Knox Martin  (American, 1923) 

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Knox Martin Biography
1923   Born in Barranquilla, Colombia, South America
1950   The Art Students League of New York
1957 - 1958   Longview Fellowship (3 purchase awards),
1973   Artist Fellowship, Visual Arts Program, National Endowment for the Arts
1978   C.A.P.S. Grant
1988   Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
1991   Gottlieb Foundation Grant
2002   Named to the National Academy of Design
2005   Desser Award for Painting, National Academy of Design, New York
2007   Kept Memorial Prize, National Academy of Design, New York
2008   Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2008   Lifetime Achievement Award for Artistic Excellence, NOMAA, New York
2009   Mary & Maxwell Desser Memorial Award and J. Sanford Saltus Medal for Painting, National Academy of Design, New York
  www.knoxmartin.com
  Collections: Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York;Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois; Art Students League, New York;Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland; Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California; Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris; Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida; Brooklyn Museum, New York; The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado; Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, New York; Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.; Israel Museum, Jerusalem; Ithaca Museum, Ithaca, New York; Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, Texas; Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Florida; Montclair Art Museum, New Jersey; Museo de Prado, Barranquilla, Colombia; Museum of Modern Art, New York; National Academy of Design, New York; National Arts Club, New York; New York State Museum, New York; New York University Collection, New York; Oklahoma City Museum of Art, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon; Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, Loretto, Pennsylvania; Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, Missouri; Weatherspoon Art Museum, North Carolina; Wellesley College, Maryland; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; William Benton Museum of Art, Connecticut
Selected Exhibitions
2012   SHE, The Sam & Adele Golden Gallery, New Berlin, NY (solo)
2010   “Knox Martin - Woman: Black and White Paintings,” Woodward Gallery, New York (solo)
2010   “Will Barnet and the Art Students League,” Art Students League, New York. October
2009   184th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York
2009   Art Students League, New York
2008   Art Students League, New York
2008   NoMAA Visual Arts Exhibition, New York
2007   “Varia,” Janos Gat Gallery, New York
2007   Art Students League, New York
2007   ACA Galleries, New York
2007   Modernism Today, LAX, Los Angeles, California
2007   182nd Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York
2006   Art Students League, New York
2006   “Why the Nude? Contemporary Approaches,” Art Students League, New York
2006   “The Art Students League of New York: Highlights from the Permanent Collection” (Traveling Exhibition, through September 21, 2008)
2005   “Disegno,” National Academy of Design, New York
2005   Art Students League, New York
2004   Garden of Time (1963) in “The American Odyssey 1945/1980,” Spain and New York
2004   Salander-O’Reilly Galleries, New York
2004   Art Students League, New York
2004   “The Medium: Aspects of Collage,” Noel Fine Art, New York
2003   “Caprichos,” Janos Gat Gallery, New York (solo)
2001   “Black and White,” Janos Gat Gallery, New York (solo)
2000   “Directions” Fifth Anniversary Group Show Exhibition, Janos Gat Gallery, New York
1999   Orchard (1964) on display at the Denver Art Museum. LightHouse Museum, Tequesta, Florida. Janos Gat Gallery, New York (solo)
1999   “Knox Martin and Friends,” Rivington Gallery, London, England
1998   Woodward Gallery, New York
1998   Art Students League, New York
1998   Gremillion and Co. Fine Art, Inc. Houston, Texas (solo)
1998   “Recent Works,” Janos Gat Gallery, New York (solo)
1997   “Early Work,” Janos Gat Gallery, New York (solo)
1996   Benny Smith Gallery, Cold Spring, New York
1995   Macon Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia (solo)
1995   “Creation as Woman,” Gremillion & Co. Fine Art, Inc., Houston, Texas (solo)
1994   Art Students League, New York
1993   Gremillion & Co. Fine Art, Inc., Houston, Texas (solo)
1992   Tibor de Nagy, New York
1991   Gremillion & Co. Fine Art Inc., Houston, Texas (solo)
1989   Ingber Gallery, New York (solo)
1989   Maillot, Paris, France (solo)
1988   Thomsen Gallery, New York (solo)
1987   Bresslar Gallery, Munich, West Germany (solo)
1987   Thomsen Gallery, New York (solo)
1986   Gremillion & Co. Fine Art Inc., Houston, Texas (solo)
1986   Ingber Gallery, New York (solo)
1986   Art Students League, New York
1985   Art Students League, New York
1984   Ken Kalleba Gallery, New York
1984   Dubelle Gallery, New York
1984   Ingber Gallery, New York (solo)
1983   Ingber Gallery, New York (solo)
1983   CDS Gallery, New York
1983   Weatherspoon Museum Gallery, North Carolina
1982 - 1983   “The New Explosion: Paper Art,” FAMLI (Fine Arts Museum of Long Island), Hempstead, New York
1982   Arras Gallery, New York
1982   Westfield Chapter of Hadassah, Westfield, New Jersey
1981   International Biennale of Graphic Arts, Ljubljana, Yugoslavia
1980   River Gallery, Irvington on Hudson, New York (solo)
1980   Jack Gallery, New York (solo)
1980   Ingber Gallery, New York (solo)
1978   Jack Gallery, New York (solo)
1978   Ingber Gallery, New York (solo)
1978   Museum of Modern Art, New York, Lending Library
1976   Art Fair, Paris, France
1976   Galerie Lahumière, Paris, France (solo)
1976   Buchmesse, Frankfurt, West Germany (solo)
1973 - 1976   IKI International Art Fair, Dusseldorf-Cologne, West Germany
1973 - 1976   International Art Fair, Basel, Switzerland
1975   National Arts Club, New York
1975   Hippopotamus, Houston, Texas
1975   Janus Gallery, Washington D.C
1975   Gallery G., Wichita, Kansas (solo)
1975   I. Jankovsky Gallery, New York (solo)
1974   Gallery Bonino, New York (solo)
1972   Gallery Bonino, New York (solo)
1971   “The Daedalean Works,” Nabis Fine Arts, New York (solo)
1971   Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1970   “Large Scale American Paintings,” Jewish Museum, New York
1970   Gallery Bonino, New York (solo)
1969   Graham Gallery, New York
1966   Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
1966   Fischbach Gallery, New York (solo)
1965   Fischbach Gallery, New York (solo)
1965   “Concrete Expressionism,” New York University, New York
1964   “Some Paintings to Consider,” Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, California
1964   Fischbach Gallery, New York (solo)
1963   Rose Fried Gallery, New York (solo)
1963   Fischbach Gallery, New York (solo)
1963   Parke-Bernet Galleries, New York
1961   Charles Egan Gallery, New York (solo)
1958   Holland-Goldowsky Gallery, New York
1957   Avant-Garde Gallery, New York
1956   Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1955   University of Illinois, Chicago
1954   Stable Gallery, New York
1954   Charles Egan Gallery (Tenth Anniversary Exhibition), New York (solo)
1953   Stable Gallery, New York
1949   Laurel Gallery, New York
Literature
1997   Knox Martin, Interview, conducted by Melissa De Medeiros
1997   Melissa De Medeiros, Knox Martin Paints a Picture
1991   Marilyn Kushner, Conversations with Knox Martin
1975   Gerrit Henry, 25 Years of Works on Paper
  Knox Martin, The Thing
  Kenneth Simpson, The Art of Knox Martin