Artworks by Richard Anuszkiewicz at Composition Gallery on artnet

Richard Anuszkiewicz

(American, 1930–2020)

Richard Anuszkiewicz

Untitled OP Art Cube, 1968

Price on Request

Biography

Timeline

1930: Born in Erie, PA
1948 - 1953: Earned a BFA from Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
1953 - 1955: Studied with Josef Albers and recieved a MFA from Yale University School of Art and Architecture, New Haven, CT
1953: Received a Pulitzer Traveling Fellowship From the National Academy of Design
1955 - 1956: Earned a BS in Education from Kent State University, Akron, OH
1957 - 1958: Worked at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, repairing scale models of classical Greek architecture and sculpture
1958 - 1959: Worked at Tiffany and Company, designing miniature silver animals
1963 - 1965: Taught at the Cooper Union, New York, NY
1963: Charles of the Ritz Award
1964: Silvermine Guild Award
1967 - 1968: Held visiting artist positions at Dartmouth College, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Cornell University, and Kent State University
1972: Designed outdoor murals for a YWCA building in New York, NY and an office building in Jersey City, NJ
1977: Cleveland Arts Prize
1980: Childe Hassam Fund Purchase Award
1988: Childe Hassam Fund Purchase Award
1994: New York State Art Teachers’ Association Award
1995: Emil and Dines Carlson Award
1996: New Jersey Pride Award
1997: Richard Florsheim Fund Grant
2000: Lee Krasner Award
2005: Lorenzo the Magnificent Award for career achievement at the Florence International Biennale of Contemporary Art
: Lives and works in Englewood, NJ

Exhibitions

2010: Psychedelic: Optical and Visionary Art Since the 1960s, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, USA
Colorscope: Abstract Painting 1960-1979, Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, USA
2009: Abstract Ensemble, ACA Galleries, New York, USA
Pop to Present, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University, Stanford, USA
2008: Richard Anuszkiewicz: The Inward Eye Series, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, USA (solo)
Oko zwiedzione, Galeria El. Centrum sztuki, Elbląg, Poland
Op Art Revisited, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA
The Rational Eye - Geometric, Optical, Kinetic and Programmed Art, International Centre of Graphic Arts (MGLC), Ljubljana, Slovenia
To Infinity and Beyond: Mathematics in Contemporary Art, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, USA
Sensory Overload: Light, Motion, Sound and the Optical in Art Since 1945 - Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, USA
2007: The Optical Edge, Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, USA
After Image: Op Art of the 1960s, Jacobson Howard Gallery, New York, USA
The Optic Nerve: Perceptual Art of the 1960s, Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, USA
Op Art, Schirn Kunsthalle,Frankfurt, Germany
2006: Konstruktive Aspekte von Mondrian bis Kelly, Galerie Proarta, Zurich, Switzerland
Arena der Abstraktion, Museum Morsbroich, Leverkusen, Germany
Geometric Abstraction and Color Function: Two Generations, D. Wigmore Fine Art, Inc., New York, USA
2005: Optical Simulations, American Abstract Artists, Yellow Bird Gallery, Newburgh, USA
Kunst, die man nicht immer sieht, Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany
Totally Geometric: Abstraction from the permanent Collection, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, USA
American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting & Sculpture: The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, USA
: Florence Biennale, Florence, Italy
2004: A Century of Collecting, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, USA
25 Jahre Sammeln - Wilhelm Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany
2002: Flatline, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Colors on the Edge: Hard and Soft: The Paintings of Richard Anuszkiewicz and Leon Berkowitz, ACA Galleries, New York, USA
2001: Transcultural Visions: Polish American Contemporary Art, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, USA
2000: From Cubism to Minimalism - A selection of Works by World Leading Artists, Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran, Iran
1998: Richard Anuszkiewicz, Galerie Proarta, Zurich, Switzerland (solo)
1997: Richard Anuszkiewicz: Quadrat Bottrop, Josef Albers Museum, Bottrop, Germany (solo)
1991: Jestesmy: Zacheta, National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland
1990: Five Works, Newark Museum, Newark, USA
Maruzen Company, Limited, Tokyo, Japan
1989: Une histoire de collections : dons 1984-1989 - Musée d´art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Canada
Gallery Civiche D'Arte Moderna, Assessorato Istituzioni Culturali, Ferrara, Italy
1988: Richard Anuszkiewicz, The Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, USA (solo)
Galleria Sagittaria, Centro Iniziative Culturali, Pordenone, Italy
Art and Culture Center, Hollywood, USA
Anuszkiewicz, Four Decades, Richard Green Gallery, New York, USA
Harmon-Meek Gallery, Naples, USA
1986: Venice Biennale, San Marco, Venice, Italy
1983: Twentieth-Century Art from the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Selected Recent Acquisitions, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
1979: Richard Anuszkiewicz, Sterling and Francine Clark Institute, Williamstown, USA (solo)
1975: Richard Anuszkiewicz: Bilder und Graphik, Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
1972: Richard Anuszkiewicz, De Cordova Museum, Lincoln, USA
1971: Highlights of the 1970-71 Art Season, The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, USA
Paintings by Richard Anuszkiewicz & Sculpture by George Segal, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, USA
1968: Documenta 4, Documenta, Kassel, Germany
1967: 1967 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Richard Anuszkiewicz, Hopkins Art Center, Dartmouth College, Hanover, USA (solo)
1965: Colorists, San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, USA
Richard Anuszkiewicz, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
Reponsive Eye, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
1964: American Paintings and Sculpture 67th Annual, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Painting and Sculpture of a Decade, 1954-64, the Tate Gallery, London, England
1962: Geometric abstraction in America, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
1960: Richard Anuszkiewicz, Contemporaries Gallery, New York, USA (The First Solo Exhibition)

Public Collections

: Fogg Museum of Art, Yale University, New Haven, CT
: National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
: National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
: Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
: Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC
: Tate Gallery, London, UK Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, I
: Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, Israel
: Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
: Detroit Art Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
: Denver Museum of Art, Denver, CO
: Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
: Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH
: Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
: Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
: Blanton Museum of At, University of Texas, Austin, TX
: Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
: Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
: Louisiana Museum, Humblebaek, Denmark
: Hokkaido Museum of Art, Hokkaido, Japan
: Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
: Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
: Museo de Arte Moderno, Ciudad Bolivar, Venezuela
: Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY

Literature

1999: Anuszkiewicz, Richard. Anuskiewicz: OpArt. Hatje Cantz, Ostfildern , Germany
1995: Richard Anuszkiewicz: A retrospective, 1949-1994. Harmon Meek Gallery: Naples(catalogue)
1991: Anuszkiewicz, Richard. Richard Anuszkiewicz: Constructions and paintings, 1986-1991. ACA Gallery: New York(catalogue)
1978: Lunde, Karl. Anuszkiewicz. Harry N. Abrams, Inc.: New York
1971: Paintings by Richard Anuszkiewicz and Sculpture by George Segal. New Jersey State Museum:Trenton(catalogue)

Richard Anuszkiewicz

(American, 1930–2020)

Richard Anuszkiewicz

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

Literature

Newsletter Signup