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Biography - Sol LeWitt

Born

1928 Hartford, CT.

Education

1949 Syracuse University, B.F.A.

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2006 Wall Drawing #801: Spiral, 1996, Bonnefantemuseum, The Netherlands
2005 New Sol Lewitt Wall Drawings, Pace Wildenstein Gallery, New York City
123: All Three Part Variations on Three Different Kinds of Cubes, 1967/2003, Dia:beacon, Beacon, Ny
Sol Lewitt on the Roof: Splotches, Whirls and Twirls,
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
2004 Sol Lewitt: Structures 1962-2003, Pace Wildenstein Gallery, New York City
Sol Lewitt, The RISD Museum of Art, Providence RI
2003 Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawings, Gouaches, Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Rome, Italy
Kunstammlungen Chemnitz, Germany
2002 Galerie Sfeir Semler, Hamburg, Germany
Philip Alan Gallery, New York, NY
2001 Incomplete Open Cubes, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
2000 Sol LeWitt: A Retrospective, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
Galeria Toni Tàpies—Edicions T, Barcelona, Spain
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
Black Cubes, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
1999 Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich, Germany
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Galerie Meert Rihoux, Brussels, Belgium
Volume! Rome, Italy
Sol LeWitt Indoors: Drawings and Models; Outdoors: Concrete Block Structures, P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY
1998 Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Lissor Gallery, London, England
Sol LeWitt: Flat and Glossy Colors, Pace Wildenstein, Los Angeles, CA
Galleria Continua, San Gimignano, Italy
Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney, Australia
1997 Stars, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX
1997 Galerie Nächst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria
Montserrat College of Art Gallery, Beverly, MA
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Donald Young Gallery, Seattle, WA
1996 Prints 1970 - 1995, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Wall Paintings, Ace Gallery, New York, NY
Wall Drawings, The Helen and Harry Gray Court, Hartford, CT
1994 Annemarie Verna, Zurich
1993 Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England
Structures and Drawings, The Henry Moor Institute, Leeds, England
25 Years of Wall Drawings 1968-1993, Addision Gallery of Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
1992 Sol Lewitt: John Murphy Remains To Be Seen, John Weber, New York, NY
Sol Lewitt, Massimmo Minini, Brescia, Italy
Quint Krichman Projects, La Jolla, CA
1991 Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL
Sol Lewitt: New Aquatints, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
Galerie 1900-2000 I & II/ Galerie de Ponche, Paris, France
1990 Lewitt: New Sculpture, Drawings and Watercolors, Galerie Vega, France
Prints/Related Works, Tomoko Liguori Gallery, New York, NY
1989 Wall Drawings and Sculptures, Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany
Wall Drawings, Galeria 57, Madrid, Spain
Shea & Baker, New York, NY
Galerie de Expeditie, Amsterdam, Holland
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1988 Wall Drawings, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL
Sperone Westwater, New York, NY
Protetch Gallery, New York, NY
New Structures, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
Early Works, Ghislain Mollet‑Vieville, Paris, France
La Casa d’Arte, Milan, Italy
Marta Cervera Gallery, New York
1986 Wall Drawings by Sol LeWitt, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
1983 Musee de’Art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux, France
Academia del Belle Arti, Perugia, Italy
Drawings, Watercolors and Prints, Lisson Gallery, London, England
Sol LeWitt: Three Portfolios, Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY
Sol LeWitt: Star Prints, MATRIX Gallery, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
1982 Marilena Bonomo Gallery, Bari, Italy
William Avonowitsch Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Ridiger Schottle Gallery, Munich, Germany
Young Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
1981 Wall Drawings and Drawings, Graeme Murray Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
1980 John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
Galerie Watari, Tokyo, Japan
Young/Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Ugo Ferranti Gallery, Rome, Italy
Annemarie Verna, Zurich, Switzerland
Konrad Fischer Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany
Sol LeWitt Wall Drawings 1968‑1981, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT
1980 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
1979 Geometric Structures, Lisson Gallery, London, England
Gallerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
1978 Retrospective Exhibition: Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY’;
Museum of Contemporary Art, Montreal, Canada; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL; La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla CA
1977 John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
Lisson Gallery, London, England
Geometric Figures, Konrad Fischer Gallery Dusseldorf, Germany
Incomplete Open Cubes, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England
Samangallery, Genoa, Italy
Prints, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Prints and Drawings, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
1976 Incomplete Open Cubes, Kolnischer Kusntverein, Cologne, Germany
Kornblatt Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Geometric Figures, Gallerie MTL, Brussels. Belgium
Wall Drawings, Matrix, Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT
1976 Fifty Drawings 1964‑1974, a traveling show organized by Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada; Art Gallery of Ontario, Canada; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY; High Museum of Art Atlanta, GA; San Francisco Museum of Art,
CA; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, NC; Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, TX; Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AK; Illinois State University, Normal, IL; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Canada; Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
1975 Lucio Amelia Modern Art Agency, Naples, Italy
Wall Drawings, Drawings and Incomplete Open Cubes, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Incomplete Open Cubes, Art and Project, Amsterdam, Holland, and Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
Rolf Preisig Gallery, Basel, Switzerland
Annemarie Verna, Zurich, Switzerland
Wall Drawings, Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Gian Enzo Sperone, Turin, Italy
1974 Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
Lisson Gallery, London, England
Max Protetch Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Palais des Beaux Arts. Brussels, Belgium
Rijksmuseum Kroller‑Muller, Otterloo, Netherlands
John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
Prints, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland
Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Galleria Sperone, Turin, Italy
Galerie Vega, Liege, Belgium
1973 Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
Lisson Gallery, London, England
Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England
L’Attico Galleria, Rome, Italy
1972 Hayden Gallery, MIT, Cambridge, MA
1972 Harcus‑Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
Kunsthalle, Berne, Switzerland
1971 Protetch‑Rivkin Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Toselli Gallery, Milan, Italy
Art and Project, Amsterdam, Holland
Konrad Fischer Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany
Lisson Gallery, London, England
Sculptures and Wall Drawings, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
1970 Dwan Gallery, New York, NY
Art and Project, Amsterdam, Holland
Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
Galeria Sperone, Turin, Italy
Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Holland
1969 Konrad Fischer Gallery, Dusseldorf, Germany
Galleria L’Attico, Rome, Italy
Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany
1968 Dwan Gallery, New York, NY
Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
Heiner Friedrich Gallery, Munich, Germany
Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1967 Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1966 Dwan Gallery, New York,NY
1965 Daniels Gallery, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2007 A Selection: 40 Artists from 30 years of exhibitions, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
2006 Group Show, The Sculpture Garden at 590 Madison Avenue, New York
2005 Logical Conclusions: 40 Years of Rule-Based Art, Pace Wildenstein, New York
1996 Black, Grey and White, Galerie Bugdahn und Kaimer, Dusseldorf, Germany
1994 Drawings, John Webber Gallery, New York, NY
Wallworks, Edition Schellmann, Cologne, Germany
Galerie Lutz Teutloff, Cologne, Germany
Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Bretton Hall,West Bretton Wakefield, UK
1969, Jablonka Galerie Koln
1993 Prints from the 1960’s and 1970’s, Paula Cooper, New York, NY
45th Annual Academy Purchase Exhibit, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, Donald Young Gallery, Seattle, WA
1992 15th Anniversary Exhibition, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Allegories of Modernism: Contemporary Drawing, Museum of Modern Art, New York,
Americana ‘92, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Wanchai, Hong Kong
Directions in Bay Area Printmaking: 3 Decades, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
Livres d’artistes, Galerie Mansart, Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, France
KunstHall, New York, NY
The Harcus Gallery, Boston, MA
1991 Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
Contemporary Woodblock Prints From Crown Point Press, The Leif E. Johnson
Memorial Exhibition, Edison Community College, Fort Meyers, FL
Prints in Series: Christian Boltanski, Sol LeWitt and José María Sicilia, Crown Point Press, New York, NY
Donald Young Gallery, Seattle, WA
1991 Brooke Alexander, New York, NY
1990 Prints Made at Crown Point Press, Tate Gallery, London, England
Recent Print Acquisitions in Series, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
1989 Drawings, Wolff Gallery, New York, NY
Scale (small), Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
Repetition, Hirschl and Adler Modern, New York, NY
Major Sculpture, Fred Hoffman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Zeitlos, The Hamburg Bahnmof on Invalid Enstrasse, Berlin, Germany
Salama-Caro Gallery, London, England
Under Pressure, Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, FL
Works on Paper, Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY
Sol LeWitt-Gerhard Richter, Galeria Pieroni via Panispervia, Rome, Italy
1988 Lead, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY
Black in the Light, Genovese Graphics, Boston, MA
Reason and Emotion in Contemporary Art, Edinburgh International, Scotland
Recent Graphics from American Print Shops, Mitchell Museum, Mount Vernon, IL
1987 Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
Not So Plain Geometry, Crown Point Press, New York, NY
Art Against Aids, John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
Primary Structures, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Prints at Promenade, Promenade Gallery, Bushnell Memorial Hall, Hartford, CT
For 25 Years: Crown Point Press, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1986 Drawings, Barbara Toll Fine Art, New York, NY
1985 Portfolio: Prints in Context, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
Printmakers Invitational, Central Connecticut State University, CT
1983 Black and White: A Print Survey, Castelli Graphics, New York, NY
Drawings‑Disegni‑Zeichnungen, Annemarie Verna, Zurich, Switzerland
American Master Drawing from the Collection, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Sculpture: Richard Artschwager, Marcel Broodthaers, Sol LeWitt, Claes Oldenburg,
Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY
Gene Baro Collects, The Brooklyn Museum, New York, NY
Musée des Augustins, Toulouse, France
Twentieth Century American Watercolor, Curated by Janice Oresman through The Gallery Association of New York.
1982 Sweet Art Sale, Franklin Furnace, New York, NY
A Century of Modern Drawing, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Big Prints, The Arts Council of Great Britain, London. Traveled throughout England.
Prints by Contemporary Sculptors, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Photographs by Painters and Sculptors, Daniel Wolf Gallery, New York, NY
The Crucifix Show, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
1981 Viewpoint ‘81 Installation, Cranbrook Academy of the Arts, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Sculptures and Their Related Drawings, Marisa del Re Gallery, New York, NY
Artists, Gardens, and Parks—Plans, Drawings, and Photographs, M.I.T, Cambridge, MA
Mise en Pieces/ Mise en Place/ Mise en Point, Maison de la Culture, Chalon‑sur‑Saone, France and Le Coin de Miroir, Dijon, France
Dieci Anni di Attiva, Galleria Marilena Bonomo, Diri, Italy
Art for E.R.A, Zabriskie Gallery, New York, NY
Murs, Musee National de’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Vision 5—Artist’s Photographs, Crown Point Press, Oakland, CA
1980 Forum Design, Institut fur Visuelle Gestaltung, Linz, Austria
Buren, LeWitt, Long, Sandbach, Lisson Gallery, London, England
Black and White, Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA
Pedagogical Exhibition, SUNY, Old Westbury, New York, NY
Perceiving Modern Sculpture: Selections for the Sighted and Non‑Sighted, Grey Art Gallery, NYU, New York, NY
1979 Numerals: Mathematical Concepts in Contemporary Art, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY; Yale University Gallery, New Haven, CT; Dartmouth Gallery, Hanover, NH;
University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, ND; University of California, Irvine, CA; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX; Illinois State University,
Normal, IL; Muhlenberg College, Allantown, PA; The New Gallery, Cleveland,
OH; Minneapolis Center of Art and Design, MN
Grids: Format and Image in 20th Century Art, Pace Gallery, New York, NY
A Great Big Drawing Show, P.S 1, Long Island City, New York, NY
Whitney Biennial 1979, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
The Reductive Object‑Survey of the Minimal Aesthetic in the 1960’s, ICA, Boston, MA
1978 New York Now, Mead Art Gallery, Amherst College, MA
The Poetry of Systems, Baxter Gallery, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA
Four Major Works, Young Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN
1977 Early Work, Sperone‑Westwater‑Fischer, New York, NY
Documenta VI, Kassel, Germany
Drawing Now, Tel Aviv Museum, Israel
Prints in Series, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Curator’s Choice, Loch Haven Art Center, Orlando, FL
Contemporary Collections, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
1976 Drawing Now, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
200 Years of American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Choice, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT
Private Notations: Artists Sketchbooks, Philadelphia College of Art, PA
1975 34th Biennale of Contemporary American Painting, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington,
D.C.
Fourteen Artists, Baltimore Museum of Art, MD
Functions of Drawing, Kroller‑Muller National Museum, Otterloo, Netherlands
Graphic Work, Stadtisches Museum, Monchengladbach, Germany
1974 Political Art, Max Protetch Gallery, Washington, D.C.
America on Paper, Galerie Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland
MYL Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
1973 Works from the Early Sixties, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
Contemporary Drawing, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Galerie Muller, Stuttgart, Germany
1972 Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
White on White, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Grids, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of PA, Philadelphia, PA
Actualité d’un Bilan, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
Painting and Sculpture 1972, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY
Painting: New Options, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
1971 Bennington College, Bennington, VT
1971 Prints from Halifax, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Changing Terms, Boston Museum School Gallery, Boston, MA
1970 69th American Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Cooper Hewitt Museum, New York, NY
Tokyo Metropolitan Art Gallery, Kyoto Municipal Art Museum, Aichi Prefectural Art Gallery, Japan
American Drawings, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
1969 Minimal Art, Gemeentemuseum, The Hague; Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany; Akademie de Kunste, Berlin, Germany; Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany; Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany; Kunsthalle, Berne, Switzerland
The Art of the Real, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY; Centre National d’Art Contemporain Grand Palais, Paris, France; Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland; Tate
Gallery, London, England; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland.
Art by Telephone, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,IL
Art from Plans, Kusnhalle, Berne, Switzerland
1968 Cool Art, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Documenta IV, Kassel, Germany
Prospect 68, Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany
Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Minimal Art, Galerie Rene Block, Berlin, Germany
Earthworks, Dwan Gallery, New York, NY
Benefit for Student Mobilization Committee to End War in Vietnam, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
1967 Sculpture Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
American Sculpture of the Sixties, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
1966 Multiplicity, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Boston, MA
Primary Structures, Jewish Museum, New York, NY
3 Man Show, Park Place Gallery, New York, NY
1965 Young Masters, Graham Gallery, New York, NY
1964 Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY