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John Chamberlain

(American, 1927–2011)

John Chamberlain

Noogatory, 2003

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John Chamberlain

Running Cathead, 1988

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John Chamberlain

Anteambulo Quincunx, 1992

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Biography

Timeline

1927: Born in Rochester, IN
1951 - 1952: Studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1955 - 1956: Attended Black Mountain College, Asheville, NC
1966: Received John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundationfellowship
1977: Received 2nd Guggenheim fellowship
1990: Elected a member of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
1999 - 2000: Independent study program, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2011: Died in New York

Exhibitions

2012 - 2013: Something Turned Into a Thing, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
2012: Retrospective, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York, NY (solo)
: Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany
: Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
2011 - 2012: September 11, P.S.1 MoMA, Long Island, USA (group)
: John Chamberlain: Pictures. Steven Kasher Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: Dan Flavin & John Chamberlain: Sculptures, Gagosian Gallery, New
: A Summer of American Masters with Robert Indiana, KM Fine Arts,
2011: Chamberlain at Pace. Pace Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: John Chamberlain: New Sculpture. Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY; Gagosian Gallery, London, UK (solo)
2010: Alfred Leslie, John Chamberlain Collage. Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: John Chamberlain: SINKOPEEFEAST. More Gallery, Giswil, Switzerland (solo)
: John Chamberlain. Galeria Elvira Gonzalez, Madrid, Spain (solo)
: John Chamberlain: Sculpture. Galerie Karsten Greve, St. Moritz, Switzerland (solo)
: Oranges and Sardines. Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2009: John Chamberlain: A Body of Work. More Gallery, Giswil, Switzerland (solo)
: John Chamberlain: Early Years. L+M Arts, New York, NY (solo)
: A Walk in the Park: Outdoor Sculpture at Pace Wildenstein. Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY
2008: Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today. With Daniel Buren and Lawrence Wiener Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: John Chamberlain: New Work. Anthony Meier, San Francisco, CA (solo)
2007: John Chamberlain. Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France and Cologne, Germany (solo)
2006: It’s his show. Buchmann Galerie, Berlin, Germany (solo)
: It’s All in the Fit. Chianti Foundation, Marfa, TX (solo)
: Bilderwechsel III - Amerikanische Malerei. Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany
: Plane/Figure. Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
: Venice 1948 – 1986: the art scene. The Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
: Auto-nom-mobile. Kunstverein, Kassel, Germany
: Summer Group Show. The Pace Gallery, New York, NY
: John Chamberlain: Without Fear. Waddington Galleries, London, England (solo)
: Sculpture. Danese Gallery, New York
: Bilderwechsel. Museum Sammlung Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden
: Blickachsen 5. Blickachsen - Skulpturen im Kurpark Bad Homburg v.d.Höhe Bad Homburg
: Design is not Art. AAM Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
: John Chamberlain - Papier Paradisio. Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland (solo)
: John Chamberlain: Foam sculptures (1966-1979) and Photographs (1989-2004). Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX (solo)
: EXIT_AUSSTIEG AUS DEM BILD. ZKM, Museum für Neue Kunst, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
2005: Recent Sculptures. Pace Wildenstein, New York (solo)
: La Photographie en parallele. La Maison Européenne de la Photographie Ville de Paris, Paris, France
: John Chamberlain and Tony Feher – open House 2005. The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX
: John Chamberlain: Recent Sculpture. Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, Omaha, NE (solo)
: John Chamberlain. LA Louver, Venice, CA (solo)
2004: Chelsea Group Show 2004. Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY (solo)
: Sommer 2004. Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY (solo)
2003: Summer Travels. Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY (solo)
: Recent Sculpture. Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY (solo)
: John Chamberlain: Early Works. Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: American Icon: The Art of John Chamberlain. Guild Hall, Easthampton, NY (solo)
: Dan Flavin & John Chamberlain: Sculptures. Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
2002: Buchmann Skulpturenprojekte & Kunsthandel, Lugano, Switzerland
: Happy New Year! Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY
: John Chamberlain: Sculpture 1988-2001. Waddington Galleries, London, England (solo)
: Clark Fine Art, Southampton, NY (solo)
: Inside Contemporary Sculpture. Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
: Treasures 2002, Carl Schlosberg Fine Arts, Beverly Hills, CA
: Art Downtown: New York Painting and Sculpture. Wall Street Rising, New York, NY
: The Cultural Desert: Art, Medicine & Environment. Mayo Clinic Scottsdale, Scottsdale, AZ
: Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY (solo)
: L.A. Louver. Venice, CA (solo)
: John Chamberlain: The Hedge. The Center for Public Sculpture, New York, NY (solo)
: Summer in the City. Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY
2001: The Lenore and Burton Gold Collection of 20th-Century Art. High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
2000: D´Amelio Terras, New York, NY
: Crossroads of American Sculpture. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
: Galerie Karsten Greve AG, St. Moritz, Switzerland
: Fortieth Anniversary of the Allan Stone Gallery. Allan Stone Gallery, New York, NY
: John Chamberlain Sculpture: Selections from the Menil and Dia Center for the Arts. The Menil Collection, Houston, TX (solo)
: The Center for Public Sculpture, New York, NY (solo)
1999: John Chamberlain. Lever House, New York, NY (solo)
: Galerie Karsten Greve Milan, Italy
1998: John Chamberlain: Chamberlain’s Fauve Landscape. Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY (solo)
: John Chamberlain: Sculpture and Photographs. Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY (solo)
: Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich, Germany (solo)
: Cheim & Read, New York, NY (solo)
: Pace Wildenstein, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
: Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
: John Chamberlain. Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea (solo)
: Baby Tycoons: Skulpturen von John Chamberlain. Museum für Lackkunst, Münster, Germany (solo)
1997: John Chamberlain: Abstract Sculpture. Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, CA (solo)
: John Chamberlain: “Sculptures.” Jablonka Galerie, Cologne, Germany (solo)
: John Chamberlain: Couches and Related Sculpture 1967-1971. A/D Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: John Chamberlain: Recent Sculpture. Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY (solo)
1996: John Chamberlain: Sculpture. Traveling exhibition: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany (solo)
1995: John Chamberlain. Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany (solo)
: Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
1994 - 1995: Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany
1994: São Paolo Biennial, Brazil
: John Chamberlain: Recent Sculpture. Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY (solo)
: John Chamberlain. Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA (solo)
: Wide Point: The Photography of John Chamberlain. Traveling exhibition: The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY; Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN (solo)
: John Chamberlain: Recent Sculpture. Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
: Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
: John Chamberlain: Neue Skulpturen. Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany (solo)
1993: John Chamberlain. Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France (solo)
: Photographs by John Chamberlain. MiraMar Gallery, Sarasota, FL (solo)
1992 - 1993: Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany
1992: John Chamberlain: Recent Work. The Pace Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: John Chamberlain: Arbiten auf Papier. Galerie Meyer-Ellinger, Frankfurt, Germany (solo)
: John Chamberlain: New Work. Dia Center for the Arts, Bridgehampton, NY (solo)
: John Chamberlain: New Sculpture. Laura Carpenter Fine Art, Santa Fe, NM (solo)
: John Chamberlain. Galleria Seno, Milan, Italy (solo)
: John Chamberlain. Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
: John Chamberlain: Arbeiten auf Paper 1982/83: Sprays, Gondola Series, Giraffe Skin Series. Galerie Fred Jahn, Stuttgart, Germany (solo)
: Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
: John Chamberlain: Gondolas, 1981-1985 and Dooms Day Flotilla, 1982. Dia Art Foundation, New York, NY (solo)
: John Chamberlain: New Sculpture. The Pace Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1991: John Chamberlain. Traveling retrospective exhibition. Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Germany; Staatliche Kunstsammlungen, Dresden, Germany (solo)
: John Chamberlain. Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France (solo)
: Famous Last Words and Works on Paper. Bradley University, Peoria, IL (solo)
: John Chamberlain: Monotypes. Pace Editions, New York, NY (solo)
1990: John Chamberlain. Waddington Galleries, London, England (solo)
: John Chamberlain. Traveling exhibition: Vero Beach Center for the Arts, Inc. Vero Beach, FL; Museum of Fort Lauderdale, FL (solo)
: John Chamberlain. Galerie Sonia Zannettacci, Geneva, Switzerland (solo)
: Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany
1989: Sculpture 1960’s – 1980’s. Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, MI (solo)
: John Chamberlain: New Sculpture. The Pace Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1987: Biennial of Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: Sculpture 1960’s – 1980’s. The Menil Collection, Houston, TX (solo)
: John Chamberlain: Recent Sculpture. The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, England (solo)
: John Chamberlain: Skulpturen. Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany (solo)
: John Chamberlain: Recent Sculpture. Xavier Fourcade, Inc. New York, NY (solo)
: John Chamberlain: Recent Sculpture. Fabian Carlsson Gallery, London, England (solo)
: John Chamberlain. Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
: Retrospective. Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, CA
: John Chamberlain: Oils. Traveling exhibition: Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany; Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne, Germany; Brook Alexander, New York, NY (solo)
1986: John Chamberlain: Sculpture, 1954-1985. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
1985: Second Talent. Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
: Transformations in Sculpture: Four Decades of American and European Art. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
: John Chamberlain. Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
: John Chamberlain: Sculpture. Galerie Gillespie-Laage-Salomon, Paris, France (solo)
: Forming. Parrish Museum, Southampton, NY
: Mile 4. Chicago Sculpture International, Chicago, IL
: The Third Dimension. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: Automobile and Culture. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
: American Sculpture: Three Decades. Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
: Ein anderes Klima. Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany
: La Rime et la raison: Les collections Menil. Grand Palais, Paris, France
: The First Show: Painting and Sculpture from Eight Collections 1940—1980. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Experiment Sammlung I: Une Collection imaginaire. Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
: Inaugural Exhibition. Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN
: Chamberlain Gardens, Essex. Dia Art Foundation, Essex, CT (solo)
: John Chamberlain Sculpture: An Extended Exhibition. Dia Art Foundation, New York, NY (solo)
: Galerie Helen van der Meij, Amsterdam, Netherlands (solo)
: Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne, Germany (solo)
: American Tableau. The Seagram Plaza, New York, NY (solo)
: Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: Xavier Fourcade Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1984: John Chamberlain/Esculturas. Palacio de Cristal, Parque del Retiro, Madrid (solo)
: John Chamberlain. The Art Museum of the Pecos, Marfa, TX, Dia Art Foundation, Marfa, TX (solo)
: John Chamberlain. Robert L. Kidd Galleries, Birmingham, MI (solo)
: John Chamberlain. Miriam Goodman Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: John Chamberlain. LA Louver Gallery, Venice, CA (solo)
: John Chamberlain. The Art Museum of the Pecos/Dia Art Foundation, Marfa, TX (solo)
1983: Borofsky, Chamberlain, Dahn, Knoebel. Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany
: The Nuclear Age: Tradition and Transition. Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
: Sculpture: Tradition in Steel. Nassau County Museum of Fine Arts, Roslyn, NY
: De Statua. Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
: John Chamberlain: Recent Sculpture and Work on Paper. The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH (solo)
: John Chamberlain: an Extended Exhibition. Dia Art Foundation, New York, NY (solo)
: John Chamberlain Reliefs 1960-1982. The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL (solo)
1982 - 1983: An Exhibition of Sculpture by John Chamberlain. Dia Art Foundation, the Art Museum of the Pecos, Marfa, TX (solo)
: Sculpture from the Vanderbilt Art Collection. Vanderbilt Art Gallery, Nashville, TN
: Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park. Governors State University, Park Forest South, IL
: The New York School: Four Decades. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
: American Sculpture from the Permanent Collection. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
: John Chamberlain. Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: Documenta 7. Kassel, Germany
1982: Chamberlain Gardens: Essex. Dia Arts Foundation, Essex, CT (solo)
: Castelli and his Artists/Twenty Five Years. La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
1981: Twentieth Century American Art: Highlights of the Permanent Collection. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: International Florida Artists Exhibition. John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL
: Westkunst. Museum der Stadt, Cologne, Germany
: Westkunst. Museum der Stadt Koln, Cologne (solo)
: Selections from the Permanent Collection. Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
: American Sculpture: Gifts of Howard and Jean Lipman. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: Reliefs/Formproblem zwischen Malerei und Skulptur in 20. Jahrhundert. Kunsthaus Zurich, Switzerland
: Faszination des Objekts. Museum moderner Kunst Wien, Vienna, Austria
1980: John Chamberlain. Traveling exhibition: Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland; Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands (solo)
: The Guggenheim Collection 1900—1980. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
1979: Auto Icons. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: Collection: Art in American after World War II. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
: Soft Art Exhibition. Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland
: Contemporary Art Acquisitions from Sydney and Frances Lewis. Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
: Contemporary Sculpture: Selections from the Collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: A Celebration of Acquisitions: Gifts and Purchases, 1975—1979. Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO
: John Chamberlain. Heiner Friedrich GmbH, Cologne, Germany (solo)
: The Texas Pieces. Presented by the Dia Art Foundation, Manhattan Psychiatric Center, Ward’s Island, New York, NY (solo)
: Selections from the Fort Worth Art Museum Permanent Collection. Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, TX
: American Art 1950 to the Present. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: Collection: American Sculpture. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
1978: Art and the Automobile. Flint Institute of Art, Flint, MI
1977 - 1978: The Texas Pieces. Presented by the Dia Art Foundation at Manhattan Psychiatric Center, Ward’s Island, New York, NY (solo)
: Recent Acquisitions. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
: Permanent Collection: Thirty Years of American Art 1945—1975. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: Works on Paper by Contemporary American Artists. Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
: New York: The State of Art. The New York State Museum, Albany, NY
: Twentieth Century Art from Friends’ Collections. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: Jubilation: American Art during the Reign of Elizabeth II. The Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge, England
: Collectors Collect Contemporary: A Selection from Boston Collections. Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
: Pop Plus. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: Two Decades of Exploration: Homage to Leo Castelli on the Occasion of his Twentieth Anniversary. The Art Association of Newport, Newport, RI
: View from the Cockpit. Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
: John Chamberlain. Heiner Friedrich, Inc., New York, NY (solo)
1977: John Chamberlain: An Exhibition of Sculpture: 1959—1962. The Mayor Gallery, London, England (solo)
: Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: Three Hundred Years of American Art in the Chrysler Museum. Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA
: 7 + 5: Sculptors in the 1950s. Art Galleries, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA
: New York—Downtown Manhattan: SoHo. Akademie der Kunst, Berlin, Germany
1976: Two Hundred Years of American Sculpture. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1975: John Chamberlain: Recent Sculpture. Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX; St. Louis Botanical Gardens, St. Louis, MO; Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, MN (solo)
: John Chamberlain. Ronald Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, MO (solo)
: John Chamberlain. James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
: Wreck: A Tragic-Romantic American Theme. The C.W. Post College Art Gallery, Greenvale, NY
: Painting, Drawing and Sculpture of the Sixties and Seventies from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection. Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
: Sculpture, American Directions, 1945—1975. National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Collection, Washington D.C.
: San Diego Collects. La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
: Sculpture of the 60s. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: John Chamberlain: The Texas Pieces. Dag Hammarskjold Plaza Sculpture Garden, New York, NY (solo)
: John Chamberlain. Walter Kelly Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
: Inaugural Exhibition. Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
: Contemporary American Sculpture. The Society of the Four Arts, Palm Beach, FL
: John Chamberlain. Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: Works from Change Inc. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: The Ponderosa Collection. The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
: Large Scale Sculpture Show. Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
1974: Poets of the Cities New York and San Francisco 1950—1965. Dallas Museum of Fine Arts and Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
: Wreck. Canton Art Institute, Canton, OH
: South Florida Collects. Fort Lauderdale Museum, Fort Lauderdale, FL
: Selections from the Permanent Collection. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: Sculpture 3—New York Artists on Tour. World Trade Center, New York, NY
: New York Collection for Stockholm. Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
: American Art 1948—1973. Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
: Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1973: John Chamberlain: Texas Pieces. Hammarskjold Plaza Sculpture Garden, New York, NY (solo)
: Biennial of Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1972: Film-Video-Photographs-Projektion. Louisiana Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark
: Painting and Sculpture Today. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
: Recent American Painting and Sculpture. The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
: American Art Since 1945. Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
: Sixties to Seventy-two: American Art from the Collection of Ed Cauduro. Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
: John Chamberlain/F___g Couches. Lo Giudice Gallery, New York, NY in affiliation with Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: Wilderness. The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
: Selections from the Museum Collection and Recent Acquisitions, 1971. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
: Highlights of the 1970—1971 Season. The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
: Prospect ’71. Städische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany
: Art and the Automobile. Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY
: Younger Abstract Expressionists of the Fifties. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1971: Retrospective. Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (solo)
: Techniques and Creativity/Selections from Gemini G.E.L. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: Hard and Soft: Recent Sculpture. Lo Giudice Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
: Small Sculptures from Cincinnati Collections. Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH
: Metamorphose des Dinges. Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
: John Chamberlain Couches. Locksley/Shea Gallery, Minneapolis, MN (solo)
: The Thing as Object. Kunsthalle Nuremberg, Nuremberg, Germany
: Painting and Sculpture Today—1970. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
1970: The Highway. Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
: Monumental Art. Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
1969: John Chamberlain. Leo Castelli Warehouse, New York, NY (solo)
: John Chamberlain. Mizuno Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
: New Media, New Methods. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: Soft Art. New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, NJ
: Painting and Sculpture Today—1969. Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
: Sammlung 1968 Karl Ströher. Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
: New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940—1970. Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
: An American Report on the Sixties. Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
: Selections from the Collection of Mr. and Mrs. Robert B. Mayer. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
: John Chamberlain. Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH (solo)
: Sammlung 1968 Karl Ströher. Galerie-Verein Munich, Neue Pinatothek, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
1968: Annual Exhibition of Sculpture. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: Selections from the Collection of Hanford Yang. The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
: Sammlung Hahn: Zeitgenössische Kunst. Wallraf-Richartz-Museum, Cologne, Germany
: The 1967 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture. Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA
: Sculpture: A Generation of Innovation. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
: American Sculpture of the Sixties. The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
: The 1960s: Painting and Sculpture from the Museum Collection. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: John Chamberlain. Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne, Germany (solo)
: John Chamberlain. Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Munich, Germany (solo)
1967: John Chamberlain. Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (solo)
: John Chamberlain. Pomona College Art Department, Claremont, CA (solo)
1966: Art of the United States: 1970—1966. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: Contemporary American Sculpture: Selection I. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: Annual of Sculpture and Drawing. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: John Chamberlain. Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
: Virginia Dwan Kondratief Collection. University of California at Los Angeles, CA
: Modern Sculpture USA. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: Seven Sculptors. Institute for Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
: Painting and Sculpture Today. Herron Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
: Painting without a Brush. Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
1965: John Chamberlain. Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: American Sculpture 1900—1965. Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
1964: Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
: Twenty-fourth Annual Exhibition by the Society for Contemporary American Art. Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
: The Atmosphere of ’64. Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA
: Painting and Sculpture of a Decade. The Tate Gallery, London, England
: XXXII Esposizione biennale internationale d’arte. Venice, Italy
: The Biennial Eight. Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts
: Recent American Sculpture. The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
: Sculpture Annual. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: John Chamberlain. Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Paris, France (solo)
: John Chamberlain. Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: Premiere Salon international de galleries-pilotes. Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
: Mixed Media and Pop Art. Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
: Sculpture in the Open Air. Battersea Park, London
: Dilexi Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1963: John Chamberlain. Pace Gallery, Boston, MA (solo)
: Sculptors of Our Time. Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington D.C.
1962: Directions in Modern Sculpture. Providence Arts Club, Providence, RI
: Modern Sculpture from the Joseph T. Hirschhorn Collection. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
: Annual of Sculpture and Drawing. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: Sixty-Fifth Annual American Exhibition: Some Directions in Contemporary Painting and Sculpture. The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
: John Chamberlain. Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: John Chamberlain. Dilexi Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
: Ways and Means. Houston Contemporary Arts Association, Houston, TX
: The Art of Assemblage. The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: VI Bienal. Museu de Arte Moderna, São Paolo, Brazil
1961: The Museum of Modern Art, New York/Painting and Sculpture Acquisitions. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1960: Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY
: New Sculpture Group. Stable Gallery, New York, NY
: Annual of Sculpture and Drawing. Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: John Chamberlain. Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1959: Recent Sculpture USA. Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1958: John Chamberlain. Davida Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1957: John Chamberlain. Wells Street Gallery, Chicago. IL (solo)
: Wells Street Gallery, Chicago, IL

Public Collections

: Washington University Gallery of Art, St. Louis, MO
: Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
: Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
: Guggenheim Museum of Art, New York, NY
: Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.
: IVAM Centro Julio Gonzalez, Valencia, Spain
: Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
: Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, CA
: Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI
: Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
: Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX
: Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, VA
: Clay Center, Charleston, WV
: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
: Colby Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
: Dia Foundation for the Arts, New York, NY
: Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
: National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, Australia
: Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, TX
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, CA
: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
: Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, IL
: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
: Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
: St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
: Tate Gallery, London, England
: Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, TX
: University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, FL
: Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX
: Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
: Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria
: Musée National D’Arte Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
: Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
: Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
: Dia Foundation for the Arts, Beacon, NY

Literature

2005: Carl Andre, John Chamberlain, Robert Creeley, Fielding Dawson und Dieter Schwarz. John Chamberlain: Papier Paradisio. Winterthur: Kunstmuseum, 2005 (catalogue)
Design is not Art. Aspen, CO: AAM - Aspen Art Museum, 2005
2001: Rose, Bernice. DeKooning, Chamberlain: Influence and Transformation. New York: PaceWildenstein, 2001
1996: Rudi Fuchs, John Yau, Donald Judd, Marja Bloem. John Chamberlain, Current Works and Fond Memories. Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1996
1991: Angelika Beckmann, John Chamberlain, Donald Judd and Jochen Poetter. John Chamberlain. Baden-Baden, Germany: Staatliche Kunsthalle, 1991
Sylvester, Julie and Lawrence Weiner. John Chamberlain: Gondolas and Dooms Day Flotilla. New York: Dia Center for the Arts, 1991
1986: Kertess, Klaus. John Chamberlain: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Sculpture, 1954–1985. New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1986

John Chamberlain

(American, 1927–2011)

John Chamberlain

John Chamberlain

John Chamberlain

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