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Biography - Gary Stephan

Born

1942 Brooklyn, New York. Currently resides in New York

Education

1960-61 Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
1961 Art Students League, New York, New York
1961-64 Pratt Institute, New York, NY
1967 MFA, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2006 “Ways to Make Things” (with Klaus Merkel), Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York, NY
2002 Nine Paintings, Myers Gallery, University of Akron, Akron, OH
2001 Baumgartner Gallery, New York, NY
1998 Baumgartner Gallery, New York, NY
University of Alabama, AL
Butler Institute, 10 year Survey, Youngstown, OH
1995 Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1993 Mary Boone, New York, NY
Margulies Taplin Gallery, Coral Gables, FL
Galleria in Arco, Torino, Italy
1992 “Gary Stephan: New Paintings”, Galeria Fernando Alcolea, Barcelona, Spain
1990 Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
1988 Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY
Gabrielle Maubry, Paris, France
“Diagrams Surrogates”, Shea & Beker, New York, NY
“The Silent Baroque”, Galerie T. Laddaeus, Ropac, Salzburg, Australia
1986 Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL
Lia Rumma Gallery, Naples, Italy
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Diane Brown Gallery, New York, NY
1984 Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY
1983 Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1982 Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Ronald Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, MISS
1981 Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1980 Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1979 Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
1978 Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
1977 Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1975 Bykert Gallery, New York, NY
Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
1974 Bykert Gallery, New York, NY
1973 Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
Galeri Ostergren, Malmö,Sweden
Fabian Carlson Gallery, Götesborg, Sweden
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1972 Hans Neuendorf Gallery, Cologne and Hamburg, West Germany
1971 David Whitney Gallery, New York, NY
1970 David Whitney Gallery, New York, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions

2007 “The Recognitions,” curated by David Salle, The Fireplace Project, East Hampton, NY
2005 “After All That Can Be Said” Kienzle-Gmeiner, Berlin Germany
“I am a child of divorce, give me a break” Cynthia Broan Gallery, New York, NY
“Vision and Re-vision”, Domo Gallery, Summit, NJ
2004 “Color Pencil” KS Art, New York, NY
2003 “Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture” American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
“Inklings” KS Art, New York, NY
“Transcendent and Unrepentant” Rosenwald-Wolff Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia
“Ball Point” Geoff Young Gallery, Great Barrington, MA
“177th Annual: Invitational” National Academy of Design, New York, NY
“A Response” Exit Art, New York, NY
“Rebuilding Hope, One Block at A Time” School of Visual Arts, NY
2001 Vermont Studio Center Press, Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Vermont
2000 “Substance” Neo Images, New York, NY
“Almost Something: Depictive Abstraction” Catherine Moore Fine Art, New York, NY
“Sensibilities” Booth Contemporary Art, Wakefield RI
1999 “Xthetic” Curated by Giles Lyon, Angstrom Gallery, Dallas, TX
Stefenelli Exhibition Space, New York, NY
“Size Matters” Curated by Mike Weiss, Gale Gates, Brooklyn NY
“A Room with A View” curated by Mike Weiss, Sixth at Prince, New York NY
1998 “GlyphRiff 2” Curated by Max Henry, New York, NY
Galeria Siboney, Spain
“Annual Benefit” White Columns, New York, NY
“Hey, You Never Know” curated by Kenny Schacter
Debs & CO. New York, NY
“Evergreen Review Exhibition” curated by Richard Milazzo, New York, NY
“Masters of the Master: MFA Faculty of the School of Visual Arts” Butler Institute, Youngstown OH
1997 “Leap of Faith: Amenoff, Heilman, Stephan, and Volonakis” National Arts Club, New York, NY
“Arbeiten Auf Papier” Andrea Pintsch, Munich Germany
“Lasker, Nozkowski, Stephan” Baumgartner Galleries, New York, NY
Set Offview Room Exhibitions, New York, NY
Revolution Gallery, Detroit MI
Attitudes, SOMA Gallery, San Diego CA
“Alternative Art Show” Pierogi 2000 New York NY
1996 “Highlights from the Permanent Collection” Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL
“Annual Benefit” White Columns, New York, NY
“Champions of Modernism: Art of tomorrow/Art of Today” College of New Rochelle, Castle Gallery, New Rochelle, NY
Bentley Terrace Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ
1995 “Prints” The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
“25th Anniversary” Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“The Romantic Impulse” O’Hara Gallery, New York, NY
1994 “Positions: Attitudes & Arrangements” Four Walls Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
“Flooding Camera” The Work Space, New York, NY
“East/West” J.S. Vandam, New York, NY
“Abstract Painting” Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY
“Personal Heroes” Galerie de la Tour, Amsterdam, Netherlands
“Actual Painting” Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, NY
Bravin Post Lee, New York, NY
Stux Gallery, New York, NY
1993 “The Single Frame”, John Good, NY
“The Intimate Universe: Paintings by 26 American Artists”, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY/ Michael Walls Gallery, New York, NY
“The Return of the Exquisite Cadaver” The Drawing Center, New York, NY
1992 “A/D at the Peter Joseph Gallery”, NY
Group Show, Richard Levy Gallery, Albuquerque, NM
“Prints from Pace”, Augen Gallery, Portland, OR
“Americana ‘92”, Hong Kong Arts Centre, Wanchai, Hong Kong
1991 “Figuring Abstraction: Group Show”, Verg Baghoomian Gallery, NY
“Rope”, Curated by Christopher Leigh, Fernando Alcolea Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
“Painting on Paper: James Nares, Peter Schuyff and Gary
Stephan, Marc Richards Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
1990 “Landscapes”, Joan Nelson and Gary Stephan, The University
Art Galleries Creative Arts Center, Wright State University, Dayton, OH
“Token Gestures-A Painting Show”, Scott Hansen Gallery, NY
Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“The Last Decade: American Artists of the 80’s”, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, NY
“Recent Releases”, Crown Point Press, NY
“Works on Paper”, Group Show, Martina Hamilton Gallery, NY
1989 “Landscapes”, Vrej Baghroomian, New York, NY
“Diagrams & Surrogates”, Shea & Beker, New York, NY
“Collapsive Light”, Laurie Rubin Gallery, NY
1988 “Art at the End of the Social”, Rooseum, Collins and
Milaz, Malmö, Sweden
“Image of Abstraction”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
1987 “The Antique Future”, Massimo Audiello Gallery, New York, NY
“Post-Abstract Abstraction”, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
“Fall Invitational”, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
“Lead”, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY
1986 “An American Renaissance:Painting and Sculpture Since 1940”, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
“Time After Time”, Diane Brown Gallery, New York, NY
Group Show, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, ILL
“Paravision”, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
“Collection of Douglas S. Cramer”, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
“Amenoff, McLaughlin, Stephan”, Michael Lord Gallery, Milwaukee, WI
1985 “Post-Style”, Wolff Gallery, New York, NY
“Recent Abstract Painting”, John Good Gallery, New York, NY
1984 “Five Painters in New York”, Whitney Museum of American Art,NY
“An International Survey of Painting and Sculpture”, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1983 “Recent Acquisitions:Works on Paper”, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
“Drawing it Out”, Baskerville-Watson Gallery, New York, NY
“Mary Boone and Her Artists”, Seibu Museum, Tokyo, Japan
“Language, Drama, Source and Vision”, New Museum, New York, NY
1982 “Early Work”, New Museum, New York, NY
Mary Boone Gallery, New York
1981 “Drawings”, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
1980 Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
1979 “The Altered Photograph: 20 Walls, 20 Curators”, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, P.S. 1, New York, NY
“American Painting: The Eighties”, Grey Art Gallery, New York University, New York, NY
1978 Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
“Drawing Show”, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
1977 “Painting”, Institute for Art & Urban Resources, P.S. 1, New York, NY
1974 Art Institute of Chicago, ILL
1973 “The Whitney Biennial”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1971 “The Whitney Biennial”, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
1969 “The Whitney Biennial”, Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
1968 Bykert Gallery, New York

Selected Bibliography

Special Project, Tema Celeste, March-May, 1988, p. 55-58.
“Claudia Hart and Gary Stephan”, ArtScribe, May, 1988, p. 82.
“Gary Stephan:Spectacles and Con-Template-Ion”, by Robert Pincus-Witten, Flash Art, May-June, 1988, p. 76.
“The Round Table Project”, by Saul Ostrow, Bomb, Spring and Summer, 1988.
Interview, by Georgia March, Bomb, Fall, 1988.
“Ambivalent Spaces: Gary Stephan”, by Howard Michael Singerman, Tema Celeste, January 18-22, 1987, p. 70
“Winter Notebook, by Jed Perl, New Criterion, April, 1987, p. 57.
“Art: Gary Stephan Show at Boone and Werner”, by Vivien Raynor, New York Times, May 23, 1986, section C, p. 26.
“Gary Stephan”, by Tricia Collins and Richard Milazzo, Kunstforum, June, 1986, p. 240.
“Paravision: Une Interview avec Tricia Collins and Richard Milazzo”, by Alan Jones, Galleries Magazine, September, 1986, p. 40.
“Transformed for Art”, by Heather Smith MacIsaac, House and Garden, September, 1986, p. 204.
“Art: Fall Preview”, by Edith Newhall, New York Magazine, September, 1986, p. 64.
“Gary Stephan”, by Robert Mahoney, Arts Magazine, December, 1986, p. 126.
“The Artist’s Eye”, by Jan Drews, Art and Antiques, May, 1985, p. 60.
“Entries:Becoming American”, by Robert Pincus-Witten, Arts Magazine, October, 1985, p. 101.
“The Enthusiast as Collector”, by Barbara Rose, Vogue, February, 1984, p. 366.
“Five Painters in New York”, by Carter Ratcliff, Vanity Fair, March, 1984, p. 20.
“At The Whitney: Five New York Painters”, by Grace Glueck, New York
Times, March 30, 1984, section C1, p. 28.
“Gary Stephan”, by Vivien Raynor, New York Times, September 28, 1984, section C 32.
“Gary Stephan at Marlborough, by Stephen Westfall, Art in America, November, 1984, p. 153.
“Feigning the Visionary: Gary Stephan”, by Peter Haaren, Arts Magazine, December, 1984, p. 116.
“Gary Stephan and David Novros, by John Russell, New York Times, January 21, 1983, section C, p. 24.
“Gary Stephan at Mary Boone”, by Robert Storr, Art in America, May, 1983, p. 163.
“Man with the Golden Eye”, by Doris Saatchi, House and Garden, October, 1983, p. 100.
“Gary Stephan: The Brief Against Matisse”, by Robert Pincus-Witten, Arts Magazine, March, 1982, p. 132.
“Abstract Extractions”, by Robert Smith, Village Voice, June 8, 1982, p. 83.
“Gary Stephan at Mary Boone”, by Robert Yoskowitz, Arts Magazine, September, 1982, p. 33.
“Gary Stephan”, by Lisa Liebmann, Artforum, October, 1982, p. 71.
“Different Strokes”, by Peter Schjeldahl, Village Voice, January 21, 1981, p. 70.
“The Game of the Rulses”, by Kay Larson, New York Magazine, February 2, 1981, p. 55.
“Something About Art”, by Joan Wallace, Real Life, Summer 1981, p. 32.
“Gary Stephan”, by Thomas Lawson, Flash Art, Summer 1981, p. 53.
“Painting Metaphorically: The Work of Gary Stephan, Stephen Mueller, Bill Jensen, Artforum, October, 1981, p. 54.
“Entries:Big History, Little History”, Arts Magazine, April, 1980, p. 185.
“Beyond Language”, by Dupuy Warrick Reed, Arts Magazine, May 1980, p. 159.
“Iconicity”, by Joseph Mascheck, Artforum, January, 1979, p. 37.
“Mentalism Versus Painting”, by Ross Neher, Artforum, February, 1979, p. 40.
“Gary Stephan, by Valentin Tatransky, Arts Magazine, June 1979, p. 36.
“Entries:Cutting Edges”, by Robert Pincus-Witten, Arts Magazine, June 1979, p. 108.
“New Modernists: A Sense of Deja Vu”, by Hilton Kramer, New York Times, September 23, 1979, section D, p. 31.
“Two Worlds and Their Ways”, by John Ashberry, New York Magazine, September 24, 1979, p. 88.
“A Tournament of Rose’s”, by Hal Foster, Artforum, November 1979, p. 62.
“Entries”, by Robert Pincus-Witten, Arts Magazine, March 1978, p. 92.
“Figures of Paint: The Work of Gary Stephan”, by Klaus Kertess, Arts Magazine, March 1978, p. 138.
“Gary Stephan”, by Jeff Perone, Artforum, June, 1978, p. 70.
“Reviews and Previews”, Art News, by Gerrit Henry, April 1976,p.120.
“Reviews”, by Roberta Smith, Artforum, May 1976, p. 64.
“The 87 Jefferson Streeters Show at MOMA”, by David Bourdon, Village Voice, September 22, 1975, p. 102.