Jasper Johns

(American, born 1930)

“poems,” (poems by wallace stevens) by jasper johns

Jasper Johns

“Poems,” (poems by Wallace Stevens), 1985

Price on Request

Biography

Timeline

1930
Born: Allendale, SC
1947 - 1948
Attended University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
1949
Attended an Art School in New York, NY
1954
Met the artist Robert Rauschenberg, the composer John Cage and the modern dancer Merce Cunningham
Began a series of paintings based on the American flag
1956
Had his first exhbition at the Leo Castelli Gallery
1959
Recipient, The Carnegie Prize at the Biennial in Pittsburgh
1967
Recipient, Prize at the Biennial in São Paulo
1988
Recipient, Prize for Painting at the Venice Biennale
1989
Honorary member of the Royal Academy, London

Exhibitions

2013
Selections from the Mary and Michael J. Tatalovich Collection - Haggerty Museum of Art, Milwaukee, WI
The Bride and the Bachelors: Duchamp with Cage, Cunningham, Rauschenberg and Johns - Barbican Art Gallery, London (England)
The Artist and the Poet - The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
The Pop Object: The Still Life Tradition in Pop Art - Acquavella Galleries, Inc., New York City, NY
Circles and Squares - Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, TX
The Time is Now - John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012
Jasper Johns / In Press: The Crosshatch Works and the Logic of Print - Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Cambridge, MA
Jasper Johns Two Flags - Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX
Jasper Johns: Seeing with the Mind's Eye, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
2011
Jasper Johns: New Sculpture and Works on Paper, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
2010
Strictly Death: Selected Works from the Richard Harris Collection - Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
2009
Jasper Johns Prints: A Selection 1960-2007, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, NY (solo)
Focus: Jasper Johns, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (solo)
2009 Cézanne and Beyond, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Jasper Johns Prints: A Selection 1960-2007, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York (solo)
Focus: Jasper Johns, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (solo)
2008
Jasper Johns: Black and White Prints, Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica (solo)
Jasper Johns: The Prints, The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison (solo)
Jasper Johns: Drawings 1997 – 2007, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (solo)
Jasper Johns: Gray, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (solo)
Modern and Contemporary Masterworks From the MFAH, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas
Pop Art Portraits, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart
Contemporary Visions - A Focus on Jacksonville Collections, Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL
2007
The David Whitney Bequest, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
Philip Guston/Jasper Johns, Leo Castelli, NY
Good Morning, Midnight, Casey Kaplan, NY
Paper, The Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, NY
Painting and Sculpture: Selections from the Collection, The Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, NY
InWords: The Art of Language, University Gallery, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware
Cosmologies, James Cohen Gallery, NY
Artistic Collaborations: 50 Years at Universal Limited Art Editions, Museum of Modern Art, NY
Jasper Johns: Gray, Art Institute of Chicago; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (solo)
Jasper Johns-An Allegory of Painting, 1955-1965, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland (solo)
Pop Art is..., Gagosian gallery - Britannia Street, London, UK
2006
Jasper Johns: From Plate to Print, Yale University Art Gallery (solo)
Jasper Johns: Usuyuki, Craig F. Starr Associates, New York (solo)
2005
Jasper Johns: Catenary, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (solo)
Jasper Johns: Prints, Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, Texas (solo)
Works on paper, Gagosian Gallery - Beverly Hills, Beverly Hills, CA
2004
Jasper Johns: Prints From The Low Road Studio, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York (solo)
Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, Das MoMA in Berlin
Stockholm, Moderna Museet, The Pontus Hultén Collection
Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Past Things and Present: Jasper Johns Since 1983 (solo)
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum, Jasper Johns - Numbers (solo)

Public Collections

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY
MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel
MAMAC - Musee d´Art Moderne et d`Art Contemporain Nice, Nice
Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC