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Lynda Benglis

Lynda Benglis @ Toomey Tourell Fine Art, March 2001

Lives and works in New York City, East Hampton, NY & Santa Fe, NM.

Education

1964 Newcomb College, B.F.A.

Solo Exhibitions

2005 Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Ferndale, MI (4.22.05-6.18.05)
2004 “Lynda Benglis: Ceramic Sculpture”, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, NY
  “Lynda Benglis: A Sculpture Survey 1969-2004”, Cheim & Read, New York
2002 “Lynda Benglis: Ceramic Sculpture,” Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York
  “Lynda Benglis,” Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2000 “Lynda Benglis,” Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
  “Stacked, Forced, Pinched: Clay and Bronze Works by Lynda Benglis,” Meadows Museum, Shreveport, LA
  “Lynda Benglis: A Decade of Ideas,” Bryan Ohno Gallery, Seattle
  “Lynda Benglis: Hot Spots,” Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
1999 “Lynda Benglis: Sculpture,” Galerie Simonne Stern
  “Lynda Benglis,” Guild Hall Musuem, East Hampton, NY
  “Lynda Benglis: New Work,” Cheim & Read, New York
1998 “Lynda Benglis: Chimera,” Forum Kunst Rottweil, Rottweil, Germany, travelled to: Galerie Six Friedrich Lisa Ungar, Munich Galerie Charimklocker, Vienna
  “Lynda Benglis: Selected Wall Reliefs,” USF Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida, Tampa FL
  “Lynda Benglis: New Sculpture and a Screening of Female Sensibility from 1973, “ Cheim & Read, New York
  “Lynda Benglis,” Kappatos Gallery, Athens, Greece
1997 “Selected Wall Reliefs,” Elizabeth Mayer Fine Art New York, NY
Michael Janssen, Cologne, Germany
  “Lynda Benglis in Glass,” Fred Dorfman Gallery, New York
  “Hidden Agenda,” Gallery Chemould, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
  “Game Being,” University of North Texas, School of Visual Arts, Denton, TX
  “Lynda Benglis,” Galerie Michael Janssen, Cologne, Germany
1996 Porter Troupe Gallery, San Diego, CA
  “New Monotypes: Landscapes and Fetishes,” Quartet Editions, New York, NY
1995-6 Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA
  Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI
  “Lynda Benglis: Recent Wall and Glass Sculpture,” Heath Gallery, Atlanta, GA
  “Lynda Benglis” organized in conjunction with “Chimera: Recent Ceramic Sculpture”, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI.
1993-4 “Clothed and Unclothed: Recent Sculpture,” Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL
  “From the Furnace,” Auckland City Art Center, Auckland, New Zealand
  “Ceramic Sculpture,” Tavelli Gallery, Aspen, CO
  Gow-Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
  “Wax Paintings,” Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
  “Lynda Benglis: Wax Paintings,” Heath Gallery, Atlanta
  “Chimera: Recent Ceramic Sculpture”, Traveling: The Harwood Foundation
1992 Heath Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
1991 “Dual Natures,” Travelling Exhibition: The High Museum of Art Atlanta, GA; Contemporary Arts Center & New Orleans Museum of Art; San Jose Museum of Art
  “Recent Work,” Heath Gallery, Atlanta
  “New Works,” Tilden Foley Gallery, New Orleans
  Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
1990 Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL
  Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA
  Sena Galleries West, Santa Fe, NM
  Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
1989 Tilden-Foley Gallery, New Orleans, LA
  Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  Michael Murphy Gallery, Tampa, FL
1988 “Lynda Benglis: Recent Sculpture and Works on Paper,” Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, TN
  Full Gross Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1987 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
  Landfall Press, New York, NY
  Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1986 Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  Tilden-Foley Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1984 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
  The Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
  Tilden-Foley Gallery, New Orleans, LA
1982 Okun-Thomas Gallery, St. Louis, MO
  Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
  Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1981 Museum of Art, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ
  Galerie Albert Baronian, Brussels
  Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL
  The Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
  Jacksonville Art Museum, Florida
1980 University of South Florida, Tampa, FL
  travelled to Lowe Art Museum, Miami, FL
  Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Oregon
  The Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
  Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY NY
  David Heath Gallery, Atlanta, GA
  Chatham College, Pittsburgh, PA
  Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
1979 The Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
  Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL
  Real Art Ways, New Haven, CT
  Hansen-Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA
  Galerie Albert Baronian, Belgium
1978 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
1977 Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
  Hansen-Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City, KA
1976 Paula Cooper Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1975 Fine Arts Center Gallery, State University of New York College at Oneonta, New York
  The Kitchen, New York, NY NY
  Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY NY
  The Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
1974 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY NY
  Hansen-Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1973 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
  “Lynda Benglis Video Tapes,” Video Gallery, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY
  Hansen-Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Oregon
  The Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
  Jack Glenn Gallery, Corona Del Mar, CA
  The Clocktower, New York, NY NY
1972 Hansen-Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1971 Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas
  Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
  Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
1970 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
  Janie C. Lee Gallery, Dallas, TX
  Galerie Hans Muller, Cologne
1969 University of Rhode Island, Kingston

Selected Group Exhibitions

Download the resume to view selected group exhibitions.

Selected Publications

2005 Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson, “The Artists Bluebook: 34,000 North American Artists to March 2005”
  Davenport, Ray, “Davenport’s Art Reference, The Gold Edition”
2004 McGowan, Alison C (Editor), “Who’s Who in American Art”, 2003-04 (25th Edition)
2002 Johnson, Ken, “Three Radicals, Two Generations: Revisiting Sculpture from the 60’s”. New York Times, March 2004.
1999 Falk, Peter Hastings, “Who Was Who in American Art”. 1564-1975, 3 Vols.
1997 Harwood Museum, Collection Handbook
  Marquis, “Who’s Who in American Art”. 1997-1998
1996 Camhi, Leslie, “Knot’s Landing”. Village Voice, March 2004.
  Ratcliff, Carter. “The Fate of a Gesture: Jackson Pollock and Postwar American Art”.
  Sandler, Irving, “Art of the Postmodern Era from the late 1960’s to the Early 1990’s”
  Delehanty, Randolph, “Art in the American South: Works from the Ogden Collection”.
  Hopps, Walter, “American Images/The SBC Collection of 20th Century American Art”.
1995 Fineberg, Jonathan. “Art Since 1940, Strategies of Being”.
1995 Heller, Jules and Nancy G., “North American Women Artists of the 20th Century”: Biographical Dictionary.
  Severens, Martha R., “Greenville County Museum of Art, The Southern Collection”.
  Huberty, Erica-Lynn, “Intensity of Form and Surface-An Interview with Lynda Benglis”. Sculpture Magazine, vol. 19 no.6, July/ August 2000.
1993 Stevens, Andrew (essay), Tandem Press: “Five Years of Collaboration and Experimentation”.
  Ward, Roger/Patricia J. Fidler, “The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, A Handbook of the Collection”.
1992 Naves, Mario. “Another Revelation from Lynda Benglis”. The New York Observer, January 2002.
  “On the Mark”, The East Hampton Star- The Arts. February 2002.
  Smith, Roberta, “Lynda Benglis”, The New York Times, Weekend Art in Review and Art Guide. February 2002.
  Ebony, David. “Lynda Benglis at Franklin Parrasch”, Art in America. October 2002.
  Kurtz, Bruce D., “Contemporary Art 1965-1990”.
1991 Krane, Susan, “Lynda Benglis, Dual Natures”.
  Wheeler, Daniel, “Art Since Mid Century 1945 to the Present”.
  Wexner Center, Ohio State U, “Breakthroughs, Avant-Garde, Artists in Europe and America 1950-1990”
1990 Rubenstein, Charlotte Streifer, “American Women Sculptors, A History of Women working in Three Dimensions”.
1989 Naylor, Colin (Editor), “Contemporary Artists” (3rd edition).
  Armstrong, Elizabeth, “First Impressions, Early Prints by Forty-six Contemporary Artists:.
1988 Rosen, Randy, et al, “Making Their Mark: Women Artists Move Into the Mainstream”.
1987 Cummings, Paul, “Dictionary of Contemporary American Artists” (5th edition).
  Pincus-Witten, Robert, “Postminimalism into Maximalism, American Art 1966-1986”.
  Heller, Nancy, “Women Artists, An Illustrated History”.
1986 Opitz, Glenn B. (editor), Mantle Fieldings Dictionary, American Painters, Sculptors, Engravers”.
  Jacques Cattell Press; “Who’s Who in American Art”.
  Marshall, Richard, “50 New York Artists”.
1985 DuPont, Diana, K Holland, “San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Paintings and Sculpture Collection”.
  Lucie-Smith, Edward, “American Art Now”.
1984 Robins, Corrine, “The Pluralist Era, American Art 1968-1981”.
  DeCoppet, Laura/Alan Jones, “The Art Dealers, The Power Behind the Scenes Tell How”.
  Opitz, Glenn B. (editor), “Dictionary of American Sculptors, 18th Century to Present”.
  Freeman, Phyllis, “New Art”.
  Marshall, Richard, “American Art Since 1970; Painting, Sculpture and Drawing/Whitney Museum.
1982 Newport Harbor Art Museum, “Shift LA/NY”.
  Contemporary Arts Museum. “The Americans/The Collage”.
1981 Whitney Museum, 1981 Biennial Exhibition.
1980 Lucie-Smith, Edward, “Art in the Seventies”.
  University of Pennsylvania, “Drawings: The Pluralist Decade”.
  Institute of Contemporary Art, “Urban Encounters: Art, Architecture, Audience”.
1977 Pincus-Witten, Robert, “Postminimalism”.
  Whitney Museum, 1971 Biennial Exhibition.
  Ekdahl, Janis, “American Sculpture: A Guide to information Sources”.
1976 Block, Rene, “SoHo New York, Downtown Manhattan/Berliner Festwochen”.
  Jacques Cattell Press, “Who’s Who in American Art”.
1975 Collins, Jim L., “Women Artists in America II”.

Grants and Honors

2003 AICA Award: Best Show of a Mid-Career Artist, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, NY
2000 Honorary Doctorate, Kansas City Art Institute
1999 National Endowment for the Arts
1998 National Council of Art Administration
  Olympiad of Art Sculpture Park, Korea
1990 National Endowment for the Arts
1989 National Council of Art Administration
1988 Olympiad of Art Sculpture Park, Korea
  Delphi Art Symposium
  Minos Beach Art Symposium
1979 National Endowment for the Arts Grant
1976 Artpark Grant
  Australian Art Council Award
1975 Guggenheim Fellowship
1965 Max Beckman Scholarship, The Brooklyn Museum
1963 Yale-Norfolk Scholarship

Teaching

Assistant Professor of Sculpture, University of Rochester, New York, NY 1970-72
Visiting Artist, Yale-Norfolk Summer School, 1972
Assistant Professor, Hunter College, New York, NY1972-73
Visiting Professor, California Institute of the Arts, 1974
Visiting Professor, Princeton University, 1975
Visiting Professor, California Institute of the Arts, 1976
Visiting Artist, Kent State University, Ohio, 1977
Visiting Artist, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, 1979
Visiting Professor, University of Arizona Department of Art, Tucson, 1982
Visiting Professor, School of Visual Arts, Fine Arts Workshop, New York, NY Autumn 1985 – 1996. Santa Fe Institute of Fine Arts, Santa Fe, NM (5/93, Summer 1994, 3/96)
College of Santa Fe (5/94, Summer 1995)
Yale University, Senior Critic, (Autumn 1994)
Quinipiac College, Hamden, CT, 1997-98

Selected Public Collections

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX
Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, AL
Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
The Cranbrook Design Center, Detroit, MI
The Denver Art Museum, Denver, CO
The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
Gihon Foundation, Santa Fe, NM
Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, NYU, New York, NY
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO
Leo W. O’Brien Federal Building, Albany, NY
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Forth Worth, TX
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Art Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, LA
Oak Brook Bank, Oak Brook, IL
Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, FL
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Roger Ogden collection, New Orleans, LA
Rokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA
The Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO
Storm King Art Center, Moutainville, NY
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY