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John Chamberlain    (American, 1927)

 John Chamberlain - BAMBOOZLEDCLARITY (Sculptures) h: 29.5 x w: 50 x d: 46.8 in / h: 74.9 x w: 127 x d: 118.9 cm
John Chamberlain
BAMBOOZLEDCLARITY 2006
 
  

Biography
1927 Born: in Rochester, IN
1951 - 1952 Attended the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
1955 - 1956 Attended Black Mountain College, Asheville, NC
1966 Received John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundationfellowship
1977 Received 2nd Guggenheim fellowship
1999 - 2000 Independent study program, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Lives and works in Florida

Exhibitions
2009 - 2010 1969, with Lawrence Weiner, P.S.1 MoMA, NY
2009 - 2010 Capolavori della modernità, with Mario Merz, Museo di arte moderna e contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto
2009 - 2010 Skulpturenpark Waldfrieden, Wuppertal, Germany
2009 1968. Die große Unschuld, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany
American Tableau, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
Yellow & Green, MMK, Frankfurt on the Main, Germany;The Menil Collection, Houston,TX
Heavy Metal. The Inexplicable Lightness of a Material, Kunsthalle, Kiel, Germany
2008 Daniel Buren, John Chamberlain, Lawrence Wiener, Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2007 Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France (solo)
Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany (solo)
2006 "Bilderwechsel III - Amerikanische Malerei", Museum Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany
"Plane/Figure", Kunstmuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland
"It's his show", Buchmann Galerie, Berlin, Germany (solo)
"It’ s All in the Fit", Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX (solo)
"Venice 1948 - 1986: the art scene", Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy
"AUTO-NOM-MOBILE", Kunstverein, Kassel, Germany
2005 "La Photographie en parallele", La Maison Européenne de la Photographie, Paris, France
"Design is not Art", AAM Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
"Bilderwechsel", Museum Sammlung Frieder Burda, Baden-Baden, Germany
"Sculpture", Danese Gallery, New York, NY
"EXIT_AUSSTIEG AUS DEM BILD", ZKM_Museum für Neue Kunst, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
"John Chamberlain and Tony Feher – open House 2005", The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX
"Recent Sculpture", Pace Wildenstein, New York, NY (solo)
"John Chamberlain - Papier Paradisio", Kunstmuseum, Winterthur, Switzerland (solo)
"John Chamberlain: Without Fear", Waddington Galleries, London (solo)

2004 "Chelsea Group Show 2004", Pace Wildenstein, New York (solo)
"Summer 2004", Pace Wildenstein, New York (solo)
2003 "Summer Travels", Pace Wildenstein, New York (solo)
"Recent Sculpture", Pace Wildenstein, New York (solo)
"Dan Flavin & John Chamberlain: Sculptures", Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
2002 Waddington Galleries, London (solo)
Clark Fine Art, Southhampton, UK
Buchmann Skulpturenprojekte & Kunsthandel, Lugano, Switzerland
"Happy New Year!", PaceWildenstein, New York, NY
"Inside Contemporary Sculpture", Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ
"Treasures 2002", Carl Schlosberg Fine Arts, Beverly Hills, CA
"Art Downtown: New York Painting and Sculpture", Wall Street Rising, New York, NY
2001 L.A. Louver, Venice, CA
PaceWildenstein, New York, NY
"The Lenore and Burton Gold Collection of 20th-Century Art", High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
"Summer in the City", PaceWildenstein, New York, NY
2000 The Menil Collection, Houston, TX (solo)
The Center for Public Sculpture, New York, NY (solo)
D´Amelio Terras, New York, NY
"Crossroads of American Sculpture", Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
Galerie Karsten Greve, St. Moritz, France
1999 Lever House, New York, NY (solo)
Galerie Karsten Greve, Milan, Italy
1998 PaceWildenstein, New York, NY (solo)
1997 Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton, CA (solo)
Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich, Germany (solo)
Museum für Lackkunst, Münster, Germany (solo)
Pace Wildenstein, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
Cheim & Read, New York, NY
Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
1995 Galerie Karsten, Paris, France
Galerie Karsten Greve, Cologne, Germany
1993 Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
Galerie Karsten Greve Cologne, Germany
1991 Galerie Karsten Greve, Paris, France
1989 Galerie Karsten Greve Cologne, Germany
1986 "Retrospective", Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA (solo)
1982 - 1983 "Sculpture", Dia Art Foundation, New York, NY
1971 "Retrospective", Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York, NY (solo)
1962 Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
1960 Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY
1957 Wells Street Gallery, Chicago, IL

Literature
2005 Carl Andre, John Chamberlain, Robert Creeley, Fielding Dawson und Dieter Schwarz. John Chamberlain: Papier Paradisio. Winterthur: Kunstmuseum, 2005 (catalogue)
Design is not Art. Aspen, CO: AAM - Aspen Art Museum, 2005
2001 Rose, Bernice. DeKooning, Chamberlain: Influence and Transformation. New York: PaceWildenstein, 2001
1996 Rudi Fuchs, John Yau, Donald Judd, Marja Bloem. John Chamberlain, Current Works and Fond Memories. Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1996
1991 Angelika Beckmann, John Chamberlain, Donald Judd and Jochen Poetter. John Chamberlain. Baden-Baden, Germany: Staatliche Kunsthalle, 1991
Sylvester, Julie and Lawrence Weiner. John Chamberlain: Gondolas and Dooms Day Flotilla. New York: Dia Center for the Arts, 1991
1986 Kertess, Klaus. John Chamberlain: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Sculpture, 1954–1985. New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1986
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