Gallery Exhibitions
Publications
John Chamberlain
Born 1927 in Rochester. Died 2011 in New York.
Education
| 1951 – 52 | Studies at the Art Institute, Chicago |
| 1955 – 56 | Studies at Black Mountain College, North Carolina |
Grants and Awards
| 1966 | Receives the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship |
| 1969 | Artits in Residence, in conjunction with the Art and Technology Programm of the Los Angeles County Museum |
| 1971 | Retrospective exhibition, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York |
| 1979 | Retrospective exhibition, Kunsthalle Bern; the Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven |
| 1986 | Retrospective exhibition, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles |
| 1991 | Retrospective exhibition, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden; Staatl. Kunstsammlung, Dresden |
| 1993 |
Receives the 1993 Skowhegan Medal for Sculpture from the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, Maine Receives Lifetime Achievement in Contemporary Sculpture Award from the international Sculpture Center, Washington, D.C. |
Selected Publications
| 2006 | “John Chamberlain – IT`S HIS SHOW” text by Jon Wood, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, published by Buchmann Galerie, Berlin 2007 |
| 2005 |
“The Sculpture of John Chamberlain: an Ugly Beauty” by Irving Sandler “John Chamberlain: Papier Paradisio”, Mit Texten von Carl Andre, John Chamberlain, Robert Creeley, Fielding Dawson und Dieter Schwarz, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, (cat.) Design is not Art, AAM - Aspen Art Museum, Colorado Aspen, USA |
| 2003 | “Recent Scuplture - Chamberlain of Beauty”, Essay by Klaus Kertess |
| 2001 |
“DeKooning, Chamberlain: Influence and Transformation”, Text by Bernice Rose, PaceWildenstein, New York |
| 1996 |
“John Chamberlain, Current Works and Fond Memories”, Conversation John Chamberlain and Julie Sylvester, Essays by Rudi Fuchs, John Yau, Donald Judd, Marja Bloem, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, (11.05. – 30.06.1996), Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, (07.09 – 17.11.1996) |
| 1991 |
“John Chamberlain”, Essays by Angelika Beckmann, John Chamberlain, Donald Judd and Jochen Poetter, Staatliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, May 11 – July 21, 1991, Staatliche Kunstsammlungen Dresden, Albertinum, August 25 – November 3, 1991 “John Chamberlain: Gondolas and Dooms Day Flotilla”, Interviews by Julie Sylvester and Lawrence Weiner, Dia Center for the Arts, New York |
| 1986 |
“John Chamberlain: A Catalogue Raisonné of the Sculpture, 1954–1985”. Text by Klaus Kertess, Ed. Julie Sylvester. New York: Hudson Hills Press, in association with The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles |
| 1983 | “John Chamberlain: Reliefs, 1960–1982”, Text and interview by Michael Auping Sarasota, Fla.: The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art |
| 1972 | Tuchman, Phyllis, An Interview with John Chamberlain, in: Artforum 10, no. 6 (February 1972), pp.38–43 |
| 1971 |
“John Chamberlain: A Retrospective Exhibition”. Ed. Diane Waldman, Interviews by Elizabeth C. Baker, Donald Judd, and Diane Waldman, New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum |