Curriculum Vitae

Studied: San Francisco State College, The University of Mexico, Mexico City College

Selected Collections:

  • The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
  • Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, FL
  • Boston Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA
  • San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
  • Robert Rauschenberg Estate, New York, NY
  • The National Gallery, Washington, DC
  • The Smithsonian Museum, Washington, DC
  • Paula Cooper, New York, NY
  • Beth Rudin DeWoody, New York, NY
  • Chicago Art Institute, Chicago, IL
  • Museum of Contempory Art Detroit, Detroit, MI
  • Ileana Sonnabend Estate, New York, NY/Paris, France
  • The National Gallery, Sydney, Australia
  • Rolf Ricke, Berlin, Germany
  • The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
  • Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
  • The Lannan Foundation, Palm Beach, FL
  • The City of Denver 2 Public Commissions, Denver, CO
  • Perdue University, Lafayette, IN
  • Bennington College, Bennington, VT
  • Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA (The Lewis Contemporary Art Fund Collection)
  • Corpus Christi Museum, Corpus Christi, TX
  • Staten Island College, New York, NY
  • Lannan Museum, Los Angeles, CA
  • Art in Public Places, Miami, FL
  • Estee Lauder, New York, NY
  • Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME

 

Awards:

  • American Academy of Arts and Letters Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts:  Art Purchase Program for Sculpture  March 2015
  • Barnett and Annalee Newman Foundation Lifetime Achievement Award for 2013 
  • National Academy 185th Annual 2010 Alex J. Ettl Award for Sculpture
  • National Endowments for the Arts
  • CAPS Program (New York State Art Council)
  • Pollock-Krasner Foundation
  • Adolph & Esther Gottlieb Award for 2007

 

Selected One Man Exhibitions:

  • 2016 Garth Greenan Gallery, Richard Van Buren:  "Monet's Swamp,"  New York, NY
  • 2015 TIMA'S North Church Inaugural Exhibit, Richard Van Buren's:  "STATIONS,"  Eastport, ME
  • 2013 Garth Greenan Gallery, Richard Van Buren:  "The 1970's," New York, NY
  • 2013 Eastport Art Center, Richard Van Buren:  "New Works," Eastport, ME
  • 2011 Gary Snyder Gallery, Richard Van Buren:  "New Sculpture," New York, NY
  • 2006 Riverside Pavilion, Calais, ME
  • 2003 Maine Center for Contemporary Arts, Rockland, ME
  • 2002 Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO
  • 2002 Mitchell Algus Gallery, New York, NY
  • 1999 Christiane Nienaber Contemporary Art, “Richard Van Buren,” New York, NY
  • 1991 Jimenez & Algus Gallery, “Richard Van Buren,” New York, NY
  • 1988 City University Graduate Center, New York, NY
  • 1984 Maryland Institute, Baltimore, MD
  • 1978 Sculpture Center, Sydney, Australia
  • 1977 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
  • City University Graduate Center, New York, NY
  • 1976 Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
  • 1975 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
  • City University Graduate Center, New York, NY
  • 1974 Texas Gallery, Houston, TX
  •  Rice University, Houston, TX
  • 1973 112 Greene Street Gallery, New York, NY
  • 1972 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
  • 1970 Bennington College, Bennington, VT
  • 1969 Bykert Gallery, New York, NY
  • 1968 Bykert Gallery, New York, NY
  • 1967 Bykert Gallery, New York, NY
  • 1964 Dilexi Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  • 1962 San Francisco Museum of Art, San Francisco, CA
  • 1961 New Mission Gallery, San Francisco, CA

 

Selected Group Exhibitions:

  • 2015-2016 Garth Greenan Gallery, New York, NY, "The Silo"
  • 2015-2016 Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME, "You Can't Get There From Here"
  • 2015 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY,  "Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members and Recipients of Honors and Awards"
  • 2015 American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, NY,  "Invitational Exhibition of Visual Arts"
  • 2014 Fleming Museum University of Vermont, Burlington :  "Dorothy and Herb Vogal:  On Drawing"
  • 2011-2013 Basel Art Fair, Miami, FL
  • 2011-2013 The Armory Show, New York, NY
  • 2011 Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, "Inka Essenhigh & Richard Van Buren"
  • 2010 80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York University, "Pastorale"
  • 2009 National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, "Soft Sculpture,"
  • 2008 AUCOCISCO Contemporary Fine Art, Portland, Maine, "Only Connect, Richard Van Buren & David Moses Bridges"
  • 2007-2008 Neue Galerie, Graz, Austria, "High Times, Hard Times:  New York Painting, 1967-1975"
  • 2007-2008 Z.K.M. Center for Art, Karlsruhe, Germany, "High Times, Hard Times:  New York Painting, 1967-1975"
  • 2007 Tamayo Museum, Mexico City, Mexico, "High Times, Hard Times:  New York Painting, 1967-1975"
  • 2006 Weatherspoon Art Museum, Group Show, Greensboro, NC, "High Times, Hard Times:  New York Painting, 1967-1975"
  • 2006 Sideshow Gallery, Group Show, New York, NY
  • 2006 National Academy Museum, Group Show, New York, NY
  • 2006 American University, Group Show, Washington, DC
  • 2006 Weatherspoon Museum, Group Show, Greensboro, NC
  • 2006 Sioux Museum, Group Show, Grand Rapids, SD
  • 2006 Sideshow Gallery, Group Show, New York, NY
  • 2006 Sideshow Gallery, Group Show, New York, NY
  • 2005 Lois Neiter, Los Angeles, CA
  • 2005 Sideshow Gallery, Group Show, New York, NY
  • 2005 Sideshow Gallery, Group Show, New York, NY
  • 2005 Mitchell Algus Gallery, Back Wall, New York, NY
  • 2004 Sideshow Gallery, Group Show, New York, NY
  • 2004 Mitchell Algus Gallery, Two-Person Show: Richard Van Buren and Glenn Goldberg, New York, NY
  • 2004 Sideshow Gallery, Two-Person Show: Richard Van Buren and Glenn Goldberg, New York, NY
  • 2003 Sideshow Gallery, Group Show, New York, NY
  • 2002 Maine Center for Contemporary Arts, Awarded “Best in Show,” Rockport, ME
  • 2001 Lupine Festival, Eastport, ME
  • 2000 Gallery Volume, Rome, Italy
  • 1999 Parsons School of Design, “Drawing, Present Tense.” New York, NY (traveling)
  • 1999 Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
  • 1999 Illinois University, Normal, IL
  • 1999 Museum of Contemporary Art, “Afterimage: Drawing Through Process.” Los Angeles, CA
  • 1999 Stamford Center for the Arts-Rich Forum Gallery, “Off The Wall,” Stamford, CT
  • 1998 Fanelli Group Show, O.K. Harris, New York, NY
  • 1996 E.S. Vandam Gallery, Two-Person Show (Richard Van Buren and Glenn Goldberg), New York, NY
  • 1995 Museum of Fine Arts, “Degrees of Abstraction,” Boston, MA
  • 1995 Mitchell Algus Gallery, “Natural Permutations,” New York, NY
  • 1995 E.S. Vandam Gallery, “Delving and Tinkering,” (curated by Tom Butter), New York, NY
  • 1994 Pratt Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY
  • 1994 Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
  • 1993 Wyn Loving, Long Island, NY
  • 1992 Brooklyn Children’s Museum, Brooklyn, NY
  • 1991 Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
  • 1990 Philadelphia Art Alliance, Philadelphia, PA
  • 1990 Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
  • 1989 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
  • 1989 Hook Gallery, New York, NY
  • 1989 Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
  • 1988 Parsons School of Design, New York, NY
  • 1987 Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, NY
  • 1987 50 West Gallery, New York, NY
  • 1987 Art in General, “Dance Sculpture,” New York, NY
  • 1987 Leonard and Soghor Gallery, New York, NY
  • 1986 N.I.S.D.A., MA
  • 1986 Art Awareness, Lexington, NY
  • 1983 Madison Art Center, Madison, WI
  • 1983 22 Wooster Gallery, "Modernist Trends,” New York, NY
  • 1977 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
  • P.S. 1, Institute of Contemporary Art, Long Island City, NY
  • Brown University, Providence, RI
  • 1976 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
  • Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL
  • Paulo Prado Gallery, San Paulo, Brazil
  • 1975 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
  • 1974 New York Cultural Center, “Choice Dealers/Dealer Choice,” New York, NY
  • Indianapolis Museum of Art, “Painting and Sculpture Today, 1974,” Indianapolis, IN
  • Houston Museum, New Sculpture, Houston, TX
  • Paula Cooper Gallery, Spring Group Exhibition, New York, NY
  • Contemporary Art Center, “Painting and Sculpture Today, 1974,” Cincinnati, OH
  • Virginia Museum of Fine Art, “Works on Paper,” Richmond, VA
  • Paula Cooper Gallery, Autumn Group Exhibition, New York, NY
  • 1973 Paula Cooper Gallery, “Work from the Early Sixties,” New York, NY
  • The Museum of Modern Art, “Homers,” New York, NY
  • Paula Cooper Gallery, Opening Group Exhibit, New York, NY
  • Fogg Art Museum-Harvard University, New American Graphic Art,” Cambridge, MA
  • Tyler School of Art, “Work on Paper,” Philadelphia, PA
  • Contemporary Arts Center, “Options 73/30: Recent Works of Art,” Cincinnati, OH
  • 1972 Paula Cooper Gallery, Exhibition, “New York 72,” Greenwich, CT
  • Contemporary Arts Museum, “Eight,” Houston, TX
  • The Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL
  • The Art Institute of Chicago, 32nd Annual Exhibition, The Society for Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
  • The Sculpture Center, “Critics Choice,” New York, NY
  • Paula Cooper Gallery, “Small Series,” New York, NY
  • 1971 Janie C. Lee Gallery, Two-Man Show (with Dorothea Rochburne), Dallas, TX
  • The Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
  • The School of Visual Arts, “Erasable Structures,” (compiled by David Bourdon), New York, NY
  • The Katonah Gallery, Katonah, NY
  • 112 Greene Street Gallery, Group Exhibition, New York, NY
  • Paula Cooper Gallery, Changing Exhibition, New York, NY
  • Paula Cooper Gallery, Group, New York, NY
  • Windham College, Putney, VT
  • The Walker Art Center, “Works for New Spaces,” Minneapolis, MN
  • The Milwaukee Art Center; Walker Art Center, “Directions 3: Eight Artists,” Minneapolis, MN
  • The Albright-Knox Gallery, “Kid’s Stuff,” Buffalo, NY
  • The Katonah Gallery, Drawings, Katonah, NY
  • The Museum of Modern Art, “Recent Acquisitions,” New York, NY
  • 1970 Whitney Museum of American Art, “Whitney Museum Sculpture Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Sculpture 1970,” New York, NY
  • Foundation Maeght, “L’art Vivant des Etats Unis,” (compiled by Dore Ashton), France
  • The Akron Art Institute, “Drawings and Watercolors by Young Americans,” Akron, OH
  • Musee D’art Moderne, “Exhibtion des Galleris Pilotes,” (represented by Gallery Sonnabend), Paris, France
  • The Museum of Modern Art, “The Larry Aldrich Collection,” New York, NY
  • Ithaca College Museum of Art, Three-Man Show (with Linda Benglis and George Kuehn), Ithaca, NY
  • The Jewish Museum (New York, NY), Milwaukee Art Center (Milwaukee, WI), San Francisco Museum of Art (San Francisco, CA), “A Plastic Presence,” Traveling Show
  • Bennington College, Bennington, VT
  • Yale University Summer School of Music and Art, “Norfolk 70,” Norfolk, CT
  • 1969 Bykert Gallery, New York, NY
  • Paula Cooper Gallery, Drawing Show, New York, NY
  • Finch College Museum of Art, "Art in Process IV,” New York, NY
  • Art Institute of Chicago, “69th Annual Exhibition,” Chicago, IL
  • Hofstra University, “Hanging/Leaning,” Hempstead, NY
  • Yale University, “Benefit Drawing Show,” New Haven, CT
  • 1968 Whitney Museum of American Art, “Annual Sculpture Exhibition,” New York, NY
  • Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, “Highlights of the Season,” Ridgefield,, CT
  • 1967 Institute of Contemporary Art, “A Romantic Minimalism,” Philadelphia, PA
  • Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL
  • 1966 The Jewish Museum, “Primary Structures,” New York, NY
  • Galeries Pilotes Lausanne, 2nd Salon International de Artists et decouvreurs de notre temps, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • Bykert Gallery, New York, NY
  • 1965 World House Galleries, “Sculpture From All Directions,” New York, NY
  • 1964 San Francisco Museum of Art, “Bay Area Artist,” San Francisco, CA

 

Performances:

  • 1989 The Limelight, New York, NY
  • 1987 Art in General, New York, NY
  • 1986 The River Theatre, Art Awareness “Drawing Field,” Lexington, KY
  • 1984 Kamikaze, New York, NY
  • Maryland Art Institute College of Art, “Paint Movement,” Baltimore, MD
  • 1983 P.S. 122, “Up and Down,” New York, NY
  • 1982 Italian Tour
  • Tatro Spaziozero, Line Up,” Rome
  • Teatro di Porta Romana, “Air-Ways,” Milan
  • Piazza della Scala, “Outdoor Excursions,” Milan
  • 1981 Bronx Zoo, Bronx, NY
  • 1980 Studio 54, “Halloween Hanging Piece,” New York, NY
  • 1979 The University of New Mexico, “Out of the Blue,” Albuquerque, NM
  • St. Clements Theatre, “Out of the Blue,” New York, NY
  • Adelaide Festival, Adelaide, Australia
  • The Sculpture Center, Sydney, Australia
  • 1977 P.S. 1, “Air-Lines,” Long Island City, NY
  • Oberlin College, “Sweet Sensation,” Oberlin, OH
  • 1975 The School of Visual Arts, “Boticeli’s Revenge Revisited,” New York, NY
  • 1974 The Kitchen, “Boticeli’s Revenge,” New York, NY
  • 1973 112 Greene Street Gallery, New York, NY

 

Dance/Music Performances:

  • 1987 Memorial for Ronald Bladen, New York, NY
  • 1974 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
  • 1971 Emanu-El Midtown Y, New York, NY
  • 1969 Emanu-El Midtown Y, New York, NY
  • Sensory Overload Studio, New York, NY
  • 1965 “Linoleum” by Robert Rauschenberg

 

Out-Door Sculpture Commissions:

  • 2001 Grand Arts, “Spirit Mold,” Kansas City, MO
  • 1994 City of Miami, Dade College, Miami, FL
  • 1982 Piazza della Scala, Milan, Italy
  • 1981 Bronx Zoo, Bronx, NY
  • 1978 Adelaide Festival, Adelaide, Australia
  • 1974 Rice University, Houston, TX
  • 1972 Perdue University, Lafayette, IN
  • 1968 City of Denver, Denver, CO (two separate commissions)

 

Selected Bibliography:

  • Battcock, Gregory, ‘Minimal Art,’ Dutton, 1968, p.34
  • Baurdon, David, ‘LIFE Magazine,’ Article on Richard Van Buren, Eva Hess, Richard Serra, Linda Benglis, 1969
  • Golenthal, Jolence, ‘Art/Plastics Show Versatility,’ (Benglis/Van Buren Show)
  • Heinemann, Susan, ‘Art Forum,’ “Richard Van Buren,” Apr 1975, p.60
  • Hunter, Sam, ‘American Art of the 20th Century,’ Abrams Publishers, 1972, p.399
  • Johnson, Ken, 'New York Times', "Art in Review:  Richard Van Buren, June 2002
  • Kertess, Klaus,  Essay,‘Grand Arts catalog,’ “Richard Van Buren,” Kansas City, MO, 2002
  • Kertess, Klaus, Essay, "Richard Van Buren:  New Sculpture,"  New York, NY, 2011
  • Livingston, Lisa, ‘An Art Magazine,’ “An Interview with Richard Van Buren,” Nov 1975, p.15
  • Longhi,Tomassio, 'Brooklyn Rail,'  "Glen Goldberg and Richard Van Buren", April 2004
  • Modern Painters, "New York, Richard Van Buren", Feb 2012
  • Morgan, Robert C, 'World Sculpture News,'  " Sculpture in New York, The Structure Within The Form"  Winter 2012
  • Prokopoff, Stephen S., ‘Institute of Contemporary Art catalog,’ Introduction to “A Romantic Minimalism,” Philadelphia, PA, 1967
  • Ratcliff, Carter, Essay, "Richard Van Buren:  The 1970's,"  New York, NY, 2013
  • Rose, Barbara, ‘Art in America,’ “Shall We Have a Renaissance?” Mar/Apr 1967, p.30
  • Sargent-Wooster, Ann, ‘Art in America,’ “Richard Van Buren and Paula Cooper at C.U.N.Y. Graduate Center,” Sep/Oct 1975, p.102
  • Shepherd, Negraponte, ‘Drawing in the Present Tense,’ Parsons School of Design, 1999, p.80
  • Tuchman, Phillis, ‘Art Forum,’ “Richard Van Buren, David Novros, Charles Ross,” Summer 1968, p.34
  • ‘A Plastic Presence catalog,’ p.94
  • ‘Catalog Musee cantonal des Beaux-arts,’ “2nd Salon international de Galeries pilotes Lausanne, Artistes et decouvreurs de notre temps,” juin/octobre 1966, Lausanne, Switzerland
  • ‘Finch College catalog,’ “Art in Process IV,” New York, NY
  • ‘Foundation Maeght catalog,’ “Exposition l’art vivant aux Etats-Unis,” p.156
  • ‘High Times Hard Times catalog,’ 2007
  • Indianapolis Museum of Art, “Painting and Sculpture Today, 1974,” p.61
  • Madison Art Center, ‘Jones Road Print Shop and Stable catalog,’ p.31
  • ‘Milwaukee Art Center catalog,’ “Eight Artists: Linda Benglis, Sam Gilliam, Ralph Goings, Hans Haacke, Duane Hanson, Sol Le Witt, De Waine Valentine, Richard Van Buren – Exhibition Jun 19-Aug 8, 1971,” Milwaukee, WI, 1971 (FA919.801.118)
  • ‘The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts catalog,’ “The Lewis Contemporary Art Fund Collection,” p.68
  • University of Illinois, “Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture, 1967,” Urbana, IL, 1967, p.108
  • ‘Whitney Museum of American Art Exhibition-Sculpture Annual catalog,’ 1968, p.126
  • ‘Whitney Museum of American Art Sculpture Annual catalog,’ 1970, p.23
  • Yau, John, 'Brooklyn Rail,' "Interview With John Yau", Nov 2011
  • Yau, John, Hyperallergic, "After all these years:  Richard Van Buren's Work of the '70s"  2013