MEL BOCHNER - Works and History

Curriculum Vitae

1940
born in Pittsburgh, PA

1962
BA at the Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA

2001
Appointed professor at Yale University, New Haven, CT

2005
Recipient, honorary doctor of fine arts degree from Carnegie Mellon University

Lives and works in New York

Selected Exhibitions

2014 
Jewish Museum, New York, USA (solo) 

2013 
Haus der Kunst, München, Deutschland (solo) 
Fundacao Serralves, Porto, Portugal (solo) 

2012 
Theory of Sculpture: Fontana’s light, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, USA (solo) 

2010 
Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, USA (solo) Photographs and Not photographs 1966-2010, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, USA (solo) 
Mel Bochner, Photographs and Not Photographs 1966 – 2010, Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, USA (solo) 

2009 
Mel Bochner, Blah Blah Blah, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, USA (solo) 

2008 
Geometry as image, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, USA 
Mel Bochner, Peter Freeman, Inc., New York, USA (solo) 
Mel Bochner, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, USA (solo) 

2007 
Mel Bochner, Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Bignan 
Mel Bochner, Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris, Frankreich (solo) 

2006 
Mel Bochner: Recent Paintings on Black Velvet, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, USA (solo) 
Focus: Mel Bochner Language 1966 – 2006, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA (solo) 
Mel Bochner, Thesaurus Paintings, Peter Freeman, Inc., New York, USA (solo) 
Mel Bochner: Drawing from Four Decades, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, USA; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, USA 

2005 
Looking at Words, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, USA Dessins de la collection/Drawings from the Collection, 
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA OpenSystems: Rethinking Art c.1970, Tate Modern, London, 
Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt/Main 

2004 
Whitney Biennial Exhibition, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA Visions of America
Sammlung Essl-Kunsthaus, Klosterneuburg, Austria INTRA-MUROS, Musee d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice, Frankreich Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form 1940s−70s, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA Schriftbilder/Bilderschrift, Galerie von Bartha, Basel, Schweiz The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960-1982, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA 

2003 
The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960-1982, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA 

2002 
Forum: Mel Bochner Photographs, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, USA 

2001 
Akira Ikeda Gallery Nagoya, Japan (solo) 

2000 
Afterimage: Drawing Through Process, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, USA 
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, USA (solo) 

1999 
American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York 
Centro de Arte Helio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (solo) 

1998 
The Serial Attitude, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, USA 
More Pieces for the Puzzle: Recent Additions to the Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA 
The Drawing Center, New York, USA (solo) 

1997 
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Geneva, Schweiz (solo) 

1996 
Thinking Print: Books to Billboards, 1980-1995, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA 
The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: 1945-1995, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C. 

1995 
1965-1995: Reconsidering the Object of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA 
Yale University, New Haven, USA (solo) 

1991 
A View from the 60s: Selections from the Castelli and Sonnabend Collections, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, USA 
The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, USA (solo) 

1989 
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA (solo) 

1985 
Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA (solo)