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Agnes Martin

 

 
1912 Born March 22 in Maklin, Saskatchewan, Canada. Spends youth in Vancouver, British Columbia.

1931 Moves to the United States.

1934-37 Studies at Western Washington College of Education, Bellingham, Washington.

1941-42 Attends Teachers College, Columbia University, New York. Receives B.S., 1942.

1946-48 Enrolls at the University of New Mexico, Albuquerque where she also teaches art from 1947-48.

1950 Becomes a United States citizen.

1952 Receives M.A. from Teachers College, Columbia University, New York.

1954-57 Lives in Taos, New Mexico.

1957 Moves to New York; lives on Coenties Slip in Lower Manhattan.

1958 First solo exhibition at Betty Parsons Gallery, New York.

1967-68 Moves to New Mexico; abandons painting for seven years.

1971 Publishes suite of prints, On a Clear Day, with Parasol Press.

1974 Returns to painting after seven years hiatus.

1975 First exhibition at, and beginning of association with, The Pace Gallery, New York.

1976 Produces film entitled Gabriel.

1989 Inducted as a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York.

1991 Retrospective exhibition organized by the Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam; travels throughout Europe.

Receives the Alexej von Jawlensky Prize from the city of Wiesbaden, Germany.

1992 Receives Oskar Kokoschka Prize from Austrian government.

1992-94 Major retrospective organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; travels throughout the United States and to Madrid.

1995 Participates in the "1995 Biennial Exhibition" at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

1997 Receives Golden Lion for Contribution to Contemporary Art at the Venice Biennale.

1998

Receives the Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement from the College Art Association.

National Medal of Arts, an award presented by the President and the National Endowment for the Arts.

Recipient of the 25th Annual Governor's Award for Excellence and Achievement in the Arts, given by Governor Gary Johnson, Santa Fe, New Mexico.

 



Solo Exhibitions

 

 
 
1958 Agnes Martin, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, December 2 - 20.

1959-60 Paintings: Agnes Martin, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, December 29, 1959 - January 16, 1960.

1961 Agnes Martin Paintings, Robert Elkon Gallery, New York, September 25 - October 14.

1962 Agnes Martin, Robert Elkon Gallery, New York, November 27 - December 15.

1963 Agnes Martin, Robert Elkon Gallery, New York, November 12 - 30.

1965 Agnes Martin, Robert Elkon Gallery, New York, April 10 - 30.

1965-66 Agnes Martin, Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, December 4, 1965 - January 8, 1966.

1966 Agnes Martin Drawings 1961-1966, Robert Elkon Gallery, New York, May 2 - 28.

Paintings: Agnes Martin, Robert Elkon Gallery, New York, October 22 - November 12.

1967 October - Agnes Martin, Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, October.

1970 Agnes Martin: Paintings 1963-1968, Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, January.

Agnes Martin: Drawings 1961-1966, Robert Elkon Gallery, New York, May 2 - 20.

1971 Agnes Martin, Visual Arts Gallery, School of Arts, New York, April 20 - May 25.

1972 Agnes Martin: Eight Paintings 1961-1967, Robert Elkon Gallery, New York, March 4 - 29.

1973 Agnes Martin, retrospective exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 22 - March 1.
Travels to the Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, California, April 3 - May 27. (catalogue)

Agnes Martin: On a Clear Day, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, April 28 - May.

On a Clear Day, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, May 14 - August 28.

1973-74 Agnes Martin, Kunstraum München, Munich, November 20 - December 22, 1973.
Travels to Kunsthalle Tübingen, January 12 - February 24, 1974; Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, March 17 - April 21, 1974. (catalogue)

1974 On a Clear Day, Screenprints and Drawings by Agnes Martin, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, February 23 - March 17.

Agnes Martin: Drawings 1960 to 1967, Robert Elkon Gallery, New York, March 9 - April 3.

On a Clear Day, Fine Arts Museum, Santa Fe, September 8 - December 8.

1975 Agnes Martin: New Paintings, The Pace Gallery, New York, March 1 - April 1.

1976 Agnes Martin: Recent Paintings, The Pace Gallery, New York, May 1 - 29.

Agnes Martin: Paintings 1961-67, Robert Elkon Gallery, New York, May 1 - June 2.

1977 Agnes Martin: Paintings and Drawings 1957-1975, Arts Council of Great Britain, London.
Travels to Hayward Gallery, London, March 2 - April 24; Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, May 13 - June 19. (catalogue)

Agnes Martin: Recent Paintings, The Pace Gallery, New York, March 25 - April 22.

Agnes Martin: Six New Paintings, The Mayor Gallery, London, April 4 - May 13.

Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne.

Agnes Martin: Drawings of the Sixties
, Robert Elkon Gallery, New York, October 7 - November 8.

Agnes Martin: Recent Drawings, Harcus/Krakow Gallery, Boston, November 4 - 29.

1979 Agnes Martin: Recent Watercolors, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, April 7 - May 5.

The Islands, Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, July 1 - 29.

Agnes Martin, The Pace Gallery, New York, September 21 - October 13.

1980 Agnes Martin New Paintings, Watercolors, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, September 27 - October 31.

Agnes Martin Paintings 1980, The Pace Gallery, New York, November 14 - December 13.

1980-81 Agnes Martin, exhibition of a series of twelve paintings completed in 1979, organized by the Pace Gallery, New York.
Travels to Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas, March 18 - April 6, 1980; Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado, May 24 - June 29, 1980; La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California, August 15 - September 28, 1980; Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, Washington, November 13 - December 31; Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon, January - February 1981; Akron Art Institute, Akron, Ohio, March 14 - May 10, 1981; Glenbow Museum, Calgary, Alberta, Canada, August - October 11, 1981; and Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada, November 13 - December 20, 1981.

1981 Agnes Martin Paintings 1981, The Pace Gallery, New York, September 25 - October 31.

1982 Agnes Martin, exhibition organized by Glenbow-Alberta Institute, Calgary, Alberta, and the Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Presented at Centre Saidye Bronfman, Montreal,
February 23 - March 14.

1982-83 Agnes Martin: New Paintings, The Pace Gallery, New York, December 3, 1982 - January 8, 1983.

1984 Agnes Martin: Recent Paintings, The Pace Gallery, New York, January 20 - February 11.

Agnes Martin: Recent Paintings, The Mayor Gallery, London, February 1 - March 16.

1985 Agnes Martin: Paintings 1985, The Pace Gallery, New York, January 18 - February 16.

Agnes Martin: Recent Paintings, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, October 18 - November 16.

1986 Agnes Martin: Recent Paintings, Waddington Galleries, London, February 5 - March 1. (catalogue)

Agnes Martin: Neue Bilder-Zeichnungen, Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zurich, April 23 - May 24.

Agnes Martin: Works on Paper, Garry Anderson Gallery, Sydney, Australia, June 17 - July 12.

Agnes Martin, The Pace Gallery, New York, September 19 - October 25.

1987 Agnes Martin: Peintures 1975-1986, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, April 25 - May 20.

1988 Agnes Martin, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, March 5 - 30.

1989 Agnes Martin: New Paintings, The Pace Gallery, New York, January 20 - February 18.

Agnes Martin, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, April 4 - 22. (catalogue)

Agnes Martin: Recent Paintings
, The Cleveland Museum of Art, July 5 - September 10.

1990 Waddington Galleries Ltd., London.

1990-91 Agnes Martin: New Paintings, The Pace Gallery, 142 Greene Street, New York, December 7, 1990 - January 12, 1991.

1991 Agnes Martin Paintings: 1959-1969, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, February 2 - 23.

30 prints by Agnes Martin, Chianti Foundation, Marfa, Texas, Winter 1991.

Agnes Martin: Gemälde und Zeichnugen 1974-1990, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Münster, Germany, April 8 - June 10.

1991-92 Agnes Martin: Paintings and Drawings 1974-1990, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands, March 22 - May 12, 1991.
Traveled to Museum Wiesbaden, Germany, May 26 - July 21, 1991; Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Münster, Germany, August 4 - October 6, 1991; Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, France, October 24, 1991 - January 6, 1992. (catalogue)

Agnes Martin: New Paintings, The Pace Gallery, New York, December 6, 1991 - January 4, 1992.

1992 Agnes Martin: Werke 1961-1989, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland, January 19 - March 15. (catalogue)

Agnes Martin, Hochschule für angewandte Kunst, Vienna, February 6 - March 7.

Agnes Martin, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, May 16 - June 20.

1992-94 Agnes Martin, retrospective exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, November 6, 1992 - January 31, 1993.
Travels to Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, February 12 - April 4, 1993; Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, Florida, May 22 - August 1, 1993; Houston Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, September 10 - October 31, 1993; Museo Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain, November 23, 1993 - February 21, 1994. (catalogue)

1993 Wildenstein Gallery, Tokyo, May 17 - June 30. (catalogue)

Agnes Martin: Paintings and Drawings 1977-1991, Serpentine Gallery, London, September 8 - October 24. (catalogue)

1994 Agnes Martin: Paintings from 1991 & 1992, Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne, January 22 - March 5.

Santa Fe Museum of Fine Arts, March 26 - May 15.

Agnes Martin: Recent Paintings, Stockholm Konsthall, Magasin 3, Stockholm, May 26 - September 8.

1995 Agnes Martin Recent Paintings, PaceWildenstein, New York, February 17 - March 18.

Agnes Martin, Mackenzie Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada, April 15 - June 18; traveled to University Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley, California, July 12 - September 24.

1996 Agnes Martin: New Paintings, PaceWildenstein, Los Angeles, January 10 - February 3.

Agnes Martin Painting & Drawing, Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich, Early Spring.

Agnes Martin: New Drawings and Watercolors, PaceWildenstein, New York, March 28 - April 27.

Agnes Martin, Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zurich, May 21 - July 20.

1997 Agnes Martin: Recent Paintings, PaceWildenstein, New York, January 16 - February 15.

Agnes Martin Gallery, Harwood Museum, Taos, New Mexico, opens October 31, 1997. (Permanent installation)

1998 Agnes Martin: New Paintings, PaceWildenstein, New York, March 27 - April 25.

Agnes Martin: Works on Paper, Museum of Fine Arts, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, May 15 - August 17. (catalogue)

Agnes Martin, Galeria 56, Budapest, June 2 - July 4.

Agnes Martin: New Paintings, PaceWildenstein, Los Angeles, October 8 - 31.

1999 Agnes Martin: New Paintings, 1999 Edinburgh International Festival, Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh, Scotland, August 14 - October, 1999.

2000

Agnes Martin, PaceWildenstein, New York, April 27 - June 10, 2000.

Lovely Life: The Recent Work of Agnes Martin, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, October 1 - October 29, 2000.
 
 



Two-Person Exhibitions

 

 
 
1989-90 Agnes Martin and Donald Judd, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, October 25, 1989 - February 25, 1990.

1992 Agnes Martin/Richard Tuttle, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, May 16 - June 17, 1992.

1998 Hiroshi Sugimoto Recent Seascapes & Agnes Martin Works on Paper, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, March 5 - April 25, 1998.

Agnes Martin/Richard Tuttle, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas, April 26 - August 2, 1998. Travels to SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico, August 15 - October 20, 1998.
 
 



Selected Public Collections

 

 
 
  The Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, North Carolina

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut

Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio

American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, New York

Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada

Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia

The Chase Manhattan Collection, New York, New York

The Chinati Foundation/La Fundación Chinati, Marfa, Texas

The Cleveland Museum of Art
, Cleveland, Ohio

Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Massachusetts

Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa

Dia Center for the Arts, New York, New York

Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Fundació La Caixa, Barcelona, Spain

The Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University Art Collection, New York, New York

Harwood Foundation, Taos, New Mexico

High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia

Hirishima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.

