Studies at the Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland
1965
Grand Prix of Săo Paolo Biennale, Săo Paolo, Brazil
1979
Gottfried bon Herder Prize, Vienna, Austria
1982
Alfred Jurzykowski Prize, New York
1993
Award for Distinction in Sculpture, granted by the Sculpture Center, New York, New York
1997
Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts, Mexico
1998
Commander Cross, Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta
1999
Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Paris, France
2000
Visionaries Award granted by the American Craft Museum, New York, New York
2000
Honorary Doctor of Fine Arts degree, Pratt Institute, New York, New York
2004
Awarded the Commandeur de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, 2004
2005
Recipient of the Lifetime Achievement Award bestowed by the International Sculpture Center in New York
2005
Award granted by the Polish Ministry of Culture
2005
Lifetime Achievement Award bestowed by the International Sculpture Center in New York
Collections: The Art Institute of Chicago; Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; Detroit Institute of Arts; Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.; Los Angeles County Museum; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City
Exhibitions
2009
Kulturzentrum Englische Kirche, Bad Homburg, Germany
2009
Galerie Scheffel, Bad Homburg, Germany (solo)
2008
Magdalena Abakanowicz, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain (forthcoming) (solo)
2007
Magdalena Abakanowicz, Taguchi Fine Art, Ltd. Tokyo, Japan, November 1 – December 22 (solo)
2007
Magdalena Abakanowicz: Sculptures et Dessins, Marlborough Monaco, Monte-Carlo, Monaco, October 5 – November 24. (solo)
2007
Wit and Whimsy, Marlborough Gallery, New York, March 6 – 31, 2007.
2007
Wack ! Art and the Feminist Revolution, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California, March 4 – July 16, 2007
2006
Sculpture, Marlborough Gallery, New York
2005
Salamanca ciudad de la escultura, Salamanca, Spain, May 13 - August 28
2005
Space to Experience: The Sculpture of Magdalena Abakanowicz, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida (solo)
2005
La Foule V, Galerie Saint-Séverin, Paris, France (solo)
2005
Works on Paper, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York (solo)
2004 - 2005
Magdalena Abakanowicz: Backward Seated Figures, Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, New York (solo)
2004
Mutation and Crystallization, Pei Ling Chan Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, Georgia (solo)
2004
Monocromos de Malevich al presente. Museo Nacioal Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
2003
Skin: Contemporary Views of the Body, Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art, Jacksonville, Florida
2003
Dancing Figures, Marlborough Fine Art, London, England (solo)
2002
Museum Narodowe, Poznan, Poland (solo)
2002
La Parade des Animaux, Festival International de Sculpture de Monte-Carlo, Monte-Carlo, Monaco
2001
In Between - Art from Poland, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, Illinois
2001
Space to Experience, Three Rivers Arts Festival, Point State Park, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (solo)
2000
Working Process, Guiliano Gori Collection, Spazi d’Arte, Santomato di Pistoia, Italy (solo)
2000
L’Homme qui Marche, Les Jardins du Palais Royale, Paris, France
1999
To the Rescue, Eight Artists in an Archive, American Jewish Joint Distribution Committee, New York, New York
1999
Abakanowicz on the Roof, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York (solo)
1998
Starmach Gallery, Kraków, Poland (solo)
1997
Summer 1997 Exhibition, Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, New Jersey
1996
Les Champs de la Sculpture, Paris, France
1996
Oeuvres récentes, Galerie Marwan Hoss, Paris, France (solo)
1995
Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy After Auschwitz, Royal Festival Hall, London, England
1995
Els Jardins de Can Altamira, Barcelona, Spain (solo)
1994
Galeria Kordegarda, Warsaw, Poland; traveled to Muzeum Sztuki, Lódz, Poland (solo)
1994
Europa, Europa, Kunsthalle, Bonn, Germany
1993
The Fujisankei Biennale, International Exhibition for Contemporary Sculpture, Japan
1993
Biuro Wystaw Artystycznych, Krakow, Poland (solo)
1992
…Reperti…Environment through the Eyes of 18 of the Worlds Major Artists, Museo Nacional de Belas Artes, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
1991
Retrospective exhibition, Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
1988
Olympiad of Art, Olympic Sculpture Park, Seoul, South Korea
