Selected Exhibition History

This selection of exhibitions lists only those that Dan Flavin or the Estate of Dan Flavin was involved in as installer, lender, or consultant. The list of group exhibitions also includes a number of historically important shows and additional exhibitions.

 

Capitalization and punctuation of solo exhibition titles reflect the artist’s preference.

 

Group Exhibitions

 

1957

“Art Exhibit by Men of Roslyn Air Force Station.” North Shore Community Center, Roslyn, New York. January.

 

1959

“Invitation Exhibition.” Fleischman Gallery, New York. May.

 

“Invitation Exhibition.” Fleischman Gallery, New York. December.

 

1960

“New Forms–New Media I.” Martha Jackson Gallery, New York. June 6–24. Catalogue.

 

“New Media–New Forms in Painting and Sculpture, Version II.” Martha Jackson Gallery, New York. September 28–October 22.

 

1963

“New Work: Part I.” Green Gallery, New York. January 8–February 2.

 

1964

“Black, White, and Grey.” Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut. January 9–February 9.

 

“Eleven Artists.” Kaymar Gallery, New York. March 31–April 14.

 

“New Work: Part III.” Green Gallery, New York. April 8–May 2.

 

“New Work.” Green Gallery, New York. October 24–November 14.

 

“Opening Exhibition.” John Daniels Gallery, New York. December 22, 1964–January 23, 1965.

 

1965

“Current Art.” Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. March 18–May 10. Catalogue.

 

“Flavin, Judd, Morris, Williams.” Green Gallery, New York. May 26–June 12.

 

“Art Turned On.” Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. December 10, 1965–January 30, 1966. Catalogue.

 

1966

“Diagrams: Dan Flavin/Don Judd.” Center Gallery, Washington, D.C. January 30–February 18.

 

“Evans, Flavin, Frazier, Levinson.” Kornblee Gallery, New York. February 5–24.

 

“Primary Structures: Younger American and British Sculptors.” Jewish Museum, New York. April 27–June 12. Catalogue.

 

“Electric Art.” Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Paris. May–June.

 

“Art in Process: The Visual Development of a Structure.” Finch College Museum of Art, New York. May 11–June 30. Traveled to: Eleanor Rigelhaupt Gallery, Boston, September 20–October 12, 1966. Catalogue.

 

“Dan Flavin/Larry Zox.” Kornblee Gallery, New York. June 7–17.

 

“First Annual: Arp to Artschwager.” Noah Goldowsky Gallery, New York. June–September.

 

“Kunst Licht Kunst.” Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands. September 25–December 4. Catalogue.

 

“10.” Dwan Gallery, New York. October 4–29. Catalogue.

 

“Working drawings and other visible things on paper not necessarily meant to be viewed as art.” School of Visual Art, New York. December 2–23.

 

1967

“American Sculpture of the Sixties.” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles. April 28–June 25. Traveled to: Philadelphia Museum of Art, September 15–October 29, 1967. Catalogue.

 

“10.” Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles. May 2–27.

 

“A New Aesthetic.” Washington Gallery of Modern Art, Washington, D.C. May 6–June 25. Catalogue.

 

“Focus on Light.” New Jersey State Museum Cultural Center, Trenton, New Jersey. May 20–September 10, 1967. Catalogue.

 

“Serielle Formationen.” Stiftung Studentenhaus, Johann Wolfgang Goethe Universität, Frankfurt am Main. May 22–June 30. Catalogue.

 

“Language to be looked at and/or things to be read.” Dwan Gallery, New York. June 3–28.

 

“Kompass III: Schilderkunst na 1945 uit New York.” Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands. November 9–December 17. Traveled to: Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt am Main, December 30, 1967–February 11, 1968. Catalogue.

 

“Opening Exhibition: Normal Art.” Lannis Museum of Normal Art, New York. November 12–December 3.

 

“Art in Series.” Finch College Museum of Art, New York. November 23, 1967–January 6, 1968.

 

“Paintings and Sculpture from the Gallery Collection.” Irving Blum Gallery, Los Angeles. December.

 

1968

“Plus by Minus: Today’s Half-Century.” Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York. March 3–April 14. Catalogue.

 

“Minimal Art.” Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague. March 23–May 26. Traveled to: Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, January 17–February 23, 1969; Akademie der Künste, Berlin, March 16–April 13, 1969. Catalogues published in 1968 by Haags Gemeentemuseum and in 1969 by Städtische Kunsthalle.

 

“Three Blind Mice: de collecties Visser, Peeters, Becht.” Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands. April 6–May 19. Traveled to: Sint Pietersabdij, Ghent, Belgium, June 15–August 15, 1968. Catalogue.

 

“Language II.” Dwan Gallery, New York. May 25–June 22.

 

“Sammlung 1968: Karl Ströher.” Galerie-Verein München, Neue Pinakothek, and Haus der Kunst, Munich. June 14–August 9. Traveled to: Kunstverein Hamburg, August 24–October 6, 1968; Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, March 1–April 14, 1969; Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, April 25–June 17, 1969; Kunsthalle Bern, July 12–September 28, 1969. Catalogues published in 1968 by Galerie-Verein München, Neue Pinakothek, and Haus der Kunst, and by Kunstverein Hamburg; and in 1969 by Neue Nationalgalerie, Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, and Kunsthalle Bern.

 

“Documenta 4.” Museum Fridericianum, Neue Galerie, and Orangerie, Kassel, Germany. June 27–October 6. Catalogue.

 

“Benefit for the Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam.” Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. October 23–31.

 

“In Honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. ” Museum of Modern Art, New York. October 31–November 3.

 

1969

“Electric Art.” University of California Art Galleries, Los Angeles, January 19–March 23. Traveled to: Phoenix Art Museum, April 15–June 15, 1969. Catalogue.

 

“Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Don Judd, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris.” Hetzel Union Building Gallery, Pennsylvania State University, University Park. April 6–May 20. Brochure.

 

“Highlights of the 1968–1969 Art Season.” Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut. June 22–September 14. Brochure.

 

“New York Painting and Sculpture, 1940–1970.” Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. October 18, 1969–February 8, 1970. Catalogue.

 

“Benefit Exhibition: Art for the Moratorium.” Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. December 11–13.

 

“Spaces.” Museum of Modern Art, New York. December 30, 1969–March 1, 1970. Catalogue.

 

1970

“Conceptual Art, Arte Povera, Land Art.” Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Turin. June 12–July 12. Catalogue.

 

“Benefit Exhibition for Referendum ’70.” Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. September 19–26.

 

“Group Exhibition.” Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. October 3–18.

 

“Early Works by Gallery Artists.” Dwan Gallery, New York. November 28–December 23.

 

“1970 Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Sculpture.” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. December 12, 1970–February 7, 1971. Catalogue.

 

1971

“Sixth Guggenheim International Exhibition.” Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. February 12–April 11. Catalogue.

 

“Icon.” National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. April 23–May 23.

 

“Works for New Spaces.” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. May 18–July 25. Catalogue.

 

“Dwan Gallery Group (Final Exhibition).” Dwan Gallery, New York. Opened June 1.

 

“Group Exhibition.” Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. June 26–September 24.

 

“Kid Stuff?” Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York. July 25–September 6. Catalogue.

 

“Group Exhibition.” John Weber Gallery, New York. November 27–December 8.

 

1972

“Flavin, Judd, Lichtenstein, Morris, Serra, Sonnier, and Stella.” Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. February 19–March 25.

 

“The Green Gallery Revisited.” Hofstra Museum of Fine Arts, Hofstra University, Hempstead, New York. February 22– March 29.

 

“Art Without Limit.” Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester, New York. April 7–May 7.

 

“The Modern Image.” High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia. April 15–June 11. Catalogue.

 

“Group Exhibition.” Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. June 17–September 23.

 

“Seventieth American Exhibition.” Art Institute of Chicago. June 24–August 20. Catalogue.

 

“Diagrams and Drawings.” Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, Netherlands. September 8–October, 24. Traveled to: Kunstmuseum Basel, January 20–March 4, 1973. Catalogues published  in 1972 by Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller and in 1973 by Kunstmuseum Basel.

 

“Art for McGovern.” Sidney Janis Gallery and Pace Gallery, New York. Opened September 20.

 

“Drawings.” Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. September 30–October 21.

 

“Benefit Exhibition for the New York Collection for Stockholm.” Leo Castelli Gallery, New York (in conjunction with Sonnabend Gallery and John Weber Gallery). October 27–28.

 

1973

“Bilder-Objekte-Filme-Konzepte.” Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich. April 3–May 13. Catalogue.

 

“Art in Space: Some Turning Points.” Detroit Institute of Arts, Michigan. May 15–June 24. Catalogue.

 

“Group Exhibition.” Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. June 3–September 15.

 

“Group Exhibition.” Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. September 22–October 16.

 

“Contemporanea.” Parcheggio di Villa Borghese, Rome. November 1973–February 1974. Catalogue.

 

1974

“Some Recent American Art.” Organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Opened at National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, February 12–March 10. Traveled to: West Australian Art Gallery, Perth, April 5–May 5, 1974; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, May 31–June 30, 1974; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, July 26–August 21, 1974; City of Auckland Art Gallery, New Zealand, October 14–November 17, 1974. Catalogue.

 

“Drawings.” Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. February 16–March 2.

 

“Group Exhibition.” John Weber Gallery, New York. June 1–July.

 

“Group Exhibition.” Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. June 21–September 14.