Ho-Am Art Museum, Seoul, Korea

Hugh Lane Municipal Gallery of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland

Isreal Museum, Jerusalem, Israel

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California

Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California

Magasin 3 Kunsthall, Stockholm, Sweden

The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York

Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Musée national d'art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France

Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, La Jolla, California

Museum of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, New Mexico

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York

National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC

The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri

Neuberger Museum, State University of New York at Purchase, Purchase, New York

Neue Galerie-Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen, Germany

Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California

Österreichische Ludwigstiftung, Vienna, Austria

The Refco Collection, Chicago, Illinois

Rivendell Collection, Richard and Marieluise Black Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands

Stiftung Ludwig, Palais Lichtenstein, Vienna, Austria

Tate Gallery, London, Great Britain

Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York

Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts

Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
 
 



Selected Group Exhibitions

 

 
 
1961-62 1961 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 27, 1961 - January 7, 1962. (catalogue)

1962 Geometric Abstraction in America, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, March 20 - May 13. (catalogue)

Six Americans, Tooth Gallery, London

1963 Formalists, Gallery of Modern Art, Washington D.C.

Black, Grey and White, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut

1965-67 American Drawings, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Art Across America, Mead Corporation

1966 Whitney Museum Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Systematic Painting, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

1967 The Responsive Eye, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

A Romantic Minimalism, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Form, Color, Image, Detroit Institute of Art, Michigan

Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Thirtieth Biennial, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

1968 Betty Parsons Collection, Finch Museum, New York

The Pure and Clear, Philadelphia Museum, Pennsylvania

1969 Art of the Real U.S.A., Kunsthaus Zürich

1970 A Decade of Accomplishment, Illinois Bell Telephone Co., Chicago

American Drawings, Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris

1971 White on White, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

1972 Grids, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia

Paintings by American Women, Randolph-Macon College, North Carolina

documenta 5, Kassel, Germany

1973-74 Quinze Americains, Galerie Denise René and Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, December 1973 - January 1974

1974 Nine Artists/Coenties Slip, Whitney Downtown, New York

1975 Fundamental Painting, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

1976 Critical Perspectives in American Art, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

Aspects of Post-War Painting in America, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York


Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy

Drawing Now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Travels to the College of Art, Edinburgh, Scotland; Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland; Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, West Germany; Sonja Henie-Niels Onstad Museum, Oslo, Norway

1977 Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Group Show, The Pace Gallery, New York, June 13 - July 31

1978 Four Contemporary Painters, Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

American Painting of the 1970's, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York

1979 The Reductive Object: A Survey of the Minimalist Aesthetic in the 1960's, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston

Seventy Third American Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago

1980 Twenty Americans, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, California

Venice Biennale, American Pavilion, Venice, Italy

ROSC International Art Exhibition, Dublin, Ireland

Ten American Artists From The Pace Gallery, Wildenstein, London, June 18 - July 18

1981 The 37th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.

1983 American Postwar Purism, Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York

1984 The Tremaine Collection, Wadsworth, Atheneum, Hartford, February 26 - April 29

1985 Visiting Artists, Kemper Gallery, Kansas City Art Institute

Contrasts of Form, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (catalogue)

37th Annual Purchase Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York

1986 The Heroic Sublime, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York

Work from the Pace Gallery, The Moody Gallery of Art, University of Alabama, Birmingham

50th Annual National Midyear Show, Butler Institute of American Art

America: Art and the West, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth, Australia. Travels to the Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

Individuals; A Selected History of Contemporary Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

The Idea of North, 49th Parallel, New York

1986-87 Elders of the Tribe, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, New York (catalogue)

1988 Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zurich

1988-89 Carnegie International, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, November 5, 1988 - January 22, 1989 (catalogue)

1989 Making Their Mark; Women Artists Move into the Mainstream, 1970-85, Cincinnati Art Museum, February 24 - April 2.
Travels to New Orleans Museum of Art, May 6 - June 18; Denver Art Museum, July 22 - September 10; Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, October 21 - December 31 (catalogue)

American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, May 18, June 11

Bilderstreit; Widerspruch, Einheit und Fragment in der Kunst seit 1960, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, April 8 - June 28, 1989

1989-90 Abstraction-Geometry-Painting: Selected Geometric Abstract Painting in America since 1945, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, September 17 - November 5, 1989.
Travels to Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, December 15, 1989 - February 25, 1990; Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, April 1 - June 1, 1990; Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, July 1 - August 30, 1990 (catalogue)

American Masters, Fabian Carlsson Gallery, London, December 15, 1989 - February 6, 1990

Constructing a History, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, November 19, 1989 - March 4, 1990

1990 The Image of Abstract Painting in the 80s, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts, March 18 - April 29

Quotations: Annemarie Verna Gallery 1969-1989 (Part I), Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zurich, March - April

GegenwartEwigkeit, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin

The Future of the Object! A Selection of American Art; Minimalism and After, Galerie Ronny Van de Welde, Antwerp, May 22 - July 28

Kulturen-Verwandtschaften in Geist und Form, Galerie Nachte St. Stephan, Vienna, March 31 - May 26

Minimalist Prints, Susan Sheehan Gallery, New York, May 1 - June 29

American Masters of the 60's, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, May 9 - June 23

Portrait of an American Gallery, Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels, April 19 - June 23

Art in Europe and America: The 1960s and 1970s, Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Ohio State University, Columbus, May 19 - August 5

Sculpture and Painting, The Pace Gallery, New York, July 16 - August 24

Pharmakon '90, Nippon Convention Center, Makuhari Messe International Exhibition Hall, July 28 - August 20

Kunstlerinnen des 20. Jahrhunderts, Museum Wiesbaden, September 1 - November 25 (catalogue)

Five Artists from Coenties Slip: 1956-1965, Richard Green Gallery, Santa Monica, September 20 - October 27

Project Room, John Weber Gallery, New York, October 6 - 27

Minimal Art, The National Museum of Art, Osaka, October 6 - November 25 (catalogue)

1990-91 Four Centuries of Women's Art
Travels to The Bunkamura Museum of Art, Shibuya, August 15 - September 16, 1990; The Museum of Modern Art, Kamakura, September 29 - October 28, 1990; Sapporo Tokyu, Sapporo, November 1 - November 13, 1990; Tenjin Iwataya, Fukuoka, January 15 - January 28, 1991; Daimaru Museum Umeda, Osaka, February 20 - March 11, 1991; Nagano Tokyu, Nagano, March 15 - March 27, 1991; Hiroshima Museum of Art, April 4 - May 6, 1991; Matsuzakaya Museum, Nagoya, May 23 - June 9, 1991 (catalogue)

Kunstlerinnen des 20. Jahrunderts, Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany, September 1 - November 25, 1990 (catalogue)

Language in Art, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, October 20, 1990 - January 6, 1991

Hesse, Lawler, Martin, Meyer, Pfaff, Smith, Winsor, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, December 20, 1990 - January 19, 1991 (catalogue)

1990-93 Contemporary American Artists, Residence of Ambassador and Mrs. John D. Negroponte, Mexico City (catalogue)

1991 Masterpieces from the Permanent Collection, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, January 19 - February 17

Geometries of Color: American Post-Painterly Abstraction, Stux Modern, New York, January 30 - March 9 (catalogue)

Post-War Geometric Concepts, Marylin Pearl, New York, March 6 - April 6

Not On Canvas, Asher-Faure, Los Angeles, February 16 - March 23

Compulsion, Jamison Thomas Gallery, New York, March 28 - April 27

Minimalism and Post-Minimalism: Drawing Distinctions and Selections from the Elaine and Werner Dannheisser Collection: Painting and Sculpture from the '80s and '90s, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, September 22 - November 17

1992 Arte Americana 1930-1970, Lingotto, Turin, Italy, January 8 - March 31 (catalogue)

Rubin Spangle Gallery, January 11 - February 8

Yvonne Lambert Collectionne, Musée des Beaux-Arts, Paris, January 18 - April 20

William S. Paley Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, February 2 - May 7 (catalogue)

Behind Bars, Thread Waxing Space, New York, March 17 - April 25

Passions & Cultures: Selected Works from the Rivendell Collection, 1967-1991, Richard and Marieluise Black Center for Curatorial Studies and Art in Contemporary Culture, Bard College, Annandale-on- Hudson, New York, April 4 - December (catalogue)

Summer group exhibition, The Pace Gallery, New York, June 5 - September 11

Repetición/Transformación, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, October 6 - December 6 (catalogue)

1992-93 The Geometric Tradition in American Art: 1930-1990, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, December 9, 1992 - February 14, 1993

1993 Coenties Slip, The Pace Gallery, 142 Greene Street, New York, January 16 - February 13 (catalogue)

American Art in the Twentieth Century: Painting and Sculpture 1913-1993, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, May 8 - July 25, and Royal Academy of Arts, London, September 16 - December 12 (catalogue)

Singular Dimensions in Painting, Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York, May 27 - August 22

Early Minimal Art Masterworks, John Weber Gallery, New York, September 11 - October 9

On Paper: Vija Celmins, Judy Fishkin, Agnes Martin, Ellen Phelan, AsherFaure, Los Angeles, November 6 - December 21

1993-94 Der zerbrochene Spiegel; Positionen zur Malerei (The Broken Mirror; Approaches to Painting). Museumsquartier Messepalast und Kunsthalle Vienna, May 26 - July 25, 1993; Deichtohallen, Hamburg, October 14, 1993 - January 2, 1994 (catalogue)

1994 Retrospektiv I: Agnes Martin, Robert Mangold Werke 1962-1994, Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zurich, February 16 - March 11

30 YEARS--Art in the Present Tense: The Aldrich's Curatorial History 1964-1994, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut, May 15 - September 17

The Tradition of the New: Postwar Masterpieces From the Guggenheim Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, May 20 - September 11

Dream of the Absolute, Galerie Beyeler, Basel, June - September

On a Clear Day, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany, July 7 - September 11

White Works, PaceWildenstein, New York, July 8 - September 9

1995 From the Collection: Photography, Sculpture, and Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, February - March 15

1995 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, March - June 25

Artist's Choice: Elizabeth Murray, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, June 19 - August 22

Drawing the Line, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, July 6 - September 10

1995-96 52nd Carnegie International, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, November 5, 1995 - February 18, 1996; curated by Richard Armstrong

Diary of a Human Hand, Galerie Du Centre Des Arts Saidye Bronfman, Montréal, Québec, December 7, 1995 - January 19, 1996.
Traveled to the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, March 16 - 31, 1996

1996 Inside the Visible: An Elliptical Traverse of 20th Century Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, January 31 - May 12

Abstraction in the 20th Century: Total Risk, Freedom, Discipline, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, February 9 - May 12

The Innocence of Trees: Agnes Martin and Emily Carr, Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, The University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, March 14 - May 27

In Quest of the Absolute, Peter Blum, New York, April 6 - June 8

Agnes Martin, Alice Trumbell Mason and Ann Ryan: Paintings and collages from the 50s, Joan Washburn Gallery, New York, May 29 - July 12

Negotiating Rapture: The Power of Art to Transform Lives, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, June 21 - October 20

Coenties Slip Artists: Now and Then, Elise Goodheart Fine Arts, Sag Harbor, New York, June 22 - July 14

1996-97 Art at the End of the 20th Century, Alexandros Soutzos Museum, Athens, June 10 - August 18, 1996.
Travels to Museu d'Art Contemporani, Barcelona, December 8, 1996 - April 6, 1997 titled Multiple Identity: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art; and Kunstmuseum, Bonn, June 1 - September 1, 1997

Some Recent Acquisitions, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, November 15, 1996 - January 2, 1997

1997 Works on Paper, Peter Blum, New York, January 15 - March 31

Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, January 25 - March 5

Original Visions: Shifting the Paradigm, Women's Art 1970-1996, Charles S. and Isabella V. McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, Boston, January 26 - May 18

Color on Paper, Galerie Nacht St. Stephan: Rosemarie Schwarzwalder, Vienna, January

In Celebration: Works of Art from the Collections of Princeton Alumni and Friends of the Art Museum, Princeton University, The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, February 22 - June 8

Going the Distnace: A Generational Survey of Women Artists, Lawrence Gallery, Rosemont College, Rosemont, PA, April 24 - May 26

More Than One: Twentieth-Century Print Portfolios, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, May 16 - September 2

The Hirshhorn Collects: Recent Acquisitions 1992-1996, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., June 4 - September 7

La Biennale di Venezia: Future, Present, Past, XLVII International Arts Exhibition, Venice, June 15 - November 9, curated by Germano Celant

Affinities with the East, Robert Miller, New York, June 24 - August 1, curated by John Sacchi

Summer 1997, PaceWildenstein, New York, June 30 - August 22

Inaugural Exhibition Ace Gallery Mexico, Ace Gallery, Mexico, September 9 - November 15

Project Painting, Basilico Fine Arts, New York, September 11 - October 11, 1997

Thresholds - Limits of Perception, Eigth Floor Gallery, New York, October 14 - 25, 1997

Contemporary Art in Transition - From the Collection of the Ho-Am Art Museum, Ho-Am Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea, October 17 - December 28, 1997

1997-98 Modern Art and the Religious Imagination, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, April 23 - , 1998

Crossing the Threshold, Steinbaum Krauss, New York, December 6, 1997 - January 3, 1998

1997-99 "Drawing Is Another Kind of Language": Recent American Drawings from a New York Private Collection, Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, December 12, 1997 - February 22, 1998.
Travels to Graphische Sammlung Albertina, Vienna, March 18 - May 17, 1998; Kunstmuseum, Winterthur, September 4 - November 15, 1998; Kunstmuseum, Ahlen, November 28, 1998 - January 24, 1999; Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, February 19 - May 2, 1999; and The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, September - November 1999

1998 Then and Now: Art Since 1945 at Yale, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, February 10 - July 31, 1998

Material Perfection: Minimal Art & Its Aftermath Selected from the Kerry Stokes Collection, Lawrence Wilson Art Gallery, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia, February 13 - April 12, 1998

Summer Group Show, PaceWildenstein, New York, July 6 - August 21, 1998

Art in New Mexico, Part I: Agnes Martin, Bruce Nauman, Susan Rothenberg, Richard Tuttle, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, New Mexico, July 31 - October 2, 1998

1999 Art at Work: Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and Contemporary Arts Museum, March 3 - May 2, 1999

Drawn From the Artists' Collections, The Drawing Center, New York, April 24 - June 12, 1999. Traveled to UCLA at the Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, July 13 - September 26, 1999

Drawings from the 1960s, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, April 30 - May 29, 1999

Searchlight: Consciousness at the Millenium, CCAC Institute, Oakland/San Francisco, California, September 25 - December 11, 1999

1999-2000

The American Century: Art & Culture 1950-2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, September 26, 1999 - February 13, 2000

Regarding Beauty: A View of the Late 20th Century, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., October 7, 1999 - January 17, 2000.
Travels to Haus der Kunst, Munich, February 11 - April 30, 2000

Masters of Contemporary Art from the Chase Manhattan Collection, Queens Museum of Art, Flushing Meadows, New York, May 21 - September 15, 2000

Work on Paper Richmond Burton, Brice Marden and Agnes Martin, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire, September 26 - October 22, 2000

 
 



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