CHAMBERLAIN, John
Biography
| 4/16/1927 | Born in Rochester, Indiana |
| 1943-46 | Served in the U.S. Navy in the Pacific and Mediterranean |
| 1951-52 | School of Art Institute of Chicago |
| 1955-56 | Black Mountain College, North Carolina, meets poets Charles Olson and Robert Creeley |
| 1957 | First sculpture made from auto-body parts |
| 1966 | Made a series of fiber-glass sculptures, first instant sculptures made of urethane Teached graduate students at the University of New Mexico |
| 1967-68 | Made galvanized-steel sculptures, made films: Wedding Night, Secret Life of Hernando Cortez, Wide Point |
| 1970 | Made plexiglass sculptures in Los Angeles |
| 1974 | Resumes work with auto-body parts |
| 1986 | First series of monoprints: Litany of Ka. |
| 1987 | Two new series of monoprints: Tooth of Sun, and Hand Carved Ivory |
| 1988 | Two new series of monoprints: Salty Water, and Fan Mail |
| Solo exhibitions (selection) | |
| 1957 | First one-person exhibition, Wells Street Gallery, Chicago |
| 1960 | Martha Jackson Gallery, New York |
| 1962 | Leo Castelli Gallery, New York Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco |
| 1964 | Ileana Sonnabend, Paris; Leo Castelli Gallery, New York Sidney Janis Gallery, New York |
| 1965 | Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, with Allan D'Arcangelo Rudolf Zwirner, Gallery, Cologne |
| 1966 | Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles Whitney Museum of American Art, „Contemporary American Sculpture: Selection I” |
| 1971 | Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, „John Chamberlain: A Retrospective Exhibition” Leo Castelli Gallery, New York |
| 1974 | Walter Kelly Gallery, Chicago |
| 1974 | Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, Inaugural Exhibition |
| 1977 | Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, „View from the Cockpit” The Mayor Gallery, London, „John Chamberlain: An Exhibition of Sculpture 1959-1962” Heiner Friedrich, Inc., New York |
| 1980 | Museum Moderner Kunst Wien, Vienna, „Faszination des Objekts“ |
| 1983 | Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, Ohio Robert L. Kidd Galleries, Birmingham, Michigan Marian Goodman Gallery, New York |
| 1984 | Grand Palais, Paris, „La Rime et la Raison: Les Collections Menil” Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, „Ein Anderes Klima“ |
| 1986 | Museum of Contemporary Arts, Los Angeles, „Retrospective” |
| 1987 | Xavier Fourcade Gallery, New York |
| 1988 | Sonia Zannettacci Gallery, Geneva |
| 2002 | Galerie Karsten Greve - Köln, Cologne, „JOHN CHAMBERLAIN - Skulptur und Fotografie“ Galerie Daniel Blau, Munich, „Manifeste, oder: Ergriffenheit - Was ist das?“ |
| 2004 | Galerie Sabine Knust - Maximilian Verlag, Munich, „John Chamberlain / Arnold Odermatt” |
| Group exhibitions (selection) | |
| 1959 | Museum of Modern Art, New York, „Recent Sculpture U.S.A.” Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, ”The Enormous Room” |
| 1960 | Galerie Rive Droite, Paris; New Forms New Media I and II, „Le Nouveau Réalisme” |
| 1964 | XXXII Biennale de Venise, „Recent American Sculpture” Jewish Museum, New York, „Painting and Sculpture of a Decade” The Tate Gallery, London, „The Classic Spirit in Twentieth- Century Art” |
| 1965 | Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, „Seven Sculptors” Herron Museum of Art, Indiana, „Painting and Sculpture Today” |
| 1966 | Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, „Art of the United States: 1670-1966” |
| 1968 | Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, „Sammlung Hahn: Zeitgenössische Kunst“ |
| 1971 | Kunsthalle, Duesseldorf, „Prospect '71“ |
| 1974 | Museum of Fine Arts, Dallas, „Poets of the Cities New York and San Francisco 1950-1965” |
| 1977 | Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, „Pop Plus” |
| 1980 | Kunsthaus, Zurich, „Reliefs/Formprobleme zwischen Malerei und Skulptur in 20 Jahrhundert“ |
| 1984 | Kunst Museum, Winterthur, „Experiment Sammlung I: Une Collection Imaginaire“ |
| 1999 | Mario Mauroner Contemporary Art, Salzburg „LORELEI`s PASSION und andere Skulpturen, Monotypien und Fotografien“ Galerie Tanit, Munich, „U.S. Classics“ |
| 2004 | Stiftung Wilhelm Lehmbruck Museum Center of International Sculpture, Duisburg, „POP CARS. Amerika - Europa“ |
Awards and scholarships
| 1966 | Fellowship, John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation |
| 1977 | second Guggenheim fellowship. |
Collections (selection)
| Xavier Hufkens, Brussells |
| Galerie Karsten Greve - Paris, Paris |
| Galerie Karsten Greve - Köln, Cologne |
| Galerie Karsten Greve - Mailand, Milano |
| Art & Public, Geneva |
| Galerie Sonia Zannettacci, Geneva |
| Buchmann Skulpturenprojekte & Kunsthandel, Lugano |
| Bernard Jacobson Gallery, London |
| Jonathan Novak Contemporay Art, Los Angeles |
| Barbara Mathes Gallery, New York |
| PaceWildenstein, New York |
| MUSÉE D'ART MODERNE ET D'ART CONTEMPORAIN, Nice |
| K20 KUNSTSAMMLUNG NORDRHEIN-WESTFALEN - am Grabbeplatz, Duesseldorf |
| ZKM | Museum für Neue Kunst, Karlsruhe |
| Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach |
| CGAC - Centro Galego de Arte Contemporánea, Santiago de Compostela |
| Dia Art Foundation: Chelsea, New York |
| Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York |
| Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
Publications (selection)
| Publications by John Chamberlain (selection) |
| John Chamberlain: A Retrospective Exhibition. Ed. Diane Waldman. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1971. Interviews by Elizabeth C. Baker, Donald Judd, and Diane Waldman. |
| John Chamberlain: Reliefs, 1960-1982. Sarasota, Fla.: The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art, 1983. Text and interview by Michael Auping. |
| John Chamberlain: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Sculpture, 1954-1985. Ed. Julie Sylvester. New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1986. Text by Klaus Kertess. |
| John Chamberlain: Gondolas and Dooms Day Flotilla. New York: Dia Center for the Arts, 1991. Interviews by Julie Sylvester and Lawrence Weiner. |
| John Chamberlain. Baden-Baden: Staatliche Kunsthalle, in association with Cantz, Ostfildern, 1991. Texts by Angelika Beckmann, John Chamberlain, Donald Judd, and Jochen Poetter. |
| DeKooning, Chamberlain: Influence and Transformation. New York: PaceWildenstein, 2001. Text by Bernice Rose |
| Publikations about the artist and his work (selection) |
| McGowan, Alison C (Editor): Who's Who in American Art 2003-2004 (25th Edition) (2004) |
| Dunbier, Lonnie Pierson (Ed): The Artists Bluebook: (AskART) (2003) |
| Davenport, Ray: Davenport's Art Reference (2001) |
| Lucie-Smith, Edward: Visual Arts in the 20th Century (1997) |
| Addison Gallery: Addison Gallery of American Art, 65 Years A Selective Catalogue |
| Hopps, Walter (others): American Images/The SBC Collection of 20th Century American Art (1996) |
| Lucie-Smith, Edward: Art Today (1995) |
| Janson, H W / Anthony F Janson: History of Art (1995) |
| Fuchs, Rudi / Adam D Weinberg: Views from Abroad, European Perspectives on American Art (1995) |
| Fineberg, Jonathan: Art Since 1940 Strategies of Being (1995) |
| Geldzahler, Henry: Making It New, Essays, Interviews and Talks (1994) |