| 1929 | born in Seattle, Washington
lives and works in Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
Education | |
| 1949 | University of Washington, Seattle, WA |
| 1953 | New School for Social Research, New York |
Solo Exhibitions (selected) | |
| 2010 | "Jo Bear", Galerie Barbara Thumm, Berlin, Germany |
| 2007 | "Jo Bear", Alexander Gray Associates, New York, NY |
| 2002 | "Jo Baer: The Minimalist Years 1960−1975", Dia Center for the Arts, New York |
| 2001 | "Flush", Paul Andriesse Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
"Paintings", Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1999 | Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Paul Andriesse Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 1995 | Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1993 | Paley/Levy Gallery, Moore College, Philadelphia, PA
Rijksmuseum Kröller−Müller, Otterloo, The Netherlands |
| 1990 | Paul Andriesse Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 1989 | Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL |
| 1988 | Paul Andriesse Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 1986 | "Paintings from the past decade1975−1985", Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum,Eindhoven, The Netherlands |
| 1980 | Lisson Gallery, London, United Kingdom |
| 1978 | Scottish Arts Council Gallery, Edinburgh, Scotland
The Douglas Hyde Gallery, Trinity College, Dublin, Ireland Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Schilderijen Oliver Dowling Gallery, Dublin, Ireland Galerie Ricke, Köln, Germany |
| 1977 | Lisson Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Max Protetch Gallery, Washington, DC Paintings 1962−1975, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, United Kingdom |
| 1975 | Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, NY
Texas Gallery, Houston, TX |
| 1974 | Toselli Gallery, Milan, Italy
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
| 1973 | Galerie Ricke, K&omul;ln, Germany
Nicholas Wilder Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
| 1972 | Lo Guidice Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1971 | "Paintings from 62−63", School of Visual Art, New York, NY |
| 1970 | Noah Goldowsky Gallery, New York, NY
Galerie Ricke, K&omul;ln, Germany Locksley−Shea Gallery, Minneapolis, MN |
| 1968 | Galerie Ricke, K&omul;&omul;ln, Germany |
| 1966 | Fischbach Gallery, New York, NY |
Group Exhibitions (selected) | |
| 2011 | "All About Drawing. 100 Dutch Artists", Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, Niederlande |
| 2009 | "Jo Baer − Lynda Benglis − Jutta Koether", Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven
"Compass in Hand: Selections from the Judith Rothschild Collection ...", Museum of Modern Art, New York |
| 2008/09 | "GREAT WOMEN ARTISTS", Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase |
| 2008 | "Frances Stark / Dave Allen / Jo Baer", Wiener Secession, Wien
"High Times, Hard Times, Neue Galerie, Graz |
| 2007/08 | "Lust for Life", Die Sammlung Ricke Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz |
| 2007 | Art Protects Yvon Lambert − Paris
"Before and After Minimalism", Fundacion Juan March, Palma de Mallorca "Das Kapital", MMK Frankfurt "High Times, Hard Times", National Academy Museum, New York |
| 2006 | "Selected Recent Acquisitions + The Van Deventer Bequest", Kroller−Muller Museum, Otterloo, The Netherlands
"Some Painting", Paul Andriesse Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands "America/Americas: Modern and Contemporary Art of the Americas", Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin, TX "Postwar Directions: Abstract Expressionism to Minimalism", Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA "High Times, Hard Times: New York Painting 1967–1975", Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, American University Museum, Katzen Arts Center, Washington DC, National Academy Museum, New York "Plane/Figure: Amerikanische Kunst aus Schweizer Sammlungen“, Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland "Elemental Form", L&M Arts, New York, NY |
| 2005 | "New Prints 2005/Winter", International Print Center, New York, NY
"Logical Conclusions: 40 years of Rule−Based Art", PaceWildensteinGallery, New York, NY "Drawing from the Modern, 1945–1975", Museum of Modern Art, New York "Beyond Geography Americas Society, New York 2Black and White and a Little Bit of Color", Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem "Some Painting", Paul Andriesse Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands "Wilder: A Tribute to the Nicholas Wilder Gallery", Los Angeles, 1965–1979, Franklin Parish Gallery and Joan T. Washburn Gallery, New York, NY "50 Jahre/Years Documenta: 1955–2005", Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany |
| 2004 | "A Minimalist Future? Art as Object 1958–1968", Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
"Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form 1940s−70s", Los Angeles CountyMuseum,Los Angeles, CA Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL "Sammlung DaimlerChrysler", Berlin, Germany "The Big Nothing", Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA "Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated)", Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY "Specific Objects: the Minimalist Influence", Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA "Editions/Artists’ Book Fair ’04", New York, NY "SUPPORT 2 − Die Neue Galerie als Sammlung", Neue Galerie, Graz |
| 2003 | "SUPPORT 1 − Die Neue Galerie als Sammlung", Neue Galerie, Graz
"The Summer of 2003", Paul Andriesse Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands "Selections from the Lewitt Collection", New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, CT "Primary Matters: the Minimalist Sensibility, 1959 to the Present", San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Franciso, CA "Group Show", Margarete Roeder Gallery, New York, NY |
| 2002 | "Cycle Peinture: Trois Regards", Les Filles du Calvaire, Brussels, Belgium
Art Basel, Hal 2.1, Stand K4, Paul Andriesse Gallery, "Fall Show", Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY "Paintings from the 60’s", Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY "Raum für Malerie, The Painting Room", Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany "Geometric Abstraction", Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington |
| 2001/02 | "SITE Santa Fe Biennial 2001", SITE Santa Fe |
| 2001 | "Von Edgar Degas−bis Gerhard Richter", Nationlgalerie Prague, Palais Kinsky, Prague, Czech Republic
"Rupertinum", Museum für Moderne und Zeitgenössiche Kunst, Salzburg, Austria Westfälisches Landsmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Münster, Germany Neues Museum, Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design, Nürnberg, Germany Art Basel, Hal 2.1, Stand K4, Paul Andriesse Gallery, Basel "Beau Monde:Toward a Redeemed Cosmopolitanism", Site Sante Fe, Sante Fe, NM "Jo Baer", Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA "Unbreakable", Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 2000 | "Drawing is Another Kind of Language", Connecticut College, New London, CT
"Contemporary American Drawings from the Sarah−Ann & Werner H.",Kramarsky Collection, Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX Mary and Leigh Block Museum, Evanston, IL The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, HA "50 Masterworks from the Post−War Period", Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, TX "Body of Painting", Museum Ludwig, Cologne "Poésie, Love, Sneeuwwitje, Pfft...“, Museum voor Moderne Kunst, Arnhem, The Netherlands "Peinture: trois regards", Les Filles du Calvaire,Paris "Von Edgar Degas bis Gerhard Richter", Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland |
| 1999 | "Editions", Paul Andriesse Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
"Decades in Dialogue: Perspectives on the MCA Collection", Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL "Drawings from the 1960s", Curt Marcus Gallery, New York, NY "The American Century: Art and Culture 1900–2000", Whitney Museum, New York, NY "The Virginia and Bagley Wright Collection of Modern Art", Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA "Der Künstler als Kurator; Günter Umberg,Galerie Nacht St. Stephan", Vienna, Austria |
| 1998 | Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland
Kunstmuseum Ahlen, Germany Berlin Akademie der Kunst, Germany Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY "Kunstmuseum Winterthur: Die Sammlung", Winterthur, Switzerland "Envisioning the Contemporary: Selections from the Permanent Collection", Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL "Women Artists in the Vogel Collection", Brenau University Galleries, Gainesville, GA "Group Show", Museum Dhondt−Dhaenens, Deurle, Belgium "Dangleberry", Bill’s Studio, Amsterdam, The Netherlands "Winter Installation", Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1997 | "After the Fall, Abstract Painting Since 1970", Snug Harbor, New York, NY
"The Pursuit of Painting", Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland "Selections from the Lannan Foundation Gift", Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA "Noch Nicht und/oder Selten Gezeigtes aus der Sammlung", KunstmueumWinterthur, Switzerland "Drawing is Another Way of Thinking: Contemporary Drawings from anAmerican Collection", Fogg Art Museum, Cambridge, MA |
| 1996 | "Indem man schaut, erkennt man", Galerie Rolf Ricke, Cologne, Germany
"Max’s Kansas City’s 30th Anniversary Reunion“, 65 Thompson St. Gallery, New York, NY "Bare Bones", TZ Art & Co. Gallery, New York, NY "Abstraction, Pure and Impure", Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY |
| 1995 | "Caro Dame", Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland |
| 1994 | "From Minimal to Conceptual Art", National Gallery of Art, Washington DC |
| 1993 | "Supervision", Räme für neue Kunst−Rolf Hengesbach, Wuppertal
Aanwinsten, (Acquisitions: works on paper obtained in the past 3 years),Rijksmuseum Kröller−Müller, Otterlo, The Netherlands |
| 1992 | Aus der Sammlung des Kaiser Wilhelm Museums, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany |
| 1991 | "Bezit/Bezet", Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst, ‘s−Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands
"The Picture After the Last Picture", Galerie Metropole, Vienna, Austria Museum voor Hedendaagse Kunst‘s−Hertogenbosch, The Netherlands Q, Galerie de Expeditie, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 1989 | "Abstraction. Geometry. Painting. Selected Geometric Abstract Painting in America Since 1945", Albright–Knox Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT "Kunstrai", Paul Andriesse, Amsterdam, The Netherlands "Vijf Jaar Aanwinsten Hedendaagse Kunst", Gemeentemuseum Arnhem,Arnhem, The Netherlands "20 Years", Rolf Ricke Collects, Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany "20 Years Anniversary", Max Protetch Gallery, New York, NY "Post−World War II Art from the Collection", Museum of Modern Art, New York "Künstlerinnen des 20 Jahrhunderts", Museum Wiesbaden, Wiesbaden, Germany |
| 1988 | "Collection Next−the−Sea", Haags Gemeente Museums Gravenhage, The Netherlands
"XXth Anniversary Exhibition", Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY "La Couleur Seule", Musee St.Pierre, Lyon, France "Tekeningen/Drawings", Paul Andriesse Gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands |
| 1987 | "Generations of Geometry. Abstract Painting in America Since 1930", Whitney Museum at Equitable Center, New York, NY
"R.B.K. Aankopen’86", Princenhof, Delft, The Netherlands |
| 1986 | "The Window in 20th Century Art, Neuberger Museum, State University of Purchase, NY
"Linda Shearer Selects from the Collection“, Museum of Modern Art, New York |
| 1985 | Art Galaxy, New York, NY |
| 1984 | "The British Art Show", City Museum and Ikon Gallery, Birmingham,United
Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, Scotland Mappin Art Gallery, Sheffield, United Kingdom Art Gallery, Southampton, NY "Ouverture", Castello di Rivole, Torino, Italy Oliver Dowling Gallery, Dublin, Ireland |
| 1983 | "American Painting, 1960 to 1969", P.S, 1, Long Island City, NY
"White Columns Benefit (in collaboration with Bruce Robbins)", White Columns |
| 1982 | Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY
Lisson Gallery, London, United Kingdom Riverside Studios, London, United Kingdom "Nicht Bilder ist Verboten", Städtische Kunsthalle, Düsseldorf, Germany "New York/London" (in collaboration with Bruce Robbins), Lisson Gallery, London, United Kingdom "Contemporary paintings and Sculpture II", Oil and Steel, New York, NY |
| 1981 | "Art from the 1960’s", Galerie Ricke, Cologne, Germany
"No Title", Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT "Through the Summer" (in collaboration with Bruce Robbins), Lisson Gallery, London, United Kingdom "Opening Show", Oil and Steel Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1980 | 112 Workshop, New York, NY
Galerie Ricke, Cologne, Germany Oliver Dowling Gallery, Dublin, Ireland |
| 1979 | "American Painting of the 1970’s", Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Harbor, CA The Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX Krammert Art Museum, Champaign, IL "Generation: 20 Abstract Painters Born in the United States Between 1929", Susan Caldwell Gallery, New York, NY "The Minimal Tradition", The Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT John Weber Gallery, New York, NY "The Reductive Object-Survey of the Minimal Aesthetic in the 1960’s",Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA |
| 1978 | "Two Decades of American Printmaking", Worcester Art Museum, MA
Lisson Gallery, London, United Kingdom |
| 1977 | "American Art `45–`75 Works On Paper", Tacoma Art Museum. Tacoma, WA
"Alternatives", Susan Caldwell Gallery, New York, NY "Less is More", Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY "American Post–War Painting", Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY "Jo Baer 10 Downtown: 10 Years at P.S. 1", Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, NY "A View of a Decade", Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL "Prints in Series", Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY Michael Berger Gallery, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania "American Art since 1945, From MOMA, New York", Virginia Museum,Richmond, VA "Radical Attitudes to the Gallery", Art Net, London, United Kingdom |
| 1976 | "American Artists: A New Decade", Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX
Detroit Art Institute, Detroit, MI Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI |
| 1975 | Lisson Gallery, London, United Kingdom
"14 Artists", Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD "Hand Coloured Prints", Brooke Alexander Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1974 | "5 Artists; A Logic of Vision", Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
"Painting Exhibition", Scottish Arts Council, Edinburgh, Scotland |
| 1973 | "Options and Alternatives", Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
"Arte come Arte", Centro Communitario di Brero, Milan, Italy "Recent Acquisitions", Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Whitney Biennial 1973, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY |
| 1972 | "Art for McGovern", 470 Parker Street Gallery, Boston, MA |
| 1971 | "Drawings", Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
"Group Show", Noak Goldowsky, New York, NY |
| 1970 | "1900–1970: Tenth Anniversary Selection", Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY |
| 1969 | „Ars 69“, Museum Athenaum, Helsinki, Finland
"31st Biennial", Corcoran Museum, Washington DC "Artists in the Sixties", Seattle Art Museum, Seattle, WA "Other Ideas", Detroit Art Institute, Detroit, MI "Eine Tendenz Zeitgenössischer Malerei", Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne, Germany Sammlung Dr. Ludwig, Suemondt Museum, Aachen, Germany "Painting Annual", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY "Recent Acquisitions", Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY Noah Goldowsky Gallery, New York, NY |
| 1968 | "Documenta IV", Museum Friedericianum, Kassel, Germany
Lannis Gallery Book Show, New York, NY Noah Goldowsky Gallery, New York, NY "Kunstmarkt 1968", (in conjunction with Galerie Ricke), Germany "Students Mobilization for Peace", Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, NY Studio F, Ulmer Museum, Ulm, Germany |
| 1967 | "10", Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
"Art in Series", Finch College Museum, New York, NY Noah Goldowsky Gallery, New York, NY "Painting Annual", Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY "North Carolina Collects", North Carolina Museum, Raleigh, NC |
| 1966 | "Systemic Painting“, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
"10", Dwan Gallery, New York. NY |
| 1964 | Kaymar Gallery, New York, NY
"Opening Show", Daniels Gallery, New York, NY |
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Arts Council of Great Britain, London, United Kingdom
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, NY
DaimlerChrysler AG, Berlin, Germany
Fort Worth Museum, Fort Worth, TX
Gemeentemuseum Arnhem, Arnhem, The Netherlands
Haags Gemeentemuseum, Den Haag, The Netherlands
Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany
Kunstmusem Winterthur, Winterthur, Switzerland.
Ludwig College, Kölnischer Kunstverein, Cologne,
Ludwig College, Suermondt Museum, Aachen, Germany
Levi-Strauss Collection, San Francisco, CA
Michener Collection, University of Texas at Austin,
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
Neuberger Museum, State University of New York,
Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, Calif.Rijksdienst
Rijksmuseum Kröller–Müller, Otterlo, The Netherlands
Saatchi Coll., London, United Kingdom
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco,
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
Tate Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT