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Born 1944 in New York, NY
Lives and works in New York, NY
EDUCATION
1968
Hunter College, New York, NY
1966
B.A. Architecture, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1990
Alan Saret, P.S.1 MoMA, Queens, New York
1983
Alan Saret, Installation Had Heaven: Phase III, Albright-Knox Art Gallery,
Buffalo, NY
1982
Alan Saret, Matter Into Aether, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
Alan Saret, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY, May 1 - 29
Alan Saret, Nigel Greenwood Gallery, London, UK
1981
Alan Saret, Fine Arts Gallery, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI
Alan Saret: Skulpturen and Zeichnungen, Galerie Rudolf Zwirner, Cologne,
Germany
1980
Alan Saret, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY
1979
Permutation Cluster Galaxy, University Art Museum Matrix Gallery, University of California, Berkeley, CA [cat.]
Sculpture and Drawings, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1978
Visionary Drawings, Energy Fields, Sculpture, Fine Arts Gallery, University of California, Irvine, CA
1977
Mesh Work Architecture and Dragon's Tooth Castings, Modern Art Pavilion, Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA
And/Or, Seattle, WA
1975
Ghosthouse, Artpark, Lewiston, New York, [cat.]
1974
Drawings, Watercolors and Sculpture, The Clocktower, Institute for Art and
Urban Resources, New York, NY
1970
Pictures, Bykert Gallery, New York, NY
Alan Saret Sculptures, Spring Palace, New York, NY
1968
Mountains of Chance, Documents of Ruralism, Bykert Gallery, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2006
Material Space, Thomas Solomon Garage, Los Angeles, CA, October 28-December 4
2004
The Summer Show, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
2004
Hiraki Sawa, Alan Saret, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
2003
A Simple Plan, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY, September 6 – 27
Selected Group Exhibitions (cont.)
2002
5 Sculptors' Drawings from the 1970's, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York, NY
The Drawings: Alan Saret and Peter Cain, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2001
Art at Work: Forty Years of the Chase Manhattan Collection, Queens Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY
Carl Andre and Alan Saret, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY, January 26 - February 6
Group Exhibition: Shadow Dancing: 1975-1979, D'Amelio Terras, New York, NY, January 6 - February 11
2000
Afterimage: Drawing Through Process, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, May 13 - July 16 (traveled to Los Angeles Contemporary Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA) [cat.]
Raumkörper – Netze und andere Gebilde, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Germany
1997
P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center Opening Program, Long Island City, NY
1995
In a Different Light, curated by Lawrence Rinder and Nayland Blake, University Art Museum at Berkeley
1990
The New Sculpture 1965-75: Between Geometry and Gesture, Whitney Museum
of American Art, New York, NY, February 20 - June 3 (traveled to the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA)
1986
Sculpture/Aspen, curated by Linda Macklowe and Julie Augur, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO, June 14 - September 28 [cat.]
1982
Metals: Cast-Cut-Coiled, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Material Becomes Art, Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany
Abstract Drawings from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
Recent Aspects of Allover, Harm Bouckaert Gallery, New York, NY
Joel Fisher and Alan Saret, Nigel Greenwood Inc., London, UK
1981
112 Greene Street Revival, William Patterson College Gallery, Wayne, New Jersey
Developments in Recent Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY [cat.]
The Image of the House in Contemporary Art, Lawndale Annex Gallery, University of Houston, TX
Drawing Invitational, Harm Bouckaert Gallery, New York, NY
1980
Drawings: The Pluralist Decade, American Pavilion, 39th Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy [cat.]
Alan Saret/Ron Davis, Charles Cowles Gallery, New York, NY, May 10 - 31
Beyond Object, Aspen Center for the Visual Arts, Aspen, CO
Ten Abstract Sculptures American and European, 1940-1980, Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York, NY [cat.]
Drawings/Structures, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
Architectural Sculpture, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA [cat.]
Temporal Structures, Wave Hill, Bronx, New York [cat.]
From Reinhardt to Christo: Works Acquired through the Benefaction of the Late
Ruth C. Roush, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, February 20 - March 19 [cat. no. 34]
1979
Artists Draw, Artists Space, New York, NY [cat.]
Contemporary Sculpture: Selections from the Collection of The Museum of
Modern Art, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY [cat.]
