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Biography - Al Held

Born

1928 New York City. Currently resides in New York City.

Education

Studied at the Art Students League, New York, and at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, Paris, France.
1962-1980 Professor at Yale University

Solo Exhibitions

1952 Gallery Eight, Paris, France
1957 Tanager Gallery, NY
1959 Poindexter Gallery, NY
1960 Poindexter Gallery, NY
1961 Poindexter Gallery, NY
Bonino Gallery, Buenos Aires, Argentina
1962 Poindexter Gallery, NY
1964 Galerie Renee Ziegler, Zurich Switzerland
Galerie Gunar, Dusseldorf, West Germany
1965 Andre Emmerich Gallery, NY
1966 Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Galerie Muller, Stuttgart, West Germany
1967 Andre Emmerich Gallery, NY
1968 Andre Emmerich Gallery, NY
Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia,PA
Contemporary Arts Association, Houston, TX
San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C
1970 Andre Emmerich Gallery, NY
Galerie Renee Ziegler, Zurich, Switzerland
1971 Donald Morris Gallery, Detroit MI
1972 Andre Emmerich Gallery, NY
1973 Andre Emmerich Gallery, NY
1974 Galerie Andre Emmerich, Zurich, Switzerland
Donald Morris Gallery, Detroit, MI
Galerie Muller, Cologne, West Germany
Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
1975 Andre Emmerich Gallery, NY
Jared Sable Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Adler Castillo Gallery, Caracas, Venezuela
1976 Andre Emmerich Gallery, NY
1977 Galerie Andre Emmerich, Zurich, Switzerland
Galerie Renee Ziegler, Zurich, Switzerland
Galerie Roger d’Amecourt, Paris, France
Annely Juda Fine Art, London, England
Donald Morris Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1978 Andre Emmerich Gallery, NY
Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
Marianne Friedland Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Janus Gallery, Venice, CA
1979 Andre Emmerich GAllery, NY
1980 Gimpel‑Hanover and Galerie Andre Emmerich, Zurich, Switzerland
Annely Juda Fine Art, London, England
Robert Miller Gallery, NY
Quadrat/Bottrop Moderne Gallery, Bottrop, Germany
Andre Emmerich Gallery, NY
1981 FIAC exhibition with Andre Emmerich Gallery,Grand Palais, Paris, France
Gimpel‑Hanover and Andre Emmerich Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland
1982 Juda Rowan Gallery, London, England
Robert Miller Gallery, NY
Andre Emmerich Gallery, NY
1983 Donald Morris Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1984 Andre Emmerich Gallery, NY
Gimpel‑Hanover and Galerie Andre Emmerich, Zurich, Switzerland
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL
Marianne Friedland Gallery, Toronto, Canada
1985 Andre Emmerich Gallery, NY
1986 John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Al Held Drawings, 1980/1986”, Andre Emmerich Gallery, NY
1987 Annely Juda Fine Arts, London, England
Robert Miller Gallery, NY
1988 Andre Emmerich Gallery, NY
Donald Morris Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1989 Marianne Friedland Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Andre Emmerich Gallery, NY
John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1990 Galerie Renee Ziegler, Zurich, Switzerland
“Al Held Prints”, Crown Point Press, NY
“Al Held: New Paintings”, Andre Emmerich Gallery, NY
1991 Heland Wetterling Gallery, Stolkholm, Sweden
“Al Held and 650 Madison Avenue”, Andre Emmerich Gallery, New York
1992 “Al Held: Paintings and Works on Paper”, Allene Lapides Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Witchita State University, Kansas City, Kansas
Hokin Gallery, Bar Harbor Islands, Florida
1995 “Time Past-Time Future” Andre Emmerich Gallery, NY
1996 “Al Held: New Paintings”, Andre Emmerich Gallery, NY
1997 Andre Emmerich Gallery, NY
“The Last Series 1964-65” R. Muller Gallery, NY
“Al Held Unfolding”, Robert Miller Gallery, New York
2006 In memory of Al Held, Galerie Renée Ziegler, Zurich, Switzerland
2008 “Al Held: The Evolution of Style”, University Art Museum, Long Beach, CA

Group Exhibitions

1955 Tanager Gallery, NY
1956 Brata Gallery, NY
1958 “Festival of Two Worlds”, Spoleto, Italy
1961 “Imagists and Symbolists”, The Solomon Guggenheim Museum, NY
“The 1961 Pittsburgh International”, The Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
“New York Painting”, Marlborough Gallery, London, England Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
1961-62 “1961”, Dallas Museum of Contemporary Art, Dallas, TX
1962 “28th Biennial”, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C
“Geometric Abstraction in American Art”, The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
1963 “Toward a New Abstraction”, The Jewish Museum, NY
1964 “67th Annual American Exhibition”, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
“American Abstract Watercolors”, The Museum of Modern Art, NY
“Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art”, The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
1964-65 “Post-Painterly Abstraction”, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, and The Art Gallery of Toronto, Canada
“Some Paintings to Consider”, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
1965 “Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Art”, The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
“Sammlung La Peau de l’Ours”, Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland
“Concrete Expressionism”, New York University, NY “Signalle”, Kunsthalle, Basel, Switzerland “Art on Paper”, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
“Trends in Contemporary Painting”, Wilmington Society of the Fine Arts, Wilmington, DE
“One Hundred Contemporary American Drawings”, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
1965-66 “A University Collects: Paintings from the Art Collections of New York University”, circulated by the American Federation of Arts, NY
1966 “First Flint Invitational”, Flint Institute of the Arts, Flint, MI
“Systematic Paintings”, The Solomon Guggenheim Museum, NY
“American Schilderijn Collages”, Museum voor Stad en Lande, Groningen, West Germany
“Art of the United States: 1907—1966”, The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
1966-67 “Two Decades of American Paintings”, circulated by The Museum of Modern Art, New York, to Tokyo, Japan; Kyoto, Japan; New Delhi, India; Melbourne, Australia, and Sydney, Australia
“Formen de Farbe”,(“Shapes of Color”), Wuerttenbergischer, Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Kunsthalle, Berne: “Vormen van de Kleur”, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands “Large Scale American Paintings”, The Jewish Museum, NY “The Visual Assault”, Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA
1967-68 “From Synchronism Forward: A View of Abstract Art in America”, The American Federation of Art, NY
1968 “Documenta IV”, Kassel, Germany
“The Pure and Clear: American Innovations”, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
1969 “Selections from the Richard Brown Baker Collection”, Art Gallery, University of Notre Dame, South Bend, IN “2 9th Exhibition by the Society for Contemporary Art”, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL “Art for Collectors IV”, The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
“Contemporary American Drawing Show”, Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth, TX
“Whitney Annual”, The Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
1970 “Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture from New York Galleries”, The Wilmington Society of Fine Art, Wilmington, DE
“American Painting 1970”, The Virginia Museum, Richmond, VA
1971 “Rosc ‘71”, Ireland
1972 “Whitney Annual”, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
1973 “Whitney Biennial”, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
1974 “A Festival of Painting, Sculpture and Renaissance Music”, Ingber Gallery, NY
1975 “Large Scale Paintings”, Andre Emmerich Gallery, NY “34th Biennial of Contemporary American Paintings”, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
“American Abstract Painting”, La Bertesca, Genoa, Italy
“The Tenth Harrison S. Morris Memorial Exhibition, American Drawings 1900—1975”, The Art Association of Newport, RI
“El Lenguaje de Color”, Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela
1976 “Perspective 1976”, Albright College, Reading, PA
