Biography
1941 Born in Chicago, Illinois
Lives and Works in East Hampton, New York
Education
1966 MFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1964 BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022 Detritus 2020, The Madoo Conservancy, New York
2019 100-Foot-Long Piece, Marlborough, New York Forbidden Motion – Surface, Image and Metaphor, Thomas Brambilla Gallery, Bergamo, Italy
2017
1000 Brushstrokes, Maccarone, Los Angeles
Armada, National Arts Club, New York
2015
Life & Times of an Orb Weaver, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, NY
2013
Empire Descending a Staircase, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
2011
A Unified Theory, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
The Grid Paintings, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago
2010
Tales of Cotton, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
Joe Zucker: Drawings, Galerie Steinek, Vienna
2009
Scrolls, Texas Gallery, Houston
2008
Plunder 1977-2008, Nyehaus, New York
See/Sea, Susanne Hillberry Gallery, Ferndale, MI
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, ScheiblerMitte, Berlin
2006
Open Storage: New Paintings, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
Container Ship, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
Works on Paper from the 1970’s, Studio B, Los Angeles, 141 Dragon Street, Dallas
2005
Interior/Exterior, Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne
2004
Unhinged, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
Drawings 1977-2003, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
2003
Joe’s Lakes: Paintings by Joe Zucker, Lyman Allyn Art Museum, New London, CT
Ravenna, GBE Modern/Gavlak Projects, New York
2001
Joe’s Lakes, Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne
New Work, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
1999
Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY
1998
Galerie Fred Jahn, Munich
Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne
1997
The Plimsoll Line, Danese Gallery, New York
The Making of ‘Jolly Roger,’ 1978, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
1995
Joe Zucker: A Decade of Paintings, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica
1994
Canoe, Walleye, Axe Lake, Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne
Tofte Journal, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
In the Spirit of Invention and Discovery, Anderson Gallery, Buffalo, NY
1993
Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York
Pegman, Rubberband Men, Texas Gallery, Houston
Spider Chronicles, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Washington
1992
Joe Zucker: The 100 Foot Long piece 1969/92, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
Backdrop Paintings, Nancy Drysdale Gallery, Washington
Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA
Backdrop Paintings, Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne
1991
Mirage, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York
Pegmen, Rubberbandmen, Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Cologne
1989
Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York
1988
The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago
Painting 1965-88, Texas Gallery, Houston
Selections from the Eighties, Carol Getz Gallery, Coconut Grove, CA
1987
Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York
1985
Ponce de Leon in Search of the Fountain of Youth, Queens Museum, Queens, NY (traveling) University Art Galleries, Wright State University, Dayton, OH; Contemporary Art Center, Miami Beach, Miami, FL; Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
1984
Joe Zucker: Ponce de Leon Paintings, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
Flash Gordon and Other Paintings, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
The Mayor Gallery, London
Vollumn College Center Gallery, Reed College, Portland, OR
1983
Joe Zucker: Recent Paintings, Dan Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco
Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta
Texas Gallery, Houston
1982
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
Surfacing Images: The Paintings of Joe Zucker, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Macintosh Drysdale Gallery, Washington
Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY
1981
Matrix/Berkeley 41 - Joe Zucker: Candles, University Art Museum, Berkeley
Candles, Pace Editions, New York
Recent Paintings, Yarlow/Salzman Gallery, Toronto
Right Hand and Left Hand Devils, The Mayor Gallery, London
Devil’s Right Hand and Other Paintings, Galerie Hans Strelow, Düsseldorf
Joe Zucker: New Paintings, Dart Gallery, Chicago
Combinations, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
1980
Toucans, Pace Editions, New York
1979
