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1934
Born: Riga, Latvia
1949
Immigrates to the United States
1958
Arrives in New York
Lives and works in New York City
EDUCATION
1953-1955
B.F.A. Program, The University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
AWARDS AND HONORS
1966
Fine Arts Fellowship, The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation
1991
Grant Recipient, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation
2001
Award Recipient, The Francis J. Greenburger Foundation
2002
Individual Support Grant, The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
1959
Sven Lukin: Paintings & Drawings, Nexus Gallery, Boston, March 3-28
1961
Sven Lukin: Paintings, Betty Parsons Gallery, New York, January 9-28
1962
Sven Lukin, Martha Jackson Gallery, New York, May 29-June 22
1963
Sven Lukin, Dwan Gallery, Los Angeles, October 27-November 23
1963-1964
Sven Lukin, The Pace Gallery, Boston, December 9, 1963-January 5, 1964
1964
Sven Lukin: New Paintings, The Pace Gallery, New York, October 13-November 7
1966
Sven Lukin: Recent Works, The Pace Gallery, New York, February 5-March 2
1968
Sven Lukin: Shaped Paintings, The Pace Gallery, New York, November 16-December 11
1978-1979
Sven Lukin: New Work, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, December 5, 1978-January 28, 1979
1981
Sven Lukin: New Work, Alex Rosenberg Gallery, New York, November 21-December 17
1987
Sven Lukin: Facing East from Manhattan, Gallery FACE, Tokyo, November 26-December 13
1992
Spudism, Machado Fine Arts, Watermill, New York
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
1961
The Quest and the Quarry, Rome-New York Art Foundation Inc., Rome, Italy, May-September
1961-1962
The 1961 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture, Department of Fine Arts, Carnegie Institute, PA, October 27, 1961-January 7, 1962
1962-1963
Annual Exhibition 1962: Contemporary Sculpture and Drawings, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, December 12, 1962-Februrary 3, 1963
1964
The Classic Spirit in 20th Century Art, Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, February 4-29
67th Annual American Exhibition, The Art Institute of Chicago, February 28-April 12
American Drawings, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, September-October
The Shaped Canvas, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, December
1965
Krannert Art Museum, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
The 29th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting, The Corcoran Gallery of Art, Washington, DC, February 26-April 18
1966
Art in Process: The Visual Development of a Structure, Finch College Museum of Art, New York, May 11-
June 30
The Pace Gallery, New York
University of Colorado, Boulder
1966-1967
Vormen van de Kleur, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, November 20, 1966-January 15, 1967
Annual Exhibition 1966: Sculpture and Prints, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, December 16, 1966-February 5, 1967
1967
Formen der Farbe, Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart, Germany, February 18-March 26
Color, Image, and Form, The Detroit Institute of Arts, MI, April 11-May 21
1967-1968
1967 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, December 13, 1967-February 4, 1968
1968
Painting: Out from the Wall, Des Moines Art Center, IA, February 16-March 10
1969
Highlights of the 1968-1969 Art Season, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, June 22-September 14
Editions at Pace, The Pace Gallery, New York
1969-1970
One Man's Choice, Dallas Museum of Art, TX, December 14, 1969-January 18, 1970
1969 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, December 16, 1969-Februrary 1, 1970
1970
The Pace Gallery, New York
L'Art Vivant aux Etats-Unis, Fondation Maeght, Paris, July 16-September 30
1971 The Pace Gallery, New York
1974 Tenth Anniversary Exhibition, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, September 15-December 15
1983
Beyond the Plane: American Constructions, 1930-1965, New Jersey State Museum, Trenton, October 29-December 31
1987
Museum for Foreign Art, Riga, Latvia
2004
Four Americans, Marlborough Chelsea, New York, February 12-March 13
SELECTED MUSEUM COLLECTIONS
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas, Austin
Empire State Plaza Art Collection, Albany, New York
Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Lowe Art Museum, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York
James A. Michener Art Museum, Doylestown, Pennsylvania
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Queensborough Community College Art Gallery, Bayside, New York
Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, DC
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
BIBLIOGRAPHY
SELECTED BOOKS AND CATALOGUES
Aldrich, Larry. Highlights of the 1968-1969 Art Season. Ridgefield, CT: The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, 1969.
Alloway, Lawrence. American Drawings. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1964.
Alloway, Lawrence. The Shaped Canvas. New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 1964.
Anderson, Dennis and Glenn Lowry. The Governor Nelson A. Rockefeller Empire State Plaza Art Collection and Plaza Memorials. New York: Rizzoli, 2002.
Ashton, Dore. L'Art Vivant aux Etats-Unis. Paris: Fondation Maeght, 1970.
Baro, Gene. Color, Image, and Form. Detroit, MI: The Detroit Institute of Arts, 1967.
Battcock, Gregory. Minimal Art: A Critical Anthology. New York: E.P. Dutton & Co. Inc., 1968.
Baur, John. 1969 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Painting, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1969.
