Born in 1928 in Hartford, USA

SELECTED SOLO SHOWS

2016 – Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
2016 – Cardi Gallery, Milan, Italy
2016 – Noire Gallery, Cappella del Brichetto, San Sebastiano, Italy
2016 – Galeriá Elvira González, Madrid, Spain
2016 – Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawings, Grids on Color, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Düsseldorf, Germany
2016 – Collection: Sol LeWitt and Photography, The Fralin Museum of Art, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, USA
2016 – Sol LeWitt: 17 Wall Drawings 1969-1998, Fundacion Botin, Cantabria, Spain
2016 – Sol LeWitt in Connecticut, James Baron Art, Kent, USA
2014 – Redrawing Sol LeWitt, 128 onetwentyeight & EXILE, New York, USA
2014 – Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawing #370, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
2014 – Sol LeWitt: Horizontal Progressions, Pace Gallery, New York, USA
2013 – Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawing #564, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
2013 – Concrete Block Structure, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, USA
2013 – Sol LeWitt Collectionneur: Un Artiste et Ses Artistes, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
2013 – Cut Torn Folded Ripped, James Cohan Gallery, New York, USA
2013 – Sol LeWitt: Shaping Ideas, Laurie M. Tisch Gallery, Jewish Community Center, New York, USA
2012 – Pyramids, Galerie Marian Goodman, Paris, France
2012 – Wall Drawings from 1968 to 2007, Centre Pompidou-Metz, Metz, France
2012 – Colours, Museum Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
2012 – Der Raum der Linie, Museum Wiesbaden, Germany
2009 – Artists Rooms: Sol Lewitt, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
2009 – Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
2009 – Seven Wall Drawings, Magasin 3 Stockholm Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
2009 – Forms Derived from a Cube’, Pace Gallery, New York, USA
2009 – Sculptures and Gouaches, Mulier Mulier Gallery, Knokke-Heist, Belgium
2009 – Konrad Fischer Galerie, Berlin, Germany
2008 – A Wall Drawing Retrospective, Massachussetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, USA
2008 – Focus: Sol LeWitt, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
2008 – Estampes, Galerie Lelong – Paris, France
2008 – Monumental Drawings, Galleria Nazionale d’Arte Moderna, Rome, Italy
2008 – LeWitt x 2, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, USA
2007 – Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
2007 – Sol LeWitt: 30 Years of Print Making, Jackobson Graphics, London, UK
2006 – Albornoz Palace Hotel, Spoleto, Italy
2005 – Gouaches, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
2005 – New Works, Galerie Meert Rihoux, Brussels, Belgium
2004 – Recent Works, Katonah Museum of Art, USA
2004 – Collection Lambert (with Christian Marclay), Avignon, France
2004 – XX1V Journeys (with Mimmo Paladino), Estorick Collection, London, UK
2003 – LeWitt’s LeWitt and Selections from the Collection of Sol and Carol LeWitt, New Britain Museum of American Art, New Britain, USA
2003 – New Drawings, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2003 – Models for Proposed Dome Structures and Recent Gouaches, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, USA
2003 – Wall Drawing, Kunstammlungen Chemnitz, Chemnitz, Germany
2003 – Wall Drawings, Gouaches, Galleria Alessandra Bonomo, Rome, Italy
2001 – Atelier del Bosco di Villa Medici, Rome, Italy
2000 – Sol LeWitt: A Retrospective, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, USA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
2000 – Wall Drawings, Palazzo delle Esposizioni, Rome, Italy
2000 – Black Cubes, Konrad Fischer Galerie, Dusseldorf, Germany
1997 – 100 Cubes, Aargauer Kunsthaus, Aarau, Switzerland; Kärntner Landesgalerie, Klagenfurt, Austria; Prague City Gallery, Prague, Czech Republic; Stadtliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany
1996 – Prints: 1970–1995, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA; Blaffer Gallery, University of Houston, Houston, USA; Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, USA; Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, USA
1996 – Retrospektiv II: Sol LeWitt – Richard Tuttle: Werke/Works 1965–1995 (with Richard Tuttle), Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zurich, Switzerland
1996 – New Wall Drawings, The Pier Arts Centre, Stromness, Orkney, UK
1996 – Stars, Betsy Senior Gallery, New York, USA
1996 – Gouaches, Dan Galeria, São Paulo, Brazil
1996 – Two Works by Sol LeWitt, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
1994 – 25 Years of Wall Drawings 1969–1994, RENN Espace d’Art Contemporain, Paris, France
1994 – Wall Work: White Styrofoam on Black & Related Works on Paper, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, USA
1994 – Wall Drawings, Pace Gallery, 142 Greene Street, New York, USA
1993 – Structures 1962–1993, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK; Villa Stuck, Munich, Germany; Henry Moore Sculpture Trust, Leeds City Art Gallery, UK; The Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, UK; Neues Museum Weserburg, Bremen, Germany
1992 – Drawings 1958–1992, Haags Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Netherlands; Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, UK; Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Muenster, Germany; Henry Moore Sculpture Trust, Leeds City Art Gallery, UK; Kunstmuseum Winterthur, Switzerland; Centre Pompidou, Paris, France; Musée de Picardie, Amiens, France; Fundació Tapiès, Barcelona, Spain; Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, USA; Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA
1991 – Wall Drawing, Bündner Kunstmuseum Chur, Switzerland
1991 – Gallery Cellar, Nagoya, Japan
1991 – Sculture e gouaches, Marilena Bonomo, Bari, Italy
1991 – Complex Forms’, Annemarie Verna, Zurich, Switzerland
1991 – Galleria Allessandra Bonomo, Rome, Italy
1989 – Kunsthalle Berne, Bern, Switzerland
1989 – Wall Drawings/Works on Paper’, Thomas Segal Gallery, Boston, USA
1989 – Complex Form #8, Camera di Commercio di Bari, Italy
1989 – Wall Drawings, Structures, Prints and Drawings, Gibbes Museum of Art & Gaillard Municipal Auditorium, Charleston, USA
1988 – Forme di Righe in Bianco e Nero, Salone dei Camuccini, Museo di Capodimonte, Naples, Italy
1988 – Wall Drawings, Kestner-Gesellschaft, Hannover, Germany
1987 – Konrad Fischer Galerie, Dusseldorf, Germany
1987 – Germany Alessandra Bonomo, Rome, Italy
1987 – Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
1985 – Pyramid: A Wall Drawing by Sol LeWitt, Brooklyn Museum, New York, USA
1985 – Light Gallery, New York, USA
1985 – Sculture di Sol LeWitt a Tecnopolis, Marilena Bonomo, Bari, Italy
1984 – Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1984 – Stedelijk van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
1984 – Raum fur Kunst, Hamburg, Germany
1984 – Annemarie Verna, Zurich, Switzerland
1984 – Au Fond de la Cour a Droite, Chagny, France
1984 – Sculptures: 1964–74, Daniel Templon, Paris, France
1984 – Lisson Gallery, London, UK
1984 – Galleria Marilena Bonomo, Bari, Italy
1984 – Wall Drawings, Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
1980 – Galleria Marilena Bonomo, Bari, Italy
1980 – Five American Artists, Akron Art Institute, Akron, USA
1980 – Statues (A Melodrama), John Weber Gallery, New York, USA
1980 – Texas Gallery, Houston, USA
1978 – Galleria Marilena Bonomo, Bari, Italy
1978 – Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA; Musée d’art contemporain, Montreal, Canada; Krannert Museum, University of Illinois, Champaign, USA; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, USA; La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, USA
1975 – Lucio Amelio Modern Art Agency, Naples, Italy
1975 – Wall Drawings, Drawings and Incomplete Open Cubes, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, San Francisco, USA
1974 – Fifty Drawings 1964–74, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada; Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, USA; High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA; San Francisco Museum of Art, USA; Mint Museum of Art, Charlotte, USA; Tyler Museum of Art, Tyler, USA; Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, USA; Illinois State University, Normal, USA; Winnipeg Art Gallery, Manitoba, USA; Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
1973 – L’Attico Galleria, Rome, Italy
1972 – Arcs, from corners & sides, circles, & grids and all their combinations, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
1972 – Lithographs and Wall Drawings, Nova Scotia College of Art & Design, Halifax, Canada
1970 – Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Netherlands
1970 – Pasadena Art Museum, Pasadena, USA
1969 – Galerie Bischofberger, Zurich, Switzerland
1969 – Galerie Ernst, Hanover, Germany
1969 – Sculptures and Wall Drawings, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany
1969 – Wall Drawings, Dwan Gallery, New York, USA
1968 – Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany
1967 – Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
1966 – Dwan Gallery, New York, USA
1965 – John Daniels Gallery, New York, USA

SELECTED GROUP SHOWS

2013 – Répétition II, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
2013 – A Stone Left Unturned, Yvon Lambert, Paris, France
2013 – Répétition: 1960–1975, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
2013 – Geometric Abstraction, Pace Prints, New York, USA
2012 – Sol LeWitt: LʼArtista E I Suoi Artisti’, Museo Madre, Napoli, Italy
2012 – Carte Blanche à Paula Cooper Gallery, Galerie Patrick Seguin, Paris, France
2012 – En Subjektiv Historia 1966–2011, Galerie Aronowitsch, Stockholm, Sweden
2011 – Conceptual Tendencies 1960s to Today, Daimler Art Collection, Berlin, Germany
2011 – Extended Drawing, Bonnefantenmuseum Maastricht, Netherlands
2011 – Eva Hesse and Sol LeWitt, Craig F. Starr Gallery, New York, USA
2011 – Sculpture, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
2010 – Vertical Thoughts: Morton Feldman and the Visual Arts, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
2010 – Minimal – Conceptual – Art: Carl Andre, Charles Gute, Yayoi Kusama, Art & Language, Sol LeWitt, Jason Rulnick, Inc., New York, USA
2004 – Minimal Artists Try to Make Something Look Like Nothing and Conceptual Artists Try to Make Nothing Look Like Something, or Is It the Other Way Around?, Yvon Lambert, New York, USA
2003 – Structures of Difference, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, USA
2003 – Perfect Timeless Repetition, c/o Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin, Germany
2001 – Carl Andre, Sol LeWitt, Joel Shapiro: Sculpture’, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, USA
2001 – Second Sight, Henry Moore Foundation, Leeds, UK
2000 – Sculpture Contemporaine: Œuvres de la Collection Frac Rhône-Alpes de l’Institut d’art contemporain, Substances, Lyon, France
2000 – Vision and Reality, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk, Denmark
2000 – Drawings 2000, Barbara Gladstone, New York, USA
2000 – Making Choices: 24 Exhibitions of Modern Art from1920–1960, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
2000 – Century of Innocence, Rooseum, Malmö, Sweden; Liljevalchs Konsthall, Stockholm, Sweden
1999 – A Summer Show, Marian Goodman Gallery, New York, USA
1999 – Minimalia, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA
1999 – The Edge of Awareness’, Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy
1999 – Modern Starts: People, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
1999 – The American Century: Art & Culture 1950–2000, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
1999 – Art in our Time: 1950 to the Present, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
1997 – Skulptur Projekte Münster, Munster, Germany
1997 – 47. Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1996 – 23rd São Paulo Biennial, São Paulo, Brazil
1995 – Artistes, architects, Nouveau Musée/Institut d’Art Contemporain, Villeurbanne, France
1995 – Ad Reinhardt, Robert Ryman, Robert Mangold, Richard Serra, Ellsworth Kelly, Sol LeWitt – Editions, One Great Jones, New York, USA
1994 – On a Clear Day, Staaliche Kunsthalle Baden-Baden, Baden-Baden, Germany
1994 – Même si c’est la nuit, Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France
1993 – Tresors de Voyage, Monastero dei Padri Mechitaristi dell’ Isola di San Lazzaro Degli Armeni, Venice, Italy
1993 – American Art in the 20th Century: Painting and Sculpture 1913–1993, Martin- Gropius-Bau, Berlin, Germany; Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
1992 – Yvon Lambert Collectionne, Musée d’art moderne, Villeneuve d’Ascq, France
1992 – Bochner, Chung, Lewitt, Primo Piano, Rome, Italy
1989 – Abstraction, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
1989 – 1st Istanbul Biennial, Istanbul, Turkey
1989 – Three American Sculptors: Carl Andre, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt’, Northern Centre For Contemporary Art, Sunderland, UK
1989 – L’art conceptuel, une perspective, Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris, France
1988 – Mostra in Progress: Numero Due, Galleria Bonomo, Bari, Italy
1988 – 43. Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1987 – Drawings from the Collection of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, Pennsylvania State University Museum of Art, USA
1984 – American Art Since 1970: Painting, Sculpture and Drawings from the Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Museum, New York, USA; La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, USA; Museo Tamayo, Mexico City, Mexico; North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, USA; Sheldon Memorial Art Gallery, University of Nebraska, Lincoln, USA; Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, USA
1984 – From the Collection of Sol LeWitt, University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, USA; Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, USA; Everhart Museum, Scranton, USA; Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, New York, USA; Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, USA (organised by Independent Curators International)
1983 – Vito Acconci, Dara Birnbaum, Hans Haacke, Jenny Holzer, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Bruce Nauman, Lawrence Weiner, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, USA
1981 – Minimalism x 4; Carl Andre, Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Robert Morris, Whitney Museum of American Art, Downtown Branch, New York, USA
1978 – Numerals: Mathematical Concepts in Contemporary Art, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, USA; Yale University Gallery, New Haven, USA; Dartmouth College Gallery, Hannover, USA; University Art Gallery, University of North Dakota, Grand Forks, USA; University of California, Irvine, USA; Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, USA; Illinois State University, Normal, USA; Muhlenberg College, Allentown, USA; New Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, USA; Minneapolis College of Art & Design, USA
1977 – Documenta 6, Kassel, Germany
1976 – 37. Venice Biennale, Venice, Italy
1976 – 200 Years of American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
1975 – Color as Language, Museuo de Arte Moderno, Bogota, Colombia; Museu de Arte de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil; Museu de Arte Moderna, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Museo de Bellas Artes, Caracas, Venezuela; Museo de Arte Moderno, Mexico City, Mexico
1971 – Guggenheim International Exhibition, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA
1970 – Conceptual Art, Arte Povera, Land Art, Galleria Civica d’Arte Moderna, Turin, Italy
1970 – Between Man and Matter: Tokyo Biennale 1970, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Tokyo, Japan; Kyoto Municipal Art Museum, Kyoto, Japan; Aichi Perfectural Art Gallery, Nagoyo, Japan
1969 – Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Don Judd, Sol LeWitt and Robert Morris, Hetzel Union Building Gallery, Penn. State University, University Park, USA
1969 – Between Object and Environment, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA
1968 – Documenta 4, Kassel, Germany
1968 – Prospect ’68’, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany
1968 – Minimal Art, Galerie René Block, Berlin, Germany
1968 – Minimal Art, Gemeentemuseum, The Hague, Netherlands; Kunsthalle, Dusseldorf, Germany; Akademie der Kunste, Berlin, Germany; Neue Pinakothek, Munich, Germany; Kunstverein, Hamburg, Germany; Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin, Germany; Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Dusseldorf, Germany; Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
1968 – The Art of the Real, Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA; Centre National d’Art Contemporain Grand Palais, Paris, France; Kunsthaus, Zurich, Switzerland; Tate Gallery, London, UK
1967 – Sculpture Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
1967 – American Sculpture of the Sixties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, USA
1966 – Multiplicity’, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, USA
1966 – Primary Structures, Jewish Museum, New York, USA
1966 – Art in Process, Finch College Museum, New York, USA
1966 – Abstract Artist’s Invitational, Riverside Museum, New York, USA
1966 – Three-Man Show, Park Place Gallery, New York, USA
1966 – Annual Exhibition 1966: Contemporary Sculpture and Prints, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, USA
1965 – John Daniels Gallery, New York, USA
1965 – Sculpture from All Directions, World House Gallery, New York, USA
1965 – Young Masters, Graham Gallery, New York, USA
1964 – Kaymar Gallery, New York, NY, USA
1964 – Museum of Contemporary Crafts, New York, USA
1963 – St. Mark’s Church, New York, USA

PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA
The Whitney Museum, New York, USA
The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
The Houston Museum of Art, Houston, USA
La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, USA
The San Francisco Museum of Contemporary Art, San Francisco, USA
The Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, USA
The Detroit Institute of Art, Detroit, USA
The Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, USA
The New Britain Museum of Art, New Britain, USA
The Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York, USA
The Tate Gallery, London, UK
The Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
Musee National d’Art Moderne, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland
National Gallery of Scotland, Edinburgh, Scotland
Musee d’Art et d’Histoire, Geneva, Switzerland
The Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia
INK, Zurich, Switzerland
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada
Grenoble Museum, Grenoble, France
The Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA
The Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, USA
The Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, USA
The St Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, USA
The Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, USA
The Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, USA
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, USA
Smith College Art Gallery, Northampton, USA
Worcester Museum of Art, Worcester, USA
Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Austria
Albertina, Vienna, Austria
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, USA
The Akron Art Museum, Akron, USA
The Dallas Museum of Art, Dallas, USA
The Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, USA
The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, USA
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, USA
The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, USA

EDUCATION

1945-1949 – BFA, Syracuse University, USA