artist / curator

Lucas Samaras

short biography

*1936
Studium Rutgers University bei Allan Kaprow; Kunstgeschichte - Columbia University
Bildhauerei, Malerei

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collection/s

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo Centre Pompidou Paris Denver Art Museum Getty, Los Angeles Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington Honolulu Museum of Art MOCA The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Modern, Fort Worth Museu Berardo, Lisbon National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens (EMST) Whitney Museum, New York

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galleries

Adam Baumgold Gallery, New York Daniel Blau, München Gmurzynska - St. Moritz (temporarily closed) Moeller Fine Art, New York Polar Richard Gray Gallery Waddington Custot Galleries, London Xippas, Paris

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02. Jun 27. Oct
ANTI-STRUCTURE Deste Foundation

27. Oct 11. May 2020
With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972–1985 MOCA The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles

01. Dec 26. Feb 2018
The Everywhere Studio ICA Miami

01. May 27. Sep
America Is Hard to See Whitney Museum, New York

25. Apr 31. May
À rebours Venus Over Manhattan, New York

15. Apr 10. Oct
The Last Grand Tour Museum of Cycladic Art, Athens
11. Mar 29. May
Kompass - Zeichnungen aus dem Museum of Modern Art New York Gropius Bau, Berlin

17. Dec 17. Apr 2011
Islands never found Musée d´Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne
01. Jul 19. Sep
Off the Wall Whitney Museum, New York
28. Jun 28. Nov
Islands Never Found State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki
28. Jun 28. Nov
Islands Never Found Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki (closed)
16. Jan 17. May 2009
Artists Making Photographs: Chamberlain, Rauschenberg, Ruscha, Samaras, Warhol Whitney Museum, New York

15. Nov 03. May 2010
MOCAs First Thirty Years MOCA The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
15. Sep 13. Jun 2010
Surface Tension: Contemporary Photographs from the Collection The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
07. Jun 22. Nov
53. Venice Biennale 2009 "Making Worlds" Venice Biennale
03. Apr 03. May
Goldfish Suddenly Dead Extra City Kunsthal, Antwerp

26. Nov 24. Jan 2009
WHAT DOES NEW AND INTERESTING MEAN Alpha Delta Gallery, Athens
14. Jun 07. Sep
A Mind at Play The Art Institute of Chicago
01. Jun 15. Jul
Transexpriences Greece 2008 National Museum of Contemporary Art Athens (EMST)

09. May 23. Jun
Conceptual Photograpy 1964-1989 Zwirner & Wirth - New York [closed]
06. May 04. Nov
Vertigo MAMbo Bologna
02. Apr 02. May
Ithaca Regained Kouros Gallery

19. Aug 12. Nov
Das Achte Feld / The Eighth Square Museum Ludwig Köln
30. Jun 18. Aug
DERECONSTRUCTION Gladstone Gallery, New York
07. Jan 04. Feb
Portraits of Artists Luhring Augustine, New York

29. Nov 19. Dec
De la comtesse De Castiglione a Cindy Sherman Galerie de France
08. Sep 01. Oct
Interstate Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York
30. Jul 27. Nov
Mavericks of Color Photography Philadelphia Museum of Art
15. Apr 14. Aug
bildwechsel /01 Deichtorhallen Hamburg & Sammlung Falckenberg

04. Jun 08. Sep
Speaking with Hands Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

07. Mar 19. Apr
Flesh Tones Robert Mann Gallery, New York

07. Nov 14. Dec
Lucas Samaras Galerie Xippas, Paris
02. Jul 16. Aug
Something Anything Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
31. May 15. Sep
Couleurs en trois dimensions Artiscope
25. Jan 24. Mar
Escape from the Vault Honolulu Museum of Art

03. Sep 30. Nov
Modern Odysseys - Greek-American Artists of the 20th Century State Museum of Contemporary Art, Thessaloniki

05. Oct 02. Jan 2000
Modern Odysseys - Greek-American Artists of the 20th Century Queens Museum of Art
26. Feb 30. May
Carved, Modeled, Assembled, Welded, Drawn Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo

29. Oct 12. Jan 1993
The Photographs of Lucas Samaras MOMA - The Museum of Modern Art, New York

24. Jun 02. Oct
documenta 6 documenta Kassel

30. Jun 08. Oct
documenta 5 documenta Kassel