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Leon Golub

(American, 1922–2004)

Leon Golub

Orator (Agon II), 1965

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Leon Golub

Combat, 1965

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Leon Golub

Untitled, 1988

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Leon Golub

The Lovers, 1992

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Biography

Timeline

1922: Born in Chicago, IL
1942: BA, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1949: BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1950: MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1995: Visual Art Award, National Foundation of Jewish Culture, New York, NY
1996: Hiroshima Art Prize (Jointly with Nancy Spero)
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, MA
1997: Cityarts, New York, 29th annual award (jointly with Nancy Spero)
1999: The Robert Lepper Distinguished Lecture in Creative Inquiry, Carnegie, Pittsburgh, PA
Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, Trinity College, Hartford, CT
2000: Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
2002: Dickinson College Arts Award
2004: Died in New York, NY

Exhibitions

2012: This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
: Leon Golub: Transparency, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
2011: Leon Golub, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
: Leon Golub, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (solo)
2010: Leon Golub: Late Drawings,Anthony ReynoldsGallery,London
Leon Golub: Live + Die Like a Lion?, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
Adieu! A Tribute to Nancy Spero and Leon Golub, Christine König Gallery, Vienna, Austria
2009: Did It!, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
2008: That Was Then This is Now., P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
Transformation: Phase I, BCAM, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2007: In Someone Else’s Skin, Center for Curatorial Studies Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
2006: Leon Golub, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Leon Golub (1922-2004), Peintures et Dessins, Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris, France (solo)
Leon Golub We Love Our Leader, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY (solo)
2005: Toward the Future—Through the Eyes of the Artists, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Salamanca, Spain
Centro Jose Guerrero, Granada, Spain
Laocoon Devoured, Artium, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain
2004: Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
2003: Leon Golub: Paintings and Drawings, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL (solo)
Recent Paintings, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
Griffin Contemporary, Venice, CA
2002: Reconfiguration, Central Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Beijing, China
Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris, France (solo)
Crown Gallery, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany
Christine Konig Galerie, Vienna, Austria
2001: Leon Golub: Paintings 1950-2000, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY (solo)
While the Crime is Blazing: Paintings and Drawings 1994-1999, Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery, The Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY
Confrontations, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
Open Ends: Contemporary Art from 1960 - 2001, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2000: Trans + kaputt, Christine König Galerie, Vienna, Austria
Leon Golub Paintings, Stedelijk Museum vor Actuele Kunst Ghent, Belgium (solo)
Leon Golub, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (solo)
Kwangju Biennale 2000, Art and Human Rights Section, South Korea
1999: Leon Golub, Bucknell Art Gallery, Bucknell University Lewisburg, PA (solo)
Coming to Life: The Figure in American Art, 1955-1965, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington Seattle, WA
To the Rescue: Eight Artists in an Archive, International Center fof Photography, New York, NY
1998: Extensions: Aspects of the Figure, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT
Leon Golub and Nancy Spero, Museo Jacobo Borges, Caracas, Venezuela
Presence of the Greek Myth, Instituto di Storia dell'Arte, Palermo, Italy
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
1997: Views from Abroad-European Perspectives on American Art 3, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Envisioning the Contemporary: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
1996: Thinking Print: Books to Billboards, 1980-95, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Sphinx and other Enigmas, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
Multiple Identity: Selections from the Whitney Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Leon Golub and Nancy Spero, retrospective exhibition, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art Hiroshima City, Japan
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
1995: War and Memory, The American Center, Paris, France
Murder, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY
Murder, Bergamot Station Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA
Snake Eyes, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
25 Americans: Painting in the 90s, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Violence Zone: The Weimar Installation, OrangerieSchlob Belvedere, Weimar, Germany
1994: Leon Golub/Nancy Spero, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1993: 43rd Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Art, The Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC
1992: Americas, Andalusia Pavillion, Expo `92
Retrospective Exhibition, Malmo Konsthall, Malmo, Sweden
1991: Inheritance & Transformation, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Worldwide, The Brooklyn Museum, Grand Lobby Installation, New York, NY

Public Collections

: Norton Simon Museum Of Art. Pasadena, California
: Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine
: Smithsonian American Art Museum. Washington, DC
: Tate Gallery. London, UK
: Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, NY
: Allen Art Museum, Oberlin College. Oberlin, Ohio
: Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, Illinois
: Carnegie Museum of Art. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
: Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC
: Des Moines Art Center. Des Moines, Iowa
: Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Washington, DC
: Indiana University Art Museum. Bloomington, Indiana
: Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY
: Museum Of Contemporary Art, icago, Illinois
: Museum of Modern Art. New York, NY

Literature

2010: Artforum. “Leon Golub, The Drawing Center”. David Frankel.
Art in America. “Dark Laughter”. Douglas Dreishpoon.
Frieze Magazine. “Leon Golub”. Ara H. Merjian
Leon Golub: Live and Die Like a Lion? New York, NY: The Drawing Center, 2010.
The New York Times. “Leon Golub: ‘Live & Die Like a Lion?’” Karen Rosenberg.
The New Yorker. “Beasts”. Peter Schjedahl.
2009: ARTnews. “Leon Golub.” Robert Ayers
2008: The New Yorker “Leon Golub.”
The Brooklyn Rail. “What More Can You Ask of Painting? Leon Golub Did It!” Jonathan Smith
2006: The Brooklyn Rail “Waking Strife, Leon Golub.” David Markus
Los Angeles Times “Realist Images of Idealism.” Christopher Knight
2005: ArtForum.com “Personal and Political” Linda Yablonsky
2004: Art in America “Leon Golub at Ronald Feldman” Roger Boyce
Golub, Leon. Dog. Onestar Press: Paris, France, 2004
Leon Golub: Don’t Tread On Me! Drawings: 1947 – 2004. New York, NY: Ronald Feldman Fine Arts; Santa Monica, CA: Griffin Contemporary; and London England: Anthony Reynolds Gallery, 2004
2002: Art in America “Outside the Comfort Zone” Thomas McEvilley
2001: The New York Times. “Leon Golub, Brawler in a Cosmic Melee.” Amei Wallach
2000: Bird, Jon. Leon Golub Echoes of the Real. London, England:Reaktion Books, 2000
Artforum. “Leon Golub”. David Frankel
Wittcox, Eva. Leon Golub: Bijten Schilderijen?. Ghent, Belgium: S.M.A.K. (Stedelijk Museum Voor Atuele Kunst), 2000
1999: Leon Golub While the Crime is Blazing: Paintings and Drawings 1994-1999. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell University, 1999
1998: Sosa, Ana Teresa. Nancy Spero/Leon Golub. Caracas, Venezuela: Museo Jacobo Borges, 1998 (catalogue)
1997: Leon Golub: Do Paintings Bite? Edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist. Germany: Cantz Verlag, 1997
1996: The Village Voice. "Beauty of the Beast”. Peter Schjeldahl
Artforum. "Leon Golub” David Frankel
The New York Times. "2 Artists Always Prowling For Ideas To Use Again”. Michael Kimmelman
1990: Artforum. "Undercover Agent” Rosetta Brooks
Marzorati, Gerald. A Painter of Darkness: Leon Golub and Our Times. New York, NY: Viking Penguin, Inc., 1990
1984: Art in America. "Theater of Power” Carter Ratcliff

Leon Golub

(American, 1922–2004)

Leon Golub

Leon Golub

Leon Golub

Leon Golub

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

Literature

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