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| LEON GOLUB |
| 1922 |
Born Chicago, Illinois
Died August 2004 |
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| 1942 |
BA University of Chicago |
| 1949 |
BFA School of the Art Institute of Chicago |
| 1950 |
MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago |
| 1996 |
Hiroshima Prize |
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| Selected Solo
Exhibitions |
| 1956 |
Passadena Museum of Art, Passadena |
| 1957 |
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London |
| 1958 |
Leon Golub/Nancy Spero, Indiana
University, Bloomington |
| 1960 |
American Cultural Center, Paris |
| 1964 |
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia |
| 1966 |
University of Chicago |
| 1970 |
Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge |
| 1970-71 |
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne |
| 1974 |
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago |
| 1975 |
New York Cultural Center, New York |
| 1976 |
San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco |
| 1982 |
Institute of Contemporary Arts, London |
| 1983 |
Leon Golub : Mercenaries, Interrogations and Other
Works, Sarah Campbell Blaffer Gallery, University of
Houston; Portland Center for Visual Arts; University of Arizona
Museum of Art, Tucson; Miami University Art Museum, Oxford;
Atrium Gallery, University of Connecticut; Storrs and Everson
Museum, Syracuse, New York
Matrix/Berkeley 58, University of California at Berkeley |
| 1984 |
Golub, The New Museum of Contemporary
Art, New York; La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art; Museum of
Contemporary Art,
Chicago; The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts; Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington;
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Galerie Darthea Speyer |
| 1986 |
Leon Golub/Nancy Spero, Greenville County Museum
of Art, Greenville |
| 1987 |
Leon Golub/Nancy Spero, The Orchard Gallery,
Derry; Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin
Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne |
| 1988 |
The Saatchi Collection, London
Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
Retrospective, Galerie Neuendorf, Frankfurt |
| 1989 |
The Eli Broad Family Foundation, Santa Monica
Burnett Miller Gallery, Santa Monica and Cologne |
| 1990 |
Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris |
| 1991 |
WorldWide, Grand Lobby Installation,
The Brooklyn Museum, New York
Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London |
| 1992 |
Leon Golub Paintings 1987-92, Institute of Contemporary
Arts, Philadelphia; The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu; Akron
Art Museum
An Incident, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montreal
Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris |
| 1992-93 |
Leon Golub, Malmö Konsthall, Malmö;Kulterhuset,
Stockholm; Kunstverein, Munich
Public Violence ¸ Malmö Konsthall, Malmö |
| 1993 |
Violence Report/ Prisoners, Kunsthalle Barmen
and Von der Heyt- Museum; Wuppertal;Kunstverein, Ulm
Leon Golub, Ulmer Museum, Ulm
Golub/Spero, Josh Baer Gallery, New York |
| 1994 |
Leon Golub/Nancy Spero : War and Memory, American
Center, Paris
Leon Golub/Nancy Spero, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
Barbara Gross Galerie, Munich
Burnett Miller Gallery, New York
Hood Art Museum, Darmouth College, Hanover |
| 1995 |
Leon Golub-New York, Rice University Art Gallery,
Houston
Notes in Time : Leon Golub/Nancy Spero, Installation,
Fine Arts Gallery, University of Maryland, Baltimore County,
Canstonsville
Update, Residenzgalerie, Salzburg
Violence Zone : The Weimar Installation, Orangerie Schloß Belvedere,
Weimar |
| 1996 |
Nano Museum, (travelling) Part 1, Part 2, June-July
Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris
Image Violence, Emily Carr Institute of Art and Design, Vancouver B.C
Gigantomachies : 1965-1969, New York Kunsthalle
Snake Eyes : 1995 & Sphinx & Other Enigmas : 1952-56, Ronald
Feldman Fine Arts, New York
Sanguinary Hiroshima Installation, Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary
Art
Leon Golub/Nancy Spero, Hiroshima Prize Retrospective exhibition,
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art |
| 1997 |
Leon Golub/Nancy Spero - Contemporaries, The
Elaine L Jacob Gallery, Wayne State University, Detroit
Crown Gallery, Brussels |
| 1998 |
Stefania Miscetti Arte Contemporanea, Rome
Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York
Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris
Museo Jacobo Borges, Caracas
European Workshop of Arts and Culture Hellerau, Dresden (Installation)
Dead Certainties + The Blue Tatoo, Ronald Feldman Fine
Arts, New York |
| 1999-2000 |
'Partisans', installation for 'To the
Rescue: Eight Artists in an Archive',
International Center of Photography Midtown, New York (travelling)
Leon Golub, While the Crime is Blazing: Paintings and Drawings, 1994- Present,
Bucknell University, Lewisberg, Pennsylvania (travelling) |
| 2000 |
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (travelling retrospective
exhibition)
South London Art Gallery, London
Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent
Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London |
| 2001 |
Allbright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn |
| 2002 |
Galerie Darthea Speyer, Paris
Crown Gallery, Brussels
Christine Konig Galerie, Vienna, Austria |
| 2003 |
Griffin Contemporary, Venice, CA
Leon Golub: Paintings and Drawings, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago
Recent Paintings, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago |
| 2004 |
Graeco-Roman Colossi 1959-1964 + Erotica, etc. 2000-03, Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York |
| 2005 |
Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London |
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| Selected Group Exhibitions |
| 1948-59 |
Exhibition Momentum, Roosevelt College, Illinois |
| 1954 |
Expressionism 1900-1950, Walker Arts Center,
Minneapolis
Younger American Painters, Solomon R.Guggenheim Museum,
New York
Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh |
| 1955 |
Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American
Art |
| 1959 |
New Images of Man, Museum of Modern Art, New
York
63rd American Exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago , Chicago |
