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Ross Bleckner Biography
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1949 |
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Born in New York, NY
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B.A., New York University, New York, NY
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1973 |
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M.F.A., California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA
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Lives and works in New York
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2008
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Genesis - Die Kunst der Schopfung, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern
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2008
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Empires and Environments, The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA
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2008
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East Coast Perspectives, Imago Galleries
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2007
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Black and White and Red - All Over, Michele Mosko Fine Art, Denver, CO
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2007
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All the More Real: Portrayals of Intimacy and Empathy, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
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2007
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Timer 01, Triennale Bovisa, Milan
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2007
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Speed #1 - natura naturata - velocidad sin movimiento, IVAM - Institut Valencia d'Art Modern, Valencia
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2006
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Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki
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2006
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I Love My Scene 3, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
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2005
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East Village USA, New Museum of Contemporary Art
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2005
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Galerie Ruzicska, Salzburg, Austria
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2004
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Perspectives at 25, Contemporary Arts Museum. Houston
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2004
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Dialogue with Space, Esbjerg Art Museum, Denmark
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2004
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Flowers, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
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2004
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Flowers Observed, Flowers Transformed, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
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2003
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Mary Boone Gallery, New York
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2003
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Lehmann Maupin, New York
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2003
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Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, Colorado
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2003
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New Abstract Painting Painting Abstract Now, Museum Morsbroich Leverkusen
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2002
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Studio d'Arte Raffaelli, Trento
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2002
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Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm
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2002
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Alain Noirhomme Gallery, Brussels
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2002
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Guild Hall Collects: Artists of Hampton Bohemia, Guild Hall Museum, New York
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2002
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Skin to Bones. Painting Since 1970, Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University, Waltham
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2002
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Mary Boone Gallery, New York
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2002
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Self and Soul: The Architecture of Intimacy, Asheville Art Museum, North Carolina, USA
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2002
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Church of San Giorgio in Poggiale, Bologna, Italy
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2001
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Operativo, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Mexico City
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2001
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Wilma Tolksdorf Gallery, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
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2001
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Galleria in Arco, Turin, Italy and Galleria Raffaelli, Trento, Italy
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2001
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Mary Boone Gallery, New York
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2001
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Absolut Modern, Modern Art Museum Fort Worth
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2001
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Mythic Proportions. Painting in the 1980s, Museum of Contemporary Art Miami
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2001
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Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons. Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
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2001
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Roundup, El Paso Museum of Art
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2000
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Art at Work. Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection, Queens Museum of Art New York
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2000
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In the Power of Painting, Moderna Museet, Stockholm / Alesco, Zurich (cat.)
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2000
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On Canvas. Contemporary Painting, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
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2000
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Vaknin Schwartz Gallery, Atlanta
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2000
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Victoria Miro gallery, England
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2000
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Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta
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2000
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Rebecca Camhi Gallery, Athens, Greece
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2000
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Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland
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2000
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Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston
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2000
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Lococo Mulder Fine Art, Germany
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2000
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Wetterling Teo, Singapore
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2000
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Works in Light, Galerie Beyler, Germany
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2000
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Drawings 2000, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
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1999
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Martin Browne Fine Art Sydney (cat.)
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1999
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The Storytellers, Itochu Gallery, Japan
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1999
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Botanica: Contemporary Art and the World of Plants, Tweed Museum of Art, University of Duluth Duluth, ME
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1999
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Emiliomazzoli, Galleria d'Arte Contemporanea Modena, Italy
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1999
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Welterling Gallery Kungstradgarden 3, Stockholm, Belgium
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1998
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Lehmann Maupin New York, NY
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1998
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Mary Boone Gallery New York, NY
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1998
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Glenn Horowitz Bookseller East Hampton, NY
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1998
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Ross Bleckner: The Last Decade, Patrick Painter Santa Monica, CA
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1998
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Galerie Aglutinador Havana, Cuba
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1998
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Puntos Cardinales, Museo Alejandro Otero Caracas, Venezuela
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1998
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Paper Thin, Stephen Wirtz Gallery San Francisco, CA
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1998
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Julie M. Gallery Tel Aviv
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1997
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A Reversal of Scale, Turner & Runyon Gallery Dallas, TX
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1997
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Ross Bleckner, Mark Francis, Leigh Martin, Mervyn Williams, GOW Langsford Auckland, New Zealand
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1997
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Intimate Universe (Revisited), Robert Steele Gallery New York, NY
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1997
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Identity Crisis: Self-Portraiture at the End of the Century, Milwaukee Art Museum Milwaukee, WI
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1997
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Table Tops: Morandi's Still Life's to Mapplethorpe's Flower Studies, California Center for the Arts Museum Escondido, CA
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1997
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Birth of the Cool: American Painting, Kunsthaus Zürich Zürich, Germany
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1997
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After the Fall: Aspects of Abstract Painting since 1970, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art Snug Harbor, Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY
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1997
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Bawag Foundation Vienna, Austria
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1997
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Galerie Larsen Stockholm, Belgium
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1997
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Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot Paris, France
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1997
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Galerie Daniel Templon Paris, France
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1997
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Robert McClain & Company Houston, TX
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1997
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Galleri Larsen Stockholm, Belgium
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1997
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Turner & Runyon Gallery Dallas, TX
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1996
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Galleria S.A.L.E.S. Rome, Italy
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1996
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Larry Gagosian Gallery Beverly Hills, CA
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1996
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Galerie Kyoko Chirathivar Bangkok, Thailand
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1996
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Baldwin Gallery Aspen, CO
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1996
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Blind Spot: The First Four Years, Paolo Baldacci Gallery New York, NY
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1996
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The Modern Landscape, Queens Library Gallery Jamaica, NY
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1996
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Nuevas Abstracciones, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
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1996
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On Paper II, Schmidt Contemporary Art Saint Louis, MO
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1996
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Painting-Singular Object, The National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto, Japan
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1996
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Mary Boone Gallery New York, NY
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1995
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University Art Gallery University of CA, San Diego, La Jolla, CA
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1995
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Rebecca Camhi Gallery Athens
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1995
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Off Shore Gallery East Hampton, NY
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1995
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I.V.A.M., Centre Julio Gonzalez Valencia, CA
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1995
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Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst Oslo, Norway
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1995
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York, NY
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1995
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Mario Diacono Gallery Boston, MA
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1995
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Barbara Davis Gallery Houston, TX
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1995
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Passions Privees, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris Paris, France
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1995
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Ross Bleckner, Peter Cain, Judith Eisler, Jack Pierson, Juan Usle, Christopher Wool, Galleri K Oslo, Norway
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1995
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American Interiors, Knoedler & Company New York, NY
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1995
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New York Abstract, Contemporary Arts Center New Orleans, LA
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1995
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Making a Mark: Drawings of the 1980s, The Bruce Museum Greenwich, CT
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1995
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Critiques of Pure Abstraction, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery University of Houston, Houston, TX
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1995
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In a Different Light, University Art Museum, University of California Berkeley, CA
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1994
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Painting, Nina Freudenheim Gallery Buffalo, NY
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1994
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Desire, Charles Cowles Gallery New York, NY
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1994
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Abstract Works on Paper, Robert Miller Gallery New York, NY
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1994
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Painting and Sculpture: recent Aquisitions, The Museum of Modern Art New York, NY
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1994
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30 Years-Art in the Present Tense, The Aldrich Museum of Modern Art New York, NY
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1994
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Inaugural Group Show, Off Shore Gallery East Hampton, NY
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1994
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Absence, Activism and the Body Politic, Fishbach Gallery New York, NY
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1994
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Against All Odds: The Healing Powers of Art, The Ueno Royal Museum Tokyo, Japan
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1994
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The Inward Eye: Ross Bleckner, Richmond Burton, Julian Lethbridge, Laura Carpenter Fine Art Santa Fe, NM
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1994
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Isn't It Romantic?, On Crosby Street New York, NY
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1994
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From Media to Metaphor: Art About AIDS, Grey Art Gallery, New York University New York, NY
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1994
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New York on Paper, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Paris, France
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1994
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Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot Paris, France
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1994
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Mary Boone Gallery New York, NY
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1994
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Turner & Byrne Gallery Dallas, TX
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1994
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Galeria Soledad Lorenzo Madrid, Spain
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1993
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Kohn Abrams Gallery Los Angeles, CA
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1993
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Guild Hall Museum East Hampton, NY
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1993
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Galerie Max Hetzler Köln, Germany
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1993
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Galerie 56 Budapest, Hungary
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1993
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Baumgartner Galleries Washington, D.C.
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1993
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Jason Rubell Gallery Miami Beach, FL
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1993
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New York on Paper, Galerie Ernst Beyeler Basel, Switzerland
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1993
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Italy-America Abstraction Redefined, Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna San Marino, Italy
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1993
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Extravagant: The Economy of Elegance, Tony Shafrazi Gallery New York, NY
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1993
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I am the Enunciator, Thread Waxing Space New York, NY
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1993
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Intimate Universe, Nina Freudenheim Gallery New York, NY
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1992
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Intimate Universe, Michael Walls Gallery New York, NY
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1992
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Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot Paris, France
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1992
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Transmodern, Baumgartner Galleries Washington, D.C.
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1992
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Slow Art: Painting in New York Now, P.S. 1 Museum Long Island City, NY
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1992
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Then and Now, Phillippe Staib Gallery New York, NY
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1992
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Contemporary Masterworks, Feigen Gallery Chicago, IL
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1992
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Theoretically Yours, Chiesa di San Lorenzo di Aosta Italy
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1992
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Recent Abstract Painting, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art Cleveland, OH
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1992
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A Passion for Art: Watercolors and Works on Paper, Tony Shafrazi Gallery New York, NY
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1992
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Easel Painting, Perry Rubenstein Gallery New York, NY
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1992
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The City Influence: Ross Bleckner, Peter Halley, Jonathan Lasker, Museum of Contemporary Art Wright State University, Dayton, OH
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1992
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Devils on the Stairs: Looking Back on the Eighties, Newport Harbor Art Museum Newport Beach, CA
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1992
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Galerie Samia Saouma Paris, France
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1991
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Devils on the Stairs: Looking Back on the Eighties, Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, PA
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1991
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The New Abstraction, Sidney Janis Gallery New York, NY
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1991
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Outrageous Desire, Rutgers University Rutgers, NJ
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1991
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Anni 80: Aristi a New York, Palazzo delle Albere Trento, Italy
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1991
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La Metafiscia della Luce, John Good Gallery New York, NY
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1991
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From Media to Metaphore: Art About AIDS, Independent Curators Incorporated New York, NY
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1991
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Nayland Blake, Ross Bleckner, Donald Moffatt, Simon Watson Gallery New York, NY
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1991
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Metropolis, Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin, Germany
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1991
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Mitto y Magia en America: Los Ochenta, Museo de arte contemporaneo de Monterrey Monterrey, Mexico
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1991
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Who Framed Modern Art or the Quantitative Life of Roger Rabbit, Sidney Janis Gallery New York, NY
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1991
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Weitersehen, Museum Haus Esters and Museum Haus Lange Krefeld, Germany
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1991
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Inconsolable, Louver Gallery New York, NY
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1991
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The Last Decade: American Artists of the 80s, Tony Shafrazi Gallery New York, NY
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1991
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Token Gestures (A Painting Show), Scott Hanson Gallery New York, NY
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1991
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10 + 10: Contemporary Soviet and American Painters, Tsentralnyi Zystavochnyi Zal Leningrad, USSR
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1991
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Jason Rubell Gallery Palm Beach, FL
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1991
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Fred Hoffman Gallery Santa Monica, CA
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1991
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Mary Boone Gallery New York, NY
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1991
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Moderna Museet Stockholm, Belgium
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1990
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Kölnischer Kunstverein Köln, Germany
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1990
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Kunsthalle Zürich Zürich, Switzerland
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1990
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Heland Wetterling Gallery Stockholm, Belgium
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1990
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Galeria Soledad Lorenzo Madrid, Spain
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1990
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Art Gallery of Ontario Toronto, Canada
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1990
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10 + 10. Contemporary Soviet and American Painters, Milwaukee Art Museum
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1989
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The Silent Baroque, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac Salzburg, Austria
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1989
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Re-presenting the 80s, Simon Watson Gallery New York, NY
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1989
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Viennese divan: Sigmund Freud Nowadays, Museum of the 20th Century Vienna, Austria
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1989
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Prospect 89, Frankfurt Kunstverein and Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt, Germany
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1989
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1989 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY
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1989
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Pre-Pop Post-Appropriation, Stux Gallery New York, NY
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1989
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Epiphanies, Edward Thorp Gallery New York, NY
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1989
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Akira Ikeda Gallery Nagoya, Japan
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1989
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Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburgh, PA
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1989
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Contemporary Art Museum Houston, TX
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1989
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Milwaukee Art Museum Milwaukee, WI
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1989
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Mario Diacono Gallery Boston, MA
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1989
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Galerie Max Hetler Köln, Germany
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1988
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Mary Boone Gallery New York, NY
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1988
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San Francisco Museum of Modern Art San Francisco, CA
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1988
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Waddington Galleries London, England
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1988
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Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburg, PA
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1988
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Hybrid Neutral: Modes of Abstraction and the Social, Independent Curators Incorporated New York, NY
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1988
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The Binational/Die Binationale, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Germany
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1988
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The Image of Abstraction, The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, CA
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1988
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Biennial of Sydney, Biennial of Sydney Sydney, Australia
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1988
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Art at the End of the Social, The Rooseum Malmö (cat.)
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1987
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Fall Invitational, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art Ridgefield, CT
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1987
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Armitage Ballet Benefit, Mary Boone Gallery New York, NY
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1987
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Ronald Greenburg Gallery Saint Louis, MO
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1987
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The Ironic Sublime, Galerie Albrecht Munich, Germany
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1987
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Post-Abstract Abstraction, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art Ridgefield, CT
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1987
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Awards in the Visual Arts 6, Grey Art Gallery New York, NY
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1987
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1987 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY
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1987
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Still Life, Beyond Tradition, Visual Arts Museum New York, NY
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1987
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Atelier Conversations, John Good Gallery New York, NY
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1987
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The Antique Future, Massimo Audiello Gallery New York, NY
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1987
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Margo Leavin Gallery Los Angeles, CA
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1987
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Mary Boone Gallery New York, NY
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1986
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Mary Boone Gallery New York, NY
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1986
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Mary Boone Gallery New York, NY
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1986
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Mario Diacono Gallery Boston, MA
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1986
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Intuitive Line, Hirschl & Adler Modern New York, NY
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1986
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Landscapes, Luhring, Augustine and Hodes Gallery New York, NY
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1986
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Emerging Artists 1986, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art Cleveland, OH
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1986
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End Game: Reference and Simulation in Recent American Painting and Sculpture, Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, MA
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1986
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Paravision II, Margo Leavin Gallery Los Angles, CA
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1985
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Cult and Decorum, Tibor de Nagy Gallery New York, NY
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1985
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Vernacular Abstraction, Wacoal Art Center Tokyo, Japan
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1985
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Paravision, Postmasters Gallery New York, NY
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1985
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Final Love, Cash/Newhouse New York, NY
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1985
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Boston Museum School Boston, MA
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1985
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From Organism to Architecture, New York Studio School New York, NY
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1985
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Abstract Painting Redefined, Louis K. Meisel Gallery New York, NY
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1985
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Group Drawing Show, New York Studio School New York, NY
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1984
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Still Life with Transaction II: Former Objects, New Moral Arrangements, and the History of Surfaces, Galerie Jurka Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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1984
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Sex, Cable Gallery New York, NY
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1984
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Natural Genre, Florida State University Gallery and Museum Tallahassee, FL
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1984
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Personal Views, Janus Gallery Los Angeles, CA
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1984
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The Innovative Landscape, Holly Solomon Gallery New York, NY
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1984
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Still Life with Transaction: Former Objects, New Moral Arrangements, and the History of Surfaces, International with Monument Gallery New York, NY
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1984
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Civilization and the Landscape of Discontent, Nature Morte Gallery New York, NY
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1984
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The Meditative Surface, The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago Chicago, IL
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1984
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Newscapes-Land and City/States of Mind, One Penn Plaza New York, NY
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1984
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Modern Expressionists, Sidney Janis Gallery New York, NY
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1984
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Mary Boone Gallery New York, NY
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1984
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Nature Morte Gallery New York, NY
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1983
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Mary Boone Gallery New York, NY
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1983
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Science Fiction, John Weber Gallery New York, NY
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1983
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Mary Boone and Her Artists, Seibu Gallery Tokyo, Japan
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1983
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Contemporary Light, Katherine Markel Gallery New York, NY
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1983
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Selected Drawings, Jersey City Museum Jersey City, NJ
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1983
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Drawing It Out, Baskerville + Watson Gallery New York, NY
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1982
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Mary Boone Gallery New York, NY
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1982
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Portico Row Gallery Philadelphia, PA
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1982
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Patrick Verelist Galerie Antwerpen, Belgium
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1981
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New York in Black and White, The Museum of Modern Art/Penthouse New York, NY
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1981
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Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, California Institute of the Arts Valencia, CA
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1981
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Mary Boone Gallery New York, NY
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1980
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Mary Boone Gallery New York, NY
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1980
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Mary Boone Gallery New York, NY
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1980
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Nouva Immagine, Milan, Italy
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1979
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Four Artists, Hallwalls Buffalo, NY
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1979
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Mary Boone Gallery New York, NY
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1979
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New Painting/New York, Hayward Gallery London, England
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1979
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Mary Boone Gallery New York, NY
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1978
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University Gallery of Fine Arts Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
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1977
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Cunningham Ward Gallery New York, NY
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1976
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John Doyle Gallery Chicago, IL
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1976
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New Work/New York, Fine Arts Gallery California State University, Los Angeles, CA
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1976
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Recent Work, The Johnson Gallery Middlebury College, Middlebury, VT
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1975
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Selected Works: New York, Meadow Brook Art Gallery Oakland University, Rochester, MI
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1975
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John Doyle Gallery Chicago, IL
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1975
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Paula Cooper Gallery New York, NY
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1975
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Contemporary Reflections, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art Ridgefield, CT
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1975
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1975 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art New York, NY
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1975
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Cunningham Ward Gallery New York, NY
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1986
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Bleckner, Ross. “Failure, Theft, Love, Plague, Phillip Taaffe.” Pat Hearn Gallery, New York.
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