Arman

Bio

www.arman-studio.com

1928 was born in Nice, France

1946-1949 studied at École des arts décoratifs de Nice, Nice, France

1949-1951 studied at École du Louvre, Paris

2005 died in New York, USA

Collections

Berardo Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Lisbon

Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain, Paris

Hamburger Kunsthalle, Hamburg, Germany

Hara Museum of Contemporary Art, Tokyo

Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, St. Louis, USA

Musée d’Art Moderne Bruxelles, Brussels

Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris

Musée d’art moderne et d’art contemporain Nice, Nice, France

Museum Folkwang Essen, Essen, Germany

National Museum of Contemporary Art Korea, Seoul

Nordjyllands Kunstmuseum, Aalborg, Denmark

Peggy Guggenheim Collection, Venice, Italy

Sara Hildén Art Museum, Tampere, Finland

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

Stedelijk Museum voor Actuele Kunst, Ghent, Belgium

Tate Britain, London

Tate Modern, London

The Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit, USA

Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada

Selected solo exhibitions

1959 Mostra Personale di Arman. Galerie Apollinaire, Milan, Italy

1960 Full. Galerie Iris Clert, Paris

1961 Arman. Gallerie Schwarz, Milan, Italy

1962 Arman. Galerie Aujourd’hui, Brussels

1963 Arman. Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, USA

1964 Arman. Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam

Accumulations. Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, USA

1965 Arman. Galleria del Leone, Venice, Italy

1966 Arman. Galerie Svenk-Franska, Stockholm

1967 Arman. Galerie des Ponchettes, Nice, France

1968 Arman. Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, USA

1969 OEuvres Recentes. Galerie Bonnier, Geneva, Switzerland

1970 Arman. Ace Gallery, Los Angeles, USA

1971 Arman. Galerie Lawrence, New York, USA

1972 Arman. Galerie Arte Borgogna, Basel, Switzerland

1973 Arman. Galerie Charles Kriwin, Brussels

1974 Concrete Lyrics. Andrew Crispo Gallery, New York, USA

1975 Arman. Galerie Bonnier, Geneva, Switzerland

1976 Arman. Galerie Sapone, Nice, France

1977 Arman. Galerie Valeur, Nagoya, Japan

1978 Arman. Galerie Jollenbeck, Cologne, Germany

Accumulation. Galerie Valeur, Nagoya, Japan

1979 Arman. Galleria Cavellini, Brescia, Italy

1980 Arman. Satani Gallery, Tokyo

1981 Opere del 1979. Le Point, Rome

1982 Carvings and Drawings. Solomon Gallery, Dublin

1983 Arman. Goldman’s Gallery, Haifa, Israel

1984 The Day After. Marisa del Re Gallery, New York, USA

1985 Arman. Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo

1986 Arman. Veraneman Foundation, Ghent, Belgium

1987 Trio for Strings. Galerie GKM, Malmo, Sweden

1988 OEuvres 1961-1986. La Galerie de Poche, Paris

1989 Retrospective. Gana Gallery, Seoul

1990 Graphische Arbeiten 1960-1990. Eberhart Auktionen AG, Zollikon, Germany

1991 Arman. Galleria d’Art Immart, Rome

1992 Amsterdam Tour by Arman & Music by Arman. Reflex Modern Art Gallery, Amsterdam

1993 Arman. Galerie Pascal Retelet, Charleroi, Belgium

1994 Pintura e Escultura. Galerie III, Lisbon

1995 Arman. Galerie 3, Athens

1996 Starry Night. Museo Jose Luis Cuevas, Mexico City

1997 Cascades. Ileana Sonnabend Gallery, New York, USA

1998 Variations sur un Lénine. Galerie Patrice Trigano, Paris

1999 Arman. Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Tel Aviv

2000 La Traversée des Objets. Château Musée de Villeneuve, Vence, France

2001 Des Cycles de la Vie. Galerie Anne Lettrée, Luxembourg

2002 Works on Paper. Villa Haiss Museum, Zell, Germany

2003 Arman. Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art, Tehran

2004 Peintures. Marlborough Gallery, Monaco

2006 Subida al cielo. Musée d’art moderne et d’art contemporain Nice, Nice, France

2008 Arman. Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin, Italy

Selected group exhibitions

1960 Avanguardia, Les nouveaux Réalistes. Galleria Apollinaire, Milan, Italy

1961 Biennale de Paris. Musée d’art moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris

1962 The New Realist. Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, USA

1963 Bewegte Bereiche der Kunst. Kaiser Wilhelm Museum, Krefeld, Germany

1964 Painting and Sculpture of a Decade: 1954-1964. Tate Gallery, London

1967 Painting in France: 1900-1967. National Gallery of Art, Washington

1968 La 34 Biennale di Venezia. Venice, Italy

1969 Contemporary Art: Dialogue Between the East and the West. National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, Japan

1974 Twenty-Five Years of Janis, Part Two: From Pollock to Pop, Op and Sharp-Focus Realism. Sidney Janis Gallery, New York, USA

1976 La 37 Biennale di Venezia. Venice, Italy

1977 Biennale de Paris, une Anthologie: 1959-1967. Fondation Nationale des Arts Plastiques et Graphiques, Paris

1979 Kunst des 20. Jahrunderts: Malerei-Graphik-Plastik. Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany

1980 Reliefs. Westflisches Landsmuseum für Kunst und Kulturgeschichte, Münster, Germany

1982 The Americans: The Collage. Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, United States

1984 Pop Art: 1955-1970. Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia

1985 Chance in Art. Auckland City Art Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand

1986 EXPO-86. Vancouver Canada

1987 Picasso et Arman. Galerie l’Orangeraie, Geneva, Switzerland

1988 Aspects of Collage, Assemblage and the Found Object in Twentieth-Century Art. Solomon

R. Guggenheim Museum, New York, USA

1992 Zufall als Prinzip. Wilhelm-Hack-Museum, Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany

1994 Worlds in a Box. The South Bank Center, City Arts Center, Edinburgh, UK

1995 Dessins et oeuvres sur papier de la collection Ahrenberg. Maîson de la Culture d’Amiens, Amiens, France

1996 Europe Express. 12 Artistes Europeens Pour 12 Timbres Français. Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris

1997 Tissées par L’Atelier 3. Artrium, Lyon, France

1998 L’Objet Recrée, 5em Forum d’Arts Plastique. Center Culturel Boris Vian, Paris

1999 Georges Pompidou et la modernité. Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume, Paris

2001 The Climax - An Exclamation of 21st Century. Modern Art Gallery, Taichung, Taiwan

2002 From Pop to Now: Selections from the Sonnabend Collection. The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, United States

Geschenkte Kunst. Ludwig Museum im Deutschherrenhaus, Koblenz, Germany

2004 Walter Benjamin und die Kunst der Gegenwart / Schrift - Bilder - Denken. Haus am Waldsee, Berlin

Porträt ohne Antlitz. Kunsthalle zu Kiel der Christian-Albrechts-Universität, Kiel, Germany

2005 Crowd of the Person. Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, United States

2006 Eye on Europe - Prints, Books & Multiples, 1960 to Now. Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA

2007 Pop Art! 1956-1968. Scuderie del Quirinale, Rome

Homenaje a Picasso. Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Santiago

2008 Skulpturen im Blickpunkt. Städtische Kunsthalle Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany