzburg Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Rupertinum, Salzburg
The 80’s: Culturgest, Lisbon, Spain.
The Centennial Open: The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY.
Five Artists/The Body/The Figure: Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
1997 Views from Abroad: European Perspectives on American Art 3: The Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, NY
Singular Impressions: The Monotype in America: National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Feminine Image: Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
Myths and Magical Fantasies: California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA
1996 Annual Exhibition1996: American Academy in Rome, Italy (cat.).
NowHere: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark.
The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: National Gallery of Art, Washington
1995 The PaineWebber Art Collection: Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan (cat.). Traveled to: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Boston, MA; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN; San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA; Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL.
L’Effet Cinéma: Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
1994 Daniel Templon Gallery, Paris
L’Orangerie du Jardin du Luxembourg, Paris. “23 Artistes pour Médecins du Monde,” 6/2/94. Traveled to: Galerie Enrico Navarra, Paris, Galerie Enrico Navarra, New York; Galerie Enrico Navarra, Tokyo; Harcourts Gallery, San Francisco; Acpy la Métaierie, Bryere, Parly, France; Molinar Gallery, Scottsdale, Arizona; Jan Abrams Gallery, Los Angeles, Foundation Ebel, Villa Turque la Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland
1993 “1982-1983 Ten Years After”, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, NY
“American Post Modern Art”, Ho-Am Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Montgomery Glasoe Gallery, Minneapolis, MN
“45th Annual Academy Purchse Exhibit”, American Academy of
Arts and Letters, NY
1992 “Four Friends: Fischl, Gibson, Gornik, Hunt”, Aldrich Museum of
Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
1991 “Whitney Biennial”, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
“Contemporary Woodblock Prints From Crown Point Press, The Leif
E. Johnson Memorial Exhibition”, Edison Community College, Fort
Myers, FLA.
“Concerning Nature”, Zen Center Hospice Guest House, San
Francisco CA
“Pluralism”, University Art Museum, California State University.
Long Beach, ca
1990 Bank of America Concourse Gallery, New York, NY
“Prints of the Eighties”, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY, travelling to Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
“The Last Decade - American Artists of the 80’s”, Tony Shafrazi
Gallery, NY
1989 “Works on Paper”, Anina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY
“Monoprints/Monotypes Images by Twenty Contemporary
Artists”, University of Maine Museum of Art
1988 “An Awareness of Place”, Richard Green Gallery,New York, New York
“On View”, Evelyn Amis Fine Art, Toronto, Canada
“Symbolism, Force and Spirit”, Dorsky Gallery, NY
1985 Sable Castelli Gallery, Toronto, Canada
“Biennial”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
“XIIIe Biennale de Paris”, Paris, France
“New Art ‘85”, ARCA, Marseille, France
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, California
“Carnegie International”, Museum of Art, Carnegie
Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1984 “Modern Expressionists”, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, New York
“American Neo‑Expressionists”, The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut
“New Painting”, The Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, Illinois
“Painting and Sculpture Today”, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, Indiana
“New Painting”, Musee d’Art Contemporain, Montreal, Canada
“An International Survey of Contemporary Painting
and Sculpture”, Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
“La Biennale di Venezia”, Venice, Italy
“Drawings”, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, New York
“The Human Condition: SFMMA Biennial III”, San
Francisco, California
“Aspekte Amerikanischer Kunst der Gegenwart”, Neue
Galerie Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen, West Germany
“Drawings after Photography”, Allen Memorial Art
Museum, Oberlin, Ohio
“Large Drawings”, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio
“Content”, Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.
1983 “By the Sea”, Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York, New York
“Focus on the Figure: Twenty Years”, Whitney Museum of
American Art, New York, New York
“The Expressionist Image: From Pollack to Today”, Sidney
Janis Gallery, New York, New York
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, New York
“Figures of Mystery”, Queens Museum, Queens, New York
Milwaukee Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
“Drawing: An Exploration of Line”, The Maryland Institute
College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
“Biennial,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
“Group Drawing Exhibition”, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los
Angeles, California
“Self Portraits”,Linda Farris Gallery,Seattle, Washington “Mary Boone and Her Museum,Tokyo,Japan
“Paintings,” Mary Boone Gallery, New York, New York
“Mall Works,” Bonnier Gallery, New York, New York
“Back to the USA,”Kunstmuseum Luzern, Luzern, Switzerland
“Tendenciasa Nueva York,”Crystal Palace, Madrid, Spain
“American Still Life,”Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
1982 “Narrative Settings”, Josef Gallery, New York, New York
“Critical Perspectives”, Project Studio I, Queens, New York
1979 “New York: Visiting Artists”, Museumof Art, Rhode Island
School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
“Summer Pleasures”, Barbara Gladstone Gallery,New York, New York
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, New York
“Alumni Exhibition”, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California
“The Reality of Perception”, Robeson Center Gallery, Rutgers University, Newark, New Jersey
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, New York
“Real Life Magazine”, Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, England
“Art for Your Collection”, Museum of Art, Rhode Island
School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
“Large Format Drawings”, Barbara Toll Fine Arts, New York, New York
1978 “Neun Kanadisches Kunstlers”, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel Switzerland
Edward Thorp Gallery, New York, New York
1976 “Seventeen Artists: A Protean View”, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
1975 “Canada Canvas”, Time‑Life of Canada. Traveling exhibit throughout Canada put together by Time‑Life