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1941 Born in Chicago, Illinois
Lives and works in East Hampton, New York


Solo Exhibitions

2011 Joe Zucker, A Unified Theory, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
2010 Mary Boone Gallery, New York
2008 Plunder 1977 to 2008, NYEHAUS, New York
See/Sea, Susanne Hillberry Gallery, Ferndale, MI
The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, ScheiblerMitte, Berlin
2006 Open Storage: New Paintings, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
Container Ships, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
Works on Paper from the 1970’s, Studio B, Los Angeles
141 Dragon Street, Dallas, TX
2005 Interior – Exterior, Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne
2004 Unhinged, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
Drawings 1977-2003, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
2003 Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT
GBE Modern, New York
2001 Joe’s Lakes, Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne
Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
1999 Guild Hall, East Hampton, New York
1998 Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich
Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne
1997 The Plimsoll Line, Danese Gallery, New York
Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
1995 Track 16 Gallery, Bergamot Station Arts Center, Santa Monica, CA
1994 Aurel Scheibler, Cologne
Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
Anderson Gallery, Buffalo
1993 Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York
Texas Gallery, Houston
Aurel Scheibler, Cologne
American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington D.C.
1992 The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York
Nancy Drysdale Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans
1991 Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York
Aurel Scheibler, Cologne
1989 Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York
1988 The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago
Texas Gallery, Houston
Carol Getz Gallery, Coconut Grove, CA
1987 Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York
1985 – 86 Queens Museum, New York traveled to University Art Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton, OH (1985), Contemporary Art Center, Miami Beach (1986), Butler, Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH (1987)
1984 Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
The Mayor Gallery, London
Reed College, Portland, OR
Susanne Hillberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1983 Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco
Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta
Texas Gallery, Houston
1982 La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo
Macintosh Drysdale Gallery, Washington D.C.
Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo
1981 University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Pace Editions, New York
Yarlow/Salzman Gallery, Toronto
The Mayor Gallery, London
Galerie Strelow, Düsseldorf
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
Dart Gallery, Chicago
1980 Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
Pace Editions, New York
1979 Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
The Mayor Gallery, London
Galerie Bischofberger, Zürich
1978 Young/Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
Galerie Gillespie-Laage, Paris
1977 Hall Bromm Gallery, New York
1976 Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore
Bykert Gallery, New York
Texas Gallery, Houston
Protech Gallery, Washington D.C.
1975 Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco
Bykert Gallery, New York
1974 Bykert Gallery, New York
Texas Gallery, Houston
Jacobs Ladder Gallery, Washington D.C.
1968 Collector's Gallery, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
1967 Adele Rosenberg Gallery, Chicago
1966 Adele Rosenberg Gallery, Chicago
Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago
R.G. Silverman Gallery, Chicago
1965 Heistand Hal Art Gallery, Miami


Group Exhibitions


2009 Exile on Main Street: Humour, Exaggeration & Anti-Authoritarianism in American Art, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht
Artists of the gallery, Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Berlin
SYNTHETIC, Whitney Museum, New York
2008 Second Thoughts, Bard College, NY
2007 Summer Group Show, David Nolan Gallery, New York
2006 Nolan/Eckman Gallery, NYC
2005 Fictions, 109 Crosby Street Gallery, NYC
2004 4 und 4: Curator's Choice New York/Berlin, Müllerdechiara, Berlin
Mind over Manner, Galerie Grimm/Rosenfeld, München
2003 The American Landscape, Paul Kasmin Gallery, NYC
Black in Black, Cohen, Leslie and Brown Gallery, NYC
2002 New Works, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, NYC
2001 Modernism, The Armory, NYC
2000 Black & White, Anita Friedman Gallery, NYC
1999 Selected Works, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, NYC
Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts/Letters, NYC
Works on Paper, Riverhouse Editions, Steamboat Springs, CO
Museum Collection, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
1998 Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
Amerikanische Zeichnungen, Galerie Tony Wuethrich, Basel
Dreams for the Next Century: A View of the Collection, The Parrish Art Museum, Southhampton, NY
Masters of the Masters, MFA Faculty of the School of Visual Arts, NYC
1997 Selected Works, Danese Gallery, NYC
Drawings, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, NYC
Richard Artschwager: Drawings & Joe Zucker: The Making of the Painting
“Jolly Roger" 1978, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, NYC
1996 Think, Galerie Brigitte Ihsen, Köln
Disegni Americani Degli Anni Ottanta 15 Artisti, La Galleria Milano
Method and Multiplicity, Apex Art, NYC
1995 Murder, Bergamot Station Art Center, Santa Monica, CA
Thread Waxing Space, New York, Centre Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College/Wolfson Campus, Miami
1995 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
Temporarily Possessed: The Semi-Permanent Collection, New Museum, NYC
Inaugural Exhibition: Selected Works from the Collection of Burton Tremain and Hugh Freund, The Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, CT
Eats: An American Obsession, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica
1994 A Few Words, Installation, Jewish Museum, NYC
In the Process, Mary Delahoyd Gallery, NYC
Mirrors, Parrish Art Museum, South Hampton, NY
1993 Achim Kubinski Presents: “What to say, what not to say“, Caren Golden Fine Arts, NYC
Money, Nancy Drysdale Gallery, Washington D.C.
Western Myth: 20th Century Update, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
Developing Language, Hirschl and Adlern Moder, NYC
1992 American Figurations, Henie-Onstad Art Center, Hovikodden, Oslo
1991 Word as Image: American Art 1960-1990, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee
The Landscape Observed, Maryland Institute, Baltimore
1989 Repetition, Hirschl and Adlern Modern, NYC
1988 Artschwager: His Peers and Persuasion, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Porcelain: Past Forms, Present Tense, Artisian Space Fit, NYC
1987 New Directions: Contemporary Art from Atlanta Collections, Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology, Atlanta
1986 Twombly, Wilmarth, Zucker, Hirschl and Adler Modern, NYC
Group Show Anniversary, Gloria Luria Gallery, Miami
American Images, Blum-Helman Gallery, NYC
1986 An American Renaissance: Painting and Sculpture since 1940, Fort Lauderdale
Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida
Alchimia, XXXII Biennale di Venezia
Focus on the Image: Selections from the Rivendell Collection, Phoenix Art
Museum, AZ touring exhibition
1985 New Dimension Painting, Nina Freundheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY
A New Beginning, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
Precious: An American Cottage Industry of the Eighties, Grey Art Gallery, NYC
At the Beach, A.P. Gallery, San Francisco
Annionta, Castel Sismondo, Rimini, Italia
Picture Frame-Frame Picture, Ganrielle Byers Gallery,
A Decade of Visual Arts at Princeton 1975-85, The Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
Modern Art From Friend’s Collections, Vassar Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY
1984 American Still Life 1945-1983, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY
A Contemporary Focus 1974-1984, Hirschhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
The Elements: Weather in Art, Tweed Gallery, Plainfield, MN
Towards the End of the Century, Galerie Venster, Rotterdam
The Innovative Landscape, Holly Solomon Gallery, NYC
Summer Group Exhibition, Holly Solomon Gallery, NYC
Artists Call: 50 Artists/50 Collectors, Leo Castelli Gallery, NYC
National Midyear Exhibition, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
Miami Contemporary Collectors, Metropolitan Museum of Art Center, Miami
Pressure of the Hand: Expressionist Impulses in Recent American Art,
Braneid Art Gallery, Potsdam, NY
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
1983 1983 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
Back to the USA, Kunstmuseum, Luzern, traveling show
From Minimalism to Expressionism, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC*
New Decorative Art, The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA
Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Schweiz
Drawing Conclusion, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco
Arrival, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
National Drawing Invitational, Sarah Spurgeon Fine Arts Gallery, Ellensberg
A Contemporary Collection on Loan from the Rothschild Bank Zürich, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
New Image: Pattern and Decoration, Kalamazoo, MO, traveling show
Ornamentalism: The New Decorativeness in Architecture and Design, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
1982 Aspects of Post-Modernism, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta
The Americans: The Collage, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston
New York Now, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover, traveling show
1981 New Directions: A Corporate Collection Selected by Sam Hunter, Sidney Janis Gallery, NYC
Morton G. Neumann Family Collection: Selected Works, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
The Decorative Image, Mclntosh/Drysdale Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Menagerie, Goddard - Riverside Community Center, NYC
For Trisha Brown Dance Company, Leo Castelli Gallery, NYC
Flying, Bernard Jacobson Ltd., NYC
Celebration III, New Museum, NYC
Landscape: Joe Zucker, Sam Cady, Brad Davis, Roy Lichtenstein, Neil Jenny, Holly Solomon Gallery, NYC
A Penthouse Aviary, Art Lending Service, Museum of Modern Art, NYC
1980 Dékor, Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim, traveling show
Art in the Seventies, Aperto 80, XXXIX Biennale di Venezia
Les Noveaux Fauves-Die Neuen Wilden, Neue Galerie Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen
Tendance Actuelle de la Peinture Americaine, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
Pattern Printing, The Greenburg Gallery of Contemporary Art, St. Louis
Out of New York, The Root Art Center, Clinton
Selections from a Colorado Collection, University of Colorado Art Galleries, Boulder, CO
American Painting of the Sixties and Seventies: The Real/The Ideal/The Fantastic, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, NC
Audrey Strohl Gallery, Memphis, TN
Fabric Into Art, Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, Old Westbury, NY, traveling show
Decorative Fabrication, Institute of Contemporary Art of the Virginia Museum, Richmond, VA
Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN
Late 20th Century Art from the Sydney and Frances Lewis Foundation, The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH, traveling show
New York on Paper, Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City, MO
Galerie Bruno Bischofberger, Zurich
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
1979 Patterning and Decoration on Art, The Mayor Gallery, London
Comprehensive Drawings Show, Texas Gallery, Houston
Narodnimuzej, Belgrad
Group Exhibition of Gallery Artists, Holly Solomon Gallery, NYC
The Grid, Evanston Art Center, Evanston
Late 20th Century Art from the Sydney and Frances Lewis Collection,
Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
Arttack, Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles
1979 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
New Painting/New York, Hayward Gallery, London
The 1970's: New American Painting, Narodnimusej, Belgrad, traveling show
Other Media, Visual Arts Gallery, Miami
Sammlung Ludwig, Museum Moderner Kunst, Wien
1978 - 79 New Image Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
Grids: Format and Image in the 20th Century, The Pace Gallery, NYC, traveling show
Storytelling in Art, Museum of the American Foundation for Arts, Miami
Drawing Show, Mary Boone Gallery, NYC
1978 Willard Gallery, NYC
1977 - 78 Surrogates/ Self Portrait, Holly Solomon Gallery, NYC
Recent Work on Paper by American Artists, Madison Art Center, Madison
1977 1977 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC
Drawings, Carl Solway Gallery, NYC
Paintings, Hal Bromm Gallery, NYC
Patterning and Decoration, The Museum of the American Foundation for the Arts, Miami
1976 The Great American Rodeo, The Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX
traveled to Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, CO (1976), Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, TX (1977), Soho: Downtown Manhattan, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
Artschwager, Close, Zucker, Daniel Weinberg Gallery
San Francisco - La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
Paintings 75, 76, 77, Sarah Lawrence Gallery, Bronxville, traveling show
Edward Thorpe Gallery, NYC
Robert Mangold/Joe Zucker, Max Protech Gallery, Washington D.C.
A Selection of New Work, Texas Gallery, Houston
Large Scale Works, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati
Ten Painters, Georgia State University, Atlanta
One Hundred Distinguished Alumni, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Gallery, Chicago
Thickening Surface, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
1975 Artschwager, Gordon, Torreano, Zucker, Bykert Gallery, NYC
Artists Make Tous, The Clocktower, Institute for Art & Urban Resources, NYC
22 Artists, Susan Caldwell Gallery, NYC
Aspects of American Art, Kriwin Galerie, Bruxelles
Contemporary Paintings: A Review of the New York Gallery Season,
Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse, NY
1974 Nancy Holt, Joe Zucker, Bykert Gallery, NYC
A to Z Prints, Paintings and Sculpture, Prints on Prince Street, NYC
1974 Texas Gallery, Houston
1973 - 74 28 Painters of the New York Avant-Garde, Saidyne Bronfman Center of the YM-YWHA, Montreal
1973 Prospekt 73, Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
The Last Picture Show at 100 Prince: Zucker, Shields, Shapiro, Ruda, Quaytman, Paula Cooper Gallery, NYC
The Imerging Image, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY
Jaime Davidovitch/Gordon Hart/Ralph Humphrey/Davis Novoros/Joe Zucker, Bykert Gallery, NYC
1972 New American Abstract Painting, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
Gallery Reese Palley, NYC
1971 Cecile Abish, Robin Bruch, Douglas Leichter, Tony Robbins, Joe Zucker, Bykert Gallery, NYC
1969 Jim Beres, Bob Duran, Joe Zucker, Bykert Gallery, NYC
Combinations, School of Visual Arts Museum, NYC
1968 Biennial Exhibition, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
1967 Joe Zucker and Bob Israel: Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings, Dayton’s Gallery 12, Minneapolis
Small Paintings for Museum Collections, Department of Art, Albion
1966 Racine Avenue, Chicago
Black and White, Hyde Park Center, Chicago
R.G. Silverman Gallery, Chicago
1965 Twelve Chicago Painters, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, traveling show
Zolla/Liebermann Gallery, Chicago
Chicago Painting, Hyde Park Center, Chicago
Phalanx, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
Gerard Bernard Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
Spectrum, McCormick Place, Chicago
1964 Sixty-sixth Annual Exhibition of Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, The Art Institute of Chicago
Eye on Chicago: Avant-Garde Painting and Sculpture, Herman Hall, Chicago
Miami University, Oxford
1963 Second Annual Chicago Arts Festival, McCormick Place, Chicago
1960 - 61 Artists of Cincinnati and Vicinity, Cincinnati Art Museum, OH