1899 Born on September 23 in Kiev, Russia to Isaac Berliawsky and Minna Ziesel Smolerank. There were four children: Nathan, Louise, Anita, and Lillian
1905 The family moved to the U.S and settled in Rockland, Maine
1920 Married Charles Nevelson and moved to New York
1922 Son Myron (Mike) was born.
1929 - 1930 Studied at the Art Students League in New York with Kenneth Hayes Miller
1931 Studied with Hans Hofmann in Munich
1931 Worked as an extra in films in Berlin and Vienna
1932 Assistant to Diego Rivera
1932 Studied modern dance with Ellen Kearns
1973 Honorary degree from Smith College, Northampton, MA
1977 Received an honorary degree from Columbia University, New York
1988 Died April 17 in her home in New York City
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 Louise Nevelson: Domination of Form, Rosenbaum Contemporary, Boca Raton, Florida
Louise Nevelson, Galerie Thomas, Munich, Germany
2009 Louise Nevelson: Dawns and Dusks, Louise Blouin Foundation, London, England and settled in Rockland, Maine
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, ME
2008 Nevelson by Night, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, Rollins College
2007 The Sculpture of Louise Nevelson(solo retrospective), The Jewish Museum, New York ; travelled to: de Young Museum, San Francisco
Louise Nevelson, Galerie Gmurzynska, Zurich, Switzerland
Louise Nevelson, Sculpture and Collage, McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas
Louise Nevelson: The Architecture of the Light, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York
2006 Louise Nevelson: An American Master, Farnsworth Art Museum Rockland, ME
1998 Fay Gold Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Louise Nevelson: Collages, PaceWildenstein, Los Angeles, CA
Art Cologne, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie
Louise Nevelson, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie, Bielefeld
1997 Joan T. Washburn Gallery, New York, NY
Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, IL
Louise Nevelson: Sculpture 1957 - 1987, Pace Wildenstein, 57th Street, New York
1996 Galerie Gmurzynska, Cologne
1995 Arij Gasiunasen Fine Art, Florida
1994 Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
1992 Bellas Artes, Santa Fe, NM
Hokin Gallery, Palm Beach, FL
1986 Galerie Claude Bernard, Paris, France
1964 The Pace Gallery, New York and Boston
1961 Tanager Gallery, New York, NY
Galerie Daniel Cordier, Paris
Staatliche Kunsthalle, Baden-Baden, West Germany
1960 David Herbert Gallery, New York, NY
Devorah Sherman Gallery, Chicago, IL
Galerie Daniel Cordier, Paris
1959 Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, NY
1958 Esther Stuttman Gallery, New York, NY
1956 Grand Central Moderns Gallery, New York, NY
1954 Marcia Clapp Gallery, New York, NY
1950 Lotte Jacobi Gallery, New York, NY
1943 Norlyst Gallery, New York, NY
1941 Nierendorf Gallery, New York, NY
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2010 Ad Reinhardt, Louise Nevelson 'A Dialogue', Aurel Scheibler/ScheiblerMitte, Berlin, Germany
2009 Wonder Women, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York
A Room of Her Own, McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas
2008 Jesuvian Process, Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York City, NY
Selections from the collection of Helga and Walther Lauffs, Zwirner & Wirth, New York City, NY
2007 Etching since 1950, Davison Art Center, Middletown
Salvaged, Pace Wildenstein, 22nd Street, New York
2006 Dialog Skulptur, Kunstverein Ludwigshafen, Ludwigshafen
2005 Boca Raton collects, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, FL
2004 Picasso to Pop: A Growing Contemporary Collection, Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ
2003 Printmaking Methods - Etching, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
2002 Art Cologne, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie
Sculpture of the '50s and '60s, Pace Wildenstein, 57th Street, New York
2001 Art Cologne, Samuelis Baumgarte Galerie
Art Palm Beach 2001, Fay Gold Gallery
ARTCHICAGO 2001, Fay Gold Gallery
Summer in the City, Pace Wildenstein, 57th street, New York
1999 San Francisco International Art Exposition, Fay Gold Gallery
1998 Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, CT
Radcliffe Bailey, Louise Nevelson, Doug and Mike Starn, San Francisco International Art Exposition, Fay Gold Gallery
Sculpture, Pace Wildenstein, Los Angeles, CA
Group Exhibition of Gallery Artists, Pace Wildenstein, Los Angeles, CA
1995 MOMA, New York, NY
Rachel Adler, New York, NY
Ace Gallery, Mexico
1994 UBU Gallery, New York, NY
1993 Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, WA
1992 Brooklyn Museum, NY
The Hudson River Museum
1991 Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1990 Paul Kasmin Gallery, New York, NY
1983 Spoleto Festival, Charleston, SC
1982 Spoleto Festival, Charleston, SC
1976 Venice Biennale
Expo �70 in Osaka, Japan
1973 Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art, NY, NY
1970 Pittsburgh International Exhibition at the Carnegie Institute
1968 Documenta IV, Kassel
1964 Documenta IV, Kassel
Pittsburgh International Exhibition at the Carnegie Institute
1962 Venice Biennale
1961 Pittsburgh International Exhibition at the Carnegie Institute
1958 Pittsburgh International Exhibition at the Carnegie Institute
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Aichi, Japan
Albany Mall Project, Albany, New York
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, Pennsylvania
Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, Texas
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
The Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami, Florida
Arts Club of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
City of Binghamton, New York
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama
Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
The Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia
City Art Museum, Saint Louis, Missouri
The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, Texas
Delaware Art Museum, Wilmington, Delaware
The Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, Michigan
Fairmont Park, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Farnsworth Art Museum, Rockland, Maine
Fine Art Museums of San Francisco, San Francisco, California
Friends of Art and Preservation in Embassies, Washington, D.C.
Fukutake Collection, Okayama, Japan
Galleria Civica d’ Arte Moderna e Contemporanea di Torino, Torino, Italy
The Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University Art Collection, New York
Hakone Open-Air Museum, Hakone-machi, Japan
Hara Museum of Contemprary Art, Tokyo, Japan
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Hiroshima, Japan
Hirshhorm Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Hospital Corporation of America, Chicago, Illinois
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
The Jewish Museum, New York, New York
Julliard School of Music, Lincoln Center, New York, New York
Kawamura Memorial Museum, Japan
Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida
Frederik Meijer Gardens and Sculpture Park, Grand Rapids, Michigan
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, New York
Minnesota Museum of Art, Saint Paul, Minnesota
The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
Musee de Grenoble, Grenoble, France
Musee d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
Musee de Peinture et de Sculpture, Grenoble, Grance
Musee naitional d’art moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Houston, Texas
The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
The Museum of Modern Art, Toyama, Japan
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana
City of New York, New York
The Newark Museum, Newark, New York
Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Alborg, Denmark
North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, North Carolina
Norton Simon Museum of Art, Pasadena, California
Ohara Museum of Art, Okayama, Japan
Openluchtmuseum voor Beeldhouwskunst Middelheim, Antwerp, Belgium
Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona
Queens College, Queens, New York
Rijkmuseum Kroller-Muller, Otterlo, The Netherlands
Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts
San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California
Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art, Edinburgh, Scotland
City of Scottsdale, Arizona
Sezon Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan
The Sogetsu Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York
Sonje Museum of Contemporary Art, Kyungje, Korea
Storm King Art Center, Sculpture Park, Mountainville, Ne York
Tate Gallery, London, England
Temple Israel, Boston, Massachusetts
The Toledo Museum of Art, Toledo, Ohio
University of Nebraska Art Galleries – Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, Lincoln, Nebraska
Wakayama Prefectural Museum of Modern Art, Wakayama, Japan
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut
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