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Martin Puryear Biography
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1963 |
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Education: Bachelor of Arts, Art Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.
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1966 - 1968 |
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Education Swedish Royal Academy of Art, Stockholm, Sweden
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1969 - 1971 |
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Education: Master of Fine Arts, Sculpture Yale University, School of Art & Architecture, New Haven, CT
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1989 |
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Grand Prize 1989 Sao Paulo Bienal, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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1992 - 1996 |
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Worked at Calder Atelier Sache, France
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Special Project Belvedere Park, Battery Park City, NY
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Elected to Amer. Acad. & Inst. of Arts & Letters
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College Art Association Award
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Honorary Degree Yale University, New Haven, CT
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Professor, Department of Art University of Illinois, Chicago, IL
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2007
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Martin Puryear: Sculpture Retrospective, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
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2004
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Gyroscope series, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
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2004
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Discussion, Meet the Artist, “Martin Puryear,” inaugurating the 30th anniversary Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C.,
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2003 - 2004
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Installed Public Art at the Mori Arts Center, Roppongi Hills in conjunction with Happiness: A Suvival Guide for Art and Life (Harmony), The Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
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2003
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Art:21 Art in the Twenty-First Century, Time, (Emmy-Nominated Series), Season Two, PBS, 9:00pmSeptember 15, 2003. www.pbs.org/art21, interview of Martin Puryear
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2002
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Guardian, stone, Mori Art Museum, Roppongi Hills, Tokyo, Japan, commission for TV Asahi
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1999 - 2000
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That Profile, steel, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
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1999
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This Mortal Coil, Eglise Salpetrière, Festival d’Automne, Paris, France. (Temporary)
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1997
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Bearing Witness, Reagan Building, Federal Triangle, Washington, D.C.,
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1997
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Courtyard for the New School for Social Research, New York
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1996
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Meditation in a Beech Wood, Stiftelsen Wanas Utstalliningar, Wanas Foundation, Knislinge, Sweden
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1994
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"Putting Things Together: Recent Sculpture from the Anderson Collection", The Art Museum of Santa Cruz County Santa Cruz, CA
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1994
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Donald Young Gallery Seattle, WA
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1994
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"Western Artists/African Art", The Museum for African Art NYC
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1994
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"Landscape as Metaphor: Visions of America in the Late 20th Century", Denver Art Museum; Columbus Museum Denver, CO; Columbus, OH
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1993 - 1994
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"Visual Arts Encounter: African-Americans and Europe", Salle Clemenceau, Palais du Luxembourg Paris, France
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1993 - 1994
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"Martin Puryear", Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art Cleveland, OH
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1993
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"Collective Pursuits: Mt. Holyoke Investigates Modernism", Mt. Holyoke College Art Museum South Hadley, MA
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1993
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"Yale Collects Yale", New Haven, CT
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1993
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"American Art in the 20th Century: Painting & Sculpture", Martin Gropius Bau; Royal Academy of Art Berlin, Germany; London, England
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1993
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"Drawing the Line Against AIDS", 45th Venice Biennale, Peggy Guggenheim Collection Venice, Italy
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1992
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"Allegories of Modernism: Contemporary Drawing", The Museum of Modern Art NYC
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1991 - 1992
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"Martin Puryear", Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL & travelling
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1990
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"Connections: Martin Puryear", Museum of Fine Arts Boston, MA
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1989
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Margo Leavin Gallery Los Angeles, CA
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1989
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The 20th International Sao Paulo Bienal, Sao Paulo, Brazil
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1988
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"New Wall Sculpture", McIntosh/Drysdale Gallery Washington, D.C.
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1987
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David McKee Gallery NYC
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1987
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Donald Young Gallery Chicago, IL
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1987
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"Martin Puryear: Public and Personal", The Chicago Public Library Chicago, IL
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