 

“In Three Dimensions.” Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. September 21–October 12.

 

1975

“Benefit Exhibition for the Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College.” Leo Castelli Gallery and Sonnabend Gallery, New York. April 2–5.

 

“Dan Flavin, Donald Judd, Ellsworth Kelly, Robert Morris.” Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. November 22–December 13.

 

1976

“Drawing Now.” Museum of Modern Art, New York. January 21–March 9. Catalogue.

 

“Line.” Visual Arts Museum, New York. January 26–February 18. Traveled to: Philadelphia College of Art, March 5–April 9, 1976. Catalogue.

 

“Two Hundred Years of American Sculpture.” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. March 16–September 26. Catalogue.

 

“Group Exhibition.” Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. June 19–September 10.

 

“Group Drawing Exhibition.” Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. June 26–September 10.

 

“An Exhibition for the War Resisters League.” Heiner Friedrich, Inc., New York. December 4–20.

 

“Seventy-second American Exhibition.” Art Institute of Chicago. March 13–May 9. Catalogue.

 

1977

“artists and friends: Dan Flavin and Michael Venezia.” Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati. February 12–April 3.

 

“Recent Work.” Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. May 28–September 17.

 

“Documenta 6.” Museum Fridericianum, Orangerie, Neue Galerie, and Rathaus, Kassel, Germany. June 24–October 2. Catalogue.

 

1978

“Group Exhibition.” Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. July 5–September 23.

 

1979

“The Reductive Object: A Survey of the Minimalist Aesthetic in the 1960s.” Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston. March 7–April 29. Catalogue.

 

“Summer Group Show.” Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. June 23–September 15.

 

“Skulptur: Matisse, Giacometti, Judd, Flavin, Andre, Long.” Kunsthalle Bern. August 17–September 23. Catalogue.

 

1981

“Westkunst.” Museen der Stadt Köln, Cologne. May 30–August 16. Catalogue.

 

1982

“Flavin/Judd/Serra.” Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. February 20–March 27.

 

“Castelli and His Artists: Twenty-five Years.” La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, California. April 23–June 6. Traveled to: Aspen Center for the Visual Arts, Colorado, June 17–August 7, 1982; Castelli Gallery, New York, September 11–October 9, 1982; Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Oregon, October 22–December 3, 1982; Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, Texas, December 17, 1982–February 13, 1983. Catalogue.

 

1983

“The First Show: Painting and Sculpture from Eight Collections, 1940–1980.” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Opened November 18. Catalogue.

 

1984

Hallen für neue Kunst, Schaffhausen, Switzerland. May 1984–May 1991. Long-term installations.

 

“Blam! The Explosion of Pop, Minimalism, and Performance, 1958–1964.” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. September 20–December 9. Catalogue.

 

1985

“Group Exhibition.” Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. March 30–April 13.

 

“Transformations in Sculpture: Four Decades of American and European Art.” Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. November 22, 1985–February 16, 1986. Catalogue.

 

“Group Exhibition.” Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zurich.

 

1986

“In Honor of John Chamberlain.” Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York. June 27–September 12. Catalogue.

 

“Individuals: A Selected History of Contemporary Art, 1945–1986.” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. December 10, 1986–January 10, 1988. Catalogue.

 

1987

“Group Exhibition.” Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. January 31–March 7.

 

“Thirtieth Anniversary: The First Fifteen Years, Part Two.” Leo Castelli Gallery, New York. March 14–April 4. Brochure.

 

1988

“Arte Minimal de la Colección Panza.” Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid. March 24–December 31. This exhibition was not recognized by the artist. Catalogue.

 

“Zeitlos.” Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin. June 22–September 25. Catalogue.

 

1989

“Bilderstreit: Widerspruch, Einheit und Fragment in der Kunst seit 1960.” Rheinhallen, Cologne. April 8–June 28. Catalogue.

 

“Einleuchten: Will, Vorstell und Simul in HH.” Deichtorhallen, Hamburg. November 11, 1989–February 18, 1990. Catalogue.

 

“L’Art conceptuel, une perspective.” Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris. November 22, 1989–February 18, 1990. Catalogue.

 

1990

“Quotations: Annemarie Verna Gallery 1969–1989, Part I.” Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zurich. March–April.

 

“Un Choix d’art minimal dans la collection Panza.” Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris. July 12–November 4. Catalogue.

 

1991

Hallen für neue Kunst, Schaffhausen, Switzerland. May 1991–present. Long-term installations.

 

“Summer Group Exhibition.” Rubin Spangle Gallery, New York. June 1–July 31.

 

1993

“American Art in the Twentieth Century: Painting and Sculpture, 1913–1993.” Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin. May 8–July 25. Traveled to: Royal Academy of Arts, Saatchi Gallery, London, September 16–December 12, 1993. Catalogue published by Prestel Verlag, Munich; brochure published by Royal Academy of Arts.

 

1996

“Abstraction in the Twentieth Century: Total Risk, Freedom, Discipline.” Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. February 9–May 12. Catalogue.

 

1998

“Dan Flavin/Donald Judd: Aspects of Color.” Menil Collection, Houston. November 20, 1998–January 24, 1999. Brochure.

 

1999

“The American Century. Art and Culture 1900–2000, Part II: 1950–2000.” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. September 26, 1999–February 13, 2000. Catalogue.

 

2003

Dia:Beacon, Beacon, New York. May 18, 2003–present. Long-term installations.

“3 x 3: Flavin, Andre, Judd.” Organized by the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa. Opened at St Mary’s University Art Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, June 13–July 27. Traveled to: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, October 3–November 30, 2003; Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Alberta College of Art and Design, Calgary, February 5–April 3, 2004; Two Rivers Gallery, Prince George, British Columbia, May 13–July 11, 2004. Catalogue.

 

2004

“A Minimal Future? Art as Object, 1958–1968.” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. March 14–August 2. Catalogue.

 

“Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form 1940s-70s.” Los Angles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles. June 13–October 3, 2004; traveled to: Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida, November 19–April 24, 2005. Catalogue.

 

“Recent Acquisitions: Framing the Collection. Parrish Art Museum,” Southampton, New York. November 20, 2004–January 2, 2005.

 

“Dan Flavin: Sculpture.”  Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago. December 10–January 29, 2005.

 

2005

“Color.” Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York. February 24–March 26.

 

“’Logical Conclusions’:40 Years of Rule-Based Art’.” PaceWildenstein, New York, February 18–March 26, 2005. Catalog.

 

“Minimalism and Beyond.” The Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts, St. Louis. October 14–April 26, 2007.

 

2007

“FASTER!BIGGER!BETTER! Signet works of the collections.” ZKM/ Museum of Contemporary Art, Karlsruhe, Germany. September 24–January 7, 2007. Catalogue.

 

“Passage du Temps, Collection François Pinault Foundation. Lille 3000, Tri Postal, Lille, France. October 16–January 1, 2008. Catalogue.

 

“The Panza Collection: An Experience of Color and Light.” Albright-Knox Art Gallery. November 16, 2007–February 24, 2008. Catalogue.

 

2008

“Dan Flavin / Josef Albers.” Gering & Lopez, New York, NY. May 4–June 14.

 

“Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today.” Museum of Modern Art, New York. March 2–May 12. Traveled to: Tate Liverpool, Liverpool. May 29–September 13, 2009. Catalogue.

 

2009

“A Certain State of the World? A Selection of Works from the François Pinault Foundation.” Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow. March 19–June 14. Catalogue.

 

“If we could imagine,” Glenstone Foundation, Potomac, Maryland.  March–October 2010. Catalogue.

 

“Qui a peur des artistes? Une selection d’oeuvres de la François Pinault Foundation.” Dinard, Palais des Arts. June 14–September 13.

 

“Beg Borrow and Steal.” Rubell Family Collection, Miami. December 3, 2009–May 29, 2010. Catalogue.

 

2010

“Artists at Max’s Kansas City, 1965-1974: Hetero-holics and Some Women Too.” Loretta Howard Gallery, New York, September 10 – October 30.

 

2011

“Making Histories: Changing Views from the Collection.” Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, March 3 – ongoing.

 

“The Language of Less (Then and Now).” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, October 8, 2011 – April 15, 2012. Catalogue.

 

2012

“Unlikely Friends: James Brooks and Dan Flavin.”  Greenberg Van Doren Gallery, New York, January 5–February 18, 2012. Catalogue.

 

“Il Guggenheim: L’Avanguardia Americana, 1945-1980.” Palazzo delle Esposizione, Rome. February 7–May 6, 2012. Catalogue.

 

“Neon: Who’s afraid of red, yellow and blue.” La Maison Rouge, Paris. February 17–May 20, 2012. Catalogue.

 

“Light Works: Dan Flavin and Robert Irwin, Art from the 1960s.” Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California. March 21–July 8, 2012.

 

“Everyday Things: Contemporary Works from the Collection.” Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI. April 13, 2012–February 24, 2013.

 

“Color Ignited: Glass, 1962-2012.” Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio. June 14–September 9, 2012.

 

“Sculpted Matter.” Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York. June 21–August 17, 2012.

 

“The Unseen.” Fourth Guangzhou Triennial, Guandong Museum of Art, Guandong, China. September 28, 2012 – January 31, 2013. Catalogue.

 

2013

“Light Show”. Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London. January 30 – April 28, 2013.

 

“Piet Mondrian – Barnnett Newman – Dan Flavin.” Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland. September 8, 2013 – January 19, 2014.