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Jasper Johns Biography
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1930 |
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Born: Allendale, South Carolina
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1947 - 1948 |
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University of South Carolina, Columbia
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1949 |
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Attended an Art School in New York
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1954 |
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Met the artist Robert Rauschenberg, the composer John Cage and the modern dancer Merce Cunningham
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1954 |
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Began a series of paintings based on the American flag
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1956 |
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Had his first exhbition at the Leo Castelli Gallery
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1959 |
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The Carnegie Prize at the Biennial in Pittsburgh
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1967 |
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Prize at the Biennial in São Paulo
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1988 |
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Prize for Painting at the Venice Biennale
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1989 |
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Honorary member of the Royal Academy, London
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2008
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pop Art Portraits, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart
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2008
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Contemporary Visions - A Focus on Jacksonville Collections, Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL
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2007
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Black and Whtie and Read - All Over, Michele Mosko Fine Art, Denver, CO
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2007
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Pop Art is..., Gagosian gallery - Britannia Street, London (England)
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2006
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Extra-Ordinary - The Everyday Object in American Art, First Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN
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2005
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Quartet - Johns, Kelly, Mitchell, Motherwell, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
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2005
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Works on paper, Gagosian Gallery - Beverly Hills, Beverly Hills, CA
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2004
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Santa Fe, NM, SITE Santa Fe Biennial 2004
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2004
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London, British Museum, Matisse to Freud: A Critic´s Choice
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2004
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Vienna, Albertina, Pop Art & Minimalismus
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2004
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Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, Das MoMA in Berlin
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2004
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Stockholm, Moderna Museet, The Pontus Hultén Collection
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2004
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Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Past Things and Present: Jasper Johns Since 1983 (solo)
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2004
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Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum, Jasper Johns - Numbers (solo)
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2003
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Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, The Stage of Drawing: Gesture & Act
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2003
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Miami, Miami Art Museum, American Tableaux
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2003
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Bilbao, Guggenheim, Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons
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2002
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New York, Whitney Museum, de Kooning to Today
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2001
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New York, Leo Castelli Gallery (solo)
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2001
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Seattle, Seattle Art Museum (solo)
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1999
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San Francisco, Museum of Modern Art (solo)
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1999
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Philadelphia, Museum of Art (solo)
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1997
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Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Werke aus dem Besitz des Künstlers (solo)
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1997
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Cologne, Museum Ludwig (solo)
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1996
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New York, Museum of Modern Art (solo)
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1996
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New York, Whitney Museum of American Art (solo)
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1986
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Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle (solo)
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1976
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Krefeld, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum (solo)
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1972
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Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum (solo)
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1958
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New York, Leo Castelli Gallery (solo)
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