LOUISE NEVELSON
1899
1905
1920
1922
1929 - 1930
1931
1931
1932
1932
1973
1977
1988
Born on September 23 in Kiev, Russia to Isaac Berliawsky and Minna Ziesel
Smolerank. There were four children: Nathan, Louise, Anita, and Lillian
The family moved to the U.S and settled in Rockland, Maine
Married Charles Nevelson and moved to New York
Son Myron (Mike) was born.
Studied at the Art Students League in New York with Kenneth Hayes Miller
Studied with Hans Hofmann in Munich
Worked as an extra in films in Berlin and Vienna
Assistant to Diego Rivera
Studied modern dance with Ellen Kearns
Honorary degree from Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts
Received an honorary degree from Columbia University, New York
Died April 17 in her home in New York City
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017
2016
2015
2014
2013
2012
2010
2009
2008
2007
Reflections: Louise Nevelson, 1967, The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, Massachusetts
Louise Nevelson: Assemblages and Collages 1960-1980, Cortesi Gallery, Lugano, Switzerland
Louise Nevelson: Symphony of Ambient Forms, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Louise Nevelson, Pace Gallery, Palo Alto, California
Louise Nevelson, Pace Gallery, Mayfair, London
Louise Nevelson: Prints, Amon Carter Museum, Ft. Worth, Texas
Louise Nevelson: Collage and Assemblage, Pace Gallery, 534 West 25th Street, New York, January 24–
February 28, 2015. (Catalogue)
Louise Nevelson in L.A.: Tamarind Workshop Lithographs From the 1960s, Los Angeles County Museum
of Art, January 17–May 17, 2015.
Louise Nevelson 55–70, Cardi Gallery, Milan, October 9–December 20, 2014.
Louise Nevelson: Sculptures, Drawings, Collages, Die Galerie, Frankfurt, June 5–September 6, 2014.
Louise Nevelson: The Way I Think is Collage, Galerie Gmurzynska, Zurich, Switzerland
In Mostra, Fondazione Roma Museo-Palazzo Sciarra, Curated by Bruno Cora, Rome, Italy
The 70s, L&M ARTS, Venice, California
Sculpture and Collage, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Louise Nevelson: Domination of Form, Rosenbaum Contemporary, Boca Raton, Florida
Louise Nevelson, Galerie Thomas, Munich, Germany
Louise Nevelson: Early Etchings and Lithographs, Pace Primitive Gallery, New York, New York
Louise Nevelson, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Florida
Louise Nevelson: Dawns and Dusks, Louise Blouin Foundation, London, England
and travelled to Rockland, Maine, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine
Nevelson by Night, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College
Louise Nevelson: Sculpture and Collage, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Louise Nevelson, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Florida
Nmwa Collection Focus: Louise Nevelson: Dawn’s Wedding Feast, National Museum of Women in the
Arts, Washington D.C.
The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson (solo retrospective), The Jewish Museum, New
York; travelled to: de Young Museum, San Francisco
Louise Nevelson, Galerie Gmurzynska, Zurich, Switzerland
Louise Nevelson, Sculpture and Collage, McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas 2006
1998
1997
1996
1995
1994
1992
1986
1964
1961
1960
1959
1958
1956
1954
1950
1943
1941
Louise Nevelson: The Architecture of the Light, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York
Louise Nevelson: An American Master, Farnsworth Art Museum Rockland, Maine
Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
Louise Nevelson: Collages, PaceWildenstein, Los Angeles, California
Art Cologne, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie Louise Nevelson, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld Joan T. Washburn Gallery, New York, New York Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Louise Nevelson: Sculpture 1957 - 1987, Pace Wildenstein, 57th Street, New York Galerie Gmurzynska, Cologne, France
Arij Gasiunasen Fine Art, Florida Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy Bellas Artes, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Hokin Gallery, Palm Beach, Florida Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, France The Pace Gallery, New York and Boston Tanager Gallery, New York, New York
Galerie Daniel Cordier, Paris, France Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, West Germany David Herbert Gallery, New York, New York
Devorah Sherman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Galerie Daniel Cordier, Paris , France
Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, New York Esther Stuttman Gallery, New York, New York
Grand Central Moderns Gallery, New York, New York Marcia Clapp Gallery, New York, New York
Lotte Jacobi Gallery, New York, New York
Norlyst Gallery, New York, New York
Nierendorf Gallery, New York, New York
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017
Visions of America: Three Centuries of Prints from the National Gallery of Art, Dallas Museum of Art,
Dallas, Texas
th
Louise Nevelson/Jean Dubuffet, Pace Prints, 26 Street, New York, New York
Innovation and Abstraction: Women Artists and Atelier 17, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, Rutgers
University, New Brunswick
Hommage a Picasso, Robilant+Voena, St. Moritz, Switzerland
Objectifying Myself: Works by Women Artists from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, William Benton
Museum of Art, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut
Urban Landscapes: Fragments, Memories, Visions, The Goteborg Museum of Art, Gothenburg, Sweden
Women, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine
Material Presence, Talley Dunn Gallery, Dallas, Texas
The Ends of Collage, Luxembourg & Dayan, London, UK
No Boundaries, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York
Dynamic Structures: Abstract American Artists, Krannert Art Museum and Kinkead Pavilion, Champaign,
Illinois
Masterclass: A Survey of work from the Twentieth Century, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, New York
Above the Surface, Rosenbaum Contemporary, Boca Raton, Florida
Currently 80: Celebrating 80 years of the Sculptors Guild, Westbeth Gallery, New York, New York
Feminine Feminist, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, New York
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Monochrome, Bruce Silverstein, 20 Street, New York, New York
2016
2015
2014
2013
Inventing Downtown: Artist-Run Galleries in New York City, 1952-1965, Grey Art Gallery, New York
University, New York, New York
Intra-Action: Women Artists from the Harn Collection, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of
Florida, Gainsville, Florida
Dawn’s Forest, Naples Museum of Art, Naples, Florida
The Permanent Collection: Materiality and Process, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York
Truth to Materials, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York
From the Vault: Recent Gifts to the Collection, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
We Like It So Much 2016, Childs Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts
Nocturnes, Seraphin Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Shaping Space, Museum of Art, Williams College, Williamstown, Massachusetts
th
Remember the Future, Pace Prints, 26 Street, New York, New York
Maggiore Design: Image, form and style, Galleria D-Arte Maggiore, Bologna, Italy
Outside the Lines: American Abstraction in the 20th Century, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, New
York
th
20/20: Outstanding Vision in 20 Century Art, Forum Gallery, New York, New York
th
20 Century American Masters, Galerie Gmurzynska, St. Moritza, Switzerland
Blackness in Abstraction, Pace Gallery, New York, New York
Cesar in Context, Luxembourg & Dayan, New York, New York
Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney’s Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York,
New York
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Women in Print, Pace Prints, 26 Street, New York, New York
Rosenbaum Contemporary, Rosenabum Contemporary, Bal Harbour, Florida
Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947-2016, Hauser Wirth & Schimmel, Los
Angeles, California
For the Love of Things: Still Life, Buffalo Albright-Knox-Gundlach Art Museum, Buffalo, New York
The Tiny Picture Show, Pavel Zoubok Gallery, New York, New York
Keeping Pace: Eva Glimcher and Pace/Columbus, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, Ohio
Highlights: The Castellani Collection, Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University, Niagara, New York
American Array, Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii
On the Square Part II, Pace Gallery, New York, New York
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Conversations: A 25 Anniversary Exhibition, Samuel P. Harn Museum of Art, University of Florida,
Gainesville, Florida
Modern Vision: American Sculptors’ Drawings from the Linda Lichtenberg Kaplan Collection, The Phillips
Collection, Washington, D.C.
3D: Contemporary Works from the Farnsworth, Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Florida
America is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
Pushing the Line: American Women Printmakers from the Syracuse University Art Collection, Syracuse
University Art Galleries, Syracuse, New York
A Golden Age, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Frank Caprani: Recent Paintings & Drawings, Thielsen Gallery, London, Ontario
A Brief History of Pace, Pace Gallery, Menlo Park, California
Manna: Masterworks from the Tufts University Permanent Art Collection, Tufts University Art Gallery,
Medford, Massachusetts
A Tumultuous Assembly: Collage, Assemblage, and the Found Object, Madison Museum of
Contemporary Art, Madison, Wisconsin
Selections From June Wayne’s Friends, David Richard Gallery, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Midnight Party, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Crosscurrents in Modern Art, Moeller Fine Art, New York, New York
To Be A Lady, Singapore Tagore Gallery, Singapore
Louise Nevelson & Aaron Siskind: Remnants, Bruce Silverstein Gallery, New York, New York
Nero Luce, Prometeogallery, Lucca Italy
2012
2011
2010
2009
Cubes and Rectangles, Boxes and Containers, Buffalo Albright-Knox-Gundlach Art Museum, Buffalo, New
York
The Lunder Collection: A Gift of Art to Colby College, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine
Deconstructing Francis Bacon, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Kansas
Sculpture After 1945: The Curator’s Choice, Royal Museums of fine Arts of Belgium, Brussels, Belgium
The Female Gaze: Women Artists Making Their World, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts,
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
To be a Lady: An exhibition Featuring Forty-Five Women in the Arts, Norte Maar for Collaborative Projects
in the Arts, Rouses Point, New York
Sculptors’ Drawings & Works on Paper, Pangolin London, London, UK
Weaving The Century: Tapestry from Dovecot Studios 1912-2012, Dovecot Studios, Edinburgh, UK
Rock, Paper, Scissors, Leila Heller Gallery, New York, New York
Strangers-Between Art Informel and Pop Art: Works from the GAM Collection, Civic Gallery of Modern and
Contemporary Arts, Torino, Italy
Ashes and Gold: A World’s Journey, Marta Herford, Herford, Germany
The Glass Ceiling Shattered, 30 Years-3 Great American Women Artists, Alan Avery Art Company, Atlanta
Georgia
Super Vision, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The Long Curve: 150 Years of Visionary Collecting at the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo Albright-KnoxGundlach Art Museum, Buffalo, New York
Treasures Revealed: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Foosaner Art Museum, Melbourne,
Florida,
Collecting Stories, The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, Massachusetts
At Capacity: Large-Scale Works from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, North
Miami, Florida
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Art Since the Mid-20 Century, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts
Weatherspoon Art Museum: 70 Years of Collecting, Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North
Carolina at Greensboro, North Carolina
Ad Reinhardt, Louise Nevelson 'A Dialogue', Aurel Scheibler/ScheiblerMitte, Berlin, Germany
WomenArtists@NewBritainMuseum, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut
Modern Masters from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia
50 Years at Pace: Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art, Pace Gallery, New York, New York
It’s in the Pulp: The Art of Papermaking in Santa Cruz, The Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History at the
McPherson Center, Santa Cruz, California
Advancing Abstraction in Modern Sculpture, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
th
20 Century Abstract Art from the Ringling Collection, The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art,
Sarasota, Florida
Beyond the Figure: Abstract Sculpture in the Norton Collection, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach,
Florida
I.G.Y., Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York, New York
Women of the Chrysler: A 400-Year Celebration of the Arts, The Chrysler Museum of Art, Norfolk, Virginia
Collection Sanduhr: Poliakoff, De Chirico, Lapicque, Le Corbusier, Nevelson, J & P Fine Art, Zurich,
Switzerland
Wonder Women, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York A Room of Her Own, McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas
American Artists from the Russian Empire, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, California
The Pull of Experiment: Postwar American Printmaking, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven,
Connecticut
Abstract Expressionism: Further Evidence, Michael Rosenfeld Gallery, New York, New York
Ringling Retro: Selections of Modern and Contemporary Works of Art From The John and Mable Ringling
Museum of Art, Museum of Arts and Sciences, Daytona Beach, Florida
2007
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1998
1995
1994
1993
1992
1991
1990
1983
1982
1976
1973
1970
1968
1964
1962
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1958
National Association of Women Artists: Celebrating 120 Years, The Noyes Gallery at Kramer Hall,
Oceanville, New Jersey
A Parallel Presence: National Association of Women Artists, 1889-2009, Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art
Museum, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey
Winter Season 2008/2009, Galerie Gmurzynska, St. Moritz, Switzerland
2008
