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Most exhibitions in: |
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| USA | 98 |
| United Kingdom | 11 |
| Austria | 6 |
| Sweden | 5 |
Most exhibitions held at: |
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D'Amelio Terras, USA |
9 |
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Locks Gallery, USA |
6 |
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Frith Street Gallery, United Kingdom |
4 |
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Galerie nächst St. Stephan - Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Austria |
4 |
Biography: 
1955 Born in Abbington, PA (US)
External links: | | Public exhibitions (Selection) 139
until 1.6.
Solo shows 26
2012
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| Polly Apfelbaum - Galerie nächst St. Stephan - Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna |
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| Polly Apfelbaum: Flatterland: Funkytown - D'Amelio Terras, New York City, NY |
2011
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| Polly Apfelbaum - Michael Benevento, Los Angeles, CA |
2010
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| Polly Apfelbaum: Off Colour - D'Amelio Terras, New York City, NY |
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| Polly Apfelbaum - Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings, MT |
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| Polly Apfelbaum - Color Notes - Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
2009
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| Polly Apfelbaum: BLACK VEGAS & FOOL'S GOLD - - Dust Gallery, Las Vegas, NV (closed, 2009) |
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| Polly Apfelbaum: Split - Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO |
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| Polly Apfelbaum: Anything can happen in a horse race - Milton Keynes Gallery, Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire (England) |
2008
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| Polly Apfelbaum - Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
2007
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| Polly Apfelbaum - Basic Divisions - The Gallery at Dieu Donné Papermill, New York City, NY |
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| Polly Apfelbaum - Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
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| Polly Apfelbaum - Frith Street Gallery, London (England) |
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| Polly Apfelbaum - Love Street - Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
2005
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| Polly Apfelbaum: Cartoon Garden - D'Amelio Terras, New York City, NY |
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| Polly Apfelbaum - Good And Plenty - Galerie nächst St. Stephan - Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna |
2004
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| Polly Apfelbaum - Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO |
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| Polly Apfelbaum - Crazy Love, Love Crazy - Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, Saint Louis, MO |
2003
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| Polly Apfelbaum - CAC - Cincinnati Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH |
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| Polly Apfelbaum - ICA - Institute of Contemporary Art - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA |
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| Polly Apfelbaum - Today I Love Everybody - - Triple Candie, New York City, NY (closed, 2010) |
2002
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| Polly Apfelbaum - Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
2000
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| Polly Apfelbaum: Powerpuff - D'Amelio Terras, New York City, NY |
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| Skin and Bones: An Installation by Polly Apfelbaum - Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME |
1998
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| Polly Apfelbaum: Ice - D'Amelio Terras, New York City, NY |
1997
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| Über die Malerei II: Polly Apfelbaum - Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst (NGBK), Berlin |
Group shows 112
2013
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| Wit - The Painting Center, New York City, NY |
2012
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| Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years - The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York City, NY |
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| Simpatico - Boston University Art Gallery - BUAG, Boston, MA |
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| Cosmo - Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Watch Your Step - FLAG Art Foundation, New York City, NY |
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| Polly Apfelbaum, - Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX |
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| Spectral Landscape (with Viewing Stations) - Gallery 400 - University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, IL |
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| Loughelton Revisited - Winkleman Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| First Among Equals - ICA - Institute of Contemporary Art - University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA |
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| Salon Zürcher - Galerie Zürcher - New York, New York City, NY |
2011
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| Super Vision - Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
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| New Prints 2011/Autumn - International Print Center New York, New York City, NY |
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| Affinities: Painting in Abstraction - D'Amelio Terras, New York City, NY |
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| Dorothea - Ancient & Modern, London (England) |
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| Women And Weaving - Southfirst, New York City, NY |
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| A Painting Show - Harris Lieberman, New York City, NY |
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| Drawing 2011 – Biennial Fundraiser - The Drawing Room, London (England) |
2010
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| The Jewel Thief - The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY |
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| Tamarind Touchstones - UNM Art Museum - University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, NM |
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| Polly Apfelbaum - Nicole Cherubini: Studiowork - D'Amelio Terras, New York City, NY |
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| After the Volcano: a summer show of gallery artists - Frith Street Gallery, London (England) |
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| Wild Things - Kunsthallen Brandts, Odense |
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| Doctor Zomb - The Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale, CA |
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| Hecate´s Lab - Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| First Supper - Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York City, NY |
2009
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| Cold Press - Page Bond Gallery, Richmond, VA |
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| Edition/Addition - Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
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| Topographies - Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
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| Besides, With, Against, and Yet: Abstraction and the Ready-Made Gesture - The Kitchen, New York City, NY |
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| Blocks of Color: American Woodcuts from the 1890s to the present - Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum, New Brunswick, NJ |
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| Mighty Daggers Do Small Paintings Throw - Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
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| Contemporary Prints: 1999 – 2009 - Today Art Museum, Beijing |
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| La pintura y sus alrededores. En torno a la Galería Nächst St. Stephan de Viena - Palacio de Sástago, Zaragoza |
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| Drawing 2009 Biennal Fundraiser - The Drawing Room, London (England) |
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| Drawings and Watercolors - Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Boden und Wand Wand und Fenster Zeit - Helmhaus Zürich, Zurich |
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| Sparkle & Glitter - Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA |
2008
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| LINES, GRIDS, STAINS, WORDS - Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden |
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| New Works: A Group Show of Gallery Artists - Angles Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
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| Into The Trees - Omi International Arts Center, Ghent, NY |
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| PRESENT TENSE - Spanierman Modern, New York City, NY |
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| Jim Dine & Polly Apfelbaum - Chiaroscuro Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM |
2007
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| Beziehungsweise - Papierarbeiten aus der Sammlung Holzer - Galerie Hubert Winter, Vienna |
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| Whole Fragment - Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery - University of Nevada, Reno, NV |
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| Pink - Galerie Mirchandani + Steinruecke, Mumbai |
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| Viewfinder - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA |
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| Taking Shape - Lennon, Weinberg, Inc., New York City, NY |
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| Welcoming the Flowers: Polly Apfelbaum and John Giorno - Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Drawing 2007 - The Drawing Room, London (England) |
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| The HandMaking - Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA |
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| Conversations - Travesia Cuatro, Madrid |
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| Comic Abstraction - Image-Breaking, Image-Making - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
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| Like color in picutres - Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO |
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| New Prints 2007/ Winter - International Print Center New York, New York City, NY |
2006
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| RESONANCE: The final exhibition at 59-60 Frith Street - Frith Street Gallery, London (England) |
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| Materiality - Kravets / Wehby Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| POPulence - Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art (SECCA), Winston-Salem, NC |
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| Contemporary Photography and the Garden - Deceits and Fantasies - Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA |
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| Frontiers - Collecting the Art of Our Time - Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA |
2005
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| Frontiers: Collecting the Art of Our Time - Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA |
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| POPulence - MOCA - Museum of Contemporary Art Cleveland, Cleveland, OH |
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| Extreme Abstraction - Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY |
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| Etchings - International Print Center New York, New York City, NY |
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| POPulence - Blaffer Gallery - The Art Museum of the University of Houston, Houston, TX |
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| Polly Apfelbaum / Katharina Grosse / Karin Sander / Jessica Stockholder - Galerie nächst St. Stephan - Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna |
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| Very Early Pictures - The Luckman Fine Arts Complex, Los Angeles, CA |
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| Color/Pattern/Grid - Austin Museum of Art - AMOA, Austin, TX |
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| One-Armed Bandit - D'Amelio Terras, New York City, NY |
2004
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| Live forever, or die trying (manic abstract painting now) - Torch Gallery, Amsterdam |
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| Summer Show - Bruno Marina Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Across The Border - MDD - Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Deurle |
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| OPTIMO: Manifestations of Optimism in Contemporary Art - Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX |
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| Exquisite Corpses Today: 25 Curiosities Commissioned by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art - Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, ME |
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| Kunst Stoff - Galerie nächst St. Stephan - Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna |
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| A Kind of Bliss - The Drawing Room, London (England) |
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| Lodz Biennale 2004 - Lodz Biennale, Lodz |
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| Plingeling - Norrköping Art Museum / Norrköpings Konstmuseum, Norrköping |
2003
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| Hands To Work - Mind To God - - Borusan Sanat Galerisi / Borusan Art Gallery, Istanbul (closed, 2006) |
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| Hover - Polly Apfelbaum and Pae White - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA |
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| Plingeling - Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm |
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| The LAPD Project: The Legacy of Pattern and Decoration - Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica, CA |
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| Rendered - Sara Meltzer Gallery, New York City, NY |
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| Splat Boom Pow! The Influence of Comics in Contemporary Art - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
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| II Bienal de Valencia - La Ciudad Ideal - Bienal de Valencia, Valencia |
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| New Prints 2003/Winter - International Print Center New York, New York City, NY |
2002
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| New Prints 2002/Summer - International Print Center New York, New York City, NY |
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| Painting Matter - James Cohan Gallery - New York, New York City, NY |
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| Polly Apfelbaum and Beatriz Milhazes - D'Amelio Terras, New York City, NY |
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| The Eye of The Beholder - Visual Research Centre, Dundee (Scotland) |
2001
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| Best of the Season - The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT |
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| Operativo - Museo Tamayo, Mexico City |
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| Drawings - Frith Street Gallery, London (England) |
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| Making the Making - Apexart, New York City, NY |
2000
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| Painting Pushed to Extremes - Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA |
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| Chromaform: Color in Contemporary Sculpture - Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA |
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| Spilled Edge Soft Corners - Blackwood Gallery at the University of Toronto , Mississauga, ON |
1999
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| New York: Neither/Nor - Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO |
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| Postmark - An Abstract Effect - Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM |
1998
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| Saptiotemporal - Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm |
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| Sarajevo 2000 - Museum Moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig - MUMOK , Vienna |
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| Abstract Painting - Once Removed - Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, Houston, TX |
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| 11th Biennale of Sydney 1998 - Biennale of Sydney, Sydney, NSW |
1997
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| Simple Form - Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA |
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| New York, New York - Divergent Models - Nassauischer Kunstverein, Wiesbaden |
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| 4e Biennale de Lyon - La Biennale de Lyon, Lyon |
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| Painting – The Extended Field I - - Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö (closed, 2006) |
1996
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| Painting: The extended field - Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm |
1994
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| The Social Fabric - Arcadia University Art Gallery , Glenside, PA |
1992
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| Sense and Sensibility: Women Artists and Minimalism in the 90s - MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY |
1990
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| Je Viens de chez le Charcutier - Galerie Hussenot, Paris |
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| Suggestive Objects - Art in General, New York City, NY |
| Dealer Directory 7 |
Austria
| | Galerie nächst St. Stephan - Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Vienna
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United Kingdom
| | Frith Street Gallery, London (England)
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USA
| | Durham Press Inc., Durham, PA
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| | Arin Contemporary Art, Laguna Beach, CA
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| | D'Amelio Terras, New York City, NY
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| | Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York City, NY
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| | Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
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Collections 8
France
| | FRAC - Nord-Pas de Calais, Dunkerque
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Sweden
| | Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm
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USA
| | Austin Museum of Art - AMOA, Austin, TX
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| | Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
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| | Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, MO
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| | Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE
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| | The Progressive Art Collection, Mayfield Village, OH
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| | MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York City, NY
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