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Biography

1912 born in Cody, Wyoming
1918-1923 lives in Northern California
1925-29 lives in Southern California
Attends Manual Arts High School, Los Angeles
1929 moves to New York City, studies under Thomas Hart Benton at the Art Students League of New York
1930-34 lives partly in the Western States of the U. S.
1935 settles in New York
1938-1942 works for the WPA Federal Art Project
1945 marries Lee Krasner
1946 moves to Springs, East Hampton
1951 first public viewing of Pollock film by Hans Namuth and Paul Falkenberg, with Music by Morton Feldman, The Museum of Modern Art, NY
1956 gets killed in a car crash in Springs, East Hampton, NY



Solo exhibitions (selected)


2009 Screenprints, Aurel Scheibler, Berlin
2008 Intaglios and Screenprints, Joan T. Washburn Gallery, New York
2007 Pollock Matters, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, NY, McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, MA
2006 No Limits, Just Edges: Jackson Pollock Paintings on Paper, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
2005 Joan T. Washburn Gallery, New York
No Limits, Just Edges: Jackson Pollock Paintings on Paper, Deutsche Guggenheim, Berlin
2003 The Screenprints: 1941-1951, Joan T. Washburn Gallery, New York
Blue Poles Number 11, 1952, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2000 The State Hermitage Museum, St. Petersburg
1999 Werke aus dem Museum of Modern Art, New York und Europäischen Sammlungen, Kunstsammlung NRW, Düsseldorf
1998-99 The Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Tate Gallery, London
1997-98 Evolution and Revolution, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
1995 The „New-Found“ Screen Prints, Pollock-Krasner House and Study Center, East Hampton
New Found Works, Jason McCoy, Inc., New York
Pollock/Siqueiros, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
1992 Pollock in the Mid-Forties: A Close-Up, Jason McCoy Inc. New York
1990 Black Enamel Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, New York
1989 Paintings & Drawings 1934-1952, Anthony D'Offay Gallery, London
1982 Musée National d´Art Moderne, Centre Pompidou, Paris
1980 Drawing Into Painting, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1968 Works on Paper, travelling exhibition, USA und Montreal
1967 The Museum of Modern Art, New York, Los Angeles County Museum
1964 Marlborough-Gerson Gallery, New York
1963 Moderna Museet, Stockholm
1961 Paintings, Drawings and Watercolors from the Collection of Lee Krasner Pollock, Marlborough Fine Art, London
Kunstverein für die Rheinlande und Westfalen, Düsseldorf
Kunsthaus, Zurich
1958 Kunsthalle Basel, travelling exhibition, Hamburg, Roma, Amsterdam, London
1956 The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1952 Sidney Janis Gallery, New York (and 1954, 1955, 1957)
Lawrence Art Museum, Williams College, Williamstown, MA, Bennington College, Vermont
Studio Paul Facchetti, Paris
1950 Museo Correr, Venice
1948 Betty Parsons Gallery, New York (and 1949, 1950, 1951)
1945 Arts Club of Chicago, San Francisco Museum of Art
1943 Art of this Century, New York (and 1945, 1946, 1947)



Group shows (selected)


2008-09 Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning & American Art 1940-1976, Saint Louis Art Museum, The Jewish Museum, New York
2008 Action Painting, Foundation Beyeler, Riehen/Basel
2006 Black Paintings, Haus der Kunst, Munich
2002 Das MoMA in Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
2001 Claude Monet und die Moderne, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munich
1999 The American Century, Art & Culture 1900-2000 Part II, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1998 Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object, 1949-1979, MOCA, Los Angeles
1996 Beat Culture and the New America: 1950-1965, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
1964 documenta III, Kassel
Bilanz Internationale Malerei seit 1950, Kunsthalle Basel
1959 documenta II, Kassel
1958/59 New American Painting, travelling exhibition, Roma, Basel, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Berlin, London, Paris
1957 IV Bienal, Sao Paulo
1956 XXVIII Biennale, Venice
1955/56 Tendences Actuelles, Kunsthalle, Bern
50 Ans d’art aux États-Unis, travelling exhibition, Paris, Zürich, Barcelona, Frankfurt a.M., London, Den Haag, Wien, Belgrad
1954 9 American Painters Today, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Younger American Painters: A Selection, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
1953 12 Peintres et Scuplteurs Américaines Contemporaines, Musée National d’art Moderne, Paris, travelling exhibition, Zürich, Düsseldorf, Stockholm, Helsinki, Oslo
1952 15 Americans, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Regards sur la Peinture Américaine, Galerie de France, Paris
1951 American Vanguard Art for Paris Exhibition, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Surrealisme & Abstractie, keuze uit de Versameling Peggy Guggenheim, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Palais de Beaux Arts, Brüssel, Kunsthaus Zurich
(Amerikanische Malerei und Graphik, 18.-20. Jahrhundert), Museum für Völkerkunde, Berlin
1950 Amerika Schildert, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Young Painters in U.S. & France, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
XXV Biennale di Venezia, Venice
1948 XIV Biennale di Venezia, La Collezione Peggy Guggenheim, Venice
1947 Large Scale Modern Painters, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1946 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, (and 1947, 1949, 1950, 1951, 1952, 1953, 1954)
1944 Abstract and Surrealist Art in the United States, Cincinnati Art Museum, travelling exhibition
Twelve Contemporary Painters, travelling exhibition organized from MoMA
1943 Spring Salon for Young Artist, Art of this Century, New York