Jesuvian Process, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York City, New York
Selections from the collection of Helga and Walther Lauffs, Zwirner & Wirth, New York City, New York
Reverberations: Modern and Contemporary Art From the Bank of America Collection, The Pennsylvania
Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Etching since 1950, Davison Art Center, Middletown, Connecticut
Salvaged, Pace Wildenstein, 22nd Street, New York Whistleblowers, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Kansas
Dialog Skulptur, Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Ludwigshafen
Boca Raton collects, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida
Picasso to Pop: A Growing Contemporary Collection, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
Printmaking Methods - Etching, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts
Art Cologne, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie
Sculpture of the '50s and '60s, Pace Wildenstein, 57th Street, New York, New York 2001 Art Cologne,
Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld, Germany
Art Palm Beach 2001, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
ARTCHICAGO 2001, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Georgie
Summer in the City, Pace Wildenstein, 57th street, New York, New York San Francisco International Art Exposition, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
Radcliffe Bailey, Louise Nevelson, Doug and Mike Starn, San Francisco, California
International Art Exposition, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
Sculpture, Pace Wildenstein, Los Angeles, California
Group Exhibition of Gallery Artists, Pace Wildenstein, Los Angeles, California
MOMA, New York, New York Rachel Adler, New York, New York
Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, California
UBU Gallery, New York, New York
Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, Washington Brooklyn Museum, New York
The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, New York
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, New York
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, New York
Spoleto Festival, Charleston, South Carolina
Spoleto Festival, Charleston, South Carolina
Venice Biennale Expo �70 in Osaka, Japan
Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
Pittsburgh International Exhibition at the Carnegie Institute
Documenta IV, Kassel
Documenta IV, Kassel Pittsburgh International Exhibition at the Carnegie Institute
Venice Biennale
Pittsburgh International Exhibition at the Carnegie Institute
Pittsburgh International Exhibition at the Carnegie Institute
COLLECTIONS
Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
Albany Mall Project, Albany, New York
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania
Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, Texas
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, Florida
Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
City of Binghamton, New York
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama
Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
City Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware
The Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, Michigan
Fairmont Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine
Fine Art Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Friends of Art and Preservation in Embassies, Washington, D.C.
Fukutake Collection, Okayama, Japan
Galleria Civica d’ Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino, Torino, Italy
The Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University Art Collection, New York
Hakone Open-Air Museum, Hakone-machi, Japan
Hara Museum of Contemprary Art, Tokyo, Japan
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Hirshhorm Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington DC
Hospital Corporation of America, Chicago, Illinois
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
The Jewish Museum, New York, New York
Julliard School of Music, Lincoln Center, New York, New York
Kawamura Memorial Museum, Japan
Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida
Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
Minnesota Museum of Art, Saint Paul, Minnesota
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
Musee de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Musee de Peinture et de Sculpture, Grenoble, Grance
Musee naitional d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, Texas
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana
City of New York, New York
The Newark Museum, Newark, New York
Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Alborg, Denmark
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina
Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, California
Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan
Openluchtmuseum voor Beeldhouwskunst Middelheim, Antwerp, Belgium
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
Queens College, Queens, New York
Rijkmuseum Kroller-Muller, Otterlo, The Netherlands
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
City of Scottsdale, Arizona
Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
The Sogetsu Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York
Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyungje, Korea
Storm King Art Center, Sculpture Park, Mountainville, New York
Tate Gallery, London, England
Temple Israel, Boston, Massachusetts
The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio
University of Nebraska Art Galleries – Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
Wakayama Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut