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Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 1976
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBTIONS
2015
2018 Mythological Elsewhere: photomontages, wall fragment paintings and drawings from ONECITY, 1970s-90s.
WESTWOOD GALLERY NYC
2015 Will Insley, On the Bowery. Paintings from the 1960s. Also on view, On the Bowery, 1971.
Portfolio includes prints by Cy Twombly, Robert Ryman, Robert Indiana, Les Levine, John Willenbecher, Charles Hinman,
Richard Smith, Gerald Laing, John Giorno. WESTWOOD GALLERY NYC
2012 Foundation ONECITY. Paintings from the 1960s. WESTWOOD GALLERY NYC
2010 Will Insley: ONECITY Wall Fragments from the walls of ONECITY, drawings and photographs of abstract buildings outsi
de ONECITY, WESTWOOD GALLERY NYC
1996 Will Insley: The Drawings, New Arts Program, Leigh Valley, PA
1995 Will Insley: Wall Sections from the Prisons of One City, Hanes Art Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
1992 Will Insley: Wall Fragments and Drawings, Max Protetch Gallery, New York
1990 Will Insley: Wall Fragments and Drawings, Max Protetch Gallery, New York
1988 Will Insley: New Wall Fragments, Max Protetch Gallery, New York
1985 Will Insley: Drawings, Max Protetch Gallery, New York
1984 Will Insley: The Opaque Civilization, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York *
1982 Section Drawings of a Building from ONECITY, Max Protetch Gallery, New York
1980 First Drawings of ONECITY, Max Protetch Gallery, New York
1978 Pläne für eine ander Welt: Gedächte und gebaute Raumvorstellungen, Gallery Orny, Munich, Germany *
1977 Will Insley: Architectural Drawings, Max Protetch Gallery, New York
Architectural Drawings, Protetch-McIntosh, Washington D.C.
1976 Fishbach Gallery, New York
Annemarie Verna, Zurich, Switzerland
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL *
1975 Allen Priebe Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, WI
College Arts Gallery, Ohio State University, Columbus, OH
1974 Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Germany
Annemarie Verna, Zurich, Switzerland
Fischbach Gallery, New York
1973 Will Insley, New York: Pläne für eine andere Welt: Gedächte und gebaute Raumvorstellungen, Museum Haus Lange,
Krefeld, Germany *
Fischbach Gallery, New York
1972 Paul Maenz, Cologne, Germany
Buildings by Will Insley, Visual Arts Gallery, New York
1971 Will Insley, Ceremonial Space, Museum of Modern Art, New York *
1969 Will Insley: Space Diagrams, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Channel Space, John Gibson Commissions, Inc., New York
1968 Stable Gallery, New York
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN *
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY *
1967 Visiting Artist at Oberlin College, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
Stable Gallery, New York
Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina
1966 Stable Art Gallery, New York
1965 Stable Art Gallery, New York
Benefit for C.O.R.E., Graham Gallery, New York
25th Annual Exhibition by the Society for Contemporary American Art, Art Institute of Chicago
A Contemporary Collection of Painting and Sculpture Selected from the Collection of Eleanor Ward, Lyman Allyn Museum, New London, CT *
1955 Behn Moore Gallery, Cambridge, MA
Annemarie Verna Galerie, Zurich, 1976
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018
2018 50th Anniversary Exhibition. Benefit for the Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam. Carl Andre, Jo Baer,
Bob Barry, Bill Bollinger, Dan Flavin, Robert Huot, Will Insley, Donald Judd, David Lee, Sol Lewitt, Robert Mangold, Robert Murray,
Doug Ohlson, Robert Ryman. Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
2016 Drawing Dialogues. Selections from Sol LeWitt’s collection. The Drawing Center, New York City
2013 Cellblock I and II, An Essay In Exhibition Form, Curated by Robert Hobbs
Andrea Rosen Gallery, Dec. 1, 2012 – Feb. 2, 2013
2012 Art Wynwood. Westwood Gallery NYC
Towards A Warm Math. On Stellar Rays Gallery, NYC
On the Bowery. Silkscreens by Cy Twombly, Robert Ryman, Will Insley, Robert Indiana, Les Levine, John Willenbecher, Charles
Hinman, Richard Smith, Gerald Laing and John Giorno. Photographs by Eliot Elisofon. Westwood Gallery NYC 2011
Art Miami. Westwood Gallery NYC
2007 The Drawing Center, NYC, Drawn from Artists’ Collections.
1999 Drawn from Artist’s Collections, The Drawing Center, New York (travelled to UCLA Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA)
1998 Masters of the Masters, Butler Institute of American Art, Youngstown, OH *
1996 Extended Minimal, Max Protetch Gallery, New York
1995 Drawing the Line, Ackland Art Museum, Chapel Hill, NC
Alchemy, Procter Art Center, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
American Sculptors in the 1960s. Selected Drawings from the Collection. Museum of Modern Art, New York
1994 Off Balance, Artrax, New York
1993 On Paper, TZ’Art & Co, New York
1992 The Living Object: The Art Collection of Ellen H. Johnson, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, OH
1990 Grids, Vrej Baghoomian Gallery, New York
1989 Max Protetch Gallery: 20 Years, Max Protetch Gallery, New York
Geometric Abstraction and the Modern Spirit, Neuberger Museum, SUNY Purchase, Purchase, NY
1988 20th Anniversary Group Exhibition, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Kölner Kunstmarkt, Cologne, Germany
1987 Group Show Gallery Artists, Max Protetch Gallery, New York
Selections from Solid Abstractions, Saxon Lee Gallery, New York
Group Show Gallery Artists, Max Protetch Gallery, New York
1985 Geometric Abstractions: Selections from a Decade, 1975-1985, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
Between Science and Fiction, Fundaçao Bienal de Sao Paulo, Brazil
1984 Dreams and Nightmares - Utopian Visions in Modern Art, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian
Institution, Washington, DC *
Winter Group Exhibition, Protetch-McNeil, New York
Indiana Influence: The Golden Age of Indiana Landscape Painting. Indiana’s Modern Legacy:
An Inaugural Exhibition of the Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN *
From the Collection of Sol LeWitt, The University Art Museum, California State Museum, Long Beach,
CA (travelled to Ackland Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC; Everhart Museum, Scranton, PA;
The Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, New York; Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, FL).
1983 Abstract Painting: 1960-69, Institute for Art and Urban Resources, PS1, Long Island City, NY
Drawings, Annemarie Verna, Zürich, Switzerland
Connections: Bridges / Ladders / Ramps / Staircases / Tunnels, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, PA *
Painting and Sculpture, Max Protetch Gallery, New York
1982 Post-minimalism, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
1981 Amerikanische Zeichnungen der siebziger Jahre / Drawing Distinctions: American Drawings of the Seventies, Louisiana
Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark (travelled to Kunsthalle Basel, Stadische Galerie im Lenbachhaus, Munich Wilhelm-Hack Museum, Ludwigshafen, Germany) *
Imaginary Civilizations, Tyler and Penrose Galleries, Tyler School of Art, Elkins Park, PA
1980 Drawings / Structures, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA
Pier +Ocean: Construction in the Art of the Seventies, Hayward, London, UK (traveled to Rijkmuseum Kroeller Muller, Otterlo, Holland) *
Michael Rea Collection of American Art 1960-80, McIntosh-Dysdale, Washington, DC
Architectural Sculpture, Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA *
1979 Art and Architecture: Space and Structure, Protetch-McIntosh, Washington, DC
Drawings about Drawings: New Directions (1968 1978), Ackland Memorial Art Center,University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
Indiana / New York, Washington Gallery, Indianapolis, IN
Mind, Child, Architecture, New Jersey Institute of Technology, School of Architecture Gallery, Newark, NJ
1978 Inaugural Exhibition, Max Protetch Gallery, New York
Dwellings, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA *
1977 Documenta 6, Kassel, Germany
1976 American Salon des Refuses, Stamford Museum and Nature Center, Stamford, CT
Jahre Museum Haus Lange: Eine Retrospektive der Ausstellungen 1955 bis 1975, Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany *
New Gallery Artists, Max Protetch Gallery, New York
15, John Gibson Gallery, New York
Private Notations: Artist’s Sketchbooks II, Philadelphia College of Art, Philadelphia, PA
Drawing Today in New York, Sewall Gallery, Rice University, Houston, TX (travelled to Tulane University, New Orleans, LA;
University of Texas, Austin, TX; Dayton Art Center, Dayton, OH)
Art That Involves Words, Max Protetch Gallery, New York
Painting, Drawing and Sculpture form the 60s and 70s from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection, Philadelphia College of Art, PA *
1975 20th Century Drawings, Hawthorne Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
Important Post War and Contemporary Art, Leo Castelli Gallery, Sonnabend Gallery, New York (traveled to Sotheby Park Bernet, NY) *
Drawings U.S.A. ’75, Minneapolis Museum of Art
Works on Paper, Anemarie Verna – Art 6/75, Basel, Switzerland
Contemporary Drawings, William Paterson State College, Wayne, NJ
Labyrinth: Symbol and Meaning in Contemporary Art, Watson Gallery, Wheaton College, Norton, MA
Painting, Drawing and Sculpture from the 60s and 70s from the Dorothy and Herbert Vogel Collection, Institute of Contempor ry Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA (travelled to Contemporary Arts Centre, Cincinati, OH in 1976) *
Narrative in Contemporary Art, McLaughlin Library, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada *
1974 Dealer’s Choice, New York Cultural Center, New York
Art for Collecting, Akron Art Institute, Akron, OH
Art Now 74: A Celebration of American Arts, John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington, DC*
Drawings, Anemarie Verna – 6/74, Basel, Switzerland
Recent Acquisitions, Museum of Modern Art, New York
1973 Art in Space: Some Turning Points, Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, MI *
Drawings 1963-1973, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York *
American Drawings, New Gallery of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH
1972 Drawings by New York Artists, Utah Museum of Fine Arts, University of Utah, Salt Lake City, UT
(travelled to Henry Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, WA; University Art Collection, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ; Georgia Museum of Art, University of Georgia, Athens, GA; Finch College Museum of Art Contemporary study Wing, New York; Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA) *
Grids, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA
Documenta 5, Kassel, Germany
7 Kölner Kunstmarkt, Cologne, Germany
Making Megalopolis Matter, New York Cultural Center, New York
Fischbach Gallery, New York
1971 Willard Gallery, New York
Projected Art, Finch College Museum of Art, New York
International Frujahrmesse, Berliner Galerien, West Berlin, Germany
John Gibson: New York, Galerie Daniel Templon, Paris, France
1970 The Expressive Line, Hecksher Museum, Huntington, NY
Documentations 1970, John Gibson Gallery, New York
L’art vivant aux Etats-Unis, Foundation Maeght, St. Paul-de-Vence, France *
1969 Between Object and Environment: Sculpture in an Extended Format, Institute of Contemporary Art,
University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA *
Ecological Art, John Gibson Gallery, New York
Will Insley, Fred Mitchell, Steve Poleskie, Andrew Dickson White Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY *
Long Beach Island, New Jersey, Long Beach Island Foundation of the Arts and Sciences, Loveladies, NJ *
Simultaneously, School of Visual Arts Gallery, New York
Drawings, Fort Worth Art Center Museum, Fort Worth, TX *
Drawings, Paula Cooper Gallery, Leo Castelli Gallery, New York
1968 Painting Annual, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York *
Cool Art, Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT *
Painting: Out from the Wall, Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines, IA *
Drawings, Heiner Freidrich Gallery, Munich, Germany
First World Triennial, New Delhi, India
Drawings, University of Puerto Rico, San Juan, PR
The Weatherspoon Annual Exhibition: Art on Paper: Invitational Exhibition 1968, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North
Carolina, Greensboro, NC *
The Art of the Real, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
J.L. Hudson Gallery, Detroit, Shaped Paintings
Benefit for the Student Mobilization Committee to End the War in Vietnam. Carl Andre, Jo Baer, Bob Barry, Bill Bollinger, Dan Flavin, Robert Huot, Will Insley, Donald Judd, David Lee, Sol Lewitt, Robert Mangold, Robert Murray, Doug Ohlson, Robert Ryman. Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
1967 Contemporary American Painting and Sculpture 1967, Krannert Art Museum, Champaign, IL *
Art Objectif, Galerie Stadler, Paris, France *
Monuments, Richard Feigen Gallery, New York
Schemata 7, Finch College Museum of Art, New York *
Sixth Biennial, Republic of San Marino, Brazil
First Kent Invitational, College Gallery, Kent State University, OH *
1966 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York *
Art in Process: the Visual Development of a Structure, Finch College Museum of Art, Contemporary Study Wing, New York *
Rigelhaupt Gallery, Boston, MA
Systemic Painting, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York *
Park Place Gallery, New York
1965 Daniels Gallery, New York
Shape and Structure 1965, Tibor de Nagy Gallery, New York * catalogue