Biography

CV

BORN
1939, Plainfield, New Jersey, United States

 

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023

bodies of resilience, max goelitz, München, Germany

Recent Works, Galerie Haas, Zürich, Switzerland

 

2022

Gary Kuehn - Box Piece, Häusler Contemporary, Zürich, Switzerland

 

2018
Practitioner’s Delight, GAMeC, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Conrempranea, Bergamo, Italy
Niagara and Related Work, Häusler Contemporary Munich, Germany
Alternative Desires, Gaa Gallery, Provincetown, MA

 

2017
You are Free, but not that Free, 1969 Gallery, New York, NY
Rational Procedures, Häusler Contemporary Zürich, Switzerland

 

2016
Black Paintings, Häusler Contemporary Munich, Germany

The Berlin Series & Gesture Project, Gaa Gallery, Wellfleet, MA, USA

 

2014
Gary Kuehn: Between Sex and Geometry, Kunstmusuem Liechtenstein, Vaduz, LI
Gary Kuehn: Gestures and Twists, Häusler Contemporary Zürich, CH

 

2013
Gary Kuehn, Galerie Michal Haas, Berlin, Germany

 

2011
Häusler Contemporary: Gary Kuehn, Artissima 18, “Back to The Future,” Torino, IT
Gary Kuehn: Expression Suppression, Häusler Contemporary Zürich, CH
Gary Kuehn: Selected Works – Four Decades, Häusler Contemporary München, Germany

 

2009
Berlin Series, Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin, Germany

 

2008
Museum Gegenstandsfreier Kunst, Ottendorf, Germany

 

2007
Gary Kuehn Black Paintings, Art Cologne, Galerie Michael Haas, Berlin, Germany
Black Paintings, Galerie Haas AG Zürich, CH
Scrolls, Korn Gallery, Drew University, Madison, NJ, USA

 

2005
Esso Gallery, New York, NY, USA

 

2003
Summer Figures, Provincetown Museum, Provincetown, MA, USA

 

2001
The Black Paintings 1972-73, Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Extension Gallery, Johnson Atelier, Mercerville, NJ, USA

 

1998
Galerie Ricke, Cologne, Germany
Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York, NY, USA

 

1997
Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York, NY, USA

 

1996
Galerie Ricke, Cologne, Germany

 

1995
Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York, NY, USA

 

1993
Douglas Drake Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York, NY, USA

 

1991
Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Douglas Drake Gallery, New York, NY, USA

 

1990
Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York, NY, USA

 

1988
Galerie Jule Kewenig, Frechen, Germany
Douglas Drake Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Galerie Sylvia Menzel, Berlin, Germany

 

1986
Galerie Rudolf Zwirner Cologne, Germany
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Art Galaxy, New York, NY, USA

 

1983
Marion Locks, Philadelphia, PA, USA

 

1982
Sergio Tosi Gallery, New York, NY, USA

 

1981
Sergio Tosi Gallery, New York, NY, USA

 

1980
Amerika-Haus, Berlin, Germany
New Paintings, Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City, KS, USA
Berliner Serie, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany

 

1979
Kunst der Letzten 30 Jahre, Museum Moderner Kunst, Wien, Austria

 

1978
Sculptors’ Drawings, Galerie Mueller-Roth, Stuttgart, DE; DAAD Galerie, Berlin, Germany
Museum des Geldes, Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf und Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westphalen, Düsseldorf, Germany

 

1977
Documenta 6, Kassel, Germany

1976
Collection in Progress, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA
The Animals Are Coming, Eugenia Cucalon Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Americans, Lunds Konsthall, SE
Drawings, Carl Solway, New York, NY, USA
Twelve from Rutgers, University Art Gallery, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick, NJ, USA
Sculptor’s Drawings, Fine Arts Building, New York, NY, USA
Rooms (PS1), organized by Institute of Art and Urban resources, PS1, Long Island City, NY, USA
Outdoor Sculpture, Merriewold West Gallery, Far Hills, NJ, USA
Masterworks in Wood – The Twentieth Century, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR, USA
A Change of View, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, USA
USA Drawings, Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany

 

1974
International Sommerudstilling, Galerie Arnesen, København, DK
New Jersey Artists, Merriewold West Gallery, Far Hills, NJ, USA
4X Minimal Art: Jo Baer, Gary Kuehn, Bruce Nauman, Richard Serra, Schloss Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Curators’ Choice, New Jersey State Council of the Arts, Traveling Exhibition, Trenton, NJ, USA

 

1973
Sculptor’s Drawings, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Mit Kunst leben, Kunstverein Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany

 

1972

New Graphics, Galerie Ricke, Cologne, Germany
Der Bestand 1972, Art around 1970, Neue Galerie der Stadt Aachen, Aachen, Germany
Very Small Paintings/Objects/Works on Paper, The University of Iowa Museum of Art, Iowa City, IA, USA (an exhibition from the collection of Mr. and Mrs. Ulfert Wilke)

 

1971
Five Collectors – Art of our Time, Von der Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany

 

1970
Programm III, Galerie Ricke, Cologne, Germany
Identifications, Videogalerie Gerry Schum, Hannover, Germany
Zeichnungen amerikanischer Künstler, Galerie Ricke, Cologne, Germany

 

1969
Artschwager, Bollinger, Buthe, Kuehn, Serra, Sonnier, Galerie Ricke, Cologne, Germany: 6 Künstler der Galerie Ricke
New Materials, Procedures in Sculpture, Austin Arts Center, Austin, TX, USA
Live in your Head. When Attitudes Become Form, Kunsthalle Bern, CH; Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany; ICA, Institute of Contemporary Art, London, UK
Syntheses, Städtisches Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany
Whitney Museum Sculpture Annual, New York, NY, USA

 

1968
New Art USA Baroque-Minimal, Modern Art Museum, München, Germany
Programm I, Galerie Ricke, Cologne, Germany

 

1967
Kunstmarkt Köln ‘67, Gürzenich, Cologne, Germany

 

1966
Painting and Sculpture Today, John Herron Museum, Indianapolis, IN, USA
Kent State Invitational, Kent, OH, USA
American Sculpture of the Sixties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA, and The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA
2nd Annual Arp to Artschwager, Noah Goldowsky Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Geometric Art: An Exhibition of Paintings and Constructions by Fourteen Contemporary New Jersey Artists, The New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, USA
Annual Exhibition of Sculpture and Prints, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
Annual Exhibition of Sculpture and Prints, Bianchini Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Arp to Artschwager, Noah Goldowsky Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Eccentric Abstraction, Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY, USA
John G. Powers Collection, Larry Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT, USA

 

 

EDUCATION

1964    Master of Fine Arts, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
1962    Bachelor of Arts, Art History, Drew University, NJ

 

 

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Albertina, Vienna, Austria
Bonn Städtisches Kunst Museum, Bonn, Germany
Bristol-Meyers Squibb Corporation
Continental Corporation, New York, NY, USA and Cranbury, NJ, USA
Denver Museum of Art, Denver, CO, USA
First Bank of Minneapolis, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Hamburger Bahnhof, Museum für Gegenwart, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany

Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany

Kestnergesellschaft, Hannover, Germany
Kröller-Müller, Otterloo Museum, Germany
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, Switzerland

Kunstmuseum Wiesbaden, Germany
Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein
Ludwig Forum für Internationale Kunst, Aachen, Germany
Lehmbruck Museum, Duisburg, Germany
Mark Twain Bancshares, St. Louis, Missouri
Museum of Modern Art, Quito, Ecuador
Museum Ludwig, Cologne
MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zürich
Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Museum für Moderne Kunst MMK Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Museum Moderner Kunst, Frankfurt, Germany
Museum of Modern Art, Vienna, Austria
Neues Museum Nürnberg, Germany
New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ, USA
Newark Museum, Newark, NJ, USA
Sammlung Fried, Ulmer Museum, Ulm, Germany
Staatliche Graphische Sammlung München, Munich, Germany
Städtisches Museum, Leverkusen, Germany
Staatsgalerie, Stuttgart, Germany
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Von Der Heydt Museum, Germany
Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, USA
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, U.N.C., Greensboro, North Carolina
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA