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1941
Born May 23 in Washington, D.C.
1963
Catholic University of America, Washington, D.C., B.A. in Art
1964-1966
Travels to Sierra Leone, West Africa, with the Peace Corps
1966-1968
Attends Swedish Royal Academy of Art, Stockholm
1969-1971
Yale University, School of Art and Architecture, New Haven, CT, M.F.A in Sculpture
1973-1977
Studio in Brooklyn, NY
1977
Completes first major outdoor sculpture commission for Artpark, Lewiston, NY
A fire in the Brooklyn studio damages and destroys many works of sculpture
1978
Moves to Chicago
1982
"Bodark Art," a major outdoor sculpture commission for the Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park, Governors State University, University Park, IL
1983
Travels to Japan on a John S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship
1989
Awarded Grand Prize at the 1989 Sao Paulo Bienal, Brazil
Receives the MacArthur Grant
1990
Leaves Chicago and moves to New York State
1992-1993
Works at the Calder Atelier, Saché, France, at the invitation of the French Government
1997
Residency at the American Academy in Rome, Italy
SOLO MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
1977
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
1980
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago,IL
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
1984
Martin Puryear: University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst;
The Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield, MA; The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York;
The La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, CA
1985
University Art Museum, Matrix Program, Berkeley, CA
1987
Martin Puryear: Public and Personal, The Chicago Public Library, IL
Martin Puryear: Sculpture & Works on Paper, Carnegie Mellon University Art Gallery, Pittsburgh
1989
The 20th International Sao Paulo Bienal, Representing the United States, Brazil (Winner of Grand Prize)
1990
Connections: Martin Puryear, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
1991-1992
Martin Puryear, Art Institute of Chicago, traveled to: Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
1993-1994
Martin Puryear, The Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, OH
1997
Martin Puryear, Fundacio La Caixa, Madrid, Spain
1997-1998
Forma Lignea, American Academy in Rome, Italy
1999
Martin Puryear: Drawing into Sculpture, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH
2000
Martin Puryear: The Cane Project, The Studio Museum in Harlem, NY
2001-2002
Martin Puryear, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond: travels to Miami Art Museum, FL;
University of California, Berkeley Art Museum; Des Moines Art Center, IA
2003-2004
Martin Puryear: New Work, Baltic, The Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, England;
traveled to Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin
2007
Martin Puryear, Museum of Modern Art, NY travels to: Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX; San Francisco Museum of Modern
Art, CA; National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C
SOLO GALLERY EXHIBITIONS
1968
Grona Palletten Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
1972
Fisk University Gallery, Nashville, TN
Henri Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1973
Henri Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1978
Protetch-McIntosh Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1979
Protetch-McIntosh Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1980
Young-Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
1981
Delahunty Gallery, Dallas, TX and/or Gallery, Seattle, WA
1982
McIntosh-Drysdale Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Young-Hoffman Gallery, Chicago
1983
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
1985
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
1987
David McKee Gallery, New York
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
1988
New Wall Sculpture, McIntosh/Drysdale Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1989
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
1995
McKee Gallery, New York
1997
Donald Young Gallery, Seattle
2002
Martin Puryear: New Sculpture, McKee Gallery, New York, second place for best show in a commercial gallery, International Association of Art Critics (AICA)
2005
Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
COMMISSIONS AND SPECIAL PROJECTS
1977
Box and Pole, Installation at Artpark, Lewiston, NY. (Temporary)
1978
Commission, Macomb Community College, Warren, MI.
1979
Equivalents, Wave Hill Environmental Center and Sculpture Gardens, The Bronx, NY. (Temporary)
1980
Proposal for Duncan Plaza, New Orleans, LA.
1981
Pavilion-in-the-Trees, Clivendon Park, Philadelphia, PA, Fairmount Park Art Association
Dedicated October 26, 1993.
1982
Bodark Arc, Nathan Manilow Sculpture Park, Governors State University, University Park, IL
Sentinel, mortared fields tone, Gettysburg College, PA.
1983
Knoll for NOAA, National Oceanographic & Atmospheric Administration, Western Regional Center, Seattle, WA.
1984
River Road Ring, Chicago O’Hare Transit Line, City of Chicago.
York College, The City University of New York, Queens.
Chevy Chase Garden Plaza, MD.
1987-1988
Ampersand, granite, commissioned by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN.
1991
Griot New York, Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York. Set and costume designs in a collaboration with Garth Fagan, Wynton Marsalis, and the Garth Fagan Dance Company.
1992
Documenta 1992, Kassel, Germany
1992-1995
North Cove Pylons, Battery Park City, NY (on Hudson River opposite Statue of Liberty).
Commission for Steven Oliver Art Center, San Francisco.
Everything that Rises, University of Washington Public Art Commission, Seattle, WA
1996
Meditation in a Beech Wood, Stiftelsen Wanas Utstalliningar, Wanas Foundation, Knislinge, Sweden.
1997
Bearing Witness, Reagan Building, Federal Triangle, Washington, D.C.
Courtyard for the New School for Social Research, New York
1999
This Mortal Coil, Eglise Salpetrière, Festival d’Automne, Paris, France. (Temporary)
1999-2000
That Profile, steel, J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, CA
2002
Guardian, stone, Mori Art Museum, Roppongi Hills, Tokyo, Japan, commission for TV Asahi
2003
Art:21 Art in the Twenty-First Century, Time, (Emmy-Nominated Series), Season Two, PBS, 9:00pm, September 15, 2003. www.pbs.org/art21, interview of Martin Puryear. 2003-04
Installed Public Art at the Mori Arts Center, Roppongi Hills in conjunction with Happiness: A Suvival Guide for Art and Life (Harmony), The Mori Art Museum, Tokyo 2004
Gyroscope series, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Discussion, Meet the Artist, “Martin Puryear,” inaugurating the 30th anniversary Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington D.C., Thursday, September 30, 2004.
MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Des Moines Art Center, IA
Dallas Museum of Art, TX
FNAC, Paris, France
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C.
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, NE
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
Milwaukee Art Museum, WI
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, TX
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Museum of American Art, Washington, D.C.
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO
Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
Seattle Art Museum, WA
Sheldon Memorial Gallery and Sculpture Garden, Lincoln, NE
The Tokyo International Forum, Japan
Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
GRANTS AND AWARDS
1962
Baltimore Museum of Art Purchase Prize, MD
1967
Scandinavian-American Foundation Study Grant
1969-1971
Yale University, grant for graduate study
1975
Creative and Performing Artists Grant, University of Maryland
1976-1977
CAPS Grant in Sculpture, New York Creative Artists Public Service Program
1977
Change, Inc., Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Grant
1977-1978
National Endowment for the Arts, Individual Artist Fellowship
Awarded studio in P.S. 1, Long Island City, New York, Institute for Art and Urban Resources
1978
Creative and Performing Artists Grant, University of Maryland
1979
Residency at Yaddo Invitational Community for Artists, Composers and Writers, Saratoga Springs, New York
1982
Louis Comfort Tiffany Grant
The John S. Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Grant
1988
The Francis J. Greenburger Foundation Award
1989
Creative Arts Awards, Brandeis University, Waltham, MA
John and Catherine MacArthur Grant
Grand Prize, Sao Paulo Bienal
1990
Skowhegan Award
1992
Elected to the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters
1993
College Art Association Award
1994
Honorary Degree, Yale University, New Haven, CT
2006
Sculpture Center Gala, honoring Martin Puryear
2007
Gold Medal for Sculpture, American A cademy of Arts and Letters, New York
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1962
Annual Exhibition, Baltimore Museum of Art, MD
Puryear, Raymond, Termini, Adams-Morgan Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1965
Group Show, U.S.I.S. Gallery, Freetown, Sierra Leone
Annual Exhibition, Swedish Academy of Art Stockholm Biennial Exhibition, Liljevalchs Konsthall, Sweden
1968
Annual Exhibition, Swedish Academy of Art, Stockholm, Sweden
1969
Group Show, Lunn Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1971
Prints and Paintings by Black Artists, University of Wisconsin, Madison
1974
New Talent at Maryland, University of Maryland, College Park
1974-1978
Artist's work on exhibition at the National Collection of Fine Arts, Washington, D.C.
1977
The Material Dominant, Pennsylvania State University, University Park
1978
Young American Artists, Exxon National Exhibition, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
The Presence of Nature, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1979
Art and Architecture, Space and Structure, Protetch McIntosh Gallery, Washington, D.C.
1979 Whitney Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Custom and Culture, organized by Creative Time at the U.S. Customs House, Bowling Green, New York
Wave Hill: The Artist’s View, Independence Avenue, Bronx, NY
1980
Black Circle, Montgomery Ward Gallery, University of Illinois, Chicago
Chicago, Chicago, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH
Afro-American Abstraction, P.S.1, Long Island City, NY
1981
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City Sculpture, The Chicago Public Library Cultural Center
Instruction Drawings, Cranbrook Academy, Bloomfield Hills, MI
Artists' Parks and Gardens, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
1981-1982
The New Spiritualism: Transcendent Images in Painting and Sculpture,: traveled to Oscarsson Hood Gallery, New York; Jorgensen Gallery, University of Connecticut; Robert Hull Fleming Museum, University of Vermont
1982
Works in Wood, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
Invitational Exhibition, Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI
Form and Function: Proposals for Public Art in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art,Philadelphia
N.A.M.E. Gallery in Pittsburgh, Hewlett Gallery, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh
The 74th American Exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago
American Abstraction Now, The Virginia Museum of Art, Richmond
1983
Five Artists / NOAA Collaboration, Seattle Art Museum Pavilion Invitational Exhibition, Grace Borgenicht Gallery, New York
Beyond the Monument, Documentation of Public Art Projects and Proposals, Hayden Corridor Gallery, MIT, Cambridge, MA
1982-1984
Afro-American Abstraction, Art Museum Association: traveled to P.S. 1, Long Island City, NY; Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery; The Oakland Museum, CA; Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis, TN; The Art Center, South Bend, IA; The Toledo Museum of Art, OH; Bellevue Art Museum, WA; Laguna Gloria Art Museum, Austin, TX
1984
An International Survey of Recent Painting and Sculpture, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
American Sculpture, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
Collaborating: The Power of the Artist and Architect Co-Designing Parks, Plazas, Public Places from New York to Seattle, McIntosh-DrysdaleGallery, Houston, TX
Proposals and Projects: World Fairs, Waterfronts, Parks and Plazas, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
American Sculpture, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Primitivism in 20th Century Art: Affinity of the Tribal and Modern,
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Transformation of the Minimal Style, The Sculpture Center, NY
1985
Chicago Sculpture International / MILE 4,State Street Mall, IL
Sculpture Overview 1985, Evanston Art Center, IL
Basically Wood, Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA
Choosing: An Exhibit of Changing Perspectives in Modern Art and Art Criticism by Black Americans, 1925-1985: traveled to Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago; Chicago State University, Chicago; Portsmouth Museum, Portsmouth, VA; Howard University, Washington, D.C.
The Artist as Social Designer, Aspects of Public Urban Art Today, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA
Black Creativity, Generations in Transition: 80 Years of Black American Expression, Museum of Science and Industry, Chicago, IL
Anniottanta, Invitational, Galleria d`Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy
Transformations in Sculpture: Four Decades in American and European Art, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Artists and Architects, Challenges in Collaboration Inaugural Exhibition, Tyler Gallery, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA
1986
After Nature, Germans Van Eck Gallery, New York (curated by Steven H. Madoff)
Sculpture on Stetson: 1986, Chicago, IL
Three Artists / Three Visions, Charlotte Crosby Kempner Gallery, Kansas City Art Institute, MO
Installations and Sculpture, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
Natural Forms and Forces: Abstract Images in American Sculpture, Hayden Gallery, List Visual Arts Center, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Bank of Boston
Individuals: A Selected History of Contemporary Art, 1945-1986, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art
1987
Structure to Resemblance: Work by Eight American Sculptors, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Fifty Years of Collecting: An Anniversary Selection of Sculpture of the Modern Era, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Emerging Artists 1978-1986: Selection from the Exxon Series, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
1988
From the Southern Cross: A View of World Art c. 1940-1988, 1988 Australian Biennale,
Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney
Private Works for Public Spaces: Drawings, Maquettes and Documentation for Unrealized
Public Artworks, R.C. Erpf Gallery, New York
Spectrum: Mary Beth Edelson, Martin Puryear, Italo Scanga, Robert Stackhouse,
Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
The World of Art Today, Milwaukee Art Museum, WI
Innovations in Sculpture, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
SKULPTUR Material + Abstraktion: 2 x 5 Positionen, Aargauer Kunsthaus Aarau; Museé Cantonal des Beaux-Art,Lausanne,Switzerland
Enclosing the Void, Whitney Museum of American Art at Equitable Center, New York November 11, 1998 – January 25, 1989
New Sculpture/Six Artists, Saint Louis Art Museum, MO
Vital Signs: Organic Abstraction from the Permanent Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
The Brooklyn Museum, New York (Installation of 2 large pieces in lobby)
Sculpture Inside Out, Walker Art Center, MN (traveling exhibition, cover illustration)
1989
Sculpture, Material and Abstraction, Swiss Institute & City Gallery, New York January 5 – Frebruary 10
Art in Place: 15 Years of Acquisitions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Traditions in Transformation - Contemporary Afro-American Artists, Bronx Museum, New York, February 27 – May 27
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Introspectives: Contemporary Art by American and Brazilians of African Descent, The California Afro-American Museum, Los Angeles
New Sculpture: Tony Cragg, Richard Deacon, Martin Puryear, Susana Solano, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, IL
1990
Objects of Potential: Five American Sculptors from the Anderson Collection, Wiegand Gallery, College of Notre Dame, Belmont, CA
The Decade Show, The Studio Museum in Harlem, New York
Selected Artists from the First 20 Years, Max Protetch Gallery, New York
Black USA, Museum Overholland, Amsterdam, Holland
1991
Small Scale Sculpture, Sewell Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, TX
Reprise: The Vera List Collection, David Winton Bell Gallery, List Art Center, Brown University, Providence, RI
1991-1992
Devil on the Stairs: Looking Back at the Eighties, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA; Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA
1992
Allegories of Modernism: Contemporary Drawing, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Process to Presence: Issues in Sculpture 1960 to 1990, in conjunction with the 14th International Sculpture Conference, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
Donald Young Gallery, Seattle, WA
1993
Collective Pursuits: Mount. Holyoke Investigates Modernism, Mount Holyoke College Art Museum, South Hadley, MA
Yale Collects Yale, New Haven, CT
American Art in the 20th Century: Painting and Sculpture, Martin Gropius Bau, Berlin: traveled to the Royal Academy of Art, London
Drawing the Line Against Aids, 45th Venice Biennale at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection
1993-1994
Visual Arts Encounter: African Americans and Europe, Salle Clemenceau, Palais du Luxembourg, Paris, France
1994
Western Artists / African Art, The Museum for African Art, New York
Landscape as Metaphor: Visions of America in the Late Twentieth Century, The Denver Art Museum, CO; Columbus Museum, OH
Putting Things Together: Recent Sculpture from the Anderson Collection, The Art
Museum of Santa Cruz County, Santa Cruz, CA
Donald Young Gallery, Seattle, WA
1995-1996
The Material Imagination, Guggenheim Museum SoHo, New York
1995
Twentieth Century American Scultpure at The White House, First Ladies’ Garden, The White House, Washington, D.C.