| 1962 |
The Figure, Museum of Modern
Art, New York
Corcoran Annual, Corcoran Gallery
of Art, Washington
Sao Paolo Bienal, Brazil |
| 1964 |
Dokumenta III, Kassel
Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Modern Art,
Pittsburgh |
| 1967 |
Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Modern
Art, Pittsburgh
Le monde en question, Musée d'Art Moderne de
la Ville de Paris, Paris |
| 1968 |
The Obsessive Image 1960-68, Institute of Contemporary
Arts, London |
| 1969 |
Il Bienial International del Deporte en las Bellas
Artes, Madrid |
| 1972 |
Chicago Imagist Art, Museum of Contemporary
Art, Chicago, New York Cultural Center |
| 1977 |
Paris-New York, Musée National d'Art
Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris |
| 1979 |
Centennial Exhibition, The Art Institute of
Chicago |
| 1980 |
American Figurative Painting 1950-1980, Chrysler
Museum, Norfolk |
| 1982 |
Realism and Realities : The Other Side of American
Painting 1940-1960 Rutgers University, New Brunswick;
Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts,
Alabama and the University of Maryland, College Park |
| 1983 |
1983 Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York
It was Time for Anger, Institute for Art and Urban
Resources at PS1, Long Island City, New York |
| 1984 |
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Biennial III :
The Human Condition, San Francisco
Content : A Contemporary Focus 1974-84, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture
Garden, Washington |
| 1985 |
Currents, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
States of War: New European and American Painting,
Seattle Art Museum, Washington
Nouvelle Biennale de Paris, La Villette, Paris |
| 1986 |
State of Art, Institute of Contemporary Arts,
London
75th American Exhibition, The Art Institute, Chicago |
| 1987 |
Dokumenta VIII, Kassel
Avant-Garde in the Eighties, Los Angeles County Museum
of Art, Los Angeles |
| 1988 |
Committed to Print, Museum of Modern Art, New
York |
| 1989 |
Prospect 89, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt |
| 1990 |
The Decade Show, The New Museum of Contemporary Art,
New York, Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York and the
studio Museum in Harlem
1968-Concrete Utopia in Art and Society, Stadtische
Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, Museum fur Gestaltung, Zurich |
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1991 Devil on the Stairs : Looking Back on the Eighties,
Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; Newport Harbor Art
Museum, Newport Beach
Inheritance and Transformation, The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin |
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1992 Parallel Visions : Modern Artists and Outsider Art,
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Museo Nacional
de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid and Setegaya Art Museum, Tokyo |
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1993 43rd Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American
Painting, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington
The Broken Mirror, Kunsthalle, Vienna; Deichtorhallen, Hamburg |
| 1994 |
The Assertive Image: Artist of the Eighties, from
the Eli Broad Family Foundation, UCLA/Armand Hammer Museum of
Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles
Welt-Moral, Kunsthalle, Basel
Civil Rights Now, SECCA, SouthEastern Center for Contemporary
Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Old Glory: The American
Flag in Contemporary Art,
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Ohio; Jacksonville Art
Museum, Florida, 1995-96; Phoenix Art Museum, Arizona, 1996
States of Loss, Jersey City Museum, New Jersey
As seen By Both Sides: American and Vietnamese Artists Look at the War,
National Museum of Fine Arts, Hanoi; Fine Arts Museum, Ho Chi Minh City; Fine
Arts Center, Da Nang, (note reference from 1991)
Black Male, Representations of Masculinity in Contemporary Art,
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1995 Death Penalty: Death of Culture, Visual Arts Gallery, Purchase
College, State University of New York, Purchase |
| 1995 |
Murder, Bergamot Station Arts Center, Sanat
Monica, California, Thread Waxing Space, New York
Face Value: American Portraits, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton,NewYork
Art with Conscience, Newark Museum, New Jersey
4 x 1 im Albertinum, Galerie Neue Meister, Staatiche Kunstsammlungen,
Dresden
Risarcimento: Artisti contemporanei per gli, Uffizi Gallery, Florence
25 Americans: Painting in the 90s, Milwaukee Art Museum |
| 1995-96 |
Stones & Voices, Stiftung fur Konkrete
Kunst, Revlungen
Glaube Hoffnung Liebe Tod, Kunsthalle Vienna |
| 1996 |
Second Sight: Printmaking in Chicago 1935-1995,
Mary and Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Chicago
Withdrawing, Ronald Feldman Gallery, New York
In the Shadow of Storms: Art of the Postwar Era, Museum of Contemporary
Art, Chicago
Thinking Print: Books to Billboards, 1980-95, The Museum of Modern
Art, New York |
| 1996-97 |
Art in Chicago 1945-1995, Museum of Contemporary
Art, Chicago
Multiple Identity: Selections from the Whitney Museum of
American Art organized by the Whitney Museum of American
Art (travelling: Washington D.C., Alexandros Soutzos Museum,
Athens; Museu d'Art
Contemporani, Barcelona; Kunstmuseum, Bonn) |
| 1997 |
do it, 1997 - 2000 ; a travelling exhibition
conceived and curated by Hans-Ulrich Obrist and organised and
circulated by Independent Curators Incoporated (ICI), New York
Envisioning the Contemporary: Selections from the Permanent Collection,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
Views from Abroad - European Perspectives on American Art 3, Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York |
| 1998 |
Critical Interventions: Evil, John Hansard Gallery,
Southampton
Presence of Greek Myth, Instituto di Storia dell'Arte,
Palermo
Matrix/Berkelely: 20 Years, The University of California,
Berkely Art Museum |
| 1999 |
Face to Face: Four Centuries of Portraits, Vancouver
Art Gallery
Torn Apart, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
Looking Forward, Black, Elaine L Jacob, Wayne State University, Detroit
The American Century, Art and Culture, Part II 1950-2000, The Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York |
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