Genre
Painting, prints and sculpture.
CV
Born 1930 in Allendale, South Carolina. Lives and works in
Stony Point, New York, and Saint-Martin, South of France.
1947 - 1948 | University of South Carolina, Columbia | 1949 | Attended an Art School in New York | 1957 | Flag on Orange Field; became symbol for new concept of art which works with ambiguity of signs | 1958 | Solo Exhibition at Leo Castelli Gallery: beginnings of Pop Art | 1960s | Experimented with assemblages:
Field Painting, 1964;
and created sculptures Painted Bronzes, 1960 | 1967 - 1968 | Worked for the Merce Cunningham Dance Company and John Cage. | 1970s | Flat patterns borrowed from repertoire of anonymous everyday motifs but allude to private and art historical experiences | 1980s | Host of art historical references from Grünewald to Picasso and Duchamp incorporated in his paintings |
Awards and Honours (selection) 1959 | The Carnegie Prize at the Biennial in Pittsburgh | 1967 | Prize at the Biennial in São Paulo | 1988 | Prize for Painting at the Venice Biennale | 1989 | Honorary member of the Royal Academy, London |
Solo exhibitions (selection) 2004 | Edinburgh, Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Past Things and Present: Jasper Johns Since 1983 | | Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum, Jasper Johns - Numbers | 2001 | New York, Leo Castelli Gallery | | Seattle, Seattle Art Museum | 1999 | San Francisco, Museum of Modern Art | | Philadelphia, Museum of Art | 1997 | Basel, Fondation Beyeler, Werke aus dem Besitz des Künstlers | | Cologne, Museum Ludwig | 1996 | New York, Museum of Modern Art | | New York, Whitney Museum of American Art | 1986 | Frankfurt, Schirn Kunsthalle | 1976 | Krefeld, Kaiser Wilhelm Museum | 1972 | Amsterdam, Stedelijk Museum | 1958 | New York, Leo Castelli Gallery |
Group exhibitions (selection) 2004 | Santa Fe, NM, SITE Santa Fe Biennial 2004 | | London, British Museum, Matisse to Freud:
A Critic´s Choice | | Vienna, Albertina, Pop Art & Minimalismus | | Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, Das MoMA in Berlin | | Stockholm, Moderna Museet, The Pontus Hultén Collection | 2003 | Sydney, Museum of Contemporary Art, The Stage of Drawing: Gesture & Act | | Miami, Miami Art Museum, American Tableaux | | Bilbao, Guggenheim, Jasper Johns to
Jeff Koons | 2002 | New York, Whitney Museum,
de Kooning to Today | 1967 | São Paulo, Biennial | 1964, 1988 | Venice, Biennale | 1964, 1968,
1972, 1977 | Kassel, Documenta 3, 4, 5, 6 |
Collections (selection)
Baltimore Museum of Art
Hara Museum, Tokyo
Kunstsammlung Nordrhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf
Ludwig Forum, Aachen
Menil Collection, Houston
Metropolitan Museum, New York
Moderna Museet Stockholm
Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Museum moderner Kunst Stiftung Ludwig, Vienna
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas
UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles |
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