BORN:
Hartford, Connecticut 1956
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
2008 IBM Sculpture Garden, New York; “Three Bronzes”
Galerie Alain Noirhomme, Brussels, Belgium
Galleri Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden
2007 Galeria Leyendecker, Tenerife Spain; “New Work”
Museum Moderner Kunst Kärnten MMKK, Klagenfurt, Austria, “Donald Baechler – New Works”
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris; “Works on Paper”
Museo Forte Strino. Vermiglio, Italy; “A Farewell to Arms”
Studio d’Arte Raffaelli, Trento, Italy; “New Works’
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, Colorado; “New Paintings and Sculpture”
2006 Museo Rimoldi, Cortina d'Ampezzo; “Winter Sports”
Pace Prints, New York; “Donald Baechler”
Loyal Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden; “Wes Lang and Donald Baechler: Skulls and Shit”
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg; “Donald Baechler: New Sculptures and Related Works”
Cheim & Read, New York, “Donald Baechler”
Galleri Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden
2005 Cheim & Read, New York; “Sculpture”
Kunst Meran, Merano, Italy; “The Enemies of the Rose”
Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich, Germany; "Paintings 1991- 2003"
2004 Baldwin Gallery, Aspen; “New Work”
Galleria Cardi, Milan; “Donald Baechler”
Maruani & Noirhomme Gallery, Knokke, Belgium; “Donald Baechler: New Paintings”
Museum der Moderne, Rupertinum, Salzburg; “Sculptures”
Galeria Leyendecker, Tenerife, Spain; “Donald Baechler: New Paintings and Sculptures”
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris; “Sculptures”
2003 Cheim & Read, New York; “Donald Baechler”
Galerie Bernd Klüser, Munich; “Recent Paintings”
Mario Diacono, Ars Libri, Boston: “Thinking Without Words”
Lars Bohman, Stockholm; “Donald Baechler”
Hamiltons Gallery, London; “Donald Baechler”
2002 Galleria Leyendecker, Tenerife, Spain
John Berggruen, San Francisco; “Principal & Auxillary Functions: Some Recent Pictures”
Galleria d’Arte Moderna e Contemporanea, San Marino, Italy; “77 Paintings”
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg
Tony Shafrazi, New York; “Five Easy Pieces”
Galerie Jan Wagner, Berlin; “Donald Baechler”
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris; “Oeuvres Récentes”
Studio d’Arte Raffaelli, Trento; “Some of My Subjects”
2000 Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, East Hampton NY; “Donald Baechler: new paintings”
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen CO; “Buildings and Other New Paintings”
Pace/Prints, New York; “Recent Editions”
Galeria Leyendecker, Tenerife, Spain; “Donald Baechler”
1999 Cheim & Read, New York; “Crowd Paintings”
Tony Shafrazi, New York; “Paintings from Kunsthalle, Basel”
Greenberg Van Doren, St. Louis MO; “New Work”
Velge & Noirhomme, Brussels; “Collage Paintings”
Baron/Boisanté, New York; “New Color Aquatints”
Bernd Klueser, Munich; “Recent Paintings”
Lars Bohman, Stockholm; “Sculptures & Drawings”
Thomas Cohn, Sao Paulo; “New Paintings”
Locks Gallery, Philadelphia; “Donald Baechler”
Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris; “Globes and More”
1998 Locks Gallery, Philadelphia PA; “Works on Paper”
Lars Bohman, Stockholm; “Crowds”
Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria; “Neue Bilder”
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland; “New Paintings”
Baron/Boisanté, New York; “twenty-one etchings”
Galeria 56, Budapest, Hungary
Galleria Civica di Arte Contemporanea, Trento
1997 Harley Baldwin, Aspen ; “New Flowers”
Tony Shafrazi, New York; “Flowers”
Paul Kasmin, New York; “One Very Large Painting & One Very Large Bust”
Anders Tornberg, Lund; “21 Paintings”
Galleria Milleventi, Milan
Studio d’Arte Raffaelli, Trento, Italy; “Works on Paper”
1996 Galeria Leyendecker, Tenerife, Spain
1995 Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal; “Donald Baechler: York House Suite”
Baron/Boisanté, New York; “Donald Baechler: Large Works on Paper 1984-1994”
Fisher Landau Center, Long Island City NY; with Saint Clair Cemin
Bernd Klueser, Munich, Germany; “Black Flowers”
Kyoko Chirathivat, Bangkok, Thailand; “Paintings & Works on Paper”
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen CO; “Donald Baechler: Fish & Wildlife”
Tony Shafrazi, New York; “Donald Baechler: Selected Early Paintings”
Paul Kasmin, New York; “Works on Paper”
Adolf Ribbentrop, Eltville, Germany; “Donald Baechler: Neue Arbeiten”
Milleventi, Turin, Italy; “Donald Baechler ‘Yankee Pieces’ Torino”
1994 E+O Friedrich, Bern
Galleria Becherini, Florence, Italy
Pace Prints, New York; “Donald Baechler: Prints ‘Days of the Week 1994’”
Laura Carpenter Fine Art, Santa Fe NM ; “Donald Baechler: Drawings”
Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France; “Donald Baechler: ‘des Fleurs’”
1993 Gisela Capitain, Cologne; “Works on Paper”
Lars Bohman, Stockholm; “Abstract Painting With Bird”
Schönewald & Beuse, Krefeld, Germany; “Works on Paper”
UMKC Art Gallery, Kansas City MO ; “Works on Paper”
Sperone Westwater, New York; “Paintings, Works on Paper”
Paul Kasmin, New York; “Works on Paper”
1992 Loyola University, New Orleans LA; “Works on Paper”
Pedro Oliveira, Porto, Portugal; “Works on Paper”
Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome; “Works on Paper”
1991 Lucio Amelio, Naples; “Prints & Collages”
Luhring Augustine Hetzler, Santa Monica CA
James Corcoran, Santa Monica, CA; “Paintings”
Max Hetzler, Cologne, Germany
Gisela Capitain, Cologne; “Collagen”
Anders Tornberg, Lund
Baron/Boisanté, New York; “Paintings of 1981 + 1982”
E+O Friedrich, Bern
Kunst-Station Sankt Peter Köln, Cologne
1990 Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome, Italy
Paul Kasmin, New York; “Works on Paper”
Tony Shafrazi, New York; “Paintings, Bronzes & Works on Paper”
1989 Paul Kasmin, New York; “Works on Paper”
Tony Shafrazi, New York
Lars Bohman, Stockholm, Sweden; “Flowers and Trees”
E+O Friedrich, Bern, Switzerland
Lino Silverstein, Barcelona, Spain
Lucio Amelio, Naples, Italy
1988 Thomas Cohn Arte Contemporanea, Rio de Janiero, Brazil; “Pinturas 1986-1988”
University Galleries, Illinois State University, “Donald Baechler Paintings and Drawings:
1982-1987”; and Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University “Donald
Baechler Paintings 1981-1987”
Galeria Il Capricorno, Venice, Italy
Anders Tornberg, Lund; “Donald Baechler: Paintings, Drawings & Prints”,
1987 Tony Shafrazi, New York
Ascan Crone, Hamburg; “Neue Arbeiten”
Mayor Rowan, London, England
Galeria Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain
1986 Akira Ikeda, Nagoya, Japan; “New Paintings”
Larry Gagosian, Los Angeles
Anders Tornberg, Lund, Sweden
1985 Pat Hearn, New York
Real Art Ways, Hartford CT
Ascan Crone, Hamburg; “Hamburger Gemaelde”
Tony Shafrazi, New York
1984 Ascan Crone, Hamburg, Germany; “Neue Bilder”
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
2007 Sammlung Essl Collection, Klosterneuburg, Austria, “Passion For Art: 35th Anniversary of the Sammlung Essl Collection”
Sister Gallery, Los Angeles, CA: “Plug”, curated by Art Design Office
Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston, MA: “We Are Near,” curated by Eddie Martinez
2006 Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York; “The Other Side”
La Maison Rouge, Paris; “busy going crazy: collection Sylvio Perlstein”
2005 Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, SUNY New Paltz, Chelsea Art Museum; “Co-Conspirators: Artist and Collector: Selections from the collection of James Cottrell and Joseph Lovett”
Howard House, Seattle; “Red Thread: Glimpses of International Art in Vienna”
Sammlung Essl, Vienna; “Figur Skulptur”
White Columns, New York “The Early Show,” curated by the General Store
Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, New York “Zoo Story,”
2004 Albertina, Vienna; “Pop Art & Minimalismus”
Cheim & Read, New York; “I Am the Walrus”
Galleria Cardi & Co., Milan; “...so fresh, so cool...”
Sammlung Essl, Vienna; “Visions of America”
Museo Cantonale d’Arte, Lugano; “Les Enfants Terribles”
Galleria Cardi, Milan; “…Surpise”
2003 Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio in Bologna; “Pictura Magistra Vitae”
Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles; “Funny Papers: Cartoons & Contemporary Drawing”
Evergreen House, Baltimore; “Conversations”
Leo Koenig Inc, NYC, together with Gordian Weber Kunsthandel, Cologne; “...As Time Goes By”
Galleria Cardi, Milan; “Painting Lesson”
2002 Bergen Kommune, Norway; “New York Expression”
Galleria Cardi &Co., Milan; “Good News”
48 Wall Street, New York “Art Downtown: New York Painting & Sculpture”
Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, Easthampton NY; “Revealing Nature: An Exhibition of
Organic Forms in Books, Photography, Art and Design”
2001 MoCA Miami; “Mythic Proportions: Painting in the 1980’s”
Paco Imperial, Brazil; “Espelho Cego (The Blind Mirror)”
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore; “From Rags to Riches: 25 Years of Paper Art from Dieu Donné Papermill”
2000 Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York; “Painting”
Baron/Boisanté, New York; “And Away We Go”
Tony Shafrazi, New York; “Off White”
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York; “Drawings & Photographs”
Pat Hearn Gallery, New York; “Pat Hearn Gallery: Part One (1983-1987)”
1999 Ernest Rubenstein Gallery, The Educational Alliance, New York; “Compliments”
DFN Gallery, New York; “Road Show”
Ascan Crone, Hamburg; “Peter Kogler”
Baron/Boisanté, New York; “Selected Projects 1985-1990”
1998 David Beitzel Gallery, New York; “Knowing Children”
Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York; “Maps”
Parrish Art Museum, Southampton NY; “Dreams for the Next Century: A View of the Collection”
Galerie Ropac, Salzburg & Paris; “Ensemble Moderne”
Galerie Bernd Klueser, Munich; “20 Years
1997 Bernd Klueser, Munich; “Group Show”
The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh PA; “Chanel”
Ursula Blickle Fdtn, Kraichtal, Switzerland; Kunstraum Innsbruck, Austria; “Von Kopf bis Fuss”;
Paul Kasmin, New York; “Summer:
Sperone Westwater, New York; “Summer Group Show”
Kunsthaus Bregenz, Austria; “KünstlerInnen: 50 Positionen”
Fisher Landau Center, L.I. City, NY; “Wood Work”
Baron/Boisanté, New York; “Works on Paper”
1996 Baron/Boisanté, New York; “dissimilar & unrelated sculptures”
Wanas Foundation, Sweden; “Sculptures”
Baldwin Gallery, Aspen CO; “Works on Paper”
Tony Shafrazi, New York; “Group Show”
Paul Kasmin, New York; “Sculpture”
Sperone Westwater, New York; “Summer Group Exhibition”
Curt Marcus, New York; “The Baseball Show”
Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg; “Picasso: A Contemporary Dialogue”
1995 Sperone Westwater, New York; “Emblems and Contours”
Bruce Museum, Greenwich CT; “A New York Time: Selected Drawings of the Eighties”
Gagosian Gallery, New York; “1995 ‘Yamantaka’ Donation”
Municipal Museum of Fine Arts, Tenerife, Canary Islands, Spain; “Barras y Estrellas”
Sperone Westwater, New York; “Summer Group Exhibition”
Paul Kasmin, New York; “Summer 1995”
Max Hetzler, Berlin, Germany; “Group Show”
Baron/Boisanté, New York; “Selected Projects of 1981-1995”
Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany; “Blumenstuecke Kunststuecke”
Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris; “Passions Privées”
1994 Baron/Boisanté, New York; “Works On Paper”
Schoenewald & Beuse, Krefeld, Germany; “en minature”, ART Frankfurt
Offshore Gallery, Easthampton NY; “Inaugural Group Exhibition”
Sperone Westwater, New York; “Summer Group Show”
Paul Kasmin, New York; “Summer 1994”
1993 Anders Tornberg, Lund; “Floor Show ‘sculptures & objects’”
Tony Shafrazi, New York; “Extravagant: The Economy of Elegance”
Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; “Parallel Visions: Modern Artists and Outsider Art”
Sperone Westwater, New York; “The Spirit of Drawing”
Tony Shafrazi, New York; “1982-83 Ten Years After”
Kunsthalle Basel, Basel, Switzerland; “Parallel Visions: Modern Artists and Outsider Art”
Galerie Ribbentrop, Eltville, Germany; “Jiri Dokoupil Donald Baechler”
Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo; “Parallel Visions: Modern Artists and Outsider Art”
