1949
Born in Boston, Massachusetts
1971
B.A., Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut
1973
M.A., Hunter College, New York, NY
Currently lives and works in New York City
AWARDS & GRANTS
2008
Francis J. Greenburger Award
2002
Recipient of Academy Award for Art, American Academy of Arts & Letters
1994
National Endowment for the Arts, Fellowship
1981
National Endowment for the Arts, Fellowship
1978
National Endowment for the Arts, Fellowship
1974
CAPS Grant
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011
jacks, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY
Works from 1995 to Now, David Nolan Gallery, New York
Mary Boone Gallery, New York
2010
Object Negatives, The Drawing Room, East Hampton, NY
2009
Markers, Madison Square Park, New York
2008
Loopholes, Dieu Donné, New York
Sculptures, David Floria Gallery, Aspen, CO
Study for a Monument, David Nolan Gallery, New York
2007
Red Blocks, David Nolan Gallery, New York
2006
The College of Wooster Art Museum, Wooster, OH
2003
Drawings in Wood, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
2002
Core Samples, Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
1999
Monumental Prints, Tampa Museum of Arts, Tampa, FL
1997
Parallel Structures, Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, University of the Arts, Philadelphia
1996
Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO catalogue with essay by Klaus Kertess
1995
John Weber Gallery, New York
1994
Sculpture and Drawings, Gerald Peters Gallery, Dallas, TX
1993
Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD
John Weber Gallery, New York
1992
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
John Weber Gallery, New York
Black Oil Works: Sculpture and Drawings, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
1991
Galerie Carola Mosch, Berlin
1990
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
1989
Salama-Caro Gallery, London, England
John Weber Gallery, New York
1988-90
Essays: Small Wood Works, The Austin Arts Center, Trinity College, Hartford, CT; traveling: Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia; Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
1988
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
1987
St. Louis Art Museum, Forest Park, MO; illustrated catalogue
John Weber Gallery, New York
1986-87
Recent Sculpture, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, traveling: Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase
1986
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
1985
John Weber Gallery, New York
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
1983
John Weber Gallery, New York
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
1982
Carol Taylor Art, Dallas
1980
John Weber Gallery, New York
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2012
Large Drawings, David Nolan Gallery, New York
Reinventing Landscape, Sidney Mishkin Gallery, Baruch College, NY
You Would, Kathleen Cullen, New York
2010
Marker III at The Fields Sculpture Park, Omi Art, Ghent, NY
Rites of Spring, LongHouse Reserve, East Hampton, NY
The Visible Vagina, David Nolan Gallery, New York
2009
Woodcuts Now, Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, MD
2006
Turning Point, ASU Art Museum, Tempe, AZ
2005
Paper, Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York
2004
Raoul de Keyser, Suzan Frecon, Mel Kendrick, Uwe Kowski, Thomas Nozkowski, Gorney Bravin + Lee, New York
Drop Out (Photography Exhibition), Julie Saul Gallery, New York
Perspectives@25 - A Quarter Century of New Art in Houston, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
2003
Carpenter Center, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
9th Annual Exhibition, National Academy of Art and Design, New York
2002
Sitelines, The Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
1996
Aspects of Abstraction: Albers, Gabo, Judd, Kendrick, McLaughlin, Pollack, The Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
1995
25 Years: An Exhibition of Selected Works, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
1994
Eight Contemporary Sculptors: Beyond Nature, Wood into Art, Low Art Museum, University of Miami, FL
Low Tech, organized by the Center for Research in Contemporary Art, The University of Texas, Arlington, TX
Mel Kendrick/Richard Prince, Offshore Gallery, East Hampton, NY
1993
Drawings, American Academy of Arts & Letters, New York
1992
A Passion for Art, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY
Volume 6, Contemporary Sculptors, Guild Hall Museum, New York
1991
Dead Horses, Disfigured Love, Lawrence Monk, New York
American Abstraction at the Addison, The Addison Gallery of American Art, Phillips Academy, Andover, MA
Large Scale Sculpture, John Weber Gallery, New York
A Bestiary, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, NC
1990
Editions Ilene Kurtz and Other Prints, Krygier/Landau Contemporary Art, Santa Monica, CA
Funf Jahre Zeitgenossische Kunst, Galerie Marie-Louise Wirth, Zurich
Budapest Triennial: Nancy Graves, Mel Kendrick, and Joel Shapiro, curated by Joan Simon, Budapest
1989
4 Americans: Aspects of Current Sculpture, The Brooklyn Museum, New York
American Sculptures: New York-Los Angeles, Kamakura Gallery, Japan
Out of Wood: Recent Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris, New York
1988
BIGlittle Sculpture, curated by Phyllis Tuchman, Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA
Lynda Benglis, John Chamberlain, Joel Fisher, Mel Kendrick, Robert Therrien, Magazine, Stockholm
Innovations in Sculpture 1985-1988, curated by Ellen M. O'Donnell, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT
Art of the 80s, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
24 Cubes, curated by Saul Ostrow, University Gallery, University of Massachusetts at Amherst, MA
1987
The Allusive Object: Mel Kendrick, Robert Lobe, Judith Shea, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
American Sculpture - Investigations: Larry Bell, Tony Berlant, Allan Hacklin, Donald Judd, Mel Kendrick, Donald Lipski, Jesus Bautista Moroles, Judy Pfaff, James Surls, Michael Todd, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX
Joel Fisher, Robert Lobe, Mel Kendrick, Blum Helman Gallery, New York
1985
Newman, Dunham, Kendrick, Richter, Artschwager, curated by Klaus Kertess, International with Monument, New York
Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1984
The International Survey of Painting & Sculpture, Museum of Modern Art, New York
The Tremaine Collection: 20th Century Masters, Wadsworth Antheneum, Hartford, CT
Drawings by Sculptors: Two Decades of Non-Objective Art in the Seagrams Collection, curated by David Bellman, Seagrams Building, New York; traveled to Montreal Museum of Fine Art, Montreal; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver; The Nickle Art Museum, Calgary
American Sculpture, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles
1983-85
Concepts in Construction: 1910-1980, curated by Irving Sandler for Independent Curators Incorporated, Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, TX; traveled to Norton Gallery, West Palm Beach, FL; Cincinnati Art Museum, Cincinnati, OH; Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA; Neuberger Museum, SUNY Purchase, NY
1983
New Biomorphism and Automatism, Hamilton Gallery, New York
Contemporary Sculpture, S.U.N.Y., New Paltz, NY
Groover, Hunt, Kendrick, Blum Helman Gallery, New York
1982
New Drawing in America, Sutton Place Guildford, Surrey, England
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA
Australian National Gallery. Canberra, Australia
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
Centro Cultural Arte Contemporano, Mexico City, Mexico
Daimler Kunst Sammlung, Berlin
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
Grounds for Sculpture, Hamilton, NJ
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, Hanover, NH
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Neuberger Museum, State University of New York, Purchase, NY
New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, Connecticut
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Prudential Life Insurance Company, Newark, NJ
St. Louis Art Museum, Saint Louis, MO
Storm King Art Center, Storm King, NY
Tampa Museum of Art, Tampa, FL
The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, OH
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York