TONY SMITH

Born: Orange, N.J., 1912

Education: Georgetown University, Washington, D.C., 1931-32
Fordham University, New York, 1931
St. Francis Xavier, Newark, N.J., 1926-30

Died: New York, 1980


Selected One-Person Exhibitions:

2008
Ad Reinhardt / Tony Smith, PaceWildenstein, New York
Sculpture, Painting, Drawing, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

2006
Tony Smith: Marriage Night We Lost, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

2004
Tony Smith, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Tony Smith: Tau, Bertha and Karl Leubsdorf Art Gallery at Hunter College, New York
Tony Smith: Wall, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
Tony Smith: Paintings and Drawings, Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Los Angeles

2003
Tony Smith: Louisenberg, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York (catalogue)
Tony Smith, Galerie Hauser & Wirth, Zürich

2002
Distilled Expression, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London
Tony Smith: For Series, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York
Institut Valencia d'Art Modern, Valencia, Spain (catalogue)

2001
Tony Smith: Paintings and Sculpture, 1960-1965, Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York
Tony Smith Paintings: A survey of early work from the 1930's and 40's, Robert Henry Adams Fine Art, Chicago

2000
Tony Smith's Smog: A New Sculpture for Middlebury, Middlebury College Museum of Art, Middlebury, Vt.

1999
Tony Smith: Stinger, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

1998
Tony Smith: Architect, Painter, Sculptor, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
Tony Smith's Sculpture: Through Drawings and Photograph, Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, New York
Tony Smith in the City, Public Art Fund and The Museum of Modern Art, New York

1997
Tony Smith: Moondog, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

1995
Tony Smith, A Drawing Retrospective, Matthew Marks Gallery, New York

1994
Tony Smith: Paintings 1959-60 and Sculpture, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

1993
Tony Smith: Willy, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

1992
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York. Traveled to Galeria Theo, Madrid; Sala Rekalde, Bilbao, Spain; Villa Arson, Nice, France; Musée d'Art Modern et Contemporain, Geneva; St. Etienne Musée d'Art Moderne, St. Etienne, France; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humelbaek, Denmark; Serpentine Gallery, London; and Galerie Pierre Huber, Geneva.
Tony Smith: Paintings and Sculpture 1956-1962, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

1991
Tony Smith: Ten Elements, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York

1990
Tony Smith: Sculptures from the 60's, Galerie Ressle, Stockholm

1989
The Tony Smith Retrospective, Jones Hall Gallery, University of St. Thomas, Houston

1988
Tony Smith: Sculptures and Drawings, 1961-1969, Westfälisches Landesmuseum, Munster. Traveled to Städtisches Museum Abteiberg, Mönchengladbach, Germany
Smug, St. John's Rotary, New York

1987
Tony Smith "Maze", Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Tony Smith: The Shape of Space, Bakalar Sculpture Gallery, MIT List Visual Arts Center, Cambridge, Mass.

1986
Tony Smith Sculptures 1961-63, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris
Tony Smith: Paintings 1953-1963, Small Sculpture 1961-1969, Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York

1985
Tony Smith Selected Sculptures: 1961-1973, Part I, Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York. Traveled to Paula Cooper Gallery, New York, and Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles

1984
Tony Smith Drawings, Hunter College of The City University of New York Art Gallery, New York

1983
Tony Smith: Paintings and Sculpture, The Pace Gallery, New York

1981
Tony Smith, 81 More, and the Sculptural Process, Kean College, Union, N.J.

1980
Tony Smith: Ten Elements, Ace Gallery, Venice, Calif.

1979
Tony Smith: Ten Elements and Throwback, The Pace Gallery, New York

1976
Tony Smith: Castings of Models and Small Pieces, Fourcade, Droll Inc., New York

1974
Tony Smith: Painting and Sculpture, University of Maryland Art Gallery, College Park, Md.

1971
Tony Smith: Recent Sculpture, M. Knoelder & Co., New York

1970
9 Sculptures by Tony Smith, Newark Museum and New Jersey State Council of the Arts, Newark., N.J. Traveled to Montclair State Art Museum, Montclair, N.J.; The Art Museum of Princeton University, Princeton, N.J.; New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, N.J.; Cumberland County College, Vineland, N.J.; Garden State Arts Center, Holmdel, N.J.; and Morris Museum, Morristown, N.J.

1969
Sculpture by Tony Smith, Honolulu Academy of Arts, Hawaii

1968
White Museum of Modern Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, N.Y. Traveled to Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, Ga.; Tennessee Fine Arts Center, Nashville, Tenn.; University of St. Thomas, Houston; Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle; Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Santa Barbara, Calif.

1967
Tony Smith: The Wandering Rocks, Galerie Müller, Stuttgart. Traveled to Reneé Ziegler, Zürich; Fischbach Gallery, New York; Galerie Yvon Lambert, Paris; and Donald Morris Gallery, Detroit

1966
Tony Smith: Two Exhibitions of Sculpture, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn. Traveled to The Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia


Selected Group Exhibitions:

2010
IVAM Donations, Institut Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia, Spain

2009
Spy Numbers, Palais de Tokyo, Paris
Chasing Napoleon, Palais de Tokyo, Paris

2007
Art in the Parks: Celebrating 40 Years 1967-2007, Carl Schurz Park, New York

2005
Extreme Abstraction, Albright Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y.
L'action restrainte, Musee des Beaux Arts, Nantes, France

2004
Moved, Times Square Gallery, Hunter College, New York
A Minimal Future? Art As Object, 1958-1968, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
Singular Forms (Sometimes Repeated), The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Joyce in Art: Visual Art Inspired by James Joyce, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin
Beyond Geometry: Experiments in Form, 1940s to the 1970s, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles. Traveled to the Miami Art Museum
L'accio circumscribed, Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona, Barcelona
Das MoMA in Berlin, Neue Nationalgalerie, Berlin
Infinite Possibilities: Serial Imagery in 20th-Century Drawings, Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley College, Wellesley, Mass.

2003
Fresh: Works on Paper, A 5th Anniversary Exhibition, James Kelly Contemporary, Sante Fe, N.Mex.

2002
The Smiths: Tony, Kiki and Seton, Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art, Lake Worth, Fla.

2001
Abstraction: the Amerindian Paradigm, Palais des Beaux-Arts de Bruxelles, Brussels. Traveled to Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Valencia, Spain
Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, 100 Drawings and Photographs, Matthew
Marks Gallery, New York

2000
Convergence: The Hamptons Since Pollock, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, N.Y.
Bauhaus: Dessau-Chicago-New York, Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany
Open Ends: Minimalism and After, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

1999
Shaping a Generation: The Art and Artists of Betty Parsons, Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, N.Y.
Paintings: A Selected View, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
20th Century Sculpture, Nassau County Museum of Art, Roslyn Harbor, N.Y.
Line, Color, Form, John Berggruen Gallery, San Francisco
Another Form: Drawing into Sculpture, New York Studio School, New York

1998
Elements of the Natural, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

1997
A Century of Sculpture: The Nasher Collection, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Alfred Jensen/Tony Smith: Personal Geometry, PaceWildenstein, New York
Tony Smith/Christopher Wilmarth: Apprentice, Mentor, Friends, Hirschl & Adler Modern, New York

1996
Abstraction in the Twentieth Century: Total Risk, Freedom, Discipline, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Abstraction: Pure and Impure, The Museum of Modern Art, New York
From Figure to Object: A Century of Sculptors' Drawings, Karsten Shubert Gallery, London

1995
Environmental Sculptures, Kukje Gallery, Seoul

1993
From the hand to the head, the theoretical object, Centre d'Art Contemporain du Domaine de Kerguehennec, Locmine, France

1991
Sol Lewitt, David Rabinowitch, Joel Shapiro, Tony Smith, Galerie Pierre Huber, Geneva
Vision by Room, Art, and Architecture from 1910 to 1990, Galerie Gmurzynska, Cologne

1989
Art in Place: Fifteen Years of Acquisitions, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1988
Sculptors Working, Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, N.Y.

1987
A Century of Modern Sculpture: The Patsy and Raymond Nasher Collection, Dallas Museum of Art. Traveled to the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid; Forte di Belvedere, Florence; and Tel Aviv Museum of Art
Long Island Modern: The First Generation of Modernist Architecture on Long Island, Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, N.Y.
Fifty Years of Collecting: An Anniversary Selection, Sculpture of the Modern Era, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York

1986
Qu'est-ce que c'est la Sculpture Moderne?, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris
Beyond Formalism: Threee Sculptors of the 1960's: Tony Smith, George Sugarman, Anne Truitt, Hunter College Art Gallery, New York
The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting, 1890-1985, Los Angeles Country Museum of Art, Los Angeles. Traveled to Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, and Haags Gemeentemuseum, La Haya, The Netherlands

1985
Sculptors' Drawings, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
A Decade of Visual Arts at Princeton: Faculty 1975-1985, Princeton Unversity Art Museum, Princeton
Ontogeny: Sculpture and Painting by 20th Century American Sculptors, New York Studio School, New York

1984
Carl Andre, Donald Judd, Tony Smith, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
BLAM! The Explosion of Pop, Minimalism, and Performance, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1983
Abstract Painting: 1960-69, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, N.Y.

1982
Memorial Exhibition, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York

1980
Twenty American Artists, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

1979
Exhibition of Work by Newly Elected Members, American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters, New York

1977
Twentieth Century Paintings and Sculpture: Matisse to De Kooning, Xavier Fourcade, Inc., New York
Project: New Urban Monuments, Akron Art Institute, Ohio. Traveled to Columbus Gallery of Fine Arts, Ohio; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; Tennessee Botanical Gardens and Fine Arts Center, Nashville, Tenn.; Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, Mich.; and Edwin A. Ulrich Museum of Art, Wichita State University, Wichita, Kansas
Works from the Collection of Dorothy and Herbert Vogel, The University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Mich.

1976
Two Hundred Years of American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Artists at Bennington-The Visual Arts Faculty 1932-1976, Bennington College Art Center, Bennington, Vt.
Painting and Sculpture Today, 1976, Indianapolis Museum of Art

1975
Sculpture: American Directions, 1945-1975, National Collection of Fine Arts, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, D.C.
Labyrinths: Symbol and Meaning in Contemporary Art, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia

1974
Monumenta, Monumenta Newport Inc., Newport, R.I.

1973
Biennial Exhibition: Contemporary American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1972
Whitney Museum of American Art Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1971
A Report on the Art and Technology Program of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1967-1971, Los Angeles Museum of Art, Los Angeles

1970
Expo '70, New Artists, Osaka, Japan
L'Art vivant aux Etats-Unis, Fondation Maeght, Vence, France
Unitary Forms: Minimal Sculpture by Carl Andre, Donald Judd, John McCracken, Tony Smith, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Annual Exhibition: Contemporary American Sculpture, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1969
Minimal Art, Akademie der Künste, Berlin
New York Painting and Sculpture, 1940-1970, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York

1968
Plus by Minus: Today's Half Century, Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, N.Y.
Minimal Art, Gemmentemuseum, La Haya, The Netherlands
Linea della Ricero: dall'informale alla nuova struttura, Venice Biennale
Documenta IV, Kassel
The Art of the Real USA 1948-1968, The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Traveled to Centre National d'Art Contemporain, Paris; Kunsthaus, Zürich; and Tate Gallery, London
In Honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, The Museum of Modern Art, New York

1967
American Sculpture of the Sixties, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles. Traveled to Philadelphia Museum of Art
Schemata 7, Finch College Museum of Art, New York
Scale As Content, Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Sculpture from Twenty Nations: Fifth Guggenheim International Exhibition, The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York. Traveled to Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa; and Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, Montreal

1966
Primary Structures, The Jewish Museum, New York
Annual Exhibition: Sculpture and Prints, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York

1964
Black, White and Grey, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Conn.