ROSS BLECKNER

Born in New York

New York University New York

California Institute of the Arts Valencia, California

Teaches at the Department of Art and Art Professions, New York University

Lives and Works in New York

Flowers, Galerie Wilma Tolskdorf, Frankfurt/M

Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki
LA Art House, West Hollywood, California

Imago Galleries, Palm Dessert, California

Thomas Amman Fine Art, Zürich
Cirrus Gallery, Los Angels
Lehman-Maupin Gallery, New York
Cais Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Mary Boone Gallery, New York

Galerie Forsblom Helsinki

Ruzicska Salzburg

Lehmann Maupin New York

Studio d'Arte Raffaelli Trento
Wetterling Gallery Stockholm
Alain Noirhomme Gallery Brussels

Galerie Wilma Tolksdorf, Frankfurt/M

Vaknin Schwartz Gallery Atlanta
Wetterling Teo Singapore

Emilio Mazzoli Galleria d'Arte Contemporanea Modena (cat.)
Martin Browne Fine Art Sydney (cat.)

Julie M. Gallery Tel Aviv
Ross Bleckner: The Last Decade, Patrick Painter Santa Monica

Bawag Foundation Vienna

Larry Gagosian Beverly Hills
Galerie Kyoko Chirathivar Bangkok

Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst Oslo (cat.)
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York (cat.)

Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton New York (cat.)

Moderna Museet Stockholm (cat.)

Kölnischer Kunstverein Cologne
Kunsthalle Zurich (cat.)

Akira Ikeda Gallery Nagoya, Japan (cat.)
Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburgh
Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
Milwaukee Art Museum (cat.)

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

Boston Museum School

Mary Boone Gallery New York (cat.)

Cunningham Ward Gallery New York

John Doyle Gallery Chicago

Cunningham Ward Gallery New York

The Bewildered Image: American Painters from the 1980s, Patricia Low, Geneva, Switzerland

Your History is Not Our History, Haunch of Venison, New York
Selections, LA Art House, West Hollywood, California
Other as Animal, Danese Gallery, New York
America: Now and Here, cross-country traveling exhibition

A Tribute to Ron Warren, Mary Boone Gallery, New York

Genesis - Die Kunst der Schöpfung, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern
Empires and Enviroments, Rose Art Museum, Massachuettes

Black and White and Red-All Over, Michele Mosko Fine Art,Denver
All the More Real:Portrayals of Intimacy and Empathy, Parrish Art Museum, Southhampten
Timer 01, Triennale Bovisa, Mailand
Speed #1, Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia

View Nine: I Love My Scene 3, Mary Boone Gallery New York

East Village USA, New Museum of Contemporary Art

Perspectives at 25, Contemporary Arts Museum Houston
10th Anniversary Exhibition: Flowers Transformed, The Andy Warhol Museum Pittsburgh
Dialogue With Space, Esbjerg Kunstmuseum, Denmark (cat.)

New Abstract Painting Painting Abstract Now, Museum Morsbroich Leverkusen

Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collection,
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C./ Museum of Fine Arts Boston
First Impressions. Paulson Press, Museum of Art San Jose
Guild Hall Collects: Artists of Hampton Bohemia, Guild Hall Museum New York
Skin to Bones. Painting Since 1970, Rose Art Museum of Brandeis University Waltham

Operativo, Museo Rufino Tamayo Mexico City
Mythic Proportions. Painting in the 1980s, Museum of Contemporary Art Miami
Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons. Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collection,
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Roundup, El Paso Museum of Art
Absolut Modern, Modern Art Museum Fort Worth

Art at Work. Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection,
Queens Museum of Art New York
In the Power of Painting, Moderna Museet, Stockholm / Alesco, Zurich (cat.)
On Canvas. Contemporary Painting, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum New York

The Storytellers, Itochu Gallery, Japan

Puntos Cardinales, Museo Alejandro Otero Caracas, Venezuela

Identity Crisis. Self-Portraiture at the End of the Century, Milwaukee Art Museum
Birth of the Cool. American Painting, Kunsthaus Zurich / Deichtorhallen Hamburg (cat.)

Nuevas Abstracciones, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia Madrid /
Kunsthalle Bielefeld / Museo de Arte Contemporaneo Barcelona
Painting Singular Object, The National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto /
The National Museum of Modern Art Tokyo (cat.)

Passion Privees, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
Making a Mark. Drawings of the 1980's, The Bruce Museum Greenwich

Painting and Sculpture. Recent Acquisitions, The Museum of Modern Art New York
30 Years Art in the Present Tense, The Aldrich Museum of Modern Art New York
Against All Odds. The Healing Powers of Art, The Ueno Royal Museum Tokyo

New York on Paper, Galerie Ernst Beyeler Basel (cat.)

Slow Art. Painting in New York Now, P.S. 1 Museum New York
Recent Abstract Painting, Cleveland Center of Contemporary Art (cat.)
The City Influence: Ross Bleckner, Peter Halley, Jonathan Lasker,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Wright State University Dayton (cat.)
Devils on the Stairs. Looking Back on the Eighties,
Newport Harbor Art Museum, California

Anni 80. Artisti a New York, Palazzo delle Albere, Museo Provinciale d'Arte
Sezione Contemporanea Trento
Metropolis, Martin-Gropius-Bau Berlin
Weitersehen, Museum Haus Esters and Museum Haus Lange Krefeld (cat.)

10 + 10. Contemporary Soviet and American Painters, Milwaukee Art Museum

Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art Pittsburg, Pennsylvania
Art at the End of the Social, The Rooseum Malmö (cat.)
The Binational / Die Binationale, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf / Museum of Fine Art
Boston (cat.)
The Image of Abstraction, The Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (cat.)

Post Abstract Abstraction, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art Ridgefield
Still Life. Beyond Tradition, Visual Arts Museum New York

Emerging Artists 1986, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art

Selected Drawings, Jersey City Museum New Jersey

New York in Black and White, The Museum of Modern Art/ Penthouse New York
Tenth Aniversary Exhibition, California Institute of the Arts Valencia

Contemporary Reflections, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art Ridgefield
1975 Biennal Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art New York

Pincus-Witten, Robert: 'Your History Is Not Our History'/Haunch of Venison, ARTFORUM, June 2010, p. 349-350

Cotter, Holland: Welcome to Gulu, THE NEW YORK TIMES, 5 June 2009, p. C21
Dannatt, Adrian: Eighties star artist reborn as UN ambassador, THE ART NEWSPAPER, June 2009, p. 45
Ebony, David: Bleckner Honored by United Nations, ART IN AMERICA, May 2009, pp. 30-32
Kennedy, Randy: For Child Soldiers, a Chance To Wield Brushes, Not Arms, THE NEW YORK TIMES, 29 April 2009, pp. C1, C7

Diehl, Carol: Ross Bleckner at Mary Boone, ART IN AMERICA, May 2008, pp. 187-188
Kuspit, Donald: Ross Bleckner/Mary Boone Gallery, ARTFORUM, February 2008, p. 289

Harrison, Helen A.: An Artist's Investigation of Loss and Memory, THE NEW YORK TIMES, Long Island Journal, 2 January 2005

Johnson, Ken: The Hamptons, A Playground For Creativity, THE NEW YORK TIMES, 6 August 2004, pp. E29, E32
Zimmermann, Mark: Ross Bleckner, ART US, April 2004, p. 25

Amy, Michael: Arts & Letters: Gallery-Going, THE NEW YORK SUN, 18 December 2003, p. 19
Wendt, Amy: Exhibitionism: Ross Bleckner, FLAUNT, November 2003, pp. 188-190
Sheets, Hilarie M.: Ross Bleckner, ART NEWS, July 2003, pp. 154-155
Cameron, Dan: Ross Bleckner talks to Dan Cameron, ARTFORUM, March 2003, pp. 230-231, 274
New Abstract Painting, Ausst.-Kat. Museum Morsbroich Leverkusen, Köln 2003

Yablonsky, Linda: Ross Bleckner, TIME OUT NEW YORK, 7 June 2001, p. 58

Ebony, David: Ross Bleckner at Mary Boone and Lehmann Maupin, ART IN AMERICA, April 1999, p. 139

Smith, Roberta: Cells: Uptown, Downtown, All Around, THE NEW YORK TIMES, 27 November 1998, p. E42

Schjeldahl, Peter: Paint Recovery, THE VILLAGE VOICE, 28 May 1996, p. 91
Adams, Brooks: Ross Bleckner at Mary Boone, ART IN AMERICA, November 1996, p. 118

Carrier, David, and Neville Wakefield: Mourning Glory: Ross Bleckner in Retrospect, ARTFORUM, February 1995, pp. 68-75, 105. (illus: "Throbbing Hearts", Cover, C)
Stevens, Mark: Art of Darkness, NEW YORK MAGAZINE, 13 March 1995, p. 68
Schjeldahl, Peter: Angles in America, THE VILLAGE VOICE, 14 March 1995, p. 80
Schwabsky, Barry: Memories of Light, ART IN AMERICA, December 1995, pp. 80-85, 109

Smith, Roberta: Bleckner: loss and mourning, abstractly, THE NEW YORK TIMES, 27 May 1994, p. C24

Kuspit, Donald: Ross Bleckner, ARTFORUM, September 1991, pp. 125-126

Storr, Robert: Ross Bleckner, ART IN AMERICA, March 1989, pp. 145-146

Liebmann, Lisa, Ross Bleckner's Mood Indigo, ART NEWS, May 1988, pp. 128-133. (illus: "Architecture of the Sky", Cover, C)
Brenson, Michael, Ross Bleckner, THE NEW YORK TIMES, 28 October 1988, p. C31

Cameron, Dan, On Ross Bleckner's 'Atmosphere' Paintings, ARTS MAGAZINE, February 1987, pp. 30-33
Smith, Roberta: Art: In Bleckner Show, an Array of Past Motifs, THE NEW YORK TIMES, 13 February 1987, p. C16
Mc Gill, Douglas: An Artist's Journey from Obscurity to Success, THE NEW YORK TIMES, 19 February 1987, p. C30.
Rankin, Aimee: Ross Bleckner, BOMB, April 1987, pp. 22-27
Steir, Pat: Where the Birds Fly, What the Lines Whisper, ARTFORUM, May 1987, pp. 107-111

Westfall, Stephen: Ross Bleckner at Mary Boone, ART IN AMERICA, May 1986, pp. 155-156.
Brenson, Michael: Ross Bleckner. THE NEW YORK TIMES, 14 February 1986, p. C32.