ROBERT THERRIEN



Born l947 in Chicago, Illinois Lives and works in Los Angeles

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008 Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel
Gagosian gallery – 24th Street, New York City, NY
2007 Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego – MCASD Downtown, San Diego
2006 Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin
2005 “Robert Therrien – 2 Sculptures”, Gagosian Gallery – 24th Street, New York City
“Robert Therrien – 2 Sculptures”, Gagosian Gallery – Madison Avenue, New York City
2004 Gallery Philomene Magers, Munich
Gallery Sprüth Magers Lee, London.
Gallery Simon Lee, London
2003 “Strangely Familiar: Approaches to Scale in the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art New York State Museum”, New York City
2002 Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal, Sammlung Rosencranz
Gagosian Gallery, Madison Avenue, New York City
2001-04 “Lateral Thinking: Art of the 1990s”, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego. La Jolla, California
2001-02 “Selected Works, 2001-2002 Installation”, The Broad Art Foundation. Santa Monica, California.
“Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collection”, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Gagosian Gallery – Madison Avenue, New York City
2001 Gagosian Gallery, New York City
2000-01 Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
“Made in California:Art, Image and Identity, 1900-2000”, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
“Locating Drawing”, Doug Lawing Gallery, Houston
“MoMA 2000: Open Ends”, Museum of Modern Art, New York City
“The Anderson Collection; Selected Works”, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco
2000 “Collection 2000”, Tate Modern, London, UK
Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City
1999 “In Company: Robert Creeley's Collaborations”, Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University
Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
“A Selection of Recent Work on Paper”, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York City
“PhotoImage: Printmaking 60s to 90s”, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston
“Collectieopstelling”, BildMuseet, Umea, Sweden
1998 “Sunshine & Noir Art in L.A. 1960-1997”, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles
“Back to Basics”, St-Pietersabdij, Ghent
Paule Anglim Gallery, San Francisco
1997 “Sculpture by Robert Therrien. Under the Table”, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
“Selections from the Collection”, The Museum of Modern Art, New York City
“Robert Therrien. Large-scale Sculpture”, The Eli Broad Family Foundation, Los Angeles
Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles
“Drawings”, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York City.
“Densite ou le Musee Inimaginable (density or the unimaginable museum)”, Domaine de Kerguehennec Centre d'Art Contemporaine, Bignan
“Book Obsession”, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv.
1996 Leo Castelli Gallery, New York City
“Avant-première d'un musée - Le Musée d'Art Contemporain de Gand”, The Institut Néerlandais, Paris
“The Panza Di Biumo Collection:Artists of the 80s and 90s”, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Trento
Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles
Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts, Montreal
The Gallery of York University, Toronto
Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Albert College of Art & Design, Calgary
1995 “Carnegie International 1995”, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh
“Floored (Sculpture from the Lannan Foundation Collection)”, Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles
“Micromegas”, The American Center, Paris
“Micromegas”, The Israel Museum. Jerusalem
“Permanent Collection”, The Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Galerij Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp
1994 The Eli Broad Family Foundation, Los Angeles
inSITE94. San Diego, California / Tijuana, Mexico.
“The Conceptual Landscape”, Madison Art Center, Madison
1993 Leo Castelli Gallery, New York City
Galerij Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp
Contemporain, Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Brittany.
1992 “ Manifeste”, Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
“Panza di Biumo, The Eighties and the Nineties from the Collection”, Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Lugano
1991 Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York City
“Lafrenz Collection, Hamburg”, Neues Museum, Bremen
“Lafrenz Collection, Hamburg”, The Irish Museum of Modern Art. Dublin, Ireland.)
1990 Konrad Fischer Gallery, Düsseldorf
Leo Castelli Gallery, New York City
The Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri, (Barbara Krakow Gallery. Boston, Massachusetts.)
1989 Fundació Joan Miró. Barcelona, Spain. I Triennal de Dibuix Joan Miró.
“Skulptur/Sculpture, Material und Abstraktion”, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau
“2 x 5 Positionen”, Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne
“2 x 5 Positionen”, The Swiss Institute, New York City
“2 x 5 Positionen”, The City Gallery, New York City
1988 Leo Castelli Gallery, New York City
1987 “Robert Therrien-A Series of Three Installations”, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York City
Konrad Fischer Gallery, Düsseldorf
1986 Leo Castelli Gallery, New York City
1985 Ace Gallery, Los Angeles
1984 Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
“XLI Esposizione Internazionale d'Arte. La Biennale di Venezia. Aperto '84”, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice
Hoshour Gallery, Albuquerque

 

 

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

2008 “REMIX : recent Acquisitions Works on Paper”, Albright-knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
“Sgozzata”, Peres Projects-Berlin
“Painting, Drawings, and Sculpture”, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
“Paysages Urbains”, Galerie Samuel Lallouz, Montreal
2006 “A Show of Prints”, James Kelly – Contemporary, Santa Fe
“Sculpture”, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills
“ La Dolce Vita – Selection from the Ruth and Murray Gribin Collection”, Museum of Contemporary art San Diego – MCASD La Jolla, La Jolla
2005 “Suspended Narratives”, Lora Reynolds gallery, Austin
“Highlights – New Acquisitions”, John Berggrunen Gallery, Santa Monica
“Weather”, Griffin Contemporary, Santa Monica
“L.A”, Lucas Schoormans Gallery, New York City
“Laguna’s Hidden Treasures : Art from Private Collections”, Laguna Art Museum Laguna Beach
2004 “Group Show”, Western Project, Culver City
“Drawings”, Gagosian gallery – Heddoon Street (Cloed), London
 
2003 “Fresh : Works on Paper, a Fifth Anniversary, Exhibition”, James Kelly – Contemporary, Santa Fe
“The Not-So-Still Life – A century of California Painting and Sculpture”, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose
“The Not-So-Still Life: A Century of Painting and Sculpture”, San Jose Museum of Art. San Jose, California.
2002 “Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons – Four decades of Art from the Broad Collections”, MFA – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
“Recent Works on Paper”, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York City
2001 “Contemporary Collectors XVI”, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego – MCASD La Jolla, La Jolla“Contemporary Collectors XVI”, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego – MCASD La Jolla, La Jolla
2000 “An Exhibition of Selected Painting”, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills
“Panza: The Legacy of a Collector”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
1999 “Culbutes – Oeuvres d’Impertinence”, Muse d’Art Contemporain de Montreal, Montreal
“Meaning and Message – Contemporary Art from the Museum Collection”, Oakland Museum of California, Oakland
“CONTEMPORARY COLLECTORS XIV”, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego – MCASD La Jolla, La Jolla
1998 “Saptiotemporal”, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm
“PhotoImage : Printmaking 60s to 90s”, MFA – Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
“An Exhibition of Painting”, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills
“Objects of Desire: The Modern Still Life”, The Museum of Modern Art, New York City “Objects of Desire: The Modern Still Life”, The Hayward Gallery, London
“A Decade of Collecting: Selected Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Drawing”,
The Museum of Modern Art, New York City
“Selections from the Collection”, Museum for Moderne Kunst, Copenhagen
1997 “Summer Group Show”, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills
“Objects of Desire : The Modern Still Life”, MoMA – Museum of Modern Art, New York City
“Selections from the Collection”, The Museum of Modern Art, New York City
1996 “Leo Castelli : An Exhibition In Honor of his Gallery and Artists”, Gagosian gallery, Beverly Hills
“Group Sculpture Show”, Regen Projects, Los Angeles
“ Projects by Artists in Collaboration with Master Printer Jacob Samuel”, Greenfield Sacks Gallery, Santa Monica
“Morceaux Choisis du Fonds National d'Art Contemporain”, Centre National d'Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble
“From Figure to Object A Century of Sculptors' Drawings”, Karsten Schubert, London
1995 “Donazione Panza di Biumo Prime Scelte dale Centro Opere”, Museo Cantonale d’Art Lugano, Luagano
“Object and Indentity: A Legacy of Duchamp”, Tate Gallery, London
“Collectieopstelling”, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent
“Richard Artschwager, Edward Ruscha, Robert Therrien: Selected Works”, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York City
 
1994 “After Construction”, Magasin 3 Stockholme Konsthall, Stockholm
“From the Collection”, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall., Stockholm
“Twentieth Century American Sculpture at the White House”, The White House, Washington
1993 “From the Hand to the Head, the Theoretical Object”, Fonds Régionaux d'Art
1992 “New Acquisitions”, Tate Gallery, London
“Recent Acquisitions - Selected New Works in the Permanent Collection”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
“Documenta 9”, Documenta, Kassel
“Collezione Panza di Biumo – Gli anni Ottanta e Noventa”, Museo Cantonale d’Art Lugano, Lugano
“Guy Mees – Harald Klingelholler – Richard Prince – Robert Therrien”, Galerie Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp
1990 “12th International Biennale of Drawings”, Museum of Modern Art, Rijeka
1989 “Art in Place, Fifteen Years of Acquisitions”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
“Dreams and other Works on Paper”, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York City. 
1988 “Sculpture Inside Outside”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. “Sculpture Inside Outside Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
“Vital Sign”,Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City.
“Abstract Expressions, Recent Sculpture”, Lannan Museum, Lake Worth
1987 “Structure to Resemblance: Work by Eight American Sculptors”, Albright–Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York City
“Leo Castelli y sus Artistas”, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Polanco
“Leo Castelli at Gagosian”, Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles
1986 “Individuals: A Selected History of Contemporary Art, 1945-86”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
“Major Acquisitions Since 1980: Selected Paintings and Sculpture”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
“Permanent Collection”, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
1985 “Biennial Exhibition”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
“Awards in the Visual Arts 3”, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio
“Awards in the Visual Arts 3”, Loch Haven Art Center. Orlando
“Awards in the Visual Arts 3”, Cranbrook Academy, Bloomfield
“Actual Size: An Exhibition of Small Paintings and Sculptures”, Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

 

USA Biennial Exhibition”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City
“Awards in the Visual Arts 3”, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio
“Awards in the Visual Arts 3”, Loch Haven Art Center. Orlando
“Awards in the Visual Arts 3”, Cranbrook Academy, Bloomfield
“Actual Size: An Exhibition of Small Paintings and Sculptures”, Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles