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Jasper Johns Biography
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1947 - 1948 |
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Attended University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC
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1949 |
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Attended an Art School in New York, NY
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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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Recipient, The Carnegie Prize at the Biennial in Pittsburgh
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1967 |
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Recipient, Prize at the Biennial in São Paulo
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1988 |
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Recipient, 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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2010
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Strictly Death: Selected Works from the Richard Harris Collection - Slought Foundation, Philadelphia, PA
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2009
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Jasper Johns Prints: A Selection 1960-2007, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, NY (solo)
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2009
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Focus: Jasper Johns, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (solo)
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2009
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2009 Cézanne and Beyond, Philadelphia Museum of Art
Jasper Johns Prints: A Selection 1960-2007, Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York (solo)
Focus: Jasper Johns, The Museum of Modern Art, New York (solo)
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2008
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Jasper Johns: Black and White Prints, Bobbie Greenfield Gallery, Santa Monica (solo)
Jasper Johns: The Prints, The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison (solo)
Jasper Johns: Drawings 1997 – 2007, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (solo)
Jasper Johns: Gray, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (solo)
Modern and Contemporary Masterworks From the MFAH, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Texas
Pop Art Portraits, Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart
Contemporary Visions - A Focus on Jacksonville Collections, Museum of Contemporary Art Jacksonville, Jacksonville, FL
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2007
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The David Whitney Bequest, The Menil Collection, Houston, TX
Philip Guston/Jasper Johns, Leo Castelli, NY
Good Morning, Midnight, Casey Kaplan, NY
Paper, The Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, NY
Painting and Sculpture: Selections from the Collection, The Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, NY
InWords: The Art of Language, University Gallery, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware
Cosmologies, James Cohen Gallery, NY
Artistic Collaborations: 50 Years at Universal Limited Art Editions, Museum of Modern Art, NY
Jasper Johns: Gray, Art Institute of Chicago; Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (solo)
Jasper Johns-An Allegory of Painting, 1955-1965, National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; Kunstmuseum Basel, Switzerland (solo)
Pop Art is..., Gagosian gallery - Britannia Street, London, UK
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2006
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Jasper Johns: From Plate to Print, Yale University Art Gallery (solo)
Jasper Johns: Usuyuki, Craig F. Starr Associates, New York (solo)
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2005
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Jasper Johns: Catenary, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York (solo)
Jasper Johns: Prints, Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, Texas (solo)
Works on paper, Gagosian Gallery - Beverly Hills, Beverly Hills, CA
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2004
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Jasper Johns: Prints From The Low Road Studio, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York (solo)
Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, Das MoMA in Berlin
Stockholm, Moderna Museet, The Pontus Hultén Collection
Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Past Things and Present: Jasper Johns Since 1983 (solo)
Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum, Jasper Johns - Numbers (solo)
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2003
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Jasper Johns: Drawings, The Menil Collection, Houston, Texas (solo)
Jasper Johns: Numbers, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (solo
Past Things and Present: Jasper Johns since 1983, Walker Art Center Minneapolis; Greenville County Museum of Art, South Carolina; Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland; Institut Valencià d’Art Modern, Valencia, Spain; Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (solo)
Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, The Stage of Drawing: Gesture & Act
Miami, Miami Art Museum, American Tableaux
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)
Jasper Johns Buckminster Fuller, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany (solo)
Jasper Johns: Prints from Four Decades, National Gallery of Art, Washington DC; Terra Museum of American Art, Chicago; Musée d'art americain, Giverny (solo)
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1999
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San Francisco, Museum of Modern Art (solo)
Philadelphia, Museum of Art (solo)
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1997
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Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Werke aus dem Besitz des Künstlers (solo)
Cologne, Museum Ludwig (solo)
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1996
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New York, Museum of Modern Art (solo)
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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| Selected Public Collections |
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The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY
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MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA
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Los Angeles County Museum of Art - LACMA, Los Angeles, CA
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Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
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MAMAC - Musee d´Art Moderne et d`Art Contemporain Nice, Nice
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Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, BC
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| Links to further information |
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