Recent Paintings, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
Eli Whitney and the Cotton Gin, The Mayor Gallery, London
Neue Bilder, Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich
1978
New Paintings and Drawings, Young/Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
Galerie Gillespie-Laage, Paris
1977
Works by Joe Zucker, Hall Bromm Gallery, New York
1976
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore
Joe Zucker: New Paintings, Bykert Gallery, New York
Texas Gallery, Houston
Protech Gallery, Washington
1975
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco
Bykert Gallery, New York
1974
Bykert Gallery, New York
Texas Gallery, Houston
Ships, Jacob’s Ladder Gallery, Washington
1968
Collector’s Gallery, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
1967
Adele Rosenberg Gallery, Chicago
1966
Systematic Paintings, Adele Rosenberg Gallery, Chicago
Recent Paintings: Joe Zucker, Zolla/Lieberman Gallery, Chicago
R.G. Silverman Gallery, Chicago
1965
Paintings of Joe Zucker, Heistand Hall Art Gallery, Miami University, Oxford, OH
Selected Group Exhibitions
2022 13 Artists: A tribute to Klaus Kertess’ Bykert Gallery, 1966-75 Part II, David Nolan Gallery, NY 2021 13 Artists: A tribute to Klaus Kertess’ Bykert Gallery, 1966-75, David Nolan Gallery, NY 2020 Works from the 1980s, Marlborough Gallery, New York . To Bid or Not to Bid – Contemporary Curated, Again!, Thomas Brambilla Gallery, Italy. 2019 Seeing Ideas: Sigfredo Chacon and Joe Zucker, Mana Contemporary, Chicago, Illinois 2018 Pattern, Crime & Decoration, Mamco, Geneva, Switzerland and Le Consortium, Dijon, France . Copper, Marble, Cotton, Thomas Brambilla gallery, Bergamo, Italy
2012 Selected Recent Acquisitions: Building a Collection, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
2011 Twenty, Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Berlin
2010 American Drawings and Selected Prints, Karl & Faber Gallery, Munich
2009 Exile on Main Street: Humour, Exaggeration & Anti-Authoritarianism in American Art, Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, The Netherlands
Artists of the Gallery, Galerie Aurel Scheibler, Berlin
SYNTHETIC, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2008 Second Thoughts, Bard College, Annandale-On-Hudson, NY
2007 Summer Group Show, David Nolan Gallery, New York
2006 Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
2005 Fictions, 109 Crosby Street Gallery, New York
2004 4 Und 4: Curator’s Choice New York/Berlin, Müllerdechiara, Berlin
Mind over Manner, Galerie Grimm/Rosenfeld, Munich
2003 The American Landscape, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
Black in Black, Cohen, Leslie, and Brown Gallery, New York
2002 New Works, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
2001 Modernism, The Armory, New York
2000 Black & White, Anita Friedman Gallery, New York
1999 Selected Works, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
Invitational Exhibition of Painting and Sculpture, American Academy of Arts/Letters, New York
Works on Paper, Riverhouse Editions, Steamboat Springs, CO
Museum Collection, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
1998 Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
Amerikanische Zeichnungen, Galerie Tony Wuethrich, Basel
Dreams for the Next Century: A View of the Collection, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
Masters of the Masters, MFA Faculty of the School of Visual Arts, New York
1997 Selected Works, Danese Gallery, New York
Drawings, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
Richard Artschwager: Drawings & Joe Zucker: The Making of the Painting ‘Jolly Roger’ 1978, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, NY
1996 Think, Galerie Brigitte Ihsen, Cologne
Disegni Americani Degli Anni Ottanta 15 Artisti, La Galleria Milano, Milan
Method and Multiplicity, Apex Art, New York
1995 Murder, Bergamot Station Art Center, Santa Monica
EATS: An American Obsession, Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica
Temporarily Possessed: The Semi-Permanent Collection, The New Museum, New York
Inaugural Exhibition: Selected Works for the Collection of Burton Tremaine and Hugh Freund, Tremaine Gallery, The Hotchkiss School, Lakeville, CT
1995 Whitney Biennial, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1994 A Few Words, The Jewish Museum, New York
In the Process, Mary Delahoyd Gallery, New York
Mirrors, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
1993 Achim Kubinski Presents: ‘What to say, What Not to Say’, Caren
Golden Fine Arts, New York
Money, Nancy Drysdale Gallery, Washington
Western Myth: 20th Century Update, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
Developing Language, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York
