Artworks by Mel Bochner at Maddox Gallery on artnet

Mel Bochner

(American, born 1940)

Mel Bochner

Know What I Mean?, 2013

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Mel Bochner

That's All Folks!, 2014

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Mel Bochner

I Don't Get It / I Still Don't Get It (Diptych), 2014

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Mel Bochner

Everybody Is Full Of Shit , 2018

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Mel Bochner

Amazing , 2018

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Mel Bochner

Crazy, 2019

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Mel Bochner

Liar, 2008

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Mel Bochner

Liar, 2008

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Mel Bochner

Criticize, 2010

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Mel Bochner

Aggravate, 2010

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Mel Bochner

Obscene, 2017

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Mel Bochner

Power, 2010

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Timeline

1940: Born in Pittsburgh, PA
1962: BA at the Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
2001: Appointed professor at Yale University, New Haven, CT
2005: Recipient, honorary doctor of fine arts degree from Carnegie Mellon University
: Lives and works in New York, NY

Exhibitions

2015: Mel Bochner Exhibitions in 2015:
Mel Bochner , Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Beverly Hills, CA (solo exhibition)
2014: Mel Bochner Exhibitions in 2014:
Mel Bochner: Strong Language, The Jewish Museum, New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Art by Telephone… Recalled, La Panacee, Montpellier, France
Nouveau Festival, Centre Pompidou, France
2013: Mel Bochner Exhibitions in 2013:
Process and Proposition Sculpture (1966-1973) , Peter Freeman, Inc. New York, NY (solo exhibition)
If the Color Changes, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany (solo exhibition)
Museu de Arte Contemporanea de Serravles, Porto, Portugal (solo exhibition)
Ileana Sonnabend: Ambassador for the New, Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Ceiling Should Be Green (天花板應該是綠色的), P!, New York
Xerography, Firstsite, Colchester, UK
Re-Making When Attitudes Become Form, Fondazione Prada, Milam, Italy
Sign, Image, Object, 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria
Temptations of The Diagram, Andrea Rosen Gallery 2, New York
Merci/Mercy, Restoin Roitfeld Gallery, New York
2012: Mel Bochner Exhibitions in 2012:
Theory of Sculpture: Fontana's light, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA (solo exhibition)
If the Colour Changes, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK (solo exhibition)
Photography Before the Age of Mechanical Reproduction + Some Drawings from the Sixties + Recent Refections and Recursions on Dis / Tension and Crumpling, Peter Freeman Inc., New York, NY (solo exhibition)
In the Tower : Mel Bochner, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (solo exhibition)
Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA (solo exhibition)
Egeran Gallery, Instanbul, Turkey (solo exhibition)
A Window on the World, Museo d’Arte, Lugano, Switzerland
Notations: Contemporary Drawing as Idea and Process, Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis
Second Nature: Abstract Photography Then and Now, deCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA
Minimal Myth, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands
Toward A Warm Math, On Stellar Rays, New York, NY
Alice in the Wonderland of Art, Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany
2011: Mel Bochner Exhibitions in 2011:
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC (solo exhibition)
Peter Freeman, Inc., New York, NY (solo exhibition)
Alice in Wonderland, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
The Private Collection of Robert Rauschenberg, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
Malevich and the American Legacy, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
Systems, Actions, and Processes, 1965–1975, Fundacion Proa, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Art = Text = Art, University of Richmond Museum, Richmond, VA
Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964–1977, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Drawings from the Collection of Irving Stenn, Jr. , Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Arte Povera International, Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy
2010: Mel Bochner Exhibitions in 2010:
Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris, France(solo exhibition)
Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA (solo exhibition)
Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, CA (solo exhibition)
Third Thoughts, CCA Andtrax, Majorca, Spain
Forms of Contingency: New York and Turin, 1960s–1970s, Philadelphia Museum, Philadelphia, PA
Sammlung Herman und Nicole Daled, 1966–1978, Haus der Kunst, Munich, Germany
Graphic Masters III, Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington DC
Double Bind/Stop Trying To Understand Me, Villa Arson, Nice, France
2009: Mel Bochner Exhibitions in 2009:
Blah Blah Blah, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, USA (solo exhibition)
Mel Bochner, Metroquadro, Rivoli, Italy (solo exhibition)
Lawrence Markey, San Antonio, TX
Mel Bochner at The Art Show organized by Art Dealers Association of America (ADAA) at the Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY
1969, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, NY
If We Could Imagine, Glenstone Foundation, Potomac, MD
Target Practice: Painting Under Attack 1949–78, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
Inventing Marcel Duchamp: The Dynamics of Portraiture, National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC
Sculpture Show, Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK
2008: Mel Bochner Exhibitions in 2008:
Mel Bochner, Peter Freeman, Inc., New York, USA (solo exhibition)
Mel Bochner, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles, USA (solo exhibition)
Geometry as image, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY
Close-Up, The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
Notation, Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, Germany; Zentrum fur Kunst, Karlsruhe, Germany
Mel Bochner, Alighiero Boetti, Hanne Darboven, Collège Jacques Cartier, Chauny, France
Genau und Anders, Museum Ludwig, Vienna, Austria
2007: Mel Bochner Exhibitions in 2007:
Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Bignan, France (solo exhibition)
Galerie Nelson-Freeman, Paris, France (solo exhibition)
Quint Contemporary Art, La Jolla, USA (solo exhibition)
Galleria d’Arte il Gabbiano, Rome, Italy
Dessin et série, Collège Jacques Cartier, Chauny, France
Lines, Grids, Stains, and Words, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Conceptual Photography, 1964–1989, Zwirner & Wirth, New York, NY
If Everybody Had an Ocean: Brian Wilson, an Art Exhibition, Tate St Ives, St Ives, UK
Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2006: Mel Bochner Exhibitions in 2006:
Mel Bochner: Recent Paintings on Black Velvet , Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, USA (solo exhibition)
Focus: Mel Bochner Language 1966 – 2006, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA (solo exhibition)
Mel Bochner, Thesaurus Paintings, Peter Freeman, Inc., New York, USA (solo exhibition)
Mel Bochner: Drawing from Four Decades, Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, USA; Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, USA
Spertus Museum, Chicago, IL
Wynn Kramarsky, New York, NY
Lines, Grids, Stains, and Words, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Conceptual Photography, 1964–1989, Zwirner & Wirth, New York, NY
If Everybody Had an Ocean: Brian Wilson, an Art Exhibition, Tate St Ives, St Ives, UK
Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
2005: Mel Bochner Exhibitions in 2005:
Logical Conclusions, PaceWildenstein Gallery, New York, NY
Drawing From the Modern, 1945–1975, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Open Systems: Rethinking Art c.1970, Tate Modern, London, UK
Wordplay, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
Down The Garden Path: The Artist’s Garden After Modernism, Queens Museum, New York, NY
Threshold, Max Wigram Gallery, London, UK
Rub Out The Word, Dumbo Arts Center, Brooklyn, NY
Looking At Words, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, NY
Building and Breaking the Grid, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
The Top Room, Chelsea College of Art and Design, London, UK
Wahlverwandtschaften, Städelsches Kunstinstitut und Städtische Galerie, Frankfurt/Main
The Last Picture Show: Artists using Photography, 1960-1982, Miami Art Central, Miami, USA
Dessins de la collection/Drawings from the Collection, Musée d'art contemporain de Montréal, Canada
2004: 2004 Whitney Biennial Exhibition, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
Visions of America, Sammlung Essl-Kunsthaus, Klosterneuburg, Austria
INTRA-MUROS, Musee d'Art Moderne et d'Art Contemporain, Nice, France
Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form 1940s−70s, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
Schriftbilder/Bilderschrift, Galerie von Bartha, Basel, Switzerland
The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960-1982, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, USA
2003: Rien ne presse/Slow and Steady/Festina lente (cinquième épisode) and Mel Bochner: Measurement Paintings, Musée d´art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
The Last Picture Show: Artists Using Photography, 1960-1982, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
"Game Over," Galerie Grimm/Rosenfeld, Munich, Germany
PRIVATE/CORPORATE II: EIN DIALOG DER SAMMLUNGEN, DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany
Selected American Graphic Prints from the Lincoln Center Collection, City Art Museum Ljubljana, Mestna Galerija 1, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Dust Memories, SI Swiss Institute, New York, USA
Fine Lines: Drawings from the Collection of Wynn Kramarsky, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, USA
2002: Forum: Mel Bochner Photographs, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburg, USA
Under Pressure: Prints from Two Palms Press, The University Gallery, Amherst, USA
Akira Ikeda Gallery, Berlin, Germany (solo)
2001: Akira Ikeda Gallery Nagoya, Japan (solo)
Art Express: Art minimal et conceptuel, état d’une collection, Musée d´art moderne et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland
Drawing is Another Kind of Language, The Contemporary Museum Honolulu, USA
Flashing into the Shadows: The Artists Film in America, 1966-76, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
2000: Afterimage: Drawing Through Process, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, USA
Sonnabend Gallery, New York, USA (solo)
1999: American Academy Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, The American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
: Centro de Arte Helio Oiticica, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil (solo)
1998: The Serial Attitude, Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, USA
More Pieces for the Puzzle: Recent Additions to the Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
The Drawing Center, New York, USA (solo)
1997: Gravity-Axis of Contemporary Art, National Museum of Osaka, Japan
Drawing is Another Kind of Language, Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, USA
Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Geneva, Switzerland (solo)
1996: Thinking Print: Books to Billboards, 1980-1995, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
The Robert and Jane Meyerhoff Collection: 1945-1995, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
1995: 1965-1995: Reconsidering the Object of Art, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
Yale University, New Haven, USA (solo)
1991: A View from the 60s: Selections from the Castelli and Sonnabend Collections, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, USA
The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, USA (solo)
1989: The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA (solo)
1985: Carnegie-Mellon University, Pittsburgh, USA (solo)

Public Collections

: MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA, UK
: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA, USA
: MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles, CA, USA
: Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, USA
: National Gallery of Art, Washington, WA, USA
: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, New York, NY, USA
: MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, USA
: University Art Museum University at Albany, State University of New York, NY, USA
: Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
: Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA, UK
: Tate, London, UK
: Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University, Atlanta, GA, USA
: FRAC - Bourgogne, Dijon, France
: FRAC - Picardie, Amiens, France
: Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, France
: Centre Georges Pompidou - Musée national d’Art moderne, Paris, France
: Musée d´Art contemporain de Montréal, Montreal, Canada
: Wexner Center, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH, USA
: The Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX, USA
: Queensland Art Gallery / Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia
: Museet for Samtidskunst / Museum of Contemporary Art, Roskilde, Denmark
: Städel Museum, Frankfurt/Main, Germamy
: Fotomuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland
: FRAC – Bretagne, Châteaugiron, France
: Ball State University Art Gallery, Muncie, IN, USA

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Maddox Gallery

Mel Bochner

(American, born 1940)

Mel Bochner

Mel Bochner

Mel Bochner

Mel Bochner

Mel Bochner

Mel Bochner

Mel Bochner

Mel Bochner

Mel Bochner

Mel Bochner

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Mel Bochner

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

Mel Bochner

(American, born 1940)

Mel Bochner

Mel Bochner

Mel Bochner

Mel Bochner

Mel Bochner

Mel Bochner

Mel Bochner

Mel Bochner

Mel Bochner

Mel Bochner

Mel Bochner

Mel Bochner

Biography

Timeline

Exhibitions

Public Collections

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