Al Held

1928           Born in New York 1947           Studied at the Art Students League, New York 1949           Studied at the Academie de la Grande Chaumiere, Paris, France 1962           Associate Professor at Yale University, New Haven, CT 2005           Died in Camareta, Italy SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 2008 - 09    Al Held: Paintings 1979-1985, Paul Kasim Gallery, New York, NY 2006           In memory of Al Held, Galerie Renée Ziegler, Zurich, Switzerland 2006           "Berlin-Tokyo/Tokyo-Berlin. Die Kunst zweier Städte," Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin 2005           "Outside Europe: Aus der Sammlung Daimler Chrysler," DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Berlin 2004           "Kleinformate und Originalgraphik," Galerie Renée Ziegler, Zurich 2004           "Minimalism and After III: Neuerwerbungen / New Aquisitions," DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Berlin 2004           "Under $2,000 Albers < Zaugg," Brooke Alexander Editions, New York, NY 2003           "Painting Explosion: 1958-1963, Part I," Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX 2002           "Al Held & George Sugarman: The Early Sixties," Joan T. Washburn Gallery, New York, NY 2001           "Au rendez-vous des amis (La ligne seule) 2," musée d´art moderne et contemporain, Geneva 2001           "A defining generation. Then and Now. 1961 and 2001," The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA 2001           "Early Modern Art," The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA 1999           "Alchemies of the Sixties. From the Rose Art Museum Permanent Collection," The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MA 1999           Abstractions Americaines 1940-1960, Musee Fabre Montpellier, France 1998           Al Held Unfolding, Robert Miller Gallery, New York 1997           Abstract Expressionism in the United States, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Mexico City 1996           Thinking Print: Books to Billboards, 1980-1995, The Museum of Modern Art, New York 1996           Aquarelle, Hans Strelow Dusseldorf 1993           Krannert Art Museum, Kinkead Pavilion, Univ. of IL, Urbana 1992           Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State Univ. Wichita, KS 1992           Contemporary American Painting & Sculpture, American Embassy, Tel Aviv 1992           Al Held & Milton Resnick 1955-1965, Manny Silverman Gallery, Los Angeles 1992           Selected American Drawings, G.W. Einstein Company Inc. New York 1991           Geometries of Color: American Post-Painterly, Stux Modern, New York 1990           The Humanist Icon, The New York Academy of Art, New York 1990           Arbeiten von 1989, Acryl auf Leinwand, Tempera auf Papier, Galerie Renée Ziegler, Zurich, Switzerland 1989           Art in Place: Fifteen Years of Acquisitions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 1988           Sightings, Instituto de Estudios Norteamericanos, Barcelona 1987           Zeichnungen, Galerie Renée Ziegler, Zurich, Switzerland 1982           1954-1959, Robert Miller Gallery, New York 1978           Paintings and Drawings, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston 1977           Donald Morris Gallery, Birmingham, MI 1977           Frühe Werke, Galerie Renée Ziegler, Zurich, Switzerland 1974           Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 1970           Bilder, Galerie Renée Ziegler, Zurich, Switzerland 1968           Recent Paintings, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philidelphia, PA 1967           Bilder, Galerie Renée Ziegler, Zurich, Switzerland 1966           Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam 1964           Bilder, Galerie Renée Ziegler, Zurich, Switzerland