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Mel Bochner

 
MEL BOCHNER
Born 1940 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Lives and works in New York City
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Solo Exhibitions
2018
“Amazing! Works by Mel Bochner,” Philbrook Museum of Art, Tulsa, Oklahoma
2017
“Mel Bochner: Language is Not Transparent [Brussels, 2017],” Gladstone Gallery, Brussels
“Voices,” Peter Freeman, Inc., New York, NY
2016
“Mel Bochner," Ikeda Gallery, Berlin, Germany. 
2015
“Illustrating Philosophy,” Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA
“words, words, words…,” Galeria Hispanica, Mexico DF, Mexico
“Mel Bochner,” Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
“Early Drawings,” Craig F. Starr, New York, NY
 
2014
 “Going Out of Business,” Simon Lee Gallery, London, England
 “Mel Bochner – Strong Language,” Jewish Museum, New York, NY
2013
“Mel Bochner: If the Colour Changes,” Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal
“Proposition and Process: A Theory of Sculpture,” Peter Freeman, Inc., New York, NY
“Mel Bochner: Wenn sich die Farbe ändert,” Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
 
2012
“Theory of Sculpture: Fontana's Light,” Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
“words...,” Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
 
2011
“Mel Bochner: Photography Before the Age of Mechanical Reproduction + Some Drawings from the
"Sixties + Recent Reflections and Recursions on Dis / Tension and Crumpling,” Peter Freeman, Inc. New York, NY
“In the Tower: Mel Bochner,” National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C
 
2010
“Photographs and Not Photographs: 1966-2010,” Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA
“Mel Bochner,” Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris, France
“Mel Bochner,” Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA. 
2009
“Recent Drawings,” Lawrence Markey, San Antonio, TX
“Il dissidio sulla parola,” Metroquadro, Rivoli, Italy
“Blah, Blah, Blah,” Rhona Hoffman, Chicago, IL
2008
“Mel Bochner,” Peter Freeman Inc., New York, NY
“Color as Shape/Shape as Color: A Wall Painting and Related Drawings from the 1970s,” Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA
 
2007
“Mel Bochner,” Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Bignan, France
“1998 – 2007: Painting, Sculpture and Installation,” Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris, France
“Velvet Paintings,” Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
“Mel Bochner,” Galleria Il Gabbiano, Rome, Italy
 
2006
“Mel Bochner: Language 1966 – 2006,” Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
“Mel Bochner: Drawings from Four Decades,” Wynn Kramarsky, New York, NY Exhibition travelled: Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL (9 July - 30 September);       Weatherspoon    Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC (15 October – 23 December); San Diego   Museum of Art, San Diego, CA (14 January – 18 March 2007)
“Thesaurus Paintings,” Peter Freeman, Inc., New York, NY
“The Language Barrier,” Spertus Institute, Chicago, IL
2004
“Dialogue in a Landscape,” Regina Gouger Miller Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University Pittsburgh, PA
2003
“Genetic Space(s): Paintings Drawings, and Prints, 1992-1996,” Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
“Mel Bochner - Measurement Paintings,” Musée d’Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
“Recent Works,” Galleria Il Gabbiano, Rome, Italy
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY
 
2002
“Forum: Mel Bochner: Photographs, 1966 – 1969,” Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
“New Works and Recent Works,” Akira Ikeda Gallery, Berlin, Germany
“Mel Bochner: Photographs, 1966 – 69,” Arthur M. Sackler Museum, Harvard University Art Museums,  Cambridge, MA
Michael Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.
 
2001
“Numbers, 1966 – 2001,” Lawrence Markey Gallery, New York, NY
Bound & Unbound, New York, NY
 Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
Grant Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills, CA
Galleria Primo Piano, Rome, Italy
 
2000
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY
Grant Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills, CA
“Mel Bochner Measurements: Works from the 1960s/1990s,” FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, France
 
1999
Centro Municipal de Arte Hélio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Akira Ikeda Gallery, Yokosuka, Japan
 
1998
“Mel Bocher: Drawings 1966-1973,” Lawrence Markey Gallery, New York. NY
“Parasite On View: Mel Bochner, Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper to Be Viewed as Art,” The Drawing Center, New York, NY Betsy Senior Gallery, New York, NY
 
1997
Musee d'Art Moderne et Contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Cabinet des Estampes du Musee d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland
 
1996
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY
“Thought Made Visible: 1966 – 1973,” La Societe des Exposition du Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium Exhibition travelled: Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany 
Galerie Tanit, Munich, Germany
1995
“Thought Made Visible: 1966 – 1973,” Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Betsy Senior Gallery, New York, NY
1994
Galerie Arnaud Lefebvre, Paris, France
1993
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY
Betsy Senior Gallery, New York, NY
Gallery 360, Tokyo, Japan
One Five, Antwerp, Belgium
Museo Storico della Liberazione, Rome, Italy
 
1992
Galerie Vega, Liege, Belgium
Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA
1991
SteinGladstone, New York, NY
Studio Casoli, Milan, Italy
The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
1990
David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY
Galleria Primo Piano, Rome, Italy
Galerie Jahn und Fusban, Munich, Germany
Barbara Kornblatt Gallery, Washington, D.C
Roger Ramsey Gallery, Chicago, IL
 
1989
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
 
1988
Martina Hamilton Gallery, New York, NY
Paul Cava Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY
Greene Gallery, Coral Gables, FL
1987
“Selected Works 1969 – 1986,” Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY
Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL
Galerie Montenay, Paris, France
 
1986
Kunstmuseum, Luzern, Switzerland
Galleria Primo Piano, Rome, Italy
1985
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY
Janet Steinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Carnegie-Mellon University Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
1984
Roger Ramsay Gallery, Chicago, IL
1983
Yarlow Salzman Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Pace Editions, New York, NY
Carol Taylor Gallery, Dallas, TX
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY
1982
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY
Abbaye de Senanque, Gordes, France
1981
Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
1980
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY
 
1979
Art in Progress Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany
1978
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Schema Gallery, Florence, Italy
Sonnabend Gallery, Paris, France
 
1977
Bernier Gallery, Athens, Greece
1976
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
1975
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY
Ricke Gallery, Cologne, Germany
 
1974
Sonnabend Gallery, Paris, France
Schema Gallery, Florence, Italy
University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
1973
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY
Sonnabend Gallery, Paris, France
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY
 
1972
M T L Gallery, Brussels, Belgium.
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY
Lisson Gallery, London, England
Bonomo Gallery, Bari, Italy
Sonnabend Gallery, Paris, France
Toselli Gallery, Milan, Italy
 
1971
“Projects – Mel Bochner,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
112 Greene Street, New York, NY
 
1970
Sperone Gallery, Turin, Italy
Toselli Gallery, Milan, Italy
Art and Project Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
 
1969
Heiner Friedrich Gallery, Munich, Germany
Konrad Fischer Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany.
Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
 
1966
School of Visual Arts Gallery, New York, NY 
Education
1962
BFA, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh
Public Collections
 
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
The Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
Centre Pompidou, Paris
David Owsley Museum of Art, Ball State University, Muncie, IN
Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA
Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, France
Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
FRAC Bourgogne, Dijon, France
FRAC Bretagne, Châteaugiron, France
FRAC Picardie, Amiens, France
Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN
The Jewish Museum, New York
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Michael C. Carlos Museum, Emory University, Atlanta
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
The Musée d'Art Contemporain de Montréal
Museet for Samtidskunst, Roskilde, DK
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
The Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, AU
Reina Sofia, Madrid
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
The Städel Museum, Frankfurt 
Tate, London
University Art Museum, University at Albany, SUNY, Albany, NY
The Wexner Center of the Arts, Ohio State University, Colombus, OH
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
 
Selected Group Exhibitions
2017
“Los Angeles to New York: Dwan Gallery, 1959–1971,” National Gallery, Washington, D.C
“On Paper: Finding Form,” Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland, United States
“Dimensions Variable,” MAAT, Lisbon, Portugal
“Colori,” Castello di Rivoli and GAM Torino, Turin, Italy
“Delirious: Art at the Limits of Reason, 1950-1980,” MET Breuer, New York
2016
“Self-Portraits and Self-Promotion,” Manifesta 11, The European Biennial of Contemporary Art, Löwenbräukunst, Zurich, Switzerland
“Drawing Dialogues: The Sol Le Witt Collection,” The Drawing Center, New York, NY
“Verba Volant Scripta Manent,” Totah Gallery, New York, NY
 
2015
“Artists and Architecture. Variable Dimensions,” curated by Didier Gourvennec Ogor and Gregory Lang Pavillon de L’Arsenal, Paris, France
MoMA PS1, New York, NY. Greater New York
“Museum of Stones,” Noguchi Museum, New York, NY
“Boolean Expressions: Contemporary Art and Mathematical Data,” The Lewis Glucksman Gallery,Cork,  Ireland
“Eppur Si Muove, Art and Technology, a Shared Sphere,” Mudam Luxembourg Museum, Luxembourg
“Hello Walls,” Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY
“Raccontare un luogo (Tales of a Place),” curated by Lorenzo Bruni, Galleria Enrico Astuni, Bologna,       Italy
“Self: Portraits of Artists in Their Absence,” National Academy, New York, NY
2014
“Le Nouveau Festival,” Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
“Art by Telephone… Recalled,” La Panacee, Montpellier, France
2013
“Ileana Sonnabend: Ambassador for the New,” Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
“The Ceiling Should Be Green (天花板應該是綠色的),” P!, New York, NY
“Xerography,” Firstsite, Colchester, England
“The Collection #3: Sign, Image, Object,” 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria
“Re-Making When Attitudes Become Form,” Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy
“The Temptations of the Diagram,” Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
“Merci, Mercy,” Vladimir Restoin Roitfeld Gallery, New York, NY
 
2012
“Una finestra sul mondo, Da Dürer a Mondrian e oltre,” Museo d’Arte, Lugano, Switzerland
“Notations: Contemporary Drawing as Idea and Process,” Kemper Art, Museum, St. Louis, MO
“Alice in the Wonderland of Art,” Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
“Minimal Myth,” Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
“Second Nature: Abstract Photography Then and Now,” deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA
“Toward A Warm Math,” On Stellar Rays, New York, NY
2011
“Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1965-1977,” The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
“Alice in Wonderland,” Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, England
“Syntax: Text and Symbols for a New Generation,” The Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
“Notable Henchman,” Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, New York, NY
“Malevich and the American Legacy,” Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
2010
“Third Thoughts,” CCA Andratx, Mallorca, Spain
“Double Up,” Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
“Weniger ist mehr. Bilder, Objekte, Konzepte aus Sammlung und Archiv von Herman und Nicole Daled.   1966–1978,” Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
“Forms of Contingency: New York and Turin, 1960s-1970s,” Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
“Double Bind/ Stop Trying To Understand Me,” Villa Arson, Nice, France
“Graphic Masters III,” Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
 
2009
“I arte e una parola,” Galleria il Ponte Firenze, Florence, Italy
“1969,” MoMA PS1, New York, NY
“Target Practice: Painting Under Attack 1949-78,” Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
“Sculpture Show,” Eastside Projects, Birmingham, England
“Inventing Marcel Duchamp: The Dynamics of Portraiture,” National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
“If We Could Imagine,” Glenstone Foundation, Potomac, MD
 
2008
“Close-up,” The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
“Notation,” Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, Germany Exhibition travelled: Zentrum für Kunst und Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe, Germany
“Genau und anders: Mathematik in der Kunst von Dürer bis Sol LeWitt,” Mumok, Vienna, Austria
“Mel Bochner, Alighiero Boetti, Hanne Darboven,” College Jacque Cartier, Chauny, France 
2007
“Lines, Grids, Stains, and Words,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
“If Everybody Had an Ocean: Brian Wilson, an Art Exhibition,” Tate St. Ives, Cornwall, England
“Conceptual Photography, 1964 – 1989,” Zwirner & Wirth, New York, NY
“Live/Work: Performance into Drawing,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2006
“Magritte and  Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
“Nineteen Sixty-Eight,” Solo Projects Studio B, Los Angeles, CA
2005
“Rub Out The Word,” Dumbo Arts Center, Brooklyn, New York, NY
“Drawing From the Modern, 1945–1975,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
“Building and Breaking the Grid,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
“Threshold,” Max Wigram Gallery, London, England
“Down The Garden Path: The Artist’s Garden After Modernism,” Queens Museum, New York, NY
“Wordplay,” Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
“The Photograph In Question,” Von Lintel Gallery, New York, NY
“Open Systems: Rethinking Art c.1970,” Tate Modern, London, England
“Logical Conclusions: 40 Years of Rule-Based Art,” Pace Wildenstein Gallery, New York, NY
 
2004
“Traces,” National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, Japan
“Infinite Possibilities,” Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
“Intra-Muros,” Musee d’Art Moderne et d’Art Contemporain, Nice, France
“Beyond Geometry,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
“A Minimal Future?,” Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
“Whitney Biennial,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
“The Copy Age – From Duchamp Through Warhol to Morimura,” Museum of Modern Art, Shiga, Japan
 
