1923
Born in Newburgh, New York
1941 - 1943
Studied Applied Arts at the Pratt Institute, New York
1942 - 1945
Served military duty
1946 - 1947
Diploma Program at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, drawing and painting classes with Carl Zerbe
1948
Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris; travelled to see the Isenheimer Altarpiece in Colmar
1950 - 1951
Taught at the American School in Paris
1973
The Painting Prize from the Art Institute of Chicago
1988
Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French Republic
1993
Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur by the French Republic at the French Embassy in Washington DC
2000
Praemium Imperiale for Painting
2002
Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres by the French Republic
Exhibitions
2008
Arp to Reinhardt: Rose Geometries, The Rose Art Museum, Waltham, MAColor Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today, MoMA - Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
2007
Living Color, Vassarely Museum, Budapest, Hungary
2006
Picasso to Pop: Aspects of Modern Art, The Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT
2005
Spectrum, Galerie Lelong - New York, New York, NY
2004
Neue Nationalgalerie, Das MoMA, Berlin, Germany
2003
Ellsworth Kelly, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (solo)Sculpture, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY (solo)Bremen, Neues Museum Weserburg, Die Fondation MaeghtSchloss Ujazdowski, Zentrum für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Von Picasso bis Warhol, Warsaw, Poland
2002
ELLSWORTH KELLY Werke 1956-2002, Fondation Beyeler, Basel, Switzerland (solo)Ellsworth Kelly, Tablet: 1948–1973, The Drawing Center, New York, NY
2001
Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1999
Ellsworth Kelly – Sculpture for a Large Wall, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (solo)Ellsworth Kelly: Five Decades of Line, Form and Colour, Mitchell-Innes & Nash Gallery, New York, NY (solo)Kunstmuseum, Bonn, Germany (solo)Städtische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich, Germany (solo)Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (solo)Ellsworth Kelly: Works on Paper 1948-1955, Fogg Art Museum, Harvard University Boston, MA
1998
Ellsworth Kelly. New Paintings, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York, NY (solo)Retrospectives, Los Angeles, CA; New York, NY; Munich, Germany (solo)
1996
Ellsworth Kelly. A Retrospective, Guggenheim Museum, New York, NY (solo)Ellsworth Kelly on the Roof, Cantor Roof Garden, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
1993
New Displays: Ellsworth Kelly, Tate Gallery, London, England
1989
Ellsworth Kelly: Courtyard Installation, Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL (solo)
1987
Ellsworth Kelly: Works on Paper, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MAEllsworth Kelly: A Print Retrospective, The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI
1982
Ellsworth Kelly: Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (solo)
1979
XXXVI Washington, DC, Corcoran Gallery of Art, 36th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting together with Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert RauschenbergLeo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY (solo)Ellsworth Kelly: Painting and Sculpture, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (solo)Ellsworth Kelly Recent Paintings and Sculpture, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY (solo)
1973
Retrospective, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (solo)Ellsworth Kelly, Curved Series, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1968
The Art of the Real, USA 1948-1968, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1966
American Pavilion, XXXIII Venice Biennale
1965
Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1964
Galerie Maeght, Paris, France (solo)
1963
Paintings, Sculpture and Drawings by Ellsworth Kelly, Gallery of Modern Art, Washington D.C. (solo)
1959
Sixteen Americans, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
1958
Galerie Maeght, Paris, France (solo)
1957
Young America 1957, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
1956
Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, NY (solo)
1951
Galerie Arnaud, Paris, France (solo)
1947
Boris Mirski Art Gallery, Boston, MA
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