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1934
Born Berkley, CA
2011
Died, New York City, NY
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