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington DC; “43rd Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary
American Painting”
Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris; “New York On Paper”
Sammlung Goetz, Munich; “New York Painters”
1992 Perry Rubenstein, New York; “Easel Painting”
Paul Kasmin, New York; “Sculpture”
Musée National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris; “Regard Multiple”
Sperone Westwater, New York; “Group Sculpture Show”
Bernd Klueser, Munich; “Der Gefrorene Leopard”, Part II
Museum Ludwig, Cologne; “Ars Pro Domo ‘Zeitgenössische Kunst aus Kölner Privatbesitz’”
Katonah Museum, Katonah, New York; “Drawn in the ‘90’s”
L.A. County Museum of Art, Los Angeles; “Parallel Visions: Modern Artists and Outsider Art”
P.S.1, The Institute for Contemporary Art, Long Island City; “Postcards from Alphaville:
Jean-Luc Godard in Contemporary Art, 1963-92”
1991 Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo; “Wildness: Toward Their Own Natures ‘An Aspect of
Contemporary Art’”
Angela Ho, Hong Kong, China; “New Figurative Art”
Tony Shafrazi, New York; “Summertime”
Robert Miller, New York; “Portraits on Paper”
Thaddaeus Ropac, Salzburg, Austria; “Vertigo ‘The Remake’”
Tony Shafrazi, New York; “A Passion for Art”
1990 Anders Tornberg, Lund; “About Round/Round About”
Massimo Audiello, New York; “The Last Laugh”
Luhring Augustine Hetzler, Los Angeles CA; “Drawings”
E+O Friedrich, Bern
Tony Shafrazi, New York
Makuhari Messe Contemporary Art Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan; “Pharmakon ‘90”
Tony Shafrazi, New York; “The Last Decade: American Artists of the ‘80’s”
Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, FGrance; “Vertigo”
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea; “SAFEC 1990 -Seoul Art Festival”
1989 Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York; “Repetition”
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; “1989 Biennial Exhibition”
E+O Friedrich, Bern; “Zeichnung”
Deichtorhallen, Hamburg; “Einleuchten: Will, Vorstell und Simul in HH”
1988 Monika Sprueth, Cologne, Germany; “Das Licht von der Anderen Seite I, Malerei”
Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden; “Art at the End of the Social”
1987 Grand Palais, Paris, France; “Terrae Motus”
XIX Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil
Lawrence Oliver, Philadelphia PA; “Drawing Suites”
1986 Anders Tornberg, Lund, Sweden; “Face It”
Kunstverein Kassel, Germany & Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria; “Vom Zeichnen”
Galeria Leyendecker, Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Spain; “Premier Salon Irrealista”
Pat Hearn, New York; “Drawings”
Frankfurter Kunstverein/Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt; “Prospekt ‘86”,
Tony Shafrazi, New York; “What It Is”
Thomas Cohn Arte Contemporanea, Rio de Janiero, Brazil; “Baechler, Cutrone, Haring & Scharf”,
1985 Pat Hearn, New York
Galleria d’Arte Moderna, Bologna; “Anniottanta (the 80’s)”
Edition Schellmann, Munich; “New York New Prints”
Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany; “Vom Zeichnen”
1984 Peter Pakesch, Vienna, Austria; “Works on Paper”
Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia PA; “Behind Faces & Figures”
Galleria D’Arte Moderna, Bologna, Italy; “Arte di Frontiera, New York Graffiti”Tony Shafrazi, New York
1983 Tony Shafrazi, New York; “Champions”
Galerie Schurr, Stuttgart, Germany; “Drawings”
Artists Space, New York; “Hundreds of Drawings”
Bonlow Gallery, New York; “Painting into Sculpture”
Tony Shafrazi, New York; “Painting Sculpture Totems and 3D”
Robert Fraser, London, England; “Black and White”
E+O Friedrich, Bern, Switzerland; “Drawings”
Protetch-McNeill, New York; “Portraits”
Ascan Crone, Hamburg, Germany; “Accrochage: Gallery Artists”
1982 The Drawing Center, New York; “New Drawing in America: Part I”
Tony Shafrazi, New York; “Young Americans”
Tony Shafrazi, New York; “Donald Baechler/Ronnie Cutrone”
Larry Gagosian, Los Angeles CA
Renaissance Society, University of Chicago; “A Fatal Attraction: Art and the Media”
White Columns, New York; “Shoe Boxes”
1981 Grace Borgenicht, New York; “Episodes”
Tony Shafrazi, New York
1980 Galeria Durban, Caracas, Venezuela; “Arte para Los Ochenta”, September
The Drawing Center, New York; “Selections”
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