KEITH SONNIER 1941 Born in Mamou, LA, Lives and works in New York City and Bridgehampton, NY, EDUCATION 1963 University of Southwestern Louisiana, Lafayette, B.A. 1966 Douglass College, Rutgers University, M.F.A. SOLO EXHIBITIONS 2017 Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT, Pace Gallery, New York, NY, 2016 Maccarone, Los Angeles, CA, Pace Gallery, London, UK Galerie Forsblom, Helsinki, Finland Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK Pace gallery, New York, NY, 2015 Galerie Mansart, Paris, France Maccarone, Los Angeles, CA, Musee d'art Moderne et d'art Contemporain, Nice, France Hall Art Foundation s Galleries in Reading, VT, Castelli Gallery 2015, Castelli Gallery, New York, NY, 2014 Tripoli Gallery of Contemporary Art, Southampton, NY, Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, University of Lafayette, LA, Pace Gallery, New York, NY, 2013 JGM Galerie, Paris, France Guy Pieters Gallery, St. Paul de Vence, France National Exemplar, New York, NY, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY, 2012 Häusler Contemporary Zurich, Switzerland Guy Pieters Gallery, Knokke, Belgium BMW Museum, Munich, Germany 2011 Häusler Contemporary München, Munich, Germany Leo Castelli, New York, NY, 2010 Artclub 1563, Seoul, Korea Louisiana Art and Science Museum, Baton Rouge, LA, Heriard Cimino Gallery, New Orleans, LA, The Bernier/ Eliades Gallery, Athens, Greece JGM Galerie, Paris, France Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY, 2009 El Berlin, Germany Häusler Contemporary, Zurich, Switzerland 2008 PaceWildenstein, New York, NY, Texas Gallery, Houston, TX, JGM Galerie, Paris, France Sadie Coles HQ, London, UK Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY,
2007 Häusler Contemporary, Munich, Germnay 2005 Joseloff Gallery, University of Hartford, CT, Arts Club of Chicago, IL, PaceWildenstein, New York, NY, 2004 Galerie Proarta, Zurich, Switzerland 2003 Sonnabend Gallery, New York, NY, Heriard-Cimino Gallery, New Orleans, LA, Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA,, traveled to: Ace Gallery, New York, NY, Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, 2002 Rathaus Galerie, Munich, Germany Neue National Galerie, Berlin, Germany Galerie Jürgen Becker, Hamburg, Germany 2001 Overbeck Gesellschaft Lübeck, Germany 2000 Zumtobel Staff Lichtzentrum, Zurich, Switzerland Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY, 1999 Kunsthaus Bregenz, Bregenz, Austria Galerie Evelyne Canus, Colle sur Loup, France Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York, NY, Kulturmanagement Häusler, Munich, Germany Aktionsforum Praterinsel, Munich, Germany Marlborough Gallery, New York, NY, 1997 Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery, New York, NY, 1996 University Art Gallery, Staller Center for the Arts, State University of New York at Stony Brook, NY, Galerie Malka Lallouz, Los Angeles, CA, 1995 Marguerite Oestreicher Fine Arts, New Orleans, LA, 1994 Drawing Center, New York, NY, Betsy Senior Gallery, New York, NY, 1993 Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany, traveled to: Kunsthalle Nurnberg, Nurnberg, Germany; Kunstverein St. Gallen Kunstmuseum, St. Gallen, Switzerland Galerie Lallouz & Watterson, Montreal, QC, Canada 1992 Gallery Camino Real, Boca Raton, FL, Gallery Interform, Osaka, Japan Galerie Carola Mosch, Berlin, Germany Gallery 360-Person s Weekend Museum, Tokyo, Japan Leo Castelli Graphics, New York, NY, 65 Thomson, New York, NY, Editions Ilene Kurtz, New York, NY, Musée-Château d Annecy, Annecy, France 1991 1990 Liverpool Gallery, Brussels, Belgium California State University Art Museum, Long Beach, LA, Harkus Gallery, Boston, MA; Galleria Il Ponte, Rome, Italy Blum Helman Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Galerie Faust, Geneva, Switzerland Halle Sud, Geneva, Switzerland 1989 Galerie Jürgen Becker, Hamburg, Germany, traveled to: Stätisches Museum Abteiber Monchengladbach, Germnay Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin, Ireland
Tilden Foley Gallery, New Orleans, LA, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.,, traveled to: Cranbrook Academy, Bloomfield Hills, MI, Studio Claudio Guenzani, Milan, Italy Galleria Schema, Florence, Italy Galerie Ryzsard Varisella, Frankfurt, Germany Galerie Montenay, Paris, France Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York, NY, 1988 Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, VA, 1987 Annina Nosei Gallery, New York, NY, Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA, Centre d Art Contemporain du Domaine de Kerguehennec, Bignan, France Galerie Nature Morte, New York, NY, 1986 Tilden Foley Gallery, New Orleans, LA, Galerie Montenay Delsol, Paris, France 1985 Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, MI, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Galleria Schema, Florence, Italy 1984 Armory Gallery, Virginia Polytech Institute, VA, Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo, traveled to: Sakura Gallery, Nagoya, Japan; Amano Gallery, Osaka, Japan Carol Taylor Art, Dallas, TX, 1983 P.S. 1 Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Long Island City, Queens, NY, 1982 Galerie Eric Fabre, Paris, France Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1981 Portland Center for the Visual Arts,OR, Michelle Lachowsky Gallery, Antwerp, Germany David Bellman, Toronto, Canada 1980 Galerie France Morin, Montreal, QC, Canada Tony Shafrazi Gallery, New York, NY, 1979 Galerie Michele Lachowsky, Brussels, Belgium Eric Fabre Gallery, Paris, France Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany Musée National d Art Moderne, Centre George Pompidou, Paris, France 1978 Institute for Art and Urban Resources, Inc., The Clocktower, New York, NY, Rosamund Felsen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Castelli Graphics, New York, NY, 1977 Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, and Keith Sonnier Center for New Art Activity, New York, NY, 1976 Creigh Gallery, Coronado, CA, 1975 1974 Sender/Creigh Gallery, Coronado, CA, 1973 The Kitchen, New York, NY,
Ace Gallery, Venice, CA, 1972 1971 The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 1970 Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Germany Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 1968 1966 Douglass College, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ, SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS 2016 Forty, MoMA PS1, Long Island City, Queens, NY, 2015 America Is Hard To See, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 2014 In The Beginning/End-States, Sgorbati Projects, New York, NY, 2013 Prada Foundation, Ca Corner della Regina, Venice, Italy 2011 Burning, Bright: A Short History of the Light Bulb, The Pace Gallery, New York, NY, 2010 Contemporary Art From the Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 50 Years at Pace, The Pace Gallery, New York, NY, 2009 A Tribute to Ron Warren, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY, Portrait of the artist as a biker, MAGASIN Centre National d Art Contemporain, Grenoble, France 2008 Geometry as Image, Robert Miller Gallery, New York, NY, View: Fourteen/Hooking Up, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY, 2006 View Nine: I Love My Scene/Scene 1, Mary Boone Gallery, New York, NY, 2002 The 1970s: Art in Question, CAPC Museé d Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France 2001 The Projected Image in American Art 1964-1977, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 1999 Afterimage: Film and Video Program, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, The American Century: Art and Culture 1950-2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 1997 Selections from the Video Collection, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 1996 Reel Work: Artists Films and Videos of the 1960s and 1970s, Center of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL, 1993 Gravity and Grace: The Changing Condition of Sculpture 1965-1975, Hayward Gallery, London, UK 1991 The New Sculpture 1965-1975: Between Geometry and Gesture, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, 1990 The New Sculpture 1965-1975: Between Geometry and Gesture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, Neon Stu cke, Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany 1987 Illuminations: The Art of Light, The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH, The Sonnabend Collection, Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain 1985 Lightworks: Works of Art Using Light as Medium, Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia 1983 The First Show: Paintings and Sculpture from Eight Collections 1940-1980, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, 1982 La 40 Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy 1980 Hie r et Apreś, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal, Canada
1978 Aspekte der 60er Jahre: Aus der Sammlung Reinhard Onnasch, Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany 1977 1977 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, A View of a Decade, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL, 1976 200 Years of American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New york, NY, American Artists: A New Decade, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI, 1974 Art/Voir, Museé National d Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France Projects: Video 1, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, 1973 1973 Biennial Exhibition: Contemporary American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY, 1972 La 36 Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy Documenta 5, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel, Germany 1969 New Methods: New Media, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, Live in Your Head. When Attitudes Become Form, Kunsthalle Bern, Switzerland Square Pegs in Round Holes, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands COLLECTIONS Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Vaduz Kunstverein St. Gallen, Switzerland Musée National d'art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris Museu d Art Contemporani de Barcelona Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany Museum of Modern Art, New York National Gallery of Australia, Canberra New Orleans Museum of Art, Louisian Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. Sprengel Museum, Hannover, Germany Städtisches Museum Abteiberg Monchengladbach, Germany Stedelijik Museum, Amsterdam Whitney Museum of American Art