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Joe Zucker

American, born 1941
Biography1941
Born in Chicago, Illinois

1964
Receives B.F.A., Art Institute of Chicago

1966
Receives M.F.A., Art Institute of Chicago

Currently lives and works in East Hampton, New York


SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2008
See/Sea, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Ferndale, Michigan
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, Scheibler Mitte, Berlin

2006
No Fun Intended, 1500 Dragon Street, Dallas, Texas
Container Ships, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
Open Storage, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York

2005
Interior/Exterior, Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Köln, Germany

2004
Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York

2003
GBE Modern/Gavlak Projects, New York

1999
Guild Hall, Easthampton, New York
Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Köln, Germany
Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York

1998
Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, Germnay
Aurel Scheibler, Köln, Germany

1997
The Making of Jolly Roger, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
Plimsoll Line,, Danese Gallery New York

1994
Tofte Journal, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
Canoe, Walleye & Axe Lake, Aurel Scheibler, Köln, Germany

1993
Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York
Pegmen, Rubberband Men, Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas
Spider Chronicles, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington, D.C.

1992
Parrish Art Museum, Southhampton, New York
Simone Sterne, New Orleans, Louisiana
Nancy Drysdale, Washington, D.C.
Backdrop Paintings, Aurel Scheibler Gallery, Köln, Germany

1991
Aurel Scheibler, Köln, Germany
Mirage, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York

1989
Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York

1988
Selections from the Eighties, Carol Getz Gallery, Coconut Grove, Florida
Paintings 1965-88, The Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas
The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois

1987
Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York

1985-6
Ponce de Leon in Search of the Fountain of Youth, Queens Museum, New York

1984
The Mayor Gallery, London
Vollum College Center Gallery, Reed College, Portland, Oregon
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
Flash Gordon and Other Paintings, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Ferndale, Michigan
Ponce de Leon Painting, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles

1983
The Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas
Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
,Recent Paintings,, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco

1982
Surfacing Images, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, New York
McIntosh/Drysdale Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Joe Zucker Paintings -Collection on Loan from the Rothschild Bank AG Zurich,
La Jolla Museum Contemporary Art, California

1981
Combinations, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
Devil's Right Hand and Other Paintings, Hans Strelow, Dusseldorf, Germany
Right and Left Hand Devils, The Mayor Gallery, London
Yarlow/Salzman Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Dart Gallery, Chicago
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
Matrix/Berkeley 41-Joseph Zucker Candles, University Art Museum, Berkeley, California
Candles, Pace Editions, New York

1980
New Drawings, Minneapolis College of Art and Design, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Toucans, Pace Editions, New York
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York

1979
Neue Bilder, Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin, The Mayor Gallery, London
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York

1978
Young/Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
Galerie Gillespie-Laage, Paris, France
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York

1977
Works, Hal Bromm Gallery
FIAC 77: Art Contemporain Paris, Grand Palais, Paris, France

1976
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Protech Gallery, Washington, D.C.
New Paintings,, Bykert Gallery, New York

1975
Recent Paintings,, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco
Bykert Gallery, New York

1974
,Ships,, Jacobs Ladder Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Bykert Gallery, New York
Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas

1971
,Recent Paintings,, University of Montana, Missoula

1968
,Paintings, Collector's Gallery, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota

1967
Adele Rosenberg Gallery, Chicago

1966
Systemic Paintings, Adele Rosenberg Gallery, Chicago
,Recent Paintings,, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago

1965
,Paintings,, Heistand Hall Art Gallery, Miami University, Oxford, Ohio


SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2009
Exile on Main Street, Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht
Image Matter, curated by Klaus Kertess, Mary Boone Gallery, New York

2008
Second Thoughts, Hessel Museum of Art & Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York

2007
David Nolan Gallery, New York

2006
David Nolan Gallery, New York

2005
,Drawings,, Suzanne Hilberry Gallery, Ferndale, Michigan
Fictions, 109 Crosby Street Gallery, New York

2004
4 und 4: Curator's Choice from New York and Berlin, müllerdechiara, Berlin
Mind over Manner, Andreas Grimm, Munich, Germany
Is One Thing Better Than Another?, Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Berlin

2003
Funny Papers, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
The American Landscape, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
Steve DiBenedetto, Spencer Sweeney, Joe Zucker, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, New York
Back in Black, Cohen, Leslie, and Brown, New York

2002
It's Unfair!, Museum de Paviljoens, Almere, The Netherlands

2000
Black and White, Anita Friedman Fine Art, New York

1999
Summer Group Show, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
Confluence: Art and the Trout Fly, Boulder Museum of Contemporary Art, Colorado; Prichards Art Gallery, University of Idaho, Moscow, Idaho

1997
Drawings, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
Mirror Enough, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
Selected Works, Danese Gallery, New York
Method and Multiplicity, Apex Gallery, New York

1995
1995 Biennial, Whitney Museum of Art, New York

1993
Achim Kubinsky presents, What to say, what not to say, Caren Golden Fine Art, New York
Money, Nancy Drysdale Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Groupshow, Tavelli Gallery, Aspen, Colorado
Western Myth: 20th Century Update, Aspen Art Museum, Colorado
Developing Language, Hirschl and Adler Modern in conjunction with the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
A few Words, Quartet Editions, New York
In the Process, Mary Delahoyd Gallery, New York
All that Glitters, Champion Gallery, Stamford, Connecticut

1992
American Figuration, From the Lilja Collection, Henie-Onstad Art Center, Norway

1991
Word as Image: American Art 1960-1990, Milwaukee Art Museum, Wisconson
The Landscape Observed, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore

1989
Repetition, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY

1988
Artschwager: His Peers and Persuasion, 1963-1988, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
Porcelain: Past Forms, Present Tense, Artisan Space, FIT, New York

1987
New Directions: Contemporary Art from Atlanta Collections, Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology, Atlanta, Georgia

1986
An American Renaissance: Painting and Sculpture Since 1940, Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Alchemy, XXXXII Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
American Images, Blum Helman, New York
Intuitive Line, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York
Twombly, Wilmarth, Zucker, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York

1985
Precious: An American Cottage Industry of the Eighties, Grey Art Gallery, New York
Anniottanta, Castel Sismondo, Rimini, Italy
Picture Frame-Frame Picture, Gabrielle Bryers Gallery, New York
A Decade of Visual Arts at Princeton 1975-1985, The Art Museum, Princeton, New Jersey

1984
Towards the End of the Century, Galerie Venster, Rotterdam, Holland
The Innovative Landscape, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
Artists Call: 50 Artists/50 Collectors, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
A Contemporary Focus 1974-1984, Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.

1983
Musée Cantonal Des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland
Drawing Conclusions, Daniel Weinberg, San Francisco
1983 Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
A Contemporary Collection of Loan from the Rothschild Bank Ag, Zurich;
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California
Back to the USA, Kunstmuseum, Lucerne, Switzerland (traveling exhibition)
From Minimalism to Expressionism, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Inaugural Exhibition Part I and Part II, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York

1982
Aspects of Post-Modernism, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
New York Now, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany (Traveling Exhibition)

1981
New Directions: A Corporate Collection Selected by Sam Hunter, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Morton G. Neumann Family Collection: Selected Works, The Art Institute of Chicago
For Trisha Brown Dance Company, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Celebration III, New Museum, New York
Landscapes: Sam Cady, Brad Davis, Roy Lichtenstein, Neil Jenney and Joe Zucker, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York

1980
A Penthouse Aviary, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Tendance actuelle de la peinture a¬mericaine, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
Dekor, Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim, Germany (Traveling)
American Painting of the Sixties and Seventies: The Real/The Ideal/The Fantastic, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Alabama (Traveling)
Art in the Seventies, Open 80, XXXIX, Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Drawings: The Pluralist Decade, XXXIX, Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Les Noveaux Fauves-Die Neuen Wilden, Neue Galerie Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen, Germany
Drawings, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

1979
1979 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York

1978
New Image Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Mary Boone Gallery, New York
GRIDS: Format and Image in the 20th Century, Pace Gallery, New York

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