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James Rosenquist Biographie
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1933 |
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Born November 29 in Grand Forks, North Dakota. Parents Louis and Ruth Rosenquist of Swedish descent. Family settles in Minneapolis in 1942
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1948 |
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Won junior high school scholarship to study art at the Minneapolis School of Art
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1952 - 1954 |
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Attended the University of Minneapolis and studied with Cameron Booth. Visited The Art Institute of Chicago to study old masters and 19th century paintings. Painted storage bins, grain elevators, and gasoline tanks during the summer. Works for General Outdoor Advertising, Minneapolis and painted commercial billboards
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1955 |
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Received scholarship to the Art Students League, New York: studies with Morris Kantor, George Grosz and Edwin Dickinson
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1957 - 1959 |
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Became a member of the International Sign, Pictorial and Display Union, local 230. Employed by A.H. Villerpigue, Inc., General Outdoor Advertising, Brooklyn, and Artkraft Strauss Sign Corporation. Painted billboards in the Times Square area and other parts of New York
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1960 |
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Quit working for Artkraft Strauss Sign Corporation. rents a loft at 3- Coenties Slip; neighbours include painters Jack Youngerman, Ellsworth Kelly, and Robert Indiana
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1961 |
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Painted ’Zone’ (1961), first studio painting to employ commercial techniques
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1963 |
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Commissioned by Philip Johnson to paint mural for the New York World’s Fair, New York State Pavilion. exhibits in ‘Americans 1963’ at the Museum of Modern Art in the ’Six painters and the object’ at the Solomon R Guggenheim museum
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1967 |
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Moved to Long Island
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1975 |
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Lobbied in Washington, D.C. with Marion Javits and Robert Rauschenberg for a law to allow artists to get a 15% royalty after the art work has been resold
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1976 |
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Built a house and studio with Gilbert Flores, architect, in Aripeka, FL
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1977 |
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Purchased building on Chamber Street, NY. In Florida, painted a number of 15 feet paintings for Leo Castelli
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1978 |
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Appointed to six-year term as member of the National Council on the Arts, Washington, D.C.
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1980 |
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Painted ‘Star Thief’, 17’ x 46’
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1986 |
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F-111 is sold at Sotheby’s for $2.09 million for the estate of Robert C. Scull
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1987 |
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Nominated into the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York
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1988 |
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Received Golden Plate Award from the American Academy of Achievement, Nashville, Tennessee. Exhibits ‘Through the Eye of the Needle to the Anvil’ (1988), 17’ x 46’, at Leo Castelli gallery, New York
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1998 |
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Completed ceiling mural for the Palais de Chaillot in Paris for the 50th anniversary signing of the Rights of Man by Eleanor Roosevelt
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Lives and works in Aripeka, Florida, USA
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| Expositions sélectionnées |
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2008
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Pop and Op, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, NY
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2008
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Modern Prints - Klassische Moderne bis Pop Art, Galerie Proarta, Zurich, Switzerland
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2008
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J. Rosenquist, D. LaChapelle, S. Levine, P.Taaffe: REVERB, Jablonka Galerie, Berlin, Germany
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2008
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James Rosenquist: The Hole in the Center of Time, Jablonka Galerie, Berlin, Germany
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2007
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When Art Worlds Colldie - The 60's, Woodward Gallery, New York, NY
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2007
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James Rosenquist: Time Blades, Acquavella Galleries, New York, NY (solo)
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2007
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James Rosenquist: The Speed of Light and Beyond, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT (solo)
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2006
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James Rosenquist, Miami Art Museum, Miami, FL (solo)
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2006
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Works on Paper, Thomas McCormick Gallery, Chicago, IL
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2005
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James Rosenquist: Monochromes, Acquavella Contemporary Art, Inc., New York, NY (solo)
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2004
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James Rosenquist: Welcome to the Water Planet, Galerie ArtPoint der Ferratec AG, Rudolfstetten, Switzerland (solo)
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2003 - 2004
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A Retrospective The Menil Collection and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX (Moving to the Soloman R. Guggenheim Museum, New York and Guggenheim, Bilbao)
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2003 - 2004
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James Rosenquist: Recent Paintings’at Robert McClain Gallery, Houston, TX
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2003 - 2004
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American Pop Icons at the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum at the Venetian, Las Vegas, NV
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2003 - 2004
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James Rosenquist Collages Opening exhibition at Jacobson Howard, New York, NY
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2003
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James Rosenquist: Selected Works on Paper, Leo Castelli, New York, NY (solo)
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2001
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James Rosenquist: The Stowaway Peers Out at the Speed of Light, Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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2000
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James Rosenquist: Paintings/James Rosenquist: Selects Dali at the Salvador Dali Museum, St. Petersburg, FL
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1999
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One Man exhibition entitled Meteors: New Paintings at Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, CO (solo)
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1999
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The Swimmer in the Econo-mist was shown at the opening exhibition of the Massachusetts Guggenheim Museum of Contemporary Art
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1998
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The Summer in the Econo-mist is exhibited at the Deutsche Guggenheim Berlin, Germany
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1998
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New Paintings, After Berlin shown at Feigen Contemporary, New York, NY
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1997
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Singapore shown at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Paris, France
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1997
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New works exhibited at Wetterling Teo Gallery in Singapore
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1997
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James Rosenquist: Three Large Paintings, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris, France (solo)
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1997
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The Graphics of James Rosenquist, Center for Contemporary Graphic Art and Tyler Graphics (solo)
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1996
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James Rosenquist: 4 E 77 St 1970 Revisited and New Paper Constructions from Gemini G.E.L., Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1996
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Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Paris, France and Salzburg, Austria and a Feigen Incorporated in Chicago, IL (solo)
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1995
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PYO Gallery in Seoul, South Korea and Civico Museo Revoltella in Trieste, Italy (solo)
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1994
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Commemorates 30 years with Leo Castelli Gallery with the exhibition ‘The Big paintings, Thirty Years’
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1994
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Wetterling Teo Gallery, Singapore (solo)
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1993
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Time Dust, Complete Graphics: 1962-92 print exhibition that travels to 10 venues
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1993
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Recent painting exhibitions at Leo Castelli Gallery, New York and Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Salzburg, Austria
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1993
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Gift Wrapped Doll paintings exhibited at Feigen Incorporated, Chicago, IL
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1993
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The Complete Graphics: 1962—1992, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
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1993
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The Serenade for the Doll after Claude Debussy or Gift Wrapped Dolls, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Tokyo, Japan (solo)
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1992
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The Early Picture 1961-64 exhibited at Gagosian Gallery, New York, NY
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1992
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Galleria Weber, Alexander y Cobo in Madrid, Spain and at Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac in Paris, France (solo)
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1991
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Retrospective exhibition at the Central Hall of Artists, Tretyakov Gallery, Moscow and at IVAM Centre Julio Gonzalez, Valencia, Spain
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1988
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Exhibits Through the Eye of the Needle to the Anvil (1988), 17’ x 46’, at Leo Castelli gallery, New York, NY
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1984
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James Rosenquist and Maurice Sanchez: Artist and Printer, A Decade of Collaboration 1972—82, Smith College Museum of Art, Northampton, MA
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1983
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House of Fire, Castelli-Feigen-Corcoran Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1983
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Exhibits Four New Clear Women (1982), 17’ x 24’, for the Four Seasons Restaurant, New York, NY
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1983
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Exhibits Star Thief at Centre for the Fine Arts, Miami, FL
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1981
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Exhibits Star Thief in one-man exhibition at Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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1979
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James Rosenquist, Galerie Ileana Sonnabend, Paris, France (solo)
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1977
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Nine Large Drawings, Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane, Australia (solo)
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1975
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Rosenquist: Drawings, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
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