Stair, Water, Canopy Structures, Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA
1978
Dwellings, Institute of Contemporary Art of the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (traveled to Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, College at Purchase) [cat.]
Cornell Then, Sculpture Now, Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell
University, Ithaca, NY [cat.}
Up Against the Wall, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1977
Open to New Ideas, Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA
03 23 03, Institut d'Art Contemporain de Montréal, Montréal, Canada (traveled to the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa)
American Drawn and Matched, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY [cat.]
Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, The University of
Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI [cat.]
1977 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY [cat.]
A View of a Decade 1967-1977, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL [cat.]
1976
New York – Downtown Manhattan, SoHo: exhibitions, theater, music,
performance, video, film, Akademie der Kunste, West Berlin, Germany, (traveled to Louisiana Museum, Humlebaek, Denmark) [cat.]
Rooms P.S.1, P.S.1, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, NY [cat.]
1975
Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
Selections form the Collection of Herbert and Dorothy Vogel, The Clocktower,
Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New York, NY (traveled to Institute of Contemporary Art, of The University of Pennsylvania, PA, and Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH) [cat.]
1974
Works on Paper, Museum of Modern art, New York, NY
Materials and Manipulations, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown Branch, New York, NY [cat.]
1973
American Drawings, 1963-1973, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York,
NY [cat.]
1971
The India Ramp, Second Triennale – India 1971, Lalit Kala, Adademi, New Delhi, India [cat.]
1970
String and Rope, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY [cat.]
112 Greene Street, New York, NY
The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
1969
Group Exhibition, New Gallery, Cleveland, OH, November 8-29
9 at Leo Castelli, Castelli Warehouse, New York, NY
Here and Now, Washington University Gallery of Art, Steinberg Hall, St. Louis,
MO, [cat.]
1968
Three Young Americans, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, April 17 - May 12
Group Show, Bykert Gallery, New York, NY
1968 Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY [cat.]
BIBLIOGRAPHY
2004
Sholis, Brian. "Critics' Picks," ArtForum, New York, NY, March 11, 2004
2000
Afterimage: Drawing Through Process. Exh. cat., Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX, 2000.
1990
Armstrong, Richard, and Richard Marshall. The New Sculpture 1965-75: Between Geometry and Gesture. Exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 1990, cat. no. 59, ill. p. 90.
1986
Augur, Julie and Linda Macklowe. Sculpture/Aspen, Exh. cat., Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO, 1986.
1985
Working in Brooklyn: Sculpture. Exh. cat., The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, 1985. With essay by Charlotta Kotik.
1983
Alan Saret/Had Heaven: Phase III. Exh. cat., Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY, 1983. With essay by Charlotta Kotik.
1982
Cohen, Ronny H. "Developments in Recent Sculpture: Whitney Museum of American Art." Artforum, New York, NY, vol. 20, no. 5, January 1982, p.79.
Kertess, Klaus. Alan Saret: Matter into Aether. Exh. cat., Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, Calif., 1982, ill. p. 27.
Marshall, Richard. Developments in Recent Sculpture. Exh. cat., Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York, 1981.Alan Saret: Matter into Aether. Exh. cat., Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, Calif., 1982. With essays by Klaus Kertess and Alan Saret.
Venet, Gwynne. "Drawing Invitational 1981." Arts Magazine, New York, NY, vol. L56, no. 6, February 1982, p.25.
Wortz, Melinda. "Alan Saret: Newport Harbor Art Museum." Art News, New York, NY, vol. 81, no. 8, October 1982, p.129.
1981
Locke, Charmaine and William Simon. The Image of the House in Contemporary Art. Exh. cat., Lawndale Annex Gallery, University of Houston, TX, 1981.
Pohlen, A. "Alan Saret: Skulpturen und Zeichnungen." Kunstforum International, Mainz, W. Germany, vol. 9, no. 1, 1981, pp. 146-147.
1980
Armstrong, Richard, "Alan Saret: Daniel Weinberg Gallery," Artforum, New York, vol. 18, no. 6, February 1980, pp.106-7.
Burchett, Debra, Susan C. Larsen, Lucy R. Lippard and Melinda Watz.
Architectural Sculpture, Exh. cat., Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, 1980.