2003
“Work Ethic,” Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
“The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography 1960-1982,” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
“Pittsburgh Platforms,” Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, PA
“Dust Memories,” Swiss Institute, New York, NY
“eXhibition3Bard,” College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, NY
“Under Pressure: Prints from Two Palms Press,” The Cooper Union, New York, NY
2002
“Flashing Into the Shadows: The Artists Film 1966-1976,” Tate Modern, London, England
“After the Beginning and Before theEnd. From the Drawings of the Gilbert and Lila Silverman Collection, Detroit,” Bergen Kunstmuseum, Bergen, Norway
“Visions from America,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
“Shimmering Substance,” Arnolfini Gallery, Bristol, England
“Copy,” Roth Horowitz Gallery, New York, NY
“An Empty Space,” Akira Ikeda Gallery, New York, NY
“Ad Infinitum,” Wynn Kramarsky, New York, NY 
 
2001
“Division and Displacement As Painting,” Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
“Saying Seeing,” Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
“Flashing Into the Shadows: The Artist's Film After Pop and Minimal, 1966-1976,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
“Art Express- Art Minimal et Conceptual Americain,” Musee d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland
 
2000
“In Process,” Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY
“Open Ends,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
“Presumés Innocents - L' Art Contemporain et l' Enfance,” CAPC, Bordeaux, France
“The Object Sculpture,” The Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, England
“Zig – Zag,” Frac Picardie, Amiens, France
“Painting Function: Making It Real,” Spaces, Cleveland, OH
“Contemporary Drawings from the Sarah - Ann and Werner Kramarsky Collection,” Southern Methodist  University, Dallas, TX
“L'elemento Verbale Nell' Arte Contemporanea,” Galleria Milano, Milan, Italy
“Retrospective,” Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY
 
1999
“Drawings from the 1970's,” Lawrence Markey Gallery, New York, NY
“The American Century: Art and Culture 1900-2000 (Part II, 1950 - 2000),” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
“Drawn to Scale,” Dieu Donne Gallery, New York, NY
“Circa 1968,” Museu Serralves, Porto, Portugal
“Drawings from the 1960's,” Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY
“Scripta Manent,” Esso Gallery, New York, NY
“After Image: Drawing Through Process,” The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
“LeWitt, Bochner, Tschubarov,” Tatunz Gallery, New York, NY
 
1998
“Back to Back,” DeChiara/Stewart Gallery, New York, NY
“More Pieces for the Puzzle: Recent Additions to the Collection,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
“Paper Plus,” Dieu Donne Gallery, New York, NY
“Deep Thought,” Basilico Fine Arts, New York, NY
“Art Pared Down: Exploring Minimalism Across Media,” Queensland Art Gallery, Queensland, Australia
 
1997
“Drawing is Another Kind of Language,” Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA
“Collection in Context; Selected from the contemporary photographs of hands from the collection of Henry Mendelssohn Buhl,” Thread Waxing Space, New York, NY
“The Serial Attitude,” Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA. Exhibition travelled: Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH
“One-Line Drawing,” Ubu Gallery, New York, NY
“Geometric Abstraction: Mel Bochner, Imi Knoebel, Sol LeWitt, Andrew Spence,” Numark Gallery,          Washington, D.C
“Gravity-Axis of Contemporary Art,” National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan
“Group Exhibition,” Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY
“Laying Low; Post Minimalism / Scatter Art,” Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo, Norway
“Au pied du mur,” Frac Picardie, Amiens, France
“Magie der Zahl,” Staatsgalerie Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
 
1996
“From Figure to Object: A Century of Sculptor's Drawings,” Frith Street Gallery/Karsten Schubert Gallery, London, England
“Thinking Print: Books to Billboards, 1980-95,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
“L'Informe: Mode d'Emploi,” Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
“The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: 1945-1995,” National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
“Sammlung Sonnabend – Von Der Pop Art Bis Heute. Amerikanische und Europaische Kunst Seit 1954,” Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
“Limited Edition Artists Books Since 1990,” Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY
“Mel Bochner, Erik Satie, Philippe Seux,” Galerie Arnaud Lefevre, Paris, France
“New Art on Paper,” Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
 
1995
“1965-1995: Reconsidering the Object of Art,” The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
“Drawing on Chance: Selections from the Collection,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
“Mapping: A Response to MOMA,” American Fine Arts, New York, NY
“Repicturing Abstraction: The Politics of Space,” Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA
“Printmaking in America: Collaborative Prints and Presses, 1960-1990,” Block Gallery, Northwestern    University, Evanston, IL
 
1994
“A Century of Artists Books,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
“Painting and Sculpture: Recent Acquisitions,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
“From Minimal to Conceptual Art: Works from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection,” National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C
“Location I: Bickerton, Bochner, Morris,” Basilico Fine Arts, New York, NY
“Group Exhibition,” Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY
 
1993
“Extended Relations,” Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
“The American Livre de Peintre,” Grolier Club, New York, NY
“A Matchbox Enclosed,” Yavne Art Workshop, Yavne, Israel
“European & American Drawings 1961-1969,” Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York, NY
“Do All Roads Lead to Rome?,” Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
1992
“Postcards from Alphaville:Jean-Luc Godard inContemporary Art 1963-1992,” MoMA PS1, New York, NY
“Marking The Decades: Prints 1960-1990,” Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
“Arte Americana 1930-1970,” Lingotto, Turin, Italy
“Bochner, Chung, LeWitt,” Galleria Primo Piano, Rome, Italy
 
1991
“A view from the 60's: Selections from the Leo Castelli Collection and the Michael and Ileana Sonnabend Collection,” Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
“Drawings,” Lorence Monk Gallery, New York, NY
“Dots,” Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
“American Abstraction,” Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
“Motion and Document Sequence and Time: Eadweard Muybridge and Contemporary American Photography,” Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
 
1990
“An Overview of Drawings,” David Nolan Gallery, New York, NY
“Minimalism and Post-Minimalism: Drawing Distinctions,” Hood Museum, Dartmouth, Hanover, NH
“Art Conceptuel Formes Conceptuelles,” Galerie 1900-2000, Paris, France
“Amerikanische Zeichnungen in den achtziger Jahren,” Albertina, Vienna, Austria Exhibition travelled: Morsbroich Museum, Leverkusen, Germany
“Concept Art, Minimal Art, Arte Povera, Land Art: Sammlung Marzona,” Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Bielefeld,    Germany
“Divergent Styles: Contemporary American Drawing,” University Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL
“Concept-Decoratif: Anti-Formalist Art of the 70's,” Nahan Contemporary, New York, NY
“Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture,” American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters    New York, NY
“The Unique Print,” Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
“Minimalist Prints,” Susan Sheehan Gallery, New York, NY
“Mel Bochner, Peter Halley, Robert Rauschenberg,” Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY
 
1989
“L'art conceptuel, une perspective,” Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France Exhibition travelled: Musée d’art contemporain de Montreal, Montreal, Canada
“Immaterial objects: works from the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York,” North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC Exhibition travelled: Albany Museum of Art, Albany, GA; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, NY. National Print Exhibition, 25th Biennal: Projects & Portfolios.
“Repetition,” Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York, NY
“Conspicuous Display,” Stedman Art Gallery, Rutgers University, Camden, NJ
“Lines & Geometry,” Rickey Renier Gallery, Chicago, IL
“New Works by Gallery Artists,” Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY
1988
“Abstracted Image,” Elizabeth McDonald Gallery, New York, NY
“Raw Materials,” Althea Viafora Gallery, New York, NY
“Amerikanische Druckgraphik: Recent American Prints,” Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich, Germany
“Systems and Abstraction,” Leubsdorf Gallery, Hunter College, New York, NY
“Turning Point: Art and Politics in 1968,” Lehman College Gallery, Bronx, New York, NY
 
1987
“Sonnabend Collection. 25 Years of Selection and Activity,” Museo Nacional Centro De Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain Exhibition travelled: CAPC Musee D'Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France; Art Cologne, Cologne, Germany; Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin, Germany; Galleria Nazionale d'Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy; Museo d'Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Trento e Rovereto, Trento, Italy; Musee Rath, Geneva, Switzerland;   Sezon Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan; Miyagi Museum of Art, Sendai, Japan; The Fukuyama Museum of Art, Hiroshima, Japan.
“Reconnecting,” Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
“1967: At the Crossroads,” Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
“The Shape of Abstraction,” Russell Sage College, Albany, New York, NY
“This is not a Photograph; 20 Years of Large-Scale Photography, 1966-1986,” The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, FL Exhibition travelled: Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH.
“Points of Contact,” Laurie Rubin Gallery, New York, NY
“Drawings from the Eighties,” Carnegie Mellon University Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
“Early Concepts of the Last Decade,” Holly Solomon Gallery, New York, NY
 
1986
“Spirit Tracks: Big Abstract Drawing,” Pratt Institute Gallery, Brooklyn, New York, NY
“An American Renaissance: Painting & Sculpture since 1940,” Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
“Contemporary Issues III: Robert and Nancy Kaye Collection,” Holman Hall Art Gallery, Trenton State College, Trenton, NJ
“The Shape of Abstraction,” Stux Gallery, New York, NY
 
1985
“The Maximal Implications of the Minimal Line,” Bard College Center, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
“New Abstraction,” Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
“Drawings,” Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
 
1984
“Vanishing Points,” Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
“Viewpoint, '84,” Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI.
“Minding Measure: Measuring Mind,” Islip Art Museum, East Islip, New York, NY
1983
“Minimalism to Expressionism: Painting and Sculpture since 1965,” Whitney Museum of American Art,  New York, NY
 
1982
“74th American Exhibition,” Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
“Prints by Contemporary Sculptors,” Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
“One, Two, Three,” Musée des Beaux-Arts et d'archéologie de Besançon, Besancon, France
 
1981
“Murs,” Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
“Summer Group Show,” Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY
1980
“Explorations in the 70's,” Pittsburgh Plan for Art, Pittsburgh, PA
“Mel Bochner/Richard Serra,” Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
1979
“Pittura Ambiente,” Palazzo Reale, Milan, Italy
“The Decade in Review: Selections from the 1970s,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
“Oeuvres Contemporaines des Collections Nationales,” Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
“Whitney Biennial,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
“The Minimal Tradition,” Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT
 
1978
“Eight Artists,” Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
“Numerals 1924-1977,” Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY
“Contemporary Drawing/New York,” University of California Museum, Santa Barbara, CA
“Three Installations: Acconci, Bochner, Le Va,” Tampa Bay Art Center, Tampa, FL
1977
“Whitney Biennial,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
“10th Anniversary,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
“Photo Notations II,” Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
“Acconci/Bochner/Le Va,” Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY
 
1976
“American Artists: A New Decade,” Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI Exhibition travelled: Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX
“Seventy-second American Exhibition,” Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
“Drawing Now,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
“Photo Notation,” Rosa Esman Gallery, New York, NY
 
1975
“Prints,” Art Gallery of Ontario, Ontario, Canada
“PRINTSEQUENCE,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
“Fourteen Artists,” Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
“Bochner, Le Va, Rockburne, Tuttle,” The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
“Drawings 3, American Drawings,” Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
“The New Image,” High Museum, Atlanta, GA
 
1974
“Projekt '74 – Aspects of International Art in the Early 1970s,” Kunsthalle and Kölnischer Kunstverein,  Cologne, Germany
“Idea & Image in Art,” Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
“Line as Language: six artists draw,” Princeton Art Museum, Princeton, New JJ
“Some Recent American Art,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Exhibition travelled: Australia; New Zealand.
 
1973
“Contemporanea,” Parcheggio di Villa Borghese, Rome, Italy
“New American Graphic Art,” Fogg Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
“American Art, Third Quarter Century,” Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
“American Drawings 1963-1973,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
“3d into 2d,” New York Cultural Center, New York, NY
“Festival d'Autome a Paris,” Paris, France
 
1972
“Documenta 5,” Museum Fridericianum, Friedrichsplatz, and Neue Galerie, Kassel, Germany
“420 West Broadway,” Spoleto Festival, Spoleto, Italy
“Konzept-Kunst,” Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland
“13 Artists Chosen for Documenta,” Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY
1971
“Situation Concepts,” Galerie Nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwalder, Innsbruck, Austria
1970
“Information,” The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
“Language IV,” Dwan Gallery, New York, NY
“Using Walls,” The Jewish Museum, New York, NY
“Conceptual Art/Arte/Povera/Land Art,” Museo Civico d'Arte Moderna, Turin, Italy
“Conceptual Art and Conceptual Aspects,” New York Cultural Center, New York, NY
“Art in the Mind,” Allen Memorial Museum, Oberlin, OH
“Artists and Photographs,” Multiples Gallery, New York, NY
 
1969
“Groups,” School of Visual Arts (SVA), New York, NY
“When Attitudes Become Form,” Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
“Art in Progress IV,” Finch College Museum of Art, New York, NY
“Konzeption/Conception,” Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
“577,087,” Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
 
1968
“Language II,” Dwan Gallery, New York, NY
“No. 7,” Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
“Group Exhibition,” Bykert Gallery, New York, NY
“Rejective Art,” Organized by American Federation of Arts for travel in the United States
 
1967
“Scale Models and Drawings,” Dwan Gallery, New York, NY
“Art in Series,” Finch College Museum of Art, New York, NY
“Monuments,” Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, NY