Beeren, W.A.L. and E. de Wilde. Vormen van de Kleur. Amsterdam: Stedelijk Museum, 1966.
Blesh, Rudi. The Classic Spirit in 20th Century Art. New York: Sidney Janis Gallery, 1964.
Dyer, Carlus. Tenth Anniversary Exhibition. Ridgefield, CT: The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, 1974.
Goodrich, Lloyd. Annual Exhibition 1962: Contemporary Sculpture and Drawings. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1962.
Goodrich, Lloyd. Annual Exhibition 1966: Sculpture and Prints. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1966.
Goodrich, Lloyd. 1967 Annual Exhibition of Contemporary Painting. New York: Whitney Museum of American Art, 1967.
Halley, Donald M. Painting: Out from the Wall. Des Moines, IA: Des Moines Art Center, 1968.
Humblet, Claudine. The New American Abstraction: 1950-1970. Milan: Skira, 2007.
Judd, Donald. Donald Judd: The Complete Writings, 1959-1975. Halifax, NS: The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, 2005.
Lukin, Sven. Sven Lukin: Facing East from Manhattan. Tokyo: Gallery FACE, 1987.
Maxon, John. 67th Annual American Exhibition. Chicago: The Art Institute of Chicago, 1964.
Meyer, James. Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2004.
Pfahler, Georg K. Formen der Farbe. Stuttgart, Germany: Württembergischer Kunstverein, 1967.
Read, Herbert. The Quest and the Quarry. Rome, Italy: Rome-New York Art Foundation, Inc., 1961.
Sandler, Irving. The Empire State Collection: Art for the Public. Albany, NY: Empire State Plaza Art Commission, 1987.
Siegel, Jeanne. Artwords: Discourse on the 60s and 70s. Cambridge, MA: Da Capo Press, 1992.
Smith, Gordon M. Contemporary Art—Acquisitions, 1966-1969. Buffalo, NY: Albright-Knox Art Gallery, 1969.
Toher, Jennifer. Beyond the Plane: American Constructions, 1930-1965. Trenton: New Jersey State Museum, 1983.
Tuchman, Maurice. Sven Lukin: New Work. Los Angeles: Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1978.
Varian, Elayne. Art in Process: The Visual Development of a Structure. New York: Finch College Museum of Art, 1966.
Washburn, Gordon Bailey. The 1961 Pittsburgh International Exhibition of Contemporary Painting and Sculpture. Pittsburgh, PA: Carnegie Institute, 1961.
Weller, Allen. The Joys and Sorrows of Recent American Art. Urbana-Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1970.
Williams, Herman Warner, Jr. The 29th Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting. Washington, DC: The Corcoran Gallery of Art, 1965.
SELECTED PERIODICALS
Ashton, Dore. “New York Commentary.” Studio International 177, no. 908 (1969): 95.
Ashton, Dore. “The Artist as Dissenter.” Studio International 171, no. 876 (1966): 166.
Baker, Elizabeth C. “Solid Anti-Geometry.” Art News 65, no. 1 (1966): 56-57, 74-76.
Benedikt, Michael. “New York Letter.” Art International 10, no. 10 (1966): 65.
Blok, Cor. “New Shapes of Color.” Art International 11, no. 2 (1967): 47.
Colpitt, Frances. “The Shape of Painting in the 1960s.” Art Journal 50, no. 1 (1991): 52-56.
Glueck, Grace. “Alone at Last—With a Trend.” New York Times, 1 December 1968, D41.
Goldin, Amy. “In the Galleries.” Arts Magazine 40, no. 6 (1966): 55.
Harwood, Alison. “Jane Holzer—The Lion-Hearted in Her New York Apartment.” Vogue, 1 November 1969, 210-217.
Judd, Donald. “In the Galleries.” Arts Magazine 36, no. 10 (1962): 53.
Krauss, Rosalind. “Lukin.” Artforum 4, no. 9 (1966): 50.
Lerman, Leo. “The Village Idea.” Mademoiselle, 1 June 1962, 71.
Lippard, Lucy. “New York Letter.” Art International 9, no. 2 (1965): 46.
Lippard, Lucy. “New York Letter.” Art International 10, no. 4 (1966): 76.
Lippard, Lucy. “The Third Stream: Constructed Paintings and Painted Structures.” Art Voices 4, no. 2 (1965): 44-49.
Mellow, James R. “New York Letter.” Art International 13, no. 1 (1969): 56-57.
Noah, Barbara. “Sven Lukin at L.A. County Museum.” Art in America 67, no. 3 (1979): 149, 153.
Rose, Barbara. “New York Letter.” Art International 8, no. 10 (1964): 51.
Rose, Barbara. “The Primacy of Color.” Art International 8, no. 4 (1964): 23-24.
Rubin, William S. “The International Style: Notes on the Pittsburgh Triennial.” Art International 5, no. 9 (1961): 32.
Sandler, Irving. “New York Letter.” Art International 5, no. 2 (1961): 44-45.