Deak, Edit, Howard N. Fox, Kardon, Janet, Rosalind Krauss, Richard Lorber,
John Hallmark Neff and John Perreault. Drawings: The Pluralist Decade. Exh. cat., American Pavilion, 39th Venice Biennale, Published by the Institute of Contemporary Art of the University of Pennsylvania, PA, 1980.
Ffrench-Frazier, Nina. "Alan Saret at Charles Cowles." Art International, Lugano, vol. 24, no. 1-2, September-October 1980, pp. 100-101.
From Reinhardt to Christo: Works Acquired through the Benefaction of the Late
Ruth C. Roush, Exh. cat., Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH, no. 34, 1980.
Larson, Kay, "Review," The Village Voice, 26 May 1980, p.78.
Larson, Kay. Temporal Structures, Exh. cat., Wave Hill, Bronx, New York, NY, 1980.
Stimson, Paul, "Alan Saret at Charles Cowles," Art in America, New York, NY, vol. 68, no. 7, September 1980, pp.121-122.
Stopp, Duane. "Alan Saret: Charles Cowles." Arts Magazine, New York, NY, vol. 55. no. 1, September 1980, p.33.
Ten Abstract Sculptures American and European, 1940-1980, Exh. cat., Max Hutchinson Gallery, New York, NY, 1980.
Yenawine, Philip, "Beyond Object at the Aspen Center for the Visual Arts," Artspace, 4 Summer 1980, pp.14-17.
Zimmer, William, "Reviews," SoHo Weekly News, 28 May 1980, p.53.
1979
"Alan Saret: A Synthesis," Artforum, 8, May 1979, pp.48-53
Albright, Thomas. "San Francisco: Primarily Biological." Art News, New York, NY, vol. 78, no. 6, Summer 1979, p. 157.
Auping, Michael. Permutation Cluster Galaxy. Exh. cat., University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley, CA, 1979.
Betti, Claudia and Teel Sale. Drawing: A Contemporary Approach. New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1979.
Boettger, Suzaan, "Alan Saret – Visionary Aspirations," Artweek, Oakland, CA, vol. 10, no. 11, 17 March 1979, p.7.
Larsen, Susan, "Los Angeles." Art News, New York, NY, vol. 78, no. 1, January 1979, pp.96-97.
Lippard, Lucy R. "Complexes: Architectural Sculpture in Nature." Art in America, New York, NY, vol. 67, no. 1, January/February 1979, pp. 86-101.
McShine, Kynaston. Contemporary Sculpture, Selections from the Collection of
The Museum of Modern Art, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 1979.
Sultan, David. Artists Draw, Exh. cat., Artists Space, New York, NY, 1979.
1978
Hobbs, Robert Carleton. Cornell Then, Sculpture Now, Herbert F. Johnson
Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, 1978.
Lippard, Lucy R. Dwellings, Exh. cat., Institute of Contemporary Art of the
University of Pennsylvania, PA, 1978.
1977
American Drawn and Matched, Exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 1977.
Crary, Johathan, "Alan Saret," Arts Magazine, vol. 52, no. 1, September 1977, p.4.
Duttman, Werner and Lucy R. Lippard. New York – Downtown Manhattan:
SoHo, Exh. cat., Akademie der Kunste, West Berlin, Germany, 1977.
Friedman, Martin, Peter Gay and Robert Pincus-Witten. A View of a Decade 1967-1977. Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, 1977.
Haskell, Barbara, Marcia Tucker and Patterson Sims. 1977 Biennial Exhibition.
Exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 1977.
Waller, Bret. Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel. Exh. cat.,
The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI, 1977.
1976
Heiss, Alanna. Rooms P.S.1. Exh. cat., P.S.1, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, NY, 1976.
Heiss, Alanna, "The Magazine Show," Artforum, December 1976.
Koch, Stephen, Lawrence Alloway and Lucy R. Lippard. New York – Downtown
Manhattan, SoHo: exhibitions, theater, music, performance, video, film, Exh. cat., Akademie der Kunste, West Berlin, Germany, 1976.
Saret, Alan. The Ghosthouse. Published by the artist (out of print), 1976. 40 pp.
"This is the Magazine Show," Artforum, New York, NY vol. 15, no. 4, December 1976, pp.18-24.
Johnson, Ellen H. "American Art of the Twentieth Century." Apollo, London, UK, vol. 111, no. 168, February 1976, p.134.
