Born in New York City, New York, 1949.
EDUCATION
New York University, NYC, B.A., 1971.
California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California, M.F.A., 1973.
Lives in New York City.
SELECTED SOLO SHOWS
1983
Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
1986
Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts.
Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
1987
Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
1988
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California.
Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
1989
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas.
Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1990
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada.
Kunsthalle Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
1991
Kolnischer Kunstverein, Koln, Germany.
Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
1993
Galerie Max Hetzler, Koln, Germany.
1994
Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
1995
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC, NY.
Astrup Fearnley Museet for Moderne Kunst, Oslo, Norway.
I.V.A.M., Centre Julio Gonzalez, Valencia, Spain.
1996
Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
1997
Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France.
Bawag Foundation, Vienna, Austria.
1999
Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
2000
Mario Diacono Gallery, Boston, Massachusetts.
Galerie Ernst Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland.
Maureen Paley/Interim Art, London, England.
2001
Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
2003
Lehman Maupin Gallery, NYC, NY.
Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
2004
Dialogue with Space, Esbjerg Art Museum, Esbjerg, Denmark.
2005
Ruzicska Gallery, Salzburg, Austria.
2007
Thomas Ammann Fine Art, Zurich, Switzerland.
Cais Gallery, Seoul, South Korea.
Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
2008
Imago Galleries, Palm Desert, California.
2010
Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
Ross Bleckner: Meditation and Time, Emilio Mazzoli Galleria d’Arte Contemporanea, Modena, Italy.
2011
Ross Bleckner: Time Paintings, Alain Noirhomme Gallery, Brussels, Belgium.
2012
Ross Bleckner: Brains and Flowers Paintings, Jablonka Galerie, Köln, Germany.
2014
Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
2015
18 Inches, Sargent’s Daughters, NYC, NY. (with Volker Eichelmann)
Black Monet, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, Colorado.
2016
Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
Ross Bleckner: Forever Overhead, Leila Heller Gallery, Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
Architecture of the Sky, Bohm Chapel, Hurth-Kalscheuren, Germany.
2017
Find a peaceful place where you can make plans for the future, Dallas Contemporary, Dallas, Texas.
Ross Bleckner: Small Paintings, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, Colorado.
2018
Time of Disquiet, Maruani Mercier, Paris, France.
Time of Disquiet. Maruani Mercier, Brussels, Belgium.
Galleria Mazzoli, Modena, Italy.
SELECTED GROUP SHOWS
1979
New Painting/New York, Hayward Gallery, London, England.
1981
New York in Black and White, The Museum of Modern Art/Penthouse, NYC, NY.
1984
The Meditative Surface, The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
1985
Currents, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts.
1987
1987 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, NY.
1988
Biennial of Sydney, Sydney, Australia.
The Image of Abstraction, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California.
1988
The Binational/Die Binationale, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Massachusetts.
Art at the End of the Social, The Rooseum, Malmo, Sweden.
Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
1989
1989 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, NY.
Prospect 89, Frankfurt Kunstverein and Schirn Kunsthalle, Frankfurt, West Germany.
1991
Mito y Magia en America: Los Ochenta, Museo de arte contemporaneo de Monterrey, Monterrey, Mexico.
Metropolis, Martin-Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany.
Devil on the Stairs: Looking Back on the Eighties, Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1992
Slow Art: Painting in New York Now, P.S. 1 Museum, Long Island City, New York.
1994
Painting and Sculpture: Recent Acquisitions, The Museum of Modern Art, NYC, NY.
1995
Passions Privees, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France.
1996
Nuevas Abstracciones, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain.
1997
Birth of the Cool: Amerikanische Malerei, Kunsthaus Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland.
1999
The American Century: Art and Culture 1950-2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, NY.
2000
In the Power of Painting, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden.
On Canvas: Contemporary Painting, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, NYC, NY.
In the Power of Painting, Alesco, Zurich, Switzerland.
2001
Mythic Proportions: Painting in the 1980s, Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida.
Jasper Johns to Jeff Koons: Four Decades of Art from the Broad Collection, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California.
2002
Art Downtown: New York Painting and Sculpture, 48 Wall Street, NYC, NY.
2003
Me & More, Kunstmuseum Luzern, Lucerne, Switzerland.
2004
Flowers, Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
Flowers Observed, Flowers Transformed, The Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.
A Celebration of the Guild Hall Academy of the Arts Lifetime Achievement Honorees in the Visual Arts, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, New York.
North Fork/South Fork: East End Art Now/Part II, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York.
2005
Picturing America: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art, Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum, Nagasaki, Japan.
Zoo Story, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, New York.
2006
View Nine: I Love My Scene/Scene 3, Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
2007
Timer .01: Intimità/Intimacy, Triennale Bovisa, Milan, Italy.
All the More Real: Portrayals of Intimacy and Empathy, The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York.
2008
Genesis – The Art of Creation, Zentrum Paul Klee, Bern, Switzerland.
Empires and Environments, The Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts.
2009
A Tribute to Ron Warren, Mary Boone Gallery. NYC, NY.
2010
Your History is Not Our History, Haunch of Venison, NYC, NY.
Selections, LA Art House, West Hollywood, California.
Other as Animal, Danese Gallery, NYC, NY.
America: Now and Here, cross-country traveling exhibition.
Stream of the Unknown: Selections from the Collection, Fisher Landau Center for Art, Long Island City, New York.
2011
Surrounding Bacon and Warhol: Selections from the Astrup Fearnley Collection, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art, Oslo, Norway.
Pop Art 1960’s-2000’s From Misumi Collection, Kawaguchiko Museum of Art, Yamanashi Prefecture, Japan.
Circa 1986 - The '80s from Six Important New York Art Collections, Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, New York.
2012
Word Symbol Space, The Jewish Museum, NYC, NY.
Conceptual Abstraction, Hunter College/Times Square Gallery, NYC, NY.
2014
Urban Theater: New York in the 1980s, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas.
2015
Phantom Bodies: The Human Aura in Art, Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, Tennessee.
Art AIDS America, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, Washington.
Art AIDS America, Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw State University, Kennesaw, Georgia.
2016
Art AIDS America, The Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York.
Phantom Bodies: The Human Aura in Art, Ringling Museum of Art, Sarasota, Florida.
Nice Weather, Skarstedt Gallery, NYC, NY.
Water|Bodies, Southampton Arts Center, Southampton, New York.
Unfinished Business: Paintings from the 1970s and 1980s by Ross Bleckner, Eric Fischl, and David Salle, Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York.
Art AIDS America, Alphawood Foundation/Alphawood Gallery, Chicago, Illinois.
2017
Fast Forward: Painting From the 1980s, Whitney Museum of American Art, NYC, NY.
Blue Black, Pulitzer Arts Foundation, St. Louis, Missouri.
Abstract Painting Now!, Kunsthalle Krems, Krems, Austria.
Artists as Innovators: Celebrating Three Decades of New York Council on the Arts/New York Foundation for the Arts Fellowships, Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, State University of New York at New Paltz, New Paltz, New York. (Traveling exhibition)
Body Talk, Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University, Waltham, Massachusetts.
2018
Welcome to the Dollhouse, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California.
Scenes from the Collection, The Jewish Museum, NYC, NY.
Paintings, Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
2019
Paintings, Mary Boone Gallery, NYC, NY.
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
Brenson, Michael, Ross Bleckner, THE NEW YORK TIMES, 14 February 1986, p. C32.
Westfall, Stephen, Ross Bleckner at Mary Boone, ART IN AMERICA, May 1986, pp. 155-156.
Cameron, Dan, On Ross Bleckner's 'Atmosphere' Paintings, ARTS MAGAZINE, February 1987, pp. 30-33.
Smith, Roberta, Art: In Bleckner Show, an Array of Past Motifs, THE NEW YORK TIMES, 13 February 1987, p. C16.
Mc Gill, Douglas, An Artist's Journey from Obscurity to Success, THE NEW YORK TIMES, 19 February 1987, p. C30.
Rankin, Aimee, Ross Bleckner, BOMB, April 1987, pp. 22-27.
Steir, Pat, Where the Birds Fly, What the Lines Whisper, ARTFORUM, May 1987, pp. 107-111.
Liebmann, Lisa, Ross Bleckner's Mood Indigo, ART NEWS, May 1988, pp. 128-133. (illus: "Architecture of the Sky", Cover, C).
Brenson, Michael, Ross Bleckner, THE NEW YORK TIMES, 28 October 1988, p. C31.
Storr, Robert, Ross Bleckner, ART IN AMERICA, March 1989, pp. 145-146.
Kuspit, Donald, Ross Bleckner, ARTFORUM, September 1991, pp. 125-126.
Smith, Roberta, Bleckner: loss and mourning, abstractly, THE NEW YORK TIMES, 27 May 1994, p. C24.
Carrier, David, and Neville Wakefield, Mourning Glory: Ross Bleckner in Retrospect, ARTFORUM, February 1995, pp. 68-75, 105. (illus: "Throbbing Hearts", Cover, C).
Stevens, Mark, Art of Darkness, NEW YORK MAGAZINE, 13 March 1995, p. 68.
Schjeldahl, Peter, Angles in America, THE VILLAGE VOICE, 14 March 1995, p. 80.
Schwabsky, Barry, Memories of Light, ART IN AMERICA, December 1995, pp. 80-85, 109.
Schjeldahl, Peter, Paint Recovery, THE VILLAGE VOICE, 28 May 1996, p. 91.
Adams, Brooks, Ross Bleckner at Mary Boone, ART IN AMERICA, November 1996, p. 118.
Smith, Roberta, Evocative Cells: Uptown, Downtown, All Around, THE NEW YORK TIMES, 27 November 1998, p. E42.
Ebony, David, Ross Bleckner at Mary Boone and Lehmann Maupin, ART IN AMERICA, April 1999, p. 139.
Yablonsky, Linda, Ross Bleckner, TIME OUT NEW YORK, 7 June 2001, p. 58.
Cameron, Dan, Ross Bleckner talks to Dan Cameron, ARTFORUM, March 2003, pp. 230-231, 274.
Sheets, Hilarie M., Ross Bleckner, ART NEWS, July 2003, pp. 154-155.
Wendt, Amy, Exhibitionism: Ross Bleckner, FLAUNT, November 2003, pp. 188-190.
Amy, Michael, Arts & Letters: Gallery-Going, THE NEW YORK SUN, 18 December 2003, p. 19.
Zimmermann, Mark, Ross Bleckner, ART US, April 2004, p. 25.
Johnson, Ken, The Hamptons, A Playground For Creativity, THE NEW YORK TIMES, 6 August 2004, pp. E29, E32.
Harrison, Helen A., An Artist's Investigation of Loss and Memory, THE NEW YORK TIMES, Long Island Journal, 2 January 2005.
Kuspit, Donald, Ross Bleckner/Mary Boone Gallery, ARTFORUM, February 2008, p. 289.
Diehl, Carol, Ross Bleckner at Mary Boone, ART IN AMERICA, May 2008, pp. 187-188.
Kennedy, Randy, For Child Soldiers, a Chance To Wield Brushes, Not Arms, THE NEW YORK TIMES, 29 April 2009, pp. C1, C7.
Ebony, David, Bleckner Honored by United Nations, ART IN AMERICA, May 2009, pp. 30-32.
Dannatt, Adrian, Eighties star artist reborn as UN ambassador, THE ART NEWSPAPER, June 2009, p. 45.Cotter, Holland, Welcome to Gulu, THE NEW YORK TIMES, 5 June 2009, p. C21.
Pincus-Witten, Robert, 'Your History Is Not Our History'/Haunch of Venison, ARTFORUM, June 2010, p. 349-350.
Helander, Bruce, The Naked Truth About the Business of Art, THE ART ECONOMIST, January 2011, pp. 10-13.
Staff, Lichter strahlen am Meer, UNTITLED (Berlin), October 2011, pp. 150-157.
Indrisek, Scott, Studio Check: Ross Bleckner, MODERN PAINTERS, March 2014, pp. 44-45.
Melouney, Carmel, Artist of Science Makes His Return, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL, 8-9 March 2014, pp. A15-A16.
Landes, Jennifer, Ross Bleckner at Mary Boone, THE EAST HAMPTON STAR, 10 April 2014, p. C1.
Farago, Jason, The New Guard: Art/Sargent's Daughters, W MAGAZINE, April 2015, p. 90.
Van Straaten, Laura, 80s Art World "It Boy" Ross Bleckner Is Having a New York Moment, ARTNET.COM, 31 March 2016.
Durbin, Andrew, Against Message: Richard Hawkins and Andrew Durbin in Conversation, MOUSSE MAGAZINE, Number 53, April 2016, pp. 280-289.
Van Straaten, Laura, Dubai Debut: Ross Bleckner, CANVAS, June 2016, pp. 108-117.
Russeth, Andrew, Three Kings: Painters David Salle, Eric Fischl, and Ross Bleckner Return to the Decades They Conquered, WMAGAZINE.COM, 27 July 2016.
Cotter, Holland, Art From the Age of AIDS, THE NEW YORK TIMES, 29 July 2016, pp. C21, C24.
Landes, Jennifer, Parrish Presents Three Who Bucked the Trend, THE EAST HAMPTON STAR, 4 August 2016.
Johnson, Ken, Searching for Light in the Darkness of the '80s, THE NEW YORK TIMES, 19 August 2016, p. C20.
Schjeldahl, Peter, Fresh Paint, THE NEW YORKER, 6 February 2017, pp. 76-77.
Rees, Christina, Ross Bleckner at the Dallas Contemporary, GLASSTIRE.COM, 19 February 2017.
Brettell, Rick, Blackout? Three shows create meta-exhibition of contemporary art in Dallas and Fort Worth, DALLAS NEWS, 25 February 2017.
