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KENNETH NOLAND

Pent
1966
Acrylic on canvas
63 1/2 x 190 inches
161.3 x 482.6 cm

Kenneth Noland

Born in Asheville, North Carolina, 1924

Studied at Black Mountain College, North Carolina, 1946-48, and with Ossip Zadkins in Paris, 1948-49. Taught at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Washington D.C., 1949-51, at the Catholic University, Washington, D.C., 1951-60, and at the Washington Workshop Center of the Arts, 1952-56. Served as Milton Avery Professor of the Arts, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York, 1985.

Awards

1995	North Carolina Awards in Fine Arts
1997	Doctor of Fine Arts honorary degree from Davidson College, Davidson, North Carolina

Selected Solo Exhibitions

1977	“Kenneth Noland: A Retrospective,” Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, April 15 – June 19.
	Traveled to Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden and the Corcoran Gallery of Art (jointly), Washington, D.C., October 1 – November 27.
	Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio, January – February 26, 1978.
1982	Visual Arts Museum, New York (handmade paper works)
1983	Duke University Museum of Art, Durham, North Carolina (handmade paper works)
	Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico, D.F.
1984	University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley
1985	Museo de Bella Artes, Bilbaõ, Spain
1986	The Butler Institute of American Art, June 20 – August 31
	Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, Tennessee, November 9 – January 4, 1987
	Artist-in-Residence, Pratt Institute, New York
1990	Edmonton Art Gallery, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, November 17 – January 6, 1991.
1994	The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, “Kenneth Noland: The Circle Paintings”
	The Museum of Fine Arts, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, “Kenneth Noland: The Circle Paintings”
1995	Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, “Kenneth Noland: A Selection of Paintings”
	Gana Art Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
1996	Mosaic Mural at the new Rome, Italy subway system located at the Central Coliseum station
1998	André Emmerich Gallery, New York, “Kenneth Noland Circles,” September 10 – October 17.
1999	Meredith Long Gallery, Houston, Texas, “Kenneth Noland”
	Chac-Mool Gallery, Los Angeles, California, “Full Circle”
	Ameringer/Howard Fine Art, “Kenneth Noland: New Circle Paintings,” April 13 – May 6.
	Metta Gallery, Madrid, Spain, “Kenneth Noland: Encounter and Reflection,” February – August.
	Harmon Meek Gallery, Naples, Florida
	Ameringer/Howard/Yohe Fine Art, “Kenneth Noland: New Editions,” September 7 – October 13
2002	The Farnsworth Museum, Rockland, Maine, “Kenneth Noland: Themes and Variations,” June 30 - October 13
2003	Ameringer & Yohe Fine Art, New York, “Kenneth Noland: Contrapuntal,” October 16 – November 22
2006	Ameringer & Yohe Fine Art, New York, “Kenneth Noland: 360 Degrees on the Wall,” January 12 – February 11

Selected Group Exhibitions

1964	The Tate Gallery, London, “Painting and Sculpture of a Decade, 1954-1964,” April 22 – June 28
	XXXII Biennale,” Venice, June 20 – October 18
1965	Museum of Modern Art, New York, “The Responsive Eye,” February 23 – April 25. Traveled to City Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri, The Seattle Art Museum, Washington
	Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts, “Three American Painters: Noland, Olitski, Stella,” April 23 – May 30. Traveled to Pasadena Art Museum, California
1969	Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, “New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940-1970,” October 16 – February 1, 1970
1970	Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, New York, “Color and Field, 1890-1970,” September 15 – November 1
1971	Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, “The Structure of Color,” February 25 – April 18
1973	Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, “Twenty-Five Years of American Painiting, 1948-1973,” March 6 – April 22
1974	Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas, “The Great Decade of American Abstraction, Modernist Art 1960-1970,” January 15 – March 10
1975	Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., “34^th Biennial of Contemporary American Painting,” February 22 – April 6
	Le Berteca, Genoa, Italy “American Abstract Painting,”
	Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, “El Lenguaje del Color,” August
1976	The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia, “Three Hundred Years of American Art at the Chrysler Museum”
	Visual Arts Museum, New York, “American Color: 1961-1964,” March 29 – April 21
	Rheinisches Landesmuseum, Bonn, Germany, “Two Hundred Years of American Painting,” June 30 – July 28
	Traveled to Museum of American Art, Belgrade, Yugoslavia, August 14 – September 11, Galleria d’Art Moderna, Rome, Italy, September 28 – October 26, National Museum of Poland, Warsaw, November 12 – December 10, Baltimore Museum of Art (at the Maryland Science Center), January 16 – February 6, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, “Aspects of Postwar Paintings in America,” December 8 – January 12, 1977, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, “Surface, Edge and Color,” December 8 – January 12, 1977
1977	United States Embassy, Ottawa, Canada “Eight Contemporary Masters”
1978	National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institute,
	Washington D.C., “New Ways with Paper,” December 2 – February 20
1979	Everson Museum of American Art, Syracuse, New York, “A Century of Ceramics in the United States, 1878-1978,” May 5 – September 23. Traveled to Renwick Gallery, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institute, Washington D.C., Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York, 1979-1980
1980	91 e Exposition, Societé des Artistes, Grand Palais, Paris, “L’Amerique aux Independents,” March 13 – April 13,” Fendrick Gallery, Washington D.C., “The Washington Color School Revisited: The Sixties,” September 9 – October 4
	Milwaukee Art Center, Wisconsin, “Washington Color Painters,”
1981	Institute of Fine Arts, Mexico City, “Paintings from the United States from the Museums of Washington, D.C.,” November 18 – January 4, 1982
1982	Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, “A Private Vision: Contemporary Art from the Graham Gund Collection,” February 7 – April 4
	American Craft Museum, New York, “Papermaking U.S.A.: History, Process, Art,” May 20 – September 26
	Heath Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, “Out of the South: An Exhibition of Works by Artists Born in the South”
1983	Malcolm Brown Gallery, Shaker Heights, Ohio, “Early Works by Contemporary Masters,” October 21 – November 30
	Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York, “American Post-War Purism”
	Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City, Missouri, “Recent Paintings by Kenneth Noland and Darby Bannard,” June 1 – 30
	American Embassy, Madrid, “Arte Contemporaneo Norteamericanos: Collection of David Mirvish,” January
1985	Museum of Modern Art, New York, “Recent Acquisitions,” February 16 – March 17
	The Fort Worth Art Museum, Texas, “Grand Compositions: Selections from the Collection of David Mirvish,”
	Edith C. Blum Art Institute, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, “Contemporary Monotypes,” May 8 – July 10
	Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, “Selections from the William J. Hokin Collections,” April 20 – June 16
	Margot Levin Gallery, Los Angeles, California, “American Abstract Painting,” June 19 – August 24
1999	Dorothy Blau Gallery, Bay Harbor Island, Florida, “Contemporary Masters”
	Ameringer/Howard Fine Art, New York, “Icons,” December 9 – January 22, 2000
2000	Ameringer/Howard Fine Art, New York, “Eye Candy: Revisiting the Museum of Modern Art’s 1965 Exhibition ‘The Responsive Eye’,” October 27 - December 2
	“The American Century Part II,” The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
	American Embassy, Slovac Republic, “Art in America 2000”

Major Museum Collections

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York

Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois

Australian National Gallery, Canberra

Baltimore Museum of Art, Maryland

The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio

City Art Musem, St. Louis, Missouri

Cleveland Museum of Art, Ohio

Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Ohio

Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

Des Moines Art Center, Iowa

Detroit Institute of Fine Arts, Michigan

Gallery of South Australia, Adalaide

Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, Massachusetts

Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.

Kunsthaus, Zurich

Kunstmuseum, Basel

Kunstammlung Nordhein-Westfalen, Dusseldorf

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California

Louisiana Museum, Humleback, Denmark

The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

Milwaukee Art Center, Wisconsin

Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre National d’Art Culture Georges Pompidou, Paris

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts

Museum of Modern Art, New York

National Museum of Art, Washington, D.C.

Pasadena Art Museum, California

Phillips Collection, Washington, D.C.

Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts

Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

Important Monographs

Agee, William C., Kenneth Noland: The Circle Paintings, 1956-1963 [exhibition catalogue]. Houston: The Museum of Fine Arts, 1993.

Fenton, Terry, Appreciating Noland [exhibition catalogue]. Edmonton, Alberta: Edmonton Art Gallery, 1990.

Fenton, Terry, Kenneth Noland: An Important Exhibition of Paintings from 1958 through 1989 [exhibition catalogue]. New York: Salander O’Reilly Galleries, Inc., 1989.

Fried, Michael, Kenneth Noland [exhibition catalogue]. New York: The Jewish Museum, 1965.

Moffett, Kenworth, Kenneth Noland, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 1977.

Waldman, Diane, Kenneth Noland: A Retrospective [exhibition catalogue]. New York: The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1977.

Wilkin, Karen, Kenneth Noland. New York: Rizzoli, 1990.