Lynda Benglis — Biography



1941 Born in Lake Charles, LA
Education: Bachelor of Fine Arts, Newcomb College, 1964

 

Education

1964 -- Bachelor of Fine Arts, Newcomb College

Solo Exhibitions

2000 Toomey-Tourell Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000 "A Decade of Ideas," Bryan Ohno Gallery, Seattle, WA
2000 Meadows Museum, Shreveport, GA (Curated by Michael Klein)
2000 Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro
1999 Cheim & Read Gallery, NY
1999 Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, MY
1999 "Small Works," Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA
1998 "Dynamic Silhouette," Kappatos Gallery, Athens, Greece
1998 "Recent Sculpture and screening of 1973 video: Female Sensibility," Cheim & Read Gallery, NY
1998 "Chimera: Ceramic Sculpture," Traveling: Forum Kunst Rottweil, Rottweil, Germany; Galerie Six, Friedrich Lisa Unger, Munich, Germany; Charim Klocker Gallery,          Vienna, Austria
1997 "Hidden Agenda," Contemporary Art Gallery, Ahmedabad, India
1997 Michael Janssen, Cologne, Germany
1997 "Glass," Fred Dorfman Gallery, New York, NY
1997 "Selected Wall Reliefs," Elizabeth Mayer Fine Art, New York, NY
1996 "New Monotypes: Landscapes and Fetishes," Quartet Editions, New York, NY
1996 Porter Troupe Gallery, San Diego, CA
1995 "Linda Benglis in conjunction with Chimera: Recent Ceramic Sculpture,"
        Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, MI
1995 "Recent Wall and Glass Sculpture," Heath Gallery, Atlanta
1995 Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI
1995 Galerie Simone Stern, New Orleans, LA
1994 "Chimera: Recent Ceramic Sculpture," Traveling: The Harwood Foundation Museum, Taos, NM
        Boulder Museum of Art, Boulder, CO
        Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills MI;
        University Art Gallery, New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, NM
1994 "Wax Paintings," Heath Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1994 "Wax Paintings," Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
1993 Gow-Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
1993 "From the Furnace," Auckland City Art Center, Auckland, New Zealand
1993 "Ceramic Sculpture," Travelli Gallery, Aspen, CO
1993 "Clothed and Unclothed: Recent Sculpture," Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL
1992 Heath Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1991 Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1991 "Recent Work," Heath Gallery, Atlanta, GA
1991 "New works, Tilden Foley Gallery, New Orleans
1991 "Dual Natures," Traveling: The High Museum of Art; Atlanta Contemporary Arts Center; New Orleans Museum of Art; San Jose Museum of Art
1990 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY
1990 Sena Galleries West, Santa Fe. NM
1990 Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA
1990 Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL

Group Exhibitions

2000 "Summerstage," Charim Klocker Gallery, Saltzburg, Germany
2000 "The Persistence of Memory," Nature Morte Gallery, New Dehli, India
1999 "Neuberger Museum of Art Biennial Exhibition," Neuberger Museum, Purchase, NY
1999 "Afterimage: Drawing through Process, Film & Video program, Museum of Contemporary Art, Queens, NY
1999 "Off the Wall: 8 Contemporary American Sculptors," Asheville Art Museum, Asheville, NC
1998 "Male Female-for instance Picasso, Newton, Yoko Ono and ..." Centro Internazionale Mostre, Rome
1998 "MAI 98-Positions in Contemporary Art Since the 60's," Kunsthalle, Cologne, Germany
1997 "After the Fall: Aspects of Abstract Painting since 1970," Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY
1997 "Plastik," Wurttembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany
1997 "Laying Low," Kunsternes Hus, Oslo, Norway
1995 "Femininmasculin: le Sexe Dans l'Art" Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France
   
Recent Awards and Honors:

2000 Honorary Doctorate, Kansas City Art Institute
1999 National Endowment for the Arts
1998 National Council of Art Administration
1988 Olympiad of Art Sculpture Park, Korea

Awards:
        
1990    National Endowment for the Arts
1989    National Council of Art Administration
1988    Olympiad of Art Sculpture Park, Korea
1988    Delphi Art Symposium
1988    Minos Beach Art Symposium
1979    National Endowment for the Arts Grant
1976    Australian Art Council Award
1976    Artpark Grant
1975    Guggenheim Fellowship
1965    Max Beckman Scholarship, The Brooklyn Museum
1963    Yale-Norfolk Scholarship

Public Collections

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Rokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY