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Agnes Martin Biography
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1912 |
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Born in Macklin, Saskatchewan, Canada
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1932 |
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Moved to Bellingham, WA
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1942 |
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B.S. Columbia University, New York, NY
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1952 |
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M.A. Columbia University, New York, NY
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1989 |
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Elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
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1997 |
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Recipient, Golden Lion for Contribution to Contemporary Art at the Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
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1998 |
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Recipient, National Medal of Arts awarded by President Bill Clinton and the National Endowment for the Arts
Recipient, Distinguished Artist Award for Lifetime Achievement by the College Art Association
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2010
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Agnes Martin, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, England (solo)
Agnes Martin: Works on Paper, The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland (solo)
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2009
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Artist Rooms: Agnes Martin, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland (solo)
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2008
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Agnes Martin: Works on Paper, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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2007
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Agnes Martin: Homage to [a] Life, Dia: Beacon, Beacon, NY (solo)
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2006
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A Field of Vision: Paintings from the 1980s, Dia: Beacon, Beacon, NY (solo)
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2005
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To the Islands: Agnes Martin's Paintings 1974-79, Dia: Beacon, Beacon, NY (solo)
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2004
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Agnes Martin: The Islands, University of Michigran Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI (solo)
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2003
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Agnes Martin: Five Decades, Zwirner & Wirth, New York City, NY (solo)
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2002
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Agnes Martin: The Nineties and Beyond, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX (solo)
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2000
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Lovely Life: The Recent Work of Agnes Martin, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY (solo)
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1992
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Agnes Martin, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (solo)
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1991
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Agnes Martin: Paintings and Drawings 1974-1990, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (solo)
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1973
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Agnes Martin, Institute of Contemporary Art at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (solo)
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1958
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Agnes Martin, Section Eleven, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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| Selected Public Collections |
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Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
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Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
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The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, TX
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The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
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Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
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Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA
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Dia Art Foundation, New York, NY
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High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
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Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
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Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
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Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
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The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
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The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
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Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
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Tate Gallery, London, England
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Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
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The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
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National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
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The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
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Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
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| Literature |
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2000
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Glimcher, Arne. Agnes Martin: Paintings and Writings. New York: Pace Wildenstein, 2000
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1992
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Chave, Anna, Barbara Haskell, and Rosalind Krauss. Agnes Martin. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1992
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1991
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Schwarz, Dieter. Agnes Martin: Writings–Schriften. Winterthur: Kunstmuseum Winterthur, 1991
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1977
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Ashton, Dore. Agnes Martin: Paintings and Drawings, 1957–1975. London: Arts Council of Great Britain, 1977
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1973
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Alloway, Lawrence. Agnes Martin. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania, 1973
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