John McCracken
Berkeley 1934 - New York 2011
Solo exhibitions
1965
Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles.
1966
Robert Elkon Gallery, New York.
1967
Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles.
Robert Elkon Gallery, New York.
1968
Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles.
Robert Elkon Gallery, New York.
1969
Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Paris.
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto.
1970
Sonnabend Gallery, New York.
Ace Gallery, Vancouver.
1971
Pomona College, Pomona.
1972
Robert Elkon Gallery, New York.
1973
Robert Elkon Gallery, New York.
1974
Seder-Criegh Gallery, Coronado.
1976
University of California, Santa Barbara.
1978
Meghan Williams Gallery, Los Angeles.
1979
Dobrick Gallery, Chicago.
1980
Meghan Williams Gallery, Los Angeles.
1982
Ruth Schaffner Gallery, Santa Barbara.
1985
Flow Ace Gallery, Los Angeles.
1986
P.S.1, Long Island City, New York.
1987
Pence Gallery, Santa Monica.
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach.
University of California, Irvine.
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston.
1988
Hoffman Borman Gallery, Santa Monica.
1989
Galerie Konrad Fischer, Düsseldorf.
1990
Lisson Gallery, London.
Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm.
Fred Hoffman Gallery, Santa Monica.
1991
Galerie Froment & Putman, Paris.
1992
Sonnabend Gallery, New York.
1993
L.A. Louver Gallery, Los Angeles.
Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Bruxelles.
1994
L.A. Louver Gallery, Los Angeles.
Art & Public, Genève.
1995
Galerie Tanit, München.
Hochschule für angewandte Kunst, Wien.
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel.
L.A. Louver Gallery, Los Angeles.
1996
Galerie Froment & Putman, Paris.
1997
John McCracken, Lisson Gallery, London.
David Zwirner Gallery, New York.
L.A. Louver Gallery, Los Angeles.
1998
Art & Public, Genève.
Studio La Città, Verona.
A arte Studio Invernizzi, Milano.
1999
Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Zürich.
John McCracken Sculpture 1987-1999, James Kelly Contemporary, Santa Fe.
2000
Stainless Steel Sculptures, Zwirner & Wirth, New York.
John McCracken, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris.
John McCracken. New Sculptures, LA Louver, Los Angeles.
2002
John McCracken, Lisson Gallery, London.
2003
John McCracken. New Sculpture, LA Louver, Los Angeles.
2004
John McCracken, David Zwirner, New York.
John McCracken, S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent.
2005
John McCracken: Eighties, Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milano.
John McCracken: Early Sculpture, Zwirner + Wirth, New York.
Paul McCarthy, John McCracken, Hauser & Wirth, Zürich.
2006
Donald Judd & John McCracken. Selected Sculpture, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco.
John McCracken: New Work, David Zwirner, New York.
2008
John McCracken, David Zwirner, New York.
2009
John McCracken, Inverleith House, Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh.
2010
John McCracken. New Works in Bronze and Steel, David Zwirner, New York.
2011
John McCracken, Castello di Rivoli - Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Torino.
2013
John McCraCken. Works from 1963-2011, David Zwirner, New York.
2015
Florain Hecker/John McCracken, Künstlerhaus, Halle für Kunst & Medien, Graz.
Group exhibitions
1965
Arts of San Francisco, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco.
1966
Five Los Angeles Sculptors, University of California, Irvine.
Primary Structures, Jewish Museum, New York.
Ten From Los Angeles, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle.
1967
American Sculpture of the Sixties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia.
A New Aesthetic, Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington.
Cinquième Biennale de Paris, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris; Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena.
Fifth Guggenheim International Exhibition, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
1968
Options, Milwaukee Art Center, Milwaukee; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
Los Angeles Six, The Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver.
1968
Art of the Real, Museum of Modern Art, New York; Galerie National d’art Contemporain, Paris.
1969
Art of the Real, Tate Gallery, London.
Between Object and Environment, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
Contemporary American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
West Coast 1945-1969, Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena.
1970
Kompas 4-West Coast USA, Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven.
69th American Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago.
Permutations: Light and Color, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago.
A Decade of California Color, The Pace Gallery, New York.
1971
Five Man Show, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles;
Edmonton Gallery, Alberta.
1975
University of California, Irvine 1965-75, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla.
1978
California Perspective: Light and Space, Cal State Fullerton, Fullerton.
1981
California: A Sense of Individualism, L.A. Louver Gallery, Los Angeles.
California Innovations, Palm Springs Desert Museum, Palm Springs; Cal State Fullerton, Fullerton.
1983
Black on Black, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara.
The First Show, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
1984
Art of the States, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara.
1985
The Saatchi Collection, Saatchi Gallery, London.
1986
XLII Biennale di Venezia, Venezia.
Modern Objects, Baskervill Watson Gallery, New York.
Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles.
1987
Burnett Miller Gallery, Los Angeles.
New Locations, Wolff Gallery, New York.
Diverse Directions: A Collector’s Choice (Selections from the Charles Craig Collection), Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara.
Sculpture of the Sixties, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles.
Colección Sonnabend, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid; Museo d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Trento.
Primary Structures, Gilbert Brownstone Gallery, Paris.
1988
La Couleur Seule: l’Expérience du Monochrome, Musée Saint-Pierre Art Contemporain, Lyon.
Visual Silences, Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles.
1900 to Now, The Museum of Art, Rhode Island.
One of a Kind: Contemporary Serial Imagery, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles.
1989
Object of Thought, Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund.
Year 1: A Survey, Pence Gallery, Santa Monica.
Simple in Appearances, Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles.
Terrain Gallery, San Francisco.
Sculpture: Fulton, Genzken, Gudmundsson, Iglesias, Knoebel, McCracken, Ortwed, Uglow, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm.
Sculpture: Andre, Heizer, Judd, Knoebel, Lewitt, McCracken, Nauman, Ruckriem, Serra, Fred Hoffman Gallery, Santa Monica.
Geometric Abstraction and Minimalism in America, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
1990
Wolff Gallery, New York.
Tribute to Nicholas Wilder, Stuart Regan Gallery, Los Angeles.
The Future of the Object! A Selection of American Art; Minimalism and After, Galerie Ronny Van de Velde, Antwerpen.
Bridges: Anttila, Charlton, Gudmundsson, Mangold, McCracken, Ruckriem, Kirschenbaum, Uglow, Umberg, Quaytman, Persons & Lindell Gallery, Helsinki.
John Baldessari, Tony Cragg, John McCracken, Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco.
Minimal Art 1960-1990 Los Angeles, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles.
Early On: Robert Irwin, John MacCracken..., Newspace, Los Angeles.
1991
L.A. When It Began, James Corcoran Gallery, Los Angeles.
Fetish Finish: L.A.’s Cool School, Fisher 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.
Visions/Revisions, Denver Art Museum, Denver.
Carnegie International 1991, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.
1992
Espace de l’Art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux.
Mnemosyne, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm.
La collection: tableau inaugural, Musée d’Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montréal.
Galerie Gerard Delsol & Laurent Innocenzi, Paris.
Galerie Froment & Putman, Paris.
Bestände Onnasch, Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen.
Salander-O’Reilly Galleries & Fred Hoffman, Los Angeles.
Guggenheim Museum Soho, New York.
LAX: The Los Angeles Exhibition, Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Art Park, Los Angeles.
1993
Made in USA, Caldic Chemie B.V., Rotterdam.
Lisson Gallery, London.
In Context, Boritzer/Gray Gallery, Santa Monica.
Galerie Froment & Putman, Paris.
1994
Galerie Sophia Ungers, Köln.
Inaugural Exhibition, Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Genève.
Vue du collectionneur, Espace de l’Art Concret, Mouans-Sartoux.
1995
Object and Image, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach.
Painting Outside Painting; 44th Biennial Exhibition of American Painting, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington.
1996
Squares or Lines, Art & Public, Genève.
Black and White, Gallery Seomi, Seoul.
Chimeriques Polymeres, Musée d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice.
Continuity and Contradiction, Miami Art Museum, Miami.
1997
Sunshine & Noir. Art in L.A. 1960-1997, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Wolfsburg.
1998
Sunshine & Noir. Art in L.A. 1960-1997, Castello di Rivoli, Rivoli; Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles.
Chromaform; Color in Sculpture, University of Texas, San Antonio.
Five Years, 1993-1998, David Zwirner, New York.
Elevator, Steffany Martz Gallery, New York.
Pop/ Abstraction, Museum of American Art of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia.
1999
Gallery Artists Summer Show, David Zwirner, New York.
The American Century: Art and Culture 1900-2000 (part 2), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Tang, Turner & Runyon Gallery, Dallas.
2000
Painting Zero Degree, Cranbrook Museum of Art, Bloomfield Hills; Fred Jones Jr. Art Museum, University of Oaklahoma, Norman.
2001
Painting Zero Degree, Fuller Museum of Art, Brockton.
St. Mary’s University Art Gallery, Halifax.
University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Baltimore.
Timewave Zero/The Politics of Ecstasy, Grazer Kuntsverein, Graz.
Sammlung Hauser and Wirth/Part 2/Alternating Current, Sammlung Hauser and Wirth, Sankt Gallen.
I LOVE NY, Zwirner & Wirth, New York.
L.A. Louver Gallery, Venice (Los Angeles).
2002
Painting Zero Degree, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland.
Ten Years, Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Zürich.
Pieces de Collection/OEuvres Contemporaines, Ecole Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Nîmes, Nîmes.
The House of Fiction, Sammlung Hauser und Wirth in der Lokremise St. Gallen, Sankt Gallen.
big brown bag, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York.
2003
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.
2004
A Minimal Future? Art as Object 1958-1968, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated): Art From 1951 to the Present, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York.
Galleria Massimo De Carlo, Milano.
Perspectives @ 25: A Quarter Century of New Art in Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston.
Determined Pursuit: Highlights from the Longstaffe Collection, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver.
2005
Tracking and Tracing - Contemporary Acquisitions 2000-2005, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego.
Fast Nichts: Minimal Artworks from the Friedrich Christian Flick Collection im Hamburger Bahnhof, Hamburger Bahnhof-Museum für Gegenwart, Berlin.
Turrel and McCracken, Godt-Cleary Projects, Las Vegas.
Bridge Freezes Before Road, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York.
Extreme Abstraction, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York.
Exit, Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe.
Private View 1980-2000 - Collection Pierre Huber: Un choix d'Yves Aupetitallot, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne.
The Dazzling Show: Rolf Ricke zu Gast, Galerie Christian Roellin, Sankt Gallen.
Summer Love: Art of the Psychedelic Era, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool; Kunsthalle Schirn Frankfurt, Francoforte; Kunsthalle Wien, Wien.
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
The The, Modern Art, London.
Wilder, a Tribute to the Nicholas Wilder Gallery. Los Angeles 1965-1979, Frankling Parrasch Gallery; Joan T. Washburn Gallery, New York.
2006
Outdoor Sculpture, David Zwirner, New York.
FASTER! BIGGER! BETTER!, ZKM | Center for Art and Media, Karlsruhe.
Elemental Form, L&M Arts, New York.
Invisible Might: Works From 1965-1971, Nyehouse, New York.
Donald Judd & John McCracken: Selected Sculpture, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco.
The Los Angeles Art Scene, 1955-1985, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.
Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York.
Southern California Minimalism, Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas.
California Modern, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach.
La Dolce Vita - Selections from the Ruth and Murray A. Gribin Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego.
2007
Tomorrow Now: Design & Science Fiction, MUDAM Musée d'Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg.
Aspects, Forms, and Figures, Bellwether Gallery, New York.
If Everybody Had an Ocean: Brian Wilson, an Art Exhibition, Tate St. Ives, Cornwall.
An Architect Collects: Robert Kleinschmidt and a Lifetime of Fine Arts Acquisitions, Krannert Art Museum, University of Illionois at Urbana-Champaign, Champaign.
2012
Genesi del fare, A arte Studio Invernizzi, Milano.
2014
Surface to Air: Los Angeles Artists of the ‘60s and the Materials that they used, Kayne Griffin Corcoran, Los Angeles.
2015
Simple Forms: Contemplating Beauty, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo.
America Is Hard to See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
Summer Group Exhibition, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris.
Ladies and Gentlemen, We Are Floating In Space, Karma, New York.
Art Hamptons 2015, ArtHamptons, Southampton.
Summer Group Exhibition, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York.
Opening the Box: Unpacking Minimalism, The George Economou Collection, Athens.
Colección Jumex, In Girum Imus Nocte et Consumimur Igni, Museo Jumex, Mexico.
2016
From Minimalism Into Algorithm, The Kitchen, New York.
All about color and geometry: selections from the Diana and Peter Jannetta gift of art, The Westmoreland Museum of American Art, Greensburg.
The Sonnabend Collection: Meio Século de Arte Europeia e Americana. Part 1/Half a Century of European and American Art, Museu Serralves - Museu de Arte Contemporânea, Porto.
Da vicino. ‘In ascolto dell’inudibile risuono dell’opera’, A arte Invernizzi, Milano.
2017
Plastic Show, Almine Rech Gallery, London.
2018
From the Collection | Against the Wall?, S.M.A.K. Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Gent.
2019
The Way We Are 1.0, Weserburg | Museum of Modern Art, Bremen.
Gérard Traquandi & la Donation Albers-Honegger, Espace de l’art concret, Château de Mouans - Mouans-Sartoux.
2020
So wie wir sind 2.0, Weserburg Museum für moderne Kunst, Bremen.