John McCracken

 

1934                

Born Berkley, CA

2011                

Died, New York City, NY

                                                                                               

Solo Exhibitions

 

2011                

John McCracken: A Retrospective, Castello di Rivoli, Turin

2010                

New Works in Bronze and Steel, David Zwirner, New York

2009                

John McCracken: Landing, Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden, Edinburgh

2008                

David Zwirner, New York

2006                

John McCracken: New Work, David Zwirner, New York

2005                

John McCracken / Paul McCarthy, Hauser & Wirth Zürich, Zurich

David Zwirner, New York


Early Sculpture / John McCracken, Zwirner & Wirth, New York

John McCracken EIGHTIES, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milan

2004                

SMAK – Municipal Museum of Contemporary Art, Ghent

John McCracken: New Sculpture, David Zwirner, New York

2003                

L.A. Louver, Venice

2002                

Lisson Gallery, London

2001                

L.A. Louver, Venice

Lisson Gallery, London

2000                

John McCracken – Stainless Steel Sculptures, Zwirner & Wirth, New York

New Sculptures, L.A. Louver, Venice

John McCracken, Recontres 4, Gallery Almine Rech, Paris

1999                

John McCracken – Stainless Steel Sculptures, Zwirner & Wirth, New York

New Sculptures, L.A. Louver, Venice

John McCracken, Recontres 4, Gallery Almine Rech, Paris

1998                

Flourescent Works, Galerie Art & Public, Geneva

A Arte Studio Invernizzi

1997                

Lisson Gallery, London

John McCracken: Sculpture, David Zwirner Gallery, New York

New Dimensions, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice

1996                

Galerie Froment & Putman, Paris

1995                

John McCracken – Skulpturen, Galerie Tanit, Munich Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna

Protoplast (mit Gerhard Merz), Kunsthalle Basel, Basel

L.A. Louver, Venice

1994                

New Sculpture, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice

Galerie Art & Public, Geneva

 

1993                

Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels

1992                

Sonnabend Gallery, New York
Monochrome, Dorothey Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica

1991                

Galerie Froment & Putman, Paris

1990                

Lisson Gallery, London

Drawings and Sculpture, Wolff Gallery, New York

Skulptur, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm


Fred Hoffman Gallery, Santa Monica

1989                

Galerie Konrad Fischer, Dusseldorf

1988                

Hoffman Borman Gallery, Santa Monica

1987                

Heroic Stance: The Sculpture of John McCracken, University of

California/Newport Harbor Art Museum, Irvine/Newport Beach (Travelling)

Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston


Pence Gallery, Santa Monica

1985                

Flow Ace Gallery, Los Angeles

1982                

Ruth Schaffner Gallery, Santa Barbara

1980                

Meghan Williams Gallery, Los Angeles

1979                

Dobrick Gallery, Chicago

1978                

Meghan Williams Gallery, Los Angeles

1976                

University of California, Santa Barbara

1975                

University of Nevada, Las Vegas

1974                

Seder-Criegh Gallery, Coronado

1973                

Robert Elkon Gallery, New York

1972                

Douglas Gallery, Vancouver

1971                

Pomona College, Pomona

1970                

Sonnabend Gallery, New York

Ace Gallery, Vancouver

1969                

Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Paris

Sculpture 1965-1969, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto

1968                

Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles

Robert Elkon Gallery, New York

1967                

Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles

Robert Elkon Gallery, New York

1966                

Robert Elkon Gallery, New York

1965                

Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles

 

SELECTED Group Exhibitions

 

2011                

The Language of Less (Then and Now), Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

Best Kept Secret: UCI and the Development of Contemporary Art in Southern California 1964 – 1971, Laguna Art Museum, Los Angeles


Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture, 1950 – 1970, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles

Phenomenal: California Light, Space, Surface, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego

2010

The Artist’s Museum, MOCA Grand Avenue and The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles


Wall & Floor, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris


Primary Atmospheres: Works from California 1960-1970, David Zwirner, New York

Take Me to Your Leader! The Great Escape Into Space, The National Museum of Art, Architecture, and Design, Oslo


Double Rotation – Werke aus der Sammlung Lafrenz, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen

2009                

Collection: MOCA’s First Thirty Years, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Die Kunst ist super!, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin


6 works, 6 rooms, David Zwirner, New York


1968. The Great Innocence, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld


Themes & Variations. From the Mark to Zero, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy


Anish Kapoor, John McCracken, David Rabinowitch, Rachel Whiteread, Fredericks & Freiser,    New York


cycle rolywholyover 7: JEFFMUTE, Mamco – Musée d’art moderne et contemporain Genève, Geneva


Rip-Off: Between Appropriation and the Appropriated, Armand Bartos Fine Art, New York

2008                

The Complexity of the Simple, L&M Arts, New York


Time & Place: Los Angeles, 1958-1968, Moderna Museet, Stockholm

Private/Corporate V, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin


Call it what you like!, Art Centre Silkeborg Bad, Silkeborg


The Gallery, David Zwirner, New York


Selections from the Collection of Helga and Walther Lauffs, Hauser & Wirth Zürich, Zurich


Selections from the Collection of Helga and Walther Lauffs, David Zwirner Gallery, New York


Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, Mission: to interpret and understand contemporary art, Barbican Art Gallery, London


Southern Exposure: Works from the Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, MCA – Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney


God is Design, Galeria Fortes Vilaça, Sao Paulo


The Skat Players, Vilma Gold, London


Eye on the Sixties: Vision, Body and Soul. Selections from the Collection of Harry W. and Mary Margaret Anderson, De Saisset Museum, Santa Clara University, Santa Clara


‘This is Not to be Looked At: Highlights from the Permanent Collection of The Museum of Contemporary Art’,The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

Mitim, dans le cadre du cycle neutre Intense, Maison populaire, Montreuil,


‘If Everybody had an Ocean, Musée d’art Contemporain de Bordeaux, Bordeaux

Time & Place: Los Angeles 1957-1968, Moderna Museet, Stockholm

2007                

Uneasy Angel/Imagine Los Angeles, Monika Sprueth Philomene Magers, Munich

SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s from LACMA’s Collection, LACMA – Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles


The Shapes of Space, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

... e Ricomincio da Tre, Studio La Città, Verona, Italy


Tomorrow Now: Design & Science Fiction, MUDAM – Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg


Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era, Whitney Museum, New York

Grotjan / Andre / McCracken / Turrell / Palma, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris

Aspects, Forms and Figures, Bellwether Gallery, New York


Paint It Blue, Neues Museum Weserberg Bremen, Bremen


Début de siècle, Musée département d’art contemporain de Rochechouart, Rochechouart

Yäq, La Planta, Arte Contemporaéneo Omnilife, Guadalajara


A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Galerie Tanit, Munich

 

2006

Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York

Donald Judd & John McCracken: Selected Sculpture, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco


California Modern, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach


Invisible Might, Foundation 20 21, New York

New Presentation, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal


FASTER! BIGGER! BETTER!, Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe

Outdoor Sculpture, Zwirner & Wirth in Chelsea, New York


Thread, Ingleby Gallery, Edinburgh


Invisible Might: Works From 1965-1971, Nyehaus, New York


Los Angeles, 1955-1985: Birth of an Art Capital, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

Elemental Form, L&M Arts, New York


Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era, Kunsthalle Wien


Southern California Minimalism, Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas

2005                

Tracking and Tracing – Contemporary Acquisitions 2000-2005, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego

Bridge Freezes Before Road, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York

The Shape of Colour, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto


Private View 1980-2000, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne

Spectrum, Galerie Lelong, New York

Wilder. A Tribute to the Nicholas Wilder Gallery Los Angeles, 1965-1979, Franklin Parrasch Gallery and Joan T. Washburn Gallery, New York


Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Turrell + McCracken, Godt-Cleary Projects, Las Vegas

Summer of Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool

The The, Modern Art, London

2004                

Determined Pursuit: Highlights from the Longstaffe Collection, Vancouver Art

Gallery, Vancouver


Visions of America, Sammlung Essl, Klosterneuburg
Minimalism and After III, Daimler Chrysler Contemporary, Berlin


A Minimal Future? Art as Object 1958-1968, Museum of Contemporary Art,
Los Angeles


Galerie Almine Rech, Paris, France


Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated): Art From 1951 to the Present, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York


Perspectives@25: A Quarter Century of New Art in Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston

2003                

Basic Instinct: Minimalism, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago Gelijk het leven, Municipal Museum of

Contemporary Art, Ghent

Private / Corporate II, Daimler Chrysler Contemporary, Berlin


Der Weite Blick, Galerie Rolf Ricke, Cologne


The Exquisite Object, Lucas Schoormans Gallery, New York


Space Vehicles: Allusion Objectified, McClain Gallery, Houston


Back to the Present: Minimalist Works from the Museum’s Collection, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design Providence

Minimal to the Max: The Brownstone Collection, The Norton Museum of Art,

West Palm Beach

2002                

Musée des Beaux-Arts, ‘Multiples Objets de Désir’, Nantes, France

Les années 70: l’art en cause, CAPC – Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux Entrepôt, Bordeaux


L.A. Louver, Venice


Surface to Surface, Mary Boone Gallery, New York

Ten Years Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Hauser & Wirth Zürich, Zurich


Painting Zero Degree, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland

Pièces de Collection/Œuvres Contemporaines, Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes, Nîmes


MINIMAL-MAXIMAL, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul

2001                

Timewave Zero/The Poitics of Ecstasy, Grazer Kunstverein, Graz

Künstlerräume/Sammlerräume, Kunstmuseum St. Gallen, St. Gallen

Sculpture, L.A. Louver Gallery, Los Angeles


I ªNEW YORK, Zwirner & Wirth, New York

2000                

Extra Super Meta, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco

Elysian Fields, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris

Chromaform. Color in Sculpture, Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita (Travelling)


Open End, MoMA Museum of Modern Art, New York


Das Gedächtnis der Malerei, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau

Painting Zero Degree, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfiled Hills (Travelling)


The American Century: Art and Culture 1950-2000 (part 2), The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Art

Concret, Espace de l’Art Concret Château de Mouans-Sartoux, Mouans- Sartoux

1999                

Tang, Turner & Runyon Gallery, Dallas


‘La nature imite l’art’, Espace de l’Art Concret Château de Mouans-Sartoux, Mouans-Sartoux


Postmark: An Abstract Effect, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe


Gallery Artists Summer Show, David Zwirner, New York

1998                

Sunshine & Noir: Art in L.A. 1960-1997, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Castello di Rivoli, Turin (Travelling)

Five Years, 1993-1998, David Zwirner Gallery, New York


Elevator, Steffany Martz Galley, New York


Pop/Abstraction, Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia


Group Show, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice


Speed, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London

1997                

Radicaal-beeld, Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Shiedam

Continuity and Contradiction, Miami Art Museum, Miami

Skulptur. Projekte in Münster, Westfälisches Landesmuseum für Kunst und

Kulturgeschichte, Munster

1996                

Black and White, Gallery Seomi, Seoul

Chimériques Polymeres, Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice

Squares or Lines, Galerie Art & Public, Geneva


Painting Outside Painting. 44th Biennial Exhibition of American Painting, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC

1995                

Object and Image, University of California/Newport Harbor Art Museum, Irvine/Newport Beach

Shape: Forming the L.A. Look, California State University, Fullerton

Summer Exhibition, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice


Vue du Collectionneur, L’Espace de l’Art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux

1994                

Dear John, Galerie Sophie Ungers, Cologne


Inaugural Exhibition, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva

Vue de Collectionneur, L’Espace de L’Art Concret, Chateau de Mouans, Côte d’Azur


Playoff, Art & Public, Geneva, Switzerland


Clarity, Mark Moore Gallery, Santa Monica


New Sculpture, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice


Basic Black & White, Herbert Palmer Gallery, Los Angeles

1993                

Mariusz Kruk, John McCracken, Robert Therrien, Galerie Froment & Putman, Paris

Tony Berlant, John McCracken, Ed Moses, The Works Gallery, Costa Mesa

Out of Sight, Out of Mind, Lisson Gallery, London


In Context, Boritzer/Gray Gallery, Santa Monica

1992                

Guggenheim Museum Soho, New York

Mnemosyne, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm

La collection: tableau inaugural, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal

Bestände Onnasch, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen


Espace de l’Art Concret, Château de Mouans-Sartoux, Mouans-Sartoux


John McCracken, Nicolas Rule, Galerie Gérard Delsol & Laurent Innocenzi, Paris

Group Exhibition, Galerie Froment & Putman, Paris, France

LAX: The Los Angeles Exhibition, Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles

 

1991                

Carnegie International 1991, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh

Visions/Revisions, Denver Art Museum, Denver

Fetish Finish: L.A.‘s Cool School, University of Southern California, Fisher Gallery, Los Angeles


L.A. When It Began, James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles


Monochrome, Dorothy Goldeen Gallery, Santa Monica

Selections from the Permanent Collection: Pop Art and Minimalism 1960-1975, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

1990                

John Baldessari, Tony Cragg, John McCracken, Gallery Paule Anglim,

San Francisco


The Future of the Object! A Selection of American Art. Minimalism and After, Galerie Ronny Van de Velde, Antwerp


Minimalism, Nicola Jacobs Gallery, New York


Minimal Art 1960-1990 Los Angeles, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles


Early On: Robert Irwin, John McCracken et. al., Newspace, Los Angeles


Ericson & Ziegler: Proposals and John McCracken: Drawings and Sculpture 1965- 71, Wolff Gallery, New York NY


Tribute to Nicholas Wilder, Stuart Regen Gallery, Santa Monica

1989                

Sculpture: Andre, Heizer, Judd, Knoebel, Lewitt,
McCracken, Nauman, Rückriem, Serra, Fred Hoffman Gallery,

Santa Monica Group

Sculpture, Blum Helman Gallery, New York


Minimalist Group Show, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York


Geometric Abstraction and Minimalism in America, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York


Object of Thought, Anders Torberg Gallery, Lund
Terrain Gallery, San Francisco


Simple in Appearances, Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles


Sculpture: Fulton, Genzken, Gudmundsson, Iglesias, Knoebel, Lewitt, McCracken, Ortwed, Uglow, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm


Year 1: A Survey, Pence Gallery, Santa Monica

1988                

La Couleur Seule, l’expérience du Monochrome, Musée St. Pierre d’Art Contemporain, Lyon

Visual Silences, Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles


1900 to Now: Modern Art from Rhode Island Collections, Rhode Island School of Design, The Museum of Art, Providence


One of a Kind: Contemporary Serial Imagery, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles


Collezione Sonnabend, Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Trento

1987                

Collección Sonnabend, Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid (Travelling) New Locations, Wolff Gallery, New York

Robert Irwin, Craig Kauffman, John McCracken, Bruce Nauman, James Turrell, Douglas Wheeler, Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles


Diverse Directions: A Collectors’ Choice. Selections from the Charles Craig Collection, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara

Sculpture of the Sixties, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles

Primary Structures, Gilbert Brownstone Gallery, , Paris, France

1986                

XLIII Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice

Modern Objects, Baskerville Watson Gallery, New York


Selections from the Collection of Sterling Holloway, Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles

1985                

The Saatchi Collection, Saatchi Gallery, London

1984                

Art of the States, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara


XLII Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice

1983                

The First Show, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Black on Black, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa

Barbara

 

 

 

1981                

California: A Sense of Individualism, L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice California Innovations, California State

University, Fullerton CA

Abstraction in Los Angeles 1950 – 1980, Selections from the Murray and Ruth Gribin Collection, Fine Arts Gallery, California State University, Northridge, Irvine

California Innovations, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs 

1978                

California Perspective: Light and Space, California State University, Fullerton

1975                

University of California, Irvine 1965-75, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego       

(La Jolla), San Diego

1972                

Documenta V, Kassel, Germany

1971                

Five Man Show, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles (Traveling)

1970                

A Decade of California Color, The Pace Gallery, New York

Permutations: Light and Color, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

69th American Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago


West Coast 1945-1969, Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena


Kompas 4-West Coast USA, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven

1969                

Art of the Real. An Aspect of American Painting and Sculpture 1948-1968, Tate Gallery, London (Travelling)

Contemporary American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Between Object and Environment, University of Pennsylvania, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia


Art of the Real. An Aspect of American Painting and Sculpture 1948-1968, Museum of Modern Art, New York (Travelling)

Kompas 4–West Coast USA, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven

West Coast 1945-1969, Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena

1968                

Los Angeles Six, The Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver

Whitney Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Options, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

1967                

A New Aesthetic, Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington DC

American Sculpture of the Sixties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles (Travelling)


Fifth Guggenheim International Exhibition,The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

1966                

Primary Structures, Jewish Museum, New York
Five Los Angeles Sculptors, University of California, Irvine, Irvine

Ten From Los Angeles, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle

Five Los Angeles Sculptors, University of California, Irvine

1965                

Arts of San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco