Exhibitions

2010

James Lee Byars – The Perfect Axis, Schloss Benrath, Düsseldorf; Germany

2009

James Lee Byars, Yorkshire Sculpture Park, West Bretton, UK

Matthew Brannon, Marcel Broodthaers, James Lee Byars, William E. Jones, David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

The Third Mind: American Artists Contemplate Asia, 1860-1989, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY; The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, KS

1968: The Great Innocents, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany

I’m Full of Byars, Milton Keynes Gallery, London, UK

The Quick and the Dead, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

Imminence, Musée d’Art Moderne, Paris, France

James Lee Byars Lived Here, organized by Milton Keynes Gallery, Palazzo Pesaro Papafava, Venice, Italy (solo)

2008 - 2009

I’m Full of Byars: James Lee Byars - Eine Hommage, Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland (solo)

NeoHooDoo: Art of a Forgotten Faith, PS1/MoMA, New York, NY; Miami Art Museum, Miam, FLi

Im full of Byars. James Lee Byars in Bern - eine Hommage, Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland

Pretty Ugly, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise, New York, NY

James Lee Byars: Five Points Make a Man, Michael Werner Gallery, New York, NY (solo)

Old Masters, Modern & Contemporary Art and Fine Arts, Galerie Marie-Puck Broodthaers, Brussel, Belgium

Power, Foxy Production, New York, NY

2008

James Lee Byars: JB: Q.I.I.T.R. T.F.T.I.P. T.S.T., Galerie de France/Galerie Michael Werner, Paris, France (solo)

Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Barbican Art Gallery, London, UK

2007

Selection, Galerie Michael Werner, Cologne, Germany

The Invisible Show, Centro José Guerrero, Granada, Spain

James Lee Byars: The Art of Writing, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (solo)

Strange Powers, Creative Time, New York, NY

2006

The Materialization of Sensibility: Art and Alchemy, Leslie Tonkonow Artworks + Projects, New York, NY

Elemental Form, L&M Arts, New York, NY

James Lee Byars. The Rest is Silence, Michael Werner, Perry Rubenstein and Mary Boone Galleries, New York, NY (solo)

Worlds: James Lee Byars, Jörg Immendorff, Thomas Lehmerer, Hermann Nitsch, Reiner Ruthenbeck and others, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany

2005

James Lee Byars: Selected Works, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen Colorado (solo)

James Lee Byars, Barbican, London, UK (solo)

James Lee Byars, Griffin Contemporary, Santa Monica, CA (solo)

2004 - 2005

James Lee Byars, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

James Lee Byars: Life, Love and Death, Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, Germany (solo)

James Lee Byars, Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX (solo)

2004

Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated): Art from 1951 to the Present, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY

Los Monocromos, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain

2003

'The Moon Books: Above and Below, An Exhibition of James Lee Byars', Michael Werner Gallery, New York

'Louise Bourgeois, James Lee Byars – Il disparut dans le silence total', Centre Pompidou, Paris

2002

'The Inward Eye: Transcendence in Contemporary Art', Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston

'The Angel', Timothy Taylor Gallery, London

2001

Galerie Er Rashid, Düsseldorf; 'Letters to Joseph Beuys', Museum für Kommunikation, Frankfurt

'Works on Paper from the 1960s and 1990s and Sculpture from the 1990s', Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago

'Ephemera', Low, Los Angeles

'Beau Monde: Toward a Redeemed Cosmopolitanism', SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe

'Alchemie de la rencontre', FRAC/Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain Champagen-Ardenne, Reims

'The Museum of our Wishes', Museum Ludwig, Cologne

ARC, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris Paris, France

2000

'The Poetic Conceit and Other Black Works', Michael Werner Gallery, New York and Cologne

Venice Biennale, Venice

1999

Michael Werner Gallery, New York and Cologne; 'The Epitaph of Con.Art is Which Questions Have Disappeared?', Kestner Gesellschaft, Hannover

1998

Out of Actions, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, CA

1997

The Palace of Perfect-Retrospective, Fundacao de Serralves Porto, Portugal

1996

Henry Moore Foundation-Henry Moore Institute Leeds

Galerie Joan Prats Barcelona

Under Capricorn, City Gallery Wellington, New Zealand

Under Capricorn, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Netherlands

The Angel, Michael Werner Gallery New York

Negotiating Rapture, , Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, IL

Instituto de America Santa Fe, NM and Granada

1995 - 1996

Amerikaanse Perspectieven, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Netherlands

James Lee Byars, Fondation Cartier pour L'art Contemporain Paris, France

1995

Five Points Make a Man, The Moons and Constellations, Michael Werner Gallery New York

Views from Abroad, Whitney Museum of American Art New York

1994 - 1995

The Perfect Moment, , IVAM Valencia

1994

Couplet 2, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, The Netherlands

Outside the Frame: Performance and the Object, Cleveland Center fro Contemporary Art Cleveland, OH

The Perfect Love, Laura Carpenter Fine Art Santa Fe, NM

1993

Sun, Moon, and Stars, Württenmbergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart

American Art in the 20th Century, Martin Gropius Bau Berlin, Germany and London, England

The Red Angel, Venice Biennale

The Red Angel, Cirva Marseille

James Lee Byars IS IS, Mulier Mulier Gallery Knokke-Heist, Belgium

James Lee Byars, SCAI The Bathhouse-Shiraishi Contemporary Art Tokyo, Japan

Works from the Sixties and Recent Works, Michael Werner, Inc. New York

Plus Ultra, Alhambra Foundation Granada

Documenta IX, Kassel

Galerie de Alhambra Foundation Granada

Galerie de France Paris, France

IS, Galeria La Maquina Espanola Madrid, Spain

Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall Stockholm

The Human Figure, Mary Boone Gallery New York

1992

IS, Vrej Baghoomian Gallery New York

1991

The Path of Luck, Michael Werner Inc. New York

The Path of Luck, Galerie Michael Werner Cologne, Germany

1990 - 1991

Vies D'Artistes, Le Havre-Musée des Beaux Arts André Malraux

The Perfect Thought, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, TX

1990

The Perfect Thought, University Art Museum @ University of CA, Berkeley Berkeley, CA

1989 - 1990

Galerie Michael Werner Cologne, Germany

1989

Monument to Cleopatra, Cleto Polcina Arte Moderna Rome, Italy

Mary Boone Gallery New York

The Palace of Good Luck, Castello di Rivoli-Museo d'Arte Contemporanea Turin, Italy

Galerie de France Paris, France

Hoffman Borman Gallery Santa Monica, CA

1988

James Lee Byars, Mary Boone Gallery New York

The Letter Reading Society of James Lee Byars, Galerie des Beaux-Arts Brussels, Belgium

1987

Zeichnungen, Galerie Fred Jahn Munich, Germany

1986 - 1987

Beauty Goes Avantgarde, Galerie Michael Werner Cologne, Germany

1986

Palast der Philosophie/The Philosophical Palace, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf Dusseldorf, Germany

1985

Galerie Michael Werner Cologne, Germany

Mary Boone Gallery New York

1984

Galerie Michael Werner Cologne, Germany

Museum of Fine Art Philadelphia, PA

The Perfect Quiet, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, MA

1983

Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum Eindhoven

1982

James Lee Byars im Westfälischen Kunstverein, Westfälischen Kunstverein Munster, Germany

1981

Galerie Michael Werner Cologne, Germany

The Classical Exhibition of to Be Quiet, Galerie Helen van der Meij Amsterdam, The Netherlands

1980

The Exhibition of Perfect, Busch Reisinger Museum at Harvard University Cambridge, MA

Hear Th In Ph Around This Chair and It Knocks You Out, Marian Goodman Gallery New York

The Exhibition of Perfect, Kunsthalle Bern Switzerland

1978

The Perfect Kiss, University of California Art Museum Berkeley, CA

1977

The Play of Death, Domplatz-Dom Hotel Cologne, Germany

The First Total Interrogative Philosophy, Städtisches Museum Monchengladbach, Germany

1976

The Perfect Performance is to Stand Still, I.C.C. Antwerp, Belgium

1975

The Perfect Kiss, Pavillon Denon-Musée du Louvre Paris, France

1974

The Perfect Love Letter, Palais des Beaux-Arts Brussels, Belgium

The Golden Tower, Galerie Rudolf Springer Berlin, Germany

1973

Wide White Space Gallery Antwerp, Belgium

1971

The Black Book, Galerie Michael Werner Cologne, Germany

1970

The Gold Curb, Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, NY

1969

The World Question on Belgian TV, Wide White Space Gallery Antwerp, Belgium

1968

The World Question Center, Hudson Institute Croton-on-Hudson, NY

1964

Carnegie Museum Pittsburgh, PA

1962

Paper of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan

1961

Willars Gallery New York

1958

Museum of Modern Art New York, NY