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An influential sculptor active since the late 1960s, Benglis has developed a diverse body of work while focusing on aspects of process, fluidity, and the physicality of form. Roberta Smith reviewed a recent show for the New York Times. "Ms. Benglis is a supremely intuitive, physical artist with an extravagant sensibility and an elusive goal: to give liquidity permanent and dramatic form." Over the course of her career, Benglis has employed a range of materials, from poured latex to foam to bronze, turning to clay in the early 1990s.
Describing the work as evidencing Benglis' artistic maturity, Roberta Smith wrote "The best are fascinatingly rich in the play of surface and form and in what can only be called abstracted sexuality…They are not overtly new: their precedents include Picasso, Peter Voulkos and even Reuben Nakian and they share concerns with work by John Chamberlain and Frank Stella. But the best might be called subtly new; they distinguish themselves by eschewing the suggestion of vessel or figure and by matching liquid color with the near-liquidity of clay, especially wildly manipulated clay."
Lynda Benglis was born in Louisiana and now resides in New York and Santa Fe. A pioneer of post minimalism, she arrived on the New York Art scene in the late 1960s, gaining renown for her groundbreaking poured latex sculptures and provocative video and performance-based work. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim fellowship and two National Endowment for the Arts grants, among other awards. Her work is included in permanent collections throughout the world, including the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Modern Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
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Museum Collections
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, Louisiana
Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin, Ohio
Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, Texas
Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
Australian National Gallery, Canberra, Australia
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Birmingham Museum of Art, Birmingham, Alabama
Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, New York
The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC
The Cranbrook Design Center, Detroit, Michigan
The Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, Michigan
Gihon Foundation, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Grey Art Gallery and Study Center, New York University, New York
High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia
Hokkaido Museum of Modern Art, Sapporo, Japan
The Israel Museum, Jerusalem, Israel
Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, Missouri
Leo W. O’Brien Federal Building, Albany, New York
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, California
Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
The Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, Texas
Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, California
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Texas
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
National Art Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne, Australia
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, Missouri
New Orleans Museum of Art, New Orleans, Louisiana
Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York
Pensacola Museum of Art, Pensacola, Florida
Philadelphia Museum of Art Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Portland Art Museum, Portland, Oregon
Roger Ogden collection, New Orleans, Louisiana
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, California
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
St. Louis Art Museum, St. Louis, Missouri
Storm King Art Center, Mountainville, New York
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2014 New Ceramic Work,Cheim & Read, New York
2013 Everything Flows, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Great Hall Exhibitions: Lynda Benglis, New York University Institute of Fine Arts,
New York
2012 Thomas Dane Gallery, London, United Kingdom
Figures, The SCAD Museum of Art, Savannah, Georgia
Part One: New Works on Paper, Kappatos Gallery, Athens, Greece
Erich Hauser Art Foundation, Rottweil, Germany
2011 Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands; travelled to the Irish Museum of
Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland; Museum le Consortium, Dijon, France;
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island;
New Museum, New York; The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles,
California
Lynda Benglis Glass Masks, Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas
Fountains, Salon 94 Freemans, New York
2010 Museum of Art, RISD, Providence, Rhode Island
Michael Janssen Gallery, Cologne, Germany
2009 New Work, Cheim & Read, New York
Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, The Netherlands; travelled to the Irish Museum of
Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland; Museum le Consortium, Dijon, France;
Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, Rhode Island;
New Museum, New York
2008 Lynda Benglis as Printmaker: A 30-Year Retrospective of Editions and Monotypes,
Carl Solway Gallery, Cincinnati, Ohio
Shape Shifters, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
2007 Wax Paintings & Ceramic Sculptures, Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas
ArtMatters 11: Lynda Benglis, the McNay Museum, San Antonio, Texas
2006 New Work by Lynda Benglis, Nina Freudenheim Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Lynda Benglis: Pleated, Knotted, Poured..., Locks Gallery, Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania
2005 Ceramic Sculpture, Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica, California
Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Ferndale, Michigan
2004 A Sculpture Survey 1969-2004, Cheim & Read, New York
2003 Bass Museum of Art, Miami, Florida
2002 Ceramic Sculpture, Franklin Parrasch Gallery, New York
Soft Off, Locks Gallery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
2001 Toomey Tourell, San Francisco, California
Echoes, Remba Gallery, Los Angeles, California
2000 Weatherspoon Art Gallery, Greensboro, North Carolina
Stacked, Forced, Pinched: Clay and Bronze Works by Lynda Benglis,
Meadows Museum, Shreveport, Los Angeles, California
A Decade of Ideas, Bryan Ohno Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Hot Spots, Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas
1999 Sculpture, Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, Louisiana
Guild Hall Musuem, East Hampton, New York
New Work, Cheim & Read, New York
1998 Chimera, Forum Kunst Rottweil, Rottweil, Germany; travelled to Galerie Six
Friedrich Lisa Ungar, Munich, Germany; Galerie Charimklocker, Vienna, Austria
Selected Wall Reliefs, USF Contemporary Art Museum, University of South Florida,
Tampa, Florida
New Sculpture and a Screening of ‘Female Sensibility’ from 1973, Cheim & Read,
New York
Kappatos Gallery, Athens, Greece
1997 Selected Wall Reliefs, Elizabeth Mayer Fine Art, New York
Galerie Michael Janssen, Cologne, Germany
Lynda Benglis – Glass, Fred Dorfman Gallery, New York
Hidden Agenda, Gallery Chemould, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, India
Game Being, University of North Texas, School of Visual Arts, Denton, Texas
Galerie Michael Janssen, Cologne, Germany
1996 Porter Troupe Gallery, San Diego, California
New Monotypes: Landscapes and Fetishes, Quartet Editions, New York
1995 Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, Louisiana
Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
Recent Wall and Glass Sculpture, Heath Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
Lynda Benglis organized in conjunction with Chimera: Recent Ceramic
Sculpture, Cranbrook Art Museum, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
1994 Wax Paintings, Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Wax Paintings, Heath Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
Chimera: Recent Ceramic Sculpture, The Harwood Foundation Museum,
Taos, New Mexico; travelled to Boulder Museum of Art, Boulder, Colorado;
Cranbrook Art Museum; Bloomfield Hills, Michigan; University Art Gallery,
New Mexico State University, Las Cruces, New Mexico
1993 Clothed and Unclothed: Recent Sculpture, Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
From the Furnace, Auckland City Art Center, Auckland, New Zealand
Ceramic Sculpture, Tavelli Gallery, Aspen, Colorado
Gow-Langsford Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand
1992 Heath Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
1991 Dual Natures, Traveling Exhibition: The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia;
Contemporary Arts Center & New Orleans Museum of Art; San Jose Museum
of Art, San Jose, California
Recent Work, Heath Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
New Works, Tilden Foley Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1990 Richard Gray Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Linda Farris Gallery, Seattle, Washington
Sena Galleries West, Santa Fe, New Mexico
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
1989 Tilden-Foley Gallery, New Orleans, Los Angeles, California
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Michael Murphy Gallery, Tampa, Florida
1988 Recent Sculpture and Works on Paper, Cumberland Gallery, Nashville, Tennessee
Full Gross Gallery, San Francisco, California
1987 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Landfall Press, New York
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1986 Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, California
Tilden-Foley Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
1985 Works in Glass, Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
New Works in Glass, Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
Glass, Dart Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Heath Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
1984 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
The Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas
Tilden-Foley Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
1983 Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
Dart Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1982 Okun-Thomas Gallery, St. Louis, Missouri
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, California
1981 Museum of Art, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona
Galerie Albert Baronian, Brussels, Belgium
Dart Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
The Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas
Jacksonville Art Museum, Jacksonville, Florida
1980 University of South Florida, Tampa, Florida; traveled to Lowe Art Museum, Miami,
Florida
Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, Oregon
The Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
David Heath Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia
Chatham College, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Susanne Hilberry Gallery, Birmingham, Michigan
1979 The Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas
Dart Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
Real Art Ways, New Haven, Connecticut
Hansen-Fuller Goldeen Gallery, San Francisco, California
Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia
Galerie Albert Baronian, Brussels, Belgium
1978 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
1977 Margo Leavin Gallery, Los Angeles, California
Hansen-Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, California
1976 Paula Cooper Gallery, Los Angeles, California
1975 Fine Arts Center Gallery, State University of New York
College at Oneonta, New York
The Kitchen, New York
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
The Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas
1974 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Hansen-Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, California
1973 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Lynda Benglis: Video Tapes, Video Gallery, Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse,
New York
Hansen-Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, California
Portland Center for the Visual Arts, Portland, Oregon
The Texas Gallery, Houston, Texas
Jack Glenn Gallery, Corona Del Mar, California
The Clocktower, New York
1972 Hansen-Fuller Gallery, San Francisco, California
1971 Kansas State University, Manhattan, Kansas
Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Hayden Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge,
Massachusetts
1970 Paula Cooper Gallery, New York
Janie C. Lee Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Galerie Hans Muller, Cologne, Germany
1969 University of Rhode Island, Kingston, Rhode Island
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