BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES

1938   Born on September 6 in Electric City, Washington

1965   BFA, California College of Arts & Craft, Oakland, California

1966   M.F.A. Stanford University, Palo Alto, California

1967   Resides New York City

He still lives and works in New York City.

AWARDS

1981   National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

1974   National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship

1969   Guggenheim Foundation Fellowship

SOLO EXHIBITIONS (since 1985)

1999   "Land Art 1968 - 1978", Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, NY
Palais Lichtenstein, Vienna, Austria

1998   XXIV Bienal de Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil
Museo de Arte Alvar, Mexico City, Mexico
Palais Liechtenstein, Vienna, Austria

1997   Joseph Helman, New York, NY
Galerie Anselm Dreher, Berlin, Germany
Stadt Galerie Nordhorn, Nordhorn, Germany
Venice Biennale, Pilkington SIV, Marghera/Venice, Italy
2nd Johannesburg Biennale, Johannesburg, South Africa
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Helsinki City Art Museum, Helsinki, Finland

1996   Centre International d'Arts Visuel, Marseille, France
Vestsjaellands Kunstmuseum, Soro, Denmark
Galerie Asbaek, Copenhagen, Denmark
Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, Austin, TX
Galerie Pro Arte, Freiburg, Germany
Galerie Lucien Durand, Paris, France
Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim, Germany
Rijksmuseum Kroller-Muller, Otterlo, The Netherlands
Tween Museum of Art, Duluth, MN
MAMCO, Geneva, Switzerland
Fundacao de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
Galerie Eugen Lendl, Graz, Austria
Ota Fine Arts, Tokyo, Japan
Masataka Hayakawa Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

1995   Galerie de la Tour, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Galerie Anselm Dreher, Berlin, Germany
Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Galerie Albrecht, Munich, Germany
Ierimonti Gallery, Milan, Italy
Kunstsammlung Tumulka, Munich, Germany
Oliver Art Center, Oakland ,CA
Butler Institute of Art, Youngstown, OH

1994   Musee D'Art Moderne de la Communaute Urbaine de Lille, France (retrospective)
Palau de la Virreina, Barcelona, Spain
Blum Helman Warehouse, New York, NY
Joseloff Art Gallery, Hartford, Connecticut
Greca Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
Galeria Aele, Madrid, Spain
Jermonti Gallery, Milano, Italy
Hoyt Institute of Art, New Castle, PA

1993   Progretto, Rome, Italy
University Art Museum, University of California at Berkeley, CA
Galerie Asbaek, Copenhagen, Denmark
Galerie Albrecht, Munich, Germany
Sala D'Exposicions, Principality of Andorra, Andorra, Spain
Blum Helman Gallery, New York, NY
Porin Taidemuseo, Pori, Finland (retrospective)
Oulun Taidemuseo, Oulu, Finland (retrospective)
Ujazdowski Castle, Warsaw, Poland (retrospective)
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
Framartstudio, Naples, Italy
Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
Margaret Lipworth Fine Art, Boca Raton, FL
Galerie Renee Ziegler, Zurich, Switzerland
The Fabric Workshop, Philadelphia, PA

1992   Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Blum Helman Warehouse, New York, NY
University Galleries, State University of Illinois, Normal, IL
Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
Ace Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
Galerie Marika Malacorda, Geneva, Switzerland
Galeria Greca, Barcelona, Spain
Galerie Tobias Hirschmann, Frankfurt, Germany
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX

1991   Galeria Pedro Oliveira, Porto, Portugal
Landfall Press, New York, NY
Galerie Friebe, Ludenscheid, Germany
Galerie Gastaud, Clermont-Ferrand, France
Galerie Thierry Salvador, Paris, France
The Institute for Contemporary Art, P.S. 1 Museum, Long Island City, NY (retrospective)

1990   Ace Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA
Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL
Galerie Berndt & Krips, Cologne, Germany
Galerie Joachim Becker, Cannes, France
Galerie Lohrl, Monchengladbach, Germany
Galerie Tobias Hirschmann, Frankfurt, Germany
John Gibson Gallery, New York, NY
Le Chanjour, Nice, France
Liverpool Gallery, Brussels, Belgium
Pierides Museum, Athens, Greece

1989   Elisabeth Franck Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
John Gibson Gallery, New York, NY
Pace/MacGill Gallery, New York, NY
Paris Art Center, Paris, France
Anne Plumb Gallery, New York, NY
Willoughby Sharp, New York, NY
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY

1988   Anne Plumb Gallery, New York, NY
Walker Hill Art Center, Seoul, Korea

1986   Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO
Tolarno Galleries, South Yarra, Australia

1985   Elisabeth Franck Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, ID
Knight Gallery, Charlotte, NC
Sander Gallery, New York, NY

GROUP EXHIBITIONS (since 1985)

2002   "Haines Gallery's 15th Anniversary Exhibition", Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2000   "Critic as Grist", White Box, New York, NY, curated by Michael Portnoy

1999    "Drip, Blow, Burn", The Hudson River Museum of Westchester, Yonkers, NY
"1999 Biennial of Public Art", Neuberger Museum, New York, NY

1998   "Landscape and Memory", Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1997   Documenta X, Kassel, Germany
"L'empreinte", Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
"Discrimination, Cruelty and Hope", Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI
"Private Visions in Public Places", LaSalle Galelry, Charlotte, NC
Videonale Bonn, Bonn, Germany
"Allegory", Joseph Helman Gallery, New York, NY
Institute for Contemporary Art, PS1. Museum, Long Island City, NY
"Maps, Graphs and Plans: A Seventies Approach", Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
"The Power of Words and Signs", Index Gallery, Osaka, Japan
"Works from the Seventies", Dan Bernier Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1996   "Matters of the Heart", Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Narcissism: Artists Reflect Themselves", California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA
"Chimeriques Polymeres", Musee d'Art Moderne et D'Art Contemporain, Nice, France
"Selections from the Collection", Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
"Outlook on Contemporary Sculpture", Espace Belleville, Paris, France
"The Art Embodied", MAC Galeries Contemporaines des Musees de Marseille, Marseille, France
"Machine", Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
"Landfall Press, Twenty Five Years of Printmaking", Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
"Selection from the Whitney Museum of American Art", Alexander Soutzos Museum, Athens, Greece
"Sensory Overdrive", William Patterson College, Wayne, NewJersey
"Trilogy-Art, Nature, Science", Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense, Denmark
"Sculptor's Drawings", Pardo View Gallery, New York, NY
"Landvermesser", Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim, Germany

1995   "Forces", Humphrey Gallery, New York, NY
"Mapping", American Fine Arts, New York, NY
"Endurance", Exit Art, New York, NY
"Reconsidering the Object of Art 1965-1975", Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, CA
Biennale d'Lyon, Lyon, France
"Construction in Process", Mitzpe Ramon, Israel
"It's Only Rock n' Roll: Currents in Contemporary Art", Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
"Popular Culture", Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI
"Sound Sculpture", Ludwig Museum, Konblenz, Germany
"Happening", The Children's Museum, San Diego, CA
"Machine", Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
"Action/Performance", Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH
"Modernism", Fundacao de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
"Altered and Irrational", The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
"Foundations", Lawrence Gallery, Rosemont, PA
"Death and the Family", Presentation House Gallery, Vancouver, BC, Canada
"20 Years of Hallwalls", Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Buffalo, NY
"Food in Art", Vered Gallery, East Hampton, NY
"Better Living through Chemistry", Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL

1994   "Zuge, Zuge," Stadtische Galerie Goppingen, Goppingen, Germany
The Nathan Cummings Foundation, New York, NY
"Transparency + Metaphor," California Crafts Museum, San Francisco, CA
Ecole des Beaux Arts de Lorient, Lorient, France
inSITE '94, San Diego, California; Tijuana, Mexico
Festival Iberioamericano de Teatro Bogota, Bogota, Colombia
"East of Eden," Museum Schlod Mosigkau, Dessau, Germany
"Personal Heroes", Galerie de la Tour, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
"From Minimalism to Conceptual Art", National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
"Wildlife", California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA
"Popular Culture", Hill Gallery, Birmingham, MI
Hartman & Company, La Jolla, CA

1993   "Presenze," Centro Espoitivo della Rocca Paolina, Perugia, Italy
"It's A Beautiful Thing," Savage Fine Art, Portland, OR
"The Bestiary," Blum Helman Gallery, New York, NY
" Action, Performance and the Photograph," Turner/Krull Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Gemeentemuseum Arnheim, Sonsbeek '93, Arnhem, Netherlands
"The Second Dimension: Twentieth Century Sculptor's Drawings," Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
"Heads," Galeria Senda, Barcelona, Spain
"The Pet Show," Helander Gallery, New York, NY
"The Nature of the Machine," Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago, IL
"Art/Functional Art," Turbulence, New York, NY
"Portraits d'Objects," Fonds Relgional d'Art Contemporain de Paicardie, Picarde, France
"Homage to Miro," Galeria Greca, Barcelona, Spain
"Differentes Natures," Espaces Art-Defense Paris, France
"Fall From Fashion," Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
Haggerty Museum of Art, Marquette University,Milwakee, WI
"Body Parts," Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA
"Photoplay: The Chase Manhattan Collection," Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL
"Leading Edge," Arts and Projects, Salzburg, Austria
"Recent Aquisitions: Prints," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
"La Donation Vicky Remy," Musee d'Art Moderne Saint-Etienne, Saint-Etienne, France

1992   "Nauman, Oppenheim, Serra," Blum Helman Warehouse, New York, NY
Musee d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
"America Mundo 1992," Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY
"The Endowed Chair," Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York, NY
"Inauguracion," Galerie Senda, Barcelona, Spain
"The Figure," Blue Helman, New York, NY
"Cercles," Musee Abbaye Saint-Leger, Soissons, France
"Dessins d' Ameriques," Fond Regional d'ArtContemporain de Picardie, France
"Yvon Lambert Collectione", Musee d'Art Moderne de la Communaute Urbainede Lille, Villeneuve D'Ascq, Lille, France
"Brain:Internal Affairs," Beatrixhospital,Gorinchem, Netherlands
"Paolo Uccello: Battles in the Art of XXth Century," Galleria Degli Uffizi, Firenze, Italy
"Paesaggio con Rovine," Comune di Gibellina, Gibellina, Italy
"de-persona," Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
"Carmina Urbana," Musei de Sploeto, Cortona, Italy

1991   "Trains: Burden, Kessler, Oppenheim," Michael Klein Inc, New York, NY
"Merchanika," The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
Simposio Internacional de Escultura al Aire Libre, Madrid, Spain
IIIme Biennale de Sculpture, Monte Carlo, Monaco
"Outside America: going into the 90's," Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA
"Persona, "The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA
"Word as Image," Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX
"Long, Heizer, Oppenheim," Gallery 360, Tokyo, Japan
"After Duchamp," Galerie 1900-2000, Paris, France
"Singolarita, L'Orizzonte Degil Enventi," Framartstudio, Milano, Italy
Le Conseil Regional de Picardie, Amiens, France
"Wild Things," Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba, Canada

1990   "American Express," John Gibons Gallery, New York, NY
"Art Conceptuel Formes Conceptual," Galerie 1900-2000, Paris, France
"Casino Fantasma," Casino Municipale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
"Improbable Machines" Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, CA
"Les Quatre Elements," Usine de Meru, Meru, France
"The Technological Muse," Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY

1989   "Immmaterial Objects," North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
"Intuition," John Gibson Gallery, New York, NY
"Une Collection Pour La Grande Arche," La Defense, Paris, France
"Art in Safe," Mai 36 Galerie, Ruine, Geneva, Switzerland
"Project: Installation," The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT

1988   "Contemporary Art and Criticism," Minos Beach, Crete
"Lost in California," James Corcoran Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
"Second International Sculpture Symposium," Olympic Park, Seoul, Korea
"Turning Point: Art and Politics in 1968," Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH

1987   "American Masters: Works on Paper," Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
"Art That Moves," Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Laguna, TX
"This is not a Photograph," John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL

1986   "Fireworks," Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
"Television's Impact on Contemporary Art," Queens Museum, New York, NY
Bard College, Annandale-on Hudson, New York, NY

1985   "Installations," Anne Plumb Gallery, New York, NY
"The Maximal Implications of the Minimal Line," Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
"Modern Machines," Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York, NY
Symposium National de Sculpture Monumental Metallique, Thiers, France
"Time: The Fourth Dimension in Art," Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium

PERMANENT OUTDOOR SCULPTURE

1999   "Snowman Factory," Copenhagen, Denmark

1988   "Impersonation Station," Olympic Park, Korea

1980   "An Operation for Mining, Elevating, and Converting Underground Memories of a Fifth Season," Elevation Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan

1980-82   "Station for Sustaining and Blinding Radioactive Horses, " Rijksmuseum Kroller-Muller, Otterlo, Holland

1981-86   "Dream and Nightmares. Journey of a Broken Weave (Mondrian Under Pressure)," University Art Museum, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque

1982   "Formula Compound, A Combustion Chamber. An Exorcism (From the Fireworks Series)," Fattoria di Celle, Pistoia, Italy

1982-83   "Formula Compound, A Combustion Chamber. An Exorcism (From the Fireworks Series)," State University of New York at Potsdam, NY

1982-86   "Scan," Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN

1983   "Dreams and Nightmare. Journey of a Broken Weave (Mondrian Under Pressure)," Tel-Hai, Upper-Galilee, Israel

1983-84   "Rolling Explosion," Laumier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MI

1983-85   "Roots in Cubism, Hearts in the Stars, Forest for Cezanne.", Bundesgarten, Berlin

1983-85   "Woven Explosion (Mondrian Under Pressure)," Florida Atlantic University, Fort Lauderdale, FL

1984   "Image Intervention," University of Alaska, Anchorage, Alaska

1984-85   "Basket and Weave," Heide Park and Sculpture Garden, Victoria, Australia

1985   "Levitation, Celebration, Separation," Ville de Thiers, France

SELECTED COLLECTIONS

Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humblebaek, Denmark
Musee National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou
Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Nationalgalerie, Berlin, West Germany
Stadtischer Museum Abteiberg Monchengladbach, Germany