1992 American Figurations, Henie-Onstad Art Center, Høvikodden, Norway
1991 Word as Image: American Art 1960-1990, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee
The Landscape Observed, Maryland Institute, Baltimore
1989 Repetition, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York
1988 Artschwager: His Peers and Persuasion, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Santa Monica
Porcelain: Past Forms, Present Tense, Artisan Space FIT, New York
1987 New Directions: Contemporary Art from Atlanta Collections, Emory University Museum of Art and Archaeology, Atlanta
1986 Twombly, Wilmarth, Zucker, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York
Group Show Anniversary, Gloria Luria Gallery, Miami
American Images, Blum-Helman Gallery, New York
An American Renaissance: Painting and Sculpture Since 1940, Fort Lauderdale Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL
Alchimia, XXXXII Biennale di Venezia, Venice
Focus on the Image: Selections from the Rivendell Collection, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix
1985 New Dimension Paintings, Nina Freundheim Gallery, Buffalo, NY
A New Beginning, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
Precious: An American Cottage Industry of the Eighties, Grey Art Gallery, New York
At the Beach, A.P> Gallery, San Francisco
Annionta, Castel Sismondo, Rimini
Picture Frame – Frame Picture, Gabrielle Byers Gallery, New York
A Decade of Visual Arts at Princeton 1975-85, The Art Museum, Princeton, NJ
Modern Art from Friends’ Collections, Vassar Art Gallery, Poughkeepsie, NY
1984 American Still Life 1945-1983, Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY
A Contemporary Focus 1974-1984, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington
The Elements: Weather in Art, Tweed Gallery, Plainfield, MN
Towards the End of the Century, Galerie Venster, Rotterdam
The Innovative Landscape, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
Summer Group Exhibition, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
Artists Call: 50 Artists/50 Collectors, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
National Midyear Exhibition, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH
Miami Contemporary Collectors, Miami Metropolitan Museum and Art Center, Miami
Pressure of the Hand: Expressionist Impulses in Recent American Art, The Gibson Gallery, SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, NY
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, NC
1983 1983 Whitney Biennial Exhibition, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Back to the USA, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland
From Minimalism to Expressionism, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
New Decorative Art, The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA
Drawing Conclusion, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco
Arrival, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY
National Drawing Invitational, Sarah Spurgeon Fine Arts Gallery, Ellensburg, WA
New Image: Pattern and Decoration, Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MO
Ornamentalism: The New Decorativeness in Architecture and Design, The Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY
1982 Aspects of Post-Modernism, Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta
The Americans: The Collage, Contemporary Art Museum, Houston
New York Now, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany
1981 New Directions: A Corporate Collection Selected by Sam Hunter, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York
Morton G. Neumann Family Collection: Selected Works, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
The Decorative Image, McIntosh/Drysdale Gallery, Washington
Menagerie, Goddard-Riverside Community Center, New York
For Trisha Brown Dance Company, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
Flying, Bernard Jacobson Ltd., New York
Celebration III, New Museum, New York
Landscape, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
A Penthouse Aviary, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1980 Dékor, Mannheimer Kunstverein, Mannheim, Germany
Art in the Seventies, Aperto 80, XXXXI Biennale di Venezia, Venice
Les Nouveaux Fauves – Die Neuen Wilden, Neue Galerie Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen, Germany
Tendance Actuelle de la Peinture Americaine, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
Pattern Printing, The Greenburg Gallery of Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO
Out of New York, The Root Art Center, Clinton, NY
Selections from a Colorado Collection, University of Colorado Art Galleries, Boulder, CO
American Painting of the Sixties and Seventies: The Real/The Ideal/The Fantastic, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery, NC
