Mel Bochner

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2008	“Mel Bochner, Alighiero Boetti, Hanne Darboven,” College Jacque Cartier, Chauny, France “Genau und Anders,” Museum Ludwig, Vienna

2007	“Lines, Grids, Stains, and Words,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York. “Conceptual Photography, 1964 – 1989,” Zwirner & Wirth, New York. “If Everyone Had an Ocean: Brian Wilson, an Art Exhibition,” Tate St. Ives, Cornwall, England “Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA “Live/Work: Performance into Drawing,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

2006	“Nothing and Everything”, Peter Freeman, Inc., New York, NY “Mel Bochner / Alfred Jensen: Hommage to Pythagoras”, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles “Elemental Form”, L&M Arts, New York, NY

2005	“Logical Conclusions”, PaceWildenstein Gallery, New York, NY “Drawing From the Modern, 1945-1975”, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY “Open Systems: Rethinking Art c.1970”, Tate Modern, London “The Photograph In Question”, Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY “Wordplay”, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY “Down The Garden Path: The Artist’s Garden After Modernism”, Queens Museum, NY “Threshold”, Max Wigram Gallery, London “Rub Out The Word”, Dumbo Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY “Looking At Words”, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY “Building and Breaking the Grid”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY “The Top Room”, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London

2004	“A Minimal Future?”, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA “Whitney Biennial”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY “The Copy Age”, Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan “Beyond Geometry”, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA “Intra-Muros”, Musee d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice, France “Infinite Possibilities”, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, MA “Traces”, National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan

2003	“Under Pressure: Prints from Two Palms Press”, The Cooper Union, New York, NY “eXhibition³”, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY “Dust Memories”, Swiss Institute, New York, NY “Pittsburgh Platforms”, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA “Work Ethic”, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD “The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography 1960-1982”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN

2002	“Flashing Into the Shadows: The Artists’ Film 1966-1976”, Tate Modern, London. "An Empty Space", Akira Ikeda Gallery, New York, NY "Copy", Roth Horowitz Gallery, New York, NY "Ad Infinitum", Wynn Kramarsky, 560 Broadway, New York, NY "The Object Sculpture", The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK "Visions from America", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY "Shimmering Substance", Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, UK

2001	"Art Express- Art Minimal et Conceptual Americain", Cabinet des Estampes du Musee D' Art et D' Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland "Saying Seeing", Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY "As Painting, Division and Displacement", Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio "Flashing Into the Shadows: The Artist's Film After Pop and Minimalisim 1966-1976", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY "After the Beginning and Before the End (Drawings from the Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection, Detroit)", Bergen Kunstmuseum, Bergen, Norway

2000	"In Process", Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY "Painting Function: Making It Real", Spaces, Cleveland, Ohio "Contemporary Drawings from the Sarah - Ann and Werner Kramarsky Collection", Southern Methodist University, Dallas, Texas "L' Elements Verbale Nell' Arte Contemporanea", Galleria Milano, Milan, Italy "Zig - Zag", Frac Picardie, Amiens, France "Retrospective", Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY "Presumes innocents - L' art contemporain et l' enfance", CAPC, Bordeaux, France "Open Ends", Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

1999	"The American Century: Art and Culture 1900-2000 (Part II, 1950-2000)", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY "Circa 1968", Museu de Arte-Contemporanea de Serralves, Porto, Portugal "Lewitt, Bochner, Tschubarov", Tatunz Gallery, New York "Scripta Manent", Esso Gallery, New York "After Image: Drawing Through Process", The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles "Drawn to Scale" , Dieu Donne Gallery, New York, NY "Drawings from the 1970's", Lawrence Markey Gallery, New York, NY "Drawings from the 1960's", Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY

1998	"The Serial Attitude", Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Mass., traveled to Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus Ohio. "Paper Plus", Dieu Donne Gallery, New York "Deep Thought", Basilico Fine Arts, New York "Art Pared Down: Exploring Minimalism Across Media", Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia. "More Pieces for the Puzzle; Recent Additions to the Collection", The Museum of Modern Art, New York "Back to Back", DeChiara/Stewart Gallery, New York

1997	"Gravity-Axis of Contemporary Art", National Musem of Art, Osaka, Japan "Drawing is another kind of language", Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Mass. "The Serial Attitude", Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Mass. "Group Exhibition", Sonnabend, New York "One-Line Drawing", Ubu Gallery, New York "Laying Low; Postminimalism/ Scatter Art", Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo "Au pied du mur", Frac Picardie, Amiens, France "Geometric Abstraction: Mel Bochner, Imi Knoebel, Sol LeWitt, Andrew Spence" ,Numark Gallery, Washington, D.C. "Magie der Zahl", Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart

1996	"Mel Bochner, Erik Satie, Philippe Seux", Galerie Arnaud Lefebre, Paris "New Art on Paper", Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia "The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: 1945-1995.", National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. "From Figure to Object: A Century of Sculptor's Drawings", Frith Street Gallery, and Karsten Schubert Gallery, London. "Sammlung Sonnabend", Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg "L'informe: mode d'emploi", Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris "Thinking Print: Books to Billboards, 1980-95", The Museum of Modern Art, New York "Limited Edition Artists Books Since 1990", Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York "Collection in Context; Selected contemporary photographs of hands from the collection of Henry Mendelssohn Buhl", Thread Waxing Space, New York

1995	"Mapping: A Response to MOMA", American Fine Arts, New York "1965-1995: Reconsidering the Object of Art", The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles "Repicturing Abstraction : The Politics of Space", Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond "Drawing on Chance: Selections from the Collection", The Museum of Modern Art, New York "Printmaking in America,: 1960-1990", Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, Ill.

1994	"A Century of Artists Books", The Museum of Modern Art, New York "Extended Relations", Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York "From Minimal to Conceptual Art: Works from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection.", National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. "Painting and Sculpture:Recent Acquisitions", The Museum of Modern Art, New York "Location I: Bickerton, Bochner, Morris", Basilico Fine Arts, New York "Gallery Group Exhibition", Sonnabend Gallery, New York

1993	"A Matchbox Enclosed", Yavne Art Workshop, Yavne, Israel "The American Livre de Peintre", Grolier Club, New York "European & American Drawings 1961-1969", Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York "Do All Roads Lead to Rome?", Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome

1992	"Arte Americana 1930-1970", Lingotto, Turin "Marking The Decades: Prints 1960-1990", Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore "Bochner, Chung, LeWitt", Galleria Primo Piano, Rome "Postcards from Alphaville: Jean-Luc Godard in Contemporary Art 1963-1992, P.S.1Museum, New York

1991	"A view from the 60's: Selections from the Castelli and Sonnabend Collections", Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, N.Y. "Drawings", Lorence Monk Gallery, New York "Dots", Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, Calif. "American Abstraction" Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, Mass. "Immaterial Objects", Whitney Museum at Equitable Center, New York "Motion and Document/Sequence and Time: Edward Muybridge and Contemporary American Photography", Organized by the Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover Mass., for travel

1990	"Amerikanische Zeichnungen in den Achtziger Jaheren", Albertina Museum, Vienna; Museum Morsbroich, Leverkuseun, Germany "Concept-Decoratif: Anti-Formalist Art of the 70's", Nahan Contemporary, New York "Divergent Styles: Contemporary American Drawing", University Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville "Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture", American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York "Overview:, David Nolan Gallery, New York "Concept Art, Minimal Art:Sammlung Marzona", Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld, Germany "Minimalism and Post-Minimalism: Drawing Distinctions"' Hood Museum, Dartmouth, N.H. "The Unique Print", Museum of Fine Arts, Boston "Minimalist Prints", Susan Sheehan Gallery, New York "Art Conceptual, Formes Conceptuelles", Galerie 1900-2000, Paris "Mel Bochner, Peter Halley, Robert Rauschenberg", Sonnabend Gallery, New York

1989	"l'Art Conceptuel, Une Perspective"' Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris; La Fundacion Caja de Pensiones, Madrid "Repetition"' Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York "Conspicuous Display"' Stedman Art Gallery, Rutgers University, Camden, N.J. "Lines & Geometry", Rickey Renier Gallery, Chicago "New Works by Gallery Artists", Sonnabend, New York "Projects and Portfolios, The 25th National Print Exhibition", Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, N.Y. "Immaterial Objects" organized by the Whitney Museum for travel to: Museum of Art, Raleigh, N.C.; Albany Museum of Art, Georgia; San Jose Museum of Art, Calif.

1988	"Abstracted Image", Elizabeth McDonald Gallery, New York "Raw Materials" Althea Viafora Gallery, New York "Collection Sonnabend" Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; CAPC, Musee D'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux; Art Cologne, Cologne; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin;Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome; Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, Trento, Italy; Musee Rath, Geneva; Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo; Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan; The Fukuyama Museum of Art, Hiroshima "Amerikanishce Druckgraphik: Recent American Prints", Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich "Systems and Abstraction", Leubsdorf Gallery, Hunter College, New York "Turning Point; Art and Politics in 1968", Lehman College Gallery, Bronx, N.Y.

1987	"The Shape of Abstraction", Russell Sage College, Albany "This is not a Photograph; 20 Years of Large-Scale Photography, 1966-1986" The John and Marble Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Fl.; Akron Art Museum, Akron, Ohio "1967: At the Crossroads". Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia "Reconnecting", Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit "Points of Contact", Laurie Rubin Gallery, New York "Drawings from the Eighties"' Carnegie Mellon University Art Gallery, Pittsburgh "Early Concepts of the Last Decade", Holly Solomon Gallery, New York

1986	"Spirit Tracks: Big Abstract Drawing"' Pratt Institute Gallery, Brooklyn, N.Y. "An American Renaissance: Painting & Sculpture since 1940", Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale, Fl. "Contemporary Issues III: Robert and Nancy Kaye Collection", Holman Hall Art Gallery, Trenton State College "The Shape of Abstraction", Stux Gallery, New York

1985	"The Maximal Implications of the Minimal Line", Bard College Center, Annadale on Hudson, N.Y. "New Abstraction", Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee "Drawings", Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles

1984	"Viewpoint, '84", Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan "Vanishing Points", Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden "Minding Measure: Measuring Mind", Islip Art Museum, East Islip, N.Y.

1983	"Minimalism to Expressionism", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York "Sculptors as Draftsmen", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1982	"74th American Exhibition", Chicago Art Institute, Chicago "Prints by Contemporary Sculptors", Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Conn. "One, Two, Three", Musee des Beaux Arts, Besancon, France

1981	"Summer Group Show", Sonnabend Gallery, New York "Murs", Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

1980	"Mel Bochner/Richard Serra", Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Mass. "Explorations in the 70's", Pittsburgh Plan for Art, Pittsburgh

1979	"Whitney Biennial", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York "The Minimal Tradition", Aldrich Museum, Conn. "Pittura Ambiente", Palazzo Reale, Milan "The Decade in Review", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York "Oeuvres Contemporaines des Collections Nationales", Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

1978	"Eight Artists", Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia "Contemporary Drawing/New York", University of California Museum, Santa Barbara "Numerals 1924-1977", Leo Castelli Gallery, New York "Three Installations: Acconci, Bochner, Le Va", Tampa Bay Art Center., Tampa

1977	"Whitney Biennial", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York "Ten Years", Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago "Photonotations II", Rosa Esman Gallery, New York "Acconci/Bochner/Le Va", Sonnabend Gallery, New York

1976	"Drawing Now", The Museum of Modern Art, New York "Photonotations", Rosa Esman Gallery, New York "Seventy-Second American Exhibition", Chicago Art Institute, Chicago "Fourteen Artists: The New Decade", Fort Worth Museum, Texas; Detroit Institute of Art, Michigan

1975	"Bochner, Le Va, Rockburne, Tuttle", The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati "Print Sequence", The Museum of Modern Art, New York "Drawings 3, American Drawings", Museum Leverkusen, Germany "The New Image", High Museum, Atlanta "Fourteen Artists", Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore "Prints", Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario

1974	"Line as Language", Princeton Art Museum, Princeton, N.J. "Some Recent American Art", Organized by The Museum of Modern Art for circulation in Australia and New Zealand "Idea & Image", Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago "Project '74", Cologne

1973	"Festival d'Automme a Paris", Paris "New American Graphic Art", Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass. "American Art, Third Quarter Century", Seattle Museum of Art, Seattle "American Drawings", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York "2D into 3D", New York Cultural Center, New York "Contemporanea", Parcheggio di Villa Borghese, Rome

1972	"420 West Broadway at the Spoleto Festival", Spoleto, Italy "Documenta 5", Kassel, Germany "13 Artists Chosen for Documenta", Sonnabend Gallery, New York "Konzept-Kunst", Kunstmuseum, Basel

1971	"Situation Concepts", Gallery Nachst, St. Stephen, Innsbruck

1970	"Information", The Museum of Modern Art, New York "Conceptual Art/arte povera/land art", Museo Civico d'Arte Moderna, Turin "Conceptual Art and Conceptual Aspects", New York Cultural Center, New York "Using Walls", The Jewish Museum, New York "Art in the Mind", Allen Memorial Museum, Oberlin, Ohio "Language IV", Dwan Gallery, New York "Artists and Photographs", Multiples Gallery, New York “Recorded Activities”, Moore College, Philadelphia

1969	"Art in Progress IV", Finch College Museum of Art, New York "When Attitudes Become Form", Kunsthalle Bern, Berne "Konzeption/Conception", Museum Leverkusen, Germany "577,087", Seattle Art Museum, Washington

1968	"Language II", Dwan Gallery, New York "No. 7", Paula Cooper Gallery, New York "Group Exhibition", Bykert Gallery, New York "Rejective Art", organized by American Federation of Arts for travel in USA

1967	"Art in Series", Finch College Museum of Art, New York "Scale Models and Drawings", Dwan Gallery, New York "Monuments", Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York