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Martin Puryear
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American
, born 1941)
Martin Puryear
Untitled (State 1),
2016
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Martin Puryear
Black Cart,
2008
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Martin Puryear
Untitled,
1999
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Timeline
1941
Born May 23 in Washington, D.C.
1963
Education: Bachelor of Arts, Art Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.
1964 - 1966
Secondary school teacher of English, French, Biology and Art, Sierra Leone
1966 - 1968
Education Swedish Royal Academy of Art, Stockholm, Sweden
1969 - 1971
Education: Master of Fine Arts, Sculpture Yale University, School of Art & Architecture, New Haven, CT
1989
Grand Prize 1989 Sao Paulo Bienal, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1992 - 1996
Worked at Calder Atelier Sache, France
2006
Sculpture Center Gala, honoring Martin Puryear, Long Island City, NY
2007
Gold Medal for Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
2008
LongHouse Medal, LongHouse Reserve, East Hampton, NY
2012
National Medal of Arts and Humanities, Washington, D.C.
Special Project Belvedere Park, Battery Park City, NY
Elected to Amer. Acad. & Inst. of Arts & Letters
College Art Association Award
Honorary Degree Yale University, New Haven, CT
Professor, Department of Art University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
Awarded Second Place for “Best Monographic Museum Show in NYC,” AICA
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Exhibitions
2013
Martin Puryear Exhibitions in 2013:
Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft and Design, The Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
Its Surreal Thing: The Temptation of Objects, Sheldon Museum of Art, Loncoln, NE
2012
Martin Puryear Exhibitions in 2012:
McKee Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
“T” Space, Rhinebeck, NY (solo)
African American Art Since 1950: Perspectives from the David C. Driskell Center, David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
2010
Martin Puryear Exhibitions in 2010:
Martin Puryear Prints: Selections from the JPMorgan Chase Collection, Montclair Art Museum, NJ (solo)
Martin Puryear Prints, Cincinnati Art Museum, OH (solo)
A Force of Change: African American Art and the Julius Rosenwald Fund. Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
Line, Letter and Form, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Sculpture, McKee Gallery, New York, NY
2009
Martin Puryear Exhibitions in 2009:
The Sculptor’s Hand, Tasende Gallery, La Jolla, CA
A Matter of Form, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Endless Renaissance, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL
Die Gegenwart der Linie, Die Pinakothek der Moderne, Staaliche Graphische Sammlung München, Munich, Germany
Art at Colby: Celebrating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Colby College Museum of Art, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
Artists and the Natural World, McKee Gallery, NY
New Prints 2009/Autumn, International Print Center New York, NY
Kleinert/James Art Gallery, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, NY (solo)
Martin Puryear, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. Traveled to: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA (solo)
2008
Martin Puryear Exhibitions in 2008:
Martin Puryear Prints, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum, CA (solo)
Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture Part II, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Art for Yale: Collecting for a new century, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Origins, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
2007
Martin Puryear Exhibitions in 2007:
Early Signs: Celmins, Puryear, Youngblood, McKee Gallery, New York, NY
Martin Puryear: Sculpture Retrospective, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
2006
Martin Puryear Exhibitions in 2006:
Against the Grain: Contemporary Art from the Edward R. Broida Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Selections from the Collection of Edward R. Broida, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
2005
Martin Puryear Exhibitions in 2005:
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
Sculpture: An Intuitive View, McKee Gallery, New York, NY
Africa in America, Seattle Art Museum, WA
Discussion, Meet the Artist, “Martin Puryear,” inaugurating the 30th anniversary Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.,
2004
Gyroscope series, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
2003 - 2004
Installed Public Art at the Mori Arts Center, Roppongi Hills in conjunction with Happiness: A Suvival Guide for Art and Life (Harmony), The Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
2003
Art:21 Art in the Twenty-First Century, Time, (Emmy-Nominated Series), Season Two, PBS, 9:00pmSeptember 15, 2003. www.pbs.org/art21, interview of Martin Puryear
2002
Guardian, stone, Mori Art Museum, Roppongi Hills, Tokyo, Japan, commission for TV Asahi
1999 - 2000
That Profile, steel, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
1999
This Mortal Coil, Eglise Salpetrière, Festival d’Automne, Paris, France. (Temporary)
1997
Bearing Witness, Reagan Building, Federal Triangle, Washington, D.C.,
Courtyard for the New School for Social Research, New York
1996
Meditation in a Beech Wood, Stiftelsen Wanas Utstalliningar, Wanas Foundation, Knislinge, Sweden
1995
McKee Gallery NYC
1994
"Putting Things Together: Recent Sculpture from the Anderson Collection", The Art Museum of Santa Cruz County Santa Cruz, CA
Donald Young Gallery Seattle, WA
"Western Artists/African Art", The Museum for African Art NYC
"Landscape as Metaphor: Visions of America in the Late 20th Century", Denver Art Museum; Columbus Museum Denver, CO; Columbus, OH
1993 - 1994
"Visual Arts Encounter: African-Americans and Europe", Salle Clemenceau, Palais du Luxembourg Paris, France
"Martin Puryear", Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art Cleveland, OH
"American Art in the 20th Century: Painting & Sculpture", Martin Gropius Bau; Royal Academy of Art Berlin, Germany; London, England
"Drawing the Line Against AIDS", 45th Venice Biennale, Peggy Guggenheim Collection Venice, Italy
1993
"Collective Pursuits: Mt. Holyoke Investigates Modernism", Mt. Holyoke College Art Museum South Hadley, MA
"Yale Collects Yale", New Haven, CT
1992
"Allegories of Modernism: Contemporary Drawing", The Museum of Modern Art NYC
1991 - 1992
"Martin Puryear", Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL & travelling
1990
"Connections: Martin Puryear", Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA
1989
Margo Leavin Gallery Los Angeles, CA
The 20th International Sao Paulo Bienal, Sao Paulo, Brazil
1988
"New Wall Sculpture", McIntosh/Drysdale Gallery Washington, D.C.
Donald Young Gallery Chicago, IL
1987
David McKee Gallery NYC
"Martin Puryear: Public and Personal", The Chicago Public Library Chicago, IL
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Public Collections
University Museum of Contemporary Art, University of Massachusettes, Amherst
Dallas Museum of Art, TX
Des Moines Art Center, IA
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
The Cleveland Museum of Art, OH
Clay Center Avampate Discovery Museum Charleston, WV
Art Institute of Chicago, IL
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX
Milwaukee Art Museum, WI
Milwaukee Art Museum, WI
FAI, Villa Menafolgio Litta Panza, Biuma, Italy
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Tokyo International Forum, Japan
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Seattle Art Museum, WA
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
Fonds national d’art contemporain (FNAC), Paris, France
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Literature
Sculpture from the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, edited by Karen O. Janovy, University of Nebraska Press, 2005
Against the Grain: Contemporary Art from the Edward R. Broida Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2006
Martin Puryear, with essays by John Elderfield, Michael Auping, and Elizabeth Reede, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2007
Kellie Jones, Eye Minded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art, Duke University Press, Durham and London, 2011
