1923
Born to a German father and Russian mother in Washington, DC.
1933
Moved with his family to New Mexico, keenly interested in art and science.
1941
Enrolled in Cornell University to study chemistry.
1942-46
WWII service in Europe, received a superficial wound in the Battle of the Bulge.
1948
B.A. from Cornell University.
1949
Studied at the studio school of Amedée Ozenfant, supported by odd jobs, including working as a baby photographer. Caught between choice of pursuing a career as an artist or entering various trades.
1953
Apprenticed to a cabinetmaker; designed and produced first furniture.
1958
Loft fire, financial difficulties.
1959
First exhibition in New York.
Richard Artschwager presently lives and works in upstate New York.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2012
You Would, Kathleen Cullen, New York
2011
David Nolan Gallery, New York
Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston
2010
Hair, Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis
Fine Line, Georg Kargl Box, Vienna
Just Love Me: Regard sur une collection privée, Mudam Luxembourg, Musée d’Art Moderne Grand-Duc Jean, Luxembourg
Collecting Biennials, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
2008
Objects as Images of Objects, David Nolan Gallery, New York
Gagosian Gallery, New York
2007
Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
The Lath Picture Show, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
2006
Interactions, David Nolan Gallery, New York
From the Factory to the Studio: Reoccurring Motifs, Leo Castelli, New York
Twice Drawn, Tang Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY
New Paintings, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills
Galerie Sprüth Magers, Munich
I still love the 20th Century, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
2005
Gegenwärtig aber ungenau, Georg Kargl Fine Arts, Vienna
Fast Nichts: Minimalist works from the Flick Collection, Hamburger Bahnhof, Berlin
Works on Paper, Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills
Design ≠ Art: Functional Objects from Donald Judd to Rachel Whiteread,
Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, New York
2004
Symmetries, Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, New York
Artschwager/Ruscha, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York
2003
Richard Artschwager: Painting, Then and Now, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
Drawings, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
Up and Down and Back and Forth, Deutsche Guggenheim Foundation, Berlin; Museum
Moderner Kunst-Stiftung Wörlen, Passau
Paintings, Drawings, and Objects 1960 - 2002 Kunstmuseum, Winterthur; Kaiser-Wilhelm
Museum, Krefeld, and Staatliche Graphische Sammlung, Munich
2002
Paintings and Sculptures, Gagosian Gallery, London and New York
Richard Artschwager, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago
The Hydraulic Door Check, Sculpture, Painting, Drawing, MAK Vienna
2001
Locating Drawing, Lawing Gallery, Houston
Portraits, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin
Sculpture, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
Richard Artschwager, The Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago
Up and Across, Neues Museum, Staatliches Museum für Kunst und Design, Nürnberg
2000
Drawings in Transit: 1960-2000, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
Works on Paper, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin
Xavier Hufkens, Brussels
1999
Crates and Installation, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia
New Paintings, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York
1997
Drawings, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
Mary Boone Gallery, New York
The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati
1996
Photo/Works, 1945-1996, Julie Saul Gallery, New York
Multiples & Drawings, Anders Tornberg Gallery, Lund
Seomi Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco
The Stones of Pozzuoli, Alfonso Artiaco, Pozzuoli, Italy
1995
Kent Gallery, New York
Galerie Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, Belgium
Galeria Antoni Estrany, Barcelona, Spain
1994
Fondation Cartier pour l'art contemporain, Paris
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco
Mary Boone Gallery, New York
1993
Alfonso Artiaco, Naples
Mary Boone Gallery, New York
A Selection from Two Decades of Drawing, Nolan/Eckman Gallery, New York
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris
Archipelago, Portikus, Frankfurt am Main
Archipelago, Lenbachhaus/Kunstforum, München
1992
Documenta IX, Kassel
Connections: Richard Artschwager, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Galerie Frank + Schulte, Berlin
1988
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York traveled to San Francisco
Museum of Modern Art Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Palacio de Valezquez, Madrid Musée National d'Art Moderne, Centre
Georges Pompidou, Paris, Stadtische Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany
1987
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1986
The Painter-Sculptor in the Twentieth Century, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
Sacred Images in Secular Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Mary Boone Gallery, New York
1985
Kunsthalle Basel; Stedelijk van Ebbemuseum, Eindhoven
CAPC, Musée d'Art Contemporain de Bordeaux
Leo Castelli, New York
1984
Richard Artschwager, John Chamberlain, Donald Judd, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
Matrix 82, Matrix Gallery, University Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
1983
Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
Mary Boone Gallery, New York
1982
Documenta VII, Kassel
Cruciform, Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
1981
Richard Artschwager: Paintings and Objects from 1962-1979, Young/Hoffman Gallery, Chicago and Leo Castelli, New York
1980
Sculpture, Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence
39th Venice Biennale
1979
Richard Artschwager's Theme(s). Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art; Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
1978
Zu Gast in Hamburg-Richard Artschwager, Kunstverein Hamburg; traveled to Sammlung Ludwig, Aachen
1976
37th Venice Biennale
1975
Door,Window,Table,Basket,Mirror,Rug. Leo Castelli, New York
1972
Whitney Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1970
Whitney Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1968
Documenta IV, Kassel
Whitney Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
1966
Whitney Annual Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York