| Ron Kleemann, American (1937 - )
Ron Kleemann was born in 1937 in Bay City, Michigan. He was graduated from the University of Michigan College of Architecture and Design in 1961 with a B.S. Degree in Design. He currently lives in Valatie, NY. SOLO EXHIBITIONS SELECTED EXHIBITIONS 1961 "San Francisco Art Annual," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA 1970 Gallery 99, Bay Harbor Islands, FL 1971 "Art Around the Automobile," Emily Lowe Gallery, Hofstra University, Hempstead, NY 1971 French & Co., New York, NY 1971 "New Realism," Roland Gibson Gallery, State University at Potsdam, NY 1971 "Radical Realism," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL 1971 Rider College, Trenton, NJ 1971 "The Shape of Realism," Deson-Zaks Gallery, Chicago, IL 1972 Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT 1972 "L'Hyperréalistes américains," Galerie des Quatre Mouvements, Paris, France 1972 "Painting and Sculpture Today, 1972," Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN 1972 "Phases of the New Realism," Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, FL 1972 "Realism Now," New York Cultural Center, New York, NY 1972 "Sharp-Focus Realism," Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY 1972 University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA 1972 Warren Benedek Gallery, New York, NY 1973 "Grand Maitres Hyperréalistes Américains", Galerie des Quatre Mouvements, Paris, France 1973 "Realism Now," Katonah Gallery, New York, NY 1973 Shorewood Graphics Gallery, New York, NY 1973 "The Super-Realist Vision," DeCordova and Dana Museum, Lincoln, MA 1973-74 "Hyperréalisme," Galerie Isy Brachot, Brussels, Belgium 1973-78 "Photo-Realism 1973: The Stuart M. Speiser Collection," Traveling Exhibition: Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY; Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY; Memorial Art Gallery, University of Rochester, NY; Addison Gallery of American Art, Andover, MA; Allentown Art Museum, Allentown, PA; University of Colorado Art Museum, Boulder, CO; University of Texas at Austin Art Museum, Austin, TX; Witte Memorial Museum, San Antonio, TX; Gibbes Art Gallery, Charleston, SC; Brooks Memorial Art Gallery, Memphis, TN; Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, IL; Helen Foresman Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS; Paine Art Center, Oshkosh, WI; Edwin A. Ulrich Museum, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS; Tampa Bay Art Center, Tampa, FL; Sewall Art Gallery, Rice University, Houston, TX; Tulane University Art Gallery, New Orleans, LA; Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 1974 "Amerikaans fotorealisme grafiek," Hedendaagse Kunst, Utrecht, The Netherlands; Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium 1974 "Art 5`74," Basel, Switzerland, June 19-24 1974 "11th Tokyo Biennale,`74," Tokyo Metropolitan Museum; Kyoto Municipal Museum; Aichi Perfectual Art Museum, Nagoya, Japan 1974 Galerie André-François Petit, Paris, France 1974 Moos Gallery, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 1974 "Aspects of Realism," Moos Gallery, Toronto, Ontario, Canada 1974 "New Photo-Realism," Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, CT 1974 "New Realism Revisited," Brainerd Hall Art Gallery, State University at Potsdam, NY 1974 "Painting and Sculpture Today, 1974," Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN 1974 Randolph-Macon Woman's College, Lynchburg, VA 1974 Taft Museum & Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH 1974 "38th Annual Midyear Show," The Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH, June 30 - September 2 1974 "25 Years of Janis: Part II," Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY 1975 Morgan Gallery, Shawnee Mission, KS 1975 "The New Realism: Rip-Off or Reality?" Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, KS 1975 New York Cultural Center, New York, NY 1975 "Photo-Realists," Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY 1975 "Watercolors and Drawings - American Realists," Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY 1975-76 "Photo Realism, American Painting and Prints," New Zealand Traveling Exhibition: Barrington Gallery, Auckland; Robert McDougall Art Gallery, Christchurch; Academy of Fine Arts, National Art Gallery, Wellington; Dunedin Public Art Gallery, Dunedin; Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth; Waikato Art Museum, Hamilton 1976 "Realism (Paintings and Drawings)," Young Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL 1976 "3e foire internationale d'art contemporain,” (FIAC) Grand Palais, Paris, France, October 16-24 1976 "Washington International Art Fair," Washington, DC 1976-78 "Aspects of Realism," Traveling Exhibition Sponsored by Rothman's of Pall Mall Canada, Ltd.: The Gallery/Stratford, Ontario, 6/8-9/5/76; Vancouver Centennial Museum, British Columbia, 9/16-10/17/76; Glenbow-Alberta Institute, Calgary, Alberta, 10/29-11/28/76; Mendel Art Gallery, Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; 12/10/76-1/9/77; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba, 1/20-2/20/77; Edmonton Art Gallery, Alberta, 3/1-4/1/77; Memorial University Art Gallery, St. John's, Newfoundland, 4/14-5/14/77; Confederation Art Gallery and Museum, Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island, 5/26-6/26/77; Musee d'Art Contemporain, Montreal, Quebec, 7/7-8/7/77; Dalhousie University Museum and Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 8/18-9/18/77; Windsor Art Gallery, Ontario, 9/29-10/23/77; London Public Library and Art Museum, and McIntosh Memorial Art Gallery, University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario, 11/3-11/27/77; Art Gallery of Hamilton, Ontario, 12/8/77-1/8/78 1977 "Breaking the Picture Plane," Tomasulo Gallery, Union College, Cranford, NJ, October 7 - 29 1977 Chinetti Gallery, New York, NY 1977 Galerie Le Portail, Heidelberg, West Germany 1977 Hanson-Cowles Gallery, Minneapolis, MN 1977 Montclair State College, Montclair, NJ 1977 Morgan Gallery, Shawnee Mission, KS 1977 "New in the `70s," University Art Museum, Archer M. Huntington Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, TX 1977 "New Realism," Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, FL 1977 "Photo-Realists," Shore Gallery, Boston, MA 1977 "Washington International Art Fair," Washington, DC 1977 "Works on Paper II," Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY 1977-78 "Illusion and Reality," Australian Traveling Exhibition: Australian National Gallery, Canberra; Western Australian Art Gallery, Perth; Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane; Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney; Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide; National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne; Tasmanian Museum of Art Gallery, Hobart 1978 "Art and the Automobile," Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI, January 12 – March 12 1978 "Cityscape`78," Oklahoma Art Center, Oklahoma City, OK "Photo-Realist Printmaking," Louis K. Meisel Gallery, NYC 1978 "Photo-Realism and Abstract Illusionism," The Arts & Crafts Center of Pittsburgh, PA 1978 Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, MA 1978 University of Nebraska, Lincoln, NE 1978 "Washington International Art Fair," Washington, DC 1978 "With a Little Help from Our Friends," Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS 1979 "Selections of Photo-Realist Paintings from New York City Galleries," Southern Alleghenies Museum of Art, St. Francis College, Loretto, PA, May 12 - July 8 1979 "Washington International Art Fair," Washington, DC 1980 New York Art Fair, New York, NY 1980 "Photo Realism," Kauffman Galleries, Houston, TX 1980-81 “Assignment Aviation - The Stuart M. Speiser Photo-Realist Collection,” The National Air & Space Museum, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC 1981-82 “Champions: Heroes of American Sport,” The National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution of Art, Washington, DC, June 22 - September 7; American Museum of Natural History, New York, NY, March 19 - June 27, 1982 1981 "Medicine and Science in American Art," Birmingham Museum of Art, AL, February 7 - March 29; Mississippi Museum of Art, Jackson, MS, April 10 - June 30 1981 "Cityscapes," The Graphics Gallery, Arnot Art Museum, Elmira, NY, July - August 1981 "Seven Photorealists From New York Collections," The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY, October 6 - November 8 1981-83 "Contemporary American Realism Since 1960," Traveling Exhibition: Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA, 9/18-12/13/81; Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond, VA, 2/1-3/28/82; Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA, 5/6-7/25/82; USICA Sponsored Tour: Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon, Portugal, 9/10-10/24/82; Sales de Exposciones, Madrid, Spain, 11/17/82- 1/8/83; Germanishes National Museum, Nuremberg, Germany, 2/11-4/10/83 1981-82 "Auto Art," Auto Art, Inc., Interlaken Inn, Lakeland, CT, June 1981 - June 1982 1981-82 "Real, Really Real, Super Real: Directions in Contemporary American Realism," Traveling Exhibition: San Antonio Museum of Art, TX, March 1 – April 26, 1981; Indianapolis Museum of Art, IN, May 19 – June 28; Tucson Museum of Art, AZ, July 19 – August 26; Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute, Pittsburgh, PA, October 24 – January 3, 1982, catalog. 1981-83 "American Super Realism From the Morton G. Neumann Family Collection," Traveling Exhibition: Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI, 9/1-11/1/81; The Art Center, Inc., South Bend, IN, 11/22/81-1/3/82; Springfield Art Museum, Springfield, MO, 1/16- 2/28/82; Dartmouth College Museum and Galleries, Hanover, NH, 3/19-5/2/82; DeCordova and Dana Museum, Lincoln, MA, 5/9- 6/20/82; Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA, 7/6-8/15/82; Terra Museum of American Art, Evanston, IL, 11/4/83-12/7/83 1982 California Museum of Science and Industry, Los Angeles, CA 1982 "An Appreciation of Realism,” Munson-Williams-Proctor Institute, Utica, NY, February 13 - April 11 1982 "Photographs by the Photorealists," Fort Wayne Museum of Art, IN, Jan. 8-31; Cleveland Museum of Art, OH, Feb. 11-28; Ball State Museum, Muncie, IN, March 7-31 1982 "Photo-Realisme ‘Dix Ans Apres’," Galerie Isy Brachot, Paris, France, January 13 - March 6 1982 "Louis K. Meisel Gallery at Galerie Isy Brachot," Brussels, Belgium, April 22 - May 22 1982 “The Rebounding Surface,” Avery Center for the Arts, The Bard College Center, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, August 6 - September 26 1983-85 "Assignment: Aviation-The Stuart M. Speiser Photo-Realist Collection," Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition: Anchorage Historical & Fine Arts Museum, AK, 1/1-1/31/83; Denver Museum of Natural History, CO, 7/23-9/4; Maryland Science Center, Baltimore, MD, 9/24-11/6; Columbus Museum of Arts & Sciences, GA, 11/26/83-1/8/84; Neville Public Museum, Green Bay, WI, 1/28-3/11; The Dane G. Hanson Memorial Museum, Logan, KS, 3/31-5/13; Longview Museum & Art Center, TX, 6/2-7/15; Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center, CO 8/4-9/16; Springfield Art Museum, MO, 10/6-11/18; Fine Arts Center at Cheekwood, Nashville, TN, 12/8/84-3/24/85; Historical & Creative Arts Center, Lufkin, TX, 4/13-5/26; Amarillo Art Center, TX, 6/15-7/28; Santa Fe Community College Art Gallery, Gainesville, FL, 10/19-12/1 1983 “Free Wheeling,” Squibb Gallery, Princeton, NJ, March 16 - April 24 1983 "The American Photorealists," Fischer Fine Art, London, England, May 6 - June 3 1983 Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO, September 16 - October 8; The University of Wisconsin, October 18 - November 12 1983 "10th Anniversary Exhibition," Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, October 8-29 1983-85 Guggenheim Recentralization Program, Birmingham Museum of Art, AL, October 13, 1983 - October 13, 1985 1984 Martha White Gallery, Louisville, KY, January 1984 "Important Recent Acquisitions and New Directions," Byer Museum of the Arts, Evanston, IL, March 16 - May 20 1984 "Through the Looking Glass: Reflected Images in Contemporary Art," The Heckscher Museum, Huntington, NY, May 19 - June 17 1984 "America Seen," Adams-Middleton Gallery, Dallas, TX, June 28 - September 4 1984 “Aspects of Realism,” Walter Moos Gallery, Toronto, Canada, Sept. 15 - Oct. 15 1985 "Park Synagogue Art Festival X," Cleveland, OH, April 27-30 1985 "Starved for Art," School of Visual Art, New York, NY, June 3-28 1985 "American Realism - The Precise Image," Traveling Exhibition, Japan The Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, July 25 - August 19; The Daimura Museum, Osaka, October 9 - 28; Yokohama Takashimaya November 7 - 12 (Catalog) 1985-87 "American Realism - 20th Century Drawings and Watercolors from the Glenn C. Janss Collection," Traveling Exhibition: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, CA, 11/7/85-1/12/86; DeCordova & Dana Museum and Park, Lincoln, MA, 2/13-4/6/86; Archer M. Huntington Art Gallery, University of Texas, Austin, TX, 7/31-9/21/86; Mary & Leigh Block Gallery, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL, 10/23-12/14/86; Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown, MA, 1/15-3/8/87; Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH, 4/9-5/31/87; Madison Art Center, Madison, WI, 7/26-9/20/87 1987-88 "Art & The Law," Sponsored by West Publishing Co., Saint Paul, MN, Traveling Exhibition: Plaza Gallery, Bank of America World Headquarters, San Francisco, CA, 8/3/87 - 8/14/87; Albrecht Art Museum, St. Joseph, MO, 8/25/87 - 9/27/87; Muscarelle Art Museum, College of William & Mary, Williamsburg, VA, 11/21/87 - 1/17/88; Minnesota Museum of Art, St. Paul, MN, 2/5/88 - 4/3/88 1987 "Realism: The New Generation," R.H. Love Modern, Chicago, IL, June 5 - July 13 1987 "The Urban Landscape," Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, Nov. 1988 "Art at the Armory," 69th Regiment Armory, New York, NY, January 27-31 1988 "20th Anniversary (15 in SoHo) - Artists & Movements From Our First Two Decades," Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, Nov. 5-26 1989 "New York: City By Day/City By Night," Gallery Henoch, New York, NY, February 2 - March 5 1989-90 "Trains and Planes: The Influence of Locomotion in American Painting," Traveling Exhibition: Sherry French Gallery, New York, NY, 5/24-6/17/89; Roberson Center for the Arts, Binghamton, NY, 6/25-8/31/89; National Academy of Sciences, Washington, DC, 9/26-12/15/89; Evansville Museum of Arts, IN, 1/14/90-3/4/90; The Noyes Museum, Oceanville, NJ, 3/18-5/20/90 1990 "Spring/Summer Show," Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY 1990 "Amerikansk Fotorealism," Art Now Gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden, October 20 - November 25 1991 "Photorealism: The Early Years," Isidore Ducasse Fine Arts, New York, NY, Sept. 3 - Dec. 28, catalog 1991 "In Sharp Focus: Super-Realism," Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn, NY, April 15 - July 29, catalog 1991 "Op and Pop: Prints from the Permanent Collection," DeCordova and Dana Museum and Sculpture Park, Lincoln, MA, June 22 - September 2 1991 "Motion as Metaphor - The Automobile in Art," Virginia Beach Center for the Arts, VA, April 13 - June 16 1991 "Traffic Jam - The Automobile in Art," New Jersey Center For Visual Arts, Summit, NJ, September 15 - October 27, (cat.). 1991-92 "Photo-Realism: Revisited," Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale, FL, November 22, 1991 - January 19, 1992 1992 "New York: City By Day/City By Night III," Gallery Henoch, New York, NY, February 11 - March 7 1992 "Photorealism For Nashville Collections," Fine Arts Center, Cheekwood, Nashville, TN, June 13-21 1992 "Fun & Games," Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, September 12 - October 3 1993 "Really, Real, Realism Show," Jack Wright Gallery, Palm Beach, FL, January 8-29 1993 "Photorealism Since 1980," Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY April 23 - June 24 1994 "An American Vision: Photorealism Paintings," Margulies Taplin Gallery Boca Raton, FL, March 31 - April 23 1994 "Realism In Our Time," Broden Gallery Ltd., Madison, WI, April 22 - May 20 1994 “Review of the Season,” Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY summer 1995-97 “Art from the Driver’s Seat: Americans and Their Cars,” Traveling Exhibition: Boise Art Museum, Boise ID, 9/5/95 - 10/22/95; Tarble Arts Center, Eastern Illinois State University, Charleston, IL, 11/5/95 - 12/31/95; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI, 3/31/96 - 5/19/96; Hudson River Museum, Yonkers, NY, 8/18/96 - 12/15/96; Hunter Museum of Art, Chattanooga, TN, 3/16/97 - 5/4/97; Flint Institute of Arts, Flint, MI, 5/25/97 - 7/13/97; Mobile Museum of Art, Mobile, AL, 8/3/97 - 9/28/97; The Columbus Museum, Columbus, GA, 10/12/97 - 11/30/97 1996 “Paper Work”, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, Feb. 3 - 24 1996 “Attention to Detail (Realism in All Forms)”, Louis K. Meisel Gallery, New York, NY, March 2 - 23 1997 “Photorealism”, Jaffe Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FL, Jan. 9-31 1997 “Realism in 20th Century American Painting”, The Ogunquit Museum of American Art, Ogunquit, ME, August 16 – September 30, catalog 1997 “Photorealists”, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA October 2 - November 25 1998 “Photorealism”, Jaffe Baker Gallery, Boca Raton, FL, February 12 – March 7 1999-00 “Outward Bound: American Art at the Brink of the Twenty-First Century”, Meridian International Center, Washington, DC, May 29 – June 29, 1999; International Tour September 1999 – September 2000: The Museum of Fine Arts, Hanoi, Vietnam; The Painting Institute, Shanghai, China; The Working People’s Cultural Palace, Beijing, China; The CIPTA Gallery, Jakarta Arts Center, Jakarta, Indonesia; The Singapore Museum of Art, Singapore
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