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EXHIBITION HISTORY

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Hannah Wilke at the Philadelphia Museum, 1977

 
 
 
Exhibition History 

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2014 

Alison Jacques Gallery, London. Hannah Wilke, Sculpture: 1960s-80s. 

2011
Museum of Modern Art, New York, Hannah Wilke Gallery in the permanent collection.
Alison Jacques Gallery, London, Hannah Wilke:
Selected Work from the 60s and 70s
Alison Jacques Gallery at Art Basel, 2011, Hannah Wilke, Elective Affinities, 1978

2010 

Alison Jacques Gallery, London, Hannah Wilke:Elective Affinities

2008-9

Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York, Purchase,

  Hannah Wilke; Gestures. Curated by Tracy Fitzpatrick (catalog)

2006

SolwayJones, Los Angeles, Hannah Wilke: Advertisements for Living

2005 

Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, University of California, Santa Cruz,

  The Rhetoric of the Pose: Rethinking Hannah Wilke. 

  Curated by Shelby Graham and Joyce Brodsky (catalog)

2004  

SolwayJones, Los Angeles, Hannah Wilke  Selected Work  l960-l992 (catalog) 

2000 

Neue Gesellschaft für bildende Kunst, Berlin, Germany,

  Interrupted Career: Hannah Wilke 1940-1993. 

  Curated by Ingo Taubhorn and Frank Wagner   

1998 

Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark,

  Hannah Wilke: A Retrospective,

  travel to BildMuseet, Umea, Sweden; Helsinki City Art Museum,

  Helsinki, Finland,1999. (catalog)

1997 

Woodruff Art Gallery, Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, GA,

  Hannah Wilke: Intra-Venus. (catalog)

1996 

Gallery 400, The University of Illinois at Chicago, 

  Hannah Wilke: Works from 1965-1992.

Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC,  Hannah Wilke: Intra-Venus,

  travel to Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan.

1995

Nikolaj Contemporary Art Center, Copenhagen, Denmark,

  Hannah Wilke: Intra-Venus, 

  travel to Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA;

  Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA

1994

Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY, Hannah Wilke:Intra-Venus (catalog) 

1990

Genovese Graphics Gallery, Boston, MA, Hannah Wilke, Past and Present

1989 

Gallery 210, University of Missouri, St. Louis, Hannah Wilke: A Retrospective

  travel to University of  Missouri, Kansas City.

  Curated by Thomas Kochheiser. (catalog)

Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY, About Face.

1984 

Joseph Gross Gallery, University of Arizona at Tucson, Hannah Wilke.

  Curated by Joanna Frueh

The New Museum, New York, NY,  Art and Ideology.

  Curated by Lowery Sims (catalog)

Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY, Support Foundation Comfort

1979 

Washington Project for the Arts, Washington, DC,

  Performalist Self-Portraits, 1942-79

  Curated by Alphonso V. Nodal 

1978 

P.S.1, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New York, NY,

  So Help Me Hannah, Snatch Shots with Rayguns.

Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY, Through the Large Glass

1977 

Marianne Deson Gallery, Chicago, IL, Sculpture & Drawings

1976 

Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Sculpture and Drawings

Fine Arts Gallery, University of California, Irvine,

  Hannah Wilke, Scarification Photographs and Videotapes.

  Curated by Melinda Wortz

1975 

Galerie Gerald Piltzer, Paris, France, Five American Women in Paris

Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY

1974 

Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Drawings from the Flower Series.

Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY

1972 

Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA.

Ronald Feldman Fine Arts, New York, NY


Selected Group Exhibitions
 
 
2015

Cite de la Ceramique, Sevres, France, Ceramix

Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands, Ceramix, curated by Camille Morineau

Fondazione Nicola Trussardi, Milan, Italy, The Great Mother, curated by Maximiliano Gioni, August-November

Hamburg Kunstalle, Hamburg, Germany, The Feminist Avant Garde

Whitney Museum of American Art, America is Hard to See

Alison Jacques Gallery, London, Organic Sculpture. 

Gagozian Gallery, New York, In the Studio: Photography, Feb. 17-April 18, 2015
2014 
Zacheta National Gallery of Art, Warsaw, Poland, Corpus, Sept.1-Oct.9, 2014
Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden, Germany, Roll-Up. Roll-Up: The Dresden wax Cabinet Meets Art,    October,  2014-April, 2015. 
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Mass., Mitchell, Benglis, Wilke, May-October, 2014.
Mjeltby Art Museum, Halmsted, Swede, Woman:The Feminist Avant-Garde from the 1970s,"
  Sept, 2014 - Jan.2015 
Luxembourg and Dayan, New York, That Obscure Object of Desire, August-September, 2014.
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, Mass., American Art, 1950-1975, January.
2013
Paula Modersohn-Becker Museum, Bremen, Germany, She. Herself. Naked.
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, Counter Forms: Kudo, Szapocznikov, Thek, Wilke, curated by Elena Filipovic.
Princeton University Art Museum, Faces and Facets: Recent Acquisitions
Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, England, Aquatopia.
Tate, Liverpool, Glam! The Performance of Style
New Museum, New York, NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star
Alison Jacques Gallery, London, Body I Am: Birgit Jurgensohn, Ana Mendieta,   Hannah Wilke.
2012-13
Tate Liverpool, UK:Tracing the Cenutry: Drawing as a Catalyst for Change.
2012
Seattle Art Museum, Elles: Women Artists from the Centre Pompidou, Paris
Monash University Faculty Gallery, Live in Your Head: Action, Body, Representation
Australian Center for Contemporary Art, Melbourne,
Ourselves
Albertina, Collection of Photography, Vienna, The Body as Protest
Plug In Center for Contemporary Art, Winnipeg, Canada Sound and Vision
Carl Solway
Gallery, Cincinnati, Thanks: 50th Anniversary Exhibition.
Alison Jacques Gallery, London, at the inaugural fair, Frieze, New York
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York,
Naked Before the Camera
  
photographs in the permanent collection
Albright-Knox Art Gallery,Buffalo, NY. Wish You Were Here:The Buffalo Avant-garde in the 1970s, 
   Curated by Heather Pesanti
Georgia Museum of Art, Athens, GA, Performing Identities: Marina  Abramovic, Eleanor Antin, Hannah Wilke
re-act.feminism, a performing archive, women's performance videos traveling throughout Europe.
Andrea Rosen Gallery, New York, Group Exhibition with Bellmer, Duchamp, Szapocznikov, et al.
2011
Alison Jacques Gallery, London, at Art Miami Basel, installation of Wilke drawings and sculpture.
Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, Oregon, Body
Gesture: An Exhibition of Feminist Art
Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, Doin' It In Public: Feminism and Art at the Woman's Building. 
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, The Political is Personal: Feminist Art in the Permanent Collection
Subliminal Projects, Los Angeles, Eve, work by 9 women artists 
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Human Nature, Contemporary Art from the Collection
18th Street Arts Center, Outsider Art: Others from Elsewhere Doing Something Entirely Different...Sort Of.  Curated by Vincent Ramos
2010-2011

Museum of Modern Art, New York, The Original Copy, Photography of Sculpture,1839-Today.

  Curated by Roxana Marcocci (catalog); travel to Kunsthaus, Zurich

Museum of Modern Art, New York, Contemporary Art from the Collection.

  Organized by Christophe Cherix and Kathy Halbreich

Museum of Modern Art, New York, Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, Selections form the Hammer Contemporary Collection

The Jewish Museum, New York, Shifting the Gaze: Painting and Feminism.

  Curated by Daniel Belasco

Institut Valencia d'Art Modern, Valencia, Spain. Compass in Hand:

  Drawings from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Collection

Whitney Museum of American Art, Off the Wall: Thirty Performative Actions

Wellcome Collection, London, England, Skin

Grosse Deichteralle, Hamburg, I Want to See How You See,

  Works from the Julia Stoschek Collection

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles,

  Collection: MOCA's First Thirty Years.

  Curated by Paul Schimmel (catalog)

The Walker Art Institute, Minneapolis. The Talent Show

 2009-11

Centre Pompidou, Musee National d’Arte Moderne.

  Women Artists: elles @ centre pompidou,

  Curated by Camille Morineau et al (catalog)

Le Silo Symposium, National Institute for the History of Art, Paris.

  Glass House.

  Curated by Clara Schulmann

 2009

Philadelphia Museum of Art, Marcel Duchamp, Etant Donees.

  Curated by Michael Taylor (catalog)

Museum of  Modern Art, New York,

  Compass in Hand, Drawings from the Judith Rothschild Foundation Collection.

  Curated by Connie Butler (catalog) 

2008

SolwayJones, Los Angeles, Hands, December - January, 2009

Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Photo Conversation Number 6: Identity

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Collecting Collections:

  Highlights from the Permanent Collection

Julia Stoschek Collection, Dussledorf. Number 2: Fragile

2007

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, thru 2008

  WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution.

  travel to The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.;

  Vancouver Art Museum, Vancouver B.C.; P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY.

  Curated by Connie Butler (catalog)

Museum of Modern Art, New York. Live/Work Performance into Drawing,

  Curated by Connie Butler

American University Museum,Katzen Center, Washington, D.C., 

  Claiming Space:Some American Feminist Originators.

  Curated by Norma Broude and Mary D. Garrard (catalog)

Galerie Lelong,New York. Role Play: Feminist Art Revisited, 1960-1980

2006

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.

  Photography and the Self: The Legacy of F Hollland Day.

  Curated by Carrie Springer

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Recent Acquisitions

2005 

Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Washington University, St. Louis, MO,

  Inside Out Loud: Visualizing Women’s Health in Contemporary Art (catalog)

2003

ESPAI d’Art Contemporani de Castello, Castello, Spain,

  Micropoliticas III: Art & Everyday Life (catalog)

SolwayJones, Los Angeles,  Cunningham, Smithson, Wilke:

   Drawings and Collages.

2002

White Columns, New York, NY,

  GLORIA: Another Look at Feminist Art in the 1970’s,

  travel to Moore College of Art & Design, Philadelphia, PA;

  Museum of Art, R.I.S.D., Providence, RI

Guild Hall of East Hampton, NY, Personal and Political:

  The Women’s Art Movement, 1969-1975

Paule Anglim Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Women Artists:

  Their Work and Influence, 1950s- 1970s.

2001

Tate Modern, London, England,  Century City:

   Art and Culture in Modern Metropolis

1999

Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, The American Century:

  Art and Culture,1900-2000

1998

Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, 

  Out of Actions: Between Performance and the Object,

  travel to Osterreisches Museum fur angewandte Kunst, Vienna, Austria,

  Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Spain; Museum of Contemporary 

  Art,Tokyo, Japan.

  Curated by Paul Schimmel  (catalog)

1997

Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum,

   Signs of Age: Representing the Older Body.

Saint Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO, 

  Defining Eye: Women Photographers of the Twentieth Century (catalog).

  travel to The National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, D.C.;

  Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles 

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY,

  At the Threshold of the Visible: Miniscule and Small Scale Art, 1964-1996

  travel to Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore, MD, Art Gallery of Ontario,1998;

  Art Gallery of Windsor, Windsor, Ontario, Contemporary Arts Center of 

  Virginia, Virginia Beach, VA, Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, 

  CA, Edmonton Art Gallery,1999

The National Museum of American Jewish History, Philadelphia, PA, 

  Too Jewish? Challenging Traditional Identities.

  Curated by Norman Kleeblatt (catalog) 

1996

Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan,

  Gender Beyond Memory: The Works of Contemporary Women Artists. (catalog)

Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA, 

  Sexual Politics: Judy Chicago's Dinner Party in Feminist Art History.

  Curated by Amelia Jones (catalog)

The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA, 

  More Than Minimal: Feminism and Abstraction in the '70s  (catalog)

The Jewish Museum, New York, NY,

  Too Jewish? Challenging Traditional Identies.

  travel to Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles.

  Curated by Norman Kleeblatt (catalog).

1995

Centre Pompidou, Musee National d'Arte Moderne, Paris. 

  Feminin-Masculine: The Sex of Art (catalog)

Allen Memorial Art Museum at Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, 

  Action/Performance and the Photograph.

  Curated by Craig Krull

1994

Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Art Museum, Boston, MA,

  Power Pleasure Pain (catalog)

Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH, 

  Outside the Frame: Performance and the Object, and travel

1993

Turner/Krull Galleries, Los Angeles, CA,

  Action,Performance and the  Photograph,

  travel to Presentation House, Vancouver, British Columbia.

  Curated by Craig Krull

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY,

  Abject Art: Repulsion and  Desire in American Art

1992

Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel, Not For Sale

The X-Art Foundation and Blast, New York, NY, Blast Art Benefit

West Gallery, California State University, Fullerton, CA, Realities: Body and Mind

Ghia Gallery, San Francisco, CA, Love and Death:

  Growing Old in America (Is a Sin).

494 Gallery, New York, NY, Taboo: Bodies Talk

1991

Alternative Museum, New York, NY, Artists of Conscience  

Galerie Loehrl, Moenchengladbach, Germany, Eighteen from New York

Triplex Gallery, The City University of New York, NY,  AIDS: It Could Be You

1990

Katonah Museum of Art, Katonah, NY, The Technological Muse (catalog)

The Forum Gallery, Jamestown Community College, Jamestown, NY, 

  Aging: The Process, The Perception (catalog).

Jan Kesner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Pharmacy.

  Curated by Cliff Benjamin

1989

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY,

  Image World: Art and Media Culture.

  Curated by Lisa Phillips and Marvin Heiferman

Cincinnati Art Museum,Cincinnati, OH,  Making Their Mark.

  travel to New Orleans Museum of Art, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts.

  Curated by Randy Rosen and Catherine C. Brower (catalog)

1988 

Museum Ludwig, Cologne, W. Germany,

  Marcel Duchamp and the Avantgarde Since 1950,

  Curated by Alfred Fischer (catalog)

Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown, New York, NY,

  Modes of Address: Language in Art Since 1960 (catalog)

National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC, The Artist's Mother:

  Portraits and  Hommage (catalog)

Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA, 

  American Herstory: Women and the U.S. Constitution.

Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, CA,

  Hollywood, Portraits of the Stars

Space One Eleven, Birmingham, AL,

  Blue Angel, The Decline of Sexual Stereotypes in Post-Feminist Sculpture,

  travel to  A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY

1987

PPOW, New York, NY, Heresies: Issues that Won't Go Away

Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY, The Artist's Mother: Portraits and Homage

1986

Central Hall Gallery, New York, NY,  A Garden of Knowledge.

  Curated by Bonnie Sherk.

Snug Harbor Cultural Center, S.I. Newhouse Gallery, Staten Island, NY,

  New Liberty Monuments.

  Curated by John Perreault.

Alternative Museum, New York, NY, Liberty and Justice.

  Curated by Geno Rodriguez. (catalog)

Hudson Center Galleries, New York, NY, The Male Nude: Women Regard Men.

  Curated by Elisa Decker. (catalog)

1985

Munchner Stadtmuseum, Munich, Germany; Das Akfoto,.

  travel to Museum Des 20.Jahrhunderts, Vienna, Austria,

  Museum fur Kunst; Kulturgeschichtes, Dortmund, Germany (catalog)

The 5 and Dime, New York, NY, The 5 and Dime Goes to the Beach

Storefront for Art and Architecture, New York, NY, After 'Tilted Arc.'

  Curated by Tom Finkelpearl, Glenn Weiss, and Kyong Park.

1984

ABC No Rio, New York, NY, Artist's Call.

Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY, American Women Artists. (catalog)

Franklin Furnace, New York, NY, Artist's Call.

  Curated by Lucy R. Lippard.

Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, American Sculpture.

Interim Art, London, England, Armed

  Curated by Maureen Paley and Robin Harris.

1983

Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA, Self Portraits;

  travel to Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (catalog)

Pratt Institute Gallery, New York, NY, Exceptions.

  Curated by Ellen Schwartz.

1982

Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY, Androgyny and Art,

  Curated by Gail Gelburd

Westbetth Gallery, Womens' Caucus for Art, New York, NY,

  Sexuality in Art:Two Decades of a Feminist Perspective 

1981

Franklin Furnace, New York, NY, Soundworks.

  Curated by Peter Frank.

The Kitchen, New York, NY, Pictures and Promises.

  Curated by Barbara Kruger.

New York Feminist Art Institute, The Coliseum, New York, NY,   Transformations, Women in Art; 70s- 80s 
1980

Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY, Drawings

California State University, Bakersfield, A Drawing Show from the Margo Leavin  

  Gallery

Tangeman Fine Arts Gallery, University of Cincinnati, The Sense of the Self

Studio Amazone, Amsterdam,The Netherlands, Androgyny.

  Curated by Rosa Lindenburg.

College Art Association, New Orleans, LA, A Decade of Women's Performance.

Museu de Arte Contemporanea, São Paolo, Brazil,  American Women Artists.

1979 

Smith College Museum of Art, Northhampton, MA,

  Contemporary Women in the Visual Arts.

  Curated by Debbie Goldstein and Donald Keyes.

Sunne Savage Gallery, Boston, Mass. Artists' Boxes

Hampshire College Art Gallery, Amherst, MA, Images of the Self.

  Curated by Sally Yard.

Tiroler Landesmuseum Ferdinandeum, Innsbruck;

  Photographie als Kunst 1879-1979; Kunst als Photographie 1949-79.

  travel to Neue Galerie am Wolfgang Gurlitt Museum, Linz; Neue Galerie am  

  Landesmuseum Joanneum, Graz; Museum des XX Jahrhunderts, Vienna

1978

Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Three Generations:Structures in Collage

Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, NY, Objects.

  Curated by Nicolas Calas.

P.S. 1, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New York, NY, Post Card Show.

High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA, Thirteen Galleries.

  Curated by Scott Belleville.

De Appel, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Feministische Kunst International.

Neuberger Museum of Art, State University of New York, Purchase, NY,

  The Sense of Self: From Self-Portrait to Autobiography.

  Curated by Nina Sundell (catalog)

Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, NY,  Personal Visions.

1977

Women's Building, Los Angeles, CA, What is Feminist Art ?

Women's Building, Los Angeles, CA,

  Contemporary Issues - Works by Women on Paper.

  Sponsored by the Womens's Caucus for the Arts.

Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown, New York, NY,

  Nothing but Nudes

Greenwich Library, Greenwich, CT, Contact: Women and Nature.

  Curated by Lucy R. Lippard

1976

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, Painting & Sculpture Today

  26th Berlin Festival, Berlin, West Germany,  Soho - Downtown Manhattan,

  travel to Louisiana Museum, Denmark,  

1975

The Clocktower, Institute of Art and Urban Resources, New York, NY,

  Artists Make Toys

Fine Arts Building, New York, NY, Lives.

  Curated by Jeffrey Deitch.

Fine Arts Building, New York, NY, Photography Not Photography.

  Curated by Edit de Ak.

Feminist Art Institute, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA.

  Art: A Woman's Sensibility

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY,  Recent Acquisitions

Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Small Scale in Sculpture

Bronx Museum of Arts, New York, NY,  The Year of the Woman

1974

Feminist Art Institute, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA, 

  Anonymous Was a Woman 

Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA,  Sculpture.

Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN, Painting and Sculpture Today

The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY, 19th National Print Exhibition.

1973 

Lo Giudice Gallery, New York, NY, Recent Sculpture and Painting

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, Whitney Biennial.

Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH,  Options 73-30.

New York Cultural Center, New York, NY,  Women Choose Women

1972

Kunsthaus, Hamburg, West Germany,  American Women Artists.

Documenta V, Kassel, West Germany,  Herbert Distel's Museum of Drawers

1971 

Richard Feigen Gallery, New York, NY,  10 Painters, 1 Sculptor

Richard Feigen Gallery, New York, NY,  Americans

1967 

NYCATA, New York, NY, Erotic is, Hetero Is 

1966 

Castagno Gallery, New York, NY, 3-D Group Show

1961 

Philadelphia Print Club, Annual Graphics Show

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