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Sol LeWitt

(American, 1928–2007)

vertical not straight lines not touching on color, plate 2 by sol lewitt

Sol LeWitt

Vertical Not Straight Lines Not Touching On Color, Plate 2, 1991

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Biography

Timeline

1928
Born in Hartford, CT
1949
BFA, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY
1964 - 1967
Instructor at the Museum of Modern Art School, New York, NY
1967 - 1970
Instructor at Cooper Union, School of Visual Arts, and New York University, New York, NY
2007
Died in New York, NY

Exhibitions

2013
Wood, Metal, Paint: Sculpture from the Fisher Collection - Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, CA
Sol LeWitt - Wall Drawings from 1968 to 2007 - Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz
Celebrating 20 Years of Neptunstrasse 42 - Annemarie Verna Gallery, Zurich
Cut Torn Folded Ripped - James Cohan Gallery - New York, New York City, NY
For the Time Being - Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld
Sammlung Grauwinkel - 1982–2012 30 Jahre Konkrete Kunst - Vasarely Museum, Budapest
Concrete Block Structure - Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
CONTINENTAL DRIFT - Konzeptkunst in Kanada: Die 1960er und 70er Jahre - Badischer Kunstverein, Karlsruh
2012
Sol Lewitt’ - Museo D'Arte Contemporanea Donna Regina - MADRE, Naples
2011
Spazio, MAXXI Rom, Italy
Von Carl Andre bis Gregor Schneider. Dorothee und Konrad Fischer: Archiv einer Haltung, Museum Kurhaus Kleve
2010
Sol LeWitt, Complex Forms Structure VI, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
Sol LeWitt, Wall Drawings, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany (solo)
Sol LeWitt: Gouache on Paper 1987-2005, LA Louver Gallery, Venice, CA (solo)
2008 - 2009
Sol Lewitt, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Artists Rooms: Sol Lewitt, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK (solo)
Made in Munich, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Minimal is More, Sammlung Lafrenz, Gemeentemuseum Den Haag, The Netherlands
1968. Die große Unschuld, Kunsthalle, Bielefeld, Germany
Born in the street - Graffiti, Fondation Cartier pour l’Art Contemporain, Paris, France
Focus: Sol LeWitt, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (solo)
2008
Sol LeWitt: A Wall Drawing Retrospective, MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA (solo)
Estampes, Galerie Lelong, Paris, France (solo)
Sol LeWitt, The Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA (solo)
Sol LeWitt - Monumental Drawings, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy (solo)
Sol LeWitt: Color and Line, Reproduced”, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, IL (solo)
Sol LeWitt, Annemarie Verna Gallery, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
Paperweight, Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin, Germany
The Skat Players, Vilma Gold, London, UK
2007
Sol LeWitt, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Summer Show, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
The Happiness of Objects, Sculpute Center, Long Island, NY
2006
Sol LeWitt, Lisson Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Drawing through it, David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY
Winter Group Show, The Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
2005
Sol LeWitt new works, Galerie Meert Rihoux, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
Sol LeWitt, Drawings for Projects, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL
Sol LeWitt on the Roof: Splotches, Whirls, and Twirls, The Iris B. and Gerald Cantor Roof Garden, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (solo)
New Wall Drawings, Alfonso Artiaco, Naples, Italy (solo)
Sol LeWitt Gouaches, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
Sol LeWitt Sculpture and Drawings, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Looking at Words, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
2004
Sol Le Witt: Photography, Kamera, Graz, Austria (solo)
Sol Le Witt: New York, Lisson Gallery, London, UK (solo)
Sol LeWitt, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo)
The Last Picture Show, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Das MoMA in Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany

Public Collections

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
The Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
The Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
The St Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
Smith College Art Gallery, Northampton, MA
Worcester Museum of Art, Worcester, MA

Literature

2013
Sol LeWitt by Lucy Lippard, Rosalind Krauss, Béatrice Gross and Sol Lewitt
Sol LeWitt: The Well-Tempered Grid by Christianna Bonin, Erica DiBenedetto, Charles Haxthausen and Sol Lewitt
2012
Sol LeWitt: Structures, 1965-2006 by Nicholas Baume
2010
Sol LeWitt: Artist's Books by Didi Bozzini, Giorgio Maffei, Emanuele De Donno and Sol Lewitt
2009
Sol LeWitt: 100 Views by Susan Cross and Denise Markonish
2006
Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawings by Sol Lewitt
2001
Sol LeWitt: Incomplete Open Cubes by Nicholas Baume
2000
Sol Lewitt: A Retrospective by Gary Garrels
1990
Sol LeWitt Recent Works. Tokyo: Touko Museum of Contemporary Art, 1990 (catalogue)
1984
Sol Lewitt by Alicia Legg
English (US)

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