Born in 1940 in Newark, New Jersey, USA
Lives and works in New York

SELECTED SOLO SHOWS

2020 – Pat Steir: Waterfall Paintings on Paper, Lévy Gorvy, New York, USA
2020 – Pat Steir: Paintings From The East, Vito Schnabel Gallery, St. Moritz, Switzerland
2019 – Pat Steir: Color Wheel, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, USA
2019 – Pat Steir, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
2019 – Paintings, Vito Schnabel Gallery, St. Moritz, Switzerland
2019 – Silent Secret Waterfalls: The Barnes Series, Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, USA
2018 – Pat Steir: Self Portrait Installation, 1987–2018 and Paintings, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
2017 – Pat Steir: Kairos, Lévy Gorvy, New York, USA
2016 – Dominique Lévy Gallery, London, UK
2016 – Pace Prints, New York, USA
2016 – Pat Steir: The Floating Line, T Space, Rhinebeck, USA
2014 – Cheim & Read, New York, USA
2014 – Pat Steir: For Philadelphia, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
2014 – Pat Steir: Waterfalls, Meyerovich Gallery, San Francisco, USA
2013 – Pat Steir: New Paintings, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, USA
2013 – Self Portrait and Heartline, Museo Nacional de San Carlos, Mexico City, Mexico
2013 – Pat Steir: Blue River, National Academy Museum, New York, USA
2012 – Crown Point Press, San Francisco, USA
2011 – Winter Paintings, Cheim & Read, New York, USA
2011 – Another Nearly Endless Line, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA 2011 – Water and Sand, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
2011 – A Nearly Endless Line #3, Galerie Thomas Schulte, Berlin, Germany
2010 – Pat Steir: The Nearly Endless Line, Sue Scott Gallery, New York, USA
2010 – Paint, Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris, France
2009 – Paintings on Painting, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
2008 – Pat Steir Recent Work: Paintings & Monotypes, Elizabeth Leach Gallery, Portland, USA
2007 – Rosenbaum Contemporary, Boca Raton, USA
2006 – Pat Steir: Gravity and Levity, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen, USA
2006 – Pat Steir: Moons and Mirages, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
2005 – Pat Steir: New Paintings, Texas Gallery, Houston, USA
2005 – Pat Steir, Blue Moon: Paintings, Drawings, and Prints, Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Rome, Italy
2003 – The Rhythm of Silence, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
2003 – Water and Air, Galleria Nazionale D’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
2002 – New Paintings, Baldwin Gallery, Aspen Crown Point Press, San Francisco, USA 2002 – Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Rome, Italy
2000 – Dazzling Water, Dazzling Light: Paintings by Pat Steir, Selby Gallery, Ringling School of Art and Design, Sarasota, USA; traveled to: Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown; Des Moines Art Center; Lyman Allyn Museum of Art at Connecticut College, New London; Norton Museum of Art, Sarasota, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston Leigh and Mary Block Art Museum, Northwestern  University, Evanston, Chancery of the United States Embassy, Moscow, Russia
2000 – Waterfall Paintings, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, USA
1998 – Ghost Moon Mountain Water, PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, USA
1998 – New Work, Baumgartner Galleries, Washington, USA
1997 – Waterfalls, Galerie Deux Co, Ltd, Tokyo, Japan
1997 – Pat Steir: Waves and Waterfalls 1982–1992, Brooklyn Museum, USA
1996 – Dorothy Blau Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, FL Franck & Schulte, Berlin, Germany
1996 – Wind and Water: Paintings 1985–1995, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
1994 – From Beyond the Pale: Pat Steir: A Painting Project, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
1993 – Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, USA
1993 – Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Rome, Italy
1993 – Wall Drawings, Franck & Schulte, Berlin, Germany
1992 – Centre National d’Art Contemporain de Grenoble, France
1991 – Paintings, Galerie Albert Baronian, Brussels, Belgium
1990 – Waterfalls, Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK
1990 – Musée d’Art Contemporain de Lyon, France
1989 – New Waterfall Paintings, Galerie Eric Franck, Geneva, Switzerland
1989 – Neue Wasserfallbilder, TransArt Exhibitions, Cologne, Germany
1989 – Galleria Marilena Bonomo, Bari, Italy
1988 – Prints 1976–1988, Musée d’Art et d’Histoire, Cabinet des Estampes, Geneva, Switzerland, traveled to: Tate Gallery, London; Victoria Miro Gallery, London, UK
1988 – Galleria Marilena Bonomo, Bari, Italy
1987 – Drawing Now: Pat Steir, Baltimore Museum of Art, USA
1987 – Autorittrato, Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Rome, Italy
1984 – Pat Steir, The Breughel Series (A Vanitas Of Style), Brooklyn Museum; traveled to: Minneapolis College of Art and Design; Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha; University Art Museum, University of California, Berkeley; Ohio State University Gallery of Fine Art, Columbus; Honolulu Academy of Arts; Dallas Museum of Fine Arts; Centre d’Art Contemporain, Palais Wilson, Geneva; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Des Moines Art Center; Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague
1983 – At Sea, 1982, Crown Point Press, New York, USA
1982 – Galerie Annemarie Verna, Zürich, Switzerland
1981 – Etchings, Lithos, and Drawings, Galleriet, Lund, Sweden
1979 – Galerie Farideh Cadot, Paris, France
1978 – Galleria Marilena Bonomo, Bari, Italy
1975 – Fourcade, Droll, Inc., New York, USA
1975 – John Doyle Gallery, Paris, France

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

2018 – It Comes in Waves, Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac, Paris Summer Show, Peter Freeman Inc, New York, USA
2016 – Winter Group Show, Crown Point Press, San Francisco, USA
2016 – Drawing Dialogues: Selections from the Sol LeWitt Collection, Drawing Center, New York, USA
2015 – A Golden Age, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
2013 – Monochromatic Vision, Elisa Contemporary Art, New York, USA
2012 – 125 ICONS: A Celebration of Works by Pratt Alumni and Faculty 1887 – 2012, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, USA
2012 – Résonnances, Deurves du Fonds Départemental d’Art Contemporain d’lle-et-Vilaine, Bretagne, France
2011 – The Women in Our Life: A Fifteen Year Anniversary Exhibition, Cheim & Read, New York, USA
2011 – The Value of Water, Cathedral of St. John the Divine, New York, USA
2011 – PAPER A-Z, Sue Scott Gallery, New York, USA
2011 – Modern Lab: The Found Alphabet, National Gallery of Art, Washington, USA
2011 – Dessins Contemporains du Musée d’Art, Musée d’Art de Toulon, France
2010 – Women, Silas Marder Gallery, Bridgehampton, USA
2009 – Abstractions by Gallery Artists, Cheim & Read, New York, USA
2008 – Expansion—Résonance, Galerie Jaeger Bucher, Paris Pretty Ugly, Maccarone Gallery, New York, USA
2007 – Audacity in Art: Selected Works from Central Florida Collections, Orlando Museum of Art, USA
2007 – Galleria Marilena Bonomo, Bari, Italy
2005 – Beijing International Art Bienniale, China
2005 – Landscape, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
2004 – Presence, Chelsea Art Museum, New York, USA
2004 – New Additions: Prints for an American Museum, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York , USA
2003 – LeWitt’s LeWitts and Selections from the Carol and Sol LeWitt Collection, New Britain Museum of American Art, USA
2002 – New York Renaissance: Masterworks of the Whitney Collection, Palazzo Reale, Rome, Italy
2001 – The First 10 Years: Selected Works from the Collection, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
2000 – Modernism and Abstraction: Treasures from the Smithsonian’s American Art Museum, Smithsonian Museum of American Art Washington, DC; traveled to: Art Museum at Florida International University, Miami; Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, ME; Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, NY; Allentown Art Museum, PA; Frist Center for the Visual Arts, Nashville, TN; Worcester Art Museum, MA; National Academy Museum, New York; Des Moines Art Center; Oakland Museum of California, USA
2000 – Pat Steir and Betty Woodman: A Conversation, Art Resources Transfer, New York, USA
2000 – 2nd Floor Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
1999 – The American Century, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
1998 – The Edge of Awareness, Art for the World Geneva; traveled to: PS1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City and United Nations Headquarters, New York; SESC Pompeia, São Paulo; WHO Regional Office, New Delhi, India
1998 – Dialogues with Nature: Summer Drawing Exhibition, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
1998 – Pat Steir, Barry Le Va, and Bill Jensen, Danese Gallery, New York, USA
1998 – Likity Split, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
1997 – The Founders and Heirs of the New York School, Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo; traveled to: Miyagi Museum of Art, Japan; Museum of Modern Art, Ibaraki, Japan
1996 – Nuevas Abstracciones, Palacio de Velazquez, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain; traveled to: Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Germany; Museo de Arte Contemporáneo, Barcelona, Spain
1996 – Jahresmuseum, Kunst Haus Muerz, Mürzzuschlag, Austria
1995 – Special Commissioned Print Edition, Philadelphia Museum of Art; traveled to: Musée du Louvre, Paris, France
1995 – From Picasso to Woodrow: Suite of Prints Long Vertical Falls, Tate Gallery, London, UK
1993 – Drawing the Line Against AIDS, 45th Venice Biennale, Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy; traveled to Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
1984 – Art of the Seventies, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; traveled to: North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh; La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, CA; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln; Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, USA
1984 – American Women Artists, Part II: The Recent Generation, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, USA
1983 – Language, Drama, Source, and Vision, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, USA
1983 – 83 Biennial Exhibition, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
1983 – Sex and Representation, A Space, Toronto, USA
1981 – A Penthouse Aviary, Museum of Modern Art, Art Lending Service, New York, USA
1980 – American Paintings of the 60s and 70s: The Real, The Ideal, The Fantastic: Selections from the Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
1979 – American Paintings of the 1970s, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA
1978 – Contemporary Drawing/New York, University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA
1977 – Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
1973 – Six Visions, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
1973 – American Drawing 1973, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
1973 – Women Choose Women, New York Cultural Center, New York, USA
1971 – Glauber Poons Gallery, Amsterdam Graham Gallery, New York, USA
1969 – Graham Gallery, New York, USA
1964 – Finch College Museum of Art, New York, USA
1964 – Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
1964 – Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA

SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York, USA
The Art Museum, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey
Bank America Corporation Art Collection, New York, USA
The Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Chase Manhattan Bank, New York, USA
Dallas Museum of Fine Art, Dallas, Texas, USA
Honolulu Academy of Arts, Honolulu, Hawaii
The Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Connecticut, USA
The Hirshorn Museum, Washington DC, USA
(IMMA) The Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, Florida, USA
Joslyn Art Museum, Omaha, Nebraska, USA
Lyon Museum d’Art Moderne, Lyon, France
Kunstmuseum Bern, Bern, Switzerland
La Domaine Kergheinnec, Brittany, France
Malmo Museum, Malmo, Sweden
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York, USA
Musee d’art et d’Archaeologie, Toulon, France Musee d’art Contemporain, Lyon, France
Musee des Beaux-Arts, Tourcoing, France
National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, USA
National Museum of American Art, Washington, DC, USA
The Phillips Collection, Washington, DC, USA
The Phillidelphia Museum of Art, Phillidelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
The San Francisco Museum of Fine Arts, San Francisco, California, USA
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
Tate Gallery, London, UK
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA
Whitehead Institute For Biomedical Research, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, New York, USA
Yale University Art Gallery, New Haven, Connecticut, USA

AWARDS

2008 – Pratt University, Alumni Achievement Award
2001 – Boston University School for the Arts Distinguished Alumni Award
1992 – Honored by the American Woman’s Economic Development Corporation with their Salute to Women in the Business of Art, sponsored by Avon and ARTnews
1982 – Guggenheim Fellowship
1976 – Art in Public Institutions Grant, National Endowment for the Arts
1974 – Individual Artist’s Grant, National Endowment for the Arts

EDUCATION

2002 – Alumni Honoree from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, USA
1991 – Honorary Doctorate of Fine Art from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, USA
1960-1962 – Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York, USA
1958-1960 – Boston University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA