| PAUL
THEK, (1933 - 1988)
1933 Born in Brooklyn, New York
1950 Art Students League, New York
Pratt Institute, Brooklyn
1951-54 Cooper Union School of Art, New York
1967 Fulbright Fellowship
1976 National Endowment for the Arts Grant
1988 Died in New York, NY
ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2005 Paul Thek Luzern 1973/2005, Kunstmuseum Luzern
2004 Collection Lab, Kunstmuseum Lucerne
Paul Thek: Paintings 1980-1987, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich
2003 Paul Thek: Paintings of the 1980's, Alexander and Bonin,
New York
1999 Paul Thek, Camden Arts Centre, London; The Douglas Hyde
Gallery, Dublin;
Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall; Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich
Paul Thek: Selected Drawings 1966 - 1988, Alexander and Bonin, New York
1998 Paul Thek: Paintings, Works on Paper and Notebooks 1970 -1988 The
Arts Club of Chicago, IL
1995 Paul Thek: The wonderful world that almost was, Witte de With, Center for
Contemporary Art, Rotterdam; Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin; Fundacio
Antoni Tapies, Barcelona; Kunsthalle Zurich! Museum fur
Gegenwartskunst, ZUrich; MAC, galeries contemporaines des musees de Marseille,
Marseille
Etchings, XX Multiple Gallerie, Rotterdam
1993 Paul Thek: Skulpturen und Zeichnungen 1964-1976, Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich
Paul Thek: Paintings ofthe 1970's and 1980's, Brooke Alexander, New York
1992 Paul Thek: Sculpture and Drawings, Castello Di Rivara
1991 Paul Thek: Newspaper and Notebook Drawings, Brooke Alexander, New
York
Galerie Jollenbeck, Cologne
1990 Paul Thek: Sculpture 1965-1976, Brooke Alexander, New York
Galerie Samy Kinge, Paris
1989 Paul Thek: The Technological Reliquaries, The Clocktower Gallery, New
York
1988 Some New Works, MokotoffGallery, New York
Paul Thek: Selected Works 1987-1988, Brooke Alexander, New York
Paul Thek, Greenville County Museum of Art, SC
1987 MokotoffGallery, New York
1984 Barbara Gladstone Gallery, New York
1982 Little Paintings, Galerie Samy Kinge, Paris
1981 A Procession in Honor of Aesthetic Progress, Galerie Jollenbeck, Cologne
cityscapes, seascapes, other ideas, etc., Brooks Jackson Gallery Iolas, New
York
1981 Drugs, Kruiden van hemel en hel, Museum voor Land en V olkenkunde,
Rotterdam
The Personal Effects ofthe Pied Piper, Brooks Jackson Gallery Iolas, New
York
Galleria Fante di Spada, Rome
1980 Small Paintings, Brooks Jackson Gallery Iolas, New York
1978 Jack's Procession: What's Going on Here?, Lijnbaancentrum, Rotterdam
1977 Paul Thek/Processions, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of
Pennsylvania
1976 The Personal Effects ofthe Pied Piper, Galerie Alexandre Iolas, Paris
1973 Galerie Staehli-Langenbacher und Wankmiiller, Lucerne
Ark, Pyramid-Easter, Kunstmuseum, Lucerne
Ark, Pyramid-Christmas, Wilhelm-Lehmbruck-Museum der Stadt Duisburg,
Duisburg
1972 A Station of the Cross, Galerie M.E. Thelen, Essen
1971 Stable Gallery, New York
Pyramid/A Work in Progress, Moderna Museet, Stockholm
1970 Creche, Mickery Galerie Loenensloot, Loenen, The Netherlands
1969 The Procession/The Artist's Co-op, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Fishman, Stable Gallery, New York
The Procession/Easter in a Pear Tree, Mickery Galerie, Loenersloot, The
Netherlands
Work in Progress at Brusseler Platz, sponsored by Galerie M.E. Thelen,
Essen
1968 A Procession in Honor of Aesthetic Progress: Objects Theoretically to
Wear, Carry, Pull or Wave, Galerie M.E. Thelen, Essen
1967 The Tomb, Stable Gallery, New York
The Tomb-Death of a Hippie, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New
York
1966 Pace Gallery, New York
1964 Stable Gallery, New York
1963 Galleria 88, Rome
1957 Mirrell Gallery, Miami
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2004 Kliitterkammer, Institute of Contemporary Art, London
Kolumba, Diozesanmuseum, Cologne
2003 Fuiro Uso 2003 "Great Expectations", Associazione Culturale Arte
Nova,
Pescara, Italy
Global Village: The 1960s, The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts
Paul Thek and Peter Hujar, Kunstparterre, Miinchen
My People Were Fair..., Team, New York
A document made by Paul Thek and Edwin Klein, Janos Gat Gallery, New
York
2002 Imagine, You Are Standing Here in Front Of Me., Museum Boijmans Van
Beuningen, Rotterdam
My Head Is On Fire But My Heart Is Full Of Love, The Modern Institute,
Glasgow; Charlottenborg Udstillingsbygning, Copenhagen
The Object Sculpture, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds
From the Observatory, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Manifesto, or: Emotion - what is this? Early Standards since 1960, Galerie
Daniel Blau, Munchen, Germany
200 I The Devil is in the Details, Allston Skirt Gallery, Boston
Painting at the Edge of the World, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
(Self) Portraits, Alexander and Bonin, New York
A Baroque Party: Moments of Theatrum Mundi in Contemporary Art,
Kunsthalle Wien, Vienna
Prodigal Prodigy, White box, New York
2000 Face To Face: works on paper from The Museum Overholland Collections,
Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
Sweet'N Low, presented by Mixed Greens and Kenny Schachter/Rove, New
York
Full Serve, presented by Mixed Greens and Kenny SchacterlRove, New York
1999 Circa 1968, Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, Porto, Portugal
1998 From Warhol to Mapplethorpe: Three Decades of Art at ICA, Institute of
Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania
1997 Belladonna, Institute Contemporary Arts, London
Drawings, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1996 Bringing It All Back Home, Gracie Mansion/Fred Dorfman Projects, New
York
1995 Sacred Geometry, Galerie des Beaux-Arts Galerij, Brussels
Duck!, Edward Thorp Gallery, New York
1994 Contemporary Art from the Collection of the Federation of Migros
Cooperatives. Museo Cantonale d'Arte, Zurich (catalogue)
Drawn in the 1970's, Brooke Alexander, New York
Significant Losses, The Art Gallery, University of Maryland at College Park
1993 Abject Art: Repulsion and Desire in American Art. Whitney Museum of
American Art, NY
Already Buddha, Greenville County Museum of Art, SC (catalogue)
Nachtschattengewachse/The Nightshade Family. Museum Fredericianum,
Kassel (catalogue with text by Diedrich Diedrichsen, Ian Avgikos, and
Veit Loers).
Sculpture & Multiples, Brooke Alexander, New York
Vito Acconci, Bruce Nauman, Paul Thek, Brooke Alexander Editions, New
York
Wiederbegegnung mit U nbekanntem. Ein Rundgang, Erzbischofliches
Diozesanmuseum ( catalogue)
1992 Drawings, Brooke Alexander, New York
Mssr. B's Curio Shop, Thread Waxing Space, New York
Word & Image, Brooke Alexander Editions, New York
1991 (Dis)member, on the Hundredth Anniversary of Gericault's Death, Simon
Watson, New York
1990 Word as Image: American Art 1960-1990, Milwaukee Art Museum;
Oklahoma City Art Museum; The Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, (catalogue with
essays by Russel Bowman, Dean Sobel, and Gerry Biller) Contemporary Assemblage:
The Dada and Surrealist Legacy, LA Louver,
Los Angeles
Fragments, Parts, Wholes: Body and Culture, White Columns, New York
human concern/personal torment: The Grotesque in American Art
Revisited* (*after the exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, 1969),
Phyllis Kind Gallery, New Yark. Traveled to Phyllis Kind Gallery, Chicago (1991)
1987 The Success of Failure, Independent Curators Incorporated, Exhibition
traveled to: Laumeier Sculpture Garden and Park, St. Louis; University Art Gallery,
North Texas State University, Denton; Johnson Gallery, Middlebury College, VT;
and University of Arizona Museum of Art, Tucson
The Pyramid Show, Mokotoff Gallery, New York
1986 Chambre d'Amis Museum van Heedendaagse Kunst, Ghent (catalogue)
1985 The Gathering of the Avantgarde: The Lower East Side, Kenkelba House,
New York
18th International Bienal of Sao Paulo
1984 Content: A Contemporary Focus 1974-1984, Hirshhorn Museum and
Sculpture Garden, Washington, DC
1983 Urban Pulses: The Artists and the City, Pittsburgh Plan for Art
New Art at the Tate Gallery 1983, The Tate Gallery, London
1982 Tendenzan der Americanischen Zeichung, Stadtische Galerie im
Lenbachhaus, Munich
Tableaux. Nine Contemporary Sculptors. Contemporary Arts Center,
Cincinnati (catalogue with text by Michael R. Klein and Robert
Steam).
1981 Drawing Distinctions, American Drawings of the Seventies Louisiana
Museum of Modem Art, Denmark. Traveled to Kunsthalle Basel;
Stadtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich; Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen
Westkunst: Zeitgenossische Kunst seit 1939, Messehalen, Cologne
( catalogue)
Herbs from Heaven and Hell, Museum voor Land en V olkenkunde,
Rotterdam, traveling exhibition
Contemporary Art Since 1939, (Death of a Hippie), International Exhibition,
Cologne
Figurative Sculpture, The Institute for Art and Urban Resources, P.S. 1, Long
Island City, NY
Continuous Creation, Rooms by Robert Filliou, Bruce Lacey and Jill
Bruce, Anna Opperman, Paul Thek, Serpentine Gallery, London
1980 Art ofthe 70s, La Biennale di Venezia, Venice ( catalogue)
1980 Tedenzen amerikanischer Zeichnung in den siebziger Jahren, Kunsthalle
Basel, Kunstverein, Switerland
A Feast for the Eyes, Hecksher Museum, Huntington, New York
1976 La Biennale di Venezia, Venice (catalogue)
1974 Galleria Schmela, Florence
1973 Documenta 5, Kassel ( catalogue)
Ga1erie M. E. Thelen, Cologne (catalogue)
1971 Funf Sampler, Wupperta1: Von der Heydt Museum
Continuing Surrealism, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
(catalogue with essay by Lawrence Urutia)
Depth and Presence, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
( catalogue)
The Riderless Boat, Willard Gallery, New York
1970 Figures/Environments, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis (Circulated in the
United States) catalogue with essay by Dean Swanson.
1969 Human Concern/Personal Torment-The Grotesque in American Art, The
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (catalogue with essay
by Robert Doty)
Kunst der sechziger Jahre, Collection Ludwig, Wallraff-Richartz-Museum,
Cologne (catalogue)
Galerie 20, Amsterdam
1968 The Obsessive Image 1960-1968, The Institute of Contemporary Arts, London
Documenta 4, Kassel
Painting and Sculpture Today, Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indiana
1967 The Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Paintings and
Sculpture, Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh (catalogue)
1966 Art in the Mirror, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Contemporary American Still Life, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
(Circulated in the United States and Canada)
1965 The Other Tradition, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia (catalogue
with essay by G.R. Swensen)
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