1976-77 “Drawing Today in New York”, Tulane University, New Orleans, LA; Rice University, Houston, TX; Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX; University of Texas at Austin, TX; Oklahoma City, Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH “Surface, Edge and Color”, Whitney Museum of American Art Downtown Branch, NY
“Documenta”, Kassel, Germany
“A View of a Decade”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
“Works on Paper”, Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA “New York State of the Art”, New York State Museum, Albany, NY
“New in the Seventies”, The University of Texas at Austin, TX
“American Drawing, 1927—1977”, Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul. MN
“This is Today”, Root Art Center, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
“Artists Salute Skowhegan”, Kennedy Galleries, NY
1977—78 “The Critic’s Choice”, Emily Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY; Munson—Williams—Proctor Institute, NY
1977—79 “American Drawings: 1927—1977”, National Gallery of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland; Paris, France; Spanish National Museum of Contemporary Art, Madrid, Spain; Museum of Contemporary Art, Caracas, Venezuela; New Cultural Center, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, Museum of Modern Art, Mexico City
1978 “American Paintings”, Galerie Andre Emmerich, Zurich, Switzerland
“ART 9/78”, Basel, Switzerland
“Drawing and Painting on Paper”, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, MO
“A Benefit Exhibition f or the Yale School of Art, Works by Members of the Yale Faculty 1950—78”, Harold Need Gallery, NY
“Point”, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
“Dibujos Ainericanos 1927—1977”, Museo Espanol de Arte Contemporaneo, Madrid, Spain
1978-79 “New England Connections: An Exhibition of Paintings and Drawings”, Federal Reserve Bank, Boston, MA
1979 “Paper, Clay and Tapestry: Explorations into New Media”, Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA “Art in Architecture Program”, United States General Service Administration, Washington, DC
1979 “Late Twentieth Century Art”, Sydney and Frances Lewis Foundation, Anderson Gallery, Richmond, VA “Black and White Are Colors: Paintings of the 1950s—l970s”, Galleries of the Claremont Colleges, Pomona College and Scripps College, CA “Art, Inc.: American Paintings from Corporate Collections”, Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, AL; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN; San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
1980 “The Geometric Tradition in American Painting, 1920-1980”, Rosa Esman and Marilyn Pearl Galleries, NY
“L’Ainerique aux Independents”, 91st Exhibition, Societe des Artistes, Grand Palais, Paris, France “Paintings from the Andre Einmerich Gallery”, Audrey Strohl Gallery, Memphis, TN
“Hidden Desires”, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY
“Art of the 70’s”, The Katonah Galery, Katonah,NY
“American Drawings”, DuBose Gallery, Houston, TX
“All in Line: An Exhibition of Linear Drawing”, Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse University, Syracuse,NY
“American Drawing in Black and White: 1970—1980”, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
1980-82 “Art in Our Time”, from the collection of the HHK Foundation for Contemporary Art; Milwaukee, WI; Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH; Columbus Museum of Fine Art, Columbus, OH; Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Richmond, VA; Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, IL; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA; Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis, TN; University Art Gallery, University of Texas at Austin, TX
1981 “Biennial Exhibition”, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
“Color, Surface and Geometry: American Painting of the 1940s and 1950s”, Marilyn Pearl Gallery, NY
1981—82 “Amerikanische Malerei: 1930—1980”, (organized by the Whitney Museum) Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
1982 “A Private Vision: Contemporary Art from the Graham Gund Collection”, Museum of Fine Art, Boston, MA “Surveying the Seventies”, Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art, Branch in Fairfield, CT
“American Artists Abroad, 1900-1950”, Washburn Gallery, NY
“New York to Bennington: Paintings”, Suzanne Lemberg Usdan Gallery, Bennington College, VT
“Trio”, Marianne Friedland Gallery, Toronto, Canada (with Hans Hoffman and Milton Avery)
“Early Works by Contemporary Masters: Caro, Francis, Frankenthaler, Gottlieb, Held, Louis, Noland, Olitski”, Andre Enunerich Gallery, NY
“Group Exhibition”, Andre Emmerich Gallery, NY “Group Exhibition”, Woltjen/Udell Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
1983-84 “The American Artist as Printmaker”, National Print Exhibition, The Brooklyn Museum, NY
“Living with Art/Two - The Collection of Walter and Dawn Clark Netsch”, University of Miami Art Museum, Oxford, OH; The Snite Museum of Art, University of Notre Dame, IN
Andre Emmerich Gallery, NY
1984 “Large Scale Master Printmaking and Sculpture”, Andre Emmerich Gallery, NY
“Beauties and Beasts—Or, What Makes Great Art Great?”, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
“Work By Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards”, American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY
“Labor Intensive Abstraction”, The Clocktower, NY “Contemporary Classics”, Andre Emmerich Gallery, NY “The Bronx Celebrates”, Lehman College, Bronx, NY “Contrasts of Form: Geometric Abstract Art, 1910— 1980”, Museum of Modern Art, NY
1986 “Seven American Masters”, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1987 “Monsters: The Phenomena of Dispassion”, Barbara Toll Fine Art, NY
“Not So Plain Geometry”, Crown Point Press, NY “Some Sixties Works”, Robert Miller Gallery, NY “Prints”, Hirschl & Adler Modern, NY “Prints at Promenade”, Promenade Gallery, Bushnell Memorial Hall, Hartford, CT
“Strong Statements in Black and White”, James Goodman Gallery, NY
“For 25 Years: Crown Point Press”, Museum of Modern Art, NY
1988 “Black in the Light”, Genovese Graphics, Boston, MA “Crown Point Press at Frito—Lay”, Plano, Texas “The M. Anwar Kamal Collection of Art”, The Cummer Gallery of Art, Jacksonville, FL “Recent Graphics from American Print Shops”, Mitchell Museum, Mount Vernon, IL traveling to the Huntington Museum of Art, W. VA.
1989 “Contemporary Environment”, General Electric Company
1990 “Big Paintings”, Andre Emmerich Gallery, NY “Conceptual Constructs — Al Held, Mary Henry and Robert Maki, Group show Cliff Michel Gallery, Seattle, WA
1991 “Contemporary Woodblock Prints From Crown Point Press, The Leif E. Johnson Memorial Exhibition”, Edison Community College, Fort Myers, FLA
“Geometric Considerations”, Capital Cities/ABC, Loaned by MOMA Art Advisory Service, NY
“Prints and Concepts”, Stella R Graphics, Paris, France
“Drawings, Works on Paper by Contemporary Masters,” Andrea Marquit Fine Arts, Boston, MA
“Geometrics of Color: American Post—painterly Abstraction” Stux Modern, New York “Master Works Modern and Contemporary” Marianne Friedland Gallery
“Geometry in Abstraction” Lois Neiter Fine Arts, Sherman
“Contemporary American Painting & Sculpture” American Embassy, 1992 Tel Aviv, Israel 1992—1994 “REPRISE The Vera G. List Collection” David Winton Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Brown University
“Fourth Benefit Art Auction” Milwaudee Art Museum “Not for Sale, Loans from the private collections of New York Art Dealers” Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel
1993 Montgomery Glasoe Fine Art, Minneapolis, MN
2002 “Al Held & George Sugarman: The Early Sixties,” Joan T. Washburn Gallery, New York, NY
2006 “Berlin-Tokyo/Tokyo-Berlin. Die Kunst zweier Städte,” Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin

Selected Collections

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia
Columbia Museum, Columbia, SC
Everson Museum of Art, Buffalo, NY
Dayton Art Institute, OH
Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland
Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland
Museum of Modern Art, NY
Staatzgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany
Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, DC
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Cleveland Museum of Art, OH
Akron Art Institute, OH
Milwaukee Art Center, WI
Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia
Dallas Museum of Fine Arts, TX
National Gallery, Berlin, Germany

Awards

1964 Logan Medal, Art Institute of Chicago
1966 Guggenheim Fellowship
1983 Jack and Lillian Poses Brandeis University Creative Arts Award, Painting Medal