Robert Therrien
Born Chicago, 1947
Lives and works in Los Angeles
Selected Exhibitions
2010
• Size DOES Matter, Flag Art Foundation, New York
• Le fabouleux destin du quotidian, MAC’c Musee des Art Contemporains, Site du Grand-Hornu, Hornu, Belgium
• Meet Me Inside, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills †
• From Dürer to Gober; 101 Master Drawings from the Kupferstichkabinett, Kunstmuseum Basel, Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Basel, Switzerland
2009
• Artists Rooms: The d'Offay Donation, Tate Modern, London, England
• Robert Therrien, Sprüth Magers Berlin.
• Wall Rockets, Flag Art Foundation, New York
2008
• Robert Therrien Drawings, Kupferstichkabinet, Kunstmuseum Basel, Basel, Switzerland † *
• Robert Therrien, Gagosian Gallery Chelsea, New York, New York † *
• I Won't Grow Up, Cheim & Read Gallery, New York, New York
• Sgozzata, Peres Projects, Berlin, Germany
• The Inaugural Exhibition, The Broad Contemporary Art Museum at LACMA, Los Angeles, California
2007-2008
• The Panza Collection: An Experience of Color and Light, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
2007
• Lines, Grids, Stains, Words, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
• Robert Therrien: Tables and Chairs, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California†
• Remix the Collection: Robert Therrien, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
2006
• Sculpture, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles
• Robert Therrien, Lora Reynolds Gallery, Austin, Texas†
• Birth of an Artistic Capital: Los Angeles Art Scene, 1955-1985, Centre Pompidou, Paris, France*
• Robert Therrien's No Titile (Table and Six Chairs), Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York†
• Selections from the Ruth and Murray A. Gribbin Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art at La Jolla, San Diego, California
2005-2006
• Southern Exposure, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, California
2005
• Roberth Therrien: Table and Six Chairs, Public Art Fund, New York, New York †
• Robert Therrien, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, California †
• Roberth Therrien: Two Recent Sculptures, Gagosian Gallery, New York, New York †
• Works on paper, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2004
• Robert Therrien, Inverleith House, Edinburgh, Scotland †
• Robert Therrien, Philomene Magers/Monika Spruth, Munich, Germany†
• Robert Therrien, Sprüth Magers Lee, London, England†
• Drawings, Gagosian Gallery, London, England
2003-2004
• Not-So-Still Life: A Century of Painting and Scuplture, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, California (travel: Pasadena Museum. Pasadena, California)*
2003
• Strangely Familiar: Approaches to Scale in the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York State Museum, Albany, New York
2002
• Sammlung Rosencranz, Von der Heydt Museum, Wuppertal, Germany *
2001-2004
• Lateral Thinking: Art of the 1990s, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. La Jolla, California (travel: Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center. Colorado Springs, Colorado, Hood Museum, Dartmouth University. Hanover, New Hampshire, Dayton Art Institute. Dayton, Ohio)*
2001-2002
• Selected Works, 2001-2002 InstallationThe Broad Art Foundation, Santa Monica, California
• Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California (travel: Corcoran Gallery, Washington, D.C., Museum of Fine Art, Boston, Massachusetts, Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain). *
2001
• Robert Therrien, Gagosian Gallery, New York, New York †
2000-2001
• Robert Therrien, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California (travel: SITE Santa Fe. Santa Fe, New Mexico. Contemporary Art Museum. Houston, Texas, Museo d’Arte Contemporaneo (MARCO). Monterrey, Mexico) † *
• Made in California: Art, Image and Identity, 1900-2000, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California *
• Locating Drawing, Doug Lawing Gallery, Houston, Texas
• MoMA 2000: Open Ends, Museum of Modern Art. New York, New York*
• The Anderson Collection; Selected Works, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California*
2000
• Tate Modern: Collection 2000, Tate Modern. London, England*
• Robert Therrien, Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City, Missouri †
• Panza: The Legacy of a Collector, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California *
1999
• In Company: Robert Creeley’s Collaborations, Castellani Art Museum of Niagara University, New York (travel: New York Public Library, New York, New York. Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina. The University of South Florida Contemporary Art Museum, Tampa, Florida. Green Library, Stanford University, Palo Alto, California.) *
• De Opening, Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium *
• Culbutes, Oeuvre d’impertinence, Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Canada*
• A Selection of Recent Work on Paper, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, New York
• PhotoImage: Printmaking 60s to 90s, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, Massachusetts (travel: Baltimore Museum of Fine Art. Baltimore, Maryland. Des Moines Art Center Des Moines, Iowa.) *
• Collectieopstelling, BildMuseet, Umea, Sweden
1998
• Objects of Desire: The Modern Still Life, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York (travel: The Hayward Gallery. London, England.) *
• A Decade of Collecting: Selected Recent Acquisitions in Contemporary Drawing, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
• Magasin 3 Stockholm Kunsthalle at Arken: Selections from the Collection, Museum for Moderne Kunst, Copenhagen, Denmark *
• Robert Therrien, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, California †
• Back to Basics, St-Pietersabdij, Ghent, Belgium
• Robert Therrien, Paule Anglim Gallery, San Francisco, California †
1997
• Sculpture by Robert Therrien: Under the Table, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio †
• Selections from the Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
• Robert Therrien: Large-scale Sculpture, The Eli Broad Family Foundation, Los Angeles, California
• Robert Therrien, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, California †
• Drawings, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, New York
• Densite ou le musee Inimaginable (density or the unimaginable museum), Domaine de Kerguehennec Centre d’Art Contemporaine, Bignan, France
• Book Obsession, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv, Israel *
1996
• Robert Therrien, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, New York *†
• From Figure to Object A Century of Sculptors’ Drawings, Karsten Schubert, London, England *
• Avant-première d’un musée - Le Musée d’Art Contemporain de Gand, The Institut Néerlandais, Paris, France
• The Panza Di Biumo Collection: Artists of the 80s and 90s, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea, Trento, Italy *
• Leo Castelli: An Exhibition in Honor of His Gallery and Artists, Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, California
• Morceaux Choisis du Fonds National d’Art Contemporain, Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
• Robert Therrien, Saidye Bronfman Centre for the Arts, Montreal, Canada (travel: The Art Gallery of York University. Toronto, Canada. Illingworth Kerr Gallery, Albert College of Art & Design. Calgary, Canada.)†
1995
• Carnegie International 1995, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania *
• Object and Indentity: A Legacy of Duchamp, Tate Gallery, London, England
• Floored (Sculpture from the Lannan Foundation Collection), Lannan Foundation, Los Angeles, California
• Micromegas, The American Center, Paris, France (travel: The Israel Museum. Jerusalem, Israel.)
• Permanent Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
• Galerij Micheline Szwajcer. Antwerp, Belgium. Robert Therrien. †
• Collectieopstelling, Museum van Hedendaagse Kunst, Ghent, Belgium
1994
• Robert Therrien, The Eli Broad Family Foundation, Los Angeles, California
• From the Collection., Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
• / Tijuana, Mexico, inSITE94, San Diego, California *
• Twentieth Century American Sculpture at the White House, The White House, Washington, D.C.
• Southern California: The Conceptual Landscape, Madison Art Center, Madison, Wisconsin
1993
• Robert Therrien, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, New York †
• Robert Therrien, Galerij Micheline Szwajcer, Antwerp, Belgium†
• From the Hand to the Head, the Theoretical Object, Fonds Régional d’Art Contemporain, Domaine de Kerguéhennec, Brittany, France *
• Robert Therrien, Konrad Fischer Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany †
1992
• Documenta IX, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany *
• Recent Acquisitions - Selected New Works in the Permanent Collection, Tate Gallery. London, England, New Acquisitions. Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
• Manifeste, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
• Panza di Biumo, The Eighties and the Nineties from the Collection, Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano, Switzerland *
1991
• Robert Therrien, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain † *
• Robert Therrien, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, New York †
• Lafrenz Collection, Hamburg, Neues Museum, Bremen, Germany (travel: The Irish Museum of Modern Art. Dublin, Ireland.)
1990
• Robert Therrien, Konrad Fischer Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany†
• Robert Therrien, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, New York †
• 12th International Biennale of Drawings, Museum of Modern Art, Rijeka, Yugoslavia
• Robert Therrien, The Greenberg Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri (Barbara Krakow Gallery. Boston, Massachusetts.) †
1989
• Art in Place, Fifteen Years of Acquisitions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York *
• Dreams and other Works on Paper.,Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, New York
• I Triennal de Dibuix Joan Miró, Fundació Joan Miró. Barcelona, Spain *
• Skulptur/Sculpture, Material und Abstraktion 2 x 5 Positionen, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland (travel: Musée Cantonal des Beaux-Arts. Lausanne, Switzerland. The Swiss Institute and The City Gallery. New York, New York.) *
1988
• Robert Therrien, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, New York †
• Sculpture Inside Outside, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota (travel: Museum of Fine Arts. Houston, Texas.) *
• Vital Signs, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York *
• Abstract Expressions, Recent Sculpture, Lannan Museum, Lake Worth, Florida
l987
• Robert Therrien-A Series of Three Installations, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, New York†
• Robert Therrien, Konrad Fischer Gallery, Düsseldorf, Germany †
• Structure to Resemblance: Work by Eight American Sculptors, Albright–Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York *
• Leo Castelli y sus Artistas, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporaneo, Polanco, Mexico *
• Leo Castelli at Gagosian, Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1986
• Robert Therrien, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, New York †
• Individuals: A Selected History of Contemporary Art, 1945-86, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
• Major Acquisitions Since 1980: Selected Paintings and Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
• Permanent Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
1985
• Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York *
• Awards in the Visual Arts 3, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas (travel: Loch Haven Art Center. Orlando, Florida. Cranbrook Academy. Bloomfield, Michigan.) *
• Actual Size: An Exhibition of Small Paintings and Sculptures, Larry Gagosian Gallery, Los Angeles, California
• Robert Therrien, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, California †
1984
• Robert Therrien, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California † *
• XLI Esposizione Internazionale d’Arte. La Biennale di Venezia. Aperto ‘84, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy *
• Robert Therrien, Hoshour Gallery, Albuquerque, New Mexico †
* Denotes exhibition catalog
† Denotes one-person show