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Pat Steir Biography
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1940 |
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Born Iris Patricia Sukoneck in Newark, New Jersey (April 10).
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1956 - 1958 |
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Studied graphic art at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York.
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1958 - 1960 |
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Studied at Boston University, Massachusetts.
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1962 |
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Received BFA from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, New York.
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1966 - 1970 |
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Art Director, Harper & Row Publishing Company, New York, New York.
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1970 - 1973 |
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Taught at Parsons School of Design, Princeton University, and Hunter College.
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1973 |
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Awarded N.E.A. Individual Artist grant.
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1974 |
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Received Individual Artist's Grant, National Endowment for the Arts
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1973 - 1975 |
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Lived in Los Angeles. Taught at California Institute of the Arts.
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1976 |
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Awarded N.E.A Grant for Art in Public Institutions.
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1975 - 1978 |
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Traveled in United States and Europe. Founding board member of Printed Matter bookshop, New York City, and Heresies magazine. Editorial Board of Semiotext.
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1981 |
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Awarded Guggenheim grant.
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1982 |
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Received Guggenheim Fellowship
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1991 |
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Received Honorary Doctorate of Fine Art from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York.
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1992 |
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Honored by the American Woman's Economic Development Corporation with their Salute to Women in the Business of Art, sponsored by Avon and ARTnews.
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2001 |
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Boston University School for the Arts Distinguished Alumni Award
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Lives and works in New York and Amsterdam.
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2009
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Paintings on Painting, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
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2008
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Pat Steir – Recent prints, Pace Prints, New York, NY (solo)
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2008
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Bentley Gallery, Scottsdale, AZ (2/1/08 – 2/29/08) (solo)
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2008
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Pat Steir: Prints and Paintings, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH (1/11/08 - 4/12/08) (solo)
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2008
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Expansion – Résonance, Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris (10/23 – 12/20/08)
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2008
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Pretty Ugly, Maccarone Gallery, New York, (7/10 - 9/1/08)
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2008
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Paintings' Edge, Parks Exhibition Center at Idyllwild Arts, Idyllwild, CA, (6/21 - 7/2/08)
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2007
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Cheim & Read, New York (11/9/07 – 12/22/07) (solo)
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2007
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Reykjavik Art Museum, Reykjavik, Iceland (2/10/07 – 4/29/07) (solo)
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2007
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Rosenbaum Contemporary, Boca Raton, FL (2/1/07 – 3/31/07) (solo)
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2007
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Audacity in Art: Selected Works from Central Florida Collections, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando (12/8/07 - 2/3/08)
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2007
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Solos: 20th Anniversary Exhibitions: Part Two, Ringling Museum of Art, Selby Gallery, Sarasota, FL (2/1 - 3/12/07)
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2006
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Pat Steir: Gravity and Levity, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO (6/30 – 7/24/06) (solo)
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2006
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Small Paintings from the Studio of Pat Steir, Kiang Gallery, Atlanta, GA (1/20 -2/25/06) (solo)
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2006
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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 Contemporáneo, 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)
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2006
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Women Only! In Their Studios, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, FL (7/29 – 10/15/06)
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2006
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Gray to Black, Danese Gallery, New York (7/17 - 8/25/06)
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2006
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The 181th Annual, National Academy, New York (5/11 – 6/18/06)
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2006
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At Home: Recent Acquisitions, Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison, WI (4/23 – 8/27/06)
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2006
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Twice Drawn, Tang Teaching Museum, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY (3/11/06 – 6/4/06)
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2006
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More And Less: Post-Minimal Prints and Drawings, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI (2/9 – 5/7/06)
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2006
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Moons and Mirages, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (solo)
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2005
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Pat Steir: New Paintings, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX (11/15 – 12/17/05) (solo)
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2005
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Pat Steir, Blue Moon, Paintings, Drawings, and Prints, Galleria (solo)
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2005
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Alessandro Bonomo, Rome, Italy (5/23/05 – 10/05) (solo)
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2005
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Cheim & Read, New York (3/31 – 5/7/05) (solo)
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2005
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Pat Steir: Drawings, Cook Fine Art, New York (3/7 – 5/11/05) (solo)
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2005
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Pace Prints Gallery, New York (3/10 – 4/9/05) (solo)
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2005
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25 years Baumgartner Gallery Part 2, Baumgartner Gallery, New York (9/9 - 10/12/05)
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2005
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BLOOMING: A Summer Garden for the Picking, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati (6/3 - 8/27/05)
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2005
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Paint, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, OR (5/05 – 7/2/05)
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2005
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Graphics by 20th Century Masters From the Cochran Collection, Huntington Museum of Art, Huntington, WV (2/19 – 4/10/05)
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2005
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Contemporary Woman Artists, University Art Gallery, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN (1 – 2/11/05)
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2004
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Intimate Collaboration: Twenty Five Years of Teaberry Press, Samek Art Gallery, Lewisburg, PA (10/29 – 12/5/04)
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2004
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Twelve From Cheim & Read, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta (6/11 -7/12/04)
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2004
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Abstractions, Cook Fine Art, New York (3/15 – 4/24/04)
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2004
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Presence, Chelsea Art Museum, New York (2/5 – 3/27/04)
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2004
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New Additions: Prints For An American Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2/2 – 4/25/04)
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2004
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Contemporary Art And Furniture Design In Dialogue, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York (1/22 – 3/27/04)
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2004
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Pièce Unique, FIAC 2004, Paris, October 2004.
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2003
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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)
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2003
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Breathless, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY (8/17/03 – 2/15/04)
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2003
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Roads Taken: 20th Century Prints and Drawings From The Collection, University of Virginia Art Museum, Charlottesville, VA (8/16 – 10/5/03)
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2003
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Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT (7/23 – 8/27/03)
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2003
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Simple Marks, Cheim & Read, New York (7/23 – 8/29/03)
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2003
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Larger Than Life, Woman Artists Making it Big, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA (06/13/03 – 08/31/03)
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2003
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Lewitt’s Lewitt’s, Collection of Carol and Sol Lewitt, New Britain
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2003
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Des Moines Art Center, December 2003.
Boise Art Museum, December 2003 – February 2004.
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2003
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Galleria Nationale Moderne Borghese, Rome, Italy (7/22 –10/12/03) (solo)
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2003
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Hand – painted Monotypes, Pace Prints Gallery, New York (9/20 10/20/03)
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2003
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Pat Steir: The Rhythm of Silence, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (10/22 – 11/29/03)
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2003
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Pat Steir: Waterfall Paintings, Boise Art Museum, Boise, ID (12/6/03 – 2/22/04)
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2002
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University Art Museum, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Fall 2002)
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2002
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Crown Point Press, San Francisco (9/13-11/2/02)
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2002
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Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO (11/02) (solo)
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2002
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Cheim & Read, New York (3 - 4/02) (solo)
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2002
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Zenroxy, Von Lintel Gallery, New York (12/26/02 - 2/1/03)
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2002
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Sky River Group, Kiang Gallery, Atlanta, GA (10/25 – 11/30/02)
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2002
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Wall Street Rising – Art Downtown, New York (6/14 – 9/15/02)
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2002
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Art Museum, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA (5 – 6/02) traveling to Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA (7 – 9/02)
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2002
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The Sea, the sea..., Glenn Horowitz Bookseller at Art Upstairs (with Graham Leader), East Hampton, NY, (5/25 - 6/24/02)
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2002
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New York Renaissance: Masterworks of the Whitney Collection, Palazzo Reale, Rome, Italy (3/20 – 9/15/02)
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2002
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Modernism & Abstraction: Treasures from the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum, National Academy Museum, New York (2/6 – 4/7/02)
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2002
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Looking East: Brice Marden, Michael Mazur, Pat Steir, Boston University Art Gallery, Boston, MA (1/18 – 2/24/02
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2001
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Contemporary Arts Museum, Honolulu, HI (11/2001) (solo)
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2001
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Madison Art Center, Madison, WI (9/2001) (solo)
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2001
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Waterfall Des Reves, Piece Unique, Paris, France (6/2001) (solo)
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2001
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Sweet Suite, Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA (5/2001) (solo)
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2001
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Distant Horizon, Galleria Bonomo, Bari, Italy (4/01) (solo)
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2001
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Pat Steir: Recent Prints, Sherman Gallery, Boston University, Boston, MA (3/1501 – 4/22/01) (solo)
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2001
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University Art Museum, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI (solo)
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2001
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Some Paintings, Bill Jensen, Harriet Korman, Beatriz Milhazes, Stephen Mueller, Pat Steir, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX (6/29 – 8/11/01)
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2001
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Liquid Propeties, Cheim & Read, New York (7/6 - 8/3/01)
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2001
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The First 10 Years: Selected Works from the Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland (4/10 – 9/23/01)
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2001
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Modernism & Abstraction: Treasures from the Smithsonian’s American Art
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2000
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Museum (1/7 – 3/5/00) Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME (8/1 – 10/15/00)
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2000
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Pat Steir and Betty Woodman: A Conversation, Art Resources Transfer (ART), New York (1/5 – 2/00)
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2000
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The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, FL The Whitney Museum of Art, 2nd Floor exhibition 12/6/00 The Permanent Collection
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2000
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Bill Jensen, Barry Le Va, Pat Steir: New York, Danese Gallery, New York
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2000
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Leigh and Mary Block Art Museum, Northwestern Univ, Chicago, IL (9/00) (solo)
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2000
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Lyman Allyn Museum of Art at Connecticut College, New London, CT (8/28 – 10/9/00) (solo)
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2000
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Des Moines Cultural Center, Des Moines, IA (6/3 – 8/6/00) (solo)
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2000
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Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH (3/30 – 4/30/00) (solo)
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2000
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Selby Gallery, Ringling School, Sarasota, FL (1/21 – 2/21/00) (solo)
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2000
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Chase Bank Installation, MA College of Art, Boston, MA (1 – 3/4/00) (solo)
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2000
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Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL (solo)
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2000
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Norton Museum, Sarasota, FL (solo)
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2000
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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)
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1999
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Harley Baldwin, Aspen, CO (11/26/99 – 12/24/99) (solo)
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1999
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Marlborough Gallery, New York (11/12/99 – 1/1/00) (solo)
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1999
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Albright – Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY (11/99 – 1/2/00) (solo)
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1999
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Piece Unique, Paris, France (9/15/99 – 12/15/99) (solo)
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1999
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Double – Sided Painting, Piece Unique, Paris, France (6/3/99 – 9/3/99) (solo)
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1999
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5 Easy Pieces, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC (2/21/99 – 4/18/99) (solo)
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1999
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Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY (solo)
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1998
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Island City, NY wall painting installation curated by Klaus Biesenbach (5 – 10/98) (solo)
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1998
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New Work Baumgartner Galleries, Washington, DC (5/98) (solo)
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1998
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Recent Paintings, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL (4/98) (solo)
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1998
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Likity Split, installation, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2/2/98 – 9/21/98) (solo)
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1998
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Ghost Moon, Mountain Water, PS 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY (solo)
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1997
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The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, 'Pat Steir: Waves and Waterfalls 1982-1992.'
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1996
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The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland, 'Pat Steir: Paintings 1985-1995.' (February 8, 1996 - April 10, 1996).
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1994
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'The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland, "From Beyond the Pale: Pat Steir: A Painting Project.' (September 24 - January 19, 1994).
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1993
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Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York, 'Pat Steir.' (June 19 - August 1, 1993).
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1992
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Centre National d'art Contemporain de Grenoble, France (June 6 - August 2, 1992).
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1990
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National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, 'Conversations with Artists, V.'[Pat Steir with Kathan Brown] (March 25, 1990).
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1990
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USF Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida, 'Paintings.' (October 16 - December 21, 1990).
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1989
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TransArt Exhibitions, Cologne, Germany, 'Pat Steir: Neue Wasserfallbilder.' (November 17, 1989 - January 10, 1990).
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1988 - 1989
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Cabinet des estampes, Musée 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).
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1987 - 1988
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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).
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1987 - 1988
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The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, 'Drawing Now: Pat Steir.' (December 15, 1987 - February 14, 1988).
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1987 - 1988
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Kunstmuseum, Bern, Switzerland, 'Pat Steir: Paintings and Drawings.' (December 15, 1987 - January 24, 1988).
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1987
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Rijkmuseum Vincent Van Gogh, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 'Pat Steir: Paintings, 1981-84.' [Pat Steir: Schilderijn 1981-84] (June 21 - August 30, 1987).
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1986
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Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas, 'Concentrations 14: Pat Steir.' (November 1, 1986 - January 4, 1987).
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1986
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Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii (March 26, 1986 - May 4, 1986)
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1986
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University Gallery of Fine Art, Columbus, Ohio (February 6, 1986 - February 25, 1986)
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1985
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Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska (August 3, 1985 - September 15, 1985)
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1985
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Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, Ohio, 'New Drawings.'
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1985
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Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 'Pat Steir Prints / Printmaking.'
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1985
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University Art Museum, Berkeley, California (early November, 1985 - late December, 1985)
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1984 - 1985
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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)
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1983
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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)
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1983
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Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas, 'Form Illusion Myth: 'The Prints and Drawings of Pat Steir.' (January 17 - February 27)
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1979
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Galerie Farideh Cadot, Paris, France.
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1977
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Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
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1971
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Graham Gallery, New York, New York
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1969
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Bienville Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
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1964
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Terry Dintenfass Gallery, New York, New York
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