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Mel Bochner

(American, born 1940)

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Mel Bochner

Everybody Is Full Of Shit, 2018

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Mel Bochner

12" x 3", 1997

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Mel Bochner

Language Is Not Transparent, 2017

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Mel Bochner

Enough Said, 2014

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Mel Bochner

Thank You, 2021

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Mel Bochner

If The Color Changes, 2003

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if the color changes by mel bochner

Mel Bochner

If The Color Changes, 2003

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Mel Bochner

If The Color Changes..., 2018

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Mel Bochner

I Forget, 2014

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Mel Bochner

Head Honcho, 2022

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Mel Bochner

$#@!!!%?*&...., 2021

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Mel Bochner

Joys of Yiddish, 2014

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Biography

Timeline

1940
Born in Pittsburgh, PA
1962
BA at the Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
2001
Appointed professor at Yale University, New Haven, CT
2005
Recipient, honorary doctor of fine arts degree from Carnegie Mellon University
Lives and works in New York, NY

Exhibitions

2015
Mel Bochner Exhibitions in 2015:
Mel Bochner , Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills, CA (solo exhibition)
2014
Mel Bochner Exhibitions in 2014:
Mel Bochner: Strong Language, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Art by Telephone… Recalled, La Panacee, Montpellier, France
Nouveau Festival, Centre Pompidou, France
2013
Mel Bochner Exhibitions in 2013:
Process and Proposition Sculpture (1966-1973) , Peter Freeman, Inc. New York, NY (solo exhibition)
If the Color Changes, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (solo exhibition)
Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Serravles, Porto, Portugal (solo exhibition)
Ileana Sonnabend: Ambassador for the New, Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Ceiling Should Be Green (天花板應該是綠色的), P!, New York
Xerography, Firstsite, Colchester, UK
Re-Making When Attitudes Become Form, Fondazione Prada, Milam, Italy
Sign, Image, Object, 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria
Temptations of The Diagram, Andrea Rosen Gallery 2, New York
Merci/Mercy, Restoin Roitfeld Gallery, New York
2012
Mel Bochner Exhibitions in 2012:
Theory of Sculpture: Fontana's light, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA (solo exhibition)
If the Colour Changes, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (solo exhibition)
Photography Before the Age of Mechanical Reproduction + Some Drawings from the Sixties + Recent Refections and Recursions on Dis / Tension and Crumpling, Peter Freeman Inc., New York, NY (solo exhibition)
In the Tower : Mel Bochner, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (solo exhibition)
Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA (solo exhibition)
Egeran Gallery, Instanbul, Turkey (solo exhibition)
A Window on the World, Museo d’Arte, Lugano, Switzerland
Notations: Contemporary Drawing as Idea and Process, Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis
Second Nature: Abstract Photography Then and Now, deCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Minimal Myth, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Toward A Warm Math, On Stellar Rays, New York, NY
Alice in the Wonderland of Art, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
2011
Mel Bochner Exhibitions in 2011:
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (solo exhibition)
Peter Freeman, Inc., New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Alice in Wonderland, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
The Private Collection of Robert Rauschenberg, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
Malevich and the American Legacy, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
Systems, Actions, and Processes, 1965–1975, Fundacion Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Art = Text = Art, University of Richmond Museum, Richmond, VA
Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964–1977, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Drawings from the Collection of Irving Stenn, Jr. , Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Arte Povera International, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
2010
Mel Bochner Exhibitions in 2010:
Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris, France(solo exhibition)
Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA (solo exhibition)
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo exhibition)
Third Thoughts, CCA Andtrax, Majorca, Spain
Forms of Contingency: New York and Turin, 1960s–1970s, Philadelphia Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Sammlung Herman und Nicole Daled, 1966–1978, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Graphic Masters III, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC
Double Bind/Stop Trying To Understand Me, Villa Arson, Nice, France
2009
Mel Bochner Exhibitions in 2009:
Blah Blah Blah, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, USA (solo exhibition)
Mel Bochner, Metroquadro, Rivoli, Italy (solo exhibition)
Lawrence Markey, San Antonio, TX
Mel Bochner at The Art Show organized by Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) at the Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY
1969, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY
If We Could Imagine, Glenstone Foundation, Potomac, MD
Target Practice: Painting Under Attack 1949–78, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Inventing Marcel Duchamp: The Dynamics of Portraiture, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
Sculpture Show, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK
2008
Mel Bochner Exhibitions in 2008:
Mel Bochner, Peter Freeman, Inc., New York, USA (solo exhibition)
Mel Bochner, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, USA (solo exhibition)
Geometry as image, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
Close-Up, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Notation, Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, Germany; Zentrum fur Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany
Mel Bochner, Alighiero Boetti, Hanne Darboven, Collège Jacques Cartier, Chauny, France
Genau und Anders, Museum Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
2007
Mel Bochner Exhibitions in 2007:
Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Bignan, France (solo exhibition)
Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris, France (solo exhibition)
Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, USA (solo exhibition)
Galleria d’Arte il Gabbiano, Rome, Italy
Dessin et série, Collège Jacques Cartier, Chauny, France
Lines, Grids, Stains, and Words, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Conceptual Photography, 1964–1989, Zwirner & Wirth, New York, NY
If Everybody Had an Ocean: Brian Wilson, an Art Exhibition, Tate St Ives, St Ives, UK
Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2006
Mel Bochner Exhibitions in 2006:
Mel Bochner: Recent Paintings on Black Velvet , Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, USA (solo exhibition)
Focus: Mel Bochner Language 1966 – 2006, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA (solo exhibition)
Mel Bochner, Thesaurus Paintings, Peter Freeman, Inc., New York, USA (solo exhibition)
Mel Bochner: Drawing from Four Decades, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, USA; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, USA
Spertus Museum, Chicago, IL
Wynn Kramarsky, New York, NY
Lines, Grids, Stains, and Words, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Conceptual Photography, 1964–1989, Zwirner & Wirth, New York, NY
If Everybody Had an Ocean: Brian Wilson, an Art Exhibition, Tate St Ives, St Ives, UK
Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

Public Collections

MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, UK
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, USA
Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
National Gallery of Art, Washington, WA, USA
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, New York, NY, USA
MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
University Art Museum University at Albany, State University of New York, NY, USA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA, UK
English (US)

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