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Pat Steir    (American, 1938)
Pat Steir - Untitled 3 (Paintings) h: 48 x w: 35 in / h: 121.9 x w: 88.9 cm
Pat Steir
Untitled 3 2005
 
Pat Steir - Untitled 7 (Prints) h: 55.5 x w: 42 in / h: 141 x w: 106.7 cm
Pat Steir
Untitled 7 2005
 		  

Biography
1940 Born Iris Patricia Sukoneck in Newark, New Jersey (April 10).
1956 - 1958 Studied graphic art at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York.  
1958 - 1960 Studied at Boston University, Massachusetts.
1962 Received BFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.
1966 - 1970 Art Director, Harper & Row Publishing Company, New York, New York.
1970 - 1973 Taught at Parsons School of Design, Princeton University, and Hunter College.
1973 Awarded N.E.A. Individual Artist grant.
1974 Received Individual Artist's Grant, National Endowment for the Arts
1973 - 1975 Lived in Los Angeles. Taught at California Institute of the Arts.
1976 Awarded N.E.A Grant for Art in Public Institutions.
1975 - 1978 Traveled in United States and Europe. Founding board member of Printed Matter bookshop, New York City, and Heresies magazine. Editorial Board of Semiotext.
1981 Awarded Guggenheim grant.
1982 Received Guggenheim Fellowship
1991 Received Honorary Doctorate of Fine Art from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York.
1992 Honored by the American Woman's Economic Development Corporation with their Salute to Women in the Business of Art, sponsored by Avon and ARTnews.
2001 Boston University School for the Arts Distinguished Alumni Award
Lives and works in New York and Amsterdam.

Exhibitions
2009 Paintings on Painting, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2008 Pat Steir – Recent prints, Pace Prints, New York, NY (solo)
2008 Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ (2/1/08 – 2/29/08) (solo)
2008 Pat Steir: Prints and Paintings, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH (1/11/08 - 4/12/08) (solo)
2008 Expansion – Rιsonance, Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris (10/23 – 12/20/08)
2008 Pretty Ugly, Maccarone Gallery, New York, (7/10 - 9/1/08)
2008 Paintings' Edge, Parks Exhibition Center at Idyllwild Arts, Idyllwild, CA, (6/21 - 7/2/08)
2007 Cheim & Read, New York (11/9/07 – 12/22/07) (solo)
2007 Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland (2/10/07 – 4/29/07) (solo)
2007 Rosenbaum Contemporary, Boca Raton, FL (2/1/07 – 3/31/07) (solo)
2007 Audacity in Art: Selected Works from Central Florida Collections, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando (12/8/07 - 2/3/08)
2007 Solos: 20th Anniversary Exhibitions: Part Two, Ringling Museum of Art, Selby Gallery, Sarasota, FL (2/1 - 3/12/07)
2006 Pat Steir: Gravity and Levity, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO (6/30 – 7/24/06) (solo)
2006 Small Paintings from the Studio of Pat Steir, Kiang Gallery, Atlanta, GA (1/20 -2/25/06) (solo)
2006 High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1965 – 75, Independent Curators International, New York; traveling to Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC (8/6/06–10/15/06); American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, D.C. (11/21/06–1/21/07); National Academy Museum, New York, 2/15-07–4/22/07); Museo Tamayo Arte Contemporαneo, Mexico City, Mexico (5/25/07 – 9/9/07); Neue Galerie Graz, Graz, Austria (12/14/07 – 2/24/08); ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe, Karlsruhe, Germany (3/28/08 – 6/1/08)
2006 Women Only! In Their Studios, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL (7/29 – 10/15/06)
2006 Gray to Black, Danese Gallery, New York (7/17 - 8/25/06)
2006 The 181th Annual, National Academy, New York (5/11 – 6/18/06)
2006 At Home: Recent Acquisitions, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI (4/23 – 8/27/06)
2006 Twice Drawn, Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY (3/11/06 – 6/4/06)
2006 More And Less: Post-Minimal Prints and Drawings, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI (2/9 – 5/7/06)
2006 Moons and Mirages, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (solo)
2005 Pat Steir: New Paintings, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX (11/15 – 12/17/05) (solo)
2005 Pat Steir, Blue Moon, Paintings, Drawings, and Prints, Galleria (solo)
2005 Alessandro Bonomo, Rome, Italy (5/23/05 – 10/05) (solo)
2005 Cheim & Read, New York (3/31 – 5/7/05) (solo)
2005 Pat Steir: Drawings, Cook Fine Art, New York (3/7 – 5/11/05) (solo)
2005 Pace Prints Gallery, New York (3/10 – 4/9/05) (solo)
2005 25 years Baumgartner Gallery Part 2, Baumgartner Gallery, New York (9/9 - 10/12/05)
2005 BLOOMING: A Summer Garden for the Picking, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati (6/3 - 8/27/05)
2005 Paint, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR (5/05 – 7/2/05)
2005 Graphics by 20th Century Masters From the Cochran Collection, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV (2/19 – 4/10/05)
2005 Contemporary Woman Artists, University Art Gallery, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN (1 – 2/11/05)
2004 Intimate Collaboration: Twenty Five Years of Teaberry Press, Samek Art Gallery, Lewisburg, PA (10/29 – 12/5/04)
2004 Twelve From Cheim & Read, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta (6/11 -7/12/04)
2004 Abstractions, Cook Fine Art, New York (3/15 – 4/24/04)
2004 Presence, Chelsea Art Museum, New York (2/5 – 3/27/04)
2004 New Additions: Prints For An American Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2/2 – 4/25/04)
2004 Contemporary Art And Furniture Design In Dialogue, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York (1/22 – 3/27/04)
2004 Piθce Unique, FIAC 2004, Paris, October 2004.
2003 The Invisible Thread: Buddhist Spirit in Contemporary Art Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Snug Harbor, New York (9/28 – 2/29/03)
2003 Breathless, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY (8/17/03 – 2/15/04)
2003 Roads Taken: 20th Century Prints and Drawings From The Collection, University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA (8/16 – 10/5/03)
2003 Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT (7/23 – 8/27/03)
2003 Simple Marks, Cheim & Read, New York (7/23 – 8/29/03)
2003 Larger Than Life, Woman Artists Making it Big, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA (06/13/03 – 08/31/03)
2003 Lewitt’s Lewitt’s, Collection of Carol and Sol Lewitt, New Britain
2003 Des Moines Art Center, December 2003.
Boise Art Museum, December 2003 – February 2004.
2003 Galleria Nationale Moderne Borghese, Rome, Italy (7/22 –10/12/03) (solo)
2003 Hand – painted Monotypes, Pace Prints Gallery, New York (9/20 10/20/03)
2003 Pat Steir: The Rhythm of Silence, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (10/22 – 11/29/03)
2003 Pat Steir: Waterfall Paintings, Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID (12/6/03 – 2/22/04)
2002 University Art Museum, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Fall 2002)
2002 Crown Point Press, San Francisco (9/13-11/2/02)
2002 Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO (11/02) (solo)
2002 Cheim & Read, New York (3 - 4/02) (solo)
2002 Zenroxy, Von Lintel Gallery, New York (12/26/02 - 2/1/03)
2002 Sky River Group, Kiang Gallery, Atlanta, GA (10/25 – 11/30/02)
2002 Wall Street Rising – Art Downtown, New York (6/14 – 9/15/02)
2002 Art Museum, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA (5 – 6/02) traveling to Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA (7 – 9/02)
2002 The Sea, the sea..., Glenn Horowitz Bookseller at Art Upstairs (with Graham Leader), East Hampton, NY, (5/25 - 6/24/02)
2002 New York Renaissance: Masterworks of the Whitney Collection, Palazzo Reale, Rome, Italy (3/20 – 9/15/02)
2002 Modernism & Abstraction: Treasures from the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum, National Academy Museum, New York (2/6 – 4/7/02)
2002 Looking East: Brice Marden, Michael Mazur, Pat Steir, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA (1/18 – 2/24/02
2001 Contemporary Arts Museum, Honolulu, HI (11/2001) (solo)
2001 Madison Art Center, Madison, WI (9/2001) (solo)
2001 Waterfall Des Reves, Piece Unique, Paris, France (6/2001) (solo)
2001 Sweet Suite, Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA (5/2001) (solo)
2001 Distant Horizon, Galleria Bonomo, Bari, Italy (4/01) (solo)
2001 Pat Steir: Recent Prints, Sherman Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA (3/1501 – 4/22/01) (solo)
2001 University Art Museum, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (solo)
2001 Some Paintings, Bill Jensen, Harriet Korman, Beatriz Milhazes, Stephen Mueller, Pat Steir, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX (6/29 – 8/11/01)
2001 Liquid Propeties, Cheim & Read, New York (7/6 - 8/3/01)
2001 The First 10 Years: Selected Works from the Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (4/10 – 9/23/01)
2001 Modernism & Abstraction: Treasures from the Smithsonian’s American Art
2000 Museum (1/7 – 3/5/00) Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME (8/1 – 10/15/00)
2000 Pat Steir and Betty Woodman: A Conversation, Art Resources Transfer (ART), New York (1/5 – 2/00)
2000 The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL The Whitney Museum of Art, 2nd Floor exhibition 12/6/00 The Permanent Collection
2000 Bill Jensen, Barry Le Va, Pat Steir: New York, Danese Gallery, New York
2000 Leigh and Mary Block Art Museum, Northwestern Univ, Chicago, IL (9/00) (solo)
2000 Lyman Allyn Museum of Art at Connecticut College, New London, CT (8/28 – 10/9/00) (solo)
2000 Des Moines Cultural Center, Des Moines, IA (6/3 – 8/6/00) (solo)
2000 Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH (3/30 – 4/30/00) (solo)
2000 Selby Gallery, Ringling School, Sarasota, FL (1/21 – 2/21/00) (solo)
2000 Chase Bank Installation, MA College of Art, Boston, MA (1 – 3/4/00) (solo)
2000 Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
2000 Norton Museum, Sarasota, FL (solo)
2000 United States Chancery, Moscow, Russia, Permanent installation of five panels in the Grand Entrance Embassy Suites Hotel, Battery Park City, New York, Permanent installation of two large scale wall drawings for the Public Art Fund (solo)
1999 Harley Baldwin, Aspen, CO (11/26/99 – 12/24/99) (solo)
1999 Marlborough Gallery, New York (11/12/99 – 1/1/00) (solo)
1999 Albright – Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (11/99 – 1/2/00) (solo)
1999 Piece Unique, Paris, France (9/15/99 – 12/15/99) (solo)
1999 Double – Sided Painting, Piece Unique, Paris, France (6/3/99 – 9/3/99) (solo)
1999 5 Easy Pieces, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC (2/21/99 – 4/18/99) (solo)
1999 Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY (solo)
1998 Island City, NY wall painting installation curated by Klaus Biesenbach (5 – 10/98) (solo)
1998 New Work Baumgartner Galleries, Washington, DC (5/98) (solo)
1998 Recent Paintings, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL (4/98) (solo)
1998 Likity Split, installation, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2/2/98 – 9/21/98) (solo)
1998 Ghost Moon, Mountain Water, PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY (solo)
1997 The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, 'Pat Steir: Waves and Waterfalls 1982-1992.'
1996 The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland, 'Pat Steir: Paintings 1985-1995.' (February 8, 1996 - April 10, 1996).
1994 'The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland, "From Beyond the Pale: Pat Steir: A Painting Project.' (September 24 - January 19, 1994).
1993 Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York, 'Pat Steir.' (June 19 - August 1, 1993).
1992 Centre National d'art Contemporain de Grenoble, France (June 6 - August 2, 1992).
1990 National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 'Conversations with Artists, V.'[Pat Steir with Kathan Brown] (March 25, 1990).
1990 USF Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, 'Paintings.' (October 16 - December 21, 1990).
1989 TransArt Exhibitions, Cologne, Germany, 'Pat Steir: Neue Wasserfallbilder.' (November 17, 1989 - January 10, 1990).
1988 - 1989 Cabinet des estampes, Musιe d'art et d'Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland, "Pat Steir Prints 1976 - 1988." (June 30 - September 18, 1988). Traveled to the Tate Gallery, London, England (November 14, 1988 - February 12, 1989); Victoria Miro Gallery, London, England, "Pat Steir." (opened November 16, 1989); Crown Point Press, San Francisco, California, "Pat Steir: Waterfall Monoprints." (November 18, 1988 - January 14, 1989); Crown Point Press, New York, New York (December 14, 1988 - January 14, 1989).
1987 - 1988 Centre d'art Contemporain Palais Wilson, Geneva, Switzerland (March 13, 1987 - April 23, 1987);Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, California (March 23 - July 12, 1987); Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, Iowa (July 21 - September 27, 1987); Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, The Netherlands (April 19 - June 12, 1988).
1987 - 1988 The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, 'Drawing Now: Pat Steir.' (December 15, 1987 - February 14, 1988).
1987 - 1988 Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland, 'Pat Steir: Paintings and Drawings.' (December 15, 1987 - January 24, 1988).
1987 Rijkmuseum Vincent Van Gogh, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 'Pat Steir: Paintings, 1981-84.' [Pat Steir: Schilderijn 1981-84] (June 21 - August 30, 1987).
1986 Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, 'Concentrations 14: Pat Steir.' (November 1, 1986 - January 4, 1987).
1986 Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii (March 26, 1986 - May 4, 1986)
1986 University Gallery of Fine Art, Columbus, Ohio (February 6, 1986 - February 25, 1986)
1985 Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska (August 3, 1985 - September 15, 1985)
1985 Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, 'New Drawings.'
1985 Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 'Pat Steir Prints / Printmaking.'
1985 University Art Museum, Berkeley, California (early November, 1985 - late December, 1985)
1984 - 1985 The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, "Pat Steir, The Breughel Series (A Vanitas Of Style)." (December 6, 1984 - February 18, 1985). Traveled to Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, Minnesota (April 5, 1985 - May 19, 1985)
1983 Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, 'Arbitrary Order: Paintings by Pat Steir.' (May 27 - July 17, 1983). Traveled to Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, Florida; The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio (February 2 - March, 1984)
1983 Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, 'Form Illusion Myth: 'The Prints and Drawings of Pat Steir.' (January 17 - February 27)
1979 Galerie Farideh Cadot, Paris, France.
1977 Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
1971 Graham Gallery, New York, New York
1969 Bienville Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
1964 Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, New York
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