1996
Abstraction in the Twentieth Century: Total Risk, Freedom, Discipline, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, curated by Mark Rosenthal
1997
A Century of Sculpture: The Nasher Collection, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, curated by Carmen Gimenez
American Stories: Amidst Displacement and Transformation, Setagaya Art Museum, Japan: traveled to Chiba City Museum of Art; Fukui Fine Arts Museum; Kurashiki City Art Museum; Akita Prefectural Integrated Life Cultural Hall
1998
The Edward R. Broida Collection, Orlando Museum of Art, FL
1999
The American Century Art & Culture 1900-2000, Part II, 1950-2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2000
NEW works, McKee Gallery, New York
2000-2001
Celebrating Modern Art: The Anderson Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA
2001
Draughtsman’s Colors, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2001-2002
New to the Modern: Recent Acquisitions from the Department of Drawings, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
2002
Gifts in Honor of the 125th Anniversary of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA
2002-2003
110 Years: The Permanent Collection of the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
2003
New Prints, Berthot, Celmins, Puryear, McKee Gallery, New York
Drawings, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago
2003-2004
Breathless, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, State University of New York
2004
Contemporary Art and Furniture Design in Dialogue, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York
Love/Hate: From Magritte to Cattelan, Masterpieces from the Collection of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Villa Manin, Italy
2005
Sculpture: An Intuitive View, McKee Gallery, New York
2006
Against the Grain: Contemporary Art from the Edward R. Broida Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Selections from the Collection of Edward R. Broida, National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.
PUBLICATIONS AND MAJOR CATALOGUES
Martin Puryear, Hugh M. Davies and Helaine Posner, published by the University Gallery, University of
Massachusetts at Amherst, 1984.
Martin Puryear: Public and Personal, with essays by Patricia Fuller and Judith Russi Kirshner, published by the
Chicago Office of Fine Arts, in conjunction with The Chicago Public Library Cultural Center exhibition, 1987.
Martin Puryear, Kellie Jones and Robert Storr, Catalogue for the USA Presentation to the 20th
International Sao Paulo Bienal, Published by the Jamaica Arts Center, Jamaica, NY, 1989.
Martin Puryear, with essays by Neal Benezra and Robert Storr, Co-published by The Art Institute of
Chicago and Thames and Hudson, New York, 1991.
Art Since Mid-Century: 1945 to the Present, Daniel Wheeler, Published by The Vendome Press,
New York, 1991.
Art Since 1940: Strategies of Being, Jonathan Fineberg, Published by Prentice Hall, New Jersey, 1995.
Movements in art since 1945: Issues and Concepts, Edward Lucie-Smith, Thames and Hudson, 1995.
Art of the Postmodern Era: From the Late 1960s to the Early 1990s, Irving Sandler, HarperCollins
Publishers, 1996.
American Visions, The Epic History of Art in America, Robert Hughes, Alfred A. Knopf, Inc., 1997.
Martin Puryear, with essays by Enrique Juncosa and Michael Brenson, published by Fundacion "la Caixa",
Madrid, 1997.
African-American Art, Sharon F. Patton, Published by Oxford University Press, New York, 1998.
History of Modern Art, H.H. Arnason, edited by Marla F. Prather, Fourth Edition Harry Abrams,
New York, 1998.
Criticizing Art: Understanding the Contemporary, Terry Barrett, 2nd Edition, Mayfield Publishing
Company, 2000.
Treasure from the Art Institute of Chicago, Hudson Hills Press, New York, 2000.
Cane, Jean Toomer, a special edition, The Arion Press, 2000.
Celebrating Modern Art: Highlights of the Anderson Collection, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, printed and bound by Mondadori printing, Italy, 2000.
Tradition in Contemporary Furniture, Edited by Rick Mastelli and John Kelsey, The Furniture Society, Cambium Press, Bethel, Connecticut, 2001.
Martin Puryear, Margo A. Crutchfield, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, March 2001.
Whitney, American Visionaries: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art, Introduction by Maxwell L. Anderson, Distributed by Harry N. Abrams, Inc., New York, 2001. 336 pages, 400 illustrations, 335 in color. Illustrated in color, page 247.
Gifts in Honor of the 125th Anniversary of the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art, PA, organized by Alice Beamesderfer, produced by Department of Publishing, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 2002.
Michael Auping, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth 110, III Third Millennium Publishing Limited, London, 2002.
art:21, Art in the Twenty-First Century, New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc., 2003.
The Sculptural Idea, James J. Kelly, Fourth Edition, Waveland Press, Inc., Long Grove, Illinois, 2004.
"Martin Puryear in Conversation with Michael Auping," At the Modern, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Calendar, Spring 2004.
Sculpture from the Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, edited by Karen O. Janovy, University of Nebraska Press, 2005, pages 239-241.
Against the Grain: Contemporary Art from the Edward R. Broida Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2006.
TEACHING POSITIONS
1964-66
Secondary school teacher of English, French, Biology and Art, Sierra Leone, West Africa
1969-71
Assistant in Instruction, Yale University, New Haven, CT
1971-73
Assistant Professor, Department of Art, Fisk University, Nashville, TN
1973-77
Assistant Professor, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
1978-87
Professor, Department of Art, University of Illinois, Chicago
REVIEWS AND ARTICLES
David Bourdon, "Martin Puryear at Henri 2," Art in America, January - February, 1974.
Paul Richard, "A Shrine of Cedar and Hide," The Washington Post, July 10, 1977.
Eileen Tahlenberg, "Site Work: Some Sculpture at Art Park," Artscanada, October - November 1977.
Nancy Tobin, "Bordering on the Surreal," ARTnews, November 1977.
Benjamin Forgey, "Draftsmanship and Woodsmanship," ARTnews, January 1978
David Tannous, "Martin Puryear at the Corcoran," Art in America, May - June 1978.
David Tannous, "Those Who Stay," Art in America, July 1978.
Martha McWilliams Wright, "Washington Letter," Art International, October 1978.
Mary Swift and Clarissa Wittenberg, "An Interview with Martin Puryear," The Washington
Review of the Arts, October - November 1978.
William Zimmer, "Art for the Me Decade," The SoHo Weekly News, March 1, 1979.
Grace Glueck, "Artists of the Customs House, The New York Times, May 4, 1979.
Wade Saunders, "Art Inc.: The Whitney's 1979 Biennale," Art in America, May - June 1979.
John Ashbery, "The Sculptures of Summer," New York Magazine, July 23, 1979.
April Kingsley, "The Shapes Arise," Village Voice, July 30, 1979.
Judd Tully, "On Custom and Culture," Skyline, Summer 1979.
Jonathon Crary, "Martin Puryear's Sculpture," ARTFORUM, October 1979.
Benjamin Forgey, "Puryear's Circles: Subtle, Brooding Presence," The Washington Star,
December 7, 1979.
Alan Artner, "Martin Puryear, Museum of Contemporary Art," Chicago Tribune, February 22, 1980.
JoAnn Lewis, "Washington D.C.," ARTnews, March 1980.
Carrie Rickey, "Singular Work, Double Bind, Triple Threat," Village Voice, March 3, 1980.
John Russell, "Abstractions from Afro-America," The New York Times, March 14,1980.
Franz Schulze, "Puryear Works: Elegant Simplicity," Chicago Sun Times, May 18, 1980.
Buzz Spector, "Martin Puryear," New Art Examiner, April 1980.
Roger Catlin, "Joslyn Opens Small Show," Sunday World Herald Magazine (Omaha), August 24, 1980.
Franz Schulze, "115 American Artists Expected at Whitney," Chicago Sun Times, March 8, 1981.
Judd Tully, "Chicago Art Scene," Flash Art, Summer 1981.
Matthew Kangas, "Martin Puryear, and / or Gallery, Seattle," Vanguard, September 1981.
Michael Bonesteel, "Summer Solstice for Chicago Art," New Art Examiner, October 1981.
Heidi Weiss, "City Sculpture," New Art Examiner, October 1981.
Jeffrey Edelstein and Lynne Warren, "Artworld Chicago, 1981," Images and Issues, Winter 1981-1982.
Benjamin Forgey, "Craft Comes Full Circle to Art," The Washington Post, February 25, 1982.
Lee Fleming, "Martin Puryear, McIntosh-Drysdale Gallery," The Washington Review, April - May 1982.
Ed Colker, "Present Concerns in Studio Teaching: Artists Statements," Art Journal, Spring 1982.
April Kingsley, "Art Park and the Leisure Landscape," Art Express, May - June 1982.
"Public Art," Art Express, May - June 1982.
Grace Glueck, "Serving the Environment," The New York Times, June 27, 1982.
Franz Schulze, "It's All in a Matter of Course with New MCA Gift Wrapping," Chicago Sun Times,
June 27, 1982.
Christopher Knight,"Afro-American Abstraction: More Abstract than African,"Los Angeles
Herald Examiner, July 14, 1982.
John Ashbery, "Visions of the Olympics," Newsweek, January 24, 1983.
Henry Hanson, "Puryear's Poster," Chicago Magazine, July 1983.
Suzanne Muchnic, "Olympic Posters: A Celebration of Creativity," Los Angeles Times, July 24, 1983.
Laura Holland, "Martin Puryear: Sculpture, Berkshire Museum, Pittsfield," New Art Examiner, May 1984.
E.R. Shipp, "Art for Those On the Go in Chicago," The New York Times, June 16, 1984.
Christine Temin, "Puryear's 'Primitive Sophistication'," The Boston Globe, July 7, 1984.
Kenneth Baker, "Journal of the Puryear," The Boston Phoenix, July 10, 1984.
Michael Brenson, "Sculpture: Puryear Postminimalism," The New York Times, August 10, 1984.
Dore Ashton, "Pandemonium of MOMA," Arts Magazine, September 1984.
Roberta Smith, "Around Town," Village Voice, September 4, 1984.
Roberta Smith, "A Primitive Look at the Modern," Village Voice, October 2, 1984.
Isabelle Wasserman, "Puryear Sculpture Exhibit Will Open," The San Diego Union, October 7, 1984.
Randy Opincar, "The Puryear Exhibition," Reader (San Diego) vol. 13, no.40, 1984.
Mark Arner, "Curiosity Bout Making Things Spurs Artist," The Blade Tribune, October 18, 1984.
Lynette Thwaites, "Art Reveals the Craft of Nature," La Jolla Light, October 18, 1984.
Jeff Kelly, "Puryear's Sculpture Casts a Spell," Los Angeles Times, October 29, 1984.
Alan Artner, "New York's ‘Primitive’ Show a Modern Masterpiece," Chicago Tribune, November 4, 1984.
David Lewinson, "Two Artists Vividly Combined: Painter, Sculptor Show Well Together,"
The San Deigo Union, November 4, 1984.
Robert Pincus, "A Transformer of Minimalism," Los Angeles Times, November 5, 1984.
Marla Hellman," LMJCA & Puryear: What a Combination," The UCSD Guardian, vol. 53, no.16.
November 8, 1984.
Michael Brenson, "Sculptors Find New Ways to Work with Wood," The New York Times,
December 2, 1984.
Jeanne Silverthorne, "Martin Puryear," ARTFORUM, December 1984.
Suzanne Muchnic, "The Abstract Shapes of Familiar Mysteries," Los Angeles Times, January 15, 1985.
S. Luecking, "Monumental Sculpture: Speaking the Language of Wood," Fine Woodworking,
January - February 1985.
Cynthia Nadelman, "Broken Premises:...," ARTnews, February 1985.
Michael Brenson, "Art: The Human Form in Work of 12 Sculptors," The New York Times,
February 1, 1985.
Neal Menzies, "Unembellished Strength of Form," ArtWeek, February 2, 1985.
Guy Trebay, "Museum pieces," Village Voice, February 1985.
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