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Agnes Denes    (Hungarian/American, 1938)

 Agnes Denes - Isometric Systems in Isotropic Space-Map Projections: Fragmentation, The Snail (Works on Paper (Drawings, Watercolors etc.)) h: 14.5 x w: 17 in / h: 36.8 x w: 43.2 cm
Agnes Denes
Isometric Systems in Isotropic Space-Map Projections: Fragmentation, The Snail 1979
 
  

Biography
Lives and works in New York City

Exhibitions
2009 Sites, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2008 A.I.R. Gallery Retrospective, Werkstatte Gallery, New York
2008 Decoys, Complexes, and Triggers: Feminism and Land Art in the 1970’s, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, New York
2008 Genesis—The Art of Creation, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland
2008 Random Utterness, Hungarian Cultural Center, New York
2008 To Infinity and Beyond: Mathematics in Contemporary Art, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, New York
2008 Weather Report: Art and Climate Change, curator Lucy R. Lippard, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art in Collaboration with EcoArts. Bouder, Colo.
2008 Agnes Denes: “Art for the Third Millennium—Creating a New World View, a retrospective, Ludwig Museum, Budapest, Hungary (solo)
2007 Uprooted & Deified – The Golden Tree, BravinLee Programs, New York, N.Y. (solo)
2007 Art in Action: Nature, Creativity and Our Collective Future, Natural World Museum, San Francisco, Calif.
2007 BIOS 4 - Biotech and Environmental Arts, Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Monasterio de la Cartuja, Sevilla, Spain
2007 Collection Focus I: Recent Work by Women, Samek Art Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pa.
2007 Devine in-Tent, The Artists Museum, The Venice Biennale, Italy
2007 Green Horizons, Bates College Museum of Art, Lewiston, Maine
2007 Making the Choice: Bringing Forth an Environmental Renaissance, San Francisco, City Hall Gallery Rotunda, Ca. (organized by the Natural World Museum)
2007 Weather Report: Art and Climate Change, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, (in collaboration with EcoArt, Boulder, Co. (Curated by Lucy Lippard)
2007 Area '70, Studio d'Arte Cannaviello, Milano, Italy
2007 Building and Breaking the Grid: 1962-2002, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2007 Drawings from the Modern, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2007 EarthWorksNow, Internatioal Biennial, Copper Mountain College, Joshua Tree, Mojave Desert, Ca.
2007 Fourth International Artists' Book Exhibition, The King St. Stephen Museum and the City Gallery, Deak Collection, Budapest, Hungary
2007 Poles Apart/Poles Together, Venice Biennale, Italy
2007 Treading Water, (Pyramids of Conscience), Ballroom Marfa, Texas
2007 Women & The Environment, Art Gallery, Kingsborough Community College, New York
2007 "You Are Here, Design Museum, London, England
2006 eARTh: The Importance of Environmental Art, Herndon Gallery, Antioch College, Yellow Springs, Ohio.
2006 Women and the Environment: WEAD EAST I in conjunction with the KCC ECO-Festival, Kingsborough Art Gallery, Kingsborough Community College – CUNY, Brooklyn, NY
2005 Agnes Denes: Projects for Public Places—A Retrospective, Ewing Gallery, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, Tenn. (solo)
2004 Agnes Denes: Projects for Public Places—A Retrospective, Chelsea Museum, New York, N.Y. (solo)
2004 Contemporary Art and the Mathematical Instinct, Stedman Art Gallery, Rutgers University, Camden, N.J., and University Museums, University of Richmond, Virginia
2004 Six Centuries of Prints and Drawings: Recent Acquisitions, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.Tre Incisori Americani, Galleria Miralli, Viterbo, Italy
2003 Contemporary Art and the Mathematical Instinct, Tweed Museum of Art, University of Minnesota, Duluth (travel)
2003 Dust, Dunlop Art Gallery, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
2003 Rhythm of Structure—Math Art in Harlem, Fire Patrol No.5 Art Gallery, New York
2003 Agnes Denes: Projects for Public Places—A Retrospective, organized by Samek Gallery, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, Pa. (catalog). Travel: Herron Gallery, Herron School of Art, Indiana University, Indianapolis; Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University, Milkwaukee, Wisc.; Naples Museum of Art, Naples, Florida. (solo)
2002 Art and Political Engagement, House of DOCS Gallery, Sundance Film Festival, Park City, Utah
2002 Ecovention, (Current Art to Transform Ecologies), The Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, Ohio (catalog)
2002 Math/Art—Art/Math, Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art & Design, Sarasota, Fl. (catalog)
2002 Second International Art Biennial-Buenos Aires, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Argentina
2001 Curt Marcus Gallery, New York
2001 EVO 1, Gallery L, Moscow, Russia
2001 Göteborgs Internationalle Konstbiennal, Göteborg, Sweden (catalog)
2001 Kinds of Drawing, Herter Gallery, University of Mass., Amherst (catalog)
2001 Markers, Construction in Process, Venice Biennale, Italy (catalog)
2001 New to the Modern: Recent Acquisitions from the Department of Drawing, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2001 Waterproof—Zomermanifestatie Fort Asperen, (exploring the future of the Hollandse Waterlinie), Fort Asperen Foundation, Fort Asperen, The Netherlands (catalog)
2000 Art & Mathematics 2000, Humanities Gallery & Brooks Design Center, Albert Nerken School of Engineering, Cooper Union, New York
2000 Collecting Ideas, (Work from the Polly & Mark Addison Collection), Vance Kirkland Close Range Gallery, Denver Art Museum, Colo.
2000 Cross-Currents in Modern Art, (A Tribute to Peter Selz), Achim Moeller Gallery, New York (catalog)
2000 Force-fields: Phases of the Kinetic, Museu d'Art Contemporani (MACBA), Barcelona, travel to Hayward Gallery, London, England (catalog)
2000 Inventional, Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, Ca.
2000 Making Choices, Museum of Modern Art, New York
2000 Muscle—Power of the View, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Colo.
2000 Los Angeles, travel to: Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas (catalog)
2000 Out/Side/In—Process in Architecture and Design, Huntington Gallery, Mass College of Art, Boston, Ma.
1998 Agnes Denes—Fragmentation, Gallerie Il Bulino, Rome, Italy (solo)
1997 Anima/Persona—From the Rice/Tree/Burial Project, Joyce Goldstein Gallery, N.Y. (solo)
1997 The Pyramid Suite and Project Drawings, View Gallery, New York (solo)
1996 The Visionary Art of Agnes Denes, Gibson Gallery, SUNY at Potsdam, New York (solo)
1995 Philosophy in the Land, Joyce Goldstein Gallery, New York (solo)
1994 Drawings of Agnes Denes l969-l994, Wynn Kramarsky, New York (solo)
1992 Agnes Denes: A Retrospective, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. (book and travel) (solo)
1990 Agnes Denes - Concept into Form, Works 1970-1990, Arts Club of Chicago, Ill. (catalog) (solo)
1990 Agnes Denes - El Concepto Hecho Forma, Obras, 1970-1990, Anselmo Alvarez Galeria de Arte, Madrid, Spain (catalog) (solo)
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