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MARTIN PURYEAR

1941 Born May 23 in Washington, D.C.
1963 B.A. in Art, Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C.
1964-1966 Travels to Sierra Leone, West Africa, with the Peace Corps
1966-1968 Attends Royal Swedish Academy of Arts, Stockholm
1969-1971 M.F.A in Sculpture, Yale University, School of Art and Architecture, New Haven, CT
1973-1977 Studio in Brooklyn, NY
1977 Completes first major outdoor sculpture commission for Artpark, Lewiston, NY
A fire in the Brooklyn studio damages and destroys many works of sculpture
1978 Moves to Chicago, IL
1983 Travels to Japan on a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
1986 Residency at the American Academy in Rome, Italy
1989 Awarded Grand Prize at the 20th São Paulo Bienial, Brazil
Receives John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Fellowship Award, Chicago, IL
1990 Leaves Chicago and moves to New York State
1992-1993 Residency at the Atelier Calder, Saché, France, at the invitation of the French Ministry of Culture
1997 Second residency at the American Academy in Rome, Italy

SOLO MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS

1977 Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1980 Options 2: Martin Puryear, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
* I-80 Series, Martin Puryear, Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
1984 * Martin Puryear: Ten-Year Survey, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Traveled
to: The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA; The Museum of the National Center of
Afro-American Artists, Boston, MA; The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, NY; La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, CA
1985 University Art Museum, University of California, Matrix Program, Berkeley, CA
1987 * Martin Puryear: Public and Personal, The Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, IL
Martin Puryear: Sculpture/Drawings, Carnegie Mellon University Art Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Martin Puryear, Grand Lobby installation of two large pieces, Brooklyn Museum, NY
1989 The 20th International São Paulo Bienial, representing the United States, Brazil
1990 Connections: Martin Puryear, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
1991-1992 * Martin Puryear, Art Institute of Chicago, IL. Traveled to: Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden,
Smithsonian Institute, Washington, D.C; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
1993-1994 Martin Puryear, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, OH
1997 * Martin Puryear, Fundación “la Caixa,” Madrid, Spain
1999 Martin Puryear: Drawing into Sculpture, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
Martin Puryear: Commission for the Getty Center, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2000 Martin Puryear: The Cane Project, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
2001-2002 * Martin Puryear, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond. Traveled to: Miami Art Museum, FL; University
of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; Des Moines Art Center, IA
2003-2004 * Martin Puryear: New Work, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England. Traveled to Irish
Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
2007-2009 * Martin Puryear, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. Traveled to: Modern Art
Museum of Fort Worth, TX; National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
2008 Martin Puryear Prints, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, de Young Museum, CA
2010 Martin Puryear Prints, Cincinnati Art Museum, OH
Martin Puryear Prints: Selections from the JPMorgan Chase Collection, Montclair Art Museum, NJ
* Catalogue

SOLO GALLERY EXHIBITIONS

1968 Gröna Palletten Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
1972 Fisk University Gallery, Nashville, TN
Henri 2 Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1973 Henri 2 Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1978 Protetch-McIntosh Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1979 Protetch-McIntosh Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1980 Young Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
1981 Delahunty Gallery, Dallas, TX
and/or Gallery, Seattle, WA
1982 McIntosh/Drysdale Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Young Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
1983 Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL
1985 Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL
1987 David McKee Gallery, New York, NY
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL
1988 McIntosh/Drysdale Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1989 Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1995 McKee Gallery, New York, NY
1997 Donald Young Gallery, Seattle, WA
2002 McKee Gallery, New York, NY
2005 Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL
2009 Kleinert/James Art Gallery, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Guild, NY
2012 * McKee Gallery, New York, NY
“T” Space, Rhinebeck, NY

COMMISSIONS AND SPECIAL PROJECTS

1977 Box and Pole, Installation at Artpark, Lewiston, NY (Temporary)
Cedar Lodge, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. (Temporary)
1978 Commission, Macomb Community College, Warren, MI (Temporary)
1979 Equivalents, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY
1980 Proposal for Duncan Plaza, New Orleans, LA
1981 Pavilion-in-the-Trees, Clivendon Park, Philadelphia, PA, commissioned by Fairmount Park Art Association
Dedicated October 26, 1993
1982 Bodark Arc, The Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park, Governors State University Foundation, University Park, IL
Sentinel, Gettysburg College, PA
1983 Knoll, National Oceanographic & Atmospheric Administration, Western Regional Center, Seattle, WA
1984 River Road Ring, Chicago O’Hare Transit Line, Rosemont Station, City of Chicago, IL
Designs a renovation of the Chevy Chase Garden Plaza in collaboration with Leo A. Daly, MD
Designs the best-selling poster for the 1984 Summer Olympics
1985 Ark, York College, The City University of New York, Queens
1987-1988 Ampersand, commissioned by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
1991 Griot New York, Brooklyn Academy of Music, NY. Set and costume designs in a
collaboration with Garth Fagan, Wynton Marsalis, and the Garth Fagan Dance Company
Performed again at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
1992 Documenta IX, Kassel, Germany
1992-1995 North Cove Pylons, North Cove Park, Battery Park City, NY
Untitled, Oliver Ranch, Geyserville, CA
Everything that Rises, University of Washington Public Art Commission, Seattle, WA
1994 Camera Obscura, Denver Civic Center, CO (Temporary)
1996 Meditation in a Beech Wood, Stiftelsen Wanås Utstalliningar, Wanås Foundation, Knislinge, Sweden
1998 Bearing Witness, Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, Federal Triangle, Washington, D.C.
The Vera G. List Courtyard, New School for Social Research, New York, NY
1999 This Mortal Coil, Chapelle Saint-Louis de la Salpêtrière, Festival d’Automne, Paris, France (Temporary)
1999-2000 That Profile, Getty Center Arrival Plaza, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2002-2003 Guardian Stone, Mori Art Museum, Roppongi Hills, Tokyo, Japan, commission for TV Asahi
Art:21 Art in the Twenty-First Century, Season Two, PBS
2004 “The Hirshhorn Presents”, Meet the Artist: Martin Puryear, inaugurating the 30th anniversary Hirshhorn
Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C., September 30
2008 Commissioned by Foundation for Art and Preservation in Embassies, to create a work for the US Embassy in
Beijing, China, to be installed 2014

MUSEUM COLLECTIONS

Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Clay Center Avampate Discovery Museum Charleston, WV
The Cleveland Museum of Art, OH
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Dallas Museum of Art, TX
Des Moines Art Center, IA
FAI, Villa Menafolgio Litta Panza, Biuma, Italy
Fonds national d’art contemporain (FNAC), Paris, France
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
Milwaukee Art Museum, WI
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, CA
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
Seattle Art Museum, WA
Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, NE
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C.
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Tokyo International Forum, Japan
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive
University Museum of Contemporary Art, University of Massachusettes, Amherst
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY

GRANTS AND AWARDS

1962 Baltimore Museum of Art Purchase Prize, MD
1967 American-Scandinavian Foundation Study Grant
1969-1971 Grant for graduate study, Yale University, New Haven, CT
1975 Creative and Performing Artists Grant, University of Maryland
1976-1977 CAPS Grant in Sculpture, New York Creative Artists Public Service Program
1977 Change, Inc., Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Grant
1977-1978 Individual Artist Fellowship, National Endowment for the Arts
Awarded studio in P.S.1, Long Island City, NY, Institute for Art and Urban Resources
1978 Creative and Performing Artists Grant, University of Maryland
1979 Residency at Yaddo Invitational Community for Artists, Composers and Writers,
Saratoga Springs, NY
1982 Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Grant
1988 The Francis J. Greenburger Foundation Award
1989 Creative Arts Awards in Sculpture, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
Receives John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation fellowship Award, Chicago, IL
Grand Prize, São Paulo Bienal, Brazil
1990 Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture, ME
1992 Elected to The American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
1992-1993 Residency at the Atelier Calder, Saché, France, at the invitation of the French Ministry of Culture
1993 College Art Association Award for distinguished body of work
1994 Honorary Degree, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2002 Awarded Second Place for “Best Show in a Commerical Gallery in NYC,” International Association of Art Critics USA (AICA)
2003 Institute Honors for Collaborative Acheivement, American Institute of Architects, New York, NY
Selected as juror for the World Trade Center Memorial Competition, New York, NY
2005 Grabhorn Institute, San Francisco, CA
2006 Sculpture Center Gala, honoring Martin Puryear, Long Island City, NY
2007 Gold Medal for Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY
2008 LongHouse Medal, LongHouse Reserve, East Hampton, NY
Awarded Second Place for “Best Monographic Museum Show in NYC,” AICA
2012 National Medal of Arts and Humanities, Washington, D.C.

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1962 Annual Exhibition, Baltimore Museum of Art, MD
Puryear, Raymond, Termini, Adams-Morgan Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1965 Group Show, U.S.I.S. Gallery, Freetown, Sierra Leone
Annual Exhibition, Royal Swedish Academy of Arts, Stockholm
Stockholm Biennial Exhibition, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Sweden
1968 Annual Exhibition, Royal Swedish Academy of Arts, Stockholm
1969 Group Show, Lunn Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1971 Prints and Paintings by Black Artists, Union South Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Madison
1974 New Talent at Maryland, The Art Gallery at University of Maryland, College Park
1974-1978 National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C.
1977 * The Material Dominant, Pennsylvania State University Museum of Art, University Park
1978 * Young American Artists: 1978 Exxon National Exhibition, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
* The Presence of Nature, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1979 Art and Architecture, Space and Structure, Protetch-McIntosh Gallery, Washington, D.C.
* Whitney Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Customs and Culture, organized by Creative Time at the U.S. Customs House, Bowling Green, New York, NY
Wave Hill: The Artist’s View, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY
1980 The Black Circle, A. Montgomery Ward Gallery, University of Illinois, Chicago
* Chicago, Chicago, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
* Afro-American Abstraction, P.S.1, Long Island City, NY. Traveled to: Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery;
Oakland Museum of California; Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis, TN; The Art Center, South Bend, IN; Toledo Museum of Art, OH; Bellevue Art Museum, WA; Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX; Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson
1981 * Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
City Sculpture, The Chicago Public Library Cultural Center, IL
* Instruction Drawings, Cranbrook Academy of Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
* Artists’ Parks and Gardens, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
1981-1982 * The New Spiritualism: Transcendent Images in Painting and Sculpture, Oscarsson Hood Gallery, New York, NY
Traveled to: Jorgensen Gallery, University of Connecticut, Storrs; Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont, Burlington
1982 Works in Wood, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
* Invitational Exhibition, Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Brown University, Providence, RI
* Form and Function: Proposals for Public Art for Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Art, Philadelphia
N.A.M.E. Gallery in Pittsburgh, Hewlett Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
* The 74th American Exhibition, Art Institute of Chicago, IL
* American Abstraction Now, Virginia Museum of Fine Art, Institute of Contemporary Art, Richmond
1983 Five Artists/NOAA Collaboration, Seattle Art Museum Pavilion, WA
Invitational Exhibition, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York, NY
Beyond the Monument, Documentation of Public Art Projects and Proposals, Hayden Corridor Gallery, MIT, Cambridge, MA
1982-1984 * Afro-American Abstraction, organized by the Art Museum Association. Traveled to: P.S.1, Long Island City, NY; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery; The Oakland Museum, CA; Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis, TN; The Art Center, South Bend, IA; The Toledo Museum of Art, OH; Bellevue Art Museum, WA; Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX
1984 * An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
American Sculpture, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL
Collaborating: The Power of the Artist and Architect Co-Designing Parks, Plazas, Public Places from New York
to Seattle, McIntosh/Drysdale Gallery, Houston, TX
Proposals and Projects: World Fairs, Waterfronts, Parks and Plazas, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
American Sculpture, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
* “Primitivism” in 20th Century Art: Affinity of the Tribal and Modern, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Transformation of the Minimal Style, Sculpture Center, Long Island City, NY
1985 * Chicago Sculpture International/MILE 4, State Street Mall, Chicago, IL
Sculpture Overview 1985, Evanston Art Center, IL
Basically Wood, Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA
* Choosing: An Exhibit of Changing Perspectives in Modern Art and Art Criticism by Black Americans, 1925–1985, Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL. Traveled to: Chicago
State University; Portsmouth Museum, Portsmouth, VA; Howard University, Washington, D.C.
The Artist as Social Designer: Aspects of Public Urban Art Today, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
Black Creativity, Generations in Transition: 80 Years of Black American Expression,
Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL
* Anniottanta, Invitational, Galleria Comunale d`Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
* Transformations in Sculpture: Four Decades in American and European Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
* Artists and Architects, Challenges in Collaboration, Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, OH
Inaugural Exhibition, Tyler Gallery, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
1986 * After Nature, Germans Van Eck Gallery, New York, NY
Sculpture on Stetson: 1986, Two Illinois Center, Chicago, IL
Three Artists/Three Visions, Charlotte Crosby Kempner Gallery, Kansas City Art Institute, MO
Installations and Sculpture, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL
Natural Forms and Forces: Abstract Images in American Sculpture, Hayden Gallery, List Visual Arts Center, MIT, and Bank of Boston, MA
Individuals: A Selected History of Contemporary Art, 1945–1986, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
1987 * Structure to Resemblance: Work by Eight American Sculptors, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
* Fifty Years of Collecting: An Anniversary Selection of Sculpture of the Modern Era, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Emerging Artists: 1978–1986: Selection from the Exxon Series, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
1988 From the Southern Cross: A View of World Art c. 1940–1988, 1988 Sydney Biennale. Traveled to: National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Private Works for Public Spaces: Drawings, Maquettes and Documentation for Unrealized Public Artworks, R.C. Erpf Gallery, New York, NY
Spectrum: Mary Beth Edelson, Martin Puryear, Italo Scanga, Robert Stackhouse, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
The World of Art Today, Milwaukee Art Museum, WI
Innovations in Sculpture, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
SKULPTUR: Material + Abstraktion: 2 x 5 Positionen, Aargauer Kunsthaus Aarau Switzerland. Traveled to: Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts, Lausanne, Switzerland; Swiss Institute & City Gallery, Department of Cultural Affairs, New York, NY
Enclosing the Void, Whitney Museum of American Art at Equitable Center, New York, NY
New Sculpture/Six Artists, Saint Louis Art Museum, MO
* Vital Signs: Organic Abstraction from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
* Sculpture Inside Out, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN. Traveled to: The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
1989 * Art in Place: 15 Years of Acquisitions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Traditions and Transformation: Contemporary Afro-American Sculpture, Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY
* Whitney Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
* Introspectives: Contemporary Art by American and Brazilians of African Descent, California Afro-American
Museum, Los Angeles, CA
New Sculpture: Tony Cragg, Richard Deacon, Martin Puryear, Susana Solano, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL
Prints by Sculptors, Landfall Press, New York, NY and Chicago, IL
Martin Puryear, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1990 * Objects of Potential: Five American Sculptors from the Anderson Collection, Wiegand Gallery, College of Notre Dame, Belmont, CA
* The Decade Show: Frameworks of Identity in the 1980s, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York. Held concurrently at the Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, New York; Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY
Selected Artists from the First 20 Years, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY
* Black USA, Museum Overholland, Amsterdam, Holland
1991 Small Scale Sculpture, Sewell Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, TX
* Reprise: The Vera G. List Collection, David Winton Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Brown University, Providence, RI
1991-1992 * Devil on the Stairs: Looking Back at the Eighties, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
1992 * Allegories of Modernism: Contemporary Drawing, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Process to Presence: Issues in Sculpture, 1960 to 1990, in conjunction with the 14th International Sculpture Conference, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Donald Young Gallery, Seattle, WA
1993 * Collective Pursuits: Mount Holyoke Investigates Modernism, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA
Yale Collects Yale, New Haven, CT
* Living with Art: The Collection of Ellyn & Saul Dennison, The Morris Museum, Morristown, NJ
American Art in the 20th Century: Painting and Sculpture 1913-1993, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin.
Traveled to: the Royal Academy of Arts and Saatchi Gallery, London, England
* Drawing the Line Against AIDS, 45th Venice Biennale, Peggy Guggenheim Collection. Traveled to: Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York, NY
1993-1994 Visual Arts Encounter: African Americans and Europe, Salle Clemenceau, Palais du Luxembourg, Paris, France
1994 Western Artists/African Art, The Museum for African Art, New York, NY (Selected collection of Martin Puryear’s
African textile collection)
* Visions of America: Landscape as Metaphor in the Late Twentieth Century, Denver Art Museum, CO. Traveled to: Columbus Museum of Art, OH
Putting Things Together: Recent Sculpture from the Anderson Collection, The Art Museum of Santa Cruz County, Santa Cruz, CA
Donald Young Gallery, Seattle, WA
1995-1996 The Material Imagination, Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York, NY
1995 * Twentieth-Century American Sculpture at The White House: Exhibition III, First Ladies’ Garden, The White House, Washington, D.C.
1996 * Abstraction in the Twentieth Century: Total Risk, Freedom, Discipline, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
* Wanås 1996, Wanås Foundation, Knislinge, Sweden
1996-1997 * Masterworks of Modern Sculpture: The Nasher Collection, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, California Palace of the Legion of Honor. Traveled to: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY(A Century of Sculpture: The Nasher Collection)
1997 * American Stories: Amidst Displacement and Transformation, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan. Traveled
to: Chiba City Museum of Art; Fukui Fine Arts Museum; Kurashiki City Art Museum; Akita Prefectural Integrated Life Cultural Hall
1997-1998 * Forma Lignea, American Academy in Rome, Italy
1998 * The Edward R. Broida Collection: A Selection of Works, Orlando Museum of Art, FL
1999 The American Century Art & Culture 1900-2000, Part II, 1950-2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2000 NEW Works, McKee Gallery, New York, NY
2000-2001 * Celebrating Modern Art: Highlights of the Anderson Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
2001 The Draughtsman’s Colors: Fourteen New Acquisitions from Johns to Chong, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
2001-2002 New to the Modern: Recent Acquisitions from the Department of Drawings, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2002 * Gifts in Honor of the 125th Anniversary of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
2002-2003 * 110 Years: The Permanent Collection of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX
2003 New Prints: Jake Berthot, Vija Celmins, Martin Puryear, McKee Gallery, New York, NY
Drawings, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL
2003-2004 Breathless, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York, NY
2004 Contemporary Art and Furniture Design in Dialogue, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York, NY
Love/Hate: From Magritte to Cattelan, Masterpieces from the Collections of the Museum of Contemporary Art,
Chicago, Villa Manin, Italy
Gyroscope series, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
2005 Sculpture: An Intuitive View, McKee Gallery, New York, NY
Africa in America, Seattle Art Museum, WA
2006 * Against the Grain: Contemporary Art from the Edward R. Broida Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York,
NY
Selections from the Collection of Edward R. Broida, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
2007 Early Signs: Celmins, Puryear, Youngblood, McKee Gallery, New York, NY
2008 Paintings, Drawings and Sculpture Part II, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
* Art for Yale: Collecting for a new century, Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
2008-2009 Origins, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY
2009 The Sculptor’s Hand, Tasende Gallery, La Jolla, CA
A Matter of Form, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
The Endless Renaissance, Bass Museum of Art, Miami Beach, FL
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL
Die Gegenwart der Linie, Die Pinakothek der Moderne, Staaliche Graphische Sammlung München, Munich, Germany
Art at Colby: Celebrating the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Colby College Museum of Art, Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME
Artists and the Natural World, McKee Gallery, NY
New Prints 2009/Autumn, International Print Center New York, NY
2010 A Force of Change: African American Art and the Julius Rosenwald Fund. Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
Line, Letter and Form, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Sculpture, McKee Gallery, New York, NY
2012 African American Art Since 1950: Perspectives from the David C. Driskell Center, David C. Driskell Center, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
2013 Against the Grain: Wood in Contemporary Art, Craft and Design, The Museum of Arts and Design, New York, NY
Its Surreal Thing: The Temptation of Objects, Sheldon Museum of Art, Loncoln, NE

PUBLICATIONS AND MAJOR CATALOGUES

Martin Puryear, Hugh M. Davies and Helaine Posner, published by the University Gallery, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, 1984.
Martin Puryear: Public and Personal, with essays by Patricia Fuller and Judith Russi Kirshner, published by the Chicago Office of Fine Arts, in conjunction with The Chicago Public Library Cultural Center exhibition, 1987.
Martin Puryear, Kellie Jones and Robert Storr, Catalogue for the USA Presentation to the 20th International São Paulo Biennial, Published by the Jamaica Arts Center, Jamaica, NY, 1989.
Martin Puryear, with essays by Neal Benezra and Robert Storr, co-published by the Art Institute of Chicago and Thames and Hudson, New York, 1991.
Art Since Mid-Century: 1945 to the Present, Daniel Wheeler, The Vendome Press, New York,1991.
Modern Art, Third Edition, Sam Hunter and John Jacobus, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 1992.
Art Since 1940: Strategies of Being, Jonathan Fineberg, Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 1995.
Movements in art since 1945: Issues and Concepts, Edward Lucie-Smith, Thames and Hudson, 1995.
Art of the Postmodern Era: From the Late 1960s to the Early 1990s, Irving Sandler, HarperCollins Publishers, 1996.
American Visions, The Epic History of Art in America, Robert Hughes, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1997.
Martin Puryear, with essays by Enrique Juncosa and Michael Brenson, Fundacion “la Caixa”, Madrid, 1997.
African-American Art, Sharon F. Patton, Oxford University Press, New York, 1998.
History of Modern Art, H.H. Arnason, edited by Marla F. Prather, Fourth Edition Harry N. Abrams, New York, 1998.
Criticizing Art: Understanding the Contemporary, Terry Barrett, 2nd Edition, Mayfield PublishingCompany, 2000.
Treasure from the Art Institute of Chicago, Hudson Hills Press, New York, 2000.
Cane, Jean Toomer, a special edition, The Arion Press, 2000.
Celebrating Modern Art: Highlights of the Anderson Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, printed and bound by Mondadori printing, Italy, 2000.
Tradition in Contemporary Furniture, Edited by Rick Mastelli and John Kelsey, The Furniture Society, Cambium Press, Bethel, Connecticut, 2001.
Martin Puryear, Margo A. Crutchfield, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, March 2001.
Whitney, American Visionaries: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art, Introduction by Maxwell L. Anderson, Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 2001.
Gifts in Honor of the 125th Anniversary of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, organized by Alice Beamesderfer, produced by Department of Publishing, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2002.
Michael Auping, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth 110, III Third Millennium Publishing Limited, London, 2002.
art:21, Art in the Twenty-First Century, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2003.
The Sculptural Idea, James J. Kelly, Fourth Edition, Waveland Press, Inc., Long Grove, Illinois, 2004.
“Martin Puryear in Conversation with Michael Auping,” At the Modern, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Calendar, Spring 2004.
Sculpture from the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, edited by Karen O. Janovy, University of Nebraska Press, 2005.
Against the Grain: Contemporary Art from the Edward R. Broida Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2006.
Martin Puryear, with essays by John Elderfield, Michael Auping, and Elizabeth Reede, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2007.
Kellie Jones, Eye Minded: Living and Writing Contemporary Art, Duke University Press, Durham and London, 2011.

TEACHING POSITIONS

1964-66 Secondary school teacher of English, French, Biology and Art, Sierra Leone
1969-71 Assistant in Instruction, Yale University, New Haven, CT
1971-73 Assistant Professor, Department of Art, Fisk University, Nashville, TN
1973-77 Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
1978-87 Professor, Department of Art, University of Illinois, Circle Campus, Chicago

REVIEWS AND ARTICLES

David Bourdon, “Martin Puryear at Henri 2,” Art in America, January–February, 1974.
Paul Richard, “A Shrine of Cedar and Hide,” The Washington Post, July 10, 1977.
Eileen Tahlenberg, “Site Work: Some Sculpture at Art Park,” Artscanada, October–November 1977.
Nancy Tobin, “Bordering on the Surreal,” ARTnews, November 1977.
Benjamin Forgey, “Draftsmanship and Woodsmanship,” ARTnews, January 1978.
David Tannous, “Martin Puryear at the Corcoran,” Art in America, May–June 1978.
David Tannous, “Those Who Stay,” Art in America, July 1978.
Martha McWilliams Wright, “Washington Letter,” Art International, October 1978.
Mary Swift and Clarissa Wittenberg, “An Interview with Martin Puryear,” The Washington Review of the Arts, October– November 1978.
William Zimmer, “Art for the Me Decade,” The SoHo Weekly News, March 1, 1979.
Grace Glueck, “Artists of the Customs House,” The New York Times, May 4, 1979.
Wade Saunders, “Art Inc.: The Whitney’s 1979 Biennale,” Art in America, May–June 1979.
John Ashbery, “The Sculptures of Summer,” New York Magazine, July 23, 1979.
April Kingsley, “The Shapes Arise,” Village Voice, July 30, 1979.
Judd Tully, “On Custom and Culture,” Skyline, Summer 1979.
Jonathon Crary, “Martin Puryear’s Sculpture,” ARTFORUM, October 1979.
Benjamin Forgey, “Puryear’s Circles: Subtle, Brooding Presence,” The Washington Star, December 7, 1979.
Alan Artner, “Martin Puryear, Museum of Contemporary Art,” Chicago Tribune, February 22, 1980.
JoAnn Lewis, “Washington D.C.,” ARTnews, March 1980.
Carrie Rickey, “Singular Work, Double Bind, Triple Threat,” Village Voice, March 3, 1980.
John Russell, “Abstractions from Afro-America,” The New York Times, March 14,1980.
Franz Schulze, “Puryear Works: Elegant Simplicity,” Chicago Sun Times, May 18, 1980.
Buzz Spector, “Martin Puryear,” New Art Examiner, April 1980.
Roger Catlin, “Joslyn Opens Small Show,” Sunday World Herald Magazine (Omaha), August 24, 1980.
Franz Schulze, “115 American Artists Expected at Whitney,” Chicago Sun Times, March 8, 1981.
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Jeffrey Edelstein and Lynne Warren, “Artworld Chicago, 1981,” Images and Issues, Winter 1981–1982.
Benjamin Forgey, “Craft Comes Full Circle to Art,” The Washington Post, February 25, 1982.
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Ed Colker, “Present Concerns in Studio Teaching: Artists Statements,” Art Journal, Spring 1982.
April Kingsley, “Art Park and the Leisure Landscape,” Art Express, May–June 1982.
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Franz Schulze, “It’s All in a Matter of Course with New MCA Gift Wrapping,” Chicago Sun Times, June 27, 1982.
Christopher Knight, “Afro-American Abstraction: More Abstract than African,” Los Angeles Herald Examiner, July 14, 1982.
John Ashbery, “Visions of the Olympics,” Newsweek, January 24, 1983.
Henry Hanson, “Puryear’s Poster,” Chicago Magazine, July 1983.
Suzanne Muchnic, “Olympic Posters: A Celebration of Creativity,” Los Angeles Times, July 24, 1983.
Laura Holland, “Martin Puryear: Sculpture, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield,” New Art Examiner, May 1984.
E.R. Shipp, “Art for Those On the Go in Chicago,” The New York Times, June 16, 1984.
Christine Temin, “Puryear’s ‘Primitive Sophistication’,” The Boston Globe, July 7, 1984.
Kenneth Baker, “Journal of the Puryear,” The Boston Phoenix, July 10, 1984.
Michael Brenson, “Sculpture: Puryear Postminimalism,” The New York Times, August 10, 1984.
Dore Ashton, “Pandemonium of MOMA,” Arts Magazine, September 1984.
Roberta Smith, “Around Town,” Village Voice, September 4, 1984.
Roberta Smith, “A Primitive Look at the Modern,” Village Voice, October 2, 1984.
Isabelle Wasserman, “Puryear Sculpture Exhibit Will Open,” The San Diego Union, October 7, 1984.
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Mark Arner, “Curiosity Bout Making Things Spurs Artist,” The Blade Tribune, October 18, 1984.
Lynette Thwaites, “Art Reveals the Craft of Nature,” La Jolla Light, October 18, 1984.
Jeff Kelly, “Puryear’s Sculpture Casts a Spell,” Los Angeles Times, October 29, 1984.
Alan Artner, “New York’s ‘Primitive’ Show a Modern Masterpiece,” Chicago Tribune, November 4, 1984.
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Robert Pincus, “A Transformer of Minimalism,” Los Angeles Times, November 5, 1984.
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Michael Brenson, “Sculptors Find New Ways to Work with Wood,” The New York Times, December 2, 1984.
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Suzanne Muchnic, “The Abstract Shapes of Familiar Mysteries,” Los Angeles Times, January 15, 1985.
S. Luecking, “Monumental Sculpture: Speaking the Language of Wood,” Fine Woodworking, January–February 1985.
Cynthia Nadelman, “Broken Premises:…,” ARTnews, February 1985.
Michael Brenson, “Art: The Human Form in Work of 12 Sculptors,” The New York Times, February 1, 1985.
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Alan Artner, “Perfection is Hallmark of Puryear Sculpture,” Chicago Tribune, October 25, 1985.
Michael Brenson, “How Sculpture Freed Itself from the Past,” The New York Times, December 15, 1985.
Charlotte Moser, “Martin Puryear at Donald Young,” ARTnews, January 1986.
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Vivien Raynor, “After Nature,” The New York Times, February 21, 1986.
Robert Taylor, “Sculpture Show a Pioneering Effort,” The Boston Globe, May 18, 1986.
David Bonetti, “Back to Natural: Sculpture Takes on the World,” Boston Phoenix, June 3, 1986.
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