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Al Held Biography
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1928 |
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Born: in New York, NY
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1947 |
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Studied at the Art Students League, New York, NY
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1949 |
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Studied at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, Paris, France
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1962 |
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Associate Professor at Yale University, New Haven, CT
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2005 |
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Died: in Camareta, Italy
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| Selected Exhibitions |
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2010
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Al Held: Selected Works, Marianne Friedland Gallery, Naples, FL (solo)
Big is Better, Wright Exhibition Space, Seattle, WA (solo)
Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art Since the 1960s , San Antonio Museum of Art, TX (solo)
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2008 - 2009
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Al Held: Paintings 1979-1985, Paul Kasim Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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2006
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In memory of Al Held, Galerie Renée Ziegler, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
Berlin-Tokyo/Tokyo-Berlin. Die Kunst zweier Städte, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
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2005
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Outside Europe: Aus der Sammlung Daimler Chrysler, DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
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2004
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Kleinformate und Originalgraphik, Galerie Renée Ziegler, Zurich, Switzerland
Minimalism and After III: Neuerwerbungen / New Aquisitions, DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Under $2,000 Albers < Zaugg, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York, NY
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2003
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Painting Explosion: 1958-1963, Part I, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
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2002
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Al Held & George Sugarman: The Early Sixties, Joan T. Washburn Gallery, New York, NY
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2001
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Au rendez-vous des amis (La ligne seule) 2, Musée d´art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
A defining generation. Then and Now. 1961 and 2001, The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA
Early Modern Art, The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA
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1999
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Alchemies of the Sixties. From the Rose Art Museum Permanent Collection, The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA
Abstractions Americaines 1940-1960, Musee Fabre, Montpellier, France
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1998
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Al Held Unfolding, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1997
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Abstract Expressionism in the United States, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City, Mexico
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1996
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Thinking Print: Books to Billboards, 1980-1995, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
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1992
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Contemporary American Painting & Sculpture, American Embassy, Tel Aviv, Israel
Al Held & Milton Resnick 1955-1965, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles, LA
Selected American Drawings, G.W. Einstein Company Inc. New York, NY
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1991
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Geometries of Color: American Post-Painterly, Stux Modern, New York, NY
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1990
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The Humanist Icon, The New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
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1990
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Arbeiten von 1989, Acryl auf Leinwand, Tempera auf Papier, Galerie Renée Ziegler, Zurich, Switzerland
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1989
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Art in Place: Fifteen Years of Acquisitions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
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1988
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Sightings, Instituto de Estudios Norteamericanos, Barcelona, Spain
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1987
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Zeichnungen, Galerie Renée Ziegler, Zurich, Switzerland
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1982
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1954-1959, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
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1978
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Paintings and Drawings, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
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1977
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Donald Morris Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Frühe Werke, Galerie Renée Ziegler, Zurich, Switzerland
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1974
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Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
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1970
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Bilder, Galerie Renée Ziegler, Zurich, Switzerland
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1968
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Recent Paintings, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philidelphia, PA
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1967
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Bilder, Galerie Renée Ziegler, Zurich, Switzerland
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1966
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Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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1964
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Bilder, Galerie Renée Ziegler, Zurich, Switzerland
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| Selected Public Collections |
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Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
Tate Gallery, London, UK
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| Links to further information |
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