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John McCracken
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American
, 1934–2011)
John McCracken
Untitled,
2011
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John McCracken
Untitled,
1968
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Biography
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Timeline
1934
Born in Berkeley, CA
1957 - 1962
Studied at California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, CA
1964 - 1965
Studied at California College of Arts & Crafts, Oakland, CA
1966 - 1968
Professor, University of California, Los Angeles, CA
1968 - 1969
Professor, School of Visual Arts, New York, NY
1968
Recipient, National Endowment for the Arts Award
1975 - 1985
Professor, College of Creative Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
Lives and works in New Mexico
Exhibitions
2018
John McCracken Selected Exhibitions in 2018:
Dancing with Myself - Works from the Pinault Collection
, Centro d’Arte Contemporanea Punta della Dogana and Palazzo Grassi, Venice [collection display]
David Zwirner: 25 Years
, David Zwirner, New York [catalogue]
Elemental
, L.A. Louver, Los Angeles
Flavin, Judd, McCracken, Sandback
, David Zwirner, Hong Kong
Minimalism: Space. Light. Object.
, National Gallery of Singapore [catalogue]
Space Shifters
, Hayward Gallery, London [catalogue]
2017
John McCracken Selected Exhibitions in 2017:
John McCracken
, David Zwirner, New York (solo exhibition)
Cosmic Communities: Coming Out Into Outer Space – Homofuturism, Applied Psychedelia & Magic Connectivity
, Galerie Buchholz, New York
Darren Bader (@mined_oud)
, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Donnaregina Napoli (MADRE), Naples
Milwaukee Collects
, Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconsin
Pivotal: Highlights from the Collection
, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
Plastic Show
, Almine Rech Gallery, London
Red over Yellow: A Selection from a Private Collection
, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel
We Are Here
, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
2016
John McCracken Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
John McCracken
, The Elkon Gallery, New York (solo exhibition)
All About Color and Geometry: Selections from the Diana and Peter Jannetta Gift of Art
, The Westmoreland Museum of Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
From Minimalism Into Algorithm
, The Kitchen, New York
I still believe in miracles: 30 years of Inverleith House
, Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh
L.A. Exuberance: New Gifts by Artists
, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Natural Order of Things
, Museo Jumex, Mexico City
The Sonnabend Collection: Meio Século de Arte Europeia e Americana. Part 1/Half a Century of European and American Art. Part 1
, Museu Serralves - Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto, Portugal [catalogue]
2015
John McCracken Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
John McCracken: Red, Black, Blue
, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York (solo exhibition)
Florain Hecker/John McCracken
, Künstlerhaus KM-, Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz, Austria
America Is Hard To See
, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York [exhibition publication]
Colección Jumex, In Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimur Igni
, Museo Jumex, Mexico City
Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating In Space
, Karma, New York
LAX - MIA: Light and Space
, The Surf Club, Miami
Opening the Box: Unpacking Minimalism
, The George Economou Collection, Athens
Summer Group Exhibition
, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York
2011
Castello di Rivoli, ‘John McCracken: A Retrospective’, Turin, Italy
2010
David Zwirner, ‘New Works in Bronze and Steel’, New York NY
2009
Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden, ‘John McCracken: Landing’, Edinburgh, Scotland
Temi e Variazioni. Dalla grafia all’azzeramento, a cura di/curated by Luca Massimo Barbero, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venezia
Time & Place: Los Angeles, 1958-1968, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland (solo)
2008
Time & Place: Los Angeles, 1958-1968, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Hauser & Wirth, ‚John McCracken/Paul McCarthy’, Zurich, Switzerland
Tate Liverpool, ’Summer of Love’, Liverpool, United Kingdom
Godt-Cleary Projects, 'Turrell + McCracken', Las Vegas/NV
ZKM Museum für Neue Kunst, 'EXIT. Ausstieg aus dem Bild', Karlsruhe, Germany
Franklin Parrasch Gallery and Joan T. Washburn Gallery, 'Wilder. A Tribute to the Nicholas Wilder Gallery Loas Angeles, 1965-1979', New York NY
2005
Early Sculpture / John McCracken, Zwirner & Wirth, New York (solo)
Albright-Know Art Gallery, 'Abstraction', Buffalo, NY
2004
Museum of Contemporary Art, 'A Minimal Future? Art as Object 1958-1968', Los Angeles, CA
Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, ’Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated): Art From 1951 to the Present’, New York
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, ‚Perspectives@25: A Quarter Century of New Art in Houston, Houston/TX
SMAK, Gent, David Zwirner, New York, NY (solo)
The Norton Museum of Art, 'Minimal to the Max: The Brownstone Collection', West Palm Beach, FL
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design 'Minimalist Works from the Museum’s Collection', Providence RI
McClain Gallery, 'Space Vehicles: Allusion Objectified', Houston, TX
2003
LA Louver, Los Angeles (solo)
Galerie Rolf Ricke, 'Der Weite Blick', Köln, Germany
Lucas Schoormans Gallery, 'The Exquisite Object', New York, NY
Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes, 'Pieces de Collection/Œuvres Contemporaines', Nîmes, France
Lisson Gallery, London, England (solo)
Gavin Brown’s enerprise, 'big brown bag', New York, NY
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, 'Painting Zero Degree', Cleveland, OH
Sammlun Hauser & Wirth in der Lockremise St. Gallen, 'The House of Fiction', St. Gallen, Switzerland
Mary Boone Gallery, 'Surface to Surface', New York, NY
2002
Musée des Beaux-Arts, 'Multiples Objets de Désir', Nantes, France
capc Mudsée d'art contemporain Entrepôt, 'Les années 70: l'art en cause', Bordeaux, France
Galerie Hauser & Wirth, 'Ten Years Galerie Hauser & Wirth', Zurich, Switzerland
LA Louver, August 2002, Los Angels, CA
2001
LA Louver, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Grazer Kunstverein, 'Timewave Zero/The Poitics of Ecstasy', Graz, Austria
Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, 'Künstlerräume/Sammlerräume', St. Gallen, Switzerland
Fuller Museum of Art, 'Painting Zero Degree', Brockton, MA
St. Mary’s University Art Gallery, Halifax, CA
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD
Zwirner & Wirth, 'I LOVE NY', New York, NY
L.A. Louver Gallery, 'Sculpture', Venice, CA
Espace de l’Art Concret Château de Mouans-Sartoux, 'art concret', Mouans-Sartoux, France
Lisson Gallery, London, England (solo)
New Sculptures, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice, CA (solo)
John McCracken - Stainless Steel Sculptures, Zwirner & Wirth, New York, NY (solo)
Almine Rech, Paris, France (solo)
Umetnostna Galerija Maribor, '6th International Triennial the Ecology and the Art: "American Dreams"', cur. Nancy Buchanan, Maribor
Cranbrook Art Museum, ‘Painting Zero Degree‘, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, ‘Chromaform. Color in Sculpture‘, South Hadley, MA
aargauer kunsthaus aarau, ’Das Gedächtnis der Malerei’, Aarau, Switzerland
Museum of Modern Art, ’Open End’, New York, NY
2000
Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, ‘Chromaform. Color in Sculpture‘, Wichita
The Whitney Museum of American Art, ‘The American Century: Art and Culture 1950-2000 (Part 2)‘, New York
1999
John McCracken: Sculpture 1987-1999, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM (solo)
Studio la Città, Verona, Italy (solo)
A Arte Studio Invernizzi, ‘John McCracken‘, Milan, Italy
1998
A Arte Studio Invernizzi, Milan, Italy (solo)
Flourescent Works, Galerie Art & Publique, Geneva, Switzerland (solo)
1997
Lisson Gallery, 'John McCracken', London, England
David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY
L.A. Louver Gallery, 'New Dimensions', Venice, CA
1996
Galerie Froment & Putman, Paris, France
Galerie Froment & Putman, Paris, France (solo)
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, ‘John McCracken‘, Vienna, Austria
1995
John McCracken – Skulpturen, Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany (solo)
Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria (solo)
Galerie Tanit, 'John McCracken – Skulpturen', Munich, Germany
Kunsthalle Basel, ‘Protoplast (mit Gerhard Merz)‘, Basel, Switzerland
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Public Collections
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego and La Jolla, California
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, Florida
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California
Oakland Museum of California
Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, California
Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels
Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence
Sammlung Hauser & Wirth, St. Gallen, Switzerland
Sammlung Lafrenz, Weserburg Museum für Moderne Kunst, Bremen, Germany
The San Diego Museum of Art, California
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Santa Barbara Museum of Art, California
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, University of Nebraska, Lincoln
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara
Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, The Netherlands
Musée de Grenoble, France
Musée d’art moderne et contemporain (MAMCO), Geneva
Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto
Art Institute of Chicago
Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland
Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, California
The Broad, Los Angeles
Castello di Rivoli - Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Turin
Colección Jumex, Mexico City
Collection Vanmoerkerke, Ostend, Belgium
Denver Art Museum, Colorado
Fond National d’Art Contemporain (FNAC), Puteaux, France
Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles
Friedrich Christian Flick Collection, Hamburger Bahnhof - Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin
Glenstone, Potomac, Maryland
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles
Honolulu Museum of Art
Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, Illinois
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California
Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, Missouri
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
The Westmoreland Museum of Art, Greensburg, Pennsylvania
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
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