Magdalena Abakanowicz

(Polish, 1930–2017)

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Magdalena Abakanowicz

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Biography

Timeline

1930
Born in Falenty, Poland
1950 - 1954
Studied at the Academy of Fine Arts, Warsaw, Poland
1965 - 1990
Professor at the Academy of Fine Arts, Poznan, Poland
1965
Grand Prix of São Paolo Biennale, São Paolo, Brazil
1979
Gottfried bon Herder Prize, Vienna, Austria
1982
Alfred Jurzykowski Prize, New York, NY
1993
Award for Distinction in Sculpture, Sculpture Center, New York, NY
1997
Leonardo da Vinci World Award of Arts, Mexico
1998
Commander Cross, Star of the Order of Polonia Restituta
1999
Officier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, Paris, France

Exhibitions

2018
Magdalena Abakanowicz Selected Exhibitions in 2018:
Embodied Forms, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York (solo exhibition)
2016 - 2017
Magdalena Abakanowicz Selected Exhibitions in 2016-2017:
Magdalena Abakanowicz, Galeria Marlborough Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain (solo exhibition)
2016
Magdalena Abakanowicz Selected Exhibitions in 2016:
Magdalena Abakanowicz: Mutations, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago (solo exhibition)
Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women, 1947-2016, Hauser Wirth and Shimmel, Los Angeles, California [cat.]
2015 - 2016
Magdalena Abakanowicz Selected Exhibitions in 2015-2016:
Phantom Bodies: The Human Aura in Art, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee [cat.]; The Ringling Museum of Art, Florida State University, Sarasota, Florida
Art_Textiles, The Whitworth, University of Manchester, Manchester, United Kingdom
2015
Magdalena Abakanowicz Selected Exhibitions in 2015:
Unrepeatability: Abakan to Crowd, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York (solo exhibition)
Magdalena Abakanowicz, Marlborough Broome Street, New York, New York (solo exhibition)
Magdalena Abakanowicz: Bambini, St. Elisabeth Church, Berlin, Germany (solo exhibition)
Magdalena Abakanowicz: Crowd and Individual, Fondazione Giorgio Cini, Venice, Italy (solo exhibition)
War Games: A Group Exhibition Inspired by the Work of Magdalena Abakanowicz, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, New York
2014
Magdalena Abakanowicz Selected Exhibitions in 2014:
Magdalena Abakanowicz, Galeria Winda, Kielce, Poland (solo exhibition)
New York Avenue Sculpture Project: Magdalena Abakanowicz, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC (solo exhibition)
Carved, Cast, Crumpled: Sculpture All Ways, Smart Museum, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
Committed to Paper: Master Drawings and Prints by Sculptors, Frederick Meijer Gardens, Grand Rapids, Michigan
For Each Gesture Another Character, Art Stations Foundationby Grazyna Kulczyk, Poznan, Poland
2013
Magdalena Abakanowicz Selected Exhibitions in 2013:
Abakanowicz? Abakanowicz!, The House of the Visual Artist, Warsaw, Poland (solo exhibition)
Magdalena Abakanowicz: A Survey 1987-2009, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York (solo exhibition)
Magdalena Abakanowicz: The Human Adventure, Akbank Sanat, Istanbul , Turkey (solo exhibition)
Magdalena Abakanowicz: Retrospective, Centrum Rzeźby Polskiej, Orońsko, Poland (solo exhibition)
Magdalena Abakanowicz: Opus et Fabulas, Miejsca Galeria Sztuki, Lodz, Poland (solo exhibition)
2012
Magdalena Abakanowicz Selected Exhibitions in 2012:
Magdalena Abakanowicz: The Human Adventure, Akbank Sanat, Istanbul, Turkey (solo exhibition)
Magdalena Abakanowicz: Walking Figures, Dag Hammarskjöld Plaza, New York, New York (solo exhibition)
Beaufort04, Triennial of Contemporary Art by the Sea, Schore, Belgium
2011
Magdalena Abakanowicz Selected Exhibitions in 2011:
Magdalena Abakanowicz: Life and Work, The Olomouc Museum of Art, Olomouc, Czech Republic (solo exhibition)
Art on a Lake, Museum of Fine Arts, Budapest, Hungary
The Power of Fantasy, Bozar Centre for Fine Arts, Brussels, Belgium
Sleight of Hand, Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
Picasso to Koons: The Artist as Jeweler, Museum of Arts and Design, New York, New York
2010
Magdalena Abakanowicz Selected Exhibitions in 2010:
Magdalena Abakanowicz, Davidson College Art Gallery, North Carolina (solo exhibition)
Magdalena Abakanowicz: Sculpture, Marlborough Gallery, New York, New York (solo exhibition)
Abakanowicz, National Museum in Krakow, Krakow, Poland (solo exhibition)
Abakanowicz. In Warsaw at last! , Royal Castle Gardens, Warsaw, Poland (solo exhibition)

Public Collections

Australian National Gallery of Art, Canberra, Australia
Museum Würth, Kunzelsau, Germany
Muzeum Narodowe, Warsaw, Poland
Muzeum Sztuki, Łodzi, Lódz, Poland
Nagoya City Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, Texas
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Nationalmuseum, Stockholm, Sweden
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
National Museum of Modern Art, Pusan, South Korea