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Leon Golub (American, 1922-2004)
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Leon Golub
Fleeing Figure II 1972
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Biography |
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1922 |
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Born: in Chicago, IL |
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1942 |
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BA, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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1949 |
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BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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1950 |
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MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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1995 |
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Visual Art Award, National Foundation of Jewish Culture, New York, NY |
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1996 |
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Hiroshima Art Prize (Jointly with Nancy Spero)
Fellow, American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Cambridge, MA |
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1997 |
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Cityarts, New York, 29th annual award (jointly with Nancy Spero) |
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1999 |
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The Robert Lepper Distinguished Lecture in Creative Inquiry, Carnegie, Pittsburgh, PA
Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, Trinity College, Hartford, CT |
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2000 |
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Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY |
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2002 |
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Dickinson College Arts Award |
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2004 |
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Died: in New York, NY |
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Exhibitions |
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2009 |
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Did It!, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY |
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2008 |
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That Was Then This is Now., P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
Transformation: Phase I, BCAM, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA |
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2007 |
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In Someone Else’s Skin, Center for Curatorial Studies Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY |
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2006 |
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Leon Golub, Wako Works of Art, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
Leon Golub (1922-2004), Peintures et Dessins, Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris, France (solo)
Leon Golub We Love Our Leader, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY (solo) |
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2005 |
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Toward the Future—Through the Eyes of the Artists, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, JapanCentro Jose Guerrero, Granada, Spain
Laocoon Devoured, Artium, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain |
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2004 |
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Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY |
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2003 |
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Leon Golub: Paintings and Drawings, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL (solo)
Recent Paintings, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
Griffin Contemporary, Venice, CA |
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2002 |
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Reconfiguration, Central Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Beijing, China
Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris, France (solo)
Crown Gallery, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
Documenta 11, Kassel, Germany
Christine Konig Galerie, Vienna, Austria |
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2001 |
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Leon Golub: Paintings 1950-2000, Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY; Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY (solo)
While the Crime is Blazing: Paintings and Drawings 1994-1999, Arthur A. Houghton Jr. Gallery, The Cooper Union School of Art, New York, NY
Confrontations, Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
Open Ends: Contemporary Art from 1960 - 2001, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY |
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2000 |
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Trans + kaputt, Christine König Galerie, Vienna, Austria
Leon Golub Paintings, Stedelijk Museum vor Actuele Kunst Ghent, Belgium (solo)
Leon Golub, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (solo)
Kwangju Biennale 2000, Art and Human Rights Section, South Korea |
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1999 |
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Leon Golub, Bucknell Art Gallery, Bucknell University Lewisburg, PA (solo)
Coming to Life: The Figure in American Art, 1955-1965, Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington Seattle, WA
To the Rescue: Eight Artists in an Archive, International Center fof Photography, New York, NY |
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1998 |
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Extensions: Aspects of the Figure, Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, Hartford, CT
Leon Golub and Nancy Spero, Museo Jacobo Borges, Caracas, Venezuela
Presence of the Greek Myth, Instituto di Storia dell'Arte, Palermo, Italy
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY |
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1997 |
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Views from Abroad-European Perspectives on American Art 3, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Envisioning the Contemporary: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL |
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1996 |
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Thinking Print: Books to Billboards, 1980-95, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Sphinx and other Enigmas, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
Multiple Identity: Selections from the Whitney Museum of Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Leon Golub and Nancy Spero, retrospective exhibition, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art Hiroshima City, Japan
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY |
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1995 |
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War and Memory, The American Center, Paris, France
Murder, Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY
Murder, Bergamot Station Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA
Snake Eyes, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY
25 Americans: Painting in the 90s, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Violence Zone: The Weimar Installation, OrangerieSchlob Belvedere, Weimar, Germany |
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1994 |
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Leon Golub/Nancy Spero, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Black Male: Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY |
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1993 |
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43rd Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary Art, The Corcoran Museum of Art, Washington, DC |
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1992 |
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Americas, Andalusia Pavillion, Expo `92
Retrospective Exhibition, Malmo Konsthall, Malmo, Sweden |
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1991 |
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Inheritance & Transformation, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Worldwide, The Brooklyn Museum, Grand Lobby Installation, New York, NY |
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Selected Public Collections: |
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Allen Art Museum, Oberlin College. Oberlin, Ohio
Art Institute of Chicago. Chicago, Illinois
Carnegie Museum of Art. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Corcoran Gallery of Art. Washington, DC
Des Moines Art Center. Des Moines, Iowa
Hirshorn Museum and Sculpture Garden. Washington, DC
Indiana University Art Museum. Bloomington, Indiana
Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, NY
Museum Of Contemporary Art, icago, Illinois
Museum of Modern Art. New York, NY
Norton Simon Museum Of Art. Pasadena, California
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine
Smithsonian American Art Museum. Washington, DC
Tate Gallery. London, UK
Whitney Museum of American Art. New York, NY |
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Literature |
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2000 |
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Wittcox, Eva. Leon Golub: Bijten Schilderijen?. Ghent, Belgium: S.M.A.K. (Stedelijk Museum Voor Atuele Kunst), 2000 |
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1998 |
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Sosa, Ana Teresa. Nancy Spero/Leon Golub. Caracas, Venezuela: Museo Jacobo Borges, 1998 (catalogue) |
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1990 |
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Marzorati, Gerald. A Painter of Darkness: Leon Golub and Our Times. New York, NY: Viking Penguin, Inc., 1990 |
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