Born: New York City, April 1, 1933
Education: United States Air Force Meteorological Technician Training
School, Chanute Air Force Base, Rantoul, Illinois, 1953
University of Maryland Extension Program in Osan-ni, Korea
Organizes class sessions in figure drawing, 1954-55
New School for Social Research, New York, 1956
Columbia University, New York, 1957-59
Selected One-Person Exhibitions
2004 National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
2003 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
2000 Galerie Trabant, Vienna, Austria
Zwirner & Wirth, New York, New York
1999 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, New York
1998 “Dan Flavin”, Centro Cultural Light, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
“Dan Flavin: Works 1964 - 81”, Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy
1997 “Dan Flavin: 1962/63, 1970, 1996”, Dia Center for the Arts, New York, New York
“Dan Flavin: ‘Monuments’ for V. Tatlin”, Danese, New York, New York
1996 “Dan Flavin: Fluorescent Light (produced for Munich publishers)”
“Dan Flavin”, PaceWildenstein, New York, New York
“European Couples and Others: Works by Dan Flavin”, Dia Center for the Arts, New York
1995 “Dan Flavin”, Guggenheim Museum Soho, New York, New York
1994 “Dan Flavin”, Kunstbau Lenbacchaus München, Germany
1992 “Dan Flavin”, Önnur Haed Syningarsalur, Reykjavik, Iceland
“Dan Flavin”, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
1990 “Dan Flavin, untitled (for John Hartfield) 1990 themes and variations”, Donald Young Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
“Dan Flavin (to Sabine) 2 winter, 1989”,Thompson Street, New York
1989 “Dan Flavin Selected Works: 1967 - 1985”, Galerie Pierre Huber, Geneva, Switzerland
“Collection Panza: Dan Flavin”, Musée d’Art Contemporain Lyon, France
1988 “Works in Flourescent Light by Dan Flavin”, Dia Art Foundation, Bridgehampton, New York
1986 “Dan Flavin: Light Installations”, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Netherlands
“New Works Series: Dan Flavin”, Sackler Museum, Harvard University, Cambridge,
1985 “Dan Flavin: Monuments a Tatlin 1964-1984”, capc Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France
A.R.C.A., New York, New York (1985)
1984 “Dan Flavin: A Retrospective”, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
1983 Dan Flavin Art Institute permanent exhibition opens at Dia Art Foundation, Bridgehampton, New York
1982 The Hauserman Showroom, Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles, California
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, New York
1979 “an installation in flourescent light by Dan Flavin”, National Gallery Canada, Ottawa, Canada
1977 Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
Ace Gallery, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
1976 “Dan Flavin: drawings, diagrams and prints 1972-1975”, The Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas. Traveled to The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois ; University Art Museum, Berkeley, California
Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, Oregon
1975 “Dan Flavin: installations in fluorescent light 1972 - 1975”, The Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, Texas
Museum Boymans-van Beuningen, Rotterdam, Netherlands
1973 “Drei Installationen in fluoreszierendem Licht”, Wallraf-Richartz-Museum und Kunsthalle Köln, Cologne, Germany
“barriers in fluorescent light from Dan Flavin”, University of Bridgeport, Bridgeport, Connecticut
1972 “cornered fluorescent light from Dan Flavin”, Institute for the Arts, Rice University, Houston, Texas
1970 Los Angeles County Museum, Los Angeles, California
Kunstmarkt, Cologne, Germany for Galerie Heiner Friedrich, Munich, Germany
1969 “fluorescent light, etc. from Dan Flavin”, National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, Canada
1968 “cool white, etc”, Dwan Gallery, New York, New York (11/2 -
“An Exposition of Fluorescent Light:” Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania
1967 “alternating pink and ‘gold’”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
1965 “Dan Flavin”, Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio (4-5/65)
Selected Group Exhibitions
2006 “Minimal: Works On Paper,” Senior & Shopmaker Gallery, Project Gallery, New York, NY
Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004 "Design≠Art: Functional Objects from Donald Judd to Rachel Whiteread," Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, NY
2003 “Flavin, Andre, Judd”, National Gallery of Canada, Halifax
“Collection, Nouvelle Presentation”, Musee Art Contemporain Lyon, France
“Flavin, Judd, Lewitt, Serra - Early Works”, Zwierner & Wirth
1999 “The American Century: Art & Culture 1900 - 2000”, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
“Test Site”, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams
“House of Sculpture”, Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Texas
1998 “The Hannukah Project: A Festival IN Lights”, The Jewish Museum, New York
“100 Years of Sculpture: from the Pedestal to the Pixel”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis
1997 “The Hirshhorn Collects: Recent Acquisitions 1992-1996”, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C
1996 “Abstraction in the 20th Century: Total Risk, Freedom, Discipline”, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
“Everything that’s interesting is new:The Dakis Joannou Collection”, Athens, Greece
1994 “fragmentos para um museu imaginario”, Fundaçäo de Serralves, Porto, Portugal
“White Works”, Pace Wildenstein, New York, New York
“Szenenwechsel VI”, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
“Gift”, The InterArt Center, New York, New York
“Change of Scene V”, Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt am Main, Germany
1993 “Sculpture”, Laura Carpenter Fine Art, Santa Fe, New Mexico
“Wall Works”, Edition Schellmann, Cologne, Germany
1992 “Territorium Artis”, Kunst- und Ausstellungshalle der Bundesrepublik Deutschland, Bonn, Germany
1991 “Immaterial Objects”, The Withney Museum of American Art at the Equitable Center, New York
“Sélection”, FAE Musée d’Art Contemporain, Pully/Lausanne, Switzerland
1990 “Perceptual Investigations: Light and Space Works in the Permanent Collection”, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
1989 “Bilderstreit: Widerspruch, Einheit und Fragment in der Kunst seit 1960”, Museum Ludwig, Cologne, Germany
1988 “Sculpture Since the Sixties”, Withney Museum of American Art, Equitable Center, New York
“Locations”, Tiroler Landesgalerie, Taxispalais, Innsbruck, Austria,
1987 “Similia/Dissimilia: Modes of Abstraction in Painting, Sculpture and Photography Today”,Städtische Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, Germany
“For 25 Years: Crown Point Press”, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
“Illuminations: The Art of Light”, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, Ohio
1986 “After Matisse”, Queens Museum, New York, New York
1985 “An American Renaissance: Painting and Sculpture Since 1940”, Museum of Art, Florida
Group Exhibition, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany
“Illumination: The Quality of Light”, Pittsburgh Center for the Arts, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
“Beyond the Monument”, Stamford Museum, Stamford, Connecticut
“Art Minimal I”, Capc-Musée d’Art Contemporain, Bordeaux, France
1984 “Drawings by Sculptors: 2 Decades of Non-Objective Art in the Seagram Collection”, Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal,
“La rime et la raison”, Musée du Grand Palais, Paris, France
1983 “ARS 83”, Art Museum of Ateneum, Helsinki, Finland
Group Exhibition, Museum Haus Lange and Museum Haus Esters, Krefeld, Germany
“An Exhibition of Small Paintings, Sculpture and Photographs “, Multiples Inc., New York
1981 “Internationale Ausstellung Köln 1981”, Cologne, Germany
“Still Life Painting and Drawing by East End Artists”, The Parrish Art Museum, New York
1980 “Reliefs”, Kunsthaus Zürich, Switzerland
“Hauptwerke der Minimal Art”, Ink, Zürich, Switzerland
“The Permanent Collection”, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California
“91 Exposition, Société des Artistes Indépendants”, Grand Palais, Paris, France
“From Reinhardt to Christo”, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio
1979 “Sculpture”, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
“The Decade in Review: Selections from the 1970’s”, Withney Museum of American Art, New York
“Contemporary Sculpture: Selections from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1977 “American Art in Belgium”, Palais des Beaux-Arts, Brussels, Belgium
“New York: The State of Art”, New York State Museum, Albany, New York
“20th Century American Art”, Withney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
“A View of a Decade”, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Illinois
1976 “Seventy-Second American Exhibition”, The Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
“200 Years of American Sculpture”, Withney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
“Andre, Judd, Flavin, LeWitt”, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford, England
“Drawing Now”, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
“Line”, Visual Arts Museum, New York, New York
1975 “Functions of Drawing”, Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, Netherlands
“Light/Sculpture” Williams/Hayes Ackland Memorial Art Center, Chapel Hill, North Carolina
1974 “Illuminations and Reflections”, Withney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
1973 “Young American Artists”, Oslo, Norway
“3D into 2D”, New York Cultural Center, New York, New York
1972 “Diagrams and Drawings” Rijksmuseum Kröller-Müller, Otterlo, Netherlands. Traveled to Kunstmuseum, Basel, Switzerland
“The Modern Image”, High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia
“Dealer’s Choice”, La Jolla Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California
“Seventieth American Exhibition”, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois
1971 “Art and Technology Program”, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
“Contemporary American Drawings”, French & Company, New York, New York
”Works for New Spaces”, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
“Kid Stuff”, Albright-Knox Museum, Buffalo, New York
“Sixth Guggenheim International Exhibition”, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
1970 “Withney Annual”, Withney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
“Spaces”, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
1969 “Contemporary Drawing Show”, Fort Worth Art Center, Fort Worth, Texas
“New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940-1970”, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
“Highlights of the ‘68-’69 Season”, Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, Connecticut
1968 “Selections from the Collection of Hangford Yang”, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary, Ridgefield, Connecticut
“In Honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.”, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, New York
“Works on Paper”, Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, Richmond,Virginia
“Sammlung Hahn”, Wallraf-Richartz Museum, Cologne, Germany
1967 “Opening Exhibition: Normal Art”, Lannis Museum of Normal Art, New York, New York
“VI Biennale Internationale d’Arte”, Palazzo Dei Congressi, San Marino, Italy
“Focus on Light”, New Jersey State Museum Cultural Center, Trenton, New Jersey
“Recent Acquisitions”, Withney Museum of American Art, New York, New York
1966 “Kunst Licht Kunst”, Stedelijk Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, Netherlands
“Primary Structures: Younger American and British Sculptors”, The Jewish Museum, New York
“Diagrams: Dan Flavin/Don Judd”, The Center Gallery, Washington, D.C.