BIOGRAFIE
1937 | Born in Hodgeman County, Kansas |
1961 | BA, Fort Hays State University, Fort Hays, Kansas |
1964 | MFA, University of Arizona, Arizona |
AUSSTELLUNGEN
2014 | 'In Daylight' Small Paintings Including selected works by Eve Aschheim, Karen Baumeister, Anna Bogatin, Dove Bradshaw, Max Cole, Ruth Ann Fredenthal, Martha Groome, Kazimira Rachfal, and Merrill Wagner, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
2013 | Max Cole: Salt Marsh, Pampas, Dog Star and Fourteen New Drawings, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania Max Cole | Frank Badur, Gruppenausstellung »System und Sinnlichkeit«, Kupferstichkabinett, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Germany |
2012 | …to the line, Mies van der Rohe Haus, Berlin Schraffuren des Ungreifbaren, Galerie Wenger horizontal, Gesellschaft für Kunst und Gestaltung e.V., Bonn Beyond, Charlotte Jackson Fine Art, Sante Fe, New Mexico |
2011 | That’s What Friends are For, Neuer Kunstverein, Aschaffenburg First Drawings from Somerset, Galerie Lindner, Wien The Splendor of Truth, the Beauty of Charity, Vatikanisches Museum für die Kunst der Moderne und der Gegenwart, Rom Papier / paper, kunstgaleriebonn, Bonn Terre Firma. Max Cole: New Paintings, Haines Gallery, San Francisco Max Cole. Quintessence over Time, kunstgaleriebonn, Bonn American Art 1940 to the Present Day, Daimler Contemporary, Berlin Zeichnung Wien, Galerie Lindner, Wien |
2010 | Light and Line, New Paintings, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia Paintings, Galerie Schlegl, Zürich Array [+] Prints, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania |
2009 | To…A Changing Exhibition of Work by Gallery Artists, Larry Becker Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania A Bit of America, Robert Barry, Max Cole, Sol Lewitt, Robert Mangold, David Rabinowitch, James Reineking, Ed Ruscha, Richard Serra, Phil Sims, Roy Thurston, Shawn Wallis, Jerry Zeniuk. Vaserely Museum, Budapest, Hungary Konkrete Idol, Museum Liner, Appellzell Une Collection d’art Contemporain, Jeunet, Musée d’art et d’histoire, Ville de Neuchatel, Neuchatel Other Voices, Other Rooms, a cura di/curated by Steven Evans, Dorsky Gallery curatorial programs, Long Isld City, New York A bit of America, Galerie Lindner, Vienna |
2008 | Zur Kontingenz der Linie, Kunstraum Alexander Buerkle, Freiburg Call it What you like, Art Center Silkeborg Bad, Silkeborg Bad Schmidt Contemporary Art, St. Louis, Missouri There is Desire Left…. Knock Knock: 40 Years of Fine Arts from the Mondstudi Collection,n Kunstmuseum Bern, Switzerland. Traveled to Wiesbaden Museum, Wiesbaden, Germany Gestern War/Heute ist, Museum Gegenstandsfreier Kunst, Otterndorf, Germany |
2007 | Paintings from the Autumn . . . Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California The Panza Collection: An Experience of Light and Color, Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, New York On redtail pond: paintings from the summer, Galerie Lindner, Vienna, Austria Maestri del ‘900: da Boccioni a Fontana. La collezione di un raffinato cultore dell’arte moderna, Mart, Rovereto, Italy |
2006 | Thirty-fifth Anniversary Exhibition, Galerie Schlégl, Zürich, Switzerland Touche, Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart, Germany Studio la Città, Verona, Italy |
2005 | Nero Avorio, arte antica e contemporanea a confronto, Museum Casa Juara, Val Chava, Switzerland Minimalism and After IV, Daimler Chrysler Contemporary, Berlin, Germany Je ne regrette rien, Studio la Città, Verona, Italy Museum Chasa Jaura, Val Chava, Switzerland Edizione straordinaria, Le case d’Arte 1985/2005, Assab One, Milan, Italy La dolce Crisi – Fotografia Italiana Contemporanea, curated by Francesco Bonami, Villa Manin centro d’Arte Contemporanea, Udine, Italy |
2004 | Inaugural Exibition, Kunstraum AlexMuseum Chasa Jaura, Val Chava, Switzerland Alexander Buerkle, Freiburg, Germany Paintings and Drawings, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA Kolumba, Diozesanmuseum, Cologne, Germany Galerie Lindner, Vienna, Austria Toward Infinity, Galerie Schlegl, Zurich, Swiitzerland |
2003 | Galerie Michael Sturms, Stuttgart, Germany Inaugural Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, Rovereto, Italy 'Line', Hunsaker – Shlesinger, Los Angeles, CA |
2002 | Le stanze dell’arte, MART, Rovereto, Italy Walter Storms Galerie, München Neuer Kunstverein, Aschaffenburg, Germany Galerie Walter Storms, Munich, Germany Neuer Kunstverein Aschaffenburg Aschaffenburg, Germany |
2001 | Galerie Markus Richter, Berlin, Germany I-8 Gallery, Reykjavik, Island Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA Figure Astratte, Palazzo Pallavicini Rospigliosi, Rome, Italy |
2000 | Galleria Belvedere, Milan, Italy Haus für Konstruktive und Konkrete Kunst, Zurich, Switzerland Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart / Studio la Città, Verona Studio la Città, Verona, Italy Art of the 80's and 90's, from Panza di Biumo Collection, American Academy in Rome, Italy |
1999 | Morbida Quiete e la Notte, Studio La Citta, Verona Galerie Lüdke, Cologne, Germany Galerie Schlegl, Zurich, Switzerland Gudren Spielvogel Gallery and Edition, Munich, Germany |
1998 | Ad Infinitum, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA Visions of Inner Space: The Action Mark in Contemporary American Painting, Wight Art Gallery, U.C.L.A.; National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India Museum of Modern Art, Otterndorf, Germany Intimate Abstractions, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA Reflections, Galerie Schlégl, Zürich, Switzerland Drawing Exhibition, Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart, Germany |
1997 | Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart, Germany Obsession/Devotion, Haines Gallery, San Francisco MANIF 97, Manifestation d’Arte Nouveau International et Forum, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, catalogo/catalogue Forum, Santa Barbara |
1996 | “Painting,” Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California Galerie Schlégl, Zürich, Switzerland Stark Gallery, New York, New York Galerie Conrads, Dusseldorf, Germany Einblick, Galerie Michael Sturm, Stuttgart Concrete Reality and Reflection, Part II, Galerie Schlegl, Zürich La collezione Panza di Biumo: artisti degli anni ’80 e ’90, Palazzo delle Albere, Trento, catalogo con testi di/catalogue with essays by G. Belli, G. Panza di Biumo Acquiring Minds: Contemporary Art in Santa Barbara Collections, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA Karo Dame, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau |
1994 | Pen and Ink, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, CA Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, California Drawing Exhibition, Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, CA |
1993 | Recent Drawings, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California |
1992 | Kunstraum Kassel, Kassel, Germany Galerie Schoppmann, Dusseldorf, Germany Artists for Amnesty, Fondation Nationale des Arts, Psria |
1991 | Drawings, Proctor Art Center and the New York Studio School, New York, NY Paradox: the Artist’s Mind Through Time, Museum of Art, Museum of New Mexico, NM Kiyo Higashi Gallery, Los Angeles, California Galerie Schlégl, Zürich, Switzerland |
1990 | Recent Paintings, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, California |
1989 | Mind and Matter: New American Abstraction, Chosum IIibo Gallery, Seoul; Dowse Art Musem, Wellington; Manawatu Art Gallery, Palmerston North Bishop Sutter Gallery; Manila Art Gallery, Manila; National Art Gallery, Kuala Lumpur; National Museum Gallery, Singapore Abstract Painting, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA |
1988 | Visions of Inner Space: The Action Mark in Contemporary American Painting, Wight Art Gallery, U.C.L.A.; National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi Ad Infinitum, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA 1Galerie Helene Grubair, Miami, Florida Visions of Inner Space: The Action Mark in Contemporary American Painting, Wight Art Gallery, U.C.L.A.; National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India |
1987 | Zabriskie Gallery, New York, New York Trends in Geometric Abstract Art, Tel Aviv Museum, Tel Aviv, catalogo/catalogue Years of Passage, Fresno Art Center |
1986 | Oscarsson-Siegeltuch Gallery, New York, New York The Severe and the Romantic: Geometric Humanism in American Painting 1950-1980, Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York, NY Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York, NY Spirit Tracks, Pratt Manhattan Center Gallery, New York, NY, catalogo/catalogue Absolutes Defined: Line, Light and Surface, Max Cole, Milton Resnick, Frederick Matys Thursz, Oscarsson-Siegeltuch Gallery, New York, NY |
1985 | Abstract Painting Redefined, Meisel Gallery, New York, NY Munsun-Williams-Proctor Museum, Utica, New York, NY Danforth Museum, Framington; Bucknell University, Lewiston; Stonybrook Fine Arts Gallery, New York, catalogo/catalogue Exceptions 3 – Paperworks, Pratt Manhattan Center Gallery, New York, NY Santa Barbara Collects, Santa Barbara Museum of Art |
1984 | In Celebration of Women, Part II, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York Post-War American Purism, Marilyn Pearl Gallery, New York Drawing, Painting and Sculpture, American and European, L.A. Louver Gallery, Los Angeles |
1983 | L. A. Louver, Los Angeles, California |
1980 | Seven Decades of Modern Art: Sidney Janis Collection, La Jolla Museum and Santa Barbara Museum of Art Constructivism and the Geometric Tradition, McCrory Collection, Albright-Knox Museum, Dallas Museum, La Jolla Museum, San Francisco Museum, Seattle Museum |
1979 | Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, New York Aspects of Abstract, Crocker Museum, Sacramento Black and White are Colors, Galleries of the Clarement Colleges, California |
1977 | Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, New York Less is more, Sidney Janis Gallery Thirty-Fifth Biannual, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington |
1976 | Ruth Schaffner Gallery, Los Angeles, California New Abstract Painting, Los Angeles Country Museum of Art |
1975 | Biannual Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York |
1972 | Comara Gallery, Los Angeles, California |
1971 | Comara Gallery, Los Angeles, California |
1970 | Comara Gallery, Los Angeles, California |
1963 | 261 Gallery, Tucson, Arizona |
AUSZEICHNUNGEN
2005 | Artist in Residence, The Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Bethany, Connecticut |
1994 | Artist in Residence, Roswell Museum and Art Center, New Mexico |
1988 | Stipendium Research Fellowship, Indo-U.S. Sub-Commission for Travel in India |
1983 | Stipendium Visual Artists Fellowship, The National Endowment for the Arts |