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Biography - John Cage

Born

1912 Los Angeles, California. Died 1992 New York, New York.

Education

Studied music with Richard Buhlig, Henry Cowell, Adolph Weiss and Arnold Schoenberg.

One‑person Exhibitions

2000 California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
1993 Venice Biennale - A memorial to John Cage, works by John Cage and other artists influenced by him
1992 John Cage: Drawings and Watercolors, Margarete Roeder Gallery, Koln
John Cage: River Rocks & Smoke Watercolors, Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York
John Cage: Drawings and Watercolors, Kulturamt Der Landeshauptstadt Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany
John Cage: Drawings and Watercolors, Centrum Beeldende Kunst, Groningen, The Netherlands
1991 John Cage, Espai Poblenou, Barcelona, Spain
John Cage/Works on Paper, 1982-90, The Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison, WIS
John Cage: Arbeiten auf Papier, Stahli, Galerie & Edition, Zurich, Margarete Roeder, New York
1990 John Cage: Wild Edible Drawings, Rugg Road Prints and Papers, Somerville, MASS
1989 Sightings/Soundings: The Art of John Cage, Strathmore Hall Arts Center, Rockville, MD
1989 John Cage, Galerie Graff, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
John Cage/New River Watercolors, Roanoke Museum at the Center in the Square, VA
1988 Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
1987 NACHTCAGETAG, West German Radio, Cologne, West Germany
Allen Memorial Art Gallery, Oberlin College, OH
Europas 1 & 2, Performed by the Frankfort Opera at SUNY, Purchase, NY
New River Watercolors, Virginia Museum, Richmond, VA. Traveled to the Phillips Collection, Washington, DC
1985 John Cage and Merce Cunningham, Margarete Roeder Fine Art, NY
1984 Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund, Sweden
Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
1982 Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
Albright‑Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
John Cage: Scores and Prints, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Crown Point Press, Oakland, CA
Margarete Roeder Fine Arts, NY
1981 Real Art Ways, Hartford, CT
1980 Boston College Gallery, Newton Campus, MA
1979 Kunstforum, Bonn, West Germany
1978 Carl Solway Gallery, NY
Museum Folkwang, Essen, West Germany
Staedtisches Museum, Munchingladbach,
West Germany
Kunstverein, Koln, West Germany
San Francisco Art Institute, Atholl
McBean Gallery, CA
1977 Museum of Modern Art, NY
1973 Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
1971 Galleria Schwarz, Milan, Italy
1958 Stable Gallery, New York

Group Exhibitions

1994 The first meeting of the Satie Society, Susan Sheehan Gallery, New York, NY
1993 Muscararelle Museum of Art, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg, VA
John Cage-The Edible Drawings, Bernard Toale Gallery, Boston, MA
Collaboration, Mountain Lake Work Shop, Muscarelle Museum of Art, Williamsburg, VA
1992 The Midtown Flower Show, Midtown Payson Galleries, New York
Directions in Bay Area Printmaking: 3 Decades, Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA
1992 The Black Mountain Connection, Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
Landscapes: John Cage & Tom Marioni, Crown Point Press, New York and San Francisco, CA
The Spirit of John Cage 1912-1992, Jernigan Wicker Fine Art, San Francisco, CA 1991 Prints and Concepts, Stella R Graphics, Paris, France
The 1991 Carnegie International Exhibition, Pittsburg, PA
1990 John Cage/Merce Cunningham, Margarete Roeder Gallery, NY
Cage/Saret/Tuttle, Christine Burgin Gallery, NY
John Cage/Doris Cross, Sena Galleries East, Santa Fe, NM
Group Show; William Anastasi, Dove Bradshaw, John Cage, Tom
Marioni, Robert Rauschenberg and Mark Tobey, Sandra Gering, NY.
The Unique Print:70’s Into 90’s, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
On Paper: the History of an Art, Celebrating the Leonard B. Schlosser Collection
on the History of Papermaking, The New York Public Library, NY
Carl Andre + Jack Barth + John Cage, A/D, NY
1989 Brooklyn Museum Prints & Drawings, John Cage and Lois Long’s Mud Book.
John Cage/New Etchings, Bill Davidson/New Screenprints, Webb and Parsons, Vermont.
Serious Play: Experiments in Contemporary Printmaking, San Jose State University, San Jose, CA
Ein Traum mit Schlagsahne, exhibition in honor of DAAD’s 25th Anniversary, Akademie der Kunste, Berlin
I Triennal de Dibuix Joan Miro, Fundacio Joan Miro, Barcelona, Spain
1987‑88 Acid and Light: Contemporary Photo‑Etchings, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, OH
College Music Society, Duisburg, West Germany (Charles Ives and American Music)
The Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Bard College, NY (The Arts at Black Mountain College 1933-57)
Grey Art Gallery & Study Center, New York University, NY
Gilliam & Peden Art Gallery, Raleigh, NC
The Quality of Line, Forum, St. Louis, MO
Enduring Creativity, Whitney Museum, Fairfield, CT.
Galleria Vivita, Florence, Italy
Museum Ludwig, Koeln, West Germany
Art After Silence, Rutgers University, New Jersey
1987 John Cage: Recent Etchings and Monotypes/Robert Hudson: New Releases, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, CA
Contemporary Works on Paper, Vivian Horan Gallery, NY
1987 Elektronmusik Festival 1987, Galleri Astley, Skinnskatteberg, Sweden (exhibition of prints concurrent with music festival) Works on Paper: Third Annual Master Print Exhibition, Lizardi/Harp Gallery, Pasadena, CA
Aspects of Drawing: Part One, Abstraction, The Public Art Space, Seattle, WA
For 25 Years: Crown Point Press, Museum of Modern Art, NY
1986 Recent Graphics from American Print Shops, The Mitchell Museum, Mt. Vernon, IL (traveled nationally in 1987)
Traps: Elements of Psychic Seduction, Carlo Lamagna Gallery, NY
Public and Private: American Prints Today, The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
1985 From Crown Point Press, Georgia State University Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1980‑83 Mapped Art: Charts, Routes and Regions, a national tour
1980 Kunstmuseum Hannover mit Sammlung Sprengel
Kunsthaus Schaller, Stuttgart, West Germany
1980 Print Publishing in America, Stedelijk Museum, Schiedam, Netherlands
Galerie Nachst St. Stephan, Vienna, Austria
1979 International Biennial of Prints, National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
1977 America, Drawn and Matched, The Museum of Modern Art, NY

Awards and Grants:

American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, 1968
American Academy of Arts and Sciences, 1978
Order of Arts and Letters of Ministry of Culture, France, 1982
Karl Szuka Prize, France
Kyoto Prize, New York
Skowhegan Medal, Skowhegan School of Painting and Drawing, 1990

Books by the Artist

1991 Nods (Collaborative book project with Philip Gallo and Barbara Fahrner, Published by Granary Books, New York)
1981 Themes and Variations
1981 The Mud Book
1979 Empty Words
1979 Writings through Finnegan’s Wake
1973 M
1969 Notations
1968 A Year from Monday
1961 Silence

Films

1990 I Have Nothing to Say and I’m Saying It, Film Biography of John Cage. Presented by American Masters and the Music Project for Television
1990 Face the Music, Directed by Allan Miller.

Selected Collections (prints)

Hallmark Collections, MO
Kunsthalle, Hamburg, West Germany
Museum Bergichgladbach, Bergichgladback, Germany
The Museum of Modern Art, NY
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Holland
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn.
Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Albertina Museum, Vienna, Austria
Stadliche Kunsthalle, Manheim, Germany
Achenbach Foundation, California Palace of the Legion of Honor, San Francisco, CA
Hedendaagse Kunst Museum, Utrecht, Netherlands
Wilhelm Laehbruck Museum, Duisburg, West Germany
Kulturbesitz National Galerie, Berlin
Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, West Germany