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Alan Saret    (American, 1944)

 Alan Saret - Ensoulment of the Four (plus detail) (Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.)) h: 22 x w: 30 in / h: 55.9 x w: 76.2 cm
Alan Saret
Ensoulment of the Four (plus detail) 1979
 
 Alan Saret - Forest Close (Installations) h: 70 x w: 48 x d: 32 in / h: 177.8 x w: 121.9 x d: 81.3 cm
Alan Saret
Forest Close 1969-1970
 
 Alan Saret - Untitled (Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.)) h: 24 x w: 38 in / h: 61 x w: 96.5 cm
Alan Saret
Untitled 1967
 
 Alan Saret - Untitled (Sculptures) h: 44 x w: 20 x d: 8 in / h: 111.8 x w: 50.8 x d: 20.3 cm
Alan Saret
Untitled 1974
 
 Alan Saret - Untitled #3/12 (plus detail) (Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.)) h: 22 x w: 30 in / h: 55.9 x w: 76.2 cm
Alan Saret
Untitled #3/12 (plus detail) 1979
 
 Alan Saret - Untitled, circa 1980 (Installations) h: 30 x w: 22 x d: 19 in / h: 76.2 x w: 55.9 x d: 48.3 cm
Alan Saret
Untitled, circa 1980
 

Biography
1944 Born December 25, New York, NY
1961 - 1966 Studied at Cornell University, Itchaca, NY
1967 - 1968 B. Arch. Hunter College, New York, NY
1971 - 1973 Travelled in Mexico, Europe, and North Africa; lived in India
1979 Visiting artist in sculpture, University of California at Irvine, Irvine, CA


Awards & Honors
Guggenheim Fellowship, 1969
National Endowment for the Arts Grant, 1975
Creative Artists Program Service Grant, New York, 1976

Exhibitions
2009 "Shaping Space," James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
2008 "Looking Back: The White Columns Annual, selected by Jay Sanders," White Columns, New York, NY
2007 "Alan Saret: Gang Drawings," The Drawing Center, New York, NY (solo)
2004 "The Summer Show," James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
"Hiraki Sawa, Alan Saret," James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
2003 "A Simple Plan," James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
2002 "5 Sculptors: Drawings from the 1970's," David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY
2001 "Carl Andre and Alan Saret," James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
2000 "Art at Work: Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection," Queens Museum of Art, New York, NY
"Afterimage: Drawing Through Process," Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX
1997 "A Lasting Legacy: Selections from the Lannan Foundation Gift," The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
1994 "From Minimal to Conceptual Art," The National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
1991 The Margins of Minimalism,Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1990 The New Sculpture 1965-75: Between Geometry and Gesture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
7 Objects\69: A Collection of Original Works by Seven Young Artists, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst
P.S. 1, Long Island City, New York
1989 Lorence-Monk Gallery, New York , NY
1988 Questioning the Givens, BlumHelman Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1983 Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York (solo)
Hallways, Buffalo, New York (solo)
1982 Charles Cowles Gallery, New York (solo)
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, California (solo)
Kunst Wird Material, Nationalgalerie, West Berlin
1981 University of Rhode Island, Kingston (solo)
Gallerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne (solo)
Developments in Recent Sculpture, Whitney Museum, New York
1980 Charles Cowles Gallery, New York (solo)
Biennale, Venice
Drawing/Structures, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
1979 SITE, San Francisco (solo)
Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco (solo)
1978 University of California, Berkeley (solo)
1977 Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, NY (solo)
Open to New Ideas, University of Georgia, Athens
1976 American Art of the 20th Century, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio
1975 597 West Broadway, New York, NY (solo)
1973 Clocktower, New York, NY (solo)
1971 Katonah Gallery, Katonah, New York (solo)
6 Sculptors: Extended Structures, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
1970 Bykert Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1969 When Attitudes Become Form, Kunsthalle, Berne (toured Europe)
1968 Bykert Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
3 Young Americans: Krueger, Nauman, Saret, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio (solo)
Whitney Annual, Whitney Museum, New York, NY
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