Fabric Into Art, Amelie A. Wallage Gallery, Old Westbury, NY
Decorative Fabrication, Institute of Contemporary Art of the Virginia Museum, Richmond, VA
Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis
New York on Paper, Douglas Drake Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1979 Patterning and Decoration in Art, The Mayor Gallery, London
Comprehensive Drawings Show, Texas Gallery, Houston
Group Exhibition of Gallery Artists, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
The Grid, Evanston Art Center, Evanston, IL
Late 20th Century Art from the Sydney and Frances Lewis Collection, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, (traveling) The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
Artattack, Otis Art Institute, Los Angeles
1979 Whitney Biennial Exhibition, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
New Painting/New York, Hayward Gallery, London
The 1970s: New American Painting, Narodni Muzej, Belgrade,
Other Media, Visual Arts Gallery, Miami
1978 New Image Painting, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Grids: Format and Image in the 20th Century, The Pace Gallery, New York
Storytelling in Art, Museum of the American Foundation for the Arts, Miami
Drawing Show, Mary Boone Gallery, New York
1977 Surrogates/Self Portrait, Holly Solomon Gallery, New York
Recent Work on Paper by American Artists, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
1977 Whitney Biennial Exhibition, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Drawings, Carl Solway Gallery, New York
Paintings, Hal Bromm Gallery, New York
Patterning and Decoration, The Museum of the American Foundation for the Arts, Miami
1976 The Great American Rodeo, The Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX (traveling) Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, Colorado Springs, CO; Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, TX
Soho: Downtown Manhattan, Akademie der Kunst, Berlin
Artschwager, Close, Zucker, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco
Paintings 75, 76, 77, Sarah Lawrence Gallery, Bronxville, NY
Robert Mangold/Joe Zucker, Max Protech Gallery, Washington
A Selection of New Work, Texas Gallery, Houston
Large Scale Works, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati
Ten Painters Georgia State University, Atlanta
One Hundred Distinguished Alumni, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Gallery, Chicago
Thickening Surface, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
1975 Artschwager, Gordon, Torreano, Zucker, Bykert Gallery, New York
Artists Make Tous, The Clocktower, Institute for Art & Urban Resources, New York
22 Artists, Susan Caldwell Gallery, New York
Aspects of American Art, Kriwin Galerie, Brussels
Contemporary Paintings: A Review of the New York Gallery
Season, Joe and Emily Lowe Art Gallery, Syracuse, NY
1974 Nancy Holt, Joe Zucker, Bykert Gallery, New York
A to Z Prints, Paintings and Sculpture, Prints on Prince Street, New York
1973 28 Painters of the New York Avant-Garde, Saidyne Bronfman Center of the YM-YWHA, Montreal
Prospekt 73, Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf
The Last Picture Show at 100 Prince: Zucker, Shields, Shapiro, Ruda, Quaytman, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
The Emerging Image, Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, NY
Davidovitch/Hart/Humphrey/Novoros/Zucker, Bykert Gallery, New York
1972 New American Abstract Painting, Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
1971 Cecile Abish, Robin Bruch, Douglas Leichter, Tony Robbins, Joe Zucker, Bykert Gallery, New York
1969 Jim Beres, Bob Duran, Joe Zucker, Bykert Gallery, New York
Combinations, School of Visual Arts Museum, New York
1968 Biennial Exhibition, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
1967 Joe Zucker and Bob Israel: Paintings, Sculpture, and Drawings, Dayton’s Gallery 12, Minneapolis
Small Paintings for Museum Collections, Department of Art, Albion College, Albion, MI
University of North Dakota Invitational, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks
1966 Black and White, Hyde Park Center, Chicago
1965 Twelve Chicago Painters, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Chicago Painting, Hyde Park Center, Chicago
Phalanx, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
Spectrum, McCormick Place, Chicago
1964 Sixty-Sixth Annual Exhibition of Artists of Chicago and Vicinity, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago
Eye on Chicago: Avant-Garde Painting and Sculpture, Herman Hall, Illinois Institute of Technology, Chicago
1963 Second Annual Chicago Arts Festival, McCormick Place, Chicago
1960–61 Artists of Cincinnati and Vicinity, Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati