CURRICULUM VITAE
1953 Born in Boston. Lives and works in New York City & Berlin
1978 B.F.A. Parsons School of Design, NYC
1977 Winchester College of Art, Winchester, England
1974 Instituto Allende, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
AWARDS
1999 New York Foundation for the Arts Grant
1996 Studio, American Center, Paris, France
1996 Kaplan Foundation Grant, NYC
1995 Augustus St. Gaudens Fellowship, Cornish, NH
1994 Residency at Kohler Co., Kohler, WI
1991 Guggenheim Fellowship, NYC
1988 Residency at Chesterwood, Stockbridge, MA
1980 Studio, Institute for Art & Urban Resources at the Clocktower, NYC
1979 Studio, Institute for Art & Urban Resources at PS1, NYC
S0LO EXHIBITIONS
2022 Four Windows/Vier Fenster, Volkstata @ Zwitschermachine, Berlin, DE
2022 Works on Paper, Blumen Sühr, Potsdam, DE
2020 At the Edge of Happiness/Am Rand von Glück, Hausausstellung, Berlin, DE
2017 A Day on the Beach/Ein Tag Am Strand, Westend Hospital, Berlin, DE
2015 Dessins/Drawings, Galerie Minsky, Paris, France
2011 Vienna Art Fair, Galerie Grita Insam, Vienna, Austria
Art Elysees, Galerie Minsky, Paris, France
2010 Art Elysees, Galerie Minsky, Paris, France
2002 Birds Blocks Bamboo, PS1 Project, NYC
Knowlton Mfg., Paul Rodgers/9W, NYC
1998 Win Knowlton, Bill Maynes Gallery, NYC
1995 Win Knowlton: trees, Bill Maynes Contemporary Art, NYC
Augustus St. Gaudens Fellowship Exhibition, Cornish, NH
Recent Works, Contemporary Art Gallery, Ahmedabad, India
1993 New Sculpture, Eugene Binder Gallery, Dallas, TX
1991 Description Without Place, BlumHelman Gallery, NYC
Win Knowlton, Eugene Binder Gallery, Dallas, TX
1990 New Sculpture, BlumHelman Gallery, NYC
Win Knowlton, Vaughan & Vaughan, Minneapolis, MN
Win Knowlton, Eugene Binder Gallery, Cologne, Germany
1989 New Drawings, BlumHelman Gallery, NYC
1988 Win Knowlton, Galerie Montenay, Paris, France
1987 Win Knowlton, New Sculpture, BlumHelman Gallery, NYC
1986 Project Room, Museum of Modern Art, NYC
1981 Win Knowlton: Drawings and Sculpture, The Clocktower, NYC
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Arkansas Arts Center
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Brooklyn Museum
National Gallery
Detroit Institute for the Arts
Neuberger Museum
Fogg Museum
Princeton University
Hirshhorn Museum
Walker Art Center
Houston Museum of Fine Arts
Whitney Museum
Kohler Art Center
Morgan Library
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 Max Papart & Win Knowlton, Galerie Minsky, Paris, France
2022 Alles IV, Hochhaus, Berlin, DE
2021 Volkstata, Zwitschermachine, Berlin, DE
2018 Alles I, Hochhaus, Berlin, DE
2014 On the Blue Shore of Silence, Tracy Williams Gallery, NYC
2013 Emily Fisher Landau Collection, Whitney Museum, NYC
2012 Loughelton Revisited, Winkleman Gallery, NYC
2009 New York New Drawings 1946-2007, Wynn Kramarsky Collection, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Segovia, Spain
2003 Vessels, Greenwich House, NYC
2002 3000 Degrees, Paul Rodgers/9W, NYC
2001 Beauty and the Beast, Paul Rodgers/9W, NYC
2001 Outlooks, Paul Rodgers/9W, NYC
1995 Win Knowlton/Joel Meyerowitz Collaboration, DNA, Provincetown, MA
1993 Win Knowlton, Wes Mills, Sarah Schwartz, Laura Carpenter Fine Arts, Santa Fe,NM
1993 Invitational Exhibition of Paintings & Sculpture, American Academy of Arts and Letters, NYC
1992 The Retangled Bank, E.M. Donahue Gallery, NYC
The Figure, BlumHelman Gallery, NYC
1991 Forbidden Games, Jack Tilton Gallery, NYC
Out of Sight, Institute for Art & Urban Resources (PS1), NYC
Contemporary Sculpture at Chesterwood, Stockbridge, MA
1990 Within, Baumgartner Galleries, Inc., Washington, D.C.
Drawings, Vaughan & Vaughan, Minneapolis,MN
It Must Give Pleasure: Erotic Perceptions, Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, NYC
1989 For the Collector: Important Contemporary Sculpture, Meredith Long & Company, Houston,TX
Selections from the Collection of Marc and Livia Straus, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
1988 Abstract Expression, Recent Sculpture, The Lannan Museum, Lake Worth, FL
The Irrational Element, Loughelton Gallery, NYC
Scale (small), Rosa Esman Gallery, NYC
Three Decades: The Oliver-Hoffmann Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Innovations in Sculpture 1985-1988, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
1987 Metaphor, Kent Gallery, NYC
Atlantic Sculpture, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA
Drawings, Marc Richards Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1986 Group Sculpture Exhibition, Dart Gallery, Chicago, IL
Fabricated, Not Found, Loughelton Gallery, NYC
Drawings, Barbara Krakow Gallery, Boston, MA
1985 Sculpture and Drawing, Manhattan Art, NYC
Selections 29, The Drawing Center, NYC
1983 A More Store, Jack Tilton Gallery, NYC
1982 Selections, Artists Space, NYC
1980 On Ward’s Island, Organization for Independent Artists, NYC
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