1975
Delehanty, Suzanne, Selections form the Collection of Herbert and Dorothy Vogel, Exh. cat., Institute for Art and Urban Resources, New York, NY, 1975.
Katzive, David. Artpark 1975, Exh. cat., Artpark, Lewiston, New York, NY, 1975.
Materials and Manipulations, Exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown Branch, New York, NY, 1975.
"Methods and Materials: New and Old," Craft Horizons, vol. 35, no. 6, December 1975, pp.46-49.
Moore, Alan. "Alan Saret: Loft Show at 597 Broadway." Artforum, vol. 13, no. 10, Summer 1975, p.70.
Saret, Alan. "Alan Saret: Ghosthouse," Avalanche, no. 12, Winter 1975, p.8.
Saret, Alan. "The Ghosthouse of ALAEL at Artpark," Art-Rite, nos. 11-12, Winter/Spring 1975/76), pp.45-51.
Saret, Alan. "The Regiomantrine Decision," and "The Ghosthouse of ALAEL at Artpark," Art-Rite, December 1975.
Sharp, Willoughby, "Alan Saret: Installation for Man – A Conversation with
Willoughby Sharp," Avalanche, no. 11, Summer 1975, p.70.
1974
Davis, Douglas, "Country Art and City Art," Newsweek, 11 March 1974, p.90.
Heineman, Susan. "Alan Saret: The Clocktower," Artforum, vol. 12, no. 9, May 1974, p.77.
1973
Solomon, Elke M., American Drawings, 1963-1973, Exh. cat., Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 1973.
1971
"112 Greene Street – An Interview with Alan Saret and Jeffrey Lew." Avalanche,
no. 2, Winter 1971, pp.12-15
Anand, Mulk Raj, Second Triennale – India 1971, Exh. cat., Lalit Kala, Adademi, New Delhi, India, 1971.
Gardner, Colin. "Alan Saret/Dan Weinberg Gallery," Artforum 29, no. 7 March 1991, p. 138.
Live in your head. Exh. cat, Kunsthalle, Bern, 1971, under cat. no. 89, fig. 3.
"Second Triennale," Link, Indian news weekly, 7 February 1971.
"Second Triennale," Span, Indian publication, April 1971.
1970
Saret, Alan. "A Synthesis," Artforum, vol. 8, no. 9, May 1970, pp.48-53.
String and Rope, Exh. cat., Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY, 1970.
Wasserman, Emily, "Alan Saret's Studio Exhibition," Artforum, vol. 8, no. 7, March 1970, pp.62-66.
1969
"Alan Saret," Artforum, January 1969.
Chandler, John N., "Drawing Reconsidered," ArtsCanada, vol. 27, no. 5, January 1969, p.29.
Kozloff, Max, "9 in a Warehouse: An Attack on the Status of the Object," vol. 7, no. 6, Artforum, February 1969, pp.38-42.
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Meadmore, Clement, "Thoughts on Earthworks, Random Distribution, Softness,
Horizontality and Gravity," Arts Magazine, 43, February 1969, pp.26-28.
Sewell, David. Here and Now, Exh. cat., Washington University Gallery of Art,
Steinberg Hall, St. Louis, MO, 1969
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Wasserman, Emily, "Alan Saret: Bykert Gallery," Artforum, vol. 7, no.5, January 1969, p.59.
1968
1968 Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Sculpture, Exh. cat., Whitney
Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 1968.
Johnson, Ellen H., and Athena T. Spear. "Three Young Americans: Krueger, Nauman, Saret." Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin, 25, no. 3 (Spring 1968), pp. 93-103.
Junker, Howard and Ann Ray Martin. "The New Art: It's Way, Way Out," Newsweek, 29 July 1968, pp.56-63.
Leider, Philip, "The Properties of Materials: In the Shadow of Robert Morris," New York Times, 22 December 1968, p.31.
"The Avant-garde: Subtle, Cerebral, Elusive," Time, vol.92, 22 November 1968, pp.70-77.
"The New Art," Newsweek, 29 July 1968.
Three Young Americans, Checklist, Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin 25, no. 3, Spring 1968, p. 103
HONORS AND AWARDS
1975
National Endowment for the Arts Award
CAPS Award for Mixed Media
1969
Guggenheim Award for Sculpture
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, MA
MoCA The Geffen Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA
The Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, OH
The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI