Donald Baechler

1956 Born in Hartford, Connecticut
Lives and works in New York City

EDUCATION
1974-77 Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore
1977-78 Cooper Union, New York
1978-79 Staatliche Hochschule fuer Bildende Kuenste, “Staedelschule”,
Frankfurt am Main, Germany

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 Cheim & Read, New York, NY
Flowers & Boys, Galerie Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
2009 XL+XS, Museo Arte Contemporanea, Isernia, Italy
New Works, Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki
Recent Paintings and Collages, McClain Gallery, Houston, TX
I Wonder If I Can Write A Poem Tonight, Galleria In Arco, Torino, Italy
2008 Three Bronzes, IBM Sculpture Garden, New York
Baechler-Morrison, Galerie Alain Noirhomme, Brussels, Belgium
Donald Baechler: New Work, Galleri Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden

Donald Baechler: Editions, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
2007 New Work, Galeria Leyendecker, Tenerife Spain
Donald Baechler - New Works, Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten MMKK, Klagenfurt, Austria
Works on Paper, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
A Farewell to Arms, Museo Forte Strino. Vermiglio, Italy
New Works, Studio d’Arte Raffaelli, Trento, Italy
New Paintings and Sculpture, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, Colorado
2006 Winter Sports, Museo Rimoldi, Cortina d'Ampezzo
Donald Baechler, Pace Prints, New York
Wes Lang and Donald Baechler: Skulls and Shit, Loyal Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Donald Baechler: New Sculptures and Related Works, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
Donald Baechler, Cheim & Read, New York
Galleri Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden
2005 Sculpture, Cheim & Read, New York
The Enemies of the Rose, Kunst Meran, Merano, Italy
Paintings 1991- 2003, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany

2004 New Work, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen
Donald Baechler, Galleria Cardi, Milan
Donald Baechler: New Paintings, Maruani & Noirhomme Gallery, Knokke, Belgium
Sculptures, Museum der Moderne, Rupertinum, Salzburg
Donald Baechler: New Paintings and Sculptures, Galeria Leyendecker, Tenerife, Spain
Sculptures, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
2003 Donald Baechler, Cheim & Read, New York
Recent Paintings, Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich
Thinking Without Words, Mario Diacono, Ars Libri, Boston
Donald Baechler Lars Bohman, Stockholm
Donald Baechler, Hamiltons Gallery, London
2002 Galleria Leyendecker, Tenerife, Spain
Principal & Auxillary Functions: Some Recent Pictures, John Berggruen, San Francisco
77 Paintings, Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, San Marino, Italy
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
Five Easy Pieces, Tony Shafrazi, New York
Donald Baechler, Galerie Jan Wagner, Berlin
Oeuvres Récentes, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
Some of My Subjects, Studio d’Arte Raffaelli, Trento
2000 Donald Baechler: new paintings, Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, East Hampton NY
Buildings and Other New Paintings, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen CO
Recent Editions, Pace/Prints, New York
Donald Baechler, Galeria Leyendecker, Tenerife, Spain
1999 Crowd Paintings, Cheim & Read, New York
Paintings from Kunsthalle, Basel, Tony Shafrazi, New York
New Work, Greenberg Van Doren, St. Louis MO
Collage Paintings, Velge & Noirhomme, Brussels
New Color Aquatints, Baron/Boisanté, New York
Recent Paintings, Bernd Klueser, Munich
Sculptures & Drawings, Lars Bohman, Stockholm
New Paintings, Thomas Cohn, Sao Paulo
Donald Baechler, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia
Globes and More, Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
1998 Works on Paper, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia PA
Crowds, Lars Bohman, Stockholm
Neue Bilder, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
New Paintings, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
twenty-one etchings, Baron/Boisanté, New York
Galeria 56, Budapest, Hungary
Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento
1997 New Flowers, Harley Baldwin, Aspen
Flowers, Tony Shafrazi, New York
One Very Large Painting & One Very Large Bust, Paul Kasmin, New York
21 Paintings, Anders Tornberg, Lund
Galleria Milleventi, Milan
Works on Paper, Studio d’Arte Raffaelli, Trento, Italy
1996 Galeria Leyendecker, Tenerife, Spain
1995 Donald Baechler: York House Suite, Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal
Donald Baechler: Large Works on Paper 1984-1994, Baron/Boisanté, New York
Fisher Landau Center, Long Island City NY; with Saint Clair Cemin
Black Flowers, Bernd Klueser, Munich, Germany
Paintings & Works on Paper, Kyoko Chirathivat, Bangkok, Thailand
Donald Baechler: Fish & Wildlife, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen CO
Donald Baechler: Selected Early Paintings, Tony Shafrazi, New York
Works on Paper, Paul Kasmin, New York
Donald Baechler: Neue Arbeiten, Adolf Ribbentrop, Eltville, Germany
Donald Baechler ‘Yankee Pieces’ Torino, Milleventi, Turin, Italy
1994 E+O Friedrich, Bern
Galleria Becherini, Florence, Italy
Donald Baechler: Prints ‘Days of the Week 1994’, Pace Prints, New York
Donald Baechler: Drawings, Laura Carpenter Fine Art, Santa Fe NM
Donald Baechler: ‘des Fleurs’, Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France
1993 Works on Paper, Gisela Capitain, Cologne
Abstract Painting With Bird, Lars Bohman, Stockholm
Works on Paper, Schönewald & Beuse, Krefeld, Germany
Works on Paper, UMKC Art Gallery, Kansas City MO
Paintings, Works on Paper, Sperone Westwater, New York
Works on Paper, Paul Kasmin, New York
1992 Works on Paper, Loyola University, New Orleans LA
Pedro Oliveira, Porto, Portugal; “Works on Paper”
Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome; “Works on Paper”
1991 Prints & Collages, Lucio Amelio, Naples
Luhring Augustine Hetzler, Santa Monica CA
Paintings, James Corcoran, Santa Monica, CA
Max Hetzler, Cologne, Germany
Collagen, Gisela Capitain, Cologne
Anders Tornberg, Lund
Paintings of 1981 + 1982, Baron/Boisanté, New York
E+O Friedrich, Bern
Kunst-Station Sankt Peter Köln, Cologne
1990 Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome, Italy
Works on Paper, Paul Kasmin, New York
Paintings, Bronzes & Works on Paper, Tony Shafrazi, New York
1989 Works on Paper, Paul Kasmin, New York
Tony Shafrazi, New York
Flowers and Trees, Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden
E+O Friedrich, Bern, Switzerland
Lino Silverstein, Barcelona, Spain
Lucio Amelio, Naples, Italy
1988 Pinturas 1986-1988, Thomas Cohn Arte Contemporanea, Rio de Janiero, Brazil
Donald Baechler Paintings and Drawings: 1982-1987, University Galleries, Illinois State University; and Donald Baechler Paintings 1981-1987, Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University
Galeria Il Capricorno, Venice, Italy
Donald Baechler: Paintings, Drawings & Prints, Anders Tornberg, Lund
1987 Tony Shafrazi, New York
Neue Arbeiten, Ascan Crone, Hamburg
Mayor Rowan, London, England
Galeria Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
1986 New Paintings, Akira Ikeda, Nagoya, Japan
Larry Gagosian, Los Angeles
Anders Tornberg, Lund, Sweden
1985 Pat Hearn, New York
Real Art Ways, Hartford CT
Hamburger Gemaelde, Ascan Crone, Hamburg
Tony Shafrazi, New York
1984 Neue Bilder, Ascan Crone, Hamburg, Germany
Tony Shafrazi, New York
1983 Tony Shafrazi, New York
1982 Hallwalls, Buffalo NY
1980 Artists Space, New York
Studio Cannaviello, Milan, Italy

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 , Curated by Beth DeWoody and Donald Baechler Cheim & Read, New York
2007 Four Friends, Tony Shafrazi, New York, October 25 –January 12,2008
Passion For Art: 35th Anniversary of the Sammlung Essl Collection, Sammlung Essl Collection, Klosterneuburg, Austria
Plug, curated by Art Design Office, Sister Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
We Are Near, curated by Eddie Martinez, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, MA
2006 The Other Side, Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York
busy going crazy: collection Sylvio Perlstein, La Maison Rouge, Paris
2005 Co-Conspirators: Artist and Collector: Selections from the collection of James Cottrell and Joseph Lovett, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, Chelsea Art Museum
Red Thread: Glimpses of International Art in Vienna, Howard House, Seattle
Figur Skulptur, Sammlung Essl, Vienna
The Early Show, curated by the General Store, White Columns, New York
Zoo Story, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, New York
2004 Pop Art & Minimalismus, Albertina, Vienna
I Am the Walrus, Cheim & Read, New York
...so fresh, so cool..., Galleria Cardi & Co., Milan
Visions of America, Sammlung Essl, Vienna
Les Enfants Terribles, Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano
…Surpise, Galleria Cardi, Milan
2003 Pictura Magistra Vitae, Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio in Bologna
Funny Papers: Cartoons & Contemporary Drawing, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles
Conversations, Evergreen House, Baltimore
...As Time Goes By, Leo Koenig Inc, NYC, together with Gordian Weber Kunsthandel, Cologne
Painting Lesson, Galleria Cardi, Milan
2002 New York Expression, Bergen Kommune, Norway
Good News, Galleria Cardi &Co., Milan
Art Downtown: New York Painting & Sculpture, 48 Wall Street, New York
Revealing Nature: An Exhibition of Organic Forms in Books, Photography, Art and Design, Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, Easthampton NY
2001 Mythic Proportions: Painting in the 1980’s, MoCA Miami
Espelho Cego (The Blind Mirror), Paco Imperial, Brazil
From Rags to Riches: 25 Years of Paper Art from Dieu Donné Papermill, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore
2000 Painting, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
And Away We Go, Baron/Boisanté, New York
Off White, Tony Shafrazi, New York
Drawings & Photographs, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Pat Hearn Gallery: Part One (1983-1987), Pat Hearn Gallery, New York
1999 Compliments, Ernest Rubenstein Gallery, The Educational Alliance, New York
Road Show, DFN Gallery, New York
Peter Kogler, Ascan Crone, Hamburg
Selected Projects 1985-1990, Baron/Boisanté, New York
1998 Knowing Children, David Beitzel Gallery, New York
Maps, Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York
Dreams for the Next Century: A View of the Collection, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton NY
Ensemble Moderne, Galerie Ropac, Salzburg & Paris
20 Years, Galerie Bernd Klueser, Munich
1997 Group Show, Bernd Klueser, Munich
Chanel, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh PA
Von Kopf bis Fuss, Ursula Blickle Fdtn, Kraichtal, Switzerland; Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria
Summer, Paul Kasmin, New York
Summer Group Show, Sperone Westwater, New York
KünstlerInnen: 50 Positionen, Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria
Wood Work, Fisher Landau Center, L.I. City, NY
Works on Paper, Baron/Boisanté, New York
1996 dissimilar & unrelated sculptures, Baron/Boisanté, New York
Sculptures, Wanas Foundation, Sweden
Works on Paper, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen CO
Group Show, Tony Shafrazi, New York
Sculpture, Paul Kasmin, New York
Summer Group Exhibition, Sperone Westwater, New York
The Baseball Show, Curt Marcus, New York
Picasso: A Contemporary Dialogue, Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
1995 Emblems and Contours, Sperone Westwater, New York
A New York Time: Selected Drawings of the Eighties, Bruce Museum, Greenwich CT
1995 ‘Yamantaka’ Donation, Gagosian Gallery, New York
Barras y Estrellas, Municipal Museum of Fine Arts, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
Summer Group Exhibition, Sperone Westwater, New York
Summer 1995, Paul Kasmin, New York
Group Show, Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany
Selected Projects of 1981-1995, Baron/Boisanté, New York
Blumenstuecke Kunststuecke, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany
Passions Privées, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris
1994 Works On Paper, Baron/Boisanté, New York
en minature, ART Frankfurt, Schoenewald & Beuse, Krefeld, Germany
Inaugural Group Exhibition, Offshore Gallery, Easthampton NY
Summer Group Show, Sperone Westwater, New York
Summer 1994, Paul Kasmin, New York
1993 Floor Show ‘sculptures & objects’, Anders Tornberg, Lund
Extravagant: The Economy of Elegance, Tony Shafrazi, New York
Parallel Visions: Modern Artists and Outsider Art, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
The Spirit of Drawing, Sperone Westwater, New York
1982-83 Ten Years After, Tony Shafrazi, New York
Parallel Visions: Modern Artists and Outsider Art, Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland
Jiri Dokoupil Donald Baechler, Galerie Ribbentrop, Eltville, Germany
Parallel Visions: Modern Artists and Outsider Art, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
43rd Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC
New York On Paper, Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris
New York Painters, Sammlung Goetz, Munich
1992 Easel Painting, Perry Rubenstein, New York
Sculpture, Paul Kasmin, New York
Regard Multiple, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Group Sculpture Show, Sperone Westwater, New York
Der Gefrorene Leopard, Part II, Bernd Klueser, Munich
Ars Pro Domo ‘Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Kölner Privatbesitz’, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
Drawn in the ‘90’s, Katonah Museum, Katonah, New York
Parallel Visions: Modern Artists and Outsider Art, L.A. County Museum of Art, Los Angeles
Postcards from Alphaville: Jean-Luc Godard in Contemporary Art, 1963-92, P.S.1, The Institute for Contemporary Art, Long Island City
1991 Wildness: Toward Their Own Natures ‘An Aspect of Contemporary Art’, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
New Figurative Art, Angela Ho, Hong Kong, China
Summertime, Tony Shafrazi, New York
Portraits on Paper, Robert Miller, New York
Vertigo ‘The Remake’, Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria
A Passion for Art, Tony Shafrazi, New York
1990 About Round/Round About, Anders Tornberg, Lund
The Last Laugh, Massimo Audiello, New York
Drawings, Luhring Augustine Hetzler, Los Angeles CA
E+O Friedrich, Bern
Tony Shafrazi, New York
Pharmakon ‘90, Makuhari Messe Contemporary Art Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan
The Last Decade: American Artists of the ‘80’s, Tony Shafrazi, New York
Vertigo, Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, FGrance
SAFEC 1990 -Seoul Art Festival, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
1989 Repetition, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York
1989 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Zeichnung, E+O Friedrich, Bern
Einleuchten: Will, Vorstell und Simul in HH, Deichtorhallen, Hamburg
1988 Das Licht von der Anderen Seite I, Malerei, Monika Sprueth, Cologne, Germany
Art at the End of the Social, Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden
1987 Terrae Motus, Grand Palais, Paris, France
XIX Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil
Drawing Suites, Lawrence Oliver, Philadelphia PA
1986 Face It, Anders Tornberg, Lund, Sweden
Vom Zeichnen, Kunstverein Kassel, Germany & Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria
Premier Salon Irrealista, Galeria Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain
Drawings, Pat Hearn, New York

Prospekt ‘86, Frankfurter Kunstverein/Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt
What It Is, Tony Shafrazi, New York
Baechler, Cutrone, Haring & Scharf, Thomas Cohn Arte Contemporanea, Rio de Janiero, Brazil
1985 Pat Hearn, New York
Anniottanta (the 80’s), Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna
New York New Prints, Edition Schellmann, Munich
Vom Zeichnen, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
1984 Works on Paper, Peter Pakesch, Vienna, Austria
Behind Faces & Figures, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia PA
Galleria D’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy

Tony Shafrazi, New York
1983 Champions, Tony Shafrazi, New York
Drawings, Galerie Schurr, Stuttgart, Germany
Hundreds of Drawings, Artists Space, New York
Painting into Sculpture, Bonlow Gallery, New York
Painting Sculpture Totems and 3D, Tony Shafrazi, New York
Black and White, Robert Fraser, London, England
Drawings, E+O Friedrich, Bern, Switzerland
Portraits, Protetch-McNeill, New York
Accrochage: Gallery Artists, Ascan Crone, Hamburg, Germany
1982 New Drawing in America: Part I, The Drawing Center, New York
Young Americans, Tony Shafrazi, New York
Donald Baechler/Ronnie Cutrone, Tony Shafrazi, New York
Larry Gagosian, Los Angeles CA
A Fatal Attraction: Art and the Media, Renaissance Society, University of Chicago
Shoe Boxes, White Columns, New York
1981 Episodes, Grace Borgenicht, New York
Tony Shafrazi, New York
1980 Arte para Los Ochenta, Galeria Durban, Caracas, Venezuela
Selections, The Drawing Center, New York