Matthew Marks Gallery

Sturtevant

  • Born: Lakewood, OH, 1924

    Education: Chicago Art Institute, Chicago
    Art Students League, New York
    Columbia University, M.A., 1975
    University of Iowa, B.A., 1947

    Died: Paris, 2014

  • One-Person Exhibitions

    2024

    Zip Zap!, Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
    Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles

    2022

    Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
    Dialectic of Distance: Sturtevant Oldenburg Store, Thaddaeus Ropac, London
    Dialectic of Distance: Sturtevant Oldenburg Store, Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris

    2020

    Ça va aller, Air de Paris
    Peder Lund, Oslo
    SOCIÉTÉ, Berlin

    2019

    Bethlehem Hospital, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York
    MEMES, Freedman Fitzpatrick Gallery, Los Angeles

    2018
    I Am Never Am the Other, Power Station, Dallas
    Vice Versa, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, London

    2017

    Undeniable Allusion, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
    Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York

    2016

    Drawings: 1964-1994, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
    Gober Partially Buried Sinks, Gavin Brown's enterprise, Sant'Andrea de Scaphis, Rome
    KILL STUPIDITY, Air de Paris

    2015

    The House of Horrors (le Train fantôme), Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris
    Sturtevant Sturtevant, Madre, Napoli (catalogue)

    2014

    Drawing Double Reversal, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt. Traveled to Albertina, Vienna; Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin (catalogue)
    Double Trouble, Museum of Modern Art, New York. Traveled to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (catalogue)
    Number Eight: Sturtevant, Julia Stoschek Foundation, Düsseldorf
    Reloaded, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France

    2013

    Finite / Infinite, 365 S. Mission Road, Los Angeles
    House of Horrors, Sprengel Museum, Hanover (catalogue)
    Leaps Jumps and Bumps, Serpentine Galleries, London

    2012

    Image over Image, Moderna Museet, Stockholm. Traveled to Kunsthalle Zürich
    L'abécédaire de Deleuze, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
    Rock and Rap / C Simulacra, Gavin Brown's enterprise, New York

    2010

    Elastic Tango, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
    The Razzle Dazzle of Thinking, Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris (catalogue)
    Vertical Nomad, Galerie Neu, Berlin

    2009

    Blow Job, Air de Paris

    2008

    Vertical Monad, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
    Sturtevant, Le Consortium, Dijon

    2007

    Raw Power, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
    RE-Run, Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna

    2006

    Cold Fear, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
    Dillinger Running Series, Site Galerie, Düsseldorf
    Digital Click, Art Unlimited, Basel

    2005

    Push and Shove, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York (catalogue)

    2004

    The Brutal Truth, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt. Traveled to the MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA (catalogue)
    Perry Rubenstein Gallery, New York

    2003

    Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna
    The Dark Threat of Absence, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
    The Sixties: Lichtenstein, Warhol, Wesselmann, Rosenquist, Galerie Daniel Blau, Berlin (catalogue)

    2002

    I love Arlette, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
    Shifting Mental Structures, Neuer Berliner Kunstverein, Berlin (catalogue)
    Work on paper 1965/66/69, Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich

    2001

    Ça va aller, Galerie Hans Mayer, Berlin
    Dillinger Running Series, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France

    2000

    Copy without Origins: self as disappearance, École Régionale des Beaux-arts de Nantes

    1999
    Duchamp 1200 Coal Bags, Musée d’art modern et contemporain, Geneva, Geneva
    Sturtevant. 1225 Objects, Casino Luxembourg, Forum d'Art Contemporain (catalogue)

    1998
    Ça va aller, Air de Paris
    Int./Ext. Visibilities, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris

    1997
    Stella Paintings and Photos, Galerie Six Friedrich, Munich

    1996

    Ecole Régionale des Beaux-Arts, Le Mans, France

    1995

    Powerful Reversals, Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf

    1994

    Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris

    1993

    Galerie Hans Mayer, Düsseldorf
    Stux Gallery, New York
    Works from 1964–1992, Galerie Six Friedrich, Munich

    1992

    Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart. Traveled to Deichtorhallen, Hamburg; and Villa Arson, Nice.

    1991

    Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris (catalogue)

    1990

    Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago (catalogue)

    1989

    Art Basel 89, Galerie Six Friedrich, Munich
    Werke aus 25 Jahren, Galerie Paul Maenz, Cologne (catalogue)

    1988

    Drawing 1988–1965, Bess Cutler Gallery, New York (catalogue)

    1987

    Paintings and Objects 1965–1973, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
    Stux Gallery, New York (catalogue)

    1986

    White Columns, New York

    1974

    Various Studies for Beuys Actions, Objects and Films, Onnasch Gallery, New York

    1973

    Studies for Warhols' Marilyns, Beuys' actions and objects Duchamps' etc. including film, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse (catalogue)

    1971

    Studies done for Beuys' Action objects and drawing, Reese Palley Gallery, New York

    1970

    Huit Tableaux et un Prototype, Galerie Claude Givaudan, Paris

    1969

    Huit Tableaux et un Prototype, Galerie Claude Givaudan, Paris

    1967

    Picabias’ Ballet Relâche, School of Visual Art, New York
    The Store of Claes Oldenburg, 623 East, New York

    1966

    America America, Galerie J, Paris

    1965

    Bianchini Gallery, New York

  • Group Exhibitions

    2024

    Among the Invisible Joins: Works from the Enea Righhi Collection, MUSEION Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano, Italy

    2023

    Repetition, Centre Pompidou-Metz, France

    2022

    ERNSTHAFT? Albernheit und Enthusiasmus in der Kunst, Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn
    Faking the Real, Kunsthalle Graz
    Museum of Modern Art of Bogotá and Cinemateca Distrital, Bogotá
    Somewhere Downtown, UCCA Museum, Beijing
    The Double: Identity and Difference in Art Since 1900, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.

    2021

    Amazons of Pop! Women artists, icons, superheroines 1961–1973, MAMAC, Nice. Traveled to Kunsthalle zu Kiel, Germany and Kunsthaus Graz, Austria
    Carte blanche à Anne Imhof, Natures Mortes, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
    New Time: Art and Feminisms in the 21st Century, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (catalogue)
    Sturtevant & Tina Braegger: Curiosity Killed the Cat, De 11 Lijnen, Oudenburg, Belgium
    Stop Painting, Fondazione Prada, Ca' Corner della Regina, Venice
    Zeros and Ones, KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin

    2020

    30 Years in Paris, Thaddeaus Ropac, Pantin, France
    No Dandy, No Fun, Kunsthalle Bern
    Retail apocalypse, ETH Zürich
    Risquons-tout, WIELS, Forest, Belgium
    She-Bam Pow POP Wizz! Les Amazones du POP, MAMAC, Nice

    2019

    Food, Yoshii Gallery, New York
    Ikonen, Kunsthalle Bremen
    Just what is it that makes today so different, so appealing?, Gavin Brown's enterprise, Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris
    Luogo e segni, Punta della dogana, Venice
    More, Air de Paris
    Straying from the line, Schinkel Pavillon, Berlin

    2018

    33rd Bienal de São Paulo, Fundação Bienal de São Paulo Pavilhão Ciccillo Matarazzo
    Art & Entertainment, Musée d’art modern et contemporain, Geneva
    DRAG: Self-portrait and Body Politics, Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London
    Faithless Pictures, National Museum of Norway, Oslo
    Fake as More, Simon Lee Gallery, New York
    Other Mechanisms, Secession, Vienna (catalogue)

    2017

    I am a Problem, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
    If Not Apollo, the Breeze, Kadist, San Francisco
    Robert Rauschenberg: Among Friends, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
    Screen Memory, Simon Lee Gallery, London
    Sturtevant and the Salon Pour Rire, Chewday's, London
    The Everywhere Studio, Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami

    2016

    Foot Foraine, Grande Halle La Villette, Paris
    Images, Fridericianum, Kassel
    Life Itself, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
    Ordinary Pictures, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis

    2015

    Open Source: Art at the eclipse of capitalism, Galerie Max Hetzler, Berlin
    Space Age, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Pantin, France
    The Great Mother, Fondazione Nicola Trussardi – Palazzo Reale, Milan
    The Shell, Almine Rech Gallery, Paris,

    2014

    69 / 96., Gebert Foundation, Rapperswil, Switzerland
    In These Great Times, Kunstnernes Hus, Oslo

    2013

    Ausweitung der Kampfzone. Die Sammlung. 1968–2000, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
    Des images comme des oiseaux, La Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille
    Pop Art Design, Barbican Centre, London
    Second reflection / Symmetrical contents STURTEVANT and SECONDEDITIONS, Chelsea Space, London (catalogue)
    Virginia Dwan, Filmmaker, Videographer, and Film Producer, Emily Harvey Foundation, New York

    2012

    Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK
    Sinister Pop, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA

    2011

    ILLUMInazioni – ILLUMInations, 54th Biennale di Venezia (catalogue)
    In Praise of Doubt, Punta della Dogana, Venice
    The Personal is Political: Women artists from the collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
    Role Models and Role Playing, Museum der Moderne, Salzburg

    2010

    Seconde main, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
    Pop Life, Hamburger Kunsthalle

    2009

    Die Kunst ist Super!, Hamburger Bahnhof – Museum für Gegenwart – Berlin
    The Quick and The Dead, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (catalogue)
    Pop Life, Tate Modern, London
    Hayward Gallery, Southbank Centre, London
    VOID, Centre Pompidou, Paris
    Fare Mondi, 53rd Biennale di Venezia

    2008

    Set 5, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland (catalogue)
    Galerie Mehdi Chouakri, Berlin
    The Archer and the Goat, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London
    Exposing Flesh, CCS Bard, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

    2007

    Début de siècle, Musée départemental d'Art Contemporain de Rochechouart
    it (is not) a fake, Galerie Sho Tokyo, Tokyo
    WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (catalogue)
    Ten Curators, Colette, Paris
    Good Morning Midnight, Casey Kaplan Gallery, New York
    Steven Parrino – La Marque, Noire, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
    Group Show, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London

    2006

    Domino, Air de Paris
    Faster! Bigger! Better! Zentrum für Medientechnologie, Karlsruhe (catalogue)
    MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
    The Gold Standard, MoMA PS1, New York
    Twice Drawn, Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY
    Whitney Biennial 2006: Day for Night, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue)

    2005

    Homage to the Square, Galerie Mezzanin, Vienna
    Joy, Casino Luxembourg, Forum d’Art Contemporain
    Just Do It! Die Subversion der Zeichen von Marcel Duchamp bis Prada Meinhof, Lentos Kunstmuseum Linz
    Peter Blake, Sylvie Fleury, Malcolm Morley, George Segal, Sturtevant: Vis-à-vis 1, Musée d’art modern et contemporain, Geneva
    Spirit of…DADA, Galerie Hervé Bize
    Superstars: From Warhol to Madonna, Kunstforum, Vienna
    Truer than the Truth, Anthony Reynolds Gallery, London

    2004

    20 Jahre / 20 Years, 1984–2000, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
    About Painting, Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY
    Before the End, Le Consortium, Dijon
    Besides, popularity is a rather lumpy concept, no?, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
    Frac Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, Marseille

    2003

    Aftershock: The Legacy of the Readymade in Post-war and Contemporary American Art, Dickinson Roundell, New York
    Das Lebendige Musuem, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt
    Ishtar, Midway Contemporary Art, Minneapolis (catalogue)
    Influence, Anxiety and Gratitude, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
    Living with Duchamp, Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY
    Re-Production 2, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
    The DaimlerChrysler Collection, Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe
    Une Collection de 'Chefs d'oeuvre' – emprunts, pastiches, copies, citations et interprétations, FRAC-Artothèque du Limousin, Limoges
    Un tableau dans le décor, Peintures 1970–2000, Musée des Ducs de Bretagne, Nantes

    2002

    Iconoclash: Jenseits der Bilderkriege in Wissenschalft, Religion und Kunst, Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe
    Kunst nach Kunst, Neues Museum Werserburg, Bremen
    Min Marilyn, Lijevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm
    Manifeste oder Ergriffenheit – Was ist das, Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich
    Minimalism and After, DaimlerChrysler Contemporary, Berlin
    Private/Corporate: Works from the Daimler Art Collection and the Paul Maezz Collection: A Dialogue, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin

    2001

    Candice Breitz, Claude Closky, Elaine Sturtevant, Martin Walde, Erwin Wurm, Gallery Mezzanin, Vienna
    Georg Karl Fine Arts, Vienna
    La Bretagne collectionne l'art de notre temps: les vingt ans du Frac Bretagne 1981–2001, Musée des beaux-arts de Rennes, Rennes. Traveled to Manoir de la Grande Cour, Taden; Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Bignan; École supérieure d'art de Lorient, Lorient; Domaine de Trévarez, Saint-Goazec; Le Quartier – Centre d'art contemporain, Quimper, France (catalogue)
    Ornament and Abstraction: The Dialogue between Non-Western, Modern, and Contemporary Art, Foundation Beyeler, Basel
    Répertoire (Replay) 'Oh cet écho!' (Duchampiana) 2, Musée d’art modern et contemporain, Geneva
    Répertoire (Replay) 'ce qu'il plait 2', Musée d’art modern et contemporain, Geneva
    Trade-Waren, Wege und Werte im Welthandel Heute, Fotomuseum Winterthur, Switzerland

    2000

    Copy Right/Copy Wrong, École des beaux-arts de Nantes Saint-Nazaire, Nantes
    Protest & Survive, Whitechapel Gallery, London (catalogue)
    The 100 Smiles of Mona Lisa, Tokyo Metropolitan Art Museum, Tokyo. Traveled to the Shizuoka Prefectural Museum of Art, Shizuoka; and Hiroshima Prefectural Art Museum, Hiroshima (catalogue)

    1999

    Air de Paris
    Apropos of Marcel: The Art of Making Art after Duchamp in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction, Curt Marcus Gallery, New York
    Original. Echt/Falsch, Neues Museum, Bremen
    Patchwork in progress 5 'Oh cet écho !' (Duchampiana), Musée d’art modern et contemporain, Geneva
    Weg aus dem Bild, Georg Karl Fine Arts, Vienna
    Werke aus der Sammlung FER, Froelich, Grässlin, Weishaupt, ZKM | Zentrum für Kunst und Medien, Karlsruhe

    1998

    Auffrischender Wind aux weschselnden Richtungn. Internationale Avantgarde seit 1960. Die Sammlung Paul Maenz, Neues Museum, Weimar
    Das Jahrhundert der Kunslerischen Freiheit, Vienna Secession. Traveled to Rudolfinum, Prague and City Art Museum, Helsinki
    Painting Now and Forever, Matthew Marks Gallery and Pat Hearn Gallery, New York
    Sequence, Edition Schellmann Munich, New York
    Upfreshing Wind from Changing Directions, Weimar Neues Museum

    1997

    From One Point to Another, L'Atelier Soardi, Nice
    Galerie von Lintel, Munich
    Sous le manteau, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris

    1996

    Color Fields: Selections from the Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
    Family, Nation, Tribe, Community, SHIFT, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin (catalogue)
    Kunstsammlung Nordhein-Westfalen, Düsseldorf
    La Criée, Centre d'Art, Rennes, France (catalogue)
    L'Art du Plastique, Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
    Magritte, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal
    Now/Here, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaeck, Denmark

    1994

    “Et qui Libre?” Hommage a Marcel Duchamp, École des beaux arts, Rouen, France
    Leap into the Void, Tsentral'ny dom khudozhnika / Central House of Artists, Moscow
    Musée d’art modern et contemporain, Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland

    1993

    Drawings: 30th Anniversary Exhibition to Benefit the Foundation for Contemporary Performance Arts, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
    Stux Gallery, New York
    Zentrum Paris, Kunsthalle Ritter, Klagenfurt, Austria

    1992

    Galerie Sylvana Lorenz, Paris
    Galerie Six Friederich, Munich

    1991

    (Art)2: Art Appropriates Art, California State University, Fullerton, California (catalogue)
    Aspect de l'art du XXéme siécle, Abbaye Saint André, Meymac, France (catalogue)
    Das Goldene Zeitalter, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart (catalogue)
    Denk-Bilder, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstifstun, Munich. Traveled to the Heydt-Museum, Wuppertal, Germany (catalogue)
    Hybrid Abstraction, Bennington College, VT
    Objects for the Ideal Home, Serpentine Galleries, London (catalogue)

    1990

    Charade of Mastery. Deciphering Modernism in the Contemporary Art, Whitney Museum of American Art (catalogue)
    Permanent Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
    Spellbound, Mark Richard Gallery, New York

    1989

    A Decade of Drawing, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
    D&S Ausstellung, Kunstverein Hamburg, Hamburg (catalogue)
    Prospect 89, Frankfurter Kunstverein (catalogue)
    The Silent Baroque, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg (catalogue)

    1988

    Complexity & Contradiction, Scott Hanson Gallery, New York
    Hommage-Demontage, Neue Galerie Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen. Traveled to Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen; Stadtisches Museum Gelsenkirchen, Gelsenkirchen, Germany; Provinciaal Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, Hasselt, Belgium (catalogue)
    Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna
    Vraiment Faux, Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Jouy-en-Josas, France (catalogue)

    1987

    A Different Corner: Definition and Redefinition, Painting in America, Museo de Arte Moderno, Cuenca, Ecuador (catalogue)
    Post-Abstract Abstraction, Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, CT (catalogue)
    The Glittering Prize, Stux Gallery, New York

    1986

    Investigations, McIntosh/Drysdale Gallery, Washington, D.C.
    Production Re:Production, Gallery 345, New York

    1985

    The Art of Appropriation, Alternative Museum, New York (catalogue)

    1969

    Salon de mai, Musée d’Art modern de la Ville de Paris

    1968

    Language II, Dwan Gallery, New York

    1967

    Art in the Mirror, The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Traveled to Mansfield Fine Arts Guild, Ohio; San Francisco State College; Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles; Los Angeles Valley College, Van Nuys; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; State University College, Oswego, NY (catalogue)

    1966

    The Other Tradition, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia (catalogue)

    1960

    New Names: A Guest Show, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York

  • Awards and Honors

    2013

    College Art Association, Artist Award for Distinguished Body of Work
    Kurt Schwitters Prize for Lifetime Achievement, Sprengel Museum, Hanover

    2011

    Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement, 54th Biennale di Venezia

    2008

    Greenburger Award, New Museum, New York

    2006

    Beaux-arts Magazine Award (best international exhibition), Paris

    2005

    Beaux-arts Magazine Award (best international exhibition), Sturtevant: The Brutal Truth, MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt

    2004

    Art Award (best exhibition of the year), Paris