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Carl Andre

(American, 1935–2024)

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Carl Andre

Cover: America Drill, 2002

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Carl Andre

Ferox, 1982

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Carl Andre

Blue Stone Σ 4, 2006

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Carl Andre

Blue Stone Σ 7, 2006

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Carl Andre

Copper Blue Vein, 1990

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Carl Andre

Manet Post and Lintel, 1980

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Biography

Timeline

1935
Born in Quincy, MA on September 16
1941 - 1950
Attended Quincy public schools
1951 - 1953
Attended the Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
1958
Worked in Frank Stella’s studio
1965
Began to use bricks and blocks for his sculptures

Exhibitions

2015
“Brancusi: Pioneer of American Minimalism,” Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY (5/7 – 6/20/15)
“Selections from the Kramarsky Collection,” David Zwirner, New York, NY (5/2 – 6/20/15)
“America is Hard to See,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (5/1 – 9/27/15) )
“Accelerazione,” Herbert Foundation, Ghent, Belgium (4/26 – 11/15/2015)
“Collecting for tomorrow. New works at Museion,” Museion, Bolzana, Italy (3/20/15 – 1/10/2016)
“American Icons: Masterworks from SFMOMA and the Fisher Collection,” Grand Palais, Paris, France (4/8 – 6/22/15); travelling to Musée Granet, Aix-en-Provence (7/9 –10/18/2015)
“Adventures of the Black Square: Abstract Art and Society 1915-2015,” Whitechapel Art Gallery, London, UK (1/15 – 4/6/15)
2014
“Carl Andre,” Paula Cooper Gallery, New York (5/31 – 7/25/14) (solo exhibition)
“A Friendship: Carl Andreʼs Works on Paper from the LeWitt Collection,” The Dan Flavin Art Institute, Bridgehampton, NY (6/7 – 4/2/15) (solo exhibition)
“Carl Andre: Poems 1958-1969,” Museum Zu Allerheiligen, Schaffhausen, Switzerland (5/15 – 8/17/14) (solo exhibition)
“Carl Andre: Sculpture as Place, 1958 – 2010,” Dia Art Foundation, Beacon, NY (5/5/14 – 3/2/15); travelling to Museo Renia Sofia, Madrid, Spain (5/4 – 10/12/15) (solo exhibition)
“Ma-re Mount,” Galerie Buchholz, Cologne, Germany (11/12/14 – 1/31/15)
“The Never Ending Stories Cycle,” Musée dʼart modern et contemporain, Geneva, Switzerland (10/29/14 – 1/18/15)
“Lʼénergie des matériaux : Arte Povera & Minimal Art, Pièces de la collections Francis Solet,” LʼHotel de Gallifet, Aix en Provence, France (7/1 – 8/31/14)
“Love Story – The Anne & Wolfgang Titze Collection,” Winter Palace and 21er Haus, Vienna, Austria (6/15 – 10/5/14)
“Mind and Matter,” Fonds M-ARCO, Le Box, Marseille, France (5/23 – 9/20/14)
“La Disparition des Lucioles,” Prison Sainte-Anne, Avignon, France (5/18 – 11/25/14)
“Everything Loose Will Land,” Graham Foundation, Chicago, IL (5/1 – 7/26/14)
“Texte in der Kunst,” Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna, Austria (1/17 – 3/8/14)
2013
“Carl Andre,” Alfonso Artiaco, Naples (opened 9/12/13) (solo exhibition)
“Before the Horizon,” Fundació Joan Miró, Barcelona, Spain (10/24/13 – 2/16/14)
“Xerography,” Firstsite, Colchester, UK (9/8 – 11/10/13)
“Julian Pretto Gallery,” MINUS SPACE, Brooklyn, NY (9/6 – 10/26/13)
“Signs/Words,” Sperone Westwater, Lugano, Switzerland (5/24 – 7/13/13)
“Zero +,” White Box, New York, NY (3/5 – 3/23/13)
“Répétition II,” Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY (2/23 – 3/23/13)
“A Stone Left Unturned,” Yvon Lambert, Paris, France (2/1 – 3/9/13)
“Répétition: 1960–1975,” Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY (1/19 – 2/9/13)
“Nothing and Everything,” Marc Straus, New York, NY (1/6 – 2/8/13)
"Carl Andre: Mass & Matter,", Turner Contemporary, (1/31/2013)
"Biennale Arte 2013," The Encyclopedic Palace, Venice (5/2013)
2012
“Carl Andre,” Paula Cooper Gallery, New York (10/27 – 12/8/12) (solo exhibition)
“Carl Andre,” Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland (7/24 – 9/15/12) (solo exhibition)
“Rise,” Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2/25 – 9/10/12) )
“10 Years in Zuoz,” Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland (12/22/12 – 3/16/13)
“Carte Blanche á Paula Cooper Gallery,” Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris, France (10/19 – 11/24/12) )
“Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1974,” Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (5/27 – 8/20/12), travels to Haus der Kunst, Munich (10/12/12 – 1/20/13)
“Paper,” Musée dʼArt Moderne et dʼArt Contemporain, Nice, France (6/30 – 9/30/12) )
“Sculpture,” Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY (6/21 – 8/17/12)
“Carl Andre/John Wesley: Serial Forms,” Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY (5/31 –7/14/12)
“Minimalism: Not Strictly Formal,” Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (5/18-6/30/12)
“Ecstatic Alphabets,” Museum of Modern Art, NY (5/1 – 8/27/12)
“Martin Visser: collector, designer, free spirit,” Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht, the Netherlands (3/13 – 6/17/12)
“Der Raum der Linie,” Museum Wiesbaden, Germany (7/12 – 10/7/12)
“Spirits of Internationalism,” M HKA, Antwerp (1/20 – 6/5/12)
2011
“Carl Andre,” Galería Cayón, Madrid, Spain (9/15 – 11/19/11) (solo exhibition)
“Carl Andre,” Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Kleve, Germany (4/14-8/28/11); traveling to Museion – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano, Italy (9/17/11 – 1/8/12) (solo exhibition)
“Travertine/ Basalt,” Sadie Coles, London, UK (1/19 – 3/5/11)“Off the Wall,” organized by the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, Museu de Arte Contemporânea de Serralves, Porto, Portugal (5/20/11 – 10/2/11)
“And Another Thing,” The James Gallery, The Center for the Humanities, New York, NY (9/14/11 – 10/29/11)
“Labyrinthine Variations,” Centre Pompidou-Metz (9/12/11-3/5/12)
“Distant Star,” Kurimanzutto, Mexico City, Mexico (9/3-10/29/11)
“Der Raum der Linie,” Pinakotek der Moderne, Staatliche Graphische Sammlung Munchen, Munich, Germany (7/28-9/25/11)
“Distant Star,” Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA (7/14-8/20/11)
“If you lived here, youʼd be home by now,” curated by Josiah McElheny, Tom Eccles, Lynne Cooke, CCS Bard Hessel Museum, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY (6/25-12/16/11)
“Locations,” Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY (4/28-6/11/11)
“Elemental,” Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY (3/25-4/16/11)
“Sculpture,” Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2/12-3/19/11)
“Sur un Piedestal,” curated by Galerie 1900-2000 and Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin Paris 2011, Paris, France (1/28/11)
“Sculpture in So Many Words,” curated by Dakin Hart, ZieherSmith, New York, NY (1/13-2/12/11)
2010 - 2011
Von Carl Andre bis Gregor Schneider. Dorothee und Konrad Fischer: Archiv einer Haltung, Museum Kurhaus Kleve
2010
Gwangju Biennale 2010, South Korea
Carl Andre, The Chinati Foundation, Marfa, Texas, USA
2009
1968. Die große Unschuld, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany (group)
Gegen den Strich. 15 Jahre Sammlung des Kunstmuseums Wolfsburg, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany (group)
Carl Andre, Sadie Coles HQ, London (solo)
2008
Western Red Cedar, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York (NY), USA (solo)
Al C Cu Fe Pb Sn, Galerie Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland (solo)
Cu Al, Carl Andre - Melissa Kretschmer, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany (solo)
IRON: Yvon Lambert, Paris (solo)
Carl Andre, Galerie Greta Meert, Brussels, Belgium (solo)
Point of No Return, Rubicon Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Based on Paper – The Marzona Collection, Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, Middlesbrough, UK
Carl Andre, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Sol Lewitt, Bridget Riley, Karsten Schubert, London
TYPED, Sadie Coles HQ, London
2007
Carl Andre, Mark Grotjahn, John McCracken, James Turrell, Galerie Almine Rech, Paris
John McLaughlin, Carl Andre: Paintings and Sculptures, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles (CA)
Japan and the West, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany
Paper: Fischer Landua Center For Art, Long Island City, New York
Painting and Sculpture: Fischer Landua Center For Art, Long Island City, New York
Painting and Sculpture: Fischer Landua Center For Art, Long Island City, New York
Painting and Sculpture: Fischer Landua Center For Art, Long Island City, New York
The Plastic Vacuum: Cabinet des estampes du muse d’art et d’histoire, Geneva, Switzerland
Carl Andre: Timber Works Copper Works, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York (solo)
Carl Andre: Early Works on Paper 1958 – 1966, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York (solo)
Carl Andre: Zinc, Ace GALLERY, Beverly Hills, CA (solo)
Carl Andre: Hommage à Chillida, Kunst Station Sankt Peter, Cologne, Germany (solo)
CARL ANDRE: Poetry, Galerie Tschudi, Glarus, Switzerland (solo)
Carl Andre: 40 Jahre bei Konrad Fischer, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin, Germany (solo)
Dedica 1986-2006 Twenty Years from Galleria Alfonso Artiaco:Palazzo delle Arti Napoli, Naples, Italy
Outdoor sculture: Carl Andre, Robert Gober, Sol LeWitt John : Zwirner and Wirth in Chelsea, New York
Nothing and Everything: Jeffrey Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco

Literature

2008
Cranford Collection 01, (Guernsey: Cranford Collection)
Tiddy Rowan, London: a guide to modern + contemporary ART in the city (Quadrille, London)
2007
Patricia Bickers & Andrew Wilson, Talking Art: Interviews with artists since 1976 (London: Art Monthly & Ridinghouse)
Exhibitionism: An Exhibition of Works from the Marieluise Hessel Collection ( Hessel Museum of Art, Annandale- on- Hudson
Paper , (Fischer Landau Center For Art, Landau Center For Art, Long Island City)
Painting and Sculpture, (Landau Center For Art, Long Island City Galerie Arnaud LeFebvre, Paris, France)
The Plastic Vacuum, ( John Tremblay and C Geneva, Switzerland)
2006
About Carl Andre: Critical Texts Since 1965 (London: Ridinghouse)
Brandon Taylor, Art Today, (London: Laurence King Publishing Ltd)
David Bjelajac, American Art: A Cultural History (2nd ed.), (London: Laurence King Publishing Ltd)
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