Stanley Whitney

CV

B. 1946, Philadelphia, US
Lives and works in New York and Parma, Italy


Awards

2011

Robert De Niro Sr. Prize, New York, NY, USA

2010

Art Award, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY, USA

2006

Great Teacher Award, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA

2002

Pollock-Krasner Foundation Fellowship, New York, NY, USA

1996

John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, New York, NY, USA


Selected Public Collections

• A.A.M. Architettura Arte Moderna, Modena, Italy
• The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, USA
• The Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
• Cornell Fine Arts Museum at Rollins College, Winterpark, FL, USA
• The Guggenheim Abu Dhabi, Abu Dhabi, UAE
• The Helga de Alvear Foundation, Cáceres, Spain
• High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, USA
• The Long Museum, Shanghai, China
• The Longlati Foundation, Shanghai, China
• Magazzino d’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
• The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY, USA
• The McNay Art Museum, San Antonio, TX, USA
• Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
• The Morgan Library & Museum, New York, NY, USA
• The National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
• Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, USA
• Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Overland Park, KS, USA
• Palazzo Magnani, Reggio Emilia, Italy
• The Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA, USA
• Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, USA
• Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL, USA
• Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA
• Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, MO, USA
• Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, USA
• The Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE, USA
• The Smithsonian Museum, Washington DC, USA
• The Speed Art Museum, Louisville, KY, USA
• The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY, USA
• Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA, USA
• The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, USA
• Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT, USA


Selected Solo Exhibitions

2024

Stanley Whitney: How High the Moon. Buffalo Akg Art, New York, USA
Stanley Whitney: Dear Paris. Gagosian Gallery, Paris, France

2023

There Will Be Song, Gagosian, London, UK

2022

Stanley Whitney: The Italian Paintings. A Collateral Event of the Venice Biennale, Palazzo Tiepolo Passi, Venice, Italy
Stanley Whitney, Paintings, Galerie Nordenhake Mexico, MX
Stanley Whitney, Works on paper, Galerie Nordenhake Stockholm, SE

2021

How Black is that Blue, Matthew Marks Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

2020

Stanley Whitney, Gagosian, Rome
No to Prison Life, Lisson Gallery, Online Exhibition
FOCUS: Stanley Whitney, Lisson Gallery, East Hampton, NY

2019

‘Stanley Whitney: Afternoon Paintings’, Lisson Gallery, London

2018

Paintings, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin
In the color, Lisson Gallery, New York

2017

Drawings, Lisson Gallery, New York, NY

2016

Here Comes the Sun, Galerie Nordenhake, Stockholm
Focus – Stanley Whitney, Modern Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX
Radical Times, Lisson Gallery, London

2015

Galleri Opdahl, Stavanger
Paintings, Lisson Gallery, Milan
Dance the Orange, The Studio Museum Harlem, NY
Karma, New York
Team Colors, team (bungalow), Los Angeles, CA

2013

Goya’s Lantern, Albert Baronian Art Gallery, Brussels
Other Colors I Forget, Team Gallery, New York, NY

2012

Yellow Noon and Night, Galerie Nordenhake Berlin
Left to Right Team Gallery, New York, NY
Six Paintings, Omi International Arts Center, Ghent, NY

2010

Team Gallery, New York, NY

2009

Christine König Galerie, Vienna, Austria

2007

Galleria Ramis Barquet, Mexico City, Mexico
Christine König Galerie, Vienna, Austria

2006

Stanley Whitney Galleria Carlina, Torino
Breathing Sound Esso Gallery, New York, NY

2005

New Paintings, Esso Gallery, New York, NY

2004

A.A.M Architettura Arte Moderna, Rome

2003

Christine König Galerie, Vienna, Austria

2001

Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, NY

1999

Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, NY

1997

Magazzino d ́Art Moderna, Rome

1991

University of Dayton, Dayton, OH

1990

fiction/nonfiction Gallery, New York, NY

1987

Peg Alston Gallery, New York, NY

1986

Barbara Greene Gallery, Miami, FL

1985

University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA

1984

Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VI

1983

Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY

1972

University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI

Selected Group Exhibitions

2023

Tracing Lineage: Abstraction and its Aftermath. Bruce Museum, Greenwich, USA
Seven Rooms and a Garden: Rashid Johnson and The Moderna Museet Collection. Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden
Abstract Explorations: 100 Years on Paper. Gagosian Gallery, Gstaad, Switzerland
Extraordinary Form Abstract and non figurative art from Miettinen Collection, 1970 – Present. Miettinen Collection, Berlin, Germany
Albert Baronian: Quinquagesimum. Fondation Cab Brussels, Brussels, Belgium
Artists Choose Parrish, Part II. Parrish Art Museum, New York, USA
In Dialogue: Abstraction & Figuration, Visioner, New York, USA
BLINK – The Trond Mohn Art Collection Stavanger Art Museum, Stavanger, Norway
To Bend the Ear of the Outer World: Conversations on contemporary abstract painting, Gagosian, London, UK

2022

To Light, Shadow and Dust, Galerie Nordenhake, Berlin, Germany
Artists Inspired by Music: Interscope Reimagined, LACMA, Los Angeles, USA
Panorama, Palazzo Mortinelli, Monopoli, Italy
Sensory Poetics: Collecting Abstraction, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA

2021

On the Bowery Curated by Loren Munk. Zurcher Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Selected Works, Lisson Gallery, New York, NY, USA

2020

Call and Response, Longlati Foundation, Shanghai, China
Horizon, Lisson Gallery, London, UK
Reframing Minimalism: McArthur Binion and his Contemporaries in New York, 1973 – 1992, Richard Gray Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Painting the Essential: New York, 1980 – Present, Online Exhibition, Timothy Taylor Gallery

2019

Yves Klein/Stanley Whitney: This Array of Colors, Galería Cayón, Madrid/Minorca, Spain
It’s Urgent! – Part II, curated by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Luma Westbau, Zurich, Switzerland
Painter’s Reply: Experimental Painting in the 1970s and Now, curated by Alex Glauber and Alex Logsdail, Lisson Gallery, New York, NY, USA
Visible Traces (Mountain Water Air), curated by Pat Steir, Lévy Gorvy, New York, NY USA
The Unusual Suspects: A View of Abstraction, curated by Richard Kalina, DC Moore, New York, NY, USA
Playing Art, curated by Juan Bordes, Norman Brosterman and Juliet Kinchin, Fundación Juan March, Madrid, Spain
Blue is the color of your eyes, curated by Iris Müller-Westermann and Andreas Nilsson, Moderna Museet, Malmö, Sweden

2018

Inherent Structure, Wexner Center for the Arts, Ohio
Abstraction Today – Mapping the Invisible World, Tobias Mueller Modern Art, Zurich

2017

Documenta 14, Athens and Kassel
Drawing Island, Journal Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
The State of New York Painting: Works of Intimate Scale by 26 Colorists, City University of New York Kinsborough Art Museum, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY

2016

Making and Unmaking: An exhibition curated by Duro Olowu, Camden Arts Centre, London
bisou magique, Galerie Derouillon, Paris
Paper in Practice, Moran Bondaroff, Los Angeles
Nice Weather, curated by David Salle, Skarstedt, New York

2015

For Troedsson Villa, Troedsson Villa, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Nikko
The Painter of Modern Life, Anton Kern Gallery, New York, NY
Nerosu Bianco, The American Academy in Rome, Rome

2014

Szalon, The Logan Center, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Paintings on Paper, David Zwirner Gallery, New York, NY
More Material, Salon 94, New York, NY
The New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT
Speaking Through Paint: Hans Hofmann’s Legacy, Lori Bookstein Fine Art, New York, NY
Outside the Lines: Black in the Abstract, Part 2, Contemporary Art Museum of Houston, Houston, TX

2013

Come Together: Surviving Sandy, Industry City, Brookyln, NY,
Reinventing Abstraction: New York Painting in the 1980s, Cheim & Read, New York, NY

2012

Awakening the Night. Art from Romanticism to the Present, Belvedere, Vienna
The Annual: 2012, National Academy Museum, New York, NY
Predicting Memories, Ehemaliges K. K. Telegrafenamt, Vienna
Pillow Talk, Ille Arts, Amagansett, NY

2011

Reverie, Salon Zurcher, New York, NY
Two Colors, Kathleen Cullen, New York, NY
Refocussing the Spotlight: 21 American Painters Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Bodybraingame, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Venetians, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

2010

Award Winner Ceremonial Exhibition, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
Ecstatic Structure, Nerman MOCA, Kansas City, MO
The Jewel Thief, Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY

2009

Cave #1, Gresham’s Ghost, New York, NY
Infinite Patience: James Drake, Kunie Sugiura, Stanley Whitney, Haunch of Venison, New York
Einarsson, Rhodes, Whitney, Team Gallery, New York, NY

2008

Present Tense Spanierman Modern, New York, NY
Sparks, The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO

2007

The Color Line, Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, NY
Galerie Fokus Wien, Kunstraum, Innsbruck
Horizon, EFA Gallery, New York
Something About Mary, Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach, Newport Beach, CA
Paintings of Color, Tribes, New York, NY
Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Detroit, MI
Music to My Eyes, Esso Gallery, New York, NY
ArteFiera, Esso Gallery, Bologna

2006

I was a Sunbeam; Eleven Works on Paper, David Krut Projects, New York, NY
Ten Years of Esso Gallery, Esso Gallery, New York, NY

2005

Esso Gallery on Stage Nomadic Space, Torino

2003

Utopia Station, 50th Venice Biennale, Venice
Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY

2002

Quiet as It’s Kept (curated by David Hammons), Christine König Galerie,Vienna
The 177th Annual: An Invitational Exhibition, National Academy of Design, New York, NY

2000

Gallery Artists, Bill Maynes Gallery, New York, NY
Universal Abstraction 2000, Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, MO

1999

Drawings, Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, MO

1998

Crossing Lines, Art in General, New York, NY
Bang on a Can Benefit, GAGA Gallery, New York, NY

1997

Colorflex, Apex Art, New York, NY

1996

Deliberate Hand, The Banyan Tree, New York, NY

1995

Lines of Force, Skoto Gallery, New York, NY
The Joy of Painting, HERE Gallery, New York, NY

1994

Stanley Whitney and David Hammons, Vera Vita Gioia Gallery, Naples
Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY

1992

African-American Artists in the 20th Century, Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
Painting Self Evident: Evolution in Abstraction, Piccolo Spoleto, Charleston, SC

1991

Inaugural Exhibition, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA*

1990

Langman Gallery, Jenkintown, PA

1989

fiction/nonfiction Gallery, New York, NY

1988

fiction/nonfiction Gallery, New York, NY

1986

Harris Brown Gallery, Boston, MA Barbara Greene Gallery, Miami, FL

1985

Master Contemporary Drawings, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, VA,

1984

Barbara Greene Gallery, Miami, FL
Drawings Show, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY

1983

22 Wooster Gallery, New York, NY

1982

Peg Alston Gallery, New York, NY

1981

Artists Group Show, Jazzonia Gallery, Detroit, MI, New York
Cinque Gallery, New York, NY
Post-Modernist Metaphors, Alternative Museum, New York, NY
Enroute, 6 Contemporary Artists, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Barbara Greene Gallery, Miami, FL
Drawing Show, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY

1980

Artist’s Books, Franklin Furnace, New York, NY

1979

Drawing Show, Bucks County Community College, Newton, PA

1978

Visiting Artist, Brandywine Graphic Workshop, Philadelphia, PA

1977

Two Persons Show, Soho Center for Visual Arts, New York, NY

1976

Group Painting Show Arts of Our Time, Passaic, NJ
Contemporary Reflections, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT

1975

Group Show at Town Hall Exhibition for Artist’s Rights, New York, NY

1972

Group Painting Show, University of Rhode Island, Newport, RI
Yale at Norfolk, Norfolk, CT

1970-71

Black Artists in America, Bell Telephone Painting Exhibition